I SURRENDERED TO JESUS SO LET HIM USE ME THE WAY HE WANTS.
I AM FOOLISH FOR JESUS YET EVERYTHING MY HAND HAS TOUCHED WORKS
I HAVE PLAYED THIS FOOL FOR 46 YEARS AND I AM FULL OF BLESSINGS IN RETURN FOR THIS KIND OF FOOLISHNESS
NOBODY GENUINELY HATES BLESSINGS, YOU MAY BE ANGRY WITH THOSE WHO ARE BLESSED BUT YOU DON’T HATE BLESSINGS.
YOU DON’T END UP A DISAPPOINTMENT CARRYING THE CROSS OF CHRIST. EVERY CROSS CARRIER ENDS UP A CROWN WEARER.
- Bishop David Oyedepo at Covenant Hour of Prayer || 27th August 2022.
Lord Jesus thank you for all of the answered prayers all through the week, thank you for the impact of this coming Sunday. Thank you for many that will get delivered, thank you for the impact of your word that is coming to us tomorrow in the name of Jesus. As we speak your word this morning let the light of your word lighten our path again this morning.
Our exhortation line since the week began has been BLESSINGS THAT ACCOMPANY PRAYING KINGDOM ADVANCEMENT PRAYERS. God has not asked the seed of Jacob to seek Him in vain. Every act of obedience provokes blessings from God. Deuteronomy 28:1-2. Every act of obedience to the truth of God’s word provokes the release of blessings upon God’s people. It has blessings in it. If you want the blessings then diligently hearken, delightsomely obey and all these blessings will come to you and overtake you. Church Gist. Nobody genuinely hates blessings, you may be angry with those who are blessed but you don’t hate blessings. Between peace and crisis which do you choose? Between joy and sorrow, what do you choose? Nobody truly hates blessings so let’s stop pretending. Everybody desires blessings and no one wants to lose blessings. God sent Christ to bless us. It is not our ambition, it is our birthright. Acts 3:26. The gospel is pregnant with fullness of blessings. Romans 15:29. It is not that we are earthly and some are heavenly, it is our birthright. The gospel that brought you and me to the kingdom is the gospel of fullness of blessings.
These blessings are loaded in our obedience to His instructions. Proverbs 4:13. Jesus told us to pray and he showed us the pattern of prayers. He is saying make kingdom advancement your priority on earth. Matthew 6:10-11. Praying “thy kingdom come” goes before “give us today our daily bread”. God does not want anyone to perish but you come to repentance. 1 Timothy 2:4. Praying for souls to be established in the faith. Colossians 4:12. Church Gist. Praying for the continuous growth of the church and praying for the needs of others to be met. That is God’s agenda, that is God’s pattern for our prayer lives. Those who do that in their closets shall be openly rewarded. So expect your open rewards in higher dimensions as you commit to this instruction.
Blessings that accompany praying kingdom advancement prayers.
Today we are looking at the fact that praying for kingdom advancement prayer triggers and sustains supernatural church growth. What is that for me, am I a pastor? Wait! We understand that every praying church is a growing church and every growing church must remain a praying church to keep growing. The greatest headache of Satan is the continuous growth of the church. Because as light spreads, darkness clears the way. As the light of God begins to increase by increasing the beacons of light, we are dispossessing him and he wants to fight back. That is why Church growth is warfare. Church Growth is not funfair where you just speak grammar and they clap. The gathering of eagles not vultures is prayer. There is no software for childbearing you have to go to labour. Church Gist. The labour room will never become irrelevant as far as childbearing is concerned. In the same vein, the labour room of prayer is the birthplace of church growth and the sustenance platform of church growth. When they saw the church was going down, they said we will give ourselves continually to prayers and then the Church exploded. Acts 6:4.
Ezekiel 36:37.
Prayer is the spiritual labour room for generating supernatural church growth and in the growth of the church lies the glory of the saints. Proverbs 14:28. 1 Samuel 2:30. So when you are committed to the ingathering of multitudes you are sowing seeds of honour to your heavenly father the king of kings and He has vowed to honour you back in return.
In the growth of the church lies the honour of the saints. Jeremiah 30:19,21. Kingdom VIPs shall be emerging, captains of industries shall emerge from their midst because they are engaging their hearts to seek God. That is why the growth of the Church is the glory of the saints. You can’t be genuinely committed to it without a change of story. Change of story is natural for every believer that is genuinely committed to the growth of the Church of Christ. The growth of the kingdom of God on earth. You can’t know this until you engage with it. Psalm 34:8. Come and taste it with your obedience and then you see that the Lord is good. We taste the goodness of God by engaging with His instructions with obedience of faith. There are people here, where you find yourself in the next three months you may never arrive there in the next ten years as you decide to engage. Church Gist. Don’t just be a docile member of a church, be a serving member of a church. Let God reckon with your service. He gave his servants one pound each and went away, new birth is an asset of equal value. No one is more saved than the other. One went away and engaged with the responsibility of new birth and multiplied that grace 10 times and he gave him authority over ten cities. Can one pound buy a city? No! He just changed his level. Luke 19:16-19. One pound ten cities. Even one thousand pounds cannot buy a city. Taste and see that the Lord is good.
There are many today that everything they pray for is Me! Me! Me! Some even forget that they are married. Philippians 3:18-19. They are the enemies of the cross of Christ. Everything is about their belly. I want to be, I want to have. Church Gist. They should know from the story of the rich fool, you don’t have a future doing that. Go after God, His blessings make you rich and add no sorrow.
The good news is it is an open platform. You don’t have to be a pastor, you don’t have to be a founder. There are founders who are not serving God. There are pastors who are not serving God, they are just having a nice time in their careers. They know that they are not serving God. No one’s unbelief can make your faith have no effect. “don’t let them use you”. That is why you are where you are. I surrendered to Jesus and let him use me the way he wants. I have played this fool for 46 years and I am full of blessings in return for this kind of foolishness. Church Gist. Never begged once. Never knocked on the door of anyone for help once. That is how my head is turned upside down. Do your own, leave the person who says there is no God or there is no heaven. Heaven is the throne of God, you can’t use anger to cancel it. This folly thing I am doing, everything I touch works. From this time on, as you yield yourself to serve the interest of your heavenly Father watch out how things will start changing to your favour on their own accord.
This humorous story may help you. A friend of mine said to me years ago “Brother David let us start praying about life partners”. I said I don’t need it. My own is inside Matthew 6:33, that is where my destiny, my life, my wife is. So he said we can be praying for his own. So we prayed for him and God answered me first. All things shall be added to you. Church Gist. Don’t let naysayers confuse you, this is how life is, that is your cross. Your cross will always guarantee a crown. You don’t end up a disappointment carrying the cross of Christ. You better hold that fast which you have lest another man take your crown. Every cross carrier ends up a crown wearer. Luke 22:28-30. Every cross bearer ends up a crown wearer. This cross bearing is not a curse. You won’t miss your crown. Revelation 3:11. Crowns can be lost. You will wear your own crown.
Isaiah 66:7-8.
You are labouring and when you labour in truth and in deed you step into favour. Every acceptable kingdom labour is the gateway to the realms of favour. Jeremiah 17:5. God is saying trust me I don’t deny my words. The man you say will help you also has more needs than you do but you are not in a class that he can tell. Church Gist. I once listened to someone who wanted me to talk to someone about him and I said the man has more problems than you do. He comes out with agbada in the morning and you think all is well if I tell you his problems you will pray for him. The need he has at that time is 10,000,000 times your own. God is not a man, God has no problem. He doesn’t need anything. He creates your miracle.
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