* Let’s be result-driven in the next 8 weeks, something must break loose in your life.
* Serve God and the interests of His Kingdom like never before; watch how God will establish your personal season of divine visitation.
* What God rewards is results, not efforts. You will never lack results.
God is not looking for who to use, He is always looking for who to bless. Before this season is over, you are telling your story. As you genuinely engage with the instructions of the hour, you shall testify.
Every revelation delivers on the choice of individuals. Revelation is a knock on the door of our hearts (Revelation 3:20).
“I have this for you, are you interested?”: No, don’t disturb me.
“Hello, I have this for you, are you interested?” : Leave me alone, my friend.
“Hello, I have this for you”
Every revelation is a knock on the door of our hearts asking, “are you interested, I have this for you!”
Deuteronomy 30:19
“I brought you life”: No. That means you have chosen death.
“I brought you blessings”: That means you have chosen curses.
Nobody will ever say he chose death but refusal of life is choice of death.
Refusal of a knock of blessings is a choice of curses.
May we receive grace today to always open the door of our hearts to every revelation of the truth in the name of Jesus Christ.
God will never demand from us what He has not empowered us to do; He is not a taskmaster (1 John 5:3).
His commandments are not packaged to hurt us. They are not put together to make life difficult and unbearable for us. No. They are to groom us, to thoroughly furnish us that the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished and prepared unto every good work.
When God says, “…that your fruit should abide”: He is not asking you to do the impossible (John 15:16). He has engraced you to do it. Every child of God is ordained an ambassador for Christ to partner with Jesus in reconciling the world back to God (2 Corinthians 5: 17-20).
We are ambassadors for Christ, it is in us and we saw that in scriptures. The Samaritan woman met Jesus and she went wild (John 4:29). The people in that city came to meet Jesus and got to the Kingdom of God. You don’t need experience, as soon as you are born again, you have become a witness of Jesus, “Come, see a man who turned my life around. Come, see a man who gave me joy, peace, rest of mind.” Those are the things that happen to you on the spot as you get saved. The fruit of the Spirit begins to manifest, so you have a testimony. There is no true child of God that doesn’t have a testimony.
“I bought a car” is not a testimony. Your real testimony is the changes that took place within you.
Somebody once asked me: Brother David, do you ever have problems?
I said: Maybe it came, I didn’t know.
Maybe it(problem) came, they call it the joy of salvation. Maybe it came, I didn’t know.
If you are truly saved, you have a testimony. A change took place or series of changes took place within you that money cannot buy.
Well, I’ve been laughing like this for 51 solid years.
Have I had challenges? Plenty of them but by His grace overcame everyone of them one by one. But none of those things have taken my smiles from me. My smiles have been established, unshakeable. Money can’t buy that, position can’t buy that. It is the free gift of God.
GOD DOES NOT REWARD EFFORTS, HE REWARDS RESULTS OBTAINED.
It is very important to understand who our God is and how He responds to us on the basis of His Word (John 15:16). Getting involved brings you into favour with God. Please know that every revival is validated by massive salvation of souls and ingathering of souls into the Kingdom. It’s not about big grammars, big philosophies.
God’s storehouse on earth is the Church, so we are talking about massive salvation of souls and ingathering into Church.
Every revival which is a manifestation of divine visitation is validated by massive salvation and ingathering of souls into the Kingdom (Zephaniah 3:17-20, Luke 14:23).
God rewards us based on results obtained in that task. Are you involved in the pursuit of the salvation of souls? Are you committed to their ingathering into the storehouse for their preservation? Because every seed left by the wayside will be consumed by the fowls of the air.
How much results you obtain in this task, is what determines the reward you will be entitled to.
He gave them one pound each saying, “occupy till I come.” (Luke 19:3, 17-19).
“…behold I have made 10 more”: Have thou authority over 10 cities
“…I made 5 more talents”: have thou authority 5 cities
One came, “I just kept what you gave”
Response: take it from him, get him empty (Luke 19:19; Matthew 25:30).
God does not reward us for efforts made, He rewards results obtained.
In one of the testimonies, “we went out, got souls saved, prayed over them name by name, many of them are established in Church now and then the Heavens opened.”
Let’s be result-driven in the next 8 weeks that we have. Don’t sit down tight, it doesn’t change anybody’s story. Jesus said, “I’m in you midst as one that serves.” Serve God and the interests of His Kingdom like never before; watch how God will establish your personal season of divine visitation. Something is breaking loose in your life.
Every revival is validated with strong prayer movement (Zechariah 8:20-23). Strong prayer movement drafted multitude into the Kingdom.
There can be no revival without a strong prayer movement (Isaiah 66:8). That has been our experience in this place by the grace of God and has to be sustained in your life. Be part of this revival and a partaker of the blessings that come along with it.
We are rewarded for harvest gathered and not just for contacts made (John 4:35-36). You receive wages as you gather the harvest into the store house. Ingathering is a MUST. It’s not just making contacts on the field, it is ensuring that the harvest is preserved by bringing them into Church where He teaches them to experience the fullness of the blessings that redemption offers.
“…He that does not gather with me, scatters” (Matthew 12:30).
We have to be part of it (Proverbs 10:5). You will do God proud in this awesome season as you get involved. One of our Pastors went out with his team to where young people were playing football. It was raining there but they still stayed there and got 116 souls yesterday evening. They just saw where the harvest was waiting and just plugged into it.
I came back from Madagascar one day and I was going out for outreach. I saw some boys playing football, so I stayed because they were about to finish.
As soon as they were done: “Hello, young people, come over here. How many of you want to go to the university?”
Chorus response
Hello, can I tell you something? You need life to go anywhere. Jesus is the life you need. I got souls from there, 9 of them reported in Church on Sunday morning.
The harvest is white, they are everywhere. They are in the market, under the bridge. Every soul holds same value with God. You don’t need to waste your time knocking on somebody’s office. There are too many souls walking about, that nobody have ever said to them, “Jesus loves you.”
Therefore, this month, let no Sunday pass without one harvest minimum coming with you to the Midweek service, Sunday service, Cell meeting and watch how God will begin to respond to the issues of your life.
I am in your midst, Jesus said, as one that serves; so don’t mind this lobby of the mother of James and John asking me to put one on the right and another one on the left; other sons can go to wherever they want. They don’t pray for it, they serve into it. God is changing your story. God is changing your position. Something must break loose in your life this season.
Every time you pray: “Oh Lord, let this Church be minimum double its average attendance of 2019 in this prophetic season in the name of Jesus.”
You are going to work, maybe you are not the one driving and you are praying: “Let every cell in this Church birth at least one new one in this prophetic season.”
“Lord, let this service on Wednesday be one of a kind as you gather massive harvest into our various zones across Lagos and Ota.”
You can pray that in the toilet, in the bathroom. The only time you can’t pray that is when you are brushing.
Something must break loose in your life.
How many are set for results? What God rewards is results, not efforts. You will never lack results.
Lift up your two hands and speak results into your engagement both on the Prayer Altar and in your passionate pursuit of souls this week.
No wasted effort: anyone you reach out to will surrender to Christ; anyone you invite will show up in Church; anyone that comes will be established in the faith; anyone that is not saved among them will be saved; anyone that you have led to Christ, you will meet together in Heaven, you are not going to lose them, they shall be established.
SPEAK TO THE WEEK:
It is your week of favour.
You are meeting favour this week. Everywhere you turn, FAVOUR!
IT’S YOUR WEEK OF TESTIMONIES OF FAVOUR.
YOUR WEEK OF CHANGE OF STORY.
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