614 New Churches Planted in June 2020
Bishop David Oyedepo at CHoP
A whole 30 days is gone for the month of June (Psalm 3:5). For sustaining the breath in your nostrils and my nostrils, for the good hand of His that is upon your life and it is evident.
Lift up your two hands and say thank You Jesus. Celebrate Him, Magnify Him.
Thank You for the gift of life. Thank You for protection. Thank You for your covering and Thank You for your wall of fire around us. Nothing compares with it, no security gadget compares with it. Thank You for your good hand upon my life, blessed be your name in Jesus precious name we have given thanks.
It’s important to thank God for this Church: Awesome God.
Growing and exploding in spite of lock downs.
In the month of June, total number of new Churches planted: 614
I didn’t get the details but the one (reported) last Sunday was across 15 States of Nigeria, in spite of the ongoing.
We are yet to gather the number of new converts we have gathered as a Church since this revival began 1st of June but Awesome!!!
My soul winning team got more than before any lock down, to the glory and praise of God.
What He gave us last month, compares with the height of what we got in 2015, 2016 in one month; I know it is so for many, by the wisdom of God at work in us.
Lift up your two hands and thank God for growth under impossible circumstances. Thank God for expansion in spite of this simile impossible circumstance.
First be reminded that our Spiritual Week of Emphasis begins today; we are waiting on the Lord today, tomorrow and on Friday. It’s interesting to note that we will be reading the prophetic focus of the month this evening. Endeavour to be part of this service and the name of the Lord shall be glorified in your life.
Hosea 6:2
There is going to be a dramatic change of position for you in the name of Jesus. There shall be a dramatic change of position for each one in the name of Jesus Christ.
ENGAGING THE WISDOM FROM ABOVE FOR EFFECTIVENESS ON THE HARVEST FIELD
Nothing wins the war like wisdom and one of the vital products of divine wisdom is direction (Proverbs 4:7, Ecclesiastes 10:10). I’m talking about the wisdom from above: it offers you and me, sound direction – direction that will always lead to the end result.
Remember there are 4 kinds of wisdom (James 3:15)
– Earthly wisdom (common sense): You don’t teach a child where to put the nipple of the mother’s breast. He doesn’t put it in his hair, he doesn’t put that in his belly. He’s just born, hasn’t gone to any school. That’s common sense.
If a child wants to wee wee (urinate), he doesn’t open his mouth.
They say, why? New born baby: I want to wee wee (urinate). It’s not from the mouth.
No, it’s common sense
A child that is about to walk, doesn’t carry 2 legs at the same time, yet he hasn’t gone to the school of walking. It’s common sense.
He grabs his feeding bottle, not to his ears, not to his nose, to the mouth: he hasn’t done any class of feeding technology…It’s common sense
– Sensual (Intellectual sense)
– Devilish: diabolical, manipulations
– Wisdom from above (James 3:17) – It is superior to all these. Any intellectual can be made mad by diabolical wisdom. He’ll just finish from Harvard and strip off his dress on the streets and be walking ‘smartly’.
Intellectual sense is superior to common sense and that’s why Education is what breeds Civilization but there is no devil in hell that can overturn divine wisdom. Nothing wins the war like the wisdom from above.
David had direction all the time as to how to go about the battle. The whole army of Israel were behind Saul in pursuit of David but the superiority of David over Saul was the ‘Wisdom from Above’, that is profitable to direct. With all their skills, they were fast asleep; David went into the hole and cut the skirt of Saul: his boy said, “destroy him”. He said, “God forbid that I should lay my hands upon the Lord’s anointed (1 Samuel 24:5-6).
The whole army in pursuit of a man and couldn’t catch up with him. By the wisdom of God, David saw the end of Saul and David reigned over Israel for 40 years (2 Samuel 5:4)
Wisdom is profitable to direct (Ecclesiastes 10:10)
So, it is on the harvest field – He that winneth souls must be wise (Proverbs 11:30). It takes wisdom to win souls, that is the meaning.
In Daniel 12:3, the wisdom of God empowers us to turn many to righteousness and this has no finish line. There are no finish lines in the school of wisdom as far as the wisdom from above is concerned (Romans 11:33).
There is no finish line, so every day, we have the covenant opportunity or advantage or access to deeper realms of wisdom. No one will miss the delivery of his minimum 7 abiding souls in this season; I can tell you this as a prophet of God, there is no one that will not experience a dramatic change of story before this season is over. ChurchGist
Any city can be taken for Christ when we know how to go about it. The labour of the foolish wearies everyone of them because he knows not how to go to the city or how to take the city: he is just working and working and nothing seems to be working because he lacks the know how (Ecclesiastes 10:15).
We didn’t have any jingle on the TV or radio, no advert in Newspaper when God before our eyes turned this Assembly to twice its size in 7 weeks: it is the know how.
You can keep doing the same thing forever and not experience a change of position. “Lord, which way do we go?”
Our annual convocation does not have any hard paper advert. We just tell you what the programme schedule is. You say how? Ask God. We have tried to find out better ways of doing it and it’s working. We had over 7,000 foreign delegates at Shiloh 2019 from across 6 continents, glory to God. ChurchGist
Deuteronomy 2:36
Therefore, in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the wisdom of God, every village, every cottage, every hamlet where we are represented as a Church shall be taken over by the power of God as many souls are being turned to righteousness in the name of Jesus.
It takes wisdom to bring down the strength of any community for Jesus (Proverbs 21:22).
In soul winning endeavours, through the prayer altar for Jesus.
The most valuable thing to God on this earth is not anybody’s money, it’s not anybody position: the precious souls of mankind. The precious soul of mankind and He has vowed that this gospel of the Kingdom shall be preached among all nations. You know what nations are? Every tribe, every tongue, every people (Revelation 5:9).
That’s what He means by all nations, so every hamlet shall be invaded with the gospel whether transit camp or temporal camp, wherever human beings are found (Isaiah 11:9). That’s God’s agenda. So, anyone that partners with Him on it begins to enjoy the appropriate returns and that’s what we are doing.
Last year, by His grace, over 5,000 new Churches were planted, mostly in rural areas. This Church has never looked for money, yet we’ve never lacked. You don’t get offering from rural areas (but) because that’s what He said to do and yet He has not failed to deliver. So, you have a Church adding over 7,000 Manpower on her payroll without a feeling. We are not talking about security and other support people. They earn their pay regularly from holy money. That’s to show God’s invested interest in every effort towards the redemption of the soul of man and that tells you how much favour you win with God when you commit it genuinely.
But the wisdom of God is accessible to all through the altar of prayer (James 1:5)
If any man lacks wisdom – that’s an open Holy Ghost invitation.
It’s an open access to the realms of the wisdom from above: let him ask.
The devil is all out to blind the eyes of those that believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ should shine unto them (2 Corinthians 4:4) and some of those kind will never go except by prayer and fasting (Matthew 17:21).
Somebody is going to jump into heavenly strategy for maximizing result in these 3 days.
Fasting is a platform for accelerated answers to prayers (Isaiah 58:9). But I tell you the greatest of all weapons in the realm of the Spirit is wisdom!
Eccelesiastes 9:15, 18
Great time awaits everyone of us in this awesome month.
You know every agenda of Heaven speaks loudest at the end. Of the ‘Midst of the Year’ months, this is the last one. June is passed, July is here. You will see in your spiritual stewardship, things you have never seen since you began your walk with God in this month. Even today, light will break loose in your heart to know what to do in the name of Jesus.
When God showed me what to say when I get out on the field, the gap between 2014 in my own soul winning endeavour and 2015 is like from heaven to the earth. From under 300 of continuous labourious efforts to 11,000 that met Jesus and to 8,000 that found their way to Church: by showing what to do.
You will receive what to do, not only in Kingdom Advancement endeavours but in your own affairs.
Anybody who tells you, “you need to know somebody to get anywhere” is a lie.
This short man and this small Ministry knows no man after the flesh.
There is nowhere Man can take you to, that God cannot take you higher.
Don’t become a victim of human pride.
Man is as temporal as flower but God is eternal.
I’m telling you the truth, ‘truth’: I’ve never knocked the door on anybody’s home for this Ministry and we run multi-billion order of projects year in…
Somebody is angry hearing me now, you can be angry till death: I am telling you the testimony of Jesus, I am not ashamed of it.
We’ve never owed salary once: 39 years plus. By the hand of God because we are doing His pleasure.
As you keep doing His pleasure, He will turn you to a wonder to your world.
All those who are bragging, “they will not help you”: they will need your help.
I tell you the truth
You know there is one of our young people that the parents told him, “you are not fit to marry. You are not ready to marry, you will be a liability on us” and now they are dependent on him.
Just follow God: goodness and mercy will be following you.
The parents-in-law asked the wife to leave but he bought a car for his wife when God turned his captivity. (Exodus 20:3)
One of my sons was telling me yesterday about security: I said you don’t know the wall of fire. There is no security under Heaven beyond the wall of fire.
Anybody serving God has a wall of fire around him: untouchable, ‘un-molestable’, ‘un-assaultable’.
The good news is, there shall be no victim of accident in your family.
No member of your family will drop from the air.
You and your children’s children: you will enjoy a good old age
Watch when you walk in the covenant, He said the wicked shall see it and gnash with their teeth (Psalm 112:10), every testimony of God’s hand on your life grieves them but He said the desires of the wicked shall perish.
The wicked shall see God’s hand on your life as a result of this revival and be grieved because you were all on the same floor before. Suddenly, you left the ‘face me, I face you’ room: you are now in a flat that you bought. Now, you are building a duplex.
Whenever he (the wicked) passes through the place (hisses): these people are liars, in fact you know what, that Canaanland they are doing charm because I saw him crying every night. Is that prayer? What prayer! He is making incantations and he saying what we can’t hear. Haba, their charm is very hot.
It’s Holy Ghost Charm: we speak in the language you can’t hear because we don’t know what you are doing to us but God knows. So, He gives us the utterance to speak against it.
Enjoy praying in the Holy Ghost. It confuses your enemy.
You are speaking mystery unto God, the devil can’t hear what you are saying.
Go ahead and speak in the spirit: open up the month.
The Lord spoke to me, March 1st 1992: he said, “persecution is the heritage of front liners”.
There are no front biters, there are only back biters. So, if you don’t back bitten, then stay behind.
You know what God is doing this year, He is taking to the front, front, front line: so expect to have many, many back biters. Amen.
Except your car is parked, you can’t see how somebody else is driving? It’s when your car is parked that you know the car that is smoky, the one that is snuffing. But when you are on the go,….at the front – that’s where you are going.
The good news is, no persecution of the wicked can stop the progress of the righteous. You do what God says, His integrity is committed to confirm His word in your life. That will be your portion.
The month is declared your month:
– It’s your month of going forward!
– It’s your month of breaking barriers!
– It’s your month of accelerated progress!
– It’s your month of breakthroughs!
– It’s your month of laughter! “God has made me to laugh”: that’s what Sarah said. My God will make you to laugh this month – You and your household!
– It’s a crisis free month, a trouble-free month, a month of triumph in the name of Jesus.
So shall it be.
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