FOLLOWING PROPHETIC SIGNALS PER TIME HAS BEEN OUR SECRET AS A COMMISSION

NO ONE CAN EVER DO FOR YOU WHAT GOD CAN NOT DO FOR YOU. NOBODY’S BACKING WILL EVER BE NEAR GOD’S BACKING.

STOP PRETENDING, STOP POSING, YOU CAN’T BE TRULY SOLD OUT TO GOD AND NOT STAND OUT IN LIFE

GOD IS LOOKING FOR A HUNDREDFOLD COMPANY OF BELIEVERS. PEOPLE WHO ARE ALL OUT FOR HIM AND THE INTERESTS OF HIS KINGDOM, SO HE CAN DO MIGHTY THINGS ON THE EARTH WITH THEM.

• Bishop David Oyedepo at May 2022 Leadership Empowerment Summit

A day came and I encountered the word through the ministry of T.L. Osborn through his book ‘The Purpose of Pentecost’. I read that book in one sitting and I just saw the person of the Holy Ghost and for the first time, I knew He was a person. I heard the voice of the Spirit for the first time in my life in July 1976. What access. If I don’t have access to that we won’t be in Canaanland. If I don’t have access to that we won’t be anywhere. The Voice! Certain encounters shape you for life. May you have such today. If the fire of the word cannot quicken you, then tell me what will quicken you. Haggai 1:14. May the word today stir you up to take a stronger position in your kingdom stewardship.

John 13:13.
In the name of Jesus whatever the Master says for your life may you respond to it accordingly.

The Master said to me “seek ye first the Kingdom of God and all these things that others are dying to get, shall be added unto you. I entered into a covenant with it on September 12th 1976. You may be tired of hearing it, I am not tired of saying it. It changed the course of my life forever. Allow the Master to guide you, you don’t know this way. He created you, no one can know the created above the creator. Church Gist. It gave meaning to my adventure on earth. I knew that was the jackpot of life, I was privileged to gain access to it from the Master Himself. May you hear something today that will qualify you to enter a covenant with God.

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No one has a place in these last days without a genuine passion for God. Thank God for the anointing but I have this very interesting illustration: what is the use of gas in a car with a knocked down engine. Passion can be likened to the engine of a car and the anointing to fuel. Every motion is passion generated. May everyone’s passion be quickened this morning. Every passionate story in the scriptures ends up established in glory, honour and dignity. Peter immediately left the boat and the net and followed Jesus – Matthew 4:19-20, Paul the passionate – Philippians 1:21 and Paul is still living now, everywhere Paul said, Paul said, tomorrow morning now Paul is saying something to everybody around the world. After Jesus, it is Paul speaking. Passion gave him his place. May every damaged engine be back in place today.

Following prophetic signals has been our secret as a commission. Amos 3:7. God’s prophets are God’s timekeepers on the earth. As you follow His leading, you walk out of your dry seasons of life. Isaiah 48:21. God will not send anybody from heaven to come and speak to you. God still speaks through His prophets today. We see what divine signals have done in this place. Arise, get down to Lagos – a new phase. The harvest of Africa is now overripe, rush in (1994). Church Gist. A witness of the spirit came and said to turn the all-night prayers to breakthrough nights and then we had a breakthrough revival for 5 straight years in Lagos. The Wonder Double Visitation which we are still enjoying now and for life. We never planned – to plant 5000 churches this time and we did. God is still leading His people through prophetic signals today, I didn’t plant it, He did. We have never seen anything like this and He said okay, you want to see something else? Plant 10,000 churches this year. in 2019, He did 5,000. In 2020, He did 10,000. 2021, now double the number of cells in every assembly. We saw the number of cells double. What if those signals were treated with levity? They will fly away and we will never see them. Now we have again here, a 4 quantum leap agenda based on very simple instruction. Many will ignore it because they already have 4 quantum leaps yet in their assessment. Some may mock it and some will take advantage of it and experience a change of story for life. Each one will take his place.

Please note that following prophetic signals have been our secret card as a commission till date. Every time the cloud moved, Israel moved. Every time the cloud rested, Israel rested. One thing I know as a prophet by the election of grace is that strange order of giants will rise between now and the 29th of May. If you allow that prophetic word to trigger something in you, you won’t be disappointed in the name of Jesus. God who changed the story of Joseph overnight is still God, He had no premonition the night before when he went to bed. Church Gist. He went to bed as the head of the prisoners and woke in the morning and suddenly “they want you in the palace” and by the evening, He was addressing the nation. God will visit you with His strange works and strange acts. Isaiah 28:21. God is up to anything He says.

What does it take to see every member bring at least one soul to Church every Sunday in this month of May?

I was in God’s presence when this question was raised and here is heaven’s answer:

1. Get them to believe in Operation Change of Story.

Get them to the point of believing in the validity of this operation. It is God’s set agenda, not a make-up to get people wowed. Many of us must have been receiving humbling, amazing testimonies as we are out there on the field. We met one man, he didn’t know this man from Adam. He got saved some 2 weeks ago and was walking on the road and a man parked by him and said “do you know how to drive?” He said I don’t know how to drive but I know how to drive a tricycle. Church Gist. He said give me your name and number. They have never met, they are not from the same village. The following day he landed a brand new tricycle from a source he never knew so there is no one to thank. He said how do I pay? He said pay what, God told me to do it. Psalm 102:13-15.

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We met a lady some three years ago on the harvest field and I saw her move with our team from one point to another and I asked the car to stop and asked her the problem and she said she had an accommodation problem. I said it is done. She walked up to a building where she saw a vacancy the following day and the owner of the building said God told me someone is coming this morning, give him the house for free. From one room to a flat. When God is out to change your story, He is out to change your story. Just do what He says to do. Arise, get down to Lagos, I sent someone down the next day. Church Gist. Now the harvest of Africa is ripe, we dedicated it two days after. You better jump when God speaks. Build this sanctuary in one year, I have never seen it before or read it in any book and I jumped. There is no one here who will commit to bringing one soul to Church every Sunday who will not experience a change of story.

I said it here in 2015 if your cell does not replicate in 3 months consider yourself a failure. Some reacted, someone left here with tears in his eyes “Jesus you must make it happen”. They were only three in that cell, prayer, fasting and reaching out. They grew to be 42. They replicated twice. God said he should go to the American Embassy, this was a boy who couldn’t get money to buy JAMB form. Church Gist. So he got there and they allowed him inside and he asked if there was any program for people like me who wants to study in America? What a question, they said yes. That is how God took him from a one-bedroom apartment with a family of 4 galloping from not being able to buy form to finding himself in America by the story changing God. Don’t react against the truth. You can’t do anything against the truth.

There is also one of my sons here whose business collapsed and he came back to live with his mother and heard this word of life and rose, dividing 1000 fliers every day trekking and sweating. The story changing God came in and He began to pay tithe in six digits every week. God turned his life supernaturally around. Church Gist. This story changing God is sitting in our midst waiting for who will respond to His instruction. If anybody came here and said, “you get 100,000 dollars for every soul”. You will get five today if there is no limit. You will pray with usual passion more than the passion of Elijah and bring forth. How much more of the life that oozes forth from obeying God. God does not reward efforts made, He rewards results obtained.

2. Get them to understand what is in it for them
   You are after the change of story of others, God has vowed to ensure your own change of story. Ephesians 6:8. You can’t sow seeds of change of story and not experience it in your life. One of us here in 2006, we do a lot of Operations here. It is a military formation. In their family, people die year in, year out. Church Gist. He began to cough blood which was the signal that took everybody else to the grave. He ran undercover and connected with the soul winning agenda of 2006. He shared his testimony in 2016, nobody has died in 10 years. We serve a story changing God, just come under the blessings and the curses will be broken.

Someone here had cancer of the mouth and returned from America because they couldn’t help her anymore. She took her cancerous mouth around winning souls, Jesus appeared to her in the night and ripped the lump out. He woke up in the morning and the lump could not be found anymore. These are not stories, these are testimonies. One of our daughters here got an international job as M.D. She got down to the floor that she could not pay her house rent anymore, and moved to her Mother’s place. All of a sudden, the heavens opened up and she is out of the country now. Church Gist. Just going after the change of story of others and God said it is your turn to be decorated. My passion for God and the interests of His kingdom has never ceased to decorate my life from phase to phase. Many in this Church worldwide are operating in that realm today. You better sign up and be part of that end time army that God is raising.

Isaiah 45:19.
He has not asked us to seek Him in vain. Mark 10:28-30. God is looking for a hundredfold company of believers. People who are all out for Him and the interests of His kingdom. Mark 3:14. There is always something attached to every commandment of scripture. Soul winning has the hundredfold returns guaranteed. Luke 18:28-30.

3. Let them know their returns are not limited to material things but a change in the quality of their lives.

Galatians 6:7-9
Just going after Jesus, keeps our light shining more and more and more and won’t stop until we stop following. He comes along with amazing virtues that money can never buy which include peace and joy. You being the President of a nation does not guarantee joy, most of them are depressed, and they use antidepressants day in, day out. 1 Peter 1:8. You are going to misunderstand the joy of soul winners because you will think it is not real. Church Gist. They are just beaming with laughter, beaming with laughter. My wife’s health was challenged and I was in 27 nations just breaking the head of the devil, relaxingly so and peacefully so. He took over His one job. Money can’t buy that. I have sustained this smile for years, with no breakdown. I don’t see anybody say sorry to me because there is nothing to be sorry about. From today, your joy no devil shall take away. Can you use money to buy health? Long life? What about protection? Your security will run away when the jungle matures. I was asking my guard, who is guarding who? If he hears a gunshot he will run but there is no blast from hell that will make me run. I live battle ready. Something is breaking forth in your life. It is far beyond material things, it goes to cover things that money can’t buy – fruitfulness, divine settlement, marital breakthrough.

4. Tell them that we serve a God of times and seasons who makes all things beautiful in His time.

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Tell them to be God set time conscious. Isaiah 55:6. If God says it, dive in at once or you miss it. Time is of essence. Luke 19:44. They suffered gruesome devastation for missing their time of visitation.

5. Several times the instruction of the word and prophetic words may not appear logical.
   John 2:1-11.
   There is no connection between water and wine. Can you ferment water to become wine? 2 Kings 7:1. Between now and 29th May God will come down for someone here. Don’t ever censor the logic of a prophetic instruction, just line up if you want to be a beneficiary of it. That is what it takes. Prophetic words will not deliver without you first believing in it. Your corresponding action is the only validating action of whatever you are told to do. One day I was seeing Dr K.C. Price off in Kaduna and the Lord said to me, get back home and lay the foundation of that building. So I told him, a great man of God who is in heaven now. Church Gist. Sir, the Lord just spoke to me to go and start the foundation of that building now. “The Lord told you David? Go back”. I was supposed to follow him to Lagos but I left him at the airport. I got there and put four people at the four corners and I said two weeks and this building is over. We dedicated it in two weeks. It is named after him, Frederick K.C. Price Hall because he willingly permitted me to leave. He is my head if he says no! I can’t go. I have never seen a building rise in my life in two weeks. That was February 19th, we dedicated it on March 4th.

Sir, I don’t have a stake in all of these things. My stake is Jesus. Proverbs 14:28. I want to be part of those who honour him. 1 Samuel 2:30. This Jesus wants all men saved and to come unto repentance. My stake is Jesus’ stake. All men were fully paid for on the cross, go get them. When Jesus honours a man, no devil can dishonour him. The honour of God is an everlasting honour, from here to eternity. Acts 26:22, 2 Timothy 4:6-8, Matthew 24:14. Church Gist. It is not just honour here, honour from here to eternity. There are many here who at 100 you will still be bubbling with life, cuddling the younger folks and getting them saved. There is no wild wolf who can pull a sheep from the covering of the lion. No devil can cut your life short, just stay under the covering of the lion. Don’t wait to prove the logic of the scriptures.

You can’t be a kingdom star and not be a high rated star on earth. Whatever is from above is above all. It is not a religious star. You are a star in the kingdom and a star in the world, we invaded the Education Sector and you see what Covenant is to University Education in Nigeria, Africa and the world. Landmark came about ten years after and see where it is today without a human hand. Church Gist. You can’t emerge a star in the kingdom and not be a superstar on the earth. So I see global giants in their number under this prophetic covering. So engage with what entitles one to emerge a giant. Line up with what the world says and then you are there.

For our stewardship to qualify for rewards, mind the following.

1. Our stewardship must be love motivated
   1 Corinthians 13:1-4.
2. Our stewardship must be willing.

1 Corinthians 9:17
Not coerced stewardship, not forced or under any form of pressure, it must be out of a free will.

3. Our stewardship must be with joy and rejoicing in season and out of season.
   Deuteronomy 28:47-48, Joel 1:12
   When joy withers, harvest perishes. Philippians 4:4, 1:18. Paul saw a crown at the end of the day.

No matter what – Joy. Castigated – joy, insulted – joy. There was a time another ministry came against our ministry for seven solid years. It was seven years of focused attention on how we are not doing the will of God. Did you hear me respond to it? Church Gist. It is an opinion. Everybody has a right to express his opinion but don’t let his opinion tamper with your destination. You better stay focused.

4. We must be diligent in our pursuit.

Hebrews 11:6, Proverbs 22:29. Don’t be causal with your pursuit of God. A casual approach to any exam will make a failure. No one can ever do for you what God cannot do for you. If I am to take you up, I can only take you to where my arm can reach but when the everlasting arm of God comes on a man, He throws him to everlasting height. Can you imagine someone saying to us “go, anything it will cost I will take care of it”. Take care of what, do you know where God is taking us? You can’t. Do you want to pay thousands of people in a month without scratching your head where it will come from? No ten people, not 1000. Including Coro time. That is why you are a wonder to the world. We are seated in heavenly places on a mission on earth. Nobody’s backing will be near heaven’s backing in your life.

5. Let your stewardship be sacrificial.
   You move beyond your best. You go beyond your best sacrificially, Psalm 50:15. God manifests Himself to everyone who is sacrificial in his engagement. They enter into a covenant, the kind I did on September 12th 1976. ‘Sailing under Sealed Orders, your word is my command anytime, any day. I turned my back to anything. 2 Chronicles 15:15. Heaven will always show Himself upon anyone that genuinely enters into a covenant with God. 2 Chronicles 15:12. There are many people here, you are entering your war free season of life.
6. Be tireless in your drive
   Revelation 22:12
   Anytime He comes, He will find you alive. At some point, they told me my blood pressure is high. I said not me. I went to the Benin Republic and was dreaming of the next crusade. Matthew 24:45-46. You must be met on duty before we can be made. We must be met on duty for Jesus, burning hot on the prayer altar. Matthew 6:10. You are met on duty advancing the kingdom. Therefore be tireless in your drive. 1 Corinthians 15:58.

• You are not going to miss your place.

5. Remain expectant of heaven’s response to your acceptable stewardship.
   Proverbs 24:13-14.
   Be expectant of heaven’s supply as you engage on the harvest field. Be expectant of a shame-free life. John 12:26, Expect heaven’s honour to replace every mockery of men. Expect your hundredfold returns of everything you have left off to serve God. How many have heard me say, I am not surprised where we are. That is the mystery of expectation. I knew that I wasn’t doing all these things in vain. I saw myself on top of the world before anybody knew I was alive. I believe in this nation to the end. Church Gist. That is why I am here. We have a very great nation but I said in 1984 that I will consider it a demotion if I am called to be president of Nigeria. Do you know why? I saw what I saw. On top of the world and on top of Nigeria, which one will you choose? So when they said I am the richest pastor in the world, they are seeing it too late, I saw it before. Be expectant, every act of obedience commits God’s integrity. It is your turn.

We serve a God of times and seasons, when you are due you will not be denied. You are not due for rainfall until your cloud is full. Endeavour to fill your cloud of stewardship in the next three weeks. You won’t need to announce your rain is falling, they will see you drenched. Fill your cloud. One day God walked up to me and said it is time to get the aircraft. What an announcement. There was no new car in our fleet. He got it without an overdraft from any bank, without calling anybody. I know how much it took to build the 3,000 capacity sanctuary in Raji-Oba and then He is going to build 50,000 in one year. He said it is up to you, believe it and make moves to prove you believe it. It is this season your own unmistakable rain will fall.

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Prayers: Ask for grace to maximize this season.

I was 19 years old when I was given that 72 days relief job. To tell you how strong passion can be, I knelt down in my little hut and said “Jesus see that I don’t leave this village the way I met it”. I was not a pastor nor did I have a dream of being a pastor. I was just loving God. Jesus built a church of people that got saved. I went from house to house every morning and prayed them into salvation. Church Gist. I led them to Christ one by one, family by family. I was 19 years old. They handed over to me a bush lamp on my departure and the oldest man was asked to present it and he said we have heard that wherever Church goes, civilization goes into. Thank you for bringing civilization to our village and may the light you have brought here, shine around the world. I was 19 when I encountered destiny.

Prophetic Declaration

• In the name of Jesus, the same passion burning in me by the word I heard, I decree an impartation of the same in your life.
• Just the way I don’t carry any burden, I decree an end to every burden in your life.
• Just as serving God is a delight to my spirit, soul and body, I pray serving God will also be a delight to your soul spirit and body.
• I have not been tired of going out since 1976, yet I have not been hurt. In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, grace to be tireless in your pursuit, receive it now.

I never sat at the front row all the days of Kenneth E. Hagin but I am a carrier of his mantle. It is not about where you sit, it is about where you stand. I wasn’t qualified to be in front, I wasn’t looking for it. He went home in 2003, this sanctuary was built in 1999, I never went there to say “Sir, just to let you know I am around”. I came to buy into more of what he carries. Church Gist. Believing anything is as cheap to me as breathing, it is the spirit of faith mantle at work. From the depth of my heart anything I carry that you truly desire, I release.

• I decree an end to every form of anxiety and unrest in your life.
• I pray over you for the grace of prompt response, every time the word is stirred you will just jump into it.
• Grace to keep going, there is no ceiling on our destiny. Go never told me about the 100,000 capacity sanctuary before. We once heard a fence around our property, He broke it. Church Gist. Several acres that were not in the original plan, God is an expander of destiny. Grace to keep expanding under His grace receive it now.

What makes an elder is the experience they have had, we were in a meeting October 4th 1984 looking at how to pay #3000 the rent for our Church facility. I told our brethren now we are on the same level, understand me because a time will come when some of us will take off in the air and you say you don’t know what they are using, let me tell you what I am using before time, I am sold out to God. 1984 October 3rd. You can’t be sold out to God and not stand out in life. Paul is still speaking 2000 years after he left. Stop pretending, stop posing, you can’t be truly sold out to God and not stand out in life. Papa can’t pray you up, obedience will take you up. Couples here, it is not one man working for God, the other one sleeping. Church Gist. That is not how it works. I go this way with my team and my wife goes the other way with her team. Each one is working to give God glory. Don’t be a social member of this Church, it won’t add value to you. Be a spiritually rooted member.

• Grace to be sold out to God in truth and indeed receive it now.
  My prayer is that whatever grace I have ever touched in my life, will work in a greater dimension in your life. I want to be part of those who are clapping for the grace of God in your life while I live.

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