YOU ARE JUST THERE BEGGING GOD TO BREAK HIS WORD AND HE WON’T.
GOD WON’T SUPPLY YOUR NEED WITHOUT YOU DOING WHAT COMMITS HIM TO SUPPLYING.
I BELIEVED THIS MANDATE WAS GLOBAL WHEN IT WAS NOT EVEN LOCAL BECAUSE HE SAID IT: “THE HOUR HAS COME TO LIBERATE THE WORLD” NOT THE STREET, NOT THE COMMUNITY, THE WORLD.
GOD CAN’T HELP YOU OUTSIDE OF YOUR FAITH. YOUR FAITH IS WHAT DETERMINES THE LIMIT OF HOW MUCH GOD CAN INTERVENE IN YOUR AFFAIRS
WHEN YOU STOP GROWING YOUR FAITH, YOU START GROANING IN THE JOURNEY OF LIFE
- Bishop David Oyedepo at Midweek Communion Service || Faith Tabernacle, Canaanland.
Lord Jesus visit us again tonight, let each one’s desire be delivered. Let each one’s word come through tonight. When the word of Joseph came, everything opened up. Lord cause the word of each one to come through tonight in Jesus precious name we have prayed.
The prophetic focus for the month is: FAITH SECURES FULFILLMENT OF PROPHECY. Every prophecy will only deliver by the command of faith. Isaiah 53:1. Only the hand of God can deliver the plan of God. 1 Kings 8:15. We secure that hand by faith and that hand delivers what God has spoken. Without faith you can’t secure the hand of God, without the hand of God you can’t see prophecy delivered. So faith is vital, nothing defines the destiny of a believer like his faith. Matthew 9:24. nothing defines the destiny of a child of God like his faith, not experience, not the rigour of prayer and fasting. Church Gist. Nothing defines the destiny of a believer like his faith. The quality of every believer’s life is faith determined. Habakkuk 2:4, Romans 1:17, Hebrews 10:38, Galatians 3:11. The just shall live by faith. Faith is what defines redemption. It all begins with faith, we are saved by grace through faith, it is the raw foundation of our adventure in the Kingdom. Those who toy with the subject of faith don’t make much out of life in the kingdom. No word will ever come through in any man’s life without his faith.
The Holy Ghost was speaking to me today, let me tell you something that will help you: any revelation from the word, vision from heaven and any prophetic word that does not move you to take action, you do not believe it. Forget it, it will never come to pass. Faith is a mover. Hebrews 11:7. When your faith is alive, it moves you to respond to the demands of any revelation, any vision, any prophetic agenda. They believed him in Cana of Galilee so they filled the water pots with water. Church Gist. They were adults, so they were not playing games. The blind man didn’t react “Come I was born blind and you are putting mud into my eyes, isn’t that wicked of you”, he believed and moved. The disciples in the boat in John 21 “cast your net to the right side” My God! What is the difference between the left and right side, you are in the same water. They believed so they casted their nets. Whatever truth does not move you, you don’t believe it. Daniel 12:3, you can’t believe it and not move towards turning many into righteousness.
You don’t believe, somebody was down, one worn out shoe, ejected from his house, lost his car, his mother said “come to this God”. Two weeks after he came in, there was a flag off of an outreach, he got himself involved. He said “I left my problem at home, wearing Jesus smile I dressed my best and wore my worn out shoe because I am representing Jesus”. He understood everything and within four weeks everything turned and somebody only wrote it down as part of his documentary. “Papa’s Harassment” that’s the title. Church Gist. You believe it, it moves you and moves with you. Don’t let us talk about faith about believing God’s integrity, it does not stop there. You believe God’s integrity and you move believing that God never lies. You can’t believe it and not make moves, he that reapeth, recieveth wages. He is on God’s payroll. You can not believe that and not make a move. Let me tell you the truth, God doesn’t owe anybody. He has been paying me since 1976, I entered full time ministry 1983.
- Your suffering must end.
You don’t believe it by confessing it, you show you believe it by moving. James 2:18. There is a work to validate your faith. That place would never have had wine if they had not made the appropriate moves as commanded, they would have ended up in shame. That man would have died blind if he never made that move. He believed and knew how to get to the stream to wash his eyes. Church Gist. What of people with two eyes outside and two spiritual eyes inside and yet won’t move. Your situation is not having shoes to move, between not having shoes and not having legs, which one is better? Use your leg and He will put shoes on you. Stop casting aspersions to God, until your part is played. God won’t move. Your faith and my faith is fake without making appropriate moves in the direction that we claim to believe.
Our teaching series for the mid week services is captioned UNDERSTANDING THE DEMANDS OF BUILDING YOUR FAITH. You know how important that is? Jesus laid hands on people, the greatest anointing that ever visited the earth, he was anointed without measure. He is the Living Word so Jesus was a walking faith but he laid hands on them in Nazareth but could do no works (Mark 6:6). God can’t help you outside of your faith. Your faith is what determines the limit of how much God can intervene in your affairs. Mark 6:5-6. They were busy debating and their healing left. That is how helpless God is without your faith. The subject of the demands of growing your faith is so relevant to Bishops, to Pastors, to Archbishops, to Popes. The subject of building our faith is relevant to everyone in the Kingdom. You can’t secure help from God without your faith. His help is limited to our faith. Instead of crying, build your faith. Read your Bible, read anointed faith books. Get back on your feet, don’t remain a prayer project for the Church. Church Gist. Faith is a non-negotiable requirement for living a triumphant life. No prophecy will ever see the light of day without your faith actively at work. God won’t supply your need without your doing what commits Him to supplying. No matter how much you quote Philippians 4:19. It starts from verse 15 unless you are a 419 believer. Philippine 4:15-19. You are not a giver, forget it. You are just there begging God to break His word and He won’t. To taste prosperity at any level, you must be a delightsome giver at whatever level you are. A smiling giver, an excited giver. “I don’t know this thing doesn’t work” you didn’t work. Philippians 2:12. No promise of scripture will work out itself.
- It’s your year of change and I know that this is one year, many people who care to believe will never forget in a hurry in the name of Jesus.
To build our faith is a must to see God’s word come alive in our midst. Faith has unlimited capacity for growth. 2 Thessalonians 1:3. The limit of faith is where you begin to command things as God does. You walk in the realm of God’s authority in fullness not once a while. That is what makes it a virtue that has capacity for unlimited growth. When you stop growing your faith, you start groaning in the journey of life. The stronger your faith and my faith, the higher your level of command. Abraham was strong in faith, giving glory to God and then Isaac came. Faith grows primarily by the word. Romans 10:17. You can’t doubt what you understand. Acts 8:30-37. Faith grows by hearing and understanding the word of God. That is where teachers come in, who teach and practice Bible faith raw. To disseminate it to the level that everybody can understand it. Church Gist. There are many anointed Philips in the body of Christ who teach others that go to teach others. It takes genuine labour in the word for one’s faith to grow. Hebrews 4:11. Let’s labour in the word to grow our faith and gain higher command over the issues of life. We labour in the word to grow our faith. I can’t wait to see my volumes from the archives, when I read I keep smiling. They can measure up to six volumes of the size of the one you heard in the word from Legacy Productions, written by hand like a student going to write an exam. Two of my sons were in my office today and I showed them my writings on leadership, 356 pages from my diaries. You labour in the word to grow your faith. You are not casual about it. You don’t read for an exam with your head laid on the bed. Is that how to study? I read virtually all the books that Hagin wrote, if not all in case I didn’t see some of the things he wrote. No free lunch in life, anything of value carries a cost. The cost of growing our faith is genuinely labouring in the word for the purpose of building our faith.
“Lord show me the secret of prosperity” I went on a three days fast, searching the scriptures and I came out gaining command. I screamed “I can never be poor” because I had found it. You search until you find it. It’s not opening up by prayer? Then add fasting. Any devil trying to block your way, He can’t resist prayer and fasting. Church Gist. There is no future for an idle man in the kingdom. You don’t pray casual prayers, you pray passionately, answer expectant, God’s word based prayers. It is so sweet that you are dealing with a God who is not an abracadabra. He has His facts laid down, all you have to do is go find it.
Faith also grows by meditating on the word. Psalms 119:97-100. Faith grows by meditation. Thinking through the word on the issues at hand – meditation is key. Pondering the word on the way forward. Show me Jesus the way out of this. You read, you meditate, you will find. You will just find the answers coming in by the Holy Ghost from the things you have studied.
To build your faith, one must:
- Be born again and remain so
Mark 4:11
A dead man can’t understand a thing in the classroom, even if they put the microphone in his ears. The subject of growing your faith does not apply to the spiritually dead. One must first be born again and refuse to get outside the family circle of God. He stays there and his understanding begins to open up. You must be born again, it’s a must. - To grow your faith you must be spiritual.
1 Corinthians 2:14
It calls for high level discipline to grow your faith. He had a bunch of saved people in Corinth but Paul said “are you not carnal? Is this Christianity? Carnal men can’t grow their faith. Church Gist. There was no difference in the Corinthian Church though they were born again and filled with the spirit.
- Continue to crave for revelation in any area(s) of your concern.
‘I need peace and harmony in my family’ go for materials that promote peace and harmony in the family. You don’t go to a Pharmacy and say just give me anything. You have applied for the chariot of Elijah without knowing, it just appears and takes you to heaven.
- No one will go to heaven in a hurry, you will enjoy the fruits of your labour, you will follow through to the end, you will make heaven in grand style.
I couldn’t build my faith for Church Growth by reading healing books, that would be absurd. They don’t add up. Nothing works in the Kingdom without your personal engagement. Can anybody read for you in an exam? Can anybody eat for you? The virtue of faith is not transferable. The grace to grow in faith is transferable but the building of your faith is not transferable. You can’t go to the wrestling ring with my muscles. You go with your muscles. Even if I lay hands on you, muscle is not transferable. Please wake up and take responsibility. It is the only way out, the only way up and the only way forward.
- Continue to engage the Holy Spirit for spiritual understanding.
He is the Master teacher. There is no other expert than the Holy Ghost in connecting us to compound revelations which fires up faith for you as a student of the word. “For you, you can’t borrow,” I said,why not?" He saidthe borrower is a servant to the lender and you cannot have two masters at the same time, Choose one”. I said I choose you Lord. You don’t wait to get set during a match, you get set before you enter. Be a student of the Word of God, that is the only way to build your faith. - Engage your spirit man in your search for revelation.
Your spirit man is God’s storage bank for the truth. Isaiah 26:9, Jeremiah 29:13, Proverbs 20:27. Your spirit is the candle of your life, it is the one that connects you to the light of heaven. That is what separates the truth from every subject of learning in this world – you need your spirit man in your search. No casual reading of the Bible like you are reading a newspaper.
- Your faith will not rob you of the treasures packaged into this year.
This is a highly prophetic year. Every thing He said He was going to do from 2015, He has been doing them exactly and over and He has called this year your year of release, translating you and I from being a burden to a blessing, from slavery to enthronement, from shame to glory and these are what to do to take your place in it. You believe in it, it will move you and you will move it.
I believed this mandate was global when it was not even local because He said it “the hour has come to liberate the world” not the street, not the community, the world. We put on our sign board ‘LIVING FAITH WORLD OUTREACH’ people were passing and laughing at us. Church Gist. I believed it, that you don’t believe it doesn’t matter. You don’t need anybody’s faith to secure the fulfillment of God’s agenda for your life.
Prayers – Ask God for grace to build your faith right now for your personal security, posterity and eternity.
You may not believe a prophet but this (lifts Bible) is the most prophetic volume of all prophecies. It is the mouth of God that is gathered here. I received the prophecy of Matthew 6:33 and it is still decorating my destiny. I received the grace of Deuteronomy 8:18 on the platform of giving and receiving, I received it. It is called the most sure word of prophecy. Don’t believe what I say, believe what He says in this volume. In case I am in error, this one is error proof. Don’t refer to my prophecies, take this one. Church Gist. It has never been proved wrong once, it has always triumphed over it’s enemies. Do you want to stay healthy? This book shall not depart from your mouth. It shall be health to all your flesh. Every page here is prophecy. Don’t fight this book, it’s a risk. Never cast aspersion over this book. There is no point saying my prophecies are cooked up. What of the ones here in this volume, it is fried?
Receive grace to work your part of every prophetic word directed towards you so you won’t lose out. Help me Jesus to take my part in every prophetic word.
- Because Jesus made it, we will all make it.
- No word of prophecy shall fall to the ground anymore in your life.
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