WHEN YOU RUN OUT OF RHEMA, YOUR FAITH BEGINS TO GET AT RISK.
TO NURTURE YOUR FAITH, YOU MUST BE ON A STEADY DIET OF THE WORD.
YOUR UTTERANCE CAN EITHER EMPOWER OR DISEMPOWER YOUR FAITH.
WHAT GOD DID FOR ONE IS A CLUE OF WHAT HE CAN DO FOR ANOTHER.
IF WE HAD LISTENED TO NEGATIVE VOICES WHEN WE STARTED THE MINISTRY, THE KADUNA CRUSADE MAY NOT HAVE HAPPENED.
THE WRONG COMPANY CAN EITHER CHARGE OR CHAIN YOUR FAITH.
MY WIFE AND CHILDREN KNOW YOU WILL NEVER CATCH THE WRONG UTTERANCE AROUND ME.
YOU ARE EITHER WRITING FAITH OR WRITING UNBELIEF ON THE TABLET OF YOUR HEART.
ANYONE WHO SPEAKS INTO YOUR LIFE, SPEAKS INTO YOUR FAITH.
I AM CONNECTED TO A GENERATION OF FAITH GIANTS – Bishop David Oyedepo, Papa Enoch Adeboye, and Archbishop Benson Idahosa.
I’M NOT SURPRISED ABOUT WHAT WE SAW IN THE KADUNA CRUSADE. I SAW THE CROWD IN MY MIND’S EYE SINCE.
I TITHED ON 30 NAIRA POCKET MONEY AS A HIGHER INSTITUTION STUDENT AND SAW THE RESULT OF GIVING.
INCREASE IN THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD WILL BUILD YOUR FAITH.
EXCESSIVE INSTRUCTIONS FROM DIVERSE QUARTERS ARE A SIGNATURE OF A LIFE OF CONFUSION.
– Dr. Pastor Paul Enenche on “NURTURING FAITH – TEN CHANNELS” || Midweek Power Communion Service || Dunamis International Gospel Centre || Glory Dome, Abuja ||
We have heard a lot of feedback and responses regarding the subject of Faith and I believe that God will help us to perfect what He has started in our lives in Jesus name.
I am looking at “NURTURING FAITH – TEN CHANNELS” That is, we are looking at Channels For The Nurturing Of Our Faith. Church Gist. Nurturing Faith – Ten Channels.
Romans 10:8. 2 Thessalonians 1:3. Our objective tonight is to understand the channels for the nurturing of faith. Church Gist. Three things to note by way of introduction.
1: Faith is a living force. If it can grow, it means it is alive. Church Gist. Faith is a living force that grows.
2: Whatever grows must be nurtured to grow. Anything that has the capacity to grow must be nurtured to grow. Church Gist. If faith grows as a living force, it must be nurtured to grow. “Your faith groweth exceedingly.”
3: There are factors that can build or ruin faith. Church Gist. There are factors that can build, growth factors, or that can ruin faith.
What we are here to do tonight is to look at those factors that can build faith, that can grow faith. Church Gist. So, what are these factors? What are the channels for the growth of faith?
1: The revelation of the Word of God. Some of these points are going to be points you have heard before. Romans 10:8. So, the Word of God is the Word of faith. Romans 10:17. Listen, revelation is the food of faith. Revelation which we call rhema is the food of faith, is the fuel of faith. When you run out of revelation, you begin to run out of faith. Church Gist. When you run out of Rhema, your faith begins to get at risk. To nurture your faith, you must be on a steady diet of the Word.
2: The testimonies of His acts. The testimonies of the acts of God. What we hear that God does and what He’s doing in the lives of others. Psalm 93:5. Church Gist. Testimonies bring assurance. That is, if God did it here, He can do it here. Testimonies bring assurance, the assurance of faith.
Psalm 119:24. Second thing to note here is that testimonies bring joy and counsel. Your joy is increased and you know that joy is a department of faith. 1 Peter 1:8. Testimonies bring joy, they bring counsel. Church Gist. What counsel? “This is the step this person took to get his result, if you can take similar steps, you can get similar results” They bring counsel that can facilitate answers to prayers. Testimonies of the acts of God.
Revelation 19:10. Testimonies equal prophecies. One man’s testimony is another man’s prophecy. Church Gist. So many times when you think you are hearing a testimony, you are actually hearing a prophecy, a prophecy of what God wants to do in your life, or what He is about to do in your life and that inflames your faith.
You know how the faith of Mary exploded. Luke 1:34-38. The testimony caused her to believe. Luke 1:45. Church Gist. Testimonies, what God did for one is a clue as to what He wants to do for another and once you can hear that, it inflames your faith…and I’ve spoken for a long time now about testimony books and testimony CDs, I’m sure that they are on the way coming, where you have categorized testimonies, testimonies of mysterious deliverance from the hands of killers, testimonies of supernatural intervention for fruit of the womb, testimonies of divine intervention for marital stagnation, testimonies of unusual financial breakthroughs, categorized and categorized. So, when you are looking for your faith to be charged up in the financial, then you move to the one where somebody sowed a seed of 50,000 and entered into the realms of billions. When you are looking for freedom from fear in case of captivity, then you look at those who got free from the camp of captors and so on and so forth. It charges your faith.
– Somebody say a loud Amen.
and so, the revelation of the Word of God is the number 1 channel for the growth of our faith, number 2 is the testimonies of His acts.
3: The right utterance. Your own utterance can either empower your faith or disempower your faith. Your own utterance, what you speak. Matthew 12:37. Church Gist. So, your words can liberate you or your words can limit you. Your words can impart you with enthusiasm and your words can fuel you with pessimism. If you like, say something like “Everything is working on every side in my life, nothing can go down. The devil that can make things go down in my life has not been born.” Church Gist. Just say it for a while and see what it does to your energy, what it does to your audacity, what it does to your guts, what it does to your boldness, what it does to your ‘bothercity’. Do you understand what I’m saying? and if you like just say ‘I just feel very bad. I feel very, very bad. How can a country be running like this? It’s so bad, everything is so bad.’ Just say that for a little while and tell me what it does to your energy. Church Gist. You will feel defeated, you will feel demotivated, you will feel dispirited, you will feel a lack of initiative. You don’t like to do anything because you see, words carry energy and the energy is either positive or negative. John 6:63…and so, what you speak does not only determine what happens around you, it determines your faith first.
You know that we say that confession brings possession. “As he has spoken in my ears, so will I do it” and so God is watching for what you say, to do it, but beyond that, the word of your mouth is affecting your own life first, that is your own system.
– Somebody, say a loud Amen.
If you hang around me, my wife knows, my children know, everybody knows, you will never catch the wrong utterance, you will never catch it because I know I am speaking to my own life. Can I say something to you? and don’t forget it for life. Church Gist. Your tongue is a pen. Every time you are talking, you are writing. Psalm 45:1. Can I go further? Your tongue is a pen, your heart is a slate, is a tablet, is a paper. Proverbs 3:3. Proverbs 7:1-3. God expects us to write on our hearts and you don’t use pen and ink to write on your heart. You use your tongue to write on your heart. The tongue is the pen, the heart is the slate, is the tablet. Your word, that is the ink. This is the point, it is either you are writing unbelief in your heart or writing faith by your speech. Church Gist. It’s either you are documenting and storing in your heart computer, in your hardware, either you’re storing faith or you’re storing fear and out of your heart are the issues of life. So, whichever way your life turns is depending on what you are writing on it.
There are people if you open their hearts, it’s full of unbelief, it’s full of fear, it’s full of doubt, it’s full of negativism by virtue of what they have been writing. You know that when you speak, the first person to hear you is yourself because you heard what you said before you said it and if all of life is programmed to respond to your speech, please if you want your faith to grow, ensure that you are writing the right things on the table of your heart. Write the Word, write positivism, write optimism, write enthusiasm, write revolution.
4: The right environment. You want to build your faith, you build it with the right environment. There are places you can not plant rice, there are places you may not be able to plant groundnut. There are environments for everything that must grow. The right environment refers to the right company that comes with the right mindset and the right utterance. Church Gist. You know, your company makes your environment. Who you listen to, who you have surrounded yourself with, with their mindset, with their utterance, they can influence your faith and they can influence it by either building it or ruining it. They can influence your faith.
Proverbs 13:20. 1 Corinthians 15:33. The right environment, the right company, it can charge your faith or chain your faith. Church Gist. Did you hear what I said? Your environment can charge your faith or chain your faith, it can liberate your faith or limit your faith. Your environment, who you call friends.
Numbers 13:32,33. Numbers 14:1. The wrong environment chained their faith. It chained their faith, it limited their destiny. Church Gist. But see how Peter’s faith was literally exploded overnight. Matthew 14:24-29. Can I tell you something? In the life of Peter just now, we saw two climates. The first climate was the climate that made him to sit comfortable in the boat. “Don’t step out, water will carry you.” Church Gist. The second company was the company of one person that came and pushed him to walk on the water. There are boat sitting companies and water walking companies. You can have two companies in your life. Those that encourage you to sit in the comfort zone and avoid any trace of risk and those who compel you to step out on the water because they believe the water can hold you. Church Gist. What is your current company? Who is your closest friend? Whose voice do you listen to the most?
If we had listened to the voices of certain people, we won’t be where we are now. When I stepped into the Ministry at the first time, I went to meet a man of God to tell him the vision and how God was helping us and when we were starting. Church Gist. Another pastor was there, he was a pastor in Abuja City at that time. When he saw me telling the Man of God that God sent us to the City, he had been in the City before we came. He began to tell me “Oh, the City is already saturated. There are plenty Churches.” He mentioned many Churches. He mentioned this one, this one. This one has plenty branches. Church Gist. He was just talking, I was looking at him and the other Man of God told him, “Are you the one who sent him? Is he talking to you? Leave him alone. If he said God sent him, what is your concern?” He was trying to choke the vision. He was trying to discourage the vision. If I listened to that man, nobody would be here tonight. Kaduna Crusade may not have happened but I knew who called me. Church Gist. Do you know what happened? When the Church started and almost started running, the same man returned back to me, that same man, he said “Please, can you tell me the secret of ministry?” Before I could start talking, he started rattling, “I know you have to do this, I know you have to do that” I told him, I said “You already know everything. There is nothing that I can tell you anymore”
Don’t ever forget, your company can affect your faith. Even if people don’t talk to you, the way they think, you can catch it. The way you catch cold. The mindset of people can catch you because they behave based on how they think. Church Gist. So, you hang around them for a while, you can…that’s why if you go to the village, almost everybody behaves the same. They behave alike, talk alike, the same kind of Proverbs, the same kind of…they just behave alike.
Look at your neighbour, say, “Watch your company. Church Gist. If you are interested in your faith, watch your company.”
When people start talking negatively, start talking doubt, start talking fear, give then gap. You don’t hate them, you only want to save your head and don’t love anybody enough to sink with them. Church Gist. Don’t be sentimental about your faith, about your destiny and about your future. Don’t love anybody enough to sink with them. Don’t sympathize with anybody enough to accept their negativism because it is very, very infectious.
Somebody, say a loud Amen.
If I stop here, I’ve already preached enough, but take your seats and let’s go further.
See how Peter and John sharpened each other. Acts 3:1. They sharpened each other until they jerked a cripple in the hour of prayer. Church Gist. So, the right environment which is happening to be talking about the right company.
5: The right instruction and impartation. We have ten points and you must permit me to finish all tonight. The right instruction and impartation. Anyone who speaks into your life, speaks into your faith, for faith cometh by hearing. Don’t forget what I just said. Church Gist. Anyone who speaks into your life, speaks into your faith, for faith cometh by hearing. One Word Peter heard “Come” Matthew 14:28,29… and that one Word catapulted him to the top to walk on water.
We saw the boldness of Peter and John. Acts 4:13. Because they had been with Jesus, these guys rose with an unusual level of audacity. Let me say this and don’t forget it. Faith is a Spirit. 2 Corinthians 4:13…and if it is a Spirit, it is transmissible by words. Church Gist. Ezekiel 2:2. So, the voice of your teacher, your instructor, is doing a lot to affect your faith. Beware who you give your ear to. Beware who you call your teacher.
Some people have a thousand influences over their lives. They come to a place like this and they hear one thing. Church Gist. They roam about somewhere else and they hear the opposite. Plus one minus one, zero and they are just confused and stranded. Excessive instructions from diverse quarters are signature for a lifetime of confusion. Diverse quarters, everyone online, everybody. They say ‘I just heard this’ and they are sending it everywhere, opposite. Church Gist. Until you hear “Don’t believe all the Bible. Not everything in the Bible is the Bible” All manner of things. All manner of diverse speech. What are you looking for? People are looking for things that are not missing.
– Somebody, say a loud Amen.
One day, I went into a meeting where the person preaching doesn’t believe in giving and does not believe in supernatural supply. He attacked the giving, attacked the tithe, attacked…I said, “What am I doing here?” That was how I arranged my wife to follow me. Church Gist. I believe in giving. I believe in supernatural (supply), I over believe it. I saw it before I became a pastor. I tithed on 30 naira pocket money in the High Institution. The result worked like water. I wasn’t planning to be a preacher. But I was a giver before I was a preacher and I saw its result, drastic…and the person with the evidence is not at the mercy of the person with the argument. I have too much evidence to bow for argument. Church Gist. Some of those who argue the things that are real from the Bible, they haven’t seen the evidence that those who have seen it have seen. They haven’t seen one tenth of the evidence. Beware who you give your ear to and beware of the influences you surrender yourself to.
You know, I’m a very, very hungry person and I trust God. Even if my baby has what I’m looking for, I’ll surrender myself for impartation. That’s how my life has been. My children have once laid hands on me. “I’m going for a meeting, all of you, you place your hand, make your declaration” “Daddy, Lord, bless daddy. Church Gist. Help him this way” Another one. I knelt down.
So, I came across one guy, elderly person who is meant to be prophetic because, for donkey years, I thought I could find an authentic prophetic mentor. I saw Reinhard Bonke in the Evangelism realm. I saw my father, Papa Oyedepo in the Apostolic and other realms, but that realm, abundantly populated with false operations. Church Gist. That is the most abused and the most infiltrated of the gifts where they charge people for money to…all manner. So, I thought I saw a man at least. Then suddenly, every utterance that came out of his mouth would be negative. “I see that some people are looking for you. I see…” Everything on a day, it must be negative. One day, we were talking and he said ‘So and so’, I said no, cancelled. He said it again, no, cancelled. That is somebody old enough to be a biological father, but you don’t keep quiet when your destiny is decided. Church Gist. That was how I went into the Holy Ghost. “Jesus, nobody was a greater Prophet than you. Holy Spirit, be my teacher” and He taught and taught and it was too clear what it was, too clear.
– Somebody, say a loud Amen.
So, the right influence is very, very important, the right influence.
– I prophesy to you today, fresh grace for the right instruction is released upon you in the name of Jesus.
The right influence, the right impartation.
Now, I said Faith is a Spirit and that Spirit comes in transfer from the spoken word. Now, if you look at the life of Timothy, there was a transfer. 2 Timothy 1:5. Faith that got transferred from grandmother Lois, to mother Eunice and to (Timothy) That is, from generation to generation. Church Gist. The person who instructs you, who imparts you affects your faith. I am connected to a generation of faith giants, Bishop David Oyedepo, Lion Bishop Benson Idahosa, Kenneth Copeland, Kenneth E. Hagin. If you trace it, you go to E.W. Kenyon, you go to Smith Wigglesworth. It’s that line. Kenneth Hagin said he ate up everything Smith Wigglesworth wrote until something jumped into him. Church Gist. Papa Adeboye is on that line. He travelled all the time for Kenneth Hagin’s meeting, all the time. So, beware.
There are people whose lines you can’t trace. Where are you coming from? What’s your line? You just happened? ‘Nobody dey just happen oh. Church Gist. Na born them dey born pikin’
– Praise the Lord.
6: The knowledge of God. Hebrews 11:6. If you want to grow your faith, nurture your faith, build your faith, the knowledge of God must be intact. Philippians 3:10. The knowledge of God nurtures faith and so it is good to say, increase in the knowledge of God equals increase in the strength of faith. Church Gist. To increase in the knowledge of God is to increase in your strength of faith. So, that kind of prayer that says “Lord, I want to know you” is also a prayer that facilitates your faith. Colossians 1:10. Nobody has known God enough. Keep on increasing in your knowledge of God. Increase in the knowledge of God. Increase in the knowledge of God will build your faith.
7: The vision and picture of the future. You want your faith to grow or to be nurtured, possess visions and pictures of the future, especially scriptural pictures. Church Gist. Turn Scripture into picture. Habakkuk 2:1,2. What God will say, try and see it.
Can I say something to you? It is possible to doubt what you heard but it is difficult to doubt what you saw. Church Gist. If you are only hearing Scriptures, you could doubt, but if it has become picture, God said it, you saw it clear in your mind’s eye how it is possible, it’s hard to doubt.
Hallelujah!
Somebody, say Amen!
That was how Abraham was called the father of faith because he was essentially the father of pictures. Church Gist. God actually helped his faith by giving him plenty pictures.
What we saw in Kaduna this weekend, I am not surprised, I saw the picture since. I see that all the time. There was a time I asked for Reinhard Bonnke’s crusade director to give me all the massive crusade pictures that they have. Church Gist. They gave me all of them. It was everywhere in my office and house. Anywhere you turn, crowd picture. Saw, saw, saw until it became internal. Then from inside, it flows out. We heard that the last time a crowd like this happened was also Reinhard Bonnke’s Crusade, 1991 in Kaduna. That’s the last time. What you eat, won’t it eat you up?
That was how God helped Abraham. Genesis 13:14,15. So, Abraham saw all of the present land of Israel by his mind’s eye and it became easy for God to put it in his hand. Church Gist. Genesis 15:5. ‘Come and see your seed.’ When you don’t even have a child, He says, ‘See the stars, they’re your offspring.’ So, He used pictures to affect his heart.
Lamentation 3:21. Whether it is the physical eye or it is the mind’s eye, it affects the state of the heart. Church Gist. Hebrews 11:27. Moses was seeing what others were not seeing, so he couldn’t fear what they were fearing.
– Somebody, say Amen.
Turn the Scriptures into pictures and if it is possible, use physical pictures around yourself. There was a time I put cheque, I signed the cheque, I hope I’m to telling you too much tonight, I signed the cheque. “This kind of cheque, I would sign it one day and give to God. Church Gist. I’ll sign it one day.” Cheque, plenty zeros in our currency and foreign currency, signed, pasted. I pass, I look at it. That is how that cheque leaf was condemned and used for vision. All those things written there, they have passed since.
There was a time I put Church attendance and the highest attendance I put at that time was 20,000. That was in Area One days. When we were leaving Area One we had already counted over 50,000 people on Sunday morning in 6 services, overflow outside. Church Gist. So, one day I looked at that 20,000 up and I looked at it everywhere. I said ‘No, this is now a limitation. We have already passed this number.’
I told you of Dodie Osteen. Osteen’s wife who was diagnosed of metastatic carcinoma in 1981 and she was given six weeks to live and she’s still alive till today. Church Gist. She put pictures, wedding pictures and her nice healthy pictures on the wall. She’s 90 years. 91 years this year (October). That’s her son Joel (Osteen). Joel is 61 this year. He has baby face. He himself is 61. Now the mama is 91 and he’s not the first. He has a doctor, a surgeon who is one of the first sons. Now, listen to this…and she put her…”This is me. Church Gist. That cancer picture is not me. The 6 weeks have not come.” 1981, is it not 43 years now? That 6 weeks has not come. Your picture can help your venture and facilitate your capture so you can feature in your future.
-Hallelujah!
-Somebody, give a big clap and a loud shout of praise.
Look at someone by your side, say “Do you have any pictures around you? Church Gist. Any scriptural pictures, any mental pictures, any physical pictures that are facilitating your faith?”
8: Flowing in the Spirit. The Spirit of God like we said earlier on is the Spirit of faith. Church Gist. 2 Timothy 4:13. Flowing in the Spirit will help your faith because the Spirit of God is the Spirit of faith. What happens?
First, the Spirit of God connects you with the mantle of boldness. 2 Timothy 1:6,7.Boldness. Jude 1:20. (Praying in tongues) builds up your faith. Did you hear what I just said? (Speaking in tongues) You don’t expect me to pray like that and then come out and be shaking like jellyfish. That is contraindicated. Church Gist. Do you understand? Praying in the Holy Ghost. There is an impartation of boldness, of audacity and the two combined ‘boldacity’. Do you understand what I’m saying now?
Another thing the Holy Spirit does for you is to assist you to harvest Scriptures that enfire your faith. Church Gist. He will assist you to locate Scriptures that inflame your faith. He will assist you to network, He’s a spiritual network engineer.
1 Corinthians 2:9,10. Many times, when you are saying ‘Lord, why is this one, why is that not so?’ Many times you’re trusting to hear His voice, just ask Him to give you a Scripture. Church Gist. “Lord, show me something from your Word concerning this matter.” If He gives you one Scripture, it will settle you like settlement. Church Gist. As if that verse was written with you in mind. Many times the verse that will come to mind may not look like something that means anything, but just read the whole of the chapter that carries that verse.
– Somebody, say Amen.
Flowing in the Spirit.
Now, we have 2 more to go but before we go, let us review the ones we have looked at first.
Channels for the growth of faith.
1: The revelation of the Word of God.
2: The testimonies of the acts of God.
3: The right utterance.
4: The right environment, that’s the right company.
5: The right instruction and impartation.
6: The knowledge of God.
7: The vision and picture of the future.
8: Flowing in the Spirit.
9: The maintenance of a good conscience. Many people of faith don’t know that faith goes hand in hand with a good conscience. 1 Timothy 1:19. They say “I’m walking in faith” but their conscience is not clear whether towards God or toward man and it’s just a shipwreck. Church Gist. 1 Timothy 3:9. Where the conscience is not good, faith is never strong. Guilt is the destroyer of faith. Where the conscience is not good, faith can’t be strong. There are many who have done a lot of things to be men and women of faith but conscience is not good, stole money here, lied here, cheated here, wrote false reports here, is not good, so faith couldn’t work. Church Gist. Proverbs 28:1. Uprightness is the platform for boldness in the Spirit.
– Somebody, say a loud Amen.
Some people say “I am the Word of faith. I belong to the Word of faith” Another person says “I belong to holiness group” That is ignorance, I don’t want to say ignoramus, because carry holiness and reject faith and the devil will mess you up until you become a mockery, until unbelievers begin to pity you because ordinary cockroach will be pressing you in the night. Church Gist. Then carry faith, they say “It doesn’t matter. I can dress anyhow I want. I can go anywhere I want. It is the heart that matters, not the body” and then you become self deluded. You will be crying like the prophets of Baal, no result. So, there is no Word of faith separate, holiness group separate. Church Gist. They are together. It is a merger. It is the wholeness of it that makes you irresistible in time and in eternity. Irresistible, indomitable, unfightable. When they send the devil to your address, he’ll ask for another assignment.
– Somebody, say a loud Amen.
One more and then we’re through. Church Gist. The maintenance of a good conscience and this second one is like number 9.
10: Walking in love. Bitter, envious, jealous, cantankerous, can never amount to anything in the Body of Faith. Galatians 5:6. Church Gist. The working of faith is on the platform of love. Love for God, love for man. Meaning that faith is impotent without love.
2 Thessalonians 1:3. Your faith is growing exceedingly because your love for yourselves is abundant. You are not struggling to operate faith because you are not struggling to love people. Church Gist. That is organic faith. It’s not synthetic. It is natural. It is growing naturally because you love people. You know how to love person.
– Hallelujah!
All these people, these people here, (My wife and children) what they suffer from most of the time is “hyper lovamia” Church Gist. Do you understand what I’m saying? You’ve seen some of our interactions before nearby.
Yesterday, he (a pastor) brought somebody to me for prayer at the line and I prayed like I would…a girl who came with her mother from South Africa. Church Gist. I prayed like I would pray my heart out. After midnight prayer, he sent me a text message. He said “Thank you for your heart and your love for humanity” I wanted to use a word when I was sending you the message but I removed that word because of the faith principle but I’ll tell you what I want…I said one of the things that render me the most miserable is people’s problems. Church Gist. That is, extremely disturbed.
My wife, after the midnight prayer, she saw me on the table and followed me to the room and said ‘What’s wrong? You don’t look happy. What’s happening?’ I said ‘Somebody just sent me a text between when I left and I went…’ His daughter was kidnapped. His niece was kidnapped. Church Gist. They asked him to bring ransom. He sent somebody with ransom, the person he sent with ransom disappeared. You haven’t heard the worst yet. He couldn’t reach the person and the kidnapper couldn’t reach the person, so they shot his niece dead. Church Gist. What is this? I think it’s good for me to share some of these things with you so that all of us can carry the burden together. Let us carry the burden together. They shot his cousin dead, leaving his daughter. He ran, ran, looked for money to rescue his daughter, sent his brother. His brother reached there, they released his daughter, held his brother. This was a man who was in foreign service. Served this Country outside Nigeria in various capacities in the foreign mission. Church Gist. He comes home and this is what he experiences. So, I told her (my wife), I said ‘I just received a text message and this is what it is’. We knelt down that night after Midnight Prayer “Lord, we need solution.” So, when you sent me text messages and said ‘pastor didn’t reply me” I like you to understand we are carrying almost the whole World on our shoulders. Church Gist. Every single reply you ever get to a text message is a privilege. Any single one.
The kind of story I’m telling you now comes daily, many times daily. They won’t send it to senator or governor or anybody because they know there’s no solution there. Church Gist. It comes daily. It comes many times daily. So, when you see us cheerful and making people laugh, it’s on top of these kinds of news on a continuous basis.
-Hallelujah!
So, some of the results we see, that girl last week, I prayed my heart out. I wanted to see her walk on the spot, last week Tuesday, but she couldn’t move and I said “Go with her and in the name of Jesus, come with her, Midweek Service on her feet the next day” That was how she came on the next day.
Yesterday, when that girl that couldn’t talk from ABU, Zaria, that was paralyzed and all of that and I said “Say after me” and she said. After that, she kept mute again. Church Gist. The anger that generated. Bastard devil, if you couldn’t stop her from speaking at first, it’s too late for you now. Young lady, what is her offense? What is the offense of her parents that you want to render her useless? Church Gist. “Out now!” Do you know what the lady did in my front? She said ‘Hmm’ That is, I feel the freedom now. ‘Say after me’ and she began to speak. Faith works.
You don’t have the time to be putting bitterness in your heart, it will kill your faith. Am I communicating? Oral Roberts said when he prayed for people’s children, he considered them his own child. Church Gist. “If this child was my child that was in this kind of condition, how would I pray?” Then he will pray with all the fire he possesses and the answer comes. Love is the nature of God. If you want to walk with God, you must walk in love. 1 John 4:8. Amos 3:3…and faith is a walk with God. Church Gist. If you want to walk with God, you must walk in his frequency, free of strife, free of bitterness, free of jealousy, free of malice, free of envy. You must walk in love. Free of jealousy. Free of bitterness. Free of envy. Free of malice.
– Thank you, Master. Thank you, Adonai.
– But I see somebody here today, you are exploding in your faith. Church Gist. If you’re that one, shout the loudest Amen!
Please, carry this message, listen to it over and over again, work it out. Church Gist. If there is any area where you think you need God to help you to produce results, go…I perceive there are people here today, (a) man who jilted you, said he would marry you, he didn’t marry you, disappointed you or something and you’re still holding, please, let them go so that God can release you to your marital destiny. Church Gist. There are many things we hold from our past that prevent us from reaching our future.
Pastor come, pastor, you come (talking to 2 pastors). You, stand in the front here, you stand here (on his left and right sides). Bring your iPad, stretch it towards me, stretch yours towards me. Church Gist. This is my future and this happens to be my past. God wants me to lay hold on this (my future) but my hands are here (on my past). I am meant to be going into tomorrow, but I am still in yesterday. I am holding onto a grudge, I am holding onto a malice. What is meant to be mine is there but here am I. Until I let go of this (the past) I can’t lay hold of this (the future). Church Gist. I cannot hold on to the past and lay hold on the future at the same time. I must choose one. Choose to let go of the past and lay hold on the future or choose to lay hold on the future and let go of the past and it’s a matter of choice and the truth is, there can be no future in the past.
—Prayers—
– For someone here today, what is not possible is made possible.
Some people came to pay visit on us yesterday. They are top management of a particular branch that we bank with as (a) Church. “So, we just came to greet you and appreciate you” One of them, like the Regional Manager Officer, he said, “One thing I want to confirm about this Ministry is that everybody I know who is connected to this Ministry, whatever they do succeeds.”
Today, we went into Town because we have mentioned that we are doing harvest centres, locations within FCT, Maitama Area, Asokoro and places that people can actually have service within the week. That is for those who are unable to come here to the centre for Midweek, right? and other things. Church Gist. But on Sunday we all meet here like some are already doing…and one of the places they took us to see is owned by a member of the Church, storey building, 3 floors, Ademola and Tokunbo Road and I said to him “So, you’re a member of the family. For how long?” He said “About 20 years” I have never met him once. He hasn’t come for ‘Pray for me’ or this or that once. But our accountant knew him. Church Gist. He said he knew him since when he was doing Youth Service and came to the Church. Fully established. We came to look for a property to have a Dunamis International Gospel Centre, harvest centre really and it’s owned by a member and Dr. Mrs. Enenche told me, she said “It is very real that the mantle speaks”
The number of people that the mantle of this Commission has raised that we are not aware of is in excess. Church Gist. I am saying that to you because you are beside a river, you are by a waterside.
– No devil can cause you to be dry.
– No devil can give you a story that’s opposite the story of our experience.
A woman called me from Kenya the other day. She was here in May last year for the Conference and that’s her first time, she came with others. “My husband has carried my two children, divorced me and left me” Her husband, influential person, rich, wealthy person in that country and so on and so forth and everything is upside down. Church Gist. She sent me a message, she said “Since I came and one word of prayer you uttered, everything has changed. My children they took to the UK, they brought them back. They are both celebrating me and the children together.” Other doors have opened up from the Middle East where she’s to become a representative of the people in that country. Wow, one visit, everything changed.
– I want to let you know, whatever be the name of the devil that is after your case, tonight is the end of that devil.
– Whatever force from hell is saying that you should not be a reflection of the Mantle of this Commission, that force from hell is set on fire.
— Prayers —
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