- Bishop David Oyedepo at CHoP
Shall we lift up our two hands to heaven and give Him thanks again for answered prayers this morning. Give him thanks for those amazing testimonies of the faithfulness of our God. Magnify Him and glorify Him, for there is none like our God.
Would you ask Him to speak to you this morning? Jesus I want to hear from you, Jesus do a new thing in my life. Grant me this morning a new beginning again, thank you for another working week: it’s my week. Thank you for vengeance in the camp of my enemies. Church Gist.Thank you for opening a new chapter to my life, in Jesus precious name we pray.
Jesus thank you for all the wonderful things you did in the camp of our enemies yesterday, thank you for this new day. We ask that you speak to us again in the precious name of Jesus Christ.
WHO IS A SERVANT OF GOD?
Anyone serving God and the interest of His kingdom on earth : young or old, male or female, with or without a title is a servant of God. It is not about age, not about experience, not about calling, it’s simply about our willful obedience to the one we are called to serve.
John 15:2
Every one child of God is born again a value adding branch in the house of God, redeemed to serve the purpose of the Father on the earth. Serving God is neither a calling or a gift, it is a choice that individuals make.
A young chap here in secondary school carried 98 fliers desiring a change in his grade for Mathematics and God honoured his childlike faith and shot him up for serving His interest on the earth. A 19 year old cell minister committed himself to very drastic growth commitment and God changed his story supernaturally. So it is not by the anointing or experience.
I wasn’t baptized in the Holy Ghost in 1973 when the Lord via my zeal for His house built that village church. It was a choice, I cried “Lord see that I don’t leave this village the way I met it” and 72 days to leave there Jesus did it.
You have to begin as a disciple before you can emerge an apostle. You don’t start as an ambassador, you start as a foreign service officer first. If you do well, you become an ambassador. If you do well as a disciple you become an apostle.
Luke 6:13
There will be apostles of finance, science and industry in this church that will emerge by serving God from where they are (Job 36:11).
Serving God has a worth that has no comparison on the earth. This is why we must remain steadfast in serving God for we will only reap it if we faint not. If you resign as an admin officer in foreign service, you never emerge an ambassador. It’s over!
1 Corinthians 15:58, Galatians 6:9.
We shall reap in due season if we faint not. That is where many people have missed it, they fainted. They had seven more ladders to step up to the realm where they become the eyes of God on the earth but they missed it.
Imagine thanking God and shouting and shouting about what He did in 1973, I will still be there now. It is not about what you did before, it is about what you are doing now. It is this untiring commitment to God that leads to the glorious destiny God has for you.
Our exhortation for the week is captioned: SERVING GOD IS EVERY BELIEVER’S COVENANT RESPONSIBILITY.
You don’t to be an apostle to serve God, you start serving God as a disciple and if you faint not, you end up an apostle in your field of endeavour. Peter left everything and followed the Master as a disciple; a disciple is an errand boy. Later on, He named him an apostle.
The Lord said to me June 22 1992: “I have brought you to the apostolic phase of your ministry today”. I started in 1972 as a disciple, up until 1992 then I became an apostle. We say everyone who founds a church is an apostle, that is not true. Ask the young academic how long it takes to emerge a professor, they will tell you “the journey far small”. Even if you make First Class Honours in your first degree, that doesn’t make you a professor, the journey far small.
So, if you want to see the fullness of His glory, stay on actively in His service.
Mathew 24:45-47.
Don’t expect any reward unless He meets you on duty.
Abraham a blessed business emperor was a servant of God. We saw consistent service, he was receiving very strange instructions and following them with utmost excitement and suddenly God said “By myself have I sworn…”. From Chapter 12 to Chapter 22 is a long route, He was called at 75 and saw Isaac at 100. He never pulled back but went forward and laid that Isaac as a sacrifice. Another deadly instruction and there He encountered a sworn blessing.
Psalm 105:42
Tireless engagement gave Abraham his place in his days. He grew to have an army of his own that could take on the army of a whole nation. It’s not hit and run engagement, it’s hit and stick engagement.
It is staying on, that results in a glorious ends.
- Receive grace to stay on
When you are in your appointed place, if you stay on in truth you can never be disappointed. Believe me when I say, no spiritually lazy person can survive here. Don’t be sad when you hear the testimony of others, it is because you are not working, when you work it will work. There is what to do to make things work. If you don’t work nothing will work.
James 1:25
We are not wasting our time serving the Lord, it is a covenant platform for our health and vitality (Exodus 23:25-26). Church Gist. This is God’s verdict for those who are serving in the Kingdom and bearing fruit. They are adding value not just posing as adding value.
You don’t pray to emerge an apostle, you serve acceptably as a disciple in order to emerge as an apostle in your field. Michael Faraday was an apostle of Science, Abraham was an apostle of business. If you serve God faithfully with your finance, you will soon emerge as an apostle of finance just flowing in fortune as a number of people are in this church, including this short man. I call forth what is needed and it appears. That is not the way it started. If you won’t be effective as a disciple, you never emerge an apostle.
Lift up your two hands and ask God for grace for consistency, steadfastness, grace for continuity. Demand for that grace right now.
Our change of story is not in the title we bear but in the tasks we accomplish with it.
Pray for a reviving of your Spirit in engaging with heaven’s agenda.
In Jesus precious name we have prayed.
- May the grace for consistency come for every one of us afresh this morning, every one hearing me this morning: online, on ground, through any device receive grace for sustainable stewardship.
I have never had to rethink my engagement for once in my life. I made a choice, entered into a covenant and He gave grace to stand there. - You won’t miss your place.
One hundred years of fasting won’t take the place of service. You can never be rewarded for what you didn’t do. Stop praying up and down and go to the vineyard and work. You are never due for any pay if you are not adding value to the kingdom.
Grace to remain a value adding member of the Household of God, Receive it now.
The week is declared a blessed week for you. You will hear news from the camp of your enemies this week and you will also hear news concerning your change of story from heaven. It will be clear that God has sent your enemies permanently away.
Lift up your two hands and speak to the week everyone. Seize the week right now what you want it to be.
Thank you Jesus.
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