OPERATING IN THE SUPERNATURAL 5 –  Pastor David Oyedepo Jnr at LFC Midweek Communion Service || Canaanland

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THERE ARE CHALLENGES ON THE EARTH BECAUSE THERE ARE SOLUTIONS IN EVERY BELIEVER. 

THE BELIEVER IS NOT DESIGNED TO LIVE UNDER CIRCUMSTANCES BUT TO RULE OVER CIRCUMSTANCES.

THERE IS NO ONE BORN OF THE SPIRIT THAT IS ORDAINED TO LIVE AN ORDINARY LIFE.

ORDINARY EXISTENCE IS CONTRARY TO DIVINE INTENTION FOR THE REDEEMED.

UNTIL THE SUPERNATURAL CAN BE IDENTIFIED IN THE LIFE OF A BELIEVER, THERE IS A QUESTION MARK ON THE AUTHENTICITY OF THAT INDIVIDUAL’S WALK WITH GOD.

 THE GOSPEL WE PRESENT AND THE KINGDOM WE REPRESENT CAN ONLY BE EFFECTIVELY DEMONSTRATED NOT EXPLAINED

UNTIL YOU BELIEVE GOD’S PERSON, YOU CANNOT EFFECTIVELY BELIEVE HIS PROMISE.

PEOPLE COME WITH THE SAME SITUATION BUT NOT ALL EXPERIENCE DIVINE INTERVENTION BECAUSE OF THE DIFFERENCES IN THEIR FAITH IN THE PROPHET OF GOD

OUR FAITH MUST BE IN GOD’S PROPHETS BECAUSE THEIR WORDS WORK ONLY WHEN ENGAGED WITH FAITH

MANY PEOPLE STRUGGLE WITH WHAT GOD HAS SAID BECAUSE THEY HAVE NOT YET SETTLED ON WHO GOD IS

THE COMMAND OF THE SUPERNATURAL IS AT THE MERCY OF THE AUTHENTICITY OF OUR FAITH IN GOD

YOU CAN’T SEE THE WORKING OF MIRACLES WITHOUT THE ENGAGEMENT OF FAITH

YOUR FAITH IS THE CURRENCY FOR THE PROCUREMENT OF YOUR MIRACLE

–   Pastor David Oyedepo Jnr on OPERATING IN THE SUPERNATURAL 5 at LFC Midweek Communion Service || Canaanland

Our Father, tonight we have come to give you all the praise. To appreciate and to honour you for all that you have done. Thank you for your goodness, thank you for your faithfulness, thank you for answering all the prayers we have offered to you tonight, accept our gratitude. Lord our eyes are fixed upon you tonight, we ask that you will speak to us. Church Gist. Our expectation is on you. Therefore tonight grant us your visitation. By your word, let every one of our lives be transformed again. We give all the praise and glory to you because we know it is done already in Jesus’ precious name we have prayed.

Our line of teaching for our Midweek Services this month is OPERATING IN THE SUPERNATURAL. We are looking at the fifth part of this series of teaching. Church Gist. I pray that for each one of us tonight as the choir ministered, we shall be elevated into the covenant highways of the supernatural.

OPERATING IN THE SUPERNATURAL. From scriptures, we have been able to see that our identity in redemption is rooted in the supernatural. Isaiah 8:18. John 3:8. So there is no one born of the Spirit that is ordained to live an ordinary life. Ordinary existence is contrary to divine intention for the redeemed. In fact, we have come to recognize that the credential of the believer is the command of the supernatural. What your identity card is to certifying who you are is what the supernatural is to certifying the child of God. Acts 2:22. What was the proof? What was the evidence? By miracles and wonders and signs. Scriptures make it very clear to us that the credential of the believer is ordained to the supernatural. John 10:37-38. In other words, the evidence of my connectivity to the Father is in the command of the works of the Father. Church Gist. Until the supernatural can be identified in the life of a believer, there is a question mark on the authenticity of that individual’s walk with God. So it means therefore that what your I.D. card is to certifying your personality is what the supernatural is to certifying your Christianity. This is so important and vital. Jesus went further in the book of John 17:18 to put it this way. If Jesus had to be certified by the supernatural then you and I also have to be certified by the supernatural. This is why we have said over this month that if you do not have a proof, you do not have a point. Church Gist. What gives you a point to make is the proof you command. It is the command of the supernatural that gives genuine approval to you and I as believers. No wonder we are told in the book of Romans 8:19 down to verse 21. There are challenges on the earth because there are solutions in every believer. Every believer is designed as a container of supernatural solutions. We are there as answers to questions on the earth. That is God’s design, that is God’s intention, that is God’s agenda. I pray that by the encounter we are having tonight, what God has put inside you and I will be manifested for our world to see.

This also means that the gospel we present and the Kingdom we represent can only be effectively demonstrated not explained. The world is not waiting for explanation but for demonstration. 1 Corinthians 2:4-5. Romans 1:16. So according to scripture the gospel that we present and the kingdom that we represent can only be effectively demonstrated not explained. It is not explanation that gives credence to our association with God, it is demonstration that does. It is our demonstration that does. 1 Corinthians 4:20. It is the demonstration of the supernatural that gives credence to the authenticity of our association with God. This means that no one can be an effective witness without adequate manifestation of the power of God. That is why the supernatural becomes a non-negotiable factor for every believer. Church Gist. Hebrews 2:3-4. So the only way to be an effective witness is the demonstration of the supernatural. No wonder Jesus told His disciples to tarry in Jerusalem until they were endued with power. Luke 24:49. And the power came on the day of Pentecost in order to enable the believers to become effective witnesses to the gospel of Jesus.  So we cannot represent the kingdom without the supernatural.  Church Gist. We can’t present the gospel without the supernatural. The supernatural is what gives credence to the genuineness of our association with God. Again, I pray that for each one tonight, from this night onward, the supernatural will become our new identity.

Furthermore, we also discover that when a believer disregards the place of the supernatural He becomes vulnerable to the circumstances of life. It is when the supernatural is excused that a man enters into crisis in life. Because everything is taken out of the normal order when the supernatural is out of the way. That means that the believer is not designed to live under circumstances but to rule over circumstances. We are not designed to live under situations but to rule over situations. We are not designed to live under climatic conditions but to rule over climatic conditions. Church Gist. That is God’s design. Psalm 82:5-7. I pray tonight that whatever has relegated any one of us to a merely human experience, tonight it will be eradicated in the name of Jesus. From now the divinity inside you and me will begin to find practical expression.

Quickly tonight what is a miracle? Let’s begin tonight by giving definition to what a miracle is.

A miracle is God’s response to our faith. But this faith is in three directions. 

1.            Faith in God: this is a foundational requirement for the provocation of the miraculous. A miracle is God’s response to our faith but faith in what direction? Faith in God. Acts 27:25. The direction of our faith is what determines the potency of our faith. Faith is faith, it is what you are investing faith in that determines the potency of faith. Faith in God. Church Gist. When we talk about faith in God, we are talking about having faith in the character of God, having faith in the person of God. All through scriptures, check men of exploits. They were men that had definite encounters and clarity on the person of God. Hebrews 11:6. The starting point of faith is connectivity to God. Until you believe His person, you cannot effectively believe His promise. What makes you and I effectively believe His promise is our effective belief in His person.

That is why you find the Bible tell us about Moses in Hebrews 11:27. It tells us concerning him that ‘he endured as seeing Him who is invisible’. The starting point of Moses’ faith was a connectivity to the person of God. Church Gist. Exodus 33:18; Daniel 11:32. The command of the supernatural is at the mercy of the authenticity of our faith in God. It is not chanting promises; it is connecting to the promiser. Our connectivity to the person through our faith is the foundation of the supernatural.

That is why Paul the Apostle speaking in Philippians 3:10, “that I may know him and the power of His resurrection.” Everywhere you see a man of authentic manifestation you will check the conviction and their connectivity to the person of God. You will see it clearly. No wonder Peter said, “we have not come to you with cunningly devised fables. Church Gist. We are talking about practical tangibilities that we have come in contact with as far as the person of God is concerned” – faith in God. 1 John 1:1. These were men talking about their connectivity to a person. That is the foundation of the authenticity of faith.

How many of you have heard God’s servant, our father stand and say, “Except God did not send me…” You know that when you hear that statement whatever he is saying next is a dangerous thing. Why? Because faith in God, connecting to the person.

So the starting point of the faith that is potent is that it must be invested in God.

2. Faith in His Word. A miracle is God’s response to our faith. First, Faith in God Himself then, faith in His Word. So having believed the person you can now rely on the promise. The reason why many people struggle with what God has said is because they have not yet settled on who God is. Church Gist. You don’t struggle with what he has said when you have settled on who he is because the character of God is very clear. Numbers 23:19; Romans 3:4; Psalm 89:34. So the faith that works miracles is the faith that is invested appropriately in the person of God and the promise of God.

So a miracle is God’s response to our faith. Faith in God, His word

3. Faith in His prophets: 2 Chronicles 20:20. We must understand that the Prophets of God are human agents for divine intervention. When God wants to step into a matter, he engages the utilisation of his prophets. Church Gist. When God wants to turn around a matter, he engages the utilisation of his prophets. Why is that so? The Bible makes it clear to us in Isaiah 42:9-10 that the pattern of God is that whatever he will do, he will first say.

One of the agents that God uses to tell us of what He will do are his prophets. Amos 3:7. So prophets are custodians of the mind of God. God’s servant put it this way: he said, “God’s Word speaks to our lives but His Prophet speaks to our moment.” They tell us the “now word,” “the now agenda.” They show us where God is set to step in. Church Gist. That is why you must never play with your God ordained prophet. Inside their mouth is your intervention. The words that they speak are God’s instruments for our liberty. God steps in through the words that they speak. This is vital and important. So we must ensure that our faith is in his prophets. Why? Because the words they speak only work for you when it is engaged with faith. It is our faith engagement that provokes the manifestation of the miraculous.

This is why faith is a non negotiable factor. It is not the potency of the prophet but rather the faith of the receiver. That’s what makes the difference because a word can be spoken and profit one and not profit the other. Hebrews 4:2. Church Gist. How come the same word delivered for one and not for the other? The difference was faith.

Now hear this and hear it very well tonight: there is no service that we have, (check the Sunday, Midweek services) without a particular intervention. How come not all with the same situation experience that intervention? Everybody comes with the same situation but not everybody comes with the same conviction; so not everybody can see the same manifestation. Church Gist. It is our faith in the prophet that makes the difference. God’s servant stands here and he is making decrees from time to time; issuing prophetic releases from time to time. It is the faith of those who catch it, believing the source from which it is coming that determines the experience. So faith must be in God, His Word, must be in his prophets.

This is why without faith, there are no miracles. Galatians 3:5. You can’t see the working of miracles without the engagement of faith. It is the ultimate difference maker. So again what is a miracle?

A miracle is simply God’s response to our faith in Him, our faith in His Word and our faith in His prophets. Church Gist. Therefore, if you want a miracle, God requires your faith. Your faith is the currency for the procurement of your miracle. Just like you pay money to buy goods, you pay faith to collect miracles. Matthew 9:27-29. Your lot is determined by your faith.

– I pray tonight that by the encounter we are having with His word, our faith will come alive!

Now we want to answer a very important question tonight: how can you operate in the supernatural? What are some of the vital keys, protocols, requirements, for operating in the supernatural?

1. Through spiritual growth and development: in this Kingdom if you don’t grow, you will groan. Our spiritual growth is what gives us access to supernatural authority. When a man becomes born again, every provision of the Kingdom is his right but the right can only be enforced as you rise in authority. Galatians 4:1-2. Now we want to answer a very important question tonight: how can you operate in the supernatural? What are some of the vital keys, protocols, requirements, for operating in the supernatural?

1. Through spiritual growth and development: in this Kingdom if you don’t grow, you will groan. Our spiritual growth is what gives us access to supernatural authority. When a man becomes born again, every provision of the Kingdom is his right but the right can only be enforced as you rise in authority. Galatians 4:1-2.

Until the father can access his maturity, he remains under subjection. It is when his maturity is positively accessed as being at the required level that he can be given authority. So, according to scriptures authority is a product of maturity. Authority is a product of maturity. Isaiah 9:6. A child is born but a son is a gift because he is able to enforce the authority on the rights given to him. Church Gist. It’s so important. You and I will both agree that children are responsibilities. When a child is born, the child becomes a responsibility but when the child becomes a son, the child now acquires authority. Until you and I grow in God, we can’t rise in authority. It’s our spiritual growth that ultimately determines our authority in God. This is so important, our spiritual growth is what determines our authority in God. 

It is also important we understand that spiritual maturity is not by age. Spiritual maturity is by depth in spiritual things. You don’t grow spiritually because you have been long in the faith. You may have been born again for 50 years, what determines your growth is your depth. It is how deep you are in the things of God that determines how high you are in the world of the spirit. How deep you are! When a man stops growing deep spiritually, he stops growing tall spiritually. Church Gist. Our spiritual height and authority is a product of our spiritual depth in God. Our spiritual depth in God. Shout halleluyah! 

The question is, how do we build this depth? 

1. We build this depth by tireless study of the Word. 

You can’t grow without the Word, you can’t grow without the Word. That is why satan will most of the times seek to attack your attention to the Word. He will want to attack your attention to the Word. Everyone that is spiritually serious is serious with the Word. Anyone that will grow spiritually must ensure their commitment to the Word. Shout halleluyah! That is why, we must be careful to fight whatever distracts us from the Word. Make the Word of God a priority. Make the Word of God a priority!

I have said it before, I make it a practice in my own personal life that before I will read or hear from any person, I must first read or hear from God. So, I don’t read any text message, I don’t read any email, I don’t pick any call, I don’t open any WhatsApp until I have first taken in some satisfactory dosage of the Word, why? Because we live in a world that is full of distractions and the cheapest way to be settled in the world is to settle with the Word first. Church Gist. Hear me, if you don’t start with God in the morning, satan will distract you all through the day. He will distract you! So wake up early! Oh Pastor, but there is Covenant Hour. There are hours before the Covenant Hour. Settle with the Word first. Consume the Word first! If you don’t consume the Word, the world will confuse you. That is what it will take. Be tireless in your study of the Word. Be committed to your study of the Word. Shout halleluyah! And don’t just be religious about it, engage the help of the Holy Spirit. There are times you are reading the Bible and you are not seeing anything. Don’t just deceive yourself by marking calender [After all I read Bible today] No! What did you see from it? When I am reading and I am not seeing, I quickly ask for help – Holy Spirit help me o! Because I need to see something. That is what builds us up spiritually. Be committed to the Word. Study it tirelessly. 2 Timothy 2:15. What does that mean? If you don’t study, you will see shame. If you don’t study, you will see shame! It takes being studious to escape shame. What do you think happened to those seven sons of Sceva? They were Church people. The Bible said that they were the sons of a priest, they were in Church everyday. It was in Church that they heard that you can say to a devil “come out” and the devil will come out. They heard it in Church. But you know what? They never studied! How do I know? Even when they were talking to the devil, they were talking about what they heard Paul said. They said “Now, we adjure you in the name of Jesus whom Paul preacheth. We heard Paul say something, so we say it also, come out.” The devil said “who? You? Jesus I know, Paul I know, you have not read anything, you don’t know anything, so who are you?” Is somebody getting it now? You see, it is our study that changes our visage because the Bible says “we all with open face, beholding as in a glass the glory of God, we are changed. You remain the same if you don’t commit to studying. It is our commitment to studying the Word that changes us and makes us potent channels of the supernatural. Shout halleluyah! It makes us potent channels of the Supernatural. It makes us potent channels… So, we must commit ourselves. God’s Servant said he has been preaching prosperity but he said “I have not seen this thing yet.” So, he sat down to do what? To study! 3 days prayer and fasting, taking the books, taking the Bible until light broke forth and he stood up and spunned and shouted “I can never be poor!” Somebody will stand, shout, spin but he didn’t read anything. He said “I can never be poor.” Poverty says I won’t go. Because darkness only bows to light. Darkness only bows to what? To light! So, we must settle down, we must settle down and be tireless in our study.

2. The fear of the LORD puts us in command of the supernatural. 

If you are going to see the supernatural manifested in your life and if I will see it manifested in my life, then I must and you must be walking practically in the fear of the LORD. The fear of the LORD refers to living in reverence to God. Living in reverence to God, your life being lived in reverence to God. That is you are committing to do only what pleases God. Church Gist. A man that fears God does not need monitoring. A man that fears God does not need supervision. A man that fears God aligns with what God requires out of honour to God. He aligns with it effortlessly. Whatever pleases God is his ultimate command. This is so important. That is what gives us access to the command of the supernatural.

I have shared before how that a particular brother came to me and said to me “Pastor, there is a lot of attack in my workplace. All manner of witchcraft attack.” And I began to talk to him, I said are you not born again? He said “yes” I said “do you know that in Christ you have authority? He has made you, put you far above all principalities and powers.” He looked and he laughed, he said “Pastor, I know why I said you should pray. I know why I said you should pray.” So, I wasn’t getting the point, so I said “why?” He said “you see, sometimes I do certain things” and he began to name the things he does. When he named 1, 2, 3, I said “you are correct, you shouldn’t pray because if you pray and the demon that is pursuing you at work catches you, the oppression will not end at work, they will follow you home and be tormenting you there” Why? The fear of the LORD made him not to have a place of authority. 1 John 3:20-22. So, the supernatural answers to a man or woman who is walking practically in the fear of the LORD. That is why, if you fear God you will fare well. Church Gist. If you fear God, you will fare well! Tonight, I pray that a renewed sense of the fear of the LORD will come afresh upon our lives. God is greater than our hearts but He knows all things. There is nothing a man can hide from Him, He knows all things! That means, it is a matter of the heart.

– Lift your hands to heaven tonight and let’s give thanks to God for His Word we have received. 

PRAYERS.

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