Romans 12:11

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IF FASTING AND PRAYER DOES NOT DO ANYTHING TO YOU, IT SERVICES YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD. THE JANUARY FAST REVITALIZES RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD; IT INCREASES SPIRITUAL PRAYER FIRE.

-Pastor Paul Enenche at 2022 Overflowing Grace and Glory Fast, Dunamis International Gospel Centre,
Day Two

Clap your hands oh ye people, shout to the Lord with a voice of triumph.

• For somebody here today, your testimony is here!

Matthew 6:9-11

1. The place of prayer is the place where spiritual relationship is serviced. So, if fasting and prayer does not do anything to you, it services your relationship with God. The January fast revitalizes relationship with God; it increases spiritual prayer fire.
2. The place of prayer is the place where Kingdom authority is established. “Thy Kingdom come…” Where we show the devil who is in charge; Kingdom authority is established and enforced.
3. The place of prayer is the place where divine will and agenda is enforced.

So we services our relationship with God, we establish the authority of Heaven in our land, lives and territories and if this is what God wants, no devil can say otherwise. Church Gist. We enforce the will and enforce the agenda of God for our lives, for our nation and for territory. We are here tonight to do that and I want you to pray passionately.

• Today, someone’s relationship with God moves to another level!
• Today, someone else, Jehovah God will use you to show the devil who is in charge in that family, office and community!
• For somebody here, every agenda of hell regarding your life and your destiny all these years, they will see their obituary.

Lift up your voice and begin to appreciate God for tonight.

PRAYER:

• Psalm 84:7
  Father, thank You for this second Day of the fast. Thank You Lord for great and awesome testimonies received so far. Thank You for strength in Your presence. To You alone be all the praise in the name of Jesus.
• Psalm 23:5, 2 Peter 1:3
  Father, thank You for ushering us into the realm of the overflow. I receive the overflow of all things that pertain unto life and godliness from Your hands in this season, Lord in Jesus’ name.
• 1 Timothy 1:14, 2 Corinthians 9:8
  Father, thank You for this season of overflowing grace and glory. I make demands on exceeding abundant grace in every facet of life in 2022, oh Lord in the name of Jesus. Church Gist. Father, I receive abundant grace to abound to every good work in 2022 oh Lord, in the name of Jesus.
• 2 Chronicles 5:13-14
  Father, thank You for this season of overflowing grace and glory. I ask that every department of my life and destiny be overwhelmed to the overflow with Your glory and presence, oh Lord in the name of Jesus Christ. Father, let Your glory make the difference in my life in 2022, oh Lord in the name of Jesus.
• Isaiah 60:1-4
  Father, we ask that the cloud of glory will draw the crowd of people – multitudes – unto salvation and discipleship in Your church, Dunamis in 2022, Lord in the name of Jesus Christ. Church Gist. Father, let this year be a year of unusual overflow of multitudes by Your glory in all locations of Dunamis, Lord in Jesus’ name.
• Isaiah 4:5-6, Isaiah 35:1-2
• Father, we ask that Your glory will come upon our Nation this year and defend us from the heat and storm of evil and wickedness in the land in Jesus’ name. Let Your ordained glory for this Nation, for my life, for our Church rise in this season, oh Lord in the name of Jesus.
• Psalm 65:2
  Father, we thank You for answers to prayers. Thank You Lord because You are the God who hears and answers prayers. To You alone be all the glory, Lord in Jesus’ name.

In Jesus precious name!

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ACCESS TO GOD EQUALS ACCESS TO GRACE AND GLORY. WHOEVER CANNOT DISCONNECT YOU FROM GOD CANNOT DISCONNECT YOU FROM GRACE AND GLORY.

GRACE IS THE FAVOUR OF GOD WHILE GLORY IS THE FLAVOUR OF GOD. WHEN YOU CARRY GRACE, YOU CARRY HIS FAVOUR AND WHEN YOU CARRY GLORY, YOU CARRY GOD’S FLAVOUR AND HIS AROMA.

-Pastor Paul Enenche at 2022 Overflowing Grace and Glory Fast, Dunamis International Gospel Centre,
Day Two

Give Him a big clap and a big shout of praise. Hallelujah!

Psalm 84:11
It is a very brief charge titled: “GRACE AND GLORY.”

Every contact with God brings people into contact with grace and glory. “The Lord will give grace and glory.” Access to God equals access to grace and access to glory. Whoever cannot disconnect you from God cannot disconnect you from grace and they also cannot disconnect you from glory. Church Gist. Scripture makes it clear that both grace and glory are available at the place of prayer (Hebrews 4:16). The throne of God is the throne of grace. The place of prayer is the place of grace. Zachariah 12:10 connects the spirit of grace with the spirit of supplication. So, we access grace at the place of prayer and we also access glory at the place of prayer.

Luke 9:29, 2 Corinthians 3:18
So, as we behold His face, we are stepping into His place in prayer; we access grace and glory.

• Somebody here, you are leaving tonight with a new dimension of grace like never before!
• Someone else tonight, you are moving out of here with an overflowing dimension of glory like never before!

WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN GRACE AND GLORY?

1. Grace is the favour of God while glory is the flavour of God. When you carry grace, you carry His favour. When you carry glory, you carry His flavour, His perfume, His aroma.
2. Grace is the potentiality of God (prophetic grace, apostolic grace, teaching grace, evangelistic grace). The potentials of God in man, the capability of God in man. Church Gist. Glory is the personality of God in man. It is like carrying His potentials versus carrying His person and now, you are with both.
3. Grace delivers from the wrath to come. The Bible says we are saved by grace. So if grace saves you, then hell is not your home. Glory defends from the wrath of the now, that is the wrath of the enemy (Isaiah 4:5).

• Many of us tonight shall experience new giftings, new potentials and many of us today, when you appear, the Red sea will know that Jehovah appeared because they will see Jehovah inside you!

Many of us are sure of escaping hell; “I’m going to Heaven.” Our only challenge is that we are battling with witches here. Church Gist. That is not correct. You are free from the wrath to come but you are suffering attacks in the now, that is where the glory comes in. That is when the glory defends you.

• I prophesy a defense of the glory upon someone’s life here today. Every form of attack and every form of frustration and every form of enemy agenda in your life is over forever!

HOW DO WE ACCESS GRACE AND GLORY?
Accessing grace and glory, there are diversities of ways to access grace and glory but I’ll mention two that are common to both grace and glory:

1. Humility and death to self. God resists the proud and gives grace to the humble (James 4:6). Grace can never be found with the proud, the arrogant and the ostentatious, the braggadocios.
   John 12:23-25
   Something must die for glory to rise. The flesh must die; the arrogant, that which want to take the place of God. You know we say glory is the personality of God (John 3:30). If His glory and His person must increase in me, I must decrease. Church Gist. Throughout this fast, one thing you are going to beg God for; if this is our year of overflowing grace and glory and both of them need humility and death to self, then you are going to tell God; anything that is struggling with Your glory in my life, every trace of arrogance or pride, anything in me that is stopping me from seeing your glory the way I should, let it die!
2. Sacrificial living. The life of sacrifice is door way to both grace and glory (2 Corinthians 9:6-8). Diversity of grace abounds for the sacrificial giver. When a man’s heart is giving to God, anything that he has flows naturally towards God. God has engraced me in all humility to be a partaker of multifaceted graces. We don’t talk about it but it cannot be denied. Church Gist.
   Philippians 4:15-19
   Why is verse 19 possible? Because your liberality came to the point where you had no choice but to connect glory. See, sacrificial living gives access to grace and glory. Humility and death to self gives access to grace and glory.

Beloveth, I welcome you to the overflow of grace and glory in 2022; overflow of humility will overflow grace and glory. Overflow of sacrifice will overflow grace and glory.

Lift up your hands and give Him the praise for what you are about to experience. Lift up your hands and say;

• Father, I thank You for Your help and Your mercy on my life. Thank You for access to the glory realm. I ask for help to the grace dimension. I receive grace, I receive overflow of glory, in Jesus’ name.
• Father, let Your favour and Your flavour overflow in my life in 2022 in the name of Jesus.
• Father, let Your potentiality, let Your possibility and Your personality overflow, overwhelm, invade my life in 2022 in the name of Jesus.
• Father, I receive total deliverance from the wrath of the enemy, from the anger of the enemy. Today, I receive complete freedom from the wrath of the enemy in the name of Jesus.

(Altar Call)

Yesternight the Lord showed me a revelation; I mentioned it in the Healing and Deliverance Service, it was more like a parable where a groom (I’m using that word now like scripture) smashed into pieces an enemy that was confronting his bride. Smashed – the way you look at the ground, what is left is powder. I spoke about it in the morning and the Lord ministered to me that every devil tampering with the bride of Christ is in danger in this season. Everyone here today, that is the bride of the groom, He said I am the bridegroom. Everyone today who is at the mercy of witches and wizards, occultic people; as a bride of Christ, by the apostolic and the prophetic mandate and mantle of God upon my life, those demonic agents, if they do not repent, they shall be crushed to pieces!

• You are going to hear news this week. Before the week is out, those who will not leave you alone, who will not leave your destiny alone, who will not leave your children, wife, husband alone; they shall be crushed to pieces!

This mother came from Niger Republic. She testified in the morning in French and had affliction in her body, in her system, sleepless nights and then lost the presence of God, the gift of vision, revelation; eyesight was not functioning well and then left Republic after encountering this Commission and decided to come to Nigeria, Abuja here. As they crossed the boundary from Niger Republic, stepped into Sokoto, she had a dream where she saw cows, cattle trooped out of her and were running and she told the cattle, where are you going, what is happening? Church Gist. The cattle spoke to her back and said, “you think we don’t know where you are taking us to? You are taking us to go and kill us.”

• It is by the same mantle I announce here; any devil toying with your destiny, their end has come and all the demonic agents toying with the destiny of the Church in Nigeria, whichever territory they are, whatever position they are, this year they cannot escape their judgement!
• Anyone who is toying with the destiny of God’s people, camouflaging to be a minister of God, who is actually a minister of devil; they can’t escape this year, they can’t escape this first quarter!
• I see judgment on occultic people who are playing with the bride of Christ; diverting the bride of Christ, distracting the bride of Christ, corrupting the bride of Christ, contaminating and polluting the bride of Christ in the name of fake and false occultic ministry. They cannot cross this year!

Lift your two hands and say;
“Jesus, I am Your bride, arise and fight for this your bride. Arise and take care of every agent of darkness tampering with my life, with my destiny.”

So shall it be!

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SOME CLAIM THERE IS TELEVISION FAST, JUICE FAST AND VEGETABLE FAST

SOME CLAIM WHEN YOU ARE BREAKING YOUR FAST, YOU CAN BREAK THE OTHER ONE TOO AS IT INCREASES YOUR ANOINTING

IN THIS KINGDOM YOU EITHER TRAVAIL TO PREVAIL OR YOU FAIL

HEAVEN DOES NOT HELP THOSE THAT CAN HELP THEMSELVES RATHER HEAVEN RESPOND TO THOSE WHOSE VOICES ARE REGISTERED IN THE COURTROOM OF PRAYERS

THE BEAUTY OF CHRISTIANITY IS POWER AND POWER IS GENERATED ON THE PLATFORM OF PRAYERS

WE SERVE A GOD THAT REMOVES LIMITATION SET BY THE DEVIL AND HIS AGENTS BUT THE TRUTH IS THAT GOD WILL NOT ACT UNTIL YOU REACT

WHEREVER THERE IS ADVANCEMENT THERE IS CONTENTION AND YOUR CONTENDER IS THE DEVIL.

PRAYERLESSNESS IS NOT JUST A SIN IT IS PRIDE AND WHO WILL RESIST THE PROUD? GOD
-Martins Odi Ekiyor | Salvation Ministries Home of Success, 21 Days of Prayer and Fasting

Lift up your voice and magnify his name, Father we thank you we appreciate you; we give you all the glory and praise. Lord, we thank you, be thou exalted, be thou glorified in Jesus most precious name. Jam those beautiful hands to Jesus and please be seated.

Praise the Lord!

I want to deeply appreciate God for this opportunity to be the one to bring the Word on this first day of the 21 days of prayers and fasting program. I want to appreciate my father, my mentor, Papa for giving me the rare privilege to stand upon this exalted altar, Papa I have not slept since Saturday when I was called. Praise God! Mama I thank you ma, I know you’re praying for me where you’re seated. The God of this Commission will help me in Jesus name. Church, please let us celebrate our Mama, praise the Lord, Hallelujah.

I also want to appreciate the Pastors present and also everyone listening to me, God of David Ibiyeomie will bless you in the name of Jesus, that secret tears of yours turns into open laughter in the name of Jesus Christ. Holy Spirit I ask for the understanding of your Word for your people, let lives be transformed, save souls above all in Jesus name.

Topic: PRAYER AND FASTING TO GET RESULTS

We will be looking at:

• Consistent prayers
• Family altars
• Word intake and meditation

It is not good to copy, everything I copied Papa preached it yesterday, but Mama said copying is allowed it is not a sin, so I will just refresh your minds over what Papa said yesterday.

In this Kingdom you either travail to prevail or you fail – Isaiah 66:8b, no great destiny is ever born without travailing greatly. ChurchGist. Travailing precedes prevailing, nothing happens on earth by chance, some people live their lives by chances and they are either dead or living in regret, you will not live your life by chance in the name of Jesus Christ.

Heaven does not help those that can help themselves rather heaven respond to those whose voices are registered in the courtroom of prayers. Papa said: you need warfare to guarantee your welfare. ChurchGist. What you pamper will tamper with your life and destiny. Papa said what you don’t want; don’t watch, prayer is not the key but it is the hand that holds the key, new realms are negotiated on the platform of prayers, if you have not prayed don’t trust the result you have seen, any result that you have not prayed for, don’t trust it. Praise God!

The beauty of Christianity is power and power is generated on the platform of prayers – Acts 4:31, the promises of God revealed in his Word to his people are obtainable through prayers. ChurchGist. We serve a God that removes limitation set by the Devil and his agents but the truth is that God will not act until you react and I know somebody will react in the name of Jesus Christ. It is your reaction that moves God to act. Papa said: when you don’t pray you become a prey, no one will become a prey after this meeting in the name of Jesus. ChurchGist. Prayer is one of your greatest weapons, it establishes your fear and dreads upon the Devil and your adversary – Deuteronomy 2:25, lost battles are evident sign that the weapon of prayers and fasting were unused- Deuteronomy 2:24. The God that has already given you something is still telling you to contend and how do you contend? You contend in prayers.

Prayers can change the destiny of any man, the story of Jabez in 1st Chronicles 4; 9- 10, God changed the story of Jabez as a result of his prayers. ChurchGist. Prayer can change any man story and change him into a God entity from a nonentity – that is the story of Jacob becoming Israel. Prayers can stop a lifetime of sorrows – that is the story of Hannah (1st Samuel 1: 10-20).

What is Prayer?
Prayer is communicating with God on the basis of his Word so as to intervene in your affairs, it is engaging the terrestrial so as to control the celestial. ChurchGist. Prayer is so important that it is found 114 times in the Bible, pray is also found 313 times in the Bible if you add both of them you will discover that both will give us 427 times, that is how important God wants everyone of us to pray.

What is Fasting?
Fasting is abstinence from all forms of pleasures, food, water, Netflix, Telemundo, Zee World and others so as to seek the face of God for divine intervention. ChurchGist. Please note during this season of fasting and prayer, what you do with your time is very important, you can’t say you’re praying and fasting and then you’re moving up and down, you must sit down with God’s Word, it is a must you read your Bible. Mind what you listen to this season, a man was preaching and he said Jesus stayed away from food but he drank water, I was surprised, you see that in Luke. 4, he said that if Jesus stayed away from water the Scriptures would have recorded that Jesus was thirsty, but Scriptures only said Jesus was hungry, I was surprised. ChurchGist. I heard another man saying that there is television fast, there is juice fast, there is vegetable fast where you eat only vegetables, one even said when you’re breaking your fast, you can break the other side too it increases your anointing. So, please be careful of what you listen to. Praise the Lord!

Fasting sharpens your spiritual antenna to receive signals easily, some of you will ask that is fasting a must? Yes, it is a must – Matthew 6:16, Jesus Said when you fast not if you fast, so fasting is not optional it is a must. ChurchGist. Yesterday Papa said some of you when they ask you why are you not fasting? Some of you will start comparing yourself to others who are not fasting, you don’t know what they have done, you don’t know where they have been, so don’t compare yourselves with them. Nobody at top is neutral, either you’re on the other side or in the Kingdom of God.

Papa told us that he was broke and he picked up two books and went on 7 days fasting to gain light, so this season get materials, everything you can lay your hands on so as to shatter darkness in your life and I see God changing your life in the name of Jesus. ChurchGist. Wherever there is advancement there is contention and your contender is the Devil.

Luke 4:1, after Jesus fasted the first person, he met was the Devil. So, once there is fasting for open doors there will always be an adversary, why was it that immediately Jesus fasted that was when he came, he was the first person that approached Jesus because he knew what will happen immediately after that fast. So, whenever you’re fasting for something good to happen to you, Satan will definitely come close. I decree under the grace backing this Commission he will not see you in the name of Jesus, Satan will have no access to your life and destiny in the name of Jesus.

Jeremiah 33:3, God answers prayers he does not stores prayers. ChurchGist. Why are many believers not enjoying answers to prayer? Many people know about praying to God but only few know about praying to their father. ChurchGist. Many people pray to God yes but how many people knows about praying to the father, he is the God of all flesh but he is not the father of all, praise the Lord.

Answers comes when you know him as your father and approach him in that manner that is when answers come. ChurchGist. Papa said something, he said two persons can knock on his door, Mama and David, Mama approaches that door with the mindset that I am going to see my husband, David approaches that door with the mindset that I am going to see my father, he does not have to knock but none of us here can try that, why? So that is the way God (the Father) expect us to approach him, so is God truly your father? Most of us will say yes but do you approach God as your father, do you? Your earthly father, you walk up to him and say Daddy I want school fee, true or false? With all seriousness and boldness, some of you will even increase the school fees and guess what? He still pays. Why did he pay? I am paying for my son, so if you can trust your earthly father why can’t you trust your heavenly father?

Why should we pray and fast?

1) It is commanded
2) To overcome wickedness
3) For our spiritual growth
4) To meet our needs
5) For deliverance
6) For restoration
7) For divine health

You see the prescribed fast of God in Isaiah 58: 6-12.

Some scriptural examples of those that prayed.

1) Elijah prayed
2) Hannah prayed
3) Hezekiah prayed
4) Jabez prayed
5) Jesus also prayed

Prayer must be a consistent thing; you don’t pray today and stop. ChurchGist. The essence of this meeting to pray continuously. It is consistent prayers that produces result – 1st Thessalonians 5:17, Satan is moving to and fro looking for a prayerless Christian to devour but he will not see anyone of us in the name of Jesus.

It takes fervent intercession to enjoy progressive intervention, fervent intervention is the bedrock of unhindered promotion, for you to enjoy a glorious Christian life you must pray consistently and you can’t say you pray consistently without having a family altar.

What is a family altar?

A family altar is where individuals of a family meet at an agreed time either morning or evening, they pray together. ChurchGist. Note, the family altar is not where a building is or where they decorate anything that is not a family altar.

Why Family altar?

1) For spiritual growth
2) Divine direction
3) Supernatural advancement
4) Supernatural Protection

You can’t pray and fast effectively without quality word intake. ChurchGist. Papa said fasting without the Word is hunger strike, beyond reading the word you must meditate on the Word and as you do that God will bless you in Jesus mighty name

Conclusively, the highest proof of humility is in prayers, prayerlessness is not just a sin it is pride and who will resist the proud? God, just imagining God resisting anybody how far will you go in life, prayerlessness is a proof that you’re sufficient in yourself. ChurchGist. Prayerlessness is a statement you’re making to God that I have tasted you and there is nothing you have that I can’t get for myself, I don’t need you but when you pray it is a proof of humility, it is a proof of your limitation and a call to the Heavenly father for help.
Please rise to your feet.

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IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN THE SAME BREAKTHROUGH, FIND OUT WHAT THE TESTIFIERS DID AND ENGAGE WITH THE SAME REALM OF OPERATION.

FOR SOME WHO SAY I AM LUCKY: CHECK MY SCHEDULE. YOU WILL SEE WHAT LUCK DOES.
CHECK WHERE MY HEART IS, THEN YOU WILL SEE WHAT LUCK DOES.
CHECK THE HEARTS OF THOSE MEN AND WOMEN WHO ARE FLYING IN THE KINGDOM, THEN YOU KNOW WHAT IT MEANS TO BE LUCKY.

THERE IS NO FUTURE FOR THE SLOTHFUL.

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Grace to live for Jesus, grace to make the interest of His Kingdom our priority on the altar of prayer. Let’s all receive it afresh. Fresh outpouring of grace. In Jesus precious name we have prayed.

We have this old song: 🎶🎶I live for Jesus day after day. I live for Jesus let come what may. The Holy Spirit, I will obey. I live for Jesus day after day 🎶🎶
-The grace to live for Him, day after day into higher realms by the day, receive it now in the name of Jesus.

Hebrews 6:12
You can’t do what they did and not have what they have. Don’t be slothful. There is no future for the slothful.
Get up and work. The right work that others have worked into their breakthroughs. Stand up to the occasion.
Show me the secret behind the Acts of the Apostles: Power erupted.
I was asked to bless the food that other folks wanted to eat in the house, they couldn’t eat the food again. They just went wild into praying in the Holy Ghost. I don’t know what I told them. I was in a fast and they said, “I should come and bless the food.” Maybe to tempt me.
I couldn’t sleep on my bed by the 5th day. I had to get on the floor. It is me who asked for it: Show me the secret behind the Book of the Acts of the Apostles.
You can’t get this thing by just being entertained by what they say, the testimonies.
Find out what the testifiers did: You are interested in the same breakthrough, the same realm of operation, engage with it.
Don’t say, “I claim it”: You can’t claim it.
Can’t you claim a house on the street and say, “This house is now mine and I am selling it.”
You say, “For Sale.”
They say: How?
Response: It is now my house.
How?
Response: I just claimed it.
You will land in the court straight and from court, God have mercy. That is open day robbery. You can’t claim these things, you have to engage accordingly Sir.
Everybody that will get anything from Heaven, must engage after the same order.
He is not a Father Christmas God, He is a Covenant Keeping God; You won’t do it, He won’t move.
God won’t lift a finger without your doing what it takes.
Glory.
“O my God, Brother David is very lucky”: You be as lucky as I am. Come and check my schedule. You will see what luck does.
Come and check where my heart is, then you will see what luck does.
Check the hearts of those men and women who are flying in the Kingdom, then you know what it means to be lucky.

It is to find what it takes and engage with it: Tirelessly so, patiently so, thankfully so, joyfully so, cheerfully so.
Some people’s prayer life finishes now at the end of these 21 days of prayer and fasting.
-Not your own. Your own won’t end now. It will be for life.

We did an operation one time: Operation Prayer for Life
How many remember? Some caught prayer fire in that Operation and the fire is still burning.
Others just said, “Thank God, Operation Prayer for Life is over. Let’s now start Operation life for death.”
You don’t do what others did, God won’t lift a finger in your direction. He is no respecter of persons – Acts 10:34

Prayers: Lord, I receive grace not to be slothful on the things that I must do, to move You in my direction. Help me now.
Pray in the Spirit one minute.
Without faith it is impossible to please God. Show me your faith and I will show you my faith by my works.
Lord, help me to engage according to what others engaged with that led to their breakthrough upon breakthrough; breakthroughs after breakthroughs and after breakthroughs.
So shall it be in Jesus precious name.
Thank God for the grace for the first day. The second day is here. The grace for today is greater.
-You will pray like never before.
-You will encounter God in His Word.
-He will show you what next to do.
-He will give you grace to do it, in the name of Jesus.
-Anyone you pray for during this event will receive answers.
-Any subject in your life you pray for shall be turned to a testimony.
-Every of your Kingdom advancement desire shall come through this year.

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THOSE WHO REFUSE TO ACCEPT RESPONSIBILITY END UP AS LIABILITIES.

WE MUST CONTINUE TO FIGHT SPIRITUALLY ON OUR KNEES FOR SOULS TO BE SAVED ACROSS OUR HARVEST FIELD.

OUR HARVEST FIELD INCLUDES EVERY PLACE THE SOLES OF OUR FEET HAS EVER AND SHALL EVER TREAD UPON: YOUR NEIGHBOURHOOD, WORKPLACE, VILLAGE, WHERE YOU BUY AND SELL, WHERE YOUR CUSTOMERS ARE.

-Pastor (Mrs) Faith Oyedepo at CHoP

Father, we have come to You this morning, thanking You for all these amazing testimonies. You are the Doer, accept our thanksgiving. Thank You for answered prayers, personally, corporately. Take all the glory. This Morning, Lord, our hearts are opened. All the people came unto Him early in the morning, for to hear Him, the Bible says; in the same vein, we have come this morning to hear You: Speak to us, change our story, move us forward and establish Your will in our lives. Take all the glory, in Jesus mighty name we have prayed.

All through this week, in our Covenant Hour of Prayer, the subject we are looking at is captioned:
KINGDOM ADVANCEMENT PRAYER IS EVERY BELIEVER’S RESPONSIBILITY
Let’s be reminded this morning first that life is all about responsibility.
Say with me, “responsibility.” Everyone born into this world is born into responsibility. That is why those who refuse to accept responsibility end up as liabilities.
-None of us will end up as liabilities
It is the same thing in the Kingdom of God, everyone that is born again, is born to accept certain spiritual responsibility. One of such spiritual responsibilities that we are expected to accept as Christians is the responsibility of praying Kingdom advancement prayers.
Those who accept and engage in this Kingdom responsibility end up great in the Kingdom.
-You shall be great!!

WHAT IS KINGDOM ADVANCEMENT PRAYER?
Simple, we have heard defined over and again: it is praying for the progress, for the promotion of the Kingdom of God here on earth, beginning with your local assembly.
What a joy, we have this great opportunity on a platter of gold for us, especially as we engage in these 21 days prayer and fasting this year.
-As you and I engage in this responsibility, God’s glorious future for us shall be practically delivered in Jesus name.

All through scriptures and again in our contemporary lives, we have several examples of people who engaged in advancing the Kingdom of God and they ended up great.
One of such examples we want to look at this morning briefly is the example of Daniel.
Daniel in the Bible: The Prime Minister of Babylon was a servant of God that prayed 3 times a day.
How many times? 3 times a day.
The Bible makes that very clear to us – Daniel 6:10
It was his lifestyle: praying 3 times every day and yet he was a Prime Minister. Busy man, highly placed in his days. Relevant to the government of the day, yet he had time to pray 3 times a day.
Daniel 6:20
-Daniel made it, you and I will make it.
-Daniel made it, your own testimony shall be stronger.

But the question is:
WHAT ARE WE TO PRAY?
We must continue to pray for souls to continue to be saved across our harvest field.
“Where is my harvest field?” Somebody may ask. The Bible makes that very clear, Deuteronomy chapter 11 verse 24
Deuteronomy 11:24 – “Every place whereon the soles of your feet shall tread shall be yours.”
Where is my harvest field? Every place where the soles of your feet has ever and will ever tread upon.
That includes your neighbourhood, your workplace, your village, where you buy and sell, where your customers are. Church Gist. Every place where the soles of your feet has ever and shall ever tread.
-None of us will disappoint destiny in Jesus’ name
Jesus 16:8

1. He will reprove the world of sin
2. Of righteousness
3. Of judgment
   “He will reprove the world of sin”: so we have a responsibility to pray and to continue to pray for souls to be saved across our harvest field.
   Proverbs 21:1
   The heart of everyone is in God’s hand and it is turn-able, but our prayers are required to make it come to pass.
   -There shall be many souls attached to your name in the Kingdom of God.

However, we must understand that we have a responsibility to put up a fight. Of course, we all know this is not a physical fight this time. Church Gist. It is a spiritual one, fighting on our knees in prayers.
Put up a fight to disarm the enemy and release his captives for salvation. We have a responsibility to put up a fight.
Luke 11:21-22
The stronger one that overpowers the strong man is the Jesus on our inside and as we engage on the altar of prayer continuously, the strong man in person of the enemy, the devil shall completely be disarmed and his goods shall be delivered, his captives shall be set free, in Jesus name.

Isaiah 49:26
Therefore, as we engage on the altar of prayers to see souls saved, let’s believe God and look up to Him for lives to be transformed.
Remember the testimonies we heard this morning:

• 21 days prayer and fasting: barrenness destroyed
• 21 days prayer and fasting: business began to boom.
  -Wherever you might be experiencing stagnation, in any department of your life, as you engage and continue to engage from this moment forward, the God of breakthrough will step into your situation.

Please be reminded that doing what God commands at ALL times will continue to change our levels supernaturally.
How often? At all times.
Only during the 21 days prayer and fasting? At all times
-This season, someone’s level will change and not only now, it will continue to change for the better.

Luke 19:15-19
“Thy one pound has gained 10.” Then He said, “take authority over 10 cities” – Luke 19:16-17
-God will be handing over the key of authority to some persons. You will be among them.

Prayers: Receive grace to engage and to continue to engage on the altar of prayer, to see souls saved, to begin to disarm the enemy and release his captives even in the stronger dimension, beginning from this moment.
Receive that grace right now.

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MAN AT HIS BEST IS STILL FLAWED BASED ON GOD’S STANDARD

THE MERCY OF GOD IS NOT A LICENSE FOR LICENTIOUSNESS

MERCY GOES BEYOND PARDON FROM SIN. MERCY IS NOT JUST FOR SINNERS, IT IS THE BASIS OF DOING BUSINESS WITH GOD IN THIS KINGDOM

LOVE IS THE ABSENCE OF SELF. YOU CAN KNOW WHETHER LOVE IS PRESENT IN A PLACE BY CHECKING WHETHER SELF IS THERE. LOVE AND SELF IS LIKE LIGHT AND DARKNESS

ONE OF THE WAYS GOD MAKES GREAT PEOPLE IS TO ALLOW THEM TO GO THROUGH SEVERAL THINGS THAT CONNECT THEM TO THE PEOPLE THEY WILL BE HELPING IN THE FUTURE

ONE PLUS ONE PLUS JESUS EQUALS WHATEVER ANSWER HE PUTS THERE

• Apostle Joshua Selman at WAFBEC 2022

We are looking at the theme: THE POWER OF GOD’S MERCY. There are two aspects that I want to discuss throughout my sessions, we will start today and wrap up tomorrow. I believe that it’s a construction that must happen to our understanding of God’s mercy if we must benefit from that whole idea of His mercy. Church Gist. Most believers know that the mercy of God is available but they do not understand the nature of God’s mercy nor how to take advantage of it. I believe that for you to understand the subject of mercy there are two concepts that you have to study and understand:

1. The nature of God
   You have to study the nature of God otherwise you can never truly understand mercy.
2. You have to study the nature of man.

From a doctrinal standpoint, I am convinced that there are three fields of doctrine that capture the whole idea of the mercy of God.

1. Theology- this is the study of the nature of God, that it is impossible to really truly understand the mercy of God until you understand the nature of God.
2. Anthropology – this is the study of man. Whether it is from an archeological standpoint, a sociological standpoint, when you understand man, you will now know why man perpetually needs to live in the reality of God’s mercy.
3. Soteriology – this is the entire discourse of the plan of salvation. Because the salvation of man is the zenith of God’s mercy.

For the time I have I just want to touch on the nature of God and the nature of man and we will tie it up to God’s mercy. I just want to introduce for my session the concept of mercy. So we understand the foundation and the basis for mercy.

Psalm 51:1, Nehemiah 9:30-31

This is the reason why they obtained mercy: “more than their desire to obtain mercy, there is something about your nature that you are a merciful and gracious God”. Psalm 13:5. Let’s examine the nature of God in an attempt to understand the basis for this mysterious subject of mercy. Not necessarily mysterious as it was hidden but it takes spiritual intelligence and illumination to understand mercy. As simple as the concept sounds, we can be around it and never truly appreciate it or know how to partake of its experience. Let’s examine the nature of God.

The Bible tells us very clearly according to 1 John 4:8, biblically speaking it is about the most striking character of God, it says ” God is love”. We are examining the nature of God. The Bible lets us know that God is love, it’s not what He does. It is who He is. God is love. Psalm 145:8-9. These are descriptions, he is helping you understand the nature of this God. Church Gist. The extent of God’s benevolence in communicating mercy and compassion, He does not spare anyone . He is good to all. Exodus 34:5-6, this was Moses up Mount Sinai when he was having a conversation with God over the issue of the commandments. These are all scriptures that attempt to describe the nature of God. We see that God is love, God is full of compassion, He is slow to anger, He is rich in love and His mercy is over all His works.

Let’s study very quickly the nature of man now that we have some characteristics of the nature of God. Psalm 51:5. This is an attempt to describe man. Iniquity is not sin as you can see here. Iniquity means an inherent flaw. There is already a default in character inherently, this is the state of the fallen man. Jeremiah 17:9 Here is what the Bible says about the heart of man. The Bible says the heart is deceitful above others, for you to understand this scripture you have to understand what else is deceitful. It is not the only thing that deceives but compared to everything else the heart is deceitful above others and desperately wicked. Who can know it? The heart of man by default outside of the influence of God’s mercy is deceitful even to the owner of the heart. Church Gist. Genesis 6:5-6, this was a painful assessment of man. This is God assessing man from His standpoint that the wickedness of man was great on the earth and the imaginations of his heart are only evil continually. So we see that man outside of the influence of God’s grace and mercy has absolutely nothing that is commendable. Every Scripture that describes man is a story of pain, the foolishness and the deceptiveness of the heart of man. When we understand the nature of God and we can contrast it with the nature of man then we can now begin to appreciate the concept of His mercy.

According to scripture, any action you take that is motivated by compassion is generally called mercy. The Bible tells us that the Lord is gracious, He is full of compassion. May I define mercy therefore.

1. Mercy is compassionate treatment of those who are in distress.

Mercy is not just from God towards man, mercy also sends from man to man. If our idea of mercy just stops from God to man, then it is not complete because the Bible said “blessed are the merciful for they shall be shown mercy”. When you communicate compassion to those who are in any form of distress, it is called mercy.

2. Mercy is refraining from harm or punishing offenders.

That means when you refrain from administering punishment or harm to one who is guilty, you have shown mercy.

3. Mercy is the disposition to be forgiving, to pity or to be kind.
4. Mercy is showing care and providing relief.

The healing ministry is administered under the mercy of God. The entire scope of not salvation, the healing. Church Gist. Anything that is administered to a man that provides relief is sponsored by the mercy of God. You can now understand why Blind Bartimaeus did not say ” son of man, heal me”. He said, “Thou son of David, have mercy”.

We see from all these definitions that there are two expressions of mercy.

1. The first expression deals with forgiveness or withholding punishment from the guilty.
2. The second is alleviating pain, distress and providing relief from suffering.

We are building now, that every time we are discussing the subject of mercy from a kingdom perspective these are the two broad angles to it. In the kingdom when we talk about mercy, your mind must be able to see it from the lenses of these two perspectives. Every time God administers mercy, He is doing one of the two things. Why do you need to know this?

1. So you will appreciate the concept of mercy. You will know how to receive the administration of that mercy in your life and then to communicate mercy.

Mercy is two dimensional, that means the healing ministry is the ministry of mercy, the evangelistic ministry is the ministry of mercy. Mercy goes beyond pardon from sin, pardon from sin is wonderful. Mercy is not just for sinners, it is the basis of doing business with God in this kingdom. The foundation and the basis for mercy is compassion. It is impossible to administer mercy, without compassion. Mercy is the fruit of compassion. What is compassion? Sympathy, pity, concern for the misfortune of others. It is impossible to administer mercy until you have compassion. Church Gist. Compassion has to do with feelings, mercy has to do with actions. When compassion is in motion, it is no longer called compassion, it is called mercy. When it has to do with mercy, the Bible says ” show mercy” or “have mercy”, it doesn’t say “think mercy”. It does not say feel mercy, mercy is always action.

It is impossible to administer mercy unless you have love. The reason why God is merciful is because God is love. The reason why man can be merciful is because man is also a recipient of that love nature of God. If allowed to be activated through faith, you can also be an administrator of mercy. Why are we bankrupt of mercy in our world today from a standpoint of men to men? The simple reason is that we do not walk in love. Love is the absence of self. You can literally gauge love to the degree of which self is not there and you can gauge lack of love also by self. You can use the index of self as the ultimate test of love. Love is the absence of self, more than a feeling, more than the emotional construct of your heart. You can know whether love is present in a place by checking whether self is there. Love and self is like light and darkness. Church Gist. The moment there is self, there cannot be God’s love. The nature of love mandates that you cannot find fulfillment until you communicate that love to an object outside of you. You cannot derive satisfaction in just loving yourself, you must communicate that love to an object outside you to be satisfied. That is why naturally speaking, the character of love is that it gives. For God so loved the world that He gave, forget about what He gave. Just know that He gave. So anything you so love, you must give it. If you so love a vision, you must give it your time, your intelligence. If you so love God you must give to Him. If you so love your spouse, you must give to them. When giving is absent, there is no love. God so loved us that He gave us so many things- His son, His spirit, access to every spiritual blessing that resides in the heavenly places.

The real prayer is not “make me merciful”. The real prayer is that the love of Jesus and His compassion will grow in you. When you grow in love, truthfully it will become natural to communicate mercy. In most of Jesus’ meetings He was moved with compassion, not moved with power. Jesus wept twice in the Bible, one at the tomb of Lazarus and when He looked at Jerusalem and he wept over them. The foundation for Biblical mercy is compassion. Compassion is the ability to be touched with the feelings of people’s infirmity. The reason why even when the work of salvation was done, Jesus still went to heaven as a man and he sat down there and continued a ministry of intercession not for himself but for the Saints. Church Gist. The character of love is that it finds fulfillment bringing joy to an object outside of itself. His intercession is sponsored by His compassion more than His power. Church Gist. The basis of His intercession is because He has been there. His intercessory ministry is based on the fact that there is a connection. One of the ways God makes great people is to allow them to go through several things that connect them to the people they will be helping in the future. So that when you stand before people, He may not necessarily cause the tragedies but in His wisdom, He will work out a way. Part of the reason you are great is because your life is full of story, there is something in your experience that connects with the angle of people’s pain. Many times when people are shouting, you say leave them. You know people who have gone through several experiences and they understand the nature of man, nothing surprises them again. Jesus is in heaven making intercessions and even though He is the son of God. He was subject to like passions, he was hungry, he was thirsty, he was angry, he tasted lack. He was weary so when He sees weariness on earth, He can connect to it. The preacher is not a bad man, He is just weary and that becomes the basis of Jesus’ intercession. There is a way you become too innocent, you cannot administer mercy because you have been shielded from many things in life so it is difficult for you to connect with people’s pain and tears. “Why are you shouting, is it not just persecution? Why are you crying like a baby is it not just a little money you lost in the business”. When you see great people keep quiet, it’s proof of growth. If you study the dynamics of the anointing, you will find out that your pain is a gift. Jesus in heaven still has the scars on him because those scars that were a symbol of shame, today are the basis of His honour. Every time He looks at those hands, they remind him of the frailty of men so he deals with us from the lenses of his compassion.

🎶 For thou oh Lord, are a shield for me, my glory and the lifter of my head🎶.

When I pray for the sick and I minister, I don’t just minister because the Bible says to do it. I have been sick before. Really, really sick. I have been diagnosed with conditions that were not good and the Lord preserved the pain of that experience and that became the sponsor and the trigger to that anointing. Church Gist. When I see someone going through pain today, I have in the archives of my life the gift of pain that was stored and today it sponsors patience, it sponsors forbearance. When you see people who do not show mercy in our world today, there are only two explanations.

1. There are children
2. They have not really faced the reality of life.

The older people are, even those who were temperous when they were young as they grow older something happens to them. They become like children again because 50 years of living in this wicked world teaches you so many things. So when they brought the woman who was caught in the very act of adultery, it’s interesting that they didn’t bring the man. You don’t commit adultery with yourself. Yet they spared the man and dragged the woman to Jesus. The Bible said Jesus was writing on the ground. He didn’t say I am Jesus, he didn’t say leave me alone. He said among all of you who are standing here based on the nature of man, he who does not have sin, let him stone her first. The Bible said they were convicted from the oldest to the youngest. Church Gist. They were convicted by their own conscience one by one beginning from the oldest. He had lived longer on earth so he had more stories. That one statement was a message reminding all of them of their desperate need for the mercy of God. They left, one revelation drove them away. One of the ways to drive accusers is to remind them that every time you point accusing fingers at people, it lets you know that based on the standpoint of man unaided by God nobody has the moral credence to point an accusing finger against any. The woman left justified.

Man at his best is still flawed based on God’s standard. Before acting out anything, the justice system of God already declares that you are not qualified. You do not meet that standard. The condition to carry the Holy Spirit is that you must have righteousness equal (not like) to that of Jesus. Every attempt by man to match that standard, the Bible says our righteousness corporately is as a filthy rag. The basis and the foundation for mercy is compassion. When you see what Jesus has done in your own life, when you see the depth of His love and the whole process that led to you becoming the son of God, when you remember it. He is telling you that the guys who brought the woman who committed adultery there was something they forgot that gave them the energy to drag that woman. Church Gist. If you remember you will be very slow to anger. One of the ways the spirit of anger works is that it takes away your ability to think so that you just act without thinking. The moment you can be thoughtful, you will remember that from January last year to December how long did I experience the mercy and the kindness of God? Your answer will be every month, every day, every week, every second. Based on that, when you pass a road and see a prayer warrior’s car inside a ditch and you who didn’t open your Bible for a week, you pass that same road safely. He reminds you that it is of the Lord’s mercy that we are not consumed. God kept you, you will not credit that to your righteousness. Very quickly you will know how to admit. The key to understanding mercy is to contrast God’s love and man’s inability to help himself.

While I was sitting at the rotunda there, I heard you sing that song ” I am the one you have shown mercy”. It really touched my heart because I was praying Lord may they listen to what they are singing. 🎶You looked beyond me oh🎶 That’s what I want you to think about, leave the other part of the song. If you looked beyond me, what was beyond me that became the basis of the mercy. If you look at me all that you will see is that which is deserving of condemnation and destruction. Very wise, scripture based song. Beyond me, to who? Who did He look at that suddenly made me not to become an object of His wrath? What did He see? Church Gist. I am interested in what He saw. What did He see that made someone who is a criminal no longer a criminal? What did He see that made someone who would have walked in a curse all the days of his life, free. 🎶You looked beyond me oh🎶 if I am paying attention to this dear man of God seated in front here and I am looking at you and all of a sudden I don’t focus on you again, you see me looking beyond that means something else has stolen my attention. Assuming I want to punish you and I turn around and start laughing. That means there is a conversation behind you that you are not even aware of. 🎶You looked beyond me oh. I am the one you have shown mercy. You have shown me mercy.🎶. When you understand the mercy of God, sometimes you will even be embarrassed to share your testimonies because somewhere in that equation, you don’t understand how the answer fully came. There is a gap in that equation, yes I prayed, yes I fasted, but… there is a but. At that point you don’t need your skill again, you need the one who can administer mercy. There was something about the administration of mercy that brought conviction. Cast your net to the right side, let me show you that I can look beyond you. When people see what God is doing in and through my life, people ask me what is the secret and it is a very difficult question to answer because (1.) I don’t tell lies and (2.) I want to tell the whole truth but the truth is that there are gaps in this thing. Church Gist. Ours is to keep working in the things that scriptures provide but there is a gap in the equation of a man’s destiny that only the size of God can fill. 1 plus 1 according Mathematics is equal to 2. If your 1+1=0 the thief is there somewhere in that equation. If 1+1 suddenly becomes 1 million, that means you need to check it’s not only one plus one that is there. One plus one plus Jesus equals whatever answer He puts there. We live in an arrogant world that prides in beating your chest, it is a health divide between confidence and arrogance. We make our boast only in the Lord. When the spotlight is on you, chances are there you don’t want to go out of that spotlight and allow Jesus to be glorified. So you say I did this, I did that but there are those who know.

🎶You looked past my sin, my guilt, my shame and poured your love. You looked beyond me oh.🎶

The real prayer is not to be merciful, it is to be full of compassion. When you hear that someone’s house is on fire, you run there to help. You don’t start asking who was careless here because you know that except the Lord watches a city they may have watchmen but they watch in vain. It is only God that gives His beloved sleep. Have you seen families that took care of their children, prayed and fasted, trained their children well, yet the children eventually became drug barons and armed robbers. You can’t say they didn’t give their best. Church Gist. Yet you see another rough family somewhere where they only see at the end of the day. Once it is morning nobody knows where whoever is. In the midst of it, a scattered, visionless young boy while he is moving around meanders into a church revival programme somewhere and fire falls on him and ten years later he becomes a great man who is going to help the family that seemed well cultured and trained. How about a sincere lady who keeps herself loving Jesus and is raped by some criminals and then a bad girl who keeps moving around, left, right and centre and at the end, it looks as if she had never done anything wrong.

The mercy of God is not a license for licentiousness, but I can tell you this when you look at your life and you are thoughtful. At the end of it, there is only one sentence that will come out of your mouth “thank you Jesus. I am a product of your mercy”. There are people here you have lost your job, two three four years ago and yet you have never had to beg. You are even giving out money to others who are working and you can not really tell how, quarter to shame that mercy comes again. The mercy of God is a fruit of His love. The mercy of God is sponsored by His compassion and you also the mercy you extend to others is from compassion. Church Gist. When God instructs you to open a charity organization for instance to help the poor and the needy, ambition will not really take you far, you will be tired one day. But if it comes from compassion, you will remember that it could have been me. You will master how to put yourself in the situation of other people and you will find out that you will leave a profoundly compassionate life administering the mercy of God. Where then is our boasting? Where then is our pride? Where then is our self glorification. We are absolute recipients of His mercy, His grace and His compassion. Church Gist. This is the revelation that I live with, honestly speaking it is the construct of my understanding. By His mercy, He has treated you beyond what you deserve, by His mercy He has relieved us of pain and distress. As free as God’s mercy is, not everyone will be a recipient of the mercy of God. There is a system of administration of mercy. Romans 4:16. Obtain means receive and anything that is given to you there is a skill to receiving it. If you do not know how to receive, you do not have. The law is that you only have what you receive (Mark 11:23-24). Receiving is spiritual, having is the manifestation physically.

It takes thoughtfulness to appreciate the mercy of God. The hymn writer said ” count your blessings, name them one by one and it will surprise you what the Lord has done”. It will surprise you. That means if you are not surprised, continue counting. If you are counting and you are not surprised, that means you are doing it wrongly. Keep counting.

Can you lift your hands and just tell Him thank you. Think of 2021 and tell Him thank you for His mercy. Remember His faithfulness, Remember His display of love. Remember His mercy, above and beyond my efforts. Tell Him thank you.

Can you thank Him for salvation. Redeemed and justified by the one who is rich in mercy. Look what He has done with our lives.

Now, you are going to ask the Lord to burn into your spirit the revelation of His mercy so you can walk in that consciousness. If your mind is full of this revelation of mercy, it will flow out into your life. Church Gist. For some of you who are quick to point accusing fingers and laugh at people, pray that the Lord will change your heart and give you the grace to be merciful. That you will be able to cry with those who are weeping and tell them Jesus is a Comforter.

• In the name of Jesus, the son of the living of God. I decree and declare over your lives and destinies. This will be a year that you will see God’s mercy in a way that will surprise you in the name of Jesus
• Every legal access , the devil has to plague you, to buffet your family. We come by the ministry of the blood and we declare that legal hold is broken now. That legal hold recycling tragedies in your life, you are set free now in the name of Jesus.
• Everything the blood purchased for us in redemption, by the spirit of faith I administer it to your destiny.
• The Lord bless you, the Lord honour you in Jesus name.

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WE WERE NOT DRIVING A BRAND-NEW CAR WHEN GOD GAVE US A PLANE.
TO SHOW THAT IT IS GOD WHO GAVE US, WE ARE STILL FLYING UP TILL NOW AND WE ARE FLYING FOREVER.

A PLANE IN THIS CHURCH IS NOTHING SERIOUS. IT HAS NEVER REQUIRED PRAYER.

I DON’T HAVE SPIES ANYWHERE. I DON’T HAVE MEDIA AIDES, I DON’T NEED IT.
I HAVE SAID ALL I HAVE SAID IN THE OPEN AND ALL GAINSAYERS HAVE SEEN THEM COME TO PASS.

THERE ARE THINGS IN YOUR HEART THAT GOD UNVEILS TO THE PROPHET.

CAUTION, YOU ARE SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF THE PROPHET.
I AM ALSO A SON AND A DAUGHTER OF THE PROPHET. I KNOW HOW MUCH I HAVE MAXIMIZED MY CONNECTIVITY; MY ENGRACED HUMILITY; MY TAKING OF INSTRUCTIONS DELIGHTSOMELY.

I HAVE MEN AND WOMEN THAT THAT LAY HANDS ON ME TILL NOW.
I AM NOT GIVING ANYTHING; I AM GAINING EVERYTHING.

THE PROPHET YOU DON’T BELIEVE CANNOT BE THE SOURCE OF YOUR PROGRESS AND ADVANCEMENT IN LIFE.
WHEN WE WERE FEW, I KEPT ANNOUNCING; IF THIS MINISTRY IS NOT MEETING YOUR SPIRITUAL NEED, RELOCATE. YOU HAVE ONLY ONE LIFE TO LIVE.

JESUS STARTED AS A BABY, GREW TO BECOME A CHILD, THEN A SON. SOME BABIES WANT TO PLAY THE SON. IT IS NOT DONE.
THIS JOURNEY DEMANDS CONSISTENCY WITH PATIENCE.

• Bishop David Oyedepo
  Day 1, Evening Session
  21 Days of Prayer and Fasting (10th to 30th January 2022)

*Kingdom race is a race of patience. Consistency is what makes your patience counts.
*We are all praying now, but some people will stop at the end of these 3 weeks prayers, for the year.
*They start losing ground as if they never prayed the prayers.

Give God thanks from the depth of your heart. What a great start, He has given us. Give Him glory, give Him praise, in Jesus precious name, we have given thanks.

The primary purpose of the Communion is to empower believers to live like Christ.
John 6:57
-The patience that makes a winner in every race of life will come upon you today.
The Jesus order of patience. The Almighty came to the world and began His journey as a baby and in a manger.
“Looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of your faith” – Hebrews 12;2
No one is born a man, everyone is born a baby.
And suddenly, “the Child grew”: so He became a child – Luke 1:80
The One that came from Heaven left all His glory out there. You and I didn’t have no glory in Heaven. We got here before we can locate the way to Heaven. Jesus came down from Heaven, left all His glory behind and began His journey here as a baby.
Everybody in the Kingdom begins His journey as baby. Church Gist. Then grows to become a child and grows to become a son – 2 Corinthians 6:18

The child grew, waxed strong in spirit – Luke 1:80; Luke 2:52
Jesus, the Baby; Jesus, the Child.
“Now, here is my beloved Son” – Matthew 17:5
“Jesus, the Son”
Some babies want to play the son. It is not done. Church Gist. This journey demands consistency with patience.
Hebrews 12;2
Suddenly, “If you have seen Me, you have seen My Father” – John 14;9
Suddenly, “He was lifted above all heavens, given a name above every name…” – Philippians 2:9

Kingdom race is a race of patience and consistency is what makes your patience counts. We are all praying now, but at the end of these 3 weeks prayers, that is the end for some people, for the year. They start losing ground, ‘pam, pam, pam’, as if they never prayed the prayers.
-But by this Communion, strength for steadfastness, ‘un-moveability’, He said, “be steadfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the works of the Lord” – 1 Corinthians 15:58
“It shall speak at the end”, not in the beginning, not in the middle, at the end – Habakkuk 2:3

I have been chasing after souls for some long time, but there is nothing to show that you are not playing the fool.
I know, they don’t know. I know I am not playing the fool. You don’t give a car key to a 3-year-old boy. You must be wicked to do that. He is your beloved, Joseph-multi coloured child, but don’t try it.
-What will kill any of us, we will not have it.
-May the money that will rob you of eternity not come your way.
It takes patience – Hebrews 12:1-2

“He is My beloved Child.”
Then, “this is My beloved Son, hear ye Him”
They are all different levels.
We were all small boys, running around as people without sense. They even asked for their parents, “why don’t they call them and speak to them? Is this how to live?”
The journey to glory begins with mockery. Church Gist. No one jumps the queue with God. He is no respecter of persons – Acts 10:34

I know some went after souls in 2015. They tried a bit in 2016, but that is it.
If you leave in 200 Level, any year you come back, you will start from 200 Level, if they admit people like that. Or you start again from JAMB and JAMB your way to 100 Level and start all over. If you now leave at 400 Level, first semester, you go. Any time you come back, if it is allowed, you start at the 4 and half level. You cannot be going and coming and never graduate.
Looking unto Jesus, the Son of the living God who began His journey as a baby in a manger and now has a name above the Heavens.
-This Communion will baptize every one of us with the patience required for the best in us, as ordained by God in redemption, becomes a reality in our lives, in the name of Jesus.

Secondly, it is very important and I need to drop this before we take the Communion.
Nobody prospers under any prophetic covering that He does not believe in. Nobody sir.
You can be in Church more than anybody else. You don’t prosper under any prophetic covering that you don’t believe in.
Believe in God so that you shall be established, believe also in the prophet set over you, so you shall prosper – 2 Chronicles 20:20
You know men and women that lay hands on me till now. Church Gist. I am not giving anything; I am gaining everything.
The Prophet you don’t believe cannot be the source of your progress and advancement in life.
I knew what that meant so when we were growing up in Church: 20, 19 (members); I kept announcing. If this Ministry is not meeting your spiritual need, relocate. You have only one life to live.
You don’t hear your Pastor and be talking nonsense outside the road.
“You know what was said today, I don’t agree”: They didn’t force you to come.
“You know why he is saying that?” Because somebody must have told him.
Can I tell you the humour of the prophetic? In fact, a family was fighting on Suya in Kaduna. You know Suya (spicy meat skewer) and they came together to Church on Sunday morning. The fight was on Saturday night and I came out with an exact illustration. The husband looked at the wife, the wife looked at the husband, they started laughing. There was no one that came before another, who came to tell me.
There are things in your heart that God unveils to the Prophet.
I don’t have spies anywhere. Church Gist. I don’t have media aide, I don’t need it.
I have said all I have said in the open and all gainsayers have seen them come to pass.
-This year must be with a difference in your life.
Jesus stayed under authority, till He went above authority.
-Something is about to happen to you.

A Prophet that speaks by the Word of the Lord, founded in scriptures is worthy of your reverence, for the safety of your life, for your advancement in life, because they are agents of God’s advancement.
2 Chronicles 20:20
You believe in the Lord your God, you are established, heavenly sure.
You believe in His prophets, so you prosper.
So he gives you direction, by the Word of the Lord, day by day.
I stood there one day and I said, “no Pastor travels with headlamps on as we conclude this Conference.” I repeated 3 times.
We were going to share the goodness, I said, “wait a minute, remember I told you, wherever you are going to put your headlamp on, stop. No hotel, no inn: sleep in your car.”
Same day, not the following day. Same day. One of my precious ones was going to make it anyway. So he went, ran off the road, final. Final! Same day!
We don’t harass people, we warn people.
Same day! I know how much pain that caused us. Same day!
It was in this hall. Some of the Pastors are here now. It was inside this hall that I gave that warning. It was the same day, we received the shocker of disobedience.
We sent you on the field, if you don’t get there tomorrow, nobody will challenge you. We told you not to drive in the night.
“Did you know someone was going to go off?” I don’t. Even if I do, what do I need it for?
“Don’t travel with your headlamps on.” Simple

Nobody remains the same under a prophetic covering. You are either going up or coming down.
“This child is set up for the falling and rising again of many in Israel and for a sign that shall be spoken against” – Luke 2:34
Caution, you are sons and daughters of the Prophet. I am also a son and a daughter of the Prophet and I know how much I have maximized my connectivity; my engraced humility; my taking instructions and that delightsomely.
One of them called one day and said, “when will you be chanced to be here?”
I said, “anytime.”
“Can you be here tomorrow?” Oh Yes.
Can I tell what blessing is waiting for me there? No
Blessing is not in terms of money and all that. Impartation of spiritual gifts that establishes you in the Kingdom.
Prayers: Receive the patience of Christ, receive the humility of Christ.
Let’s all receive that afresh
tonight.

COMMUNION MINISTRATION
Let this table transmit into your life and my life, the character of humility, the habit of patience. Receive it. It is your turn at last.
Lord Jesus, we are here, we believe in the Words of Your mouth, that says whosoever eats your flesh will live like You, just like You live like Your Father. Now we are here to partake of this. To partake of Your quality of patience, your lifestyle of humility, your subscription to the authority of Your Father.
We all partake of this, afresh tonight for our own good, in the name of Jesus.
-No one here shall miss his place in heaven.
-No one shall miss his blessing on the earth, in the name of Jesus.
-As you partake of this, your eyes will open. Those opened eyes will open wider and see brighter.
-Together, we are moving to the next levels.
-Every of your prayer tonight will enjoy the hearing of Heaven and the answers from Heaven in the name of Jesus.

…In Jesus name we have prayed. May each one’s experience during these 21 days of prayer and fasting become a lifelong habit, where standing before the Lord will become a delight of our souls.
Jesus, this is my heart desire for everyone of us. Let it be so, in the name of Jesus. I pray that nothing will satisfy you that being in His presence and in His presence, He will always show light and show the way forward.
-You will never lack the way forward.
It is not in man to direct himself; we need Him, not to miss our way.
-No one shall miss his way here.
Arrogance towards me carries some curse but arrogance towards God all curse.
“This is the way”: Yes Sir
“Go here”: Yes Sir
“This is what to do”: But You know! He (God) doesn’t know, you know more than Him (God).
“This is the place”, He told me. I didn’t look like the place, nobody will agree it’s the place, I don’t agree myself that is the place on my own.
He said, “this is the place”: Yes Sir.
“Don’t get out of this country now”: Yes Sir
Will I ask Him, “when am I to go out?” No. He who told me not to go out, when I am to go out, He will tell me
I can’t be saying, “Am I still to stay?” That is disobedience.

Many people in this Church are having a pleasurable time with God.
-You will be listed among them.
Many are having great pleasure, no pressure anywhere on their lives, walking with Jesus.
-You must be counted in that army this year.
-Reading the Bible will suit your spirit.
-Reading anointed Books will enlarge your enlargement.
There is no end to the things that happen when a man walks with God. The closer our walk with God, the higher we fly in the race of life.
-No one shall be left behind.
-Many, many God raised names will rise in our midst this year
-The labour of several years of many of us in the faith, who have refused to give up and to bow out will come to light this year.
We were not driving a brand-new car when God gave us a plane and to show that it is God who gave us, we are still flying up till now and we are flying forever.
A plane in this Church is not anything serious. It doesn’t call for any attention, it has never required prayer.
-Where God is taking you to will be pressure free. Just keep on. No stopping, no parking, keep going. The end is always sweeter than whatever the process may look like.
I congratulate you.
-It is going to be a year of new beginnings.
Give God thanks for the strength given you today that is multiplied tomorrow and it will keep on the increase all through the days.
Give Him thanks for your renewed commitment in advancing His Kingdom resulting in your own advancement in life, in all areas of your life, in your health, in your career, in your business, in your family.
Give Him thanks and praise, there is no one like our God.

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