EVERY BELIEVER NEEDS PASSION TO MAKE HIS JOURNEY THROUGH TO THE END
THERE IS NO WAY IN MY LIFE, NO MATTER THE EFFORT, THE INPUTS, THE SKILLS THAT WILL GET ME TO SMELL WHERE GRACE HAS BROUGHT ME TOO TODAY.
NO MATTER HOW MUCH YOU HAVE READ THE BIBLE, YOU COME IN HERE YOU JUST WRITE SOMETHING.
THEY HAVE NEVER DONE SENDFORTH FOR ME ANYWHERE I WENT, I JUST DISAPPEAR, A LITTLE WHILE YOU’LL SEE ME, A LITTLE WHILE YOU WON’T SEE ME AGAIN.
WHAT FUEL IS TO A VEHICLE IS WHAT PASSION IS TO A BELIEVER IN THE PURSUIT OF GOD AND THE INTEREST OF HIS KINGDOM.
CONSISTENCY IS A PRODUCT OF PASSION.
-Bishop David Oyedepo at Leadership Empowerment Summit| Winner’s Chapel
Hallelujah!
Lift up your two hands everyone, Jesus I am here to receive from you, I want a change of level by your word today. As we behold him like a glass we are changed and from glory to glory as by the Spirit of God, climb up to the same level. Lift up your two hands and ask God for the level changing word in the precious name of Jesus Christ.
Heavenly Father, thank you for another day, as we are gathered together across the various districts and area facilities this morning, let your Word locate each one of us, let it signal another change of story in the name of Jesus Christ, please give the Lord a big hand and get seated.
Profitable stewardship demands an ever-burning passion. The zeal of thy house has consumed me. Psalm 69:9. That was what Jesus manifested in Matthew 21:16, when he had that triumphant entry into Jerusalem and you go down the scripture where the word began and the disciples remembered how it is written the zeal of thine house has consumed me, He invaded the temple and chased out, flogged out all that buy and sell and they remembered this is the fulfillment of the word written “… The seal of thine house has consumed me….” How dare you turn my father’s house to a den of thieves, is it not written that my house shall be called of all Nations a house of prayer. ChurchGist. It was a full-blown manifestation of the zeal at work in him for the house of his God and we saw that demonstrated over and over again, that even took food from him. “The zeal of thine house has consumed me”. John 2:17. Now, here is it, Jesus the living Word needed zeal to fulfil his mission who was given the Holy Ghost without measure, needed the zeal to accomplish his mission on earth.
Every believer needs passion to make his journey through to the end, we need an inner burning, we need an inner drive, we need people, we need a situation where we don’t respond to things that are contrary to our drive for God, otherwise we miss it. ChurchGist. It is God’s Word that ignites passion, it is God’s Word that triggers passion. But his Word was like fire shut up in my bones and I could not forebear. Jeremiah 20:9. Passion that is word ignited is life lasting, word ignited passion is life lasting. Jeremiah 23:29. So, there is a fire of the word, when it comes and you catch it passion is stirred to keep going. That the Word comes through does not make it deliver, you have to now decide for the fire ignited by the word, so it doesn’t jump on people. Your decision comes following the ignition of the revelation. So, his ignited revelation is what we call fire. The one that gets you to stand up and you couldn’t hold it and you choose to go for it.
There is nothing from Heaven that is forced on anybody, you choose to go for it. When the fire of Matthew 6:33, got on me I chose to go for it, I entered into a covenant consciously not emotionally to make it my lifestyle, I have zero regrets, since 1976, the fire came the fire and chose to line up. ChurchGist. I think that’s where we have our problem, people think these things will happen because there is an ignited fire. No! You chose to go for the fire. Now, watch how it does, I caught the fire of Holy Ghost been a person and speaks and guides, I mean zeal makes you look like mad beside yourself, the fire couldn’t let me rest, I wanted to share it very fast, very quick with my friends, so I went out and could not find them where they were staying and I said Holy Ghost if you’re truly the person, now lead me to where they are. Isn’t that madness? That’s the kind of ignition, when you go for it; it shows up and I heard for the first time, go forward. What! I got to a T junction, where do I go Holy Spirit? Make a left.
🎼 Arugbo, ojo, baba mi agbalagba, kabiyesi re oba Lai lai🎼
If you’ve listened to old people when they speak, that’s how he speaks to me. I got to another T junction, I asked where do I go? Make a left. ChurchGist. So, survey, no confusion, no pressure, then we got to a place I became a little smarter than him, he said make a left, I said wait a minute, the geography of this place does not seem to agree with this GPS dictate, people that works in the ministry of works are the one living here, He just withdraw, now you can go, since you know the road, I said I am sorry. So, he came back, sweet communion sir. It’s the ignition that stirs passion when you choose to go for it. ChurchGist. Angels won’t come and speak to you sir. No! They have Moses and the prophets if they will not hear them, neither will they hear of any voice who may rise from the dead, neither will they hear, there is no technology about it.
I made a choice against borrowing, 1981, from a popular scripture. Deuteronomy 15:6. But thou shall not borrow, why Lord? A borrower is a servant to the lender. My God. And why Lord? You cannot serve two masters. Matthew 6:24. It was between me and Him, October 4, 1981, I signed. So, your choice is still important no matter how much fire is igniting you. ChurchGist. I signed up for it, isn’t that a major deliverance for us as a ministry, if we were a borrowing ministry, you’ll find all bullion vans of banks that will line up, from UBA, where is the offering from love entrance, they will be making decisions in their place, which entrance we will take this week to collect the offerings directly, not that usher will collect. Because the debt is too much.
Now, with multi billion stuff going every day, no overdraft by the zeal of the Lord, that you caught and choose to go for. There is no way in my life, no matter the effort, the inputs, the skills that will get me to smell where grace has brought me too today. ChurchGist. Without games, without gimmicks, Matthew 6:33, opened up my destiny, by a choice when the fire was ignited.
1984, why is this Church not growing? And then the God of fire came and tapped me where we were praying. Stand up and follow me! Very succulent voice, not militant, not to force you, so I stood up and followed him and he unveiled to me four keys to continuous growth of the Church. I chose to go for them. ChurchGist. Prayer and fasting a lifelong companion of Church growth and development. Because the gate of hell out there, many of them will not shift their ground without prayer and fasting. So, we are not praying and fasting because somebody is praying somewhere, God showed me how to go forward. Now, we are so tireless about fliers, the volume of fliers we have printed in this town, satan is concerned. Satan is heavily concerned and what we will go for in the next 8 weeks he will cry. They will be in millions and 10s of millions, you’ll get to a point where you’ll be distributing, you’ll be throwing and they’ll be catching. Amen!
He said when I came to the world, somebody had to tell someone to come and see, get to Church and tell them what Jesus is doing in this Church. March 24, 1984. Now, why is every service here a seminar, because it is, He said keep sowing the seeds, as the grass grows the sheep will come forth, I asked what is the seed? He said the seed is the Word of God. ChurchGist. Keep teaching life applicable words and as the grass grows the sheep will come for it, son no matter what keep the grass green and the sheep will lay down there. For he maketh me to lie down in green pastures, okay so we have folks here that are 35 years old in church, all around the world not just here.
So, every service is an inaugural lecture by that choice, no matter how much you have read the Bible, you come in here you just write something. ChurchGist. Now, you’re hearing something about passion, you have never heard it in your life. He ignites the fire you sign up for the fire and then you keep loading wood into that fire and the fire keeps burning high and keeps the devil at bay, is my Word not like a hammer. So, there is the revelation of the Word, there is the ignition of the Word.
Passion, I said here, is a product of one’s decision based on personal conviction of the truth of scriptures. This is very important because there are some emotional things people call passion. He said they have zeal for God which is not according to knowledge. So, the zeal that endures and truly adds value. Romans 10:2. ChurchGist. The zeal that truly adds value is word on zeal, revelation ignited zeal, it keeps you going, I have not been weary of Matthew 6:33 forever, some are angry hearing me saying it, it doesn’t change anything, I will still be saying it forever.
Fire is going on that altar every day to keep me going agile and strong. ChurchGist. Then I saw the way to the topmost top 1984 I was in Deuteronomy 28:1 and he said to me there is a place for you on top. Common say fire. If you’re interested, it’s about choice. So, it’s about choice, so it’s again about choice. You can heat fire and brimstone and nothing will change, if you don’t make a choice for it. I said I am interested, he said whatever I ask you to do, do it. That got me addicted to a lifestyle of obedience. It doesn’t cost me anything, it keeps me going, you want the topmost top, because that is the place I have prepared for you, then whatever I ask you to do, do it. No matter how inconvenient, whatever I tell you to do, do it. So, I got on board the flight to the topmost top of life from Deuteronomy 28:1. So, it’s a code 281.
Praise God!
Code 281 taking to where no effort, no skill, no connection under Heaven can get you to and bit by bit we are trying to get there. Bit by bit, that was 1984 and you know that I don’t keep anything I will still say it to the Church. ChurchGist. So, I said it to them. I said God told me there is a place for me on top, many will be winking their nose (Top top, topee) My God. If he tells me now: On your way to Benin Republic, that’s it, you will just hear my broadcast from there, that men and brethren I have been posted, amen. They have never done send forth for me anywhere I went, I just disappear, a little while you’ll see me, a little while you won’t see me again. I’ll just disappear, you’ll be arguing he has gone, he has not gone, No! No! He can’t go like that, I mean we are very close, he will tell me. He’s gone.
If you know what your flight demands, you’ll line up with it. If your flight is for 11 o’clock. You can’t wake up at quarter to 12 and say that I know they will wait for me, you know they will wait for me, you know nothing, the flight has almost arrived at where you’re going.
God is praised!
There is no substitute for passion in one’s quest to accomplish any given task, everyone’s destiny requires passion for fulfillment. Everyone’s glorious destiny requires genuine passion for God and the interest of his Kingdom. ChurchGist. Passion is key to actualizing any given task. Romans 8:35-37. Every man driven by passion will fulfil his glorious destiny in grand style. Why? We know that all things work together for good to them that love God. Romans 8:28. Amen! It is compound love that I describe as passion. ChurchGist. That is now this is what God says I am going for it no matter at what cost. Compound love, if you love me obey my word, he that has my words and keeps it is the one that loves me and what passion does is to lie you up with the word, when you choose to, if you choose to. And what eyes have not seen nor ears heard, becomes your portion as you maintain your compound love for God.
Without passion a believer is fuel less and without fuel no vehicle can get into motion, you cannot push any car without fuel to start. There may be some who are supposed to be in this viewing center that are yawning at home, they are nothing holding them down, they are not sick, they are not weak. They ate last night, maybe they ate again this morning. ChurchGist. But there is nothing moving them. A brand-new car without fuel won’t move. It’s automated, you can start the car from your bedroom, but it won’t move without gas, without gas it will not move.
What fuel is to a vehicle is what passion is to a believer in the pursuit of God and the interest of his Kingdom. They wondered if somebody gave Jesus’ meat, he said no, my meat is to do the will of him that sent me and to finish his works. John 4:32-34. In fact, they thought he was mad, passion makes people think that you’re mad. ChurchGist. So, they came to pick him up, because they thought he was beside himself. Mark 3:21-24. His close friends came to look for him, to get him out of the place, because he had no time, not even to eat and when his friend heard of it. They went out to lay hold of him because they said he’s mad. Mark 3:21. Ko jeun latana, se’yan deni yen. Oti Yara (He has not eaten since yesterday) passion makes you look mad to the passionless. So, to be passionless is to be fuel less, to be fuel less is to be motionless and to be motionless is to be frustrated, you’ll be at the same spot. May the passion of his Word stir a new passion in your life. You’ve gone around that mountain long enough, it’s time to change your gear of passion for God for a new means of life, for a massive change of story. ChurchGist. One must remain passionate in the pursuit of God and in the affairs of his Kingdom to make the most of his life. Matthew 6:33. Seek ye first, it has to be driven by passion. For anyone to be forced to another man it has to be something else. Everyman is forced to himself in the natural.
Passion is key to motion and motion is key to accomplishment of any giving task. I must see Jesus, so he went and climb a tree and Jesus saw him. Passion will make him locate you. Jesus looked up and saw him. Luke 19:1-10. Passion pushed Zacheus to go climb a tree, whatever you need to climb to fulfil your destiny, you better set out. ChurchGist. Most giants’ men of scripture were highly passionately people: Abraham, Moses, Gideon, Nehemiah, Peter, we should add to the list. My heart for God and for his Kingdom has been the mystery behind my life. That I have never had to beg nor put my hand behind my heads behind closed doors and wonder if I was mad. Yet, everything answers to me by grace. Hebrews 13:7.
The ball is in your court, if you’re not faithful with the little group of cell center that you’re in, forget about bigger things. Coming, the order of Heaven is that he checklist with little he success, you won’t go any forward where you just drag yourself to the place. Excuse me I went to see a friend, so I came late. To God’s people, you went to a place to see a friend, not that the friend is sick that why you came late. I think that these Saturday’s meeting has to be changed because we have a lot of things going on Saturdays. ChurchGist. Go and start a Church where you will change it. We follow order here, to the letter. Following it as help those to be different and keep making a difference.
Very soon, you will ask us to change Sunday service till when you wake up, naturally on Sunday I sleep till about 10, but my driver comes by 11, is it not God’s work that gave you a driver, what’s wrong with your hand, people overestimate themselves as if God needs them. Amen!
I am not harassing you, but I can always tell you what God tells me, he doesn’t need me for anything. You may think I am papa; I am not anything to God, it’s me that needs him. ChurchGist. Not that I have answered the call, can you see how much I have helped God. You! Help God, that is the end of help you will render.
Now, God will never need your help and my help. Only the humble can stay in this Church, the proud has no seat here. He’s just a passerby, he’s on a tour. ChurchGist. But you want to go up? You humble yourself under the mighty hand of God, let God be strong enough to correct you, there is nothing you and I are or have that we are not given. Everything you have, everything I have is as given by God.
What have you that you’ve not received? Let’s stop pulling our shoulder, you can’t catch passion without a humble spirit.
Amen!
How many believe they need fuel in their vehicle, you really do, you need the fuel of passion in the vehicle of your spirit, to keep jumping and jumping. One of the senior ministers in the country called me sometime last week and I returned his call. ChurchGist. He said you know what amazed me, you have been consistent since I first met you in Kaduna. You’ve been consistent. Consistency is a product of passion. Whatever you cannot do Jesus, let it remain undone. Whatever you can’t give me, I will never need it, I am not going for any alternative, wherever you can’t take me to, may I never get there. I don’t need to get there, it’s not safe for me. The moment you settle with God he will settle your issues. He will settle your issues as if they never existed.
My friend, passion is available, all you need is the choice for it, passion is your right, as my father has sent me so send I you and the zeal of his house consumed Jesus. ChurchGist. So, you’re a candidate to be consumed with the zeal of the house of the Lord.
Lift up your two hands everyone. Many times, fire have been ignited in your private studies and you just let go, no decision made, nothing and it goes off but never again.
Prayer: Ask for grace to always make a decision to go with ignited fire from his word, as you study as you listen to materials, as you come to Church. That the fire of the Word will enjoy your decisions all of the time.
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