PEOPLE HAVE BEEN SAYING A FEW THINGS THAT ARE UNCOMPLIMENTARY ABOUT ME, BUT NEVER IN MY PRESENCE. WHEN THEY SEE ME, “THANK YOU SIR; WE JUST THANK GOD FOR YOU SIR.” EVERY ONE OF THEM, I HAVE NOT SEEN AN EXCEPTION.

WHEN GOD HONOURS YOU, EVERY DEVIL FOLLOWS TO HONOUR YOU.

SUCCESS IS NOT A TRANSFERABLE VIRTUE. EACH ONE WILL HAVE TO MAKE HIS WAY THERE.
PARENTS WHO ARE THINKING, “I AM GOING TO GIVE WHAT I HAVE TO MY CHILDREN”: YOU ARE WASTING YOUR TIME.
IT DOESN’T WORK. IT WILL BE LOST IN ONE SECOND.

ALL THIS “PAPA BLESS ME”: IT’S OKAY; BUT WHAT GOD BLESSES IS WHATEVER YOU DO
YOU DON’T DO NOTHING: FORGET IT

-Bishop David Oyedepo at 1st Service, Faith Tabernacle
Covenant Day of Marital Breakthrough

The Word works but for only those who work it.
Thou shall serve, He shall bless – Exodus 23:25
So you like the promises, then take the responsibility. You don’t serve, those things don’t belong to you, stop claiming what won’t work.
He that winneth souls is wise and the wise shall inherit glory – Proverbs 11:30, Proverbs 3>35
You want your shame wiped away, go outside the gate bearing His reproach – Hebrews 13:13
Go outside there bearing His reproach, then He will wipe away your reproach.
Somebody’s Word is just coming now. It is not something you are waiting for, it is something you are working at.
The Word works but for only those who work it.
Proverbs 14:28, 1 Samuel 2:30
Be part of drafting multitudes to Jesus: that you do by effective follow up of those ministered to; that you do by arranging for how they come into Church; that you do by buying a bus in case
you are blessed to that level; that you do by putting that convert in your car when you are coming, not wind up the glass and close your eyes.
In the multitude of people is the King’s honour – Proverbs 14:28
When God honours you, every devil follows to honour you Sir; every devil!! Honour from God: you can’t despise it.
People have been saying a few things that are uncomplimentary about me, but never in my presence. Church Gist. When they see me, “thank you Sir.” Every one of them, I have not seen an exception.
“We just thank God for you Sir” and he knows I am not hearing news, I won’t know he was the one who said something. I have not seen one.
I have not seen one man on the field who says, “you are a fool.” Not one.
You honour me, I will honour you – 1 Samuel 2:30
Instead of doing fasting and prayer, just apply yourself to the Word: don’t kill yourself.
Since I signed up for the covenant of wealth, I was wealthy. Not that I was going to be wealthy, you can’t make me thing otherwise. Now, am I a pauper now? It is not because I read or I found it,
but I did it and I am doing it; (not) I did it before and I stopped.
“Everything that Papa said, nothing has worked for me”: It is you. Don’t look for the devil, it is you. All the devil caused you is 25 per cent, you caused yourself 75 per cent. Your disobedience caused you 75 per cent. Even if no devil came, you are still a failure. Assuming you got 25 per cent, is that pass mark in your school?
Somebody said, “you are not a failure until you are looking for who to blame for it.” Church Gist. Stop looking for who to blame.
“There is a black man behind my house”: Okay, who should be behind your house? Are you not living in a black environment?
“There is a witch in my village”: A witch doesn’t need to be in your village to attack you
-Somebody is breaking forth.
Please know that the Word only works for those who work it – James 1:22-25
“…a doer of the work, that man shall be blessed in his deed” – James 1:25
A doer of the work!!
-It is your turn.

“Cast your net into the deep” and after they had this done – Luke 5:6
They had to do it before they caught multitude of fishes.
Whatever He tells you to do therefore, do it -John 2:5
Otherwise you are having fun. And the end result is always a miracle: doing whatever God says, the end product is always a miracle.
They filled the water pots with water and there was abundance of wine, the highest order of wine, without money, without price – John 2:7,9
-Jesus is doing something new in your life.
Allow Him to. You are to be envied, not to be pitied.
-In the name of Jesus, this year I see you and God in active partnership that will lead to unstoppable breakthroughs in your life. In the name of Jesus Christ.

EXPLORING SUCCESS VIRTUES IN KINGDOM STEWARDSHIP
He has provided for us in redemption all things that make for life and godliness – 2 Peter 1:3
They are accessible through revelation and obtainable through application. Church Gist. Accessible through revelation, but obtainable through application.
The Charismatics celebrate revelation and over celebrate it and most don’t have any trace of manifestation because revelation on its own adds no value.
It is the application that releases the value.
You know what it takes to travel out: it doesn’t get you out. You have to now apply yourself to what you know. You need an international passport, you need to apply for Visa, you need to wait
for appointment, you now need to look for money to buy ticket. The revelation of what to do doesn’t take you out. Isn’t that simple enough?
I mean you know how many things people know that adds nothing refreshing to their lives, because they won’t apply themselves to it.

The day God showed me the secret of Church Growth, we began. We printed ‘Come and See’ fliers same week. It is not what you know that changes you, it is what you do with what you know.
Revelation holds no water without application. We are back to the same thing.
Seek ye first and all these things; He listed amazing things before them – Matthew 6:33
You now sign up for it, otherwise you will be preaching it and quoting it and it won’t be showing. Jesus was preaching and showing.
Every revelation that does not show in your life, you have not applied it. God’s Word shows, it becomes flesh – John 1:14
So if you can’t see it, it is not applied it.
I have a bottle of mustard seed, because I just love the size. That will never become a harvest forever. It can only get destroyed in that bottle, it can’t change. So no matter how much seed you got from the Word – revelation, it won’t add value without being planted; without you and I giving ourselves to it. That is simple enough.
There is so much success virtue in the Word and we have plenty of that domiciled in stewardship.
Thou shall serve, He shall bless – Exodus 23:25
His blessing adds no sorrow – Proverbs 10:22
If they obey and serve Him, they shall spend their days in prosperity and their years in pleasures – Job 36:11. Prosperity there does not just mean money, it means satisfactory progress: Just changing level, jumping levels.
My sacrifice 1994, for AGIP was 10,000 Naira every month, but continuity in doing what you are doing is what keeps changing your story.
If I give God 10,00 Naira now and got satisfied, He will slap me: No, not till I die.
Continuity!!! Steadfastness. Your hand is on the plough, you are not looking back.

It is not proper for you to plant your maize seed yesterday and ask your wife to come along with a basket.
“Where are we going?” We are going for the harvest, you know it is raining. Or you don’t see it rained 2 days ago, so what will the maize be doing in the ground? We are going for the harvest today
“I know they are deceiving us. Where is the harvest now? I sowed maize here, 2 acres and it has rained 3 times. Okay, what does maize need to grow? Is it not rain, where is my maize? ‘Mi lo Church mo’ (I won’t go to Church again).”
No. When you cast the seed to the ground, you go to bed. Church Gist. Don’t kill yourself. And it groweth up, you know not how: first it brings forth the blade, then the flower, then by pollination, the fruit and the fruit will have to mature – Mark 4:27-28
That is the way it works.
-In the name of Jesus, no one will thrash his glorious destiny.
Get engaged, just plug in. Be yourself. In the midst of that, I saw me grew to 50,000 of sacrifice and then 100,000: Steadfastness
I want to harass the devil: I will never call 100,000 sacrifice to my God, till I die. That stage is past. Consistency.
You can’t tell the worth of stewardship until you become steadfast. I have never had a rethink, I have never had one day of rethink, “O boy, are you sure you are correct?”
I have never had one day of rethink: 1 day.
“O my God, O my gosh, I think I have tried”: satan will say, ‘you don try’ (you have tried); i have been waiting for you to say this long time; ahh, nobody has tried more than you. In fact, you have tried more than Papa, i am telling you the truth.
-I know and it will help your faith: If an army of giants, of global repute does not arise from here, I am not sent.
He always shows me things to come. He shows me things to come, well before they come. I saw this building 17 years before it came. I saw internet before it saw the light of day. The Holy Ghost specialises in telling His Prophets things to come.
I saw an army of giants, of no comparison, around the world, emerging from our platform. In their great numbers, the kind of concentration that the world has never known. That they talk about
this sector, they are the ones; that sector, they are the ones; this sector, they are the ones. By doing what you are hearing now, not by waiting for it. Just keep at it.
We are not just talking about success, we are talking about all round success and we are talking about generational success, it is not available anywhere in the world.
All round success. Generational Success, as provided for in redemption.
-You won’t miss your own.

Again, remember, success is not a transferable virtue. Each one will have to make his way there.
This Book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, you meditate therein day and night and observe to do and then you make your way prosperous and then you have good success – Joshua 1:8
Abraham gave all his inheritance to Isaac, that didn’t make Isaac – Genesis 25:5. No, it didn’t. Isaac had to sow in the land and received in the same year, a hundredfold and the Lord blessed him
Genesis 26:12-14
And the man went forward by what he did, not by what his father gave him.
Parents who are thinking, “I am going to give what I have to my children”: you are wasting your time. It doesn’t work. It will be lost in one second.
You know this man (Jacob) stole blessing through the scheming of the mother: remember Jacob. Where is the blessing? He worked, he almost died 21 years. To become Israel, he had to work.
Not that your father blessed you. 21 years! He had to work.
“Papa bless me”: That is okay. What God blesses is whatever you do – Psalm 1:3
So you don’t do nothing: forget it
Abraham blessed Isaac not just for prayer, with all his inheritance. He gave gifts to all the other ones, but he gave all that he had to him – Genesis 25:5
And Isaac became a nation by what he did, the Philistines went to seek his peace so he won’t over run them – Genesis 26:16, 29
Success is not a transferable virtue. Many big, big names around the world today went off when their time was over and all that they left squandered in no time. Teach your children to take responsibilities.

Will I ever ask how our grandchildren go to school? No. It is their parent’s responsibility.
How much are they paying? That is not my business forever, till I die. Whether you are abroad or ‘in-broad’, anywhere you are, you look after yourself.
No one had a dime added to his pay, than he is entitled to. For what?
What are you going for them? Ask them what are they going to do for me? You should ask them (my biological children), what are they planning to do for me?
Don’t put an adult baby on your lap.
“He is my son (Don’t mind them. Anything you need, just come. That is why I am alive). I know you are a baby, be coming.”
One of my mentors said, “Open that bag and take as much as you want.” We were going to have a meeting, hosting some people in Kaduna.
I said: I don’t want.
He said: You mean, I can’t give you money.
I said: No, ‘make you no vex’ (don’t be angry). I will rather learn how to get it than have somebody give it to me.
All those ones God placed around my life, who love me so bad, I have not put one pressure on them once. I have never asked, talk less of pressure.
-No one here will nurse adult sons and daughters.
You are asking a grown-up man, “have you eaten?” Don’t let him eat. Why don’t you go and cook for him?
This is what they call strong man gospel.
Well, the good news is, what you are doing today looks like you are playing, but watch how you take the stage.
-You are about to take the central stage. All your mockers will go into hiding because God is about to add colour to your life and bring out the virtues of glory that are embedded in your redemption.

1. Serving God is a platform for accessing supernatural wisdom.
   Wisdom is the womb that births exploits. Exploit is an offspring of wisdom. Serving God is a platform for accessing supernatural wisdom and exploit is an offspring of wisdom – Matthew 13:54
   Mighty work, that we call exploit is an offspring of wisdom.
   We saw how wisdom catapulted Joseph from the Prison to the Palace – mighty works.
   The wisdom of this world is full of mighty words: You speak one thing, applause. That man ‘so oyibo’ (That man spoke grammar); but God’s wisdom is the wisdom of mighty works.
   Jeremiah 10:12
   Mighty works are products of the wisdom from above and serving God brings you into partnership with Jesus and he that walks with the wise shall be wise, a companion of fools shall be destroyed – Proverbs 13:20
   That was what happened on the day of Pentecost. That was not Peter. That is supernatural wisdom in manifestation.
   When they saw the wisdom of God he displayed, they marveled, knowing they were ignorant and unlearned men – Acts 4:13
   Partnership with Jesus gives you and me access to wisdom from above that will always cause men to marvel. The wisdom of mighty works.

When He sent them to go, He sent them to where Himself will come – Luke 10:1
They are in partnership, He was coming there
Mark 16:15 – It is partnership
“We are co-labourers with God”, that is what Paul said – 1 Corinthians 3:9
Serving His interest makes you a co-labourer with Him.
Proverbs 13:20
That is one other dimension of success virtue that is in serving God, in truth and in deed.
You can’t be in a convoy with the President of a nation and be harassed by traffic police. Is it possible? Or roadblock stops you! No.
The company you are in allows you thoroughfare throughout his domain: as soon as they see the flag, (they stand at attention, salute) and he is your avowed enemy, but he has no choice.
He can’t say, “It is not you I am saluting ooo”, he will lose his police place. He has to salute you. That is how all devils watch you triumph and are helpless; all devils just stand at attention because of the partnership you are into.
Being in partnership with Jesus is your access to unstoppable realms of breakthroughs.
-You won’t sell that off, in the name of Jesus.

I have devoted time on this.

2. Serving God is a platform for glory and honour for the redeemed. We’ve spent on that earlier on.
   He that winneth souls is wise; and the wise shall inherit glory – Proverbs 3:35
   You want your shame rolled away, get involved in soul winning endeavours, in your passionate pursuit of souls to be established in the faith.
   There are people here today that shame will never be mentioned with your lineage again forever, by what you are committed to doing today.
   John 12:26 -If you serve Me dedicatedly, as a seed, My Father is committed to honouring you.
   John 12:24-26
   It always works.

Some outstanding biblical success stories that thrived on the wisdom from above and gained access from the wisdom from Heaven, the first we are looking at is Job
Though challenged, but triumphed gloriously, restored colourfully at the end, by trading the secret of God while others were trading business secrets – Job 29:3-4
The secret of God is superior to any other form under Heaven.
Whatever is above, is above all – John 3:31
He became the greatest of all men in the East – Job 1:3
He was trading business techniques, he was trading covenant techniques.

David: a die-hard servant of God, became a national hero as a teenager, became the envy of the king as a teenager.
This thing works.

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