2024 WILL BE A YEAR OF UNUSUAL SPIRITUAL EXPLOSION IN YOUR LIFE.
WE SERVE A COVENANT KEEPING GOD, NOT A FATHER CHRISTMAS GOD.
WE DO NOT BEG FOR ANYTHING IN THE KINGDOM, WE SERVE OUR WAY TO IT.
WHEN GOD BLESSES, HE SECURES THE BLESSING.
GOD TOLD ME IN 1981: “I HAVE NOT CALLED YOU BECAUSE YOU ARE SMARTER THAN ANYBODY ELSE.
I HAVE ONLY GIVEN YOU A PRIVILEGE. IF YOU ABUSE IT, THERE ARE BETTER HUNDREDS AT THE DOOR.”
GOD HAS COUNTLESS OTHERS WHO ARE BETTER THAN WE ARE TO ENGAGE. WE ARE ONLY PRIVILEGED.
GOD CAN DO WITHOUT ALL OF US TO DELIVER HIS PLAN AND PURPOSE ON THE EARTH.
YOU ARE REWARDED NOT FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP, YOU ARE REWARDED FOR YOUR ‘LABOURSHIP’.
WE DO NOT BEG FOR LONG LIFE IN THE KINGDOM, WE SERVE TO ENJOY LONG LIFE.
– Bishop David Oyedepo on ‘PERSONAL ENGAGEMENT COUNTS THE MOST’ at LFC Annual Church Workers Summit 2024 || Faith Tabernacle, Canaanland || 6th January 2024|| Word 2
Thank you, Jesus.
It was one word that transformed the destinies and generations of Jacob. A word came to Abraham also, he ran with it. What a blessing until the end of time.
– May the word that will transform each one of us into the next level of Heaven’s agenda for our lives reach us today.
In this very brief clip, we’ll be looking at ‘PERSONAL ENGAGEMENT COUNTS THE MOST’.
Everything about our existence on earth carries a personal connotation. Everything about a glorious destiny in the Kingdom demands a personal stake. Everything about God and His people has to do with individuals. I’d like us to be free from the trap of being lost in the crowd this year. Church Gist. Life is a race of individuality. Can anyone eat for you? Drink to quench your thirst? Can anyone breathe for you? Can anyone defecate for you? Everything that makes like beautiful carries a personal individualistic connotation. Personal engagement counts the most.
We serve a covenant keeping God, not a Father Christmas God. Deuteronomy 28:1-3. Everything that gives colour to life places a personal demand on anyone that is interested. Can anyone be saved for you? So, no one can keep the covenant for you. Church Gist. Matthew 6:24,33. The Kingdom of Christ is the Kingdom of whosoever. John 3:26. ‘Whosoever’, not ‘theysoever’. Habakkuk 2:4. ‘The just shall live by His faith’ not ‘Our faith’. What each one believes is what determines what becomes of Him in the Kingdom. Matthew 9:29.
Many years ago, in our fellowship, people drag when we are going to do anything in advancing the Kingdom. The Lord spoke to me that morning and I said to them, ‘The Lord just spoke to me. The time for waiting for ‘brethren let us go’ is over. I’ve gone. If you are interested, you can follow’. Church Gist. If you don’t bring yourself out of the crowd you’ll get lost in it. Personal commitment, personal dedication is what defines each person’s destiny in the Kingdom.
Can any seed be sown on behalf of another and bring forth fruit on behalf of another? Every seed that must grow and bear fruit must be personally, individually, dedicated to the Earth.
– Your destiny will flourish.
– This will be a year of unusual spiritual explosion in your life.
So, come back to what we are very used to here. We do not beg for a turnaround in the Kingdom. Matthew 20:20-22. In the Kingdom, we do not beg to be blessed. We serve to be blessed. We do not beg to be promoted, we serve our way to promotion. Every testimony you ever hear in this Church, somebody somewhere, personally, individually did what God said and God confirmed it in his life. Church Gist. Someone heard something that others didn’t hear. He went and did the right thing with it and God said ‘Yes, you heard me well’ and confirmed it. Luke 19:17. Level changing acts of God. We do not beg to be favoured in the Kingdom, we serve our way…to be honoured, we serve our way to honour. John 12:26. You serve me dedicatedly, my Father will enviably honour you. We do not beg for breakthroughs, we serve our way into realms of breakthroughs. Luke 5:4-6. We do not beg to be enthroned, we serve our way to enthronement. Philippians 2:7-10. Church Gist. He (Jesus ) took upon Him the form of a servant to be enthroned eternally. We do not cry to prosper. There is no point going into prayer and fasting to prosper. We serve our way into growing realms of prosperity. Serving God entitles every servant to health and vitality. A faithful ambassador is entitled to healthy living. Proverbs 13:17. John 15:2.
– Now, in the name of Jesus, every steward in this Vineyard, I curse the root of sickness and disease in your life.
– Your long awaited turnaround in your health takes place this morning.
Who is an ambassador? One involved in reconciling the World back to God. Church Gist. 2 Corinthians 5:17-20 and it’s the lot of every born again child of God. Proverbs 13:17.
– In the precious name of Jesus, there shall be no breakdown of anyone’s health all through the year.
– This is one year you will not know the way to any hospital.
– God’s hand will come upon you today that will keep you going like a roller coaster all through the year in the name of Jesus.
We do not beg to be free from oppression of the wicked, we serve our way into liberty. Exodus 4, 22,23. Church Gist. Our commitment to serve God entitles us to liberty from the assault of the wicked.
-Now, in the name of Jesus Christ, every steward in this House, the days of assault of the wicked on your life are finally over.
We do not beg to be free from generational curses. We serve our way into blessings that avert curses on its own. Exodus 23:25. Numbers 23:8. Church Gist. Coming under the blessings of God naturally averts curses and serving God brings you and I under His blessings which render all curses invalid.
– Therefore, any trace of any form of curse, diabolical, generational, on anyone’s life, serving God in this Vineyard brings an end to it.
When God blesses, He secures the blessing. Genesis 12:2,3.
– So, every arrow of the wicked, targeted at any one steward in this Vineyard, goes back to sender, rendered 7 fold!
– They have shut one door against you, God will open 7 doors.
Serving God gets you immune to curses. Engraces you and I to live in the curse free realm of life. Job 36:11. Psalm 23:5.
– It’s your new realm!
– Take away from here. You have entered your curse free realm of life.
We do not beg to be favoured. We serve our way into favour. Psalm 102:13-15.
– Open favour that threatens the heathen and humbles kings shall be your portion.
We do not beg for long life in the Kingdom, we serve to enjoy long life. Exodus 23:26. No devil has the capacity to cut your life short serving God. Church Gist. Therefore, a good old age is the portion of every one of us. That is God’s agenda.
We also understand from scriptures that God does not reward groups, He rewards individuals. 1 Corinthians 3:8. God does not pay groups, He pays individuals. John 4:36. The labourer is worthy of his hire. Matthew 20:1-9. He doesn’t pay groups, He pays individuals. God doesn’t bless groups, He blesses individuals. Isaiah 51:22. He is still doing that today. Church Gist. God does not promote groups, He promotes individuals. Psalm 75:6-7. God does not honour groups, He honours individuals. 1 Samuel 2:30. May we all choose as individuals to live a life that honours God, to live a life that pleases God.
God does not reward leadership position, He rewards servanthood. I call it labourship. Church Gist. You are rewarded not for your leadership, you are rewarded for your labourship. May no leader here be an onlooker this year.
God does not honour long service, He honours only dedicated servants. John 12:24.
This is one humbling aspect of Kingdom Stewardship: God has countless others who are better than we are to engage. We are only privileged. 1 Samuel 15:28. God spoke those words to me fresh in 1981: I have not called you because you are smarter than anybody else. I have only given you a privilege. If you abuse it, there are better hundreds at the door. Church Gist. Another humbling aspect of Kingdom Stewardship: God can do without all of us to deliver His plan and purpose on the earth. Many may never want to believe that but that is God. God has animate and inanimate access to engage anything that He created to do His will. What a privilege we have. This is why only service rendered willingly is rewarded by God. God is not begging you and me, He is only saying “Here is an opportunity. If you are interested, come on it. That is why only cheerful stewardship qualifies for rewards. He is not a taskmaster, He is a loving Father. May this year be a year with a difference.
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