IT DOESN’T TAKE TIME FOR A CHANGE OF STORY, IT TAKES OBEDIENCE.
IF YOU ARE A WINNER YOU SHOULD KNOW WHAT TO DO”. YOU DON’T BEG AROUND. YOU INVOKE GOD’S FAVOUR BY OBEDIENCE.
AFTER EVERY ACT OF OBEDIENCE OF FAITH, THE NEXT THING IS TESTIMONY
GOD WON’T LISTEN TO YOUR TEARS, HE ONLY RESPONDS TO YOUR OBEDIENCE.
IF ANYBODY DECEIVES YOU, THAT CAN BE DISTURBING BUT WHEN YOU DECEIVE YOURSELF, THAT CAN BE VERY COSTLY.
PRETENDING TO BE WHAT YOU ARE NOT AND PRETENDING TO BE DOING WHAT YOU ARE NOT DOING IS VERY COSTLY
IF YOU ARE NOT A GIVER AND YOU ARE IN THIS HIGHLY PROSPEROUS MINISTRY IT WON’T SHOW THAT YOU ARE HERE.
TITHING IS THE COVENANT INSURANCE OF YOUR BLESSINGS IN LIFE.
GIVING IS THE COVENANT PLATFORM FOR THE RISE OF FINANCIAL GIANTS!
YOU DON’T WAIT FOR FAVOUR, YOU ENTREAT AND PROVOKE IT BY TOUCHING THE HEART OF GOD.
NOTHING DECORATED DESTINY LIKE FAVOUR.
‘SEEK YE FIRST THE KINGDOM OF GOD AND HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS…’ IS THE JACKPOT AND THE MASTER KEY OF LIFE.
LET GOD TAKE OVER YOUR LIFE AND WATCH WHAT COMES OUT OF IT.
SOMEONE SAID “GOD IS LOVE, LOVE IS NOT GOD ”. ALL THESE “LET’S GIVE TO THE POOR” “LET’S GIVE TO THE NEEDY”. MOST OF THEM ARE CAMOUFLAGE OF PHILANTHROPY.
SOMEBODY WHO CAN’T GIVE TO GOD WON’T GIVE TO ANY NEEDY
THIS LOCAL MINISTRY IS SENDING WAVES AND JITTERS AROUND THE WORLD BECAUSE OF THE UNEXPLAINABLE ABUNDANCE FROM AN OPEN HEAVEN
– Bishop David Oyedepo on PROVEN LOVE FOR GOD ENGENDERS SUPERNATURAL BREAKTHROUGH 2 at Midweek Communion Service || LFC Canaanland ||
Lord Jesus, thank you again. What an awesome God you are. Thank you for manifesting yourself in our midst. Thank you for this great month, thank you for this great start you are giving us in these prophetic weeks of harvest. Church Gist. Receive our thanks in the name of Jesus. Speak to us again tonight and let your name be glorified in Jesus name.
Now let’s start from one of the testimonies read tonight on Miracle Job Via Kingdom Advancement Engagement. This concerned brother in that company said “your coming here is so hard, which church do you attend?”. He said I am a Winner. He said if you are a Winner you should know what to do. Every Winner knows what to do but how many will do it? You should know what to do. If no one employs you, let God employ you. Within one week you will see something. So he came to Church in Kaduna on the 14th of August and prayed “Lord engrace me”. It is that prayer we lack. Lord engrace me to serve you. On Monday, he broke loose. Before the week ended, a miracle job, 800 per cent of what he earned last in his life and appointed Supervisor in a company you have never worked before. People know what to do but that you know it does not get it done. Church Gist. You have to do it. He said “be ye doers of the Word and not hearers only deceiving yourself” (James 1:22-25). “Which church do you attend?”. “I am a Winner”. “If you are a Winner you should know what to do”. You don’t beg around. You invoke God’s favour by obedience. A young man was here last weekend, he met me some time ago in Maryland for the Ministers’ Conference, a Church Growth Conference. He met me and I said, “It doesn’t take time, it takes obedience for a change of story”. He said that word hit him from the inside out. It doesn’t take time, it takes obedience for a change of story. It doesn’t take time. Fill the water pots with water and they did. On the spot, it turned to wine. It doesn’t take time. Go to the pool called Siloam, he went and washed and came back seeing. After obedience of faith, what you have next is testimony. Church Gist. There’s no go-come about it. There is no debate about it. You know that somebody likes someone better than another, No! After every act of obedience of faith, the next thing is testimony. In the precious name of Jesus, that you are on the covenant highways will not be theoretical in your life anymore. This year you will see yourself cruising on the highway of life through your delightsome faith-filled obedience. You enjoy it, it is inside you. It is coming out without stress.
He has been in Kaduna all his life, he knew it but he didn’t know what to do about it. He was looking for a job here and there. There are many people who are yet to get on a job for three years, can’t you serve God for one month? No! What will they think about me? that I don’t have a job. Okay. You have a job. You better be sincere. Be truthful to yourself. God won’t listen to your tears, He only responds to your obedience. That you cried does not get your son saved. Your son has to repent to be saved. “oh God you know I have been serving you”. It doesn’t make a difference. This son must hear the gospel and respond to it to be saved. We first need to be truthful to ourselves. If anybody deceives you, that can be disturbing but when you deceive yourself, that can be very costly. Pretending to be what you are not and pretending to be doing what you are not doing is very costly Sir. Church Gist. There will be unusual speed this year for every truthfully and fruitfully obedient sons of God. One week only and everything turned for this going through frustrations. He was going to the wrong place, there is no vacancy there until somebody is fired and nobody will be fired in the next one year. Before they are fired you are not relevant to the place. Let God take over your life and watch what comes out of it. This is awesome. You should understand testimonies and how to connect with them. Isaiah 8:20. One week only. I was busy writing in my notebook before I was able to grab the material. I wait to learn all the learnable. This God is awesome. You are going places.
PROVEN LOVE FOR GOD ENGENDERS SUPERNATURAL BREAKTHROUGHS.
That is the teaching line for the series that we are going about in these midweek services. We are in the last days, the days of rising giants in the Kingdom. These are all settled divine agendas in heaven. Whether you and I are part of those rising giants is left to our choice. Psalm 110:1-3. It is called “the days of His power” that enables believers to rule in the midst of their enemies. Psalm 87 emphasized the same thing. Obadiah 1:21. All heroes of scriptures were heroes of faith but faith works by love. Faith will not deliver beyond our love level for God. We overcome by faith but we are more than conquerors by love. Church Gist. When love becomes the platform of our faith we are now more than conquerors. The battles can’t wait for you. With faith you fight, when faith is coupled with love, the battles can’t wait for you. It clears before you arrive. God’s presence empowers us for dominion over the worst of battles which we connect with through a genuine love for God. As we grow in love we continue to command greater breakthroughs by the day. All those heroes of faith you look at them they were love-driven people which empowers their faith to deliver the impossible. Because they trusted in their God, the fire had no effect on them. Even their hair and their clothes were preserved. There was no sign whatsoever that they went through fire. They loved him to death, their faith could deliver to any level. The breakthrough of every love of God has no limit.
Now what is in our love for God that engenders Supernatural breakthroughs:
1. We discovered that the capital proof of our love for God is our love and passion to see souls saved. He said to Peter, ‘Do you love me?.. Three times! John 21:15-17. That’s why I call it the capital proof of our love for God- Love and passion to see souls saved. Church Gist. And we saw Paul, the addicted lover of Jesus! Acts 26:22. The core proof of His love is called witnessing for both great and small! Paul, writing to Timothy said, ‘Do the work of an Evangelist so that you can make a full proof of your Ministry’! 2 Timothy 4:5. Paul said, ‘I’m now ready to be carried away, I have fought the fight and have kept the Faith… 2 Timothy 4:7-8.
What is in soul winning that defines breakthrough?
1. It brings us into favour with God John 15:16. Church Gist. He chose the twelve and sent them forth that they might preach the Gospel and they came back and lacked nothing Mark 3:14.
-Your engagement in this season will bring a practical end to every siege of lack and want in your life. Church Gist. All things that make for life and godliness will be answering to you at the speed of Heaven!
2. Reconciling the world back to God is what makes for an ambassador 2 Corinthians 5:17-20. And every faithful ambassador is entitled to healthy living Proverbs 13:17. Church Gist. Every branch in Me, I purge to bear more fruit… John 15:2. So every soul winner is entitled to healthy living- God keeping him fit supernaturally!
-Good news! Sickness, pains, and aches will become history in your life and household!
‘Now ye are ambassadors for Christ as ordained by God, you have the Word of reconciliation to reconcile the world back to Me’. That is what 2 Corinthians 5:20 said. Church Gist. When you are born again and you commit to His purpose which is, ‘To go and bring forth fruits that abide’, and then you will become an ambassador, God becomes the one that is behind and in charge of your health!
-Get ready for the best of time! You will never nurse sickness again in your household!
3. Soul winning also secures triumphant living Luke 10:19.
-The days of hurt, injuries and assaults are over in your life!
He sent seventy of them and they all returned victorious and triumphant. Church Gist. You cannot be in His Mission and be waylaid by robbers or be assaulted by the Fulani vagabond.
-Somebody’s story is changing, you better watch it!
4. Soul winning makes wise Proverbs 11:30. By wisdom, Joseph ascended the throne of Egypt. By wisdom, Daniel ascended the throne of Babylon.
-There shall be diverse enthronements without any background to qualify you for it.
There are many people that centuries and millennia after they are gone if Jesus tarries, they will still be a point of reference Daniel 12:3. Church Gist. We are still celebrating Abraham today, we never saw him and He wants to bless you and me after the order of Abraham. Abel is dead yet he is speaking, not by playing videos! His life is still impacting generations! Daniel 12:3.
-I see your family members praying in the Name of the God that you serve! Church Gist. That, ‘Oh God of my mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, grandfather and great-grandfather, show yourself!
That’s how to get there! Church Gist. So we are not having fun roaming the streets, we are just walking in the center of God’s plan and expecting to be decorated by Him!
-You shall be decorated! The days of frustrations are over in your life!
2. Genuine love for God is about loving God above all else including one’s self Luke 14:26-27. Only successful disciples emerge as apostles. God must occupy a place in your heart and my heart beyond the place we (ourselves) occupy in our hearts. What’s in that for me? Church Gist. It puts such believers in command of supernatural breakthroughs as in the case of David and Peter.
David wasn’t going to collect rewards for going against Goliath- He would rather die than watch that assault continue. He took his life in his hand and said, ‘Today, the Lord whose army you defied will give me your head’! Church Gist. Shut up! Let me die the death of the righteous! That’s what he did and from there, he emerged a national hero as a teenager! 1 Samuel 17:46.
-Young people hear this! It’s your era!
Peter was down, frustrated and labored all night but caught nothing! Jesus said, ‘Who has this boat? Enter! Move forward’! Willingly, he allowed Jesus inside the boat and Jesus preached an everlasting Gospel- I don’t know how long it took Him to finish preaching. And after that He said, ‘Launch into the deep… Church Gist. Luke 5:4-6- ‘This is my response to everyone who surrenders to me in spite of his situations’. So he laid down the net and caught a great multitude of fishes… Luke 5:6-7. Supernatural breakthroughs always accompany genuine love for God that puts Him first above your situation and my situation.
-It is a strange year for you, your family, business and career. Somebody’s story is changing!
David has slain his ten thousand and Saul, the big man has stained his one thousand. He got very mad. Church Gist. God just changed his story! 2 Samuel 18:3. Awesome God.
3. Genuine love for God is about making God and the interest of His Kingdom, our priority for living which is the gateway to supernatural favour Psalm 102:13-15. Church Gist. When God and the interest of His Kingdom begin to become the priority for your living, fearful favour begins to attend to you naturally just like Oxygen attends to you naturally, you are not looking for it, it’s always around you.
Sir, don’t think that anybody is driving you hard oo. It’s the Word! If I have to drive you the way He drives me Sir, you will run away. Let the Spirit of God drive you into raw obedience and watch what happens! Raw obedience! Church Gist. Matthew 6:31-33, But the jackpot of life and the master key of life is, ‘Seek ye first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness…’
-Somebody’s story is changing!
Nothing decorated destiny like favour. We saw the destiny of Joseph decorated as a slave. Portiphar handed his entire estate to him. We saw him in the prison, he found favour! Church Gist. Favour decorated a prisoner that he was now a staff of the prison. And favour found him, led him to the palace and he became the ruler of Egypt.
-You shall be awesomely decorated this year as you successfully entreat the favour of God with your obedience, touching what God loves the most!- Souls!
All those testimonies that you are hearing are just the testimonies of favour. Church Gist. God is just changing people’s story by His acts of favour which they entreated. You don’t wait for favour, you entreat and provoke it by touching the heart of God.
-You are going to enjoy fearful favour this year!
Now, the Lord has brought Daniel into favour with the chief of the Eunuchs. Favour! Church Gist. After interpreting that dream, meaning that he is free to go home! But no! ‘You (Daniel) will be the leader here! Even me (King) I worship you, you are not a human being! Favour!
-We shall all be visited!
4. We prove our love for God through giving towards the advancement of His Kingdom on earth which is the Covenant platform for the rise of financial giants. Giving is the Covenant platform for the rise of financial giants! No shortcut, no situational report and explanation Sir! If you are not a giver and you are in this highly prosperous Ministry it won’t show that you are here. You can’t go to the bank and collect money from any bank account. It has to be from your bank account! You can’t say, ‘Hey! I’m here, does any bank account have money? And they say, ‘What about that? ‘I want to withdraw! From which bank account? Any account Sir. They will call the police for you and if they see your case to be very serious, they will call a Marine soldier to come and handle you!
You can’t withdraw from anybody’s account but your account! Philippians 4:17. Everybody runs a Covenant account with God. You may not be aware of it? Maybe it’s dormant, the account has been cancelled or put in the archives! Everybody runs a financial account with God Philippians 4:15-19. Church Gist. You know why some founders of Ministries are poor? They are keeping other people’s accounts while their own account is empty and dormant. They are only collecting. No!
If you want to be out of the siege of lack and want, engage in discretionary giving. Understand God’s priority for your giving life! Your giving life that secures His blessing is tithing! Malachi 3:10. So it’s (Tithing) your insurance, the Covenant insurance of your blessings in life. If you are not a tither, you are just opening your life to devourers! Church Gist. You gather and you can’t see it anymore because the devourer has come through some corners and he’s gone! Is there anybody in this Church who doesn’t know the meaning of tithing! Now the question is? Is anybody doing it? ‘No! Our Church has money, what am I to tithe for? No! The Church doesn’t need your money, it’s you that needs God’s money! God is not in need!
I was not a Pastor of a Church when God told me the importance of tithing, ‘No! That’s why your Church has not called anybody, ‘Excuse me, has God spoken anything’! Stop counting days, start banking on your obedience of faith! Days don’t change nothing! I have sons and daughters who are lawyers. Now! Has that made me a lawyer now? Can I go and buy a wig and overall and carry myself to the court? They will walk me out to somewhere else on the spot. Stop counting days, if you want to be a lawyer, go and study it or they will arrest you! I’ve never seen the key of a plane in my life because, will I fly it? Church Gist. So why am I looking for the key? So all these fancy won’t work! You want to be part of the financial giants of the Endtime? Tithing is the number one! It will open the windows of Heaven and preserve the blessings! Not up today and down tomorrow! And then, sacrificial investments towards promoting the Kingdom of God- It always turns activities around!
Gather my saints to me, those who have made a covenant with me by sacrifice and the heavens will respond. Psalm 50:5. When Abraham took Isaac to the altar, it was heaven that responded. “Hold it, now I know you fear me. By Myself I swear”. Heaven will always respond on the altar of sacrifice. He prompted me one time to give a sacrifice and after I did, He said, “ my son David, even if you don’t want to be rich, it Is too late”. Direct! Raw! Connectivity, very strong. No guesswork. Clear and clean. Many will come under sworn blessing this time through your simple obedience of faith. Church Gist. Check it, don’t play smart. God is smarter than everybody else. He knows what you are going to do before you do it. He knows what you are going to think before you think it. So He is not somebody you can hide away from. Let’s set order. I heard what God said and it just caught me well, he said “God is love, love is not God ”. All these “Let’s give to the poor” “let’s give to the needy”. Most of them are camouflage. Somebody who can’t give to God won’t give to any needy. Oga it is all camouflage of philanthropy, it doesn’t fly in the covenant. We will take care of the needy by His blessings which are secured through our giving life, our sacrificial life and our tithing that secures and preserves the blessings in our life. I have shared the story of John D. Rockefeller several times, he began tithing from $7:50 a week. An addicted tither, heavy blessings. Church Gist. Preserved blessings, blessings still speaking after he is gone for several years. The first American Billionaire in history was tithe made. This local ministry is sending waves and jitters around the world because of the unexplainable abundance from an open heaven. Don’t play with it. We have not had to pray once for it, why? The covenant has enough inbuilt power to deliver. Just stand strong in it. It has more than enough inbuilt power to deliver.
That man could not get money for recharge card. He had to be calling all the members of their zone to help follow up his converts on their platform. Thank God for such zones that have a platform for follow up. Life is about connecting. Church Gist. It is about taking a strange position in the covenant. Financial prosperity is about to break forth in the Body of Christ. Only those ordinary looking people who are working consistently in obedience to the terms of the covenant will be listed among the giants. Everybody is quiet, I think God is working on us.
Everything delivers to the level of our understanding. Please understand this thing. God does not need your tithe or my tithe. His kingdom can’t go down because you are not investing. No! What you are giving to Him, He gave it to you in the first instance. Were you born with any account? Let’s stop that. One of the most prosperous kings that sustained his wealth until he went to heaven unlike Solomon’s own was David. 1 Chronicles 29:3. He said “of thine have we given thee” so there is nothing to brag about, it is what you gave that we are giving you. 1 Chronicles 3:12. Awesome God! When Solomon stopped investing in the Kingdom, he began to go down until vanity upon vanity, all became vanity. Church Gist. If it is not vanity, how can a man sit down and marry 300 wives? What kind of demonic possession is that? Has anybody come near that record since that time? In a world without end, nobody can beat it. The foolishness of the wisest man overnight. May God not back out of your affairs. The good news is you are making it to the end. You will walk with Jesus to the end.
Can I tell you this and it will humble every one of us. Do you know why God is taking some of us small small small? He wants to be sure that His blessings will not destroy you. He will not bless you beyond how much He can trust you to survive with the blessings. If some fellows here hit a billion naira today, they will lose the compass of how to get to Canaanland. They will lose it immediately. They will ask you “Is Papa still there? Well, just say hello to him. Things have been quite right. As I came from Singapore, I went to Malaysia and then to Cote d’Ivoire”. Church Gist. Well done! There is nothing happening to Covenant people that is not in store for you. Just connect with it. I am happy and I rejoice in God for His grace. For me not to have one person till now “Thank God for this man, he bailed me out”. I have not seen one human being on earth to so acknowledge. Thank God for good friends but that God has a need and I called you “my friend are we still friends?’ You say Yes’ ‘there is a problem here”. Not one has been called once. God will dignify your life. Walking in the covenant dignified Christianity. Church Gist. Walking in the covenant bails you out of the world of struggles. So it is time to start dreaming kingdom dreams that will make God trust you with more of His blessings. A time is coming as the Lord lives, I will build a 100-capacity church. A time is coming, I believe God for it. I will build a 200-capacity church. Some have never dreamt it. God is taking time. You prefer to hire one hotel in Dubai, a whole floor. Omo jaiye jaiye. Nobody must stay there because it is your wealth display. Then you come back after two months “bring anything you have” they say what? You say everything. Some wine? Yes! Bring some wine. He is just gone. She that liveth in worldly pleasure is dead while yet she lives. Let God have a place in your financial consideration and watch how He will keep lifting you from one level to another. It is your turn for a change of story.
As God has blessed everyone, that’s where we have a problem, so let him give. So God knows how much He has blessed you so when you undergive it, He can’t trust you. Your opening when you were 20,000 a month is still your offering when you are 100,000 a month. It is still your offering when you are 300,000 a month. It is still your offering when you are one million a month. Church Gist. No! Forget it, let him go and try it out himself. As God has blessed everyone even so let him give. By equality. Just as your tithe is according to your size. Your giving must be according to your size.
I shared with you the testimony of a typical elephant that I saw in 1987 in the U.S. They wrote there, this elephant consumes 140 pounds of straw a day and discharges 100 pounds of manure a day. That is how to remain an elephant. If it discharges less it will die. Have you not seen an elephant die before? I have seen them. It will die for nothing. So if everyone who is not rich towards God. Church Gist. Your riches must be towards God first to keep His blessing alive in your life. What your church is enjoying today is true riches. Riches that are always there. As the needs are showing up, the riches are manifesting. Before the needs arise the supply will be waiting. Supplies manifesting ahead of need. That is your new life. You will hit new levels of favour. Struggling for survival is no longer your portion.
Genesis 12:2-3. No one will ever get blessed than he is prepared and committed to be a blessing. Me, my wife, my children, my family, thank you Jesus. It is enough. You can’t carry more blessings than that. No one will ever get blessed above his commitment to be a blessing. The elephant has to discharge to stay alive. To the level of what he consumes, he has to discharge. That rich fool never discharged until he was taken away. I have enough. He didn’t even mention a wife. Church Gist. For me to eat and drink. Me! Me! Life is much more than that. You are breaking forth. Many people here will run very virile foundations. That will be helping the helpless, putting smiles on the downtrodden, providing shelter for the homeless as you begin to access true riches from heaven that is secured through the mystery of tithing.
– Because love never fails, the last failure you saw is the last you will ever see.
– Because everything works together for the good of our love, sveryhfjng will keep working for your good.
– Your days of struggling for survival are over.
– Your days of regrets are over
– Welcome to your new dawn, welcome to your new beginning.
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