SELF WORSHIP IS THE PLAGUE OF MANY BELIEVERS TODAY
SELF WORSHIP IS A SILENT DESTROYER
MANY ARE VICTIMS OF SELF-WORSHIP! IT CAME FROM THE DEVIL DIRECTLY!
HEAVEN IS THE HOME OF OVERCOMERS! ONLY FIGHTERS BECOME OVERCOMERS! THAT’S THE VISA TO HEAVEN! IT’S THE HOMECOMING OF OVERCOMERS!
THE BIBLE IS GOD’S MANUAL FOR A BELIEVER TO MAKE THE MOST OF THEIR ADVENTURE IN LIFE!
ONE MAJOR BATTLE FIELD OF LIFE IS OUR DESIRE TO PLEASE GOD! IT IS THE FIERCEST OF ALL BATTLES!
SO THE BIBLE IS A ‘WHAT TO DO BOOK’, SO THOSE WHO DON’T WANT TO BE INSTRUCTED ARE WASTING THEIR LIVES HERE!
THE STRENGTH OF THIS JOURNEY IS IN HIS INSTRUCTIONS, CORRECTIONS AND REPROOFS
YOU HAVE TO BE READY FOR THE FIGHT NOT TO WISH FOR VICTORY!
WE ARE COMING TO SHILOH TO BEGIN TO BELIEVE IN GOD FOR THE DELIVERY OF THE TABLES OF THE COVENANT THAT WILL HELP PEOPLE KNOW WHY THINGS ARE NOT WORKING!
EVERY KIDNAPPER WILL SMELL BEFORE THE YEAR ENDS! THEIR SPONSORS WILL DIE A SUDDEN DEATH!
NOBODY RUNS AFTER MONEY WITHOUT ENDING IN MOURNING
NO PROFESSION AND CAREER HAS AN ANSWER TO FINANCIAL FORTUNE!
MONEY IS SEEKING FOR WORSHIPPERS!
THE MOST STUPID THING IN THE WORLD IS FOR ANYBODY TO LEAVE GOD AND GO AFTER MONEY
I WAS IN THE REDEMPTION CAMP YESTERDAY TO SEE MY FATHER IN THE LORD AND THEY WERE IN THAT FOREST FOR THREE YEARS WITHOUT POWER. PEOPLE ARE DYING FOR PLEASURE.
MY FAMILY LIVED IN THE OFFICE BUILDING, WE RAISED TWO CHILDREN THERE.
WE LIVED IN THE OFFICE, SHARING ONE TOILET WITH THE CHURCH. YET I HAD SEEN THE REVELATION OF PROSPERITY. IT COMES IN STAGES SO IT WON’T KILL YOU
IF YOU REMOVE PROSPERITY TODAY FROM THE CHRISTIAN FAITH, MANY WILL NOT BE SAVED
GOD IS GOING TO SHOWER STUPENDOUS WEALTH UPON THE END-TIME CHURCH.
THOSE WHO GO AFTER GOD END UP IN COMMAND OF GOLD LIKE YOU SEE IN YOUR CHURCH. WE HAVE NEVER PRAYED TO GOD FOR MONEY, NOT ONCE AND WE ARE SUPERNATURALLY IN COMMAND OF WEALTH WITHOUT GAMES
WE HAD THE FIRST TV IN MY HOUSE IN 1986. I DID NOT KNOW HOW TO PUT IT ON BECAUSE I DIDN’T HAVE IT WHEN I HAD THE TIME. BY THE TIME WE HAD ONE, I DIDN’T HAVE THE TIME AGAIN.
BY HIS GRACE AT WORK IN MY LIFE, I CAN START ANY TELEVISION FACTORY NOW.
I HAVE BEEN DEDICATING HOUSES OF CHURCH MEMBERS BEFORE I HAD ONE. I WAS DOING IT WITH DELIGHT, I AM CELEBRATING THE GRACE OF GOD IN THEIR LIVES.
WHAT IS A HOUSE NOW? LIVE YOUR LIFE PER TIME. CHASING AFTER VANITY MAKES LIFE BECOME MEANINGLESS
- Bishop David Oyedepo on PUTTING UP A FIGHT AGAINST THE FORCES OF UNGODLINESS || LFC Midweek and Communion Service || Canaanland, Ota.
Shall we lift up our two hands to Heaven! And give God thanks tonight! The last service in the month of November! God has been good to us! There has been a lot of awakening and repositioning in the pursuit of God! Church Gist. If any good thing has happened to you in the month of November! Celebrate God! The best is reserved for the last! Magnify Him! In Jesus Precious, Name we have prayed!
Every piece of equipment always comes along with a manual that will help whosoever acquires it to maximize its use! The Bible is God’s manual for a believer to make the most of their adventure in life! You check the manual to know what to do to get what you want! Church Gist. So The Bible is a ‘What to do book’, so those who don’t want to be instructed are wasting their lives here! In seventy five percent instructions and principles, you got all the principles, you are just ‘F’. Seventy- five over seventy-five which you can’t get!
The strength of this journey is in His instructions, corrections and reproofs. I want to believe in God that the ‘What to do’ that we have acquired this month, will stay with us for life! Church Gist. And what will come upon us tonight will stay with us for life!
-Heavenly Father, we want to thank you for the much of Light that You have revealed to us this month as individuals and in our services. Receive our thanks in Jesus Name! Church Gist. Speak to us again tonight! And let your Name be glorified! In Jesus Name!
Praise God! I’m more than a conqueror! Congratulations!
PUTTING UP A FIGHT AGAINST THE FORCES OF UNGODLINESS!
Heaven is the home of overcomers! Only fighters become overcomers! He that overcometh!!! That’s the visa to Heaven! It’s the homecoming of overcomers! You have to be ready for the fight not to wish for victory! Church Gist. But work out your own Salvation, for me to work out my own Salvation with fear and trembling! Philipians 2:12. It is not for ‘lay-by believers’! Heaven has no place for ‘lay-by believers’! But for those who will be quick like men and fight!
And one major battle field of life is our desire to please God! It is the fiercest of all battles! Church Gist. You have not yet resisted sin unto blood Hebrew 12:4. The desire to please God is a fight to finish, it is not for those who run around with assumptions but for those who are determined to win the war!
We are looking at two of those evil spirits behind sin!
1.The spirit of idolatry
- The spirit of envy and strife
When we talk of idols in our part of the world, we think of gods and goddesses somewhere in the shrines that people worship! Far beyond that! Yes! That’s inclusive but it comes to other forms of worship that are not in the open- Part of the mystery of iniquity! Church Gist. You don’t hear the sound of a serpent in the rock, it glides. The mystery of iniquity doth already work, only he who now letteth will let… 2 Thessalonians 2:7. Many are victims of self-worship! It came from the devil directly!
Self worship Isaiah 14:12-15. That’s the end of self worship! Some just believe that if they are not somewhere, nothing will work! It’s self worship! Church Gist. Some believe that if they leave an organisation that the organisation will crash but it didn’t crash and they have left- Self worship!
Nebuchadnezzar went to the top of the roof of his house and said, “This great kingdom which I have built!” He walked into the forest as a beast! Daniel 4:30. Self worship is the plague of many believers today sir! Church Gist. An usher that is directing them where to stay in Church, and they say, “I don’t think that he knows who I am! This man can’t be a receptionist in my office! He can’t even be a driver! And he is directing me where to sit! Self worship is a silent destroyer sir!
I met one of our Pastors years ago in Kaduna. We had an early morning prayer session and we had met somewhere in town for a Church program that I was invited to. Church Gist. I saw him going because I attended part of the service before leaving. I said, “Patty, what’s happening?”
He said, “I wasn’t given any prayer points!” I said, “Get back!” Am I not your Pastor? Which prayer point did they give me?- Self worship! Church Gist. The story is not good! Beware of self worship! Self exhortation! Humble yourself in the Mighty Hand of God and in due time, He will lift you up! 1 Peter 5:6. Self worship is a trap of the devil! It’s time to consciously seek and escape from it!
Uzziah woke up on the wrong side of the bed one day. And said, “Who is the king?” They said, “You are the one”. He said king of who? They said, “King of everybody! Including Priests?” And they said, “Yes!” He said, “Let’s go! All these people that think that they are the only ones who can offer sacrifices, I’ve learnt a lot from Zechariah, I can offer the sacrifice!” 2 Chronicles 26:16. Church Gist. The High Priest ran out and said, “No! You are not permitted to offer sacrifices!” He said, “Who is the king? You or me?” He ended up a leper till the day of his death 2 Chronicles 26:19- Self worship is destructive! Self worship is costly!
Many Pastors and members are heading it! Things are just crashing and they can’t put their fingers on where it is crashing! Caution! Experts have left White House, it is still White House! You can’t paint it green because you are leaving! It’s still White! If it is possible to die small and come back, you will see how insignificant each of us is- Everything will be going on Sir! Church Gist. As if you never existed! Everything! Beware of self worship!
We are where we are today as an individual by Grace. Without Me, you can do nothing! John 15:5. Beware of self overestimation! I said in Church years ago that if all our Pastors connive not to give again, it won’t affect our income! Our income is not from people, it’s from the Covenant-keeping God! Whose address we are conversant with! Whose telephone we know including the code!
You remember, my beloveth! I told the Powerhouse that all that we are till you die cannot run this Ministry so you are not in this Powerhouse so that we can collect offerings from you! Church Gist. Some got angry! It’s okay! Get angry! It’s the truth!
That God doesn’t need me for anything, it’s me that He told not you! But I need Him for everything! Church Gist. Ah! No God needs you! He will soon call you to help Him! Caution! Self worship is a disease! A terminal disease if you don’t turn immediately from it, it can destroy your life!
We are coming to Shiloh to begin to believe in God for the delivery of the tables of the covenant that will help people know why things are not working! If faith is that powerful, why is my faith not working! What are the covenant breaches that paralyses my faith! If giving is the gateway to financial fortunes. Why am I still struggling? Church Gist. God wants to bring us up to that press-button realm of adventure in the kingdom! You are going to get there if you are humble enough to learn!
-No one will walk into the forest here! No one will end his journey as a leper!
Many others worship objects! By objects, I’m talking about social objects like money! Money has disconnected many from God! Many! Countless! There is no way to collate data for it! Countless! Some believers are in the ‘Longo’ now, seeing one native man or another that will help them connect with money. He said, “Can you bring your son?” Haa! “He is the only one I have!” That’s the only way to have this thing! Okay!!! Church Gist. My problem now is with my wife!- That is, for me oo, my son is of no value! For money!
Money is seeking for worshippers! Like 4:5-7. All these kidnapping sir! Money!!! The afflictor will release a curse from the corner of his room and then you find him dead! Son dead! Wife dead! For money! I told one of them, “If you don’t release that individual now! In twenty four hours, you are dead! Church Gist. You wake up in the morning and what you do is to look for a human being to carry! For what? For money!
Sir, except God is not here, every kidnapper will smell before the year ends! Their sponsors will die a sudden death! Money! You cannot serve God and mammon! Church Gist. God is saying, “Look! I have one major contestant here! Money!” Matthew 6:24.
Many are roaming around the world today for money! If you don’t have the key to a door, you can roam forever, it can’t open! As a believer, you don’t have the key? It won’t open! You can go to three countries at the same time, it won’t make a difference! Church Gist. You can do four jobs sir! He empowers His people for wealth on the platform of the covenant! No profession and career has an answer to financial fortune!
Satan gives you money? He takes your son and daughter! And then afflict you with sickness and disease! gods of gold! Great sin! ‘I must make it’! Exodus 32:31, the love of money is the root of all evil! 1 Timothy 6:10.
Nobody runs after money without ending in mourning. Can you imagine someone met by an armed robber armed with an AK47. Your money or your life? The greatest lover of money will say “please take my money” but for eternal life “give me money, take your eternal life away”. Remember the young man in Mark 10:17-19. Church Gist. People have lost the sense of eternity to money. Anything goes. It is a choice to make, choose ye between me and money like Joshua said “choose ye this day whom thou shall serve as for me and my household we will serve the Lord ”.
Money is not evil, it is the love of money that is the root of all evil. Put up a fight and it will overrun you. The following scriptures validate that: God the holiest of all said “the silver is mine and the gold is mine” (Haggai 2:6-9) yet He is not defiled. He opens His hand and satisfied the needs of all (Psalm 145:16). The streets of heaven that we are going to, where God dwells are paved with gold and the buildings including the foundation thereof are made of precious stones yet the Bible says His eyes are too holy to behold evil. So money is not evil (Revelation 21:19-21, Habakkuk 1:13). God is going to shower stupendous wealth upon the end-time church. It will go only to the hands of those who will not worship it. You can pray till you break your voice, you can’t be allocated. Church Gist. Luke 16:11. True riches of heaven are coming down on the earth. Many have turned to Muslims for money. Eternal life has no meaning to them. If therefore money were evil, then God is dwelling in the midst of evil. When Christ came He could feed 5000 men, he had the money. He was asking where they can get to buy it. So he had the money. He knew no sin so if money was a sin Jesus won’t have it. John 6:6-9. Jesus never begged. Jesus the son of God was a die-hard giver. He gave and gave until He gave His own life. It is not easy to give your god, when money becomes your god you can’t give it. That rich fool said, “I have enough”. There was no sign that he had a wife or anything. I have enough to eat and drink until I die. He said you will die now, I didn’t give you to keep. I gave you to give. Luke 12:19. Christ was always going in a convoy of ships. He was in the ship and other little ships with him to carry his contingents. Mark 4:36-39. He asked to go and look for a large Upper Room, well furnished. Luke 22:12. Money is not evil.
We are redeemed among other things to enjoy riches that through His poverty we might be made rich (2 Corinthians 8:9). He won’t enrich us with evil if money were evil. Revelation 5:12. Church Gist. So it is part of our package in redemption but the side we take to it is what determines the outcome. No one here will miss his place.
The obsession with money is evil, Achan lost his entire lineage to it. Joshua 7:6-25. His generation was removed from remembrance for his love for money. Gehazi lost his destiny to an insatiable crave for money. 2 Kings 5:10-27. Caution! Judas lost his apostleship to an undying crave after money. He ended up committing suicide. Beware of the god of gold, he is a destroyer. Those who go after it don’t have it. It may appear it is in their hand but there is no life in them to enjoy it. Those who go after God end up in command of gold. Like you see in your church. We have never prayed to God for money, not once and we are supernaturally in command of wealth without games. Settle down, my friend. Do you know why? God is too slow for many. I was in the redemption camp yesterday to see my father in the Lord and they were in that forest for three years without power. People are dying for pleasure. My family lived in the office building, we raised two children there. In the office. One toilet, what are you looking for? Yet I had seen the revelation of prosperity. It comes in stages so it won’t kill you. Am I surprised that grace has brought us to where we are today? Never. I knew it was coming as I keep doing what he says to do. The most stupid thing in the world is for anybody to leave God and go after money. The craziest thing, that is eternal regret. Fight the good fight of faith against money so you can lay hold on eternal life. 1 Timothy 6:10-12. Church Gist. If you remove prosperity today from the Christian faith, many will not be saved. People come to me to lay hands on their papers, you think I have time for all that nonsense? If I lay my leg on your paper and you are not a covenant man nothing will work. No prayer of the anointed can break the covenant. Jesus prayed for them in Nazareth they were not healed and He marvelled at their unbelief, even when they pray for you it takes your faith for the prayed to be answered. Without your faith, nobody’s prayer can be answered on your life. Instead of all these prayer contractors, you are running around with, if they know the way won’t you see it in their life? You better take responsibility and save your soul from this untoward generation. You have heard me cry that whatever God cannot do for me let it remain undone. Whatever you can’t give me may I never have it, wherever you can’t take me to may I never get there. We sat down and we are in 80 additional nations this year. It is the hand of God not the hand of man. We are on that project, we are on rural church project at the same time. No pressure. No one says “give it shall be given unto you, give now!”. God will never need the help of man. If it is God who commanded it, then relax.
My beloved son and I were reflecting, we had the first TV in my house in 1986. I did not know how to put it on because I didn’t have it when I had the time. By the time we had one, I didn’t have the time again. By his grace at work in my life, I can start any television factory now.
In closing, The spirit of envy and strife. You see something in somebody’s house and you can’t sleep again. You go and wage war against your husband and you know he doesn’t have the money. If we don’t have this thing, nobody will sleep in this house again. Haba! Are you not classmates? Every covetous spirit is a gateway to hell. Live your life. I was cruising Volkswagen Beetle LAW810 and then the next one KD815AF, I miss those vehicles. You are in your own car but you are seeing the ground floor while you are driving so you save your leg so it doesn’t drop. That was all the ministry had but one day we dedicated about 100 buses on the same day. Live your life. Let us run the race that is set before us as individuals. Run the race. Church Gist. Don’t use somebody’s race, don’t cross into another man’s track. Go at His pace, you won’t lose your peace. I have been dedicating houses of church members before I had one. I was doing it with delight, I am celebrating the grace of God in their lives. What is a house now? Live your life per time. I am speaking to you tonight around the world as a father. Chasing after vanity makes life become meaningless. Caution! Caution! That man said I knew debt is a burden. 41 years by His grace. In the remaining days of your life, you never suffer the burden of indebtedness again. Everyone that desires to be free from the burden of indebtedness I declare your freedom.
Somebody’s story has just changed. No one shall become a victim. Romans 13:13. We have to make that choice. I refuse to walk in strife, I refuse to live a life compounded with envy. I will celebrate God for what He does in other people’s lives with joy and delight. James 3:16. You just open the door to the devil to keep manifesting himself by envy. And you know what he does? To kill, to steal and to destroy. 2 Corinthians 10:12. What time did that man graduate? They say 2001. I graduated before 2000, 1991. He has an estate. He is now telling God, see how unjust you are? He is under the torment of the spirit of envy. It may be your gift to be building houses from nation to nation where you may never go to but to give to your wife and children, wahala! That is your god. When I am going to heaven, I will be smiling. Bye Bye world, I have had my share as he enables me. Church Gist. Please face where you are going, stop running another man’s race. When you are in a race and you cross to another man’s lane you are foul. That you got there first doesn’t count. You are not counted. You can score three goals that don’t count. Yet they have clapped for you and the clap just nosedives straight because it is foul. You won’t play foul again. Church Gist. These are some hidden mysteries of iniquity and in the name of Jesus none of us shall end up a victim. It is not a one-month affair, it is a lifetime affair. Otherwise, God will forget all the righteousness you have done and judge you in the unrighteousness which He finds you. It is not a one-month thriller teaching, it is a lifelong teaching. The trumpet will sound someday and it could anyway, or any month, it could be in the night. Nobody knows the year. May all of us be prepared and not miss that flight. The rapture flight. Should He still be waiting for more people to be saved and we are here on earth, when the journey is over we transfer to heaven. We will come down with Him and reign down here in the name of Jesus.
Lift your right hand and give God thanks. The god of gold you will not have your way in my life. Envy and strife you have no room here. I am satisfied with Jesus. No one can manage my life better you. Express yourself to God. Renew your choice to make God your reason for living. Renew your choice not to be dissuaded by any other god.
If you follow this God the way this Church follows Him, you won’t sweat. He is a covenant-keeping God. Can somebody ask me now to consider another God? You can’t do that. Grace helped me to know this on time. I made my choice very early. It is not a thing to think about. Can any devil deceive me now to go and carry a ballot box that I am voting for or they are voting for me? No! I made that choice the longest time before I was eligible to vote. Church Gist. I made that choice and then because of an appointment you just throw your faith away. You are in a place where you can’t say let’s pray. Money! People don’t believe that there is heaven. Many don’t believe it. Not you again and not me forever, not your children after you. They will serve God till the end. They will walk with God till the end.
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