WE DID NOT TURN SERVING GOD TO BUSINESS
GOD SET IT UP AS BUSINESS.
SERVING GOD IS KINGDOM BUSINESS WITH UNDENIABLE EARTHLY RETURNS
I MEAN SERVING GOD, NOT SERVING YOUR CHURCH OR YOUR PASTOR.
SERVING GOD IS NO MERE RELIGIOUS ACTIVITY OR A HOBBY
43 YEARS RUNNING WITHOUT A BREAK, GOD HAS CONTINUED TO CHANGE PEOPLE’S STORIES IN THIS PLACE.
MAMA BETTY LASHER LOVED ME INTO CHRIST.
I HAD A BIG RELIGIOUS HEAD. I DIDN’T BELIEVE THAT I NEEDED SALVATION.
I WAS BORN INSIDE THE CHURCH. TO ME, I WAS SAVED FROM HEAVEN.
SHE WAS AN AMERICAN WOMAN WITH SO MUCH LOVE IN HER EYES.
I WEPT WHEN SHE WENT HOME AT 92.
TARGET INDIVIDUALS AND FAMILIES WITHIN YOUR VICINITY AND LOVE THEM INTO THE KINGDOM.
ENGAGE THE LOVE SICKLE.
– Bishop David Oyedepo on SERVING GOD AND THE INTERESTS OF HIS KINGDOM PAYS THE UNMATCHABLE 2 at Covenant Day of Fruitfulness Service || Faith Tabernacle, Canaanland|| 10th March 2024 || First Sunday Service ||
For everyone in Church, the Lord gave me a word this early morning. He said, “Tell them, I have reserved unique blessings in this house. I have sent you to go distributing the goodness of this house to every worshipper.” How many agree there is goodness in this house? This is one place where testimonies have never ceased since inception. A woman had me say “Blessed is she that is not offended in me.” 1981, at our fellowship. That destroyed the siege of barrenness because she had been offended. She got free from offence and God just repackaged her. Her destiny opened up. At the beginning, no microphone, no sound system but the Word. Blessed is she that God chooses that she may approach unto Him. Psalm 65:4. There is goodness in God’s house and there is a certain unique goodness in every house. Church Gist. Every testimony you hear here is an expression of God’s goodness in the house. Therefore, whatever you have heard as a testimony that is a need in your life, open up. You are returning with them as a testimony.
Isaiah 61:1. The meek! The proud can’t access it, only the meek. “I know what I am doing. I am a man of myself.” Well done, you can’t access it. The glad tidings are only accessible to the meek. Matthew 11:28. You can’t be proud headed and draw a thing from here. Pride has blocked the way to many people’s destinies. It threw Satan out of heaven and down to the earth. Turned that colourful angel into a serpent. The gospel, the glad tidings is addressed to the meek not the proud. God said it, I believe it, that settles it. To the meek! Why? Psalm 25:9. Come down. 1 Peter 5:6. The manufacturer has the right to dictate how his product will function. Church Gist. It is He that has made us, so His Word is the manual that dictates how we can function best. There is a stirring in the water. That family said we dived into it, He said seek things that are from above and then a set of twins after ten years of waiting. Another water is being stirred, every stirring of the water is an opportunity for a change of story.
Lord, engrace me to stay meek so I can enjoy the glad tidings that change people’s stories. Destroy every trace of pride in me. Church Gist. Help me to remain humble under your mighty hand so you can teach me and guide me on how to make the most of my adventure on earth and make it to heaven in grand style.
Jesus breathe on your Word today and let your name be glorified in Jesus’ name.
This is one of Potter’s Houses on the earth where He gives shape to the clay. God shapens destinies here. God changes people’s stories here. Do I have a witness here? God turns things around for His people here. Do I have a witness here? God turns the barren to fruitful mothers of children here. Do I have a witness in the house? May the ministry of the potter answer in your life today. Jeremiah 18:6. God is a shape and a colour in this service today. Jeremiah 18:2. You have come and He will show you what will shape your life. To all first-timers, welcome home. For 43 years running without a break, God has continued to change people’s stories in this place. Church Gist. Welcome to a mountain of change of story. Welcome to a mountain of transformation. Welcome to a mountain that sets free from all oppression of the devil. Welcome to a mountain of new dawn. For everyone engaging in the ongoing Church growth prophetic agenda, as the Lord lives, Before the first half of the year every one will know God’s favour has answered on your life.
SERVING GOD AND THE INTERESTS OF HIS KINGDOM PAYS THE UNMATCHABLE 2
Unmatchable connotes there is nowhere else that can match the returns from serving God. Exodus 23:25-26. There is no match anywhere under the sun for the package. Serving God is no mere religious activity or a hobby. Serving God is a big time business with unmatchable returns as a package. Did you say business? Yes! Luke 2:49. Romans 12:11. Serving God is business with unmatchable returns as package. They turned it into business. No, we didn’t turn it. We met it as business. God called it business. Thou shall serve and expect the following as returns. Is that not business? Thou shall invest of your time, energy and resources and expect this as your return. We didn’t turn it into business. God set it up as business. Serving God is Kingdom business with undeniable earthly returns. Not serving your Church, not serving your pastor, I said serving God. Serving God is the platform for the rise of giants in the Kingdom and it is normal. Church Gist. You can’t get promoted when you are off service but your rise continues as long as you are in service. For instance, if you are in the military and you took off as a Second Lieutenant, you will be a Second Lieutenant Retired for life. Your grandchild may become a general, that doesn’t change your status. If you ever write General, that is impersonation. You are Second Lieutenant Retired till death. When you step out of service, you have surrendered your destiny by stagnating it. You have to remain in service for the giant in you to come alive.
Every wrestling heavyweight champion began as a baby. And they began fighting behind their mother’s kitchen before they began to grow and develop muscles before he became a giant. Church Gist. Giants are not born in a day, you develop through a process and when you withdraw from that process, it is over. Why am I saying this? The end time Church is ordained a Church of giants. That means die hard servants of God who will stay the course till they lay hold on God’s ultimate agenda for their life. Serving God is big time business. It is God that makes great. Church Gist. There are no great people in the Kingdom, it is the backing of the great God that makes ordinary people appear great. That happens on the platform of service. Luke 22:27. The greatest in the Kingdom are they that serve. In the precious name of Jesus Christ, no one shall be an onlooker in this move. May serving God become your new lifestyle from henceforth.
They said about David, “You are more than 10,000 of us” and who was David? A servant! Psalm 89:20. 2 Samuel 18:3. Serving God turned a teenager into the envy of the king. Church Gist. I see teenage giants rising. I see the rise of young men and women in this Commission after the order of David, a man with a heart for God. Serving God is a big time business.
When we engage for instance, in praying Kingdom advancement prayers behind our closets, God’s verdict is to reward us openly. We have done it in the secret, He comes out to reward us openly. Every aspect of Kingdom advancement endeavours is highly profitable. So no one has an excuse not to be involved. The most valuable of all stewardship platforms is soul winning endeavours, not endeavour. There are many parts to it. We saw over 7,000 people got saved yesterday and several other tens of thousands were invited to Church. Every aspect of this holds rewards. When you bring people to Him in Church, you are honouring Him and “He that honours me, I will honour.” When you go after winning souls, you are inheriting glory because “He that winneth souls is wise” and “the wise shall inherit glory.” Church Gist. Glory means termination of shame and reproach. Therefore as the Lord lives, no one lacks honour from heaven this year. No one suffers shame and reproach anymore in this Church. Your days of days of heavenly order of rewards are finally here.
When you invest your resources into bringing people to Church. Proverbs 28:27. Proverbs 11:24. You commit to it, He keeps changing your story financially forever. Church Gist. When whatever moves God moves you, He keeps moving you forward. You will never know a backward trend anymore in your life. Just like this Church has never known a backward trend in 43 years, you never know a backward trend anymore in your life.
Let’s look at some platforms for kingdom advancement endeavours.
1. Targeting specific souls and families to bring to Christ from your workplace, your business place, and your offices.
One of us prayed down a devout Muslim whose wife gave her life to Christ and was scared to even think of the husband turning to Christ because he was a learned individual in his religion. He prayed about 3 days. This soul winner took about 3 days in prayer. On Sunday, it was the man who told the wife “I am going to Church with you today.” Today, they are all members of the Church. He targeted that soul and secured that soul for the Kingdom. We saw Andrew in John 1:40-42, he saw his brother, Simeon and brought him to Christ. Church Gist. Targeting certain individuals. We saw Philip in verse 45 of that scripture, he saw Nathaniel and brought him to Christ. Paul answered the jailer, “Believe and you shall be saved and your family” God believes in the salvation of families. So we can target families in prayers and strategically approach such individuals for Christ. You put up appropriate baits. I have this book for you Sir, I am sure it is going to be a blessing. It is a bait. There was an interesting testimony today in Church that is relevant to the need of his life, it is a bait. Righteous baits! May God name a family with you this month. That you prayed down into the Kingdom and they are celebrating God being free from the Kingdom of darkness. Church Gist. May God name an individual with you. A friend who does not know your God but he believes so much in you and is confident talking to you. Why don’t you confidently talk to him? My friend, I need to tell you this. Jesus changed my story on this day, one thing I know is that the kind of joy I have now, I never had it before. Your testimony is your strongest message. Come see a man who told me all things that I did, is he not the Christ? John 4:29. Ecclesiastes 10:15.
Target individuals, target families within your vicinity and love them into the Kingdom. Mama Betty Lasher loved me into Christ. I had a big religious head, I didn’t believe that I needed Salvation. I was born inside the Church. What is salvation? My mother gave birth to me inside the Church building. To me, I was saved from heaven. How can you talk salvation to me? Who are you? Where were you born? Maternity. You need salvation. There was love in her eyes. Short American woman, you could see love in her eyes. Not only me, she brought quite a number of young boys into Christ. I wept when she went home at 92. Engage the love sickle. Don’t look religious, love. Do you really love this person to be out of the dungeon of afflictions that will culminate in hellfire, which God has no plan for anyone to go into? Let that be your motivation. Daniel 12:3. Start from somewhere.
2. Passionate invitation of your contact to come to Church.
Next Sunday is our Covenant Day of Business Breakthroughs and I can tell you something, there is no such service in our church without an outstanding outbreak of testimonies, come with me. It is our year of fortune in our church, come along. Not all winners sweat to win, sweating is a curse. Come along. Passionate invitation of your contacts to Christ. Proverbs 14:28. 1 Samuel 2:30. Church Gist. When you engage in bringing people to Jesus He sees it as honour and that qualifies you for His honour in return. No one shall name shame with you any more. Revelation 22:17-18. Come and see, that is the task. You are going places.
For our stewardship to qualify for rewards, we must serve Him
1. We must serve God cheerfully.
I caught this word back in 1977. Deuteronomy 28:47-48. Serving God is not enough but serving Him correctly includes serving Him with joyfulness and gladness of heart because God loves a cheerful giver. 2 Corinthians 9:7. It is joy that makes our stewardship fruitful. Joel 1:12. Where your joy stops is where your reward stops. Philippians 4:4. 1 Thessalonians 5:16. God is not a taskmaster, Don’t see serving God as a burden. See it always as a privilege. Let your joy continue to well up from the inside. What a privilege. Psalm 65:5-7. Church Gist. We serve with joy and gladness, you are not grumbling. Hmmmmm, if not that they said. Someone asked me many years ago, “Brother David, do you ever have any problems? I said maybe it came and I didn’t know. Serving God with joy is a most rewarding platform for profitable stewardship. Your joy another man will not take away.
2. We must serve God willingly
1 Corinthians 9:17. If I do this thing willingly, I qualify for rewards. If against my will, I am only marking time like a robot. 2 Corinthians 8:12. Church Gist. It is not acceptable except it is coming first from a willing heart. Your entire being is after the things you are doing. You are not doing it to show off.
Let’s look at a few of the returns as we round up.
1. Serving God procures health and vitality.
John 15:1-2. Fruit bearing commits God to keep us fit. Serving God fruitfully entitles us to divine fitness. 2 Corinthians 5:17-20. Every new creature is redeemed as an ambassador for Christ reconciling the world back to God, not a title. There are many kingdom ambassadors in this Church that enjoy kingdom immunity without knowing anything is happening. No matter the heat on this earth, you will be exempted. The various ambassadors of nations in Nigeria, they draw from their nations not Nigeria. Church Gist. They eat the food of their nation, not the food of Nigeria. They earn the money of their nation, not Nigeria. You don’t need a degree in soul winning, you need a degree in soul winning. Reconciling the world back to God makes you an ambassador for Christ operating under the riches of His glory. Enjoying the heavenly order of immunity. You may never find an ambassador in a police station arrested by road traffic. The immunity of his office will not take that. When you pick him, you pick his nation. The only qualification that makes you an ambassador in all of scriptures is reconciling the Word back to God. So you pray to bring people to God, you go out to bring people to God, you invite people to bring them to God. Anything you do to bring people to God makes you an ambassador of Christ.
Proverbs 13:17. A faithful ambassador is entitled to healthy living. There was a time here, one Shiloh. Wonderful day. I was speaking to my son, Abioye and he couldn’t hear me on this seat. I said I will be going there to speak and you will be amplifying it to them. I had to write it down that when I go up, you will come with me. In case they can’t hear me, I will be speaking it to your ears and you will be amplifying it. I said lift up your hands, he amplified it “Lift up your hands”. Church Gist. I punished myself because I took cold water that I don’t take. That is what happened to me. I took cold water last in 1997. Don’t injure yourself. My heart will come out because I must reach them that day. It was an Impartation Service. Shiloh Impartation Service? No! You can’t keep my mouth shut. If it means opening my tummy and pulling out my intestines. A faithful ambassador is entitled to healthy living. In the name of Jesus, from this stirring of water till the end of your life, sickness will leave you alone. Disease will leave you alone, affliction will leave you alone. Do you know why? The labourers are few, so God is committed to keeping fit the few so they can keep bearing more fruits.
I am sure you know that health is the most valuable asset to man. When health is challenged, every other thing loses value. You can’t discuss business with someone on oxygen about business. Church Gist. If he sees your hands showing him anything, he will not be interested. That is why they say here, health is wealth. You won’t suffer a wreck.
2. Serving God procures supernatural breakthroughs.
Buy the truth of stewardship. Luke 5:1-7, we saw how Peter gave his boat to Jesus. He had suffered frustration all night and they caught nothing but after offering his service to Jesus, he experienced a netbreaking, boat sinking order of breakthrough. “depart from me Lord, I am a sinner.” It was too much. Serving God brings you into the ‘too much’ realm of breakthroughs. Church Gist. Serving God in truth and in deed procures supernatural breakthroughs for God’s people. Habbakuk 3:1-2, 17-19. Serving God always changes people’s stories. It may not appear real at the beginning. Matthew 4:26-28. It comes in phases.
I was showing our Mandate Secretary yesterday our humourous income testimonies in 1982 of ₦150 in a month and then ₦30, amazing things. Grass! Grass! You better stay on, your breakthrough is at the door. When your cloud is full, your rain will fall. Church Gist. May this month be a filing of the cloud month for you that will result in your rainfall. The rain of favour and fortune will come on your life. Ecclesiastes 11:3. When your cloud is full, your rain will fall. May this be a cloud filling month for every Winner, which will bring you another rainy season in your life.
Today is our Covenant Day of Fruitfulness. Please note that all provisions of redemption deliver on the platform of the covenant. I have these provisions for you, if you will meet these conditions. Including salvation which is free but only accessible by genuine repentance. What shall we do? He said don’t do anything. Repent and be converted. You have to repent to access the free gift of salvation. Acts 3:19. Without genuine repentance, there is no conversion, there is no blotting away of your sin. He wants all men saved, oh Yes. 1 Timothy 2:4. You can only access it through repentance. Healing, deliverance, breakthroughs including the fruitfulness of our bodies, they are all embraced through covenant engagement. Knowing what to do to bring them in. No one can be healed without faith. Church Gist. Faith is not just believing that God can do it, knowing what God has in store concerning your health and laying hold on it by faith and then you draw the healing virtue into your body. Deliverance only happens by light not by turning your head, by light. No siege of darkness can challenge the authority of light. John 1:5. Everything available to us in redemption is accessible by covenant. Church Gist. They call it tables of the covenant. We are in the end time, all these claiming Philippians 4:19 won’t work, You start from verse 15 for it to deliver. If you don’t start from verse 15, you will be wasting your mouth. My God shall supply all my needs, on what ground? Oluwa gbemi soke (God lift me up), He won’t. Isaiah 60:1, 8-9. It is an encounter with light that results in a flight. These are no guesswork, this abracadabra approach won’t work. Wake up please. If you are too big to turn on the switch of the light in your room, you will be in darkness. “I am the owner of this house, I can’t be waking up to turn on the light.” Good luck, you will stay in darkness. You turn on the light. The age notwithstanding, you can’t turn it on, it won’t be on. There is no shortcut to rising and scaling heights, it is walking according to the light of scriptures.
The good news is everyone in this church serves God so madly and among the rewards of service is fruitfulness. Psalm 127:3. When you are a child of God, you have that inheritance. When you serve God it is part of your reward. So everyone is entitled to at least two. One as an inheritance, two as a reward. You can now number as many more as you want. Exodus 23:26. So you won’t bury your children. They won’t die in your womb. He is a covenant keeping God not a covenant breaking God. For every Winner under the sound of my voice worldwide, you have heard it before but maybe your heart wasn’t open, I have prayed this morning before I came here that God who opened the heart of Lydia will open your heart today. Church Gist. As a daughter of Zion, a daughter of Abraham, it is your heritage. Deuteronomy 7:14. It is our heritage in the Abrahamic covenant. Church Gist. It is our reward in stewardship. Therefore I declare every waiting mother, mothers of children. Everyone called barren, I declare you this morning, mothers of children. Receive that in the name of Jesus. Jesus thank you for opening my eyes of understanding to see that fruitfulness is my heritage in redemption and as a seed of Abraham. Jesus thank you for opening my eyes of understanding to see that fruitfulness is my reward from serving you. Jesus, because you are a covenant keeping Father, I receive today my heritage of fruitfulness, I receive today my reward of fruitfulness.
Deuteronomy 28:1-13. Everything about us is ordained to be fruitful as we discover the tables of the covenant that makes it happen. In the name of Jesus, every barren area of anyone’s life is converted to fruitfulness today. That is no barrier will be able to stand in your way. That means anyone that stays they won’t let you have children, will go down for you. Every agent of the devil arrayed against your fruitfulness in all of your endeavours in life will clear the way for you. That is what happens when we access the tables of the covenant. You know what He says to do and you commit yourself to doing it believing Him to make good His promises in your life. It is done. Psalm 89:34. Everyone’s case here is settled. Church Gist. It is the dawning of a new day for you. I therefore decree that every Winner on the line for miracle children, today is your day of visitation. It is the last day you will stand for the fruit of the womb call. Your next appearance will be a testimony. It is your day.
As we partake of the communion today, everyone should believe God for perfection of all things that concern our fruitfulness in life because we are empowered by Christ from the communion table. Church Gist. John 6:57. May the passion of Christ come alive in everyone for fervency in our Kingdom advancement stewardship so we can make it to the end and in full.
Lift your baby items you brought as point of contact for your miracle children, before the Lord.
– For everyone that believes God for their own delivery today, receive in the name of Jesus.
– As a seed of Abraham, you are not permitted to be barren, therefore I declare you fruitful.
– As one serving God and the interests of His Kingdom in this Commission, be rewarded with miracle children.
– For everyone due for settlement in marriage that will result in fruitfulness, today receive your settlement.
– It is Mother’s Day, so I declare every woman set for marriage, a mother of children. Church Gist.
– Lord whatever name anyone may have named in this service, receive them now.
– A set of twins receive them now. A set of triplets receive them now. A set of twins all boys, receive it. A set of twins all girls, receive it. Set of twins one boy one girl, you will testify.
– Within the next four weeks, everyone called barren will be tested positive for pregnancy.
The water is still being stirred. It is the stirring of opportunities, the stirring of divine opportunities. May no one here miss his portion.
Good news! To the glory of God, over 200 Kingdom Care Centres have been set up across our WSF areas. The Kingdom Care Centres set up for commitment to the Kingdom Care Covenant in addressing the welfare needs of members in the Winners Family. By this Wednesday, we will all be allowed access to the addresses of the various centres where we shall be taking non-perishable food items, clothing and other materials that may be detailed in the forthcoming announcements. Church Gist. We expect the centres to be properly in place and the timely of attending to people will be clearly listed. Jesus is Lord. Not one Winner will suffer shame in this season. May everyone who puts into this enjoy heaven’s order of blessings.
The Easter Youth Alive Camp Meeting 2024 comes up from 28th to 30th March 2024. The theme is Renewal. It shall be a great time of transformation from the Lord for every single one of you. Church Gist. This is holding here in Canaanland and across our various churches globally.
– May the passion of Christ that we all partook of in this service speak loudest this week.
– May every soul and family targeted by each one be delivered into the Kingdom.
– May every soul targeted, be prayed down into the Kingdom.
– May this coming Sunday be another Sunday of bumper harvest.
– As the harvest comes in, your rewards show up.
– For every soul brought to the Kingdom, I decree their establishment in the faith and in this Church.
Lift up your hands and give God thanks.
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