GOD KNOWS WE ARE AFTER THE RESCUE OF MEN, NOT THE CHURCH GROWTH CRAVE LIKE SOME FELLOWS MAY THINK.
ONLY THE FIRST PLACE IN OUR AFFAIRS IS ACCEPTABLE TO GOD, GOD IS TOO BIG FOR A SECOND PLACE
APOSTASY SETS IN WHEN GOD’S PEOPLE STOP BEING RESPONSIBLE TO SCRIPTURAL INSTRUCTIONS.
- Bishop David Oyedepo on OPERATING IN THE REALM OF FINANCIAL FORTUNE at Midweek Communion Service || Canaanland
Church Marketing is key to sustainable church growth. I will give you a few of these tips before we go into the word. So we are not doing something to prove that we are smart or anything, we are just obeying scriptural instructions. No church ever grows without a people on the go. Luke 14:17-23. There is a going to fill the house, no shortcut. These folks are poor, maimed, and lame, they have to be carried. The gospel belongs to them. So we are not displaying wealth by bringing people, we are on a mission of preservation. If you don’t get these things right, you will just be playing religion around these things. I took it as business, many years before Jesus called me into ministry. The sales of any product will stop where its marketing stops. Apostasy sets in when God’s people stop being responsible to scriptural instructions. Stagnant water stinks so you need to keep bringing in freshwater. The quality of a product notwithstanding, where the marketing stops the sales also stops. Church Gist. Someone must be there to tell another, come and see. We have a marketing ministry in reconciling the world back to God. No one will fail in his marketing ministry in the name of Jesus. Has Jesus done anything valuable in your life? Market it to others. Have you heard of His doing in your Church? Market it to others, behind all this that Jesus is in the midst of his people doing His strange works, come and experience a change of story. This marketing must have to continue as long as we want to see the Church grow.
I don’t know when Coca-Cola started its marketing but I grew to know Coca-Cola billboards and they are still doing billboards now. If you say you are not drinking Coca-Cola, they say okay Diet Coca-Cola. You say you don’t want diet coke, okay Water Coca-Cola. They are always marketing. When you get to any country in the world, Coca-Cola must welcome you right in the airport “Coca-Cola”. Same taste. If they stop Pepsi will overrun them. Miranda stops, it stops selling. Sprite stops then it stops selling. We must continue this marketing drive until there is no unsaved person in our environment. Church Gist. Prayer must continue because we use that prayer to release them from the hold of their captors and then we step out to harvest them in, so they don’t get recaptured. Matthew 12:43-45. We want to rescue them from being recaptured by bringing them into God’s storehouse. Correct temperature, correct pressure and escape from the birds of the air. Don’t be tired, this marketing will continue all the days of your life. “Thy kingdom come” prayer will continue as long as you and I have breath.
- You will wear your crown
- Your crown another man will not take.
Acts 26:22
Who was speaking? Paul the aged. (Philemon 1:9). Grace to do it till the end (2 Timothy 4:7-8). Revelation 3:11.
Remember our Prophetic Focus for the month is FINANCIAL DOMINION IS MY HERITAGE IN CHRIST. It is not my ambition, it is not my aspiration. It is my heritage in Christ. Isaiah 51:1-3. We have been redeemed to walk in the blessing of Abraham. John 8:39. Do the works of Abraham, it is not singing the songs of Abraham. Church Gist. Even Isaac, his firstborn and the child of promise, had to do what Abraham did to walk into the blessing of Abraham. Genesis 25:5. Isaac laboured to step into that realm where the strongest nation in the world envied him.
We are looking at Operating in the Realm of Financial Fortune in our Midweek services. be reminded that we belong to a wealthy place in Christ. Revelation 5:12. Psalm 62:12. Jesus brought us out of servitude and slavery into a wealthy place by redemption. Just as he paid the price for our salvation but we have to repent and accept him as our Lord and Saviour to be saved. In the same way, we must know what we need to do to access our heritage of riches in Christ and that is not far fetched. 2 Corinthians 9:6-8. There is what to do to enter into that realm of financial fortune and the anchor law is the giving law. Giving law is the law that launches believers into the realms of financial fortune. Genesis 8:22. The law of giving and receiving shall not cease. Church Gist. May the farmers of this world not go on break, it will be worse than Coro-90. If all farmers go on break, all the grammar you are speaking will be turned into real raw dialect. Nothing can be more disruptive than lack of food. The system needs that to keep alive. What if the farmers stop sowing? As long as you are alive you must embrace the validity of giving, your giving cannot be for a season or famine will set in. Philippians 4:15-19. Giving is not our doctrine as a Church, it is the word of God come alive. It is the old path still impacting life. No one shall be left behind.
This responds to giving God the first place. Only the first place in our affairs is acceptable to God, God is too big for a second place. Proverbs 3:9-10. It is first place saints that make the most of their heritage of financial fortune. Malachi 1:6. Honourable deed according to the level of His blessings in our life. Our seed is acceptable if it is given to the level of our blessings that we have received from God. Church Gist. Somebody’s #1 rings a bell in heaven whereas somebody’s #10 does not make any meaning because it is his leftover. Somebody’s #10 causes a roar in heaven and somebody’s #10,000 does nothing because He has lifted him more than that. We need to know these things. Not everything goes for God. We are permitted to start from where we are. Just obey God and leave the remaining to Him.
We were going to have our Bible School opened up on September 1 1986 and my wife out of concern said where will these students resume? The announcement is going on, and registration is going on but where will they resume? I said well God knows where they will resume. He is the one who commanded us to start. Church Gist. Immediately He opened my eyes and I saw a building, we didn’t have to pay a dime. He said that is where the Bible school will be. You don’t know God until you obey Him. You never know this until you obey God, obeying God just makes you a wonder. In the name of Jesus, obedience of faith will become your delight from today on. Somebody’s story is changing.
Matthew 6:33, Malachi 3:10
Awesome God! Every giving towards kingdom advancement endeavours endears believers to God for favour. 1 Chronicles 29:3, 28:4. No profile, no qualification but he became king over Israel. So He enthrones those that are committed to kingdom advancement endeavours. He does that all the time. Haggai 1:5-13. Somebody can just buy a bus today for his zone and he rides a plane tomorrow. There was a seed, He prompted me to give and the same day He said “my son David even if you don’t want to be rich, it is too late”. The same day, not the following day. Blessed be the day that I heard “this is the place”. Blessed be the day that I heard “as you pastor this one church, the world will become your parish”. What a word to a village man. Church Gist. “For I have appointed you to serve your generation”, so it is generational but it has to come from obedience of faith. I have walked with this God for a bit and I know how He responds to us as individuals and His response I can pick out on the outside. God does not look like man looks, God looks into the heart. Somebody might be saying right now “Enough! You just pray for us and we will be blessed”. If you don’t line up the blessing won’t last. I knew I could never be poor in 1982 when my description, one of them should be poverty. I had no bank account but by the word that came to me that I believed and received, I knew my case was different. I knew that forever.
DEMANDS FOR GUARANTEED RETURNS ON OUR SEEDS SOWN:
We must understand that God’s storehouse is the place where we access our spiritual supplies. Malachi 3:10. Psalm 132:13-16, 65:4-5. Every house or God has God’s established blessings so when those blessings when those supplies are made to you, it becomes your storehouse where your tithe goes in. Malachi 3:8. Now, these fellows were doing it mournfully and there was no return. Malachi 3:12-15.
To serve God without joyfulness and gladness is a waste of time. God is not looking for who to help Him, He is looking for who to help. Our tithe does not bless God but us. God does not need anything, He is full. Tithing does not bless the Church, tithing blesses the tither. Hear what God says, He said “put on this line Youth Chapel, Children Church and Office Complex” where is the money? “Go ahead and do what I said. When they ask me how much it costs, I don’t know. Church Gist. I told them “Put something here for 2000 people, put a Children’s Church so they won’t be struggling with Faith Academy and then transfer the number of officers from the old building and put it here. Church Gist. How much will it cost? I don’t know. Will you call some people? Never! Under open heaven, you don’t call some people, things answer to you supernaturally. You need to enter that realm, all this realm of dying with a calculator won’t help you. All this realm of planning for flat tires. It won’t help. May each one here succeed in coming under that blessing.
Giving to the poor places you far more than the poor. If we know that we will jump at blessing the needy around us. Psalm 41:1-3. He blesses you and me more than He blesses the poor. So it is your opportunity, it is not your burden. These are all keys to walking in the realm of financial fortune. Proverbs 28:27.
We must sow our seed with faith, I am not helping God, God is looking for how to help me. God is not in need, if He were in need, I am not qualified to be consulted. I just thank you Jesus for the opportunity and the open heaven order of blessings that you have reserved for me. Church Gist. I have always been very sure that my seed is not wasted. I have always been very sure and without a doubt. Today marks the end of all forms of financial apprehension in your life.
It takes a poor farmer to be wondering whether his field will yield harvest when he has done the needful. He has cleared the field, applied fertilizer and nurtured the plant, it must produce but he must do the needful. You don’t carry your seed and throw it in the forest, it will waste away. Clear the environment of your heart and your mind. Church Gist. Stop misjudging God, stop misjudging ministers of the gospel. There is nothing genuine that does not have a fake. Fake dollar, fake pound sterling, fake European pound, fake naira. The poorest currency in the world has fake, somebody wants it without doing anything. Romans 1:16.
Lift your hands and give God thanks.
Many are walking in that realm in this Church and in several other Churches around the world, you can connect. When giving becomes a lifestyle, the future is secure. When giving becomes a lifestyle, the future is secure. Next Sunday is our Covenant Day of Settlement, you are not permitted to suffer beyond a while. 2 Corinthians 4:17. Anything outside a while or a moment is illegal in the life of any child of God. Every unwanted situation of a long continuance is defined as a curse. Jesus came to redeem us from the curse of the law by being made a curse for us. Church Gist. Therefore expect every unsettled area of your life to be settled this Sunday. That my son had been in Church since 1998, but the heavens opened in 2015. After 17 years. You might have been here for long but this coming Sunday, the God of this Commission that has settled us for 41 years will settle you. Don’t listen like before, don’t come just to write notes for the sake of philosophy, come to partake and He will settle you.
- Your career will be settled
- Your children will be settled
- Your marital destiny will be settled
- Your health will be settled.
Whatever represents unsettlement in anyone’s life, this coming Sunday will be settled.
Why must we be personal in our walk with God?
John 14:21.
He manifests Himself to us as individuals, not as groups. Every time the miracle water is stirred, whoever dived in first is made whole of whatever disease (John 5:1-4). Endeavour to be personal in your walk with God. It is the highway to high profiting in your adventure on earth. Face your own, what somebody else is doing and what he is not doing is not your business. For we shall give an account of ourselves to God one by one (Romans 14:12). Remember our covenant lines: God does not bless groups, He blesses individuals. “Blessed is the man” not the group (Psalm 112). God blesses us as individuals. God does not promote groups, He promotes individuals. Church Gist. Everyone’s promotion must be experiential. Psalm 75:5-7. God does not honour groups, He honours individuals (John 12:26). Please be personal in your walk with God, it is your highway to high profiting. Only those who walk with God on a personal note, make the most of their adventure. Don’t be lost in the crowd. They are some who were great leaders on campuses, their faith has fizzled away. Many are now in cult groups. Some are burning and burning till Jesus comes and are making waves in their area of calling.
We must endeavour to be personal with God. I made a covenant personally with God at 22. I am still walking in it now, nobody preached it to me. I entered a covenant of wealth in 1982, nobody preached it to me. Be personal, don’t be lost in the crowd. We have individual crowns, not good crowns. Therefore hold that fast which you have else another man takes your crown. Church Gist. God knows we are after the rescue of men, not the Church growth crave like some fellows may think. We haven’t grown any Church, He is growing His Church as we walk in obedience and He is confirming His word.
- Every mocker of yours will see your crown this time.
- Your star will shine where they think your life will never make any meaning.
- The remaining days of this operation will mark you out for distinction.
Prayers: Receive grace to continue this battle to the gate. I receive your grace to sustain my place in this great move.
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