YOUR PRAYER IS VERY HOT THIS JANUARY BUT BY FEBRUARY YOU ARE ON SELF GRANTED VACATION FROM THE ALTAR OF PRAYER, IT NEVER WORKS THAT WAY.
YOUR LEVEL OF COMMITMENT TO CHRIST IS WHAT DETERMINES YOUR ULTIMATE ACCOMPLISHMENT IN LIFE
ANYHOW PRAYER HAS NO FUTURE, ANYHOW PRAYER DOES NOT PROVIDE ANSWERS.
WHATEVER STEP YOU WILL TAKE THAT WILL MAKE YOU LOSE GOD’S BACKING, YOU WON’T BE CAUGHT IN IT.
- Bishop David Oyedepo
Day 8 Evening Session,
21 Days of Prayer and Fasting (10th to 30th January 2022)
Lord show me what I must do for my change of level, and He shows you. Call upon Him and He will show you the things you don’t know that are blocking the way forward. Jeremiah 33:3. You recover what anyone may have lost because we plead on the basis of heaven’s constitution: the Bible to secure God’s hearing. If you pray according to His will, He hears us. You know that your pride and arrogance is causing tension in your home – “Lord clothe me with the spirit of meekness, I am suffering myself not hearing” that’s the wife praying. The husband “Lord help me, this is not love. Harassing my wife every day and night. I should outgrow this. Let your love break forth in my heart by the Holy Ghost”. Then he is praying right. “Oh God come and settle my home” “ I won’t settle your home, you do what settles homes.
Why must we continue to pray? Church Growth is warfare. The prince of this world has held mankind bound, it takes those with the greater one in them to come against him and rescue them. Luke 11:22-23. The greater ones are the believers. The gates of hell are all out to stop the Church from growing, we are all out to disarm him and release the Church from his hand. Prayer and fasting are vital weapons in our battle against the gates of hell. Before she travail, she brought forth? Never happens, who has heard such a thing. For as soon as Zion travailed in prayer with a thirsty heart and a longing flesh which equals fasting, power breaks forth and demonic strongholds are scattered. Isaiah 66:7&8 Psalm 63:1-3. Mathew 17:21. Church Gist. There are some of those installations that will never move except you engage the combined forces of faith, fasting and prayer. It is the combined forces of faith, fasting and prayer that checks out every devil blocking the Church from growing. It is a lifelong task not a 21 days fast alone. It is by putting up our fight of faith on the prayer altar that we win the war. God’s prophetic agenda is an ever multitude flocking Church. That requires that we engage in putting up a fight against all resisting forces of hell. We must pray continuously for the retention of our new converts. He is looking for how to drag them back. We pray them off his hands. “no devil must take this ones, it is your will to keep them to the uttermost until they make heaven”.
We circulated some publications last Sunday on the forces behind the continuous growth of the Church. We prayed for the compelling sound of the Holy Ghost to blow across our harvest field, rushing many into the Church. We were in one hotel in U.K. and the fire alarm just went on. My wife said “what is happening?” I said they don’t ask, you just move. In a moment everyone was outside the hotel. Whether you are willing or not, it is a compelling sound. That is how the sound of the Holy Ghost gathers peoples into Church. Church Gist. When it comes in your ears you pick race. The first rescue when fire breaks out, the fire alarm. When fire broke out in one hospital in India, all the people you thought were sick the speed with which they took off. That’s the kind of sound we are invoking across our harvest field. You just be running, where are you going? They don’t ask if you want to join me, let’s go.
Then we have the blessed service of the reaper angels. They don’t come except on demand. They are in our service and this end time they are the principal reapers. They just appear to you “sit down, tomorrow go to that loading bail that is where your salvation is”. Church Gist. An angel appeared to Cornelius and the following day, he sent soldiers to look for Peter by Heaven’s G.P.S. The whole family and their neighbours and friends got saved and baptized in the Holy Ghost. Anyhow prayer has no future, anyhow prayer does not provide answers.
Everything we do requires understanding for maximum delivery. Unto what are we serving this table tonight? Unto a new realm of willful, delightsome, tireless obedience after the order of Christ. Isaiah 1:18. If you are not willing, obedience does not count. If you are doing it because you have to do it, it doesn’t count. No one took it from me, Jesus said I laid it down willing. Church Gist. Hebrews 10:7, Philippians 2:9. When faith is tired it passes over the baton to patience, when patience is weary it passes it over love, love is never weary. Grace after the order or Christ for willful obedience, delightsome obedience, smiling obedience. Philippians 2:9-11. That requires tireless obedience. Your prayer is very hot, this is January. By February you are on self granted vacation. It never works that way.
A young man at FUTA came to my office at Covenant University Chapel Office and said you will never remember what you told me 1972, that “your level of commitment to Christ is what determines your ultimate accomplishment in life” I didn’t speak that word, the Holy Ghost spoke it through me. I held on to that world and among his peers he was one of the earliest Professors. Church Gist. It is this tireless commitment that keeps changing people’s level. He takes you and I from where we are as long as we keep being willing in our obedience, He keeps changing our level. The harvest will perish without joy so ensure that you are rejoicing in the Lord always.
The rich fool made a request that returned void. Luke 16:27-29. He said “Father Abraham, I have five more brothers down on earth. I don’t want them to come to this place of torment. Please send someone to go down and warn them that this thing is real”. Abraham answered from heaven “you don’t know what you are asking, they have Moses and the prophets. Church Gist. If they will not hear them, neither will they hear someone sent from heaven”. I am privileged to be one of his messengers down here on earth. What He wants to say to you, is what I am saying to you now. If you want, take it, if you don’t want, react, protest. They have been Protestant Churches and they have not removed God from being the I AM that I AM.
- You have just stepped into that realm of more than a conqueror in this fasting and prayer. Where every commandment of the Lord will suit you.
The distasteful realm of that is sacrificial obedience. It was on the altar of sacrifice that Abraham secured his own blessing. They are still speaking today. Sacrificial obedience will go the extra mile for Jesus. He has set for example that we will walk in His steps. The Bible says “Christ has suffered, sacrificed his life to set an example for us that we should walk in his steps”.
- No one will drop out of this race.
No soldier has a future in the military without responding to the last command. “I don’t feel like it, I just want to rest. ” Okay! Go and rest, you don try. We are soldiers of Christ, we are called to endure hardness as good soldiers of Christ. Get a soul established a month. I heard that two years ago those who did it didn’t get anything out of it. How do you know? The peace, the joy, the covering over their children that they got out of it, can you buy that with money. Stop looking at someone else, face where you are going. I vowed never to make anybody’s thing my thing. I was 20 when I found it. I wasn’t in a service.
Enjoy God, enjoy His instructions, enjoy your findings. Respond to His corrections and rebukes willingly, unreservedly and tirelessly.
Lord I desire your kind of obedience that gave me your kind of obedience. Lord through this communion, endue me with your kind of obedience. Not making a choice from your instructions but going full blast into them. Lift up your two hands and pray. It’s not the communion that changes your life, it is your faith in what you are doing.
You can’t be obedient and not command dominion. If this Church refused to move here we will be where we are for life. We may become a nuisance, we might be attending court everyday for disturbing the peace of the environment. God never moves backwards, it is always forward. There was a recent data found from the U.S. They carried out a survey and they found out that middle class people give 6.7 per cent of their income for the gospel while the upper class give less than 1 per cent. Whatever step you will take that will make you lose God’s backing, you won’t be caught in.
Grace for willful obedience, unreserved and tireless obedience is everyone’s portion tonight.
Your obedience is what will make you a high flier. It is instruction that makes you a successful pilot. There is no expressing of view there, this is one button to press. If you don’t press it, you are down. Your view? Do you know the engineering behind the equipment? God is the principal engineer of your life, He knows what can keep it high and what will drop it. No one here will drop. Let no day pass this year without you praying some items of Kingdom Advancement prayer. Let no month pass this year without you talking somebody into the kingdom, having prayed for him or her to be established. We are in need because we don’t know what we need.
- No one will say No to Jesus anymore.
- Every affliction is cursed, every disease is cursed.
- Your health and wholeness is secured.
- You walk in the will of God forever in Jesus name.
The sound of victory is always a loud shout. You don’t win a battle with mute mouth.
- Nothing of evil overcomes you this year
- There shall be no evil report as you protect and secure your walk with God.
- Your confidence will pay off every step this year and it will become your lifestyle for life.
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