THE SAYINGS OF GOD PRECEDES THE DOINGS OF GOD
WHAT IS PROPHESIED DETERMINES WHAT CAN BE REALIZED
GOD DOES NOT CONFIRM ASSUMPTIONS, HE CONFIRMS DECLARATIONS
GOD IS USING YOU TO START A NEW GENERATION, A NEW ORDER OF GLORY, HONOUR, FAME AND DIGNITY
NIGERIA, IS ON THE VERGE OF AN EXPLODING GLORY
THE ONLY NATURAL DISASTER WE HAVE IN NIGERIA ARE LEADERSHIP DISASTERS
BRACE UP BECAUSE YOU ARE ABOUT TO HEAR SOME THINGS ABOUT YOUR OWN LIFE THAT WILL BE A SURPRISE TO YOURSELF
ANYBODY WHO WOULD NOT LET THIS COUNTRY REST WITH THE POWER OF DARKNESS WILL SEE HUMILIATION AND ELIMINATION
MARK IT! THERE ARE THOSE WHO WILL NOT LIVE TO SEE THE GLORY THAT THE NATION OF NIGSRIA IS ABOUT TO EXPLODE IN
WE ARE IN THE SEASON WHERE PEOPLE WILL CONSIDER IT HONOURABLE TO RELATE WITH YOU AND TO BE ASSOCIATED WITH YOU
YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT IT MEANS TO LIVE UNTIL YOU KNOW WHAT IT MEANS TO GIVE
WE PLEDGED TO EMPOWER 100 PEOPLE WHO OWNS A TRADE WITH AN AVERAGE AMOUNT OF #500,000 EACH IN OTUKPO AND PROMISED TO INCREASE THE NUMBER TO 1000 PEOPLE SOON
EVERY ORPHANAGE IN ABUJA EXCEPT THE ONES WE DON’T KNOW, HAS AN ALLOCATION FROM US EVERY MONTH
IF YOU TRUST GOD FOR RESOURCES FOR HIS KINGDOM, PRAYER FOR YOUR OWN RESOURCES HAS ENDED
EVERY TESTIMONY YOU HEAR IN THIS SEASON IS A REVELATION OF WHAT GOD IS ABOUT TO DO IN YOUR LIFE
DON’T MIX GOD AND THE DEVIL
EVERYTIME GOD GIVES YOU POSSIBILITIES, HE GIVES YOU RESPONSIBILITIES
ANYTIME YOU EMBRACE THE LIFESTYLE OF SIN, YOU’RE BRINGING THE GLORY REALM UNDER ATTACK
THE WAY OF THE GLORY IS THE WAY OF PRAYER
YOU WANT TO SEE THE GLORY, BE COMMITTED TO KINGDOM SERVICE
ANY SERVICE THAT YOU’RE DOING IN CHURCH THAT IS DRIVING PEOPLE AWAY FROM CHURCH IS USELESS, DEMONIC SERVICE
DOING WHAT GOD WANTS YOU TO DO RELEASES THE GLORY
THERE ARE PEOPLE GOD CAN’T MOVE THEM ANYWHERE BECAUSE HE KNOWS WHAT THEY WILL TURN INTO
IF YOU DON’T FORGET WHERE GOD BROUGHT YOU FROM THEN YOU WILL NOT FORFEIT WHERE HE’S TAKING YOU TO
– Dr. Pastor Paul Enenche on “THE GLORY IS RISEN” || 2023 New Year Service || Glory Dome, Abuja
Lift your hands and let’s honour and adore Him. Thank you for the privilege. Father, we give you the praise, the honour and the adoration. Be glorified, be honoured, be adored. Church Gist. Thank you and thank you. Breathe upon this service this morning, let not one person leave here the same way they’ve come. Be glorified Lord, in Jesus’ precious name.
– give the Lord a big hand of praise.
Isaiah 60:1-8. I want to commend everyone who came in for the crossover and you’re still here this morning. Church Gist. The Lord strengthen us and cause His purpose in our lives to be fulfilled in the Precious name of Jesus.
Isaiah 60:1-8. I’m speaking very sharply on the theme of the year ‘The Glory is Risen’ and our objective this morning is to understand the responsibilities in order to function in the realm of risen Glory.
Why are years declared? What’s the aim of prophesying the year? Because when the earth began, God spoke. Before God does something, He says something. Church Gist. The sayings of God precedes the doings of God. Reality is a child of prophecy. What is prophesied determines what can be realized. Prophecy is the mother of reality, reality is the child of prophecy. Church Gist. What is not declared cannot be cleared. In the realm of the spirit, if it must be cleared, it must be declared. He said, “declare thou that thou mayest be justified”. Numbers 14:28. Isaiah 44:26. That is why declarations are necessary. God does not confirm assumptions, He confirms declarations. Church Gist. Having said that, it is made very clear by spiritual revelation in the course of months that the year we are stepping into is the year where glory rises, the Glory is risen. It’s not what we used to know, it shifted level. Beyond that, it is the season where the glory of individuals, the Bible said that there’s one glory of the moon, one glory of the sun and another glory of the stars and one star differeth from another in glory in 1 Corinthians 15:41- everyone of us, we were created to manifest a dimension of glory. Church Gist. The glory of the UK is different from the glory of the US by divine design. The glory Nigeria is meant to manifest to this generation is different from the glory Ghana is meant to manifest. For example, the glory your life is meant to radiate is different from mine. Isaiah 35:2. If there’s a glory of Lebanon, there’s a glory of Nigeria. Church Gist. There’s a glory of your life, if the devil took that glory, what the Lord is saying to us is, this year, that glory shall rise! If the glory was buried, diverted or lost, this year, it shall be returned, it shall rise!
– can you say a louder Amen?
The glory of your family that the devil tried to bury shall rise!
One of the young men that grew up with me, the other day, we were talking on the phone and he said, “you’re one of those people that God has helped to maintain a glory that existed in your line”, there’s a way he put it. Church Gist. He said, ‘you are one of those who ensured that your father’s name, the name we used to hear in those days, is not lost’. I was shocked when he mentioned that and that reminded me of what another younger man was telling me, I had prayed for him and assisted him here and there. He’s now a big man, functioning somewhere in a big position, and he said, ‘you assisted me to ensure that my father’s name is not lost’. His father used to be an important person in those days. He was struggling and suffering. Church Gist. Do you understand what I’m saying? What’s the meaning of that? Abraham’s father had greatness that was meant to happen that was cut short on the road, Abraham stepped in and realized what even his father could not realize. I was talking about the glory of nations, the glory of individuals, families and communities. Am I communicating at all?
– That glory that belongs to your nation, your community, your family and you as a person that the devil tried to bury, I announce today, there’s a restoration of that glory!
Some people say, “I inherited nothing from my lineage other than liabilities”, father, native doctor, water priest, congratulations all the same, God is using you to start a new generation, to start a new order of glory, a new order of honour, fame, dignity. You believe that, shout the loudest Amen.
Without any doubt, our nation, Nigeria, is on the verge of an exploding glory. Church Gist. Nigeria used to be known for everything good, brain, intelligence, everything good. You will never believe that there was a time when the Nigerian naira was stronger than the dollar and the pound. Our elders used to tell us, in those days, when they arrive at United Kingdom, they’re rushing for Nigerian currency. “Did you bring some naira? Can we buy from you?” It was the hard currency of those days. You arrive the UK without visa and the question is, ‘how long do you want to stay?’ They gave you (visa) on arrival. Church Gist. The respect and the dignity was there until disastrous leadership syndrome. The only natural disaster we have are leadership disasters. We don’t have hurricanes, volcano, no earthquake. Other places have such disasters, our own, our disasters are the leaders. Chronic disastrous leadership. Human beings are our volcano, they are our earthquake, they are our hurricane. You can name them. You can call the various leaders that have dealt with us, call them hurricane, anything. I will not mention, I will leave it for you. We are under a current hurricane now that has dealt with fuel price, house rent, dealt with everything. I don’t know of any season where people are committing as more suicide as this season. They brought somebody to my office the other day that drank sniper, wants to die.
– but that glory is being returned! That glory is rising right now! That glory is being recovered right now! If you’re saying Amen, shout the loudest Amen.
What God has shown you about yourself, the glorious realm you’re meant to operate in, the mantle of fire and power, financial mantles and the kind of things God wants you to touch that the devil said you cannot touch, that glory that is allocated for you, we are in the season where that glory is about to arrive.
This is the first Sunday of the year as well as the first day of the year, let demons hear your Amen. Church Gist. Let the Angels hear your Amen.
– Before this year goes very far, you have stepped into what God has in store for your life.
– before this year goes far, your family has stepped into what God has in store for them.
– before this year goes far, Nigeria has stepped into what God has in store for us!
– no altar can stop this, no ancestral curse can stop this, no generational curse can stop this, no witchcraft power can stop this, no occultic power can stop this. You believe that, shout the loudest Amen!
– look at your neighbour, say, “your light has come and your glory is rising. The Glory of the Lord is rising”.
Just to remind you and for the sake of those who may not have been here overnight, we talked about 8 dimensions of the season we are in.
1. A season of revival explosion. An explosion in the terms of spiritual fire and passion. Effortless spirituality. Fasting easily, praying easily, worshipping easily, evangelizing easily. A heart for God like never before. Church Gist. Where people will take a leave from the office for one week, “what do you want to do?” “I just want to wait on the Lord”. “Are you flying to Paris?” “No, I want to use this week for Evangelism. I want to work for God. I want to do something for God. I realized that I don’t have eternity to fulfill destiny, so I must use my life to serve God.
2. Glory Rise, release and Restoration. This is for your life, your family, your community, your nation and the Church, the Body of Christ. Church Gist. The rise in Glory, the release of Glory and the restoration where it was lost. The meaning of this is, we are going to hear miracles that will blow our minds. I want you to brace up because you’re about to hear some things about your own life, testimonies in your own life that will be a surprise to yourself. In your own life, not that you heard it that it happened to somebody else. Church Gist. If it was somebody else, you would have doubted that it’s not possible but now, it was you it happened to, so there’s no way you could have doubted it. “The path of the just is a shining light that shineth more and more unto the perfect day”.
3. Light explosion. Where God will open our eyes to see things out of Scripture and things out of the Spirit realm, mysteries unveiled that will amaze you. “Oh, is this the reason why this problem has been there? Church Gist. Is this the reason why I have not been able to get this kind of result? Is this what I need to do to shift to my next level all this while?” Light explosion. Nothing hidden around your life that is frustrating your destiny that will not be exposed.
– Everything that is the reason why you’re stagnated, frustrated and why life is not the way it should be, in this season, they shall be exposed and unveiled. Church Gist. Anything you need to do for your life to move to where it must move to in this season, it shall be unveiled!
That mystery behind recurrent affliction, you’re sick today, sick tomorrow. You have done what you’re meant to do, yet nothing is happening, it shall be unveiled, it shall be uncovered. Church Gist. The reason why there’s a negative cycle around your life, in this season, the Light shall shine upon it and it shall be exposed and unveiled. He said that there’s nothing hidden that shall not be revealed.
– Whatever is hidden around you that is a torment in your life, your family and your destiny, in this season, they shall be unveiled! They shall be uncovered! They shall be unraveled!
4. Darkness humiliation. I like this one. This is the burial of witches, the death of the occultists. Church Gist. This is the mass burial of terrorists, bandits, ritualists, complete frustration of corrupt people.
– Now, anybody who would not let this country rest with the power of darkness, they will see humiliation and elimination.
There are those who will not live to see the season that we are about to enter, the glory that the nation is about to explode in, there are those who will not live to see it. Mark it. Church Gist. They don’t know that God controls their breath, their heartbeat, their urinary system and the whole of their system. They beat their chests like demigods. There are those who will not see the glory that the nation will explode in, we are just about on the brink of the glory, and then, before you know it, they become history. Church Gist. There are many who will not see the glory we are about to step into.
– I prophesy, by the apostolic and prophetic mantle of God upon my life, every agent of darkness around your life, family and destiny, agent of darkness that will not let us rest, will not let the nation rest, will not let your family rest, will not let yourself rest, I decree in this season, they shall be laid to rest! Say a loud Amen.
– look at your neighbour, say, “every force or darkness around your life shall be thoroughly humiliated”.
As I see now, I saw a vision transiently where there’s an altar in somebody’s father’s house that will be destroyed. They will just wake up and realize that the altar has just been destroyed.
5. Honour, dignity, distinction for the saints/Church. The days where they look down on the Church and say, “poor as Church rat”, those days are over forever. People will consider it honourable to relate with you and to be associated with you. Church Gist. They will see the Glory of your Father in you and give you the honour. “The Glory of the Lord is risen upon you”. They will see a signature of the El-Shaddai. In this December, when the president of the countries sent his son to represent him, he came to my office and we were talking, he said, “I want to thank you so much for the hospitality and the honour you have given to me”. I said, ‘why?’ He said, when the people were receiving him at the airport and they were taking him where he was to stay, he said, ‘are these people aware that he’s not the president? Or maybe there’s a confusion somewhere. Church Gist. I am not the president, I am only his son, he sent me to represent him. Did they make a mistake?” I said, “they made no mistake, you didn’t come in your name, you came in the name of your father and so anything we should do if we are to receive him, we should do to receive you and put you in the best place that we have available”. He said, “wow, thank you sir”. Am I communicating? You don’t represent yourself. He said, His Glory shall be seen upon you. Not just your glory being restored but the mark of your Father, the signature of El-Shaddai, it will give you honour, dignity, royalty. If you believe it, say a louder Amen.
– The meaning of that is, anything that is called shame, every trace of shame, disgrace and reproach, whatever you’re ashamed of around your life right now or concerning your children or your loved ones, your wife, your husband, today, that shame shall be buried!
6. Supernatural supplies explosion like never before. Church Gist. If I want to dwell on this, it may take a whole lot but you don’t have an idea of the level of resources that God has planned for the Church. Isaiah 60:3-6. That is wealth that is arriving in ships, ship-load, truck-load. I just want you to open up your heart. I want you to stop thinking in terms of looking for a car to drive, a house to live in, think in terms of existence as a generational financial institution. Not just for the sake of having money, for the sake of punishing the devil with money, for the sake of invading the nations of the earth with massive resources. Church Gist. The other day, they showed me pictures of home cells in India and I told my wife, I said, “India, I am going there”. Because, before I entered ministry, the vision was strong for India and South eastern Asia, she’s aware of it. Every time I preach, I will say, ‘India is waiting, Southeast Asia is waiting’, that was 30 years ago. I saw house cell in India, oh, India is what I’ve been waiting for, we are going to India. Then we have Pakistan. Church Gist. You know what? We will go there with cargo aircraft carrying food supplies, clothes and things to the poorest or the poor there, another cargo carrying instruments. Another bus in the air, they call it Airbus carrying maybe 300 Church workers, media crew, crusade team, ushers, counselors, protocol, prayer band. Just punishing the devil with massive resources, the way the devil is punishing the world using money to sponsor terrorists and antichrist agenda. Some of the people pushing that men must marry men, women must marry women and all those kinds of terrible things you hear around the world, they are backed by heavy billionaires in dollars. Church Gist. But He said, “I want to give my money because I own the earth, I want to give my money to my Church and I want that money to be used to rescue the lost. I want that money to be used to plant Churches around the world like fire, organize crusades like fire everywhere. Somebody say Amen.
December 18th, we were in Sunday service here after our daughter’s wedding on the 17th and I was meant to be in Owukpa village that same day for crusade. The Crusade team had gone, everybody had gone and then flight situation that didn’t work out. So, we couldn’t travel that day but the people are gathered in the field already, so we transmitted from this altar here, I am preaching from here, the interpreter is interpreting from there and then after I finished praying here, any miracle that could have happened if we were there in person happened. Church Gist. I stood here and gave altar call. Crutches were up, all manner of things, until when I went the next day, it appeared to me as if they were more excited when I wasn’t there. Now, this is where I’m going, that we now realize that I can stand here and hold 5 crusades at once. Church Gist. Our media people said that they have just seen something now, that if I can stand here and minister there and everything happened, then, it means all they need to buy is a set equipment that can connect 5 locations at once. So we have crusade stage and light x5 or x10, so the stages are set everywhere at the same time, you stand at one location and by the time you finish ministering, blind man is healed in Minna, deaf ear opened in Bauchi, Canada, a crippled rose. Church Gist. Then, the devil is being punished everywhere, calamity for hell, everywhere. How many of you are going to get plenty money for the invasion of the kingdom of darkness for the expansion of the Kingdom. you’re going to get plenty money, shout the loudest Amen.
– stand on your feet, lift your hand and say, “in the name of Jesus, I will have money, plenty money! for the sake of the Kingdom, I will have money, plenty money!
This year, we shall not talk about money apologetically. Church Gist. I used to be very careful so that nobody is classified as “okay, these are some of those people looking for people’s money”. Church Gist. Now, anybody can say what they want provided our conscience is clear and the motive is clean and we’re not looking for money to have a car to drive or a dress to wear. I don’t need to look for money for a dress to wear or a house to live in for the rest of my life but I need money to break the head of the devil.
When I stood in Otukpo the other day and I realized, when Jesus preached the gospel, He healed the sick, He gave them physical food also because you can heal somebody’s leg pain but you can’t heal stomach with healing power, it’s a different medication that has to be physical. Church Gist. I saw the hopelessness on the eyes of the people. Somebody told me, “that crusade is their Christmas gift”, that is, it’s the only good thing that happens to them in a year. If the year is coming, that is what they look forward to. I said, “okay, we cannot come here and then after their body is healed, they are still going back to look for what to eat. Church Gist. Anybody who has a trade to do but you don’t have the money to start the trade, go to our Church office tomorrow by 12, let the Pastor interview you. By the time you’re interviewed and you’re able to prove that you have a trade but you don’t have money, we will be ready to empower the first 100 people. Church Gist. Some #250,000, #500,000, whatever be the range, we will be able to empower you and then very soon, we will shift it to 1,000, 2,000, 10,000”. If it is 500,000 averagely and 100 people equals 50 million, do you understand that now? 1000 people equals 500million, 2000 people equals 1 billion that you will give to them to help them and I just mentioned that we are trusting God for 10,000 people. Church Gist. Do you know what is going to happen? It’s going to happen where one of us will say, ‘I want to take 1000 people or 100 people’, not just in that location, but all locations around the world. That is why you must have money. Looking for what to eat, where to sleep, ‘I bought a new dress, I bought a new phone’, that is, useless survival. You don’t know what it means to live until you know what it means to give.
– somebody say a loud Amen.
So now, you begin to see what God is saying, ‘I want to empower the Church and my people with massive resources for Evangelism, Charity and to rescue’. I think there’s an orphanage of the Catholic in Kuje right here that is within our welfare, every orphanage in Abuja except we don’t know them, has an allocation from us every month. Church Gist. These are things you don’t know. Except we are not aware that the orphanage exists, if it exists, there’s one we built a whole building for them (because they were demolishing their former site), it’s another ministry, another Church. When we were distributing relief materials the other day, I saw two Reverend sisters with their garments who came with the orphanage. I was so touched that they were open to receive from us. Church Gist. That is where you can come in and say, “I want to take one of those orphanages every month. I want to take anywhere there’s a relief work and a Charity work going on, I want to be available there every month”. You saw the crowd at the crossover night, we might be needing 100 or 200 buses, brand new buses that will pick people from everywhere, that is part of your own Evangelism. Church Gist. “I want to be involved in the transportation of my brethren to Church so that nobody is unable to come to Church because of no transport”.
“Lord, I don’t need money for myself but I need money for you”. That was what Hannah told God when she prayed for a child until there was no child, she now told God, “now, I am not looking for a child for myself, I know that Your House needs a Prophet, Eli has failed, Eli’s children are not walking in the ways of their father, give me a son so I can give back that son to you. Church Gist. You’re the one in need, not me, You need a Priest”. God said, “is that right? This is how people should be speaking”. He said, “alright, take son” and she said, “alright, take Priest”. After she gave God what God needed, the balance was a walkover, she didn’t need to pray for children anymore, the children came naturally. If you trust God for resources for His Kingdom, prayer for your own resources has ended. Church Gist. Looking for money for yourself ended because He will baptize you with such a massive level of resources such that when the tap is flowing water for people, the pipe cannot be dry to not lack water. If God sees you as a channel through which He can pass His resources, you will never struggle for what to eat.
– somebody say Amen.
– lift your right hand and say, “Father, I am ready for the release of your resources in this endtime!”
7. Submission of Royalties and nobles. Isaiah 60:3.
8. Supernatural Flight. On your marks, get set, fly!
– say after me, “the time has come for my life to finally take off. I have been taxying for a long time, it is time to take off and I am ready to take off!” Isaiah 60:8. Church Gist.
I want you to understand that I’m not just speaking. Like I told them at the crossover night, every testimony you hear in this season is a revelation of what God is about to do in your life.
– I decree right now, you’re taking off!
What are our responsibilities in this season of the risen Glory?
Everytime God gives you possibilities, He gives you responsibilities. Everytime He gives you provisions, He gives you conditions. Church Gist. If He says He wants to give you a gain, it means there’s something to pay. What are our responsibilities?
1. Belong to the Kingdom of Light. I spoke on this extensively last night. Don’t mix God and the devil. There are those who think God is not enough, so they have God-plus, Bible-plus. God alone is more than enough for you. Church Gist. Let there be nothing shady around your life, let there be nothing dubious about your life. My mother used to tell us, “have you seen me with charms? Have you ever seen me consulting familiar spirits? Have you ever seen anybody around whose identity you don’t like? I have not added anything to God, that is who I am introducing you to”. She saw the vision of the Lord in 1957 or 1958 where Jesus said, “if it is the skirt of my garment, just hold it, I am enough for you “, that was what she held. Church Gist. Most times, children don’t follow the faith of their parents because they see their parents do things that are different from what they said.
Belong to the kingdom of Light, it is either God or God, not God or the devil. Somebody say a loud Amen.
– lift your right hand, say, “in the name of Jesus, I belong to the Kingdom of Light and I am not mixing anything with God. I believe in God and I believe in God”.
2. Avoid the unfruitful works of darkness. Ephesians 5:11. Romans 3:23. Anytime you embrace the lifestyle of sin, you’re bringing the Glory realm under attack. Church Gist. Your choice for sin is choice against Glory. Choice to be fraudulent and crooked is choice against Glory. Avoid it.
3. Embrace the Light of the Word. There’s always a connection between Light and the Glory. Isaiah 58:6,8. Church Gist. Light in front of you means Glory behind you. “Oh Lord, open my eyes to see out of the Word of God what I have not seen before”. When you’re in the midst of the service, be alert, let your Spirit be open because one Light can drop, something you never knew before or something you thought you knew that God opens you up for the first time again, and that breaks you forth into the Glory realm. Church Gist. I began to see some glorious dimensions in healing ministry in terms of the quantity and quality of healings happening by Light from Scripture.
4. Embrace the lifestyle of Passionate praying. Luke 9:29. Coming Monday, we are starting corporate praying and fasting and beyond that, your personal prayer life and fasting. Church Gist. I enjoy the prayer season in the night so much. The other day, I said to my wife, “this season of prayer in the night is not something that is negotiable, it’s possible to work it out with the early morning prayer as well”. I just finished praying for hours and I just laid down and 4-5 revelations at once, just like water. Luke 9:29. The way of the Glory is the way of prayer. Praying in the Spirit, praying abundantly, praying extensively, praying without ceasing. Church Gist. The January prayer and fasting is to kickstart you for the year so that no matter what, your prayer life is not permitted to drop and before it drops, we come again with July fasting. Hallelujah!
5. Exist as a Kingdom servant. You want to see the Glory, be committed to Kingdom service. In the wedding in Cana of Galilee, the water turned into wine and that miracle happened because servants were there who served. John 2:5. Church Gist. Commitment to Kingdom service. Service in the Church. If you ask me to tell you what God considers the most critical service, it’s the service of souls. Church Gist. The rescue of the lost is the heartbeat of God. The reason we’re doing ushering, choiring and everything we do is to make the place comfortable enough for souls to come and be saved. So, any service that you’re doing in Church that is driving people away from Church is useless, demonic service. Church Gist. A lot of us should serve with this in mind, our assignment is to make room for the lost to come and be saved. It’s to make the place welcome enough, comfortable enough, exciting enough, interesting and anointed enough for them to come and be saved. Church Gist. So, you will bear that in mind in your departmental service, at the same time, going out on assignment to bring in the lost. Heads of departments and departmental leaders, ask yourselves, ‘in what way is this department contributing to the growth of the Kingdom in this Church?’ There are departments that have never grown, the same people are together with themselves and the meaning of that is that as they’re not growing, their input in the Church is not contributing nothing. Church Gist. Of course, hitting the road by yourself, rescuing people and bringing them in this year of revival is part of your assignment.
6. Commitment. Be committed to divine instruction. “God, what do you want me to do?” Doing what God wants you to do releases the Glory. John 2:5. Divine instruction will come from the mouth of your pastor, from the altar, Divine instruction will come as you read the Bible by yourself, Divine instruction will come in revelations. Church Gist. There are people who sit in Church and when the Pastor is speaking, ‘its not for me, maybe it’s for somebody else’. Come to the point where you sit in Church and act as if you’re the only person they’re talking to. Commitment to Divine instruction. “Lord, am I disobeying you in anything?” Go on Evangelism, no way. Win souls, “it’s not for me, I have more problems than that”. There are those who have never carried an instruction, nothing that was said that they did. Church Gist. Not through the Pastor, not to them directly. Commitment to Divine instruction.
This is day one of the year so it is important to be loaded sufficiently for the journey ahead.
7. Be committed to giving Him the Glory. Another way I would have said it is, Be dead to self. Church Gist. You’re not struggling to be praised. You’re not giving to pride, arrogance. You don’t see any result in your life as a result you deserve. God wants to raise billionaires out of this place so that when people see you and they say you have 10naira, they won’t believe, because you don’t look it. You’re not braggadocious. You wear such a garment of weakness. I know one such man when he came close to me at first and I gave him some Prophetic Word that God was going to enlarge him, he was doing business in one state of the country, then the second state. Church Gist. I said, God will spread him even beyond Nigeria. He has businesses in 34 states now and other countries of the world. As at now, he said he can buy property the way you buy ‘tom-tom’. That is, if it could be hard for you to buy ‘sweet’, then it could be hard for him to buy anything. If you see him and they say he has 5naira, you will not believe it. He’s standing still in the Church as an usher, directing people. If God is not afraid for His Glory, He won’t be afraid to release it. There are people who turn into god, they become demigods because God helped them. What finished Lucifer and Nebuchadnezzar was pride. What killed Herod was pride. Calm down, guy too much. Church Gist. I’m not talking about looking good and Sharp and decent, I’m talking about moving with a shoulder like a peacock and looking down and talking down on everybody and giving yourself an exaggerated estimation of yourself, you have exaggerated your importance. Church Gist. When you can let God know, “anywhere you take me to, don’t be afraid, everybody who cares to know will know that you’re the one who took me there”. I won’t point to my own qualification, my wisdom or beauty or even to my prayer life, I won’t say it was my fasting who did it, I will say, Lord, you did it”. There are people God can’t move them anywhere because He knows what they’ll turn into and there are those God has moved them to a point but He says, “leave them there”. You know that adversity hardly reveals character. Church Gist. You don’t really know who a person is when he doesn’t have money or has a challenge. Adversity most times imparts humility, wait until money comes small, wait until position comes, wait until influence starts coming, that’s when you’ll know the real person. “Ah, I thought you were humble?” “Humble like how?” “Are we not friends?” “Mind yourself, I have to choose who my friend is”. There are many people that we can predict how they’ll behave now but we can’t predict how they’ll behave later. Church Gist. There are people, the only thing you need to do them is to appreciate them small, it enters the head. Anything you are that people appreciate you, “oh, you’re so fine, you’re so this and that”, go before God and return all of it as frequently as possible. Under Pastors in ministry, there are many times members push people into visions that are not from God. “Oh, you’re powerful, you know how to preach, we can assist you, is it not money to rent a hall?” Before you know it, it’s like a bird that is out of its nest. Church Gist.
If you don’t forget where God brought you from then you will not forfeit where He’s taking you to. Many people don’t remember. Some of our people traveled to the UK this weekend, they have never traveled before, got them visa, applied for them and they got visa just once and traveled and our people were there to receive them at the airport and all of that. Church Gist. They said, “they treated us so well” I said to them, “I’m sure you know the reason for the treatment, don’t ever forget it”. One said nobody from his lineage has ever branched near oyibo land. Everytime you see anything good in your life, just realize there’s one who did it because out of man, only bad can come out, that’s the normal flesh of human beings. Just that palpable, touchable, feelable death to self, humility, Glory to God, unassuming life and existence. Church Gist. Once you can present that before God and God can give you one billion and He won’t lose you to hell because of pride. God will not give you big position, maybe over a country and then you become too big for the God who placed you there. If God can be sure of that, I assure you there will be no limit. They said the sky’s the limit, sky can never be the limit, sky can be the starting point but the limit, nobody can see it.
– you’re going places!
– lift up your two hands and give him the praise and the worship.
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