THE PREACHING OF THE GOSPEL IS NOT COMPLETE UNTIL THERE IS A DEMONSTRATION OF THE POWER AND THE GRACE OF GOD.
THE MIRACLE SERVICE IS REALLY NO MIRACLE SERVICE EXCEPT AND UNLESS, IT IS ABLE TO CONNECT PEOPLE TO JESUS CHRIST, THE SON OF THE LIVING GOD.
YOUR GOSPEL IS NOT COMPLETE IF ALL YOU DO IS TO CELEBRATE MIRACLES. THE MIRACLES ARE SIGNS BUT THERE IS SOMETHING GREATER.
IT IS GOOD TO CELEBRATE MIRACLES, SIGNS, WONDERS AND THE MANIFESTATIONS OF THE HAND OF GOD, BUT AT THE CENTER OF THEM ALL IS JESUS CHRIST.
YOU ARE NOT YIELDED WHEN YOUR PRESENCE REMINDS PEOPLE OF YOU. YOUR PRESENCE MUST REMIND PEOPLE OF JESUS.
SATAN IS NOT INTERESTED IN A RELATIONSHIP; HE IS INTERESTED IN OPPRESSING PEOPLE. HE DOES NOT LEAD PEOPLE THROUGH RELATIONSHIPS; HE LEADS PEOPLE THROUGH FEAR.
WHEN YOU COME TO JESUS, MORE THAN JUST GIVING YOU THINGS; HE WANTS TO BUILD A RELATIONSHIP WITH YOU.
- Apostle Joshua Selman at Koinonia,
January 2022 Miracle Service.
Father, we worship You; we bless Your name, King of kings and Lord of lords.
PRAYER:
I have come tonight oh God for an encounter. This is a Miracle Service; I have come to Jesus who is enthroned over every pain, sickness and infirmity.
Father, tonight we pray that You will work wonders in the midst of Your people. We have come to experience Your power and to experience Your grace. We cry oh God and in the name of Jesus, that everything that is not associated with the name of Christ, it must bow to the Lordship of Jesus tonight. Church Gist. Let burdens be lifted tonight; let gates and doors be opened tonight, let age long captivities give way finally. For someone here, your life is about to be an explanation that Jesus is still alive. That after tonight, you will not need to talk much; something about your life will testify that Jesus is alive!
Hallelujah!
Last week I taught that results are also evangelists. There is a kind of Gospel that only results can preach. For some of you, you have been talking and giving explanations too long; it’s time to be still and let the mighty results that come through your life do the speaking!
- Your results will tell men; there is a God in Heaven!
- Your results will tell men; He still loves you!
- Your results will tell men; He is still a Restorer and a Deliverer in the name of Jesus Christ!
I welcome every one of us to Miracle Service for January, the first for this year, 2022. What should you expect in a Miracle Service like this?
The manifestation of the power of God; to heal, to deliver, to bless. The preaching of the Gospel is not complete until there is a demonstration of the power and the grace of God. Church Gist. It is important for men and women to know that Jesus is alive; not just by the speakings of the saints but the performance that only the Mighty hand of God can bring.
- Let me prophesy again that tonight, there must be a performance in your life!
It was Charles and Frances Hunter of blessed memory who said; “one genuine miracle will be worth a thousand sermons.” I believe in miracles; I believe in the power of God, I believe in the God that heals and delivers; I believe in the God that restores. I believe in the God that can change the stories of men. It would be dangerous if there is no possibility for our stories to be changed. That means, your yesterday will still be your tomorrow but there is a God who create a divide between yesterday and today and tomorrow like the Red sea parting. Listen, I want you to know that the power of God is in this place and you must lend your destiny your attention because as surely as the Lord lives; whatever came with you here that was not sent by God, we know what God sent to go with you and if there is anything that followed you to this place; as surely as the Lord lives; you are only seeing it for the last time!
- This Egyptian that you see today, you shall see them no more forever. This embarrassment, shame, reproach, poverty, hardship; you shall see it no more forever in the name of Jesus Christ!
You are in the presence of the King of kings, the Lord of lords; the all-powerful God. As soon as I came down from the vehicle; one of the graces God has given me is the ability to not only have anointing but to discern graces and know what it is; what kind of workings of the Spirit will be found in a place by the kind of grace that flows and when I began to sense that anointing, I knew for sure that, there will be such a grace; there is a grace that makes for performance. Performance means what you have heard, you will see. It is grace for performance that converts that which is spoken to that which is seen.
- In the name of Jesus Christ, give God a chance to surprise you tonight!
- In the name of Jesus who is the Son of the living God, I pray for all our foreign delegates and all those who have come from every part of this Nation and then, those who have come from around the world; in the name that is above all names, I prophesy over your life; right now, the challenge you came here with, by the God of Heaven, the Maker of the Heavens and the earth, let it bow to the Lordship of Christ now!
- Delay, retrogression, financial embarrassment, spiritual bankruptcy; we declare judgement over you now in the name of Jesus the Son of the living God!
- Every nation here represented, I speak to you now; rise to a new dimension of fire and grace in the name of Jesus Christ!
- We speak to your nations; by the power that raised Christ from the dead, let there be angelic visitations over your territories!
- The grace tonight is the kingmakers anointing; the grace that is enthroning men. Anywhere you should be seated now; anyone sitting there or any power stopping you from sitting; by this anointing, in the name of Jesus, be seated in your rightful place in the name of Jesus!
- Every power that is stopping those who should rise; champions in the spirit, yet bound by witchcraft; lose them and let them go!
- Everyone here trusting God for the fruit of the womb, according to the time of life, return with your testimonies, in the name of Jesus Christ!
The Church of the Lord Jesus Christ is like a hospital. Don’t be ashamed and afraid when you are before the presence of God because He can surprise you. When Jesus comes, He does not come to sympathize with your problem; He comes to change it completely. Church Gist. It is a dangerous thing to be a victim of the spirit of poverty. It is poverty that leads to servitude; it is poverty that creates the distraction that interrupts people from giving God their all; waking up in the morning, sleeping late in the night, all to eat the bread of sorrow. He brought you here to end this once and for all.
- Father, every family that is under the yoke and the siege or covenant of fathers that leads to hardship; I stand by the anointing of the Holy Spirit and I decree and declare, that covenant is broken now, that curse is lifted now!
- Wicked spirit that will not allow individuals rise, that will not allow your glory to be seen, putting you in a position of perpetual embarrassment; in the name of Jesus, by the power that raised Christ from the dead, be delivered now!
- Many years ago, I was praying in my room then and while praying, the Lord opened my eyes and suddenly my ceiling shifted and it was no longer the building and then, I’m seeing these creatures looking at me, giant eyes. One of the eyes was like a human head – two of them and then it looks like a dinosaur and then, the tail had its own life. Church Gist. That means you could detach the tail and it will still be alive and I saw it with red eyes looking at me and said, “so you want to bring God’s people into blessings” and I saw that that is the spirit that is responsible for the poverty of territories; sitting over the glory of men. From the day I saw that thing, I knew that there is a dimension of poverty that comes with laziness; there is a dimension of poverty that comes with lack of value and productivity. But hear me, there’s a dimension of poverty that is spiritual.
- Everyone trapped under the yoke of that spirit, in the Name that is above all names, I command that influence to leave now!
One of the strategies of satan to distract your commitment towards spiritual things is to use economy distraction. The moment you are distracted economically, you will not have the time to focus on the things of God.
One of the blessings of miracles, signs and wonders and supernatural manifestations of the hand of God; is that it can cause men to know for sure that there is a God in Heaven that rules over the affairs of men. When the miraculous is absent, most times that God-consciousness is lost over the lives of the people but when they see the mighty manifestation of the hand of God, it can reveal to them the might and the power of God and the states of their hearts. Church Gist. It was by the miracle that happened to Peter; he was fishing and did not catch anything and Jesus said, “little children, have you any catch? Cast your net to the right side.” When he caught so much fishes, he looked at Jesus and said, “Depart from me, I am a sinner.” Something about that miracle revealed to him the state of his heart.
When the miraculous happens without Jesus being at the center of it; people enjoy the miracles, they receive the manifestations of the power of God but most times, their attention will just end on the men who was used by God to perform the miracle and they forget about Jesus and they never leave with a functional relationship with Jesus Christ. I’ve shared with you my passion and this is our passion in this Ministry; that in everything and through everything that is done, the entire goal is to cause men to believe in that name; the name of Jesus, the One exalted as Lord and Christ. If we lose that, then no matter what happens, it will be very small as far as impact is concerned from the standpoint of Heaven.
God’s measure of impact is the degree to which that activity reveals Jesus, not just to the degree which the activity blesses men. Blessing men is secondary. The degree to which whatever activity reveals Jesus and glorifies Him; it’s how impactful that activity was as far as the realm of the spirit is concerned and then, the degree to which it transforms and bless people. So, the Miracle Service is really no Miracle Service except and unless, it is able to connect people to Jesus Christ, the Son of the living God.
Mark 3:13-15
Desiring the miraculous and the manifestation of the power of God in isolation to that desire to know Jesus will lead men to catastrophe. You will receive the miracle but it will not profit you because the presence of the person that immunes you permanently from that attack and darkness is not there. So, whatever you receive through the prophetic will always be temporarily. Church Gist. When you go to a herbalist, he is not interested in a relationship with you. You don’t even need to know his name. You can just go and ask him; “I’m looking for power to get wealth or to do this and that” and he tells you to go and provide this or that. After that, he gives you whatever you have to collect and you leave. You don’t need to know his name; he doesn’t need to know your name, in fact you may not even know where you went to because usually it is wicked people that take others there. So, satan is not interested in a relationship, he is interested in oppressing people. He does not lead people through relationships; he lead people through fear. But when you come to Jesus, more than just giving you things, He wants to build that relationship with you and then on the strength of that relationship, He can now release you to first be the number one beneficiary of that relationship through the manifestation of His hand on your life. Then from the standpoint of that conviction, you can now reach others.
When He met Moses, He was not just interested in sending Moses to Pharaoh; He had that relationship with Moses, a deeper relationship.
Acts 4:8-13
Every time we are used by God to heal the sick, to cast out devils, bring all kinds of mighty manifestations of God’s power over the lives of people and territories, it is to this end. That means if you just stop at celebrating the miracle, you rob God of an opportunity to be introduced to men. Church Gist. The miracles are the evidences you need to stand before you while you remind the world that there is a name and there is only One who is worthy of their allegiance and loyalty, One who has given His life for them. Your Gospel is not complete if all you do is celebrate miracles. The miracles are signs; there is something greater. It is good to celebrate miracles, signs and wonders and the manifestations of the hand of God, but at the center is Jesus Christ.
This is one of the reasons why people, respectfully even we men and women of God, we do not see the power of God in ever increasing dimensions because we are ashamed of getting out of the way to let people see Jesus projected through our lives. We feel very embarrassed if we have to move out of the way because we feel as though God is cheating or scamming us; “now is my opportunity to shine.” But those who love Jesus say, it is not necessary. The most important thing is to verify if Jesus will be lifted through that process. Learn this as a principal.
Every time I pray for the Miracle Service or any other service, my prayer has always been: “Lord, work wonders in the midst of Your people but whilst You are doing that, as they look at me, may they see You.” I’ve told you; you are not yielded when your presence reminds people of you. Your presence must remind people of Jesus. That’s how you know you are yielded. So, they look at you for five minutes and they nod their heads and say; “Jesus, you are mighty.”
It is the reason why there is a lot of confusion as to who perform the miracle because for a long time, we kept silencing Jesus in the equation and we kept projecting ourselves. So now, the people know Preacher A, Preacher B and C and there is nothing wrong with that except that in magnifying ourselves, we shut Jesus out of the program. Church Gist. So, many of the people who were healed, when they came back, they did not find us and we did not leave Jesus with them. We were supposed to present Jesus so that even when we are not there, He will be there with them because He is the friend that sticketh closer than a friend.
Tonight, you have come because the Lord brought you here by His Spirit to bless you and to lift you; I believe in the whole counsel of God and when we spend time learning the ways of God like we do week in, week out, there must be moment in every meeting where we dedicate that time to allow Jesus come to the midst of His people to take burdens away and to open doors. You will never truly be able to serve God acceptably living a defeated life by satan. There must be an evidence to your Gospel. Miracle services are designed to give that opportunity that God will step in and help His people.
I’ve been involved in the miracle ministry for a while and I can tell you sincerely, you will think that after many years of seeing these things, you should get used to it but for every time, I marvel at the wonder working power of Jesus. That is the message to me as a preacher; “the wonder working God; look what He is able to do.” Church Gist. If you are a business owner, and someone comes to you and you give him your product and say; “I’m giving you this product, just for visiting me and in three hours, he returns with ten clients and you say what for? And they say, this man presented your product in a way that we need to see who made this. Will you throw that person away? Will you allow them kill that person? And then the you say to the person, can you give me the privilege; how much will I pay you? And he says, no! I don’t need money. It’s an honour for me to be able to market this. Five hours later, you bring him fifty people; there will be a board meeting on your case immediately. “Although this guy does not seem like he is employed, there is something about his tenacity, a whole city comes to know that product and to love that business and the owner because of your influence. Do you know what will happen?
They will make you something called a brand ambassador. A brand ambassador means that you have the level of influence to compel people to pay attention,. No matter what they invest in you, they don’t see it as a lost because it’s nothing compared to what comes to them on account of your presence.
So, when God tests you with a little anointing or breakthrough, one open door here and there and He does not see you again, you hear tithe, you say God forbid. Okay at least, bless other people; “no, no, no!” Kingdom advancement, nothing. You run away and then when it is over, you come and say, “God, are You not merciful?” “I’m merciful but you are not productive. I won’t drive you but I will watch you.”
Love is not conditional but trust is conditional. Both the man He gave five talents, two talents and one talent, He loves all of them but He did not trust all of them. I have learned from scripture by the privilege of God’s grace through my life; get out of the way and let Jesus be seen through your life. Church Gist. It is truly the secret of rest. In getting out of the way, you’ll find out that everywhere you move to, men will move there too because there is something about the efficiency of your witness.
This appetite for fame and the face behind the manifestation of everything; listen, we’ll keep punishing ourselves forever and ever and not get anything. Everything God does in and through your life must directly project Jesus. Oh you are kingdom millionaire and you just sit down and say, “well, I don’t want to be proud but…” No! Don’t just say glory to God carelessly, be intentional. God means many things, which one? Jesus Christ is the Alpha and Omega of your life. If every politician, businessman, man of God, career person and successful person makes a determination that your life will reveal and project Jesus, not in a way of some fantasy that downplays others but a sincere declarations of your faith and conviction that you love Him with all your heart and your life is a testament of what He can do, believe me; if this becomes your disposition, seat back and watch with wonders how your life becomes an unending page that opens and never comes to an end; one miracle, one manifestation of the power of God after another.
You will think that because you’ve heard it once and again, you’ve gotten it. The desire of men to replace Christ as far as the spotlight is concerned is unbelievable. It will take the Word of God penetrating your mind and bringing you to a point where you see the profitability of projecting Jesus. Church Gist. Let me give you this example and then we’ll pray; this bar right here is holding this pulpit. The center of focus is not the bar, the center of focus is the pulpit here but then, the assignment of this bar is to hold the pulpit in place. Your attention is not on the bar, but no matter how you close your eyes, provided you look at this bar, you must see the pulpit too. So, while the bar does not become the ultimate focus, your eyes is on the pulpit but whatever is lifting it high for you to see must also be featured there. This is how we are:
Jesus is the central focus; He is the One who should be the object of people’s admiration. But because of the privilege of standing in partnership with the Holy Spirit to lift Him, it is impossible for you to just see Him and yet not see the One lifting Him. No matter how small you are, if it is Jesus you are lifting, you are big; His size will magnify you.
Anything you hand over to God, you can guarantee that it will not die. Hand over your children, business and everything to Him. I do not know anyone who gets to the point of total surrender and lives the presence of God without a miracle; no, not this God!
For some of you, it is all about you and government, it’s all about you; oil and gas, real estate, federal government job, job with UN, ministry, church, preaching and title. My simple assignment before I pray for you is that sincerely from your heart, you are going to replace all those idols with only one name; those things only find their value when it is lifted above them. It is not difficult for God to exalt and lift and honour people; it is the degree to which He finds Himself lifted.
I’m going to make an altar call before we start. In this Kingdom, you strike when the iron is hot. Let me tell you what an altar call is; an altar call is not a funeral service where you have weak and defeated people stroll their way in shame as though they are coming to confess before a cruel deity. Church Gist. See an altar call like an award ceremony, where you are coming before the One who is the Lover of your soul indeed; Jesus the One who was crucified, now exalted as Lord and Christ. He is giving you an invitation to hold His hands, to become a partaker of His life; that together, you can now begin to live a meaningful Christian experience. An altar is for two things:
1). To give people an opportunity who have not yet connected in truth; who are not yet a recipient of the life of God. The only way to have life and life eternal is through the Son.
2). To give an opportunity to those who need restoration over their spiritual lives.
So, whenever we make an altar call anywhere across the globe, do not see it as a funeral service where those who come out feels so ashamed. No! Jesus is standing and He is saying, give me a chance.
Do you know why we do not have plenty miracles again? Because most of those who walk in the healing ministry were called healing evangelists. That means, their focus was revealing Jesus. It was through the Gospel that they saw all the miracles we record today. But many of us want miracle for no reason. No! The supernatural is connected to the Gospel. If you are not interested in revealing Jesus, you can be something else other than a communicator of His life and power. Church Gist. You cannot do a discussion that has nothing to do with Jesus and expect the kind of miracles you see on a crusade ground. No Sir! The signs are messages, they are validating something. The great generals both in Africa and those we read through history and even in the Bible; they saw the miracles that they saw because the Gospel was at the center. Mention any great man through history today that you have seen the mighty hand of God in their lives? It is because, miracles were like trays, carrying the message that Jesus saves and Jesus heals.
Is it Reinhard Bonnke, T.L Osborn; these men who have joined the cloud of witnesses, today we love their miracles and we are searching for their anointing without the message that brought them. We want power in isolation to the Gospel; power in isolation to the message that saves.
(Altar Call)
PROPHETIC DECLARATIONS:
It is true that there are spirits behind the many tragedies of God’s people and one of the assignment of the anointing is to bring a separation between you and that demonic influence that will not let you go.
Jesus, the name that is above every other name; the name that is above cancer, retrogression and shame and pain. The name that lifts:
- I announce to every devil, principalities and spirit that is not of Christ, manipulating the destinies of men, not allowing God’s people to experience liberty; I decree and declare in the name of Jesus Christ, I curse every devil. Every wicked spirit, go now in the name of Jesus!
- Evil and wicked dreams; seeing yourself in secondary school, primary school, writing exams that never finish, orchestration of witchcrafts; everything that represent shame; let that fire come upon you now!
- Shame and reproach, I call you by your name and I curse you by the God of Heaven!
- The power of God is tearing everything that makes people to not want to help you; I decree and declare, every embargo of disfavour, let the people of God go now!
- I curse every spirit of darkness covering your glory and greatness that God has put in your spirit in the name of Jesus!
- That spirit of delay, I call you by name and I decree and declare, release God’s people right now!
- I decree and declare everything that has locked and caged your destiny; in the name of Jesus, let it be opened now!
- In the name of Jesus, anyone who will not give you peace, may God take them out of the way for you!
- Be lifted in the name of Jesus, from where you are to where you need to be!
- In the name of Jesus, every embargo over your destiny that spells shame and reproach, by the power that raised Christ from the dead; I erase that from your life in the name of Jesus!
- The grace for structural advancement, I prophesy to you; what belongs to you that makes for establishment in this City and in this Nation, I call upon the God of portions to give you your own portion in the name of Jesus Christ!
- I prophesy to you that; this is the season you will strangely step into prepared blessings in the name of Jesus!
- Anyone in your family or anyone around you who is yet to encounter Jesus, may this month, February, we are stepping into; in the name of Jesus, we activate the ministry of angels to bring them to Jesus in the name of Jesus Christ!
- I pray for you; the encounters that would lead you to deeper levels of intimacy with the Holy Spirit, receive it now in the name of Jesus!
- Every lukewarmness in your prayer life that has brought your prayer life down and you have neglected your priesthood, I pray for you in the name that is above all names; I decree, the grace that fans your prayer life back to flame, receive it in Jesus name!
- The grace that separated Goshen from what was happening in Egypt; may that same grace separate you from everything that makes for pain, sorrow, shame and decrease, in the name of Jesus!
-The coming month, I call it your month of strange breakthrough in the name of Jesus! - The mantle that makes for visibility and influence; the grace that can cause your territory to see you and place a demand upon what God has put whether in business or ministry; in the name of Jesus Christ, may that grace rest upon you now in the name of Jesus!
- May the Spirit of wisdom that takes away foolishness completely both in deeds and thoughts and words, may that grace rest upon you!
- May good things wait for you at the corridor of your destiny in Jesus’ name!
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