NAIRA IS NOSE DIVING. THE ARK PROJECT IS GOING ON WITHOUT ANY PINCH.
I’VE NOT ADDED ONE THING TO JESUS THESE 55 SHORT YEARS.
THIS YEAR MAKES IT 43 YEARS THAT WE ARE IN THIS MINISTRY.
IT’S TIME TO DEFINE YOUR STAND.
THE god OF MONEY HAS HELD MANY CAPTIVE IN THE CHURCH INCLUDING PASTORS AND FOUNDERS OF MINISTRIES.
PEOPLE BLESSED BY GOD DON’T GO THROUGH CORNERS. THEY WALK STRAIGHT.
POWER IS A BLESSING BUT A MISHANDLING OF IT CAN KILL.
SELF WORSHIP IS PRIDE.
THE ONLY RELIABLE HELP AT THIS TIME IS FROM ABOVE AND IT WILL ONLY ANSWER TO FAITH.
ANY OTHER THING OUTSIDE GOD MAKES YOUR FAITH IMPOTENT.
THE FOUNDATION OF THE FAITH THAT WILL WORK DEMANDS A GOOD CONSCIENCE.
IDOLATRY IS A MAJOR LEAKAGE IN THE SCHOOL OF FAITH.
FAITH WILL FAIL WITHOUT A GOOD CONSCIENCE.
BEHIND GREAT STORIES IS A GREAT PURE CONSCIENCE.
YOUR HELP IS NOT IN THE HANDS OF MAN BUT IN THE HANDS OF GOD.
GOD WILL TAKE CARE OF EVERYTHING THAT CONCERNS YOU.
THINGS WILL KEEP WORKING IN YOUR FAVOUR WHEN GOD BECOMES YOUR ONLY SOURCE OF EXPECTATION.
ANYTHING THAT COMPETES WITH THE PLACE OF GOD IN US RENDERS OUR FAITH IMPOTENT.
IT TAKES FAITH TO SECURE ANSWERS TO OUR PRAYERS.
YOUR FAITH DETERMINES YOUR LOT.
– Bishop David Oyedepo on ‘UNDERSTANDING THE DEMANDS OF BUILDING YOUR FAITH 6’ at Midweek Communion Service || LFC Canaanland || 28th February 2024 ||
The Lord sent a Word unto Jacob, it turned his life around supernaturally. Church Gist. Just one Word.
– May each one’s Word come through tonight.
– May your own Word come through tonight.
We were in a service and someone caught something that turned his life around beyond what could happen in 50 years. Someone else was there he didn’t know anything happened.
— Prayers —
UNDERSTANDING THE DEMANDS OF BUILDING YOUR FAITH.
Every building requires a solid foundation to stand the test of time. Building on the sand is foolishness. It can’t stand the storms of life. 2 Timothy 2:19. It is fundamental to every virtue of the Kingdom to deliver, very fundamental. The foundation of the faith that works demands a good conscience. Church Gist. 1 Timothy 1:19. Good conscience is a fundamental requirement for faith to deliver. 1 Timothy 3:9. So, our depth of revelation of faith requires a pure conscience for delivery. We’ve been taught and instructed by the Holy Ghost in this Church on diverse mysteries of faith. In spite of that level of depth, faith will fail without a good conscience.
God must remain the only source of expectation for faith to work. Psalm 62:5. James 1:7,8. Wherefore, beware of idolatry. It’s a major leakage in the School of Faith. Exodus 20:3-5. You are investing evil into your coming generation by going after another god. This is the undoing of many people in our part of the World. ‘Heaven helps those who help themselves’. Church Gist. So, they remain utterly helpless, they are in despair, they are despondent, nothing is working. He is a jealous God, He can’t stand a double dealing. Any other thing outside God makes your faith impotent. It can’t work, won’t deliver. ‘My mama gave me’. Good luck. Mama gave you trouble, carry it on. ‘My papa gave me’. Good luck. Psalm 16:4. Caution: Any other thing added to God makes your faith impotent. Any other source from which you are looking for help makes your faith impotent.
Therefore, beware of evil conscience. ‘I praise you, Lord’ and then, at another time, you go through one corner to one other place, ‘Can you please see for me? Can you tell me who is doing me? Jeremiah 17:9,10. Church Gist. So, our heart is what determines what comes our way from God. Proverbs 4:23. God is up to anything He says, but we are required to be where He expects us to be for it to happen. Be determined to remain on God’s side if your faith must keep working.
We saw these 3 boys, Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego. ‘We would rather die than bow down to your graven image’. Their faith delivered supernaturally. There was no smell of fire on them. Church Gist. ‘Servants of the Most High God, come forth’. They were not faking it. But they would rather die than bow down to a graven image and God came through for them.
– He will come through for you in the name of Jesus.
So, faith that is not built on a good conscience is fake. It will not deliver. It renders that faith impotent. Church Gist. Even though if you can believe ‘All things are possible to him that believeth’ It will not deliver anything. Psalm 11:3.
We saw a man in scriptures with amazing testimonies of the mystery of faith. His name, Paul the Apostle. 2 Corinthians 1:12. 2 Corinthians 4:1,2. He was a faith personality while he was here. Death was subject to him while he was here. Church Gist. Behind those great stories is a great pure conscience, a good conscience, a pure conscience. Philippians 4:13. That’s what happens when your conscience is healthy and alive. Your faith delivers supernaturally.
– It’s your turn.
Particularly this time where the only help, the only reliable help, the only dependable help will be from above and will answer to faith. Church Gist. Why don’t you clean up your conscience to secure access?
Paul was telling us the secret here. Acts 24:16. ‘Exercise myself’. You say “No, no. That’s not me. I can’t be there. No, never”. So, it’s not what you wait for, it’s what you engage with. ‘I refuse to bow to any other god. I refuse. I can’t belong on 2 sides at the same time and I can’t afford God to turn His back on me. It’s not about God knowing where we stand, everyone should know where he stands. 2 Corinthians 13:5. Church Gist. There are some individuals tonight, when you give up on certain things that are contending with God’s position in your life, things will just go through. It’s not magic, it’s the truth at work. The truth of scriptures will always triumph no matter how severe the circumstances are. 2 Corinthians 13:5. You can tell when you are on course. You can tell when you are off course. Any sincere soul can tell. You can’t say you didn’t know how you found yourself to a native doctor’s place. You should know. Church Gist. You knew the address, you took off from your home. You should know when you went after one professional prophet by the Sea to help you see. You should know. You are not hypnotized otherwise, you won’t know the address. You knew the way to go, nobody led you there.
– Examine yourself whether ye be in the Faith or not!
I’ve not added one thing to Jesus, 55 short years. Not one thing to Jesus. Church Gist. He (the devil) has no part in me, so I can’t be subject to him. It’s time to define your stand.
Let me try to break down the word, idolatry, into 3 different parts.
1: Generally, it means graven image. Church Gist. Bowing to another god in form of images.
2: We have the idol of gold. Exodus 32:31. There are many people in this World today including in the Church, their entire life is gasping for money. Money rules their mind, determines anything they do. ‘I must make it’. Church Gist. It means money…and in their effort, they swallow a poison. The rat won’t come into a trap without bait. 1 Timothy 6:10,11. The god of money has held many captive in the Church, including pastors, founders of ministries. Money, nothing but money. Ruled by it, directed by it, obsessed by it.
– Somebody is free here today.
Exodus 32:31. So, there are not just graven images, there are also gods of gold.
– May the grip of the god of gold lose its grip from everyone here.
Genesis 14:23. People blessed by God don’t go through corners, they walk straight. There are many testimonies of the devastation of the god of gold even in our own system over the years, many. Church Gist. I was dealing with one of them today, many. That is, lying openly, deceiving openly because of gain and falling into calamities. One thing that will help is what Paul wrote in 1 Timothy 6:6-12. Eternal life is under contention, fight it.
– May each one receive grace today to let money be where it should be and your God be where God should be.
Can I hear your loudest Amen?
There was this family that ran a business and now they played smart in a business deal and I saw them swearing if they did so and I said Beware, lest your case become like Ananias and Sapphira’. Church Gist. It was exactly like that. Caution, please. They died a week apart and were buried together. Money is a destroyer. Just like power is a blessing, but a mishandling of power can kill.
– No one shall be a victim of the god of gold among us.
3: Self-worship. That was the destruction of Nebuchadnezzar. Church Gist. Daniel 4:28-32. Self-worship, devastation.
We saw also Herod, he was going to compete with God in a speech. Acts 12:21-23. Self worship. It’s a hidden idol. You walk around your house and say, ‘See the house I built. I’m the one residing here’. You see your company, you say ‘Oh my God! Which company is like this in my entire state, in my entire nation? Only me’. Self worship. Church Gist. Many have taken the place of God in their own affairs and so, nothing is working. ‘I know what to do. I always know what to do. Nobody can be telling me anything. You say the Word of God? Word of God for what? I know how I got here. I was the one that got here. Not that any Word of God got me here’ and immediately, he begins to lose worth, find his way in the midst of beast and eating grass like Oxen.
– Beware of self worship. We call it pride. That’s the nickname. Church Gist. Self-worship is pride Proverbs 16:18. Beware of self-worship.
What we’re saying is that anything that competes with the place of God in us renders our faith impotent.
As I close, 1 Corinthians 10:13,14. You are facing a challenge now, God is the only guaranteed way out. Don’t let your challenges drive you into (a) frying pan, from frying pan to fire. Stay with God. God is up to it at any time and any day. Stay with God. Church Gist. He can reverse your story at any moment. You are just about hitting the answer that is trying to get you off. You don’t hear the sound of a serpent on the rock, it glides. He’s a subtle beast, the devil. He’s busy hunting for victims, he mustn’t catch you.
Many are where they are today because of temptations you know and ‘How will I come out of this? They have prayed for me. He didn’t answer’. I’ve told you that even when you are prayed for by the most anointed man, it takes your faith to secure the answer. Church Gist. Jesus prayed for them in Nazareth, they couldn’t get healed. Mark 6:5. That’s the Living Word Himself. That’s the One anointed without measure. So, it’s not the anointing, it’s about your faith. Everybody’s life is a function of his faith.
We had a very humbling testimony last Sunday after the Healing Service closed. They ran back to the office, somebody had just received his sight. Brought in completely blind, by the time they were leaving the lobby of the Tower, the one that was blind that they brought in was in front of the one that brought him. Church Gist. It’s your faith that determines your lot. Thank God for the anointing, it opens the door for your faith to come alive if you let it come alive. Until your faith comes alive, you can’t receive from God. Matthew 9:28,29.
– The good news is, for anyone who cares to stay with God only, this year, you will see wonders.
– I said, you will see wonders.
You have heard me say several times, whatever God cannot do, let it remain undone. Whatever God cannot give me, may I never have it. Wherever God cannot take me to, may I never get there. Church Gist. You need to come to a point in your life where God becomes your only source of expectation. Things will keep working in your favour when God becomes your only source of expectation. Psalm 62:5.
This awesome visitation 1983, (on) September 6th from Psalm 34:5. ‘My son, you have 2 eyes. Can you make one to look up and one to look down? Church Gist. Anytime you are looking unto man or looking elsewhere, don’t claim to be looking unto me. But if you fix your eyes on me, you’ll never be ashamed’.
– The days of shame and reproach are over in your life.
God is up to anything He says. Whatever God can do, your faith can make happen. Don’t corrupt your faith. Don’t defile your faith. Stand strong in faith. Church Gist. God is up to anything He says. Did you see how naira is nose-diving? Did you see how the ark is going on without any pinch? There is nothing done behind the scenes more than what you are hearing, no. No one has been specially called to say ‘Do you have anything in your heart?’ You don’t need anything in your heart. God’s hand is pure. God’s hand will deliver anything that He wants to do. Church Gist. So, wake up. Your help is not in the hands of man, your help is in the hands of God. Psalm 121:1-4. It’s time to withdraw back to God in full force. He will take care of everything that concerns you.
This year makes it 43 years that we are in this Ministry. We are yet to find who to point to that ‘If this Man were not part of this, things would not work’. Church Gist. There is not one man, living or dead. God is up to anything that your faith allows Him to do. God is up to anything.
– Many will still build houses under this economic crisis.
– Businesses will still be expanding under this economic crisis.
As you stand strong in the covenant of scriptures, you have secured your future. Church Gist. Stand strong in the covenant of scriptures and secure your future.
– The good news is, everyone truly onboard this flight, you begin to experience the grace of God that is upon this Commission in every area of their life.
Lift up your right hand to Heaven and give God thanks.
— Prayers and Altar Call —
Matthew 6:22. Watch how faith will start delivering in your life if you hold tight to the things you have heard tonight. It’s a big caution in the School of Faith. Don’t wander after another god for any reason under any condition. Church Gist. Don’t become a servant of man for any reason under any condition. Don’t hide your identity with Christ before any man or any woman or any authority. Stand bold, stand out like Daniel did, as Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego did. He will always back up the people that stand confidently based on a good conscience of His Word. We have nothing we are adding to God here that’s why He backs us up all the time. He backs us up always.
– It’s your turn.
Your destiny is not in the hand of any man, it’s in the hand of God. Church Gist. Psalm 37:18,19.
– That’s you.
– This trying time is your triumphant time.
‘Lord, I know you provide for His own and I know you have provided for me. Thank you, Lord. Good night’. In the morning, you find the heaven opened. Confidently so. Not ‘Okay, my uncle, my cousin. Church Gist. God, you know it’. What a sure God we serve! Whatever God can do, my faith can make happen. Whatever God can do, your faith can make happen. He’s still providing supernaturally today.
– He’ll provide for you.
– Not one person in this Church will be a beggar.
– Not one person in this Church will walk naked.
– Not one person here will be homeless.
– The God of Heaven will show up in your case.
— Prayers —
When the son of man cometh, shall He find faith on the Earth? Faith will be heavily contested. Temptations will confront faith. ‘You think faith can do this? Better don’t deceive yourself’. That’s why you need to build your faith against the seemingly impossible obstacles that are coming to hit this World. Church Gist. We need to build our faith. The faith that can head for the Red Sea and have it open. We need to build our faith beyond this common sense thing that we are doing. We need to get into the heart of God on how to handle issues of life as they occur.
– We are going to begin to have humbling testimonies of the workings of faith in our midst.
– Many will live like the Widow of Zarephath. Church Gist. That is, the cruise of oil will never fail, the pot of flour will never finish. Just continuous supplies by your solid faith in God.
– You’ll never miss your supplies in the name of Jesus.
– Nothing good will run finish in your house.
– You’ll never beg for bread.
– You’ll never beg for clothes to wear in the name of Jesus.
Lift up those two hands:
– Be blessed of the Lord in the name of Jesus.
– I pray that the lessons we have learnt as individuals during this Month on the subject of Faith will keep us going.
– May we begin to play the truth only at all times in the name of Jesus Christ.
Can I have you say with me? ‘March 2024: Serving God Pays The Most. Help me, Jesus, to give the best of my best in serving you and the interest of your Kingdom all through the Month of March and far beyond. Church Gist. Grant me such encounters that will keep me going like a roller coaster in pursuit of you and the interest of your Kingdom. So help me Lord in the name of Jesus’.
Lift up your 2 hands and give God thanks.
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