NO ONE CAN TRY TO RÖB OR KÎDÑÀP ME. ‘WHO BORN YOU?’
GOD REVEALED TO ME FUNDAMENTAL MYSTERIES OF FULFILLING DESTINY VERY EARLY IN MY LIFE.
I BOUGHT INTO THEM AND LIKE I HAVE SAID SEVERAL TIMES, I AM NOT SURPRISED THAT WE ARE WHERE WE ARE.
It IS BETTER TO BE ËNSLÀVED IN GOD’S WILL THAN TO BE FREE OUTSIDE HIS WILL.
ANY VISION THAT DOES NOT LINE UP WITH THE WORD IS MERE DELUSION, IT WON’T DELIVER
I FOUND GOD’S PLAN FOR MY PROSPERITY AND WHEN I DID, I SCREAM, “YEAH! I CAN NEVER BE POOR”
WISDOM DOES NOT DROP ON PEOPLE, NO MATTER HOW GIFTED YOU ARE, IT IS CONTINUOUS TIRELESS LEARNING THAT GETS YOU WISER BY THE DAY.
HOW WE GOT TO GARDEN OF FAITH FROM TWO MISERABLE PLOTS TO 13 ACRES IN THE CENTER OF THE CITY.
I WASN’T THE FIRST AMONG MY PEERS TO DRIVE A CAR, BUT I WAS CELEBRATING THEM. MIND YOUR RACE.
THE FIRE I CAUGHT FROM MATTHEW 6:33 MADE ME SIGN A COVENANT WITH GOD TO TURN MY BACK ON EVERYTHING.
IT WAS GOD WHO SAID WE SHOULD PLANT 10,000 CHURCHES IN A YEAR; I CAN’T SAY SUCH A THING ON MY OWN.
I DON’T RESPOND TO PERSECUTION; I ENJOY IT SO MUCH.
YOU CAN TALK ABOUT ME FROM NOW TILL NEXT YEAR, I WON’T FEEL ANYTHING.
I HAVE WON OVER 800 SOULS TO CHRIST BETWEEN MARCH AND APRIL 2026 IN MY PERSONAL OUTREACHES.
YOU KNOW, WHEN I CATCH ANY LIGHT FROM GOD, I JUST ENTER INTO IT.
I SAID IN THAT PLACE IN MY NOTE, I’M NOT PREPARED FOR A BETTER LAST YEAR TILL I GO TO HEAVEN. 4TH OCTOBER 1981.
FROM THAT 1981 TILL NOW, I HAVE NOT KNOWN A BETTER LAST YEAR. LIGHT KEEPS BEAMING. DESTINY KEEPS BLOSSOMING.
NO WICKÊDNÊSS OF WIŤCH AND WIZAŘDS CAN STOP THE WAY OF LIGHT. WHAT YOU NEED AND WHAT I NEED IS LIGHT. THE BRIGHTER THE LIGHT, THE FREER YOUR ENVIRONMENT.
THIS COMMISSION HAS EVOLVED FROM A 300-CAPACITY STOREHOUSE THAT WOULD NOT BE FILLED IN ONE YEAR, TO A GRASS CATHEDRAL, TO THE FAITH TABERNACLE, AND NOW TO THE ARK.
WHEN I GAVE MY LIFE TO CHRIST IN FEBRUARY 1969, MY LOVE FOR GOD CAME ALIVE. HIS WORD BECAME LIKE FOOD TO ME.
– Bishop David Oyedepo on UNDERSTANDING THE POWER OF VISION at Encounter With Destiny Service || 7th June 2026 || Faith Tabernacle, Canaanland || First Sunday Service.
The last stanza of that hymn: Revive us again, fill our hearts with your love. Let each heart be rekindled with fire from above. Church Gist. Revival begins with a heart panting after God. Passion for God.
– May each heart be rekindled with fire from above.
Passion for God and the interests of His Kingdom stirs a revival.
Every truly revived soul is heading for his high places. I can tell you that a million times. It is not serving the cause of a church, it is investing in the actualization of your destiny. Church Gist. As you keep pressing, though nothing seems to be happening I will show up and make your feet like hind’s feet and get you up upon your high places. Habakkuk 3:19. Revival is for your actualization of destiny.
The earth is gaining nothing from the seed. The seed sown is drawing everything from the earth, the earth is drawing nothing from it. God is not drawing anything from you and me, we are drawing for Him. Church Gist. So, when your life becomes a seed in truth and in deed, your destiny is secured. My life became a seed 50 years ago. I saw the reality of today then. Stop waiting for change, reposition in line with the Word.
Revive us again
Fill our hearts with your love
Let each heart be rekindled with fire from above
Hallelujah! Thine the glory
Hallelujah! Amen
Revive me again.
Don’t say us, revive me again. You need revival. You need to be revived. All this craving for things is killing you, you need to be revived back to God and everything will start answering to you. Church Gist. We will sing that song all through this month. Hallelujah, thine the glory. Revive me again. Until every word of it sinks inside you.
I can tell you this. God revealed to me fundamental mysteries of fulfilling destiny very early in my life. I bought into them and like I have said several times, I am not surprised that we are where we are. The glory goes to God but he is a covenant keeping God. You can’t fulfil your part of the covenant and then He fails. No! Eyes have not seen, ears have not heard. What God has in store for them that love Him. That is a verdict of life. Every verdict of scripture is valid for life but applicable to whosoever believes. Eyes have not seen what God has in store for you when you get into growing love for God. Church Gist. Growing love, not that you see one miracle and then you run away. Not that you get one funny appointment and it enters your head. Growing love for God. 1 Corinthians 2:9. The studio is going to show us where we are going in the Ark. So, you see how destiny grows with growing love for God. Destiny grows with growing love for God.
Every undedicated seed will abide alone but when it is sown and dedicated to the earth, it will bring forth much fruits. John 12:26. God does not honour sit down Christians. He honours dedicated individuals with ever growing love for Him. When God honours you, no devil can dishonour you. Just imagine an armed robber asking me to lift my hands. Where is that armed robber, ‘who born him?’ No! Or a kidnapper asking me to stop because they want to kidnap me. Church Gist. How? When you are in love with God, you wear God. He that dwells in love, dwells in God and God in him. Please be awake. All this “Papa pray for me” won’t change your story. It can give you a relief but without light booming from you, darkness will come back again. Your love for God is your greatest security.
You need to recover your love for God. This craving after things will not help you, it does not guarantee a future. Church Gist. He said ‘you look for me because of bread, I won’t give you bread again.’ He didn’t give them. Most of them left. We have come to an age of maturity in the Body of Christ.
It is better to be enslaved in God’s will than to be free outside His will. Joseph never struggled out of slavery. He was enslaved in God’s will but he was burning with the understanding that I am reigning. It may not look so now but I am reigning. Church Gist. He landed in the prison and he was an excited prisoner. He never jumped the fence and see him enthroned at the end.
God’s plan always goes through a process. Ask any seed sown how comfortable it is under the earth. The heat, the moisture, the breaking up but it shoots up at the end and grows and begins to bear fruit, throwing branches that offer covering for many. The day the tree is uprooted, it has lost its colour. The day a believer stops being dedicated, he starts losing colour. Church Gist. The seed sown must remain firmly on the ground to keep bearing fruits. The day it gets off the ground, it begins to dry up and ends up thrown into the vital. It is not enough to be dedicated, it is vital to remain dedicated to fulfil your destiny in Christ.
I want this new fire to be rekindled in you. Fulfillment of my glorious destiny is a function of my genuine, growing dedication to God. John 12:24-26. God has ordained you and me for a glorious destiny like we know but except we are dedicated, the time to experience it will not come. Church Gist. Dedication is the mystery behind fulfillment of our glorious destiny.
– In the precious name of Jesus, today will mark the end of your struggles.
When you anchor your life on the solid rock, no storm can drown you. When Jesus becomes the centre of your life, no hurricane can jitter you. Mark 12:30-31. Church Gist. Every agenda of heaven delivers on that platform, loving God with all your heart, all your soul, with all your mind, with all your strength. Matthew 22:37-40. Every agenda of heaven delivers on that platform.
– I see you soaring, no more sweating.
Our teaching series for the month in our Sunday services is captioned “UNDERSTANDING THE POWER OF VISION”. Proverbs 29:18. A vision is the unfolding of God’s plan as it relates to you and me. Habakkuk 2:1-3. Church Gist. Reach out to locate God’s vision for your life. Reach out, don’t leave it in the hands of one funny prophet with a funny rod. Now, here’s the mystery. Isaiah 29:11. The vision of all is in the Book, so you’re not looking in the air. So, look out for his agenda for your life’s endeavours. Church Gist. John and Christ found out what was written of them in the Book. Find out what is written of you in the Book. Isn’t that simple?
I heard God said to me some 49 years ago, 1977, “my son, your future is in my plan, not in your plan”. Jeremiah 29:11. Church Gist. So, God has His plan drawn out in the Book for you and for me. Amen! I found His plan for my prosperity and when I did, I scream, “yeah! I can never be poor”. That you have not found does not mean it’s not there. Let’s what His plan was. Revelation 5:12. Church Gist. Christ upon resurrection obtained for us a 7-fold redemptive package like we all know – power, riches, wisdom, strength, honour, glory and blessing. Everything that makes for life and Godliness is in it, that’s His plan. All that you and I need is, “what must I do to enter into that plan?”. It’s a settled plan. Power is not for free. Matthew 25:9. Isaiah 55:1. And this makes key of the Holy Ghost, so you come with a panting for empowerment. Psalm 63:1. The longing of the flesh is fasting. Jesus had to fast to see His power. Warn your belle or it’ll hold you captive. Riches is not for free, He empowers us for wealth based on His covenant, so, we must understand and engage with the covenant that empowers for wealth or it never becomes a reality. Church Gist. Wisdom does not drop on people, no matter how gifted you are, it is continuous tireless learning that gets you wiser by the day. The endowed Daniel understood by books – supernaturally endowed but can only get wiser by learning. Church Gist. Proverbs 1:5. Many are not learning; how will they realize their wisdom package?
I woke up this morning with 10 pages that I did between 12 midnight. You better wake up! No free lunch in life, you have a glorious destiny but at a cost. Church Gist. Somebody paid the price to deliver that agenda but you need to know the price to pay to take delivery. Somebody created that to your account, you need to know what it takes to draw from it. Honour, for instance, “he that honours me, I’ll honour”, all these walking out on God, “I can do whatever I like, nobody can tell me nothing”, you’re getting farther away from honour. When God speaks, I jump. 1 Samuel 2:30. Church Gist. You can’t treat God’s word with levity and expect Him to treat you with dignity. So, stop waiting and be saying, “I bind every devil”, no devil is… just free yourself to obey God.
– somebody’s story is changing.
It’s not my fault, I’m called an Apostle of faith so I can help you to access God’s full package for your life. Church Gist. If I don’t follow what the agenda is for today, it doesn’t matter, when it’s time, I’ll close but get this right sir. Stop reciting those things, find out what it takes to take delivery of them.
– In the name of Jesus, the days of struggling for survival are over in your life! Thank you, Jesus.
God has a settled plan for you and I. That’s without prejudice to Heavenly visions. Every vision that does not line up with the Word is mere delusion, it won’t deliver. Church Gist. God’s Word is the platform for proving every prophecy and vision. So, that is the custodian of God’s agenda for our lives – the Word. Thank you, Jesus.
“I don’t know God’s plan for my life”. That’s God’s plan for your life. “I have these 7-fold things for you”, Jesus said, “power, riches, wisdom, honour, glory, strength and blessings. Church Gist. I have them full package for you. Find out what it takes to get it”. Praise God.
The only thing that does not need a proof in this World is this (the Bible). It has been proven 7 times in fire. Psalm 12:6. Church Gist. Every other thing that comes your way needs to be proved by this (the Bible), this one is already over proofed. It’s settled in Heaven forever, every discovery made here is guaranteed for life and eternity. Matthew 24:35. This will see the last of all civilizations, this Book (Bible). Church Gist. Can I have you say with me, I know where God’s plan for me is, it’s in this Book (Bible). God’s plan for me is in this Book. Open my eyes Lord Jesus that I may behold your wondrous plans for my life, it’s in this Book, so help me Lord. Praise the Lord. Give the Lord a big hand of praise everybody.
I have tried by grace to live by the dictates of this Book, I’ve not had the first regret. Church Gist. I’m 57 years in the faith, bless God for grace, 45 years in ministry, bless God for grace but I’ve lived purely by the dictates of this Book as engraced me by God and that grace has appeared to all men, don’t let that grace come your way in vain. Church Gist. Embrace it with responsibility. Thank you, Jesus.
Why do we need vision? No one knows the future like the One who owns it. It’s God who owns your tomorrow, He owns my tomorrow. Jeremiah 29:11. “Your future is in My custody, so follow My plan.” Trust in the Lord always. In all thine ways acknowledge that He is the One who owns tomorrow and let Him lead you. Proverbs 3:6. James 4:13-14. “I own your tomorrow, don’t pose to own it. Don’t put yourself into danger, I own your tomorrow. Your tomorrow is in My hands.” Thank You Jesus! The End time giants are men and women that are walking in their God-ordained path, men that will not break their ranks. Church Gist. They stay on their track, they don’t cross lanes. Joel 2:7-8. I mean! Impossible men, they are men walking according to divine plan for their lives. They are not distracted by what somebody else is doing. They are just on their course. Amen! They are running the race set before them, not another man’s race. The race set before me didn’t look colourful, didn’t look great, looked pitiable but I knew it was my race. I was too conscious that it was my race. “You know? My friends…” On their own course! In their own race! That was my race that looked so pitiable but I knew it was my race, I will not be distracted.
Like I was saying humorously, I wasn’t the first among my peers to drive a car. No! Not the 2nd, not the 3rd, not the 4th, maybe not the 10th, not the 20th. I wasn’t counting but I was celebrating them. Your race! Mind your race. All these, “Something is hitting there and you jump unto it, you finished all the things you have been doing all your life by just jumping without asking God. “I think that’s what they’re doing now.” Church Gist. You sell off everything you have, you went there. It’s not your race, then they beat you out of it. Your first importation, fake! The material there is not worth one dime because it’s not your race. Because you got masters degree in Business Admin. or whatever, you go and start buying spare parts. Bank will sell you by the time you can’t pay them. It’s not your race. Somebody who knows it in and out, the thing is flowing through him without games.
-You are going places. The good news is: God’s great plan for your life will not crash.
Every calling in this Kingdom is a high calling, there is nobody to envy. Your calling is a high calling, stay on course. It may not deliver the same day, it never does but with patience, it comes forth.
-You won’t miss your step.
How to access God’s vision for our lives.
1. Desire access to God’s plan
What we don’t desire, we don’t deserve. Desire access to God’s plan. Church Gist. Revelation 1:9. Desire access! And you saw amazing things that came down because he went for access to the plan and the plan was unveiled. Revelation 1:10. Desire access, engage your spirit in doing it. So desire access! Engage your spirit in doing so and you’ll find it. Thank You Jesus!
We had this battle in Kaduna that the landlady of our leased property said: “No! You can’t use the Property anymore so she gave us quit notice from her lawyer and then she was puffing. I said: “Stop! Haven’t you seen any Church under the open sun before?” “Let’s go!” Same time! One of us, one of the elders said: “There’s a property they asked them if they will need it for their school project. Let’s branch there if the Church will be interested.” Church Gist. We got to the Garden of Faith, I said: “Join your hands together. Jesus! What are you saying?” “This is the Place!” Desire access to God’s plan. We had nothing to bid with but, “Jesus! What are you saying?” What He says He creates. What Jesus says He creates. He doesn’t need a laboratory for it. He doesn’t need a workshop. What He says, He creates. That’s how we got to Garden of Faith from two miserable plots to 13 acres in the center of the city by desiring access to His plan.
We got to this offsite place called Canaanland. “Lord, what are you saying?” “This is the Place!” I wish you are willing to follow His plan; He will unveil it. God is committed to leading us when we are committed to following Him. By my own understanding, no! What do I know? This small thing. The reason why we can’t access His plan is that He knows that we are not prepared for it. Church Gist. You know? He knows all things. Somebody is challenged and he claims to have done all things. God said: “Okay! I don’t have any more thing to say, carry on since you are right and I’m wrong.” But: “There must be something wrong here, show it to me Jesus!” Then it comes through. I will write by my Bible sometimes: “We should be smarter than this. No! Think right!” You have to be openhearted to access God’s plan. Your spirit man must be willing to access God’s plan Thank You Jesus!
To access God’s plan, engage the altar of prayer to secure access. “Whatever you desire when you pray, believe that you receive them and you shall.” Engage the altar of prayer to secure access. Habakkuk 2:2-3. Engage the altar of prayer. Jeremiah 33:3.
What Are Some Of The Biblical Proofs Of A True Vision?
1. Every true vision drives the visionary. “That he may run that readeth it.” Paul, a man of vision said, “I therefore so run not as uncertainly.” Every true vision drives the visionary. Now when you catch a vision from Scriptures, it’s like fire shut up in your bones. It drives you auto – on auto drive. Auto drive! When I caught the fire on Matthew 6:33, it drove me to making a covenant that looks like closing up your destiny. Church Gist. Henceforth, I turn my back on everything, they are no longer mine, but yours. Discipleship demands renunciation. He must be Lord of all or not Lord at all.” Can you imagine a young man signing that kind of document that he wrote by himself not that somebody wrote and compel him to sign? It drives people.
The fire I caught then (which is 50 years back) is still driving me today. I mentioned in our Empowerment Summit yesterday: 800 plus were in Church – March and April outreaches that I went out on the street for and I’ve been going that way 50 years back. It drives people. “My prophetic plan is not a promise.” It drives people. So, I remove it off my prayer. “Oh God, send me money” because He said, “it has no respect for fasting. It’s not in my fasting curriculum.” It drives people. I mean, I’m blessed! No games! It drives people. It drives you on and on and on tirelessly. You are enjoying yourself.
(In) 1992, (God said to me) “develop yourself to enjoy persecution.” My God, I enjoy it so much. I enjoy persecution so much as I have never felt it. I know some of you might feel something. I don’t feel anything. I caught the Word. There is a proof of your strong position. Don’t let go of your position. Keep pumping. When you catch it, it drives you. Church Gist. So, you can imagine for 7 years of unabated assault on television, no response and Church was galloping, galloping and galloping. It’s your strong position the enemy is targeting. He’s targeting your strong position. “Your going to Church is too much. Church everyday, Church everyday.” You will now get to your room, “maybe it’s true. I’m going too much.” The enemy has got you.
Some little children, I don’t know how they got there, like in the days of Elisha, I’ll be driving to the office in the morning in those early days. They gathered. I don’t know why they don’t go to school, but they were somewhere there. So, I got angry, first day, second day – I said, “no, no, no.” So next time I just waved to them. So, they started laughing and disappeared from the place. I didn’t say anything to them. I didn’t talk to them. Church Gist. They were just there to distract my attention. I waved. They waved. They now started laughing. That was the end of it. Maybe they were laughing at my car or laughing at the way I was driving. But I waved them off. I waved them of. Stop fighting back. Spend your energy wisely. Stop fighting back. If you talk about me from now till next year, that’s you. So that’s your job. You’re a media person. Me, I’m a preacher. You’ll be ‘mediaring.’ I’ll be preaching. Be doing your own. I’ll be doing my own.
– You are going forward!
– Nothing will scuttle your destiny!
– For being here today, your destiny is released!
– The key to fulfilling your destiny is returning home with you today!
– No more distraction!
– You’re getting there!
2. Every true vision allays all fears. It allays all fears. You can imagine the man Moses for God’s sake at 80, a wanted man, not that his figure has changed, he headed back to Egypt. The vision came in (Exodus) Chapter 3. He left with his wife and two sons in Chapter 4. He began to blow hot – a wanted man. It allays all fears. Every true vision allays all fears. If you heard me teach on prosperity in the early days, you’ll be wondering, “what’s wrong with this man? What’s he thinking about?” Every true vision allays all fears. Church Gist. You hear me teaching on hitch-free marriage when you are not married. Every true vision allays all fears. They were winking their noses. It didn’t bother me. That’s your nose. You can wink it any way you want. It allays all fears. Every true vision and fear is a tormentor. So, when you catch a vision from the Lord, fears vanish.
– In the name of Jesus, every siege of fear concerning your tomorrow clears off today!
Every true vision for instance how can Gideon for instance, 32,000 volunteers reduced to 300 – you still went ahead? Church Gist. Every true vision allays all fears. Proverbs 29:25, Psalm 23:4. Every true vision allays all fears.
– In the name of Jesus, the torment of fear is cursed from your life!
3. Every true vision imbues God’s confidence, not self-confidence, God’s confidence. Philippians 3:3, Philippians 1:6. God’s confidence comes alive when you encounter God’s vision. God’s confidence comes alive. “This is the place – okay. Can you get 100 acres? Oh yeah, we do.” They said, we have found.” “Okay, can you get 200? We have found.” Do you know them? No. Okay. This place will be dedicated September 17th and then you announced it. Are you sick? It imbues God’s confidence. I will never say that in my life. I heard Him say so. “You are planting 5,000 Churches this year.” I would never say so. I’ve been here all along and I know how many we planted per year. It imbues God’s confidence. You find it being said even when we have not planted one – we have not started; you say, “God said” and then we were enjoying ourselves and then the following year, He said, “you are planting 10,000 Churches this year.” *God said!” I won’t say, I know me. I won’t say that.
Every true vision imbues God’s confidence that puts the believer in command of the supernatural. It puts you in command because confidence is the conqueror’s backbone in the battles of life. God’s confidence will always deliver. God’s confidence will always deliver. And every vision imbues God’s confidence in God’s people. Church Gist. Everything that happens by vision is a miracle, the supernatural. And what is it? Confidence in God positions individuals to command the supernatural. Thank you, Jesus!
All we have been doing is Encounter with Destiny and I’m sure you have it. You have it now in the name of Jesus! Can I have you say with me one more time? “I’m a child of destiny. I refuse to live like a destitute. I’m a child of destiny and I refuse to live like a destitute.”
Let’s read Ephesians 1:11-12. Encounter with destiny. That’s our destiny. Our destiny is a glorious one. Amen. We have been redeemed into an inheritance predestinated for glory. Now look at Romans 8:29-30. So, every call into redemption is a call to be justified and glorified. So, you are saved to be justified and glorified. You have a destiny of glory in Christ. Praise God.
• Today marks the end of every air of shame around your life in the name of Jesus.
So, we don’t just have a destiny but a highly defined destiny like we just said a glorious destiny, an enviable destiny not pitiable destiny. Isaac went forward, became great: and the Philistines envied him. Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are children of promise. Church Gist. Galatians 4:28. If Isaac was envied by the nation, every child of God has that potential within him to become the envy of his world beginning from where he lives now and as he remains faithful, it keeps expanding and expanding and expanding. Say with me, I have an enviable destiny in Christ. I am not to be pitied. I am not to be pitied, I am to be envied.
• So, whatever made men pity you today is turned to a testimony of envy.
Highly definable destiny. Church Gist. Every child of God has a prosperous destiny in Christ. He became poor that, that ye through his poverty might be made rich. You and I have a prosperous destiny in Christ. What that means is this:
• No one in your lineage will ever beg bread. Church Gist. You won’t beg for clothes to wear. Where you are today may not look like that but that’s where you are going. I said that is where you are going.
Every child of God has a prosperous destiny. Every child of God has a royal destiny redeemed as priests and kings to reign on the earth. Every child of God has a royal destiny. Church Gist. Say with me, I have a royal destiny. You are not redeemed a peasant, you are redeemed a king. I’m not redeemed a peasant, I am redeemed a king. A king to reign on the earth.
But revelation is key to assessing all of our inheritance in Christ. I commend you to God, Church Gist and to the word of His grace, which is able to build you up, and to give your own inheritance among all them which are sanctified. It is light that paved the way to our rights in Christ. Light is what paves the way for our rights in Christ. Acts 20:32.
In 2 Peter 1:3, it says according to His divine power is given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness through the knowledge of Him who has called us into glory and virtue. Church Gist. So, it’s His knowledge that brings us into the things He has given us. Light has come and darkness must go. He said to Abraham, “As far as your eyes can see will I give you.” We have a rich inheritance here, but deliverable only as far as our eyes can see. Thank you, Jesus. For instance, I caught many years ago the light of Proverbs 4:18.
• Your life will not suffer ups and downs again.
You know, when I catch any light from God, I just enter into it. And I said in that place in my note, Church Gist. I’m not prepared for a better last year till I go to heaven. October 4, 1981.I’m not prepared for a better last year till I go to heaven because the part of the justified is as a shining light or to shine more and more. That’s your life.
• From today you will not know a setback again. Your life will keep shining more and more and more until Jesus returns.
That’s the perfect day, when the perfect comes, the imperfect will go away. The perfect day is the day Jesus returns. Church Gist. That means we are ordained to keep making progress till Jesus returns.
• Therefore, from today, I decree your life on that auto drive. You will never know a better last year again.
Now, hear is my testimony. From that 1981 till now, I have not known a better last year. Light keeps beaming. Destiny keeps blossoming.
• In the name of Jesus, Ups and downs comes to an end in your life today.
Let me say this to help you. No degree of darkness can challenge the authority of light. Stop looking at who is attacking you. No degree of darkness can challenge the authority of light. Church Gist. No wickedness of witch and wizards can stop the way of light. What you need and what I need is light. The brighter the light, the freer your environment.
That my cousin that was accosted with the spirit of insanity, I said put him in my car let me see the devil that will enter my car with me. I was swimming in John1:5 and the light shineth in darkness; darkness cannot comprehend it. When I stepped into the room where he was, he stood up and proceeded to greet me. They said, do you know him? He said, “that is my brother.” In his madness, he knew me. He didn’t know his mother, he didn’t know anybody. In his madness, he knew me. I said dress him up. December 25, 1983. Church Gist. Put him in my car, let me see the devil that can enter my car with me and watch my war was in the car. I was in the car. So, if madness grips him then he will bounce on everybody but not where we are. I was too sure. Light, darkness the gap is too wide.
Stop looking for who to blame. That if not for that woman behind my father’s house. The woman doesn’t even know where you are. She doesn’t even know where you are. Church Gist. She doesn’t know what you are doing. That is the woman that attacks me every night. Absence of light is attacking you. Absence of light is where your attack is. So, get lighted, darkness will stay off.
• In the name of Jesus. Every assault of the wicked ends in your life today.
If you ask any devil, who would you want to stop from going forward? He will say that man, that short man, he has not allowed me to rest. But can darkness stop the way forward for light?
• You are going forward in the name of Jesus.
Now what are the steps to fufilling our glorious destiny? Be born again. Please don’t get tired of this. It is so vital, it is so fundamental that everything we are saying will mean nothing if this is not there. Be born again! Except a man is born again, he cannot see his destiny. The dead man doesn’t see. Be born again. Whosoever has the son of God has life. Whoever has not the son of God has not life. Be born again. Church Gist. All have sinned and come short of the glory of God. Be born again. The wages of sin is death, the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus. Romans 6:23. Be born again with proofs of redemption, which is called the fruits of the Spirit. Be born again with proofs of redemption. Those are the proofs of your regenerated Spirit. love, joy, peace.
Paul will say being confident of this very thing that he that has begun the good work in you will bring it to an end. God’s confidence comes alive when you encounter God’s vision. Church Gist. God’s confidence comes alive. This is the place. Okay. Can you get 100 acres? Oh yeah, we do. They said we have found. Okay. Can you get 200? We have found. Do you know them? No. Okay.
This place will be dedicated September 17th and then you announce it. Are you sick? It inbuilds God’s confidence. I will never say that in my life. I heard Him say so. You are planting 5,000 churches this year. I would never say so. I’ve been here all along and I know how many we planted per year. It inbuilds God’s confidence. Church Gist. You find it being said even when we have not planted one, we have not started, it says God said! God said! and then we were all enjoying ourselves and then the following year He said you are planting 10,000 churches this year. God said! I won’t say. I know me, I won’t say that.
Every true vision inbuilds God’s confidence that puts the believer in command of the supernatural. Church Gist. It puts you in command because confidence is the conqueror’s backbone in the battles of life. God’s confidence will always deliver and every vision inbuilds God’s confidence. God’s confidence in God’s people.
Everything that happens by vision is a miracle, a supernatural and what is it? Confidence in God positions the individuals to command the supernatural. All we have been doing is encounter with destiny and I’m sure you have it. You have it now in the name of Jesus. Church Gist. Can I have you say with me one more time? I’m a child of destiny. I refuse to live like a destitute. Let’s read Ephesians 1:11-12. Encounter with destiny. That’s our destiny. Our destiny is a glorious one. Amen. We have been redeemed into an inheritance predestinated for glory. Now look at Romans 8:29-30. So, every call into redemption is a call to be justified and glorified. So, you are saved to be justified and glorified. You have a destiny of glory in Christ. Praise God.
· Today marks the end of every air of shame around your life in the name of Jesus.
So, we don’t just have a destiny but a highly defined destiny like we just said a glorious destiny, an enviable destiny not pitiable destiny. Isaac went forward, became great: and the Philistines envied him. Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are children of promise. Church Gist. Galatians 4:28. If Isaac was envied by the nation, every child of God has that potential within him to become the envy of his world beginning from where he lives now and as he remains faithful, it keeps expanding and expanding and expanding. Say with me, I have an enviable destiny in Christ. I am not to be pitied. I am not to be pitied, I am to be envied.
· So, whatever made men pity you today is turned into a testimony of envy.
Highly definable destiny. Church Gist. Every child of God has a prosperous destiny in Christ. He became poor, that ye through his poverty might be made rich. You and I have a prosperous destiny in Christ. What that means is this:
· No one in your lineage will ever beg for bread. Church Gist. You won’t beg for clothes to wear. Where you are today may not look like that but that’s where you are going. I said that is where you are going.
Every child of God has a prosperous destiny. Every child of God has a royal destiny redeemed as priests and kings to reign on the earth. Every child of God has a royal destiny. Church Gist. Say with me, I have a royal destiny. You are not redeemed a peasant, you are redeemed a king. I’m not redeemed a peasant, I am redeemed a king. A king to reign on the earth.
But revelation is key to assessing all of our inheritance in Christ. I commend you to God, Church Gist and to the word of His grace, which is able to build you up, and to give your own inheritance among all them which are sanctified. It is light that paved the way to our rights in Christ. Light is what paves the way for our rights in Christ. Acts 20:32.
In 2 Peter 1:3, it says according to His divine power is given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness through the knowledge of Him who has called us into glory and virtue. Church Gist. So, it’s His knowledge that brings us into the things He has given us. Light has come and darkness must go. He said to Abraham, “As far as your eyes can see, will I give to you.” We have a rich inheritance here, but deliverable only as far as our eyes can see. Thank you, Jesus. For instance, I caught many years ago the light of Proverbs 4:18.
· Your life will not suffer ups and downs again.
You know, when I catch any light from God, I just enter into it. And I said in that place in my note, Church Gist. I’m not prepared for a better last year till I go to heaven. October 4, 1981.I’m not prepared for a better last year till I go to heaven because the part of the justified is as a shining light or to shine more and more. That’s your life.
· From today you will not know a setback again. Your life will keep shining more and more and more until Jesus returns.
That’s the perfect day, when the perfect comes, the imperfect will go away. The perfect day is the day Jesus returns. Church Gist. That means we are ordained to keep making progress till Jesus returns.
· Therefore, from today, I decree your life on that auto drive. You will never know a better last year again.
Now, here is my testimony. From 1981 till now, I have not known a better last year. Light keeps beaming. Destiny keeps blossoming.
· In the name of Jesus, May Ups and downs come to an end in your life today.
Let me say this to help you. No degree of darkness can challenge the authority of light. Stop looking at who is attacking you. No degree of darkness can challenge the authority of light. Church Gist. No wickedness of witch and wizards can stop the way of light. What you need and what I need is light. The brighter the light, the freer your environment.
That my cousin that was accosted with the spirit of insanity, I said put him in my car let me see the devil that will enter my car with me. I was swimming in John 1:5 and the light shineth in darkness; darkness cannot comprehend it. When I stepped into the room where he was, he stood up and proceeded to greet me. They said, do you know him? He said, “That is my brother.” In his madness, he knew me. He didn’t know his mother, he didn’t know anybody. In his madness, he knew me. I said dress him up. December 25, 1983. Church Gist. Put him in my car, let me see the devil that can enter my car with me and watch my wife was in the car. I was in the car. So, if madness grips him then he will bounce on everybody but not where we are. I was too sure. Light, darkness, the gap is too wide.
Stop looking for who to blame. If not for that woman behind my father’s house. The woman doesn’t even know where you are. She doesn’t even know where you are. Church Gist. She doesn’t know what you are doing. That is the woman that attacks me every night. The absence of light is attacking you. Absence of light is where your attack is. So, get lighted, darkness will stay off.
· In the name of Jesus. Every assault of the wicked ends in your life today.
If you ask any devil, who would you want to stop from going forward? He will say that man, that short man, he has not allowed me to rest. But can darkness stop the way forward for light?
· You are going forward in the name of Jesus.
Now what are the steps to fulfilling our glorious destiny? Be born again. Please don’t get tired of this. It is so vital, it is so fundamental that everything we are saying will mean nothing if this is not there. Be born again! Except a man is born again, he cannot see his destiny. The dead man doesn’t see. Be born again. Whosoever has the son of God has life. Whoever has not the son of God has no life. Be born again. Church Gist. All have sinned and come short of the glory of God. Be born again. The wages of sin is d€âth, the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus. Romans 6:23. Be born again with proof of redemption, which is called the fruits of the Spirit. Be born again with proof of redemption. Those are the proofs of your regenerated Spirit. love, joy, peace.
You can’t say you are born again without a heart for God; it’s not genuine, it’s not real. A heart for God is one of the immediate experiences of salvation and it keeps growing as you grow it. But it’s there: Peace, Joy, they call it joy of salvation. You are still m00dy. Nothing has turned. Nothing is loosed. Check it. Because today it has been abǔsed. Grossly abǔsed. I’m saved. You are saved. Some fellows drive out n@k3d. I’m saved. You are saved. Even normal world, natural world know that you are not a serious man. They know, you’re ly!ng every day. I’m saved. I’m born again. Church Gist. You say born again? Born again ‘yeye’. You know in our own time when you say you are born again; you are born again. You do something, “Hah! But you say you’re a Christian.” You’ll be cry!ng on your own but today we will just go – born again. “Look at them here, ‘yeye’. What are these people doing? They think we are playing here.” Don’t behave b!zârre. No sign of redemption, no modesty, no dignity. Is that Christianity? Be born again oh.
February 1969, I gave my life to Christ. My love for God came alive. His Word became like eating for me. I devoured Matthew, Mark, Luke, John within 3 months of my salvation. Church Gist. Since you are born again, what have you read? Except you plug your ear with some n0ns3nse music, nothing inside. Please be born again. It’s for free. You don’t buy with money. Jesus paid the price.
– Many people will jump in to destiny!
That’s where destiny begins. Predestination begins with salvation.
– You are there!
Number two, walk in the fear of God like Joseph. You’ll fulfill destiny in grand style. Walk in the fear of God as a way of life like Joseph. Church Gist. Joseph said, “But I fear God.” Genesis 42:18, “But I fear God.”
Number three, stay in love with God like David. A man with a heart for God. Became a national hero at 18. A man with a heart for God. They said you are more than 10,000 of us. A man with a heart for God. “Eyes have not seen, ears have not heard what God has in store for them that love Him.” Church Gist. He never went through any formal training, military training. But he became the one captain of Israel, celebrated for eternity. Stay in love with God. I said so much about that in the course of this teaching. Stay in love with God and keep growing your love for God. What eyes have not seen or ears heard becomes your new experience.
Number four, keep walking in the light of the world like Paul the Apostle. Ephesians 5:8, “For you were sometimes darkness, but now are you light in the Lord: walk as children of light.” John 12:35-36. Believe in the light. So, when light comes, let your faith grab it. Amen! Church Gist. How promptly you respond determines how much impact it has on your life. “Walk while you have the light.” “After every day break, then comes a nightfall.” When the water is stirred, jump in and then the impact will be maximum. Thank you, Jesus! Arise and shine as your light comes and the glory will come. Thank you, Jesus. What a day.
Please know that the degree of one’s dedication to God determines the rate of the fulfillment of his glorious destiny. In Matthew, “We have left all. We have followed you.” Church Gist. He said, “You will have 100 folds of it this time and in the world to come life everlasting.” How much you are willing to leave to do His bidding determine how much your outcome will be.
– Grace to be dedicated to his agenda per time receive it today!
For every cell leader, take responsibility. Every cell is ordained to reproduce and to birth a new cell at least one in the course of this season.
– Your cell will not be the last!
– The wisdom to make it happen, receive it now!
For all members of the church, we are required to target at least one established soul in the course of this season.
– Grace to deliver beyond your wildest imagination. receive it now!
One cannot be fully sold out to God and not stand out in life.
– God will decorate you!
– As the Lord lives, no cell will fail to deliver!
– By the 31st of July, every local assembly in this commission around the world shall be minimum double!
The God of wonder double is still here with us. Thank you, Jesus. He’s still here with us doing His wonder double work.
– In the Name of Jesus, your own account will not be empty!
He said the time to glorify the Son of God has come. “But except a corn of wheat falls to the ground and d!es, it abides alone. Church Gist. But if it d!es, it will bring forth much fruit. If any man serves me like that, him will My Father honor.”
– Your time to be honored has finally come!
– God will daze you beyond your wildest imagination as you commit to serving His interest in the Name of Jesus!
His blessings make rich and it adds no sorrow. Is there any strǔggle on that project?
– No more struggles in your life!
It’s a process; from a 300-capacity storehouse that will not be filled in one year to a grass Cathedral to faith tabernacle, to the Ark.
– Now the same str3ss-free Hand of God upon this Commission comes upon your life today!
– The same cord of love that has secured for us the Hand of God for things that eyes have not seen nor ears heard be upon you today!
– Just like the destiny of this Commission keeps expanding and enlarging, so it is with your destiny!
There is one glory of the sun, another glory of the moon, another glory of the star and one star exceeds another in glory. Please don’t be caught in the Laodicean syndr0me. Church Gist. “I have enough. I’m rich. I don’t have any need for nothing.” You only need to know where God is taking you to. Then you know we are nowhere yet.
– In the Name of Jesus, grace to keep scaling from one realm of glory to another, receive it now in Jesus Name!
Jesus said, “The works I do, you shall do also and greater works than I did shall you do.” Church Gist. My God, that’s a tall place. In three and a half year, He’s turned the world and the world has not recovered.
– In the Name of Jesus, the same Hand of God that Jesus carried comes upon each one of us afresh today!
– You will fulfill your destiny to the full!
– Every barr!er on your path of destiny, I cǔrse them today!
– Everything that won’t let you go forward cr@shes today!
– Every generational cǔrse bes!eg!ng your destiny is destroyed today!
When God blesses, no one can cǔrse.
– So, cǔrses upon anyone’s life, they are all averted!
No degree of darkness can resist the authority of light.
– Therefore, with the light you have caught today, I decree a thoroughfare in your destiny!
– It will be clear that you’ve encountered destiny from this week!
– As you depart from here today, destiny will start calling!
– Destiny will start speaking!
– So shall it be!
– Now, grace to maximize this midst of the year season where God has ordained you for greater glory, receive it now!
– Grace to maximize this prophetic mid-year season order for your greater glory, receive it now!
– So shall it be!
– All cell ministers be blessed of the Lord!
God’s agenda for the season is to build from bottom up.
– In the Name of Jesus, your cell will not be behind!
– Many cells will replicate two times, some five times!
– Wisdom that builds will come upon your life!
– So shall it be!
All members of the church the race has started, this coming Sunday no one comes empty.
– In the Name of Jesus, Heavens will back you up!
– Welcome to your glorious destiny.
– It is settled in heaven!
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