THERE’S NO PARTY IN NIGERIA THAT WAS RUNNING FOR OFFICE, THAT DIDN’T COME TO ME FOR PRAYERS, NOT ONE.
I CAN’T ANSWER THE PRAYER, I CAN ONLY PRAY FOR YOU.
WHETHER YOU ARE A MEMBER OF A CHURCH OR NOT, WITHOUT YOUR FAITH PAPA’S PRAYER WON’T DO ANYTHING.
I WAS SELLING HAGIN’S BOOKS CARRYING THEM ON MY HEAD WITHOUT COMMISSION AND I WAS ENJOYING IT.
GOD SAID TO ME I HAVE FOUND YOU AS A FAITHFUL VENDOR AND HAVE MADE YOU AN AUTHOR.
I JUST KNOW HOW TO GET BLESSED, I DON’T USE GAMES TO BE BLESSED. I KNOW HOW TO BE BLESSED BY THE WORD.
MEN AND BRETHREN, I READ VIRTUALLY ALL THAT HAGIN WROTE BY GRACE IN SEARCH OF THE THINGS OF THE KINGDOM.
WHAT YOU DON’T BELIEVE YOU ARE NEVER EMPOWERED TO BECOME.
IN 1979, I SAW HOW BY REDEMPTION THAT I WAS SEATED FAR ABOVE PRINCIPALITIES AND POWER. I WAS INTOXICATED BY IT.
MY FAITH CAME ALIVE, I WAS LOOKING FOR EVERY PRINCIPALITY AND POWER TO DEAL WITH.
SO I WENT TO THAT MEETING AND AFTER I HAD MINISTERED AND CALLED PEOPLE TO BE SAVED, I SAID HOW MANY OF YOU ARE WITCHES HERE, STAND UP
FAITH IS NOT WAITING FOR GOD TO WORK. FAITH IS PUTTING GOD’S WORD TO WORK TO COMMIT GOD TO MAKE GOOD HIS PROMISE.
MY WIFE IS NOT STANDING ON HER FEET TODAY BECAUSE I PRAYED, BUT BECAUSE SHE HAD FAITH. IF SHE HAD NO FAITH AND I PRAYED, SHE WON’T BE HEALED
I DON’T SPEAK WHAT PEOPLE WANT TO HEAR, I SPEAK WHAT GOD WANTS ME TO SAY. THAT IS WHY SOME PEOPLE ARE VERY ANGRY WITH ME.
NOBODY HAS EVER TOLD ME WHAT TO SAY IN THIS WORLD. I HAVE NEVER CAMPAIGNED FOR ANYBODY OR SPOKEN ON ANYBODY’S BEHALF AND I WILL NOT DO THAT TILL I GO TO HEAVEN.
– Bishop David Oyedepo on UNDERSTANDING THE ROOT OF FAITH THAT WORKS 1 at Covenant Day of Settlement Service || Faith Tabernacle, Canaanland|| First Sunday Service
HAPPY NEW MONTH to every one of us. May this month be a resurrection month indeed for every one of us
Whatever grave remains to open shall open for every one of us this month. It shall be a month of months for you. Church Gist. Just like history was made when Christ rose from the dead, it shall be a history month for you.
Hebrews 11:1-3.
– Some things may not have appeared but they shall come to be in your life this month through the mystery of faith. So shall it be for you.
“Open thou my eyes to behold wondrous things from your law”. It is access to the wondrous Word that creates wondrous faith that provokes wondrous manifestations in the lives of people.
Please note: Faith is like our spiritual heart. Each one needs his heart to stay alive. The just shall live by his faith – his spiritual heart. I can’t borrow you my heart, you can’t borrow me your heart, each one needs his heart to be pumping to stay alive. The grace each one needs to take responsibility to keep his faith alive, receive it today. Habakkuk 2:4. Church Gist. Just like the natural man lives by his pumping heart, so the just lives by his pumping faith. Therefore in the name of Jesus, I pray that each one will be awake to take responsibility to keep your faith alive so you can keep your life shining.
Jesus breathe the breath of life upon us today and let it mark a new dawn in our lives in Jesus’ precious name.
By way of introduction, please note that faith can be likened to a spiritual personality. It cannot come without you knowing. “faith cometh,” when faith comes you will know. Someone said when fear knocks, send faith to open and you discover no one is there. Faith comes by hearing and understanding the Word of God. When faith comes, fear goes.
The first evidence of faith coming is fear going. Mark 4:36-40. When Faith comes, fear goes.
Whatever you truly believe you boldly speak. Whatever you cannot body declare you have not truly believed. 2 Corinthians 4:13. Romans 10:10.
Whatever you truly believe naturally moves you into action. Hebrews 11:7. Anything you truly believe moves you into action. Church Gist. When you are not moved, you have not believed. These are all simple biblical tests of when faith comes.
4. When faith comes it is accompanied with rest. You enter into rest concerning the matter. Faith comes and apprehension goes, uncertainty goes, so you can tell when faith appears. Anybody can tell when faith comes. Church Gist. 2. Corinthians 13:5. When faith comes you can tell and faith always comes through the Word. Faith comes by hearing and hearing the word of God.
So please, let us be awake to see every line of scriptures all through this month as addressing you and me to take personal responsibility. Best to build your faith before the storms arrive. If you faint on the day of battle, it is because your strength is small (Proverbs 24:10). Faith is fake if it lacks these proofs. It is these proofs that validate the working of faith in any individual. Whenever faith comes alive, victory comes along. 1 John 5:4. So this month is your month of uncheckered victory. The things that used to bug you will clear the way for you. Ephesians 6:16. You can’t hold a weapon in your hand and not know. So faith is not a myth, faith is a mystery of the kingdom. A myth is an unexplainable abracadabra stuff. Church Gist. Faith is a mystery of the kingdom. Faith is the substance, it is a tangibility. You can’t have it and not know on any subject matter.
If after all that has been done in the month of March by the Holy Ghost, you have still not taken position in the covenant, then you are not interested, you have not believed so you cannot become. What you don’t believe you are never empowered to become. What you don’t believe, you can never become. Faith has only one source and that is the Word, so if you don’t believe thirst for the Word, you are not a candidate for the faith that works. Faith has only one source, the anchor of faith is the Word. So without a genuine thirst and crave for the Word, you are not a candidate for the faith that works. Men and Brethren, I read virtually all that Hagin wrote by grace in search of the things of the kingdom. Impartation will never be a substitute for revelation, when challenged it is revelation that you pull out as a shield to deal with the devil. So it is not “Papa lay hands on me” I can’t lay hands on you to become a pilot. I know you are intelligent but that won’t happen. You are John, I lay hands on you. Go to the airport tomorrow. You are now a Captain. Church Gist. They will arrest you. We have announced some books now. Some have had them for eight years, they have not read one thing. They are suffering and the answer is there on their shelf.” that’s how Papa makes money oh, all these books that they are selling” this man has never taken a dime from books since 1985. By covenant, I have never drawn a dime from books in my life. My blessing is when you testify that you met with God. We dedicated our first book in April 1985, Queen Amina College at our Easter Conference. The Lord gave the word, it is the revelation I caught. I am only a faithful vendor. So the author shall have no royalties. 1985! If I tell you my salary, you will fall down on your chair. I just know how to get blessed, I don’t use games to be blessed. I know how to be blessed by the Word. I read Copeland and his wife in search of finding what they found.
For those of us who are fresh members of the family, these books will be a great blessing to you. They are out of God speaking to me and me finding out what He said to others and putting them across so you can be made. The purpose of ministry is to bring everybody on the same page – unto a perfect man, unto the unity of faith. We get to the level of faith that they operated in and then we can begin to command the same order of results. I am not a bookseller. Church Gist. I was selling Hagin’s books carrying them on my head without commission and I was enjoying it. God said to me I have found you as a faithful vendor and made you an author. I found things and I want them to find them too so I carried them to them “Hello brethren, these books will be a blessing to you”.
Do you know something mysterious I found – no matter who prays for you, without your faith there will be no answer. Jesus prayed for them and there was no answer. He is the author and finisher of our faith, I am a candidate. He prayed over them in Nazareth in Mark 6 and he could there do no mighty works. The mighty God could not do mighty works. What of me, a small man? There’s no party in Nigeria that was running that didn’t come to me for prayers, not one. I can’t answer the prayer, I can only pray for you. Whether you are a member of a church or not, without your faith Papa’s prayer won’t do nothing. Jesus could there do no mighty works. He is in heaven now praying for us, why is it not being answered in your life? Let’s wake up and take responsibility so we don’t end up a liability. Jesus is in heaven making intercession for us. So why are we still going through struggles? Because without your faith, His prayer cant be answered. That should settle everybody, you are in a school of faith here in this Church to now live a faithless life is not fair on your person. Church Gist. Mark 6:5-6. He prayed for them in Nazareth and it didn’t happen, now He is praying for us in heaven and it is not happening in many lives. Papa pray for me, we are talking about Jesus and you are talking about Papa. Papa of what? So without your faith, my prayer can not impact on your life. Don’t just sit down and be expecting Papa to pray for you, this is the thing: if you get the light, darkness will flee.
A man came to me crying. When you find a strong man weeping that means the town is scattering. I said, “I won’t pray for you now but take this book, ‘Satan Get Lost!’ when you finish it come back”. By the time he came back, he was smiling, what happened? He said I didn’t know Satan is this cheap. Faith had come alive, Satan has fled. Do you know why many people that have revelation are suffering frustration? Revelation has no value without application and application is only triggered by faith. This is light, I believe in it so I act on it. Church Gist. Many Charismatics are going through frustrations because they have the light but the faith to walk in it has not been stirred up in them. As a privileged apostle of faith, I may not follow any outline but I want to speak to you, the Word for the moment. So wake up and take responsibility. My wife is not standing on her feet today because I prayed, but because she had faith. If she had no faith and I prayed, she won’t be healed. Keep your faith alive, keep your heart pumping and keep your destiny secured.
If faith is this powerful, why is my faith not working? That is a question to ask.
Please note that faith is not waiting for God to work. Faith is putting God’s Word to work so as to commit God to make good His promise. Faith is not, I am waiting, faith is putting the Word of God to work by so doing committing God’s integrity to make good His promise. Another definition, faith is reasoning with God in the light of His Word in order to discover what to do for His promise to be actualized in our life. 1 Timothy 4:13, 15. Reason through to locating what to do and give yourself totally to doing it. That your profiting may appear to all. When faith comes alive through the findings you have made, your profiting begins to appear to all. You are in your year of profiting. Church Gist. The year will be awesome for you. Just wake up and take responsibility. Reasoning with God in His Word, when our last daughter was attacked by the spirit of death, I sat on my chair with a smile and said Jesus there must be a way out. Processing the Word, what have you said about the spirit of death? What have you said concerning me serving you? Four scriptures came alive concerning what to do. Death disappeared. You are going to see wonders this month. So you are the one to read, you are the one to find out what to do and you are the one to go ahead and do it to prove that you believe it.
Remember our study is UNDERSTANDING THE ROOT OF THE FAITH THAT WORKS.
Redemption-based faith. 1 John 5:4. Faith is not a belief system that applies to all human beings, faith is a spiritual force that pertains only to the redeemed of the Lord. I once defined faith as a living force drawn from the living Word to produce living proofs. It is not for Jack and Harry. 1 John 5:4. Faith pertains to the redeemed. Faith is not a religious ideology, faith is a mystery of the kingdom. One has to be born again to see what the kingdom has to offer. Until a man is born again, he cannot see” and faith is about “as far as your eyes can see unto thee will I give it”. He cannot see. Church Gist. John 3:3-5. Genesis 13:14-15. Nobody ever doubts what he can see. Even Thomas, when Christ appeared to him, he believed. You don’t doubt what you see but an unborn again man cannot see anything. The dead can’t see. You can’t tap the dead and say” can’t you see” he can’t see. That is why they call him dead. So until one is born again, he can be in church forever until he is born again he can’t see. What are we here for? Is it not for Papa to pray for us? He can’t see.
1 Timothy 5:6. In Jude 12, there is a people described as twice dead. Not everybody walking on the streets is alive. Church Gist. There are many walking corpses. Twice dead – Jude 12. 1 Timothy 5:6 – dead while yet they live.
We also know the inheritance of a father only belongs to his children. A good man leaves an inheritance for his children’s children. Until you are a child of God you cannot claim an inheritance from God. It won’t work. Proverbs 13:22. Some are believers but things are not still working, why? Because in 2 Timothy 6:18. They are supposed to come out of certain things they have not come out of so they are not His sons and daughters. Church Gist. They can not access inheritance. 2 Corinthians 6:17-18. So it is not just enough to be born again, you must stay in the faith to secure your sonship or daughterhood with God which guarantees access to your inheritance. It is a whole lot of responsibility but He won’t tell us to do what we cannot do.
We also know that one has to be a citizen of a kingdom to access citizenship rights. Until one is born again, he is a stranger to the kingdom. Ephesians 2:19. That is what new birth does. We become citizens of the kingdom with access to kingdom rights. Acts 20:32. 2 Peter 1:3. Mark 4:11. Church Gist. That is why the weapon of faith applies only to the redeemed who are standing in the faith. It is your turn for a change of story. From now God’s Word will not become mere stories to you anymore. Light shall begin to break forth every time you look at the Word.
We also know that prayer is of no effect without a father in heaven. He said, “when ye pray say ‘Our Father who art in Heaven”. If someone calls you and you don’t know the person, it is a wrong call. You drop it, wrong number. Church Gist. If he calls again, you just block the number because he is calling the wrong number. Matthew 6:9. Faith becomes relevant when you have a Father in heaven to whom you are praying.
2. Revelation-Based Faith.
Romans 10:14-17. Revelation stirred faith. We talk about the faith of Abraham in Romans 4:16. What was spoken was the anchor of the faith of Abraham. It becomes very simple when we understand what that represents. Spiritual understanding in a believer is what stirs faith. So when you take your bible to read, ask God to endue you with the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him. Then your eyes will be opened and you can see what God is saying. Church Gist. We saw a man in the books of Acts by the name, of the Ethiopian Eunuch, he was reading the book of Isaiah. The Holy Ghost stirred Philip to join the chariot and he joined his chariot. His understanding just came alive. His faith came alive. He got baptized and became a member of the household of God. God said to Philip, you are finished and took him by air to Azotus. When you understand your faith comes alive, it is understanding that stirs your faith. Spiritual understanding of the truth stirs faith.
Wait a minute, when I was stepping out into full-time ministry, I asked the Lord who pays me? I saw how much burden full-time ministers were going through in terms of lack and want. Jesus, you taught me early, I can’t beg. Who pays me? Then He showed me by revelation, Luke 10:1. He said ‘Boy you are in my employment. I am responsible for your going, just stay on duty, only a labourer is worthy of his hire.’ sir, I have never looked for a pay. Church Gist. This ministry will be forty two years next month. Faith came alive, I saw myself on the father’s payroll. My duty is to stay on duty. The Father is more faithful than me, He won’t disappoint me. He has not disappointed me once. Revelation is the anchor of faith. What was spoken was what Abraham held to, that will make a 90-year-old woman become pregnant. No ovulation, no hormonal imbalance, zero hormones. Zero sperm cells but he held onto what was said and Isaac erupted.
We are sitting in this Tabernacle now, in July 1999 I was in Kano for a meeting and we were still roofing. One morning, God just spoke to me, He said ‘it took me six days to create the world and the fullness thereof, I will not need two months to finish a building. Two months, too much”. That was the anchor that completed this place in two months with power, water and even flowers. Church Gist. Revelation is key, it is the master stirrer of faith. Any faith hanging in the air is balloon fake, fake faith but when it is hanging on revelation. It is not hanging, it is an anchor. It is an anchor, steadfast and cannot move while the billows roar. You can take your rest when your anchor is on revelation.
Then came September 4th 1987, I was in Hebrews 4:1-7. He said, “my son, the same way I open the heavens over the lives of individuals through the mystery of tithing, I open the heavens over corporations, companies, institutions and including churches”. I saw it the first time and tied the church to it and Our financial fortune is not a game. Our financial fortune is not a game that is why it is flowing ceaselessly, flowing without stress. Revelation-based faith is the faith that works. Revelation-anchored faith is the faith that works. You can’t see your healing redemption and not take it by force. You can’t see your victory in redemption and not take it by force. In 1979,q I saw how by redemption, I had been seated far above principalities and power. I was intoxicated by it. My faith came alive, I was looking for every principality and power to deal with. So I went to that meeting which I have told you about several times. After I had ministered and called people to be saved, I said how many of you are witches here, stand up. 1n 1979, I was 25 years old. Revelation has no respect for age. Light! Whether you are four years old, once you turn on the light in your room darkness will go. If you are 100 years old and you don’t know how to turn on the light, darkness will dominate you. Church Gist. So it is not about age, it is about light. And they stood up, I said “wait a minute, I am not saying that somebody is accusing you of being a witch, if you know you are a practising witch, stand up” and they still stood up. I asked one of them to come, what do you do with the devil? She told the story of how she will stand on the highway and cause the vehicles to somersault and drink the blood of the people. What about when people like us are coming? When they sense a higher power, your faith puts you above. You hold the shield of faith, you quench all the fiery darts of the enemy, we clear off the highway. I pray for your access to realms of revelation that will reposition you for a new phase of life.
The Lord showed me the mystery of hitch-free marriage. My counsellor said, “David, what are you looking for in this marriage?” I said hitch-free marriage. He said how do you mean? I said we are in courtship, we’re not fighting. He said because you are living apart. When you are living together, it is impossible not to step on one another’s toes. I said to the old man, why am I not stepping on your toes now? It is not being together. It is whether I am blind or wicked. Church Gist. Don’t you sit together on the plane when you are flying? Why are you not stepping on the other person’s toes? Light! Light is the master of darkness. We have had this hitch-free marriage for a number of years. My prayer is that you will hit some revelations this month that will establish the anchor of your faith and keep you living a victorious life.
The faith that works must anchor on revelation. Remember no one can see for you, ten eyes will never be equal to seeing with your own eyes, my people will say. Church Gist. No one can believe for you. No one can live by faith without access to the revelation that makes it work.
3. Obedience-driven faith.
The Abrahamic order of faith. Obedience was the stronghold of Abraham’s faith. Whatever God said, Abraham did and the bible describes it as faith. Romans 4:12. The faith of our father, Abraham. All that Abraham did in response to heaven’s commandment was defined as faith. Abraham’s faith was obedience-driven.
I said in our Empowerment Summit yesterday, he hardly said anything. He simply obeyed everything God said and God confirmed everything. Obedience of faith speaks louder than voice. People at the wedding at Cana of Galilee didn’t have to pray, they just had to obey. “fill the pots with water”. John 9:1-8. He didn’t have to pray, just simple obedience of faith. Voiceless faith. He went and washed his eyes and came back seeing. The disciples didn’t have to pray, cast your net on the right side, they did and they caught a multitude of fish. Obedience of faith speaks louder than voice. God said to me “this is the place” and I said to them God just spoke to me, this is the place. Is it not the place today? That anybody is angry doesn’t change it. You hit it, you get broken to pieces. It falls on you, you are ground to powder. This is the place. Not one rubber showed up all through the construction. People were getting raw cash daily. Not one person showed up, “Hey, bring your money”. No! You get to the gate as an armed robber, you just get converted on your own, you go and do labour. Church Gist. You carry concrete and walk away as a holy man. Obedience speaks louder than voice. Obedience is the Abrahamic order of faith. Genesis 22:16-18. When you despise His commandment, your faith won’t work. Obedience is one of the vital roots of the faith that works. If you despise His commandment don’t expect your faith to deliver. It is those who take delight in His commandment that enjoy the authority of faith. It works on its own. Sir, I have never asked the Lord one day, won’t you pay me this time? My simple obedience to the terms of my pay continues to guarantee the influx of my pay. My simple obedience to the terms of the covenant of abundance has not allowed me to pray for money. The obedience keeps speaking. I like you to plant your faith like a cocoa seedling, it will keep yielding for life if you don’t uproot it. you wait for your cocoa seedling to start fruiting for five to six years and it will keep fruiting for fifty to sixty years. So get your faith planted on any subject matter, it will keep yielding on its own for years.
Obedience became part and parcel of Abraham’s life that after Isaac was born, he could take him to the altar. He knew God could still raise him from the dead after cutting his neck. He rose up early in the morning and went ahead. Obedience! May each one receive today the spirit of obedience to His commandments. Church Gist. My concern is people just say and do all sorts of things, what He told everybody in the word are you doing it? Why will He tell you something private, you are not doing it. I believe it is when your obedience to the Word comes alive that you are entitled to private talks with God. I want to believe that. Somebody’s story is changing.
Listen to me, 99.99 per cent of what I am standing on is as spoken to me from the Word. All these God said this is the place, they are all secondary. So if you don’t jump at obedience to the revealed truth, you have a long way to go. For instance, this man can’t pray for you to grow from strength to strength if you are not addicted to fellowship. In Zion, they grow from strength to strength, not in Papa’s prayer. So if you like be having meetings on Sundays everywhere. Community meetings, Professional meetings, Board meetings on Sunday, in your own company, you are the Chairman but the meeting is on Sunday because you don’t want to hear what Papa is saying today. I don’t speak what people want to hear, I speak what God wants me to say. That is why some people are very angry with me. Nobody has ever told me what to say in this world. I have never campaigned for anybody or spoken on anybody’s behalf and I will not do that till I go to heaven. There is no party in this country that didn’t come to me for prayer and for advice, some I advise them and they don’t take it. Church Gist. Those who choose to take it, they see results. Some say No! They are going about. If you still come again, I will tell you. Your story must change. When I said if you stay here for three months your story must change. If you stay here dedicatedly to the thing God is saying to do and you are doing it believing, you must see a change. Not that you sit down and fold your hands tight. Yes! Praise the Lord! Hallelujah! It is almost time to go! Your story has changed.
Obedience is one of the vital roots of the faith that works. Obedience may be costly but the end result is priceless. Without obedience to the instructions attached to the scriptures, nothing works.
5. Conscience-based faith.
This applies to us a lot. The Bible recognizes three kinds of conscience – weak conscience, defiled conscience and dead conscience and then good conscience. 1 Timothy 1:19. It takes good conscience for faith to work. Paul was testifying in 2 Corinthians 1:12. Testimony of our conscience, that is Paul the Apostle. 2 Corinthians 4:1-2. No dishonestly, no games, just standing upright. Commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God. It takes a good conscience for anybody’s faith to work. Church Gist. Coming to Church in the morning and going to native doctors in the night. The sorrow of them that hasten after another God shall be multiplied. I am 54 years in the faith, I have never branched any native doctor’s house. All I have is Jesus, He has never failed me once. There are many like that in this church whose expectations are only from God and they are flying. The glory of God is upon their life. Come back home. He can’t stand the double dealing. James 1:8. We have that cultural pollution in our part of the world. Get out of it.
A weak conscience adapts to any environment like a chameleon. Things are not working here and he will start saying so. They say but you are a Winner. Church Gist. Yeah, I am a Winner but things are not working. When they come to Church, his amen will be the loudest. Your change has come! Your change is now.
The mystery of faith will not deliver without a great conscience. Paul was a man of great faith. He was out of the prison overnight, when he was to be brought out to be killed the following morning. He prayed, he believed what he prayed and sang praises unto the Lord and the foundation of the prison was shaking. Every man’s chains fell off and the jailer wanted to kill himself. Church Gist. Hey! Hold it, we are here. He bailed them out of the storms of the sea. Acts 16:25-30/ 27:25. Rescued from death. They stoned him and dragged him out of town for dead, he rose up and went to the next meeting.
We have the example of Daniel, they couldn’t find anything wrong for he was a faithful man. They threw him to the den of lions and the Lord rescued him because he believed in his God. His faith worked like fire. Church Gist. Those three Hebrew boys were companions of Daniel and they would rather have died than bowed to golden image under any pressure. God rescued them because they trusted in their God and with their good conscience in place, their faith delivered. A good conscience is a vital requirement for faith to work.
6. Love boosted faith.
We did that a lot in February. Faith will not work beyond the level of our love for God. Faith works by love. Galatians 5:6. Lazarus was dead for four days and Jesus got there and Jesus wept out of compassion. The people said, “oh how he loved him”. That love moved him to the grave of Lazarus. His faith brought life back to a 4 day dead. No one’s faith will work beyond his love for God. Take advantage of what is going on in this church to demonstrate your love for God, to fertilize your faith. Love is the catalyst for faith. Church Gist. When you begin to engage in love, faith starts working like fire. You become a carrier of the virtue of faith. Faith begins to deliver on its own accord. You are in love so you dwell in God, so you are full of God and things that bow to God begin to bow to you automatically.
Do you love me? That is the question and only each one can answer that for himself. Do you really love me? Yes I do. He said go and prove it. John 21:15-17. Capital proof – go after lost souls, go after the lamb. All these I love you singing is not love. Real love is proven love. John 14:21. So it is not free love, freelance love. Church Gist. There are freelance writers, freelance love that has no anchor. The good news is this, it takes the love of God for your faith to work. Go and prove your love for God. Let it be with delight and watch how God will keep decorating your life.
David never lost any battle. He was a man with a heart for God, the whole Army of Israel went after him and they couldn’t catch up with him. Every time he prayed God answered on the spot. Church Gist. 1 Samuel 13:14. In Chapter 17, we saw his love for God in action. Songs of Solomon 8:7. He went for the head of Goliath and he brought him down. Love will always empower faith to deliver maximally. It is your turn.
That is why we are on this series, to keep everybody on course with what God has in stock for us. Christ is the love of God personified and it shows.
7. Fear-free faith.
The faith that works is fear free. Fear is a spirit of bondage that keeps men in captivity. Proverbs 29:25. Fear is the bait of bondage and captivity. Romans 8:15. Anything one fears spiritually befalls him. Job 3:25. Church Gist. This is why we must be committed to building our faith against the day of battle, so fear does not overrun us. Proverbs 24:10. Build your faith against the stormy days so you can remain in command by your faith.
Today we are asked to come with our Enough is Enough list on this Covenant Day of Settlement. Faith will settle every unsettled area of our lives today. Enough is enough is only at the command of faith. The paralytic man must have said Enough is Enough. They said there is no way and he said there must be a way. Enough is enough, I won’t stay on this bed again, take me through the roof. Church Gist. Jesus saw their faith and he established that verdict, Enough is enough take up your bed and go. Enough is enough is at the command of an individual’s faith. Today, whatever you don’t want to see in your life, at the command of your faith that has come alive now heaven shall establish that verdict.
Blind Bartimaeus, they told him to shut up. He refused. Today is my day, enough is enough. I must not remain in the company of the blind any more. He cried even louder and Jesus stood still. Call him to come. I can hear ‘enough is enough’ command of faith. Church Gist. Bartimaeus received his sight. He said your faith has made you whole. At the command of faith blindness ended. Whatever you put out your faith and cry to God today, it will come to an end. Mark 10:46-52.
The woman with the issue of blood gathered her remaining strength, enough is enough. Church Gist. Jesus is passing this way today, no matter who they are I must touch the hem of his garment. She did and the flow of blood ceased (Luke 8:43-48).
Today at the command of your faith that has just come alive, that issue that is bugging your life must end here finally.
Matthew 15:22-28.
When our faith comes alive, all barriers of the wicked clear off our path. Take the shield of faith and then you quench all the fiery darts of the enemy. Church Gist. Ephesians 6:16. Through faith, the walls of Jericho came down. They went straight into their inheritance. Hebrews 11:29-30.
Today all the walls of Jericho standing between you and your promise will come crashing down.
I sense in my spirit some dramatic change of stories this month and it is starting from this service.
Your long awaited change of story must take place in this resurrection month.
Engaging in Kingdom Advancement endeavours for three months can change the life of anybody. My prayer is that in my lifetime I will see people burning with hotter zeal than the one at work in me. God wants to put His name in every home. When God does, all devils clear the territory.
You must testify this week.
Every dying family will access a surge of life.
Every dying business will be resuscitated.
Every dying career will be revived.
Every struggling vocation shall experience breakthroughs.
Every frustrated business shall celebrate this week.
That challenge on your health will be turned into a testimony this week.
Many on the line for miracle children shall be confirmed pregnant this month.
Many on the line for miracle marriage, this is your month at last.
Your miracle job is styled supernaturally this week.
God told me years ago, behold I have touched your tongue with the coal of fire, from henceforth as you say it, you see it. You can’t access what a prophet carries without believing God and believing in His prophet.
at the command of your faith, the verdict of enough is enough is established.
No one will lack a testimony this week.
Grace to keep your faith alive and winning, to keep your faith alive and conquering, receive it now in the name of Jesus.
Love you all. Great month for you in the name of Jesus.
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