MANY PEOPLE HATE THIS COMMISSION, MANY PEOPLE HATE GOD’S SERVANT (BISHOP OYEDEPO) BUT THEY ALL AGREE THAT GOD IS WITH HIM BECAUSE THE THINGS THAT ARE HAPPENING HERE ARE NOT NORMAL
THE BIBLE IS THE MOST VALUABLE SOLUTION BANK KNOWN TO MAN YET MANY LIVE WITH PROBLEMS THEY ARE CARRYING THE SOLUTIONS TO BECAUSE THEY WONT READ IT.
MANY OF US HEARD THE STORY NOT LONG AGO THAT THE PRIME MINISTER OF ENGLAND SPENT 6 WEEKS IN OFFICE AND RESIGNED BECAUSE WISDOM FAILED WITHIN 6 WEEKS.
ANOTHER ONE INAUGURATED IS NOW TRYING TO FIND A SOLUTION. THERE ARE ALL KINDS OF CONFUSION ON ALL SIDES IN THE U.K., THESE ARE PEOPLE OF HIGH-LEVEL INTELLIGENCE.
WE ARE GETTING TO THE LEVEL WHERE HUMAN INTELLIGENCE WILL BECOME FRUSTRATED
EARTHLY WISDOM HAS ITS LIMITS. THERE WILL ALWAYS COME A SITUATION OR A CIRCUMSTANCE THAT CONFRONTS IT AND PARALYZES IT.
THE DIFFICULTIES OF THE PRESENT DAY ARE THE OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE END-TIME SAINTS.
THE WORLD IS NOT SEEKING FOR OUR EXPLANATIONS, IT IS SEEKING FOR OUR SOLUTIONS.
YOU DON’T HAVE A SOLUTION WITHOUT GOD, IN FACT, YOU ARE A PROBLEM WITHOUT GOD. IT IS HIM THAT IS OUR SUFFICIENCY
- Pastor David Oyedepo Jnr at Midweek Communion Service || Canaanland, Ota.
Our Father tonight we have come with the voice of Thanksgiving and appreciation for the privilege you have given to us to be in your presence. We thank you for all the testimonies of your hand in our midst. We give you all the praise. Church Gist. For all the answers to our prayer tonight we say thank you. Lord tonight our eyes are absolutely fixed upon you, we ask that by your word you will change our lives. Let your light shatter our darkness in the name of Jesus. Thank you mighty God in Jesus’ precious name we have prayed.
In all of our Midweek Services this month, including our Week of Spiritual Emphasis, we have been looking at the subject UNVEILING THE WORTH OF DIVINE WISDOM. Today we are going to be looking at the concluding part of this series of teachings. We have established that wisdom is in categories. The Bible tells us that there is the earthly wisdom, sensual wisdom, devilish wisdom and the wisdom from above. James 3:15. The wisdom from above is the heritage of every believer. Luke 7:35. This wisdom is the order of wisdom that operates in the very class of Christ. 1 Corinthians 2:16. It is this order of wisdom that the Bible describes as the principal thing. Church Gist. Proverbs 4:7. This dimension of wisdom is the key to the relevance of the saints in these end times. Isaiah 60:1-3. Our greatness in these last days is not tied to our desire for accomplishment but rather our capacity to proffer solutions to the challenges of life. That is what we are told in the book of Isaiah 61:4-7. This is the picture that God has presented concerning the end-time church. That means the complexity of this present time is such that people will be flocking in the direction of those who carry solutions. That is why the difficulties of the present day are the opportunities for the end-time saints.
Zechariah 8:23. That is why wisdom becomes so critical for any believer to be relevant in these end times. The world is not seeking for our explanations, it is seeking for our solutions. Church Gist. Where solutions are present, the world flocks in our direction. That is why wisdom becomes a non-negotiable factor for the making of the end-time giants. I pray that for each one of us, that wisdom from above that makes giants of men will come afresh upon each one of our lives.
We discover from the scriptures that it is the value you place on any commodity that determines your drive towards acquiring it. That is why also this month we have been examining the worth of the wisdom from above so tonight we are going to be answering that question one more time. What is Divine Wisdom worth? In Matthew 13:44-46, the Bible paints a picture for us. He is a merchantman seeking goodly pearls that is what he does for a living. So he had other pearls with him but he found one pearl of great worth, it was worth everything that He had. That is the picture of wisdom. Wisdom is the major pearl. Please hear this and hear this very well, when it comes to the subject of wisdom, it is a treasure that is incomparable. 1 Corinthians 2:6-9. This is a wisdom that no matter how high you get on the earth, earthly capacity cannot secure it. This wisdom is God’s preparation for the manifestation of the saints. It is a wisdom that the princes of this world can not secure. Every earthly wisdom has its limits. There will come a situation, a circumstance that confronts it and paralyzes it. That is the wisdom of this world, the wisdom that comes to nought. The wisdom that seems like it has solutions but ends up frustrated. We are coming into a time when the things that used to work for men in the past will not work anymore. Church Gist. The end of natural wisdom is physically coming. That is the reality of what is coming in these days. Many of us heard the story not long ago that the Prime Minister of England spent 6 weeks in office and resigned because wisdom failed within 6 weeks. Another one inaugurated is now trying to find a solution. There are all kinds of confusion on all sides, these are people of high-level intelligence. We are getting to the level where human intelligence will become frustrated. That is where we are now. That is why there is a need for a higher dimension of wisdom. That is why this wisdom must be seen as a treasure, a pearl of great price. Unfortunately today, we live in a world where many people have no clue of the value of this wisdom, and that is why they are not in pursuit of it. For example, the book called the Bible is the wisdom bank of God yet you find many believers today carry that Bible and can’t find it till the next Sunday service. They are carrying answers and living with problems. You and I by privilege are given the opportunity to access the very mind of God, the very wisdom of God, the very solution of God to the situations of man. That is the order of wisdom we are talking about. So when we talk about wisdom, what is it worth? It is a pearl of great price incomparable. I read recently the story of a man who found the largest pearl that has ever been found in the world, I think around 2005 whereabouts, he found this pearl as a fisherman in the Philippines, he found this pearl and took it home. He hid it inside the wooden shed he was living in. Church Gist. He will touch it every day for good luck and that pearl was there for 10 years. One day a fire came and burned the house down. They valued that pearl at 100 million dollars. He was living with the answer to poverty and living in poverty. That is the most expensive pearl in the world. It was hidden under a wooden shed. He was touching it for good luck and suffering with bad luck. Why? Because he didn’t know the value of what he carried. Hear this very well: This book is the most valuable solution bank known to man yet many live with problems they are carrying the solutions to. I pray that our value for God’s wisdom will go up today. So to be ignorant of our heritage of wisdom is to be reduced to penury. That is why it is so important for us to have this understanding. He said that man is a merchant so He knows a goodly pearl when he sees it and when he saw it he sold everything that he had and went to buy it. What God is saying is that God’s wisdom is worth everything that you have. Give it all in order to get it all.
What is the effect of this wisdom? We will look at two of them very quickly this evening.
- Divine wisdom is supernaturally supernatural.
What does that mean? It is a wisdom that breaks natural limitations. Daniel 2:19,23-30. This wisdom procures results that can not be naturally explained. You can’t use the laws of nature to explain the results of divine wisdom. The results of divine wisdom break the limits of natural laws. 1 Corinthians 2:4-5,7. The speech he is talking about is the wisdom of God being downloaded in the direction of men. When we talk about divine wisdom, we are talking about heaven’s wisdom made available to men by breaking natural limitations. 1 Corinthians 2:13. This is a wisdom that operates by a different set of laws. It doesn’t operate by natural laws, it operates by spiritual laws and what happens when you operate by higher laws is that you dominate natural laws. For instance, there is a law of gravity but there is the law of uplift. The law of uplift defeats the law of gravity, gravity says whatever is trying to go up must be held down but uplift says even though there is something holding it down, I can still subdue it by certain factors. Church Gist. So a plain flies by uplift. It doesn’t mean gravity is not existing, it means gravity has been dominated. When a man is operating by the wisdom of God, natural limitations are defeated. That is why men and women who operate by divine wisdom naturally express divinity. Daniel 2:46. After the wisdom of Daniel was demonstrated, Nebuchadnezzar commanded them to offer incense to him. It is clear that this man was operating in the dimension of divinity. Romans 8:2. There are superior laws, when you are operating by wisdom, you are operating by a superior law to the laws of nature so you break barriers.
This was so practical in the life of Jesus. John 3:1-2. The evidence that God is with you is that what you are doing is not natural. Nicodemus said, “we fight you, it is true we don’t like you but we all agree that God is with you”. What provoked the mighty works of Jesus? It was wisdom. Matthew 13:54. So the wisdom of God breaks natural barriers. There comes a point where even those who hate you know that what you are doing is not natural. That is when this divine wisdom is at work. They hate you, they abuse you, they don’t like you but they agree that God is with you. Many people hate this Commission, many people hate God’s servant but they all agree that God is with him. They don’t like him, they insult him, they speak against him but they also agree that God is with him because the things that are happening are not normal. Church Gist. Look at Covenant University that just celebrated 20 years, it is not normal for a university to be catapulted from the back to the front in a place that people know to be backward yet the university is frontward. How? The wisdom of God. It is not normal. People look it, they may despise the carrier but they cannot dispel the content. When you see the wisdom of God at work, it cannot be argued against. Please hear this: if your result is still subject to argument, it is natural. When your result becomes beyond argument, it has become supernatural. I pray for each one of us tonight that by the encounter we are having, that wisdom that provokes supernatural manifestation comes upon us.
Romans 8:19. So the world is not waiting for our explanations, the world is not looking for our descriptions, they are looking for our manifestation. 2 Corinthians 2:4. Demonstrations! Paul said I didn’t try to explain to you, I tried to show you proofs, evidence, results. I pray that proof-producing wisdom will come again upon each one of us. That is what God has ordained, so if we are operating by divine wisdom the evidence is the manifestation of the supernatural. In your career, supernatural occurrences, in your business, supernatural occurrences. Many people think the supernatural only means healing and deliverance. No! Breakthroughs, unusual liftings, breaking of protocols to your advantage, where things just break patterns on your behalf. That is what you call supernatural occurrences. Look at the story of Joseph, there was no position of Prime Minister, he arrived and it was created for him. The protocol had to be broken for him. Church Gist. The King had to orchestrate a place for him. That is what happens when the wisdom of God is at work, protocols are broken. They tell you in your workplace that promotions are every two years but six months after your last promotion, they tell you “we can not leave you in the same place” and then they move you. After another six months, they move you. Someone shared a testimony that he got a promotion at the beginning of the year and then prophecy came for acceleration and change of level. He said maybe two years from now but his heart just hooked on to it and He began to engage with it and about 6 months into the year, change of level again. Before the year ended, change of level again. What should happen once every two years happened thrice in one year? Breaking of protocols is what happens for you and me when we begin to operate by the wisdom of God.
- Divine wisdom supernaturally enthrones.
Proverbs 8:12, 15-16.
So where wisdom is, reigning must be found. That is what we saw in the example of Joseph. Genesis 41:38-41. When we are talking about a throne we are not just talking about a seat, we are talking about a person that is placed in a position of influence on the basis of wisdom. Let’s begin by recognizing that every child of God is ordained for the thrones of life. Romans 5:17. Everyone that receives Jesus is ordained to reign in life. The word of God makes it clear that from every tongue, from every language, from every tribe, He has ordained us to be kings and priests upon the earth. Revelation 5:9-10. What that means is that your background is not what determines your future. What that means is that your race does not determine your place. For each one of us, there is a position placed for us on the earth where we are to have influence and rulership but it is important to note that the pathway to it is the pathway of wisdom. When wisdom is made available, influence is natural. Ecclesiastes 9:14-16. When a man has the answer you become the attraction. Somebody says but how come they forgot the man? Because the only problem he had a solution for disappeared. When you are a man that is a bank of wisdom you carry solutions to multiple problems. When you carry solutions to multiple problems you are continuously in demand. Hear this and hear it very well: what gives you influence is wisdom. The gift of Joseph gave him an opportunity but the wisdom of Joseph put him in his place in destiny. It was because of the interpretation that he was called to the palace, but it was because of the wisdom of the interpretation, he was kept in the palace. What gives you your place is wisdom. I pray again for each one of us that the wisdom that gives men their place will come upon you tonight.
What is the channel for the flow of divine wisdom?
The principal channel for the flow of divine wisdom is inspiration. Job 33:8. Inspiration is the divine intrusion of a creative idea, direction, instruction or solution. 2 Timothy 3:16. Inspiration is also the product of the movement of the spirit of God upon our mental faculty. Job 32:8. That is why sustaining the flow of wisdom demands sustaining the flow of the connectivity to the source of inspiration and that is God. Genesis 41:15-16. He understood that the source of the required inspiration was God. He continued to acknowledge the source therefore he sustained the flow. Let us take note that we are empty without Him, God is our sufficiency. You don’t have a solution without God, in fact, you are a problem without God. It is Him that is our sufficiency. It is Him in us that is the treasure in our earthen vessels. So we must continue to acknowledge Him. Acknowledge the operation of His Spirit in us. Never arrogate His glory to yourself. If you want to sustain your wisdom, maintain your honour for the source of that wisdom and that is God. Continuously ascribe glory to His name. Continuously celebrate Him at all times. After Daniel received the answer, the first response of Daniel was to begin to praise God. He began to honour the source so he sustained the flow. We are in the days where God will begin to raise His people by wisdom but never come to the point where you think the wisdom is in you. The wisdom is in you and He is the one giving it to you. Church Gist. There is a story that was told of a couple that had a goose. That goose was laying a golden egg every day. They will take the egg and sell it for much money. So one day the husband and wife began to talk, they said this goose that is laying all these eggs why don’t we kill it and remove all the eggs. So they slaughtered the goose, opened the goose and discovered there was nothing in the goose. That egg it was laying was a gift been given by God. If they open you, they will discover there is nothing in you, what makes the difference is the God that is giving it to you. So never mistake yourself as the fountain of wisdom. We are the conduit of wisdom. Wisdom flows through us from a source. That your tap is releasing water does not mean your tap is producing water. It is only transferring water from a source. You are not the source, you are the conduit. You may be the tap but you are not the tank. Don’t mistake yourself for the tank, know you are the tap.
Lift your hands and give God thanks for His word that has come your way tonight.
- From this season onward, natural laws and protocols, by wisdom shall be broken on your behalf.
- The word you have encountered tonight enters your life and destiny.
- When wisdom came, the prison sentence of Joseph ended. Church Gist. Whatever represents any incarceration in any area of your life, by the wisdom of heaven it is terminated in the name of Jesus.
- Wisdom gave Joseph his throne, the wisdom of God in this season will enthrone you.
- Wisdom is swift and quick in delivery,, it took Joseph from the prison to the palace overnight. Church Gist. Therefore the wisdom of God for you and for me this same year will change your position
- Whatever your present condition is, it shall be swiftly turned around.
- Your destiny takes flight, you shall no longer be grounded.
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