THE LAST TIME I COUNTED, HUNDREDS OF PASTORS HAVE LEFT THIS CHURCH THROUGH RESIGNATION, SACK AND ALL THAT STUFF.
MY WIFE WAS SURPRISED WHEN SHE ASKED ME ABOUT ONE PASTOR AND I SAID, “HE HAD LEFT SINCE 2004.”
WE DON’T DISCUSS THOSE THINGS. HE CAME BY HIMSELF. HOWEVER, IT IS NOT AFFECTING THE CHURCH.
IT IS THE ENGAGEMENT OF AN INDIVIDUAL THAT DETERMINES HIS LIFE, NOT ANYBODY’S REACTION OR ACTION.
IF I WAS STILL DRIVING MY VOLKSWAGEN BEETLE TILL NOW, I WILL NOT BE LESS COMMITTED.
I HAVE SEEN BY GRACE 6 WAVES OF REVIVAL IN THIS MINISTRY.
I WILL PICK SOMETHING ELSE FROM THIS COMING EASTER, I WON’T TELL YOU.
THE TIME FOR IT IS NOT YET.
MANY BELIEVERS HAVE LOST TOO MANY OPPORTUNITIES TO FLAT BATTERY SPIRIT.
THERE ARE TOO MANY DRAGGY BELIEVERS.
NOBODY’S STORY WILL EVER CHANGE, NO MATTER HOW HARD HE PRAYS, WITHOUT OBEDIENCE.
- Bishop David Oyedepo at CHoP
Please note this, God’s special favourites, I have discovered, are those who are dedicated in serving His interest.
Malachi 3:17-18
Not crybabies: those who serve Him.
You can get on that list if you so choose. There are many in this Church that are just in favour with God, ti won fo’riti (they are not struggling), life is just free to them…They are not struggling to make things happen. God is making things happen on their behalf, because they are serving His interest. They are not serving God for bread and butter, they are just dedicated to God’s interest as individuals by their own choice.
If I was still driving my Volkswagen Beetle till now, I will not be less committed: God knows, the devil knows, all the demons know.
Dedication to serving God’s interest brings you into favour with God: in season and out of season.
Please wake up, we are in a revival. Wake up. It is not a chocolate movement. Wake up. It is a movement for those who care to take responsibility to win the heart of God and make their strange marks on the earth. Church Gist. Please wake up.
Ephesians 5:14
Prayers: Jesus, speak to me again this morning. You’ve heard a Word from Him right now. I want to be in the list among those who are going to be in favour with you.
Jesus, help me to be dedicated in truth and in deed, to serving Your interest. Help me, to steadfastly so do, to tirelessly so do. Help me.
There are many men and women that are in favour with you, My God, I want to be on that list. Help me Jesus. In Jesus precious name we have prayed.
Jesus, we are here to hear from You again. You have already spoken to us, speak to us again, in Jesus name.
Psalm 102:13-15
Fearful favour!! God’s special favourites are those individuals, young and old, male or female who are genuinely dedicated to serving the interest of His Kingdom.
Malachi 3:16
Some fellows are complaining, “what is the profit that we are serving Him?”
Malachi 3:17-18
Not they, “…between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not” – Malachi 3:18
By grace, I have endeavoured my way to secure favour with God. I am not struggling about anything and for anything, yet things won’t stop happening. Please find your way there. Too many people in this Church are in that realm today; that are already operating in it and are growing in grace as they do it.
Join this chariot and join on time.
PROMPT RESPONSE COUNTS THE MOST IN OUR WALK WITH GOD
That has been the thought pattern of our exhortation this time. Prompt response!
Wait a minute, if you got a call for an interview and you missed the call, does that change the timetable? No, you lost it.
“My God, my battery went down”: It doesn’t matter whether your battery went up or went down. You missed the call for a change of level. You have missed it.
“We have never had light in my area for the past 10 years”: It doesn’t matter. You missed the call. You missed the call.
Many have lost too many opportunities? Why? Flat battery spirit. Communication: zero
Flat battery!
Can anybody ever hear from Heaven right now, “this is your hour” and still be complacent? But they can’t hear, battery is gone flat.
You can’t hear from God that “this is your hour” and be dragging, “we are coming. Yes, 12 souls. Oluwa (God) where will I get that kind of 12 souls? 3 ti to jare (3 is enough), even 1 is enough. Am I a Pastor? What is my problem?”
He didn’t know he is missing out of an opportunity of life. If he knew, he won’t do that.
Your missing the call does not change the timetable of the interview.
Your missing the call does not change the award of the contract: The people who came have been screened and you are out of it, you can’t get that job. So you will still wait till when another one may come and if miss it, wait. 15 years, wait. 20 years, wait.
You better recharge your battery not to miss diverse opportunities that this revival offers.
I have seen by grace 6 waves of revival in this Ministry. How did I get to know? I picked the signals, “this is what He wants to do.” I will pick something else now from this coming Easter, I won’t tell you. Church Gist. The time for it is not yet.
You better wake up, get your battery fully charged. All this one-quarter charge, “you know, 1 more bar remaining won’t do it.” You need a strong connectivity not to miss out on Kingdom opportunities.
Peter responded promptly to that Heavenly vision and then the gospel went into the Gentiles. In one sweep, the whole household of Cornelius turned their lives over to Christ and the Holy Ghost came on them same hour – Acts 10:24,34
Go down, doubting nothing, for I have sent them and Peter went down and followed them. Then God opened the door of the gospel to the Gentiles.
Every time you respond promptly to any Kingdom instruction, it is the opening of a new chapter. The opening of a new chapter!!! Prompt response.
Delayed response to any vision, divine direction, divine instruction can be most frustrating, if not devastating.
I was in the bathroom when I picked the Word from the Lord, “Arise get down to Lagos, raise Me a people”: someone was dispatched same day. See how Heaven invaded Lagos.
I was in the car driving from Zaria to Kaduna when the Mandate for Africa was delivered: same week, it was dedicated in the Breakthrough Night.
Many of us are too slow. They don’t drag into things of the Spirit. You don’t respond promptly, you can’t pick anything there.
They say, “go to Jordan and wash.” You say, “I am going for holiday first.” Carry go with your leprosy. When you go there later, you are going there to swim, nothing. The virtue that cleanses leprosy has gone, it went with that Word – 2 Kings 5:10
That Word is gone, it is gone.
Don’t serve God as convenient, serve Him as commanded. Church Gist. Wake up.
“I have been doing this for the past 5 years”: There is no well done in that.
Where is the proof that you are doing it right? Where are the proofs that you are doing it right?
I have been consciously in this since 1976: consciously so. Not team arrangement, not ‘let’s walk now, all of us are brethren’. I decided to be personally passionate about my engagement.
This thing doesn’t kill people, it refreshes people: you can ask me. This thing (soul winning) refreshes people.
Hard work don’t wear people out, it is wrong work that wears them out: gossiping, gossiping all over town.
“Did you hear what I heard? Have you heard? Did they tell you? Let me tell you now, more, ‘that man is a stupid man. That woman is a bad one.’ That one is a devil, the other one is a witch.”
Okay, what is your job? Are you a Census Officer? Just face where you are going.
-May you hear from Heaven that this 7th year of Wonder Double visitation is your year.
-May you hear that this is your hour of visitation and may you dive into it with all your being.
That is what it takes.
We have the story of this beloved in Song of Solomon chapter 5 verses 2 to 9, he knocked on the door, “open to me, my beloved.”
She said, “No, I have shut my door, I have washed my feet.” After a while, when the beloved put his finger through the hole of the key, she rose up, all ceremonies. By the time she came out, the beloved was gone. Came out on the street, “excuse me, my beloved. Who has seen my beloved?”
Watchmen caught her: they took her veil, they beat her, they messed her up.
Delayed response. You can read it when you get home. There are too many draggy believers Sir. Draggy!
God will talk to them directly in their own bedroom, from the Word of God, directly. Not that somebody told them and they are in doubt, God told them.
“I will think about it. Actually, October 1, I want to devote it to winning 12 souls.”
You didn’t win one from January to October: Well done, you have won one million (souls).
The temperature has gone Sir. The iron can’t bend again. Church Gist. If you put any iron in fire with the blacksmith, the moment the redness goes, you can’t bend it again.
Many have lost so many opportunities to nonchalant attitude, complacency, “it will happen if it will happen. You know God is not like that.”
I can tell you who God is. I have been around with Him, 53 years. I can tell you a bit of Him, I don’t know too much of Him, but I know a bit of Him.
Sir, nothing will change without your obedience. Nobody’s story will ever change, no matter how hard he prays Sir, without obedience, nothing will change. Nothing!
You can’t rewrite the Bible. It is a covenant Book!
Sir, I was checking through how many Pastors had resigned, sacked and then all that stuff: It is in hundreds, the last time I counted.
Okay, why is it not affecting the Church? It doesn’t happen. It is the engagement of individuals that determines his life, not anybody’s reaction or action.
My wife asked me about one Pastor, I said, “he has left since 2004.” She said, “hehn hehn.” We don’t discuss those things. He came by himself.
You better single out yourself and stop hanging around the crowd and missing your opportunities.
It is your turn for a change of story but you have to change your approach.
You have to stop being draggy and start diving into anything God says to do.
Now wait a minute, there is not one person in this Church who makes a project of 12 established souls that will not experience a dramatic change of story: not one, not two, not three. If he makes it a project.
Not, “well you know in our Church, that is what they say.” That was how you approached the one for last year, nothing happened.
The one before, that was how you approached it: nothing happened.
If you approached it this way: nothing will also happen.
Wake up. I love you. Church Gist. I want to see God’s hand and grace on you, beyond what I have seen in my own small life, if you will respond the way we have always responded.
You know what He said, “seek a quiet place, I want to talk to you”: That was how the Mandate was delivered. Delivered on ‘seek a quiet place’: Okay Sir. Then the long hour time with God came and then life came. Same week, action began; same month, fellowship began. That is how to move with God.
Everything God told Abraham: on the spot!!!
If you are Abraham’s seed, you better do the works of Abraham – John 8:39
If this month passes without your connecting with this, I think it is over. Let’s not waste our time. If it doesn’t dawn on you for 3 months, you will wait for next year.
If it doesn’t dawn on you that this is your hour, then forget it.
Isaiah 55:6 – The moment He withdraws from knocking the door, My God. God have mercy.
Revelation 3:20 -there are many people I want to knock on their doors.
-May you see this season as your season.
Any mark you make, it’s God’s mark through you, not me, not for the Church. It is you.
Your triumph is personal. Your breakthrough is personal. So get engaged, get connected.
Somebody here was fasting 12 days for Church planting. What concerns her? Small girl and then stumbled on a hand-sweating salary that can build a rural Church from one month’s salary. God is an awesome God.
His special favourites are those who are dedicated, deadly committed to serving His interest, with utmost delight, without going about announcing it.
Prayers: Lord, I must not miss my quantum leaps ordained for this season. Not operating as usual, operating in a new phase, a new realm.
Lord, I mustn’t miss the diverse opportunities loaded for me in this season. Pray that prayer over your life.
Grace to make a project of this target.
I mean minimum 12 (souls). What is in minimum 12 (souls)? Too cheap to realise for anyone truly dedicated to it.
Pray that prayer: 12 men and women must recognize you are the one God used to bail them out of that darkness into light.
Pray that prayer and grace to respond today, receive it. Thank You Jesus, in Jesus precious name.
That grace is available to you. The moment your choice is made, God is committed to supplying the grace. Now you have the grace right now. You will not be listed among the minimum, you will go beyond minimum. He will show you where the harvest is, He will show you how to approach them and you will be glad to see beyond what you expected in the name of Jesus.
Give God thanks. What an awesome God we serve.
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