BISHOP DAVID OYEDEPO ANNOUNCES HUBS FOR FREE TRANSPORTATION FOR MEMBERS TO AND FRO CHURCH.
YOU CAN’T TAKE PLEASURE IN GOD’S CAUSE AND LIVE UNDER PRESSURE.
WE HAVE NEVER RAISED A PRAYER POINT FOR MONEY IN THIS CHURCH SINCE INCEPTION.
MONEY CAN’T PRESERVE ANYBODY, MONEY CAN’T KEEP YOU ALIVE, ONLY GOD CAN.
YOU MAY HAVE READ ALL THE BOOKS I WROTE BUT UNTIL YOU DISCOVER MY HEART FOR GOD, YOU HAVE NOT FOUND MY SECRET.
THIS COVENANT OF SEEDTIME AND HARVEST OFFERS FAR BEYOND FINANCIAL BLESSINGS BUT PROCURES FOR US ALL-AROUND BLESSINGS.
WALKING IN THE STEPS OF GIANTS IS WHAT MAKES ANYONE A GIANT.
LOVE IS WHAT EMPOWERS THE REDEEMED FOR WEALTH NOT JUST GIVING.
GIVING IS A BIBLICAL PROOF OF THE SINCERITY OF OUR LOVE.
NOTHING DONE IN LOVE EVER FAILS BECAUSE LOVE NEVER FAILS.
ONLY LOVE MOTIVATED GIVING GUARANTEES ACCESS TO THE REALM OF FINANCIAL FORTUNE IN THE KINGDOM.
YOU CAN’T BE IN LOVE WITHOUT BEING A GIVER BUT ONE CAN GIVE WITHOUT LOVE.
NOBODY EVER REGRETS BEING IN LOVE WITH GOD, PEOPLE ONLY REGRET DESPISING HIM
YOU CAN’T BE IN LOVE WITH GOD AND BE STRANDED.
WE MUST LEARN TO GIVE OUR SEEDS WITHOUT SOUNDING A TRUMPET.
CONSISTENCY IS WHAT COUNTS IN THE COVENANT OF SEEDTIME AND HARVEST.
– Bishop David Oyedepo on “WALKING IN THE COVENANT OF SUPERNATURAL BLESSINGS 5” at Midweek Communion Service || LFC Canaanland || 17th April 2024 ||
Jesus let the breath of the Holy Ghost come upon your Word tonight and let that Spirit enter into everyone’s heart and trigger a turnaround in Jesus’ name.
Remember the prophetic focus for the month is IN THE DAYS OF FAMINE I SHALL BE SATISFIED. Psalm 37:18-19. The ones who are standing upright in the covenant, their inheritance shall be forever. The happenings on earth can’t affect them. We are looking at WALKING IN THE COVENANT OF SUPERNATURAL BLESSINGS 5. Church Gist. Deuteronomy 28:1. Inside this book (the Bible) lies the force that can put an ordinary man above all nations of the earth if he will diligently hearken and observe to do all that is in it.
Psalm 35:27. You can’t take pleasure in His cause and live under pressure. I have proven and I have found Him so. People may change and the earth be removed but Jesus will never fail. Those who take pleasure and favour His cause are not permitted to live under pressure. Wake up! Psalm 102:13-15. I am glad to let you know the time to favour you has finally come. Fearful favour for those who care to take pleasure in the affairs of the Kingdom. Church Gist. Fearful favour! The kind bestowed upon your Church. No games, no begging, no cutting corners, fearful favour. Many in this Church today are under that grace of fearful favour by their untiring pleasure in Kingdom affairs. We can do nothing against the truth but for the truth. Truth is truth, take it or leave it.
All through scriptures, the covenant of seed time and harvest has proved to be the gateway to a world of supernatural blessings. There was a turnaround for Judah as they turned to the mystery of seeking God first. Everything turned. 2 Chronicles 15:3-6, 12-15. It is your turn to enjoy roundabout rest. Church Gist. Rest at home, rest at work, rest on your journeys, rest over your grandchildren. 2 Corinthians 9:6-8. Giving is sowing. Not grudging, God is not in need. God is not looking for who to help Him. God loves a cheerful giver. A giver that sees it as a privilege. Of thine am I giving you. If you didn’t give me, I have nothing to give. That is the outcome of seed time and harvest.
However, interestingly, this covenant offers far beyond financial blessings but procures for us all-around blessings. Phillippians 4:19. Luke 22:35. They didn’t lack anything. They didn’t lack peace, they didn’t lack joy, they didn’t lack protection. They didn’t lack provision. Among the blessings of this is the aversion of curses. Generational curses, hereditary diseases. Psalm 41:1-3. We saw these amazing blessings that come with the mystery of seedtime and harvest. From the covenant platform of seedtime and harvest, you are delivered from trouble. Church Gist. We live in a very turbulent world, you are delivered from trouble. That’s not money. Money can’t preserve anybody, money can’t keep you alive. You know he that giveth to the poor lendeth to the Lord. Do you think that it is just money coming back? No! These are the things coming back. So it is real wisdom to buy into the covenant of seed time and harvest. Amazing blessings are loaded therein.
Walking in the steps of giants is what makes anyone a giant. Isaiah 51:1-3. If you want this kind of blessing, take steps after his order. Hebrews 6:12.
Among the mysteries behind supernatural blessings is genuine love for God. Loving God empowers for wealth. In the Kingdom, love is fundamental to accessing the realm of financial fortune. 1 Corinthians 13:3. Love is fundamental. Romans 8:28. Now watch, love is what empowers the redeemed for wealth not just giving. 1 Kings 3:3-10…he (Solomon) was just driven by the affairs of the Kingdom. 1 Kings 3:13…it’s not something (like) ‘God, give me money’…the wealthiest man in Bible history never prayed for it. Church Gist. He never prayed for it. I don’t know where we got this theology from. He never. Incase, none of us knew Solomon anyway but you are in this Church, no prayer point has been raised while you are here – ‘O God, this day remember me. Things are tough, remember me. Things are going this way all around the World, remember me.’ Okay, why are we not in need? Why are we not suffering lack?
The love of God at work in us will empower us for wealth, not just our giving. Now watch, I see love as the good ground that empowers our seeds for maximum yield. There are 4 kinds of ground and if you check, those grounds are within man. By the wayside, on the rock, among thorns and then the good ground. The good ground is our heart for God. Church Gist. Nothing done in love ever fails because love never fails. All these ‘gri gri’ to grab money, you are sowing among thorns. It chokes after a while. Those who came for money, they saw some money and then the money took them off and they are choking. It’s the heart.
– Your time of rest has come!
– May God of Heaven give you another heart today!
Now, Matthew 13:23. Understanding is of the heart. So it gives an understanding heart. So, you find love as that ground. Love is that ground that guarantees returns on our seeds sown. Now, why is it 30 fold, 60 fold? Church Gist. Now the love content in your giving is what determines the level of return. Hear the joke. If there’s 100 fold, 60 fold, 30 fold, that means there is 20 fold, there is 10 fold, there is 5 fold, there is one fold and maybe there is no fold (laughs). So it’s the love content in our covenant walk that determines the level of returns we experience. So awake thou that sleepest, let your heart for God come alive.
It is loving God and the interest of His Kingdom that empowers the giving life of a believer which in turn empowers him for wealth. One cannot be in love without being a giver. John 3:16. You can’t be in love without being a giver but one can give without love such as giving of bribes or giving for what to get. 2 Corinthians 8:8…it’s talking about giving here. Church Gist. So giving is a biblical proof of the sincerity of our love. If you are not a giver, you are not a lover. If you are not a giver (not that you don’t have the gift)…if you are not a giver, you are not a lover. If you are not a giver, you are not a…you can pray from now till tomorrow, it doesn’t matter.
So the level of love in our giving is what determines the level of returns we experience. This is why, only love motivated giving guarantees access to the realm of financial fortune in the Kingdom. Ecclesiastes 10:15…he is labouring but no result. Church Gist. Now watch in Job 22:21-25. So it’s not just the law but the Word that makes the law work and that vital thing that makes it work is love. No matter what you give, if it’s out of love, it profits you nothing. So check your love barometer. Let it be up and running. Let it be up, let it rise.
Can I say this? No believer ever suffers failure while actively in love with Jesus. No! Church Gist. Love gets us immuned to failure. You hear the word, it’s not often repeated in Scriptures. Love never faileth. 1 Corinthians 13:8.
– Your days of failure are over!
All lovers of God in Scriptures enjoy financial fortune. We have the story of Abraham. He grew as a business emperor, had his own army that could take on the army of another nation. He was old and stricken in age and God had blessed him in all things. Genesis 25:1. Church Gist. And now Christ died to bring us under the blessing of Abraham (eternal blessing) and Abraham was a friend of God. He was a lover of God, that’s the meaning. Isaiah 41:8, James 2:23. God is calling him, my friend.
How much love was in Abraham? I mean, he took Lot along, Lot followed him whichever way and they were blessed. And there was a strife between the herdsmen of Lot and that of Abraham and he said ‘Look, come Lot, take any part you want.’ And Lot said, ‘This is an old man, he will soon die. So I choose all these green, all these brown, you can take. And Abraham joyfully let him go. Now, he became a prisoner of war. Church Gist. They took him captive, Abraham armed his trained men, he led the army to the war front at that age to rescue Lot his brother. He didn’t say God had caught him. He was dying of love. God said ‘I want to destroy Sodom’, He said ‘Please don’t.’ ‘If you find 50 righteous people I will not destroy it.’ ‘What if they are not 50 and there are 40? Will you still destroy it?’ ‘God abeg make you no vex. What if there are 30?’ God said ‘If I find 30 I will spare.’ ‘God, what of 20?’ ‘Let me take it upon myself this time. I am not trying to argue with you. What of 10?’ He won’t let go. His love for them was like the love of the Father. So without a heart of God, this thing won’t add value. It won’t add value to anyone without a heart for God. Daniel 6:28. Daniel was a diehard lover. He would rather die than disconnect from God. Songs of Solomon 8:6-7. Love is as strong as death. His heart for God was too much for death to disconnect him. You can’t be in love and be stranded. All things will always keep working for good for those who truly love God.
We saw the case of Job. ‘Even though He slays me, I will yet trust him. This trouble can’t disconnect me from God. I know that when He has tried me, I will come forth as gold. All the days of my appointed time will I wait until my change comes. I am not going anywhere. God me and you dey. Church Gist. I am going nowhere. I have seen troubles but I will see triumph. I can see my triumph. They are mocking me along with you, it doesn’t matter. I have settled’ and God settled him. In the same way, He will settle everyone here.
Let’s look at the example of David. The man with a heart for God. If you see a man after God’s own heart, he is a man with a heart for God. 1 Samuel 13:14. 1 Corinthians 2:9. You saw the boy David went after Goliath. ‘I will rather die than watch this insult on my God continue.’ Love drove him, not gimmicks. Love drove him and love got him the victory. He was a diehard lover of the house of God. Psalm 132:1-5. That is the kind of man. Psalm 84:1,10. 2 Chronicles 29:3-6. Those things given when calculated in dollars were in millions of dollars. He wanted to build a house for God and God said he won’t. He should get angry. He said ‘Lord, can I provide building materials for whosoever will build it? He won’t let go. The blessings went to eternity. Church Gist. Out of his loins came Jesus. “Jesus, thou Son of David.” ‘Yes. That’s my name.’ Today in heaven, He has the key of David. Jesus is holding the key of David, he opens and no man shuts. He shuts and no man opens. He enjoyed generational blessings that are speaking today.
Nobody ever regrets being in love with God, people only regret despising Him, ignoring Him.
Returns of our seeds sown demand that we:
1. Give without sounding a trumpet after our seed.
Don’t shout, ‘I have done this, I have done that.’ Let the returns speak. Church Gist. Matthew 6:1-4. No announcements. The rewards will start announcing themselves.
2. Give expectant of returns.
1 Corinthians 9:10. Be expectant of returns. You have to expect that you are not throwing seeds away, God’s covenant is not about seedtime, it covers harvest time. So expect harvest in return. Don’t keep pursuing after the harvest, just keep pursuing your part. When your cloud is full your rain will fall. The problem we have had is that people are not consistent. Church Gist. Consistency is what counts in the covenant of seedtime and harvest. The day you stop doing what it is, it stops working. The day a farmer stops sowing, he stops harvesting. All the ones He has done before will be forgotten. This is not make-believe stuff. Every truth of scriptures you find expressed in the lives of individuals who engage with them.
– You shall not labour in vain anymore in the name of Jesus.
Sir, if all you can get here today is a renewed heart for God then you have really come. Church Gist. If all you go out with today is a renewed heart for God then you made it because love never fails.
– You will never suffer failure again in the name of Jesus! Lift up your right hand everyone and give God thanks.
—PRAYERS—
You must have heard me say before that you may have read all the books I wrote but until you discover my heart for God, you have not found my secret. My secret is in my heart for Jesus. I love Him more than I love myself so He keeps all things working together for my good. Church Gist. There are several people like that in this Church. Join this chariot. We are not magicians – join this chariot. The only way to live more than a conqueror is to be in undying love with Jesus. Join this chariot, you will be glad you did. Those who command fortune in the Kingdom, they don’t crave after it. They keep craving after God in truth and in deed and He keeps decorating their lives.
– It’s your turn!
Now, for those of us who are here tonight who are not born again yet, that’s where the journey begins. He became poor that we the redeemed might be made rich. He obtained for us (the redeemed of the Lord) power, riches, wisdom, strength, honour, glory and blessings. So come on in. You don’t have a part in the inheritance of a family to which you don’t belong. You have to belong there. That you are close there does not entitle you to it – that you belong to that family to share the inheritance of the father. A good man leaveth an inheritance for his children’s children – that’s the way it works.
—ALTAR CALL—
Just before the communion is blessed, please listen to this very important information. Church Gist. We want to thank God again for the active engagement of members of this Church in providing transportation along our various zonal lines.
– Be blessed in return!
Now, we have been out on the streets, along the byways to bring people into the Kingdom. Many of us have converts that they don’t know anything about loading bay or no loading bay. So the Church has put in place transportation along all the major hubs across Lagos and Ota. Please note, the paralytic man was carried to have an encounter with Jesus not even by a vehicle. They carried him on the shoulder – 4 men with sticks. Church Gist. The lost sheep was carried on the shoulder back to the fold. Luke 15:3-7. The crippled man was carried daily to the beautiful gate before he had an encounter. So the Church is committed to carrying those by the wayside (people that have nothing) but Jesus needs them to make them something. So these major hubs will be free transportation. That means some fellows are paying for it. Praise God! Now, people are very busy in their zones. Praise God! But anyone who wants to sow a seed to this is free to sow a seed to it. But we will do that not to waste the harvest on the field. We can’t afford to waste the harvest on the field. So that becomes a platform for all your new converts to flow in. ‘Just go to so and so place’ and we have them now out on our various platforms. Praise God! How many have received it? The major hubs? What’s happening? Has it been sent? Okay, they will resend it if you have not found it. But all the major hubs that you were aware of are being reopened like Ipaja, like this and this – Iyana Ipaja. You have all of those places – those buses will be there. You will direct all your new converts and everyone that needs to be there to bring them to Church. Amen! Can I have your Amen? It is part of the demands of this revival and we are on with Jesus to make it happen.
– Not one soul rescued will be held in bondage again in the name of Jesus Christ!
– And may your own investment not only this season, investment of the past – everything will find returns this year because it’s your year of fortune in the name of Jesus Christ!
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