THE CARCASS ALONE OF THE NEW CATHEDRAL IS 36 BILLION NAIRA AND THE ENTIRE INCOME IN THE ACCOUNT WAS NOT UP TO 2 BILLION NAIRA AS AT WHEN GOD TOLD US TO START.
AMERICAN CHURCHES DO SEND MONEY TO OPEN CHURCHES HERE, IN OUR OWN CASE WE ARE SENDING MONEY FROM HERE TO OPEN CHURCHES THERE; THEY BROUGHT RELIGION, WE ARE TAKING CHRISTIANITY BACK.
I NEVER PREACHED TO ANY OF MY SIBLINGS OR ANYONE AROUND ME TO BE BORN AGAIN, MY LIFE ATTRACTED THEM TO CHRIST.
SOMEBODY MOCKED BISHOP OYEDEPO FOR DECLARING AN AIRCRAFT WHEN HE WAS USING A VOLKSWAGEN BEETLE.
I HAVE EATEN RICE AND PALM OIL SO MUCH THAT TILL TODAY IF YOU GIVE ME JOLLOF RICE TODAY I WILL HAVE TO TASTE IT BEFORE I LIKE IT.
IT’S NOT GETTING MONEY THAT WILL MAKE YOUR LIGHT SHINE; IT’S YOUR RESULT.
ANYTIME YOU WANT TO SEE SOMETHING HAPPEN, FRAME IT WITH YOUR MOUTH.
THERE IS A GHETTO IN BALTIMORE MARYLAND, WHERE THE HOUSES HAVE NO ROOF. IN AMERICA, CNN WON’T SHOW THAT, IT’S ONLY IN NIGERIA WHERE WE LIKE TO SHOW OUR OWN BAD THINGS.
FAITH SPEAKS EXPECTATION, FAITH DOES NOT SPEAK OF THE HAPPENING.
FAITH IS THE MOST POTENT FORCE IN THE UNIVERSE. IT WORKS IN ANY NATION OF THE WORLD. IT IS A UNIVERSAL CURRENCY.
GOD HAS NO PROBLEM DOING BIG THINGS, THE PROBLEM GOD HAS IS THE FAITH TO RECEIVE THE BIG THING.
REVELATION WITHOUT HOPE WILL DEVALUE FAITH.
HOPE IS THE WOMAN; FAITH IS THE MAN WHEN THEY COME TOGETHER THE OFFSPRING THEY PRODUCE IS CALLED A GOOD REPORT
-Pastor David Ibiyeomie at Salvation Ministries Home of Success| Week of Spiritual Empowerment, Day 3
Give Jesus a shout of praise, make a Joyful noise to him, let the noise reach the camp of your enemy. Hallelujah. Amen.
You will leave this service laughing from today, before 12 midnight today we will hear good news in the name of Jesus. Whatever the enemy held down shall be released now in the name of Jesus. Ni force in hell can keep down God’s property. I decree whatever belongs to us is released right now. It must be set free right now and so shall it be in Jesus mighty name. Give him a big hand and you may be seated.
Slap your neighbour a high five and say to them I celebrate you, join me to celebrate Jesus.
Glory to God!!!
Are you afraid to shake? If there is Coro, how many people are wearing masks in Ukraine and Russia, are they wearing masks to fight? So, all those things are rubbish, if Coro is there, the soldiers should have it. There have been fighting without mask, the world is so stupid. Okay who is wearing a mask in the war front. So, shake your neighbour and tell them I celebrate you. Who wears a mask to battle, won’t you see your enemy before wearing a mask? But that war must end, we decree the fight should come to an end, the demon behind that fight be judged, we decree peace, no further killing in Jesus name.
THEME: FAITH FOR ALL ROUND POSSIBILITIES
TOPIC: HOPE : PROVOKER OF FAITH.
Next month we will be talking about wisdom, it is the principal thing. If you have everything, if you have faith, power and all if you don’t have wisdom, you’ll still be stupid. By wisdom God created Heaven and the Earth, the wiser you are the better life becomes. The biggest problem in the Body of Christ is foolishness and not the devil. ChurchGist. After all the faith and you get result if you don’t have wisdom it won’t work. What preserves your faith is wisdom, the wiser you’re the better life becomes for you. So, don’t miss next month. I used a whole year to pray for wisdom. 1 full year asking God for wisdom and many people don’t have it. We are celebrating one of the Highest men of Wisdom at 80, Papa Adeboye greatest secret is wisdom, the greatest secret of Oyedepo is Wisdom, my greatest secret is wisdom.
You can have all the power, cast out demons and also destroy yourself. But that is for next month. You’re created to be outstanding, that means God created you to stand out, he didn’t create you to bend to fit with the world, he created you to stand out. ChurchGist. You’re created as an asset and not a concern. God did not create you to be a liability he created you to be an asset. The Bible says you’re the salt of the earth, that means to preserve this decayed destiny of men. Matthew 5:13. Without you, life will lose taste, God is saying that I created you to preserve this decaying world, without you people will not enjoy life.
It also says that you’re the light of the world not the light of the Church, that means that people will see you and envy you and want to be like you. They will look at you and conclude that it’s good to serve God. ChurchGist. Anytime sinners see you they will want to be born again. You are the light of the world which means that you’re to set the pace, you’re to trail the blaze, you’re to find the path. Matthew 5:16. Don’t wait, do something to shine. That will make your good works, not your good looks, not your pancakes but your works, they will look at your result and be amazed. After today the world will see what God will do in your life.
So, you’re created for exploit, it’s time to go beyond the regular, let your light so shine, that when they look at you, they envy you and they want to be like you because they will see they kind of result you have, even with all their money they can get it and I am speaking to someone in the name of Jesus, your life will make others come to Christ. ChurchGist. I never preached to any of my siblings to be born again, I never told my brothers to be born again, I never asked anyone around me to be born again, my life attracted them to Christ. One day one of my senior cousins who lives with us when we were small and everybody condemned him.
I told them don’t condemn him. He came to visit me, I didn’t tell him Jesus is Lord, I have not preached to him, I said leave him, he will be born again on his own, they said how, that he likes charms. You don’t know that something attractive can change a man, he came to visit and we kept on talking, I didn’t tell him that Jesus is Lord, when we finished, I said brother look at me, I called him bro (meaning brother) because he was our elder, so I said brother, there is a car outside, this trekking at this your age is not good, I asked him do you know how to drive? He said no, I told him they would teach you how to drive, take that car. He looked at me again, because combining all his salaries for years he can’t buy the car. ChurchGist. Where he came from, they use boats, if you have a car before the bridge came you will go and show your family the key. But now they can drive in, but then he showed his family the key that this is my motor.
You want to know the place? Look at the map yourself, the place has changed, it is now a town. But to cut the long story short, after that I was preaching and I said Jesus loves you, he wants you saved, before I could say jack, he was at the altar. Today, he is so dedicated, he is in the service group. Let your light shine before men. ChurchGist. You see your family members, after today, all of them through you shall come to Christ, all my extended family are born again, up to the fourth and fifth generation. I have a very long relation oh. Failure is an orphan, success has many brothers. You will be very successful. God said I want your light to shine, so that they may see your good works and glorify me saying it is good to serve God.
Now I decree, the next person that will be lifted shall be you. You won’t need to preach, many shall come to Jesus because of your lifting. Am I talking to someone? The Bible says the gentiles shall come to the brightness of your light. I decree sinners will through you come to Christ. What God will do in your life between now and this time next month will bring many to Jesus. ChurchGist. They shared a testimony with me two weeks ago, an American that was very arrogant in the University was talking anyhow to a child and it got to a point, she said the way you talk, you look different and the boy said yes. He asked him, who are you? The child began to talk, after they got to a point, the woman paused, she said I have seen this person on television, do you have any connection? The small boy said yes, we are connected. You know if you’re my member you’re my child, he said that is my father, she said excuse me that is your father? I know him, all her pride died. ChurchGist. She said I love this your Christianity, no wonder you talk like this. Now, the child did not preach that Jesus is Lord. The lecturer accepted Jesus, so you like that kind of Christianity, where your light will shine before men.
It’s not getting money that will make your light shine, that is you will get some result that will make some people flabbergasted. Now I decree, after today God will so decorate you with glory, dec you with blessing, dec you with honour that all men all over the world will respect you. Shout amen if you believe that. You know why I am prophesying; I am doing what I am doing consciously. Don’t think I don’t know what I am doing? I am speaking over your life, you know why, he framed the world by the Word of his mouth, so I am seeing multi billionaires rise. ChurchGist. I didn’t say millionaires, I mean multi billionaires, who am I talking to? I see great men and women rise up here, I see Governors coming out of this meeting. I see presidents/ senators coming of this meeting, industrialist from this meeting, academic giants from this meeting, students that will take their world by stop from this meeting, you’re one of them if you say a big amen. Great women and men in the name of Jesus.
Hebrews 11:1-3. Through Faith we understand that the worlds were formed… Why did God use plurals for the worlds? There is a financial world, world of success, world of deliverance, world of lifting, he is saying that those worlds are framed by the Word of God. Everything you’re seeing physical came from the Word of God, anytime you want to see a miracle happen, speak it into existence, I taught that deeply yesterday. ChurchGist. Anytime you want to see something happen, frame it with your mouth, frame it with the Word of God, you frame your destiny, this Church whatever you’re seeing today was framed yesterday and what you’ll see tomorrow has been framed today. So, I am speaking about something that will happen tomorrow today.
I am framing the world, so I am declaring to you; you will never be poor anymore. ChurchGist. I went to a Church and I was preaching and a young man sat in front and I said get up, listen this is the last day you will be a poor man, when I used the man for illustration, he was living in a place called Diobu in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. Diobu in Port Harcourt can be likened to Ajegunle in Lagos, it can be likened to the Ghetto in Baltimore Maryland. ChurchGist. It can be likened to the Ghetto in Los Angeles. In Los Angeles that is a ghetto, a place where people sleep on the street, very close to the white house and people are sleeping on the street, you may not know, homeless people, very close to the white house and they have no home.
Everywhere has a ghetto, just like we have in Port Harcourt. There is a ghetto in Baltimore Maryland, where the houses have no roof. In America, they won’t show you that on CNN, it is only in Nigeria where we like to show our own bad things. ChurchGist. There are people in America who don’t have houses, they sniff cocaine and they stagger all day long. That area if you go there, everybody is staggering. You will see a black woman with 5 children and they belong to 5 different fathers. ChurchGist. She will be high and the children too are equally high, if you see them, they live anyhow. They are staggering around because of the cocaine running around their brain.
So, he was living in a ghetto, in a bungalow we call face me I face you. He is hearing me as I am preaching, so I told him to stand up, this is the last day you will remain poor, this young man today talks in billions. So, I am not speaking words to make you get excited. ChurchGist. I am speaking words from deep revelation, I am framing the destiny of somebody and I declare, you will never be on the floor.
You’re going to rise and you will keep rising in the mighty name of Jesus. The greatest event if life came out of faith and God said…. And God saw. There was darkness and God said let there be light. ChurchGist. I am not going to teach much in that because yesterday I taught so much on that. There was darkness and God said let there be light, yes, you’re poor but I am saying you will be rich. Yes, you’re homeless, I am saying you will give people houses. Yes, you’re barren. I am saying you’re going to be fruitful. Yes, things are not working, I am saying things will work. You look like a failure but you’re going to win. You may not look like it but you will be the winner. You will succeed in the name of Jesus.
Every outstanding event of a man’s life in the Kingdom of God is a result of faith. God said let there be light and there was light. When there was darkness, he said glory come and his glory came. I don’t know what you’re going through, even if you came sick, I pronounce you healed in the name of Jesus.
Hear this, no man’s destiny is secured without faith. Your dreams will remain day dreams except faith gives them substances. ChurchGist. Faith is indispensable. Mark 11:22. Have God kind of faith. What is God’s kind of faith? The faith that speaks what he or she wants to see. God’s kind of faith does not speak what is happening, it speaks what is expected. In the midst of poverty, I said I will be one of the richest preachers in the world.
In the midst of poverty, I said I will be one of the richest preachers. In the midst of poverty, that’s God’s kind of faith. In the midst of a market not selling he said listen my market no goods will remain, all goods will be sold. In the midst of you begging he said listen I’m going to give people money to eat. Faith speaks expectation, faith does not speak of the happening, are you getting what I’m saying? Matthew 17:20. ChurchGist. If I say go it will go, nothing is possible without faith and with faith nothing is impossible. So, faith has the answer to everything. All things are possible to him that believeth. How many things? Including your thing, there is no impossibility with faith Mark 9:23. Faith is the most potent force in the universe. It works in any nation of the world. It is a universal currency. When God speaks, God speaks according to his size, now all you need is faith to receive what he has said.
God has no problem doing big things, the problem God has is the faith to receive the big thing. ChurchGist. You know why we teach faith? God has no problem doing anything, but many times the faith to receive the big thing is not there. Making you a billionaire God will not breathe is like taking a teaspoon from the ocean, but do you have the faith to receive what God is saying?
Now, God said to us go and restart the cathedral when they told us the carcass alone was 36 billion Naira and the entire income in the account was not up to 2 billion Naira, say with me: Faith! Faith!!
God said start the project, okay if I don’t have faith, I will be waiting for the money to be complete, let me save the money till it is complete, when the money is complete then I’ll start, that is faithlessness. ChurchGist. If God speaks, he’s speaking according to his capability to perform, he’s too big to depend on your federal Government’s budget and this church has never been under pressure concerning that project, that project is a multi-billion project, are you under pressure? Am I under pressure? Say Faith!
He spoke according to his size, I had the faith to take delivery of what he said, do you understand how it goes? Many times, God will speak but faith to receive is not there so there is a frustration, you will say if I can meet the Governor or the President this thing will work, the President too is looking for another person to preside over his life, my friend if God speaks that is all just have the faith to receive and I decree things will work for you. ChurchGist. Faith is standing on the integrity of God’s word as to commit him to perform what he has said he will do. Faith is simply trusting God and his word. Faith is what?
That you trust him and you don’t doubt him, because is not a man that should die. If you don’t know this scripture then you don’t know my preaching. This is my best scripture; God is not a man that he should lie. ChurchGist. Faith is whatever God says in the Bible, I believe it. Let me explain something to you. People trust everyone else’s word except God’s word that’s the problem, whatever anybody says; they will say I trust that man but they don’t trust God’s word that’s where faithlessness comes in. ChurchGist. Listen, your employer says to you I am going to increase your pay by #200,00, I am going to increase your pay by $400,000, I am going to increase it to so so Cedis whatever currency you use and you believe him/ her for their words. You say my boss told me he’s going to increase my pay by #400,000 do you believe the person?
Listen if the person has the capacity to tell you and say look next month your salary will be increased, will you believe the person? Why? You can believe the words of men yet you don’t believe the Bible which God himself told you, you see where faithlessness comes in?
You believe a man that tells you I am going to increase your salary by #200,000 and you don’t doubt him, yet when God says I am going to bless you think twice about it. ChurchGist. Faith is standing on the integrity of the Bible that whatever God said here he cannot lie, the day you get to that point results will come with ease, there is nothing God says here that I ever doubt, whatever God says in the Bible except I’ve not seen it if I see it I believe it and that settles it, get to a point where anything God says in the Bible you don’t doubt it, you stand on the integrity of that word because the one speaking cannot lie.
Faith is simply standing on the Word of God, God did you say so? I don’t doubt it and what you have said will come to pass irrespective of any contradictory circumstances that’s faith. ChurchGist. Men can fail you. They can tell they will increase your salary after Coro salaries were not increased. Many companies reduced salaries, but if God speaks, can I tell you something that will baffle you? During Coro the income of this church increased, that is the income of this Church grew during Coro, our attendance increased in Coro in one month we had over Sixty Thousand people we led to Christ and did foundation class for them in one month. Inside Coro where you were not coming physically to Church, you were not coming, how come you were not coming and the income increased?
You were in your houses they said no Church, the income of this Church grew, most of you were not working your companies did not pay you so how come the income increased? Faith. ChurchGist. You know where I saw it? The path of the just is like a shining light so Coro can’t stop that scripture to be fulfilled, so in the midst of Coro the income of the Church grew our problem is that we don’t trust God we trust people too much, you see my boss told me that he will give me #200,000 I know that man he has money he will not lie, the man is so rich, the richest God told you yet you are still doubting in your small head, saying I know God said so but….even if God say so man has to do his own part, thank you, with that your small brain.
My friend God cannot lie he’s too big to be harassed by 10 Trillion, there is no money you will need from God that will harass God, the Heaven and the earth who owns them? Now listen he said this, the Silver is mine the Gold is mine if he is the owner, okay why will you think that he cannot give you? He said if I gave you Jesus my most precious gift, is it money that I cannot give to you? Romans 8:32. ChurchGist. So, brother relax, say with me: from today I will trust God. So, faith is a spiritual force that moves the hand of God in your favour.
Do you know that words are powerful? I used to say that we are going to help America. All our Churches in America, it is from here in Nigeria we set them up and send them dollars to send, with time they will take over, to tell you how words are powerful. You know people go to open Churches in America for the American Church to help the African Church. ChurchGist. But our Church sent dollars here in thousands for them to start, you know why? I have been saying it here, we will help America. Many times, American churches do send money to open Churches here, in our own case we are sending money from here to open Churches there. We are doing that because they need us, they brought religion, we are taking Christianity back.
You know where it came from? From the Word, I used to say this Church will help them, are we not helping them now, a time will come that the churches there will run by themselves. Stop talking rubbish with your mouth, don’t just look at yourself and say poor me, we don’t have money, that you don’t have money in your pocket does not mean you don’t have money, you’re very rich. Tell your neighbour I am rich, don’t look at me the way I am, I am rich. If you’re afraid to say it, it’s your Business. ChurchGist. Some people are even afraid to say that they are rich because they don’t trust that they are rich so that the next neighbour will not ask me for money. Anything your mouth cannot declare your hand can’t possess? If it’s too big for your mouth to say it then it’s too big for your hand to handle. Please say it. You’re not poor, you’re rich.
Luke 1:45. Having a child without a man, is it naturally possible? No! Elizabeth could tell her so, because she became pregnant at old age. So, she knew that there is nothing God can’t do. She said Mary don’t bother, if God told you that you will be pregnant, you will be pregnant. ChurchGist. Just believe it and God will perform it, what you don’t believe God can’t perform, stop believing small things, believe big things. If it is God, it must be big. If it’s you it can be small but if it’s God it has to be big.
Anything that you can do, you don’t need God, if it’s something you cannot do you need God and today whatever is bigger than you God will do it in your life. ChurchGist. Faith is the spiritual force that commits the integrity of God. The Just shall live by Faith Habakkuk 2:4, Romans 1:27, Galatians 3:11, Hebrews 10:38. Faith is the ruling force in the universe. ChurchGist. What is faith then? Faith is a spiritual force that provides scriptural evidence for what you hoped for. I am taking the definition from Hebrews 11:1. Faith is the substance of things hoped for, evidence of things not seen.
Faith gives substance to hope, Hope plus faith equals to substance/ good report. Listen, why am I talking about hope today. Never get to the point of hopelessness if you don’t want to be spiritually helpless. Hope is a vital companion of faith, no matter how strong your faith is when your hope is lost and dead your case is worthless and closed, in case you have given up on life say with me that there is hope. 1st Peter 1:3. That dead situation will be brought back to life by the resurrection power of Jesus in the name of Jesus. ChurchGist. Biblical hope is the anticipation of good things to come. Expectation of what is yet to come but you’re sure it will come, that is what we mean, hope is the foundation upon which faith builds, Hope offers a resting place for your place. It’s hope that gives strength to hold on to the end, if you don’t have hope you can give up easily. What faith does is to empower hope to become a reality. Revelation without hope will devalue faith.
Let me say this to you: Stop having hopeless thoughts, hopeless looks, hopeless feelings, it will make you totally helpless. Don’t go around telling people you’re hopeless, they are not your God. Just tell him you don’t have money, give me some cash, don’t go around telling him that you’re hopeless. You will think the man will pity you that is why you’re in the pit. ChurchGist. Every time people pity you; you can’t come out of the pit. Stop making statements that will bring pity, start making statements that will bring courage and hope, instead say that: find me some cash but I know things will get better tomorrow, but for today just get me some cash.
Hope is to see a bright future in line with scripture and faith brings it into reality. Genesis 13:14-15. God told Abraham to lift up his eyes, that is not the physical eyes, it’s the eyes of the mind, imagination, he was not talking about the physical eyes, he was talking about the Spiritual eyes, you know you can be where you’re and seeing something else, God said lift up your eyes from where thou art, from the place where you are, from the point of poverty. ChurchGist. You have only one shoe, in fact the transport money that took you to church now, you had to struggle to get it. From that point lift your eyes up. Look northward (Genesis) and southward (Malachi) and Eastward (Matthew) and westward (Revelation). God will never deliver into your hand beyond what you see.
When this Church started, a local television came to me and said we want to do the opening and closing prayer for the Television station. I was not on television yet, they will put one cloth at the back, after the cloth they will put a chair there for you to do the opening prayer. ChurchGist. So, I asked the man all you want me to do on Television is just to do opening and closing prayer, no I am not doing that, I was not on television then and I said from where I am that i am going to be a global preacher, I saw myself preaching to the world when I was not yet on television.
Yet from where I was, I saw the globe, is it a reality now, there is no continent on earth today where you won’t see my face, nowhere in the whole world, why? Hope saw the future, faith brought it into reality, am I talking to you. ChurchGist. What are you seeing? If you see nothing, you get nothing. Whatever you cannot see ahead of you, your faith is not qualified to deliver it to you, are you seeing yourself rocking on that executive chair?
Are you seeing your shop becoming so big that other shops depend on you? Are you seeing yourself among the top? How many can see? Hope sees the future; faith brings it to the now. How many can see? Many people can’t see anything, if you have hope, I can tell you that if you see a man who has a future nothing can make him to be downcast. ChurchGist. When you see somebody who is easily discouraged then he has no hope. People with hope don’t get discouraged, they can sleep on the floor and be laughing, they will tell you forget it, I am going somewhere, they can be sipping cassava popularly known as garri and they will see it as salad, because if corn with milk is corn flakes, garri with milk is also called garri flakes.
They can enter a public transport that is very uncomfortable and still say soon I will be inside my Rolls Royce. God will never deliver to you what you have not said, I saw myself as a global preacher before I became a global preacher. Romans 4, you’re not anyhow Christian you’re a solid Christian. ChurchGist. That you’re sleeping on the floor today does not mean you’re the floor. You’re somebody who will soon be giving out houses. I was trekking yet I saw myself giving out cars. When this ministry started. I was trekking, I have given more than 50 cars in 2 months as gifts but there was a time that I was trekking, while I was trekking, I told myself, I am going to give cars. I told you yesterday, I told God one day I am going to give $1,000,000 and in 2012, I gave $1,000,000 in a Sunday service without raising any offering, that is over #550,000,000 in a single service, anything you can’t dream God will not make it happen, stop seeing yourself suffering for life, you know why? What you cannot see, God cannot make happen.
Romans 4: 17-18. God told Abraham that you’re going to be a father of many Nations yet at 99 he has no child. But his hope was strong that the God who said it cannot lie, that was hope, he was so strong that he said No! The one who spoke cannot lie. I can’t die without having a child. Hope: he refused to give up and then his faith was strong. ChurchGist. Hope is the Woman; faith is the man when they come together the offspring they produce is called a good report. No matter how strong a man is, he will never have a child without a woman, so your faith without hope will not produce. Yes, you have all the necessary things to give birth to a child but the woman’s womb must carry it
So, hope is the woman and faith is the man and they produce a good report. Abraham had hope and he had faith in God who spoke, he saw the future and he refused to write off his future, he said even though things are contrary I can’t write my case off, because the one who spoke is capable and has the capacity and ability to make it happen. ChurchGist. So, I stand on the integrity of that word no matter who mocks me it must come to pass.
Abraham staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strong in faith. Is there anything God has said to you, it will come to pass right now. ChurchGist. God was the one who said to me to start the project, I called the Church then I said let’s go to the site and start the project, as at the time God said to me, believe you me, we never had such money. In the account of the Church as a whole, we don’t have up to # 2 Billion and the estimate for the carcass was # 36 Billion. But I had faith and I had hope that God who said it would make it happen. That as we are going, he will supply. Is it happening now?
That roof today, there is no construction in Nigeria that has our space frame, not government or private. That is the longest space frame on earth today. Millions of Dollars, Billions of Naira. The roof alone can build cathedrals everywhere. Our convenience, the toilet which is 20 in number, is a cathedral of many churches. ChurchGist. The price of one toilet is one cathedral, that is to say the whole money we spent here, everything in this current building plus the light, the toilet of the project is more expensive than this entire Church.
Why? I have hope that God can’t lie, my faith was strong, I refuse to give up on the future and I know that God will make it happen. Is it happening? Many things God said to you; you’re afraid. You’re saying you don’t know how your tomorrow will be. You know the one that knows your tomorrow. ChurchGist. Because you know the one that knows your tomorrow, your tomorrow is secured. Abraham said I am fully convinced. There is nothing God has said to me that he cannot do and I decree that there is nothing God has said to you that will not happen in your life. Everything God has said to you will happen as I am talking to you in the name of Jesus. So, hope and faith works together.
HOW DOES FAITH RELATE TO HOPE?
A) YOU CANNOT HAVE FAITH IN WHAT YOU DO NOT EXPECT.
So, hope sets the goal for what faith targets. Yes, I’m going to be the President of this Nation. ChurchGist. That is hope, then faith comes in to stand on the integrity of God’s Word. I’m going to have my children. That is hope, faith is that God, you said it, then it will come to pass. I am going to lend to Nations. I am going to open a business that will shake Nations, you have set the goal then faith makes the target. Hope is like the goal post faith is the ball that kicks it to the post.
B) HOPE EMPOWERS FAITH.
Without hope your faith can never produce, when hope is dead faith becomes impotent, hope I the wife of faith and their offspring is called a good report.
C) HOPE IS THE NEEDED ENVIRONMENT FOR FAITH TO GROW.
Once someone gives up on any issue, that person becomes helpless. No matter your faith, if you give up it can’t work again.
D) HOPE STRENGTHENS FAITH. Psalm 31:24. If God has said it, then he will do it. That was what Abraham did, he believed God when I’d hope was against hope. When there is hope, faith is strengthened. Hope blinds you to contrary circumstances. ChurchGist. Hope is a blind, Abraham statement was the language of hope. Hope is not an enemy of faith; hope is a good companion of faith. Are you getting what I am saying?
Job 14:7-9. Say with me: I still have hope, I will bounce back again, my case can’t be closed. Please don’t think your case is closed. Jeremiah 32:27. There is nothing too hard for God. Is anything too hard for God? Is any sickness too hard for God? Is that money you’re looking for too hard for God? Hope looks at the future and then faith brings it to pass. ChurchGist. See beyond where you are now, see where you’re going. How many can see? See beyond your small shop.
My mentor Bishop Oyedepo was using a Volkswagen Beetle but he saw himself flying in the air, he didn’t see a beetle, he saw an aircraft. ChurchGist. One day somebody mocked him. He came to preach about prosperity in a Church and the man mocked him. He said: when some of us are buying cars some people are saying they are flying in the air with all this tired beetle. He said it was just left for the man to just say I am talking to you. The man could not see what he saw. So, when he was talking the man was mocking him. But today where is he? if people are mocking you, keep on declaring where you’re going.
Somebody mocked me, I will never forget, he said why did you go to GRA, you want to show that you have money. I looked at the person who talked to me, are you the one that sent me to GRA, it was a mockery of the highest order. ChurchGist. But the person came to me for help and I was the only one to help him. After he had mocked me in time past and I told him don’t say twice it will be done. Don’t allow what you’re passing through to affect you. Some of you the way you look is making people pity you. Before you even enter the Church, you want everybody to know that you have not eaten. The way you even stood in front of the gate; people will have to ask you if everything is alright.
You will never know when things are not good with us from the expression on my face. Even when we had no food I was still laughing, it’s a testimony that I will begin to share later. I have eaten rice and palm oil so much that till today if you give me jollof rice today I will have to taste it before I like it. I ate rice and palm oil so much, the day my wife puts crayfish, Glory be to God. ChurchGist. Nobody knew in the Church I would just come and say Jesus loves you, I am going to be a very rich man, I am going to feed people in my house.
Don’t allow your look make you look hopeless, see beyond where you are, if you know where you’re going, what you’re passing through will not move you, say to yourself: I will wake up, the world is waiting for me, my case is not closed, I will build my faith as to get to my destination, my destiny is for the top and I will build my faith to get there. Brother look at me very well, I will get there, the top is my place. I will not settle for the bottom, don’t mind what you’re seeing now, I still have something left and that which God have for me I must get there.
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