Hallelujah
Shall we lift our hands to Heaven this morning and let’s give glory to God. Let’s appreciate Him. There is no doubt that the testimonies that we have heard are the doings of the Lord. No man can do these things. It is God at work in our midst.
Give Him thanks, give all the glory, all the honour, all the adoration and all the praise unto the name of the most high God. Let your voice of thanksgiving be heard on high as you give praise and glory unto His holy name, celebrate Him and honour Him this morning.
Lord I’ve come this morning to hear your voice. Blessed be Your name in Jesus precious name we have prayed.
Father this morning we thank You for the blessings of your presence. We thank You for all that You have done for us, for the testimonies of Your mighty hand, for the answers to our prayers, we give You all the glory.
This morning Lord our eyes are upon, we have come to hear from You. Speak to us today and let Your Word change our lives. We give You the praise in Jesus precious name we have prayed.
Our exhortation for this week has been captioned
NO CHURCH GROWS WITHOUT A PEOPLE ON THE GO
We have established the fact that we serve a God of addition and multiplication.
Acts 2:47
Jeremiah 30:19
God’s intention is to continuously advance His Church.
Matthew 16:18
We must plant and water before the God of increase can intervene.
In other words, there is a man part before there is a God part.
1 Corinthians 3:6
That’s why we are looking at this very important subject. The fact that no Church grows without a people on the go. There must be people in action before they can secure God’s manifestation. As we go further today, the Holy Spirit will give us light in Jesus name.
Let’s take note of these very important factors that God’s house cannot be filled without His servants going out to compel people to come and be satisfied with the goodness of His house.
Luke 15:16-23
From this Scripture we have a very clear indication that for the house of the Lord to be filled, His servants must go in to compel men to come. It is that compulsion that brings about the ingathering of souls into the house of God. It’s important for us to understand that when souls are compelled and they come into God’s house, not only do they arrive there but they’re filled with his goodness.
Psalms 65:4
The feast is a feast of goodness. It is the feast that is loaded with every good thing that men desire.
Matthew 11:28-29
In other words whatever is causing unrest the answer is available with Me. So come unto Me and when you come how will the answer be distributed? He says “Come and learn of Me”.
Colossians 1:12
Every good thing is available in His Word and that Word is available in Church. God says it’s our duty to go out and compel them. Now the question is what does it mean to compel? To compel means to convince beyond any argument.
There are many times that there are excuses that may be made against people being drawn into God’s house. But to compel means to go beyond the excuses.
You look at the testimony that was read yesterday at the Covenant Hour of prayer, about a young man. He said He was at a particular joint one day smoking and drinking his sorrows away, a sister came and gave him a tract and began to compel him to come to Church. He discovered this sister was not only compelling him but praying for him and eventually he arrived in Church, gave his life to Christ and God turned his story around.
Compelling means going beyond the excuses. What else does it mean to compel? It means going beyond their discomfort. Many times the barrier between men coming into the house of God is usually their discomfort. Somebody will say “Oh the distance is much, I can’t make it”. But to compel means to go beyond their discomfort.
Isaiah 43:6
Going beyond their discomfort, ensuring that there is a way for them to come outside of their discomfort, making provisions for them, giving solutions to the things that may have discomfited them, that is what it takes. The issues of their lives have solution only in Zion.
The Bible says in the Book of Obadiah that upon Mount Zion there shall be deliverance and holiness and the house of Jacob shall possess her possession. So their position is available in Zion but we must compel them beyond their excuses, we must compel them beyond their discomfort. Shout hallelujah.
Not only that, at the same time no Church grows without praying to the God of increase to step in. So there is the growing part and there is the praying part. There is a demand for us to stand on the altar of prayer and pray. Why? Paul may plant, Apollos may water, it is God that gives the increase. From that testimony you discover that that sister did not only go but she also stood on the altar of prayer and prayed and as she prayed God gave her that soul as increase.
So there’s a demand for us to not only go but also to engage the altar of prayer.
Jeremiah 33:3
The effectiveness of our going is determined by the fervency of our praying. How committed we are to engaging the altar of prayer determines how effective we will be as we go into the harvest field.
Acts 6:4
We want to see the multiplication but it will take our engagement in intercession.
Ezekiel 36:37
Not only must we be on the go but we must continue to be on our knees. The combination of the two brings about supernatural explosion of multitudes.
- In this season we shall see souls rescued from the power of darkness.
We are on a rescue mission. We’re not on a Church growth craze, were on a rescue mission. Look at the testimony we heard this morning, that woman was on the way to destruction, hiring people everywhere to pray and fast, bathing with the blood of chicken, incisions all over the body, yet going backwards and backwards. The enemy was intent on bringing her to destruction untill God brought her to this Commission.
Those that we are meeting, it may be their last chance. We are on a rescue mission.
- May each one of us receive grace to be effective rescue agents in the name of Jesus. We are on a rescue mission and that means it’s an urgent mission.
- For each one of us as we take this task with urgency, I see souls being rescued in the name of Jesus.
As you engage you can expect Him to decorate you. - I see God decorating you openly in the name of Jesus.
Lift your hands and take grace this morning to be an effective rescue agent , compelling souls to come. I must not be an onlooker in this season, I must be a partaker. Lord I receive grace. Lift your voice and pray that prayer from the depth of your heart. I take that grace this morning.
Plug into it as you pray in the Holy Ghost. Thank You mighty God in Jesus precious name we have prayed. As you have asked of God that grace shall be made manifest in your life.
Now speak to the day, another opportunity is here. Make your decrees and declarations known concerning the day. Whatever you decree God is bound to deliver. Do it in faith, do it with confidence. Speak to the day. The day is blessed, a loaded day, a favoured filled day, a testimony day, a day of advancement, a fruitful day. Lift your hands and give thanks. Father thank You in Jesus precious name we have prayed.
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