*By reason of the quality of your engagement in this season.
*The favour of God in your life will weary the enemy.
*Weary the devil first before he wearies you.
*You are going somewhere and the devil is upset about it.
*When the devil deceives one person, God replaces with 10 persons.
One undeniable proof of returns on spiritual labour is favour. You sow to the flesh, you reap corruption; you sow to the spirit, you reap life everlasting and in His favour is life (Galatians 6:8, Psalm 30:5). A capital return on spiritual labour is favour!!!!
-Many will run into strange dimensions of favour by reason of your engagement this week.
Those testimonies we just heard are testimonies of favour returns. Favour! No one runs out of favour running after God and the interest of His Kingdom. Goodness and mercy keep running after them. You are running after God and the interest of His Kingdom, His goodness and mercy keep running after you (Psalm 23:8). Let me tell you this, the reason we are a mystery to the Church world and to the entire world is favour. You are not sweating, you are not struggling and yet things are happening.
-That’s the realm God is bringing you into.
Sweating is a curse. The curse was averted when Jesus came. No sweat, yet you can’t doubt the results. No sweat!
I had a top leader visit me one time, he said, “how much will this building cost?”
I said: I don’t know. If you had to borrow for it, you would know. You would know, the interest would help you to know.
Favour! Psalm 44:3
-Your days of struggle must end now.
-Your days of struggling for survival must end by this Operation.
God is saying something to someone. Good understanding on the way to favour grants uncheckered access to favour but the way of the ignorant who don’t know it, is hard.
Proverbs 13:15
Good understanding gives favour; but the way of trangressors is hard.
-Hardship must clear off your way.
-Drinking water as if you are taking your medication by measuring it, the time is over.
-You will not only have enough to drink, you will have to give to others. You will have more than enough to share with others in the name of Jesus.
-Expect favour in return for your labour.
- Your labour on the altar of prayer, expect favour in return!
-Your labour in pursuit after souls, expect favour in return.
Favour is a capital proof of acceptable spiritual labour. Your labour will not be wasted.
Prayer: Speak to my life Jesus. In Jesus precious name we have prayed (Luke 21:38).
Get seated please. If you want to stand like me, why not? We can all stand together, we are all brethren, so why can’t you stand? Why should you be sitting down when I am standing up?
Now, let me tell you this: Covenant Hour of Prayer will be on till Jesus returns. In case somebody is wishing that we might soon finish it. We won’t. Wherever 2 or 3 are gathered together, there am I in the midst of them.
You say, “I will never come”: it doesn’t stop it
2 or 3 gather together in my name. Maximum required in any prayer meeting is 3 for Heaven to intervene and what are we looking for? Heaven’s intervention. We were 68 people that were responsible in praying the hand of God upon this Commission. Now they started dropping and dropping and dropping; I guess we will be up to 21 at a point. God was hearing and answering. Amazing prophetic pillars were being laid in the midst of it.
Don’t pitch your tent against God, it won’t make any difference. It won’t make any difference.
“I am not born-again again”: Go ahead and be un-born. It doesn’t make a difference.
But in the name of Jesus, no matter how many people drop off following God, you will not drop off.
-No one in your generation will drop off.
IT’S NO BIG DEAL FOR GOD TO DOUBLE THE ATTENDANCE OF THIS CHURCH THIS WEEK.
We serve a God of overnight turnaround! A God of this time tomorrow (2 Kings 7:1). That means overnight, I will make the impossible happen.
Then someone who didn’t know God because you can run into trouble when you don’t know God.
2 Kings 7:2
“…stop that nonsense, we are not bigots. Behold if the Lord you are talking about will even make windows in Heaven, might this thing be?” Ignorant people.
And the prophet turned and said, “behold thou shall see it with thine eyes but shall not eat thereof.”
He (God) used an unthinkable weapon. Now watch how God did it.
2 Kings 7:6-7
“…a noise” – a noise, not a gun shot.
-Everything holding down our new converts and our invitees will hear a noise tonight. They will flee for their lives and their captives will be set free like a dream of the night.
He engaged the weaponry of a noise to scatter a whole strong army. The strongest army of that time, the Syrian army: a noise!! And He said, “I am the Lord, I change not” (Malachi 3:6).
So the Lord, by this time tomorrow, all the captors, all the ones that won’t let go our new converts and our new members, will hear the same noise; flee for their lives and let go the captives.
All the gainsayers, “don’t go there…”, will hear a noise and their mouths will be shut.
That’s why they call Him the man of war, the Lord of hosts: He can use anything to fight. He used a noise here, to win the war and bring to pass His Word.
-In the name of the Lord Jesus, the same noise will come down and shatter the camp of the enemies of God.
-Anyone and everyone ordained for eternal life will appear here on Sunday. Not one shall be left in the name of Jesus!
Now let’s watch this Man of war in Isaiah chapter 9 verses 5 to 6
“a noise”
“for unto us a child is born” – no matter what you do, you can’t stop my plan.
Isaiah 9:3-5
How did He do that? A noise, to bring in the harvest.
-This coming Sunday, we are going to be visited with the highest harvest in the history of this Church.
-Something is breaking forth. If that looks like you, let me hear your loudest Amen.
Esther stood and prayed for the rescue of the souls of the Jews in Babylon
Esther 4:16 – proclaimed a fast.
Esther 6:1-3 – The king could not sleep that night, asked for the book of records to be brought and they found in there how Mordecai rescued the king from being slain.
Has anything been done for him? Nothing. So they called his enemy, the enemy of the Jews.
Who is in the court there? They said, “Haman is there.”
Call him here. Haman, what should be done for a man that the king desires to honour? He thought he was the one (Esther 6:4).
Haman: Let the robe of the king be put on him and the ring of the king on his finger. Let him ride on the chariot of the king and let the chiefest of the ministers of the king, be shouting on foot before him, “here is the man that the king…” (Esther 6:7-8)
He (king) said, “go and do exactly the same thing to Mordecai. He (Haman) went home and hanged himself.
Overnight!
-Anyone that desires to destroy our new converts will be humiliated.
-Anyone carrying campaigns of calumny, anyone that hates the hand of God upon this Commission, that won’t let go those precious souls, will pay for it.
That night, the king could not sleep. We serve a God of overnight turnaround.
-There shall be massive overnight turnaround release for every of our new converts, every of our new members and every of our members in the name of Jesus Christ.
We serve a God of overnight turnaround.
-The same way many will experience overnight turnaround dimension of favour by reason of the quality of your engagement in this season.
Nothing flies like favour. David said, “God liked me to make me king” I mean you saw a boy just once and you say, “send for your son David, for he has found favour in my sight. Let him come and stay here.”
So he understood the workings of the palace because he was coming there.
1 Samuel 16:22
1 Chronicles 28:4 – “…God liked me to make me king”
-Many people will win God’s favour in strange dimension this time.
Favour located Joseph, he became the heir of Potiphar’s house: a stranger, a slave, no CV, no address, no contact (Genesis 41:40).
He got to the prison, favour trailed him there (Genesis 39:21). You can’t be following after God without favour following after you.
-Well you are going to hit strange dimension of favour because this growth, explosion is coming overnight, your favour will also come overnight.
For this to happen, we just must refuse to stagger at the promise of God, God is up to anything He says!
-We shall see overnight intervention the way we have never seen it before this coming Sunday.
Therefore, be strong in faith like Abraham, to be part of the army of the Lord pulling in the harvest; you now know what to pray:
“Oh Lord, send forth your noise that will cause the enemies of the souls of these new converts to give up on them.”
“Send forth your noise that will silence the mouth of the scorners.”
“Send forth your noise that will let go all the people you have ordained for eternal life.”
And He will do it. Praise God. Good understanding procures favour, but the way of the ignorant is hard (Proverbs 13:15). The way of peace they know not, so they make broken cisterns for themselves, cisterns that cannot hold water. He is the way of peace, He shows us the way to favour and I tell you something, favour is provoked by our interest in God and the interests of His Kingdom; our commitment to God and the interest of His Kingdom.
Psalm
“I have also given you that which you have not asked”: what is that? Favour
-There are things you’ll never ask that will be added to you in some strange dimensions this time.
How? Solomon loved the Lord (1 Kings 3:3)
John 21:15, 17
Do you love Me? Go after my lambs.
Do you love Me? Go after my sheep.
I will add to you things that you never asked for, by favour.
-That is what is coming your way.
Psalm 44:1-3
“They got not the land by their own strength, neither did their own arm save them, but thy right hand and thine arm and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favour unto them.”
-The favour that terminates struggles is what you are coming out with. You are coming out with that.
The favour of God that terminates the struggles of men is what is trailing you as a return for this engagement.
So get excited:
When you pray, pray with fervency. Not casual prayers. Carry those names in your heart and pray them down to the point of establishment.
You are going out: go out with unusual passion to see them saved.
God is marking, God is watching. We have been enjoying unusual favour, indescribable favour as a Church. The anger of agents of the enemy notwithstanding. Church Gist. The favour keeps flowing and flowing.
I told one of my sons in the system, “hey you know why the devil is very upset about us? When 1 goes, 10 replaces them. Leave them ‘jare’. You deceive one and then God release 10.” So what’s your problem?
-You will never know a setback anymore in your life.
-The favour of God in your life will weary the enemy.
I told him, “satan has been going around wearying people. We are going to weary satan. We are out to weary him. He has been wearying people all around, we are going to weary him.”
Daniel 7:25 “he (satan) wearies the saints.” That is his job, he wants to weary you: enough, enough, don’t go further. Hey, stop there.
We are out to weary him. We are busy wearying him. He is very wearied. We are still going out today.
I told my team, when you call and they say, “no, don’t call me again.”
Response: I know this is a very busy time for you, I will call you back again.
I say, “Don’t call me again.”
I said: I know you might be busy right now. You know it is business time. I will call you back later. God bless you and you stop the phone.
Then you call him again.
“It is still me. You know I promised that I will call you.”
We are going to weary the devil, I tell you.
-May you be part of the army of the Lord who will weary the devil.
Instead of waiting for him to weary you, weary him first. Weary him with everything inside you because you are going somewhere.
He is very upset about where you are going, so upset him (satan) further. Just keep going. Upset him further!!
When we were about to get into Lagos, he first of all gave us quit notice in our property in Kaduna.
You know why? Let me busy him with this one so that he won’t hear this next one because if he gets to Lagos I (satan) will be in trouble.
God said: Go and I left same day. Am I the owner of the flock? It’s not me they gave quit notice, they gave Jesus quit notice. He knows where to put His people.
He (satan) wants to weary you, weary him.
Come on say, “I have arrived at my final bus-stop. I am not going anywhere. I am for Jesus all the days of my life. I am for Jesus in the day, in the night, on my way to work, I am for Jesus. Satan woooo, I will keep praying Kingdom Advancement prayers, I will keep pursuing after souls because that is the gateway to favour. The favour from God that causes men to fly. You won’t stop me, you can’t ground me, I will ground you. I will weary you by the power of the Holy Ghost.”
If I tell you how much he (satan) tried to stop me, well I think it is better for him to give the testimony himself. It is better for satan to give the testimony. I just…like concrete. You pour water on concrete, you are strengthening it. You bring flood, it likes it, it triumphs in it.
All this somebody stole your shoe and then you now, “my shoe, my shoe”: between your shoe and your leg, which one should be stolen?
-Well no more loss of any kind.
SPEAK TO THE 2, 3 DAYS REMAINING
I must deliver! Satan, I refuse to be wearied. I am pressing on!!
Prizes are not won at the beginning of a race, they are not 3-quarter to the end of it, prizes are only won at the end of it.
I am going forward, I am going forward!! I am pressing on!! My change is just around the corner. I am one of the candidates for the overnight turnaround. I refuse to give up. My tempo of engagement in increasing. I thank You Jesus because on Sunday, I am here with my harvest. Every soul assigned to me, I am here with my harvest.
Thank You Father, in Jesus precious name we have prayed.
Go in peace. Everyone you pray over this week must appear on Sunday.
Everyone you reach out to must respond to the call.
And your own overnight turnaround will come along.
We are going to see the overnight intervention of God this coming Sunday in dimensions you have never known.
The tracts, the fliers are all available, so make do with them.
SPEAK TO THE DAY
Take hold of the day. Give the day direction. The day must respond, the day must deliver.
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