TODAY, THE SAME AREA IS WHERE WE HAVE HAVE GATHERED THE LARGEST CONGREGATION IN THE CITY AND THE STATE
THAT PEOPLE HATE YOU DOES NOT MEAN YOU WILL NOT SUCCEED. NO MATTER WHERE YOU PLACE A BLESSED MAN, HE CAN NEVER FAIL!
NEVER ‘COMMONIZE’ THE OIL UPON A FATHER. YOU CAN’T DRAW VIRTUES FROM AN ANOINTING YOU DON’T VALUE!
- Pastor David Ibiyeomie on “The Father’s Blessing” at SMHOS First Service
Shall we lift our hands and praise the King of heavens. Heavenly Father, speak to us through your word. Church Gist. Let the word that I will speak be confirmed with signs and wonders. And only Jesus be glorified. Spirit of God, sanctify the words of my mouth and let them carry power with effect in Jesus’ name.
Give him a big hand. You may be seated. If your neighbor is a good neighbor which I know is a good one, welcome your neighbor with a high-five. Tell your neighbor, “I celebrate you. Praise the Lord!
Today, we will be looking at ” The Father’s Blessing” Hear me people of God. The blessing is the most powerful force for success. It is a divine empowerment for successes, for prosperity, etc. Church Gist. The first word that our heavenly Father ever pronounced on men was the blessing. In Genesis 1:28, “And God blessed them” which includes you and me. It was that word he pronounced that made man to be fruitful, multiply, replenish the earth and subdue it. Everything about dominion was from one word…”And God blessed them”.
- As the word that comes out from my mouth should not return to me void, so, I give voice to that word. The God of heaven who called me by the grace of election bless you. If that Amen is from your heart, it will show it.
And God blessed them. One word brought fruitfulness, brought dominion, brought everything that man became. (Genesis 1:28). One day I was preaching, after getting deep revelation on the blessing and I came to Church workout saying be healed, and I said, ‘God bless you’ That one word made two children with sickle cell from SS turn AA.
- Now in the name of Jesus Christ to as many that believe that God called me by the grace of election, The God of heaven that called me bless you.
- If you believe it, you will see a miracle.
It says the blessing of the Lord, it maketh rich and addeth no sorrow. The blessing of the Lord, not the work you do. Listen, the blessing has supernatural power. Church Gist. Proverbs 10:22. The blessing of the Lord empowers you to be rich and when you are rich, it is sorrow-free, sickness-free, cancer-free and failure-free. The blessing of the Lord. So what makes you succeed is not just how far you work. Is that clear? You can work and work and nothing will work. It says, “The blessing of the Lord” So when a man is blessed, things will just work for him.
- So, I pronounce you, on this Father’s Day blessing, blessed in the name of Jesus.
The blessing is powerful. It is an invisible force that triggers visible manifestation. When a father proclaims a blessing on you, God confirms it. He confirms the words of his servants and performs at the counsel of his messengers. Hear this, people of God, fathers are spiritual ladders with which we climb to see farther. The pronouncement of blessing from a father can change a man’s destiny. Somebody’s story will change. Church Gist. The blessing will make you be in charge anywhere, any day, anytime. When you are blessed, anywhere you go, things will just work for you. Is that clear?
-From today, things will work for you.
The word blessed simply means empowered to succeed. In the book “The Power of Blessing”, if you read that book, you will see where I wrote that “One is to win an election; two is to be sworn in” They are not the same. That is why when somebody has won an election, he is called a president-elect. That means he has not entered office yet. There was a state in Nigeria, a day to swearing-in, the man was even exercising for swearing-in when they said he not going to be sworn in. Now, that is how the blessing is you are now empowered to enter into office. Church Gist. When you are not blessed, you have been elected. When you are blessed, you have been sworn into office Do you understand? They are not the same. When a man has not been sworn in, they call him, President-elect. That means as elect, he can still be removed. But when he is sworn in, he has entered office. Are you getting me? The blessing is taking the oath of office as a man who carries the empowerment to succeed. Shout Hallelujah!
Now listen carefully, the blessing is divine enablement. The blessing is the supernatural hand of God that brings changes in the natural. When a man carried the blessing, you cannot destroy his destiny. A blessed man cannot be destroyed. If you want to destroy him, you destroy yourself. Isaiah 65:8. When a man carries blessing, you can’t destroy him.
- As from today, no one at the reach of my voice will be destroyed.
They couldn’t destroy Joseph not because of strength but because of the blessing. When they threw him into the pit, it was actually to kill him. Listen, they can remove the coat of many colours from you, they can sack you but when you carry blessing, you will still succeed. Joseph was a man who they hated. The Bible says his brothers hated him the more. Church Gist. That people hate you does not mean you will not succeed. They hated him to the point that they wanted him dead. He was carrying the blessing. It was that blessing that kept him going from one level to another one. From that pit, you all know the story to prison. But there was one thing that never left him, what was it? The blessing! That blessing carried him to the palace.
- Today, the blessing of God that will come upon you from my announcement will move you to your own palace.
-It will catapult you from the back to the front!
- It will shift you from a nonentity to what you are ought to be.
No matter how you place a blessed man, he can never fail. A blessed man can never fail, no matter where you keep him. Take him to the back. When we came to Port Harcourt, Nigeria, people said to me, “Why did you carry church to GRA?” GRA is a very reserved area in Port Harcourt. It is a place where everywhere was with gates. You can’t do evangelism because you don’t knock on another man’s gate anyhow. They said, “You would have gone somewhere you can just enter the compound and do evangelism. How do you go to that kind of place” Before then, people don’t come to churches here. This place was too isolated. Everywhere was with gate. So, to do evangelism, you can’t. You dare not knock on somebody’s gate. They said to me, “You don’t go to that kind of place to start a church” But what was here was the blessing. And today with all humility, this is the largest single congregation of any denomination in this city and around here. It is the fastest-growing, in all humility, around here. Are you getting what I am saying now? All because of the blessing not because of the preaching. When a man is blessed, let his shop be at the obscure area, that shop will make it.
- And today, I decree over your life, say it, “I am blessed, the blessing is upon my life in the name of Jesus”
Let me say this to you two forces control all events in life and destiny: the invisible and the visible. They control all events of life. 2 Corinthians 4:17-19. The blessing is not visible. You can’t see blessing with your eyes. Can you see blessing with your eyes? But when you have it, the things you get are visible. the invisible controls the visible and the invisible is more real than the visible. Church Gist. When a man is blessed, he commands blessings, cars, houses, good wife, money…those are the blessings. Just like you see a man that is cursed, you will know. When a man is cursed, everything he does turns upside down. That is why when a man is blessed, everything he does goes well. When you carry the blessing, even where others are failing, you will just see yourself succeeding. When things seem not to be working for others, it will be working for you. And the by-product is what people go after instead of going for the blessing! Listen carefully, people say, ‘I want a car, I want houses, I want money….’ Those are by-products.
When a man is blessed, cars come, houses come, money comes, every good thing comes. So what you and I should be pursuing is not the by-products; it is the blessing. Is the clear? The blessing is not physical. Church Gist. Have you seen blessing with your eyes before? But when it is upon you, you begin to command those other natural things. It is the connecting with the invisible that produces things in the visible.
Fathers have a role to play for you to enjoy the blessing. How many of you like to enjoy the blessing? All that our brother for Houston Texas shared is the blessing. How can the pilot go and say move from economy to business class? You know the difference in money is very wide. The difference in comfort is also wide. Church Gist. Once you sit will you arrive; one you can slide your chair and sleep. One is that you arrive at the same time with the business class but not the same body. One you can sleep. The other you dare not fold your chair anyhow, they will hit you and say adjust your chair…You can have jet lag with economy, you can’t have jet lag with business class because you are very comfortable. The food you are served is not even the same. One you have no choice, one you have a choice. One you take automatic food without asking what you want. The other one, you will be asked. What made the difference was the invisible, the blessing just moved him from economy to business class. It is not the same. If you have traveled, you will know. It is like living in the ghetto and living in the center of the city, they are not the same at all.
We have biological and spiritual fathers. Today we will be dwelling on spiritual fathers. The words of a spiritual father over you. On 2 Kings 2:12, look at the man Elijah and Elisha. Elisha had a biological father but in verse 12, Elisha was calling Elijah his father. He was not a biological son. He called Elijah his father. That was spiritual fatherhood. In 2 Kings 6:21, the king called Elisha his father. He called him my father, he was not a biological son. Any man you are under spiritually is your father. When you connect with their pronouncement on you, things are about to change. And with all humility, you know I’m a father to you.
- So today, in the name of Jesus, every word I speak on your life and you believe, God will confirm it.
WHAT WILL MAKE THE BLESSING WORK?
- Believe in his prophetic declarations.
You also have a part to play. It is not just the father speaking and speaking alone. You also need to believe in the prophetic pronouncement of the father. The father can speak but if you don’t believe, it won’t work. 2 Chronicles 20:20b. When a father speaks over you in blessing, God confirms it. Isaiah 44;26. Not believing in the words pronounced on you by a father will hinder you from enjoying the blessing. Church Gist. Let me say this to you, no matter how familiar you are with your father, two of you are never mates. You cannot draw virtues from a man you don’t place value on. The anointing you despise can never bless you. If a father is talking, by age, we know that Peter was senior to Jesus. But there was nowhere Peter saw Jesus as his mate. Peter said, “Thou art Christ, the anointed one” Sometimes, you get too familiar with the anointed that you take the anointing on them for granted. Have seen people very close to my father who never benefited anything from him. I’ve seen people close to me who never benefited because of how they just look at you and say “Oh boy, how now?” If oh boy, how now? Then you get o boy anointing.
Never ‘commonize’ the oil upon a father. Jesus could not do mighty works in his place because some of them were saying “Is that no the carpenter? We know him now” I have said that last Sunday. Church Gist. They didn’t see him as anything special. We know how this boy grew up, how can he say he is the son of the living God? Mary gave birth to him. I know this guy. You don’t know the guy o. There is no day somebody called by God will be your mate. You will be insulting God. One day, God called Aaron and Miriam and said to them, “When I speak, I speak to Moses face to face not with you” It is after Moses hears from me that you hear from him. Is it every one of us that hears from God? You hear about yourself, I hear about you all. I take from him to deliver to you. How many times did God speak to you to deliver to people? You now say two of us are mates. Okay, thank you. You will be endangering yourself by thinking we are mates.
-For all those who believe that I am sent by God, every word I speak begins to happen in your life!
- Avoid being idle. Idleness hinders the flow of the blessing. After God blessed Adam, Adam began to work. Genesis 2:15. When you don’t work and they pronounce a blessing upon you, there will be no channel for it to flow. If you do nothing, there will be no release for the blessing to manifest. Is that clear? That is why you must refuse to be idle. The work of your hands is the channel with which God will use to bless you. When you are carrying a blessing, and little thing you do will boom. When Isaac was to bless Esau, he said, “My son, bring me that which my soul loveth” And that is what you have done many of you, if not everyone, almost everybody. Is that true? And Jacob went and prepared the venison that connected him to the father’s blessing. He stirred the heart of Isaac with what he loved. Church Gist. You have to gladden the heart of your father to tap into his blessing. That you have done already. Now, you are set for an encounter.
In the year 2000, I will never forget. I went to see my own father. We were trying to find our feet in ministry. We went with one small amount of money. Right now, nothing can make me sow that kind of money. But in the year 2000, five hundred thousand naira (#500,000) was our biggest. It will be like carrying five hundred million naira now to sow. So, coming out from Bible School, we were still battling to find our feet in ministry. So, we went to visit. He knew where we were coming from; he knew our size. You know there are people who will give me two thousand (#2000) and the kind of blessing they will get will be more than those that will give me one million (1,000,000), depending on your size. Church Gist. We dropped it and I can never forget the kind of prayers he prayed which I can’t tell you because it will stir up too much jealousy. After we were done, he said kneel down my son. My wife and I knelt down. He moved backward and adjusted his belt and pronounced blessings….oh my God! Even Satan knew that there was no way….that was the day I knew that in ministry, I won’t struggle. He pronounced some words but I won’t say them because the words are too dangerous. Just like the way I will say some things about you and some people will be envious. He pronounced those words. See, words have power. Jesus used words to bring Lazarus back alive. Church Gist. Every time words are spoken, you rule your world. Now set your heart for Genesis 27: 25-29. Now I am going to speak. This was the beginning of Jacob’s success. Spiritual fathers who are ordained by God may not give you material things but their words will change your story. He never gave me material things. What he gave to me was blessing.
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