YOU CAN’T PUT GOD AT THE CENTRE OF YOUR LIFE FOR FIVE YEARS UNBROKEN WITHOUT A SWEATLESS BREAKTHROUGH.
IT IS THE INSTABILITY OF PEOPLE THAT IS THE PROBLEM, THEY DO IT SMALL AND GO ON BREAK.
THERE IS NO HUMAN HAND WHETHER BLACK OR WHITE BEHIND WHERE I FIND MYSELF BY THE GRACE OF GOD.
THERE IS NOTHING IN AN UNBELIEVER TO ENVY. IT IS OUR IGNORANCE THAT MAKES IT LOOK SO
NOBODY PROPHESIED PROSPERITY ON MY LIFE. GOD SPOKE TO ME FROM HIS WORD.
SET YOUR AFFECTIONS ON THINGS ABOVE NOT ON THINGS BELOW, SO YOU CAN BE IN COMMAND OF THINGS BELOW.
YOU CAN’T SERVE GOD AND GOLD (MONEY) AT THE SAME TIME.
THERE ARE MANY WORSHIPPERS OF GOLD TODAY IN THE BODY OF CHRIST. THEY CAN DO ANYTHING FOR MONEY.
THERE ARE MANY PASTORS TODAY, ALL THEY ARE OUT FOR IS MONEY.
UNSTABLE BELIEVERS WILL NOT HAVE A PLACE IN DESTINY
THERE IS NO PLACE FOR MIDDLE PLAYERS IN THE KINGDOM OF GOD, YOU ARE EITHER ON OR OFF.
YOU CAN’T HAVE GOD AS YOUR ONLY EXPECTATION AND END UP DISAPPOINTED
ENDEAVOUR TO REMAIN ON GOD’S SIDE, OUT THERE IS DANGEROUS.
– Bishop David Oyedepo on WHO IS ON THE LORD’S SIDE 3 at Prophetic Service || Faith Tabernacle, Canaanland|| 21st January 2024 || First Sunday Service ||
Among the blessings in a fast is an outbreak of revelation. Hebrews 1:1. God’s Word is the superior prophecy that guides our lives to fulfill God’s agenda for our lives. His Son is the living Word as we saw in John 1:1-5. When you say “God said..” more often than not it is God speaking to you through Genesis, Isaiah, Hebrews etc. Everything God says to you through those words, they come to pass without sweat when you connect with the demands. Church Gist. Nobody prophesied prosperity on my life. God spoke to me from His Word. Nobody prophesied well-being for me in ministry, I saw it from His Word on demand and it is still working. The vision of all is locked up in the book no matter where we are. God is saying something to you, you are going to see them come to pass life! So shall it be.
WHO IS ON THE LORD’S SIDE? Exodus 33:26. It is going to be an awesome time. God never lies when He says something, He does it. Church Gist. Let’s find out as a preamble, an amazing prophetic alert that I got this week on how to maximise our place as individuals in 2024 Divine Prophetic Agenda. God is saying:
1. Mind my own agenda and I will take over your affairs.
If you want to maximize the wonders of Divine Prophetic Agenda, mind my agenda and I will take over your own affairs. Church Gist. Psalm 35:27. Mind my own agenda and I will take over your affairs.
2. Mind the agenda of My Kingdom on earth and I will take over your affairs in life.
Psalm 102:13-15. Please note that this prophetic alert has a control. 2 Chronicles 15:2. It is not a thing to do for once and get something and run away from it. When Solomon’s dream for the Kingdom ended, his doom began. When he had nothing more to do for God, He started having things to do for the devil. Church Gist. It is so important. It is a lifelong commitment that keeps it working. No pressures! He knows your capacity, He knows my capacity. There is no point in trying to pose to God. He knows what we weigh in terms of energy and other resources.
3. Give a priority place in your life and you secure My priority attention that will lead to your enviable decoration both in the now and in the hereafter.
Matthew 19:27-29. Give me my priority place, it will lead to your decoration both in the now and in the hereafter. Let me be at the centre of your life and watch what decorations you will begin to experience. Church Gist. You will secure my priority attention which will lead to your enviable decoration both in the now and the hereafter. God is speaking to someone here.
4. Seek first the promotion of my Kingdom in righteousness and it will be your launching pad to a world of exploits.
Seek first the promotion of my Kingdom. It doesn’t cost nothing except obedience. We have nothing except what He gave us. The time in our hand He gave us. Whatever skill I may have, He gave me. Seek first the promotion of my Kingdom in righteousness and it will be your launching pad to a world of exploits. Luke 6:28-33. There is no dream of the Gentiles that is superior to what you have by giving God His place. They have a dream and they work themselves to pieces, they go through all kinds of horror. Some go through human sacrifice, so they can’t sleep at night. Sorrow upon sorrow. All the dreams of the Gentiles put together cannot match what is available to you. Church Gist. I have never borrowed oh, I have never begged, yet I have never lacked. I would rather die than steal. Steal for what? I will still give it. You don’t steal to give. All the dreams of the Gentiles put together. There is nothing in a Gentile to envy. It is our ignorance that makes it look so. Somebody is breaking forth.
Can I tell you this and with all humility and before God, there is no human hand behind where I find myself by the grace of God. There is no human hand white or black. Is it wrong? No! God can send anybody to you at any time He wants. But that I went and said, “Man, please do something now.” Never! It is this instability of people, they do it small and go on break, come back to restart. So the clouds are never full. When they fill the clouds to about one-quarter, they disappear and it vaporizes. They come back to start gathering the vapour again. When he fills it up to about two-fifths they run away again. Do you know what I saw? You can’t put God at the centre of your life for five years unbroken without a sweatless breakthrough. You can start today but all these one year, one and a half years won’t work. Leviticus 19:23-25. It is a prophetic service. Five years! You will be eating for free. People can’t wait. They are tomato planters. You know tomatoes, you plant it today and by next tomorrow they are already looking for it. It is staying on that makes it work, it is not hit-and-run. Somebody is breaking that jinx of stagnation up and down today in the name of Jesus.
5. Make for me first to secure your flourishing in hard times like we saw in the case of the Widow of Zarepheth.
1 Kings 17:13. Make for me first! She was feeding fat for three and a half years in spite of the famine. That is to a prophet we are now talking about God. Church Gist. The El Shaddai God, the God that is more than enough. Make for me first and you never know hardship in hard times.
6. Mind my own first and I will take over your own.
Philippians 2:21. Mind my own first and I will take over your own. Church Gist. Set your affections on things above not on things below, so you can be in command of things below. Colossians 3:1-3.
7. Invest in my own first and you will never know dry seasons in your life.
Haggai 1:3-11. You won’t labour in vain anymore. Church Gist. The good news about all these is that you can start from where you are.
8. If you will stay committed to my Kingdom, you have committed me to your continuous advancement in life.
Continuous! God was the darling of Solomon until He had no more place for God so He had a place for devils and was worshipping in shrines and had an unbreakable marriage history. A record that cannot be broken by anybody. Every place that God occupied in his heart, the devil just sat down there and God became an adversary to him. Church Gist. Stay committed to my Kingdom, you have committed me to your continuous advancement in life.
9. Stay committed to enlarging my Kingdom and you have committed me to your endless enlargement in life.
He marvellously helped Uzziah, he went so high and then pride came in. His fame was all over the earth and then pride came in and cut him short. He died as a leper. Church Gist. Grace to stay committed in our walk with God and to keep improving on the quality of our walk with God may it become everyone’s portion today.
Lift your right hand and ask God for grace for continuity, steadfastness, never looking back. Church Gist. Ask God for it. These are prophetic packs that position us to engage God in truth and deed and it works.
Again, WHO IS ON THE LORD’S SIDE? Hopping between two opinions never flies with God. 1 Kings 18:21. James 1:8. A double-minded person should not expect to receive anything from God. Jesus small, native doctors small, let him not expect to receive anything from God. God this time, self next tomorrow, let him not expect to receive anything from God. James 1:7. Church Gist. Unstable believers will not have a place in destiny. You better ask for grace to stay on. Genesis 49:4. We saw the case of Rueben, his father said he was as unstable as water. On today, off tomorrow. Judges 5:16-17. It doesn’t work. Grace to remain steadfast in season and out of season, receive it now.
No one changes classes in school without passing prescribed tests. Genesis 22:1. Don’t allow the trial of the moment to disconnect you, if you withdraw from school that is the end of changing class. Stay on! At the end, it shall speak. Many are scaling into new classes during this fast because things that used to be a barrier will clear the way now at your instance. Romans 4:20. Church Gist. We are the seed of Abraham, the days of your staggering in your following God come to an end today. Because you are lukewarm, you are neither cold nor hot, I will spew you out of my mouth. There is no place for middle players here, you are either on or off. Revelation 3:15-16.
I have said it before, one is either carnal or spiritual, you cannot be neutral. Romans 8:6. You can’t serve God and gold at the same time. You will have to choose one and despise the other. There are many worshippers of gold today even in the Body of Christ. Many! There are many pastors today, all they hunt for in their life, all their dream is money. Exodus 32:31. It is the root of all evil. Some people will do anything for money but that’s not you. Church Gist. There is a place where you stand where the blessings will come to you and overtake you not you running after them. Deuteronomy 28:1-2. By running after God, blessings run into your life. That is what you are entering into. Fortune 2024 will mark the end of struggling for survival in your life. You will not hide your Christian identity because of what to eat. Matthew 6:24.
When our expectation is only from God, He will always manifest Himself to us. Psalm 62:5. You can’t have God as your only expectation and end up disappointed. Matthew 6:22. The three Hebrew boys stood openly and unashamedly on God’s side and God showed up for them in grand styles. Church Gist. Fiery furnace, no smell of fire on them. In these days of horror, there will be no sign of horror in your life, in your family and in all that pertains to you. Daniel 3:15-28.
Daniel stood confidently and immovable on God’s side and came out of the lion’s den into a world of higher fortune. Daniel 6:28. Your rescue is going to be into next levels of favour. Church Gist. That is where you are going. Daniel 6:4-5, 20-23, 25-28. He was gloriously exalted in the land.
What are the benefits of being on the Lord’s side?
1. Being on God’s side is the strong tower of believers.
You cannot be molested on God’s side. When Saul was in pursuit of David, he ran under the covering of Samuel and the soldiers could not get near him. Saul went and he was stripped naked. He was on the right side, he was untouchable. Being on God’s side makes you untouchable, unmolestable, unharassable. Please understand it. Money can’t buy that. We were here inside this forest building this place and no armed robber said to anybody any day, where is your money? They even joined the labour. They were getting raw cash for 1500-2000 people on a daily basis. They saw the bag, they said “We can’t touch this bag. How dare we?” Church Gist. On God’s side, you are protected, you are defended, you are covered. Don’t expose yourself. Don’t become vulnerable to the devil. Stay on God’s side. When the prodigal son was by his father’s side he was having the best of time. He went off and was stripped naked, he was struggling to eat with pigs. Endeavour to remain on God’s side where the devil can do you no harm. It is your turn for a change of story. Psalm 91:1-16. That is what happens when you remain on God’s side. Church Gist. He that dwells in the secret place of the Most High, not he that dwelled before. He that remains in the secret place of the Most High.
Proverbs 18:10. Endeavour to remain on God’s side. Outside there is dangerous, one becomes vulnerable. When Israel got on God’s side in Egypt, God came down and brought them out of 430 years of bondage. It is never too late to be right, get on God’s side, He will rewrite your story as if you never had a negative past. Get now on God’s side. 430 years of bondage and when they cried unto God, He responded. We saw how God brought them out with favour. He told them into living wonders among men. They were living wonders, eating for free for 40 years. Not one feeble person among their tribes. Church Gist. Total health because they got on God’s side. I see many living wonders emerging this year. People can’t tell where you are coming from but they can see you just changing levels.
Gideon with the compassion of heaven became the one-man army of Israel and delivered Israel as one man from the assault of the Midianites. Church Gist. There are many of us here, you shall be the Gideon of your family, the Gideon of your village, the Gideon of your state, the Gideon of your nation as you remain firmly on God’s side, He can make anything out of any man. Watch it!
What does it take to remain on God’s Side?
1. Beware of pride.
Pride will get anybody out of that side at any point in time. God is no respecter of persons. When pride steps in, God steps out. Jesus said, “I am meek and lowly”. Only the meek can hang around Jesus. Amos 3:3. Whenever pride steps in, God steps out. Whenever God steps out, one becomes vulnerable and destruction steps in. So pride goes before destruction. Beware of kissing your hand in the night. Beware of beating your chest where nobody sees you. “If they remove me from this service unit, what will remain? Nothing!” Emi l’on jebe (that’s all I am) Many are victims of self-worship. Beware of pride, it has never spared anybody. It eats up kings on their thrones, it turns human beings into animals. “I am meek and lowly in heart.” Matthew 11:28-29. Amos 3:3. Church Gist. “So if you must hang around with me, be meek.” It is very simple to be meek when there is not much around you but as grace begins to multiply, meekness becomes a task. Except you know the danger of not being meek. When you know it, you will flee. You are not illiterate, so when you see a power installation and they put the skull of a human being, you don’t need to ask what are they talking about. You have already seen it. That you don’t see it doesn’t matter, whether you know or not, once you walk into it, you will fry. You know poison, whether you know it is poison are not doesn’t matter. Just don’t eat it. Once you eat it, the effect will come on you without asking you “Are you aware that I am poison”. Beware of pride. It dethroned Satan from heaven. Son of the morning, the envy of the angels began to crawl on his belly.
Lift your right hand and say “Jesus, engrace me to remain small in my sight all the days of my life. Engrace me to remain humble under your mighty hand all through my days.”
2. Beware of covetousness.
We saw how Achan lost his entire lineage. Joshua 7:19-26. “I coveted…” They brought in all that belonged to him, his wife, children and fire came down. Church Gist. Beware of covetousness! Luke 12:15. Godliness with contentment is great gain. It keeps you on track. Beware!
3. Continue to work by faith.
We can only walk by faith with God and not by sight. 2 Corinthians 5:7. The things He says to us may not be things we can touch with our hands but they are real when you believe them. They become real as you believe them.
4. An undying crave for sanctification and continuous exercise unto godliness are fundamental requirements for remaining on God’s side and making it to heaven at the end of the day.
1 Timothy 4:8. 2 Timothy 2:19-21. Let’s make that the point of our lives. Church Gist. Let our lives anchor on that. A desperation to please God as a new way of life.
Dangers of not being on God’s side.
1. It blocks access to divine favour.
Fortune simply means fearful favour. Being overrun by God’s favour. Church Gist. Not being on God’s side blocks access to divine favour. Psalm 5:12.
There were two examples in scriptures of people that were overladen by favour. The first one was Joseph. As a slave, he prospered. Genesis 39:21. We look at Daniel, God brought Daniel into favour with the Chief Eunuchs. Righteousness launches people into realms of favour. Genesis 39:9. The fear of God always triggers favour. Daniel 6:4-5. Church Gist. Favour answers to the fear of God naturally. So walking in the fear of God brings believers into favour with God. You don’t have to cry for it, it flows in naturally. 2024 is your turnaround year. Things that eyes have not seen nor ears heard shall become the order of the day in your life. Let’s look at Jesus who knew no sin. Luke 2:52. John 8:46. He was having favour with God and with man. It is your year. Everything blocking your access to Favour clears off right now.
2. It opens one’s life to an embattled life.
It engenders an embattled life as in the case of Solomon. Solomon got off God’s side and God began to set adversaries against him and we are told one of them was an adversary against Solomon till the day of his death. An embattled life! Nobody wants that. 1 Kings 11:23-24. Throughout his life, he was a son of peace but became an embattled son, when he got off God’s side. When you get off God’s side, you are entering the war zone of life. I see the battles of your life bow out this time. Isaiah 3:10-11. I decree an end to every embattlement around everyone’s life.
3. It blocks access to the giving grace.
Proverbs 13:20. God is the master giver. He so loved the world that He gave His only begotten son. John 3:16. When you are off God’s side, giving becomes an uphill task. You are shut off from the giving grace. Church Gist. You are always grieved whenever you need to give something even to your family members. That is the gateway to financial misfortune. Where giving stops is where financial fortune stops.
I have told you the story of J.C. Penney who has gone to heaven now, he was taught tithing by his mother. He began to tithe and things began to blow up and expand. At a point, he began to rationalize. He felt the tithe was becoming too much. As he began to do that, he began to go down and down until he went bankrupt. God, what is happening? God said remember where you fell from. He began from ground zero again and God began to enlarge Him. Once beaten, twice shy. Church Gist. Where giving stops is where financial fortune stops. Don’t get to any point in your life where giving becomes an uphill task. Remain on God’s side. He is an untiring giver. You can’t be on His side and be a withholder. Giving will become a delight when you are on God’s side.
I have seen many great speakers of prosperity who are paupers apart from the fact that they wear coats. When it comes to material needs, they are down. It is not what you preach, it is what you do. You know we have professors of Agricultural Science who don’t have any farms. Can they now go and reap on somebody’s farm and the police catch them? You know it, we agree. Until you plant, you can’t reap. You are a professor, yes! But planting and reaping. If you don’t plant, you can’t reap. You can’t put your degree on the field and say field hear me, it doesn’t hear that. It hears seeds. So don’t choke your life. Church Gist. Proverbs 11:24-25. Go away with this today! Where giving stops is where financial fortune stops. From where you are. Somebody’s ₦1 given to somebody in need will be seen as a plus in heaven because out of ₦2 that he has, he gave ₦1 out because somebody was in need. That is the way it works.
If we don’t stop what we are doing as a Church, we can’t run off financial fortune. We have come under it a long time and we know how to stay there. The Fortune is ‘fortuning’! That is why there is no pressure. You can’t come to this Church apprehensive. I don’t know what they will say today. We are saying the same good news. Church Gist. You need to be free. God doesn’t need your help and my help but you need to be free. Somebody’s destiny is opening up. You have a place in this Fortune 2024 Divine Agenda, don’t sell off. Don’t let another man take your crown. Don’t sell off for a morsel of meat.
In case anyone has gone off, repentance is a non-negotiable requirement to experience forgiveness from God which establishes one’s place on the Lord’s side. “Lord, I am sorry for going off. Receive me back” and He will. 1 John 1:8-10. So it is time to cleanse ourselves of the filthiness of the flesh and the spirit, perfecting holiness and the fear of God. It takes godly sorrow for our repentance to be accepted by God. We must be sorry for what we have done wrong for God to receive us back. Today is a good day for every one of us. As the Lord lives, every barrier on your path of favour clears off today. Many of us have been flowing in favour before, God is stepping you forward. Church Gist. He is stepping you into the realm of favour. You have seen some things before but you have not seen anything yet, just keep at it. Not hit and run anymore but hit and stick. Stick to Him, cleave to Him and watch how He will keep decorating your life every step of your journey. Many of us shall leave a rich spiritual heritage for our children. Psalm 112:1-3. That is you, God is talking about.
– There shall be no wayward son, grandson, great-grandson in your lineage.
– If anyone has gone off, now in this prayer and fasting season, they shall be restored in grand style.
– Poverty shall not be known in your lineage.
– Crooks shall not be found in your lineage. Honour and dignity shall be the portion of your lineage.
It is so sweet on God’s side. It is so stress-free, so pleasurable. Psalm 16:11. Pressure-free life, pressure-free breakthrough, pressure-free advancement, pressure-free quality spiritual life. Church Gist. That shall be the portion of everyone here in the name of Jesus.
We have a sevenfold agenda for the year. They all anchor on the Wonder Double Growth Agenda. Minimum twice the size of every local assembly in our Commission before the end of the first half of the year. If only I can get you to catch a genuine Kingdom advancement dream, that is no issue. Minimum twice the number of home cell locations. That implies every home cell replicating at least once. That is no issue if you can catch a Kingdom advancement dream. New membership establishment drive. That no one comes in and disappears but helped to be established. That is no issue. Remember God does not bless groups, He blesses individuals. He does not promote groups, He promotes individuals. He does not honour groups, He honours individuals. Church Gist. We have the Kingdom Care Prophetic Agenda that seeks to get every one of us responsible for helping the challenged ones and putting a smile on their faces. It all begins with a choice. Every genuine Kingdom dream leads naturally to a boom. When Solomon’s Kingdom dream stopped, it led to doom. Paul the Apostle said, “I continue to this day witnessing to both great and small.” He galloped into heaven in grand style.
Prayers: Lord help me to be a helper of the challenged as you engrace me. Help me to pursue after souls, if I can’t preach, I can bring them to Church. I can make transportation available. Help me to see my cell replicate at an unnatural speed. Church Gist. Help me to become an addicted Kingdom promoter. Help me to mind your affairs, so I can maximize my place in this great time.
There is no spiritual gift that is a substitute for doing what God says to do. Church Gist. There is no exemption, doing the will of God is the way forward. Proverbs 19:17. He that gives to the poor shall not lack.
– The days of lack and want are over in your life.
My prayer is that this Kingdom Care Prophetic Agenda will turn the fortune of many in this Commission and you are one of them.
Daniel 12:3. Kingdom stars are not made of skills. Kingdom stars are not made of strength, they are not made of qualifications, Kingdom stars are made of obedience, not of skill, not by their capacity. Deuteronomy 28:1. Sustainable obedience, obedience to the end. There is nothing wrong with accumulating certificates but Kingdom stars are not made of skills, they are not made of strength, Kingdom stars are made of obedience. What made Abraham an emperor? Obedience. Obedience will make you. Obedience will make you a wonder to your world. I have never prayed, “Oh Lord, make me great.” Never! “Give me fame”. No! I don’t want to end in flames. Just doing what He says to do keeps changing your level. Kingdom stars are made by obedience. “I schooled in Harvard, I schooled in Cambridge. Oxford.” Well done! You have travelled a lot and I commend you. That doesn’t make a star. If you will commit to seeing souls saved in one way or another, you are a shareholder in it. That investment, you are a shareholder in it. Get committed to doing what God says, this year will open for you in a way that you have never imagined. I mean for you, for your family, for the works of your hands.
– You will be visited with a strange order of favour.
We have one week more to go. It shall be a most awesome time for you. God always reserves the best for the last.
– This week shall be a most enriching week for you.
– Many shall experience the empowering work of Christ.
– In the day, He will visit you. In the night, He will visit you.
– As the Lord lives, nobody will end this season with any trace of sickness and disease on his or her body.
– Everyone appointed unto death is delivered right now.
– Everything about to terminate your life shall be terminated here.
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