IF I DON’T KNOW ANYTHING, ONE THING I KNOW IS THAT HIS PRESENCE ENVELOPS ME. MY CONFIDENCE IS IN HIS PRESENCE THAT ABIDES WITH ME. IF GOD LEAVES ME, I AM FINISHED.
ALL THESE I MUST HAVE IT BY ALL MEANS, YOU WILL GO THE WRONG MEANS. GO AFTER GOD EVERY GOOD THING WILL BE GOING AFTER YOU.
I STARTED THIS RACE CONSCIOUSLY IN 1976.
FOR 46 YEARS, I HAVE BEEN RUNNING CRUSADES WITHOUT BEING CALLED TO MINISTRY FOR MY PASSION FOR SOULS.
I HAVE BEEN GOING AROUND WINNING SOULS WITHOUT BEING A PASTOR OF A CHURCH. SO I AM NOT DOING IT SO THAT A CHURCH CAN GROW.
ALL THESE “I REMEMBER THOSE DAYS” WHICH THOSE DAYS ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT AT YOUR AGE
OBEDIENCE HAS NO EXPIRY DATE. I GOT FOUR INSTRUCTIONS FROM THE LORD IN MARCH 1984 ABOUT CHURCH GROWTH, WE ARE STILL TRADING THEM NOW.
WE ARE NOT THE LIGHT OF THE CHURCH, WE ARE REDEEMED AS THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD AND SO LET YOUR LIGHT SO SHINE AMONG MEN.
THE MASTER KEY TO A WORLD OF OPEN DOORS IS AN ACTIVE PARTNERSHIP WITH JESUS.
- Bishop David Oyedepo at Covenant Day of Open Doors || Faith Tabernacle – Canaanland, First Sunday Service
This is one service you will live to remember because God will deliver to you the master key to a world of open doors. Never will any door of favour be shut against you anymore. The kingdom of God has revelation as the key to every door you seek to enter into.
- May the revelation that guarantees a world of open doors be your portion today.
I went to Tulsa with desperation to encounter the grace of God on Hagin. Focused on it with everything inside me and it dropped as desired. Church Gist. You belong to a ministry that enjoys unending open doors, which means the grace of open doors resides here.
- May that grace rub off on your life today.
Prayers: Jesus make this service a most memorable one in my life today. Grant me an encounter of a lifetime.
Spirit of God, visit us in a most unique way today, let everyone here return with the tangibility of an encounter with you. Let it be there for life.
Very quickly before we step into the teaching series of the month. Why are you always about the well being of people? That is our mandate, not anybody’s fault, not anybody’s design. I saw humanity agonizing and languishing in pain. God said, in the beginning, it was not so, now the hour has come to liberate the world from all oppressions of the devil through the preaching of the word of faith and I am sending you. Church Gist. So we have a tear wiping ministry, we have a rescue mission by the mandate. That is why God keeps changing the story of people here again and again. So it is not a gimmick, it is a divine agenda we are running with. This divine agenda is not by physical energy, it is by inoculating the people of God with the word of God so they know what their rights are and what to do to realize those rights. What the word demands from us to realize those rights. Many may never experience their rights because they are not willing to do what it takes.
Seasons of Glory. We have been called unto glory and virtue. That is our heritage (2 Peter 1:3). What does it take to enjoy this glory package? John 15:1-2,8. You glorify Him by bearing much fruit (1 Samuel 2:30) He honours you back in return. Proverbs 11:30, Daniel 12:3. You don’t sit down to see glory. Church Gist. You take responsibility to see glory or you see shame in life. No one goes forward sitting down. You go forward taking steps. Taking scriptural steps is your way forward. All these “oh God glorify me” He doesn’t glorify people anyhow. You do what He says to see His glory. This is not man-made, I am not a contributor to the Bible. I met it. You better wake up and stop begging for prayers day and night. Take responsibility.
You can’t go out? Go up in prayers. Be part of the army reaping the harvest of the world into the kingdom. Invest in it. I am investing in it and I am blessed. Not yesterday investment, forever investment. Do you want to sit down here forever “I am a Winner”? Winning where? Do what makes a winner and then you win. We have been on, please note; that obedience has no expiry date. The day you stop, the blessings that follow obedience stop. Deuteronomy 28:1-2,15. If a man has been doing right and he becomes so big he won’t do the right things anymore, he will become so small with time. Obedience has no expiry date. Church Gist. I got four instructions in March ‘84, we are still trading them now. “Lord, why is this church not growing?” He inspired me to get into prayer and fasting with three of the staff. He unveiled the mystery of Church growth and we are still trading it today since 1984, 38 years running. You stop it, it will stop. Some kinds of challenges will not go away except by prayer and fasting, so we fast once every week. Three days at a go a month. It was an instruction received on March 24th 1984. You have just started, don’t be tired.
When I came to the world, someone had to tell someone to come and see so get to the streets and tell them what God is doing in this Church, we began Come and See in March 1984. All these fliers in your hand come and see what Jesus has been doing in this Church since 1984. When did you start? Obedience has no expiry date. Keep sowing the seed He commanded me. I said the seed? He said keep teaching life applicable word as the grass grows the sheep will come for it. Keep the grass green and the sheep will lie down there. I went to bed at 1:00 am this morning and I was back at my desk at 4:00 am, you better wake up. Church Gist. Obedience has no expiry date. You were tithing before you stopped, that is why you started crashing. I started in 1982. Somebody did me an evil and I said God you said you will rebuke every devourer for my sake, Lord rebuke him. You better wake up. All these “I remember those days” which those days are you talking about at your age.
I started this race consciously in 1976. 1976 to 2022, how many are those? 46 years. I have been running crusades without being called to ministry for my passion for souls. I have been going around winning souls without being a pastor of a church. So I am not doing it so that a Church can grow.
The master key to a world of open doors is an active partnership with Jesus. Every door opens to him on its own accord. Active partnership with Jesus in the pursuit of his heartbeat on the earth – the salvation of souls. Lo, I am with you always. You get committed to the great commission and I guarantee you my ever-door-opening presence. Matthew 28:18-20. Mark 16:15-20. Luke 10:1,17-18. Active partnership with Jesus is the master key to a world of open doors. Church Gist. Doors open to you on their own accord. Iron gates, gates of brass. We saw that in Peter. An Angel of God came to the prison, not God, not Jesus. The doors opened and he walked freely. That was the operation of an angel, imagine Jesus. Psalm 24:7-10. so all these open door prayers, just enlist as an active partner with Christ. The doors will open to you on their own accord. These things are within our reach if we choose to. They are all within our reach.
Papa pray for me, Papa pray for me. Papa can’t break the scriptures. No anointed man of God can make the word of God of no effect. I can lay hands and legs on you and that does not equal prosperity forever. It’s aligning with the demands of the covenant that entitles you to God’s prosperity there is no shortcut to it. You are an ambassador, you are entitled to healthy living. Do you want to be in command of signs? You are not a magician, go out there and he will be walking with you to command signs and wonders. Church Gist. From today, as you sign up. You have to sign up. You can’t access resources on certain websites without first signing up. You sign up and then you can access it. The things that I am privileged to be engraced to do that I have not begged for what to eat once, I have not lacked what to eat once or to want to eat and begin to cry to God for what to eat once. Do you want to walk in the realm of unlimited favour? Matthew 6:33.
Hebrews 13:7
So I followed the faith of Hagin, blessing my life. The faith of Copeland, blessing my soul. The faith of Osborn led me to hearing God’s voice directly. Don’t join the band of “we don’t know what they are using”. This is what we are using, we are using the word. Church Gist. I told our team, about 6 of us on October 6th 1983, now that we are all at the same level understand what I am saying because a time will come in the future when some of us will take off in the air and you will say we don’t know what they are using. Let me tell you what we are using, I am sold out to God. I knew everyone truly sold out to God will end up a high flyer. Let’s be real, stop all these pretences. We serve a real God.
Somebody said Operation Reach for the Stars, they have started again. What is that one? That is what we followed to get to where we are and we will keep following it because obedience has no expiry date and the day you stop, the struggle continues. Church Gist. Whatever He tells you to do, do it, don’t rationalize it. The cost of disobedience is gruesome don’t toy with it.
- No one shall be caught a victim of willful disobedience.
I used to have a boss that defines it as willful disobedience – I willingly disobeyed and damned the consequences. Therefore as you engage in the task of turning many into righteousness, no devil from hell can stop your star from breaking forth. As you engage with the demands of a glorious destiny in Christ, no devil will bring you down to shame and reproach. Church Gist. As you engage in an active partnership with Christ, no door shall be shut against you anymore.
Our teaching series for our Sunday services is captioned “UNDERSTANDING THE BLESSEDNESS OF A REVIVAL”.
Revival is a move of God among His people and every move of God is ordained to move God’s people forward, that is from transformation of their lives to supernatural impact on their societies including the nations of the world. Church Gist. Joel 2:23-27. Job 22:29. These are all effects of the move of God when you plug into it. When you join the chariot when you move with the cloud. Isaiah 61:1-2a, 2b-6.
- Your days of mourning are over.
From transformation to generational impact. That is the agenda for every move of God on the earth.
We are not the light of the Church, we are redeemed as the light of the world and so let your light so shine among men. Church Gist. We are redeemed to impact our world and that is what happens when we plug into the move of God in our time.
- Every move of the Spirit of God drafts multitudes into the Kingdom as we saw in the Acts of Apostles, thereby turning the Church into a solution centre to the world.
The Holy Ghost came and stirred a major move in the Upper Room and the first effect was not a miracle, it was an influx of souls into the kingdom – three thousand souls. Then in Acts 4:4, about 5000 were added to the Church. In Acts 5:12-14, a multitude of men and women were added to the Church. They couldn’t count anymore. Every move of God multiplies disciples greatly. Church Gist. One way to partner with Jesus is to be part of the multiplication agenda of disciples. Matthew 11:28-29. Our job is to go out to the highways and compel them to come to Jesus who gives rest for free.
We must be spiritually awake so as to make the most of this revival season. Jesus wept over Jerusalem because they knew not the hour of their visitation. He just passed over them because they could not connect. They were just being entertained. “You know we are winners, all our pastors are fantastic, they speak extra modern English. I just like the Church”. Do you think many are church members? They are club members. There is zero spiritual connectivity. You can’t do that anymore. “I want to see your glory” let it be a desperate cry of your heart. Is there anyone here who wants to see shame? Help me to connect to what entitles me to your glory.
What is a revival? It is a platform for divine visitation ordained for our spiritual change of story. Zephaniah 3:17-18. A burden to see souls saved. A burden to see the world turn away from iniquity to righteousness. Zephaniah 3:19. That is one major impact of a revival. Zephaniah 3:20. When you sign up for verse 18, verse 19 and 20 becomes your portion. When you realize the validity of verse 17 that God is in the midst of His people and you connect with the demand of it. Church Gist. Then verses 19 and 20 become your lot. Habakkuk 3:2 a cry for revival, what is the end result? Habakkuk 3:17-19.
- You are changing your level.
You join this revival chariot, God will be changing your level. One of us got into the year 2020 with only #100 but would not let go of kingdom advancement prayers with her two children that were out of school living in an uncompleted building. Dramatic turnaround, fully furnished flat in a good place not in the kind of bush that I live in. Church Gist. You have the prayer points but you won’t pray it, even the five minutes prayer in church is a problem. Somebody prayed her way out of frustration. A woman with cancer of the mouth went out and God removed the cancer. Your mouth is not cancerous, your eye is not cancerous and will never be cancerous. - Anyone who decides for Jesus in this service, whatever affiliation you are carrying drops off now.
- You will not nurse sickness and diseases anymore.
- Satan will not afflict your life anymore.
What is a revival? A revival is a spiritual awakening that causes the giants in us to rise. A valley of very dry bones and the spirit of God came across that valley through the prophetic ministry of Ezekiel and there arose a mighty host unto God. He opened their graves in that revival and brought the giants in them out. The same way the giant in you is coming alive. The unimaginable will start happening in your life. The unthinkable will soon become the order of the day in your life. A revival is a season for the emergence of giants in the body of Christ. Psalm 87:7. Friends, I heard from God. The highest concentration of giants in this age will emerge from this platform. Church Gist. Connect with it. Jeremiah 30:19-21. Engaging our hearts to seek God in a revival brings out the giant in us. Engaging with the heart, no ceremonial engagement, not religious engagements, engaging with a real heart. I have said it before that you don’t know my secret, no matter how many stories you have read or heard about me until you discover my heart for God. Church Gist. 1 Corinthians 2:9. When I speak the way I speak, I speak as an expression of my passion for God whose kingdom they are trying to humiliate. I said it before that they shall proceed no further, judgment is here. Will you let a man that set your daughter on fire go? Except God has left heaven their generation will pay for it.
Evidence of a Revival in your life
A revival is set to occur when the heart of man begins to pant after God and the interests of His kingdom. You can tell whether you are in a revival or not, it is in the panting of your heart. Psalm 42:1. Psalm 119:46. Psalm 55:17. It is time to start an effective fellowship in your office. Let them know Jesus is the one that owns that company. If you are hiding from your staff, when will you talk to your colleagues? If God leaves you that is the end. Church Gist. The day God leaves you, you are finished. May God never leave any of us. Tomorrow Monday go and start a fellowship in your place of work, be there not “be praying, I am coming”. Because you will build chapels in your various companies. The office is locked, they are all in the chapel. That is how to be a child of God not somebody who is playing modern Christianity
Matthew 6:33.
- When working in the fear of God becomes your new way of life.
When God’s dislikes become your dislike. When God’s likes become your likes. Psalm 112-1-3. When God’s likes become your likes and His dislikes your dislikes. Jeremiah 39:32,40.
Prayers – Lord put your fear in my heart in a new way today.
Ezekiel 11:19-20.
Take away a stony heart from me and give me a heart of flesh that will help me to walk in your ways to secure your presence that will always make the difference.
What is in a Revival for Us?
- Every revival is a spiritual launching pad to our high places in life.
Habakkuk 3:1-19.
Every revival culminates in the redemptive dignity of every believer.
Zephaniah 3:17-20, Joel 2:25. Great restoration is God’s agenda in every revival.
- We enjoy express answers to prayer in a revival.
John 15:16. There are many things you will never ask, they are just simply added in confirmation of Matthew 6:33. - Welcome to your season of addition in the place of affliction.
It is our Covenant Day of Open Doors. God’s presence is the master key to a world of open doors. Psalm 114:3-7.
- May everyone here secure the ever abiding presence of God through our engagement this month.
- May secure the abiding presence of God that opens all doors
If I don’t know anything, one thing I know is that His presence envelops me. My confidence is in His presence that abides with me. I taught yesterday on graduating your love for God into matrimony by cleaving. To cleave means to be welded like two irons. You have to tear two of them in order to separate them. Can you tear from Jesus? His presence goes with you everywhere. Matthew 28:20. If you ask the devil how much effort he must have put in place to hit me, how he must have hit me dangerously, always. If you want open doors, secure His presence.
Where does this journey begin? Be born again. Until you are born you don’t know the presence or absence. A baby in the womb can’t have anybody’s partnership. It is inside the womb of the mother and kicking. Church Gist. Be born again and remain so. Not fancy new birth, not ceremonial new birth without any traceable change. 2 Corinthians 5:17.
- Continue to walk in the fear of God.
Genesis 39:3,21. You don’t lack favour with His presence. Genesis 42:18. The fear of God guarantees His presence with us.
- Remain in love with God.
John 14:21. He is in love with me, you can’t hit him. 1 Corinthians 2:9.
Be committed to following His leading.
No door can be shut against you when God is leading you. Isaiah 48:21. God’s leading works like this, when He leads the way to go. He goes before you in there to make the path straight, to break the iron gate. The gates of brass and the bars of iron. When God leads you, leave Him to the opposition, He clears them off your path. Church Gist. Subscribe fully to the Father’s leading, not all this one that people are doing. “I think I should go to Canada”. If He is not leading you in no time, you will know. Let God lead you, even when He leads you to the desert, He will make it a fruitful garden. God led Abraham step by step until He became a generational blessing.
Enter into a covenant to serve God and He will give you rest round about. No door is permitted to be shut against anyone who is genuinely serving God. 2 Chronicles 15:12-15. There is a war-free zone of life. They call it a rest for the people of God. The kind your church is going through. An amazing war-free ministry. Those people that are attacking, they are only envious of us which is allowed. Your success will stir up jealousy. It is not a thing to resist, it is a thing to rejoice about. One million fold of blessings, one million fold of persecution. No one comes against anyone on the floor because your talk against him is to bring him down. Church Gist. He is already down so what are you talking about again? If you don’t want to be persecuted, quit the front. They don’t front bite, they only back bite. They only talk at your back. You are ever in front. The back men should keep talking at your back, they are allowed.
Walk with God to a point that people start accusing you of using charms. How can someone come out of the fire unharmed? The fire that killed people that threw them there. Do you mean he came out of the lion’s den without a scratch? Are you a dummy, it can’t happen. Even the one feeding the lion can’t try that. “You know Papa? He is in ten cults”. When you are one with God, you are a terror. Daniel 5:11.
- It is your turn to hit your world with the kind of surprise they have not seen.
Acts 8:39.
The good news is no door will ever be shut against you anymore. Stop playing games to open doors, walk straight. I know no man from whom Jesus took this land. I never met one. I never called anyone to come and help, walk straight. Let them show us the update on the ark next Sunday. Work has never stopped once. We have never called for help from any source. Even in the Church of Great lovers, we have never raised an offering. Vain is the help of man compared with the help of God. Vain! Eternal vain! God told me not to go from house to house, I mean I don’t lobby for another man’s resources, you are on my payroll. Church Gist. He said to me also, I have a running budget for all my kingdom projects on the earth. I can’t depend on men. Man can fail. I am a very poor offering raiser, you should know. Somebody came to our Church and was calling people out to give #300,000. When nobody was coming out. He started pointing at people “You come”. I know the person doesn’t have anything near that because I am his pastor. After he left I called them and said, I set you free from all those vows. I told the man to be going from the hotel, he shouldn’t come back. You better know God. Daniel 11:32b.
On February 19th 1969, I surrendered my life to Jesus. Last week, my mother in the Lord turned 92. She said she wants to go upstairs and see Jesus face to face. All her children in the faith are all around her forever. A fulfilled life of seeing sons raised in the kingdom. All these I must have it, by all means, you will go the wrong means. Go after God every good thing will be going after you.
- From now on, nobody will miss his step anymore.
Operation Reach for the stars begins tomorrow. The emphasis is on personal and committed engagements. You don’t write exams in groups, you don’t change classes in groups. You don’t secure a driving license in groups. You don’t secure a pilot license in groups, you can go there with your wife and your wife passes and you don’t pass. Women wake up and get on the prayer altar. I go this way, my wife goes the other way. Last Sunday, we had 752 of our new converts come into Church. Church Gist. Jesus loves everybody but He likes some people. Work your way to the realm where He likes. 1 Chronicles 28:4. Move from the realm of God loving everyone to liking you. Draw a program that is the way to run. If you don’t have a program as a sportsman, you will end up a failure. This revival chariot must not leave you behind.
- You are ordained to emerge a star in this generation. You will not sell off your birthright for a morsel of bread.
I decree that you return from this service with the master key of open doors. The name of that master key is God’s ever-abiding presence.
- This month you will earn a supernatural change of level.
- This month you will hit your benchmark of many and your star will break forth.
- I decree this month your month of humbling testimonies. Your month of tearful testimonies.
The story of J.C. Penny is very instructive here on how we stay on. He was a committed tither. His business began to grow and he got to a point where he said the church won’t need this much. He began to rationalize and he began to go down little by little until he became bankrupt. The envy of yesterday has become a pity. Lord, what is wrong? God told him to get back to where he is falling from. Ezekiel 18:24-25. Stay on.
- The grace to stay on with Jesus as a new lifestyle, receive it now in the name of Jesus.
- Today marks the beginning of your access to open doors. Wherever you are Jesus will be there and doors will open of their own accord.
Glory to God.
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