Bishop David Oyedepo at WSF Leadership Empowerment Summit
(Part II)
- Ask God for the way out.
- He showed me the way out: My Outreach team got 66,000 souls into the Kingdom in the year of lock down.
- Last Sunday, we had 304 souls from our last outreach in Church: no guess work.
To see testimonies replicate in your life, mind the following:
- Believe in the integrity of those testimonies. Stop reading carnal meanings to them.
- Believe in the power of God that brought those testimonies.
- Celebrate the hand of God upon those testifiers.
- Believe in the steps that they took.
- Prove that you do by taking same steps.
- Believe God to replicate same order of testimony in your life: you are not just doing it in a vacuum, you are doing it with faith.
- Return all the glory to Him as He does: don’t assume it. Consciously return the glory. Every time you see one additional soul in the Cell, “Thank you Jesus for answered prayers.” Then He turns it to 2 next week; 3 in the following week; then to 5: now you are ready to replicate….
Every testimony is a product of the overshadowing power of the Most High God (Luke 1:35).
- There are many Cell Ministers this year who will see 6 Cells born out of their one Cell.
- There is always a way forward, is that we don’t ask for it (Isaiah 55:9).
- No matter where your cell is, God has a strategy for that area, to make it grow and replicate.
Under the global lock down last year: my kind of outreach, when I get out, people gather and now they say they can’t gather.
I said, “Jesus, there must be a way out. There must be a way forward. You can’t be locked in, you can’t be stranded.”
He brought me strange light: we engaged that light, we saw almost twice the highest we ever saw since we began our outreach endeavours. In the year of lock down. By asking God, “what is the way forward?”
- Your Cells might be in a peculiar area, but there must be a way out there!
All you need is ask for the way out. He made His ways known unto Moses (Psalm 103:7). How? Moses asked, “show me now thy way”
He won’t show you without you asking Him.
Don’t sit down somewhere and say, “because this is a hospital area!” More people are in the hospital area than anywhere else. Church Gist
“This place is near the road”: that’s why they should come.
“This place is far inside”: there are other people far inside like you, you gather them.
There is always a way out.
People are just: “you know, as a Consultant”: there are senior consultants than you whose cells are growing
“You know as a Prof”: there are Vice Chancellors who are growing their cells.
You don’t have any excuse, whatever man you are. You don’t have any excuse. You are only showing where your heart is.
We got 66,000 souls into the Kingdom in the year of lock down: no games.
All my outreach staff were pushed out to the field. There is no law against talking to one another. There is no law against that forever except you put a law against eating.
We put a paper in their hand, “This is Bishop Oyedepo’s Team”: so they’ll get the audience that I would get.
*May you locate the way forward for that your cell
There are people living next door who are waiting to be invited. They are just eager; because if they don’t invite you to somebody’s house, can you just go there?…
All you need to say, “why don’t you join us in this prayer meeting today? When we pray here, God answers.”
You are advertising Jesus with all integrity of purpose. We are living in days where without God, you have no hope. Things are looking dimmer and dimmer by the day: that’s globally. There is no where to run to (Matthew 11:29).
A Word of Caution: while you are trying to engage everybody in the Cell. Caution.
Otherwise, 3 people will be reading one verse. Engage people as they grow and develop.
No single person will be a Cell Minister here who has not done Bible School, under any condition. We are dealing with destinies of people, so they must have some working knowledge of the things of God.
This will help us, so that we just don’t have number, we have quality. People who know how to receive from God and transmit to others.
As for New Converts hosting house fellowships, that’s the New Testament order. Every believer’s home is qualified to host a fellowship (Acts 2).
Please ensure that you are not assuming and not just laying by, “I know God will do it”: God won’t do nothing until you have done what He said to do. Church Gist
Go out now. Define how your going will be in your area.
Reach out: define the kind of outreach that suits that place in getting people and before you know what is happening, God has stepped in to confirm His Word.
Faith is work; that is why some people say faith is not working because they are not working.
- Last Sunday, we had 304 souls from our last outreach in my outreach team, in Church: No guess work.
- I run a whole Outreach office for my own outreach endeavours: God is pleased with me, that I know. Faith is work. As we hit February, we have a target for the year, so we start moving and moving. It is not sitting down and watching, waiting for it to happen.
Every vision demands a run for delivery. It won’t deliver just because you are running: it will deliver because you believe what God says He will do, He will do; then you take your part by getting on the run to make it happen. - In the name of the Lord Jesus, this will be the most fruitful of all years till date in our spiritual life.
- Everything you touch will open up.
- Every step you take will result into testimonies.
- Before halfway through this year, by the end of June, believe to see your Cell replicate at least once.
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