*You give God your time, He multiplies the effect of your time back.
*What will take you 6 hours, you get it done in 30 minutes because of the time seed you have sown.
*I have enormous responsibilities, yet I am not failing in any of them.
*This is how I spend my time, yet every other thing is working with divine speed.
*Keep pursuing after God, those who mock you today will envy you tomorrow.
Somebody was sacked from his workplace for 3 years, whatever the reason was, now called back to the same organization: promoted in the course of been out of job; now a driver and a car (documented testimony)
Now he has started his Master degree, he had a convert: his convert had 27 converts. The convert of the convert had converts. Now found it!
-May each one find the treasure that is hid in the Word this season.
You can’t find a treasure and ignore it. It is when you have not found it that you begin to wonder why the effort. You can’t find the treasure in the Word and not invest maximally into it.
Prayer: Open my eyes that I may behold the treasures in your Word, Jesus. I want this revival to open my eyes, to behold the treasures in your Word. I want my eyes opened in the course of this revival to behold the treasures in the Word that will help me invest maximally, continually, tirelessly into Kingdom Advancement Endeavours. Help me Jesus.
Thank You Father, in Jesus precious name we have prayed.
Lord Jesus, thank You again this morning. Receive our thanks in Jesus name.
WE CANNOT HAVE A HEART FOR GOD AND NOT HAVE TIME FOR HIM
Matthew 6:21
It is natural, where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. You don’t get reminded to go to work. It’s a requirement to keep things working in your life. In fact, you don’t need encouragement. You are self-encouraged to go to work: the only way to remain on the payroll of the organization. Where our treasure is there will be our heart also. You don’t get reminded to go to your business place because there is your treasure, there will your heart be also (Matthew 6:21). You wake up in the morning, in fact if there is no water, you jump out. You use water bottle to wipe your eyes, if you have hair on your head, you comb it. If you don’t have hair like me, you are very lucky, you just jump out straight. Where your heart is, your time, I mean, your greatest treasure and my greatest treasure in life is time. I believe it is the one-pound talent that Jesus spoke about in Luke chapter 19. It’s same amount of time for every mortal man on the earth: one pound each. Time defines the one pound. The rich had one pound of time, the poor had one pound of time. The rich traded their time to give value to their lives. The poor squander their time, sit under the tree, playing Ludo, playing ‘Ayo’ all day long: “Yes, I beat you. You beat me. I will beat you 4 times today”; then the wise invest their time in building capacity in their area of interest so they can create a future for themselves.
But here is it, the Bible says in Matthew chapter 13 verse 44, talking about the parable of the Kingdom.
“When a man has found”: so when you discover the treasure of the Word, your time cheaply goes for it. Your time easily goes for it. “…which when a man has found”, not until he finds it. You can’t find a treasure and not invest in actualising it. So much money is spent in oil exploration because of what they know is inside it. So they keep investing, they keep scavenging, exploring because they believe something is here, something is in there. The equipment has told them there is oil, let’s find it.
The problem with a heart for God is lack of access to the treasures in God through His Word. You can’t uncover it and not invest into it. Sir, I have not needed encouragement in my life since 1976 to invest in Matthew 6:33. I have never needed it. I have needed encouragement. I have found the treasure, my God. I had to sell all that I had, my time is my greatest treasure to buy into it. All!
Your time will easily go for every discovered treasure. It will naturally go for it but until you find it, until you locate that it is there, you won’t sell all that you have and buy into it.
So the truth of the Word is loaded with treasures. He said, “buy the truth and sell it not” (Proverbs 23:23). The truth is treasure loaded. Every truth revealed cheaply enjoys your investment of time.
For instance, I heard from the Lord, “there is a place for you on top if you are interested.” I heard that from Deuteronomy 28:1.
“That if you will hearken to the voice of the Lord to do what I tell you to do, I will set you on high, (not system, not people, not connection), I will set you on high above all nations of the earth.”
I said: I am interested.
He said: Whatever I tell you to do, do it
So doing whatever He tells me to do became a delight. I found it that He will not require any human connection to get any believer to any height in life. I found it, just obeying what He says to do with all your heart, with all you’ve got, it’s all you need. Praise God. It’s amazing.
That’s what makes your time investment a delight. The discovery of the treasure in the Word enjoys your time investment without stress. You are just rolling on like roller coaster, no break, no jam because of discovered treasure.
“He went and selleth all that he hath and buyeth that field” – Matthew 13:44
“This is what it is, my God, I got it.”
Jeremiah 15:16
Every discovered truth stirs joy unspeakable. How do I know when I have found it? It stirs joy unspeakable in you, full of glory. It became joy and rejoicing. Joy and rejoicing!!
Proverbs 24:13-14.
You are too convinced of what is in it for you, having found it. You are over persuaded, there is a treasure that secures a future in this truth. There is a treasure that secures a future in this truth.
Now think of it: “I rejoice at thy word, as one that findeth great spoil”- Psalm 119:162. That’s David.
Every truth discovered stirs joy unspeakable. Now he found that there is a future hanging around God at all times.
“I was glad when they said to me, come let’s go to the house of the Lord. Our feet shall stand within thy walls, o Jerusalem” – Psalm 122:1
He was just celebrating being in Church.
“How amiable are thy tabernacle o God” – Psalm 84:1 -11
Why? He has found it. He’s found it, his time to be in the Sanctuary was a delight. He had found what treasures there are in there. Church Gist. Very interesting Psalm.
Psalm 65:4 – see what he has found. He had found those things, so to invest his time, to sell all that he had and be there became a delight.
And who was David? A man with a heart for God.
How did he get there? By discovered treasure in the Word, so his time cheaply goes for it. That’s what makes a difference.
I will bless the Lord at all times, His praise shall continually be in my mouth (Psalm 34:1).
Psalm 55:17 – He had 3 scheduled prayer times in a day.
“Seven times a day do I praise thee” (Psalm 119:164). He had all the time and it is traceable to discovered treasures.
You won’t have any problem investing your time in seeking after God if you have discovered what is in it. Many must have heard me say, “I am not surprised at where we are, the glory goes to God for it. He made it happen but I saw what He will make happen when I do what He says to do.” So I am not surprised that we are where we are, I would have been surprised if we were not there.
-You will get there.
-The good news is this Midst of the Year 2021 will lead to a massive, unforgettable, turnaround experience in your life.
God is not looking for who to rob, who to cheat, who to take advantage of, He wants to give you the opportunity for a change of story and to keep your story changing from glory to glory all the days of your life. Church Gist. It may start with mockery, but it is sure to end with glory!! I mean it usually would, they spat on His face before He was seated far above the Heavens. It is our not being willing to endure the mockery that robs us of the glory. Keep running after God. Those who mock you today, will envy you tomorrow. Keep pursuing after God. Those who mock you today will envy you tomorrow.
-Keep pursuing after God, those who mock you today will envy you tomorrow.
The seed is always pitiable in the ground, it will first be messed up by moisture, heat and then breaks up as if you have lost it. Then suddenly new life surges and it begins to grow. Suddenly your basket is on the farm for the harvest. It’s like that. There is no one that enjoys, not endure, don’t endure, enjoy the mockery. There is no one that enjoys the mockery who does not end up with the glory.
There is no one who enjoys, not endure: “Okay, since Papa said we should go, let’s go now. See the way that woman talked to me, if not that I was going about, can that kind of woman come near my business?”
So stay with your business now.
Enjoy it. Enjoy the mockery, you are on the highway to the glory. Enjoy the mockery, that’s your highway to the glory.
“Are you the only one…Church! What do they even give you there…Papa will kill you in a moment” Amen. Thank You Jesus.
That’s how to maintain a heart for God. You just keep discovering more and more of the treasures in the Word and more and more of your time keeps going after God with utmost delight. I have enormous responsibility by grace and none is failing. I am not failing in any of my responsibilities by the grace of God and this is how I spend my time, yet every other thing is working with divine speed.
You bring something after you said you have completed, in 2 minutes I find 10 things there that are wrong, without scratching my head, that needs to be put right. Then we do it right and then we get better results.
-Something is breaking forth in your life.
Anything you invest in the Kingdom returns to you many fold. You give God your time, He multiplies the effect of your time back. So the things that will take you 6 hours, you get it done in 30 minutes because of the time seed, you have sown. Time seed you have sown into His Kingdom.
Those 3 young men, Shedrach, Meshach and Abednego were rulers in the provinces of Babylon but we knew them to be prayer giants and people with a heart for God from Daniel chapter 1 (Daniel 3:14, 16). They just refused to be defiled with the king’s rich food. They were tried and after 10 days, they looked better, brighter, smarter than all the others. They were people with unchequered heart for God. I mean, love is as strong as death. They went willingly, cheerfully to the fiery furnace because they would rather die than disconnect from their God (Songs of Solomon 8:6).
So their heart for God is proven and the glory that came after it: they marched gallantly out of the fiery furnace and were promoted in Babylon (Daniel 3:28-30).
A heart for God will always lead to scaling a new height.
We are not careful to answer you in this matter. Our God whom we serve is able to deliver us and He will. Even if He does not, we would rather die with Him than live with an idol (Daniel 3:16). God showed up.
-There are many of us who will see God show up like never before in the course of this Midst of the Year revival.
Let me hear your loudest Amen!
Well can I say this to you, every revival is to create a greater future for the engaging believer. Every revival is ordained to create a greater future for every engaging, not every present, every engaging believer. Not every present believer. Every engaging believer.
There are some, they are not true to themselves at all, one bit. Every genuinely engaging believer, a revival is ordained for our supernatural advancement.
-Therefore I believe that many people in the Winners’ family will experience such dimension of quantum leaps that we have never heard as a testimony in this place.
-Some will be crying endlessly for joy, for they cannot tell how they got to where they are.
Imagine Joseph, you slept as a Prisoner last night and then today you are addressing the nation. How?
You are not only a stranger, you are also a convict. Not ex-convict, current convict (Psalm 105:22). So it is unimaginable, it is unthinkable.
-It is such unthinkable experiences that we will encounter in this season.
Unthinkable experiences, my God. So seize this opportunity with everything inside you, give it best of your time, like never before. If you want to see what you have never seen, then be willing to do what you have never done. That is the way it works.
You sow sparingly, you reap sparingly. You sow bountifully, you reap bountifully; you sow extraordinarily, you reap extraordinarily (2 Corinthians 9:6).
You sow sacrificially, you emerge a star.
So it’s not about we are involved. At what level? Is there any improvement on where you were before? Then don’t expect anything in return, higher than what you are before. But you want more results, wake up and invest more, then you get more results. While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest shall not cease (Genesis 8:22).
You don’t sow on an acre and go to reap on 10 acres.
How many have found the treasure in a revival? Now it is waiting to manifest in your future.
Prayer: Receive fresh fire in your soul. Lord, revive my spirit, revive my soul, revive my mind, revive my body. Keep me on fire for you.
Everybody pray. Pray new fire to your soul. Pray new fire to your spirit.
In Jesus precious name we have prayed.
The whole army of Israel went in pursuit of David, could not catch up with him Sir. The king led the army, in pursuit of a small boy, he couldn’t catch him.
Can I tell you this? Your eyes will never see evil again.
For we know that all things work together for good, to them with a heart for God (Romans 8:28). All things!
-Your life is delivered from every form of regrets from henceforth.
For we know that all things will keep working together for good, to those people with a genuine heart for God. All things.
We also know that what eyes have not seen, nor ears heard, they are the things, God has in store for them with a heart for Him (1 Corinthians 2:9). You can’t have a heart for God without having time for Him. So if you want all things to keep working for you, you need a heart for God.
If you want things that eyes have never seen, nor ears heard to become your new experience in life then you need a heart for God.
It’s not about, “God likes somebody, He like somebody”: No. We are all accepted in the Beloved. We are God’s darling, every child of God is a darling of the Almighty God. He said, “Your Maker is your Husband”, so not more husband to one than another. Praise God. God has no special favourite, you are His favourite, I am His favourite. Same level. How each one responds is what determines where He places us.
Grace to respond to the love of the Father, your covenant Husband, receive that grace this morning.
My prayer is that the same grace that landed on me in 1976, that I have not recovered from lands on each one of you here today.
In the advancement of the Kingdom, your commitment to the advancement of the Kingdom, is your own advancement. That’s where your own advancement lies. Your tireless commitment to the advancement of the Kingdom is where your own supernatural, inexplainable but undeniable advancement in life lies. That’s where it is.
Grace to remain tirelessly committed to the advancement of the Kingdom, that will translate to your own personal supernatural advancement in life, receive it now. So shall it be.
-May today be a day of quality investment for you.
-May every Cell member find pleasure in getting people to their cells.
Many cells have replicated twice but every cell will re-replicate before this season is over. So I see minimum twice where we are now, happen on or before 31st of July (2021) and your investment in it is waiting for returns in your life tomorrow.
Every investment today secures dividends tomorrow.
-You will find it.
You cast your bread upon the waters and after many days you will find it. It is waiting! You will find it. It is waiting for you as long as you keep on, your reward is sure.
Today is declared a day of great, great experience with God’s presence and this evening at the WSF meeting, we look forward to the kind of gathering we have never seen.
May everyone present return with a discovered treasure.
May every prayer prayed at WSF this evening be answered with speed.
May everyone prayed for and prayed over enjoy speedy answers in the name of Jesus Christ and so shall it be.
Father, we look forward to You for the confirmation of your Word concerning the prayer we have prayed for tomorrow’s service. Let it be so in the name of Jesus. Answer us beyond our wildest imagination because you are able to do exceedingly, abundantly above all that we ever ask or think. Now do beyond what we have asked. Do beyond our imagination in the name of Jesus Christ and let tomorrow be a Day of Restoration indeed.
May everything that anyone may have lost before they contacted Christ be openly restored.
Lord, I decree open restoration of homes; restoration of failed businesses; in the name of Jesus Christ. Restoration of peace and joy in the name of Jesus Christ. End of depression, end of anxieties, end of uncertainties in the name of Jesus Christ.
We have some of the fliers and tracts for our mop up operation today. Stretch forth your hand and ask the breath of the Holy Ghost upon these fliers today and the ones we have circulated in the course of the week. Now let each of them be turned to a spiritual magnet, an effective sickle of harvest in the name of Jesus.
Now pray that prayer from the depths of your heart. Pray revival prayer.
Holy Ghost, breathe upon these materials. Do the unusual today, let the mop up operation today be with such returns that we have never known before. Take all the praise and glory in Jesus precious name we have prayed.
The good news is you shall be rewarded. Everyone shall be rewarded for their own labour.
-You will not be lost in the crowd.
-Your reward will entice others to follow Jesus.
-This season will be the greatest season till date in your spiritual life in the name of Jesus Christ.
-May every time invested in praying Kingdom Advancement Prayers in your private time be openly rewarded.
-May every time spent in praying over your targeted souls be rewarded with their turning their lives over to Christ.
-May no one come without any harvest to Church tomorrow. Anyone you genuinely pray for will respond. Anyone you invite will be compelled to come. In the name of Jesus Christ.
-Anyone helping someone else to get into Church, you will never lack help. Your children’s children will never lack help.
Every seed sown today is waiting tomorrow as harvest. You will have it.
-You won’t let them to be stranded, no one in your generation will be stranded.
-You won’t let them feel ashamed, you will never see shame.
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