NO ONE CAN REWRITE THE BIBLE, NO ONE HAS THAT AUTHORITY. TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT.
THERE IS NO ‘PAPA PRAY FOR ME’ THAT CAN BREAK SCRIPTURES. THERE IS NO TEACHING THAT CAN SAVE YOU IF YOU ARE NOT WILLING TO REPENT.
THE ONGOING CHURCH GROWTH MOVEMENT ALL AROUND THE WORLD IS ALL ABOUT JESUS. IT IS NOT ABOUT OUR CHURCH AND OUR PASTOR.
IT IS NOT MORE ABOUT JESUS OR MOST ABOUT JESUS BUT ALL ABOUT JESUS.
THERE IS NO PROVISION OF REDEMPTION WITHOUT SPECIFIC DEMANDS FOR ACCESS.
FAVOUR IS OUR BIRTHRIGHT BUT THERE IS WHAT TO DO TO TRIGGER, PROVOKE AND SUSTAIN THE FLOW OF FAVOUR.
GOD’S PRESENCE IS WHAT EQUALS FAVOUR. GOD WITH A MAN IS WHAT EQUALS FAVOUR.
- Bishop David Oyedepo at Covenant Day of Favour Service, Faith Tabernacle, Canaanland First Service. By high favour, Mary never knew a man yet gave birth to the greatest mortal that walked on the face of the earth. Sarah had long ceased ovulating so there was nothing like egg talk less of eggs, yet the promise was born. In the name of Jesus, everyone on this ground and around the world who is connected to this service, the favour of miracle children is released in your life. Because favour is the cure for all misfortunes, today marks the end of all misfortunes in your life. Lift your two hands and ask for a definite encounter with God this morning via His word.
Thank you heavenly Father, we all look up to a dramatic change of story in this service. Let it be the portion of every one of us.
UNLOCKING THE SUPERNATURAL. This connotes it is domiciled in you but you have to release it. Every child of God is born a wonder to his world, it’s not his ambition. It is the miracle of redemption. John 3:8. We must get to a point where we certify our redemption not appropriate it. Isaiah 8:18. Zechariah 3:8. Jesus said we are to be wondered at. Most of the events of this ministry you have to be inside to even agree that they are true. That is to be wondered at. People say this is too good to be true, no downtime in 41 years? There must be some things they are doing behind the scenes that we don’t know. This cannot just be the Bible. Church Gist. That is how your life is ordained to be, that they see you soaring and they can’t see you sweating. They just see you scaling heights and they can’t see the struggle behind it. He found us struggling, He came to our rescue. We were battered and beaten, He came to beautify us. We were without form and void, He came to fill us with His presence. I just wrote a tract that we are going to invade the cities with ‘WE SERVE A STORY CHANGING GOD’. You have your copy to study and plug yourself into it and then we move them in hundreds, thousands and millions. We serve a story changing God.
You are not redeemed to be pitied, you are redeemed to be envied. Matthew 8:27. There is no provision of redemption without specific demands for access or specified demands for delivery. For instance, He gave us power (Revelation 5:12), power is not for free, you pay the price of a thirst (John 7:37) to access power. Psalm 63:1-2. It’s not for free so don’t go and wish power, you go after it. Riches! Oh Yes but you must understand his covenant of access to wealth and operate in it. All those things given to us are real but people are not interested in the demands. Psalm 119:97-100. Wisdom is not free. Church Gist. You are just registered into that school to start changing levels as you succeed in exams. Somebody said do you mean you haven’t had any problems since you came into ministry? Exam is not a problem for students, it is part of the program. It is when you fail that it becomes a problem. If you find a student weeping because of an exam, he has a problem – a mental problem. You went to school to change classes after passing the exam. Challenges and problems are not the same, challenges make champions by overcoming them. I was under one of the most grievous attacks but I overcame it in grand style with no attention. You are running to win a race, you can’t be looking at who is insulting you.
- The last spiritual test you failed is the last you ever fail in your life.
So favour is our birthright but there is what to do to trigger, provoke and sustain the flow of favour. Which this ministry by grace has succeeded to do. In the name of Jesus Christ, I welcome you to your realm of favour. When you are on a tour with the President, every favour accorded the President you are entitled to it too. You can’t travel with the President and they put you in a third-class hotel. The highest class of hotels where they will put you. You may be a gardener but for that moment everyone is at your beck and call because you are in the company of the President. God’s presence is what equals favour. Genesis 39:3,21. God with a man is what equals favour. Church Gist. The honour of God rubs off on you because you are in His company. Don’t tell me it was the dream that Joseph interpreted that brought him to the throne. Did he interpret any dream for Potiphar, How did he get favour there? The keeper of the prisoner didn’t dream any dream, how did he get favour there. Everybody saluting the President is saluting you even if they don’t like you. That is what I am enjoying, I am in the company of the King. We are always on tour together. The favour keeps flowing.
There is what entitles you to that companionship. “Go into the world and preach the gospel, I am with you always”. It is not “I am with you always that starts” it is “Go”. So if you don’t go, I am not with you. Get on the Go always and I am with you always. This Church carries that presence in unmistakable terms. You only know it when you try to hit the Church, you hit it and you are the one that breaks. You don’t get angry with a mountain and go and hit it with your car, because your car is a Land Cruiser with a rubber bumper. It will scatter into the engine. That is how you are ordained to be, you are lively stones built into a spiritual house, you are not ordained to be toiled with by devils. I pray that you will receive your own rain of favour in this service.
Spiritual stewardship is what secures companionship with God. Galatians 6:7-9. He sent them two by two to the place where He will come. When He sends you and you are on the go, He comes along with you. Mark 16:15-20. His presence is at a cost, a cost of obedience to the Great Commission. His perpetual presence that puts you in command of signs and wonders and gives you favour is at the cost of your commitment to the Great Commission
- Favour becomes your new look from today
- Wherever they see they accept you. No door of favour is shit against you anymore.
So all these praying Kingdom advancement prayers are not for the Church but are not for Christ. They are to endow you with the companionship of God that equals everything you will ever need. So buy into it. Every truth that sets free is at a cost and the cost is obedience of faith. Proverbs 23:26. Most people just hear the truth, they don’t want to pay the price of obedience to buy. You can be seeing advertisements of motorbikes of all kinds, that doesn’t make them yours. You go and pay the sellers to possess any of them. You can wish till you die, if you don’t buy you will not have. People celebrate revelation, that is our lot in the Charismatic. Revelation! Revelation!! Revelation!!! Christ has obtained for us power, honour, riches” okay where is the power? They have not asked. Where are the riches? They have not asked. Why? They are interested in the advertisement but they are not willing to pay the price of acquisition. It is this covenant mentality that must come back to the school of faith. Many people preaching prosperity are not doing anything that guarantees access. So they are harassing people to give. You don’t prosper by what they give you, you prosper by what you give. Anything acquired by doing nothing shall not make any meaning. Church Gist. Proverbs 13:11. That is important for all of us Pastors. It is more blessed to give than to receive.
I once told my old man before he went to heaven, why don’t you sell all these properties. You go about checking how the building is, and whether tenants are behaving well. He said where will I pay my tithe from? I said from what we gave you. He said God knows who gave me. He will credit it to their account. I said Okay, you understand that more than I do so carry on. You can be the most acclaimed teacher, if you are not a tither, heaven won’t open. You don’t open heaven by plenty of revelation, you open heaven by tithing. Church Gist. No matter how pastoral a pastor you are, if you are not passionate about souls you won’t see Church Growth. You can be an entertainer, make the people laugh. Shout “Ye Ye Ye”. “I am sure you are happy, let us share the grace”. That’s comedian ministry. John 10:16. Every outstanding pastor in the Church of Christ is a soul passionate individual. I was on the street four times in a row this week. It didn’t start yesterday and the day before yesterday. All these breakaway churches don’t last because they will also break. What you sow you will reap. In the name of Jesus, no guesswork anymore in your life.
Companionship with Christ is every believer’s greatest asset because if God is for you and me who can be against us. Romans 8:31, Psalm 24:7-10. Acts 10:38. Whatever qualifies you and me for that companionship, we should buy into it with delight, uttermost delight. My wife went out on outreach and a man came to block the car with cutlass and one great giant came from somewhere and chased the man away. Lo, I am with you always. You don’t sit down to see power, power is for going out. You can’t receive power for decoration, you receive power for service. Praying kingdom advancement prayer, carrying members on your back at your cost, these are all the things that happen that make a difference. You are never in command of signs and wonders until we are serving Him. Power is not for decoration.
The good news is there is nothing it takes that we are not engraced to offer. He never tempts anyone beyond what he is able. All we need is a definite choice that is made easy and entering into a covenant of making serving God a lifestyle and doing that with all your heart and you know what all-round rest means and operating in a war-free zone of life. Where you sleep and wake up like a baby. You walk the streets with boldness because even though you are a sheep, you are under the covering of a lion. You are bold as the lion because the lion is there to deal with anybody. He at my back is my confidence. I am overconfident in him. Philippians 3:3. This great God on whose mission we are, who never denies Himself. No backing can be ever more solid than the backing of the Most High God. We unlock the supernatural by buying into the Great Commission. By placing a high premium on His companionship. You are just in command. Daniel 3:18-19. Our God who we serve is able and will deliver us, even if He does not. They went to the fire and came out and it was no toy fire, the heat killed the people who threw them there. In the name of Jesus, the supernatural becomes your natural estate from now.
That is what we have missed in Charismatic, we just claim the provision with total and absolute disregard for the conditions. Can you live a healthy life without feeding on the word? Impossible. Proverbs 4:20-21. It is the balm of Gilead to stay strong and healthy. Yesterday’s food does not take care of today. No witch needs to pursue you just don’t eat from now and cross forty days limit, Elijah’s chariot will just land for you and take you to the great beyond. You feed on the word to be fat and healthy. If all we do today is to succeed to let you know that every provision of redemption has conditions that must be met.
You can’t be saved without repentance. There are many people in Church who have not repented Sir. There is no sign that they will ever repent. I want to send a warning to the younger generation: You can’t rewrite the Bible, it is settled in heaven forever. If you add to it. You add problems to your life. You remove from it, you remove from your blessings. Sir, don’t attempt to rewrite the Bible. That is not Christianity. You will just be faking answers where there are none. One hundred days of labour will not equal one day of favour. People rely on their strength and their skill and that is the plague of today’s generation. “I have five certifications” “I have ten certifications in Civil Engineering and Software Development”. Congratulations. Church Gist. There is nothing wrong with that but depending on them, you work and work like a slave and leave no footprints at the end of your life but when favour hits you. Ecclesiastes 9:11. Can you imagine how many years it would have taken Joseph to study and emerge on the throne of Egypt? He was unqualified to start with. He was not a citizen of Egypt. He was an ex-convict. It can’t happen but when favour hit him one day, it catapulted him to the throne of Egypt. There are many people here. You are going to experience one strange jump in your life that will rewrite your story forever. Was Mary the only virgin in the land? No! Virginity was the decoration of those days. Well, she was highly favoured. In the same vein, you are not the only qualified in that field where you are but favour will locate you.
Daniel 12:3
For doing what? For turning many into righteousness. A young chap just gave a testimony. One of the people that applied for that consultancy graduated the year he was born and yet they gave it to him. Church Gist. Favour will just take you from the far behind to one place where you will be wondering what happened. Proverbs 11:30. Do you want honour from God? John 12:36 be dedicated to serving His interests. This is not about a Church, it is about the covenant-keeping God and His covenant with His people.
God once said to me “there is a place for you at the top if you are interested” I said I am interested. He said, “then whatever I tell you to do, do it”. Your interest is fake if you won’t do what I tell you to do. We are already in the forty days post-resurrection appearance and God is revealing amazing things to His people, connect. Buy into it, show me light, let me know a better way in my walk with you. No one can rewrite the Bible, no one has that authority. Take it or leave it. Young people, you can do nothing against the truth. Young people there is no software for fasting and prayer. Church Gist. There is no software for soul winning. 2 Corinthians 13:8. There is no software for giving. It’s not this Church, it’s this Bible and you can’t do anything against the Bible. Your destiny and my destiny is in the hand of each of us, the ball is in your court and each one can play it the way you choose. There is no Papa pray for me that can break scriptures. There is no teaching that can save you if you are not willing to repent. No prophet can pray for your healing without your faith. Everything about life in this kingdom has to do with you and where you stand. The just shall live by his faith, not their faith. Many destinies will be turned around in this season, let it hear your loudest Amen.
I want us to take note of this, it is a prophetic word that came to me on July 15, 1997. “I have made Lagos your first headquarters from where you will shake your world. Build with me a people to be envied, a people of attraction, a people of honour and by them I will shake the world. We are a spiritual formation where we take the last command, you don’t take it you are out of the force. Joel 2:11. Ours is not a petting people’s ministry. It is a force headquarters. A spiritual headquarters. We are not a civilian Church, we are a spiritual military force. So when I say do this, if you don’t do it. It is to your disadvantage. “Build with me a people of depth, a revolutionary army by depth and revelation and I will take the world by storm”. Revelation equals zero without application. James 1:22. Don’t murmur. If you see the cost of murmuring and you still don’t fear it, then go ahead. Joel 2:2-3. There are an army of future record breakers. That is the kind of Churches Christ is raising this time. Enlist in this army and as the Lord lives, you won’t miss your place in this season. Joel 2:3. He said to me “Behold I am with you. Don’t you toil with this pulpit. It is serving a generation. I have set you as a shepherd over this generation and as you pastor one church, the world will become your parish. Stay over this Church as we begin to gather the harvest of the world”. There is no virus that hits the earth that will impact God’s people. Watch because you belong to this wave of glory.
Everything about you and me is contained in this book, may you find your place. They gave to Jesus in the synagogue, the book of Isaiah to read and He found where it is written of Him. Luke 4:17-18. Everything about you and me is written in that book. They said who are you John? He said I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness. He found it in John 40. Please settle down and see the world speaking to you as a person. Church Gist. What you don’t understand, understand by the testimonies of others because testimonies are just a practical interpretation of the word. They are not stories, anyone can buy into them. Many of them didn’t know that there was anything in the garment of Jesus Christ but one woman knew and bought into it. Many of them came riding on that testimony and bought into it. They were made whole, every one of them (Matthew 9:21-23, 14:26). You are hearing testimonies every day, there are some things going on in there. Psalm 36:9. What happens in the life of anyone is a pointer to what God can do in your life. Just find out what you have to work on to get that result. The good news is that the end has come to all your struggles.
The ongoing Church Growth movement all around the world is all about Jesus. It is not about our Church and our Pastor. It is not more about Jesus or most about Jesus but all about Jesus the great shepherd of the flock. It is all about Jesus who does not want any man to perish but come to the knowledge of the truth. All about Jesus who wants all men saved. It is all about Jesus who is asking all men who are laden with heavy burdens, to come. It is all about Jesus who is ready to turn a little flock into a kingdom of Christ. Church Gist. It is all about Jesus, you better link up and enjoy his partnership. We are not smarter than the previous generation, we are just privileged to be born in a generation where He is fulfilling an aspect of His will. Micah 4:1. We are moving from the realm of Church Growth to Church Flow. Jesus is coming to rapture a reigning Church, not a dry Church. This is how to be in command of the supernatural, active partnership with Jesus.
Give God thanks for His word this morning. Express your renewed value for his companionship.
