- God will not regret promoting you.
- Wherever a man’s treasure is, there his heart will be also.
- It is not about your status; your heart is not with God!
- No one here shall be reduced to a statute.
That second testimony said, “from a testimony I heard, I put the date that I would resume my work, March 5th. They earlier called me and said, ‘start on March 2nd,’ the HR (human resources) called me back and said, ‘No, start on the 5th,’ to coincide with the date that I put on the altar.”
Testimonies are prophetic, they have capacity to reproduce themselves in the life of anyone else who believes and who proves that he does by taking the same order of steps that they took. It’s not I believe, here is the proof of my belief: He did this and he got this; I am doing the same thing, so I must get it!!
Whatever testimony you have ever heard on this altar, that you have ever read in any of our books, heard on any of the tapes, CDs, DVDs, YouTube, ‘MTube’, anything that you are genuinely interested in must reproduce in your life this time.
*This shall be your year of raw fulfillment of prophecy.
*That means raw reproduction of testimonies; raw replication of testimonies.
He said, “don’t be slothful, don’t keep WAITING and WASTING”: take steps, no one goes forward sitting down; everyone goes forward taking steps. If you care to take the steps they took by faith, God’s integrity is committed to reproduce those testimonies in your life.
Prayer: Grace to see testimonies reproduce in my life raw, grant it to me Jesus. Grace to take steps that others took to secure Your hand on their lives, grant it to me Jesus.
He said, “don’t be slothful but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises” (Hebrews 6:12).
Lord, I require grace from You to be followers indeed of the steps of those who secured your hand for their change of story.
In Jesus precious name we have prayed.
“Father thank You this morning. Thank You for a most fruitful week. Thank You for a quiet and serene week. Thank You for a week of peace and joy. Thank You for a week of light and illumination. Thank You for a week where your raw hand is evident in our lives. Receive our thanks in Jesus name.
Thank You for your protection and provision all through the week, receive our thanks in Jesus name. Thank You Father. Speak to us this morning and let your Word change our lives one more time in Jesus precious name.”
DEDICATION: A COVENANT PLATFORM FOR THE RISE OF GIANTS
From 3 counts we can locate our heritage of gianthood, our heritage of greatness.
- In the Abrahamic covenant, the Lord swore to Abraham, “and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed” (Genesis 22:18).
Every seed of Abraham is ordained a global citizen of the earth. We saw the natural seed of Abraham, the Jews just exploding all around the world and the spiritual is superior to the natural.
The spiritual seed of Abraham are the Jews indeed who we are and all we need is to engage the faith of Abraham (Galatians 3:29). He said, “the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all” (Romans 4:15).
All we need to do is to do the works of Abraham (John 8:39).
- Secondly, by the law: If you do whatever I tell you to do, I will set you on high above all nations of the earth and guess what, love is the fulfilling of the law (Deuteronomy 28:1, Romans 13:10). When you are in love with God, you have fulfilled the law. When you are love in God, you become a candidate to be set above all nations of the earth.
By the Abrahamic covenant, there is a giant in you. By the law, as you walk in love with God, you have fulfilled the law, so Deuteronomy chapter 28 verse 1 becomes applicable to your life.
- By redemption (Luke 1:31-33; John 17:18): By redemption, you have the genes of a giant in you.
It’s not our ambition, it is simply a discovery of our heritage.
- In the prophetic, we are the end-time saints and the end-time saints are the reigning saints (Psalm 110:1-3; Psalm 87:1-7; Daniel 7:27). As end-time believers, we carry the genes of a giant in us. It is not you and me being ambitious unlike some who say over ambitious: No. We are just a people born in the season of fulfillment of prophecies.
*You won’t miss your place there.
However, dedication is a covenant platform for the rise of the giant in us. We go back to that parable of Jesus about the mustard seed (Mark 4:31-32). When it is sown, not until it is sown. When the tiniest of believers is dedicated to God, the giant in him naturally comes out, or let me say the giant in him supernaturally comes alive!
All those testimonies, 99.9 percent of them I don’t know: they just got themselves dedicated to God who saw their dedication, approved their dedication and turned it to manifestation. Many of them, I never saw them in my life, not many, most of them: I only heard their story as they share it, the same time you heard it.
A dedicated seed does not need support to be distinguished. Your Mustard seed does not need agreement of other mustard seeds or the Master mustard seed: No.
- Your personal dedication guarantees your supernatural manifestation!!
In those days when you hear a word, you would say, “somebody else confirmed it”: that does not mean anything. One million people can confirm it, God is not a Democrat! 12 people went out to spy the land, 10 came back and said, “we are not able to go”; 2 said, “we are getting there.” He took the two there, He destroyed the 10. Is God a Democrat? You and I are absolutely responsible for the outcome of our lives.
“My personal dedication guarantees my supernatural manifestation. My dedication does not require any other person’s support to turn to manifestation. So help me Jesus to remain personally dedicated to you and the interest of your Kingdom all the days of my life.”
PAUL THE APOSTLE: He wrote the Book of 1 Corinthians and 2 Corinthians. He unveiled a lot of mysteries about the Kingdom. From John chapter 12, we saw Jesus in that parable, “the hour has come for the Son of God to be glorified…but except a corn of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it abides alone…”(John 12:23-26).
You love personal dignity, you love to be respected by the society: NO, somebody like me cannot be sharing tracts; at my level of social status;
- No one here shall be reduced to a statute.
God is not gaining anything by your obedience, you are the one gaining everything. Your obedience is not adding nothing to God, it is only adding value to your life.
You are ashamed of Me in this wicked generation, I will also be ashamed of you. You go out there to bear my reproach, I will wipe away every trace of reproach in your life (Hebrews 13:13). The choice is yours and the choice is mine. It’s not your status, it’s your willful disobedience.
- Where is your status in your prayer closet? Who saw you there? It’s not about status, it’s about where your heart is.
If it is your status, then why are you not praying for Heaven to open, for souls to be saved? It’s not status: No.
All your colleagues who are in the same class with you, they go to their drinking bar every day. If the Madam doesn’t see them, she calls them, “Hello, ‘a ti ri yin, se ko si’ (we have not seen you, hope there is no problem). You know you come here for service every day, we have not seen you.” They are there every day, it is not about your status.
Wherever a man’s treasure is, there his heart will be also. Your heart is not with God, it is not status. Which status?
David was a king, which other status in the land? He said, “I will share also thy testimonies before kings and I will not be ashamed” (Psalm 119:46).
- Check it, God will not regret over any of us. He said, “it regretted me that I made Saul king” (1 Samuel 15:11).
- God will not regret promoting you. Church Gist May you remain an ever-excited servant, obedient servant of your Father in the name of Jesus.
He said, “I will spare them as a man spares his own son that serves him”, when trouble comes, I will defend them, I will protect them, I will set a seal over their lives because they serve Me.
*No one here will suffer a setback.
Paul said, “I die daily” (1 Corinthians 15:31).
Paul said, “I am crucified with Christ” (Galatians 2:20)
Paul said, “Who shall separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus?” (Romans 8:35-38). It was his personal testimony.
Paul the dedicated said, “For me to live is Christ and to die is gain” (Philippians 1:21). A sold-out soldier of Christ. In fact, devils ranked him as next to Christ (Acts 19:14-15). The people exclaimed, “the gods have come down to us in the likeness of men” (Acts 14:11). It was Paul and Barnabbas that they were referring to, Paul was said to be Jupiter, the head of all princes.
Peter said, “Even we have a problem understanding some of the things that Paul is saying.” He came last and he went forward to be first through the mystery of dedication.
“A seed shall serve him: it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation…” – Psalm 22:30-31
When you serve Him (God) as a seed, generations after you are impacted and reference you at every point in time.
“Paul said, Paul said”: we are still saying so after 2,000 years; and the people that shall be born will declare this is what he did (Psalm 22:31). That is the mystery of dedication, it impacts on generations after you.
Let me tell you this and I’m saying that with glory to God, this world will not forget this Mandate, till Jesus comes. This world will not, that is there is no way they will forget.
“The hour has come”: they will be saying it if Jesus doesn’t come in 2000 years, they will be saying 2,000 years to come.
Psalm 22:30-31
- There are many generational giants under the sound of my voice this morning, that it shall be said by generations to come, “this is what God did through him; this is what God did through him.”
We talk about Abraham as if he was in town, that he flew here yesterday from Tel-Aviv. Abraham is up in Heaven, on a throne and we are talking of him as if we met yesterday at Sheraton Hotel and we said, “Father Abraham, when did you arrive?”
Response: some 3 pm this afternoon.
“So you came to see us in Nigeria?”
Response: Oh yes!
Abraham has gone for a long time. If Jesus tarries, an army of men and women in this generation will carry Abrahamic virtue, they will be talking about the acts of God in their lives for generations to come.
But a seed shall serve Him. If you serve Him as a seed tomorrow, generations to come will be referring to the acts of God in your life.
- Many of us are going places that 100 years of labour can’t take you but the favour of God.
The glory of God in your life via the mystery of fearful favour (Psalm 102:13-15).
- There are people here today, where you find yourself before the year is over, you will be shedding tears of joy uncontrollably. ‘Se mi na re Oluwa’ (am I the one God?). You will be asking whether you are still the same person. Am I still the same person? ‘Kilode’ (what happened?) Me!!!
Your wife will come in and say, “what’s happening?” She too will join you (in shedding tears of joy).
Your children will come, “Mummy, what’s happening?” (expresses tears of joy)
Because you’ll find yourself where 100 years of labour can’t get you to via the mystery of fearful of favour.
*That’s what the Lord will do for you.
We woke up to 1996, no idea of buying a car, can I tell you this! No idea. It’s not in any budget to buy a car. By March, he declared the acquisition of a plane. By September of that year, without a budget, the plane landed. It was not in our wildest imagination, it was not thought of, it was not mentioned in a meeting, even as a joke. There is no record anywhere that okay somebody is going to look for the kind of plane we want to buy. We were not fit; capacity wise: Zero; Vision: No.
If you ask me, “But you said you saw in a vision that you are flying.” I will say, “yes, it’s for the time to come. Every vision is for an appointed time.”
If you ask me, “when do you think so?”
My Response: Maybe 10 years, maybe 15 years.
- What you have never imagined, by your raw dedication to God and to the interest of His Kingdom, what may not happen in the next 20 years of your life, if you will remain dedicated: IT WILL ALL HAPPEN THIS YEAR!
I am not hyping you, I’m telling you the Prophetic Word for the year. It’s up to you!!
This is a most prophetic of all years: 40 years happen only once.
- This 40th year of this Ministry must change your story permanently by demonstrating your raw dedication to God in your privacy, in the open, everywhere. Church Gist Make it your most spiritually robust year. Let obedience become a delight of your soul and watch how God will keep decorating you.
That’s our mystery, that’s the secret we trade, “seek ye first the Kingdom of God, leave other things to Me, I will take care of them” (Matthew 6:33). That’s the testimony of many people you are hearing in this Church today, they just carried God’s Kingdom on their heads.
They say: ‘na you kill Jesus?’ (are you the one that killed Jesus?)
Response: Thank You
“You are not wise, you are stupid. Papa has turned your brain.”
Response: Thank You
You will just go your way. The devil wants to rob you of your blessing in transit, don’t let him. They were mocking Elisha; when he came back, they bowed down to him.
- All your mockers will soon bow!!
How many want grace to serve God as a seed? Do you desire to serve God as a seed?
Psalm 22:30-31
Receive grace to serve God as a seed.
We are still talking about the acts of God in Paul the Apostle today; he is gone several years ago. We are talking about Abraham today; as if he came to town yesterday.
Prayer: Grace to serve you as a seed all the days of my life, I receive it today.
Grace to be impervious to people’s mockery and insult, I receive it today.
Grace to keep moving on with You, no matter what anybody says, I receive it today.
Grace not to be ashamed, to be all out for you, I receive it today.
Grace to engage in my privacy, grace to engage in public, in demonstration of my love and dedication to you, I receive it today. Thank You Father, blessed be your name, in the name of Jesus Christ.
- Let all Cell Ministers under the sound of my voice be dedicated to the Mandate of minimum double the number of cells this year and see how God will double His grace on your life, in every area of your life.
- Let every Cell Member, you don’t have to be a leader to be a part of moving things forward: get involved. I am going with someone to the Cell (fellowship) today. I must catch someone and go with him today. He said, “we kept hunting for souls” (documented testimony).
Hunt for souls in the neighbourhood of your Cell: “Excuse me, Winners pray here every Saturday and we are praying right now. When we pray, God hears and we are praying right now.”
True or false? Church Gist
Market Jesus with all the skills available! You are not a schemer; you are just operating the wisdom of God in demonstrating your commitment in the advancement of His Kingdom. People are suffering, people are going through stress, we want to be a part of their rescue.
- All that is needed to make this year a most memorable year in your life, you won’t miss it.
- Grace to enter your promised land with proofs this year is your portion.
Ask God for grace to be a part of the Prophetic Agenda for the year with all zeal and zest; with unstoppable passion. Grace to be personal in your commitment, personal in your dedication. In the name of Jesus Christ.
Will you take this away from here: “My personal dedication does not require anybody’s confirmation to be turned to manifestation. My personal dedication does not require anybody’s commendation to be turned into manifestation. My personal dedication guarantees His manifestations in my life, with or without anybody’s commendation or goodwill.”
People are looking for what they don’t need: you are busy looking for what you don’t need. A sown seed does not require support to grow. Just be sown in the good ground and then you grow on your own.
“Your head is not correct”
Response: Yes, whether it is correct or not, we will soon know.
Just stay dedicated.
They will say, “we thought his head was not correct, we didn’t know that it is very very correct.” They will be the ones to change their minds.
When they saw Paul, they said, “look at (him). He must be a devil. You are just escaping from the sea hazard. Now a venomous viper has found you. ‘Haba, aje ni man yen’ (he is a wizard).” They waited for him to be swollen and fall. After waiting for a long while, “he must be a god. He is not a devil after all, he must be a god because when this serpent bites anybody, he would die. ‘Haah’, he must be a god.”
*Those who have been waiting to see your fall, they will change their minds. As long as you keep doing what God says, they will change their minds.
Prayer: Tomorrow, Lord I refuse to come empty. It’s my covenant day of fruitfulness, for my life to be fruitful, I want to be committed to the fruitfulness of your body. Jesus, help me to get someone down here tomorrow by your grace, at least one person. If he is saved, to be strengthened. If he is unsaved, to find Jesus and find salvation. Lord, help me not to come empty to your presence tomorrow. Help me to come along with at least a soul.
Declare the breath of the Holy Ghost upon these tracts and fliers: Holy Ghost breathe upon these materials, turn each of them to effective sickles of harvest. Let multitudes be convicted and converted; let your name be glorified. Thank You Father and blessed be your name. In Jesus precious name.
When you look at that flier, tell yourself: God is turning my life to a watered garden. My dry season is over!!!
*Your life will be evergreen, ever bearing fruits. You will never have a fruitless season anymore in your life.
*Every fruitless body becomes supernaturally fruitful.
*Everyone that comes along with faith tomorrow returns with a testimony. No one shall be left behind in the name of Jesus.
“Father, thank You for this. Turn this to fire in the hands of anybody that has them now and let it lead to conviction; bring them into your presence and turn their lives around. Terminate their struggles, save the souls of the unsaved, establish the faith of those who have believed in the name of Jesus Christ.
- Be blessed in return!!
- Be honoured in return!
- Be enthroned in return!
- Become a living testimony in return!
- Become a testimony among men in return! In the name of Jesus Christ.
SPEAK TO THE DAY: It’s your day. This weekend is your weekend: no concerns, no struggles, no distractions.
Give God thanks everybody.
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