“I WENT AFTER SOME INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE DRUG ADDICTS AND THE WHOLE ENVIRONMENT WAS STINKING WITH DEADLY SMOKE” – IF YOU WALK AROUND WITH SMOKERS, YOU START SMELLING SMOKE
ENDEAVOUR TO KEEP A GODLY COMPANY IF YOU DESIRE TO LIVE A SANCTIFIED LIFE.
EVERY TIME YOU FIND YOURSELF AT A TIGHT CORNER (WITH SIN), ENGAGE THE NAME OF JESUS. EVERY DEVIL SURRENDERS TO THE AUTHORITY OF THE NAME OF JESUS
THE STORY OF THE MAN GOD SAVED FROM DROWNING AT THE INSTANCE OF THE NAME OF JESUS
EVERYBODY THAT IS NOT ON KEY WITH GOD’S INSTRUCTION FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS, IS NOT HUNGRY AND THIRSTY AFTER IT, CANNOT ACCESS REVELATION
– Bishop David Oyedepo at Third Pre-Shiloh Encounter Service|| Faith Tabernacle, Canaanland || First (Sunday) Service
PART B
WHAT ARE SOME OF THE THINGS TO DO IF ANYONE TRULY DESIRES TO LIVE A SANCTIFIED LIFE?
2. 1 Corinthians 10:13. It demands that you watch and pray if you truly want it. Matthew 26:41. Peter said, “Lord we don’t need to … we deal with anybody who wants to attack you here.” He denied Jesus 3 times. Watch and pray!
3. Whatever you won’t believe, you can’t become: Matthew 9:29. You don’t believe in the reality of sanctification, you never experience it. You don’t believe in the validity of holiness, you never see it. What becomes of every believer is a function of what he believes. “It can’t happen” then it won’t happen. John 1:12.
We are not empowered to become what we don’t believe. Habakkuk 2:4. Everybody is doing it; that’s why you keep doing it. We are going on to perfection – it is not a destination; it’s a journey. Why do you have your bath daily? To stay clean. Just don’t do it for one month, anywhere you appear, people will disappear because your presence will be very offensive. No perfume can cover that.
Now, leave you car for one month without washing it. They will ask you whether you have just returned from a journey because you have gathered all the dust in your environment.
That’s why the Jesus’ pattern of prayer is a daily engagement agenda. Matthew 6:11-13.
4. Engage the name of Jesus in battle against sin: Proverbs 18:10. Every time you find yourself at a tight corner, “in the name of Jesus, I am free.” Luke 10:17; Philippians 2:10. Every devil surrenders to the authority of the name of Jesus.
Somebody who was involved in a boat transact, the boat capsized on the high sea and there he was drowning. The last word he said, “Jesus, I refuse to die!” and a hand came from nowhere, lifted him from the water, put him in the rescue boat and he escaped.
5. Flee from all traps of evil: 1 Thessalonians 5:22; 1 Corinthians 6:18. Joseph fled; he wasn’t praying and fasting. Well, he landed in prison but that was the gateway to the palace.
6. Keep a godly company: If you walk around with smokers, you start smelling smoke. Somebody will ask you, “Do you now smoke?” You are coming from the company of smokers so it has rubbed in on you.
I went after some individuals who are drug addicts in some of the areas here and the whole environment was stinking with deadly smoke. You come out of that place, you must smell it. you didn’t take it but it has rubbed in on you.
Proverbs 13:20; 1 Corinthians 15:33. Endeavour to keep a godly company if you desire to live a sanctified life.
SOME OF THE BENEFITS OF SANCTIFICATION
1. It secures access to revelation that triggers supernatural breakthroughs: Every true revelation changes people’s level. 1 Corinthians 3:18. Something breaks forth when you encounter true revelation. Isaiah 60:1-3, 8; Psalms 25:14. The fear of the Lord is what underlies access to revelation. Mark 4:11. Who are the ones without? Revelation 21:8.
Everybody that’s not on key with God’s instruction for righteousness, is not hungry and thirsty after it, cannot access revelation. Proverbs 1:23. It is not for the jack and harry; it’s those who turn when God says, “Hey, no!” then they access revelation from His Word.
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