THE ARK IS THE MOST HUMOUROUS PROJECT I HAVE EVER SEEN IN MY LIFE. UP TILL NOW THE CHURCH IS YET TO RAISE AN OFFERING FOR IT.
AIR CONDITIONERS HAVE ARRIVED, ESCALATORS AND ELEVATORS ARE COMING IN IN THEIR TORRENTS. THE ROOF IS ON GROUND. THEY HAVE ALL BEEN PAID FOR.
THERE IS NOTHING EXTRAORDINARY ABOUT ANY MAN, IT IS THE EXTRAORDINARY GOD BEHIND THE MAN THAT MAKES THE ORDINARY MAN LOOK EXTRAORDINARY.
I WILL BE STUPID TO LEAD THE CHURCH DOWN HERE (CANAANLAND) IF I DIDN’T HEAR FROM HIM. THIS WAS A PLACE IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE.
DON’T FOLLOW YOUR FEELINGS, FOLLOW HIS LEADINGS. DON’T FOLLOW YOUR PASSION, FOLLOW YOUR CALLING.
– Bishop David Oyedepo on ‘MINISTRY IS AN ADVENTURE IN VISIONS AND REVELATIONS’ at 2023 International Ministers Conference tagged ‘Next Levels‘|| Day Two, Morning Session || Canaanland || PART D
2. He goes with the led.
When God leads, He goes with you. In delivering the Great Commission, he said “Lo, I am with you always even unto the end of the world”. When you are on God’s agenda, He goes with you. Hebrews 13:5. Psalm 23:1-6. He goes with you. If God be for us, who can be against us?
3. He works with us
Mark 16:20. He sent them and they went and He was working with them. He goes before us, He goes with us and He works with us. Paul may plant, Apollo may water but it is God that gives the increase. So He gives the increase.
4. He works through us.
This is why those who are working in pursuit of a divine plan look like extraordinary people. No! These are the factors that make them unique. There is nothing extraordinary about any man, it is the extraordinary God behind the man that makes the ordinary man look extraordinary.
God goes before them, God goes with them, God works with them, God works through them. Philippians 2:13. John 14:10.
5. He works for us.
When we come to our wit’s end and we don’t know what to do anymore. He works for us. 1 Thessalonians 5:24. If I don’t know anything in my life, I do know that what we saw at Faith Tabernacle was God taking over the construction two months to the time. He literally supernaturally took it over. We became observers. No single door, two months to the time. The roof was not completed, yet power came, water came and we even planted flowers.
Awesome God! He took over. He works for us. That is what makes men that are following God’s agenda appear unique. That is you. From now on you won’t go through the struggles that others go through anymore.
Listen to this and it will help you! We flagged off the plan for the 100,000 sanctuary at Shiloh. I have learnt from the Lord to secure marching orders for any assignment. Lord, we are set, awaiting marching orders. We had gone to do the soil test, they had done the clearing, they had done the marking.
Lord, I am waiting for the marching order. Silence! Lord, we are still waiting, Silence. At one point, He said ‘Speak no more to me on this matter until I speak to you if I need to.’ Please make you no vex. I heard Him not that somebody told me. I heard Him by myself. He held it down for three years plus. He is God.
He has the right to do anything He wants. But when He came on it Sir, we didn’t know anything going on.
It is so humorously humorous we don’t know anything is going on at all at all. The most humourous project I have ever seen in my life. That up till now the Church is yet to raise an offering. Air conditioners have arrived, escalators and elevators are coming in in their torrents.
Do you know why?
They are paid for. The roof on ground, why? They are paid for. He makes all things beautiful in His time. Please watch it, your times are not in your hands. Psalm 31:15. You know why I am saying this?
Great things are going to start happening in your various ministries but he committed, be dedicated, be addicted to following His leadings. That way you will not overexert yourself unduly. Something is breaking forth.
In closing, every true vision alleys all fears. From all I have said earlier, every true vision alleys all fears. Psalm 23:4. Though I walk through the Valley of the Shadow of Death, I shall fear no evil. You saw how Moses invaded Egypt. Fearlessly so and untouchable so. Every true vision alleys all fears. Every true vision imbues confidence, not self-confidence but confidence in God. Philippians 3:3. Paul said I was not disobedient to the heavenly calling. Unusual confidence. Galatians 1:15-16. Unusual confidence always accompanies every true vision. Can you imagine God coming to me and saying to me on a Saturday morning, ‘It is time to get the Aircraft’ Life!
I was in my study, getting ready to move into the service for that breakthrough seminar /Impartation Service. I had no idea of aircraft, no idea of any name, no idea of cost, no idea of anything. But I saw Him walk into my room and tell me it is time to get the Aircraft and I told my beloved son, God just spoke to me that it is time to get the Aircraft.
He said ‘Praise the Lord’. Is that all you can say? He can’t say otherwise. I got to the meeting and I said “God told me, it is time to get the aircraft.
You can give as you are able. God is not in need. If you give according to what you have, it is acceptable not according to what you have not.” Is that how to raise an aircraft? What is the cost? No cost.
Sir we never mentioned it one more time and we got the aircraft. Unusual confidence usually accompanies every true vision. When God said to me, this is the place. It didn’t look like it at all but I already saw the place as the place because God said so. When you are dillydallying up and down, check it.
Finally, every true vision secures divine presence. That is where our strength is. John 14:10. He sent them to the places where He Himself will come. Luke 10:1. Every true vision secures divine presence.
If God be for us who can be against us? God was in their midst and the sea saw them and fled. You see barriers fleeing your way. That will be your experience from now.
This is the story behind visions and revelations. In the quest for access to next levels in ministry.
Be spiritual, be a man of the Spirit, develop a quality walk with God so you can pick what God is saying per time. Allow God to lead the way, don’t lead yourself. Don’t follow your feelings, follow His leadings. Don’t follow your passion, follow your calling. Let God lead you, it will always show tomorrow.
Just imagine that all I heard from the Lord was what I heard when He delivered the mandate. We would be stranded.
There was no Covenant University in that mandate. There was neither Kaduna there nor Lagos. They are unfolding in phases as we follow Him. But if you don’t pass 100 Level, you can’t go to 200. I told some of my co-labourers and some in the ministry yesterday that we are 75 per cent responsible for the outcome of our lives.
The best anybody can put into you and me is 25 per cent. When you point a finger at one man as your problem, you are pointing three to yourself and pointing one to God. That man is 25 per cent of my problem and I am 75 per cent of my problem.
If he didn’t cause you any problem you will still fail because you are already a problem to yourself by doing nothing. You don’t change class in groups, you change class as individuals. You don’t pass exams in groups. You pass exams as individuals.
Ministry is an adventure in visions and revelations of the Lord. You will never be stranded anymore. Your ministry will never be stranded anymore.
Can I tell you this? One of the greatest assets in ministry is access to the voice of His Majesty. Access to the voice of His Majesty. I encountered that in 1976 after reading the book of T.L. Osborn ‘The Purpose of Pentecost’.
I saw the personality of the Holy Spirit for the first time in my life. I was 22. I was full of eagerness to share with some of my friends. So I went out to locate them to share with them and I couldn’t find them where they were. So I said, “Holy Spirit if you are truly a man lead me to where they are”. ‘Go forward’ and I got to a T junction, ‘make a left’. So real. Direct hearing and he led me left.
He said the next left and I said Holy Spirit watch it, they can’t be here. Since you know where they are Bye Bye.
He departed and I knew when He departed. I said I am sorry. I went on. I never asked a human being in my life when one of them jumped out of the second to the last house to the end of that estate. How did you know we are here?
The Holy Ghost. He is so real. Let’s stop faking this thing. He is so real. I will be stupid to lead the Church down here if I didn’t hear from Him. This is the place. A lost out place, heading to nowhere. How? Guesswork must end in everyone’s ministry today.
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