YOUR SENSE OF VALUE FOR ANY ENCOUNTER IS WHAT DETERMINES THE FLOW OF VIRTUE FROM THAT ENCOUNTER
GIANTS ACCORDING TO SCRIPTURE ARE NOT MEN OF NOTABLE HISTORY BUT MEN THAT EMERGED FROM ENCOUNTERS
NOBODY’S ENCOUNTER WITH GOD’S APPEARANCE STOPS ANOTHER PERSON’S OWN
YOU CAN’T SEE A GREAT IMAGE FROM GOD AND END UP A SMALL ENTITY ON THE EARTH
THE FEAR OF THE LORD IS NOT A SEASONAL PURSUIT. WE MUST NOT ONLY FEAR GOD BECAUSE WE SEEK GOD, WE MUST FEAR GOD BECAUSE WE LOVE GOD
IT’S POSSIBLE TO BE SPIRITUALLY ALIVE BUT CARNALLY IN OPERATION
ONE OF THE VEILS THAT BLOCK OUR ENCOUNTERS IS WALKING IN THE FLESH
SHILOH IS LOADED WITH REPEATED OCCURRENCES OF DIVINE APPEARANCES, BUT EACH OF US MUST CLEAN UP IN ORDER TO GO UP.
– Pastor David Oyedepo Jnr. ||GETTING SET FOR DIVINE ENCOUNTERS AT SHILOH 2022|| Covenant Hour of Prayer|| November 19th, 2022||
Shall we lift our hands this morning and let’s give glory to God from the depth of our hearts, particularly for those testimonies. What a good God we serve, cleaning lives up both in terms of spiritual and also physical, cleansing immorality, turning that life into a new rebranded life in Christ, will you give God the glory, He can take anything and turn it around, He can take any life and turn it around, He can take any situation and turn it around, He broke the back of HIV, turned it to an open testimony, several tests run yet negative, negative, negative.
He scattered the intention of the devil. Will you give Him praise, will you give Him glory, as you celebrate Him for what He has done for others, you are positioning yourself for what He will do for you. Appreciate Him for the turnaround, for the turnaround, for the turnaround that He granted these individuals, this is God at work. It is not man, it is not any one’s effort but rather the mighty hand of God.
Will you give Him the praise this morning, also thank Him for the answers to your prayers, that you have not prayed in vain, that you have not prayed into storage but that He has heard you, He has answered you, He has received your intercessions and supplications and that you are receiving the answer to the same.
Will you give thanks and praise, will you celebrate the faithfulness of our God, will you give Him the glory that is due unto His name. Make sure He is hearing your voice this morning, you are not muttering your words but rather you are giving the glory unto Him. Father, we say thank You, we bless Your name, we glorify Your holy name. Thank You mighty God.
Now, ask Him to speak to you this morning; I have come here LORD this morning to hear You, I have come here LORD to receive Your Word, I have come here LORD to encounter Your light, so speak to me this morning, speak expressly to me this morning, now thank You Father in Jesus precious name we have prayed.
LORD Jesus we thank You today for the privilege and blessing of being in Your presence yet again.
LORD we are grateful for all that You continue to do in our midst, there is no day we gathered that we don’t hear of Your mighty works and for it we give You all the praise, for the answers to prayer, we say thank You and now LORD, our eyes are on You this morning we ask that You will speak to us that Your Word will transform our lives, we give all the praise and glory to Your holy name in Jesus precious name we have prayed.
Somebody who believe say a loud Amen. Give Jesus a big hand and please you may be seated in His presence.
Praise the LORD, I am more than a conqueror. Congratulations, Amen and Amen.
All through this week, we have been looking at this line of exhortation captioned “Getting Set for Divine Encounters at Shiloh 2022” and we have established the fact that every divine visitation requires spiritual preparation. Amos 4:12.
This is because your sense of value for any encounter is what determines the flow of virtue from that encounter. Mark 5:31-32. Jesus was looking for a specific individual whose touch was not a casual touch. You see it’s important to note that any time we commonize an encounter, we make ourselves victims of the same. Psalms 28:5. So there is a need to give value to every opportunity for an encounter.
It is also important for us to be reminded that it is also devastating to be ignorant of when God is operating. It is devastating to be unaware of when God is operating. Luke 19:44.
So it is one thing to know and not to regard, it causes devastation. It is another thing to be unaware and the encounter pass you by, it also brings destruction. What is God saying to us? We must be aware of what He has ahead for us at Shiloh.
We must refuse to be unaware and we must give it appropriate value. This is critical, you remember the story of Jacob in Genesis 28:16?
For not knowing, the Bible shows us that for 20 years, this Jacob suffered all manner of things.
Jacob is a man that you could have described before God appeared to him again as a man that was successfully frustrated. He made some headways but everything was by hardship; to marry a wife, seven years he worked they gave him the wrong wife, he worked another seven years to get the right wife.
All of these without any pay. He worked six years, the Bible said, they changed his wages ten times, frustrated him on every side because he did not know the moment of an encounter.
May none of us miss out on what the encounter of Shiloh had to offer us in the name of Jesus Christ.
So missing out of any encounter brings about unusual struggles and that is why we must understand that God is ready to visit us at Shiloh and each one of us must prepare ourselves, giving it appropriate value in order to draw the necessary virtue from it.
Now what really is Shiloh?
Shiloh is ordained as a prophetic platform for the rise of giants from the Winners family. Joshua 18:1. So, it is ordained for the rise of giants. Let’s recognise from scriptures that God has ordained the end time saints to be giants, that is God’s ordination.
Obadiah 21, that is God’s intention, Zechariah 8:23. God has ordained the end time saints to be men that are giants. Revelation 11:15. He will be raising giants to rule upon the earth. Daniel 7:27. You see God in this end time is in the business of raising giants, but it’s important to understand from scriptures that these giants are not men of notable history but they are men that emerged from encounters. 1 Corinthians 1:26-29.
So God in this end time will be taking raw material of men that look like nothing and He will be making them names and He will make them a praise upon the earth.
That is God’s intention in this last days but this intention is going to be the product of encounters. Ezekiel 37:10-14. That’s what God will be doing at Shiloh this year, every dry bone destiny will be rising as a mighty giant. If you believe it say a louder Amen! I said if you believe it say a louder Amen!
If you look through scriptures, you will discover that it is the appearance of God that produces the emergence of giants.
All through scriptures, the appearance of God is what provokes the emergence of giants. If you look at various giants in scripture, you will see every one of their emergence was preceded by God’s appearance.
God appeared unto Abraham and Abraham was turned into a nation. Genesis 17:1/4-5. He became a father of nations by an encounter.
How about Isaac? Isaac, God appeared to Him, Genesis 26:2 and the Bible tells us in verse 16, he became mightier than nations. God appeared unto Jacob. Genesis 33:24-28 and Jacob became a nation.
God appeared unto Moses and Moses became the focus of nations. He encountered the appearance of God in the wilderness. Exodus 3:1-8 / Exodus 11:1-3. He became the focus of nations.
So great was Moses that he became a generational influence. Deuteronomy 34:10.
This man was a product of an appearance.
How about the man called Samuel? Samuel was unique. God appeared to Samuel. 1 Samuel 3:19-21. This was a child. So 21 is a repetition, He appeared before and now He appeared again. The appearance of God made this small boy the voice of a nation.
You see the giant in us emerges at the instance of divine appearance. That is why it’s important for each one of us to position at Shiloh for an appearance of the LORD. 2 Corinthians 3:18. So nobody’s encounter with His appearance stops another person’s own. You can’t see a great image from God and end up a small entity on the earth. It is impossible!
So the giant in us is awaiting our encounter with His appearance and that is why it becomes important for each one of us to begin to position ourselves and vital in our positioning is the subject of our sanctification.
We discovered from scriptures that giants were usually men that feared God. All the examples that we have had, the example of Abraham, of Isaac, of Jacob, of Moses, of Samuel were men that feared God.
We have examples from scriptures of men like Joseph, he had the testimony of the fear of the LORD. We have examples of men like Daniel, he had the testimony of the fear of the LORD. Everyone of them who feared God became men who were positioned for encounters that propelled them to the place of their greatness and that is why this season becomes so important for us to ensure that we begin to instill and inculcate the lifestyle of the fear of the LORD.
The fear of the LORD is not a seasonal pursuit, no! The fear of the LORD should be a lifetime characteristic. We must not only fear God because we seek God, we must fear God because we love God and love for God should be a permanent attribute of any individual.
I pray this morning that for each one of us, not only will we fear God and sanctify ourselves in this season, but we will live a life that is sanctified before Him.
As we begin to conclude this morning, let’s take note of this, encountering God requires that you and I live in the spirit, that we remain in the spirit. Galatians 5:25. That first one “live” talks about if we are alive in the spirit. There are those who are spiritually alive but they are carnally in operation. What do I mean?
They are spiritually alive – they are born of the Spirit, they have the spirit that is alive to God. However, they are walking in the flesh and as a result of that, there is a barrier between the connectivity of heaven and the earth.
As small as a paper is, if you put it between an electrical connection, it can block the flow of power from one area to another. As small as a paper is, the flesh has the same capacity to block the flow of heaven’s communication and heaven’s appearance with us. You see, God’s Word makes it clear that there are veils that block encounters and that is why it says “we all, with open face”, one of the veils that block our encounters is walking in the flesh.
When you are in the flesh, you are blocked from encountering God. You are blocked from encountering God. When the voice of God sounds, men of the flesh don’t hear what God is saying but men of the spirit hear what God is saying.
One day, God spoke from heaven, the people heard thunder, Jesus heard a voice.
One day, Jesus spoke and suddenly Paul heard the voice, the people who were around him only saw the scenario, they heard the sound but not the voice. It is not enough to hear the sound, it’s vital to hear the voice. It’s not enough to see the sight, it is vital to see the person and it will take us walking in the spirit to encounter Him.
Therefore, the charge to us is simple “Shiloh is loaded with divine appearances, repeated occurrences of divine appearances but each one of us must clean up in order to go up and each one of us must be in the spirit in order to see and to hear well”.
I see grace coming upon us for this in the name of Jesus Christ.
Rise on your feet with me this morning, LORD I receive grace. The grace to clean up in order to go up, the grace O LORD to be in the spirit in order to see and hear well, LORD I receive that grace this morning.
Lift your voice and pray that prayer from the depth of your heart this morning, LORD I receive grace, LORD I receive grace, LORD I receive grace, LORD I receive grace, LORD I receive grace. Lift your voice and pray. I receive that grace this morning, I receive that grace this morning, the grace that is required for me to clean up in order to go up, the grace that is required, LORD for me to be positioned in the spirit, to be tuned in, in the spirit in order to go up.
Father thank You! In Jesus precious name we have prayed! In Jesus precious we have prayed!
Father, we have asked of Your grace this morning and we receive that grace from heaven for each one of us to live a life that is sanctified before You not only now but all the days of our lives.
LORD, for everyone of us to walk in the spirit not only now but all the days of our lives and as a result of that, as we appear at the mountain of visitation may none of us miss out on your appearance.
Thank You Father for it, in Jesus precious name. Somebody believe God, say a loud Amen! It is done.
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