IF YOU HAVE NEVER MET A MAN THAT DOES NOT KNOW STRUGGLE, I AM ONE.
IF YOU DON’T GIVE GOD HIS PLACE, YOUR PLACE IS NOT SECURE.
YOU DON’T HAVE TO BEG GOD WHEN YOU DO WHAT HE SAYS TO DO, YOU HAVE COMMITTED HIM TO DO WHAT HE SAYS HE WILL DO.
NO ONE GOES FORWARD SITTING DOWN, YOU GO FORWARD BY TAKING STEPS.
– Bishop David Oyedepo on UNDERSTANDING THE BLESSEDNESS OF A REVIVAL at Breaking Invisible Barriers Service Faith Tabernacle, Canaanland First Sunday Service || Part A
Welcome to your season of glory. Every air of shame and reproach shall be rolled away from your life. There was this valley in the book of Ezekiel, The Valley of Dry Bones, The Valley of utter hopelessness. Then God came in, it is a picture of a revival. After the bones came together and flesh covered them, there arose from that valley of nothingness, an exceeding great army. Somebody is coming out of this season as a man and a woman of valour. There was nothing to Abraham, he was 75 years old. How can anything great come out of a 75 year old? But when God came through for him, when the word of God located him, Abraham at 75 began an adventure into greatness.
There is no situation that God cannot handle. Then a little boy of 17 was visited by God, his spirit was quickened, his name was David and as a teenager, he delivered the whole of Israel from the assault of the Philistines. 17, 75, you are covered. Anybody’s story can change when you allow the spirit of life to come upon your life. The Spirit of God came upon me, I was 19 when I couldn’t stand to be in a village for 72 days without a Church. I wasn’t a pastor, I wasn’t anything.
The Spirit of life just came upon me and I said I will never leave this place the way I found it. No one goes forward sitting down, you go forward by taking steps. May the spirit of life find its way into your life. How long are we going to be doing these things? For life. So count the cost or step out. When you step out of service in the natural, your salary stops, your allowances stop, your privileges stop. When you step out of service in the kingdom everything stops.
Prayer: Jesus set me on fire this morning, I don’t want to be part of a crowd.
Father, thank you, visit every single worshipper today. Ignite heavenly fire in the heart of each person and let your name be glorified in Jesus name.
What God is doing since the year began is to get everyone off the street corners of life, get us off the byways of life and get us on the covenant highways of life by taking scriptural responsibility. Let me call it Covenant Responsibilities! Luke 6:46. Taking covenant responsibilities is what puts a believer in command in the journey of life.
You don’t have to beg God, when you do what He says to do, you have committed Him to do what He says He will do. You don’t have to beg God, the righteous don’t beg. Until you do what He says to do, you can’t commit Him. The scriptures cannot be broken. It is not only binding on us, it is binding on God.
Our teaching series for this month in our Sunday Services is UNDERSTANDING THE BLESSEDNESS OF A REVIVAL.
What is a revival worth?
What does it carry for me?
Why must I connect with a revival?
Proverbs 26:21. So spiritual understanding is vital to maximizing our adventure in the kingdom. Everybody should come awake. Ephesians 5:13. Let’s come awake in our spirit man to grasp what the Holy Ghost is showing us at this time. We have just read the prophetic focus on the wonders of the midst of the year. Habakkuk 3:2. Haggai 1:1.
The prophetic word came through Haggai. You left my business and went about your own so you keep struggling and nothing is happening. Haggai 1:1-14. You better wake up. If you have never met a man that does not know struggle, here is one. I got hooked onto this mystery as far back as 1976. If you don’t give God His place, your place is not secure. People don’t know where their trouble comes from. That is the meaning of Haggai 1 until you give God His place, you don’t have a place.
They began to do the work and in Chapter 2, there was an outbreak of a revival. Haggai 2:1-4. Haggai 2:1 talks about July, Haggai 1 talks about June. June and July, the midst of the year. Five months on this side, five months on the other side. What else do you need? You don’t need a dictionary. You take 6 and 7, you have the midst of the year of 12 months.
Wake up! You can’t change the midst of the year. Times and seasons of life are irreversible, irrecoverable and irredeemable. Last year’s midst of the year is gone forever. If you sleep last year, it is gone forever. Another one is ongoing now, if you like, take a nap. We are in the rainy season now, if a farmer is asleep now, he will be a beggar in harvest. He is a sleeper during planting season; he will be a beggar during harvest.
How long are we going to be doing this thing? Your heart must keep beating for you to stay alive, in the same way, your heart must keep panting after God to make the most of your adventure in the kingdom. Your heart has been serving you since you were born. Has it gone on break? The day it goes on break you are gone. All these notes you are taking won’t do anything without a decision to wake up and move.
The same way your heart is pumping to keep you alive, we must stay in service to be spiritually alive in the Kingdom. He said “Thou shall serve and He shall bless…” so to stay blessed, we must stay serving. There is no other shortcut. Job 36:11. They are all continuous tenses “if they obey and serve Him..” that implies keep serving Him. If they choose to obey and serve Him.
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