WHAT REMAINS WHEN YOU SUBTRACT INDUSTRIES, SCHOOLS, HOSPITALS OWNED BY CHURCH PEOPLE AND THE CHURCH FROM NIGERIA?

Bishop David Oyedepo at CHoP

They no longer say, “as poor as a church rat”. The Church is now the envy of the nations.

I met a Church as poor as a church rat. It pained me to the heart when I heard such words and I’m alive to see a Church being envied by nations. 

God says what He means and He means what He says. In fact, He said, He will judge every ideal word that a man will speak, so there are no idle statement in scriptures (Matthew 12:36). Every statement of scripture is Yea and Amen (2 Corinthians 1:20). It is eternally valid for delivery. God always says what He means and He means always what He says (Malachi 3:6, Psalm 119:89, Matthew 24:35). 

If every soul winner is wise and by wisdom, kings reign (Proverbs 8:15). Every soul winner is entitled to enthronement, he is ordained for enthronement. So, your slavery is over:

- Slavery to sin!

- Slavery to sickness!

- Slavery to defeat!

- Slavery to failure!

- Slavery to poverty!

Enthronement is your right as a soul winner. Whatever attempts to enslave you goes down for you. 

Slavery to barrenness is over because you are walking with the Wisdom of God that enthrones and it’s so easy, if He sends you, He goes with you (Proverbs 13:20). Jesus is the Wisdom and the Power of God, so when you are walking with Him, you get ‘en-wisened’ (1 Corinthians 1:24, Proverbs 8:15). Your slavery is over in the name of Jesus.

Say with me: God always says what He means, and He always means what He says all of the time. 

BIBLICAL PROOFS AND BENEFITS OF A REVIVAL

There is nothing God says in His word that does not have proofs to back them up.

1. He unveils His power, He makes His raw power in the midst of a revival (Habakkuk 3:2,4,6). By His power, He levels out all everlasting mountains and all perpetual hills, a demonstration and manifestation of His power. 

Remember, a revival is a celebration of divine presence (Zephaniah 3:17). 

When revival broke out in the Upper room, we saw it accompanied with the raw power of God in signs, wonders and diverse miracles; scattering all everlasting mountains: a man that was born blind, Jesus got him back his eyes.

A cripple man that had never walked, Peter got him back on his feet as a by-product of that revival (Acts 3:7).

Every revival is accompanied with waves of signs and wonders. That’s the way it is for all generations (Acts 5:12-15).

We saw how Simeon was humbled (Acts 8:20-24)

We saw how Elymas was struck with blindness for trying to resist the deputy from receiving the gospel (Acts 13:11). 

Two towns turned to the Lord by one miracle (Acts 9:34-35).

We saw Dorcas raised back to life.

Every revival is accompanied with waves of signs and wonders and diverse miracles; that’s what we have been experiencing as a Commission on a new scale from 2015 as we began to take responsibility that makes us partakers of the benefits of a revival. 

You don’t beg for it, it follows you.

Expect to gain a higher level of command of the supernatural as a result of your engagement. 

We saw a man brought back on his feet by Paul (Acts 14:8-11). 

Every believer will be reckoned with as a god by reason of the level of the supernatural at work in them. 

All of you are gods (Psalm 82:6). Not just some Prophets, Apostles, ALL OF YOU: all of you that are children of the Most High God, “Ye are gods.” You share the same life with God, the everlasting God that has everlasting life shares His life with you at redemption but it’s a revival that quickens that into real manifestation. 

Amazing testimonies that we’ve heard in this Commission time and again, to the glory of His name. 

An armed robbery gang took a car that had a ‘Winners’ sticker at the back, they tried to start the car, it didn’t start. They called the armed robber mechanic, because they have different professionals there, they tried and tried. When they called their gang leader, “I told you before that wherever you see ‘Winners’ sticker, leave the car alone.” Their things cannot be carried – Raw confession.

Raw manifestation of God’s power.

They took one of our Elder’s car and it had passed over to Benin Republic. They called me on phone, I said the car is back in 24 hours. The car came back.

The one they stole within Nigeria, they have not found.

The car ‘walked’ back. 

That’s your portion and my portion in a revival. 

That’s why every resistance against a revival is always met with judgement because it is the power of God in manifestation. It’s not man, it is God at work (Acts 3:12,16, 4:16).

It is God moving into the midst of men with His raw power in manifestation. 

That’s why no sickness will survive this season in your life!

No oppression of the devil will survive this season in your life!

No spell or enchantment working against your life shall survive this season. 

2. Engaging with the move of God impacts on the destiny of nations. A revival impacts on the destiny of nations. 

Speaking about the move of God that came in Isaiah 61:1-7

Industrial revolution, great employers of labour. It’s a massive revolution that always follows a revival that impacts on nations. 

What we are experiencing as a nation in this country is a revival. People are turning to the Lord en masse: healings, deliverances, all kinds. You may have some fake ministries but there are too many real ministries in this country, people called of God, men and women who are pushing the frontiers of the gospel; pursuing the end-time prophetic agenda. Many!!!

You can’t say any more in this country, “as poor as church rat”, NO! 

The Church of Christ has become the envy of the nation. That’s not the Church I met, that’s the Church, He (God) is building. 

I met a Church as poor as a church rat. It pained me to the heart when I heard such words and I’m alive to see a Church being envied by nations. 

I was before the camera in one Nation while the Nation was pleading for this Church to assist. I sat down myself, not that they told me the story. 

Just imagine how many kids are in school today through the prosperous Church of Christ across the nations, men and women with a heart to see quality education brought back to the nation. Church institutions building great schools all around. 

That’s how a revival impacts on nations. 

Subtract schools that are built by Church people and Churches from this nation; tell me what remains. 

Subtract hospitals that are built by Church people and by Churches and tell me what remains.

Remove industries that are built by Church people and tell me what remains. 

I’m going to take you through the diverse revolutions that have been brought through a revival in the world. I did that in one of the Covenant University lectures years back. 

Every proper lasting advancement on this earth has an Abrahamic covenant root. The covenant which we know by redemption (Galatians 3:29)

Every resistance against the move of God is resistance against the advancement of the nation. I say that with all sense of responsibility, with all of my findings. 

Revival is a season of outbreak of light (Isaiah 60:1-3,22). Men like nations are born in the midst of a revival, that’s where you belong.

Remember, God does not honour groups, He honours individuals (John 12:26, Proverbs 14:28). When you are a part of bringing multitudes to the Kingdom, you have committed God’s integrity to add you to His honour list. 

- Many of us around the world today, that’s engaging with this revival will be added to God’s honour list. 

- Shame will be far from your tabernacle (Isaiah 61:7, Zephaniah 3:19-20).

Divine agenda is unstoppable (Isaiah 14:24). Divine agenda is irresistible. There is nothing happening in the Church today, in this nation, that we did: it is the move of God that came in our time. It is not our expertise, it’s not our skill. 

One of our choristers was accosted by ritual killers, they said, “identify yourself.” She brought out her card:

Ritual Killers: this man, again. Please go

There is a place they will hear your name and they will be ‘shitting’ in their trousers. That’s the end time army. 

That’s why members of this Church will stand and say to the dead, “come back to life” and he lives. He is not an Apostle or Pastor or something.

Somebody said, “every true Winner is dangerous” and he is talking from his occultic end. 

You find someone saying to ritual killers, “my father said in 7 hours, I am out of here.” The man said, I don’t want Bishop Oyedepo’s problem. Another one said they won’t let her go, they started cutting themselves with cutlass like the priests of Baal; 5 minutes to 7 on the dot, she was let go. A lady not a man.

It’s your turn. This is ordained to change your level of command of the supernatural and you will experience it. 

SPEAK TO THE DAY

The day is your day, this is the day the Lord has made. 

Today is Friday, speak to the day. You must deliver this coming Sunday whatever you desire in your heart. Desire it in your heart and God will make it happen by your hand. You have talked to some people since this week began, they are turning to follow you to worship your God, each and every one of them. 

Please note, there is not one person called barren, called childless that will return childless or barren from our ‘Covenant Day of Fruitfulness’. 

God says what He means. The same day let there be light and light is still shining till now. 

Be fruitful means I have created you with capacity for fruitfulness. 

Adam lost it, Jesus got it back. So, the verdict on your fruitfulness will be established this Sunday, wherever you maybe around the world, get ready for it and come along with your points of contact just like that my daughter said (from documented testimony). 

Prophetic instructions are verdicts:

- If they say, go to Jordan - don’t go to another place, you will just go and swim. Go to Jordan means go to Jordan

- Go to Siloam means go to Siloam.

- Everybody called barren or childless, name it: impotency, zero sperm count, no fallopian tube…there is no barrier to the Truth. This is your ‘Covenant Day of Liberation’

- Every dry season in anyone’s life shall come to an end because you are created to return back to the Garden of Eden. That’s where you belong, not dry season. A watered garden, whose waters fail not. That’s your portion. 

Source: Church gist