* Can you imagine going from a used car to a plane?
* God can make anything happen at any time.
* From 3,000 seat capacity Sanctuary to 50,000 seat Sanctuary: That is too high but not with God.
* You are jumping levels this year.
* No one will serve God mournfully in this place again.
ENGAGING THE POWER OF FAITH FOR FULFILLMENT OF PROPHECIES!
It is clear that every prophecy delivers by faith and without faith, no prophetic Word will see the light of day.
Why? Every divine agenda requires the hand of God for delivery (1 Kings 8:15).
Only the hand of God has capacity to fulfill the plan and the purpose of God for His people.
How do we secure the hand of God? Isaiah 53:1
It takes faith to secure the hand of God, the only hand that has capacity to bring about the delivery of God’s agenda for our lives. No wonder the Bible say, “blessed is she that believeth: for there shall be a performance of those things which were told her from the Lord” (Luke 1:45). It takes faith to see prophecies fulfilled. Not just faith like we said, STRONG FAITH like Abraham’s faith (Romans 4:20).
Strong faith: not little faith, not feeble faith, but strong faith. We have to build up, we build that up because you don’t wish to develop your muscles for wrestling, you build up through quality nutrition and rigorous exercises. You don’t just wish that you are a wrestling champion, you engage in the required demands for it to happen.
It takes building our faith to become strong faith so as to see prophecies fulfilled. The faith that will make someone say No to a Gynaecologist, Senior one; to a discovery from machine, “this is Fibroid”: she said, “NO, I have a baby in my womb.” The fibroid was converted to a fine boy.
Strong faith that considers not the thing that seen, the things you feel but only considers what God says. Strong faith!!
HOW POWERFUL ARE PROPHECIES?
God speaks according to His creative power.
He speaks according to what He can create and God’s creative power is unlimited. The Power that created the Universe, hanged on there the galaxies: unlimited power to create. When God speaks, He speaks according to His creative power, not our inabilities and inadequacies.
The time God created this Tabernacle, we had no capacity as a Church to dare it and He did it that time to let us know, that only His hand can bring to pass His Word; this happened 17 years after the Word came. The Word concerning here (Faith Tabernacle) came April 10, 1982, we stepped in here September 18, 1999.
He speaks according to His power to create.
When God opened the doors to the Nations of Africa to us, we had no capacity for it. In fact, we begged God not to let us start in 1995, so we can use the little things we had to conclude all the hanging projects here and there. I came back from that meeting and He said, “you are going NOW!”
He sent us on His creative power to make happen what He says and so we invaded Africa. By His grace, we are where we are today.
He speaks according to His power to create. So don’t sympathise with God concerning His revealed agenda. He is not asking you to go and do it: He is asking you to believe Him, to stretch forth His hand to make it happen.
When He created for us our first aircraft in 1996: it was created.
If you asked us, “when are you set to see that Prophetic Word on Mission Aviation come to pass?”
We would say, “Lord, wait. We would need about 10 years to program it. We would need 1 year to do the research and we would need to build up capacity for it.”
But He said it and in 6 months, He delivered it without any pressure on any man: from leadership to followership, zero pressure.
He speaks according to His power to create.
-He will create your promised land, in real time this year.
-He will establish your Turnaround before the eyes of all your mockers.
He speaks according to His creative power (Jeremiah 10:12). God is up to anything He says.
Can I hear you say that, “God is up to anything He says.”
God speaks according to His unlimited resources.
“The silver is mine and the gold is mine, saith the Lord of hosts” – Haggai 2:8. He speaks according to His unlimited resources.
“This time tomorrow, there shall be abundance of food on the streets of Samaria. It will sell cheaper than it was selling before the famine” (2 Kings 7:1). He speaks according to His unlimited resources.
“And I will give these people favour” and He did (Exodus 3:21). They spoiled the Egyptians (Exodus 12:36). The total wealth of Egypt was transferred to them overnight. That was what moved the man Pharaoh to pursue after them. They carted away the wealth of Egypt according to the Word of the Lord. The spoiled the Egyptians, the losses were beyond economic losses. They lost the hosts of Egypt in the Red Sea. So we are not even talking about their economic collapse, because their economy collapsed after they left.
How can slaves spoil the Nation that enslaved them? He speaks according to His unlimited resources.
I have never asked God. “How?” when He tells me what He wants to do!
He speaks according to His unlimited resources. A number of us were in Kaduna Church, Frederick K.C. Price Hall, well he has gone to glory, praise God: I was at the airport with him (Frederick K.C. Price) when God said, “get back home and lay the foundation of that building now!”
I said: Sir, God just spoke to me. I need to get back home.
I was following him to Lagos, to get him on board before returning back to Kaduna.
God didn’t say, “how much do you have?” So I put 4 people at 4 corners and I said this foundation is laid today. Graciously, he granted me a good will to go.
He said, “God said so, David, go back.”
So we laid the foundation without a budget. We finished the building in 2 weeks. The building is still standing oooh. If you need to go on pilgrimage, go there. We named it Frederick K.C Price Hall because he graciously, freely with good will, “you are my guest, you are my boss” and I had to turn back because God said so; He finished it.
When God said, “He will finish this building in 1 year”
Hmmmn, it is very good but if you know the inside, what is inside, you will know it is a big challenge but not with God.
God who can bring up a man from the Prison to the Palace: a complex situation.
He was a slave.
Charged for rape. Not a citizen.
Only God can do that.
-He will change anyone that cares to believe, their story supernaturally this year.
-Whatever has been at a standstill will be visited by the turnaround power of God.
“Pay tax”, they said. Jesus said, “lest we offend them, Peter go down to the sea. Cast an hook, the first fish that comes up, open the mouth, take the coin, pay them” (Matthew 17:27).
Unlimited resources: His Bank is everywhere, inside the water, inside the ship, inside the fish, anywhere! He speaks according to His unlimited resources.
-My God will surprise you this year.
HOW FAITH FACILITATES THE FULFILLMENT OF PROPHECIES?
The faith that will see prophecies fulfilled must be sustained to the end. That is where many of us fail. Now the just shall live by faith, but if any man turns back at any point, my soul shall have no pleasure in him (Hebrews 10:38).
The faith that must see prophecies fulfilled must be sustained to the end because every divine agenda delivers at the end (Habakkuk 2:3). Wait for it!!
It must be sustained to the end. Abraham we are told, staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief (Romans 4:20, 19). He staggered not until Isaac came. Praise God.
Where faith stops is where the hand of God stops. Where our faith stops is where we stop the hand of God and when we stop the hand of God, we can never see prophecies fulfilled.
John 8:39
Our faith must always be coupled with patience to see prophecies fulfilled!!
Hebrews 6:12 – through Faith and Patience.
The faith that will see prophecies fulfilled must be sustained to the end.
We must remain confident in the validity of every Prophetic Word (Hebrews 10:35-36).
Keep doing what God says to do, believing that what He says will come to pass and you will see them come to pass like a dream of the night. After you have done the will of God, keep doing what God says to do, keep pursuing after God and then those goodness and mercy will start pursuing after you.
Just keep pursuing after God.
Remain obedient to His Word. Don’t question God.
You want to see prophecies fulfilled, don’t question God!
We have seen major Prophetic Words come to pass in this Commission without pursuing after them, but by pursuing after God, He kept bringing them in one after another, at His own time. Just keep pursuing after God.
You can’t see prophecies fulfilled until you are dedicated to doing the will of God as unveiled to you.
“This Ministry is not limited to this Nation”, He said, “but to other Nations of the earth”: Great. Just keep doing what He said to do and then suddenly, “the harvest of Africa is now over ripe. Rush in and preserve it from decadence” in a car, not in a prayer and fasting mountain. He opened that chapter.
I was in the hotel in UK, when the Lord visited me. I was in there for a meeting and He said, “and they that were scattered abroad went everywhere preaching the Word, now over to the world” (Acts 8:4).
You can’t believe that a student pioneered the work in Australia, a PG (Postgraduate) student. They have 3 Churches out there now, vibrant Churches. “They that were scattered abroad went everywhere preaching the Word.”
The same in Malaysia: “they that were scattered abroad went everywhere preaching the Word.”
It was a visitation that came at His own time for He makes all things beautiful in his time (Eccelesiastes 3:11).
The press will operate at an industrial scale: Sure, Industrial? That came to pass in real terms, 24 years after when we brought in the first Webmaster that takes us off medium class press.
After you have done the will of God, you obtain the promise (Hebrews 10:36). We didn’t buy it off any market, it was manufactured for us, brand new manufactured, to deliver. Now we print Bibles out of there.
At the end it shall speak, though it tarries, wait for it. It shall surely come to pass, it shall not tarry (Habakkuk 2:3).
-Your Turnaround package ordained for this year, you will not miss it. As you keep pursuing after God, He will keep bringing you in phase by phase to the fullness of it.
We must be at peace with God and with ourselves as we watch God bring His Word to pass.
Why? Be still, no anxiety, no apprehension and you will know that I am God (Psalm 46:10).
I never said to God, “remember that You said You will build a Tabernacle that will seat 50,000.”
I never. I didn’t ask Him. We are not in that class, He brought it in without our hand.
-He will decorate your life.
Exodus 14:14, Philippians 4:6-7
Don’t let anxiety rob you of God’s best for your life. Anxiety is a proof of unbelief, it’s a proof of doubts. God is more than enough to bring His Word to pass, so be at peace with yourself, be at peace with God.
To see prophecies fulfilled, we must continue to rejoice in spite of what may be happening to the contrary. Keep rejoicing (Habakkuk 3:17).
Although the fig tree might not blossom, there might not be fruit in the vines, turnaround is looking breakdowns, yet I will rejoice in the Lord. Then the Lord will step in and make my feet like hinds’ feet and get me up upon my high places (Habakkuk 3:17-19).
Keep rejoicing in the Lord no matter what may be happening to the contrary, then you find the hand of God just step in and change your story dramatically.
-Something great is on your way!!!
-No one will serve God mournfully in this place again.
-Serving God will never become a burden to you all through your life.
1977, the Lord gave me this Treasure from Heaven in Deuteronomy 28:47, “because thou servedst not the Lord thy God with joyfulness and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things; therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the Lord shall send against you” (Deuteronomy 28:47-48).
What!
“Okay, let’s go. It is time for WSF.
Response: “I have been going and going, nothing is happening, just let’s go.”
“They say we should go for Soul Winning. Hmmnn, Abi are you not going? Let’s go now.”
“I am here to win your soul”
Because thou servedst not the Lord thy God with joyfulness and gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things: health, good sleep, having where to lay your head. Ahh, therefore shall thou serve your enemies.
Say, “God Forbid!”
The only way God will forbid it, is for you to forbid serving God ‘un-joyfully’, ‘un-gladly’: you have to forbid it. You have to. Draw near to Me, I will draw near to you (James 4:8). Forbid it, I will always forbid it. You don’t forbid it, I can’t forbid it.
Keep smiling or stop serving! Church Gist
He didn’t say, “because you didn’t serve Him then God will punish you”
It is when you serve Him mournfully that you incur His wrath for you are looking at Him like a Taskmaster not as your Liberator.
-Grace to keep serving God with joyfulness and gladness of heart all through the days of your life, receive it now!
Very simply: a merry heart doeth good like a medicine (Proverbs 17:22). Serving God joyfully and gladly is what actualizes the good health that follows. But a broken spirit who can bear? (Proverbs 17:22, Proverbs 18:14). When the spirit is broken, the body breaks along.
So rejoice in the Lord always and again I say, rejoice (Philippians 4:4). Rejoice evermore (1 Thessalonians 5:16).
That is the key to it. Stop punishing yourself.
“Okay, let’s go. Haah, we are going to distribute these tracts again. So if they ask me questions, what will I say?”
Tell them to read what you gave them. In case you don’t know the answer, “read what I gave you.”
How do you give something to somebody without reading it yourself? Your marketing tools are those testimonies behind those fliers and the other ones you can recount by yourself. But you didn’t read anything.
They ask you questions:
Response: “Emmm, emmm. I will ask Papa”
You are selling for Nestle, they ask you a question, you say, “I will go and ask the M.D to let me know what the answer will be.” You won’t sell nothing.
Will you serve God with joyfulness and gladness of heart? Watch for dramatic change of story this year.
Habakkuk 3:17
Do you know that when God bought us our first plane, there was no new car in this Ministry: no, not that time.
Can you imagine going from a used car to a plane? God can make anything happen at any time.
From 3,000 seat capacity Sanctuary to 50,000: it is too high. You should go to 6,000 first and then try 10,000. Then when you succeed, try 15,000. That is not God. He can jump you at any point. Church Gist. HE WILL JUMP YOU THIS YEAR.
-Somebody is jumping levels this year.
-You are jumping levels this year.
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