I AM NOT SPENDING YOUR MONEY!
DON’T LET ANYONE DISCOURAGE YOU.
I AM SO BLESSED TO HAVE THE WIFE THAT GOD HAS GIVEN ME, SHE HAS NEVER TOLD ME THAT THE THINGS I DO FOR GOD'S KINGDOM ARE TOO MUCH.
YOU JUST NEED TO COME NEAR MY LIFE AND KNOW IF THE THINGS I DO ARE TOO MUCH OR TOO LITTLE.
DON’T LET ANYONE DISCOURAGE YOU. I AM NOT SPENDING YOUR MONEY SO WHAT IS YOUR PROBLEM?
SOMEBODY SAID IF YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND HEBREW YOU CAN’T UNDERSTAND THE BIBLE, I SAID THAT’S NOT TRUE.
I DON’T UNDERSTAND A SINGLE WORD OF HEBREW. I HAVE BEEN UNDERSTANDING SCRIPTURES SINCE 1970.
- Bishop David Oyedepo at Covenant Hour of Prayer || 23rd July 2022
Lord Jesus thank you for another end of the week. Receive our thanks in the name of Jesus. Thank you for answering prayers all through this week both corporately and individually. Receive our thanks in the name of Jesus. Lord, I pray that no one will end this month without experiencing the glory that is packaged into it. I pray that everybody's labour shall return with favour and thank you for this. Church Gist. Thank you for tomorrow’s service, all the prayers prayed shall find expression. We shall see multitudes as we have never seen before. Each one’s life will be touched and everyone appointed to death shall be set free. So shall it be in Jesus name.
1. We serve a covenant keeping God and when we are due for rewards we shall not be denied.
It is common knowledge that prizes are won only at the end of a race, not at the beginning, not in the middle, but at the end. Until the final whistle is blown in a football match, the winner has not been determined. You can score 2-0 against the other team in the first half but in the second half, the other team can score three goals and win the match. Church Gist. You can receive great applause in the first round of a one-mile race, by the second round you have dropped to number 2, by the third round you are number 4, and the clapping drops. The one who was pushing forward like a pregnant woman has moved forward to number 3 and in the fourth round, he is number one. The one who won is not the one who made a sprint in the first round but the one that arrived at the end first. Every time there is an operation like this, receive grace to make the most of the last round and next week is the last round. May you be found actively on duty.
Galatians 6:9. Matthew 24:13. Habakkuk 2:2-3. 2 Timothy 4:6. The crown is always waiting at the end. Revelation 3:12.
2. Discipline is a covenant requirement for anyone to win the prize.
Philippians 3:13-14.
I like you to do what you have never done this last week. Let your desperation move to the highest temperature and watch what it means to press to the end. On the altar of prayer, I press. In the passionate pursuit of souls, I press. Ensuring that new converts are established in the faith, I press. Church Gist. Don’t let anyone discourage you. I am not spending your money so what is your problem? "No, it is too much". Who told you? My husband said it is okay, are you part of my budget? There are those folks who are hanging around that are going nowhere, you better be careful of them. They are just having fun with religion, they are going nowhere. I am blessed to have the wife that God has given me, I have never heard it is too much. You just need to come near my life and know if the things I do are too much or too little.
1 Corinthians 15:58. High level discipline. We kept running as a commission. Running from a two-room office and 100 Naira a month running till we were living in the office building with my entire family in Kaduna, one toilet for the entire church. The sitting room is the reception area of the Church office. Then we grew into a batcher by the next available plot on lease and we kept pressing. We got a quit notice. They quitted us from two miserable plots into thirteen acres of land in the centre of Kaduna. We kept pressing, you stop He stops. Where we stop is where the grace stops. Church Gist. Now we have estates across nations. You can't miss our church identity anywhere you go in the world. All that from two rooms, from that to one storehouse plus office building behind it, then one big batcher and the largest grass cathedral in the world. I am not ashamed because in the end, it shall speak. Let this last week be your week of all ramifications and watch what comes out of it.
1 Corinthians 6:12, 10:23. Some things are allowed but it is not expedient. Not all things edify so I go to what builds up, what adds value to me. 1 Corinthians 9:24-27. Keep your body under if you must win the race. Engage in the required rigorous activities if you must win the race. Church Gist. Prize winners are essentially highly disciplined people. They know what they are out for so they pay the price to get it. Only those who are committed to pressing ever win the prize.
Luke 16:16. Amos 6:1. If you want the prize then you want the press. If you don’t want the press then you are not interested in the prize. There is always a press that qualifies any runner for the prize. You can’t get the prize sitting down and wishing and watching and waiting. You get the prize pressing and pressing and pressing till the end. Some fellows came in the eleventh hour so we had the last hour of this operation next week. Wake up and press. The prize is still obtainable and accessible. There is no limit to how many people get the prize, so press to be listed among those who win the prize. Church Gist. If in a track race, seven of you hit the tape at the same time you are all first. The next one is not number 2, he is number 8. If all the eight hit the tape at the same time, they are all first. There is no limit to those who can come first. No one will take your place if you will do what is required of you. It is not about speaking big grammar and understanding Jew and Hebrew, that’s not part of the race, It is intellectual exercise. Somebody said if you don’t understand Hebrew you can’t understand the Bible, I said that’s not true. I don’t understand a single word of Hebrew. I have been understanding scriptures since 1970. God speaking to me directly, I don’t understand it and God knows. I am not even planning to start understanding it now. It is too late to start learning Greek and Hebrew. This “Thus saith the Lord'' King James is good enough.
Prayers: Receive grace for the eleventh hour.
Every prize winner is a pressing believer. If you are not a pressing believer, you are not a candidate for the prize. Everyone that wears the crown is an enduring runner. So wake up and ensure you make the most of this time. I pray that many prize winners will emerge at the end of this race come July 31st 2022. Church Gist. Anybody's story can change, God created the world in six days, so anything can happen about God's agenda for your life in one week. Tomorrow is our Covenant Day of Longlife. The siege of untimely death is over tomorrow. None of us in that service tomorrow shall die young.
The day is declared blessed, a day of good news. God of addition will add to you by favour, what others are dying to get.
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