CHRISTIANS ARE SUPPOSED TO BE THE MOST POWERFUL ON EARTH BUT MANY ARE DEJECTED AND FRUSTRATED
EVERY MAJOR BREAKTHROUGH I HAVE HAD, IT HAS BEEN GOD TELLING ME SOMETHING, NOT ME TELLING HIM SOMETHING.
MANY CHRISTIANS DON’T HAVE THE ENDURANCE TO PRAY FOR 30 MINUTES WITHOUT BEGGING FOR SOMETHING, THEY ARE SO USED TO BEGGING.
YOU CAN’T EVEN GROW AS A CHRISTIAN WITHOUT THE PRAYER OF FELLOWSHIP.
NO ONE IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN THE OTHER IN THE SCHEME OF THINGS WITH GOD, IT’S JUST THAT SOME PEOPLE TAKE THEIR WALK WITH GOD MORE SERIOUSLY.
YOU THINK GOD DOESN’T HAVE A GIST, GOD KNOWS WHAT WILL HAPPEN IN THE COMING ELECTION AND HE IS LOOKING FOR A FRIEND TO GIST WITH.
-Pastor Kingsley Okonkwo
1. YOU WILL KNOW GOD’S SECRETS.
What do I mean by the prayer of fellowship? It’s the prayer where you are not asking for anything, you’re just hanging out. You’re hanging out with the Father and if you don’t pray in tongues this will be hard for you. Those of us that pray in tongues we know that you can stay for one hour or two hours praying in the Holy Spirit with no request, the Holy Ghost is just making intercession by Himself for you. In the prayer of fellowship, a lot of worship is inside it, you’re just worshipping, you have no request, you’re just telling Him how good He is, you’re happy to share fellowship and to be with Him, you’re happy. Many Christians don’t have the endurance, they can’t pray for 30 minutes without begging for something, they are so used to begging, all they have learnt about prayer is problem and I understand, Africa is in a big problem, this is why we have these things. ChurchGist. But the day God begins to bless you; you will find out that you have no prayer life because you have no prayer request.
The prayer of fellowship is the prayer where you just talk to God without making request and one of the benefits is that you will know God’s secrets in those prayers because when you spend time with people that’s when they can talk to you, they can tell you things, let me tell you something, let me try and convince you this morning, there are aspects of your life that you have not heard about or known about, that you will never know about if you don’t do prayer and fellowship.
Listen, you can’t grow, you can’t even grow as a Christian without the prayer of fellowship, there is no two ways about it. Anybody can pray all those other kinds of prayers but this prayer of fellowship is only for sons, only for people that love the Lord. An unbeliever can pray about those other ones, because they like to collect things from God.
You see a prostitute can win an award by sleeping around and still come back to thank God, anybody can pray all those prayers but that prayer of fellowship, it’s only people that have closeness with God that can pray it. There are things about your life that you don’t know, you’re suffering and you think this Country is hard, it’s you that have not heard what God has for you. I know the thought that I think towards you, God has thoughts towards you. I know you feel like an orphan, you feel lost, you feel distant but I’m here to tell you this morning, God has thoughts towards you. I don’t know whether you’re getting what I am saying?
This is my issue with Nigerian Christianity, most people think it is the pastor that God has thoughts for. You will hear stuff like that man of God. No! No! God has thoughts for you too, you’re very important. No one is more important than the other in the scheme of things with God, it’s just that some people take their walk with God more seriously. God also has a very great plan for you, it’s just that you never spent time to know.
Do you know why I’m standing here today? In 1996, I took two weeks out to fast, I was not asking for anything, I had no prayer requests, I had no begging requests, I just wanted to know God more. I took two weeks to fast.
I was doing dry fasting one full day. The next day I will eat just a light stuff to give me some energy, the third day I’ll do a dry fast again, 24 hours. I was not praying all these kinds of prayers people are doing these days, oh God give me some bread, shoes shoes, No! Nothing, just fellowshipping with God and while I was in that two-week fast that was when God said you will start a youth fellowship, it will be called David’s Christian Center.
Imagine if I never went on that fast, you know what would happen? God will be holding the plan waiting for the day I will ask. Some of you, an instruction that will change your life is still pending but you have never opened the mail.
You are busy, you only sent mails, you know it’s possible for people to send a message and you don’t reply but you have sent more, you know it’s possible? That’s what some people are doing, you’re always sending, you have never opened the one they sent you. The things that will change your life are not the things you tell God they are the things God tells you. He already knows everything you want to tell him; this is what’s wrong with the African prayer we are praying, He already knows everything you want to tell him, the thing you don’t know is what He wants to tell you. The Bible says: call unto me, He said I will answer you and I will show you (but we stop at answer you, we don’t wait for Him to show us). So, that’s why we all look stranded, we look dejected. Christians are supposed to be the most powerful people on the earth, yet we look very dejected and frustrated.
If unbelievers hear the prayers we pray they will laugh at us, because what you’re shouting about they can sign one check and sort it, but you shout about it and beg; you beg your wicked father to remember you and give you small change, small change when you should be signing billions, we are begging for small change to survive.
It’s the things God has to say that is more important not the things you have to say.
I just sit down sometime and wonder what if I never went on that fast, I’ll probably not be here. I’ll be in Lagos now just looking for a job and now I’m getting old, I’ll be afraid that they will soon retire me, I’ll be hustling.
I don’t know what God has for you. Your own might not be a ministry, it can be a business He wants to show you, it can be an industry He wants you to take over but there’s something; He has a plan for you.
Nneka, don’t you have a plan for Bosa, what class is he now? he’s in year four. Have you ever taught or talked about the secondary school he will go to? You’ve already thought about it. Why do Nigerians think God is wicked, you’re better than the gods of most Nigerians because you’ve already thought about Bosa’s school, he’s in primary four but you have thought about a secondary school. You’re better than the gods of many Nigerians, even when Nigerians worship you, they will shout at you but you’re better than the gods of many Nigerians. So, you already have plans, we have even discussed the possibility of where our children will have their university education and he has not even finished primary school,
I’m bigger than most gods’ Nigerians worship because their own god has no plans for them, they are convincing Him, have plans now, pity us, they are the one trying to tell Him to be a good Father, what a shame Africa, one day we will get it, when you understand this, when you approach Him in prayer, you’ll approach Him from the place of a loving Father, you’re a good God, Father I just love you, I just thank you, Father I’m here, that’s why God said how can I do this thing without telling my friend Abraham, do you see how God thinks because He and Abraham, they fellowship a lot, when there is a new gist who do you look for? You look for your closest friend, oh boy where you dey, I wan see you, gist dey. Is that not what happens? You think God doesn’t have a gist, God knows what will happen in the election, as much as Coro took many people by surprise, there are many people that knew, there are many people that prophesied it, they are not just popular, this thing is not a popularity contest. Nigerians likes the popular pastors, it doesn’t work like that, sometimes, the real guys are not even popular.
This popularity is a weight and a burden, because the demand of your time is increased, some of those guys that nobody knows they have more time to pray. Genesis 18:17. There is a secret God needs to tell you about, your next level, your next phase.
So, there are secrets He wants to show you, there are things He wants to tell you about your life, every major breakthrough I have had, it has been God telling me something, not me telling Him something. What do you want to tell him? That you have problem, even somebody that is not God knows, your neighbour knows that you have a problem, your neighbour is not even God, he has seen your shoes, he knows that there is a problem, then you say it’s God you want to inform, you want to inform God of these few challenges, keep quiet in the place of prayer and fellowship with Him, let him tell you something and the way He talks, it takes a while for real information to come out, it is not the first day it comes out, fellowship, when he knows you’re ready to listen. You don’t meet your friend at the bus stop and have an intimate conversation, both of you are rushing somewhere and you’re saying I want to tell you something important and they are calling his bus (Oshodi, Oshodi) No! That is not where we will talk, you will say let’s see later and you just make time.
-Pastor Kingsley Okonkwo on “What’s Wrong With Your Prayer” at David’s Christian Center|| Supersonic Sunday|| 12th June, 2022.
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