IF YOU WON’T STOP UNRIGHTEOUSNESS, YOU CAN’T STOP YOUR WAY TO HELL. YOU HAVE TO STOP ONE TO GET THE OTHER.
SOMEONE ONCE TOLD ME TO CONNECT HIM TO SOMEONE FOR ASSISTANCE.
I TOLD HIM IF ONLY HE KNOWS THE NEED OF THAT PERSON, HE WON’T BOTHER BECAUSE HE HAD MORE NEEDS THAN THE PERSON SEEKING FOR HIS ASSISTANCE.
SOME PEOPLE HAVE REPLACED GOD WITH GODFATHERS, MAKING THEM HUMAN IDOLS, THEREBY MISSING THE HAND OF THE MOST HIGH GOD.
-Bishop David Oyedepo at CHoP
*Everybody on the streets has needs, you are not just privileged to know their needs.
*The Church of Christ is not a club, it is a family where the Father God instructs us on the rules of that family.
*Young people: this is the best time to tie up your life with God. If you miss this season, God have mercy.
*There are many Daniels here today, there are many Daniellas here today who will rule their world by the force of delightsome obedience.
*You will tell greater stories than some of us are telling you today.
Thank You Jesus for another great day, receive our thanks in Jesus name. We are all waiting on You, we are all at Your feet to receive from You, let no one return without an encounter with Your Word in Jesus precious name.
OBEDIENCE: GATEWAY TO CHANGE OF LEVELS
Isaiah 55:8-9
My commandments might not appeal to common sense because they are not common but within my commandments lies your continuous change of levels, continuous of story because My ways are higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts.
To obey is better than sacrifice and to hearken than the fats of rams – 1 Samuel 15:22
Nothing moves the hand of God like our obedience of faith.
James 2:18
It is our work of obedience that validates our faith. Abraham moved in obedience to God’s Word and God sounded from Heaven twice in response to Abraham’s obedience. Nothing moves God in our favour like our obedience of faith.
-Grace to walk in obedience to God perpetually, receive it now in the name of Jesus.
Daniel was a notable man of God and a Word ruled his life: thou shall not have any other god with Me – Exodus 20:3-5
Thou shall not bow down thyself to them: no matter who built them, no matter who commanded so.
That (Exodus chapter 20) verse 5 ruled his life in the face of that arrogant decree that everybody must bow to the image that the king had set up. No, I am going for what the King of kings said, I am going for what the Lord of Heaven said, I will rather die than bow to any graven image. I am under a bond and God showed up.
“Daniel”: the first voice that would ever answer from the den of a lion, “is thy God whom thou servest continually able to deliver you from the paws of the lion?” – Daniel 6:20
He said: My God has sent his angels – Daniel 6:22
God will always respond to our obedience of faith to His Word, no matter what goes on, on the earth. Obedience gave Daniel his place in history. I will never bow to your graven image, no matter who you are. Never bow. So, he was cast into the den of lions and he came out unscratched.
Daniel walked in the fear of God, he was a faithful man and there was nothing that defiles that was caught with him – Daniel 6:4-5
A man in public office, they could not find anything against him. Wake up. Before Christ died, in the age of sin, he purposed his way out of it with a heart of obedience to God’s commandment and he prevailed. Now Christ has died, the reign of sin has ended and yet people are still wallowing in it.