WE HAVE NOT SUCCEEDED BY TRICKS. IN THE KINGDOM YOU DON’T SUCCEED BY TRICKS, YOU TRIUMPH BY TRUTH.
WALKING IN THE TRUTH GUARANTEES TRIUMPH ALWAYS AND IN EVERY PLACE.
MEEKNESS IS THE GATEWAY TO GREATNESS IN THE KINGDOM.
ALL THAT YOU HAVE AND ALL THAT YOU ARE IS FROM GOD. THERE IS NO NEED FOR PRIDE.
MANY PEOPLE ARE VERY FOOLISH AND THEY SAY IT IS FAITH
– Bishop David Oyedepo at Covenant Hour of Prayer || 18th June 2022
Lord Jesus honour your word today. Let no one return without a word from you. Let that word create a future and let it secure for us eternity in the name of Jesus Christ.
SOUL WINNING – A hidden treasure of the Kingdom. Just like in the world every treasure is kept in hidden places. The belly of the earth is full of several treasures. You can’t access them on the surface. You can’t connect with gold three feet below the earth’s crust. You can’t access oil 30 feet below the ground level. Deep is where treasures are kept.
Soul winning is one of those spiritual treasures that many believers are yet to find. Many who have found it are no longer trading it anymore and then the value begins to disappear.
Among other things, every dedicated and fruitful soul winner supernaturally ends up a star, ends up a giant. Every dedicated and fruitful soul winner is ordained a giant, he may not look so today but little by little.
A Professor Emeritus in his field today began from primary school, before secondary school, first degree, second degree and many other degrees following. A King today was once a baby yesterday and went through kindergarten to emerge a king.
No one is born an adult, it takes a process. It is the process that people just miss, they miss the process. They want to sow the seed today and go tomorrow with their harvest basket to bring it home.
You will bring home rotten corn. It is a process. It comes little by little. As we commit to trading the treasure, He keeps changing our levels. Luke 19:17. It is a process.
Deuteronomy 7:22. People hate little by little. They want it fast. If Jesus brought us to where we are today 30 years ago He would have lost us completely. Not just physical death, we would have lost heaven completely. The load would have been too heavy for me to bear. In this treasure lies the star destiny of believers. Daniel 12:3. Turning men to righteousness makes eternal stars forever and ever connotes eternity. Mark 3:14-15.
They had a mission to go and show others what the kingdom looks like. He said those who this mission shall be great among others. Luke 22:27-29. They are stars on the earth and stars in heaven. 2 Timothy 4:8, Acts 26:22. Eternal stars are made out of this treasure, stars on the earth and stars in heaven.
As they keep faith with reconciling the world back to God as a lifestyle, not that in Lagos you are a soul winner, you move to another city and become somebody that they need to win.
My wife was once in Atlanta. I called her to find out where she was. She was in the car park of a shopping mall witnessing. She doesn’t live there. It is a lifestyle. It is not a religious emblem. I have been in it long before I was called into ministry by a covenant I made. Kingdom Giants are made out of soul winning. Romans 1:16, Luke 10:19.
Soul winning empowers believers for triumphant living.
2. Soul winning confers divine honour on believers.
John 15:8. Bearing much fruit glorifies glory. Proverbs 14:28. 1 Samuel 2:30. Divine honour is conferred through soul winning. When God honours you, no devil or his agents can dishonour you. When God honours you, He silences everyone who chooses to dishonour you. Awesome God. It is in this act of soul winning as a lifestyle, it is not in travelling to every country of the word. That may be your career, an air hostess of an international airline goes everywhere.
It is not an achievement. This is the secret behind God honouring believers. They are honouring God and He is honouring them back in return. Luke 13:13. Going out there for Jesus commits Him to removing every form of reproach from our life. We serve a covenant keeping God not a Father Christmas God. Get committed to it.
3. Soul winning secures a crown for us in heaven.
Acts 26:22. 2 Timothy 4:6-8. The crown is for us if we will press on to the end. 2 Timothy 4:1-5. I know you are a Bishop but do the work of an evangelist. Soul winning is every believer’s responsibility. 2 Corinthians 5:17-21. The highest ordination in the world is Ambassadors for Christ. You are representing heaven on earth. Doing the work of an evangelist is what touches His heart the most. Reconciling people back to God touches His heart the most. The most valuable thing on this earth is the soul of man. 1 Timothy 2:4. Hell is not made for man but the devil and his angels. Matthew 25:41.
– No one in your family will miss heaven. No one under your roof will miss heaven.
We are in the era of the rise of giants in the Body of Christ. Psalm 110:1-2. Obadiah 1:21. We are in the era of the rise of giants in the Kingdom and one major virtue that will get anyone enlisted in this wave of glory and be listed among the rising giants is the virtue of meekness. No proud believer has a place in it. No believer that has outgrown instruction has a place in it.
Ecclesiastes 4:13. Meekness! It enhances access to more grace and it is grace that makes great. James 4:6. More grace comes through meekness. 1 Corinthians 15:10. Meekness makes us teachable. Psalm 25:9. He doesn’t allow proud people in His class. You can’t have revelation as a proud hearted person. Daniel 11:32. Meekness paves the way to revelation and revelation makes great. Isaiah 60:1.
Meekness also enhances believers’ obedience. God said it, I believe it, that settles it. I am going to do what God says. I may have some ideas but they will never match His ideas. God knows more than me in all areas. It is when you think you know more than God is when you start questioning God. Husbands love your wives as Christ loved the Church – “never. You don’t know my wife. When you wrote that you didn’t see my wife.
God even you can’t love my wife”. So he is wiser than God. There is no greater way to act a fool than to think you are wiser than God. Job 36:11. No breakdowns, no setbacks. These giants are vowed obedient sons and daughters of God. They don’t question God’s instruction from His word.
They just follow it anytime, anyway. Meekness is the gateway to greatness in the Kingdom. Matthew 5:5. No one’s impact in the Kingdom will outgrow his meekness before God. Looking pious doesn’t mean meekness. You don’t need to have anything to be proud of, you just choose to be proud. There are proud beggars. You give them something and they look down on it and ask you what is this. Not that they gave you any money to keep. He is begging.
– May everyone be rescued from the plague of pride.
You have an awesome and enviable future, don’t sell off to these small things that you know. Philippians 3:13. Moses at that level said that I may know you. What? These are people that have seen God face to face. It takes meekness. Numbers 12:3. Nobody had access to any greater revelation than Moses who God confided in on how He created everything in sequence and it has not changed till now. He spoke about the coming of Christ with clarity, no mistake.
Yet! Exodus 33:13. That is the meekness that makes great. Philippians 3:10. 1 Corinthians 8:2. We need that disposition, don’t come to Church as if you are the master of God. Come there open to learn, come to listen to what God has to say to you.
I have been on a project with my archives. We called it the ‘Lessons He Has Taught Me’, from my notes. We can’t gather everything but we have gathered some things and it is in volumes. You better settle down as a learner. Only genuine learners end up as leaders.
– My prayer is that no one will miss this glorious wave.
Giants are going to rise in their multiplied numbers on this platform. Unthinkable people who you can’t imagine will make an imprint and become global giants in this world by simply serving God with sincerity, no games, no gimmicks, no deceptions. No manipulations, all sincerity. It doesn’t take time, it takes walking in the truth. 2 Corinthians 2:14. Walking in the truth guarantees triumph always and in every place. You will not be trapped.
I said to one of our young men in those days, listen to me Maxwell, we have not succeeded by tricks. In the kingdom you don’t succeed by tricks, you triumph by truth. Holding to the truth guarantees triumph in all circumstances. That is what backs giants in the kingdom.
– It shall be said of Winner, this man was born there, that woman was born there. The spring of the Lord is within there.
That is the song of Psalm 87. It is our song as a commission. May you be part of that wave in the name of Jesus.
Psalm 87:1-7.
Every stream of life shall be domiciled in Zion. Zion means the Church of Christ. May you be part of those streams. All that you have and all that you are is from God. There is no need for pride. You have seen grace but greater grace lies ahead.
– When God is counting the people, may you be among those to be counted.
– When the Lord is counting people for lifting and impact, may you also be counted.
Let the promoter promote you, you can’t promote yourself in any organization. You can be a Lieutenant and put General that doesn’t mean anything. You are just amusing yourself.
You can write that to people in your village but if you write that officially to anybody in the military circle you will go somewhere. Don’t promote yourself. Let God the promoter promote you.
– You will count. Your life will count.
– Every bit of your energy, time and resources will culminate in your rise as a giant.
– Grace to remain meek unto greatness receive it right now.
– Little by little, like a joke, we will find you at the topmost top. You are getting there.
We had this interesting story when we were in Kaduna, a young man was in Zaria and they said he failed his exam and he needs to repeat and he said he won’t go. I said why? He said God has not told him to. I said God won’t tell you, it is the teacher who will tell you that you didn’t do well. He said he won’t go. God has no time for this nonsense. He is not a graduate till tomorrow. He was too big to go and repeat for one year. Maybe he would have been a professor now. Maybe he would have been in a big time business now. He was moving about at a point like a mad man. Be humble enough. When God corrects you, respond. All this arrogance won’t take you anywhere. Proverbs 4:13. God has a right to say you are wrong and it is your good to accept that you are wrong.
Otherwise, you end up a wreck. God will tell you to go and bath, God has that kind of time? Fredrick K.C. Price wrote a book Faith, Foolishness and Presumption. I helped to publish that book at that time in Nigeria to make it available to people because many people are very foolish and they say it is faith. They said you failed and you said you did not fail. You want to marry someone and they said they don’t want to marry you. Why are you still wasting your time?
– Grace for delightful obedience is declared your portion.
– Whatever prevents anyone from being listed among the giants of this era is rooted out in the name of Jesus.
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