impartation service ayac 2025

The Role of Prophets as Agents of Rescue and Preservation – Bishop David Oyedepo – Day 4 Impartation Session

AYAC 2025

21st August 2025

Day 4 Impartation Session

Topic: The Role of Prophets as Agents of Rescue and Preservation

Speaker: Bishop David Oyedepo

Everyone has a prophet sent to him.

Luke 4:25-27 But I tell you of a truth, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elias, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when great famine was throughout all the land;

But unto none of them was Elias sent, save unto Sarepta, a city of Sidon, unto a woman that was a widow.

And many lepers were in Israel in the time of Eliseus the prophet; and none of them was cleansed, saving Naaman the Syrian.

There were many widows in Israel unto none was, Elijah sent, but to the widow of zarepath, there were any many lepers in isreal into none was Eliseus sent but to naaman the syrian God sends prophet to his people. Because they’re agents of rescue By a Prophet the Lord brought Israel out of Egypt and by a prophet was he preserved

Hosea 12:13 And by a prophet the LORD brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophet was he preserved.

He that receives a prophet in the name of the prophet shall receive the prophet reward. ‎they didn’t receive Jesus as a prophet in Nazareth and so he couldn’t float to them beware every God sent prophet is often spoken against

Luke 2:34 And Simeon blessed them, and said unto Mary his mother, Behold, this child is set for the fall and rising again of many in Israel; and for a sign which shall be spoken against;

this prophet this child is set for the fall and the rising again of men in isreal and for a sign that shall be spoken against the purpose is simple to disconnect such individuals from partaking of the rewards or the blessings that God has put in those prophets for them. I remember years ago I was studying one of hagen’s books In the early 80s, and a friend of mine came by, he said, brother David what are you reading but I said hagen’s book and he said no there’s nothing there nothing there nothing there there was a man‎tle there for me and the mantle came down 86 the word if faith was see as canality in those days ‎i hated poverty poverty in the body of Christ and that proverb was so taunting to me as poor as a church rat so I found copeland and his testimonies stirred me to find out what he knew that I didn’t know I was

‎This prosperity message Is dialetically, what is it materialistic All kind of things were spoken to disconnect me from where God has connected me. ‎So, it was a day came that we were in a meeting and he said the Lord just spoke to me that all the suits I came with in this meeting be passed to you then I said mantle he said yes you got it ‎Was waiting for me some agent waned to disconnect me from. If you don’t know the prophet sent to you you miss what they carry for you hagen was to many in those days as an herety many but their Destiny was waiting for me. if you’re in this commission, God sent me to you. amen ‎to bring you to the place. Where his Grace has brought me, Ministry gives our sense to bring us to the same faith the unity of the faith the same realm of operation over there No one can bail himself out the custody somebody else has to do it and that’s what prophets are in God’s agenda. you are, coming out. you’re, coming out you, will not forget today in a hurry, because something strange will drop in your favor. ‎A prophet sent to you maybe a devil to another that’s the reason you must know the one sent to you you may be a subject of ridicule to another but you must remain a man a woman of honour to you if you must connect with what they carry it’s your turn you heard the story of a bus conductor and a vulcanizer now touching the world and building estate it’s your turn towards receiving the spirit of wisdom it’s the subject we’re looking in this Impartation service remeber through wisdom is a house built and by understanding it is established

proverbs 24:3 Through wisdom is an house builded; and by understanding it is established

and Joshua was full of the spirit of wisdom and the people herken to him the people that herken to moses herken to Joshua because of the virtue of the spirit of wisdom passed unto him by way of introduction my greatest quest upon receiving the call to ministry was wisdom I  began praying and searching of scriptures I came across a tape caption wise up and size up by TL Osborn precious to me wise up and size up I came through the writings of norman Vincent pearl the power of positive thinking and a number of others the need for wisdom sat on my spirit the lord said to me I will not let you go like the others has have gone I will have hands laid on you you shall be filled with the spirit of wisdom so you won’t go like the way others go today by the impartation of the spirit of wisdom God will distinguish you God will distinguish you God will distinguish you the bible says wisdom is the principal thing in all your getting get understanding exalt this virtue and she shall promote thee she shall bring thee to honor when thou embrace her a crown shall she deliver to you and an ornament of grace it’s the principal thing please note that every spiritual gift is ordain for our profiting which include our establishment

1corithians 12:7 But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal.

the manifestation of the spirit is given to every man to profit withal for I long to see you

Romans 1:11 For I long to see you, that I may impart unto you some spiritual gift, to the end ye may be established;

we heard that during the expectation prayers that I may impart unto you some spiritual gift to the end ye may be established so spiritual gifts is for our establishment and wisdom is a vital player in our quest for establishment through wisdom a house is built and by understanding it is established and by knowledge shall all thy chambers be filled with all precious and pleasant riches establishment

Isaiah 33:6 And wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy times, and strength of salvation: the fear of the LORD is his treasure.

 and wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy times and the strength of salvation and the fear of the lord is what keeps it flowing the fear of the lord is what keeps it flowing wisdom and knowledge are stabilizers of destiny you don’t fall you don’t falter that’s why a built to last quest requires questions It said wisdom has build a house she has hewn out seven pillars

Proverbs 9:1 Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars:

how manifold are there work o God the psalmist said in wisdom hast thou made them all the earth is full of thy riches

Pslam 104:24 O LORD, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches.

jeremiah10:12 He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heavens by his discretion.

 he hath founded the earth by his power he has established the world by his wisdom and hath stretched out the heavens by his discretion whatever power brings to bear it is wisdom that establishes in

Psalm 78:69 And he built his sanctuary like high palaces, like the earth which he hath established forever.

 we were told And God built his sanctuary like high places like the earth which he hath established for ever what this wisdom builds is establish forever this is why engaging the wisdom of God is the only way to build to last God word is God’s wisdom in print Luke11:49 and the wisdom of God says I will also send them prophets and I will slay them it was refrencing scriptures and called it the wisdom of God in print Jesus is said to be the living word

John 1:1-5 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

The same was in the beginning with God.

All things were made by him; and without him was not anything made that was made.

In him was life; and the life was the light of men.

And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.

but the bible say he is the wisdom and the power of God so this book is a custodian of the wisdom and the power of God

1 Corithians 1:24 But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.

Mattew 7:24-25 Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:

And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.

Therefore whosoever hearth these saying s of mine and doeth them I will liken him unto a wise man who has built his house upon the rock and the rain descended and the floods came and  the wind blew and beat upon that house and it fell not because it was founded upon the rock so building on a rock secure you agains the storms of life it keeps your building standing no matter the waves of the sea that come against it so living by the word is the only way to build to last the only way to build to last today

 the world is competing the church is competing with the world on common sense ground. I mean that is made that is mean, that is mean. There is the wisdom from above is above all above all realms of wisdom. You are going with that package today is not inferior is superior to the wisdom of this world. There are four kinds of wisdom recognized in scriptures. Earthly, intellectual, devilish and then the wisdom from above.

James 3:15-17 This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.

For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

The wisdom from not abracadabra clean wisdom. You can tell how things came to come to be from the pages of scriptures. No games. Arriving here in caananland is not common sense. Yes, sir. No, I love the way the amplified amplified classic put it.

Ephesians 3:10 To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God,

It defines the man of God as the complicated manysided wisdom of God in all his enormable aspects and infinite varieties complicated complicated you need spiritual mindset a natural mancan’t pick for instance, the Lord called me to go to a full-time minister. I said, “Who pays me?” And then he came down to

Luke chapter 10. He says, “What nonsense?” after he’s appointed 70. Were you there? No. Whatever is written is written for me. said, “Don’t carry nothing when you’re going. Don’t greet anybody on the way home.” He said, “Don’t look around no man’s resources. Stay on duty.” that was my payback. I got on God’s payroll. He has never failed. Please understand this is not something you you know the Holy Ghost teaching us comparing spiritual things with what spiritual now in the name of Jesus I decree your access to the realm of the spirit of wisdom in the name of Jesus. Why are we so relaxed in this ministry? Whatever he commands, he backs up. Faithful is he that calleth thee he also will do it. So, if he says go and build this tabernacle in one year, it means that’s what I want to do. You partner with me. And he did. No budget. That’s not common sense and no begging and no borrowing. Your life is settled. You won’t find hitch-free marriage in the Bible. The Holy Ghost was putting things together and the conclusion is it is ordained for hitch-free lifestyle. There are some that don’t know one thing about marriage here. They just sitting out. They don’t know one thing.

So, one it has no idea at all what is marriage about. He has never tried to find out once in his life. I read eight books on marriage. How many? It’s not like now where you have books all over the places. We were looking for it. Wake up, sir. Yes sir. Wake up. This will set you free from crisis in your future. Just to know the right thing to do. Not just knowing what to do, the right thing to do. the right thing to do about any issue. Every other form of training addresses some specific areas the bible addresses all issues of life. How many? All issues. He that findeth me findeth life. Addresses all areas of life. In the precious name of Jesus, days of tensions are over in your life. According to Bible prophecies, God has ordained an outpouring of the spirit of wisdom upon the end time church and we are in the end time. We are in the days of the outpouring of the spirit of wisdom upon the end time church and were in the end time. Now he said which God orained before the world unto our glory is ordained that we walk in that realm of wisdom.

1 Corinthians 2:7 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory:

But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery. That’s why they call it complicated. even the hidden wisdom which God orained before the world unto our glory. Windback please to verse verse six. How be it we speak wisdom among them that are perfect. Yet not the wisdom of this world nor of the princes of this world that comes to zero. But we speak the wisdom of God that gives new value to living. Praise God. Thank you, Jesus.

Ephesians 3:10 & 11 To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God,

According to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord:

Here is what he said to the in now that now under and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God according to the eternal purpose of God which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord. So, there will be an outpouring of the manysided wisdom of God in all his innumerable aspects and infinite variety in this end times.

So, it’s your season. He makes all things beautiful in his time. We’re in the end time. So, we are candidates for the outpouring of the spirit of wisdom today. You are receiving your portion. You are receiving your portion. You are receiving your portion. The reason is simple. The end time church is ordained to reign in life and kings reign by wisdom. Christ will not return until the church is reigning in all areas of life. He said to my lord, “Sit down my right hand. May the enemies have foot stool. The Lord shall send the rod of his strength out of Zion. Rule thou in the midst of their enemies.”

Psalm 110 : 1-2 The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool.

The LORD shall send the rod of thy strength out of Zion: rule thou in the midst of thine enemies.

Proverb 24:5 A wise man is strong; yea, a man of knowledge increaseth strength.

 a wise man is strong and a man of knowledge increases strength so the Lord shall send his wisdom out of the church that will enthrone the end time church in our respective areas of endeavors Thank you Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. And all the kingdoms under heaven shall be given to the saints of the most high.

Daniel 7:27 And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him.

all the kingdoms under heaven. That’s God’s end time agenda and we are taking it. I said we are taking it. You are stepping out of here into a new

realm. We saw how wisdom enthroned Joseph in Egypt enthroned Daniel in Babylon and enthroned David the son of Jesse in Israel. We saw how that wisdom enthroned. Paul the apostle people said in that island of Melutsa he’s a god. We saw them call him the gods have come down to us in like likeness of men. You had the devil saying Jesus I know Paul I know. He wrote about half of the New Testament. The wisdom from above enthrones you are in ministry. He enthrons industry. He enthrons in your career. He enthroned. The wisdom of God enthrons.

Proverbs 8:15 & 16 By me kings reign, and princes decree justice.

By me princes rule, and nobles, even all the judges of the earth.

Through wisdom kings reign and by he said by wisdom kings reign and princes decree justice. And yeah, all the judges of the earth, every enthronement is a function of divine wisdom at work in the believer. It’s your turn. It’s not saying I’m a king. It’s simply setting the pace. Setting the pace in your field of play is being on top in your field of play. It’s not an appointment. No, it’s an attainment. The living here is blazing the trail. You never mistaken for mistaken for a mediocre anymore. The top is where you belong. And that’s where wisdom will take you to. Let me hear your loudest Amen. But the virtue of wisdom has unlimited capacity for growth. So don’t get out of here and say, “Oh, I thank God I now have the spirit of wisdom.” Yes, that is your access to flowing in that realm. You now keep developing yourself, growing yourself in the school of wisdom. Proverbs 9:9, he said, “Give instruction to a wise man and what happens? He will yet be wiser? and teach a just man and what happens? He will increase in learning.

Proverbs 1:5 A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:

a wise man shall hear and increase in learning. A man of understanding shall attain unto wise counel. oh, the depth both of the wisdom and knowledge of God. how uncarchable his ways and his part finding out. What we have heard till date is that people mistake impartation for a dash and that is there no matter what to do. That’s not correct. Every spiritual gift requires to be fed to keep it functional. The word of God is the only platform for keeping any gift functioning. The word, every gift of the spirit thrives on the world. Every gift of the spirit thrives on the word. Can you imagine if all I knew was that hand was laid on me for spirit of wisdom. It would have become stale and gone. Stale and gone. The Bible is God’s wisdom bank. So, we keep feasting on the word to keep the wisdom of God alive in us and functional. We pick materials on wisdom to keep feeding that treasure inside of us. I’m here this morning not just to teach but to provoke you.

Hebrews 10:23 & 24 Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)

And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:

Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering for he is faithful that has promised. Verse 24. And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works. We are called to provoke one another to doing the right thing. The right thing that keeps life going. The right thing. No spiritual gift has a future without being nurtured. Some interesting thing about Christ. The Bible said that I have read this man letters say he never went to school. That’s supernatural.

John 7:15 And the Jews marvelled, saying, how knoweth this man letters, having never learned?

Now, but the Bible said the child grew and increased in wisdom and in favor with God and man. The child grew. Paul was endowed with wisdom. But the Bible said, “Bring my books and my notes.” The only way to service is that treasure, that virtue, to keep you growing and functioning. Bring my books, bring my notes. It’s time to awake to responsibility. It’s time to take responsibility. Someone is struggling financially. He has never done any search on the way out. So, when will he come up? No temptation has ever come your way. But such is common to man. But God is faithful. He will not have you to be tempted beyond what you are able. And in the same temptation provide the way of escape. So, we must be in search of the way out. The way out. The way out. The way out. I had a glorious vision on the mission of church growth. Fantastic. March 84 dramatic. We were praying. God asked me to stand up and I did. He said, “Follow me.” And I followed them. And he dictated to me four-line mysteries that grows the church. Isn’t that fantastic? And now register in the school of church growth. I registered in the school of church grow by reading all available resources to find out what makes it grow. I was an above student of Yongicho. If I slept with that vision, nothing will happen.

Nothing. If I was just doing what I think is right, nothing will happen. Let me find out what they did that made it happen for them. So, I began to read all those materials to keep me going. See where we are today. We’re about 22 or 24 when that vision came. I took responsibility fulltime study responsibility growth. You have so much to do only that you don’t know. You have so much to do. So, to not pluck your two years and grow. You have too much to do sir. Too much. Too much. Too much. Too much. In the precious name of Jesus. Today will mark the end of waiting for things to happen. Grace to keep working at making things happen. Receive it now. Receive it now. I spent three days reading God’s will is prosperity and the laws of the law the loss of prosperity by Copeland. 3 days of fasting, searching and praying I found it. Instead of suffering for 30 years, why can’t you settle down and find out what is wrong with you? Ask the question. Don’t say what? Don’t point to any devil.

Point to yourself. What is wrong with me? That’s where to start from. Not one woman is attacking me. Which one woman is attacking me can darkness attack light? The strength of darkness is in the absence of light. And the entrance of his word on any subject gives light. Somebody’s free. Say somebody’s free. Somebody’s free. If you’re the one, let me hear your loudest. Amen. Stop waiting for a change. Start walking at a change. Stop waiting for a change. Nothing will change on its own. As you behold him, we are changed. So that’s what we must find to secure a change. We are changed from glory to glory. As we behold him, not as we sleep in our house houses or jogging about on social media wasting your precious time, too noisy a generation sir. Too noisy. What kind of life? Somebody’s life is changed. Everything of value demands a cost for maintenance. The cost of maintaining a bicycle is cheaper than a motorbike. The cost of maintaining a motorbike is cheaper than a motor car. The cost of maintaining a motor car is cheaper than a helicopter. The cost of maintaining a helicopter is cheaper than a jet. Now you can’t compare the biggest chest jet with maintaining a spacecraft. No bank can take it on whether world class first class or second-class world. No consult all your banks and nations.  The cost. Now in Christ is he all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

Colossians 2:3 In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

So, we need to understand the cost of maintaining this treasure. I know that. I know it’s coming on you today. But you must learn what it takes to maintain it and keep it functioning. It’s at a cost. And if you be wise, you rest on yourself. If you scorn only, you will bear it. Is at a cost. There is no problem on this earth without a Bible wisdom solution. There is no issue on this earth without a wisdom solution from scriptures. There is none. There is none. You are books on wisdom on my shelf on my library. Sorry. because of my value for it. Please understand, you can’t eat your cake and have it. Engaging with the instruction of scriptures is the only way to building a lasting legacy. The only way the wisdom of scriptures impart on the following among others in your choice of career is a way that sim unto a man there and thereof at the waist of death. Why don’t you ask? And from a child that has known the holy scripture, we are able to make thee wise into salvation as in Christ Jesus. And wisdom is profitable to direct. It applies to your choice of career, choice of relationship. I prayed one night against wrong association all night on the mountain from Psalm 1:1 to3. Blessed is the man that walketh not in the council of the ungodly nor standeth in the way of sinners nor sitteth in the sit of the scornful but whose delight is with the law of the Lord upon his judment day and night. I said Lord disconnect me from everybody going backward. Connect me with only people that are going forward. Make my ears deaf to things that do not edify and blind my ear to things that do not build up. I cried that night and God heard me. Somebody had said you be the same thing that you are today in 5 years’ time except for two things. The books you read and the people with whom you walk. Take it easy. Choice of relationship that’s problem many of us who are here today he that was to the wise man shall be wise but a companion of fool shall be destroyed

Proverbs 13:20 He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.

number three how it applies to our life today the wisdom of preparation No one can arrive at a future he is not prepared for. Forget it. Preparation is vital in the in defining our future. And Jothan became great because he prepared his ways before the Lord is God.

2 Chronicles 27:6 So Jotham became mighty, because he prepared his ways before the LORD his God.

The preparation of the heart and the answer of the tongue is from the Lord. It’s God’s design that we must get prepared for the tomorrow that we are thinking about. You will not miss your tomorrow. No one here will bite their fingers for their tomorrow. So, get set for it. You have heard me say several times; I’m not surprised that we’re where we are today. Thank God for it. But I would have been surprised we are not there. I saw what he said to be done and to keep doing to secure tomorrow. And by his help, I kept doing those things. So tomorrow cannot be in doubt. Tomorrow will not be in doubt. And big one, the wisdom of time management. Because nature abhors vacuum. Most crisis today among the youth is because of loose time, vacant time. Time without anything to fill

So, any junk comes in there. Ephesians chapter 5 verse 16 the word says redeeming the time because what the days are evil.

Colossians 4:5 Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time.

he said walk in wisdom towards them that are without redeeming the time. Let’s go. He said to where? Just anywhere. And we left your house. anywhere. No, you’re too smart for that. You are too smart for that. For when an evil spirit has gone out of a man, he goes about in dry places seeking rest. If you can’t find anyone, any place to rest, he said, “Let me go and check where I was living away from.” He came back and found it swept, garnished, and empty. So, he took seven more wicked spirit than himself and invaded that life. The end of that life was worse than the beginning. Caution. You have enough and more than enough to do. Sir, you have more than enough to do to secure your destiny and see your posterity preserved. You have more than enough to do. Now choice and marriage either findetha wife finded a good thing and has obtain favor from God. What are the parameters for knowing if you have found a wife or a husband? You need to find out. Can two works together except they be agreed? No. May you not unequally unbelievers say it doesn’t matter it will so matter it will soon matter just keep going it’s time to sit down and tell yourself I cannot revise the Bible is beyond my capacity is settled in heaven forever I have no access to the place where it is settled, we can do nothing against the truth but for the truth so settle. Get hold of materials of people with proven

family life. Read, study, look. I first read about the author of any book before I buy. Does is he qualified to say what he’s talking about? You can’t talk about church grow when your church is not growing. I won’t read you. I need someone can help me up You can’t tell me about prosperity when you are poor. No, you’re poisoning my spirit. Now, if you see a marriage that has worked for 43 years without it, you didn’t have time to read one thing. Your own is only four years of fighting. Is that how you are going to fight until you are 80? But they don’t die young in the church. Amen. Will you be fighting on your life? Settle down to find out how this thing work. Settle down. Settle down. Settle

down in the precious name of Jesus. No one will walk in darkness here anymore.

You not walk in darkness here anymore. You will not walk in darkness here anymore. My wife put up this book together. Uh what was it? Covenant pathways to hitch free marriage.

This doesn’t take you two days to read and two more days to study. Does it?

That’s not true. Now well done. the choice of where to live. Don’t carry your luggage and just run to Germany. Settle down. Lord, what are you saying?

Isaiah 30:1-3, what are you saying? The Lord visited me one time and said, “My son, I’m committed to leading you if you are committed to following me.” The reason God won’t lead anybody; most people is because they are not committed to follow him. They just inform him, Lord, I’m going to Germany. I thank you for your approval. And so they go, God, but I told you, did you ask me? You told me you are going, I say goodbye. What should I do? Don’t put words into God’s mouth. You are too small. I’m too small to do that. Let God be the one that speaks to you on anything. I was too confident being here because he said this is the place. Not that I failed. I didn’t feel anything. I had what am I not hearing? Are you committed to following? First question, are you committed? Until I hear from him, I won’t leave this country till I’m 100 120 to do what? He’s, my preserver. He’s, my keeper. I’m his messenger.Life is so simple. Don’t go where everybody is going. You are not everybody. You are yourself. Yes, sir. Find out where to be. Young people listen to me. Oh, your wife in Nigeria, you in borkinafaso . It won’t work. It won’t work. Don’t re-edit the Bible. It won’t work. It won’t work before you wake up to know it soon. It’s over. Then struggling for life. There is no civilization made the word of God of no effect. Yes, sir.

Stop it. Stop it. I can tell you what makes it work because it’s working for me.God won’t say what to like. He will say what is right. Don’t make God say what you like. Don’t look for this to disobey God and there shall be one flesh. Have you seen half flesh on the road before a man cut into two? before Won’t you run before somebody else joins your husband? You better settle.God join joins your wife. You better settle.I don’t know why papa is saying it. No,it is not me saying it is the Bible. I wasn’t there when they wrote it. Now this a modern time. You want modern evil. No,wisdom is profitable to direct. May you never miss your direction. May you never miss your direction. May you never miss your direction. Thank you, Jesus. The wisdom of kingdom advancement priority living.

We’ve had a lot of other it changes people’s story supernaturally. It will change your

story. It will change your story. What comes out of this is fearful favor. When you engage with the kingdom of God and his enlargement as your priority, you enjoy fearful favor. Fearful fearful favor. Psalm 102 verse 13 to 15. Fearful favor. Between now and next AYAC, fearful favor will become your new identity. The wisdom of given to the challenged or the poor, he that giveth to the poor shall not lack. Every time you service anyone in need, you are buying your way out of need. Shall not lack. You give to the poor, you lend to the Lord and what you have given, he will give it back to you. So it’s not a dash, it’s a seed. That was the secret behind the greatness of Job. He was eye to the blind. He was legs to the lame because he knew Lot. He searched out. He made widows how to rejoice. That was his secret.

Job 29:4-17 As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my tabernacle;

When the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were about me;

When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil;

When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street!

The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, and stood up.

The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.

The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.

When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me:

Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.

The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.

I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem.

I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.

was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.

And I break the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.

I see great people in different areas of life through this art of benevolence. You are getting there. You are getting there. You are getting there. You are getting there. Therefore, we must beware of anything we allow that will stop the flow of what you are receiving today. But what you are getting from this service today will live with you for life. Solo Solomon lost that treasure to carelessness. You won’t lose your own. Uzziah lost it to pride. You won’t lose your own. Please know that rebellion is not against people in the kingdom. Rebellion is against the word. You have rejected the word. He has also rejected you from being king. So, you reject the word of God for your own view. He comes in rebellion. First Samuel chapter 15 and verse 22 beginning. And Samuel said, “As the Lord great delight in burnt sacrifice, burnt offering and sacrifices as in obeying his voice.

Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice and fat of rams.” Verse 23. For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft and stubbornness as an iniquity as idolatry. Because thou has rejected the word of the Lord, he has rejected thee from being king, from being king. So, rejecting the truth for your view is what makes rebellion in scriptures. God said this I don’t think so, God said that is wrong. You say it doesn’t matter. That is every act against the truth is viewed as rebellion. Because you have rebelled against my word, I’ve also rejected you from being king. No one here shall be rejected. No one will reject the truth in this

place. Can I hear your loudest? Amen. Can I hear your loudest? Amen. Jesus said, “Freely you are given, freely give. “He orchestrated my assets to the enduement of the spirit of wisdom. And he said to his apostles, “Freely I’ve given you, freely give.” So today, I freely release the same spirit of wisdom that he granted me access to into your life. I therefore release the outpouring of the spirit of wisdom upon every participant at AYAC 2025. And because wisdom makes the face of wise a wise man to shine, I decree your access to the shining era of your life. But wisdom is not just about knowing what to do, but going ahead to do them with delight. Grace to keep engaging with the truth in every area of your life with delight. Receive it now. Why call me Lord Lord without doing what I tell you to do? It doesn’t fly. It doesn’t fly.

Therefore, he admonished us, be ye doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving your own self. Grace to be a delightsome doer of the word. Is applies to every area of your life. Receive it now. But when doing what the world commands no longer has taste to any believer, he starts to lose out in the school of wisdom. As in the case of Solomon, he said, I appear to you twice on this matter, but you won’t budge. Therefore, I turn my back on you. God won’t turn his back on any one of us. God won’t turn his back on any one of us. God won’t turn his back on any one of us. He will not turn his back on you. As mentioned earlier, you have to keep nurturing any spiritual gift to keep growing it and maturing it. Therefore, grace to keep feeding this divine virtue on the word of God. Receive it now. Receive it now. Receive it now. Receive it now. Receive it now.

Receive it now. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Jesus. Now among the products of divine wisdom notably so is mighty works. It’s not the wisdom of mighty words, but mighty works. When’s has this man have this wisdom and these mighty works? Matthew 13 and verse 54. Mighty works. Where has this man this wisdom and these mighty works? My prayer is that this impartation today will lead to mighty work through your hands.  In the name of Jesus, this wisdom has power to overturn the mountains by the roots. So, every longstanding problem of your life will fizzle away as if they were not real. I’ll read that before we close.

Job 28:7 There is a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture’s eye hath not seen:

There’s a path that no fowl knoweth and which the virtual eyes have not seen. The lion’s whelps have not trodden it and the fierce lion nor the fierce lion pass by. He puts forth his hand upon the rock and overturns the mountain by the roots. He cuts out rivers among rocks and his eye sees everything, every precious thing. No unbreakable barrier on the path of wisdom. He bindeth the flood from overflowing stop evil from having his way and the thing that is hid bringeth it forth to light. He now went on but where shall this kind of wisdom be found and where is a place of this kind of understanding? Now he went on to say man not depressed thereof neither is it found in the land of the living is about what is obtainable here is not found in the land of the living It’s only available with God and that’s your father and my father. We getting your questions. Wisdom is the birthright of his children.

Matthew 11:19 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.

He said, “But wisdom is justified of our children. Wisdom is our birthright. We serve the only wise God, wiser than the wisest. We are his children. So, we carry his DNA. So, it is our birth right to flow in this superior wisdom. This ultimate wisdom, the wisdom from above. It’s coming down your way today. Money can’t buy it. It’s not available in the knowledge market. is not available in the knowledge market yet is real. Its impact is undeniable. In the name of Jesus Christ, I decree grace for connectivity to this flow. Today I decree grace for connectivity to this flow today.

Receive that in the name of Jesus. Receive that in the name of Jesus. It’s not found in the land of the living. Stop looking elsewhere. only available in God. He went on and said God knows. Verse 23, God understandeth the way thereof and he knows the place thereof. It is only available with God. Verse 20. Go back please. Verse 20. 20. When’s then cometh wisdom? And where is the place of this kind of understanding? The same question asked in verse 12 is asked in verse 20. God knows the way thereof in the name of Jesus because it’s your birthright. Receive that impartation today. Receive that impartation today. receive that impartation today in Jesus name. What that means is that there is no situation under heaven without divine wisdom solution. And with this imparting of the spirit of wisdom, you will always find. You will always find the answer. You will always find the answer. Kennth Hagin said he has never sat down for more than 3 days in search of any question of interest without an answer. Therefore, from this time on, every time you set out in search of an answer, you’ll find with speed. You will find with speed. You will find with speed. You will find with speed. You will find with speed. In the name of Jesus. In the name of Jesus. Let me mention this as we get into this anointing session that among the nature of this wisdom is that is easily entreated. He discovers is wrong and he doesn’t play down on it. He said for above is pure verse 17

James 3:17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

And easily in treated that means he does not pretend to be right when he comes to know that he’s wrong. The reason we have the master is because we are liable to error. You can’t mark your paper as someone writing example. Somebody else have to mark it. is easily entreated. Somebody say, “Have you ever been wrong?” I think I’ve been many times many times wrong, but he corrects me and he helps me to pick the correction and I follow through. Praise God. To think that you cannot be wrong is pride. So, stop that thought. To think that you cannot be wrong is pride. There are some no matter what they read, what they want to do is inside them. is inside them.

You can imagine me going to thank God for the blessing of that impartation service and he said look it wasn’t me you had you had yourself and I came out to tell them God told me I didn’t hear properly I had myself I wasn’t playing we were said to go we have had a set of copers in Jos for one year Would you hear me? Miracle of traveling to go and train under those heavyweight men that have loved and been studying their lives was a delight to my soul. I didn’t know anything about ministry. I said, “My son, the thing you see does not come from abroad, but from above. We are not going to America.” Meanwhile, everything was said. Sir, to think you cannot be wrong is pride. Yes sir. Drop it. Drop it. Yes sir. To think you cannot be wrong is pride. Drop it. If the word is not strong enough to correct you, nothing can correct you. Nothing. Well, I’m I’ve not heard from God. What was what he said about it? He said something about it you have not heard. What? Want to write another Bible for you. Stop beating your wife and say I’ve not heard from God. Ah, okay. What do I do now? Do you hear it from God? No. No one yet hates his wife. But delicately treat her. Life is so simple. This is the surest guide of life. The Bible is a lamp to your feet and a light to your path. This superior to any vision anybody may have. Superior to any vision any I hear from. This is the this is the way to mark it. Are you hearing from God or not? Somebody story is changing. Let me hear your loudest. Amen. Let me hear your loudest. Amen. You are free at last. Is easily entreated. Easy is easy easy to correct. Easy to correct. I sat down in my office and I had my itinary for the year pasted on the board. i said remove that thing. So, I had it remove that thing. I said why? I said that’s not my plan. Sorry. You are not going anywhere. You take root downwards before you start bearing fruit of war. simple instruction all arrangement for all those travels sat in that place and by grace began to

take root downward and here is the fruit today. Amen. Easily intuitive easily. Somebody has seen some corrections here. Don’t let go. Wrong with it. That correction, embrace it. It will open a new chapter of your life. It will open a new chapter of your life in the name of Jesus. Amen. Let me also say this. Wisdom is the custodian of wealth. What is it? Proverbs 8:18. Riches and honor are with me. That’s what I’m speaking. Yeah. endurable riches and righteousness. What is wisdom? Whatever I tell you to do, do it. Young people, listen to me. If you are not a giver, you are not a kind for prosperity. You are not a kind for financial fortune. If you are not a giver, don’t take trash in town. Find out from those who are flowing in it what they had to do. Don’t be slothful but follow them through faith and patience. Inherit the promises tithing is a covenant obligation. Jesus is the one that receives it in heaven. He has the key of David that can open the windows of heaven. If you are not a tither, you are not a candidate. I been in need. I’m flowing in fortune. I got into it before I became a pastor. Wake up. Wake up. What you do does not matter. It’s a lie.

You can’t be on the wrong path and secure a place in heaven. Know ye not that the righteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived. He made a a list of those that should not think by being deceived make it. How many want to make heaven here? What is wisdom? Building on what the word commands. Living by what the word commands. Living by what the word commands. Living by what the word commands. I see giants rising up.

I said this before. The Lord said, “There’s a place for you on top if you’re interested.” I said, “Lord, I’m interested.” Said, “Whatever I tell you to do, do it.” Is the cheapest flight to scaling the utmost height in life. If thou shall hearken unto the voice and do what I tell you to do. I will set on high above all nations of the earth. Today, by the grace of God, as at last night, we have 112 nations that are in this program right now. 12 nations are represented on ground right now and from Ghana alone I think we have over 700. Amen. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. We are going places. we’re going places.

Now in this impartation service, listen to this. First time we are naming this the oil of solution. Amen. For yet a little while Isaiah 10:25, the indignation against your life and destiny shall cease. The attacks on your life and destiny shall come to an end. For it shall come to pass in that day which is today that the yoke of the wicked shall be taken off your shoulder. Is from your neck and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing. It’s very cheap simple for us to understand this from the encounter of Saul with Samuel in

1 Corinthians 10 1-12 Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;

And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea;

And did all eat the same spiritual meat;

And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.

But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.

Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.

Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.

Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.

Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents.

Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer.

Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.

Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.

He poured the oil on him and say, “Is it not because the Lord has appointed you anointed the captain over his over people? That’s end of slavery. Everything that seems to have enslaved you breaks off your life today. In verse two talks about restoration. Whatever you may have lost in your health, in your career, in your business shall be restored. So, you’ll be told that the asset that you are looking for are already found. Whatever has been said to be missing in your life shall be returned there today. I will restore to you the years that the can has eaten. Whatever years you have lost shall be restored. I will restore your health and heal you of all your wounds. Whatever remains in your body as sickness and disease shall clear out today.

In verse four said, we shall meet some people going to the mountain of the Lord. They shall greet you. No more rejection because you are accepted your beloved. No one will reject you again. by this anointing I decree an end of shame and reproach in your life and I give you two loaves from your hands you shall receive from them verse four I mean verse five from today favor will keep pursuing after you misfortune ends in your life today. Now watch. He said, “And thou shall be turned into another man.” Verse six, “You shall be turned into another man. It’s not the you that came for AYAC that will return back. Your perspective will change. Your outlook will change. Your disposition will change. Your habit will change. And verse six. verse seven. Now it says shall come to pass when all these things come to be you shall do as occasion serve thee. You have it the way you want it. Whatever you drop into the act today is turn to instant testimony in your heart. It’s turned to instant testimonies in your heart. in the name of Jesus. And as he turned his heart to gold, verse 8, it was so.

1 Samuel 10:9 And it was so, that when he had turned his back to go from Samuel, God gave him another heart: and all those signs came to pass that day.

please. It was so that when he had turned his back to go from Samuel, God gave him another heart. He did what? How many want another heart today? They’ll be panting after God with delight. You are receiving it. Listen to me. I said Jesus see that I don’t leave this village the way I met it. I was 19 years old. A heart panting after God. I want your name planted here. I’ll be there for 72 days only. And Jesus had me. Another heart. What do I call it? A heart panting after God. Another heart. A man after my own heart. A man whose heart is parting after me. May this anointing transplant that another heart into your life. Now before I had my first bank account, I said to Jesus, if you ever bless me, I want to be part of building you churches. I didn’t have a bank account. I couldn’t buy a block. If you ever bless me, Jesus, I want to be part of building new churches. We are doing it today. Yes, sir. With delight, with ease. We did 100 churches one year. 100. Build from foundation to finish because in your heart, it’s in your hand. What is your heart? Many are so kingdom dreamless.

There’s nothing about the kingdom that moves them me all the time. Only me, only me. I had no bank account. If you ever bless me, Jesus, I want to be part of building you churches. What is your heart? David said, Solomon says it was in the heart of my father to build God the house. And God said, thou dwelt well because he was in your heart. You always do well when you carry God’s kingdom in your heart. You always do well. You always do well not by language and grammar all over town. In your heart. Was that told to anybody? No. Was it shared anywhere? No. In your heart. In your heart. Young people. This is the time to plug in. This is the time to plug in. This is the time to before the days come. It’s the time to plug in. You are plugging it. He gave him another heart. Another heart. Another heart. Another heart. That heart is following you home. I’m still going out on evangelism. As un busy as I am, last operation we had over 1,000 of our converts in church. Not the outreach team, my own team. Another heart. Another heart. Another heart. Yet everything is working. Because that’s what God said. All these things others that dying to get, I will add them to you. I’ll be adding them. You won’t be struggling. I’ll be adding them.

Welcome to your era of additions. You are departing from here today with another heart. You receive that. Let me hear your loudest. Amen. Let me hear your loudest amen. Let me hear your loudest amen. is saw also among the prophesy everybody will know that you belong to the winner’s church Everything will be speaking breakthrough on your side in the name of Jesus. That’s As the Lord lives; no burden of the wicked will remains on your shoulder.  No yoke on your neck will survive in Jesus’ name

Pastor David Oyedepo Jnr Morning session Day 1 AYAC

Understanding the power of Obedience – Pastor David Oyedepo Jnr – 4th Evening Session

AYAC 2025

August 22, 2025

Day 3 Evening Session

Topic: Understanding the power of Obedience

Speaker: Pastor David Oyedepo Jnr

Praise God Tonight, we are going to be looking at God’s word in this teaching That is captioned. Understanding the power of obedience, And I like each one of us to pay very close attention. cause, I believe that God’s word tonight Would change our lives in the name of Jesus Christ, The profit of our Christian Adventure can only be fulfilled when we come to the point of knowing and understanding God.

Jeremiah 9:24 But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the LORD which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, saith the LORD.

The Bible says that let the rich man, Lord glory, in his riches Or the mighty man in his might, he said but let him that glories, glory in this that he knows and understands me. One of the fundamental understandings of God that we must possess Is a fact that God is a covenant keeping God.

Psalm 89:34 My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.

He said. My Covenant. Will I not break Neither would I alter the words that went forth from my lips.

Deteronomy 7:9 Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations;

God is described as the faithful God that keeps covenants and mercy to a thousand generations Of them that love him. It’s so important for us to to understand this concept of God that God is not a father Christmas God. Our God is a covenant keeping God And the Covenant of God is so potent that God’s word describes it this way.

Jeremiah 33:20&21 Thus saith the LORD; If ye can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and night in their season;

Then may also my covenant be broken with David my servant, that he should not have a son to reign upon his throne; and with the Levites the priests, my ministers.

He said, except you can break my Covenant with the day. And with the night, He said that there should be no day and night in a season. Then, when you also be able to break my Covenant with David, my servant. In other words, what keeps the day and night exchanging is the Covenant, And God says that the same force between that exchange is their night is the same one that upholds the Covenant. So as potent and reliable as day and night are, so is the covenant of God before the saints and it’s also important to note that the Bible itself is a book of covenants Is called the old and the New Testament. The word testament means Covenant.

Isaiah 34:16 Seek ye out of the book of the LORD, and read: no one of these shall fail, none shall want her mate: for my mouth it hath commanded, and his spirit it hath gathered them.

 it says seek ye out of the book So there is no statement in scriptures That will ever feel In

Matthew 24:35 Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

The Bible tells me clearly For not one junk Of my word. We’re passing away, So God’s word is ever reliable. Self-made is a very reliable. So, we serve a covenant keeping God. That’s one of the fundamental understandings that we must capture as Believers. Now, what is a covenant? The Covenant is a spiritual deal That is based on well defined terms, And that is sealed with an oath. It is a spiritual deal, based on well-defined terms and sealed with an oath.

Hebrews 6:16-18 For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife.

Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath:

That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:

It gives us the picture of this. It says a for men verily swears by the greater by the greater and an oath confirmation  is to them an end of all strife. End. It said God now willing more bondedly to show to the ears of promise? The mutability of his counsel confirmed it by an oath, So that by two immutable things in which it was impossible for God to lie. We might have a strong consolation who are fled for Refuge to lay hold on the hope that he set before us. If you look at this scripture, you discover that the Covenant is not just a promise, But it is a deal between God and man and that deal has very specific terms that are spelled out and which is bound by an oath To the Covenant of his word. This means that God will never back out of anything that he has said in his word. You will never back out of anything that he has said in his word. But this also means that until you are committed to the terms, God is not committed to the provision. Please hear this and hear it very well, every provision of scripture is on the condition of man’s compliance. Until there is compliance with the provision there cannot be released of the provision. God’s word is loaded and pregnant with Provisions for the Believer. But our compliance is the vital requirement Determined

If you hacken diligently to the voice of the Lord your God and observe to do all his commandments which I command you this day, he says, then the lord your God will set you on high above all Nations of the Earth. So, according to scripture, we see here That if you are going to enjoy the blessing that is available in the commandment of God, there must be compliance to that commandment. This is why obedience is the Bedrock of a colorful Christian adventure. Obedience, it is the bedrock of a colorful adventure. In Job chapter 36vs 11, it says, If they obey serve me, He said they will spend their days in prosperity and their years in pleasure. This means, That whatever you find  available in God is  only available only to the obedient. This is why it is not enough to go claiming promises, you must position yourself to obtain  the provisions of the kingdom. Somebody shout Hallelujah. I said shout Hallelujah. Over the years, God’s servant has made this statement over and again that obedience speak louder than voice there are things to pray into there are things to obey into in other words there are things that no matter how much you pray it will not be delivered until you obey you cannot substitute prayer for obedience , obedience is a non negotiable condition for the release for the provision of scripture it so important that you and I recognize therefore if we are going to be decorated in our Christian adventure there must be  obedience in our commitment to God  I see God granting each one of us grace for this in the name of Jesus Christ  Take note is where  obedience stops is where God’s blessings stops. It has been said Gods servant has said this over and again That obedience may be costly, But the end result is priceless.

What is in Obedience?

  1. Obedience of faith commits God to our supernatural change of story we must recognize according to scripture that every child of  God is called into an adventure of continuous transformation

Romans 12:2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

the bible says be not conformed  to this world bot be transformed by the renewing of your mind you are not designed to have a better yesterday

Proverbs 4:8 But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.

but the path of the just is like a shining light that shineth more and more unto the perfect day that means stagnation is not your portion, frustration is not your portion progression is your own portion advancement is your own portion, elevation is your own portion somebody believe it say a louder amen so much so that Gods word declares in

2 corithians 3:18 But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.

it said we all with open face beholding as in a glass  the glory of God we are changed into the same image from glory to glory as by the spirit of God but please take note tonight that no instruction of scripture can be beneficial to any believer without the catalyst of obedience being included until obedience is engaged there is no instruction of scripture that can be  beneficial to you in

John 2:5 His mother saith unto the servants, Whatsoever he saith unto you, do it.

The bible says that mary the mother of jesus said to does servant at te feast of that wedding in canaan of galilee  she said to them that whatsoever he saith unto you do it you are looking for something you are demanding something you are expecting something you are anticipating something but you must obey something whatsoever he tells you to do , do it this means that your change of story is at the mercy of your obedience every change of story  is triggered by an act of obedience. If you look at this commission, you discover That’s every change of story . in is commission has been a product of obedience having received the call into ministering when the lord appeared unto his servant in that 18 hours vision he began to think that it will be needful to go and  on training in America.were the center of the move of God was  at that time then the voice of the lord came and spoke to him that the things that you seek do not come from abroad  but from above you are not going to any America hear this not every opportunity is the part way to destiny that a door is open does not mean it is Gods door there are many doors that are traps in disguise by that word he sat back and stayed it was the first test for the first change and then suddenly after the commissioning service the service was directed towards the ministering kicking off  in jos and after the service he got back in the night and began to worship the lord, and suddenly the voice of the Lord came Said. It was not that you had When you say you are going to jos. He said remember when you were playing table tennis in the delta area of jos,  and you said in your heart if there’s any place I would like to live it will be in jos he said that was the voice you heard what do I do stay were you are staying in the place where you told everybody you leaving where they have prayed for you that you are going it was a test of obedience for a change please hear this. The auction of God may look colourless  obedience to it is what makes life colouful that was a test for obedience stay there in Ilorin and he stayed and suddenly things began to move in Ilorin and the faith liberation fellowship was exploded the lord spoke again go down to Damascus and I will tell you te things that are there for you obedience in each one of the in every act came a change with every act came a change  . If you went to America, the ministry may have be lost there . That was the instructions for preservation if you went to jos. It  may have lost identity. That was the instruction for propulsion Be When kaduna was introduced , it was the beginning of another dimension of  breakthrough And then, after kaduna began to erupt the church was growing things were exploding suddenly the voice of the came again get down to lagos and raise me a people and they left kaduna and came to lagos there is no doubt that there was another change of level and after things began to erupt 5 services on Sunday people everywhere . You need to see some of the clips of that time. People where on the road. People were on the building. Some people were hanging on trees to listen to the word of God it was unimaginable breakthrough but then the lord brought again another instruction having being brought to the front of canaanland here we thought that it was too far totally contrary to anything that has to do with church growth He said this is the place another act of obedience  now you too can testify that what God has done here is something that is marvelous and beyond human comprehension  

The lesson is this For anyone to experience change? There was the commitment to obedience, So obedient of faith is what commits God  to our supernatural change it is an act for a change He instruct you take action that propels a change of story from this night onward I see your change of story taking place supernaturally. 

  • When our obedience is fulfilled we subdue all satanic strong hold

2 Corinthians 10:5-6 Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ; and having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled

The bible tells us there casting down imagination and every high thing that exalt itself against the knowledge of God and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ look at verse 6 it said and having in a readiness to avenge all disobedience so obedience is the answer to tackle all stronghold of life our dominion over the power of darkness is not just by having light but walking in the light there are many people that get light by revelation but you only enjoy dominion by application it is not enough to have revelation of what God is showing you it is the application of what God is showing that brings dominion into our lives

Psalm 119:105,Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.

it says thy word is a light under my feet and a light unto my path so for you and I as we engage in applying Gods word we are walking, Walking the path of the light, And that is what brings us to dominion over the powers of Darkness please hear this  you and I under the canopy of obedience we are untouchable by the wicked it is disobedience that strengthens the grip of the enemy upon our lives obedience breaks his hold for somebody hearing my voice. Every stronghold upon anyone’s life as an outcome of the encounter that you’re having and the grace to apply the things that you are discovering. I see the Stronghold broken in the name of Jesus. In Deuteronomy chapter 30. Let’s look at this scripture from verse one to three. The Bible gives us this very clear picture, He said. .

Deuteronomy 30:1& 2 It shall come to pass when all these things that come upon things, The blessing, and the curse, which I’ve said before thee, and Thou shalt call them To mind among all the Nations. Whether the Lord are driven thee

And shalt return unto the LORD thy God, and shalt obey his voice according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thine heart, and with all thy soul;

look at verse 2, he said, I shall return to the Lord thy God and shall be his voice according to all that I command you. This thing down on the children with all thine heart. I would always sow what will happen as a result of that. Then the Lord will turn your captivity. So, I said that pathway to the turning of the captivity is that you will obey. It is obedience that breaks the whole of captivity. Shout. Hallelujah! There are many things that people have been praying about. You simply need to be yourself into. In particular, woman came to see me And Shannon husband and be having a crisis. They are married, both of them just going back and forth, And I began to share without from God’s word How the word of God, says he say. If you do not forgive, he said, your heavenly father will also not forgive you on.

Trespasses Begin to hear get answers to your prayers. This little thing going on between you and your husband, you better say to it so that God will set with you. This one might have been having an affliction for many years. She simply obeyed the word of God, just that simple word from God. She did not pray about the Affliction she discovered. The thing disappeared on his own. Yeah, there are bondages that are holding many that are holding them on. The platform of Disobedience gets an actor. Obedience can break it. I see somebody today Experiencing complete and total Liberty Number three. Delightsome obedience is the way to sustain the blessings of God upon our lives, He’s excited at whatever God commands, He said. He shall be Mighty upon the generation of the upright shall be blessed. That is, it will not stop with him, but it will go from one generation to the other. So, generation of blessings. I am product of consistent obedience, Consistent obedience, he said. Wealth and reaches house, He said, and his righteousness and turret for.

Luke 9:62 And Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.

The Bible tells us there Is that he puts his hand to the plow and looks back. It’s not fit for the kingdom of God, so it’s not enough to start to be. It’s important to keep obey If you look just guitar. You discovers who have engaged the mystery of continuity and sustain blessings.

James 1:25 But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.

He said he that continues in the perfect Lord, not being a forgetful. Here, I put a dual out the work. That’s a man shall be blessed. It is, We’ve had the testimony of God serving our father over and again. God showed him that coconut or prosperity. I’ve never heard how you saw it, and the Lord spoken said to him very clearly.

He said My Prosperity plan is not a promise way to not answer to prayer. Prosperity plan is a covenant onto your part is played. I’m not interested. What is a covenant? Never report What it is, not just one act of obedience That brings us to prominence. It is a compatium compedium of Acts of obedience, so the Johnny began. He began to engage the covenant. But even as at 1984, entire income of the commission as a whom Was 18 000 naira Plus Has continued. The obedience continued. The obedience continued, And what we can see today is a comparium of the obedience that has been taken place from the time that the world came. Please hear this When your word comes. Your obedience starts, But as you continue to engage with obedience, that is when the blessing begins to flow. You see why, you see, a person’s life saturator with blessings. It is the product of continuation of obedience

Deutronomy 28:1-2 And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth:

And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God.

If you hacken diligently to the voice of the Lord your God and look at the next statement, he said to observe and to do all these Commandments that is. You said, which I command you this day that the Lord your God will set you on high above our Nations and all this blessings will come upon thee, and then they will now begin to overtake you. You see, it’s this. I should continue That you now begin to see it over the game, So our life becomes saturated with blessings on the platform of the continuation of our obedience.

Shout, Hallelujah that is why God word tell us very clearly wait for it the reason why  many people that get frustrate  because they stop halfway. Even if it tarry wait For it. Don’t let anything push you out of obedience. It will not tarry. It will surely come to pass. One thing I’ve discovered is this In the process of obedience? The journey looks long, But the outcome of obedience the journey look short. Looking back at where you are coming from me, become surprised at how far and how fast God brought you. But while we are going the journey, you wonder how long it will take.

You see, you discover something in life. I’ve discovered that the younger a person is, the slower time seems to go, But you older the person is the quicker time seems to move How many of them had a situation when you were small that the promised you something the following day And say, I will give you this thing. Tomorrow, You look at the time. The time is not. Moving Is one o’clock is still one. O’clock Is one o’clock. You see, one o’clock, you check. You keep checking the time the seconds are moving, but the minute is not going. I know you check again. It is 101 Today is very slow. Today is very slow. Today is very slow, but there’s no day that is slower than the other somebody getting it. It is impatience that makes the journey look long. 

I heard a man of God say this that when his son was small, and they tell him I’ll give you something tomorrow. He knows that before tomorrow must come. There will be night A When there is night. There must be sleep, so he will go to sleep, and when he wakes up, you ask is today, tomorrow,  when they say no he goes back to sleep again And it wakes up again and ask. Is today Tomorrow, It will continue with his day tomorrow. Why? Because it looks like tomorrow is too long Here this and heard very well.

Patience is a virtue That protects the future, Be consistent. Be consistent. Consistency and obedience is a difference maker. It has the capacity to break the hold of frustration And turn you to a celebrity That was the story of Joseph.

Psalm 105 verse 17 down to verse 21 He sent a man before them, even Joseph, who was sold for a servant:

Whose feet they hurt with fetters: he was laid in iron:

Until the time that his word came: the word of the LORD tried him.

The king sent and loosed him; even the ruler of the people, and let him go free.

He made him lord of his house, and ruler of all his substance:

The Bible tells us they are very clearly concerning Joseph, He said that he sent a man before them. Even Joseph was sold for a servant. Is that whose feet they hurt with fetters? He was laid in. Iron, Is that until the time that is, what came The world of the Lord tied Him? The king said for him and loosed him Even the ruler of the people, He said. And he  let him go free, and then he made him ruler over the people and gave to bind his,  Senators at Will. He put him in position now. When you look at the Journey of Joseph, you will discover Joseph entered into slavery at about 17 years old. But imagine on the throne. At 30 years old, 13 years looks like a very, very long time.

What you know that if you are going to go to nursery school, Primary school, and secondary school, All of them will take you about That amount of years. True or false. He was simply going to the school of preparation To enter into the place of elevation At the age of 30 is sat on the throne and was on the throne to the age of 110. How long was he on the throne 80 years on the throne?  Just prepared for 13years You should have been prepared Between 80 and 13. Is it not better to prepare for 13 and rule for 80. Than to rule for 13 and be asleep for 80. That is the power of obedience  so Until the time that is working, So he’s stayed with the word And it’s obedience to the word changed his story As you are in grace today, with  an unsual dimension of help. Obedience. I see the giant in you. Emerging Supernaturally If you believe in, say louder. Amen, I said. If you believe in, say louder. Amen. 

Why Obedience? 

  1. It is our evidence for our love for God 

1 John 5:4 For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.

Is that this is the love of God that will keep his Commandments and is commandments are not grievous  One cannot claim to love God without obeying him

John 14:21 The Bible tells us they’re very clearly It said he that has my Commandment and keeps them. It is he that lovered me, and I will love him, and I will manifest myself to him.

Remember, God is a God that weighs our actions, not our intentions,

1 Samuel 2:3 Talk no more so exceeding proudly; let not arrogancy come out of your mouth: for the LORD is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed.

God is a god of knowledge, and he weighs our actions. He weighs our actions. He weighs our actions. There are many people with great intentions, but intention without action equals frustration. It is only Obedience that validates the genuineness of our love of God, number two. It is the proof of our faith Until you move on what you believe. You cannot prove that it truly believe

Hebrew 11:7 By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith

The Bible said concerning Noah that Noah moved By faith. He moved in  fear by faith, 

James 2:18 & 26 Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works.

For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.

The Bible  tell us that very clearly, he said, you say how it works and you say you have works and your faith, it says. Show me your faith without your walks, and I will show you my faith by my walks first, verse 26, he said as the body without the spirit is dead. So, faith without works is that here this. You can number around just singing, I believe, God, I believe. God, belief in God must be proven by action, taken By actions taken. What steps are you going to take?

It has been said before that great meeting. Don’t make great people. It is great decisions backed with great actions that make great people all through Ayac instructions have been coming our way. The question is, what actions are you documenting to take? What actions are you documenting to take? Write your note yes, but also write the instructions that you are going to take. What are you going to do differently as you come down from this mountain? If there is no different act, there can be no different experience If there’s no different act. There can be no different experience. It is the proof of faith number three. It is the activator of the Covenant. You see, the covenant is there, but it only answers when we engage the trigger of obedience.

Deuteronomy 29:9 Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that ye may prosper in all that ye do.

The Bible makes us understand their very clearly The words of this Covenant, and do them That he may prosper in all that you do. Keep the words of this Covenant and do them. The covenant is there to bless you. But you have a responsibility In order to experience the blessings that are available therein And number four Is our access to the voice of God. God is never tired of. Speaking to the obedient God is never tired of. Speaking to the obedient

1 Samuel 28: 6 And when Saul enquired of the LORD, the LORD answered him not, neither by dreams, nor by Urim, nor by prophets.

the Bible tells us something about Saul. It says that Saul inquired of the Lord and the Lord answered him, not neither by dreams, nor by urim, nor by Prophet the heaven was Silent. And why was that

1 Samuel 15:26 And Samuel said unto Saul, I will not return with thee: for thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, and the LORD hath rejected thee from being king over Israel.

Look at what the Bible says and someone said unto Saul? I will not return within, he said. For thou has rejected the word of the Lord, and because of that, the Lord has rejected you. Somebody say God forbid. That was where the Calamity of Saul commenced. Disobedience brought silence. He could not receive any word from God. Here this  our acts of obedience is what qualifies us To the continuous access to the voice of God And the  voice of God that makes you a voice to your want. It is the voice of God that makes you a voice to your world. I see Grace coming upon each one of us for this in the name of Jesus all through scriptures. We have examples of people who enter into unsual blessings by obedience. We’re taking a few of this case studies this evening before we pray. Number one is Abraham.

Genesis 12:1-4 Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee:

And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:

And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.

So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran.

God spoke to Abraham get out of the father’s house. Go to a land I  will show you at the age of 75. Abraham departed ,the conclusion of the matter was. Abraham became dangerously blessed.

Genesis 24:1 Abraham was old and was stricken in age and the Lord have blessed Abraham in all things.

Somebody’s testimony shall be greater. Number two example was Isaac. God spoke to Isaac. He said, don’t go down to Egypt, 

In Genesis 26, He went fought and became very great until the Philistines began to empty him. So much so that Isaac became a Terror to the Nations, among which he lived. One man Became a cause of concern to the entire Nation. He became a person who nations had to come to negotiate peace treaties with on the basis of the greatness that God bestowed upon him. Somebody’s testimony shall be greater, About Moses

Exodus 3:7-10 And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;

And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.

Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come unto me: and I have also seen the oppression wherewith the Egyptians oppress them.

Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth my people the children of Israel out of Egypt.

God spoke to him And told him to go down to Egypt, he obeyed God, and what was the outcome of his obedience.

Deuteronomy 34:10-12 And there arose not a prophet since in Israel like unto Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face

In all the signs and the wonders, which the LORD sent him to do in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land,

And in all that mighty hand, and in all the great terror which Moses shewed in the sight of all Israel.

There was not a prophet that rose up in Israel. Like onto Moses in all the signs and all they wonders in all the terrible deeds that the Lord did for him, He said. This was the story of a man who began with an act of obedience. Please, here this, it is never too late to get it right. You may have missed it before now, but take a decision to take a right turn. Take a decision to take a right on. Moses was 80 years old, but they began with God and ended up the greatest of his time,  somebody heard my voice. People may have given up on you, But the greatness in you begin to imagine very shortly. Paul the apostle was a man of unpars obedience

Galatians 1:15-16 But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother’s womb, and called me by his grace,

To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood:

I confirmed not with flesh and blood, and they committed himself to obeying God, And it became so great that the Bible says that that demon said to the seventh Sons of Schema, Jesus, I know, Paul, I know that is I know what that is. We know him. We understand that is a man of authority That was what became of Paul On the basis of obedience. Somebody’s story shall be greater, But please. Let’s understand that there is a demand for continuity And our work with God. Solomon fell out with God after 20 years. He went into greatness, but then went into a  big disobedience and then diverted from greatness into Calamity. God raised up adverises against him, But the outcome of it after all of that. He backed out after 20 years, And again We saw how Asa died of a disease in his feet. We talked about Saul 40 years on the throne, But then missed by disobedience And we saw how it became  a by word in  In Israel. Ozar rain for 52 years. They were not to do as Kings. He went to do it And the outcome of that was his ultimate destruction. In conclusion, this evening, it’s important to note That if you are now going to make it in this adventure of obedience, we need the help of God, Paul said. Something

Acts 26:22 Having therefore obtained help of God, I continue unto this day, witnessing both to small and great, saying none other things than those which the prophets and Moses did say should come:

There’s a help that God can give to you unto me that will trigger us To make the most of our adventure yet. And I pray today that help will come your way my way. None of us will stop the journey halfway. You know what it is for somebody to walk with God for 52 years and miss it In the name of Jesus that will not be our experience For each one of us. We will follow him on the way to the end In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.

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Engaging the Wonders of Dedication – Day 3 Morning session Word 3

AYAC 2025

21st August 2025

Day 3 Morning session Word 3

Topic: Engaging the Wonders of Dedication

We will be looking at “Engaging the Wonders of Dedication.” Engaging the wonders of dedication, “Built to Last” is the theme of this conference. Scripture is from 1John 2:17

1John 2:17. The Bible says, “And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.”

He that doeth the will is who abides forever. You have been building this truth, but is it being built to last? That’s why we are here this morning. Also from

Matthew 7:24 & 25,

“Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.”

As a way of introduction, every child of God is a seed after the order of Christ. Every child of God is a seed, and what is a seed? A seed is a mature ovule encased in a protective coat. A matured fertility body that is encased in a protective coat. Now, the Bible says we are born to be after the order of Christ. It simply means that Christ is the model child of God. Christ is the pattern son of God. Christ is the sample of God to you and I. That’s why it’s hard to be after the order of Christ. No wonder the Bible speaking in Romans 8:29, “For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son.” Until you look like Christ. He came in as a seed. God has sent him into the world. That’s how you and I are also sent into the world, and that’s why you and I must be after, like him. And the bible told us in

John 12:24, “Verily, verily, I say unto you, except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.”

When you agree to die in the kingdom, it dies. It is only when it dies that the changes happen. As it dies, that’s when it becomes productive. The Bible says it will bring forth much fruit. Please note, my brothers and sisters, and everyone hearing me this morning, that you are a viable seed. There is something in you the world is waiting for. But when you allow the expression, when you dedicate yourself to God, will you give yourself to God? Will you die in his kingdom? Will you throw yourself in his hands? If it dies, it means you have your own person in this ball. When you are graced, and if he dies, then he brings forth fruit after the order of Christ. Christ died, and he brought forth fruit. That’s why you and I are here.

Please also know that dedication is fundamental to the manifestation of excellence in life. Dedication is fundamental; it is the foundation if you want to manifest excellence in this life, be dedicated. Now, look at the scripture

Mark 4:30 – 32. And he said, where unto shall we liken the kingdom of God? or with what comparison shall we compare it?

“It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the earth” When it is sown in the earth, is less than all the seeds that be in the earth:

But when it is sown, it groweth up, and becometh greater than all herbs, and shooteth out great branches; so that the fowls of the air may lodge under the shadow of it.

Until you are sown, you cannot grow, no matter how viable you are. If you are not sown in the Kingdom, the bible says that you cannot grow. And your potential is to grow. When it is sown, it grows up. Now, look at the next point, “and becometh greater than all the herbs.” You know what it means? It is when you are sown, you grow. Your enlargement comes. Your breakthrough comes. First of all, be sown so that growth will come from God. You become so that when it shoots out great branches, simply put, your expansion, your influence, your dominance comes as you are sown on the earth. Now, can you see what God has put in you? Only if you die, if you are sown on the earth, your expansion comes. Then the fowls of the air will lodge. It simply means that your relevance and your fulfillment in life will become a reality. That is what God will do from this mountain. Everyone that, as admitted into a school, for instance the university, they are potential First-Class candidates, but will they give themselves to why they are in school? Will you give yourself to why you were born? Will you give yourself to why you are a Christian? That’s what we are looking at now.

What is dedication?

  1. Dedication is self-denial in one’s quest to accomplish a given task or deliver a mandate. Self-denial in your quest to accomplish a given task. That means your vision, divine ideas He has given to you. It’s not what you chose for yourself. Or to deliver a mandate. It simply means throw yourself into this assignment, your energy, your time, and your resources into this assignment. Put yourself as nothing.

Matthew 16:24-25, Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me. For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.

If you will follow, they want to follow. whosoever will save his life shall lose it. However, whosoever will lose his life for my sake, that’s a cross. If you will lose your life for my sake, not for yourself. Like, for my sake, that’s a cross. If you will lose your life for my sake, not for your sake, not for what is trending, but for his sake.

Now, the question is, you say that you are not dedicated. You are, yeah, because of the many things we have seen you do, but the challenge is it is in the wrong direction most times. The values are shifting, and they are shifting to decadence. People are liking what is trending, not what is godly. You’re dedicated, many inventions you are doing but in the wrong direction. You’re focused on things that God is not saying that because it is what is happening. Many things you’re doing, hyping up yourself, doing competition. Putting yourself under tension that is the wrong direction. What we are doing on this mountain is to shift you to God so that your building will last. Simple. Many of the buildings, destinies are crushing because it’s not grounded in God.

He said the wind will come, the flood will come, but that house will be standing because it’s doing the will of God, not doing the trending thing. You are dedicated, but in the wrong direction, and because you are here to build your last, come to Jesus, align to Jesus, don’t be taken away with, it happens. Self-denial. Hallelujah.

Our father in the faith, when God called him, there was some little, “Should I go? Should I not go?” but he knew that God called him, and he told himself, should I pretend not to have heard you God, see to it that I don’t succeed in any other thing I do. That means he has burnt the bridge. Dedication, that is self-denial.

  • Dedication is to be dead to self and alive unto God in the pursuit of any given task. Please, watch these words: first, dead to self, then alive unto God as you pursue your kingdom task, as you pursue. Dead to self simply means dead to ego, dead to the glory that comes, dead to achievements, dead to the applause of men. You are dead to yourself. Please note this, dedication is visible for others to see. They know those who are dedicated. Our father told us in those days while he was in Ilorin, he was in the compound, and because of his dedication to his assignment, in the morning he gets ready, takes his portfolio, gets dressed and goes to work where he was going to this ministry building days. And so somebody came one day into the house and was asking for the lawyer in the house, they say, “Ah, the lawyer has gone.” They thought he was a lawyer, and there was one lawyer in the house that was not looking like any lawyer. But he was the one dedicated, so people saw him, and they imagined that the person behaving like this must be relevant at that time. You know when you call the professional courses, the lawyers, engineers, and doctors, so he was building of himself giving all to it, dead to serve convenience or not convenient. Paul said, “For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.” Simply put, the reason I’m living is Christ. If I die it’s gain for me. Hallelujah.
  • Dedication is all about making one’s life a seed unto God, after the order of Christ. Your life becomes a seed consciously sown and excitedly sown and willingly sown. Jesus said in

John 10:17-18 “Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again.” Now, he willingly did it. “No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.”

It is about making one’s life a seed unto God the way Christ did it, to give yourself. Our father told us those days when God called into full time ministry, he said the reason we are going full time is for full length. He also said no one doing this assignment part-time will beat me to the race. He also said wherever the gospel takes man to on this earth, that’s where I will find myself. I will not say any right now. He gave himself to it. My brothers and sisters, you are next to be announced. Please give yourself to the right cause. Was he not educated highly? So but when God called him, he put those things down and committed himself to this. And that’s why all of us are now under his feathers, the shadow of God. Hallelujah! Put your hands to God for Jesus.

Please know this, until your life becomes a seed and willingly sown to the kingdom earth, one’s life cannot be impactful. Until one’s life becomes a seed, not just a seed. I know you’re a viable seed but be willingly sown to the kingdom earth, impact is far.

1 Corinthians 9:17 “For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward:”

so, it means that it is the willingness that draws the reward. So, the call this morning is this: Yes, you are dedicated, but do it willingly and do it in the right course.

  • Dedication to God and the interest of his kingdom is the mystery behind the rise of giants. Dedication to God and the interest of his kingdom, because it is God that will is the one that will raise us. He told Abraham, “I will make thy name great.” No man can make himself great, but you must do what God wants you to do? Hallelujah. And no wonder in

Genesis 18:16 – 33

Abraham began to plead for Sodom and Gomorrah. He had this communion with God, asking for change for these people, and God heard him. And now see

Genesis chapter 22:1 – 18 And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am.

And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.

And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him.

Then on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place afar off.

And Abraham said unto his young men, Abide ye here with the ass; and I and the lad will go yonder and worship, and come again to you.

And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering, and laid it upon Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his hand, and a knife; and they went both of them together.

And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?

And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together.

And they came to the place which God had told him of; and Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood.

And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son.

And the angel of the LORD called unto him out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here am I.

And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me.

And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son.

And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovah jireh: as it is said to this day, In the mount of the LORD it shall be seen.

And the angel of the LORD called unto Abraham out of heaven the second time,

And said, By myself have I sworn, saith the LORD, for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son:

That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;

And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice.

God decided one day that he wanted the sacrifice and said, give me your son, Isaac. And please, know this my brethren, God called Isaac your only son, so God was relating to the covenant. God will be only dedicated to the covenant that he has given to you, not what appeals to you. He said for this covenant I want to make with you to work, give me your only son. It is Isaac are related, he simply means, it is the vision that God shows you that you are dedicated to that can make you a giant on the earth. You can give yourself vision. You can try to take vision from others. You can copy whatever thing you like, but if God is not there, forget becoming a giant. And so until Abraham did that the giant hood never came up. But from this mountain, you are returning as giants, and God will cause whatever you do to last in the name of Jesus Christ.

But the question is this,

Isaiah chapter 51:1-3? “Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the LORD:

“Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bare you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him.”

Look unto the rock. Once you are healed under the role of people when he addict , The same way, I want to bless Zion, or comfort Zion, which is you and I, the same way I did that. Now, you simply mean simple listen here. Listen well. If you are not righteous, it’s not possible to be dedicated. You that seek after righteousness, you cannot be dedicated to God if you are not seeking at the righteousness, because it is beyond you to be dedicated. There is a grace of God that empowers your choice for dedication. And it comes when you seek after his righteousness. Dedication is a choice because of your heart. Everything of heart is your choice. But when you take the right choice, God empowers you to become it.

Let’s look at areas of dedication. The few of them, three of them. Number one: in Kingdom advancement prayers.

Psalms 2:8, “Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.”

So, God is saying, whatever you ask, as long as it belongs to the kingdom, I will give them to you. So, in Kingdom advancement prayers,

Galatians 4:19 “My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you,

We saw Epaphras in

Colossians 4:12, “Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, saluteth you, always labouring fervently for you in prayers, that ye may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.”

Hallelujah! A brother stood there yesterday night to testify. That is just barely one year in this organization. But he took to kingdom advancement prayer that right here, on the ground of AYAC, a call came, that he has been selected to represent his school somewhere within. And there are others who have been there. What kingdom advancement does for you. See, until you begin to do it, you will not see the blessings. To be dedicated to advancing the kingdom of God, as you move his kingdom forward, God will move your destiny forward. So that God will advance your destiny. That’s simple. You know, everything about Kingdom is about you, and so everything you ever ask is inside the kingdom. Advancement prayer broadens your horizon. Trust God to do. Advance his kingdom and see whether he will leave you alone. God is too faithful to fail. Anyone? God has never failed anyone, and it’s not ready to begin with you, Hallelujah. That’s what is so important. God’s word is so potent that it can carry your destiny. Advance his kingdom, he says, “But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.” Advance his kingdom. Where you are found, do they know you as a Christian? Do you advance his kingdom? Then your destiny will advance, so be dedicated to Kingdom Advancement prayers.

Soul winning. By talking to us here this morning as those who have tasted of the goodness of God

John 15:16 “Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.”

Simply put, I’ve called you. I gave you your job terms. Go and do it; when you return, let’s discuss your salary. So whatever you ask of the father. And don’t forget, soul winning is the call of the master.  

John 4:36 “And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal:”

Every soul won has a coin to advance your destiny. One of our pastors here in those days of 2015 was asking papa, “Okay, we are going out for soul winning,” and he said ask God, “If I win a soul what would you give me?” God said name your price. He said 1 million, and he put God to test. The first soul he got, he said you got the contract, 1.2 million; the second one, 1.1 million; the fourth soul, 950; the fossil 1.4. He said there is beauty in this thing. Hallelujah! God will not fail you. Now, let me let you know, my brothers, the way you are seated on those chairs, relax, some people I won’t, slouching and sleeping. That’s how I put your confidence in. That’s how God’s word can encourage your destiny. God’s word is too powerful to fail anymore. I, you are travel around the world. Have you ever seen any pillar holding the sky from the earth? It was his word, and the world is still holding it. That’s the same way God will hold your destiny up. Winning God is blessing in soul winning. There is blessing in soul winning. God wants his house to be full.

Luke 14:23, “And the lord said unto the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.”

That my house may be filled, compel them. I’ve been good to you. Have you enjoyed any goodness? There’s a reason for the gospel. The gospel means good news. If the gospel is good to you, from you to others, he shall become news. So, let it be a gospel of good news from you. Any of your benefit from the lord in soul winning, Hallelujah.

Now look at this illustration that God gave to us in

Luke 15:6 “Rejoice with me; for I have found my sheep which was lost.”

Talking about the man who lost 100 sheep and one got missing, and when he went, I said. And when he comes, he went to look for him. He calls his friends and the neighbor saying unto them, That is how Jesus rejoices. And no wonder he told us in

John 10:16 “And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice;” the way you are hearing his voice. He wants you to also go bring them in because there is rejoicing in heaven over one sinner that repenteth. That mighty night that doesn’t need, let your life become a tool for advance the kingdom. He’s so winning, and God will. Do you go? Number three: Areas of dedication, financial stewardship. Where you can go, your money goes where you cannot go. Your money also goes. In first chronicles chapter 29, verse 3, “Moreover, because I have set my affection to the house of my God, I have of mine own proper good, of gold and silver, which I have given to the house of my God,” of my own proper good.

2 Samuel 24:24 “I will not offer burnt offerings to the LORD my God of that which doth cost me nothing.”

His finances was involved. His finances was involved. Until your finances can easily leave your hand, my brother, for the kingdom sake. What’s your salvation? I had that father said, “Any amount I cannot give to God, I would never use it to buy anything for my body.” There is nothing I have today that what I have going to God is not more than ten times any amount. Here you hear in AYAC, put offering, you look for 50 naira and put, but after service you go and buy yoghurt, buy buns, buy everything. You are prepared for AYAC, you bought designer shoe, designer shirt and everything; you were lying 200 naira you have to give for offering. In your various station, they are various things that are needed which you know you can just remove, but your eyes are waiting for them to announce it. Such things they don’t announce it. The reason is, when God gives youth the privilege to see it, because he trusts that by the grace upon your life you can do something. God is not the gossip. For giving you the privilege to see a need in his house is because he want to take you next to the next one. If you just align in financial stewardship. We saw in

Acts 4:34-37 Neither was there any among them that lacked: for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the prices of the things that were sold,

And laid them down at the apostles’ feet: and distribution was made unto every man according as he had need.

And Joses, who by the apostles was surnamed Barnabas, (which is, being interpreted, The son of consolation,) a Levite, and of the country of Cyprus,

Having land, sold it, and brought the money, and laid it at the apostles’ feet.

That the early church catered for one another. Financially, they sold lands, the money for every other person to be okay. Begin from where you are. Hallelujah.

Quickly! Let’s look at benefits of dedication. Benefits of dedication. Let us know this: God is not a taskmaster. He delights in benefiting us God daily, so your dedication gives you a daily blessing. Your daily benefit number one benefit is you enjoy open rewards. You enjoy open rewards. Please know this, rewards our benefits far beyond your label. That’s what is far beyond your input, but it was afar. They are benefits far beyond your label. When you fast, don’t do as well. That’s what you wrap your face. Let your face shine, then God, who sees yourself, walks a great work with the word you’ll be. So, God enjoys to decorate you openly. And it did it for one of our brother. He called Mordecai in Esther 6:1-11. But a guy has said the king from us nation and multiple stone. They was committed dedicated to this. Don’t forget, wasn’t from that country; he was committed to you, making sure that the good of God works in that country. The Bible says one of those days. There was one wicked man planning against to established the Jews, and when the guy was committed and the king could not sleep because it was a time to reward him. We are time to reward his open said the king could not, and guess what, it was the Haman that was planning against Mordecai was in the court to answer the king’s question, “What do you think we should do to a man that the king delighteth to honor?” and he thought himself, who is it? will be me, and he gave the best: the best ring, gold coat, and car and everything. Let’s talk it. Beyond that, let somebody go the whole town ahead of him. Say this, the same way you have said it. God do from other Mordecai, Hallelujah! I say somebody returning from the mountain of AYAC return as a celebrity. Your God will give you an open reward in the name of Jesus. So one of our pastors, while he was a youth corper, he was privileged to serve in a real estate company. When he got there, things were not moving too well, so he introduced prayer time, launch our prayer time, and everything. By the time he was leaving, the owner said come, you are not going. He said let me go, and they gifted him open reward: a house and a jeep, a corper. My brother and sister, God sees what you are doing secretly, and he said to openly reward you, that should be your benefit.

Divine honor

Honor simply means recognition of importance and value. You are recognized as important and value.

Luke 9:35 And there came a voice out of the cloud, saying, This is my beloved Son: hear him.

the Bible says. Jesus told Peter, James, and John to the mountain to pray. While they were there, he was transfigured. They saw Moses and Elijah with him, and in drowsiness, Peter said let’s just make three tabernacles; one for you Master, one for Moses, and one for Elijah. And while he was saying under that confusion, a voice came, he said, “Stop that. This is my beloved Son: hear him.” Not the others. This one. It was committed and predicated to his father, and so before confusion, he said this. In the midst of all, that is, after God will single you out. He will divinely honor you in the name of Jesus Christ. It is dedication to the service of God,

John 12:26 “If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will my Father honour.”

Don’t forget multitudes, like we said, soul winning. It brings honor to God.

Proverbs 14:28, “In the multitude of people is the king’s honour:”

and he said in 1 Samuel 2:30, “for them that honour me I will honour.”

Number three benefit is divine protection. Benefit is divine protection. The state of perpetual safety.

Psalm 91:1 – 15. “He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.”

God is not far from you. his shadow is cast over you. Amen. And that’s why no evil can come near you. Imagine young just see a pack of money on the ground. As you go close, you now see the shadow of a lion; it is either you run for your life, or you become the meat. That’s what God does for everyone that harasses your destiny. Because a shadow is cast over you. That’s number one deep protection. In that same 91, he said his wings. It means he keeps on that he wants to promote you. To lift you high, they went on to say his feathers to comfort him and so, that’s why you got divine protection when you are dedicated. We saw it happen to Daniel; they are planned against him, but because he was dedicated to God, the king said, “Is your God, whom thou servest continually, able to deliver thee?” and he says yes. From the lion’s den, my God has sent his angel. So it doesn’t matter who are crooked evil against you, God will deliver you for you in the name of Jesus Christ. You enjoy divine protection because of your sin. God neither sleeps nor slumbers.

Psalm 121:4, “Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.”

So, he is watching over you day and night, 24/7, so be dedicated to him; you are saved with him.

Someone after this AYAC, you will no longer experience or see dry season again in your life.

In Psalm 92:12 -15 “The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree:” righteous is difficult for you to earn dedication because there’s a spirit in God. That spirit will work on your choice. As soon as you have made your choice to be dedicated to him, things turn around. No wonder the bible said in

Matthew 7:16, “by their fruits ye shall know them.”

Quickly, let’s look at the biblical examples of dedicated made giants in scriptures.

  1. one is Abraham. He also dedicated to God. At age 75, God talk got him to come out. Genesis 12 verse 1 to 4; he didn’t know where he was going, but because he trusted God, he followed them. And in chapter 17, the bible said in verse 1, after Abraham has worked with God for 24 years, he was now 99 years old, and God said, “Walk before me, and be thou perfect.” And in chapter 22, God said that the son I gave you, the promise I made, I want to issue here tonight. I want you to fry him for me. And he believed God so much that nothing will fail God. You understood that nothing, and what happened? And God showed up for him? The next Abraham is in the house this morning; the generations after you will live to celebrate you, Abraham. So followed God the blessings so followed that even in heaven Abraham is called a father. Luke chapter 16, Abraham is called a father in heaven; verse 23 and 24, the bible say the rich fool said, “Father Abraham in heaven,” where God is. So God agrees for Abraham to be called father. Why? He is also the father. God is saying to somebody here, put yourself to go to kingdom, things will turn suddenly in your favour, protocols shall be broken for you, in the name of Jesus Christ.
  • Nehemiah. Nehemiah was a man known for passion, a burning passion for the people of God. He was already wrestling and settled in the king’s palace in Babylon. So nothing concern Israel that should concern him as it were, but no, because of his passion. But look at this, it was not just the passion but the dedication to that passion is what brought about the reality. He heard, and he went to God in prayers. Things turned around; he started walking. If you see

Nehemiah chapter 4, verse 17 to 21, the bible says those that are working dedicated, one hand walking, one hand we saw watching around. And no wonder in Chapter 6, verse 15, God made him the governor. Somebody’s story is changing. Just give yourself to God all that you have heard. What will you do with it? That’s what we’re saying. You’ve heard great things, excited things, electrifying things. You shouted, you have written down. What will you do with them after AYAC? This is not your first AYAC, but why is your testimony not coming? Be sold out to it. Give yourself to it. Hallelujah.

Number three example is apostle Paul, a giant of giants. He is a sold out servant of Jesus Christ. He said, “For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.” Philippians 1:21. “For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: if not, a dispensation of the gospel is committed unto me.” I’m crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.” Galatians 2:20. And so that anything, I’m set to do it. Hallelujah. Please note again, dedication is a choice you make. Dedication is a choice. Dedication is of the heart. You are dedicated, but put your things right. Make sure it is towards the kingdom of God. The energy that you are using on other things, just put half of that energy on God and see the blessing that will come. You’re wasting too much energy on things that don’t matter. Trying to become who God has not made you or fight where God has not given you. Please, my brothers and sisters, when you are dedicated to Jesus, there are some battles you will never fight again in life. He fights them for you. Please note this, every faithful servant of God ends up a leader in his field in life. God decorates the dedicated.

Malachi 3:17-18 “And they shall be mine, saith the LORD of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him. Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.”

God decorates the dedicated. God also multiplies the dedicated.

Jeremiah 30:21And their nobles shall be of themselves, and their governor shall proceed from the midst of them; and I will cause him to draw near, and he shall approach unto me: for who is this that engaged his heart to approach unto me? saith the LORD.

 he multiplies them, enlarges them, increases them.

Luke 22:25-30, “And ye are they which have continued with me in my temptations. And I appoint unto you a kingdom, as my Father hath appointed unto me;”

God enthrones the dedicated. So it simply means, wherever you are found, stay there; what God has called you to, be there. The reason is God will enlarge your coast there.

1 Corinthians 7:20 & 24 “Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called, Brethren, let every man, wherein he is called, therein abide with God.”

Please note this, God is too faithful to fail you, and on this mountain, things will turn around for your good. In the name of Jesus Christ.

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Understanding the Power of Association – Pastor Joel Omamadaga – Day 3 Morning session Word 2

AYAC 2025

21st August 2025

Day 3 Morning session Word 2

Topic: Understanding the Power of Association

Speaker: Pastor Joel Omamadaga

I want to bring to us our teaching titled: “Understanding the Power of Association.”

Understanding the power of association. A wise man once said, “You will be the same person in five years as you are today, except for the people you meet and the books you read.” – Charles ‘Tremendous’ Jones. “You will be the same person in five years as you are today, except for the people you meet and the books you read.”

Proverbs 13: 20 He that walks with the wise shall be wise, but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.

You will not be destroyed! Say in belief, “Amen.”

What we are here this morning to understand is the power of significant influence. Significant influence, positive or negative. The power of significant influence rules your mindset, guides your actions, shapes your character, and ultimately determines your destiny. That’s significant influence. That plays a major role in what becomes of your life.

Hear me very well, people of God: You cannot build anything great beyond the company you keep. You cannot build anything great beyond the company you keep. There is a law they call the law of association. That law states: you become like the people you associate with. It is a law. You become like the people you associate with.

For instance, you cannot hang around smoke and not smell smoke. True or false? It rubs off on you. The Yoruba adage says that if a leaf stays long enough on soap, it becomes soap. So you cannot go beyond the company you keep.

A good seed will get choked when found in the midst of tears. A good seed: you plant a good seed in the midst of tears, it will choke the growth. It may grow, but it will have stunted growth at best, or it is killed. That’s why you need to clear up your environment. Clear up your environment of all tears, of all weeds.

You may have good intention in that relationship, in that partnership, in that courtship, in that friendship, good intention, but if you don’t want to mess up your destiny, clear up the weeds. Tell your neighbor, “Clear up the weeds!”

It’s very important for us to know, therefore, that association is not about socialization. That’s the mistake we make. Association is not all about socialization. “Pastor, you don’t want me to be social? I need to have my social life.” I agree. But it goes beyond it. Association is your destiny. Somebody say, “My destiny.”

1 Corinthians 6:17 He that is joined to the Lord is one spirit

He that is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him. He that is joined to an adulterer becomes one spirit with the adulterer. He that is joined with someone that does wrong will become a wrongdoer. He that joins with a smoker will end up smoking. He that joins with a drunkard will end up drinking. Association defines your destiny.

It is vital, therefore, for us to know that a wrong association will not only distract you, it can derail you. It’s not only to distract you; it can derail you.

The story of Jonah is very clear. God called Jonah in Jonah chapter 1, verse 1: “Arise, get down to Nineveh and preach my word there.” And the Bible says, “And Jonah fled from the presence of the Lord and found a ship going to Tarshish, and he paid the fare.” And the Bible says, “And Jonah began to go down.”

There are so many kinds of ‘ship’ we enter, innocently or deliberately. Courtship is a ship. Friendship is a ship. Partnership is a ship. Associationship is a ship. If you enter the wrong ship, you will pay the price for it. You will pay the price. It said, “And Jonah paid the fare,” and he began to go down.

There are many associations that are bringing you down, and you are still there. What are you doing there? Someone says, “Pastor, you don’t understand, I have history with that individual.” I agree. You may have a history, but you don’t have a future with that person. You may have a history; it doesn’t mean you have a future. Your future is far greater than your history. Mind where you are going. Not everybody is fit to go along.

In my growing up days in the faith, 1993, God warned me specifically. He said, “Not everybody can be your friend.” He said that they are ungodly. I was taken aback by the word ‘ungodly’. I said, “God, you mean they are ungodly?” And God knew I didn’t understand. He said, “Let me explain to you. I called them ungodly, not because they are sinners—no.” He said, “These are fine Christians, fine believers, but because they will not profit you to where I’m taking you to, I call them ungodly.” Unlike God.

So from that moment, I began to choose my relationships. I began to choose my friends. I began to choose my association wisely. You will not make the wrong choice.

Hear me, people of God, Who you follow determines what follows you. The company you keep determines what accompanies you. Association can never make you different from the company you keep. You can never be different from the company you keep.

Walking with someone not going your direction will distract you. You are a man and a woman on a mission for God. Don’t associate yourself with someone not going your direction. That is not wisdom. That is not wisdom. Somebody not going your way, why keep a relationship with that person? Their legs are facing here, yours are facing here. “This is my friend.” Your eyes are looking straight; his eyes are looking everywhere, and you said, “This is my friend.” Be careful! Say, “Be careful.” You may be derailed. So be careful.

Hear this, people of God: If nothing is working in your life, check the association you keep. If nothing is working in your life, check the association you keep. Walking with someone not going your way of life will not only distract; it can destroy.

The instance of one of the sons of David, his name is called Amnon. He was destined to take over the throne in Second Samuel chapter 13. He was destined to take over the throne. But Amnon had a friend called Jonadab. He was so close to Amnon that he confided in him. He said, “My friend, I want to have an affair with my sister. I love her, but I don’t know how to.” And Jonadab began to scheme and to plan for Amnon. He said, “Pretend you are sick. Tell your father that your sister will bring food to you to eat. And when your sister comes to you to give you food to eat because you are sick, then you grab her.” And Amnon did the same thing.

The Bible says, and behold, Amnon slept with the sister. And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel. And the Bible says Amnon was killed by all the brothers of the king. But Jonadab was the one that was spared. Jonadab escaped being killed.

Hear what I’m trying to say to you this morning: Most of the time, you are the victim of that association. You are the victim. The people you keep company with always escape more than you do.

I don’t know if you understand. When I was in school, University of Benin, there are people they call NFA: No Future Ambition. They just go everywhere. And you keep company with them, thinking they are not reading. But most of the time, when the exam comes, the result comes that they pass, you fail. Because you are the victim.

Listen to me: Don’t claim you can change them by being amongst them. “Pastor, these are people that I want to change.” Listen to this: If this is an edge of a cliff, this is where you are standing on a cliff that is a fall. A man standing by the edge of the cliff must be careful. For me to pull them up requires more energy, and I need to pull with much energy, but they require little energy to pull me down. That is why you must be sensitive to the association you keep.

Mama said, “You cannot convert an ant.” You cannot change them. All you need to do is to separate yourself and influence them. Being in their midst, they will corrupt you. If you try to convert them, they will convert you. May you not be converted! I said, may you not be converted!

That’s why God’s servant, our father in the Lord, said one time, he said, “To be the friend of everybody is to be a fool.” Friend of everybody is to be a fool.

The Bible speaking about the disciples, it says the apostles, they found their own company. There is a company for your life. There is a relationship for your life. There is an association for your life. Not everybody can be your friend. Say, “Amen.”

Our father in the Lord also said one time, he said, “Those who walk, they walk with many. Those who run, run with a few. But they that fly, they fly alone.”

Is that relationship profiting you? Is that association lifting you? You either rise or you fall by it. It does not leave you neutral. It can’t leave you neutral. You are either growing or you are groaning. You are either being lifted or you are being demoted.

I love what our resident pastor said on Wednesday, the first teaching. I was hooked up and I was blessed. If you were blessed by that, praise give God praise. He said, and I quote: “If your association is wrong, your future cannot be right. Your destination is determined by your association. Nobody working with the wrong company can end up in the right place. Your friends determine your future. Who you work with determines where you work to.”

Check those around you. You can tell where you are going. That’s why somebody says, “Show me your friends, and I will predict your future.” Show me your friends, and I can predict your future.

I pray that the colourful future God has mapped out for every youth in this commission, that future will come to pass. I said that future will come to pass in the name of Jesus Christ.

Therefore, note the following:

It takes iron to sharpen iron.

Proverbs 27:17 Iron sharpeneth iron; so, a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.

“Iron sharpeneth iron.” You cannot use wood to sharpen iron; you will dull the cutting edge. That’s why many of our lives are becoming dull by the people we keep around our lives. In the name of association, our lives are not having effects, our lives are not having impact, our lives are not advancing because our cutting edge is dull. Iron sharpeneth iron. Whosoever is not blessing you is a burden to you. Whosoever is not exalting you is exhausting you, draining you. Whosoever is not a blessing is a liability. Drop him! Tell your neighbor, “Drop him!” If you are not being lifted, if you are not being sharpened in that association, run! God’s servant said, “Run, run, run!” That young man, George Laide, that testified on Wednesday, he said he brought a girl, his girlfriend, into the church who was sitting by him, who was a drug addict, wanting to bring him back to drug addiction. And Mama said, “Run, run, run! Run for your life!” And that is why he could testify. Tell your neighbor, “Run from that ungodly association!” Tell him or her, “Run!”

Hear this, people of God: Any association that is not adding value to you is taking something from you.

  1. No matter how anointed or dedicated you are, a wrong company can be very destructive. Anointed or dedicated, a wrong company will still wreck your destiny. Whatever you have successfully built can be destroyed overnight by the wrong association. Be watchful.

But right company is a positive and profitable asset to any destiny. Right company, right association, it is a plus factor that is factored into your life to give you a boost, to give you a shift.

Ecclesiastes 4: 9 – 12 Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.

For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up.

Again, if two lie together, then they have heat: but how can one be warm alone?

And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

“Two are better than one because they have a reward for their labour. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow. But woe to him that is alone when he falleth, for he hath not another to help him up. Again, if two lie together, then they have heat, but how can one be warm alone? And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not easily broken.”

Right company strengthens the believer. Right company increases your productivity. Right company is profitable to where God is taking you to.

Paul kept company with Timothy, and Timothy became a bishop and great in his time. Elisha kept company with Elijah, and the mantle of Elijah came upon Elisha. Moses kept company with Joshua, and Joshua followed through. They had sweet association together, and Joshua became the ultimate leader.

Hear me, people of God: There are people that creep into your life. Be watchful. Some come to your life to give you comfort, while others come to your life to grieve your spirit. Anytime you are with them, you are grieved. What are you still doing there? When they knock on your door, you will say, “He has come again,” and you will say he is your friend. They want to throw you down.

Genesis 24:67 And Isaac saw Rebekah and took Rebekah to be his wife, and Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.

Nothing could comfort Isaac. Gift could not comfort him. But when the right person came in the person of Rebekah, Isaac was comforted.

Are you comforted in that association, or are you being grieved every time that person comes around you? You know that that person is not productive to you. Why carry him or her along? May you not make that costly mistake.

Now, let’s move on to examine the dynamics of association. What are the dynamics? How do we express ourselves in association? How do we know the kind of association we are in?

Please understand that number one Association can either be direct or by proxy.

When we talk about direct association, we talk about physical relationship. We talk about business partnership, your business colleagues. We talk about your personal friends, your close friends, your acquaintances. We talk about your companion, those you keep companionship with.

But by proxy, what do we mean by proxy? Proxy association: we talk about the books you read. Yes, that can be your association. Mind you what the man said, what Charles Tremendous Jones said. It can be by the books you read. It can be by the people you listen to, people that speak into your lives. That can be by proxy association.

It can also be, more particularly, people you follow on social media. Very, very dangerous. Jesus Christ warned us: “Take heed to what you hear.” Mark 4 verse 24: “Take heed to what you hear.” What you hear can either build you or destroy you. Take heed. People you listen to, the kind of music you hear. Don’t you know that words are spirit? Every man’s word contains a spirit, negative or positive.

John 6:63 It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life

 And they have the power to shape your life. Words are spirits. If faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God, so also cometh destruction by the things you hear.

It’s time to block your ear from the things that corrupt, the things that do not edify. Close your ear to them and disconnect from that person. Tell your neighbor, “Disconnect!”

That’s why when God met Adam after Adam knew he was naked

Genesis 3: 9 – 11 And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?

And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.

And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?

Because what you hear cannot only transform you; it can deform you. It can destroy you.

  • We must come to understand we must mind the books we read. Not every book is fit for consumption. Books carry the spirit of the author that wrote them. The Bible talks about false teachers that come speaking abominable heresies. 2 Peter 2 verse 1. Watch the books you read.

Charles Darwin, who was destined by God to be a priest in a seminary, to become an Anglican priest, but unfortunately, he dabbled into a small book titled The Evidences of Christianity. He began to read that book, and the book was all about the natural sense. As he was reading, another spirit entered into him, and he came about the Darwinism theory which is ruining the world today. Tell your neighbor, “Mind the books you read.”

  • Guard your exposure to social media and those people you follow. Who you follow determines what follows you. Mind your interaction with social media. Learn to create a balance.

2 Corinthians 6:14 – 17 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?

And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?

 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you

Be not unequally yoked with the people you follow. I heard a story recently: 17 years old, always on social media, the negative ones, the positive ones, but unfortunately, he followed the wrong person who sent a friend invite, and he followed. From there, his brain became manipulated. The next thing we heard, he committed suicide. Mind who you follow! You are the CEO of your life. You have the power to delete and to terminate anybody. Don’t just follow anybody. And if a demon is following that person, the demon begins to seep into your life. That demon entered that young boy, and look what he ended up as.

How then do I identify the right company?

  1. Prayer of guidance. Don’t you know that God still gives good association? Jesus said, “Father, all you have given to me, I have kept

John 17:12 While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.

 God gives good association.

Luke 6:12 -13 And it came to pass in those days, that he went out into a mountain to pray. What was he praying about? And continued all night in prayer to God.

And when it was day, he called the multitudes of disciples, and of them he chose twelve, whom he named apostles.

Association is about divine guidance. Don’t just jump into a relationship for jumping’s sake. Pray! Pray! “Lord, is this person going my way? Is this person a profitable asset to me? Is this person a distraction to me?”

  • Look out for spiritual alignment. What do I mean by spiritual alignment? I mean spiritual compatibility. Is this person spiritually compatible with me? My pursuit of godliness, is this person taking me towards that place? Be watchful of friends with carnal minds and speaking carnal words. That is spiritual alignment. You want to share the Scripture, that is when the person begins to tell you about a place they are going out for clubbing. A believer clubbing? Those habits are learnt. You learnt it; you copied it from the friends you are keeping company with. Those don’t align with your spiritual growth. He drinks; next time, he asks you to take that drink. Then he says, “Just take a sip.” Then from a glass to bottles, from bottles… If you hang around smokers, you are inhaling the smoke that comes from them. Watch out for spiritual alignment, those that don’t share your devotion to God’s mission for your life. Disconnect! Are they sharing God’s mission for your life? If they are not, disconnect! Are they growing your spiritual life? If they are not, disconnect! Question that association.
  • Seek people with similar values. Seek people with similar values.

Amos 3:3 But I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour the palaces of Kerioth: and Moab shall die with tumult, with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet

Can two walk together, except they be agreed? Association. Does the association foster a growth mentality? That growth mentality in you? Do they help to shape your attitude, your character? Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego had the same spirit; they had the same values. No wonder the fire could not consume them. Are they standing with you towards your focus goals? You have set goals for your life. Focus goals. Are they helping you to be a better person, a better reflection of your person, spiritually and all? The right kept close association with each other. Look for people of similar values.

Hebrews 6:12 That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

Be followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.” Look at where we are today. Look for those that walk the talk. Their thought, Not everyone you have in your hands is what you are looking for. What are you doing with that person? Cut it off! Disconnect!

  • Be spiritually sensitive. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. Be sensitive. Those that creep into your life to be your friends. “Oh, I love you. Be my friend.” Open. You can’t wait to! Friendship is not by force. Friendship is by choice. It’s time to make your choice. Forgotten association? Nobody can weep to you. Nobody can force you.

The Bible, speaking about Moses in

Hebrews 11:24 By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter;

He said, choosing. Rather, he made a choice to suffer affliction. He made the choice. He said, “He refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter.” He refused. The cheapest thing to say is “No.” “Be my friend.” If you buy that, your association, pay attention. No assumption. No guesswork. Make conscious effort to evaluate your relationship. Are you a family? Your friends. Are you evading to association? Are you making a present? Am I going forward? Is this thing still profiting me? Any party not going your way is an excess baggage. Drop it from your list. Write it down to God.

I receive grace this morning to make productive choices for the kind of persons that come to my life. I receive grace to make productive choices for my association. Guide me, Lord, and disconnect me from anybody not going my way. In Jesus’ name, we pray. Give the Lord mighty praise!

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Every lasting empire is built on inspired ideas – Pastor Adebisi Aboluwande – Day 3 Morning session Word 1

AYAC 2025

21st August 2025

Day 3 Morning session Word 1

Topic: Every lasting empire is built on inspired ideas

Speaker: Pastor Adebisi Aboluwande

This morning, my assignment is to bring a brief Word titled: “Every lasting empire is built on inspired ideas.” A wise man said, “If you are not inspired, you will expire.” And that’s why I pray for someone this morning: you shall not expire. If you believe in that prayer, say a louder Amen.

Proverbs 8:10-21 Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold.

For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.

I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of witty inventions.

The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.

Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom: I am understanding; I have strength.

By me kings reign, and princes decree justice.

By me princes rule, and nobles, even all the judges of the earth.

I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me.

Riches and honour are with me; yea, durable riches and righteousness.

My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold; and my revenue than choice silver.

I lead in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of judgment:

That I may cause those that love me to inherit substance; and I will fill their treasures.

Ecclesiastes 5:9: Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served by the field.

From today, you shall be served. You have been serving, but from now on, you shall be served.

Every lasting empire is built on inspired ideas, witty invention, wisdom. Every empire, every movement, every organization that ever stood the test of time is built, not on money, not on power, not on people, but on ideas, on ideas, on ideas.

Let me tell you this morning, your destiny is not a common destiny.

Isaiah 60:22 A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation: I the LORD will hasten it in his time.

Your destiny is not a common destiny. Your destiny is not a common, ordinary destiny. You may be little, but it shall become a thousand. A small one shall become a strong nation. I decree today, the God of Liberation will release strength upon you. The strength that will make you a nation is coming upon you on this mountain.

What is an Empire?

An Empire is a large political entity composed of diverse territories controlled by a sovereign power. An Empire is a colony, people of one accord under one authority. What man looks at as an empire, God advances us as empires—men gathered together. But God has put you as one, a nation. A nation to you—you are not ordinary. You are not an ordinary entity. You are an Empire. You will become an Empire indeed, in the name of Jesus.

Inspired ideas are what shape the vision and the destiny of nations. Inspired ideas: stimulated revelation, innovations, motivations, profound insights. And this morning, upon this mountain, I pray for you that your eyes shall be open. Your understanding shall become enlightened. The nation in you, the empire in your destiny, will manifest in the name of Jesus.

What are the characteristics of an Empire? It solves mysteries .An empire solves problems. An empire creates solutions. So, if you are not creating a solution, you are causing confusion. Everywhere you are, when you appear, you are expected to bring a solution, not confusion. When you appear, you are expected to bring peace, not troubles. When you are a bearer, you are expected to create peace, not tension.

In scriptures from the Bible, we found that the patriarchs all created solutions. In the midst of famine, they brought peace. In the midst of tension, they brought respite to the people in the midst of crisis. As you depart this mountain, you will return as a solution-bearer. You will return as a solution-creator.

Father Abraham in the scriptures built ranches and became a business empire in his generation. There is no way you will have ranches that you will not become an employer of labour. He had farms and ranches. And our Bible says that he had an army that could conquer the territories of the wicked. From this mountain, you are returning as a strong army against your adversaries.

Isaac was an innovator in irrigation. In the midst of famine, in the midst of crisis, he received supernatural insights and began to create irrigation to grow crops. He brought forth so much that they began to fear him. From this mountain, those that you were afraid of will begin to fear you by the innovation and insight that you are going to exhume. You will become a creator of labour, in the name of Jesus Christ.

In his days, Job, by divine inspiration, says in Job 29:4 As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my tabernacle;

In the days of my youth, when the secret of God was upon me… my table was huge… they stood in the streets and they saluted me. He was a man of honor by divine inspiration.

Joseph, in the scriptures in Genesis chapter 41, by the insight from a dream

Genesis 41:33-36 Now therefore let Pharaoh look out a man discreet and wise, and set him over the land of Egypt.

Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint officers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt in the seven plenteous years.

And let them gather all the food of those good years that come, and lay up corn under the hand of Pharaoh, and let them keep food in the cities.

And that food shall be for store to the land against the seven years of famine, which shall be in the land of Egypt; that the land perish not through the famine.

was able to bring forth preservation methods to keep food for the nation of Israel and the entire world for seven years running. I pray for you today: the things that will save your generation, the things that will save your nation, the things that will save your family, will be delivered to you on this mountain in the name of Jesus.

How do I connect with these inspired ideas?

  1. Inspired ideas flow through revelation. And revelation comes by meditation. Inspired ideas flow through revelation, which is delivered in meditation.

Psalm 119:97 How I love thy law! it is my meditation all the day.

As you ponder, as you wait on the scriptures, on the word of God, inspired ideas begin to drop from the pages of scripture. Inspired ideas begin to drop from the word of God.

Meditation is sitting and reviewing the word of God, sitting down on the scriptures and reviewing over and over and over and over until light strikes.

Genesis 24:63 And Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the eventide: and he lifted up his eyes, and saw, and, behold, the camels were coming.

the scripture says Isaac went into the field to meditate, and he lifted up his eyes. Behold, Rebecca was coming. He went into the field to meditate, and when he lifted up his eyes, he saw the camels. You are looking for a wife, and you are looking around, looking up and meditating. If you look around you, you carry anything. But when you look up, you find the right thing. Isaac went into the field. Someone came to this AYAC today: as you look up, your spouse is dropping for you. He looked up and he saw, “Behold, the camels are coming,” and upon the camel was Rebecca. Hear me this morning: if Rebecca were not on the camel, he would bring Isaac down. The implication of picking a person who is not riding on anything is that you come to their own level. Therefore, you must look up so that the person is riding on something, and it will carry you from where you are to where you ought to be. From this mountain, you will move from where you are to where you ought to be, in the name of Jesus. Nothing will bring you down in the name of Jesus. No relationship will bring you down in the name of Jesus.

Meditation enhances the prosperity of the saints. Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners… but his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. In verse 3: He shall be like a tree planted by the rivers… and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.

From this AYAC 2025, whatever you do shall prosper in the name of Jesus Christ.

  • Through reasoning with God.

Isaiah 1:18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord. You must sit down with God. Every day devotion time is not an option. It is mandatory. Devotion time is not an option. It is mandatory. It is your reasoning time with God. It is your reasoning moment with God. It is at that point that inspired ideas come to you.

In Acts chapter 6, there was trouble in the midst of the Apostles, and they reasoned together and they came to a decision: It is not reason that we should leave the word of God and serve tables. Therefore, they appointed deacons to take care of things.

Now, if you reason, you will know that it is not your responsibility as a man to begin to go to market and buy yams and buy… if you reason! If you reason properly, you will know that it is not your responsibility to calculate the money for kerosene and for gas. If you reason! If you receive, if you reason, if you reason, you will know that God has given you a home manager in your wife to take care of everything. If you reason, if you reason?

Hallelujah! It is not reason that we should leave the word of God

Acts 6:2 Then the twelve called the multitude of the disciples unto them, and said, It is not reason that we should leave the word of God, and serve tables.

It is not reason to leave the word and serve tables, and serve tables. And you get into the room, this place is no more. This is what we, what is your work? Major on your assignment and leave the minor for the wife. It is not reason for us to leave the word and serve tables. Stop serving tables! Live on the word. What reason under what?

The prodigal son reasoned his way back to dignity.

Come to yourself! That is why no employer has been able to keep you. They’ll keep your confidential matter. You call your friend, “You don’t know what’s happening in our office today. Hey, MD traveling. Hey, his wife is pregnant. Hey, his children. Hey.” The prodigal son returned and returned to dignity. That is why they have not kept you on the job. Every confidential matter, you tell your wife, you tell your husband. I have not spoken one more to my wife since I got to my assignment. Never. Confidence. Reason and reason and turn back to dignity. He arose and came to his father (verse 20). Somebody’s returning today! Let your amen be louder.

God renews our mind when we reason. God renews our mind when we reason with Him. He transforms our mind.

Romans 12:1-2 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

Reasonable service. That service is qualified: singing holy, dancing holy, ushering holy, acceptable.

There are so many things on your phone: Snapchat, Instagram, X, WhatsApp again, watch again, you know that? But there is no single investment app on your phone. That device is not bringing you honey; it is destroying you. That little device is to bring you honey. People sit on that and make content on TikTok, Instagram. And for three hours, you are watching somebody’s inspired ideas. When will you create your own idea? Wake up and reason! Wake up and reason! Not one investment app. Not one creation on a device. For three hours, watching other people’s creations, other people’s ideas. They are building their own empires. Your own empire shall be beautiful.

  • Through asking questions on the altar of prayer. Asking questions on the altar of prayer.

Jeremiah 33:3: Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and show thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.

Call unto me on the altar of prayer.

The question is, where is your altar? You have to create your altar. We have Covenant Hour of Prayer; that is an altar. Where is your own personal altar of prayer? Call unto me… and I will answer thee, and show thee. Set a time that you talk to God, he said, and I will answer you and will show you. I will show you great and mighty things, which thou knowest not. God is eager to show us, but many are not ready to see. God is eager to show us, but many are not ready to see.

We traveled one time with my wife, and we bought some Kampala dresses. I would draw to that time. I’ve been praying, “Oh Lord, show us the business. Show us the business for my wife. Show us.” And we bought those Kampala pieces, and we wanted to give them to our house as souvenirs. And as we got to the first uncle, he said, “Oh, this is beautiful. How much do you sell it for?” And I gave her the eye communication. You better hear it. When I look at you, you know the minute. And I looked at her. She understood the minute. The price came to her head. Uncle, this is the price, and I have a few numbers. He said, “Well done, well done. You are well trained.” He said. The uncle works in a multinational company. He said, “Well, I think I will need it for the end-of-year party. Can you make a supply?” I looked more. “I have a few quantities here, but I can send you more, as much as you desire.” From that day, business opened.

He said, ask of me, I will show you. I will show you. His business is showing you your business, missing it. Somebody comes to your house and you serve them a glass of… and they drink and say, “This is good. Give me more.” You say no? Pay for it. That is, we are doing testing, testing. But doing testing of your business power. So pay for it. The next cup is not free. The first cup is free, and so if he has value for it, he will buy.

A few years ago, I was speaking in the Bible school, and I told them: they drop children in your house. Everybody goes to work, and they leave children with you. That’s a daycare. Does it take care? Somebody picked it and went back home. I said, you have three rooms, and you are using two. Put wallpapers on one, put a small TV and the videos CD, and then buy a “pass my neighbor” generator, and then start it. When they bring their child the next morning, tell them 5,000 per week. I will show you, I will show you, I will show you. And from that day, those who could not pay left; those who could pay got the services. And by the time she was sharing her testimony, she already had a secondary school from an inspired idea. I will show you. I will show you. I will show you.

There is something you are doing right now for free that is your empire. That will create an empire for you. There is something you are doing right now on this mountain that will create an empire for you. You are testing it out. You are testing it out, you’re testing it out, you’re testing it out. I will show you great and mighty things.

That was the secret of David in

1 Samuel 30:6 And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the LORD his God.

David was greatly distressed. The people wanted to stone him. He went and inquired. He went and inquired. He went and inquired of God. And God told him what to do. How much have you asked God since you came to AYAC 2025? I like you to get a note today and list the things you are asking God. Ambiguity does not fly with God. It works with specifics. Vague greeting does not fly with God. It works with specifics. “Lord, what do you want me to do? Number one, Number two, number three.” And then, as the answers begin to drop… maybe you’re having a chat over lunch, somebody said something; it is your answer. You write it down. You’re praying, walking around, and something you’ll see something around; it drops an answer in your mind. It is your answer. Today, you will receive great things.

  • Be observant. Be observant. Many are the eyes that see? Many are the eyes that look, but only few see. Many are looking, but only if you are observing, you see. Psalm 119:18: Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.

Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold. Let it be the dear Spirit’s desire of your heart to see, to see, to see.

  • Act courageously. If you get the idea today, you need courage to begin. You need the courage to begin.

Habakkuk 2:2 And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.

Running requires courage. Many things will try to stop you, that he may run that readeth it.

  • Persistence. Don’t turn around in the face of challenges. Don’t turn around in the face of troubles. When you are pursuing your ideas, don’t turn around. Don’t turn around. Don’t turn around. Keep running. Keep running, keep running. Late Bishop Benson Idahosa: “Aspire to acquire what you desire.” If you aspire, don’t retire, but refire. Aspire to acquire what you desire. They say you may pass through fire in the process. Don’t retire, but refire. But refire. Be consistent in the race, and you will deliver in the name of Jesus. I can’t hear your belief. Amen.
  • Walk under a mentor. If you don’t have a mentor, you will be tormented. If you don’t have a mentor, you cannot go far. But we can. We must never trust a man who has not submitted to anyone. Every self-made man never lasts. You hear our father talk about great man Kenneth Copeland, great man Daddy G.O. Who is your mentor? If you don’t have a mentor, you will be tormented. You will be tormented, but that will not be you in the name of Jesus.

What are the Hindrances to Engaging in Inspired ideas?

  1. Procrastination. He that observeth the wind shall not sow (Ecclesiastes 11:4). He that regardeth the clouds shall not reap. Stop procrastinating. Whoever delays will never go anywhere. Inaction lets the opportunity slip away. Stop delaying the action. Few opportunities slide away from you. You need to propose this afternoon. You need to start your business today. You need to do something. Register the company today. Stop delaying the action, stop delaying the action, stop delaying the action, stop delaying the action. You need to make that investment. Make it today. A thousand miles begin with a step.
  2. Fear and doubt. God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind

2 Timothy 1:7 For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

Fear of the unknown. “Will it work?” It is better to try and fail than to fail to try. Man yourself because of fear and criticism. Too much analysis will paralyze your movements. This will lead to paralysis. Take steps from today. As He shows you, take steps. Too much fear keeps people from taking steps to build their empire.

  • Lack of discipline.

Proverbs 12:24 The hand of the diligent shall bear rule: but the slothful shall be under tribute.

The hand of the diligent shall bear rule: but the slothful shall be under tribute. Who keeps sleeping over his ideas, the one who keeps waiting for ideas, will be under tribute.

  • Distractions. Lack of focus. Don’t be distracted.

Matthew 6:33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

If therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. Don’t despair. Be focused. That is why you must write down so that you will know when things are happening around you. This is a distraction; it’s not on the agenda. It’s not on the line. It’s not on the line. It’s not on the line. What is a 100-level student doing with a relationship? That is a distraction. It’s a destruction. Be focused, be focus, be focus. “Where did you graduate?” Wait till then. Why is he? “Where do you start work?” Be focus. That’s a distraction. Where you have one room, you can talk to somebody? Be focus. When the job comes, come and talk to me. Be focused. Don’t be distracted. Refuse to be distracted by social media. Refuse to be distracted by social media. Refuse to be distracted by social media.

  • Pride. If you are too big to do small things, you will be too small to do great things. Pride.

Proverbs 16:18 Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.

Begin small, like our father said, and then you will end great. You understand us.

There will be a shift. You are changing levels in the name of Jesus. You are changing levels in the name of Jesus.

The future belongs to men and women who receive divine inspiration and act courageously. The future belongs to men and women. Empires are built only by men and women who receive divine inspiration.

Pastor Faith

Exploring The Virtue of Love – Pastor Faith Oyedepo – 3rd Evening Session

AYAC 2025

21st August 2025

3rd Evening Session

Topic: Exploring The Virtue of Love

Speaker: Pastor Faith Oyedepo

We will be looking at this subject that is captioned: “Exploring The Virtue of Love.”

We shall be looking at two scriptures. The first one is:

1 Corinthians 13:13 And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.

Matthew 5:14 Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid

May the Lord bless the reading of His Word in our hearts, in Jesus’ name. Amen.

Good news to somebody under the sound of my voice today! I am glad to announce to someone here tonight as we begin: Excellence is your heritage in redemption!

What do I call it? Say it everybody, the loudest we can now: “It is your heritage!”

Excellence in every area of life, In your studies and your academics, excellence!

And in your finances, excellence! In your health, excellence! Excellence in your career!

Say that one night again, say “Excellence! It is your heritage in redemption!” If you are in Christ.

However, the gateway that you and I require to that life of excellence is the love of God. The love of God is the gateway to a life of excellence. What do I call it? The gateway!

Romans 8:28 among several others, makes that very clear. It says:

And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

We *know*, not that we think, but we *know* God, how many things? How many things? The loudest you can: “How many things work together?” All things!

This year, after AYAC this year, all things shall begin to work together for your good.

It’s very important for us to understand that the only scriptural recipe for lasting and enduring excellence in life is the love of God. And please understand me very clearly: love for God is more than an emotion. When I said exploring the virtue of love, many of you said, “Ahhh.” But here we are talking about the love for God. It’s more than an emotion; it is more than feelings.

Love for God is a virtue. It is what? And it has to be developed. It is the foundation upon which all other virtues in the Kingdom are built. We just read it a while ago: faith, hope, and love, and the greatest is love. It is the foundation upon which all other virtues are built.

Yesterday, a father in the Lord told us about how deep the foundation of the Ark project is. If you remember yesterday, how deep did he call it? How many stories built? Why? Because of the height, because of the weight, because it’s an edifice. Foundation is everything.

Without the love of God, everything else loses meaning. AYAC 2025, you have been here for it, is built to last. Point to your neighbors and say, “You shall be built to last!”

But you know what? For that to become a reality, your foundation of the love of God must be deepened. My foundation for the love of God must be deepened.

Love for God is an active force and it shapes the lives of those who are committed. The love of God, the love of God, the love of God in God’s Word:

John 21:15-18 Three times in a row. How many times did Jesus say to Peter, “Lovest thou me more than these?

The same question goes to everyone at AYAC 2025. God is asking you and I right now: “Lovest thou thou me more than these?” Three times, three times in a row. And yes, these are the disciples that were following Him all the way, and yet He was asking.

Jesus is saying to somebody right now: “Lovest thou me more than the blessings? Than the testimonies? Than the breakthroughs?” Yes, they are all important, but “Lovest thou me more than these?”

He says, “When you are young, you decide where to go, but the time is coming you’ll be old and you’ll be taken or led to places.” Now as youths, this is the time for you and I to be decided on how deep our love for God will be.

“Lovest thou me more than these?”

May I announce to somebody here at AYAC this year: that lukewarm, half-hearted relationship with God will not do. It will not last the test of time. God wants you and I; He desires our total devotion. He desires an intimate love relationship with us, so that when the storms of life come, we shall be found standing.

Somebody will make it! If you are the one, let your Amen show it! I said somebody will make it. You will stand up. The winds of life will not be able to pull your destiny down. Can I have the loudest Amen?!

So what is a virtue? It’s a habitual and firm disposition to do what is right. To do what is right. It’s not a gift; a virtue is not a gift. It’s something you have to learn and acquire. And love is said to be the greatest of the commandments.

So, when you engage with the love of God, you become a commander of greatness. You shall be great! I said, you shall be great! Tell your neighbor, “You shall be great!” Tell someone the same thing on the other side, “You shall be great!” Now, convince yourself: “I shall be great!”

But you know what? For that to become a reality, we need a deep foundation of love for God.

You know, when we got by saying that excellence is your birthright and my birthright… Excellence simply means a high standard; setting a high standard. He has told us at separate times how that God said to him, “Go forth and raise me a people.” You are one of them! If you believe so, you know, so let your Amen show it.

However, if excellence must become a reality in your life, then the love of God must occupy the front burner, not the back one, in your life. May every participant this year leave whatever station you may be from, freshly baptized with the virtue of love.

Why should it be so?

What is in the love of God for me?

1. It Empowers Believers to Lead a Failure-Proof Life.

Say with me: a failure-proof life. From today, no more failure for you! Let me hear you loud, Amen! No more stagnation for you.

Every genuine lover of God is bound to succeed because love never fails. I decree, I declare over your life: you shall succeed in your academics. You shall succeed. If you have failed before, the last failure you had is the last you will ever have.

Remember one of the testifiers tonight: sat for JAMB the first time, the second time, the third time… Abba said, “No more failure.” From today, you will succeed. Let me have your loudest Amen!

The security of your destiny and my destiny is the love of God. The love of God is the strongest life insurance. It’s a work for us.

2. It Empowers Faith to Deliver Maximally.

Empowers faith.

Galatians 5:6 For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.

So faith is a strong spiritual vessel, but without love, it cannot produce. Love is what empowers our faith to produce results. From this season, your faith and my faith shall continue to produce greater results. Let me hear your loudest Amen!

And again, you don’t know my secret until you know my heartbeat for God. What is your heartbeat? Nobody may see it, but you know it. He said, the love of God. What brought you to AYAC this year? Is it love of God? Is it fame? Is it position? Is it so all they can see you? Is it to find a wife or find a husband? All those ones are meant to be additions. Your love for God must be the main focus.

Joseph, for the love of God, made him to become great in Egypt. Despite all that his brothers did to him, he forgave them. There is somebody here today; I don’t know who you need to forgive. Let go and let God. Unforgiveness brings bitterness and bitter destiny. They have not treated you well, yes. Let go. Let go. Let go. So he did it and he stood out. You will stand up.

3. Supernatural Breakthrough.

From AYAC this year, somebody shall be breaking through. If you are the person, let your Amen show it. You want to know that many are breakthroughs? Look at this commission. You don’t need to look too far. Look at this commission. Shout it louder: breakthrough!

Mandate delivered in 1981. Church started with four people. And God said to say three and a half because the first person wasn’t that… you understand? One leg in, one leg out. The first Sunday I was in church, we were about 17 people, adults and children. We didn’t have children’s church because we are all children of God. So you see it on one bench, not chair, not like this royal. You sit on one whole bench, you know, a bench? Some of you don’t know what benches look like again. Bench is long, no division. You understand what I’m saying. You sat on one bench. One person put your Bible on one end in front of you like this, and then your hand on the bench at the back of you. Three benches, one person.

But from four people to 17 to 20, I mean, look at what God has done today. And then to nations today. We have people here at AYAC this year from different nations of the world. Amen.

With God, the love of God. Here at the Faith Tabernacle, very shortly on our way to the… I saw you, we get… From today, we shall be breaking through. If you are the one that you are, Amen, showing.

Therefore, I decree and declare over your life: no more breakdowns. Over your health, no more breakdowns. Look at the testimonies we have harvested already: healing. If you are still believing God for healing in your physical body, I congratulate you because tonight is your night.

If you forget any other person’s testimony, remember my testimony: once in a wheelchair, needed help for virtually everything, including eating, including lying down to sleep, including standing up, including going to the restroom. But today: breakthrough! So don’t mind the devil. You are at AYAC this year; God who restored me will restore your health. Just let the love of God be burning in your heart. You are not permitted to return from AYAC with any sickness in your body. Let me hear your loudest Amen.

4. It Gives Access to Revelation.

God reveals things to His lovers. Are you His lover?

Psalm 25:14 The secret of the Lord is with them that fear him; and he will shew them his covenant.

Those that fear Him, or those that love Him. As in the physical, you don’t hide anything from your lover; it is open. It is the same thing in the world of the spirit.

Job, a lover of God, had access to divine secrets. Job 29:4. David had more understanding than his teachers. And the whole book of Revelation was revealed to John the beloved. Access to revelation.

Jesus said to Peter, “Upon this rock I will build my church.” To some of us who remember what happened during COVID-19, remember how God used His servant to make us face strong, standing against the devices of the wicked. And today, to the glory of God, COVID has gone back to sender.

Whatever has been covering your destiny, upon this mountain it shall be sent back to where it came from.

What is Love?

Somebody may ask in our context right now. What is this love?

1. It is a God-First Lifestyle.

Say: “May God first!” Make it louder.

Mark 12:30 And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.

God first! A God-first lifestyle. Let’s make God and His Word your priority for living, your priority. Taking a stand for God, whatever you find yourself. Standing out, not blending in. Not because everybody else is doing it. Why not?

Remember one of the powerful presentations we saw tonight. For all the people that presented, God bless you all in Jesus’ name! Standing out, not blending in. Not that everybody else is doing it; you are not everybody else. You are a unique individual. Say to yourself: “I am unique!” Point to yourself this way, now say with confidence: “I am unique!”

Apostle Paul said in

Philippians 1:21 For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.

Joseph said in

Genesis 39:9 There is none greater in this house than I; neither hath he kept back any thing from me but thee, because thou art his wife: how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?

Remember, nobody else was there. It was only just him and the wife of his master. Joseph said, “How can I do this and sin against God?”

All that’s in your class, they are cheating in the examination hall and you are stretching your neck to look. “How can I do this and sin against God?” Don’t tell me nobody else will catch us. Man may not see you, but is God not there? “How can I do this and sin against God?”

Everybody else is doing it; it’s a corrupt system. So we kept blaming the system, whereas you and I are meant to change the system, not that the system should change us.

“How can I do this and sin against God?” Another Joseph is departing from AYAC this year that will stand against evil, whether the man is there or not. If you’re the one, let that your Amen show it!

Saying eternal yes to God, and eternal no to yourself. Somebody must depart from AYAC this year sailing under sealed orders, ready to say an eternal yes to God and eternal no to Satan.

You are in courtship and the only thing you are saying is, “I love you, I love you. I love you. I miss you.” What do you want to find? No time to pray? No time to read? No time to study. What’s up, man? Oh, that’s why, to the glory of God, after 43 years, it’s hitch-free. It’s hitch-free. To somebody here, your testimony shall be brighter. If you are the one, let your Amen show it.

2. A Kingdom Priority Lifestyle.

Kingdom, kingdom priority lifestyle. That is placing God’s kingdom above all else. The advancement of the kingdom of God is a central focus of your life. You are living constantly with a desire to be an addition to the kingdom of God, not just a consumer. “Give me, give me, give me, and give me.” But we are seeking to add to God’s kingdom. An addition to God’s kingdom.

This is very important. And of course, the proof of our love is obedience.

Acts 5:29 Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.

Whatever He says is what we are going to obey. The kingdom of God is a priority.

We’ve had our father in the Lord again concerning the movement to Canaan Land from town. He has told us over and again, they said, “I would rather sink with God than shine without Him.”

The kingdom of God, your priority, your priority. You cannot make God’s kingdom your priority and not be built to last. I pray for somebody under the sound of my voice today: you shall depart from AYAC 2025 where the kingdom of God and its advancement is a priority in your life forever.

3. Identify with Jesus Openly, Publicly, and Unashamedly.

Mark 8:38 Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.

“If you are ashamed of me,” He said, “I also will be ashamed of you.” May God not be ashamed of us. Identify with God openly. Public display of affection for God.

In order to do… Are you the kind of youth that when you are in church, among your brethren, in fellowship, you are known as a Christian? When you go to a place where you are not known, nobody can identify you as a believer? Do you hide your Bible in your office? You are in a public place, nobody can identify Jesus with you.

Public display of your love everywhere you go and everywhere you find yourself. On social media, what do you post there? Is it as a Christian? Do you pose to be somebody else, looking for recognition? Public display. Have you ever invited anyone to church in your school?

How many people know you as a Christian and I said, a child of God? You are at AYAC; you return to your station and your mates are asking you, “Where have you been? We have been looking for you.” “Oh, I just went somewhere.” You shall carry such a fire on your head that when you are there, there will be no way you are coming from… Yes, you know.

An unbeliever sees you and is toasting you and wants to marry you. Somebody, you, where is the fire? They should see you are a fire of another. This one, no way! Say it like I said, “No way!” Say, “God forbid!”

You are in a relationship with an unbeliever? What are you looking for? Forbidden!

No. There are certain things that should never be identified with you because of your public display for Jesus Christ. In case you are here today under the sound of my voice and you are in any kind of relationship with an unbeliever, don’t tell me, “Oh, he’ll be born again.” Oh, again, who told you? Stop it! Stop it so he doesn’t stop your destiny. Who told you you had the power to convert anybody? Have you ever seen light and darkness mix together before successfully?

Who is your best friend? An unbeliever? So much? You have to change your friends before you leave AYAC this year. Have you ever seen a bird in the sky and a fish in the ocean good friends? One will suffocate and die. That will not be you!

If evil communication corrupts good manners, your destiny that is glorious shall not be corrupted.

Therefore, I decree and declare over your life: from this AYAC 2025, the virtue of love is deeply rooted in your heart. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength. And as you do, you shall experience excellence, supernatural breakthroughs, and a destiny built to last!

In the mighty name of Jesus, we have prayed! Amen!

Pastor David Oyedepo

Putting On The Armor of Light – Pastor David Oyedepo jnr – Day 3 Morning Session Word 3

AYAC 2025

21st August 2025

Day 3 Morning Session Word 3

Topic: Putting On The Armor of Light

Speaker: Pastor David O. Oyedepo

Yesterday, we established that there are two worlds in this world: there’s a physical world and a spiritual world.

2 Corinthians 4:18 – “While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.”

We also established that this physical world is controlled by the spiritual.

Hebrews 11:3 – “Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.”

We established also that within the spiritual world, there are two kingdoms, The Kingdom of Light, and the Kingdom of Darkness.

Colossians 1:13 – “Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son.”

And one of the fundamental works of the Kingdom of Darkness is sin. It’s very important that we recognize that.

Ephesians 5:11-14 – “And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret. But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light. Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.”

It means to identify some of those manifestations of sin as simply works of darkness.

So it becomes important for us to understand that when it comes to darkness, one of its vital operations is sin. In fact, put it this way: one of the fiercest battles that the believer will fight is not the battle for prosperity, it’s not the battle for healing; it’s the battle for sanctification.

The Bible makes this clear to us in the Book of Hebrews chapter 12.

Hebrews 12:2-4 – “Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds. Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.”

One of the fiercest battles that you’ll fight in the adventure of life is the battle against sin.

And that is because when it comes to sin, the Bible tells us that Satan himself is described as the man of sin.

2 Thessalonians 2:3 – “Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition.”

So Satan is described in scripture as the man of sin.

1 John 3:8 – “He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning.”

So,he is the man of sin. He is the one behind the scenes. He’s the orchestrator of sinfulness. And that’s why it becomes important for us to understand that we are engaged and embroiled in a battle when it comes to the attainment of our sanctification.

And the question really is, what are the spiritual forces that we are contending against when it comes to our sanctification? There are quite a number of them, but I’d just enumerate a few of them this morning, and I’m trusting that the Holy Spirit would give us understanding.

Some of the spiritual forces we contend with:

1. Unclean Spirits You see,Satan is the one who orchestrates, but he operates through diverse forces and diverse spirits. One is what the Bible refers to as unclean spirits.

Matthew 10:1 – “And when he had called unto him his twelve disciples, he gave them power against unclean spirits”

An unclean spirit is one that manifests itself in uncleanness.

Zechariah 3:3-5 – Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and stood before the angel.

And he answered and spake unto those that stood before him, saying, Take away the filthy garments from him. And unto him he said, Behold, I have caused thine iniquity to pass from thee, and I will clothe thee with change of raiment.

And I said, Let them set a fair mitre upon his head. So they set a fair mitre upon his head, and clothed him with garments. And the angel of the LORD stood by.

It says that Joshua the high priest was seen with filthy garments, and Satan was there opposing him.

You see, we must come to recognize that the enemy’s intent is on trying to force upon believers a filthy garment. But I pray today that every force of uncleanness that may have held anyone captive, upon this mountain, that chain shall be broken. Someone who believes this, say a loud Amen! I pray that for you, that chain shall be broken in the name of Jesus Christ.

2. Seducing Spirits The major operation of a seducing spirit is to bring about what the Bible calls doctrines of devils.

1 Timothy 4:1-2 -: “Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron.”

We have come to a day and an age where there are many doctrines that are corrupting the saints. People are opening the Bible and confusing believers. That’s the day we live in today. And we should not be surprised. The Bible gives us a picture of the reality that this will take place in the last days.

2 Peter 2:1 – “But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.”

That’s the thing we live in today. That’s the day we live in today. All manner of teachings that are corrupting the hearts of men.

You will see why these teachings seem to be marketed well in this day and age

2 Timothy 4:3 –“For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears.”

That’s the reality of our day and our age. Today, people want a comfortable gospel. Whatever does not stretch you cannot grow you. Let’s come to the point of soundness. Whatever does not stretch you cannot grow you. You don’t grow in the place of comfort; you grow in the place of discomfort. It is stretching that brings about growing.

Let’s be cautious in this day and age.

Jude 1:3-4 -: “Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints. For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.”

Please, let us come to a point where we recognize the necessity of responsibility so that you and I do not become victims in this world to all kinds of damnable heresies. Shout Hallelujah!

So, in the last days, there will be seducing spirits, and they will bring doctrines of devils. They will make people comfortable with what displeases God. They will make people accommodate what they should not tolerate. They will make people enter into the place of convenience in the place of sinfulness—doctrines of devils.

But I pray again today that for somebody hearing my voice, the hold of such shall be broken over your life. If you believe it, say a loud Amen! I said, if you believe it, say a loud Amen!

Now, make no mistake about it. The Bible is very clear:

Hebrews 12:14 -: “Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord.”

No matter his title, no matter his position. No man, no man, no man shall see God. So we must come to the point of seriousness in our walk with God, so we don’t become victims in the journey of life.

3. The Lust of the Eyes (Covetousness)

1 John 2:16 – “For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.”

The lust of the eyes component there has to do with covetousness. We live in a world today that is full of covetousness. Yesterday, God’s servant told us in the teaching last night, he said many of the things people are confessing is covetousness.

You see something with somebody and you’re uncomfortable automatically. Please hear this: when you live by competition, you are living in covetousness. When whatever you see with somebody begins to push you to go and get it to prove a point, you are living in covetousness. We heard him say yesterday, he said, “I’ve not done one thing because somebody else did it.” Don’t put your life under pressure.

The spirit of covetousness is today ravaging our world. I pray today for somebody hearing my voice, that every order of such shall be broken upon your life in the name of Jesus Christ.

It was covetousness that gave unto Gehazi the leprosy of Naaman

2 Kings 5:22-2

That’s what gave him the leprosy of Naaman. That’s what put it in his life.

It was covetousness that killed the entire generation of Achan

Joshua 7:1 But the children of Israel committed a trespass in the accursed thing: for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took of the accursed thing: and the anger of the LORD was kindled against the children of Israel.

Joshua 19-21 – And Remeth, and Engannim, and Enhaddah, and Bethpazzez;

The entire generation was wiped out because of covetousness.

That’s why the Bible tells us, Jesus speaking:

Luke 12:15 -: “Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man’s life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.”

Beware of covetousness! Shout Hallelujah!

4. The Lust of the Flesh (Sexual Immorality and Perversion) The Bible calls it the spirit of whoredoms.

Hosea 5:4 -: “They will not frame their doings to turn unto their God: for the spirit of whoredoms is in the midst of them, and they have not known the LORD.”

That is one of the manifestations we see in these last days. There’s corruption everywhere. You find so many expressions of all kinds of sexual perversion taking place today, and particularly among believers.

Now, listen to this: Some years ago, a particular meeting was holding. It was a Christian meeting that was holding in a particular venue, and in that venue, all of the believers had come to that hotel to stay in order to have the Christian meeting. Now, listen to this: that week when the believers were there holding the meeting was one of the highest weeks when the hotel saw pornography on their TV portals. The TV recorded one of the highest levels. They came with Bibles, but they came for something else.

You see, we have come to a day and an age where there’s all kinds of corruption everywhere. The spirit of sexual perversion is ravaging this generation like never before. But I pray today that every hold upon anyone’s life shall be broken in the name of Jesus.

You heard what that brother said. He said he was sitting beside the lady inside the church. The one who would help him scatter his destiny was beside him. And he heard a word: “Run, run, run, run!” You think his testimony would be like this if he was still with her? No.

We must come to recognize that if you open yourself to perversion, you have opened yourself to destruction. May the Lord help our understanding.

5. The Spirit of Disobedience

Ephesians 2:1-2 – “And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins; Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience.”

It is that spirit that makes people continuously and consistently go contrary to what it is that God commands. But I pray that that force be broken off your life in the name of Jesus.

6. The Lying Spirit

1 Kings 22:22-23 -: “And the LORD said unto him, Wherewith? And he said, I will go forth, and I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, Thou shalt persuade him, and prevail also: go forth, and do so. Now therefore, behold, the LORD hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these thy prophets, and the LORD hath spoken evil concerning thee.”

A lying spirit in their mouth. So there is what the Bible calls the lying spirit. That is what makes people lie consistently. But today I pray that every force and operation of the lying spirit shall be broken off your life.

7. The Spirit of Pride It is the spirit of pride that makes a person not be teachable.It makes a person not take instruction, not take direction, and not take correction. When you find a person that cannot be corrected, you have found a person that is proud.

Proverbs 16:18 -: “Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.”

Humility is not in the disposition of the face, but it is in the disposition of the heart. When the person’s heart is open to be corrected, then that person is displaying humility.

Even as the word of God is going on, there are people who in their heart are getting angry with it. It is pride of heart. “So are you saying that because of this, that means I’m now demon-possessed?” they argue with me. Somebody’s getting free today! I said somebody’s getting free today!

Pride is a destroyer. If you look at Lucifer, his fall was a product of pride

Isaiah 14:12-16 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!

For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:

I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.

Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.

They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms;

8. The Spirit of Bondage (Addiction) That’s the spirit of addiction.And we saw testimonies today of those who were set free from that bondage.

Now, listen to me: when you hear the brother say, “Look, I have these past two days or so, I have not had the urge,” you don’t understand the meaning of that. When a person is addicted and the spirit of addiction has come upon the person, there is nothing he will not do to get a fix. There is nothing he will not do.

How come you have people that are homeless, no place to stay, no food to eat, but there is drug to take? Because it’s a spirit of bondage that has kept them bound.

But I pray today that every spirit of bondage that has kept anybody bound in addiction, today that hold is broken over your life. If you believe it, say the loudest Amen! I said today, that hold is broken over your life in the name of Jesus Christ!

9. The Spirit of Idolatry That is the spirit of idol worship.It makes you worship things. Particularly in our day, the major god people worship is money. That’s the major god people worship. It’s money.

Exodus 32:31 – And Moses returned unto the LORD, and said, Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made them gods of gold.

They have made gods out of money. They have made gods of gold.

You remember the Bible says:

Matthew 6:24 -: “No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.”

We must begin to check our hearts. What really are you serving? Hear this: God is not your channel to use to get what you want. No. You serve God, and He gives you what He has. You don’t use God to get what you want.

I say all the time that God is not a means to an end. God is the means and the end. He should be both the object of your pursuit and the pathway to that object. That’s who God is.

So, let us come to the place where we can settle our destiny. Don’t let money rob you of your destiny in Christ. Shout Hallelujah! Don’t let it rob you of your destiny in Christ.

You see, if you cannot tame this, then you cannot conquer in the adventure of life. I pray for somebody hearing my voice: every hold of the god of gold upon any life shall be broken in the name of Jesus. If you believe it, say a loud Amen! I said, if you believe it, say a loud Amen!

You see, we have to come to a point where we can conquer these things that have held us bound.

Years ago, when I was just about to leave the U.S. to come back to Nigeria, God gave me an instruction. Every money that I had at that time, He told me to sow it as a seed. And after sowing it as a seed—I sowed my car, sowed everything I had, and sowed every money I had as a seed—just before I was to return, the church here was to buy some buses from the US. So they had sent money for me to go and make the payment for the buses.

I’d sowed everything. I’d given everything that I had. And that day I was to go and make a transfer for the money to the people that were to get the buses. And there was no money to even take transport to the bank. I trekked to the bank with money in my account that could buy many buses, but I would not touch one dime to transport myself to get there.

And I got to the bank, made the transfer. You can imagine a fleet of buses that were to be bought; the money was with me. But I would not spend one out of it to carry myself to do the assignment that they sent me to do. Why? My future was too big to be sold for a morsel of bread.

I was in courtship with my wife that day, in that period. I came out of the bank and I called my wife and I told her, I said, “Can you imagine where I am?” She said, “Where?” I said, “I’m in the bank.” She said, “Wow! How did you get there?” I said, “I trekked to the bank.” And I said, “Listen, this simple action that I’ve taken today is a guarantee that I can never see poverty.”

You see, we must come to a point where we refuse to bow to the god of gold. I was crossing American highways on foot to get to the bank to transfer money that was with me to buy buses on behalf of the church. But I know that even though it is in my account, it is not my money.

Is somebody getting what God is saying? You must come to a point where you refuse to bow to the god of gold. I pray for somebody here today that every hold of the god of gold upon any one of our lives shall be broken in the name of Jesus.

So we can see here all of these manifestations of the diverse operations of the forces of hell that are militating against our sanctification.

But it’s important to note that since all of these are simply oppressions of the powers of darkness, it will take light to conquer them. It would take light to conquer them. In fact, the only authority that darkness respects is the authority

Pastor Steve

Engaging the power of faith for unquestionable dominion – Pastor Steve Ogah – Day 3 Morning Session Word 2

AYAC 2025

21ST August 2025

Day 3: Morning Session Word 2

Topic: Engaging the power of faith for unquestionable dominion

Speaker: Pastor Steve Ogah

Very quickly, it is my privilege to be bringing the second shot of God’s word in this morning’s session. And this morning, we shall be looking, we’re getting directly into a very unique subject: Engaging the power of faith for unquestionable dominion.

Engaging the power of faith for unquestionable dominion! The kind of dominion that cannot be contested! The evidence is there! Is that alright? Amen! If you believe that this morning…

Something I’d like to begin this morning by establishing is this fact: that unquestionable dominion is the heritage of every child of God. Unquestionable dominion is the heritage, the birthright of every child of God. So if you’re born again, a child of God, unquestionable dominion is your birthright! It’s your heritage!

In fact, in these last days, God is releasing an army of giants from Zion! Many of them are seated right here  you didn’t hear me well many are seated right here! Many are connected across the globe on the platform of AYAC 2025! May your name not be missing among that army!

So, give us a picture of this end-time army!

Joel 2:2-5 A great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations.

A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.

The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses; and as horsemen, so shall they run.

Like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array. That’s you God is describing there! Are you hearing what I’m saying? Not somebody else! God is describing there: you! Your dominion will become more questionable upon your return from here!

One beautiful reality is this: dominion is being restored to the church of Christ!

Daniel 7:27: And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him. How many of them are here this morning? How many of them heard that this morning? Can I get another Amen to that!

It shall be given to the people of the saints of the most High! God is simply saying, in these last days, dominion, the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, is being transferred to us! Are you hearing what I’m saying? In every aspect of human life, the church is taking over! I’m talking about the church, I’m not talking about the structure, I’m not talking about a building, I’m talking about the people! And I’m talking about you sitting here this morning! Get ready!

In the field of technology, we are taking over! In real estate, we are taking over! In medical science, we are taking over! In banking and finance, we are taking over! A time is coming that the choicest in any field of life will be kingdom youths! And this will happen across the nations of the earth! Is your name on that list? Let it be loud and clear!

But faith! Faith is a non-negotiable spiritual force for dominion! Just myself: faith is a non-negotiable requisite for unquestionable dominion! In fact, everything in the Kingdom answers to faith! Hebrews 11:6 says: But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. So, as far as the kingdom of God is concerned, faith is key to man’s dominion! As far as the kingdom of God is concerned, faith is key to profitable living!

Mark 9:23 Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth. If thou canst believe, the impossible is possible! If thou canst believe, that closed door can be opened! If thou canst believe, before AYAC 2025 is over, you will testify! Your miracle job! If thou canst believe, your admission confirmation will open on the mountain of AYAC! Did you hear the testimony of our sister? She had been believing God for admission, and just yesterday, she got her admission! Boom! It has landed! That’s one person! Here, before the ninth session, boom! Your testimony will land!

A flood of testimonies! Come on, do you believe you’re on that list? Hey! In fact, many, we will have them in rapid succession! While you are thanking God for the first one, the second one will land! While you are shouting hallelujah for the second one, the third one will land! Someone here is turning the corner from horror to a commotion of testimonies!

But faith has unlimited capacity for growth! Unlimited capacity for growth! So no matter your faith level, there’s room for growth! There’s room for expansion!

2 Thessalonians 1:3 We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because that your faith groweth exceedingly. So no matter your faith level, there’s still room for growth and expansion!

And interestingly, the level of your faith dictates the degree of God’s manifestation! For it is unto you according to your faith! So when your faith level increases, the manifestation, of course, also increases! Yeah!

So the question we must answer this morning: What is faith? Watch this face! There are all kinds of teachings consistently on the subject of faith, but to help us expand our understanding this morning:

What is faith?

I’ve discovered there is nothing mystical about faith! And folks, there’s nothing religious about the subject of faith!

  1. let’s take a few definitions. Number one: Faith is being fully persuaded of the truth, the prevailing circumstances notwithstanding! Be! Don’t let your reality contradict your position and your standing in God! Of the truth of God’s word! Simply saying, if God said it in His word, that settles it!

Romans 4:17 – 21 we see the episode of the man Abraham. The Bible says concerning him: (As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were. Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations; according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be. And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah’s womb: He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God; And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform.

God had spoken to Abraham that he would be a father of many nations. The first year came, no sign, no sound. The tenth year came, no sign, no sound. The twentieth year came. People were mocking him, they were calling him names. Who is this hope? Abraham believed in hope that the word that God had spoken concerning him would ultimately come to pass!

I hear what he said, verse 19 quickly: And being not weak in faith… Come on, answer me in faith! So Abraham was not weak in faith! In spite of the reality… I don’t know what God has said concerning you, but you know the good news: it will ultimately come to pass! No matter how long you have waited for that breakthrough, no matter the names they have called you, congratulations! You came to AYAC 2025, you have a treaty with your testimony in your hand!

Abraham was fully persuaded that what God said concerning him would ultimately be established, and that is why he was not weak in faith! He did not stagger at the promises of God! He never doubted what God said, but was strong, giving glory to God! And verse 21: And being fully persuaded… Every one of us must come to a place where we know that this God that we serve, it is impossible for Him to lie! Any word that proceeds from the mouth of the Lord is the truth, and you can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth! Every time God speaks, it is as good as done! Every word that God has proclaimed over your life shall be established! So don’t be moved by what is going on!

I love the song: I’m not moved by what I see, I’m not moved by the things I hear, I’m only moved by the word of God! So if it is written, then it is established! All your enemies will smell it this time! Everyone that has mocked you and called your name before, they are about to decorate your destiny!

  • What is faith? Faith is obeying God to prove that you believe Him! Committing to Him to confirm His word! Faith is obeying God! The proof of faith is in your actions! Faith is obeying God to prove that you believe Him, so as to confirm His word in your life!

James 2:18, Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works. I will prove the integrity of my faith by my works! I will prove the validity of my faith by my works!

There are many of us; it’s time for us to put works to our faith! It’s time for us to begin to manifest the things that God has spoken concerning us! For instance, God has spoken concerning you that you’ll be joyfully married before Shiloh—uh, it’s time for you to begin to package yourself like someone that is ready to be covenantly married! As a young lady, you begin to package yourself! The kind of menu you’ll be cooking in your family house, begin to pack the color of curtains, let me say, where you’ll be arranging your family house! Don’t forget to conceive a lovely family picture! God has said to you, “Be fruitful,” and you have been on the line for many years? Begin to buy baby clothes! Arrange them! If you have a spare room in your house, turn it into a baby’s room! Your faith without your works is dead! I will prove to you the integrity of my faith by my works!

You know what the mother of Jesus said to them at the wedding of Cana in, His mother saith unto the servants

John 2:5 Whatsoever he saith unto you, do it. Don’t argue it, just do it! Don’t explain it, just trust it! So everything this word is saying concerning you, don’t ask why, just comply!

  • What is faith? Faith is not waiting for God to work! Stop waiting! Stop waiting! I love the testimony of the brother that shared this morning, he came for AYAC 2024, and he said he came with two t-shirts and a certain amount, now, can you imagine someone came to pick something, another person came to stay, shortening his stay? But he began to take steps of faith! He said upon his return from AYAC, he said to himself, “What am I sitting down in the house waiting for?” Too many of us are too lazy for the place that God wants to take us!

You wake up as a young man, you believe in God, and you slept from 7 PM last night, and you wake up at 9 AM and you are speaking in tongues, and they ask you, “You’re not going out?” “No, I’m believing God, my miracle job is on the way.” And you are idle as a full-grown man that is not sick, and you are walking around the house! He said the word came to him: “Why are you sitting down, wasting away?” And he got up and he took steps and he went out, and God ordered his steps! That same day, he met someone that needed his services, and he said before the close of that day, millions had landed in his account! Now if he was sleeping in his house, scrolling on social media, watching Netflix, as the first preacher said, with empty hands, he would have landed! So faith is not waiting! Faith is putting God’s word to work so as to commit the integrity of God to make good His promise!

Philippians 2:12: Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. Work it out! Walk it out! Walk it out! Stop waiting! Stop folding your hands! Stop lying around! Well, somebody’s catching fire from this mountain! It’s not that you that will go back home this morning! No!

But what is unique about Bible faith?

What makes Bible faith unique?

What makes it unique? What is the difference maker concerning Bible faith? Quickly!

  1. It taps into the power of God for our desired turnaround! It taps into the power of God! I’ve discovered that faith is man’s spiritual connector to the power of God! It connects man! It is the linkage between man and God’s power!

John 1:12: But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name. So the power to become is made available through the instrumentality of faith! Faith connects man to the power of God that has the capacity to stir up and provoke testimony! But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name. That is why in Luke chapter 8, we saw this woman with the issue of blood, and the Bible says concerning her that for many years she had been a victim in the hands of physicians! She had wasted all of her resources managing her health, and it was never getting better!

But this woman, full of faith, said in her heart, “If I may but touch the hem of his garment…”

Luke 8:43-44 And a woman having an issue of blood twelve years, which had spent all her living upon physicians, neither could be healed of any,

Came behind him, and touched the border of his garment: and immediately her issue of blood stanched.

And a woman having an issue of blood twelve years, which had spent all her living upon physicians, neither could be healed of any, Came behind him, and touched the border of his garment: and immediately her issue of blood stanched. Somebody here, immediately! That issue that you have carried for many years, this morning, as the word is going forth, it shall stanch!

One of the testifiers this morning said she had an issue of blood also, bleeding… someone, you know… one thing about faith: it has the capacity for an instant miracle on the spot! Speaking this morning by the word of the Lord, somebody is receiving a miracle on the spot! If you’re saying like a true believer?

  • It establishes active partnership with the Invisible! The invisible God! It establishes active partnership! It brings you side by side with God, the One who has the capacity to make all things happen!

Hebrews 11:5-6: By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God. But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him

It took faith for Enoch to enjoy translation! So before his translation, he had a testimony that he pleased God! So without faith, all of those testimonies would not have happened! What does that happen? So what does is to establish man’s partnership with the Invisible God! The One whom you cannot see with your naked eye, but you cannot deny His tangible evidence! The One who you don’t see here, you cannot deny His tangible manifestations! As I’m speaking right now, that invisible God is doing practical things in somebody’s life here!

You came here with any discomfort in your system? Any growth in your body? That invisible God will rip those things out of your system!

  • Faith has the power to quench all the fiery darts of the devil! How many darts? Come on, answer me today this morning! How many darts?

Ephesians 6:16: Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. All the fiery thoughts of the enemy! So it is a shield! Faith is the believer’s shield! When the enemy shoots, your faith will quench the arrows! That’s what it says! It has the capacity to quench every assault the enemy is shooting your direction! That’s why I know this morning, as your faith comes alive, as your faith level is enhanced, every arrow of the enemy will be stopped supernaturally! Now, honey, it’s an arrow that’s been stopped, and it will turn back to the head of the sender!

Faith brings God’s hand to bear on a man’s life for exploits! It brings God’s hand! It provokes the hand of God to rest upon a man, culminating in exploits!

Isaiah 53:1 Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed? So every time God finds faith, He shows forth His hand! Every time God finds faith, He shows forth His hand!

1 Kings 18, well said, the episode of the man Elijah! What a mighty prophet that man was! 1 Kings 18: 40-44 Elijah said unto them, Take the prophets of Baal; let not one of them escape. And they took them: and Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon, and slew them there. And Elijah said unto Ahab, Get thee up, eat and drink; for there is a sound of abundance of rain. Before that time, there had been drought, no rain! Ahab went up to eat and to drink. Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; and he cast himself down upon the earth, and put his face between his knees. That’s a kind of rocket prayer! And it began to travail! And servant, go up now, look toward the sea! And he went up and looked, and said, “There is nothing.” For the first six times, there was nothing! And it looked like nothing! That’s the story of Elijah here! And he said, “No sign.” And he said, “Go again.” Seven times! And it came to pass at the seventh time, that he said, Behold, there ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man’s hand, And he said, Go up, say unto Ahab, Prepare thy chariot, and get thee down, that the rain stop thee not.

There’s somebody here, your cloud is rising from AYAC 2025! Thank you! You’ve been on the line for that breakthrough testimony for many years! Congratulations! Congratulations, I said to you! Congratulations! The same way the miracle landed for Elijah, your own miracle will land! Catch it now! The drought you’ve waited for all these years, finally, your miracle is this time! I, I, you hearing me, somebody? Finally! Finally, your miracle is landing for you! The same way the men mocked you concerning it, God will decorate your destiny with it this time!

So faith brings the hand of God to be upon the life of a man! So when you need divine intervention, stir up your faith! If you need divine intervention for the hand of God to rest upon you to manifest signs and wonders, stir up your faith!

Pastor Seun

Espousing the bible as the Dream Book of Life – Pastor Seun Olubajo – AYAC Day 2 Morning session Word 1

AYAC 2025

21st August 2025

Day 3 Morning session Word 1

Topic: Espousing the bible as the Dream Book of Life

Speaker: Pastor Seun Olubajo

This morning, we are looking at Espousing the bible as the Dream Book of Life.

The word “espousing” is talking about marrying or becoming attached to someone or something, and in this case, we are talking of your Bible. And the Bible is our dream book, talking about the book that helps us to visualize our future in order for us to achieve the destiny that God has ordained for us.

Espousing the Bible as a dream book simply means getting attached to your Bible, which shows you and me our future and empowers us to fulfill the same. You will fulfill your destiny in the mighty name of Jesus!

Jeremiah 29:11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.

So, there’s an end that God has ordained for you before you were born. God has gone to the end before He came back to the starting point to create you and ask you to fulfill the destiny. But it’s important for you to know that everything about your life, God has concluded them before He created you. So, there’s no mistake in your creation.

Here’s what the Message translation of that scripture says:

Jeremiah 29:11 “I know what I’m doing. I have it all planned out plans to take care of you, not abandon you, plans to give you the future you hope for.”

For God is telling you that He has everything about your life and destiny all planned out. So, it doesn’t matter what you are going through; if you’re on the plan of God, it is actually the access to where you are going to.

Imagine what Joseph was going through; if it were to be you, many people would have cursed God and died. For everything that Joseph went through, from being a slave to being a prisoner, it was actually a pathway to where he was going to. So, when you are on God’s plan and purpose for your life, everything works together for your good.

I don’t know what you are going through, but as you align to God’s plan and purpose for your life, you will get to where you are going to in the mighty name of Jesus! If you believe that, let your amen show it!

It is important for you to know that your destiny and my destiny are all wrapped up in the Word.

Psalm 139:15-16 My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.

That is the totality of me. Everything about me, from my head to my toes, from the day I was born to the last day that I have on this earth, everything has been written in the book.

It’s important for you to know that the Word of God is the marketplace where you go for your raw material in order for you to create a glorious future for yourself. The Word of God. Your thought is a factory where your future can be manufactured—the Word of God.

But please understand that we live in a dreamer’s world. You cannot arrive at a destination you have not dreamed of. In fact, the Bible, which is the Word of God, is a dream book of life.

Isaiah 29:11-12 And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I cannot; for it is sealed: And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I am not learned.

What does that mean?

The Word of God has everything about your life, but the enemy has blinded our eyes for us not to see because he knows that once you see your future on the pages of scripture, he can never rupture your destiny any longer.

So, it is not just for the learned? No. Whether you are learned or not, you cannot access it; there’s something beyond it. It’s not just about reading it. Those deep things about your life and destiny in the Word, just like you can’t find glorious things on the street… you can’t find gold on the road, you can’t find crude oil on the road; they must be sought for.

My prayer is that God will open your eyes; you will see the glorious things that have been said concerning you. If you believe that, let your amen show it!

I remember the testimony yesterday of one of our sisters. She said she was working and praying to God for help to go to school, and an answer came. And what was the answer? He said, “As far as your eyes can see.”

How many of you remember the testimony yesterday? She said she began to see, and what happened? Somebody came and bought free JAMB for her, and in the package, free lessons. That was the first thing she saw that was delivered. She got admission to the University of Ibadan. And she also said that God has used her to break an academic siege in her family, that even her sister is in the university now.

What does that mean? It is what you see that God makes to come to pass in your life. It is what you see that you can seize from what God has ordained for you. And that’s why it’s important for you to just see everything that God has for you and me. It’s in the Word, but until you see it, you can’t seize it. Until you see, it cannot be your own.

I’m sure you remember the story of Jeremiah.

Jeremiah 1:11-12 Moreover, the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, Jeremiah, what seest thou? And I said, I see a rod of an almond tree. Then said the Lord unto me, Thou hast well seen: for I will hasten my word to perform it.

So, it is what you see that provokes God to perform in your life. If you can’t see anything, God cannot do anything.

Jeremiah also saw; He said, “Look from where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward: for all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it.” The question is this: What can you see?

And God has really vowed, which is a validity of what is written, that He is going to do for us.

Isaiah 34:16 Seek ye out of the book of the Lord, and read: no one of these shall fail, none shall want her mate: for my mouth it hath commanded, and his spirit it hath gathered them.

So, everything that God has spoken, everything that is written, whichever one that you see as far as your eyes can see that is how far you can go in life.

It’s important for you to know that there is no limit. Nobody wants destiny; it is how far your eyes can see. My prayer is this: Your eyes will see far in the mighty name of Jesus! I said your eyes will see far in the mighty name of Jesus! I said your eyes will see far in the mighty name of Jesus!

One of those days, Jesus saw what was written concerning Him. He saw; the Bible says He picked the book which was concerning Him in Isaiah chapter 61, and He read. And the Bible made us to understand that when He finished reading, He saw what was written concerning Him. And that is repeated in Luke chapter 4, and the Bible said when He saw what was written concerning Him, He handed the book to the minister. What does that mean? “I have seen what is written concerning me; you look for your own! You look for your own!”

And we saw how Jesus was going from one level to another. In fact, one of those days He said that anything that happened to Him was as it was prophesied. So, everything that happened to Jesus were the things that were said, written concerning Him. And the same was written concerning you.

And the good thing is this: when you see your future on the pages of scripture, no devil can stop the fulfillment of your glorious future!

One good thing I’ve discovered is this: our purpose has been established on the pages of scripture. Purpose is talking about the reason why God brought us to this world; our assignment on the earth. That’s purpose.

We saw concerning Jeremiah, and God said to him:

Jeremiah 1:5 Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.

meaning that God is the owner of your life and is the owner of purpose. But hear me: purpose aborted is purpose transferred. If you see Judas Iscariot, ask him; he aborted his purpose, and purpose was transferred to another person.

Do you know one thing I’ve discovered about purpose? Whether you like it or not, purpose must be fulfilled. If you refuse to fulfill it, God will transfer it to another person.

I checked my scripture and I discovered that it was Saul that God brought to become the king. Yes, the people prayed for it, and he was the one that God wanted to use. But when he misbehaved, God sought for another man, David.

One of these days, God said He regretted that He made Saul the king. May God not say that about you! God will not regret bringing you to this world.

But this is the way I see it: the God we serve is a Master Producer. He brought us into this world called life, which is the title of the film. And the concept of the world came to God’s mind. Hear me: He wrote the script of this world from the beginning of this world to the end of this world. He brought the script into different scenes. He got a location where the film will be acted the earth.

And God now needed a cast. He now began to bring all of us as cast. Now, take note: the success of any actor is the delivery of the script into his hands. An actor that doesn’t have his script, no matter how intelligent or how good he is in his place, he will not fit into the film. Why? Because he doesn’t have the script.

The question is this: who wrote the script? Who’s going to have the script? Man. And that is why it’s called scripture. Are you understanding what I’m saying?

So, it is the script that has designed your future. So, until you have access to your script, you are not part of God’s actors. Praise the Lord, somebody!

And you know the good news about it: before you’re formed, God made you who you are, how you are, and everything about you because of the script He’s written concerning you.

So, when people tell you talk too much, tell them, “This is how I can fulfill my destiny!” When people tell you that you’re too short, tell them, “If I’m too tall, where I’m going to pass, I would not be able to pass it!” When they tell you you’re too fat, tell them, “The pathway to my destiny is slim; I don’t have to be fat!” You know why? God didn’t make a mistake in creating you.

But until you see what’s written about you in the pages of scripture, you don’t have a future.

Very quickly, I have this question, and I’d answer:

How do I catch my dream from the pages of scripture?

  1. You must be in the Spirit. The dream book is a spiritual book, and to access what has been written concerning you, you must be in the Spirit.

1 Corinthians 2:14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

So, what does that mean? Until you tune in to the frequency of spirituality, you can’t hear or see heavenly news.

You know what we call a transistor radio. You want to go to any station; what do you do? You tune to their frequency. It is a frequency that you tune to that determines what you are hearing from the transistor.

It’s so important for you and I to know that the frequency to hear news from Heaven is spirituality.

Revelation 1:10 I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet

I was in the Spirit. Remember the God that we serve is a Spirit. The Word of God is Spirit.

John 6:63 It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.

So, it takes your spiritual connectivity for you to collect what is written about you from the book. So, without your connectivity, there’s no collectivity. Praise the Lord, somebody!

Revelation 4:1-2 We saw an experience on how there’s a need to collect something

After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter. And immediately I was in the spirit: and, behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne.

I want to believe that that’s about your destiny that is in the book. “Come up hither.” Come up; that is, come on this journey. “I want to show you the thing that has been written about you.”

Then verse 2: for him to have access to what has been written concerning him, and immediately what happened? “I was in the spirit…” And if you read further, they began to show him a whole lot of things.

So, for you to have access to what is written concerning you in the dream book, you must be what? Spiritual.

  • You must press your way into the dream book by prayers. You mustpress your way into the dream book by prayers.

Jeremiah 33:3 Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not

Beyond that, I will show you great and mighty things about your life and destiny that I’ve written concerning you that thou knowest not. But you must first of all call unto me. Call unto me. Call unto me. Call unto me.

In Psalm 119:18 Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.

The wonderful things You’ve written concerning me that will turn me a wonder, not a wonderer, to my world. Open thou mine eyes that I might see them.

  • Engage in spirited search. Engage in spirited search.

Luke 15:7-8 I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance. Either what woman having ten pieces of silver, if she lose one piece, doth not light a candle, and sweep the house, and seek diligently till she find it?

Now, to light the candle simply means to engage your spirit. It’s the engagement of your spirit in searching the scripture that makes you to have access to the wondrous things from the Word. Engage your spirit; don’t be carnal in seeking what God has written concerning you in the Word. Engage your spirit!

  • Maintain a qualitative watch. Maintain a qualitative watch.

You know why? Because only those who are watchful can catch the dream of their life from the scripture.

Habakkuk 2:1-3 I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will say unto me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved. And the Lord answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it. For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.

You know one thing I’ve discovered about God? Yes, you are so much willing to know what has been written concerning you, but I have come to realize that God is more willing for you to see than you are willing to see it. Because it’s God that brought you to this world to come and do His assignment.

So, God is more willing than for you to see it than you are willing to see it. But God knows that when you, which is His product, does well, other people will come to you and ask, “Show me your God,” and you’d take him to God, who’s the manufacturer, saying, “This is the person that shows me how to get my destiny and how to fulfill them.”

When you catch God’s dream for your life from the scripture, you will gain command in life. Somebody will gain commander in the mighty name of Jesus!

  • Pray for the anointing to see. Pray for the anointing to see.Eyes that look are many, but eyes that see are few.

In Revelation 3:18 Anoint thine eyes with eyesalve that thou mayest see.

Proverbs 20:12 The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the Lord hath made even both of them.

I saw this prayer, and every time I want to search for anything, I pray this prayer:

  • I think this is where we are missing it in this generation. Many of us have a schedule, but how many of us follow our schedule? Sometimes you just say, “Let me check the notifications that entered my phone,” and you begin to walk instead of you to be working in the covenant dream from the scripture.
Bishop David Oyedepo

The Power of Small Beginnings – Bishop David O. Oyedepo – AYAC Day 2 Evening Session

AYAC 2025

Date: 20th August, 2025
Session: Day 2 – Evening
Topic: The Power of Small Beginnings
Speaker: Bishop David O. Oyedepo

Introduction

Every golden future begins small. From the womb to the world, from seed to tree, from vision to manifestation—God always begins in seed form.

Zechariah saw a golden vision: a lampstand, a bowl, and seven lamps, all of gold. When he asked the angel for understanding, the Lord answered:

Zechariah 4:6,10
“Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the Lord of hosts…
For who hath despised the day of small things?”

God Values Small Beginnings

God cherishes the days of smallness because it is in them that character, vision, and faith are built.

Hebrews 3:4
“For every house is builded by some man; but he that built all things is God.”

Yet, He invites us to build with Him. You have a duty to build toward the future God has prepared for you. Vision without responsibility is spiritual daydreaming. Every builder must first lay a foundation—and no foundation is laid hastily.

Even Jesus Began Small

Though He was the Son of God, He came as a baby wrapped in swaddling clothes.

Luke 2:40
“And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, filled with wisdom: and the grace of God was upon him.”
Luke 2:52
“And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man.”

Greatness is never instant—it’s gradual. Growth must be embraced as a process, not skipped as an inconvenience.

Biblical Examples of Small Beginnings

  • Noah’s Family: After the flood, only eight people remained. From them, the earth was repopulated. “And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.”
  • Abraham: Left everything familiar with only a promise. Genesis 12:1
    “Get thee out of thy country… unto a land that I will shew thee.” Later, he defeated kings and was blessed by Melchizedek: Genesis 14:14,18–19
    “He armed his trained servants… And Melchizedek… blessed him.” Through Christ, we share in that blessing: Galatians 3:14
    “That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ…”
  • Joseph: From pit to prison to palace—he reigned in Egypt for 80 years because he remained faithful in the silent years.
  • Daniel and the Hebrew Boys: Though captives, they chose consecration. Daniel 6:3
    “An excellent spirit was in him; and the king thought to set him over the whole realm.”

Jesus’ Teaching on Small Beginnings

Mark 4:31–32
“It is like a grain of mustard seed… when it is sown, it groweth up, and becometh greater than all herbs.”

If God works through small beginnings, they must never be dismissed.

Vision and Purpose

Vision is about what God wants us to do—not just what we want to become.

Genesis 12:2–3
“I will make of thee a great nation… and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.”

Blessing comes on assignment.

  • Moses: Called by God to deliver Israel. Exodus 3:10
  • Gideon: Sent to save Israel. Judges 6:14
  • Paul: Called and separated. Romans 1:1

Vision is God-assigned, not self-generated. Faith must be matched with responsibility.

Building with God

Acts 20:32
“The word of His grace… is able to build you up.”

Build capacity to contain what you’re asking God for. Don’t chase pleasure at the expense of progress.

Proverbs 21:17
“He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man…”
Proverbs 24:27
“Prepare thy work… and afterwards build thine house.”

Building always precedes comfort.

Promotion Comes from God

Psalm 75:6–7
“Promotion cometh… from God: he putteth down one, and setteth up another.”

Psalm 131:1–2
“Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother.”

Wait for God’s timing. Move at His pace.

Build in Stages

Deuteronomy 7:22
“The Lord… will put out those nations before thee by little and little…”

You don’t go from bicycle to airplane overnight. Master each level.

This ministry began with four people. Then ten. Then twenty. Then forty. Never despise the day of small things.

Spiritual Stamina and Silent Seasons

Giants aren’t born—they’re built. Build your prayer life, Word level, and library.

Silent seasons are sacred seasons:

  • Joseph waited 13 years.
  • Moses waited 40.
  • David was anointed at 17, crowned at 30.
  • Jesus began ministry at 30.

Luke 3:23
“Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age.”

God works deeply in obscurity.

Matthew 5:5
“Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.”
Philippians 2:8–9
“He humbled himself… Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him.”

Personal Responsibility

You are responsible for 75% of your growth.

Galatians 1:16–17
“I conferred not with flesh and blood… but went into Arabia.”

Private disciplines shape public fruit. Vision has a time.

Ecclesiastes 3:1
“To every thing there is a season…”

God may show you a plane, but say, “Your time shall come.” Don’t launch prematurely.

Closing Exhortation

Receive grace to stay planted.
Receive grace to remain faithful.
Receive grace to build without applause.

Your small beginning is not your final destination—it is the foundation of a future that will last.

In Jesus’ name, Amen.