24/04/2025
APRIL 2025: I AM REDEEMED A WONDER TO MY WORLD – John 3:8
EASTER FAITH CONVENTION 2025 - INFALLIBLE PROOFS - Acts 1:3
Monday, 21 April 2025 | Day 4 | Impartation Service
Minister: Bishop David Olaniyi Oyedepo
Message Title: UNVEILING THE RESURRECTION ROOT OF OUR SPIRITUAL AUTHORITY - Part 6
Focus: PASSION FOR GOD ENHANCES THE SPIRITUAL AUTHORITY OF BELIEVERS
Introduction
- New Era connotes new chapters, new dawns, new beginnings, and things never known or seen before.
- Jesus, without any official status, invaded the temple and made whips and got out unchallenged - John 2:13-17
"Passion for God confers spiritual authority" - John 4:33-34.
"Passion for God gives you authority over physical limitations"
- Paul the Apostle was a mystery - 1 Cor. 9:16-17, Phil. 1:21, Acts 28:1-6
"Passion for God endues with spiritual authority"
"To be passionate is to be defenceless" - Gen. 12:1-4, 17:11, 18:26-27
"Passion for God drives you towards what God loves"
- Moses chose to suffer affliction. He demonstrated raw authority over Pharaoh and his tasksmasters.
"It is ignited love that culminates in passion. When love gets on fire, passion comes alive"
"Every believer's ultimate position in this Kingdom is a function of your passion for God"
"Whatever makes more meaning than God disqualifies you"
"Passion for God is what defines every believer's ultimate position with God"
"Unction flows through passion. The more passionate a man, the more the unction that flows through him"
- There is no place that genuine passion for God cannot take a man - 1 Cor. 2:9, Judges 6:1-14
- Elijah's passion for God catapulted him into the heavenlies - 1 Kings 18:21, 19:10-14
"You can't be passionate for God and not know"
"Everybody has passion, but passion for different things"
"Passion moves you"
"Many people have passion, but only a few have passion for God"
- What gave David his place was passion. David, a man with a heart for God - 1 Sam. 17:32-50
"David was driven by his passion for God"
- Nehemiah's passion made God grant him dangerous favour - Neh. 2:8
"Passion for God brought Nehemiah into new realms of authority"
"What you would do if God keeps advancing your level is what will tell you your passion for Him"
"We need sustainable passion to keep experiencing God's glory and favour in our lives"
"You can't motivate a non-passionate man into action"
- As our passion for God keeps growing, our spiritual authority is enhanced — it grows to match - 1 John 16:16.
- As we grow in love, we are getting filled in the process with passion for God - Eph. 3:19, Jer. 32:17
- We step into the realms of boundless authority; as our love begins to grow, our divine content and spiritual authority begin to grow along - Eph. 3:17-19
- Love has an ultimate capacity for growth.
"As you live your life for God, there is nothing to fear" - 1 John 4:14
"When you grow in love, the things that others fear will fear you"
- It is our ignited love for God that culminates in our passion for God. This is what makes believers more than conquerors because of divine covering - Psa. 24:7
"You dwell in love; you dwell in God. The more you're in love with God, the thicker His covering"
"Every grace available in your spiritual family is your right" - Matt. 10:8
"When you find passion manifesting itself without any struggle, it is a gift" - James 1:17, Matt. 10:8, Eccl. 3:14
- Passion that cannot be seen is fake - 2 Kings 10:16, John 2:13-17, Matt. 15:32-36, 9:36, 14:14, Mark 6:34
IF THE LOVE FOR GOD IS AT THE ROOT OF THE PASSION FOR GOD, WHAT IS LOVE?
1. Love is a God-first lifestyle - Psa. 34:10, Matt. 22:36-20
2. It is a Kingdom-priority lifestyle - Matt. 6:33
3. It is placing God above all else, including one's self - Luke 14:26
4. It is loving what God loves and hating what He hates - Psa. 139:21-22, 1 John 2:15-17
5. It is making God our point of reference on all issues - Psa. 119:97
"No civilisation will ever overcome the Truth" - 2 Cor. 13:8
"Don't classify any issue as personal to yourself. The Bible covers all the world" - 2 Peter 1:4
"We should make God our point of reference on all issues as a show of our love for Him" - John 14:21
"We are in the era of the lovers of God. Every lover of God is ordained to be a high flyer in life"
"Love for God does not reduce people; it promotes them"
"You can't love God and not know that you do"
"You get to a point in your love for God that when someone touches you, they touch Jesus" - Zeph. 2:8
WHAT IS IN OUR LOVE FOR GOD?
1. Love enhances unimpeded access to revelation - John 15:15, Isa. 60:1, Psa. 119:140, Isa. 60:22
"Love qualifies us for the realms of revelations that no effort in study can ever take you to"
- The word of God opens unusual doors to revelation - 1 Cor. 2:9-10
2. Love empowers our faith to deliver maximally - 1 Cor. 13:2, Gal. 5:6
"Faith works to the level of our love for God"
3. Our love for God empowers obedience that engenders supernatural breakthroughs - Deut. 28:1, John 14:21
4. Love empowers believers to live a failure-proof life - 1 Cor. 13:8
"Genuine love for God puts believers above failure"
5. Love enhances access to the anointing - Psa. 89:20-24, 1 Cor. 2:10, Acts 2:30
"Every genuine lover enjoys fresh oil" - Psa. 24:5
"Every genuine lover enjoys a fresh flow of unction; they don't run oil dry"
"Christianity can be very tormenting if you don't have the right keys"
6. Love makes the believer indestructible - SoS. 8:6, Dan. 3:16-18/23, Heb. 12:29
"There is a yielding of the body when you love God"
7. Love enhances access to wisdom from above - 2 Sam. 14:20, 1 Kings 3:7, 4:31
8. Love enhances our access to supernatural wealth - 1 Chron. 29:3-12
"When you are in love with God, you have affection towards things of the Kingdom"
9. Love engenders access to divine strength - Isa. 40:20-31
"When you are in love, you are wearing God" - Isa. 40:28
10. When love is at work in us, great things keep happening on their own accord because you are under God's covering, and what can't stop Him can't stop you - Matt. 6:33
- In conclusion, the love of God comes upon you afresh - 2 Tim. 1:7, Rom. 5:5
SOME PROOFS OF BEING IN LOVE WITH JESUS
- Genuine love for God produces unequal passion for God in the believer.
- Genuine love for God opens the door to encounters with God.
- Genuine love for God gets believers addicted to Kingdom promotion.
- Genuine love for God makes the believer committed to the study of the Word - Psa. 119:97-100
- Genuine love for God makes the believer addicted to fellowship - 84:1-11
- Genuine love for God makes the believer have passion for souls - John 21:15-17
- Genuine love for God engenders delightsome obedience - Psa. 112:1-3
- Genuine love for God secures commitment to stewardship; serving God becomes a thing of joy and delight.
- Genuine love for God engenders delightsome commitment to giving towards Kingdom advancement endeavours.
- Genuine love for God opens your eyes to the needy around you and helping according to the blessings of God upon your life - Psa. 41:1-3
"'Do you love me?' is first a choice before it is empowered to sustain it in and out of season"
"Stop playing politics in church; just love Jesus"
"Every of your positions with God is absolutely to your benefit"
"God will not be any more God than He is, no matter what the believer does" - John 21:15-17
"God is not a respecter of persons. You can't love God like Abraham did and not get what he got"
"Passion will give you motion"
"Passion for God will translate into passion for His Word"
"When you hear stories, check the stories behind the story"
"Your passion for God is key to your destination"
ON THE MANTLE:
- The clothing materials are carriers of the unction of the priest - 2 Kings 2:4, Acts 19:11-12
ON THE ANOINTING OIL:
- The anointing oil becomes the conveyor of the Spirit of the Lord - 1 Sam. 16:13
HOW TO MAKE THE MOST OF THESE 40 DAYS POST-RESURRECTION SEASON
1. Walk in the Spirit - 2 Cor. 5:7, Gal. 5:25
2. Watch in the Spirit.
3. Engage in prayer and fasting on topical issues of interest.
"Don't embark on mere fasting; let it be a quest for answers to probing questions"
"Only those who ask questions receive answers"
4. Engage in the study of the Word and anointed books that address your area of interest - Heb. 1:1-3
"Get committed to the Word"
"We connect with an encounter with Him through the Word"
"The gifts (of Christ's resurrection) are real. If you don't service the gifts, they won't deliver"
"God does not pay leaders; He pays labourers" - Luke 10:1-7
- Through these 40 days, we will unveil the mysteries of the Kingdom that will position you for higher realms of spiritual authority - Acts 24:14, 1:3