15/09/2021
WE NEED A RENEWED VALUE FOR KNOWLEDGE!
Bishop David Oyedepo
*Not all this âCONFESS AND PROCLAIM AND CLAIM.â
âMy mentor Copeland said, the Lord said to him, âGo back to all the teachings of Hagin since 1962.â He turned 84 last week and he is refreshing to step into the next phase of his ministry.â
Thatâs how giants of faith are built!
Faith does not drop on people, Faith is a virtue that demands the personal responsibility of everyone that desires to see it grow.
Romans 10:17
Without enlisting in the School of Faith, you canât grow your Faith.
Without enlisting in the School of Faith under accredited Faith Masters, you canât grow your Faith.
Without enlisting in the School of Faith under God ordained Faith Masters, you canât grow your Faith.
That is validated by the giants of Faith in our contemporary times.
You must enlist in the School of Faith under God ordained Faith Masters who also are graduates of the School of Faith under the Masters before them.
You canât learn tailoring from a motor mechanic workshop. You canât fashion designing from a bakery.
Kenneth Hagin said, âI read all I could lay my hands upon of Smith Wigglesworth until something of him rubbed off me.â He never met him once, he just was a student of the school of faith, he was a student of Wigglesworthâs school of faith.
He had a clean Word of Faith mandate but he needed to school himself.
I had a global Word of Faith mandate from the Lord, after an 18 hour long vision: Iâve been in the Haginâs School of Faith since 1976.
Ephesians 4:11-13, Romans 10:15
You learn anything from those who have it; those who donât have it canât give it. You canât give what you donât have (Acts 3:6).
The Ministry of Frederick K.C Price opened up as he read the book, âDelivered from Sickness, Poverty and Deathâ: little book that by Kenneth Hagin wrote, that opened up that ministry.
It was from the writings of Oswald J Smith that I caught the light and fire of Matthew chapter 6 verse 33: the book titled âThe man God uses.â That gave a clear bearing for my life, I was 22 years old.
It was from the writings of T.L Osborne that I heard the voice of the Spirit of God for the first time: âGo Forwardâ â majestic, baritonic, unmistakable; that voice hasnât changed since I caught the first time.
âThis is the placeâ â you canât hear the voice of your father and not know. Youâll know it.
I read that book in one sitting, I was arrested by the Holy Ghost and He connected me to destiny.
No guess work here!!!
You can only access it from those who have it. Thatâs the humility we must have to learn.
Recently I stated by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit:
âWhat you donât know, you donât know
What you wonât learn, you canât learn know
What you donât know, you will pay for itâ (Hosea 4:6).
What you donât know, will cost you something: stagnation, frustration, devastation (Isaiah 5:13, Hosea 4:6)
Our cell system was crawling and by the year 2011, I said No. I bought 400 copies of the book of Yonggi Cho on âBuilding Successful Home Cellsâ and gave it out to 400 Pastors in Lagos: I said for each one to study, then we gather and find out:
- what we should be doing that we are not doing,
- what we should be doing that we are doing,
- what we should be doing but we are not doing well enough.
Cells skyrocketed from 3,000 to about 16,000 by the following year.
You want Church growth: learn at the feet of those that are sent to set the pace for what you are looking for and register in their school to acquire it.
I sat with the books of Kenneth Copeland, my very revered mentor and began to devour it: suddenly light broke out from heaven; changed my perspective, changed my position and this is the grace of God today. The least concern of my life is finance! The least of the least forever.
- If it is needed, it is a snap of the finger, without calling on any man under heaven.
- We saw Covenant University built in 7 months. One of the first generation banks came down here and said, âwhich bank is bankrolling this project?â
- Relax: we are bankrolled from where you donât know. Bankrolled from heaven.
Many are struggling Night and Day because they wonât learn.
Just take the book, âUnderstanding Financial Prosperityâ and ask God to open your eyes to see what is being said.
Take the book, âBreaking Financial Hardshipâ and ask God to show you what it takes.
Many are struggling in Ministry but will they read âExploits in Ministryâ? No
How will they know it? Never
I read â6 Steps to Excellence in Ministryâ by Kenneth Copeland â powerful. I have up to 10 copies of it in my shelf. It helps to define the reality of take off and the excitement of continuity.
Everything about life thrives on knowledge. You canât have a change of level in the School of Faith without learning at the feet of the masters, God sent masters who also are graduates of other masters before them. Thatâs the way it works.
We were in Kenneth Haginâs office one day: there he was, reading the book of T.L Osborne on the âFaith that Works.â You mean an Evangelist, a celebrated Word of Faith Apostle on âThe Faith That WorksââŚwith a smile.
You read Haginâs book: you are reading from a reader. Itâs not this protein kind of writing that does not have any base. You are reading from those who have proved what they know, what they have acquired from other sources (1 Corinthians 8:2).
ââŚgreater works shall he do alsoâ (John 14:12)
The question is where am I now in that process?
Thatâs what drives me: where am I now in that process? Doing beyond what Jesus did, Doing exactly what He did; but many of us will get there by untiring commitment to taking responsibility in building our faith.
My mentor Copeland said, the Lord said to him, âGo back to all the teachings of Hagin since 1962â
So he went and chartered all the materials, to refresh himself, to step into the next phase of his ministry. He turned 84 last week and he is refreshing to step into the next phase of his ministry.
How old are we?
The Lord told him, âget back to the teachings of Hagin from 1962â; he went back, carted all the CDs and everything he could get.
âWhatâs going on thereâ
âWell, I took some rest and I listened to Haginâ
Thatâs how giants of faith are built!
I returned from a trip, my wife said, âwhat did you come back with?â
I said: come and see. Weâve always had a library in my home from Day 1 that we got marriedâŚI opened the first box â books.
The second box â books. She said âwhat else?â, I said, âthatâs all else.â
I said, âthe contents of these books can make me a manufacturer of those things I would have bought.â
You need a renewed value for knowledge. There are many encounters God has reserved for you but your faith is not developed enough to carry it. You need capacity to receive.
To prove that you receive, you pursue. Itâs not all these floating, confess and proclaim and claim.
You need capacity. Our faith capacity must change level to maximize any encounter with God. consciously cultivated, no assumptions.
God has a lot of âChange of Levelsâ Packages but can your faith handle it?
James 1:13
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