17/04/2025
APRIL 2025: I AM REDEEMED A WONDER TO MY WORLD – John 3:8
EASTER FAITH CONVENTION 2025 - INFALLIBLE PROOFS - Acts 1:3
Thursday, 17 April 2025 | Day 1 | Encounter Night (Opening Night)
Minister: Bishop David Olaniyi Oyedepo
Message Title: UNVEILING THE RESURRECTION ROOT OF OUR SPIRITUAL AUTHORITY - Part 1
Ref: Eph. 1:17-23 2:6
NOTES
Introduction
- God deals with us as individuals - Isa. 51:1-3
- God does not save groups; He saves individuals - John 3:16
"There is no group salvation"
- God does not empower groups; He empowers individuals - Acts 2:2-4, 10:44
- The Word does not enter into groups; the Word enters individuals - Psa. 119:130
- The Spirit of the Word does not enter groups; it enters individuals - Ezek. 2:2
"Faith requires patience for maximum delivery"
"The First Adam was a living soul, and the Second Adam was a Quickening Spirit" - Rom. 8:11
"Be personal in your expectations. Be personal in your positioning"
"Expectation is what sets the stage for God's manifestation" - Luke 8:45, Mark 10:47-52
- Expectation is God's wisdom towards realising our desired destination - Prov. 24:13-14
"Nobody else's expectation can counter your expectation" - Hab. 2:4, Heb. 11:1
WHAT ARE WE TO EXPECT IN THIS CONVENTION?
1. Expect to see the veil covering your eyes taken off. That is, free access to the world of revelations - Heb. 13:8, Matt. 27:50-54, Isa. 25:6-8, 2 Cor. 3:14-16
"It takes the veil being taken off for the grave to be swallowed up in victory" - Isa. 25:8
2. Expect raw encounters with the power of His resurrection with Infallible Proofs - Acts 1:3, Eph. 1:18- 20
"Resurrection is the mystery behind the greatness of His power. Every genuine encounter with that power brings about signs and wonders that cannot be denied" - Acts 4:16
"God's power is domiciled in His Word"
3. Expect all your enemies to surrender to you through the power of His resurrection - Psa. 66:3, Eph. 2:6, 1:21
4. Expect new chapters to open up in your life through visions and revelations - 2 Cor. 3:18
5. Expect to return with next level spiritual authority that will put you in command of signs and wonders - Luke 9:1, Eph. 2:6, 1:21, Matt. 28:18-19
6. Expect to return with a supernatural order of change of story testimonies - 1 Cor. 15:42-45
7. Expect an encounter with the Ressurected Christ that will culminate in your breakthrough.
UNVEILING THE RESURRECTION ROOT OF OUR SPIRITUAL AUTHORITY - Eph. 1:17-23, 2:6
- We are redeemed as kings and priests to rule on earth - Psa. 115:16, Rev. 5:9-10
"'He raised Him from the dead' is the very source of our spiritual authority"
"Prayers are not answered on a beggarly platform" - Heb. 4:16
"It is what we speak boldly with the authority that we have in Christ that is answered"
- Our spiritual authority is domiciled in His resurrection, which has positioned us to have dominion, but most believers are ignorant of this - Matt. 7:28-29
"We need the spiritual authority-consciousness to overcome the beggarly siege that has overcome the Church" - Luke 4:36
"There must be authority-consciousness for our declaration to turn to manifestation"
- Every child of God is ordained to exercise dominion over circumstances - John 5:19
- For this reason, we must start praying, speaking, and thinking as one having authority - Phil. 2:3-11
- We must start taking steps as one with authority - Exo. 14:14-15, Psa. 114:3
- Jesus Christ is called the Root of David - Rev. 5:4-5, 3:7-8, 1:8
- Our authority has its root in Christ — the Root of David.
"The root of our spiritual authority is the Resurrected Christ; that is where our strength is"
"Resurrection is by faith, and it is by faith that we exercise authority" - Heb. 11:33-34, 1 Cor. 15:12-17
"Our faith draws its strength from the Resurrected Christ"
"It is by faith that we exact our spiritual authority"
"Our faith draws strength from the Resurrected Christ to find expression"
- But we must remain connected to the Root if we must continue to partake of the root and the fatness of the olive - Rom. 11:17-18
"Stay connected to the Root; it (your authority) will be flowing naturally"
- The destiny of every tree anchors on its fruits - Matt. 7:16,20
- The future of every tree is determined by its root - Matt. 7:19
- The fruitfulness of every tree is drawn from the root - Isa. 61:3, 5:1-13, Rev. 22:3
"Any tree without a root is dead or does not exists"
"As a tree of life, we must anchor our faith in the Resurrected Christ to remain in command" - Acts 5:28, 38-42
"Anchoring your understanding and faith in the resurrection of Christ is something that the kingdom of darkness cannot handle"
- Note that spiritual authority begins with a valid (conscious) new birth experience, not a cosmetic or association or church membership new birth - Heb. 2:3
"You can't empower the dead" - 1 John 5:12
"You can't be in darkness and experience authority over the kingdom of darkness" - Col. 1:13