Let the sons of God in the house shout hallelujah! We are redeemed by the blood through the love of Christ; that song says ‘what manner of love that the Lord has given to us’. If only we can reflect on these things that the Lord has done for us individually and collectively, perhaps we’ll be better people and better Christians; my prayer for every one of us this morning is that God will give us the understanding of His words and of His love in the mighty name of Jesus.
What a good God You are and what a wonderful day that You have made. Thank You because from the hymnal, You’ve declared to us once again that today is a good day, a day we’ll never forget in a hurry; You also made it known to us that there shall be restoration of blessings, Lord please accept our thanks in Jesus name.
Lord, for every one of us here and those who are listening to us and perhaps those who will join us in the course of this service, Lord, let there be restoration of blessings; let all the beautiful promises you have dished out through the hymnal this morning and even the choir ministration be accomplished without any delay in Jesus name.
Today is the last Sunday in the month of October; thank You for all that You have done so far; thank You because You always reserve the best for the last, we ask Lord in the name of Jesus that this year will not end until You have blessed us in Jesus name. Have Your way in our life; speak to us like never before; Father, let good things happen here today; let everyone under the influence of my voice experience goodness today and let Your name be glorified, in Jesus wonderful name we have prayed.
I want to say good morning to every one of you and I want to say that I’m happy to see your faces again and I trust God very deeply and strongly too that today will be a remarkable day for every one of us, and of course it’s going to be a signpost of a new beginning for every one of us, in every area of our lives in the mighty name of Jesus. The Lord will bless us and the Lord will meet us at the points of our needs in the name of Jesus.
We would like to appreciate every one of you for your support, for your encouragement and for your prayers; my prayer for every one of us is that you will never walk alone in Jesus name.
By the grace of God, the vision 2032 of the mission of course whose way and we want to encourage everyone of us to key into it, do our best and of course let’s run with the vision, and has being mandated by the authority, let’s ensure we share the love of Christ with people and bring them to the church and the Lord
Almighty will crown your effort with success in Jesus name.
By the grace of God, tomorrow, we’ll be having our last prayer chain for the month and the theme for tomorrow is “God has made me laugh”; God will make you laugh in Jesus name; by the grace of God, you will begin to laugh from this moment, praise the Lord! Your laughter will be clear, it will be deep and it will be loud in the name of Jesus. Genesis 21:6 is our reference, so please be part of it and I can assure you, you will be blessed.
Isaiah 61:7 – today is the last Sunday of the month, we want to encourage ourselves and we want to pray and I trust God, He will hear and answer every prayer we’ll pray today in Jesus name. He said “For your shame ye shall have double”. Look, today is a day of prophetic declaration, I’m going to prophesy into your life and whether you believe it or not, none of those words will return back to God void today; in your life, God will honor His word in the mighty name of Jesus.
He said “For your shame ye shall have double; and for confusion they shall rejoice in their portion: therefore in their land they shall possess the double: everlasting joy shall be unto them”. It’s a season of laughter, you will see the synergy of what is going on and that tells you that whatever is being done here is being divinely orchestrated, there is nothing carnal, yes we are carnal men but we are the carrier of the Holy Spirit and through the grace of the Lord, the Spirit is having His way and I pray in the name of Jesus that now and forever, the Spirit of God will continue to find expression in our midst in the name of Jesus. It’s a season of double portion, you will not be passed by.
So this morning I’m going to talk on the topic “Double for Your Shame or Double for Your Trouble”, any way you want it, put it there but the word of God will find you out this morning. The word ‘double’ means consisting of two parts; anytime you hear double, it means that it consists of more than one part; the word ‘double’ means consisting of two equal parts or identical of similar parts of stuff. Double also means twice as much or as many; twice the amount or extent; therefore, when God says I will give you double, what He is simply saying is that He will give you as twice, as much as you deserve or you request for and today is your day of double blessing, double grace, double honor, double lifting, double of every good thing that your heart desires, if you believe, shout hallelujah!
From our Bible reference, he said for your shame ye shall have double; and for confusion they shall rejoice in their portion: (he said) therefore in their land they shall possess double: (and he said) everlasting joy shall be unto them. Isaiah here was talking to the children of Israel and by grand reformation, the nation of Israel went through a lot of bad times, they disobeyed God severally and worshipped foreign gods, which of course at regular interval led them to being taken captives into exile and (like I said) at different times.
However, a time came like today that God decided to intervene in their situations and of course to give them double for their trouble, and this singular action of God reminds me of the fact that God’s anger is for a moment, according to Psalms 30: 5;
it says, “For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favor is life”: the anger of the Lord is for a moment, but His favor is for a lifetime.
Our text today (for me) also looks very much like God is saying it is your season of restoration and recovery; it’s a moment that God wants to undo what the enemies have done to you; it’s a time of repossession, you will repossess what you have been dispossessed of. You know you cannot talk of repossession without having been dispossessed; you repossess what you owned before and lost; I pray in the name of Jesus that whatever it is that you have lost in the past, today is your day of repossession.
In Obadiah 1: 17, the Bible says “But upon Mount Zion shall be deliverance, and there shall be holiness; and the house of Jacob shall possess their possessions”. Brethren, something is telling me this morning that it is time to take back; how many of you are ready to take back what belongs to you? You want to take back what you have been dispossessed of, you want to take back what you have lost; say it to your neighbor, ‘it is time for me to take back’ and you must be ready to effect that take back because the Bible says right from the time of John the Baptist unto this present time, (it says) the kingdom of God suffereth violence and the violence taketh it by force.
It is only those who come to the presence of God with purpose that will go back home with miracles. If you just come without having anything in mind, you’ll go back home without having anything to think about, but if you have come to the presence of the Lord, believing God that today is my day of ‘take back’, I want to take back, I want to repossess, I can assure you, at the end of the day, you will see that the Lord would have visited you. I pray in the mighty name of Jesus that nothing will hinder your take back today in the name of Jesus Christ.
Brethren, you have been invested with the authority and the mandate to take back everything that you need to take back, and I want to say at this juncture that I don’t know what you have lost in the past, I don’t know the humiliation or reproach that you have suffered, I don’t know what it is that have been taken away from you but one thing I know this morning is that you will recover them in the mighty name of Jesus. Every lost shall be recovered in the mighty name of Jesus.
God said to the children of Israel, He said for your shame you will have double; and for confusion you will rejoice in your portion; meaning that for their shame they will have double honor, and for their humiliation or reproach, they will rejoice in God because God is our portion, and when you talk about portion, portion means inheritance, praise the Lord! Say to your neighbor, ‘the Lord is your portion’, say ‘the Lord is my portion’, say it together ‘the Lord is our portion’.
Portion means inheritance; so anywhere and anytime you hear about portion, they are talking about something very keen, something fundamental, something that is critical to your existence as a man or a woman; portion means inheritance; portion means allotment: when you hear allocation, allotment; allocation – that has been allocated to you, so what they are saying is that that has been given to you, that is your own portion. I pray today in the name of Jesus, you will get fat allocation; your allotment will be substantial.
When you hear every month that the federation account, these Governors and others go to Abuja to share allocation, praise the Lord!! And you would have observed that whenever allocations are made, dollar rate will go up; unfortunately they do some under current business; some of them convert security vote to dollars, God will have mercy because allocation is meant to take care of the people – fix the road, fix infrastructure, give us electricity, give us pipe borne water.
Three days ago, somebody came to me and he was drinking from the tap and I was doing like this and said you are drinking from the tap; he said oga, you are not in Nigeria; because it will be suicidal for you to now go to the tap in Nigeria – is any tap still running in Nigeria by the way? Praise the Lord! Except your private taps because everybody here now is a government, praise the Lord! But I pray in the name of Jesus that God will turn the tide for us, He will turn the tide in our favor in the mighty name of Jesus.
So portion means allotment; portion means source of security and finally, portion means hope. I stand on this exalted altar this morning, I prophesy and I decree that your expectation shall not be cut off. I have good news; it’s good news that God placed on my heart this morning to let you know that your expectations shall not be cutoff and your hope will not be dashed in the mighty name of Jesus
Christ and guess what, that is in line with our watchword for the year 2023, Ecclesiastes 9: 4, it says “For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion”.
Let me tell you: we are neither dog nor lion, we are human being, we carry the image of Christ, we are the sons of God and daughters of authority; the Lord is our hope, the Lord is our portion, the Lord is the source of our security. When mommy came to give the opening prayer and she was referred to Psalm 91: 1 where the Bible says ‘he that dwelleth in the secret place shall abide under the shadow of the almighty God and I shall say of the Lord…’, it’s talking about our portion; He’s our portion because the Lord is the source of our security. I pray in the mighty name of Jesus that from now on, yourself, your children, everyone that is connected to you will enjoy divine cover in the name of Jesus.
Beloved, God is our all in all, praise the Lord! No shaking; tell your neighbor ‘no shaking’, it doesn’t matter what is going on, God will defend His own; it doesn’t matter the situation, God will feed His own; it doesn’t matter what is going on, I can assure you, you will not eat from the dunghill in the mighty name of Jesus. David said, ‘I am young but now I’m old, but I have never seen the righteous forsaken nor his children begging for food’, you will not beg for food.
And let me declare into your life that your life from today will be better than your life in the past in the mighty name of Jesus Christ. You may be going through challenges, you may say Pastor, if only you understand, if only you are aware, if only you know – I don’t need to know, the Bible says weeping may endure to the night, (it says) but joy cometh in the morning; your story is going to change, your testimony is going to change, you are going to sing a new song and God is going to take a new shape in your life. God has done it before; Jesus the same yesterday, today and forever; what He has done before, He will do again.
Tell your neighbor, God is waiting to honor you; God is waiting to restore everything you have lost; God is waiting to give you back in double measures; He will fill you with everlasting joy in the mighty name of Jesus Christ. Don’t throw in the towel, don’t sign off yet; the Bible says the joy of the Lord is our strength; it says don’t be like them without hope; why must you go and jump into the lagoon when God has taken care of you already, all you need to do is to wait for your time.
A man of God says if you come before your time, you will expire before your time comes. God has made everything beautiful in His time, don’t kill yourself, in fact, wipe that out of your medulla oblongata from today; wipe that out, wipe it off, you must fulfill your day, delete it; don’t ever plunge yourself to a state of despair like my friend Elijah who sat under the tree, ‘God just kill me, take my life’; the Bible says in the Book of Job, there is yet hope for a tree, just a button is required, press the button; it says at the touch of water, it will sprout back. Press the button of faith, key into the word of God and you’ll see yourself bounce back. Tell your neighbor ‘you are bouncing back’; ‘I am bouncing back’, in the name of Jesus Christ.
There are many examples of those who recovered lost grounds in the Bible through the authority and the power of the Living God; my case, your case and our cases will not be an exception.
God restored Noah: Noah was in the boat and for many years, the flood has abated, he looks like he has been forgotten and I want to believe by that time maybe they were ran out of supply, but it happened that God remembered Noah. I pray in the name of Jesus that God will remember someone today, if you are the one, shout hallelujah.
God remembered Abraham at the age beyond human expectation, but God did it. Let me tell you, God does not operate with conventional wisdom, that’s why He said He has chosen the foolish things of this world to confound the wise; don’t look at your situation, where there seems to be no way, God will make a way in the mighty name of Jesus.
God remembered Joseph: I think I shared that with you sometimes ago before I travelled that between the time Joseph and Butler met, two years elapsed before the king dreamed and he know remembered, I remember I met one guy o, for Joseph, he thought it was gone but the time came that he was remembered and that was the beginning of his journey to the palace. Let me tell you, you will get to the top.
And of course my friend, Mephibosheth; can you imagine the son of a king living with a servant, in Lo Debar, a God-forsaken land. I don’t know where you live today “figuratively”, but what I can assure you is the fact that divine relocation awaits you today in the mighty name of Jesus.
Brethren, our God is a talk-and-do God; Isaiah 55:11 says “So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it”. What other assurance do you need? He said ‘so shall My word’, not the word of any pastor but the word of God, and I pray today that God will honor His word in our life.
Lamentation 3: 37, so that you will know how God feels about His word, says “Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commanded it not”? I don’t even know what doctor is saying to you, but doctor’s report is not God’s report and God’s report is superior to doctor’s report. I stand on this exalted altar this morning and I nullify every contrary report concerning you in Jesus name.
Psalms 89:34 & 35 say “My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips. Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie unto David”. And in Hebrews 6, it says after God has done everything, said everything, He looked for something by which He can swear and there was nothing, so He decided to swear by His name – by two immutable things which is impossible for God to lie.
Brethren, I have no doubt in my mind and I feel very strongly about it that God will make it up to you; the shame, the reproach, the confusion, the wastage, the failure, the setback, God will make it up to you. He did it for Sarah, He did it for Rachel, He did it for Jacob, He did it for Peter and it is your season of open heaven, God will release His blessing, no more delay.
Ezekiel 12:28 says “Therefore say unto them, thus saith the Lord God; there shall none of my words be prolonged anymore, but the word which I have spoken shall be done, saith the Lord God”. No more delay, please announce it to your neighbors, no more delay; from today, you’ll begin to receive expressly from the Lord; you will even receive from unexpected quarters, but when you receive from the Lord, remember the pastor, please. You must bring what one of my friends will say ‘Prophet’s offering’.
I have a friend, he said daddy, this ‘Prophet offering’, I heard of that from him for the first time; so ever since then, when you have it, remember Prophet offering; my chairman is laughing, he knows what I’m talking about because he too still needs to come with a prophet offering.
It is your season of double accomplishment in every area of your life; however, the prodigal sons must come home, sinners must repent. The key to double portion is a key of repentance; the key of double portion is a key of reconciliation with God; the Bible says we cannot continue in sin and expect the grace of God to abound. In Isaiah 1: 19, it says if you are willing and obedient, you will eat the fruits of the land; it’s a season of double portion, God wants to release His blessing, shall we rise on our feet.
I don’t know how anxious you are, I don’t know how ready you are but if you are here, you have not given your life to Christ, like I said prodigal sons must come back home, sinners must repent and everyone of us must be ready to be consecrated and walk with God in obedience and it’s in doing that that the blessings of double portion will be our portion in Jesus name.
So I want you to just bless the almighty God for this honor and privilege to be here and to be part of this great service this morning, because there is no doubt, God is here, (you can take that to the bank) and He’s here to answer our prayers; so I want us to bless God for that as we close our eyes and bow down our head.
[Altar call]
Brethren, I’m sure you came here today purposely to meet with the Lord, therefore I want you to cry onto Him this morning and say Father, Father, please reveal Yourself to me this morning like never before in the mighty name of Jesus. Open your mouth and cry unto the Lord, I want you to cry to the Lord and say Father, as I come unto You today, reveal Yourself to me like never before in the name of Jesus; thank You Father because You have answered, in Jesus mighty name we have prayed.
You are going to cry unto the Lord and say Father, please pull down every wall of sin standing between me and my miracles, standing between me and my prayers in the name of Jesus. Open your mouth and cry unto the Lord brethren, it’s a time of prayer, I want you to pray to God that every wall standing between you and your prayers, every wall standing between you are your miracles, that God will pull them down in the name of Jesus.
The distance between us and our miracles is just our iniquity; the Bible says God’s hands are not short nor His ears are deaf to hear and to deliver us, but our iniquity; if we let iniquity go, prayer will be answered instantly. I want you to pray to God this morning, every wall standing between me and my miracle Father, put them down in Jesus name; thank You Father because You have answered, in Jesus mighty name we have prayed.
You are going to cry unto the Lord and say Father, please purge me holy and holy of every sin and unrighteousness in my heart and make me pure from today and henceforth in the name of Jesus; thank You because it is done, in Jesus mighty name we have prayed.
You are going to cry unto the Lord and say Father, please repair and renew every broken and contaminated portion of my life in the name of Jesus; thank You because it is done in Jesus mighty name we have prayed.
You are going to cry unto the Lord and say Father, please let me experience Your divine visitation today and give me my own double portion – double portion of blessings, double portion of inheritance, double portion of my own security, double portion of joy and hope in the name of Jesus. Father, as I have come today oh God, visit me in a very divine way and give me (oh Lord) my own double portion – double portion of joy, double portion of blessings, double portion of inheritance, double portion of peace and hope in the name of Jesus Christ; let Your name be glorified forever in my life, in Jesus mighty name we have prayed.
Brethren, very quickly I want you to present your personal requests to God and I want to tell you this morning that healing is available to the sick; help is available to the helpless; victory is available to those who are being oppressed; success is available to the failure; fertility is available to the barren; partners are available to the lonely; every good thing your heart desire is available this morning in great measure because it’s a new dawn.
I want you to cry before the Lord, whatever you want Him to do for you, please open your mouth and speak to Him. Just in a moment, tell Him Father, you need success, you need victory, you need a partner, you need fertility, you want to be productive; I want you to cry unto the Lord in the mighty name of Jesus; thank You Father because You have answered, in Jesus mighty name we have prayed.
I join my faith with yours and I decree this morning that none of you will return back the same way you came; help will come through for you in the mighty name of Jesus. I decree, no more weeping today in the name of Jesus; the days of weeping and grieving are over in the name of Jesus Christ.
I prophesy that your seasons of delay are cancelled in Jesus name; the joy of the Lord will be your strength from today; forward ever and backward never; receive grace for double portion; receive forgiveness on every sin you have ever committed; next level of grace is prophesied for you and mercy of God will cancel every judgment in your life and above all in the kingdom of God we will not be found wanting; blessed be the name of the Lord forever, in Jesus wonderful name we have prayed.
