Thank You Jesus; the Lord the God of all flesh, thank You Jesus; our redeemer, thank You Jesus; the Lord who is rich in mercy, thank You Jesus; the Lord who has separated us by His mercy, thank You Jesus; thank You for who You are, thank You for who You have been, thank You for who You’ll ever remain to be.
The everlasting Father, the Father who neither slumbers nor sleeps because of His sheep, the Lord who never disappoints, the dependable Lord, thank You Jesus. Thank You Jesus that so far we believe on You, we shall never be ashamed, thank You the everlasting Father, thank You the King of glory, glory, honor, and all adorations be onto Your holy name.
Daddy, we are here before You this morning, Lord, for Yourself transform us from the realm of toiling to taking now in Jesus mighty name. Send Your words again, let Your word heal, let Your word deliver and let Your word make us whole. Thank You the everlasting Father, and we are promising You Daddy, we shall never share Your glory with You, all the glory will be ascribed unto You. Thank You the Almighty God, in Jesus mighty name we have received. Let a receiver of mercy shout hallelujah again!
God bless you my daddies and mommies, the Lord will continue to glorify Himself in us in Jesus mighty name. By the grace of God, we have been having the explosive growth drive all through the month of May and that is what we have always been focusing on, that this is a time when we should go and demonstrate the mercy of the Almighty God.
Choir, the Lord will continue to glorify Himself in you in Jesus name, things of joy will never cease in your life. They have preached the message already that I can be undignified because you the one who knows what the Almighty God has done, but I must not keep silent, I must say it to all others and as you are doing so the Lord is going to multiply you in Jesus mighty name.
So today we are looking at From Toiling to Taking, which means entering greater harvest, and we are having our text from the book of Luke 5: 4 – 7. We know what actually found in the book of Luke 5 whereby somebody said we have been toiling all night and we’ve not been able to take anything but the Almighty God says the time has come right now, no more toiling in your life, no more toiling in your ministry, no more toiling in your family, the time has come you are taking out in Jesus mighty name.
What is the purpose of explosive growth drive, my people? Why do we devote a whole month to nothing else than explosive growth drive and not only this month, even in November again we shall be having the same theme also. Explosive growth drive is for a greater harvest through aggressive evangelism and intentional follow up
If you’ve not been doing so, this is to gear you up that this is not a work for the pastor alone, this is not a work for the ministers and workers alone but for everybody whom the Lord has called, we must go for aggressive evangelism and intentional followup.
And the second reason for explosive growth drive is to awaken us to our God’s mandate of multiplication. Praise the Lord! The Lord is saying you are saved for a purpose, and the purpose is so that you can go out and breathe life onto others so that you can grow and multiply, we are not to be limited.
The first blessing the Lord gave to man in the book of Genesis 1:26 is that we must have dominion. Praise the Lord! And the third reason why we are having explosive growth drive is to fulfill this dominion in all facets of life – political dominion, economic dominion, social dominion, even in every facet of life that we must dominate.
We heard about somebody called Isaac in the book of Genesis 26: 1 – 16 of it when things were so much destabilized, things were not working in the so country then and he was thinking of ‘I must also japa’ but the Almighty God Himself had to speak to him, this is not the time to japa, what you need to do, just hear me, listen and see how I will direct.
And therefore, we discover that in the book of Genesis 26: 12 – 16, we had it that then Isaac sowed in the land, and received in the same year a hundredfold: and the Lord blessed him. The Lord is blessing you too in Jesus mighty name. Then in verse 13, and the man waxed great, and went forward, and grew until he became very great, and that will be your testimony in Jesus mighty name.
While we have verse 15 stipulating for all the wells which his father’s servants had digged in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped them, and filled them with earth. 16But notwithstanding, we heard that and Abimelech said unto Isaac, go from us; for thou art much mightier than we.
He became an envy to everybody, but one thing about it is that it is recorded that he sowed in the land and he had many male and female servants; you do not sow human beings; he was able to spread his tentacle to the extent of winning souls, gathering people, telling them about the goodness of the Almighty God.
“Come and see the Lord who has taken me from the all of Chaldean and has taken me to a land flowing with milk and honey, the Lord who promises me that wherever I am or by my fathers that wherever we are we shall surely prosper and He has been manifesting it and come and see the Lord who can do all things”. That is the testimony of Isaac and eventually he was winning more unto himself and he became so great, and that greatness will manifest on your life in Jesus mighty name.
My brethren, there is power in number. Those of you who are politicians you know that, that whenever you are winning souls, you are developing yourself, you are building up your tentacle. I’m thanking the Almighty God for daddy E.A Adeboye, he’s not into mining, he’s not into banking, he’s not into any enterprise or whatever but the only enterprise he is into is winning souls.
Give him the microphone for 5 minutes he will make another call to bring souls to Christ, and by the grace of God, wherever he goes today he’s a star. The Almighty God Himself is transforming you in Jesus mighty name. But you must go and win souls, that is the purpose of the explosive growth drive, we are looking at the strategies for moving from toiling to taking;
The first strategy is divine direction. You must be intimate with God to hear Him, you must be so close to the Almighty God that He can be proud of you that this is my beloved one, I know this. [Loss in transmission]
Oh, I thank the Almighty God for what He has been doing, He has never failed, this is my God, He has been making ways where there has never been any way, He sees you and sees the testimony in your life. Whatever the case may be, the deep will always fall onto the deep, please, the Almighty God is putting you in that position according to Esther 4:14 that you don’t even know why the Almighty God has put you where He has put you.
It may be for a time like this to be able to witness to that governor, to be able to witness to that president, to be able to witness to that senator that all these things that are happening in the town, normally there can be a change through you, you are the agent. You will not fail in Jesus name.
Let your light shine even from wherever you meet yourself. I thank God for the ministration during our workers meeting this morning, it is said that even your conduct is a message, that how you behave, your humility, your righteousness, your faithfulness, your punuality and the host of others are what people are reading nowadays.
Your conduct preaches more than any message, more than even the Bible; people are reading you and I thank God for those of us that are here that we are international, going from one place to the other, this and that, you meet people in the aircraft, you meet people in various places, they want to see who you are.
Brethren, the strategy for explosive growth drive is to embark on strategic evangelism. Let your light shine, let people see the light, not let your light shine before the angels, let your light shine before men, before your colleagues, before even people who want to criticize you that they will not have anything to say and the Almighty God will continue to back us up in Jesus mighty name.
The third strategy is that you must be intentionally progressive. It is intentional, the Lord has given me this opportunity, the Lord has placed me into this position for a reason so that I can win souls. Birds of the same feather flock together, the deep connect to the deep but I must be intentional about it. It is not just a matter of ‘well, however it comes’, be intentional. You pray in the morning, Lord give me a soul today, make me meet this brother and this person today, manifest Yourself and the Lord will give you the direction.
What should you do? How shall I make – this one has been so stubborn, everything that is contrary is the one this one has been doing in this office, in this establishment or in this company, yet I am the light. Light cannot cohabitate with darkness, therefore as the light I must impact this person, be intentional, be progressive in your intentions.
Acts 1:8 says that ye shall receive power after the Holy Ghost has come upon you: and ye shall be my witnesses in both Jerusalem, and in Judea and Samaria and even unto the uttermost part of the earth; you are not to be limited, you are to be progressive and you will be progressive in Jesus mighty name.
Therefore to be intentional, stretch your capacity, we can do all things through Christ who is strengthening us. The Lord can use me to convert this stubborn whatever, either CEO or whatever, the Lord can use me; that my neighbor who has been always this and that, a host of others, the Lord can use me, I must be intentional and stretch for my capacity.
And therefore also, you have to enlarge your reach, don’t be limited. It is not only those who are within your circle alone, even your security, your driver, your domestic staff, have you actually reached out to them? Praise the Lord!
You have to prepare to new territories like Paul had to hear in the book of Acts 16:9 that he was called, come unto Macedonia and help us; your own Macedonia, it is the Almighty God who can tell you where it is, when you are hearing from the Almighty God and you are embarking on strategic evangelism or outreach and you are intentional, the Almighty God Himself will direct you to where you can and He Himself had already gone ahead of you and you’ll continue to be a success in Jesus mighty name.
The fourth strategy that is given to us is that make evangelism your lifestyle. Apostle Paul has to say that if I preach the gospel, 1 Corinthians 9:16, I don’t even have anything to boast of about it anyway, I have nothing to glorify of: for necessity is laid upon me; it is compulsory and disaster, calamity is unto me if I preach not the gospel.
What’s the calamity? What’s the goal? The Lord says in the book of Matthew 28:19 & 20, go ye and preach the gospel and behold my presence will be with you even until the end of the earth; but if I refuse to preach it, which is a condition for His presence to go along with me, which means His presence will not go out along with me, what a calamity!
The greatest woe is that when you don’t have the presence of the Almighty God again, when you lose the presence of the Almighty God, when you lose the presence of the light you will surely fall into darkness; when you lose the presence of the One who can direct, you will surely miss your way. But that is why Apostle Paul has to declare that woe is unto me if I don’t preach the gospel.
And the Lord Jesus says in the book of John 9:4 that it is a must, I must work the works of Him that sent me, while it is day. This is the time when you still have the opportunity in that office, when you still have the opportunity in that establishment where the Almighty God has placed you, it is for a purpose. Tell your neighbor it is for a purpose; your being in that situation, your being in that position is for a purpose. And who knows whether for this purpose the Almighty God has placed you here to win more souls, to make an impact and to bring changes and you will never fail in Jesus mighty name. You
By the grace of God during the second service, we shall be hearing more, but my brethren, you cannot enter into a season of greater as if you are not connected to the Master of harvest. The Master of harvest Himself is the Lord Jesus who knows the way, who says for this purpose I have come to save those that have been lost.
And if you are not connected with Him, you are only ruminating all over, you are never fulfilling purpose, and the dominion mandate that has been given onto you from the beginning, you are directly losing it on your own.
How can I know whether I have actually been connected to the Master of harvest? He says in 2 Corinthians 5:17, “If I be in Christ, (if Christ has already saved me, if I’m already redeemed), he says I will become a new creature, old things (fornication) will pass away, (unforgiveness will pass away, hatred will pass away, cheating will pass away and all those things that the Bible refer to as sins that can easily entangle you, lying will pass away).
But if you discover that despite all my strugglings, these things are still manifesting in me, the Lord Almighty says you have never given your life to Christ, you only come to church, you have not come to Christ. But the good thing about it is that even this morning, the Almighty God is ready to redeem you if you are ready to come unto Him.
Can we all please stand up? You are here this morning and you are deciding well Lord I need You, I want to be intimate with You, I don’t want to miss my ways any longer, I don’t want to be meandering, wandering about in this wilderness of life, I am tired of wasted life, I want to come unto You. The Lord Almighty himself is expecting you right now.
[Altar call]
Now that every one of us by His grace has given our life to Christ, I say congratulations! You are going to call upon the Almighty God and say Lord Jesus, I don’t want to fail, help me to be more intimate with You and to do the assignment You have given unto me.
Shall we just call upon the everlasting Father; you are in that office for a purpose, Lord I don’t want to fail, You are looking at me, You are directing, You are the One Almighty God, just help me, help me Lord to do what You have directed me to do that I will never fail, that Your presence will never depart from me. Thank You everlasting Father, in Jesus mighty name we have prayed.
And we are now going to declare, please my daddies and mommies just lift up your right hand and let us declare together and you say after me; now I’ve heard the instructions, I will obey the direction, I will adjust my strategy, I will launch into the deep, so help me God.
Shall we commit it to prayer, say Father, I have come to You, I have heard Your instructions, I will obey the directions, I will adjust my strategy and I will launch into the deep. Everlasting Father, please help me God, help me the Almighty God, help me the ancient of days that I will never fail. Thank You everlasting Father, in Jesus mighty name it is so.
The Lord will help you, you will fulfill purpose, you will never fail, the divine direction will continue to be your portion and the name of the Lord will be glorified through you. Thank You everlasting Father, in Jesus name I have declared.
Can we continue to wave our hands to the Almighty God and say thank You Jesus, thank You the Almighty God, thank You the I am that I am, thank You the One who can never fail, thank You Lord.
