IN THE MONTH OF I WILL RESTORE HEALTH UNTO THEE
BY BISHOP DAVID OYEDEPO ON
Revelation is the divine channel for receiving healing. And no matter the condition that you are, He will deliver you. If God says that He will heal you, and that is what you should believe. God says that He sent His word, and His word shall heal you, and that is what you should believe. Believe that His word is healing you where you are.
I welcome you to this great day, where the healing rivers will be flowing.
God brings testimonies to deliver His people. A young man, who had sickle cell anaemia, testified that God healed him from the disease, and for the past 10 years since then, he has not swallowed a pill for any reason.
Every revealed truth is a live wire explosive in heaven, and when it is received and triggered by faith, it results into testimony. Every revealed divine truth is a live explosive and when received and triggered by faith, it erupts to testimony.
When a revealed truth is received and is triggered by faith, it always results in eruption of testimony. The truth has to be received and triggered by faith.
The word of God says:
“And blessed is she that believeth, for there shall be a performance of those things, which were told her from the Lord.” (Luke 1:45)
The word of God also says:
“Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.
For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater:
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.” (Isaiah 55:1,10,11)
Jesus spoke a word at Lazarus’ grave. The scripture gave an account of what happened. The word of God says:
“And when he thus had spoken, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth.
And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with grave clothes, and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith unto them: Loose him, and let him go.” (John 11:43,44)
God is not interested only in you getting free, but He also wants you to be healthy. God wants you to be free indeed.
The word of God says:
“And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.” (John 8:32,36)
This is so important. You are free, but He wants you to be free indeed. So I decree that no trace of sickness and disease, pains and aches shall survive the anointing today in the name of Jesus.
Jesus said: Loose him and let him go, and the word could not be resisted, and he was loosed. And Jesus is still the same yesterday, today and forever. Jesus is still loosening people.
Let us see the picture of the great Physician in prophecy. We are talking about the Balm of balms.
The word of God says:
“Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because of them that dwell in a far country: Is not the Lord in
The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.
For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me.
Is there no balm in
Behold the voice of the cry of the daughters of my people, because of them that dwell in a far country. They say I wish I were in
So God says: I am provoked by their ignorance of His balm, and their ignorance pains Him.
Is there no balm in
Therefore, I introduce you this morning to the Balm of balms. Is there no balm in
We are largely victims of spiritual ignorance.
The word of God says:
“My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.” Hosea 4:6)
“Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.” (Isaiah 5:13)
So what is the balm in
The word of God says:
“He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions” (Psalm 107:20)
So, what is that scripture saying?
The word of God says:
“My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings.
Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart.
For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.” (Proverb 4:20-22)
For the words are life unto them that find them, and health to all their flesh, the bones, eyes, ears, throat, kidney, liver, and to their flesh. The words heal the physical, emotional, and psychological systems. So it is an all-purpose drug. It shall be health to all parts of their body.
What is the nature of the word?
The word of God says:
“It is the spirit that quickeneth, the flesh profiteth nothing. The word that I speaketh unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.” (John 6:63)
The word carries a quickening spirit, and when it is received, it is a life bomb, and when it is triggered by faith, it erupts into your healing.
So as the word is going on now, your healing is also taking place now.
Jesus was teaching on a certain day, and the power of the Lord was present to heal them.
The word of God says:
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“And it came to pass on a certain day, as he was teaching, that there were Pharisees and doctors of the law sitting by, which were come out of every town of Galilee, and Judaea, and Jerusalem: and the power of the Lord was present to heal them.” (Luke 5:17)
“And he came down with them, and stood in the plain , and the company of his disciples, and a great multitude of people out of all Judaea and Jerusalem, and from the sea coast of Tyre and Sidon, which came to hear him, and to be healed of their diseases;
And they that were vexed with unclean spirits: and they were healed.
And the whole multitude sought to touch him: for there went virtue out of him, and healed them all.” (Luke 6:17-19)
They came to hear Him and to be healed of their diseases, and as they heard Him, there went out of Him virtues and healed them all. They came to be healed. They came to hear Him, and their healing took place as they heard Him as He preach the word.
The word of God is the Balm of balms. So as the Lord liveth, today will constitute in live testimonies in your lives.
Many acknowledge the great Physician, but they don’t regard and acknowledge His ambassadors, who are His agents on earth for the deliverance of men and women on earth. God moves from generation to generation having His agents that extend His mission on earth, and also moving His Church from generation to generation.
You don’t go to a Pharmacy store to pick a drug without being prescribed. Somebody must prescribe for you to pick a drug from a Pharmacist.
There is no nation that will have his people go to a Pharmacy store to pick up drugs without being prescribed, or else they will all die. So any nation without a prescriber will have His people die of either overdose, or of wrong use of drugs.
So the great Physician has His ambassadors, who extend His hand. He has a hand of extension through His agents. So He sent us Apostles, and Prophets, and Evangelists, and Pastors as extension of His hand on earth.
The word of God says:
“His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; and his bones that were not seen stick out.
Yea, his soul draweth near unto the grave, and his life to the destroyers.
If there be a messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to shew unto man his uprightness:
Then he is gracious unto him, and saith: Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom.
His flesh shall be fresher than a child's: he shall return to the days of his youth.” (Job 33:21-25)
Give the man appropriate prescription, and his flesh shall be fresher than the child's and he shall turn to the days of his youth. (Job 33:25)
That is the extension of the hand of God through His agents, who are His interpreters.
And if you don’t recognise His messengers, you will be in a mess.
Remember the story of Lazarus and the rich man. Lazarus was in the bosom of Abraham, while the rich man was in torment. The rich man asked Abraham to send someone to his brothers on the earth to teach them, for he did not want them to suffer. Abraham said: There are prophets like Moses on earth and if they cannot listen to them, they cannot hear someone sent from heaven.
The word of God says:
“Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father's house:
For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment.
Abraham saith unto him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.
And he said, Nay, father Abraham: but if one went unto them from the dead, they will repent.” (Luke 16:27-30)
So God has His representatives in every nation of the earth, and if you don’t recognise them, you end up in a ditch. And I say with all humility, that I am one of the extensions of His han on earth now. God gave me a mandate in an 18-hour vision, and He said to me:
“Now the hour has come to destroy all the oppression of the devil through the preaching of the word of faith, and I am sending you to undertake this task.”
So this tiny vessel standing in front of you is part of the extension of the hand of God to deliver His people from all the oppression of the devil on the earth. So if there is a messenger with you, an interpreter among a thousand, and there are few of them, but you are having one now, then you don’t have an excuse for one is standing before you. So your struggle is over finally.
What is in the word?
1 The word of God is a bank of mysteries, and hath moved the Church from generation to generation, and Prophets and Apostles are custodians of the mysteries. It is by the understanding of the mysteries that give you gain mastery of things. It is knowing and understanding the mysteries that culminate into testimonies, and you gain mastery over the challenges of life.
The word of God says
Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ.
And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ:
To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God.
According to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord.” (Ephesians 3:8-11)
So by the mystery of the word application, we put principalities and powers under our feet. Just as the knowledge is on the increase, so is revelation is on the increase. It is the spiritual that sets the pace for the physical. It is revelation that sets the pace and the light to teach the world.
You are called the light of the world to set the pace for the world. (Matthew 5:14)
The Church is a moving Church and not a stagnant Church. The word of God is full of unfolding mysteries, advance revelation, which is moving us until Jesus comes.
The word of God says:
“O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!” (Romans 11:33)
The word of God also says:
“And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone.” (Ephesians 2:20)
Apostles and Prophets are the custodians of the mysteries of God, and they unfold them as they are revealed to them. They unfold the next phase of God’s agenda to the Church.
2 What is in the word?
The word of God says:
“Is not my word like as a fire? Saith the LORD; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?” (Jeremiah 23:29)
Inside the word is the hammer that breaks the stubbles and stones that are put to shut you in the grave.
3 What is in the word?
Inside the word is the light that shatters the power of the darkness. Majority are being held by principalities and powers, and the power of the darkness of the world. So when the light enters, it shatters the hold of darkness.
The word of God says:
“The entrance of thy word giveth light, it givveth understanding to the simple.” (Psalm 119:130)
“And the light shineth in darkness, and the darkness comprehended it not.” (John 1:5)
And John the Baptist talked about the Light, who came to the world, and He came to His own, and they did not know Him. Jesus, the word of God is the true Light.
4 What is in the word?
Inside the word is the quickening spirit.
The word of God says:
“It is the spirit that quickeneth, the flesh profiteth nothing, the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.” (John 6:63)
So inside the word lies a quickening force.
The mysteries of the word is unfathomable, and moving the Church from generation to generation. When the truth is revealed, triumph is unquestionable. It can never be heard that darkness resists the light. And you can do nothing against the truth but for the truth.
The word of God says:
“For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.” (2 Corinthians 13:8)
: As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby.” (1 Peter 2:2)
Your healing was concluded before, in 2000 years ago. Sickness came 2000 years later; therefore, your sickness is late.
Every children of God is entitled to total health. Total health is the meat of every child of God.
The word of God says:
“That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet saying: Himself took our infirmities and bare our sickness.” (Matthew 8:17)
He already took your sickness, and it cannot be there anymore. It is all deception and subtility of the devil to make you think that your sickness is there. So diabetes, hypertension, HIV AIDS, cancer, and whatever any disease is called, they are cursed this morning in the name of Jesus.
One of the mysteries for your healing is in the name; it is in the name of Jesus.
The word of God says:
“The name of Jesus is a strong tower, the righteous runneth into it and is safe/” ((Proverb
So what is in the name?
The word of God says:
“Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:
That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;
And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.” (Philippians 2:9-11)
So the name is a gift of the Father to the Son. Every other name should bow to the name, of things in heaven, and of things on earth, and of things under the earth, and every other tongue should confess that Jesus is the Lord to the glory of the Father. The name of Jesus is a gift. And the word of God says:
“For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.” (Romans 11:29)
Jesus said:
“In my name shall they cast out devils, they shall speak with tongues.” (Mark
The name remains intact and that is why your healing is in the name.
What is in the name of Jesus?
The name is full of wonders. When you say in the name of Jesus, the wonders of heaven are released and eternal potent of miracles is released.
The word of God says:
“For unto us a child is born, unto us a Son is given, and the Government shall be upon His shoulder, and His name shall be called: Wonderful, Counsellor, the mighty God, the everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace.” (Isaiah 9:6)
The word of God says:
“Because of the savour of thy good ointment, thy name is as ointment poured forth, therefore, do the virgins love thee.” (Songs of Solomon 1L3)
That scripture talks of the name of Jesus. The name of Jesus is as an ointment poured forth. The virgin represents the Church in prophecy. When His name is mentioned, there is a spraying of the name of His name. Christ means the Anointed. So you are spraying Bagon (mosquito repellent) on mosquitoes of sickness and disease.
So in the name of Jesus, be healed. Every time you spray mosquito killer on mosquitoes, they fall down and are dead. So I engage the anointing spray, be healed in the name of Jesus. There is anointing in that name.
Peter said to the lame man at the Beautiful Gate:
“Silver and gold have I none, but such as I have give thee. In the name of Jesus Christ of
And Peter took him by the right hand and lifted him up, and immediately his feet and ankle bones received strength. And he leaping up stood, and walked, and entered with them into the temple walking and leaping, and praising God.” (Acts 3:7,8)
For all that believe in the word of God as declared by the prophet, no sickness shall survive this day in the name of Jesus.
So I see every yoke of sickness and disease permanently destroyed in your life today in the name of Jesus.
The word of God says:
“And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing.” (Isaiah 10:27)
What is in the anointing?
Let us first recognise that there is one God, the Lord, one Spirit, one faith and one baptism.
“There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in the hope of your calling.
One Lord, one faith, one baptism.
One God ad Father of all, who is above all, and through all.” (Ephesians 4:4-6)
Let us see what happened when Samuel anointed David.
The word of God says:
“Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst of his brethren, and the Spirit of the Lord came upon David from that day forward.” (1 Samuel 16:13)
David was anointed with oil, and the Spirit of the Lord came upon him. So inside the oil lies the person of the Holy Spirit. The anointing is a medium through the Holy Spirit manifest Himself on a person.
The word of God says:
“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek He hath sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound.
To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of vengeance of our God, and to comfort all that mourn.
To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness, that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that He might be glorified.” (Isaiah 61:1-3)
And Jesus referenced that scripture when He opened the Book to read in the temple. Jesus said:
“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the broken-hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised.
To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.’ (Luke 4:18,19)
So the anointing is a medium of setting the captives free. Every captive is set free by the anointing.
Now this is the word of God. Let me show you the ministry of the Holy Spirit.
The word of God says:
“I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire:
Whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.” (Matthew 3:11,12)
The Holy Spirit has a fan in His hand, and it is not to make you cool. His mission is to keep His temple clean, and you are the temple of the Holy Spirit. He will preserve the organs of your body. The Holy Ghost also has a fire in His hand, and as His fan gathers all the chaff in your body, He burns all the chaff with unquenchable fire.
So the Holy Spirit sanctifies the body, to cleanse the body to glorify God so that you fulfil your mission on earth.
The word of God says:
“What, know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost, which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
For ye are bought with a price, therefore, glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.” (1 Corinthians 6:19,20)
Your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost, and His mission is your total fitness, physically, intellectually, physiologically, and emotionally. The Holy host is to keep your body, bones and every part of your body fit.
So everyone being tormented by the devil, I employ the mystery of the fan and fire to thoroughly purge you in the name of Jesus.
So inside the oil lies the person of the Holy Ghost, and in His hand is the fan, which clears out the debris from your organ and in His other hand is the fire to set fire on the debris. And so all that believe in this spiritual truth, your organ will be preserved and your days renewed. This is the prescription of the great Physician. And what a prescription is it?
The Lord showed me yeas ago about this mystery, that no one can sweep from the outside of a building to make it clean, but from the inside. And that is why the Holy Ghost in the New Testament is in you.
We release the mystery of the Holy Ghost to clean us out, the fan and the fire, and that is what is called the prescription of the great Physician.
A woman was very sick, and she was in the hospital awaiting death, for they could carry out the diagnosis of the nature of her sickness. There was a bottle of anointing oil on the table by her bed side. Then she said: Let me see the miracle that they say is inside the oil. So she took a shot, a cap full of the anointing oil. She coughed, and as she coughed out a substance soaked with blood came out. They took the substance to the laboratory and they discovered that it was a woolly substance, which was forgotten in her body as they sewed her up after an operation that she underwent in
It is not a bad thing to go to the hospital, but it is better to have a total health. It is an avoidable waste not to go to hospital. So I decree that apart from child bearing, I decree that you won’t have to go to the hospital.
Paul declared:
“For I am not ashamed of the gospel of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believeth, to the Jews first and also to the Gentiles.” (Romans 1:16)
Whatever that won’t let you go, God is destroying it. You will soon become an envy of total health and vitality.
A woman read one of our books titled: You shall not be barren. She read on one of the pages that the dead sperm of Abraham fertilized the dead egg of Sarah, and Isaac came forth. She said: My husband’s sperm is not dead, and so her faith came alive, and she got pregnant. She got the correct interpretation of scripture. Interpretation is the gateway for all supernatural manifestation.
If you have a child is sick, and they ask you when you want the child to be healed, except you are a witch, you will say now.
God has no problem of healing you now.
Let me conclude this message by telling the story of a man who spent 38 years by the pool of
God’s healing river is God’s medium of bringing healing to you. The word of God is the healing river and when you step into it, you are healed.
The human agents are not spiritual angels, but they have come to deliver the healing river to you, which is the word of God. And when you step into it, you are healed. So anyone that dives into the healing river, and takes His prescription, you are healed today in the name of Jesus.
Many know how to be healed, but only few know how to stay healed, because of spiritual emptiness.
The word of God says:
“When the unclean is gone out of a man, he walked through dry places, seeking rest and findeth none.
Then he saith: I will return into my house from whence I came out, and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept and garnished.
Then goeth he and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself and they enter and dwell here, and the last of that man is worse than the first.” (Matthew 12:43-45)
Fill your heart with the word of God, the healing word of God, for therein lies your total healing package.
LOOSE HIM AND LET HIM GO (PART 2)
TEACHING DELIVERED BY BISHOP DAVID OYEDEPO ON JULY 11, 2010
I want to tell you that God cannot do any thing for any man without his faith. God cannot do any thing for any man without his faith intact.
Jesus came to His hometown and He could not do any notable miracle and He marvelled at their unbelief.
The word of God says:
“And he could there do no mighty work, save that he laid his hands upon a few sick folk, and healed them.
And he marvelled because of their unbelief. And he went round about the villages, teaching.” (Mark 6:5,6)
God’s happening is with faith determined, and Jesus could do nothing in His hometown and he marvelled at their unbelief. God cannot help you without the permission of your faith.
All the way from
Faith is the only access to get any thing from God.
The word of God says:
“But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering, for he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.
For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.
A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.” (James 1:6-8)
So faith is the master key to your inheritance. So invest everything invest-able into your faith, and you will see what happens. It takes faith to receive your healing.
We have some exciting news from abroad, from our mission fields abroad in
Somebody testified of divine multiplication from
Someone also testified and said: I reached a woman and brought her to Jesus. The woman reached other 30 people and the 30 people reached 100 people and we now hope to have 300 people in our cell fellowship.
Your inheritance is impossible without faith. That man sat for WOFBI and just a 3-week course, and all that he lost was recovered and doubled.
A man in
“He sent His word, and the word healed them and delivered them from their destructions.” (Psalm 107:20)
So as you are sitting here now, God will heal you by the sent word.
Lazarus had been dead for 4 days and was already stinking in the grave, but Jesus said: Loose him and let him go. (John 11:44)
So whatever makes you stink and smell among your peers and in your Christian life, it is loosening from you today in the name of Jesus.
The word of God says:
“Is there no balm in
It takes the ministry of the great Physician to receive. And Jesus introduced Himself as the great Physician.
The word of God says:
“But when Jesus heard that, he said unto them: They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick.
But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.” (Matthew 9:12,13)
I am that Physician, and I am come for the sick to heal them. I am come to restore the health, which Satan came to steal. Every disease bows to his verdict. We call Him the great Physician, because everyone that came with sickness and disease, He healed them all. He is the all round Specialist. You have ear, nose and throat (ENT) specialist. You even have finger specialist. But Jesus is nose, ear, throat and all round Specialist.
The word of God says:
“When the even was come, they brought unto him many that were possessed with devils: and he cast out the spirits with his word, and healed all that were sick:” (Matthew
Jesus is the only all round specialist, the only Physician, who raised the dead, and healed them all, those with nose, ear, eyes, legs, finger, and every ailment of the body and He healed them all. Other physicians take the dead into the morgue, but Jesus, the great Physician, brings the dead to life.
The word of God says:
“But when Jesus knew it, he withdrew himself from thence: and great multitudes followed him, and he healed them all.” (Matthew 12:15)
Jesus healed them all. So no matter what your case is called, when you come in contact with the great Physician, and you submit to His prescription, you are healed.
When you come to a doctor with an ailment, he gives you a prescription to heal you.
A blind man came to Jesus to be healed, and Jesus gave him a prescription. Jesus spat on the ground and made a clay of spittle, and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay. Jesus blinded his eyes the more, and said unto the man: Go, wash in the pool of Siloam. The blind man did not say: I am blind, how can I get to the pool seeing that I am blind and you have blinded me the more, but he went his way and washed in the pool, and he came back seeing. (John 9:6,7)
This was His prescription, and the blind man took His prescription, and he did what was in the prescription. And whatever He tells you to do, to it. (John 2:5)
The man went to the pool of Siloam as commanded and washed his eyes, and he came back seeing. He did not say: There is no man to take me there, but he went and washed and he began to see.
Let us examine one of the great prescriptions of the great Physician.
However, let me say this first: Faith is the master key for receiving healing from God. Consider the case of the woman with the issue of blood. The word of God says:
“And, behold, a woman, which was diseased with an issue of blood twelve years, came behind him, and touched the hem of his garment:
For she said within herself, if I may but touch his garment, I shall be whole.
But Jesus turned him about, and when he saw her, he said: Daughter, be of good comfort; thy faith hath made thee whole. And the woman was made whole from that hour.” (Matthew 9:20-22)
Jesus said unto the woman: Daughter, be of good comfort, thy faith hath made thee whole. And the woman was made whole from that hour.
The word of God says:
“And when Jesus departed thence, two blind men followed him, crying, and saying, Thou Son of David, have mercy on us.
And when he was come into the house, the blind men came to him: and Jesus saith unto them: Believe ye that I am able to do this? They said unto him, Yea, Lord.
Then touched he their eyes, saying: According to your faith be it unto you.”’ (Matthew 9:27-29)
Jesus said to the 2 blind men: According to thy faith, be it unto you. (Matthew 9:29)
So faith is the master key for receiving your healing from the great Physician.
Scriptural pictures are great boosters of faith, for no one doubts what he sees, even if you are doubting Thomas, or an anointed doubter. When Thomas saw Jesus, he believed and said my Lord. My God. Jesus said: Blessed are those who did not see me, yet they believed.
Jesus said:
“Except ye see signs and wonders, ye will not believe.” (John 4:48)
So let me paint more scriptural pictures to reinforce your faith.
A Centurion in
“Lord, I am not worthy that thou shouldest come under my roof: but speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed.
For I am a man under authority, having soldiers under me: and I say to this man, Go, and he goeth; and to another, Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it.” (Matthew 8:8,9)
When Jesus heard this, He said:
“When Jesus heard it, he marvelled, and said to them that followed: Verily I say unto you, I have not found so great faith, no, not in
And I say unto you, that many shall come from the east and west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven.
But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
And Jesus said unto the centurion: Go thy way; and as thou hast believed, so be it done unto thee: And his servant was healed in the selfsame hour. (Matthew 9:10-13)
Faith is the master key to receive your healing, and great faith brings great healing, and scriptural pictures are boosters of faith. Being able to see is the cure for all doubt, for no one doubts what he can see.
Ministry is not a fashion, but a cross to bear. When the Lord called me into the ministry, I asked the Lord: Who would pay me? And Jesus opened a scriptural picture to me. He said: When I sent them, lack ye any thing? And they said no. So I knew who would pay me.
I also saw a letter of my appointment from a picture in the scripture, in the Book of Luke. The word of God says:
“After these things, the Lord appointed other seventy also and sent them two by two before His face into every city and place, wither He Himself would come.
Carry neither purse, nor scrip, nor shoes, and salute no one on the way, that is, lobby for no man’s resources.” (Luke 10:1,4)
And this scripture still went on to say: And the labourer is worthy of his hire. (Luke 10:7)
So I saw myself with an appointment letter from the highest office in the Universe. I was just not a worker, but a highest worker in an enviable place.
So scriptural pictures are the booster of faith. When I saw this I put everything within me, and all my might and being into the ministry.
A woman came to Jesus beseeching him to heal her daughter, for the daughter was grievously vexed with a devil. But Jesus said unto the woman: It is not meet to take the children’s bread, and to cast it to the dogs. But the woman answered: Truth Lord, yet the dogs eat of the crumbs, which fall from their masters’ table. Jesus said unto the woman: O woman, great is thy faith, be it unto you even as thou wilt. And her daughter was made whole from that very hour. (Matthew 15:22-28)
Great faith resulting in great healings are products of pictures from the scripture, and when great faith comes alive, great miracles come alive.
We had an Accountant and one day I told him to pay all the workers by
I am only a foemanr in the site. The foreman only uses what the contractor brings. The contractor does the running around. I don’t need to run around for any thing, for I only use what the contractor brings. God is the contractor, and I only spend what He brings. And that picture will help your faith.
These scriptural pictures will help you to boost your faith in receiving His healings.
God asked Jeremiah the prophet:
“What seest thou? And he said: I see a rod of an almond tree. Then said the Lord unto Jeremiah: Thou hast well seen, for I will hasten my word to perform it.” (Jeremiah 1:11,12)
The clearer the picture, the faster the delivery of what you see. The Lord said: I will hasten my word to perform it. It is what you are able to see that the Lord will hasten His word to perform it.
The word of God says:
“The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw.” (Isaiah 2:1)
You don’t see words; you see pictures of the words. I saw that God created man and woman, and if Satan corrupts any of their parts, for Satan came to steal, and to kill, and to destroy, then I see heaven’s stocks of spare parts to repair and to replace any part, which Satan might have damaged or destroyed. So I saw this heavenly picture of parts in heaven. If an arm is missing, God has spare parts in heaven to replace it. When you catch a great picture in the scripture, then you have great faith.
I caught a picture of a word in the scripture that says: And the light shines in darkness, and the darkness comprehended it not. (John 1:5)
When I got to my hometown on a certain day, I told them to carry a brother of mine who had been afflicted by a spirit of insanity, and I said: Let me see that devil that will go in with him into my car. There was no prayer made, and as soon he was put inside the car, he slept off, and when he woke up, insanity had fled away from him.
I saw the picture of my superiority over the devil in the word. When light is on, the devil has no choice but to flee away.
When you raise up a glass of water, a natural man will say that it is water. But when you give the same glass of water to a chemist, he will analyse it and come up with the components that make up the water. He would tell you the percentage of elements or molecules making up the water. He would even tell you the presence of oxygen in the water. An ordinary man, who is not a chemist, cannot discern that, for it is strange to him.
So there are also spiritual chemists that help us to analyse the elements that make up what is in the bread and in the blood of Jesus. The communion is one of the great prescriptions of the great Physician, and we need to know what makes this prescription so potent.
Jesus declared in the scripture: I am the bread of Life. (John 6:48)
Jesus went on to show us the components of this bread. Then said He:
“Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead.
This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die.
I am the living bread, which came down from heaven: if any man eats of this bread, he shall live forever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world”. (John 6:49-51)
Jesus was telling us what is in the bread. Jesus was introducing us to one drug that if a man takes it he will never die. There is no doctor that has this prescription of drug to heal a dead person. There is no denial that Jesus has this drug, and that when a man takes it, he will not die. This is the only drug that is an antidote to death. Jesus emphasized this truth again as He talked about this prescription. The word of God says:
“The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying: How can this man give us his flesh to eat?
Then Jesus said unto them: Verily, verily, I say unto you: Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you.
Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.
For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.
He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him.
As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me.
This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eateth of this bread shall live forever.” (John 6:52-58)
He that eateth of this bread shall live forever. (John 6:58)
So Jesus is saying: That man or woman would live long enough and would be healthy. So He was talking about longevity. This is not only an Old Testament phenomenon, for we have the proof of longevity among us today. Don’t say that it is only possible in Abraham’s time or in Isaac’s time or Jacob’s. Pa Sadela will turn 110 years in August 2010, and he is teaching for 3 hour at a go, and standing up to preach. So I see men and women at 110 years sitting down in cell fellowship, and in zonal centres teaching the word of God.
Jesus said: Anyone that eats this bread, which is my flesh indeed, shall live forever. So there must be something in this bread.
Jesus said: The bread that I will give you is my flesh, which was broken for us, which was given as a ransom for all.
“For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.” (John 6:55)
This is the prescription of the great Physician. This prescription will make you strong, agile, resourceful and productive when you take it.
Pa Saedela at 108 years said to me: Now you are 54 years, and I am 108 years, and that makes me twice your age. So at 108 years, he was mentally alert and of sound mind, even with an analytical and a mathematical mind. You are just 30 years old and you are looking 90 years. Whom are you trying to impress by your looking old, or playing old.
Truth is never outdated, for truth is truth. You can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth. (2 Corinthians 13:8)
You are just 48 years old, so you have a long way to go, so stop playing old.
You may say that you are getting old, because of pollution, or because of climatic change. What about Pa Sadela, who is living in the very midst of thick pollution? He lives in a carbonised area. He can smell carbon in his sitting, and yet, he is turning 110 years in August 2010.
It is not carbon that is killing you; it is your ignorance that is killing you. The word of God says that: My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. (Hosea 4:6)
If you know that it is carbon that is killing you, then go and live in the forest, where it is green, and whenever you are coming to town, put on a mask on your face.
You are ignorant of the prescription of the great Physician, the Balm of Gilead.
They talk of climatic change, but I say that it is not climatic change that is killing you. All the talk about climatic change has political root and undertone. The climate has been changing since the earth was created. Climatic change is being talked about to institute a world political Government system. I hope there is no official of the United Nation Organisation here present this morning to crucify me.
The word of God says:
“Open thou mine eyes that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.” (Psalm 118:16)
The word of God also says:
“That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:
The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints.” (Ephesians 1:17,18)
When your eye of understanding is opened, and you are lighted by revelation, you live above the challenges of the world.
What is in the bread?
The word of God says:
“And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said: Take, eat; this is my body.” (Matthew 26:26)
Let us define what kind of bread. It is not the bread made in
The word of God says:
“And the word was made flesh, and dwelt among us.” (John 1:14)
What does this flesh represents in scriptural picture?
The word of God says:
“And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots:
And the spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord.
And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the Lord: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears.” (Isaiah 11:1-3)
We see from this scripture that Jesus is the rod out of the stem of Jesse. The passage talks about the 7 spirits of the Lord, and Jesus is the only One that carries the 7 spirits of the Lord.
The word of God says:
“And unto the angel of the church in Sardis write; These things saith he that hath the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars; I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead.” (Revelation 3:1)
“And out of the throne proceeded lightnings and thunderings and voices: and there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God.” (Revelation 4:5)
“And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth.” (Revelation 5:6)
Jesus is the carrier of the 7 spirits of God. So Jesus is that rod. Jesus said: This is my flesh. And what is the rod? The scripture gives us the answer.
What is the rod?
The word of God says, and God was speaking to Moses:
“And thou shall take this rod in thine hand, wherewith thou shall do signs.” (Exodus 4:17)
The rod is Jesus. Jesus is the word of God. (John 1:1)
And the word became flesh and dwelt among us. (John 1:14)
So, the rod is Jesus, and Jesus is the word of God. And Jesus said I am the bread of life, and Jesus, the word became flesh. Therefore, the bread is the flesh of Jesus.
What did the rod (Jesus, the word, the bread, and the flesh) do in the hand of Aaron in
The word of God says:
“And Moses and Aaron went in unto Pharaoh, and they did so as the LORD had commanded: and Aaron cast down his rod before Pharaoh, and before his servants, and it became a serpent.
Then Pharaoh also called the wise men and the sorcerers: now the magicians of
For they cast down every man his rod, and they became serpents: but Aaron's rod swallowed up their rods.” (Exodus 7:10-12)
The rod of Aaron swallowed up all the rods of the magicians. So when you take the bread, which is the rod of Jesus, the word, which became flesh, it will swallow up all the rods of the magicians representing sickness and disease. So whatever enchantment that has been used against you, the Rod of rods shall swallow them in the name of Jesus. It shall swallow all the rods of the enemy, and the rods that the enemy have used to buffet your body.
So as you take His rod, the bread on the communion table, it is swallowing cancer, hypertension, leukaemia, high blood pressure, and it is swallowing them now, for as soon as the magicians cast down their rods, the rod of Aaron swallowed the rods of the magicians one by one, and it was immediately, and it levelled out the effect of the magician’s rods.
Today, we have a new wave of movement going on in the body. So every strange movement in your body is swallowed up now in the name of Jesus.
What is in the bread?
The word of God says:
“And one went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, and gathered thereof wild gourds his lap full, and came and shred them into the pot of pottage: for they knew them not.
So they poured out for the men to eat. And it came to pass, as they were eating of the pottage that they cried out, and said: O thou man of God, there is death in the pot. And they could not eat thereof.
But he said: Then bring meal. And he cast it into the pot; and he said: Pour out for the people that they may eat. And there was no harm in the pot.” (2 Kings 4:39-41)
The sons of the prophets said: There is poison in the pot, and the prophet said: Bring me a meal, and as he cast the meal into the pot of pottage, the poison in the pot was neutralised and there was no more harm in the pot.
So the bread is a poison neutralizer. So HIV AIDS, sickle cell anaemia, hypertension, diabetes, and all kinds of sickness and disease afflicting you, they are neutralized as you take the bread, the flesh of Jesus in the name of Jesus.
Let me state that your belly is a biological pot, where the food you take in is re-cooked, and it uses the one needed for your body and send the remains that are need out. Some of you have taken poison unawares, but as you take the bread, every poison in your body is neutralised in the name of Jesus.
A man was given a crate of eggs as to congratulate him. He was wary and suspicious of the gift, so he gave an egg to his dog, and the dog started vomiting blood and died. Many are given gifts to kill them. You have just moved to your own new house, and you think that your landlord is happy with you, and he gives you a gift to congratulate you, but the gift is meant to kill you.
So every poison that you have taken unknowingly, that is buffeting your body, as you eat the bread, it is neutralized in the name of Jesus.
People are upset about your success, and they will do everything to upset you. Everybody is upset about your Church, but they can do nothing, because the word of God says: I will build my Church and the gate of hell shall not prevail against the Church.
They are celebrating your triumph, but some are also upset by your triumph. The crate of eggs that was given to that man, none of the eggs was broken. So the question is: How did the poison get inside the eggs is a mystery. And that is the rod of the magicians, but as you take the bread, the rods of the magicians are swallowed up in the name of Jesus.
What is in the bread?
“And it came to pass, as he sat at meat with them, he took bread, and blessed it, and brake, and gave to them.
And their eyes were opened, and they knew him; and he vanished out of their sight.” (Luke 24:30,31)
Inside the bread is the brain cleanser. As He gave them the bread, their eyes were opened, and they knew him.
The word of God says:
“In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.” (2 Corinthians 4:4)
Whatever that is blinding your access to the truth, as you eat the bread, your eyes shall be opened in the name of Jesus.
This was said about Jesus:
“And when the Sabbath day was come, he began to teach in the synagogue: and many hearing him were astonished, saying: From whence hath this man these things? And what wisdom is this which is given unto him, that even such mighty works are wrought hands?” (Mark 6:2)
The devil tries to block your mind to the access of your inheritance, but Jesus came to sanctify us spirit, soul, which is made up of your will, intellect and emotion, and Jesus came to sanctify your body by the mystery of the bread, so that you can have the unbeatable mind of Christ, and you bring to bear the mind of Christ in your system. Your spirit is made robust when you eat the bread, and even your soul and body are made robust, and you shall know the truth. The word of God says:
“And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” (John 8:32)
What is in the bread?
Inside the bread lies the antidote to death. The word of God says:
“I am the living bread, which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.
This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eateth of this bread shall live forever.” (John 6:51,58)
We see another picture of this scripture painted in the Book of First Corinthians. Paul by the revelation given to him by Jesus said:
“For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you: That the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread:
And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said: Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.
After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying: This cup is the New Testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me.
For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord's death till he come.
Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.
But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup.
For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body.
For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.’ (1 Corinthians 11:23-30)
If you look at the picture of this scripture, this is the summary of the content of the mystery of the communion. And when you take it worthily, with understanding and with faith, it infuses physical strength, total health, and longevity into you. The word sleep there does not mean siesta, but death. So the bread is a mystery that confers longevity. You are buoyant in health on the earth, and you attain longevity before you go to sleep, and be with the Lord in heaven. This is the only drug known to man for the treatment of fear of death.
Smith Wigglesworth was taking the Communion daily and he lived a vibrant life.
Now what is in the blood?
The word of God says:
“And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said: Take, eat; this is my body.
And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying: Drink ye all of it.” (Matthew 26:26,27)
The word of God turned the drink into His blood. Every disease is trapped in the blood. Blood screening is what unveils the disease in your body. The word of God says:
“The life of the flesh is in the blood.” (Leviticus 17:11)
The quality of your life is a product of the quality of your blood. Jesus said: This is my blood made available to you. Jesus is saying: I am transfusing my blood into you, so that you can live my kind of life. I am transfusing my blood to replace your corrupt blood.
Let us go the Book of John chapter 6 again. The word of God says:
“The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying: How can this man give us his flesh to eat?
Then Jesus said unto them: Verily, verily, I say unto you: Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you.
Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day. (John 6:52-54)
The flesh and His blood, that is the ultimate drug available to man. I am transfusing my blood into your blood. So I declare any corrupt blood in your system destroyed in the name of Jesus.
What is in the blood?
The word of God says:
“Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers.
But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:” (1 Peter
Let us see the scientific picture of the blood of Christ here in this scripture.
The blood of Jesus is spotless and without blemish. It is a sinless blood, and not corrupted. He knew no sin. The word of God says:
“For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.” (2 Corinthians 5:21)
Now in science, the white corpuscle helps to fight against strangers in the blood. They are the defence corps. They are the soldiers that fight diseases and infections in the blood. The blood of Jesus is spotless. Jesus said:
“Who among you convinced me of sin?” (John 8:46)
The blood of Jesus is, therefore, the spiritual white corpuscle, which defends your blood against corruption and to fight every stranger in your blood system, and it engulfs and swallows every stranger in your blood.
What is in the blood?
The word of God says:
“For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh:
How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.” (Hebrews 9:13,14,22)
The blood of Jesus is a treatment to cleanse your spirit man, and to keep your spirit man from being broken. The word of God says:
“The spirit of a man sustains his infirmity, but a broken spirit, who can bear?” (Proverb 18:14)
When you take the blood, your spirit man is healthy. So whatever is corrupting your spirit man, as you take the blood, and you take it by faith and with understanding, weakness will be converted to strength, and you will be conferred with total health, and with longevity.
The blood of Jesus, the Communion is the only drug that has no side effect. Other drugs prescribed by doctors have side effects, but the drug prescribed by the great Physician, His bread and His blood have no side effects.
LOOSE HIM AND LET HIM GO (PART 3)
TEACHING DELIVERED BY BISHOP DAVID OYEDEPO ON
“For I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thy wounds.” (Jeremiah 30:17)
Whatever wound the enemy has inflicted on your body, God is healing your wound today in the name of Jesus.
They say: Your case is closed and the doctor has asked you to go home, but Jesus says: I will restore health unto thee. So whatever the case may be, and whatever remains to be healed in your body, you shall be delivered in the name of Jesus.
Everyday is God’s day, but the day you believe is your day. The word of God says:
“For he saith: I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.” (2 Corinthians 6:2)
Now today, and not tomorrow is your day of salvation, and that covers you.
That lady testified and said: The thing has been moving over her body. Whatever rod the enemy has put into your body, the rod of Jesus is swallowing it up this day in the name of Jesus.
A lady also testified that somebody brought her to this Church. Every time you bring somebody to Jesus, you are helping to wipe away tears. And whatever you make happen to others, God will also make happen for you. That lady was brought here, and a 13-year barrenness was terminated.
Testimonies are prophetic arrows, and when you shoot them, they hit the target. That lady took a book titled: Thou shall not be barren, and she read it. She came across a testimony similar to her own issue, how the woman went to the World of Faith Bible Institute (WOFBI), and after the course she became pregnant. So the lady enrolled in WOFBI, and she became pregnant the very month and a 13-year barrenness was terminated. She took a similar step of the testimony that she read. She believed it and she became pregnant.
God cannot lie. God says: Take testimony seriously and when you do what others do to get result, what they have done to get result, and you do it, you will also get the same result.
There is nothing that comes from heaven without a covenant demand to take responsibility. Whatever He tells you to do, do it. (John 2:5)
Faith is not just believing God, but also doing what He has commanded, if not, it is fake faith. Faith without covenant responsibility is fake faith.
For example, if you are not a giver, and you live permanently in Faith Tabernacle, and you attend all the 3 services, and you are even in the Church when there is no service that cannot change your story of financial prosperity. You must be a giver to enjoy His financial fortune.
Christianity is about taking covenant responsibility. I want you to believe today that your faith will bring your long awaited desire.
There is no case too late for God. Most of the time, medical experts would say: If you had come earlier, that disease, that cancer would not have spread all over the body. They say: You came too late. Lazarus was already 4 days in the grave, dead and stinking. And when Jesus came, Martha told Jesus that if Jesus had come earlier, her brother would have still been alive. But Jesus said: I am not late; I came late to show everyone the glory of God that these people may believe, for I am the resurrection and the life, and he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live, and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. (John 11:25,26)
So Jesus is saying: Why I came late is that I know that your case is not closed.
So whatever the verdict of the doctor, Jesus is reversing it today in the name of Jesus.
Jesus told them: Loose him and let him go. (John 11:44)
And that means that somebody was holding him.
There was a woman in the Bible. The Bible says: There was a woman, who had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bowed together, and she could in no wise lift up herself. (Luke 13:11)
Somebody was holding her down. Some forces were holding her down, and the Commander said: Loose her and let her go.
Let us see what Jesus said. The Word, Jesus, made an interesting statement. The Word of God says:
“And certain women, which had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities, Mary called Magdalene, out of whom went seven devils.” (Luke 8:2)
These women were rescued from the hold of evil spirits, and they were healed from the hold of evil spirits. Every sickness and disease is by the holding of evil spirits, and they were healed of the evil spirits, and of the spirit of infirmity.
The word of God says:
“And, behold, there was a woman which had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bowed together, and could in no wise lift up herself.
And when Jesus saw her, he called her to him, and said unto her: Woman, thou art loosed from thine infirmity.
And he laid his hands on her: and immediately she was made straight, and glorified God.” (Luke 13:11-13)
There is a spirit called a spirit of infirmity that held her spinal cord. The doctor says that it is a spinal cord re-alignment, and when they give injection, the thing may move or relieve them. There is s spirit of infirmity that does not obey injection. But Jesus said: Woman thou art loosed from your infirmity. Loose her is a command to certain forces that were holding her.
The rulers of the synagogue objected to Jesus healing the woman on a Sabbath Day, but Jesus said unto them:
“And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the Sabbath day?” (Luke 13:16)
This statement by Jesus is a confirmation that there is a spirit of infirmity that was holding the woman, and that it was the devil that held the woman bowed down.
The word of God further said:
“And when he had said these things, all his adversaries were ashamed: and all the people rejoiced for all the glorious things that were done by him.” (Luke 13:17)
Loose her and let her go. So behind every sickness and disease is the oppression of the devil, and his agents.
The word of God says:
“When the even was come, they brought unto him many that were possessed with devils: and he cast out the spirits with his word, and healed all that were sick.’ (Matthew 8:16)
Jesus was casting out the spirits with His word, and healed all that were sick.
There is always a casting out of the evil spirits, and then healing. The devils are cast out, and then comes to an end of the catastrophe, the evil spirits, that caused the sickness. So the catastrophe of someone is coming to an end today.
It is every important to know that even fever is an oppression of the devil. Jesus stood over Peter’s wife’s mother and rebuked the fever that plagued her. The word of God says:
“And he arose out of the synagogue, and entered into Simon's house. And Simon's wife's mother was taken with a great fever; and they besought him for her.
And he stood over her, and rebuked the fever; and it left her: and immediately she arose and ministered unto them.” (Luke 4:38,39)
And that is not recovery, but deliverance. So that foul spirit must leave you today in the name of Jesus.
We learnt that Satan went forth and smote Job with boils. So no matter what has been besieging against you, there is a casting out today in the name of Jesus.
The word of God says:
“When Jesus saw that the people came running together, he rebuked the foul spirit, saying unto him: Thou dumb and deaf spirit, I charge thee, come out of him, and enter no more into him.
And the spirit cried, and rent him sore, and came out of him: and he was as one dead; insomuch that many said: He is dead.
But Jesus took him by the hand, and lifted him up; and he arose.” (Mark 9:25-27)
There are also deaf and dumb spirits. They are also forces holding them down. Jesus rebuked the foul spirit and it left him. So whatever that is holding down any aspect of your life, and that is holding down your body, there is a loosening today in the name of Jesus.
The word of God says:
“And when he had called unto him his twelve disciples, he gave them power against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease.” (Matthew 10:1)
So today is your day. We gave a testimony from Sierra-Leone. A woman brought her dead child to the venue of our empowerment summit in that country, and she sat down at the summit with her dead child on her lap. She was determined not to leave until she got her miracle, and the longer she stayed the colder the child became. So I went to where she was and I put my face away from the child and I laid my hand on the child. In about 10 minutes when I moved away, the child jerked back to life.
So whatever that is holding you down in the grave, I command their hold broken today in the name of Jesus. There are those in the grave, but it is the devil that carried them there.
“And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing.” (Isaiah 10:27)
Now let me show you a mystery. You cannot see it or read it in any book.
There are 3 channels that the anointing is delivered.
1 There is the anointing of the Holy Ghost on persons and upon individual.
The word of God says:
“How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.” (Acts
And because that anointing is in levels, it varies from one person to another. So anointing that answers to one may not answer to another person, because they are not at the same level.
2 There is the anointing in the word.
The word of God says:
“And it came to pass on a certain day, as he was teaching, that there were Pharisees and doctors of the law sitting by, which were come out of every town of Galilee, and Judea, and Jerusalem: and the power of the Lord was present to heal them.” (Luke 5:17)
“He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.” (Psalm 107:20)
“It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.” (John 6:63)
There is anointing in the word. Jesus was teaching and the power in the word was healing them.
The principal ministry of the anointing on you is for you to access the anointing in the word, for when the Holy Spirit comes, He guides you to the truth. The Spirit searches all things, yea, the deep things of the Lord. (1 Corinthians 2:11)
Most people think that the anointing of the Holy Spirit is the only channel of power that delivers people. The anointing in the word is potent as the anointing of the Holy Spirit upon your life. There is the anointing in the word, and there is the anointing of the Holy Spirit, and both are potent.
In 1980, we were in a conference, and this young man, who had in the previous day being delivered from the spirit of insanity, came back with insanity again.
So there is a need to guard against spiritual emptiness to ward off attack from the devil and to sustain and retain our deliverance from the power of the devil
The Bible talks about spiritual emptiness:
“ When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none.
Then he saith, I will return into my house from whence I came out; and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished.
Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first. Even so shall it be also unto this wicked generation.” (Matthew 12:43-45)
Jesus healed me of tuberculosis in 1969, then why am I still healthy? It is your spiritual irresponsibility that makes you a liability.
You say: I was healed, but I came back sick again, and that is because you are spiritually empty. So it is important that everyone that wants dignity must take responsibility.
The Bible mentioned interpreters and messengers sent to show us the way:
“His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; and his bones that were not seen stick out.
Yea, his soul draweth near unto the grave, and his life to the destroyers.
If there be a messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to show unto man his uprightness:
Then he is gracious unto him, and saith: Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom.
His flesh shall be fresher than a child's: he shall return to the days of his youth.” (Job 33:21-25)
Now, by the things you are shown by God’s messengers, the interpreters of the words of God, you are rescued and delivered from going down to the pit, for you have found a ransom and you have found the answer from the things you were shown.
The anointing in the word is able to rescue and deliver you.
The scripture says:
“And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into
What did the anointing on the person of Jesus do?
We go on to find the answer in the scripture when Jesus declared:
“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the broken-hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised.” (Luke 4:18)
The anointing on the person of Jesus came to the anointing in the word, that is, He gained access to the anointing in the word, and the power, the anointing in the word, was present to heal the broken-hearted, and deliver the captives, and the recovery of sight to the blind, and to set at liberty them that are bruised.
So the anointing on your person grants you access to the anointing of the word.
When Jesus was teaching, the power of the word was present to heal them. (Luke 5:17)
The word of God further says:
“And he came down with them, and stood in the plain, and the company of his disciples, and a great multitude of people out of all Judea and Jerusalem, and from the sea coast of Tyre and Sidon, which came to hear him, and to be healed of their diseases;
And they that were vexed with unclean spirits: and they were healed.” (Luke 6:17,18)
And that is the anointing in the word, which healed them.
“And the whole multitude sought to touch him: for there went virtue out of him, and healed them all.” (Luke 6:19)
And there went virtue out of Him and healed them all. And that is the anointing upon the person of Jesus, that healed them. The anointing in the word proclaimed by Jesus also healed them, and both are potent. So there is the anointing in the word and there is the anointing on a person.
The anointing on a person may wan depending on the pressure on your life, but the anointing in the word is stable, and remains intact. The anointing in the word is everlasting. Forever, O Lord, thy word is settled in heaven. (Psalm 119:89)
The Bible says:
“Seek ye out of the book of the LORD, and read: no one of these shall fail, none shall want her mate: for my mouth it hath commanded, and his spirit it hath gathered them.” (Isaiah 34:16)
The anointing in the word is the anointing on God Himself.
The Bible says:
“Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.
For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.” (1 Peter 1:2021)
So the word of God is the breath of God in print. When the word of God is unveiled, the virtue in it is released. So the anointing in the word is the anointing on the Omnipotent Himself, the anointing on God.
Jesus said: It is written, and it is written, and it is written again and the devil leaveth alone. And that is the anointing in the word that disarms Satan
The Bible talks about the word, which is Jesus:
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
The same was in the beginning with God.
All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
In him was life; and the life was the light of men.
And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.” (John 1:1-5)
The word was God. And all things were made by the word, and without the word was not any thing made that was made.
The scripture also talked about the word, which is God, and who is the Light:
“This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.” (1 John 1:5)
God is the word, and God is light, so the word is light. Therefore the anointing in the word delivers in a grand style, because the word is irresistible, for light is irresistible to darkness. The word shines in darkness and the darkness comprehended it not. (John 1:5)
The word of God says:
“Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place.” (2 Corinthians 2:14)
Let me finish my story concerning the young man that his insanity came back. I told the men holding him to leave him alone, and I said unto the spirit of insanity:
“And the angels, which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.” (Jude: 6)
Then I declared, devil, what are you doing here? The devil left the young man alone.
On
A young innocent boy was mentally derailed, and he was locked inside. As I entered the room, he stood up and prostrated and greeted me. They asked him whether he knew me, for he had not recognised anyone including his mother, but light will always yield to light. I was living in the realm of light, and I was light crazy. He could not remember the name of her mother. He responded and said: he is my brother and he mentioned my name. There was no prayer made, but darkness will always give way to light. I commanded that they should dress him up, and be taken into my car, for I wanted to see the devil that will follow him inside my car. As soon as he got inside the car, he slept off, and that was the end of insanity.
“The entrance of thy word giveth light, it giveth understanding to the simple.” (Psalm 119:130)
God is a Spirit. Friends, the anointing in the word delivers in a grand style. May the anointing in you access the anointing in the word.
I encountered the anointing in the word in 1982 from the Book of Deuteronomy chapter 8, verse 18, which says in summary: I am the Lord that giveth you power to get wealth. The Lord said to me:
My Prosperity does not answer to prayer, and neither does it have respect to fasting, but prosperity answers to the covenant. Then I asked: What is the covenant, and the Lord answered and said:
“While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.” (Genesis 8:22)
I asked the Holy Spirit again: How am I sure that the covenant would work, and He said:
“Thus saith the Lord: If ye can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and night in their season;
Then may also my covenant be broken with David my servant, that he should not have a son to reign upon his throne; and with the Levites the priests, my ministers.” (Jeremiah 33:20,21)
The Lord said that my covenant is in place as long and the sun are in the sky. So I concluded and I said: I cannot be poor.
There is anointing in the word. May you begin to enjoy it henceforth.
I was reading the Book of Psalm 34, and as I came to verse 5, the Lord said stop, and He said: My son, can you makes one of your eyes to look up, and the other eye to look down all at the same time? I tried it, and it did not work. Then I said no. The Lord said: Anytime you are looking unto a man, do not say that you are looking unto me, for they looked unto Him and are lightened and their faces were not ashamed. (Psalm 34:5)
So that was a cut not to look unto any man or unto myself for any thing.
Keep your focus on me, and that is where the love of dependency on God comes from, from the scripture Psalm chapter 34, verse 5.
Let us look at the third channel of anointing that delivers.
3 The third channel is the anointing in the name of Jesus.
The word of God says:
“He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.
And these signs shall follow them that believe: In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues.
They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.” (Mark 16:16-18)
In my name shall they cast out devils. I am giving my name to anyone who believes, and in my name shall they lay hands on the sick and they shall recover.
What is at the back of that name?
1 The name of Jesus carries surpassing anointing. When you engage the name of Jesus Christ, you are taking cover under His anointing against the opposition. Jesus has the anointing without measure.
“For He whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God.
For He giveth not the Spirit by measure unto Him.” (John 3:34)
The name Christ means the Anointed, and God gave the Spirit unto Him without measure. (John 3:34)
Now whether you belong to the ruling party or not, a message from the President of a nation carries a majestic presence of his power. And no matter how short or tall of the bearer the message from the President, the secretary of the office, where the message is brought would be running around with the message to act on it, because the message is from the President, and this gives the bearer some authority and respect.
Your anointing may not matter, but His anointing is more than match. There is a surpassing anointing in that name. God gave Jesus the Spirit without measure. So when you say, in the name of Jesus, Satan loose your grip from me, that Jesus has asked me to tell you to take off your hand from me, the devil cannot resist that name, but bow to the name of Jesus Christ. The anointing on Jesus is irresistible.
“Because of the savour of thy good ointments thy name is as ointment poured forth, therefore do the virgins love thee.” (Songs of Solomon 1:3)
The anointing is unleashed when you engage that name in faith. The word of god says:
“And there he found a certain man named Aeneas, which had kept his bed eight years, and was sick of the palsy.
And Peter said unto him, Aeneas, Jesus Christ maketh thee whole: arise, and make thy bed. And he arose immediately.” (Acts
Peter took cover in the name and rescued Aeneas from the hold of the devil. Peter said unto Him: Christ maketh thee whole, rise and take thy bed.
There is the anointing in the name. Even some of you use our name to get result, how much more you get result when you use the name of Jesus Christ.
The name of Jesus is a name that is above other names in heaven, on the earth, and under the earth. May you recognise the anointing in that name.
When Jesus sent them to preach the gospel and to heal all manner of sickness and disease, and to cast out devils, they returned with testimonies and they said:
“And the seventy returned again with joy, saying, Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through thy name.
And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.
Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you” (Luke
They said: Even the devils are subject unto us through thy name (Luke
They used the name of Jesus to compel the devil to bow. It was the anointing on Jesus at the time and the devil could not resist the name, how much more that Christ has been enthroned by the Father, the devil cannot resist Him.
The word of God says:
“Say unto God, How terrible art thou in thy works! Through the greatness of thy power shall thine enemies submit themselves unto thee.” (Psalm 66:3)
There is great power in that name, meaning, there is great anointing in the name of Jesus.
Remember the story of the 7 sons of Sceva. The evil said unto them:
“Jesus I know, and Paul I know, but who are ye?” (Acts
Every devil in hell recognises the anointing on Jesus.
There was a man, who dwelt among the tombs, and no man could access his way, but when he saw Jesus, the word of God says:
“And cried with a loud voice, and said: What have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of the most high God? I adjure thee by God, that thou torment me not.” (Mark 5:7)
That name torments all devils.
The word of God says:
“And his name through faith in his name hath made this man strong, whom ye see and know: yea, the faith which is by him hath given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you” (Acts
There is the anointing that sets free in the name. The anointing is upon you today.
We were told that the Council in
“And they called them, and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus.
But Peter and John answered and said unto them: Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God, judge ye.
For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.” (Acts 4:18-20)
The name was tormenting the devils in town. So engage the name against every devil tormenting you.
What is at the back of the name?
2 There is divine authority in the name of Jesus.
The word of God says:
“Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:
That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;
And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.” (Philippians 2:9-11)
There is a lot of difference between power and authority. Power is acquire-able, but authority is only conferred. There is power in the name of Jesus, and there is also divine authority at the back of the name of Jesus.
Now John Kerry, one of the presidential candidates in the
Somebody is here on the seat of the President of Nigeria. He is not the most qualified, but authority has been conferred on him. There is also a Governor of a State, he may not be the best candidate to occupy the seat, but authority has been conferred upon him
So authority cannot be acquired, but it is conferred. You cannot give yourself authority; it is given to you. But see what God did.
“Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:” (Philippians 2:9)
God gave Jesus authority. God also gave power to Jesus for Jesus declared:
“All power (including none) is given unto me in heaven and in earth.
Go ye therefore and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and the Son (in my name), and of the Holy Spirit.” (Matthew 28:18,19)
Therefore there is power in the name, and there is anointing in the name, and there is authority in the name.
Authority is given in the name, which the opposition in heaven, and on earth, and under the earth cannot resist. So there is One, Jesus, anointed for power, and given authority.
The word of God says:
“ For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son.
That all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him.” (John 5:22,23)
So He has divine authority behind that name to deliver His mission in a grand style, and when you invoke the name, you are committing the integrity of the name, and God will rise up to the occasion. There is surpassing anointing behind that name, and divine authority. The name of Jesus torments and destroys the devils and He always has His way. All the gates lift up their head at the name.
The word of God says:
“Whosoever shall fall upon that stone (the name of Jesus) shall be broken, but whomsoever the stone (the name) shall fall, it will grind him to powder.” (Luke 20:18)
There is divine authority backing that name.
The word of God says:
“Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.
And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it.” (John 14:12-14)
I can tell you this: Your testimony is done.
Let me recap: The Holy Spirit anointing is upon persons and individual, and they are in levels and in dimensions.
There is also anointing in the word for all time, and it is stable.
There is also anointing in the name for all time, and it is also stable.
The anointing in these 3 channels delivers the same way, because they all come from the same source.
The word of God says:
“Is any sick among you? Let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord:
And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.” (James 514,15)
Is any sick among you, let him call the elders and pray over him, anointing him with oil, and the anointing in the name of Jesus will heal him, and the prayer of faith shall heal the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up, and if he hath committed sins, they shall be forgiven him (James 5:14,15)
Jesus has given you the legal right to use His name. He has given you the Power of Attorney to use His name. It is your right by redemption, and it is for everyone that is saved. That name is your rescue weapon, for the name is up to the task.
The word of God says:
“For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.” (Romans 10:13)
“And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.” (Acts
There is a rescue anointing in the name that delivers. Everyone in the scripture that calls that name got their desires.
And all you need is faith in the name and taking cover in the name for your deliverance, for God cannot deny Himself.
I conclude with this: God had a program to keep
The word of God says:
“When I cry unto thee, then shall mine enemies turn back, this I know for God is for me.” (Psalm 56:9)
Faith in the word is what releases the anointing in the word. And faith in the name of Jesus is what releases the anointing in the name.
The cry of faith will always secure his attention and provokes His intervention.
Blind Bartimeaus cried, when he learnt that Jesus was passing by. He cried the cry of faith and said: Jesus the son of David<, have mercy on me. The people, who stood by him told him to shut up, but he cried the more and said: Jesus, the son of David, have mercy on me. Jesus heard the cry of faith and He stood still. He sent people to call him, and He asked him: What do you want me to do unto you? The blind man said: That I may receive my sight. He touched him and he received his sight.
The word of God says
“And they came to
And when he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out, and say, Jesus, thou Son of David, have mercy on me.
And many charged him that he should hold his peace: but he cried the more a great deal, Thou Son of David, have mercy on me.
And Jesus stood still, and commanded him to be called. And they call the blind man, saying unto him: Be of good comfort, rise; he calleth thee.
And he, casting away his garment, rose, and came to Jesus.
And Jesus answered and said unto him: What wilt thou that I should do unto thee? The blind man said unto him, Lord, that I might receive my sight.
And Jesus said unto him: Go thy way; thy faith hath made thee whole. And immediately he received his sight, and followed Jesus in the way. (Mark 10:46-52)
Don’t just sit down and explain away your position. Most people just sit down and explain their situation and failure instead of crying the cry of faith to secure His attention and thereby provoke heaven’s intervention.
The word of God says:
“Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do it.
Say not unto thy neighbour, Go, and come again, and to morrow I will give; when thou hast it by thee.” (Proverb 3:27,28)
Let me ask you this question: Does God have your healing in His hand right now? He has it now and He will not tell you to come back tomorrow to heal you.
Healing is children’s bread, and you must have it.
The word of God says:
“That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses.” (Matthew 8:17)
:
You have no business to carry any more sickness and disease on your body, because He had already taken it away. He took away your sickness and disease and all your infirmities 2000 years ago. The sin that brought sickness into the world, He shed His blood to wipe it away and nailed everything to the cross.
The word of God says:
“For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. “ (2 Corinthians 5:21)
“For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.” (1 Corinthians 6:20)
So cry the cry of faith and the cry of faith will secure His attention and will provoke His intervention. Rejoice for no one is permitted t return home this day without their healing. You are going back home with your total health package in the name of Jesus.
LOOSE HIM AND LET HIM GO (PART 4)
TEACHING DELIVERED BY BISHOP DAVID OYEDEPO ON
Let us continue our series: Loose him and let him go.
The scripture says:
“And from the days of John the Baptist until now, the
So each one has to reposition himself in liberty from the captivity that you find yourself.
The word of God says:
“Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean.
Shake thyself from the dust; arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem: loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of
For thus saith the Lord: Ye have sold yourselves for nought; and ye shall be redeemed without money.
For thus saith the Lord God, My people went down afore time into
Loose thyself from the bands of thy neck. Shake thyself from the dust, arise, and sit down.
Through faith Sarah received strength to conceive. So lay hold on the source of faith, for faith is the source of your strength. The word is the source of faith, for the Bible says: For those who know their God shall be strong and they shall do exploits. (Daniel 11:32)
Therefore, the source of your faith is in the word of God, and you draw your strength from faith.
That daughter of
Shake thyself from the dust, arise, and sit down. So whatever has been defiling you, and molesting your Christian testimony, today is the end of it. It will not cost you money, but it will only take the relevant force of faith.
In the field of mechanics, it is said: When an object is in the state of rest, until the relevant is applied or employed, it remains in that state of rest. You move an object in a state of rest by applying a relevant force.
So today, you are applying the force of faith to take delivery of your health package, which is part of your inheritance in Christ.
So every generational crisis in your career, and in your business is over today. Do you know that your business can be sick? Do you also know that your career can be sick, but that is ending today in the name of Jesus. Every generational curse is crushed today, and every marital spell is doomed today in the name of Jesus. So get out of your slumber.
The word of God says:
“Wherefore He saith: Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.” (Ephesians 5:14)
When light comes, faith will come, and when faith comes, strength will come, and strength makes you to prevail.
Life is not a fun fare, but life is warfare. The Bible says:
“And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.” (Revelation 12:17)
And we are the seed of the woman. So life is not a playground, but life is a battlefield. So we need to fight, and the fight is a fight of faith.
The word of God says:
“Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.” (1 Timothy 6:12)
So we are admonished to fight the good fight of faith to lay hold on our inheritance. It is not a physical fight, or of flesh and blood, but the good fight of faith.
The word of God says:
“For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.” (Ephesians 6:12)
Although we walk in the flesh, our war is spiritual, for we do not war after the flesh. See what the scripture says:
“For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh:
(For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds.)
Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ.” (2 Corinthians 10:3-5)
It is a spiritual warfare, and your instrument is faith. The Bible has this to say:
“For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.” (1 John 5:4)
Life is a battlefield, but we are guaranteed victory by engaging the force of faith, for every man, who is born of God, overcomes the world, and this is the victory that overcomes the world, even our faith. So when we engage the relevant force of faith, we secure the victory
Faith is not a philosophical force, neither is it a psychological fact, but faith is a spiritual force that puts you in command. Faith is a spiritual force that commands supernatural victory in the battlefield of life.
The word of God says:
“For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.” (1 John 5:4)
This is how to overcome. We overcome by the force of faith. Many of us are standing today, because we are connected to the force of faith, if not, we would have been dead.
By faith we overcome. By faith, they subdued kingdoms, and they stopped the mouth of lions, and they quenched fiery fire.
“Who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions.
Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of the aliens.” (Hebrews 1:33,34)
So you are not to be scared by any battle of life, especially, as we now know what it takes to overcome by faith.
The Bible says:
“Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.
Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.” (Ephesians 6:10,11)
It takes strength to overcome. Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of His might.
The children of
So you need to be strong, and be strength crazy. You need to come after spiritual strength.
May I ask: How do you gain strength?
The word of God says:
“But the people that do know their God shall be strong and do exploits.” (Daniel 11:32)
So be committed to the word, the anointed word of God, and to the anointed teachers, who are sent to help you to understand, to help your understanding of the word.
I remember telling you of when I returned from a trip, and my wife told me that she had a miscarriage, because she saw blood. And I said: It cannot be, may I have my food please. And that was the end of the matter.
And that is what I call strength, which is by faith. So build your strength by the word of God.
The word of God says:
“Through wisdom is an house builded; and by understanding it is established:
And by knowledge shall the chambers be filled with all precious and pleasant riches.
A wise man is strong; yea, a man of knowledge increaseth strength.” (Proverb 24:3-5)
A wise man is strong; yea, a man of knowledge increaseth strength. The secret of strength is in the knowledge of the truth. The knowledge of the truth is the true source of strength.
“Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of His might.” (Ephesians 6:10)
The word of God also says:
“Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised.” (Hebrews 11:11)
“And faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.” (Romans 10:17)
So the source of strength is in the word of God. You derive strength from the word of God, and faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. Strength comes from faith, and faith comes by the word, therefore, strength comes from the word of God. When God says something, and you have faith to believe it, you have strength to do it.
Therefore, every battle of life bows to the force of the good fight of faith, which is what wins the war, for this is the victory that overcomes the world, even our faith.
That medical doctor, who testified said that he had lived all this long with high blood pressure. He came to this Church just in February 2010, and he had been a Moslem for 40 years, but he came to Jesus, and he heard a word of faith, and Jesus cleansed him up, and not by medical experts, but by Jesus by the force of faith. He believed the word of God. Every one that is born of God overcomes the world, and this is the victory that overcomes the world, even our faith. (1 John 5:4)
Faith is not propounding theory, or expounding principles, but faith is a spiritual force. It is not a suggestion, but it is the verdict that overcomes the world.
Therefore, don’t let the devil devalue your faith.
The word of God says:
“But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.” (2 Corinthians 11:3)
The storm was raging, and the disciples ran to Jesus and cried: Master, carest thou we perish? And Jesus said unto them: Why are ye fearful? How is it that ye have no faith? (Mark
They told him that Lazarus was dead, but He said: Our friend, Lazarus, sleepeth, but I go that I may awake him out of sleep. (John 11:11)
They told Him, sir, do you know what we are saying? He is dead for 4 days, and he is already stinking, and you are talking about waking him from sleep. But Jesus responded and said unto them:
“If thou wouldest believe, thou shouldest see the glory of God.” (John 11:40)
So don’t let the devil devalue your faith, for faith is able to bring the dead to life.
The word of God says:
“Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.” (1 Timothy 6:12)
You are called to fight the good fight of faith, and so, you are a faith warrior, and that is what makes you more than a conqueror.
Everything including nothing in this ministry is made by the goof fight of faith.
I want you to know this that your presence in your family is God’s strategy to bring victory to your family.
Joseph was in the house of an Egyptian, Potiphar, and the house of Potiphar prospered for the sake of Joseph.
The word of God says:
“And it came to pass from the time that he had made him overseer in his house, and over all that he had, that the Lord blessed the Egyptian's house for Joseph's sake; and the blessing of the Lord was upon all that he had in the house, and in the field.” (Genesis 39:5)
Joseph was in the house of a man, who was not in the covenant, but one Joseph turned the fortune of this man, who was not in the covenant. So I see one Joseph here this day, in this house, turning the fortune of his family
So today, salvation and victory have entered your family for your sake. I am sure that somebody’s faith is coming alive now.
There was also a covenant man, Jacob, who lived in the house of Laban, and the house of Laban prospered for the sake of Jacob. Laban gave a testimony and said:
“And Laban said unto him, I pray thee, if I have found favour in thine eyes, tarry: for I have learned by experience that the Lord hath blessed me for thy sake.” (Genesis 30:27)
So for your sake, deliverance is coming to your family; and every spell is breaking down in your house, and every hereditary disease is broken today in your family for your sake.
Paul said to the jailor:
“And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.” (Acts
You believe, and that will cover your house. You believe and your entire house will be saved with you. So the faith of the saints covers the family.
Let us quickly check what is in faith that conquers, heals, delivers, and restores. What is the secret behind the efficacy, immunity, and invincibility of faith?
1 God’s integrity is provoked by faith.
The word of God says:
“If we believe not, yet He abideth faithful; He cannot deny Himself.” (2 Timothy 2:13)
“God is not a man that He should lie, neither the son of man that He should repent. Hath He said, and shall He not do it, or hath He spoken, and shall He not make it good.” (Numbers
So faith challenges God to defend Himself.
The word of God says:
“For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife.
Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath:
That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:” (Hebrews 6:16-18)
This is talking about the invincibility of faith by the integrity of God, that is, faith that cannot be conquered by any force. We provoke His integrity to rise up to the challenges by faith. So faith provokes the integrity of God to rise up to the challenges of our lives. And when God rises up to the challenges, it is over.
You saw when God rose to the challenges faced by
The word of God says:
“And they rose early in the morning, and went forth into the wilderness of Tekoa: and as they went forth, Jehoshaphat stood and said, Hear me, O Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem; Believe in the Lord your God, so shall ye be established; believe his prophets, so shall ye prosper.
And when he had consulted with the people, he appointed singers unto the Lord, and that should praise the beauty of holiness, as they went out before the army, and to say, Praise the Lord; for his mercy endureth forever.
And when they began to sing and to praise, the Lord set ambushments against the children of
So the host of
What is in faith that conquers, heals, delivers, and restores?
2 Faith provokes the stretching forth of God’s hand.
The word of God says:
“Who hath believed our report? And to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed?” (Isaiah 53:1)
When that hand touched the coffin bearing the dead body of a young man, the only son of a widow of Nain, the young man rose up from the dead. The word of God says:
“And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her, and said unto her: Weep not.
And he came and touched the bier: and they that bare him stood still. And he said: Young man, I say unto thee, Arise.
And he that was dead sat up and began to speak. And he delivered him to his mother.” (Luke 7:13-15)
So imagine the body of Jesus touching your life. So somebody’s life is being touched now. So whatever has been turning your life, you now have the testimony of Jesus touching your life today in the name of Jesus. So imagine Jesus touching your life today, your life will change, and you will manifest to your world.
What is in faith that conquers, heals, delivers, and restores?
3 God’s power is provoked and released by faith.
The word of God says:
“For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.” (Romans 1:16)
Salvation means rescue, healing, deliverance, prosperity, and restoration among other things.
So faith converts the word of God to power, and that power delivers, heals, rescues, conquers, restores, and prospers.
The woman with the issue of blood drew power from Jesus by faith, and that flow of power (virtue) healed her. And that power healed and restored her, and it also prospered her for she needed not spend her savings to doctors anymore. And immediately the flow of blood ceased. Jesus said unto the woman: Daughter, be of good comfort, thy faith hath made thee whole. (Matthew 9:22)
So today, I see the flow of shame and reproach, and the flow of sickness and diseased ceased from everyone under the sound of my voice, and for you that are reading this message today in the name of Jesus.
The word of God says:
“But as many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on His name.” (John 1:12)
Faith provokes the power of God, which flows to the situation, and the result is victory. And you know that the challenges of life and mine life are caused by the devil.
The word of God says:
“How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.” (Acts
The devil is the author of sickness and disease. Jesus told a parable and said:
“The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man, who sowed good seed in his field.
But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.
But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also.
So the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? From whence then hath it tares?
He said unto them: An enemy hath done this. The servants said unto him: Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up?” (Matthew 13:24-28)
The disciples came back to Jesus to interpret the parable to them and He said unto them:
“The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one. (Matthew 13:38)
So whatever the Lord has not planted in your life, it shall be uprooted today in the name of Jesus.
The word of God says:
“Say unto God, How terrible art thou in thy works! Through the greatness of thy power shall thine enemies submit themselves unto thee.” (Psalm 66:3)
It takes power of God for the enemy to bow, and that power is flowing toward your direction now.
What is in faith that conquers, heals, delivers, and restores?
4 Faith confers divine authority. Faith confers divine authority upon mortal men, upon believers to command victory. And that is why I can slap a witch, and all she could do is weep.
Now there is a difference between having power and authority. It is one thing to have power, and it is another thing to have authority. Power is acquired, but authority is conferred. You may have the capacity, but do you have the authority to rule? Jesus, when He sent out His disciples, He gave them power and authority to cast out the evil spirits, and to heal all manner of sickness and disease. (Luke 9:1)
You can thirst for power, but authority has to be given.
Jesus said:
“If thou canst believe, all things are possible to them that believeth.” (Matthew 9:23)
So, faith has divine authority backing it. Faith determines the outcome of every battle.
The word of God says:
“ For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.” (Mark
Faith confers divine authority on you.
I told you of this before. Many years ago, the doctor tested me and he said that I had high blood pressure. I said unto him that, that could not be. He said that I should see the instrument. I told him: That was not necessary. I said: I am not saying that I don’t have it, but it cannot be. It is like testing a man for pregnancy, for it is impossible for a man to be pregnant, except the man is pregnant with pounded yam with EGUNSI soup. If a man is tested for pregnancy, it is either the doctor needs to be examined, or the doctor is sheer crazy.
The Lord, Jesus Christ took our sicknesses and bare all our infirmities on His body since over 2,000 years ago and nailed them to the cross. So it is blindness not to see what somebody had taken them away. Now, if someone took my pen from my hand, I don’t have it any longer. So it is blindness not to see that I don’t have the pen anymore.
So whatever evil man sees in you, they are destroyed today in the name of Jesus.
So faith confers divine authority on you. Faith confers authority on an ordinary man to put him in command over the events of life. So I see you in liberty today in the name of Jesus.
The word of God says:
“If the Son, therefore, shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.” (John 8:36)
What is in faith that conquers, heals, delivers, and restores?
5 We are saved by grace through faith.
The word of God says:
“For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God.” (Ephesians 2:8)
So salvation repositions you in the spirit realm.
The word of God says:
“Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)
And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus.” (Ephesians 2:5,6)
And where are you positioned?
“Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places,
Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come>” (Ephesians
So faith repositions you far above the perpetrators like the powers and principalities, and above the power of the darkness of the world. Faith repositions you above satanic devices, and you need a far above mentality to operate in this realm. You need the far above mentality to operate above the forces of the occults.
So faith repositions you above where the satanic forces are able to operate.
Remember the story in the Book of Revelation. The scripture says:
“And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels.
And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven.
And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven: Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.
And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.” (Revelation 12:7-11)
So after today’s family victory, the devil shall have no more seat in your family. So I like you to get excited, for faith does not leave you in the same position of the enemy, but repositions above the enemies. So you have the final say.
So say with me: I have the final say in this battle, for by grace are we saved through faith.
So what faith does is to deliver you from the power of the darkness, and translates you into the kingdom of His dear Son. (Colossians 1:13)
And that is where you have triumph, and where your victory is determined.
In 1979, I confronted some powers after I contacted light from a book written by Smith Wigglesworth, The Apostle of faith, and I saw that redemption does not make you to struggle. It means I am here not to be struggling for survival, but to be in dominion. One of my brothers was invited to speak at a meeting, but he could not honour the invitation, so I represented him in that meeting. After my teaching I asked: How many here are witches, stand up? Many of them stood up. I was amazed and excited, for dearness cannot challenge the light. I told them to sit down, and that may be they misunderstood what I said. So I asked them again: If you know that you are a practising witch, stand up. An equal number of people, who stood at first also stood up. So I called one of them out, a young girl and I asked her: What do you do? And she said: We go to the highway and cause accidents, and we suck the blood of our victims. I asked: What do you do when you see people like us on the highway? She said: When we sense a higher power on the highway, we clear off the highway.
I addressed them with a far above mentality.
Can you imagine a lion complaining about the barking of a dog? When a dog is barking where a lion is, the lion rejoices, because there is a free food. A dog does not bark around a lion’s den. Can you imagine a wolf face to face with a lion? So any devil that comes around you, I declare them as mincemeat. A lion is not scared by the barking of a dog, neither is a lion scared by the meow of a cat. When the lion lies down whether awake or at sleep, there is no animal that can dare him.
In those days as small kids, you are either playing football, or you are boxing. When we want to fight, we say a slogan, if you have chest, come out and fight. So we draw a circle, which marks the arena. There was no Face Book then, but we only come face to face in the ring and fight. And the stronger one wins. And that is why I know that the devil is already defeated in the name of Jesus.
What is in faith that conquers, heals, deliver, and restore?
6 Faith engenders testimony.
The word of God says:
“Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
For by it the elders obtained a good report.” (Hebrews 11:1,2)
By faith, the elders obtain good report, which is testimony. So today, someone’s long awaited testimony is delivered in the name of Jesus.
Faith engenders testimony, which helps it to keep reproducing itself. The testimony of today was generated from previous testimony, which has been generating ripple effects.
One woman came to me some years ago and said that she saw blood, and the woman was pregnant, and she thought that she had miscarriage. I asked her that if she cut herself with a blade, what would she see? She said blood. So I asked her: Is blood the same thing as a baby? Therefore, if she sees blood, then it is excess blood, and unwanted blood. She delivered and had her baby.
So somebody today also gave the same testimony, that had been given years ago, and many have overcome by the word of this testimony.
So friends, faith engenders testimony, and we use testimony to reproduce other testimonies.
The word of God says:
“And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.” (Revelation 12:11)
Faith engenders testimony. So every daughter of faith, and for every believer, your barrenness is terminated today in the name of Jesus.
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