PREPARING FOR DIVINE PROMOTION: PASTOR BAMIDELE STURDIVANT – RCCG HOLY GHOST CONGRESS 2020 (VIRTUAL), DAY 3 EVENING SESSION

RCCG HOLY GHOST CONGRESS 2020 (VIRTUAL)

THEME: IT’S TIME TO FLY

MINISTERING DAY 3 EVENING SESSION (TALK 1): PASTOR BAMIDELE STURDIVANT (THE FAITH UNITED MINISTRIES, USA)

TOPIC: PREPARING FOR DIVINE PROMOTION.

DATE: 9TH DECEMBER, 2020

BIBLE TEXT: JUDGES 6:21-27

Well, let somebody shout a Big Hallelujah – HALLELUJAH!

GOD BLESS YOU!

It is a great Honour, it is a great Privilege for me to have the opportunity to come to you in this Unique day, at the Strategic time to share with you what the Almighty God has Placed in my heart.

Whatever it is that my Daddy, Pastor E.A Adeboye has given me the opportunity to come and share with you during this Holy Ghost Congress.

And the THEME is: IT’S TIME TO FLY.

Let us Pray!

OPENING PRAYER

Father in the Name of Jesus I Thank You right now for the Privilege and opportunity.

I Thank You for the chance that you have given; where we get to speak with Your People, to share with them what You are trying to get to them – through me, for where You are trying to take them.

I Pray in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ that this will be a Turning Point in the life of someone that is watching and reading this Message from the Label of DMC; wherever they are in the world.

That they will hear a Word from You, letting them know that this is the way walk in it.

And for everyone who has been grounded, who has seemingly been stucked, who has been stranded; by virtue of this Message let them all be LIFTED.

Let them know that there is Someone Great and Above to help them.

Save someone today!

In Jesus’ Name I Pray – Amen and Amen!

I want to talk to you from a very Unique Passage of Scriptures which seemingly, may not go with this Theme: IT’S TIME TO FLY.

But, I want to look at Judges 6:21-27 (NKJV):

21 Then the Angel of the Lord put out the end of the staff that was in His hand, and touched the meat and the unleavened bread; and fire rose out of the rock and consumed the meat and the unleavened bread. And the Angel of the Lord departed out of his sight.

22 Now Gideon perceived that He was the Angel of the Lord. So Gideon said, “Alas, O Lord God! For I have seen the Angel of the Lord face to face.”

23 Then the Lord said to him, “Peace be with you; do not fear, you shall not die.”

24 So Gideon built an altar there to the Lord, and called it The-Lord-Is-Peace. To this day it is still in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.

25 Now it came to pass the same night that the Lord said to him, “Take your father’s young bull, the second bull of seven years old, and tear down the altar of Baal that your father has, and cut down the wooden image that is beside it;

26 and build an altar to the Lord your God on top of this rock in the proper arrangement, and take the second bull and offer a burnt sacrifice with the wood of the image which you shall cut down.”

27 So Gideon took ten men from among his servants and did as the Lord had said to him. But because he feared his father’s household and the men of the city too much to do it by day, he did it by night.

Now listen, when you are talking about IT’sTIME TO FLY, Flying has SEVERAL THINGS connected to it:

• It has ELEVATION connected to it;
• It has PROMOTION attached to it.

And I believe that because, the Almighty God gave this Theme to our Daddy for this Particular Season; especially when we are in what is a worldwide Pandemic and what is a Lockdown.

You remember a few Months back, our Daddy was teaching us on: “GOING FROM LOCKDOWN TO LEAPING UP.”

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I believed that the Almighty God is strategically telling us to start Preparing ourselves to move from Stagnation to Elevation; to move from being stuck to being Promoted.

So, for the next few moments I want to talk to you about: PREPARING FOR DIVINE PROMOTION.

… And I want to use Gideon as my case study.

Because you see many of us, we see that there is something wrong that is about to happen to us that the world has not seen.

We understand that there has been so many things that happened to us and it looks like there’s no way that what God Promised us in the beginning of the Year 2020 can actually take Place for us.

Some have given up on their Hopes, given up on their Dreams, given up on their Goals.

Here in America, we have what is called is ‘CANCEL CULTURE” – And people are saying they want to CANCEL 2020 or we want to GO OVER Year 2020.

As if God did not know that everything that is happening now was going to be happening.

So to some degree, all of us know, we insist that there has got to be something more than what is happening just now.

… We just don’t know how that can be!

The Bible says this in 1 Thessalonians 5:24 – It says: Faithful is He Who has called you. Or He Who has called you is Faithful and He also would do it.

Which means that the onus or the Strength, or the responsibility of getting done what has been Promised is not on you and I; it is on THE ONE who MADE the Promise.

And because He is the One Who is Faithful, He is going to do just what He says.

For God is not a man that He should lie, neither the Son of Man that He should repent or change His mind (Numbers 23:19).

If He says it, He is going to do it; and if He had spoken; it will come to Pass!

The Problem my Beloved brothers and sisters – The Problem is though we believe God is going to do something else, do something greater; we don’t put ourselves in a Position as if we really believe that it is going to happen.

I’m talking to someone right now: You can’t just put everything on Pause, put everything on hold and say: “I’m going to wait until something shifts, before I start doing something.”

Can I just tell you, that there is always a SIFTING before a SHIFTING.

God starts weeding out some things: Weeding out certain People, weeding out certain Mindsets; because He knows where He is taking you.

You cannot ONLY believe in the Promise of God; you have to also have POSITION yourself for the Promise of God.

For example; in Exodus 14:13-15; in order for Moses to see the Red Sea, Moses had to get him to the very Place where the Red Sea was.

He had to Position himself right in the very Presence of the Problem, in order to see what God was about to do.

Can I tell you this very quickly (as I move on)? – That when Moses got into the Red Sea and God told him to stretch out his arms, do you know that when he did that – the water ROLLED UP one side!

You know the story!

And it says: They walked through on DRY GROUND.

Listen; the dry ground was always there! It was covered by the ocean

What does that mean?

It means that their Deliverance was covered by the River, but they had to go and stand and confront the River – If they ever expected to see their DELIVERANCE.

And look at what God did for them!

He allowed them to see the bottom of the sea which they had never seen before!

I’m Prophesying to someone that is listening to me right now or reading on the Label of DMC that: The very thing that looks impossible – The illness that looks incurable; God is going to let us see the END OF IT – AMEN!

Come on, if you believe that shout Big Hallelujah right where you are -. HALLELUJAH!

So Moses POSITIONED himself in the Place that he was expecting what God has Promised.

But David, in 1 Samuel 17:48-50; he had to conquer a lion, before he could try his strength on Goliath.

He could not get what was Promised him until he got over that Giant that was confronting.

And I am decreeing that today on this day that you are watching this very Special CONGRESS or reading on the Label of DMC; I am decreeing that every Goliath, every Giant in your life – IT FALLS TODAY!*

Come on, I say IT FALLS Today!

And if you can believe it right there in your home, right there in your office, where you are looking at this Message on your computer on your phone! while you are watching it on the Camp Ground, while you are watching it in your Churches or Reading on the label of DMC;

I want you to know that today is the day that Giant FALLS!

Come on, if you believe that – Right where you are shout a BIG AMEN!

What can I say about it here?

In Luke 5: 4-7; Peter could not get the great draw of fish that he got – Until he had launched out into the deep, he couldn’t believe that the fish were there!

He also could only believed that he had an opportunity; but we could not get it by standing on the shore.

Being a shallow water, because he never knew big fish stay in shallow water.

For someone that is afraid right now, that is intimidated right now; I’m telling you God is launching you out into the DEEP Waters – Amen.

I know everything looked Possible at January, at February. But here you are in the Month of December – you are in Deep Waters.

Because God made Promises and Prophetic Utterances in January and February; and then, the Pandemic took Place.

But I am telling you that the same God that created the Earth, the World, all of the Planets and the Universe in six (6) days (and He rested).

… He’s got more than ENOUGH TIME!

I will say it again: He’s got MORE THAN enough time to bring to Pass everything that He Promised you.

Come on tell yourself: Hey, I still believe God, I STILL BELIEVE GOD!

What can I say?

In Acts 2:1-4; the one hundred and twenty (120) Disciples had to be in the Upper Room in order for the Holy Spirit to come to them there!

I’m telling you that God has been trying to get certain individuals and you and I in Particular; to a Particular Place where He can then let us now do the very things that we have been believing Him for.

I want to tell someone that as hard as it is to believe: You are right where you are supposed to be.

I know you can’t believe it, I know it doesn’t Look like It; but God does not make a mistake.

Listen: He is calling you, He is begging you in Isaiah 46:10;

“Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my Pleasure:”

So you are right where you are supposed to be for God to do what he has Promised you!

Beloved there is Positional Preparation that must be adhered to: If you are going to Fly, if you are going to SOAR, if you are going to be ELEVATED, if you are going to be PROMOTED:

You have got to have POSITIONAL PREPARATION.

No Rocket takes off in the Stratosphere without having a Launching Space.

You have got to have a Place where you are trying to be; where God has Prepared for certain things to happen.

Do you remember in Genesis 2:5; and I have told you many times – I don’t see Genesis, I said GENE-sis.

Because GENE is the DNA – Original makeup, the beginning of a thing.

And Genesis 2:5 says: “And every Plant of the field before it was in the Earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.”

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… And there was not a MAN TO TILL THE GROUND.

Literally, God was waiting for a man (Adam) to gain POSITION before He released the Power from Heaven; so that the PREPARATION on Earth could take Place.

And God had then moving you and I – Keeping us in POSITION.

During the midst of the lockdown or shut down, He has shown us we have to be STILL and know that HE IS GOD.

Our Prayer Life has gone to another level, our relationship with Him has gone on to another level;

The fact is that: He has POSITIONED us and we are now PREPARED for the task ahead.

Come on, I need you – If you can find somebody near you. If there is nobody there (if they already in bed), there is nobody standing there;

You go on now and encourage your own self and say: I AM POSITIONED FOR DIVINE PROMOTION!

Come on, say it: IT’S TIME FOR ME TO FLY

Please note this, my beloved brothers and sisters: This Bible Text that I have read in your hearing (Judges 6:21); God is speaking to The UNSEEN ISSUES of Gideon.

Gideon in the Bible Text that we are dealing with today: You are going to find that he is in a wine Press, threshing wheat.

For seven (7) strange years, the Midianite had been coming and raiding down, taking everything they had, coming like locusts, taking all of their harvest, all of their animals – Everything that they had.

And Gideon; now watch this; he is now in a hidden Place.

Read it in Judges 6:11 it says that:

“And there came an Angel of the LORD, and sat under an oak which was in Ophrah, that Pertained unto Joash the Abiezrite: and his son Gideon threshed wheat by the winepress, to hide it from the Midianites.”

Don’t miss this: A winepress is where they normally press Grapes; but Gideon is threshing wheat.

Listen to this: He is in the Wrong Place, but it is being PRODUCTIVE.

It is showing that: I may not be in the right situation but I am going to be Productive wherever I am.

And the Bible says that the Angel of the Lord comes around and said: Blessed are you Mighty man of Valour;.

See, I want somebody to know that even though you are working in obscurity, Heaven is still watching you!

Even though it may seems like nobody sees what you are doing, Heaven is watching you!

The Bible says, he is doing it in such a way that the Angel said: “It is by you Gideon, I’m going to deliver a whole Nation in your hands.

I’m going to take you from being in obscurity; (Listen to this): and bring you to the realm of Nobility.

I’m taking you from being in a Position of Poverty to bring you to the Position of Popularity.

I sense in my spirit that there is someone who is listening to me or Reading on the Label of DMC: A SHIFT is taking Place in your life!

If you believe that I’m talking to you (because I’m not here for everybody) but I’m here for somebody:

I want you to go on and say: “You are talking to me Pastor Bamidele, you are talking to me!”

So, God is speaking to The unseen issues in Gideon and he Prophesied great things!

If you have got the chance just go on and read the Book of Judges 6:1-16.

He said that to him:

And I want you to take notice of something – What looks like many things are going to be defeated as one thing.

Just as the Lord said to you Gideon in Judges 6:16: “And the LORD said unto him, Surely I will be with thee, and thou shalt smite the Midianites as one man”.

Meaning that a whole Host of People are going to be defeated by you as if they were one Person

What am I saying to you?

God is going to take all of those Adversities, all of those Adversaries, all of those Disadvantages, roll them up in a ball; and by virtue of this one Conference that you are in right Place now – Amen; God is going to deliver all of those things to you at one time – Amen!

I feel God’s Presence right now – I need you to go BELIEVE THAT!

And Gideon received the Prophetic Utterance in his life by sowing a SEED of what he perceived as a LEAST GIFT.

Look at it in Judges 6:18 – “Depart not hence, I Pray thee, until I come unto thee, and bring forth my Present, and set it before thee. And he said, I will tarry until thou come again.”

Gideon giving an offering of least seed – He said to himself: “In order to solidify the Prophecy over my life, I have got to SOW A SEED.”

I am saying to someone right now who is saying no, Pastor Bamidele – I’m going to wait until everything comes through for me;

No! Gideon said from right where I am, in the Position that I am currently in, I’m SOWING out of where I am.

Watch this: Gideon said: I am giving my least seed, because of what I am believing God to do for me!

… This was an ACT OF FAITH!

This was a seed that says: More is coming; this was a seed that was saying that even though this might be my LEAST; here me: it is not my LAST!

This may be a little but MORE is coming.

I want you to go on right now and Pray this one Prayer with me:

Say FATHER; that which is my LEAST right now, don’t let it be my LAST – Amen.

Come on, go on and Pray: Father, that which is my least right now, don’t let it be my LAST

Thank You Lord!

So shall it be for you in Jesus’ Mighty Name we Pray – Amen and Amen!

So, not only did Gideon sow a seed of what was his least; But the Angel gave him SPECIFIC INSTRUCTIONS on how to give!

… As you see in Judges 6:20-21.

And to show that the Angel had accepted it, He stretched out His Rod;

And all of a sudden, He CONSUMED all that seed.

Can I please tell you that not every Offerings you may have given is acceptable!

It may be taken by the Church but it is not acceptable by God.

… Oh mine!

You want to give a seed that God will accept it?

If you don’t believe me look at what He says in Genesis 4:4-5:

It says that God did not have RESPECT to Cain’s offering or the Cain.

So you need to understand that when you are sowing and Giving; you gave out of what you have because you are believing for some things greater from God.

Now, we saw that in Gideon’s expressing of that fact; because of the level the manifestation that he got.

He made a statement in Judges 6:22-23:

He said: Oh I’m going to die now!

But the Angel said: You are not going to die

In other words God told me to tell somebody listening to me today, who is watching me right now or Reading on the label of DMC that what he has shown you was not to terrify you.

Get ready for this: But it was to let you know the kind of POWER that you have got backing you up.

Don’t be intimidated by what is before you: You have got a GREAT GOD that is backing you up!

So finally, WHAT MUST I DO TO PUT MYSELF IN PREPARATION FOR DIVINE PROMOTION?

… Here it is:

1. You must Establish a NEW RELATIONSHIP with the Almighty God.

The Bible says in Judges 6:24, that Gideon built a Brand New ALTAR on where he was now in his RELATIONSHIP with the Almighty God.

And to him God is now called Jehovah SHALOM, Yahweh is PEACE.

He now established a New Relationship, a New Altar on where he is with the Almighty God.

I’m telling you that whenever God is going to do something New with you: just like what you did on Mount Carmel with Prophet Elijah:

He says: I need you to build a NEW ALTAR, I need a New Relationship.

And I think it would be great right now, in this Final Month of the Year – For you to establish a New Relationship with God.

*Notice whar Gideon did;: He turned down The Old Altar that he had, he turned down the Old Relationship he had with his family;

… Read it when you have the opportunity (Judges 6:25-27).

Gideon burnt down the Old Altar, turned down some relationship. He took only ten (10) men out of the men that were in the City.

But before then, in Judges 6:20 and 26; everything you did he built it on The Rock – giving a seed offering to the Almighty God.

He Established a New Generational Bloodline and the Place of his SACRIFICE;

What you need to do is: You need to establish a PLACE – call it your EBENEZER – “Thus far the Lord has kept me”.

… And establish that before the Almighty God!

And then finally, the thing that Gideon did:

We want to Pray to the Almighty God and say Father: As I Prepare to FLY; only surround me with People that BELIEVE in my ELEVATION.

LIFT YOUR VOICE LOUD AND CLEAR

We want to Pray to the Almighty God and say Father: As I Prepare to FLY – only surround me with People that BELIEVE in my ELEVATION.

LIFT YOUR VOICE LOUD AND CLEAR – Go ahead, Pray right now!

Thank you my Father and my God!

So shall it be to you in Jesus’ Mighty Name we have Prayed – Amen!

And then this Last Prayer – Pray with all of your might. Because the Bible says that Gideon did it in the Night Season even when he couldn’t see everything;

You Pray this Prayer: FATHER, because You are my Light, let me not be intimidated to start making moves right now.

Lift your voice and say FATHER; because You are my Light, I don’t want to walk In Darkness Let me begin making Moves.

… Go ahead and Pray that Prayer!

In Jesus’ Mighty Name we have Prayed – Amen!.

CLOSING PRAYER

My Father and my God, I Thank You now for everyone that is watching even on the Label of DMC, everyone that has Tune in:

Wherever they may be: Whether they are in Nigeria or Spain, whether they are in the UK or the US, whether they may be in Indonesia, or Austra, or Australia;

My father I Pray right now meet them at the Point of their Needs.

Take off all of the Sanballats, take off all the hinderances and the inconveniences.

Give them the Grace to lay aside every weights and the sin that so easily beset them.

And then lift them up to where they will know You; so they will go from those that are on the ground to those that are SOARING.

Do iit for Your Glory! Do it to the devil’s SHAME.

In Jesus’ Name I Pray – Amen and Amen!

There is nothing stopping you – All you have to do is surrender what belongs to Him.

And as you give your whole self to Him; the Sky will no longer be your limit – Amen.

GOD BLESS YOU is my Prayer.

In Jesus’ Name – Amen and Amen!

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