THE JOY OF THE LORD: BISHOP DAVID OYEDEPO- RCCG SPECIAL HOLY GHOST SERVICE, 4TH MARCH, 2022

RCCG MARCH 2022 SPECIAL HOLY GHOST SERVICE

THEME: THE JOY OF THE LORD

MINISTERING: (DAY 2 – HOLY GHOST SERVICE, TALK 2): BISHOP DAVID OYEDEPO (FOUNDER AND PRESIDING BISHOP, LIVING FAITH CHURCH WORLDWIDE AKA WINNER’S CHAPEL)

TOPIC: REJOICE IN THE LORD

DATE: 4TH MARCH, 2022

BIBLE TEXT: PHILIPPIANS 4:4 AND 1 THESSALONIANS 5:16

Praise the Lord – Hallelujah!

Let all the Joyful Souls at this Great Service tonight shout Hallelujah – Hallelujah!

Shall we Pray!

OPENING PRAYER

Lord Jesus, Thank You for this Awesome time in Your Presence, Thank You for this Special Holy Ghost Service tonight and Thank You for Your Set Man – Our father in the Lord who just turned eighty (80). Thank You for Your Grace upon his Life and Thank You for making him a Blessing to this Generation.

Thank You for the Great Things You are doing in this Great Church, Thank You for the Expansion, Thank You the Growth, Thank You for the impact of this Ministry around the world – Receive our Thanks in the Name of Jesus Christ.

Now, speak to us in this few Minutes and let Your Name be Glorified.

In Jesus Precious Name we Pray – Amen.

Please, help me give Jesus Christ a big hand of applause and be seated.

By the Grace of God, my wife and I has been Part of this family for about forty (40) Years now. Its being our Privilege and our benefits to have been directed this Way by the Holy Ghost.

Interestingly, no one introduced me to daddy – No, I heard from God directly. And its being awesome, its being beautiful these Past few Years.

… And to God be all the Glory!

Sir, we honour you and we salute God’s Grace upon your Life and it shall only be on the Increase and it will never go down – Amen.

Moses took up a New Assignment at eighty (80) Years Old; God hasn’t Changed. Every New Things that God is showing you, He will bring it to Past in the Name of Jesus Christ – Amen.

What a “Large Heart”; what a “Humble Spirit”; what an “Ever Joyful, Anointed” Servant of God.

We are blessed to have you in our own time and in our own Generation in the Name of Jesus Christ – Amen!

I’m speaking tonight on: REJOICE IN THE LORD.

Paul the Apostle said in Philippians 4:4 – Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice. 

And he (Paul) went further in 1 Thessalonians 5:16 to say: Rejoice evermore.

Let there be no Joyless moment in your Life.

It is important for us to know that God will never ask us to do what He has not enabled us, engraved us, equipped us to do – He doesn’t tempt any Man with evil. Our Redemption is an embodiment of Joy!

There is the Joy of Salvation according to Psalms 51:12 – Restore unto me the Joy of thy Salvation; and uphold me with thy Free Spirit.

And we saw that facilitated by the Fruit of the Spirit, which are the Fruits of Redemption.

And one of them is Joy according to Galatians 5:22 – But the Fruit of the Spirit is Love, Joy, Peace, Longsuffering, Gentleness, Goodness, Faith.

So, Joy is Part and Parcel of our Package in Redemption.

When we are baptised in the Holy Ghost, we are endured with the Oil of Joy and the Oil of Gladness – Intoxicating Joy!

So, we can move from the realm of Joy to the realm of Intoxicating Joy by the Holy Ghost.

Romans 14:17: says – For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but Righteousness, and Peace, and Joy in the Holy Ghost.

They thought that the Disciples were drunk when the Holy Ghost came upon then. But Peter said that they are not drunken at the Third Hour of the Day (The Bars not open). Tris is the Power of the Holy Ghost manifesting itself with Joy.

So, when you are baptised in the Holy Ghost, then yiu have the Second Level of Joy at work in you.

Jeremiah 15:16 says: Thy Words were found, and I did eat them; and thy Word was unto me the Joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy Name, O LORD God of hosts.

Men and Women who move in Revelation don’t run out of Joy – Thank God for the Joy of Salvation, Thank God for the Joy of the Holy Ghost!

Mark 4:11 says – And He said unto them, Unto you it is given to know the Mystery of the Kingdom of God: but unto them that are without, all these things are done in Parables.

John 14:26 – But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my Name, He shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.

So, we have the Joy of Salvation and the Joy in the Holy Ghost – So, we have no business being depressed. Redemption forbids Depression. Redemption is our escape route from the world of Depression.

I therefore Stand tonight to curse every Bondage of Depression tormenting anyone under the Sound of my Voice or reading now on the Label of DMC – Amen!

And then Revelation stirs Faith and Faith stirs Joy Unspeakable Full of Glory.

1 Peter 1:8 says: Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with Joy Unspeakable and Full of Glory:

You rejoice with Joy Unspeakable Full of Glory and so everything around our Salvation stimulates Joy, stirs Joy and arouses Joy.

Therefore from now on, no one will ask you again in your Life what is wrong – Amen:

I. Your Look will no longer be wrong.

II. Your walk will no longer be wrong.

III. Your Outlook will no longer be wrong.

IV. Your Disposition will no longer be wrong.

… Everything shall keep on being right with you in the Name of Jesus Christ – Amen!

And what more – Please listen to this: When we are saved, we are raised together with Him and make it together with Him in Heavenly Places.

The Headquarters of Joy – He that seated in Heaven shall Laugh!

… All they do in Heaven is: Laugh and Laugh and Laugh.

So, when we come to Fellowship, we have come to the Heavenly Jerusalem – We have come to Jesus Christ

Hebrews 12: 22-24 says:

22. But ye are come unto Mount Zion, and unto the City of the Living God, the Heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of a
    Angels, 
23. To the General Assembly and Church of the firstborn, which are written in Heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of Just Men made Perfect, 
24. And to Jesus the Mediator of the New Covenant, and to the Blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.

So, being in Fellowship sustains the Joy of the Lord in our lives – The farther you are away from Fellowship, the farther you are from Joy!

Enjoy the Fellowship of the Saint – Be in Church!

Recharge the Battery of your Joy as you come into the midst of God’s People.

And we are in Zion, we are in Heavenly Places and all we do there is Laugh and Laugh and Laugh.

… Your Laughter begins today – Amen!

There is no day that I have had the Privilege to talk with Daddy Adeboye that Laughter does not erupts – It must come from either side.

… Laughter and Laughter 10 Years, 20 Years, 40 Years – My God, that shall be your Experience from now on (Amen).

Someone once asked me – Brother David, do you ever have Problems? I said maybe I didn’t know.

From now on, you have no business Fellowshipping with Depression, with Anger, with Tears in the Name of Jesus Christ – Amen!

Now very quickly – WHY MUST WE REJOICE?

Lack of Joy carries tremendous Cost and I will outline five (5) of them:

1. Lack of Joy will lead to lost of Access to His Presence. And without His Presence, our Life cannot make a difference.

Lost of Access to His Presence is a very costly Thing!

Is any Merry? The Bible in James 5:13 says, let him sing – Is any among you afflicted? let him Pray. Is any Merry? let him sing Psalms. 

And God inhabits the Praises of His People.

You are Merry-Hearted, it erupts into Praise and God inhabits that Presence and that equals Supernatural, Unquestionable Breakthrough.

How? – When they went out of Egypt, God was in their midst – The Sea saw them and it fled, Jordan was driven back, the Mountain skips like rams, and the “Little Hills” like lambs – This is accounted for in Psalms 114: 1-7.

Everything that troubles others, tremble at your Presence when you carry God’s Presence

From today, no door shall be shut against you by the devil anymore – Amen!

Psalms 24: 7-10 says:

7. Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye Everlasting doors; and the King of Glory shall come in.

8 Who is this King of Glory? The LORD Strong and Mighty, the LORD Mighty in battle.

9. Lift up your heads, O ye gates; even lift them up, ye Everlasting doors; and the King of Glory shall come in.
10. Who is this King of Glory? The LORD of Hosts, He is the King of Glory.

Every Everlasting doors lift up their head at His Presence

So, when you carry His Presence, you become a “Breakthrough Entity” in the race of Life.

And what we see here today and across the Nations of the world, nothing can define Breakthrough beyond what we see – So Touchable, so Visible such that even the blind can see it that this is God at work!

Why? – Joy paves the way for His Presence which has come to make the difference.

May that become your Experience in Life – Amen!

2. Lack of Joy will lead to Access to lost of Revelation. And Revelation is the trigger of Supernatural Breakthrough in Life.

Therefore with Joy shall you draw Water out of the Wells of Salvation – Isaiah 12:3.

Paul, a Man of unusual Revelation said: Rejoice in the Lord always and again I say Rejoice.

And the Secrets of Men are in their Stories – The more Joyful we are, the Greater our Access to Revelation and the Greater the realm of Breakthrough will worketh.

Philippians 1:18; talking about the Preachers who are opposed to him. He said: What then? Notwithstanding, every way, whether in Pretence, or in Truth, Christ is Preached; and I therein do rejoice, yea, and will rejoice. 

So, Joy in Season, Joy out of the Season – That is what we call the Joy of the Lord.

… He was under severe attacks but he said: Yet, I will Rejoice.

Joy is a “Covenant Gateway” to realms of “Unusual Revelation”. And the more Revelations we catch, the more Change of Level from one realm of Glory to another that we experience.

So, we have not seen anything yet in this Church – From Glory to Glory to Glory – Amen.

Till when? – Until the Perfect Day when Jesus Christ comes.

No Life here or reading now on the Label of DMC; will know a downwards trends anymore – Amen. It shall be from Glory to Glory until the Perfect Day – Amen. And that is until Jesus Christ returns – Amen.

That shall be your Testimony in the Name of Jesus Christ – Amen!

3. Joy is a “Covenant Facilitator” of Health and Wholeness.

Proverbs 17:22, the Bible says – A Merry heart doeth Good like a Medicine: but a broken Spirit drieth the bones.

The more Joyful we are, the Healthier we live!

And Proverbs 18:14 says – The Spirit of a Man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded Spirit who can bear?

If Joy grants us Access to His Presence, the Bible says that they go from Strength to Strength; everyone of them in Zion appears before the Lord.

The last breakdown anyone here or reading now on the Label of DMC suffers is the last one you will ever know – Amen!

Until our Spirit is broken, our body cannot be broken!

I was trying to Pen down some few things on “My Little Story” – Autobiography. And then I looked at it in the last run and I discovered that Challenges were not put there. So, I put a Chapter on: “My Share of Challenges”,

That you are rejoicing does not mean that you don’t have Challenges. But you are smarter than your Challenges!

I need God but I can’t find God without Joy. And so I rejoice inspite of what is happening.

“My Share of Challenges” is the best Chapter of that book that I think has been written. I wrote it Year in, Year out.

But thanks be to God who always cause us to Triumph in Christ!

From tonight or as you read now on the Label of DMC; in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, no one shall be crushed under Challenges – Amen!

It is Challenges that makes Champions!

You can’t be an Heavyweight Boxing Champion without accepting Challenges. You can’t say that you are not interested as you must – They will Punch you here and there before you can carry the belt.

As long as you don’t give up, you carry the Heavyweight Boxing Champion belt at last

In the Name of Jesus Christ; every Challenges facing you today shall be turn to a Testimony – Amen!

4. Without Joy, we loss our Access to Divine Intervention.

Habakkuk 3: 17-19 says:

17. Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls:
18. Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will Joy in the God of my Salvation.
19. The LORD God is my Strength, and he will make my feet like hinds’ feet, and He will make me to walk upon mine High Places. To the chief singer on my stringed instruments.

You can’t Access Divine Intervention without Genuine Joy and Rejoicing.

You don’t get anywhere casting down your head. You get through every Challenges rejoicing in the Lord at all times evermore.

The Baptism is yours tonight in Jesus Name – Amen!

And I believed that by the time this Special Holy Ghost Service is over; another you will be going back home – Amen.

And it will be another you forever. Everybody will be laughing with you – Amen!

The Bible says: God has made me to Laugh – He will make you laugh and all that heard will laugh with you and your Laughter shall be all through your Life in the Name of Jesus Christ (Amen).

5. Lack of Joy will Rob us of our Rewards of Stewardship.

Rewards for serving God is only guaranteed by Joy and Rejoicing!

Deuteronomy 28: 47-48; the Bible says:

47. Because thou servedst not the LORD thy God with Joyfulness, and with Gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things; 
48. Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the LORD shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee.

I heard that Word from the Lord in 1977 – Serving God with Joyfulness and Gladness of heart.

In Joel 1:12 – The vine is dried up, and the fig tree languisheth; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all the trees of the field, are withered: because Joy is withered away from the sons of men.

When Joy withers, Harvest Perishes; when Joy withers, Returns from our Labour Perishes.

No one shall leave here in vain – Amen!

Why? – He has not asked the Seed of Jacob to seek Him in vain (Isaiah 45:19). He is a Rewarder of them that diligently seek Him.

Everyone shall receive his own Rewards according to his own Labour – Amen!

Please, don’t destroy your Labour by giving room to Satanic traps of Depression and Downcastedness.

.., Rejoice in the Lord always, and again I say Rejoice!

May the Joy of the Lord in a New Dimension return home with everyone of us in the Name of Jesus Christ – Amen!

Well – WHY MUST I REJOICE?

1. We slept and woke up because He sustains us.
2. We went through Fire and through Water; we are not swallowed.
3. A thousand is fallen on your Right Side, Ten Thousand on our Left Side and none is coming near to us because He is awake keeping us.
4. He saves our Soul that Money cannot buy.
5. We are sure of Heaven at the end of our Journey here on Earth.

OPENING PRAYER

Please, lift up your two (2) hands and receive for yourself tonight – A Fresh Baptism of the Joy of the Lord!

It is not the same you that came into this Service that will return back home. You are returning with “Multiplied Joy”; “Tangible Joy”; “Touchable Joy”; Joy that will never know a setback anymore in the Name of Jesus Christ.

So shall it be – Amen!!!

Give the Lord another Clap of Praise and be seated!

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