★ MY SERMON NOTES
Worship on Wednesday (WOW)
@ The Capital Assembly (TCA)
Behind Bolingo Hotel,
Abuja
18th February, 2015
SERMON
* Speaker: Pastor Femi Olaiya
* Text: 1st Kings 18:41 → "And Elijah said unto Ahab, Get thee up, eat and drink; for there is a sound of abundance of rain."
→ lf there has to be a fulfilment of God's promise upon your life, there has to be some form of 'movement'.
→ You need to move from where you are (to where God wants you to be)
* NOTE: For your physical body to move effectively, it needs the strength that comes from ingesting and digesting food.
* Just as strength is needed for the physical body to move, you also need to feed on spiritual food (God's Word) if you have to make it spiritually
* God will always make available the provision (food) you need in your life
* There is a level of 'eating' And 'drinking' (of God's Word) you need to engage in, in order to move to the next level
* Some people know that they need to get to be next level, but they are weak
★ Proverbs 24:10 →"If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small."
* Moving to your next level depends on how much (of God's Word) you 'eat' and 'drink'
* God sometimes announces the entrance of His move with a 'sound'
* The 'next level' is for those who have ears to hear
* You have a choice to either hear (from God) first-hand, or to be told (what He said) by others
→ there is no problem being told, provided you will obey
* Regardless of what the enemy does, the sound of the abundance of rain will only intensify
→ Satan cannot stop God's blessings for you, your family and our Nation Nigeria!
* It is possible to stop/prevent showers from falling on you (e.g., by using an umbrella or taking shelter in a building), but how do you stop a tsunami?
* There is a 'next level' where the happenings of God (blessings) will be like a tsunami! → unstoppable, unquenchable and unappeasable!
* NOTE: The fact that you have not seen or experienced something before does not mean it will never happen
→NOTE: Noah's generation never saw a ship or experienced flood before, but that fact did not stop the flood from coming, even when they trivialized his warnings.
* Noah had no prior experience in building ships. God had to guide Him in building the Ark.
→ NOTE: Noah had no reference point.
* The fact that you do not have a reference point does not mean God cannot take you where He has promised you!
* Many of us learnt a lot by the process of systematic comparison (via formal primary education) and we became accustomed to comparing things with each other; and also by comparing ourselves with our peers as we grew up
* It is foolish to keep comparing yourself with others or making them your reference point in life
★ 2 Corinthians 10:12 →"For we dare not make ourselves of the number, or compare ourselves with some that commend themselves: but they measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise."
* Sometimes God shows up without a reference point because He wants to make you THE reference point!
* The fact that you do not have a reference point does not mean you should throw it (your dream/vision) away
* If God wants to make you a reference point, you'll not have many friends (because not many people will understand you)
* The difference between vision and ambition:
→ Ambitions are easily achieved (the resources needed to make them happen are at your disposal); but
→ It takes God's intervention & supernatural provision for a vision to be fulfilled
* NOTE: Professors made the Titanic and an illiterate made the Ark
→ Yet, the Titanic was sunk by an iceberg; the Ark was invincible, even in the worse flood ever experienced in the world
* God will make you a reference point by what He will do in your life
* 1 Kings 18:42 →"So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. And Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; and he cast himself down upon the earth, and put his face between his knees."
* Sometimes, the problem with the body of Christ (the Church) is that we are quick to speak God's Word, but we hesitate to cast ourselves down (in humility) before Him (like Elijah did) till that Word is fulfilled
* Elijah 'locked' himself in (by the posture He took), so that He cannot be distracted by the events around Him
* The Word of God that comes to you is just the beginning, not the end
→ Many Christians read or proclaim the Word of God and they 'go away' as if that is the end. No! that is just the 1st step in the journey of faith towards enforcing its manifestation
* The ability to 'settle' the Word of God comes in the place of prayer
* The assurance of faith does not come by just "right believing", but by "right praying".
★ 1 Kings 18:44 → "And it came to pass at the seventh time, that he said, Behold, there ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man's hand. And he said, Go up, say unto Ahab, Prepare thy chariot, and get thee down, that the rain stop thee not."
* NOTE: The man that heard the Word from God outran the man it was just Announced to
→ God's Word has the capacity to give you supernatural speed in life
* Question: Are you willing to brood over the Word of God that you have heard in the place of prayer until it comes to pass?
★ Isaiah 66:8 →"Who hath heard such a thing? who hath seen such things? Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day? or shall a nation be born at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children."
PRAYER:
→ Father, grant me the grace to tarry in your presence,
till I receive what you have promised me in your Word.
Help me to play my part, by waiting on You
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