Bishop David Oyedepo, the General Overseer of the Living Faith Church Worldwide spoke at IYAC Thanksgiving/Healing Banquet, Faith Tabernacle, Canaanland.
Speaking to the youths, he said that those who take responsibility early never end up as liabilities. Your participation is proof that you are taking responsibility early, none of you will end up a liability. No one can mature you, maturity is a product of personal responsibility.
The maturity of our parents is not transferrable to us.
“Listen carefully please, no matter what you are taught, what you discover is what makes you. Therefore as you depart from this convention, go and take responsibility.
Abraham gave Isaac all that he had (Genesis 21:5) but what made Isaac is what Isaac did not want they gave him (and Isaac sowed in the land),” he said. He then advised parents to be careful because they can’t make greatness out of their children, they have to take responsibility.
Any egg that will not be hatched will not become a cock. Don’t stay under the cover of parents and be thinking to secure a future. Get back and begin to walk the path of maturity by taking genuine responsibility.
He then said, “I was 16 when the Lord said to me it is good for a young man that he bears his yoke In his youth (Lamentations 3:27).
I went and knelt down under a shrub, a little tree and I said Jesus whatever luggage I will be carrying when I am old let me carry it now. I want a free head when I am old. When I was 16 I began studying, finding, and making discoveries. I wish I had the picture of my library I would have shown you, maybe next time. It is a full-blown library.”
Finally, he said, “Go and take responsibility. I will live to see each of you scale heights I have never touched as you make your choice. I can’t pray to mature you, I can’t lay hands on you to mature you. You have to undertake the process of maturity by yourself.
I love you with all my heart, you will be a blessing to your world. A blessing to your family, a blessing to the Church of Christ. God will use you to advance this commission and make what we are doing now look like nothing.”
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