Pastor David Oyedepo Jr spoke at the Covenant Hour of Prayer. He talked about “Serving God Is Essentially For Our Benefit” and said that we have come to recognize that our stewardship to God is never to the advantage of God but rather to the benefit of man. The Word of God makes it very clear to us, that is why serving God is a choice, it’s never by force.
He revealed that God has given man the power of choice. “Serving God is not by force, serving God is ultimately a choice but it is the choice of the wise,” he said. This is because our service to God is to our benefit and we must come to recognize that it is essential to our benefit. According to him, serving God guarantees express answers to prayers, when we fulfill this agenda, when we fulfill this desire of His heart, He said, whatsoever we ask the Father in His name will be given unto us. That means our commitment to stewardship in advancing the Kingdom of God gives us access to express answers on the altar of prayer.
He further explained that it is not expertise in asking that guarantees answers. It is your access to the altar of prayer that guarantees answers. You see, even in the natural, no man ever goes about his ability to ask when he gets a response, what he simply does is to appreciate the favour done unto him by the response given unto him. We must come to understand that the altar of prayer is not dependent on our expertise in asking. Nobody celebrates how well they can ask, what they celebrate is how well they are answered and one thing you must understand is that man can pray but only God can answer. “It is the position that you and I put ourselves in relation with God that determines our access to answers on the altar of prayer,” he said
He said that when a man begins to seek after God; when a man’s heart begins to pant after God, he no longer needs to struggle for heaven’s response. There are things that you even think and God will respond to speedily, just by your posture of stewardship. When a man’s heart begins to beat after God, God’s hand begins to go after that man.
Finally, he revealed that serving God turns our shame into glory. According to him, the heritage of the wise is glory and where glory is present, shame is absent. In other words, when a man begins to go after souls serving God, such an individual becomes a candidate for the glory of God. When the glory comes, the shame goes.
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