UNTIL A MAN ACCESSES GOD’S PRESENCE, HE CANNOT ACCESS DIRECTION FROM GOD.

THE JOURNEY OF LIFE IS A JOURNEY OF PATHS AND THE PATH OF LIFE IS ONLY AVAILABLE WITH GOD.

TO FIND THAT PATH, YOU NEED TO GAIN ACCESS INTO HIS PRESENCE.
HIS PRESENCE IS ACCESSED VIA THANKSGIVING AND PRAISE.

MAN CANNOT SECURE ANY WAY, ONLY GOD CAN. IT WILL TAKE GOD TO KEEP YOU IN THE WAY THAT THE ENEMY CANNOT CROSS.

WHEN YOU FIND A MAN THAT IS CONTINUOUSLY THANKFUL, HE LIVES AS IF THE devil IS NOT IN EXISTENCE.

THERE IS A WAY THAT GOD HAS PACKAGED FOR YOU IN 2022, WHERE THE ENEMY IS NOT PERMITTED TO CROSS YOU.

-Pastor David Oyedepo Jr at 1st Service, End of the Year Thanksgiving Service, Faith Tabernacle

God’s Word makes it clear to us that thanksgiving and praise ushers us into the presence of God where He shows us the path of life – Psalm 100:4
According to God’s Word therefore, thanksgiving is our spiritual gate pass into the presence of God.

Without thanksgiving, access to God’s presence is automatically denied. If you go to a place where they have automatic doors that require codes to enter, if you enter the wrong code, it will tell you, ‘Access Denied’.
If a man wants to get to God and does not bring the code of thanksgiving, his access to God’s presence is automatically denied. So man’s gate pass to God’s presence is thanksgiving and praise – Psalm 100:4
When we get to God’s presence – Psalm 16:11
What happens when we get to God’s presence, the ‘a’ part of that verse says, “thou will shew to me the path of life.”

According to God’s Word, it is in God’s presence that we gain access to the path of life. Church Gist. We must understand that the journey of life is a journey in paths. We must take paths – Proverbs 14:12
The journey of life is a journey of paths and the path of life is only available with God.
Job 28:7-8, 23
From scriptures, we understand that the path of life is not discernable by man on his own, it will take God to show unto man the path of life and until the path of life is revealed unto a man, that individual remains a victim of defeat.
Proverbs 14:12 – Death in terms of life, death in terms of endeavours, death in terms of every aspect of one’s existence comes as a result of not locating the path of life. But the path of life is not accessed by intellect, the path of life is accessed by divine direction.

Until a man accesses God’s presence, he cannot access direction from God. But when a man is directed by God because he has located God’s presence, he enters into a realm of living more than a conqueror.
Isaiah 35:8-10
To find that path, to find that way, you need to gain access into His presence and His presence is accessed via thanksgiving and praise. That is why when you find a man that is continuously thankful, they live as if the devil is not in existence.

So many people are going everywhere, celebrating what the devil has done, “see what satan did to me; see what he did here, see what he did there” and other people are living as if the devil is not there. The difference is that they are living their lives with gratitude and thanksgiving and therefore He keeps showing them the path; when you are walking the path, the lions are cleared off, ravenous beasts are cleared off – Isaiah 35:9.

You are walking the path that the enemy is not permitted to cross you.
-From this day onward, the enemy will not cross you again!!!
There is a way. He said, “the lion’s whelp has not gone through it, the fierce lion cannot cross over it, but God understandeth the way” – Job 28:7-8, 23
-For somebody here, the path of life that will cause you to keep going from triumph to triumph, testimony to testimony, glory to glory, level to level; by your encounter today, it shall be opened unto you.
-It shall be opened unto you!!!
In the name of Jesus Christ.

That is what it means. You know when you look at particularly, the city of Lagos, we have BRT (Bus Rapid Transit) lanes that are created for buses and those lanes are supposed to be meant only for those buses. So when you enter the lane, if law enforcement officers catch you, they arrest you because you shouldn’t be there. Is somebody getting me now? It is a way created for them.

But because man cannot secure the way properly, what happens? You will see ‘Okada’ (commercial motorcycle riders) in the lane, you will see vehicles in the lane. Because no man can secure any way. The moment the Officer looks sideways, somebody enters and pretends that he cannot see that the place is separated, but it is created only for them (BRT Buses).

Man cannot secure any way, only God can.
It will take God to keep you in the way that the enemy cannot cross.
Exodus 23:20 – “He will keep you in the way.”
Nothing will be permitted to cross your way. He will keep you in the way and bring you to the place that He has prepared for you.
How did He do it for the Children of Israel? He began to lead them. Where it looked like there was no way, God showed them there was a highway inside the sea and He kept them in the way. As they were going, the Bible tells us, that everyone, their little ones, their cattle, everything they carried, went through the Sea like a highway.

The Bible tells us that the Egyptians attempted to do the same, entered the way and suddenly what happened? Their chariot wheels caught the mud, what was plain ground for them (the Children of Israel) became mud for the enemy. Before you knew it, the sea swallowed them up, because it will take God to keep you in the way.
I will like you to understand that there is a way that God has ordained for you.
-There is a way that He has packaged for you in 2022, where the enemy is not permitted to cross you.