IF YOU SAY GOD HAS CALLED YOU TO BE AN EVANGELIST, HOW MANY CRUSADES HAVE YOU HELD?

STOP WAITING FOR INSTRUMENTS FOR THE CRUSADE, USE YOUR VOICE TO PREACH. 

WHEN GOD SEES THAT YOU HAVE MINISTERED TO ENOUGH PEOPLE THAT YOUR VOICE CANNOT CARRY AGAIN, HE WILL GIVE YOU SPEAKER, MICROPHONE AND PUBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEM.

STRONG PEOPLE DON'T SIT DOWN. THE PROOF OF STRENGTH IS IN MOVEMENT. 

- Bishop David Abioye on "BUILDING UP STRENGTH BY WAITING ON THE LORD" || International Ministers' Flaming Fire Conference 2024 || Day 3 Evening Session || 29th August, 2024 || Part D

3. You need to know God as your Defender. If you don't know Him as your Defender, you will lose your defence. Church Gist. Jeremiah 1:17. Know God as your Caller, know Him as your Sender, know Him as your Defender. 

4. Know Him as your backing. The One whose presence is with you always. Church Gist. Say a loud Amen. Say a louder Amen.

- May your heart encounter unique strength to make you to go and fulfill purpose in the precious name of Jesus.

So, every time you feel confused about your calling, go back to your Caller, because strength is in levels and measures. You need to go for renewal. You need to go for renewal. Most of the time I spend with God in the night is principally to refresh myself. That's what Jesus did. Every night, He will go to refresh Himself and at day time, He would perform works, the works that God has sent Him. Church Gist. Go for renewal of strength, because as you do according to Scriptures, you will not know weariness, you will not know weakness. Spend time with God. Spend time with God in study of His Word, in prayer, in fasting and many young people today whose fasting is to 12 noon. Some when they are fasting, they take tea, they call it fasting. Don't deceive yourself. Whatever a man sows, that is what he shall reap. Today, people look at me and they say I've added weight. Find out what it was 20 years ago. Skinny, bone shooting out, because of the need to build up strength. The strength you don't generate, you cannot utilize. Church Gist. Build up strength. It you want to fast, fast. If you don't want to fast, don't fast. Don't use new generation method to claim that you are fasting. If you want to pray, pray, really pray. Renew your strength, especially praying in the language of the Holy Spirit. Jude 1:20. Build up strength. Even Jesus had to spend time, waited on the Lord. Luke 4:14,37.

As I round up. Why must you be strong? Why do you need to be strong?

1. It's to overcome stagnation and limitations. Many people have reached their peak in ministry. You need to be strong to break the barriers. You need to be strong. We know the story of the four lepers who were stagnated, they were looking at each other, nothing was happening until they advised themselves to move. Now, you see, one evidence of strength is movement. Church Gist. Strong people are never stagnated. They move. They are moving in doing one thing or the other. You told everybody God gave you a television ministry, what have you done about it? Move. You want to build, move. Go and price land. Find out how much is land. They take you to a place, they say it's 50 million, put your hand in your pocket and tell them, "I'm coming back" The proof of strength is movement. 

Do you think this Dome would have been built without movement? First of all, how much is land? Where can we get land? You should ask questions. Don't say "I'm waiting for somebody to give us gift of land" Are you a beggar? God did not call you to beg in ministry. Go and find out and when you get the land, go and buy blocks, go and buy cement. If it's 2 bags you can buy, buy it and put it on the ground, buy stones and start harassing the ground that "I'm coming". Church Gist. The proof of strength is movement. Strong people don't sit down. The proof of strength is movement. If you are not moving, you are weak. I'm saying this to all of us therefore, anything you claim God has told you, start moving towards it. You say God has called you to be an Evangelist, what crusade have you held? Stop waiting for instruments. Don't say, "You see Dr. Paul's crusades, many speakers". Find out where he started from. I know where he started from. Evangelism begins with your mouth. When God sees that you have ministered to enough people that your voice cannot carry again, He will give you speaker, microphone, public address system. Church Gist. But go and use your mouth. You mean you can't speak to 30 people without microphone? Unfortunately today many people claim that they can't start ministry until they have instruments.