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I AM A WORD ADDICT!
-Bishop David Oyedepo
I am a word addict, every dictate from here moves me, every because I know I don’t have any other source, I don’t have any other source! . Men and brethren, 1981 October till date, I have not camped around any man in my life waiting for what help he can render me. I will lift up my eyes to the hills from whence cometh my help, my help cometh from the LORD that makes the heaven and the earth.
Awesome God! Psalms 121:1-2.. Those who are breaking forth of light in the course of a prayer and fasting time and then He landed me one blessing that has rescued me from the burdens of life. For the LORD thy God blessed thee, as He has promised you: and you shall lend unto many nations, but thou shall not borrow.
Ahhh, yes it is a normal thing in the normal world to borrow to meet some contingencies or emergencies when you don’t have the means at that point. Deuteronomy 15:6, that’s where He spoke to me, I said why LORD? He said “because the borrower is servant to the lender.” I said what! You cannot serve two masters, you have to choose one and despise the other. I yelled in that room and said “Yea, I reject the lender.”
I subscribed to my provider. I made a vow that day written down against borrowing, that is 1981, this is 2026, blessed be God in Heaven! I am owing no man nothing, no man nothing whether foreign or local, owing no man nothing. Somebody is going to stumble on amazing rod this month, as you camp with God, there is a rod that holds the answer to that challenge of your life, that’s a rod from this Word.
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He said “look to Abraham your father and Sarah that bear thee, I called them alone and blessed them.” He said “my son you are absolutely responsible for the outcome of your life.” Those were things that came out of the prayer and fasting mountain as He was preparing me for the task ahead. You are absolutely responsible for the outcome of your life.
It changed my perspective, never looking for who to blame, you are absolutely responsible- things are working, you are responsible, they are not working, you are responsible. You are rising, you are responsible, you are crashing, you are responsible. Isaiah 51:1-3.. I had read Kenneth Copeland and Gloria Copeland’s book for some time but I couldn’t get what is going on, I couldn’t experience it.
You know, one can be true to himself sir, you can decide to be true to yourself, decide to be true to yourself so I took these books and I went on a three day fast “Jesus, show me the secret of Kingdom prosperity.” Then, the rod emerged on the third day, the rod came.
Hear ye the rod and the One who has appointed it, the rod showed up “My son, My prosperity plan is not a promise, it doesn’t answer to prayers, don’t kill yourself. It is not a promise, it has no respect for fasting. My prosperity plan is a covenant, until your part is played, I am not committed.” What a rod! I took the rod, yeah I can never be poor!
That’s how miracles come sir, it is by accessing and engaging the rod of God regarding any subject of interest in your life. It is not far fetched, it is not something in the sky, it is you and me sitting down and unto us it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of God. Every body has equal access by the blood into the treasures behind the veil, everybody has access, everybody has access, everybody! Everybody!
That came 1982 and this is 2026, 45years ago, sure! His Word lives and abides forever. As you keep engaging with it, it keeps working and working without end. It keeps working and working without end. It keeps working and working without end. The rod of God in the hand of Moses was working all through the journey, all through the journey. That rod was incharge, all through the journey and then the Church was not growing, the Church was crawling, I said “Jesus, we can’t be going like this.”
So, we put up a three day prayer and fasting, just four of us, on the third day, light broke out and here we are today, Amen! Don’t watch your life and destiny stagnated, wake up, wake up, there is no one to blame sir. Wake up, wake up. Those three days opened up the destiny of this Church. In the course of the prayer, He said “stand up and follow Me.” You know, God of wonders and He unveiled to me four points that will keep any Church growing under the sun. I have said that several times. There is always an outbreak of light in the course of prayer and fasting, always an outbreak of light, particularly when you have your topical issues you are dealing with not general we are fasting, I have been fasting now for 50days, what is the meaning? What’s the meaning?
Somebody told me He has read the Bible two, three times, I said it doesn’t show, it doesn’t show, Amen! That light shines in darkness, it doesn’t show. You have the stories, why not but you don’t have the light. I must read fifty chapters a day and so what? Who are you competing with?
The entrance of His Word not the reading gives light. The entrance, the entrance – the spiritual understanding of it. 1 John 1:1-3. It is to get to the point of handling it, that we are talking about. You have heard it! Before I found this thing on prosperity, I have been preaching it o, you can be preaching what you have not found. You can be preaching what you have not found sir, preaching is easy, it is hear the story and retell the story. Church. We have heard, we have seen, we have looked upon and our hands have handled of the Word of life…
You have been hanging around hearing and seeing and looking upon, it’s time to step into the realm of handling it. You pull the rod out and you are aware the rod is now in your hand, you are aware the rod is now in your hand and as you engage with it, you command the supernatural naturally! You command the supernatural naturally, you command the supernatural naturally.
Everyone given to a lifestyle of prayer and fasting naturally flows in revelation as in the examples of Paul and Daniel, because of the abundance of revelation given to me and you saw Daniel, Daniel 10:1-12, he was standing before the LORD in prayer and fasting to access a particular truth and there was no one of his insight in the whole of the realm. Daniel 5:11 – 12. Everyone given to prayer and fasting naturally flows in revelation.
That’s why prayer and fasting empowers believers to keep operating in the supernatural. Matthew 17:21. Their light has grown dim, the impact has gone down, they needed brighter light to deal with such demonic installation and outbreak of light comes through prayer and fasting.. Mark 2:18-20, Luke 5:35. We are in those days now. The ball is your court and it is in my court. It’s a brand new day for you.
So every child of God is redeemed a miracle worker. In fact, in putting up the gifts of the Spirit ‘earnestly covet the best gift’. They are all available to you. Among the gifts is the gift of the working of miracles. Not waiting for miracles, working. Go through the Word, locate the Word, engage the Word and work the miracles.
Lift up your right hand to heaven and thank God for light. If any light broke through to you tonight. Light is sweet. Is this thing sweet to you? Is it really sweet to you? How many can say I now know what to do? The good news is that this shall be a month of months for you. The month of May 2026 shall be a month to be much remembered in your life and it is starting from now as you choose to take responsibility. I can’t choose that for you, you can’t choose that for me. Choose to take responsibility and you will find it so.
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