The Release of Power - Chapter 1

Chapter 1
The Day Of His Power
"The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine
enemies thy footstool.

The Lord shall send the rod of thy strength out of Zion: rule thou in the midst of
thine enemies.

Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in the beauties of holiness
from the womb of the morning: thou hast the dew of thy youth."
Psalm 110:1-3

In God’s agenda, there is a day called the day of His power—a day when the
Church will be reigning and ruling in the midst of her enemies, a time when
mortal men will walk like spirits, when men will become spiritual squad missiles
on every street, devastating the enemy’s camp!

Friends, that day is here! It is not coming, it has come! You must locate yourself
in it.

The agenda of God’s power will be in place before Jesus comes. Power to make
His people take charge of affairs! Power that will result in the lifting of His
people!

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We are in the hay days of power in the Church!

Christianity must not be mistaken for a religion at all! It’s a manifestation of the
supernatural.

The kingdom of God is not a kingdom of theology, it’s a kingdom of power! (1

Cor. 4:20).

Friends, guess what is happening?

God is happening!

It’s the power era of the Church! We are out to show the world that we’ve got the
answer.

The whole earth is waiting for the manifestation of the sons of God. God has an
agenda to make His people take charge of the entire earth.

The day of God’s power is already in session. The enemies of God are now
surrendering their arms:

"Say unto God, How terrible art thou in thy works! through the greatness of thy
power shall thine enemies submit themselves unto thee."
Psalm 66:3

There is a display of power going on right now. Momentum has been gathering
from far and near, and it is about to explode!

The Church is taking her rightful position. Christianity now holds absolute
attraction! Everybody who is identified with it will become an enviable
personality. People of God will no longer be ashamed of anything called the
gospel. The highest honour will be to be a Christian.

May your place not be lost in the day of His power!

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ALL HIS ENEMIES MUST SUBMIT

Until all the enemies of God surrender their arms, He that will come will not
come.

God is fully set for a power outpouring, and this will hasten the coming of the
Lord. Jesus will remain seated until His Church takes charge.

I am very persuaded that in my days, native doctors will completely run out of
business. Witchcraft will become a thing of shame, and the Ogboni cult will
begin to stink!

I am persuaded that until the power of God begins to explode in us, we will not
be ready to welcome the King back home.

Friends, the saints of God who have accepted the responsibility of pressing on
are entering into God’s power in various degrees. God no longer deals with the
crowd, He now deals with individuals.

Luke 16:16 says:

"The law and the prophets were until John: since that time the kingdom of God is
preached, and every man presseth into it."

The gates are now open. Every man must begin to press. You have a duty to
press into your portion.

Friends, Christianity has no taste without power!

THINGS ARE HAPPENING!

"But upon mount Zion shall be deliverance, and there shall be holiness; and the
house of Jacob shall possess their possessions."
Obadiah 1:17

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When you see things happening of their own accord, you just know that we are
in the days of power.

It is very clear that we are already in the day of God’s power. Testimonies
abound, that point to the fact that the Church has entered into the power age.

We keep hearing testimonies, we see it all around us, and many of us have
handled it. It is the demonstration of God’s glory!

Friends, things are happening!

There was a meeting I attended, and there came in a man who had only one
testis. As soon as this man stepped into the hall, the missing testis was replaced!

Also, one day in our then headquarter church in the North, while the service was
on, an Airforce officer brought his friend to church, and decided to stay on to see
what was going on. The Holy Ghost got hold of him, and by the time he came
back to his senses, he was speaking in tongues! This gentleman was a staunch
Muslim!

On getting home, he just burst out again into tongues, and before his wife knew
it, she too joined him in speaking in tongues.

This is what power is all about!

In another service also, there was a man who had a withered hand (from an
accident at work). While the service was on, an invisible guest walked up to him,
grabbed his hand and there and then, the withered hand straightened out, full of
life!

In yet another service, there was a woman who had fire burn scars all over her. In
the course of the service, somebody walked up to her and said to her, "Embrace
me." As she rose to embrace this mysterious guest, all the scars vanished!

Friends, we are not looking for the day of God’s power, it has come! We are face
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to face with the day of His power. It’s therefore time to take charge!

How shall we rule in the midst of our enemies? It is through the greatness of His
power at work in us.

Your enemies will not submit because you wear good dresses, but because the
greatness of His power is manifesting through your life.

Darkness has no respect for position, status or possessions. It is time to believe

God for a release of His power in your life.

Paul the apostle said in 1 Thessalonians 1:5:

"For our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the
Holy Ghost, and in much assurance; and ye know what manner of men we were
among you for your sake."

We’re seeing it already in our days. Jesus said:

"And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out
devils; they shall speak with new tongues."
Mark 16:17

A Bible school student from our Owerri (East of Nigeria) campus, arrived home
to discover that his uncle had just died.

The first thing he said was, "Can I see him?" He went in and saw the man, whose
nostrils had already been stuffed with cotton wool. Immediately, he sent all the
mourners out of the room. First, he anointed the dead man. No response! Next,
he struck him with his mantle (The consecrated handkerchief) seven times,
saying, "The God of Bishop David Oyedepo bring you back to life" And the dead
man jerked back to life!

We have heard several other testimonies of the dead being brought back to life,
including other manifestations of the reality of God’s power in the Church. Here
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are some of them:

"HE...CAME BACK TO LIFE!"

"On getting home last Thursday from the Communion service, my mother told
me to drive her to her friend’s house, whose husband had just died.

I took my anointing oil along with me.

When we got to the house, the woman’s first daughter came in from Abuja. And
immediately she came in, she fainted on seeing her mother. Her mother also
fainted!

Immediately, people, including my mum, untied their wrappers and began to use
it to fan the two of them. I told my mother that there was no need for all that, that
we should hand over everything to Christ.

My mother said, ‘This your Christ, when will you finish from it?’ I was not very
strong in the faith, but I believed God will do everything and perfect it.

Something then ministered to me to bring out my bottle of anointing oil. I

obeyed and poured a little into the lid of the bottle and poured it into the
woman’s nose. Immediately I did that, she began to scream, ‘Pepper, Pepper’. I
told her it was no pepper, but the anointing oil, the power of God. I did the same
thing to her daughter, who also responded the same way her mother did.

When she got up, she said, ‘But what will we do to daddy?’ I said, ‘Where is
daddy?’ Her mother told us that the man suffered from cancer, asthma, and
diabetes and that the doctor said he was dead. I said, ‘He is not dead. He’s only
sleeping. That’s what we were told in church.’

On getting to the hospital, we met a muslim doctor who said, ‘I’m fasting. Go to
wherever you want to go. If you want to go there and wake him up, go and wake
him up. We’ve packed him for you.’ I said, ‘You’ve not packed anybody, he’s
only sleeping!’
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I went in to the dead man and said, ‘There shall be no loss in the Mighty name of
Jesus.’

Both the daughter and mother started crying again. So, I sent the mother out of
the room.

My mother said, ‘Tosin, you’ve started again.’ I said ‘Yes, I’ve started again,
God is in control now!’

The man’s daughter and I began to pray. And after about 10 minutes of prayer,
the Holy Spirit told me to pour some of the anointing oil on my palm and rub the
man’s whole body with it.

After this, we continued praying, but with my heart I was asking the Spirit for
what next to be done. The Holy Spirit again ministered to me to apply some
anointing oil on my palm and place my palm on the dead man’s nose. I obeyed,
and in less than 10 minutes later, he sneezed thrice, and came back to life! Right
now, the muslim doctor is here in church, to give his life to Christ!"

Okeowo, T.

DEAD WOMAN NOW LIVES!

"Last week, my neighbour shouted through out the night. And at about five
o’clock in the morning, my driver came to take the bus, to go to work. My
neighbours just gripped him and said he should take the woman to the hospital.
He then ran back to tell me that a corpse had been put in my bus, that they want
him to take it to the hospital.

I immediately jumped up from the bed and by the time I got outside and saw the
woman in the bus, I said, ‘I’m a child of God. My bus should not carry a dead
body.’

So, I ran back into the house and took my anointing oil and mantle. I told them to
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open her mouth and I poured in almost the whole content of the bottle into her
month. She swallowed it! I also anointed her eyes. I tied the mantle around her
neck and immediately, she took a deep breath.

I then told God to revive her. She immediately opened her eyes and began to ask
for her husband. I told my driver not to bother to take them to the hospital
anymore, and I prayed for her. Here is the woman today."

Eke, J. (Mrs)

THE GOD OF ELIJAH AT WORK!

"Two Sundays ago, after the second service, I was assigned to be on duty outside
the main sanctuary.

Two children walked into the church compound crying. They said they needed
somebody to follow them home, that something had happened to their father. I
asked some of my classmates in the Full–time Bible school to go with them, but
they said they didn’t want to go. I then had to go with them.

On the way to their house, I began to ask the Holy Spirit for what was to be
done, as I didn’t know what to do when I got there.

I was equipped with my mantle and anointing oil.

When I got to the house, I saw a crowd of people, crying. I was told the man had
died even before they sent the children to the church. I said, ‘Wow! is this what
I’ve come for?’ I said in my mind that if I had known the true situation, I would
have taken somebody along with me.

The professional mourners were already doing their jobs, crying!

I said ‘Praise the Lord!’ Nobody answered me.

I said, ‘Everybody clear off. God has come.’ They all cleared off and opened the
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door. They said, ‘That is the man. Go inside.’

I went in to the man. I used my mantle, till it tore into pieces. Nothing happened!

I used the anointing oil, no way! A whole bottle of the anointing oil finished, yet
no result. I said, ‘God, what do I do!’ I remembered the blood. I also applied the
blood. Still no result.

It was like the ceiling should open and I should disappear from there!

I then sat down and said, ‘Holy Spirit, my faith has finished. What do I do now?’

He said, ‘Remember Elijah and the son of the woman of Zarephath? If only you
can do what he did. Just lie flat on the man and he will come back to life.’

I looked up and down. I went ahead to remove my jacket and said, ‘Now is the
time God. I want to prove that I’m called by you.’

So, I laid flat on the man the first time and his body became warm. I did so the
second time and by the third time, I cried and said, ‘Tabitha, come on, rise up,’
and the man came back to life!"

Audu, H. (Miss)

Friends, from now, when you step into a city, every force of darkness must
shiver. Why? Because we are in the day of God’s power!

The day of God’s power has come. Thus, salvation has become cheap. People
have seen the futility of following the devil and all his dirty evil works.

Many are trooping into the kingdom of God, without any cajoling! Why? We are
in the day of God’s power!

It is time to say to failure, "Go!" and it goes; to say to abundance, "Come!", and
it comes. It takes power to do this.

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Friends, if you will come on this frequency of power, the world will respect you!

The world has never seen the days we are in before! God has loaded it with
amazing wonders!

In these days we are in, as time goes on, we will stop hearing anything about the
devil in the Church. Because God is pouring out His power into the Church, He
is giving the Church what it takes to rule in the midst of her enemies.

The day of His power is here!

Let’s step into power! Let’s come out of religion! Let’s step into authority! It’s
our birthright.

God’spower is mighty!

God’s power is superior to every other power!

"We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou
didst in their days, in the times of old.

How thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and plantedst them; how
thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out.

For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own
arm save them: but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy
countenance, because thou hadst a favour unto them."
Psalm 44:1-3

Tell the Lord to show you His right hand. His hand and arm will provoke favour
on your behalf and bring you into your liberty.

Enemies don’t submit through the greatness of tears! Your liberty is a function of
the degree of His power at work in your life.

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It is not through the greatness of your religion, theology or doctrines either, but
through the greatness of His power. It’s time to crave for His power.

David said:

"O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee; my soul thirsteth for thee, my
flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is; To see thy
power and thy glory, so as I have seen thee in the sanctuary,"
Psalm 63:1-2

Nobody sees His power without a crave for it. We have been blindfolded by
religion—everybody keeps waiting for the day God will do something. Yet,
2,000 years ago He said, "It is finished!"

Jesus will not come until the Church is in charge. And we are the generation He
will meet.

Heaven is His throne and the earth He has given to the sons of men (Psalm
115:16).

Friends, we are in the hour of power, the kind the world has never seen. You
must be a part of it. You can’t afford to be a spectator.

We are living in dangerous days. But victory is sure, as you take hold of the rod
of power.

You are born of power, you can’t afford to die a weakling!

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