FOREWORD
This book contains relevant spiritual forces that stirs a revival in the Church, such as, passion for God, passion for souls, enumerating divers soul winning strategies to engage, raising effective prayer altar among others.
The book also identifies things required to keep the revival fire burning, such as kingdom advancement prayers, becoming new priority of the prayer life of the members, Word increase and impact from our pulpit, effective follow up of new converts and members towards their establishment in the faith, engagement in membership welfare and providing a platform for testimonies from engaging members, so as to stir up the spirit of members in their personal engagement with the demands of fanning the revival fire
This book is therefore not a ‘textbook’ as it were, but a ‘working manual’ towards experiencing a revival in a local assembly.
The book is packaged in modules under specified sections for easy read, study and taking appropriate steps as it may be required from time to time.
Furthermore, this manual is a collection of revival stirring and sustaining clips which is sure to change the story of many ministries and Churches and believers at large
Prior to the ongoing revival in this Church, the Lord had
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earlier instructed that we embark on the early morning Prayer session, tagged Covenant Hour of Prayer, which took off in March 2015. Consequently, I had a raw encounter with God on May 2, 2015, where God said to me, “I, the God of wonder double is visiting you.”
From scriptures, we discover God’s manifest presence in the midst of His people is what breeds a revival – Zph. 3:17.
By this visitation, the Church literarily doubled within 8 weeks, that is by July 26, 2015. The God of Wonder Double came down to prove Himself. What an awesome God we serve!
Furthermore, in October same year, God said to me, “I, the God of Wonder Double is visiting me and I will remain in your midst as long as you want me.” This implies that as you keep doing what He commands, He will remain in our midst and whenever we stop, He will turn His back.
We continued to maintain an effective prayer altar, both as a Church and individual praying kingdom advancement prayers with very humbling impact and rewards in the lives of all engaging members. We have also continued in embarking on diverse soul winning outreaches and inviting our new converts to Church, while offering compelling invitation for those who are yet to make their decisions for Christ. We have not stopped experiencing the manifest presence of this Wonder Double God in our midst since then.
For example, in the year 2019, the Lord said during our annual 21-day prayer and fasting that we shall plant 5,000 Churches that year, our God made it happen and we saw over
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5,000 Churches planted.
While we were celebrating this feat, then He said in January 2020 that we shall plant 10,000 Church in the year 2020 and then COVId19 endemic came on the scene. In spite of that. We saw 10,400 Churches planted in Nigeria and 1,300 across other nations of the world. What an awesome God we serve!
Then came this year 2021 and the Lord instructed to double the number of house fellowships across our Churches worldwide. What a tall order that was! As at that time, our Lagos Church was running over 17,000 Home cells functional home cells, but by the close of 2021, we saw over 21,000 new home cells created in just one year to the glory of God.
May everyone that read this book receive grace to engage in kingdom advancement endeavours in pursuit of the Great Commission in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.
