MOUNTAIN OF FIRE AND MIRACLES MINISTRIES
International Headquarters, Lagos, Nigeria.
Sunday Worship Service
February 12th, 2023.
Topic: THE SCHOOL OF WINNERS
Text: Deuteronomy 28:13
Ministering: Dr. Daniel Olukoya (G.O. MFM Worldwide)
After the short introduction to this topic, there are fourteen winning prayers to pray which you must pray from your heart.
In the school of success, there are two categories of students:
– the head.
– the tail.
Some say:
– winner.
– loser.
Or:
– the above.
– the beneath.
But then, sandwiched in between those two is a school where students are mediocres, the average. In this school are stuck millions of people. The purpose of this morning’s prayers is to take those who are already at the top to a higher height, to take those who are stuck in the middle to a better height, and to turn the losers to winners, if they will pray.
By the average, we mean those who are just getting enough to go by. They are not failing, but they are aiming low and achieving low. They are in the average class. They are those who are in the middle of the road in life. The enemy has made them to be allergic to be heroes. They remain there, in a state where they do not leave any legacy for anybody to follow. There you find a large percentage of talented but unsuccessful people. There you find a lot of unrewarded geniuses.
There you find a large group of people who are there but refuse to unleash their greatness. There you find a large percentage of those who are just wasting their God given talents. They are neither black nor white, neither hot nor cold, those who think life is being zealous for physical beauty. They have no knowledge of who they are. They are stuck in this mediocre class. It is a tragedy to see a hero who is a zero, to see somebody who is supposed to be flying higher but is stuck in the middle.
It is a tragedy to see people who have been arranged for the front but they end up at the back. There in that middle camp are people who think they can succeed by working with false certificates. They think they can use a fake identity to succeed but it can never be so. Jacob discovered that very quickly, that he was using a fake identity. When he said “I am Esau” and he was not, he thought he had obtained blessings by trickery but it was a fake identity.
There in the mediocre class, you find a lot of people who are not at the top or at total bottom but just at the middle. You find in that group, people who are still poor in spite of big money coming their way. They have money but something keeps taking it away. There you find people who never think or say “I must start planning and praying to have my own accommodation”, they are okay with squatting around. There you find a lot of people who hate going to work on Monday because they do not like the work they are doing.
There in that place, that very large class, you find people who are doing the same things the same way and expect different results, it is not possible. There we find a large consignment of people who are men pleasers, and prefer to please men than God. There you find a lot of people who worry their brains to death because of what they think that others think about them. They are more concerned about what people say about them, forgetting that Jesus said “woe unto you when they say you are good. So they said to all the false prophets that came before you”.
There you find a large number of people who hate changes. They do not like any form of people. There you also find a large category of people who have verbal diarrhoea: they just talk and talk and talk whether relevant or not. There you find a large consignment of people who have no respect for timing and also unfortunately, you find there a large number of people who are allergic to reading. They do not like reading at all. Apart from newspapers, they read nothing to better their lives.
There you find a large number of people who join others in useless and non edifying conversations. There you find a large number of people who waste hours watching television, movies. They have become addicted to Hollywood, Nollywood, Netflix, Facetime, not knowing that every minute they are wasting, destiny is being thrown out of the window. There you find a large number of people who prefer to be wasting their time instead of reading, thinking, praying or planning.
There, we have people who have no control and refuse to control their temper, their sexual life, their appetite and their tongue. There, you find people who are always looking for scapegoats, always looking for somebody to blame. They will blame their parents, the government, and everybody. They find it difficult to point accusing fingers at themselves and say they are responsible for their faults.
You can see how I have spent time explaining the middle position because it has the largest class, the mediocre and average. Presidents are stuck there, governors are stuck there, prime ministers are stuck there. You can be a mediocre president or governor or even prime minister when you are not flying high, you are just comfortable with average lifestyle.
🔥 I am praying this morning for anyone who is stuck in that class, that the anointing to catapult you from that level, to where God wants you to be, receive the anointing now, in the name of Jesus!
You see, there is always vacancy at the top. It is in that middle that there is struggle. There is an exam in Nigeria called JAMB exam. I think the total marks for it is 400. If the total mark is 400, and you score 400, you are beyond controversy. You score 390 or 350, you are also beyond controversy. That is why I am saying there is always room at the top. But when you score 197, 187 or 200, then you join the school of the wrestlers and the strugglers. The time you were supposed to sit down and read your book, you were busy running after some useless boyfriend or girlfriend, then you ended up failing and now you are crying.
If they say the pass mark is 10 and you scored 10, that is it. No lecturer can be harassing your life at that level, they pick you out straightaway.
Listen to these important facts:
– rough seas and storms are what make good sailors.
– it is wars that make generals.
– without adversities and sometimes temporary defeat, you will never know the sort of materials you are made of. That is why some people have said “the same sun which melts the wax, hardens the clay”.
– every failure will teach you a lesson that you need to learn. If I faint in the day of adversity, my strength is little.
– all men must stumble sometimes to reach the top. The journey there involves the valley. Only a worm is free from the worry of stumbling. So the fact that you have some temporary setbacks here and there is not an offence, it is a learning curve.
For those who want to be winners, these are the instructions. You want to be the head and never the tail? These are the instructions and they are very important:
1. You must make God your friend. Jesus said “my friends are ye, if you do what I ask you to do”. Until you have found God, you have found nothing. You may have found a university, a certificate, a qualification somewhere or even popularity. But until you find God, you have found nothing. The Bible says “the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom”. So if you do not have that God in your life, find Him. Get close to Him. He is your Creator. He manufactured you. All the instructions for you are in His Hands.
Some are here now and witchcraft they do not have. Familiar spirits, they do not have. Incantations, they do not understand. Magic, it is not clear to them. The only thing they have is God. So imagine now upsetting that God and disobeying Him, who will fight for them when there is a fight to fight? How will He answer the prayers of those that are offending Him consciously? Make God your Friend. That is why we talk about salvation, about people getting born again. Being born again is the first step towards making God your permanent Friend.
2. Have a fighting spirit. Many times, we are too passive. We allow the status quo to just be. We begin to sing the national anthem: “what’s gonna be is gonna be, what goes up must come down”. If you are part of those singing such, you need to change that music. And do not say “what goes up must come down”. If something you throw up is coming down, it is because you did not throw it up enough. If it goes into space over there, it will just float away.
When things do not work according to the expectations of some people, everything just dies down within them. They just give up easily and die. Some will lock themselves up and refuse to come down. Some will refuse to eat. Some refuse to talk to anyone. Some run away. Some will begin to accuse everyone around them of being witches and wizards and run away; instead of giving it a fighting spirit like Jacob. Jacob knew he was not a blessed man in spite of all he had. He fought one night from his Jacob to his Israel.
There is a way you fight from your Jacob to your Israel. Blind Bartimaeus fought. He was a fighter. If he was not a fighter, he would have died a blind man. When troubles are waging against you, wage war like this proverb in Warri that says “pikin wey say him mama no go sleep, himself no go sleep”. This proverb means if a child refuses to allow his mother to sleep, he himself will not sleep. So when they are waging war against you, you cannot sit down and watch them.
You cannot be in the Palace of Pharaoh and you are watching their serpents on the floor. If you sit down at the Palace of Pharaoh and are watching their serpents, their serpents will bite you. You should find a way of swallowing their serpents.
🔥 I see somebody here today: all the dragons assigned against you shall perish, in the name of Jesus.
Read your Bible very well. God loves fighters. He loves those who engage the fighting spirit, those who say “I must not live like this. I must stop them before they stop me”. God loves people like that. That is why Blind Bartimaeus was able to get a miracle when others were just walking by. That is why somebody like Jacob said “I will never let you go, unless you bless me”. God never abandons fighters. Or did He not tell us “And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.”?
The kingdom of heaven allows those who are violent. The kingdom of heaven allows for violence. In the kingdom of heaven, there is no room for gentleman or gentle woman. How can you be a gentleman or woman when they have colluded to fight you? So God loves fighters and He never abandons them. Jacob had a fighting spirit. Caleb had a fighting spirit. He wanted to occupy the conquered territory. It is fighters who go to occupy territory.
Read your Bible well. If you read the book of Revelation, something will strike you which says “he that overcometh” which translates to “he that fights”. Fighters till the ground and plant. The church should be a fighting house where we fight and possess our possessions. There are some young men now who do not want to fight. They are looking for a woman who has a flat, who already has a car so they can just marry, when they themselves have nothing and are not ready to work hard. They just want someone who will do all the work while they sit down to watch television.
But the beauty about fighters is that they dictate the terms. They know that their Father is God. By the time Elijah landed at Mount Carmel, he said to Ahab “these are the prophets of Baal and I am a prophet of God.” Then he dictated how the competition should go. He said “let them build an altar and put no fire there. I will also build an altar and put no fire there. Then let them call on their god, and I will call on the Living God. And the God that answers by fire, let Him be God”.
He was a fighter. He dictated the terms. And those ones were foolish enough to agree instead of saying “Elijah, we surrender. We cannot bring down fire. The god we are serving is under the ground, he is not above.” They foolishly accepted and they began to try to call down fire. Can you raise up your right hand and raise up your voice louder than anyone around you and shout this loud:
PRAY: O God arise, give me the fighting spirit, in the name of Jesus!
🔥 I am praying for somebody here, any animal assigned against your destiny, shall die violently, in the name of Jesus.
This is where we are going to stop this message. We are going to continue next time.
PRAYER POINTS
[Before Message]
1. Powers that want me to die in battle, you are liars, die! in the name of Jesus.
2. Any evil dream, bringing battles into my life, die! in the name of Jesus.
3. Blessings and progress that have never happened before, in my father’s house, come upon me now, in the name of Jesus.
[After Message]
1. Altars of darkness, stealing from me, catch fire! in the name of Jesus.
2. Every blessing, that has passed me by, come back to me! in the name of Jesus.
3. Every curse of “thou shall feed on crumbs”, break! in the name of Jesus.
4. Every dead or weak organ in my body, receive resurrection power! in the name of Jesus.
5. Evil hands, blocking my business, catch fire! in the name of Jesus.
6. Every good opportunity, that I have missed in my life, hear the Word of the Lord, come back again! in the name of Jesus.
7. Any occultic power, assigned to kill me, kill yourself! in the name of Jesus.
8. Powers, working hard to pull me down, you are liars, die! in the name of Jesus.
9. Powers, fighting my next level, die! in the name of Jesus.
10. I prophesy to my spiritual legs, move me forward by fire, in the name of Jesus.
11. My Father, my Father, my Father, give me angelic visitation tonight, in the name of Jesus.
God bless you🙏