Sunday Worship Service (12th January, 2025): Topic: Restoration of Glory

By Pastor Kola Oyekale

Theme for the Year: Restoration of Glory
Theme For the Month: Understanding the Place of the Holy Spirit in a Believer’s Life.

Because we don’t know how this year will go, we need the leading of the Holy Spirit to help us navigate this year.

Nothing happens outside the knowledge of God. If we work with the guidance of the Holy Spirit all through year, we’ll come out successfully and untouched even in the midst of challenges.

There are 3 parts of God’s presence:
*The Outer court
*The Holy Place
*The Holy of Holies
Love is the realm in which God operates.

Isaiah 40:31 NKJV
[31] But those who wait on the Lord Shall renew their strength; They shall mount up with wings like eagles, They shall run and not be weary, They shall walk and not faint.

The act of waiting is trusting, believing and anchoring our life on God.
God will work with those who wait on him. He will renew their strength. We need our strength renewed to survive 2025.

No height is a barrier to him, God will cause us to soar on his wings.
We will run and not get tired.
God will give us speed this year.

In the place of waiting, we develop wings for flying.
The journey of a believer starts with walking, then running and afterwards flying.
Some haven’t learnt to run and walk and desire to fly and that is why they fall. When we walk, we develop stamina and ability to stand.

*We must learn how to walk with the Holy Spirit this year 2025.
The Holy Spirit is a person with feelings.
John 16:13 NKJV
[13] However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come.

The Holy Spirit comes in us, he comes with us and comes upon us.
He comes in us at the point of when we become born again. He comes upon us at his baptism to empower us to serve God and fulfill purpose.

When you walk with the Holy Spirit, nothing comes to you by surprise. When you walk with the Holy Spirit, he reveals the mind of God to you.

John 16:14 NKJV
[14] He will glorify Me, for He will take of what is Mine and declare it to you.

The essence of the Holy Spirit is to bring glory upon God’s people. Outside the Holy Spirit, you will work in shame and disgrace.

John 15:26-27 NKJV
[26] “But when the Helper comes, whom I shall send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, He will testify of Me. [27] And you also will bear witness, because you have been with Me from the beginning.

The Holy Spirit is our helper. He will teach you all things.
The Holy Spirit helps us to be a witness that reveals who God is.

Galatians 5:22-24 NKJV
[22] But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, [23] gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law. [24] And those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

When the Spirit of God is at work in you, he makes you faithful.

The act of faith is God at work in you. Faithfulness is you at work in God.

Galatians 5:16-18 NKJV
[16] I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. [17] For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, so that you do not do the things that you wish. [18] But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

In the 2025, the will of God will find expression in us when we choose to do not our will but God’s will. So let us desire to walk in the Spirit and not in the flesh.

The more you walk in the Spirit, the more the flesh dies.

Be fruitful! You can only do that by walking in the spirit.

When you walk, you are sensitive to the Spirit.

*Running means spiritual discernment to know why you are created and alive.

Our salvation is our deliverance from the captivity of the devil.

As you run with the Holy Spirit, he will guide you, correct you and discipline you.
It takes people who knows the reason for their existence to move to the next level in their lives.

The seven mountains of influence:
1. Education
2. Media
3. Business
4. Arts and Entertainment
5. Family
6. Government
7. Religion

God wants us to occupy the seven mountains of influence and transform the society.