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Happy Birthday, Pastor Taiwo Emmanuel Owolabi Taiwo Emmanuel Owolabi 🎉

Thank you for your leadership, your sacrifices, your constant support, and your unwavering commitment to the work of the Kingdom.

As you step into another year, may the Lord strengthen you, refresh you, enlarge your capacity, and reward every seed you have sown in His house and in the lives of His people.

May this new year bring greater grace, deeper intimacy with God, fresh oil for ministry, and countless reasons to rejoice.

We love and honour you, PTEO, Happy Birthday! ❤️🎉

We all love receiving gifts.

Some make us smile, and some tell a story.

But there’s one gift we’ve freely received, and it is the greatest of them all.

Jesus.

This Sunday, Celebration Church Int’l Children’s Ministry. , we learnt about the greatest gift of all and why Jesus is God’s gift to the world.

The Church was never meant to be on the sidelines.

We are people with a purpose and a place in what God is doing.

So we move. We take our place.

Because there is a Kingdom to advance, and we each have a part to play.

(Continuation from previous post)

📌 2 Kinds of Principalities to Face
- Spiritual principalities (the backend of the physical principalities)
• Physical principalities (institutions and policies) (Acts 19:25-29)

🔸 Taking territories won’t always be easy, but we stand strong because the One who sent us will back us.
🔸 We don’t just conquer people, we set them free from the institutions that have held them bound. (Col 2:15, 2 Cor 2:14)

📌 What Does It Mean For You?
🔸 Be offensive, not aggressive.
- Respond to someone who opposes you with grace.
🔸Move from attendance to assignment.
- You were called out for a purpose, operate from that awareness.
🔸 Name your Caesarea
- God has placed you somewhere on purpose. (Esther 4:14)
🔸 Tear down your own altars first.
- You don’t want to attack the devil while carrying what looks like his.
🔸Use the keys handed to you.
- Keys are meant to open doors and places. Use the authority you have in Christ to govern. Spend time praying for your territory and legislate over it in prayer.
🔸 Go where it is uncomfortable (Matt 5:13-14)
- Light has no significance when it is not touching darkness. Matthew 5:13

If He is the Christ, the Son of the living God, then you are not just a spectator. You are on an assignment, so go on the offensive.

Minister: Pastor Emmanuel Owolabi
Topic: On This Rock: The Church on the Offensive
Main Reference: Matt 16:18

📌 Introduction
What is the Church?
We are the Church, and we are on the offensive. Hell is not trying to push us, we are the ones pushing hell. (Matt 16:18)

🔸 The Church is more than a Sunday gathering. It is the King’s people meeting together to advance the vision of the Kingdom.
🔸 Ecclesia is the gathering of citizens to deliberate on the matters of a country or city. We are a people called out to be under His authority, to discuss the matters of His Kingdom. (Mark 16:15, Matt 16:13)

📌 Key Points
🔸 Who do you say Jesus is?
It matters what you believe about Jesus. The revelation of Christ always reveals who you are. (1 Pet 2:4-5, 1 Cor 3:11)

🔸What is the Church built on?
The revelation of who Jesus is. When you know who Christ is, He tells you who you are.
🔸 The victory of the Church is guaranteed by Jesus. He gave us the authority of His Kingdom. (Matt 16:19, Rev 1:18)
🔸 We advance not in our own strength but in the strength of the One who sent us, because He has already won.
🔸We can affirm the will of God here on earth because we have the key of authority.

📌Why are we sitting on the keys?
We were not given the keys to sit on them but to govern on behalf of the King.

To be continued in the next post

POST 2
(Continuation from previous post)

📌 What It Means For Us
1. Tear down your altar (Judges 6:25)
What idols have you placed in your life?
1. Be offensive, not aggressive
🔸Being on the offensive does not mean arguing or being disrespectful. We are not conquering people, we are conquering the spiritual forces working behind them.
1. Move from attendance to assignment
🔸 Operate from the consciousness that you have an urgent assignment here on earth.
1. Name your Caesarea
🔸 Write down and plan where God has sent you. You are a soldier on assignment, so resume your post. God has placed you there on purpose.
1. Use your key
🔸 You have authority in Christ as an ambassador for Christ. Use it.
6. Go! (Matt 28:19)
🔸 The enemy of impact is convenience. If you only do what is comfortable, you won’t make an impact.
🔸 If He sent you, He will back you up with supplies. (2 Cor 2:14)

Minister: Pastor Deborah Oguike
Topic: On This Rock: The Church on the Offensive
Main References: Matt. 16:18, Matt. 28:19

📌 Introduction
The Church is a safe place, away from the corruption of the world. But Matthew 16:18 shows us the Church is also meant to be on the offensive.

📌Key Points
🔸Gates don’t move or attack. They defend. So when Jesus says the gates of hell cannot prevail, the Church is the one pushing forward.
🔸 The Church is the King’s people, gathered to Him and for Him. Hell cannot overturn what God has already established. Matt 16:13-17, 1 Cor 3:11
🔸 The revelation of Christ reveals who you are in Him. See yourself in Christ and let Him be the mirror.
🔸 We are soldiers of Christ on a battlefield. Victory over the gates of hell is already guaranteed in Jesus. So, we are not fighting for victory, we are fighting from victory. (2 Cor 10:4-5)
🔸 Keys = the governing authority of heaven. The Church enforces on earth what heaven has already decided. Matt 16:19, Rev 1:18, Isa 22:22
🔸 To take over a territory, you must first examine it. We are here not only for spiritual impact, but to shape culture. Eph 6:12, Acts 19:19-20, 26-27

To be continued in the next post

Upon this rock
You build Your church
And the gates of hell will not prevail
When we bind and loose, we proclaim Your truth
And in Jesus’ name we will not fail