Covenant Day Of Marital Breakthrough Service by Bishop David Oyedepo: MP3 Download & Sermon Notes

Access to the Prophetic Word

Among the blessings of prayer and fasting is an outbreak of light, an outbreak of revelation. Faith comes by hearing, and hearing from God specifically, because his voice is mightier than the noise of many waters. God's word is not merely historical record; it is prophetic. Isaiah 55:1-3 invites believers to "come and hear," not merely come and read, because an everlasting covenant, "the sure mercies of David," is being cut with whoever responds. Whatever a person genuinely hears from God's word becomes a covenant between that person and God.

Access to this dimension of scripture is reserved for God's own children. Psalm 25:14 says the secret of the Lord is with those who fear him, and Proverbs 1:23 ties hearing God's words to a willingness to turn at his reproof. Being born again is not automatic access; a person can carry a Bible everywhere and still never truly hear God speak from it if there is no genuine fear of God and no willingness to turn when corrected.

Prophetic Scriptures Secure the Future

Prophetic scripture is not only a pointer to the future; it secures the future for whoever holds fast to it. Isaiah 14:24, 27 declares that what the Lord has purposed will stand, and no power can turn it back. Psalm 119:89 adds that God's word is settled in heaven, so no scheme from any source can unsettle a prophetic word that has been received and believed.

A personal testimony was shared of receiving Matthew 6:33, "seek first the kingdom," decades ago as a direct address rather than a general principle, and building an entire life and ministry on it without begging anyone for provision. In the same way, Deuteronomy 28:1 was received as a personal instruction rather than a mere Bible verse, and it shaped a lifelong pursuit of God's purpose rather than personal ambition.

Holding Fast, Not Just Hearing

Receiving a prophetic word is not the end of the matter; the word must be held fast and complied with. Revelation 3:11 warns believers to hold fast to what they have so that no one takes their crown. A word from God carries no benefit to someone who is waiting passively on God for something God has already instructed them to do.

Marriage Is a Good Thing You Are Entitled To

Genesis 2:18 establishes that it is not good for a man to be alone, and marriage was God's own idea for making life good for humanity. Since every good thing is the believer's inheritance in Christ, it is not unspiritual to ask God specifically for a good and peaceful marriage. Matthew 7:11 reasons that if human fathers know how to give good things to their children, God gives even more.

Psalm 68:6 declares that God sets the solitary in families and brings out those bound with chains, meaning marital destinies that have been delayed, caged, or repeatedly disrupted can be released. Matthew 17:19-21 teaches that certain forms of resistance only give way to the combined force of faith, prayer, and fasting; this is the force applied against every demonic interference with a person's marital destiny.

Honoring the Terms of the Covenant

Peace within marriage depends on honoring what scripture actually requires of each spouse. Ephesians 5:22-25 calls wives to submit as to the Lord and husbands to love their wives as Christ loves the church; 1 Peter 3:7 calls husbands to dwell with their wives with understanding, giving them honor. Any home where a husband strikes his wife has departed entirely from that standard; there is no version of Christian headship that includes violence, and no man has authority to treat his wife as anything less than an heir together of the grace of life.

The Faith of One Can Turn a Home

1 Corinthians 7 teaches that an unbelieving spouse is sanctified through the believing one. A person does not need to wait for their spouse to align with God's covenant before walking in it themselves; consistent faith in one partner carries the power to eventually draw the other, if that spouse chooses to respond.

Blessings Released Through the Fast

Fasting is described as a facilitator of the anointing that reverses shame into double honor, referencing Isaiah 61:7. Curses, enchantments, and generational crosses have no lasting hold on the redeemed, since Numbers 23:23 declares there is no divination that can stand against those in covenant with God. Every trace of confusion is turned into direction, and every crisis, marital, financial, or physical, is positioned to become a testimony rather than a permanent condition.