WAKE-UP CALL (4):(There’s no anointing that will be a substitute for your personal spiritual build-up)

“Life is a privileged existence with attendant responsibilities. You exist by privilege but you are sustained by responsibilities. The plants have to carry on their responsibility of supplying oxygen to the atmosphere, continuously, and foreverly. In the same way, the animals have to keep on supplying their carbon dioxide to the atmosphere for the plants to take – continuously, tirelessly, and foreverly. The day each one is tired of dong his own part, he’s dead. Until you take spiritual responsibility, you remain a spiritual or religious liability. You need to take responsibility. No one can eat for you. I know many of you are very busy but can you ask your wife to eat on your behalf? You die of starvation! Nobody can exercise for you to be agile and strong. You exercise for yourself. There’s no anointing that will be a substitute for your personal spiritual build-up…”

--- Bishop David Oyedepo in Unveiling the Mysteries of Faith (2), Sunday 08/06/08