By Isaiah Ogedegbe
It was a glorious service of "Rehoboth," on Sunday morning of 22nd February 2026, as Gihon City Bible Church, founded and led by Rev. Lawrence O. Agbirekomi, had the grand finale of its first Anniversary Celebration. The school of the Spirit was taught by the senior pastor of the church, who spoke briefly on a message titled: "The Technology That Empowers Rehoboth."
The man of God stated that God actually deals with individuals according to their different levels of understanding until they have fully grown in grace and in the knowledge of God (2 Pet. 3:18). He further elucidated that the reason for technology is so that life can become easy, and hearing from God is made easy with the technology of the Holy Spirit.
According to him, God is still speaking to believers everyday. Therefore, there is need for believers to tune their spiritual frequency so that they can hear what God is saying to them. He posited that if believers can only give God enough attention, God will always direct them by telling them exactly what they need to do. He then mentioned three things that empower "Rehoboth," such as:
1. Be persistent.
2. Be resilient.
3. Be deliberate about hearing from God.
Later on, the guest speaker, Bishop Mike Laju delivered a profound message titled: "The Mystery Of Partnership That Makes Life Powerful," taken from Eccl. 4:8-12 and Lk. 5:1-4.
The Bishop began his message by saying that life is a mystery and once it is understood, things become easy. It is our understanding of this mystery of life that makes us realize that everything has to do with partnership, and that life can really get better and sweeter only when we have the right partnership.
"It is an error for a man to be alone," Bishop Mike Laju declared, "it is also an error for the load of two persons to be carried by one person."
The Bishop further revealed that God's words: "Let Us make man in Our image" (Gen. 1:26), clearly show that even Spirit-entities do not work alone. Also, when God was about to create man, He worked in partnership with the earth by borrowing dust from the earth, moulding it into man and breathing on it (Gen. 2:7). Because of that very partnership between God and the earth, when man finally dies he returns to the earth and the debt of his borrowed dust is paid by God to the earth (Gen. 3:19).
While describing the earth as "a fantastic ecosystem in which everything depends on one another," Bishop Mike Laju posited that if you have not yet located your right habitat, you will keep striving when others who have already located theirs are thriving. According to him, "It is an error for a man not to understand his habitat," while adding that, "many of us are trying to force things to be that should not be."
The Bishop insisted that it is an error of association for some people to just occupy space in our lives, and yet we do not have anything to show for it. According to him, when God gives us the right connections and we enter into partnership with people that matter, we will also matter and rise from obscurity to visibility.
He also insisted that we must have great people around us to make our lives count. "Every partnership must be with a purpose," the Bishop categorically stated, "because even Jesus was deliberate about his partnership." He deliberately had some rich disciples like Zacchaeus the tax collector and Joseph of Arimathea, because He knew that He would need them later to cater for His bills. The latter would be able to approach Pilate to give him His body for burial, but none of His poor disciples could ever have such access to Pilate.
While referencing Lk. 5:1-4, Bishop Mike Laju said that there were two ships by the lake, but Jesus could not enter into both ships and so he chose one of them which belonged to Peter. When Jesus stepped into that ship, Peter's name came into limelight by reason of partnership, because an important personality was in his ship. No wonder the name of the owner of the other ship was never mentioned in the Bible.
The Bishop, however, noted that Peter chose service over silver. He first rendered service to Jesus without asking for anything in return, although he later received the benefit of a net-breaking and a ship-sinking miracle. "In life, whenever you are into partnership with anyone, just deliver value and render service first," the Bishop admonished, "it is your rendering of service that determines what you will later receive."
