AYC 2018: DAY 4 – PLENARY SESSION 6 – INDOMITABLE FAMILY: PASTOR (MRS.) FOLU ADEBOYE

DATE: 4TH OCTOBER, 2018

Amen, Amen; Amen!

Let the living shout hallelujah.

SONG:

Immortal God, Invincible God;

Immortal God

How Great Thou are.

OPENING PRAYER:

Immortal, Invincible, the Only Wise God! We salute your Majesty. We honour you for whom you are. We thank you most especially for all the countries where RCCG is situated.

We are grateful to you Lord Almighty for the past Conventions; and we say thank you for the present one. We have been receiving Visitations from you Lord; and we have been receiving Strength and Power since the Convention has started. And we know Lord, that your Words will not just fall onto the bear ground without bringing forth fruits.

Even in this Session Lord Almighty we call you; the Father of fathers, the Creator of the Heavens and Earth: that You come in your Might and in your Power and you will speak to us.

Most especially, on our future as married men and women. We pray Lord that the footsteps that we need to tow; the guidelines we need to have; please release to us today in the Mighty Name of Jesus.

And let the tomorrow of everyone here and those who are hearing us/reading this; let it be alright. In Jesus Mighty Name we have prayed. Amen!

Kindly be seated.

I want to honour the Almighty God for giving us the opportunity to be in your midst again this year.

And I want to thank Him sincerely; most especially for the AGO Youth and Young Adult Affairs; and all the Regional Pastors of the Youths around.

Provincial Pastors, their wives and all their Assistants. We want to say thank you to you.

On behalf of RCCG and all the Youth Pastors in the House. We want to say thank you for the good works you are doing; not only in the Church; even up to the University Level.

The Lord Himself will take care of your children. Your labour will not be in vain.

We are grateful!

To you my beloved children, I salute you.

… Amen; Hallelujah!

I know you are all Generals in the Army of God. But when there is a Senior General in the house; the younger Generals return Salute – Amen!

And so, I want to sincerely congratulate you because of the privilege you have to be close to the Almighty God. It is not common at all. And we should not just take it for granted.

While we were like you; we didn’t have that opportunity.

So, I want to congratulate you for this season that you are in your life; and I will advise sincerely that you will not allow this to slip over your hands.

You have to take it, write it in your heart so that in the future; it will proper you.

Can I hear an Amen?

This morning, I am asked to talk about Marriage; and am sure you all love to hear it.

It is good because God Himself instituted marriage and there is no way we can just jump over it: because we are looking for a “Total Youth” of tomorrow who will be adults of tomorrow and they will continue to live a total Christian Life.

So there is no way this Program can just end like that without touching our tomorrow.

This is very important: that is why my text today; even as we talk about the INDOMITABLE FAMILY.

My TEXT is in the Book of Genesis 1:18-28.

It is a very common Passage that all of us have been hearing about. But in other to cut everything down, I will like to read just verses 18, 26-28.

18. And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.

26. And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. 

27. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. 

28. And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

That is where the word INDOMITABLE came from. And whatever will not allow this to happen is what we want to treat this morning.

The family must start from somewhere. And God Himself was the One who initiated this.

It is an institution that He planned by Himself.

You have listened to so many definitions of INDOMITABLE (you all know it).

I will just only mention two (2):

1.  Impossible to Subdue.

2.  Impossible to defeat.

Before a marriage can be impossible to defeat; or to be subdued: there must be Foundation for it. And whatever the foundation must be, it must be from the One who initiated it. Which means the source of every marriage must be from God.

Can I hear an Amen?

You will be hearing a lot of words we are going to teach this morning; over the years the only thing is that we will continue to hear it. Because the success of a Teacher is in the repetition to the student.

The more you repeat what you are teaching to the students; the more they assimilate, the more thy pass their exams.

I pray that all of you; you will not fail in your Majesty marriages, in the Name of Jesus.

This is very essential. The one who laid the foundation for marriage is: the Lord God Almighty.

From where we read (Genesis 1:18; 26-28). It is already clearly written. There is no controversy about that, because it is the word of God.

So when God wanted it to happen like that; so our foundation must be sure.

If anybody is going to marry and you have attained the age of marriage, the next thing is to:

1.  PRAY TO GOD for His choice.

The Bible tells us that: “A man who finds a wife finds a good thing”

And am sure the finding is not in the man alone.

If the man does find a good wife and the woman does not consent; what are you going to do?

…Then you continue to pray and pray.

A youth came to me some years ago. He said he heard the voice of God telling him that he was going to marry one TINUKE. And that ever since he has been looking for Tinuke (and couldn’t find her).

After two (2) years I asked “have you found Tinuke now”. He said Mummy, I have not found Tinuke. I said: continue to pray. Probably you did not hear well.

Some of us are so blunt; we are not flexible to the Holy Spirit. So much that whatever He says to us, we don’t even know the difference; we can’t DISCERN what God has been telling us and what He is not telling us.

From all the teachings you have been hearing (reading) over the years: in Seminars, in the University, in your schools, in the church. By now, every one of us, we must be in a place where God will speak to us; and we will be able to discern the voice of God and that of the devil.

The Lord will speak to us this morning again. Amen.

He has been speaking to us; but this morning we will hear Him again.

2. THE FOUNDATION must be in God.

Where should the foundation be? – GOD.

So please write it down; IT MUST BE IN GOD.

That is what the Bible tells us in 1Timothy 6:10; 2 Timothy 2:19.

That everything about us; the foundation of God standeth sure.

It must be SURE. You must not doubt it; because that is your life. Whatever you are not sure of about marriage; DON’T GO INTO IT.

I’m telling you: Don’t go into it.

1 Timothy  6:10 says: For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

2 Timothy 2:19 says: Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, Let every one that nameth the Name of Christ depart from iniquity.

His foundation standeth sure;

When God as the Master Builder is building a house; He does not just build in the AIR. He always has a FOUNDATION.

 That is the Rock of Ages.

Every family’s foundation must come from God; most importantly, to those who are the children of God.

Today, people receive their husbands; their wives from the Internet. From Facebook and all kinds of gadget.

… When it is not if God, it is NOT GOOD!

Whatever is of God is the one that is good.

Can I hear an Amen!

No matter how Rossy the qualification of the one you find on the Internet or Facebook is; if it is not of God it is of the devil. And God does not want you to suffer.

Hence, all we have been doing since the beginning of this Convention: so that we can live our lives in a peaceable way.

I pray that God will not allow us to yield to the devil, in the Name of Jesus.

So, the foundation must be in Christ: in any way God speaks to you or show you whatever He will show you.

What is the next thing to do?

The Bible tells us that he that believes in Him shall not be confused.

You don’t need to be confused.

Once you believe, what is the next thing?

In  RCCG, the next thing for us to do is:

3. GO TO YOUR PASTOR.

Why Pastor first before Parents?

Because in the Body of Christ there must not be any confusion.

Probably somebody has gone to tell the Pastor that: “this particular girl belongs me; I have prayed, God has chosen her”.

And you now get to the Pastor; and the girl you said God has shown for you: two (2) or three (3) boys had gone to the Pastor.

I don’t think in the Body of Christ there should be confusion where God is leading.

Psalm 16:8-11 says: I have put the Lord before me; and because He is at my right hand I know He will lead.

Brethren, there should be no confusion in the house of God.

Immediately you receive what you are receiving concerning any person (in the Lord); Go to your Pastor.

After going to the Pastor (because there should be no confusion in the house of God); the next one is:

4.  GO TO YOUR PARENTS:

When God has settled that one “that nobody has come for that girl”; then you go to your Parents.

Ephesians 6:13 tells us that we must honour our parents.

… That is part of the honour.

When Abraham decided to send for a wife through his servant (because at that time people where few); he warned him “Don’t go to the house of any other person; go to that place. That is where I want my son to have a wife.

Somebody has come to me using that example; “Can our parents look for a wife for us?”

… You have a good reason in this passage. At the same time, we need to honour our parents.

It is only of recent “We are wiser than our parents”. We don’t think that our parents can even discern (especially the parents in the Lord).

Everyone of us, when we have told our parents, and they say “Go and pray”; we say they are “Old School” and that they don’t know what is happening now.

The Yoruba adage says: there is one man called BARA. This Bara will sleep and he will not wake up. Then the elderly person will say “The thing that will wake Bara up will wake him later”.

… If Bara refuses to wake up, what will wake Bara up will wake him later.

Those of us who have turned our parents to nonentities; those who have no knowledge. “They are stupid”; “they are foolish”.

Let us go and correct ourselves. Because a time is coming when your own children will say to you too; “you are foolish”; “you are stupid”.

Let us listen to them!

On one (1) or two(2) occasions I have told people “PRAY”. They refused to pray. At the end, they are regretting it.

… You will not regret your marriages in the Name of Jesus.

If there is any regret at the moment; the God of Heaven, the God of all Dominion will bring it back to normal in the Name of Jesus.

So let us receive our Parent’s Consent.

Then what else should we do?

5.  COURTSHIP: There is what we call Courtship.

Now, I want to read to us Psalm 119:1-3

What does it say to us?

Because this particular time of courtship; it is a very dangerous time in the life of the intending couple. We have to be careful.

Psalm 119:1-3 says:

1. Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the LORD. 

2. Blessed are they that keep His testimonies, and that seek Him with the whole heart. 

3. They also do no iniquity: they walk in His ways.

Brethren, those who walk in the way of the Law of the Lord, they are UNDEFILED.

So many of us, we are so smart today. In the time of courtship we do a lot of evil things. Sometimes it backfires after marriage. But it will too late to go back.

So in the time of courtship, let us walk in the Law of the Lord.

In those days in RCCG in the time of courtship; if you have anything to discuss you go to your Pastor’s house (don’t tell me ooh; that am Old School).

But that’s how we met it in RCCG.

The Pastor will vacate his Living Room for you. The two (2) of you will discuss whatever you want to discuss at length. And you will go to your house; your husband to be too will go to his house.

And in the time of courtship, there must be open mind discussion. We should not hide anything from ourselves. Many, many marriages are on deception. We marry with DECEIT.

I always tell people; the main reason why I married Daddy GO is because he was not a deceiver.

Amen!

I found him to be true. It is the truth that he will always tell you – he was rotten; he was this and that.

I didn’t know any of those girl Friends. I didn’t know them.

But he (Daddy GO) told me, anyway.

But some of us, we are deceivers. We move about like Holy Angels, Holy Bishop, Holy Youth, Holy Brother/Sister.

But at the end of the day, when the problem comes; the wife will be part of the issue and she will suffer.

So a time of courtship should be a time of Open Mindedness.

Don’t forget Revelation 21:8; it says: “No LIAR will go to Heaven”.

The level at which we are; we are saying we are Indomitable and we want to dominate all the countries of the world.

Then, the LIKENESS and the IMAGE of God must be part of our lives now.

…That must be our IMMUNITY.

The Image and Likeness of God must be seen in our lives. And it must show in every life we live: either in the Office, at home, among the Youths, in the Church and everywhere.

If it has not been so; my prayer for you in this Convention is that you will go with a New Image; in the likeness of the Almighty God. So that all the noise about INDOMITABLE will not be in vain. And it shall be real in our lives.

Nothing goes for nothing!

So there should be no DECEIT in the time of courtship.

Tell him/her what you are so that if there is going to be a separation; then it is still good. Than to enter into it and never be able to go back.

I pray that the God of Heaven will guide us (those of us who are not married); in the Mighty Name of Jesus.

6.  THE MARRIAGE CEREMONY ITSELF:

Dowry must be paid.

Can I hear an Amen for that!

Don’t marry a wife on credit. “No credit in a Christian Marriage”.

Either today or tomorrow; NO CREDIT.

Pay the dowry of your wife and pay it JOYFULLY (It must be paid joyfully).

The Bible tells in the Marriage Ceremony; when you have decided on what to wear and what to eat; don’t forget that the Marriage Ceremony is just a sign for everybody to see that you are no longer one (1); that you are now TWO (2) in one (1).

And that is not the home that you are looking towards to see. It is just a ceremony.

Everything must be done moderately. Don’t because of elaborate Marriage that everybody will see; go and put yourself into debt or put yourself in sorrow.

There is no need for it; whatever you don’t have on the Marriage Day, you will have it later in life, in the Name of Jesus.

When our Marriage was close to Fifty (50) we were just joking between ourselves. Then Daddy GO said; “Did we cut cake at the Wedding Reception”? I said; “who remembered cake”.

But when we were Fifty (50) years in Marriage; “Only God knows how many cakes came into the house”.

.. The Glory of the latter should be greater than the former.

Brethren, don’t because of that four (4) hours’ Celebrations spoil your tomorrow. The Celebrations is just for few hours. Whatever you can afford is what you should do.

In RCCG, I have seen Marriage been conducted with only eight (8) people in attendance – the couple, Bestman, Maid of Honour and both Parents. Making a total of eight (8) people.

And by the time they finished, they just gave everybody MR. BIGGS; and that was the end.

Today, their home is Heaven on Earth. They are into prosperity. Things about their lives are blossoming. Their children have all finished from the University. Today, they are not poor.

“Cut your coat according to your cloth”.

1 Corinthians 9:25 says: And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.

Be temperate in all things!

It is not compulsory that you should pattern your own Marriage after your friend’s Marriage.

Just do it according to the Will of God and what you have.

…Then, we now come to the most essential thing;

7. THE BUILDING OF THE HOME.

In a marriage that is not going to be defeated; we have already said that:

The receiving of the wife/husband is from the Lord – the foundation must be based on the Will of God.

Which means you cannot go and marry somebody who is not of Christ.

We all know that one; we know what God says in 2 Corinthians 6:14:

Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?

So now you are married. The two (2) of you are together now.

How do you make this home successful?

How do you make it not to be defeated by the enemy, poverty, sickness, all the evils of life?

The two (2) of you have to plan it by:

1.  AGREEMENT. Amos 3:3.

We have seen marriages (even in RCCG) two (2) weeks after marriage, they are already separated. Because right from day one the husband said “this is where we are going for honeymoon” (which should have been concluded while still in courtship); they didn’t conclude it. The husband and wife chose different venues.

Number one (No. 1) Successful INDOMITABLE FAMILY (Marriage) is AGREEMENT.

Can I hear you say it?

AGREEMENT!

 2.  The husband MUST BE BUOYANT enough, right from day one in courtship.

Like I told you, “You cannot marry on credit”. You must have work that you are doing.

Today, I have seen children of God (Men) coming to beg for money for marriage.

If people give you money for marriage, when you are married, are you going to borrow money to feed your wife?

Therefore, anyone that has no job “MUST NOT MARRY.”

If you have no job, why are you going to marry?

If your parents sponsor the marriage, are they going feed you in marriage?

So please, brother go and GET A JOB BEFORE MARRIAGE.

Amen!

If you are a Lady, please don’t marry a jobless man.

Hallelujah!

This is very essential.

Hallelujah.

We cannot continue to drag the Name of the Lord in the mud.

Everything about Christ is Glorious; most especially, marriage is a Glorious thing.

Why should you be jobless and you are thinking about marriage? The first thing you should do is to get a job.

If you have secured a job and you know you can feed a wife, then begin to pray for marriage.

Can I hear an Amen?

1 Timothy 5:8 says:

“But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.”

If you want to be an Indomitable husband, and you want to have authority in your home. You want to speak and make your wife say “Yes Sir!” Then you must have a job; there must be money in your hand.

Hallelujah.

Don’t be an infidel. Go and get a job before marriage.

Hallelujah!

In building the house;

3. The Woman is supposed to be a BUILDER in that home; a MANAGER. Proverb 14:1 says: “Every wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands.”

There is an Adjective (Wise).

… No foolish Lady is in the house today (Amen).

So when you get married, you must be WISE to build your home. We have told you, “Your Foundation must be in Christ”. And your building must be submitted to Christ.

Let Him teach you how to build it. Release your spirit.

Don’t compare your notes with A and B. The Bible tells us in Hebrew 12;1 that we should look unto Jesus.

I know of my colleagues when we first got married, who laughed at me when we just got married.

Shillings and Pounds were the money spent then. The British Pound was equal to the Nigerian Pound. Ten Shillings was monthly feeding allowance. By the end of the month I will return like 2 Shillings and 6 Pence. Say: “This is the rest of your money”.

When my friends heard me, they laughed and said: “You must be stupid”. You are returning the money?

I said: Before I got married I have been a Manager in my father’s house, right from age fourteen (14). As the first born, so many things were entrusted into my care. And my parents had already taught me: “Even if they are killing you, must tell the truth”.

And they always told me “he who has gone must not be interested in the bye ways”. Whatever is not your own is the bye ways.

So I was taught ACCOUNTABILITY.

The problem we have today is that: “we don’t want to submit account. We don’t want to give account of whatever we are doing.

And life cannot continue like that. If you are not subjected to accountability you are a LIAR (and no liar is going to Heaven).

And nobody, no Ministry, no Government is ready to put money in the hands of those who will squander it or who will not spend wisely.

Can I hear an Amen for that.

If everyone of us here will rise up as an Indomitable Youth when we get married and we are true to our marriages, there will be no need for EFCC in Nigeria, because our hope for you is that you will take over very soon.

And our government shall be debt free, the people of the land will enjoy the fruits of the land; because honest people will be there.

Brethren, together we should be honest.

The woman building the home, you are the one who should know: “Ok, we can manage this”. Even when your husband will be asking where to get the money; she says: “don’t trouble yourself, I know how to manage it”.

Amen.

Proverb 31:11 tells us about the virtuous woman, that: “The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil.”

We don’t want to bring up Youths in RCCG whose husband will be panicking and will not be able to trust in her even to the day of death.

Imagine somebody is already going to the pits and nobody knows his bank accounts. Nobody knows what he has. He didn’t tell his wife till the point when he will not be able to talk again.

We don’t want that in RCCG; we all know that death is an appointed time. One day or the other; we shall all leave.

We did not come to the world at the same time.

If marriages had been good and they are living under the fear of the Almighty God; the wife been a Manager and a Builder of that home. The husband been the Lord in the house. And they both hold themselves in high esteem, trust each other; life will be Heaven on Earth for them.

This is the most essential thing we have come to register in your heart today.

Enough is enough of deceit. Whatever you cannot afford, don’t go into it.

Some of us; we are living a false life because we want that man to see us. We want that Lady to see us.

Whom at you deceiving?

You are deceiving yourself. And when you live a false life now that you are still a Youth; when you are married the husband/wife is in trouble.

Be yourself and be of God.

The Woman must be a builder;

Then, there must be respect and honour for each other. No abuse: what should not be heard from children of God is what some of us do.

After Marriage, the little mistake your spouse will do; abuse of all kinds. Nobody is born Perfect. We are all praying that God will make us Perfect.

No Abusive Languages!

… You cannot tolerate each other; this is not of God. If Jesus can tolerate us, why can’t we tolerate our spouse?

And the problem is this: “We have not taken each other as one with us”.

If you have taken your spouse as one with you; when he/she has headache: “You have headache”.

That is what it should be!

I pray the spirit of the Living God will drive this into our hearts; and we will stop dragging the Name of the Lord in the mud in our homes, in the name of Jesus.

You better say a better Amen!

Honour each other. Philippians 2:3. There should be no strife.

Those of us who call our husband Daddy “we are not stupid”.

The Bible has already taught us that Mama Sarah called Father Abraham “Lord”.

Today, everybody call their spouse by their name; Moses/Titi (in your mouth?).

And the Secret is (let me tell you); “Men love honour”. The more you honour them, the more you release their spirit to love you more.

But if you are the one; like my friend will say: ” AGARACHA”. That “I will give it back to him”.

Give it back to him; he will give it back to you MORE.

This is very important!

The word LOVE is not an ordinary thing. The word LOVE is God. Which means: “Whatever you can do to God is what you should do to your Spouse”.

If you cannot beat God, don’t beat your wife. Don’t slap your husband. If you cannot cheat God, then don’t CHEAT on your spouse.

If you cannot PRAISE GOD, then you cannot praise anybody; because the FOOD of the Almighty God is Praises.

Because God is love, we must be in love with each other.

There is bitterness and grudges in your heart. Stop tolerating people. Let’s be true to ourselves. How long are you going to tolerate?

If Jesus comes on a journey and meets in you: spirit of unforgiveness, how are you going to explain it? Will you say you have never heard Him talk to you before? Or you have never heard messages on Marriage or how to Keep Home?

Brethren, this is the time we have to put ourselves together. This is the End Time.

8.  PARENTING: Proverbs 22:6 says:

“Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.”

The Bible says “Children are the Heritage of the Lord”

You can’t have children and treat them anyhow.

They call it CHILD ABUSE; but for God it is disrespect to the Almighty God; when you just care for your children carelessly.

In our own time, our parents did all they could do to make sure that it is well with us.

Today, by the time the child is about three (3) months; you’re already taking the child to DAY CARE. And you will leave the child there till 5pm or even 8pm before carrying the child back home.

I use to weep when I see such children because that is no parenting.

Before you get married, you must make up your mind: “Whatever child you cannot care for, don’t give birth to them”

And you must not submit yourself to ABORTION (because that is what most of you do).

The One that has eyes; Does He not see?

We have to be Godly in anything we do. God is not interested in abortion.

Because He is the One who said we should be fruitful and multiply. That’s why there must be AGREEMENT.

Ok, if you are saying the ones you have had is enough; “Go through the proper way” of what you want to do in your family raising children; not killing the children that God has already formed in your womb.

This is very Important.

Let me tell you, we must value those Heritage of the Lord. We must nurture them; we must care for them. We must follow them up at work, at school).

Ask all my children, Even if they are in the University I am there. They will say “Mama has come again”. I will be there. Their lecturers, they know me.

Follow up your children. Don’t just leave them at the mercy of their teachers, who will not look after your children in a good way.

Because “If you don’t look after your child in a good way; I won’t look at you is better way”. When I am going, it may be oranges, I will buy.

Let’s follow up these children. Don’t just leave them like that.

Right from Childhood, teach them the morals virtues of. Teach them about God.

Look and what happened to Papa. Eli in 1 Samuel 4:10-19.

Nobody will read that Passage and not pity the old Baba. Ordinary what Hophni and Phinehas did, the Bible tells us that he (Papa Eli) fell backward and his neck was broken (and that was the end of his life).

… An end that has nothing memorable about his dying but evil report.

May you never end badly in the Name of Jesus. Amen.

So with all our Christian living, running up and down, going for evangelism, fasting; and you get into Marriage. You are not taking care of the children God has given you (as His heritage). You are not giving them the right value; you are not helping them to do what God wants you to do for them: “You are already a FAILURE”.

People today spend a lot of money sending their children Abroad; they don’t their work on the children before sending them there. By the time the children come back, they are already drug addicts; and it will be a life time sorrow in that home.

May you never have sorrow in the lives of your children.

We are told I. Acts 21:5 that Apostle Paul went to Syria and they had to stay in the house of one man called Philip.

I didn’t know that God is interested in such a details.

The Bible tells us in the next verse that the same Philip had four (4) daughters. And they were all prophetess and they were virgin. 

What a beautiful Testimony!

What testimony do you want people to give about your life, children and marriage?

Do you want people to say: The same man had four daughters who are physically unbalanced, morally corrupt and spiritually decayed.

I don’t want to be bringing bad adjectives on the altar of God.

Spiritually decayed! Some people have such children. And if you are such a child; May the Lord put you right today in the Name of Jesus.

Because if you are such and you don’t put yourself right (with all these teachings); and you get married: “Harvest is coming”; which means your own children too, they will toil your line.

Children must be raised together in one voice; in the togetherness of your home and you must train them in the way of the Lord, so that at the end of the day: “They will give you Joy”.

Can I hear an Amen!

We have to train them ECONOMICALLY, too.

Not only physically and spiritually; but economically, too.

Whatever you cannot afford, don’t go a-borrowing. Even if you borrow school fees (we know that’s investments);

But things you cannot afford to give your children; don’t open their eyes to it. Don’t take your child to where he/she will point at something and then cry till you get back home (because you cannot afford it).

It is a dangerous Thing!

I will always give this example to the Glory of God: In 1983 when we were building the first Auditorium and Hostels in the Redemption Camp; every Kobo/Penny we had then was put into the Projects. Our first son said he needed a new pair of shoe, of N250 (Two hundred and fifty Naira); I told him the money we had was for cement. I told him to go and meet the Head of Store then to allocate him to one Bricklayer who will give him head pan to carry (I didn’t know he will agree).

He agreed, went to Baba who asked him why? And he told him that he needed N250 to buy a pair of shoes.

That action prompted Baba to also to tell his children to go and work in the Camp every holiday; “If the GO’s son can work in the Camp, you too can work”.

What am I trying to say?

He worked for the N250; bought the shoe. Today if he wants to wear five hundred (500) pair of shoes, he can afford them today.

Train up your child in the ways he should go, when he is old, he will not depart from it.

Many of us, ourselves we are LAZY.

Now, even we parents to be or those of us who are already parents. Some of us, we are very lazy.

We cannot work with our hands. And we are just petting our children.

For how long? You are not going to live with them forever.

This is very serious in the Body of Christ.

Whatever we are seeing now; that is why the children are not contented with their parent’s food. Ordinary yam/plantain with oil (they want MR BIGGS).

Brethren that is not the way of Christ.

Parenting is very important. I pray that in our homes, our children will not lead us to hell, in the Name of Jesus.

…The second to the last point;

9.  SERVE THE LORD; in your homes you need to serve the Lord.

If you bypass God and you are going on your own way; the Lord will pass you by, too.

At the end of the day when you come back to Him, it will be too late. All that you should have achieved over the years, you will just see your Colleagues already moving high (those who are serving God); and you are mocking them.

Someone you are here: body, soul but you are not here in the spirit. But I advise you to be here: body, soul and spirit. So that your coming (reading) will not be a waste, in the Name of Jesus.

Let us serve the Lord.

1 Samuel 12:24 says: “Only fear the LORD, and serve him in truth with all your heart: for consider how great things he hath done for you.”

Serve the Lord with your spirit, soul and body. There is a Reward.

If all our Pastors did not serve the Lord, they won’t have the opportunity to hear the voice of the Lord. And they won’t have the opportunity to guide and lead us.

And I want you to rise and says: “Thank you Jesus for all our Pastors. (One more Time!)

… You can be seated.

It doesn’t come ordinarily; before any Pastor can stand before us, he must have been praying/fasting (I know it), one month, two months. Writing some points down; tearing it; rewriting again before delivering the message.

And after all has been delivered; you will just be making jest.

You better write it in your HEART; because tomorrow you may never have the opportunity again.

The Lord Himself will witness His points into your hearts, in the Name of Jesus.

So, let us Serve God.

Finally;

10. THERE CAN BE AMENDMENTS:

If you are married here and your marriage is already dominated; you can amend to INDOMITABLE.

You are not yet dead, you are still living. There is no impossibility with God. There can be a reversal of the irreversible. It’s a matter of CHOICE!

Me, right from my Youth I choose not to marry anyone who will give me trouble, because I don’t want problems. So if there is any trace of problem; I will beg.

You can still come back!

If there is any marriage which has already been broken, and nobody knows. And you are in the house as CAT and RAT; in this meeting of Indomitable, AMEND YOUR WAYS!

It does not take much. Some of us, we cannot say SORRY.

“I am sorry”! Repeat it until he answers and say Ok.

Brethren, life is so short; you have maybe eighty (80) years to spend married and you are spending sixty (60) years out of it fighting, quarreling.

God forbid it in your Homes!

I pray for you today that your marriage will be Indomitable. Those who have been married and are having problems in their homes. I pray today. God of Dominion will come in and sanctify your home again, and your life will be free from disagreement, misunderstanding, debt, embarrassment, lack of love, fight, suffering in the Mighty Name of Jesus.

Ezekiel 37;1-10 – If you read it all; if the DRY BONES can still be  covered with flesh, there is no dryness that God cannot put flesh upon.

And He did not put ordinary flesh; He BREATHE on them.

So this morning we all know that it is good to have an Indomitable Marriage and Home. Therefore, it is whatever you decide; the desires of your heart that God will give to you.

And I pray today, you will choose right; you will choose Indomitable Marriage.

And those of us who are already in it, and you have seen it as been defeated; today, there can be a reversal, because the Holy Spirit is in the house. And we serve the God of Heaven; the one who is the King of all kings and can do all things.

Shall we rise up!

Our cry today; those of us who are yet to be married first: Submit your Will to God. Say: “Take my life, I consecrate it anew; my marriage, the rest of my life, just take it over Lord”. Just have your way, give me the heart to surrender to you totally so that my marriage can be Indomitable.

And to those of us who are already married and there are some slacks in our marriages; all we need today is to invite the Lord, who can reverse the irreversible: “Come into my home, I want to enjoy the benefits of Indomitable Marriage. I want to enjoy: Victory, love, abundance, good children, and prosperity”.

… Just tell Him what you want to enjoy and am sure He will answer.

Shall we begin to pray now.

Talk to Him, tell Him what you want. He wishes us well. His thoughts for us are not of evil (open your mouth and talk to Him).

Your foundation must be on Christ (not on google or internet).

PRAY: Lord have your way in my life, direct my path, give me the spirit of contentment, help me.

Where there is strife in the homes; where there are problems of misunderstanding, problems of poverty. Every problem in the homes of those who are married, let us call on God today.

Have your way Lord, I have no way of my own; in you alone I want to walk, to live, to move and to have my being. (Acts 17:28). Have your way in my life. Let my marriage be Heaven on Earth. Every spirit of death hanging; remove it from my life, marriage, home.

Father have your way (PRAY); your marriage will decide your future destiny. If you marry right, you will enjoy the rest of your life. If you marry wrongly you are into a doom (a point of no return). Ask God now.

Thank you Jesus; in Jesus Name we have prayed.

SONG: 

Take my life and let it be

Consecrated Lord to Thee

Take my moment and my days

Let them flow in ceaseless praise.

CLOSING PRAYER:

Our Father and our God; the question of marriage is what you yourself instituted. No one can explain it better than the Holy Spirit can do.

We thank you for giving us just a short time before you, to do what you have done already through us this moment. We rely on you as we submit our lives into your hands.

Number one (No. 1) ; for those who are yet to marry: Everything you have said concerning their Foundation in you, concerning their choice in you, concerning their security in the home for a good man and for being people who will be in agreement in everything. So that your presence can be with them.

And even in their parenting and their serving you (not as Annanas and Saphira).

We pray Lord; you will guide these your young ones. They will submit their Will to you totally. They will learn from the mistakes of those who have missed it. And they will not miss it in marriage life, in the Name of Jesus.

And if there is anyone who is already on the path of unrighteousness or into the evil way concerning their choice. Today, out of your infinite LOVE and MERCY, bring them back to the right way.

We pray Lord, for those who are already married; there are still better days ahead. If you can cover the dry bones in the valley, and they can be brought together again; and you can cover them with flesh and you put your spirit in them and they became a mighty Army for you. There is still hope!

Therefore we say today, every marriage that is suffering like the dry bones. Jehovah today let your spirit come down and baptise that hope.

Let your Holy Spirit work in the heart of the husband and wife in the Name of Jesus.

Let there be New Homes; Heaven on earth. So that every Word we have heard (Read)/in this Convention about Indomitable Marriage will work for them.

So that your children all together as Youths; they will have: Victory, Prosperity, Good Health and Progress. And they will make Heaven at the end of their day.

Father, whatever that is committed into your hands, you will safely keep it to the end. We rely on you that these Youths; they will be the ones who will bring the Kingdom of God back to this earth in a way that no devil will be able to conquer your people again, in the Name of Jesus.

Father, we bless you that every blessing of this Convention will abide with us; we shall dwell in it till the end the day. And through it we shall make Heaven.

Thank you for all our Leaders, we pray for them in their fasting and praying for us, they shall be rewarded. That their children will not go wayward. They will not be like Hophni and Phinehas. And that their children will be like the four (4) Daughters of Philip; they will make you proud. Their lives will not be condemned before you.

Father we bless you; we give you Praises. In Jesus Mighty Name we have prayed. Amen.

COMPILATIONS BY

MOSES DURODOLA AND TITILAYOMI AJAYI

DISCOVERY MEDIA CREW

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