SPECIAL SUNDAY SERVICE WITH PASTOR E.A ADEBOYE AT RCCG RESURRECTION PARISH, LEKKI, LAGOS STATE NIGERIA.

TOPIC: BLESSING

DATE: 10TH MARCH, 2019

TEXT: GENESIS 12: 1-3

SONG:

We give You all the Glory,

We give You all Honour,

We give You all the Glory,

We give You all Honour

(Repeated 4x)

OPENING PRAYER:

Ancient of days we give You all the Glory, Our Saviour, Our Healer, Our Provider, Our Defender, Our all in all, we give You all the Glory. Father be Glorified forever In Jesus’ Name.

Father, we are here this morning on Your behalf to pronounce a Father’s Blessing on Your children. Lord, let them be Blessed; bless them in the morning, bless them in the afternoon, bless them in the evening, bless them in the night time. When they are going out, let them be blessed, when they are coming in, let them be blessed. In their places of work, let them be blessed, everywhere they go, Lord, let them be blessed. Whatever they touch, let them prosper. Whatever they desire from you today even before the sunset, turn it to a Testimony. As a result of today Service, let there be a Major turn around for them.

Please my Father and my God, everyone of them here today, promote them, prosper them, defend them, fight their battles for them, increase their Joy, take them to a higher level. In every area of their lives Father, show them Favour. I pray Lord, set them in a particular place, let it be Good News and the Grace to serve You as never before, release unto them.

In Jesus Mighty Name we have prayed – Amen!

Let somebody Shout Hallelujah – HALLELUJAH!

Shake hands with one (1) or two (2) people and tell them “I AM BLESSED ALREADY” – I AM BLESSED ALREADY!

… And then you may please be seated.

BIBLE TEXT: GENESIS 12:1-3

1. Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will show thee:

2. And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:

3. And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.

If those Blessings are for you, let me hear your amen loud and clear – AMEN!

Probably one of the most Powerful Forces in the world is a BLESSING. It has a twin sister equally Powerful and that is a CURSE.

A Blessing is an invitation to all the forces on Earth, in Heaven, underneath the Earth to assist somebody to SUCCEED. Again, even the ground you are walking on, the water you drink, when you are blessed, they all will work together to make sure you succeed.

A Curse on the other way round is a summon to all forces to make sure that somebody FAIL.

And so, I want to decree that if there is a CURSE still left in your family, it will be destroyed today!

If you read Genesis 24: 34-35; And he said: I [am] Abraham’s servant. And the LORD hath blessed my master greatly; and he is become great: and he hath given him flocks, and herds, and silver, and gold, and menservants, and maidservants, and camels, and asses.”

… Somebody said I am Abraham’s servant and the Lord has blessed my Master greatly.

What is the RESULT of that BLESSING?

1. He said he has BECOME GREAT: When God blesses you, you will become great;

2. And then he said has given him flocks, herds, sheep’s, Silver, Gold because God has blessed him.

When God blesses you, you become great; you become prosperous – whatever you touch will just be succeeding so much so good that people will begin to ask, “how do you do it?”

Again and again, many of my colleagues will come to me and say “daddy, tell us what is your secret, how do you do it?” I always say, “I am not doing anything, am just being BLESSED!”

I decree again this morning, everyone of you will be Blessed – Amen!

Now, BLESSINGS are in degrees;

1. For example Esau (you know the story very well) got a remnant of his father blessing.

Genesis 27: 38-40: “And Esau said unto his father, Hast thou but one blessing, my father? bless me, [even] me also, O my father. And Esau lifted up his voice, and wept. And Isaac his father answered and said unto him, Behold, thy dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of heaven from above; And by thy sword shalt thou live, and shalt serve thy brother; and it shall come to pass when thou shalt have the dominion, that thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck.”

He came in after the real blessing had been given to his brother. So he cried out to the father – “don’t you have anything left? I know you have already blessed that fellow, you have poured out the blessings on him.

Is there no remnant?”

And the father said, “well, we will scratch the bottom of the barrel to see if there is anything left for you.”

… So he gave him just a little leftover.

But by the time you get to Genesis 32:1-6, the Bible tells us when Jacob sent emissaries to Esau to say: “I am coming home, I got present for you to asked you to please forgive me for what happened”; the servants returned and said, Sir, we met your brother, we delivered your message and he is coming with four hundred (400) bodyguards.

… He got a REMNANT of blessing, but he became so great, he has four hundred (400) bodyguards.

I still remembered the first time a President came to the Congress. The security people told him, Sir, you can’t go; … it’s an open space, it’s at night, it’s absolutely Security Night Guards – you can’t go. He said, I have promised, I am going, “you do whatever you need to do to make sure I am secured.” So, he came with two hundred and fifty (250) bodyguards – That is a President!

A President came with two hundred and fifty (250) bodyguards. But Esau had four hundred (400) bodyguards.

… So you can see how POWERFUL a Remnant Blessing can be!

What about the brother who got the “REAL DOSAGE” – Who got the full one, that is Jacob?

By the time you read Genesis 32:24-28; you will discover that; not only was he prospered mightily. The Almighty God changed the name of Jacob to Israel; and a man became a NATION.

The one who got the remnant prospered, he had four hundred  (400) bodyguards. The one who got the real thing became a Nation.

I decree today that among those of us who are seated will be somebody who will become a Nation – Amen!

… I am talking of blessing being in degrees.

2. You will find another in the illustration when a blessing of the first born was deliberately given to the second born.

In Genesis 48:17-20; Joseph brought his two sons – Ephraim and Menasseh. (Menasseh is the first born while Ephraim is the second born) to his father. He said, here are my children, will you please bless them before you die? And his father crossed his hands (because Joseph placed the first born where the right hand will be, and he placed the second born where the left hand will be).

WHY? “The blessings of the right hand is more than that of the left hand’. May be we will discover that when we get to Heaven but that is the way God arranged it.

And I have always told my children; anytime a Man of God wants to bless two of you, make sure you are kneeling where his right hand will lie. We can do the theory later. (Just get it, it’s a Special Message).

But the old man crossed his hands, transferred the blessings of the firstborn to the second born. Even though Joseph tried to say, eh! daddy, don’t do it that way: this is the firstborn. He said, I know what I’m doing. This is something special, this is a direction from the Holy Spirit.

May I decree today that the blessings that belongs to the firstborn be given to you this morning – Amen!

Because what was the result? Within a short period of time, by the time you read Deuteronomy 33:17; “His Glory [is like] the firstling of his bullock, and his horns [are like] the horns of unicorns: with them he shall push the people together to the ends of the earth: and they [are] the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they [are] the thousands of Manasseh.”

The Bible recalled for you that Ephraim (The younger boy) has been blessed ten (10)times more than his brother. They were now talking of thousand of Manasseh but ten (10) thousands of Ephraim.

… You don’t joke with a blessing, it is an extremely Powerful Force!

You will discover there are two people in the same market selling the same thing; starting off the same time and within a short period of time, one is way three times (3x) ahead of the other.

I am praying for you today; very, very soon, your peers will be seeing you far, far; far ahead – Amen!

Now, WHAT DO YOU DO to get the Father’s Blessings?

1. According to Genesis 27:1-4; Isaac called his son, Esau, he said am about to die, give me that kind of food I love, so that from the bottom of my heart I can bless you.

Nothing goes for nothing. You have to pay something that’s precious as a Blessing – It’s very important.

I have told you before this story, that I was at Heathrow Airport several years ago. And in those days I was travelling Economy Class – they weigh your bags. There is a limit to what Economy Class carries.

So what we did to beat them is that the heavy thing we put it in the carry-on. They wouldn’t weigh those ones. And I had two (2) carry-on, very heavy. Each one is heavier than the luggage itself. I was coming with one (1) on one hand and

 the other hand carrying the other.

I saw two of my boys at the Heathrow Airport; and the first one came to me and said, “Daddy good morning”, and I said good morning. The second boy looked at me and took the loads off me before he even said good morning. And I said “God bless you”. The first one turned and said, daddy you didn’t say God bless me. I said for what? You greeted me and I greeted you, this one didn’t greet me but he helped me to carry my burden so I said “God bless you.”

May I say, GOD BLESS someone here today (or reading) – AMEN!!! (God Bless DMC and the entirely Crew too in Jesus Name – Amen).

2. When you want God’s blessing, you must do something for Him that will Please Him.

For example, in 2 Chronicles 1:6-12; the Bible said, Solomon offered a thousand burnt offerings to God and God decided to pay him a visit.

He said, son, you have done something nobody has ever done before, let Me do for you what I have never done for anyone before.

I give you a blank cheque, anything you want, Ask! And the boy answered and said, what I want is WISDOM and why do I need the wisdom so I can SERVE You correctly. So I can take good care of Your people; that is why I want the Wisdom.

And God said, is that so, the boy said yes and He said all right, what you need to serve me I give unto you, the things you didn’t ask for, I will add.

We need to know the Principles that are behind Special Blessings.

When you see some people and you find out that they seems to be doing far, far better than the rest of their colleagues, find out THEIR SECRETS!

Thank God for Grace; He made sure I studied Mathematics before He saved my soul. If there is anything Mathematics teaches you is that: “Certain formula will only work if you meet the conditions.” (Am not here to teach Mathematics). But we all know that in a right Angle Triangle, the sum of square of two sides will be equal to the sides of Hypotenuse – that will follow whether on earth or on the moon.

You meet God’s conditions, He will do for you what He has not been doing for others.

Very, very important! This could be the Greatest thing you ever heard in your life.

Because if you begin to meet His conditions, by this time Next Year, your colleagues who are not listening to me now or who are hearing me (or reading) but are going to do; will begin to say: “What is your secret”?

I don’t want to begin to tell you Stories today. But when He saved my soul, the first house I ever built with JOY, I gave it to Him (that was just very little house – a mould house). It was my first house, I gave it God and it became a Mission House. And then, He built another one for me in my little village, Ifewara (Osun State, Nigeria).

When the need arose, I gave it to Him. My first Car (it was second hand Value – fairly used) but it was my first car; when the need arose, I gave it to Him. The little house He built for me in Lagos, when the need arose, I gave it to Him. I’m just telling you just a little but He responded in some marvelous ways.

For example now, anywhere I go in the world where there is the Redeemed Christian Church Of God, if I say to anybody there that I want to come and sleep in your house, did you think he would put me in the Boys Quarters? He will vacate the Master Bedroom. If I say I want to come to your house today and I want to spend the weekend, will you be sad?  NO!

So, I used to boast to my other colleagues that: “I have houses all over the world.” Many of them they don’t understand. They thought am saying “I have bought houses everywhere.” But “YOUR SON’S house is your house.”

I use to tell them that I have more cars than I can ride. They think that what that means is that I have bought so many cars. That is not true. Is any one here that I can say “Sir, I need your car for one week”. I know the fellow will be so happy and say I will even buy the petrol. Am I speaking the truth? YES!

Good respond! Apart from having houses where I can sleep all over the world, look at Redemption Camp. At that place called Redemption Camp, I’m the Local Government Chairman.

I was telling my Pastors not too long ago that if I die, don’t take me to Ifewara (my hometown), bury me in my own city. Am I not blessed? YOU ARE!

I decree one more time, everyone of you here today, “GOD BLESS YOU”- Amen!

Then what is the Greatest desire of God’s heart? What does He want more than anything else?

It’s that we WIN SOULS. That is the best way you can please Him.

in John 15:16; the Bible says that: “Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and [that] your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.”

By this time Next Year, even if you are holding three (3) Services here, the place will be too small – Amen!

Let me close; it is possible to lose a Blessing.

You will never loose your own – Amen!

But I have told you the story of two boys – Ephraim and Menasseh. Ephraim got the blessing that should belong to his brother. He became ten (10) times more successful than his brother. But when success came, he forgot God.

When God says Israel, I want you to go to war for me, Ephraim will say I can’t go because somebody must look after my prosperity. When God says, don’t worship Idol’s, he will say mind your business, I can do what I like and God kept on sending Prophets upon Prophets to Ephraim. Ephraim why are you doing all these to me? I love you, you know what I did for you?

After sometimes, in the book of Hosea 4:17, God said, Ephraim has joined himself to idols, leave him alone. Don’t worry him anymore, let him do what he likes.

But then, God now said, in the same book of Hosea 5:9, He said, Ephraim shall be desolate.

The fellow that has prospered, He said there shall be nothing left for him.

You know the word desolate, it is a terrible word.

I believe that as a result of the Blessings that has been pronounced on you this morning, you will begin to SUCCEED in a way you have never imagined.

When Success comes, please don’t forget God because He has the Power to give and He has the Power to take away.

… Your Blessings will be Permanent in Jesus’ Name – Amen!

God has no Blessing for a SINNER.

You know why? Not because He knows that if He blesses you, you will spend it for Satan. If He blesses a sinner, a sinner is likely to go and marry second or third wives. If He blesses a sinner, a sinner would probably spend the money drinking alcohol and get drunk. So He reserves His blessing for those

that are His own.

ALTAR CALL:

That is why if you are here this morning and you have not yet surrendered your life to Jesus Christ and you have been saying Amen to ‘God Bless You’. You have been wasting your time! Unless you surrendered your life to Him, He is not going to give you His Blessing.

So if you want to give Your life to Him, am going to count from One (1) to Seven (7), before I say seven (7); come and stand before me and I will pray, God will save your SOUL, His BLOOD will wash away your sins and then you are qualified for the Blessings of God.

… Now am counting!

Now the choice is yours, nobody needs to compel you. You want to be blessed? Come and be saved. If you don’t want to be blessed, sit down with your sins. The choice is yours.

Now those outside in the overflow you have to move a little bit faster to get here before I count seven (7). (Please don’t block their way) Let them come quickly.

..  Thank You Jesus! Those of you who are clapping, your hands will never be empty.

Ok! Those of you on the way, keep coming and those of you already in the front, talk to Almighty God ask Him to please have Mercy on you, save your Soul, and wash away your sins. Promise Him that from now on, you will serve Him: go ahead, talk to Him, the Almighty God, ask Him to be your Saviour and your Lord.

And the rest of us, let’s stretch out our hands towards these people and intercede for them. Pray that the One who saved your Soul  will save their own Souls also. Pray that the Blood of Jesus will wash them clean this morning so that they will become partakers of the BLESSINGS of God. Pray for them!

And if there is anyone who still wants to come, you are not too late yet, so make sure you get here before I finish praying.

Thank You Father, in Jesus Mighty Name we have prayed – Amen!

PRAYER OF SALVATION:

My Father and my God, I just want to say Thank You, thank You for Your WORDS. Thank You for these people who have responded by coming to the Altar. You promised Lord, “that whosoever will come unto You, You will in no wise cast out”. They have come to You now Lord, please receive them in Jesus’ Name.

Save their Souls today, let your Blood wash away their Sins, receive them into the Family of God and begin to grant their request from this moment onward, as they make up their minds to serve You. Anytime they call on You, please answer them by Fire. And I pray that they will never backslide. Uphold them till the end.

In Jesus Mighty Name we have prayed – Amen!

Now, I rejoice with those of you who have come forward. I want to promise you that from now on I will be praying for you. So, I am going to need your names, addresses and prayer requests. The councillors would collect them for me and I promise you, I will be praying for you.

Before you go with the councillors, I want you to be part of the prayer we are about to pray now.

The rest of us, are we ready to pray? Do you believe God will answer you today?

YES! Let me hear you shout Hallelujah – HALLELUJAH!

I want you to lift your voice to Heaven (may be there is something I didn’t mentioned); Blessing is an “INDIVIDUAL MATTER”.

When God wants to bless a person, He blesses him alone. Forget the people on your right and the people on your left, it is between you and God.

Now, lift your voices to God and say: Father; please BLESS ME and I will serve You. Go ahead talk to Almighty God: BLESS ME ALMIGHTY GOD, I won’t fail You Lord. I will serve You, I will do everything that will make You happy, I will not disappoint You. Please Lord Bless me, bless me Mightily today.

Thank You Father, in Jesus Mighty Name we have prayed – Amen!

Let somebody shout Hallelujah – HALLELUJAH!

GOD BLESS YOU!

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