RCCG CENTRAL PARISH, ABUJA REGION 10 SPECIAL SUNDAY SERVICE WITH PASTOR E.A ADEBOYE

THEME: SEASON OF GREATER GLORY – TOPIC: MORE THAN CONQUERORS

DATE: 12TH MAY, 2019

BIBLE TEXT: ROMANS 8:31-37

SONG:

The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob

Jehovah is the Man of War

His Mercies endureth forever and ever

Oh praise His Holy Name.

OPENING PRAYER

Father Almighty we worship You. Lord of Host we bow before You. The One who has never lost a War we worship You. Accept our Worship in Jesus’ Name.

Father today in a very Special way, give Victory to Your children. Give them Physical Victory, Give the Material Victory, give them Marital Victory, give them  Spiritual Victory. In their Careers Father give them Victory.

Father am asking that: You will saturate this Altar with Your Anointing. And that from this Altar, this Special Anointing will flow through to your people. That anyone who will ever come here to worship; will receive INSTANT answers to their prayers.

For ALL Your children here (or reading) Lord God Almighty, am praying that this will be a day that they will never forget.

Thank You Almighty God; in Jesus Mighty Name we have prayed – AMEN!

Let someone shout hallelujah – Hallelujah!

Now shake hands with two (2) or three (3) people and say: Your Excellency, this is my day of Victory.

And then you may please be seated. Glory be God!

I think we should give the Choir a very big round of applause. They are good! No doubt about that.

Well, I asked the Assistant General Overseer (AGO) where we are worshiping this morning. And he said CENTRAL PARISH; I smiled. Because there’s an Elders’ saying that: “if you give a hoe to a mad man, he will turn the handle to himself.”

… I thought he will ask me: Daddy, where do you want to go?

Glory be to God – Hallelujah!

But I still believe nothing happens without God knowing about it. I believe I am standing here today, because it’s where God wants me to stand.

And I believe there is someone urgently in need of Victory. And you will get it this morning – Amen!

BIBLE TEXT: ROMANS 8:31-37

31 What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?

32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? 

33 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifieth. 

34 Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. 

35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 

36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. 

37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.

For those of you who come to the Holy Ghost Services at the Redemption Camp in Lagos or you watched it on the Television (or read the Messages done by Discovery Media Crew, DMC); you will probably remember: this is the same Passage I read last Friday (3rd May 2019).

You will find out that we were talking about: BORN TO WIN!

And I explained to them that: MORE THAN CONQUERORS is talking about WAR. That you don’t talk about conquering when you are talking about games – you talk about defeat. This team defeated that team.

But when you are talking about conquering, then you are talking about war. And in war, unlike the games; it is usually: Winners take all and Losers lose all.

At times, they may even lose their freedom and lose their lives.

Life is war! From the day we are born, till the day we die; we fight!

As a matter of fact, the Bible says that the last enemy to be defeated is death.

So there’s still at least one war waiting to be fought.

Basically, if you lose in this world, you may lose ALL.

In Mark 5:25-34; it tells about the woman with the issue of blood. She wasn’t just losing her blood; the Bible said: She spent ALL she had – She lost Financially as well as Physically until she came in contact with Jesus Christ.

Materially, if you lose, you could lose every other thing in addition.

I mean, in 1 Kings 17:8-16; the Widow of Zarephath lost financially until she had only one meal left. She was preparing the last meal for herself and her son to eat and die.

Proverbs 20:5 tells us that: “Poverty is the destruction of the poor”.

… Poverty is a destroyer.

And if one loses a battle Spiritually, he is likely to lose everything else again.

In Mark 5: 1-15; for example: the mad man of Gadara lost the battle spiritually to demons. And according to the Bible, he was even cutting himself with stones.

But like I told my children during the May 2019 Holy Ghost Service, BORN TO WIN also means you are BORN TO FIGHT! But the fight is fixed (in our Favour).

You belong to God, you are committed to Him – YOU WILL WIN!

But you need God. You need God to win the battle of life. Proverbs 21:31 tells us that: “The horse is prepared against the day of battle: but safety is of the LORD.”

I don’t need to tell us here in Abuja (Nigeria) that we are constantly on the battle front.

Someone told me not long ago that you big men dare not travel now from Abuja to Kaduna by road. I said: if big men can’t travel by road, what about us “Small Men?” God have Mercy!

If you try to fight the Battle of Life without God’s backing; your defeat is guaranteed. Because the Word of God says in Jeremiah 17:5-6:

5 Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD. 

6 For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.

So if you think you can fight the Battle of Life with your wisdom; with your wealth, with your influence. You are guaranteed to fail.

But, if you fight with God’s backing, then Victory is certain.

Because Romans 8: 31 made it clear: “If God be for us,  who can be against us?”

But what I really want to share with us these few minutes; because, there was a time we could preach eight (8) Sermons in a day. But as we grow older, “Wisdom becomes stronger than strength”. So we don’t  preach eight (8)  Sermons any more.

So the Sermon this morning has to be BRIEF.

Victories can be INCOMPLETE; and Victories can be TEMPORARY. We need to note this.

For example, in Joshua 11:22; when the Bible was talking about the VICTORIES of Joshua, it said: “There was none of the Anakims left in the land of the children of Israel: only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod, there remained.”

… So well, Joshua was a Victorious man!

But by the time you get to 1 Samuel 17:1-11; you will discovered that, of the people left in Gaza, came GOLIATH.

… That means the Victory was INCOMPLETE.

Am here this morning to decree to someone: Your Victory WILL BE COMPLETE – AMEN.

Victory can be TEMPORARY.

In Joshua 6:20-21; the Bible tells us that when the children of Israel gave a BIG SHOUT, the wall of Jericho fell. It was Victory for every man, and every woman in that City.

But by the time we get to Joshua 7:2-5; we realised that the people who were rejoicing yesterday are mourning today. Because somebody stole something that belongs to God. And the people who shouted and won the battle a day before; went to battle again with a small City  And they were defeated.

I decree, in the Name of the One who sent me, that your Victory will be PERMANENT – AMEN.

Because the thing I love so much about my God is that He can give COMPLETE and PERMANENT Victory.

In Psalms 90:2, the Bible tells us that: “Before the mountains were brought forth, or even thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.”

He knows the foundation of every Mountain; and so when He wants to remove a Mountain, He can uproot it – Dig it from the root and throw it away.

In Numbers 16:23-33, when some enemies ganged up against Moses; the Almighty God did not just kill them, He BURIED them.

If you have ever studied God (like I told my children at May 2019 Holy Ghost Service), He is a Military Man. The Bible says our God is a Man of War. You will discovered that when He wants to fight by land, He can bury His enemies alive. If He decides to fight by sea, in order that there might not be any rubbish left behind, He drowns the enemies so that the fish can finish them up.

… Those of you who don’t watch the Holy Ghost Service, you don’t know what you are missing – But we at Discovery Media Crew has a rich Library of all of these messages. Just visit and send a FaceBook Friend request to “DMC MediaCrew”.

It is in the Word of God –  very soon enemies will gather against you. He said in Isaiah 54:15 “Behold, they shall surely gather together, but not by me: whosoever shall gather together against thee shall fall for thy sake.”

So when enemies are gathering against you, they are merely fulfilling Prophecy. Eventually God is putting them together so He can finish them together.

I have Good News for somebody here today (or reading); Your Victory will be TOTAL – AMEN.

When you read 1 Samuel 17:45-51; you will discovered that when David killed Goliath, he already did it through a stone.  But because the way God does His things; when He does it, it’s Permanently and Completely – David made sure that he cut off the head of Goliath.

… So there is no question of him reviving.

In the life of someone here today (or reading); every Goliath’s head shall be cut off – Amen.

You will probably remember the Testimony of one of our sisters. She wrote to us and said that doctors have concluded that there is no way her womb can carry a child to maturity. Maximum, five (5) months the pregnancy will be miscarried. Because they say the womb is not capable. We wrote back after praying and said: Don’t worry, God will give you your own children. When we said “Children”; we had in mind that she will have one and then have another one. Just like that.

That Month she became pregnant. This time she carried the pregnancy to maturity. And when she delivered she gave birth to Four (4).

There was no need to be pregnant again because the Victory was already COMPLETE. And the Victory was Total, Permanent.

I decree: Your victory today will be Complete and it will be Permanent.

I have also told you the story of one of my children who was so poor that any time we asked people to pray and ask God for something, he was always asking: Daddy, pray for me, ask God to prosper me, I want to do the work of God. And then he wrote to me and said: Daddy, God has answered your prayers.

… And He will answer your prayers again this morning – Amen!

And they gave him a Contract for Fifty (50) Million (you know the story). I thought that he didn’t read the Paper very well.

… He is not the kind of person you can give Contract for one (1) Million. Not to talk of Fifty (50) Million.

But when at the end of the Month he came, he said: Daddy I have paid my Tithe, it was special from the ones he had been paying. He gave me a Bank draft for Five (5) Million. I knew he really got the Contract.

And because it was his very first Contract,  (he doesn’t know the methods of some people) he did the job very well. And when the Governor went to inspect the job, he said: you are the kind of person I have been looking for. Follow me to the office. When he followed Him to the Office he gave him another Contract for Four (4) Billion Naira.

… We are not talking about now, we are talking about many years ago, when Billion was Billion.

I have told you that one day I was travelling from London to Nigeria and I entered the First Class compartment. And I saw my son and the two of us began to laugh. People in the Plane didn’t know why we were laughing. I was laughing because LEVEL HAS CHANGED!

Your level will change PERMANENTLY today – Amen!

I know this Parish used to be known as the Millionaires’ Parish. From today, it will be known as Billionaires’ Parish; because your Victory will be complete and permanent.

Now, let me begin to round up. Divine Victory that is Complete and Permanent has it’s PRICE! It doesn’t go for free.

… There is no free lunch; nothing goes for nothing.

Yes it is true that He said in Romans 8:37 that: “we are MORE THAN CONQUERORS” because of Him who loved us. He said you are More Than a Conqueror; Victory is not just for free, but with a PRICE!

But God said in Proverbs 8:17;  “I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me.”

Love is a two way traffic. I’m sure you  know that one.

The worst thing that can happen to you is for you to love somebody who doesn’t love you in return. That’s why Marriages collapse.

When people marry; they say I love this fellow, and he/she loves me. And they wake up one day to discovered that the fellow doesn’t love me; it’s my money he/she loves.

He said: I love those who love me.

You want to be among those who are MORE THAN CONQUERORS?

Those whose Victory must be Complete and Permanent must be people who LOVE GOD.

How do we show our love for Him?

John  15:14, He said: “Ye are my friends, If ye do whatsoever I command you.”

How do I do what He Commands?

That’s very simply. John  15:16 says: “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.”

Win souls, follow them up, establish them in the Lord. Produce after your own kind. Let Lawyers win Lawyers, let Professors win Professors. Etcetera, etcetera.

… Wins souls!

And whether you believed it or not He is the one who commanded that you should bring your Tithes. Matthew 23:23 says: ‘Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.”

Pay your Tithe, then show Mercy, be just!

Oh, like I tell my people (in RCCG); There are some people who don’t quote the Bible correctly. Some of them are unbelievers. And they say Tithe is Old Testament.

I agree; Old Testament!

But Old Testament is where I find: ‘The Lord is  Shepherd, I shall not want. It is in the Old Testament that I find: “every weapon that is fashioned against me; none of them shall ever prosper.” It is in the Old Testament that is find: “I shall be head and the tail.” It is in the Old Testament that I find “I will be Above Only and not beneath.”

… They are all in the Old Testament.

They say Tithe is only for the Jews; it is only for the seed of Abraham. It is true. But the Bible says if you belong to Christ, then you are the seed of Abraham. The Bible says that there are those who are Jews by birth and there are those who are Jews by Faith.

I am a Jew, I am Hebrew. So what is for them, is for me.

Oh, they said that the first Church never paid tithe. I said: it is true. It’s just that we can’t do what the first Church did. Whenever they Tithe. They paid hundred percent (100%). You fail to give them 100% they kill you.

You don’t believe me? Ask Anannas and Sapahira.

And then I said: Why don’t we learn?

Just take America alone for example. And this is pure truth. Just make a little research of the hundred richest people in America, 85% are JEWS.

You say that’s an accident. That’s the kind of accident I like. Let that accident happen to me.

Let it be written one day, that when they gather one hundred (100) Richest People in the world that I am one of them.

How many of you would like to be one of them? DMC Members want to be.

Deuteronomy 28:1, 2 and 7 (and with this I close) says:

1 And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth: 

2 And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God. 

7 The LORD shall cause thine enemies that rise up against thee to be smitten before thy face: they shall come out against thee one way, and flee before thee seven ways.

Oh, if only we will do His WILL. He will give us Victory that will be Complete, and Permanent.

… Maybe I will just tell you a story and then we close.

They bought a man to the Church at Ebutte Meta (National Headquarters of RCCG in Lagos, Nigeria) several years ago. He had a very peculiar kind of disease. Every joint in his body refused to bend. So the legs and hands we just straight, and he couldn’t even bend his head.

So they brought him to the Church. Will you give your life to Jesus?

He said: YES! And we prayed. And immediately he was able to kneel down, he was able to raise his hands, he was able to wave. And we all rejoiced with him. And for two (2) weeks he was in Church. Then we didn’t see him again. And we did a follow up – brother, why are you not church?

He said: Ah, if you go to hospital and you get well, do you stay in the hospital? He said: I came to your Church, I have been healed. So am back home. He said: by the way, is it your Church that healed me? We said no sir, it’s God. He said: leave me alone with my God – YES SIR!

But a Month or so later, I saw the same man, I was driving past, and I saw him coming. His hands were bad, the legs were bad. And this time, he couldn’t even close his mouth anymore.

He can give you Permanent Victory. But you must belong to Him –  “I love those who love me”.

ALTAR CALL:

So if you are here this morning (or reading) and you are still joking with the issue of Salvation. It is better you surrender to Him now before trouble begins. And I mean, TOTAL SURRENDER now.

Not that you pretend to belong to Him; and you are still disobeying Him.

If you really, really want to surrender your life to Jesus; am going to count from one (1) to seven (7). Before I say seven (7), come and stand before me, and I will pray for your Salvation.

You might be the only one here. God can send His Servant to the ends of the earth for just one (1) person. So if you are the one, and you want to give your life to Jesus, come very quickly and I will pray for your Salvation.

Am counting now …..

Or maybe your were Born Again before and doing the Will of God but now you have backslide and finding it difficult to do His Will. You can come and rededicate yourself. I will pray for your restoration too.

… Thank you those of you who are clapping. Your hands will never be empty.

Now, those of you who have come forward, please talk to the Almighty God. Tell Him this time I really mean it, I want to surrender my life to You one hundred (100) percent (%). Whatever You ask me to do, that’s what I will do. Just save my soul. Become not just my Saviour, be my LORD for the rest of my life.

And the rest of us, shall we please stretch our hands towards these our brothers and sisters and pray for them. Pray that the One who saved our souls will save their own souls also. Pray that today, their Salvation will be genuine, complete, absolute and permanent. Please intercede for them.

And if there is anyone who still wants to come, you are not late yet. Just hurry up, get here before I finished praying. Hurry up, this is your day of Salvation, don’t miss it. Another opportunity like this might not come until a very long time.

Thank You Father. In Jesus Mighty Name we have prayed – Amen.

PRAYER FOR SALVATION

Saviour I Thank Your Words. And I Thank You for these people who have decided to surrender their lives to You. Lord remember Your Promise; that whosoever will come unto You, You will in no wise cast out. They have come now, Father please receive them. Save their souls. Let Your Blood wash away their sins. Write their names in the “Book of Life”. Receive them into the Family of God. And Father from now on, anytime they call on You, please answer them by Fire. And don’t let them ever backslide. Let them serve You till the end.

And please Lord God Almighty, in a moment am going to ask Your children here to cry unto You. Please Lord, grant their requests today. Let their Victories  be Complete today. Let their Victories be Permanent today.

Please Lord God Almighty every area of their lives where they need Victory, answer them today. And all enemies that have ganged up against any of these Your children, this very day let them fall for their sake.

I pray Lord God Almighty, in Your Kingdom, none of us will be missing.

In Jesus Mighty Name we have prayed – Amen!

Now, those of you in front, I want to rejoice with you (you can stand now). God bless you! I want to Promise you that from now on I will be praying for you. So please you will fill the Card that has been given to you: giving us your name, your address and your prayer request. I Promised you that I will be praying for you.

I want you to be part of the Prayer we are about to pray. So wait, before the Counselors take you away.

The rest of us, how many of you believe God will answer you today?

Please stand and shout a Big  hallelujah – HALLELUJAH!

You will lift your voice to the Almighty God and say Father: I will obey You. Today, let my Victory be Total and Permanent. Go ahead talk to the Almighty God.

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