JUNE 2018 THANKSGIVING SERVICE WITH PASTOR E.A ADEBOYE

FEATURING KNOWLEDGE IS POWER FOR ALL STUDENTS, TEACHERS, LECTURERS, PROFESSORS AND THEIR FAMILIES.

THEME: EXCEEDINGLY ABOVE

MINISTERING: PASTOR E.A ADEBOYE

DATE: 3RD JUNE, 2018

OPENING PEAYERS:

1. Lift your hands to the Most High God and bless His Holy Name. This our God is a Great God. Let us give Him all the Glory and Adorations for all He is doing in our life. Thank Him for what He did for you since the beginning of this Year especially for the Month of May. Worship the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords. Magnify His Holy Name until He draws near to you.

2. Father we commit all students and their teachers including all those involved with academics to your Holy Hands; give them Divine Wisdom and anoint them to excel. Don’t let them know failure again. Give them Wisdom from Above – Pure Wisdom. Give them Wisdom to lead them to Great Discoveries. Give them the Spirit of Wisdom and Excellence and let it be well with them.

3. Whatever you want God to do for you in this Month of June 2018 go ahead to tell Him. Ask God to make this Month an Extremely Glorious one for you. Go ahead to talk to Him for 2 minutes.

SONG:

There is none Holy as the Lord
There is none besides thee
Neither is there are anyone like our God
There is none Holy as the Lord.

DADDY PRAYS: King of Glory, the Holy One of Israel, Rock of Ages, the Lion of the Tribe of Judah, the Unchangeable Changer, the I am that I am, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob; Glory be to your Holy Name.

Thank you for January, February, March, April and May and we thank you in advance for June. Please accept our worship in Jesus Name.

Today, we commit all those involved with academics – Students, Teachers, Lecturers, Professors, VC, Provost to you; the kind of Wisdom that will dazzle the world release to them. The kind of wisdom that will force people to come all over the world to listen to them, give it to them. Don’t let them fail again. Let them succeed and excel. You are the Only One that can lead a man to Great Discoveries and Innovations, let it begin for them as from today. The kind of Discoveries that will lead them to find the cure to cancer and an end to all kind of diseases, release it to them. Help them, Support them and Strengthened them. Let them excel in everything and let them be the best in the whole world.

Father, we commit those of your children faithful in the payment of their tithe and offerings to you; the kind of blessings that they will say that this is too much give it to them. Keep poverty far away from them in Jesus Name. In the life of your children, do something Glorious and Mighty. Let it be the best Month for them. In Jesus Name we pray … Amen!!!

Let somebody shout Halleluyah … Halleluyah!

Shake hands with one or two people around you and tell the fellow: you will be wiser than your friends.

BIBLE TEXT: EPHESIANS 3: 20-21

20. Now unto Him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the Power that worketh in us.

21. Unto Him be Glory in the Church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen

The human race is in categories. We have those people that are called below average. We have those considered as average. Then we have those considered as above average. Then we have those considered as Excellent. And then we have those considered as Exceedingly Above.

Which category do you want to belong to?

There are those below average and many people are in this category. However God does not want you to be in this category.

The book of James 1: 5-6 says: If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God that giveth to all men liberally and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.

But you don’t have to stay there (below average). All you need to do is to ask God for wisdom and He will give you.

There are those that are average including many Christians. There are those even in the Church known as brethren – nameless people. In the book of 2 Kings 3: 1-7; there are some people called the sons of Prophet.

God does not want you to be just average but move higher. According to Psalm 75: 6-7; Promotions only come from God. Just ask Him as He is more than willing to give it to you.

There are those above average. They are fewer in number. In the book of Acts 5: 12-13; the bible says by the hands of the Apostles were many signs and wonders done and many people magnified them as they belonged to a class of the elite.

If there is anyone here this morning who is just average; before the end of this Service today, you will be above average.

But there is something that is above average. That is Excellent. Among those that are above average, some will say that I want to be outstanding. In the book of Acts 5: 14-16; the bible singled out Peter that his shadow alone is enough to heal sick. In Acts 8: 5-8; the bible tells us about a young man called Philip who went to the city of Samaria and singlehandedly brought joy to the whole city.

Philip is among those the Church in Acts 6: 1-5 called the original deacons – they are all above average but Philip stood out among them.

Daddy prayed that in the Name that is above all Names; when people gather together (those that are above average) you will stand out.

Finally, there are those that are Exceedingly Above. There are very few people in this category. In Acts 19: 11-12; the bible says that God performed Special Miracles by the hands of Paul – not an ordinary Miracle.

A Miracle is the intervention of God in the affairs of men.

Among Miracles, there are Special Miracles.

Thank God you all know that I came from the academics world. In academics, there are various categories of Graduates. There are those we called General Degrees – those that study 3 subjects like History, Geography and Religious Studies.

Then we have those with Combined Honours – they study just two subjects either Physics and Mathematics or Chemistry and Biology. People in this category will go into deeper knowledge of the course than those with General Degrees.

Then there are those with Special Honours – they focus on only just one subject and so go deeper in knowledge than those doing Combined Honours.

So those doing Special Honours go about the campus with head high.

There are some of you who are already Excellent. Congratulations but that is not where God wants you to stay. You can go up Higher and get to a level that you can be Exceedingly Above and be a Class. You can be a Class by Yourself.

Daddy always prayed that every of his children will be greater than him.

In those days, we use to say that Mercedes Benz is the strongest, BMW is the fastest and Havana is the Most Comfortable. When comparing cars, we don’t mention Roy’s Royce because it is a class itself.

Daddy prayed that in the Name of the One that made him your father, you will be a Class of Yourself. They will say: when talking about students, teachers, lecturers, Professors, VC or Provost that you are simply a Class of Yourself.

You are all free to make enquiries about those that passed through daddy when he was a lecturer. He does not go to class with any note book. He will just look at the students note to see where they stopped and teach on from there for hours. After the lectures; information will be flowing round the campus.

You can be a Class of Yourself even as a Pastor. Daddy is repeating this again with all humility, whether you like it or not; you will be greater than him. God knows that is his earnest heart desires and request from God for you all the time.

Daddy decreed in the Name that is above all Names that you will be Exceedingly Above.

According to our text in Ephesians 3:20 – Now unto Him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think.

This simply means that if you want to be Exceedingly Above; it depends on who is in you. Like what one of my children said during the June 2018 HGS: Victory is not determined by what you wear but by who you are. The Power to excel depends on the Power in you.

1 John 4:4 says: Ye are of God little children and have overcome them: because greater is He that is in you than he that is in the world.

It takes God for you to excel. They that know their God shall be strong and do exploits.

The elders has a saying: it is what is in a bird that determined how high it will fly. That is why Eagles are different from the other birds – they don’t eat dead meal. Other animals can eat dead meals but Eagles will not because the Eagles knew that it is meant for the very top.

It is the Spirit of God in Daniel that causes him to excel – it gave him an Excellent Spirit.

The question really is: Who is in you?

Sooner this will show. If you pump a ball and dropped it on a field. 22 men will continue to knock the ball up and down. It is the men that will get tired and not the ball. As long as there is air in the ball, it will keep bouncing but remove the air, it will not bounce again. Remove God from a man he will be left empty

If you want to be Exceedingly Above, it depends on your commitment to the Holy One of Israel that will determine it.

Hebrew 1:9 says: Thou hast love righteousness and hated iniquity; therefore God even thy God hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.

We are living in a world where cultism is the order of the day. Daddy even read that cultism is now even in the secondary schools.

No matter how rotten the world may be, you can still make up your mind to be different. You can see others going down and still say no am meant for the top.

Aside the above, it also depends on your Diligence. Lazy people don’t make it to the top. Even if they manage to get there which they usually don’t, they don’t last there.

Hebrew 11:6 says: But without Faith it is impossible to please Him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him.

If you are not ready to work hard then you are not going anywhere. When some students asked daddy about why they are not doing well in their studies, he told them that it is what you read that the Holy Spirit will remind you. Seest thou a man diligent in his business, he will stand before kings and not mean men (Proverbs 22:29).

Here’s a little poem to help you remember the value of hard work. Let this always inspire you always:

The height Great Men reached and attempted were not attained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept were toiling up in the night.

The Almighty God will help you to reach the top. But when you get to the top; hard work begins. It takes a greater efforts to stay at the top and be a Champion because everyone wants to take over your Championship.

Daddy thank God for what God has done in his life and His Covenant with RCCG as a Church but he is not sleeping now as he is still travelling all over the world to spread the gospel.

How many of you really want to reach the top?

More than anything else, you need to be sure that Christ is in you. Philippians 4:13 says: I can do ALL things through Christ which strengthened me.

… It is Christ in you, the Hope of Glory!

So if you are here this morning and you are yet to give your life to Jesus Christ, rush out quickly now. I will count from 1 to 7 now – so come quickly immediately to give your life to Jesus Christ so that you can begin to bounce like a ball.

As you are coming out, ask God to forgive you all your sins, washes you with His Blood, write your name(s) in the Book of life and accept you into the family of God.

Let the others stretch out their hands towards these ones and tell the One that saved us to also save them and be their Saviour.

… In Jesus Name we pray.

GO PRAYS: Saviour, I just want to say thank you for your Words. Thank you for the people who has come out to surrender their life. Please accept our Thanksgiving in Jesus Name.

Father, I am praying for these ones save their souls, wash them with your blood and write their names in the Book of Life. Anytime they call you, answer them by fire. Don’t let them backslide again. In Jesus Name we pray.

If you are sure that this morning God has answered your prayers stand on your feet and let us pray this last prayer:

Preambles: The one that will excel will do everything excellently. So pray excellently today with the whole of your hearts.

Father, I don’t want to be just above average but I want to be Exceedingly Above so help me oh Lord. I want to excel in all of my ways and far far above all my colleagues.

Thank you so much for reading!!!

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