OCTOBER 2018 THANKSGIVING SERVICE WITH PASTOR E.A ADEBOYE THEME: OH LORD HEAL OUR LAND

FEATURING SPECIAL PRAYERS OF FREEDOM FOR ALL NATIONS AND FAMILY

DATE: 7TH OCTOBER, 2018

PRAYERS: Let us lift up our hands to the Most High God and bless His Holy Name. Let us bless the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords. Let us give Him all the Glory. Bless Him for keeping you alive to see the last Quarter of this Year 2018. Worship the King of Kings and thank Him for all He has done for you since the beginning of the Year. Thank Him for January, February and March; give Him all the Glory for April, May and June; thank Him for His Protection over you and your family in July, August and September and then bless Him in advance for what He is going to do this Month. Give Him Glory and Adorations because He is worthy to be Praised and Adored.

… Thank you Father, in Jesus Mighty Name we have prayed!

OPENING PRAYERS:

Almighty God we are here this morning to say thank you. Thank you for all what you have done for us as individuals; thank you for all you have done for us as a Nation. Please accept our worship in Jesus Name.

Father. today we will be crying to you on behalf of our land: the Earth is yours and the Fullness thereof; and so therefore we know that our Nation belongs to you. We are crying to you today and we are asking that you should please Heal our land, heal our towns, heal our villages and heal our families.

And in the life of all those who has come here this morning; in a very special way, visit us all. And all your children who are listening to us or reading all over the world my Father and my God, in your own marvelous way visit every families. Heal the sick today and set the captives free.

And if there will be sorrow in the family of any man; Father turn the sorrow to Joy.

As for your children who has been Faithful in the payments of their tithe and giving of their offerings; this Month embarrass them with your blessings. Answer all our Prayers today and let your Name be Glorified.

In Jesus Mighty Name we have prayed – Amen!

… Let someone shout Hallelujah – Hallelujah!

Shake hands with one (1) or two (2) people and say good morning God bless you Mightily.

You are all welcome to the Presence of God this morning and we are particularly delighted to have our Royal fathers with us. God will bless your Kingdoms and it shall be well with you all.

BIBLE TEXT: 2 CHRONICLES 7:14

If my people, which are called by my Name, shall humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from Heaven and will forgive their sins and will heal their land.

If you believed that Nigeria will be healed say Amen – Amen!

Today, we want to pray. So there won’t be a long sermon because what we have discovered from experience is that if you talk about prayers: they will preach sermons about Prayers, they know that we should pray but they don’t pray.

… So this morning, we are going to pray. I will just guide you for the next five (5) minutes or so on why we should pray and then we will pray.

Here in the text that we read; the Almighty God Himself said that: “If my people” not everybody but my people; who are called by my Name – Christians, those who are called after Christ and not everybody; will humble themselves and pray.

And that tells you something straightaway: if you don’t pray, then you are “PROUD”.

Proud people don’t pray. They don’t need help as they can handle their own situations. So why do you asked them to pray?

… They don’t pray.

So when it is time to pray in some few minutes from now and you are not praying; then we know who you are.

… If they will do what? Humble themselves!

And it is essential that we humble ourselves before God because James 4:6 says that: God resist the proud.

… And am yet to meet a man or woman strong enough to fight God.

I don’t want God to resist me. What about you?

If the whole world is behind you and God is against you then you are finished.

But if you humble yourselves; the Bible says that He gave Grace to the humble.

… He said my people who are called by my Name will humble themselves and pray. Now He didn’t say they they should talk about the problems facing them. He didn’t say that they should complain.

If I ask any of you to tell me now what are the things that are wrong with Nigeria. Oh God; everybody will write a book.

And there is no doubt about that we have problems, I know and I mean it.

The other day, they are telling me the story of what happened somewhere (I won’t mention the name of the town). A woman was cooking in a kitchen. I think she went inside the house to bring salt and before she returned the food had disappeared. So she got angry and bitter and began to curse. After she has done that for about 5 minutes; a woman came out (her neighbour) and said stop cursing; am the one who took the food because me and my children has not eaten for a week. So the one who was cursing went in and brought out a little more food from what she has inside for her.

When a neighbour begins to steal food that the other neighbour is cooking then you should know that we have a problem.

But He didn’t say that my people will talk about their problems but if they could do what? PRAY!

I know the moment that I said pray; you said Oh God so we have come here to pray today.

… And then seek my face.

If we don’t seek the face of God, whose face are we going to seek?

Psalms 121: 1-2; David said: “I will lift up my eyes unto the hills. From whence cometh my help? My help cometh from the Lord who made Heaven and Earth”.

Oh, you think any human being can solve all our problems? Then you must be joking.

Problems are beyond any human being but there is a God who can solve every problems – Physical, Material or Spiritual. He said seek my face.

And then He also said that we must turn from our wicked ways.

Why? Because we are the manufacturer of our problems. Oh yes, we can go into details. If there is an armed robber out there; someone gave birth to that armed robber; someone didn’t teach the child the way he should go.

Anyway, He didn’t ask us to complain about our problems but to just turn away from our wicked ways. Why? Because Isaiah 59: 1-2 says that the Hands of the Lord is not shortened that He cannot save; neither is His eat heavy that He cannot hear us but our sins has separated between you and your God that He won’t hear.

If He doesn’t hear, how then will He answer?

John 9:31 says that we know that God does not hear sinners.

So if you are not ready to turn away from your wicked ways then you will be wasting your time praying.

So He expects you to draw near to Him; draw near Him and He will draw near us (James 4:8).

He said you draw near God and you cleanse your hands all you sinners then He said “I will forgive their sins”.

Forgiveness comes before Healings. He has to forgive you first or else we will be wasting our time.

Ask Him for Healing. In Marks 2: 1-12; you know the story. They brought a man paralysed from neck downwards through the roof to Jesus Christ. He saw what He actually needed but the first thing that He said was that “son thy sins be forgiven”.

Until there is forgiveness; asking Him for Healing is like asking for trouble.

Because in John 5: 2-14; He heal a man first who has been sick for 38 years and then He said to him: “go and sin no more or else something worst will happen to you”.

Oh, we have problems in Nigeria but if you travel round the world as I do, you will know that this is still a Paradise compared to other places – we are still living in Paradise.

Years ago, I travel and had to visit two (2) different countries before I came back to Nigeria. When I got to one of the countries and saw the situation there on my journey back when I got to the second country, I said we are back to Paradise. By the time I returned to Nigeria, I said we are in Heaven.

I have told you about countries where people live in the graveyard.

Why? Because everybody that is buries there has a concrete on top of the grave. They just come, put cellophane paper and sleep on the concrete floor on the grave.

The government even recognized the place. They called it “The City of the Dead”.

At least the worst you can see here in Nigeria is people sitting or sleeping under the bridge. We have not seen anybody sleeping in the graveyard here.

They are not crazy oh; they say I don’t have to pay for rent unless the dead can collect rent.

So now we are going to pray now. But before we pray, if you are here and you want God to hear you. God doesn’t here sinners ooo. Come and give your life to Jesus Christ if you want to do so.

We are not going to wait for you. The rest of us will pray. If you don’t want Him to hear you; no problems, stay there in your sin. But if you want Him to hear your prayers then come and surrender to Him and His Blood will wash away your sins.

So if you want to give your life to Jesus Christ come now.

Now the rest of us we want to pray and you are free to take any posture: You want to sit down, no problems. There is no where that it is written that you have to stand up to pray before He can hear you. You want to stand, no problems. You want to knee down; you are welcome.

… But we want to begin to pray now:

For those that want to give their lives to God, keep coming. Just say Lord have Mercy on me. That is your own Prayers.

1. Father, please forgive us and Heal our Land – pray with humility and let Him hear your voice.

We are the guilty ones Lord, have Mercy on us, Heal our Land, Heal our Nation. If you are a Nigerian, say Lord Heal Nigeria. If you are not a Nigerian, ask Him to Heal your Nation (Mention the name of your Nation).

2. Father, every Trouble Maker in this Nation, neutralize them. Those who are kidnapping, people throwing bombs, those causing trouble in this Nation; whether they are in government or out of government.

3. Father, every siege on our towns, villages and states. Lift the siege today: the siege the enemies has brought against our towns, villages and states.

4. Preambles: In 1 Kings 17: 8-16; there was a severe famine in the land. But God singled out a family for Help. Every Nations is made up of families including yours.

Lift up your voice to God and say: Father, single out my family and send Help to us. I am part of Nigeria and my family is part of this Nation.

5. Preambles: Every family is made up of individuals. You are just one fellow in the family.

So you are going to cry to the Almighty God and say: Father, in my family; single me out for Help. Heal my body, soul spirit, heal me financially and heal me comprehensively.

6. Preambles: When there is Revival in a land, their sufferings comes to an end. When there was a Revival in Israel, Rain fell after years of scarcity.

Let us lift our voices to the Almighty God and say: Father, send Revival to us so that our sufferings may come to an end in Nigeria and also in all the Nations suffering.

7. Preambles: Then the closing Prayers which I want you to pray with all your heart. You will include what you want God to do for you this Month.

… And you lift up your voice to Him and say: Father, arise: arise for Nigeria, state, town, village, my family and me. Then you go ahead to tell Him what you want Him to do. Let this Month be a Month that I will never forget for Good. Let it be the Month the tides will turn completely for me, family, village, town, state, Nigeria and even your Church.

Thank you so much for reading.

COMPILATIONS BY

MOSES DURODOLA

Discovery Media Crew