Month: July 2019

VENUE: RCCG CENTRAL PARISH, 1249 AMINU KANO CRESCENT, WUSE, ABUJA – NIGERIA.

DATE: 20TH JULY, 2019

SHORT PROFILE OF THE SPEAKER:

PASTOR EZEKIEL A. ODEYEMI is a Member of the Governing Council of the Redeemed Christian church of God. He is the Assistant General Overseer (AGO) Education and Training. And the Pastor in Charge of Region 10 with Headquarters in Abuja, Nigeria.

Since 1988, he has been involved in Christ the Redeemer’s Ministry and he is the Vice President (Admin/Evangelism Unit).

He brings a wealth of Experience spanning over three (3) decades in Administration, Youth Ministry, Training and Development.

He is an Alumni of International Leadership Institute (ILI USA). He is a Trainer and a Life Coach.

Please join me as i make welcome PASTOR EZEKIEL ODEYEMI as he Ministers to us on the Topic: “PREPARING FOR THE COMING GLORY”.

HALLELUJAH, I am so thankful that I met the last discussion and I am so thankful because as I just told my beloved brother now (Bro Fela Durotoye); he has almost finished preaching all my sermon.

Hallelujah, Let us just pray together:

Precious Father we just want to Thank You. You have been so Good to us. We Thank You for what You are doing in our Time; we Thank You for what You are doing in our Generation, we Thank You Lord for our Youth of today, we Thank You for our Country, we know without any doubt that we are going somewhere and we know will get there.

We are not Hopeless but highly Hopeful. We are excited about life – we know that it doesn’t matter what is happening, we will Win!

And at the end of the day, we will reign. We are very excited oh Lord to be Nigerians, we don’t wish to be in another Country.

This is the Country where You have put us. You know the reason why You have Destined us to be Nigerians. Lord we want You to know as Nigerians, we will make You proud and Your Name will be exalted.

Be with us in this Session Father and Your Name will be exalted forever.

…. In Jesus Mighty Name we have Prayed – Amen.

… And somebody say a Glorious Amen – AMEN!

Let somebody shout Hallelujah!

I was expecting a larger crowd at this Abuja Centre. This is my first Year of being here and am learning the rules here.

I don’t want to use the word that “am Disappointed by the attendants”. I will assume that you didn’t hear the Word; but that is another way of telling you: “I don’t expect anything less than a thousand (1,000) people at this Centre next Year.” I believe everybody agree with me on that!

So please remind your neighbour; we are not expecting anybody less than a thousand (1,000) people next Year.

… Help me tell your neighbors!

And I am believing God for you, because something Great is already happening in your lives!

So tell your neighbour; my Help is not coming from Abroad, it is not coming from Around but it is coming from ABOVE!

That is the reason why the topic I have been asked to talk about is a very important topic on this time of our National life.

The Topic is: “PREPARING FOR THE COMING GLORY”

Led Brown says: “it is better to be prepared and not get an opportunity than to get an opportunity without being prepared.”

One of the Greatest problem of the Youth of our Generation is that we expect the future to deliver to us what we didn’t prepare for.

Several of us are not adding value to our lives and yet we expect things to be released and delivered to us.

May I tell you: one (1) of the greatest things you can do for your Future Glory is to put all hands on the deck and get going. Because I believe you are going somewhere.

I have decided to simplify my Presentation by making use of some five (5) “S”.

.. You know I like to teach that way.

1. What Future are we talking about? What future did you desire for yourself? And “VISIONING the FUTURE GLORY you desired” is the key to your Glorious future (2ce).

I will never forget an experience that I had close to about thirty (30) years ago. I read a book “I WAS DREAMING” (that should be my first or second book about Dreaming about your Future).

An individual said; before I finished that book, I discovered that there is an exercise I must perform.

She said take a Note Book, write down everything you ever want to be in life. And she said keep writing until you have nothing to write again.

It is not the issue of writing 1, 2, 3 …5 things now. It is like writing the story of your life (Autobiography for your Future).

… So she said; keep writing until you have nothing to write again.

Some of us, if I ask you what is your Dream for the Future? You will show me sheet of paper and that is the reason why you have not arrived anywhere.

The Future we are talking about is your ‘AUTOBIOGRAPHY’ – everything about you and Visioning.

THE FUTURE GLORY is the key to the Glorious Future.

You must Visualise it because the Bible said in Habakkuk 2:2-3:

1. And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.
2. For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.

It is possible, you have been looking for job for some times (8 years) and it tarries. But it says WAIT for it, it will surely come; it will not tarry, it will surely come.

How many places have you applied for job?

Some people will say, I have applied to ten (10) places, hundred (100) places – Keep on applying; though it tarries, it will surely come!

… I know because, that is Divine Principles!

It doesn’t matter what is happening, if your vision us SHARP enough; if you SEE it and you focus on it and you keep moving in the right direction: it will surely come! You will get there.

… Tell your neighbour, YOU WILL GET THERE!

Do you know I have discovered that an Architect must SEE the building on the ground before he can draw the first line?

That is VISIONING!

He SEES the building already before he begins to design.

The Painter must SEE what he or she is about to paint in the mind before he or she begins to draw the strokes.

The Sculptor, when he looks at the Stone, the Rock or looks at the Trunk of a tree or looks at whatever he wanted to calve; he has already SEEN what he wants to calve coming up before he begins to chip it and shape it.

It is only what you SEE that you can have.

If you don’t SEE it, you can’t possess it.

What you SEE is what you become!

God saw Adam before He made him.

What you SEE is what you think because if what you are thinking is not what you want to become, you are wasting lots of your life time in thinking about the wrong thing.

What you SEE will eventually possesses you.

“Until your Vision possesses you, you can’t posses your Vision” (2ce).

In order words, you must be obsessed by your Vision.

If anybody wakes you up by 1.00am in the middle of the night; that is the only thing that comes out of your life. You must be OBSESSED by it before it becomes a Glorious Future that you desire.

1. SAY: Saying it after Components, saying it to God – Pray about it!

I have listened to quite a lot of things between the short time I have spent here from quite some of us.

You have forgotten that you are in a Nation that is under siege by the Power of Darkness (you might not know this).

Most of the people that are in Authority are being led by the Power of Darkness.

Few days ago, I was taking a Teaching here and lots of our people; they practise lots of all kind of things (all kind of things). If you are not strong in the SPIRIT Realm, you can’t relate with them.

Which is to say: You must have first of all settled lots of things in the Spirit Realm.

Saying it to God; Pray through (2ce).

What did I say? – PRAYING THROUGH!

How many hours of Prayers have you committed to the Project you have at hand before you began to carry something around to look for somebody who is going to Sponsor it?

Not in this kind of environment. You must pray it through.

If you look at the Bible, Elijah “PRAYED THROUGH!”

After three an half (3½) years of draught, it was only a Word that he spoke and there was no Rain in the land for about three and half (3½) years.

The Bible says in 1 Kings 17:1: “And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said unto Ahab, As the LORD God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.”

Then he left and the Heaven was shut.

Then he sent a message to Ahab after three and half (3½) years, he said: “Rain is coming!”

But there was no sign of Rain. He had to PRAY THROUGH!

He sent his servant to go and see (check out for me). He said, is there any cloud; any sign of Rain? The servant said NO!

“To draw down blessing, it takes MORE, than to send it away.”

You want to bring down Blessing and you just carry paper into your hands? I pity you! PRAY THROUGH!

… Tell your neighbour; PRAY THROUGH! (Say it very well….)

It is very unfortunate that we are living at the time when people don’t understand the use of their time.

A Lot of you will wake up in the middle of the night or in the morning and what are you doing?

Watching European football!

You do say; oh I just want to use that to relax.

What have you done that you are relaxing? What have you archived in life that you are relaxing?

… Spend your Valuable Time to seek the face of God.

Elijah “Prayed Through” until he saw a sign (the sign of the hand) and the cloud is more than the hand, just a little.

When he saw the sign, he knew the Rain is about to fall. But he had to PRAY?

The Bible didn’t tell us how long it took him to “PRAY THROUGH.”

Not only must you “Pray Through”; you must keep CONFESSING Possibility:

You are saying something to God, you are saying something to yourself – what you are saying to God is what you are saying to yourself, to your situations and you are Confessing Possibility!

That is what Jesus said in Matthew 21:21: “Jesus answered and said unto them, Verily I say unto you, If ye have Faith, and doubt not, ye shall not only do this which is done to the fig tree, but also if ye shall say unto this Mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; it shall be done.”

He didn’t tell me How long I must say it.

Whether I am going to say it for: one (1) day, one (1) week, one (1) month; He didn’t say that! That you are going to say it for one (1) Year, He didn’t say that. He said WHOEVER shall SAY!

… I keep saying it to myself until I see Changes taking place.

… SAY it; CONFESS Possibility.

Don’t be one of the people who will say; oh nothing good is coming out of Nigeria.

I am different! This is the Best Nation on Earth.

… Tell your neighbour: this is the Best Nation on Earth! (say it very well).

You know I hate when people bring International Passport to me and say I should pray on their passport so that they can escape from Nigeria.

If anybody has opportunity of ‘escaping’ from this country, I do!

But I know better than you that there is no other place than where you are FREE to be a Citizen.

Even if you go Abroad and become a Citizen over there, they will tell you, it’s true you carry our passport but you are not one of us. I have heard where they told people like that.

Listen, this is the only Nation where you have the right to walk free every other places.

Even with their passports in your pocket, you are still a ‘second rated citizen – I hope you will understand that!

Several of us want to see how we could have run away. You want to run away, you want to run and jump out of the ship. Who is going to make Nigeria great if you jump out?

… Confess Possibility!

… Tell your neighbour; CONFESS POSSIBILITY(3ce)!

1. The third “S” is SEEK AND SEARCH for what you desire.

… My first “S” is SEE it, my Second “S” is SAY & my Third “S” is SEEK AND SEARCH for it!

Matthew 7:8 says: “For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened (3ce).”

Keep SEEKING and SEARCHING until you realise your Dreams.

Because your Dreams are your Possibilities!

… Keep Seeking and Searching.

Lo, I listened to what you people were talking about; when I talked about MENTOR. And I was so excited by what our Guest Speaker mentioned there.

There was someone who told me something sometimes ago, he said: I thought you are my Mentor? But you are not looking after me.

I just laughed and I said: oh, you missed it up.

I am not the one to look for you, you are the one to look for me.

I have so much on my mind that if you don’t add value to my life, you are a liability. I don’t want liability around me, I have so much on my mind.

Look at the Testimony that my brother told us; someone who added value to his life. He couldn’t let him go.

.. That is what it is to be a Mentee.

Friends, what many of you are looking for is a ‘godfather’. You are not looking for a Mentor.

Some people will come around and stay, I want to carry your bible –
NO,NO,NO!

I can carry my bible. I don’t need a Bible Carrier.

In fact, I can carry my bag; I have lots of Protocol here who will be happy to carry my bag. But I tell them NO! I carry my own bag.

But if you add Value to my work, I wouldn’t let you go.

You don’t want to add Value and you are looking for people who had already climbed the pedestal and you just want to tag along and say: that is my “father in the Lord”.

… Shut up! Please get out of me. I don’t want anybody to tag along with me.

SEEK and SEARCH; Add Value to somebody’s life and you can be sure; and I can tell you categorically: he wouldn’t let you go!

He would ensure that you also rise.

“When a Great Leader rises, everything around him will also RISE with him.”

4 That takes me to my next “S” START SMALL, but start! (2ce).

You have heard several times that you should START SMALL. But up till now you haven’t started.

You are expecting that ‘BIG’ Breakthrough.

You just want to become that ‘Big Person’ in one day.

Nobody becomes BIG in one day; except the Yahoo, Yahoo boys (Fraudsters).

And very soon the ‘Big Person’ will soon become a SMALL MAN!

You want to become a Big Person?

Oh, just the reason why I have told you that the Youth that I speak with from time to time. The celebrity that you see in television; those artists: they are not the “Role Model” we are looking for.

… Those are not your “Role Model”.

You are a Believer!

Somebody sang only one song, and he became a Celebrity and everybody is running after him.

Ooh, his CD have sold twelve (12) million copies. And you tell yourself; that is what you want to be.

And you have recorded one (1) CD, and you are carrying it all around, and you want somebody to sponsor you. You also want to become celebrity.

You are wasting your time! – START SMALL, but start!

A friend of mine told me that his brother studied Law, and he said his brother is working with a Law Firm where they are paying him five thousand Naira (N5,000). Now several of you will say: God forbid bad thing!

But each day he has somewhere to go and each day as he goes to that particular place he is learning the rules, he is learning the things.

That is not about what they are paying him; it is about what they are PUTTING into your life!

You go to a particular place, and they are not paying you anything. No, don’t worry whether they pay you anything or not, it doesn’t matter. Just make sure you are in a place where you can learn something, where you can “ADD VALUE” to your life.

Because you have a Future that you are looking at and you are already seeing it, you know what you are looking – for to learn from this people; from those who had gone ahead of you. You want to know how they do things, you want to be in close proximity so that you can learn how they relate, how they answer telephone.

You know all those things matter. All those little things you think they don’t matter, they do.

You need to be around them. Oh, what they are paying me is not enough.

Somebody said in this place, I have a large Congregation here. I want everybody to be employed. And someone told me there are people who have offered employment to some of our people for seventy thousand naira (N70,000) and they say ‘it’s too small’.

I’m telling you seventy thousand naira (N70,000) and yet you want to be on Welfare List (not when am here).

Seventy thousand naira (N70,000), you said oh, it can’t take care of me for the whole month.

… START SMALL but start!

After this particular Ministration, after this weekend, let Monday meet you doing something.

It doesn’t matter how small; get out of your house. Make sure that you place a demand on your time!

Listen to me, if you cannot manage the twenty four (24) hours of your life, you will never be able to manage the next twenty four (24) years of your life.

And yet you carry phone all around, and then you make calls and calls and calls. And you are always checking one thing or the other on the Internet.

What value does that add to your life?

Start SMALL but start! Do something (but don’t steal).

… I discovered that DIVINE PRINCIPLES 101.

Do you know that Divine Principle 101?’ – Go and start SMALL!

God wanted to Populate the whole world with billions of people. He created only one (1) man.

He (God) wanted to start a Nation called Israel, He chose a couple that had no child.

Starting SMALL, but He started!

Today, they are big!

… That is Divine Principle 101.

Jesus Christ wanted to feed thousands of people; the Bible says: “He knew what He would do”.

The Disciples told Him, they said oh, where are we going to get what we are going to feed this people? We don’t have ENOUGH!

But then somebody came around and said, there is one boy, he has five (5) loaves of bread and two (2) pieces of fish. What can that do?

Jesus said, let the people sit down; Just bring it to me. He took it and He gave Thanks!

And five (5) loaves of bread and two (2) pieces of fish fed five thousand (5,000) men, who had been hungry.

These were men who had been hungry; and with women who carried children. And I am very sure that in that particular Congregation, there would be not less than twenty thousand (20,000) people.

… They ate and they were satisfied.

… Start SMALL!

So tell your neighbor, start SMALL but start! (Say it again)

1. And that take me to the final “S”; SUBMIT TO HIM (2ce).

Psalms 31:15 says: “My times are in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me.”

Psalms 31:15A says, “My times are in your hands…”.

Past tense, present tense, future tense: “MY TIMES”: past present Future.

Listen, until “YOUR TIMES” are in His Hands; it doesn’t make your Time Valuable.

If your Time is not Valuable, your life is Valueless.

… “MY TIME” is what is SUBMITTED to Him – That He can change; then, that He can Add Value to.

I rejoice with you that you have come to IGNITE SUMMIT 2019 because by the time you are returning for the Year 2020 Edition, you will be a Celebrity!

I rejoice with you because beginning from now, you will start applying the Principles!

Because the whole world is ruled by PRINCIPLES.

When you apply Specific Principles to your life, you will see that things begin to work.

May I tell you, I have seen how things Change when God is involved.

That is why the Bible says: “Submit yourself therefore to God, resist the devil and he will flee from you.”

Stand up let me pray with you. I want you to stretch your hands towards this place. And I want you to say with me: Heavenly Father, I want to see the Glorious Future. I want to be Empowered through Prayer beginning from now. I need Strength to keep Seeking and Searching. I want you to Help me to have Breakthrough.

My Father, give me the humility to start SMALL, but start something. Lord, I submit to you, every aspect of my life, beginning from now

CLOSING PRAYER:

My Father, I want to Pray for your children, it is not by accident that our Path have crossed today.

These Principles may look simple, but the rule they have; as we have heard these Principles, I ask, King of Glory, you will use these Principles to Change their lives for better.

The Grace, the Ability to apply them, and See to it, that these Principles produce results, release upon your children in the Name of Jesus.

More importantly, for everyone who is listening to us (or reading now) whether they are listening directly, or listening from Social Media, am praying Father, everyone who has made up his/her mind to SUBMIT to you; the Grace to Submit Permanently, release upon them in the Name of Jesus.

Lord, I pray, that none of those who have heard this Message will treat You as one of the alternatives, but that from now on, they will see You as their Last Station in life.

Thank you Father! Let me hear Good News from these Your children, in Jesus Name we pray – AMEN!

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TOPIC: NOT SLOTHFUL IN BUSINESS

VENUE: REGION 21 HEADQUARTERS, OPPOSITE ZARTECH, OLUYOLE IBADAN – NIGERIA.

DATE: 20TH JULY, 2019

SHORT PROFILE OF THE SPEAKER:

PRECIOUS AKINGBADE is a child of God equipped with the Mandate to raise Young People from levels of undiscovered Purpose to the levels of Discovered, Developed and Deployed Purposeful living.

With a simplified Leadership Lifestyle as PICP, Area and Zone as well as Parish and Area Youth Coordinator, State Youth Pastor, later Provincial Youth Pastor. Regional Youth Pastor in Lagos and Abuja before becoming Youth Evangelist of Provinces in five South Western States of Nigeria in 2012.

He is committed and addicted to Kingdom Service at any level and everywhere there is Kingdom task to be Planned and Executed with a sense of urgency to redeem the time.

He is an Ordained Minister of RCCG, married and blessed with fruits both Biological and Spiritual.

Grace, Mercy and Favour of God brought him to the Positions he is occupying today as PIC of Youth Province 2 and National Youth and Young Adults, RCCG, Nigeria.

Kindly join Pastor Precious Akingbade as he Ministers to us on the Topic: “NOT SLOTHFUL IN BUSINESS”.

If you are already IGNITED, shout Hallelujah – HALLELUJAH

Your shout of Praise can be Greater than that – Youth in the House make a Joyful noise to the Lord.

Please you may be Seated.

From all over the Universe where people are watching this IGNITE SUMMIT 2019, I bring greetings unto you from Ibadan, the ancient City where you have landmarks that have FIRST all over.

SHALL WE PRAY:

Our Father and our God, we just want to Thank You for life You have given to us. Thank You for IGNITE: Thank You for: 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 Edition – the Seventh one on the Seventh Month.

We want to Thank You! Lord. IGNITE somebody about Kingdom Assignment here in the Name of Jesus.

Let Your Fire from this Holy Altar Spread across the Globe in the Name of Jesus. Let there be sense of urgency concerning the work at hand.

Thank You Faithful Father because we are not going to rest until we see Your work executed according to Your Pattern in Glory in Jesus’ Name I Pray – Amen!

Once again I want to appreciate the Platform given unto us to Speak to people all over the world.

I celebrate all our fathers in the Lord that have spoken today: Pastor Peter Amenkhienan, the AGO all the way from Nairobi Kenya. I bless the Name of the Lord for our father who has just spoken to us, the AGO in Charge of Education and Training all the way from Abuja. And I want to bless the Name of the Lord for our Politician – Pastor Remi Hassan. I also want to thank God for Pastor Fela Durotoye as well as my brother from another mother, Pastor Bisi Akande.

I have been asked to speak on the Topic: “NOT SLOTHFUL IN BUSINESS”.

And I will take my text from ROMANS 12:11.

It says: “Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;”

… Father bless your Words in the Name of Jesus – Amen.

The word SLOTHFUL is from the Greek word and it simply means to be LAZY OR IDLE.

It is an expression of a person (of a youth in this context now) that is LETHARGIC, LACKADAISICAL, INDIFFERENT, PASSIONLESS as well as LUKEWARM in attitude towards life.

When we look at the last one being LUKEWARM, Revelation 3:16 says: “So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.”

God in His Words said, He does not like any of His children to be LUKEWARM at all.

That is why He said, if you are lukewarm; you are neither cold nor hot. God said He is going to spill you out of His mouth.

May that one never be our portion in the Name of Jesus – Amen.

It will interest you to note that the said Greek word, OKNEROS has the same and identical meaning with the way Jesus described the man that was given one talent.

In the parable of the talent in Matthew 25:26 “His lord answered and said unto him, Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strawed:”

We know the story of the man; he was given a resource that he never put into use and at the end of it all, Jesus Christ told us that the Master asked him to be put into outer darkness.

In both cases, the meaning of Okneros is been LAZY and IDLE.

And the servant in Matthew 25:26 will have a connotation and attitude of apathy.

David looked at the Priest in 1 Samuel 21:8: “And David said unto Ahimelech, And is there not here under thine hand spear or sword? For I have neither brought my sword nor my weapons with me, because the king’s business required haste.

He said the King BUSINESS REQUIRES HASTE.”

There are so many challenges that are facing us in the Nation today.

Romans 8:19 says: “For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.”

It tells us the expectation of Heaven is to be quick. The expectation of Heaven is to be about the Kingdom Assignment. The expectation of Heaven is to Manifest.

God has endowed us with resources; God has endowed us with all that is necessary even to put to an end to: pains, agony and challenges that Mankind is going through (and that include what we are experiencing in Nigeria today).

In the context of the Text, the word BUSINESS is a Greek word called SPORADATZO and it has something to do with eagerness, diligent that is acting responsibly, burning with Passion, excitedly and energetically from the act.

Also from the Text that I read, SERVING: what does it mean?

The Greek word interpreted to Serving is ZOE and the original meaning is to BOIL.

So when we are talking about not been SLOTHFUL, what exactly are we talking about?

In the context of been Christians that we are, Jesus Christ was teaching in Matthew 6:10: “Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in Heaven.”

Jesus Christ said: “Let Thy Kingdom COME”.

The business that concerns you and I is how to bring the Kingdom of God to reign upon the Earth.

Now we have a limitation in the Church and this is where I want to dwell, on in the few minutes that I have.

Ladies and Gentlemen, a man called John Ello, spoke about seven (7) Mountains that shaped the Society.

How many Mountains?

… SEVEN of them.

We have: Government, Economy, Art and Celebration, Media, Religion, Family and Education.

In the Church today, we have brought Kingdom Assignment limited to just only Religion.

Ladies and Gentlemen, I once told people that I will be glad to Pastor C. Ronaldo.

Is there anything bad in that?

I will be glad to Pastor Floyd Mawether.

I will be glad even to Pastor all the people that are outside the Church.

What is bad if Wizkid is a Christian and member of my Church?

What is bad if Davido is a member of RCCG that I am Pastoring?

Is there anything bad about that?

That is Church outside the world.

There is a Prophesy to be fulfilled about the Business of the Kingdom.

Let’s look at it in Isaiah 2:2-3 The Bible says:

“And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the Mountain of the LORD’S house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it. And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.”

Let’s check the Mission Statement of the RCCG; it says: “You must do God’s work in such a way that we have a family member of the whole Universe as a member of RCCG”.

Everybody is not going to be a Pastor, everybody is not going to be a Preacher.

We have Musician outside there.

What is bad if all Hollywood are Christians and they are members of your Church, RCCG?

… That is what God is saying through Isaiah to somebody hearing me (or reading) this day.

Ladies and gentlemen, Jesus Christ was teaching in Matthew 9:37-38; He said the harvest is truly plenteous.

Let me just give you reasons why we must not be SLOTHFUL in the King’s Business and then I close.

Why we must not be SLOTHFUL; why we must have to do God’s Kingdom work:

1. Slothfulness means IDLENESS.

Idleness means Spiritual Apathy.

And it will ultimately lead to Spiritual Barrenness and Lack of Fruitfulness.

Genesis 1:28 says:

“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.”

One of the ways to bring the Kingdom of God to bear upon the surface of the world, (also in Nigeria) is according to the encapsulated five (5) DIVINE MANDATES of God for His children.

… It says, be Fruitful, Multiply, Replenish, Subdue and exercise Dominion.

When we idle about or when we are lazy about Kingdom’s Assignment; Spiritual Barrenness is inevitable.

Spiritual Barrenness will lead to Spiritual Bankruptcy and that will lead to all forms of wickedness that we are seeing all around us today.

If each one us when we gave our life to Jesus Christ, and go about the Kingdom Business; who knows maybe the people that are killing all around today would have been Gospelers.

… Why is it that we cannot avoid to be idle?

1. Kingdom work Requires Urgency.

Our father in the Lord said: “every Christian must put a demand upon life.”

There is a scripture I want us quickly look at. Psalms 127:3-5:

3 Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.

4 As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth.

5 Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.

The Bible says, “Lo, children are the HERITAGE of the Lord and the fruit of the womb is it rewards as arrows are in the hand of the mighty man, so as the children of it youth. Happy is the man that has his quiver full of them.”

Who are the children that are being refer to here?

… Every YOUNG PERSON in the whole world!

That includes all the young people in the RCCG.

Now, what are we going to say? Verse 4 says as the arrows are in the hands of the mighty man.

Even from the beginning of the creation, there have been competition (permit me to use the word) between God and the Devil.

As God is interested in raising young people as His “BATTLE AXES” to bring the Kingdom of God, Satan is also interested.

Check it out! That Satan is potentially dangerous.

Who has taught that two (2) years old boy and two (2) years old girl, as he is growing, anything that comes into his hands, what does it want to do?

He wants to destroyed it.

And the Bible says Satan is happy when he recruits Young people into his fold.

You and I knows what is happening around us today: how Teenagers are being used to blow up Places in Nigeria.

Satan is happy but God is not happy.

It is hard time that everyone that are here hearing me (reading) will have better taken up our responsibility about the Kingdom assignment.

Satan is not slothful.

Revelation 12:12 says:

“Therefore rejoice, ye Heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the Earth and of the sea! For the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.”

The concluding part says: Satan knows that he has but a few time with unbelievers.

They are not slothful, they are hitting, they are not slothful.

In Luke 16:8b the Bible says: “For the children of this world are in their Generation wiser than the children of light.

The Bible says in Amos 6:1: “Woe to them that are at ease in Zion, and trust in the Mountain of Samaria, which are named chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel came!”

It is a pity that Christians are only playing “Catch up System.”

WHY IS IT THAT WE CAN’T AFFORD TO BE SLOTHFUL?

Souls are perishing in thousands.

Isaiah 5:14 says:

“Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their Glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.”

I went to a part of Nigeria to Minister. I finished the Ministration late in the night. As I was going back to my hotel, I got to a place (a night club) and as I looked up (will you like to know the name of the night club)?

Where else? And I saw Young people entering (Christians will be there of course.)

I was like that before; years back in the city of Lagos. Moving from one night club to another.

But we are also talking about a big picture of “OWNING THE FUTURE”.

God used somebody when He encountered me. He saw something in me that will be a Valuable Asset for the Future. So He discipled me.

… I am coming back to that.

Little wonder they hate the late Preacher who died years back that says: “Cemetery is the richest place on the surface of the earth”.

Because that is where Potentials or Destinies are being buried there!

Ezekiel 22:30 says:

“And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none.”

God is saying to somebody that is hearing me (or reading) God said that He is looking for ONE MAN!

Our father just told us his story; not about the quantity at the beginning, you will need to start small. He said when God was about to raise a big Nation, He did not start with One Million (1,000,000) people.

You can create the Future you want by yourself by taking action and responsibility even after this Program would have come to an end.

I want to Pray for somebody here, I want to see how serious we are about the Kingdom Assignments – May you never have a rest until you win a soul in the name of Jesus – Amen!

We are not just talking about ordinary souls; there are souls in the gym.

If you go to gym everyday, talk to somebody. You go to supermarket everyday, talk to somebody. Everywhere you go; you must talk to somebody about Jesus.

Let me close with this: We are losing so much ground.

God looked at Joshua and He said: you are advanced in age, there are so many lands yet to be possessed.

… The mistake Joshua made hunted Israel later in life.

Am closing with this; WHAT WAS THE MISTAKE?

In Joshua 11:21-22. The Bible says;

“And at that time came Joshua, and cut off the Anakims from the Mountains, from Hebron, from Debir, from Anab, and from all the Mountains of Judah, and from all the Mountains of Israel: Joshua destroyed them utterly with their cities. 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.”

Ladies and gentlemen years after; there was a great giant that was produced from Gath that Joshua did not complete the business and that man became a terror, terrorizing a whole Nation.

Thank God for a Teenager called David, whom God used to bring down the head of Goliath.

HOW DO WE MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE NOT SLOTHFUL?

Leviticus 6:12 says:

“And the Fire upon the altar shall be burning in it; it shall not be put out: and the priest shall burn wood on it every morning, and lay the burnt offering in order upon it; and he shall burn thereon the fat of the peace offerings.”

… Turn to somebody and say: GET THE FIRE RAISED!

One thing about Fire is that Fire attracts.

When you carry Fire, what is inside of you will begin to jump unto people around you.

Fire attracts!

When Fire is burning, nobody can stand the Fire.

John Wesley was labelled a “heretic”. He was thrown out of the Church; there was no where for him to preach.

He went to His father’s tomb (where his father was buried) and all of a sudden, people that knew him when he was in a Church came all around to meet with him.

Pressmen went to him and they asked: “How come, what you are doing over there in the Church. You are able to do much more even in this burial ground?

He said it is simple: I set myself on FIRE and am BURNING. People come and get ATTRACTED to me.

… Get FIRE raised; as I want to close, before I Pray for you.

How do you REMAIN on FIRE so that you are NOT SLOTHFUL IN THE KINGDOM BUSINESS?

The Jews have a Culture and that Culture is a Generational Culture.

Some of you must have heard me saying this before.

I am closing with this; Ladies and Gentlemen, it is said that the Third Generation will fail: Abraham first generation, Isaac second generation, who was the third generation in that order?

It was suppose to be Esau.

Esau failed because he was not mindful of the Future.

He was just mindful of the Present thing.

That is the challenge I have with my people (the Young People): everything you want is now.

Elijah, Elisha the third generation was supposed to be Gehazi, he failed because of the Present Blessings. He was not looking at the Future.

Moses first generation, Joshua second generation, after Joshua there was nothing.

Judges 5:2-11; The Bible says after the death of Joshua, all the elders arose! Another generation that came up didn’t know God.

RCCG the first generation is the Founder.

Who is the Founder? – Baba Akindayomi.

He didn’t go to school but God used him so Powerfully.

He was the MAN OF FIRE. He ATTRACTED people to himself. God used him to start forty (40) Churches/Parishes.

The second generation is Daddy GO (Pastor E.A Adeboye).

He came in and from 1981 till date, RCCG is in one hundred and ninety eight (198) Nations of the world and we have over four thousand (4,000) Parishes.

Ladies and Gentlemen, the third generation are my people; they are the YOUTH – Everybody that is hearing me (or reading) or looking at me.

But I want to tell you something: “To every rule there is an exception”.

As you rise up to Pray, it is my Prayer that we are not going to fail in the Name of Jesus – Amen.

I Pray for somebody here as you shout Amen; the Fire of God is locating you in the Name of Jesus – Amen.

I Pray for you, the urgency the Kingdom Work demands will begin to burn in your heart in the Name of Jesus – Amen.

I Pray for somebody here that as you leave here, you will begin to Save Souls – Amen.

Can I give you a challenge?

When you leave here, go to the nearest Mortuary, ask the Attendant to give you the name of the people that have been emblemed for ten (10) years or twenty (20) years.

With their names in your hands; begin to slap them.

What do you think will happen if a dead body that have been emblemed for ten (10) years suddenly comes alive?

… You have the Power and the Grace.

What are you talking about?

In Ezekiel 37, God took the man to the valley of dry bones.

God asked: Can these bones live again?

He said God, only you know.

God said you don’t need to teach, just open your mouth and speak.

The Scriptures says bones began to locate bones, the Tibia, Fibular, the Phalanges, the Metacarpals, the Metatarsal, the Scapular, the Sternal bones. The bones of the Triassic cavity; everything came together!

God said SPEAK!

As he spoke; blood came, sinus came and a whole Army stood up!

I see that Army here.

Lift up your hands and say Father: I receive that FIRE. Lord, nobody will remain SLOTHFUL after today.

Go to the outermost part of the Earth; from Ibadan to Abeokuta, to Kano to Jigawa, to London to USA, to Belgium, to Saudi Arabia, to Madagascar. GO! In JESUS’ NAME.

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DATE: 20TH JULY, 2019

SHORT PROFILE OF THE SPEAKER:

Bisi Akande is a Pastor with the Redeemed Christian Church of God and serves as the Personal Assistant to the Assistant General Overseer (Admin/Personel).

He is also the Pastor In-Charge of Youth Province 1, a network of Young Adult and Youth Churches in the Redeemed Christen Church of God, with Headquarters in Lagos.

He holds a B.Sc in Chemistry from the University of Jos and a Masters in International Relations and Strategic Studies from Lagos State University, Ojo, Nigeria.

He also has a PGD in Theology and an MBA from the Redeemer’s University.

Bisi Akande is a member of several Professional Bodies including Nigerian Institute of Management, Chartered Institute of Personnel Management amongst others.

He serves on the Board of the Redeemer’s Business School, a training arm of the Redeemed Christian Church of God and is privileged to act as her Executive Secretary.

He is an Executive Director with the John Maxwell Team- an elite Group of Speakers and Coaches around the world.

As a prolific writer, Bisi Akande has authored various books including, Stand Out, Strength for the Journey, The Habit Series, Living A Good Life etc and published Magazines which has had great Impact on its readers across the Globe.

He is happily married to Ololade Akande and their marriage is blessed with children.

Ladies and gentleman, brothers and sisters, please join me to welcome to the podium Pastor Bisi Akande.

Thank you very much.

Praise the Lord – Hallelujah!

Are you in the house, Praise the Lord – Hallelujah!

I believe we can do better than that all across the world. But those of us who are in Warri, you are the most Special of all the Special people that we are addressing today.

So, those of you in Warri show those out there that you are really Special: Praise the Lord -Hallelujah.

It’s such an awesome privilege to be standing here at the seventh (7th) Edition of Ignite.

Waoh, we have done seven (7) editions already and the Fire is spreading all around the world.

Thank God for all the wonderful messages that we have heard this morning and I believe that you are already Igniting or getting Ignited so that you can carry the Fire to where you will set the whole nation ablaze for God and for yourselves.

Also I believe we will do that in Jesus name -Amen.

Now within the ambit of time, I want to quickly look at the Scriptures in Ecclesiastics 4: 9-12:

1. Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.
2. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth: for he hath not another to help him up.
3. Again, if two lie together, then they have heat: but how can one be warm alone?
4. And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

I stand to declare for us especially those of us who are here, who are in the Ignite that the cords that hold us together will not be easily destroyed -Amen.

Can we say a word of prayer: Father, we thank you this morning, we give Glory and Praise to your Name. Thank you for the privilege and the opportunity that we have to gather together in several cities and several places so that you can impact our lives and move us unto the Next Level. You have called us to “Own The Future”, Lord we will not disappoint our Destiny, we will not disappoint You and we will not disappoint ourselves in the Name of Jesus.

Thank you Blessed Father. In Jesus Name we pray – Amen.

Once again I say it’s an awesome privilege for us to be called to be here at a time like this and I want to thank God and appreciate everyone who is here.

I also want to appreciate our father for the opportunity to share the Platform with them.

We just heard one of our father Pastor Peter Amenkhienan all the way from Kenya, Nairobi Kenya speaking to us and you can imagine how loaded that was.

There is a lot of stuff readily established in this place for us. Honestly speaking somebody was talking here and he said that: “if you are born poor, it’s not your fault but if you remain and die poor then definitely it will be your fault”.

So please help to tell your neighbour: “I will shine for God” and please I will like to add this; “tell him, I will Shine for myself and then I will Shine for my Generation.

So I celebrate our fathers. I celebrate the Organizers of this is Program. Let’s put our hands together for them.

Later on we will be hearing Pastor Odeyemi, Pastor Odesola, they will be coming on board and others.

Now my name is Bisi Akande. I am a pastor. I am a Certified Leadership Coach. Am a Speaker, am a Trainer and am an Author by the Grace of God.

I am born from a very humble background. In fact I say to people jokingly that the bedroom where I lived, where I lived to go to secondary school, the bedroom from where I went to school is not as big as my bathroom today.

Whether you believed it or not but that’s the truth of the matter.

I was a very very humbled person as it were. I was humbled already, so I didn’t really need to humble myself too much. You know that I was humbled already and so, because of that humbled Nature, I became a shy Person.

I couldn’t stand before people. I couldn’t even speak in front of my friends. You know, people talk about having girlfriend, who born me, I couldn’t talk to a girl. I didn’t have the heart, and compiled with that.

Unfortunately for me,I happened to have been born in a place where they felt they are going to steal me away. So they had to give me some tribal marks just to identify me. You understand what am talking about.

So all that put together became a problem for me because I couldn’t face people.

You know why did I say am a pastor, am a coach and I couldn’t even talk to nobody. How come a man who who was born shy like that or who became shy overtime, how come he can now stand in front of people because over the years I have spoken to large crowds all over the world.

What happened? How? What created the shift that we are talking about? What happened, how did it come to pass?

It happened because one day, I joined a Network of Churches that has a spread all over the world.

One day I met a number of people and that’s the “Power of Networking”.

Because that’s what am asked to speak about.

I am asked to talk about Networking.

The truth is that every Man’s Network is determined by his Network because in this life people mattered.

I just read the Scriptures; it says two are better than one because they have a reward for their labour.

In this life, you will labour but it’s not everyone that labour that has a reward for their labour. Some people labour and don’t get a reward.

But you know what the Bible says: Two are better than one.

So Network is these two (2) things immediately:

1. Networking makes you better.

That’s the truth – It makes you better.

It doesn’t matter how Good you are, the moment you link up with somebody that person adds Value to you and makes you better.

That’s why it says: one (1) can chase a thousand (1,000), two (2) will not chase two thousand (2,000) but two (2) will chase ten thousand (2,000).

Now Networking makes you bigger.

Also it does not just make you better, it says for they will have a “Good Reward” for their labour.

And you know the bible is full of people who through association through Network made their lives better.

God didn’t call Lot.

Some people are waiting for God to call them.

If God didn’t call you, go and look for somebody God has called and Team up with the person.

You know if you are not blessed look for a blessed man and link up with the blessed man.

When you find a blessed man and stand by the blessed man, something will naturally happen.

Lot was not called. Lot didn’t get a Promise. Lot was not assigned anything. Lot didn’t hear God’s voice speaking to him – All Lot did was Lot had a man called Abraham who was blessed by God. He stood with Abraham and when Abraham was collecting the loot he got a portion.

No wonder his name is Lot. That’s Abraham.

What about Joseph; you read the story of Joseph very well: Joseph had a dream. Joseph had a Good Background. Joseph was highly favoured. Joseph had a father who gave him a coat of many colours. He had a Great Dream for Greatness but you know what; it was Networking that moved him from a Dreamer to a Reality.

It was Networking; not just Networking but the right Network. Because he knew his father; his father gave him a coat of many colours. He knew his brothers; his brothers sent him to the pit. He knew Portiphar’s wife; Portiphar and his wife sent him to prison.

But you know what, it was in the prison that he found some people who sent him to the Palace and when he got to the Palace; he met somebody who made him a Prime Minister.

I don’t know who am talking about, but here today at this Ignite Center; God is setting you up with certain people that will take you to the Place you are supposed to be – Amen.

So Networking is important – The Power of “Great Networks”.

I was telling you about the Church I belong to and am a proud member of the RCCG. I have never known any other Church and I don’t want to know any other Church.

Honestly speaking, I don’t know what people look for in places, but I got what I want here. That’s why am going to stay here.

This is the only Organization that has Presence in more Countries than Nigeria.

As much as I know go and find out. It’s not everywhere Nigeria have embassies.

So I stay here.

By this Network, I can stand here today and I can have at least one person in one hundred and eighty (180) Nations I can talk to.

I am influential by the Grace of God then.

Praise God – Hallelujah.

I don’t need to go to America for my life to be amended; I don’t need to go to UK so I can become OK; I don’t need to go to Germany to jam my blessings and it’s not China that will make me Shine.

What will make me what I should be is embedded in the Place that God has set me up in.

Beloveth of God, Ecclesiastics tell us that two (2) are better than one (1).

The question it didn’t say is what about ten (10); what about hundred (100); what about a thousand (1,000); what about ten thousand (10,000)?

If two (2) are better than one (1); then ten thousand (10,000) must definitely overshadow one (1) with so much success.

Life is determined by five (5) things:

1. Is what we do – the Purpose of life.
2. Is how we do it – the Timing.
3. Is when we do it – the Location.
4. Is where we do it – I mean where we do it – the Location, how we do it – the Timing.
5. Is who we do it with and for people.

People mattered and that’s why I think that that fifth point – The People is the most important in my view.

People are our greatest resources. People makes things happen.

How we deal with People will determine the things that come to us. And you need to follow the Scriptures to understand that.

Listen, the Bible says: Give and it shall be given unto you.

And am not here to collect money because the moment people hear money, they think it’s Giving.

Giving is not just about money. There is a lot you can give: A smile, you can give an Encouragement, you can give a Happy Face you give people.

There are so many things you can give, so many things you can give. He says: Give and it shall be given unto you good measure, press down, shaking together and running over shall not God shall, shall (men). So if you have slapped all the men what will it give you? And sometimes people wondered why they don’t get. Bad Relationship is bad Investment and it will bring bad Returns.

That’s why Networking is critical.

Networking is a great tool in determining how far we go and how much we achieve.

Research has it that those who are Good with Networking are three (3) times more influential than those whoa are not Good with Networking.

Networking determines how influential you can be. Networking determines the access you have to life.

Networking is what determines the information you can get. And some people for lack of Information have killed themselves because where there is no Information, there will deformation.

Where there is no Knowledge, there will be Ignorance. Where there is Ignorance, there will be Darkness.

Networking is building and nurturing long term mutual beneficial relationship with the people that you meet.

In Genesis 2:7, God made man but in verse 18, God said it is not good for a man to be alone.

Why is it not Good for man to be alone; because:

1. Because when you are alone you are limited in Capacity and Productivity.

In Deuteronomy 32 : 30; the Bible says there, it said how can one (1) chase a thousand (1,000) and two (2) chase ten thousand (10,000).

When you are alone you are limited.

I don’t know how much time I have left, so let me say it here; many of us young people will always want to say things like I don’t have money, I can’t start a business, I am living poor and then many of us have become Welfare Packages instead of being the one that are giving people Welfare.

What happened to us starting business together? What happened to small scale business that are Partnership? Why must you go alone?

Sometimes you don’t understand that.

1. Being alone increases the burden of work.

Being alone can increase the burden on work and that’s why I (God) said that I will make a woman that will Help him.

Even though unfortunately, allow me to digress, some people thinks that marriage is just for one thing. You don’t understand that the initial Purpose of Marriage is to make a woman that will Help you.

Unfortunately there are those who are married but they don’t have women that will Help them because they have not allowed the women to help them.

They are very very unwise or rather they have become so wise, they have become so foolish that the one God sent to Help them is the one they are slapping.

Why can you be slapping your Help and then come to Church and say oh God Help me! Lord I need Help. Your prayer was answered but you did not recognized that the prayer was answered in the woman that was sent to Help you.

And since you denied yourself the Help, God says I have already Help you what else do you want me to do?

Don’t worry, I know some older people will say that’s a small boy talking. Don’t worry yourself when the time comes you will know.

1. Being alone makes you open to attack sometimes.

Ecclesiastics 4 :10 says if they fall; if hmmm, it says one can help the other.

Then it says when he falls, do you know the meaning of if and the meaning of when?

The first one says, if.

If means it is a probability – it may not happen.

But do you know what He said there? He said when.

When means it’s a certainty anyone that works alone falls into danger because, lone ranger are prone to danger.

So if we are willing to “Own The Future”; because let me say something about the future, the future is full of possibilities. There is so much that is going to happen.

I was talking to some young people the other day, I say some people are praying, oh God give me money to go to vacation in the US. Somebody is already thinking of how be can take people to the moon for vacations.

I mean they are already building a system.

Now he say that people want to go on Vacation. He said let’s go to the Moon for Vacation.

And I heard my father in the Lord; daddy G.O says a long time ago that one day we will have Ministers Conference on the Moon.

How many of us heard that? I heard it several years ago.

And immediately in that Place, I was not even a Pastor, I said yo myself I will be among the first set.

I don’t know about you but am going to be among the first set.

See the way you are saying it. You don’t even believed it.

Praise God -Hallelujah.

If you are going to ” Own The Future”; then we must be able to build the right Network.

My mentor John Maxwell said one (1) is too small a number to achieve greatness.

So how do we do that?

I will run that through the time that I have:

1. If you are going to build Network that will help you increase your Networth, you have got to put people first in whatever we do.

See, Networking is not about getting a business. It’s not about getting a job. It’s not about making the contact. I have seen people who have somebody and am sure that people like Pastor Belemina and the rest of us who are here will agree with me that people that have come to you and they just wanted the moment you gave them. Once they get what they wanted, they close the clChapter on you.

That’s not what it’s about, it’s about putting people first – whether you are going into Politics, you are going into Business, whatever it is, put people first.

Because people make things happen.

Be like Jesus Christ, He left His throne because of people.

People are important. That’s why we need the greatest resources of man – which is people.

Anyone who has no friend, has no future. Anyone who has no friend, he can never have a fortune.

To be without friends is the highest form of poverty.

By the way my father in the Lord said (Pastor Peter Amenkhienan), let me give a credit where is due. People first, people.

So you must like people.

Help me talk to your neighbour. Tell him: like people. Tell him: like people. And turn again and tell him, tell him be likable.

See you must like people. Listen to me you don’t need to be like people to reach them, you must like them to reach them.

Like people, like people, like them because they are people.

Listen young people in here, other may have made mistake but let me tell you this, this is my believe, this is where I stand on, there is nobody on the face of the earth who is less privileged – that’s where I stand.

Nobody is less privilege. So that language less privilege we need to stop it because if you look at the real person, I may not have a leg but that’s not me I may not have an arm but that’s not me. I am the man that is on the inside.

Stop, please stop, rating me based on my Packaging. The Package and the Packaging are two (2) different things.

If you take the Packaging, you will miss the Package.

Even if the Packaging is painted, the Package is more important.

So look for the Package and not the Packaging.

That’s why I always advice people if you are going to get married, please don’t marry the container, marry the content.

O yes see the container.

If the container is figure eight and you buy it; when somebody like you hit the container a little bit the container was just a figure eight can become like this.

So if you marry the container you are likely to want to divorce the container because the content has not changed. So you get to look at the content not the container.

Put people first. All our Politician put the people first. All our business people put the People first. If you put the people first you will not cheat them.

I submit that the Greatest reason for sin is selfishness – Thou shall not take thy neighbours wife, thou shall not take thy neighbours goods. Everything about thy neighbour is thy neighbour’s own.

When you are selfish , you will want what belongs to others and you want it for yourself.

So you take thy neighbour’s position – You take his wife.

You become people like David, you take his wife, you kill him, marry the wife, you want to take the children, you forget that there is a God who can take the child from you and make sure that you don’t have that child.

Put People first.

Please help me tell your neighbour: Put people first.

And I say you have gotten to like people. I also say you have gotten to be a likable Person.

If there is one thing am learning how to do now, am still working on it; it is how to decorate my face with a smile because you see, the best gift you can give your face is a smile, people have a way of liking people who like them.

1. Add Value to people.

You see let’s be like Jesus, wherever Jesus went, He made a difference in the life of those He met.

One of the things that we say in my little club (my Tribe) is that we are mad people.

Why are we mad?

We are mad because we are making a difference.

You are a salt and a light, wherever you go and you must turn the Place around.

If you get to a Place and the Place is in darkness, be a light – that’s a Joseph for you.

When Joseph got to the prison, he didn’t remember he was a prisoner, he looked at the prisoners and said guys any problem(s) in the house, I am a child of God, I carry the knowledge of God. I can solve any problem(s), bring the problems here. And this one says am a baker, this is my problem, he solved it.The other one came and said I am a butler, this is my problem, he solved it.

He was so used to solving problems that when he got to the Palace they had to know that this man has a Problem to solve.

When they are looking for People to solve Problems, are they looking for you?

Many times when they are looking for People that have Problems, they are looking for young people, rather than looking for them to solve problems.

That thing must change,

We have got to change the narratives. We are not of them that bring Problems to the Church, we are not of them that bring Problems to the Nation; we are of them that solve the Problems of this Nation.

We are going to take responsibility and make Nigeria what Nigeria will be.

I am not an Andrew who is going to run out. I refuse to run out. I am going to stay here and make a difference in this my world.

Young people shape Nations. This same young people that am seeing here, the same young people I see in Abuja, the same young people I see in Port-harcourt, I see in Ibadan, I see in Lagos, the same young people in Kano, in Kaduna, in Maiduguri the same young people.

I am going to shape Nigeria and make it the Nation that the world will desire.

Can I get an amen in the house – Amen.

… Add Value to People.

1. Be open minded.

If you are going to “Own The Future”; you must be open minded and maybe am wrong. I think that these days we have less and less Inter Marriages because we have closed our minds.

I happened to be a Product of Inter Marriage: my father happened to be from the Western part of Nigeria, my mother happened to be from the Eastern part of Nigeria, not very far from here.

I spent a lot of my life in the North. That’s why sometimes I say I don’t know how people manage, you will just run through life and it was so much fun. There is so much variety but here now we are, we have closed our minds and that’s why we are not gaining the blessing of God.

Even in the Church, there are Greeks and there are Jews and God is not against it. Don’t be.

I have not said what I want to say, I stopped because I immediately realised that am in Warri and am not sure there is an helicopter here that can carry me to Lagos. I still want to go to Lagos.

See, let’s stop being proud of something that came out a problem God had with man – “Language”.

Where did tribe come from?

Tribe came from the singular fact that some people wanted to go against the Purpose of God and God said No. You can’t go against my Purpose.

So God scattered them,l.

So it was language that scattered them.

Sir we have got to. That’s why when God saved us, He gave a language to bring us back because language is important.

You can speak any language you like but there is a language that connects me and you – Speaking in Tongues.

Open your mind. There is no black man anywhere, there’s no white man anywhere. We are just human beings that’s all.

Oh, I have a white friend, shut up you don’t have a white friend, you have a friend. Have you met my Igbo friend, shut up you don’t have an Igbo friend, you have a friend.

A friend is a friend it doesn’t matter the language the person is.

Stop looking at people like that. Open your mind, because when you don’t open ur mind, you close yourself to opportunity.

The future will be full of so many things. There are things that will happen in the future that so many people will not like. Honestly speaking, you know I tell some people that even some of us who are Born Again if you get to Heaven, honestly speaking some people will not want to enter.

How can you enter when you have never seen Gold in your life, then you now see Gold on the floor.

God you are canal, oh God you are canal, how can you have Gold here,

He said the Gates are made of Pearl. You have never seen Pearl in your life and then you see Gate made of Pearl, you say ah, God this thing is worldly.

Hello, wake up, you are in Heaven, be open minded.

The future is full of possibilities, be open minded. There are things that will happen, a time will come when you don’t even need to do, have a car, you just call a car, driverless cars are coming.

Hello somebody, (hi) driverless cars are coming, open your mind.

Only God knows what will happen. Today you are using one small cellphone you can talk to somebody. In those days you have to queue up in a place before you can talk. You queue up like three (3) days before you can get to talk to someone. Right now, you can talk to anyone anywhere you are. We are having this Function here and people are watching from everywhere. Technology came on board.

… Be Open Minded. Help me tell your neighbour – Be Open Minded!

1. Develop your Communication Skills.

Talk they say is cheap. But I don’t agree, talk is not cheap.

Now because the words you speak can either make or mar you. Talk is not cheap.

Everybody respect you until you open your mouth. The moment you open your mouth to say something, then they put you in your box.

So you have gotten to learn how to speak, you have gotten to understand the tonality, the body language of speaking. You have gotten to understand how you carry it and you do that. I won’t have to talk about that because that is Technical.

1. Always seek a win-win situation.

You want to Network, seek a win-win situation.

You see, stop fighting the war to win, I mean the battle to win, then you lose the war.

I’m fighting for my right what about your left it will soon go. They will take your left when you are still seeking your right – Seek a win-win situation.

Recently we had a very fantastic Political Game in Nigeria, where some very young minds I don’t what to mention their names but one of them was one of our Speakers this morning.

Some Young minds came on board and said I wanna be President.

Of cause they didn’t get the Presidency but they were not losers.

They didn’t lose because you know what they thought us? – Courage.

They show us that you dare it, you can try it.

They showed us Courage so that the Young People can rise up and do something.

They showed us that, now what I’m thinking is that if we have a win-win situation in Nigeria why don’t you bring those Young People into the Government and use their skills.

Must I be a member of your Party to add value to this Nation? Must I be a member of your Party to make it to your cabinet?

Let’s look for a win-win situation. Let’s look for.

If you are doing something don’t look for how others will lose, look for how others will also win.

Networking is about all of us getting the best of life.

When People come around you, you do two things – Its either you make them better or you help them to become bitter.

1. Get Socially active.

I see a Major difference in the life of Jesus Christ and John the Baptist.

I didn’t know if you have read that before but I see a Major difference in two (2) lives. When John the Baptist came in luke Chapter 1 verse 80, the Bible says: And the child grew and wax stronger in Spirit and then he went to the wilderness.

No wonder they cut off his head but look at Jesus; the Bible says concerning Jesus in luke Chapter 2 verse 40, it said: And the child grew and wax strong in stature and grew in favour with God and in favour with man.

Listen Jesus Christ grew in stature physically.

So if you go to the gym, it is not a sin.

Jesus Christ didn’t only grow in stature, Jesus Christ also grew in Wisdom – So Mentally He was alert and then He had favour with God – So Spiritually He was Strong and then He had favour with man – Socially He was Strong.

Can I throw a challenge to us here? Check your phone all of you who are Born Again – check your phone. Your phone is full of brother, Pastor, sister, Evangelist, Apostle.

You are part of those who are reducing the Kingdom of God because all your contacts are Born Again.

The others who are not Born Again are not on your contact and so you cannot reach them.

Unfortunately because you cannot reach them God cannot reach them.

It’s time that we raise some Jacobs who can do business with Leban and come out and a “Change Leban”.

When Leban will stand up and Leban will say: I have come to discover that God has blessed me because you are there.

You will not go to the office and be crying in the office or come to the Church and say Pastor I lost my job – they sacked me.

When they sacked you, you will stand there and say excuse me, I didn’t miss nothing; you missed something. Blessed is he that comes in the Name of the Lord.

If I come, I carry the Blessing. If you reject my blessing, if you say no to me I have an answer to No.

… No means “Next Option”.

Get Social when it comes to Social Media because I know many of you are there, it’s a question I want to leave you with because am closing now.

Number one question is: Why are you there? Why are you on Social Media?

It’s a question you need to answer.

Are you there because everybody is there?

If you follow the crowd, you will not get the crown.

Number two: What do you do there? What do you do when you are on the Social Circle.

When you are on Social Media, what do you do?

When you hear that, some people who are there, the only thing they do is to laugh. And then you wake up in the morning and say (laugh) who told you we are interested in seeing your face?

Number three: When are you there?

Some people have no Culture of Timing.

So you are on Social Media anytime and every time.

When are you going to do the things that you are supposed to put on Social Media?

You see I don’t care what you drive I care what drives you.

I say to Young People alone Mercedes Benz is a car that was produced by man called Carl Benz. His daughter’s name is Mercedes.

So Mercedes Benz is somebody’s daughter – so when you are riding Mercedes Benz you are riding somebody’s daughter.

Who will ride your daughter?

I wear YSl.

YSL is Saint Lawrence. It is somebody’s name.

When are we going to see Young People (give me those names in Warri that can make sense); when are we going to see your perfume in your name?

Are we gonna see those those designs in your name.

ell, let’s stop this.

Somebody will say am dancing shaku shaku – fine. There is nothing wrong in dancing shaku, shaku shaku but somebody design it.

When are you going to design your own dance steps?

Who is there with you?

Where do you intend to go there?

And my last point which am closing on is this: if you want to Network, focus on creating an experience that people will not forget.

People will forget what you said. People will forget what you did. But People will never forget how you make them feel.

Everybody falls at the feet of their feeling.

That’s why Jesus Christ could go anywhere and He will create an experience they won’t forget.

There was a woman by the well side, He only spent a moment with her and the woman went to town and told the entire world: Everybody come and hear a man told me all my life story in one moment.

He created an experience that was unforgettable.

Thank you very much for listening. I do hope that i was able to create an unforgettable experience in this Place.

I pray for every one of us, the Almighty God will link us up in the right direction, with the right kind of people that will take us to the Place that God has arranged for us.

I see you in the Palace.

God bless you all!!!

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(LEAD PASTOR AT RCCG LIVING SEED CHURCH IKORODU- THE AFTERNOON CHURCH)

TOPIC: “CHURCH NEXT, BE SPIRITUALLY PREPARED”

VENUE: RCCG CHAPEL OF BLESSING, REGION 5 HEADQUATERS PARISH, GRA EXTENSION, MARINE BASE; PORT HARCOURT, RIVERS STATE – NIGERIA

DATE: 20TH JULY, 2019

SHORT PROFILE OF THE SPEAKER:

PASTOR DANIEL OLAWANDE fondly called P. Daniel, is an Ordained Minister in the Redeemed Christian Church of God, and Lead pastor at RCCG Living Seed Church Ikorodu – The Afternoon Church.

He is also the Provincial Evangelist of RCCG Youth Province 1 Lagos.

He is the National Youth Vice President of RCCG, and a National Executive of the Pastors’ Seed Family, where he serves as a National Representative for Region 26, Ikorodu Lagos.

This man is heavily gifted and largely recognized with the slogan: “FIRE IN MY BONE”. Which has particularly driven his passion to see young men BURN for God.

He is an Alumnus of Daystar Leadership Academy, Lagos (Basic and Advanced Courses). Holds Post Graduate Diploma. A dynamic Preacher of God’s Word called with the Mandate to set men on Fire for God and to raise a “Burning Generation”.

Daniel Olawande’s influence has spread beyond the boundaries of His local church as He is a sought after Speaker at Churches, Conventions and Conferences.

Join me as I make welcome Pastor Daniel Olawande as he ministers to us on the Topic: “CHURCH NEXT, BE SPIRITUALLY PREPARED”.

Let us worship Jesus!

Just lift up your hands and say something good to Him; our God is Awesome, our God is Great!

Worship God (don’t be distracted). Please just worship God. Worship Jesus, give God Praise, Give Him Glory. Father we give You all the Praise.

Thank You Father! Thank You Jesus, we give You all the Praise, we give You all the Glory. Take over the Service from us! Do what only You can do! And let everything work perfectly. Do what only You can do in our midst, and bless us.

… In Jesus’ Name we have prayed – Amen!

Hallelujah! Can we be seated.

I am speaking on the Topic: “CHURCH NEXT, BE SPIRITUALLY PREPARED”.

I want to appreciate my father in the Lord, in Person of Pastor E.A Adeboye, for this wonderful opportunity. And all our fathers: our AGO Admin. and Personnel, Pastor J.F Odesola; Pastor E.A Odeyemi; Pastor Peter Amenkhienan; the National Youth Pastor, Pastor Precious Akingbade, my Provincial Pastor, Pastor Bisi Akande (who ministered also). And all the Men of God on this Platform.

I say: Thank You very much!

It’s a rare privilege to stand on this Exalted Altar, for IGNITE 2019 (which has Giants).

It takes a Father to go further in life.

Thank you very much for this opportunity; we don’t take it for granted!

… In the Name of Jesus. Thank you very much!

So, what we are looking at this afternoon is: “CHURCH NEXT, BE SPIRITUALLY PREPARED”.

When we talk about the NEXT Church, we are talking about the Church of the FUTURE!

What is the Church of the Future?

When is the Future?

The Future is not a time to come. The Future is not many years from now. The Future is not one million (1,000,000) years from now. The Future is not next tomorrow.

… The Future is the Season you enter into.

I can make it clear to you: Today is the Future of yesterday. Today that we see is the tomorrow of yesterday.

So the Future is not hundred (100) years to come; the Future is a time that we have entered into.

Can I make this clear to us; the next minute from now is the Future we are looking. The next seconds from now, is the Future we are looking for.

So when we talk about the Future, we are talking about the Season that you enter.

This minute that we are, used to be the Future that we were looking unto before, but now we are in that Season – we are in that Future.

So when we talk about the Church Next; we are talking about the Church of the Future.

Meaning the Church that we will enter in the next minute from now.

So let’s check the Scriptures. Is the Scriptures having anything to say about the “CHURCH OF THE FUTURE?”

In the Agenda of God; Is there a Church made for the Future?

When we check up, we saw the Book of Joel 2:28-29; the Scriptures says:

1. And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions:
2. And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit.

… Underline the word “LAST DAYS”. The word “Last Days” is talking about the FUTURE.

So in the Book of Acts 2:16-19; Apostle Peter came, a lot of things happened on the day of Pentecost: Holy Ghost came down.

Oh! People said, what’s happening? Are they drunk?

And Peter said: “Joel said that in the LAST DAYS, I will pour down my Spirit upon all flesh”.

… Peter was calling that day: “The Last Days” – 2019 years ago!

Excuse me, if that was the Last Days, what is today?

If Apostle Peter called 2019 years ago “Last Days”; what is today?

This must be the LAST of the “Last Days”.

If that was their “Last Days”, then today is more LAST, than their “Last Days”.

So in the Agenda of God, we saw that God has an Agenda for the Last Days Church because the Last Days’ Church is the NEXT Day Church.

The Church we see the Next Minute from now, is the Last Days’ Church!

That is the Next Church – the Church we are going to see the next one (1) from now is the “NEXT CHURCH!”

So you see, when they talk about “Prophesying” in the Scripture; Prophesying is talking about “Foretelling” – speaking into the Future.

So we saw from that Scripture that the Agenda that there is going to be a Church; which is the “Next Church!”

Can I announce to you: “We cannot access the Future until we address the Present”; because this Present is what leads us to the Future.

… So the Church of the Next, is the Church of the Now, moving into the Next!

We saw something about the Last Days’ Church – Is that the Church is the Church that is Powered by the Holy Spirit.

In the Next church, the Spirit of God will move upon the face of the deep.

We saw in that Scripture that the “Next Church” is the Church where the Spirit of God is poured upon ALL MEN.

… Somebody say: ALL MEN!

The Scripture didn’t say: “I will pure out My Spirit upon “all Pastors”. The “Next Church” is the Church where everybody is Anointed; Everybody is operating in the Supernatural; Everybody carry something on their inside; Everybody is loaded with the Holy Ghost.

… That is what the “Next Church” looks like!

The “Next Church” is the Church whereby the Pastor is just “the Coordinator of Miracle Affairs” – he is not the Miracle Worker. Because the work of a Pastor, according to Ephesians 4:11-12 is that: “they shall equip the Saints for the Work of Ministry”.

So in the “Next Church” that we are talking about; as the Gateman at the Security Post is greeting you, and Cancer is flying away (he has not said anything!)

I am talking about the Church whereby the Usher says: “Sit down here”. And he or she says: “Sit down here” something happens to you to you contact the Next Thing!

I am talking about the Church where the Choir is singing; many Miracles are happening.

… That is what the “NEXT Church” looks like!

He said: “I will pour my Spirit upon ALL Flesh!” NOT upon “all Pastors”.

It is the Church of the GREAT PEOPLE of God; not just the Great “MEN” of God!

Daniel says: the “Next Church” is the Church of the GREAT PEOPLE of God; not just the Great “MEN” of God!

No. 2 Characteristics of the Last Days’ Church (that’s the NEXT Church) is in the Book of Isaiah 2:2, which says:

“And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD’s house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.”

1. The NEXT Church is the Church of MULTITUDES:

Do you think you have seen crowd before? Do you think you have seen people gather before? You haven’t seen anything yet!

Because the “Next Church” is the Church where MULTITUDES gather!

There shall be Multitudes. According to Isaiah 2:2 (above!): “…And ALL Nations!”How many Nations? – ALL!

The Church am talking about is not a Church whereby one (1) City gather; ALL Nations shall flow into it!

That’s what the “Next Church” looks like.

But guess what?

… There is a TWIST!

ALL Nations might not gather Physically; they can gather via Facebook!

In the “Next Church” that we are talking about; ALL Nations might not gather Physically; they can gather via YouTube!

For Example, IGNITE Programme is an example of what the Last Days’ Church looks like.

… WHY? The Nations are connected!

We are in Port Harcourt Centre. We just watched from Ibadan Centre. We watched from Lagos Centre, etc. We watched from several places. And all of us are in ONE MEETING.

… The Last Days’ Church (the NEXT Church) is the Church whereby ALL Nations gather.

Can I announce to somebody, that we matter in the Last Days’ Church!

“If your Anointing is limited to your locality; you can’t last in the Last Days’ Church!”

If your Anointing is UNLimited; your Word of Knowledge should says: There is somebody watching me in Afghanistan in this Meeting …”

Listen to me; we are not limited in the “NEXT Church!” Everybody is CONNECTED via the Word – ylYou pick it!

Somebody can be watching you from UK, and you say: there is someone watching from UK, you are in wheelchair. Something is happening to you now! And the person gets well and sends the Testimony to you via the mail. The person is not physical, but the Anointing is “Cross Cultural”.

… That’s what the Last Days’ Church looks like!

Excuse me, if your Healing Anointing can only work for the person sitting down in your Church; you have missed it! Because the Church of the Last Days in the “Church beyond Walls”.

My Father in the Lord, Pastor E.A. Adeboye does Holy Ghost Service every Month; and do you know that more than one hundred and ninety eight (198) Countries are watching? Yet they were not physically present in the Meeting.

Have not heard (or read about) Online Testimonies?

Online Testimonies are coming everywhere.

WHY? – “… ALL Nations shall flow”

The No. 3 Characteristics of the Last Day’s Church (the Next Church) is found in the Book of Isaiah 11:9.

It says that: “They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.”

1. This is the Church, whereby the KNOWLEDGE of the Lord is OVER FLOODED on the Earth.

Everybody on Earth is connected!

There is a Knowledge of God available to everybody. Because the Last Day’s Church is the Church where the knowledge of the Lord covers all the Earth – As water covers the sea!

… These are the Characteristics of the LAST DAY’S CHURCH!

In the “Next Church”; ARE THERE GOING TO BE PROBLEMS?

YES, there are going to be PROBLEMS:l

No. 1 Problem: ADVANCEMENT IN KNOWLEDGE – which makes the world looks like a “Godless world” (repeated). And it’s not starting TODAY!

It’s not happening today; it has happened from the Scriptures.

1 Corinthians 1:22; we saw: “For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom:”

… They have been seeking for Knowledge for a long time! (2ce)

This is the Church whereby the Knowledge of the Lord is overflowing on Earth; This is the Church whereby the Knowledge of the Lord is available.

But guess what? Devil also is perverting the Knowledge!

… Everybody is ACCESSING knowledge in the Last Day’s Church!

The “Next Church”, is the Church faced with several issues. Can I say somebody: this is the Church that someone will say: “God didn’t make me Woman, He made me a “Man”.

WHY? Because there is a Research available to tell you that my gene is mutated. And because of this “Mutation”, they are saying to you: Don’t Address me as a woman. Address me a man.

You are seeing the breast, you are seeing everything and he is saying you: Don’t address me a woman.

… That is the kind of problem we will face in the “Next Church”.

The “Next Church” is the Church whereby there is intelligence.

How do you tell a Lady, who is a worker in your Church got pregnant, and there is no man: “Pastor, I did not fornicate, I did AVY”.

WHY? That is the latest Technology!

What will you tell her? If it’s a worker, will you suspend her?

That is the kind of Church we are going to face.

Point No. 2: ADVANCEMENT IN TECHNOLOGY; thereby stopping Physical Gathering.

We are going to a Church whereby people can Watch Service online. Connecting with 7D (and they have the experience virtually even more than you in the building).

They will tell you: I can sit down at home and Watch this Service and feel the same thing.

… Are we prepared for that kind of Church?

The “Next Church” is a Church whereby there are Government Policies.

Someone like me that likes going to the Market to Preach, Government Policies that say “do not share your Faith anyhow, you are causing problems – you are doing Health Speech!

How will you share your Faith in the “Next Church”?

You cannot Evangelise in a bus again, you cannot talk in the Street again, you cannot share flyers again.

And guest what? It’s happening in some Countries already.

How will you share your Faith in the “Next Church?”

The “Next Church” will be faced with sickness, deeper than Cancer.

There can be strange illness in the world that Doctors don’t have drugs for. And is the Church prepared to tackle this kind of battles?

The “Next Church” will be faced with a battle called “Generational Gap”.

There is difference between the Millennial and the Dangerous Zee.

What you call Respect, to them is “Hypocrisy”.

If you expect everybody to do the way they used to do in 1980, excuse me, it cannot work in the “Next Church”.

Can I announce to you: “Things have changed!

And things are changing”.

In a Generation where you will correct somebody, he or she goes to commit suicide. You correct the person (as a Worker) he or she is depressed.

You just spoke, why did you do this? He or she says, am depressed.

The next thing he or she will drink Sniper!

… That’s the “NEXT Church” we are going to face!

Will you stop connection?

Excuse me, these are the things we are going to face in the “Next Church!”

The “Next Church” are going to be equipped with terrible Battles. They have Human Rights Laws.

Those days when you come late, Pastor ask you to kneel down. In the “Next Church”, we might not be able to try it. Because the person will tell you: “you are unflinching on my Human Rights”.

How will you maintain God’s Standards in the “Next Church?”

You have told them: “If you come late to the Workers’ Meeting you will be punished”.

They say: Excuse me Sir, am just leaving Victoria Island (in Lagos – Nigeria) 4pm. Service starts by 6pm. By the time I get to Church is 9pm. How is it my fault?

You consider them as irresponsible; they tell you “I am responsible”. Because, I am coming from work.

They say: “Pastor, put it online, let’s connect”.

Will you count online as part of attendance? – The NEXT CHURCH!

… These are real issues we are going to face in the “Next Church”.

But can I tell you: How do we Prepare for this kind of Church? How do we prepare for a Church like this?

1. POINT MEN TO THE CROSS; not the Things of the Cross. Point men to the CROSS; not the blessings of the Cross.

“… It takes the CROSS to CRUSH everything that is on the Earth”.

That is the thing that can save the “Next Church”.

… Point them to the CROSS; not just the things of the Cross.

In the “Next Church”, the first thing you notice is the Poverty.

When will you tell him about suffering? Because the Cross can carry it. We keep pampering a Generation.

1 Corinthians 1:22; like I read before. It says: “The Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom:”

Go to verse 24, it says: ‘But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the Power of God, and the Wisdom of God.

Are they looking for Intelligence? Seek Christ! Are they looking for Power? Seek Christ! The challenge is that we have moved men from Christ to US!

… How do we prepare for the “Next Church?”

1. SHOW MEN THE WORD (2ce) and the Preacher must be a man of the Word.

“… If you don’t know what is Written, you will be WRITTEN OFF!”

Show men THE WORD. The Preacher must be a man of THE WORD!

Excuse me, there is no Philosophy Book that can carry the Power of the Word.

Have you not read Psalms 119:130? It says:

“The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple.”

Who is a Simple Man?

A Simple Man is a foolish man!

It’s not starting today; the Pharisees came to Jesus, He silenced them.

WHY? He is the WORD!

… They listened to Him!

The reason why we are afraid is because we don’t know the POWER in the WORD!

Have you not ready Hebrews 4:12? It says:

“For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and SHARPER than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.”

Is somebody thinking about something?

Excuse me; present the WORD!

The Word is Powerful (without addictive); No EXTRA!

The Word carries POWER!

Excuse me; they will challenge your conviction, they will challenge everything you know. But excuse me: If you know what is written, “you can never be silenced!”

Many of us are silenced, because we don’t know “what is written”. You only know what your Pastor told you.

… You don’t know what is written!

If you are blessed, shout Yes – YES!

How does the Church prepare for the “NEXT CHURCH?”

1. By Learning PRESENTATION SKILLS for each Generation.

There is a way to talk in 1980, There is a way to talk in 2001; There is a way to talk in 2019!

Excuse me; our Message cannot change. Our Presentation can change.

… The Message is “CHRIST CRUCIFIED”.

But we might need to change the way we Present it.

Gone are those days when you say: “if you don’t do this one you are going to hell”.

They will tell you: “all these while, has the world ended?”

Somebody was telling me recently; “I want to go to hell, because in hell there will be Party”.

… The Presentation change, without changing the Message!

Pastors, are you prepared?

Can I ask you a simply question: Somebody came to your Church: “Pastor, I’m Born Again, I did Transgender: I am a male before, I changed to female”.

Now, with breast, you are seeing everything that shows he is a Lady; but he is telling you, I am a “he”. You made the Altar Call, he answers Altar Call. And thereafter says, No I am a “he”, I want to restitute. How do you preach to “him?”

Are we Prepared for ways to answer this kind of questions?

What will you tell the Members of the Church so that they won’t segregate the person?

What will you tell the children in Church that call her “Sister Bisi” and he says No, am not “Sister Bisi”; I am “Brother Bisi!”

How will you explain to the children in the Children Church about that Sister who’s now a “brother?”

We must learn Presentation Skills for this Generation.

We must learn the way to talk to succeed.

You tell them, they talk too much, they tell you “I News Expression”.

… How do we Prepare for this Generation?

1. By having LARGE HEART!

The Preachers need a Large Heart.

You might not be able to accommodate our excesses if you don’t have a Large Heart.

Pastor Bisi Akande (that’s my PICP), he was talking about LARGE HEART – Open Mindedness – You need a Large Heart!

I said that: in the “Next Church”; the Pastor is the “Coordinator of Miracle Affairs”.

If Pastor is timid and insecure; he cannot last!

When a Choir have risen twelve (12) dead persons, and you, you have not done anything.

In the “Next Church” that we are talking about; the Testimonies will be: Praise the Lord: Yesterday, I healed a cripple in the Market. The next person will say: yesterday, a dead person got up!

… And if the Pastor is not having a Large Heart, the Pastor will think that they are taking over!

Excuse me, how do you MANIFEST the LARGENESS of your heart?

It is be Mentoring those that are coming under you.

The Leaders in the “Next Church”, will MENTOR those that are coming.

WHY? – Because their hearts are LARGER!

(… Can we celebrate our father; Pastor J.F Odesola? Thank you for coming Sir).

Please can we have our seats!

LARGENESS of the Heart!

Excuse me Sir, if not for the Largeness of the Heart, how can Pastor Odesola be seated and am preaching? (Who born my father?)

How can I be on a Flier with three (3) Assistant General Overseers, National Youth Pastor; myself a ‘DEACON’ – How can I?

Because the Leaders in The Redeemed Christian Church of God have Largeness of the heart, they allow boys like us, to come up!

Can I announce to you; the way to survive (you can be sure of the Future of this Church): Now because RCCG is everywhere, Young boys are coming up.

In some years ago, Young boys not me (you are not a Full Pastor), climb where? But because the current Leaders (starting from our Father) have a Large Heart; boys like us can come up!

… Can we celebrate our fathers in RCCG?

I can announce to you, that the Future of RCCG is secured.

WHY? – Our Leaders have Large Hearts!

… How do you Prepare for the “Next Church?”

1. There is no SUBSTITUTE for the SUPERNATURAL!

Have you not read, Acts 2:17? It says:

“And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams:”

The Church is POWERED by the Holy Ghost; The Church is BUILT by the Holy Ghost; The Church is STRENGTHENED by the Holy Ghost.

… The Next Church cannot SUBSTITUTE the Holy Ghost for Philosophy! You can’t substitute the Holy Ghost for Technology!

Can I show you a Scripture? Holy Ghost is the Master Strategist!

How do I know? Genesis 1:2 says: “….And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.”

Holy Ghost Strategies, God Execute!

There is no Strategy that can be Deeper than that is the Holy Ghost. There is no strategy that can be larger than that is the Holy Ghost.

So in the “Next Church”, the Pastor will be able to raise a Believer who is not a Pastor; but who is a Banker, who is able to solve Financial Problems under the Unction of the Holy Ghost.

The “Next Church” is the Church who will not convert everybody to become a Pastor; but there are Apostles in the Market Place.

The Greek word for Apostle is “Apostulos” (Sent to) – Send you to Finance, send you to Telecommunication, send you to Education, send you to Arts and Entertainment, send you to Football.

Imagine before they start the ball, God takes over. And by Word of Knowledge, they way the Match is 3-0. EMEKA will score the first goal…

… Excuse me! The Word of Knowledge is not for the Church; it’s for streets!

Have you not read in 1 Corinthians 12:7, and it says: “But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal.”

… It’s not for Pastors alone, ALL! Spiritual Gifts can operate in Banks.

If all of us are trying to be Pastors, we can’t win the world. Because some people will not come to your Church; but they can come to your Barbing Salon – I am talking about “Apostolic Barbers!”

The Church of the NEXT.

Some came to barb hair, and fell under the Anointing. The atmosphere is saturated!

… Holy Ghost is everywhere; not just in the Church!

Excuse me, what is this? (This is Pulpit, Right?)

That’s not correct! This is a wood!

Pulpit is PULL PIT (Pull him or her out of the PIT). You are the Pulpit!

The “Next Church” is a Church that everybody can PULL men from the PIT: in the Streets, in the Market, in the Banking Sector.

Somebody came to Bank to make transaction, as you are checking, you say: I saw something: your name is XYZ, with such and sch problem. By the next time he comes to the Bank, he is sharing Testimony.

Where is that Cashier, he Prophesied last week…

They don’t need to come to your Church; you are THE CHURCH!

But guess what? When you bless them, they say, what Church?

You will say: I am from the Redeemed Christian Church of God and they will follow you there!

… Let me take one (1) more and I go. How do we PREPARE for the “Next Church?”

1. There is no Substitute for FASTING AND PRAYER. No Technology can substitute it!

Mark 2:18 downward; they came to Jesus, Hello Sir, why is it that your Disciples are not Fasting? He said, they cannot Fast when the Bride Chamber is with them. He said, but a time will come when He is taken away; they shall fast.

So we are in the Fasting Days! He has been taken away 2019 years ago; we are in the Days of FASTING!

The other Religion (who are the ones leading Technology); all the best Countries in Technology, who are the ones leading it? The other Religion! They FAST every year! They understand FASTING.

… If you don’t FAST; you cannot be Fast in life!

FASTING flatten your flesh and FATTEN your Spirit.

When your Spirit is fattened, you receive Information and you receive Revelations.

… There is no substitute for FASTING AND PRAYERS! And that time has come.

The “Next Church”, is the Church of Ephesians 4:11-12; when the work of the Apostle, Prophet, Evangelist, Pastor and Teacher were sent for the Work of the Ministry. You know their Ministry is to Prepare others for Ministering; they are not the Ministers. The Members of the church are the Ministers.

How will God judge Pastors?

How many Believers have you RAISED?

I am talking of a time; Pastors you cannot win a Transgender Man (you don’t look like them).

… But your point of Scare, is your point of Glory!

Can you convert a Transgender; turn him from a Disciple to a Minister? Let him go and look for others. And let him have Cell with them (they look alike, they can talk together).

… If you can’t show me your SCARE, you can’t be my STAR!

That is the Way, in the “Next Church”.

Have you not read Luke 9:1, and 10? The Bible says:

“Then he called his twelve disciples together, and gave them power and authority over all devils, and to cure diseases. And the apostles, when they were returned, told him all that they had done. And he took them, and went aside privately into a desert place belonging to the city called Bethsaida.”

The Bible says, they came as Disciples, he turned them to Apostles.

Are there Disciple’s Graduation in our Churches?

They filled the Streets; who are filing your Church?

The Bible says: “the Spirit of the Lord cover the Earth as water covers the sea”.

… They cannot cover the Earth in your Church; they cover the Earth in the Streets!

The “NEXT CHURCH” is the Church of the Streets.

I am talking of the Church that is not the era of great MEN of God. But great PEOPLE of God.

Your RELEVANCE as a Pastor is attached to: How many Great People are under you.

By that time, the NETWORKING (that my PICP, Pastor Bisi Akande spoke about) will be real.

An Anointed Man in Nollywood will look for other Nollywood Stars; he will buid a Church for them.

They may not be able to come to your Church, but they can go to their Churches; their Colleague is a Pastors. An homosexual man will look for others (like him) and bring them.

As I round up; the “Next Church” we are talking about (from the beginning): the “NEXT CHURCH” is not far away.

Today, is the tomorrow of yesterday; Next minute from now – “THE NEXT CHURCH!”

How do you evangelise when the Government Policies are saying NO?

Excuse me, when a Sheilk has a daughter who is an imbecile, and you go to Mall in UAE, and you look at him, and there is a Word of knowledge: Your Daughter Halima is having this and that … He will listen to you.

The challenge why we are afraid of the “Next Church” is that we are not following the Pattern:

“And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon ALL FLESH: and your sons and your daughters shall Prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams:”

… Not on Pastors; ALL FLESH!

Rise up on your feet everybody. The “Next Church” is the Church of Abundance of the Holy Ghost!

I said to us; there is no substitute for Fasting and Prayers.

This is the Church whereby you are going to the Lab for research. After you have prayed in the Holy Spirit for like seven (7) hours, you will see solution in the Microscope.

The Microscope didn’t deliver it, it is called Revelation.

… In the Kingdom, there is nothing like Achievement; it is called “RECEIVEMENT”.

Nobody receives anything except it is given from above.

Before you can write a Script, you must receive it. Before you can get a research, you must receive it. Before you can do anything, you must receive it.

Thank you so much for staying all through to read.

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TOPIC: TAKING CHARGE OF THE POLITICS OF THE FUTURE

VENUE: PORT-HARCOURT CENTRE, RCCG CHAPEL OF BLESSING, REGION 5 HEADQUARTERS PARISH, GRA EXTENSION, MARINE BASE, PORT HARCOURT, RIVER STATE.

DATE: 20TH JULY, 2019

SHORT PROFILE OF THE SPEAKER:

PASTOR REMMY HAZZAN, FCIArb, ANIVS, ESV, RSV; holds a National Diploma in Estate Management from the Federal Polytechnic, Nassarawa in 1991 and a Higher National Diploma from the great Yabatech.

Pastor Hassan proceeded to the University of Nigeria Enugu campus between 1999 and 2001 for a Postgraduate Diploma and Masters in Science in Construction Management where he emerged as the overall Best Student Nationwide in the Direct Final Examinations of the Nigerian Institution of Estate Surveyors And Valuers in the Year 2000.

He is elected as the Associate Member of NIESV in 2012 and a Registered Valuer in 2013.

He is elected as the State Secretary of the Association of the Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria of Bayelsa State Branch in 2003.

He contested and won the Odogbolu Constituency Seat of the Ogun state House of Assembly in 2007 and later went on to become the Deputy Speaker in 2008.

He was re-elected into the same Assembly in 2011 and emerged the Chairman of Parliamentary Caucus.

He was awarded the Martin Luther King Medal of Emerging Black Democrats by Martin Luther King Foundation in Atlanta Georgia USA in November 2012.

He obtained yet another Msc and this time in Housing Development and Management from the University of Ibadan in 2012 and a PhD in the same discipline in 2016.

He passed a requisite exam of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators London England at Associate, Membership and Fellowshipevels.

Hence he became a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators since 2012.

He was appointed as a Senior Legislative Aide on Consultancy basis on Federal Housing, House of Representatives from 2015 to June 2019.

He has spoken in many Conferences home and abroad and is still Speaking.

He has been a Pastor with the Redeemed Christian Church of God from year 2000 to date, but he currently serves as a Pastor In Charge of Zone, Divine Favour Zone RCCG Bayelsa Province 4.

He is a Lover of Core Christian Values. He is happily married to Pastor (Mrs) Irene Ojuogo Remmy Hassan and they are blessed with children.

All over the Nation, let us celebrate the Almighty God as we make welcome Pastor Remmy Hassan to take us on: Taking Charge of The Politics of the Future.

Please lets welcome Pastor Remmy Hassan.

Thank you!

May we be seated please.

PRAYERS: Father we want to bless Your Name for this awesome moment. We just ask that you take absolute control in Jesus Name. Every reason for putting this Program together even beyond shall be achieved in Jesus Name.

Thank you Father in Jesus Awesome Name we have Prayed – Amen.

I bless the Name of the Most High God for this wonderful opportunity to talk to us on: Taking Charge of The Politics of the Future in the next twenty (20) to twenty five (25) minutes).

I pray that God will open the eyes of someone to understand the essence of putting this together.

I will like to appreciate my father in the Lord, the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God; for allowing a Platform like this to be created that men and women will be enlightened on doing the needful. And every members of the Young Adults and Youth Affairs who are also facilitators of ensuring that this happens – God Bless you all – Amen.

Isaiah 9: 7 will be the anchor for our discuss.

The Bible says: “Of the increase of His Government and Peace there shall be no end upon the throne of David and upon His Kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with Judgement and with Justice from henceforth even forever, the zeal of the Lord of Host will Perform this. Of the increase of His Government”.

Which Government, verse 6 of that Scripture says: “A child is born and unto us a Child is given and that passage continues by saying and the Government shall be upon His shoulders.”

Now Governance is what has brought about Politics.

Governance itself is a Structured Administration of all Aggregate of Resources: Human Resources, Natural Resources, Economic Resources.

A Structured Pattern of Administering those Resources is what Governance is.

However, there are intrigues going on in how this Administration plays out and that is where Politics comes in.

Now the Bible says the umbrella Government of every aspect of Governance rests on the shoulders of Jesus Christ.

If this is so and Christ left us thousands of years ago. He didn’t just leave, he left us with a mandate in Luke 19 :13. That Mandate says: “Occupy till I come”.

God abhors vacuum and when Christ left the stage it was for men to take charge and He said whatever it is that I have done, Greater Things shall you do.

The onus is on us to take charge and that takes me to wanting to attempt to define Politics.

Politics itself is very vast and different Authors will come up with different definitions.

But for the Purpose of this meeting let us simply define Politics as a Concentric Cycle of Constant Constructive or Destructive Conspiracies.

The Conspiracy never ends:

1. It begins with who becomes what.
2. It continues with how the one that has emerged succeeds or fails.
3. It ends again with who succeeds the incumbent another chapter continues.

That’s why it is a Cycle.

Whereas, Governance as we defined earlier is a Structured Administration of the Totality of Resources.

Policies that are Specific will come up to address Specific Issues but they will also be influenced by Politics.

Every aspect of Dominion that God left us with in Genesis 1: 28 all of it, notwithstanding the umbrella Dominion that encapsulates every other Dominion, is Political Dominion.

You may be the best in your chosen field of career, one Policy can make a mess of whatever it is you have become in life. So if the Policies are not right then you cannot continually say you are totally in charge.

Let us now look at the Church. How has the Church fared Politically?

If you want to talk about the Future, we must first appraise the Past and juxtapose it side by side with the Present so that we can make Projections that can help the Future.

In the Past how has the Church fared?

Very badly disinformation, misinformation, or no information at all gave rise to a great deal of insignificant involvement in the Political Process and the slogan then was Politics is dirty.

If Politics is dirty as we all acknowledge rightly so, who then cleans it up?

And like those who are trying to speak ahead of me before I came mentioned, you cannot change the System from without. You are better off attempting to effect a Change from within.

That level on non-involvement based on the wrong information or no information at all that we are (cracking) to.

By the Scripture in Hosiah 4: 6; it says: “My people are destroyed because they lack knowledge”.

Now if that was what was obtained in the Past, what is it that obtains in the Present?

In the Present, there has been a Marginal increase in the involvement of the Church in the Political Process – Very Good Improvement.

However it is with a lot of unfortunate Self-Syndrome, Denominational Dichotomy and Parochial Reasoning promoting needless Unstructured Haphazard and Disorderly involvement.

Yet the Bible says: “Let everything be done decently and in order” – 1Corinthians 14:40.

We are involved in the Present moment but we are not Organized and that is why someone will say: .ust it always be RCCG all the time? Why not someone from another Denomination?

And this essentially calls the Umbrella Body of the Christian Association of Nigeria to question, organise a Church now for an Effective Structure that holds the Church in a Prime Position to effect the Change that we want.

Now let’s go into the Future that we actually want to take charge of.

What does the Bible says concerning that Future?

It seems Obadiah the only Chapter of that passage vs 17 says: “Upon Nount Zion there shall be Deliverance and Holiness and the House of Jacob shall process their Possession”.

Dominion belongs to us. We threw it away foolishly and we now want to get it back.

Israel threw away Canaan foolishly, struggled to get it back when they came back from Egypt and they are still struggling till today.

We threw away that Dominion when God asked us to take charge in the Garden of Eden. Now we are struggling to get it back.

We cannot completely discharge of the Politics of the Future without employing some Strategies. Some of the Strategy includes the following:

Number One Strategy is Education.

Many Ministries are involved in Providing Qualitative Education.

But the question is at what cost?

Many Ministries have put together Educational Institutions that have become more or less like the IVY Towers. Yet, even Members of those Denominations cannot afford to pay for them.

If we want to go into the Future and own the Future Politically then we cannot carry with us a Movement that Metamorphoses Mediocrity.

An average number of our Followers must have reasonable level of enlightenment Educationally so that we will not need to repeat the same thing over and over again before they get the message.

And they too can think of solutions to Peculiar Problems.

And what do I mean by this?

We said earlier that the Bible says in Hosea 4 6 that: “My people are destroyed because they lack knowledge”.

Up till this moment, there are people who still believed that Politics is not Good for Christians.

In our various Institutions, if we have Access Promoted through Lessoned Tuition, why can’t we begin to teach Politics in those Schools and making it Mandatory for any category of Profession that you have chosen to pursue. And you begin now to have understanding.

Why can’t CAN (Christian Association of Nigeria) for example have in each of the Geopolitical Zones, a University of repute and every Church in Nigeria pays his fair share. And Tuition in those Universities are absolutely free. Even quota will be given to Churches based on their contribution.

Why can’t we as a Christian body decide that all our Schools at Primary and Secondary levels will be free.

Reasonable, if we can work out the Structure that pays for it; If we stand and wants to own the Future and we want to move into that Future, we the Uneducated Generation, we are building a Bridgandage of those who will turn against us simply because they can be easily used.

A simple turn is not the one that is not particularly educated, but the one that is easily deceived because he is not informed.

Point number two: To go into that Future, we need a Structured and Strategic Involvement.

It has to be different from the type that is Presently in operation, where some of us do more of Trying Market Denomination instead of Marketing Christ.

If we Market Christ over and above Denomination, we will have the number we will use to take charge.

One man in South West Nigeria said and i quote: “They are more than us, but they are divided, so we will use them to get what we want”.

He was actually talking about Christians.

Every one of us need to get to understand that if we are not Structured, our number will not be a benefit – it will be a disadvantage.

In Esther Chapter 4, the entire passage. Yes Esther and Mordecai were part of the Political Process, but in what category, at what level, can they effect any change?

Until they Structured the entire Involvement, change didn’t come.

And when they Structured it and everybody understood the essence of that Structure being in Place, it worked. And not only did Israel got restored, even individuals who have been short changed, got their fair share of the entire Process.

Point number three: Welfarism.

This may be funny, but it’s true.

The Church is leaving the Foundation that Christ indeed Provided. Our brethren on the other-side, the strongest Instrument of Promoting their Faith is Welfarism.

And they do this in a manner that is sustained and it is always there.

You have banks that gives loan without Interest. But they say you must be Members of their Faith.

You have Avenues to get free food just because you are hungry is there.

If the Church does not Structure it’s Welfarism, we may be in a big mess because when a man is hungry, the only language he understands is food.

Therefore, i take you to what Christ did, in John Chapter 6:5-15.

After He fed the five thousand (5,000) people, the Bible says something happened, Jesus had to run, because He sensed, He perceived they wanted to make Him King.

Why? – Because the people suddenly have found a means of being fed.

Therefore the man who feeds them must be the King, so that they will never be hungry again.

If we don’t Promote Welfarism in the Church, we would lose the people that we are meant to take into that Future because they will look for the food where it is available.

The Church, especially the RCCG today is trying with her CSR initiative but more need to be done.

What it is doing at best in this stage is like a drop in a mighty ocean, but in Jesus Name we will get there – Amen.

Point number 4: Enhanced Health Care Delivery System.

The advantage we have as believers in Christ, is that beyond Medicare, we have the privilege of being used of God to provoke Divine Healing.

When God was asking the question: Is there no longer balm in Gilead? – in Jeremiah 8:22.

It simply means there is a Structure that recognizes a Hospital and Doctors.

What have we done in terms of Promoting Medicare?

Again, i go back the question can we at least have in one Veopolitical Zone each in this Country, a Health Centre of Excellence, that is absolutely free, where people can go and get Medicare and at the same time Pastors are visiting at all time to pray for those that are sick and provoke Divine Healing thereby?

If we do this, don’t be surprised that more than half of those that will use the Facility will be from the other Faith and that is a Platform created for conversion.

Finally, the Church that will take charge of the Politics for the Future, must also take charge of the Digital or Technological Revolution.

A lot is happening in the Technological world, a lot is happening in the ICT world. And before you know it, we will get to the point that you can not do anything without IT.

Cryptocurrency is gaining ground everyday.

Social Media is taking charge of most of our affair.

How knowledgeable are we?

Can the Church put together a Silicon Valley driven by Christians, where those who are enabled in terms of the IQs for this IT would go and further, spread the knowledge?

Can we have such a Platform that take men away from the Yahoo Yahoo Syndrome and direct that energy and intellect into a Productive Venture that Glorifies Christ?

Daniel 12:4, prepares us for this. The Bible says in the end: In the later days, knowledge shall increase.

What is going on now is not an accident, the Future is already seen even before we are there.

If we don’t align with what will take us into that Future and take charge in the real sense of it, we might be left behind, struggling to pick crumbs, and not getting the main meat.

I will conclude, by saying that: We will be deemed ready, if we have truly done the needful.

Ephessian 6:12 says: “Having done all to stand”.

If you do nothing, there is no reason to stand because there is nothing to stand for.

Having done all, there may be many other things that i have not captured. But let us be aware of the things that sway our people away from the Follower-ship that they should offer concerning the Leadership that we offer.

And i leave you with this last statement, that says: “We will never Christianized this world unless and until we get it right with Politics.”

We will never Christianized this world that we are in; this Nation (Nigeria) that we are in, unless and until we get it right with Politics.

I thank you very much for your attention!!!

Thank you so much for staying all through to read.

To read other Messages on the Coverage of DMC MediaCrew so far this Year, kindly visit our Website: http://discoverymediacrew.com; follow us on Twitter: @discoverymediac and/or send a Friend Request on Facebook to DMC MediaCrew.

And I can assure you that you will be glad you did as it will avail your first hand access to comprehensive reports of the various Messages of Pastor E.A Adeboye!

It is outrightly wrong and a sin for anyone that wants to swim in God’s Glory to consciously remove the original source of the work that does not emanate for him or her!

Discovery Media Crew … Reaching out to the world through the Power of the Gospel!!!

COMPILATIONS BY

MOSES DURODOLA, TITILAYOMI AJAYI, TOPE BABALOLA, OLUSOLA OLAYINKA AND FEMI AFUWAPE

© DISCOVERY MEDIA CREW (DMC) 2019