IGNITE 2019 – SPEAKER: PASTOR PRECIOUS AKINGBADE

(PIC OF YOUTH PROVINCE 2 AND NATIONAL YOUTH AND YOUNG ADULTS, RCCG, NIGERIA)

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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