IGNITE 2019 – PASTOR EZEKIEL A. ODEYEMI: TOPIC: PREPARING FOR THE COMING GLORY

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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