Month: October 2019

  • RCCG ANNUAL YOUTH CONVENTION 2019 (YAYA 2019) – DAY 3 (EVENING): PLENARY SESSION 5 – TOPIC: A GLORIOUS RELATIONSHIP – MINISTERING: PASTOR (MRS) ADESOLA AMENKHIENAN

    RCCG ANNUAL YOUTH CONVENTION 2019 (YAYA 2019) – DAY 3 (EVENING): PLENARY SESSION 5 – TOPIC: A GLORIOUS RELATIONSHIP – MINISTERING: PASTOR (MRS) ADESOLA AMENKHIENAN

    THEME: “HIS POWER AND GLORY”

    DATE: 2ND OCTOBER, 2019

    Praise the Lord – Hallelujah!

    Please still remain standing there.

    I want to thank my mummy and my daddy: Pastor and Pastor (Mrs) Adeboye for this privilege to be here tonight – am not taking it for granted.

    And of course, I want to say Thank You also to my husband; Pastor Peter Amenkhienan (The Assistant General Overseer) – Thank you so much for the opportunity.

    And to all the Committee Members.

    Praise the Lord – Hallelujah!

    I have been asked to speak on: “A GLORIOUS RELATIONSHIP”

    But before we have our seat; can the Choir please take that song again and let us take it slowly and meditatively – yielding and committing our lives into the Hands of The Living God.

    SONG:

    Daily as I live,
    Often as I breathe,
    Let my whole life
    Be an expression of your Grace

    CHORUS

    We cry Haba father,
    Halloweth be your Name
    Halloweth be your Name
    Halloweth be your Name

    PRAYERS

    1. Open your mouth now and cry unto God: Father, let my Life give Glory to your Holy Name.

    Open your mouth – That I have been called into Glory, have not been called into shame, have not been called into disgrace.

    Lord, once again I cried to you tonight; let my whole Life be an expression of your Holy Name.

    In Jesus Precious Name we Pray – Amen.

    2. You are going to cry to God again and say: Father, let my Life not be an ugly story in the Name of Jesus.

    Open your mouth. Our Convention Theme is: His Power and His Glory. Talk to God that my Life will never be an ugly story. Let the whole world feel my impact.

    Open your mouth and talk to God. Don’t let my impact be a Negative one but rather a Positive one.

    In Jesus Precious Name we have Prayed – Amen.

    3. Preamble: Quickly let us open Bible to the Book of 1 Samuel 16: 14-19.

    14. But the Spirit of the LORD departed from Saul and an evil Spirit from the LORD troubleth him.

    15. And Saul’s servants said unto him, Behold now an evil Spirit from God troubleth thee.

    16. Let our Lord now command thy servants which are before thee, to seek out a man, who is cunning player on an harp: and it shall come to pass, when the evil Spirit from God is upon thee, that he shall play with his hand, and thou shalt be well.

    17. And Saul said unto his servants, Provide me now a man that can play well, and bring him to me.

    18. Then answered one of the servants, and said, Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite, that is cunning in playing, and a mighty Valiant man, and a man of war, and prudent in matters and a comely Person, and the LORD is with him.

    19. Wherefore Saul sent messengers unto Jesse, and said, Send me David thy son, which is with the sheep.

    What am trying to say tonight is that:

    You many not need any great man anywhere to recommend you, to bring about your breakthrough where you will now be operating in Power and Glory.

    The voice that brought David to his Place of Breakthrough was just the voice of a servant.

    I want you to open your mouth tonight and said: Let a voice be raised for me. Where I have no voice, let a voice be raised for me – Open your mouth and talk to God.

    In Jesus Precious Name we Pray – Amen.

    4. Maybe you don’t understand me: You may be a Solution to a Problem. But if you are somewhere that you are not known, you are not seen or you are not recognized; then how can that Solution that you have be brought about?

    But there is a Young man; he was kept at the background and yet God needed him somewhere. And it was a servant that has to recommend him.

    Why don’t you open your mouth again – sincerely again and talk to God: Father, where I have no voice; let a voice be raised for me that will lead me to my Breakthrough – Where I will be reigning in Power and in Glory.

    Open your mouth and talk to God – Amen!

    You can have your seat

    … Having a GLORIOUS RELATIONSHIP!

    When something is fabulous, something is wonderful; that thing can be said to be Glorious.

    Something that is Glorious is very beautiful and impressive.

    If you described something as Glorious; you are emphasizing that it is wonderful and it makes you to be very happy.

    So, Glorious can be defined as Possessing or Deserving Glory.

    Now, what is Relationship?

    Relationship is simply a connection, association or involvement.

    In Psalms 19:1; the Bible said that the Heaven declares the Glory of God and the Firmament shows His Handiwork.

    And in Psalms 8: 4-5 says:

    4. What is man that thou art mindful of him? And the son of man that thou visitest him?

    5. For thou hast made him a little lower than the Angels and hast crowned him with Glory and Honour.

    Brethren, I want you to know tonight that when God created you; He created you with Glory.

    Infact, human being were made for the Glory of God – Isaiah 43:7.

    So therefore, God made human being in the Image of God to carry His Glory.

    So, He expected us that in any Relationship that we are going to be having; we have to Portray the Glory of God.

    Our Relationship must bring Glory to His Holy Name.

    No wonder, there was a Conversation between Moses and God. You find this in the Book of Exodus 33: 12-19.

    And Moses Prayed to God: Please show me your Glory.

    And God responded in Verse 19 and told Moses that I will make all my Goodness to Pass before you.

    Hence, whenever you see the Manifestations of God’s Goodness in any area of your Life; you can described it as God’s Glory.

    So, anywhere that you have been experiencing shame, in any area that you have been experiencing disappointment; that is not the Promise of God for you.

    And my Prayer for you tonight is that the Original Intention of God for your Life shall be made Manifested in Jesus Name – Amen.

    Because God’s Presence in a Man makes all the difference.

    A Life without the Glory of God will always end in shame and disgrace.

    Anything that has been causing shame in your Life, anything that has been causing you to have disgrace in your Life; God is going to put a Permanent End to it this Weekend in the Name of Jesus – Amen.

    And we need to know that the Glory of God in your Relationship means that you must revealed the Character and Image of God since you are made in the Image of God.

    And God declared that He intentionally made you to Glorify Him.

    That means that in everything that you do; you must always reveal the Character of God.

    And the only way that we can see this Image of God is to look at our Lord Jesus Christ because Jesus Christ Glorified God the Most because He revealed God the Most – He is God made in the Flesh (John 1:1; John 1:14; Colossians 1:15 and Hebrews 1:3).

    So, if you want to Glorify God in your Relationship. That means that you must cultivate to live your Life according to the Image of God that has been Personified in the Life of Jesus Christ.

    Praise the Lord – Hallelujah!

    So, to Glorify God in your Relationship; you must reflect Christ in your Relationship.

    How do you reflect Christ in your Relationship?

    We are told that the Word became Flesh and dwelleth among us.

    And we are reflecting His Glory – Glory as of the Father; Full of Grace and Truth – John 1:14.

    Jesus Christ is the Image of the Invincible God; the First Born of the Creation. He is the Radiance of the Glory of God and the exact input of His Nature. And He upholds the Universe by His Power.

    So, if you want to know how to Glorify God; we must know Jesus Christ in a Personal Way.

    Many of us, its true that we said that we have been Born Again but sometimes the way we behaves our Character doesn’t really reflect the Glory of God.

    And tonight, from what our daddy wants us to have during this Convention is that we should go back reflecting the Glory of Jesus Christ in our Life.

    Praise the Lord – Hallelujah!

    And I want you to know that God is willing to get as close to you as you are willing to get close to Him.

    I need to ask you tonight: How close are you to God?

    Most of us lag behind in the area of our very close Relationship with the Almighty God.

    Yet God desires a Closer Relationship with us to walk side-by-side with Him pointing things out to us and showing us the Way ahead.

    I mean that the desire of every Christian should be that: Lord I want to see you more clearly; to follow you more closely and to love you more dearly.

    I remembered in our Primary School then, we have a song that we sang almost everyday.

    It says:

    Day by day
    Oh, Dear Lord
    Three things I Pray:
    To see thee more Clearly
    Love thee more Dearly
    Follow thee more Nearly
    Day by day

    I didn’t know whether that is still our Prayer today: To have a closer Relationship with God because the closer your Relationship is with God, the more you will be able to portray a Glorious Relationship with other People around you.

    Praise the Lord – Hallelujah.

    So, I want to quickly let you know that the first (1st) step in moving closer to God is through Jesus Christ.

    No wonder He said in the Book of Revelation 3:20 – He said: Behold I stand by the Door and Knock. If anyone hears my voice and Opens the Door; I will come in to him and eat with him and him with Me.

    God is continually knocking on the Door of our Hearts, ready and willing to come in and meet us in every parts of our lives because each of us are created for Intimacy, free from shame and rejection.

    But He won’t be satisfied until our hearts find a home with our Loving Father.

    Brethren, God is still knocking at the Door of your hearts today – Asking you to allow Him to come in and fill you with a Life of a Glorious Relationship.

    He loves to move near so that the dry and weary part of your Life are filled to Overflowing with the Loving Waters of His Love.

    And the first (1st) thing we need to do away with is sin in our lives – This is very, very important.

    You may be wondering, what is sin again in this one?

    I want to bring to you tonight that when we are talking of sin; sin literally means: “MISSING THE MARK”

    Remember in the Book of Romans 3:23; the Bible says that: All have sinned and fall short of the Glory of God.

    So, you cannot have a Glorious Relationship with anybody if you are still “Missing The Mark” – This is very, very important.

    When we Act like God, we are reflecting His Image and hitting the Mark of Glorifying Him.

    Praise the Lord – Hallelujah.

    So, sin is Missing The Mark of Glorifying God.

    I want you to examine your hearts wherever you are seated or reading now: Where am I Missing the Mark in my Life and in my Walk with God.

    Because, if you are Missing the Mark; you are not Living a Glorious Life.

    And if you are not Living a Glorious Life; you cannot have a Glorious Relationship with anybody.

    Praise the Lord – Hallelujah.

    The Second (2nd) thing that you needed to do is: “Total Obedience” to God.

    Obedience gives you the Knowledge of God

    And that was why in John 2:5; the mother of Jesus Christ told the Disciples and the servants that whatsoever He asked you to do, do it.

    And it is still the same cry today: Whatsoever God has commanded you in His Holy Words you must do it in order to have a Glorious Life.

    But many of us we are missing the Mark of Glorifying God.

    Why? – Especially we that are Youths of today.

    Many of us are involved in Pre-Marital sex and we lack the Obedience that will make us to reflect God’s Glory in our lives.

    Let me let you know: Pre-Marital sex violates God’s Plan as established in Creation.

    And to Abuse God’s Original Plan by reversing sex before Marriage; tampers with God’s Design.

    The Abuse of sex leads to Broken Relationship, Diseases, Single Parents Homes etc.

    Some have even through it open the door to Negative Spiritual Influence upon their lives and this is very unfortunate.

    Am not talking of unbelievers; am talking of Believers in the Church.

    And this is the right time for us to make a Turning Around and go back to our Father and ask for Mercy from Him.

    Praise the Lord – Hallelujah.

    In the Book of 1 Corinthians 7:2; the Bible makes us to know that because of the Temptation to sexual immorality; each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.

    God’s Original Plan for Marriage and sex is a Total Package or Total Deal – There is nothing like Pre-Marital, there is nothing like all kinds of rubbish that we are calling it today in the name of Modern world.

    And when we are doing this, we are not Glorifying God in our Relationship.

    God’s Words addresses Social Immoralities approximately twenty five (25) times in the Bible.

    And the Will of God is your Sanctification; that you abstain from sexual immorality. This we will find in the Book of 1 Thessalonians 4: 3-5.

    3. For this is the Will of God, even your Sanctification that ye should abstain from formication:

    4. That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in Sanctification and Honour;

    5. Not in the list of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God.

    That means that you have to be different from the unbelievers.

    But if your life is not different from the unbelievers that have not known Jesus Christ; then you are bringing shame into the Kingdom of God.

    God has made it clear from the beginning that He is a jealous God and He disapproves of all kinds of idols.

    Anytime you disobey the Word of God; remember that the Bible says that He is no longer dwelling outside there but you invite Him into your Life.

    He has come to dwell in your heart. And if you are making Him dirty; then you are making God to be jealous.

    Praise the Lord – Hallelujah.

    And God said that He will judge the sexually immoral. That is clear from the Book of Hebrews 13:4.

    “Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

    So, to play around the sacred thing like sex is very dangerous.

    You may be wondering why am I emphasizing this – Our Pastor said that I should emphasize it to you.

    You are too sexually active for your age.

    I remembered Daniel: Daniel was young as you when he was taken away into Captivity.

    And he got there and made up his mind that he is not going to partake of the King’s meat.

    For that Period, he refused to eat the King’s meat but guess what because he became Prime Ministers over four (4) or five (5) Governments.

    Likewise, if you want your life to be Glorious, if you want to reign and rule in Power and Glory then you must know the right time.

    If you do not abstain yourself from immorality, you can never attained to the Destiny that God has Ordained for your Life.

    Praise the Lord – Hallelujah.

    If you want to Glorify God in your Christian Relationship, you have to revealed the Character of God in that Relationship.

    The more you imitate Jesus Christ, the more you will wear the Image of God.

    We can never act like Jesus Christ without the Holy Spirit living in us.

    Learning to Glorify God is a living pursuit. But none of us can do that without the Grace of God.

    So this evening, the Key word is RELATIONSHIP.

    And I want you to know that you can show love to someone without having much of Relationship.

    But that is not the aim.

    And a Good example can be found in Luke 10: 25-37.

    The Good Samaritan showed love to the wounded Jews man but he didn’t know him or have any Relationship with him – He just took care of him and then paid somebody to then continue.

    That is not the one that we are talking about.

    That is “Real Love”.

    And Jesus Christ commended the Good Samaritan. But God wants us to move further in all our Relationship.

    I am saying that the kind of Relationship God is asking from us in the Church in this End time is: “A Call to Love Through Relationship”.

    Some People are starving of Relationship of Love even in the Church.

    Others are sacred of Relationship and they want to keep People away at a distance because they feel that everybody is Hypnotical.

    Praise the Lord – Hallelujah.

    We are saying that we should improve in nurturing an atmosphere where Relationship is highly valued.

    And am going to quickly use four (4) Adjectives to describe the kind of Relationship we are talking about.

    The Relationship we long to see and valued; that should be visible in the Fellowship should be:

    1. It should be Personal.
    2. It should be Deepening.
    3. It should be Supportive.
    4. It should be Faith-Building.

    … I will quickly break it down.

    1. PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP

    I will like to use Jesus Christ as an example.

    Remember that Jesus Christ has a Concentric Increasing Relationship.

    There were the seventy (70) that He appointed and sent out in Luke 10:1

    Then, there were the twelve (12) that He chose to be with Him throughout His entire Ministry.

    Then after then, there were the three (3) that He normally takes out when there are important things to carry out – That is Peter, James and John.

    He took them out during the Mount of Transfiguration and when He was going to Heal that little girl.

    And then; there is still another one – “John The Beloved”. The one that they said was close to Jesus Christ Heart.

    But that doesn’t mean that Jesus Christ was forming a clique.

    Rather in all of these Relationship; Jesus Christ is making us to know that there are ways and means of having Glorious Relationship that will lead us to a Higher Heights that is not Negative.

    Praise the Lord – Hallelujah.

    … Jesus Christ has some Deep Personal Relationship but He was Open and Outgoing in all of them.

    2. DEEPENING RELATIONSHIP

    This simply means that we don’t stay at the level of Superficiality, knowing a few Personal things about People.

    Some of us, it is only every Year that we come here that we meet one another. For the remaining part of the Year, we careless, we don’t know what is happening.

    … I want that to change tonight.

    Look around, form reasonable Friendships. Friendships that can make you go Higher in the things of God.

    Some of us in the various Churches that we go to, we only see ourselves on Sundays. The day we don’t see somebody, you don’t even bother for that Person.

    So, when am talking of “Deepening Relationship”; it means making efforts to know that Person.

    And the only way we can know that Person is when you take that Person to God. Then God will reveal to you what you needed to know about that Person.

    Infact, “Deepening Relationship” according to Galatians 6:2; seems to be referring to something different.

    It says that we should bear each other burdens.

    How many People are you helping to bear their burden?

    Do you know whether they are even burdened at all? When there is music, all of us dance and joke. Do you know whether somebody is crying within?

    If you want to have a Glorious Relationship; you must desire to have more “Intimate Relationship”.

    And when we are using “Deepening Relationship’; it is a Process as it just doesn’t come overnight.

    And this “Deepening Relationship” is not Static. You need to know that they take time – they don’t have to happen overnight.

    But our aim is that more and more we will have an atmosphere that is coronal in Character.

    Praise the Lord – Hallelujah.

    Where we encourage one another, where we do away with Shallowness and Superficiality.

    Don’t let us be like Cain when God said: Where is your brother?

    He answered God and said that am I my brother’s Keeper?

    That is how some of us are behaving nowadays.

    Praise the Lord – Hallelujah.

    3. SUPPORTIVE RELATIONSHIP

    And this is where we are talking of Relationship that has to do with Love.

    Our aim is that more and more, we lightened other People’s Burden by getting to know them.

    Love means that you desire to be a Load Lifter, a Burden Bearer, a Helper and a Strengthener to one another.

    You are not meant to bring other People down out of jealousy but rather you see somebody doing well, you encouraged them to do better until they achieved their best.

    I hope that am getting across to somebody. Praise the Lord – Hallelujah.

    Brethren, I want you to know that if you go into a Relationship because of what you can get out of it; that is very selfish.

    But when you go into Relationship with one another; it is to Bless that Life.

    According to Acts 20:35; it says: I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how He said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.

    … That is a Glorious Relationship.

    4. FAITH-BUILDING RELATIONSHIP

    Which is the bottom-line of why God designed us for the Relationship.

    He designed us so that we can help each other to live by Faith in the Future Grace.

    Faith means being satisfied with all that God is for us in Jesus.

    So, Christian Relationship has this as their Goal to help each other to stay satisfied with Jesus.

    There are People right now in our Church that are going through crises of Faith.

    If you don’t move close to them, how do you know they are going through crises of Faith – it is very, very important. The Book of Hebrews 3: 12-13

    12. Take heed Brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the Living God.

    13. But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

    So, that means we need to challenge one another everyday. We need to aim the Mark, Higher and Higher everyday in order to encourage each and everyone of us.

    And remembering that is one of our Vision Statement: To make sure that we make everyone to make Heaven.

    And the only way we can make everybody to make Heaven is to form a Glorious Relationship where you check on each other.

    Praise the Lord – Hallelujah.

    So, take care of Brethren to make sure that before we leave the Camp this Weekend; look for some People that you would form friendship with.

    And am not talking of friendship which you will be getting from other People but friendship where both of you can be beneficial to one another.

    Praise the Lord – Hallelujah

    But quickly I want us now to go into the Relationship between Male and Female which you called Dating nowadays.

    Praise the Lord – Hallelujah.

    Because its part of Relationship but there must be boundaries in this kind of Relationship.

    In the Old Testament of course; we saw Isaac pursuing Rebecca as a response to a specific Prayer that has been Prayed.

    And we saw Ruth later on laying herself at the feet of Boaz which is another Relationship that portrays the Church and Jesus Christ.

    So how do we handle boundaries in Dating – you better listen and listen very well.

    Now when we are talking of boundaries, there must be boundaries because if there are no boundaries; sometimes People may go out of the way and there must be a Motivation during Dating – What you are looking forward to.

    And this will form a Foundation to all our Actions, all our Moral Effects so that we don’t compromise.

    For example; it is Motivation to run a race when you know that there is a Finishing Line and while you are running in the first Place.

    So what are the Boundaries?

    The Boundary or Motivation is to Glorify God in your Relationship.

    See what the Bible said in the Book of 2 Corinthians 3: 7-18.

    Here, the Bible is talking about when Moses went to meet with the Lord on the Motivation. When he came back because of his Shinning eyes the People demanded that a veil must be put on.

    But now with the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ; that veil has been removed.

    And that is why the Bible said that whenever you comes to the Lord, the veil is taken away for the Lord is a Spirit. And whenever the Spirit of the Lord is there is Freedom.

    So, all of us who has had that veil removed are to reflect the Glory of the Lord. And the Lord who is a Spirit will make us to be more and more like Him as we are changed into His Glorious Image – Amen.

    So, when in our Dating; it is for us to be changed into the Image of our Lord Jesus Christ.

    And this can only be done when that veil has been removed.

    For us to know that you don’t belong to yourself that you have been bought with a high Price – 1 Corinthians 6:19

    “What? Know ye not that your body is the Temple of the Holy Ghost which is on you, which ye have of God and ye are not your own?”

    God gave you this Gift of Holiness through the costly shed Blood of Jesus Christ. And we should realised that we are now eternally brought to the Lord gives us a different Perspective on how we treat our bodies while on Earth.

    So, the Earthly Boundaries that we need to have is:

    1. We need to consider and honour one another especially for Young Males. You must honour that Lady knowing that she is also a Child of God.

    The Bible says in the Book of Romans 12:10. It says: Love each other with Genuine Affection and take delight in honouring each other.

    Supposing that lady is your own Blood Sister, you will not expect that one that if you love me, I want you to do this for me before marriage.

    So, when you are Dating a young Lady, there must be honour.

    And young Lady, you must know and desire the way you want to be treated – You are going out with a young man, you go and dress shabbily with half of your body out.

    How do you expect him to honour you?

    The Bible made us to understand that our Price is above Rubies. And Rubies is one of the expensive metals in the world. You want to buy Rubies, then you have to have the money.

    And that is the way you should treat yourself as very expensive. And any young man that comes to you will learn to honour you.

    Praise the Lord – Hallelujah.

    2. According to the Book of Philippians 2: 3-4

    3. Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.

    4. Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.

    That is very important.

    When you are Dating one another; you must make sure that you lay down your own Agenda.

    Whatsoever Agenda that you have must be laid down and it must be looked at in the light of our Lord Jesus Christ.

    The Point is to Glorify God in our Dating Relationship.

    The Point is to have Helping Boundaries which will free us.

    When there are boundaries around, it free us to be Good Christians that others outside will look at us as a Model and they will want to come into our midst.

    Apostle Paul in the Book of 1 Corinthians 10: 23-24

    23. All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not.

    24. Let no man seek his own, but every man another’s wealth.

    Don’t be concerned for your own Good but for the Good of others.

    So, whenever you are going on a Dating; you look at what will keep you together. You don’t go into Isolation.

    When you go into Isolation; it can bring sin into your Life.

    Don’t start Relationship without Praying and don’t stop Praying while you are waiting.

    Remember the Timing of Dating, the Time of Courtship is a Time of Waiting – You are Waiting to see how God will lead you.

    So that is the Time to Intensify your Prayers. If you don’t know what to Pray about; I have about seven (7) of them maybe I will read them out to you if time permits.

    Some important Goal in order for you to have a Glorious Relationship.

    1. There must be a Goal in mind.

    Remember that as a Born Again child of God; when two (2) of you want to start the Relationship the Goal is that at the end you are going to get Married – that is the Goal.

    But supposing that you don’t get to end up marrying; you should still make it a Goal to Glorify God and edify one another so that in future even if you now marry somebody else. You can still see each other and greet one another in Love.

    You will not be ashamed to see that other Person.

    Why? – Because a Goal is already in mind.

    2. We need to remember that you are brother and sister in Christ not sort of spouse.

    Not that now that you are Dating, the sister is going to your house to cook for you, to mop the floor for you – That is not the Goal, that is not the Aim.

    And sister, that is not the time the brothers must buy the Most expensive Gifts for you – That is not the Goal, that is not the Aim you need to know this.

    You need to be Intentional in Progressing towards Marriage.

    And that is why I have always say and don’t even believed in Dating anyway. But then if you are going to Date don’t let it be a long one so that sin does not come in.

    And the Intention that you are moving towards Marriage not like the one that he is “Testing”. You are like butterfly perching everywhere – that should be discouraged.

    And then before you even start there should be Non Negotiable Things.

    What are the Non Negotiable:

    1. Is he or she a Born Again Christian?
    2. Is he or she having the Spirit of the Living God and Faith in Christ?
    3. Is he or she a member of any Church if not a member of my Church? Is he or she member of a Pentecostal Church where I can go and verify if he or she is a Genuine Worshipper of God?
    4. Is he or she applying the Word of God or is he or she just a Sunday-Sunday Worshipper?

    Is he or she belonging to any Department in the Church?

    5. Can the People or Elders in his or her Church be able to give Good Reports of him or her?

    6. What is the view of your Parents and others about him or her; you need to have this.

    And that is why in the Redeemed Christian Church of God; we always tell the brother that when you see a lovely sister; you first go and tell your Pastor who will be Praying for you.

    It is that Pastor after Praying that will now call the sister.

    And of course, the sister must have been Praying and Seeking God’s Face.

    We need to go back to the Old Ways as this New Way is not benefiting us – where you can have a brother having six (6) or seven (7) sisters.

    7. And then you need to know your Limitations.

    Don’t say that you are going on a Dating where you will go all alone or you said because the brother is living very far that is why I slept over in his house.

    8. You need to envisioned the Future.

    What is the Future that you are envisioning when you are having this Relationship?

    As I begin to round up: Tonight, guide your sister’s heart.

    Yes, because you are supposed to be the Leader and the Leader you are going to become when you married you need to start showing it now – Praise the Lord.

    Men are supposed to Protect women because the Bible said that they are the Weaker Vessels.

    And for the ladies, I will charge you: Guide your heart.

    If a man doesn’t meet certain qualifications, don’t even consider Dating him.

    What do you mean?

    When you watch a man who doesn’t have respect for his blood sister, mother or elders; then he cannot have respect for you.

    You need to watch out: Does he disciple People? When have you seen him carry the Bible out to disciple People?

    I want to let you know that I am from Ijebu (Ogun State, Western Part of Nigeria) and my husband is from Edo (Delta State, South South Part of Nigeria).

    But what made up my mind finally for him then was that when he kneels to cry to God; I will see him weeping as he is Praying. Then I know that this man Prays a lot. I know that this man is a Broken Vessel. And if he is a Broken Vessel, he cannot harm me. I know that my coming to his Life will make a difference in my Life.

    And that is how we have been. He has been my Coach. Then he will tell me Bible Passages to read and when we meet, he will ask me questions on all those things.

    So, if you are having a Relationship with a young man that cannot show some of these Good examples in your Life; then what are you doing with him.

    Anyone that will not treat you like a Queen when you are still outside; forget about it when you enter his house – He will not Change.

    Of course, when you are starting this kind of Relationship, there are bound to be conflicts because we are not one hundred percent (100%) Perfect Human Beings.

    But find a way of sitting down to vet to the bottom of the conflict and then come together before God and ask God to help you to iron out such conflicts.

    So, much more than we have been talking about; I want to still emphasized it tonight that you need to run from Sexual Immorality – Very Important.

    Why am I coming back to this: Many of us know where we have erred, many of us know that when it comes to this aspects of our lives, we have been going round like butterflies and it is affecting our Spiritual Lives.

    As I am Preparing and Praying, God made me to know – You see that anytime you come together, you leave something from your Life into the Life of that Person. And if you don’t end up marrying that Person, it removes and share away the Glory of God from your life.

    No wonder some of you are experiencing up and down in your Spiritual Life.

    ALTAR CALL

    As we are going to be rounding up; if you are here you know that you know that you are an empty shell because of the many People that you have slept with – am talking of men and women.

    You are like an empty shell, you don’t have anything in you. There is no Glory in you again as the enemies has removed it.

    How can you have His Power and His Glory – It is not possible.

    What am I talking about?

    One of the Relationship that God Valued Most and that is when God want to use your Marriage to Protect us.

    Because anytime you come together; the Spirit of God is there and the enemies equally there.

    And so many of us, some things has been stolen from our lives.

    I want us to rise up on our feet tonight. I want to assure you that there is Hope for you.

    I don’t know how your Life has been, I don’t know what you have been experiencing, I don’t know the Spiritual Forces that you have opened the door to and its not making you to rule and reign in Power and Glory.

    I want us to take this song and if you know that you are out there and you need Prayer; I will encourage you to step out. Because under the Anointing tonight; yokes are going to be Broken in the Name of Jesus Christ – Amen. That Glory that has been lost shall be returned into your Life – Amen.

    If you need Restoration, please come out quickly.

    Choir please help me:

    1. My faith has found a resting place,
      Not in device nor creed;
      I trust the Ever-living One,
      His wounds for me shall plead.

    Chorus
    I need no other argument,
    I need no other plea;
    It is enough that Jesus died,
    And that He died for me.

    2. Enough for me that Jesus saves,
    This ends my fear and doubt;
    A sinful soul I come to Him,
    He’ll never cast me out.

    3. My heart is leaning on the Word,
    The written Word of God,
    Salvation by my Savior’s name,
    Salvation through His blood.

    4. My great Physician heals the sick,
    The lost He came to save;
    For me His precious blood He shed,
    For me His life He gave

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  • RCCG REPUBLIC OF IRELAND 9TH ORDINATION AND GRADUATION SERVICE 2019

    RCCG REPUBLIC OF IRELAND 9TH ORDINATION AND GRADUATION SERVICE 2019

    THEME: LET THE FIRE FALL

    MINISTERING: PASTOR E.A. ADEBOYE

    DATE: 27TH OCTOBER, 2019

    TEXT: ACTS 2:1-4

    Let’s lift our hands to the Almighty God and bless His Holy Name. Let’s give Him Glory, Let’s give Him Honour, let’s give Him Adoration.

    Bless Him for the Wondrous things He has done here today. Magnify His Holy Name. He is Worthy to be Praised. He is Worthy to be Adored.

    Praise Him! Praise the King of kings, Praise the Lord of lords. Worship Him, Magnify His Holy Name.

    Thank You Father, Thank You Lord! In Jesus’ Mighty Name We have Worshiped – Amen!

    SONG:

    We give You all the Glory,
    We give You Honour;
    We give You all the Glory,
    We give You Honour (Amen!)

    OPENING PRAYER

    Ancient of Days, we give You all the Glory, we give You all Honour, we give You all the Adoration. Thank You for the Salvation of our Souls, Thank You for keeping us in Your Love.

    Thank You for Your children who have Graduated, Thank You for those Ordained and for those who will soon be Ordained; Thank You for those who will be Ordained in the Future. Please, accept our Worship in Jesus’ Name!

    Thank You for Your Church; Thank You that Your Church is Marching on. Thank You that the gates of Hell will not prevail. Accept our Worship in Jesus’ Name!

    Father, once again we have come before You, we ask that we we will have an encounter with You again; Bless everyone of us!

    And if there be any problem remaining in our lives; Father solve the problems today!

    Thank You Almighty! In Jesus’ Mighty Name we have Prayed – Amen!

    Well, let someone shout Hallelujah – Hallelujah!

    Shake hands with two (2) or three (3) People and say: “The Anointing will destroy the yokes in your Life!”

    And then you may please be seated – God bless you!

    Once again, let me Congratulate all those who Graduated from the School of Disciples; from the Bible College. And all those who have been Ordained!

    I rejoice with those who have been Ordained.

    Am sure that any time it is Ordination Time; I remembered when I was Ordained (in 1975).

    I remembered how I treasured the Oil that came on my head: for three (3) days I didn’t take my bath!

    Of course, I didn’t know what I know now – that there is no amount of water or soap that can wash away the Anointing. So, don’t follow my example!

    As for those of you who are their friends; the fellow you came in with, is not the one you are going out with – They have become Anointed; they are different now.

    The Word of God is clear: it says “Touch not Mine Anointed and do my Prophets no harm”.

    So treat them with respect, they are different now!

    ACTS 2:1-4

    … And while you are opening your Bible, let me seize this opportunity to say ‘Thank You’ to all those who sent us gifts.

    And don’t expect me to write to each of you individually (we don’t have the time for that).

    If we are writing any letter on your behalf, we will write it to God. We will ask God to bless you, so that next time you will be able to do more!

    ACTS 2:1-4;

    1 And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.

    2 And suddenly there came a sound from Heaven as of a rushing Mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.

    3 And there appeared unto them Cloven Tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them.

    4 And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.

    On the “Day of Pentecost”, everyone present in the Upper Room got the Baptism of Fire – All of them!

    They caught the same Fire, the same Day, the same Place!

    In other words, they were all Ordained the same day, at the same time.

    But, very, very soon it became clear that the Fire of Peter was burning much brighter than the Fire of all the others.

    Acts 5:12-16; by the hands of the Apostles (all of them who got the Fire) Miracles were Performed. Everyone of them was used of God to Perform Miracles!

    But, Peter was different!

    Because in his own case, his Shadow now began to heal the sick.

    As a matter of fact, the Bible recorded for us (in the Bible Text I have just mentioned) that; whenever Peter was coming to Town, people would find out:

    Is he coming in the morning? – So that they can lay the sick on the wayside. So that if he is coming from the East – his Shadow will then fall on the sick people on the Wesr. When he is coming in the evening, they lay the sick people on the East.

    And yet, the other Apostles also caught the same FIRE; the same Day, the same Place! They were ALL Baptised by the Holy Spirit at the very, very same Venue: but his own Fire burnt brighter!

    WHY? – Every wood in the forest is a Potential firewood.

    Every wood in the forest has a Potential built into it (from Heaven) to produce fire; or to cause Fire to spread.

    .. Every wood is a Potential Firewood!

    How quickly a piece of wood will burn therefore – quickly from wood into fire is determined by how Dry the wood is.

    John 7:37-39; Jesus Christ said: “In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink….”

    …. And the Bible says, by that; it is talking about the Holy Ghost.

    The river may be the same! We may all come to the river to drink. But how much of the river we drink will be determined by how Thirsty we are!

    When you come to the river to drink: the same river, flowing full of water. What you get out of the river will be determined by what you have come to get.

    In the river, there is Fish: you might have come to fish.

    At the bottom of the river, there is Sand! You might want some sample of the sand at the bottom of the river.

    Or maybe you have come to DRINK.

    Today now, several People have been Ordained by their own blessed situation. They have been Ordained by the same General Overseer;

    In Nigeria, when it is time for Ordination: because even the Pastors alone will number more than two thousand (2,000). I can’t come and shake hands with two thousand (2,000) People (if I don’t want them to begin to Pray for my hands).

    So after my wife and the AGOs (Assistant General Overseers) have helped me to Anoint them; I will stand at the Pulpit, I make Proclamations, I will Pray the Prayer and I will wave at them: “God bless you, go back to your seats!”

    But in the case of the ones Ordained today; I even came down, after I have done the Anointing; after I have laid hands on them; after I have made the Proclamation and Prayed. I still came down to shake hands with them – One by One.

    But within a year; you will see the differences!

    You will see one exceeding another!

    WHY? – Because, even while we are doing the Ordination, some People are busy checking whether the cameraman is taking their Picture.

    All they are interested in is: they want to hang a Picture on the wall – showing the General Overseer laying hands on them! – They will get the Picture.

    And yet, there are others who are GONE (in the Spirit). I could hear one of them crying: “Lord, just have Mercy on me, fill me up”.

    What you get, is determined by what you have come for!

    The same ORDINATION SERVICE; the same Person doing the Ordination, and yet, results could be vastly different!

    WHY? – “What you GET, is determined by what you have come to get!”

    I mean, you know the example in 2 Kings 2:9-15; Elijah said to Elisha, “What do you want?”

    What do you want me to do for you before I will be taken away from you?

    He said: I want double portion of your ‘Spirit!’

    The Man of God said: You have asked for a HARD thing.

    What kind of boy are you? You have seen what a single portion of my Spirit can do: I call down Fire from Heaven, anytime I wanted. I raised the dead!

    You now say you still want double that?

    He said, you are the one who asked me to ask, Sir! I have just told you what I wanted!

    He told him, he said: alAm sorry, what you asked for, is even beyond me to give.

    But, I will commit the One who sent me – “If you see me when am been taken away, you will get what you want.”

    I remember what happened in 1979 when I attended Kenneth Hagin Camp Meeting. And I had appointment to see the Man of God.

    Now, there were some of us who left from Nigeria; as soon as they heard that I have made an appointment with this Man of God, they all jumped on the Bandwagon!

    We got to the office of the great Man of God (now of blessed memory). He said he would see us for fifteen (15) minutes – I said that is more than enough!

    So he turned to us and said: “So, what can I do for you?”

    Before I could speak, somebody had already said: Sir, I want to be distributing your Books in Nigeria (I will be adding a little bit to the cost). He said, Ok!

    The second fellow said: I want to be distributing your Tapes. He said Ok!

    Another one said I want permission to be distributing your Monthly Magazines. – Ok!

    Finally he turned to me and said: “Young Man, now what do you want?

    I said: Sir, “Everything is in you, that makes you, YOU – that is what I want!”

    He said, WHAT?

    I Said, EVERYTHING in you, that makes you, YOU! That is what I want.

    .. That is why I hooked the appointment.

    He said alright!

    He called in his Secretary, he said: This fellow wants Books, give him Books! This fellow wants Tapes, give him Tapes; This fellow wants Magazines, give him Magazines.

    … And they all moved out to the office of the Secretary.

    He said to me: Young man, kneel down.

    I knelt down!

    I saw him coming towards me with his hands raised. That was all I remembered!

    When I woke up; I was on the floor. He was kneeling by my side – his two (2) hands still on my head; Praying furiously in the Spirit.

    When I got up; I knew I got what I wanted.

    What do you want? That is what you will get.

    When He has given you the Fire; use the Fire and it will grow.

    Check Peter: The moment the Fire came on him on “The Day of Pentecost”; he was the one who spoke, the one who Preached – Check Acts Chapter 2; read it throughout all the way from verse 1 through to verse 41.

    He was the one who Preached – He couldn’t keep his mouth shut.

    And so, it was no surprise that by the time you get to Acts Chapter 3; he was the one who is making the lame to walk.

    And as soon as that happened, he Preached another Sermon and won more Souls.

    And so, it wasn’t surprising that by the time we get to Acts Chapter 5; he was already killing People who are Hypocrites in the Church – Simply by saying so!

    … He used the Fire; so the Fire burnt brighter and brighter for him.

    I am going to ask you to Pray in a moment.

    ALTAR CALL

    But there can be one (1) or two (2) People here who suddenly have heard about the Willingness of God to set People on Fire.

    So that when they touched the sick, they get Healed; when they wave their hands; Miracles happen.

    … And they want something like that – God is Willing and He is more than Willing.

    I was an ordinary Teacher. But by the Grace of God when I got the Fire; now I could stand here and wave my hands and handkerchiefs can be as Anointed that it can Perform Miracles.

    But the first (1st) step of course before He can Baptise you with the Holy Spirit is that: You Must be Born Again.

    He has to wash away your sin before He can put Power on you.

    He is not going to pour His Anointing on a Life that is full of sins – He will not do that.

    You don’t Anoint yourself until you have taken your bath first unless there is something wrong with you.

    So in case there is one (1) or two (2) People here who will want the Powerful Blood of Jesus Christ to wash away your sins so that they can become available for the Power of God to descend upon their lives.

    I will give you two (2) Minutes to come and stand before me and I will Pray for your Salvation and then we will round up the Service.

    So, if you want to give your Life to Jesus Christ; I will count from one (1) to five (5). Before I say five (5); please stand before me and we will take care of that.

    … Am counting now …

    And you might be the only one Person – I don’t expect many People here or two (2) it might be. This is your Day.

    God bless you Sister, you welcome and God bless you brother. Nobody is too young to be saved. You can become Mighty Vessels in God’s Hands.

    The Choice is yours: You can live an Ordinary Life or you can live a Life that is Full of Power and Anointing of the Holy Spirit.

    But if you want the Almighty God to turn you to a “Vessel of Honour”; you must be Born Again first.

    Now, if you want to come, you have to hurry up now because we are getting to the Final Countdown.

    Thank You Father. Come, let us make this your Day – Your Hour of Decision and your Turning Point.

    Now those of you on the way, just keep coming and don’t stop.

    Now those of you who are already in front let us lift our voices to the Almighty God. Just say: Lord have Mercy on me, save my Soul, let Your Blood wash away my sins, be my Lord, be my Saviour and I will serve you for the rest of my Life – Go ahead, talk to Him.

    And the rest of us, let us stretch our hands towards these our new brothers and sisters and intercede for them.

    Ask that the Almighty God will forgive all their sins, save their souls and give them a Brand New Beginning. Pray for them.

    … And if anyone wants to come, its not too late you can come.

    Thank You Father. In Jesus Mighty Name we have Prayed – Amen.

    PRAYER FOR SALVATION

    Saviour, I want to bless Your Holy Name because not only do you save; you also Baptise with the Holy Ghost and with Fire.

    And I just want to Thank You especially for Your children who have come forward today to say: Yes Lord, we want to surrender our lives to you. Please receive them in Jesus Name; Forgive all their sins in Jesus Name. Let Your Blood wash them clean in Jesus Name.

    And as you are Saving their Souls today Lord, please write their names in the Book of Life in Jesus Name.

    Lord I Pray that from now on, anytime they call upon you please answer them by Fire.

    And am Praying that Lord God Almighty that even as they join us in Prayers this moment; You will Baptise them with Your Holy Spirit in Jesus Name.

    Thank You my Father. In Jesus Mighty Name we have Prayed – Amen.

    Now, I want to rejoice with those of you who has come forward today. And I want to Promise you that I will be Praying for you.

    So, am going to need your names, your address and your Prayer Request. And I Promised you that I will be Praying for you.

    So, in a moment the Counsellors will take you to where some Pastors are waiting. And they will collect all the information that I needed.

    But before you go; I want you to be Part of the Prayers we are going to Pray now.

    The rest of you; are you ready to Pray – Yes!

    If you believed that God will answer you today; let me hear you shout Hallelujah – Hallelujah!

    I want you to lift up your voice to the Almighty God and say: Father, I don’t want to live a “Useless Life”; set me on Fire for You.

    Go ahead, talk to the Almighty God. I want to be a Vessel unto Honour. Lord, set me on Fire for You.

    … So Mightily Lord that when I lay hands on the sick, they will recover. When I lay hands on the dead, the dead will rise.

    Set me on Fire for you Lord!

    … So shall it be in Jesus Name – Amen!!!

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  • RCCG REPUBLIC OF IRELAND HOLY GHOST RALLY 2019 – THEME: LET THE FIRE FALL

    RCCG REPUBLIC OF IRELAND HOLY GHOST RALLY 2019 – THEME: LET THE FIRE FALL

    VENUE: LUTTRELSTOWN CASTLE RESORT CASTLEKNOCK D15, RH92 IRELAND.

    MINISTERING: PASTOR E.A. ADEBOYE

    DATE: 25TH OCTOBER, 2019

    TEXT: EXODUS 3:1-10

    Thank You Lord! Thank You Jesus!

    1. Let’s lift our hands to the Most High God and bless His Holy Name. Let’s give Him Glory, Let’s give Him Honour, let’s give Him Adoration.

    Let Him hear your voice; tell Him you love Him, tell Him you appreciate Him. Give Him Glory, give Him Honour, give Him Adoration. Bless the King of kings, bless the Lord of lords, bless the Ancient of Days! Give Him Glory, give Him Honour; Praise Him! He is worthy to be Praised, He is worthy to be Adored, He is worthy to be Magnified.

    Praise Him! There is no one like Him; give Him all Glory, give Him all Honour, give all Adoration. Bless, bless, bless the Name of the Lord! give Him all Glory, give Him all Honour, give all Adoration. Magnify Him, Magnify the King of Glory. Worship Him (3ce)

    Thank You Father, Thank You Lord! In Jesus’ Mighty Name We Worshiped – Amen!

    2. I want you to lift your voice to Him loud and clear and and say: Father; if You are touching two (2) people here today, please let me be one of them.

    … Go ahead, talk to the Almighty God: If Your Fire is going touch two (2) people here today, Almighty God please, let me be one of them.

    Thank You Father! In Jesus’ Mighty Name we have Prayed – Amen!

    SONG:
    What a Mighty God we serve (hallelujah)
    What a Mighty God we serve (hallelujah)
    Heaven and Earth Adore Him (even)
    Angels bow before Him;
    What a Mighty God we serve (what a Mighty God!)

    OPENING PRAYER:

    Almighty God, the Most High, the Consuming Fire, the Holy One of Israel, the Lion of the Tribe of Judah, the Unchangeable Changer; Wonderful, Counsellor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Alpha, Omega, the Beginning, the Ending, the One Who was, the One Who is, the One who is to come, the ALMIGHTY: Glory be to Your Holy Name!

    Tonight, in the lives of everyone of Your children – those who are here and those who watching all over the world (or reading); Father, do something New!

    Let the FIRE FALL: Save souls today, heal today, set the Captives free! What You alone can do, do it in our midst today.

    Put a New Song in our mouths; let everyone of us leave here singing a New Song. And please Lord God Almighty, heal this land.

    In Jesus’ Mighty Name we have Prayed – AMEN!

    Let someone shout Hallelujah – Hallelujah!

    And shake hands with about two (2) or three (3) People and Prophesy to them: It will be well with you tonight – Amen!

    And then, you may please be seated.

    Let’s put our hands together for the Almighty God for the wonderful Choir here. They have done a great job. And Thank God for all those who had Ministered in Music tonight. They all did excellently well.

    So let us give the Lord another round of applause for all of them – Amen!

    Is there any one here tonight who is attending the Festival of Life Program for the first time?

    Let me see your hands, if you are attending for the first (1st) time.

    Ok! Well, you will get a first (1st) time Miracle in Jesus’ Name – Amen!

    Just in the next one (1) hour, I believe the Almighty God is going to do something Special.

    I just want to let you know, that from time to time I will be calling on you to stand up and Pray.

    And when I ask you to Pray, I want you to Pray like Warriors. Don’t Pray like Ladies and Gentlemen tonight. After tonight, if you want: you can become Ladies and Gentlemen again.

    I want you to Pray like we Pray in Africa. I want you to Pray so that the ground will shake. I want you to Pray the FIRE down. Because FIRE will FALL here tonight – Amen!

    And when I ask you to stand to Pray; am only asking the young ones to stand! The old ones can sit down and do their own Praying seated.

    You say, what happens if they fall asleep?

    That is no problem, the Bible says your old men will dream dreams. And need to fall asleep first, before they can dream.

    Now, so anyone who is older than I, is old. If you are younger than I, you are young. Am seventy seven (77) years old!

    So all the young ones in the house shout Hallelujah – Hallelujah!

    The Bible says everyone who got a Miracle (through the Ministry of the the Lord Jesus Christ) got it by “FAITH”.

    He would ask you: Do you believe I can do this?

    If you say you believed, then He will say: Be it unto you according to your FAITH. Or your FAITH has made thee WHOLE!

    I want can assure you that the Almighty God is here tonight.

    How do I know?

    He says: “where two (2) or three (3) are gathered together in my Name, I will be there!”

    Now, we are more than two (2) or three (3) here tonight. So God is here!

    The question now is: When exactly do you want your Miracle? – NOW!

    Be it unto you according to your FAITH – Amen!

    … Let me jump the rest of the Introduction, because of time.

    EXODUS 3:1-10;

    1 Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb.

    2 And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.

    3 And Moses said, I will now turn aside, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt.

    4 And when the LORD saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here am I.

    5 And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.

    6 Moreover he said, I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look upon God.

    7 And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;

    8 And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.

    9 Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come unto me: and I have also seen the oppression wherewith the Egyptians oppress them.

    10 Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth my people the children of Israel out of Egypt.

    I wish I have the whole night, to explain to you: WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE FIRE FALLS.

    1. I mean , from this story, the first time that the Fire of God fell for Moses; HE SAW SOMETHING NEW.

    … And like I have Prayed – somebody will see something New tonight – Amen!

    … Not only did he SEE something New;

    2. He HEARD GOD for the first (1st) time.

    And there is someone here today (or reading) who will HEAR God – Amen!

    … He didn’t just HEAR God;

    3. God CALLED HIM by name.

    And whenever God calls a man by name, something dramatic is about to happen:

    When He called Samuel by name; a small Boy became a Prophet.

    When He calls you by name tonight; your life will never be the same again – Amen!

    I can go on and on and on! But, I just want to mention just a few of the things that God Himself said: Things that will be abundantly clear, when the FIRE OF GOD FALLS!

    1. The first thing is, GOD SAID: “I HAVE SEEN”

    “… I have SEEN!’

    Now you wonder, how can God say: “I Have Seen?”

    He said: “I have SEEN the sufferings of My People”.

    … God wasn’t blind! But He said: “I have SEEN!”

    In Psalms 94:9; the Bible says: “He that formed the eyes, shall he not see?”

    But when we talk about SEEING – to SEE has many meanings:

    If I can’t see You, all I want is SEE me – You, just see me. That will be enough for me!

    … Now, when God SEES someone, that fellow will never remain the same.

    What do we mean when we say “God SEES someone?” You know, when we say SEE – See has several meanings;

    For example, if someone has been trying to explain something to you. And all of a sudden, you understand what he is saying. You will say: ‘I see!’

    It doesn’t mean you have been blind! It means: ‘your eye of understanding has been opened!’

    If somebody walks up to me now and say: Daddy, please after this Meeting I will want to SEE you!

    He is already looking at me; but “I want to SEE you” means – ‘I will need Special attention’.

    … I believe somebody will SEE God tonight – Amen!

    So when God says: “I have SEEN!”; He is simply saying – I AM FOCUSING (on someone).

    And tonight, God is going to FOCUS on somebody here or reading – Amen!

    For instance, in John 9:1-7; the Bible talks about a man who was born blind. And the Bible said, Jesus SAW the man.

    As you read the story further, and as I will give you several examples; you will understand that whenever God SEES somebody, the life of that Oerson will never be the same again.

    He SAW that blind man. By the end of the day, the blind man was no longer blind because Jesus SAW him!

    And usually, when God SEES someone, it means He is Focusing on a particular Person, even in a crowd!

    For example, in John 5:2-9; the Bible tells us there was a Pool at a Place called Bethesda. And there was a multitude of People there – ALL manners of sick People; hopeless cases. Cases that Doctors have written off.

    They all stayed by that Pool; because the Bible says: once a year, an Angel will come down, and trouble the water. And the first Person to step in (after the Angel has troubled the water) will be Healed; it doesn’t matter how long they have been sick.

    Jesus got there, SAW a man: a man who had been there for thirty eight (38) years. He was the only one, He SAW.

    So you understand it is not Physical SEEING we are talking about now.

    He was the only one He FOCUSED on. And because He focused on that particular Person, by the end of the story, that fellow was no longer sick; he was moved to a New Level.

    Tonight, the Almighty God is about to SEE someone. I don’t know who that someone is; but his or her ‘AMEN’ will be louder than that of everyone else!

    … Because when He SEES you; everything will Change – Amen.

    I will share a Testimony with you before you Pray your first (1st) Prayer. Some of you have heard the Testimony of the man before.

    He was lame; and he heard that Miracles were happening at a Place we call Redemption Camp (in Lagos – Nigeria). And he got his friends to please bring him there. The friends had to carry him!

    But when they got to the Camp Ground, and there was a crowd (a little more than the crowd here) in so much so that there wasn’t ease (even for those people who were trekking).

    The friends said: We have brought you thus far! Go forward! We can’t carry you through this Multitude.

    So they dropped him! As they dropped him, he spoke to God. He said: oh God, You have SEEN me here! And immediately, God related the message to me as I was Preaching, and said: “There is someone in the crowd who just said: God SEE me here”. And God said, tell him – Yes, I have SEEN you!

    The moment he heard that, he said: Ah! You mean God has SEEN me?

    And suddenly he noticed that something began to happen to him: Strength came to his legs. He suddenly found out that he could stand.

    … Nobody Prayed for him; God just SAW him!

    After the Program, his friends came back looking for him where they dropped him. They looked at where they dropped him, they did not see him. Then he came, tapped them from behind and said: “Are you looking for me?”

    Stand on your feet! And cry to the Almighty God and say: Father; Please SEE me, SEE ME TONIGHT!

    Almighty God, focus on me tonight; please Lord, I know we are many here, SEE me tonight, focus on me tonight.

    Thank You Father! In Jesus Mighty Name, we have Prayed – Amen.

    So shall it be in Jesus’ Name – Amen.

    Please be seated.

    2. The Second (2nd) thing that God said, when the FIRE FELL on that day, He said: I have HEARD your cry!

    Does it mean that God was deaf before? – No!

    The same Psalms 94:9, he said: “He that planted the ear, shall he not hear?”

    God said: I have HEARD!

    So you know He is talking about a “Specific Hearing”.

    There could be a crowd; everybody Praying – crying to God. And God can HEAR someone, SPECIFICALLY.

    But then, the; Bible says according to Psalms 65:2. He said:

    “O thou that hearest Prayer, unto thee shall ALL flesh come.”

    … So He HEARS! There is no doubt about that, that He hears.

    So, the Bible says in Isaiah 55:6; that if you want Him to hear you, you must call on Him while He is near:

    “Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near:”

    But when God’s FIRE FALLS (because when the Fire Falls, it means God is Present).

    It means that God is NEAR.

    And when God is near, He hears! And when He HEARS, He answer!

    In Mark 10:46-52; you know the story of a man called Bartimeus. The Bible says Jesus was passing by, and this man was by the way side begging. And there was a lot of People.

    But there was one man who was crying (in the crowd); and as he was crying, there were People trying to shut him up! But God still HEARD.

    You see, I have asked you to Pray. You have Prayed quite alright!

    But tonight you might have to Pray the kind of Prayer that the People around you may say: “Shut up!”.

    But you will tell them: Oh, you can shut up; you don’t need a Miracle. I need one!

    … Is there anyone here tonight (or reading) in need of a Miracle?

    … Yes, The DMC Family Members!

    Will you shout Hallelujah, loud and clear? – Hallelujah!

    When this man called, God HEARD! And when He heard; He waited. The Bible says: Jesus stood still.

    When God HEARS you; He will suspend everything He is doing, until He has attended to your case.

    I believe that God sent me to Dublin this particular time for one person! And God is going to HEAR that person today – Amen!

    He Promised; He said in Jeremiah 33:3: “Call unto Me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.”

    When you call, He hears! When He hears, He answers! And things would never be the same again – Amen.

    There was the story of this young man. We have just finished a Program (I can’t remember which one). Then of course, there was a Multitude there. I have just Ministered for a long period of time. And as a human being, Physically I was tired. And I wanted to go home to rest.

    And so there has been all kinds of Security. So I had to make sure nobody will disturb me. So I got into my car, and I was about driving away; I HEARD somebody crying. And you could feel it even to your bones – that this man is not crying an ordinary cry.

    But I knew if I stop; I will be in trouble. Because if I stop at that moment, I can tell my friends – the bodyguards are protecting me from my friends (not from my enemies).

    Because so many People just say: Let me touch.

    So I said, I won’t stop!

    But I told my driver “as soon as you can get me to safety, you can come back and bring that fellow”: Someone is crying for Help!

    So he took me to my house, and came back. And of course, he was still there! Still crying – ” Daddy, help me, Daddy help me!”

    So he brought him.

    Sir, what is your problem?

    He said, Sir, I have graduated six (6) years ago; I have no job. My wife who has been supporting the family, lost her job. And now, we have a set of twins! We have not eaten for three (3) days.

    I said, first of all before we go further; let us give you food. We gave him good, gave the wife and the twins food. And then, we listened to their story. We found out where they came from. And before the end of the day (by the Grace of God) there was work for both the husband and the wife.

    I want you to stand on your feet! Lift your voice to the Almighty God (don’t pray like Ladies and Gentlemen) and say Father; HEAR me tonight. Go on, cry to Him!

    Thank You Father, in Jesus’ Mighty Name we have Prayed – Amen!

    So shall it be in Jesus’ Name – Amen.

    Please be seated!

    … That’s Good! You are doing well now.

    3. The third (3rd) thing that God said to Moses: He said “I have SEEN the suffering of my people”; I have HEARD their cries; and then He said: I KNOW their sorrows.

    … He SEES, He HEARS and He KNOWS!

    The Bible says in Isaiah 40:28, it said: You can’t even SEARCH His understanding.

    I have always said that when am talking to People who are not Academicians, and I say: “I have PhD in Mathematics”. They will look at me as if, Eh! This man knows ALL Mathematics!

    … That’s a joke!

    If I am among Mathematicians; and I say: “I have PhD in Mathematics”; they will ask me: What Aspect of Mathematics? And I will say: Applied Maths!

    I see! What aspect of Applied Maths? Then I say: well, Flow Dynamics! Which Aspect of Flow Dynamics? Then I say; well, Hydrodynamics.

    Ok! Which Aspect of Hydrodynamics?

    And I say: Three (3) Dimensional Motion!

    Which Aspect of Three (3) Dimensional Motion?

    And I say; well, Navies to Equations!

    By the time they pin me down on what I got the PhD on; it will be like the Pinhead.

    It will take you a thousand (1,000) Years or more, to know all there is in Mathematics.

    So what does it mean by saying: I KNOW?

    He is talking about SPECIFIC “KNOWING!”

    … You know, there are some occasions when you have problems you cannot even discuss with anyone.

    Whenever we come forward to share Testimonies (particularly Testimony about Salvation); we only tell the part of the story that is easy to tell.

    There are things you can’t even tell your Pastor; things that you know if you tell the Pastor, the next time he sees you, he may want to RUN!

    There are things Pastor can never tell the congregation; but God KNOWS!

    The Bible says in Acts 15:18; it says: “Known unto God are all His Works from the foundation of the world.”

    He KNEW you even before He formed you! When you were still in your mother’s womb, He already KNEW you!

    The Bible says in Mark 2:1-12; when they brought that boy who was paralysed (of palsy); when they brought him through the roof.

    Jesus saw their Faith, and began to say: “son, your sins are forgiven thee!”

    And the People were thinking (though they didn’t say a word), but they were thinking: “Who is this man, that is blaspheming?”

    The Bible says, He KNEW their thoughts!

    … He even KNOWS our Thoughts!

    And then, when He KNOWS your PROBLEMS; you can be sure – He has the SOLUTION.

    The Bible says for example, in Mark 1:23-27; the Bible says there was a man in the Temple, with an unclean spirit. He was in the Church (he was well dressed) but a demon was inside him!

    If God were to show you what is inside the beautiful clothes that People are wearing: many of you will relocate!

    … But God KNOWS!

    I will remind you of a Testimony; I think I saw somebody who was there that night (here today!)

    We heard a Program – an Holy Ghost Service at a Stadium in Ibadan (Oyo State, Western Part of Nigeria).

    The place was packed (inside the Stadium, and outside the Stadium) And we had a wonderful Service!

    I was about to finish, when all of a sudden God spoke to me and said: “There is a woman here, under her armpit, instead of hair, there are Feathers!” And she had been living with this struggle since she was young.

    Every night, before going to bed, she would go to the toilet; plug out the feathers (so that the husband would not see them). By the following morning, the feathers are back! And God said: “if the fellow would come forward, He would set her FREE!”

    When I heard God said that, I said to Him: “Daddy, we have had a wonderful time, let us go home now.”

    I know if You say there is someone here with feathers in her armpit, I know You are speaking the Truth! But who is going to come forward (with all the cameras in this crowd)? And if nobody comes forward, Daddy they will call me a liar! Let us go home.

    And God said to me; son, you want her to die with her problem?

    I said NO!

    He said, go on, make the announcement. So I announced!

    And suddenly, a woman began to come forward, well dressed! You could see straightaway; this is someone highly educated. When she came forward, I repeated:

    Maybe you didn’t hear what I said.

    She said, I heard!

    But before we finished that night, she went to the toilet to check, and the feathers were gone!

    Stand on your feet! Lift your voice to the Almighty God and say Father; You KNOW all my problem, please SOLVE THEM ALL. Lift your voice to Him: cry unto Him!

    Thank You Father! In Jesus’ Mighty Name we have Prayed – Amen!

    So shall it be in Jesus’ Name – Amen.

    Please be seated!

    4. And then the fourth (4th) Thing!

    PROPHECIES:

    Thank You Father! The Lord said there is someone here tonight, He said “I have HEARD your Cry; and I will Heal you!”

    Thank You Father! Maybe will say Amen to this one first.

    … Oh mine! Thank You Lord.

    3. The Lord says there is someone here tonight, He says: I want you to know that from tonight onward, barrenness will no longer be mentioned in your family.

    4. Now, what is the fourth (4th) thing? When God began to tell Moses; Am the God of Abraham, Am the God of Isaac, Am the God of Jacob! He was saying: “I REMEMBER” – I REMEMBER my Covenant!

    Because when you read Exodus 2:23-25; just before the FIRE FELL, the Bible said: God REMEMBERED His Covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, with Jacob.

    When God REMEMBERS someone, dramatic things begin to happen.

    In Genesis 8 (if you read the whole Chapter); the Bible says the day He remembered Noah, Noah came out of hiding.

    The day He remembered Noah everything changed for that family!

    In Genesis 30:22-24; the Bible says, God remembered RACHEL, and opened her womb.

    When remembers the barren, the barren becomes Fruitful.

    When He remembers someone who has been hidden; suddenly he comes to the light.

    When God remembers someone that seems to be forgotten (someone you think can never marry): Marriage, wedding bells, they begin to ring!

    … Because He REMEMBERED!

    When He remembered Cornelius in Acts 10 (you can read the whole Chapter). When He remembered Cornelius, He brought Salvation to his whole household in one day.

    I pray: God will remember someone today – Amen!

    Now, when He REMEMBERS; suddenly He decided “I better do something about it”.

    When He REMEMBERS you, He destroys every curse that may be in your family.

    When He REMEMBERS you, He destroys every bondage that your family may be in.

    Because He said: I REMEMBER my Covenant. It is time now to tell all those forces holding my people down, and say to them:

    “Let My People GO; so that they can serve Me”.

    Ah! Am trying to think of one good example to give you. There are several of them.

    There was this Lady that came to us -some of you have heard the story before thirty three (33) Years old. And said, I have come for Prayers.

    What is the problem?

    She said it is a problem I find it very hard go tell anyone.

    I said, you are already here, so tell me.

    She said, “at the age of thirty three (33), am still bed wetting”.

    I said, there is no problem! We will Pray a simple Prayer. Something is wrong with your bladder, God will fix it. Give you a new bladder if need be!

    She said, before you Pray: My mother before me, was a bed wetter. My grandmother, bed wetter! All my sisters, bed wetters. My daughters are bed wetting.

    Then I knew it is a family problem: I knew there was a curse in the family.

    But Glory be to God, there is Someone who can cancel every curse!

    I told her to give her life to Jesus Christ; and I didn’t have to Preach long. She surrendered her life to Jesus. We Prayed a simple Prayer. And God remembered the family!

    The following day, she came back rejoicing.

    She said for the first (1st) time in thirty three (33) Years, she woke up and the bed was DRY!

    She went and brought all her sisters; they all gave their lives to Jesus Christ. And they stopped bed wetting.

    If only God can REMEMBER somebody today; even the problems that have been aged long in your family will come to an end – Amen!

    Could you kindly stand on your feet and cry to Him? Say FATHER; please REMEMBER ME; bring salvation to my family!

    Thank You Father! In Jesus’ Mighty Name we have Prayed – Amen!

    And So shall it be in Jesus’ Name – Amen.

    Please be seated.

    … You are doing very fine! We are almost there.

    5. He said, not only have I SEEN, not only have I HEARD, not only do I KNOW, not only do I REMEMBER My Covenant; I AM HERE to Deliver!

    Ah! That is the sweetest of them all – He said, Am ready to ACT NOW!

    You know God has a Time table for everything!

    Oh! The Bible says in Ecclesiastes 3:1….

    PROPHECIES:

    Oh, Thank You Father! Daddy says His Healing Virtue is falling like rain!

    Oh Lord, Thank You! I rejoice with this particular fellow; the Lord says they have referred to you as “An “Abandoned Project”. He asked me to tell you: “I WILL SURPRISE THEM!”

    In Ecclesiastes 3:1; Bible says that: God has a Season for everything. And there is a Time for every Purpose.

    … God has a Time Table!

    But the Bible also tells us; that God will Arise and having Mercy on Zion.

    Why? – For the Time to Favour her; yea, the SET TIME has come!

    I am convinced beyond all doubts; that the Time has come for a particular Person for God to ACT!

    He said, I have SEEN, I have HEARD, I KNOW, I REMEMBER, and I AM HERE to Deliver!

    And when God says: “I Am ready to Help; Am ready to Deliver”; who can stop Him?

    Isaiah 43:13 says: “Yea, before the day was I am he; and there is none that can deliver out of my hands: I will work, and who shall let it?”

    Revelation 3:7-8 says: He has the Keys of David: when He opens, no man can shut. When He shuts, no man can open.

    I believe God for someone here today or reading; that your Heavens are about to Open!

    Let the enemies do what they like; the moment God is ready; He will silence the enemies!

    Do you know when you read 1 Samuel 17:16-51; for forty (40) days, Goliath terrorized a whole Nation – Forty (40) Days!

    But when God was ready, He sent a small boy, to put an end to all the enemies had been doing.

    It doesn’t matter how long your problem had being; the moment He is ready, the problems are over!

    There was in Luke 13:11-17; the Bible talked about a woman bound by Satan for eighteen (18) years! But when God was ready, in an instant, the bondage came to an end.

    Like the story of the man by the Pool of Bethesda, that I referred to earlier on; he has been there for thirty eight (38) years. Each time I read the story of this man, I try to imagine what this man must have gone through!

    Because at the beginning of the Year, when everybody was saying Happy New Year! He was saying Happy New Year, too. Thinking that year will be his year. Then one Year passed, the second (2nd) and the third (3rd) one; till the thirty eighth (38th) Year.

    But when God was ready, within a day the Problem of thirty eight (38) Years came to an end.

    I have Good News for somebody: I don’t know who you are but I believed that God has called this Meeting for you that at long last; your Deliverance will come – Amen.

    When He is ready, you might have even lost hope but God is never late – If He says that it is your time today; it is your time!

    PROPHESY: Let me say Amen to this one first because I believed that this is for me.

    God said: That My Plan for you is to Excel and He asked me to tell you that you will yet Excel – Amen.

    Some of you will remember this story. We have a Program like this and I was about to end. So I asked everybody to ask for something Special from God.

    And there was this lady there who was already past childbearing age and had not married because nobody ever came.

    And so when we say ask God for something Special; she just said God: You know my Problem. I have been Praying to you about it for all these Years and there was no response. It is now too late and I won’t bother you again. I will just keep on Praising You anyway.

    And God heard that and Remembered her.

    Few days later; one brother came and said: Sister thus sayeth the Lord; you are my wife.

    She looked at him and said you better go and Pray again.

    He said that have Prayed, you are the one.

    She looked at him and said: Don’t you want children because I am passed childbearing age.

    The man said: Ah, Glory be to God. You are the one because the man said I have already had children. I lost my wife and I don’t need more children.

    But I need a wife: somebody that will keep my Company, somebody who will help me look after the children that the other woman left behind – You are the one.

    So, they got married.

    The very Month that they got married, she became Pregnant. When she delivered, she gave birth to a set of Twins.

    Stand on your feet, lift your voice to the Almighty God and say: Father, Act for me today Lord speedily. I know that it may appeared as if it is already too late but please Act for me speedily today. Let this be my Set Time oh Lord.

    All the Problems of all these years, put an end to them all.

    Thank You Jesus, Thank You Almighty God. Glory be to your Holy Name.

    In Jesus Mighty Name we have Prayed – Amen

    And so shall it be in Jesus Name – Amen.

    Please be seated.

    As I Conclude: When the Fire fell that day; suddenly the Ground where Moses was standing became Holy.

    When the Fire falls tonight; suddenly Revival will begin in Ireland because wherever the Fire touches becomes an Holy Ground – This is a Nation that used to send Missionaries out. Revival will begin again – Amen!

    But that was for the Nation.

    What about Moses himself? – The one who saw the Fire fall; the one for whom the Fire fell.

    When he woke up that morning, he was a Fugitive – he has been a Fugitive running away from Pharaoh for forty (40) Years.

    But before he went to bed that night, he had become a terror to Pharaoh because the Fire fell for him.

    Oh, several things happened to Moses within a Period of less than for one (1) hour:

    1. He saw a Miracle
    2. He experience a Miracle
    3. He touched a Miracle
    4. He carried a Miracle with him when he was going by the time you read Exodus 4:20.

    “And Moses took his wife and his sons and set them upon an ass and he returned to the land of Egypt: and Moses took the rod of God in his hand”.

    When the Fire falls for a man:

    1. He becomes Purified.
    2. He becomes someone who could draw close to God.
    3. He becomes someone God could send on an errand.
    4. He becomes somebody who could become the Ambassador of the Most High God.

    If the Fire of God falls on you today; it will be a Night that you will never forget for the rest of your Life – Amen.

    ALTAR CALL

    But may I appeal to you because we still have more Prayers to Pray.

    Before we ask the Fire of God to fall, make sure that you are on His side.

    Because when the Fire of God falls on sinners, it consumes the sinner – Our God is a Consuming Fire.

    The Day that the Fire on Mount Carmel:

    1. It Promoted Elijah
    2. It brought Revival to the Land of Israel.
    3. But destroyed the Prophet of Baal.

    God is a two-edged sword – One side of Him is Love and the other side of Him is the Consuming Fire.

    … It all depends on the side of Him that you are on.

    If you are a Child of God and am not talking about going to Church; am talking about Genuinely saved, doing the Will of God.

    If you are not a True Child of God, don’t ask the Fire to fall because if the Fire of God falls on you as a sinner it consumes.

    But if you give your Life to Him and His Blood washes away your sins; when the Fire falls:

    1. It will be to Purify you.
    2. It will be to Empower you.

    … So, the Choice is yours.

    And you should remember that:

    1. He knows you more than you even think.
    2. He knows when you are singing and dancing and your hearts is far away from Him.
    3. He knows that you can even be a Preacher and yet be living in sins.

    … He knows as there is nothing that you can hide from Him.

    And since He knows you anyway, why don’t you come to Him and say Please help me: I am living in sin, I want to be free, I want to be a True Child of the Living God – Save my Soul and He will surely do so.

    He knows those who are backslidden; those who are once upon a time a True Child of The Living God but now they have gone back to those things that they have said they won’t do again – He knows!

    But He says that He is here to Act. He is here to receive backsliders back to Himself.

    He is here to save souls, to wash away sins and then to Baptise you with the Holy Spirit.

    That is why He is here.

    So, if there is anyone here who will say: Please Pastor join me in Prayers: I want to be saved, I want my sins forgiven, I want to begin to live as a True Child of The Living God. Or am backslidden but I want to be restored to Fellowship with the Almighty God.

    Am going to count from one (1) to seven (7). Before I say seven (7); if you want that Prayer, come and stand before me. I will Pray for you; He will forgive your sins and give you a Brand New Beginning.

    If by the time I said seven (7) and you are not standing before me; I will know that you are not coming. I will round up and will be on our way home.

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

    If you have backslidden and you want to come back to the Almighty God – Come Now!

    … The Choice is yours.

    And you might be the only one fellow. Don’t wait for anyone.

    Am counting now…

    Those of you who are clapping; keep clapping – Your hands will never be empty.

    Oh, this is your Day of Salvation. Glory be to God. Keep rejoicing to Jesus Christ as they come. Keep clapping as your hands will never wither.

    Glory be to God. Blessed be the Name of the Lord – This is your Day of Salvation and Restoration, this is your Acceptable Time.

    Hurry Up. You are not late yet. The Lord is still waiting for you.

    Thank You Jesus, Thank You Lord, Thank You Father.

    Now those of you on the way just keep coming – Don’t Stop.

    Now those of you who are already infront, let us lift our voices to the Almighty God and those of you who are on the way, Pray along.

    Just say: Lord have Mercy on me: Save my Soul, let Your Blood wash away my sins, be my Lord, be my Saviour and I will serve You for the rest of my Life.

    Go ahead and talk to Him.

    Those of you who are still coming; keep coming as I can see you.

    And the rest of us; let us stretch our hands towards these our brothers and sisters and intercede for them.

    Let us Pray that the One who saved our Soul will save their own Souls also – Pray for them Brethren.

    Thank You Father, Thank You Almighty God. Oh, Blessed be Your Holy Name. Lord Thank You Saviour, Glory be to Your Holy Name – In Jesus Mighty Name we have Prayed – Amen.

    PRAYER FOR SALVATION

    Saviour I just want to Thank You: Thank You for Your Words and Thank You for these People who has decided to respond.

    You Promise that whosoever will come to you; you will in no wise cast out.

    They have come to you now Father; receive them in Jesus Name.

    Save their Souls, forgive their sins, write their names in the Book of Life, give them a New Beginning.

    Anytime they call on You from now on, answer them by Fire.

    And don’t let them ever backslide again.

    Please uphold them till the end. In Jesus Mighty Name we have Prayed – Amen.

    Those of you who are infront, let me hear you shout Hallelujah – Hallelujah!

    I rejoice with you because from now on, by the Grace I will be Praying for you.

    Very soon, you will begin to enjoy Miracles that you have not even Prayed for. Then you will know that there is somebody somewhere Praying for you. And that somebody will be me – Congratulations!

    And so am going to need your names, your address and your Prayer Request. The Counsellors will help me to collate, they will give me a copy which I will take to my Headquarters. And I Promised you that I will be Praying for you – Congratulations!

    Now, if you turn round; there is a man lifting up a Placard with Counsellors written on it. He will lead you to where some Pastors are waiting. They will collect the information that I needed and then bring you back very quickly.

    We will wait for you before we continue. You can begin to go now.

    Without any doubt; God is here and while we are waiting for our new brothers and sisters; I will want you to seize this opportunity of the next five (5) Minutes or so and discuss your Personal Issues with the Almighty God.

    Discuss them in details. Tell Him the things that you expect from Him tonight – The Miracles that Only Him can give.

    … Discuss with God while we wait for our new brothers and sisters.

    Thank You Jesus. Thank You Father. In Jesus Mighty Name we have Prayed – Amen.

    CLOSING PRAYERS

    The Almighty God will focus His attention on you today. He will hear your cry, He will answer you by Fire.

    And all your Problems that He knows, He will solve them tonight. He will remember you for Good.

    Every Doors that has been shut against you; He will force them open.

    He will Arise fro you tonight.

    And all the enemies of God in your Life will be scattered.

    Your Life will never be the same again.

    There will be Revival in your Home, Revival in your Churches and Revival in this Land.

    … So shall it be!

    And everything that you have discussed with Him, before the sun rises tomorrow; it shall become Testimonies.

    … So shall it be. In Jesus Mighty Name we have Prayed – Amen.

    Let me hear somebody shout a Big Hallelujah – Hallelujah!!!

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  • HOW TO TACKLE GIANT PROBLEMS

    HOW TO TACKLE GIANT PROBLEMS

    There are times in the course of our life that some Problems may spring up in our lives.

    Sometimes they may seem so BIG that we refer to them as “Giant-Problems”.

    As Christians however those things that looked insurmountable are found to be much easier with Jesus Christ on our side: “Looking unto Jesus Christ; the author and finisher of our faith.”

    The following can however be noted when it comes to “Giant-Problems”:

    1. Their size may intimidate you.

    There are some things that may face you and you realized that every other Person is running away from it for cover including your Leaders.

    This of course is the best time to recall your Past Victories: the Red-Sea sized ones or the Jericho-Wall sized ones.

    In essence, recall how Big your God is and that He can solve all Problems that come your way!

    He said in His words: “Come unto me all you that are tired and heavily laden and I will give you rest.”

    2. Their words can cause you to doubt yourself (your own ability) or the Capability of your God (ability of your God).

    This is quite serious friends!

    Kindly recall the story of David and Goliath, when King Saul and all the People of Israel heard the words of the Philistine, they were greatly afraid (1samuel 17:11).

    Hearing News such as: “more than 40% of the results of those who wrote Jamb failed or the Labour Market are so much saturated with Graduates and there is no job for Youths etc”; can be such scaring and dumbfounded.

    The question is: How then can you handle such News?

    By turning to the Living Life (Turning words in the News to the Living God); which transcends all circumstances and trumps all opinions.

    “The grass withers, the flowers fades but the Words of our God stands forever.” (Isaiah 40:8).

    3. There is however “an OPENING”.

    Your sole responsibility therefore is to look for such and explore it!

    It was recorded that Goliath could throw his spear half of the length of a football field.

    Aside this, it was reported that he has body armour protecting him from head to toe except for a “Small Opening” between his eyes and forehead.

    It was exactly this same spot – OPENING that David targeted and aimed for eventually and he got it… Gbam!

    The All Encompassing Lessons from all the aforementioned “Giant-Problems’ depicted above is that when you ask God for something or solution to a Problem; it may come as a “Small Opening” rather than the size of half a football field.

    Your own part of the deal is to trust Him enough to get you through once such opportunity presents itself.

    Don’t ever look down on the size of the solution He is providing for you.

    It should be noted carefully that God’s response to that “Giant-Problems” is not designed to increase your sense of Comfort but to build your Confidence in Him.

    … That way, you will not only be able to handle the “Giant-Problems”; but the others waiting for you in the nearest future.

    The extent in which you grow your world definitely depends on you.

    Always remember that: “Success comes from having dreams that are bigger than your fears” (Terry Litwiller).

    The truth of the matter is that: “Every daily efforts that you failed to make use of will gradually erodes your Position in Life”. The Choice therefore is yours … SO PAY THE PRICE!

    Yours Always

    MOSES DURODOLA

    CONVENER, DISCOVERY MEDIA CREW

  • INDEPTH STUDY ON THE CHARACTERISTICS OF CHURCHES: A CASE STUDY OF THE BIBLICAL ACCOUNT IN REVELATION CHAPTERS 2 AND 3

    INDEPTH STUDY ON THE CHARACTERISTICS OF CHURCHES: A CASE STUDY OF THE BIBLICAL ACCOUNT IN REVELATION CHAPTERS 2 AND 3

    The Discovery Media Crew brings to our reading pleasure an in-depth study on the characteristics of churches: a case study of the biblical account in revelation chapters 2 and 3

    The Churches are as listed below:

    • The Churches in Ephesus,
    • Smyrna,
    • Pergamos,
    • Thyatira,
    • Sardis,
    • Philadelphia and
    • Laodicea as a replica of the various happening in the various Churches even as we have it as at today.

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  • RCCG FESTIVAL OF LIFE IN THE MIDLANDS & NORTH OF ENGLAND – THEME: FRESH FIRE

    RCCG FESTIVAL OF LIFE IN THE MIDLANDS & NORTH OF ENGLAND – THEME: FRESH FIRE

    POWERED @ EVENT CITY MANCHESTER, PHOENIX WAY, OFF BARTON DOCK ROAD, TRAFFORD CITY, M417TB.

    MINISTERING: PASTOR E.A ADEBOYE

    DATE: 18TH OCTOBER, 2019

    TEXT: 1 KINGS 18:30-39

    Thank You Lord!

    1. Let’s lift our hands to the Most High God and begin to bless His Holy Name. Let’s give Him Glory, let’s give Him Honour, let’s give Him Adoration! Bless the King of kings and the Lord of lords. Let Him hear your voice; let Him hear that you love and that you appreciate Him! Give Him Glory, give Him Honour, Bless His Holy Name. Praise the King of kings; the Lord of lords, the Ancient of days!

    Thank You Father; Thank You Lord! In Jesus’ Mighty Name we worshiped – Amen.

    1. Now, I want you to lift your voice loud and clear and say: Father; if Your Fire is Falling on two (2) people here tonight, please, let me be one (1) of them.

    … Go ahead, talk to the Almighty God.

    Thank You Father! In Jesus’ Mighty Name we have Prayed – Amen!

    SONG

    What a Mighty God we serve (Hallelujah)
    What a Mighty God we serve;
    Heaven and Earth Adore Him (even)
    Angels Bow before Him,
    What a Mighty God we serve!

    OPENING PRAYER

    Ancient of days we Worship You. The Almighty, the King of Glory, the Lord of Host, the One who never lost a war, the Unchangeable Changer, the Holy One of Israel. Glory be to Your Holy Name! Please accept our worship in Jesus’ Name.

    We Thank You for what You did the last time we were here. We Thank You in advance for what You will do tonight. Please, accept our worship in Jesus’ Name!

    Tonight Father, in the lives of ALL Your children here, and those who are watching (or reading) all over the world: please, do something.

    Let there be FRESH FIRE! Answer all Prayers; give every one of us a New Song!

    And please Lord, heal this land – let there be Revival again!

    And by the time we leave here, Lord God Almighty: let everybody go home with at least one (1) Major Testimony.

    Thank You Father! for in Jesus Mighty Name we have Prayed – Amen!

    Let someone shout Hallelujah – Hallelujah!

    Shake hands with two (2) or three (3) people, say good evening, God bless you.

    And then, you may please be seated; God bless you – Amen!

    Let someone shout Hallelujah – Hallelujah!

    Now, how many of you are attending the Festival of Life (or the Holy Ghost Service) Program for the first time? Let me see your hands? Oh, so many of them!

    Alright! Since you are coming for the first time, you will get a first time kind of Miracle in Jesus’ Name – Amen.

    In other that we might be on the same wavelength, then I need to explain one (1) or two (2) things very quickly:

    1. Whenever God wants to talk to a congregation (no matter how large) He addresses Himself to individuals.

    For example, in Revelation 3:20; He says: “Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: If ANY MAN hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.”

    He was talking to a Congregation, but He still says “ANY MAN”.

    He says in John 3:16; for example; He says: For God so loved the world, that He gave His Only begotten Son, that WHOSOEVER – individuals!

    So as we go on tonight, if all of a sudden you hear: “There is someone here…” And at the end of the day that someone happens to be maybe a hundred (100) people or more; don’t think we made a mistake – that is the way God speaks!

    For example, there is someone here tonight (or reading); who will NEVER weep again – Amen!

    Where is that someone? – The DMC FAMILY MEMBERS!

    … Alright! Let that someone shout Hallelujah – Hallelujah!

    2. Secondly, the Holy Ghost flows like a River!

    Some of you might not fully understand ‘Fetching water from the River’. But those of us who came from villages will understand.

    If the river is flowing and it’s your turn to deep in your bucket and bring out your water; if you hesitate – the river is not going to wait for you.

    So if tonight, for example: when God wants to address your particular case. You are thinking of the rice you left behind at home or you doze away! And then you hear somebody by your side saying – Amen! And you wake up and say, “what did he say?”

    … By then, it will be too late! So tell your neighbour: REMAIN ALERT. OK!

    3. Then the third (3rd) thing I need you to know, is that; in some Nations of the world (and I believe in the United Kingdom also) they have some Restaurants where you can come in, “Eat ALL you can”. Everybody will pay the same amount

    You come in, and they spread all manner of food: Rice, chicken, salads. And they say – “EAT all you can, before you go out”. And everybody will pay the same price.

    Now, when I go to such Restaurants, I see some people, they will take one little spoon of salad, one little spoon of rice and just one little chicken!

    Now. I always wonder, “What are these people doing here?” Because When I go to such s Restaurant, by the time I leave, the owner would know SOMEBODY had visited!

    … And it looks as if am not the only one in that category – Alright!

    The reason am telling you that is that tonight, God has Prepared a Table before you today. On the Table: there is Salvation, there is Healing, there is Deliverance, there is Joy, there is Breakthrough!

    Now, how much of it do you want? – ALL. Alright!

    4. Finally, when you go through the Scriptures, you will discovered that nearly everyone who got a Miracle from Jesus Christ got it by “FAITH”.

    Jesus would ask you: Do you believe I can do it?

    If you say Yes! Then He will either say: Be it unto you according to your FAITH. Or your FAITH has made you Whole.

    … I want to assure you that God is here tonight.

    Now, you say, how do I know? He said “where two (2) or three (3) are gathered together in my Name, I will be there!” Now, we are more than two (2) or three (3) – So He is here!

    Second reason I know is that when He was calling me into Full Time Ministry, He made me a Promise. He said wherever I go, He would come with me:

    So I brought Him with me. So right now, the Headquarters of God is in Manchester!

    Now, the question is: When do you want your Miracle? – NOW!

    … Next Year? – NOW! Alright, let somebody shout hallelujah – Hallelujah!

    OK, we are ready! I believe we are now moving together at the same wavelength.

    I want to Thank the Almighty God for my Brothers who have spoken before me. I give God the Glory, for your lives. And God will continue to Prosper your Ministries.

    Thank you very much!

    Thank God that one of the Preachers have already done a great job – preparing the ground for the little I have to add.

    1 KINGS 18:30-39;

    And by the way, as you are opening your Bible; I will be calling on you from time to time – to stand up to Pray.

    And when I ask you to Pray, I don’t want you to Pray like British people (like highly sophisticated people). I want you to Pray like Warriors; I want you to Pray like lions and lionesses; I want you to Pray the way we Pray in Africa.

    … At least from this Night! Tomorrow you can become as polite as possible again!

    Tonight we want the FIRE TO FALL; and we can’t do that very gently. That is why when I ask you to Pray, YOU WILL PRAY.

    … Do I hear an Amen to that? – AMEN!

    Now when I ask you to stand up to Pray; am only talking to the young ones. The Elders can sit down and Pray – Why?

    If the Elders sit down to Pray, if they fall asleep, that’s no problem! Because the Bible says, “The old ones shall dream dreams!”

    Before they can dream, they must sleep first.

    ….But the young ones must stand up to Pray.

    And who are the young ones? – Anyone who is younger than I is young. If you are older than I, you are old. Now, I am seventy seven (77) years old!

    So those of you who are Young, shout Hallelujah – Hallelujah!

    Alright! So 1 KINGS 18:30-39;

    30 And Elijah said unto all the people, Come near unto me. And all the people came near unto him. And he repaired the altar of the LORD that was broken down.

    31 And Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, unto whom the word of the LORD came, saying, Israel shall be thy name:

    32 And with the stones he built an altar in the name of the LORD: and he made a trench about the altar, as great as would contain two measures of seed.

    33 And he put the wood in order, and cut the bullock in pieces, and laid him on the wood, and said, Fill four barrels with water, and pour it on the burnt sacrifice, and on the wood.

    34 And he said, Do it the second time. And they did it the second time. And he said, Do it the third time. And they did it the third time.

    35 And the water ran round about the altar; and he filled the trench also with water.

    36 And it came to pass at the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, that Elijah the prophet came near, and said, LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known this day that thou art God in Israel, and that I am thy servant, and that I have done all these things at thy word.

    37 Hear me, O LORD, hear me, that this people may know that thou art the LORD God, and that thou hast turned their heart back again.

    38 Then the fire of the LORD fell, and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench.

    39 And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces: and they said, The LORD, he is the God; the LORD, he is the God.

    Ok! The Introduction to this story had been adequately handled, by the first Preacher. So I will just go straight on (because we have limited time) to look at:

    “WHAT HAPPENS WHEN FIRE FALLS?”

    … Particularly, when it has just fallen FRESH.

    1. The First Thing (from this story that we can see) that happened on Mount Camel; that I believe the Almighty God is going to repeat here today, is that; “PRAYERS ARE ANSWERED INSTANTLY”.

    … Before Elijah finished Praying, the FIRE FELL.

    You see, some Miracles can take place after a while. For example: in Genesis 12:1-3; God Promised Abraham, ‘Ooh! am going to bless you; am going to make you a blessing; am going to make you Fruitful – through you, the whole Earth would be BLESSED”.

    Years past, nothing happened! Then came Genesis 17:1-17; and God began to speak to Abraham again: “Oh, am going to make you the father of many Nations; your wife is going to be the mother of multitudes,” Et cetera!

    But by then Abraham had been waiting for this Miracle to happen; for twenty five (25) years.

    So at that stage, he laughed! The Bible said he laughed so mightily, he fell on his face.

    He was saying to God: can we just forget this joke! But then, after twenty five (25) years and more – in Genesis 18:9-14; finally, the Miracle came!

    So, some Miracles can wait! Some of us have been waiting for Miracles now; some for years! But there are some Miracles that cannot wait at all. There are some Prayers God must answer INSTANTLY, or it will be to late!

    For example, consider 1 Samuel 17:45-51; when David came face to face with Goliath: and he was boasting – am coming against you in the Name of the Lord of Host, et cetera!

    Supposed that first Rock, missed the Target? Supposed when he let go that little Rock, instead of hitting Goliath straight on the head (leading to his death) supposed he missed?

    I can assure you, Goliath would not allow him to get a second Rock.

    … Some Miracles CANNOT WAIT!

    I give you another example: take Daniel 3:19-30; when they bound Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego; and they threw them into the fiery furnace. Supposed the Fourth MAN was not there INSTANTLY?

    Do you think they could wait for their Miracle till tomorrow? They would have died that day! So they needed urgent Miracle.

    Take another example: Daniel 6:16-28; when they threw Daniel into the den of lions (and those lions were hungry – as we were to discover the following day). Supposed the Angel of the Lord was not there INSTANTLY – To shut the mouth of the lions?

    … The story would have been entirely different!

    There are some people here, who can sit down and tell the Almighty God: ‘I know you can do all things; so if You give me my Miracle in two (2) year’s time, it will be OK!

    But there are some of us, who have been believing God for Miracles and we can’t wait any longer! And we want our Miracles NOW!

    … If you are one of us, let me hear you shout Hallelujah – Hallelujah!

    I will tell you a story, before you Pray: I was travelling from a Town in Nigeria called Ibadan – Oyo State, Nigeria; to another one called Ilorin – Kwara State, Nigeria. And any of you who probably had travelled along that road before, you would know that there is a particular bridge (it’s a very narrow bridge): it can only take one (1) vehicle at a time.

    So the procedure is: if you get to the bridge first; any other vehicle from the other side would park – till you have passed. And I was driving on that road! My driver was driving. We were already in the middle of the bridge when a big Truck was coming from the other side: it was supposed to stop!

    Whether he didn’t see us, or the break failed (I never found out) but he just kept coming. And that narrow bridge was over a very deep river. He was coming straight at us; and we have an option to die: by head on collusion, or to swag into the river and drown! There was no time to Pray. There was only enough time to shout a Name!

    … May I hear you shout JESUS!

    I shouted, my driver shouted – JESUS! And we met in the middle of the bridge; and passed! The Truck didn’t stop.

    When we got to the other side of the bridge; my driver parked! Because he was shaking like a banana leaf. Fortunately, he didn’t look back – because I was shaking by something else (laughter)! By the time he looked back; I had composed myself a bit.

    … And he said: Daddy, WHAT HAPPENED?

    I Said: “God ENLARGED the bridge!”

    I want you to stand on your feet: Lift your voice to the Almighty God and say Father; Tonight answer my Prayer INSTANTLY! Open your mouth and call on Him!

    Thank You Father; Glory be to Your Holy Name. In Jesus Mighty Name we have Prayed – Amen.

    So shall it be in Jesus’ Name – Amen.

    … You may please be seated!

    2. The Second thing that happened when that Fire Fell FRESH – was that the Bible said: the OFFERING WAS CONSUMED.

    That means the offering offered was: ACCEPTED. And if the offering offered, was ACCEPTED – it means, Harvest can begin immediately!

    Oh! There are some Harvests you can wait for. There are examples in Genesis 26:12-14; the Bible said, Isaac sowed it the land and he received in that year.

    … It took a year before the hundred fold came!

    There are Harvests that can wait a while. Like in 2 Kings 4:8-17; the Bible tells us about the great woman of Shunem who was feeding Elisha. She even went ahead and built an apartment for him.

    She has been doing this Months after Months; until one day the Almighty God spoke to Elisha and said: “you have been eating this woman’s food, sleeping on her bed: you have not even asked if she has a problem.”

    Till the Man of God finally said: OK, what ia your problem?

    But she said, ‘I have none!’

    Then the Man of God discovered that: OK, she is barren (the husband was old). And so he said, OK I give you something Money cannot buy.

    But there are Harvests that cannot wait: Offering that must be received by Fire, so that the Harvest can come that very day.

    For example; 1 Kings 17:8-16; the Bible tells us about the Widow of Zarephath. She had only one meal left! And the Man of God said: just prepare me a meal first – and she did!

    She sowed that day, and that very day, she began to Harvest! Because if the Harvest didn’t come that day: she and her son, would have died.

    I have come to Prophesy to someone here today (or reading now) that beginning from this moment onward: your Harvest will begin to come!

    Now, when we talk of Harvest; Harvest at times is not usually money. The Harvest is at times, something money cannot buy. And I give you an illustration;

    I was going to have a Program, in a Town in Nigeria, called Port Harcourt – Rivers State. And as I was preparing God spoke to me and said: there is a particular brother in that Town; and He wanted me to go and stay in his house.

    I said, Yes Lord! Before I begin to say: Lord, You know I don’t normally stay in People’s houses (so that I can be neutral). And in any case, the fellow You asked me to go and stay in his house is not even a member of my Church.

    But God said: “That is where I want you to stay”. I said, fine!

    I told him what God said, and he shouted for Joy.

    I got to his house, and I met the little children. And there was one little boy among them – I began to call him ‘my friend!’

    Then one day, I was going (because the Program was over a period of days. There was one day, I was going for the Crusade, and I saw the children coming from school: and I said, eh, where is my friend?

    And the father looked up at me with tears in his eyes; your friend is dying.

    What do you mean by ‘my friend is dying?’

    Well, he went to school, and somebody gave him poison to eat, and now he is in hospital.

    And where is he?

    They told me the hospital; and the hospital happened to be on the way to the Crusade ground any way!

    And suddenly God spoke to me and said: “that is why I asked you to go and stay in the house!”

    When I got to the hospital, the boy was stack naked in the room where he was:

    The Air Conditioner was going full blast. And he was sweating profusely! I stood by the head of the bed, the Doctor and the father were standing at the foot of the bed. So the Father could not see the signal from the Doctor to me.

    The Doctor signaled that “there is no hope”.

    But since God had told me: “that is why I asked you to go there”. I knew, where the world says there is no hope, there will be hope.

    I Prayed a little Prayer; I went for the Crusade. Just as I was returning home from the Crusade, the boy came home – already Discharged!

    Somebody needs a Harvest; a Harvest that money cannot buy.

    Stand on your feet, and cry to the Almighty God, and say: Father; let Your Fire Fall: and let my Harvest Begin!

    Open your mouth and cry to the Almighty God: let the Fire fall, and let my Harvest begin: a kind of Harvest that money cannot buy!

    Thank You Father; Thank You Lord! In Jesus’ Mighty Name, we have Prayed – Amen!

    So shall it be in Jesus’ Name – Amen.

    … Please be seated.

    3. The next thing that happened when the Fire Fell that day, was that: all of a sudden, the Wood was Consumed by Fire!

    Now, what is the implication of this?

    Inside every wood, there is Fire!

    That is why it is called “FIREWOOD”.

    But the Fire that is inside the wood would not come out: until Fire comes on the Wood. Meaning what?

    Some Potentials had been lying dormant for a long time. There are some people here, who have dreamt of doing MIGHTY THINGS for God – am sure of that!

    There are people who knew (without been told; that they were not created to be small. There is something within them, that tells them: “Am somebody special!” How come I am not becoming what I want to become?

    That Greatness that has been lying dormant in you, is going to be released today – Amen!

    I give you an example today (from the Scriptures) in Like 5:1-11;

    PROPHECY:

    Thank You Father! The Lord asked me to tell somebody here tonight (or who is reading now). He said; your account will soon cease to be in the RED – Amen!

    In Luke 5:1-11; you know the story! Peter fished all night, and caught nothing. Jesus came into his boat, he threw the net and caught so much fish, that the boats were sinking. And he beckoned to another to help!

    After that, the Lord spoke to him, and said: from now on, you will be ‘catching men’ – you will be ‘Fishing for men!’

    For three (3) years plus; Peter did not win a single soul.

    Then on the day of Pentecost; the FIRE fell, landed on the head of Peter. And that which had being inside him, came alive! He Preached a single sermon – and won three thousand (3,000) souls (one day!) – That is in Acts 2:1-41.

    Then, he was going to Pray and he saw a lame man in Acts chapter 3 (you can read the story). He was a Fisherman: whoever thought of a Fisherman performing Miracles?

    … The Potential had been there, until the Fire came!

    When the Fire came and that lame man was saying: I need money. He looked at him and said: I am a Fisherman, I have no money. But I have something now; what I have I give unto you – in the Name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, RISE UP AND WALK!

    I believe I can Prophesy to someone here today who has been dreaming of a time when you will lay hands on the sick and they will be Healed. You will cause the lame to walk, the blind to see! And you have been dreaming about it:

    … From tonight onwards; your dream shall be fulfilled – Amen!

    But the point is: he Preached another Sermon (after Healing that man) and according to Acts 4:4; he won five thousand (5,000) souls! Then he went on and on and on:

    And then he Performed another Mighty Miracle – killing husband and wife who were trying to deceive the Church. And the Bible said, after that, Multitudes began to be added to the Church.

    Peter, an ordinary Fisherman; when the FIRE FELL, the Potentials in him, came to the surface.

    I became a Pastor in 1975; I didn’t want to become a Pastor. Because I was a Mathematician, I knew what I wanted to be! But when I gave my life to Jesus, and things began to move in the way it was moving:

    I said alright! If am going to be a Christian, then I don’t want to be an ordinary one – I want to be one that will be Mightily used of God.

    … I have read of Miracles; I have heard of Testimonies; but I want God to use me!

    And I come in the Name that is above every other names: the people that God will use Mightily for the revival in this land, are listening to me right now (or are reading this message) – Amen!

    And so an opportunity came in 1979. I went to Tulsa, to attend Kenneth Hagin Camp Meeting. And I saw, the Power of God being demonstrated naked, before my eyes – I saw the lame walking, I saw the sick been Healed.

    … Something told me, “my day has come!”

    So I said, I must see this Man of God. They said it is impossible! I said, I will see him. I cried to God, He made a way! He gave me an appointment.

    Now, there were some of us who left from Nigeria with me; as soon as they heard that I have made an appointment with this Man of God, they all jumped on the Bandwagon!

    We got to his office; they told us, he will give all of maximum fifteen (15) minutes – I thought: that would be enough! So, he looked at us and said:

    “What to you want?” Before I could speak, those who followed me had started speaking. This one said, I want permission to be distributing your Books in Africa. The other one said: I want permission to be distributing your Tapes. Another one said I want permission to be distributing your Magazines.

    Finally he turned to me (when there was nobody left); Young Man, what do you want? I said: “Whatever is in you, that makes you, YOU – that is what I want!”

    . . He was shocked! He said, are you sure? I repeated myself.

    So he called the Secretary, the Secretary came! He told the Secretary: This one wants Books, give him Books! This one wants Tapes, give him Tapes; This one wants Magazines, give him Magazines.

    … And they all moved out of the office.

    Then he turned to me and said: Young man, kneel down. And I knelt down! I saw him coming with his two (2) hands towards my head.

    … That was all I remembered!

    When I woke up; I was on the floor. He was kneeling beside me – his two (2) hands on my head; Praying furiously. By the time he finished: I knew I got what I wanted. I knew I got what I wanted!

    Stand on your feet, and cry to the Almighty God, and say Father; let Your Fire Fall: that Potential in me, ACTIVATE it tonight!

    Open your mouth and cry to the Almighty God:

    Thank You Jesus! In Jesus Mighty Name we have Prayed – Amen.

    So shall it be in Jesus’ Name – Amen.

    Please be seated!

    4. And then they said, the Fire CONSUMED the ‘ROCK!’

    The ‘Rock’ stands for HARDSHIP.

    In Africa, when they want to say somebody comes from a very POOR background, they would say: “he rose from the Rock!”

    … ROCK simply signifies “HARDSHIP”.

    There are some HARDSHIP that could be endured. But there is a limit you get to, when the hardship must end!

    And I believe as the Fire of God falls tonight; some people would never suffer again!

    When you read Exodus 3:1-10; the Bible talks about the Almighty God coming down in Fire and speaking to Moses, concerning the children of Israel.

    … God was saying: they have suffered enough.

    But you know what? They have been suffering for more than four hundred (400) years, before that Fire fell.

    There are other examples, you would find in the Scriptures. For example, in 2 Kings 7:1-11; the Bible talks about a Siege that had been on a City. And the Siege has been on for so long: that women were already eating their own children.

    … That is not a good kind of hardship!

    But then, the Almighty God intervened; and in less than twenty four (24) hours the Tide Turned!

    May I Pray for somebody here today,. (or reading now), that before the end of this week; your Tide will turn – Amen!

    And then, there is that example in 2 Kings 4:1-7;

    PROPHECIES:

    Thank You Lord! Eh, This is a good one!

    Once upon a time, we were having a Program like this. And the crowd was a little more than this. And all manners of Miracles were happening around the Altar. And there was a man at the back – somewhere in the congregation (a very short man).

    When he tried to see what was going on in the front, one tall fellow will block his view. If he turns this way, another tall fellow will block his view. So he said in his heart to God; “Oh God, how I wish I were taller!”

    The moment he finished speaking, God spoke to me and said: there is somebody in the crowd who said: ‘I wish I were taller!’

    And the Lord said, I should tell the fellow, that he should look down, if he sees his trousers looking shorter, there is nothing wrong with the trousers – it was that God has granted his request, and he has grown taller!

    When it was Testimony Time, he came forward with his wife to Testify.

    And the wife said; I know where my husband was, when we left home. This is where he is now!

    1. Why am I telling you that story? The Lord asked me to tell someone here, He said: you might be feeling some cracking in your body; it is because I AM doing “Structural Adjustment”.

    … Whoever that is, I would love to hear your Testimony: am curious!

    2. Thank You Father! The Lord said there is someone here tonight, He says, every door that has been shut against you; My Fire will consume tonight!

    2 Kings 4:1-7; tells us the story of another widow – she was the widow of a Man of God. And she was heavily in debt.

    And everyday she has been going around; and when people say to her: How are you Sister? She will say: oh, Glory be to God, all is well.

    But one day, the creditors came and they said: ‘if you don’t pay within twenty four (24) hours, we will sell your two (2) sons! That day, she could no longer endure the hardship! She cried out to God.

    And you know what? Before the end of the day; not only was her debt paid, she had enough to live on, for the rest of her life!

    I decree to somebody, very, very soon: you will have more than enough – Amen!

    I have told the story before; of a relation of mine. Things were good for him before, but then everything turned to the negative. He became so poor, that he had to be borrowing the dress of the wife (to readjust, for him to wear).

    Things got so bad that he planned to commit suicide: that death is better than shame!

    But being a funny character, so he decided that he will attend his funeral – He said he would go to Church, he would dance so much that People will notice him. And then go home and commit suicide.

    … So that everybody would say: Ah! We saw him in Church!

    But as he was sitting down, he heard a Word from the Preacher: who was Preaching about Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego. And the Man of God said, when Shadrach, Meshach,
    and Abednego said “The God whom we serve, He is able to deliver us: they did not know how God would do it – They just trusted God!

    He heard that Word; and he said: I too, I refuse to die; I don’t know how God will to it; but I refuse to die.

    That day, he Prayed like he had never Prayed before, and God heard him!

    … God is going to hear somebody here tonight – Amen!

    The day he was sharing his Testimony, he had just bought fourteen (14) cars for those who are working for him.

    Fourteen (14) cars in a day from a man who was about to commit suicide because he had nothing; to a man who could buy Fourteen (14) cars in a day!

    Why? – Because when Fire Falls, HARDSHIP ends!

    I want you to stand on your feet, and cry to the Almighty God, and say Father; let Your Fire Fall and put an end to my sufferings!

    Open your mouth and cry unto the Lord: Let the Fire Fall, I am tired of sufferings Lord. let the Fire Fall and put an end to all my sufferings!

    Am tired of suffering Lord, am tired of managing to survived. Let Your Fire Fall Lord, and put an end to all my sufferings!

    Open your mouth and cry unto the Lord. Let the Fire Fall. I am tired of suffering Lord and put an end to all my sufferings.

    Am tired of managing to survive. Let your Fire fall and put an end to all the hardship in my life.

    Let the Fire fall fresh on me. Put an end to all my sufferings: Physically, Materially, Maritally.

    Thank You Father. In Jesus Mighty Name we have Prayed – Amen.

    … So shall it be in Jesus Name – Amen.

    Please be seated.

    5. The next thing that happened when the Fire fall is that the Bible says that the dust – the very dust around the ground there; was consumed by Fire.

    Now, the dust signifies Physical Problems.

    Because the Bible says in Genesis 3:19; it said: You are dust and to dust you will return – It describes man as dust.

    So, there are problems that are Physical. This is where your Healings comes now.

    Some of these problems can be endured if they are minor – a little bit of fever, some minor aches and pains.

    But when the doctors say that there is nothing more than we can do; you know that you need a Miracle immediately.

    I mean for example in Mark 5: 25-34; the Bible tells us of a woman with the issue of Blood. She has been enduring this problem for long. She has been referred by one Doctor to another until she has spent everything that she had.

    And the Bible said that instead of getting better, she grew worst.

    When she has nothing left, she came to the Lord Jesus Christ and touched the helm of His Garment and there was a spark of Fire because Jesus Christ said that Virtues has gone out of Him.

    That day, her problem came to an end.

    I have a deep feelings within me that every sick person who are here tonight or reading now will not go out with their sickness – Amen.

    Particularly, those that the Doctors have said maybe we can manage your case but it cannot be cured – There will not be Management anymore – Amen.

    In the Name that is above every other names; you will be Healed tonight or as you are reading – Amen.

    A woman was sick at an hospital called LUTH (Lagos State Teaching Hospital in Ikeja, Lagos State Nigeria). I can’t remember the exact nature of the sickness.

    The husband came to visit her one evening and the doctors called the husband aside and they said that there is no way this woman will last till tomorrow morning.

    So, the husband went in, pretended to be a very loving husband – Oh my darling et cetera, et cetera. And then left.

    Unknown to the woman, the husband is already getting ready for another fellow.

    So, the husband phoned his girlfriend and asked her to come – Let us enjoy, this woman will pass on before tomorrow morning.

    But after the husband left and the door was shut; someone came through the door – The One whose Name is “The Door”; dressed like a doctor came to her and said daughter Rise Up. I am the Lord that Healeth thee.

    And instantly she was made whole. So she got up and dressed.

    When the Nurses saw her, they thought it was her Ghost because they had been told that she will die that night.

    And she said: Am discharging myself.

    Anyway, she came home and because the husband thought she was gone, he was having fun with the concubine. He didn’t even bothered to lock the door and she walked in and the husband saw her.

    … When Doctors fails, there is a God who will not fail.

    I want you to stand on your feet now. Even if you are not the one in need of a Healing, if you have a relative at home who is in need of Healings; cry to God and said: Father, send down your Fire and consume every sickness and every disease.

    Open your mouth and cry to the Lord. Send down your Fire and consume every sickness, every disease, every aches in my body, in the bodies of those precious to me.

    Let there be Fresh Fire from above tonight Oh Lord. We need your Healing Power, let your Fire fall.

    Thank You Father, Thank You Lord; in Jesus Mighty Name we have Prayed – Amen.

    And so shall it be in Jesus Name – Amen.

    Please be seated.

    As I continued, I want you to begin to check your bodies, begin to check those things you could not do before. In the Mighty Name of Jesus, you can do them now – Amen.

    6. And the next thing that happened when the Fire falls which is the one that I liked most is that the Fire consume the Water.

    Water is supposed to put off Fire but the Fire that we are talking about is the one that uses water as fuel – It is a Divine Fire.

    Which is why am believing God tonight that there is somebody here or reading who will never know sorrow again – Amen.

    There is a time for enduring sorrows. But as a child of God, you shouldn’t even endure sorrow for twenty four (24) hours.

    Why? – Because Psalms 30:5 says: Weeping may endure for a Night, Joy comes in the morning.

    In the Name of the One who sent me; everyone of you here or reading; by tomorrow morning you will be singing a “Song of Joy” – Amen.

    For every Person, there is a possibility of sorrow ending once and for all.

    In 1 Samuel 1: 9-21; the Bible tells us the story of Hannah. For years, she has been coming to Shiloh, Praying to God for a child and nothing happened.

    But on one occasion, the Fire fell on her. The Almighty God singled her out of the crowd and the Man of God decreed that she will have a son.

    Am believing God for someone here today or reading now – who has been trusting God for Breakthrough whether in the Physical or in the Marital or in the Financial; your Breakthrough will come tonight – Amen.

    You don’t want to endure sorrow for a day longer because sorrow is a killer.

    In Proverbs 17:22; the Bible says that the Merry Heart doeth good like a Medicine but a broken Spirit drieth the bone.

    I am not a Medical Doctor but the Doctors have something to tell us about bones that are dry.

    There is something inside your bone that is supposed to be producing Blood. If that something dries up; you are on your way to the grave.

    And that is what sorrow does – It kills you from inside.

    And that is why we will cry to God together tonight that Fire will fall so that nobody here will ever know sorrow again – Amen.

    I have always told the story of something that happened. We are having a Program like this and it was time to Pray. And I said everybody should be Praying and I was Praying too because I need God to Help me.

    And what I was taught when I am Praying was that am to close my eyes – Probably to concentrate.

    So, I was Praying with my eyes closed. And all of a sudden I heard God saying to me: Son, open your eyes.

    I almost told Him: Lord, am Praying. But I know who was speaking and I opened my eyes.

    Then He pointed a woman in the Congregation and said: Go and tell her that she should weep no more because she was soaked in tears.

    I got to her, I tapped her by the shoulder and told her God said: Weep No More!

    And all of a sudden, her eyes brightened because she knew at long last, God has heard her.

    … God will hear somebody here tonight – Amen!

    I delivered the message and came back to the Pulpit to continue with the Program.

    About a year or so later, I saw a lady standing before me. She said sir, you don’t remember me?

    I said am sorry ma; how many People will I remember?

    She said that I was the lady who was weeping. She said that she has been barren for several years. And now the relatives of the husband has spoken to her: If you don’t give our son a child within a year we will drive you out of this house. She said that was why I was crying.

    And now when I looked at her; it was now my own turn to cry for Joy because on one hand she was carrying a baby and on the other hand she was carrying a baby.

    … The Almighty God had wiped away her tears.

    I want you to stand on your feet and please cry to God with all your heart and said: Father, for the rest of my life don’t let me know sorrow – Please Pray.

    As your Fire fall tonight; don’t let me know sorrow ever again.

    Thank You Father, Thank You Jesus. In Jesus Mighty Name we have Prayed – Amen.

    So shall it be in Jesus Name – Amen.

    Pleased be seated.

    And you have done very well. I will soon be rounding up.

    7. When the Fire fell, the next thing was that the People fell on their faces and they started shouting: “THE LORD IS GOD”

    Meaning what?

    God’s Purpose for that land was fulfilled – Revival came back to the land.

    When Fresh Fire falls, Revival will come to the land.

    Whether the devil likes it or not; United Kingdom will know Revival again – Amen. Because Fire will fall tonight – Amen.

    But that is not even the main Point now – It is because the Purpose of God for the life of Elijah was fulfilled.

    Because the name Elijah actually means: THE LORD IS GOD.

    You break his name into two (2): “ELI” and “JAH” – “The Lord is God”.

    That is why Elijah was born to bring the People to a level that they will shout: “The Lord is God”.

    So, what is the implications for you?

    It means that God has a Purpose for your life.

    … And in the Mighty Name of Jesus Christ because you came here tonight or reading right now; that Purpose will be fulfilled – Amen.

    In Jeremiah 1: 4-5; the Bible says that before God formed you at all; He knew you. While you are still in your mother’s womb, He had already set you apart from Himself.

    God never created anybody without a Purpose. You were not born as an accident. You came into this world for a Purpose.

    The sad thing however is that many People believed that they came into this world without a Purpose. They lived and died without fulfilling their Purpose.

    But your own will be different because the Purpose God has for your life is a Good One according to Jeremiah 29:11.

    He said that: I know the thoughts that I think towards you – thoughts of Good, not of evil to have an Expected End.

    … What He called the “Expected End” is the Purpose for which He created you.

    Many atimes we have our own ambition.

    We think: Oh, if I can become a Millionaire, I would have made it. Or we think of one thing or the other.

    Whereas, God has a Purpose for our life. And that Purpose begins to find fulfilment the moment the Fire of God falls.

    I have my own Plans – Oh, as a very young man, I can say it now that it does not matter anymore: A brilliant young Mathematician.

    I thought that am going to become the youngest Vice Chancellor Africa had ever known – That was what I wanted to be.

    But the Purpose of God for my life was different. He allowed me to study Mathematics for twenty seven (27) Years and then He blocked my ways and said: I want you to be a Preacher.

    As a Vice Chancellor, I would have been a Blessing to a University. As a Preacher, by the Grace of God am a Blessing to the world.

    … God has a Purpose for your life and that Purpose will be fulfilled when the Fire falls – Amen.

    But before I asked you to Pray the Final Prayers; you have Prayed six (6) times already and you are about to Pray the seventh (7th) Time.

    You have really done very well – I mean for a sophisticated audience.

    You have tried. Let me hear you shout Hallelujah – Hallelujah!

    ALTAR CALL

    The Fire of God never falls on an empty Altar. You can go through the Scriptures and see – Every time that the Fire of God fell, it never fell on an empty Altar.

    You want the Fire of God to fall on you; then you will have to lay yourself on that Altar as a Sacrifice.

    The Bible says in Romans 12:1. It says that: I beseech you therefore Brethren that your Present your Body as a Living Sacrifice.

    The Sacrifice is something that is already Placed on the Altar and you are not going to take it back because as a Living Sacrifice, He is asking that you leave the rest of your life for Him.

    When you lay yourself, your Marriage, your Future, your Plans – everything on the Altar in Total Submission to God, then and only then will the Fire Fall.

    For those of us who has already given our lives to Jesus Christ, we need an additional submission – Submission to the extent that whatever God says, we will do and we will never argue with His Words. His Words will be our Command.

    You cannot claim to be surrendered to God and continued to live in sin – that is not possible. He is a Holy God.

    There will be those who will tell you that once you give your life to Jesus Christ, you can then live as you like – That’s not possible, that’s not true.

    The Bible tells us that you cannot continued in sin and then expects Grace to abound. It said: God forbid.

    That is a very strong word.

    So, for those of us who are already Christians – Congratulations.

    But you need to check your life and put an end to every rubbish because you are dealing with a Holy God.

    .

    Those of us who say that we are already Christians must begin to live a life that will show those who are in darkness that we are truly the Light of the world.

    So, you need to think afresh because the Fire of God will fall tonight. Because you will be hearing Testimonies upon Testimonies upon Testimonies of what God had done tonight for years to come – Amen.

    I don’t want you to now say that but I was here too – I heard the Prophecies; how come they didn’t come to past in my life? – Check yourself.

    You cannot claim to be a child of God and continue to live in sin.

    So, I am about now to make an Altar Call – First, to those of you who has never surrendered your life to Jesus Christ.

    He is willing to release His Fire upon you to consume your sickness, your sorrow and your problems. But first, you have to surrendered your life to Him. You have to say that: Jesus Christ, am surrendering my life to you. I want to become my Lord and my Saviour. I will serve you for the rest of my life.

    … You have to do that first.

    And am also calling on those who are Born Again before but you backslide.

    Those things that you said you will never do again, you have started doing one more time.

    Please, come back to Jesus Christ and let Him restore you.

    The Power that is in the Blood is still available till today. The Blood can wash away all your sins and give you a brand New Beginning.

    Because the Bible says that if any man be in Christ, He is a New Creature. Old things are passed away, behold all things has become new.

    For those of us who has never surrendered your life to Jesus Christ; the man that is talking to you now if you know my history; you won’t even believed that I can be somebody who God will use.

    Have always said it that I was so bad that if I were Jesus Christ, I will not even save this boy.

    But He has a Purpose for my life and He has a Purpose for your life too.

    And all you need to do is to surrender your life to Him, let His Blood wash away your sins and He will give you a brand New Beginning.

    So, am going to count from one (1) to ten (10). If you want to surrender your life to Jesus Christ; you want Him to forgive your sins and give you a brand New Beginning, before I say ten (10); then you come and stand before me so that I can Pray for your Salvation.

    If you are a backslider and you have gone back into sin but you want to return to Sweet Fellowship with Jesus Christ; before I say ten (10) come and stand too before me and I will Pray with you too with those coming for the first time.

    So, if you want to give your life to Jesus Christ or you want to return to the One who save your soul, come now as I begin to count.

    Don’t wait for anybody. You might be the only one God has come for tonight. Don’t wait for your friends; they may not need Salvation. But if you need Salvation or Restoration, come now!

    Keep clapping those of you who are clapping. Please keep coming. This is your Day – don’t miss this opportunity.

    The Lord wants to save your soul and He is giving you an opportunity that may never be repeated again.

    Come now. Keep clapping as your hands will never be empty or withered.

    This is your Day of Salvation. Hurry up as we are running out of time. It is the Lord calling you. He wants to save your soul or restore your Fellowship with Him.

    Glory be to God. He will give you a New Beginning.

    Thank You Father. Am about to Pray now.

    Now those of you who has come forward; let us talk to the Almighty God: Just tell Him please have Mercy on me, save my soul, forgive all my sins and I will serve you from now on.

    … Just have Mercy and let your Blood wash away all my sins.

    Go ahead and talk to the Lord in your own language.

    And the rest of us, let us stretch our hands towards our new brothers and sisters and intercede for them.

    Pray that the One who save your soul will save their own souls also.

    Pray that God will wash them clean from all their sins.

    And those of us still on the way you have to hurry up now because am about to Pray.

    Thank You Jesus. Thank You Lord.

    Oh, blessed be the Name of the Lord. Thank You Lord.

    In Jesus Mighty Name we have Prayed – Amen!

    PRAYER FOR SALVATION

    Saviour, I just want to say Thank You: Thank You for your Words and Thank You for these People who has come forward to surrender their lives to you.

    Please Father, remember your Promise that whosoever will come unto You you will no wise cast out. They have come to You now; please receive them, save their souls, let Your Blood wash away their sins, give them a brand New Beginning, write their names in the Book of Life, receive them into the Family of God.

    And from now on, any time they call on you answer them by Fire.

    Thank You Father, in Jesus Mighty Name we have Prayed – Amen.

    Now those of you infront let me hear you shout Hallelujah – Hallelujah!

    I rejoice with you because from now on by the Grace of God; I will be Praying for you. So am going to need your names, your address and your Prayer Requests.

    And I Promised you that I will be Praying for you.

    So, if you turn to your left; you will see somebody there with a Placard. Kindly follow him. He will take you to where some Pastors are waiting. They will collect the information that I needed and then bring you back very quickly.

    Let us give the Lord a very big round of applause as they go.

    Now while we wait for our brothers and sisters to join us; I will ask you to Pray three (3) Prayers very quickly:

    1. Prayer of Thanksgiving – Thank God that He has allowed you to be Present here tonight.
    2. You will cry to Him that if there is anything in my life that will not allow your Fire to fall on me tonight; please remove it from me.
    3. You will ask for the Fire of God to fall specifically on you as a Person and as an Individual.

    … Let’s stand on our feet and talk to the Almighty God for few minutes while we wait for our brothers and sisters to come.

    Thank You Father. In Jesus Mighty Name we have Prayed – Amen.

    CLOSING PRAYERS

    The Almighty God will grant your request.

    Every obstructions to your Breakthrough He will destroy tonight.

    And His Fire will fall specifically for you.

    So shall it be.

    In Jesus Mighty Name we have Prayed – Amen!

    …. Let somebody shout Hallelujah – Hallelujah!!!

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  • COUNSELLING SESSION WITH DR. TIMI OYEBODE @ RCCG THRONE OF GRACE UNDER THE THEME MENTAL & EMOTIONAL WELLNESS; DEALING WITH TRAUMA

    COUNSELLING SESSION WITH DR. TIMI OYEBODE @ RCCG THRONE OF GRACE UNDER THE THEME MENTAL & EMOTIONAL WELLNESS; DEALING WITH TRAUMA

    DATE: 13TH OCTOBER, 2019

    BIBLE VERSE: 3 JOHN 1: 2

    WHO, that is World Health Organization had told us that about 30% of Nigerians are believed to be suffering with Mental illness

    They have gone on further to tell us that about 15.1% of every one thousand (1,000) persons are likely to commit suicide.

    They went on to tell us again, that only in the Year 2018 (as June last Year) over forty five (45) people had committed suicide.

    Now, coming into this Year (2019), in fact as as May/June this Year; more than forty two (42) people, have committed suicide.

    But you know, all of these are Statistics, and they are not new information. In fact, you know these are the reported cases – Many have gone unreported!

    But you see, none of these would really have made any sense or being of concerned to me as a Person anyway if not of the fact that I went to check out history of some of these People who committed suicide.

    And I saw that many of them were Christians.

    And then it dawned on me again that unfortunately, the Church is not exempted from that menace; from that monster out there, taking out people away.

    It dawned on me again, that Spirituality is still not stopping our people from going through depression or suicidal thoughts.

    But you see; I have always known this anyway! Because I had my own fair share of depression, of suicidal thoughts, and actually, even suicidal attempt.

    Pain is real!

    I have come in this morning with just a Message, and that is to say to one of us here (I don’t know who you are); but when I was Praying and meditating, I heard it very clearly in my Spirit:

    He said, you are going out there for one of my daughters; one of my sons. Someone out there who has been crying to God for a period of time. Because it seems no other Person can understand.

    Pain is REAL!

    And He has sent me to tell you that He still has the Power to take away your pain.

    God is still God; it doesn’t matter how painful it is, He remains God.

    And so the Bible verse that He has laid on my heart to use for the Message this morning is taken from 3 JOHN 1: 2;

    “Beloved, I Pray that you may Prosper in all things and be in health, just as your Soul Prospers.”

    We are talking about “MENTAL AND EMOTIONAL WELLNESS”.
    We are talking about “DEALING WITH TRAUMA AND THE PAINS THAT HOLD YOU BOUND.”

    Many of us indeed, desire to be free from those things. It’s heart aching for you; in fact, you can’t even share some of those things you are going through because if you dare open your mouth, they will say:

    “Oh! Aren’t you Born Again enough?

    Oh they will say: “So you are not Spiritual enough”.

    Oh, they will say: You have not eaten the Word enough. That is why you are going through all of that.

    … So you would rather keep quiet.

    Yet if the Apostle could write that he; Prays for the emotional Wellness of individuals who are already Believers…it tells us it’s not automatic.

    … This Passage was written to People who were Believers already!

    It says: “Beloved” (Brethren of the house of God);

    He said;: “I Pray that you may Prosper in all things and be in Health, just as your Soul Prospers.”

    Now, this makes me ask this question always: In as much as we know, or we are in that Place where we understand HEALTH. And we understand PROSPERITY; how much do we understand the SOUL-Emotional Wellness?

    The point is this: Man is made up of three (3) Parts – Do you agree with me?

    You agree with me! Can you chorus it?

    … The SPIRIT, the BODY and the SOUL!

    When our body is in pain or we are uncomfortable – as in we are having pain on every parts of our body.

    What do we seek for? – Medical HELP!

    When our Spirit is down, when our Spirit is disconnected, what do we seek for? – Spiritual Help!

    When our soul; particularly, when your soul is down, where do you go to for help? – Amazingly, often times,no response!

    It’s sad how we pay so much attention to our Physical Wellness, our Physical Being as well as Spiritual Growth (our Spiritual Wellness). But often time, we forget that other part- our Mind.

    And you see, this is amazing because God who created us knows that we need the three (3)! That is why we are made up of the three (3)!

    One is not supposed to supersede the other!

    But unfortunately, we have ended up feeding the flesh (the Physical) much more, many times even more than the Spirit; many times, even more than the Soul!

    And when we talk about the soul exactly, it means is- The MIND!

    Have you ever heard the phase- ‘the Soul of the matter’, ‘the Core of the Matter?’

    The MIND – the Place where thought reign. The place where things happens before it happened Physically; – Is in your MIND.

    God is saying to us in 3 John 1:2 that “your SOUL may prosper”; that your MIND may be WELL.

    And the same thing I have come to say to you today, that God is interested in your Mind.

    God is very interested in your thoughts – in the things going on in your head, at every single point in time.

    The ‘Soul Prospering’; is as well as saying: ‘Your Mind is Healthy!’

    If we say you have Mental Health; and let me quickly explain this; because probably what you have been hearing has been, Mental illness.

    Mental Illness is totally different

    • Mental illness is the opposite of Mental Health – Okay?

    Mental Health means you are fine!

    Every single one of us has a Mental Health capacity that we need to maintain – Okay?

    And so, when we are not on that space, or we are not able to manage that, then we begin to talk about Mental Illness!

    And being Mentally Healthy means that:

    You are able to cope with the challenges life throws at you.

    Being Mentally Healthy means that you are able to manage stress effectively.

    Being Mentally Healthy means that you are able to manage Emotional Stressors or things that comes to hit you: Work Place stress, Relationship stress, Parenting stress, Marital stress.

    … That’s Mental Health!

    The moment you are able to manage yourself, despite whatever is coming your way; then we would say: You are Mentally Healthy!

    However, the moment you are having challenges in any of these; you find yourself struggling. Probably overnight, you are having sleepless nights, you keep having persistent nagging headaches – because you are thinking – overly thinking!

    Then you might already be digressing into illness.

    THERE ARE TYPES OF MENTAL ILLNESS – Various types of it!

    So for our sake, probably this morning I will just mention the common ones, which include;

    1. ANXIETY DISORDER: It’s amazing how many of us are overwhelmed with the fear of daily living.

    “Oh, I don’t know what will happen tomorrow; oh, ok what is happening right now?”

    We are here right now, you are seated in this Congregation right now. But your mind is even not here. You are already thinking: “oh, where is so and so? Oh, did I drop the key?

    Some of us, find ourselves so anxious; even sometimes having palpitating heart beats or even panick attack, this is what we call the general anxiety.

    There is what is call social anxiety disorder too- Okay?

    So some People have Social Anxiety Disorder, which makes them not to be able to stay where other People are.

    Some have General Anxiety Disorder: which simply just makes you anxious at every single thing! But the bottom line of anxiety is FEAR.

    I remember the Bible telling us, that we have not been given the spirit of fear.

    Do you remember that Scripture? – Fear!

    … Anxiety disorder is a common one!

    2. Another common Mental Illness that you want to consider is MOOD SWING or MOOD DISORDER, rather.

    Oh, some of us have this mood struggle, you just go into this sad mood for a long period of time.

    I understand Pastor was talking to us earlier today, and he was sharing about being in control of your emotions.

    But the reality is, you just find yourself go into this mood that you can’t even control. You don’t even know what is wrong. And it could go on for days.

    I have heard someone saying – something like, ‘I have not stepped out of the house for the past five (5) days. In fact, I have not had my bath, I have not eaten – Am just there!

    And then by the sixth (6th) day or the seventh (7th) day thereabout, the person is up again. And you see him outside looking glamorous, beautiful and laughing.

    And then a week or two down the line, you are back to that Phase again!

    You can’t even understand it yourself – you just find yourself repeating that circle.

    And you think everything is okay with you? – No!

    Mood Disorder: one minute up, and the next minute down! And you can’t actually trace it.

    And you find out that you are just going deeper and deeper into a mire – that you can’t pull yourself out of it.

    3. Another common one, which Mood Disorder often lead into, is DEPRESSION.

    Now, reality there is, that Depression is an Illness.

    And it amazes me so much, sometimes when I hear someone use it as a comment: “Oh, I think am depressed’.

    Who diagnosed you?

    How did you know you are depressed?

    … Because it’s a big deal to be depressed!

    Because often time, at that stage, you can’t even control the emotions anymore. It begins to control you. It determines whether you will smile or not.

    Oh! In fact, you would have forgotten when last you even smiled. At least, maybe smile from your heart, anyway!

    Because some people could actually be depressed and they could paste a smile on their face, and you think everything is ok; and actually, nothing is ok with them, internally.

    4. Of course another common one (which I spoke earlier about) is SUICIDAL THOUGHTS.

    Someone sent a message to me over the weekend asking – why can’t Christian be allowed to commit suicide and still make Heaven?

    Obviously you could see that this Person is struggling with the fact that she would have wanted to commit suicide, if not for the fact that she is a Christian;

    And possibly because in her Church or some teachings she had heard are insisting and telling her, she will go to hell fire – if she commits suicide.

    But if the options was opened, you and I, ask yourself sincerely: if truly you kill yourself, and you can still make Heaven today, today. Where will you be right now?

    Chorus: Heaven

    Oh! Heaven?- Are you sure?

    So many of us would have gone – Fast Track!

    Especially when you find yourself struggling with some particular pain that we cannot share.

    I struggled so much with depression, for several years. And it got to a point, I remember thinking the best way was to end it all, was to just take my life.

    It didn’t even matter as at that time, anyway; I think I shared it with them at the Sisters’ Meeting. I had left Christianity; I had left God. As in, I didn’t even want to have anything to do with Christians- Okay? Sometimes the pain is so much you aren’t even bother about hell or heaven.

    I had converted to other Religions – about two (2) or three (3) other Religions, at that time. I can tell you about the perversions going on in the Church. And so, I wasn’t interested.

    I got to that point where I just lost it all and I felt that the best thing to do was to end it.

    And I had gone on to take insecticide, and gone to bed! And I woke up the next morning, I was wondering, ‘how come I am still here?

    And then I had thought, after a while, that possibly that kind of poison, or whatever, wasn’t strong enough to kill me – you know!

    But I kept hearing in my Spirit: “You won’t die”. And I kept saying: No! I just have to die.

    Of course, it’s not that I didn’t believe in God. I knew there was God. I grew up in a Christian family before I backslide and left the whole thing – Okay?

    So I knew the principles of Christianity, I knew there is God. So I wasn’t in that category of people that says there was no God.

    It’s just the fact that I felt that God loved some people, He hated some people. And I was in the category of those people He hated. And I was meant to live my life the way I wanted – Okay?

    So that was just it: I was just a rebellious child… You understand?

    I heard it: “You won’t die”.

    And I said, No! I just have to. Even if they say Hell Fire. Hell is hell; let me get there and see the Hell. Because I thought Earth here was even Hell.

    And so, I made up my mind to try it again. But this time around, I decided I wasn’t going to use any thing that wasn’t going to make it final. I had decided I would rather go and jump from a building!

    Then I was in school. And I had gone up to the 2nd floor, I have written a letter and I have explained to the whole world, the reasons why I was tired!

    And before then (I probably need to mention this to you); that I have been writing God a lot of Letters; asking Him if ‘You truly He exist, help me’. But it seemed, He was on sabbatical.

    And so, I had dropped the Letter, and I had stood at the other edge and I had said: “I just have to jump!”

    You probably would be wondering, what could be so bad?

    But sometimes, even if I tell you how bad; you would probably even say: Is that ALL? And so what is the essence of even sharing with you what was that bad!

    But you see, part of the badness was the fact that I was struggling sexually. I was going from one end to the other. And I knew I was running a race that was destructive already.

    I have been abused as a young girl; at age seven (7) and by the time I was 14- 15 years. I was messed up. I was still being sexually tormented by one of my guardians and had gone into sexual perversion you can imagine. And I just knew that, it is either I get help or end my life.

    You know why? – Because sleeping at night was also distressing!

    When I sleep, am always been pursued by masquerade or some men who were having sex with me in my dream.

    When am awake, Physically, when my eyes are opened, I am tormented by people who want to take advantage or have sex with me too!

    And these marathon was just too much for me to bear.

    At some point, I just thought the whole thing has to end.

    … And there was I, making that decision to jump and end it all!

    And probably I would have done it that day. Maybe God saw my determination that today, this girl will do this thing; and she will end in Heaven. Or is it Hell? (Laughter)

    For His Mercies, He had prepared someone. And coincidentally, that someone walked in and dragged me up. But of course, I didn’t come to bore you with that details today!

    Because what I have come majorly to say to you today: I don’t know what your own pain is; I don’t know what is causing the Depression or the Suicidal Thoughts that you are having.

    Whether it is Financial problems. Whether it is Family problems, Whether it is Sexual problems or Addiction.

    Whatever it is that is making you think that you just have to end it all. Whatever it is that is making you think that you have no value or no worth anymore.

    Then, I have come to tell you this: God is actually involved in that story!

    What He told me years later; He said: ‘Do you know I was there?’

    I said, so when I was raped, You were there?

    God said, Yes! I was very much there when the guy was opening his trousers.

    So You were there when this man was…

    He said, Yes, I was very much there!

    Maybe that is His Supremacy. Maybe that is why He is God!

    Probably that is the Place we cannot question – Why He is making you go through what you are going through right now.

    But I want you to know that, whatever it is you are going through: He has an AGENDA. He has a Purpose for that PAIN!

    He has a Reason for that Pain! And peradventure, the capacity to bear that pain has been given to you. But of course, the pressure out there is too much, that it seems as if you can’t take it anymore.

    Some of the Pressures actually come from stressors, from friends, families. Oh, colleagues at work – some of us have terrible Bosses that is just frustrating. In fact, your workplace is toxic!

    Oh! Your family; it seems as if you are the odd one out! Nobody is helping you, nobody is supporting you, it is just as is you are there alone!

    Oh! The Church: because you have ran into the Church. Don’t let me tell you history about the Church – you also know. Right? How the Church can be a Stressor.

    Because you have thought these are Brethren, I can fall back on and then you realize that the brethren are not ready to have you lean on them…

    Well, let me give you a little gist of when I got Born Again: and I had thought that ok, now coming into the House of God, am going to get all the support I needed.

    But you see, amazingly what we were getting were backlash.

    But because my Salvation was so Genuine – JESUS Himself GRABBED me! – Do you understand what am saying?

    Otherwise, probably I would have been stressed all over again.

    Oh! Sadly how the church had become The Place of make believe; people are not living up a fulfilled life despite being believers.

    I have had Christians chat me up; send messages: “Oh, Madam you are right, am into the choir – am a Singer, am a Leader. Am in Ushering, am doing this. But actually, I struggle with Sexual Addiction every night.

    There is a guy who consistently talks about every time at Month end when he earns his salary, he needs to go to a Brothel and spend it all!. And he was Leader in his Church!

    “Please can you help me?” A lot of men who are married; that is their cry in their heart! But you see, they can’t come to Church and say: See, this is my struggle!

    Because if they say that in Church, what happens to them? They will be Stigmatized!… yet the church is supposed to be a place where the sick can admit that they are sick and get helped but alas, it’s not the case.

    … But this is actually what the situation is!

    There is something we call the “TRAUMA CIRCLE”.

    So when we say to someone: You need to stop lying, you need to stop stealing – Okay? If you don’t stop that formication or adultery, you are not a Christian anymore!

    We need to also consider what brought the Person to that space, first!

    The Bible talks about the renewing of the heart;

    The Mind is a Powerful Space, and so, the fact that you are Born Again or you gave your life to Christ, is not all. It talks about: “working out your Salvation”.

    There is a Place of now WORKING, through the process of healing. And that is where many of us have missed it.

    So you thought you got Born Again, and then you start Church activities; you start everything; forgetting that you needed to go and deal with your PAST – with your Pain!

    And when you don’t deal with your pain, it deals with you. And so what do we have in the church? We have people struggling with Behavioural Issues!

    The trauma cycle actually often, start from an Abuse. And when we say abuse; sex is not the only form of abuse. You know that? – Yes!

    Verbal abuse, Emotional abuse, Parental Abuse – there are different kinds!

    Now the moment there is an abuse- as in, someone goes through an abusive situation, the mind goes into a PAIN mood.

    When you are in the Pain Mood, automatically, the mind begins to look for rescue – as in, you can’t stay in pain always- you would seek temporary relieve.

    The way you are seated now, the moment you begin to feel uncomfortable, what are you likely to do?

    You will adjust – Right?

    That is the same way the mind is.

    The moment the mind is in a Pain Mood; whatever your own pain is, after a while, your mind begins to look for alternative to that pain. And usually, that alternative gives you immediate release from the pressure or the pain you are going through.

    However, unfortunately, that alternative often then becomes a routine – an habit. And that Habit is what is now call ADDICTION.

    … Did you get the pattern?

    And that is why dealing with Addiction, you need to go through that Process, to find the original Pain, to find the pressure and the pleasure that you are getting, in replacement!

    And this explains why you find people living their life in the Circle.

    Am going on to: HOW TO DEAL WITH YOUR TRAUMA; HOW TO DEAL WITH YOUR STRUGGLES, HOW TO DEAL WITH YOUR PAIN.

    The first thing I will always recommend anytime, is to first of all ACKNOWLEDGE that something is wrong with you.

    Enough of covering up, enough of packaging.

    See, the world doesn’t care – And you need to know! If you are down today, you are gone, and nobody cares.

    Oh! Have you know how many Ministers they said, oh, the man slept with two thousand (2,000) women. Did the Church not continue? – You are not answering me? His own worship house might shut down but the church of God moves on.

    The Music Minister that they said slept with all the Choir Members, and he is gone. Did the Church not continue? – It did!

    If you keep on with your struggle, it’s going to end as it is- your own Personal struggle. And it will only lead you to Hell; the Church of God will go on!

    And that is why you need to first of all acknowledge that there is a problem. Rather than keeping face up with the spiritual titles or church activities.

    I have men & women coming into my office, and I will often ask them: Tell me about your sexuality not their spirituality, Because this is the Key thing!

    I tell people, If I know your sex life – what your sex life looks like; I can tell you what your other lives is going to look like; including your Financial Life & spiritual life.

    Because Sexuality is Powerful and big. It influences what happens all around you; it influences your relationship, your finances – almost every part of you, okay?

    Many would reply and say “my sex life is average”
    And so, I will say: Ok you are an average guy.

    Let me give you an average guy assessment.

    When I give an assessment, it’s amazing how many are on the borderline of addiction. Because what we look out for is frequency.

    If you find yourself longing for that thing much more regularly than you can control, it is often a struggle. So,

    1. ACKNOWLEDGE that you have a challenge: Acknowledge that there is a problem.

    You do not have to cover up anymore, acknowledge that something happened to you. Acknowledge that there is an inner wound. Because Trauma means ‘Inner Wound’.

    … So No. 1, Acknowledge that you are wounded!

    2. GRIEVE Your wound; grieve your Pain. Everyone of us has a right to cry over what we have lost in life.

    You have every right to lament about how the whole thing didn’t work out for you. How it worked out for someone else. You have every right to it. It’s your right!

    Because one of the challenges we have had is people thinking – No! I shouldn’t be complaining because if I complain it shows I am not grateful. If I complain it shows that I am not trusting God enough. If I complain it means that…

    It’s amazing; our Father wants you to talk! He says “come to me, let us reason together”. He wants you to complain to Him. He wants you to say it!

    Stop being strong for everybody; God didn’t make you that way.

    3. STATE YOUR GAIN – In every Pain, there is a GAIN!

    In every experiences; I don’t know what yours is, but in every pain there is a gain. There is something GOOD about that experience – Oh yes!

    Many times when I am working with a Client, I say to them; you need to STATE your GAIN. What have you benefited from this behaviour?

    Ah Ha; okay? If it’s as a person, they go like ‘what if I was raped. So what will you say is the benefit or is the gain of being raped?

    But the reality is this: If you look at the situation properly, and you open your sense of awareness, there will be something you can take away POSITIVELY, from that experience.

    4. IDENTIFY your Negative Thoughts And your Self Sabotaging EFFORTS!

    Self Sabotaging Effort means that you are TRYING to get better! You are trying – you are really trying. But then one thing or the other happens again; you go back to square one – It is actually in you!

    And so we call it ‘Self Sabotaging Effort’.

    And it stems from your thought! Something you say! Something you do!

    Remember I told us earlier, your Soul place is the Mind; is the thoughts! And the need to be conscious of your thoughts.

    “… THINK about what you are thinking ABOUT”.

    If you say to yourself; Ok, so what am I thinking about right now? Oh! This is what am thinking. So, this thing am thinking now, is it okay?

    Because you realize, by the time you allow the thoughts to go on, you yourself will go and ACT it out or you can control it.

    Don’t self sabotage, stop using negative terms to describe yourself. Stop the negative thoughts.

    5. The next one is, USE YOUR PAIN (2ce).

    I said to you earlier: “if you don’t deal with your PAIN, it’s going to deal with you”.

    Your Mental Capacity, your ability to work alright; or to be whole, is because you are learning to manage ‘you’ as a whole – Use your PAIN!

    As many people who have learnt to use whatever they have gone through, positively to help other people; it’s amazing how their own speed of recovery goes on.

    … And of course am going to say this to you: which is the next one, anyway!

    6. GET THERAPY – Get to see a professional counselor

    There are some issues, sincerely speaking that you need, probably a Professional Christian Therapist.

    Get a Professional Therapist who can help you align your thoughts with your Spirit and your behaviour – the three (3) of them has their own places.

    I had posted online recently about how: “It’s amazing how many of us wants to get help alone, in our bedroom.”

    But you see, God didn’t create us alone; God wanted us to have relationship. And that could be one of the reason why you are still struggling, you refuse to seek help.

    I know Some of us as so untrusting, you don’t want to talk to anybody.

    The only reason you are still struggling, is because you are isolating yourself.

    You need not to isolate yourself anymore. If the people around you cannot help you; go in for Professional Help!

    … And of course, the last Point in that is;

    7. Forgive yourself (2ce) and Forgive the people who had messed you up.

    Forgive the people who had made you to become a shadow of yourself. Forgive yourself for allowing them!

    Because in some cases, you are even bitter with yourself because you felt – “I went to meet him by myself: I let him do this to me, I let him do that to me!”

    Forgive yourself, Forgive them, and of course, Forgive God.

    Yes! Some of us are holding grudges against God. I also did, for several years – remember that I told you that.

    … But does it stop Him from being God?

    No,He is still God!

    Ok, quick summary of this, is that: For you to have Emotional or Mental Wellness, there are four (4) major ‘S’ that I used – which am going to just use to summarize everything, that I had explained today.

    To deal with Depression and maintain solid Emotional Wellness, I used Four (4) Principles – I call them the four (4) “S”.

    1. The first ‘S’ is – SHARE Your Story.

    So you find me almost everywhere I had to Speak or Share.

    I keep telling a part of my Story. Because the importance of your story is the fact that you are letting it loose. And it is no longer controlling you!

    As much as you keep your Story to yourself; it still controls you. So share your story! Speak to someone!

    2. The second ‘S’ is what I call – SEEK Connections!

    The Human Capacity is often distorted because we stay in Isolation.

    Seek Connection!

    Connection is what God has created us for. And that is one of the reasons why we can thrive.

    If you find yourself going through Loneliness, Emotional Pain, Anxiety, or what we call Panic Attack’ – your heart is just beating speedily;

    Please get connected with friends, families. Call People up – People you have not called nor spoken to in a long time.

    Maybe after Service today, call them up!

    Chat up somebody. Social Media had become (I don’t know!) It has disconnected us! That is just the word.

    Okay? Some of us have brothers and sisters you have not called in years! You have been chatting on WhatsApp. Please, CONNECT with people! Arrange a visit.

    Physical Connection helps your Emotional Wellness; TOUCH, helps your Emotional Wellness. – So SEEK connection, okay!

    … And I also mean, SEEK HELP, anyway – let people know something is wrong.

    3. Of course, the third ‘S’ is SELF CARE.

    Am so particular about SELF Care!

    Most of my people (even at ADI) they know that. They will say: Oh, Mama SELF CARE.

    Am so particular about Self Care because the truth is this, when your Physical body – remember I explained to us, it’s Body, Spirit and Soul. Right?

    The moment your Physical body is weak; or your Spirit man is weak, your Soul man would also be WEAK!

    … I don’t know if you get that!

    So you need the three (3) of them to be strong. And that is why I explained to us that, over the years we have been laying so much emphasis on the Physical and the Spiritual.

    Now we need to look into your MENTAL – into your MIND.

    So the emphasis is: for you to even be ok Mentally. Your Physical body has to be ok. Your Spiritual man has to be ok too.

    Do Self Care – take care of ‘Yourself!”

    You can’t love others if you have not loved ‘yourself’.

    Yes, the whole world needs you, we agree! Everybody needs you, yes!

    But they need you alive, first. Before they can even need you at all.

    Take a Break! Deliberately do what we call “SELF Indulgence- SELF love”.

    This is October, right? How many of us here have gone on Vacation this Year? This is October! The year is running to an end already – Take a Break.

    A Vacation necessarily does not have to be something big or huge: just a break and sleep well – Sleep!

    I can’t tell you the Place of sleep. See, even for Mental illness, those whom we now see displaying Mental Illness, Oftentimes, what breaks them down to that point, is lack of sleep.

    Psychology tells us, that if you loose your sleep consistently for seventy two (72) hours – like three (3) days you have not slept, you are likely to have a Mental Breakdown!

    And so, it’s sad for me when some of us are still boasting in: “I don’t get to sleep”. And you take that as a pride?

    Some of us are still priding in, you know, I sleep just three (3) hours in a day.

    … Oh my Goodness!

    Please, average sleep is seven (7) hours for an adult- Sleep WELL, if you can sleep!

    … Sleep well! That is my emphasis. And stay active – Exercise, Dance and do a lot of dancing.

    I teach a lot of my clients to do Dance therapy and I encourage people to dance a lot.

    You are driving in your car, just put some Music and dance.

    Do you know what you are doing? – You are pumping an Hormone called Serotonin”.

    The Serotonin Hormone is what is also called, the Happiness Hormone.

    Even when you are feeling down, depressed, when you dance, it kind of just makes you smile for no reason.

    And when you are in that state, the Mind takes the message that “If you are dancing, that means everything is ok – Even when nothing is ok!

    So please, engage in dance.

    A recent research came out and told us that the couples who dance together, stay longer together.

    They told us also, that the individual who dance, live longer!

    So, you see the benefit of dancing?

    And it doesn’t have to be a rigorous one! – Just move your body, in a rhythm.

    Everybody move it. OK!

    Can you see you are smiling already, for no reason – Alright!

    And I say, please REDUCE STRESS.

    … Am emphasizing that: PLEASE REDUCE STRESS.

    4. And the last of them (at which Point I will drop the Mic this morning) is STAY CONNECTED TO GOD. – That’s the fourth (4th) ‘S’!

    I told you, I operate with four (4) ‘S’. The last one is STAY CONNECTED TO GOD.

    The Yoruba people will say: “the river which forget its Source, will dry up!”

    That was why the song that young boy was singing, was so touchy for me. Because every time I remember that if not for Jesus who stepped in and rescued me, I was going to self destruction.

    … Stay connected to God!

    The Enemy will do everything; and I repeat – everything to rob you of your confidence in God.

    The Bible says; he robs us of our confidence in God!

    He makes you keep thinking: you are not good enough; you can’t be standing in front of God – you this messed up thing! Can’t you see how dirty you are? Can’t you see your garment is stained?

    He keeps giving you all of those bags. But keep telling him back – the fact that I messed up does not stop me from bearing my Father’s Name. The Blood of my Father runs in my vein!

    So the prodigal son went away; he remembered he is still the son of that man. So even if the enemies come to tell you whatever; you are still a “CHILD OF GOD”.

    Say: “I AM A CHILD OF GOD!” And the enemy cannot rob me of my Right!

    … STAY Connected to God!

    For you to STAY CONNECTED to God, there is a place of the HOLY SPIRIT.

    And on that note, am explaining this to you. Because remember, the Trinity – the God fold is also Three (3): God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit.

    And this is the way I represent it: God the Son (Jesus) was the One who came in the flesh – the BODY.

    … The BODY – Jesus!

    God the Father is the One who represents the Spirit – (His breathe) your SPIRIT MAN;

    And then God the Holy Spirit is the One who represents our MIND (our thoughts).

    He is the called the Greatest Counsellor – the One who teaches and speaks in our thoughts!

    Jesus said, He will come to remind you all things.

    Who reminds you? Your head, your brain – the Holy Spirit!

    He tells you how Powerful God is about this. And that everything about the Church today, is cleaved to the Holy Spirit. He is that still gentle voice!

    And so am leaving us with that; even as we end this Session. Just bow your head and sing this song with me.

    I want you to connect with Him right now. Because beyond everything I have said to us this morning; only Him can help you. Only Him can teach you beyond everything I have said. Only Him can be the Source.

    So take this Song with me:

    SONG:

    Holy Spirit moving now,
    Make my life whole again
    Spirit move over me
    Spirit move over me.

    I want you to quickly just talk to the Holy Spirit, and ask Him to come in afresh into your life.

    I cannot over-emphasis the Place of the Holy Spirit for you. He was the One who helped me, even when I kept falling. Even when I gave my life to Christ, and I said I was Born Again; and I kept having struggles again, the Holy Spirit kept holding me up!

    He kept reminding me all Truth. He kept bringing Scriptures to me that ruled my thoughts. He kept telling me, reminding me.

    Talk to Him right now. And I can assure you; He would help you. The Holy Spirit can do what no man can do. The Holy Spirit can give you Strength to go through every stress you are carrying. The Holy Spirit can step in to do the Miraculous for you.

    Sweet Holy Spirit, we are coming to You today, we have come again to acknowledge that You are the One who represents our thought, our mind. Come in and help us.

    Come in and Help us!

    Thank You Sweet Holy Spirit. Thank You Father!

    I don’t know who you are, but God said He has heard your cry. He said you have been crying to Him for a long time; over your Marital struggle. You couldn’t share it with anybody.

    He said, with everything you have heard today; He said I should tell you that He has you in mind. But He needs you to speak out. He wants you to know that He is in that struggle with you.

    Thank You Sweet Holy Spirit (2ce)!

    And there is someone also; in your workplace, you are going through a lot of stress right now. You are going through a lot of stress – it is giving you depression, in your own way.

    He said I should also remind you what we have discussed today: that you should “SPEAK OUT” and “SEEK HELP” because He has made help available for you.

    He said He has made help readily available to you. But need you to go out and take the help available.

    Thank You Sweet Holy Spirit (3ce)!

    And of course, there are some of us here, who, you know you are not even connected to God at all. You know you are not even connected. Your heart is just bleeding!

    You know you are not connected; you can’t even flow in Prayers anymore!

    Talk to Him right now: He is healing us. He says the Healing Balm is in the house – Tell Him!

    You will be shocked, by the time you get home tonight, about the vibrancy at which your Prayer life will increase.

    …Talk to Him right now.

    Thank You Jesus!

    CLOSING PRAYER:

    And so Father, we give You Thanks; We give You Worship, we give You Honour and Adoration. Thank You for everything You have done for us today;

    For the Lessons, for the Learning, for the Healing, for the Restoration. We give You Praise, Lord!

    In Jesus’ Mighty Name we have Prayed – Amen.

    Somebody shout a Big Hallelujah – Hallelujah!

    EDITORIAL NOTE:

    … What a Great Session with our Counsellor – Dr Timi – A Great Counsellor of People that has experienced Trauma, Abuse, Marriage Counsellor etc.

    You will get to be reading a Dedicated Column of Dr Timi’s Messages on our DMC Websites on: www.discoveeymediacrew.com.

    Also you can get to invite her to your Churches, Seminars and Conference if you reach out to us @ DMC!

    … Discovery Media Crew, Reaching out to the world through the Power of the Gospel!!!

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    MOSES DURODOLA AND TITILAYOMI AJAYI

    © DMC 2019

  • RCCG ANNUAL YOUTH CONVENTION 2019 – DAY 4 (AFTERNOON): PLENARY SESSION 9 – TOPIC: STARTING SMALL AND GROWING INTO GREATNESS – MINISTERING: PASTOR ALEX AYOOLA OKOH

    RCCG ANNUAL YOUTH CONVENTION 2019 – DAY 4 (AFTERNOON): PLENARY SESSION 9 – TOPIC: STARTING SMALL AND GROWING INTO GREATNESS – MINISTERING: PASTOR ALEX AYOOLA OKOH

    (PASTOR IN RCCG AND DIRECTOR GENERAL BUREAU OF PUBLIC ENTERPRISES NIGERIA).

    THEME: “HIS POWER AND GLORY”

    DATE: 3RD OCTOBER, 2019

    BIBLE TEXT: GENESIS 1: 27-28

    Let somebody shout Hallelujah – Hallelujah!

    Let all the Youth in the House shout Hallelujah – Glory be to God.

    I want to say that am truly happy to be at this Convention because I believed that Great and Glorious Destiny would be unleashed as a result of this Convention in somebody life in the Name of Jesus Christ – Amen.

    I believed very strongly within my Spirit that God will launch someone into a Destiny of Greatness during this Convention in the Name of Jesus.

    If you are that Person, let me hear you shout Hallelujah – Hallelujah!

    Glory be to God – Hallelujah!

    I want to say that am truly happy to be at this Convention because I believed that Great and Glorious Destinies would be unleashed as a result of this Convention in somebody life in the Name of Jesus Christ – Amen.

    I believed very strongly within my Spirit that God will launch someone into a Destiny of Greatness during this Convention in the Name of Jesus – Amen.

    If you are that Person, let me hear you shout Hallelujah – Hallelujah!

    God Bless You – Amen.

    And because you see that I was a Banker and now I work in Government on various Government Policies; I will like to approach my Presentation on Practical Approaches of achieving Greatness.

    You know, I will like to start by saying that God is not only interested in helping you to live a successful Spiritual Life.

    Do you hear what I said?

    God is not only interested in seeing you live a successful Spiritual Life, He also wants you to be Fruitful, to be Great and to be Successful Physically and Materially.

    In order words my brothers and sisters; God wants you to live an Abundant Life.

    And the Lord Jesus Christ said in John 10:10; it says that: I have come that you may have Life and that Life more Abundantly.

    You see this afternoon; we do not have time to go deeply into that Statement.

    But let me just submit to you that Eternal Life is a Spiritual Benefit of the Redemptive Work of Christ in your Life. While the Abundant Life is the Physical and Material Part of the Redemptive Work.

    And Jesus Christ came to give you both the Spiritual Benefits and then the Physical and Material Benefits.

    You see, Personally I have always been inspired by children of God who are able to succeed in their Vocational Pursuit and at the same time are able to excel and show Greatness in the matters of the Spirit – Praise the Lord – Hallelujah!

    That is what I called Wholistic or Wholesome Fruitfulness.

    … And I believed that, that is what God desired for you as a child of God.

    So, before we look at our topic this afternoon which is: STARTING SMALL AND GROWING INTO GREATNESS. – In what I will called Wholesome Prosperity Dimension.

    Before I go into the Topic, it is important that I established that: To be Prosperous or Great Materially or to desire Prosperity is not Carnal or Unspiritual.

    … Do you hear what I said: It is not Carnal and it is not Unspiritual to desire Material Greatness.

    And I know that you know that the Concept of Divine Prosperity may have been abused.

    So that abuse has led to a situation where People do not willingly acknowledged the desire to be Great Materially.

    But that is the trick and lie of the devil because the Lord God Almighty wants you as His child to Prosper in every dimensions – To be Great in every dimensions of Life.

    Let somebody shout Hallelujah – Hallelujah!

    And I will be sharing this with us before I go into this Exaltation of: Starting Small and Growing Great.

    Let me just share with us two (2) Key Scriptures among so many – one (1) in the Old Testament and the other in the New Testament that confirms to you as a child of God that God indeed wants you to Prosper and to be Great in all ramifications of Life.

    The first (1st) Scripture I will like to share with us is in Jeremiah 29:11. And its a fairly popular Passage or Scripture.

    It says that: For I know the Plans that I have for you declares the Lord: Plans to Prosper you and not to harm you.

    This is the Plan of God, not of man, not of your Pastor – It is the Plan of the Lord God Almighty.

    And it says in this Passage that the Plan is to Prosper you and not to harm you. Plans to give you Hope and a Future.

    So, this is the Eternal Plan of God for you to be Great Materially from one of the Scriptures of the Old Testament.

    The Second (2nd) Scripture that I want to share with us just to underpin this notion that God wants you to be Great. That is taking from 3 John 1:2.

    And it says that: Beloveth of the Lord; I Pray that you may do what? You may Prosper in all things.

    Not only in some things but to be Great in all things and to be in Health just as your Soul Prospers.

    … Praise the Lord – Hallelujah!

    “That is what I called Wholesome Comprehensive and Wholistic Prosperity”.

    But I like the way the Message Translation put this very Incredible Passage of the Scripture for those of us who read the Message Translation – 3 John 1:2.

    … It says that we are the best of friends.

    In the New King James Version, it says Beloved.

    But here, it says we are the best of friends.

    And the thing about friendship is that you all wish your friends well.

    … It says that we are the best of friends.

    And I Pray for “Good Fortune” in everything that you do and for your Good Health and for that everyday affairs, Prospers well as your Soul.

    Praise the Lord – Hallelujah.

    Children of God, it is the design, it is the Plan and it is the desire of God that you show Greatness even in the things that are Vocational to you – Amen.

    And the Lord will help you to accomplish this in the Name of Jesus Christ – Amen.

    … So, it is not carnal to be Prosperous; neither is it necessarily Spiritual (indication of Spirituality) to be poor.

    It is about being able to hold this Principle of Prosperity in Balances while of course giving Priority to Dominance of Spiritual Fruitfulness.

    Because as the Scriptures said: We should seek first what? – The Kingdom of God and its righteousness.

    But when the Lord made this this incredible statement, He says that you know that we should be getting our Priority right because other things will be added unto you.

    And I might ask you here today: What are those other things that God is talking about because He has already identified the Pursuit of the Kingdom of God and its righteousness and He says all other things.

    May I submit to you this afternoon that those other things include your Physical and Material Prosperity and your Material Greatness.

    So, shall it be concerning you that you should show forth as a child of God, the Greatness that the Lord God Almighty has ordained for you in the Mighty Name of Jesus Christ – Amen!

    Genesis 1: 27-28

    1. So God creates man in His own image, in the image of God created He him; male and female created He them.
    2. 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.

    Praise the Lord – Hallelujah!

    This is the Word of God to Adam.

    And in Genesis 12:2; He then reiterates that same command to Abraham – He said that: I will make you a Great Nation.

    Don’t let anyone deceived you that God has not Ordained you for Greatness and that it is not Spiritual to seek to be Great.

    It says that I will make you a Great Nation. I will bless you and make your Name Great and you shall be a Blessing.

    If you believed that that Promise is also for you, let me hear you shout Hallelujah – Hallelujah!

    Job 8: 6-7 says if you are Pure and Upright, surely now He will awake for you and Prosper your Rightful Dwelling Place. Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end will increase abundantly.

    Praise the Lord – Hallelujah!

    Am talking about Starting Small and Growing Great.

    The Bible says in Zechariah 4:10. It says for who has despised the days of small beginnings.

    There is a Process to achieve Greatness my brother and sister. There is a Starting Point, there is a Middle Ground and there is the Point of Greatness – It is about Process.

    However, the sad things that seems to you know affect our environment nowadays is the “Spirit of Instant Gratification” – The inability to follow the Process starting with an idea, nurturing that idea and growing that idea into Greatness.

    This is what I find lacking in our environment nowadays – The impatience to work out your Greatness with Commitment and Dedication seems to be the ill or one of the challenges that this Generation faces.

    And you will not be a victim of that ill or challenge in the Mighty Name of Jesus Christ – Amen.

    So let us go to our Topic: STARTING SMALL, GROWING GREAT.

    And because like I said, you know that I will be coming from a Practical Perspective of this Topic. Just to share Life experiences with us and to try and conceptualized this Topic within our Economy so that as children of God; we will see the opportunities that are embedded in the Economy. And we are mindful to take up the opportunities.

    You see, despite the enormous Human and Natural Resources that the Country is blessed with. It is true that Nigeria is obviously a tough place to do Business in – Very tough.

    And this is due to a number of factors.

    And because I work in Government and I was a Banker; I understand these factors extremely well.

    One of those Factors include: Power Supply – You will know that very, very well.

    And to drive this point home; you know that to use Generator Power to do your Business will cost you as much as twice the cost of paying for Public Power.

    That is the challenge in this environment.

    Just setting the context; we know about our poor Transport Network; lack of access to Finance is a Problem; the high Lending Rate in our Financial Institutions is a Problem; Inadequate Infrastructure is a Problem; Insecurity etc.

    So, we know that our environment is challenged in terms of doing Business.

    And this hard Business Environment is manifested in the Country’s Poor Banking and you compared it to even Countries like Mauritius, Rwanda, Kenya, Botswana, South Africa – we are ways down the ladder.

    If you look at our Interest Rate, they are perhaps the highest among the Countries that I just mentioned.

    If you look at the Consumer Inflation Index; it is almost the same story.

    If you look at the Real GDP Growth, the same story.

    So, that is the Economy Context that we are seeking this Material Prosperity in – It is a harsh Environment.

    And Research has shown that most Business set-up in Nigeria failed within the first five (5) Years.

    Some that managed to exist beyond five (5) Years becomes extinct between the sixth (6th) and the tenth (10th) Year.

    Only about five percent (5%) to ten percent (10%) of Young Companies survive or thrive or grow to Greatness – That is the reality of our Environment.

    So, as we put ourselves out there to try to improve this context.

    My Prayers for you is that your own Vocation and your Pursuit will be among the five percent (5%) to ten percent (10%) in the Mighty Name of Jesus – Amen.

    However, irrespective of these obvious challenges and limitations; we may not be far from the Truth by saying that despite all these limitations. Nigeria is still the land flowing with “Milk and Honey”.

    And behind the seemingly gloomy picture; there are still some axis who are Planting in this Season and taking advantage of the huge opportunities in the Country.

    Let me just remind you of the story of Isaac as captured in Genesis 26: 12-14. It says that then Isaac sowed in the land and reaped in the same Year an hundredfold returns.

    Ah, that is incredible. For he has possession of animals and the Philistines envied him.

    And my Prayer for someone in this Auditorium today is that you will Prospered so much that your enemies will begin to envy you – Amen.

    The question is: How does one transform an idea into a successful Business (into a Great Business)?

    How do you transform an Inspiration into a successful, vibrant, thriving and Great Enterprise in this Country?

    How do you navigate the Process of Greatness from the three (3) Key elements of Passion, Purpose and Prosperity?

    Because in the Passage that we read in Genesis 26; we are told that there was famine in that land and so the Economic Environment was harsh.

    But in that same Environment, the Lord God Almighty dropped an idea into the Spirit of Isaac and rather than Natural Inclination to go and be a Shepherd; we are told that he went into Agriculture.

    He farmed rather than rear the flocks because he knew that in that situation of farming, what People needed is what? – It is FOOD!

    May the Lord drop a successful idea into your Mind in the Name of Jesus – Amen!

    1. The 1st “P” I will like to talk about is: PASSION

    In Colossians 3:23; as young men and women; the Bible tells us that whatever you do, do it with all your heart.

    … That is the seed – The Repository of Passion.

    So what are you Passionate about?

    And your Passion may I suggest to you are what will drive and sustain you through the hard times.

    Because irrespective of how the Environment may be; when you start out on your journey to Greatness; you will encounter some hard times. And what will push through those challenges home will be the Passion, the Zeal with which you hold that idea God has committed to your hands.

    Praise the Lord – Hallelujah!

    In this Clime, we tend to turn this the other way round.

    It is what you see that Propels us.

    … Oh, this is not reigning now and you start running towards that idea.

    Oh, this is the Business that is succeeding.

    No, you are allowing what you see or hear to determine your Passion and you are just following the crowd.

    The admonition to you is that: Let your Passion – The Divine Idea the Almighty God dropped into your Spirit; let it determine what you see and what you adopt your Zeal to and not the other way round.

    To understand Passion; let me ask you a question: What can you study endlessly without getting bored of? – It may be an indication of your Passion.

    What can you do for a while without getting paid for? – That might be an indication of your Passion.

    If you have Total Financial Freedom; how will you spend your Time? What is it that keeps you awake all Night? – These are indications of your Passion.

    And when you are talking of how to explore your Passion to the opportunities in your Environment; it is important to understand that different Business Opportunities exist in the different Sectors of this Economy. I should know because am part of the Economy Policies Formulator.

    And this underlying driver of these opportunities is the Share Population of the Country – Two Hundred Million (200,000,000) People is a huge Market.

    So, when you are talking of areas of opportunities; there are huge opportunities in Agriculture. Or are we saying this as Young People, we do not want to do Mechanised Farming? It is too beneath us?

    There are huge opportunities in Hospitality and that is the implication of massive Urbanization that is going on around us – The opportunity that Urbanization creates in the field of Hospitality.

    There are huge opportunities in Firm Tech – Financial Technology and as Young men, this shouldn’t be strange to you. It is a Natural Thing for every young man.

    There are huge opportunities in Education also coming out of the fact that the Population is Growing.

    There are huge opportunities in E-Commerce. Technology has transformed the realm of buying and selling from Physical Market to the Virtual Market Place.

    There are real opportunities in the Real Estate Sector.

    So the opportunities are there. The question is: Are you seeing them?

    And do you have the Passion to command them to where you can explore those opportunities?

    May the Lord help you in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ – Amen.

    2. The 2nd “P” I will like to talk about is: PURPOSE

    Proverbs 14:23 says that: All hard work brings a Profit but mere talk only tend to Poverty.

    And there is a sense that you just see young men nowadays fantasized about various ideas.

    It is not in the realm of fantasy that Commercial Greatness is created. It is in the realm of Efforts and applying your Efforts to translate it to reality.

    May the Lord help you in Jesus Name – Amen!

    So Purpose, talking of your Business is that idea that identifies a Problem within your Environment and provides a Solution for that challenge or Problem – That is Value Creation.

    And People will part with their resources in exchange for the Value that you create for them and not the other way round.

    Uber, this phenomena in Taxing that we are all talking about came out of the identification of a Need within the Society to be able to access Portable Transportation without the hassle that you need to go to the road and start waving for Taxi.

    Which is identifying a Need and Plugging a Service to exploit that Need.

    Praise the Lord – Hallelujah!

    Facebook provided a means to establish a Social Network and also provide Market for your Business.

    So, you need to create a Value in achieving your Purpose.

    You then need to Prepare – Do a Market Research, do your Competition Analysis. Get Feedbacks from the Market about the Validity and the Commercial Viability of that Business Proposition.

    Do not just say that I have an Idea Inspiration and you just enter the Market like that – NO!, it doesn’t work like that my brothers and sisters.

    Then you need to Plan.

    Planning and Preparation does not negate Faith – I need to let you know that.

    That Planning and Preparation does not contradict Faith as Preparation is actually putting Faith to Action.

    So as Christians, we tend to fall into that wrong erroneous notion that when you Plan and when you Prepare to execute Business Idea, then perhaps you are not showing Faith. Let us go to the Market and do whatever God has laid upon our hearts.

    … No, God is a God of Preparation; God is a God of Planning; God is a God of Order! And He expects that in the execution of that Divine Idea that He has given you, that you will push that idea through a Process of Preparation and of Planning.

    The Lord will help you in the Name of Jesus Christ – Amen!

    You are going to be given the Full description of the Business Idea.

    What is your Market Strategy. What is your Competitive Analysis. Who am I competing with in the Space because this Idea may not be unique to me alone.

    So, what is the Power? What is the Capacity of my competition? What are the Operation and Management Plan? How will I organize this Business? How do I Finance the Business?

    And Finance is a critical part of Creating Value for Greatness because it is also important for us to know as young men to know that Capital is for your Business; not for your Range Rover.

    The Capital is for your Business – to nurture that Business onto Greatness. It is not for your consumption to a Lifestyle.

    And Natural Inclination for many young Entrepreneurs nowadays when they raise capital for their Business is to live a Good Life by buying big cars, houses and just want to show that indeed that thing that is supposed to be regenerating wealth for you, you are starving it for what you raised it for.

    May the Lord help us in Jesus Name – Amen.

    However, as an Entrepreneur – a Godly Entrepreneur; Capital should be for your Business solely. It is the Profit from that Business that you can then deploy to Lifestyle and Consumption.

    … You must never starve the Goose that lays the Golden Egg of its resources.

    May the Lord help us in Jesus Name – Amen.

    So your typical Business Expenditure should not be for Range Rover and those big cars. It should be for items like the cost of renting your Premises, hiring your Staffs, your initial Equipment, the cost of Plant and Machineries and the Equipment you need for the Business; to purchase raw materials and the stocks for your Business and other things like Marketing Cost.

    Praise the Lord – Hallelujah!

    And what are the Potential Sources of Finance?

    Like they say; Capital is the Life Blood of your Business. And knowing where to find that money is very, very important.

    I come across a lot of Young Enterprising Entrepreneurs and they will say that we have this beautiful idea but we don’t have money. No bank is willing to fund our Business Idea.

    As a former Bank Managing Director; may I submit to you today that money is not sentimental. Money Finance is not Emotional. Money will go after any Good Business Proposition and not the other way round.

    Praise the Lord – Hallelujah!

    I am looking for Business to fund – that is what a typical Banker will tell you. Am looking for viable Business to fund and not just some “Day-Dreaming” Ideas that young individuals have.

    And the Lord will help us to understand that dynamics in the way that money behaves – Amen.

    Money chases Passion, money chases viable Business Idea and not the other way round.

    Praise the Lord – Hallelujah!

    And this money can be raised from various sources:

    1. Your Personal Savings.
    2. Assets raised from families and friends.
    3. Money or Assets raised from Business Incubators – The People who just nurture Businesses, fund them from initial stage so that they can also benefit from the the Greatness the Business will grow into.
    4. Various other sources of Funds.

    But you have to identify the appropriate Funding that your Business requires and the Lord will help you in the Name of Jesus Christ – Amen.

    And what are Financial Bankers looking for to help you Incubate this Great Idea into Greatness.

    1. They want to know if you have a Stake in the Game – Whether you have committed your own resources to this Venture or are you just exploiting or passing all the risks to somebody else?
    2. They want to see what your Business Plan looks like and is it Realistic.
    3. They will want to View the Risks and Rewards of the Business:

    I. Do you have a Good and Result Oriented Team.

    II. Who are the People that will manage this Business into Greatness – They want to know.

    III. What is the Structure and Process. Apart from you; does this Idea be the same when you are not around?

    IV. How well do you know the customers.

    V. How well do you know about turning Capital to Profit.

    VI. Are you a Honest and Transparent Manager?

    … A lot of things they will like to know.

    3. The 3rd “P” I want to share with us very briefly is: PROSPERITY.

    a. Prosperity is the state of being Prosperous.

    b. It is the reward for deliberate Planning.

    c. It is the reward for Self Discipline.

    d. It is the reward for constant Self Development.

    e. It is the reward for Critical Execution – How are you able to translate the Ideas and the Plans into Actions.

    Zechariah 4:10 says: Do not despise the days of small beginnings.

    And there are small Business. Infact most of the most prominent Business in any Economy is what we call SME.

    They are the backbone of any Economy and they represent the highest percentage of all Businesses. And they have created the most jobs in any Economy.

    So, if you are starting small; it is not an anomaly – that is how most Business Grow anyway.

    Small companies that has grown big starting small and achieving Greatness abound all over the Place.

    How did Amazon start? And the Balance Sheet of Amazon are bigger than some Countries now – It started as a small Company.

    Apple, Facebook, even Dangote here started from trading in Sugar. Sahara Energy started from trading in Oil and Gas. GT Bank started in 1986 from a 3-Bedroom Flat at Idowu Taylor Street in Victoria Island, Lagos State Nigeria.

    Praise the Lord – Hallelujah!

    What is criminal is not to nurture that small Divine Ideas that the Lord has given you with all Dedication, with all Purpose for you to nurture it onto Greatness.

    So Young’s CEO’s; we are Youth here – You that, that the General Conception is that you have to be old in order to be successful – that is not correct.

    Nowadays, we see an increasing number of Youths/People at the forefront of the Business World – be it in Commerce, Industry, Entertainment etc. Young People have taken over the Business Space.

    So, you should be asking yourself: What am I doing? Father, where is my own Inheritance? Where is my own Space in all of these Prosperity that I see around me.

    And the Lord will answer you in the Name of Jesus Christ – Amen.

    When you look at companies like Red Media Iroko Partners etc; all of these Enterprises are managed, owned by People in their Young ages.

    Praise the Lord – Hallelujah!

    In Conclusion now, having achieved Prosperity because we have conceptualized this concept of Prosperity within our Faith.

    There is a Prosperity of the world but there is also the Prosperity of the child of God.

    You know that having achieved all these Prosperity following the Principles that we have talked about what next?

    And my admonition that as you achieved Greatness even here is that you will not be like that rich fool in the Name of Jesus Christ.

    The rich fool that was described in Luke 12: 16-21.

    The rich fool said: Yes I have arrived, have achieved Greatness Materially, have Prospered. But now what next?

    I will just put my feet up and do nothing – not minding those around me for whom God has blessed me so that I can be a Blessing too.

    Praise the Lord – Hallelujah!

    We must use our resources having Prospered to touch the lives of others – That is where True Greatness is accomplished.

    My brother and sister and there are so many ways by which this can be done.

    There is this Concept of Social Capital now being used to pull funds together. People who ordinarily are less privilege and do not have access to the opportunities that you have has access to – Putting together what you call a “SOCIAL CAPITAL BANK”

    You can go into the areas of Health, you can impart your Generation and your Environment in the field of Education.

    … And the Lord will help us as we put our resources to work for the Kingdom of God in the Mighty Name of Jesus Christ – Amen.

    I love this Passage of the Scripture very, very much. So am going to be closing this short Exaltation going back to the Book of Zechariah 4: 6-10. It says:

    1. Then he answered and spake unto me saying, This is the Word of the LORD unto Zerubbabel saying, Not by Might, nor by Power but my my Spirit saith the LORD of Hosts.
    2. Who art thou, O great Mountain? before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a Plain: and he shall bring forth the headstone thereof with shoutings, crying Grace, Grace unto it.
    3. Moreover the Word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
    4. The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house, his hands shall also finish it and thou shalt know that the LORD of Hosts hath sent me unto you.
    5. For who hath despised the day of small things? For they shall rejoice and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel with those seven, they are the eyes of the LORD which run to and fro through the whole Earth.

    This is the Word of the Lord to Zerubbabel that this Greatness that you will be achieving is not going to be by my Might nor by Power but my Spirit says the Lord of Host. He say who are you Mountain?

    It is the Promise of God that whatever He has Places as an Idea for your Greatness; once you apply the Principles of Diligence; He will help you to nurture it to Greatness in the Name of Jesus Christ.

    Don’t despise your days of small beginnings. Don’t despise your days of Little Ideas. Don’t despise that little resources that the Lord has placed in your hands.

    When the Lord wanted to do the great Miracle of Parting the Red Sea; He told Moses that there is something that you have commonized in your hands and it is that same thing that am going to use to achieved your Greatness.

    There is a rod in your hands – The rod that the Lord has given to you as your instrument of Breakthrough; please don’t despise it.

    Praise the Lord – Hallelujah!

    Your enemies will rejoice with you to see your Days of Greatness in the Mighty Name of Jesus Christ – Amen!

    Whether they like it or not; they will rejoice when you mount your Podium of Success – Amen.

    … So shall it be concerning you in the Mighty Name of Jesus Christ – Amen

    Let us begin to bow down our heads. I know that this is a Practical Talk but as children of God, as I said that you have contextualized even Divine Instructions for Physical and Material Prosperity.

    Bow down you head. And if you are here in the Auditorium or reading now; you have not make any contact, you did not have any Relationship to this Great King whose desire and Plan is for you to Prosper and be in Good Health. If you don’t have a relationship with Him; I want you to begin to commit your life and your heart even unto Him right now.

    Look at what Job said in Job 8:6 as you begin to Prayerfully contemplate handling over your Life to Jesus Christ – If you are Pure and Upright; surely now will He awake or arise for you and Prosper your rightful Dwelling Place. Though your beginning was small, your latter end will increase abundantly.

    That is the Promise of God for you.

    But there is a condition – If you are Pure and Upright.

    That means that if you hand over your Life to Jesus Christ; surely God will awake for you and He will Prosper your rightful Dwelling Place for you to achieve Greatness.

    And He says that though your beginning was small; yet your later end will increase abundantly.

    If you are making that decision now; please just place your hands on your heart and say: Father, I come to you today in the righteousness of Jesus Christ and by the Blood of Him who lay down His Life for me. I confess my sins, I confess my iniquities. I ask my Lord and God that you will forgive me and you will cleanse me from every unrighteousness today. I want to accept Jesus Christ as my Lord and Saviour. I want to be clothed in the righteousness of Him who laid His Life for me because surely I know that you will awake for me and you will Prosper my rightful Dwelling Place.

    Father Lord, I give you Praise. Eternal Rock of Ages I worship you.

    CLOSING PRAYER

    I Pray Oh Lord that every heart and every Lives that has uttered this simple Prayer that you accept him or her Lord into your Kingdom in the Mighty Name of Jesus Christ.

    Father, I Pray that you Prosper each and everyone of your children in this Auditorium.

    We declare them not only the Future of this Generation; we ask that even in the Present they will dominate in the Mighty Name of Jesus Christ.

    I Pray Oh Lord for everyone whose heart is passionately seeking for that Transformational Idea, that Business Idea that stick in our hand; Father will transform the entire Destiny in alignment with the Greatness that you have Ordained.

    I Pray Lord for such heart Oh Lord that you will drop that Idea, that Plan, that Value in the Mighty Name of Jesus.

    I Pray that you indeed Prosper your children wholesomely in the Mighty Name of Jesus. That they will excel in the things of the Spirit even as they excel in their Vocational and Professional endeavours.

    In the Mighty Name of Jesus Christ, Father I Pray for the Spirit of Excellency upon your children. I Pray for the Spirit of Abundant Blessings upon your children in the Mighty Name of Jesus.

    Blessed be your Holy Name Oh Lord. In Jesus Glorious Name we have Prayed – Amen!

    … Let somebody shout Hallelujah – Hallelujah!

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  • “THE DANGER OF BELIEVING FALSE PROPHESY”

    “THE DANGER OF BELIEVING FALSE PROPHESY”

    – A tale of two (2) Prophets as recorded in the Book of Jeremiah Chapters 28 and 29

    In the Biblical Account in the Book of Prophet Jeremiah; we have a Story of two (2) Prophets – Jeremiah and Hananiah.

    God had earlier spoken by Jeremiah concerning the consequence of the sins of Israel. He said they will be seventy (70) Years in bondage in Babylon.

    Hananiah later comes on the scene with a Pseudo Prophetic utterance that was very appealing but really worsened the situation at the end of the day for the Israelites.

    … He declared that they will not spend seventy (70) Years in bondage but just two (2) Years in bondage after which their great God will deliver them.

    Hananiah was even dramatic – he went and demonstrated the breaking of the yoke, acting it out as he Prophesied.

    Obviously, two (2) Years in bondage sounds more appealing than seventy (70) Years.

    Everyone in Israel must have rejoiced and shouted at the words of Hananiah over and against the words of Jeremiah.

    You can imagine the experience to know how you sit and listen to a message highly applauded but it is nothing more than Psyching the People.

    It must have been like: “Yes, this is the True Word that shows and says that God Works Miracles among His People”

    However, the Prophecy of Hananiah simply worsened the situation for the children of Israel.

    Jeremiah announced to them in reply that: You have broken the yoke of wood and replaced it with iron over the neck of the Israelites.

    Why was this so?

    Because a false expectation of quick Victory had been created and they were expecting to be back home in two (2) Years.

    Now Jeremiah knew this will lead to deep disappointment and broken hearts making the seventy (70) Years now look much longer than it really seems to be.

    So, in the literally sense of it and in effect; the False Prophecy may have done “Good” momentarily but ultimately it was going to bring much more greater damage.

    The picture of its effect can be depicted as like a doctor administering pain killers to relieve the pain without dealing with the real root cause of the ailment in the first place.

    To this God asked: Is there no Balm in Gilead?

    Why are my people not recovering from their wounds?

    Jeremiah 8:22 says: “Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?”

    Friends, the reason for the no Complete Healing and Restoration in the land of Israel then was the False Prophecies being given out about the Complete Recovery without going through the Process Ordained by God Himself to deal with the root cause.

    Jeremiah 8:11 says: “For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, Peace; when there is no Peace.”

    If indeed we desire to get it right in our present predicament; It is time to get to the root of our Social Ills, and deterioration of things by teaching how true reformation occurs rather than succumbing to the delusion of Prophecies that circumvent God’s Ordained Processes for Change for our dear life.

    The truth of the matter is that: “Every daily efforts that you failed to make use of will gradually erodes your position in life”. The Choice therefore is yours … SO PAY THE PRICE!

    CULLED FROM THE THOUGHTS OF PASTOR POJU OYEMADE (SENIOR PASTOR OF COVENANT CHRISTIAN CENTER)

    Yours Always

    MOSES DURODOLA
    CONVENER, DISCOVERY MEDIA CREW

  • SPECIAL FEATURES: NARRATIVES OF OPEN HEAVEN (AUDIO) – Wednesday October 16th, 2019

    SPECIAL FEATURES: NARRATIVES OF OPEN HEAVEN (AUDIO) – Wednesday October 16th, 2019

    Audio of the Narratives of Open Heaven of Wednesday, 16th October, 2019 by Pastor E.A Adeboye @ Manchester City, UK.

    Topic: HOW COMPLETE IS YOUR RESTORATION

    Focus of Discussion: Teaching 2 Samuel 19: 11-15.

    Exclusive Discussion on the Rebellion act to King David by his favourite son, Absalom. Then focus on its relationship to we Christians and Jesus Christ.

    Listen or download the audio here

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