RCCG MAY 2020 DIVINE ENCOUNTER SERVICE – THEME: LET THERE BE LIGHT – PART 5. MINISTERING: PASTOR E.A ADEBOYE
DATE: 4TH MAY, 2020
BIBLE TEXT: GENESIS 26: 1-6 AND 12-14
Let us Pray!
SONG
Blessed be Your Name
Blessed be Your Name
Blessed be Your Name Oh Lord
Hallelujah
Blessed be Your Name
Blessed be Your Name
Blessed be Your Name Oh Lord
Holy is Your Name
Holy is Your Name
Holy is Your Name Oh Lord
Hallelujah
Holy is Your Name
Holy is Your Name
Holy is Your Name Oh Lord
Jesus is Your Name
Jesus is Your Name
Jesus is Your Name Oh Lord
Hallelujah
Jesus is Your Name
Jesus is Your Name
Jesus is Your Name Oh Lord
OPENING PRAYER
Eternal Rock of Ages; we just want to worship You. We want You to know that we love You and we appreciate You.
We Thank You for everything that you have done for us in the Past. We Thank You because whatever we are, whatever we have, whatever we shall be – They are all from you.
Please accept our Worship in Jesus Name.
Father, we are Praying that this particular Divine Encounter Program will be one that none of Your children will ever forget.
Because of the Peculiarity of the situation Lord God Almighty; we Pray that the Encounter we will have with You today will be very Peculiar.
We Pray Lord God Almighty that very, very soon that we will look back to this Period and Glorify Your Holy Name.
Thank You Almighty God. In Jesus Mighty Name we have Prayed – Amen.
Praise the Lord – Hallelujah!
We will be looking at Genesis 26: 1-6 and 12-14.
1 And there was a famine in the land, beside the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines unto Gerar.
2 And the LORD appeared unto him, (My Prayer is that God will appear to you today – Amen)
and said, Go not down into Egypt; dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of:
3 Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these countries, and I will perform the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father;
4 And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed;
5 Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.
6 And Isaac dwelt in Gerar:
12 Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year an hundredfold: and the LORD blessed him.
13 And the man waxed great, and went forward, and grew until he became very great:
14 For he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and great store of servants: and the Philistines envied him.
The Bible teaches us that: There are three (3) Heavens according to 2 Corinthians 12: 2-4
- The First (1st) Heaven is the one we see during the Day – It goes all the say to the Sun.
- The Second (2nd) Heaven we can only see at Night – It goes all the way to the Stars and beyond.
- The Third (3rd) Heaven we can only see by Faith because the Bible calls it Paradise.
Now, the First (1st) Heaven has “Tremendous Influence” upon the Earth – The air we breath, the rain that must fall on our land if we are to have any Products etc.
But the Second (2nd) Heaven has even “Greater Influence” – The one we see at Night.
And for example in Matthew 2: 1-11; it was the Star that led the Wise Men to where Jesus Christ was born.
Night Time therefore is a very “Crucial Time”:
- It is a time when you see the Second (2nd) Heaven.
- Night Time is the time of Dreams.
- It is a time of very often of “Divine Visitations”.
So, when you hear that God Visited So and So; usually (I’m not saying always but usually); it is Night Time (During Dreams).
For example: In 2 Chronicles 1: 6-12 – After Solomon offered a thousand (1,000) burnt Offerings to God; God visited him.
And while God was visiting him and God was asking him: What do you want et cetera, et cetera; he didn’t even know that he was dreaming.
It was after he woke up that he said: Behold it was a Dream.
The reason why I’m saying this to you is because: The world is Passing through a “Night Time”. And i think I heard something during the Holy Ghost Service Night:
On Friday, 1st of May 2020. You can get the Full Text of this on our Website:
Read: May 2020 Holy Ghost Service
That during this “Night Time” of the lockdown the Star of someone is about to Rise – Amen!
So, I have a feeling that during this Period; the Almighty God is about to Pay someone a Visit – Amen; and give him an Idea, a Dream, a Proposition – Something that is going to Change the Life of that Fellow forever – Amen.
I want you to remember something that happened in Genesis 30: 27-43 – There was this discussion between Laban and Jacob.
Laban asked Jacob: What will be your Wages? What do you want me to Pay you for working for me?
And they reached an Agreement.
Jacob said: Anytime your flocks will give birth – either the cow or whatever; has white spots or white rings. Anytime the animals is not Plain in colour – That will be my own Wages.
Oh, the Uncle said: Wonderful!
So, he went through all his flocks – Everything that has speckles or spots; he removed them far away and left only all those which has ordinary colour except brown because Jacob included Brown in what will be his Wages.
… So he said: Let us see how the remainder will Produce children that are speckled or spotted.
Then the Bible tells us that anytime the animals come to drink; Jacob will get some woods – calve white stripes and white spots on them and Place it where these animals will drink.
And the animals will conceived where they are drinking looking at these white stripped and spotted rods.
And when they began to deliver; Oh, they produced children that were speckled and spotted.
Any anytime a weak animal is coming to drink; he will remove the rods. When the animals are strong, he will put the rods.
So, at the end of the day; he got the strong ones.
Now, anyone will asked: Where does this boy get this Idea from?
He explained it to us in Genesis 31: 10-13 – He said: GOD SHOWED HIM IN A DREAM! – The Idea came to in a Dream!
During this lockdown; God is going to give someone an Idea – Amen.
That as you Practised this Idea, as you put this into Action; you will end up becoming “Extremely Successful” – Amen.
Such Breakthroughs will be such that People will ask you: How do you cone about this?
This is a Time to “Dream Big”; this is a Time to open to God dropping an Idea into your Spirit.
And then, as soon as the lockdown is over, you JUMP INTO ACTION!
Because Dreams and Ideas: No matter how Beautiful they may be, no matter how Divine they may be; will not work themselves – You have to work them!
Prophecies don’t work themselves!
When God speaks to you and said that there is someone here: This, this, this is what I’m going to do; He says get to Action.
The Almighty God said to Isaac in the Bible Text that we read: Stay here, don’t go anywhere! – This is where I’m going to Bless you mightily.
And what was it that Isaac did? – He SOWED!
If you expect God to do everything without you moving a finger – With all Humility, I will call your Faith an “Irresponsible Faith”.
God expects you to be Responsible.
If you don’t Play your Part; you do not commit God to do His Own Part.
… Isaac sowed that Year – And in that very Year that God spoke to him and he reaped that Year an “Hundred-Folds”.
I wasn’t there but reading the Scriptures; you can see that the following Years, he sowed more and more and more.
Because the Bible said that after he Wax Great – I can spend one (1) Hour on that Statement alone.
“Wax Great” means to become Great by Force.
He became “Irresistibly Great” because the circumstances around him was Negative.
He still went forward – He didn’t stop after he “Wax Great”. He didn’t just go forward – He grew, he kept on moving; Acting; Repeating what had worked for him in the Past until he became “Very Great”!
Oh, for sure God will send Help – Amen.
After He has shown you what He wants you to do; He will send Help!
… But He will only send Help after you have Proved to Him that you will be Responsible.
Let me take one more example very quickly: Take the example of Joseph.
When did He discovered his Destiny? – It was at Night. He had two (2) Dreams.
In the first (1st) Dream, he saw his brothers bowing down to him – Symbolically.
In the Second (2nd) Dream, he saw that it was not just his brothers – The entire family will come.
And then you know what followed – The brothers were so determined that this Dream won’t come to Past. They tried to kill him – God didn’t allowed.
Now, I’m Praying for everyone of you – No matter how hard the enemies may tried; they won’t kill your Dreams – Amen.
But then this boy Proved to God – I am committed to you Oh God.
So that by the time we got to Genesis 39: 1-9; when all of a sudden the boy began to Prosper even as a Slave and the wife of the Master says: Come and lie with me.
He said: Ah, ah; the One who gave me the Dream is Holy.
What he said to that woman was: How can I do this thing and sin against God – Sin against the One who is in control of my Destiny.
… I won’t do it.
He landed in Prison – He got to Prison, God was still with him.
And then one Night came – another Night and the only one God could use to Propel this Man to the fulfilment of his Destiny has two (2) Dreams again at Night.
By the following day; the Prisoner has become a Prime Minister.
The God who did his own; will do your own too – Amen.
I have deliberately decided to make this Message a very, very brief Message so that if Possible you memorise it because your future depends on it.
God will give you a Dream – Amen. He will give you an Idea – Amen. But He expects you to Jump into Action as soon as the lockdown is over and begin to work on all these Ideas.
A lot of the People you hear about today – Who are extremely successful had only one (1) Idea.
If you don’t believed me; one day if you meet Bill Gate ask him – Just one idea and the whole world will Pay attention when Bill Gate is talking (Just one idea).
… But Act and Act quickly!
One of my Pastors was the one who was lamenting – He was on his way to Church in Ebute Metta (RCCG National Headquarters Parish in Lagos Nigeria) Years ago and he saw a building which they put “To Let”. He looked at the building and said this building will be good for a Private School and he continued on his Journey.
Three (3) Months later; he saw a Signboard – So, So, So School.
Another fellow Passed the same way, saw the same building, got the same idea and jump into Action.
He was lamenting and said that would have been my School.
I will give you just (2) Testimonies that you have heard before to round up this little talk:
- I told you that Years ago, God spoke to me. He just asked me a question out of the Blues: Son, what kind of Pastor will you like to be?
And as a Mathematician, I didn’t answer question until I understand it.
Daddy, I’m sorry; I don’t understand the question – What do you mean sir?
Will you like to be the best?
Ah, the opposite of the best is the worst. If it is the question of the best and the worst. I will rather be the best.
Will you like to be the Greatest?
Ah, the opposite of the Greatest is the Least. I will love to be the Greatest.
Will you like to be the Richest?
Ah, I have tasted Poverty – Poverty is not good it doesn’t matter those who are Praising Poverty.
Lord, I will love to be the Best; I will love to be the Greatest; I will love to be the Richest.
I’m not there yet but Isaac didn’t get there one day.
It wasn’t long after that; that we are in a Gathering and I was about to take an Offering and He spoke to me again: Son, what kind of Pastor do you say you want to be?
This time, I was ready with the answer – The Best, the Greatest, the Richest.
And He said in that case – Why don’t you give me the highest denomination in your Pocket
At that time; the highest Naira denomination was One Hundred Naira (#100) and One Hundred Naira (#100) then was a heavy money.
I said ah! – If I didn’t know His Voice I would have said: Get thee behind me Satan!
… But I gave the money.
It was not long after that He came back again with the same question: Son, why don’t you double that Offering? – Yes Lord!
Later, He came again: Why don’t you multiply those Offering by three (3) – Yes Lord!
And then He began to respond.
… He will give you a Dream but He will demand that you Play your Part!
- The Second (2nd) Story you have heard it before – Way back in 1979, we went to America for the Kenneth Hagin Camp Meeting.
It was a Night that they wanted to take a “Special Offering” – Thursday Night I think; “Special Offering” for their Bible College.
And a man came to the Altar and asked for Permission to speak – He called his wife and the Man of God said ok – I hope you know what you are doing.
He said I do. And he spoke to all of us who are there – we are about seventeen thousand (17,000). And he said: Brethren, I’m appealing to all of you tonight to Give very well because the Total Amount you all will Give that is what my wife and I will Give.
Ah, we all thought that he was mad.
So, those who don’t want to Give, gave just to get him into trouble.
And when we finished Giving, he said that they should count it.
They counted right there Three Million, five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($3,500,000).
We all said that you are in trouble.
He took the Microphone and said: Brethren, is this all you can all do?
I said in my mind: This man must know something that I don’t know.
As soon as we finished; I cornered him – Sir, what is your secret?
And he said: Years ago, I started a Company with five hundred dollars ($500) and I said to God this Company is Yours. I will not insult You by Giving you ten percent (10%) – I will give you ninety percent (90%) of my Profit while I will keep ten percent (10%). If You like Prosper the Business; if You don’t like, it is up to You – it is Your Own Business.
He said: My son, as I am talking to you; what I started with five hundred dollars ($500); last Year I had a Turnover of Fifty Million Dollars ($50,000,000).
I am not in the level of ninety percent (90%) yet but if God can be Faithful to one; since He is no Respecter of Person, I know what he did and I know what I am going to do.
In Closing; some of you will say that I have not even never heard from God before.
The first (1st) thing that He ever said to anybody is: Come Unto Me all ye that Labour and are Heavy Laden and I will give you rest.
He is talking to you now. He is saying: Come, Surrender your Life to Me, Surrender everything to Me; Let Me take over and see how far I can take you.
ALTAR CALL
So, if you are listening to me now or reading from the Label of DMC and you have not yet given your Life to Jesus Christ; why don’t you do so now.
Stop delaying. He can put an end to all your Labouring – Just one (1) Breakthrough from Him and the rest of your Life will be Full of Joy.
Shall we Please bow our head now in Prayers:
So, if you want to give your Life to Jesus Christ: If you are tired of Labouring, of carrying heavy burden, you want the “Burden Bearer” to help you; Cry unto Him now.
Say Lord: Please save my Soul and I will serve You for the rest of my Life.
I’m surrendering everything to You – My Life, my Family, my Business, my Present, my Future – I’m surrendering everything to You.
And the rest of you for one (1) Minute intercede for these People who are surrendering their Life to Jesus Christ.
Ask that God will give them “Genuine Salvation”. That the One who save your Soul will save their own Souls also. And that God will give them a Brand New Beginning.
… Even as I Pray – In Jesus Mighty Name we have Prayed – Amen!
PRAYER FOR SALVATION AND FINAL BLESSINGS
My Father and my God we want to bless Your Holy Name: We Thank You for Your Words again, we Thank You for those who are surrendering their lives to You now all over the world.
Please Lord, receive them, have Mercy on them, save their Souls, let Your Blood wash them Clean.
Please Lord, receive them into the Family of God, write their names in the “Book of Life”.
From now on, anytime they call on You; Please answer them by Fire.
Take away their burdens Lord and give them Peace.
Thank You my Father and my God.
And Lord God Almighty; the rest of us will be crying to You today at this Night Time in the whole world – Give us Ideas, give us “Big Dreams” and then give us the Grace Lord God Almighty to Play our Parts. Let us Prove to You that we will be “Responsible Children”.
Lord God Almighty; you can see into the hearts of Your children – You know those of them who are determined to be Your Treasurers if You will just open the Windows of Heaven and Pour in a Blessing upon them.
Please Lord, as much as are so determined that they will do Your “Absolute Will”; that they will seek the Kingdom of God and its Righteousness – Please Lord God Almighty; this very Night visit them. Give them an Idea Lord God Almighty that will bring about a “Tremendous Breakthrough” in their lives.
Thank You Almighty God.
In Jesus Mighty Name we have Prayed – Amen!
Let somebody shout Hallelujah – HALLELUJAH!!!
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