FROM LOCKDOWN TO LEAPING UP – PART 4, PASTOR E.A ADEBOYE – 12TH JULY, 2020
SPECIAL RCCG ONLINE SUNDAY SERVICE JULY 12TH 2020 – FROM LOCKDOWN TO LEAPING UP – PART 4
BIBLE TEXT: ACTS 3: 1-8
Let Us Pray!
SONG
Worthy, Worthy is the Lamb
Worthy, Worthy is the Lamb
Worthy, Worthy is the Lamb that was slain
Glory Hallelujah, Glory Hallelujah, Glory Hallelujah
Praise the Lord
… Repeat!
OPENING PRAYER
Father; You are Worthy to be Praised; You are Worthy to be Adored; You are Worthy to be Magnified because there is no one like You.
You are Higher than the highest; Greater than the greatest, Stronger than the strongest; Richer than the richest; Older than the oldest; Wiser than the wisest – We Worship You.
Please accept our Worship in Jesus Name.
Eternal Rock of Ages; we are committing all Your children all over the world into Your Hands – Everywhere they are listening to us today or reading now on the Label of DMC; my Father and my God – The Power that is in Your Words: Let it bring Healings to them all; let it bring Deliverance to them all.
And Please Lord; Your Protection all over Your children let it remains Permanent.
Very, very soon Lord God Almighty; let this virus just be a matter of the Past.
In Jesus Mighty Name we have Prayed – Amen.
Well let someone shout Hallelujah – Hallelujah!
We want to continue with our Series on: FROM LOCKDOWN TO LEAPING UP – PART 4.
Our Bible Text that we started with is Acts 3: 1-8.
BIBLE TEXT: ACTS 3: 1-8
1 Now Peter and John went up together into the temple at the hour of prayer, being the ninth hour.
2 And a certain man lame from his mother’s womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms of them that entered into the temple;
3 Who seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple asked an alms.
4 And Peter, fastening his eyes upon him with John, said, Look on us.
5 And he gave heed unto them, expecting to receive something of them.
6 Then Peter said, Silver and gold have I none; but such as I have give I thee: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk.
7 And he took him by the right hand, and lifted him up: and immediately his feet and ankle bones received strength.
8 And he leaping up stood, and walked, and entered with them into the temple, walking, and leaping, and praising God.
In one of the Series (Specifically for our Refreshers – Part 2); we told you that when you are Lifted Up: You start by Standing and then you continue by Walking and then you Leap Up again – You keep Leaping after you have been Standing and Walking and you ended up by Praising God.
So, we explained in that Part of the Series (Part 2) that there are Leaping and there are Leaping – There is the first (1st) Leaping that brings you to Standing and then after you started Walking; there could be “Other Leaping”.
DMC NOTES: FOR THOSE THAT MISSED OUR PRODUCTION ON THIS YOU CAN FIND USEFUL AS BELOW:
- THE PART 2 SERIES ALONE ON THIS LINK:
https://discoverymediacrew.com/Pastor-E-A-Adeboye-From-Lockdown-To-Leaping-Up-Part-2-June-21st-2020
- YOU CAN DOWNLOAD A FULL COMPILATIONS OF THE FIRST 3 SERIES (PARTS 1 TO 3) ON THIS LINK:
The question we want to ask today is: ” HOW HIGH CAN I LEAP? HOW HIGH CAN I GO?
After this Lockdown; how high can I expect to go?
Now, how high a man can lift you is determined by how tall he is – A short man cannot lift you too high.
As a matter of fact; the one who is lifting you cannot lift very, very high beyond his own height.
For example: In Genesis 41: 38-44; Pharaoh was lifting Up Joseph.
And he said to him: Joseph, I am putting you in Charge of the whole of Egypt but I will be higher than you by the Throne.
… I can’t lift you higher than that – You can be my Prime Minister, you can be my Representative but don’t forget that I am still Pharaoh.
- So, how high can God lift you? – It is a very Big Question!
I. The answer is Simple – How Tall is God?
Isaiah 66:1 tells us that, God Himself said: Heaven is My Throne, the Earth is my Footstool.
That tells you straightaway: How long are the Legs of God?
I mean the One who is sitting in Heaven and His Legs are resting on the Earth must have some pretty long legs!
When I was younger and People wants to talk about a man with a lot of influence; they use to say that he has “Long Legs”.
Allow me to introduce you to the One who has the longest legs of all – He is my Father; the Almighty God!
… His Legs are extremely long from Heaven all the way to the Earth!
II. What about His Hands?
Deuteronomy 33:27 says: His Arms are Everlasting!
You see, if a man is the one lifting you Up and he is Standing and he really, really want to lift you; he can lift you with his hands lifted high.
If he wants to add to how high he can lift you; he can Stand on his toes.
But very soon; his toes will begin to Pain him and so he will come back to Standing firm. And after sometime; his arms will be heavy and he will begin to bring you down.
But the Arms of my Father are Everlasting!
… When He is lifting you; He can lift you Everlastingly.
- How high can God lift you?
1 Samuel 2: 7-8 tells us that: He is the One who lifts Up one and brings down another. And He can pick a beggar from the dunghill and keep lifting him until he begins to dine with Kings.
He can even lift him so high that according to the Word of God; he can inherit “The Throne of Glory”.
- How high can God lift you? – Ask David
In 1 Samuel 16: 1-13; when God told Samuel that He has appointed a King; He has found a King in the house of Jesse.
And Samuel arrived and Jesse began to Present his children – He did not Present David as David didn’t count.
But when God picked him up – He woke up in the morning a “Shepherd Boy” but ended the day being a King.
Now, God didn’t stop there – He started as a King among his Brethren, then he became the King of Judah, then he became the King of Israel and by the time we get to Mark 10: 46-52; Bartimaeus called Jesus Christ the Son of David.
He called the King of Kings Himself the Son of David!
- How high can God lift you? – Why don’t you ask Joshua?
In Joshua 1: 1-8; the Bible tells us that Joshua, the son of Nun was a Minister of Moses.
Minister means a Messenger, Servant, House Help.
The Almighty God lifted Up a House Help and turned him to a Head of State and Leader of a Nation.
- How high can God lift you? – Ask Elisha.
In 1 Kings 19: 19-21; the Bible tells me that Elisha was a farmer’s boy – The son of a farmer.
By the time you get to 2 Kings 13: 14-21; you found out that a King called him “My Daddy”.
The Almighty God can pick a Business Man and turned him to a Mighty Prophet.
- How high can God lift you? – Ask Peter.
He was a “Total Failure” as a Business Man – Luke 5: 1-11.
His Business was Fishing – He fished All-Night but caught nothing.
He had laboured All-Night, he was a Hardworking Fisherman but he was a Total Failure.
But by the time the Almighty God finished with him in Acts 5: 12-16 – The Bible says when Peter is coming to town; the whole town will line up to welcome him.
Why? – They just wanted the Shadow to fall on the sick.
The Shadow will fall on the sick and the sick will be healed.
So, when they hear that Peter will be coming to town; they emptied every Hospital – Lay the sick by the Street to welcome a Fisherman who has failed before.
- How high can God lift you? – Why don’t you ask Moses?
In Exodus 3: 1-15; the Almighty picked Up a “Forgotten Man”, a “Retired Man”.
And I hope those of you who are Old are listening to me or reading now on the Label of DMC: He (Moses) was eighty (80) Years old, all his dreams had been forgotten, he was just waiting for death – But the Almighty God picked him Up from the backside of a Desert, he turned him to a “Way Maker” – Exodus 14: 15-28.
He became a man who can just lift Up his hands and all of a sudden – A Way came where there was no Way before!
- How high can God lift you? – Why don’t you ask my friend in Mark 5: 2-20 (The Mad Man of Gadara).
This man wasn’t just forgotten, this man wasn’t just written off – He himself has written himself off.
He was dwelling among the dead in the tomb because he was so crazy and even in his craziness he realised that if he dies; nobody will bother to bury him so he decided to make the Burial Ground his home.
But when God picked him Up; he became an Evangelist for the Most High God.
Do you think that you have been forgotten? You have been “Written Off”? There is no hope for you?
Why don’t you let my Father step into your situation and you will see how far He can lift you!
- Materially, when we are talking about how high God can lift you?
I. In 1 Kings 17: 8-16; you can see that He can lift you Up from “Being Destitute to becoming Comfortable”.
God stepped into the situation of the woman who has only one (1) Meal left and for the rest of the Period of the famine; she was comfortably feeding – Feeding herself, feeding her son and feeding her Greater Visitor – The Great Elijah himself.
When God picks Up a Destitute, He can bring him to a level of Comfortable.
II. When He picks Up the Comfortable, He can bring him to the level of the Rich.
General 33: 1-9; the Bible tells us that when Jacob brought a lot of Gifts to Esau his brother to find favour with him.
Esau said: My brother keep what you have, I have enough.
I am Praying for someone listening to me today or reading on the Label of DMC; very soon when anybody says that they want to do anything for you. What can we do for you?
You will them: I have enough – Amen.
III. But God can do much more than that – He can pick Up the Rich and make him Wealthy.
Genesis 24: 34-35 – The Almighty God stepped into the situation of Abraham and by the time they were Testifying about Abraham; the Bible says: God has blessed him Greatly – Not Minor, not just Surviving but he has been blessed Greatly.
IV. Because His Arms are Everlasting, He can pick the one that is Wealthy and move him to the level of Prosperous.
In 2 Chronicles 1: 6-12; the Almighty God moved a man who could give a thousand (1,000) “Burnt Offerings” at once to a level where the man began to treat Silver as “Ordinary Stones”.
… He can move you from Wealthy to Prosperous!
V. And of course, He can stay alright that is not even enough – Let me move you Up Higher still.
According this Psalms 92: 12-14; He can move you from being Prosperous to someone who is Flourishing.
I mean the case of Solomon which I mentioned earlier on – God Picked him up from that level of offering a thousand (1,000) “Burnt Offerings” to a level where he can now offer twenty two thousand (22,000) “Burnt Offerings” of Oxen Plus one hundred and twenty thousand (120,000) Sheep – That is in 2 Chronicles 7:5.
I want to appeal to you that you enlarge your Vision because it doesn’t matter how great you are now; my God can make you much more Greater – Amen.
Oh, you think that you are Wealthy; maybe you need to know a little more about the People who are Rich – Who are really, really Prosperous:
- I visited a Nation and I was told that the son of the Head of State – Not the Head of State himself; just his son; had two hundred and twenty (220) Rolls Royce.
I don’t want to tell you what I thought because you can never tell where they are listening to us now
… Two hundred and twenty (220) Rolls Royce; each one made to Order! – The boy will just dream up something else that can be put in the car and almost everywhere inside the car was Gold!
- But then, that one is still small compared to someone else.
In case you are thinking that you have already arrived – I want to encourage you to look up and consider going Higher still!
I have told you the story before of the wife of the Head of State that came to London to Shop.
She went to Harods (Harods is the Number 1 Shopping Center in the world).
She Shop for three (3) days and at the end of the three (3) days she needed a 747 Plane to take the Goods home.
And one (1) of the Servants says: I will go and get a 747 Cargo Plane.
She was upset – You want to put my Goods in a dirty Cargo Plane?
I want you to go and buy a brand New 747 Passenger Plane; remove all the Seats (Dash (Give) the Seats to the People you are buying the Plane from).
And then they loaded these Goods into the 747 Plane; she took them home; Put them in a Warehouse and didn’t open one of them for three (3) Years.
DMC EDITORIALS NOTES:
- Harrods is another huge name in the world of Shopping.
Harrods is a must see Stop off in London.
Picking up a Harrods bag is an essential Part of any Shopping lovers trip to London and with a massive range of Departments to enjoy, there will be something for everyone.
You could easily spend a day in Harrods, so if you want to make the most of it, get along early.
- The Boeing 747 is a large, long–range wide-body Airliner and Cargo Aircraft manufactured by Boeing Commercial Airplanes in the United States.
After introducing the 707 in October 1958, Pan Am wanted a jet 2½ times its size, to reduce its seat cost by 30% to democratize air travel.
How high can you Leap? – The Choice is yours!
- Now, the question is: How soon can God lift me to a Height that I cannot even dream Possible?
He can do it within twenty four (24) Hours
Because in Genesis 41: 1-44 – Joseph woke up one morning as a Prisoner and before the day was out; he was riding in the Second (2nd) Chariot of Pharaoh.
… Completely in Charge of the Greatest Nation on Earth as at that time!
- Now the question then follows: What are the Requirements? What are the Things that God will expect from me so that what we are talking about can become a reality in my life?
Well three (3) Small Things:
- Faith in God.
You have to believe that God can do it because it is going to be unto you according to your Faith.
And Mark 9:23; God makes it clear: If only you can believe; all things are Possible to him that believes.
- God is going to require from you Diligence (Hardworking).
In Proverbs 22:29; the Bible says: Seeth thou a man diligent in his Business; he will Stand before Kings and not “Mean Men”.
Diligence – The Almighty God is not going to take you to any Great Heights if you are Lazy.
In. 2 Kings 4: 1-7; the Bible makes it clear that the ball is actually in your court.
What do you mean sir?
When that Destitute Woman, who was heavily in debt and there was nothing in her house that is worthy of any Value other than her two (2) sons.
When she came to the Man of God; the Man of God said: “Go, borrow empty Vessels, borrow not a few”.
And when she shut the door on herself according to what the Man of God said and she began to Pour out the “Little Oil” that she had.
The Oil kept on multiplying until there were no Vessels left.
She determined how high she will Go by the number of Empty Vessels that she borrowed!
How high are you going? – Depending on the Hard work you are willing to Put in!
- Finally, God will expect Holiness from you!
Why? – Because the Word of God says clearly that: The Prosperity of Fools will destroy them.
And the Fool is the one that says: There is No God.
The Fool is the one the Bible says: Make a Mockery of sin.
… You keep on enjoying sin – I’m not the one who says so: God says you are a Fool.
And if God Prospers a Fool; the very Prosperity of the Fool will destroyed him.
And Isaiah 59: 1-2; the Bible says: The Hands of God is not Shortened that it cannot save you – The Arm is Everlasting and there is nothing it can’t do.
But it says: Your sin can separate between you and your God.
I. He wants to lift you High.
II. He wants to take you to a level you can’t dream Possible now.
III. He wants to Change your Language from saying: The Sky is the Limit to Heaven is the Limit!
How high can God lift you?
… But He says: Be Holy for I am Holy!
When Joseph was Prospering in the house of Portiphar and an opportunity came to him to sin; he said: How can I do this and sin against God?
The Only Thing that can destroyed your Lifting faster than anything else is sin.
ALTAR CALL
That is why I want to appeal to all of you children of God – Please don’t Play with Holiness.
That is very, very important if you are going to go “Very High”.
Which is why I say to all of you who are not even yet saved – That you are cheating yourself.
You think that you have arrived but you are Nothing yet
No matter how high you think you are; where you are is nothing compared to where God can take you!
Why don’t you do yourself a favour? – And Call on the Lord Jesus Christ for the Salvation of your Soul and He will give you a Brand New Beginning of Leaping to Heights that is beyond your wildest dreams.
So, if you are listening to me or reading now on the Label of DMC; and you have not yet surrendered your Life to Jesus Christ – This is the moment to do so.
If you will bow your heads in Prayers and cry to Him to save your Souls.
I will Pray with you and He will answer you, He will save your Soul and He will give you a Brand New Beginning.
As for those of you who are already children of God; Cry to Him for the Grace never again to toil with sin again.
And I’m believing God that very soon; I will hear Mighty Testimonies concerning how Mighty my God has Lifted you.
Shall we Pray!
PRAY FOR SALVATION AND CLOSING PRAYER.
Ancient of Days; I’m committing all those who are surrendering their lives to you today in Your Hands.
You are the One who Promised that whosoever will come to You; You will no wise cast out.
All those People who are saying Lord Please save my Soul; I don’t want to continue with a Life of sin – Father, Please receive them, let Your Blood wash away their sins, save their Souls, write their names in the Book of Life.
Father, give them a Brand New Beginning.
As for Your children who are already Born Again; who are determined from now on to live a “Life of Holiness”; I Pray Lord God Almighty – The Heights they can’t even dream Possible; Father take them beyond that Heights.
Lift them High Oh Lord; let Heavens alone be their Limits.
And may Your Name alone forever remained Glorified.
In Jesus Mighty Name we have Prayed – Amen!
PRAISE THE LORD – HALLELUJAH!!!
Thank you so much for staying all through to read.
To read other Messages on the Coverage of DMC MediaCrew so far this Year and beyond; kindly visit our Website: http://discoverymediacrew.com.
Follow us on Twitter: @discoverymediac
Send a Friend Request on Facebook to DMC MediaCrew.
Like our FB Page: Discovery Media
Join us on WhatsApp:
https://chat.whatsapp.com/D20e9cqYX1LKKPm9n93K4h
Join us on Telegram: https://t.me/joinchat/NzzPckuGazKYFxZZFkt9fg
Follow Us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/discoverymediacrew
Watch and Follow Us on YouTube: Discovery Media Crew
For Enquiries, email Us on: info@discoverymediacrew.com
And I can assure you that you will be glad you did as it will avail you first hand access to comprehensive reports on the various Messages of Pastor E.A Adeboye and other Men of God!
It is outrightly wrong and a sin we frowned at it for anyone to consciously remove the original source of the work that does not emanate for him or her!
Discovery Media Crew … Reaching out to the World through the Power of the Gospel!!!
COMPILATIONS BY:
MOSES DURODOLA, TITILAYOMI AJAYI AND TOPE BABALOLA
© DISCOVERY MEDIA CREW (DMC) 2020
1 Response
[…] You can listen to last sunday’s message here: From Lockdown To Leaping Up (Part 4) […]