THE WONDERS OF HIS BREATH: PASTOR E.A ADEBOYE, SEPTEMBER 13TH, 2020

SPECIAL RCCG ONLINE SUNDAY SERVICE

TOPIC : THE WONDERS OF HIS BREATH

MINISTERING: PASTOR E.A ADEBOYE

DATE: 13TH SEPTEMBER, 2020

BIBLE TEXT: GENESIS 2:7

Let Us Pray!

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OPENING PRAYER

Father Almighty we bless Your Holy Name.

God of Heaven and Earth we can never Thank You enough for what You did during our Convention – We will keep on Thanking You Lord because You are extremely Good to us.

Please, accept our Worship in Jesus Name.

Lord, even as we continue in Your Words; Please continue with us.

And the Power that is in Your Words, Lord God Almighty let it continue to Perform Wonders in the lives of Your children.

Have Mercy on us Lord and we will Praise You forever.

In Jesus Mighty Name we have Prayed – Amen.

Praise the Lord – Hallelujah!

We want to continue our discussions on: “The Wonders of Our God”.

If we spend the whole Year, we cannot exhaust that Topic – So, we will cover as much Grounds as Possible.

Today, we want to consider: The Wonders of His Breath.

In Genesis 2:7, the Bible says:

And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the Ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of Life and man became a Living Soul.

The Breath of God is Full of Wonders!

You see:

I. Man can do without Clothes for Years – Nebuchadnezzar, for seven (7) Years didn’t wear any Clothes.

II. Man can do without Food for Weeks – After all the Lord fasted for forty (40) Days and forty (40) Nights.

And then Elijah, Moses – They all move in the same Category of doing without Food for Weeks.

III. Man can do without Water for Days – Even though we know that where there is Water; there is Life.

But Man can only do without ” BREATH” for Minutes – Not even for Hours.

If Man does not “Breathe” for certain number of minutes; he is done, gone, dead.

This is Probably the reason why David said in Psalms 150:6: “Let everything that has Breath Praise the Lord”.

In other words; as long as you are still breathing; you better Praise God.

Because it means: Where there is Life; there is Hope!

… So, you can then imagined how Wonderful the Breath of God must be?

In the Bible Text that we read (Genesis 2:7); the Bible says: He Breath on dust (Ordinary dust) and it became something of “Eternal Value” – He Breath on “Ordinary Dust” and it became a “Living Soul”.

How Valuable is a “Living Soul”?

Matthew 16:26 tells us that: A Single Soul is worth more than all the Wealth in the world – What does it Profit a Man if he gains the whole world and loses his Soul?

… What can a Man give in exchange for his Soul?

So, God Breathe on “Ordinary Dust” or something that is of “No Value” at all and suddenly it became something of “Eternal Value”.

Ecclesiastes 12:7 tells us that: When that Breath leaves a Man; he will suddenly discovered that he is “Ordinary Dust”.

It says: Dust will return to Dust and the Spirit (The Breath) will go back to God who made it.

So, it doesn’t matter how Glorious somebody may think he is; it is still because he is still Breathing – The moment he stops Breathing, the end has come!

So, today in this Particular Passage; it is encouraging you to Pray!

So, I’m going to be as brief as Possible.

But as I go along; I will give you Prayer Points – Prayer Points that I’m sure that some of you has never Prayed before that you should begin to Pray from now on.

1. You see, the Bible says in John 15:5 that without God; you can do Nothing – Without Him; if He takes away your Breath, you become Nothing.

It was because He breathed on David for example in 1 Samuel 16: 11-13 – And suddenly that Shepherd Boy became someone of Eternal Value.

Someone that several hundred years later in Mark 10: 46-52; that Beggar by the roadside called on the King of Kings and call Him: “Thou Son of David”.

And David himself said in 2 Samuel 22: 33-36; he said: God is my Strength, He is my Power, He is the One who taught my hands to fight.

So, if you call me (David) – The Giant Killer; hey let us trace it back to the One who Breath on me.

Also listen to the audio: The Wonders of His Breath – Pastor E.A Adeboye, September 13th, 2020

And he concluded by saying: Your Gentleness has made me Great.

You know one thing about “Breath” is that it comes gently.

It comes so gently that many at times that we even forgot that we are breathing.

… David said that: It is because God breathe on me that is why I have become Great!

That leads to your Prayer Point No 1 – Which I think you should note now: Father, I’m nothing now but Please breathe on me and turn me to something of “Eternal Value”.

2. Another important thing that we need to note about this Breath of God – Another Wonder of it is something that I’m sure you will know.

That when someone is out of Strength: If you have been running for a long time and you can no longer run or you have been working so hard and you can no longer work; we always say: That fellow is out of Breath.

For example in 1 Samuel 30: 1-4; the Bible tells us what happened when David and his Mighty Men returned from their Adventures – Came back to Ziklag and found out that they have lost everything.

The Bible said that they wept until they had no more Strength to weep.

When Mighty Men have lost all their Abilities, lost all their Strength even to weep; you can say that they were out of Breath.

When God breathes on someone who is out of Breath; the Person becomes revived, encouraged, Strengthened again to keep going.

Because when He breathes on someone who is out of Breath; that Person will become encouraged, energised to continue the Journey.

In 1 Samuel 30: 6-8; of all the People who are around, weeping till they have no Strength left; God still breathed on David and he (David) said: I will encourage myself in the Lord.

… There was someone who breathe on me (David) and brought me thus far – Let me turn to Him (God) for another weave of His Breath.

The Bible says: David encouraged himself in the Lord.

Then he (David) said: Lord, is this my End? I’m I finished?

And the Almighty God says: No, you will Pursue your enemies, you will overtake them and you will recover all.

In 1 Kings 19: 1-8; when Elijah ran until he could run no more and he himself said: Maybe the best thing now is to die.

God Breathed on him again and he was able to continue the Journey.

Is anyone listening to me or reading now on the Label of DMC; and you are about to throw up your hands and say: There is No Hope, I can’t continue, I think I better end it up?

No, don’t do so. What you should do is to Pray that God should Breathe on you again.

Many of you know the Story: When we started the first (1st) Model Parish in The Redeemed Christian Church of God and the Church was doing extremely well.

Within a Year (1 Year); we are counting Attendance of a thousand (1,000) People.

And then something happened and the Pastor In Charge decided to break away – He left behind fifteen (15) Members.

I sat down when I heard the News – Lord, this is the first (1st) Project we could say that I’m starting. The First (1st) and I believed that I had your backing before I started it. What do I do now?

I remembered that I Prayed this Prayer I’m asking you to Pray now.

Prayer No 2; I Prayed that God will Breathe on me again that He will revive me, that He will encourage me – Amen.

And He did! – Today, by the Grace of God; the fifteen (15) members left behind are now all over the world.

You go to anywhere in Africa, you will meet them; you go to anywhere in Europe, you will meet them; you go to anywhere in America, you will meet them – Because He Breathed on me again and says: Start afresh; don’t lose Hope. Start again.

So, your Prayer No 2 will be: Father, Breathe on me, revive me, encourage me.

God of Wonders breathe on me again, revive me so that I can continue on this Journey – Strengthened and Encourage me.

3. It is God’s Breath that sustained us.

… When the Breath is gone; the fellow is dead.

In 1 Kings 17: 17-18; the Bible tells us the Story of the Son of the Widow of Zarephath.

It said that: The boy became sick until there is no Breath left in him.

When someone is dead; we have the saying that: He has given up the Ghost.

… Ghost here stands for the Spirit.

The Breath of God is a Spirit that keeps you going, that sustains you.

For example in Genesis 25:8; the Bible says that: Abraham gave up the Ghost and died.

When the Breath returns to someone who is dead; then we are what we call: Resurrection – The fellow is back to Life.

So, if there is a dead body and you can Pray and God Breathe on the dead body so that the Breath of God enters into the dead body; the dead body comes back to Life.

In 1 Kings Chapter 17 that I mentioned earlier on; from Verses 19 to 24 (1 Kings 17: 19-24); when Elijah cried unto God for the son of the Widow of Zarephath – The Soul of the boy returned and he came back to Life.

When God Breathes on the dead; death changes to Sleep and it takes only the Word from God for the one sleeping to wake up.

Mark 5: 34-43 – This is what Jesus Christ meant when He said that: The daughter of Jairus wasn’t dead but she is only sleeping

He knew she was dead; He knew that if I get there; I Breathe on her; death will change to Life.

Is there anything that is in your life that is dead – Your Business, your Project, something Precious to you – That is dead; if you cry unto God today that He should Breathe on you again; every Good Things that was dead will come back to Life – Amen.

So, your Prayer Point No 3 will be: Father, Please Breathe on me again so that my dead Parts, dead Projects, dead Ambitions, dead Purpose will resurrect.

Breathe on me again; everything that is Good in my Life, that is dead will resurrect – Amen.

4. It takes the Breath of God to reverse the Irreversible.

A Classical Example you will find in Ezekiel 37: 1-10 – You know the Story. It is the Story of the Valley of Dry bones.

The Bible says that: The bones are not just dry but they were very dry.

God asked the Man of God:): Can these bones live again?

The Man of God said: It is beyond my Faith – Only you can tell Oh God!

God said that: All what I want you to do is to Prophesy – Prophesy to the dry bones: Come together bones to bones.

… As soon as He Prophesied; the bones came together.

Prophesy again: Bones, be covered up with Flesh – Immediately, the bones were covered with Flesh.

But the Bible says: There was still no Life in the bones that has now been covered up with Flesh all over.

So, God said to the Man of God: Ask that the Breath of God to come – Ask that the wind to blow on them.

… And the Almighty God Breathed on the dry bones and they became a Mighty Strong Army.

It takes the Breath of God to reverse the Irreversible.

It takes the Breath of God for example to Shout.

In John 11:39-45; when Jesus Christ was going to bring Lazarus back from the dead – The Bible says: He Shouted!

… It takes Breath of God to Shout!

Ask all those who Play one Instrument or the other; they will tell you: It takes the Breath of God to blow the horns before it can Produce any sound.

It takes the Breath of God to Convert the Inconvertible – To Change someone to someone extremely different.

For example: In Matthew 3:17; John the Beloveth was called: The Son of Thunder – He is a man with a Violent Temper.

How Violent?

If you read Luke 9: 51-56; the Bible tells us that when Jesus Christ was travelling and there was a Village of Samaritan and He said that I love to spend the Night there.

The Villagers refused because the Jews has nothing to do with the Samaritans.

… What do you want to stay in our Village for? You have no regards for us and we have no Business Accommodating you.

John was one of the two (2) who said: Let us burn them up; let us call down Fire from Heaven like Elijah did and just burn them up.

But after God Breath on him on the “Day of Pentecost”; things changed – The same “Son of the Thunder” is the one who wrote: 1 John 4: 7-8.

John said: Brethren, let us Love one another. Love is of God and anyone who doesn’t Love doesn’t know God.

It is from his mouth that we heard that: God is Love.

Do you have a Member of your family that you considered his Case completely Useless? Someone you think that the devil has won completely?

Why don’t you Pray that God will Breath on such a fellow – Amen.

I know what He (God) did for me when He (God) Breathed on me.

Now, almost everyone who wants to talk about me in one way or the other will want to include one thing: Oh, he is a Humble Fellow.

They should have known me before He Breathed on me – When I entered into a Place and I want to introduce myself.

In other to attract attention (I was just a Student at the University of Nigeria Nsukka – Enugu State in Nigeria).

I will start by saying: Here you meet from the University of Nigeria Nsukka (Located in Enugu State Nigeria); Department of Mathematics.

… And by the time I have said that: They will Pay attention – It is then I will mentioned my name so that they won’t forget.

But when He Breathed on me and things Changed!

So, your Prayer No 4 will be: Father, Please Breathe on me and Breathe on my Family.

And if there is anyone Particularly in your Family that you want to include his or her name – You mentioned the name of that fellow.

… Breathe on me, Breathe on my Family and reverse the Irreversible!

5. His Breath makes a Way where there is None before.

Exodus 14: 21-28 – When the Almighty God Breathed on the Red Sea; the Red Sea Parted.

Oh Yes, it is true that Moses lifted up his hands but it was God who caused the East Wind to blow.

And when Moses was singing about what happened later on in Exodus 15:8; he says: He Breath on the water and the water flows.

… His Breath can freeze the water.

And then of course, you remembered when Moses lifted up his hands in the other direction and the waters returned.

As soon as the Breath of God was withdrawn; the “Frozen Water” melted and drowned all the enemies – Exodus 15: 9-10.

When you ask God to Breathe on you; it is not just to make a Way for you where there is None before – That one is very important!

But I’m sure that you knew that what happened at the Red Sea is to make the Victory, the Deliverance to the children of Israel Permanent.

If the Red Sea had not opened for them; they would have been Captured and taken back to Bondage.

But God Breathed – He made a Way where there is No Way and He put a Seal on the Deliverance of His People.

So, when Breathed on you, it can be to make a Way for you where there is No Way before and it can be to make your Victory Permanent!

So, your Prayer No 5 will be: Breathe on me Oh God and make a Way for me where there was No Way before and make my Victory Permanent.

6. You know one of the Great Wonder of God’s Breath is that it Empowers – It gives Divine Power to the Person that has been Breathed upon.

There is a Passage in the Bible that I’m sure most of us know but Probably didn’t Pay attention to.

John 20: 21-23 – When the Lord rose from the dead and the Disciples were hurdled together in a room.

And He (Jesus Christ) came to visit them without having to open the door because He is the Door Himself – He Breath on them and said: Receive Ye the Holy Ghost.

… He Breathed on them!

In Acts 1:8; He says: Ye shall receive Power when the Holy Ghost is come upon you.

But He has Breath on them. He has already said to them: Receive Power – The Power was already Potential in them.

It was as if when He Breathed on them: They conceived, they became Pregnant with Power and all that remained was that the Power to be Ignited.

And when the Ignition was to happen; in Acts 2: 1-4 – When they were together again in one accord; suddenly there was a Sound of a Rushing Mighty Wind.

… Another Breathing came and then “Cloven Tongues” of Fire came and sat on each and everyone of them.

… Suddenly, as we will say in Mathematics: The Potential became the Kinetics.

The Power that was already Breathing on them caught fire and they began to speak with “Other Tongues” as the Holy Spirit gave Utterances.

When He Breathes on you; suddenly the Power to fulfill your Destiny become released.

Because in Luke 5: 1-11; it has been told Peter that he will become a “Fisher of Men” but for more than three (3) Years; he didn’t win a Single Soul.

But when the Holy Spirit Breathed on him (On the “Day of Pentecost”); he Preached a Single Sermon and won three thousand (3,000) Souls – Acts 2:41.

There was no looking back from that moment onwards – He just kept on fulfilling his Destiny.

When I became Born Again; I wanted to Witness to all those that are considered Precious to me.

And one of those People, very Precious to me was my Head of Department (HOD) of my Department of Mathematics – The Late Professor Chike Obi of Blessed Memory.

I just love him because when we were very Young; when you talk of Mathematics; he was the one we all looked forward to – He was our Role Model even when we were still in the Secondary School.

Then by work of Destiny; we met and he became my Head of Department (HOD) and I was there at the University of Lagos Lecturing.

When I became a Christian and I wanted to Witness to him (Prof Chike Obi); he was such a Good Man. He must not go to Hell, he must be with me in Heaven.

So, every Sunday, I will make up my Mind – First (1st) thing on Monday, I’m going to Preach to my Beloveth Head of Department (HOD)

But then, the Monday morning will come; I will go boldly into his Office and when I say: Good Morning sir – The way he will answer me: Good Morning, all my boldness will disappeared and I will run to my office ashamed of myself.

… Ah, God help me!

Then one day; God Breathed on me and I was Baptized in the Holy Spirit – And everything Changed.

Next time, I said: Good Morning and he (Prof Chike Obi) said: Good Morning.

I said: Yes sir – I have something important to tell you.

Because when He Breathed on you; He gives you the Power to begin to fulfill your Destiny.

So, your Prayer No 6 will be: Father, Please Breathe on me, empower me to fulfill my Destiny – Amen.

Let me Conclude: For those of you who are yet to surrender your Life to Jesus Christ; let me remind you that you owe your “Every Breath” to the Almighty God.

That you are still Breathing today is at His Pleasure.

He can recall your Breath at anytime because He gave it to you.

And if you think that you are a “Big Man”; a “Big Woman”; there is nobody like you – Just remembered that the moment the Breath leaves your body; you become “Ordinary Dust”.

Oh, your Loving wife will not spend another night with you on the Bed if you die.

And the same thing goes for your Husbands who Worships you.

Before, He withdraws that Breath which He gave to you; maybe it might be a Good Idea if you surrender your Life to Him now.

You see: The Bible in 2 Corinthians 6:2; He said:Today, is the “Day of Salvation”.

Why? – Because tomorrow might be too late.

I tell you one more Story – Probably you have heard it before.

A very Great Chief – One of the High Chief in a Particular Town (Now, I won’t mention the name) – Came back from the office, sat down at the Table eating Pounded Yam.

For one reason or the other; the Pounded Yam went to the “Wrong Way” and he started to Choke.

They rushed him to the Hospital but before he arrived, he was dead.

Because a man can do without Breathing for only a certain number of minutes

ALTAR CALL

You are still Breathing my Brother; you are still Breathing my Sister – You better take this opportunity and surrender your Life to Jesus Christ.

I will be willing to Pray for you now if you will say: Jesus Christ, Please save my Soul – Before the Breath get out of my body; before I become “Ordinary Dust” again. Save my Soul so that I can begin to live my Life for You.

If you will bow your heads now wherever you are now or reading now on the Label of DMC; and Call on Him for Salvation – I will join with you in Prayers now.

So, if you want to surrender your Life to Jesus Christ; Please bow your heads and begin to cry unto Him for the Salvation of your Soul.

Please, all those of you who are Listening or reading now on the Label of DMC; who are already Saved – Kindly intercede for those who are just surrendering their lives to Jesus Christ.

Intercede that the One who saved your Soul will save their own Souls before it is too late.

Call the Almighty God – That God should save their Souls today.

Thank You Father.

In Jesus Mighty Name we have Prayed – Amen.

PRAYER OF SALVATION AND CLOSING PRAYER

And Father Almighty; we want to bless Your Name.

We want to give You all Glory and Honour for the Words that has gone forth again today.

We Thank You for keeping all of us alive to hear this Message.

And we are crying to You for all those who are surrendering their lives to you today – Thank You for keeping them alive till this moment.

Now, as they are crying to you for Salvation; Please Father save their Souls, Forgive all their sins, write their names in the “Book of Life” and let them spend the rest of their lives serving you.

Thank You my Father and my God.

And Lord God Almighty; all Your children who will be crying to You today; asking on You to Breath on them – Father, Please Breath on us all.

We are Nothing without You – If He will Breath on you; You will become something of Eternal Value – Breathe on us Oh Lord

Some of us are tired, some of us are almost “Giving Up” – Father, Breath on us and revive us.

Some of us; who are almost like a “Living Corpse” – So many Parts of our bodies are already dead; the doctors said that: There is Nothing they can do about it.

But if You will Breath on us Lord; we will resurrect – Father Breath on us.

Every Projects that is dead; Father Breath on them Lord.

Every Ambition that is dead; Father Breathe on them Lord.

My Father and my God; You are the Only One who can reverse the Irreversible – If you will Breathe on us, the Irreversible in all our lives will be reversed. Father, Please Breath on us.

If You will Breathe on us Lord; there will be a Way where there seems to be No Way before and our Victory will be Complete – Father, Please Breathe on us.

If You will Breathe on us; we will be Empowered to fulfill our Destinies. Father, Please Breathe on us.

Answer all our Prayers and we will give You all the Glory.

In Jesus Mighty Name we have Prayed – Amen.

PRAISE THE LORD – HALLELUJAH!!!

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