BETTER DAYS AHEAD: PASTOR E.A ADEBOYE, RCCG NOVEMBER 2020 THANKSGIVING SERVICE

RCCG NOVEMBER 2020 THANKSGIVING SERVICE WITH PASTOR E.A ADEBOYE FEATURING SPECIAL PRAYER OF TOTAL RESTORATION FOR THE BROKEN HEARTED AND THEIR FAMILIES

THEME: BETTER DAYS AHEAD

MINISTERING: PASTOR E.A ADEBOYE

DATE: 1ST NOVEMBER, 2020

BIBLE TEXT: 1 THESSALONIANS 5: 16-18

Now, let us lift our hands to the Most High God – Let us give Him Glory, Let us give Him Honour, Let us give Him Adoration. Thank Him for all He has done for you since the beginning of the Year till now.

Bless His Holy Name for seeing you through the Month of October.

Thank Him for His Faithfulness, for His Support – Give Him Glory, give Him. Honour, give Him Adoration; bless His Holy Name because He is worthy to be Praised.

In Jesus Mighty Name we have Prayed – Amen.

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We give You all the Glory
We give You Honour
We give You all the Glory
We give You Honour

Jesus … Repeat!

OPENING PRAYER

Ancient of Days, we give You all the Glory.

The I am that I am; the Alpha, the Omega, the Beginning, the Ending; the Unchangeable Changer – Glory be to Your Holy Name.

Thank You for January, Thank You for February, Thank You for March, Thank You for April, Thank You for May, Thank You for June, Thank You for July, Thank You for August, Thank You for September, Father Thank You for October and thank You now for November – Accept our Thanks in Jesus Name.

Our Lord and our Saviour, we are committing all Your children into Your Hands today; in Your own Miraculous Way, let all our Needs be met.

Let this Month be an extremely successful Month for us all.

Wipe away tears from all eyes and change every sorrow to Joy.

And Your children who has been Faithful in the Payment of their Offerings; before the end of this Year; embarrass them with Your Blessings. Open Mighty doors unto them and let it be well with all of us.

All over the world today, send Help to Your children.

In Jesus Mighty Name we have Prayed – Amen.

Well, let someone shout Hallelujah – Hallelujah!

Wave hands to at least one (1) or two (2) People and say: Good Morning, God Bless you!

And let us open our Bibles to: 1 Thessalonians 5: 16-18:

16 Rejoice evermore.

17 Pray without ceasing.

18 In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.

When you need Good Advice; you go to your friend – And you cannot get a better friend than God Himself!

How can I be calm, cool, collected whatever may be happening?

How can I have Peace in the midst of a storm?

How can I be sure that my Blood Pressure will remain normal for the rest of my Life?

The best; the Holy Spirit has given to us series of advice and we are taking just three (3) of them that are most appropriate for our discussion:

1. Rejoice Evermore.
2. Pray Without Ceasing.
3. In everything give Thanks.

ADVICE NO 1: REJOICE EVERMORE

How can I rejoice all the time because that is what that Passage is saying?

… Rejoice Evermore: Rejoice in the morning, rejoice in the afternoon, rejoice in the evening, rejoice in the Night – Rejoice all the time!

Well, the Bible made it clear that: Your rejoicing should be in the Lord always and again I say rejoice.

In other words, He says your rejoicing should not be in anything Material, should not be anything Physical, not be in anything that is happening around you but in the Lord.

Now, if you rejoice in the Lord and your Joy will be constant because Malachi 3:6 says: I am the Lord, I change not.

Hebrews 13:8 says: Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today and forever.

So, if I am rejoicing in the Lord; then my Joy will be constant.

It doesn’t matter what is happening because the Lord is constant and my Joy will be constant.
But why is He still asking you to Rejoice in the Lord?

It is because according to Nehemiah 8:10 – The Joy of the Lord is your Strength.

How am I going to get Strength for everything I have to do? How do I get Strength for the Journey in Life?

… The Joy must come from the Lord – The Joy of the Lord is my Strength.

And then automatically, as a Human Being, you ask the questions: What if I am in sorrow? – Maybe I have suffered a lost, you have lost someone Precious, I’m sad and you are asking me to rejoice.

Simple! – Because Joy is Coming!

Psalms 30:5 says: Weeping may endure for a night, but Joy comes in the morning.

… As surely as day will follow night; Joy will always follow!

So, if even right now you have things that are supposed to give you sorrow; the Bible says: Rejoice, because the sorrow will not Last – Amen

Now, suppose I have failed – Failed in an examination, failed in business, failed in Marriage, failed in whatever and you are asking me to rejoice?

Sure, why? – Because Ecclesiastes 9:4 says: As long as there is Life, there is hope.

Are you still breathing? – Rejoice

Are you still breathing? Are you still alive? – Rejoice!

Then suppose some very Good friends have disappointed me; People that I have trusted has let me down and I feel so disappointed – You still ask me to rejoice?

Sure, because Human Beings may disappoint you but Jesus Christ will not.

Because He said in His Words in Hebrews 13: 5-6; He said: I will never leave you; I will never forsake you.

Oh, that fellow who Promised to marry you has disappointed.

That fellow who said he will get you a job has disappointed.

The Person who Promised you Promotion has disappointed.

Ha, Ha; don’t worry. There is a friend who will never leave you, who will never forsake you – His Name is Jesus Christ!

Are you worried about tomorrow?

You don’t know what tomorrow is going to bring and yet the Bible says: Rejoice!

I think it was in the Open Heavens Devotional that I was discussing with my family – Just this Past week; when the Almighty God was making a Promise to carry us even to the Old Age.

And I was sharing with my children: Every Human Beings has a little bit of anxiety: What is going to happen to me when I’m old when I cannot run up and down as I used to do?

Oh, you could be rich, you could have enough money to hire a dozen househelp but what happens when you call them and they don’t answer?

Because they knew that there is nothing you can do – You can’t run after them.

We have seen it before: We have heard about an Old Man calling somebody who is supposed to be helping and we will say to the fellow – Baba (Father) is calling you.

The fellow will say: Let him call a little more.

But there is someone who says: I will never leave you, I will never forsake you. I have been carrying you since you are in the womb; I will carry you even to your Old Age!

So, if you are worried about tomorrow: Remember Colossians 1:27 says: Christ in you, the Hope of Glory.

How many of you believed that your End will be Good – Let me hear you shout Hallelujah – Hallelujah!

So Advice No 1 – Rejoice Evermore; Rejoice Constantly.

Don’t worry because the things you are worrying about when God has solved the Problem; if you are careful the worrying will become a sickness.

… Don’t worry at all.

He said it clearly; He said: Don’t bother about tomorrow; tomorrow will take care of itself.

ADVICE NO 2: PRAYING WITHOUT CEASING.

In Jeremiah 33:3; it says: If you call on Me, I will answer.

The reason many People don’t Pray is because they don’t believed God is going to answer.

But He will – He is not a liar. If He says: I will answer; He will answer.

Oh, up till now; He hasn’t answer – Who told you that He will not answer before today is out?

How many of you believed that by tomorrow morning; you will have a Testimony?

Then why don’t you shout Hallelujah in advance – Hallelujah!

In Matthew 7: 7-8; He said: Ask, you shall be given, seek and you shall find, Knock and the door shall be opened unto you.

… God is not a liar!

If He says: Ask and you will be given – Keep asking.

If He asked you to seek – Keep seeking until you find.

If He asked you to knock – Keep knocking until the door is opened unto you.

This morning; I don’t want to take too much of our time because I want you to Praise God, I want you to rejoice, I want you to Thank Him.

I have told you this story before years ago – When we built our first little house in the Outskirt of Ilesha (Oyo State, Western Part of Nigeria) and as far away from Government water. So, we have to dig a Well to get water.

We didn’t know that where we are building a house was directly on top of a rock.

So, we got a digger, he dug and dug and after sometime, he said: Keep the rest of your money, I’m going.

A Second (2nd) one came; dug, dug, dug and left.

Finally, one came, he dug, dug, dug; he said Keep your money; I’m going.

And then the next one came; less than one (1) hour he got water.

… Just one (1) Prayer and Breakthrough will come – Amen.

I don’t know who I’m talking to: Somebody is going to have a Breakthrough today – Amen.

Now you say that I have Prayed all manners of Prayers; I have not gotten results – Maybe you are Praying the wrong Prayers.

What do you mean sir?

Maybe the only Prayer you should Pray is just one (1) – Ask God for Mercy!

Lamentations 3: 22-23 says: It is the Mercy of the Lord that we are not consumed.

You are alive today not because you are Good, not because you are clever but God just decided to be Merciful!

Romans 9: 15-16 says God said to Moses: I will be Merciful on whom I will be Merciful; I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.

He said therefore: It is not of him that willeth nor of him that runneth but of God that shows Mercy.

And I will give you just one (1) illustration so that you will Probably will just take your Prayers slightly because many of us if we should record our Prayers and you listen to it later; you yourself will wonder: What is wrong with me? – Because we want to tell God how Good we have been?

… God, what is wrong with you?

Ha, Ha; I have been Paying my Tithe, I have been giving my Offering; everything you ask me to do, i have been doing it and I have been doing even more.

God are You still there? Are you sleeping? Are you really a Good God?

Thank God; God will just smile over there.

Whereas, what you need from God is what – MERCY!

When coronavirus broke at the beginning; all the Advanced Countries said: Oh God; when this thing comes to Africa, they will be dying like chicken.

They said it and it is not that they thought it.

Why did they say so?

Because they knew that we don’t have any resources to handle what was coming.

They saw what was happening to them: They were dying by the thousands with all their Expertise, with all their wealth.

So, they say: Hey, when this thing gets to Africa; Lord have Mercy.

And then it came to Nigeria and then everybody began to Panic.

A friend of mine asked me not too long ago: What is it that you People did? – That in Nigeria in Particular; just a little over a thousand died.

I said: My daddy told me that only those whose time has come will die this Year.

He said: Yes we know your daddy told you; what is it that you did?

I said: Well God looked down from Heaven and saw that we have Nothing: No money, no resources but we only have God.

… So, we cried to Him; we Prayed!

He said: Ha, Ha we too Prayed.

He said: Didn’t you see on Television that even the Pope knelt down in Public to Pray.

I said: You want to know our Secret?

He said: Yes, tell us!

Our Secret is that we cried to God for Mercy!

… Almighty God … Mercy!

Where are we going to run to – Mercy Oh!

Even when we go to the Hospital; how are we sure that the drugs they are going to administer is the Correct Drugs!

… So many drugs coming from so many Nations – We don’t know whether they have expired before they brought it to us; we don’t know whether it has been mixed with water or whatever.

… God … Mercy”!

And today, He has shown Mercy!

Do I hear someone says: GOD HAVE MERCY ON ME!

ADVICE NO 3: IN EVERYTHING GIVE THANKS!

In Psalms 50: 14-15; He says: Before you even begin to call on Me, give Thanks!

… Come into His Presence with Thanksgiving; Thank Him for what He has done in the Past.

And there is nobody here who can say that God has not been Good to him or her in the Past!

That you are even alive is enough to Thank God for – He has been Good to us.

Oh, we have suffered some loses et cetera et cetera – Without the Mercy of God, things could have been worst!

… Give Thanks!

Then He said: When you now call on me in the Day of Trouble; I will answer you!

I. Why should I give Thanks?

He said because this is the Will of God – This is what I want!

II. Why should I give Thanks inspite of every storms that is still battling me, tossing me up and down?

Give Thanks because God is still on the Throne.

Isaiah 66:1 says: Heaven is His Throne; the Earth His Footstool.

… He is in Control – God is in Control!

And you know what? – He knows the End from the Beginning.

Acts 15:18 says: Known unto God are all His works from the beginning of the Earth.

I was sharing again in the Morning Devotion with my children this Past week – Many atimes we become arrogant, we think that whatever is happening to us was because I did this, I did that.

How many of the important things in your Life happened without God referring to you at all?

Are you the one who chooses your father? Are you the one who chooses your mother? Are you the one who chooses the Village where you will be born? Are you the one who told the Almighty God: Look o, I want to be a boy? No, No; you must make me a girl? I want to be tall, I want to be short?

He said: Before I formed you in the belly; I knew you.

Before you were born at all; He has everything about your Life Planned out.

It doesn’t matter how many enemies are working against you; what God has decided concerning you shall come to Past – Amen.

Why? – Because He is the Alpha and Omega – Revelation 1:8; He is the Beginning as well as the Ending.

He started with you and He is going to complete with you – Amen.

Let me tell you the Truth: There are not enough demons in Hell to kill you! – When my God kills, that is when somebody dies.

When He says: This fellow is going to live; that fellow will live.

If He says it is going to be well with you; it will be well – Amen.

You don’t believed me; ask Joseph – The brothers said that we know that you have big dreams but we will not allow the dream to come to Past.

God smiled!

A day came when all of them fell before him and said we are your servants.

And he said: Yea, you are!

Give Thanks Particularly for knowing Jesus Christ!

Many of you are already Christians and you know that Jesus Christ is your Lord – Let me see your hands!

… Go ahead to shout Hallelujah – Hallelujah!

Let me tell you the Truth: The only one who has a lot to worry about is the one who refuses to accept Jesus as his Lord and Saviour!

If you have not given your Life to Jesus Christ; there is trouble ahead!

But if you are a child of God, Born Again, wash in His Blood, looking forward to the Glorious Return of the Lord Jesus Christ, Winning Souls, Following them up, Building the Kingdom of God – I can assure you that tomorrow will be alright – Amen.

You will one day look back and said: Daddy GO said so:

I. When the barren began to carry one (1) baby on the right, one (1) to the left.

II. When the one who thought he is going to die as a tenant begins to dedicate his Mansions.

III. When the one who thought he is going to die a Messenger becomes the Chairman of his own Company.

… You will look back and say: That small Pastor said so – Amen!

ALTAR CALL

So, if you have not given your Life to Jesus Christ; you are the only one in trouble – Serious one.

But you can run out of trouble by running to Jesus Christ.

You know He said: Come unto me all ye that labour and are heavy laden and I will give you rest.

… Come to Him, let Him save your Soul and I guarantee you that your future will be alright.

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

Come to Him, let Him save your Soul, wash you clean and things will become better.

I’m going to count from one (1) to seven (7); if by the time I say seven (7) you are not already here; I will know that you are not coming and the rest of us will go ahead to Pray.

… I’m counting now!

Now, those of you Infront; talk to the Almighty God: Please Lord save my Soul, forgive all my sins, I will serve you for the rest of my Life. Be my Lord, be my Saviour.

If anyone wants to come; you can come.

The rest of us; let us stretch our hands to our brothers and sisters and intercede for them.

Pray that the One who save our Souls will save their own Souls also.

Pray that the Almighty God who wash away our sins with His Blood, will wash away their own sins and give them a Brand New Beginning.

Intercede for them Please; Pray for them Brethren.

In Jesus Mighty Name we have Prayed – Amen.

PRAYER FOR SALVATION AND CLOSING PRAYER

My Father and my God, we just want to say Thank You: Thank You for these Your children who has come forward to surrender their lives to You.

Please Lord, remember Your Promise that whosoever will come unto You; You will no wise cast out.

They have come to You Father; Please receive them, save their Souls Lord, let Your Blood wash away their sins, give them a Brand New Beginning Lord, write their names in the Book of Life.

And from this moment; anytime they call on You; Please answer them by Fire.

Whatever they want from you Lord God Almighty; give them today.

In Jesus Mighty Name we have Prayed – Amen.

Praise the Lord – Hallelujah!

I rejoice with those of you who have come forward this morning and I assure you that the Almighty God has already heard your Prayers and the answer will come very speedily.

Now, I will need your name, your address and I will be Praying for you.

But wait where you are for now because I want you to join the rest of us as we Pray.

Shall we all Stand Please:

1. I want you to first of all spend some couple of minutes – Just Thanking God.

Saying: Lord, I Thank You for all You have done for me; I Thank You for Preserving me, Thank You for Preserving my family; I Thank You Lord God Almighty for answered Prayers, for all You have done for me in the Past – Lord I Thank You.

Almighty God, I give You Glory, I give You Honour, I give You Adoration for everything You have done for me in the Past. I bless Your Holy Name. Glory be to Your Holy Name.

In Jesus Mighty Name we have Prayed – Amen.

2. Now, I want you to Pray the next Prayer with all your hearts and I hope they will give you at least five (5) minutes to Pray this Prayer before you go ahead and rejoice.

Lift your voice to the Almighty God with all your heart and say: Father, have Mercy on me, have Mercy on my family, have Mercy on my Church, have Mercy on my Nation.

… Lord have Mercy!

Let us cry unto the Almighty God!

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