Discovery Media Crew brings to you the audio format of Pastor Mensa Otabil’s Message during Service on Sunday October 17th, 2021. Topic – A Place To Be Fruitful
Immortal God Invincible God Immortal God How Great thou Art
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OPENING PRAYER
King of Kings, Lord of Lords, the Ancient of Days, the Unchangeable Changer; we worship You.
Thank You for Your Faithfulness, Thank You for Standing by us all through all these Years; Thank You Almighty God because You will continue to be with us – Please, accept our Thanks in Jesus Name.
Our Lord and our Saviour, as Your Children gather together again to hear Your Words today; we Pray that the Power that is in the Word will go out to them, bring Salvation, bring Healings, bring Deliverance and bring Joy.
I Pray Lord that as a result of today’s Service, there will be many Testimonies.
In Jesus Mighty Name we have Prayed – Amen.
Praise the Lord – Hallelujah!
We are now at: “GOING HIGHER – PART 33”.
And our Bible Text will be 1 Kings 18:41.
And Elijah said unto Ahab, Get thee up, eat and drink; for there is a Sound of Abundance of Rain.
When you are a Younger Christian and you read a Passage in the Bible; you just simply enjoy the Story and move on.
Like in 1 Kings Chapter 18; we enjoyed the Story of Elijah calling down Fire from Heaven.
We may even get a Song to go along with it:
The God that answereth by Fire Let Him be my God The God that answereth by Fire Let Him be my God
But as you go Higher in the Lord, you begin to look at each Story to see: Are there Lessons here for myself.
I mean for example: As you begin to grow Higher; you look at 1 Kings Chapter 18 and you begin to say: Oh, there are Lessons here.
Lessons like: One with God is a Majority et cetera et cetera.
But as you go Higher still, you begin to look at every Verse in the Bible with the intention of gaining something there for yourself.
Now, if you had been with us since we started this Series several weeks ago by now; you can see already how much can I gain from a Single Verse.
DMC NOTE: The Series on “Going Higher” by Pastor E.A Adeboye actually started on Sunday, 13th of December 2020.
And to fully understand Verse 41; which we will be looking out for in a couple of weeks to come; you will need to go back to Verse 37 and read it all the way to Verse 40 because these are Verses that gave birth to Verse 41.
DMC NOTES: The Full Text of the Teachings that Covered 1 Kings 18: 37-40 are in the Parts 31 and 32 of the Going Higher Series. You may get to read the Full Text on these Links:
In Verse 37 for Example – Elijah was Praying and he said: 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.
… That is important: You have turned back their hearts again.
It means that their hearts has gone astray; now you brought the heart back.
Then in Verse 38-39 of 1 Kings Chapter 18: 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. 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.
… And you see here that: When all the People saw Miracles, when they saw Signs and Wonders; they surrendered.
Just like Jesus Christ was going to say later on: Without Signs and Wonders, this People will not believe.
As a “Grown Christian”; you then begin to say: Maybe the reason why I’m not gaining too many Converts for God is because they are not seeing Signs, they are not seeing Wonders.
And so all of a sudden, you begin to hunger for Gifts – The Gift for the Working of Miracles. You want God to use you to do Signs, to do Wonders so that People will begin to surrender to God.
I mean that if you have grown up to the level of a Pastor, then you begin to say that: Maybe the reason why my Church is not growing the way it should grow is because there had been No Signs, No Wonders.
And suddenly, you begin to feel: Hey wait a minute; “Ordinary Preaching” might not do this job; maybe I need to cry to God to support my Preaching with Signs and Wonders.
And then of course, we come to Verse 40 which we have treated in the Past in some details: And Elijah said unto them, Take the Prophets of Baal; let not one of them escape. And they took them: and Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon, and slew them there.
And like we have learnt in some details in the Past on that; it means that everything that has to do with the devil (Big or Small); not a Single one must be allowed to stay in your Life.
Now, these are the Verses Preceding Verse 41.
Because Verse 41 started by saying: “And” – “And” is a Conjunction.
“And” is saying: As a result of what has gone before now – Elijah said to Ahab: Get thee up; eat and drink for there is a Sound of Abundance of Rain.
If you are approaching Verse 41 therefore as a “Grown Christian” who has gone Higher; then at least when we started you begin to say: What Lessons can I learnt from this Verse?
The First Lesson that I want to Point out to you there and there are quite a few of them is that: “GOD IS MERCIFUL”.
You say how do you see that in this?
Well, according to James 5:17: Elias was a Man subject to like Passions as we are, and he Prayed earnestly that it might not Rain: and it rained not on the Earth by the space of three Years and six Months.
There had been no Rain in the Land for three and half Years – Three and half Years without Rain.
And yet this People has been Preserved for three and half Years with No Rain? –
And you know what that means?
No Rain means – No Planting and if there was Planting, then no Harvest. And yet this People were Preserved.
Three and half Years when God was angry and yet in His Anger, something was there that kept the People alive.
Lamentations 3:22 says: It is of the LORD’S Mercies that we are not consumed, because his Compassions fail not.
… God is Merciful!
I mean that you can look at yourself straightaway and say: I am alive today because of the Mercies of the Lord!
It is not three and half Years yet, but consider almost two (2) Years of Coronavirus and you are still here!
… It is of the Mercies of the Lord!
If anybody had died through this Pandemic – It is not because you are better than they; it is because of the Mercies of the Lord.
And the Bible is Full of References to show that God is Merciful:
I. Exodus 34:6 says: The Lord God is Merciful and Gracious, Long-suffering and Abundant in Goodness and Truth.
Because inspite of everything that is happening – I mean some Nations of the world (Your own in Particular). Inspite of the sins, inspite of the bloodshed, inspite of all manners of atrocities, inspite of every Actions that seems to be saying: God if you are there, show your Anger and let us see?
Yet, out of His Mercies, because of His Long-suffering, we have been Preserved.
II. In Deuteronomy 4:31 – The Bible says: For the Lord God is Merciful; that is why He will not forsake thee nor destroy thee.
… His Mercy is still keeping Him Close Particularly to those who are His Children.
It is saying that:
A. We have done several things that could cause Him to say: I don’t want to have anything to do with you anymore but His Mercy will not allow Him to forsake us.
B. We have done so many things that could have caused Him to destroy us but His Mercy will say: Hey, don’t destroy them.
III. Psalms 103:8 says: Because He is Merciful, that is why He is Slow to Anger.
… Because He is Plentious in Mercy!
IV. Ephesians 2:4 says: God is Rich in Mercy.
That when God wants to talk about His Wealth; He doesn’t talk about Silver or Gold, even though His Street in Heaven is Paved with Gold – He talks about His Mercy.
… God who is Rich in Mercy!
V. Now in Romans 9: 15-16; we see that God still reserves His Sovereignty when it comes to dispensing Mercy.
He says: I will be Merciful to whom I will be Merciful.
… He has the Freedom to decide that.
Infact the Bible went further in that Romans 9 by the time you get to Verse 16 – He says: It is not of him that willeth nor of him that runneth but of God that showeth Mercy.
Meaning what? – Whatever you have ever achieved is not because you want to achieve it; it is not because you have the Ability to achieve it; it is because of the Mercy of God.
A. I mean consider Students in the same Class – You go to the University.
You go to the University because you are Above Average as a Student.
And yet some People won’t finish at the University; some People will spend Years in a Class until the University will say: Go!
Now, those who manage to get through in Record Times; according to this Passage, it is not because of their brilliancy but of the Mercy of God.
B. Consider the Traders – You go to the Market in the Morning (let say you sell fruits).
Your fruit is as good as the fruit of the next Fellow to you. And you found out that some People will sell within hours and some People will keep on bringing the same fruit again and again until they are rotten.
What is the difference? – It is the Mercy of God!
… Not of him that willeth, not of him that runneth but of God that showeth Mercy.
Now, He says that I will show Mercy unto whom I will show Mercy – It is my Freedom, my Sovereignty!
But again, out of the Mercy; He creates an opening for you to say: God You have to be Merciful unto me as if of Right!
How does He crerate the opening?
Matthew 5:7 says: Blessed are the Merciful for they shall obtain Mercy.
He says: If you can just show Mercy to others; then I have no Choice but to show Mercy to you.
He bound Himself through His Words saying: You be Merciful and whether I like it or not; I too must show you Mercy.
Which is why you find a very important Passage in the Bible – The first time that I read that Passage, I was turned.
Proverbs 11:17 says: The Merciful Man doeth Good to his “Own Soul” and the Wicked Man troubleth his “Own Flesh”.
I said: What am I reading?
I thought this Bible will say: The Merciful Man doeth Good for somebody else and the Wicked Man doeth wickedness to somebody else – No, No, No.
It says: If you are Merciful, you are doing Good to your “Own Soul” because by being Merciful, you are opening the door to receiving Mercy from God. But if you are Wicked, you cut off the Mercy of God from you.
… Isn’t that Wonderful!
And it is because of this Mercy of God that this People were Preserved!
That is telling us another thing straightaway: God does not want the death of a sinner.
This People deserved to die, they forsook God who brought them out of Egypt, their hearts turned away from Him, they began to serve idols.
And He warned them when He was bringing them out of bondage – He warned them: I am taking you out to a Land that is not your own; I’m moving the People there out of the way.
He says that when you get there, don’t follow their Examples: Don’t serve the gods that they served, don’t cause your children to Pass through fire, don’t deal with Witchcraft et cetera et cetera.
He said because this is what the People in the Land did that is causing me to drive them out for you – Learn from them. You are not the owner of the Land that I’m making available unto you.
Now when you get there, remember that I created this People the same way I created you; they misbehaved and that is why I’m moving them out – When you get there, don’t misbehave.
They got there:
I. They found houses that they didn’t built and began to dwell there.
II. They found Wells they didn’t dig and they began to drink from there.
III. They get fed and they were full.
And then, the very thing that God said: Don’t do; they started doing it.
That is why God said: Alright, let’s Punish them – For three and half Years, No Rain, No Dew.
But even in His Anger, in His Judgement; He remembered Mercy!
Isn’t that true of many of us!
When we were Nothing, God out of His Mercy brought us up, He Prospered us, He cause us to succeed while others failed.
And as soon as we became comfortable, what do we do? – We forgot Him!
But He says in Ezekiel 33:11 – He said that: I have No Pleasure in the death of the Wicked. All I want you to do is to repent and live.
Because He is Full of Mercy, whenever He sees Repentance, He turns round and say: Alright, No more quarrel – Whether as an Individual or a Nation.
I mean for Example: In 1 Kings 21: 1-29 – It tells us the Story of a King who got somebody killed because he wanted the Garden of that Fellow.
The Fellow said that I am not selling my Garden, it is my Heritage.
And the King wife said: Don’t worry, I will get the thing for you – They Plotted against this Innocent Man and got him killed.
And of course, God got Angry and sent a Messenger to go and tell that King: You think I didn’t know what you did? You are in trouble.
The King heard that and humbled himself.
And the Bible says God sent the same Man of God to him and said: Alright, I saw what you have done, I saw the way you are now behaving; the Judgement will come but not in your time.
… That is for an Individual!
In Jonah Chapter 1 – You can read the entire Book of Jonah (A Beautiful Reading with only four (4) Chapters).
God saw a Nation, Nineveh – Oh, a very, very terrible Nation (Probably more terrible than our own).
And said: Alright, before I Judge this People; let me send somebody to go and tell them: What you are doing, I don’t like it and trouble is coming.
Jonah finally got there, Preached to them and they all repented – From the King to the lowest.
And because they repented, God said: Alright, I Change my Mind – I am not going to destroy you anymore.
That tells us something you know: There is Hope for our Nation – If only we will repent, there is Hope for our Nation!
Because whenever Backsliders return, God will Heal – Jeremiah 3:22.
The moment this People fell on their faces and said: Jehovah you are God; He said that in that case – Rain fall.
The moment the link between them and the Forces of Darkness were severed; as soon as the Prophets of Baal were killed; God said: Rain is on the Way!
Which gives us a “Big Assignment”; which explains why as soon as you are Born Again; God didn’t take you to Heaven.
Why? – He needs someone who will go and tell the People: REPENT!
According to Ezekiel 33: 1-6 – He said: When you see danger coming, warn the People. If they repent as you have warned them, then they won’t Perish and you are in the Clear.
But if you don’t tell them that danger is coming and then the danger comes and the danger will still take them; then I will require their blood from your hand.
You must Witness – Whether to Individuals or to a Nation!
Ezekiel 33: 8-9 – You must warn an Individual. God says if I say to the Wicked you are going to die, warn the Wicked – If he repents, he will live. If he doesn’t repent and you have warned him, then he dies and it is not your fault.
You are saved so that you can bring Salvation to others.
In John 15:16 – He said: You have not chosen me but I have chosen you that you should go and bear Fruits and your Fruits will abide. Then your Prayers will no longer be hindered.
God has an Assignment for you Brothers/Sisters! – You are not supposed to just sit down there and begin to soak in the Words and do Nothing about it.
You are to cry out to sinners so that they can repent and live.
And you better hurry up beginning from today with every Members of your family that is not yet Born Again!
Why? – Because of something called: “The Law of Substitution”.
Proverbs 11:8 says: The Righteous is delivered from trouble but the Wicked goeth instead.
You are Born Again now, you are Righteous, you are a Child of God; if danger is coming your Way, you will be delivered – That one is settled!
But if any Member of your family is not Righteous, is not Born Again, is not Saved; when you are delivered, that Fellow that is so Precious to you but is not a Child of God will become the Substitute!
Don’t waste time – As soon as I finished Preaching now or after reading this Message on the Label of DMC; Pick your Phone if that Relative of yours is far away and begin to talk to him or her again and tell him or her: This is a serious matter; we are living in dangerous times, I don’t want any danger to come to you – Surrender your Life to Jesus Christ and do so now!
ALTAR CALL
Now, to those of you who are listening to me all over the world or reading now on the Label of DMC; I am crying to you now as a Watchman – Give your Life to Jesus Christ; there is trouble ahead.
But it won’t come near you if you are a Child of God – The Blood of Jesus Christ will make sure that when death is Passing by, it will Pass over you.
But you must surrender your Life to Him now – Even Right now!
Let Us Pray!
You bow your head wherever you are and cry unto the Lord Jesus Christ and ask Him to have Mercy on you and save your Soul right now so that when death is Passing by; it will see the Blood and Pass over it.
Ask Him to Please wash you Clean in His Blood now.
Promise Him that from this moment onwards; you will serve Him and Him alone.
Cry unto Him for your Salvation and I will Pray along with you even now!
PRAYER FOR SALVATION AND CLOSING PRAYER
My Father and my God, I want to Thank You for Your Words.
I want to give You all the Glory and Honour because You are a Merciful God – It is of Your Mercy Lord that we are not consumed.
Thank You for renewing that Mercy every Morning.
And Lord God Almighty; Thank You for those who has heard Your Words now and are returning to You for Repentance of their sins.
Please Lord, receive them, save their Souls, let Your Blood wash away their sins, Please Put their names in the Book of Life and when the trouble comes, let it Pass over them.
And I Pray that those of us already in You; we will never backslide.
And all Backsliders, who will return to You today; Father Please receive them back; heal them all.
In Jesus Mighty Name we have Prayed – Amen!
Praise the Lord – Hallelujah!
Now, I want to Thank God for those of you who has given your Life to Jesus Christ today.
I’m Rejoicing with you now and I want you to contact me as soon as Possible so that I can begin to Pray for you.
And of course, I will advice you to locate the nearest Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) to you and tell the Pastor there that you want to know more and he will guide you how to live your New Life.
God Bless You All – Amen!!!
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MOSES DURODOLA, TITILAYOMI AJAYI, ADEBANJO ADESOLA AND TOPE BABALOLA
RCCG ANNUAL YOUNG ADULTS AND YOUTH CONVENTION 2021
THEME: EXCEEDING EXPECTATIONS
MINISTERING DAY 3 (MORNING): APOSTLE JOSHUA SELMAN NIMMAK – FOUNDER AND SENIOR PASTOR OF ETERNITY NETWORK INTERNATIONAL, KADUNA.
TOPIC: CHOOSE LIFE
DATE: 29TH SEPTEMBER, 2021
BIBLE TEXT: DEUTERONOMY 30:19
Hallelujah! Good morning everybody. It is a great Joy to be here again.
I like us to Please honour our Intercontinental Youth Pastor. The Lord bless you Sir! It is such an honour again to be here – Amen.
I like you to find a neighbour and Passionately Pray in the next one (1) minute: Father, give us Visitations. I am agreeing with my neighbour and we declare that this Morning Session will indeed be a lifetime Encounter.
OPENING PRAYER
Our Father, again we Pray that you visit us this morning. We have come with our hearts hungry. And with our hearts desperate to receive. Let there be the hearing of Faith and even the working of Miracles.
And I Pray Oh God, that everyone under the sound of my voice and all those reading on the label of DMC, will be Mightily impacted this morning. That at the end of this Session indeed we will say that we have received a Visitation.
May the Lord Bless you! For in Jesus’ Mighty Name I Pray – Amen.
Celebrate Jesus! And Please you may be seated – HALLELUJAH
On Day 2, we began to talk about: “THE POWER OF THE WORD” – According to Joshua 1:8. And its ability to set a Man on course for a Great and enviable Destiny.
We did established on Day 2 how that it is in our Destiny in Christ to be Great; to move from one dimension of Glory even to another.
That in Christ, there are no: ‘Low Callings’. Everyone is called into not only a “Holy Calling”, but a “Higher Calling” – A Calling of Nobility, a Calling of Greatness.
But also, we established that Greatness does not just happen by default; that Principally, the Word of God is God’s Instrument for the making of the Great in this Kingdom.
Great Men and Women, whether in Ministry, in Business, in Politics and Governance. In Career, in Academics, etc – That everyone who is made it in this Kingdom is made by the Word.
Jesus, Who is the Word says: “Come, follow Me and I will MAKE you…” So when you follow the Word, the Word MAKES you – Hallelujah!
We also established on Day 2 (by way of recap) that essentially, when we open up Scriptures to learn God’s Word, we are interacting with Three (3) Basic Realities.
And that every time you open up your Bible, you are searching for Three (3) Things Principally:
PROMISES: A representation of God’s Boundary and His Commitment to you.
PRINCIPLES: The modus operandi of the Kingdom. God’s System of Operation. Learn the Principles of the Kingdom, you are able to reproduce God’s dimension of results again and again.
PROPHECIES: Prophecies to leave us in Hope. It reveals to us the future of our Destinies, the future of the Church, the future of the world that we live in; to the end that you find confidence. And that we live without fear – Hallelujah!
This morning I like us to take it from there, by reading our Opening Scripture for this Morning Session – Deuteronomy 30:19.
By the way of giving this Message a Topic, I will want to give it the Topic – CHOOSE LIFE.
Deuteronomy 30:19, here is what it says:
I call Heaven and Earth to record this day against you, that I have Set before you Life and Death, Blessing and Cursing: therefore Choose Life, that both thou and thy Seed may live:
… The Things that we see from this Scriptures are:
THE IMPLICATION OF YOUR DECISIONS AND YOUR CHOICES MOVE FAST – And they go beyond you.
The Bible here tells us that you are not the only one who is affected by Choices and your Decisions – That your Choices and your Decisions: Good or Bad, it affects you and also affects your Seed.
Your Seed (here) does not just mean your Biological Children alone; your Seed also refers to those who look up to you or draw Inspiration from you.
That your Choices and your Decisions in Life does not just have an impact or an effect on you alone; but it also transcends to your Seed and even Generations after you.
I. There are many People who seek to be marvelously used by God.
II. There are many People who seek to have enviable Destinies.
III. There are many People who seek to become Influences and Influencers as far as the context of a Generation is concerned.
… But then, many have ignored this Principle that I want to teach you sadly, to their detriment.
What I am about to teach you is the reason why there are Millionaires today and there are Poor People. It is the reason why there are Intelligent People today and those who are supposedly Nonentities. It is the reason why People have risen from nothing to Positions of Authority.
And it is also the reason why People have dropped from Positions of Notoriety to Nothingness. Many are marvelously Anointed by God and many remain small and beggarly in Life.
I am teaching you this with Passion from my heart, as a Contribution to your Growth and your Excelling in Life and I am Praying and hoping that these words will not fall on deaf ears; that they will come up on your heart that are Marriageable, hearts that are ready to rise, ready to grow, to thrive and to excel even Transgenerational – Amen.
Write this down: “Your Decisions, more than your Conditions, decide the Quality of your Life.”
More than the condition of a man, the Principal determinant of the kind of, and the quality of Destiny that you and I will be featuring in is our DECISIONS – “Indecision is a decision to fail”.
Write this down Please: Decisions decide Destiny. – Decisions, not Wishes, not Intentions. Decisions, decide Destiny!
A man’s Destiny – the quality of it is not decided by his Wish, it is not decided by his Intentions, it is not even decided by the Wishes others have for him.
Your Destiny is Primarily and Principally decided by the Decisions that you make.
I learned this many Years ago when I read a book by Dr Myles Munroe called: “DISCOVERING YOUR POTENTIALS”.
The book has a Profound impact upon my Life. And it was from that book – alongside many other Teachings, I found out that there is a Responsibility Dimension to an Enviable Destiny.
That more than a Prophetic Dimension, more than the Speaking of God over the Life and the Destiny of an Individual; there is a Responsibility Dimension and component.
That means if you must Excel in Life as much as God desires for you to excel; it does not just take God alone (as Powerful as He is); it will take your Partnership through the ability to make Quality Choices and Decisions.
Even at the extent of your External Destiny, God leaves you to Decide! At the detriment of Eternal Destiny, the God of Heaven will not force Salvation on you, the God of Heaven will not forces Success on you.
There are many People today going to Hell, even though the Price for sin; even though the Price for our Victory; even though the Price for Reconciliation with God, has been “FULLY PAID” – It is their Decisions!
There are many People who are Living Poor and beggarly lives, even in the wealthiest of Nations; Primarily because of their Decisions.
When I found out the Place and the Role Decisions Play in actualizing Destiny, I made up my mind that I will intentionally make “Quality Decisions”, that will advance my Life.
Write this down please: “Destiny is measured in TIME”.
That means, the Unit of Destiny is Time!
Whatever you give your time to, you are giving a Portion of your Life and a Portion of your Destiny to anything at all: Good or Bad.
Whatever you invest your time in, you are investing a Portion of your Life and your Destiny.
Our father-in-the-Lord today has become a Global Phenomenon and a Voice to reckon with and a Personality to be Studied by Individuals, by Institutions, Government of Nations – Not just because God Called him; not just because God Anointed him but because he made a Decision with his Life: That this was a cause of Destiny he was going to Pursue it. And he obtained Grace from God; and even in old-age he continues to Pursue Diligently.
All of the People you see today that you admire; whether in Business, whether in Ministry, whether in Politics, Weather in Academia; they are individuals who, at one Point or the other decided that they were going to make a “Quality Decision” to advance their Life.
There is a very interesting Scripture in the Bible (I will just quote it for the sake of time) every time I studied the Scripture;
That Scripture for me, is the most Graphics Representation of the Power of Decision. It is the Story that Jesus Himself gave: A Parable of one we call THE PRODIGAL SON in Luke Chapter 15.
By way of Summary: The Bible starts that Story by letting us know that a Man had two (2) sons. And it let us know that he was a responsible Man who took Good care of his children.
And then one day, the Youngest son (The Bible says) made up his Mind that he did not want to be under the influence of his father again – A Decision!
He made that Decision and he said: No! Father, I am tired of your influence. Give me that which is due me as your son – And the father respected his Decision.
The Bible says when he was given his own Portion of his Inheritance, he departed. And the next thing we hear about that Man is a Pictorial of Tragedies. The Bible says he spent his money on a “Riotous Life” with friends; and that the money began to deplete.
For every Decision he took out of the influence of his father, it began to lead him and Plunge him further and further to a Life of shame, embarrassment and degradation. Until it got to a Point where he was completely bankrupt.
And then the Bible tells us, he got to a Point where he was feeding with swine.
Look at the implication of this Decisions – This was a Man who was Excellent under the Authority of his father. But he made just one Decision: “Father I am tired of your influence, I want to manage my Life.”
A few Years down the line, he has become an object of Tragedy, a caution and a warning to many – Feeding with swine, whereas he had been dining with Royalty.
But then the Bible also shows us the Power of Decisions to reverse a Man’s Life.
One day (the Bible says) this Man got tired and he said to himself – Infact, the Bible says: He came to himself.Guess what he said? – “How many Hired Servants does my father have and I am here feeding with swine.”
And he made a Decision again – So it takes a Decision to change a Decision!
Listen carefully: He made one Decision and that Decision took him down but he made one other Decision – What was the Decision?: I will Arise and I will go to my father.
Now notice the Miracle that happened: He never met the father at home and the father never met him at the Place of Wrong Decision – Both of them met at the Place of ACTION. Somewhere in the middle – The father was already leaving to look for him!
Can I be honest with you everyone of you? – What you are looking for is also looking for you! The Great Destiny you are looking for is also looking for you.
But there is a Version of you that Destiny is looking for, that you have not yet become!
The father was not looking for the rebel – The father was looking for the “Transformed Gentleman”.
Your Destiny is not looking for the Careless, Unserious, lackadaisical Individual – It is looking for a “Determined Gentleman”, a “Determined Lady”.
Everything you are looking for is looking for you – The Prosperity you are looking for is also looking for you; the Greatness you are looking for is also looking for you; the Mantle you are looking for is also looking for you.
But there are Conditions: Midwiving your Present Condition and your future Destiny is a Decision.
You can make a Decision that will reverse your Destiny by many years. And you can take one Decision that will fast-track your Destiny by many decades – Decisions are Powerful!
I hope you know that in every Territory, there is a Group of Parliamentarians that we call Honorable Members of the House, Senate Members? And all that happens in the Parliament of every Nation is Decisions. That is all they do – Decisions! Decisions that culminates to the well-being of the Citizens.
When a Territory make Decisions that are motivated by Self-centeredness, that continues to take the Territory backwards.
In any case, people move forward or backward through Decisions.
Your Decision is the Vehicle that moves you from where you are to the Place of Destiny. Your decision is also the Vehicle that takes you from where you are back to your Yesterday.
Listen very carefully: You do not have the Power to choose Consequences – No Man has the Power to choose Consequences. Consequences are outcome of a Decision – The Resultant Effect of a Decision. You cannot choose Consequences – whether Good or Bad
What you can do is that, you can make Choices and Decisions – It is the Decisions that choose your Consequences.
For instance, when you say: “I want to be rich!” You are right, but Technically speaking, you are not exactly right. You don’t just say: ‘I want to be rich’ alone; you make a Decision that makes for such a Destiny and you Naturally revolve into that State in Life.
I want to be a ‘Visionary and a Responsible Leader’ – As Good as that is, if it just stops by you speaking and staying there, it may never amount to that which you desire. It will take Decisions, as the Vehicle that moves you.
So Men do not choose Consequences; you make Decisions and the Decisions choose the Consequences that come to you.
I want to give you Six (6) Decisions; they are Major Decisions that all Champions (without exemptions) have made and continue to make in their lives and Destinies.
Whether you want to be a great Man of God, a great Sportsman, a great Leader a great Businessman and woman; you want to follow the steps of our Fathers or any Visionary Leader world over (that you seem to have admired);
Can I tell you this? These Six (6) Decisions, if understood, if mastered, and if you make these decisions consistently; I give you a guarantee based on the Integrity of the Scriptures and the fundamentability of Laws of Life; you will not fail.
I set before you Life and Death; I said before you Blessing and Curses. I cannot force you on what to choose but I can advise you, if you wants to live – You live by choosing Life.
I want you to lay your hands on your head and Pray from the depths of your heart – Let my Spirit man be opened to understand this Truth. As you are laying your hands on your head, you are not only laying your hand on yourself; you are laying your hand on ALL the Destinies connected to you. You are laying your hand on your children and your children’s children. You are laying your hands on the Congregation the Lord will give you to Pastor in the nearest future. You are laying your hands or ALL the People who will be Part of your Company and your Conglomerate.
DECISION NO. 1: The first decision that I recommend for you to make if you want to surpass Ordinary Standards; if you want to excel, if you want to become a voice in your Generation, if you want to serve the Purposes of God effectively is: THE DECISION TO MAKE EXCEPTIONAL SPIRITUAL PROGRESS.
In Jeremiah 29:13, the Bible here say: And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.
There is a way a Man can commit himself and make a Decision that as far as my Spiritual Life is concerned, my Fire will never go down. As far as my Prayer Life is concerned, as far as my Word Study Life is concerned, as far as my Passion for God is concerned – The older I become, the more on FIRE I become. It is a choice!
There are many People today who have chosen not to be serious with God. God respects their Choice. But you also will not get the Destiny of one who is on Fire for God!
Can I tell you the Truth? Righteousness and Justice are the Foundations of His Throne. You cannot give God give (5) Minutes of your Destiny and expect the Mantle of the one who gave God everything. God is a Rewarder of them that diligently seek Him (Hebrews 11:6).
In Matthew 22:37, Jesus Himself was Teaching and He began to encourage us based on that which was written in the Law: To Love the Lord your God with all your Heart, with all your Soul, with all your Mind.
When you give God All and make a Decision to seek Him with Quality Spiritual Progress; I assure you, you have made a Noble Decision and you have began to Sign in for a Destiny of Greatness – Amen.
Hear me: There are all forms of distractions in our world today.
Respectfully speaking, the abuse of Social Media, all kinds of mundane Relationships that may not be Pointing us towards Destiny and all sorts of things that distract and destroy People.
Listen: Do you know what that means? – It means you must obtain Grace and be disciplined to wake up and Pray when it is time to Pray. When your body tells you ‘I am sleeping’ just hear the Generation that you are sent to begging you and saying:
“Wake up for our sake, the Healing Anointing that must come to you in the Place of Prayer, don’t let sleep kill us. The children that I am supposed to receive is tied to your Spiritual seriousness, don’t let me die barren.”
… When you hear the Voice of those who are Calling on you, it gives you the energy to wake up!
Hear me: Everytime you feel lazy to stop to Study Scripture, just remember that there is a Multitude of People saying: ‘Please if you do not feed us, the witches and wizards, and the curses in our background will destroy us. And God we have handed over our Destinies to your life; do not fail us!”
Can I tell you this? If you do not live with a sense of Destiny, you will not have the Passion to Pursue your Spiritual Life.
You don’t Pray as a matter of convenience; you don’t fast as a matter of convenience. Many of us, the enemies to your Destiny is slumber! You can sleep for hours.
Young Man, know you will not go far! God Is not a Herbalist, you will not go far. Don’t just keep admiring Mantles and Anointing – Behind Mantles and Anointing, let me tell you the Truth there is blood dripping on those Altars! – Testimonies of Prayers, Testimonies of Fire, Testimonies of Fasting, Testimonies not staying with the Word.
The Decision to be serious with God is not for Men of God; the Decision to be serious with God is for Saviours.
Provided you know that there is a Destiny connected to you; it will jerk you up to say: Lord, reveal Yourself. That Mantle and that Aunction that must land my Life for the sake of my Generation, I will Pay whatever Price it will take.
For some of you, the Holy Ghost in speaking to you and saying: This is what I kept showing you in dreams; this is what I have been trying to tell you – That you need to step up your Spiritual Life; because where I am sending you, the Pace of your Spiritual Growth cannot build the Stamina to Stand before Pharaoh!
Can I tell you the truth? What some of you call Delay is not delay. It is that God has Caged you and seen that you are not Strong enough to face what He is sending you to face.
So, He will withdraw your Progress to help you, so that you do not collapse before Pharaoh because you did not build capacity.
We live in a Generation that is obsessed with admiring Anointed People and just believing that you just bring five thousand (5,000) People, just lay hands and transfer everything.
Let me be honest with you my dear People: There is a track record in the Spirit that you cannot buy with money. It is a track record you have to Pay with God.
You want to tell the sick, be healed and they are healed? You want your Generation to hear you? It is more than the Ability to speak English – There must be a hunger!
Hear me: There are many of you, you are the first Person to rise in your family to this Level. Now you want to go down and allow the devil destroy your family. God is counting on you! And saying: ‘You are the one your mother was Praying for you for twenty (20) Years before you arrived.
When it is time to Pray, you lock at yourself – Praying in the Holy Ghost. Everyday you are doing it, you are signing that Spiritual Register, the realm of the Spirit is seeing you. Demons are seeing you, Principalities and Powers are seeing you. They are bearing Witness to the fact that you are Preparing for Destiny.
In one (1) minute, (while you are Standing); I like you to Pray: LORD, every laziness, every laxity, in the Name of Jesus, let me go!
I stretch my hands in the Name of Jesus; that Light that must rest upon your Destiny, let it come your Destiny right now – The Lord is bringing you into a New Season – Amen.
DECISION NO. 2: The Second Decision that you must make is; THE DECISION TO CONTEND for SUPERIOR BELIEF SYSTEM.
You will never rise above and beyond your Mindset; you will never rise above and beyond your Belief System. Your Belief System represent your Paradigm. your belief system represents your Viewpoint – Jeremiah 1:10, Proverbs 23:7; Proverbs 4:23;
He didn’t say: “For as a Man thinketh in his heart so he WILL become;” – You ALREADY ARE!
The Bible equates your Destiny to the quality of your thoughts.
We all come from different backgrounds: Sociologically speaking, we all come from different backgrounds; Spiritually speaking, we all come from different backgrounds; Economically Speaking, we all come from different backgrounds.
And on this contexts, they have a way of conditioning our Mind!
Was it not Nathaniel that said about Jesus: “Can anything Good come out from Nazareth?”
You may come from a background when no one has risen – You have never seen favour in display; you have never seen Speed.
And chances are that, when God wants to favour you and God wants to bring Speed, there is no Provision in your Mindset to allow that happens – A Man can limit God!
Psalms 78:41, I found that Scripture and it has blessed me through the Years. They limited the Holy One by saying – Can God make a Way in the Wilderness?
As Powerful as God is, as Mighty as God is; the Mindset of an individual can limit His Performance in the Life of that Person.
I told you that everything you are looking for is also looking for you; but not this Version of you. There is a Version of you your future is looking for. You have to revolve into that Version. You have to grow through the Renewal and Transformation.
Mentality can determine the Quality of Destiny!
DECISION NO. 3: The Third Quality Decision that you must make is: THE DECISION TO DISCOVER AND FULFILL YOUR GOD’S GIVEN ASSIGNMENT.
In other words, the Decision to Live a PURPOSE-DRIVEN Life.
John 4:34 – Jesus saith unto them: My meat is to do the Will of Him that sent me, and to finish His work.
That means, my satisfaction, my fulfillment, is to DO and FINISH the work.
Hebrews 10:7, Paul was speaking and he made a Quotation: It has been written concerning everyone of us but whether you fulfill what was written or not; it is a Subject for another day!
God has given us a Baton. If we run our Destinies well, we will be able to hand the Baton to Upcoming Generations.
Is that true? – YES!
If we fail it will affect others. Our efficiency will cause others to fulfill Destiny. If we refuse to discover our Place in Destiny, and run with the Baton, we are wasting the Destiny of Others because we have refused to run!
Every time you refused to find your Place in life, someone else – It is a relay, you are not the only one running!
I. If God raised you to be a Man of God, all the Pastors that were supposed to come up after you and under you because of your inability to answer the Call, you are Punishing another Man’s Destiny.
II. If God has raised you to be a Kingdom Financier, He raised you to be a Financier – so that that Churches will now be built. Because of your refusal to obey your Assignment, that Church is never built. And the Souls that should be saved in that Church never come to Jesus.
… There are Implications when you do not fulfill Destiny.
The Generation of our Fathers and Grandfathers in Faith handed over the Baton to us. There is a Generation running with it. But you have refused to receive the Baton (this is what our Generation is doing).
Collect it! Take the Mantle of Healing, the Mantle of Leadership – and we are saying NO. We are busy typing on Phones, Internet, Making Calls and all kinds of things.
Collect it! Time is going, Destinies are suffering and you are refusing. Our fathers are Passing this Baton and you are saying: Young People, a time will come you will be the ones on the stage – Prepare, collect this Mantle. Collect this Baton in Business, in Ministry But you are refusing.
But I challenge you to run back and collect the Mantle. Run with speed and come and Pick it!
Lift your voice and declare: I MUST FULFILL DESTINY!
DECISION NO. 4: The Fourth (4th) Decision (according to 3 John 1: 2) is – THE DECISION TO BE HEALTHY.
This may look like a very simple Decision but it is a very serious Decision.
The Decision to be HEALTHY: Your Physical well-being is important for the fulfillment of your Destiny.
Because no Spirit is a Legal occupant in the Earth without a Body. – You need a Healthy Body!
It is because they spend their lives deteriorating their health; carelessness over their bodies; eating anything, drinking anything – Especially those who work in Miracles, Signs and Wonders. Usually, they ignore their Health just because the Anointing flows through them to Others. You must be careful – You have a responsibility under God to work in Health.
It is the reason why vices like smoking and drinking liquor and all other kind of things are dangerous. Because, it is a way of mismanaging your Health – “A body has Thou prepared for me”.
If you do not have a Body, even if you have a Vision- it will not come to Pass.
Did you hear what I said? Your Vision needs a Body to find expression.
That means from today, you must make a Decision that: “I am going to be Healthy”. Part of the ways that you choose Life is to choose to be Healthy.
You won’t believe it, I am not a Medical Doctor, but I can tell you this: Your Health starts from the discipline to take Clean Water. Clean water alone can save you many Years of degrading your Health.
The moment God begins to bless you – You get a job or money begins to come; don’t just invest in clothes. Invest in your Health.
If you buy a nice Designer Wear in a Body that is dying; some People will come and carry it away because you will be dead!
Hear me: One time I went to Minister in this Nation and one of the fathers of Faith drew me into his office and he made a Statement that I will never forget.
It was a Powerful Conference and he drew me into his office and he said: My son, let me teach you something, Pay attention to your Health. He said, Africans kill their Prophets – And it made such an impact in my Life!
Now, it is Good to stretch yourself – Don’t be lazy. But you must know when you stretch yourself beyond limits.
There are many People today, it is not demons that are destroying their Health. It is just because they did not Pay attention.
Having encouraged you to be hard working, let me be sincere with you: When you are tired REST; when you are hungry EAT – Learn this especially for Young People.
Because we are surrounded by so many People who want to show that you can stretch in the Spirit. We derive a lot of Pride from showing you have Stamina in the Spirit.
There are People today who have Ulcer; and it is because they did not know how to Fast with wisdom. There are People today who are destroying themselves.
There are People today who have gone to Pray and stressed themselves beyond Proportion and it affected their brain. They have bipolar. Right now they are in the hospital.
There is a balance to everything! – The Bible says: Do everything with Moderation. Pay attention to your Health. Do not feel embarrassed and don’t feel less of a Christian if you are investing in your Health.
When Jesus was hungry, he ATE. When Jesus was tired he SLEPT – Please, eat and rest. In this Kingdom, we live by BREAD and WORDS. Not Words ALONE.
Are you learning? YES!
DECISION NO. 5: The Fifth (5th) Quality Decision we must make, in order to emerge as a Champions and Influencers is: THE DECISION TO BE FINANCIALLY INDEPENDENT.
Can I be honest with you? Many People shy away from the reality of this, and I know why.
Usually, when it has to do with the issue of Finance there are two (2) Groups in the Body of Christ:
I. There are those who ignore it and say it is not important – Don’t worry; you just serve God, He will sort your Life.
II. And then there are those who almost, it is like an extension of Lust and Carnality. And everything is money, money, money, from start to finish!
Both are wrong!
But I can tell you based on Authority of Scriptures; the Decision to be Financially Independent is a Noble Decision and it is also a Spiritual Decision.
Proverbs 22:7 – May you never forget this Scripture for the rest of your life in Jesus Name – Amen.
Why do you need to Contend for Financial Independence?
Here is one of the reasons – The Bible says so: “The Rich ruleth over the Poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.”
Did you get that? – The Rich Man will rule over the Poor! Even if he is a Poor Prayer Warrior, even If he is a Poor Fasting Giant. For as long as you are Poor, you would never be able to taste the corridors of Power and Influence.
It takes Economic Empowerment to lift the Name JESUS. The Name Jesus is very HEAVY, it takes Resources to lift it Up
Do not join the ignorants, where People find comfort in believing that everything will be alright, if you are not Financially Empowered? What we challenge in the Body of Christ Is Lust and Carnality towards Material things and not the availability of the Resources.
By the time money becomes a ‘god’ to you; by the time you become obsessed with money; even to the detriment of your Relationship with Jesus – Now there is a problem!
Materialism is not having Materials. Materialism is the influence of Materials on your Relationship with JESUS.
And you don’t need to have money to be Materialistic! – There are many Poor People who are Materialistic. You don’t just have the money to manifest it yet.
Please Pay attention to this: There are many People who are called of God today, but they are unable to do much for the Kingdom – This Youth Confidence right now is happening because, there are Financial Resources to drive the Conference.
It is not only because Jesus is here with us (He is here and we are grateful). But what if the Generating Set and the Sound System goes off and you cannot hear? What if the lights are out? This magnificent Auditorium that we all are sitting in, it took resources to make it happen.
As I have toured around this Redemption Camp – Get it, I have seen all kinds of Projects ongoing. It takes Resources.
If you embrace Poverty, you will also embrace Weakness.
Can I tell you this? – Make up your Mind that what my Parents could not give me – They may be sincere People, they did the best with what they knew to do; but in the Name of Jesus, I will be able to give my children what I did not receive – Don’t transfer the same Pain and Hardship to your children.
Make up your Mind that under my Watch, the House of the Lord will never suffer. Because these hands will bring Resources for the lifting of the Name of Jesus – Amen.
Ecclesiastes 9:13-16; the Bible shows us in a very Graphic way, the danger of not contending for Financial Independence:
This wisdom have I seen also under the sun, and it seemed Great unto me: There was a little City, and few men within it; and there came a Great King against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it: Now there was found in it a Poor Wise Man, and he by his Wisdom delivered the City; yet no man remembered that same Poor Man. Then said I, Wisdom is better than Strength: nevertheless the Poor Man’s Wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.
… It takes Wisdom and Wealth to be heard. – Are we learning? YES!
Make up your Mind that you are going to work in the reality of the Blessings of the Lord. Not for some Competitive, Carnal, Selfish reasons – No!
Do you know we are not Teaching on Finance here. But many of the People who talk on Finance (with all due respect) largely, many People are not getting it the way it should be taught.
This is why it keeps fueling carnality and lust in People – “You Prosper even as your Soul Prospers.”
When there is anything wrong with your Soul, everything you have gathered or acquired is nonsense.
But let me give you this: There are only Two (2) Assignments of Money in the Life of an Individual;
The first Assignment of Financial Resources is as a TOOL FOR TIME REDEMPTION.
… The first Assignment of money in your life is to REDEEM TIME.
The Unit of Destiny is Time! You can use money to buy time.
The Second Assignment of money in the Life of a Kingdom Minded Believer is for EFFICIENCY.
So money only has two (2) Assignments in a Believer’s Life – Time Redemption and Efficiency.
If God grants you Resources and you buy a Car, what is that car doing? Redeeming Time! That is it.
If God grants you an opportunity and you move from a Tenant a Landlord; it has only helped to make your Life efficient. Instead of struggling with six (6) children in one room; now you have five (5) bedrooms!
You can even create a Prayer Room. You can create all kinds of things – So it gives you the Confidence to live an Efficient Life.
This is why Believers desire the availability of Financial Resources; For Time Redemption and for Efficiency.
If you are able to Pay the School Fees of your children without thinking about it; and you can send them to any School without the Psychological Stress of raising School fees – One Naira (N1) Per term. It has helped your Life to be efficient and so you can focus on the things of God.
As a Man of God, when God blesses you Financially, He has given you time so you can lock yourself for three (3) days seeking His face and not worry about Bills – Efficiency!
When People are taught Prosperity from a correct Kingdom Perspectives, they become blessed and their hearts are never connected to those things.
Finally, have you been blessed so far? The only Promise you are going to give me is that you will use everything that I am Teaching you here.
That the next time God will grant us the Grace to see; when I look at where you used to be, I will not be able to find you there again – That you will be a thousand times over (Amen).
DECISION NO. 6: The Final Decision is THE DECISION TO BUILD QUALITY DESTINY RELATIONSHIPS.
Ecclesiastes 4:9-12.
Can I tell you this? The command: “Be Fruitful”; also means be RELATIONAL. Because, the only way to be Fruitful is through Relationships. It takes a husband and his wife to have a child.
One of the Greatest things that you can do with your Life and the times that God has given you is to invest in Building Quality Relationships.
Can I be honest with you? Many People do not have Relationships that were intentionally built. Many People have Circumstantial Relationships – Circumstances just brought certain People into your Life.
There are Three (3) Levels of Relationship:
There are GENERAL RELATIONSHIPS – You meet People everyday
And the Bible mandates you love them – Believers Non-believers alike. You meet them everyday.
There are SEASONAL RELATIONSHIPS.
For instance: your classmates, your schoolmates. Within the time you are together in that Institution, on that training, taking that course; you are together, and you may be friends.
But the third and the Highest Level, they are called DESTINY RELATIONSHIPS or COVENANT RELATIONSHIP.
These are People who believe what you believe. The Foundational Pillars of your convictions are also what they believe. And you have a Covenant of Fellowship that you are going to be there for one another through the thick and thin.
You will not just be there to Stand together; that when they are on the ground, you will come and stand by them and help them and lift them up!
Can I tell you this: Woe betides a Man if everybody around him is a Psychophant – Looking for your money or your Anointing because Men are intrinsically selfish. However, there are still sincere People.
And my Prayer is not just that you will Pray and say: God give me one; be one FIRST. Hallelujah!
When Jesus walked upon the Earth; for as long as he was Celebrity Jesus and there were crowds looking for Him. Some were looking for Him for food, some where eyeing all kinds of things; hoping that one day when He becomes the King of kings and Lord of lords they will be able to sit on His Right and His Left hand – All kinds of Motives!
But when Jesus handed Himself to die, all of them ran away! When Jesus was going to Golgotha, my question: Where was Blind Bartimaeus? Where was the woman with the Issue of Blood? Where was even Lazarus who was raised from the dead? – Everybody ran away!
Can I be honest with you? – You must obtain the Grace and courage at this Level in Life to edit your Relationships.
Don’t treat everybody the same, they are not the same! Categorise your Relationships into: Outer Court, Inner Courtt. And Most Holy Place.
Not everybody should have that kind of access to your Life – Are you learning Wisdom here?
Someone comes into your Life and in five (5) minutes you have told him everything about your Destiny; you have told him everything about your Past, you have told him that your dad had a Problem with your mum. And tomorrow they go around and betray you, backstab you and destroy you.
You need Wisdom! It is not every Visitor that comes to your house that you take to your bedroom – No! There are Visitors who will Stand at the Gate, there are Others who come to the Living Room but there are Others you can literally take them to your bedroom and sit down because you know that even if you are in Prison, they will come and Stand with you and say we will die together.
Can I be sincere with you? – This is one of the Lessons that I have learnt respectfully speaking, in the lives of our fathers of Faith. They may not have many People around their lives, but my Goodness, God has given them “THE GIFT OF MEN”. There are Men who will stay like the Mighty Men of David in the Cave of Adullam (2 Samuel 23).
Let me ask you a Question (as I round up): If you are in trouble today (God forbid) is there anybody in your life that you can call by 2 a.m. and say sincerely there is an issue with my rent now, it is not that I am careless. And the Person says: “Over my dead body! As Long as I am alive, I will not see you go through this?”
Hear me: If there is Nobody like that in your Life, you are sitting on a TIME BOMB.
I want to be honest with you: Even when Saul wanted to kill David and frustrated him, David said: “Is there any Man in the house of Saul that I may show kindness for Jonathan’s sake? – 2 Samuel 9:1.
I have learnt this as a Lesson from the lives of our fathers of Faith:
I. Write a list of the five (5) Most Important Men in your Life. People you know today, who love you and will sacrifice anything for you.
II. Invest in those Relationships! Don’t generalize and treat everybody like the same. No! There are people today, if you call and say I need five hundred thousand Naira (N500,000), they will tell you “well, I will help you.”
How could you put them in the same category with someone who can stab you with a knife even if they give you? – Learn Wisdom!
III. There are People today if you call them and say: “Look, I see that Lust is already growing in me; Pride is already growing in me”; they will say – ‘No! not when I am here. Let’s declear a three (3) days Fast. I will stand with you. I will Pray with you.”
Can I be honest with you? As you are rising in Life and in Leadership, you must start Praying not for a crowd, but for these Men – Lord, from the crowd select these Men, bring them to my Life.
IV. There are Men who will vow and say: Even if you go to be with the Lord today, your children will not beg for bread when they are aliive!
Can I be honest? – There are many of our Parents in Old-age today; they did not spend their days searching for Quality Destiny Relationships and investing in it. And you will see some of them move and they will tell you: “I lived in US for ten (10) Years. I know this one, I know that one. But they are still in a Position today, where none of their children can have a job.
Anything money can buy, RELATIONSHIPS can also buy. Relationships are Currencies! Don’t use money alone to buy things; use Relationship to buy things.
This is one lesson I have learnt in Ministry: as you pray Man of God, Young Woman, I want you to hear the words of the Lord – It is time for you to build Quality Relationships!
This is one of the reasons why God brings a Convergence of a Conference like this; so that you can have Men and Women.
Some of you, your Destiny Helpers are and in this Place. Now, they may not be wearing the kind of shoes and the kind of clothes you like. Be careful when you look down on People. You may be looking down on the next ten (10) Years of your Life.
Learn to honour men. Learn to respect People – Respect those who are above you, respect your contemporaries, respect your subordinates; and you have bought the Future.
I set before you Life and Death. I set before you Blessing and Cursing, I set before you these SIX (6) MASTER DECISIONS, that decides the Destinies of Men. I cannot force you but my advice even this afternoon is: CHOOSE LIFE.
… Rise up on your feet!
Some day you will read this Message again; but you will read it with your Children all around your table; with Millions in your Account, with Mantles upon your head. Alongside the Congregation of a crowd listening to you. You will not read this Message and regree and say: “Why did I not make a Decision?”
One Prayer Point: Father, I obtain Grace from Heaven. You have given me the Keys that can Change my Life; I obtain Grace. Lift your voice and Pray!
CLOSING PRAYER
I Stand upon the Grace of our father-in-the-Lord; let there be that Impartation!
I Ignite your Prayer Life; I Ignite your Destiny – By the Power that raised Christ from dead, step into a New Season, in Jesus’ Name.
You know the Call of God is upon your Life; I want to Pray the Apostolic Fire upon your Life. In this End Time, there are Women that are rising up after the Order of Deborah. They are women that are Warriors in the Spirit. I Pray for you wherever you are, may this Fire come upon you right now!
Some of you are Kingdom Financiers; you represent the Next Generation of Men and Women that God will be trusting with Resources. I don’t know where you are; wherever you are right now, may that Anointing come up on you right now! Receive that Anointing now.
Every embargo of Delay sitting on your Life to say you will not go forward; by the Privilege of the Grace over our father, in the Name of Jesus may the Mantle for Speed come upon your Destiny – JESUS!!!
Delay be broken, Delay in Destiny fulfillment the broken. I released Speed upon your Life, I release Speed upon your Destiny – Hallelujah!
Now hear me: There is a Grace for Prayer, that makes a Man’s Altar to come on Fire. I don’t know who needs this Grace; The Grace for Prayer and Intercession, take that Grace now! The Fire upon your Altar, let it keep burning day and night.
There is a Grace for Favour; hear me – There is a “Real Grace” for Favour that can make Men attend to your Needs. You may not have an Uncle, an Auntie, a Sponsor;; but right now, in the Name of Jesus, upon this Altar I Prophesy: any Destiny Helper that needs to arise and locate your Destiny, I command, you they find you now – Hallelujah!
I want to Pray for the Sick; I want you to lay your Hands on any Part of your Body where you are trusting God for Miracles. I want to Pray for you right now. I believe in Miracles. I want you to agree with me as I Pray for the Sick;
In the Name of Jesus, every Spirit of Infirmities Plaguing your Body, your Destiny, I command that it let you go right now, in Jesus’ Name.
And I Decree and Declare, in the Name of Jesus the Son of the Living God; be Healed – Migraine,, Headaches, be healed in Jesus’ Name.
Blood conditions be Healed in the Name of Jesus. Every genotype here – Sickle Cell Anaemia, we change that genotype right now, in the Name of Jesus.
Anyone called barren; I Stand upon this Altar and I speak over your Life – Nine (9) Months from now, return with your “MIRACLE CHILDREN”.
Every Blood disease, every blood condition, be healed riight now, in Jesus’ Name! Partial or complete deafness, be healed right now, in Jesus’ Name. Partial or complete blindness be healed right now in Jesus’ Name.
Heart Palpitations be healed in Jesus’ Name. Ulcers be healed in Jesus’ Name! The Lord is healing someone of Pile. Be healed right now in Jesus’ Name.
Whether I mentioned your case or not; every ailment in your body let it bow to the Name of Jesus right now – Hallelujah!
… Please lift your hands let me speak over your Destiny:
Every door that has refused to open over your Life and Destiny, right now I Stand upon the Privilege of the Grace of our father-in-the-Lord, and in the Name of Jesus, I speak to that door Ephatha, be open now! Doors of Destiny be open.
Hear me, every embargo of Shame and reproach over anyone’s Life and my family – By the Mystery of the Blood of Jesus, we tear off that veil of Shame from your Life.
Failure at the edge of your Breakthroughs – that you always see it but never handle it; right now in the Name of Jesus, everything your eye sees, may your hands handle it, in Jesus’ Name.
I Pray for those of you who are Students – If you are a Student: In the Name that is Above all names, the Finishers Anointing, the Grace to finish with Honours, I impart that Grace upon you, in Jesus’ Name.
Some of you, because of the circumstances that have always been around your Life, there has been delays around your life – By now you would have gone far but something delayed you.
I don’t know who has been delayed in Life; by Prophecy I Push you to the Next Season of your Life – Hallelujah!
Finally, by the Privilege of God’s Election of Grace and the Honour of Standing on this Altar, let me join my faith with your Intercontinental Youth Pastor and our father-in-the-Lord, to Prophesy over the entire Youth Arm of RCCG:
Everything that is alive grows.
Therefore, I Stand on this Altar and I declare: By this time Next Year (2022); you will be ten (10) times better than you are now regardless of your Region, Province, Zone, Area, and Parish; Be ten (10) times better than you are: Spiritually, Financially, Academically, Material, Emotionally.
Hear me: And out of you all, may it Please the Lord to raise the Next Generation of Leaders of this Nation.
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Praise the Lord – Hallelujah!.
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THEME: GOD BLESS YOU – PART 9 (EXCEEDING EXPECTATIONS)
MINISTERING: PASTOR E.A ADEBOYE
DATE: 1ST OCTOBER, 2021
BIBLE TEXT: EPHESIANS 3: 20-21
GENERAL PRAYERS
Why don’t you go ahead – Lift up your hands to the Most High God.
Worship the King of Kings, Worship the One who will never get tired, the One who never grows Old, the I am that I am, the Ancient of Days.
Praise Him – Praise the Saviour, Healer, Provider, All in All, Magnify His Holy Name. He reigns Supreme.
Thank You Father. Glory be to Your Holy Name.
In Jesus Mighty Name we have Prayed – Amen!
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You are the Mighty God The Great I am Hallelujah, Hallelujah You are the Mighty God The Great I am Hallelujah, Hallelujah
OPENING PRAYER
Father, we worship You – King of Kings and the Lord of Lords; The I am that I am; The Lion of the Tribe of Judah; The Owner of the Earth and the Fullness thereof – Glory be to Your Holy Name.
Please, accept our worship in Jesus Name.
We Thank You Lord God Almighty for January, we Thank You for February, we Thank You for March, we Thank You for April, we Thank You for May, we Thank You for June, we Thank You for July, we Thank You for August, we Thank You for September, Father we Thank You for October.
Please, accept our Thanks in Jesus Name.
Thank You for Your Mercy over Nigeria – It is of Your Mercy that we are not Consumed and that Mercy has Preserved us and we know that Mercy will be there for us.
Father, accept our Thanks in Jesus Name.
Tonight in Your own Special Way; Please exceed our Expectations in Healings, in Deliverance, in Breakthroughs, in Miracles, in Signs, in Wonders, in Salvation – Exceed our Expectations and we will give You all the Glory.
In Jesus Mighty Name we have Prayed – Amen
Well, let Someone shout Hallelujah – Hallelujah!
Wave to two (2) or three (3) People and say: God will exceed your Expectations tonight.
And then you may Please be seated except those born in the Month of October.
PRAYER FOR THE OCTOBER BIRTHDAY CELEBRANTS
If you are born in the Month of October; shout a Big Hallelujah – Hallelujah!
Father, we commit all Your Children born in the Month October into Your Hands. October is the Tenth (10th) Month, and ten (10) is “Double 5” – The Month of Double Grace.
We commit all these Your Children into Your Hands: Let Your Grace upon them be Double, let their Promotions be Double, let their Miracles be in Double; Double their Joy, Double their Success, Double their Victories.
Let it be well with them all and let today mark a New Beginning for them.
In Jesus Mighty Name we have Prayed – Amen.
Well, if you are born in October shout a “Double Grace” Hallelujah – Hallelujah!
GENERAL ANNOUNCEMENT
By the Grace of God if the Lord tarries; the RCCG November 2021 Holy Ghost Service will take Place on 5th of November, 2021.
The Theme for the November 2021 Holy Ghost Service will be: “GOD BLESS YOU – PART 10 (THE APPOINTED TIME).
We want to bless the Name of the Lord for the Young Adults and Youth Convention 2021.
This Year’s Young Adults and Youth Convention 2021 is the Best we have had so far.
You know the Program started on Monday (27th of September 2021) till the end of the week (Friday, 1st October, 2021) and I am telling you that I have been “Tremendously Blessed”.
The Hand of the Lord was upon the Speakers like never before – Many of them spoke even beyond what they Planned to say because God answered my Prayers.
I said that I want a very Special Young Adults and Youth Convention and He gave me one.
I think you should help me shout Hallelujah to God – Hallelujah.
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Ephesians 3:20-21:
20 Now unto him that is able to do Exceeding Abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the Power that worketh in us,
21 Unto him be Glory in the Church by Christ Jesus throughout all Ages, world without end. Amen.
I would have loved to spend quality time on verse 20, but maybe a day would come where we would look at that in some details.
Because one of the boys who spoke before me tonight, touched on that.
He said that:
God is Able;
He is not just Able, but “Able to do”.
… He should Probably have gone to Abundantly.
God is “Able to do Abundantly”.
And then, he can even Exceed what is already Abundant.
And then ‘Above All that we Ask”.
And then “Above All that we Think”.
And then “According to; in Proportion to what? – His Power!”
You know, somebody emphasised that one.
Which Power? – The one that is working in us.
That one alone would have been enough food for thought tonight.
But then because of our limited time:
WHAT IS EXPECTATION?
… And many of my children gave some beautiful definitions of Expectation.
I would like to define Expectation in the language that the Market Woman would understand by saying that: Expectation is what will happen subject to all things being equal.
For example: All things being equal in June (in Nigeria) it will rain! – That Is our Expectation for June.
All things being equal, if you have a job, at the end of the Month, you would be Paid – That is the Expectation of all those who have a job.
All things being equal – That means if you are not sacked before the end of the Month; if the place of work does not burn down; if somebody has not lied against you to say you stole company’s Property – You know that, all things being equal, at the end of the Month you would be Paid.
… That is Expectation – What will happen if all things are equal.
Let me give you another explanation of what we mean by Expectation; when a child is born and is a girl – All things being equal, after a certain Age she should become a Mother.
All things being equal, there is a Potential in a baby girl that one day – All things being equal, she will give birth. And as she begins to grow to Adult Age, everything she needs to become a Mother (which was already in her when she was born) would begin to manifest.
A girl doesn’t go to the Market at the Age of shall we say 15 Years, to go and buy breasts.
No, No, No! – The breasts are already inside her, waiting to manifest at the correct time, all things being equal.
All things being equal, you will leave here with a Testimony – Amen.
So when a boy is born (a child is born and is a boy) all things being equal, he will become a father someday – That is the Expectation!
Now if this boy should be married say at the Age of 20, and he got the first baby at the Age of 21 and that baby is a girl; all things being equal, that boy, who has now become a father can become a grandfather around the Age of forty (40) something.
If his first grandchild is a girl, all things being equal, he could become a great-grandfather in his sixties (60s). And if the child born at that time is a girl, all things being equal (if the man doesn’t die before then) he could become a great, great grandfather in his eighties (80s). And so on and so forth.
But not everybody will become a great, great grandfather. That all things being equal, the boy could become a father – Normal Expectation.
That all things being equal, before he dies he could become a grandfather – Normal Expectation.
But when all of a sudden you find someone who has become a great, great, great, great grandfather – That one is Exceeding Expectations.
… I hope you understand that now? – Okay!
Now like the last brother who spoke before me said: When we are talking about Expectations there are basically two (2) Perspectives:
God’s Perspectives.
Your Own Perspectives – Man’s Perspectives.
There is nothing too hard for God to do.
As a matter of fact, His Name is Jehovah El Shaddai Genesis – 17:1. The first time God introduced Himself to Man, He said: I Am Jehovah El Shaddai.
And Bible Scholars say: Jehovah El Shaddai means “Jehovah your Mother’s Breast”.
That is why they call Him the God who is More Than Enough.
There is “Enough Milk” in a Mother’s breast to feed four (4) children at the same time. And it is the children who will say: We don’t want any more. The milk will still be flowing.
I. GOD CAN EXCEED YOUR EXPECTATIONS – PHYSICALLY.
So it is an easy thing for Jehovah El Shaddai to Exceed ALL Expectations – Physically.
He has the ability to heal just one (1) Fellow and leave the Place – John 5:2-14.
He can heal you first, then inform you how to remain well.
But then, in Matthew 8:14-17; the Bible tells us that He could heal ALL. He could meet the Expectations of everybody.
Why? – He is Jehovah El Shaddai.
Which is why I am Prophesying in His Name that: All of you who are in Need of Healings, receive your Healing, in Jesus’ Name – Amen.
But when you read the Story of Naaman; which that brother mentioned also, in 2 Kings 5:1-14 – He can heal the one that is Incurable.
Like the Testimonies we have already heard tonight.
But He can go beyond that – He can Exceed the Expectations of the Incurable.
Because when Naaman went for Healing, all he wanted was for the leprosy to be gone. He wasn’t expecting that there will be no scars left.
When somebody has leprosy, one of the Signs of leprosy is that the fingers will be cut off; the toes will be cut off, the nose will be disfigured.
When God healed Naaman, there was no scars left! – The fingers that had drop-off came back.
The Bible says his Skin became back to him like that of a newborn baby.
I Pray in the Name that is above every other names: When God heals you today, the Sign that you had ever been sick before will not even be there – Amen.
I remembered the Testimony of one Young Man who used to be our Director of Music. He said that when we say: ‘There is someone here that something is happening to’; he said that he never believed.
But then, he had this Problem; that a boil would appear on any Part of his body. When the boil breaks, some stinking water will flow out of it and then the Pain will heal. But it will leave a scar. And scars were all over his body.
And then as we were Ministering – It was in the Old Auditorium. God spoke and said: “There is someone here the scars are gone.
And he said: Ah! I am the one who has scars. He ran to the toilet to check and the scars were gone!
If you have never received a Miracle before, receive one right now – Amen.
II. GOD CAN EXCEED YOUR EXPECTATIONS – FINANCIALLY.
Psalms 24:1 says: The Earth is the Lord’s and the Fullness thereof.
Haggai 2:8 says: The Silver is mine, the Gold is mine saith the Lord.
Psalms 50:9-20 says: The cattle’s upon a thousand Hills are mine.
Philippians 4:19 says: My God shall supply ALL…;
And Bible Scholars have said: “The All” He said there is ‘your Need’ not ‘your Wants’.
But I want you to know: My God can Exceed your Expectations!
One of the Speakers tonight mentioned 2 Kings 4:1-7 (that is why I thought maybe he saw my Notes).
In 2 Kings 4:1-7, there was a Widow who ran to Elijah for help. All she wanted was that her debt would be Paid.
But after the debt was cleared, she had enough to last for the rest of her life because God exceeded her Expectations.
I Decree in the Name of the One Who called me: Not only are you going to get out of debt, you would never need to borrow again – Amen.
In John 6:5-13, when Jesus Christ wanted to feed five thousand (5,000) Men, not counting Women and children with the Lunch of a small boy.
Not only were they all fed, there were are still leftovers to fill twelve (12) baskets.
… He exceeded their Expectations!
In John 2:1-11, at the Wedding in Cana of Galilee – Not only did He meet the request of His Mother Mary; who said they needed wine. All they wanted was something to drink to keep the Party going. But God exceeded their Expectations: not only in Quantity, but also in Quality.
The Master of Ceremony (MC) said – When People are drunk they bring out the worse wine. But now, when People are drunk (in your own case) you brought the Best Wine.
In the Name of the One Who can Exceed All Expectations: Your Best Is yet To come – Amen.
… Thank You Lord!
The Lord says there is someone – The doctor said there is a hole in the heart of your child. Go for another checkup, the hole is gone- Amen!
Daddy wants me to tell someone who is becoming fearful because of all the dangers – Kidnapping, this and that! The Lord asked me to tell you Relax, Safety belongs to Me.
III. GOD CAN EXCEED YOUR EXPECTATIONS – MARITALLY.
One of the Boys has already mentioned that one. Let me just give one (1) example that he mentioned.
He said Hannah asked for only one (1) Child and God gave her six (6) children – 1 Samuel 2:20-21.
… She asked for one (1) she got six (6).
I have a feeling God is talking to a Woman in Particular; when your children begin to come, you are going to need Assistance – because they will be coming in Multiple.
IV. GOD CAN EXCEED YOUR EXPECTATIONS – SPIRITUALLY.
… And I like that one very much!
Because it says in Psalms 23:5 – Thou Preparest a Table before me in the Presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with Oil; my cup runneth over.
I have told you before that: When I was doing a Study in Pslams 23 for the first time and I got to that Place; I asked God: “When the Cup was filled, why didn’t You Stop?” He said: “I just want you to know there is much more where this one is coming from.
I don’t know if you can believe it but one of the Boys who spoke before me tonight said:
If you want to Exceed your Expectations, you must be a Man or Woman of Faith.
But I am decreeing to someone here or reading this Message on the Label of DMC: God is going to give you more Anointing than He has given me – Amen!
Not only can He deliver a Mad Man, He can turn him to an Evangelist.
You know the Story in Mark 5:2-20; All that that Mad Man could ever expect is that he would be free from the demons.
But God Exceeded his Expectations by setting him free and then turned him to an Evangelist.
It took a Man who himself said he was a Chief among Sinners – That is Saul of Tarsus. He said in Timothy 1:15 – I am the Chief of all sinners.
But God took that Man, not only did He save his Soul; not only did he call him into His Ministry; in 2 Corinthians 11:5, the Almighty God turned him to the Chiefest of the Apostles.
There is someone today who does not know that he or she could be used of God; but I am assuring you in the Name that is above every other names, you are going to Preach Christ throughout the whole world.
… If you are the one, let me hear you say Amen loud and clear – AMEN!
Now let’s go to INDIVIDUAL MANIFESTATIONS.
Because there are more to discuss on that Aspect. But the Youth have covered up most of the Grounds.
… Thank You Father! Thank you Lord.
The Lord says: There is someone, you have lost so many Opportunities, that by now the best Nickname they could give you would be “LOST-IN TRANSIT’ – Because anytime a Miracle is coming, before it arrived, it is gone!
The Lord asked me to tell you: by the time I finished with you, your Nickname would be RESTORED COMPLETELY – AMEN.
Now the rest of the Sermon, if I don’t finish it – you can find it in the “Special Song” that was sang tonight.
If you Pay attention to our Special Hymns, you will notice we don’t just Compose – Every Song is telling a Story.
The Hymn of tonight is a Prophecy to you – That you can Exceed Expectations.
LET’S LOOK AT THE INDIVIDUAL ASPECT of EXCEEDING EXPECTATIONS.
I. You can Exceed Expectations by Making Up with God.
… You can Exceed in all Human Expectations by making up with God.
The Next Verse of our Special Hymn says: I am going to Exceed in Strength.
Why? – Because I am linked to Him Who can never fail.
Because the Bible says clearly that: Those who wait upon the Lord; according to Isaiah 40:28-31; shall renew their Strength.
The first Verse of our Hymn says:
I can walk, I can run; I won’t faint, I will Mount with wings like an Eagle.
It is wrong to say that, as soon as you get to a certain Age; you will become weak.
.. It all depends on who you are linked with.
There are some of you here or reading now on the Label of DMC: From now on, as you grow older, you will get Stronger – Amen.
Some Years ago, some of my children (Young Ones) they decided to go with me A-Fishing – And on that Particular day, we took off from Port Harcourt, travelled by road to stop by the way – Benin, Owo, Akure, Ilesha, Osogbo. And finally we got to Ilorin around 8pm.
We left Port Harcourt at 6 am and my children sayis: Thank God, at long last we are going to rest. I said but they are waiting for us at Lokoja.
Are we going to Lokoja tonight? – I said of course, we are going to Lokoja.
Finally, we got to Lokoja around 11pm – After whatever we wanted to do; we ate and we got to bed around 1:00am.
By 5:00am, I woke them up – It’s time to go! Ah! I had to be Praying for the driver that you won’t fall asleep.
Then we got to Ogbomosho, Oyo, Ibadan. And on my list, we still had to go to Abeokuta, Ilaro and so on. But when we got to Ibadan, I just felt in my Spirit that some People must have been Praying.
So I announced, I said: Let’s go home we have tried – All of them shouted Hallelujah!
They were not the ones Preaching; they were just sitting in the car with me, traveling alone got them tired.
… But it is Possible never to be tired.
I decree in the Name that is above every other names: From now on; every day God will renew your Strength – Amen.
II. You can Exceed Expectations even in your Life.
What the Bible says in Psalms 90:10 is that: You are normally to live up to 70 or maybe 80 years. But Moses lived up to 120 years.
And according to the Deuteronomy 34:7 – Even at the Age of 120, the Bible says his eyes were still Sharp and he was still Strong enough to father a child.
Why? – Because God says in Psalms 91:14 -16; He says: “With Long Life will I satisfy you”.
Whether the devil likes it or not, you will not die before your Time – Amen.
III. God can Exceed your Expectations Materially.
… But one of the Boys has already mentioned that one too.
When Solomon gave that one thousand (1,000) burnt Offerings and God visited him; all he expected was Wisdom and Understanding.
But God exceeded his Expectations – Gave him money beyond what he can even spend; gave him Long Life, he never fought a Single War – at a time when Kings go to war every year.
… God can exceed your Expectations Materially and otherwise!
IV. Now, God (through you) can show the world that you as an individual, can Exceed your expectations Spiritually.
Acts 5:14-16 tells us about a Man called Peter – A fisherman whose Shadow began to heal the sick.
You can be the Next Fellow that God will use in that manner – Amen.
Everytime I read anything in the Bible, what comes to my Mind is – If God can do it for that Fellow and He is no respecter of Persons; He can do it for me too.
You are going to Exceed all Expectations as you Minister in the Power of the Holy Spirit – Amen.
I can remind you – Some of you would remember that time, in the very first of Auditorium by the Expressway; when God suddenly said: There were some People who had serious back Pain. And that they have not been able to touch their feet for a very long time.
And he asked me to call them out, and I did. And I thought He was going to ask me to lay hands on them or to slap their backs, or something. He said I should dance around them.
If I didn’t know the Voice of the Lord; I would have said: Dance! – Why will I say I am dancing? Am I rejoicing because your back is aching?
But I danced and after I had finished dancing (in obedience) like one of the Boys said. God said, that is enough! Tell them to touch their toes and they were all Healed – Nobody laid hands on them! But the Almighty God wanted to demonstrate His Power.
That kind of Anointing to Exceed Expectations in Ministry – Receive it tonight in Jesus’ Name – Amen.
You can Exceed Expectations Spiritually, because the Bible says in 1 Corinthians 12:31…
… Thank You Father!
This must be very Special for Someone.
When we were in Ilesha Grammar School, there was one of us (in my class) who failed at the end of one Year. So we left him behind; we moved on! He struggled, and finally, he too finished, and then went to the University like any of us.
But by the time many of us who thought we were Smarter were Lecturing in the Universities, struggling. That fellow had become a Vice Chancellor of one of the Prestigious University in Nigeria.
The Lord asked me to tell you that Story because He says there is someone, He is going to move you from the Title of “Left Behind” to the Title of “Arrived First” – AMEN.
… You can Exceed Expectations in Spiritual Gifts.
You can Exceed Expectations in Spiritual Gifts, because in 1 Corinthians 12:31; the Bible says covet earnestly the Best Gift.
There are many of us, all our Expectations from God is at least one (1) Spiritual Gift.
And some of us, if we ask you what Gift do you want from God? – You will simply say the Gifts of Healing.
Very few people ask for the Gift of Miracles, Working of Miracles.
But God says you can covet earnestly the Best Gift – You can have the Gift of Healing, you can have the Gift of Working on Miracles, you can have the Gift of Word of Knowledge, you can have the Gift of Word of Wisdom, you can have the Gift of Prophecy, etc.
You can have it ALL – It all depends on you!
After all, He says in John 14:14 – “if you ask ANYTHING in My Name I will do.”
I have told you before, when I read 1 Corinthians 12:31 for the first time, I said: Thank You Lord – I want the Anointing on Elijah Plus the Anointing on Elisha, Plus the Anointing on Peter, Plus the Anointing of our Lord Jesus Christ (while He was here on Earth). roll everything together and then Double it.
And God spoke to me and said: Son, you are asking for trouble.
I said: You are the One Who says I can ask for anything.
He said: If you ask for it, I can give you; only they won’t let you rest.
How many of you will say: I don’t care God, just let me Exceed my Expectations Spiritually.
Anybody like that? – You want enough Power to do anything: You want to wave your hands and the Dead will rise, you want to wave your hands and the sick will be Healed’, you want waved the Handkerchiefs in your hands and they become Anointed and the Handkerchiefs will be used to heal the sick and wrought Miracles.
Do you want that kind of Power? YES! I can’t hear you – YES!!!
DIGGING DEEP SESSION.
… Let’s do a little bit of Digging Deep. It won’t be much – I am about to close:
You can Exceed all Expectations of your Commitment to Jesus Christ.
You know somebody gave a definition of a Fanatic before.
He said: “A Fanatic is someone who loves Jesus Christ more than you”.
… That is his definition of a Christian Fanatic.
You can Exceed all Expectations of your Commitment to Jesus Christ – You can Love Him so much, be ready to serve beyond the Call or Duty.
In Acts 21:8-14, a Prophet came to the Company of Paul and said to him: “You are going to be bound in Jerusalem.”
The Holy Spirit has asked me to go and tell you, you don’t have to go because if you go there, trouble will be waiting for you.
And everybody said, if the Holy Spirit has come to tell you don’t go – Sit down!
He said: What are you talking about? I am going there to Preach. I am not only ready to be bound.l, I am ready to die.
… That is called Exceeding Expectations!
If I ask all of you reading – How many of you want to go and start a Church in America? – Hands will go up! How many of you would like to go and start a Church in Sweden? – Oh, no Problem! If I say, how many of you would like to go and start the Church in Iran? – Let me go and Pray about it first!
But I have told you the Story before – One of the Stories I heard when I was a Young Christian that fired me up.
Newlywed Couple came to a Particular Country in Africa to Preach the Gospel as Missionaries – They were Newlywed.
When they got to a Place and they saw a Big Wall around a Particular Section, and asked: What is going on? Is there a Village in there?
The Man at the gate said: Yes, it is a Leper Colony. Everybody inside there is a Leper. We throw food to them over the wall.
And the Couple said: Has anybody Preached Jesus Christ to them before?
The Man again said: What are you talking about? Maybe you don’t understand what I am saying: Anybody who goes in there doesn’t come out.
But we want to Preach to them. If nobody has never spoken to them, we will want to go!
The Man at the gate said: It looks as if you don’t understand. If you go in there you are not coming out.
The Young husband looked at his Young wife – Darling, what do you say? The wife said: All that Jesus Christ said is: GO! He didn’t say anything about coming back.
So, they turned to the gatekeeper, he opened the door, they went in and the door was shut!
That is one Couple I am going to look for when I get to Heaven.
… You can Exceed all Expectations in your commitment to Jesus Christ.
You can Exceed all Expectations in your Consecration to Him.
That is an area where it should be easy for you as an individual, to make up your Mind – I am going to Exceed all Expectations.
… Thank You Daddy!
Oh, Daddy asked me to tell someone – He said: All the People who wants you dead are gone, except one. And He asked me to tell you that the remaining one, unless he comes to beg you; he is not going to see the end of this Year – AMEN.
In Philippians 3:7-11 Paul said: All things that were Gain to me, I let it go. Why? – That I may win Christ.
… He said: I surrendered all to You because I want to know You More.
I want to be allowed to have a taste – Not only of His Power, not only of His Restoration, but even a Fellowship of His Suffering.
So I give all to Him: If I live, I live for Him, if I die, oh that will be Gain.
Consecration – That Closeness, that Total Surrender to God, that says: ‘Whether I live or I die I don’t care! I belong to Jesus.
You can Exceed the Expectations of your Friends along that line.
Again I tell you a Story that I heard when I was young – That a Lady Evangelist came to Africa, Preached in a Village, People there got Born Again.
Then she said: Any other Village?
They said, there is one of them but there are many Lions along the way. And the way they have been roaring means they have been hungry for quite a while.
And she said but I want to go there to Preach! And they said, the Lions won’t allow you to get there, they will kill you by the way.
She said, but I want to get to them. I want to go and Preach to them.
And one Elderly Man there said: In that case, I will go with you.
The Lady looked at him and said: You can’t even Protect yourself against a Lion; how can you Protect me?
And the Old Man said: You don’t understand. Lions don’t kill except when they are hungry. I will go ahead and they will kill me. And while they are eating me, you can go and Preach.
… Consecration!
You can Exceed your Expectations in your Consecration to Jesus Christ.
You can Exceed your Expectations in Prayer.
You can Pray more than everybody else – You can!
In 1 Kings 18:41-45; after Elijah told Ahab – I have heard the Sound of Abundance of rain. And he told the rest People, go and eat. And himself went to the top of the Mountain, threw himself down, put his face between his knees and began to Pray.
This was a Man who Prayed for two (2) Minutes and Fire fell.
Now he wanted water to fall and water refused. He Prayed the first time, he Prayed the Second time, he Prayed the third time – He just kept on Praying until the rain fell.
You want a Revival, but are you Willing to Pray for it?
You want Anointing, are you willing to Pray for it?
You want Breakthroughs, are you willing to Pray for it?
Because in 1Thessalonians 5:17 the Bible says: You are even to Pray without ceasing.
… We can Exceed Expectations in Prayer!
When I became General Overseer, our Church was ‘Big’ – The Headquarters Plus thirty nine (39) Branches in one corner of Nigeria.
And then I went with my Best Friend (I can still see one (1) or two (2) of them here). The rest have gone!
And we went to Ilorin and we Prayed for thirty six (36) Hours Non-stop.
And when I say Non-stop, we would break for five (5) Minutes to go to the toilet and then start again – No Food, no sleep, Nothing!
…. You can’t be Praying that kind of Prayer and be eating!
After the thirty six (36) Hours of Prayers, God spoke – Told us several things. I mean some of the things that we are seeing now. And I was happy, I released them – They all went back to their Stations.
Thank You Lord, we Prayed for Thirty six (36) Hours. We are Prayer Warriors now!
And then I came across the Story of a Man who Prayed for thirty (30) days and Thirty (30) nights Non-stop – Never slept for thirty (30) nights, day in day out.
… I have not been able to catch up with him – He Exceeded all my Expectations of Praying.
You can Exceed in Prayer! And you can exceed in Prayer if you can just cry unto God and say I am not going to let You go. You will get to a Stage where He will say all right, get what you want.
One of these days I will show you a spot in this Camp Ground.
Some of you have heard about it – I have been crying to God: God empower me. I was minding my own business as a Lecturer in the University when You said I should leave everything and follow You. I have done that, now I can’t do this work without Power.
And I remembered that night, it was sometime between 2:00am. and 3:00 am – When I became desperate and I said to God: It’s either You empower me or You take me home. It should be either of the two.
That night He answered me. And the whole Camp shook and they felt the shaking as far Ijebu-Ode, wherr Pictures began to drop from the wall.
You can Exceed Expectations in Prayer – You can go far, far beyond your Colleagues. If you Pray that kind of Prayer, you will soon Exceed in Power, you will soon exceed in every other thing – if only you can Pray.
So let me close: My children were saying again and again – When Daddy comes and a makes the Altar Call make sure you don’t delay.
How can you be Praying to a God Who says in His Words: I don’t listen to Sinners.
Hey, my hand is not shortened that I cannot save. My ears are not deaf thay I cannot hear. But sin will be a barrier between you and I. So I cannot hear!
How can you be Praying to God when you are still living like a child of the devil and you don’t want to Change?
But if you come to Him tonight, He will save your Soul, His Blood will wash away your sins; and beginning from now you too can begin to have that kind of Fellowship with God; that will cause you to Excel, that will turn you from an “Ordinary Person” to someone who will be a Mighty Vessel unto Honour in the Hands of the Most High God
If He can save the Soul of Saul of Tarsus and turn him to a Chief Apostle; He can do the same for you.
ALTAR CALL.
If you want to surrender your Life to Jesus Christ, I am not begging you tonight it is your Choice.
By now you should have sensed that this is not an “Ordinary Holy Ghost Night” – This is a “Night of EXCEEDING MANIFESTATIONS”.
If you want to surrender your Life to Jesus do so now.
One of the Preachers before me said: Tonight, there is going to be a “Call to Destiny” – I think this is what he is talking about. God is Calling you to come and surrender your Life to Him so that your Destiny can be settled.
Pastor Matthew Ashimolowo told us during this Young Adults and Youth Convention 2021 that there are Three (3) Reasons why People Clap:
The first reason we clap is to announce declaration of War to your enemies.
The second reason is to announce your Victory over Satan.
The third reason is to announce the Arrival of the Lord Jesus Christ into your home, into your life and into your situation.
… Whichever of the three (3) apply to you – Clap your hands now!
Those of you who want to Genuinely surrender your Life to Jesus Christ, cry to God now: Ask Him to have Mercy on you, ask Him to save your Soul. Promise Him you will serve Him from now on.
Ask Him to be your Lord and your Saviour. Promise Him that from now on, you will obey Him and obey Him completely. Ask Him to just have Mercy on you and wipe away your sins.
The rest of us; Stretch your hands to your Brothers and your Sisters and intercede for them – That God will have Mercy on them and save their Souls. That the Blood that washed you Clean will wash them Clean also.
… Let’s go ahead and cry to the Almighty God for the Salvation of their Souls.
Thank You Jesus! Glory be to God!
In Jesus’ Mighty Name we have Prayed – Amen.
PRAYER OF SALVATION.
Father, I want to Thank You! – Thank You for Your Words, Thank You for these People who have decided to surrender their lives unto You.
Please, receive them in Jesus’ Name – Save their Souls, let Your Blood wash away their sins, write their names in the Book of Life.
And I Pray Lord God Almighty that from now on, whenever they cry unto You, You will answer them by Fire.
Thank You Almighty God!
And Father I am Praying that in a moment when the rest of us are crying to You, when they too cry to You, answer them in Jesus’ Name.
Thank you Father!
For in Jesus’ Mighty Name we have Prayed – Amen.
Now those of you who have surrendered your Life to Jesus Christ; I want to rejoice with you.
From now on by the Grace of God; I will be Praying for you.
So I will need your name, your addresses and Prayer Request so that I can continue to be Praying for you.
God Bless You – Amen.
SPECIAL PRAYER POINTS
You may want to write down the following Prayer Points:
You want to Praise God for His Mercy that had Preserved you till this moment (God’s Preserving Mercy).
You cry to the Lord and say: Father, You are The All Sufficient God; Please be “Generously Merciful”: To me, my family, Your Church and My Nation.
Father, let me be “Excellently Healthy” – No more ache, no more Pain, no more ailment of any type.
Father, let me exceed All Expectations Materially.
Father, anoint me beyond my “Wildest Expectations”.
Father, empower me to serve you beyond “Human Expectations”.
Father, let my Testimonies exceed All Expectations.
Finally, this will be your “Private Request” – Anything that you want from God.
Pray tonight like you have never Prayed before!
The Altar is open and I will ask you if you want to come and we will Pray for fifteen (15) Minutes.
But let the fifteen (15) Minutes shake the Ground!
Cry to Him – Exceed All Expectations in Prayer within the fifteen (15) Minutes you have.
… God is here, He will answer All Prayers – Just Call on Him!
Thank You Jesus – Hallelujah! Thank You Saviour.
In Jesus’ Mighty Name we have Prayed – Amen
DADDY GO DECREES;
The Lord will grant your Requests!
Your Testimonies will be beyond your Expectations.
Your Miracles, your Breakthroughs will Exceed your Expectations.
The Anointing of God upon your Life will Exceed your Expectations.
Your Victories, your shout of Joy will Exceed your Expectations.
Your Promotion your Breakthroughs will Exceed your Expectations.
The way the Almighty God will use you for His Glory will Exceed your Expectations.
It shall be well with you! And your Joy will Overflow.
In Jesus’ Mighty Name we Prayed – Amen!
… Let me hear you shout Hallelujah – Hallelujah.
THANKSGIVING
Can we just go back to our seats; and then we just say: “Thank You” to God and then we will be on our way
Let’s take our Thanksgiving Offering, and with Exceeding Great Joy and Happiness, we will give our Offering to the Almighty God.
Thank You Father!
Well, I think the Band can continue to Play and as soon as you are ready you can dance to the nearest basket and drop your Offering.
Thank you very much!
Before I say the Closing Blessings, I understand that my children at Christ Redeemer’s College (CRC) Schools Shagamu (Ogun State Nigeria) – That your School turned Twenty (25) Years today.
So, you can come forward, so that I can include you in my Closing Prayers.
Come quickly – Students from Christ Redeemer’s College (CRC) Schools Shagamu (Ogun State Nigeria)
… Let’s Clap for the Almighty God for 25 Years of Academic Excellence!
They have Produced Students who have gone to Harvard and other Great Universities of the world – Very, very Special children; very, very Special School.
Keep on clapping for them as they come.
Glory be to God!
Will you Please stretch your hands – Pray for them: Whatever you would want for your own children wish them.
If you want your children to succeed in Life, Pray that these children will keep on succeeding. If you want your children to remain Healthy and Strong and become Mighty Leaders of Nations and great Men and Women of God, Please Pray for them.
Wish them whatever you would wish your children.
For just one (1) minute intercede for them.
Thank You father!
And Pray for their Teachers also – That it will be well with these Teaches; that God will give them Understanding so that they would guide these Wonderful children right.
Thank You Father!
In Jesus’ Mighty Name we have Prayed – Amen.
CLOSING BLESSING.
My Father and My God, I want to Thank You for this wonderful children of Yours.
I want to Thank You for this Institution that is turning twenty five (25) today. Thank You for all the Miracles you have done in the Past.
I Thank You for the Teachers that had already worked there and those who are working there now.
Father, on behalf of all of them accept our Thanks in Jesus’ Name.
Father, we commit these children, their Teachers, their Pastors, all of them to Your Hands. Father Please, take care of them.
Let it be well with them, give them Divine Wisdom, give them Divine Understanding, let them Excel Academically and in every Areas of their Life let it be well with them.
And I Pray that they too will serve You Excellently.
Thank You my Father and My God.
And Father Please accept the Offering of Your Children, Sanctify it, use it for Your Glory.
And everyone who has given an Offering, I Pray Lord God Almighty that their Prosperity will exceed every kind of Understanding.
Bless them so much Lord God Almighty, that they will be lending to Nations.
I Pray Lord God Almighty that these Your children who have given to you tonight will never borrow again.
I Pray that none of them will ever have to beg for bread.
I Pray that, that the kind of Wealth that will Last for Generations, You would give unto them, in the Name of Jesus!
And as Your children will be going, Please go with them. Let it be well with them. Before the end of Next Week, let them have Mighty Breakthroughs.
In Jesus’ Mighty Name we have Prayed – AMEN!
… Now if you got Miracles that have Exceeded your Expectations, shout Hallelujah – HALLELUJAH.
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COMPILATIONS BY:
MOSES DURODOLA, TITILAYOMI AJAYI, BANJO ADESOLA AND TOPE BABALOLA
RCCG ANNUAL YOUNG ADULTS AND YOUTH CONVENTION 2021
THEME: EXCEEDING EXPECTATIONS
MINISTERING DAY 4 (EVENING) THE FATHER’S SESSION: PASTOR E.A ADEBOYE
DATE: 30TH SEPTEMBER, 2021
BIBLE TEXT: 2 KINGS 2: 9-15
Thank You Father; Glory be to God!
Let Us Pray!
SONG
I have a Father Almighty Father He is King of Kings and Lord of Lords I have a Father Hallelujah!
… Repeat!
OPENING PRAYER
The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Israel, The Lion of the Tribe of Judah, The Holy One of Israel, The Alpha, The Omega, The Beginning, The Ending; The One who is, The One who was, the One who is to come; The Almighty God, Wonderful, Counsellor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace – Glory, Glory, Glory be to Your Holy Name.
Please, accept our Worship in Jesus Name.
Tonight, my Father and my God; in the lives of everyone of Your Children, exceed all their Expectations.
In Jesus Mighty Name we have Prayed – Amen.
Well, let Someone shout Hallelujah – Hallelujah!
Wave your hands to one (1) or two (2) People and say: Good Evening; God Bless You Exceedingly – Amen.
And then before you sit down – Tell one (1) or two (2) People: Wash Your Face!
And then you may be seated – Thank You!
I want to Thank God for your lives and I want to Thank God for the lives of our Leaders.
And I Pray that the Almighty God will bless you all – Amen.
But you need to “Wash Your Face” because the Elders are Watching you.
When you tell them that the Church is yours, that you will soon take over – They are watching to see if you have the Capacity to do so.
Because there is something they call a “Show of Thought”.
If they look at you (And many of them are watching) and you say you are having Youth Convention and you cannot even fill the Old Auditorium – They think you are joking.
If you want to show them that you are about to take over; by now not only should the Old Auditorium be full, by now, you should be about now taking about half of the New Auditorium by Thursday Night.
You see, I know that we have about 2,000 Plus Churches in Ogun State and I know that at least seventy Percent (70%) of them are Youths and Young Adults.
Meaning that if those Youths and Young Adults are at this Convention – Ogun State alone; the Auditorium should be Full.
And you haven’t add Oyo State. Now what if you add Lagos State?
So, tell the Person next to you – “Wash Your Face”.
You “Wash Your Face”, “Anoint Your Face” and send Text to everyone of your friends that latest by 4pm tomorrow (Friday, 1st of October, 2021) they should be on the Campground.
Let us show our Elders – We Thank You for what you have done, we Thank You that thus far you have lead us, we Thank You for all your efforts in The Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) but we are here to take over.
Let us show them – Let there be a “Show of Thought”.
If you have the Youth Convention and you can’t even fill one-third of the Old Auditorium and you are saying you are here to take over – Ha, “Wash Your Face!”
Mobilise yourself – And that is when the Elders will say maybe they are serious.
God Bless You – Amen!
Let me also say one thing because this is a Family Meeting and you are my children.
I know that everybody calls me daddy including Emirs but I know that you are my Primary Children. And so I have to be your Coach and I have told you that your Coach cannot be your friend.
Do you know why not? – Because your friends are satisfied with the way you are – Birds of the same feather flocks together. But your Coach is never satisfied with where you are – He wants you to go Higher and Higher and Higher because there is no where you have reached that you cannot go Higher.
Some People think that I have arrived but I have not even started.
Moses did not start his Ministry until the age of 80 Years – Probably, I might begin to start by Next Year (2022).
And since I have not yet started and it is where I stopped that you are going to start; it means that you have not even started at all.
And whether you believed it or not; you are going to be Greater than I – Amen.
So, let me tell you one thing – Very important and I have no apologies because I am your Coach.
Whenever something is advertised, whenever a Product is Praised and advertised for a long time; you can be sure that, that thing doesn’t get much worth!
Nobody advertises Honey – Have you seen advertisement for Honey anywhere?
Why? – Because Honey is sweet. Whether they advertised it or not; it is sweet.
Nobody advertises Rolls Royce.
Why? – There is no need. Rolls Royce is Rolls Royce!
As good as Mercedes Benz is, they advertise it.
Why? – When they want to make an Aeroplane, they don’t use the engine of a Mercedes Benz as it can’t carry it. They use the engine of Rolls Royce.
So, when somebody comes and begins to introduce a Speaker and spend minutes – He is this, he is that; you know immediately that there is no Stuff coming.
Next time you hear all beautiful things being said about a Speaker; Please Pray that God have Mercy on me today!
… No apologies, I’m doing my job as a Coach!
Everyone of my children will end up Excellently – Amen; Exceeding all Expectations – Amen
I mean that People will come across you and will say: We know this fellow had been with Pastor Adeboye.
… You will be Excellent!
2 Kings 2: 9-15
And it came to Pass, when they were gone over, that Elijah said unto Elisha, Ask what I shall do for thee, before I be taken away from thee. And Elisha said, I Pray thee, let a Double Portion of thy Spirit be upon me.
And he said, Thou hast asked a hard thing: nevertheless, if thou see me when I am taken from thee, it shall be so unto thee; but if not, it shall not be so.
And it came to Pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold, there appeared a Chariot of fire, and Horses of fire, and Parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into Heaven.
And Elisha saw it, and he cried, My father, my father, the Chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof. And he saw him no more: and he took hold of his own clothes, and rent them in two Pieces.
He took up also the Mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and went back, and stood by the bank of Jordan;
And he took the Mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and smote the waters, and said, Where is the LORD God of Elijah? And when he also had smitten the waters, they Parted hither and thither: and Elisha went over.
And when the sons of the Prophets which were to view at Jericho saw him, they said, The Spirit of Elijah doth rest on Elisha. And they came to meet him, and bowed themselves to the ground before him.
Apart from the Lord Jesus Christ, one of the best Example of a Youth or Young Adult who exceeded Expectations is Elisha.
So from him, we can learn that Youth who wants to exceed Expectations; must meet certain criteria:
He must have a Father – One Father and not a dozen.
The only thing that I know that has more than one father is a demon – Every True Human Being is Produced by one father!
How do we learn that from this?
Elisha cried when Elijah was being taking away – My father, my father.
Years ago, somebody was trying to introduce himself – He said Mike Murdock is his father, this fellow, that fellow his father and another fellow his father and Pastor Adeboye – I said: No, No, No; don’t join me to it o. I am not a father of demons.
DMC NOTES: Michael Dean Murdock (born April 18, 1946) is an American Contemporary Christian Singer-Songwriter, Televangelist and Pastor of The Wisdom Center Ministry.
Oh, you could honour Elder Brothers with the title daddy – Fine; but a child must have how many father? (one)!
And then the fellow must treat that father with Extraordinary Respect and Honour.
I had a father – Pa Josiah Akindayomi of Blessed Memory as my father.
I have been tremendously blessed by the Ministries of some People – Notably: Kenneth Hagin and one (1) or two (2) others.
… But my father remains one.
The Lord Jesus Christ Himself, our Eldest Brother, the First Born of our Father; when He was teaching the Disciples how to Pray in Matthew 6: 9-10. He said; this is how you Pray: Our Father.
In other words, He tells us straightaway – Only one Father is my Father, is your Father.
He said: Halloweth be Your Name – Your Name must be Honoured.
And then He went on: Thy Kingdom come – Not mine; thine Papa.
In John 14:28; He said openly: My Father is Greater than I.
In John 14:10, He said: The works that I do is not me doing it, it is my Father.
So, you must have a father, you must Honour that father, your entire Purpose must be to expand the work of that father and you must Submit to the father Completely.
In 1 Kings 19: 19-21 – The moment the Mantle of Elijah fell on Elisha for the first time where he was working on the farm; immediately he forsook all and followed his “New father”.
He knew immediately that the “Old father” is gone now and he never came back home, never referred back to the “Old father”.
I am where I am today because by the Grace of God, I started hearing from God early.
That God that I serve will open your ear tonight – Amen!
He told me early: This Man who never went to School is your father that I have chosen for you – You follow him.
I have a PhD, Papa who didn’t go to School knows the Bible from the beginning to the end because God Poured it into his head.
Infact, He told me in clear terms: With your PhD and all; this is the Man you follow.
He told me clearly: The day you leave him; your first born will die (Plain Simple Truth) – That’s why I stayed.
I became Born Again at a time when Ministries were being born, when every Tom, Dick and Harry will come and say we don’t want to belong to any Denomination, we just want to start a Ministry.
God told me: This is where you stay Man!
I obeyed, I followed that father – I did whatever he said I should do. That is why I am where I am today.
I could have started my own Ministry long ago – Way back in 1977, I held a Program: Christ Redeemer Congress (CRC) in Ilesha Grammar School. People came from all over Nigeria – I collected the names of all Secondary Schools and Teacher’s Training Colleges and I invited them all and they came.
I could have taken over from there. But God says: No, this is the one for you to follow.
And He has given me Instructions that my brains couldn’t understand but God who knows the end from the beginning says: This is the Place where you go.
So, if some of you says you hear from God and God asked you to go and start your own Ministry – Congratulations; let’s see how far you will go.
In 2 Kings 2: 1-8 – Three (3) times Elijah told Elisha: Go back, Stay here; God has sent me somewhere else.
He said: Sorry sir; I’m not be disobedient but wherever you go, I go.
Because you too are living in a Period every Tom, Dick and Harry is hearing from God and they are becoming a General Overseer because the End is near and the Bible is clear: Before the End comes, there must be a “Fall Away” first.
I Pray that you won’t Perish with the world – Amen.
In Matthew 26:41; Jesus Christ said: Not my Will but thine Will be done.
… He was talking to His Father.
He said that I don’t like what is about to happen to me but I surrender.
There was someone who has his own Plans as how he is going to do Ministry et cetera et cetera and the Almighty God sent a Message to him like you are hearing.
By the time God finished with him; he said: Lord, anywhere, anytime, at any Cost; thy Will be done!
Honour your father – Do it beyond the Call of Duty.
And I am saying this because God Himself had almost chastised me for treating you my children too Lightly.
Because by the Grace of God; He had given me the Spirit of Contentment – I am satisfied.
By the time we had no money to buy meat on this Camp – My wife and I were satisfied.
There was a time we don’t have #2 to go to Lagos because in those days there was Toll Gate and you have to Pay #1 going, #1 coming – We were satisfied.
As a result of this “Deep Satisfaction”; the Lord made it clear and I shared it with some of you very early this Year – That I’m robbing some of you of your Blessings because you should Honour your father.
When Isaac said to Esau: Go and Prepare a Meal for me; it wasn’t because Isaac was hungry. It was so that he could release something that money cannot buy.
… Honour your Parents, your fathers.
The Bible said that: Elisha just wasn’t Preparing the food for Elijah; when it is time for him to eat, he won’t even allow him to wash his hands by himself. He will Pour water on his hands.
… We are talking about somebody who will excel, who will excel Expectations.
In John 17: 1-8; Jesus Christ said: I have Glorify You; now Father Glorify me.
Glorify your father and the Almighty God has Placed the ability for you to be Glorified in return!
Focus on your father.
And if you think that I’m drawing attention to myself; it means that you lack Understanding.
If you had noticed me very well; by now you will know that the People who irritates me the most are the Photographers!
Why? – They want to take Pictures.
Who cares about me? – I don’t want to be seen. I only want Christ to be seen!
… That’s all I’m interested in.
Oh, I know that there are other People when the Photographer is looking at their direction; they will Pose.
I am telling you the Truth: I want to hide; I want only Christ to be seen!
And the thing that you are going to discovered is this: If you Project Him and Him alone; He will Project you!
He said that: If I be Lifted Up, I will draw all Men to Myself!
Years ago, we dedicated the Christian Center which we used to call it: “National Ecumenical Center” in Abuja.
DMC NOTES: “THE NATIONAL ECUMENICAL CENTER” – The National Christian Centre is the Primary Christian Place of Worship in Nigeria. It is located in Abuja, the Capital City. The Centre is an Inter-Denominational Church Building.
And all manners of Bishop and Arch Bishops were there that day.
And they were dressed in their very “Beautiful Robes” (I love them) and I went in my Normal way (French Suit).
When it was time to file out, nobody struggled to touch the Arch Bishops – Even the Bishops were trying to touch me.
Those who went with me – And there were Soldiers among them; they had a tough time getting me into my car.
I don’t want to be seen; I don’t want to be known – I only want Christ and Him alone to be known!
… And you should take Note of that!
That is why when I look at some of your Presentations on Television, I wonder: Do you know where you are going?
Because I see some of the Musicians, they want to show the People that I’m the one with the “Best Voice” – Ha, sing and raise the dead Man!
… Focus on your father!
Elijah said to Elisha: If you see me when I’m being taken away, you will get what you ask for.
In the middle of the Night, around 3am (Between 2am and 4am); I met some of you who are here.
What do you think I doing? – Strolling?
I was Praying and I’m happy some of them Praying too.
But some of them were Phoning, some of them talking. I even saw about 4 of them (3 Boys and 1 Girl) and they were Chatting, Joking – 3am in the Night?
If I wasn’t deeply involved in the Prayer, I would have said: Go to sleep. If you can’t do something useful with your Night, go to bed.
But I was interceding for the Youth Convention – I don’t want some People who don’t know where they are going to interrupt.
I have listened to the Preachers – They kept on saying something again and again. Some of you may not know what they are saying; they themselves might not even know what they are saying.
They kept on saying: Things are about to Change in your Life – No more fooling around!
You can’t Exceed Expectations, if you are frivolous!
On an occasion, I had to quarrel with some People doing recording for me – They brought their Camera; sometimes they will zoom in, at times zoom out. One moment my head is small, next moment my head is big.
What is going on? – We are not in a Club House. This is a House of God; the Messages that come out are Messages that will take you to Heaven.
… Follow my Examples and you will Exceed me – Amen.
My father in the Lord came to stay with me in my “Little House” in Ilesha, way back I think in 1975 or so. You know the kind of house (Mud House) but we camouflage it with cement so that People outside won’t know what is inside.
He came to stay with me; we Prayed before we sleep (At least we thought we went to bed). I went to the backyard because the house had no toilet inside before I slept and I saw the Old Man on his knees Praying – That was around 10pm.
Around 5am, I went out again, he was still on his knees Praying.
… And God said that: This is the one to follow; this is the one to look up to!
… Focus on your father.
One Pastor years ago came to me and said: When we started this Journey together, we were on the same Level. But now, you are far ahead of us.
Tell us, what are you doing?
I said my Life is an Open Book you all see. Nothing that I’m doing that is strange that you don’t know – I Fast, I Pray, I do Vigil.
Another Man of God from another Ministry was Praying – God give me 10% of what You have given to Pastor Adeboye to me and I will be satisfied.
… That was some thirty (30) Years ago
And God said to him: Do what Pastor Adeboye is doing and I will give you what Pastor Adeboye has.
He said: What is he doing?
God said: He started with forty (40) Days and forty (40) Nights Fasting.
Ha, he said: God leave me as I am.
You are not going to Exceed Expectations if you spend all the time overloading your System with Pizza.
Imitate your father.
After Elijah left and dropped his Mantle, Elisha took the Mantle, roll it together like his father did, went to River Jordan like his father did, smote River Jordan like his father did and then he said: Okay oh, God of Elijah I have done what my father did; answer me too.
And what happened? – Jordan opened!
My children, follow my Examples!
That is what Paul said – He said: Follow me as I follow Christ.
That is why occasionally, when I have to make some announcements during the Holy Ghost Service (HGS); I said Specifically that I’m talking to my own children and not the rest of the world.
People have challenged me – Why are you always asking your People to Fast?
I said: Have they complained to you?
They say we are in the era of Grace.
I said I know – God Bless You with more Grace.
But it is written by the Apostle of Grace – I Fast often!
Oh, but the Lord has finished everything!
Yea I know but the Lord says: Forever Oh Lord, thy Word is Settled!
And He is the One who said that as long as I an with this People, they don’t need to Fast. But once I’m taken away from them, they will Fast.
When they kept on arguing, I said don’t worry. The Bible says: If you are a Child of God, then you are a Member of the Army of God.
In the Army, there are all kinds of Soldiers – We have “General Duties” and we have Commandos.
Everyone of my children will end up being a Commando – Amen!
Those who can’t take it will go elsewhere – We are not just interested in the crowd.
We are interested in the Soldiers that will be “Razor Sharp”; Soldiers that the devil will see coming and the devil will run.
… That is what we are going to be for Christ – Amen!
At least you heard the News of “Just a Worker” in Akure (Ondo State Nigeria) – Who was going for Evangelism who made the Lame to walk, make the Mad Man free etc.
That is what is supposed to be happening to everybody who is a Member of The Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG).
Our Interest is not in Fashion – We don’t want to be Fashionable.
I don’t need to be Fashionable – If you don’t like the way I dress, that is your headache.
An Arch Bishop once said to me: I like everything about you except the way you dress like an Hunter.
I said that I am not an Hunter but a Soldier!
And do you know how they train Commandos?
One of my sons happened to be a Member of the Marine in America.
They take the “Best Soldiers” and then they now begin fresh Training for them.
And he told me that Part of the Training is that they will stimulate as if you have been captured by the enemy and they will do everything that the enemies can do to you to see if you will break.
He told me that out of every one hundred (100) People who applied to join the Marine; hardly do you get twelve (12) Graduating – They go back to the “Regular Army”.
If you hear some of the Stories about the Marines – There was one Story about the “Ordinary Soldiers” surrounded. And their Leader called home: Send the Marines – And they sent three (3).
And the three (3) created a Path for the “Regular Army” to escape but the Path was littered with almost three thousand (3,000) enemies Soldiers.
… That is what I want you to be, that’s what my children must be – Commandos for Jesus Christ!
I don’t want any of my children spending three (3) Hours casting out demon – That is an insult to my Father!
… My Father spoke a Word and a Legion of demons vanished – That is what I want you to be.
You must Exceed Expectations – Do I hear you say Amen (Amen).
… Imitate your dad!
Act in Faith.
When Elisha smitten that water; he was acting on Faith. He didn’t know whether it will work but at least he acted.
I told you before that many of us are not Healing the sick today because we keep on asking ourselves – I know that the Bible says that if I lay hands on the Sick, they will recover.
What if I lay hands on them and they didn’t recover?
Ha, why are you thinking of failure?
And you know that it is written: I can do All Things.
Daddy, are you saying that it is everybody you Prayed for that get Healed? – No!
Does that stop me from Praying for the Sick? – No!
If I Pray for one hundred (100) People and five (5) of them go ahead and die – Hey, 95% is not bad. One day, I will get to 100%.
And in your own case, where I end is where you are going to start!
The Bible says that: The Just shall live by Faith.
When the Lord spoke to me when this Place (Old Auditorium) was an Open Ground – And He said: Son, we are going to cover this Place up.
I said: Glory be to God – At least we can use it during the Rainy Season too.
And then He told me that you are not going to take an Offering for it.
I ran to the toilet – That’s the Truth. But I know that when my God speaks, it is settled.
… The Just shall live by Faith!
When He began to talk about the 3Km by 3Km Auditorium; I said my God is alive. It doesn’t matter what happened, that Place will be built and one day, it will be completed.
And by the time it is completed, by the time you People do what you should be doing, it will become too small.
… Act in Faith.
Learn to ask Him for Hard Things.
I listened to all kinds of Sermons going on during this Young Adults and Youth Convention 2021 – They say: Change Your Mindset, Begin to think Big.
Don’t just hear all these things and leave it like that.
Do you know that between now and tomorrow morning; if you make up your Mind that you are going to contact at least a hundred (100) People by Text, Phone or by whatever methods; you can do it.
And if you back that up with Prayers – Among the People that will be saved tomorrow (Friday, 1st October, 2021); there could be at least ten (10) People that you invited.
… Learn to ask for Hard Things because that is what Elijah said to Elisha: You have asked for a Hard Thing.
It is what you asked for that you will get!
You know that when I was a Younger Christian in 1973 to 1975, Fridays was Prayer Night at Evite Metta (RCCG National Headquarters Parish) – For Elders and Youths then.
The Elders will run their own from 8pm to 2am and then close. And then the rest of us will be happy.
When they close, we Youths will look at ourselves and begin to rejoice because now we can Pray.
At that time, no girls attended with us, it is only boys.
By 2am, we will remove our Shirts – Now, it is time to Pray, to demonstrate that the Glory of the Youth is in their Strength.
And we begin to Pray as if the Ground should open – And the Ground will tremble because most of them are Sawdust that we Pour into the Lagoon and put some soil.
So, when we begin to Pray, March round Jericho as we call it, calling on Jericho walls to fall, Ways to open – The Ground under us will be shaking.
I remembered an occasion – Forty (40) Plus Years ago.
We held a Camp Meeting (few of us) at what is now called “Foursquare Camp” – “Youth Camp” then – A small Place and it is about 50 Hectares of Land.
And I spoke to the Younger ones that are following me about – When I finished speaking and time to Pray; I begged them to go and eat.
They said: No sir.
… Praying was better than food to us because then, we were asking for Hard Things.
Because there were Prophecies that Nobody could believe that time.
And when God speaks to you (Prophesy); you have to Pray it into manifestation.
You don’t believed me? – Ask Elijah.
He has heard the Sound of Abundance of Rain, then serious Prayers began.
Tonight my Beloveth Children, is the beginning of your Exceeding Expectations – Amen
I’m not asking you not to go to bed; I’m not asking you not to eat tomorrow.
I’m just telling you: Wash Your Face!
The Moabites is about to become the Grandmother of David; who is going to be the Great, Great Grandmother of Jesus Christ.
Your Life is about to Change beyond recognition and it is all up to you because God knew what He was doing when He Choose this Theme for you.
The Theme for the Holy Ghost Service (HGS) in November will be: “The Appointed Time”.
For some of us; our own “Appointed Time” has already come – Amen!
You can go ahead and talk to God:
I. If you like, ask Him for Cookies, ask Him for Groundnut.
II. If you like, ask for Hard Things.
Cry unto God at least for Double the Anointing of your father at the very, very least.
Cry to God: I don’t want to be an “Ordinary Christian” – I want to be able to raise the dead; I want to be able to make the Lame walk; I want to be able to make the Blind to see; I want to be able to Win at least one Million (1,000,000) Souls for God.
… Ask for Hard Things – Go ahead and cry to the Almighty God and He will grant your Request in Jesus Mighty Name – Amen!
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