THE POWER OF GOD’S MERCY:PASTOR E.A ADEBOYE- THE WEST AFRICA FAITH BELIEVERS’ CONFERENCE (WAFBEC) 2022, 9TH JANUARY, 2022.
THE WEST AFRICA FAITH BELIEVERS’ CONFERENCE (WAFBEC) 2022 – POWERED BY THE COVENANT CHRISTIAN CENTER, LAGOS NIGERIA.
THEME: THE POWER OF GOD’S MERCY
MINISTERING: PASTOR E.A ADEBOYE (GENERAL OVERSEER, RCCG)
DATE: 9TH JANUARY, 2022
BIBLE TEXT: ROMANS 9: 15-16
I have been asked to speak on: “The Power of God’s Mercy!
And my Bible Text will be from Romans 9: 15-16.
- For he (That is God) saith to Moses, I will have Mercy on whom I will have Mercy, and I will have Compassion on whom I will have Compassion.
- So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that showeth Mercy.
This Passage is saying something extremely Powerful – It is telling us that you cannot become anything, you cannot achieve anything except as it Pleases God to show Mercy to you.
The Bible made it clear to us that:
I. Why God is Sovereign – Psalms 115:3 tells us that: Our God is in Heavens, He does as He Pleases.
II. Why God is Powerful (as in Extremely Powerful) – Psalms 62:11 tells us that: God has spoken once, twice have I heard that Power belongs to God.
III. It also add that Mercy also belongs to God.
In other words; God is the Almighty but He is also the All-Merciful.
As a matter of fact, the Bible made it clear to us that when God wants to talk about His Wealth:
I. He doesn’t talk about His Power – We know that He is the Almighty (All Power belongs to Him); but He talks about His Mercy!*
The Bible tells us in Ephesians 2:4 that: God is Rich in Mercy!
II. He doesn’t boast about His Wealth in terms of Money even though He said it that: Silver is Mine, Gold is Mine
III. He doesn’t boast about other Mighty Things that He could talk about – He didn’t say: God is Rich in Power (We know He is).
He would rather say that I am Rich in Mercy.
It is my Prayer that out of this Wealth of Mercy, He will extend at least a little bit of it to each and everyone of us during this Conference or as we read on the Label of DMC for the rest of our lives in Jesus Name – Amen
If we are to talk about the Power of the Mercy of God; I’m sure the Brethrens that has spoken before me must have talked about the Theology of Mercy.
But I happened to be an Applied Mathematician, and so I will love to talk about the Practical Implications of God Showing you Mercy.
So, I will just take a Case Study that will show you just a little bit of what the Mercy of God can do for an Individual!
And that case Study will be from Mark 10: 46:52.
It tells you a Story that you know very well – The Story of a Man who was blind, who heard that Jesus Christ was Passing by and cried out for the Only One thing – Jesus, thou son of David, have Mercy on me!
Now, the Lord heard that Prayer and decided to show His Mercy. And several things followed because He decided to show him Mercy:
- We saw in this Case Study that the Mercy of God can deliver you from Darkness.
… He opened his eyes!
Darkness is a terrible thing as we all know – We can at least imagined what a Blind Man goes through.
I. A Blind Man for example does not enjoy the beauty of the Universe.
He doesn’t know the difference between Green or Blue or White – The only Colour that he knows is Black!
II. He cannot see the food he eats.
He doesn’t know whether he is eating cockroaches or flies because he cannot see.
God in His Mercy can deliver you from Darkness Physical and Darkness Spiritual!
If you are talking about how terrible Darkness can be; the Bible made it clear in Matthew 6:22 – It tells us that the Eyes are the Light of the Body.
I Pray that if anyone of you is having any form of Eye Problem; the Almighty God will take care of it even as we are talking or you reading now on the Label of DMC – Amen
I. Physical Darkness.
But if you read Judges 16: 18-30 – You know that the first thing that the enemies did to Samson after they caught him was to Pluck out his eyes.
And the horrors that he felt during the Period that they Plucked out his eyes and the time he Pulled down the Wall on the enemies – If you want to know how horrible the Darkness he suffered was to him, he Preferred to die rather than to live without his eyes.
As a matter of fact, his request was: God just give me this one opportunity to avenge me of my eyes.
He wasn’t even talking about the ability to rule over the People, to Judge them – He was only asking for Vengeance against those who Plucked out his eyes.
… Blindness is an horrible thing!
But Thank God in the case of Baetimeaus that we have used as our example; he cried out for Mercy and Mercy opened his eyes, delivered him from Physical Darkness.
II. Now, Spiritual Darkness is even more worst.
You know that when we talk about Spiritual Darkness, we are talking about the activities of the Forces of Darkness.
Ephesians 6:12 tells us that we are really, really wrestling with Forces of Darkness.
We might be able to see them Physically but what about the Forces of Darkness waging war against us constantly?
If you have been in the Ministry for quite a while, you will understand that on a daily basis; the devil is trying very hard to cause you to offend your God so that your Destiny can be tampered with, so that your Anointing may dry up.
And he is waging this war in many subtle way.
I’m sure that you are quite aware now with all manners of Doctrines trying to convince you that once you are Born Again, you can continue to live in sin and it will still be okay as the Grace of God will take care of it.
But I want you to know that the activities of Forces of Darkness in many ways are much worst than the activities of Physical Darkness.
So bad are these Forces of Darkness that in Mark 5: 2-20; even Pigs Preferred to die than allow demons to dwell in them.
My Prayer is that in the Mighty Name of Jesus Christ; if there are evil forces that for one reason or the other, you have allowed to come into you through False Doctrines, the Almighty God will get rid of all of them so that you will be able to reach your Goal – Amen.
Now, the Mad Man in Mark 5: 2-20 that we referred to earlier on, couldn’t even Pray – As he opened his mouth, the demons in him spoke out.
But the Mercy of God spoke for the Man.
It is the demons who shouted – What are we to do with you? Leave us alone!
The Man who fell at the feet of Jesus Christ Worshipping Him was about to ask for Mercy but God heard the Prayers even though it wasn’t spoken and Mercy spoke for him.
I Pray that the Mercy of God will speak for you today in Jesus Name – Amen!
Now, in the case of Baetimeaus that we are talking about, it was the Mercy of God that gave him his sight back.
- And when a Man is blind – And I mean blind (And not just having eye Problems now); to cause him to see is actually a Miracle that reverses the irreversible.
In Mark 1: 40-45 – You know the Story of a Leper who came to the Lord Jesus Christ, who fell at His feet and said: I know that you have the Power, you have the ability to make me Clean.
That Leper was saying: You have the Power to reverse the irreversible – Because when a Man is leprose in those days, it was Incurable.
Even today, when a Leper is cured, the scars will remain because leprosy cut off fingers, toes, earlobes etc.
… If a Leper is cured, his scars remains.
But in 2 Kings 5: 1-14 – When God cured Naaman, the Bible said that the irreversible was reversed. His skin returned to him like that of a Brand New Baby.
In the Story in Mark 1: 40-45 that I mentioned earlier on; the Bible said that Jesus Christ moved with Compassion touched him and said: I will! Be cleansed.
Mercy reverses the irreversible; Mercy will jump over Protocols because according to the Word of God, Jesus is the Word and He is the Word Himself; you are not even supposed to touch a Leper.
… You touch a Leper, you are supposed to remain unclean for a Period of time.
But Jesus Christ broke all Protocols and Rules, reach out of Mercy (Mercy moved His Mighty Hands) and He touched the Leper.
I am Praying today that the Mercy of God will jump over every Protocols to release your Miracle to you in Jesus Name – Amen!
And when we talk about reversing the irreversible, let’s talk about it in the Spiritual Realm – And consider the three (3) Major sins of Peter.
… You know the Story in Matthew 26: 69-75.
Peter in a Single moment committed three (3) terrible sins that should have kept him out of Heaven Permanently!
I. He denied Jesus Christ.
… I don’t know Him
And Jesus Christ had said in Matthew 10:33 – He said that anybody that denies me before Men, I will deny him before My Father in Heaven.
II. He lied.
And the Bible made it abundantly clear in Revelation 22:15 that: “Without are Liars”.
… Outside of Heaven are Liars.
And I hope that you will Pay attention to that – The Book of Revelation is in the New Testament!
It didn’t say that if you will lie one way or the other, the Grace of God will get you into Heaven – Outside are Liars!
Revelation 21:8 made it clear – The Liars have their own Portion in the Lake of Fire.
It is not differentiating between the Liars before Salvation and the Liars after Salvation.
As a matter of fact, if you will lie after Salvation, I believed that the case is far more serious!
III. Peter Sweared.
Matthew 5:34 -37 says:
- But I say unto you, Swear not at all; neither by Heaven; for it is God’s Throne:
- Nor by the Earth; for it is his footstool: neither by Jerusalem; for it is the City of the Great King.
- Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, because thou canst not make one hair white or black.
- But let your Communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil.
The Bible made it clear – Anything that will make you to swear is of the devil or evil ones.
But Mercy spoke out for Peter so that in Mark 16: 6-7 – When the Angel was telling the Disciples to go and meet the Lord Jesus Christ, it made it clear: Tell Peter also.
I don’t know how many times that you have stumbled; I am Praying that the Almighty God in His Infinite Mercies will extend a Hand of Mercy to you so that He will forgive you today, restore you to Fellowship with Him and so that you will be able to Finish well – Amen.
- Mercy as we see in the case of Baetimeaus can cause God to “Stand Still”.
The Bible said that: “Jesus Christ Stood Still”.
And the implication of that is that: Mercy can stop the Universe in order to attend to you.
Because the Bible said clearly in Acts 17:28 that in the Lord, we move, in Him we live, in Him we have all our being.
So, when He ‘Stood Still’; the whole Universe “Stood Still” – Nothing was moving until Jesus Christ has attended to a Blind Man out of Mercy.
I believed very firmly that God has chosen this Particular Theme for us this Year so that the Almighty God has to stop in the Heavens in order to attend to at least one Particular Person among us.
I am Praying that the Almighty God is going to tell “Time” to “Stand Still” until out of Mercy, He could bring to us that Breakthrough we have been believing God for and He will do so in Jesus – Amen.
- And then another thing is that Mercy has the Power to turn your Enemies to your Servant.
Because as we see in this Case Study – It was the very People who has been asking Baetimeaus to shut his mouth up that the Lord now said: Go and bring him.
There is no doubt about it that if you are in Ministry, you have Enemies – Particularly if your Ministry is beginning to succeed.
You have no Enemies if you have Nothing, you have no Enemies if you are Unknown!
That does not mean that they won’t still hate you afterall they hated Baetimeaus for no reason at all.
But the moment you begin to Prosper, Enemies will begin to Multiply.
But Glory be to God that the Mercy of God can turn even your Enemies to your Servant.
Afterall He said in His Words – Thou Preparest a Table before me in the Presence of my Enemies.
I am Praying today or as you read now on the Label of DMC that all those who are Enemies of your Ministries will become your Servant in Jesus Mighty Name – Amen!
- And then Probably even more important than that is that the Mercy of God can bring “Instant Answer” to your Prayers.
Because when they finally brought Baetimeaus to Him and Jesus Christ asked him – What do you want? And he said: I want to be able to see.
Jesus Christ spoke and said: Receive your Sight.
And instantly, he received his Sight.
You see: There are some Prayers that can wait for Answers; but there are some Prayers that must be answered immediately or it might be too late.
I mean you know the Story in Matthew 14: 22:32 – The Disciples were in a boat and there was a Storm and then they saw Jesus Christ walking on the River to come and meet them. And then Peter said that if it is You Master, ask me to come and be jumped out of the boat.
If by the time he was sinking and he cried out to the Lord for Help. If the answer had been delayed for just one Minute, we know what would have happened to Peter.
But the Lord answered immediately.
If there is Nothing at all about the Power of the Mercy of God that I’m believing God for you; it is that He will answer all your Prayers instantly – Amen!
That the moment you Pray, the Answer will come – Amen!
I know that there might be quite a few Prayers that you have Prayed in the Past that you haven’t gotten an Answer to yet. But in the Name that is above every other names; because you are Part of this Conference or reading now on the Label of DMC: From this moment onwards; whenever you Pray, by the Mercies of God the Answers will come immediately – Amen.
Now, then comes the Conclusion:
How do I begin to enjoy the Powers that are in the Mercy of God from now on?
- Well Matthew 5:7 says: If you yourself is Merciful, you will obtain Mercy.
Yes, God said that I am Sovereign – I will show Mercy to whom I will show Mercy; Compassion to whom I will show Compassion.
But He keeps opening the door – If you are Merciful, you will obtain Mercy!
- He says in His Words in Proverbs 28:13 – If you conceal your sins, you won’t Prosper but if you confess and forsake them; He said that you will obtain Mercy.
ALTAR CALL
So my Beloveth Brethrens, may I Plead with you that even if it is in the Secrecy of your Rooms; Please confess your sins to God and make up your Mind to forsake them – And you will obtain Mercy!
I’m about to Pray for you now sir’s and ma’s – But may I give you just a Minute to talk to God yourself.
To ask Him to be Merciful unto you, Merciful unto your families, Merciful unto your Ministries.
And even as you are Praying, may I encourage you – If it is something you can do very quickly, that you confess your sins:
I. Particularly those sins that you committed after you got Born Again to the Almighty God and make a Promise never again to be involved in any of such evils again.
II. Confess to Him those sins Particularly sins that may have to do with Sex; sins that may have to do with Lying; sins that may have to do with Exaggerations; sins that may have to do with Leading Someone else astray.
Confess them to Him and ask for Permission never again to do such again; ask for the Grace never to do such again.
Let Us Pray!
PRAYE.R FOR SALVATION AND CLOSING PRAYER
And so my Father and my God, I want to bless Your Holy Name.
I want to Thank You from the bottom of my heart for this Wonderful Conference.
And I’m asking Lord God Almighty for Mercy for all Your Children.
I’m asking that as they leave this Conference Lord, Your Mercy will begin to speak for them – That they will begin to enjoy the Powers of Your Mercy; that You will deliver them from Forces of Darkness; that You in anyway Possible, jump every forms of Protocols to grant their Requests; that you will begin to answer their Prayers by Fire.
I Pray Lord God Almighty that if You delay Your Coming, even long before Next Year’s Conference, Your Children will have Mighty Testimonies so that the whole world will know that the Almighty God is Rich in Mercy and there is Power Mighty in all ways concerning His Mercy.
Thank You my Father and my God; Glory be to Your Holy Name.
Bless Your Children forever!
In Jesus Mighty Name we have Prayed – Amen and Amen!!!
Thank you so much for staying all through to read.
To read other Messages on the Coverage of DMC MediaCrew so far this Year and beyond; kindly visit our Website: http://discoverymediacrew.com.
Follow us on Twitter: @discoverymediac
Send a Friend Request on Facebook to DMC MediaCrew.
Like our FB Page: Discovery Media
Join us on WhatsApp:
Join us on Telegram: https://t.me/joinchat/NzzPckuGazKYFxZZFkt9fg
Follow Us on Instagram: Discoverymediacrew
Watch and Follow Us on YouTube: Discovery Media Crew
For Enquiries, email Us on: info@discoverymediacrew.com
And I can assure you that you will be glad you did as it will avail you first hand access to comprehensive reports on the various Messages of Pastor E.A Adeboye and other Men of God!
It is outrightly wrong and a sin we frowned at it for anyone to consciously remove the original source of the work that does not emanate for him or her!
Discovery Media Crew … Reaching out to the World through the Power of the Gospel!!!
COMPILATIONS BY:
MOSES DURODOLA, TITILAYOMI AJAYI AND TOPE BABALOLA
© DISCOVERY MEDIA CREW (DMC) 2022
Recent Comments