GOING HIGHER – PART 67: PASTOR E.A ADEBOYE – SPECIAL RCCG ONLINE SUNDAY SERVICE, 24TH JULY, 2022.
SPECIAL RCCG ONLINE SUNDAY SERVICE
TOPIC: GOING HIGHER – PART 67 (ISSUE OF DILIGENCE AND A BRUSH WITH FIRE)
MINISTERING: PASTOR E.A ADEBOYE
DATE: 24TH JULY, 2022
BIBLE TEXT: 1 KINGS 19:19
Let Us Pray!
SONG
The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob
Jehovah, the Man of War
Your Mercy endureth forever and ever
Oh Praise His Holy Name.
OPENING PRAYER
God of Abraham – The Covenant Keeping God; God of Isaac – The God of Multiplication; God of Jacob – The Only One who can Change a Man to a Nation; we Worship You.
Thank You for all You have done for us in the Past; Thank You for what You are doing now; Thank You for what You are going to do in the Future. Thank You for where You are taking us; Thank You for Glory ahead. Father, Please accept our Thanks in Jesus Name.
My Father and my God; I Pray that everything Your Children needs to hear so that they can become what You Planned for them to become, Father send it to them today, Stand by us Lord; Strengthen us and let Your Joy be our Strength.
Thank You Almighty God. In Jesus Mighty Name we have Prayed – Amen.
Praise the Lord – Hallelujah!
Wave to one (1) or two (2) People and say: Good Day, God Bless You – Amen. And then you may Please be seated!
We will continue with our Series on: “GOING HIGHER” and now we are in Part 67 – “GOING HIGHER – PART 67”.
And we are still on 1 Kings 19:19 – So he departed thence, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was Plowing with twelve yoke of oxen before him, and he with the twelfth: and Elijah Passed by him, and cast his Mantle upon him.
Last Sunday (17th July, 2022 during the Part 66 of “Going Higher”); we stressed the Need for Diligence – That while God is Sovereign (He can do whatever He likes) but He insist on Diligence!
DMC NOTES: You can get to read the Full Text of this Message (Going Higher – Part 66) on this Link:
If you are going to get to “Great Heights” in God; then you must be ready for Hardwork!
You see, this is because every Good things demands Hardwork – Whether you believed it or not!
For Example, in 2 Corinthians 9:6; the Bible says that if you sow bountifully, you will reap bountifully.
What does that mean?
Sowing bountifully is Hardwork – Ask any farmer. If you are going to sow on a large farm, then you are going to work hard.
But do you know that in reaping bountifully is harder work? – Harvest is harder work than sowing.
Why? – Because there is a time limit for Harvesting – You don’t harvest in the time limit, then the Fruit will rot.
My Prayer is that your Harvest will be Great – Amen!
I give you another Prayer – That God will give you the Grace to be able to bring in the Harvest (Amen).
When Peter casted his Net and caught so much fish that he could not carry them alone in his boat; he sent for Others to come and help him – That is “Double Hardwork”.
Proverbs 12:27 says that the Lazy (The Slotful) Man will not roast the meat he caught in hunting.
Do you know what that means?
Hardwork to hunt, harder work to Prepare what you have caught so that it will not rot.
God is not going to waste His Anointing on a Man who will win Souls and not Follow them Up!
Soul Winning is a easier job to do than following them up until they mature!
That is why some People Prefer the work of an Evangelist to that of a Pastor.
An Evangelist will just get up there:
I. Jesus Saves – Amen
II. He Heals – Amen.
III. He Loves you – Amen.
IV. He has sent me to you today and today is your Day of Salvation – Amen.
V. You want to give your Life to Jesus Christ; come Forward – Amen.
And then the Evangelist Packs his loads and disappeared – Leaving the Pastor to do the Hardwork of New Converts in Training, moving them from there to Worker’s in Training, Watching over them until they can Stand on their own feet.
It is easier to give birth to a baby than to take care of the baby until he/she becomes an Adult.
Ask those People who are already Family People – They will tell you that the work of a Mother over her children never ends – By the time the children are becoming Mothers, the Grandma has just started work.
God will not give Anointing to Somebody who is Slotful!
As a matter of fact; in Proverbs 18:9; God describes the Lazy Man as a Waster – He won’t waste His Anointing on you if you are Lazy!
… That’s why I’m hammering on the “Issue of Diligence” – Hardwork.
It takes Hardwork to be a Champion!
I used to be a Boxer; it takes harder work to remain a Champion than to become one.
When you are struggling to become a Champion – You stress yourself, you do Road work, you wake up early. While everybody is sleeping, you are running, you are “Shadow-Boxing”, you are doing everything and then you become a Champion – Congratulations!
And from that day onwards, everybody will be Pursuing your Crown.
And you know yourself, if you have any sense at all that it is better never to become a Champion than to be an Ex-Champion.
The Pain of the Ex-Champion is not bruises on the body; it is the shame of walking on the Street and those who has been calling you Champion seeing you coming and they turn their faces.
I Pray for all of you listening to me or reading now on the Label of DMC – You will reach the Top and God will give you the Grace to stay on Top!
… It’s going to require Hardwork! The Anointed cannot afford to be Lazy.
Read Isaiah 61: 1-3; it says: The Spirit of the Lord is upon me because He has anointed me.
Anointed me for what? – To sit down and fold my hands?
- To Preach the Good News.
Acts 1:8 says: You shall receive the Power after the Holy Spirit has come upon you and you will be Witnesses to me,
Witnesses to me where? – Just in the comfort of your Church? No!
You may start at Jerusalem. But you are going to go to Judea and you will then Proceed to Samaria and then you are to Proceed to the Uttermost Part of the world.
… Anointing is not for Laziness, it is for Hardwork. You are going to Preach.
- You are to Heal.
Marks 16:18 says that you will lay hands on the Sick and they will recover.
Beautiful, isn’t it? You want Power so that you can lay hands on the Sick and they can be healed.
Let me show you one Passage of the Bible – Matthew 8: 14-18 and you will see that the moment that you have the Healing Gift, the crowd will come.
Jesus Christ healed the Mother In-Law of Peter and in the Evening they brought all those who are Sick, all those who are Demon Poasessed – The News spread and they began to come and come and come.
Read that Passage and you will see something there – My Lord Himself when He saw the Multitude when the crowd became overwhelming; he dodged. He had to go to somewhere else.
… You want Anointing and you are not ready for Hardwork? You have a lot to do as you will Preach, you will Heal, you will Comfort the Broken Hearted, anyone in any form of trouble will call on you, you are to Set the Captives Free, all the People with Demons will be Paying you constant visits.
And if you know what casting out Demons means; it means in Ephesians 6:12 wrestling. You will be wrestling with Forces of Darkness.
Is wrestling for the Lazy?
The Lord Jesus Christ had Anointing – How God anointed Jesus Christ of Nazareth with Holy Ghost and with Power who went about doing Good and Healing all that were oppressed of the devil for God was with Him (Acts 10:38).
But read your Bible – In Marks 6:31; He had to tell the Disciples: Hey, let’s take a break because they became so busy and there wasn’t enough time to eat.
… Anointing is not for Lazy People! – I’m not saying this to frightened you but to get you Prepared because even before today is over; Someone is going to get Anointed – Amen!
I told you (At least some of you heard me say it before) – When I read the Bible and it says: Covet earnestly the Best Gifts.
I said God, I got it – I want Double of the Anointing on Elisha, Double of Anointing on Paul, Double the Anointing on Peter, Double the Anointing even on the Lord Jesus Christ while He was here and then Double it again. That is what I want!
And I told you what He (God) told me – How Stupid we can be.
Someone was asking me not too long ago – Oh daddy, I heard that you travel Abroad and I said Yes.
What for? I said I went for Vacation.
He then asked me: How many Sermons do you Preach on your Vacation? – Not many, just two (2) in England and then we moved on to have Convention in Europe (EUROCON 2022) and then …
He said: Is that Vacation? And I said Yes!
If you are not ready for Hardwork, Please don’t Pray for Anointing – Anointing is not for Lazy People. Get that Clear!
But then, there is something else that followed – Which is very exciting and I want to share with you today from our Bible Text: 1 Kings 19:19.
As Elijah was Passing by Elisha; he cast his Mantle upon him!
I want to talk to you about: “A BRUSH WITH FIRE”.
In Malachi 4:2; it is written: But unto you that fear my Name shall the Sun of Righteousness arise with Healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.
… Healing in His wings! – I Pray that the Healing wings will brush you today – Amen!
Anything that the Holy Spirit has touched has been touched by Fire and it will Change Permanently!
Because the Life of Somebody is about to Change totally today – Amen.
- In Exodus 3: 1-5, the Bible tells us that the Fire of God touched that backside of the Desert and God called it from that moment onwards: “Holy Ground” – Moses take off your shoes, where you are Standing now is “Holy Ground”.
How Holy was the Ground?
Well Exodus 4: 7-20; Moses what is in your hand? He says Rod. Throw it on the Ground. And as soon as the Rod touches the Ground, it became a Serpent – The Rod has touched the Holy Ground.
By the time you get to Verse 20 there (Exodus 4:20); the Bible says that Moses left for Egypt. He took this, this and this and he took the Rod of God in his hand.
The Rod of the Shepherd has turned to the Rod of God because that Rod has touched the Holy Ground!
- But there is something there that you might not noticed – When Moses threw that Rod down and it became a Serpent and the Lord asked him – Pick up the Serpent by the tail. As he was Picking the Serpent by the tail, his own hand touched the Holy Ground – And that hand was no longer an “Ordinary Hand” again!
You don’t believed me:
I. Read Exodus 17: 8-13 – When there was war between the Israelites and the Amelekites and Moses went to the Hill Top. As long as he (Moses) raised up his hands, the children of Israel were Prevailing; when his hands got tired, the Other People began to win.
There were two (2) People with him (Moses) – Aaron and Hur. They had four (4) hands; Moses had only two (2) hands but they knew that hands were different from hands. The hand that had touched the Holy Ground is different from an “Ordinary Hand”.
I’m Praying that today or as you read now on the Label of DMC; you are going to have “A Brush With Fire” – Amen! That even your hands will no longer be Ordinary – Amen!
II. His (Moses) hands has now become hands that can now transit Wisdom – According to Deuteronomy 34:9: And Joshua, the son of Nun was full of the Spirit of Wisdom because Moses has laid his hands on him.
- 2 Kings 4: 38-41; the sons of the Prophet were hungry and Elisha (If God wants, we will spend some times on Elisha later) told his Servants: Alright, let’s do some cooking for the boys. But Somebody had gone out and had brought in Poisonous Fruits and cut it into the food.
Such that when the People tried to eat the food, they discovered that this is Poison!
Elisha said: Bring me some flowers!
Since when does flowers become an antidote to Poison?
But when “Ordinary Flower” touches an “Anointed Hands”; it becomes something else!
Like I was telling my children in Europe not long ago – The Power of God turns “The Ordinary” to “Extraordinary”.
DMC NOTES: The RCCG European Convention (EUROCON) 2022 with the Theme: “HIS RESURRECTION POWER” took Place in the cities of Amsterdam (Holland) and Slovakia from 21st to 24th April 2022. You can get to access all the three (3) Sessions as Preached by Pastor E.A Adeboye on this Link:
- It will be interesting to you if you read John 9: 1-7 – When Jesus Christ saw a Man who was born Blind.
The Bible says that He (Jesus Christ) spat on the Ground, made some mud out of it and anoint his eyes.
“Ordinary Mud” can become “Anointed Mud” – It all depends on whose hands the mud is!
He (Jesus Christ) anointed where the eyes were supposed to be and brand new eyes were formed.
- In Judges 15: 14-15; the Bible tells us that when they brought Samson to the Philistines. That as soon as the Philistines began to rejoice; the Fire of God came (They called it “The Spirit of God”).
But it says that the ropes that bound him were burnt as if they came in contact with Fire – There is a Fire that is Invincible.
And because that Fire came on him, he took the jawbone of an Ass – An Ordinary jawbone of an Ass, the jawbone of an animal that had died and it became a Weapon of Mass Destruction.
When you are Anointed, everything that you touch will become Anointed!
- Mark 5: 25-34 – The Bible talks about Healing through the hem of the Garment of the Lord Jesus Christ.
- Acts 5: 14-16 tells us that even the Shadow of Peter was Healing the Sick.
- Acts 19: 11-12 says that even the Handkerchiefs from Paul was Healing the Sick.
You need a Brush with the Fire of God and you can get it today or as you are reading now on the Label of DMC!
Because if you get it (And it is available) because Matthew 3:11; the Promise is that Jesus Christ will baptise you with the Holy Spirit and with Fire.
If you get it; Oh things will Change!
And you need it! Why? – Because you can never can tell when the enemy may want to strike!
Judges 4: 5-6; Samson was going down to Mount Tabor. All of a sudden, a Lion roared at him and Fire came on him and you know the rest of the Story.
You need that touch with Fire, just in case the enemy decides to roar and you can tell the enemy that I am more than ready for you!
You need that Fire because as you are growing in the Lord; there is bound to be resistance from the enemies and you will need the Fire to uproot obstacles.
Acts 13: 6-12 – Paul was Preaching to a Governor and the Governor was listening. But a Sorcerer was distracting the attention of the Governor. Fire came and Paul uprooted the Obstacle.
I’m going to ask you to cry to God for a Brush of the Heavenly Fire today so that from now on, your work of the Ministry will become much more easier – Amen!
But then, before we begin to Pray that God’s Fire should fall because that will be our Prayer today. You need to know that if the Fire falls – If it falls on those who do not belong to Him, it consumes them. But if it falls on those who belongs to Him, it empowers them.
The Bible says so in Daniel 3: 19-30 – When they threw in Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego; their Yokes were destroyed by the Fire. They walked out of the Fire into Promotion.
But those of you who are not on the Side of the Lord, who got close to that Fire – They were consumed.
ALTAR CALL
So, before we ask Fire to fall – If you are not on the Side of God already; Please cross over. Surrender your Life to Jesus Christ so that He can baptise you with the Holy Ghost and Fire too.
If you are Standing by when the Fire begins to fall and you are not on the Side of the Lord; the result might not be very Pleasant.
So, I appeal to you – Please, surrender your Life to Jesus Christ now. Bow your Head wherever you are and cry unto Him and ask Him to Please save your Soul, wash you in His Blood, receive you into the Family of God so that when the Fire of God falls; it will empower you and not to consume you.
Pray now and I will be Praying with you in a moment.
Thank You Father. In Jesus Mighty Name we have Prayed – Amen.
PRAYER FOR SALVATION AND CLOSING PRAYER
My Father and my God once again I’m thanking You for Your Words and I’m thanking You for all those who has decided to surrender their lives to You now.
Please my Father and my God, receive them today, save their Souls, let Your Blood wash away their sins and let them become Part and Parcel of Your Family Lord.
So that when the Fire begins to fall, it will be to Purify them, it will be an answer to their Prayers, destroying their Yokes, making them Vessels unto Honiur in Your Hands.
And Please my Father and my God, as they surrender their lives to You, don’t let them backslide.
As for those of us who are already Your Children; as we cry unto You today; just like Elisha had a Brush with the Fire that was on Elijah, I Pray that all my children who will be crying out to You today; You will let my (Daddy GO) Anointing flow to them and You will empower them Mightily so that very soon, I will be hearing their Testimonies of Great Exploits from them.
In Jesus Mighty Name we have Prayed – Amen!
Praise the Lord – Hallelujah!
Now, I’m rejoicing with those of you who has surrendered your Life to Jesus Christ. I Promised you that I will be Praying for you from now on.
So, Please get in contact with me – Let me have your names, your Address and your Prayer Requests and I Promise you that I will be Praying for you.
Please visit any of The Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) near you – Tell the Pastor that I sent you and he will tell you what to do next.
God Bless You All – Amen!
Praise the Lord – Hallelujah!!!
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