SHINE FORTH: PASTOR E.A ADEBOYE – RCCG ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL YOUNG ADULTS AND YOUTH CONVENTION, 6TH OCTOBER, 2022.
RCCG ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL YOUNG ADULTS AND YOUTH CONVENTION 2022
THEME: SHINE FORTH
MINISTERING DAY 4 (EVENING) – A SESSION WITH THE FATHER: PASTOR E.A ADEBOYE
DATE: 6TH OCTOBER, 2022
BIBLE TEXT: MATTHEW 5: 14-16
Thank You Lord. Glory be to Your Holy Name.
Let Us Pray!
SONG
I have a Father
Almighty Father
He is King of Kings and Lord of Lords
I have a Father
Hallelujah
OPENING PRAYER
Our Father and our God, the Ancient of Days; we Worship You.
The Alpha, the Omega, the Beginning and the Ending; we adore You. Please, accept our Thanks in Jesus Name.
Father today, we Your Children are before You; You are the Father of fathers, Pronounce Your Blessings on Your Children – Bless them Mightily, let them be Great, let them be Greater than their Parents and let them serve You better. Help them to fulfill Destiny.
By the time this Convention is over, let their lives be drastically Changed.
Please Father, empower them to Succeed.
In Jesus Mighty Name we have Prayed – Amen!
Well, let Someone shout Hallelujah – Hallelujah!
Well, shake hands with one (1) or two (2) People and tell him or her: It is going to be well with you, you know!
And then you may Please be seated.
Matthew 5: 14-16
- Ye are the Light of the world. A City that is set on an Hill cannot be hid.
- Neither do men light a Candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a Candlestick; and it giveth Light unto all that are in the house.
- Let your Light so Shine before men, that they may see your Good Works, and Glorify your Father which is in Heaven.
There are ways of treating a Topic:
I. There is the Preaching Aspect.
II. There is the Teaching Aspect.
III. There is that Aspect that is called Digging Deep.
Tomorrow (Friday, 7th October 2022 during the Holy Ghost Service Night), we will be Preaching; at the Holy Communion Service (Thursday, 6th October 2022), we did some Teaching. But since this is our own Convention, we had Planned that this Night, we will do some Digging Deep.
And if we are going to do Digging Deep – Because Digging Deep is for the Matured, then we need to Pay close attention.
Babies drink Milk, when they begin to grow, they grow to taking meat. When they are Strong, they begin to cracks bones.
So today, I want to look at “Shine Forth” for you at a Deeper Level.
I have listened to some of your Speakers in my Prayer Room when I had some breathing Space and I thank God for the tremendous amount of Knowledge that has been poured into you.
I thank God for Apostle Joshua Selman, I thank God for Pastor Matthew Ashimolowo. And believe it or not, I thank God for Mummy GO (Pastor (Mrs) Folu Adeboye).
“Shine Forth” – And we may hear a little more on that tomorrow (Friday, 7th October 2022) on the Preaching side; means several things:
It means “Radiate”; it means “Stay where you are and influence something that is far away from you”.
Way back in 1989; there was a Program at Port Harcourt (DMC NOTES: “Port Harcourt is the Capital City of Rivers State of Nigeria) – Full Gospel Business Men’s Fellowship International (FGBMFI). Only “Big People” were there but we spoke about “The Anointing”.
It took some “Hefty Men” about a dozen (12) of them to smuggle me out of there because God did something.
So, He is going to do something tonight and you are just trying to jump the gun – Wait for Him, He will do something tonight.
- To the Young People, “Shine Forth” is a Command.
It is like when you say: Forward March to a Set of Soldiers.
- And it means: Aggressively Show your Light!
It actually means: Be Aggressive – Be Aggressive against Darkness (Don’t hide what you have).
- It actually means: Display Violence.
It means that you remember Matthew 11:12 – From the days of John the Baptist, the Kingdom of God suffereth Violence and the Violent has taken it by Force.
- It means: Don’t wait for your Ship to come to the Shore – Jump into the water, grab the Ship and Pull it in.
So, something deep within you was already telling you what is in the Sermon – It’s only that you are doing it in the wrong way.
“Shine Forth” is a Command – In Mark 5: 25-34; the woman with the Issue of Blood shone forth. She wasn’t waiting for Jesus Christ to come and Pray for her.
When they say that she came from behind – Remember that there was a crowd. She forced her way through the crowd and Practically stole her Miracle.
You remembered the cry of Peter when Jesus Christ said: Who touched me? It wasn’t an “Ordinary Touch”; it was a Statement of: Who stole something from me?
In Mark 2: 1-12; the People who brought that Young Man who was Paralysed from Neck downwards, who broke the roof of the house. They were Shinning Forth, they were displaying their Faith forcefully – Nothing was going to stop them.
The crowd didn’t stop them – They had to climb the roof and the roof didn’t stop them. They had to break loss – The roof didn’t stop them.
They Shone Forth and they got what they wanted!
And whether you believed it or not, there is at least one ,(1) Person here tonight who will get what he or she wanted – Amen!
It was not an “Ordinary Faith” that came to this Jungle to start a City – It is the kind of Faith that Shines Forth.
Believe it or not, at the time when I brought my wife and my children to live here, this was the Headquarters of “High-Way Robbers” – They were robbing right infront of us here everyday. When we are going through the bush, we saw the Headquarters where they were sharing boxes etc.
Apart from the “High-Way Robbers”; the other Fellows here were Pythons – Huge Things – We were killing Pythons almost every week. The first one we caught was almost six (6) Metres Long.
But we stayed here because this is our Land and we must Possess our Possession.
- ^Shine Forth” means take your Destiny in your own hand and say: I will become what God wants me to become.
I heard Pastor Matthew Ashimolowo saying: What God wants to do for you, the devil can’t stop it and there is nothing he can do about it.
“Shine Forth” will tell you that in Matthew 2: 1-12; when the mother of Jesus Christ went to Him and said: They have no Wine. And Jesus said to her: Woman, my time has not yet come.
It was an insult as it were – And Mama (Meaning Mother) has come to her son to make a Request and the son Practically
Shunning her off in the Presence of People. “Woman, leave me alone!^
The mother “Shine Forth”; she wasn’t going to surrender to: “Your time hasn’t come?” Who said so? Your time will come today!
So, she ignored the insults and said to those who are Standing by: You want Wine? Whatever He asked you to do, do it. You know the rest of the Story.
But the Classical Example of “Shinning Forth” is found in Matthew 15: 21-28.
You remembered that woman who came and said to the Lord: My daughter is grievously vexed of the devil, help me.
And Jesus Christ didn’t answer her a word. And the Disciples said that she is “Too Noisy”, send her away.
Jesus Christ said that: I’m not sent but to the House of Israel. This one is not an Israeli, don’t bothered me about her.
And she came and fell before the Lord and said: Just have Mercy on me. And the Lord said that I can’t give the Bread of children to dogs – You know the Story!
And she said that I am a dog – I agreed. But this dog here is not going anywhere. This was in Matthew Chapter 15.
The time for the Gentiles came in Acts Chapter 10 – When God sent Peter to the house of Cornelius several years later.
But this woman went into the Future and brought the Future into the Present – I’m not going to wait till the time of Cornelius. I need help now
Don’t wait for your Ship to come – Jump into the water and bring it in by Force!
I have a Young son, who became the Vice Chancellor (VC) of The Redeemer’s University of Nigeria (RUN); who came to me and said: Daddy, I know that we have the land for Redeemer’s University of Nigeria (RUN) at Ede in Osun State Nigeria and it is a Jungle.
I said: Yes my son, what are you saying? He said that we are comfortable here (DMC NOTES: Referring to their Temporary Site at the Redemption City of God) – There is Light, there is Water, we are Close to Lagos, everything is fine. But daddy, your Faith turned the Jungle here to what we are enjoying. I’m going to Ede and the University is going with me. No Light there, no Water there, no Conveniency there but unless you stopped me and you say it is God who asked you to stopped me. Minus those two (2); I’m going to Ede.
I said: My son, we go together!
DMC NOTES: Redeemer’s University is a Private University in Ede, Osun, off Ibadan-Oshogbo Road, Osun State, Nigeria. Established in 2005, the University is owned by the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG).
That is the meaning of “Shine Forth”!
Oh, I am the son of Pastor Adeboye – All those who came to Preach, I Stand on the Anointing of my father, Pastor Adeboye and I declare to you.
Why should People come from Outside to come and Pronounce Blessings on you when you are the owner of the father?
You came to this Conference, not for Show; you came to this Conference for your Destiny to be Changed; you came to this Conference to begin to “Shine Forth” the children of who you are.
I hear it again and again when People are giving Testimonies – I called on the God of Adeboye. Who is Adeboye? Adeboye is Nothing.
They are talking of Adeboye, they are talking of his God – I called on the God of Adeboye and He answered. And here are my own children, sitting down as if they are helpless, as if they don’t have the God of their father behind them.
From this moment onwards, don’t sit down, expecting Miracle – Provoke the Miracles.
God didn’t say: And these Signs shall come and meet you. He said: These Signs shall follow you!
We are talking about Mobilisations – Oh Congratulations, at least you are more than double those who came Last Year. You tried.
But do you want to hear the Truth? I looked at you and I Pity you. I looked at you and I can understand why God won’t allow me to retire yet.
Look at those who are going to take over from me? They can’t even fill a Quarter of the Old Arena.
This is Youth Convention – By now, Miracles are supposed to be happening through the smallest of you – That when People hear in your Town that you are going somewhere, they will come on their own without Invitation.
- “Shine Forth”; show your Stuff, show the Children of who you are.
When People see you at your Tender Age making the Lame walk, the Blind to see, raise the dead; the People will say: This “Small Boy”? They will say: Don’t you know his father?
Don’t wait for Miracles – Provoke the Miracles!
When we go to “Light Up” somewhere and we asked a Preacher to come and Preach. When they are Preaching, they are glancing behind to be sure I’m seated down there.
I’m Nobody but I know my Father – God is my Father. The one Standing there Preaching, is to a large extent thinking that daddy is here.
Daddy is there – Basing his Confidence on my God is here!
Find out, in every “Light Up” Crusade, there will be Miracles – You find the Young ones there Provoking Miracles.
… Today, the Blind will see; today, the Lame will walk.
They are Practically saying to Jesus Christ – You better do something because I have told these People that this is who You are.
Jesus Christ won’t fail you; He won’t fail Himself – The Word of God made it abundantly clear: Let all Men be liars, but God will be true.
The Word of God says it Clearly: God will not deny Himself.
I mean: Let People still see in you by now some traits that will cause People to say: Who are these?
You know that there was a time in this Nation when you ask some People – Are you a Christian? They will say: “I am Deeper Life”.
What are they saying then: I am not just an “Ordinary Christian”; I am Deeper Life.
And I thank God for that Ministry – It shook the Country at that time.
Now, here you are – And I’m saying with all Humility: With an “Awesome Grace” available to you from Heaven, Grace beyond Human Comprehension and how are you showing it?
Years ago, I went to America (To Kenneth E. Hagin Camp Meeting) and I went with some of my children – I mean Members of The Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG).
And when we got there, I was looking at some books and these my children are going to where they will sit. And they saw a Nigerian Chief over there in America and they all Prostrated and greeted him.
The Man said: In America? Then the Man lifted up his eyes and saw me coming – No wonder, they are children of Adeboye. He saw something in them – He saw Humility of a kind that is not common.
DMC NOTES: Kenneth Erwin Hagin was an American Preacher. He is known for Pioneering the Word of Faith Movement.
If your father can as a result of his own father – The King of Kings; can wave his hands and Handkerchiefs become Anointed and it is raising the dead; who are you? Show us: Like father, like son!
I. Don’t wait for the Sick to come to you for Prayers – Seek them out and go and heal them.
II. Don’t wait for the Captives – Go and set them Free.
I told you of a Meeting that was held in Port Harcourt (Full Gospel Business Men’s Fellowship International (FGBMFI) in 1989) – Why was I smuggled out of the Place? Because everybody there wanted to touch me. And so they smuggled me into the car.
And as the car was going, there was this “Little Girl” who ran after the car and touched the car with an Handkerchief – She said: Alright, I got something.
She got home, only to discovered that her Sister was Mad, being held down by four (4) or five (5) Hefty Men. And she got there and said move aside, I have something here. She laid that handkerchief that touched the car on that girl and the girl become as Gentle as a Lamb again.
Seek Out the Sick, heal them; seek out the Possessed, set them Free.
It’s a Command – “Shine Forth” is not an Appeal. God is Commanding you!
You have learnt a lot, you know the Word. Whether you believed it or not, many of you know the Bible more than the Evangelist Abroad.
If you don’t believe me, you Watch them on Television – They quote one Bible Passage and the rest of the Story, they are jumping up and down the Stage, sweating and repeating the same thing over and over again.
Any of you that we give the Microphone to, will teach many of these People – Wait till tomorrow (Friday, 7th October 2022) now and you will see my Young ones from the various Zones manifesting the Word of God.
You have the Stuff, why are you not using it? But things will Change from tonight – Amen!
Don’t wait for the Herbalist or whatever in your Village to come to you and sit quietly to listen to your Sermon – No! Demonstrate the Power of God, show them that Power Passes Power.
When Paul the Apostle cast out the Socerer, the Governor believed.
Jesus Christ Himself said: This People won’t believed, unless they see Signs and Wonders.
I told you that when we came here, there was a tree near the very, very first Auditorium. I was going out at Night and I looked up and saw fire on the tree – And I mean “Real Fire”. And I thought one of my children must have laid fire at the root of the tree and now left it there and the fire had now gone up. When I woke up the following morning, there was no Sign of fire – The leaves were Green.
Ha, Ha; what kind of tree is this? And I called the Head Carpenter and he said that we are afraid to tell you – Tell me what? At Night, we hear voices inside that tree. At times, we will hear the Pounding of yam inside that tree.
And you didn’t tell me? The first Set of Bible College Students were here then. This is my Ground, God has given me this Ground. How can the devil be dwelling in the same Place with me?
Some of you run from Darkness but I fight them. I chased them out.
So, I told the Bible College Students – Go and get your cutlass, you must cut down the tree.
As soon as they began to cut the tree, as if by Signal; all the Villages who used to live around here, gathered together – What are you doing? And the children told them that we are cutting down this tree.
Ha, if you cut down the tree, by tomorrow morning it will Stand up again and as it is coming up, those of you who cut it down will be dying.
So, the Poor children ran to me afraid. I said don’t mind the devil. Go and cut down the tree. If it rises again, then Jesus Christ is not Lord.
Of course, the tree never rose and the children then are Elders now.
I have told you the Story of one of my Little children who went to the Pastor in one of the Little Churches in Ekiti State Nigeria. And he rented a house and he didn’t know that the house is next to the house of the Chief Herbalist of the Town.
And of course, he began to move in the Power of the Holy Spirit, demonstrating that Jesus Christ heals and so on and so forth. So, the Customers of the Herbalist was no longer coming to him – They were going to the house of my son.
And he said: Is that so? I know how to finish you.
So one day, the boy went to Church, all the doors and windows locked.
By the time he came back, there was a hen, brooding over some eggs.
In Yorubaland, at least we know the meaning of that – Even if you just lift up your leg to Pursue the hen, that leg is going to wither immediately. If you bend down to Pick Up that hen, your back is supposed to break.
… That was the devil Paying a visit – Sitting down there to kill.
Then my son got there and say: Hey Lord, what a Wonder You are? You know that I have no money to buy a Chicken, You brought one in, You know that its a long time that I ate egg last – Ha, Thank You Lord!
If it were some of you, you will run.
From now on, no more running – Amen!
He just said that I cover you in the Blood of the Lamb – Chicken, welcome to my Dinning Table; Egg, God bless you.
And the Herbalist expected the cry of agony, expected People to come and take the dead body of the Pastor out. And he wake up the following morning and saw the Pastor going to Church – He surrendered his Life to Jesus Christ! Because he saw that Power Passes Power.
You have been Baptised in the Holy Spirit – I have been listening to you Praying in Tongues. But are you just supposed to Pray in Tongue and not do something about it?
Peter said: Silver and Gold have I none but what I have, I give.
Don’t wait till you have enough money to build a Church – Start a House Fellowship!
As soon as I got Born Again at the University of Lagos (Unilag); I started a Fellowship in my office. During break time, all the People that I know that I have Authority over – The Typists, the Cleaners, the Messengers; People that more or less must fear me, I bullied them to my Office for fifteen (15) Minutes for Bible Study.
You said that is not done – Who told you? If you don’t do what has not been done before, you will not become what Nobody else has become.
I was still talking to the Senior Pastors today – I told them that we built houses on this Camp in seven (7) days.
You say it cannot be done, the house will fall down.
If I built a house in 1983 and it has not suffered a Single crack till now (2022); that house is going to Stand.
Oh, its a Bungalow. But I have built a Storey Building in eighteen (18) days – That is not bad for a Mathematician. We don’t obey the Rules of Engineering; we obey the Rule of Heaven.
From now on, you will leave this Place not Playing Church but “Shinning Forth” – Amen!
I don’t want you to leave this Place and just say all I am is just a Member of the Choir – Sing and raise the dead. Let the dead hear your Song and come back to Life; let the dead see your mouth moving and say I must hear what that Fellow has to say. Sing and get deaf ear opened.
Why do I want to be an Usher?
So that those who are coming to Church, as I am shaking their hands, they are losing their Sickness, losing their Diseases; Miracles are flowing through me to them.
You must have a reason why you go to Church; you must show the world that you are different!
Whether you know it or not, the devil has his own Disciples and everything they do, they do it for a Purpose.
Years ago, when the Power of God came down; a Midwife confessed and said that the reason she wanted to be a Midwife is such that blood is always Plenty there when People are Delivering. She became a Midwife so that she can drink blood.
You become a Child of God so that you can deal with Evil Forces!
I want you to go back to your Churches and turn everything Upside down.
When I say: Turn everything Upside down, I didn’t say disobey your Pastors – No, I am saying that you get to the Church before everyone else get to the Church, you lay hands on every Chairs and Command them to be filled with People.
Those of you who are Workers, when you come for Convention, I always tell you – Tomorrow morning, take yourselves in two’s, surround the Camp and Pray. I’m trying to teach you how to Show Off, to Shine Forth.
Before you came, you know that I go round the Camp Praying – At least, quite a few of you sees me.
Let me tell you – When you see an Old Man walking about at 2am, he is not on a Stroll. So, don’t say that I want to greet you daddy – Don’t greet me as I am on an Assignment.
Ha, daddy you must hear my Case o – No, I am not Praying for Individuals, I am Praying some “Big Prayers”. If I say: God Bless You, that should be enough for you. So, don’t disturb me when I am Praying at Night.
And then some of you (Young Ones); you will see me walking at Night and you will want to follow me. What for? I don’t need Company.
Some of you think that you have issues – How many issues do you think I have? – All your issues added together, Plus all the issues of the Churches all over the world.
So, I don’t want anybody to disturb me, I want to do my own. Don’t follow me, go your way!
Finally, I don’t want to take your time – You know that it is written: Covet earnestly the Best Gifts.
There are two (2) Major Places in the Bible where Covetousness is approved:
I. Covet earnestly the Best Gifts (DMC NOTES: 1 Corinthians 12:31)
II. Covet to Prophesy (DMC NOTES: 1 Corinthians 14:39)
If you are asking God for Gifts: Gifts for Healing, Gifts for the Working of Miracles et cetera et cetera; ask for the Gift of the Word of Prophesy). It is a Great Gift to be able to hear from God; then no “False Prophet” can deceive you!
You know that I have heard all sorts of Prophets in Nigeria Prophesying. I don’t argue with them; I don’t say they are telling lies but I always say that my Daddy didn’t tell me that – That is a very Polite way of saying that you are lying.
And God wants to speak to you so that you can go about bragging that you are a Prophet – No! But at least be able to hear from God for yourself.
I. If you can hear from God for yourself, you won’t marry the Wrong Fellow.
II. If you can hear from God for yourself, you will be able to discern between a Wolf and a Lamb.
It is not everything that Glitters that is Gold; it is not every “Beautiful Gift” that is from God!
Don’t let any “Beautiful Voice” deceive you – Don’t forget that satan was the Choir Master of Heaven before.
And that Young Man that you see, who is trying to bamboozled you; ask God and God will show you this Person is a Wolf!
… Covet the Best Gifts!
I told you before – I told the Almighty God, everything that Elijah had, Plus everything that Elisha had, Plus everything that Peter had, Plus everything that Paul had, Plus everything that Jesus Christ operated in when He was here on Earth; Father add everything together and then double it.
He told me: Son, you are asking for trouble. I said that I like that kind of trouble.
He said that they won’t let you rest and I said I don’t mind. Maybe I should have been wiser.
Now, I’m eighty (80) years Old and they are not allowing me to rest. They are sending People to me from all over the Place.
But it is better: They don’t let me rest, than you are Reductant. Nobody cares; when you travel, Nobody knows!
In your Church, they need to know when you travel that you are not in, that there is a Vacuum, that the Fire is not as Bright as it should be.
Don’t come here to joke this Year (2022). And don’t tell me when you come here Next Year (2023) if you don’t fill this Place that you Mobilised.
You want to Mobilise? – By Next Year (2023), at least full this Place.
And you can do it if you begin to “Shine Forth” from now!
If you begin to “Shine Forth”; each of you by Next Year (2023) will have won at least a one hundred (100) People on to the Lord. And you will come with your children. This Place will be Full.
Stand on your feet – You are going to lift your Voice to the Most High God and say: Father, I am not letting You go tonight or as you read now on the Label of DMC unless you empower me!
Go ahead and talk to the Almighty God!
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