IN MY FATHER’S HOUSE – RCCG DECEMBER 2024 THANKSGIVING SERVICE – PASTOR E.A ADEBOYE

RCCG DECEMBER 2024 THANKSGIVING SERVICE FEATURING SPECIAL PRAYER FOR TENANTS, LANDLORDS, LANDOWNERS AND THEIR FAMILIES

TOPIC: IN MY FATHER’S HOUSE

MINISTERING: PASTOR E.A ADEBOYE

DATE: 1ST DECEMBER, 2024

BIBLE TEXT: JOHN 14: 1-3

GENERAL PRAYERS

1. Well, let’s lift our hands to the Most High God and begin to bless His Holy Name.

Let’s give Him Glory and Honour that little by little; He has brought us to the Last Month of the Year.

Give Him Glory, give Him Honour, give Him Adoration and Praise Him.

Thank You Lord – Thank You for Your Goodness, Thank You for Your Mercy, Thank You for Your Protection, Thank You for Your Faithfulness and Thank You for everything Lord.

Glory be to Your Holy Name.

In Jesus Mighty Name we have Prayed – Amen!

2. I will want you to cry to Him with all your Heart and say: Father, You have brought me thus far in this Old Year (2024); Please see me through to the New Year (2025).

In Jesus Mighty Name we have Prayed – Amen!

3. Let’s lift our voices to God and Pray for all Landlords, all those who are Landowners and all those who one way or the other deal with Lands.

That the Almighty God will be with them, continue to Prosper them and that in their various endeavours, they will keep on Succeeding.

Go ahead and let us Pray for them!

In Jesus Mighty Name we have Prayed – Amen!

4. Then, let us lift our voices and Pray for all Tenants.

That the Almighty God will visit them today and in His Own Miraculous Way, He will see to it that they don’t die as Tenants.

Let’s go ahead and Pray for them.

In Jesus Mighty Name we have Prayed – Amen!

5. Why not talk to God and say: Father, this is the 12th Month of the Year; all Your Promises to me, let them be fulfilled before the end of the Year.

Go ahead and talk to the Lord!

In Jesus Mighty Name we have Prayed – Amen!

SONG

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

OPENING PRAYER

Ancient of Days, we Worship You; the Owner of the Earth and the Fullness thereof, we bow before You.

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

Our Father and our God; You have been our Help all these Past Months; Please, help us till the End.

Every Blessings remaining this Year (2024); Father send them to our Homes,

Every Dangers left in this Old Year (2024), keep them far away from us.

We Pray Specifically for Your Children who are Landlords, Landowners, and those who deals with Land Matters, we Pray that You will continue to be with them, continue to Prosper them, continue to Protect them from evil and just let it be well with them.

And we Commit all Your Children who are Tenants into Your Hands; in Your Own Miraculous Way, build Houses for them and don’t let them die as Tenants.

Lord God Almighty, all Your Children who has been Faithful in the Payment of their Tithes and in the Giving of their Offerings; this Particular Month, Father Surprise them, Favour them, and send Help to them.

And Lord God Almighty, I Pray that everyone of us who has been waiting on You, expecting the Fulfilment of Your Promises; even before the end of this Week, answer us.

In Jesus Mighty Name we have Prayed – Amen!

Well, let Somebody shout Hallelujah – Hallelujah!

Shake hands with one (1) or two (2) People and Prophesy to them by saying: “I will see you in the New Year”.

And then, you may Please be seated.

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS

1. I am sure that some of you are Surprise to see me here today because by now, I should be in my Prayer Room, getting ready for The RCCG Holy Ghost Congress 2024.

But God’s Perfect Will is always done!

2. I am sure that you know that by the 9th of December 2024, the RCCG Holy Ghost Congress 2024 will start. And it is going to be a very, very Special Holy Ghost Congress.

From Day 1 to the end (Day 7); it is going to be Glorious.

So, tell your friends and tell your Relatives that they must not miss this Year’s RCCG Holy Ghost Congress at all – Not even a Single Day.

3. And I want to make a very Special Appeal to those of you who have Vehicles – Don’t bring your Vehicles to the Holy Ghost Congress Ground empty.

Be your Brothers and Sisters Keeper – Give Assistance to those who do not have means of Transportation.

Not just when you are comimg alone but when you are going back as well.

Make sure that this thing will become Part of your Custom – That when we know that this Fellow is going to where we are going, we should Help.

And when we finished, we should tell those People – This is where I Parked. When we finished, meet me here so that we can help you on your way back home.

As you help the Helpless; the Helper of the Helpless will Help you also – Amen

4. May I take this Opportunity to appeal to us that beside this Auditorium, you will see that we are Building a House for God.

We have been on it for quite a while and the reason that it looks as if it was slow was because we refused to take a Loan from the Bank.

We believed that our God is “Rich Enough” to build His House.

But He is not going to drop Naira from Heaven – What He needs to finish that Building is already in your Pocket.

Make sure that you build for God and He will build for you – Amen!!!

DMC NOTES: History was made on Sunday 3rd of January 2021 when the Ground Breaking Ceremony for the World Headquarters of RCCG was Performed by Pastor E.A Adeboye – You can visit our Website: www.discoverymediacrew.com to read the Full Text Extracts of the Sermon and Ceremony!

Today, we have been asked to speak on “IN MY FATHER’S HOUSE”.

John 14:1-3:

1. Let not your Heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.

Let me stop there and ask you to turn to your Neighbours Right and Left and say: “Don’t worry, your tomorrow will be alright.

2. In my Father’s House are many Mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to Prepare a Place for you.
3. And if I go and Prepare a Place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.
4. There are all manners of Buildings that we call Houses:

☆ The Office is a House.

☆ Social Gathering Centers is a House.

☆ Where you Sleep at Night is also a House.

But the House that Jesus Christ is referring to here in our Bible Text (John 14: 1-3) is what He calls “My Father’s House”.

The meaning of that is: “My Ultimate Resting Place”.

You know that when we go to work, we do all manners of things – We go to the Market, you buy, you sell but at Night, you go somewhere to Sleep.

In this case, He was talking of where I will be finally!

You know, I like my brothers – The Igbo’s. Everywhere they go to trade and do whatever they want to do, and then they have Accommodations there.

But come Christmas Time, where do they go? They go to the Village.

And if you go to the Villages, you will be amazed at Mansions.

The Village itself might have a Total of maybe twenty or twenty five Houses and then you will see one Mighty Mansion there – It belongs to Somebody who works in Lagos.

And there is Nothing you can do to keep a Normal Igbo Man in Lagos at Christmas Time – He has gone to the Village.

… My Last Resting Place.

2. It will amaze you that the moment that you are born, you begin a Journey – A Journey back to where you came from.

Every day after you are born is a day less on your Journey to your Final Home.

That’s why Nobody ever ask you how Young is your child – What do they ask? How Old! Even if he is only two days Old, he is Old and not Young.

Why? Because you are walkimg Steadily back to somewhere – Which will be your Final Resting Place.

3. The Bible made it clear that we are on a Pilgrimage – Everybody whether you like it or not, you are Steadily moving on.

That is why it is very unwise thing to waste Time because Time cannot be wasted.

It is the one who says that he is wasting Time that is wasting himself – Time goes on Steadily like a River flowing.

In Genesis 47: 7-9; Pharaoh asked Jacob: How Old are you?

Jacob said that the Years of my Pilgrimage is 130 Years – I have been on this Journey for 130 Years.

When Joseph wanted to die in Genesis 50: 24-26; he told his Brethren: I an in Egypt – Prime Minister and a Big Man.

He said that God is going to visit you – When I die and it is time for God to send you back to your Homeland, don’t leave my bones here.

This is not my Home – Take me back to my Home.

And so, in Exodus 13:19; hundreds of Years later, when the children of Israel were to leave Egypt, Moses took the bones of Joseph with him Home.

4. And it is a Compulsory Journey as there is Nothing you can do and say: “I won’t go” and there is no Exception!

I. Exodus 1:8 tells us: Pharaoh as Great as he was died and a New King arose.

… Kings will die!

II. King Makers will die.

The Bible tells us in 1 Samuel 25:1 – It says that Samuel died.

Samuel was the Original King Maker in Israel:

☆ He was the one who made Saul King and later on, God used him to remove Saul from being King.

☆ He was the one who Anointed David to be King.

King Makers will die just as a King!

III. Prophets will die.

It doesn’t matter the Level of the Anointing, whether the General Overseer likes it or not, he is going.

Why? 2 Kings 13: 14-21 – It said that: And Elisha was sick with the Sickness with which he died.

What happened? How could Somebody with Double Portion of Anointing die?

Even the Anointing kept on working after he was dead – The Anointing doesn’t die but the Carrier of the Anointing died!

IV. The Bible says that whether you are Wise or you are Foolish; you will die.

Ecclesiastes 2:16 says: The Wise and the Fools, they die alike.

So, you may have PhD, you will die and you may not have more than Primary School Certificate, you will go!

V. The Rich will die – No matter how Wealthy you become or you are the Richest Man in the whole world, you are going!

What about the Poor? Ha, if the Rich is going to die, how can the Poor escape?

Luke 16: 19-31 talks about a Man who was so rich that everyday in his Life was Christmas.

I mean that everyday was Feast Time – He will just wake up in the Morning, dress gorgeously and then begin to Feast.

And then, there was a Poor Fellow called Lazarus – He will come and just take whatever crumbs that fell down from the table. And they were enough to feed him.

And the interesting thing was that the Rich Man didn’t even bother – Take as much crumbs as you like.

He didn’t do anything to him – He didn’t quarrel with him or chase him away.

But both of them died – The Rich Man died and the Poor Man died also.

That brings us to this crucial Topic – When we die, where are we going?

Because there are two kinds of Houses over there when we finish here on Earth.

Matthew 25: 31-46 – Jesus Christ said that a day is comimg when everyone of us will be Gathered together.

They will put some People on the Right – They are called Sheep and then they will put another Group on the Left – They are called Goats.

You said that: When is that day coming?

I don’t know but everything that is happening now according to what is in the Bible shows clearly that it is Closer than you think.

What sends Somebody to Heaven does not really have anything to do with where he is Living!

Today now, Russia is fighting Ukraine – It started like a joke, everybody thought that the battle will be over within a shout Period of Time.

Russia is big and Ukraine is not that big.

But little by little, the thing is escalating and Russia is saying: I am not joking o. If this boy misbehave, I have something that I can use.

But what it can use can be something that if detonated in Ukraine and it could affect those who are in Nigeria.

Then from a distance, you can’t even imagine – Anything could happen and you will say: Hey, the end has come.

And then when that end comes, God will Group us into two Groups – One on the Right and the other on the Left.

And then He will say: Alright, those of you who are on the Right go to that Place that has been Prepared for you by God – “In my Father’s House”.

And those of you who didn’t do it the way that I want you to do; go to the other House that the Bible refers to as Hell.

Please Brethren, don’t let anybody deceive you – The idea of two (2) homes has been known to our forefathers!

That is why they sing among my People – DMC NOTES: The Yoruba People of the Western Part of Nigeria:

E ma S’eka laye (Don’t be Wicked in this world)

Tori a o r’orun (Because we will go to Heaven)

E ma S’eka laye (Don’t be Wicked in this world)

Tori a o r’orun (Because we will go to Heaven)

Bi a ba de Ibode (When we get to the Gate)

A o ro Jo (We will give Account)

Bi a ba de Ibode (When we get to the Gate)

A o ro Jo (We will give Account)

They say: Hey, don’t be Wicked on Earth because you are going somewhere (Heaven). When you get to the Gate, you will give an Account!

… I’m talking of our forefathers – Before Christianity or Islam came, they knew that the Earth (The world we are) is not the end of the Story!

That is shown in their behaviours – You will be amazed how strict they are when it comes to how you must behave towards your Neighbours:

I. In those days when I was Younger, you will be going to the farm and beside the road, they will put bananas in heaps and then they will put the cost of one heap there – Maybe one Penny.

And the farmer will go back to his Workplace (Farm) and be working there.

When he comes in the Evening, all the heaps that has been bought will have the Money there waiting for him.

You go now and put your bananas along the road at Ebute Metta and then put the Naira – That this is how much o; and then you come back to it in the Evening.

The bananas will be gone and there will be no Naira waiting for you.

But they even go further than that:

If you are going and you come across Layers of bananas – Maybe five Layers. And you have Money to buy all.

You do not buy all – You will leave at least one heap behind.

Why? Because somebody else is coming and he will also need bananas.

Just think of their Standards – See how Strict they are!

II. As Young as I was in those days, when a Visitor comes to visit my dad and there are two seats – My father is sitting on one and my mother is sitting on another.

And this Stranger comes in and he is a Man; my mother automatically out of respect for the friend of her husband will stand up to offer the seat.

And you will think that what the Man will do is to go straight and sit on the chair that has been vacated by my mother – No way!

My father will get up, sit on the chair vacated by my mother so that his friend can sit on his own chair.

Why? You don’t want to share the heat of your friend’s wife.

… That’s the Standard then!

That is why you can travel then for years and put your wife in care of your friend – You dare not try that these days!

The Bible says that: Those who died before the days of Jesus Christ, they have the Laws written in their Hearts!

God has put in their Hearts the way that they must behave if they are to enter into “My Father’s House”.

The other House that is called Hell – The Bible says in Isaiah 5:14 that Hell is constantly enlarging its mouth.

Because it knows that more and more People will be coming there.

That is why the Bible says that: Wide is the Gate that goes to Hell and many People will walk there.

Narrow is the Gate that goes to my Father’s House and few will be found there.

I Pray that you will be among the few – Amen!

That is why the Bible tells us that when the end is about to take Place, there will be all manners of Doctrines.

Even Preachers will begin to Preach in a way: Hey relax, it is not as difficult as Somebody like Pastor Adeboye making it. Don’t mind him as he is Old-Fashioned.

And I believed that it is because God loved you more than anyone else; that is why somehow He brought this Topic up at a Time like this when I should be talking about things that you will be clapping and jumping up and down saying Amen or Hallelujah!

My Beloveth Brothers and Sisters, the end is nearer than you think – Things are getting worst and worst to warn us to wake up!

They arrested one of my Pastors somewhere Abroad – What was his Offence?

He was going to speak and he got up and said: Ladies and Gentlemen.

Some People reported him that he is Discriminatory – He said: “Ladies and Gentlemen”; what of us that are neither Ladies nor Gentlemen?

DMC NOTES: Someone who is neither a Male or Female is called: Non-Binary or Transgender or Genderqueer or A gender or Bigender or Gender fluid

This shows you how far the world had gone!

Oh, you think that things are bad, you don’t know all the details.

I saw a woman and there was a discussion that led to: “Where is your Husband” – Oh, he couldn’t come.

Oh, are you hearing from him? – No, he doesn’t talk.

How then are you sure that he is okay?

Well, I took him to the Vet (DMC NOTES: “Vet” meaning: Veterinary Doctor – Doctors of Animals) before I came.

You took him to the Vet? He doesn’t talk? – Who is your Husband?

He is a very “Handsome Dog”.

We are Closer to the end than before!

Those of you who are already in Christ, take this matter seriously – Don’t let anybody weaken your Stand for Him; God is Holy.

And those of you who are still “Fooling Around” and “Playing Church” – You sing like we sing, you clap like we clap and you keep on enjoying sin.

Jesus Christ said that I will come back again – And He could even arrive before I finished my Sermon!

And if you are not on His Side; you won’t go to the Father’s House!

You are going somewhere – That one is for sure and Hell is enlarging to take in more and more.

But the One who called me, sent me on an errand to tell those of you who will listen – There is a Place called “My Father’s House” and that is where I am going and I want to see you there (Amen).

So, if you think that all that is going on now is a joke; there is no joking matter here. The devil wants to have an Harvest.

But in the Name that is above every other names, you will not be one of those he will Harvest.

Half a word is enough for the Wise.

Those of us who says that we are Christians, tighten your belt as the Lord is comimg again!

If you are a Backslider, hey run back to Jesus as there is a Place called “My Father’s House”.

That is where I am going and that is where I want to see you too on the Last Day.

Those of you who has not given your Life to Jesus Christ before and you think that all these Born Business is a joke.

Since I started speaking and like I told some of my children in a Morning Devotion not long ago – No matter how Anointed anybody can be, you can’t bring back October 2024. It is gone and gone forever.

Before you know it, the whole of Year 2024 itself will be gone and we will be entering a Brand New Year (2025).

I Pray that I will see you in the New Year – Amen!

But more than that; I want to see you in my Father’s House!

ALTAR CALL

So, if you have not given your Life to Jesus, come and Surrender your Life to Him very quickly.

If you know that you are Backsliden – You used to be very serious with God but now you are taking things casually because Somebody has told you that you can continue to live in sin after you claimed to be Born Again.

You better come to Jesus Christ now.

I’m going to count from one (1) to five (5).

Those of you on the way keep coming – While those of you infront cry to Jesus Christ:

Ask Him to Please have Mercy on you, save your Soul, forgive all your sins, Promise Him that from now on; you will serve Him in Purity and in Holiness and that you will do His Will.

Cry unto Him!

And the rest of us, let us Stretch our hands towards our New Brothers and Sisters and let us intercede for them.

Pray that the Almighty God who saved your Soul will save their Own Souls also .

Thank You Father.

In Jesus Mighty Name we have Prayed – Amen!

PRAYER FOR SALVATION

My Father and my God, we just want to say Thank You for Your Words.

Thank You so so much for all these People who has decided to come to the Altar to Surrender their lives to You.

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

They have come now, receive them in Jesus Name.

Let Your Blood wash away their sins, save their Souls, write their names in the Book of Life and on the Last Day, let them be found in your Father’s House.

Thank You Almighty God!

And Father, I’m Committing Your Children who are here today inclusive those reading now on the Label of DMC into Your Hands; everyone of them who will wake up now and take this Journey with You with all seriousness, I Pray that the devil will not take them away and that they will end up in your Father’s House.

And if You Return anytime, Please let all of us be ready to go with You.

Thank You Almighty God.

In Jesus Mighty Name we have Prayed – Amen!

Praise the Lord – Hallelujah!

PERSONAL PRAYER REQUEST

Now, the rest of us; I am going to ask you to cry to God yourself before you begin to Thank Him for how far He has taken you.

I want you to Stand on your Feet and cry to the Almighty God loud and clear.

And say: Father, whenever You decide to Return, don’t let me be left behind!

Please open your mouth and cry to the Lord!!!

Thank you so much for staying all through to read.

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