ONWARD CHRISTIAN SOLDIER – HOLY GHOST CONGRESS 2024 – (DAY7 MORNING SESSION) – PASTOR ADE OKERENDE

RCCG HOLY GHOST CONGRESS 2024 (27TH EDITION)

THEME: ONWARD CHRISTIAN SOLDIER

MINISTERING (DAY 7 MORNING SESSION – THANKSGIVING SERVICE): PASTOR ADE OKERENDE (DEPUTY CONTINENTAL OVERSEER, RCCG NORTH AMERICA AND PIC RCCG PAVILION OF REDEMPTION, SUGARLAND TEXAS USA)

TOPIC: PRAISE YE THE LORD

DATE: 15TH DECEMBER 2024

BIBLE TEXT: PSALM 149: 1-9

Praise the Lord – Hallelujah!

We want to Thank God for this awesome moments.

I want to Specially appreciate my father and mother in the Lord who has watched over my Spiritual Cradle bed since I gave my Life to Jesus – Daddy and Mummy Adeboye; we appreciate ypu.

I want to Prostrate to say: Father in Heaven will accept even this Appreciation of your Goodness and your Gentleness that has brought many of us into Limelight in the Ministry.

We Thank God for the Bible Text that was read to us by Mummy GO – Psalm 149: 1-9.

But I will just read Verses 1 and 9 – About Soldiers that has fought battles and they came back to have a Thanksgiving Service.

The Verses says:

Psalms 149:1-9:

1. Praise ye the LORD. Sing unto the LORD a New Song, and his Praise in the Congregation of Saints.
2. Let Israel rejoice in him that made him: let the children of Zion be Joyful in their King.
3. Let them Praise his Name in the dance: let them sing Praises unto him with the timbrel and harp.
4. For the LORD taketh Pleasure in his People: he will beautify the Meek with Salvation.
5. Let the Saints be Joyful in Glory: let them sing aloud upon their beds.
6. Let the High Praises of God be in their mouth, and a twoedged sword in their hand;
7. To execute Vengeance upon the Heathen, and Punishments upon the People;
8. To bind their Kings with chains, and their Nobles with fetters of iron;
9. To execute upon them the Judgment written: this Honour have all his Saints. Praise ye the LORD.

We may not be able to appreciate this if we have not gone to the battlefield.

It is never a Great Sailor who never saw the Tempest; but when you have Passed through the battlefield and you are able to return home to Testify of your Experience in Spiritual Warfare, then you are able to say: “Praise Ye The Lord”.

Then your Song will Change and you will be able to sing to the Glory of God.

There were twelve thousand (12,000) Soldiers of old in the days of Moses and Joshua that were able to say exactly: “Praise Ye The Lord”.

In Numbers 31:48-50; the Bible says:

48. And the Officers which were over thousands of the Host, the Captains of thousands, and Captains of hundreds, came near unto Moses:
49. And they said unto Moses, Thy Servants have taken the sum of the Men of war which are under our Charge, and there lacketh not one man of us.
50. We have therefore brought an Oblation for the LORD, what every Man hath gotten, of Jewels of Gold, Chains, and Bracelets, Rings, Earrings, and Tablets, to make an Atonement for our Souls before the LORD.

… These were twelve thousand (12,000) Men – They went to battle and they were able to come back and they Testify that not one Soul was lost.

We have just fought a battle and we have just won – And so, we are here to appreciate God today!

I Pray that you will be Victorious in this Spiritual Warfare in the Mighty Name of Jesus – Amen!

Understanding that a Soldier is a Person that is hired by the State to defend the Sovereignty of the Country.

And so, a Soldier should be ready to die – You are hired to kill or be killed.

And that is what it takes even to be a Christian Soldier!

I Pray that you will always be Victorious and have occasions to do Thanksgiving in the Name of Jesus – Amen!

But there is a difference between that Soldier of the world who for his daily bread went to take a job.

A Christian Soldier is Conscripted Individual into the Army of the Lord.

DMC NOTES: Conscripted means “Enlisted” typically into the Armed Services.

John 15:16 says: You have not Chosen Him. He has Chosen you, He has Ordained you that you should go forth and bring forth fruits and that your fruits should remain; that whatsoever you will ask of your Father, He may give give it to you.

So, your receiving anything from the Father is on the Premise of your Commitment to the cause of Christ and doing this work because you are Conscripted into His Army already.

So, the Faithfulness of a Christian Soldier Supercedes the Loyalty demanded of a Worldly Soldier!

1 Corinthians 4:2 says: It is required of a Steward that a Man be found Faithful in our Services to the Lord.

I have told them in my Local Church (DMC NOTES: RCCG Pavilion of Redemption, Sugarland Texas USA) that I don’t want any “Loyal Person” around me because Loyal People are dangerous People.

The inclination of a Loyal Soldier is its generality is based on his Personal Interest and not in the Interest of the Person to whom he or she is Loyal to.

But the Bible talks about Faithfulness:

A Faithful Person stands and is adherent to the Principles that sustains the System.

So, a Loyal Person can defect if he or she has a better opportunity.

The Bible didn’t talk to us to be Loyal Soldiers, but to be Faithful Soldiers of the Lord Jesus Christ – DMC NOTES: 1 Timothy 1: 1-7.

1 Corinthians 10:12 says: Let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.

We need to understand in the Book of Numbers 22: 7-13 – Balaam was a reputable Prophet of his days and I want to call him a Soldier in his own days.

Balaam was a Man who was in Communication with God. And God will visit him and give him “Classified Information” about what he ought to do.

Unfortunately, this Man derailed.

Because you see, many People wants to operate in the Permissive Will of God.

There is a difference between the Permissive Will of God and the Perfect Will of God.

God did not formally or intentionally approved that this Man should go with the Elders of Moab and Midian.

But because of his Personal Inclination and Interest, God allowed him to operate in the Permissive Will.

And unfortunately, the Bible tells us in Numbers 31:8 – And they slew the Kings of Midian beside the rest of them that were slain.

And the latter Part of it says that: Balaam also, the son of Beor they slew with sword.

May you not be slain in the Mighty Name of Jesus – Amen!

Samson was a Good Man until he messed up!

You will not mess up in the Mighty Nane of Jesus Christ – Amen!

If I may just do a little Analysis of that Text – DMC NOTES: Numbers 31:2:

God spake to Moses saying: Avenge the Children of Israel of the Midianites.

And if you look at the Scriptures, you will come to see in the lower Part of it – DMC NOTES: Numbers 31:3:

And Moses spake unto the People saying, Arm some of yourselves unto the war and let them go against the Midianites and avenge the Lord of Midian.

The Instructions of God – God gave him the liberty to make Assessment of the situation and it was to avenge the Children of Israel of the Midianites.

And Moses is now saying: You are as a Christian Soldier, if I put it that way, avenge the Lord of the Midians.

So, that means that your Services to the Lord is not in your Personal Interest; it is not with Interior Motives, but it is with the Intention of Blessing the Lord!

So, the Action of a Christian Soldier must be taken in the Interest of the Lord!

Twelve thousand (12,000) Men went to battle and they are giving Testimony to say that: Thy Servant have taken the sum of the Men of war which are under our Charge and there lacketh not one Man of us.

WHAT WAS THE SECRET OF THEIR VICTORY?

1. Courage and Resilience.
2. They got their Bearing Right.
3. They are Calculated, Deliberate and Precise before getting into Motion.

☆ They were in Motion in the Right Direction.

4. High Velocity speeds up the time to Doom and Boom.

☆ Speeding in a wrong Direction is an Exercise in futility and frustration.

5. They Prepared for war at the time of Peace.

☆ Lack of adequate Preparation may result in becoming a Casualty or Prisoner of war or Victim of Captivity.

You should understand that battles are won at the time of Peace.

To understand this, we need to have this in our Mind:

1. We have just had a Momentary Victory.

We had the Congress – Everything had gone well.

This is a Momentary Victory.

Momentary Victory should be an Inspiration for the Ultimate Victory!

Our Ultimate Victory is to make it to Heaven!

2. Our Individual Efficiency accounts for our overall Effectiveness.

So, you cannot afford to be a Weakling.

3. The Strength of any Chain is determined by its Weakest Point

Galatians 6: 1-2 says: If anyone of us be overtaken in a fault; we that are Upright or Spiritual should correct such a Person with the Spirit of Weakness.

And then Proverbs 27:17 says: Iron sharpeneth iron; so a Man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.

You can’t afford to be a Weakling in the System!

4. We can’t afford to accommodate or Celebrate Mediocrity or Criminality.
5. We should have the Understanding that if our Subordinates are Criminals; everyone of us that are in Leadership are Potential or Prospective Prisoners.

1 Corinthians 9:27; Apostle Paul said that he put his body under.

2 Timothy 2:4 says: No Man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this Life, that he may Please him who hath Chosen him to be a Soldier.

I want to believe that Somebody under the Sound of my voice or reading now on the Label of DMC as Christian Soldiers will be able to return from the battle saying that we may be twelve thousand (12,000); but not one of us was lost.

May you not be lost in the Mighty Name of Jesus – Amen!

HOW THEN SHOULD YOU CELEBRATE YOUR VICTORY?

1. Acknowledge that Victory is of the Lord.
2. Return all the Glory to the Lord.
3. Surrender your Possessions to the Lord.
4. Be Completely yielded and Submissive to Divine dictates.

The Bible says in Numbers 31:50: We have therefore brought an oblation for the Lord, what every Man hath gotten of Jewels of Gold, Chains and Bracelers, Rings, Earrings and Tablets, to make an Atonement for our Souls before the Lord.

May you be able to bring everything to the Presence of the Lord at every moment of your Voctory in Jesus Name – Amen!

Because you will need whatever you had given back.

When the Day of Adversity came, David went back to the Temple and he was able to get his sword which he used to kill Goliath – DMC NOTES: 1 Samuel 21: 8-9.

If he didn’t put it in the Temple, he would not be able to get it back on the day of Adversity!

May we be Victorious at the end of it all and be counted worthy to spend Eternity in Heaven in Jesus Mighty Name – Amen!

Let us bow down our head to Pray:

And tell the Lord that we Thank You for the Victory – We have gone to battle and we have all returned with not one single Soul lost.

Father, we Thank You and we just Pray that you will sustain and uphold us in this race Oh Lord to the end.

That in Eternity in Heaven, not one of us will be lost in the Mighty Name of Jesus Christ.

Thank You Father for hearing us.

In Jesus Mighty Name we have Prayed – Amen!

God Bless You in Jesus Name – Amen!!!

Thank you so much for staying all through to read.

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