ONWARD CHRISTIAN SOLDIER – HOLY GHOST CONGRESS 2024 – (DAY3 EVENING SESSION) – BISHOP (DR) MIKE CHUKWUEINKE OKONKWO
RCCG HOLY GHOST CONGRESS 2024 (27TH EDITION)
THEME: ONWARD CHRISTIAN SOLDIER
MINISTERING (DAY 3 EVENING SESSION – TALK 1): BISHOP (DR) MIKE CHUKWUWEINKE OKONKWO (PRESIDING BISHOP, THE REDEEMED EVANGELICAL MISSION, (TREM) LAGOS NIGERIA)
TOPIC: UNSTOPPABLE
DATE: 11TH DECEMBER 2024
BIBLE TEXT: ESTHER 5: 1-3 AND EPHESIANS 4: 17-24
Lift up your hands and shout Hallelujah – Hallelujah!
Let’s Stand to our feet wherever you are:
Let’s Celebrate the Awesome God for bringing us together for another Congress and for seeing us through to the Momth of December.
We return all the Glory, the Honour and all the Adoration to Him.
Let us also Celebrate the Patriarch and Matriarch of this Great Commission – Daddy and Mummy GO.
Put your hands together for all their Labour of Love among all the Nations of the world – For depopulatiing the Kingdom of Darkness and establishing the Kingdom of God in different Nations of the world.
May God continue to Strengthen them, may God continue to Uphold them and may God continue to Honour them.
And all the Leaders of RCCG; we Celebrate each one of you.
I am going to read some Scriptures and then, we will Share what God has put in our Heart:
Esther 5:1-3:
- Now it came to pass on the third day, that Esther put on her Royal Apparel, and stood in the Inner Court of the King’s house, over against the King’s house: and the King sat upon his Royal Throne in the Royal house, over against the gate of the house.
- And it was so, when the King saw Esther the Queen standing in the Court, that she obtained favour in his sight: and the King held out to Esther the Golden Sceptre that was in his hand. So Esther drew near, and touched the top of the Sceptre.
- Then said the King unto her, What wilt thou, Queen Esther? and what is thy request? it shall be even given thee to the half of the Kingdom.
Please, indulge me and let’s go to:
Ephesians 4:17-24:
- This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,
- Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:
- Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.
- But ye have not so learned Christ;
- If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus:
- That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;
- And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;
- And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.
I will be speaking briefly on what I Titled: “UNSTOPPABLE”.
OPENING PRAYER
Father, Thank You for Your Word.
The Entrance of Your Word gives Life and it gives Understanding to the Simple.
The Hearts of Your People are opened to receive the Mysteries of the Kingdom.
Thank You for Clarity and Precision of Expression.
And we Covenant in advance that the Glory, the Honour and the Adoration be ascribed to You.
Everyone that believed, shout a “Loud Amen” – Amen!
Tell your Neighbour that: “You are Unstoppable”.
We live in a world that is Spirally downwards – The world is becoming more brutal and wicked and things are getting worst and worst.
And the Bible invariably tells us about that, that in the Last Days, Perilous Times shall come.
And it tells us in Isaiah 60: 1-3 – It says that a Believer should:
- Arise, Shine; for thy Light is come, and the Glory of the LORD is risen upon thee.
- For, behold, the Darkness shall cover the Earth, and Gross Darkness the People: but the LORD shall arise upon thee, and his Glory shall be seen upon thee.
- And the Gentiles shall come to thy Light, and Kings to the Brightness of thy rising.
But if we must be Unstoppable and we must Shine in the midst of the Present Day Challenges; then you must be sure of your Identity!
Your Identity must never be rattled by the devil as you must know:
☆ Who you are.
☆ What you have.
☆ And the Authority you weird as a Christian.
Christianity is not what you put on and put off – It is a Lifestyle!
As a matter of fact, that is your Life – You don’t put it on on Sundays only or on Congress Days or on Convention Days and then after that, you put it off.
That is the bane of a lot of Christians – They put on their Christian Life in Church but after Service, anyhow Life. And yet they wondered how they are being defeated by the world?
Hear this: The Bible tells us in Genesis 1:26 that God made Man in His Own Image and Likeness.
Genesis 1:28 says that: He blessed us – That was the first Word of God to a Man that He made in His Image.
You carry God’s DNA (DMC NOTES: DNA means Deoxyribonucleic acid).
You are God’s Class as a Believer and so you cannot afford to live anyhow.
He Blessed them and said: Be Fruitful, Multiply, Replenish the Earth, Subdue the Earth and have Dominion over what He has Created.
Child of God, you are in God’s Agenda and you are Part of His Global Plan for Humanity.
He knew you before you were born – Jeremiah says: Before I formed you, I knew you, while you are still in your mother’s womb I Ordained you as a Prophet to the Nations (DMC NOTES: Jeremiah 1:5).
And it tells us in Romans 8:29- 30:
- For whom He did foreknow, he also Predestinate to be conformed to the Image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many Brethren.
- Moreover, whom He did Predestinate, them He also called, and whom He called, them He also Justified, and whom He Justified, them He also Glorified
You are Called for Glory and not for Shame, Disgrace, Reproach or Embarrassment.
Ephesians 1:4 says: According as He hath Chosen us in Him before the Foundation of the world, that we should be Holy and without Blame before Him in Love.
You are Part of His Agenda and not an Accident of Birth.
God is not Pushing Up with you, God is not ashamed of you and God is not disappointed in you.
He believed in who He has made you to be and knows that you are going to turn out the way He has designed.
The Challenge is you yourself:
☆ Do you know who He made you to be?
☆ Do you know whose Blood you carry?
☆ Do you understand the Image of Him who you carry?
Because if you are ignorant of what He has made you to be; you can never express it.
The world will trample upon you, the world will humiliate you and the world will disgrace you – Not because God has not made Provisions for you but because you are Ignorant.
For God’s People are destroyed for Lack of Knowledge – Hosea 4:6.
And they have gone into Captivity because of Ignorance – Isaiah 5:13.
Proverbs 11:9(b) says: But through Knowledge shall the Just be delivered.
That is why Paul all through his Letters was always: “Besieging” that they should know that I will not have you Ignorant of Spiritual Gifts – 1 Corinthians 12:1.
Please also know that in the Last Days, Perilous Times shall come – 2 Timothy 3:1.
And He Prays in Ephesians 1:17-23 that:
- That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of Glory, may give unto you the Spirit of Wisdom and Revelation in the Knowledge of him:
- The eyes of your Understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the Hope of his Calling, and what the riches of the Glory of his inheritance in the Saints,
- And what is the exceeding Greatness of his Power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his Mighty Power,
- Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the Heavenly Places,
- Far above all Principality, and Power, and might, and Dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come:
- And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the Church,
- Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.
Knowledge! If you don’t know, the devil will make a mincemeat out of you.
These are not the days for you not to be established in your Identity.
My Bible Text says: Put on the New Man – Put it on and you don’t put if off (DMC NOTES: Ephesians 4:24).
When the devil comes against you, He is looking out for the New Man. He is not looking out for Adam but looking out for the New Man in Christ.
If any Man be in Christ, He is a Brand New Specie of Being that has never existed before.
Colossians 2:6-10 says:
- As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him:
- Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with Thanksgiving.
- Beware lest any Man spoil you through Philosophy and vain deceit, after the Tradition of Men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
- For in him dwelleth all the Fullness of the Godhead bodily.
- And ye are Complete in him, which is the head of all Principality and Power:
You carry God wherever you are going!
☆ How can you be carrying God and the devil will be leading you? – That is an aberration.
☆ You are carrying God and you are being Stopped by the devil?
☆ You ate carrying God, seated with Him in Heavenly Places and the devil is telling you when to eat and when not to eat? Think of it!
Enough of comimg to Church without coming to learn something.
I am tired of People comimg to Church and they are learning Nothing.
There is Nothimg God wants to do again – The Scriptures tells us that all the Promises of God in Him are “Yea and Amen” (DMC NOTES: 2 Corinthians 1:20).
God has already said “Yes” to every Promises and Needs that you have – And so, Nothing is left out.
☆ When He gave you His Life, He gave you His all.
☆ And when He gave you the Holy Spirit, He gave you everything you need to actualize what He has given you.
Your Problem is Ignorance of Identity – And it is very Key that you know that!
If you read the New International Version (NIV) of Genesis 3:1; you will noticed that the devil will always come to Challenge your Identity.
DMC NOTES: Genesis 3:1 (NIV Version) says: Now the Serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the Garden’?”
He came to Eve and said: “Did God really say …”
And the same Question comes to us everyday:
☆ God tells you something that He has done in your Life.
☆ He tells you what He has Called you to be
☆ He tells you the Power you weird.
☆ He tells you your Identity.
☆ He tells you your Authority.
☆ He tells you how to live your Life and be Victorious.
And the devil jumps on your Shoulder and ask you: “Did God really say that?”
And more often than not, many of us listen to that and we make God a liar!
All His Promises are “Yea and Amen” – Our Part is to say Amen!
I don’t know what you Need in this Congress:
I. Is it for you to be Healed? – God has already said Amen!
II. Is it for you to have a Child? – God has already said Amen!
III. Is it for your Promotion? – God has already said Amen!
IV. Is it that you want to build a House? – God has already said Amen!
V. Is it that you want to get Married? – God has already said Amen!
Whatever the Need is, Heaven has said Amen!
This issue of Identity was so critical that God has to ensure that before Jesus Christ went into the Ministry, it has to be Settled!
That was why He announced it to Heaven, Earth and Hell – This is my “Beloved Son” in whom I am well Pleased.
I am sure that the devil came to Jesus Christ as he came to Adam and Eve – If thou be the Son of God!
He has no New Tricks – It is still the same Old Tricks.
The devil goes about with Deception and Craftiness – And so, if you are Ignorant; you will always fall Prey to Him!
When He came to Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ told him that you are already late – I know my Identity.
I don’t take orders from you as my Father has already Spoken to me who I am.
You must know who you are in these days and hours – It is very Key!
These are not the days to Play Church and Play Games with your Christian Experience.
It is not the day to say that you are a Christian and your Life is not showing it.
Colossians 3:1-4:
- If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.
- Set your affection on things above, not on things on the Earth.
- For ye are dead, and your Life is hid with Christ in God.
- When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in Glory.
Back to the Story of Esther – You all know her Story and I don’t wish to bore you down with it.
The entire Jews were in a very Precarious situation.
According to the Laws that can never be Violated, it has been decreed that they were going to be killed – All the Jews.
And God, who is All-Knowing in advance has Strategically Positioned Esther there ahead of time.
But Esther had it twisted with her Identity.
And so Mordecai came to her and said: Esther, all yoir Brethren are in jeopardy and God has put you in a Position to ensure that we were all delivered.
Esther was giving Excuse – She says: Everyone knows in the Land that once a Decree goes, no one goes to the King.
Hear this: Esther wears three (3) Garments – Many atimes, we only knows one.
- Her Slave Garment
Because in those days, Slaves have Garment.
That Slave Garment is what brought her into Captivity in the house of King Ahasuerus (DMC NOTES: Ahasuerus is a Persian Monarch)
But that Garment was Changed during the Beauty Pageant.
- The Second Garment was the Beauty Garment.
And Esther was Glamorous with it – And that is what some of us do:
☆ We Celebrate our Position.
☆ We Celebrate what we have acquired.
☆ We Celebrate our Houses.
☆ We Celebrate our families.
And there is nothing wrong with that – But we do it at the detriment of the Purpose of God concerning our Life.
Her Life was in jeopardy as Esther was Celebrating Beauty Pageant Dress!
I won’t know how many of us here or reading now on the Label of DMC that are Celebrating their Beauty Pageant Garment – But they are about to die!
When you look at the Bible Text that we read very closely (DMC NOTES: Esther 5:1-3); the Bible told us that Esther Fasted and Prayed.
- After she Fasted and Prayed, Esther put on the Third Garment – The Royal Apparel Garment.
She must have put off the Beauty Pageant Garment because that Garment cannot make her Unstoppable.
She put off the Beauty Garment and then put on the Royal Garment that Places her in Authority.
She was no longer seen as Esther, “The wife of the King” but as Esther, “The Queen”.
Authority has crept in and there was no way that the King can ever deny her.
King speaks to Queen – Esther was Queen and she has Rights.
Child of God; you have been defeated because you have removed your Royal Garment!
You are a Chosen Generation, a Royal Priesthood, a Holy Nation, a Peculiar Person; set aside to show forth the Praises of Him who has Called us out of Darkness into His Marvelous Light.
You are not just a Nobody and you are not a Pushover – You are a King and Queen!
Therefore, the time has come for Believers to begin to function as Kings and Queens.
The reason that you behaved anyhow is because you don’t know that you are a Royalty!
That is why you can mess up and it doesn’t matter to you – Royalty don’t behave anyhow:
☆ They don’t talk anyhow.
☆ They don’t dress anyhow.
Whatever they do, they are cautious of their Identity!
I am Closing with this Story:
A Young Man was going for an Interview and his father was very Influencier.
And he said to his father: I am going for this Interview, can you Please give me a Note to submit to the Interviewers.
Because you know that everyone knows you – Once I give your Note to them, my case is Settled.
The father said that I am not going to give you any Note.
And this Young Man was rattled and didn’t understand – Why should his father not give him Note? Did he not want me to Succeed?
And this Young Man was complaining and the father asked him – Have you Changed your name? And he said No.
He said, then go for the Interview.
And the Young Man was still confused and spoke to a friend of his.
He said see, I don’t understand this Man – I’m going for Interview, he is Influencier. I told him to give me Note and he said he won’t give me. He said to me whether I have Changed my name.
And the Person said to him: Are you Stupid? Don’t you understand what your father is telling you?
The father said: What do they call you?
He said Junior.
You carry my first name and you my Last name.
He said that unless you have Changed your name, go for the Interview.
And he went to the Interview – When they ask him his name, he just gave them.
Apparently, the father was owning fifty something plus Percent of that Company.
There was no Interview – All they needed was his name. They only want to know which area he will fit in and they fitted him in.
PROPHETIC DECLARATIONS
Have you Changed your father’s name?
If you haven’t Changed your father’s name, I cane to Congress 2024 to declare to you that:
Your Case is Settled
No Power of Darkness will stop you.
Your Story will Change.
In the Name of Jesus, Year 2024 will not end without your Testimony.
Your Year 2025 will be Glorious!
Somebody shout Hallelujah – Hallelujah!
CLOSING PRAYER
I speak the Blessings of Heaven, the Blessings of Earth and the Blessings of Deep over your Life.
Your Ground will Produce for you.
Heaven over you will never be shut.
Nothing will cut Short your Life.
You will get there.
Thank You Jesus!
Receive all the Glory, Honour and Adoration – Amen!
Everyone shout Amen – Amen!!!
Thank you so much for staying all through to read.
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