FOR WHOM THE HEAVENS OPEN – PART 28: PASTOR E.A ADEBOYE- SPECIAL RCCG ONLINE SUNDAY SERVICE, 29TH OCTOBER, 2023.
SPECIAL RCCG ONLINE SUNDAY SERVICE
TOPIC: FOR WHOM THE HEAVENS OPEN – PART 28 (CASE STUDY OF JOSHUA (PART 15) – “THE POWER OF A SHOUT”)
MINISTERING: PASTOR E.A ADEBOYE
DATE: 29TH OCTOBER 2023
BIBLE TEXT: JOSHUA 6:20
Let Us Pray!
SONG
Holy; Holy, Holy, Holy
Holy, Holy, Holy
Holy is the Lord
Hallelujah
Holy; Holy, Holy, Holy
Holy, Holy, Holy
Holy is the Lord
Mighty; Mighty, Mighty, Mighty
Mighty, Mighty, Mighty
Mighty is the Lord
Hallelujah
Mighty; Mighty, Mighty, Mighty
Mighty, Mighty, Mighty
Mighty is the Lord
OPENING PRAYER
Our Father and our God – The All Sufficient God.
The One who is Higher than the highest, Greater than the greatest, Better than the best, Older than the oldest, Richer than the richest – We Worship You. Please accept our Worship in Jesus Name.
Today, in the lives of all Your Children; Please demonstrate Your Almightiness.
In Jesus Mighty Name we have Prayed – Amen.
Praise the Lord – Hallelujah!
Well, shake hands with one (1) or two (2) People and say: God will bless you Mightily today – Amen.
And then, you may Please be seated.
We will move on to Part 28 of our Series: For Whom The Heavens Open; using Joshua as our Example.
We have learnt in the Last Series about “The Beauty of Silence” because we say that Wise People are usually Quiet and a Fool is known by the Multitude of words.
I am sure that since this Last Series, you Probably must have been re-examing your Relationship with some “Talkative People” – People that shouldn’t be your friend.
Because if they have Nothimg else to say in any case, they are likely to reveal your Secrets.
The Elders has a saying when they say: What the Wise Man said in Secret, you will hear it from the mouth of a Fool in Public.
… Learn to be Quiet – That is where the beauty of Silence lies!
But we want to move further on now – There are several other things still in Joshua Chapter 6. And there are still many, many more things we want to learn from the Life of Joshua.
So, we are going to Joshua 6:20 – Meaning that we have jumped many Verses.
At least that is the way I feel. If the Holy Spirit says No, go back and learn everything Verse by Verse, you trust me that I will obey Him.
But now; Joshua 6:20 – So the People shouted when the Priests blew with the Trumpets: and it came to Pass, when the People heard the sound of the Trumpet, and the People shouted with a Great Shout, that the Wall fell down flat, so that the People went up into the City, every man straight before him, and they took the City.
Today, I want to talk to you about: “THE POWER OF SHOUT”.
Everything about our God is Super – Supper Big, Gigantic etc.
There is Nothing small about God at all:
I. His Legs according to Isaiah 66:1 – His Leg reach all the way from Heaven to the Earth. Those Legs are long.
II. His Arms – Oh, they are Everlasting Arms.
Deuteronomy 33:27 – Underneath are the Everlasting Arms.
III. His Eyes – They are Big.
2 Chronicles 16:9 – His eyes can see the whole Earth as they are not small eyes.
IV. His Nose according to Exodus 16:8; it says that He breathe on the sea, the sea Parted and you must know that is not an “Ordinary Nose”.
V. His Ears – Waoh, are Big.
Psalms 65:2 says: Unto thee shall all flesh come, thou who heareth Prayers.
You can imagine the ear that can hear all the Prayers of all flesh at the same time!
VI. His Position – This is extremely High.
Psalms 91:1 calls Him “The Most High”.
Ecclesiastes 5:8 calls Him “The One who is Higher than the highest”.
VII. His Resources:
Psalms 24:1 says that the Earth is the Lord and the Fullness.
Haggai 2:8 says Silver is Mine, Gold is Mine.
The “Little” that you have in your hand; you got it from Him.
Psalms 50:10 – He says that all the Cattles upon the thousand Hills, they are mine.
VIII. His Power – When you talk about Super Power.
Psalms 62:11, my Father said: All Power belongs to me.
He is the Almighty; the All Sufficient – Genesis 17:1.
Everything about God is Super – Super Big, Super Large, Gigantic, Super Great.
And so you can understand that when He says when you are dealing with me; don’t treat me casually as I am not your toy, I am not your Size, I am not your Rank. Don’t treat me as you will treat your Earthly fathers and mothers or your Governor, and President as I am Super.
And so He says – If you want to eulogies me, if you want to Celebrate me, if you want to show me that you appreciate me; do it in a “Big Way”.
- My Father said it in Psalms 47:1 – Clap your hands all ye People.
He is calling on everybody on Earth and He says: You want to Clap for me; all of you do it together.
Maybe the combination of all your Clappings will show your Appreciation of how Big I am.
- And when you read Revelation 5:11; you will see the Size of His Choir.
The Bible calls His Angels, those who are singing His Praises – Thousands times Thousands; Ten Thousands times Ten Thousands and then Thousands of Thousands.
- You know that the Almighty God said it in Psalms 98:28 – It says, this Human Beings; we don’t know how much we can trust them.
And so He said to the Oceans, keep Clapping – Let the Floods Clap.
That is why you find what we called the waves constantly – The waters in the ocean rising and crashing down (Clapping).
- In Isaiah 55:12; He says that even the trees are to Clap.
- And the Bible says that His Choir never rest Day and Night – Revelation 4:8.
They are always there singing – Holy, Holy, Holy; Non-Stop.
- And like something which will explain to you why I ask you to shout Hallelujah.
Because it is a Preparation – I’m Preparing you for Heaven as Heaven is not a Quiet Place at all.
If you don’t like Noise, don’t go to Heaven.
Read Revelation 19:6 – It says that when they shout Hallelujah in Heaven, it sounds like a “Mighty Thunder”.
… I like that!
So, those of you listening to me now or reading now on the Label of DMC- May I just give you an opportunity to shout Hallelujah (Hallelujah!)
To get His attention, He expects all the People to Praise Him:
- Psalms 67:5 says: Let the People Praise You, then our God will bless us and the whole Earth will fear Him.
He has the Ability to bless you in a Fearful Way!
He has a way of blessing you in such a manner that you will say: This is “Too Much” and He will say that I have not started.
He has a way of Anointing your Head with Oil and the cup will keep on running over and He will say that I have much more where this is coming from.
And I thank the Almighty God for the saying of the Elders – They said: When God decides to fight for you, by the time He finishes, even you will be afraid. That is God!
Now He said that if all the People will Praise Him; our God will so bless us that the whole Earth will fear Him.
- And you know what – When somebody as Great as that is on the Move, it takes quite a bit of Noise to herald His coming,
When someone like the size of our God is on the Move:
I. You are likely to hear Noise.
In Acts 2: 1-4; on the Day of Pentecost, when all the People were in one accord; suddenly there was a Sound like a rushing Mighty Wind.
… A lot of Noise to say: Hey, God is on the way!
II. In 1 Kings 19: 9-12 – When He waa about to talk to Elijah, the Bible tells us that the Wind blew – Mighty winds breaking bones, stones and rocks.
God hasn’t come yet – That was just a Forerunner.
Then there was an Earthquake – Forerunner.
Then there was a Fire – Forerunner or Despatch Riders.
Before Daddy later arrived and then He spoke in that Small Still Voice.
III. In 1 Samuel 4: 4-5 – When the Ark of Covenant arrived in the Camp of the Israelites; there was so much shout that the Ground shook.
- The Power of a shout is that God wants your “Full Attention”.
You want Him to do something for you; you want Him to Pull down your Wall of Jericho, you want Him to move the Immovable for you – He wants you to approach Him with your Full Attention!
Nobody shouts casually – When you shout, all that is within you will be involved.
You remember that David said – Bless the Lord Oh my Soul and all that is within me bless His Holy Name (Psalms 103:1).
If you shout, it is not just your voice doing the work now – Your Liver, your Heart, your Lungs and infact everything will be involved in a shout.
And Deuteronomy 4:29 says: Seek Him with all your Heart.
When the Bible says that He is listening to all the Prayers of all flesh – He is busy taking care of everybody in the whole world and you want to get His attention?
One Individual? He asked you to shout!
When He said – Clap your hands all ye People.
What did He say next? Shout unto God – He loves shouting.
He says: Make a Joyful Noise unto the Lord, all ye the Earth.
Oh, I know that my “Respected Elders” will tell me that in the House of God, there should be Silence.
And believe me honestly, they have Passages to quote to support that – The Lord is in His Temple, let the whole Earth keep Silent before Him.
That is when He wants to talk so that you can hear Him.
That is true – How are you going to hear Him if He wants to talk and you are rowdy?
But He dwells in the Praises of His People – He comes in when you are Praising Him
But you enter His Gates with Thanksgiving, come into His Court with Praise – Praise Him, Shout, Jump.
Miracles can happen when you shout!
Some of you will remember the Story of a Lady – Wealthy Woman and she just discovered That she had a Problem; whatever she ate, she vomited.
And she went everywhere and the Doctors did all kinds of Tests on her but they couldn’t find anything wrong.
And she came to Ebute Metta (DMC NOTES: This is the National Headquarters Parish of RCCG in Lagos Nigeria) and I just said: Let everybody shout Hallelujah
As she opened her mouth to shout, out came a worm – That worm must have been Demonic because it didn’t appear on any of the Xray.
And that was the end of the Problem.
DMC NOTES: X-rays are a form of Electromagnetic Radiation, similar to Visible Light. Unlike Light, however, X-rays have higher energy and can pass through most objects, including the body. Medical X-rays are used to generate images of tissues and structures inside the body.
Maybe, Somebody should shout Hallelujah – Hallelujah!
He said shout! Why? Because you are His Children and He loves you.
And because He loves you, you are More than a Conqueror. And the Winning Side is a Shouting Side.
In 1 Samuel 17: 51-52; the Bible tells us that when the children of Israel saw that Goliath was dead. That the one who has been terrorising them for forty (40) days and forty (40) Nights, that his head was now in the Hand of David cut off; the Bible said that they shouted with a Big Shout.
And all of you who are Pretending that you can’t open your mouth to shout, that you are “Too Sophisticated” to shout, that butter can’t melt in your mouth; when you are on a Football field in a Stadium and your Team scores a goal, you forget that you are a Governor, President, Chief or Proffesor and you shout.
My Prayer for everyone of you is that you will never shout in Pain – Amen!
He says: Make a Joyful Noise – You are a Victor and Winners are always shouting.
- You know in 1 Thessalonians 4:16; the Bible tells us that one of the ways that you will know that the Lord finally Returned is that the Lord Himself will descend with a Big Shout and there will be the Sound of Trumpet.
Oh, my Daddy loves Trumpet because it can make quite a Good Noise.
But let me Conclude because of Time:
When you are Stingy with Praising God, you rob yourself of many benefits.
In Acts 16: 25-end – Paul and Silas were in Prison; the People who put them in Prison are well known for killing People; Particularly Christians.
They gave Instructions to the Jailer – Make sure you keep them safe and not escape. Put them in Chains and a very Secured Place.
The Bible says that at Midnight, Paul and Silas Prayed and sang Praises unto the Lord – And they didn’t do it quietly.
The Bible said that the Prisoners heard them.
… Just two People, having a Night Vigil and every Prisoners in the Prison heard – They were not doing it Quietly.
And suddenly the Lord of Host arrived – Because He said that I am seeking for Worshippers (Anywhere People are Worshipping me; I will show up).
He showed up – What happened?
- The Ground shook.
Because the One who arrived, His Legs are Big Legs and so anytime He is moving, the Earth begins to shake.
By the time He arrived, there will be an Earthquake.
II. Prison Doors were flung Open.
III. And because the Anointed One had come, Anointing destroyed the Yokes.
Everybody bonds were loosed.
IV. And the Jailers became their Servant.
The one who was supposed to keep them safe, was the one who washed their wounds and Provided food for them.
V. And by the following Morning, those who threw them in Prison came to beg them out.
A. Learn to Praise Him – Nobody can bind you.
B. Learn to Praise Him – There is no yoke that will be able to stay.
C. Learn to Praise Him – Your Enemies will become your Servants.
D. Learn to Praise Him – And those who are mocking you will come down and bow before you.
The Choice is yours!
The Next Time I asked you to Praise God, do it whichever way you like – Do it quietly or you do it with all your Strength.
ALTAR CALL
As for those of you who are not yet Born Again, how can you begin to Praise the One that you have not yet called Lord.
But if you Cross Over to His Side and now you begin to Praise Him like you ought to; you will experience the Power of Praise and your Life will never remain the same.
So, those of you who wants to give your Life to Jesus, you bow your Head now and call on Him to save your Soul.
Tell Him – Be my Saviour and I will be one of the “Loudest People” Praising You.
He will receive You, He will save Your Soul.
So call on Him and I will Pray with you now!
PRAYER FOR SALVATION AND CLOSING PRAYER
So my Father and my God; from the bottom of my Heart, I am saying Thank You.
Thank You for Your Words and Thank You for all those who has made up their Hearts that from now on, they want to serve You, they want to Praise You in Spirit and in Truth.
Please receive them Lord, save their Souls, let Your Blood wash away their sins and receive them into the Family of God.
And now, anytime they shout unto You, destroy the Yokes in their lives.
As for those Your Children who are already Born Again – Everything that has been shutting their mouths; my Father and my God, remove it today.
And as they begin to Praise You with all their Strength; my Father and my God, let every Wall of Jericho fall before them and let Your Name forever be Glorified.
Thank You Father.
In Jesus Mighty Name we have Prayed – Amen!
Praise the Lord – Hallelujah!
Now, I rejoice with those of you who has given your Life to Jesus Christ.
Please, contact me and I Promise you that I will be Praying for you.
I need to know your names, Addresses and Prayer Requests.
Please visit any of The Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) near you – Tell the Pastor there that I sent you because you have given your Life to Jesus Christ and he will tell you what to do next,
God Bless You!
Praise the Lord – Hallelujah!
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