Category: Digging Deep

RCCG ONLINE CENTRAL DIGGING DEEP SERVICE TEACHING

MINISTERING: PASTOR JOHNSON FOLORUNSHO ODESOLA (ASSISTANT GENERAL OVERSEER (AGO) ADMIN. AND PERSONNEL, RCCG)

TOPIC: IN THE FATHER’S HOUSE

DATE: 1ST DECEMBER, 2020

BIBLE TEXT: LUKE 15:11-23

Praise the Name of the Lord! We appreciate God for the rendition by the Choir. We Thank God for what they have done today; God has laid His hand upon them again.

The Lord will bless you Choir – Amen. The King of Glory will continue to Anoint you from Glory to Glory; from Honour to Honour – Amen!

And I want to appreciate my father in Lord for another Privilege – Daddy, I love you! Thank you for giving me this Privilege. And God of Heaven shall continually Anoint you, in Jesus’ Name – Amen.

Shall we just Pray?

SONG

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

Praise God – Hallelujah
Praise God – Amen;
Praise God – Hallelujah
Praise God – Amen!

OPENING PRAYER

Eternal Father, we want to give You Glory, we want to give You Honour, we want to give You Praise!

You are the One that is Worthy to be Praised, You are Worthy to be Adored. What a Mighty and Glorious God we serve!

We want to appreciate You for the Privilege to come and connect to Digging Deep again today.

Thank You for the Miracles and Wonders You have done over the few weeks and Months – We want to say THANK YOU.

Thank You for Healing, Thank You for Encouragement, Thank You for Correction, Thank You for Comfort, Thank You for Reprove. We just want to say THANK YOU!

… Lord, accept our Thanks in the Name of Jesus!

Everyone who has written for Prayer – for Healing, for Breakthrough, for You to make ways where none exists; I Pray You will answer all of them today. There would be Testimonies that will replace their requests in the Name of Jesus.

Father, I commit myself to You today again; I don’t know anything but Privilege has been given to me by my Father in the Lord.

I Pray that I will not do Violence to Your Word; that everything I will say today would bring Glory to Your Name.

Thank You my Father, we Worship and Adore You. Blessed be Your Holy and Lofty Name.

In Jesus’ Mighty Name we Pray – Amen!

Praise the Name of the Lord – Hallelujah!

Today we are going to be looking at: IN THE FATHER’S HOUSE.

…Or you can call it: In MY Father’s House; in YOUR Father’s House.

And I am going to read from Luke 15:11-23.

And it says:

11 And he said, A certain man had two sons:

12 And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me. And he divided unto them his living.

13 And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living.

14 And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want.

15 And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.

16 And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him.

17 And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!

18 I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee,

19 And am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants.

20 And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.

21 And the son said unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called thy son.

22 But the father said to his servants, Bring forth the best robe, and put it on him; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet:

23 And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it; and let us eat, and be merry:

The Lord bless the Reading and Hearing of His Word, in Jesus’ Name – Amen.

In YOUR Father’s House, in MY Father’s House, in the HOUSE of the Father.

The Bible talks about a man who had two (2) sons – One of them went to his Daddy and said: “The way I’m looking at you daddy, you will stay long before you die! I want my portion now.”

… And the Bible says, he divided unto them.

In this Particular story, there are so many things that jump on us:

• You see the Story of Self-Righteousness of the no Prodigal son.
• You see the story of the Prodigal son, the brother of the prodigal son.

But I will be looking at that Particular Passage from: “MY FATHER’S HOUSE” Perspective.

And I have a Father – The King of Glory is His Name;The King of Kings; The Lord of Lords.

Because the Story is referring to God the Father; the Father of Mankind – That is my Father!

The Creator of the Heaven and Earth. The One Who orders the heart of Kings and President. The Commander of the Kings of the Earth, He is the Eternal King – That is my Father!

The Only Creator Who was not created; the One Who spoke Light into existence. The Sovereign; the One Who sits at the Apex Court of Heaven and does justice according to His righteousness.

He said the hair on my head is numbered – Not counted!

So, when a strain falls, they are numbered.

He counts the grains of sand on the Seashore – That is my Father!

And I can speak of Him Proudly.

Heaven and Earth cannot contain my Father – The entire world is His footstool.

In Psalms 24:1; the Bible says: “The Earth is the Lord’s, and the Fullness.”

So the Gold, the Silver, the Oil that People are contending with belongs to my Father!

My Father is the Great I AM, the Unchangeable Changer, the One that cannot lie.

And Jesus also allurded to that, when He was talking in John 14:2.

He said: “In my Father’s house are many mansions.”

… We are not talking about that today!

But we are looking at it from the Perspective of this Story in our Bible Text – Luke 15:11-23.

In verse 12 (Luke 15:12); the Father divided for them – The young man took his Portion, and off he went!

It is okay to ask for your Portion; but the bad thing the young man did was the fact that he moved Away from the Father!

And when you MOVE AWAY from your Father, you are OUTSIDE His Control; you are OUTSIDE His Protection; you are OUTSIDE His Guidance.

… So, he departed from the Presence of his father!

You can also listen to the audio here: In The Father’s House – Pastor J.F Odesola

Let’s mention SEVEN (7) THINGS – the EXPERIENCES of the Prodigal Son OUTSIDE of his Father’s House.

And I’m going to tell you SEVEN (7) THINGS that you will EXPERIENCE when you STAY in your Father’s House.

No! Christianity is LIFE!

And that is why you need to put your life in it. That is why everything about you should be woven together and used to the Glory of God.

THE EXPERIENCES OF THE PRODIGAL SON OUTSIDE HIS FATHER’S HOUSE

1. His first (1st) Experience is found in Luke 15:13 – “And there wasted his substance with riotous living.”

Anyone who leaves his Father’s Presence would SPEND EVERYTHING.

… This man spent everything!

All those who leave the Presence of God, all those who depart from their Father’s House would always waste their Lives; waste their Time, waste their Potential, waste their Resources.

All those who depart from their Father’s House live “Wasteful Lives” – They waste Time, they waste Money, they waste Talent, they waste Destiny!

And at the end of the day, they never make headway in life.

What is the essence of the wealth you are gathering, when you are not Planning to make it to Eternal Life?

What is the essence of the wealth you are gathering, when you are not Planning on using it to Impact Lives?

… He WASTED everything!

Maybe you are reading this Message now on the Label of DMC, you believed you are in the Presence of your Father, but you are no longer there! You have veered away like the Prodigal son – God loves you – it’s time to come back home.

People who are OUTSIDE their Father’s House WASTE EVERYTHING.

God of Restoration is calling you to return home today.

Remember He says in Joel 2:25: “And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.”

Anyone who leaves his Father’s House will live a wasted life.

That is why it is not ideal to remain a sinner.

And if you are Born Again, stay in the Presence of your Father.

2. The second (2nd) Experience of that Boy is found in Luke 15:14 – “And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in WANT.”

When you are OUTSIDE of your Fathers’s Control, you are WITHOUT RESTRAINT.

It is only when you are outside your Father’s House that you spend ALL because outside your Father’s House, you are OUT OF CONTROL.

You know People go into sin today – They steal at will without any feeling of guilt.

Some others commit adultery and fornication without any remorse whatsoever.

And still go to Church, they say they are lifting up Holy hands: with adultery and fornication, stealing, cheating and defrauding others.

… Because there is no RESTRAIN.

This young man, the Bible said, went outside his Father’s House and he lost everything because his Wise Father would have advised him.

3. In that same Luke 15:14; ‘he began to be in WANT.”

Those who are OUTSIDE their Father’s House are NEVER SATISFIED – They are always in the “Wanting State”.

He began to be in Want of WISDOM, he began to be in want of PEACE, he began to be in want of JOY, he began to be in want of HEALING, he began to be in want of CONNECTION, he began to be in want of SOCIAL LIIFE.

Because he had Left his Father’s House, he began to be in want of ORDER – His Life was without order.

All those who are outside their Father’s House, are in the “Wanting State” – The State of LACK;

But God is our sufficiency – According to -2 Corinthians 3:5.

That is why you must remain in your Father’s House.

Psalms Chapter 36:8-9 says: “They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of THY HOUSE; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy Pleasures. For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light.”

It’s only in the Father’s House you can be abundantly satisfied!

Outside your Father’s House, OH – LACK – Lack of Protection, Lack of Joy, Lack of Satisfaction and the likes!

… Void, emptiness. He began to be in WANT.

4. In Luke 15:15 – “And he went and joined himself to a Citizen of that Country;”

*All those who are OUTSIDE their Father’s House will always be JOINED TO STRANGERS – Strange People would always be their companion.

How can you, a Believer because you have waited so long before marriage; you now pick a spouse among the daughters of Jezebel, among the sons of Belial? – Joining yourself with strangers!

Those who leave their Father’s House asocciate with strangers!

And because of that, they begin to have “Strange Experiences”; demons find expressions in their lives.

Outside your Father’s Hous, outside your Father’s umbrella – strangers will torment and afflict you.

There are some of you, because you are outside the counsel of God; you have joined yourself together with strangers.

Please, take Note: There is nothing Good that will come out of Unholy Association;

Just one stranger can destroy your life; and one Good Fellow can turn your life around.

• Just like Elijah turned around the life of Elisha.
• Moses turned around the life of Joshua.

The meeting of Joseph with Pharaoh took him from Prison to the Palace.

When you are outside your father’s house abuse is inevitable.

Strangers will use you abuse you and dump you.

The Prodigal son used to be very rich but when he joined strangers he became Poor – The strangers trained him and finished everything he had, and left him empty. And he started feeding pigs.

You are out there reading this message from the Label of DMC and you are feeding swine; because you have departed from your father’s Presence.

It is not the Will of God for you to feed swine. You are feeding swine; relating with People that had no Value to your life.

5. In Luke 15:15 – “And he sent him into his fields to feed swine.”

Anyone OUTSIDE his Father’s House will be living in SERVITUDE.

He became a servant!

All those living outside their Father’s house will always be servants – Servant to the devil, servant to all those who ought to be their servants.

… Servant to those who are less than them!

They will be doing “Odd jobs” – Jobs that don’t bring dignity to their life.

And he was feeding swine in order to feed himself.

No man gave him food, because all those living outside their father’s house will do jobs that are not clean; make sure doing jobs that doesn’t bring Glory and Dignity to God;

Jobs that demean them into the lowest state of their lives.

And they will always be servant to the Devil.

6. Luke 15:16 – “And no man gave unto him.”

Anyone OUTSIDE his Fathers’s House will always live in LACK.

In other words; he lacked favour because he wasn’t in the Presence of God.

It is only when you are in the Presence of God that you can have favour.

And favour is what adds flavour to life; favour is the mother of Destiny.

When favour speaks over your labour, destiny is certain.

But outside your father’s house there is nothing; he began to be in lack!

So outside the Presence of God there is no favour.

… Let me mention just one (1) more.

7. Luke 15:24 – “For this my son was dead, and is alive again;”

OUTSIDE the Father’s House is a place of DEATH.

That is why the Bible says: The wages of sin is death!

All those who are not in the Presence of God are dead even though they seems to be living.

But they are dead and they are lost, until they are found.

That is why it is very important as you are reading this message now on the Label of DMC you must arise like the Prodigal son – He said I will arise and go to my father!

Maybe you need to do that today because in your father’s house are Plenty of buddies. Please come to yourself as the Prodigal son did.

He reasoned within himself I said I will arise and go back to my father and he arose and went.

I Pray today the hand of God will reach out to you – Amen!

WHAT ARE SOME OF THE EXPERIENCES YOU WILL HAVE IN YOUR FATHERS’ HOUSE?

1. You will experience VALUE.

I wonder how my life would have been without God – Outside the Kingdom; living with an Herbalist as a young boy. Learning the art of making charms as a young boy.

But thank God who took me out from that Place and singled me out; because in your father’s house you have VALUE, you have DIGNITY and you are respected by the devil.

When the father saw him coming, the father saw him as a “Valuable Person” – And the father ran to meet him.

You have value in your father’s house!

Come to God, stay with Him. You have value at home!

The Grass is always Greener out there, but look well because the more you look the less you see.

No wonder the Bible says we are Precious to God.

Isaiah 43:1-3 talks about you being Valuable and Precious.

.,. In your father’s house you are Valued.

Romans 5:8 says: “But God commendeth his love towards us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”

2. You will experience LOVE and COMPASSION in your Father’s House.

In Luke 15:20, his father kissed him and had compassion on him.

… Which is a Sign of Love.

And Jeremiah 31:3 says: “Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.”

3. In your father’s house you experience the BEST.

You experience the best of Life, best of favour best of Material things.

Luke 15:22 says: “But the father said to his servants, Bring forth the best robe, and put it on him; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet:”

It is your father’s house that can get you the BEST.

A man that has been feeding with pigs – Oh Thank You Jesus!

The Bible says in Jeremiah 29:11 – I know the thoughts that I think towards you the thought of Peace not of evil to give you a Hope and an expected End”

In your father’s house you experience the BEST.

No wonder as you read the Pages of the Bible, it talks about: I will supply all your Needs. That is in Philippians 4:19.

3 John 1:2 says: “Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest Prosper and be in Health, even as thy Soul Prospereth.”

Deuteronomy 28:1and 13 says: “And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth: And the LORD shall make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if that thou hearken unto the commandments of the LORD thy God, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do them:”

THE BEST because your father has the Best.

4. In My Father’s House you will experience PEACE and FULLNESS of JOY.

In the world we are living today People run here and there because they lack Peace.

There are People when you meet them on the street all you have to do is make them roll up of their shirts you will see all kinds of charms.

Why do they do that?

It is because they lack Peace. They are living in terrible fear and fear has torment.

And God has not given us the spirit of fear – 2 Timothy 1:7.

I have asked myself – The People stealing the money meant for the masses; why are they doing that?

Some of them have enough money even if they are cooking money as food; their Generations to come cannot finish it. Yet they are still stealing.

Because they feel there is no security for them which is caused by lack of Peace.

So, they are living in fear – Maybe the money will finish.

… Why will it not finish? – Whatever you steal will finish!

Any wealth gathered will suddenly depart. It will become Poison and bite the fellow.

*In my father’s house you experience Peace: You travel in Peace, return in Peace and Joy, you sleep in Peace.

Why some People cannot travel until they have made some marks and incantation.

Psalms 16:11 says: “Thou wilt shew me the Path of life: in thy Presence is Fullness of Joy; at thy right hand there are Pleasures for evermore.”

Psalms 29:11 says: “The LORD will give Strength unto his People; the LORD will bless His People with Peace.”

if you are not experiencing Peace Please take time to return to your father’s house.

Psalms 119:165 says: “Great Peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them.”

Isaiah 26:3 says: “Thou wilt keep him in Perfect Peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.”

Peace Tranquillity in your father’s house!

5. In my father’s house you enjoy the REST.

Rest from all kinds of trouble: Rest from labour, rest from struggles.

Jesus is the Word from the beginning.

John 1:1 says: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”

And in John 1:14; the Bible says: “And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his Glory, the Glory as of the Only Begotten of the Father,) full of Grace and Truth.”

In John 14:6 “Jesus saith unto him, I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by Me.”

Here is what Jesus said in Matthew 11:28:30 – “Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”

*In your father’s house you have rest of mind – Although many are complaining about lack of Properties; they are complaining about lack of this, lack of that! But you have Peace!

There are People who have waterbed but cannot sleep.

Thank God for those of us who have Peace in God. We have made our abode with Him.

Psalms 91:1 says: “He that dwelleth in the Secret Place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.”

Many are passing through real problems, but because of God – Even in the midst of the Problems they have Peace.

Some People when their phones ring they are afraid, when there is a knock on their door they are afraid – They are not sure of what happens.

Jesus says in John 14:1 – Let not your heart be troubled, believe in God, believe also in me…

I Pray today everyone that last Peace God will give you Peace in the Name of Jesus – Amen.

6. There is celebration and Merry Making in my Father’s House.

Luke 15:23-24 – “And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it; and let us eat, and be merry: For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry.”

… So in your father’s house there is Merry Making.

What are we saying?

God is not the God of sorrow – No!

Psalms 16:11 says: “Thou wilt shew me the Path of life: in thy Presence is Fullness of Joy; at thy right hand there are Pleasures for evermore.”

You know I have talked about Mentality in one of our Studies – In Life; there is a Mentality called “Loneliness Mentality”.

Everybody has it – Pastors, name it! Even Jesus had it.

He said can’t you Watch with Me for one (1) hour?

He was lonely!

At a Point, He said: “Father, I wish this cup will Pass over Me. But not my Will.

You see this loneliness of a thing, it is not because you are not married that you are lonely – No!

It is an experience of life which we must dealt with.

And to deal with it you must be accountable to somebody.

What I really want to talk about in today’s teaching is the fact that Jesus is also a Social Person- He has a Social Mentality.

You cannot see – You believe in Christ and you are not social.

He was invited into a Marriage in Cana of Galilee in John 2 and he went with his twelve (12) Disciples and his mother.

Jesus attended a Marriage ceremony but there are some People who don’t attend events – You don’t attend the death of elderly People, they don’t go to Housewarming, they don’t attend Naming ceremony.

No merry making!

And we have been told by Researchers that those who have the Social Mentality live happier, they live longer they live healthier. And they enjoy life more than others.

… So there must be Merry Making!

7. In my father’s house there is ABUNDANCE.

In Psalms 36: 8-9 – “They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy Pleasures. For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light.”

There is an ABUNDANCE; God is called Almighty –
Genesis 17:1.

Many men are mighty God is the ALMIGHTY – El Shaddai more than enough.

God said to Moses in Exodus 3:14, I AM what you declare I AM – the God of Breakthrough, God of Healing.

No wonder that Jesus said in John 10:10 – “I came that you might have life and have it more abundantly.”

My question to you as I round up: Are you in your Father’s House?

Anyone who leaves his father’s Presence will be in wants and will be tormented, take a less dignified Position; will lack Wisdom; no one will come to his Help; he will be joined to strange People.

But when you are in your father’s house – You enjoy Liberty, Love, Joy, Peace, Rest, Abundance. You will enjoy Healing, the company of people, Fellowship.

And that is why I want encourage you; if you are backsliding come back home and if you are playing Church it doesn’t Pay you.

Enjoy Christianity, enjoy Life!

… And you can only enjoy it in God!

What is the essence of having money without Peacs? Having money without Good Health? Having money and your children are on drugs and you yourself you are on drugs?

What is the essence of the Popularity when in the secret you are living in pain – Crying all through the night?

But God can handle it for you today!

Matthew 11:28 says: “Come unto Me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.”

If you are already having the rest of the Lord, don’t let Him leave your Presence.

… Let’s bow our heads as we Pray!

ALTAR CALL

If you want to give your life to Christ I want to Pray with you – Just bow your head and say: Lord Come into my Life; wash me with Your Blood. I am willing to serve You, give me the Strength to serve You.

And if you are already Born Again tell the Lord: Increase my Peace let me stay Permanently Perpetually in Your Presence.

… I will Pray with you!

CLOSING PRAYER

Father Thank You for this Word.

I ask you before I came to this Podium and You gave me the Word.

I have said a few things that you want me to say and I asked that everyone giving their lives to you today you save them.

And anywhere they are across the Globe or reading now on the Label of DMC; let the Word work in their lives in the Name of Jesus!

And for ALL the People who are already Yours; we Pray that they will stay glued to Your Presence; they will never leave their father’s house.

And for those who have left their father’s house: Heal them today, bring them back and Restore them Permanently – Never to go out again away from you.

And let all of us serve You and make it to Heaven.

Thank you Father. Blessed be Your Name.

In Jesus’ Most Mighty Name we Pray – Amen!

God bless you!

It is very important and it is key if God has done anything for you please let us know!

OFFERING AND PRAYER OVER OFFERING.

Let’s give our offering – Your Service is incomplete without giving an offering.

So, I will Pray on your offering and you drop it.

Father Eternal we Thank You for this offering.

Bless everyone giving, may they never lack Good things of life.

Let them have money in major currencies of the world, and let the Name of the Lord be Mightily Praised.

Thank you because you have done it!
Glory, Honour be to Your Name.

In the kingdom of the Righteous; count us worthy to reign with You.

In Jesus Name we Pray – Amen!

God Bless!

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RCCG ONLINE CENTRAL DIGGING DEEP SERVICE TEACHING

MINISTERING: PASTOR JOHNSON FOLORUNSHO ODESOLA (ASSISTANT GENERAL OVERSEER (AGO) ADMIN. AND PERSONNEL, RCCG)

TOPIC: MAKING YOUR LIFE COUNT

DATE: 24TH NOVEMBER, 2020

BIBLE TEXT: LUKE 7:35-50

We bless the Name of the Lord for the beautiful rendition by the Choir. And we are Praying for this our Choir that they will be getting better and they will be going higher in the Name of Jesus – Amen.

Shall we just Pray?

SONG

We give You ALL the Glory,
We give You Honour
We give You All the Glory,
We give You Honour.

Repeated!

OPENING PRAYER.

Eternal Father, we give You ALL the Glory. We are thankful to You because You are the Greatest, You are the Highest, You are the Mightiest.

Thank You that we belong to You. Thank You that each time we Stand on this Platform, You bless ALL of us.

The Holy Spirit is our Great Teacher and we Thank You for Him.

Thank You for the Power of the Holy Ghost to be able to do great things in our lives.

Thank You for Healing, Thank You for keeping us, Thank You for what the Word of God has done in us.

To You be Glory, Honour and Praise. Accept our Thanks, in the Name of Jesus.

I am standing here today again; Lord Almighty, to dig deep into Your Words.

We ask Oh God of Heaven – You will Teach us and School us in Your own School.

Lord, at the end of this Digging Deep, we will have reason(s) to Glorify Your Name.

Bless everyone who has been Part and Parcel of this continually – Let Your blessings flow into our lives and homes.

Thank You our Maker!

For those who desire Healing, let Your Words go out to HEAL them today.

Those who desire encouragement, encourage them by Your Words.

Let the Power of God brood upon Your Words and let the Glory of God Manifest.

I commit my head, my mouth and my heart to You: I will not do violence to Your Words. Every Word from this Particular Podium will bring blessings and You will bless me too.

… Thank You Father!

When we finish our Race, let us make it to Heaven.

We want to hand over our father in the Lord to You, for giving us this Privilege: Let it be well with Him, take Him from Glory to Glory, from Anointing to Anointing and from Favour to Favour.

Lord, at the end of the day, let all of us make it to Heaven!

In Jesus’ Mighty Name we Pray – AMEN!

Let somebody shout Hallelujah – Hallelujah!

We want to appreciate God for today again.

We would be looking at the Introductory Part of: “MAKING YOUR LIFE COUNT.”

I’m going to read from Luke 7:35-50 (it’s a long Passage);

35 But wisdom is justified of all her children.

36 And one of the Pharisees desired him that he would eat with him. And he went into the Pharisee’s house, and sat down to meat.

37 And, behold, a woman in the city, which was a sinner, when she knew that Jesus sat at meat in the Pharisee’s house, brought an alabaster box of ointment,

38 And stood at his feet behind him weeping, and began to wash his feet with tears, and did wipe them with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment.

39 Now when the Pharisee which had bidden him saw it, he spake within himself, saying, This man, if he were a prophet, would have known who and what manner of woman this is that toucheth him: for she is a sinner.

40 And Jesus answering said unto him, Simon, I have somewhat to say unto thee. And he saith, Master, say on.

41 There was a certain creditor which had two debtors: the one owed five hundred pence, and the other fifty.

42 And when they had nothing to pay, he frankly forgave them both. Tell me therefore, which of them will love him most?

43 Simon answered and said, I suppose that he, to whom he forgave most. And he said unto him, Thou hast rightly judged.

44 And he turned to the woman, and said unto Simon, Seest thou this woman? I entered into thine house, thou gavest me no water for my feet: but she hath washed my feet with tears, and wiped them with the hairs of her head.

45 Thou gavest me no kiss: but this woman since the time I came in hath not ceased to kiss my feet.

46 My head with oil thou didst not anoint: but this woman hath anointed my feet with ointment.

47 Wherefore I say unto thee, Her sins, which are many, are forgiven; for she loved much: but to whom little is forgiven, the same loveth little.

48 And he said unto her, Thy sins are forgiven.

49 And they that sat at meat with him began to say within themselves, Who is this that forgiveth sins also?

50 And he said to the woman, Thy faith hath saved thee; go in peace.

… The Lord bless the Reading and Hearing of His Words, in Jesus’ Name – Amen.

So much is Packaged in this story.

But we would only be able to scratch a bit of it today.

But let me say: “Everyone of us came from Heaven to give birth to Solutions;”

Nobody is on Earth without something within him, around him to offer and to better the Generation.

This Particular woman was a sinner as they said in the story. She was not invited. But Jesus was invited among the Priests.

But this woman came in, waiting for an opportunity to do something specific. She had been long in her sin, in her misery, in her frustration.

But when she heard that Jesus was available; she went there – Taking her Precious Ointment with her.

And when the opportunity came, she moved to do what she needed to do!

There is no story in life that can not Change: There is no Problem in life without a Solution.

There are so much to say from this story, because: it is not how long you live – it is how WELL and the impact made.

It is what you contribute to better this Generation.

After all, our Master Jesus Christ, in his few years while on Earth; carried out a total of Fifty Two (52) Events – including His Birth, Death, Resurrection and Ascension.

But we are still talking about Him now.

Before He was Born, they were talking about Him. And now, we are still talking about Him.

What impact are you making? Is your life counting? Does anyone has anything Good to say about you?

The record of this woman, one (1) Single Performance; just one (1) thing – Not Many.

There are many People who are struggling to do many things; but this woman came in and did something Significant.

What do we know about her?

She became someone the Bible could reckon with because she did something Jesus talked about.

She offered what she had – She gave something Precious to obtain something Permanent.

She was unrighteous, but her deeds put her in the Exclusive Class of the Righteous.

I still wonder why People who are connected to Power are Powerless; People who are connected to Light are living in darkness; those who are connected to Wealth are living in Poverty.

I still cannot think about it: that: The People who are connected to SOLUTION are wallowing in their Challenges.

… You must MAKE YOUR LIFE COUNT.

A Lady in the Bible by the name Dorcas – Nobody would have known anything about her until she died.

When she died in Acts 9:36; the People she had helped said No!

They told Apostle Peter: please, raise her up!

“Now there was at Joppa a certain Disciple named Tabitha, which by interpretation is called Dorcas: this woman was full of Good works and alms deeds.”

Jabez was another Person.

He was born in sorrow, but one moment because he did something, in 1 Chronicles 4:9-10. His Story changed!

… I am talking about Making your life Count!

David made his life count – He was the one who killed Goliath – 1 Samuel 17:26-49.

Solomon made his life count – 1 Kings 4: 29-34.

They all moved from the Low Level of life to the Level God has destined them to be!

I want to attempt to make some few Points which I call: “The Divine Principles or Methodology to make your life Count” – Because your life can Count.

Stop telling me: “I don’t have Academic Qualification.” – No!

Stop saying you don’t have someone to connect you.

If you are Born Again, you are at a Vantage Position.

If you are not Born Again, your case is different.

Stop saying: Nobody is willing to offer help to me.

No! You have what it takes to be able to do the Needful. You must determine to make your life count. – You Must!

Daniel Purposed in Daniel 1:8 that he will not defy himself with the meals of the King – DECISION!

WHAT ARE THE DIVINE PRINCIPLES TO MAKE YOUR LIFE COUNT?

1. POSITION YOURSELF RIGHTLY.

… Reposition yourself for ACTION.

When we say, Position yourself rightly; this woman was not invited but she Positioned herself where she would have the opportunity to make her life count.

There are People today who are hiding in their Organizations, Churches and Ministries. They are Gifted but they don’t want to commit extra.

They are Gifted, but they don’t want to move the way others are moving.

Because they say: “I don’t think I am ready to go all out!”

You must be like the children of Issachar.

The Bible says in 1 Chronicle 12:32:

“And of the children of Issachar, which were men that had Understanding of the Times, to know what Israel ought to do; the heads of them were two hundred; and all their Brethren were at their commandment.”

When you make your life counts, definitely, you will become a Miracle – People will look at you as a Spectacle.

Of course! That’s how it ought to be!

Because the Miracles that turn things around come from Heaven.

They look at you and say: You are different.

Of course, you are different because the Miracle that gives you a Turnaround comes from Heaven.

… So you must Position yourself rightly.

Bartimaeus rightly Positioned himself –
Mark 10:46-52.

What happened while others were focusing on the height of Jesus: His clothes, the Disciples, watching others received their Miracle.

Bartimeaus determined to do something, and he shouted.

Where you are Positioned will determine the Possession that will get to you.

The Position of People determine their Possession; so you must Reposition yourself!

And many People have Good works yet they are complaining of the Greener Pastures on the other side.

You better Position yourself right where you are – Don’t be among the People who are anti-organizational, against the Company where they work.

Position yourself rightly!

The woman in our Bible Text Positioned herself – Looking out for an opportunity;

And when the opportunity came; she offered what she had – Something very Precious to her.

2. YOU MUST LOOK FOR SOMETHING TO OFFER IN LIFE.

You must look for something to Offer in the Organization you belong in life – That crosses over to eternity.

You came NAKED, but you are the Power House of God. Because of the Light of God in you; find something to Offer!

If you believe you have nothing to offer; I think (with all due respect) you should be treated as an Unwanted Orphan.

You have got something to OFFER!

There is something you have for this Generation; there is a Prophecy that has gone ahead of you.

If you are Born Again, Praise God! – You are born again to offer Solutions.

The Lord set the People of Israel free – “Let My people Go that they may serve me.” Exodus Chapters 5, 7, 8 and 9.

… You are saved to SERVE!

And Jesus said: As my Father has sent me, send I you.”

As many of you who are Born Again, you carry POWER: Solution Power; you carry Healing, you carry Joy, you carry the Scepter of Dominion.

This woman, the only thing she had in life was this Ointment.

And she said: I offer it – She offered something!

In the Book of Jeremiah 1:5, God said: Before you even arrived the Earth, there is what I ordained for you!

You are here for a Mission – And the Mission has been in existence even before you were conceived.

Yet you say: “Ah, I don’t have something to carry out my Mission! – There will always be Provisions for your Vision – Unless the Vision is not connected to God.

Even if you are not Born Again, God has Prepared you so that you can hear or read on the Label of DMC this Message and get Born Again; and be able to offer what you carry!

You are too Loaded to be Useless – Too Loaded not to have anything to Offer!

How can a complete Human Being – With all your Educational background, your family background with all your experience say: “I DON’T HAVE SOMETHING TO OFFER?”

Offer something in life!

Find something to offer, to deliver because, you are a Solution, you are not a Problem!

3. FORGET THE PAST.

Anyone who wants to make his or her life Count, must forget the Past.

People would make all kinds of comment about you; but don’t let that move you. If your focus is JESUS.

The Bible days in Psalms 34:5:

“They looked unto Him, and were lightened: and their faces were not ashamed.”

Hebrews 12:2 says: “Looking unto Jesus the Author and Finisher of our Faith; who for the Joy that was set before Him endured the Cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.”

Please, FORGET THE PAST – Yesterday ended last night. You can’t reverse it. You can’t do anything about it.

You had a “Bad Past” – YES.

You have done something abominable before – YES.

Now you must let go.

And if the devil is still bringing the guilty conscience, you need to show the devil because the opinion of God is Supreme!

In Isaiah 43:18-19, the Word of God says: “Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old.”

Even if the devil wants you to remember, use verse 19 (Isaiah 43:19) to counter it.

Because it says:

“Behold, I will do a New Thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.”

And if He has done anything in your life, apply it.

2 Corinthians 5:17 says:

“Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become New.”

… The woman broke free from her PAST.

Do you know Sir/Ma – you can ADVANCE in adversity? And your obscurity can turn to SUPERIORITY; your grass level can turn to GRACELAND.

You can move from the level you are now to the next level; you can break free from your PAST; you can walk Passed your Past.

… FORGET YOUR PAST!

Many years after God had forgiven Moses, his Brethren were still reminding him: Oh, formerly a Murderer!

But God found in a Murderer a DELIVERER.

There is something GREAT in you!

Say to yourself: There is something GREAT IN ME!

… You have to FORGET YOUR PAST!

4. GET OUT OF SELF DECEIT.

Don’t be an Hypocrite! Whatever you need to adjust, do it!.

This woman was a sinner, she desired Solution at all cost, and she moved toward that!

Do you know that the Pharisees and the Sadducees – Very Far People to see the Truth! – Sad People to receive Miracle.

They were very deceitful; hypocritical in attitudes, not truthful in anyway!

Galatians 6:7 says: “Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.”

Stop Pretending to be righteous if you are a sinner.

That is the attitude of the Pharisees and the Sadducees.

Jesus had to Rebuke them openly: “Woe unto the Pharisees and the Sadducees”.

The whole Book of Matthew Chapter 23 is all about “WOES” to the Pharisees and the Sadducees.

But Verse 13 (Matthew 23:13) caught my attention:

“But woe unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the Kingdom of Heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.”

Shouting when it is time to Pray does not make you Righteous.

Are you living Holy? Do you love other Brethren? – Get out of Deceit!

Maybe you have heard me share the story of a man who got a job in the Zoo as Fake Animal.

They gave him the costume of a Monkey. And he was jumping around, while Tourist gave him banana. He mistakenly jumped into the Lion Section.

And he shouted: Please, help me!

And the Fake Lion said to him: My friend, you better keep your mouth shut, or we will both lose our Jobs.

… Fake Monkey, Hypocritical Lion – That all Pretended!

And there are many People who are Pretenders: Husband, wife, workers, staffers – All Pretenders.

You need to get out of deceit. It does not Pay to be an Hypocrite; because at the end of the day, you will lose.

5. GO FOR SOLUTION.

There is a Solution to what you are looking for in life – Don’t just beat about the bush; if there are things to confess in your life, Please confess.

If you need to go for deliverance, please do If you need to carry yourself to a Senior Minister of God – Go!

This woman knew that she needed help and she moved to the One Who had the Help.

Jesus is the Only Solution to the Problem of the world – Money does not solve Problems, Position does not solve Problems.

Oh, some People are high in the Society, but they are empty inside! Go for SOLUTION – connect yourself to JESUS.

She connected to Jesus and what happened? – She got what she wanted.

6. You need to ACT STRATEGICALLY.

May I say to you: “In Life and Destiny, it is only those who ACT STRATEGICALLY who make their LIFE COUNT.

Avoid “I WILL do it tomorrow – Procrastination: Yes, No, bye, expect me!”

This woman Acted Strategically – She MOVED and the People said: No Way!

This woman is a sinner.

When you ACT STRATEGICALLY, they will question and query you.

Somebody asked me many years ago: “Why are you Loyal to your Leader?”

And I replied him: Are you looking for the disfavour of your Leader?

“Why do you do EXTRA?”

I said: it’s because I want to be Extraordinary.

“Why is it that you look Stupid?”

It’s because DEEP waters run silently!

“Why is it that while other People are tired, you are still working?”

I said: Because I want to be the BEST!

You need to Act Strategically: I don’t know your Opinion, but I know mine. I don’t know your Vision, but I know mine. I don’t know where you want to go, but I know where I’m going!

… And that is why you need to DEVELOP yourself.

This Particular woman had a VISION.

Because: “Where there is No vision, the People Perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he” – Proverbs 29:18.

And she MOVED – Just like David; while Goliath was still talking, in 1 Samuel 17:45-27 – David moved Strategically towards the enemy.

Those who Act Strategically get the of BEST LIFE.

Caleb said in Numbers 13:30: “And Caleb stilled the People before Moses, and said – Let us go up at once, and Possess it; for we are well able to overcome it.”

And do you know what happened?

In Joshua 10:10-14 – At eighty five (85) years of age, he got the Mountain!

You need to act Strategically: Life is not kind to anyone!

If they could tell a Beggar like Bartimeaus SHUT UP – You are not the one He is looking for. Talk more of you!

7. LOVE WILL ALWAYS PREVAIL.

When they were criticising the woman, they said: Jesus didn’t know who she truly was!

That is why I said this is just an Introduction.

Because the Text is loaded with about thirty seven (37) Points!

Now they said: We don’t think this man is a Prophet. Because if He is, He would have known that this woman is a sinner.

And Jesus heard it!

God hears everything you are thinking about!

And He answered!

Love will always Prevail!

You know what happened to the Lady? The Bible says “She LOVED MUCH and she GOT MUCH.”

Prophecy is Good, Faith is Good; but LOVE will give you the BEST and give you MUCH.

John 3:16: “For God so loved the world, that He gave His Only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not Perish, but have Everlasting life.”

1 John 3:1-3 says: “Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew Him not.”

Romans 5:8 says: “But God commendeth His love towards us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”

Jeremiah 31:3 says: “The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.”

And God is calling you today!

This woman got the BEST.

For those who want to surrender their lives to Jesus, LOVE is speaking and God is calling on you today.

For those who are already Born Again, LOVE will always give you the BEST.

… She LOVED MUCH, and she got the BEST.

1 Corinthians 13:1-8 says: “And though I bestow all my Goods to feed the Poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not Charity, it Profiteth me nothing.”

LOVE is the TRADEMARK of TRUE Disciples.

That is what brought Jesus to the Earth, that is what He left with the Disciples: “That People would know you are My Disciples when you LOVE one another. “

Do you want to make a Mark?

Because this woman made a Mark – She became a Celebrity.

People celebrated her. She got her desire, she got to her Goal

Everyone who make Life Count are also Reference Points.

ALTAR CALL

Today, I admonished you – If you have not
surrendered your life to Jesus Christ, Please do so now.

If you have already surrendered your life to Him, tell the Lord: Please, MAKE MY LIFE COUNT.

… I want to Pray with you!

PRAYER FOR SALVATION AND CLOSING PRAYER

Father, Thank You for the People who are surrendering to the LOVE OF GOD.

Because they have determined that their life will Count for God, and I join my Faith together with them:

You will save them today and You will write their names in the “Book of Life”. Forgive all their iniquities and give them Power to serve You till the end.

Every Believers saying Amen with them; let them get Power to make it till the end.

Father, all the Believers who are thinking ‘I want to MAKE MY LIFE COUNT’; empower them with the Grace and Anointing to MAKE THEIR LIFE COUNT.

From this day: be EMPOWERED to make your Life Count and the Name of the Lord will be MIGHTILY GLORIFIED.

On Earth, you will be Great and become a Reference Point.

Together, when the Roll is Called Up in Heaven, we will make it there!

Thank You Eternal Father, we Bless and Praise Your Name because it is done!

In Jesus’ Most Mighty Name we Pray – Amen!

Praise the Name of the Lord – Hallelujah!

OFFERING AND PRAYER OVER OFFERINGS

Your Service is not complete until you have given your Offering.

Shall we Pray?

Father, Thank You for our Offerings: bless everyone Giving.

And we Pray that the reward commensurate, You will give unto us!

Lord, the Currencies that rule the world, You would Bless us with those Currencies.

And we would never Lack Raiment, we would never Lack Food, we would never lack Water.

And we would have in Abundance, even to give as token of Love.

And in Your Kingdom to come, none of us Giving would miss it.

We all would make there.

In Jesus’ Mighty Name we Pray – AMEN!!!

God Bless you – Amen!

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TOPIC: JOSEPH’S SECRETS OF SUCCESS.

DATE: 3RD NOVEMBER, 2020

BIBLE TEXT: GENESIS 49:22-24

Praise the Name of the Lord! We appreciate God for the Rendition of the Choir.

May the Almighty God continually Bless all of them. May your Anointing continue to be on the increase, in Jesus’ Mighty Name – Amen.

So I want you (wherever you are reading now on the Label of DMC) bow your head;

Kindly lift your hands just a little bit above your head and just appreciate God for another wonderful time to Study at His feet.

Let’s give Him Glory, let’s give Him Honour – God is Worthy! He is Mighty, He is Reliable, He is Dependable.

… We want to say THANK YOU OUR MAKER!

Thank You for what You have done on this particular platform over the years and months. And Lord, we Thank You for what You are doing again now!

To You be Glory Lord! To You be Honour, to You be Majesty! Thank You Eternal Father.

You are Worthy to be Praised; You are Worthy to be Honoured! In Jesus’ Mighty Name we have Worshipped.

… Let us Pray!

SONG

What a Mighty God we serve (Hallelujah!)
What a Mighty God we Serve (Hallelujah!)
Heaven and earth Adore Him (even) Angels bow before Him
What a Mighty God we Serve!

Repeat!

OPENING PRAYER

The King of all kings, the Unchangeable Changer, the Lord who has the verdict of life and success, the God of yesterday, the God of today!

You are God because nobody can replace You – You will be forever!

Thank You the King Eternal, Thank You Eternal Excellency, Thank You Glorious I AM!

We want to appreciate You for what You have done. Lord, we SAY THANK to You!

… Accept our THANKS in the Name of Jesus!

We are Blessing Your Name Lord, today, that is the first (1st) day of our Fasting; Thank You Everlasting Father, despite that we are Waiting, we can still come and Study.

… We say THANK YOU!

Lord Almighty, receive our THANKS in the Name of Jesus!

Tonight, as we go into Your word, You are the Eternal word, You are the Only One who can teach us, You are the only One who can open up our hearts;

Please, open our hearts to be able to know the mysteries in Your word; the mystery of Success, the mystery of walking with the Lord, in the Name of Jesus!

Father, I confess, I don’t know nothing! I submit my head, my heart and my mouth.

And everyone listening, watching and reading on the Label of DMC; I commit their faculties to You – that as we study together, You will teach us together, in the Name of Jesus!

You will Heal us, You will Touch us, You will do Great and Mighty things for us!

And God of heaven, at the end of today, we will have reasons to Glorify Your Name. DO SO, in the Name of Jesus!

We Thank You for our father in the Lord – who has given us this Platform. Let Grace be on the increase in his Life;

Both him and his wife, let them continue to wallow in Good Health, in Anointing, in Favour, in Wisdom, in Progress, in the Name of Jesus!

And Father Almighty, after all is said and done, let all of us make it to heaven!

Thank You Eternal Father; in Jesus’ Mighty Name we pray – Amen!

Let somebody shout Hallelujah – Hallelujah!

We want to appreciate God for the feedback that we are getting from people who are watching and reading on the Label of DMC;

May the Good Lord continually Bless all of you, in the Name of Jesus -Amen!

And so today, we would be looking at: JOSEPH’S SECRETES OF SUCCESS.

There is no doubt; if there is one fellow in the Bible who made it in life – despite all his predicaments, despite all the challenges;

Even when his parents were not there and his brothers were strongly against him. He stood firm!

So we are going to read from Genesis 49:22-24 (NKJV).

… And hopefully, we will be able to consider some points from this Bible Text.

22 “Joseph is a fruitful bough,
A fruitful bough by a well; His branches run over the wall.

23 The archers have bitterly grieved him,
Shot at him and hated him.

24 But his bow remained in strength,
And the arms of his hands were made strong By the hands of the Mighty God of Jacob (From there is the Shepherd, the Stone of Israel).

The Lord Bless the Reading and Hearing of His word, in the Name of Jesus!

We want to consider few things from this particular Passage; because there is no doubt that when we are looking at the story of someone who made it;

The man Joseph, happened to be one (1) of the people who made it in life.

We are not really considering his life story (as it were); But we want to consider some PRINCIPLES that made him outstandingly Successful in life.

And like you know: PRINCIPLES work anywhere in the world!

… Principles are Spiritual Laws!

Just like we have Physical Laws, we have Spiritual Laws. But when it comes to Spiritual Principle – it is Eternal.

And what worked for JOSEPH, can actually work for us TODAY.

So we are looking at some of the things that helped Joseph to succeed – because while in his father’s house, he was BELOVED;

He found himself where his brothers sold him to slavery – they CHERISHED HIM;

When he was in Prison – the Wardens rested, because he (Joseph) was IN CHARGE.

Of course, when he got to the Throne (in Egypt), not only did he save his generation; he saved the entire world (of his days).

WHAT ARE THE PRINCIPLES THAT HELPED JOSEPH?

1. He had FELLOWSHIP with God.

Joseph had unbroken FELLOWSHIP with GOD! His circumstances kept changing; but his Relationship with God remained CONSTANT.

He had Fellowship with God – when he was a favoured son of his father – And there was communication between him and God.

In Genesis chapter 37:5; “And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it to his brethren: and they hated him yet the more.”

It takes people who Fellowship with God, to be able to get a glimpse of the future!

He grew up with a Vision about his life. Soon, the circumstances changed in his life:

He became a Slave in the house of Potiphar; later – a Prisoner. But his Fellowship with God was not affected;

… God was WITH HIM all the time!

I don’t know how a prisoner could interpret dreams!

Genesis 37:9; “And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it to his brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream more; and, behold, the sun and the moon and the eleven stars made obeisance to me.”

… That was when his father said: “enough of this your dreams!”

But when you read Genesis 39:2 and 21;

2 And the LORD was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man; and he was in the house of his master the Egyptian.

21 But the LORD was with Joseph, and shewed him mercy, and gave him favour in the sight of the keeper of the prison.

Dream interpretations –
Genesis 40:8;

“And they said unto him, We have dreamed a dream, and there is no interpreter of it. And Joseph said unto them, Do not interpretations belong to God? tell me them, I pray you.”

Right there in prison, Joseph was interpreting dreams! He was still using his Spiritual Gifts.

Adverse Circumstances did not stop him from using his Gift!

There are several people today who are complaining: “I don’t like the way the Pastor is talking to me;”

If you are at the TOP, you will be a TOPIC; if you are not a Topic – it is because you are nowhere!

Nobody talks about a Nobody! But if you are Somebody, people will talk about you.

That they are even talking about you – shows that God loves you! It shows that you have something to offer.

But despite the situation of this young man (Joseph); he had an unbroken focus, an unbroken Fellowship with GOD.

… That’s one (1) of the POWERFUL SECRETS of Fruitfulness.

You want to be Fruitful, You want to be successful? There must be FELLOWSHIP.

When you check the life of JACOB – the father of Joseph; Jacob would have been defrauded and cheated permanently, when he was working with his Uncle (Laban).

How was he able to get the Secret of Prosperity, the Secret of Success? HE HAD A DREAM!

Who taught him to paint a wood and put before pregnant animals? It was because he had Fellowship with GOD.

You see; the Secret of your success in life is just putting your Foot to the ground!

So that’s Number One (1) thing we can see about Joseph: FELLOWSHIP with God.

2. Joseph had FAVOUR with GOD.

And there’s no way you’ll have Favour with GOD; and you won’t have Favour with man

… Very, very important!

Whenever you have Favour with God, definitely, favour with man would fellow.

Now, the Book of Genesis 37:3, the Bible says: “Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age: and he made him a coat of many colours.”

… and he made him a coat of many colours.”

Joseph had Favour with God, that was why God favoured him before his father!

Everywhere he went, he had Favour. Everywhere! When he was in his father’s house, he had favour. His father Favoured him!

I pray for someone reading this Message on the Label of DMC; God will give you FAVOUR! And the Favour will command the Favour of MEN, in the Name of Jesus!

… His father loved him more than his brothers.

And when he was a Slave in Potiphar’s house, he found Favour with Potiphar.

When he was a Prisoner, he found Favour with the Prison Wardens.

When he got to the Throne in Egypt, God gave him Favour before Pharaoh and he was put in charge of the whole Nation.

Joseph found Favour EVERYWHERE he went!

This is because: Without FAVOUR, you cannot go FAR in life!

Because there are many people who depend on their Wisdom, on their ability and their intellect.

But FAVOUR can do for you what all things you thought are available to you can help you do.

Because when you check the Book of Psalms 90:17; When favour is in your life, the work of your Hands will be CONFIRMED.

There are people working today, but no one recognizes what that are doing.

It was just today that one of our Leaders (the National Overseer) was telling us a story about a man who Heard from God;

He wanted to go Abroad, God said NO! He wanted to do this, God said NO! So he was wondering: why should God do this to me?

But then, he was INSPIRED by God to write a Book; and that made him a multimillionaire.

… One (1) BOOK! Not two, not three, not ten!

I. FAVOUR will make a dummy an HIGH FLYER!

Because, in the Book of Ecclesiastes 9:11; it’s not by your own strength, it’s not by your own power; it’s not how FAST you cab run;

Because the Race is not to the Swift; Time and Chances happen to them ALL.

And in Zachariah 4:6, the Bible says: Not by might, not by power; but by My Spirit, Says the Lord.

II. When you have FAVOUR (which is very important) upon your life, it brings you to PROMINENCE.

… You are given a PREFERENTIAL Treatment.

ESTHER (in Esther 2:17) was an Orphan – no mother, no father. She was Adopted by Mordecai, a Gateman.

But when they were looking for a Queen, she was PREFERRED.

And I pray: That you will be preferred from today, in the Name of Jesus.

III. Favour will ACTIVATE ANSWERS to your Petition.

Your Petition will be granted; even from ungodly Civil Authority.

In Esther 5:2 and 8, the Bible says the Petition of Esther was granted.

IV. In the Book Psalms 44:3; FAVOUR makes God to FIGHT ALL your battles for you.

Some people may say: leave me alone, I can do it! The Battles of life are not what you can handle ALONE.

The man JOSEPH, had FAVOUR with God;

And I pray you will have Favour with God as from today, in the Name of Jesus.

3. Joseph showed FAITHFULNESS in his Responsibilities.

Anywhere you put Joseph, you can go and sleep! This young man was very Faithful.

… Joseph was found Faithful in all his Responsibilities.

When his brothers were doing evil, he was faithfully reporting to the father.

Also listen to the audio here: Joseph’s Secret to Success – Pastor J.F Odesola

… That is a TOPIC for another time!

Because, depending on the angle we are looking at the story of Joseph – reporting your siblings in not a good thing to do!

But there is a Parable among my people which says: “The one who stole palm wine from the Tree is not as guilty as the fellow who helped him to take the Keg down.”

So, Joseph would have been a collaborator of evil – if he had not reported to their father.

In many Organizations today, people say “I don’t want them to quote me!”

If you don’t want people to quote you, it means you are not faithful enough. Because Truth cannot be fractionalized.

You need a lot of wisdom to tell lies. Because when you lie, you need an advanced demonic wisdom to defend the lie. And as you are defending it, the lie keeps aggravating.

All you need is to confess all lies told. Because once you confess, it is gone.

May be you have heard the story of a man who stole a chicken, killed and roasted it. And while he was roasting the chicken, his Supervisor found him and said, I will report you.

He said, don’t report me – because even the Salary here is not enough. The Supervisor said, let’s strike a deal; you will be doing the overtime and I will be collecting the money. And the man agreed!

So one day he said: I have done overtime for about three (3) months now; and the overtime money can buy more than four (4) chickens. I am not going to work for you again!

So the Supervisor said “CHICKEN!” And the man said “OVER TIME!”

After doing over time for six (6) month, the man said: am I not crazy? How could I be labouring for my fellow man!

So he went to report himself to the Boss: Sir, 9 months ago I stole a chicken. And I am sorry! The Boss said 9 months ago? Why confessing now? He said: I am suffering in silenced! The Boss said – you are forgiven.

So the Supervisor came as usual; because each time the man collected his overtime money he will say “CHICKEN”.

He said, I will go and report you to the Boss; and the man said, I have reported myself.

So when you own up, you are free!

Joseph was very faithful; Genesis 39:6, 22 and 23 talks about his faithfulness.

In fact Genesis 37:2 says: “These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brethren; and the lad was with the sons of Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah, his father’s wives: and Joseph brought unto his father their EVIL REPORT.”

To proved that, he refused to be a collaborator of evil. He was concerned about the family honour. He continued to be faithful.

Even as a Slave in Potiphar’s house; his Master wasn’t inspecting his works – yet, Joseph was faithful. Even when no one was watching his work!

Can we be entrusted without supervision – and we remain faithful?

I am not talking about your Title; because there are so many Title holders today without nothing to write about them.

Joseph remained amazingly faithful even while he was in the prison.

When he was falsely accused and thrown into prison, he could have said NO! I am faithful to God, why am I being imprisoned?

Yet, he did not stop being faithful, neither did he doubt God. He took charge of everything. His faithfulness made people commit more responsibility to him!

Those watching you, who are ahead of you are the ones to KNOW that you are faithful.

Joseph was Faithful; some people today are “FACE-full” not Faithful.

… ‘FACE-full’ is eye Service.

And we have a lot of eye service in all Organizations.

Faithfulness is a Powerful Secret of Fruitfulness.

4. FEAR OF GOD.

As you read Joseph’s story in Genesis 39:7-20, he feared God. He said “How can I do this and SIN against my God?”

He was so AFRAID of God! And the FEAR OF GOD is the beginning of wisdom.

Joseph had the Fear of God; when Potiphar’s wife caught him and said: you must sleep with me!

Listen to what he said: “How can I do this great wickedness and sin against my God?”

Even when there was no one seeing them; he was concerned about not sinning against God – Who watches over him always. Hence, he refused to compromise.

Can we vouch for you when no one is watching you?

Do you have SECRETS that even your Spouse, your Pastor, your friends shouldn’t know about?

The FEAR OF GOD was a Great Protection in the life of Joseph; and it brought him abundant Blessings!

Anyone who wants to Prosper in life; Succeed in Life, needs to be AFRAID of God. You need to FEAR GOD.

And I pray TODAY: the God that you serve, the God that you FEAR – will make you Fruitful, in the Name of Jesus.

5. FORGIVING NATURE.

When you look at the life of Joseph, you can see the nature of FORGIVENESS.

The one that caught my attention is Genesis 50:19-21; his brothers forged a letter. They said: “Our father before he died asked us to give you this letter – that you should forgive your brethren.”

He laughed! And he said “You meant it for evil, but God meant it for good – to keep our Nation and the entire world.”

Apostle Paul said in Romans 8:28; “And we know that all things work together for good to those that love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.”

You may be going through issues now, all things will work together for your good;

They might have lied against you – all things will work together for your good;

You have been wrongly accused – all things will work together for your good;

Someone betrayed you – all things will work together for your good;

Joseph had a heart of Forgiveness! Not bittered or resentful against those who hurt him.

His brothers caused him untold suffering and hardship; even after pleading with them not to send him to slavery.

… But his brothers refused to show him mercy!

Potiphar’s wife falsely accused him; and her husband didn’t bother to investigate the matter. Rather he just took Joseph and threw him into prison.

… Prison within TRIAL!

That’s to show the level of the Rule and Law practiced then!

So, Joseph was falsely accused, and they damaged his reputation. But he was an upright man.

For you to accuse somebody of such serious immorality and send him to prison. A great Injustice against him; but he has not seeking for vengeance.

I imagine myself as Joseph, and Potiphar had to come to the Palace – because as soon as he was made the Prime Minster, Potiphar would definitely go to the Palace and bow.

I imagine myself (Lord have mercy on me) I would tell him: Potiphar could you please excuse me? I want to discuss with the other chiefs.

… Just to be able to proof a Point!

But Thank God for JOSEPH, who had a forgiving spirit!

Way back in the Old Testament – Joseph taught us how to forgive! Because he refused to be tied down by the spirit of anger and vengeance. He forgave his brothers wholeheartedly.

A Bitter attitude would surely ruin any life, any day!

It would have ruined Joseph’s happiness and destroy his Testimony. His forgiven nature was a Powerful Force to his Success.

And I Pray: God will give us such a spirit, in the Name of Jesus.

Jesus our Master, while on the cross – crucified by His creatures. Still said ‘Father forgive them for they know not what they do.”

Even the standard Jesus gave is worthy of note; we have to forgive our offenders 70 times 7 times!

… So we have to posses the Spirit of Forgiveness.

6. FORTITUDE.

Psalm 105:19-20; “Until the time that his word came: the word of the LORD tried him. The king sent and loosed him; even the ruler of the people, and let him go free.”

… Joseph had FORTITUDE and Endurance.

He was not discouraged and backslide. He waited for God’s Time! He committed everything to God, and endured till the end.

• He endured HATRED. Genesis 37:4;
• He endured ENVY. Genesis 37:11;
• He endured SLAVERY. Genesis 37:28;
• He endured TEMPTATION. Genesis 39:7-10;
• He endured FALSE ACCUSATIONS.
  Genesis 39:14;
• He endured PRISON LIFE. Genesis 39:20;
• He endured INGRATITUDE. Genesis 40:23.

Yet he (Joseph) did not give up hope; neither did he turn away from God.

And a time came when God DELIVERED him and lifted him up above everyone.

He submitted EVERYTHING: his Life, his Destiny to God. And God Blessed him abundantly in due time.

His FORTITUDE was a Powerful Secret of his Success.

Beloved, you may be going through issues; you are suffering for things you know nothing about.

But note: it may be for your good. It may be for the future. And God is more than able to do exceeding abundantly.

7. He was FILLED with the SPIRIT OF GOD.

Anyone that will be successful in life must be FILLED with the Spirit of God.

Joseph was filled with the Spirit of God! There was a Supernational dimension to his life!

Do you know that even unbeliever – like Pharaoh; was able to discern the Anointing of God in the life of Joseph?

Genesis 41:38; “And Pharaoh said unto his servants, Can we find such a one as this is, a man in whom the SPIRIT OF GOD is?”

To be successful in whatever you’re doing, you must be filled with the Spirit of God.

Do not be a Christian who does not have the Spirit of God; You MUST have the Spirit of God working in your life. Very, very important!

Why was Joseph able to INTERPRET DREAMS?

By the help of the Spirit of God, he was able to unveil the mystery.

The Spirit of God helped Joseph to live a good life.

What are we saying? The SECRETS of Joseph are still tenable in our day.

Anyone who wants to succeed as a Christian MUST: have FELLOWSHIP with God; must be FAITHFUL in all responsibility (minor or major); FEAR GOD, FORGIVING Nature, FORTITUDE and FILLED with the SPIRIT OF GOD.

In conclusion; We may not always understand what is happening to us. But the Lord is always in control.

Whatever happens in life, whatever the intension of people; God orders it for His Beloved children. Remember, it is only when God allow things that they happen!

Many things have happened in our lives, of which when we remember them, they seemed bad then. But God has brought us thus far.

I have told you my story; I wouldn’t have become a Full Time Pastor, if I had succeeded when I wanted to travel Abroad.

But Thank God: all things work together for good to them that love Him.

I encourage you today, whatever you are going through – it will come to pass!

ALTAR CALL

If you are not Born Again, please, give God a chance! So that He will be able to lead you and direct you to success.

And if you are Born Again – you are going through issues, let’s pray together. Just as God helped Joseph, He will help you as well.

… Let’s pray together!

If you want to be Born Again, put your hand on your chest as I Pray: And if there are issues in your life. God is in charge.

PRAYER FOR SALVATION

Father, we want to Thank You for the people who are giving their lives to You today.

We ask that Your Hand will reach out to them. Save them and write their names in the “Book of Life. Forgive All their sins.

And those who are going through certain issues they did not know WHY!

Today, let the Lessons of Joseph COME ALIVE and give them Victory; and let all Glory and Honour be Yours permanently.

… Thank You Eternal Father!

And when the roll is called up in heaven, let us be able to reign with Christ!

Thank You our Maker; in Jesus’ Mighty Name we pray – Amen!

Remember that your Service is not complete until you give your Offering.

… Let me say a word of Prayer on your Offering:

Father, everyone giving an offering (or Transferring theirs now); BLESS all of them!

And let the Glory of God manifest! Receive their offering. And in the Kingdom of heaven, we will not miss our Reward.

Thank You Eternal Father! In Jesus’ Mighty Name we pray – Amen!

God Bless you!

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MINISTERING: PASTOR JOHNSON FOLORUNSHO ODESOLA (ASSISTANT GENERAL OVERSEER (AGO) ADMIN. AND PERSONNEL, RCCG)

TOPIC: BREAKING THE BOUNDS OF SEXUAL IMMORALITY.

DATE: 27TH OCTOBER, 2020

BIBLE TEXT: 1 CORINTHIANS 6:15, 19-20

We Bless the Name of Lord for the Rendition by the Choir.

The Lord will continue to Bless you and take you higher, in the Name of Jesus – Amen.

Shall we Pray!

SONG

Our Father in Heaven
We Glorify Your Name
We bow down before You;

Our Father
Our Father who hath in Heaven (Amen)
Hallowed be Your Name.

OPENING PRAYER

Father in Heaven, we hallow Your Name; The Most Holy Name. The Most Dependable Name!

We Thank You for all that You have done and what You are doing. And will look into the future by Faith to what You are going to do. We are indeed very Grateful, our Maker!

We ask that You take all the Glory again today, in the Name of Jesus.

Thank You Everlasting Father for the opportunity our father in the Lord has given to us over this Particular Period of time.

And we Thank You for his life and the life of his family; we Pray that God’s Glory will continually be upon Him, in the Name of Jesus!

And as we sit around the table of God today to look at Your Word,we Pray; both the one that is standing to represent the Holy Spirit, and the people who are listening or reading now on the Label of DMC; King of Glory, You will teach us together, in the Name of Jesus!

Our Father in Heaven we Pray, we will not miss the Point that You intend to Pass across to us. We will not switch off from the things You have determined to say to us.

Please, I don’t know anything; I surrender my mouth, my head and my heart to You. That the Holy Spirit will make use of this instrument of clay to deliver the Precious things in the Will and in the Counsel of God, in the Name of Jesus!

Father, let there be Salvation today, let there be Restitution. Let the Power of God descend upon the Word.

And for everyone who has requested for Prayers on this Platform, Please, answer their Prayers!

Almighty God, those who have received their Miracles; the Miracles will be Permanent, Jesus’ Name!

When all is said and done on Earth, let us make it to Heaven!

In Jesus’ Mighty Name we Pray – Amen!

Praise the Name of the Lord – Hallelujah!

We want to appreciate God today, once again for the Privilege from my father in the Lord. I do not take it for granted.

I remain eternally grateful to God and to you for this opportunity. The Lord will continue to Bless you, in Jesus’ Name – Amen!

Today we are going to be talking about: BREAKING THE BOUNDS OF SEXUAL IMMORALITY.

I am going to read from: 1 Corinthians 6:15, 19-20; And I am reading from Common English Bible (CEB);

15. Don’t you know that your bodies are Parts of the Body of Christ? Is it right for me to join Part of the body of Christ to an immoral woman? No, it isn’t!

19 Surely, you know that your body is the Temple where the Spirit lives; the Spirit is in you, and it’s a Gift from God. You are no longer your own.

20 God Paid a great Price for you, so use your body to honour God.

May the Lord Bless the Reading and Hearing of His Word, in the Name of Jesus – Amen.

Human sexuality can be one of the most beautiful aspects that God has given to human beings, especially those who are His children here on Earth.

But since the fall of Adam and Eve from the Grace; human sexual Practises have shifted from God’s Purposes.

Sexual sin is something many people do not want to speak about because of the Personal stigma attached to it.

But from our Text above, Apostle Paul said: “Don’t you know that your body is Part of God’s Body?”

How can you join yourself to some other Person who is not Part of your body?

So, Sexual Sin can include a list of various things: Adultery, formication (before marriage), Lust and many others!

And because it seems to be a more secret sin, the enemy repackages it (as it were), making people Practice it.

And today, even the way people treat sex; it makes it look as if greater Percentage of the entire world is morally bankrupt.

In the New Testament, the word most often translated Sexual Immorality, is from ‘Pornea’.

That word ‘Pornea’ is translated as Whoredom, Formication, Idolatry.

It means: Surrendering of Sexual Purity and it’s Primarily used for Premarital sex connoting.

And from the Greek word (where the word was taken) is where we get the word ‘Pornography’ from.

… We are not talking about that today!

And Pornography means selling off!

Sexual Immorality is the SELLING OFF your Sexual Purity;

And it involves all kinds of Sexual Practices, outside the Jurisdiction, outside the Boundary of a Marriage Relationship.

Because Matthew 19: 4-5, the Master; The Word from the beginning said:

“And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?”

He made them MALE and FEMALE;

… I don’t want to emphasize on that today!

And so, when you look carefully at the Teaching of Jesus Christ, He emphasized on this. He made us to know that Sexual Purity is a MUST!

And except we are able to follow the Teaching of God in our Generation; we can easily become slaves to sin and fall from the Glory of God.

Therefore, we are going to emphasize on drinking water from your Cistern.

Because Sexual Immorality has become a plague even among Christians! And it is a great shame for those who are Born Again (the body of Christ) to do such.

The Bible says: “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a New Creature: Old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new” – 2 Corinthians 5:17

But there are all manners of things that are being introduced in our Generation.

… Because Sexual Pleasure is just for few minutes.

I am going to use SAMSON AS AN EXAMPLE TODAY

Because he is an outstanding example I could find in the Bible!

• He was Anointed from his mother’s womb;
• He was the only one man Soldier that defended Israel for over twenty (20) years!

No other Recruits; anywhere there was a Battle, he went there!

But this same man’s Destiny collapsed, destroyed, bastardised, fell, Perished on the laps of a woman – Sexual Immortality!

In Judges 16:20-21: “And she said, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he awoke out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times before, and shake myself. And he wist not that the LORD was departed from him. But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house.”

The Story of SAMSON is a lesson to all of us when we are talking about Immorality.

The above Passage shows us: CERTAIN CRACKS IN SAMSON’S LIFE:

… And his Spiritual Power was taken away!

1. Samson was CAPTURED: Immorality will make you a CAPTIVE.

As Samson was captured, any day, any time; immoral act will make you a CAPTIVE.

2. Samson was BOUND: Immorality will BIND you.

It will BIND you, and make you Incapacitated.

3. Now Samson eyes were PLUCKED OUT: Immorality will BLIND your eyes, REMOVE your Vision.
4. Samson was made to GRIND: Immorality will GRIND you to Shame and Reproach.

There are few things I was to suggest: WISDOM GUIDES TO STAY HOLY.

There are few Wisdom Guides that will help anyone any day, to stay PURE; to stay HOLY.

… And I will mention maybe Five (5) of such:

1. You need to be SENSITIVE to the Enemy’s Plots

The enemy wants to take advantage of you; he wants to take advantage of me!

My father in the Lord has said that anytime you have Sexual Temptation, ask the Lord: “What have I done that You want to destroy me?”

You must be aware of the enemy’s plots.

1 Peter 5:8-9 says:

“Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.”

There is an enemy of your Progress – Just as you have Vision, the enemy has a Vision to Pull you down and bring you to shame.

You need to be aware of this and be very sensitive to the Plots of the devil, so you will not become a victim of his Plots.

The devil hates Good Relationship, he hates the Power in Agreement, the Power in Unity!

“One will chase a thousand, two will chase ten thousand.”

He would do everything to Pollute, to destroy. He would everything to scatter any Good Relationship; so that you will not be able to do anything, and remain redundant and stagnant for life!

… You have to be AWARE! Be VIGILANT – That is what the Bible says.

2. Don’t OVER ESTIMATE yourself.

1 Thessalonians 5:22 says: “Abstain from all appearance of evil.”

Wisdom demands that we avoid compromising situations and refrain from tempting the Grace of God.

To spend hours with a Lady who is not your wife; hours with a Single Person (as a married Person) in an isolated place; and say ‘of course, nothing happened.’

Even if nothing happened, you have taken the Grace of God too far!

So, you have OVER ESTIMATED yourself!

A lot of people have become casualties of situations – And you are NEVER, I am NEVER above temptation.

And if you feel you are lifted above temptation, you will be disgraced and destroyed.

Very crucial; don’t over estimate yourself!

3. COUNT THE COST.

Proverbs 4:7 says: “Wisdom is the Principal thing; therefore get Wisdom: and with all thy getting get Understanding.”

It is amazing, to see a lot if people become sober and ashamed of themselves after they have become victims of Sexual Immorality.

A man was caught in another man’s house, and he was begging: ‘Please, don’t exposé me!’

… What was he thinking when he did that?

If you are caught in the act of adultery, you LOOSE everything!

Make a list of what you will loose whenever you are tempted to commit Sexual immorality and let the List motivate you to stay Clean.

Say this: How many people will you disappoint – Because your family will be in shambles.

4. Keep your System CLEAN.

You have (as it were) a Bowl, a bucket. Now, you need to keep your system CLEAN.

Hebrews 13:4 says: “Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.”

When you refuse to tend your Garden, the grass will look GREENER on the other side.

As a man, you need to keep yourself neat and clean and make sure that your wife is well taken care of.

If you see something you like in other Ladies, instead of admiring that fellow, buy the same thing for your wife – Wisdom demands that you get it for your wife!

I always get weary when I hear people criticise other people’s wives; ‘she is too fat, she is too thin!’

She is not you wife! What is your business? Who art thou that judges another man’s wife? What concerns you?

Take your wife to the boutique; dress her! Just as wives should take Good care of their husband.

You must stay attractive to your spouse whether you are a man or a woman.

Let me say this one: Sex is meant to give Pleasure to ONLY legal couples (husband and wife) and it is Covenant SEAL, as it were!

Every woman (and I say it without any apology) who deprives her husband sex is a SINNER.

The Bible says: “Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to Fasting and Prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency” – 1 Corinthians 7:5

“Every time you say you are TIRED whenever the man wants to travel to ‘Jerusalem’ or go to ‘Jordan’ and any man that uses sex as a Punishment to the wife – You also need Deliverance!

It (Sex) is a Holy thing between husband and wife!

In fact, Sexologist made a Research that: Regular sex between couple keep them Younger and United.

So, you need to know, within the confinement of marriage, that sex is an Holy thing, but to do it outside Marriage, Whaooo! You will discover it is a monster that kills faster than anything!

Look at Samson, a most respected Person now become a ridicule because he cannot HOLD himself.

5. Establish a COVENANT.

Very, very important Sir; Very important Ma!

Job 31:1 says: “I made a Covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?”

It is Good to admire, but when the admiration is getting to your thought, Please Jettison it.

The configuration of a man is different from that is a woman – Men appreciates Beauty; women are Emotional.

But Job as a man, said: “I made a Covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?”

Job understood the secret that many people ignore; the secret of Covenant restriction.

When you make a Covenant with God to cover an area of Moral Integrity; it will help you, and God will also help you to keep that.

Daniel 1:8 says: “But Daniel Purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the Portion of the King’s meat, nor with the wine which he drank: therefore he requested of the Prince of the Eunuchs that he might not defile himself.”

… He made up his mind that he was not going to destroy his Destiny.

And there was a young boy in the Book of Genesis like that – He was called Joseph.

He ran out! He said ‘I cannot do this and sin against my Makers.’

Daniel PURPOSED – If you make up your mind, God will back your mind up.

Make a Covenant with God today, that you are going to keep yourself.

And this is a note of warning to all the Youth: Sex is something you Practice only in the confines of Marriage.

… It is a forbidden fruit outside Marriage.

You need to know that SEXUAL PURITY is a must!

I Pray that the God of Heaven, Who has kept you this far, will keep you to the end, in the Name of Jesus – Amen!

So, if you have Problem with Sexual Immortality, DEAL WITH IT! – Ask God for help; and go to your Pastor to help you in Prayer and Counselling.

. And I know the Grace of God is available!

And of you are involved in Sexual Sin, I want you to repent – Do a Total Turnaround!

“Well, everybody does it!” – You are not everybody; you are UNIQUE and so you need to do something about it!

If you have Problem with the Spirit of Lust, do something about it.

If you need to go for Deliverance, please go ahead!

I still remember like yesterday, when I was courting my wife – We Thank the Lord for our Pastor back then!

… Today, I don’t really know whether it is overzealousness.

Back then in our days, you talk with your wife to-be around the Church or the Pastor’s Living Room.

But today, engaged Youths exchange visits, and all that and they say ‘we are okay!’

You are not okay! SEXUAL PURITY is a MUST.

May I say to you: If at any Point in time, before you got married you had carnal knowledge of yourselves; you need to confess.

The Problem you are having now in your home, may be as a result of that because “a Curse Causeless will not come.”

May be that is why you need to confess.

The Pastor will join you to Pray. If they need to lay hands on both of you so that the curse can be removed.

You may be saying: ‘Everything is going on well.’ But you know you are not enjoying your marriage.

It may be because of what you did before Marriage. You can do something about it.

… Now, I want to mention some other things;

BREAKING DAILY THE BOUNDS OF SEXUAL IMMORTALITY.

How will you do it? Because you will continually face that temptation.

It is a MUST, you will continually face the Temptation – You will.

I faced it, and I am still facing it and by the Grace of God and help from the Word of God, we are able to keep overcoming!

Those who have overcome Temptation and are still overcoming, what are the Biblical Help they got?

… Biblical Help to staying Pure:

1. You need to STAND FIRM Against Temptation EVERYDAY.

James 4:7 says: “Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.”

Also, 1 Peter 5:8-9 says: “Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.”

Galatians 5:1 says: “Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.”

So, it is something you need to do daily: STAND FIRM against temptation.

2. CONFESS your SINS to your Leader.

If at any Point in time you are thinking, ‘I don’t know what is wrong with me; my heart is wandering’. You can go to your Leader.

If you have done it before – Because Sexual sin is a secret thing; go and confess to your Spiritual Leader, so that you can be free.

James 5:16 says: “Confess your faults one to another, and Pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent Prayer of a righteous man availeth much.”

… An ‘Elder’ in this context is our Pastor!

3. You need to Solidify yourself Daily in the WORD OF GOD.

Hide God’s Words in your heart.

Psalms 119:11 says: “Thy Word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.”

You trust in the strength of His Word because Hebrews 4:12 says:

“For the Word of God is quick, and Powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, Piercing even to the dividing asunder of Soul and Spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.”

Isaiah 40:8 says: “The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the Word of our God shall stand for ever.”

Hide the Word of God in your heart; solidify yourself in the Word of God.

4. Do your BEST to Present yourself APPROVED to God on a daily basis.

Pray daily!

Jesus taught us in Matthew 6:13: “And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the Kingdom, and the Power, and the Glory, for ever. Amen.”

And He is not talking about the number of years you have been saved; He is not even talking about your Title – No!

Pray Daily: Lead us not into temptation.

And the only way you can do that, is to Present yourself APPROVED unto God.

2 Timothy 2:15 says: “Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the Word of truth.”

5. You need to FLEE Youthful Passion and Pursue Righteousness.

2 Timothy 2:22 says: “Flee also Youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, Faith, Charity, Peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a Pure heart.”

… Not all that glitters can be regarded as GOLD – No!

Especially those of us who are Young and Sexually active; that is when you need to FLEE!

Sexual Temptation does not need dialogue; you need to FLEE like there is a terror!

Pastor J.F ODESOLA

6. Put on the WHOLE ARMOUR of God.

Ephesians 6:11-14 says: “Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against Principalities, against Powers, against the Rulers of the darkness of this world, against Spiritual wickedness in High Places. Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;”

Put on the Whole Armour of God so that you can be able to do great exploits for God, and overcome the temptation of the enemy.

7. You need to STRIVE to WORK for the Lord.

Strive to labour for Him!

There are so many things which take our attention today but you need to strive to work for Him.

Colossians 1:29 says: “Whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.”

Jesus commissioned us while He was leaving the Earth. He said: “Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost” – Matthew 28:19

You have been Born Again for a while now, but what do you do in Church?

You say’ ‘I don’t like what they are doing’ – Can’t you change it?

… You can’t change it overnight;

But you can change your circle of friends, you can be a Part of the Change and influence others Positively

And you see, most of all, change comes from within because the Bible says in Proverbs 23:7:

“For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee.”

Do you want to be Sexual Pure? – It has to come from WITHIN.

Fill your thoughts with God’s Words, with God’s thoughts – And you will be able to overcome.

Be Sensitive to the Power of the Holy Spirit.

And I Pray that God of Heaven shall Bless and give you Strength to be able to overcome, in the Name of Jesus – Amen!

So, today; should there be any need for you; I mean, you are saying: ‘All these things this man is saying, I just find myself in this Particular web, I don’t know how to get out.’

God has the answer!

God has brought this Topic because He wants to set you Free.

He knows; He had you in mind, before instructing us to Teach it.

Oh, you say: ‘I have committed so many atrocities. I have even helped people to commit abortion – I have done this, I have done that!

… He is there to Help you!

And as a married man, nobody knows about it – Oh, you sneak out to commit adultery.

… It’s high time you return to God.

Listen to this: Your time is ticking, your life is going. There is Eternity, where sinners will suffer forever and all those who did not do His Will.

Only those who do His Will enjoy in Eternity and that is why you need to Restitute your ways today.

Bro, Sis, Minister – If you need to Restitute to your spouse please, do it. Go to your Pastor to Pray for you.

Sir/Ma, the stigma of Sexual Immorality actually has a way of telling on your children.

If you don’t know it, check the Bible.

We don’t have enough time to look at all those things that happened in the Bible.

… And that is why for the sake of your children, for the sake of your future, you need to Restitute.

ALTAR CALL

And for those of you who don’t know what to do, you have to say Lord: I surrender to You today.

The Bible says in 1 John 1:9 – “If we confess our sins, he is Faithful and Just to forgive us our sins.”

And that is one thing about David – When he falls, he confesses!

You have hidden this sin for so long, and you have been suffering for so long.

Look at the afflictions in your family, look at the challenges in your life – Those are what we are talking about.

Oh, are you saying: Sins are largely responsible for my Predicaments?

I have not said that! But sin is one of the things that could cause afflictions in your life.

… That’s why we need to Pray:

If you are not Born Again, tell God: I surrender my life to You today. I don’t want to live an immoral life again.

If you are Born Again and you are still committing immoral sin; Pray: Lord, help me.

But not only that, you need to go to your Pastor, and confess to him.

If you need to restitute to your spouse, do it and God will heal you.

Once you confess, it is gone. But when you are still hiding it, it is a Point against your life.

And if you want to give your life to Jesus, say this Prayer after me:

MY LORD JESUS, I RELEASE MY LIFE UNTO YOU TODAY, FORGIVE MY SIN, WASH ME FROM ALL MY INIQUITIES, COME INTO MY LIFE AND BE MY LORD, I AM READY TO FOLLOW YOU.

GIVE ME THE POWER TO FOLLOW YOU FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE. THANK YOU MY FATHER!

In Jesus’ Mighty Name we Pray – Amen!

PRAYER FOR SALVATION AND CLOSING PRAYER

Father Eternal, we Thank You because You are the Lord.

For ALL the people who are confessing their sins and the people who have made up their minds to RESTITUTE;

I Pray that this Particular day, You Almighty God will receive them, answer their Prayers and You will do something NEW for them today.

Deliver everyone who have been stung with this Particular Poison of IMMORALITY; Deliver them, and give them Freedom.

Those who have done it before and are ready to Restitute, Please Help them. Give them the Courage and equip them with Wisdom to do it.

And all of us, Oh God, we want to live in HOLINESS, we want our lives to be PURE; we want to live in LOVE and we want to UPHOLD the Integrity of the Word of God; Please, help all of us

And when the Roll is Called up in Heaven, we will make it there together.

Thank You our Maker.

In Jesus’ Mighty Name we Pray – Amen!

Praise the Lord – Hallelujah!

OFFERING AND PRAYER

Let’s Pray on our Offering; because your Service is not a Complete Service without giving an Offering.

Father in Heaven we Thank You! Lord, we Worship and we Adore Your Name.

For all those Giving an Offering; Please Bless the Offering, receive them, receive the olOffering. Use them for Your Glory.

And in the Kingdom of the Righteous, count all of us worthy to be able to Reign with You.

In Jesus’ Most Precious Name we have Prayed – Amen!

God Bless You!

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MINISTERING: PASTOR JOHNSON FOLORUNSHO ODESOLA (ASSISTANT GENERAL OVERSEER (AGO) ADMIN. AND PERSONNEL, RCCG)

Let somebody shout Hallelujah – Hallelujah!

TOPIC: FOUR (4) F’s OF PEACE AND PROGRESS.

DATE: 22ND SEPTEMBER, 2020

BIBLE TEXT: PHILIPPIANS 4:13-14

We want to Thank God for the Rendition by the Choir. The Almighty God will continually Bless them. They will never lose their relevance, in the Name of Jesus – Amen!

Shall we Pray!

SONG

El shaddai, El shaddai,
Heavens Honour You on high
I will Praise You all my life,
El shaddai

El shaddai, El shaddai,
Heavens Honour You on high
Age to age You are still the same,
By the Power of Your Name.

El shaddai, El Shaddai,
Heavens Honour You on high
I will Praise You all my life
EL SHADDAI

OPENING PRAYER

The King of Glory, the One Who has Exclusive Right to receive Praises and Honour. The Almighty God, the Great I AM!

We Adore You this Particular day, we Thank You this Particular night. Thank You for the Digging Deep of today! What a Great God,what a Mighty God we serve!

And Lord, we want to say: Thank You!

Accept our Thanks today in the Name of Jesus.

We appreciate You Oh Lord for the opportunity we are given by You and by our father in the Lord – our Leader, to stand on this Platform from time to time; and to declare from the things that he has taught us.

We Pray God Almighty that You will continually Strengthen Him, in the Name of Jesus!

Even as we start today Lord Almighty, to speak and look at the Word of Liberty; we Pray that the Word of God today will not irritate the People.

God You will use this same Word to Heal; You will use this same Word Almighty God to Deliver. There will be Salvation.

You will encourage someone out there, who is listening and watching or reading now on the Label of DMC.

And Father, we Pray Almighty God, that this Particular day – You who sent out Your Word and it healeth them.

We Pray that You use the same Word to Heal all of us!

I Pray You will take Possession of my head, my mouth and my heart. And I will just do exactly, according to the leading of the Holy Spirit.

Take over Oh God and let Your Counsel and You Will be done!

We give You Glory, God the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.

… Continue to take it! You Own it anyway!

In Jesus’ Mighty Name we Pray – Amen!

Let somebody shout Hallelujah – Hallelujah!

Today, we want to consider a very short and brief Teaching which is loosely used in our Generation – Both in Christiendom and in the Circular world.

We want to consider today: “FOUR (4) F’s OF PEACE AND PROGRESS.

In the Book of Philippians 3:13-14, I to read:

13 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,

14 I Press towards the mark for the Prize of the High Calling of God in Christ Jesus.

The Lord Bless the Reading and the Hearing of His Words, in the Name of Jesus – Amen.

Before I go into what we need to consider today; I don’t know whether you have heard the story of the Mouse!

The Rat looked through a crack in the wall one day, it saw a Farmer unwrapping certain things from the boxes. And the Rat kept wondering: ‘What is he unwrapping?’

By the time the Farmer brought out the thing inside the boxes; it is Rat Trap! And so the Rat said: We all are in a mess in this house!

And it ran to the Chicken and said: The Farmer has just bought a Rat Trap.

The Chicken said: Well, you are the one who has business in the house. I stay outside! And I eat maize and those things given to me. Go and sought it yourself.

The Pig said: Oh, I am sorry for you. What I can only do is to Pray for you. Who knows, maybe you will escape.

The Rat went to the Pig and said: I saw the Farmer a while ago, he just bought a Rat Trap.

And so it went to the Cow and said: See, the Farmer just bought a Rat Trap.

And the Cow said: Why are you insulting me? What do I have to do with Rat Trap? It said, go and sought it out by yourself.

So, the Rat went back to the house and warn the mice: ‘Please, the Farmer’s house is no go area, until I say so’.

And that night (in the Farmer’s house); there was a click of the Trap. And so the Farmer’s wife thought it caught a Rat. Everywhere was dark!

It was a Python, its tail was caught in the Rat Trap.

So, the Farmer’s wife was in darkness. So the Python released poison to the body of the woman.

At the hospital, the Doctors said she has fever and that she needs Chicken Pepper soup to cure the fever.

So they went home, killed a Chicken.

Yet the fever refused to go! And the People kept visiting the Farmer. They had to kill the Pig to entertain the visitors.

And eventually the Farmer’s wife died! And they killed the Cow for burial.

In Corinthians 12:26, the Bible says: “And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it”.

We must keep our eyes on one another, and we must make Personal efforts to encourage one another.

One of the best things in life, is to Synergize with one another; especially in the Lord – Hence, these four (4) F’s are very, very important.

FOUR (4) F’s OF PEACE AND PROGRESS.

1. FORGIVE

If you want to enjoy the Peace of heart; you want to make progress; then, that element – FORGIVENESS must be there.

Look at what Colossians 3:13 says: “Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye”.

Did you catch the challenge?

God in the above Passage of the Scriptures is challenging us, to give up Grudges.

And that is what it means when He says FORGIVE – If any man has a quarrel against any; even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.

You know in life, grudges destroy marriages. Grudges break family. Grudges rein friendship and grudges splits Church and fractionalize it.

Study shows that forgiveness is not only a Good Theology; but a lesson for living healthy as well.

And according to the latest Medical and Psychological Research: “Forgiving is Good for our Soul and for our body was their conclusion!

So, People who FORGIVE others, enjoy these benefits because forgiveness builds immunity and it lowers Blood Pressure.

Those who FORGIVE have Mental Balance – They don’t live in anger!

But those who don’t forgive are prone to Hypertension and all kinds of Viruses.

Now, it is a Negative Thing to have an Unforgiving Spirit.

Anyone who is living with that is setting himself or herself up for something that may impair his or her health.

And I am Praying for someone listening and reading now on the Label of DMC: May the Lord God Almighty release the Grace to FORGIVE others, in the Name of Jesus – Amen!

And I am absolutely certain that someone listening and reading now on the Label of DMC – You need to give up Grudges!

Maybe somebody hurt you long ago: Your Boss, your Spouse, Love ones, your neighbours – God is saying to you (Just as He is talking to me): Give up Grudges and Forgive them.

If you want to change your life and move on in the Journey of life, and enjoy everything God has to offer – You to commit yourself to give up Grudges.

… That’s Number One (1) F – FORGIVE!

2. FORGET

In that Philippians 3:14-14, it says: “Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I Press towards the mark for the Prize of the High Calling of God in Christ Jesus.”

If you want Peace of mind, then you have to FORGET.

There are certain books you need to close!

And as you journey on in life, if you want your life to experience wonders; you want to enjoy the rest of your life, you need to commit yourself to Forget what others have done to you – Your failures, your disappointments; Forget!

Now, D.L Moody (the Great Preacher) was narrating a Story in one of his Sermons;

He said two (2) men were under the influence of Alcohol, and they have to go back in their boats to the other end.

So, under this influence, they entered their boats, and roll all through the night; only to discovered that they were on the same spot.

Why? – Because they forgot to cut off the rope that tied their boats to the harbour!

You need to cut the cord that connect you to your Past in other to move on!

I Pray today, the Grace to forget the failures of the Past, and what others have done to us; the Lord will give unto us, in Jesus’ Name – Amen.

Now, still talking about FORGET; there was a man called Arthur Rank – An English Executive; one of the Great Men who lived in the Past and he was a Great Achiever.

They asked him: Why is it that you achieve so much in your life?

He said: I use one (1) day in a week to worry about ALL the issues and events around me! So when anything agitate me and it is not Wednesday; I will write it and throw it in a box.

And he said: One thing I have discovered is that by the time I opened the box, what was worrying me few days before they would have been settled.

… You need to Forget!

Some of the things we worry in life, they are not worth the worries – So you need to Forget!

Apostle Paul said: I forget the Past.

Yes, I have a lot behind me – It was a very bad Past.

He Persecuted the Church, he used his Authority to kill Christian.

In his own words, he said – ‘I am a Chief Sinner.’

He could have walked around in life with this burdens of guilt that would have crippled his Ministry. He would not have become a Great Apostle who gave us over two thirds (⅔) of the Epistles in the New Testament – But Paul said: FORGETTING what is behind!

So, you want Peace of mind? – FORGET!

As long as you are alive, life is not a smooth road, it is full of up and down!

Life is not only Mountain, life is not only Valley – And as you Journey on in life, definitely; even when you don’t mean to offend, offences will come!

When you don’t mean to make a mistake, you will make one because nobody is absolutely correct in all areas.

No one! – Only God and the Holy Spirit.

And so when there is a mistake, apologise if you have to.

When you have failed, close the Chapter and begin again because the end of a Sentence is the beginning of another! After a Full Stop, you start writing.

So, why do you need to live in yesterday?

Yesterday ended last night. You can’t bring it back, you can’t do anything about it – FORGET about it! They offended you, they injured you.

I still remembered like yesterday, but Thank God for His Grace:

When my Uncle’s wife poured fresh excretes on me and she said: ‘You are worth less than nothing!’

In this same life, this Particular Lady came and kneel before me, saying: She is sorry for what she did.

If I was living with that Grudges, I would have been lost forever!

Thank God I was able to Preach Christ to that Lady before she Passed on to Glory.

So, forget what People have done to you – You have been deeply hurt, but close the Chapter.

You have failed so woefully, and everybody have known you are a failure – That is their Opinion. Forget!

3. You need to FORGO.

… I like that – FORGET, FORGO!

I Pray that the Almighty God will give us the spirit to FORGET, in the Name of Jesus – Amen.

You need to FORGO!

1 Peter 3:8-9; says: “Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous: Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing.”

That you and I may inherit BLESSING.

And when you talk about FORGO, you need to give up fighting.

Do not repay evil for evil – Evil for evil is BAD. Do no repay insult for insult.

While Jesus was Teaching, some of His Hard Doctrines were: Somebody slaps you, turn the next side. Somebody wants to take you one mile, go extra miles.

When you have done that, He says – Close the Chapter and move on.

Sometime, the effective way to solve problems is to remain silent.

Somebody says: I want to Prove a Point!

You do not have any Point to Prove because, God has given us Plain Instruction.

And Apostle Paul while speaking said: I close the Chapter of yesterday.

Oh Yes, some things happened yesterday, but I need to let them GO.

Someone offended me; I need to let it GO.

The Apostle did not accept me; I need to let it GO.

People belittle the Grace of God on your life, they think you cannot amount to anything, they don’t expect nothing from you – That is theirs! You need to FORGO.

Charles Carlton one of the Great Theologians said: “When you have nothing to SAY, say NOTHING!”

And that looks like what Jesus said: Let your yea be yea, and your nay be nay.

I mean, when you say – I have FORGIVEN you, it is all gone. I FORGET it, it is all gone. And I FORGO it, and hand it to God.

… Let it remain so!

You need to FORGIVE, you need to FORGET and you need to FORGO.

It is one thing to FORGIVE, but do you FORGET?

It is another thing to FORGET, do you FORGO?

Or you are Praying; Oh God, avenge me! Oh God, do this.

Most of the regarded Bulldozer Prayers today are Prayers of Vengeance.

But in the words of my father in the Lord: If you Pray to destroy everyone, who are you going to Preach to?

… But God is Merciful.

When we look at the trends of happenings in the world, God has given everyone opportunity to repent.

I Pray today, that the spirit to FORGO, God will give unto everyone of us, in the Name of Jesus – Amen.

4. The Fourth (4th) F, which caps it all, is FOR GOD.

… Forgive, Forget, Forgo and FOR GOD!

Now, 2 Corinthians 1:8-11; and I will read after that 1 Peter 5:7.

2 Corinthians 1:8-11:

8 For we would not, Brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life:

9 But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead:

10 Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us;

11 Ye also helping together by prayer for us, that for the gift bestowed upon us by the means of many persons thanks may be given by many on our behalf.

… Talking about different things we come across in life.

You want Peace in life? Then you need to let GOD have His Way!

The troubles of life are so many! And Jesus Promised us in the Book of John 16:33:

“These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have Peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of Good Cheer; I have overcome the world.”

In the Book of John 14:1; the Bible says: “Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in Me.”

So, there are trouble in life, but when you give it over to God, there is a way he handles it on your behalf.

Give your Problems to God – When it looks like it is out of your control, then give it to God. He is the only One who has the Power to do Exceeding Abundantly.

Give it to Him!

1 Peter 5:7; says: “Casting ALL your care upon Him; for He careth for you.”

… All, and not some!

No wonder when Jesus was Teaching and Preaching – Just as He was saying to them, He is saying same to us now, in the Book of Matthew 11:28-30:

“Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light”.

… You need to give it to God!

I don’t know whether you have heard the story of a little Boy – ten (10) years old!

He needed a pair of shoes, and each time he wanted to ask the Parents (maybe because the Parents looked hard) he would be afraid.

But they took him to Sunday School one day. And the Sunday School Teacher said: ‘Anything you need, ask God; All your cares, cast them upon God, because He cares for you.’

So, the boy put up his hand and asked: Sir, are you sure that what you taught us now is exactly the way it is?

The Sunday School Teacher said: Yes, that is exactly the way it is – Anything you ask God!

So, the boy went to a shoe shop one day (Peeping through the shop window): Our Sunday School Teacher said I should ask God, God, I need a pair of shoes.

And there was a fairy old Lady who touched the boy on the shoulder and said: Young boy, what exactly do you need? Why are you peeping?

He said to her: My Sunday School Teacher told me, anything I need, I should ask God. As I am peeping, I am asking God to give me a pair of shoes.

So, the Lady took the boy inside the Shop and said Please, I need two (2) pairs of shoes for this Young boy.

Took the boy behind the Shoe Shop, got a water in a bowl, soap and towel. Wash the boy’s leg. Wore him the shoe and socks.

The young boy held the hand of the Lady, looked up and said: ‘Are you the wife of God?’ And the Lady smiled!

That is very instructive: If you want your Problems to be solved in life, you need to let God have it!

Don’t carry excess luggage. You are too small – Your Experiences, your Education, your Connection, your Money are all too small to handle the Multinational Problems of our world!

If you want your life’s Problems to be solved, give them over to God and trust Him – He will help all of us.

Hear what Paul said (in another translation):

“We are crushed and overwhelmed and saw how Powerless we were to help ourselves. But that was Good for them: we put everything in the Hand of God for He can even raise the dead. And He did help us”.

… And we expect Him to do it again and again.

If He has done it for one, He will do it for all – He is the same yesterday, today and forever.

That is what Hebrews 13:8 says.

When Moses and the Israelites were trapped in the land of Egypt, and they cried unto God, He delivered them.

As if that was not enough, when they got to the Red Sea, it looked as if they were trapped.

God said: Watch and see the Salvation of the Lord.

Let us trust the Lord. Let us give our burden to Him.

Have you heard that Song:

“God will make a way,
Where there seems to be no way …”

… He can make a way where none exist!

In the Book of Proverbs 3:5-6; the Bible says:

“Trust in the LORD with all thine heart, and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct thy Paths”.

What are we saying?

We are saying that: The four (4) F’s of Peace and Progress are life Changing ones to rest on God for the rest of your life on Earth.

The life we have is a borrowed one. We are only here for the time being.

All these Rat Race – trying to outdo others; we want to show off!

There are People who have troubled Nations in the Past; that children who are coming up today, don’t know anything about them.

Do what God has called you to do. Don’t put unnecessary burden on yourself.

You need to FORGIVE, you need to FORGET, you need to FORGO and you need to leave all FOR GOD.

Now:

1. You need to FORGIVE – If you want Peace of HEART because your heart will be free.
2. You need to FORGET – If you want the Peace of MIND.

That is the way it is!

3. You need to FORGO – If you want the Peace of your BODY.
4. And if you want an overall Peace and Success in life; you need to leave all FOR GOD.

He owns all things, He can do all things, He has all Power.

If you want to apply these things into your life, I Pray that God will give you Grace to be able to do it – Amen.

You need to apply all these if you want a meaningful life – You will have Peace and see Changes; you will have Satisfaction in Serving God.

You will have friends everywhere and you will have Success. And you will be able to Serve your God.

ALTAR CALL

But let me say to you my Brother, my Sister, Uncle, Aunty, Father, Mother:

1. That except you give your life to Him, FORGIVENESS will be difficult.
2. Except you give your life to Him, you will not be able to FORGET.
3. Except you give your life to Him, you will not be able to FORGO.
4. And until you have given your life to Him, you will still think your Strength and your Wisdom can give you what it takes.

… But you can still hand over to God!

Now, for those of you who are Born Again, apply these four (4) F’s of Peace and Progress.

Cod’s intention for us is a Good one. And He wants you and I to enjoy – He does not want us to be troubled.

And that is why I want us to Pray now.

Even as we Pray for about a minute, you are going to release everyone that have sinned against you.

… You are going to say: I FORGIVE YOU.

Those burdens you have carried because you come from a Polygamous family – Somebody injured you, jilted you and you are still suffering the ripple effect.

Now FORGIVE, you have your life ahead of you.

Say Lord, I release this fellow, I release them.

And those of you who want to surrender your lives to Jesus Christ, Please I beg of you, just tell Him: Let Your Blood wash me.

Say Lord: I am giving my life to You today. I release ALL into Your Hands. I want You to forgive me.

Cleanse me by Your Blood. I know Your blood has Power! – And let the Blood wash me.

And for those who are Believers, but you find it difficult to FORGIVE, to FORGET, to FORGO. You find it difficult to commit the issue into the Hands of God.

You can say: Lord, over to You, I surrender ALL – My Life, my Ambition, my Hurt, my Feelings, my Anger, my Anxiety.

… And I will Pray with you.

Thank You Father!

PRAYER FOR SALVATION AND CLOSING PRAYER

Eternal Father, we Thank You for the Word today. We Thank You because You have given us Your Words.

Everyone confessing their sins; the Lord who can FORGIVE, forgive them today, in the Name of Jesus!

You are the God of Forgiveness, let Your Blood wash them, in the Name of Jesus!

And I Pray that All Believers who are confessing their sins and who are making up their minds to forgive others; we Pray that You who can do all things, just do it in their lives again and let Your Name be Glorified.

We want to Pray that when all is said and done, give us the Power to do Your Will and let us make it to Heaven.

Thank You Eternal King! We Bless and Praise Your Name.

In Jesus’ Mighty Name we Pray – Amen!

OFFERING

Now, your Service is not total until you have given your Offering.

Let’s Pray on your Offering :

Father, Thank You for all the People who are holding their offering (Giving Online).

Lord, accept them Lord, accept their Offerings. Let this Offerings Oh God, open the doors of Blessing for them.

We Thank You our Marker!

And when eventually You are rewarding People, none of us will miss our Rewards.

Thank You for hearing.

In Jesus’ Most Blessed Name we Pray – AMEN!

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RCCG ONLINE CENTRAL DIGGING DEEP SERVICE TEACHING

MINISTERING: PASTOR JOHNSON FOLORUNSHO ODESOLA (ASSISTANT GENERAL OVERSEER (AGO) ADMIN. AND PERSONNEL, RCCG)

TOPIC: CONVENIENT COMPANION VERSUS COVENANT COMPANION.

DATE: 1ST SEPTEMBER, 2020

TEXT: GENESIS 17:1-2

Let somebody shout Hallelujah – HALLELUJAH!

We Bless the Name of the Lord for the Rendition of the Choir. We Pray for increase in Anointing upon all the Music Ministers.

The Almighty God will bless you – Amen!

Shall we just Pray?

SONG:

Praise Him, Praise Him (Echo)
Praise Him, Praise Him
Hallelujah, Amen! (AMEN…)

Repeated!

OPENING PRAYER

Eternal King we Praise Your Name because You are the ONLY Living God.

You don’t have a Beginning, no Middle and You do not have an End.

The Beginning, the End and the Middle, are actually compacted and fused to one in you.

Thank You because You are the Light! Lord Almighty, and You are the Mighty One.

We want to Thank You for what You are doing in our lives. Thank You for what You are doing on this Platform of Digging Deep.

Thank You for our father in the Lord who has allowed us to do all the things that we are doing.

We Pray for an increase in Strength for him; we Pray for Grace.

And Lord Almighty, we are asking that everyone that connects to this Programme every Tuesday on Dove Media or reading on the Label of DMC; we Pray that the Power of God will Tabernacle with them!

We are here today again to look at Your Word; Please, I confess I don’t know nothing!

I Pray that the Holy Spirit will operate through my mouth, my head and my heart for everyone watching and listening or reading on the Label of DMC.

That God Almighty, You will bless us together, teach us together. Mould our lives, encourage and just Strengthen our Faiths.

Heal all our diseases and we ask Oh God that You will remove every iniquities in our lives.

And Lord at the end of the day, let there be Miracles in our lives!

When all is said and done Lord, let the Word of God strengthen us for the Journey.

Thank You Eternal Father! We give You Glory, we give You Honour.

Holy Spirit just take over and let Your Counsel and Your Will be done.

In Jesus’ Mighty Name we Pray – Amen!

Praise the Name of the LORD – Hallelujah!

Once again, we want to appreciate our father in the Lord. My own father in the Lord, for the opportunity and the Privilege that he has given to this Young Boy to keep coming to do this.

Today, in our Digging Deep, we want to study what we call: “CONVENIENT COMPANION VERSUS COVENANT COMPANION.”

GENESIS 17:1-2;

1 And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the Lord appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before Me, and be thou Perfect.

2 And I will make my Covenant between Me and thee, and will Multiply thee exceedingly.

… The Lord bless the reading and hearing of His Words.

Now, in the Scripture we just read to us, God is trying to establish a Covenant with Abraham.

And He told Abraham: Walk before Me, and be thou Perfect.

And this is the Foundation of walking with God – And may I say: it is the Foundation of Christianity.

Abraham, who happened to be the grandfather of Christianity; because God called him out of darkness into Light.

God went further to say: And I will make My Covenant between Me and thee, and will multiply thee exceedingly.

… That is a very loaded Promise!

But as you know, when we talk about the Covenant with God, it is a TWO (2) WAY TRAFFIC:

GOD’S Part, and Human Part.

Let’s see how far we can go today.

WHAT IS A COVENANT?

A COVENANT is a VERY STRONG Agreement.

And it is the highest level of relationship a man could have with his Maker – the Almighty God.

Because we are talking about the Almighty God here.

… What is a Covenant?

A Covenant is a Statement between two (2) Parties.

The Christian Covenant started between two (2) Parties – Father Abraham and God. Then that cascaded down to us.

God is a God of Covenant; everything God does, He does them by Covenant.

So God established His Relationship with Abraham by: A COVENANT OF SEVEN (7) FOLD PROMISES.

… We are not going into that today!

In the Book of Genesis 12:1-3, God established a relationship with Abraham by a Seven (7) Fold Blessing.

We are not going that round today. But I want you to know that Covenant, as it concerns and Pertains to us;

Because every Covenant comes with a Promise!

And that is why, where we read to us today; if you go down – Genesis 17:1-4.

Now, something is in that Particular Passage – Sometimes, a Covenant is backed up with an Oath and secured with a token.

So, when God makes a Covenant with any individual, He can never fail. Man may fail. But God cannot!

The Bible says to us in Hebrews 6:13 – We can see how God made a Promise to Abraham:

“For when God made Promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no Greater, he sware by himself,”

And you know God, because He does not have ability to change; Numbers 23:19 says God is not a man, God is GOD.

… That is a Study on its own!

God is God. Whenever He says anything, it turns out exactly to be what He wants to do!

SO, WHAT ARE THE TYPES OF COVENANTS HE HAD IN PLACE?

… Especially, as regarding you and I.

I will mention Seven (7) TYPES OF COVENANT:

1. Now, there is the Covenant of PEACE for you and I.

Isaiah 9:6, the Phrase I want to use there is: “The Prince of Peace.”

It says: “For unto us a child is born, unto us a Son is given: and the Government shall be upon his shoulder: and His Name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The Mighty God, The Everlasting Father, THE PRINCE OF PEACE.”

If you are in trouble, maybe you have not entered into that Covenant.

Remember, Jesus Christ Himself said in John 14:27: “PEACE I leave with you, MY PEACE I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.”

Now, look at what He said in John 14:1: “Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.”

So, everyone that is Born Again, everyone that desires Good Life, everyone that desires Peace; you must enter into this Covenant with the Prince of Peace.

You can also listen to the audio: Convenient Companion Vs Covenant Companion – Pastor J.F Odesola

And if you are Born Again, you are already into this Covenant; because the Prince of Peace dwells in your life.

… So, Covenant of PEACE!

2. Covenant of FAVOUR.

In the Book of Daniel 1:9; “Now God had brought Daniel into FAVOUR and tender love with the Prince of the Eunuchs.”

We are talking about FAVOUR – When God favours you, no own can disfavour you!

In Exodus 3:21, the Bible says: “And I will give this People FAVOUR in the sight of the Egyptians: and it shall come to Pass, that, when ye go, ye shall not go empty:”
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The People of Israel, God gave them FAVOUR in the sight of the Egyptians.

Psalms 102:13 (that Popular Passage): “Thou shalt arise, and have MERCY upon DMC Family (all all those reading now): for the time to FAVOUR her, yea, the set time, is come.”

So, put your name wherever you see ZION. Because you are the one in Place now!

… Covenant of Peace, Covenant of Favour. Now there is a third (3rd) Covenant;

3. Covenant of DIRECTION.

Everyone that is Born Again, you are not supposed to walk, and get lost in the wilderness of life because, there is a Covenant of Direction.

In Exodus 23:20, the Bible says: “Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the Place WHICH I HAVE PREPARED.”

There is a “Prepared Place” for you.

God is not a wicked Father; sending you to the world, without a direction, no compass – NO, that is not the GOD we serve.

No wonder, Paul when he was speaking in the Book of Romans 8:14 said: “For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.”

Because the Bible says in John 1:12; “But as many as received him, to them gave He POWER to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:”

But let me quickly add, that even as a child of God: You also need to be sensitive. And get connected to the Holy Spirit in other for you to have Direction.

…Covenant of Direction!

4. Covenant of HEALING.

3 John 1:2 says: “Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest Prosper and be in HEALTH, even as thy soul Prospereth.”

We live in a world, that when the Doctors, the Medical Experts have reached their wit end, they tell you: “We are sorry, that is a bit that we know!” And they give up.

I have told you the story of a woman before.

Our father in the Lord, once upon a time, at the RCCG Throne of Grace at Ebute Meta; a woman came and Daddy G.O was not around but he left a word: That whenever I am not around, whosoever is my Assistant here, let the Person stand in.

This woman came with a loaded Report of Cancer. The Doctors said she had this cancer, and that the Secretary to the General Oversee directed her to me.

And I said, okay!

She said: Could you Please check all the Papers?

I said: I am not a Medical Doctor, I am a Pastor.

Initially, I was worried, but then I said well, the Secretary to the General Overseer has already directed her to me; so I will just do the Needful.

So, I said to her: Are you married?

She said No!

Then I said to her: God cannot afflict you with Cancer. He is a Good God and a Great Economist.

How can a Beautiful Lady like you, a Graduate (with a very bright future). Because I asked her the University she graduated from, her Field of Specialty.

Anyway, after all that, I said: I don’t think you have cancer.

She said: They told me I have cancer.

I said: Well, I am not a Medical Doctor, but I am telling you: you have come to this House and you have come to see my father in the Lord. I am not a Prophet, but I am a Son of a Prophet all the same!

So, I laid my hands on her and Prayed: Oh God, I know that this Lady cannot Possibly have Cancer; but if she has any, kill it.

Oh God, she has not come to me, but has come to the God of Baba G.O. May the Anointing on Pastor E.A Adeboye come and heal this Lady.

Lord, even beyond that, connect her to her God’s Ordained husband, because she is still Single.

Oh God, Thank You for hearing. In Jesus’ Name – Amen!

And she said: Is that all?

I said that is all – It is FINISHED.

And as she was going (holding the door) she said: So, what do I do? They said I will soon start Chemotherapy.

I said: DON’T GO THERE!

I calculated, and I said: after this Prayer, two (2) weeks, go and do another Test. Another two (2) weeks, go and do another Test.

And I now said: If the thing is still there – I calculated when Daddy G.O will come back from the Mountain. So I calculated like a Month and a half (1½), I said come back then.

And she left!

I Picked my intercom and said: “Hello, is that Daddy G.O Secretary? Why should you direct someone like that to me? If it is headache I know, if it is stomach ache I know. But Cancer – My anointing is not up to that!

He told me: That is what Daddy G.O told me to do!

And I said: When he send you like that, you should know the level of my Anointing.

He said well, I will rather obey my Boss than you!

He said is that okay, I said that is okay.

He said that is what Daddy G.O asked me to do, next time I will still do it.

… And he ended the call.

When she left, I said: Thank God it is not me she came to meet. If she does not get healed Praise God. If she gets healed, Praise God!

At least Daddy G.O will be around; and when he lays band on her, it will be gone!

So, two (2) Months later, I got a phone call: Hello, do you remember a Lady that came with Cancer?

I said, I remembered.

She said, I want to give you two (2) Good News.

She said:

1. Somebody has Proposed;

But that was not what I wanted to hear because when I Prayed that Prayer, I Prayed hanging it on the neck of Daddy G.O that well, God knows what to do!

2. She said, the second (2nd) one, I am coming from the third (3rd) Test. And the Doctors said there is NO CANCER ANYWHERE.

When I dropped the Phone, I said: Ha, God Please forgive me.

So, You do answer the Prayer of an Unbelieving Pastor?

Now, what I am saying is that Covenant of Healing is for every child of God. Things that kill others should not kill you – Amen.

But look at what He said in Isaiah 53:4-5: “Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our Peace was upon Him; and with His stripes we are healed.”

I am not an English major; but IT IS DONE.

… So, you have a Covenant of HEALING.

5. Covenant of DELIVERANCE.

Exodus 3:7-8 (Put that one down, because that is not where I want to read).

Psalms 27:1 says: “The LORD is my light and my Salvation; whom shall I fear?”

But Luke 4:18 is where I want to read – The Covenant of DELIVERANCE;

Luke 4:18 says: “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because He hath anointed me to Preach the Gospel to the Poor; He hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to Preach DELIVERANCE to the Captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at Liberty them that are bruised,”

This is why I like my father in the Lord – You know some People specialise in Deliverance. They say: I am a Deliverance Minister.

My father in the Lord says he is All Round Gospel Preacher.

And I like that one. Because when the Word of God goes deep down, it will cause Deliverance.

… So, you have a Covenant of DELIVERANCE.

6. Covenant of PROTECTION.

Revelation 3:10 (Put that one down).

But Psalms 91:1-2 says: “He that dwelleth in the Secret Place of the Most High shall abide under the SHADOW of the Almighty. I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in Him will I trust.”

The Bible says in Isaiah 54:17 that: No weapon that is fashioned against you will Prosper.

… So, you have a Covenant of PROTECTION.

7. Covenant of PROSPERITY.

Listen, I said Seven (7) Types of Covenant:

• Covenant of PEACE,
• Covenant of FAVOUR,
• Covenant of DIRECTION,
• Covenant of HEALING,
• Covenant of DELIVERANCE
• Covenant of PROTECTION.

And Covenant of PROSPERITY!

In Deuteronomy 8:18, He says: I am the One that gives you Power to create Wealth.

So, wealth belongs to God.

Matthew 6:33 says: “But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.”

And in the Book of Philippians 4:19, it says: “But my God shall supply ALL YOUR NEEDS according to His Riches in Glory by Christ Jesus.”

You are entitled to Prosperity, if you are Born Again.

If you are not Born Again, give your life to Jesus today and you will begin to Prosper.

FACTS ABOUT GOD’S COVENANTS THAT YOU NEED TO KNOW:

1. God cannot ALTER His Covenants.

God is not a man. He does not lie concerning His HOPE and Promise.

You are very important to God – And whatever He says concerning you, He will bring to Pass – Hebrews 6:18 and Numbers 23:19.

… God cannot Possibly change what He said.

2. When God makes a Covenant, ALL the Machineries in Heaven are set to make sure those Promises are carried out.

In Genesis 1:3, He said: Let there be Light!

.,. Of course, all the Machineries in Heaven complied immediately.

That is God!

3. God CANNOT BREAK His Covenant.

Jeremiah 33:20 says: “Thus saith the LORD; If ye can break my Covenant of the day, and my Covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and night in their Season;”

That is when you can break the Covenant of God.

… His Covenant is certain, deliberate

4. Every time God wants to move someone out of bondage or do Special Thing in someone’s life: He often ask for a Covenant.

Abraham is an example – God called him out in Genesis 12:1-3.

He came back to him in Genesis 13 and 15.

And in Genesis 17, God assured him about the surety of something that cannot fail.

In Genesis 18:1-13, God visited Abraham in other to bring to Manifestation, the Covenant He (God) made to him (Abraham).

Whatever He says to you is a POSSIBILITY and He will BRING IT TO PASS – Amen!

… Relax, because He is on your side.

5. God always acts by a Covenant.

Every ACT of God, is an Act of Covenant.

When He was about to bring the children of Israel out of the Land of Bondage, He asked for a Covenant in the Book of Exodus 12:3.

God does not bless anyone outside of the Covenant – NO! You have to be in the Covenant.

You can say everything about Israelites today, they are still BLESSED of God. Say anything about their land, they are still BLESSED. Say anything about the Jews, they are still BLESSED!

That is God’s Covenant – for God; His ways are straightforward.

… God always acts by Covenant.

6. In a Covenant of GOD with Man, the devil is always a LOSER. And I am happy about this – That the devil is always a LOSER.

If you are in a Covenant with God, He will always cause you to Triumph!

In 2 Corinthians 2:14, the Bible talks about how we TRIUMPH.

But I like John 10:10: “The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I AM COME that they might have LIFE, and that they might have it more ABUNDANTLY.”

7. Under the Covenant of God, there is REDEMPTION and SAFETY.

It is a Comprehensive Coverage; that makes you fully covered. He takes everything over from you – Your fight, your battle.

Because He said in Luke 10:19: “Behold, I give unto you Power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the Power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.”

And He said to them (when He was going away), He said to the Disciples in the Book of Matthew 28:18-20. He told them: “And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All Power is given unto me in Heaven and in Earth. Go ye therefore, and teach all Nations, Baptizing them in the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen.”

No wonder he told them in the Book of Acts of the Apostles 1:8: “But ye shall receive Power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be Witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost Part of the Earth.”

8. Everywhere you STEP into will become a SOLUTION – Under the Covenant with God.

Who would have ever thought David could kill Goliath?

But David was in a Covenant with God. And when he stepped into that Valley of God Elah , it became the Place of Victory.

9. Under the Covenant of God: He will BLESS your BREAD and your WATER; He will TAKE AWAY sickness.

Exodus 23:25-36 says: “And ye shall serve the LORD your God, and He shall bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee. There shall nothing cast their Young, nor be barren, in thy land: the number of thy days I will fulfil.”

When you enter into this Covenant with God: Every Evil Covenant that has been operating in your life will be nullified, cancelled. And they will Vanish.

In Hebrews 8:13, it says: “In that He saith, A New Covenant, He hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.”

So, WHAT ARE WE SAYING?

You are under a NEW and a BETTER Covenant. I am, you are!

… If you are not there, I beg of you, in the Name of Jesus, come in today.

Lamentations 3:25 say: “The LORD is Good unto them that wait for Him, to the Soul that seeketh Him.”

God has a Waiting List – It is the List of things He Promised you in Life!

The List contains the expectations of God for your life. Absolutely, nothing is removed, nothing is subtracted.

As God remembered Noah, in the Book of Genesis 8:1, He will remember you for Good – Amen!

Under the Covenant, you will always be remembered. There is no way you can be forgotten in a hurry. You cannot be forgotten.

Your Memorial is always before Him. He has engraved you on His Palm – God is a God of Remembrance.

A NEW COVENANT!

In Revelation 5:9, answer the question:

WHY WOULD GOD REMEMBER YOU AND I IN A NEW COVENANT?

Let the Books of the Bible answer this for us; Revelation 5:9 gives us an answer: “And they sung a New Song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the Book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast Redeemed us to God by thy Blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and People, and Nation;”

1. So under a New Covenant, you are always remembered – He Paid the Ultimate Price for your Redemption.
2. If you are under a New Covenant through JESUS CHRIST: Barrenness, Emptiness, Sickness, Calamity, Frustration, are not your Portion!

They should be far away from you because you are IMMUNED (as it were!) To every atrocity of the devil.

3. What others call impossibility, will be a work over for you.

I mean, He said in Luke 10:19: “Behold, I give unto you Power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the Power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.”

… Jesus overcome, for you!

4. Now, you will have New Degrees called: B.A. – You are Born Again!

M.Sc – Master over Situation and Circumstances.

PhD – Power over the Hosts of Darkness.

D.D – Destroyer of Demons.

It is the Covenant of God – Covenant of Blood that qualified you to be God’s Professor.

5. A man under the Covenant is bound to be ENVIED.

Isaac was envied. check that in Genesis 26:1-the end.

6. Under this Covenant, you are LOADED on a daily basis with BLESSINGS.

I mean, Psalms 68:19 says: “Blessed be the Lord, who daily loadeth us with benefits, even the God of our Salvation. Selah.”

7. Also, God Increases you MORE and MORE, in Christ.

… No shortage, inadequacy, in God!

Because Covenant of Sorry, Death, Pandemic, Calamities, will never touch you – Amen.

Because you are no longer under that region again.

WHAT IS BETTER UNDER THIS NEW COVENANT?

… I will quickly run down Seven (7) THINGS:

1. A New and a Better MESSAGE – Hebrews 1:1-2:

“God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time Past unto the fathers by the Prophets, Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;”

… New Message – Message of Hope!

2. BETTER THAN Angels.

We have Jesus – According to Hebrews 1:4 – “Being made so much better than the Angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.”

… What do you have better?

3. You have BETTER HOPE.

The Lord made all things Perfect!

But the Covenant of God makes all things very, very good for us – Hebrews 7:19.

4. You have a BETTER SURETY – Hebrews 7:22.

Jesus has become the Surety of a Better Covenant to you.

5. BETTER PROMISES- Hebrews 8:6: “But now hath he obtained a more excellent Ministry, by how much also He is the Mediator of a Better Covenant, which was established upon Better Promises.”
6. BETTER SACRIFICE.

The things in Heaven should be Purified; The Blood of Jesus can handle Better Sacrifice.

7. BETTER HEAVENLY HOME.

“… Knowing in yourselves that ye have in Heaven a better and an enduring Substance” – Hebrews 10:34;

8. You have a BETTER FUTURE.

God, having Provide something better for us – Hebrews 11:40.

You have all those things, better and better for you.

• A New and a Better Message;
• Better than Angels;
• Better Hope;
• Better Surety;
• Better Promises;
• Better Sacrifice;

What is BETTER?

Better Heavenly Home;

• Better Future, you have!

HOW DO I ACTIVATE THE COVENANT OF THE BLESSING OF GOD?

… Let me mention few Things:

1. YOU MUST AVOID LOOSE LIFE.

Don’t give the enemy an opportunity to Point an accusing finger at you.

You cannot afford to live your life CARELESSLY.

I. To avoid loose live, you must watch your Association; Choose your friends.

The Bible says in Proverbs 13:20,: “He that walketh with Wise Men shall be Wise: but a companion of FOOLS shall be destroyed.”

… Move with the WISE

“Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.” – 1 Corinthians 15:33.

Young ones, Youths, Teenagers of our days: Mind who you walk with. Ask your Pastor, ask the People in Church questions.

Thank God for the Redeemed Christian Church of God: Ask question. Instead of asking People who do not know.

You must shut your eyes and your ears; because they are gateway to Polluted Programs. Be careful: The kind of Programs you watch; the kind of music that you listen to.

… How do you activate the Covenant?

2. HUMILITY.

Humility is the ability to remain quiet and avoid the temptation of striving to lift yourself above others.

God Himself hates anyone that is Proud.

And my father in the Lord has said it: Anyone who is Proud, God is his or her enemy.

So, God detests those who are Proud; because that was what sent the devil out of Heaven.

3. Maintain a POSITIVE and Biblical Confession of your Faith.

… It will show up as you Profess it.

Remember what God said to the People in the Book of Numbers 14:28.

He said: “Say unto them, As truly as I live, saith the LORD, as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you:”

Keep Praising God, surprise the devil. When he wants to make you cry – Just keep smiling.

4. Maintain CONSTANT Focus on Jesus.

… Keep your eyes on Him.

Hebrews 12:2 says: “Looking unto Jesus the Author and Finisher of our Faith; who for the Joy that was set before Him endured the Cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the Right Hand of the Throne of God.”

The Book of Psalms 34:5 says: “They looked unto Him, and were lightened: and their faces were not ashamed.”

Keep your focus on the Kingdom.

In the Book of Numbers 21:8-9, the Bible commanded the children of Israel to look at the Brazen Serpent.

And as many of them who looked at the Brazen Serpent, they were delivered.

So look unto Him, let your eyes look unto Him

5. FULFIL YOUR VOWS.

A broken Vow will open door for the enemy to accuse you.

Please, always watch your mouth before you make a Vow.

Remember Jephthah in Judges 11:21-40.

Before you open your mouth, make sure you are ready to do what you Promise – Deuteronomy 23:21-23.

Make sure that you Pay your Vow.

If you have Unpaid Vow, Please go and Redeem it.

6. Do away with Bitterness and Unforgiveness.

In Matthew 6:8-15, our Lord JESUS said: When you Pray, forgive others. If you don’t forgive others, you will not be forgiven.

In Matthew 18:22-35; a servant, who refused to forgive his fellow servant was Judged with a great Judgment.

7. Continue to give Praise and Glory to God.

… That you are counted worthy to cut a Covenant with Him.

Let me conclude; the Blood also does better things in your life than the blood of Abel.

Under this Covenant, Mercy is there for you every morning.

Remember Galatians 3:13 says: “Christ hath Redeemed us from the curse of the Law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is everyone that hangeth on a tree:”

You have REDEEMED us from the Curse;

But it is now left unto you to enter into the New Covenant.

ALTAR CALL

I don’t know where you are – If you are not yet Born Again, bow your head and Pray: God, I want to give my life to You.

And if you are Born Again, but you are not enjoying these Covenant, I will Pray with you.

Shall we just Pray?

Thank You Jesus!

PRAYER FOR SALVATION AND CLOSING.

Father Eternal God, we Thank You for the People that are watching or reading on the Label of DMC, especially the People who are giving their lives today:

I Pray that you will forgive their sins, wash them from their iniquities; let the Blood of the Covenant work for them!

And let them enjoy the Promises of the Covenant from today.

And all the Believers who are hearing across the Globe, or reading now on the Label of DMC; Please, whatsoever is lacking in their lives within this Covenant, Please put it back there and let them enjoy them.

Let the Name of the Lord be Mightily Glorified!

Keep all of us to work and make it on Earth and make it to Heaven.

Thank You because it is done!

In Jesus’ Mighty Name we Pray – Amen!

Please, if you have given your life to Jesus, our father in the Lord would like to know more about you. To Pray for you further.

And there is a Gift (of a Book) from Daddy G.O for everyone who gives his or her life to Jesus.

So, once we know, the Follow Up Group will Counsel you more.

God Bless you – Amen!

OFFERING

Let us give our Offering – So that I will Pray on your offering, then you drop it.

PRAYER ON OFFERING

Father in Heaven we Thank You for the People who are giving their offering.

We know that your Service is not complete until we have given an offering.

As many who are Giving, in their house fellowship, in Churches; we Pray You will accept them and accept their offering.

And Lord Almighty, return this back to them – thirty (30), sixty (60) and hundred (100) folds!

And in the Kingdom to come, do not let any of us miss our Rewards.

Thank You because it is done!

In Jesus’ Mighty Name we Pray – AMEN!

GOD BLESS YOU, Please drop your offerings. It is well with you – Amen.

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MINISTERING: PASTOR JOHNSON FOLORUNSHO ODESOLA (ASSISTANT GENERAL OVERSEER (AGO) ADMIN. AND PERSONNEL, RCCG)

TOPIC: THE REDEMPTION OF THE FRUITLESS VINE.

DATE: 25TH AUGUST, 2020

TEXT: LUKE 13:6-9

Praise the Name of the Lord! We Thank God for the Rendition of the Choir. May the Lord continually increase them in Jesus’ Name – Amen.

Shall we just Pray before we get started?

SONG:

Jesus is Alpha
Alpha, Omega
Jesus is Alpha
Alpha, Omega
So, I Praise Him for He is Alpha
Alpha and Omega
So, I Praise Him for He is Alpha
Alpha and Omega.

Like Him, I want to be
To live in holiness
Like Him, I want to be
To live in Fruit Bearing.

Jesus is Alpha
Alpha, Omega
Jesus is Alpha
Alpha and Omega
So, I Praise Him for He is Alpha
Alpha and Omega.
So, I Praise Him for He is Alpha
Alpha and Omega.

OPENING PRAYER

We want to appreciate You Alpha and Omega. The One that began the Beginning – The Unchangeable Changer, the King of Glory, the Ever Faithful God, the Husband Man; The One who has no Beginning, no Middle and will have no Ending – We just want to say THANK YOU.

Thank You Oh God for the Blessings that You have given to us even on this Platform of Digging Deep.

We want to appreciate You for Great Testimonies and very many Questions that drives us back to the Bible – We want to say THANK YOU.

Lord Almighty, we ask that as Your Words Proceed out today, let the Miracle of God be delivered; let the Hands of God be Mighty.

Lord, I Pray that this Young Man will disappear and the Holy Spirit will appear.

Lord, I empty myself from anything that may stand against Your Words – That even me as You are using my mouth to speak, I will hear it.

And Your Words will bring Salvation, Healing, Comfort and Deliverance.

And Lord, answer everyone who has sent their Prayer requests to this Platform – Please answer them.

And Lord, in Your Words today, Equip us to be a Mighty Instrument in the Hands of the Lord!

And we Pray that the Placement and the Investment of Heaven upon us will not be in Vain.

Lord, we will yield FRUITS that God can be Proud of.

… Thank You Eternal Father!

Lord, we remember our father in the Lord that has given us this Platform; let Your Glory find Expressions More and More in His life. And Lord, grant Him Radiant Health!

And everyone saying Amen for him; get double of that Prayer Request!

Thank You Eternal Father.

In Jesus’ Mighty Name we Pray – AMEN!

Praise the Name of the Lord – Hallelujah!

We want to once again appreciate our Daddy in the Lord, my own Daddy in the Lord: for the Privilege to stand on this Platform from time to time to be able to take out of what he has delivered to us as his Apprentice, for others.

May the Lord continually Bless Him, Jesus’ Name – Amen!

Today we are going to look at what we Titled: “THE REDEMPTION OF FRUITLESS VINE.

LUKE 13:6-9

6 He spake also this parable; A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he came and sought fruit thereon, and found none.

7 Then said he unto the dresser of his vineyard, Behold, these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and find none: cut it down; why cumbereth it the ground?

8 And he answering said unto him, Lord, let it alone this year also, till I shall dig about it, and dung it:

9 And if it bear fruit, well: and if not, then after that thou shalt cut it down.

May the Lord Bless the Reading and Hearing of His Words, in Name of Jesus – Amen!

… Loaded Passage!

When we Genuinely repent and begin living for God, the FRUITS in our lives will soon be evidence to all that Pass by – Those who are aware of our lives before.

The Bible says in 2 Corinthians 5:17: “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a New Creature: Old things are Passed away.”

In the Book of John 1:12, He said: But as many as received Him, to them gave Him Power to be FRUITFUL.

… He gave them Power to become like God Himself.

And likewise, a failure to repent and live for God will show a lack of FRUIT as evidence.

If we also read Romans 1:28 specifically says: “Because they failed to retain God in their knowledge, He turned them over to Reprobate Mind.”

So, the absence of FRUIT in our lives or in the lives of those People who claim to be God’s People, is an important issue in God’s Word.

For example, in Matthew 3:8, he said: “Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance:”

… That was John the Baptist speaking there.

In the Book of John 15:5, Jesus Himself said: “I am the Vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit.”

In John 15:8 Jesus is still speaking there – He said: “Herein is my Father Glorified, that ye bear much Fruit.”

But there is something that is very strong in Matthew 3:10 – “Every tree which bringeth not forth Good Fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.”

So, when you compare the Bible Text of today (LUKE 13:6-9).

These few Passages that we have read – FRUITS: Real and Spiritual Fruits is a necessity. And should be a necessary concern for anyone who love God and desire to go to Heaven.

We shall look at the Parable of this Fruitless Vine or the Barren Fig Tree in three (3) different ways

Because in the day of Jesus (here on Earth) this was a Parable about the Jewish Nation. But it also contains some important Lessons for us today.

So, the Biblical Parable of Fruit bearing and the Principles He put forth is applicable to the Church.

… And that concerns You and I.

Three (3) aspects we want to consider in this Digging Deep:

1. We are going to do a GENERAL SURVEY of this Parable.

… That will be Sub Topic 1.

2. And we will look at the HINDRANCES to FRUITFULNESS of the Vine.
3. Lastly, we are going to look at the TIPS for Redemption of the Vine to FRUITFULNESS.

• General Survey of the Parable;
• Hindrances to Fruitfulness of the vine;
• And TIPS for the Redemption of the vine.

2. WHAT ARE THE GENERAL SURVEY OF THE PARABLE?

There are the things we need to look at in that Particular Passage:

In Verse 6, the Bible says: ‘A certain man has a Fig Tree’.

I. So the first thing we need to consider is: A PERSONAL ASSET

There are actually two (2) men mentioned in that Particular Passage:

• The Owner of the Vine yard – It says: ‘He Planted the tree in his Vine yard’.
• And the Vine yard Keeper – Who was Probably an employee in charge of the farm.

Do the cutting down the Fig Tree was a drastic action?

But it was well within the right of the Owner – It was His Vineyard, it was his tree. He could do what He Pleased with it.

We are also like a tree Planted in the Vineyard of God – Supposed you decide to Paint your house the colour you choose. Somebody else comes from outside and say: No, I don’t like that colour, Paint it with this my colour.

Would you just go ahead and say: Okay, Paint the house in the colour he likes? – No, you will refuse.

WHY? – Because it is not his own house, it is your house. So you are the owner of your house.

… The Owner has the Rights of Ownership.

The Rights of Ownership carry the Right Determination.

Like, God owns the whole world and He owns everything in it. He owns each of us. And so He has all the right to deal with us the way He wants.

And do you know what we do today? We behave as if we have no Owner.

He has every rights to expect anything He chooses in our lives – He is our Owner!

Paul asked in Romans 9:20-21: “Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to Him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus? Hath not the Potter Power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?”

We live in an era where People talk back at God all the time; forgetting that we are His creation and that He can do whatever He wants with our lives.

Most especially those of us who are Born Again – You are planted in the Vineyard of the Lord.

So, a Sign that the Gardener or Vine Dresser has been there, is very, very clear – Very, very obvious;

The vine is tender – It has been pruned, cleaned, and tied to the harbour.

So, the Season of care should be followed by the Harvest season – But this Man did not get the expected Fruits.

But remember – It is his Personal Asset. God is your Legal Owner, He is my Legal Owner.

Not like the story of a woman that I heard: A woman in her early sixties (60s). She went to the Grocery, Parked her car in the Car Park.

When she finished Shopping, she came out and she found four (4) People in the car. And she threw down the Groceries, took her purse, brought out a gun. Point the gun to the People in her car.

She said to the four (4) men in her car: if you don’t come down from the car, I will kill all of you. And the People ran away in terror.

So, when the woman Pulled herself together, she put the Groceries in the car. She got to the ignition, tried to put the key, it did not enter. She looked and said this does not look like my car.

She suddenly realised that she has become Part of the Nation’s Crime of Car Hijackers.

So, she closed the door of the car, got into her own car and drove to the Police Station and report herself that she had made a mistake.

And the Police Officer on duty was laughing.

And she said: Why are you laughing? And he said look at the other desk – Four (4) men just ran in, making report that a woman in her early sixties (60s) just hijacked their car.

So, then woman Pleaded with those People and they did not put any charge on her.

But God is our Original Owner and He can never mistake His Property.

When you check the Book of 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 – Because He is our Legal Owner.

“What? know ye not that your body is the Temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a Price: therefore Glorify God in your body, and in your Spirit, which are God’s.”

God has the right to tell us what He expects from us.

And from the Parable, God expects you and I to Produce Fruits for Him.

I just want you to remember that such an expectation is well within the reach and the Rights of your Owner.

… Personal Asset!

II. ADVANTAGE LOCATION.

Verse 6 says: “A fig tree which has been Planted in the VINEYARD.

… The Fig tree enjoyed certain Advantages, not Possessed by other fig trees – Many fig trees on the wayside; no one fertilize them, no one care for them. They survives on shallow and scarce Nutrients.

But this one, is well taken care of – Enjoyed Good Care, with Keepers there to Watch over it.

.., There is enough Nourishment.

Now, God has put His Chosen People in a Favoured Position.

He lavished care on you and I. He has taken interest in us. He send Prophets to put regular fertilization of His Words in our lives. He sent Apostles, He sent Pastors, Teachers and Administrator.

Doesn’t it seem obvious that He will expect Returns on His Investments?

Yet, with all these advantage that we have; well, many turn out not bearing fruits.

… He did not find fruits in the life of those He favoured.

What about us?

God lavished all He has on us. The Word of God is widely circulated today; we have Prophets, we have CDs, we have Cassette, we have Radio Programme, we have Television Programme, we have Computers all around us – We are indeed Planted in a Privileged Place. Yet, we are not Producing appropriate fruits.

Doesn’t it follow that the Owner of the Vineyard invested so much in us, hence, there should be much Fruits?

… Personal Assets, Advantage Location.

III. ANTICIPATED PRODUCTION.

Now, what is the expectations of the Owner of the Vineyard?

In verse 6: He came LOOKING FOR FRUITS – The fig tree in this Parable had leaves.

… A Fig tree cannot survive without leaves.

But it had no FRUITS, after three (3) years! – Israel were Religious People having lots of leaves.

In fact, there will be Hard Press to find more Religious Nation anywhere in the world, than the Nation of Israel, in the time of Christ.

Religion was their heartbeat – I mean, attendance to Church Services in Jerusalem was expected, if not required.

People regularly died for their Nation and for their religion. Yet, this Parable is prefigured: They had no FRUITS.

… So they were cut down.

Do you know the difference between Leaves and Fruits today?

All Religion and all People are going to Church, all these are taking place in our country:

• Where is the influence of this in our Culture?
• Where are the changed lives?
• Why is it that Honesty and Honour are in short supply?
• I mean, where do we find People of Integrity?

We often bemoan the direction of Nation, that they are going away from God.

We blamed the Politicians, we blamed the Political Parties, we blamed the unbelievers for controlling the Media.

Yet none of these things could have had any influence, if we are following the Lord and we are bearing fruits.

May I say to you, Brothers and Sisters: God is looking for Fruits in our lives.

He is not talking about List of Crying: Lord, I will do this! List of merely sitting in Church building and dancing to Music.

No, He wants fruits in our lives – According to the Passage; He will cut down and remove those who do not bear fruit.

May you not be cut down, in the Name of Jesus – Amen!

… Personal Asset, Advantage Location,Anticipated Production.

IV. GRIEVANCE AGAINST FRUITLESS VINE.

He says: “Behold these three (3) years, I have come looking for Fruit on these leaves, without finding any.”

There is an intimation here: Here is God’s forbearance for His People who have been Planted in the Vineyard.

There should have been Fruits for three (3) years – But nothing!

There is a dissatisfaction, disappointment each year – So, He said ‘I will cut it down’.

WHY? – The Owner is giving every reasonable opportunity for Production of fruits. He does not want to destroy the tree.

And I Pray, we will not be cut down, in the Name of Jesus – Amen.

You and I should bear fruits so that we will not be removed.

He said: “I did not find any.”

So, Personal Asset, Advantage Location, Anticipated Production, Grievance against Fruitless vine.

V. THE VERDICT AGAINST FRUITLESS VINE

And this part of the Parable is very simple to understand; look at what He said in verse 7 – “Cut it down! Why does it even use up the ground?

What a terrifying thought, to imagine God saying that one of us: “Cut it down, it does not even worth the space that it takes on the Ground.”

It is quite very easy for us living into the age of Grace to be deceived into a False sense of Security – Thinking that such a thing would never happen.

You can listen to the audio here: The Redemption of Fruitless Vine – Pastor J.F. Odesola

But the Patience of God should not be confused with the largeness of His heart – God is not a slack concerning His Promises.

Apostle Paul when he was talking to the Roman Christians said in Romans 2:4:

“Or despisest thou the riches of his Goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the Goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?”

… Don’t let us abuse the Grace of God.

Besides, Producing Fruits in life is a Process – It is not something you do for few days, few weeks or Months. It is a lifetime – you continually bear fruit.

The same thing you need to do Spiritually – So, you will need to bear fruits for Him.

We are Personal Assets of God, we are at Advantage Location, there is an Anticipated Production we need to do; then He has Grievance against Fruitless Vine and His Verdict.

… Let me quickly mention two (2) more things, before I move to other things.

VI. THE SUPPLICATION FOR PATIENCE

Notice that the Vineyard Keeper Interceded for the Tree.

An Interceder stepped in between the two (2) Parties, just to reach an Agreement – Now to give one of them another chance.

In Luke 13:8-9; the Bible tells us: “And he answering said unto him, Lord, let it alone this year also, till I shall dig about it, and dung it: And if it bear fruit, well: and if not, then after that thou shalt cut it down.”

What a beautiful Prefigure of Jesus’ Ministering among the JEWS!

But may I say to you that, that is true of us today!

Listen to the Word if Jesus in Matthew 23 and Luke 13 – When He was talking about His People; He said:

“Oh Jerusalem who killed the Prophets and stoned those who are sent to her. How often I wanted to gather you as children together, the way the hen gather her chick under her wings. But you are unwilling. Behold your house is been left to you desolate.

In our Parable that we are examining today: it is the fig tree that is cut down.

But who was the Interceder in Israel’s case?

• A Prophet of God sent to intercede for them;
• Then THE PROPHET (Jesus Christ Himself).

Again, this is History. We are not doing History Lesson, but we are bringing it in to our lives.

This Passage has meaning for us today: Christ has interceded for us and continues to do so, as I speak.

That intercession is not, so that we can continue to do NOTHING about God’s expectations.

VII. DEFERRED JUDGEMENT.

Notice the element of warning to us, that gang at the end of verse 9. It says: “If not, CUT IT DOWN.

As History Lesson: that if NOT was fulfilled for Israel, because they failed to utilise the extension of time God gave them.

But what about us today? What about you and I today?

• Will you UTILISE the Extension of the Grace of God?
• When will you STOP sinning?
• When will you get CLOSER to God?
• When will you start BEARING FRUITS?

All these supports that you have from God; they are for you to BEAR FRUIT, they are for me to BEAR FRUIT.

Seven (7) things I have mentioned, before I jump to the other Sub Topics:

• The Personal Asset of the Owner;
• Advantage Location of the Fig;
• Anticipated Production from the Owner;
• The Grievance against the fruitless Vine;
• The Verdict against fruitless Vine;
• The Supplication for Patient, and;
• The Deferred Judgement.

1. HINDRANCES TO FRUITFULNESS OF THE VINE.

… Let me quickly mention Four (4) Things:

Now, combining the accounts of MATTHEW, MARK and LUKE; we can identify four (4) Factors responsible for FRUITLESS Vine:

I. CARES OF LIFE.

Matthew 13:22 says: “He also that received seed among the thorns is he that heareth the Word; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the Word, and he becometh unfruitful.*

Now, what do we mean by that?

The “Cares of Life” refers to things of this world that Christians become Obsessed and Preoccupied with.

The “Cares of this Life” are wide range of things: Career, Educational Pursuit, Ambition, Responsibility, Duties and other Material things.

In the world that we live today – where Success is measured by Money and other Material things; Christians are tempted to follow a Twenty first (21st) Century that Care about all these things.

… They are likely going to abandon the Major things.

Christians should not be OBSESSED; Pursuing Material Things – Because the Bible says in Matthew 6:33:

“But seek ye first the KINGDOM OF GOD, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.”

II. DECEITFULNESS OF RICHES.

… I am talking about Hindrances to Fruitfulness.

Mark 4:19 says: “And the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful.”

What do we mean by this?

Deceitfulness of Riches refer to People’s heart that are deceived by quest for RICHES.

Deceitfulness of Riches encompasses the shady means People become so rich – Such as: Corruption, Prostitution, Bribery, Murder, Pride, Arrogance, Extravagant Living.

There are Excesses to characterise the life of worldly lived Person.

It is worth mentioning that many Christians have been deceived today. They have lost their Values; they started Stealing and Cheating.

And some of those who are already rich (Christian way), they have entangled themselves with something that is not of God and because they failed to bear Good Fruits, they became something else.

III. THE LUST OF OTHER THINGS.

Look at what He says in Mark 4:19: “And the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful.”

So what is He saying?

The “Lust of Things” means (in Greek word) ‘Epitumia’ – Which means having a desire for what is forbidden.

Now, the Phrase in that Particular Mark 4:19, could refer to Circular Entertainments – Fame, Riches, Sexual Pleasure – Which has become most Part of Carnal Nature of unbelievers today.

I mean, you see something, and you are amazed: Alcohol, Porn, Illicit sex, etc. And some Christian Brothers and Sisters have smuggled themselves into this – And they still appear in Church looking so sanctimonious and Holy.

Lust of Other Things! – A Christian who is a Fruitful Vine must never get entangled.

You want to bear Fruits? Do not get entangled!

IV. THE PLEASURE OF THIS LIFE.

… I am talking about something that could hinder us from bearing Fruits.

Luke 8:14 says: “And that which fell among thorns are they, which, when they have heard, go forth, and are choked with cares and riches and Pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to Perfection.”

So what is that saying to us?

It is saying: Sinful Activities; which include Drug Abuse, Alcoholism, Promiscuity, Greed, Circular Music.

You know today, I hear some Christians say: No, there is no Problem with that. Carnal Pleasure!

And these Factors are: Cares of Life, Deceitfulness of Riches, Lust of other things and Pleasures of Life – Would rather lead Christians to errors; will lead them to become Victims of Fruitless Vine. Hatred will become the order of the day, Greed, Covetousness, and Lasciviousness.

But these are not the kind of Fruits God want us to bear.

How Do I Bear Fruit that will lead to the Redemption of the Vine to Fruitfulness?

…. Five (5) THINGS, I will call them quickly:

3. TIPS FOR THE REDEMPTION OF THE VINE TO FRUITFULNESS:

I. Place your Life directly in the HANDS OF GOD.

When a Plant gets Light, then it will grow. Get the Light of God’s Word and let it grow.

Psalms 27:1 (I like this) says: “The LORD is my Light and my Salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the Strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?”

In Acts 20:24; the Bible says: “But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with Joy, and the Ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the Gospel of the Grace of God.”

… Place your Life in His Hands.

II. Make sure you ABIDE IN HIM.

Make Him your Abode – Make sure that you have Shelter in His High Wings.

The Bible says: You need to dwell in His Safe Place.

In Psalms 27:4; the Bible says: “One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to enquire in his Temple.”

In Psalms 91:1; the Bible says: “He that dwelleth in the Secret Place of the Most High shall abide under the Shadow of the Almighty.”

… Dwell, make Him your Abode.

III. Add COMPOST or MANURE to the SOIL of your life .

Add Spiritual Fertilizer to your life – To be able to bear Fruit, Spiritual Fertilizer is needed.

Pray that your life will open to CHANGE.

Psalms 34:5 says: “They looked unto him, and were lightened: and their faces were not ashamed.”

James 5:11 says: “Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very Pitiful, and of tender Mercy.

IV. GET SUPPORT from the Lord.

Let God take care – Lean upon God.

Psalms 55:22 says: “Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and He shall sustain thee: He shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.”

Matthew 11:28; says: “Come unto Me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you REST.”

V. Let the Master PRUNE YOU.

The Master should PRUNE your life. Let God shape you – Even when it HURTS!

John 15:2 says: “Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.”

Hebrews 12:7 says: “If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?”

Let the Lord water you into a Delicious Entity, then the world will take a bite and they will fight to know more of your God; because your FRUIT IS GOOD! And you will lead other people to bear fruits.

Let me conclude; we need to take stock of our lives – We are all in the Probationary Period of the Fourth (4th) Year – You and I.

Jesus Christ, the Vineyard Keeper has made intercession for us. He is our Senior Advocate.

He did not do that to grant us more time to do nothing for God. He expects us to use the time we have remaining, to Produce Fruits in our lives.

The Fruitless Vine will be cut off and put in the fire.

…May that not be your Portion. Amen!

You have Pledged your allegiance to Christ:

I. So that you will bear Fruits for Him.

II. So that you will follow Him, and bear Fruits for Him.

My life does not depend on your own fruit; your life does not depend on my own fruit.

This Digging Deep comes straight from God to you and I;

To bring forth FRUITS keeping with Repentance.

… May Gos Bless you, as you bear Fruits.

ALTAR CALL:

If you are there and you are not Born Again – You have not started at all.

Remember that there is a GENERAL THING God expects from you.

There are HINDRANCES you need to avoid.

And there are WAYS (TIPS) for you to bear Fruits for your Master.

Wherever you are now, or reading now on the Label of DMC; if you are not Born Again, tell the Lord: Please, save me.

And if you are Born Again and you are not Fruitful – How can you be in a Church for three (3) to five (5) Years and you are not Bearing Fruit?

Evangelism, you are not there; Vigil, you are not there; Midweek Service you are not there.

… You are so busy; at the end, what will you do?

Bow your head with me, I am about to Pray.

If you want to be Born Again, just tell the Lord: Lord, I am here.

If you are Born Again, ask the Lord: Empower me to bear fruits.

… I want to Pray with you;

PRAYER FOR SALVATION AND CLOSING:

Father Thank You for the People who are confessing their sins.

May You forgive them and write their names in the “BOOK OF LIFE.”

I Pray that from today: everything that corrupts their lives will be removed.

Let the Blood of Jesus Christ CLEANSE them!

The Senior Advocate of Heaven – Jesus: I ask that as You are Pleading their course, may their head receive the answer.

And ALL Believers that have not been bearing Fruits, i Pray as from today: May they have a change of heart. May they be STIRRED UP to bear Fruits.

And Lord, when You come for us, You will not say: “CUT IT DOWN!”

That we will be able to reign Eternally with You!

Thank You our Maker, we worship You for hearing.

In Jesus’ Mighty Name we Pray – AMEN!

Please make sure that you let us know, if you are surrendering your life to Jesus Christ.

If there is any way we can help you further, your questions – Please send your Questions and Prayer Requests.

And we will Pass them to our father in the Lord. God Bless you – Amen.

OFFERING:

Let us take our Offering. Your Service is not complete until you give offering.

Let us pray!

Father in Heaven we Thank You for all the People who are giving an offering.

Bless the offering, use it for your Glory.

And Lord God Almighty, they will not lose their rewards here. And in Your Kingdom to come, we will all make it there.

And when the Roll is Call up in Heaven, none of us will be put to shame.

Thank You Eternal Father. We Bless Your Name.

I take time to Pray for all the People who are supporting DOVE Media and by extension Discovery Media Crew (DMC) – May your Glory never GO DOWN; may you continue to PROSPER.

Thank You Eternal Father!

In Jesus’ Mighty Name we Pray – Amen!

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