… EXTRACT OF THE MESSAGE BY DR MENSAH OTABIL; 11TH APRIL, 2021.
Before I go into the Message of today, i want to Pray for those of you who are in Business; for recovery and for restoration. That God will give you a redefining advantage.
So, if you are a Business Person, just just rise up wherever you are reading this Message now on the Label of DMC; and I will speak a Word of Prayer over your life and over the works of your hands.
I know some of you are coming from behind; but God will give you Advantage.
… And I Pray!
Father, in the Name of Jesus the Risen Lord, I speak a Blessing and Your Blessings of Divine Advantage over Your Children.
As they go out there in the Business World, from Monday throughout, and especially in the coming week; I speak a Blessing of Advantage over them, and I Bless them with Favour, and with a Turnaround, and with Doors.
That which has been Shut will be open; that which had been Fruitless will be Fruitful; that which had been Dry will become watered, in the Name of Jesus!
May the Lord bless you with Advantage this week, as you enter your Business and work for the Lord. He will Prosper you and He will increase you.
In Jesus’ Name – Amen and Amen. Hallelujah!
I just felt I needed to do that prayer for you. And I believe God will give you an Advantage – Amen!
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Permit me to stand on existing protocol as what is heard is shared. Characteristically, I shall go straight to point. This morning we examine Mark 10: 46 – 52. I shall be quoting principally from the Authorized Version while making necessary digressions – abbreviations are explained at the end.
Perhaps the first digression should be the concession that this message is a distant continuation of the What the Lord Is Saying on Covid-19 series and is best understood in line with it. (I apologise for not updating that series — Parts VII and VIII are yet outstanding; I know what I heard, I just don’t feel the time is right yet.) I shall provide links to them at the end of this message, and perhaps reproduce Part II for quick access in light of the direct relevance to today’s discourse.
As usual, we are going to lay a lot of foundation before getting to the crux of the discourse so that by the time you have read to the end you will have picked all of what God has for you because I am of the conviction that there are in this message different strokes for different folks. Alleluia.
✓ So, verse 46: And they came to Jericho: and as he went out of Jericho with his disciples and a great number of people, blind Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus, sat by the highway side begging.
So where is Jericho? To answer that question, we must first look at what we know about Jericho. Bear in mind that we are taking a figurative look at this passage to reap the message. Our successive interpretation of this passage therefore is one out of a possible many – one that bears relevance to our current situation – as I do not claim to know it all.
Rather than conjecture, I shall provide scriptural parallels and trust the Holy Spirit to illuminate; after all, we are talking about sight and God is light. – 1 John 1: 5.
i. Joshua 6: 26: And Joshua adjured them at that time, saying, Cursed be the man before the Lord, that riseth up and buildeth this city Jericho: he shall lay the foundation thereof in his firstborn, and in his youngest son shall he set up the gates of it.
Genesis 3: 17: And to Adam [God] said: …cursed is the earth in thy work; with labour and toil shalt thou eat thereof all the days of thy life. – DRB; CB, GB, SLT.
i. 1 Kings 16: 34: In his days did Hiel the Beth-elite build Jericho: he laid the foundation thereof in Abiram his firstborn, and set up the gates thereof in his youngest son Segub, according to the word of the Lord , which he spake by Joshua the son of Nun.
John 3: 16: For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son. – NIV; BSB, CSB, NLT.2 Corinthians 5: 15: And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.
In Part II we learnt that: Jesus would visit the covid world with healing (I believe this has happened), those on the mountain would nevertheless be afflicted still, there would be violence (I believe the #BLM, #Antifa, #EndSARS were part of the scheme of violence that are to be experienced just as I believe we have not seen the end of it), and that the world would ask Him to please leave (this I yet believe is coming).
As Jesus was leaving Jericho with his disciples and those who as we learnt in Part II paid attention to the Christian message, there was a man handicapped from following him. Scripture gives us his name and parentage because he was a known person. As we learnt in Part III, like the demoniac of Mark 5, Bartimaeus was renowned, but he could not leave Jericho with the Lord.
Contrary to scripturally guaranteed blessings, Bartimaeus was struggling as are many of us. As we learnt in Part V, covid crippled a lot of institutions and not just the church. Bartimaeus was therefore reduced to begging by the roadside to survive. Please note that he was poor because he was blind.
Now, as part of laying the foundation properly, permit me to leap to verse 51: Then Jesus asked him, “What do you want me to do for you?” The blind man told him, “Rabbouni, I want to see again.” – ISV; BSB, GNT, GWT, LSV, NET, NHEB, SLT, WEB, YLT.
We’re now at the crux. You see, in sharp contrast to the traditional rendering of this verse as “that I might receive my sight, KJV,” and “that I might see, NIV”, I have quoted the more faithful rendition. You see, pun intended, in the Greek the word is ἀναβλέψω (anablepsō) meaning, “to look up, to recover my sight.”
Perhaps you now see why I was in such a hurry to get here: Bartimaeus was seeing before! In contrast to the congenitally blind man in John 9 (mentioned en passant in Part IV), Bartimaeus had a good and prosperous life before trouble (read: covid) hit! He was not always blind and poor; and as noted before, he became poor when he lost his sight.
Haven’t you lost sight of Jesus? Is that not why you are struggling? But I digress.
✓ Now we go back to verse 47: And when he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out, and say, Jesus, thou Son of David, have mercy on me.
The Lord asked me to tell you that He is yet very much around to hear you; cry now therefore before He leaves. Isaiah 59: 1, 2: Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear. But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.
John 17: 14: …the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
As the world prepares to turn away from their Maker, cry out that you may see clearly which way to go. And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you… And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many. And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold… For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect. – Matthew 24: 4-5, 11-12, 24.
✓ Verse 48: And many charged him that he should hold his peace: but he cried the more a great deal, Thou Son of David, have mercy on me.
The Lord asked me to encourage you. In this walk, there is no room for peer pressure. You will be mocked, you will be jeered; why, you will be persecuted! Earlier in that Chapter, the Lord himself had reassured Peter: And Jesus answered and said, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the gospel’s. But he shall receive an hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the world to come eternal life (Verses 29, 30).
Later in that last journey to Jerusalem, the Lord warned: For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be… And except that [Jehovah] had shortened those days, no flesh should be saved: but for the elect’s sake, whom he hath chosen, he hath shortened the days. – Matthew 24: 21; Mark 13: 20.
The Lord says we must hold on tenaciously therefore: For the Son of man is as a man taking a far journey, who left his house, and gave authority to his servants, and to every man his work, and commanded the porter to watch. Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning: Lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping. – Mark 13: 34 – 36.
✓ Verse 49: And Jesus stood still, and commanded him to be called. And they call the blind man, saying unto him, Be of good comfort, rise; he calleth thee.
The Lord says to reassure you that after you have endured you shall be recognised. All those previously mocking you, jeering you, persecuting you, will turn around to salute your courage and steadfastness: But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry. Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing. – 2 Timothy 4: 5, 8.
There is so much more to say at this juncture but so little space. As is customary, I shall reserve comments. Let the reader discern.
✓ Verse 50: And he, casting away his garment, rose, and came to Jesus.
Have you put off your old man?That you put off, concerning your former conduct, the old man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lusts. – Ephesians 4: 22, NKJV.
1 John 2: 15: Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
2 Peter 1: 4: Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
✓ Finally, verse 52: And Jesus said unto him, Go thy way; thy faith hath made thee whole. And immediately he received his sight, and followed Jesus in the way.
Matthew 25: 34: Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.
Matthew 11: 6: And if anyone is not offended because of Me, he is blessed. – HCSB.
1 Corinthians 10: 23: “Everything is permissible”–but not everything is beneficial. “Everything is permissible” — but not everything is constructive. – NIV.
Now, here’s the tricky part: Bartimaeus could have walked away after receiving his sight. His prayer had been answered, he had been restored; he was permitted to go, he had a legitimate reason to not be seen again. But he had learnt his lesson from his earlier lifestyle whence he became blind; he would not stay in Jericho, he would follow Jesus.
You see, the GWT renders Matthew 11: 6 this way: How happy are those who have no doubts about me! The Lord says to ask you, Are you harbouring doubts? Has your love not waxed cold? Do you retain your first love? And even I, the spokesdonkey, am guilty. The WEB puts it: Blessed is he who finds no occasion for stumbling in me.
Truth is, in this covid era we have found credible reasons to be just a little distant from the Lord. We have legitimate occasions to not attend church, especially if someone or something had offended us in the congregation. And church is not even compulsory as we now have alternatives. I personally take offense at the financial insensitivity in certain congregations but that is not what the Lord has sent me to say.
Here is that: But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved. – Matthew 24: 13.
And that servant, which knew his lord’s will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes. – Luke 12: 47.
Whereas most scripture quotations are from the Authorized Version, heavy reliance has again been placed on The New Testament in the Original Greek 1881 by BF Westcott and FJA Hort as reproduced in The Kingdom Interlinear Translation of the Greek Scriptures 1985 by the New World Bible Translation Committee.
BSB, Berean Study Bible, CB, Coverdale Bible, CSB, Christian Standard Bible, DRB, Douay-Rheims Bible, GB, Geneva Bible, GNT, Good News Translation, GWT, GOD’S WORD® Translation, HCSB, Holman Christian Standard Bible, ISV, International Standard Version, LSV, Literal Standard Version, NET, New English Translation, NHEB, New Heart English Bible, NKJV, New King James’ Version, SLT, Smith’s Literal Translation, WEB, World English Bible, YLT, Young’s Literal Translation.
It is time we begin to look inwards and appreciate one another.
If someone is given to you to take care of, if someone is given to you as your own – Whether a spouse or a child, a friend; don’t take them for granted but take care of that Person.
Yes, you are called to take care of the world but take care of that Person.
Yes, you are all over the Place, take care of that Person.
I have learnt to do that especially when I’m called to do one thing or the other.
And many times that is why People have to look outside their relationship just to fulfil that Place.
… And of course ultimately, they don’t have a Significant Order.
Even when you are in a relationship and the Person falls short; if someone doesn’t know the love language, the temperament and you are just going there like that, will you now say that is the end of your life?
Till their eye open better just continue to source your Strength from God.
Let Him hear you, listen and let Him tell you “Well Done” even if nobody tells you.
And most importantly tell yourself.
And if your language is “Words of Affirmation”, you need to look at yourself in a mirror and talk to yourself – Tell yourself: This girl is fine, this boy is handsome before you go out.
Whoever says it or not; your life won’t be depleted if some People don’t say it.
Saying and hearing it matters to you? – So, say it to yourself.
If your language is Gift and you are going somewhere and you realised they won’t even buy you Gift, buy Gift for yourself. Mail it to yourself.
We are in Nigeria and the Mail System is Good.
There are just two (2) People involved in delivery – Put your address, let them pick it up then you receive it in your office.
Whao!!! What a package? Who sent it?
And you now say don’t worry an admirer sent it.
Open your Gift and enjoy it.
So, “Words of Affirmation” is important.
There is a couple that came for Counseling not with me but with a Pastor and Counsellor.
The wife’s complaints was that her husband doesn’t love her.
Why? – He doesn’t say: “I love you”.
… In five (5) Years that we have been married; he doesn’t day I love you since the day we married.
Can you imagine?
Mr man, why?
He said: Pastor, the day we got married I said it – I said I do and I have not changed my mind.
The husband now said: Woman have I changed my mind? Did I wake you up one day and said I do not love you anymore?
The wife said: No!
So, what I said then still Stands!
The woman just shake her head and be like this man doesn’t get it.
And that is how some of you are in your Marriage!
And some of you, you are happily married but deep down you are not happy!
You are a man and you say this woman doesn’t get me.
You are missing the Point each time. You are not hitting the nail on the head.
You see when you get married to someone or when you are in a relationship or you have a child; you are meant to understand and study that Person.
That Person becomes your Project!
You are supposed to find out who makes her smile, who makes him smile. You have got to know who do something and they light up.
If you do more of that, that way we are not taking each other for granted – We are studying the Person because you want to know and adapt yourself better.
And that is how it can get better through the years.
And that is how your labour of love together will bring Progress.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Nike Adeyemi is the Deputy Senior Pastor, Daystar Christian Centre and the Founder of “The Real Woman Foundation”.
Nike is an International Speaker and Minister Passionate about Love, Life and Purpose. She is a Global voice for Love to Nations.
She teaches and demonstrates God’s love to individuals and communities, many are empowered to live amazing lives!
Among other Initiatives, the Ministry coordinates Relief efforts to Needy Communities.
Nike is the Founder of The Real Woman Foundation located in Lagos, Nigeria dedicated to Healing and Empowering women and children through the Peace Villa Shelter/Rehab Centre for women and the Love Home Orphanage.
She is the President of Real Woman International INC, an Organization in Atlanta, Georgia USA which holds Conferences, Empowerment Seminars and Outreaches.
Nike is the Host of ‘Real Woman with Nike Adeyemi,’ a Global TV Broadcast where she shares Wisdom on various Life Issues.
She is the Principal Consultant at Gabriel and Princess Limited, a Training and Consulting Company specializing in Work-Life Balance.
She has authored several books.
Alongside her husband, Sam Adeyemi at Daystar Christian Centre, she has for over twenty (20) Years deployed Leadership and Administrative Skills in Building a Church dedicated to raising Role Models in the Society.
She is a dedicated mother of three and cares for many more across the Globe.
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A Portion of the fact that Success is a word that give many Christian a creep makes People feel uncomfortable especially “Deep Christians” and “Strong Christians”.
Why? – Because that word is used by many People today in the world who teach “Self Help” and “Self Reliance”.
So, they tell us we have “Unlimited Power” to achieve Success – We can do just about anything that we want to do and that will make a Christian feel uncomfortable.
Of course, you know you can’t do everything without God.
We become very uncomfortable talking about money, though we decided not to have anything to do with it.
In fact, Satan help us to misunderstand the topic – He made us to believe that the Bible says: Money is the root of all evil.
The Bible didn’t say so.
The Bible says: The love of money is the root of all kind of evil.
Satan occupy that space.
But Jesus understood the Place of money when he described Satan as Mammon.
And so: You can’t serve God and Mammon Placing the Power and the influence of money on Practically the same Pedestal as God.
And Satan understood how much influence money has on our Thinking and on our Emotion and then leverage on it.
And today, money is one of those things that Satan uses to shape People’s Thinking and Emotions all over the world.
Gratefully, God gave us Light and we saw that money is not the root of all evil – “The lack of money is the root of many evil in this Planet”.
I’m telling you – Poverty is a Destroyer!
So, back to Success – If you check the dictionary, it says that: Success is the achievement of Goals.
To achieve your Goals, to achieve your Aims that is what is expected.
Simply, you set Goals and you achieve them – That is Success!
So, I read Genesis 1:26-28:
And God said: Let us make man in our Image after our likeness and let them have Dominion. God created man in His Image, Male and Female He created them.
And then verse 28 says; And God blessed them and said be Fruitful and Multiply and Replenish the Earth and Subdue it. He said Rule over it and have Dominion.
That looks more to me like “Achieving Goals” than anything else.
In other words, man was created with a Capacity to Achieve his Goals.
When man doesn’t Achieve his Goals, he is frustrated because his System is not designed for “Not Achieving Goals”.
… He is designed to Achieve Goals!
When he malfunctions, then he can experience discouragement, depression, fear, doubt, worry and all those Negative things.
We are designed with a Capacity to Achieve Goals.
So, we need to Pay more attention to His Words.
Not having Goals therefore is dangerous.
When i learnt to “Set Goals” and to achieve them, I mean it brought a New Dimension entirely into my life.
When you achieve a Goal, you experience satisfaction and fulfilment – So,fulfilment is a “Spiritual Thing”.
So, I Pity the Person who does not have Goals – It is a dangerous way to live ones life.
Well, everything was working well until one day I was reading Luke 12 several years as I was trying to define or understand success.
In Luke 12:15, Jesus said: Beware of Covetousness for a Man’s life doesn’t consist in the Abundance of the things he Possesses.
So, when we say: “Success is the achievement of Goals” Wee need to answer a question: “Whose Goals?”
It is ok for you to “Set Goals” for different areas of your life but there is one you didn’t Set – The Goal of being born into this world as Human Being.
You met yourself here as Human Being!
Someone decided that.
Someone Purpose it for you to be here.
He has a reason and intention at the back of His heart.
So, if you didn’t “Set the Goal” of being born as a Human Being; then we cannot actually determine the definition of Success for your life from you.
Real Success, True Success is the achievement of the Goals that God set for your life – Jeremiah 1:4-5.
You are not here by accident – Your life was Planned.
Infact, Hebrews 4:1-3 says something about this. Any of you must be conscious of this.
There is something called “God Rest” for the People of God because the work were finished from the Foundation of the world – Amazing!
Your life was started and finished even before Adam was created.
So, having understood that I told myself: I only want to do work that has been finished.
The “God Rest” settled and concluded it.
You know the answer before you start. You know where is going to end.
That is the best way to live your life. That is where you find fulfilment
Listen to me; you truly find fulfilment when you come into alignment with God’s Goal for your life.
That is where it is!
So, Success is not just simply achieving Goals – Whose Goals?
Real Success is for you to discover and to achieve God’s Goal for your life.
When you are in alignment with God’s Purpose; even Satan becomes your Messenger!
Nothing can work against you!
Ultimately, everything work together for you – Heaven’s Resources is at your Disposal!
The “Greatest Care” for you and I is to Perfectly be in alignment with God.
When we are in Line with those Plans and Purposes then we are “Absolutely Unstoppable”
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Reverend Sam ADEYEMI is the Senior Pastor, Daystar Christian Centre.
He is also the President of Success Power International, an NGO that among others things specializes in Organizing Financial, Leadership and Motivational Seminars and is President of Daystar Leadership Academy, a leadership School for Business Owners and Ministers of the Gospel.
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DMC NOTES: We awesomely welcome you all to our 4th in the Series (Part 4) of our “Eye Opening” discussions on How to Build Confidence which incidentally is the last Part.
Should in case you missed out of any of the three (3) Previous Parts; kindly find them as stated below:
I have come to discovered that there is Power in words.
There is “Creative Power” in words – And if you are Religious you would have believed that God created our world!
There is Power in words – Words have shaped our world; words have caused or created Peace.
So, words “Well Spoken” with Confidence have tremendous Impacts – Give expressions to your Confidence by speaking confidently.
Speak like you know what you are saying.
Speak like you are in Charge.
There is Power that backs words like that!
So, you Pay a close attention to People that are really successful and you find out that they speak with Confidence.
They Master their Subjects – That is important because we have encouraged you earlier in the Series (Part 2) to function in the Area of your Genius.
So, when you speak with Confidence whichever way it is, you know something that somebody else doesn’t know yet.
If you don’t have Confidence in what you are saying, they will only “Mirror” Confidence in what you have that you are saying.
So, you have got to express Confidence when you speak.
There is Power in “Faith-Filled Words”.
Let me give you an example – Permit me to use myself as an example.
Many years ago after I graduated and I couldn’t get a job yet, I think I read something from a book.
I just have this “Paradigm Shift” about myself and I began to talk to People that I can never be Poor again for the rest of my life.
And I said it with Confidence because the way I saw myself had shifted.
I began to tell People I’m not a “Local Champion” – I’m a “World Champion” and I meant it because I have now discovered my Genius.
I was discovering myself.
For the first (1st) time; I read about Temperament and different kinds of Temperament and I discovered that the Strength in an Introvert – It was amazing!
It was “Eye Opener” for me.
And up till that time, I got guys that were friendly – They were the best guys around.
I just love to read and stay all by myself thinking.
I now discovered that the Power in that Thinking; I discovered the Creativity in that Thinking – It boosted my “Self Esteem”.
And then I found out I was getting “Visions and Ideas” and I wasn’t satisfied with my environment.
… I wanted something more, something bigger.
So, I began to say because that was what I saw in my Imagination – It is amazing!
Several years later when I began to have moved on quite a bit, then I had one of my friends commented and said: Oh, those things that Sam was saying; they are beginning to come to Pass – So, they are Real!
When I heard I said: Oh, you know what? – It was what I said yesterday you are seeing today.
I’m already saying “New Things” that you are going to see tomorrow.
Because I have discovered that the Power in words; the reason why sometimes we “Sized Step Greatness” or we “Sized Step Opportunity” for Breakthroughs because we despised the tangible resources in our words and words are “Intangible Resources”.
Speak with Confidence
Now, there is no Point speaking with Confidence when on your inside; you are thinking “Completely Differently”.
What you are saying must align with what you are thinking!
… It is then that you can get “Powerful Results”.
You should say what you believe – That is where the Power is!
So, speak with Confidence; Answer questions with Confidence – When you ask; ask or demand with what you want with Confidence.
There is Power in expressing Confidence through your Speech!
So, express Confidence from the inside; express it in your words.
And the amazing thing is that: When you speak; the Person you hear loudest is “Yourself”.
You hear “Yourself” before “Other People” hears you.
The Faith in the words that you speak will build your Confidence!
There is a way we can dress or appear and with Confidence. And there are ways we can appear and not with Confidence.
So, you need to be deliberate to be sure that you put on things that can boost your Confidence and that can help “Other People” to have Confidence in you.
You don’t need to be Ostentatious (Meaning Pretentious). You don’t need to be “Extravagantly Loud” to get Other People’s attention.
Actually you overdo it and you make People suspicious to you.
There is a reason why Lawyers put on “Dark Colour” most of the time; there is a reason why Bankers most of the time don’t put on dark or lousy colour – Because they want to have the Confidence of their clients.
So, you need to dress well!
To dress well, the Path to take of course is the best use of the resources that you have Per time but just make sure that you are not “Running Down” your “Self Esteem” with your appearance.
The other important dimension is your Posture.
It is Good for us to have a “Good Physical Posture”; It is Good for us to feel Healthy.
There are ways you stand and it doesn’t help your “Self Esteem”.
So, I tell People: “Sit with Confidence” – Sit like you are on Top of the Game; Sit like you are in Charge.
Our Actions impact our Thinking and our Thinking also impact on our Feelings.
It is an expression of “Inner Confidence” but at the same time it helps to boost that Confidence!*
I must emphasize this: If you try to do on the Outside what is not there on the Inside, it is fake and ultimately People are going to find out.
It is not going to be Real.
Always start from believing and then you act on the basis of what you believed – That makes it Authentic!
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Without any iota of doubt; it has been a “Great Journey” together and I am sure that we have learnt something Valuable of course as you Journey with us all through the Series.
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This is where we wish to draw the Curtain on our Coverage – So Long Friends!
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Reverend Sam ADEYEMI is the Senior Pastor, Daystar Christian Centre.
He is also the President of Success Power International, an NGO that among others things specializes in Organizing Financial, Leadership and Motivational Seminars and is President of Daystar Leadership Academy, a leadership School for Business Owners and Ministers of the Gospel.
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We are going to be reading the book of 1 Peter 5:5-7.
Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with Humility: for God resisteth the Proud, and giveth Grace to the Humble.
Humble yourselves therefore under the Mighty Hand of God, that He may exalt you in Due Time:
Casting all your care upon Him; for He careth for you.
Why would God asked us to discuss this Topic at this time?
It must be for Promotion and that Promotion is so huge and so big that it will be enough to trip some People up.
God is going to lift some People up in a way that if you are not careful, you won’t be able to think correctly anymore.
For some People I think that it is money that is coming – Some amount you have never seen in your life before – Amen.
Pride is one of those behavioural trait which will make us as Human Being to Pray to God for Help daily because Pride is of the Product of Sinful Nature which every Human Being inherited.
All of us have the Capacity for Pride.
We are born with the Potential for Pride but Grateful since Jesus Christ died on our behalf, the Sinful Nature can be dealt with.
We need to quickly take advantage of the Provisions that God has made to help us cultivate His Own Nature which is Humility.
Infact, the higher you rise, the closer you come in Proximity to Pride.
Humility is the correct estimation of yourself in the light of your knowledge of Christ – Correct estimation of who you are in the knowledge of God or in the knowledge of Christ.
What do I mean?
When you accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Saviour, His death and resurrection becomes your Reality – They change or redefine your Identity.
If any man is in Christ he is a New Creature – 1 Corinthians 5:17.
I am Crucified with Christ nevertheless I live, yet it is no longer I that live; it is Christ that live in me – Galatians 2:20.
So, it changes the equation really – That is now Jesus Christ living in you. Your Identity is Changed, so your behaviour also Change.
Humility is correct estimation of yourself in the light of your knowledge of Christ and of God.
Overestimation of yourself is Pride.
For example, I can do all things – You can’t do all things.
Rather: I can do all things in Christ that strengthened me – Philippians 4: 13.
… That is Humility!
When you say Humility sometimes People think is underestimation of yourself – I’m nobody, useless, rotten, finished.
Excuse me, underestimation is not Humility – It is Stupidity!
So, Humility is correct estimation of yourself in the light of knowledge of Christ.
So, what are the benefits of Humility?
God finds it easy to interact with you.
The Bible says God resist the Proud – That is what happened, that is the dynamic in the relationship between God and the Person who has Pride.
God resist the Proud and the Person who has Pride – God resist the Proud but gives Grace to the the Humble.
You cannot value a Person’s word more than the way you value the Person.
The respect that you give a Person is the respect that you give to the Person’s word.
So, God is saying here: If a Person respect me, the Person will respect my word.
If any Person believe that I know all things, the attitude will show in God’s Word.
Arguing with God’s Word is arguing with God.
And that is one of the basic Signs of Pride – Contesting what God said.
So, Pride shows up in our attitude to the Word of God and it shows up in our attitude in Prayer because Prayer is where we communicate with God.
Listen, when there is Pride and you hold a Higher Position than someone else, you know what you feel.
… How you feel that is not how it supposed to be – They deserved to be there.
And as long you believe they deserve to be there, you will do your best to lift them – You will keep them there.
That is the Structure we have in most of Undeveloped Countries.
It is not the fault of leaders that the masses are suffering – It is their Destiny.
You can be Powerful without flaunting your Power. You can be Powerful without robbing it in but rather using that Power to lift others up, to help others – And that is what Humility is about.
Just ask yourself who will you prefer to hang around with?
The Person who is always comparing himself or herself by your Success, threatened by your Testimonies.
Ok, you can feel it that the Person is threatened by yourself – When you share your dreams, the ten by ten dreams, the Person will help you to cut it to two and half.
Of course you don’t feel comfortable hanging around such a person – You Prefer to stay around the Person who encourages you, who inspires you and who compliment you.
You are looking good – This hairstyle is fine, I like that Perfume, that smell is nice.
The Proud Person finds it difficult to compliment anybody because he doesn’t want to say anything Good about you.
Sometimes, they will even think to themselves that: They don’t want to be Proud; that is why they don’t want to say anything. They don’t want it to get to your head.
Humility helps you to handle Promotion better.
Some People who Pray for Promotion and even God knows if He answers their Prayers there will be Problems.
Paul the Apostle told Timothy in 1 Timothy 3 – That don’t put a Novice in office lest he be lifted up with pride.
That is it!
You don’t want to Promote someone beyond “Leadership Capacity” lest he be lifted up with Pride and falls into the condemnation of the devil.
Too many Ex- CEO, Ex- directors, Ex this, Ex that because as the People are being Promoted, the Promotion seems to validate their Position and their belief that they are better than others.
So, the higher they rise the “More Powerful” they become; the wealthier they become and they think it is God’s Validation of their Attitude.
And some People continue to rob People down, continue to treat People harshly, continue to enjoy the Power and they get Higher and Stronger until suddenly they fall down.
Some People can’t handle it when they loose that Position in twenty four (24) Hours – They are depressed.
All the People who used to crawl for them, who used to honour them, everybody disappeared – Then they find their correct level.
Because People tend to forget that they were not born with that title, they weren’t born with that money -The way it came it can go and ultimately it is God who give, we shouldn’t forget!
Humility helps us to manage Promotion better.
I think to someone: Your “Change of Status” is around the corner – Something is about to happen: It will create “Big Shift” in your life in the Mighty Name of Jesus Christ – Amen.
… A Big shift I believed that this is what is coming – Amen.
Delayed Promotions are over; the days of Stagnations are over in the Mighty Name of Jesus Christ – Amen.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Reverend Sam ADEYEMI is the Senior Pastor, Daystar Christian Centre.
He is also the President of Success Power International, an NGO that among others things specializes in Organizing Financial, Leadership and Motivational Seminars and is President of Daystar Leadership Academy, a leadership School for Business Owners and Ministers of the Gospel.
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Yours Always,
MOSES DURODOLA, TITILAYOMI AJAYI AND AYODELE OLALEYE.
We shall be talking from the Scriptures: The book of Job 38:11-13.
So, we just want to quickly look at: Giving Instructions for a Situation – Commanding It.
“Commanding the Day” is the Scripture we have taken but also in that same way you can “Command Situations”, you can “Command the Things” that are going on wrong around you.
Today, we are going to “Command the Coronavirus Disease” going on all over the world.
Now, Mark 11:23-24 tells us that: Whatsoever you asked when you Pray believe that you shall have them.
So, my brothers and sisters: We can speak to the Mountains; we can speak to the Day; we can command coronavirus to hear us and to obey us.
There is a Spirit behind it and it has no option but to hear the Word of God, to hear us and Obey us.
And so, what are we going to do?
We are going to start Commanding with what we read in Job 38:11 and say: “Coronavirus thus far have you gone, no more going further; thus far have you come and no further – Amen”.
Firstly, we are going to speak to it and that Negative Situation in your life.
Maybe, there is a Barrenness (Fruitlessness) situation in your life – You are trusting God for the fruit of the womb or you are trusting God for your brother or sister or your loved ones for the fruit of the womb or you are trusting God for admission into school or you are trusting God for financial breakthrough or maybe you are trusting God to be married and established.
Now, you are going to “Command that Situation” and say: You “Foul Spirit of delay”; thus far have you come and no further in the Name of Jesus – Amen.
Secondly, we are going to establish a “Stop Line”.
We are going to issue a “Warrant of Arrest” and say to that Mountain: I am here under the Mandate of what the Scriptures told me and I declare this is where you are stopping and I arrest your Satanic activities from today in the Name of Jesus – Amen.
We see this also in Job 37:11 – And so, we are Commanding and going it arrest.
To say: This is how far you come, thus is what you have done. This is the destruction you have done, this is the delay you have caused, this is the sorrow you have caused, this is the heartbreak you have caused but no further, stay and stop in the Name of Jesus – Amen.
Thirdly, we are going to cause it to know its Place.
In Job 38:12 that we read; we are not going to talk about Commanding the morning now and all that. But we can tell the Day just like you can tell the morning:
This is your Place, this is where you occupy, this is what you are going to Produce and deliver into my life and Destiny.
We are going to say also to the coronavirus: Know your Place.
… It is an Unruly, Untimely Satanic Agenda that has been ushered into the world Prematurely.
Now, if you remembered what the Senior Pastor (Pastor (Dr.) Paul Enenche) once Preached before about the “Events to the End Time”.
There is a Divine Agenda; there is a Divine Time Table – This Agenda of coronavirus is coming Prematurely as it is not yet time for it.
So, we are going to say to it: Know your Place and stop disrupting the Agenda of God and the Agenda of our world and our Generation and our Planet Earth.
… We would Command it to know its Place!
I was communicating with a Medical Doctor in the United States – In New York Precisely and they are in the forefront of helping People.
The Medical Doctor said: I really believed that God is intervening in this issue already because at the Peak of coronavirus in New York, it was like a mass slaughter – It was a very horrifying experience.
Now, this is a Doctor who has been interacting with the dead bodies in the second (2nd) and third (3rd) Year in the Medical School.
It was a horrifying experience the devil sent to usher in People into Untimely Death in Hell Fire.
Until the Gospel of the Lord has gone round the world, People has the opportunity to be Born Again – That Agenda is arrested in the Name of Jesus – Amen.
… Anytime you see the devil trying to stop you or trying to Prevent you, let him know that that is not your Agenda.
Take the Scriptures and announce the Divine Agenda to him – Divine Promises, Divine Instructions and then you walk by that.
Finally, we are going to Pray using what the Scriptures says in Job 38:13 – Beloveth brothers and sisters, on a daily basis you can shake the devil out of your Way.
… And today, you are going to Command the Plague ravaging the world to stop.
With that Plague came stagnation; with that Plague came Wants and Needs the world over.
And so, we are going to say: We are shaking you out of the Day and we are shaking you out of the Earth in the Name of Jesus – Amen!
ABOUT THE PREACHER
Dr. (Mrs) Becky Inyangbe Paul Enenche, formerly known as Rebecca (Becky) Inyangbe Ibu, (born October 23rd) is a Nigerian.
She is a trained Medical Doctor but now a Preacher of the Gospel.
She is also a Christian author, Minister, Televangelist, Musician and Educationist.
She is the wife of Dr. Pastor Paul Enenche, the founder and Senior Pastor of Dunamis International Gospel Centre World-wide, with headquarters in Abuja, Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria.
Her Ministry and Ministrations are characterized by a Profound release of the Word of God, Miracles, Signs and Wonders and a Palpable and tangible Presence of God.
Her ever- ready smile laced with words of kindness warms the hearts of those that come across her.
The Benue State-born mother of four (4) has been lauded many times for her modest dress sense – Mostly garbed in tastefully sewn traditional and western attire, it is worthy to note that Dr Becky loves to wear her hair Natural.
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It is not every wife that the husband can say: You are packing out of this house because the man knows if you pack, the curtain is going and the rug is likely to go.
So, when the man raises his hand and remember that, he will say we are not supposed to fight.
You are alive, your husband is sleeping with somebody. If you die, he will marry the girl – So, stay alive.
Don’t ever go to the girl and talk – You will bring yourself to her level.
If you think sleeping with another woman’s husband is good, then let us leave it.
The Lord will Judge.
The Lord will defend you – Don’t you ever go to her.
Please, as a woman, don’t be a liability because if you kill yourself, they will say we didn’t even know Elisha is more anointed.
Human being didn’t take time before they forget.
How can you as a woman carry the same hair for three (3) Months? – No washing, Nothing.
Choose to be happy.
There will be situation that will want to make you feel bad – Make up your mind that you will be happy.
Play games and watch Africa Magic – It is not only Prayer.
I Pray and Fast but that is not the only thing.
Laugh, pump blood into your brain so that you won’t labour in vain.
On your Children’s Wedding Day, nobody should represent you – Amen!
You see when we are made, a woman is Relational.
A man defines itself not by relationship but by his Job because when he was created; it was while at his Job that he (Adam) met her (Eve) in the Garden of Eden.
When a woman was created, it was relationship she met.
A woman was created to take care of everybody and you can forget yourself because you were created to meet Needs.
… A man was created because he was Wanted. A woman was created because she was Needed.
When we talk about Submission, Please hear me – The way we interpreted Submission is from the African Demonic Perspective not from the Bible.
What is Submission?
It is the “Strength put under Control” – That is Submission.
You shouldn’t be dormant, that is Subjugation.
Some will say, I have submitted to my husband and you are very Poor. The man will just sleep with you anyhow and will say: “Come here, why did you drive the car that way?”
You are not Submitting, you are Obeying.
There is a difference between the two (2):
Submission is: You are important; you are anointed; you have some things in your life and you can still Honour your husband.
There is no Human Being on Earth that I will give Honour that I have not given to my husband.
So, when you kneel and submit before the man, he knows that this is Heavy Weight Champion submitting to me.
They say there is one man in my Church – This man is Poor but very humble.
What else will a Poor man be?
When you are raising the kids, do something about your life.
My husband turns sixty (60) Years and I celebrated him for a whole week.
I imported a lot for him.
At a point, he said you won’t kill me.
If I didn’t have it I would not have been able to do it.
You can’t do a “Surprise Party” for your husband because he will know it is from the same account.
I have Joint Account with my husband but I have my own.
… May God give you your own – Amen.
I have come today to make you angry and to tell you to wake up and do something great with your life.
Some of you here, books are inside of you.
Some of you songs that will feed you is inside you.
Some of you just one idea, some of you catering.
Some of you, a small book that simplify Parenting.
Wake Up; the Lord Cometh!
Wake Up and do something!
God has been waiting on you. The Angels that will help you are lined up.
And hear this: For God to Change His Program, He will Change the mind so that you won’t hear tomorrow that somebody has started that thing you want to do.
… Do it now – Whatever your hands find to do, do it – There is time for everything.
Please, as woman be Neat – Don’t look sixty seven (67) at thirty seven (37).
Even if you always tie scarf, tie it to Church but not everywhere.
Once in a while, let fresh air comes into your hair.
See your husband – That is why the man can think because his brain is ventilated.
If you are in your house, madam get fresh air into your hair – Scarf won’t take you to Heaven!
Some of you are saying my Marriage is having a Problem. It is the devil – The devil will say I don’t know your address.
You must dress to Please your husband.
You must wear Night Wear.
… It is not that your husband us making love to you and cockroach is coming from under the bed because of used Papers and dirt.
Your bedroom should be free and neat.
Your kitchen should be neat.
Your bathroom should be neat.
At your age, you need to Push it up a little – Comb your hair and look Good.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Funke Felix Adejumo is a Nigerian Pastor, Teacher, Author, Marriage Counsellor and Humanitarian.
She is the President of Funke Felix Adejumo Foundation – A Foundation dedicated to making worldwide Impact.
With a great Passion for womanhood and Divine Purpose of ‘Honoring God and Blessing Humanity’. Funke organizes several impactful women Programs.
She is the Convener of Mothers’ Summit, Winning Edge Conference, Women in Leadership Conference, and many more.
Undoubtedly, Funke is one of the women who is so Passionate about the female gender and is gladly fulfilling her Purpose on Earth.
She is happily married to Felix ‘Remi Adejumo. They met in 1982 at Ibadan, and took their Marriage oath in 1984.
Bishop Felix ‘Remi Adejumo is the Founder and Senior Pastor of Agape Christian Ministries Inc.
The union is blessed with four (4) Biological children, grandchildren and adopted children.
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Your mindset! – How do you think? What so you Believe? What do you see when you have a situation that requires Victory?.
When you are challenged, how do you Position yourself against that Storm?
How do you Process Information that is coming at you?
What lens are you looking at?
Do you see the cup as full or half empty because they are totally opposite views?
When you look at a cup that has half level of water and you see it as half empty, you are not an Optimistic, Ambitious, Forward Looking Visioneer.
When you see it as half full, you can see the Future but you accept the interim.
… You know it is only half but you know it will be Full.
The way your Mind works is what determines how you describe the same thing – And your Mindset is influenced by what words you listen to.
Thank God you are in a house that speak the Truth of the Word.
But in doing that they are teaching you how to apply it to life.
But beyond Church, how do you invest in your Mind in reading the Word and in Educating, Empowering yourself?
When you read Numbers 13:1-3 – It is a story of the children of Israel and the command from God for them to go and explore Canaan.
The Lord gave an “Action Instruction” – Send some men to explore but he added His End Goal to it.
… They are going to explore this land that they have no title to.
But the Lord says go and explore the land because I’m giving it to to you.
What does that means?
I am giving you reason is still “I AM” because you haven’t Possessed it yet.
But He is sending you to view it and see whether the cup is half full or is half empty to you.
The Word of God is settled.
But with every Promise, there is a demand for Action and the one who need to Act is you!
Now, God didn’t say that you will eat without work.
I know you like to quote the Portion of the Bible that says: You will eat Vineyard that you didn’t Plant.
It is not when you are sitting down doing nothing from morning to night that somebody will just come and give you Vineyard.
Go and understand the Scriptures well because we quote the Scriptures without understanding it.
When you want to quote Scriptures, read the History if it – Understand how it came about and understand the Spirit of the Message.
That is how you will know the heart of God and what it says.
He sent them to explore.
For God, the matter was settled but they have to Own the Promise – And to Own the Promise, they have to do the work.
So, my name is Bilikisu. I was born and named Bilikisu. At a stage of my life, the Lord changed my name in my 20’s as I became a Christian to Ibukunoluwa.
As a matter of fact, the Promise came in English – He said “BLESSING”.
So, if you go to Fountain of Life Church, they will tell you to call me Pastor Blessing.
But Blessing means Ibukun – And I don’t like English name at all.
So, I was very quick to say that the Lord want me to be called Blessing.
What is the meaning of Blessing? – Ibukun, end of story.
That is how my name is Ibukun Awosika.
So, I’m living the Promise of God upon my life and I believed Him enough to make it to confess every time He called me.
But, even though the Lord had called me Blessing and had declared exactly how it will work out, I had to work it out.
I have to make Choices everyday that aligns with the Purpose and “Declared Will” of God upon my life.
I have to make Choices everyday that set me in that direction because God had made me already with a Will.
I may not like it. I have enough Power to stand against God for Him to say go this way and say No I’m not.
… God will not force me to.
But Wisdom and Understanding and the Knowing of my God and Submission of my Will willingly to His Will and His Words takes me in the direction of God’s “Declared Victory” for me on a day by day basis.
So, I understand I am Victory; I understand the “Declared Word” but the reality is every Word of God in the Bible is meant for every child of God but I haven’t seen every child of Manifesting the Word.
Is God Partial? – No.
Is He (God) wicked? – No.
He (God) has done His Part – His Part is to lay before you the “Road Map” of your life as He (God) sees it.
… That “Road Map” is in His Word.
Is it every Promise of God that is meant for you? How do you own it?
It is in your Mindset and your View!
What do you see? How do you see it? Do you see enough to fight it? Or do you allow the roar to distract you from the go?
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Ibukunoluwa Abiodun Awosika (born Bilkisu Abiodun Motunrayo Omobolanle Adekola on December 24, 1962) is a Nigerian Business Woman, an Entrepreneur, Motivational Speaker, Author, Mother and a Pastor.
She is a survivor and has set a standard for young women in Africa!
*Ibukun has shown that “What a man can do, a woman can do even better” by succeeding in the Furniture Industry – An Industry dominated by the male folks.
Ibukun Awosika has a few 1st’s, one of which is that she is the first female Chairman of First Bank of Nigeria
Ibukun Awosika is a Multiple Award-Winning Entrepreneur and the First Nigerian recipient of the Prestigious International Women Entrepreneurial Challenge Award (IWEC) as a Nominee of the US Department of State in 2008.
Among other various hobbies; she loves to watch Investigative and Legal Series in her leisure time.
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I am so excited, because of the opportunity we have tonight – It is my greatest Joy and Privilege to be able to introduce to you, our father in Ministry, in the Lord.
Forty (40) years ago, when I was a young Pastor – Sometimes I think I am Young, but I am not sure!
Forty (40) years ago I was a “Young Pastor” – I was asked to interpret for him.
When I was a Denominational Pastor, I had the Privilege to stand side by side with Daddy, and to interpret for him in the Country of Nigeria – the Previous Denomination where I belonged.
Our father in Ministry, in the Lord; when he became the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God – taking over just about thirty (30) Churches. But today, with over thirty thousand Churches spread across over a hundred Nations.
I have been a Christian for forty eight (48) Years (Since 1972) and I try as much as Possible to know something about Church History.
I do know; I have no recollection of anyone who has made the kind of Impact that he has made. Yet, I have never met anyone with his kind of Humility.
As a matter of fact, he was not happy some Years back when we invited him for one of our Programs and we used his Academic Title in our Advertisements.
He is such a tremendous Blessing to the Body of Christ.
Tonight, is going to be a Night of Encounter for you; a Night of Blessing for you; a Night of Turnaround.
In his simplicity of answering our questions and in his Prayers for us; Impacts would be made, and your life would never be the same again – Amen.
It is my greatest Joy, to introduce to you tonight: our father, Pastor Enoch Adejare (and I must just say the middle names before I say the surname) – BABA ADEBOYE.
Your welcome Sir!
It is such a Great Privilege and honour to have you on our Program tonight Sir.
PASTOR ADEBOYE:
Thank you very much Sir! God Bless you. Thank you for inviting us.
PASTOR ASHIMOLOWO’S QUESTION:
I know you said you wanted to be very brief; so I’m just going to go straight to some of the questions that are on our hearts.
In the few years that I have known you Sir – one of the Greatest Virtues I have seen on your life; which I believe has been instrumental to the tremendous Impacts we have seen, is the “Grace of Prayer” which you carry. And the “Grace of Purity”.
So, the questions which many Believers would like to ask you (if they had the Privilege Sir) would be:
Why are some Prayers not Answered yet? And why do some seem to take time to be Answered?
… That is our first (1st) Question tonight Sir.
PASTOR ADEBOYE’S RESPONSE:
(Laughter!!) Thank you very much Sir. I think you are the one we should be asking that Question!
Well, the Almighty God Promised to answer Prayers. And all His Promises are Yea and Amen!
When He says: “Ask and ye shall receive, seek and ye shall find, knock and the door shall be opened unto you.”
He means EVERY BIT of it!
So, definitely, He answers Prayers!
However, He did not say specifically – exactly when the answer would come.
So, some of the Prayers that you say might not have been Answered, Probably, the answer might be on the way!
Alternatively, He might not answer a Particular Prayer the way we expect Him to answer them. Probably because He has something better, something bigger in store for the one asking in Prayer!
I mean, for example: I asked Him Passionately, to build me a Boys Quarters in Mushin (A Low Earner Part of Lagos State, Nigeria) when I became General Overseer; when I came from being an Acting Head of Department (Ag. HOD) of the Mathematics of the University of Ilorin.
And in Ilorin in those days; and I’m talking of 1980. There were so many houses that were unoccupied!
So, the House of a Head of Department (HOD) of the University was a Mansion! – In fact, my Boys Quarters had four (4) bedrooms.
And then I had to leave that, when I became General Overseer – to come and occupy a ROOM, in Mushin.
So, I cried to God; (because my family was coming over from Ilorin to join me) to build me a Boys Quarters.
Well, He never Answered that Prayer! Because He told me: Son, don’t ask for a house – I have decided to BUILD YOU A CITY.
….So, HE DOES ANSWER PRAYERS!
Of course, at times, some Prayers might not be Answered because of SIN – in the life of the one making the request.
Because the Bible says in Isaiah 59:1-2: That the Hand of the Lord is not shorten that it cannot save; neither is Ears heavy that He cannot hear. But it says our iniquities can separate between us and our God, that He won’t hear!
Now, if He doesn’t hear the Prayers – then automatically, He can’t answer it!
So, at times, the one who is Praying might be living in sin. And Lord God is saying: until you put your ways right, then I would delay the answer.
Otherwise, He would be rewarding sin, rewarding disobedience; And He is a Holy God – He won’t do such thing.
PASTOR ASHIMOLOWO’S QUESTION:
Thank you very much Sir! We will follow up on that one Sir. Another Question is:
Does Prayer has to be done in certain ways, for it to be Answered? For example: louder or quietly. Is there any Posture of Prayer that makes Prayer more effective?
PASTOR ADEBOYE’S RESPONSE:
I am sure that every Believer knows that God HEARS even the thought of your heart.
That you don’t have to shout – for Him to Hear!
You don’t have to kneel down – for Him to Hear!
You can Pray standing, you can Pray sitting, you Pray lying down.
However, I have said to those who say: Why must we Pray Loud?
Because they say that after all, God is not DEAD! Well, I have told them that God is not NERVOUS either!
So, if we shout, He doesn’t say: Why are you shouting at Me?
And I have given them an illustration: I said, if there are three (3) People involved in a Motor Accident – And the three (3) of them are highly educated (Very Important People).
And they are taken to an Emergency Ward of an Hospital – Where there is only one (1) Doctor available to attend to them.
And the first (1st) one says: Well, the Doctor knows why I’m here – so he should know what to do! And he keeps his mouth shut.
And the second (2nd) one says: Well, I think I better say a word (1) or two (2) to the Doctor. But I must say it in a gentle manner because, after all, I’m an “Important Person”.
… And he says: Doctor, I need your your Help!
But the third (3rd) fellow forgets his Position – because he is in a “Critical Situation” and he wants help immediately.
He says: DOCTOR, HELP!!!
… I believed the Doctor is likely to attend to one Person!
So, when Peter found himself sinking, after he has been walking on water for a while. I’m not quite sure, when be cried to Jesus Christ for help – I’m not sure he Prayed quietly.
… So it all depends on how urgently we need Help!
Probably that is my own little Understanding of how to go about it Sir!
PASTOR ASHIMOLOWO’S QUESTION:
Alright Sir! Thank you Sir.
When we look at the Bible, it is very clear enough that the God whom we serve – JEHOVAH, is Omnipotent, He is Omniscient (He knows all things) and He is All-Powerful.
So, the next Question they sent to me to ask you Sir is:
Do I need to Pray at all – Since God is the One who works on us both to WILL and to DO His Good Pleasures?
PASTOR ADEBOYE’S RESPONSE:
Well, the Bible is absolutely clear, it says: You have not, because you ask not!
Since the day God came to the Garden of Eden (in Genesis Chapter 3) and said to Adam: Why have you disobeyed Me? And Adam said: The woman You gave me – I didn’t ask you for a wife!
I was minding my own business; it was You who decided; You were the One who volunteered to give me the wife.
… The wife You Gave me, is the cause of the Disobedience!
I believed from that moment till now, the Almighty God will wait until you ask!
Don’t think that He doesn’t know what you Need.
Not that He is not ready to do it but the Bible says: You ask not, then you have not!
So, I believed God is waiting to hear you ASK.
*PASTOR ASHIMOLOWO’S QUESTION:
Thank you so very much Sir!
What are the Things to do to Accelerate Answers to Prayers? Or what what are the Barriers to be removed, so that our Prayers are not Delayed and we can have the Answers?
PASTOR ADEBOYE’S RESPONSE:
Well, like I have said, once you are sure that by the Grace of God, you are Living according to His Will; and you know that what you are asking for is according to the Will of God; then all you need to do is just go ahead and ask in Faith, believing that He would answer you – and He will.
PASTOR ASHIMOLOWO’S QUESTION:
Alright Sir!
As we look at your life, obviously – coming from an Academic Background: Suddenly into Ministry, suddenly becoming the Person who “Unusual Grace” has rested upon.
There are many Pastors around the world; and by the way, our broadcast today are been watched in about Thirty (30) Nations.
The next Questions I want to ask is: *For the Minister who says – I’m at a Crossroad; my work is not Growing, my Ministry is not making Impact. I want to walk in the Supernatural; I have watched you, I have seen you. We have seen the Grace of God on your life:
What can we do that will may work the works of God easy?
PASTOR ADEBOYE’S RESPONSE:
Even that Question was asked by the Apostles (even while the Lord was with them).
And He said to them: all you need to do to work the works of God is to believe Him – That God accepts!
Then of course, I’m sure those People would have thought in their minds; of course we believed! – We believed that You are the Son of the Living God etc.
But I think the Crux of the Matter is simply this Sir: When Jesus spoke to the Widow of Nain in Luke 7;11-15; I mean the Widow who was going to bury her only son. And Jesus said to her: ‘Weep Not!’ – It was because He had already made up His mind to remove what was causing the sorrow.
When He (Jesus) said to the man with the Withered Hand in Mark 3:1-5: ‘Stretch forth your hands!’ – It was because He had already decided He would supply the ability to stretch forth that Withered Hand.
Because if the Hand is Withered, it is useless, it cannot be moved.
He said to the man who was brought in by four (4) brothers through the roof – Because he was completely helpless; Paralysed from neck down.
When He said to that man: ‘Stand up! Take your bed and go home.’ – It was because He had decided that He would supply the ability for that man to stand up and be made completely Whole.
Now, the Lord said, in John 14:12; He said: “The Works that I do, you shall do also; and Greater Works than these, because I go to my Father.”
He also said in John 14:6 that: “I am the Way, the Truth and the Life.” – He is the Truth, He does not lie.
So, when He said that the Works that He did we shall do also; and Greater Works than these, we shall do also also – It means that He has already made Provision to help us achieve what He says we will achieve.
So, all I can say my Beloved Brethren is that: Let us act in Faith, leaving the rest to Him – Who is able to supply Resources necessary to achieve our Goals.
If there is any other thing I can add to that; it is like the Africans would say: “That all fingers are not created equal.”
And once we tell the Almighty God: I want to be the Best You created for me to be; we should rest on Him and wait for Him to fulfill that Purpose in our lives.
… That is about all I can say to that Sir!
PASTOR ASHIMOLOWO’S QUESTION:
We know very much of your commitment to a life of Fasting;
What Impact, what Role does Fasting Play;
i. When it comes to Prayer?
ii. When it comes to Ministry?
iii. And When it comes to working in the Supernatural?
PASTOR ADEBOYE’S RESPONSE:
Thank you very much Sir!
The word Fasting is a very rare word now in the Modern Age.
It seems as if only the “Old Fashioned People” still believe in Fasting because there are People who would tell us that Fasting ended on the Cross.
I’m a “Convinced Believer” in the “Finished Work” of the Lord on the Cross.
But I also heard Him say on one (1) occasion, when some People challenged him and said: Listen, the Disciples of John are always Fasting – how come Your Own Disciples are not Fasting?
He said to them: They can’t Fast when the Bridegroom is with them. But a day is coming, when the Bridegroom would be taken away from them. He said: THEY WILL FAST IN THOSE DAYS!
I understand that to mean that He said that we will Fast until He comes again!
And Paul, the Apostle of Grace himself said: He Fasted often!
I believed that the Role of Fasting is simply based on the fact that the Spirit and the Flesh are constantly at loggerhead.
Anytime, for example, that you decided that you would Fast from tomorrow; I can guarantee you that it is hunger that will wake you up!
And I know one Bishop who once said: I heard that Pastor Adeboye Fasted forty (40) Days and forty (40) Nights! So I decided, I would Fast forty (40) Days and forty (40) Nights.
He said, but on the twenty first (21st) day he heard a voice that said: Son, your Prayers have been answered! So he stopped Fasting after twenty one (21) days.
I spoke to him, I said: It is your belly that spoke to you, not the Lord (Laughter!)
Fasting is very Good Sir, because it is like Sharpening a knife! – When you Sharpen a knife, the knife will be more effective in cutting.
The Word of God says that: If the axe is not sharp, then you have to apply MORE Strength.
If we Fast, we reduce the impact of the flesh on us; and if we reduce the impact of the flesh or the the influence of flesh; then the Spirit has the Freedom to flow more freely.
… And definitely, you need the Spirit of God to flow freely in working of Signs and Wonders for the Lord.
You need the Spirit of God to flow freely for the Church itself to Grow.
And then of course, you need the Spirit to flow freely so that you can even relate more closely with the Almighty God Himself.
PASTOR ASHIMOLOWO’S QUESTION:
Thank you so very much Sir!
I want to be a bit bold and say – we know that you Pray a lot.
Could you Please share with us, on one occasion when you Prayed the longest. How long were you in the Presence of the Lord?
PASTOR ADEBOYE’S RESPONSE:
Well, it is no Secret, I think I have shared it before, there was a time – that was my first (1st) Year as General Overseer; that I got six (6) of my friends together, then we were seven (7).
We said were going to do quite a bit of Praying – Preparatory to the Assignment that God has given me – And we Prayed for thirty (36) Hours; with very little breaks in between – five (5) minutes to go and ease ourselves.
When we did that, at the end of it, we were feeling very BIG – we thought we had done something Mighty!
I mean, when we Prayed Day, Night, Day! – Thirty six (36) hours, we thought we had done something Great.
But that very week, God enabled me to read about a man who Prayed None-Stop for thirty (30) days and thirty (30) nights – That Punctured my Balloon!
PASTOR ASHIMOLOWO CUTS IN:
Please Sir, can you share with us who that Person is Sir? Sorry to interrupt you Sir!
PASTOR ADEBOYE’S RESPONSE:
I think his name is David Bernard – The man that he did not sleep on his bed. He was crying to God Day and Night for thirty (30) days!
When I read that one, I discovered that I have not even started yet. I have not been able to come anywhere near him!
But at least, the man showed us the Way that whatever God had enabled us to achieve by His Grace, we can always go a little Higher.
PASTOR ASHIMOLOWO’S QUESTION:
Two (2) more Questions, before I ask you to Share whatever is in your heart and then Pray for us Sir.
The first Question would be Sir that: Suddenly the world find itself in the Place where we are now – Churches shutdown, Economy shutdown. But Particularly Churches;
What should the Church learn from all these?
What is God saying about these?
What is the Future?
PASTOR ADEBOYE’S RESPONSE:
Well, Thank you very much Sir!
I believed very firmly that: Nothing happens without God knowing about it (in advanced!)
And for whatever happens, GOD HAS A PURPOSE!
I believed firmly that God allowed what happened to happen; so that the Church can Probably “Sit Up” and be drawn closer to God.
I believed some of us are getting too busy running up and down.
Like somebody said to me: Sir, you don’t know how to sit down. God had to apply His Divine Rest on you – So you can sit down one (1) Place!
… I appreciated that!
I believe God wants the Church to even spend more time with Him in Fellowship; in Individual Fellowship.
Because, more than anything else; God Himself wants us to Himself!
We are to love Him with all our hearts, with all our Souls, with all our Strength; before we can even think of loving our neighbours like ourselves.
So I believed that Probably one (1) of the reasons why the Almighty God has allowed Churches to be shutdown, and so on and so forth, is that We – His children can be drawn closer to Him to spend more time with Him.
But I believed there is another reason; this is me speaking – I’m not saying, Thus saith the Lord! – I believed the Almighty God wants to show the world that when all “Human Methods, Wisdoms and Abilities” have failed; they will come to realise that it is God who is still in Charge.
And my illustration to that would be: When you are in the world, you would see many Nations far, far smaller than (say) Nigeria for example (in size): they have Science, they have Medicine, they have all manner of Resources. But, this Pandemic had killed tens of thousands among them.
But in Nigeria (for example) where the Advanced Nations of the world Prophesied that when the Pandemic comes to Africa we are going to be completely swallowed up!
In Nigeria as at today, the Number of those who died is still far, far below a thousand (1,000).
Why? – Because there are some People who are PRAYING
So, I believed God is simply saying; spend more time with me – Pray!
I believed that the Future will be alright; I believed that this Crises would soon be over – as soon as we learn the Lessons that the Almighty God would want us to learn.
PASTOR ASHIMOLOWO’S QUESTION:
Alright Sir! I think I will put all the other Questions aside and say;
Whatever Message that the Lord has laid in your heart to Minister to us. And then, to speak a Prophetic Word into our lives – into lives of all the People across the thirty (30) Nations who are Watching and reading now on that Label of DMC Sir.
PASTOR ADEBOYE’S RESPONSE:
Well, Thank you very much Sir!
I would want to say to everyone of us, that during this Period of the Lockdown; we should cease the opportunity to ask the Almighty God to Please speak to us; reveal to us what is His Purpose for our lives – What does He want us to become when we come out of the Lockdown?
Because after all, it was when Elijah was locked down in the Widow of Zarephath’s House, that he grew to become the Prophet who was the first (1st) ever – to Raise the dead!
It was when David was locked down in the Cave of Adullam, that all the Riffraff who gathered together to him – became Mighty Men!
It was when Joseph was locked down in Prison, that he Progressed from being a Dreamer to an Interpreter of Dreams!
So, I will appeal to all of us, to say: Lord, show me exactly where You are taking me; and enable me Lord God Almighty, to maximise the opportunities afforded me by this Lockdown; so that I will come out of it; better, stronger, closer to You and even more Anointed.
PASTOR ASHIMOLOWO’S REACTION:
Thank you so much Sir!
I will like you to just Pray for everyone as you feel led; and Speak a Prophetic Word into our lives, Sir.
PASTOR ADEBOYE PROPHETIC WORDS OF PRAYERS
My Father and my God; I want to Thank You for this opportunity that You have given us to reach out to so many of Your children all over the world.
Father I’m Praying that: You would look down from Heaven and lay Your Mighty Hands on each and everyone of us – where ever we may be right now or reading on the Label of DMC.
I Pray Lord God Almighty, that You would send Your Light into our lives, that You will quicken our Understanding, that we will understand You much more than ever before.
Father I decree in the Name that is above every other names; that everyone of these Your children would receive Brand New Anointing; that they would come out of the Lockdown Stronger, more Powerful and Closer to You!
Leaving this Lockdown to become Mighty Men of God; Giants for You; Doing Great Exploits for You Almighty God.
I Pray Lord God Almighty, that as a result of this our conversation of this Particular Day; there would be “Mighty Testimonies” in the lives of all Your children: in all their Ministries and Churches.
I Decree Lord God Almighty that everyone of them would be Singing a New Song by the time this Lockdown is over!
And please Lord, Bless Pastor Mathew Ashimolowo, Bless his family, Bless his Ministry, and move him from Glory to Glory!
In Jesus Mighty Name I have Prayed – AMEN!
… God Bless you Sir!
PASTOR ASHIMOLOWO’S WORDS OF APPRECIATIONS
Amen!
We are Most, Most Grateful Sir for the opportunity of having you with us tonight;
Thank you for Blessing us, Thank you for Speaking into our lives. Thank you for making such a “Tremendous Impacts”.
It is not a light thing that you put aside everything to give us this opportunity to have your Presence Sir.
Thank you Sir!
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