RCCG July 2015 Holy Ghost Service, THAT YOU MAY HAVE LIFE. Sermon and Prayer Points By Pastor E. A. Adeboye
July 2015 RCCG Holy Ghost Service. THAT YOU MAY HAVE LIFE
Thank You LORD
Why don’t you just go ahead and worship the Almighty God.
Just praise His Holy Name, worship the King of kings, worship the Lord of lords.
Bless the Ancient of days, give Him glory give Him honour give Him adoration.
He is worthy to be praised, worthy to be adored worthy to be magnified.
There is no one like Him, He reigns forever more.
Psalms_113-3: From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same the LORD’S name is to be praised
He is the Source of life, give Him glory give Him honour give Him adoration, thank Him that you are still alive today.
Bless His Holy Name, for all He has done for you thus far.
Give Him glory give Him honour give Him adoration.
Tell Him you love Him, tell Him you appreciate Him, praise Him for seeing you through the first half of this year, He’s worthy to be praised, He’s worthy.
Oh yes! He is worthy to be praised, worthy to be adored, worthy to be magnified.
There is no one like Him: the Ancient of the Days, the Unchangeable Lord, the God of the Beginning, the God of the End, the God of the in-between – praise Him!
He is worthy, He is worthy to be praised, He is worthy to be praised, He is worthy to be adored.
He is worthy, He is worthy, oh! glory be to God
(Speaking in Tongue by the Holy Spirit).
You are worthy, blessed be Your Holy Name, blessed be Your Holy Name, blessed be Your Holy Name forever and ever.
Blessed be Your Holy Name.
Psalms_108-3: I will praise thee, O LORD, among the people: and I will sing praises unto thee among the nations
Thank You Father, glory be to Your Holy Name, in Jesus mighty name we have worshiped.
Now lift your voices to Him and say, Father, during the second half of this year, let me harvest joy abundantly.
Let’s go ahead and talk to the Almighty God. During the second half of this year, let me harvest joy abundantly.
Let me harvest life abundantly, let me harvest miracles, signs, wonders abundantly.
Let the second half of this year be the one of glorious harvest for me: harvest of joy, harvest of peace, harvest of miracles, signs, wonders, harvest of life – abundant life.
Thank You Jesus, in Jesus mighty name we have pray.
Psalms_63-3: Because thy lovingkindness is better than life, my lips shall praise thee.
Forever
.
Oh LORD
Thy word is settled
In heaven it is settled
(In heaven)
Psalms_28-7: The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him.
Forever
Oh LORD
Thy word is settled
In heaven it is settled
(Forever)
Psalms_9-1: I will praise thee, O LORD, with my whole heart; I will shew forth all thy marvellous works.
For you shall know the truth
And the truth shall make you free
(Halleluyah)
Forever…
For God so love the world
He gave His only son
(Halleluyah)
Psalms_98-4: Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all the earth: make a loud noise, and rejoice, and sing praise .Thank You Jesus
Forever
Oh LORD
Thy word is settled
In heaven it is settled
Forever
Oh LORD
Thy word is settled
In heaven it is settled
(Amen)
Philippians_4-8: Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.
Oh! Thank You Father!
King of kings and Lord of lords, the Source of life, the Source of joy, the Source of strength, the Source of power, the Source miracles, the Source of blessings, we worship You; please accept our worship in Jesus Name.
You said in Your word, Your word that is forever settled, “that You have come that we may have life and have it more abundantly”,
Tonight, in our lives Father, fulfill Your word; give us life more abundantly.
Give us health, give us joy, give us peace, give us breakthrough.
Tonight, answer all our prayers.
Tonight, oh Lord, and at the end of it all, let Your name be glorified.
Father, we are praying for all Your children who are listening all over the world, today grant their request.
For every one of us, my Father and my God, let this be a night never to be forgotten.
Psalms_63-3: Because thy lovingkindness is better than life, my lips shall praise thee.
As for Your partners, my Father and my God, like never before, this month, prosper them, take them to greater height, move them from glory to glory, move them from joy to joy.
Lord, I pray, by the time we finish tonight, every one of us will sing a new song.
Thank You my Father and my God, in Jesus mighty name we have prayed. Amen
Now let someone shout halleluyah.
Psalms_100-4: Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name.
Shake hand with one or two people and say, God will bless you mightily tonight. And then you may please be seated.
Several years ago, I think it was around 1976 or something.
I began to gather a little group of young boys and young girls together, as we are preparing for our first Christ Redeemers’ Congress.
And we called them Bible Study Leaders. You could call them kind of Sunday school teachers, only they don’t teach on Sundays alone, but when we go to the Congress, we break into small, small groups, and we do in-depth study of the word of God.
And those who help me teach during such a program we called them, BIBLE STUDY LEADERS.
We were very few in those days. I think when we started we were thirty-three, members grow of course steadily, as the program became well known.
2-Timothy_2-15: Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
But then, in 1985, I had a discussion with a man of God who told me, (he has gone to be with Lord now, PASTOR S. G. ELTON, of blessed memory), by then, I have been General Overseer for couple of years.
And he said to me, “young man, I can see a great future for you and for your church, and for you to be able to handle what is coming, you are going to need some special disciples”,
And I said, ‘thank you sir, I will pray about it‘.
1-Thessalonians_5-17: Pray without ceasing
He told me that in Ilesha, and as I was driving down from Ilesha to Lagos, I was praying over what he said, suddenly, God gave me the idea that I must start a school.
It won’t be a BIBLE COLLEGE, but it will be something entirely different, and it will be called ‘SCHOOL OF DISCIPLES‘, where I will be able to pour everything that is within me into these people, teach them three basic subjects.
Genesis_1-1: In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth
Subject Number One – KNOW YOUR GOD. Because those who know their God shall be strong and they shall so exploits.
1-Peter_5-8: Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour
Subject Number Two – KNOW YOUR ENEMY. You cannot be an overcomer if you don’t know who your enemy is. And am telling you, when we began to study know your enemy, we learnt some new things.
Ephesians_6-13: 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
And subject Number Three – WEAPONS OF OUR WARFARE. You are not a Christian if you are not a disciple, because from the day you are born again you go into warfare.
Anybody who tells you that once you are born again, all your problems are over, is deceiving you, because the day you become born again, the Devil who had been holding you captive, will discover that this fellow has escaped and he will begin to pursue.
And the elders will tell you, it is right for the slave to escape and it is ok for the owner to pursue.
Ephesians_6-11: Put on the full armor of God, so that you will be able to stand firm against the schemes of the devil
And the word of God states it clearly, very clearly that, your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about seeking for whom he may devour.
That is life!
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.
That is the truth of it and he succeeded in devouring some people,that is why you find out that some people started the Christian race they couldn’t complete it, because they do not know their enemy and they do not know how to fight.
So, we know our God, our Commander-in-chief, we will discover that once you are a Christian, you have been enrolled in the Army of Christ.
Because the word of God says clearly endure hardness like soldiers of Christ.
2-Timothy_2-3: Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ
Our Commander-in-Chief, the Lord Jesus Christ, is not a civilian, He is the Lord of Host, He is the Greatest General, the Greatest Admirer, the Greatest Marshal and all of them combined.
And once upon a day, you are list in His army and He accepts you, you will need to know how to fight, and He did not say run from the enemy, He said ‘resist the enemy and he will flew from you‘.
Resist, not run
James_4-7: Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you
In all the pieces of amour that God provided for you to put on, there is no piece for your back.
Because you are not to run from enemy, the devil like to see you run.
So when I hear of Christian who say he is running for witches and wizard I know he is not a disciple.
We are to cast out demons not run away from them, cast them out.
So, thirty years ago, we started the School of Disciples and I give glory to God that today the School of Disciples is all over the world.
Last month, we graduated hundreds of them in Canada, we graduated hundreds of them in America, and everywhere we go we graduated students from the School of Disciples.
So, if you have not joined the School of Disciples, you haven’t even started the race, and if you joined even by the time you finished your year one, you will become a terror to the devil.
And I taught the school consistently for ten years personally: year one, year two and all the way to year ten.
Of course! As I went on, I began to recruit some of my student to become teachers, since I can’t be teaching ten classes at the same time, and it was a glorious time.
We will come here at night, we will study, go to the kitchen, prepared our own food, and eat mighty mountains of eba, in the night, and when we finished, then, we go right back to work, digging foundations, concrete at night, and in the morning, we cut grasses.
And you will be amazed the kind of people who are with us – Judges of Appeal courts, Professors, Traditional rulers, they joined the School of Disciples, because they wanted to know their God, they wanted to know their enemy and they wanted to know how to fight.
Today, by the grace of God, you can hardly find any one on the altar here, who has not passed through the School of Disciples.
So am appealing to those of you who have not joined the School of Disciples you better enrol now, before it is too late, and the Lord will bless you as you do so.
And before I go on to the message for tonight, all the Disciples who are here: all of you who trained in the School of Disciples or those of you who are still in School of Disciples, if you are here, stand up on your feet, wherever you are, all over the world, listening to me, stand up on your feet too.
Disciples, let me here you shout hallelujah.
When I asked you to shout hallelujah – shout disciples hallelujah.
Am sure you know that one of our weapons of warfare is shouting hallelujah, because by so doing, you frighten the devil.
Disciples, shout hallelujah
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My Father and my God I want to thank You, and to thank You for these Your disciples. We want to thank You for opening the School of Disciples thirty years ago, I want to thank You for the grace we have experienced, I want to thank You for the prophecies thirty years ago that You have fulfilled in their own life time, I want to thank You Lord Almighty for the teachers who have taking over from me by keeping the school going, Father, accept my thanks in Jesus name.
Father, these are Your disciples, they know Who You are, they know You are the Almighty, they know You are the Lord of Host, they know You have never lost a war, Father, use them to do exploits for You in Jesus Name.
They know that they don’t have any other enemy other than the devil and their flesh, so my Father and my God, today, again, I pray, whatever is in their flesh that can hinder the flow of anointing – crucify today.
And I ask God Almighty like never before, when they command demons – they must obey instantly.
I pray God Almighty, whenever these Disciples arrive – miracles will arrive, deliverance will arrive, healing will arrive, salvation will arrive, joy will arrive, and in their own homes too let there be always shout of joy.
I pray that in Your kingdom, I will see all of them there. In Jesus mighty name we have prayed. Amen.
Disciples, greater works… shout another hallelujah.
Congratulations. Happy Anniversary
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Thank you for the gift you sent which I have not seen. If it is too small I will send it back. Glory be to God.
John 10:10
And I want to thank Almighty God for my son who spoke before me, he did an excellent job, just like I expect from him.
He has made the job easy for me, as a matter of fact, when he started I said, hey! hey! this boy is going to finish my sermon before I preach it.
It is a dangerous thing to ask an Evangelist to preach before a Pastor, he created problems for the Pastor.
But, glory be to God, it doesn’t matter how much the son knows, the father still has something else to add.
But, thank God for great sons.
Hallelujah!
Pastor E A Adeboye Birthday
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”.
What is life?
James_1-12-1: Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him
There are some things in the world that you think you know how to define but you really don’t know.
If I say, what is distance?
You will say, distance is the gap between two points. I said okay.
So, what is gap?
Oh! Gap is a distance.
If I say, what is time?
You will say, oh! Time – that is what is measure in hours and minutes and seconds.
Am not saying how is time measured, I said, what is time?
But if you are very deep, you know real philosophy, and when I say, what is time? You will say, time is a fragment of eternity.
Beautiful!
Then I say, what is eternity?
Oh! Eternity is time without end.
So, what is time? Time is the fragment of time without end.
Suddenly, you will discover you can’t define some of the things that you think you can define.
The same goes for life.
When I say, what is life?
Life is living.
So, what is living?
Living is being alive.
So, in higher mathematics or higher philosophy, when you come across something you cannot define, you will go around it, by defining it by what it is not.
For example, you can say, life is the opposite of death – that’s easy, and that’s correct, because death is easy to define.
Romans_6-23: For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord
What is death?
Death is permanent separation from people, places and things – that is death.
Then you know the word permanent, because when you travel, you are separated from the people you left behind, you are separated from your home, you are separated from your bed – temporarily, because you will come back.
But when you are dead, the separation is permanent.
So, what is life?
Life is the opposite of death.
And so, that is going to help us tonight to understand what we are about to say.
And I want to appeal to you to pay serious attention tonight. This is the second times ever that I have made such an appeal because all night are special.
But I remembered, several years ago, I gave a lecture on curses and blessings, that night, I appealed to everybody to pay special attention.
Tonight please pay special attention.
What are you to do tonight? PAY SPECIAL ATTENTION!!!
Since life is the opposite of death, to understand life you need to know the direct associates of death:
John_5-24: Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life
Those things that are associated with death so that when you have life those things that are associated with death will be absent from you.
SORROW. Sorrow is a direct associate of death.
In Mark 5:38, by the time Jesus got to Jairus house whose daughter has just died, there was a lot of weeping. Sorrow is an associate of death.
And that is why, when Jesus comes into your life, what He wanted to say to you first is, ‘weep not‘.
In Luke 7:11-15, when He saw a widow going to bury her son, and everybody was weeping, He said, “weep not”.
So, when Jesus said ‘I have come, so that you will have life, you can take it straight away from Me, if you can allow Me to come into your life, I will dry your tears’
Because sorrow is linked to death, it follows that joy is linked to life.
That is why He said in John 16:24 ask, till your joy be full.
Another direct associate of death is:
LOSS. When somebody dies, you lose him, invariably, he/she is gone.
In Mark 5 that I was referring to, verse 20 to 24, Jairus had only one daughter, her death means loss of heritage, loss of somebody to continue in the land.
In John 11:39, when Lazarus died, the sisters were heartbroken, because he was their only brother, and now, it looked as if he was gone forever.
Loss is associated with death, RESTORATION is associated with life – because restoration is the opposite of loss.
So, Job 2:25-27, God promised that He will restore.
So, if there is anyone who has lost something that the enemy has stolen from him, in the Name of the One who have come to give life there shall be restoration. Amen
Another thing that is a direct associate of death is
LONELINESS
In Luke 7:11-15, the reason the Widow was so sad, that she lost her only son, was because there would be nobody to stay with her in the house:
Her husband was dead, the only son, now also dead. Thank God for a solution.
Some years ago, one of my professors, when I was a Lecturer, small lecturer at the University of Lagos, lost his wife, and he was a strong man, nobody ever thought he could shed a tear, and then he began to weep like a baby.
First day, second day, third day,
So, the children became alarmed and they sent for me because they knew we are associates.
And I rushed down there, I said daddy, I understand you’re weeping – the fellow you have been together for so long, was no longer there, I understand.
And he said, “thank you, I know you understand”
In the name that is above every other name, everything that is causing you loneliness God will take it away.
That is what Jesus is saying in Hebrew 13:5, He said ‘I will never leave you, I will never forsake you’.
When Jesus is by your side, loneliness is removed. It becomes as separable from you, as your shadow
.
Psalm 121:5, the Lord is your shade on your right hand.
And apart from the associate of death, because we need to understand life is opposite of death.
Revelation_21-4: And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away
Apart from the associates of death – Sorrow, Loss, Loneliness, We Have Agents Of Death/Messengers Of Death.
Psalms_23-4-1: Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
Sickness and Disease
Why do people get worried if somebody becomes sick? It is because sickness can lead to death.
2 King 13:14, it said Elisha was sick whereby he died.
Sickness can lead to death: it is an agent of death
That is while it was said about Jesus in Exodus 15:26, He said, I Am the God that healeth thee.
Sickness is the opposite of healing. Sickness is an agent of death, healing is an agent of life.
And He can heal anyone.
Mark 5:25-34, tells us about the woman with the issue of blood, she walked from Doctor to Doctors up till she came to Jesus Christ and she got her healing.
I have good news for us those of us who are here in particular; my Daddy told me in the prayer room, He is going to concentrate on healing here tonight.
Oh thank You Father. May be He is waiting for me to announce it, He said there is someone here that your pain started between your shoulder blades, from the back of your neck between the shoulder blades, it started and began to spread downwards till now, it has almost become unbearable, He said may be you didn’t noticed, but it is already gone.
Thank You Father. The Lord said there is someone here, He said, the Doctors called it pneumonia, but they have done all they could and the pneumonia refused to go, Daddy asked me to tell you, it is already gone tonight.
2-Chronicles_7-14: If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land
Sickness is an agent of death
Some of you have heard the testimony again and again of one of my children that has terminal cancer in Britain.
And the Doctors called the parents; ‘sir, if you want your son to sees his native land again, take him home now, because he has, at most, two weeks to live’.
Some of you have heard the testimony, that was way back in 1983,
And then somebody said, ‘take him to the Camp they will pray for him’ and they brought him, and when I take a look at him, even my faith shook.
But because I am the General Overseer, I had to pretend – there is no problem God will take care, thank God He took care.
I saw him in London two months ago, still as healthy as ever. They told him two weeks in 1983, today, more than thirty years later, he is still healthy still strong.
They told him because hypnotherapy that he shouldn’t bother to marry, he went ahead and married and has his own child – glory be to God forever more.
And I stand here on behalf of my Father in heaven to say that every sickness, every disease; every agent of death in your body will disappear tonight.
Believe it or not, another agent of death is
POVERTY
You said no, no that can’t be.
Well! In 1 King 17:10-12, the widow of Zarephath said to Elijah, we have only one meal left for me to eat with my son and die.
Oh! Some of us think you are poor, you are not poor at all –
In the mighty name of Jesus you will never know poverty. I repeat that again, In the mighty name of Jesus you will never know poverty. Amen
Several years ago, I went to a nation, I won’t mention the name, because now, they are listening to me all over the world.
And when you get to the nation, my host said, I want to show you something, kilometers upon kilometers of burial grounds/grave yards.
They buried those who died in the Second World War there.
And over each slum, there is a little tent, they said those who are so poor and they have nowhere to stay are living in the cemetery, and they called the place, CITY OF THE DEAD.
And these people, every day, they go out: father, mother, children, they go to refuse dumps, to go and search for grain of rice, and bones people have thrown away.
Proverbs_10-22: The blessing of the LORD, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it
I pray for you one more time, you will never know poverty.
In 2 king- 6:26:29, it was a famine that went really bad in Samarian, two women living together reached an agreement: both of them had a son, ‘you kill your son today and we eat him, and tomorrow we will kill my son and we shall eat him’.
So, one day they killed the son of one woman they ate the son.
Now, tell me, what killed that boy, if it is not poverty?.
The second day, the other woman turned to the other woman and said, ‘let us kill your son’,
Ha! No oooh! She has gone to hide her son.
The woman who fell cheated, ran to the king, that was how it was recorded.
That can’t happen in Nigeria? Think again.
Couple of years ago, they arrested a woman for selling her son and she said, ‘you can do whatever you like with me, but, hear my story first’.
“We are dying of hunger, the reason I sold him is at least whoever is buying my son will feed him; I have nothing to feed him”.
What of the money you collected?
“It will keep me alive”.
And then, if you read in the newspaper that there was a riot in an institution, on NAIRALAND.
Why?
Because a student went to a hospital and they wouldn’t treat him because there was no money to pay deposit in Nigeria, so the boy died, because there was no money to pay deposit.
Poverty is an agent of death
And I decree in the Name that is above every other name, poverty will leave you alone.
That is why the One who have come that you may have life, said about Himself in Philippians 4:19, ‘but my God shall supply all your needs according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus’.
Another agent of death is HOPELESSNESS.
Jeremiah_17-7-2: Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is.
When a man has hope, no matter how little, it keeps him/her alive, if there is a hope, there is life.
And that is what is keeping many people going “that your tomorrow may be alright, you never can tell help may come”.
But when a man has lost all hope, it yields to death.
Romans_12-12: Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer
In John 5:2-9, the Bible tells us about a man who was at the pool of Bethesda for thirty-eight years, waiting for an opportunity to get into the pool first, after an angel who came once a year, to trouble the pool.
Thirty eight years, that was how long he had been sick, but he came to life. Okay, he had hope, that one day will be one day.
Fortunately for him, the day came, Jesus walked to him and gave him healing.
I don’t know for how long you have been coming to Holy Ghost night, but tonight is the night Jesus will visit you. Amen
In 1 King 19:1-4, when Elijah, champion, great champion of God, when he thought he had brought revival to his nation, everybody was bowing down, saying, Jehovah is LORD, and he came down to discover that Jesebel the wife of the king had not changed at all.
In fact, she wanted to kill him; he concluded that, there was no hope.
What was it that he said to God?
“Please kill me any day“.
When a man loses hope, he could even commit suicide to kill himself.
Thank God for Jesus Christ. Ephesians 1:27 say ‘Christ in you, the hope of Glory‘.
As long as you have Jesus Christ, there is hope.
Psalms_31-24-2: Be of good courage, and he shall strenghten your heart: all ye that hope in the Lord. God Is All Powerful
I was talking with one of my sons some days ago, and he said, it was the news, just the news that his sister had cancer, was what killed her, not the sickness.
There was no sign of sickness yet, nor of any trouble, but she heard that she had cancer, weeks later, she was died.
Because somehow she just felt there was no hope.
But there is a hope for the hopeless, His Name is Jesus – you will never be hopeless in life. Amen
I have told you the story of my uncle before.
Things got bad, really really bad for him, so bad that he was taking the ‘wrapper’ of his wife to make the ‘buba and soro’, things were bad.
One day he decided, death is better than shame.
So he made up his mind he was going to commit suicide.
He decided he will go to church first that he will sing, he will dance like never before, that everybody will notice him, and then, he will come home and commit suicide.
And everybody will say, ‘but we saw him in church’, he said, he will attend his own funeral.
But as the Preacher was preaching, he heard a word; and you will hear a word tonight,
The Preacher said, when Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego was going into the fiery furnace, they did not know how God will deliver them – they did not know how but God did it.
He said, ‘I don’t know how God will deliver me from my present situation, but I refused to die.
If He did it for Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, He will do it for me, he refused to die.
The day he was sharing his testimony, he had just bought fourteen cars in a day, because, hope came, prevented him from dying and brought him to his prosperity.
So, if you are here tonight you are already considering dying, don’t die, tomorrow will be alright. I say tomorrow will be alright. Amen
Turn to your neighbour and smile, say, my tomorrow will be alright.
Thank You Father. Daddy says there are some people here battling with dizziness, you can’t walk a long distance before you begin to feel dizzy, you can’t do any heavy job before you begin to feel dizzy and some of you had even almost fainted but the Lord asked me to tell you, don’t worry that is over now.
So, when we talk about life, the kind of life Jesus was talking about is ABUNDANT LIFE.
It means much more than words.
Some people think when we say that a fellow has abundant life, it is not because he has a big house, car or that the children have bicycle and so on – no no no.
Abundant life means much more than words.
Luke 12:15, says that ‘a man’s life does not consist in the abundance of what he has’.
There are people who are rich financially but if you get close to them, you will say I don’t want this kind of life – I know one or two, they are not here tonight, no problem, I have told you this story before.
Pastor E A Adeboye, Daddy G O
I spent a night with a friend of mine – a very rich man.
It was time for breakfast, he asked me to wait for breakfast, and I said no problem.
And it took him thirty minutes to decide what he will eat.
The Cook said, what do you want?
Baking, sausage, fish, chicken, this, that, and he struggled and struggled and finally he decided he will eat bread and egg.
By then, it was about twenty-five minutes since it started ‘permutating and combinating’.
And then the Cook said okay, how do you want the egg? Scrambled, fried, boiled or this or that?
Finally he said boiled.
Okay. How do want the egg to be boiled? Half boiled, medium boiled, rear boiled?
He said medium.
And the Cook said medium boiled or medium reared?
And he said medium reared.
And I was seating there, hungry.
Finally, the Cook turned to me and said, ‘Sir, what do you want me…?
I said anything you have, just put it on the table.
He said rice?
I said, sir, I will eat, just put it on the table.
I don’t have money, but I have appetite, I can eat anything. Anything you don’t want me to eat don’t put it on my table.
Those of you who have appetite, who can eat, let me hear you shout hallelujah.
Life, real abundant life, include
JOY.
Nehemiah 8:10 says ‘the joy of the Lord is your strength‘, and it is Jesus who gives joy. Psalm 16:11, in His presence there is fullness of joy.
Nehemiah_8-10: Then he said unto them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions unto them for whom nothing is prepared: for this day is holy unto our Lord: neither be ye sorry; for the joy of the LORD is your strength
Good health is part and parcel of abundant life.
Deuteronomy 34:7 tells us that Moses at 120 years was strong, vibrant, that man was still ready to marry a new wife. Good health.
COMPANIONSHIP is part of what abundant life is made up of.
Ecclesiastics 4:9-12 says, two are better than one.
No matter how much money you have, if you are lonely, you are lonely.
Some people have all the money in the world but they don’t even have anybody to share their life time with. If you discover something funny, almost immediately you look for someone to share it with: Companionship is part of what makes up abundant life.
GLORIOUS HOPE is part of abundant life.
Roman 5:5 say ‘hope maketh not ashamed’.
Ecclesiastes 9:4, says ‘a living dog is better than a died lion‘. When there is hope that is part of life. That is why we say, ‘when there is life there is hope’ – they go together.
Thank You my Lord! This is a big one, the Lord says there is someone here the Doctor has queried enlarged heart, He asked me to tell you, go for another test you have a brand new heart.
Pastor E A Adeboye. Daddy G O
Thank You Father! The Lord said there is someone here too, they said that it is very little they can do with your liver as it is, my Daddy asked me to tell you, He has given you a brand new one.
So, when we talk of abundant life, so many things are involved.
GOOD SLEEP for example – ability to lie down and sleep, that is part of life, abundant life.
I told you about a man who came to us several years ago and said, he has fourteen houses, but in spite of all, the sleep dose that am given, I cannot sleep more than one hour a day, he said Pastor, ‘if you pray for me, I will be healed’.
Heal me and take the fourteen houses.
I said thank you Sir. I will pray for you, Jesus will heal you for free.
I don’t want your fourteen houses because I want to continue to be able to sleep.
I can sleep standing up and I know that there are one or two people like that here.
Many at times when you knee down to pray, nobody will wakes you up it may be till tomorrow morning – am I telling the truth?
If you have the ability to sleep, let me here you shout hallelujah.
You see, there are some things money cannot buy, some things that are precious, far, far more precious than money.
And then, like my son who spoke before me said, whether or not to have life, is a matter of choice, and I heard him quoting Deuteronomy 30:19, when the Almighty God said ‘I am placing before you blessings and curses, life and death’, but I advise you to choice life – So you have a choice.
If you want to choose life, listen carefully in addition to the various things he had told you about.
Read Psalm 34:12 says ‘there are conditions you must fulfill'; it says any man who desire life, who live many days, who want to feel good: (now take note of those statements), because one could live long and live in sorrow- that is no life, one could live long and live in pain- that is no life, one could live long and barely survive – that is no life, no life at all.
If you want to live long, and desire that those days will be good ones, He says there are certain things you must do.
Keep Your Tongue From Evil And Your Lips From Speaking Guise.
The word of God is saying your mouth can decide whether you live abundant life or not.
Proverb 18:21, it says ‘death and life are in the power of the tongue‘.
The elders will tell you, they said “it is the mouth of the one who is coughing that he uses to invite death”. When he coughs once, twice, he look as if this cough is going to kill.
I pray for every one of you here today, your mouth will not kill you.
Next thing you are asked to do is
Depart From Evil.
Proverb 10:27 says ‘the days of the wicked shall be shortened‘.
And the Almighty God has appointed to every man days, certain number of days.
But when He discovers that you are wicked, you refuse to repent, you refuse to do the will of God, He said, those days can be shortened.
He went on to say not only must you depart from evil, He says
You must do good.
Proverbs 11:8, share the law of restitution, and it says, ‘the righteous is delivered out of trouble, the wicked cometh instead’.
In order words, if death is about to swallow a good man, God will say no, no, no, that is a good man, death you can’t kill him, leave him alone, I will give you somebody else to kill.
Romans_8-38: For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
You said where did I find that in the Bible? I can give you several examples.
Daniel 6, read the whole chapter.
In Danie