IT IS TIME FOR A NEW BEGINNING
Pastor Mrs Folu Adeboye on “A New Beginning” at The Americas 25th Annual Convention
🎶🎼You are highly lifted up, there is no one like You.
Halle, Halle, Hallelujah.
Jehovah, You are the Most High.
You are the most High God🎼🎶
Let us begin to worship the most High God. He is the only God that has the power over every other god. That is our God. We are made for His pleasure. We have come to meet with Him in this Convention, we have not come to meet man, but with the Most High. Let’s give Him praise, He deserves all the glory.
Worship Him with all your mind, with all your heart and with all your soul. Let Him hear your voice. Church Gist. Tell Him what He means to you. He is the Most High. He is greater than the greatest; glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, always doing wonders. The God that is the God of our salvation. Our Healer, our Provider, our Sustainer.
Let’s worship Him and give Him His name. Who is He to you? He is more than enough. He is the Lord of all abundance; in Him we live, we move and we have our being. He has no comparison; from everlasting to everlasting, He is God. He changeth not.
Our Father and our God, the lover of our soul, the Lord of the Church. We worship You, we bow our horns before You. We lift You high. We magnify Your name for whom You are. Our Creator, our Sustainer, our Father, our King, our Maker. There is no one like You in our lives. Church Gist. You are for us, 24 hours of the day. You have promised, You will not leave us, You will not forsake us. We are very grateful to belong to You. That we are made in Your likeness and image, is enough to celebrate and to celebrate You in our lives. You are a wonderful Daddy. Be thou exalted in the mighty name of Jesus.
Thank You for the past years of the Convention, thank You for this year’s Convention, thank You because You did not allow anything to block our ways. We are grateful to You Jehovah, that You make everything beautiful in Your own time.
We are all here again to worship our God. Father, thank You in the mighty name of Jesus.
Father Lord, this is another session before You today, we ask You that You will come down in Your power, You will come down in Your might and bless all of us, Your hand maiden. That in this meeting, our New Beginning will start instantly. Church Gist. We will hear Your word and we shall hearken diligently and it will do us good and by the time we get home, we will be basking in New Beginnings of joy; peace, healings, breakthrough, greater works, in the mighty name of Jesus.
So shall it be, blessed be Your name forever. In Jesus mighty name we have prayed.
Let the living shout a bigger hallelujah!
I want you to wave to your neighbor right and left and say, welcome to New Beginning.
I bring greetings from Nigeria to all of you. The women in Nigeria are basking in the New Wave Of Glory and God has been faithful to us. In the last Convention, as usual, which has just been concluded in about two weeks ago, we had a very powerful meeting and women of course, we are always in greater numbers in any congregation and we believe in Heaven, our numbers shall be more than that of the men. If you believe, shout Hallelujah!
I want to salute all our leadership, most especially the wife of our Chairman, Pastor Mrs Manita Fadel , we want to say thank you for your role that you are playing among the women in North America, all the leaders from Canada and the Countries that are here with us and I also want to salute all our leaders, the women, Regional Pastors, Provincial Pastors, Parish Pastors in all our midst and I pray that the Lord that has called you will continue to work with you and your impact will be made in the Church in the name of Jesus.
At this point in time, I want to salute all the women of New Beginning, if you are here, shout hallelujah! It is a good thing to be in the presence of the Most High.
The Convention theme should gladdens the heart of everyone who knows that she has a God who will never fail and that is the God we are serving and in this meeting, we are going to be talking about:
THE CHRISTIAN WOMEN AND THE NEW BEGINNING
We will begin to define terms about new and beginning. I don’t think I should be talking about Christian woman. Church Gist. The Christian woman is a woman who has accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as her Lord and Saviour and she knows that she is going to Heaven. Is there anyone like that in the house today? If you are here, shout Hallelujah.
So we welcome you.
When it comes to new; new is something that has never been in use before. It is recent, it is original, it has not existed before and when we talk about beginning, we all know the meaning of beginning; it is a starting point and for God to give us this theme this year, I think we should jubilate over it. Because no matter your past, what you have had in the past, if you have anything new; anybody who has a good thought should jubilate over anything that is new.
When you move from an old house to a new house, you jubilate. When you have a new child, you jubilate. So when God says He is giving us a new beginning, I think we need to rise up and jubilate with our clap offering. Rise up and jubilate and say to your neighbor, welcome to a New Beginning.
Thank you, kindly be seated.
In this meeting, we are going to have three parts. I am going to have my case study, using the life of Ruth and my Text is in the book of Isaiah 43 and I am reading verse 7, 19 and 22.
If all these three passages I have read is referring to you, tell your neighbor, it is me.
Brethren, when God is giving an assurance again that He has formed us, the God of Heaven; yes, He is making a profound statement here, in that verse 7; ” Even every one that is called by my name: for I have created him for my glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him”.
Brethren, this is a profound statement from God. So, having a knowing that God himself is the One who has made us, He has promised to give us a new beginning and we here for the Convention, where He has gathered us from various Nations, to come and worship Him and we should know that He has something for us. Church Gist. So, there is no way we can treat our New Beginning without taking the source from our Source. Our new beginning comes from Him, He has made a profound statement, the theme of the Convention was chosen by Him, then we should go back to the drawing board.
So, my part 1 will be:
GOING BACK TO MY SOURCE.
In our new beginning, we have to go back to our source because the Bible tells us that, our God is the same yesterday, today and forever. He has not changed.
a). We have to make a strong decision, that this new beginning will stay with me. No more fooling around, it must stay with me. I am not going to fool around again. I am going to stay in my new beginning and when we look at the book of Ruth 1:16-18. Ruth herself was the one who made the pronouncement, she told her mother-in-law; “in my new beginning, even though I am now a widow but I believe that I have a new beginning. I am going to stay with your God, Your God will be my God. Church Gist. I have no where to go, no more going back. The sin of the past has passed, now I have a new beginning”.
Brethren, this is a Convention of decision making. Are you staying with God or you still want to fool around, you still want to go and search for power from where there is no power, you still want to go and meet with other gods, you still want to go and follow other decisions of other men? Why don’t you make the decision now as Ruth did. She made her own decision. She said, the God of Naomi will be her God. The Bible says, “I will be your God and you will be my people” and in our text, the Bible says, you are my people that I’ve formed by myself and He said, He will make us.
No matter your standard now, no matter where you are now, either you are wretched or rich, there is still room for a great make from the Lord Almighty and I pray, you will not miss your chance. Church Gist. You will make up your mind that you will follow this God to the end, in the mighty name of Jesus.
b). We shall remain obedient. You don’t serve God and disobey. We shall remain obedient unto Him because that is what God wants. That’s why He made the ten commandments and the Bible tells us, even in Deuteronomy 28, which is a very beautiful passage everybody wants to read, verse 1-3, the rest of it, they don’t want to read it. But from verse 1, “And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth:
The Yoruba version, it has a deeper meaning;
“bi eyin ba farabalẹ gbọ́ ohùn OLUWA Ọlọrun yin”, (if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God). All the garagara we have been doing about, when our God is close to us, we don’t need to be running up and down. We don’t need to call for any other help somewhere else, when you have your God.
In our new beginning, this is the time to make the decision; “I will begin to hearken diligently”. Over the years, we have been listening to the television, the social media and all the things we have been listening to, they have not added any value to your life. You have been fighting like a warrior in the house; with your husband, with your boss, all kinds of things that you have been doing in the past and yet, you have not had anything good to report. There is a new beginning.
Farabalẹ (hearken diligently), gbọ́ ohùn OLUWA Ọlọrun re (God is speaking out to you). Hearken diligently to the commandment. So, in our new beginning, God wants us to obey His commandment. All the disobedience of the past, you must say bye-bye to them. Church Gist. And the Bible tells us that the laws of the Lord are not grievous, but many of us, we thought, oh, “how can God do this, how can God say this, it is not possible”. Haha, with God all things are possible. If He says it, there must be an action, there must be a manifestation.
Brethren, hearken diligently, listen to God. In this Convention, before you go, God will speak to you. Obey His commandment, obedience is required in our new beginning.
c). We have to be prayerful. You have to consult the one who is going to guide you in the new beginning. You don’t have to be going anywhere and be looking for another mountain to go to, you are in the presence of the living God in this Convention. The God of Hannah is in the house, if He heard the voice of Hannah in the Shiloh of those days, He will hear your cry too.
Make sure you have an encounter with Him before you go.
The Bible tells us in Psalm 37:5, that we should commit our ways unto the Lord, He will bring it to come to pass. This is a new beginning. Probably you are saying; “what about the ones I have been doing in the past, if you have been doing it in the past, maybe there is a problem that is blocking the answer to you. In this Convention, that problem will be removed and you will receive express answers in the name of Jesus.
What is the first thing you should do, since we have to go to the drawing board, back to our Maker, the One who said He will give us the new beginning:
i). We should serve God without any reservation. Serve God with all your heart. There is a good example in the Old Testament about Papa Caleb, 12 spies were chosen to go Jericho, only two came back with two reports and Caleb told them, let us go up at once. They said, no, they can’t conquer. By the time they knew it, the second day, they were now saying, “we want to go now”. God said it is too late. Those who said it cannot be done, they were all killed.
- I pray in this meeting, you will receive life. Death will not be your portion. Anything that will bring death to your home, to your life in this Convention, God will remove them.
At the end of the day, Caleb was rewarded. When Joshua was old and he has to divide the land, Caleb said, “Joshua my friend, don’t forget, we went together and we came back to give positive reports, where is my own portion of the land”? And the Lord intervened and said, give him his own portion because he has served me wholly.
Brethren, some of us, we are in this Convention, even as we are seated now, our minds are not totally here. Why don’t you leave the cares of life apart and let’s face this our God. The Yoruba adage says, the one who made one, knows how to settle one. If God has made us, as we have already read in Isaiah 43, He will settle us. Bring your mind back to Him. Serve Him wholeheartedly, no more you will go to Church today, next week you are not coming. You will give your tithe today, next month you don’t give your tithe. You will obey His commandment today because you have food in the house, next week you are not obeying His will. We have to serve Him; When it is convenient and when it is not convenient and God will reward us mightily in Jesus name.
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