ANYBODY CAN CELEBRATE AFTER A MIRACLE BUT IT TAKES THE PUREST KIND OF FAITH TO PRAISE GOD BEFORE YOU SEE THE MIRACLE
JESUS CHRIST CELEBRATED BEFORE HIS BREAKTHROUGH CAME WHEN HE PARTOOK OF THE COMMUNION
THE HOLY COMMUNION IS A CELEBRATION MEAL
THE GREATEST OF ALL BREAKTHROUGHS IS THAT OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST – THE BREAKTHROUGH AT THE CROSS
I ENCOURAGE YOU TO CELEBRATE; IF NOBODY CELEBRATES YOU, CELEBRATE YOURSELF
THE HOLY COMMUNION IS NOT AN ORDINARY MEAL. DO NOT PARTAKE OF IT IF YOU ARE NOT A CHILD OF GOD
THE ANOINTING IS TO SEAL YOUR BREAKTHROUGHS AGAINST THEFT
– Pastor E. A. Adeboye at the HOLY COMMUNION SERVICE || RCCG MARCH 2023 COMMUNION SERVICE || 4th March, 2023
Let someone shout halleluyah!
1 Corinthians 11:23-26. One of my boys speaking on Thursday said that the greatest of all breakthroughs was the one that the Lord Jesus Christ had. I said, oh boy, how right you are! But for Jesus Christ, there will be no salvation. Church Gist. Without him, we can’t even be talking about healing, deliverance, heavenly prosperity. Without him, we can’t even be talking about hope of glory, getting out of this world soon to go and reign forever with the Almighty God. I think somebody should shout halleluyah!
One very interesting thing about the breakthrough of the Almighty God is this: anybody can praise God and celebrate after a victory / breakthrough. I am going to encourage everyone of us after this Special Holy Ghost Service that you go home and celebrate because without any doubt, you have something to celebrate about. Church Gist. Like I told us on the first Sunday of this year, if nobody celebrates you, celebrate yourself. They may not know what you know or see what is about to begin to happen in your life. So just celebrate yourself!
Get home and celebrate! Like I said in January, even if it is bole, celebrate yourself. Anybody can celebrate after a breakthrough or miracle. It takes the purest kind of faith to praise God before you see the miracle. It was great faith that caused Joshua and Israel to shout before the wall fell. Church Gist. The greatest lesson to learn from the breakthroughs of our Lord Jesus Christ is that he celebrated before the breakthrough came. The Bible says the very night before he was betrayed, because his own breakthrough came at the cross. Many of us think the breakthrough came on the resurrection morning – mm mmm! (No!). If he had not died on the cross there will be nothing to resurrect. It was on the cross when he died that he got his breakthrough.
When you read Philippians 2:5-11, the Bible made it clear that it was after he became obedient unto death that the father picked him up from there and highly exalted him and gave him a name that is above every other name. It was at the cross that he defeated satan. Hebrews 2:14. It was through death that he defeated the one who had the power of death – that’s satan. Church Gist. It was when he died that according to Colossians 2:13-15, he spoilt all principalities and powers making a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it. When he died and he went to the place of death, the devil and demons were rejoicing. They thought at long last, we got him but it was down there that he grabbed the keys of hell and of death from satan. It was from there that he erupted like a volcano. He came and said, “Now, all those who believe in me will live forever.”
It was because he died that he could now say, “by my stripes, you were healed.” It was because he died and shed his blood that we can now say, “we overcome the devil by the blood of the lamb.” It was because he died that today he is seated far above all principalities that he can now say, ‘all evil forces are under my feet.’ Church Gist. And because we are part and parcel of him, if all the principalities and powers are under his feet, they are under our feet also. If you pay attention to the text we read, it says as often as you do this, you are practically celebrating the death of our Lord Jesus Christ till he comes. It didn’t say you are celebrating the Lord’s resurrection. The resurrection follows after the death.
So whenever you come to the Holy Communion Service, Jesus Christ is simply saying, “I have gotten the greatest of all breakthroughs. Come and celebrate with me.” He is simply saying, the evidence of my unique breakthrough is that my body was broken and my blood was shed. So he says, come, take, eat, this is my body broken for you. Church Gist. Do this in remembrance of my breakthrough. Take, drink, this is my blood shed for you. Do this in remembrance of me. So the Holy Communion Service is a celebration meal. A meal of rejoicing, victory, triumph. So we are gathered together tonight to celebrate not just our own breakthroughs but the greatest breakthrough of all – that of our master.
One of these days I will show you step by step that the very first Holy Communion Service that happened in Egypt when the children of Israel had their own major breakthrough, it was not a meal of sorrow. If somebody tells you that your problems of 430 years will be over tonight, you will not be sad. Church Gist. When the children of Israel knew that by the time they finished a particular meal, there will be no more bondage, nobody beating them without anybody stopping those people, there will be no more labouring without pay, there will be no more feeble ones among them, that before that night is out they will take the salaries that the Egyptians owed their forefathers for more than 400 years. It was not a meal of sorrow.
So tonight, we want to celebrate our breakthroughs and that of our Lord Jesus Christ. Nobody is allowed to be sorrowful tonight. Church Gist. Tonight is to be a night of extreme rejoicing. A night of singing, jumping, clapping, shouting. Then you say, Daddy, we got that one. Why the anointing service?
Oh, very simple. Ephesians 4:30. The anointing service of tonight is to seal your breakthroughs so that nobody can ever steal them from you. I come in the name of Almighty God to tell you, the blessings of this weekend, they’re going to last you forever. Church Gist. So that calls for double celebration or shall I call it triple celebrations:
1. You’re celebrating the breakthroughs of the Lord Jesus Christ
2. You’re celebrating your own breakthroughs
3. You’re celebrating the fact that the Holy Spirit is going to seal your breakthroughs
That is why every time I have the opportunity to serve you through the Holy Communion, I have warned you: this is not an ordinary meal. Don’t partake of this meal if you’re not a child of God. He shed his blood for your salvation. Church Gist. He was bruised for your iniquities. It is by his stripes you’re healed. All these are for those who have been washed in the blood of the lamb. Just in case there’s any person still not yet saved, please run forward.
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