WHEN IT’S TIME TO GO TO HEAVEN, I WILL GO TO CHURCH ON SUNDAY, DANCE, REJOICE, COME HOME, EAT POUNDED YAM AND GO – NO SICKNESS AT ALL.
BY GOD’S GRACE I’VE BEEN A REGULAR VISITOR TO PRISONS NOT AS AN INMATE BUT AS A PASTOR SINCE 1975.
JESUS TOOK FORTY STRIPES, ONE STRIPE FOR EACH THIRTY-NINE CATEGORIES OF SICKNESS AND DISEASE AND ONE EXTRA BECAUSE OF THOSE THAT ARE UNKNOWN.
WHEN GOD DECIDES TO MAKE YOU WHOLE, HE SEES TO IT THAT THERE BE NO LEFTOVERS.
WHEN GOD SAID YOU SHOULD LAY HANDS ON THE SICK YOUR OWN IS TO LAY HANDS, HIS OWN IS TO MAKE THEM RECOVER
IF YOU ARE SICK, LAY HANDS ON YOURSELF AND YOU WILL RECOVER. IT IS IN LINE WITH THE COMMANDMENT TO LAY HANDS
A VERY TERRIBLE GROWTH IN MY EAR DISAPPEARED AS I REFUSED IT!
WHATEVER YOU ALLOW ON EARTH WILL BE ALLOWED IN HEAVEN; WHATEVER YOU DISALLOW ON EARTH WILL BE DISALLOWED IN HEAVEN
THE ALMIGHTY GOD CAN SO LOAD YOU WITH ANOINTING THAT YOUR SWEAT WILL BE HEALING THE SICK
THE ONE WHOSE SWEAT WILL HEAL MUST BE WILLING TO SPEND AND BE SPENT FOR GOD
-Pastor E.A. Adeboye on BEYOND HEALING at RCCG HOLY GHOST CONVENTION 2023 || Day 3 Evening Session || “Beyond Expectations” || 9th August 2023.
Thank you, Father! I have a feeling that something great is about to happen tonight! Because I will be speaking to you for a few minutes so that you can have time to pray. On the topic: ‘BEYOND HEALING’. The Text will be 1 Peter 2:24. Immediately you are saved, you have access to divine healing. The day Jesus Christ hung on that cross, shed His blood for you, cried, ‘It is finished’, your healing was purchased. Church Gist. The Bible says: ‘By His stripes, you were healed’! You don’t need to beat a man that you need to crucify, they knew they were going to nail Him to the cross, they were going to kill Him so why did they still beat Him? With forty stripes! I know a little of what goes on in the prisons – By God’s grace I’ve been a regular visitor to prisons not as an inmate but as a Pastor since 1975 and I know that in all the civilized countries in the world, when a man is about to be executed tomorrow, they will ask him today, what kind of food will you like to eat? He will choose his last meal. Occasionally, they may even ask: ‘Do you want to watch a film’? Because they know he is going! So they treat him with some shall we call it, ‘Last respect’. So they knew they were going to crucify Jesus, they knew it and yet they beat Him.
Because He died on the cross, the shedding of the blood on the cross was to buy you Salvation with all the benefits that I told you yesterday. But they beat Him, it’s for your healing! ‘By His stripes, ye were healed’! I think I’ve told you before several years ago, I say I’m sad that I didn’t keep that magazine that one great scientist said that all the sicknesses and diseases would be classified into 39 categories. And so the Lord Jesus took forty stripes, one stripe for each category of sickness and disease. And then He took one extra because He knew that the 39 categories were those that were known then. At the time they were classifying those diseases, Coronavirus had not yet come but Jesus knew that there are sicknesses and diseases, the type the world has never seen before that are still hiding somewhere so He took the 40th stripe to be ready for them – ‘By His stripes you were healed’. Church Gist. So that you are going to be healed tonight is not the discussion, the discussion is something greater, something beyond! Oh! The Lord Jesus can heal you by any method He chooses, He can repair Mark 3:1-5, He can replace any part of the body that is not functioning well Mark 8:22-25 or Jesus can completely recreate, give you a brand new part John 9:1-7. But there is something beyond healing, something called wholeness because it is possible for you to go to the hospital with a headache and then they give you somethings and the headache disappears but the doctor might not know that apart from the headache, you also have stomach disorder so when you are made whole, everything, every form of sickness disappears.
-And in the name that is above every name, somebody is going home tonight whole!
At times, you get healed but there are some little little left behinds but when God decides to make you whole, He sees to it that there be no leftovers 2 Kings 5:1-14 – When God healed Naaman He gave him skin like of a brand new baby – Total healing, no scars left behind! Church Gist. It is called wholeness!
-God is going to heal somebody tonight and there will be no sign you have ever been sick!
And then beyond wholeness, there is living a life with an assurance that you will never be sick again. In Exodus 15:26, God made a promise that if you will obey Him, obey all His commandments, He said He will make sure that no sickness will come near you at all. He said He will become your personal Physician. Church Gist. Years ago when I was sharing this with some of my children, one of them asked: ‘If I will never be sick again, how will I die and go to Heaven’? You don’t have to be sick to go to Heaven. There are some of us here like I’ve always told you, when it’s time to go, we will go to Church on Sunday, dance, rejoice, come home, eat pounded yam and go – No sickness at all. That’s what I require for you! But then, there is still something beyond that and that is the ability to carry the healing virtue in yourself that anybody who touches you or you touch, will receive an overflow of healing, of health, from you to them.
-I’m believing God that tonight, someone will begin to lay hands on the sick and they recover!
Acts 3:1-8. Thank God for one of the testimonies we had tonight of a child that couldn’t walk, talk nor do anything and then God moved in. Church Gist. The boy is now jumping, singing, dancing, doing everything.
– Everything you have not been able to be doing before you will be doing tonight!
But there’s something beyond that: the Almighty God can so load you with anointing that your sweat will be healing the sick. Acts 19:11-12. Years ago, some young brothers went to the Riverine area to go and evangelize. So they were staying in a classroom and because they were in the Riverine area there were many mosquitoes. Church Gist. So as they were sleeping, mosquitoes were paying them courtesy call so everybody was slapping to get rid of mosquitoes. But there was this boy who was just cool and the others said, “ah brother, the mosquitoes are not troubling you?” He said, they dare not. What are you talking about? He stretched out his bare hand and the mosquitoes came quickly, bombarded the hand. But as people watched, the mosquitoes fell down dead one by one.
– That anointing that will kill any virus that comes near you instantly, receive it tonight in Jesus’ name
But there’s still something beyond that: the Almighty God can so anoint you that your shadow, not you nor your handkerchief, your shadow will be healing the sick. Acts 5:14-16. When we were in the very first auditorium having a Convention like this and God spoke to me and said there were some people who had severe back pains so bad that for a long time they were not able to bend down to touch their toes. He asked me to call them forward that he wanted to heal them and I was glad. I called them forward and I was expecting that God will say, lay hands on them or slap their back, no, he said I should dance round them. Church Gist. Because I know his voice, I did what he asked me to do. It looks stupid – why will I be dancing round the people? I am dancing because your back is aching? But after some 5 minutes of dancing, he asked me to tell them to go ahead and touch their toes – and they were all healed. I am not going to dance round you tonight – you are too many to dance round – but in the name that is above every other name, even as I wave my hand receive your healing! That’s part 1
Let’s go to part 2 and apply what we have just learnt because we are serving a God who is more than sufficient.
1. Matthew 18:18. In plain man language that is saying whatever you allow on Earth will be allowed in Heaven; whatever you disallow on Earth will be disallowed in Heaven. Church Gist. When you want to pray, you will disallow certain things.
An illustration: about 40 years ago, I suddenly discovered I was losing my hearing. I called one of my daughters, a medical doctor. “Please look into my ears – what’s going on?” She pointed some kind of light and said, “Oh God!” If your doctor says, oh God, you know that’s trouble. “Daddy, there’s a growth in your ear and it looks very terrible; we have to do something about it very very soon. It is in a delicate place but we have to operate.” I smiled. Church Gist. She said, Daddy this is not a joking matter. I said, easy my dear; give me 7 days. On the 7th day, come back. If the growth is still there then you can do what you need to do. Because I refused, I disallowed growth in my ear. She came back 7 days later, pointed her light again and said, Oh God! What is the ‘Oh God’ now? The growth has disappeared! How many of you will refuse sickness, disease, anything that is ugly? Say Amen.
2. Mark 16:17-18. When he says you will lay hands on the sick:
a. He didn’t say you are the one who will make them recover. Your own is to lay hands.
b. He didn’t say you lay hands on so and so and so. He just said lay hands on the sick. Which means, if the sick is yourself and you lay hands on yourself, what’s going to happen to you? You will recover. I told you the first time I travelled to Zambia – 1993 I think and I ate something that I wasn’t accustomed to. Then through the night I began to stool. Church Gist. I can’t remember how many times but it was around 23rd or 24th time that I went to the toilet that I suddenly realized God said you lay hands on the sick. I am the one sick now but I laid hands on my head, “Adeboye in the name of Jesus Christ I command, be healed!” The stooling stopped. So somewhere along the line tonight, you are going to lay hands on yourself and command healing to your body.
3. In Psalm 107:20, ‘He sent His Word and healed them and delivered them from their destruction’. The body heard the Word and the body was healed. Church Gist. So somewhere along the line tonight, you are going to speak to your body, you are going to tell your body, ‘Body, hear the Word of the Lord’ and your body must obey God you know? And so your body will be saying: ‘Wetin to hear’? What is the Word of the Lord you are asking me to hear? Then you will tell your body that it is written in Matthew 15:13, ‘Every plant that My Father has not planted shall be rooted up’! You are going to be speaking to your own body, ‘Body, hear the Word of the Lord! Everything in you that was not put there by my God must come out tonight! Church Gist. And then somewhere along the line tonight we are going to apply Matthew 18:19, the Lord Jesus promised that if two of you shall agree as touching anything you ask…’ So somewhere along the line, we will soon get there! You are going to get a partner, you are going to hold that partner and tell the Almighty God: ‘I agree with my brother and sister for complete healing tonight’. And then like I used to say, we shall see what we shall see. However, because like I told you yesterday, nothing goes for nothing! Some of you will say, ‘I have laid hands before and there was nothing, I have spoken to my body before it didn’t respond etcetera etcetera.
What’s the secret? What’s the fine print? What must we know before we begin to pray? The one who will be healed must be prepared to testify. Thank God for the choir, they were brilliant again tonight as usual. And one of the songs they rendered said: ‘I will testify’! When they were saying that, I knew they were talking about me. How many people will testify tonight? Because when you look at Mark 1:40-45, the Bible tells us that Jesus cured an incurable fellow, he was a leper and the Lord told him: ‘Okay! I’ve healed you now, go home keep your mouth shut’. Church Gist. And he said: ‘Ha! Keep my mouth shut’? He told everybody. The Bible says the next time Jesus came to town, because of the testimony of one man, Jesus could no more walk freely because he kept on telling them: ‘He healed me, I was a leper! He made me whole’! There are many of us here who had been healed before we didn’t testify that’s why we lost healing.
There are some of us, God would have healed you but He knows you, He knows you won’t talk! There are some of us who have been born again, only God knows for how many years even in our place of work they don’t know because we won’t testify. The one who is going to move from healing to wholeness must be someone who would come back to say: ‘Thank You to God’. Church Gist. In Luke 17:11-19, Jesus cleanses ten lepers; only one came back to say, ‘Thank You’. It is to that one that Jesus Christ said: ‘Alright, move from healing to wholeness’. The one whose touch will begin to make the lame walk Acts 3:1-8 (That we mentioned Peter) will be the one who will stand out as a testifier. Because on the day of Pentecost Acts 2:1-41, when the Holy Spirit came and every disciple was speaking in tongues (And ‘tongues’ is very important – I don’t know whether God will allow us to even do something about that during the Convention).
But where everybody was enjoying tongues, Peter stood up and preached, he stood out. One of my Pastors has a nickname given to him by his peers, you know the name they call him? ‘Mr. Testimony’. Because anytime we had a meeting, anytime! ‘Daddy! I have a testimony’!! Anytime! So finally his colleagues began to call him Mr. Testimony, what a good name! The one whose sweat, whose handkerchiefs and aprons will begin to heal the sick as Apostle Paul. He’s the one who said in 2 Corinthians 12:15, ‘I will gladly spend and be spent for God…’ I thank God that God has used me in the area of waving my hand and handkerchiefs become anointed and you return with testimonies but I’m telling you when there is work to be done for God as much as it is possible I won’t allow you to do my own.
Some years ago we were building a little Church in Ilesha and everybody was carrying head pan and so on and I was carrying my own. I was a lecturer in the University of Lagos, somebody came and saw me, “ah! Oga, how can you be carrying head pan?” I said, go and get your own head pan. I might be an important man as a lecturer, I am nothing without God but with him, I am everything. Church Gist. The Bible says I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. The one whose sweat will heal must be willing to spend and be spent for God. The one whose shadow is going to heal like in the case of Peter, Luke 5:1-11, there are certain things that God will only give to those people who are 100 per cent committed to him. Church Gist. There were many sons of the prophet; only Elisha got the double portion because he followed his master all the way.
Finally, the one who is going to get beyond healing must be somebody with the faith of a child. In Mathematics we have what we call, set of numbers. Don’t worry I am not about to teach you Ph.D Mathematics stuff. But whenever a number can be divided by 2 what do we call that number? Even number! Church Gist. Whenever a number cannot be divided by 2 what do we call it? Odd number. In the spiritual realm, we have a set called the set of the Almighty. The first person in that set is God. Luke 1:37. The second fellow in that set according to Mark 9:23 is the one who believes. Child like faith is required if you are to belong to the set of the Almighty. The one who can say, “My body I command you, hear the Word of the Lord.” Faith like a baby, you are going to need that tonight.
In conclusion, many times I have prayed for someone with all the faith like an mustard. I’ve fasted, done vigils and I don’t get the results I want. Many at times I run to my father, “ah ah Daddy, if I don’t know anything at all I know you love me. I know there is nothing you cannot do. Church Gist. You have proved that to me again and again. What is going on?” Many times God will say to me, “Son, you don’t know the story. The one you are praying for has not told you all the story.” I’ll give you an illustration:
There was this woman who was sick and we prayed all manners of prayers – intercession, supplication, all manner and she didn’t get well. When I complained God said, ask her now, tell her to tell you the whole story. Woman tell me the whole story please. Church Gist. She said, “Well, I happen to be the second wife of my husband and the first wife had given him some boys before she left. I think she died. Then I came in and saw that with the boys ahead whatever children I have, they are not going to be prominent. So I killed the boys.” I said alright, the blood of Jesus cleanses from all sins. The only thing I believe that you need to do now is: let’s settle this matter with your husband so you restitute. Church Gist. She said, “stop praying for my healing because I can manage the sickness. The day I tell that man that this is what happened, that day I die.”
God is here tonight and he is about to heal; don’t hide anything that can stand between you and your Miracle.
Mark 2:1-12. I thought he will just say, Son Be healed. Church Gist. No, he said we have to get sin out of the way for the power of the Almighty God to be able to do his work.
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