POSITION MATTERS A LOT. THE HEAD IS BETTER THAN THE TAIL
IF YOU ARE GENUINELY SAVED, YOU WILL WANT TO BE IN THE COMPANY OF THOSE WHO ARE SAVED
IT TAKES GOD TO REPOSITION SOMEBODY
GOD WANTS TO REPOSITION YOU NOW BECAUSE HE HAS DECIDED TO DO A NEW THING – IT IS IN THE TIME OF HARDSHIP THAT GOD LIKES TO PROVE HIMSELF
GOD IS REPOSITIONING YOU NOW BECAUSE YOUR MIRACLES CAN NO LONGER WAIT – HELP IS COMING RAPIDLY
IT DOESN’T MATTER HOW GREAT YOU THINK YOU ARE, GOD CAN TAKE YOU HIGHER STILL
GOD CHOOSES PEOPLE TO REPOSITION BECAUSE OF THE INTENT OF THE HEART AND REWARDS THOSE WHO DILIGENTLY SEEK HIM
GOD WILL REPOSITION YOU BECAUSE HE KNOWS YOUR HEART AND KNOWS YOU ARE DETERMINED TO SERVE HIM
GOD IS NOT GOING TO REPOSITION A LAZY FELLOW, HE WILL REMAIN LAZY
– Pastor E. A. Adeboye on “DIVINE REPOSITIONING” || RCCG HOLY GHOST CONGRESS 2023 || Divine Repositioning || Day 5 Evening Service || 8th December, 2023 ||
Our ministration this evening will be in 3 small parts. One, we will be talking about Divine Repositioning, this will lead us to a period of prayers and after that there will be a brief talk that will lead us to Holy Communion Service and after that, a brief talk that will lead us to Anointing Service. After that we will give you an opportunity to ask God for a Christmas present.
1 Samuel 2:7-8. Position matters a lot. The head is better than the tail. Deuteronomy 28:13. Position matters. How important is it to be head? You understand that by the fact that when they want your picture for your passport, all they want to see is the picture of your head. Church Gist. They don’t bother about the rest of the body. That tells you how important the head is.
– I am decreeing to everyone of you here today, young and old, in the name that is above every other name, you shall be head!
To be first is better than to be last. When the President is passing through, there’s never anything called traffic jam. The road will be clear. If a messenger is passing by, the story can be different. Church Gist. Genesis 41:1-43. It tells us the story of how Joseph, over night was repositioned and he became prime minister.
– As the One who sent me is alive, from now on when you travel, angels will clear the way for you!
On the other hand, if you are an ordinary servant, if instead of being the head you’re the tail, you can even do something that is right and be punished for it. Joseph was just a slave, what he did was right but the Wife of the Master lied against him. Who is the Master going to believe? His wife or the ordinary slave? That’s why the fellow who was below ended up in prison. Church Gist. From tonight onwards, your position will be the One that the Almighty God will give unto you! To let you know how important position is, Amos 3:3, birds of the same feather flock together. When the incurable is cured, the one who has been cured will leave the Company of the incurable – John 5:1-14.
– In the name that is above every other name, I am talking by the power of God, someone here will never sleep in an hospital bed again!
Position matters. If someone is mad, he’s not likely to stay in the company of those who are sane. If he’s truly mad they will probably send him to an asylum. But when the Captive is set free, he will return to a different category of people. Daniel 4:1-end. When Nebuchadnezzar became mad, nobody told him to go and join the animals, he went voluntarily. But when God had mercy on him and his senses were restored, he returned back to the Palace because position matters. When a sinner is truly saved, if you’re genuinely saved, you will want to be in the Company of those who are saved. Church Gist. Acts 9:1-30. When Saul of Tarsus got saved, he looked for someone who will help him to join the company of Christians. The Bible says if you’re truly born again, you cannot be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. Why? Because position matters.
Now, it takes God to reposition somebody. We have dealt with many of these cases from Monday. It takes God to take you from the miry clay and put you on the Rock to stay. It takes the Almighty God to reposition you from the valley of sorrow to the mountain top of praises. Church Gist. We told you the story of Luke 7:11-15, the widow of Nain was in the very valley of sorrow and God intervened and moved her to someone who could wear the garment of praise for the rest of her life.
– in the name that is above every other name, there’s somebody here who will never know sorrow again!
It takes God to take the barren and reposition her to a level where she will have many children. 1 Samuel 2:21. I thank God for all the testimonies of children born miraculously, thank God for twins and triplets, by this time next year in the mighty name of Jesus, there will be many more twins and triplets. Church Gist. It takes God to reposition you from being the One who is pursued to become the one who is pursuing your pursuers. It takes God to reposition you from total failure to super success. Acts 5:14-16. At the beginning Peter was a total failure, he was a man who fished all night and caught nothing but God repositioned him, he became the talk of the Town.
Now, how does God do repositioning? How come God can reposition anybody? As we learnt on Wednesday, (I thank God for the testimonies coming all over the world) Jeremiah 32:27…
The Lord asked me to tell you a story and then give you a word for it. Several years ago, I travelled to Seoul Korea to attend a Ministers’ Conference. I was about to sleep at night in the Hotel and there was a phone call, “is that Pastor Adeboye? Church Gist. We have found your passport.” I didn’t know my passport was missing. Then I quickly checked and I found out, hey! The Lord asked me to tell somebody, “your miracle will arrive before you need it.”
Jeremiah 32:27; Psalm 115:3 – God is sovereign. You know, He told us on Wednesday, “I will heal, who can stop me?” God is the original majesty and He is going to reposition someone today, whether your enemy likes it or not. He is also the Lord of Hosts – there is no force anywhere that can stop him. That’s why in the text that we read at the beginning in 1 Samuel 2:7-8, he can raise up one and bring down another. Church Gist. He can pick up a beggar from the dunghill and keep on raising him until he begins to sit among princes. That’s why he is the one who can reposition. So the question now that came to my mind when he gave me the theme for this Year’s Congress, the question I asked, I said, “Daddy you don’t have to answer me, you know you’re my Daddy and I’m your favourite son. Why now? Why is it now you want to reposition some people?” My Father answered and said:
1. I have decided to do a new thing. You know the meaning of that? Your life is about to take a new turn. Isaiah 43:19. You know it is in the time of hardship that’s when God likes to prove himself. I rejoice with those of you who are true children of God. As God lives, you will soon be rejoicing. Church Gist. Another question that you may want to ask because when God is talking of repositioning, first as soon as I heard it I said, I hope I am included.
2. He also said he is doing it now because there are some people whose miracles can no longer wait. A day too late, it will be too late. You know the story of the widow of Zarephath – 1 Kings 17:8-16. If help had not come at that crucial moment, it would have been too late. That’s why I rejoiced when I heard God say that help is coming rapidly towards somebody. Church Gist. The Almighty God wants me to tell someone here tonight, concerning the miracle you’re waiting for, no more waiting.
So we come to the question, “who needs repositioning?” No matter where you are, God can take you higher still. You remember story of David? He was a shepherd boy, God repositioned him and he was anointed king before his brethren. Then he was repositioned to the Cave of Adullam and a lot of people in distress gathered themselves together to him. The Bible says, he became Captain. Church Gist. Then he was repositioned higher and he became the King of Judah and he was repositioned higher and he became the King of Israel. He was repositioned higher and became the Father of the King of Kings. So, it doesn’t matter how great you think you are, God can take you higher still. By the time I see you in January you will not be where you are now.
You can go from sick to healed; healed to whole; from whole to a healing vessel – healing others. You can move from somebody who heals by touching and move on to a level where your handkerchiefs will do the healing. You can go from that even to a stage where your shadow will be healing the sick. Church Gist. You can move from destitute to comfortable. You can move from comfortable to rich. You can move from rich to wealthy. You can move from wealthy to prosperous. You can move from prosperous to flourishing.
– In the name that is above every other name, no matter how high you are today, God will reposition you higher!
What will God require of me to be repositioned tonight?
God is sovereign, he does as he pleases but he is not arbitrary. Everything he does, he does for a reason. He looks at the heart. He knows your heart. Genesis 12:1-3. What has Abraham done? Why did God just pick him out of the crowd to reposition him? God knew, the God who knows the end from the beginning, that one day when I ask this same Abram to give me a son, Isaac, the only son that he loves, he will not deny me. Church Gist. God knew in advance that Abraham is going to be his friend. He knows you, he knows that if he prospers you, you will serve him with the money. Is that correct? He knows that if he promotes you, when you get to the position, you wont forget him. He knows your heart, he knows tomorrow from even yesterday. When he decided to relocate or change the position of David, he said, “I have found a man who will do my will. Acts 13:21-22. God knows who will be grateful after he has been repositioned. He knew what he was doing when he chose Solomon to be King. He knew he will return to say, thank you. Not only does he choose people because of the intent of the Heart, He also rewards those who are diligent. Proverbs 22:29, Hebrews 11:6. Church Gist. He knows your heart, he knows what you will do in the future, he knows you want to serve him, only you don’t have the means and the position and he wants to reposition you.
Of course he answers prayers. Matthew 7:7-8. So somebody is going to ask God tonight, “Father, reposition me and i will show you the kind of good boy, good girl I can be.
Who will He reposition?
The one who has a correct heart, who is determined to serve God. “Lord, reposition me and watch and see.” He is looking for those who will diligently seek him. He’s ready to reposition those who will be hard-working. You know, one of my daughters was sharing a testimony that if you knock at a door many will be open. Church Gist. I am not saying, “thus saith the Lord now” I am just decreeing: because you are here tonight, you too will knock at one door and many doors will be open unto you. But that is going to mean hard work. He is not going to reposition a lazy fellow, the lazy fellow will remain lazy.
A friend of mine was talking the other day. He said there is a saying that power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. He said he doesn’t believe that. He said, what power does is that if you’re already corrupt, power gives you the opportunity to show. You want God to reposition you and place you on a higher level? What are you going to do when you get there? He answers prayers and he honours faith. Church Gist. Mark 9:23. If you believe that God is going to reposition you tonight, he will do it. If you believe that the man talking to you now has not been lying, by the grace of God from all the testimonies, people kept on saying, “Daddy said…” It’s not Daddy saying, it’s Daddy speaking what God has told him. I thank God for the testimony of the man who said, he heard that the blood has stopped. How do I know somebody is bleeding? But God knows and he told me and I passed it through. The same God told me that tonight, he will heal so many it will be difficult to count them. Church Gist. The same God told me that last month, we must pull down all walls, all mountains must come down to prepare the way for tonight. The same God who when He speaks, it’s done is saying tonight, you cry to him in faith, He will reposition you tonight.
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