HOW A MAN DIED FOR NOT BEING IN CHURCH ON SUNDAY MORNING
IT IS VERY DANGEROUS TO BE AT THE WRONG PLACE WHEN YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO BE IN CHURCH
YOUR FOUNDATIONAL PROBLEMS WILL BE DEALT WITH WHEN GOD ARRIVES YOUR HOME
EVERY FOUNDATIONAL PROBLEM IN YOUR FAMILY WILL BE OVER TODAY!
GOD WILL GIVE YOU A VICTORY SO MIGHTY THAT THOSE WHO THOUGHT YOU WILL NEVER BECOME ANYTHING WILL COME AND BEG YOU!
GOD CAN BLESS YOU WHILE YOUR ENEMIES ARE WATCHING BECAUSE HE CAN PARALYZE THEM
GOD WILL VISIT YOU AND CAUSE YOUR ENEMIES TO BECOME YOUR SERVANTS!
WHEN GOD ARRIVES, HE MAKES SURE THAT THERE WILL BE NO MORE LIMITATIONS
– Pastor E. A. Adeboye on “FOR WHOM THE HEAVENS OPEN (Part 12)” || RCCG Online Sunday Service || 23rd April, 2023
Greet one another and say, “God bless you mightily today.”
We will continue with our series. We will be reading just the same text. You must know that there must be something special about this text. Church Gist. That is why we are reading it again and again because it tells you that we are going somewhere; we haven’t arrived there yet. Joshua 5:13-15.
The Elders have a saying, “When a blacksmith is hitting an iron again and again on one spot, it is a sign that there is something very significant that he is trying to say. For the past few weeks I have been speaking again and again about you getting back to Church. Church Gist. It can be a very dangerous thing to be at the wrong place when you’re supposed to be in Church. I don’t know whether you read the news, something that happened sometimes ago. When one young man was speaking to the police, making a confession that was made public. That they went to the house of a man to steal not to kill. They thought he was already gone to Church but he was at home. He surprised them and they were all well known to him. Church Gist. So the only thing they could do to silence him was to kill him. That man died because he was in the wrong place on that Sunday morning. They thought he had gone to Church but he was at home. That is why death met him there.
When I am appealing to you again and again, “go back to Church, be where God expects you to be on Sunday,” it’s not just appealing to you to go and have fellowship, to go and enjoy the blessings of corporate anointing, it is to warn you that there might be danger if you’re not where you supposed to be at the right time. Church Gist. We used to sing a song years ago: I have gone with Jesus, death came to my house and found I wasn’t there. Take my word;; I might not repeat this again and again any more but don’t say that you were not told.
The series we are doing is to be a supplement. It was started during the lockdown; the lockdown is over. We are continuing it because it has been a great blessing to several people – it is not a substitute for going to Church. Church Gist. Half a word is enough for the wise and as a matter of fact, after saying this thing again and again for almost 6 weeks, it is no longer half a word. This is a word that has come again and again.
We said that when the Heavens open, divine visitation is automatic. That when the Heavens open, God may send angels to come and give good news. Then we said, God may come Himself. We said because he is seated in the Heavens, if he has to come Himself he will have to stand up first. Church Gist. We said when God arises, his enemies will scatter. We said when he comes like that, he will come in the form of a man so he has to walk from whatever place he landed on the Earth and walk towards the direction he wants to go. We learnt last Sunday that when he is passing by, he will be distributing miracles.
Today we want to look at what happens when he arrives. In other words we are assuming that the Almighty God is going to arise and not just walk by your house but walk into your house. Church Gist. When he arrives, (and in the name that is above every other name, he will arrive your home today) certain things will happen:
1. There will be an earthquake – a spiritual earthquake. Acts 16:25-34. Whenever there is an earthquake several things will happen. One of the things that could happen is that since the foundation of the prison was shaken, it implies that your foundational problems will be dealt with. There are some problems that had their foundation long before you were born. 2 Kings 2:19-22. Church Gist. Jericho was beautiful but Jericho was living under a curse. When God opened the Heavens to Elisha and he came to Jericho, the people came to him and told him they have problems. Elisha told them to bring him salt in a new cruse which he took to the source of their River. He poured in the salt, made a decree and their problems were over.
– In the name of the One who sent me, every foundational problem in your family will be over today!
Exodus 14:1-28. The children of Israel were on their way to the promised land and the enemy that had been the enemy of their forefathers pursued them. Church Gist. It was generational problems pursuing them but in the name that is above every other name, just like that very day, the enemy they had seen before they never saw again.
– You will not see your generational enemies again!
There are some problems that are deep rooted. They are not problems that started today. You remember the story of that lady who came, ‘now I am a child of God but I have a problem.’ What is the problem? At the age of 33 she was still bed wetting. Church Gist. She was married already but bed wetting. We said that’s no problem; we will just pray to God that he will give you a brand new bladder. She said, no Sir; before you pray, my mother was also a bed wetter; and grand mother was a bed wetter. Every girl in the family bed wets. We knew we were not dealing with a physical problem. There are problems medicine cannot handle, you can’t see on X-ray or MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) – deep-rooted problems. We prayed and we asked the Almighty God to put an end to everything that had been in the family troubling a whole generation of girls because at the end of the day when we made some enquiries, we discovered that it was somebody who placed a curse on the grandmother. Church Gist. There was a quarrel and someone said, ‘from now on, every woman born in your family will bed wet.’ But there is someone who is called the Alpha, the One who was before the beginning of your problems, the One who has been there before mountains were brought forth and he can speak a word and mountains will be uprooted. He spoke a Word. The following day the woman came back and said, ‘for the first time in my life, I woke up this morning and I was dry.’ Church Gist. She went and brought all the girls in the family. We prayed the same prayer, bed wetting ended.
– Everything causing you sorrow, shame, you can’t even explain it to people, in the mighty name of Jesus as the Heavens open for your family, these problems will be over!
If the Heavens open and the Almighty God arrives in your home, doors open because when he arrived at that prison, all of a sudden the prison doors were flung open. You know the beauty of it is this: whenever God opens a door, nobody can shut it again. Revelations 3:7. Church Gist. We all know that there are families where for one reason or the other, they never go beyond a certain limit. Every body in the family will keep rising until they get to a certain level and then the door shuts. It might be for such a person that God is speaking today. Then there are some of us that we know all we need is a single door to open and our breakthrough will come. We have been praying and praying. Oh thank God there is a God of breakthroughs because it takes only one breakthrough for everything you o now to begin to prosper. It is a breakthrough in business that turns someone who used to be your peer to becoming a name to be reckoned with. Church Gist. It takes a breakthrough in ministry for your ministry to begin to blossom. When doors open suddenly every plan to stagnate your destiny becomes aborted. Acts 5:17-25.
– My prayer for you today that those who thought they had locked you in, by tomorrow morning they will discover that the bird has flown!
I can tell you testimonies and this particular one, God is speaking to someone: the case of a man. He was always doing well, and he will get to a certain level and then things will begin to go down. He came to the Lord Jesus Christ and the Lord took control. The story came that the wife took his picture to a herbalist and they put it in a basket and put a cover over the picture. Church Gist. The herbalist told her, “anytime it’s beginning to get fresh with you, cover the basket. But if it is becoming too dull, remove the basket so he doesn’t become completely an imbecile. So whenever the man was prospering and he is beginning to say, at long last (heaves a sigh of relief), the basket was closed. Then he could no longer think straight because the wife wanted to remain in control.
– My prayer for you today, if there is any force covering your destiny, that force will be removed today!
When God arrives and doors are opened, you can then shout, ‘freedom at last.’ John 8:32-36. If there’s freedom you can now begin to move forward. Acts 3:1-11. Church Gist. When God arrives, he makes sure that there will be no more limitations. Isaiah 40:28-31. Your progress will no longer be stagnated in any form; you just keep on going higher and higher.
Just some days ago, my wife and I we were remembering what somebody said in gratitude to the Almighty God. He said, anytime we come to visit Redemption Camp we discover that it is not always where we left you that we meet you – you’re already a step ahead. Church Gist. That is the way of God and that testimony will be true for all of you too!
– Everyday God will move you higher!
When he arrives and there is an earthquake, prison doors flung open, it doesn’t end there – enemies become servants. The man who was supposed to oversee the imprisonment of Paul and Silas (the jailer) was now the one who was bathing their wounds, preparing food for them to eat, serving them. Church Gist. Proverbs 16:7; Psalms 23:5. It is possible for the Almighty God to bless you even while your enemies are watching. Why? Because he has the ability to paralyze them.
– I pray that the Almighty God will visit you today and all of a sudden, the people who had been so adamant that it won’t be well with you will now become people who will be serving you!
When Jesus was passing by and Bartimaeus was able to attract his attention, the very people who were asking him to shut up were the people that brought him to Jesus because the Almighty God commanded, ‘go and bring him.’
– I pray the Heavens will open today, God will speak, that he will command even your enemies to go and help you!
When He arrives, even lions become subdued. Daniel 6:19-23. I am fully aware of the situation some of us have found ourselves now. There are some of us who are working in situations where to be called a Christian is a dangerous thing. Some of you know what I am talking about. Church Gist. I laughed because I remembered the story of a man whose name was Moses Dada. He was working in a set up where to be called, ‘Moses’ was a very dangerous thing. He changed his name to Musa Dandada until God intervened.
– Every lion that is trying in any way whatsoever to hinder your progress, to terminate your destiny, the Lord will arrive today and every lion will be silenced!
When He arrives, archenemies are humiliated. Acts 16:35-40.
– Your archenemies will now to you! God will give you a victory so mighty that those who have thought that you will never become anything, they will come and beg you!
That is why, one more time I am appealing: if you are not on the side of God, you are in danger. In any case there is a saying, if you can’t beat them, join them. Whether you believe it or not, those of us who are Christians, it is written that we are more than conquerors. Church Gist. We have someone behind us, fighting our battles for us. You don’t want to be against him because when he arises, his enemies scatter!
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