ALL THOSE WHO ARE TRYING TO MESS WITH OUR TRADITIONAL RULERS, THE FIRE OF GOD WILL CONSUME THEM AND NOBODY IN THEIR GENERATION WILL EVER BECOME GREAT!
THE BEST PROTECTION IS THAT OF A WALL OF FIRE. YOU NEED THE FIRE TO FALL FOR PROTECTION
WHEN THE FIRE OF GOD FALLS, IT CAN WIPE AWAY YOUR TEARS AND CONSUME EVERYTHING THAT IS CAUSING YOU SORROW
EVERY SICKNESS, EVERY DISEASE THAT IS HIBERNATING IN YOUR BODY, THE FIRE OF GOD WILL FALL AND CONSUME TONIGHT!
I DON’T KNOW HOW TO TAKE AN OFFERING BECAUSE THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO ARE ALWAYS LOOKING FOR SOMETHING TO CRITICISE ABOUT MINISTRIES LIKE RCCG
WHEN THE FIRE FALLS, IT MEANS GOD HAS ACCEPTED YOU AND YOUR OFFERING AND YOUR PRAYER HAS BEEN ANSWERED
WHEN GOD ACCEPTS YOUR OFFERING, IT’S A GREAT PRIVILEGE
OUR GOD IS A CONSUMING FIRE. FIRE IS PART OF THE ADVANCED GUARDS OF GOD.
GOD CANNOT ENGAGE IN ANY MEANINGFUL CONVERSATION WITH YOU UNTIL THE FIRE OF GOD HAS PURIFIED YOU
I HAD NEVER TRAVELLED OUT OF MY VILLAGE WHEN AN ELDERLY MAN CALLED ME, “BABA EKO” AND I ENDED UP IN LAGOS
EVERYBODY HAS A POTENTIAL FOR GREATNESS BUT THAT POTENTIAL FOR GREATNESS IS IGNITED BY FIRE
WHEN GOD HAS ACCEPTED YOUR OFFERING, IT MEANS THE REWARD WILL COME AND USUALLY, IN THE DAY OF TROUBLE
WHEN THE FIRE OF GOD FALLS AND TOUCHES YOUR BODY, EVERYTHING THAT IS IN THAT BODY THAT SHOULD NOT BE THERE WILL BE CONSUMED
– Pastor E. A. Adeboye on “FROM THE MOUNTAIN TOP 2” at February 2024 Holy Ghost Service || 2nd February, 2024 ||
Exodus 3:1-2. Moses was on the mountain top on Mount Horeb. As we learnt last month, God has also repositioned us and many of us are now operating from the mountain top. Church Gist. But the first thing he (Moses) encountered on that mountain top is fire and you know very well according to Hebrews 12:29, Our God is a consuming fire. 1 Kings 19:11-12. Fire is part of the advanced guard of God. When God is about to visit, fire comes first. It explains Psalm 68:1-3.
Tonight you need the fire of God to fall because God cannot engage in any meaningful conversation with you until the fire of God has purified you. You need the fire to come to purify you. If you pay attention to the special song for this Holy Ghost Service verse one says God should purify us from all impurities, remove every iniquity. Isaiah 6:1-8. You need to be purified. Church Gist. The fire that is going to fall tonight is going to be:
1. For purification: Malachi 3:2-4; Isaiah 59:1-2. Many at times we pray, fast and the problem remains. You will wonder, O God, why are you not answering my prayer? Whatever it is that is blocking your access to God, may the fire of God fall tonight and consume them.
When there is fire on the mountain, when the fire falls, several things will happen. We will use the example in 1 Kings 18:30-40 as our case study tonight.
A. When the fire falls, it means your offering has been accepted. God accepting your offering means he has accepted you. Genesis 4:3-5. When God accepts your offering, automatically it means your prayer has been answered. You know I’ve never really taught you about offering and the reason I don’t know how to take an offering because ehn…there are people who are always looking for something to criticise particularly when they see a ministry like this that the Almighty God is blessing. Church Gist. That’s why I’ve not spent time talking about offering. But when God accepts your offering, it’s a great privilege. He doesn’t have to, God is not a beggar. Anything that he wants to do, he has more than enough to do it. So when you offer Him anything at all and he accepts it, it means he has accepted you.
The time I have seen a man in sorrow, the kind of sorrow I have prayed to God I will never witness again, was when the Church was still young. There was this rich man who had just joined the Church and he came to the Headquarters and brought us State of the Arts equipment – P. A (Public Address) system. I mean in those days, our amplifier we had to slap it before it will work. Then he brought brand new P. A. System, came in flowing agbada, smiling and all of a sudden God spoke and said, “tell him to take away his gifts; I don’t want them.” Church Gist. Now if you’re a pastor and you hear that kind of voice, if you don’t know the voice of God you will say, “get behind me satan.” We stammered when we were telling him. The man said, “God said he doesn’t want my gift?” “yes Sir, sorry Sir.” He went to one of the pillars in the Church and began to bang his head against the pillar – weeping, sobbing. “God rejects my gift? It means he has rejected me.” He cried.
– I pray for everyone here today, may God never reject your offering!
2 Chronicles 7:1-3. The implication of that is simple: when God has accepted your offering, it means the reward will come and usually the reward will come in the day of trouble. Psalm 20:1-4. It’s like when you’re saving money in the bank. Church Gist. The reason for the saving is that when you’re in need you can go and withdraw. The time you need the answer from God most is when you’re in trouble.
– I’m praying for someone here tonight, the fire will fall!
When the fire falls particularly on the mountain top, we are told that the fire did not just consume the offering, it consumed the wood. I believe I’ve explained this in the past: every wood has fire inside it that’s why we call it firewood. Church Gist. But the fire inside the wood will never come out until there is fire on the wood. In other words, everybody has a potential for greatness. It doesn’t matter who you are now, the potential for greatness is inside you and tonight the fire will fall and your potential will be activated.
I told you when I was a very small boy, just going to the primary school in those days. When we were going to the primary school we have a plate made of wood – just cut a bit of plate and paint it black for us, then we go to school and they give us white chalk. About the first year in school, all you’re learning to do is – write letter A, B, with your chalk ehn 1, 2, 3…and your face will be full of chalk because your hand is full of chalk, you’re cleaning the plate with your hand and… I was returning from school and an elderly man saw me with the plate on my head, chalk on my face and said, “hmm, great academician.” I was a little boy. Church Gist. Another time I was coming from my little village and another very elderly man saw me and said, “hmmm Baba Eko.” At that time I have never travelled out of my village, I’ve never even been to Ife – that’s the closest town. But he said, “Baba Eko” and I ended up in Lagos. I don’t know where God wants to take you, but you will reach your goal! I don’t know what he wants to make you but that potential for greatness that is inside you is going to be ignited by fire tonight.
Luke 5:1-11. The Lord Jesus Christ said to Peter, “you will be a fisher of men.” Years passed, Peter didn’t win a single soul. Then the fire fell on the Upper Room and the Fisherman began his job. It wasn’t long before the shadow of Peter was healing the sick. Acts 5:14-16. What made the difference? The fire that fell on Peter in the Upper Room.
When Philip joined the Church, he was just an ordinary member of the congregation but then a day came in Acts 6:1-7 and Philip was one of the 7 chosen. He thought he had been promoted, repositioned, “I used to be an ordinary member of the congregation now I’m a worker.” It wasn’t long he went to Samaria – Acts 8:5-8 and through him, a whole city got converted because he was full of fire. Church Gist. What was coming out of his mouth was fire. Demons heard him speaking and they began to jump out. God didn’t end there – Acts 8:26-40. The man Philip converted brought the Gospel to Africa. Philip didn’t know that he could become the Patron Saint of a whole continent.
– There’s something great in you, you’re far far greater than you are now.
When the fire falls on the mountain – that particular special fire, it consumed the offering, the wood and the rocks. There is a fire that can consume rocks. The rock stands for hardship, poverty of the most cruel type. Church Gist. That’s when somebody comes from a very poor family, the Elders will say he had a rocky start. O ti apata dide – Everything about him from the beginning was hardship.
– If there’s anybody like that tonight, the fire will fall!
2 Kings 4:1-7. The woman cried to the man of God, the fire carrier called Elisha and as the Lord lives, before somebody leaves here tonight you will become a fire carrier! She woke up bankrupt, by the time she was going to bed she had paid all her debts. Mark 10:46-52. Church Gist. Bartimaeus was poor but when the one who baptizes with fire that is, the Lord Jesus Christ according to Matthew 3:11, was passing by and came to the poverty of Bartimaeus, he knew even before his eyes were opened that, hey, fire is passing by here today. His garment of shame, he threw it off.
– In the name that is above every other name, everything that links you to poverty will be destroyed tonight!
But the fire didn’t stop with the offering, wood, the rock, it went ahead and consumed the dust. The dust is signifying the flesh because when God made man, he made us from the dust of the Earth. When the fire of God touches your body because you will see in the song we sang, when the fire of God falls and touches your body, it means everything that is in that body that should not be there will be consumed. Isaiah 10:27. When the Almighty God touches you with his hand – the hand of the consuming fire is fire – when His anointing passes through you, whatever is wrong with your body, he will put it right. John 9:1-7 – mud became anointed because of the hand that touched it. Church Gist. You know years ago, some funny people who thought they were clever said that Jesus Christ was practicing medicine when he anointed the man’s eyes with mud and the man went to wash and came back seeing. The question I asked is: if that is medicine, why don’t you also go everywhere you see a blind man, spit on the ground, make some mud and anoint the face and see what happens? But we heard a testimony here tonight, that’s one of the reasons why I know God has gone ahead of us, of a sister who anointed her eyes with the wine of Holy Communion and now all of a sudden can see clearly! That God is here tonight, His fire will touch your flesh and whatever needs to be repaired, He will repair it!
Matthew 8:1-3. The anointing of God destroyed everything that is called leprosy. Those days, leprosy was incurable but just a touch allowed the anointing to flow into the body and everything causing leprosy disappeared.
– Father, let your fire fall and consume every form of sickness and disease in my body!
Many at times, you don’t even know you have a disease until it has gone far. Many of the people that they suddenly get diagnosed with cancer, the cancer has been there, they didnt know.
– Every sickness, every disease that is hibernating in your body, the fire of God will fall and consume tonight!
“Then the fire licked the water.” Water is supposed to be able to put out fire but that is if the fire is ordinary. In this case, the fire that fell consumed water, licked up the water. The implication of that is simple: when the fire of God falls, it can wipe away your tears. Luke 7:11-15.
– In the name that is above every other name, whatever is causing you to weep quietly in secret, the fire of God will deal with it tonight!
… because there are some people who will smile brightly in public but when they’re alone at night, they cry. Church Gist. The Almighty God has the power to put an end to your weeping. He can even turn your sorrow to joy; he can turn what is bitter in your life to sweetness. Exodus 15:22-26.
John 2:1-11. Jesus turned it round – what was supposed to be an embarrassment became a talk of the town. Church Gist. The talk of the Town would have been, “We attended a wedding. Do you know they couldn’t even supply us wine?”
– Whatever it is that is causing you embarrassment, the fire of God will fall tonight!
1 Kings 18:40. When the fire fell, all the prophets of Baal were killed in one day; all those who had been mocking, saying, “where is your God?” after the fire falls tonight, you won’t hear of them again! 1 Samuel 2:1-5.
– Father, let your fire fall and consume everything that is causing me sorrow.
Let’s go back to Exodus 3:1-2. Why do you need the fire to fall tonight?
– You need the fire to fall for protection: Zechariah 2:4-5. The best protection is that of a wall of fire. When people go to the jungle where there are wild animals – lions etc and they want to sleep at night, they always light fire round about their tent and many at times they will look out from their tent at night and they will see the eyes of these wild animals. The wild animals see them as food but they know to get to the food, they have to pass through fire. The Elders have a saying, “no matter how mad a dog is, he will not touch fire.” You yourself know very well (that) you have never seen a mad man who died by burning. If you see a mad man and ask him to touch fire, he will laugh and tell you, “do you think I am mad?” Church Gist. That’s why I said those who are playing with the anointing of God, they don’t know what they are doing – they are trying to touch fire. That’s why I can pray here right now, all those who are trying to mess with our traditional rulers, the fire of God will consume them! Every traditional ruler, as far as God is concerned, they are anointed of God. So those who think that they can mess round with them, not only will the fire of God consume them, nobody in their generation will ever become great!
– You need the fire for protection. Judges 15:14-20.
– I am praying for somebody here today: that kind of fire that witches and wizards will run away from, will surround you from now on in Jesus’ name!
I still remember the story of one of my daughters from the Choir that kidnappers kidnapped and suddenly they heard her crying, “God of Adeboye, please help me, rescue me.” Church Gist. One of them said, “what did you say? You’re one of his daughters?” She said yes and quickly he stopped the vehicle and dropped her. The one in the vehicle following were in the same gang, “why did you drop her?” He said, that’s bad business.
– From tonight onwards, the enemy will see you as bad business!
– You need the fire because you need to become a fire carrier so that you can subdue any enemy. 2 Kings 1:9-17.
– As the Lord lives, after tonight your enemies will bow down before you!
– When the fire falls, you become a vessel in the hand of God. Acts 1:8. Many of us will love to witness, to win souls, will love to work for God. What is missing is the fire power. The fire came in Acts 2; when the fire fell in the Upper Room, Peter preached just one sermon and won 3,000 souls. Church Gist. Many of you would love (I’m sure of that) to be able to go through your village or town or compound and just say, “Jesus saves, Jesus heals, Jesus delivers,” and by the next Holy Ghost Service you need a bus to bring your converts to the Holy Ghost Service. You will receive the power tonight.
Mark 16:17-18. It took the fire falling on Peter to be able to say in Acts 3:1-8, “Silver and gold have I none but I have fire power.” He said to the lame man, “I command you, rise up and walk.” Church Gist. By the time he grabbed him by the hand, the fire in Peter flowed into the man and the man got up walking and leaping and praising God. You know one of the testimonies somebody will share next month? It’s how you’re beginning to raise dead.
When you go through the Bible, you will find 7 occasions when fire fell from Heaven and each time it fell, it fell on something. Leviticus 9:24; Judges 6:21; 1 Kings 18:38; 2 Kings 1:9-12 – twice when it fell on those 50 soldiers and captains; 2 Chronicles 7:1; Acts 2:1-4. Seven times that the fire of God fell, there was always something on the altar for the fire to fall on. So you want the fire of God to fall on you tonight? Church Gist. Romans 12:1. God you’re looking for a sacrifice? I am here; let the fire fall. The sacrifice must be holy; if you’re a sinner and you say you’re laying yourself on the altar for God, he’s not interested in dirty sacrifices. That’s why even if you claim that you’re a Christian and you know you’re not living holy, you need to settle that tonight – this is truly truly a Holy Ghost Night.
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