Pastor E. A. Adeboye at RCCG July Special Holy Ghost Service tagged ‘Perfect Blessing’ God Bless You 7
(The theme for August Convention is ‘A New Wave of Glory’)
Genesis 1:28
God is saying have a perfect blessing. You will be fruitful, you will multiply, you will overflow and say peace be still and then have dominion. There are no half measures with God, God never does anything by half, there is nothing called half blessings, Psalms 23:5, overflowing blessing.
There is no half success or breakthrough with God, Luke 5:1-7, when Peter had the breakthrough when Jesus came into his boat, a man who had failed before, it wasn’t long enough for him or the next boat, the Bible said the boats were so full they began to sink. No half measures with God.
No half provision with God. John 6:5-13, Jesus fed the people and they took up the leftovers, there were twelve extra baskets.
There is no half healing with God. When God heals you, there will be no scars. When God performed the first operation on Adam, there were no scars. 2 Kings 5:1-14, when God healed Namaan the skin became like that of a newborn baby.
No half deliverance with God, this is why I find it funny when some deliverance ministry will tell you to keep coming for seven weeks for deliverance. When God delivers, He delivers once and for all.
Mark 5:2-20, when He delivered the madman of Gadara, every demon in him went out.
May I start by decreeing that every one of you listening to me today, your blessings shall be perfect, your breakthrough will be absolute, your provision will be more than enough and the healing the Almighty God will give you will be a hundred percent.
What do we mean by perfect blessing? We all know that it is a blessing particularly if it’s coming from God, not the one you got by fraud, pushing drugs or stealing. If you get any form of wealth from an evil way, that wealth is going to be a curse. The Word of God is clear, you get money via fraudulent means, you are like a partridge that lays eggs and won’t hatch them. If you are pursuing wealth, make sure that you are pursuing it in the ways of God otherwise rather than being a blessing, it will be a curse.
Proverbs 10:22, says the blessings of the Lord maketh rich and added no sorrow with it. Wealth coming from God is a blessing. Ecclesiastes 7:12, tells us that money is a defence, it provides security.
Proverbs 22:7, tells you that if you are rich, you have an element of rulership because the borrower will serve the lender.
Proverbs 10:15, says wealth provides you protection from destruction because it says the destruction of the poor is their poverty.
Ecclesiastes 5:19 says wealth is a blessing particularly if God will allow you to eat of it.
I am praying for you with all my heart in the Name that is above every other name, you will not die poor.
However, wealth alone is not a perfect blessing because according to Ecclesiastes 5:10, the Bible made it clear that wealth does not satisfy. It doesn’t matter how much you have, you will always want more.
Proverbs 23:5, the Bible tells us that rich people have one secret fear and that is that they know that riches can develop wings and fly away. This is why some people keep on amassing wealth because they are afraid that they may lose what they have got. Wealth alone does not satisfy.
Health is even a greater blessing than wealth. Job 2:4, the devil said to God concerning Job after he lost everything and he still remained steadfastly committed to God, the devil said skin for skin, everything a man has will he give just to have good health. In the case of Namaan in 2 Kings 5:1-14, when Namaan heard that there was somebody who could heal him from his leprosy, he came loaded with money so those who have good health and don’t have money are better off than those who have money and don’t have good health.
Ecclesiastes 6:2, tells us that of what good is wealth if you can not eat from it. Solomon is speaking here, he knows what is called wealth, he was so wealthy he doesn’t allow anybody to bring anything other than gold to his house but he said clearly of what use is money if you can’t eat of it.
Wealth without health is not a blessing. Suppose you have health and wealth but you don’t have peace of mind can we say your blessing is perfect? Not at all.
Ecclesiastes 5:12 tells us that a poor man, whether he eats little or he eats much, he enjoys his sleep but the abundance of the rich won’t even let him sleep. You have money, you are healthy but you cannot sleep at night. Here comes a man who has been working since morning, took a bus at night, got back late and by the time he landed on his bed, that is if he has a bed, he is fast asleep. Yet, your own bed is a water bed, electrically controlled and yet you keep turning all night whereas the Bible says in Psalms 127:2, I give my beloved sleep.
I pray for every one of you listening to me today, from now on, you will enjoy deep and beautiful sleep.
Even a king cannot sleep. Esther 6:1, the Bible says on a particular night when the Almighty God wanted to show the great King Ahasuerus, this was a king so great but God took away his sleep because he wanted to perform a miracle.
Daniel 2:1-49, the Almighty God gave a dream to a king, he woke up in the morning and he had forgotten the dream and you can tell from his reactions that this man had money, he was wealthy but when he lost his peace of mind, he became like a mad man, he told all his wise men, tell me my dream and it’s interpretation or I will kill all of you. He had power but he lost his peace of mind.
Genesis 4:1-8 tells us how God terrorized a king with two dreams and when he woke up he lost every piece of his mind.
You could have money, good health but without peace of mind, your blessing is incomplete.
Suppose you have wealth, good health, peace of mind but you lack wisdom will your blessing be considered perfect? No, because Proverbs 4:7, says wisdom is the principal thing.
Ecclesiastes 7:12, says wisdom is a defence just like money, it says there is something about wisdom that makes it excel, it gives life.
You have wealth and you don’t have wisdom?
Proverbs 1:32 made it clear the prosperity of fools will destroy them.
Luke 2:16-21, the Bible tells of a farmer who had an abundance of harvest and he said what am I going to do with this my wealth? He said I will build bigger barns, I will store food for many years, the Bible says God said to him you are a fool because you are going to die tonight, who is going to be the owner after you are gone?
You can have a lot of money, you can be in good health and have nothing to worry about but if you lack wisdom your blessing is incomplete.
Psalms 111:10 says the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom.
There are several examples of people who have blessings of all sorts but because they don’t fear God, God called them fools and the result of all that they have is that they will end up very shabbily.
Wealth plus health, plus peace of mind is no perfect blessing.
Suppose you are healthy, wealthy, nothing is bordering you, suppose you consider yourself a wise man and you have no hope, is your blessing perfect?
Proverbs 13:12, says hope deferred makes the heart sick. Not hope denied but hope deferred.
Ecclesiastes 9: 4 tells us that if you are joined to the living God you have hope. He said a living dog is better than a dead lion. A dog that has hope is better than a lion that has none.
Job 11:18 tells us that when you have hope, you have security. It doesn’t matter what you have, if you have lost hope over something, you may take your own life. I know of a singer who took her own life because she was growing old and her voice was fading.
1 Kings 19:1-4, when Elijah ran from Mount Carmel to Jezreel thinking that he had achieved a lot, he got a message from Jezebel saying you think you have won, I will kill you by tomorrow. The Bible said Elijah ran, after he had run for a while he stopped and said I thought I have been doing well for the Lord? He said to God kill me, let me get out of this mess. A life without hope is a hopeless life, it is a life without joy or anything.
No matter the blessing you say you have acquired, if you have no hope for a glorious future, your blessing is not perfect.
Listen to Solomon speak again, the Bible says in 1 Kings 10:23-25, Solomon exceeded all things in health, riches or wisdom.
1 King 4:24, the Bible says he had peace all around but in Ecclesiastes 12:8, he ended up saying vanity upon vanity, all is vanity.
I pray for those of you who have been trusting God for one miracle or the other, and you are beginning to lose hope, the Almighty God Himself will answer you very soon.
The beauty of being in Christ is that in Christ alone you will have the perfect blessing. – – You will have wealth, we are not talking about having all the cars in the world, you are a wealthy man when all your needs are met, Philippians 4:19, says my God shall supply all your needs according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
- In Christ, you have health guaranteed, 1 Peter 2:24, says by His stripes you were healed. Provision has been made for your health. Bible scholars say Jesus Christ was beaten with forty stripes and I told you that I once read a magazine where it says all the sickness and diseases in the world can be classified into thirty-nine categories and Jesus took forty stripes, thirty-nine for all they have discovered and one that is yet to be discovered.
- Through Him, you can have peace. John 14:27, He says my peace I leave with you, my peace I give to you, not the kind of peace you get from the world but my own, the peace of God that passes all understanding comes from Him.
- In Him you have wisdom, 1 Corinthians 1:24 tells us that Jesus Christ is the wisdom of God. In 1 Corinthians 1:30, it says Jesus has been made to us wisdom.
- In Him you have hope, Colossians 1:27, says Christ in you, the hope of glory. In Him, you have the hope of a glorious end.
John 14:1-3, is why I am sure that those of you in Christ will end gloriously. He says in my Father’s house, there are many mansions, he said I am going to prepare a place for you. Your place is reserved in heaven. What a pity that some people don’t believe that He is coming back again, whether you believe it or not, He is coming and that is what we call the blessed hope for us Christians. He is coming and when He comes, He will take you with Him because He said where I am, there you will be also. - In Him you will have Joy like a river, John 16:24, hitherto you have asked me nothing, ask that your joy may be full. In Christ, you have a perfect blessing. In Christ, you can have a perfect blessing including having dominion because in our text we are talking about the blessing that says have dominion. Having dominion means you are in control.
Philippians 4:13, says I can do anything through Christ who strengthens me. The opposite of that is without Christ, you have nothing.
John 15:5 says without me you can do nothing. I know a few ex-rich I pray that the blessing God will give you will last forever.
If you don’t have Christ and you say you have wealth, the wealth can fly away. If you don’t have Christ, you say you have health, you will be a child to say someone who is healthy today can not be sick tomorrow. If you don’t have Christ and you say you have nothing to worry about, sooner or later you are going to leave this world and where are you going to be in heaven or hell.
I am going to give you an opportunity to have a perfect blessing. Do you want a perfect blessing? Give your life do Jesus Christ Paul said I forsook everything to win Christ. You lose Christ? You lose all. My Altar call today is for two categories
- Those of you who have never surrendered to Him, come to the Altar
- Those Who once had Christ but backslide. If you return to Him today he will receive you again.
Cry to him to save your soul, say, Lord, I have made a mistake, I will restitute my ways, take me back. The
rest of us let us cry to Him to save these once, ask that we will never lose Him or miss the perfect blessings
God Bless You
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