HOW A YOUNG BOY WAS HEALED OF THE WORST TYPE OF SICKLE CELL AFTER I HUGGED HIM.
OUR CONVENTION IS GOING TO BE FROM 7TH TO 13TH AUGUST, 2023. THE THEME IS: “BEYOND EXPECTATION”.
A MIRACLE IS COMING YOUR WAY THAT WILL CAUSE YOU TO WEEP FOR JOY.
VERY SOON, ALL YOUR ENEMIES WILL COME AND BOW DOWN TO YOU!
GOD IS THE ALL-SUFFICIENT GOD AND I AM SO GRATEFUL TO HIM.
HOW I LAID MY HAND ON MY HEAD AND GOT HEALED OF FREQUENT STOOLING IN ZAMBIA.
HOW A WOMAN WITHOUT A WOMB GOT PREGNANT AFTER I PRAYED FOR HER.
EVERYTHING THAT IS MISSING IN YOUR BODY SHALL COME BACK.
GOD IS SUFFICIENT FOR ONE BUT HE IS ALSO SUFFICIENT FOR ALL.
MEDICINE HAS BEEN SEARCHING, THAT ONE DAY THEY WILL FIND A DRUG THAT CAN CURE ALL SICKNESSES.
HOW GOD INTERVENED IN THE ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF A DULL BOY AFTER WE PRAYED FOR HIM.
GOD CAN GIVE JOY TO ONE PERSON AND MAKE THAT JOY SO BIG THAT OTHERS WOULD SHARE.
BECAUSE OF YOU EVERY demon IN YOUR VILLAGE WILL BE CLEARED OUT.
MY GOD WILL EMPOWER YOU.
ANY GANG UP OF PEOPLE AGAINST YOU, IN THE NAME OF JESUS, GOD WILL TAKE CARE OF THEM.
– Pastor E. A. Adeboye on “THE ALL SUFFICIENT GOD” at RCCG July 2023 Holy Ghost Service || 7 July, 2023.
Congratulations to you all, it shall be perfectly well with you! I have just returned from a journey, I spent most of last month in America because I went for our America Convention and then I had to do some other things, dedicate Churches etcetera. And I visited one of our branches, the last time I was there was several years ago and I just felt impressed by the Lord to go there again. The last time I visited the place, there was this very young boy who had sickle cell of the worst type. Church Gist. He was having crisis upon crisis, the doctors have said that he is not likely to live long. And that little boy heard that I was coming to visit their Parish. He said to the Pastor: “Maybe if I could see daddy, God may heal me”. The Pastor said: “I’m sorry, I can’t guarantee but we will see”. And lo and behold as he was getting to Church that day my car arrived, so as I was coming out of the car, I just saw this little child and everybody knows I love children. So I just went to the child and hugged him. This last time I was back in the Church and I met a young man and he said: “They said I won’t make it but now I am a graduate and I have not visited hospital for years”. This time as we hugged, I was so full of joy, tears came to my eyes.
-Now, the reason I am telling you this story is that there is someone here tonight, a miracle is coming your way that will cause you to weep for joy.
The first Friday of August, that is next month there won’t be Holy Ghost Service because our Convention is next month and the Convention is going to be from 7th to 13th August, 2023. So the Friday of the Convention is the one that will be for the Holy Ghost Service. The Theme for our Convention is: “Beyond Expectation”. Church Gist. In other words, it doesn’t matter what you are expecting, God will do more than you can expect. So the Holy Ghost Service of next month then is going to be on the 11th August, 2023 instead of the 4th August 2023 because it will be the Friday of the Convention.
Alright! Genesis 17:1. The first time God introduced Himself to man was in Genesis 17:1 and He said: “I am Jehovah El-Shaddai – The God who is more than enough”. According to Bible Scholars, those who know the Bible very well, they said that what God said was: “I am God, your mother’s breast”. That if you as a child can suck the milk in your mother dry, it is only then you can exhaust Me, I am the inexhaustible God, there is nothing you want from Me that is not there. A woman can give birth to four children – We heard the testimony of one in our meeting just a week ago, she gave birth to four. If you see the lady, she wasn’t very big but the four children would suck breasts until they are tired and there would still be breast milk flowing. The All-Sufficient One! Sufficient for you, sufficient for me, sufficient for all your neighbours, sufficient for all Christians all over the world. He is the All-Sufficient God and I am so grateful to Him. As I listened to the testimonies of tonight, I saw clearly that He was preparing us for something extraordinary. Every miracle is special but the testimonies of tonight are extra special. You see? Many a times, when you listen to some of these testimonies, you need to put yourself into the situation – Imagine a relation of yours bleeding through the nose, bleeding through the mouth, bleeding through the ears, bleeding through the eyes. How would you feel? And yet there is a God, my God who can pick that situation and today we see the fellow healthy and strong.
Imagine you were one of those people kidnapped and they took their cutlass, their cutlass is not blunt, their cutlass is sharp and they brought it down on your leg. You were expecting blood to begin to flow, that is if the bones is not shattered and you look down – I mean, when your kidnappers begin to beg you to pray for them. Does it not remind you of what happened in Egypt when Pharaoh said to the children of Israel: “Please go quickly and bless me also”. There is a God in Heaven!
-And very very soon, all your enemies will come and bow down to you!
I shared a testimony with my children, the disciples yesterday. I saw it on the internet in YouTube, but there was this soldier who is a Christian and won’t keep his mouth shut, he was always talking about Jesus and so the others were always bullying him. And one day, they decided to disgrace him and they were gathered together and the leader of the group commanded him (The Christian): “I want you to drive this car from here to there and pack it”. Church Gist. And the boy said: “I’m sorry Sir, I don’t know how to drive”. “I say, I command you, take the key!” And the boy took the key entered into the car; because when he said: “I can’t drive, he said ask your Jesus to help you now”. The boy got into the car and drove the car perfectly and parked it where they said it should be parked. Then he came out of the car, then he saw all the soldiers weeping and saw their leader trembling, removed his cap. And the boy was wondering: “What’s going on?” And the leader of the group went to the car, opened its bonnet because there is no engine in the car. That’s my God, you know? I believe God wants me to tell you some of these stories so that before this night is out, you will know who is called “Jehovah El-Shaddai”.
I told the Pastors at the prayer room the testimony. You know? A day is coming when we will have Holy Ghost Service and all we will do will just be testimonies. Will that be alright? Church Gist. I won’t tell you all the details because this is being aired all over the world but we have a Church somewhere where a Church is not supposed to be in one of these nations and the Pastor there contacted me months ago: “Daddy please pray for us, there is this woman in our little Church the doctors have told her she has no womb so there is no way she can ever have a child but we believe that if you pray God will do it”. So I prayed and yesterday I got a call from him: “Daddy, we are all weeping for joy here because the woman without a womb is now pregnant.
-I hereby decree, in the name that is above every other name, everything that is missing in your body shall come back.
You know? When I was younger because I am still young. We have this people who come to our village selling medicine, they call them, “Fine medicine.” Some of the old people will know them and they come and sell us anything, we don’t know which is which. So one day they came, I think that was when capsules had just been introduced and they were telling us: “Haa, finally we have a medicine that can cure every sickness, the same medicine for headache, for stomach ache – One tablet cures all, that’s what they say. Church Gist. Of course we have come to discover later on, they were just deceiving us. But do you know? Medicine has been searching that one day they will find a drug that can cure all sicknesses. Won’t that be wonderful? If they can just find one drug that could be good for headache, good for stomach ache, good for asthma, good for cancer will that not be wonderful?
-But I have good news for you, we already have that tablet. What’s His name? Jesus!
Physically it is sufficient for one person and it’s you. In John 5:2-9, the Bible tells us, a man has been sick for 38 years. Jesus came in, He didn’t touch him, He just spoke and the sickness of 38 years ended.
-It doesn’t matter how long you have been sick, in the name that is above every other name, tonight you will be healed.
But then, Jesus healed him and left the place. What about all the others? Well, in Matthew 8:14-17 the Bible tells us how Jesus entered into Peter’s house and saw the mother-in-law sick of fever and healed her. And news spread and so the people around began to bring their sick people and every one of them was healed. Church Gist. You know? I have a feeling within me and I believe that there might be one or two people who would share the feeling that: “This is a night like that night!” That everybody must be healed. He is sufficient for one but He is also sufficient for all, He can heal just by speaking. The Bible said: “He sent His Word and He healed them”. He can heal by touching and He said clearly from Mark 16:17-18 that His disciples can continue to do the same thing for Him – You shall lay hands on the sick and they shall recover.
And I am going to ask you to do something you have probably not done before, something special tonight, on this very special night. And for you to understand, I will remind you of a story, the first day I went to Zambia that is some thirty-something or almost thirty years ago. I got there, I ate something very different from what I’m used to eating so my stomach got angry and I began to go to the toilet in the night. I think when it was about the 24th time that I have been to the toilet. Suddenly I remember that it is written. If the Pastor is sick, he could run to the General Overseer, to whom will the General Overseer run? Then I remember it is written, “You shall lay hands on the sick and he shall recover”. He didn’t say who the sick would be. I am the sick one now and this is my hand, so I laid the hand on my head and I said: “In the mighty name of Jesus, stomach obey God, it is written I will eat any deadly thing, it won’t hurt me.” And the stooling stopped.
-I told you that because I want you to lay your own hand on your own head now and decree and say: “In the mighty name of Jesus! Everything in my body that should not be there, get out now”.
—–PRAYERS——-
He is sufficient for one, He is sufficient for all, He can heal by touching, He can heal by speaking, He can heal through His dress, He can heal through the anointed handkerchief of His Servants. Church Gist. And you have heard several testimonies along that line, He can heal through shadow Acts 5:14-16.
-By whatever method, you will receive your healing tonight.
Materially, it is sufficient for one 1 Kings 18:17:8-16. He was sufficient for the widow of Zarephath, that woman had one meal left. God stepped in and for almost three years she kept on having food every day but it is not just sufficient for one, it is sufficient for all. In John 6:5-13, He fed five thousand men not counting children with five loaves of bread and two fishes and there were twelve baskets left over, everybody ate and everybody was full. Church Gist. I had a feeling within me that God has arranged tonight’s meeting specifically, that all of us who are present and at least all those who are connected with us in one way or the other in a way we cannot explain, all our financial problems will be solved.
Spiritually, it is sufficient to deliver one person. If that fellow has only one demon as in Mark 1:23-27, He just speaks a word and the demons will be gone, if the fellow has as many as seven demons according to Luke 8:1-3 God is sufficient because Mary Magdalene had not just one but seven of them and God was sufficient for the seven. Church Gist. If a man has a legion, as you know very well Mark 5:2-20, the madman of Gadara, he had a legion and my God was still sufficient for all of them. But it is not just sufficient for one person, He is sufficient for even a whole city Acts 8:5-8.
-I have good news for someone here today, because of you every demon in your village will be cleared out.
And then He can empower, He can give spiritual power to just one person Acts 9:1-22, He empowered Saul of Tarsus after He knocked him down on the road to Damascus but He can also empower as many people as are present Acts 2:1-4, everyone present in the Upper Room got the power of the Holy Ghost the same day, the same time. A young man met me and said: “Daddy, I want the kind of power God has given you, do you think He can give it to me?” I said: “Why not?” He is sufficient for one and He is sufficient for all.
-Is anybody hungry for power here tonight? My God will empower you.
He is sufficient to still any storm. Whether by sea? Mark 4:35-41, He spoke a word: “Peace be still and the waves became quiet”. Thank you, Father! The Lord said: “There is someone here tonight, the one who is ordained to bring about your promotion will have a special dream tonight. He spoke a word when there was a storm at sea and everything became quiet. Church Gist. But there are storms that are not storms on the ocean, there are storms of life in Numbers 6:1-35, when all of a sudden a lot of people ganged up against Moses and began to challenge his authority and began to speak all manner of rubbish against him and God stepped on the scene and in just one moment, all the enemies were swallowed alive. You don’t know what is a storm until somebody lies against you and he says: “I stand by what I said” and you have no way of proving that it is wrong.
-I pray you will never experience that type of storm.
I mean consider you a young boy and all of a sudden a girl comes and say that ‘I am pregnant, I’m pregnant for you’. Church Gist. Ah! Me? Where did I meet you’? ‘You are the one who did it and everybody will be saying, ‘Ah!! Are you the only boy in town? How come it comes to you alone’? ‘But it’s not me! Where is your witness’? And the girl says: ‘What kind of witness are we talking about? Do you invite a witness in that kind of situation’?
-If there is any gang up of people against you, in the name that is above every other name. God will take care of them.
He can still a storm that comes in the air Psalms 91:5. No! Storms can come in the air. I remind you of the story of a man who came years ago with his wife, he said: “I’m sorry Sir, I’ve discovered that my wife is a witch who is troubling me and I want you to help me”. I asked: “Sister, is it true?” She said: “Don’t mind him, it is his mother who is a witch not me”. And I was much younger then so I said: “Well, sister I agree with you, don’t mind him, let us reach an agreement, let me pray for you, if he is lying against you everything you just do will keep on prospering but if it is the truth, I will decree that the demon in you be bound and since you said there is no demon there, there is no problem, but you need to know”. The man had said: “I have sensed the demon, it is a snake”. If I say let the snake be bound, the snake won’t be able to go out to hunt so he will be eating what is inside and be defecating inside. She asked me to pray and I said, ‘Okay’! So we prayed and when her husband brought her back weeks later, she had become about three times her normal size because the demon had been depositing all kinds of rubbish in her.
-Anyone who has been using any form of evil force to slow you down. If they don’t repent, I decree that all their evil forces be bound.
He can give joy to one person, He has enough joy to give. Like I said, the kind of joy… Thank you Father. Some of you will remember the story of a boy whose parents are Professors at University of Ibadan but the boy was so dull. You can imagine, the father a Professor, the mother a Professor but the boy? He was always at the bottom of the class. And moving from a class of twenty-five to a class of thirty, his position would move from twenty-fifth to thirtieth and then the parents got born again and brought the boy and we prayed a simple prayer for the boy and God intervened. In the next examination, the boy took first, the teacher said it is not possible. They said even if they gave him the answer to copy he will copy it wrongly so they gave him another exam and he scored higher so he became a surprise to his lecturers. I told you the story because God said there is someone here today that from now, your academic performance will surprise your teachers. God can give joy to one person and make that joy so big that others would share like in Genesis 21:1-7, Sarah said: “God has made me laugh…”
-That would be the testimony of somebody here today.
But God can give joy to a whole nation, He is sufficient to do that. In Exodus 15:1-20, it was a whole nation singing, dancing after God has put an end to their problems. How many of you will say ‘Amen’ if I say: “Nigeria will never know any sorrow again”? And for those of you in other nations, I also want to decree in the name that is above every other name, God will give joy to your nations. Tonight, because of time because I want you to spend some time in prayers, let’s get a bit personal. Church Gist. This All-Sufficient Father, thank you Jesus! I’m sure you know the story of David and Goliath, but many of us don’t pay attention to what David did. You know when he got to the brook, the Bible said he took five smooth stones. He was going to fight Goliath but he took five smooth stones, it is later on as you study the Bible further that you would discover that Goliath had four brothers David didn’t know but he just took five stones guided by the Holy Spirit. One stone for Goliath, four stones for his brothers.
-The Lord asks me to tell you, somebody in particular, He said He will take care of your Goliath. And He will take care of all his allies. Church Gist. My Daddy asks me to say this one: “That one day somebody is going to stand here to testify that five people died in a roll in their family and then they will remember that God said: I will take care of their Goliath and all his allies”.
God is sufficient for my past. We discussed that one during the Holy Communion yesterday 1 John 1:7, 2 Corinthians 5:17. 2 Corinthians 7:2, Paul said: “I have wronged no man”. The first time I read it I said: “Haa! Paul! You lied, you were the Chairman the day they were stoning Stephen, if I don’t know of any other one, I know that. Church Gist. Then the Lord spoke to me, the one who was Chairman when they were stoning Stephen died on the road to Damascus, the man who got up from the ground was a brand new creature.
-Everything you have ever done in the past if the devil tries to remind you, tell him: “My God has taken care of all”.
He is sufficient for everything evil that I did before I met the Lord Jesus, He made a promise in Jeremiah 31:34 and this one is my own, Amen. The Lord says: “There is someone who is expecting one open door, He asks me to tell you before the end of the year, I will open seven”. So you can begin to count them. Maybe when they are seven you will come and testify. In Jeremiah 31:34, He said: “Not only will I forgive, I will not even remember your sins again”. Daddy asked me to remind you of the story of one of my daughters, his boss in his place of work oo was harassing her because she refused to compromise so he told her there will be no promotion for you as long as I am here. And then we prayed a simple prayer and God got the boss transferred to another section of the company and my daughter was promoted to the position he vacated. As soon as my daughter settled down, they brought the former boss back so they were now on equal level.
-Well, the Lord asked me to tell someone that story: “I’m going to put you in a place where no man would ever be able to harass you again”.
And one of these days, if I remember I will tell you a story but all that God wants me to tell you now is that there is somebody now who have just lost a very big opportunity and the Lord asked me to tell you in a parable to say that you missed the train so that you will not miss the plane. When the time comes, you will understand. No matter how fast the train can move, it can only move on land the plane can fly. It is a joy if you miss the train so that you don’t miss the plane. Now, God is not only sufficient in my past as we learned yesterday during the Holy Communion, He is also sufficient for my present Psalms 23:1-6. It says that everything that you need on a daily basis that God will supply. First of all He gives you food to eat, He gives you water to drink, He gives you adequate sleep, He protects you from all manner of animals or wild animals etcetera. He prepares a table before you in the presence of your enemies, He pours anointing on your head until it overflows, He sees to it that surely goodness and mercy shall follow me for how long? All the days of my life. He is sufficient for your past, sufficient for your present. Oh! My God, thank you. I like this one that is why I laughed.
The Lord said there is someone here, He said: “All human signs are saying to you it is too late”. Daddy asks me to tell you, ‘I will defeat all signs with a wonder’. Oh! My Father, you are good! The Lord asks me to tell someone, ‘Jonah spent three nights in total darkness but he was still brought out into the light and still fulfilled destiny. He asks me to tell you, your third night is tonight, you will still fulfill destiny’. The Lord is sufficient for your past, sufficient for your present, sufficient for your future because He is not only Alpha but He is also Omega Revelation 1:8. Colossians 1:27 made it clear: ‘Christ in you the hope of glory’.
-As the Lord lives, if you are a true child of the living God, you are not going to end in shame.
I’m going to give you a little case study before I close and that will be the case of one fellow called ‘Esau’. You know? Before Esau was born according to Romans 9:10-16, God had said: ‘I hate Esau’. He wasn’t born yet, he hasn’t even done anything right or wrong. He said , ‘Esau would serve his younger brother’ – Poor Esau Genesis 47:1-40. Church Gist. And when it was time for Esau to be blessed, he wasn’t around on time but God is still so good that this boy who got just a remnant of blessing was so blessed when you read Genesis 32:1-7, when the one who got the big blessing was coming and the one who got the little blessing was coming to meet him, it was the one who got the big blessing who was trembling. Our God is so great that if what you get tonight is a crumb of blessing, your life can still be amazingly glorious. But I want to assure you, you are not going to get a crumb because crumbs are meant for dogs Matthew 15:21-28, she got a crumb and the crumb solved her problem.
-Tonight, in the name that is above every other name, you will get a whole loaf of bread. Church Gist. Why? Because He is more than enough. A crumb from Him can perform wonders, so you can then imagine what a real loaf can give.
I’ve told you a story before, this one is mine again but I will just share it with you and I’m about to close. I told you that years ago I went to the East, as I was returning and I got to Asaba and I was standing there waving every car to see if they would give me a lift to Lagos and if you are looking for a lift, you are looking for ‘Kagbukagbu’ so you look for a car that looks as if the owner wants to make some quick money by giving you a lift and charging you. Church Gist. So all the old cars that I saw, I waved them down and then none of them stopped. Then I saw this brand new Mercedes Benz car 280, it was coming and when I saw how brand new it is I didn’t bother to wave because this person is not going to pick up anybody but I just raised my hand and I didn’t quite wave and the car passed by and all of a sudden he stopped and reversed to where I was standing.
And he said: “You need a lift?” I said: “Yes Sir”. “Where are you going?” I said: “Lagos”. He said: “Come in”. “Haa! Eh!” And you know? I was standing by the roadside, he was at the driver’s seat. When I entered, I sat at the owner’s corner and there was somebody with him in the front. By the way they were talking, they were talking American English. I remembered telling you that story to you once before when God asked me to prophesy to somebody that all the miracles that have passed by you will reverse back! But that’s not even the prophecy for tonight, I was sitting down in the air-conditioned car, I mean I enjoyed myself all the way to Lagos. So we got to Pan Groove and the man branched to refuel at one Petrol Station and he said to me: “Sorry Sir, give me some one minute I want to refuel”. I said: “Ah! Sir! Thank you Sir, we are already in Lagos. I will take a taxi from here to my house”. He said: “No! Where do you live?” I said: “Surulere!” He said: “Just give me few minutes, I will take you all the way home”.
-My Daddy asks me to tell someone here tonight, ‘I will help you all the way’.
——PRAISES———-
God is All-Sufficient. There is something that happened in the story of Esau and Jacob that I believe is very significant for us tonight because this is a very special night. In Genesis 32:1-7 like I said earlier on, Jacob heard that Esau was coming to meet him with four hundred men, he was shattered. “The man I cheated, the man who promised that when my father dies I will die also is coming with four hundred bodyguards”, he was afraid. But God is more than enough, He did not just bless Jacob, he made sure that his destiny was not truncated. Church Gist. He knew that Esau was coming to kill so God arranged a prayer session for Jacob Genesis 32:24-30. The Bible tells us an Angel can kill thousands of soldiers in one night and now it is that Angel now that is wrestling with Jacob and Jacob prevailed. So you can see drama there and the Angel dislocated his thighs and the boy was still wrestling. The Angel said: “Let me go” and Jacob said; “I won’t let you go”. He could have dislocated his head but because God is All-Sufficient because God wanted an excuse so by the time it was the following morning the one who came to kill will now come to embrace. He arranged a night of prayer.
-I believe God has arranged tonight to be a night of prayer, a night when we are going to wrestle with the All-Sufficient God so that by tomorrow morning, every enemy will become our friend. Church Gist. And instead of our destiny being truncated our destiny will become fulfilled, every enemy will become friend.
And so when it is time to pray tonight, I want you to remember one song we used to sing as a younger Christian, 🎶 I won’t let go, I have Jesus, I won’t let go 🎶. Tonight we are not going to let Jesus go, we are going to wrestle until we have a breakthrough. How many of you are trusting God for a breakthrough? By the time the sun rises tomorrow, you will be singing a new song. But before we pray, like I told you, bread is for children, only crumbs are for dogs. And there are only two categories of people in the world as long as God is concerned: “You are either a child of God or you are a dog, either born again or you are a dog”. I’m not the one who says so, it’s the Bible. He is sufficient enough to change even dogs to children and all you need to do is to come to Him, He will save your soul, you will become His children and you will not be dealing with crumbs anymore but the full loaf of bread.
———-SALVATION CALL———
#PastorEAAdeboye
#TheAllSufficientGod
#July2023HGS
#7July2023
#DoublePortion
#RCCG
#ChurchGist
