Anyone who does not carry his cross and follow me cannot be my disciple. Luke 14:27, NIV

Carrying the Cross

“Anyone who does not carry his cross and follow me cannot be my disciple.”

Luke 14:27, NIV

Imagine what it would have been like to be Simon, and to have carried the Cross of Christ while following Him up Calvary.

What would it have been like to have shared in the humiliation of rejection as He was cast out of the city?

What would it have been like to have felt the sticky warmth of His blood from the Cross on your skin?

What would it have been like to have felt the encroaching horror as the place of execution neared?

What would it have been like to have looked up through the sweat that trickled down your…

LIVE FOREVER IN HIM

John 11:26 “And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?”

JOHN 11:26

Some people have interpreted this as saying that it is possible to never die. Therefore, there are people today who are believing that they will live physically until the second coming of Jesus, even if that is thousands of years away. Although it is understandable how someone could interpret this verse in that manner, it is very doubtful that this is what Jesus truly meant.

First, a doctrine as profound as this would certainly be well documented in other scriptures. Other scriptures may sometimes be quoted as supporting this claim but they would not lead a person to this conclusion by themselves.

There would already have to be a prejudice in favor of this stand within a person to lead him to interpret these scriptures in this…

Be Inspired To Serve

“A faithful man shall abound with blessings: but he that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent”(Proverbs 28:20)

No matter the job or business you do, don’t let your utmost motivation stem from how much money you desire to make. Rather, be motivated by the dream of service; be inspired to serve! The Bible says a faithful man shall abound with blessings; that means he’ll surely prosper. A faithful man is a man that serves. If you’re a wife, mother, grandmother, politicians, student, civil servant, civil right leader, policeman, business man or business woman, let serving people be your dream. Become people and service – conscious.

God is more mindful and concerned about people than anything else. So, when you’re concerned about serving people through your work, God will be concerned about your success and prosperity…

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Prayer Points For August 2012 Redeemed Christian Church Of God RCCG 60^th Convention “Come Up Higher”

Father! Change my level tonight in Jesus Christ Name!

Father! Pull me out of the miry clay never to return in Jesus Christ Name!

Father! All the forces that have kept me on the same level scatter them now in Jesus Christ Name!

Father! All those who have been asking me “Where Is My God?” show them tonight in Jesus Christ Mighty Name I pray!

Father! Everything that pertains to me perfect them tonight in Jesus Christ might Name I pray!

May the LORD bless Nigeria, American and Israel and take care of us; May the LORD make His face shine upon us, And be gracious to us; May the Lord lift up His countenance upon us, And give us peace…

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The Redeemed Christian Church Of God Theme Song For 60^Th Annual Convention 2012

(Tune: O Happy Day)

I hear the voice of Redeemer

Calling to me to come higher

It is the voice of Christ My LORD

It is the Voice of One I love.

Chorus:            Hallelujah, Sing to my King

                        Hallelujah, let heaven ring

                        I will go up higher

                        Nearer my Lord, Hallelujah!

I hear the voice of Redeemer

Calling to me to come higher

“Come out of sins”, He says to me

“Don’t waste the blood I shed for thee”.

Chorus:            Hallelujah, Sing to my King

                        Hallelujah, let heaven ring

                        I will go up higher

                        Nearer my Lord, Hallelujah!

I hear the voice of Redeemer

Calling to me to come…

Say Yes To God ( A Mother’s Love)

Read:   Acts 10:9-16

Memorize:  “when He has brought them out, He goes ahead of them, and the sheep follow Him, because they know His voice” (John 10:4)

The one God loves has to grapple with certain tough challenges. As the last born of my mother, I was her favourite. While other children were playing, she would compel me to sit and read my books. Sometimes, I would remind her that all the other children were playing, but she would reply that all the others were not her business. I thought she was too strict with me but today, I have reasons to thank God for my strict mother. Ephesians 5:1-7 says if you are one of God’s own, you should not indulge in sins like fornication, uncleanness…

Fellowshipping In Love

Acts 19:23

“And about that time there arose a great commotion about the Way.”
NKJV

The people of Ephesus either loved Paul or hated Paul. Why? Paul had a holy restlessness, a stirring in his heart that drove him to great lengths to share the Gospel message. It is important we understand that Christianity is not just about getting along with everybody. All of us are individually gifted and crafted for a unique purpose, but it doesn’t end there. If we do not use our gifts, it profits no one. In the same way, if our relationship with one another does not transform us, it’s not much of a relationship. Ministry changes people. It puts people together in situations that are often uncomfortable and stretches us in ways that we never thought possible. It causes us to drop our masks and be…

A person is made right with God through faith

If you’re trying to save yourself—you never know for sure about anything.

If you’ve hurt enough.  Wept enough.  Learned enough.  Those who’re trying to save themselves promote themselves.

Those saved by works display works.

Those saved by suffering unveil scars.

And those saved by doctrine—well—you got it.  They wear their doctrines on their sleeves.

Dare you stand before God and ask him to save you because of your suffering or your sacrifice or your tears or your study?

Neither do I.  Nor did Paul.

Good works, suffering, or study may be the result of salvation, they’re not the cause of it!

How will you escape God’s judgment?  One way:  through faith in God’s sacrifice.

It’s not what you do—it’s what He did!

May the LORD bless Nigeria, American and Israel and take care of us…

Rapture (Sermon Note) Part 1

Memory Verse: “Behold, I show you a mystery; we shall not sleep, but we shall all be changed,”1 Corinthians 15:51

Text: 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18

INTRODUCTION:

The second coming of Christ prophesied by Daniel in Daniel 7:13 is a sound biblical fact. This return shall be in two stages. The first, “being like a thief in the night” to receive unto Himself His church. This is popularly called The Rapture.

May the Holy Spirit Himself guide us into all truth, in Jesus Christ Name, Amen!

WHAT IS THE RAPTURE?

The word, Rapture, is not found anywhere in the Bible although it is used describe this great upcoming and memorable event. The rapture is the sudden catching up or sudden disappearance of holy and…

Rapture (Sermon Note) Part 2

Text:    1 Corinthians 15:50-53

Memory Verse: “In my father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.”John 14:2-3

INTRODUCTION:

Our last meeting revealed the meaning of the word RAPTURE. We also discover events surrounding the rapture as regards timing and other issues. Now, we will look at the reasons, the qualification as well fallacies surrounding the rapture.

May the good LORD teach our hearts and bless our lives with His truth by His Spirit, in Jesus Christ Name, Amen!

If You Feel God Has Wronged You, Please Forgive Him

Memorize: The LORD says:”What accusation did your ancestors bring against me? What made them turn away from me?” (Jeremiah 2:5)

Read: Jeremiah 2:2-5

“But this is what I have against you: you do not love me now as you did at first” (Revelations 2:4). What was wrong in the church at Ephesus may appear mild to many today, but to the LORD, it is most grievous. The church continued with their works and activities but left behind the only thing capable of giving meaning to their works – Love. According to 1 Corinthians 13:13, any good deed that is done outside of love erodes the goodness of it and renders the deed as unprofitable. Is love the basis of your works? Why are you…

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Come Now And Let Us Reason Together Says The LORD

God will wash you clean!

“Come now, and let us reason together, saith The LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool(Isaiah 1:18)

This scripture is undoubtedly one of the most touching statements ever recorded in the Bible. God pleads with His children to allow Him cleanse them of their sins and iniquities. You see, that you’re a Christian doesn’t mean you wouldn’t make any mistakes. You could make mistakes, but what you need to know is that the blood of Jesus is available to wash you from every wrong. It’s available to purify your heart. This is the Gospel

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Homesick for Heaven

Longing For Home

During Christ‘s ministry on earth, He had no home. He once said, “Foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay His head”(Matthew 8:20). Those who for Christ’s sake had given up houses and lands and loved ones knew little of home life or home joys. It was as if Jesus had said to them: “We have no lasting home here on earth, but my Father’s house is a home where we will be together for all eternity.”

Amid all the changes that sooner or later will come to break up the earthly home, we have the promise of a home where Christ’s followers will remain forever. The Bible teaches, “Here have we no continuing city, but we seek the one to come”(Hebrews

English: The story of a thanksgiving day, as in the offering of first fruits in Deuteronomy 26:1-11, illustration from a Bible card published by the Providence Lithograph Company between 1896 and 1913 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

A Thousand may fall dead beside you, ten thousand all round you, but you will not be harmed (Psalm 91:7)

“Let your aim be certain and he dies,” the chief commanded. The Indian warriors took aim and fired at the last remaining officer on horseback. Round after round after round screamed toward him. Twice they shot his horse out from underneath him. Four bullets tore through his coat. Over 700 of his comrades fell around him. They retreated in utter defeat. Yet the 23 year old lieutenant colonel remained unscathed, not a single mark on his skin.
Nine days later he wrote his brother, “…by the all-powerful dispensations of Providence I have been protected…

Before your burden overcomes you, trust God to put His arms underneath you.

Have you ever been in so much despair that you felt as if you were sinking in deep water? The difficulties of life can be oppressive. God doesn’t promise that we will escape the turbulent seas of life, but He does promise, “I will never leave you nor forsake you” (Hebrews. 13:5).

We can trust our faithful Father to be there in all of our struggles. “When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow you”(Isaiah. 43:2).

God, give me the faith of a little child!
A faith that will look to Thee—
That never will falter and never fail,
But follow Thee trustingly,

In Jesus Christ Name I pray, Amen!

“For there is One God and One Mediator…

Fearfully And Wonderfully Made (Psalm 139:14)

You are unique.

Psalm 139:15 (NKJV) “My frame was not hidden from You, when I was made in secret and skilfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.”
Long before you were born, you were already conceived in the Mind of God. Maybe you were unplanned by your parents, but not by God. He gave you your natural talents and your personality. Always remember you are unique and loved by God.

May the LORD bless Nigeria, American and Israel and take care of us; May the LORD make His face shine upon us, And be gracious to us; May the Lord lift up His countenance upon us, And give us peace, In Jesus Christ Name, we pray! Amen!

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English: Moses Pleading with Israel, as in Deuteronomy 6:1-15, illustration from a Bible card published 1907 by the Providence Lithograph Company (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Has God brought you to Canaan-your place of blessing?

The Lord said to Moses, “How long will these people treat me with contempt? How long will they refuse to believe in me, in spite of all the miraculous signs I have performed among them?”
Numbers 14:11
Are you at the threshold of your promised land? Has God brought you to Canaan-your place of blessing? Are you secretly longing to return to that old familiar place of Egypt, or will you go forward, trusting God?
God told the children of Israel, “I am the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage” (Deuteronomy

Occupy till I come

And he called his ten servants, and delivered them ten pounds, and
said unto them, Occupy till I come.
Luke 19:13
God does not measure His wealth in silver and gold; God measures
His wealth in Souls. The individual that doesn’t do what God has called
them to do is not pleasing to God. You are not pleasing God if you have
not found the place God has called you to be and doing what He has
called you to do. Only then are you productive. Only then are you
fulfilling His plan for you. He called you for a specific time, to a
specific place and to some specific people in order to do a specific
thing. You do not get rewarded for anything outside of that. The rest
of it is all wood, hay…

Cutting Your Expenses

For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down
first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish
it?
Luke 14:28
Another guideline to correctly managing God’s money is to cut your
expenses. If you are in debt because you lusted after things, you are
in sin. First, you need to repent. You violated Scripture. Secondly,
you need to downsize: buy a smaller house and a less expensive car. You
can then take that money you were using before and pay off all your
bills. After a year or two, you will have some money in the bank. God
will cause more abundance to come your way because you obeyed Him, then
you can go buy a bigger house and a better car, with cash. It happens
all the time to people who obey the Word.

Sermon by Pastor E A Adeboye, August 2012 RCCG Holy GhostService 60^th Annual Convention “Come Up Higher”

Come Up Higher

By Pastor E. A. Adeboye

COME UP HIGHER

Let’s lift our voices to the Most high God, and bless His holy name, give Him glory, give Him honor, give Him adoration, there is no one like Him.

Surely He is the Most high God, the miracle working God, the Almighty, the all sufficient God, the great provider, the great physician, the God of all flesh, with whom nothing shall be impossible, bless His holy name.

You are worthy to be praised my father, you are worthy, what a wonderful God you are… in Jesus mighty name we worship.

Lift your voice to the Almighty God and say Father, please pay special attention to me tonight. Speak to me directly…in Jesus mighty name we have prayed.

Lift your voice…