John 4 v 22-24 Jesus was speaking here to the woman of Samaria, and He said “Ye worship what ye no not what, we know what we worship for salvation is of the Jews. But the hour comet and now is when the true worshippers shall worship the father in Spirit and in Truth, for the father seeketh such to worship Him.” God is a spirit and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth.
Now the greatest wonder of worship of God is that when we are not even sure that prayer will succeed, we know that worship will never fail. This is because the most important ingredients to answered prayer is found in Isaiah 55v 6. It says seek the Lord while He may be found; call on Him while He is near. In other words, there may be a time when you will seek for Him and He may not be found, there is a time you may call on Him and He may not be near. Now the question is: since God is invincible, how do I know when He is near? And when we talk about Him being near, how near is near?
In Proverbs 8 v17 God said I love those who love me, those who seek me early shall find me. Ok , when is early? Is it at midnight, is it 6am, is it 5am? When is early, how early is early? So we have a problem, even in prayer. How do we know whether He is hearing us or not because we don’t know whether He is near or far? But the problem is solved for us by saying if you worship God in spirit and in truth, God Himself will seek you out. It is not a question of me seeking Him now; it will be Him seeking me. And if God is seeking me, there can be no mistakes, because believe it or not God knows your address. If God wants to visit you, He doesn’t need anybody to point out to Him where you come from. He knows where you are born, He knows where you residing, He knows your present address. When He was talking to somebody that He wanted to send to Saul, He said Saul of Tarsus; is in a particular house, at a particular time.
He knows where you are born; He knows your present address, He knows the street, the name of the street was called straight. He said in the house of Simon, not just an ordinary Simon, a particular Simon. God have been numbering houses before you are born, He knows your address, and I am praying for somebody here today that as great as this crowd is God will seek you out. But that is where the beauty lies, For God to seek you out, God who is seated on his throne, for God to pay you a visit, he has to get up from His throne. And Psalm 68 v1-3 says let God arise and His enemies be scattered. So when you worship God and He is coming to pay you a visit, He arises. That is the greatest wonder of all! As soon as God arises, your enemies begin to scatter.
In Judges 15 v 14-15 the Bible tells us the story of how Samson dealt with the Philistines and they became angry and decided to lay a siege on the children of Israel, the children of Israel asked them why are you here? And they replied we want Samson. They said don’t worry we will hand him over to you. And three thousand men went to the rock Etam to go and bind Samson, he said “well just make sure you are not going to kill me because if you attempt that whether we are relatives or not, it is not going to matter”. They said no, we will only bind you and hand you over to the enemy. By the time they were binding him, God said nothing, they brought him down him from the mountain, God remained silent. And then they handed Him over to the enemy and the enemy began to rejoice, then God arose. Every one of you here tonight, and those of you listening to me all over the world, God will arise for you tonight. And as soon as God arose, the enemies of Samson scattered, those who are slow in scattering got killed; just One thousand of them.
It doesn’t matter how many enemies followed you into the month of June, In the name that is above every other name, by the time rises tomorrow they shall be no more. So what is your enemy tonight? Because when we talk about enemies many at times, people are thinking about mother in law, father in law, daughter in law, not necessarily so. Your enemy could be sickness, so if your enemy is sickness, that pain, that ache which is not allowing you to enjoy the abundant life that God has for you, if that is your enemy, all you need to get rid of it is to worship God. Mark 1 v 40-45 the Leper worship God, he was incurable until he worshipped God. The beauty about the story of that leper, is that when he was going down on his knees; he was a leper. But the time he finished worshipping and he got up, he was whole.
Tonight as you worship the Almighty God before the worship is over, you shall be whole in Jesus name. My advice however is that after you have been made whole, keep worshipping God; so that the sickness may never return. I have told you the story of a man who was carried to the headquarters years ago, completely stiff, his hands stiff like iron, his legs like iron. He couldn’t bend his hands by any means; he couldn’t bend down by any means. He came like that, we ask him if he will give his life to Jesus he did, we prayed a simple prayer, immediately everything became normally; he was able to kneel, he was able to raise his hands, he was able to clap, he was able to do everything he wasn’t able to do before. For two weeks he was always ready at the service, singing and praising God and after some time we couldn’t find him again. And so we did a follow up And he said “what is the problem? If you go to the hospital and you get well won’t you come home?” “Is it your church that healed me? I came to your church and I got healed, thank you very much that is all”. He got his healing but he lost it because some month later I saw him as I was driving from the university of Lagos I saw him; this time not only were the hands back the way there were, not only were the legs back the way they were, the mouth is now open and won’t close.
The healing that God will give you tonight shall be permanent in Jesus name. What if your enemy is not sickness suppose it is bondage. And you know that forces of darkness are holding you captive, like one of the brother before me who spoke, the mad man of Gardereans fell on his knees, before the demon could take over his tongue he was already on his knees worshipping God. By the time he was on his feet all the demons were gone. When you find yourself in bondage, worship God. You don’t have to attend a deliverance service if you know how to worship God. You cannot be a good worshipper of God and demons will stay with you, it is not possible. I have told you before that you don’t find me in any of our meetings beginning the service the way some people will do, saying we are about to start this service now devil we bind you etc, you don’t hear me say that, why? Because I have seen people binding the devil in the morning service and then they bind him in the evening service which means he got loose between morning service and evening service.
Now if he is that slippery how do I know that five minutes after I bind him, he won’t be loose? But I have found a better way of dealing with the devil; he doesn’t stay where people are praising God. Because God happens to be his number one enemy and nobody likes to stay where they are praising their enemy. That is why I start my own service by asking you to praise God. May I hear someone shout another halleluiah! If your enemy is bondage, worship Him, and after He has set you free, keep on worshipping Him. You can see me hammering on what He will do after. Because tonight as we worship God, God will do marvelous thing in our lives, and I want your healing to be permanent, I want your deliverance to be permanent.
Again I have told you the story of a man who swallowed a charm to make money. They gave him seven years; seven years. He will be ridiculously rich but after seven years you will die. He said no problem. Seven years of enjoyment is better than a life time of suffering. So he swallowed the charm. But the money didn’t come and what he swallowed began to bite him inside. A few days for seven years to conclude, he ran into the church. We asked him to give his life to Jesus he did, we prayed a simple prayer and he vomited the thing, right there at the headquarters. And of course for some time he was coming and he was praising God. After some time we didn’t see him again. And we did a follow up. And he said thank you very much they told me that I swallowed the first one wrongly. If you don’t continue in the worship of God after deliverance the demons will come back and this time they won’t come back alone, they will come with their friends. I am praying that your deliverance will permanent in Jesus name. So he swallowed it correctly this second time and money began to follow like a river. When it was almost seven years now, he had a brain wave; after all, all this demons are in Africa so if I run to Britain the weather there is cold so they won’t be able to handle that. So he jumped into a plane on his way to London, He died on the plane. The devil will always come for his own pay.
Thank God I belong to Jesus Christ. If you need mental or material breakthrough, worship God, In 2 Chronicle 1 v 6-15 the Bible tells us that Solomon worshipped God by offering a thousand burnt offering to God. It was an act of worship, the kind that the people around him had never seen before. That night God paid him a visit and told him anything you want ask. And the boy said, I want wisdom because he was so dull and he knew he was dull. Give me wisdom; give me knowledge so that I can serve you the way I ought to. The Bible says God gave him wisdom and gave him in addition, that before him there was no one like him and after him there have never been another one.
When you want wisdom this time I’m not only talking to student, I’m talking to all of us, wisdom is the principal thing. Business men needs wisdom, academicians needs wisdom. Even in handling your marital affairs you need wisdom, and if you need wisdom, worship God. He will give you wisdom and when you worship Him in Spirit and in truth and your way that may seems to be securely blocked by the enemy will be forced open. Occasionally as you go through life you find that when you turn to the right it seems to be blocked, you turn to the left it seems to be blocked, front is blocked, it becomes difficult to go back and you don’t even know what to do anymore; worship God! Like somebody mentioned earlier on the children of Israel were securely blocked by the wall of Jericho but when they worshipped God, the wall came down flat. You know among Pentecostal there is praise, they call it “shout down your wall!” In other word if you have a wall blocking your way, shout so loudly that the wall will fall; now it may sound funny but if that shout is not just hoooo! But if it is halleluiah, it will work. Is anybody faced with a blockage to your way tonight; let me hear you shout that blockage down. I told you that all I want to do is to briefly prepare the ground to worship God; we want to do something we haven’t done for a long time.
Daddy says “son, do you believe that I am Unchangeable?” And of cause the answer is “yes Lord”. He said “son do you believe that what I have done before, I can do it again?” I said “yes Lord”. So He asked me to tell you that the God of Joshua is still here today. And the way you shouted casually wasn’t the way He was expecting you to. Is anybody here having an obstacle? Get on your feet and shout a big halleluiah to the Almighty God. I can assure you that it may sound childish but you will testify. The Lord says there is someone here tonight; He said I will lengthen your life so that you can praise me more. Daddy says it is written that the first shall become last, but the last shall become first. He asked me to tell you that the last shall become first shall be your portion.
Whenever you worship God, He responds mightily. Any time you worship God He responds mightily. Let me give you an example, Davis said in Psalm 118 v1 he said my heart is fixed within me, I will praise the Lord, the Almighty God responded in Psalm 23 v 5 David now said thou prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. If you will decide to worship God without changing, whatever may be happening He will prepare a table before you in the presence of your enemies. Do you know what that means? Irrespective of what your enemies may try, God will bless you. David said in Psalm 34 v 1 He said I will bless the Lord at all time, His praise shall continually be in my mouth.
You know what God said? “David, since you are going to bless me at all time. Since my praise shall continually be in your mouth, surely goodness and mercy shall follow you all the days of your life.” You make up your mind that you are going to worship Him, He will respond mightily! I expect that fire will fall tonight, so it doesn’t matter what the enemy may do, this is your night because you are going to worship God like you have never done before and He will respond like He has never done before. I told those who were with me in Israel… I said there are two categories of worshippers, there are those who worship God, those who praise Him, after something has happened, after miracle, I called them baby worshipper.
There are those who worship God before their miracles come, they are the adult worshipper, people who will worship God, when the wall is still standing, people who will worship God even when the sickness is still there, people who will worship God when it looks as if they may never have a child. Because it is the adult worshippers, who worshipped God before the miracle, that always get more than they asked for. And tonight, just as David said Thou anoint my head with oil, my cup runneth over. The cup of someone will run over in Jesus name, if you are the one let me hear you shout halleluiah! Now before we move into the session of worship, I need to let you know that according to the word of God when a sinner tries to bring a sacrifice to Him, He doesn’t receive it, the word of God says a sacrifice of a sinner is an abomination to God. So if you are not yet born again, when it gets to the stage where everybody is worshipping God don’t join us, but if you will make up your mind that you will give your life to Jesus Christ right now, He will save your soul and then you will become one of those who qualifies to worship the Almighty God. Because the real meaning of surrendering your life to Jesus is to say from now, you are the One I want to worship.
I won’t worship the devil anymore, I won’t worship the flesh anymore, I won’t worship money anymore, I won’t worship sin anymore. If you want to surrender your life to Jesus Christ I want you to begin to come now …. And as you come begin to talk to God, ask Him to have mercy on you, ask Him to save your soul. Promise Him that you are surrendering to Him tonight. And the rest of us please stretch your hands towards these people and ask the Almighty to have mercy on them and save their souls. Ask that the Almighty God will forgive them of their sins. …In Jesus mighty name we have prayed. Father I want to thank you for all these your children who have come forward tonight to surrender their lives to you; you are the One who promised oh Lord that whosoever will come unto you, you will not cast out, they have come to you now, Father receive them in Jesus name, have mercy on them in Jesus name.
Let your blood wash away their sins tonight in Jesus name, save their souls and write their names in the book of life in Jesus name. Father from now on, as they worship you and call on you, please answer them by fire in Jesus name. Don’t let them go back into the world and let them serve you forever, in Jesus mighty name we have prayed. Now I want to rejoice with those of you who have come forward, I want to promise you that from now on anytime I am praying I will remember you in my prayers and very soon you will be receiving miracles, even miracles you didn’t ask for, so I am going to need your names, your address and your prayer I want you to pay attention, I want to tell you one story before we do what we are about to do tonight, some of you have heard the story before. We were in Abuja for the first Holy Ghost Service; we wanted to start a church so we decided to have an Holy Ghost Service. We were going to be there for three days I was in the hotel where they lodge me and I was praying with all my heart; Almighty God save soul, heal the sick, set the captives free, you know the normal prayer a good pastor should pray. When all of a sudden God spoke to me and said “son shut up” and like I used to say I was happy when He says shut up because at least it means He is listening. He said all that I have done for you when have you thank Me for it? Do this, do that, am I your servant? I said am very sorry Lord. He said for the next three days all I want you to do is worship Me, don’t ask Me for anything just worship Me. Am telling you it was very difficult; I will sing, I will dance, I will worship Him for a while the mind will go to something I need. Then I will say do this, He will say go back to worship. I did it for three days, towards the end of the three days, He said to me “son, because of what you have done, go home, select elders who will go and cement the foundation of the church, He said because all you have seen thus far is addition but now you about to experience multiplication. I won’t tell you how many church we have in the great Abuja but I can tell you this; one minister of Abuja pulled down forty six of our churches in two weeks and it didn’t bother us at all. That will tell you the meaning of multiplication. Tonight you are not going to ask God for anything, all you are going to do is to praise Him, for the next thirty minute or more if the Holy Spirit says we should continue you will just Worship God. If you want to sing, sing, if you want to dance, dance if you want to clap, clap. Just worship Him your own way. If you want to knee, knee down, if you want to lie, lie down. Just begin to worship Him for the next thirty minutes…. In Jesus name we have worship.
Blessed be your name 2ce
Oh Lord! Halleluiah Mighty is your name 2ce
Oh Lord! Halleluiah Holy is your name 2ce
Oh Lord! Halleluiah Jesus is your name 2ce
Oh Lord! Halleluiah Almighty God,
King of kings, Lord of lords,
I Am that I Am, Ancient of days,
the Glorious One, the Powerful One,
the Mighty One, the Loving One,
the Faithful One, glory be to your Holy name.
My father and my God because your children have worshipped you tonight, arise for them. Arise oh Lord; let your enemies be scattered 4ce Arise, oh Lord! Arise. Halleluiah! Arise oh Lord; let your enemies be scattered 4ce Arise, oh Lord! Arise. Halleluiah! Lord of host arise for your children tonight, if their enemies be sickness drive it away in Jesus name, if their enemies be bondage, drive it away in Jesus name. If their enemies be demons scatter them in Jesus name, if their enemies be poverty destroy it in Jesus name, if their enemy be barrenness, remove it tonight in Jesus name, if their enemies be sorrow remove it tonight in Jesus name. Because your children have worshipped you Oh Lord arise for them, give them something to sing about. They have worshipped you Lord, every wall of Jericho in their way bring it down tonight. Thank you my father, glory be to your name. In Jesus mighty name we have worshipped. Let me hear somebody shout a big halleluiah!
FROM RCCG JUNE 2013 HOLY GHOST SERVICE
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