The story of how a Lagos socialite tried to seduce him gives give credence to the saying that
the bigger the head, the bigger the headache. This readily formed the nucleus
of Pastor Enoch Adeboye’s sermon on Thursday night at the ongoing 62nd annual
convention of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG.
It was a deliverance service and almost one million people
had converged at the auditorium of the Redemption Camp for the event and they
were held spellbound when, their revered General Overseer, Pastor Adeboye
started to narrate a ministry-threatening experience he had to the
consternation of the crowd.
Preaching a sermon titled; ‘The yoke-destroyer’, the man of
God enumerated three different kinds of yoke that truncate one’s dream of nosy
future to include; physical yoke, material yoke and spiritual yoke, explaining
that the Holy Spirit is the only yoke destroyer who is able to destroy any form
of yoke in any man’s life. He further challenged the congregation to be filled
with the power of the Holy Spirit and be
agents of God who will be breaking yokes, noting that there were certain
forces or challenges of life that human beings cannot solve by their own
efforts except through the help of the Holy Spirit.
Drawing inspirations from the Holy Bible, where many persons
were said to have undergone several life-threatening challenges, he narrated
that a high profile woman who was an executive of the West African Examinations
Council, WAEC, did everything to seduce him. According to him, the woman came
to him and announced to him that God had told her that he would be her husband,
and immediately he rebuked her, saying “you know that I am happily married and
have children.” That didn’t deter the woman who continued to pester him, and
even came to the camp to threaten his wife, saying “if you stand on my way to marrying
this man, I will kill you.”
Pastor Adeboye took the matter to then Inspector General of
Police who immediately invited the woman and her husband to his office and
after a meeting banned the randy woman from entering the Redemption Camp or ever
making passes at the man of God. “But that measure didn’t stop her. I travelled
to London without telling anybody, to work on the church’s devotional, Open
Heaven. As soon as I settled down in the room, the telephone rang and the voice
at the other end said: “welcome to London. I am coming in 15 minutes,” the
cleric continued, wondering why his audience responded with a laughter.
He said he told the voice: “You don’t know anything, you
know that the Police in London are very efficient and if you dare come here, I
will call the Police for you.” There is a Police station a few meters from
where I am staying and she must have known that because she didn’t come but
kept calling me.
“I cried to God Who told me ‘You know of the scripture that
says, whatever you bind on earth is bound in heaven.’ Believe me honestly,
unless God helps, there are thongs you cannot handle on your own,” he stated,
urging the large crowd to stand and pray with holy anger: “Anyone hindering my
progress, before this month is over, Holy Spirit send down Your fire to consume
them”. And spontaneously, the huge crowd of worshippers responded with over 15
minutes of violent supplications to the Most High God.
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