JUNE HOLY GHOST SERVICE
THEME: STRONGER THAN YOUR ENEMIES (Part 6): Victory
through Praise
JUNE 1ST, 2018.
BY: PASTOR E.A ADEBOYE
Thank
You Jesus.
One
of the young men who spoke said one thing is certain about those who are dead and
that is that they don’t speak.
Dead
people cannot praise God; only the living, only the living, only the living can
praise Him.
If
you are still alive lift your voice to the Almighty God and praise Him.
Magnify
His holy name
Let
Him hear your voice
Let
Him know that you are still alive
Glorify
His holy name
Praise
the King of kings
Praise
the Lord of lords
Praise
the Ancient of days
Only
the living, only the living can praise Him.
Give
Him glory, give Him honour, give Him adoration;
Bless
His holy name.
Thank
Him for what He did in January
Thank
Him for what He did in February
Thank
Him for what He did in March
Thank
Him for what He did in April
Bless
His holy name for what He did in May
And
then worship Him, magnify His holy name for He is about to do in June.
Only
the living can praise the Lord.
Give
Him glory, give Him honour, give Him adoration.
O
blessed be Your holy name.
We
give You glory, we give You honour, we give You adoration Lord;
We
bless You for the salvation of our souls;
We
bless You for health, we bless You for strength; we bless You for peace;
We
bless You for joy, we bless You for strength;
We
bless You because we know You are there in heaven preparing a place for us;
We
bless You because we know You are coming for us again very soon.
We
magnify Your holy name.
We
bless Your name, we bless Your name, we bless Your name.
You
are worthy to be praised O Lord;
You
are worthy to be magnified;
You
are worthy to be glorified.
There
is no one like You .
You
are the Ancient of days;
You
are the All Sufficient God;
We
bless Your name.
We
bless Your name.
We
bless You name.
We
give You all glory, we give You all honour, we give You all adoration.
We
say may Your name forever be glorified;
May
Your name forever be glorified;
May
Your name forever be glorified.
Thank
You Father.
Blessed
be Your holy name Lord.
Thank
You Saviour.
Thank
You Jesus.
Thank
You Almighty.
Thank
You Jesus.
Amen.
Let
somebody shout hallelujah.
Shake
hands with one or two people and say: good evening, God bless you.
Say
it as if you really mean it.
Let
the fellow know you really mean it.
Glory
be to God.
Psalm
18 from verse 1 to 3:
1
I will love Thee, O LORD, my strength.
2 The
LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer, my God, my strength, in
whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation and my high tower.
3
I will call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved
from mine enemies.
We are talking about:
Victory through Praise
And
I want to spend the next few minutes – five minutes or a little more – to talk
to those who are yet to be born again before we go to the bigger aspect of the
programme.
God
loves praise.
Psalm
22 verse 3 says He inhabits praise.
Praise
to God is what water is to the fish; He dwells in praise
You
could almost say if you take praise away from God there will be a problem, that
is, He surrounds Himself constantly with praise.
And
I will want you when you get home to study Revelation chapter 19 read from
verse 1 to 6, you will see heaven is constantly roaring with praise;
Shout
of hallelujah from one edge to the other of heaven, everybody just praising God.
Revelation
chapter 19 verse 1 to 6 – you will keep on hearing great voices all roaring
hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, almost non-stop.
The
Seraphim are special angels created for making music.
In
Isaiah chapter 6 verse 1 to 3, you will find that the Seraphim are constantly
saying holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty; the whole earth is full of His
glory.
There
was never time when God said to these Seraphim, can’t you keep quiet for a
while.
No,
God inhabits praise; He loves praise.
In
Revelation chapter 5 verse 11 to 14, the Bible says that the Angels that are
praising God are thousands of thousands.
Thousands
of thousands means millions
And
then, ten thousands of ten thousands that is talking about Billions of angels;
The
Angels are so numerous that the writer of the Book of Revelation just cannot
tell you the figure;
So,
he said, thousands of thousand; ten thousands of ten thousands angels combined
with all the creatures in heaven and on earth they were all crying and
worshiping praising God.
The
Almighty God loves praise so much that He says in Jeremiah 33 verse 11:
He
said when you are joyful what you should bring to Him is sacrifice of praise.
He
loves praise.
He
wants you to praise Him.
As
some of these children have already told us, He just wants you to keep on
praising Him, praising Him because He cannot praise Himself, so He needs you to
join.
It
is amazing that with all the angels praising Him in heaven, He is still looking
for more praise.
And
even if you have to praise Him sacrificially, He said bring the sacrifice of
praise
You
know, when I want to take thanksgiving offering, I have also told you, it is
not how much you give to Him that matters when you are saying thank you, it is
how you do it.
He
wants you to praise Him
He
wants you to dance
He
wants you to rejoice.
But
as much as God wants praise, He hates any form of sacrifice coming from a
sinner.
Proverbs
15 verse 8, said, the sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to God; God
does not want a praise coming from the wicked.
When
He says abomination, I think I have explain the word to you before; just in
case you are not there when I said it;
What
is an abomination?
It
is something that when you hear about it your body will crawl, something so
repulsive; you don’t even want to hear it – it is called an abomination.
And
I have told the story of what happened when two armies were fighting.
Don’t
let me mention the name of the country.
The
Government on one side, the opposite will always be called rebels.
And
it happened that there was a particular village where the government forces
were for some time before the opposition took it over from the government
forces;
The
soldiers who took over from the government forces wanted to punish the
villagers for supporting their enemies;
And
one of things they said was that they took the pregnant women and with bayonet
of their guns they open their belly and brought out the babies –
That
is an abomination; something that makes your body crawls and says how can
somebody do something so bad.
That
is how God feels when a sinner begins to praise Him.
He
does not want to hear the praise of a sinner - it is an abomination to Him.
That
is why you will understand Psalm 7 verse 11 says that God is angry with the
wicked every day.
Because
how can you be praising me when you know you belong to my enemy;
Hypocrisy
– God does not like it all.
He
says why are you calling Me Lord when you are not doing the things a command
you.
Why?
It
is mockery.
If
you are not yet born again and you want to praise God, come and surrender your
life to Him now.
Let
His blood wash your sin away; let you become a child of God who will then
qualify to open your mouth and praise the Almighty God.
So,
I am going to count from one to ten.
If
you are not sure of your salvation and you want to make sure, before I say ten
come and stand before me;
And
then I will pray with you and the blood of Jesus will wash away your sin and
then you will become a child of God and then your praise will become acceptable
to Him.
So,
I am counting now:
One,
two,
Sinner
who is praising God is mocking God and you don’t want to mock God; so, give
your life to Jesus, let Him wash away your sin and then your praises will
become acceptable to Him.
Three,
Remember
God cannot clap for Himself so He needs people to do the clapping for Him and
when you are clapping for Him don’t do it as if He is begging you, do it
voluntarily.
Four,
five, six, seven, eight, nine,
Now,
those of you who have come forward and those of you who are on the way…; those
of you who are on the way, keep coming; …talk to the Almighty God now and ask
Him to have mercy on you; ask Him to save your soul; ask Him to wash you clean
with His blood and to write your name in His Book of Life. Tell Him that from
now on you will serve Him; tell Him to become not just your Saviour but your
Lord; that you will obey Him from now on. Cry unto Him and say Lord I have come
for You to save my soul, please do so tonight. And those of you on the way,
hurry up, keep coming.
The
rest of us let us stretch our hands towards these our new brothers and sisters
and intercede for them that the One who saved our souls will save their own
souls also. Pray for them for a minute or two. Let us intercede for them now.
Let us pray that the Almighty God will have mercy on them that His blood will
wash away their sins and He will save their soul today and He will accept them
in to the family of God. Those of you on the way keep coming, just make sure
you get here before I finish praying and that will be okay. Thank You Father.
Keep coming, keep coming, keep coming, you are not late yet, just make sure you
get here before I finish praying because I want to pray for salvation now.
Thank You Father. Keep coming, keep coming, I will wait ten seconds for you;
keep coming.
In
Jesus mighty name we have prayed.
Saviour
I want to say thank You very much for Your word; I want to thank You for these
Your children who have come to surrender their life to you; please Lord,
everyone of them that has come to You today, receive in Jesus’ name; let Your
blood wash away their sins; save their souls O Lord, write their names in the
Book of Life; and please Lord, let them remain Yours forever in Jesus’ name. Any
time they call on You from now, Father, please answer them by fire in Jesus’
name. Thank You my Father.
In
Jesus mighty name we have prayed.
Amen.
Now,
those of you in front let me hear you shout hallelujah.
Good
I
will be praying for you from now on; so, I need your names and your address and
I need your prayer request. The Counselor will give you a card which you should
fill very quickly; we will wait for you to fill the card and return it to the
Counselors before will proceed further.
Congratulations.
If
you have nothing at all to praise God for praise God for children.
Number
two: Praise God for children’s teachers
Number
three: Praise God for good parents.
Number
four: Praise God for the Redeemed Christian Church of God.
And
then, look at that child when she got to Philippians chapter 4 verse 4:
She
said, rejoice in the Lord, again I say rejoice!
That
is exactly how you should praise God.
Any
time you want to praise Him, demonstrate; do it with everything in you.
I
want you to stand on your feet and just praise God like a child.
Rejoice
in the Lord!
Give
Him praise; give Him adoration; do it like a baby, do it like a child. Show Him
that He is your Daddy. Rejoice in the Lord and again I say rejoice! Come on, we
are all children in the hands of the Ancient of days. Rejoice in the Lord and
again I say rejoice!
Let
somebody shout hallelujah.
Please
be seated.
Praise
draws God like a magnet draws iron.
In
John chapter 4 verse 23 to 24, the Almighty God through the Lord Jesus Christ
said, He is a spirit and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and in
truth and He seek such to worship Him.
God
is seeking for worshipper; He is drawn to worshipper.
So,
when you praise God, God the Father
draws near.
When
God the Father is drawing near, the first thing He does like one of my children
said, is that He wants to leave His throne heaven and come to you.
And
for Him to come to you, to leave His throne in heaven to come to you, the first
thing He has to do is He stands up.
And
Psalm 68 verse 1 to 3 says let God arise and His enemies be scattered.
He
said, those that hate Him will flee before Him and those who don’t flee will be
melted by fire.
Because
you see, the Bible says in Psalm 97 verse 3, He said, His fire goes before Him
and burns up His enemies round about Him.
If
only you can praise God to the level that He can stand up, just stand up, your problems
will be over.
You
know, He made a promise in Isaiah 41 verse 10 to 13, when He said, I will help
you, I will hold you by your right hand I will help you; He said, you will seek
for your enemies and you will not find them.
I want to
prophesy to someone: as incredible as it may sound, before the end of this
month, there will be no enemy left in your life.
You
see, the Bible says in Proverbs chapter 16 verse 7, it says, when a man’s way
please God, He causes his enemies to be at peace with him.
You
wonder what that passage means.
There are various way
God can cause your enemies to be at peace with you.
One:
it can cause your enemies to destroy themselves - 2Chronicles chapter 20 from
verse 20 to 25.
If
your enemies are busy fighting themselves, you will be at peace; you will be at
peace.
If
all those who want to destroy you, if God suddenly send confusion into their
mist and they are busy killing themselves, you will be enjoying peace.
He
could do that.
Or,
He could paralyzed them physically – Psalm 23 verse 5.
Psalm
23 verse 5 says, thou prepareth a table before me, in the presence of my
enemies.
He
neutralized them; He makes sure they cannot even move.
Or,
He could paralyzed them mentally
Exodus
chapter 14 verse 13 to 28 - Moses said, just look at the enemies very well;
He
said because the enemies you see tonight, you will never see them again forever
And
he explained, he said the Lord will fight for you.
And
then when all of sudden the Red Sea opened and the Children of Israel began to
go through the Red Sea, if God has not paralyzed the thinking of the Egyptians
they would not have followed them into the middle of the sea; but He paralyzed
them mentally.
There
is an English proverb: “whosoever God wants to destroy, He will first of all
make mad”.
And
then, He could arrest them so that they will never be able to trouble you
again.
2Kings
chapter 6 verse 8 to 23 – the enemies came to arrest Elisha and Elisha arrested
them.
He
arrested them, got them feed, and send them back to their master; and the Bible
said they never came back.
I don’t know
what method God will use, whether by causing your enemies to fight themselves,
whether by paralyzing them physically or paralyzing them mentally or arresting
them, whatever method He wants to use;
In the Name that
is above every other name, very soon you will shout victory at last.
So
how do I get God the Father to draw near?
Very
simple:
Just
follow the example of the juju musicians.
In
those days before I was born again, we use to attend parties and the musician
will come before the dancing begins and will collect the names of those of you
who are there.
When
he begins to play, he will begin to call your name one by one; and then he will
begin to call you what you are not.
And
say, you are Emergence contractor, you are this, you are that.
You
are looking at me as if you don’t know what I am talking about – that is okay.
Thank
God for Jesus Christ.
And
as he begins to call you those names, big names, something within you will say go
and spray him with naira.
Something
within you will say you borrow this money – the money in your pocket you
borrowed it – and you tell that thing shut up, when I get home I will sort that
one out.
They
praise you until you get up.
How
do I praise God till He gets up?
I
begin to call Him His names.
He
is Jehovah El-Shaddai, the All Sufficient One – Genesis 17 verse 1
He
is the I AM THAT I AM – Exodus chapter 3 verse 14
He
is the LORD God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob – Exodus chapter 3 verse 15
He
is the Most High, He is the Almighty – Psalm 91 verse 1
He
is the One who is Higher than the highest – Ecclesiastes chapter 5 verse 8
He
is the One whose sit enthrone above – Isaiah 66 verse 1 – says heaven is His
throne.
He
is the Holy One of Israel – Psalm 71 verse 22.
And
then in the text that I read to you in Psalm 18 verses 1 and 2:
David
said, He is my rock, my fortress, my God, my deliverer, my strength, my trust,
my buckler, the horn of my salvation, my high tower…
I
am going to ask you to do something in a moment
I
want to remind you of something probably I have told you a couple of time
before.
I
told you my background: my father was not the richest man in the world (that is
putting it mildly) and yet he had two wives and quite a few children;
And
there are some of us who manage to get into school.
Whenever
it is time to pay school fees he will pick a quarrel with the wives so that
they won’t be able to come to him for money.
But
my mother had a way of getting my school fees.
She
will come very early in the morning and I was sleeping with my father on his
mat and she will begin to eulogize my father:
You
are the son of so and so; you are the son of so and so.
Your
father has a farm that when a bird flies all day long they won’t be able to
reach the end of the farm.
I
never discovered where that farm is.
When
your father threw a party, he fed the army, he fed the civilian;
She
would just go on
Most
of the thing she would be saying in those days, eh, I just wondered little boy
over there in the …
Who
is she talking about?
But
my father loved it.
She
would be going on and my father would say: you are calling on a man! It will be
well with you in this house!
And
then she will continue: the husband of my head, the owner of my head, the
husband of my chest, this and this…
And very soon my father is the one who will
say, what can I do for you today?
Haa,
we know things are hard but you know your child is ready for school and my
father will say don’t worry we will find the money.
My
mother will eulogize him until he will say don’t worry.
And
then, he will go out and borrow the money because he has not got the money.
I
want you to eulogize God just for few minutes.
Tell
Him: You are the Jehovah El-Shaddai, You are the Almighty God, You are the
Higher than the highest, You are greater than the greatest, there is no one
like You, You are the I AM THAT I AM, You are my husband, You are my provider,
You are my All in all, there is no one like You, You are my deliverer, You are
my source, You are my joy, You are my strength, You are the horn of my
salvation, You are my buckler, You are my trust, there is no one like You,
heaven is Your throne, the earth is Your footstool, all power belong to You,
there is no one like You, power belong to You, there is no one like You.
Eulogize
Him; praise Him; call Him by His name. That is what David did and he never lost
a battle. Praise Him. Call Him by His name. Tell Him You are the Jehovah
El-shaddai, You are I AM THAT I AM, You are the Ancient of days, You are the
Rock of ages, You are only One o Israel, You are the Lion of the tribe of
Judah, I praise You. There is no one like You. Call Him by His name, let Him
stand up for you and once He stands for you all the enemies will scatter; the
enemies will scatter, the enemies will scatter. Praise Him. Give Him glory.
Just call Him by His names: King of kings, Lord of lords, the I AM THAT I AM,
the Ancient of days, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the holy One of Israel, I
praise Your name, I give You glory, I give You honour. Thank You Father. Thank
You Jesus.
In
Jesus mighty name we have worshipped.
May
the Almighty God rise up for you today in Jesus’ name.
Please
be seated.
And what happens when
God the Son draws near?
Because
I said, when you praise Him, He draws near.
When
Jesus draws near, what will happen?
Because
Jesus is greatly attracted to praise
When
you read Mark chapter 10 verse 46 to 52: in the story of Bartimaeus, it will be
amazing to you that in a multitude He heard the cry of a beggar.
But
what He actually heard that caused Him to stand still is a statement: Jesus,
thou son of David.
That
was the game changer.
Haa,
somebody knows me here, he knows me all the way to my root; haa, go and bring
him.
Remember
there were as many people who want to silent that man but the ear of God will
hear praise no matter the crowd.
When
He draws near, God the Son draws near, darkness has to go.
Why?
John
9 verse 5: Jesus Christ said, I AM the light of the world.
When
He drew near, that day Bartimaeus was no longer in darkness
Because
the Bible says in John chapter verse 4 and 5 says: the light shines in darkness
and darkness cannot overcome it.
If
you can praise Jesus so that He can draw near you, darkness will have to let
you go.
Not
only that, the day He drew near to Bartimaeus that was the last day he ever
begged.
He does not
matter how your situation may be looking like right now, in the Name that is
above every other name, in the name of Jesus Christ you won’t have to beg
again.
When
God the Son draws near, He turns your enemies to your servant.
The
very people…
Thank You
Father.
The Lord says
this person concern will understand. He asked me to tell you, storms come,
storms go; and your present storm will soon pass away.
Thank
You Father.
I
want to say amen to this before I tell you.
God said
there is somebody here tonight; He said very soon your singing will be louder
than that of others.
When
your praise attracts Jesus, He can turn your enemies to your servant and I like
that.
Because
the very people who are trying to silence Bartimaeus were the very same people
God send to go and bring him.
In the Name
that is above every other name you will stand on this altar and say this is the
fellow who tries to destroy me, now he is my messenger.
Now,
Jesus loves children specially and I am sure you know that.
Why?
Because
in Matthew 21 verse 15 to 16, He told us out of the mouth of babes and
sucklings God has perfected praise.
Children
know how to praise God perfectly, in total abandon.
If
we have any problems brethren it is simply because we think that we are too old
to praise God like a child.
When
that child was doing the recitation, the child that I showed in the clip, she
does not care who is looking: rejoice in the Lord, again I say rejoice.
That
child was enjoying herself; and I saw that clip and I say O my God.
How
long before we so called adults would realize that before the One who is called
the Ancient of days we are children?
There
is nobody among us here today who is hundred years old – nobody.
And
a thousand years is like a day before God.
If
only we can approach Him like a little child, like a little child!
Like
these children who came to praise God and some people were trying to stop the
children, the Bible says Jesus rebuke them.
There
is a big lesson in that one -
Number
one: if you don’t want to praise God don’t bother those who want to praise.
Because
if you are not praising God and you try to stop those who are praising Him, He
will rebuke you and rebuke of God can be very terrible.
You
know the story:
David
danced before God; the wife looked at him and says you called yourself a king,
look at the way you are dancing.
The
Bible said she died barren.
She
is the only barren in the Bible who died barren because she criticized the one
praising God.
And
not only that when Jesus brought the children, He said bring them, bring them;
He did something, He carried them in His hands.
How
many of you will just want God to just pick you up today and then just carry
you, carry you, carry you, carry you.
O
my God!
Several
years ago I was burdened by several things:
Problems
in the church; problems this way, problems that way; problems from unfaithful
brethren, problems from deceivers;
And
I sat down discourage and suddenly I heard God say My son do not worry I AM
carrying you.
Haa!
If
He is carrying me then He is carrying my loads.
If
He is carrying me, He is carrying my problems.
I pray today
for someone here from today onward the Almighty God will carry you.
But
He can only carry children; He never carried any adults – No.
When
Peter said if You are the One walking on water ask me to come over to you.
He
said, come.
And
Peter came out of the boat and was walking towards Him; he took his eyes off
Jesus and he began to sink and he said help me.
Jesus
just held him by the hand and together they walk back into the boat.
He
did not carry him.
Why?
He
is already an adult, too big to be carried.
If
only we can approach praise from that perspective from now on.
If
we begin to praise Him like a child; let anybody say what they like, God will
begin to carry us.
You
know one of His names is the Burden Bearer.
I pray for
every one of you here today, in the Name that is above every name God will
begin to carry you.
Not only did He carry them, He blessed them.
Haa,
when you know the importance of the divine blessing, if that is all that you
get from God for praising Him, you don’t need more.
You
can go through the scriptures; He said to Abraham, I will bless you – Genesis
12 verse 1 to 3
Abraham
had nothing when God said I will bless you; some few years later the servant of
Abraham said, God has blessed my master greatly.
Now,
he has silver, he has gold, he has cattle, he has everything, because blessed
him.
Many
at times when I am walking about in the night and some people see me and they
begin to run so I turn to them and I say God bless you.
Those
who are intelligent among them will go back rejoicing – glory be to God; thank
You Jesus.
But
you will still see some people, Daddy, pray for me.
I
had already say God bless you; there is no prayer greater than that.
Because
when God blesses you, all the host of heaven will come and support you;
everything on earth, everything underneath the earth will be working on your
success.
I say in the
Name that is above every other name God bless you.
I
have given the example before:
In
Genesis 27 verse 38 to 40, the only blessing that Esau got was a leftover
blessing.
He
said to his father: haha, don’t you have any blessing left?
The
father said, well, let me give you a little bit that is leftover; a little bit
that is leftover.
Not
long after that one, when Jacob send to Esau, I am coming home.
The
messenger came back and said Esau is coming to you with four hundred men.
Just
a little God bless you!
Now,
he has four hundred men has his bodyguards.
I
tried to explain that to my children:
I
said the first time a president came to Redemption Camp, to Holy Ghost
congress, because of the security risk involved – open space, hundreds of
thousands of people - he came with two hundred and fifty bodyguards.
But
he is president.
Esau
had four hundred.
So,
who is bigger in the two?
And
all Esau got was leftover blessing.
When
you praise God the way you ought to praise Him, Jesus will carry you in His hand;
He will lay His mighty hand on your head and bless you.
Today, in the
Name that is above every other name, I represent the Lord Jesus Christ and I
decree God bless you.
When
you worship Jesus the way you ought to worship Him, you will get victory –
Victory
over incurable disease, victory over legion of demons, victory over premature
death; you just get victory upon victory.
Now,
because of time, what happens when the
Holy Spirit draws near?
Thank You
Father.
The Lord asks
me to remind somebody, if He ask me to remind you it means He must have told
you before; that between any two days there is an evening and He asked me to
tell you: you might be passing through an evening now but your new day is very
near.
Thank You my
Father.
Now, this one
is for me because the Lord says there is someone here today, the day is near
when pleasant things will begin to happen to you in twos.
When
the Holy Spirit draws near because the Holy Spirit is also attracted to praise,
when He draws near, He shakes all the shakable.
When
the Holy Spirit draws near, He shakes all the shakables.
Acts
of the Apostle chapter 4 verse 23 to 31, the Apostles gathered in a room and
they began to praise God: O You made the heaven, You made the earth, etcetera
etcetera
And
the Spirit of God came in and shook the house.
Anything the
enemy had planted in you, planted in your house, planted in your church,
planted in your place of work, shall be shaking loose tonight in Jesus’ name.
Because
when the Holy Spirit comes in, He comes in like rushing mighty wind.
If
you can just praise God so that the Holy Spirit can come in, He will come in as
a rushing mighty wind – Acts chapter 2 verse 1 to 4.
So,
He rather comes in like a rushing mighty wind or He comes in as fire.
When
you are attracts the Holy Spirit through praise and He comes in, he comes in
like fire and the fire will begin to burn everything that is hindering you –
Judges
15 verse 14 to 15 – they brought Samson bound to the Philistines and they began
to rejoice thinking they have got him, the Holy Spirit came down mightily
And
the Bible says the rope that bound him was burnt as if they come in contact
with fire.
I don’t know
what the enemies has used thus far to limit your progress but as we praise God
tonight the Holy Spirit will come down and that fire of God will destroy every
yoke in your life.
So,
when the Trinity – God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit become
attracted to you through praise then something happens.
According
Psalm 67 verse 5 to 7, that one of my sons mentioned earlier on, He said let
the people praise thee O God let all the people praise thee; then he said
certain things will begin to happen:
Number
One – the earth will begin to yield her increase; suddenly the ground will
become fertile.
Do
you know, if you praise God, if you are farmer and you sing praises while you
are farming your harvest will be bounteous?
Then
he went on to say, God, even our God will bless us.
But
he went further that God will bless us and all the earth shall fear Him.
Do
you know there are blessings that can frighten your enemies?
Oh,
if you read Genesis 26 verse 12 to 16…
Thank You
Father.
The Lord asks
me to tell someone, He said relax I will not abandon you.
Thank
You.
In
Genesis 26 verse 12 to 16, when God blessed Isaac, initially the Philistines
envied him but at a stage the blessing became so much and they became afraid of
him.
You
know God can so prosper you that your enemy become afraid.
That
is going to be your testimony very soon.
But…,
and I am closing now; …in that passage where he says let the people Him so that
God can bless us fearfully, he included a condition and the condition is let
all the people praise Him.
How
many people are to praise Him?
So,
even if you have to beg the fellow next to you and say please O if it is only
for tonight join me in praising God;
Because
he says it must be all of us, all of us, all of us.
I
know you are a gentleman, I know you are a lady, I know you are important but
for God sake if it is only just for tonight in order that God may send down
that blessing that will cause my enemy to fear me, kindly join me in praising
God.
You
probably notice in the song we sang – special hymn that we sang, the last verse
says “I will sing hallelujah’ and the next line says ‘join me in shouting
hallelujah’.
So
I am going to ask, please at least because of the rest of us, if you are not
use to praising God, try tonight because everybody must praise Him.
If
you are an elder you can seat down to praise Him, He will understand.
But
those of us who are young for the next ten to fifteen minutes let us praise God
like we have never done before and let us see what God we do this month.
Let
us try Him and find out whether it is true that it is written if you will all
just praise Him, He will bless us and the whole earth will fear Him.
So,
if you are young and you are able please just stand up and begin to praise God and
everybody should please do it.
If
you cannot stand, you can seat down but you must please praise God and do it
loudly, do not do it quietly; praise Him, praise Him like you have never done
before.
And
you are welcome if you want to come before the altar to praise Him it is okay
by Him. Just go ahead and praise the Almighty God. Let us worship Him until God
the Father will draw near, until God the Son will draw near, until God the Holy
Spirit will draw near; let us praise Him; let us praise Him.
Please
join me in praising Him.
Magnify
His holy name. Call Him by His name; adore Him; do it joyfully; do it like
little children; praise Him; praise Him. Thank You Father.
In
Jesus mighty name we have worshipped.
My
Father and my God because these Your children have worshipped You tonight,
arise for them, scatter all their enemies; enemies from their father’s house
scatter them; enemies from their mother’s house scatter them; enemies in their
places of work scatter them; enemies within and without scatter them and even
the enemies within the house of God scatter them. Almighty God, in order that
they may know that a praise to worship God, every one of Your children who have
praise You today, give them a new testimony. The kind of blessing that will
frighten their enemies, Father, release unto Your children. Thank You Almighty
God. Thank You for victory. Glory be to Your holy name.
In
Jesus mighty name we have prayed.
Amen.
Let
somebody now shout a really big hallelujah
