OPEN HEAVEN 27 SEPTEMBER 2019 FRIDAY RAISING YOUR CHILDREN
OPEN HEAVEN 27 SEPTEMBER 2019 MEMORISE:And all thy children shall be taught of the LORD; and great shall be the peace of thy children. – (Isaiah 54:13)
Who is the richest pastor in the world, do you know? We are used to thinking about pastors keeping in mind the way they bring faith to our hearts and encourage us. We are not always into the question of their net worth. Still, it may be interesting for many Nigerians to know whether some of their pastors have found their names on the list of the richest ones in the world.
Who are the richest pastors in the world: top 10
The rankings change every year and everything we can do to get the most recent information is keep an eye on reliable sources and their updates. Here we have a list of ten most well-off pastors in the entire world and you are welcome to check this information out right here and right now.
*CHURCH* is our *UNIVERSITY*.
*GOD* is our *CHANCELLOR*
*JESUS* is our *VICE CHANCELLOR*
*HOLY SPIRIT* is our *LECTURER*
*ANGELS* are our *GUIDANCE*
*BIBLE* is our *HANDBOOK*
*CLERGY* is our *CLASS REP*
Proverbs 12:15 says, “Fools think they are doing right, but the wise listen to advice.” (NCV)
How many of you can recall a time when someone gave you good advice that you did not heed and you ended up making a terrible mistake because of it? Oh yes, my hand is waving wilding in the air! Hmmm, let me count the times ...
1. Save sex for marriage. 2. Only marry the person God chooses for you. 3. Stay close to Jesus. 4. Don’t gossip or lie or____________. 5. Do not take on too much debt. 6. Eat right and exercise regularly.
Nothing why your educated enemy are far greater than you and always go far to win over your life to rule you "Standard Christians" is consistency and faithfulness. He's consistency and faithful to schedule time to detect whatever it's coming over your life, he's consistency and faithful to put it down on writings, he's consistency and faithful to follow it up to bring it to reality as the days passes by, he's consistency and faithful to program himself with it to even utilize and force to detect your movements even when he stood in public and among the fellow Christians brethrens in order to be able torment you "the Christians with your God".
How good are your decision-making skills? Have you ever wondered “What if I had … ?” — especially when you didn’t realize the outcome you had expected? Perhaps you never realized the Bible is a book about making wise decisions. Not only that, it’s filled with examples of good and bad decisions and their outcomes.
The road is not always straight, but it eventually arrives.
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As a woman, you are not automatically assigned the job of "chief worrier." Instead, fill your heart with trust, hope, and God's peace. You'll sleep so much better at night.
Even though, the enemy have focus on you, always planned and taught in his mind for your downfall by all means, in order for you to have feel restless and not move to your next steps, and progress; won't you think back and remember when he was on your age, he has been totally set free of being on-top of the world in even been a world President.
OPEN HEAVENS 21 SEPTEMBER 2019 MEMORISE:Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and forever. – (Hebrews 13:8)
OPEN HEAVENS 21 SEPTEMBER 2019 READ: DEUTERONOMY 7:1-12 (KJV)
1. When the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than thou;
OPEN HEAVEN 20 SEPTEMBER 2019 MEMORISE:With good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men: –(Ephesians 6:7)
OPEN HEAVEN 20 SEPTEMBER 2019 READ: EPHESIANS 6:5-8 (KJV)
5. Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ;
6. Not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;
7. With good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men;
8. Knowing that whatsoever good thing any man doeth, the same shall he receive of the Lord, whether he be bond or free.
OPEN HEAVEN 20 SEPTEMBER 2019 MESSAGE WITH HYMN, PRAYER POINTS, DAILY DECLARATIONS AND BIBLE READING
GOOD MORNING,
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Whenever our actions are not based on pleasing the Lord, they will definitely be tainted by a purpose that is far from ideal.
For example, only God knows the motive behind Cain’s sacrifice in Genesis chapter 4, but it ultimately led to the murder of his younger brother. Indeed, the Holy Spirit says we should not be weary in doing good deeds (Galatians 6:9).
However, the only way we will not be weary in well-doing is when we do it as to the Lord, simply because human beings can be very ungrateful, and if we are waiting for the gratitude of men, we may end up not doing any good thing at all.
Thankfully, the Lord has promised to commend and reward those who do good deeds. Speaking on this, the Lord said inMatthew 25:34-35:
“34 Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:
35 For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in:”
There are times when I feel the people I am laboring over do not appreciate my love, concern and efforts to make them what God wants them to be, and I just feel like stopping it all.
Foluke Adenike Adeboye was born on Tuesday 13th July 1948 to the family of Jacob and Morounfola Adelusi Adeyokunnu. It would appear to be that Pa Jacob was the first son of his father from the royal family and lineage in Ijeshaland, the Owa Obokun Oji, Osun State. Thus, Foluke Adeboye is a princess.
Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye is a Nigerian Pastor and the General Overseer of The Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG)
Pastor Adeboye has a PhD in applied mathematics from the University of Lagos, and worked as a lecturer in mathematics at the universities of Lagos and Ilorin. After joining the RCCG, he began working to translate the sermons of its then Pastor and founder, Rev. Josiah Olufemi Akindayomi, from Yoruba into English.
In 1981 Adeboye was appointed General Overseer the church, taking over from Papa Akindayomi, who had died the previous year. For three years he filled the role part-time, still lecturing at Ilorin, until giving up his university position to preach full-time.
The church, which was not well known before Adeboye took charge, now claims branches in over a hundred countries, including more than 14,000 in Nigeria. Adeboye has stated that his aim is to put a church within five minutes of every person on Earth.
In 2008, Newsweek magazine named Adeboye one of the fifty most powerful people in the world. He is married to Foluke Adeboye, also a pastor, and together they have for children, Adeolu Adeboye – Son; Leke Adeboye – Son; Dare Adeboye – Son; Bolu Adubi – Daughter.
EARLY LIFE AND CAREER
Pastor E.A. Adeboye was born on 2nd March 1942 at Ifewara in the present day Osun State. His parents (now of blessed memory) were indigenes of the town, which is about midway between Ilesha and Ondo towns.
He had a strict Christian upbring which was engineered by a church going culture, which was the prevalent style of Christianity of those days. This church-going attitude gave him an appreciation of God, but made no extraordinary or outstanding Christian out of him.
He under went primary and secondary education which were almost curtailed due to the problem of funds, barefooted and in tears. He recalls “for the first seventeen years of my life, I never had to wear shoes”.
However, as God would have it, he survived against all odds to graduate from the University in 1967, at the age of 25. Between 1967 and 1975 he had added two more degrees, an M.Sc in hydrodynamics and a Ph.D in Applied Mathematics, and lectured at the University of Lagos and university of Ilorin. Before his lectureship at these Universities, the G.O had taught mathematics at two secondary schools viz: Okeigbo Grammar School, Okeigbo near Ondo and the Lagos Anglican Girls Grammar School, Surulere – Lagos.
It would appear that his academic and professional career and achievement greatly prepared him for the office into which God was to call him later on.
HOW PASTOR ADEBOYE BECAME BORN AGAIN
His childhood Christian background had made him to appreciate God in the ordinary sense. However, it was not strict enough to preclude him from being an active young man engaging in all the perks to which a young lecturer and an educated man was “entitled”, even though he was married.
Married in 1968 to his wife, Pastor (Mrs.) Foluke Adeboye, the young couple was faced with the problem of recurrent caesarian section by which the wife had delivered their first two babies. Medical science had diagnosed that in view of the formation of pelvic bones, having babies by natural means was impossible and such advised against having further children. A solution had to be found.
Pastor E.A. Adeboye and Pastor (Mrs.) Folu Adeboye on one of her birthdays
How his Christian background did not preclude him from trying out other areas outside of his Christian belief where solutions might be found. In any case, his Yoruba cultural background was not averse to syncretism. “Olorun ko ko aajo” his people are wont to say, that is “God (or belief in Him) is not opposed to native remedies”. The implication of which is that if prayers are not effective, the nature medicine-man is available.
As part of the solution-seeking odyssey, the young University teacher and his wife were invited to the Redeemed Christian Church of God by his uncle, Rev. Chris Fajemirokun.
Though led by unlettered men, the visibility of the power of God was not lost on the young couple. The church was then headed by Pastor Josiah Oluwafemi Akindayomi, the General Superintendent (GS), a man who did not have any formal education and spoke no English but his native Yoruba language. However, compared to his own educated mind, this man and the other men of God in the church were infinitely superior to him the knowledge and ways of god, and especially in their examination and exposition of the Bible.
The sermons of the GS and those of his lieutenants were quite incisive, thought-provoking and soul-stirring. Here were men who despite their educational handicap would not compromise God’s standard.
It was also here that he learnt that his way of life would lead him directly and unwaveringly in only one direction – HELL FIRE! He also learnt of the importance of looking up to Jesus as “the Author and Finisher of our faith” and the need “to cast all our cares upon Him”.
So, when on 29th of July 1973, the altar call was made in the church for those who wanted to surrender their lives to Jesus, forsake their sinful ways, and become born again, the young man, who was to become the General Overseer of the church rushed forward, and in a remorseful show of penitence, gave his life unto Jesus! Reflecting later on his conversion he said, “something overwhelmed me that mighty: that I was close to hell and I didn’t know it. I suddenly realized that it is possible to have all the Ph.d’s in the world and still be on the losing side. I know all the formula but I did not know the one eternal life”.
HONORARY AWARD
To date, all over the world Enoch Adeboye has been conferred with several honorary degrees and national merit awards in appreciation of his contributions to humanity. In the 2009 Newsweek Elite Edition (January 5, 2009), he was listed as one of the Fifty Most Influential People In The World (No. 49 to be exact). For example the following are note-worthy:
1999 – Received honorary citizenship and key of Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
2000 – Dedicated the first chapel in the Nigerian Presidential Villa, Abuja, Nigeria.
2005 – Received honorary citizenship and key of Dallas, Texas, USA.
2005 – Received honorary citizenship and key of Baltimore, Maryland, United States.
2008 – Awarded a National Honor (Order of the Federal Republic of Nigeria) by the Nigerian President
2009 – Led the Pre-Summit Prayers at the 64th General Assembly of the United Nations, Headquarters, New York.
2009 – Named one of ‘The World’s Fifty Most Powerful People’ by Newsweek Magazine (USA).
2009 – Awarded honorary doctorate degree – University of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
2009 – Awarded honorary doctorate degree – University of Nigeria, Nsukka
2010 – Awarded a National Sports Honor (Spiritual Pillar of Nigerian Sports)
Though the above achievements are phenomenal, Enoch Adeboye never fails to give glory to the Lord, claiming that there are greater things ahead that the Lord will yet do.
To date, Enoch Adeboye’s profile includes:
• Strategic casting of the worldwide vision of The Redeemed Christian Church of God
• General Overseer with ultimate responsibility for over 12,000 churches in over 120 nations.
• Author / Writer of the popular, globally-distributed daily devotional manual – Open Heavens.
• Host / Convener / Main Preacher at the annual December three-day Holy Ghost Congress (open air meeting) in Nigeria with an average attendance of over six million people
• Host / Convener / Main Preacher at the annual March three-day Special Holy Ghost Service (open air meeting) in Nigeria with an average attendance of over six million people
• Host / Convener / Preacher at the monthly Holy Ghost Service (open air meeting) in Nigeria with an average attendance of over one million people
• Host / Convener / Preacher at the quarterly Festival of Life (indoor revival meeting) in London, UK and various cities in the US with an average attendance of over fifty (UK) and seven thousand (US)
• Host / Convener / Preacher at the Annual RCCG Conventions in Nigeria, UK and the US with an average attendance of over two million (Nigeria), twenty thousand (UK) and seven thousand (US)
• Ordination of Pastors / Deacons during the Annual RCCG Conventions worldwide.
• Convener of quarterly / annual RCCG Leadership and Discipleship Conferences and Retreats all over the world.
• Author of over forty books published all over the world.
WHAT DO YOU THINK? - We have all sinned and deserve God's judgment. God, the Father, sent His only Son to satisfy that judgment for those who believe in Him. Jesus, the creator and eternal Son of God, who lived a sinless life, loves us so much that He died for our sins, taking the punishment that we deserve, was buried, and rose from the dead according to the Bible. If you truly believe and trust this in your heart, receiving Jesus alone as your Savior, declaring, "Jesus is Lord," you will be saved from judgement, and spend eternity with God in heaven.
What is your response? Yes, today, I'm deciding to follow Jesus
Redeemed-Christian-Church-of-God (RCCG)TheRedeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) is a Pentecostal Christian Church founded byPa Josiah Akindayomi withPastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye current General Overseer of the Church.
Redeemed-Christian-Church-of-God (RCCG)
In July 1909, a son was born into the Akindayomi family of Ondo State of Nigeria. Even though this child grew up surrounded by idol worshippers, he knew there existed a greater power and yearned to know, “The God who created the earth and everyone on it”. This pursuit for God led him to the Church Missionary Society where he was baptized in 1927. Still spiritually unfulfilled, he joined the Cherubim and Seraphim church in 1931.
Pa Josiah Akindayomi Picture Pa. Josiah Akindayomi Picture
He was born in 1909. He grew up as an idol worshipper but he later converted to Christianity out of a yearning to know “The God who created the earth and everyone on it”. He was baptized in 1927 in the Church Missionary Society.
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