DECISIONS DECIDE DESTINY: APOSTLE JOSHUA SELMAN – RCCG INTERNATIONAL YOUTH CONVENTION DAY 3
RCCG ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL YOUNG ADULTS AND YOUTH CONVENTION 2022
THEME: SHINE FORTH
MINISTERING DAY 3 (MORNING): APOSTLE JOSHUA SELMAN NIMMAK – FOUNDER AND SENIOR PASTOR OF ETERNITY NETWORK INTERNATIONAL, KADUNA.
Sermons: TOPIC OVERCOMING MOUNTAINS DR. MENSA OTABIL(Opens in a new browser tab)
DATE: 5TH OCTOBER, 2022
BIBLE TEXT: DEUTERONOMY 30:19
Hallelujah!
SONG:
Hallelujah,
You have have won the Victory,
Hallelujah,
You have won it all for me.
Hallelujah,
You have have won the Victory,
Hallelujah,
You have won it all for me.
DECISIONS DECIDE DESTINY: APOSTLE JOSHUA SELMAN – RCCG INTERNATIONAL YOUTH CONVENTION DAY 3
OPENING PRAYER
Father we Pray in the Name of Jesus, that You will speak to our hearts this morning.
Bless us by the Power of your Word. the Bible declears that: The entrance of thy Words gives Light; and Understanding unto the Simple. (Psalms 119:130)
We open up our hearts to receive; and we Pray that Jesus be Glorified in our midst.
For in the Matchless Name of Jesus we Pray – Amen!
God bless you! And Good Morning.
…. Please, be seated!
Again, my gratitude to the Leadership and the Organizers of the International Youth Conference.
This will be my final Session with you, and I want to Charge you on something that I believe is very, very Powerful and Prophetic.
Yesterday, we began to discuss a few things, and I mentioned something from Isaiah 60:1. The Bible says: Arise, Shine; for thy Light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee.
And I did tell us that that Statement, “Arise” immediately connotes that there will be responsibility on your part.
I did tell us last night that: when it has to do with the dealings of God with man in this Kingdom, it is not entirely up to God, and it is not entirely up to man. That it will always take a participation. Are we together?
God who is Almighty and can do without man has chosen by His Wisdom to always demand cooperation from man for anything to be made manifest in his life.
So, if you leave it all up to God and you do not know and understand the role that you have to play in Shining Forth and in actualizing Destiny, you may end up being disappointed and your expectations will end up being aborted. Hallelujah!
It is important that we understand this. And yesterday again we looked at Three (3) Levels of Knowledge we must contend for:
- The first is that You must Know God;
- The Second is that you must Know Yourself, in light of the God that you now know;
- The third is that you must know your Place in God’s Prophetic Agenda (God’s Program) and in Destiny.
This morning, still charging our hearts, as to what it takes to arise and to Shine Forth, I want us to consider a few Thoughts and then we Pray.
SONG:
This is Your House, your Home;
Lord, we welcome You,
Lord, we welcome You.
This is Your House, your Home;
We welcome You today!
Deuteronomy 30:19:
I call Heaven and Earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:
This is the Bible placing before the people of God the option of a Life of Glory and Excellence, or a Life of shame, reproach, retrogression, pain and regret.
… Very Powerful instructive Scripture!
This is the Bible placing before the people of God the option of a Life of Glory and Excellence; a Life of Impact and Dignity; or a Life of shame and reproach. Retrogression, pain and regret.
And it says: I can only suggest to you, I can only give you counsel but never to force you.
It says, here is my option for you, and my desire for you, “Choose Life that you and your Seed may live.” But peradventure you decide to choose death, I still leave it unto you.
Listen: in Life, Destiny is defined by the kind and the quality of decisions that we make.
If you are writing, please write it down: Destiny – The glory, the beauty, the colour of an Impactful life, is determined not just by the Will of God alone; not just by the Love of God alone; not just by the Power of God alone.
As powerful as God is, there are still people going to Hell today. As powerful as God is, there are still people making a mess of their lives and Destinies. As powerful as God is, there are Nations called First World and Third World Nations.
The Bible says, I set before you Life and death; I set before you blessing and cursing. Hallelujah!
So, write this down please – “Decisions decide Destiny!”
Whether it is going to be a Colourful Destiny, with Dignity and Glory and Impact; it is going to be a Destiny full of shame and pain and regret.
It is all up to you in Partnership with the God of Heaven. Or all up to you in Partnership with the devil.
In any case, you have a role to play in deciding the Outcome of a Life that Shines Forth or a Life that remains in gloominess and darkness.
If you are with me say Amen – Amen!
Now, most people do not realised that they have an active role to play in the making of their lives and their Destinies and they fold their arms and leave it all up to God.
And they say, God is Mighty: I know that I have a Dream to be a great Preacher, I have a Dream to be a great Business Magnet. My Life must count! And then, they do not do anything about it.
Write this down please – “Every Decision you take and you make in Life has consequences.”
Write this down also: “The consequences have been Pre-programmed.”
That means, the moment you make the Decision, you also activate the consequences connected to that Decision.
Now, we don’t choose consequences, we only make the Decisions that choose the consequences – Very important for you to understand!
Look up please! How many of you know that if I keep walking and I get to the end of this stage and I still continue walking, Chances are excellent that except God shows mercy I may fall? Is that true?
The consequence of falling is already Programmed in that Decision.
So, it is not when I violate or make a wrong Decision that the consequence suddenly emerges; it has always been there! The Potential for falling has been there.
The reason why I have not fallen is because I did not make the Decision that honours that consequence. Are we together now?
Most people hate the consequences that they see around their lives.
I hope you know that Poverty is a consequence? Mediocrity is a consequence. Absence of a Healthy Relationship with God is a consequence. Being at the Lower Levels of Life is a consequence. A Life that does not carry beauty and colour is a consequence.
Similary, a Life of exploits and greatness is a consequence. A Life of prosperity, dignity and honour is a consequence (An anointed is a consequence). A Life of grace and impact is a consequence.
There is no ‘Luck’ in the equation. Take the idea of Luck out of of the way! There is Grace, there is Mercy but it is not called ‘Luck.’ Is someone learning?
That means, the next ten (10) years of your Life, as you are watching me right now or reading on the Label of OPENHEAVEN.NET, is not going to be determined just by the Power of God alone; the next ten (10) years of your Life is not going to be determined by the Love of God in your Life alone.
Infact, the next ten (10) years of your Life would not even be determined by Time! “One day e go better” – you hear people say. No!
Time does not Change things. Time only reveal the consequences of the Decisions you have taken. Is someone learning?
Seeing then that Decisions decide Destiny; it matters that we have an Understanding of what it takes and the kinds of quality Decisions that we need to make, if we really desire to Shine Forth in truth.
I hate to be the bearer of bad news! And I pray it does not to pass! But it is unfortunate, I must tell you, that many people have sat down where you are sitting right now. And many people also attended many Youth Conferences just like you.
I. A few people took advantage of what they were taught, and their lives are speaking right now.
II. A few people shouted “Amen!” Shouted Hallelujah! Even fell down under the Anointing and got up, only to recycle the same.seasons in their lives.
But for you, it is my Prayer that for the sake of yourself and your children (born or unborn) and the ones who look up to you; may today be that day you willl settle down to make Quality Decisions over your Life – Amen.
I want to ask you a question (and I want you to be very honest): How many of you know people around your Life – Maybe around the area where you live, who you used to know many years ago, who you were at the same Level with; maybe Educationally speaking and otherwise; And now you are still the same people – Ten (10), Twenty (20) later. And the only thing that has happened in their lives is that they have grown older! But the same thing.
… The same failure, the same foolishness, the same godlessness, the sane rigmarolling around;
And they now see you and say, “Wooow! You have become a big man! I hear you are now in school, or I hear you are now working, or I hear you are now doing this and that.”
They refused to make Decisions with their lives! And you see, Time is a.Gift that does not wait for no one. Whether you make a Decision or not, time continues to move.
John 9:4 says, “I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.”
Lay your hands on your head in one minute and say Father; I obtain Grace to begin to make Quality Decisions over my Life.
Is someone Praying this morning? Hallelujah!
In 1 King 18:19-21, Elijah gathered the Prophets of Baal at the contest in mount Camel,and here is what it says:
Now therefore send, and gather to me all Israel unto mount Carmel, and the Prophets of Baal four hundred and fifty, and the Prophets of the groves four hundred, which eat at Jezebel’s table. So Ahab sent unto all the children of Israel, and gathered the Prophets together unto mount Carmel. And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye between two opinions? if the LORD be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him. And the people answered him not a word.
Elijah said listen, there is no point following left today and right tomorrow. If you believe that Baal is god, follow him. Make the Decision to follow him. But if you believe God is God, follow Him!
“Decisions decide Destiny.” – I learnt this very early in my Life; and I made certain Covenant Commitments as to my Life and my Destiny.
Now, let me tell you the Truth, and let me submit to you (with all Humility): Everybody you see today who is great and doing exploits for the Kingdom – Whether in Ministry, in Business, in Career; none of them stumbled into greatness! Greatness is not a Gift: it is a Reward for making Quality Decisions.
Greatness is not a Gift! An enviable Destiny is not a Gift. What God gives as a Gift is Time!
What God gives as a Gift is the Holy Spirit; what God gives as a Gift is His Word; what God gives as a Gift is Pastors after His Heart – Who can mentor and teach.
… You need to know what is a Gift. And you need to know what is a Reward.
A great Destiny is not a Gift, a colourful Destiny is not a Gift. The Holy Spirit is a Gift; the Word of God is a Gift; a great Man of God to Mentor and build you, is a Gift.
But your Destiny and the outcome of the same, is a product of your decisions.
Now, please pay very close attention: I want to give you Six (6) Decisions that you must make in this Conference.
And I give you a guarantee, by the Integrity of God’s Word; anyone of you that would make these Six (6) Quality Decisions, do not assume that you understand what I am saying.
If you make these quality Decisions, I give you a guarantee as touching the Integrity of God’s Word, you will look back at your Life a few Months, a few years from now and all that you will see is a Life of Dignity, Glory and Colour.
If you are with me say Amen – Amen!
These Decisions have no respect for your background, for your current disposition, for all of the disadvantages in your Life. Even if you are an individual with no level of Grace whatsoever.
These Decisions are the Ladders that scale men into enviable Destinies; making maximum impact foe the Kingdom.
… May that be your Testimony, in the Name of Jesus Christ – Amen!
DECISION NO. 1:
The first Decision you must make in your Life if you want to Shine Forth and you want a Life that brings Glory to God, is that:
YOU MUST MAKE THE DECISION TO MAKE EXCEPTIONAL SPIRITUAL PROGRESS.
The Decision to make Exceptional Spiritual Progress: in the order of Priority, this is one of the greatest Decisions you can make in your Life.
Jeremiah 9:13-16, here’s what it says: And the LORD saith, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein; But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them: Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink. I will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither they nor their fathers have known: and I will send a sword after them, till I have consumed them.
Why? Because they have refused to pay attention to my ways.
The first Decision – The Decision to make Exceptional Spiritual Progress. Not just Spiritual Progress – Exceptional Spiritual Progress.
In Matthew 22:37, Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
“Thou shalt love the Lord thy God:” not with part of your heart, not with part of your Soul, not with part of your Life. It says you should love the Lord your God’s with all.
There are consequences to making these Investments of knowing God.
Yesterday we considered the Scripture in Daniel 11:32, that the people that do know their God, the Bible leaves them with the Assurance that they shall be Strong, and they shall do exploits.
The Decision to know God is a Noble Decision – You must make up your mind that, “I will make Maximum Spiritual Progress.”
There are a number of Indices in the Bible that Measures a Man’s Spiritual Progress:
I. The first Biblical Index to measure the Strength of your Spiritual Progress, is the Health of your Prayer Life.
The Health of your Prayer Life is a Biblical Measure of your Spiritual Growth.
II. The strength of your Word Study Life.
Jeremiah 15:16 says, Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart:
III. The Strength of your Character: the degree of your conformity to the Image and the Character of the Christ in experience.
… This is a measure of your Spiritual Progress.
To what degree are you conforming to the Image and the Character of Christ in experience?
IV. The Out-Workings of the Grace and the Power of God in and through your Life is the fourth (4th) Index for measuring your Spiritual Growth.
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Don’t say you are growing Spiritually; we have to look at these Indices.
If you are making Spiritual Progress, we have to guage your Statement against these Four (4) Indices.
To what degree are the Fruits of the Spirit at work in your Life?
Don’t tell me, “I am Yoruba.” Don’t tell me, “I am Igbo.” Don’t tell me “I am Hausa.” Don’t tell me, “I am this or that.” No!
When the Character of Christ swallows you up, it lifts you beyond the Limitations that come with your Region.
Don’t say, “We are angry people, that’s how we are. We are jealous people.” No! When you make maximum Spiritual Progress, the Life of God is able to swallow up these Limitations.
And then, don’t tell me you have known God, and you are walking with the Word of God, you are walking with the Spirit of God;
And we do not see the manifestation of the Grace and the Power of God in and though your Life. It is impossible! Is someone learning?
The first Decision you must make if you want a Life of Grace, Destiny, Colour and impact; is the Decision to Make Exceptional Spiritual Progress.
Let me Charge you therefore, by the Mercies of God, according to Ephesians 5:14, Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee Light.
There are many of you here and reading now on the Label of OPENHEAVEN.NET who are lukewarm Spiritually: your Prayer Life is dead, your Word Study Life is dead, your Discipline of conformity, into the Character and the Image of Christ; there is no Passion there.
God is giving a Chance to realise that the Decisions that you are making to ignore God will have a consequence in your Life tomorrow.
DECISION NO. 2:
What is the second Decision to make if you want to Shine Forth, and you want a Life of Glory and Grace?
IT IS THE DECISION TO CONTEND FOR A SUPERIOR BELIEF SYSTEMS.
… In other words, a “Transformed Mind”.
The Decision to contend for a Superior Belief Systems: Second to your knowing God; Second to your Spiritual Progress, is the depth and the degree of your Mental Transformation.
Forget about a Destiny of Beauty and Colour, if your Mindset remains at the same Level.
A Transformed Mind is not just an European Mind; a Transformed Mind is not just a Western Mind; a Transformed Mind is a Mind that has been so Cultured by the Word of God.
Let this mind be in you (the Bible says), which was also in Christ Jesus: Philippians 2:5
Jesus had a Mindset; He had a Philosophy, He had a set of Beliefs that sponsored His excelling when He was on Earth.
The Decision to contend for a Belief Systems – Africa is the way it is, sadly and unfortunately, largely because of our Belief Systems.
The West, in terms of Technological Advancement and Development, is the way it is largely because of a Philosophy and a Belief System they decided to embrace.
Can I tell you? Until your Belief System Changes, your Life will not Change.
Proverbs 23:7, For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee.
… He didn’t say “so he will become”: you are already equal to your thought Life.
This is very important! There are many Tongue Talking Believers who have not settled to obtain a Superior Belief System. And sadly, we continue to recycle pain and mediocrity in our lives.
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TWO (2) WAYS TO CONTEND FOR TRANSFORMATION.
Let me give you two (2) ways to contend for Transformation:
I. The first Rule of Transformation is that: You must have a Reference that looks like what you want to become.
You cannot Change into Nothing!
The Bible says: But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the LORD – 2 Corinthians 3:18.
So, that object that you desire to become, whether it is a man, a State, a higher dimension; you must have a Picture of the future that you want to become!Transformation is difficult without a Reference.
“Apostle, I want to become a great Business Man.” Like who?
“I want to become a great Man of God.” Like who?
“I want to know God so much!” Like who?
The Bible says: Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bare you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him. Isaiah 51:2.
The Bible is not ashamed to tell us to look unto people: look unto Abraham, look unto Jesus.
Yow want to be Transformed? You must have a Reference.
II. Transformation requires Access to Superior Information.
Information that is Word-Compliant and can transform your Understanding.
This is where the place of Books; this is where the place of Teachings; this is where the place of Useful Resources in helping your Mindset come in to play.
Most of us are lazy! You may have heard me say it – That when you are lazy, both God and the devil cannot use you.
God will not be able to use you; even the devil would not be able to use you – because both of them require a level of Diligence. Even if it is the devil you want to serve you must still be Diligent.
Laziness is one area that: Whether from God’s side or from Satan’s side you are still a Disadvantage to them both. Hallelujah!
Listen: when a young man is sleeping for twelve (12) hours, ten (10) hours every day, not doing anything; you wake up in the morning and stretch yourself as if you are Sixty (60) Seventy (70) years, not doing anything.
And then the next thing is, you pick up your phone, waste away another two (2) or three hours. Let me tell you this: You are Programming pain in the later years of your life.
Lamentations 3:27 says: It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his Youth.
… You must obtain Grace; go for Knowledge!
Somebody Prophesy it, say: I contend for Transformation!
Rather than living a fake Life, wearing what is not your own, eating what is not your Level, snapping behind people’s vehicles and homes and putting it Online;
Rather than living all those kinds of Unreasonable Life; it is better to stay with God and stay with men who have made it and begin to transform your Mind.
Can I tell you? Anywhere your Mind goes to, your body must eventually follow.
I assure you, if your Mind has gone to Canaan: even if your body is in Egypt, your Mind will force your body to follow it to Canaan.
The future that your body cannot enter now, send your Mind there! And your Mind will direct your body like an Usher to enter that reality.
This is a fact: Anything your Mind has caught, your body must express it.
Any dimension your Mind has done to, it is impossible for your body to not follow!
The Decision to contend for Mental Transformation – Go and buy books, go and get materials. Technology and the Internet has made it very easy now.
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With the cheapest Data available, you can have access to an array of Resources that can build your Mind. So, you do not have an excuse!
DECISION NO. 3:
You must discover and fulfill your God-Given Assignment.
DECISION NO. 4:
The Decision to be Healthy: to be Physical strong.
It is a sin to mismanage your body. Because the Bible says your body is God’s Property (1 Corinthians 6:19). You may not drink, smoke or sleep around; but you mismanage your body – it is a sin!
… The Decision to be healthy, the Decision to be Physically strong. Are we together?
Usually, at the end of the year I have Retreat. And in my Retreats, I usually gauge myself against some of these Indices that I am mentioning.
And for three (3) years in a row, I noticed that the least Performing area of Life, was the area of my Health and my Physical wellbeing. It wasn’t just because of carelessness.
Let me tell you the truth, one day a father of Faith in this Nation called me after a Conference, and he said, Apostle, let me warm you! He said, “be careful with your Health – Africans kill their Prophets.” And that thing was a Message!
Because somebody sees you. Sometimes as you keep mismanaging your body, most people do not know how to take care of their bodies. When it’s time to Fast, Fast! But when there is time to eat, eat!
I believe in Divine Healing, I believe in the Power of God. But if you find out your Health is deteriorating: do not be afraid and ashamed to go and see a Doctor.
While you are growing in your Understanding of the Zoe Life, don’t die the death fools, because of Pride.
If you are sick and you Pray; you lay your hand and it does not work; go with honour to the hospital and meet a Doctor to treat you.
When you are fine, then you can now have the time to Study more about that Eternal Life, until it becomes an experience.
Please hear me: there are many people who have brought trouble to themselves.
Medical Doctors would tell us that most sicknesses, if dictated early, can be stopped.
There are many unnecessary Prayer Points that have come over our lives and our bodies, purely because of carelessness. Hallelujah!
It is important for you to manage your body: some of you, the greatest enemy of your Life is gluttony.
Even if you are sleeping and they bring food in front of you; Supernaturally, like Word of Knowledge, you will wake up, see it and you must eat before you go back to sleep.
Remember what the sons of the Prophet told Elisha; they said “there is death in the pot” – 2 Kings 4:40.
Death can also be in the pot! Death is not just on the road, with an accident. Even in the pot!
… If you mismanage your eating, there can be death in the pot.
It’s time to be healthy.
There are many you people, under Thirty (30) years; they can walk from here to there! And they were not born like that. You climb a staircase, you are already breathing as if you would die.
My friend, obtain Grace to go to the Gym. Go and work on yourself! In the Name of Jesus, for the sake of those you will be Preaching to; for the sake of the Destinies that are connected to you.
You can’t be a young man of of under Thirty (30) years, you are already breathing. You just danced during Praise and Worship and you have to take two (2) bottles of water to survive the remaining part of the Service. No Sir!
If we have a Vigil and our Elderly ones are falling asleep, that’s fine, we can give it to them. But a young man, you are starting a Vigil from.10pm. One hour into the Vigil, you are already sleeping (even while you are standing)!
It is not just a Spiritual issue; you need to work on your body. Go and read what you learned in Biology and Basic Science: the Six (6) Classes of Food.
Because some of you, with what you are eating, except God shows you Mercy, it is as if you are removing one, one year from your Life because of carelessness. Don’t be offended, I love you!
In Africa we think that the idea of Prosperity is to make sure you eat to a point where it is like a Revenge Mission. Everything you could not eat when you didn’t have money:
You now go to the Restaurant – five (5) wraps of swallow and the soup that five (5) people will use, only you! You sit with the cooler in front of you. Two (2) bottles of Minerals, one (1) whole agric chicken. And when you eat everything you say, “my soul find rest.” No!
Let me give you a very kind advise: Jesus made a Statement, He said, “he that will not work, should not eat.”
That is Medical Advise: If you don’t plan to work, he is saying, don’t eat. Because if you keep eating without working, there is an effect it brings to your body.
It is not just a Religious Statement, it is a Medical Advise: Before you eat find out “what is the work that will justify this food I am going to eat?”
… That means, the less your work, the lighter should be your eating.
It is a Medical Advise! There are people who can eat five (5) agric chickens, and the nature of the work that they do, energy will be burnt into ashes while they work.
You see, our fathers had the Privilege of eating heavy, Because they were largely Farmers. They would go to the farm and farm out that energy. Our mothers would trek to the market.
But our Generation is is an E-generation. Your office is in your room, everything is in your room. As you step out these is a Protocol. Then there is a Plane that picks you. Then you land. And you are still eating like a Farmer!
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DECISION NO. 5:
The Decision to be Financially Independent.
He that will not work, should but eat. He that will work small,. should eat small.
DECISION NO. 6:
The Decision to build Quality Destiny Relationship.
Every time Power or Sound goes off (because it happens) we should begin to Pray in the Spirit until it is restored. There should never be time wasted.
So learn it as a Healthy Culture. Practice it when you go back to your Stations.
Let’s rise up on our feet as we wrap up!
Have you learnt something this morning?
Let’s do a quick Recap: Six (6) Decisions you must make if you want to Arise and to Shine Forth;
Decision No. 1: Make Exceptional Spiritual Progress.
Decision No 2: You must contend for Superior Belief Systems.
Decision No. 3: You must Discover and Fulfill your God-given Assignment.
Decision No. 4: The Decision to be Healthy and to be Physically Strong.
Decision No. 5: The Decision to be Financially Independent.
Decision No. 6: The Decision to build Quality Destiny Relationships.
Let me make reference to the first Decision as we wrap up: The Decision to Make Exceptional Spiritual Progress.
It is Primarily why you are here for this Conference; and it is Primarily why you love and seek God. And you continue to press in to the things of God.
Please hear me: I am a Testimony that loving God pays; I am a Testimony that seeking God pays; I am a Testimony that when you give your all to God, indeed He will lift you beyond Imagination.
And I hope that all through this Conference, someone becomes challenged enough to know that if I really want to make meaning out of my Life; if I want to Shine Forth His light; then I must make sure that everything is right with Jesus!
ALTAR CALL:
This Morning, I am not making the usual Altar Call – The Altar Call affects everybody. So, we are not coming out but it is still an Altar Call.
Jus two (2) Prayer Points, for those who know that they have the hand of God upon their lives. Those who know that they have been called to live a Life of Grace, and Dignity; a Life of Grace and Glory.
I want to leave you and your God; I don’t know what Position you will take but I want you to cry to the God of Heaven:
Lord, grant me Grace: my Life must count! I am ready to Shine Forth, even to my world.
Go ahead and pray!
Now please listen: the Last Prayer is for someone who has been discouraged. I know that we live in a time where many people are discouraged:
Financially discouraged; some of you have lost loved ones or some of you, sadly were with loved ones that are not responsible enough.
I want to give you a word of Hope right now before we are done.
Listen to me: you may not have the kind of Leverage you need; but I want you to know, that you can still make it.
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SONG:
I will hold on through the Storm
I will hold on to Your Word
My Life will soon reveal
You’re the Lifter of man;
Lifter of man!
Will you hold on through the Storm?Wiill hold on to Your Word?
Your Life will soon reveal
He’s the Lifter of man;
Lifter of man!
“Apostle, I do not have parents, I am the one Sponsoring myself. Can I still have a Life of Glory and Grace? I’m the only one who has risen in my family.”
I say this to you as a word of Comfort – There is Hope for a tree even though it be cut short, in the Name of Jesus Christ (Job 14:7).
SONG:
Will you hold on through the Storm?Wiill hold on to Your Word?
Your Life will soon reveal
He’s the Lifter of man;
Lifter of man!
CLOSING PRAYER
In the Name of Jesus, I Stand upon the Grace that is on our father and our mother and I speak to someone’s life:
In the Mighty Name of Jesus, Who is the Son of the Living God, I declear over your Destiny – Arise and Shine!
RCCG Youth and Young Adult, Arise and Shine, in the Name of Jesus Christ!
I declear over you, no weapon fashioned against your Destiny will Prosper!
And every tongue that rises up against you, let it fall in Judgement, in the Name of Jesus Christ!
May the Lord bless you; may the Lord increase you! You will go from Glory to Glory, in the Name of Jesus!
Amen! Amen!! Amen!!!
Thank you very much, and God bless you –
Amen!
Thank you so much for staying all through to read.