The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, Pastor Enoch Adeboye has disclosed the reason why he called on dignitaries at the President Goodluck Jonathan’s daughter’s wedding in April this year.
Adeboye, who was the invited to preach at the state wedding alongside other eminent pastors said he owed it as duty to everyone no matter how highly placed to accept Jesus.
‘When they touch fire it burns them and the ‘high and mighty’ also go to toilet. It is my duty to show them how they will go to heaven’ he declared.
Adeboye disclosed this recently at a church service in Lagos.
The General Overseer in his message titled, ‘Secrets of Unlimited Success’ recalled how he joined the RCCG. He said, “I came to the church because I had a problem that my Mathematics cannot solve’. He continued, ‘The old man(late Pa Akindayomi, founder of RCCG) used to tell us to forsake our sins and follow Christ’.
The world renowned preacher also attributed his rise in life and ministry to his vow to always hearken to God whenever he asks him to do anything. He urged the congregation to always hearken to God rather than just listening.
Adeboye further described God as a God of details charging Christians to adhere strictly to details of his instructions.
‘ God keeps to details. For instance, to level the wall of Jericho, God gave specific instructions. The wall didn’t come down at sixth time but the seventh”, he stressed.
Adeboye, Known for using his personal life experiences to illustrate his points also demonstrated how clapping of hands can bring down God’s glory. He recalled that in 1982 at a higher institution in Otukpo in Benue state, some students who had gathered to hear him clapped their hands to the extent that God’s glory came down and he forgot what he wanted to preach.
‘They (students) began to clap their hands and I forgot what I wanted to preach. Their claps brought down God’s glory and the whole congregation was baptized in the holy spirit”, Adeboye said.
He encouraged worshipers to forget their status whenever they are before God stressing that many people had lost their miracles because they came before God dignified.
Apparently illustrating that no situation is too difficult for God to turnaround, Adeboye said when he was living in a room apartment in Mushin (a low income and highly populated area in Lagos) many years ago and he asked God for a boy’s quarter apartment because his wife and children would soon join him in Lagos. He said rather than the boy’s quarter God promised him a city (Redemption Camp).
His words, “ I was living in one room apartment in Mushin but because my wife and children are coming to join me, I asked God for boy’s quarter but he told me, ‘ I will give you a city’. Can you imagine God promising a city when all I needed was just a modest apartment for me and my family to stay? God fulfilled his promise”
