Pastor Adeboye
General
Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adejare
Adeboye has shared his life story of how he went to toilet 23 times in a
day after taking a meal during one of his missionary trips.
Speaking while delivering his sermon tagged: ‘A branch of the
Life’, on the second day of the ongoing annual RCCG's Holy Ghost
congress of the church, Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye, advised Christians
to stay connected to God to overcome life’s challenges and have
dominion over all forces of darkness and sickness.
According to Vanguard, the General Overseer of the Redeemed
Christian Church of God, Adeboye, who gave the admonition at the event
holding at the Redemption Camp, Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, explained that
Jesus Christ is the Vine while every true believer is the branch and
has God’s nature in him.
Adeboye, however, urged participants to remain steadfast in the
vine, stressing that God has assured them of doing greater works than He
did while on earth. In his words: “Jesus Christ is the vine while
we are the branches. He is the combination of divinity and humanity. As
the vine is, so also the branches.
“If you are a true Christian, you are a combination of humanity
and divinity. You are human but you are made to partake in God’s divine
nature and He will supply the needed strength, power that you need to
do His works. Every branch of the vine can do what the vine can do”.
Pastor Adeboye recalled how he went to toilet 23 times in a day
after taking a meal during one of his missionary trips to an unnamed
African country years ago, noting that it took God through the prayer of
faith for him to be healed.
According to him: “I did not know what I ate but I just saw
myself going to toilet. After the 23rd time, I realized that I needed to
tackle the matter prayerfully. But who will pray for me? I then laid my
hands on myself and prayed. That was how I was healed.”
He made reference to the healing while encouraging the congregation
to pray for themselves, stressing that every child of God is a branch
of the vine with both the human and divine nature.
Adeboye narrated the story of how Jesus slept in a boat while there
was a storm indicating the human nature in him while He was on earth.
“But the same Jesus who slept, rose up to rebuke the wind, indicating
his divine nature. Jesus was fully human and fully divine when he was on
earth.”
He said further that since believers are extensions of Jesus as his
branches “we share divine nature and are capable of doing what God said
we could do. As long as we are linked to him and connected to him we
have the capacity to do all that he said we could do.
“I once told my children that nobody can kill me because I am
already dead. I have been crucified with Christ nevertheless I live.
Because Jesus is living in the believer, his blood flows in the
believer.
"On the outside it may not appear to be so, but in actual fact
the blood that is flowing in you is the blood of Jesus. Revelation
12:10-11, indicates that the blood has enough power to overcome the
devil. If only you can believe, the blood that is flowing in you now can
overcome any germ, virus or deadly thing,” he said.
Adeboye noted that there are several things that science cannot
explain because those things are not happening in the realm of humanity,
they are happening in the divinity.
Recalling how a doctor who was at the verge of death was healed by taking a Holy Communion, he said,
“Whatever is called sickness or disease will be consumed by the Blood
of Jesus. Because Christ is in you and the Blood is flowing in your
vein, sickness is not permitted in you.”
The RCCG General Overseer told the participants that they have the
capacity to do what He could do because the same spirit that resides in
Him also resides in them as long as they belong to Jesus.
According to him, “you can from here go home and be healing the
sick. The same capacity that I have you have as long as you yield
yourselves to God,” stressing “the Bible did not say the signs will only
follow the General Overseer but those who believe.
“Some also think they don’t have enough faith to do certain
things. I used to believe that everything in the Bible is true but I
believe I could not do those things because I did not have enough faith.
Then I would fast and ask God to increase my faith. But the Lord sat me
down one day and asked me some questions.”
He asked me, ’son, do you believe there is God?’ I said yes.
’Have you seen him before?‘ I kept mute. ’How then do you know there is
God? Do you believe that Jesus is the son of God?‘ I said I believe and
he asked were you there when he was born? I kept quiet and he kept on
asking some other questions and said why are you then saying you don’t
have faith?'
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