Go ahead and lift your hands to the Almighty God and begin to bless
His holy name, give Him glory, giveHim honor, give Him adoration,
He is worthy to be praised, He is worthy to be adored, worship the
Ancient of days, give Him glory, give Him honor, give Him adoration, bless the
King of kings, bless the Lord of lords, bless the ancient of days, magnify His
holy name, He is worthy to be praised, He is worthy to be magnified, lift Him
high.
He is worthy, there is no one like Him, bless His holy name.
Then go ahead and thank Him for all He did last month, thank Him for
what He did during the convention, praise Him for His goodness and mercy that
He showed us during the last convention, thank Him for salvation of souls,
thank Him for healings.
Thank Him for healings, thank Him for miracle, thank Him for signs and
wonders bless His holy name for the children that were born.
Magnify His holy name for the mighty testimonies, praise Him. He is
worthy to be praised, He is worthy to be adored, He is worthy to be magnified,
praise Him ....
Thank you Jesus! In Jesus mighty name we have worshipped.
Lift your voice to the almighty God and say father, in a very special
way visit all of us tonight... in Jesus mighty name we have worship.
Alpha, Omega, you are worthy of my praises today (worship)
Alpha, Omega, you are worthy of my praises today
Alpha, Omega, you are worthy of my praises today
Halleluiah
Alpha, Omega, you are worthy of my praises today
Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the Ending, the Unchangeable Lord;
GOD WILL MAKE YOU LAUGH
Genesis 21 1-7 And the Lord visited Sarah as He has said, and the Lord
did unto Sarah has he had spoken. For Sarah conceived and bare Abraham a son in
his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to Him. And Abraham called
the name of his son that was born unto him, whom Sarah bare to him, Isaac
And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac being eight days old as God has
commanded him. And Abraham was a hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born
unto him. And Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh, so that all that hear will
laugh with me. And she said, who will have said unto Abraham that Sarah should
have given children suck? For I have born him a son in his old age.
Turn to the neighbor to your right and to the left and say I promise
you God will make you laugh.
Sarah said; God has made me to laugh and all who hear will laugh with
me.
The story of the laughter of Sarah as you know very well began in
Genesis 18 v 1 -14 you will see how one day Abraham at the age of 99 was seating in front of his
house and he looked up and saw three men just passing by.
When they got to the front of his tent, they hesitated for a while,
they stood briefly. Abraham looked up and realized that this were not ordinary
men, so he ran to meet them, bow down before them and invited them to his
house.
He said, come let me give you some water to drink, let me wash your
feet and if you don't mind let me give you some food to eat, because i know
that is the reason why you have come to your servant.
And the Almighty God who have said if He is hungry he won't ask any
man, accepted the invitation; went, eat and when He finished eating, He decided
to say thank you to Abraham and the thank you He said was that in nine month
time Sarah will have a son.
Sarah heard it and laughed, she laughed because her husband was ninety
nine plus, herself was ninety and it was a long time ago that Abraham turned in
her direction to say Sarah how now? So she thought that this people must have
enjoyed the meal and they were trying to make fun of her, she laughed.
And God asked Sarah why did you laughed, she said I didn't laugh at
all, what you said wasn't funny, but God said I know you laughed but whether
you believe me or not, nine month from now you will have a son.
And what God said came to past, that was why she said God has made me
to laugh.
The Lord has sent me at the beginning of the Redeemed year to tell
somebody here tonight; The Almighty God will make you to laugh.
God makes you laugh, number one when you get an unexpected divine
visitation. It is one thing for a man to visit God, like many of us are doing
tonight; we have come to pay God a visit. But it is another thing for God to
visit a man.
It is even beautiful enough when God is visiting a congregation, but
it is better still when God decided in a large crowd to visit somebody in particular
like in John 5 v 2-9 the Bible tells us about the pool of Bethsaida and the
multitude of sick people that were there and when Jesus pay that place a visit,
He visited only one particular person who has been sick for thirty eight years,
and after dealing with the case of that person, He left the place.
I have a feeling deep within
me, that there is somebody special tonight here tonight and God is going to pay
you a special visit.
In Mark 10 v 46-52 the Bible says Jesus came to Jericho and as He was
coming out of Jericho in other words He didn't do anything in Jericho because
the man He came to visit was not inside the city; the man was by the road side
begging, so He came out of Jericho, saw that one person, dealt with the problem
of that one person and continued with his journey.
I'm going to remind you of some testimonies tonight to encourage you
to know that you might be that person that God is interested in.
I have told you the story of a woman whose mother' in law went to the
market and as the mother in law was coming she ran to meet her and the mother
law said take, eat and block your womb. And the woman laughed and said what
kind of joke is this?
How I can I block my womb with a loaf of bread? And then innocently
she went ahead and eat the bread. And
from that day on her menses stopped and of course she became what we will call
barren.
Then it happened that we tried
to hold a program in their city, Oyo to be specific. And she heard we were
coming, she decided to wait on God to pray.
The afternoon we were to arrive she fell asleep and had a dream and
saw some men dressed like doctors, came into the room and they operated her and
she saw them pulling out a long rope out of her belly, at the end of the rope
was a black loaf of bread and they sowed her up and left the room and she woke
up.
When she woke up, lo and behold her bed was soaked with blood, her
menses had returned. The last I heard concerning her, I think she had five
children already.
In the name that is above every other name, if God is going to visit
just one person alone, that person will be you.
God makes you laugh; whenever He accepts your offering; Abraham made
an offer to God and God accepted. According to Genesis 4 v 3-5 God does not
have to accept every offering.
Cain brought an offering, God rejected it. Abel brought an offering
and God accepted the offering. Whenever God accept your offerings a miracle
will follow.
In 2king 4 v 8-17 the Bible
tells us the story of the Shulamite woman who saw the man of God passing by and
made an offer; come and eat in my house.
The Bible says the man of God said 'I don't need your food but the
woman insisted, the Bible says she constrained him, compel him, she restrained
him.
To come to her house to eat, the man of God eat and kept coming back.
Then the woman said instead of the man of God coming for occasional lunch,
let's build him an apartment so that he can come and stay. And instead of lunch
alone, he will be having breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Then one day, God spoke to the man of God saying; you have been eating
this woman's food , when are you going to do something about her problem?
The man of God called her
'woman what can I do for you?"
She said I don't need anything, I am comfortable, am well connected.
'The man of God pressed further and discovered she was barren and the man of
God said wonderful! I can give you what money cannot buy.
I am praying for someone here tonight, that thing which you need that
will make your joy full, you will receive it tonight in Jesus name.
You know the rest of the story, the man of God said woman you are
going to have a son nine month from now. And nine months from then, the son
came.
Whenever God accept an offering a miracle follows 2Chronicle 1 v 6-15
the Bible tells us about Solomon offering to God a thousand burnt offering, God
was pleased and the Bible said that night God paid Solomon a visit.
I am believing God for someone tonight that before you wake up again,
you will get a divine visitation.
I want to encourage you because I know many of you were not here for
divine encounter on Monday, I want you to make sure you got the tape for last
Monday divine encounter we explain something to you.
Whenever you give God a sacrificial offering, an offering you know is
sacrificial, God is bound to respond and usually He responds with a divine
visitation.
Years ago as a young Christian, my father in the Lord said there is a
great need in the Church that must be met urgently so he called those of us who
were workers, those of us who were children of God, he said go and close your
account we need the money now.
Monday morning my wife and I went to close our accounts and brought
the money.
The following Sunday at the workers meeting, papa said thank God the
need was met but how many of you closed your account?
I raised my hand, my wife
raised her hand.
We looked round nobody else raised their own hands, and I looked at my
wife and a thought came to my mind, I said I hope we have not mixed madness
with this thing we have accepted, then I heard God spoke to me.
He said "my son, it is a test; because you have done what nobody
has done, when I take you to where nobody has been, nobody will be able to
complain".
There is somebody here tonight; God will take you to somewhere you can
never dream of.
When God accept your offering, a miracle will follow!
God makes you laugh, when the All Sufficient One decides to say thank
you, He will make sure miracles follow you.
After He accepted the offering of Abraham, He decided to say thank
you.
You see in Psalm 50 v 7-12 the Almighty God said if I am hungry I
don't need to tell anyone, He said all the beast of the forest are mine, the
cattle on a thousand hills they are
mine.
If I want to eat I can get as much as I want. But then when the One
who says He eats nothing, receives an offering from you, particularly an
offering you yourself will know it is a sacrificial offering, the Bible says
they that sow in tears will reap in joy, and God decides to say thank you. No
doubt about it, laughter will follow.
In Luke5 v 1 7 when He borrowed the boat of Peter to preach from the
boat, after He finished preaching He asked him to launch into the deep to throw
his net.
Peter threw only one net and caught so much fish, his boat and the
boat of his friend were full to sinking point.
In John6 v 5-13 the Bible says
that there was a multitude, Jesus has been preaching to the multitude and then
they were hungry it was time for them to eat and a small boy surrendered his
lunch, talk about sacrificial offering!
The boy had just his little lunch but he surrender it to Jesus, after
Jesus multiplied the bread and the fish and fed the people there were twelve
baskets left over.
I have asked my little children
when they were younger, what happened to the twelve basket and fish? And I got
various answers and one of the answers I got was that there were twelve
apostles, so each apostle got one basket each.
I laughed; then I told then yes there were twelve basket and they were
twelve apostles each apostles carried the twelve basket to the house of the boy
because the word of God says all rivers run into the sea and the sea is not
full, He said because where the river is coming from that is where the water
will return.
The boy who made the sacrifice must have gone home with twelve hefty
men carrying baskets full of food.
And I'm sure when the mother saw him with all the basket of food,
there must have been laughter in that house that day.
There is a house here today where there will be laughter before the
end of this month.
When we were building this auditorium, I remember God told me we want
to cover this auditorium it was an open space that is why we use to call it
arena.
The Lord said to me; son, we are going to cover this place I was
happy, glory be to God.
But then He said you are not going to take an offering, you won't call
people together and say give me money towards the auditorium.
How are we going to build it? He said just you and I. Up till that
moment I used to consider myself a man of faith, so when God said I will take
no offering for this work I ran to the toilet I was frightened!
Well, in His wonderful way He began to send help.
One of the people that He sent, is a Bishop from another organization
who came to visit and saw the work in progress and went away and came back with
a cheque of (25) million naira and said daddy I must support this work.
He gave me the twenty five million naira I prayed for him from the
bottom of my heart, less than six month later he came back with a testimony
that in a way he could not described it God replace the twenty five ( 25)
million naira for twenty five (25) million dollars.
He will make you laugh.
God makes you laugh, when all his prophecies concerning you become
fulfilled in a single day.
God had been talking to Abraham for twenty five years; Abraham, can
you count the number of sand, no lord, 'so shall your children be'.
Abraham, can you count the sand by the sea shore? ' No Lord', "so
shall your children be". Twenty five years! But in a single day all the prophecy became
fulfilled.
Thank you father!
The Lord says there is a lady here, that you felt a sudden movement in
your body, He asked me to tell you that demon that has been destroying the seed
of your husband has been dealt with.
Numbers 23 v 19 the Bible says God is not a man that He should lie, He
is not the son of man that He should repent, once He has spoken it is a settled
matter.
And then the Bible says God has a timetable for everything Eccl 3v1-
8, yes when God promises He will bring it to past, but everything at his own
season.
However whenever God decide to
pay you a special divine visit, whenever God accept your offering, whenever God
decide to say thank you, whatever the time that was originally scheduled for
the manifestation of the promises will be brought to now.
You see; as far as God is concerned because He is the Alpha and the
Beginning as well as Ending, the beginning of time and end of time coincide in
Him, if He wants, what He plans to do in ten years' time, He can do it today
and there is no one who can quarry him.
And I'm rejoicing with someone that at long last the time to favor you
has come.
God can fulfill His prophecies in a single day.
I have told you the story before the first time we went to Tulsa in
1979 to attend Kenneth Haggins camp meeting, my father in the Lord and five
others.
Himself, myself and four other people went to this program on
Saturday. Then on Sunday we decided to go and worship in one of the churches
nearby, we are there and because we were visitor they allowed us to sit in the
front, papa couldn't understand English, so I was interpreting.
And you know the way the American preacher preaches, they don't stay
in one spot like me, they move around a bit.
And as this preacher was preaching all of a sudden he came down from
the altar stood in front of papa and began to say to him: thus said the Lord,
"everything I told you is about to come to past"
then he turned round and went back to the altar and continued
preaching.
Papa asked me, 'what did he say?.
I said when we get home.
Because I want to hear the rest of the sermon.
When we got home, Papa said what did the man said?
I said the man said"
"the promises of God for you they are about to come to past".
Papa began to cry; I waited for him to finish crying, to ask what are
the promises?
Then he told me the promises, how the Almighty God told him that
through him, he will start a Church and that the church will spread throughout
the whole world.
If God says that is about to happen, well! Papa was weeping, I was
happy, I was glad that the Almighty God
has brought me to a Church that God said He will spread throughout the whole
world.
Less than one year later papa was dying and he called those who were
by his death bed and said tell the congregation on Sunday that from now on they
will begin to laugh.
That was some thirty something years ago, today by the grace of God;
The Redeem Christian church of God is in one hundred and seventy four nations
of the world.
God made a promise, He fulfilled his promise and today we are
laughing.
We are laughing and I tell you one of the reasons we are laughing. I
say this to encourage someone.
I have just returned from a long journey to the far East Malaysia and
considering the situation in Malaysia you will understand that I find it
incredible to discover that Malaysia now has forty five branches of The
Redeemed Christian church of God.
I held a Holy Ghost rally, my children told me they have rented a very
big hall I thought they were joking, I got there it was a massive hall, the
place was jammed, I gave the altar call two thousand four hundred people gave
their lives to Jesus in one night, if that didn't cause you to laugh I don't
know what will cause you to laugh.
Let me hear some shout halleluiah!
I'm believing God for someone here tonight, all the prophecies that
you have been writing down, before the end of this month, all of them will be
fulfilled in Jesus name.
God makes you laugh; when He decides to overrule your doubts. Sarah
laughed when God spoke and said you are going to have a son, she laughed she
didn't believe,
And it is true that the Bible says the just shall live by faith.
In fact God repeated it four times, Habakkuk 2 v 4, Romans 1 v 17,
Galatians 3 v 11 and Hebrews 10 v 38. Four times God said the just shall live
by faith. That means living by faith is so important to God that He repeated it
four times.
However God said in Isaiah 43 v
13 He said I will work who will let, in order words God says when I make up My
mind that I want to do something, nobody can hinder Me, whether you believe Me
or not.
If I say I am going to do something, I will do something. Sarah
laughed, what I say I will do, I will do.
I know there might be some people here tonight, who will say I have
heard God promised before and nothing has happened, I don't believe He is going
to do anything now.
Well, I have good news for you, tonight in particular it doesn't
matter your doubt, my God will over rule your doubt.
In 2King 4 v 8-17 when Elisha said to the Shunamite woman you will
have a son in nine months' time, she said to the man of God, 'man of God don't
deceive me', that means I don't believe you.
But Elisha didn't say anything after that one, God has spoken the
matter is settled.
I know there might be some of you here who didn't believe me at all,
but I'm not the one who chose the theme for this month, Daddy chose the theme
and He has made up His mind that;
There is someone here tonight,
you are have been weeping every month, this time you are going to laugh.
Several years ago, a young man came to my office, brought by his
friend and said sir, I have a big problem, what is the big problem?
The wife became mad and not only just mad, she is gone completely
naked into the street.
And according to Yoruba believe, if somebody is mad and the madness is
still within the house it can be handled, but when the madness has taken the
madness nakedly to the market place that is madness for life.
So he said the wife has been mad publicly. And they have taken the
woman and bundled her to the house of an herbalist somewhere in Kwara State.
So they gave me the address, I went, saw the woman and prayed and the
husband was informed that yes I came and I prayed but the prayer didn't last
five minute.
How could five minute prayer deal with something this serious? The
husband says let's take the woman to physiatrist hospital and they took the
woman to the specialist hospital, as God will have it, the specialist there
says let observe her before we know what we I'll give her, they observed her
for two weeks.
And then they sent for the
husband, ' sir if you say something is wrong with this woman something is wrong
with you, because we have not given her any drug and injection and she is
normal as normal can be normal.
I don't care whether you believe or not tonight, in the name that is
above every other names, this month you shall laugh!
God makes you laugh when He turns all His prophecies to a single
decree, you see when you are hearing, "thus saith the Lord" that is a
prophecy but when the Almighty God just decided that "let there be
light" there will be light, there is no need for waiting.
In Psalm 33 v 8-9 the reason
the whole earth should fear before God is that whenever He spoke it is done. All
He has to do is just say it, and it is done.
The Lord said there is someone here tonight, He said some people are
convinced that you are going to drown in sorrow; God says this month I will
surprise them.
The Lord asks someone here tonight to get ready for a miracle that
will open doors to many other miracles.
Like I said in Genesis 1 v 1-3 the Bible says in the beginning God
created the heaven and the earth, the earth was without form and void and
darkness was on the face of the deep and the Spirit of the Lord moves along the
face of the water and God said let there be light.
When did the light come?
Immediately!
There was no need to vote on it, there was no delay because God
decreed it.
Some of you will remember the testimony; it wasn't too long ago now
when husband and wife stood here to testify.
Two of them came to me and said daddy we are believing God for the
fruit of the womb, I said ok what kind of baby do you want?
The husband said a boy; the wife said a girl and they spoke
simultaneously. So I said okay maybe we better made it a twin then; one boy and
one girl.
Both of them said amen, that was the end of the discussion, nine month
later the husband was carrying the boy, the wife was carrying the girl.
Let me ask you tonight, how do you want your babies? So shall it be in
Jesus name.
God makes you laugh when He decided to show His Almightiness, He said
to Sarah,
He said you laughed,
She said I didn't laugh,
He said you laughed! He said I know why you laugh;
He said but is anything too hard for the Lord?
Is there anything the Almighty cannot do?
Luke 1 v 37 the Bible says for with God nothing shall be impossible;
He is not talking about with man, He is not talking about with your
husband, He is not talking with you pastor, He is not talking with your general
overseer, He said with God nothing shall be impossible.
Thank you my Lord, the Lord says there is someone here tonight, He
said you've had your own share of shame and disgrace, he says get ready for his
season of glory.
Thank you Daddy, Daddy says there is someone here tonight, He said
your progress has been painfully slow he says I promise you, you will be
flying.
Matthew 3 v 9 tells us that the God we are talking about is able to
produce children out of stones!
That is God, and you are hearing words like this, the enemies tries to
tell you what the doctor has said, the condition of your husband, the condition
of your wife, the problems in the past, no, take your eyes off men.
Look unto Jesus the Author and
Finisher of our faith and He will show you, He is The Almighty.
Maybe I should remind you of the testimony, of a sister who was barren
for several years and the relative of the husband called the husband and said
to him, stop wasting your time your wife will never have a child.
Forget because the evil ones have tampered with her womb.
And she came to one Holy ghost service like this and the word of God
came and said;
There is someone here, they
said you will never have a child but the Almighty God said, get ready for a set
of twins.
She grabbed it.
The following month she was pregnant, she went to the hospital to
check; they said, yes you are pregnant, we don't know how it happened, but you
are pregnant.
She said no, God said twins.
They said okay no argument.
She went back a couple of month later, they checked and say 'now we
can see twins'.
And because they were well off they decided to go abroad for
deliveries they don't want to take chances.
And the husband told the doctors, 'I don't want a situation where they will say the woman was in labor and one child
died, bring out the children, do it by operation, so they put the woman to
sleep and brought out the set of twins.
When she woke up she saw everybody looking at her strangely.
She said what is the problem?
Where are my children? They
said no problem your children are fine.
The couple told the doctor, we
don't need more children tie the womb.
The doctor said I have
performed more than four thousand deliveries, this is the first time that am
seeing a woman deliver a set of twins without a womb, because when they say tie
the womb, he searched and said where did I get this children from?
There is no womb!
There is somebody here tonight, it doesn't matter how hopeless they
say your case is God will proof himself to be the Almighty.
God makes you laugh when He makes the impossible possible.
In Jeremiah 32 v 27 He said behold I am the Lord the God of all flesh,
is anything too hard for me?
Exodus 17 v 3-6 tells us that this God can bring water out of the
rock.
Now I want all of us to please take note, that yes tonight we are
focusing on the fruit of the womb but this thing is much more than the fruit of
womb; this particular program is for those of you who are tired of fruitless
effort.
This is the special night for those of you who are tired of failure.
This is a special night for those people who have tried their best in
business, in academic in everything and found that they have labor but they
have nothing to show for it.
God will make you laugh.
There is a God who can bring water out of the rock and that God is
here tonight, determined to make you laugh.
I tell you a story to encourage
you, I told you that several years ago anytime I was visiting London one of my
son there who was a taxi driver will come and meet me and take me to where I
will stay.
And as we go home along the route there was a place there where they
were selling second hand Rolls Royce cars and I will sit in the taxi and look
in that direction and say one day I am going to drive one of this thing out of
that place and my boy will say amen. (You know the kind of amen)
Keep on dreaming; if you want to deceive yourself go ahead, without my
taxi you can't even get home.
But one day we were passing through the same place and I looked in
that direction and say one day and going to drive out one of this Rolls Royce
out of that place and he said amen as usual.
Then a little bit down the
street there was a shirt where they were selling clothe, they put up a big sign
SALE,
So I said let's stop here I may be able to get some shirts and we got
there and I began to look at the shirt, twenty five pounds, thirty pounds,
forty pounds, so I said to my son, this stupid people I thought they were doing
SALE, let's go.
As we moved towards the taxi,
my boy began to laugh, now I understand why he was laughing; here is a man who
cannot buy a twenty five pounds shirt and he wanted to buy a Rolls Royce, he
was laughing. I didn't say anything to him.
I looked up to God and said I
hope you know this boy is laughing at both of us?
He is laughing at me and you are my employer, he says that there is no
way in life I can ever ride a Rolls Royce, over to you.
Some months later I travelled to American and as I was passing London
on my way back and as usual he was there to receive me.
He carried my bag; and as he was about to put my bags in his taxi, one
of my son showed up and said, daddy please don't put that into the taxi, this
car is for you, it is second hand but it is a Rolls Royce.
I looked at my son and he looked at me and we began to laugh.
There is somebody here tonight, God will make you laugh!
There are things in your life now that might look totally impossible,
the God I serve will make that
impossible to be possible in Jesus name.
God makes you laugh when He decides to reverse the irreversible.
In Ezekiel 37 v 1-10 the Bible
tells us about a valley full of dry bones and the Bible says lo they were very
dry, the Bible says the Spirit of God took the prophet Ezekiel and placed him in
the valley of dry bones.
And God asked him, these bones that are dry, very dry can they live?
The man of God said my faith can't carry this one. God only you can
tell and the Almighty God said to the prophet okay, you prophecy, just say to
dry bones, live again!
You know the rest of the story, the man of God obeyed and the dry bone
came together bone to bone flesh covered them, the man of God prophecy again;
the wind blew and what was dry bone became a mighty army, God can reverse the
irreversible!
All that is required is for His prophet to prophecy
And I prophecy to you tonight, every irreversible shall be reversed in
Jesus name.
The Almighty God said there is someone here tonight, He said by the
time I finish with you, even those who are mocking you now will help you shout
halleluiah!
Daddy said Lazarus heard My voice and came out of the tomb, He said
your womb will hear My voice tonight.
I have told you this story before, this is a night for stories because
God is going to make somebody laugh.
Several years ago, I was still a young lecturer at the University of
Lagos, I went to Nsukka to mark WAEC exams.
I didn't go with my car; it was a second hand Dodged Avenger. I wasn't
sure it won't park up on the way so I didn't travel with it.
When we finish marking, I came and I stood on the road side, in Asaba,
looking for a lift for somebody to bring me to Lagos.
Whenever I saw a small old car coming, I will wave and they will just
zoom past, none of them waited.
Finally I saw a Mercedes Benz 280 brand new coming. I didn't bother to
wave because I say this one is not going to wait.
And he zoomed past me, I think
I must have lifted my hand weakly and the driver who happen to be the owner
must have seen my hands going up a little and he stopped and reversed to where
I was.
And he was one of these people who have either have spent several
years in America or just like to speak like an American.
He said, "You want a lift?"
I said yes sir.
He said, "Get in men!"
So I got in men!
I put my little bag on the floor in the car and since he was driving
and there was a friend sitting beside him, so I found myself sitting in the
owner's corner.
The whole thing was air-conditioned.
One moment I was in the sun in another moment I was sitting in the
owner's corner, the cool air was very, very refreshing.
I felt like laughing but in
that kind of situation you better don't laugh out loud.
Because I don't want to laugh and I don't want the man to look back
and say what is funny dude?
He brought me to Lagos and said "where do you want to stop?
I said anywhere sir, I am already in Lagos,
He said no, give me your address, and he drove me all the way home.
After he has left that was when it was time for me to laugh!
There is laughter waiting for you at home, you are going to laugh! God
will make you laugh.
God makes you laugh when He stops all the mockers;
I wasn't there but I could
imagine when all of a sudden the belly of Sarah began to bulge, that those
people who had written her off looked at her and said Mama Sarah must have
eaten excess pounded yam.
And she must have been laughing quietly, keep mocking you will soon
see, the pregnancy became seven month, eight month.
I'm sure some of them must have been looking at father Abraham; and
saying...
What are you looking at?
Why don't you take this woman to the physician?
Can't you see your wife is sick?
They though it was sickness they didn't know it was a bundle of joy.
God will surprise your mockers.
Sarah said it in Genesis 21 v 7 who would have said that Sarah will
give child suck? Who would have believed that I will ever have course to
rejoice.
The Lord said there is someone here tonight, He said the pendulum of
your life has begun a new upward swing and it will never come down again.
In Samuel 2 v 1-5 Another woman who was considered barren Hannah by
name sang a song to the Almighty God, She said at long last God has enlarge
your mouth over your adversaries.
God will enlarge your mouth over your adversaries.
You probably remember the story of a woman who had four daughters, and
all daughters are not married.
The youngest of the four I think was twenty eight, thirty and thirty
two. They were like that in that series.
This was a woman committed to evangelism, every morning, very early in
the morning she will go round the street ringing her bell and say everybody
wake up, give your life to Jesus, surrender your life to Jesus.
One day one neighbor said woman why don't you stop deceiving people.
Saying that your Jesus can do everything,
If your Jesus can do everything, how come you have four daughters and
not one of them is married?
I pray for you today, everything in your life that is causing people
to say where is your God, my God will remove it tonight.
That was when the old woman came and said help me man of God pray for
me what do I do.
And the Spirit of God asks me to ask some question and I discover that
at the time of ignorance when each daughter was born, each one was dedicated to
the IFA oracle.
I said I see, the Almighty God asked me to tell IFA to take his hands
off these daughters of God, we prayed a simple prayer, within one year all four
daughters were married and as they were getting married pregnancies followed.
Everything in your life that is not making your joy to be completely
full, my Father will deal with it tonight in Jesus name.
God makes you to laugh when He decides to do something completely new.
It was something completely new for a ninety year old woman to become
pregnant.
It has never happened before, but then in Exodus 14 v 13-28 when God
decided to open the red sea it was something that had never happen before.
In Daniel 3 v 14-30 when Shedrach, Meshach and Abednego went into the
fiery furnace without being burnt it is clear something completely new,
something that had never happened before.
So I don't know what is the situation you find yourself in whether
physically, materially or spiritually, God will do something new.
Some of you , particularly will remember a young man who when he was
born had only one testicle and the parent in an attempt to help him, took him
to a herbalist to try and see if something can be done about it and in the
process the herbalist destroy the only good testicle.
Which automatically means now the boy can never have a child because
no testicle at all.
Then we held a program at Row Park, it was the first program I held as
general overseer, Row Park.
And while the program was on,
the boy felt something is happening under him.
And he did a check and discovered that instead of one testicle they
were two.
The day he came to see me in the office to share his testimony he came
with his wife and the wife was pregnant.
He said sir, do you want me to
show you?
I said there is no need I can see the evidence.
Something brand new, creative miracle will be your portion here
tonight in Jesus name.
God makes you laugh when He causes you to sing a new song,
In Exodus 15 v 1 -18 after the opening of the red sea and the children
of Israel who the night before were afraid that they were going to die, they
were now saying there is no one like our God.
Nine month before, Sarah was saying how can I ever have a child, but
after nine month he said the Lord as made me to laugh.
The Almighty God is about to put a new song in the mouth of someone
here tonight.
Now I will close with the testimony of one of my pastor that we heard
earlier this year; they have been married for twenty six years no fruit of the
womb, then the almighty God moved in and now she could say to people.
Do you see these three children; the name of the first one is Miracle,
Sign, the name of the third is Wonders and all three are mine.
Somebody is about to sing, I was barren now I have triplet. I was
condemned to die, now am completely whole again. I was a tenant now I am a
landlord. They thought I was going to drown in sorrow, now see me shouting
halleluiah!
I can hear the sound of music coming from the home of many people who
are here tonight, I can hear of singing:
I am serving the God of miracle
I know, yes I know
I am serving the God of miracle
I know, yes I know
Who is the one who will be singing that song?
Let me hear you shout halleluiah!
Let me conclude; the Bible says in Psalm 16 v 11 He says in the
presence of God there is the fullness of joy and at His right hand there are
pleasure forever more.
But in the same book of Psalm,
Psalm 16 v 4 He said the sorrow of those who run after other gods shall be
multiplied.
On one side in the presence of God there is the fullness of joy, on
the other side the sorrow of those who run after other gods shall be multiplied
and the choice is yours.
Do I want to be on the side of God and enjoy fullness of joy, or do I
want to run after other gods and have my sorrow multiply?
The choice is yours but you cannot take the two together, like I told
you last month those of you who were here, you either serve God hundred percent
or serve the devil hundred percent, you can't combine the two. Impossible!
You are either hundred percent a child of God, absolutely, completely
on the side of Jesus or you are hundred percent on the side of the child of the
devil, there is no gray area; it is either black or white period.
You cannot serve God and serve the devil at the same time it is not
possible at all.
I had a confrontation with a traditional ruler not too long ago; who
told me that the reason they worship a particular tree in his town is because
it was under that tree that the founder of the town sat when he came to start
the town.
I said how long ago was that?
He said about two hundred years ago, he said that is why the tree is
scared.
I said Kabeyesi, you want to compare a tree that is two hundred years
old tree with the Ancient of Days?
Who planted the tree?
You have to choose, no compromise, if you want to serve God, you serve
God hundred percent, I didn't say there is not going to be persecution, the
evidence that you are truly in the light is that darkness will criticize.
You are not serving God until people begin to say you are a fanatic.
You must be hundred percent for God, let them know you belong to Jesus Christ.
Let me tell you one thing, if you start a project for God , the enemy
must criticize you, darkness must always speak up against light, that is the
law.
If you don't belief me, ask Noah, when God told him to build an ark,
what happened?
They mocked him; look at this silly old man, building an ark when
there is no rain, where is the river where he will put the thing.
When Nehemiah decided to build the wall of Jerusalem, criticism came
from right left and center, everybody trying to make sure the wall will not be
built.
One way you will know you are doing what God wants you to do is that
the world must criticize you.
If you say you are a Christian and your co friend, your co sinner
didn't say you have accepted madness with religion, I'm not sure you are truly
born again.
So tonight you have a choice, on the right; the presence of God there
is the fullness of joy, on the left; they that run after other gods shall have
their sorrow multiplied, what is your choice?
If you are here tonight and you
have not given your life to Jesus Christ before now, come and do so now.
I advise you to choose the side of God that is where joy is.
Come now, the Almighty God is waiting, He will save your soul, He will
forgive your sin, He will give you a brand new beginning and you will laugh.
Because God will make you laugh.
So if you want to come begin to come now.
Those of you in the front begin to call on God, ask Him to save your
soul ask Him to forgive you your sins, tell Him you are very sorry for all the
evils you have done in the past.
Promise Him from now on you will do his will, ask Him to forgive you,
ask Him to save your soul.
That from now on He will be your Lord and savior.
The rest of us let us intercede for these people, that God will have mercy on them, that the One who
saved your soul will save their own soul also.
Pray for them.
Ask the Almighty God to be merciful unto you, to forgive you all your
sins, ask Him to give you a brand new beginning.
... In Jesus mighty name we have prayed.
Father, I want to bless your Holy Name, I want to thank you for your
Word, I want to thank you for all these your children who have decided to
surrender their lives to you today, please on their behalf accept our thank in
Jesus name.
Father you promised that whosoever come to you will not cast out,
Father please receive them in Jesus name.
Forgive them in Jesus name, let your blood wipe away their sins.
Write their names in the Book of Life, please Lord don't let them ever
go back into the world, from now on anytime they call on you, answer them by
fire, give them a new beginning.
In Jesus mighty name we have prayed.
I want to rejoice with those of you who have come forward tonight, I
want to promise you that from now on we will be praying for you.
So I am going to need your name, your address and prayer request.
PRAYER POINT
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Praise Him that your time has come at last
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The Bible says when God turn the captivity of
Zion we were like those that dream, Father please turn my captivity today
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Father, I will sow in tears, let reap in joy.
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Father, if you are paying only one person a
special visit tonight; let it be me.
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Father please fulfill all your prophecies
concerning me tonight
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Father, please decree my fruitfulness right now.
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Father, please fill my mouth with laughter this
mouth
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Father, before this month ends let me sing a new
song.
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Father, in life tonight prove your Almightiness
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Father, please make my neighbor laughs too
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Your personal request.
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