The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian
Church of God, RCCG, Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye Wednesday night at a special
deliverance service of the ongoing Holy Ghost Congress, led participants in a
holy war against all forms of evil forces and rulers of darkness and charged
all those who are called by the name of Jesus Christ to stay away from every
appearance of evil and embrace righteousness for them to experience wholesome
restoration.
Drawing inspiration from the book of
James 4:7, Pastor Adeboye, in a topic titled; “Resist the devil”, explained
that most Christians still experience various demonic challenges because they
have refused to totally submit their lives to God, saying that any child of God
who has genuinely submitted him/herself to God and consistently does His will,
will not be afraid of the activities of witches and wizards but will easily
keep the devil at bay.
According to him, Christians ought
to deal with all the activities of the evil ones in their life and that one of
the reasons most Christians are afraid of witchcraft is because such people
were not 100 per cent committed to God and that those who are still wallowing
in all forms of evil practices have devil as their master.
In his words: “We have to deal with
the devil because he is the original trouble maker, everything God created was
okay before he came to distort God’s plan for mankind. God will not ask you to
do what He knows you cannot do.
“Devil must be resisted and not
worshiped; do not glorify devil, he is not to be tolerated but dealt with; not
to be accommodated, served, nor loved. The only person you must love is God.
Devil must not be advertised but Jesus Christ—witness more of Christ. Do not
associate with the devil. You cannot be a Christian in the day and a member of
a secret society in the night and you still want to command the devil. Devil
knows those who truly belong to God”.
Earlier, the Chairman of the Board
of Trustees and Head of the Executive Council of the Redeemed Christian Church
of God (RCCG) in the UK and Special Assistant to the General Overseer, Pastor
Agu Irukwu speaking on “The Destiny Changer”, lament that Nigeria, a nation
with so much potentials in its early days, is today running at the very rung of
its developmental index.
According to him, Nigeria which has
been prophesied time and time again to be destined to excel in the continent is
today struggling, saying that that’s not the destiny of the nation. He
prophesied that God of complete restoration would soon turn the table around
and restore the destiny of the nation.
Irukwu who mesmerized the entire
congregation by his charismatic presentation, outlined ways out of current
recession, which he said was as a result of mediocrity handling of the nation’s
economy.
He said: “Today, mediocrity sits at
the centre stage of the nation. Time was when our hospitals, schools and all
public institutions in the country were the pride of the continent, but today,
it’s a different ball game.”
His nuggets for total transformation
of the nation’s prostrate economic must involve a radical approach to our
educational system, stressing that education must be seen to be cardinal in the
needed process, which must be followed by a steady and progressive effort by
the Nigerian youths to be the real catalysts that will drive the change that
Nigeria desires.
The third nugget recommended by
Pastor Irukwu involves a deliberate revolutionary effort by every Nigerian to
salvage the dwindling fortunes of the nation, stressing that “we must all rise
to bail out the nation now for the betterment of our younger generations.”
12 kids delivered Earlier, Pastor Adeboye
announced that the total numbers of children born during the annual spiritual
fiesta as at 5pm on Wednesday was 12—six boys and six girls.
Testimonies Brother Samson Adelusi,
a member of the Church Pastors’ Seed Family testified to how God delivered him
from two fatal accidents back to back, without sustaining any form of injury or
hurt.
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