Father in heaven we want to say thank You this morning; thank You for all that You have done for us; thank You for the impact of Your grace upon our lives; thank You for salvation on accounts of the grace; thank You for restoration on the account of Your grace; thank You for repositioning on account of Your grace; thank You for promotion on account of Your grace; we thank You for the work of
grace upon our lives, accept our thanks in Jesus name; accept our praises in Jesus
name.
We want to thank You for the first month of the year; we want to thank You for the second month; we want to thank You for the third; we want to thank You for April and we want to thank You for bringing us into this glorious new month, accept our thanks in the name of Jesus Christ.
Thank You because it is written in Your word that the glory of the latter house shall be greater than the former, and that gives us the assurance that the glory of this month will supersede that of the previous; Father let it be so in our lives in the name of Jesus; Father let it be so in the lives of our children in the name of Jesus.
My Lord and my Father, we pray this month and all through this year, that in every area, every moment of our lives, that grace will find expression. In the morning grace will find expression; in the daytime grace will find expression; in the evening grace will find expression; in the middle of the night grace will find expression in every aspect of our lives we will testify to the effect of Your grace in the mighty name of Jesus.
Your favor will attract blessing in the almighty name of Jesus; Your favor upon our lives will attract destiny helpers to us in the mighty name of Jesus Christ. Father we pray that as many that You have earmarked to be a blessing to us this month and beyond, Father they will find no rest until they fulfill destiny in the name of Jesus.
My Lord and my Father, we pray that You make this moment and this month our own set time for miracles in the mighty name of Jesus; that You will not pass us by, You will remember us for good.
Your word said ‘and Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord’, I decree concerning everyone under the influence of my voice, that this month you will find grace in the sight of God; I said this month you will find grace in the eyes of the Lord. You cannot enjoy grace and be put to shame, a man cannot enjoy grace and be stranded in life; I pray in the name of Jesus that this month you will find grace in the eyes of the Lord. By reason of God’s grace upon your life you will enjoy divine patronage in the name of Jesus; those who know you will favor you; those who don’t know you will favor you; help will come to you from the least expected places in the mighty name of Jesus.
I pray for as many of you that have been faithful in the payments of your tithes and the giving of your offering, that God will remember you for good in Jesus name; that God will open the windows of heaven unto you in Jesus name; and that every devourer in your life the Lord will put to flight in Jesus name.
Thank You glorious Father; let this month be the best month ever in the lives of Your people in the name of Jesus. Make us fruitful; make us productive; let the harvest be plenteous unto us in the mighty name of Jesus. And Lord Almighty, we pray that there shall be manifestation of the impact of Your grace in every area of our lives in the mighty name of Jesus; and we pray that that same grace will announce us everywhere we go.
Thank You glorious Father; as we go into Your word You are the Word from the beginning, Lord we pray You will speak to us, very clearly You will speak to us; You will give us the understanding of Your Word and you will give us the corresponding grace to be the doer of Your Word in Jesus wonderful name we have prayed. Praise the Lord! Praise the living Jesus!
Good morning to every one of you, a warm and a very happy new month! I wish you a very glorious month full of grace and favor in the mighty name of Jesus. Everywhere you go (as we prayed) grace will announce you; your life will attract favor from known and unknown men in the name of Jesus. You will not be stranded and yours will not be difficult for God in the name of Jesus, God bless you and have a wonderful month!
We declare the month as our month of unmerited favor. Now we just try to tweak it, you know number five (5) actually represents grace and one of the definitions of grace is the fact that grace is an unmerited favor. I pray in the name of Jesus that your life will attract favor; favor will be your testimony; in fact this month will not end until you have enjoyed unmerited favor in the name of Jesus, and the Lord will remember you for good.
Our text is found in Genesis 6:8 where the Bible tells us that Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord. You can’t find grace and remain the same, you can’t find grace and you will not enjoy grace; I pray in the name of Jesus every one of you, you are in for a moment of grace in the name of Jesus Christ.
By the grace of God we have our prayer chain tomorrow and the theme for tomorrow is “There is a room at the top”; there is room for me at the top, there is room for you at the top; our text is taken from the Book of Luke 1: 51-55, please come and avail yourself of the prayer session and grace will be delivered to you in Jesus name.
Psalms 29: 1-3; “Give unto the LORD, O ye mighty, give unto the LORD glory and strength. 2 Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name; worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness. 3 The voice of the LORD is upon the waters: the God of glory thundereth: the LORD is upon many waters”.
This morning very briefly, by the grace of God I’ll be talking to us on the topic “He deserves all the glory”, and the scripture we have just read actually said a lot about the fact that God deserves all the glory. I shared with them in the morning that glory (as we all know) is the opposite of shame; my prayer for somebody under the influence of my voice this morning is that you will not encounter shame, you will not know shame, because if you understand what shame is all about and we are praying that you will know no shame, your amen will be better.
I pray once again by the authority of the Most High, you will know no shame in Jesus name.
The Bible says in Proverbs 3: 35 that the wise shall inherit glory, (it says) but shame shall be the promotion of fools. When we talk about glory, we talk about honor; when we talk about glory, we talk about reverence, and when we talk about glory, we talk about majesty and adoration that is due to God and guess what, God is not ready. I think we need to know this that God is not ready to share His glory with any man; glory belongs to God it doesn’t belong to man.
God is jealous of His glory and that we find in Isaiah 42: 8, He said “I am the Lord: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.” There are two things in this scripture that God will not share with any man; number one is glory; and number two is praise; and what is this saying to us? Every one of us must be very mindful of to whom we give grace and praise; we should not because of money, we should not because of position, we should not because of whatever we stand to benefit and begin to give glory and praise to people other than God.
Perhaps one of the major issues we have in our time is the fact that men are fond of giving glory to men; men are fond of praising other men against that divine order. Whenever you read the scriptures and you find God introducing Himself, you can be sure that God wants to prove something and He wants to impress something so that people will understand and learn.
He said ‘I am the Lord’ as if He was not known; He said ‘and that is my name’; He did not say ‘you know I am the Lord’, He said ‘and that is my name, my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images’.
Brethren, it is incumbent on all of us to always glorify the Lord for whatever happens to us as a people, because God is our all in all. Whatever happens to you; greatness, upliftment, expansion, increase, blessing, is all because God allowed it; if God does not allow it, then it will not come to pass and that’s why we were enjoined by Apostle Paul that in all things we must give thanks to God, because that is His will for our lives at that moment.
I also shared with them in the morning that God is our defender; Deuteronomy 32: 4, God is our defender, wherever you see the word ‘Rock’ as far as the Bible is concerned connotes defense. He said ‘He is the Rock, his work is perfect’; He’s giving us some of the reasons why we need to glorify Him: number one, He is a Rock (in this scripture) and number two, His work is perfect.
He said ‘for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he’. God of truth and without iniquity, how I wish men would be defined this way; how I wish men – all of us will be seen and operate in the light of this scripture. He said ‘just and right is he’; with God there is no hanky-panky; with God there is no hide and seek; with God all things being equal, whatever He does over A is what He does to B.
He said ‘just and right is our God’, there is no man that fits into this narrative, otherwise our society will be a glorious society; otherwise our society today, we will not have to make budget for defense, we will not have need for police. He said ‘just and right’, EFCC as an institution will not be alive, thank God for those who work there, but if everyone is just and right like God, those institutions will not have come to being in the first place.
There is absolutely nothing that a man has that he has not received. A lot of times when you talk about giving, in fact the easiest way to offend in the church today is to talk about giving, but again you cannot blame the church because a lot of men of God have also abused that. Every day give, every day give, every day give, no sensitivity, but the truth is there is nothing we have that we have not received.
John 3: 27 makes that clear; there is nothing a man has, there is nothing you ever have that you are not going to receive, at least from heaven, that’s why we need to give glory to God. The Bible tells us that God created the heaven and the earth and everything on the earth including all of us. John 1: 3, the Bible says all things were made by Him, and without Him was not a thing made that was made.
Are you seeing the reasons why He deserves all the glory? Are you seeing the reason why He deserves all the praise? All things were made by God and without Him was not anything made that was made, and there is none as powerful as our God. There is a song we used to sing those days, we’ll say ‘Jesus power super power’; that was the same power that raised a dead of four days from the grave.
I’ve never heard in medical history of any doctor that was able to raise a dead of two days; I’ve not read even in the church history of any man other than Jesus that raised a dead of four days, even the sisters, the family members have written everything off; they told Jesus he is stinking, don’t go there, you taught us about resurrection, we believe it and we believe on the resurrection morning we will see our brother again, and for the first time Jesus Christ burst into tears because He saw a set of people who have already thrown in the towel.
He said but I’m the Resurrection and the Life; they said look, we know on the resurrection morning, You preach about resurrection, we have no doubt about it, we will see him but You want to go and see him? The man is stinking, and Jesus Christ wept. After doing that, the Bible says He looked up and said Father, I thank You because You always hear me and He commanded Lazarus to come out.
Have you heard of any other person that has been able to do that? Was Moses able to do that? Was Joshua able to accomplish that? Did Paul do it?
All power belongs to Him; He made all things; He created all the parts, and I can assure you it doesn’t matter the situation you are today, you can be rest assured that if you give glory to God He can restore your situation. The One that can heal a dead of four days, He can give you a brand new liver. The One that raised a dead of four days, He can give you a brand new kidney.
They told you cancer has eaten into your liver; they told you oh cancer has entered into your pancreas, the One that raised a dead of four days, tell me what else He cannot do, all power belongs to Him and that’s why He deserves to be praised, to be glorified.
It must be noted that the honor of bringing everything into existence belongs to Him, and He brought everything into existence just with mere words. When He was in the business of creation, I did not read in the Bible and I don’t know if you stumbled on that that He stretched a rod.
When He was creating, He did not do anything, He didn’t carry any mantle, did you see it in the Bible? He did not use any rod or staff; did you see that in the Bible? You will never find it. He spoke and everything came to be; when He spoke I came to be, when He spoke you came to be.
I was sharing with them in the morning; look at how unique and beautiful we are, we carry different identities, even identical twins, those who are close to them know who is Taye and who is Kehinde, everybody He has created with his own unique characteristics and that’s why I keep warning people, don’t leave your identity to follow another person’s identity; what makes you who you are is your unique person and identity.
Let me tell you, the major limitations of imitation is that the limitator will be limited. You want to do something the way somebody is doing it, what makes that man who he is? It’s the way he does his things; what makes me Tunde Netufo? It’s the way I do my things, if you force me to do things the way the pastor is doing it, you have buried my identity and I will never be original in life.
If you are not original you will never be original, fake will never be original, original will remain original; if you allow anybody to blend you unreasonably to becoming what or who you are not, you are gone, because at the end of the day you have nothing to showcase.
I remember those days when Chief Zebrudaya Okoroigwe (alias 430), he said ‘if it is not Panadol, it cannot be like Panadol’. Pastor Yomi is Pastor Yomi; Pastor Tunde is Pastor Tunde; the moment you begin to subsume Pastor Yomi unto Pastor Tunde, you have buried his identity. God created us as many as we are, He gave us unique different personalities and that’s why they will say ‘eni meji ni Olorun da l’aye’, in other words, God created two people alike but until you see one, I have not seen one, so that remains at the realm of speculation until we see.
So we must give God the glory for all that He has done for us.
Another way to glorify God is to admire His wonderful works. David said ‘I am beautifully and wonderfully made’, when you look at yourself in the mirror, then you shake your head, yeah, this is a fine babe, no pimples; this is a fine man, no pimples. It would amount to what I call ‘low esteem.’ when a man look up himself in the mirror and say ‘ah, this guy you are ugly o’, and such a person must be ugly.
A friend of mine said look, if nobody praises you, try to praise yourself. I give God all the glory, they said when a lizard jumps far from the top of a tree, it shakes its head and would say if nobody praises me, I will praise myself. Admire the good things God has done for you; even when people are telling you your head is too big, it’s God that created you; if people say you are not fine, what is your business? You are fine, everything God created is good, never you make the mistake of writing yourself off.
I remember when I was much younger, they used to call me ‘short man’ and I used to be worried those days to the extent I would go to people, am I short? Some would say ah you are short, and I told God this shortness must be taken care of and today I’m not sure I’m a short man, I’m of normal height, I’m 5’11, how many of you are up to that? Even if you are not tall, appreciate God.
Somebody said ‘monkey no fine, only hin mama like am,’ have you seen baby Kaka on the internet? I’m sure you have not seen that.
The foundation of all good things require for the progress of mankind was laid at the point of creation. So the only thing we do today is just to work it to derive our own means of livelihood, and for that we have to glorify God. So whatever – riches, wisdom, knowledge, among other things that you have acquired, you must glorify God for each; for the position you have attained, you have to glorify God for it. Don’t ever think that I work for it, there are many contending interests, and in Nigeria today, I remember those days when you finish, the fact that you go to school, even from schools, a lot of companies would be inviting you for interview.
I remember those days I was invited by Chevron right from the time I was in school and we went for the interview, of course some other things happened but they gave me food, I ate their food and I loved the food because when I saw the interplay, intrigues and all the rest, somebody asked me how did you come here, I said I saw your advert; did you know anybody here? I said no.
Then there was a lady in my department that I used to teach taxation, that one also came to me, Uncle, do you know anybody? I said no. I said do you know somebody? She said her brother-in-law worked there. He came to me and said I know you are going to pass this test because you are the one that used to teach us, but when the final list came out my name was not there, her name was there; so they asked us would you like to have your lunch? I said of course, yeah, ‘mi o le padanu meji’; they took us to the restaurant and we sat down and everything they served me, I finished because I knew I wouldn’t go back there again.
So for the position you are, everything you find yourself, you must glorify God for it, and brethren, I want to jump the rest and then I need to let you know before we pray that you are chosen, you are of royal descent, a holy nation, a peculiar people and guess what, you have been made royal, you have been so chosen so that you can glorify God; so that must not be lost on you; you are not just ordinary, you are peculiar, you are unique and that is why you must be yourself in the Lord. Once the mandate of God is fulfilled, every other thing is be yourself.
And lastly, glorify God in soul winning. John 15: 16 says, “You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that you should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever you shall ask of the Father in my name, He will do it”.
So brethren, there is no shortcut to glorify God, you must be an addicted soul winner and for you to be a soul winner, your soul must have been saved because no man can give what he does not have, do you agree to that? And that’s why I want to challenge you this morning, if you are here you have not given your life to Christ, you need to do something about it.
No Pastor can save you, it’s only God that can save you but guess what, God will only save you if only you are ready to partner with Him, because the Bible says it is not meant to give the children’s bread to dogs. Until you come to the side of God by accepting Him as your personal Lord and Savior, God reckons you as a dog; it’s not me, it’s the scriptures, but the good news today is that you can cross over.
That woman said but dogs do eat crumbs, why must you go for crumbs when you can get the real dish?
So if you are here today you have not given your life to Christ, it’s an opportunity, it’s not something we do by compulsion, it will never help you, it must be a voluntary thing and you want to live a life of consistent glory to God, you must be a righteous man. How can we be righteous? You can be righteous through the grace of God, because the Bible says if we say we have no sin, (it says) we deceive ourselves, (it says) and the truth is not in us.
But what we rely on and what has been helping us is that grace, so I want to present that grace to you this morning, as we rise on our feet, if we are here you have given your life to Christ, I want you to appreciate God, we’ve listed a number of things for which we need to glorify God, the things He has offered – even that you are alive, maybe you don’t know that the devil never wish that you are alive; maybe you don’t know that your enemies don’t want you to be where you are, but you are where you are today like Apostle Paul said ‘by the grace of God’, and I pray that that grace will be made sufficient for you today in Jesus name.
But if you are here like I said, you have not given your life to Christ, as we sing this song, I want to request that we all close our eyes and bow our heads in reverence to God, and for those of you who want to say yes Lord, just raise up your hand and of course we’ll start from there, and the Lord Almighty will meet you today at the very point of your needs in Jesus name.
The problem you came with this morning, I prophesy for as many of you that will come and surrender to Jesus, you will not go back home with them in Jesus name.
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It’s not an accident that you are here this morning; God has brought you here today so that you can be delivered; God has brought you here today so that God will put an end to sorrow in your life; God has brought you here today so that consistently on daily basis you’ll have reasons to glorify His name. We are not forcing you, we are not compelling you, but if you bear that witness in your spirit saying go and give your life to Christ, please come and the Lord Almighty will bless you.
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Mighty Father once again we want to say thank You; thank You for speaking to us once again; thank You for making Your word so clear; I thank You for as many of us that have heard the word, we pray in the name of Jesus that You’ll apply this same word in our hearts and You will bless us correspondingly in Jesus name.
Father, the grace to return the glory back to You on a consistent basis, Lord release unto us in Jesus name. The grace to glory in You, to glory in Your majesty, Your love and Your praise and not in pains and in sorrow, grant unto us in Jesus name.
As we glory in You on daily basis, we pray You will hear and answer our prayers; You will take away every barrier to our victory and You will make us conquerors and overcomers in Jesus name. We pray for Your children that heard Your word and have voluntarily step out to say I surrender, Lord please receive them unto Yourself in Jesus name. Let mercy triumph in their cases in the name of Jesus Christ, and the power of sonship, give to them in Jesus name.
And we pray for every one of us Lord Almighty God that You will give us the grace to forge ahead, to ride triumphantly on the wave of Your grace and glory in Jesus name.
We commit the rest of this service unto Your hands, take pre-eminent and let our joy be full, let the devil be put to shame and let the glory be given to You, in Jesus wonderful name we have prayed.
