Let somebody shout hallelujah! There are many things that people can overdo, for instance, you can overeat, you can overtalk, you can overwork, but you cannot over praise. For a day like this, if we continue to praise the Lord from now till the end of the day, I’m not sure it can be more than enough because today is a very special day, if you believe that, shout hallelujah.
Father, from the bottom of our hearts we declare our praise unto You. Thank You because You are the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the ending, You gave us the beginning of this year and it has pleased You Lord Almighty that You have brought us to the last Sunday of the same year, it can only be You and it is by Your grace, it’s Your mercy that has brought us this far.
Father, we realize how many times the enemies were determined to knock us, to crush us and to destroy us and how You rose up to the challenge and ensure our deliverance. Thank You for deliverance, thank You for provision, thank You for support, thank You for encouragement, thank You for Your heavenly blessing, thank You for the spiritual blessings, thank You for the Fatherly blessing, thank You Father Almighty God for not allowing the devil to make a minced meat out of us, accept our praises in the name of Jesus Christ.
For all that You have done and for all You will continue to do, we return all the glory back to You Lord. As we journey towards the end of this year, Lord be with us in Jesus name. Let the year end in praise for us in the mighty name of Jesus. Keep evil far away from us, keep evil far away from our loved ones in the mighty name of Jesus. That much needed last minute miracles, Lord Almighty, perform in the life of Your children in Jesus name.
Particularly for those who are here today and those who are listening to us online, Father, do something remarkable, do something special, something that will gladden their hearts forever, Lord, do for them in the name of Jesus Christ. I decree and declare that whatever gates that have been shut against them, we command them open today in Jesus name.
Glorify Yourself in our midst today, take all the glory and let Your people be blessed, in Jesus wonderful name we have prayed. Praise the Lord!
Merry Christmas to every one of you and a very happy new year in advance in the name of Jesus. It is with great joy in my heart that I welcome every one of you to this special week, it’s a week of transition, the old is transiting, its a week of interchange because the old will give way for the new. And I pray in the mighty name of Jesus, as we march towards the end of the year, all your problems you will see them no more in Jesus name. All those things that have been troublingt your life that will not want you to be exactly what God wants you to be, God will take care of them in Jesus name.
I want to encourage us to please keep hope alive because next year is going to be a better year in the mighty name of Jesus. It’s not just a mere-say, that is the reality of the story and next year will be better in the name of Jesus.
Let me seize this opportunity to say a big thank you to every one of you who has shown us love in the course of this yuletide season, you have shown us tremendous love, you have shown us massive love both in cash and in kind and it’s not something like I said we would like to take for granted. We receive it with joy and we pray that God Almighty will reward you abundantly for it in Jesus name. Very overwhelming, very touching and it’s only God that will make it up to you in Jesus name. We appreciate you very profoundly.
I also want to thank every one of you for your massive and patient participation in our carol last week Sunday, it was massive and it was glorious, and your participation contributed to that because if you had not come it would not have been as glorious as that. I want to appreciate every one of you, thank you for your physical presence, thank you for your moral support, your prayers and of course thank you for your financial support as well. God will bless you mightily in Jesus name.
By the grace of God, come Wednesday we’ll be having our watch night service and that of course will be preceded by Holy Communion, the last Holy Communion for the year, so we encourage every one of us to be here by 8, after the holy communion will launch us into the watch night service proper and it promises to be great, so make sure you are here.
To encourage and to get you enough time to relax, we’ve stepped down our prayer chain tomorrow and also the Bible study on Tuesday because of traffic and all the rest, this is to enable you catch enough rest, preserve energy for Wednesday. As you come, the Lord will bless you mightily for it in Jesus name.
Let me publicly thank the choristers once again for the beautiful performance not just last week, not just today but it’s been consistent and I want you to please keep the momentum, let it be sustained. The Lord will bless you in the name of Jesus. By now you know if it’s good we will talk about it, and if it’s not good we will talk about it, you can’t take a credit without a debit, you have done very well.
Genesis 21: 3 – 8, and Abraham called the name of his son that was born unto him, whom Sarah bore to him, Isaac. 4And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac being eight days old, as God had commanded him. 5And Abraham was an hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born unto him. 6And Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh, (I pray in the name of Jesus that before this year winds up, God will give you reasons to laugh in the name of Jesus), so that all that hear will laugh with me.
7And she said, who would have said unto Abraham, that Sarah should have given children suck? For I have born him a son in his old age. 8And the child grew, and was weaned and Abraham made a great feast the same day that Isaac was weaned. May God bless the reading and hearing of His words in the mighty name of Jesus.
Brethren, I’ll be talking to us very briefly this morning on the topic, The Fullness of Time. The Bible made it clear to us that there is time for everything according to Ecclesiastes 3: 1-3, it says to everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: 2A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; 3A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down and a time to build up. There is time for everything.
In the same scripture when you read verse 11, it says he has made everything beautiful in his time: also he has set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end. The fullness of time of God is the opportune time set by no other than God Himself, it is the right time ordained by God for the accomplishment of His divine plan and purpose in the life of a man.
Brethren, it is possible to do the right thing at the wrong time and vice versa, therefore, we must endeavor not to outrun God. It is a dangerous thing for a man to outrun God. The reason why we seem to have issues in the world today is simply because not too many people wants to wait for God set time; many want to have money at all cost without waiting for the set time, we must learn to wait upon the Lord.
The scripture tells us categorically that they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength, that you find in Isaiah 40: 31. Today I decree in the mighty name of Jesus that your strength shall be renewed in the name of Jesus. Your physical strength, your inner strength, your financial strength, the strength of wisdom, everything that God has created and created with you and for you, the Lord will strengthen for good in the name of Jesus Christ.
There is time for everything, I also discover that there is a time for healing; healing does not come every time, and that scripture that we read in verse three says there is a time to kill and there is a time to heal, and when you go to John 5, you’ll find the story of a man who has been on a particular spot for 38 years but a day came that God solved his problem. I decree in the mighty name of Jesus that this morning God will hasten your time for the performance of His word in your life in Jesus name.
Today I bring you this word especially to those who might be saying to themselves, “Oh, December 2025 is here and the year is racing to the end yet nothing has happened, none of my prayer requests has been answered,” never mind, what it means if God has not done your miracle, if that thing you are yearning for has not happened, what it means is that it is not yet your time, at the fullness of time you will testify. I can say this and say it for free that your season will not pass you by in the name of Jesus Christ.
If your time has not come, it doesn’t matter what you do, there will be no results; if your time has not come, it doesn’t matter how much you struggle, it doesn’t matter how much you labor, nothing will happen, and it is a dangerous thing to set aside God’s time. A man of God once said that if you arrive before your time, he said you expire when your time comes, God has made everything beautiful in His time.
So by the grace of God, I join my faith with yours today that God will hasten your time and season for miracles in the name of Jesus Christ. I don’t know what is it that you are trusting God for but I know a God that is sure, I know a God that is just, I know a God that is steady, I know a God that is capable of attending to the needs of His people at the nick of time, if He has not done it yet, it means it is not yet your time.
He did it for Abraham and Sarah in our scriptures today, as we can all see at a time that they had both given up, let it be noted that Abraham had given up. In fact, Sarah said if anybody had told Abraham that your Sarah will give a baby suck, nobody would have believed it; Abraham was 100 years old and Sarah was 90, so for a 90 year old woman giving birth to a son is medically and biologically unfathomable.
If you ‘permit’ me, they will say it’s an aberration because these days, even if you see a 50 something year old woman pregnant, people will say be careful, but this one, ninety, but that tells you that God can do all things. And like we saw in the Open Heavens today, the definition of all is all, God can do all things, He’s unquestionable, His wisdom is unsearchable.
A songwriter says ‘unquestionable you are the Lord…,’ God can decide to take somebody from the dunghill and set him on the throne and nothing will happen. God took Joseph, a no-brainer, a nobody, and he set him on the throne, not in his own land but in a foreign land and everybody submitted to him.
Brethren, God has the final say over the affairs of our life and God is not unaware of your situation, all I can say today is that your time and season are loading, the thing is booting, you will download very soon. And you are going to download joy, you are going to download miracle, you are going to download prosperity, you are going to download breakthrough, if you believe that, shout hallelujah.
If you are here today you are trusting God for healing, healing will come at the appointed time; you are here trusting God for a job, job will come; you are here trusting God for marriage, your marriage will come, when it comes, it will come and go, it will be successful and you will enjoy it. You are trusting God for children, write it down, it will come in the mighty name of Jesus.
The Lord that did it for Hannah, the Lord that did it for Sarah, the Lord that did it for Rachel is still the same God that we serve, God is not a man, God is not limited, and because God is not limited, your miracles are not limited, you will receive your good in the name of Jesus Christ.
You are trusting God for your own house, if God could do it for us, He will do it for you. God is not a respecter of persons, I can assure you in 2026 you will testify loud and clear in the mighty name of Jesus. Those who have written you off will come to come and ask you how did God do it in the mighty name of Jesus.
I have shared one of my life ordeals with you, between my secondary and tertary I was at home for six years, by the grace of God, I got to the pinnacle of my career, I became a CFO in a multinational and today I’m fulfilling purpose on the pulpit. Look, I shared some of the other stories with you, at some point at the beginning there was no hope, I was using an OND holder as a point of contact, today professionally I hold the highest qualification, academically I have two Masters degrees and others.
So look, it tells you something that there is nothing God cannot do but you need to challenge yourself, don’t write yourself off yet because God will do what He will do but you need to rise up and God Almighty will help you to recover every lost ground in the mighty name of Jesus.
I also have an uncle, he told me yesterday, the only son of his mother but today he has seven children – lawyers, pharmacists, ICTs, engineers and all the rest, and as at today I think he has close to eight grandchildren from what you call an indominus background to glory. God will change your story to glory, God will make it up for you. Delay is not denial, it may be delayed but it will come. The word of God over your life will not fall to the ground for nothing.
There are many examples of people who waited upon the Lord at one point in time or the other in the Bible and got great results – Abraham, Sarah, Zacchariah and Elizabeth, Luke 1: 15-25, the Bible even tells us that when they finally gave birth to John, the Bible records that of all men born of women, there is none that is as great as John the Baptist. That tells you that God always reserves the best to the last, tell someone, you will laugh last, you will laugh best, you will have the best in the name of Jesus.
You know the story of Rachel also in Genesis, she became desperate, she told the husband, “Give me children or I die,” and later she was given Joseph and later Benjamin. I decree in the name of Jesus that before this year winds down, you will get double in the mighty name of Jesus.
The Bible tells us in 1 Samuel 2:21, it says the Lord was gracious to Hannah, she gave birth to three sons and two daughters. Hannah was perennially going to Shiloh just to have a child but guess how many she eventually got, she got much more than she bargained for. I pray in the mighty name of Jesus that before today closes, the Lord will visit you in Jesus name.
You know the story of the woman with the issue of blood in Mark 5, the Bible says for 12 years, as a matter of fact she has spent all she had visiting, moving from one clinic to the other but at God’s appointed time, when the fullness of time came for her she met with Jesus and that was the end of her problem.
Same happened to Bartimaeus in Mark 10:46-53, God solved his problem. I pray today in the mighty name of Jesus that you will have an encounter, before this year finally goes, you will be blessed, you will be visited in the name of Jesus.
However, in order for us not to miss out on the set time, there are three things or about four things that we need to eschew;
Number one, impatience. Impatience is a master of error and the subsequent fall, King Saul, he patiently performed a foolish instruction, he carried out an action that he was not permitted to do. He was given instruction that they should stay for seven days; Samuel said go and tarry for me, I will come and perform the sacrifice, then after that you can confront the Philistines but impatience would not allow him to wait.
Impatience goes with ego, and let me tell you, impatience and anger are twin brothers. If you harbor impatience it means that there’s a measure of anger in your life, if you just react to things without thinking through, you need to watch it. When somebody sends you a text message, even when it is not convenient and you want to react immediately, you have to check it, you find out that often time you will react in error.
When people speak to you, you listen, they said there is more virtue in listening than talking, even the Bible says quick to hear and slow to wrath, is in the Sunday school of today, you’ll hear more about it. Impatience has eaten deep into the fabrics of many of us, many of us through impatience have destroyed our homes; many of us through impatience have destroyed our businesses.
I was to buy corn a particular day along CMD road, so one fellow came to buy corn. I think when the man touched the corn and the same thing I did, it was dead cold, the man said ah this thing is not fresh, the mama flared up and she started cursing the guy. I said what? Immediately I put my car in gear. I saw the woman yesterday, I have stopped and if she’s the only one that is selling corn I will not buy again from her. She started cursing the fellow, not me. Impatience, and I said to myself, no wonder she’s here.
There are many of us who are where we are because of impatience. Sorry, I have to talk to you, I’m your pastor, you need to go and check it. The Bible says vision is for the appointed time, it may tarry but hold on to it because it will come at the appointed time. Listen to instructions, instructions are the highway code of life, get rid of impatience. The Lord will bless you in Jesus name.
Number two is anger. Ecclesiastes 7:9 says anger rests in the bosom of fool, and let me tell you, anger caused Moses his glory. My prayer in the name of Jesus is that anger will not destroy your future.
Number three, faithlessness. The Bible says a wavering man, an unstable man will never receive anything from the Lord. There is need for faith, Hebrew 11:6 says faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
Number four is disobedience. Disobedience will not in any way attract God’s blessing, Naaman the general, nearly missed it on account of pride and disobedience. What drives disobedience is pride, a proud man will surely disobey because he feels that he has ego that who are you? What are you saying?
You see a man, you see a woman that disobeys instruction is very proud, check your life. The maid told him, whatever the man of God asks you to do just do it, but he said look, there are better streams, rivers in Samaria, why would you ask me to go to Jordan? I’ve seen Jordan, Jordan is not clean to be honest, but eventually he dipped and he got his miracle. My prayer for every one of us today is that God will give us the grace to be obedient in Jesus name.
In conclusion, it’s a matter of necessity for us to wait for God’s time in order to experience the fullness of His love and blessings, be rest assured that God has you in His plan. In Jeremiah 29: 11 He says for I know the thoughts that I have towards you, the thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give us an expected end.
Shall we rise on our feet
[Pass Me Not O Gentle Savior…]
Today is a very special day, the presence of God is in the house, God is in the business of turnaround. If you are here, you’ve been struggling with your life and you cannot really understand why things are not working the way you want them, you may have to take a peep into your life, you may have to review your life today. Ask yourself, are you sure you are with the Lord? But if the answer is no, as we take that song again, you want to give your life to Christ…
[Altar call]
Now that you are giving your life to Christ, I want us to take these prayers; you are going to cry out to the Lord everybody and say Father, please hasten to fulfill Your promises in my life in the mighty name of Jesus. In Jesus name we have prayed.
I want you to cry unto the Lord, the Bible says and the Lord was gracious to Hannah, I want you to cry unto the Lord and say Father, please be gracious unto me. Please be gracious unto me and exceed my expectations in the mighty name of Jesus. Open your mouth and cry unto the Lord. So shall it be in Jesus mighty name we have prayed.
You are going to cry unto the Lord and say Father, reignite my hope and strengthen my faith in the mighty name of Jesus. You can say rekindle my hope and strengthen my faith in the mighty name of Jesus. Open your mouth and cry unto the Lord. It is not over until it is over, we still have about 4 days to the end of this year, pray to God this morning, Father, rekindle my hope and strengthen my faith in the name of Jesus. Thank You Father because You have answered, in Jesus name we have prayed.
You will cry unto the Lord and say Father, You are a God of last minute miracles, mark this season for me with Your extraordinary miracles in the mighty name of Jesus.
And the last prayer we are going to pray is for our nation, this generation and in this future generation has no other country than Nigeria. We are going to pray to God and say Father, we commit Nigeria unto Your hands, oh God, heal our nation, heal our land and deliver us from the activities of evil men in the name of Jesus.
Father, heal our nation, deliver our land, deliver us from the activities of evil men. Thank You Father because it is done, in Jesus mighty name we have prayed.
I join my faith with yours this morning and I decree and declare that the Lord will hear and answer our prayers, He will hasten His word to perform in your life in the name of Jesus. You will no longer be delayed, you will no longer be denied, every door that has been shut against you shall be open, your expectations shall not be cut off in the mighty name of Jesus.
You will fulfill God’s purpose for your life in the mighty name of Jesus. He will crown the remaining of this year with His goodness, with His loving kindness in the mighty name of Jesus. And I decree this morning that you will win against all odds, you will overcome your challenges and your appointed time will be today in the name of Jesus Christ.
For every one of you that have cheerfully come to the front and have yielded yourself to Christ today, God will take note of you, He will take note of your confession, He will have mercy on you. Mercy will prevail over judgment in your life, and from today, no weapon fashioned against you shall prosper, and every tongue that shall rise against you in judgment shall be condemned.
You are blessed today, you are blessed tomorrow, you are blessed forever, in Jesus mighty name we have prayed. God bless you.
