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  • Benue killings made me weep, RCCG’s Adeboye tells Ortom

    The General Overseer of Redeemed Christian  Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adeboye, revealed his emotional side  yesterday during a condolence visit  to Benue State on the recent killing of innocent people by herdsmen.

    Adeboye told Governor Samuel Ortom how he wept in January during the mass burial of 78 victims of the mayhem.

    “No man of God will see a mass burial anywhere and not feel the pains of the people affected,”  he said.

    He added: ”Benue State is very, very close to my heart; I had felt every pain you people felt and I wept when I saw you weeping.”

    Pastor Adeboye, who was accompanied by his wife, Folu, said he was in Makurdi to console and pray for the government and people of the state over the killings by suspected herdsmen.

    He  said he did not visit the state before the President to avoid unnecessary speculations about his intention.

    He said:”We want these killings to stop. Happily, we know someone who can stop it. He is the Almighty God; He does not fail or compromise.He is the God of all.

    “We will continue to call on Him to fight this battle and you can be assured that victory will be certain.”

    Receiving Adeboye and his entourage, Ortom said the herdsmen’s rampage,apart from causing the deaths of many people, has created a huge humanitarian crisis in the state.

  • Adeboye to Ortom: Benue killings made me weep

    The General Overseer of Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adeboye, paid a condolence visit to Benue State on the recent killing of innocent people by Fulani herdsmen.

    Adeboye told Governor Samuel Ortom how he wept in January during the mass burial of 78 victims killed in the mayhem.

    He said: “No man of God will see a mass burial anywhere and not feel the pains of the people affected.

    “Benue state is very, very close to my heart. I had felt every pain you people felt and I wept when I saw you weeping.”

    Adeboye, who was accompanied by his wife, Folu, said he was in Makurdi to console and pray for the government and people of the state over the killings by suspected herdsmen.

    He said he did not visit the state before the President to avoid unnecessary speculations about his intention.

    He said: “We want these killings to stop. Happily we know someone who can stop it, He is the Almighty God. He does not fail or compromise. He is the God of all.

    “We will continue to call on Him to fight this battle and you can be assured that victory will be certain.”

    Receiving Adeboye and his entourage, Ortom said the herdsmen’s rampage, apart from causing the deaths of many people has created a huge humanitarian crisis in the state.

    He said: “The crisis has turned Benue State into a huge refuge and IDPs camp.

    “With well over 180,000 persons displaced and housed in nine  camps in the state in a crisis that affected 16 out of the 23 local government areas of the state, my government is overwhelmed. But we know that there is nothing too hard for our God to do in the face of difficulties.”

     

     

  • Aregbesola pays tribute to Adeboye at 76

    Aregbesola pays tribute to Adeboye at 76

    THE Governor of Osun,  Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, has described the Global General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye,  as ‘the voice of peace and comfort in a troubled and edgy world’ and a harbinger of hope to millions of souls across the world. Aregbesola dropped this accolade in a message commemorating the 76th birthday of the foremost man of God yesterday.

    The governor, in a statement yesterday, described Adeboye as a beacon of hope for the numerous hopeless souls, reconciling them with God through his sermons and evangelical engagements all over the world. Aregbesola said few people are chosen by God for this kind of evangelical assignment in a generation, saying such chosen few are rare breed and special creation, who sparingly grace this earthly terrain.

    Aregbesola noted that Adeboye is an epitome and embodiment of knowledge, deep faith and a messenger who spread the word of God across the globe untiringly despite his graceful old age. According to the governor, the arrival of the man of God at the threshold of 76 years is an august occasion, which is very special to his congregation across the globe, Nigeria, Osun State, friends and well-wishers across other faiths.

    “Pastor Adeboye is a well educated man who gave up his brilliant academic career to do the work of God. He is a man of deep faith with apostolic fervour who has taken Christian evangelism to the nooks and crannies of this nation and the uttermost parts of the world. There is virtually no community in Nigeria where his church is not firmly established or any part of the world where there is no parish of the RCCG.

    “He is also a man of prodigious energy. Even at 76, he doesn’t appear to be slowing down, but his light continues to shine brighter and brighter. He is personally a very humble and meek man. He radiates love and deep affectation, always welcoming all and generous to a fault. He played fatherly role to all. His accommodation knows no bound, transcending, religious, ethnic and class lines. I have found his calming words very assuring even at my most challenging times, whenever I am privileged to meet him.

    “He is a voice of peace and comfort in a troubled and edgy world; bringing hope to the hopeless and reconciliation with God to the faithless, through his sermons and evangelical engagements all over the world. He is the essential Omoluabi, a gift from our state, Osun, to the world. He has brought honour and glory to our state, indeed the Yoruba race, in particular his Ijesa homestead.”

  • How to receive outpouring of blessings, by Adeboye

    Only those who put God first in all their affairs are guaranteed of outpouring of his blessings, the general overseer of Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adeboye, has declared.

    He spoke penultimate Sunday during the Outpouring 2108 conference of the RCCG Region I at the Tafawa Balewa Square Lagos.

    Outpouring, according to him, means getting to the top, stating for anyone to get to the top, he or she must be a worker of righteousness.

    “When God pours Himself on anyone, that is outpouring, and without much effort, the person would get to the top but that cannot happen until the person regarded as a vessel has been cleansed.

    “Cleansing comes when one repents and forsakes His past evil deeds and gives his entire life to God through Jesus Christ and he or she after receiving outpouring will begin to witness to others which is one of the evidences of outpouring upon the recipient.”

    Adeboye, who also spoke through the Assistant General Overseer, Administration and Personnel, Pastor Johnson Odesola, added that for the nation to move forward and get to the top, political leaders must re-work policies in a way that would make an average Nigerian to have sense of belongings.

    “Those good policies that have not been executed should be re-opened and be carried out.

    “Government should create more jobs and I believe strongly that the government has the capacity and wherewithal to do those things that would benefit an average Nigerian. What is actually needed is the political will.”

  • Adeboye for RCCG Outpouring

    Adeboye for RCCG Outpouring

    The Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) worldwide  General Overseer Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye, ace saxophonist Kunle Ajayi and gospel music minister Nathaniel Bassey are billed to grace the Outpouring 2018 organised by RCCG Region One Family on February 4 at the Tafawa Balewa Square (TBS), Lagos.

    The programme will bring together hundreds of thousands of Christian faithful drawn from Lagos and other parts of the country. It will feature prayer, song rendition and prophetic ministration.

    Speaking at a news conference held at the church headquarters in Ebutte-Metta, Lagos, the Assistant General Overseer (Administration & Personnel), and Pastor in charge of Region 1, Johnson Odesola, said the programme was inspired by the need to actualize God’s promise in Joel 2: 28, which states that: “And it shall come to pass  afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dreams dreams, your young men shall see visions.”

    He said:” The expected impartation and the accompany dreams and vision coming up so early in the year are imperative for everyone who seeks to key into God’s plans for a victorious 2018.  Lagos is the commercial nerve centre of the country and once Lagos experience meaningful impartation, it will rob off on the other part of the country.”

  • Adeboye salutes Adams on installation as Aare Ona Kakanfo

    Adeboye salutes Adams on installation as Aare Ona Kakanfo

    The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye, has congratulated Dr. Gani Adams on his installation as the Aare Ona Kakanfo of the Yoruba.

    In a letter to Adams, who is also the National Coordinator of the Oodua People’s Congress (OPC) and the Oodua Progressive Union (OPU), the cleric regretted his inability to attend the installation on January 13 at Durbar Stadium in Oyo town of Oyo State.

    He said it was because of his evangelism duties within and outside Nigeria.

    The letter, dated January 17, reads: “Grace be unto you and peace from God, our Father. We greet you in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ of Nazareth.

    “We congratulate you on your installation as the 15th Aare Ona Kakanfo of Yoruba land.

    “We regret our inability to attend. Constraints include scheduled annual commitments year in year out at home and abroad.

    “Be assured of our continuous love and prayers.”

     

  • Adeboye charges government on job creation

    Adeboye charges government on job creation

    The General Overseer of The Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adeboye, has charged government at all levels to focus on creating jobs and other social investment programmes that would help in ameliorating the suffering of the people. He made the call at a thanksgiving and prayer programme organised by the Throne of Grace Chapel at the church headquarters in Lagos State.

    Adeboye warned that Nigeria is sitting on a keg of gun powder if nothing is done to address the rising cases of unemployment among the youths in the country. “Our children are graduating without any hope of employment. This is a sad tale and in 2018, government must galvanise all relevant stakeholders to get our children employed. We will be creating a lot of social problems and insecurity if we fold our hands and refuse to act,” he said.

     

  • Our 2018 predictions, by Adeboye, Olukoya

    Our 2018 predictions, by Adeboye, Olukoya

    General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adeboye, has predicted a ray of hope for Nigerians.

    In his New Year message and predictions delivered during the Crossover Service at the RCCG camp on the Lagos –Ibdan Expressway, Adeboye said: “Many Nigerians will wake up in 2018 to realise that their future is not in the hands of any government and as a result, a lot of lost grounds will be reclaimed.

    “Some significant Goliaths will fall, just as before the end of 2018, there will be rays of hope that all will still be well in Nigeria.”

    He also announced that God told him that the countdown to the overthrow had begun in earnest, adding that the approval of sodomy in some countries and the perennial climate change were instruments to hasten the apocalypse.

    His specific predictions are:

    • Erstwhile stubborn mountains will move.
    • Many people will wake up to realise that their future is not in the hand of any government and as a result a lot of lost ground will be reclaimed.
    • Saboteurs will be disgraced and displaced.
    • Significant Goliaths will fall.
    • Before the end of the year, there will be rays of hope that all will still be well.

    On the international level, he said:

    • This year there will be less fire outbreaks but there will be more floods.
    • There will be misunderstandings amongst nation but no major wars.
    • Pray against assassination attempts globally.
    • There will record-breaking temperatures both high and low.
    • There will be a handful of breakthroughs both scientific and medical.
    • The count down to the end has started.”

  • 2018 will be year of new beginning for Nigeria – Adeboye

    The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adeboye, has assured Nigerians to keep their hope alive in God because 2018 will be a year of new and greater beginning.

    Adeboye made this known at the Let’s Go-a-fishing programme organised by the church yesterday at the Centre for Management Development (CMD) ground in Ikosi, Ketu, Lagos. The programme brought together thousands of Christian faithful.

    According to him, the nation’s economy had in the outgoing year gone through some turbulent times.

    Adeboye declared that 2018 will be a year of blessing, greater productivity, better results and the much anticipated change that we desire as a country.

    He said that God is a God of increasing progress and betterment, saying he was very optimistic that things will get better and a new dawn of breakthrough and prosperity will emerge in Nigeria.

    Adeboye, who spoke through the Pastor in Charge of Lagos Province 12 RCCG, Pastor Ola Adejubee, encouraged Nigerians to cooperate with government as it implements plans and progammes for the betterment of the people.

    He said that Nigerians are ready to make the necessary sacrifice for the nation to progress but they must be convinced and clear about government programmes that are geared towards ameliorating their sufferings and woes.

    He charged the downtrodden and those in pain to trust God who through Jesus Christ died to offer hope to the hopeless, joy to the sorrowful and healing and deliverance to the oppressed.

  • Osinbajo, Gowon, Adeboye hold Christmas concert in Aso Rock

    Osinbajo, Gowon, Adeboye hold Christmas concert in Aso Rock

    Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Thursday evening led other Christians in the country to observe the 2017 Christmas Praise Concert in the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

    The concert holding at the old Banquet Hall was attended by the former Head of State, Gen. Yakubu Gowon (retd) and former Head of Interim National Government (ING), Chief Ernest Shonekan.

    Also at the concert are the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, state governors, Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF),  Boss Mustapha and other cabinet members.

    The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor E. A. Adeboye, will deliver the Christmas message at the concert.

    The concert was still in progress at the time of filing this report.