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  • I am not God, says Adeboye

    The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) Pastor Enoch  Adeboye has warned persons using his pictures and his wife for various souvenirs for sale to desist from such act as he is not God.

    Adeboye gave the waring last Friday at the annual Holy Ghost Congress of the church at the Redemption Camp, Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. The event brought together Christians faithful from 197 countries which featured prayers, Bible teachings, business and marriage seminar and prophetic ministration.

    Adeboye said “It has been brought to my notice that people are using m picture and my wife  on key holders, calendars,  books and other souvenirs. Anyone found with such materials should be arrested and reported to the police.

    “I am not God. I did not send them. I have nothing to do with those materials. I am an ordinary man. God will never share his glory with any man.”

    He noted that what those selling souvenirs with his pictures are doing can lead to serious trouble, not for those selling the wares,  but for him.

    “God will not share his glory with any man. If at any time, God senses that a  man is trying to share his glory, the man is dead, and whether the devil likes it or not, I am not going anywhere yet.”

    According to Pastor Adeboye, recently a woman bought a key holder with his picture and his wife inscripted on it and  gave it to her child and the child began to eat the key holder and in no time, the picture pasted on the key holder removed and surprisingly what they found was the picture of another televangelist, Prophet T. B Joshua.

    During the prayer session, the wife of the General Overseer,Pastor Folu Adeboye lamented the spate of killings, occultism, wickedness being perpetuated by today’s youth which according to her calls for national repentance and conscious appeal to God for forgiveness if Nigeria will ever be great again.

  • Adeboye welcomes all as Holy Ghost Congress begins

    The Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG)’s Annual Holy Ghost Congress, 2018, kicked off on Monday night, at the Redemption Camp in Mowe, Ogun.

    The congress started with a song titled: “My Glory Has Come,’’ and the intercessory prayer to open the programme was taken by Pastor Johnson Odesola.

    This year’s programme is themed: ‘Glory Ahead’.

    In a brief address, the General Overseer, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, welcomed everyone to the programme and assured them to prepare for “Glory Ahead’’.

    In a sermon, titled: “A new name, with the passage taken from Rev. 2 Vs 17, Adeboye said that a good name was better than Gold and Diamond, adding that “God knows a name that affects one’s destiny.

    “When God gives someone a new name, then he becomes the light of the world and the salt of the nation.

    “When God gives a new name, when the person opens any door, no man can shut it and any door he shuts, no man can open.

    “Everywhere you go, the door will be opened for you all in Jesus name.

    “Let somebody shout Halleluyah,’’ he said.

    The News Agency of Nigeria reports that this year’s Holy Ghost Congress is the 21st of its kind by the church, which was established in 1952.

    The church had parishes in over 178 countries across the globe.

  • Cleanliness, next to Godliness – Adeboye

    Cleanliness, next to Godliness – Adeboye

    The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye has enjoined members of the church to keep good hygiene.
    This occurred in a final address early Saturday morning at the Redemption Camp Grounds, Simawa in Ogun State on the occasion of the yearly December Holy Ghost Congress tagged “Songs of Victory.”
    Pastor Adeboye encouraged members of the church to avoid littering the Church Auditorium and camp premises at all times.
    He also told the mammoth crowd present at the Congress to transfer this attitude down to their homes and places of work.
    “Cleanliness is next to godliness, let us be good ambassadors of the church. Pick up any trash you see in Church premises and let this trait extend to your homes and wherever you go,” the soft spoken preacher stated.
    Adeboye buttressed his point by emphasizing the importance of cleanliness.
    “Cleanliness is next to godliness. Everything has it own space. No one packs the car in the garden. Whenever you see something that is not meant to be; put things in the right place,” Adeboye explained.
  • Osinbajo, Ambode, Mimiko, others attend RCCG Holy Ghost Congress

    Osinbajo, Ambode, Mimiko, others attend RCCG Holy Ghost Congress

    The Vice President, Professor Yemi Osibanjo and his wife, Oludolapo; Governor of Lagos State, Akinwumi Ambode and his wife, Bolanle; Ondo State Governor, Dr Olusegun Mimiko and his wife Olukemi; Speaker, Ekiti state house of assembly, Kola Oluwawole and Chief judge of South Africa, Mogoeng Mogoeng were on Friday present at the Redemption Camp on km46, Lagos Ibadan Expressway, for this year’s Holy Ghost Congress of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), with the theme; ‘Complete restoration’.

    The one week long congress which began on Monday, December 5, ended will end Saturday, December 10.

    It was a gathering of millions of worshippers from all over the world.

    In his sermon on Friday night, The General Overseer of RCCG, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, spoke on the topic, ‘Complete restoration’.

    The Cleric explained that complete restoration is a process.  He said every Christian is entitled to miracles,  noting that those who are not born again cannot get miracle, because miracles comes from God and God is holy.

    Reading from Ezekiel chapter 3, verse 7 to 10, Adeboye said; “Whenever God wants to begin the process of restoration, He remembers the forgotten and miracles are bound to follow. God also he visits the person and something miraculous happens

    “Anytime God want to do something there must be a noise; When God arrives, there must be a shaking; nakedness is covered; shame is ended; the  wind blows, and whenever the wind blows there will be miracles,” he said.

    The Cleric assured that the blessings of God makes rich and adds no sorrow. “When a miracle comes from God it is clean, with no string are attached and there will be divine protection. “When you are child of God your future is secured. Whatever is available to Jesus is available to you,” he said.

  • Adeboye preaches righteousness at Holy Ghost Congress

    Adeboye preaches righteousness at Holy Ghost Congress

    THE Redeemed Christian Church of God General Overseer, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, has urged the citizenry to live righteously.
    Speaking on Monday, at the Redemption camp, during the opening of the 19th edition of the Holy Ghost Congress 2016: ‘Complete restoration’, Adeboye said, “All that God made was good, God blessed all that He created and He told his creation to be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, subdue it and have dominion.”
    Speaking on the topic, ‘In the begining’, the cleric said man started the sojourn in life with abundance but, things changed after man disobeyed God.
    “Curses, hard labour, sweat and death came after man sinned. Sin is a terrible thing and there can be no restoration until sin is removed.”
    He added: “To have restoration, we have to deal with the issue of sin. If you have not surrendered your life to Jesus Christ, do not expect any kind of restoration,” he said.
    Pastor Matthew Ashimolowo of Kingsway International Christian Centre (KICC) urged Christians to imbibe the act of thanksgiving.
    Speaking on the topic: ‘Enter His gates with thanksgiving’. Ashimolowo said thanksgiving was an act of being grateful and an expression of what God had done.
    According to him, thanksgiving produces multiplication, lifts up a man and it is a way to honour God.
    He added that thanksgiving is a seed, the backbone to victory and it is an invisible weapon against the devil.
    “We should thank God for keeping us alive and for all He has done for us.
    “Thanksgiving brings manifestation, it is a recognition that God is in charge of your life and it makes things work for you.
    “When you give thanks to God, signs and wonders follow, blessing comes. Thanksgiving is the key to quantitative breakthrough, it brings life into a dead situation and it is a sign that you trust God. Unlimited thanksgiving will bring unlimited breakthrough,” he said.

  • ‘Holy Ghost Congress, a time to be touched by God’

    ‘Holy Ghost Congress, a time to be touched by God’

    The General Overseer of The Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adeboye, has said the Holy Ghost Congress is a time to be touched by God.

    The cleric, who spoke at the Redemption Camp on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, at the opening session of this year’s Holy Ghost Congress tagged ‘Floodgates of Heaven’, said through the congress, the 18th edition, God would answer prayers and open the floodgates of love, healing, power, joy and anointing.

    Pastor Adeboye, who led the congregation in prayers, read chapters of the Holy Bible, including Genesis 2: 23-25; Genesis 3:1-13; Joel 2: 25-27 and Psalm 8:6.

    He urged people to believe, worship, praise and tell God the floodgates they want Him to open in their lives.

    The clergyman said they should come before God with great expectations and they would never remain the same.

    His words: “There are abundant blessings for everyone and you must not miss your own. Focus on Jesus, the reason for the congress and attend all sessions.

    Without doubt, a huge crowd will attend this congress, but God can single you out as you key into the move of the Holy Spirit.”

    The opening session, which began about 6pm on Monday and ended at midnight, was a time to pray, praise, worship and give thanks to God.

  • RCCG prepares for Holy Ghost Congress

    The Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) has expressed its readiness to host its annual Holy Ghost Congress believed to be the largest Christian gathering in the world.

    The conference with the theme “The overflow” holds from December 9-14.

    The Special Assistant to the General Overseer of the RCCG, Pastor Johnson Odesola, told religion correspondents last week that all participants from across the globe will be adequately taken care of.

    Part of the measures, he said, is the construction of more buildings to accommodate guests, improvement of hostel accommodation and provision of more car parks to tackle the perennial traffic gridlock on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.

    Odesola said: “We are expecting a multitude, therefore infrastructure has been put in place to accommodate the guests.

    “Although to accommodate all might be a tall dream considering the large numbers, still the church is making effort to consistently improve on its facilities.

    “In the area of traffic, the church has opened other exit roads and alternating roads to ease the traffic and provided car parks in order to ensure that nobody hinders the free flow of traffic during the duration of the programme.”

    The Managing Editor of Redemption Light and Assistant Pastor-in-Charge of Lagos Province 37, Pastor Olaitan Olubiyi, said the church is seriously working on alternative roads that people coming from Ikorodu as well as the Shagamu axis can use without necessarily linking the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.

    He also added that accommodations and other conveniences have been tripled as against what obtained last year to ensure that the basic needs of the participants are taken care of.

    Odesola assured that personal and national aspirations will be fulfilled as participants call upon God.

    He said: “We are confident that not one person will leave the programme without a testimony of the miraculous in their lives because the programme was designed with them in mind.

    “There shall be a demonstration of the supernatural power of God as the anointing of God’s Spirit shall be present to heal many.”