IN PARTNERSHIP WITH FIRE 3rd of May, 2024

MAY HOLY GHOST SERVICE

THEME: IN PARTNERSHIP WITH FIRE

MAY 3RD, 2024.

BY: PASTOR E.A ADEBOYE

Well, lift your voice to the Almighty God and bless His holy name.

Give Him glory, give Him honour, give Him adoration.

Bless the King of kings and the Lord of lords; bless the Ancient of days;

Give Him glory, give Him honour, give Him adoration; bless Him.

Bless Him, bless Him; worship Him, He is worthy to be praised, He is worthy to be adored,

Give Him glory, give Him honour, give Him adoration; He is worthy to be praised.

Thank You Jesus.

Thank You Father.

Give Him all the glory, all the honour, all the adoration, bless His holy name, there is no one like Him, He is the Almighty God.

Thank You Daddy.

Thank You Jesus.

Oh, glory be to Your holy name.

Thank You Father.

In Jesus mighty name we have prayed.

What a mighty God we serve

Hallelujah

What a mighty God we serve

Hallelujah

Heaven and earth adore Him

Even angels bow before Him

What a mighty God we serve.

(He’s a mighty God)

 

What a mighty God we serve

Hallelujah

What a mighty God we serve

Hallelujah

Heaven and earth adore Him

Even angels bow before Him

What a mighty God we serve.

(I am serving Him)

What a mighty God we serve

Hallelujah

What a mighty God we serve

Hallelujah

Heaven and earth adore Him

Even angels bow before Him

What a mighty God we serve.

 

He is the King of kings

He is the Lord of lords

He is name Jesus, Jesus, Jesus,

J.E.S.U.S

He is the King         

 

He is the King of kings

He is the Lord of lords

He is name Jesus, Jesus, Jesus,

J.E.S.U.S

He is the King

King of kings and Lord of lords, Ancient of days, the Unchangeable changer, the Holy One of Israel; the One with nothing shall be impossible, the great and mighty Consuming Fire, glory be to Your holy name.

Thank You for January, thank You for February, thank You for March, thank You for April, thank You for now for May, accept our worship in Jesus’ name.

Our great and wonderful Consuming Fire, demonstrate Your power tonight. In the lives of every one of us, whatever is not going to bring glory to Your name, burn it off tonight. At the end of the day, Lord God Almighty I pray that many of Your children here today will become Your partners. Thank You Almighty God. Glory be to Your holy name.

In Jesus mighty name we have prayed.

Let someone shout hallelujah.

Well, that is not bad.

I just returned from a visit to Europe, and then, during our European Convention a woman shared a testimony that she came to the programme very sick but as soon as I took the microphone and I said let somebody shout hallelujah…

You see, the problem with many of us is we wait till the end of the sermon before we expect our miracle.

Hallelujah!

You don’t have to wait maybe till the end of the service; you don’t have to wait till maybe till God will mention your case;

Why must you endure pain till the end of the service?

Let me ask you a question:

When do you want your wall of Jericho to fall?

Tomorrow morning?

Why don’t you shout a great hallelujah to God.

Hallelujah!

Amen.

I don’t know why God is bringing this in now but I have told you before that the reason I don’t conduct a service like some of my great brothers do, by starting, you know, by binding the devil and so on and so forth, is because

Number one, if I bind the devil yesterday, and I have to bind him again today, that means he must be very slippery

So, if I bind him at the beginning of the sermon, how do I know he will not get loose before I finished.

But I have learnt long ago that wherever they are praising your enemy you don’t want to be there.

Do I hear somebody shout hallelujah.

Amen.

In the Name of the One who called me, I decree that whatever is not of God in you, will be burn by fire; a  nd it will happen by the next time you shout hallelujah.

Thank You Daddy.

Amen.

The Bible says the just shall live by faith; and if you believe and confess with your mouth, you shall have it.

So, I want you to confess to two or three people and say: I have already received mine.

Amen.

God bless you.

Now, put your hands together for the Almighty God.

You may be seated.

I believe the reason God has decided to give you your miracle in advance is because the issue we want to discuss tonight requires just solemn teaching.

My son who came before me had done a great job, and has brought the fire down; he has done the job of evangelist, we thank God for his life.

Tonight, we are talking about BEING IN PARTNERSHIP WITH FIRE.

Exodus chapter 3 from verse 7 to 12:

7 And the Lord said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;

8 And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.

9 Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come unto me: and I have also seen the oppression wherewith the Egyptians oppress them.

10 Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth my people the children of Israel out of Egypt.

11 And Moses said unto God, Who am I, that I should go unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt?

12 And he said, Certainly I will be with thee;(There is somebody here tonight, you will never walk alone again) and this shall be a token unto thee, that I have sent thee: When thou hast brought forth the people out of Egypt, ye shall serve God upon this mountain.

In every company there are people who come to buy goods, we called them customers.

They come, pay for what they want, collect and go – they are called customers.

And we have people like that in the church – they come, expecting to get something from Jesus Christ and they are willing to pay. Tell me how much I need to pay and then give me my miracle and I go.

I know, because that was how I came to the Redeemed Christian Church of God.

I have problem that my Mathematics could not solve, and somebody told me if I get to the Redeemed Christian Church of God that God is answering prayers there,

And I came, I told them my problem, and I was expecting them to tell me how much I will pay so I can get my miracle and go back to my home.

Instead, they began to talk to me about given my life to Jesus, forsaking my sin, etcetera, I did not like it at all.

They did not ask me to pay; they ask me to stay.

I thank God I came as a customer, but today by the grace of God I am a partner.

I pray for all of you who are customers that before this night is out, you will become partners of the most High.

Then, in every company, you have the people we call the staff; these are the people who keep the company going; they earn their living there.

And some of them you look down on them because you think they are very low, like cleaners and messengers.

But do you know that without the cleaners the company is not going to last long, as low as you think?

For example, there are some people who had dedicated themselves to washing every chair in these auditoriums – the one here and the one in the old;

That is while when you come you don’t have to clean your chair because they have been washed by volunteers, they are not paid for it; they just come, large number of them, washed the chairs.

You may not recognize them; you may not consider them as important but God is watching and He is keeping a record of all their activities.

And so, we have the staff and the staffs are in categories like a said – the cleaner, messengers,

Then will begin to go higher, cashier, accountant, manager, senior manager, etcetera, etcetera.

Those who are called the staff, their very life depends on the company.

If the company should sake them, they will have a bit of a problem feeding their families.

But them, there is another group higher than staff, and that is the ones we called partners; Partners with the owner of the company.

When we begin to talk about partners, I am sure you must know that there are two categories of partners: we have the Senior Partners, usually the owner of the company; and then, maybe one or two Junior Partners.

The senior partner is called the chairman; he is the big boss, he owns the company, but he shares with the junior partners certain things; and we will discuss these things tonight.

Now, Partnership is originally the idea of God Himself; from the very beginning, He was interested in partnership.

We all know that He is the Almighty He can do anything He wanted to do.

But when you read Genesis 2 verse 19 to 20, after He created everything, every animal, every bird, He took them to Adam.

And say hey Adam, I have been doing a lot of work creating this, creating that, now be My partner, name them for Me, and whatever name you called them that is the name they will bear.

The first partner with God was Adam.

So, in the text we read today that we want to discuss in details, in Exodus chapter 3, if you read it from verse 8 to 10, He said to Moses, I have seen the suffering of my people, I have decided the suffering must stop

Thank you very much

Because I was just going to say I hope somebody will agree with me that the suffering in our nations will stop.

But then He turned round to Moses, and said well let us do the work together.

Go and bring My people out of bondage.

Moses said, I thought You said You have come to set them free, who am I that I have to go and face Pharaoh?

You remember God said, I will be with you – we are going to be partners.

When you read Isaiah chapter 6 from verse 1 to 8, (we may come back to that if God permits)

You will discover that up till now, God is still saying, who shall I send? Who will go for us?

The Lord is saying I am still looking for partners.

As a matter of fact, something He said in Ezekiel 22 from verse 29 to 31 is almost frightening.

He said when He looked down on a particular and He saw all the evil that they have done and they are doing,

When looked down and He saw corruption, and He saw banditry, and He saw all kinds of evil, He said I look for a man, if only I can find just one man who will stand before me and say, God I know You are angry, please, please, consider me and don’t release Your anger, He said I found none.

He was looking for one man.

He said I could not find one, then I release My anger.

If God is looking for one man so that He can put an end to His anger against our nation, who will volunteer?

Nobody said anything; you are afraid.

He said I look for one man.

It reminds me of what used to happen in those days, whenever my mum; whether you believe it or not, mothers don’t want to cane their children because as they are caning the children they are feeling the pain

And yet they know that if you don’t handle your child very well the child would get rotten.

I have done something wrong; my mum wants to deal with me, and she will pretend to be looking for the cane, creating a space so I can run out.

How many of you know what I am talking about? Any other mother like that here?

By the time she finally finds the cane, I have already found somebody, elderly somebody, and I am clingy to that fellow.

She will say ‘ori yo loni’ (God has rescued you)

She did not want to do it to start with; she was looking for someone who will stand in the gap.

Who will stand in gap for the family today – for your family?

Who will stand in gap for our nation today?

Let me hear you say amen.

Now, that brings us to big question:

Why does the Almighty God need a partner?

Why does the One has the ability to do everything, why does He need a partner?

Well, Psalm 115 verse 3 says He is sovereign, He can do as He like; but a little more than that.

If God were to come down to Nigeria today or any other nation to deliver a warning, they won’t be able to see Him.

In Exodus 33 verse 18 to 23, He told Moses, no man can see Me and live.

So, if you want to call somebody out of danger, come and be save; He cannot come directly to Himself because you won’t see who is talking to you.

Secondly, the way He speaks makes it necessary for Him to get a partner.

1Kings chapter 19 verse 11 to 12, says when He is speaking, He speaks in a very still small voice; very few people can hear Him, He barely speaks above whisper.

I mean, I told you the first time I attended a fellowship after I became born-again at the University of Lagos and then somebody took me there to their fellowship and they were singing choruses and so on,

And all of a sudden, as if by queue, everybody became silent, and then a brother began to prophesy: ‘thus saith the Lord’ and he began,

And I nudged the man who took me there and said: when did God say that?

And he said, quiet, God is speaking

I said I am not hearing anything.

Several times, people have asked me, you will be preaching and all of a sudden you will stop and say Daddy said…; when did Daddy say that?

I pray for somebody here today that God will open your ears.

Now, if He does not speak in that still small voice, then if He raises His voice people will think it is thunder.

John chapter 12 from verse 28 to 29, he was speaking to Jesus Christ and the people around said oh thunder.

So, is either He speak silently that many people won’t even hear, or when He speaking loud, you will think it is thunder.

As a matter of fact, when you read Exodus chapter 20 from verse 18 to 19, the people said to Moses, go and hear from Him and come and tell us, we don’t want to hear from Him.

So, God needs a partner when He wants to deal with people.

And in the Name that is above every other name, I pray He will find a new partner here tonight.

Now, let us consider the Senior Partner because He is the most important person in the whole business.

The Senior Partner in our own case, the Senior Partner is the owner and he has absolute control of everything that he wants done in the company.

Whatever the Junior Partner does must be done in the name of the senior partner.

You cannot be a junior partner and dictates to the senior partner.

It is the senior partner who will tell the junior partner what do – you must do everything in the name of the senior partner.

For example, in Mark 16 from verse 16 to 17, He said these signs will follow them that belief in My name.

He said whatever you are going to do, do it in my name.

You will remember the story in 1Samuel chapter 17 from verse 42 to 51, David said to Goliath I come against you in ‘the Name’ of the Lord of host.

In Acts chapter 19, if you read it from verse 11 to 17, when the Bible says God performed special miracles by the hand of Paul the Apostle, and some people said in the name of Jesus that Paul preaches demons come out.

The demon said, Jesus we know, Paul we know;

We know the senior partner, we know the junior partner, who are you?

Maybe I should add this one and say that tonight, I decree in the name of Jesus all your problems will be consume by fire.

So, the junior partner must be subject to the senior partner, that is very crucial.

If you are ever going to be His partner, you must be subject to Him.

In Luke 7 from verse 2 to 10, the centurium said to Jesus Christ, I also I am under authority, my senior partner is in Rome and in his name, I say to soldiers under me, come they come; go, they go; because I use his name.

He said Jesus I know You are under the authority of Your Father in heaven, and that’s while you can tell sickness, go and it will go; demons go, and demons will go.

You want to be His partner; you must be ready to be subject to His authority.

My son said during his own sermon that you must not argue with Him;

You don’t argue with a senior partner; whatever He says do, you must do.

Now, what are the things that you will get if you are subject to the senior partner?

This is very important.

As soon as you know, just like Jesus said in Luke chapter 22 verse 42, as soon as you know ‘it’s not My will but Thine be done’.

The moment you can get that one clear, from that moment onward, your Christian life will become enjoyable.

After you have prayed, after you have quoted the Bible, you have done everything, you must see in number, He is your senior partner; and when He says yes, it is yes; when He says no, it is no.

The senior partner now performs certain things for the junior partner: (and I am being slow before I believe you are taking notes)

Number one, He provides for the junior partner.

The senior partner provides for the junior partner, using whatever method that pleases Him.

1Kings chapter 17 from verse 2 to 17…

Oh thank You Father.

Lord asked me to tell someone you won’t faint again.

The fellow concern heard me loud and clear.

In 1Kings chapter 17 from verse 2 to 17, when He decided to provide for Elijah He said He would send birds, ravens, to bring bread and to bring meat.

And every body knows that bird loves bread and raven in particular love meat but when God sent them on an arrand, they won’t tamper with whatever He asked them to deliver.

In the Name that is above every other name, your miracle will not miss your address.

When the brook dried up, He decided, alright, there is no need sending birds here, let me send you to a widow.

When God is speaking, many at times we try to understand with our brain, we forget that we are dealing with the One who is called the All-Sufficient God.

In one of our meetings, I think it was in Slovakia, about two weeks ago, the word of God came, thousands of people, and God said I know how to take care of the crisis in your family.

How will I know…, and the program took place on Sunday; …how will I know that there was a couple there that were getting ready for divorce, by Monday morning they said no more divorce.

What God did that night that led to reconciliation of two people who have made up their mind that they are going separately, only God can explain.

Well, I heard some people saying amen; let me also borrow that for you.

Whatever crisis may be in your family will be over tonight.

He provides.

That is while the Bible says in Philippians 4 verse 19: my God shall supply all your needs.

He protects.

In Isaiah 54 from verse 15 to 17, He made a promise to His partners, He said don’t worry there will be those who will gang up against you, He said but I will deal with them;

They gathered together against you, He said they will fall for your sake.

And He went on to say no weapon fashioned against you shall prosper.

A daughter of mine was given a testimony of what happened when she was just a small girl and there was this river where they go to fetch water for the school where she was attending.

And students were there fetching water, there was this old woman who came and brush them aside to fetch her own water first.

And this little girl said no, you cannot do that, we have been here, not knowing the kind of woman.

That old woman got home, got calabash, put some water and began to chant some incantation and the calabash broke.

The following day she came to confess: this fellow cannot be touched.

I pray for you, anybody chanting any form of incantation against you, the calabash will break.

He protects.

Psalm 20 from verse 7 to 8 says some people may trust in chariot, some may trust in horses, but we will put our trust in the Lord; when they fall, we will stand.

Not only those He protects, He defends.

My son had mention to you 2Kings chapter 1 from verse 9 to 12 when some soldiers came to arrest Elijah, and then said Elijah you are under arrest

He said, you don’t know who I am; I am a partner with the Consuming fire, and he gave them a taste of the fire.

Anybody trying to arrest your progress, the fire of God will deal with him.

And you know very well in 2Kings chapter 6…

Thank You Lord.

Let me finish this song because it is slightly different from the one you know.

God says a family will be sing this song very soon.

Hosanna in the highest

Hosanna in the highest

My family is singing

Hosanna in the highest.

 

If is your family, sing it now

Hosanna in the highest

Hosanna in the highest

My family is singing

Hosanna in the highest.

Write it down.

In the next one month, your family will be singing that song.

In 2Kings chapter 6 from verse 8 to 17, when the king sent a whole army to go and arrest Elisha.

Elisha asked God to open the eyes of his servant after he had told him that those who are with us are more than those who are with them.

I want to assure you, you become His partner, wherever you go, His bodyguard will go with you.

And then number four, He equips them.

In Mark chapter 3 from 13 to 15, when He had selected twelve people out of the crowd, He gave them power.

And like my friend from Germany has said, in Acts chapter 1 verse 8 the Almighty God said, you will receive power after the Holy Ghost has come upon you.

He will equip you for your assignment.

Everything you need to succeed in your assignment He will make available.

That is while Philippians chapter 4 verse 13 says I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

Number five, the senior partner supports the junior partner.

He supports, He backs you up.

He told Moses in Exodus chapter 3…

Amen.

Daddy asked me to tell His children, that the people concern will understand, He said where sorrow used to reign supreme, joy unspeakable will take the place.

I rejoice with the family.

In Exodus chapter 3 verse 11 to 12, He told Moses, don’t worry, you won’t go alone, I will be with you.

They cannot see Me, that is while I AM sending you.

In 1Samuel chapter 17 verse 34 to 37, when David came face to face with Goliath and king Saul said no you cannot do this job, you cannot defeat this fellow.

He said I have killed a lion before, I have killed a bear before, the God who was with me when I was dealing with the lion and the bear, He will be with me concerning this goliath.

What was it king Saul says?

He said go; the Lord be with you.

I decree in the Name that is above every other name, you will never be alone again.

In Matthew 28 from verse 13 to 20, when He was sending out the disciples to go into the world to preach the gospel, He said, and know I AM with you always.

I will be the senior partner, you will be the junior partner, I will support you, I will be with you always.

In Hebrews chapter 13 verse 5, He said I will never leave you, and I will never forsake you.

If you are His partner, He will never forsake you.

I told you that after I became born-again, and one way or the other I ended up becoming the General Overseer, and the church was very very rich at that time,

So rich that the total income of the church was less than my monthly salary of the University where I was coming from; and we had a staff of forty to be paid; I will tell you how much each one will be getting.

Almighty God, how am I going to survive?

He made me a promise.

I have only one promise: wherever you go, I will go with you, and I will be your source.

I want to pass that blessing to my children tonight.

Wherever you go, my God will go with you; and He will be your source.

It may be tough at the beginning, but I want to assure you, if you are His partner and you have that assurance, sooner or later, people will discover that there is not employer like the Almighty; He will spoil you.

Whether you believe it or not, it does not matter. Just become His partner and you will see Him in action.

Now, in Mark chapter 10 from verse 28 to 30, Peter asked Jesus, we have left all and we are following You, what is going to be our reward?

The Lord answered Him.

You said, I said to you, anything you have left for My sake and for the sake of the gospel, in this world I will give you a hundredfold.

You cannot trade with God and lose, it is not possible; His company cannot close down; and the success of His company as nothing to do with the economy of a nation;

His bank in heaven never closes.

When He says I will be with you, relax; day and night He will be there.

And you know the beauty it like I told you, you don’t even have to knock many doors before it will open; all you have to say is ‘in Jesus’ name’ and all the doors will open.

In the Name that is above every other name, beginning from tonight, multiple doors will be open unto you.

Number seven, He will honour His partners.

1Samuel chapter 2…

Thank You Father.

I want to say amen to this before I tell you.

You know, God was speaking in Number chapter 12 I think around verse 5 to 8, and He said if there be any prophet among the people, He will reveal Himself either by dream or vision. He said but when He comes to Moses He talks to Him mouth to mouth.

The Almighty God asked me to tell someone that as Moses is unique among His prophets so you will be among His ministers.                                                              

In 1Samuel chapter 2 verse 30, God promised, He said I will honour those who honour me.

One of the honours that those are His partners will get is that He will personally introduce them to His Father

Matthew 10 verse 32, He said if you confess Me before men, I will confess you before My Father in heaven.

And the way He honours them is by promoting them above all members of staff.

In Exodus chapter 7 verse 1, (maybe we will come back to that later on in the year), God said to Moses, I have made thee a god to Pharaoh.

In other words, He was telling Moses, one day Pharoah will come and beg you for a blessing.

The Almighty God took a boy called Elijah the Tishibite in 1Kings chapter 17 verse 1; Elijah was such a low family background, they never mentioned his father’s name, whereas they mentioned the name of the father of Bartimaeus the beggar - Bartimaeus the son of Simeon.

Elijah had no surname, but when God picked him up, he became even a terror to a king.

I don’t know how highly God is going to take somebody here today, but somebody will become a partner of God and you will promote beyond your widest expectation.

So, now let us come to the whole of the junior partner.

My son who spoke before me said that you must agree with your senior partner, and he gave the passage,

Amos chapter 3 verse 3: two cannot walk together expect they be agreed.

You cannot be in the same business, me being the senior partner, you being the junior partner, and then we are arguing every day; I will tell you, oga, go and start your own company.

You must agree!

And agreeing now will make it easy for you to obey Him totally.

In John chapter 15 from verse 14 to 15, Jesus Christ said you are my friends if you obey, if you do what soever I command you - ‘What soever I command you’

Number three, once you decide to become His partner there must be no looking back.

You cannot decide that I will be His partner today and say you are no longer interested.

In Luke 9 verse 57 to 6, He made it abundantly clear, once you put your hand on the plough there must be no looking back.

In Hebrews chapter 10 verse 38, He said if anybody turns back, My soul shall have no pleasure in him.

There must be no looking back!

And then you must be hundred percent faithful to Him.

In 1Corinthians chapter 4 verse 2, the Bible tells us that it is required in stewards that a man be found faithful.

You must be trustworthy.

The reason while many of us might not be able to receive the kind of power that God wants to release to us is that God is not sure you will use the power well.

Because the more power you have, the more provocations you are likely to have from the devil; the devil will want you to use your power to satisfy yourself.

If you be the son of God, turn this stone to bread, etcetera, etcetera.

But if you are faithful to Him you will listen to Him and do only what He want done.

You know the story of Elijah that we mentioned earlier on, in 2Kings chapter 1 you can read it from verse 9 downwards:

First fifty soldiers came and their captain came, he roasted them; another fifty and captain came, he roasted them,

The third one came, and humbled himself, and God spoke to Elijah, don’t roast this one, go with him,

I heard one of my children talking not too long ago, and he said, God just give me power, anybody messes around with me, I am not going to be like your Daddy G.O, I will finish them.

He said Daddy G.O is the one who said, if you kill all your enemy who is going to watch at the table God prepares before you.

I don’t want them to see me, let me just wipe them out.

Listen to God; listen to your senior partner; do only what He allows you to do.

And you are supposed to be faithful to the end.

Revelation chapter 2 verse 10, He said you must be faithful to end and you will get the crown of life.

Thank You Father.

Daddy asked me to stop for two minutes, He wants to do something very special.

Thank You.

Have you a special request? You have something very special you want? A miracle that you need urgently? For two minutes ask for it now, the wind of God is blowing now.

Thank You Father.

Thank You Father.

Thank You Father.

O Lord, thank You Father.

Thank You Father.

Thank You Father.

Thank You Father.

Thank You Father.

Thank You Lord.

Thank You Lord.

Thank You Lord.

Thank You Lord.

Thank You Father.

In Jesus mighty name we have prayed.

Well, the One who sent me asked me to tell you: it is done.

Common, shout hallelujah.

Shout another one, shout another hallelujah.

Daddy says the testimonies that will come from tonight service will be many.

Shout another hallelujah.

Amen.

Okay.

Now, you must obey Him, you must agree with Him, you must obey Him totally, you must be faithful, and then faithful to the end,

Then you must be willing to endure hardness.

2Timothy chapter 2 verse 3, hardness, not hardship.

You must be tough, like soldiers of Christ, you must be tough.

As His partner there will be time when you will say you cannot sleep you must pray throughout the night.

Hardness!

As soldiers, there will be time He will say you cannot eat you must fast.

Hardness, not hardship. You must be tough.

That is one thing I thank God for, for the Redeemed Christian Church of God, little by little, He has been teaching us hardness.

You won’t believe it that I heard that one priest was complaining that I asked you to fast for fifty days.

He said ‘what kind of God is that that this man is serving?’

What kind of God will ask people to fast for fifty days before He will answer them.

I said, why are you angry? I am not talking to your congregation; I am talking to my own children! My children have not complained to you!

Let me ask you: are tired of fasting?

I mean, I am even already thinking is a long time ago that we fasted for hundreds.

Maybe we should bring hundred days back.

Hardness! Tough!

You must be willing to pay any price.

2Corinthians chapter 12 verse 15, Paul says I am willing to spend and be spent.

Acts 21 from verse 10 to 14, Paul said I am not only ready to suffer; but, if need be, I am ready to die for the cause Christ; I will be willing to pay the price.

Now, Partners are select group of people; they are not just any dick and harry in the congregation, they are specially selected.

In Mark chapter 3 from verse 13 to 15,

Thank You my Father.

The Lord asks me to tell another woman here tonight, He said, the Doctors have just told you, you cannot have a child, He asked me to tell you, nine months from now, you will show them your baby.

In Mark 3 verse 13 to 15, the Bible says there was a crowd round Jesus Christ but He climb to a mountain and began to select, select, special people.

In John chapter 15 verse 16, He said, you have not chosen Me, but I have chosen you and ordained you for a particular purpose, that you go, bring forth fruit, and then make sure your fruit will abide.

Select people, is not just everybody that can become His partner, select people; chosen one.

He said in Matthew 22 verse 14, He said many are called, but few are chosen.

So, how can I have the honour of being chosen, after all we know God is sovereign, He does as He pleases.

But in Acts chapter 10 verse 34 to 35, the Bible tells us that, yes He is sovereign, but He is no respecter of persons; and in every nation, He that fears God and works righteousness, is accepted of Him.

Who shall I send? Who will go for me?

I am here Lord.

I fear you; I will obey you; I won’t mess around, I am here.

Like He said in 1Samuel 2 verse 30, you must be willing to honour Him – he that honours Me, I will honour.

Like I told you, when He is talking about first fruits:

Number one, He is the senior partner.

The senior partner has the right to say anything that comes into this business, I have the first choice of it all.

God said it is honouring Him when you do that; He does not need your money; the Owner of the business at the end of the day when they are talking about dividend, He owns the company,

So, when they say your dividend is so much, many at times He will just be laughing, He does not need it, He already has more than sufficient.

And that is while He says if you know Him with your firstfruit, He said He will also return the honour to you that you too will have more than sufficient; that is His promise.

 I am believing God for you that one day somebody will come to you and said, I travelled and I want to bring you something but I don’t know what to bring to somebody who has already has everything.

One day, you will have more than sufficient.

You want to be His partner? you must be willing to be a fool for His sake.

1Corinthians chapter 1 from verse 26 to 29, the people He will chose are those who are already to let go their position, their brilliance, etcetera, etcetera, just say, I am ready to be a fool for God’s sake.

Like I told you last month, I am a fool that is while He chose me.

Let me tell you the truth, the worst person that God could say He is choosing to be a pastor is a mathematician because Mathematics and Christianity they run in parallel lines.

Mathematics would say if you proof it, I will believe it; and Christianity would say if you believe it, I will proof it – exact opportunity.

And then God can cross the line and grab a fool and turn him into a vessel unto honour.

The reason many of you are still just member of the congregation, you come in, seat down, hear the sermon, go, as customers, is because you don’t want one little pastor to control you and say you are a worker.

That is while there are many people in the churches and there are few workers.

But I believe some people will hear the word of God tonight and decide become fools for Christ.

Let me round up, because I want you to spend some time in praying tonight; because your life is just about to change.

I came as a customer, and end up a partner; and that will be your testimony too.

Like you have been told at the very beginning, fire is involved in preparing whoever will be His partner.

Before He began to talk to Moses, there was fire - fire on the mountain.

And before people really know who Elijah was on mount Carmel, fire fell.

In Isaiah chapter 6 from verse 1 to 8, before He could say who will I send? Who will go for Me? He had needed to use fire to touch the mouth of Isaiah.

If you look at the book of Isaiah you will find that Isaiah had already thought he was a big prophet, he had been prophesying from Isaiah chapter 1 to 5 – big prophesies.

But after the fire touched his lips, then you see how many more chapters that he wrote.

He became such a powerful prophet that he could stand up and say, the Lord Himself will give you a sign, a virgin shall conceive, and bring forth a son,

If an ordinary prophet say that they will stone him to death!

But after the fire touched his lips, they knew whatever he says will come to pass.

I am not claiming to be Isaiah, but in the Name that is above every other name, in the Name of the One who has touched my lips with fire, I decree that it I will be well with you.

And then, you will notice, the relationship between God and Peter.

God had promised Peter, you will be fisher of men.

For almost three and half years, he did not catch a single man.

But when the fire fell on mount Carmel, things changed.

Things are about to change for you.

If you like say amen, if you like don’t.

No, you see, the reason while I said you don’t really need to say amen is because I am not praying, I am just telling you the truth, because the fire is going to fall on you tonight; and once the fire falls, nobody will be able to stop you.

But the fire can fall on you, because the fire of God is a consuming fire, and what fire does as I have told you before:

When fire comes in contact with anything, it changes that thing to itself; whatever refuses to change to fire, becomes ashes.

When the fire of God falls on you tonight, everything that is divine will begin to flow through you; but whatever is not of God is going to become ashes.

That is while you cannot become a partner of God unless you are thoroughly born-again.

You know, the Bible says if a man be in Christ is a new creature, old things passed away, (how many things become new?), all things.

So, if you are ready for a new life, not as a customer, not even as a staff, but as a partner of the Consuming fire Himself,

Step number one is that, you must be born-again; your salvation must be thorough; you must know that you know, that you know, that you are truly, truly born-again,

You must be born again in such a manner that you will not want to have anything to do with sin anymore.

So, I am going to give a long rope because I know some of you are very far away tonight, I am going to count from one to twenty.

If you want to make sure that you are hundred percent born again, before I say twenty, make sure you already standing before the altar.

I am counting now,

One, two,

So, if you are far away you better begin to come quick because I will soon reach twenty.

Three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen,

Keep coming, keep coming, keep coming, I will wait some seconds more,

Now, those of you who are already in front begin to pray, begin to cry unto God, ask Him to have mercy on you, ask Him to save your soul.

Those of you on the way, just hurry up, just make sure you get before I finish praying.

Just cry to God and say Lord, have mercy on me, save my soul, I don’t want have anything to do with sin anymore, and I don’t even want to be an ordinary customer, I want to become a partner with You.

Go ahead and cry to the Almighty God.

And the rest of us let us stretch our hands towards these people, pray that the Almighty God will save their souls, give them genuine salvation just as He did for us.

Pray for them Brethren.

Those of you on the way, hurry up, hurry up.

Thank You Father.

In Jesus mighty name we have prayed.

Saviour, I want to thank You for Your word. I want to give You all glory and honour, for all the people who have surrendered their lives to You now, please receive them in Jesus’ name, have mercy on them Lord, wash away their sins, save their souls and write their names in the book of life, let them become true children of God. And from now, anytime they cry onto You, please answer them by fire. Thank You Almighty God.

In Jesus mighty name we have prayed.

Amen.

Praise the Lord.

I rejoice with those of you who have come forward, I promised you from now on by God’s grace I will be praying for you.

The Counselors will be around you in a moment and they will collect the information I need from you: your names, your address, and your prayer request; and then they will pass it on to me and I promise you I will be praying for you.

Now, thank You Lord.

Amen.

Now, while the Counselors are attending to these people maybe you want to write down your own prayer points so that you can pray about them tonight.

Number one, you want to thank the Almighty God for keeping you alive till today because things are about to happen now in your life that has never happened before.

Then number two, you are going to cry unto Him and say Father, let Your fire fall on me and break every yoke in my life.

Number three, we prayed a prayer last night for those of us who came for the holy communion. We prayed that the fire of God will go into us and everything that is not of God the fire of God will consume it there now. (Make that you prayer point number three)

Number four, Jesus Christ said those who will drink, He give them; out their belly shall flow rivers of living waters. Yesterday, after we drank the wine, we cry to God that from that moment onward that out of our belly will be flowing rivers of fire. Put that down as prayer number four so that when you decree it will be established. From my being, let rivers of fire begin to flow.

Number five, you want to say Father, from now on, when I pray, immediately let fire fall.

Number six, say Father, drench me so much in Your fire that even my sweat will carry the fire of God; so that anyone I touch will get a taste of the fire of God.

Number seven, Father, if you are looking for someone to send, I am available; I will love to be Your partner. You are looking for a partner? I am available Lord; I will love to be Your partner.

Number eight, Father, You promised that the testimonies from tonight service will be many, please let my own be among the biggest ones.

And then number nine, if you have any special request of your own, you add it.

And the altar is open, you come.

Tonight’s prayer is not the one you will pray quietly; you are calling for fire in the real sense of the word.

Go ahead and cry unto God.

Open your mouth and cry unto Him; if fire falls on you, you cannot be quiet.

In Jesus mighty name we have prayed.

The fire of God, the fire of the Holy Spirit will fall on everyone of us. That fire will enter into us. Every plant that God had planted in us will be consume by that fire. Out of bellies will begin to flow rivers of fire; even our sweat will be on fire. The moment will pray fire will fall. Anyone will touch will have the taste of the fire. Every mountain before us will melt before the fire. From now on whenever will decree will shall be established. As many of us as are willing to be partner of God, the Almighty will accept us. He will provide for us, He will protect us, He will defend us, He will equip us, He will honour us; He will promote us, He will draw us close to Himself, He will purify us.

As many as the testimonies of tonight may be, we will get the best. From now on anyone we witness to will surrender to Jesus. So shall it be.

In Jesus mighty name we have prayed.

Amen.

Praise the Lord.