DOMINION 4th of October, 2024

OCTOBER HOLY GHOST SERVICE

THEME: DOMINION

4TH OCTOBER, 2024

BY: PASTOR E.A ADEBOYE

Go ahead bless Him.

Worship the King of king, the Lord of lords, He is the Ancient of days.

Give Him glory, give Him honour, bless His only name.

He reigns forever, there is no one like Him.

Bless the King of kings, bless the Lord of lords; worship Him because He reigns forever.

Thank You.

Thank You Father.

In Jesus mighty name we have worshipped.

We give You all the glory

We give You honour

We give You all the glory

We give You honour

Jesus

We give You all the glory

We give You honour

We give You all the glory

We give You honour

Saviour

We give You all the glory

We give You honour

We give You all the glory

We give You honour

Healer

We give You all the glory

We give You honour

We give You all the glory

We give You honour

 

Father, thank You. Ancient of days thank You. The Father of fathers, thank You. Thank You for January, thank You for February, thank You for March, thank You for April, thank You for May, thank You for June, thank You for July, thank You for August, thank You for September, thank You for October, Father, accept our thanks in Jesus’ name.

Thank You for our Elders, thank You for the Youth, thank You for the Young Adults, thank You for Teenagers, thank You for the children, thank You for everything, Father accepts our thanks in Jesus’ name.

Tonight, the only way You can do it, give every one of us dominion. Before we leave here in the morning my Father and my God let there be evidence that You have given us dominion.

In Jesus mighty name we have prayed.

Amen.

Let someone shout hallelujah.

Shake hands with one or two people and say God will bless you mightily tonight;

And then you may please be seated.

The text that everybody read is the one that I am going to read.

I will try my best not to take too much of your time because we have quite a few things we still want to do tonight.

This afternoon while I was praying in my prayer room, the Almighty God laid it upon my heart that we should lay hands on all the youth.

So, when at least two of the speakers came, talking about mantle floating in the air; mantle that will be deposited, etcetera, etcetera, and another one came and talked about coronation day, I think they are walking in the spirit.

Senior Pastors here will be laying hands upon you and if I were you, I will get ready.

Because if you are not thirty, we will just lay hands on you and nothing will happen.

But if you are really really hungry for dominion and when those hands touch you this night, things will never be the same again.

Genesis chapter 1 - I am going to read only verse 28

28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

There is thing called the Law of Priority.

The Law of Priority means what is uppermost in your heart is what you are likely to speak first.

Because according to Luke chapter 6 verse 45: the Bible says out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.

The first time God spoke to man, He said the following:

Number one: Be blessed.

And so, I am repeating on behalf of my Father in heaven to everyone who is a youth; and you are a youth if you are less than hundred years old; so, everyone who is a youth, listen to me right now, be bless.

Now, be blessed is a very business, like I told you before; I will just remind you very quickly what that carries.

If you are Genesis 27 verse 22 to 33, be blessed really means let all the forces in the heaven, all the forces on the earth, all the forces underneath the earth, corporate for your success.

So, when God says be blessed, that means, you must succeed at all cost.

When you go through the scriptures you will see a situation where, for example, the heavens corporated with Joshua –

In Joshua chapter 10 from verse 12 to 14, Joshua was fighting a battle and the sun was about to set, he commanded the sun to stand still, and the sun stood still.

I want to assure you that the Almighty God can cause the things in the atmosphere to corporate with you to succeed.

I am tempted to tell you a story, some of you probably heard, long long time ago:

When most of the camp was bush and I was going for a walk in the bush, the bush path; and took with me my touch light and the battery was this rechargeable battery,

You know, you charge it and then you use it, when it runs out, you recharge,

The battery was rechargeable, so, when I left home the light of the touch light was bright, but when I got far into the jungle,

And one of these days I will show the place to someone, it is no longer bush now, it is in the town;

Suddenly the battery ran out of power and the touch-light went out, and I was far in the bush; everything became absolutely black.

How do you I get back? Because the bush path is very narrow.

And then, I remember what my teacher thought me when I was in the primary school that if light goes out suddenly, and everything became dark, if you close your eyes for about two minutes,

By the time you open your eyes, your eyes will have adjusted a little to the dark and you will be able to see brightly.

So, I closed my eyes…, and of course, I was prayer, it was a prayer walk; …and after two minutes I opened my eyes, and right there in the heavens was a big moon, and everywhere became light.

Well, thank you; I didn’t see this moon when the light went off but thank you.

So, I came back where there was light; as soon as came to where there was light, it just occurred to me there was no moon at the time of the month!

So, I looked up to see this big moon, and it was no longer there.

I pray for someone here today, if the Almighty God has to send a moon to lighten your darkness, so shall it be in Jesus’ name.

Be blessed means let all the things in the heavens corporate with you to succeed.

It means let everything on earth, here, corporate with you to succeed.

When you read Genesis 26 from verse 1 to 16, you will discover that in the time of famine when everybody was in famine, the ground of Isaac produced abundantly; so abundantly that he became greater than a nation.

And the king had to come to him and say we don’t know how you are doing your own but go away from us because you are greater than us.

I am praying for every one of you here today, when others might be crying famine, you will be crying surplus.

Do you know when you read Daniel chapter 3 from verse one to the end, it was an idol worshipping king that created an idol and said Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego and everybody must worship that idol or they will throw into the fire,

At the end of the story, it is this idol worshipping king that promoted Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.

The Almighty God is so mighty that He can even use forces that are not forces of heaven for your promotion.

So, the devil has to take permission from Him before he can touch you – I am sure you known the story of Job.

And the Almighty God is the Lord of Host, He control all the host in heaven, on earth, underneath the earth.

And when He says you are blessed, it means all these forces must come round and support you so that you will succeed.

I was telling my children in the morning devotion some days ago, how God, the Almighty God used a witch in our compound to some speak something that I am sure probably led to the preservation of my life.

You say, how come?

Well, when I was younger, I don’t know of now adays, there are several ways your enemy can kill you; and one of the ways is that they put poison in your palm wine.

So, you drink it and you go.

Another way is that they give a kolanut that has been poisoned; you will eat and you die.

And in those days, when I was in the secondary school, those of us who are from poor homes we don’t have money to buy coffee and yet we want to study at night, and kolanut does the same thing as coffee we do,

So, I was always eating kolanut so I could study at night.

One day, there was a witch in our compound – a served confessed witch, well known; she just looked at me and said, Dejare! Stop eating kolanut.

Of course, that was the last time I stopped eating kolanut.

Because I know she was not the one speaking, it was the Almighty God speaking through that witch.

I pray in the Name that is above every other name that every force that may want one way or the other stand in your way, we become stepping stone to your success.

First thing God said to man is “be blessed”.

And then He said be fruitful.

And He decreed that you be fruitful.

That is while He said in Exodus chapter 23 verse 26 that there will be known barren among my people

And I say in the Name that is above every other name, it does not matter how it may appear now, none of you people will die barren.

And like I told you before, barrenness is just dealing with fruit of the womb alone, it means fruitless effort.

So, when we say be fruitful, it means no more fruitless effort.

In Deuteronomy chapter 28 verse 8, the Almighty God made a promise that He will command a blessing upon all you do.

That means you will no longer fail.

And He said, not just be fruitful, He said multiply.

And I think I have explained that one to us before.

The difference between addition and multiplication.

Ten plus ten is going to give you twenty

But ten times ten will you hundred.

So, multiply means increase very rapidly.

And when you look at the fact that in Genesis chapter 46 verse 26 to 27 that the total number of Israelis that got to Egypt were seventy souls

But by the time we are talking about Exodus chapter 12 verse 37, the number of souls that left Egypt according to that passage, is six hundred thousand men without counting children.

That is called multiplication.

So, I have goodnews for somebody here tonight, very soon your greatness will be so mighty that everybody will ask you: how can this be?

So, I can go on explaining chapter 1 verse 28; and I have decided to take that little bit because these children have handled the almost every other thing.

But you will find that, of all the blessings that God pronounced on man, the first time He spoke to him, the one He reserved to the end is ‘have dominion’

He says, above all that I have said, have dominion – be in charge.

And these children have told you, to have dominion physically means from now on you won’t have to worry about sickness – Exodus chapter 15 verse 26

They quoted it; you do what God asked you to do – Exodus chapter 15 verse 26, you will not need to be sick.

It is possible that you don’t know sickness until you die.

You don’t have to be sick to die; when you have lived all your days on your earth, you can just go.

I have told you how I will leave when my time comes.

If Jesus tarry: go on a Sunday; go to church, sing, dance, rejoice, and then, come home, eat pounded yam and go.

So that everybody will be saying, we saw him in the church this morning.

I am praying for everyone of you here, when your time to go comes, they will not be carrying from hospital to hospital.

Mentally, you can have dominion.

Because according to James chapter 1 verse 5 (and one of my children mentioned something along that line); the Almighty God says if you want wisdom, ask Him; ask God, and He will give it to you liberally, generously.

Almighty God can give you dominion mentally, academically.

I have told you the story of a boy the son of two professors – the father a professor; the mother a professor - but the boy was just dumb; in any class they just put him, he will come last.

Move him from a class of twenty-five pupil and move him to a class of thirty-six pupil, his position will change to twenty-five to thirty-six.

Then, the parents brought him; we prayed a simple prayer, and the next examination he came first.

The teachers said, it is not possible.

The said that even if they gave him the answer to copy, he will copy it wrong.

But the Almighty God has touched the boy, and they gave him another test and he scored higher.

And so, for those of you who are students listening to me, the ability to dominate academically, receive it in Jesus’ name.

You can have dominion emotionally.

In other words, for the rest of your life, you don’t need to know sorrow.

In Philippians 4 verse 4, the Bible says rejoice, again I say rejoice.

In 1Thessalonians chapter 5…

Thank You Father.

The Lord asks me to explain to you the difference between daily bread and a feast.

Daily bread: is something in the morning, something in the afternoon, something in the evening.

At least in those days, I think majority of people now, if you can get something in the morning, something in the evening, you praise God. That is daily bread.

 A feast is when something big is happening like marriage or something and there is abundance of food.

The Lord asked me to tell someone, please Me for your daily bread, because your feast is approaching.

In 1Thessalonians chapter 5 verse 16, the Bible says, rejoice evermore.

John 16 verse 24 says, you can ask until your joy is full,

You don’t need to know sorrow again; you can dominate when it comes to emotionally aspect of life.

And I am decreeing in the Name of my Father in heaven that there is someone here who will never weep again.

And just like one of my children mentioned, you can dominate materially.

In 3John verse 2 says I will above all things that you will prosper and be in health.

It is the will of God above all things that you will prosper.

The only thing I need to warn you about is that when you prosper, some people will be angry, you need to understand that.

I understand that someone gave a Bishop a car and some people got very very upset that how can a Bishop be riding a Royce Royce; as if once you are a Bishop you must die in hunger.

Let me tell you my Beloveth children, if you die poor, they will blame you: they will say after all these days of you serving God this is how you end?

If you cannot pay your rent they will say, where is your God?

If all of sudden you begin to ride a Royce Royce, they will attack you.

Now, which of the two do you choose?

They are going to attack you any way – whether you die in poverty or live in abundance.

How many of you want to live in abundance?

And I decree in the Name that is above every other name, very soon, your neighbours will envy you.

And then of course, you can have dominion spiritually.

1John chapter 4 verse 4, (as some of my children also mentioned) …

Oh thank You Father.

I want to say amen to this before I tell you

Because the Almighty God asked me to tell someone that beginning from tonight all light has turn green for you.

1John chapter 4 verse 4 the Bible says little children you have overcome them; you are of God and so you are an overcomer by decree.

He said because greater is He that is you than he that is the world.

That means it does not matter who and who are there in the world that do not want you to succeed, you have already overcome them.

You know, it is possible to win without a fight; that is the meaning of ‘more than conquerors’

And the word of God says…

Glory to God, there must be something happening down there

The Bible says we are more than conquerors.

From today onward, for the rest of your life, you will win without a fight.

Because the greater One is inside of you.

Now, my children like I said, they have preached almost everything I would want to preach, I am just trying to put my own little thoughts together.

And so, what are the characteristics of those who have dominion? How do we know them from those who are just pretending?

Like somebody mentioned, the first characteristic you want to note is that they are wise people – people who have dominion are wise.

Because Proverbs chapter 17 verse 2 made it clear, it is the wise that will rule the foolish.

And I wish we have all the time, but wisdom is actually the application of knowledge – correct application of knowledge.

Which is while those of you who are student, study hard; because it is the knowledge that you have that you will apply for your benefit.

People who have dominion live debt free; they do everything not to borrow; they cut their coat according to the cloth they have; they don’t do beyond their means to acquire anything.

Why?

Because the borrower is the slave of the lender – Proverbs chapter 22 verse 7

Don’t borrow because once you borrow, you become a slave from the one you borrowed from.

Romans chapter 13 verse 8 says you should owe no man anything except love.

Don’t borrow! It is a terrible thing.

People who have dominion they don’t owe anybody anything.

Where I come from, when a big man wants to make yanga to a small man, he will look at him and say, we know you have money, but you are not the one feeding me.

That is another way of saying, you have no dominion over me; I don’t owe you anything.

Let that idea come deep into you, don’t borrow.

Those who have dominion are always diligent people.

You will not find a lazy man, like one of my children said, who will ever become diligent.

Proverbs chapter 12…

Amen.

The Lord says there is someone here tonight, He asked me to tell you to write it down because one day you will break a world record.

Proverbs 12 verse 24 says clearly, the hand of the diligent shall bear rule; but the slothful shall be under tribute.

Hardworking people!

And because of those of you who are students who are here, let me remind you once again a story I have told a couple of times.

There was a time that all the Christians students in a particular Universities were always failing exams.

And then one day when I visited them and I we started discussing:

They told me they spent quality time worshiping, praising God…

I say, haa, in examination time!

Buy it is written, the Holy Spirit is supposed to help us pass.

I said what is written is the Holy Spirit will remind you what you have learnt.

What is the role of the Holy Spirit?

I said, well, He is a Comforter; if you fail, He will comfort you and tell you when there is life there is hope.

You must study; you must work hard; and then the Holy Spirit will remind you when the examination time comes.

But let me hurry because like I said we still have a lot to do.

I want to add something that I am not quite sure any of my children mention and that is:

How do I retain dominion?

After I have become the one in-charge, how do remain the one in-charge?

Number one: you must have self-control.

Proverbs 16 verse 32 says, he that is slow to anger is better than the mighty.

He that rules his spirit, that controls himself, is greater than he that has captured a city.

Have self-control.

For example,

Thank You Father. Thank You Father. O Lord, thank You Father.

You know, there was one testimony here tonight that almost brought tears to my eyes; I think it was the last testimony:

When the sister was talking about certain things that had been taken out of the body, some amended that had been done that are permanents, my heart was crying to God that there might be some people in the same category who have suffered some apparently reversible situations.

But my Daddy just said something, He says I should tell someone that there is no science to change ashes back to fire wood; He said I should tell that fellow, I will give you beauty for ashes.

I will be waiting the testimony.

O thank You my Father.

The one who already has dominion must also have self-control and one of the major things you must control is your anger.

Anger can destroy your dominion.

You know the story of Moses very well – Numbers 20 from verse 1 to 12 –

There was a man who was a very great leader; so great today, he is recognized in three religions - Judaism, Christianity and Islam (where they call him Anobi Musa)

But in Numbers chapter 20 from verse 1 to 12, his anger got the better of him; he laboured for forty years and did not make it to the promise land.

I pray for all of you who had problems with anger that today, this very day, the Almighty God will pull it out of you.

You must learn to control your anger; you must learn to control your lust – lust of the flesh, because it can rub you off your dominion.

Take example of Samson: you read Judges 16 verse 1 to the end.

You know what happen to Samson, when you talk of man who was dominant, who had dominion, the man who could subdue his enemies, you don’t have to look far before you find Samson.

But because he could not control is appetite for strange, he died before his time.

Control your lust, it can lead to some very serious consequences.

That is while the Bible says in 2Timothy chapter 2 verse 22, you must flee youthful lust.

In 1John chapter 2 verse 16 to 17, the Bible says love not the world neither the things that are in the world. Because if you love the world the love of the Father is not in you.

And all those things that might be beaconing to you, all things in the world, all the lust of the flesh, all the lust of the eyes, all the pride of life, they don’t last, they will perish with the world.

If you want to maintain dominion, you must run from the lust of the flesh.

You want retain your dominion, your obedience to God must be complete.

When you consider king Saul in 1Samuel chapter 15 from verse 1 to 31, you will find a king he was already a king, he had dominion, but he wouldn’t obey God fully, that is while he lost his kingdom

Your obedience to God must be complete.  

And then like one of my children or two of them kept saying, you want to retain your dominion, you must remain totally connected to God.

You cannot be one leg in the world, one leg in Jesus Christ and retain dominion.

The Almighty God is never interested in lukewarmness; it is either you are in or you are out.

And like one of my children, you must be connected to the One who is the most High – Psalm 91 verse 1.

You must be connected to the One who is higher than the highest – Ecclesiastes chapter 5 verse 8.

You must be connected to the One who is seated above principalities and powers – Ephesians chapter 1 verse 19 to 22 - to remain forever in dominion.

Remain connected to Him and you will forever have dominion.

If you get detached from Him, you will lose your dominion.

I will tell you one story and I will close my own sermon so that we can do a couple of things that we want to do.

I have told you the story of a brother who is called Brother Sam, at least the older ones among us will remember him.

He was half educated, he could not speak English, and then he became born-again; and became filled with the Holy Spirit, he was on fire for God.

In all manners of miracles were happening through him.

One day they invited him to Teachers’ Training College to come and preach

He said well, when I get there, I will tell them I cannot speak English so you have to get me an interpreter.

But as they called him forward and he got there and he opened his mouth that I cannot speak English, suddenly, beautiful English began flow out his mouth,

He himself did not even know what he was saying, all he noticed was that after one hour people were rushing forward to surrender their lives to Jesus.

I mean this boy; we can count at least three people that he had raised from the dead.

There was a time, his mother used to be a leader among the occultist and one day when his mother was not around, he burnt everything that the mother used for occultism.

And the mother decided, it is better I kill this boy.

And then the mother went to go and the member of the occult society to send something to come and deal with this boy.

He has shut the door at night, he was about to sleep; he knelt down to pray and all of sudden, through the locked door, a huge black dog came; I mean, without opening the door; coming towards Brother Sam

And Brother Sam shouted Jesus and something like a thunderbolt from heaven hit that dog and died on a sport.

When mother came in the morning, Brother Sam was burning the dog.

But then Brother Sam became proud.

Let us go for Bible Study Brother Sam will say: who is going to teach?

Oh, brother so and so will be teaching

How many people has he raised from the dead?

Is a very sad story.

But Brother Sam ended up in a lunatic asylum because God let him.

I pray for all of you who are listening to me, the Almighty God will never leave you.

For you to have dominion, you have to be connected to be connected to the One who controls the all things, the One who is Highest than all.

When you know that as a child of God you are already given authority over forces of darkness, you already seated in heavenly places with the Lord Jesus Christ, etcetera, it is compulsory for you to maintain that contact.

As long as a piece of electric iron is connected to the source, the iron will keep on hot. You pull it from the socket, it will become cold.

So, please take note of that; if you feel you have already arrived; you can perform miracles, signs, and wonders, you slow down and you get detached from the most High, you will soon discover that you are ordinary flesh.

I pray for everyone of us once again that thing that will draw you away from God will never happen to you.

But then, what about those of us who have not even been connected to Him?

We used to sing in those day that: all those who have been saved shout hallelujah; and we will say we trample on Satan, we trample on witchcraft, we trample on wizards,

You can only trample on Satan if Jesus is dwelling in you.

If He is not dwelling in you and you say you want to face Satan, Satan will tear you to pieces.

Satan is old, he is an old warrior; he had destroyed a lot of so-called great men in the Bible, but when the greater One is in you, then you can say, I am an overcomer.

So, I am appealing to those of you who might be here who is pretending to be a Christian and you not yet really really connected to Jesus Christ, run forward now; come and stand before the altar, come and cry to Jesus Christ for salvation,

Come and cry to Him to become your Lord and your Saviour; come and cry to Him to come and dwell in you.

If you used to be a true Christian, on fire for God, but you know the fire is gone, you are backsliding now, praying has become difficult for you, studying the Bible is now a task, come back to the Lord, He will restore you and then you can continue to live in dominion.

So, those of you who want to give your life to Jesus and those of you who want to be restore to Him come quickly.

I am going to count from one to ten, before I say ten, make sure you already standing in front here. And I begin to count now

One, two,

If you really mean business, you will be running; running to meet Him, running to surrender your life to Him, running to come to the One who can transform your life and give you dominion.

Three,

Thank you those of you who are clapping. You are not clapping for these people; you are clapping for Jesus. You are clapping for the One who can give you dominion.

Four, five, six, seven, eight, nine,

Now, that is the final count down; those of you who are on the way, keep coming, keep coming, you are not late yet, and those of us who are already in front, let us cry to the Almighty God and say:

Please Lord, have mercy on me, save my soul, I want genuine salvation, I want You to forgive all my sins, I want you to come and dwell in me, I want You to be my Lord, I want You to be my Saviour, and I will serve You for the rest of my life.

Cry to Him.

And the rest of us let us stretch our hands towards these people and intercede for them, and pray for that the One who saved our souls will save their own souls also. That the Almighty God will wash them clean from all their sins, that the Almighty God will come and dwell in them so that they will become more than conquerors also.

Please pray for them for two minutes.

And those of you who are on the way, hurry up so that you can be here before I finish praying because I must pray in another one minutes.

As you are coming, pray as you come; pray that the Almighty God will have mercy on you; pray that He will save your soul, pray that His blood will wash you clean; pray that He will become your Lord and Saviour, pray that He will come and dwell in you.

Cry to Him now.

In Jesus mighty name we have prayed.

My Father and my God I want to bless Your holy name for Your word. I want to thank You for these people who have decided to surrender their lives to You, please receive them in Jesus’ name, have mercy on them in Jesus’ name, wash them in Jesus’ name.

I pray Lord God Almighty, as you saved their souls you will write their names in the Book of Life in Jesus’ name; come and dwell in them Lord; let them become true children of the living God so that from now on when they call on You You will answer them by fire.

Thank You Almighty God.

And all those who are backsliding before but are now coming back to You, please receive them, and restore them, so that they will never backslide again.

In Jesus mighty name we have prayed.

Amen. Amen.

Now those of you who have given your life to Jesus let me hear you shout hallelujah.

We congratulate you because today Jesus is Your Lord from now on, and then I want to promise you by the grace of God I will be praying for you.

So, if you turn to your left you will see somebody lifting up a placard…, okay, the counselors are already on the way.

The Counselors we help me collect certain information from you: your names, your address, and your prayer requests.

And I promised you from now on I will be praying for you.

Congratulations.

Let me hear those of you in front shout hallelujah.

God bless you.

While the Counselors are attending to the people the choir will worship God for some moment.

And then we will wait till counselors are finished with the new converts.

Thank you very much.

Now, maybe we quickly write down our prayer points.

Number one, we want to thank the Almighty God. You want to have dominion; you must learn to praise God violently. You must learn to praise God like David did with all his might.

And then, number two, you are going to cry to Almighty God and say: Father, even as You have decree it, let me remain forever blessed.

Number three, Father, let me remain forever fruitful.

Number four, Father, please enlarge my coast rapidly; let me multiply.

Number five, Father, give me dominion in every facet of life; physically, materially, mentally, emotionally, maritally, spiritually.

Number six, Father, let me remain in You and with You, far above principalities and powers forever.

And then number seven, your own private request.

The altar is open. You will cry to the Almighty God even if it is for only fifteen minutes but let us make it intense; cry to Him.

Like somebody said, for someone this might be coronation night; God will hear you, He will answer and your dominion will begin.

Let us go ahead and talk to the Almighty God.

Thank You Father.

Thank You Jesus.

In Jesus mighty name we have prayed.

The Almighty God will grant your requests. Even as He as decreed it, remain blessed; remain fruitful; be multiplied; have dominion; physically have dominion, materially have dominion, maritally have dominion, emotionally have dominion, mentally have dominion, spiritually have dominion. Far above principalities and powers remain forever.

Oh Father, I request, I request specially tonight, for everyone of Your children, give us beauty for aches, reverse the irreversible; put science to shame; show that You are the Almighty.

And whatever may be the private requests of Your children, grant tonight.

Thank You my Father.

In Jesus mighty name we have prayed.

Amen.

Let someone shout hallelujah.