SIX MILLION WORSHIPPERS ATTEND REDEEM CHURCH CONVENTION

The convention also recorded prayers for babies born in the last 12 months to barren mothers, with thousands of the mothers seen dancing to appreciate God, while the two large auditoriums for adults at the Redemption Camp, and a children’s hall overflowed, with some people sitting on the floor outside.

Penpushing further reports that, Pastor Enoch Adeboye led congregational prayers and issued a decree, while towards the end, he opened the altar area for people to pray there for what they wished God to do for them this year.

The General Overseer of the Church, thereafter anointed handkerchiefs of the congregation, and in his character, he waved his hand from the pulpit as people waved their handkerchiefs frantically at him, as it is also on record that, there had been several testimonies of people using the anointed handkerchiefs to perform miracles.

The Cleric preaching at the Holy Ghost Service of the Church’s 67th Annual Convention with the theme, “And God Said,” on Friday was mainly decrees, commands and prayers on God’s promises, which was one of the many highpoints of the one-week Convention.

Penpushing also reports that, Adeboye who confirmed he loves babies  and led the congregation to pray for them, stated, “See how many homes where there was weeping over barrenness, have been thrown into joy because they came to Jesus and we cried to Him; now see their joy,”

The clergyman in his main sermon based on how God spoke the world into existence in the Book of Genesis, reminded the congregation about the power of God’s word and the need to hearken diligently to every bit of it.

Penpushing reports that, Adeboye  recalled that after creation, the world was without form but God said “let there be light” and there was light,adding that the inference from that, is that God’s word provides orderliness and erases confusion and darkness; accelerates progress and brings about fullness and fruitfulness.

The General Overseer quoting from similar words of God said when God first spoke to man after creation in Genesis 1:27-28, He blessed him: “So, God created man in his own image, in the image of God created He him; male and female created He them’.

“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.”

Penpushing reports   the cleric while elaborating the implication of the blessing, said with that all forces in Heaven and on earth see to it that the blesse succeeds; angelic forces also step in and one cannot be cursed, adding that also being fruitful and multiplying means one will increase rapidly, while replenishing means an overflow.

‘God is more than enough, so blessing you means He will provide all your needs. God will also promote you, and because He has the final say, when He opens a door, no one can shut it and similarly doors he shuts cannot be opened”, he said

The wife of the General overseer, Folu Adeboye, earlier led congregational prayer for all nations and their leaders, after an American Bishop, I. D. Pearse, had preached a sermon on the power of God’s word, who repeatedly sayd, “there is enough power in the word of God to make the word come to pass”.

Penpushing further reports that, there were also testimonies of people who had been blessed by God, including an asthma patient who was healed after 16 years; a woman whose son was healed from leukaemia after Pastor Adeboye’s prayers; and a woman who bore a set of twins even after Doctors had said her fallopian tubes were blocked and her husband had low sperm count.