PASTOR ADEBOYE PASTORS THE LARGEST PENTECOSTAL CHURCH ON EARTH BUT WHEN HE CALLS ME HE SAYS ‘SIR’ AND I ALWAYS KNEEL DOWN TO TALK TO HIM….HE IS ONE OF THE MEEKEST MEN ON EARTH.
WITH ALL HUMILITY, THE FIRST THING YOU WILL KNOW ABOUT ME IS HUMILITY.
WHEN YOU ARE MEEK, YOU ACKNOWLEDGE GOD FOR EVERYTHING.
MEEK AND HUMBLE PEOPLE SEE THEMSELVES AS PRIVILEGED RECEIVERS.
NEVER ATTRIBUTE ANY ACHIEVEMENT TO YOURSELF.
-Pastor David Ibiyeomie
How many want to walk in the supernatural? Some characteristics of meekness.
1. Meekness is one of the fruits of the Holy Spirit. Galatians 5:22-23. And the fruit of the Spirit is cultivated; it is not a gift.
2. Meekness acknowledges its inadequacies and insufficiencies.
Do you know what I mean by that? It gives all honour and glory to God for the grace of accomplishment. That’s why when you come to this Church, we say: ‘Let’s rise and give God the glory’. Daniel was so meek that when they told him in Daniel 2:19-23, 30 and 48 (About the secret revealed), then Daniel blessed the God of Heaven.
Daniel did not say: ‘You know what? I am very powerful, you know anything wey I talk, I just see it’. Daniel said: ‘This secret was revealed to me…’ You see, he was attributing everything to who? To God. There are some people, they will say: ‘When I prayed like this, cancer left. Man of God! I’m so powerful, very very powerful.
You know when I pray like this, nobody in our Church can pray like me oo’ – He is finished! He cannot attribute it to who? God. Meek people don’t do this, meek people will say: ‘Glory to God’. They say: ‘Man of God you are powerful’, he will say: ‘Glory to God. Daniel 2:48.
-You will be lifted after today!
The meek will acknowledge God for everything. When you are meek, you acknowledge God for everything. 2 Corinthians 3:5-6. You accomplish things because God has made you able. Are you hearing me now? If God should remove his hand, you will know that you are empty. Now, life story!
The great Man of God called E. A. Adeboye is one of the meekest men on earth, that man is meek.
He called me this year about three months ago and I was on phone. He said: ‘Sir’. I said: ‘Your grandson’, I knelt down to answer him. There are people I kneel down to answer not pride, they don’t need to see me.
When I’m talking to them I kneel down because if I was before them, won’t I kneel down? Will I just be standing like this to talk to them when they are praying for me? He was praying for me so I didn’t have to stand because I knew that he was praying for me. But on the phone, he was calling me ‘Sir’, it was me that was saying: ‘No, it’s your grandson Sir’. I was the one changing the thing. That man is meek!
You will go to his office, he will use two hands to want to shake you, it’s you that will be afraid and take your two hands, he will call you ‘Sir’ from the gate. He will say: ‘Welcome Sir’. Two hands oo to shake you, shake who na? That man is the man pastoring the largest Pentecostal Church on earth.
Today, no Church on earth is as big as Redeemed globally yet he will say: ‘Daddy says’, he will be moving as if… very simple! You meet him he will take two hands, it’s you that will say: ‘Hei! I no go die quick’. But if you see some people, with 200 people, e go move em shoulder like this eh: ‘How are you’? ‘God is so good’!! 200 people oo. ‘God is so good, glory to God, somebody shout yeah’! With all humility, the first thing you will know about me is humility. People have come around me and they say: “Are you the Pastor”. I say: “Yes”.
They say: “Ah! You are so humble’. Somebody came to me from America, an American that has a way of also making proud people to be humble.
He came to me and was talking big, big, big… I said: ‘This man, is it because of my humility you are talking like this? So when he talked big, big, big talk. You know what I said? I said: ‘Will you be free tomorrow morning’? He said: ‘Yes, I will be free of course’. I said: ‘Okay! Take him to the Cathedral, take him round the place and bring him back’.
I just wanted to make him know that it is not noise that determines the news you make. So when he came from the Cathedral, he said: ‘Papa’, he didn’t call me Papa before. He said: ‘Papa’ (Laughing), I just removed his wings. Pure American, he said ‘Papa’, he didn’t say: ‘David Ibiyeomie’ anymore. When he met me before, he said: ‘Pastor Ibiyeomie, how are you doing’? When he came out, he said: ‘Papa, how are you’? Meek people, they know whatever happens is God.
3. Meek and humble people see themselves as privileged receivers.
We are privileged receivers, never attribute any achievement to yourself. 1 Corinthians 4:7.
Be careful of pride! God will always resist the proud. James 4:6. 1 Peter 5:5. If God resists you, who then can assist you? That means you will suffer untold setbacks, stagnation and frustration. It was pride that changed lucifer to satan.
-It will not change you.
Declarations: From today, I make a decision and I back it up with action to be meek.
The reason why many of you now cannot serve God well is because of pride. You will say: ‘At my level, I will now become an usher, for what? You have been in this Church for how many years now, no service group. You know the problem? Pride. ‘Me, I just wan come Church oo, do my own thing and go away’. It’s a lie!
You are full of pride. ‘I don’t like to disturb, I just like to sit down and then you know? Go my Church, that’s how I like Church. Who told you that? If all of us like Church like that who go dey Church? Your problem is what? You are too proud. You feel like everybody serving God is a foolish man, even when you want to enter Church you say: ‘Erm! Usher, you did not keep seat for me? I thought they would clean this seat’. Who will clean it for you? You, you no go clean? You say: ‘It’s dirty, nobody to clean it’?
You, can’t you clean it? The ones cleaning do you pay them? But God does not lift such people. One thing with pride is that even if you are not born again He will resist you. He dealt with Nebuchadnezzar, he was the first Professor of Animal Science, he went to the bush and when he came back he was humble. Don’t learn that way oo. If you want God to lift you, be meek. Okay! What do you have more than Jesus? How can you compare yourself with Jesus? Jesus said: ‘I am meek’, the Messiah who came down from Heaven to your level.
He said: ‘I am meek’. Matthew 11:29. Then you, small MD for one small place, the Controller of the Universe said: ‘I am meek’. The entire world Controller said: ‘I am meek’, then you, small company you are controlling, the whole world cannot enter you again.
Even if you are the President of Nigeria, are you President of Africa? If you are the President of your country are you President of the world? The President of the world said: ‘I am meek’, you, the President of one nation, say you are not meek, calm down!
-Pastor David Ibiyeomie on ‘THE BEAUTY OF MEEKNESS’ Walking In The Supernatural Salvation Ministries – Home of Success 24th September 2023 Second Service || PART B
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