07/09/2024
ALL COMPANIES THAT OPERATE MOBILE PHONES SELL AIR TIME. THEY SELL AIR BUT GOD GIVES IT TO US FREE
IT SHOULD BE A PRIVILEGE IF WE HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO SERVE GOD - HE GIVES US EVERYTHING FREE
GOD IS A REWARDER AND ONE OF HIS REWARDS IS FRUIT OF THE WOMB
- Pastor E. A. Adeboye on "HEAVENLY REWARDS" || September 2024 Special Holy Ghost Service || RCCG || 6th September 2024 || Part A
Psalm 127:3; Hebrews 11:6. God is a rewarder and one of his rewards is fruit of the womb. To start with, to me it is really interesting that God is a rewarder because everything we have comes from him. 1 Chronicles 29:16. We are not just talking about silver, gold and money, even our wisdom. Church Gist. Daniel 2:20-22. Our strength, energy, we get from him. Isaiah 40:29-30. Anything you can think of including the ability to breathe. Do you know what? All the things that are probably most essential, most important, he gives it to us free. Imagine if you have to pay for the air you breathe, only rich people will be alive because you have to breathe in 24/7. You know how funny it is, you know all the companies that operate this mobile phone, what do they tell you they are selling? Air time. They're selling air but God gives it to us free.
Now, if he gives us everything free and then we have an opportunity to serve him, I think that should be a privilege because everything we say we are serving him with belongs to him - to start with. So why should he then say he is rewarding us for serving him with what he gave us? I think God is just a wonderful father. Church Gist. I still remember that Christmas several years ago when Christmas was approaching and all my little children gathered together in their elder brother's room and then they sent out the youngest of them - he's a big boy now, at that time he was a little puppy dog - and he came to me and said, "Daddy, what do you want for Christmas?" I looked at him, "what do you have that you want to give me?"
"What do you want for Christmas?"
I said anything - anything you can afford.
He ran back into the room, told those people, came back and said, tell us exactly what do you want.
I said anything
He said what is anything?
I said okay, buy me a jet.
So he ran back into the room, told the others and he came back and he said, that's not the kind of anything we are asking.
After they've been going up and down for sometime I said, okay okay, buy me a pen. Then he went back, told them and came back and said, Daddy, I want you to borrow me 10 Naira. Church Gist. I gave them 10 Naira and then came Christmas Day and they came with a parcel. I already know what is in the parcel - it was bought with my money, but I still hugged them, I still blessed them, because they even thought about it at all. Do you know if you praise God at all, he rewards you?