RCCG’s 76 hours Marathon Messiah’s Praise kicks off today | what you should know

The 4th edition of Marathon Messiah’s Praise’ to celebrate the 76th birthday of the General Overseer, Pastor E.A. Adeboye is here! The Theme of ‘76 Hours Marathon Messiah’s Praise’ is “The Great Redeemer”. It is scheduled to hold between 11am on Monday, 26th February and 3pm Thursday, March 1, 2018, at the Youth Centre, Redemption Camp, Lagos-Ibadan Express Way. According to The Director of Music RCCG, Pastor Kunle Ajayi who briefed journalists at the Redemption Camp recently He said “We are dedicating the 76 hours of this year to praising our Great Redeemer, our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ who gave Himself to redeem us from sin. Countries that will be participating this year include Nigeria, United States of America, Canada, England, Australia, Spain, Scotland, United Arab Emirates, Cameroon, Kenya, Netherlands, Sweden, Malaysia, South Africa, and Ireland. This is a giant step in our quest to bring Marathon Messiah’s Praise to the doorstep of every living being on the planet.”

Open Heavens 23 October 2017: Monday daily devotional by Pastor Adeboye – His Thoughts Towards You

Topic: His Thoughts Towards You — Monday 23, October 2017.

Memorise: For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD– Isaiah 55:8

Read: Isaiah 55:8-13 (KJV)

8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.

9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.

10 For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater:

11 So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.

12 For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.

13 Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree: and it shall be to the LORD for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.

Open Heavens 15 September 2017: Friday Daily Devotional By Pastor Adeboye – A Divine Curse

Topic: A Divine Curse — Friday 15, September 2017.

Memorise: Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation.  – Malachi 3:9

Read: Mark 11:12-14, Mark 11:20-21 (KJV)

12 And on the morrow, when they were come from Bethany, he was hungry:

Open Heavens 14 September 2017: Thursday Daily Devotional By Pastor Adeboye – He Deserves Your Thanks

Topic: He Deserves Your Thanks — Thursday 14, September 2017.

Memorise: O give thanks unto the God of gods: for his mercy endureth for ever.  – Psalm 136:2

Read: Psalm 121:3-5 (KJV)

3 He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber.

Open Heavens 13 September 2017: Wednesday Daily Devotional Dy Pastor Adeboye – Giving Determines Promotion

Topic: Giving Determines Promotion — Wednesday 13, September 2017.

Memorise: Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee.  – Deuteronomy 16:17

Read: Deuteronomy 16:16-17 (KJV)

16 Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose; in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles: and they shall not appear before the LORD empty:

Open Heavens 12 September 2017: Tuesday Daily Devotional By Pastor Adeboye – Little Requests Limit God

Topic: Little Requests Limit God — Tuesday 12, September 2017.

Memorise: And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.  – 1 John 3:22

Read: James 1:5-6 (KJV)

5 If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.

Open Heavens 11 September 2017: Monday daily devotional by Pastor Adeboye – Restitution: Evidence Of Salvation I

Topic — Restitution: Evidence Of Salvation I — Monday 11, September 2017.

Memorise: And Zacchaeus stood, and said unto the Lord; Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor; and if I have taken any thing from any man by false accusation, I restore him fourfold. – Luke 19:8

Read: Luke 19:1-10 (KJV)

1 And Jesus entered and passed through Jericho.

Open Heavens 8 September 2017: Friday Daily Devotional By Pastor Adeboye – The Effects of A Curse

Topic: The Effects of A Curse — Friday 8, September 2017.

Memorise: He that withholdeth corn, the people shall curse him: but blessing shall be upon the head of him that selleth it.  – Proverbs 11:26

Read: Judges 9:16-24, Judges 9:45-57 (KJV)

16 Now therefore, if ye have done truly and sincerely, in that ye have made Abimelech king, and if ye have dealt well with Jerubbaal and his house, and have done unto him according to the deserving of his hands;

Open Heavens 7 September 2017: Thursday Daily Devotional By Pastor Adeboye – A Motivated Mindset

Topic: A Motivated Mindset — Thursday 7, September 2017.

Memorise: So shall the knowledge of wisdom be unto thy soul: when thou hast found it, then there shall be a reward, and thy expectation shall not be cut off.  – Proverbs 24:14

Read: Haggai 1:12-15 (KJV)

12 Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people, obeyed the voice of the LORD their God, and the words of Haggai the prophet, as the LORD their God had sent him, and the people did fear before the LORD.

Open Heavens 6 September 2017: Wednesday Daily Devotional By Pastor Adeboye – Stop Dishonouring God!

Topic: Stop Dishonouring God! — Wednesday 6, September 2017.

Memorise: Sing forth the honour of his name: make his praise glorious.  – Psalm 66:2

Read: 1 Samuel 2:27-30 (KJV)

27 And there came a man of God unto Eli, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Did I plainly appear unto the house of thy father, when they were in Egypt in Pharaoh's house?

I Don't Want to Live Up to 120 Years - Pastor Adeboye

The General Overseer Worldwide of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, on Monday told a large congregation in Minna, Niger State that he would not want to live up to 120 years. Adeboye spoke during a birthday service for Pastor Yerima El-Samaila of the Faith Foundation Church, who clocked 70 years on Monday He also said he might not preside over the 80th birthday service of El- Samaila. “It is not how long you live but how well you spend your life, I don’t want to be 120 years old; longevity is good but there is a limit” the cleric declared while delivering the message at the birthday service held at the Justice Idris Legbo Kutigi International Conference Centre in the Niger State capital.

Open Heavens 5 September 2017: Tuesday Daily Devotional By Pastor Adeboye – Desperation Generates Overflow

Topic: Desperation Generates Overflow — Tuesday 5, September 2017.

Memorise: And the LORD visited Hannah, so that she conceived, and bare three sons and two daughters. And the child Samuel grew before the LORD.  – 1 Samuel 2:21

Read: 1 Samuel 1:9-18 (KJV)

9 So Hannah rose up after they had eaten in Shiloh, and after they had drunk. Now Eli the priest sat upon a seat by a post of the temple of the LORD.

Open Heavens 31 August 2017: Thursday Daily Devotional by Pastor Adeboye – Divine Wisdom

Topic: Divine Wisdom — Thursday 30, August 2017.

Memorise: If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.  – James 1:5

Read: Daniel 1:18-20 (KJV)

18 Now at the end of the days that the king had said he should bring them in, then the prince of the eunuchs brought them in before Nebuchadnezzar.

Open Heavens 30 August 2017: Wednesday Daily Devotional By Pastor Adeboye – Sure Avenues to Comfort

Topic: Sure Avenues to Comfort — Wednesday 30, August 2017.

Memorise: For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.  – Romans 15:4

Read: Romans 15:4-5 (KJV)

4 For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.

Open Heavens 29 August 2017: Tuesday Daily Devotional By Pastor Adeboye – Chosen For a Divine Purpose

Topic: Chosen for a Divine Purpose — Tuesday 29, August 2017.

Memorise: But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:  – 1 Peter 2:9

Read: Acts 17:24-31 (KJV)

24 God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands;

Open Heavens 28 August 2017: Monday Daily Devotional By Pastor Adeboye – Builders For God

Topic: Builders for God — Monday 28, August 2017.

Memorise: Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord. – 1 Corinthians 15:58

Read: Nehemiah 2:1-8 (KJV)

1 And it came to pass in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, that wine was before him: and I took up the wine, and gave it unto the king. Now I had not been beforetime sad in his presence.

2 Wherefore the king said unto me, Why is thy countenance sad, seeing thou art not sick? this is nothing else but sorrow of heart. Then I was very sore afraid,

Open Heavens 25 August 2017: Friday Daily Devotional By Pastor Adeboye – The Unprofitable Servant

Topic: The Unprofitable Servant — Friday 25, August 2017.

Memorise: And that servant, which knew his lord's will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes. – Luke 12:47

Read: Matthew 25:24-30 (KJV)

24 Then he which had received the one talent came and said, Lord, I knew thee that thou art an hard man, reaping where thou hast not sown, and gathering where thou hast not strawed:

Open Heavens 24 August 2017: Thursday daily devotional by Pastor Adeboye – The Church of God III

Topic: The Church of God III — Thursday 24, August 2017.

Memorise: That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish. – Ephesians 5:27

Read: Ephesians 1:1-4 (KJV)

1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the saints which are at Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus:

Open Heavens 23 August 2017: Wednesday Daily Devotional By Pastor Adeboye – The Church Of God II

Topic: The Church Of God II — Wednesday 23, August 2017.

Memorise: Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ: – Ephesians 4:13

Read: 1 Corinthians 1:1-11 (KJV)

1 Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother,

2 Unto the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours:

Open Heavens 22 August 2017: Tuesday Daily Devotional By Pastor Adeboye – The Church Of God I

Topic: The Church Of God I — Tuesday 22, August 2017.

Memorise: 22 And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church, 23 Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all. – Ephesians 1:22-23

Read: 2 Thessalonians 1:1-12 (KJV)

1 Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: