2011 NEW YEAR MESSAGE –
compliments of PastorGbenga
Kayode Ayodele
PASTOR’S OPENING PRAYERS
Father in the name of Jesus, we
thank you for your grace and
kindness. Thank you for 2010
THE YEAR OF THE GREATER LIGHT.
We thank you for the lives that
we have touched around the
world in this year. We also thank
you for the opportunity and the
privilege to walk with you in
building lives all around the world
with your word.
(Reverend Chris Oyakhilome now
leads a special session of
worship …………..)
TESTIMONY OF 2010
So tell me, how was 2010? I love
you. I can tell that you just feel
like praising the Lord again and
again. At this time I know some
countries are already in 2011 but
we would make the
announcement from here. So
you relax.
2010 was a beautiful year as we
were given the year of the
greater light. For some people, it
may not have been a beautiful
year; but in our lives never allow
the hurtful things that happen to
us to overwhelm us. This life that
God has given us is a life which
we must give account to God for.
Even when you hurt, remember
that there are others who hurt
also, you must be strong enough
or comforted enough to be able
to lift yourself enough to comfort
others who hurt. You can always
be hopeful and you can always
be lively.
Our monthly first Sunday prayer
and fasting programs and
communion services will continue
in the year 2011. That includes
our monthly all night prayer
meetings every last Friday of the
month. So Sunday the 2nd of
January is our first communion
service for the year.
(Clips are shown of the IPPC 2010
Awards Night)
Oh what a night! When the Holy
Spirit is present and God tells you
thank you – this is the most
important award in the whole
wide world – when the man of
God says thank you for what you
do in the house of God.
IT IS 2011 – HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
What would 2011 be like? Well;
happy New Year. Welcome to
2011. My life will bring God glory
in 2011, and it shall be so. This is
2011 right? In 2010 the Lord
spoke to us, and the Lord is very
interested in us. Remember he
says for God so loved the world,
the world of men, not the world
of cars, cities. At the beginning of
2010, we said to you that the
year was the year of the greater
light, and we read from Genesis
1:14-18.
THE GREATER LIGHT
Genesis 1:14-18 (King James
Version) – “14And God said, Let
there be lights in the firmament
of the heaven to divide the day
from the night; and let them be
for signs, and for seasons, and for
days, and years: 15And let them
be for lights in the firmament of
the heaven to give light upon
the earth: and it was so. 16And
God made two great lights; THE
GREATER LIGHT TO RULE THE DAY,
AND THE LESSER LIGHT TO RULE
THE NIGHT: he made the stars
also. 17And God set them in the
firmament of the heaven to give
light upon the earth,
18And to rule over the day and
over the night, and to divide the
light from the darkness: and God
saw that it was good.”
I want you to notice the
terminology of scripture. Notice it
says God made two great lights.
He made the greater light to rule
the day, not just to shine in the
day, but to rule the day. And
there was also the lesser light to
rule the night.
Psalm 136:1-9 (King James
Version) “1O give thanks unto
the LORD; for he is good: for his
mercy endureth for ever. 2O
give thanks unto the God of
gods: for his mercy endureth for
ever. 3O give thanks to the Lord
of lords: for his mercy endureth
for ever. 4To him who alone
doeth great wonders: for his
mercy endureth for ever. 5To
him that by wisdom made the
heavens: for his mercy endureth
for ever. 6To him that stretched
out the earth above the waters:
for his mercy endureth for ever.
7To him that made great lights:
for his mercy endureth for ever:
8THE SUN TO RULE BY DAY: for his
mercy endureth for ever: 9THE
MOON AND STARS TO RULE BY
NIGHT: for his mercy endureth for
ever. ”
Now I read that to you just to
introduce to you that those two
great lights spoken about in the
book of Genesis are the sun and
the moon, because in Genesis he
didn ’t say the Sun and the moon,
he just talked about two great
lights. But now we see from
scripture that really the greater
light was called the greater light
was called the sun and the lesser
light the moon. And when we
read in Genesis 1:16, he says the
stars also, so He made the stars
also to function in he night. Now
something very important, about
these two great lights is that one
of them doesn ’t really have light
of itself. The moon doesn’t have
light of itself. The moon shines
from the light of the sun. It gets
its light from the sun, so it reflects
its light from the sun. That means
it really doesn ’t have its own
light, so in a sense the moon is
not a light. But it is a light by the
power of the sun. Isn ’t that
wonderful? I think that’s
remarkable. So who’s really
ruling the day and the night? It’s
the sun. Praise God, now that is a
very important thing, I didn ’t
want you to miss that. So when
we got the message that 2010
was a year of the greater light, it
was significant because it was
ruling the day and the night.
THE GREATER TRUTH
And WE ALSO FOUND OUT WHILE
SHARING THAT THE WORD OF GOD
IS THE GREATER LIGHT. It says:
‘ Thy word is truth”. The word of
God is the greater light; His word
is the greater light. His word is
the real truth, the greater truth. I
told you about different kinds of
lights and different kinds of
truths. And light stands for truth.
You see that? So when we’re
talking about lesser lights and
greater lights, we ’re also talking
about lesser truths and greater
truths. So if the lesser light is
given light by the greater light, it
means the lesser light is ruled by
the greater light, and so lesser
truths are actually governed by
greater truths.
For example when you are born
again and you come to Christ, we
talk about God healing your
body. If you got sick this is the
truth: that God would heal you,
but it is a lesser truth.
When you get healed and testify
that ‘God has healed me’, it is a
truth but it is a lesser truth.
Because there is a greater truth
and that greater truth is that:
‘‘ now are we the sons of God’’.
Are you following this? Now are
we the sons of God – that means
we are the sons of God now, that
the spirit of God lives in us and
has vitalized our mortal bodies.
He said if the spirit of Him that
raised up Christ from the dead
dwells in you, that same spirit
shall also vitalize your mortal
body by His spirit that lives. That
is the greater truth. That means
your body is vitalized by God
and there is no place for sickness.
The greater truth is there shall be
no sickness in the land.
When you come into Christ you
come into a place called Christ,
you come into Zion. You come
into the city of the living God;
you come into the heavenly
Jerusalem that is here now in the
spirit. You are in the kingdom
now. You are an heir of God now,
and he says all things are yours.
You may be asking God for a
good business, you may be
asking God for money, asking
God for a house, asking God for
all kinds of things – those are
lesser truths when God ministers
them to you. Those are lesser
truths when you decree that
you ’re going to have it or you
decree that it’s going to happen.
Those are all lesser truths. There
is a greater truth that declares
that in the now of your life, all
things are yours! Now it takes
spiritual understanding to come
that point in your life where you
function in the greater truth,
where you function by the
greater light. Your prayer life
would change – you’re not going
to be asking ‘oh God make it
possible for me to have this’, ‘oh
God make it possible for me to
do this ’. All those kind of things
would not be in your prayers
when you understand and
function in the greater light.
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