SECRETS TO RISING TO THE TOP || PASTOR E.A ADEBOYE
Let me tell you the truth: what will get you to the top, like I heard one of your preachers say, is
not just how many books you read. Reading is good—I have a PhD myself, so I know the value of study—but he was talking about that illiterate roadside mechanic who knows more about automobiles than the one who says he has a degree in mechanical engineering. Occasionally, it’s not how much grammar you can blow. Nothing stops the anointing. Through anointing, we make a way where there is no way.
I’ve told you before: somebody was about to be sworn in as president, and to come to such a program you had to have a special card to be allowed near at all. They had cards in all manners—A, B, C, etc. One of the bishops came to me in the hotel where I was staying, excited: “Daddy, daddy, look at my card!” It takes anointing for a bishop to call a pastor “daddy.” I hope you take note of that. It is not the title, it is the anointing.
He showed me his card, and on it was written letter A. That meant he could go far. I rejoiced with him. While we were still there, a second man of God came in, excited because his card was written “AA.” That meant he could go further. The first fellow’s face fell. Not long after, another one came in with a card “AAA.” You know what that means: when it is time for refreshment and people are moving into where they will be entertained, there is a place letter A cannot enter, a place letter AA cannot go, but AAA can.
After a lot of fun, one of them suddenly asked, “Daddy, where is your card? We want to know what is written on it.” I told them, “Me? I’m at the level where I don’t need a card. All I have to do is show up, and the man at the gate will salute.” I told him, “If I choose to go, I will be sitting on the same table with the president.” Anointing is the key.
And you don’t want ordinary portion. There is a double portion. May I submit to you, there is a portion beyond double portion. How thirsty are you? I don’t want to take too much of your time, but I’m asking you to enlarge your hunger, enlarge your thirsting, enlarge your fasting. I mentioned it during Holy Communion when I told God I don’t want to be ordinary. I want to be the best.
It was either God left me teaching mathematics, where I wanted to be the youngest vice chancellor in the world—that was all I wanted—or He said, “No, come and minister.” Then I said, “I want to be number one.” How many of you want to be the best, the very best? You shout hallelujah! And when you talk about hunger and thirst, you know we are talking about fasting. You can’t get to this goal without fasting and prayer. Even the Lord Jesus Christ said there are some demons that cannot be cast out except with prayer and fasting.
Somebody said to me, “The reason you won’t get too many young ones coming to the Redeemed Christian Church of God is that you fast too much.” I said, “Why don’t you come and see us? Come and see my youth, come and see my young adults.” Anytime I say we are not going to fast for a long time, they say, “Oh, why now?” Because they know where they are going. And in the name that is above every other name, you will reach the top.
I just want to share this one with you before concluding. I’ve just returned from Israel, where there was a program called the Feast of Tabernacles. People came from all over the world—at least 90 nations represented. And your father was the one they said should give the primary address. They had a special reception for me, never done before for anybody. When the man was introducing me, he said, “Ladies and gentlemen, we are doing this one especially because we have among us the Paramount Pastor.”
As the Lord lives who has called me, because I have prayed that my children will be greater than I, you will beat that. One precious love it. God bless you.
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