Thread by @PastorEAAdeboye

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Worthy, worthy is the Lamb...
That was slain.

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Topic: From Lockdown to Leaping Up
Text: Acts 3:1-8

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When you are lifted, you start by standing, then you start walking and next you begin to leap and what follows is that you start praising God.

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How high can I leap?
How high you can leap depends on the height of the person lifting you.

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In Genesis 41:38-44, from the story of Pharaoh and Joseph, we understand that a man cannot lift you above himself, in fact Pharaoh lifted Joseph but still made his own throne higher than that of Joseph.

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When you ask: How high can God lift you, you need to understand that the answer is embedded in the question of: How tall God is?

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In Isaiah 66:1, we see how tall God is; He is so tall that His legs are long enough to stretch from Heaven down to the earth.
God Himself said “Heaven is my throne and the earth is my footstool”

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Also in Deuteronomy 33:27, we are introduced to the capacity of God’s arms. The verse says “His arms are everlasting”

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When a man is the one lifting you, his arm will feel heavy and he will bring you down; but the hands of my Father are everlasting, when He lifts you up, He can lift you everlastingly.

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How high can God lift you?
1st Samuel 2:7-8 makes us understand that He can pick a beggar from the dunghill and continue to lift him until he begins to dine with Kings.

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He can even lift you so high such that you will inherit the Throne of Glory.

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How high can God lift you?
In David’s encounter according to 1st Samuel 16:1-3, even Jesse his father didn’t even expect the anointing of the kingdom to fall on David. But David woke up a Shepherd boy and ended up as a king

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David did not just become a king of one nation, God lifted him so high that he conquered many nations and became ruler of several Kingdoms.

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David became so Great that even in Mark 10:46-52, Bartimaeus referred to Jesus as the Son of David.

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How high can God lift you?
In Joshua’s story recorded in Joshua 1:1-8, we see that God can lift up a house help and turn him to a head of state.

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How high can God lift you?
Elisha’s story in 1st Kings 19:19-21 and 2nd Kings 13:14-2 tells us that God can lift you from the level of a nobody to a national celebrity. Even kings honored him.

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In Elisha’s story, we see how God picked an ordinary businessman and turned him to a mighty prophet.

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How high can God lift you?
Peter also had a peculiar encounter. He was a hardworking businessman but people regarded him as a total failure as seen in Luke 5:1-11.

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By the time God lifted him in Acts 5:12-16, Peter was moved from the level of a man of ridicule to the level of a respected celebrity such that whenever he is coming to town, the whole town lines up to welcome him because even his shadow could heal the sick.

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How high can God lift you?
The story of Moses also shows us an experience in Exodus 3:1-15. Here God picks up a forgotten man from the jungle and makes him a way maker. Exodus 14:15-28

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Moses became a man who could lift up his hands and way came out of nothing.

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How high can God lift you?
In Mark 5:2-20, we see the story of the hopeless mad man in the grave yard; God picked him up and he became an evangelist in the city.

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How high can God lift you?
In 1st Kings 17: 8-16, you can see that He can lift you up from being destitute to becoming comfortable.

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When God picks up the destitute, he can bring him to the level of comfortable and when he picks up the comfortable he can bring him to the level of rich

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In Genesis 33:1-9, from the story of gifts between Jacob and Esau, we see that God can lift you up to the level of “I have enough”

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God can also pick up the rich and make him wealthy. As seen in Genesis 24: 34-35, God stepped into the situation of Abraham and blessed him greatly.

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Because the hands of God are everlasting, He can pick the wealthy and take him to the level of prosperous. 2nd Chronicles 1: 6-12.

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According to Psalm 92:12-14, we see that He can move you from the level prosperous to someone who is flourishing.

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I want to appeal to you that you Enlarge your vision because it doesn’t matter how great you are now, my God can make you even greater.

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How soon can God lift me to heights that I cannot even dream of? He can do it within 24 hours.

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In Genesis 41:1-44 we see how Joseph woke up one morning in the prison and by the end of the day, he was riding in Pharaoh’s second chariot as a Prime Minister.

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What are the requirements that will make God lift you up?
1) Faith in God. Mark 9:23
2) Diligence. Proverbs 22:29, 2 Kings 4:1-7
3) Holiness. Isaiah 59:1-2

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There is no limit to how high God can take you. But you have to be holy.

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The only thing that can destroy your lifting up faster than anything else is sin.

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Give your life to Jesus Christ, He will give you a brand new beginning of leaping.

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