Pastor (Mrs) Rachael Odesola, has called on Christian women to be filled with the love of God at all times to enable them operate in God’s joy.
Odesola gave this advice to women at the Redeem Christian Church of God (RCCG) Sisters’ Convention, FCT Province 7, closing ceremony in Abuja on Saturday, as the guest speaker.
According to her, “when you carry the love of God in your heart, you will be filled with God’s joy and his blessings.’’
“God, being God has a full package of inheritance for his children both spiritual and physical.
“When we talk of God’s fullness, we are talking of the fullness of his spiritual and material blessings, His power, riches, provision, abundance, health, success, His favour and measureless grace,’’ Odesola said.
The cleric said that joy always came from God’s presence, whether things were going on well or not, “but happiness has to do with what you have at that point in time.’’
“The world we live in is full of challenges but God has promised us fullness of joy in the midst of them all.
Earlier in her welcome address, Pastor (Mrs) Comfort Sule, the wife of the Pastor in charge of FCT Province 7, the convener of the convention, enjoined women to forget about their troubles and focus on God to receive joy.
“As we forget about our troubles, praise Him and pray from the depth of our hearts, the heathen will not be able to ask who our God is anymore,’’ she said.
Pastor (Mrs) Ruth Ogun, who spoke on “Building a Joyful Home’’ urged women to be obedient to the word of God and submit to their husbands.
According to her, building a joyful home takes efforts, diligence, commitment and devotion.
“It not an accidental or wishful effort, it must be planned, systematic to achieve God’s intent for a joyful home,’’ she said.
Another speaker at the convention who spoke on “Waiting is over’’, Deaconess Eunice Olugboye, urged the women to always hope and trust in God in whatever situations they were waiting for.
“To wait simply means standing firm before the Lord with grace and not giving up,’’ she said.
She said that if women must wait on God, they must get rid of the work of the flesh from their system.
“These work of the flesh include adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, among and others.
The other highlights of the convention include health talk on Breast and Cervical Cancer, delivered by Dr (Mrs) Modupe Adeyinka; cervical cancer test was also administered on women, among other activities. (NAN)