Beloved,
your Father in heaven will celebrate you as you score. He will say
positive things about you. You will not be a failure in this life. You
will score and score and score. My prayer is that President Goodluck
Jonathan will one day score. Like Mikel, Jonathan is playing well, but
he needs to score.
We
waited for seven good years for this to happen, for John Obi Mikel to
score his first ever Premiership goal. And when he did score, it was in
style. It was a special magic moment for all Nigerians and Chelsea
fans as Mikel connected a corner kick, leaping acrobatically to execute a
scissors’ kick that sent the ball into the net. It was the kind of
beautiful goal that the mighty Pele would have applauded.
Everybody
applauded the goal. I had never seen the billionaire owner of Chelsea
Abramovich, celebrate a goal with so many megawatts of smiles lighting
up his usually dour face. We would come back to all that.
Beloved
members of Press Clips Pentecostal Church (PCPC), join me as we
celebrate this goal, as we dedicate this goal, as we pray to God to open
the way for more goals to come from the boots of our very own Mikel.
The young man from whom much was expected but was tied by witches and
evil forces beyond his control, making it impossible for him to score
goals.
Today,
whatever forces of negativity tying up your destiny, I lose them now!
Today, I set you free in Jesus’ name to score your goals. Today, I
unbind you from your chains, from the obstacles that make it difficult
for you to score or achieve anything meaningful in life. No man was
born to underachieve. Everyman was born to be an achiever or a scorer
of goals. You will score today, as you read this piece. You will score
in the air. You will score on the field. You will score impossible
goals that will break the yoke. Today, I anoint your feet and your head
to score your goals.
Let’s
me start today’s message by saying that scoring goals is life’s
ultimate goal. We are made to score goals by the Creator who is a goal
scorer Himself, who is an achiever, who is the bringer of light amid
darkness. In the beginning, the Scriptures say, there was gloom and
doom. The earth was without form and void. And darkness was on the
face of the deep. And the Spirit of the Almighty was hovering over the
field, looking for a goal to score. Then God saw an opportunity. And
with just one spoken word, He scored against the forces of darkness.
God said, “Let there be light.” And there was light. Let there be a
goal. And there was a goal.
Beloved,
nothing lightens up life like a goal scored. On the day God scored His
first goal, there was jubilation, there was celebration in heaven. The
angels went to the edge of the field to dance “makossa” the way Roger
Milla of Cameroon danced when he scored in the World Cup. If you have
not scored a goal in life, you will score today in Jesus’ name. You
will score against poverty. You will score against depression. You
will score against sickness. You will score against accidents. You
will score against plane crash. You will score against all kinds of
problems. Your enemies will not score against you. The great referee
in the sky will not show you red card before your time. No matter how
many times He shows you yellow card, He would forgive you, for He is an
all-forgiving referee.
There
is nothing like scoring a goal. Nothing cheers the soul like a goal
scored in a highly competitive game of life. A goal scored elicits
moments of madness. Cast your mind back to the moment Rashidi Yekini
scored Nigeria’s first ever World Cup goal. Remember how he simply went
mad with joy such that he entered the net and pictures of him
dramatically celebrating his goal and talking to himself made global
headlines. I wonder what Yekini was saying at the rapturous moment.
Perhaps he was celebrating God for giving him victory. It’s so sad the
way Yekini ended. This man blessed with so much talent to score but
ended up being scored against by the forces of evil. Yekini’s fate will
never be your fate. You will never rise to the top only to fall into
the pit that Yekini fell. It will never be your portion.
After
scoring against the familiar foe, Manchester United in a 4-1 trouncing,
I saw the goal scorer from Manchester City racing to the corner flag
and punching it like a boxer. Such is the madness and euphoria that
greet a goal put into the net of an enemy. The guy was simply mad with
joy. Your goals will make you mad with joy, but not the madness that
turned Yekini into a pitiable sight.
Brethren,
a life without a goal is meaningless. Which is to say that in life we
set goals, pursue goals, work for goals and when we are lucky, we score
goals.
Our
brother, Mikel hadn’t been so lucky. Here was a footballer who was
rated second after Lionel Messi during a Junior World Cup competition.
On that score, Mikel was the toast of many clubs. Everyone wanted him.
Between Man U and Chelsea, it was one tug of war. At one point, he was
on the side of Man U. He was even seen wearing Man U shirt. Then
Chelsea fought back and took him.
Rather
than become an attacking midfielder, Jose Mourinho, the Special One
turned him into a defensive midfielder, moulding him after Makelele, the
legendary Chelsea midfield defender. That was where Mikel’s goal
drought started. For seven years, there was goal drought in the life of
the boy. It was as if he was under a curse. All efforts to score
goals amounted to nothing. May God deliver us from the curse of the
enemy tying our destiny.
It
wasn’t as if Mikel isn’t good. In fact, so good is he that he
constituted Chelsea’s engine room. He was the carburetor of the Chelsea
bus. Remove him and there would be a vacuum, a black hole that would
make Chelsea vulnerable.
He
wasn’t scoring, but Mikel did not give up. The Bible tells us in
Galatians 6:9 that we should not be tired of working hard and doing
good, because in due season we shall reap, we shall score. Mikel is one
hardworking player in Chelsea who is never weary. The goals didn’t
come for years but he didn’t give up. He didn’t lose faith in His God.
He kept waiting on the Lord and praying. And in the end, the goal
came. The Bible is full stories of people who did not give up, in spite
of the challenges they had to face. You know the stories of women who
got pregnant in their old age, giving birth to Samuel and John, the
Baptist.
Mourinho
was impressed by Mikel’s first Premiership goal. He said: “The goal is
good for him, good for us. I think it is good for his confidence. And
I think people enjoyed seeing John (Obi Mikel) score a goal. The goal
was a shot in a set-piece, in a corner, a rebound. The finishing was
good and he was in the position. But the important thing for me is he
played a good game, he gave balance and stability. He kept very good
control of the game, so I am happy with the way John is playing.”
Beloved,
your Father in heaven will celebrate you as you score. He will say
positive things about you. You will not be a failure in this life. You
will score and score and score. My prayer is that President Goodluck
Jonathan will one day score. Like Mikel, Jonathan is playing well, but
he needs to score.
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