The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye, has reiterated his long-held belief about how he will pass away — peacefully, on a Sunday, after attending church service and eating his favourite meal, pounded yam.
Addressing worshippers on the fourth day of the church’s ongoing International Convention, themed “The Overcomers”, Adeboye emphasised that death does not always have to come through prolonged sickness.
“I will die on a Sunday after attending service, eat my beloved pounded yam, and then pass on without any sickness,” he said.
The RCCG cleric explained that he first shared this vision two years ago and was repeating it to remind Christians that passing into glory can be calm and without pain for those in Christ.
Adeboye’s sermon
Preaching a sermon titled “Possess Your Possessions”, Adeboye charged believers to actively claim the blessings promised to them in the Bible, stressing that spiritual benefits often require deliberate effort to secure.
“In many cases, you may have to fight for things that are already yours,” he noted, drawing from the story of the Israelites’ conquest of the Promised Land.
Listing healing, prosperity, fruitfulness, and long life as key areas of divine promise, he warned that Christians must guard these blessings against spiritual opposition.
“Your greatest friend, Jesus Christ, paid a great price to purchase your healing. Yet there is a thief who comes to steal, kill, and destroy,” he said, referencing John 10:10. “Long life is yours, but the devil wants to kill you with all he has. You must fight to live.”
On financial blessings, he declared: “The One who owns the earth and its fullness, and owns all the silver and gold, paid a terrible price so that you wouldn’t be poor. As long as you want to remain poor, you will remain poor.”
Adeboye also criticised the contradictory expectations placed on Christians: “If you make it as a Christian, they criticise you. If you die poor, they say, ‘Where’s your God?’”
He pointed to biblical figures like Rachel and Hannah, who overcame barrenness through persistence in prayer, urging believers not to accept any form of spiritual oppression.
Adeboye used the example of Jacob wrestling with an angel as a metaphor for spiritual tenacity: “It is what we tolerate that disturbs us. Stop tolerating sickness, poverty, barrenness, or premature death. Fight to possess your possessions, it’s your spiritual duty, made possible by Christ’s sacrifice.”
