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The Mystery of Prevailing Prayer by Apostle Joshua Selman (Koinonia Global) · Selah Media House

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  In the name of Jesus, Hallelujah, grace, the name of
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  the Lord. There is a way that we rise in
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  this Kingdom. Please listen carefully.
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  There is a way that we ascend in this Kingdom.
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  The protocol for spiritual growth for advancement was given
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  by Jesus himself and the Bible says that he mentored and built
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  a people over a span of 3 1/2 years and he turned them into
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  science and wonders. By the time we get to the book
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  of Acts, the Bible says these are they that turn the world
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  upside down. Praise the name of the Lord.
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  So I wanted to know that every aspect of this service was
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  designed intentionally to achieve something spiritual in
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  our lives. Are we together now?
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  This is we are following an exact spiritual formula that if
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  you will submit yourself to the foolishness of spiritual things,
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  you will marvel and you will wonder at what your life
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  becomes. These are not the opinions of
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  men, these are ancient principles that were followed by
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  many and produce tremendous wonders in their lives.
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  Hallelujah, praise the name of the Lord will be seated shortly,
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  but I will just pray. While I was sitting there, I saw
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  that there were a group of people that God was releasing
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  the grace for prayer and supplication.
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  This is what I began to see what's like coal Oil was being
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  poured on the coal and it was Catching Fire.
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  This is what I was seeing in the spirit.
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  And now I'm praying because there are individuals.
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  Some of you are ministers, some of you, your prayer life has
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  gone down. This is colonia.
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  I stretch my hands by the spirit of grace as many inside the
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  balcony, the overflows following from whatever nation, as many as
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  the Spirit of God will initiate into.
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  This dimension of spiritual reality.
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  Take that grace right now in the name of Jesus Christ.
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  Some of you are ministers. Some of you are being raised to
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  be prophets and apostles. Let that and grace him for
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  prayer rest upon you. In the name of Jesus Christ.
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  Help them please, in the name of Jesus Christ.
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  And everything sitting upon your prayer life, we insist that you
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  will not rise. In the name of Jesus.
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  And by the Spirit of the Christ I.
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  Played out of your life. I played out of your destiny in
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  the name of Jesus Christ. The Lord is showing me a door in
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  the Spirit, and this door has been closed for a long time,
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  refusing to open. This is what I'm seeing.
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  I truly believe that God is speaking about someone in family
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  in the name that is above all names I call upon He that holds
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  the key of David and I speak. Over every close door, no matter
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  how ancient, no matter how long that has refused to open over
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  your life, your ministry, in the name of Jesus, we command that
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  door open now. We command that door open now.
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  We command that door open now. We command that door open now.
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  Be open now. In the name of Jesus, open up
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  Peter and Peter be open now. Hallelujah, tonight is a very
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  serious night. The Lord is opening my eyes in a
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  vision. I'm seeing people standing, but
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  I'm seeing their faces covered. This is what this is what the
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  Lord is showing me. Please, I want you to pay
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  attention, pay attention. The Lord brought us here to
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  build us. You see, when the face of a man
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  is covered in the realm of the spirit, number one, there can
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  never be visibility for such a person #2 the doors of favour
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  would be closed over that person.
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  I'm going to minister the power of God and I want you to bring
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  those people out. Those are the overflows can just
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  come to their projector stand. We need to tear off that veil.
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  Hari Sedakatuziya, Now I stretch my hands, whether by the power
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  of witchcraft or activities of ancestry, everything Kalita
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  parotos Tubata that is responsible bring.
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  Them out that is causing your face that you will not be seen.
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  Is is is is is affecting your visibility in ministry.
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  There are people in ministry here.
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  You have integrity. You are working in grace, but
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  there is a fail by your face. There are businessmen, there are
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  captains of industry right now. By the power of the Holy Ghost,
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  in the name of Jesus Christ, I declare for such people in this
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  auditorium manner outside. Please bring them right now.
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  May the fire of the Holy Spirit bond those fails right now.
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  Bond those fails right now, turn it into a prayer.
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  Everything covering the glory of God upon my life is that for
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  Thou, O Lord, at a shield for me.
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  You are my glory. He called Him the lifter of my
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  head. Bring them out, everyone whose
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  glory has been covered for no matter how long you are immerse
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  in the anointment of the Holy Ghost, give way now.
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  Lord of this shit, for me you are my glory.
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  You are my glory. You are my glory of my head of
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  my. You pray hear me, except God did
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  not send me if there is anyone under the sound of my voice.
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  There is any kind of yoke over your life or by your ministry.
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  I stand by the road of the I stand by the road of the
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  prophetic. I declare judgment on friends
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  Spirit, judgment, foundation on your.
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  Oh, I decree again in the realm of
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  the Spirit, Let God's people go. I prophecy an exodus over your
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  life from every realm of captivity.
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  I'm saying it by the Spirit. I declare the power that will
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  not let you go must let you go this night.
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  Parika, take it here. Bring them out.
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  The fault that will not let you go.
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  This is Colonia. The fault that will not let you
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  go. I stand by the God of heaven,
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  the God of Shaturan, that rise upon the wings of the wings I
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  declare, must let you go now. The Bible says where the Spirit
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  of the Lord is, there is liberty.
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  Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
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  The Holy Ghost is ministering to me.
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  There are people in business here.
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  Every time good things are about to happen, there are forces,
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  familiar spirits that stand to shut thought.
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  I'm praying for business people. I stand by the function of Jesus
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  and I declare anyone here in business, whatever power has
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  refused to let you advance in the name of Jesus at the count
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  of three comes under fire. 123 Go, go, go, go.
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  Release your destiny. Release your in the name of
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  Jesus Christ. Say unto God, how terrible are
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  thou in your ways? It is through the greatness of
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  thy power that the enemies submit themselves.
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  The last prayer point. I will sit down every long
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  standing infirmity in your body that will not let you go.
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  Hear me? I don't care what it is called.
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  Blood disease. Genotype issues, recurrent
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  things, eating your finances, destroying the destiny of your
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  family. At the count of three, you will
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  shout Jesus and there will be a miracle of healing.
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  Right now, all kinds of spirits that are the back of mysterious
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  infirmities. Are you ready now?
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  At the count of three, shout that name that is above every
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  other name. 123 Shout Jesus be healed be healed blood condition
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  be healed had condition be healed high grade be healed all
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  kinds of. Let me pray.
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  One more prayer, whoever is sitting on what is yours between
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  now and the end of this month, I stand by the God of heaven and
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  by the Spirit of prophecy. Please hear what I'm saying.
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  Again I repeat, whoever is sitting, exchanging your
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  destiny, by the God of heaven, I declare my God will uproot them,
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  My God will uproot them, my God will uproot them
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  for all of you in front. Here I decree and declare,
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  standing for yourselves and your families, the spirit behind the
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  mysterious tragedies of your life.
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  I speak as one. Cent.
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  Let them go now, let them go now, Let them go now.
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  Release their destinies now. They came to the House of God.
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  Let them go now, by the power of the Holy Ghost.
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  Hallelujah. Who is this man?
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  Come. What do you do, Sir?
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  So I was into business, but not in this movie.
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  You were into business. Yes, Sir.
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  I want to pray for you. I'm not a prophet of doom.
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  This is the House of God. I'm looking at you and I'm
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  seeing snakes from head to toe. This is what I'm seeing all
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  around you. The Bible.
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  This is the House of God. If we cannot solve problems
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  supernaturally, we are wasting our time here.
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  So I'm saying it to you in the open by prophecy.
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  The same way you are standing here.
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  This is the same way you will stand here.
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  Your life will change in the way that will surprise me.
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  I. Sprang my hand, Take that grace
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  in the name of Jesus. Let it open you to new
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  dimensions in the name of Jesus. Every legal basis upon which the
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  devil is oppressing you and your business, I come by the blood of
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  Jesus and I declare this over right now.
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  Hallelujah. Who is Regina?
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  Who is Regina? I'm hearing your name, Regina.
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  You're wearing a yellow dress. Regina.
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  Is there someone like that? Regina, who's that?
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  What's your name? Where are you coming from?
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  I'm coming from Jai here. From where?
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  Jai, You believe in Jesus. Come.
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  Your family is about to experience a very strange
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  miracle. Stand up.
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  Listen, let me tell you this. Believe me when I tell you
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  people of God, there are people who are sent.
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  There are people who are sent with an ocean and sent with a
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  grace. It is not the anointing that is
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  available that blesses you. It's the anointing sent to you.
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  Can I pray for you in the name of Jesus Christ, for you and for
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  your family members right now, Every power that will not let
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  you go here in the House of God. I declare by the Spirit of God a
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  new chapter opens for your family.
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  Now a new chapter opens for your family now.
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  Hallelujah. Don't be embarrassed, we'll sit
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  down shortly. But they say I will tell you why
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  the Lord directed that we fast today.
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  And Mecca, you are a businessman.
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  Where are you? And Mecca, you are a
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  businessman. You are a tall gentleman.
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  And Mecca. Who is there?
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  Is there? Someone like that come.
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  What's your name? What do you do?
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  I do business. Where?
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  Here in Abuja. In Abuja.
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  Your doors have been closed, but the Lord wants to open those
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  doors. Come, let me tell you this, look
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  at me. It takes more than the ability
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  to provide value and to provide solutions.
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  In as much as that is the basis of your reward, there will have
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  to be a prophetic dimension that gives acceleration to the works
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  of your hands. Hallelujah, you believe in
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  Jesus. Father, I pray you have brought
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  this gentleman. You are a Mecca.
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  Come what he says to 1. He says to all, in the name of
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  Jesus Christ. I stretch my hands.
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  Go and prosper. Now I release the grace upon you
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  in the name of Jesus Christ. And for you my friend, I pray
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  for you. God is the helper of men.
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  I pray that you will enjoy His help by the power of the Holy
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  Spirit in the name of Jesus Christ.
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  One last prayer. The Lord is ministering to me
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  and He's showing me a family here.
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  You didn't come alone, but this has been 12345 miscarriages
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  12345 Please switch that person. 5 miscarriages and the Lord
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  wants me to minister to that person and will go straight to
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  the ministry of the world. While that is happening, there
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  is a gentleman, not a lady, a gentleman.
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  The power of God will come upon him and you shout under the
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  anointing loud to the hearing of everybody.
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  Please bring that gentleman out. My dear, look at me, you are the
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  one. It's your husband here.
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  Husband, where are you? Why did you leave your wife to
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  come alone? The world is let's celebrate the
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  husband as he comes to stand. Don't be ashamed.
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  The Lord himself is visiting that family, my friend, under
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  the anointing. The Bible says the shouts of joy
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  and victory shall not depart from the tent of the righteous.
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  Therefore, I speak to you everything that has stolen away
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  your joy and your testimony as a family.
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  I command it to let you go. Now, in the name of Jesus, let
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  me pray. Miscarriage.
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  I want to pray. Don't worry, I'll pray for you.
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  Wherefore God had so highly exalted him and given him a
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  name. Something is coming on your
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  wife. It's over now.
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  Now, 2 of you. Over.
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  Now I'm seeing a spirit. That is back of her miscarriage.
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  I challenge you, by the God of heaven, let her go now.
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  Let me pray for you, Father. I stretched my hands.
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  I'm seeing fire leaving my hands.
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  I'm just coming on you. Everything that will not let you
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  be fruitful is a command. Whatever will want you to
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  disobey that command. I open up your homes in the name
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  of Jesus, and according to the time of life, I decree and
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  declare return with your miracle children.
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  Regardless the medical report, we stand by the God of heaven,
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  and we declare oppression in the area of fruitfulness come to end
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  now. In the name of Jesus Christ,
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  please return back rejoicing. My God will surprise you.
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  It will surprise you in the name of Jesus Christ.
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  One prayer while you are standing.
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  Father, my portion for this night, if I receive it by faith,
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  it will not elude me. Please lift your voice and pray.
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  Don't be tired of praying. Will be seated shortly.
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  My portion. God is a God of portions.
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  Are you praying? Hallelujah.
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  Please be seated if you can. God bless you tonight.
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  We're going to be brief in this place, but I believe with my
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  heart, all my heart, that the testimonies that will come out
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  from tonight's meeting will truly bring glory to the name of
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  Jesus. Pastor Israel, I'm seeing oil
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  being poured on your head in the name of Jesus Christ.
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  Kailasu Brandi Ki barotasi get ASI Alaska Brando kadosh.
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  I stretch my hands. The grace for signs and wonders
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  in the name of Jesus, may that grace come upon you.
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  May that grace come upon you. Let it distinguish your ministry
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  in the name of Jesus. You will walk in tremendous
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  dimensions of signs and wonders in the mighty name of Jesus.
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  Amen and Amen. Malachi, chapter 2 and verse 2.
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  While seated. I want us to take a minute or
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  two to just thank the Lord for His marvelous hand.
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  I cannot begin to tell you the great and awe inspiring things
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  that the Lord continues to do in and through our lives across the
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  nations of the earth. Please give us the scripture of
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  Malachi chapter 2 and verse 2. If you will not hear, and you
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  will not lay it to heart, to give glory unto my name, saith
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  the Lord of hosts. It says, I will even send a
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  curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings.
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  Yeah, I have cursed them already, because you will not
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  lay it to heart. There is something about God's
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  desire to be glorified that when we experienced His, His manifest
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  presence, His miracles, His signs and His wonders, we must
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  be very intentional about giving Him glory.
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  Whilst you are seated in one minute, can you say thank you
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  Jesus, for that which you continue to do in my life, for
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  that which you continue to do in this ministry?
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  You have so lavishly honored this ministry.
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  Within the time that we have been in this city.
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  You have shown yourself mighty and all across the globe,
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  salvations, healings, tremendous miracles, transformation by the
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  power of your world. We lay to heart to give you
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  praise. This is the Lord's doing cannot
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  be the doing of a man. And we thank you, we thank you.
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  Don't be tired. Thank Him for the numerous
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  promotions, advances in the Spirit, equipping you with
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  sufficient spiritual knowledge and understanding, helping you
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  to stand strong preservation. We thank you, we thank you, we
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  lay it to hearts to give you glory in the name of Jesus
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  Christ, in the name of Jesus Christ.
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  In Micah chapter 4, when you begin to read from verse one,
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  the Bible speaking through prophet Micah, he said in the
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  last days he shall come to pass, that the mountain of the House
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  of the Lord shall be established in the top of the mountains and
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  it shall be exalted above the hills, and the Bible says people
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  or nations shall flow to it. Verse 2 is my point of interest.
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  It says many nations, not a few, many nations will come and say,
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  come, let us go up to Koinonia, the mountain of the Lord, and to
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  the House of the God of Jacob. The Bible says He will teach us
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  his ways. So the end time manifestation of
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  the House of God is a place of light, a place of spiritual
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  illumination. Please listen carefully.
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  You have to make a covenant with yourself and your destiny that
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  you are going to submit to the Word of God and place
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  irreplaceable value on the Word of God.
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  It says, I commend you to God and then to the word of His
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  grace which is able to build you up and then to give you an
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  inheritance among them that are sanctified.
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  We must place premium on the Word of God.
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  It is God's instrument for transformation.
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  It is God's instrument for signs and wonders.
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  Habakkuk chapter 3 when you read from verse 3 and 4 verse 4
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  amplified says in that light is the hiding place of his power,
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  the power of God is hidden in his light.
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  John chapter 1 and verse 5 and the light shine it in darkness
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  and the darkness comprehended it not.
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  Paul was mentoring the church in Colosay chapter 1 and verse 9.
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  Colossians 1 and verse 9 And he prayed, bowing his knees to the
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  Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, that they be feed number one
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  with the knowledge of His will #2 that they be filled with all
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  wisdom and then #3 spiritual understanding.
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  There is no hope for the believer who does not contend
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  for illumination. Illumination to the degree to
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  which you are able to drive away every darkness around your life.
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  You know when you get born again, you are introduced to the
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  ministry of the Holy Spirit. The Bible says, and among the
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  many things that the Holy Spirit does is to guide you into all
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  truth. Are we together now And when he
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  the spirit of truth is come, the Bible says he will guide you.
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  He will guide you. He will reveal to you the
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  precept the ways of God. So every time we Tabernacle week
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  after week, this is not just a convergence of Christians
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  honoring His spiritual activities.
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  More than that, every opportunity that we have to be
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  exposed to His power, His grace, our hearts must be intentional
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  because it is the entrance of His Word that gives light.
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  And then the Bible declares that it gives understanding onto the
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  symbol. Your stamina and your dominion
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  in this Kingdom is predicated upon spiritual illumination.
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  Light, as at 33, says wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability
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  of your time. You have to know the ways of
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  God. The ways of God define the modus
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  operandi of the Kingdom. God has a method.
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  God has how he lives, God has how he restores, God has how he
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  blesses, God has how he keeps the Saints in victory.
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  He says, now thanks be unto God, which causes us all ways to
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  triumph. And so our assignment as
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  ministers of the gospel is to expose the body of Christ and
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  those who have been given and are planted under our spiritual
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  jurisdiction to provide the requisite level of spiritual
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  intelligence, the requisite level of knowledge that, number
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  one, helps you to know the Lord and then #2 equips you with the
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  keys it takes to work in victory experientially.
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  Are we together? That means that after a while of
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  exposing yourself to the truth of God's Word, you must come to
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  a point where you are strengthened, you are equipped,
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  equipped. Ephesians chapter 4.
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  When you read from verse 9 down to 11, the Bible says it's for
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  this reason that he gave on to some apostles and prophets and
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  evangelists, pastors and teachers.
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  Why? For the equipping, some versions
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  say equipping all the same, maturing, perfecting of the
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  Saints. We have all kinds of
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  professionals in our midst. We have doctors, we have
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  business people, we have politicians and so on and so
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  forth. You are not equipped by just
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  giving every and any tool. You are equipped by giving the
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  tools that you will need to excel.
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  Imagine with me, for instance, that a farmer goes to the farm
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  and the equipment that you give him is a syringe, is an
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  injection. Are we together now a bandage?
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  Those are useful equipment, but not for farming.
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  So the Bible says in Colossians chapter 3 from verse 16, it
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  says, let the word of Christ dwell in you richly.
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  Then it says in all wisdom the Word of Christ can dwell in you
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  richly, but not in wisdom. The wisdom part is that you are
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  equipped methodically. You are equipped in a way and
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  manner that supplies the spiritual arsenals such that you
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  will not only have these truths, but you know how to use them if
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  and when occasions demand. Are we together?
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  The end of knowledge is to be able to solve problems, to
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  provide solutions with the information that you have.
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  Any information that is not able to solve your problem is almost
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  useless. Are we together?
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  So this is not an advocacy just to communicate random truth.
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  There is an intentional project to equip you with the requisite
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  body of knowledge. Listen carefully.
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  Please listen carefully. When it has to do with the
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  knowledge of God exploring the person of God, it will take
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  eternity. We will never exhaust Him.
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  Even in heaven. There is room to come up either.
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  We will continue to know Him as His glory unfolds.
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  But as far as our excelling in this Kingdom is concerned,
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  please listen. There is a finite body of
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  spiritual information that we need.
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  You can handle the truth that makes for your victory here and
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  now. The narrative that the truth we
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  need to excel in life are so many and infinite is not an
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  accurate narrative. You can understand the
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  principles that make for speed, for restoration, for favor, for
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  increase, just like a student continues to learn even after
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  graduation. But there is an exact body of
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  truth that is responsible for awarding him a degree in a
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  field, and he can exhaust it and hold a decree as a testament
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  that I have faithfully exhausted this body of light.
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  So our advocacy is to bring us to a point of accuracy
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  spiritually that you know what keys are responsible for what
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  outcomes. This is the whole idea of
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  victory. You know, I said it at the first
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  service, the inaugural service, that many believers have truth.
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  It's like a house. How many of you know that a
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  house has many rooms and not all keys open every door?
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  Is that true? If you are in that house and the
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  only door that is opened is the door to your living room?
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  If what you need to do is just to relax, that's fine.
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  But if you need to use the restroom and you do not have the
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  key that opens the restroom, you are in trouble.
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  If you need to go to the kitchen and you do not have the key that
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  opens the kitchen, you are in the house.
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  But you will still be frustrated.
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  So the Bible says, and I will give you the keys of the
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  Kingdom. These keys control favor, they
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  control speed, they control your prayer life.
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  Week after week God begins to hand these keys to us.
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  So after a while of immersing yourself in this truth, you
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  stand surrounded by mysteries like Chariots and you can take
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  on life with confidence. You're not shadow boxing.
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  You are not hoping. Listen, the laws of the Kingdom
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  are so powerful they are protected by God's own jealousy.
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  Are we together? The Bible says how shall they
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  hear without a preacher and how shall the preacher go except he
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  be sent, except he be sent. So please do not take lightly
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  and do not take casual every opportunity you have to learn
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  the ways of God. God is taking away from our
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  lives the religiosity around information that cannot produce
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  result. I know something about prayer.
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  I know something about fasting. I know something about night
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  vigil. I know something about
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  communion. I know something about the name
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  of Jesus. And we have literally 2
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  dimensions of scattered spiritual truth that are not
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  synergized to produce victory in our lives.
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  So our Christian experience becomes one that is full of fear
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  because we do not know the the the arsenals that were designed
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  to command what level of victory.
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  There is a random pursuit. Listen, the faith life can be an
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  interesting adventure when you are equipped with knowledge.
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  You are no longer ignorant. You know.
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  You know what it takes to bring favor.
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  You know what it takes to open closed doors.
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  The goal is never for a man of God to stand and become King of
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  Kings and Lord of Lords over your life.
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  The goal is that by the election of grace you are immersed under
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  this atmosphere of knowledge and that you are equipped to the
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  point where you now become a savior yourself.
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  On the strength of the truth that you know and you have
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  result after result. It now begins to strengthen your
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  confidence. You get to a point where you are
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  no longer doubting. You are not hoping, does this
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  work? Does this not work?
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  You know, is that I know whom I have believed and I am
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  persuaded. Hallelujah.
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  Are you blessed? The Saints are built in this
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  Kingdom through the communication of the world, more
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  specifically the exerges of doctrine.
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  Doctrine is the name given to the cost content, the cost
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  curriculum that builds the believer to a point of stature
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  and maturity in the spirit. So more than the miracles and
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  the manifestations in as much as those things are very important,
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  but we must submit ourselves to the methodical approach of
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  spiritual growth where we not only know the Lord, but we
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  understand His ways. They are called the mysteries of
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  the Kingdom. Jesus said I am the way.
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  I'm not only a person, I am God authorized method.
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  You can study Jesus the way as the pathway to victory.
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  Please run away from that Christian narrative that
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  continues to endorse and justify failure in your life, provided
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  you are knowing the Lord. It downplays the place of
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  excelling in life and makes it look like there is no need.
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  You believe that narrative, no matter how well-intentioned.
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  You will use your lifetime paying the price for it.
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  I am calm, he said John chapter 10 and verse 10, he says the
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  thief comment not but for to steal, to kill and to destroy.
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  Then he says I am calm that he may have life.
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  That is a level then he says and then to have it more abundantly.
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  So there is life and there is abundant life.
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  Life, the peace that you have with God based on the
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  impartation of eternal life. More abundant life is eternal
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  life in your spirit alongside A victorious life on earth.
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  That is abundant life. I made-up my mind years ago that
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  I will never lead a people who excel in their spirit, walk
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  prayer, fellowship with God, and then become failures in life and
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  their lives become a reproach to the victory that was won.
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  When Jesus said it is finished, he did not only mean the sin
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  problem was finished, he also meant dominion had been
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  restored. Are we together now?
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  You have to believe the whole council of God.
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  Many times some of these erroneous doctrines come out of
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  a combination of pride and frustration.
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  Pride because we do not open ourselves to learn more.
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  Frustration because we exhaust the body of knowledge we know
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  and so we are not able to command other levels of results.
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  In frustration, we now build a theology around our failure to
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  explain away the possibility of complete victory.
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  A believer can have complete victory.
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  You can love the Lord and grow in passion, while your finances
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  also grow, while your influence grows, while you enjoy longevity
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  and have peace with your children.
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  This is abundant life. Are we together?
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  If it is true that the Gospel and the Kingdom life was
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  designed to be useful to everyone, then it means it must
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  capture within itself the ability to solve every problem
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  we find on earth. I believe in the whole council
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  of God and by the grace of God I will not fail to bring to us
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  spiritual truth after spiritual truth.
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  My assignment is to labour with the Spirit and in partnership
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  with other vessels across the body of Christ, to sieve and
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  piece together the working knowledge of the world, the
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  spiritual principles that are assigned of God in experience.
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  And then for our excelling in life and to serve it so
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  passionately and diligently to whoever is interested, that if
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  and when you embrace these truths and you believe them and
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  apply them, you know many times we say one word from the Lord
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  can't change your life. That's not exactly true.
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  One word from the Lord that is accurately taught, understood
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  and engaged with understanding, that is the word that produces
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  you. Read your Bible.
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  The Bible says that the Sower came and saw the Word.
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  Satan himself came and uprooted the seat.
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  Satan is not afraid of the Word. He's afraid of the union of the
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  Word with the believer who understands it.
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  Remember that his assignment, his office in heaven, was the
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  light bearer. He was a custodian of the
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  mysteries of the Kingdom. He's not afraid of the world.
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  What Satan is afraid of is your understanding the world and
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  you're engaging it because the power of God is released at the
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  instance of your understanding and applying, not just
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  receiving. Are we together?
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  Praise the name of the Lord. So let me just use a few minutes
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  to touch on a topic that I believe would help to accelerate
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  our growth. Psalm 65, verse 2.
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  The mystery of prevailing prayer.
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  The mystery of prevailing prayer.
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  I want to teach you something about prayer to add to your
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  spiritual arsenals that will command victory after victory in
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  your life. The Bible says, O thou, that
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  hearest prayer. This immediately tells you not
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  everybody can hear prayer. O thou that hearest prayer, it
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  says unto thee, shall all flesh come.
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  This statement is both an acknowledgement and a
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  recommendation. The writer is recommending that
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  among the many people who claim to be able to hear an answer
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  prayer through my research, I have.
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  Found. Out that there is only a single
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  individual who sustains the ability to hear prayer, and my
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  recommendation is all flesh. If you really need your prayer
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  answer there is one who hears prayer.
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  He says Unto thee, shall all flesh come.
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  The subject of prayer is a very interesting 1 because every
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  religion, regardless what they believe, they believe in prayer
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  as the medium of communicating with the divine.
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  Almost every religion believe that there is a reality beyond
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  the three-dimensional realm. They have all kinds of
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  propositions that have been strengthened by their
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  experiences, but all together they believe that there is some
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  force or some deity above and beyond the realm of science that
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  can come into partnership with men here and now and produce
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  dimensions of victory that is not given to ordinary men.
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  So the subject of prayer is not new across religions, across all
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  kinds of faith practices. But then the challenge many
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  times has been that believers become frustrated because after
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  dissipating hours and energy in what we no one call to be
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  prayer. It looks to me and to many of us
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  in our experience, that the amount of energy, even physical
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  and emotional energy, that is being exerted into this activity
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  we call prayer doesn't seem commensurate to the results that
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  follow. Are we in agreement?
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  So week in, week out, we have the House of God across this
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  city, across this nation filled with professing believers who
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  are praying in some way, many adding with fastings.
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  But when you compare the level of energy, the level of zest and
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  zeal and emotional strain that we go through in that activity
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  we call prayer, fast is the result that comes from it.
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  It doesn't seem to add up and yet the Bible tells us that God
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  is love. The Bible tells us God is appa,
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  that he is more willing if he did not spare his Son Jesus, He
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  is more willing to give us all things.
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  Are we together? Luke Chapter 11 the disciples
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  began to study the life and the ministry of Jesus.
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  Now, until Jesus came, John the prophet, who we call the
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  Baptist, had his disciples, some of them later became the
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  disciples of Jesus, theologically speaking, and they
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  saw him pray, they saw him do a lot of things and keep worship
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  sessions. And here's what he said.
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  He said when a spirit leaves a man, Jesus is teaching.
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  Now when a spirit leaves a man, that that spirit goes through
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  dry regions looking for a place of refuge.
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  Why is that so? There's no time to explain it to
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  you. You see, God spirit beings have
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  spirit bodies. There is something called the
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  law of territory. You are only at ease in a
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  territory when you are made-up of the same material with that
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  territory. Are we together now?
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  That means if you are in heaven, you will never be at peace until
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  you are made with the material of that atmosphere.
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  Are we together now? This disembodied spirits, you
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  see when they left their original estates, you know what
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  that means? Because angels and this spirit
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  beings can translate into different states, not just like
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  men that were here, always human.
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  Now to perform certain assignments they would have to
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  translate, downgrade themselves to certain levels.
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  They did that in rebellion and when they tried to return back
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  to their original estate, they were hijacked.
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  So till today all these embodied spirits are in a state of
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  restlessness because they are not in heaven and they are
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  roaming around the earth and in the earth they are violating a
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  law of territory because they do not have a material body for
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  their spirits to find rest. Are you understanding it now?
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  So constantly these embodied spirits are in a straight
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  loitering across the length and the breadth of the earth.
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  And the way God created the human body is that there is a
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  possibility of multiple spirits coexisting in the same body.
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  It is not only one spirit that can coexist.
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  One man had a legion, you remember in the Bible.
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  That's to tell you how scarce accommodation is for this demons
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  that a legion can make do with one body to find rest.
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  So don't play games with your body.
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  That's to tell you bodies are serious real estate issues in
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  the realm of the spirit. Oh yes, when demons see bodies
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  that are available, they don't play games with it.
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  No. A body has now prepared for me.
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  So when these spirits find expression in a body, they find
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  some level of rest. They can occupy animals like
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  they they enter the swine. Is that true?
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  But the most comfortable body is the human body.
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  Why? Because humans are the zenith of
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  God's creation, and their level of complexity can allow the
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  demons to find expression. The presence of will, emotion,
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  and intellect can allow them to find expression.
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  They may not have that level of liberty with animals, so there
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  is a constant search for bodies. But here's where I'm going.
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  The Bible says when a demon leaves the human body, it gets
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  back into that state of restlessness.
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  Are we together? It goes around dry regions and
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  not finding a place. Here's what the demons will say.
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  Like the prodigal son, the demon will say, I will arise and go
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  back and go back to my house. The demon is still calling the
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  place he left my house. That means in his mind there is
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  still a possibility of returning.
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  And then the Bible says when it comes, he will find that body
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  swept. He will find that body clean,
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  but he finds it empty, and the demon is kind enough to invite
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  other demons higher than itself to build fortification to return
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  to that individual, so that the latter part of that individual
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  is worse than the beginning. Herein lies the mystery behind
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  people who get free momentarily and then it looks like their
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  situation multiplied because they did not know what to do
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  with the House of God. My house shall be called the
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  House of prayer. There are 6 reasons I've written
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  here why all believers must pray.
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  There are 6 reasons I've written here.
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  I would take that for tonight and pray.
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  If you do not understand, do you know, do you know, please look
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  up. Do you know The average believer
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  prays largely to is the guilt of looking like a non serious
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  Christian? They are not really interested
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  in the results. Subconsciously there seems to.
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  If you are a believer and you are living among other
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  believers, you know prayer has a way of intimidating you.
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  Someone is praying seriously and that prayer is judging your own
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  seriousness. You keep looking at yourself and
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  in response to that sense of judgment, you find a way of
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  conforming to that religious activity as an act of a Pisa.
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  You're not interested in the results.
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  The reason is because most of our prayer is not motivated by
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  understanding. We have not been taught what
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  prayer does. And so we just do it because
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  Jesus did it. We just do it because it makes
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  us feel spiritual. But let me show you 6 biblical
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  reasons why believers must pray. Ready.
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  Number one, the first reason and those of you who are following
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  from your homes, from every nation, please do well to write
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  it down so that you can teach others too.
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  We need to mature the body by helping them understand what
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  prayer does. The first reason why we pray is
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  that God commanded that we pray. It is a command.
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  Two scriptures, Luke chapter 18 and verse one popular scripture.
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  I use it a lot when teaching, especially around the subject of
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  prayer. This was a parable.
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  Now in his earthwork, Jesus used a lot of parables.
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  Why? Because his listeners were not
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  spiritual people. They were not regenerated.
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  Their organs of interacting with the realm of the Spirit had not
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  been developed through the ministry of the Word and prayer.
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  So he had to employ parables to help them explain how the
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  Kingdom works, and he spake A parable to this end.
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  The morale of the parable is that men, everybody say men.
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  Men here doesn't just mean the male gender, men, humans, that
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  humans ought always to pray and not to faith.
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  So it's a command. The whole idea of the story is
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  to bring us to a point where we understand the power and the
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  Excellency of prayer. The Bible says there was a city,
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  verse 2, Luke 18 and verse 2 there was a city in a city a
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  judge. May you never meet this kind of
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  judge in your life in Jesus name.
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  My apologies to those who are those of us who are judges and
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  magistrates. I'm your friend.
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  There was in a city a judge. Look at the description of this
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  kind of man, the Bible says which feared not God.
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  That means it's difficult for God to speak to him #2 in
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  neither regarded man. You couldn't bribe him.
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  You couldn't come and beg. What sort of a man is this?
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  So this is scene 1. And then scene 2, the Bible says
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  there was a widow. A widow is in this supposedly A
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  defenseless. Her source of security and
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  defense has been taken away from her.
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  He's teaching you the power of prayer.
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  And then the Bible says she came to him.
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  That man avenged. Me of my adversary, verse 4, the
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  Bible says he would not for a while, but afterwards he said
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  within himself, my God, That means there's something prayer
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  does even to the most hardened situation.
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  If you pray with time, there is an energy that prayer exacts
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  that begins to change even the most impossible situations.
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  It says do I fear not God. So the man is aware he's aware
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  of his condition. It's not just that the writer is
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  telling lies. The man is aware he's testifying
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  here now that even though I do not hear God nor regard man
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  verse 5 it says yet because this widow trouble.
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  Let me so there is something that prayer does to situations
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  and circumstances. I will avenge her, lest by her
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  importunity or the Bible says her continual coming, she weary
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  or weaken me. This is an illustration to show
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  you what prayer does in the realm of the Spirit, that no
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  matter how weak and defenseless you are, if you can engage
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  prayer consistently, that it can do something in the face of
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  situations and circumstances. Prayer is a command.
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  Once you are a man, if you are an Angel and you're a spirit,
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  you don't need to pray, but provided you are wearing this
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  material body, the Bible mandates that we pray.
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  First Thessalonians 5 and verse 17, Second Scripture for that
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  point, let's hurry up. First Thessalonians 5 and verse
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  17. Apostle Paul is speaking to the
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  church in Thessalonica and he says pray without season.
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  The word pray without season does not mean pray from morning
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  to night. Every day you do that, you
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  become an irresponsible man. You will not be able to fulfill
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  other things. The idea here is be consistent.
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  The power of prayer is not just in the activity but the
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  consistency. Pray without season #2 Why
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  should we pray? According to First Corinthians
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  chapter 14 and verse 2, the Bible recommends prayer as one
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  of the strategies for fellowship with God and fellowship with
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  heaven. The Bible says in this case,
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  speaking about praying in an unknown tongue, it says for he
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  that speaketh in an unknown tongue speaketh not unto men,
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  but unto God. Now there's no time to contrast
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  this with what the Bible calls diverse kinds of tongues.
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  There are two different experiences when we come to the
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  series on the Holy Spirit. Then we touch the gifts of the
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  Spirit. Then I will teach you this.
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  The Bible creates A dichotomy between what it calls the gift
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  of diverse kinds of tongues and the prayer language that was
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  given to all believers. This has been an age long
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  controversy in the body of Christ as to whether it is all
• 57:55
  men that pray in tongues. Like all the other 9 gifts.
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  The gift of diverse kinds of tongues is not given to
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  everyone, but the prayer language it says For this
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  promise is unto you and to your children and to your children's
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  children, as many as are far off, even as many as the Lord
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  will call when you read all through the books of Acts.
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  Every time the Holy Ghost came, it came on all of them, no
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  reservation. They were all filled with Holy
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  Spirit. They began to speak, whether
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  it's Acts chapter 2, whether it's Acts chapter 6 to 8,
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  whether it's Acts chapter 19, the most classic sign or the
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  most classic defense of the baptism of the Holy Spirit with
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  the evidence of speaking in tongues is found in Acts chapter
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  19. Maybe we just look at that very
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  quickly just to clear the air on that verse one, the Bible says
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  Paul haven't passed through the upper coast.
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  The Bible says that he came to Ephesus and then he found
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  certain disciples. Follow the discourse.
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  Verse 2. He said unto them, have you
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  received the Holy Ghost since you believed?
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  And they said unto him, we have not so much heard whether there
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  be any Holy Ghost. They were disciples.
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  So you see there was something about their teacher.
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  Their teacher was not teaching them something.
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  They said in our lecture, we've not received this.
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  We don't even know that there's anything called the Holy Spirit
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  surprised now he said, unto what then were you baptized?
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  And they said unto John's baptism.
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  Now the lecture begins, verse four.
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  He said, John's baptism, Verily, verily, John baptized with the
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  baptism of repentance, saying to the people that they should
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  believe on him who should come after him, that is on Christ.
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  Verse 5 when they heard these, they were baptized in the name
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  of the Lord Jesus, the miracle now and when Paul had laid his
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  hands on them, the Holy Ghost came on them and they spoke with
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  tongues and prophesied. The Bible tells us their number.
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  Verse 7 the Bible says and all the men were about 12 and they
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  all received. So I just thought to bring this
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  in. We have a separate series where
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  we deal with that. Praise the name of the Lord.
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  But just for you to know that when we talk about the prayer
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  language of tongues, we're not talking about the gift of the
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  diverse kinds of tongues. Are we together, fellowship with
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  God. When you begin to pray in the
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  Spirit, it brings fellowship. In fact, the Bible says the
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  grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, He says the
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  fellowship. That's why we get the word
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  Koinonia, the sharing together, the participation of the Spirit.
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  He says let it abide with you, let it remain with you, let it
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  be with you. When you fellowship with God,
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  with God, you fellowship with the Spirit.
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  There is a divine deposit that comes from God into you, a
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  transmission of power, wisdom, grace, every spiritual virtue
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  that makes for your excelling. Fellowship is very important.
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  Are we together? It is one of the tools for
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  fellowship #3 Why does the Bible mandate that we pray?
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  Prayer is one of the authorized platforms for growth and for
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  transformation. Prayer is one of the authorized
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  platforms for growth and transformation. 1st Corinthians
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  14 and verse 4 just two verses after what we just were.
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  We just read 1st Corinthians 14 and verse 4.
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  The Bible says he that speaketh in an unknown tongue edified
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  edify it. The word edify is an
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  architectural term. You build yourself.
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  You build capacity in the Spirit.
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  Remember the Bible says if you turn aside in the day of battle,
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  it is that your strength capacity is small.
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  So you build capacity in the Spirit when you pray.
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  He that prays edifies himself. Luke Chapter 9.
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  Luke Chapter 9 probably one of the most classic representations
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  of the transforming power of prayer.
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  Luke Chapter 9, verse 28 and 29. Luke Chapter 9.
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  The Bible says and it came to pass about and eight days after
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  these sayings he took Peter, John and James and went up to
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  the mountain to pray. Verse 29 the Bible says and as
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  he prayed watch transformation 2 things happen.
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  One the fashion of his countenance was altered and his
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  raiment became white and glittering.
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  There is a dimension of beauty and glory.
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  You evolve. It's like, it's like a
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  transformation into superior dimensions of yourself.
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  When you pray, I am telling you this works.
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  You can pray your way to higher dimensions of yourself.
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  Growth and transformation bring for me a weak believer, timid,
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  completely ignorant, but with the heart that is bent on
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  prayer. I show you a sign and a wonder
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  just a few months and a few years later.
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  Let one day become one week, become one month, become one
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  year, become three years, become five years and I show you a sign
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  and a wonder. Was it not Paul himself that
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  says, I thank my God, I pray in tongues more than ye all.
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  Are we together? I hope God is blessing us.
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  Say Amen. It's very important that we
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  pray. Growth and transformation is
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  impossible for a believer if you do not pray.
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  Now you see, for many believers, prayer is simply a tool for
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  petitions and for receiving, not transformation.
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  The primary assignment of prayer I'll be teaching as as we
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  proceed in the series. The primary assignment of
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  prayer, believe me, is not for breakthroughs, for miracles,
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  etcetera. No, most of the breakthroughs
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  that we need we even meet them in the first place because of
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  ignorance of the principles of the Kingdom.
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  Remember the Bible says when you are praying, pray that your
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  Kingdom come, because when his Kingdom comes there are many
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  things you will not need to ask for again because of the
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  presence of the Kingdom. Most of the miracles that we
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  seek today are acts of God's mercy, correcting our ignorance.
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  So if you understand the Kingdom and the ways of God, your
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  prayers will largely be that of fellowship and growth, not just
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  petitions, because the accuracy of your understanding will bring
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  triumph after triumph, result after result in your life.
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  Is that true? God's desire is not for us to
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  live in the realm of what we know to be miracles, signs, and
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  wonders. They are supposed to be a thing
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  of wonder to unbelievers, largely.
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  But we who are in the Kingdom miracles help to escort us to
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  the place where we get to maturity and accuracy in the
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  Spirit. Now we begin to live by the
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  mysteries of the Kingdom, growth and transformation.
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  Show me a believer who engages in prayer.
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  For many of us, our prayer is not systemic, is not methodical,
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  is haphazard. If you are fortunate to wake up
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  early in the morning, good for God and good for you that day,
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  you can at least steal out 30 minutes quickly and feel
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  spiritual and then backslide in a very, very bad way until after
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  one month or when situations wake you up, then you quickly
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  catch up, you ask for forgiveness, you repent, and
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  then you start again. Do you know that even in the
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  secular, mastery is gained through consistency?
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  As anybody who leads his field in the secular, you do not
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  become a professional in anything by just freelancing and
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  shadow boxing and getting your way.
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  You have to invest your time, your energy, your resources in
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  ever increasing dimensions to attain mastery, consistency,
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  growth and transformation. You must get to a point where
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  you see the relevance of prayer. You discipline yourself.
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  You get up in the morning. This is the day the Lord has
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  made. You're praying Sheila Kapoor
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  siyata. You understand edification.
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  You begin to deposit prayer. I'll be teaching us as the
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  series proceed that prayer is one of the mysteries that is not
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  bound by time. That means you can send it to
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  your tomorrow to wait for you. Prayer is powerful.
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  Yes, Sir, Your prayer can be like an usher, like a protocol.
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  You send it into your tomorrow to verify that the road is clear
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  before you arrive. If for any reason it goes there
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  and find demons attempting to go ahead, you know what the woman's
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  prayer did to that judge? That's exactly what will be
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  happening while you come triumphantly.
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  It's dangerous to step into a realm that prayer did not usher
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  you into. It's risky because the whole
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  world lies in wickedness. Are we together?
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  Let's hurry up. We have to pray Jude one Jude
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  has only 1 chapter verse 20 the Bible again talks about prayer.
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  It says but ye beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy
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  faith, praying in the Holy Ghost.
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  So prayer builds up. There are many ways that prayer
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  builds up. It builds up by activating your
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  organs of interaction with the realm of the Spirit.
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  So when you begin to pray, what happens to you is that your
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  discernment and sensitivity is activated.
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  You can know. Then you come into dimensions
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  where people like Papa Hagen now begin to talk about the knowing
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  of the Spirit, where you can know things even though your
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  eyes may not see angels, but you can know they are here.
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  And at first, when you start in the school of prayer, it will
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  look like you're lying. But the accuracy and the
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  predictability of your results will convince you eventually
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  that that faculty of perception is not a lie.
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  You will know. You will perceive danger.
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  Prayer is powerful. It brings you to a point where
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  you are able to interact that duality of realms.
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  You are human, yet you are spiritual.
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  You can be in a place and yet perceive spiritual realities #4
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  The fourth reason why we pray in this Kingdom is as an instrument
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  for warfare and intercession. Yes, Sir, warfare and
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  intercession. Ladies and gentlemen, demons are
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  real. Spirits are real, Wickedness is
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  real. The devil is as determined as
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  ever to see that he thwarts the purposes of God over our lives
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  and all that concerns us. Meaning, if you fold your hands
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  and let him be, he will shred your life and destroy your
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  family and everything that pertains unto you.
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  But there is a provision in our dealing with God where believers
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  can take advantage of the forces of the Spirit that were all
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  brought as a result of the finished work of Christ.
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  And through this mystery we call warfare and intercession, we can
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  engage and establish these realities in our lives here and
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  now. Warfare and intercession is very
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  powerful. James chapter 5 and verse 13
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  Apostle James now is teaching us James 5 and verse 13.
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  The Bible says is any among you afflicted buffeted?
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  Is any among you in a situation that is unpleasant?
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  Is many among you seen the handwriting of Satan over your
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  children, your life, your career, your business?
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  Don't explain it away using science or sociology.
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  It says the moment to find affliction.
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  The solution is let him pray. We do every other thing but
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  prayer. We discuss with people who do
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  not have the maturity nor the might to help us out of that
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  situation, and yet we do not pray.
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  Is any among you afflicted? It says let him pray for times
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  sake. We may not read on board.
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  When you read down to 18, it uses Elijah.
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  It personifies an individual called Elijah that he was a man
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  of like passions, but he took the tool of prayer and literally
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  stopped rain physically, not a parable over a territory.
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  Let me tell you this, Elijah was not the only one who believed in
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  the God of the Bible. And I'm sure there were people
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  who said God don't mind him. We command rain to come and yet
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  rain did not come because a man had authority to prayer and God
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  respected his authority. Regardless what you were saying
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  that day, you will keep talking. If Elijah did not speak, rain
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  would not come. May God give us that kind of
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  authority that you can stand and speak over your family and say,
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  this year you all rise and go to bed.
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  It doesn't matter who is talking after you.
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  He spoke too late. You have declared.
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  Let all the enchantments and all the divination speak, not the
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  one that you pray. And then you go and lie down and
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  say, what are they saying now? No, Elijah's authority when he
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  declared it, he said I know God, he went to bed.
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  There were other prophets under the custody of Obadiah.
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  I'm sure someone would have been annoyed and say what an arrogant
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  man. God bring rain to show this man
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  he's not the only one. And God said no, he doesn't work
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  like that. When you extending this spirit
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  and you have authority, you will do wonders with it.
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  He prayed for his face of 3 1/2 years.
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  There was no rain and then to show you it was not luck, he
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  went again and did the same thing and Reiki, Hallelujah,
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  warfare and intercession. It was on the strength of
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  prayer. In Acts chapter 12, when you
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  read from verse 1 to 17, the Bible says Peter was bound hand
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  and feet in chains. They were preparing to kill him.
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  But the Bible says verse 5 that Peter was kept in prison, but
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  prayer was made without season. That's Paul's encouragement now
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  of the church unto God for him. Believe me when I tell you,
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  prayer is powerful. They began to engage the realm
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  of the Spirit. Suddenly the Bible tells us that
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  an Angel came. The Angel was always available.
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  Peter would have died without that Angel coming, and yet the
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  Angel was available. Somewhere in this series will
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  talk about the ministry of angels because most believers do
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  not know anything about the ministry of angels.
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  The Bible says their assignment is to work in partnership with
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  the Holy Spirit to see that the Word of God is never called a
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  lie in your life. That's the assignment of angels.
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  They are enforcers. Hey Malaka to siata, that means
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  when there is nothing happening from your end, they keep
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  loitering around. Did you know that one of the
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  ways that Satan knows God is doing something with you is
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  through the activity of angels in the realm of the spirit?
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  A prayerless believer does not have angelic activities.
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  What are they doing when Satan begins to sense unusual angelic
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  activities? He was once there, so he knows
• 1:14:50
  these angels don't come for nothing.
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  They are coming in response when Jacob slept in chapter 28 of
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  Genesis. When he slept, the Bible lets us
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  know that he saw a ladder connecting to the heavens and
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  angels were ascending and descending.
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  The Bible never said they were coming to Him.
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  He only saw them walking. They were going to those who are
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  calling their ministry. That was why he said the Lord
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  was here. These angels were passing me and
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  they didn't do anything to me. There's no record of any Angel
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  bringing anything to him, yet they were ascending and
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  descending. Angels can be in your compound,
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  they can be in your vicinity. They can be in your office
• 1:15:34
  ascending and descending, bringing testimonies for those
• 1:15:37
  who are praying. Do not make the mistake of
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  Jacob. Jacob said the Lord was in this
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  place. I had a chance for my. 15 I had
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  a chance for my rising, but but according to the law of the
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  will, it will be scripturally incorrect for the angels to come
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  and do anything you did not ask them to do.
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  I want to show you why many of you can have dreams and see a
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  lot of angelic activities and yet nothing ever happens.
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  Angels don't come because you're a Christian.
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  They come because there is a demand.
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  Jesus kept speaking. He sent prayer to his future.
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  After three days I will rise. It was not an information.
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  After three days I will rise. When it was the dark day, God
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  said you had the prayer. An Angel came, roll the stone
• 1:16:31
  and sat on it. Let me tell you, if Jesus kept
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  quiet and never said anything, he would have been surprised.
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  What will happen after three days?
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  The body would not decay, but he will not come out either.
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  Let the redeemed of the Lord say so.
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  Believe. What I'm teaching you is why
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  many people do not rise. They come under strong influence
• 1:16:59
  of angelic activities, but they are silent.
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  Do you not know that this is how the spirit of depression works?
• 1:17:05
  The assignment of the spirit of depression is to use obstacles
• 1:17:09
  to reduce you to a point of silence.
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  Balaam calls these people and Balaam said.
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  I tried, but there is the shout of the king.
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  In the midst of them, these are the mysteries that give us power
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  and dominion in this Kingdom. When you pray, there are tools
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  of warfare. You don't fight, you only
• 1:17:46
  activate the laws that make warfare to be a reality.
• 1:17:52
  So what we call warfare is not you fighting, what we call
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  warfare is you authorizing the host of Heaven.
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  Angel armies. My brothers and my sisters, you
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  do not one Angel. 2 angels use hailstone.
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  Is it in your Bible? When an Angel stones you, will
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  you be alive? Look at the Bible, these things
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  were not parables. They actually the Angel appeared
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  and told Joshua. Joshua removed his sword.
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  Do you know why he removed his sword?
• 1:18:27
  Because God gave him a word. No man will be able to stand
• 1:18:30
  against you. So when the Angel came, he said,
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  who are you? And the Angel had to answer
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  because the word of God was in on him.
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  If that Angel kept quiet, he would have been surprised.
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  He was not the knife, Joshua said.
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  God told me something. Who are you?
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  And the Angel had to say no, no, no.
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  Hold on. It is true.
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  Believe what I'm telling you. Don't play with what God has
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  told you. You can't take it to battle.
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  Oh, he told me that in 2021. I am.
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  Victorious. Oh yes, I believe it.
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  This is not from Pentecostal Jagon, it is true.
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  Please sit down. What then is the basis of our
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  confidence if this is not true? Before Satan attacks you, let me
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  tell you what happens. Satan is every other thing but a
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  fool. Before he attacks you, he will
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  research what you know and what you don't know.
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  He will bring it together and build the strategy to attack
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  you. He does not attack randomly.
• 1:19:40
  Satan examines what do you know about prayer?
• 1:19:44
  What do you know about agreement?
• 1:19:46
  What do you know about prophetic connection?
• 1:19:48
  Oh, he doesn't know so much here.
• 1:19:49
  What do you know about giving? So he brings it.
• 1:19:52
  What strategy can we develop? What are the loopholes in his
• 1:19:55
  spiritual life? That becomes the basis for the
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  strategy is why Satan is almost accurate when he strikes,
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  because he does not shadow box. He uses your knowledge and your
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  ignorance, puts them together and build the strategy for your
• 1:20:09
  attack. If you are Satan, will you like
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  me? Verse 50, number 5 #5 we have to
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  finish paru siata pakato siata. Luke chapter 22 from verse 30.
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  Why does the Bible mandate that we pray?
• 1:20:46
  Prayer is now the platform to make our requests.
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  Our requests, our petitions known Oh no let's I made a
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  mistake That's that's .6 let's go to five.
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  It's a strategy to keep your faith alive.
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  The fifth point please correct it.
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  Prayer is a strategy for living faith when you want your faith
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  to be alive and living. Luke 22 two verses quickly verse
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  30 and 32 pro Luke 22 from verse 30 to 32 that he may eat and
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  drink at my table in the Kingdom and sit on Thrones judging the
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  12 stripes of Israel. 31 And the Lord said, now watch this.
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  Remember the first time Satan came to Jesus after the
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  temptation in Matthew chapter 4, He came to him.
• 1:21:53
  It is written, it is written Satan left for a season.
• 1:21:56
  The next time he would come he did not come directly again.
• 1:21:59
  He came through Peter. Are we together now?
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  And he used Peter's compassion to try to say something that
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  would stop Jesus from going to the cross and Jesus discerning.
• 1:22:10
  He said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan had desire to have you
• 1:22:18
  that he may sift you as wit 32. What was the remedy?
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  But I have prayed for you that your faith fail not he says.
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  And when you are converted, anytime you see people doubting
• 1:22:34
  what God has said, suddenly on Sunday you were believing.
• 1:22:38
  But on Tuesdays like you're saying, look, this thing is like
• 1:22:40
  wisdom is profited to direct. He said use this same formula to
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  convert them. Tell them an attack is
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  happening. What suddenly happened that last
• 1:22:49
  week you are full of faith but right now it looks like you're
• 1:22:52
  just saying when one day go better.
• 1:22:55
  The wise saying that the devil uses to deceive us.
• 1:23:00
  When your faith fails, your convictions begin to dwindle.
• 1:23:05
  The classic character of faith is found in Romans chapter 4
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  When you read it uses Abraham and Sarah as a portrait that he
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  wavered not at his faithful unbelief.
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  He counted God faithful. When you pray in the Spirit, it
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  truly keeps your faith alive because how many of you have
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  gone to a place of prayer? You went doubting and you kept
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  praying and suddenly it's like a generator.
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  All of a sudden courage. You know that this is doable.
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  You even ask God, forgive me for the kind of unbelief I used to
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  come to pray. Not my heart is alive again.
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  And then #6 and we'll wrap it up for tonight.
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  Why does the Bible mandate that we pray?
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  Prayer is a platform to make requests and petitions.
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  Are you saying that for most believers this is the only one
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  we know requests and petitions and yet that is just number six.
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  Mark 11 and verse 23 and 24. Mark 11/23/24 Jesus cost the
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  fifth tree. The next day it was cost, and
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  the disciples were surprised, and he used the opportunity to
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  teach them something about faith.
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  Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever shall say to this
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  mountain be removed and cast into the sea, shall not doubt in
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  his heart, but shall believe that those things which he
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  sayeth shall come to pass. The Bible says He shall have
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  whatsoever he sayeth. The law is in verse 24.
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  Therefore I say unto you, What things so ever ye desire.
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  He says, when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you
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  shall have them. It is in the place of prayer we
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  receive and you can never have what you have not received.
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  There are two different things. Receiving and having is
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  different. Receiving is spiritual, having
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  is the manifestation. If you have not received it in
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  the realm of the Spirit, you will never have it physically
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  and that happens in the place of prayer.
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  Philippians chapter 4 and verse 6A platform to table our
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  requests and our petitions. The Bible says being careful.
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  King James says careful, but it's not an accurate
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  translation. The real translation there the
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  root word there is anxiety. The anxious.
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  It says for nothing right It says but in everything so there
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  is nothing there is no aspect of your life, but prayer cannot be
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  involved in it says be anxious for nothing but in everything by
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  prayer and supplication we Thanksgiving.
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  Here's the instruction. Let your request be made known
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  don't as you God knows it. He says make your request known.
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  King James says make your request known and how do you
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  know God has answered that prayer by 7 Hallelujah and the
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  peace of God. If you have truly made your
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  request known, you can know that your request has reached heaven
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  because suddenly the peace of God in a way that surpasses all
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  understanding will keep the word keep there is Garrison.
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  It will build the defense around your heart so that all the
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  troubles that come and make your faith to vacillate the peace of
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  God like a strong wall. Hallelujah, Wes, Dave, you sing
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  that your song again. Just prepare.
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  Very beautiful, powerful song. Praise the name of the Lord as
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  we prepare to wrap up final scripture for tonight.
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  James 4 from verse 2 and 3. James 4 The Bible says, in fact,
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  let's start from verse one to three.
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  James 4 It says from when's Comet wars I'm fighting.
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  Oh dear, I wish I had time to walk.
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  This Apostle James is a very intelligent apostle.
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  He's tracing the root of many people's problems.
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  He's saying from whence comes wars and fighting among you?
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  Do they not come because of disappointed expectations?
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  There are secret desires that you have.
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  You want to rise, you want to be successful, you want to make
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  progress, You want your ministry to blossom.
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  You want business to move forward.
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  And it is human. It says that the lost that war
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  in your members first two, it says you lost.
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  That means you have even an ungodly desire and affinity and
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  you have not you even go to the extent of killing all desiring
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  to have and you cannot obtain you cause quarrel and fight and
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  war, yet you have not and the simple reason not knowing that
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  everyone can have a great destiny in Christ.
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  Have you seen what James is stressing now James is stressing
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  for us the root of bitterness and hatred among family members.
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  Maybe respectfully speaking among ministers in our society,
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  among politicians is saying if you know what prayer can do, you
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  will never envy anybody because everything you ever see, there
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  is a way of getting it too and not a person's testimony is not
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  why you are suffering. This what James is trying to
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  correct simply because you do not know how to ask.
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  Look at the side effect of not being equipped with that level
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  of knowledge. And then verse three, he says ye
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  ask and you receive not because you ask and miss as you see now.
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  So he's not talking about prayerlessness.
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  He's talking about inaccuracy in understanding how to ask and
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  receive that he may consume it upon your loss.
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  Petitions can be made. Listen, God did not leave us in
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  this Kingdom defenseless. This our world is a weakened
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  world. And if God were to leave us to
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  ourselves defenseless, we may not be able to rise.
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  Only God knows the kind of attacks per day, per season that
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  come upon families, that come upon men of God.
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  Some of you are politicians. If God opens your eyes to see
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  the number of people who try to invoke spirits day and night
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  that you go down, there are families just because God is
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  helping you, you do not know how many people is fallacy to
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  believe that everyone is clapping for you and yet the
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  Bible says children find comfort.
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  You can still excel in this world because you are not alone.
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  Heaven. Has a way of coming into
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  partnership with you to make you invincible and to make your life
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  a sign and a wonder that when all the stakes are down, you are
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  still standing in that family. And they say by what means your
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  grandfather could not stand. And you tell them, I learned
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  that prayer is partnership with heaven.
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  I can draw strength I do not have.
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  I can draw wisdom I do not have. Let me wrap up tonight by
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  teaching you something. The highest proof of humility is
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  prayer. Prayerlessness is not just sin,
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  it is pride when you do not pray.
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  It is proof that you are sufficient in yourself.
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  Prayerlessness is a statement you are making to God that I
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  have vetted you, O God, and I have not found anything in you
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  that I do not have. I don't need you.
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  When we pray, it is proof of humility.
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  It is an acknowledgement that we are limited in ourselves and we
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  call for support and we call for help.
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  Even the military, when they go for war, they have a system of
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  asking for reinforcement. When it looks like the battle is
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  raging, then they have a way of calling and the command releases
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  more soldiers. I have stood face to face with
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  situations in my life that I knew that only prayer could come
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  in. Many of you have stood face to
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  face with situations, legal situations, political
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  situations, health situations. When you stand before life's
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  challenges and situations. Sometimes you may need to drop
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  your Internet, sometimes you may need to drop studies and call
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  with all humility. Even Jesus, at the height of his
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  pain at the cross, He did not keep quiet.
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  Alloy, Alloy Lamarck Savatani. Father, if you now turn your
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  face for me, then I know that I'm truly defenseless.
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  And the Father turned it away because he was looking at man.
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  The Lord is nigh them that call upon him.
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  Listen to me, you can use the instrument of prayer to bring
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  God down to your life, and he stands by you like a mighty
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  terrible. 1 You may be weak right now seated here.
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  Listen to me. Some of you are in ministry and
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  you are asking apostle where will I get church land?
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  Where will I even get the money for it?
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  Some of you are fathers already plunging into depression because
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  the pandemic brought so much debt to you.
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  In a situation when you go to pray, you just sit down and cry.
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  I bring you words of comfort. God is not evil to leave you
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  alone. It is our pride that keeps
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  driving the help of God away from us.
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  My Bible says I will lift up my eyes onto the heels.
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  Then he asks a question. He said, From whence?
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  Commit my help. I don't know about you, but my
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  help, my assistance. I may look weak or warm, Jacob,
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  as weak as you are, as defenseless as you are, but let
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  the jealousy of God be introduced to your life and you
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  will watch your life rise in a way that will first surprise
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  you. The recipient of that kindness.
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  The hymn writer says, how did he put it now?
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  He says all. What needless pain we bear.
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  He says, all because we could not carry everything.
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  You know, I thank God for the honor and the privilege that
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  he's given me to work in miracle signs and wonders.
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  And sometimes when I have the opportunity to minister to
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  people, I have almost tempted to ask them, why did you allow it
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  to get this long? Did you did not know that God is
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  that mighty? Did you not know that God is
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  able to live it? Why did you allow the issue of
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  your house rights to go so bad? Why did you allow your health to
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  deteriorate? Why didn't you run to God?
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  The prodigal son kept being proud.
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  No, I won't go to my father. I don't want shame.
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  And the more he stayed there doing boldface, the more he kept
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  going down until he became like one of the pigs.
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  But one day, he came to himself. He said, how many hired
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  servants? That's the voice of humility.
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  You know, many times we want to take credit for everything in
• 1:34:41
  our lives. Joshua Salman is a doer.
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  And God says in this Kingdom, owners are rebels.
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  If you can step back and say, Lord, you made me father over
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  this family. But the pills are killing me.
• 1:34:57
  I step back and I allow ABBA to take his place.
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  This political office. I am tired of the persecutions
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  that come here, and if I leave it to myself one day they will
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  kill me for nothing. Someone can give you a cup of
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  tea that is full of poison, and I know you think you avoid it,
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  but your memory can fail you. One day hunger and test will
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  make you finish drinking it first, but you can still find
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  comfort. It is not only when you avoid
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  evil that you are free. There are times that the fire
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  has no power over you. The three Hebrew boys, men who
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  the fire had no power. It is not only avoidance that
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  brings victory. There are times you can walk
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  through the fire. Isaiah 43 and verse one and two.
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  Fear not, it says, I am with you.
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  I have redeemed you, I have called you by name, you are
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  mine. And then it says, verse 2, When
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  thou passes through water, I will be with you, and through
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  the rivers they shall not overflowed you.
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  It says, when thou walketh through fire, you shall not be
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  burned, neither shall the flame kindle upon you.
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  Business people, hear me. I know that many of you here,
• 1:36:17
  veterans of business, I don't mean to insult your pedigree,
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  what you have done so much, just with human connection.
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  Why don't you resort with humility to invite divine
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  assistance that in addition to this, some of you are
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  professionals in your place of work, Why don't you employ the
• 1:36:38
  hand of God? I am very quick to step back and
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  say, Lord, if you leave me to myself, how many things do I
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  know? Don't leave me at the mercy of
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  my ignorance. I am learning slowly, but the
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  demands are faster than my rate of learning.
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  Can you come and stand by me as a mighty terrible God?
• 1:36:59
  Bow your heads in prayer. In one minute everyone, we're
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  praying. We just have 5 minutes and we're
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  done for tonight's service. Please be patient.
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  Don't be distracted everyone. All the overflows outside
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  following online while speaking, the Holy Ghost is speaking to
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  you and telling you you need to lay aside that burden.
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  You are carrying loads. Jesus said my my yoke is easy.
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  This family burden will kill you for nothing.
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  Sir, this political burden may frustrate you to a point that it
• 1:37:38
  may enjoy you the demands on your business.
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  You are probably owing millions and billions in corporate debt.
• 1:37:45
  It will take more than just finding solutions by the arm of
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  flesh. Some of you are dealing with
• 1:37:52
  loved ones with terminal diseases.
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  Some of you are in ministry. You have exhausted all you know.
• 1:37:58
  As far as church? Growth is concerned we were not
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  left defenseless. Everyone talk to the Lord your
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  Maker. The Bible says to come boldly
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  before Him. It's time for us to walk in
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  victory. And you're not just praying this
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  for yourself alone. You are praying for others too,
• 1:38:38
  because through you, like the vidam sank, that God can flow
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  through you to bless others. Everyone, please pray.
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  We have just two minutes and we're done.
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  Are you praying quickly? Whatever you want to do, Lord,
• 1:39:08
  you can do through me. Someone is praying, Oh, I am
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  well able. I am well able.
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  I am not the weak believer on the situations and
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  circumstances. He stands by me as a mighty
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  terrible one. To change.
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  You can. Change things through prayer.
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  That family should not remain like that.
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  That. Financial situation does not
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  have to remain like that man of God.
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  Your strength is limited. You can outsource intelligence,
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  you can outsource power from a dimension that is not human
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  business people. Whatever you want, pray, pray.
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  Let the song inspire you. Want to pray?
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  The power of prayer for my family.
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  New levels in the city. Lord, you can change whoever you
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  want to touch. Lord, you can touch through me
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  Whatever you want to bring. Lord, you can bring through me
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  whatever you want to build love. You can build through me whoever
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  you want to live. You can live through me whoever
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  you want to, Lord, You can bless true me whoever you want to
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  heal, Lord you. Can heal true.
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  Me, whoever you want to change, Lord, you can change.
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  Prayer can change your husband. Madam, I assure you, prayer can
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  change your wife. Prayer can change your children.
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  You may have taken them to rehab.
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  Why don't you try the power of prayer?
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  Call upon the God of heaven who is able to change.
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  We have one more minute. Someone talk to God about your
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  job. Someone talk to God about your
• 1:42:23
  position. Talk to God about that which
• 1:42:26
  stops you from sleeping. The key part of Israel.
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  The Bible says he does not sleep nor slumber.
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  Listen, please look at me. We're out of time.
• 1:42:50
  We have to end for tonight. But as always, we are committed
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  to the global harvest. There are people that the Lord
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  brought here tonight, many who are following from the US, UK,
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  Asia, the Caribbeans whilst under the influence of this
• 1:43:15
  world. The Spirit of the Lord is
• 1:43:16
  speaking to you, many of you. You are here seated the
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  balconies, all of the overflows right down to the basement
• 1:43:24
  outside and the Holy Spirit is speaking to you that it's time
• 1:43:29
  to make it right with Jesus. Such an honor to be used by him
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  to save as we sing, I'd like you to leave your seat very quickly.
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  There are others who are saying apostle standing here.
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  I'm hearing the word of the Lord.
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  It's time for me to be a serious Christian.
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  I'm tired of playing games with my destiny as I leave this song
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  singing, I want you to run and come stand here all of you who
• 1:43:54
  are are the overflows just you would just run to your projector
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  screens and stand there those online you would connect by
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  faith and pray the prayer. Whoever you want to save, Lord,
• 1:44:10
  you can save through. Me keep coming.
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  Whoever you want to change, Lord, you can change.
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  Through me, whoever you want to live, Lord, you can lead.
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  Through me, whoever you want to bless, Lord, you can live.
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  I'm counting five run to Jesus. Don't sit back thinking apostle.
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  I want to come but I'm embarrassed.
• 1:44:54
  I want to come but I'm not sure. I came with my family members.
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  How do I come? I'm shy.
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  No, this is not a funeral service.
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  The greatest gift that you can be given is the gift of Jesus.
• 1:45:08
  This is not religion. This is not church.
• 1:45:10
  This is an experience to start a journey with God that.
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  Gives you peace with God that your children and your
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  children's children will benefit from.
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  Don't be so selfish that you sit back and allow those connected
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  to you to suffer because you have refused to give up on your
• 1:45:29
  pride. Are you coming?
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  Keep coming whoever you want to change.
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  Lord, you can change through me whoever.
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  You want to live? Some of you are crying.
• 1:45:56
  Don't be ashamed of your tears. Listen to me.
• 1:46:00
  The call to Jesus is not some altar call for weak people to
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  come and stand. It takes a lot of courage.
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  That you are standing here is proof that you are strong.
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  That you are standing here is proof that you are selfless,
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  because salvation is not just for you alone.
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  Come to Jesus, our time is gone, but come to Jesus.
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  We're not playing religion here. Jesus is a big deal for your
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  life after now and the excelling of your destiny here and now.
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  God bless you, God bless you. Now look at me, all of you who
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  are standing here, I salute you. Thank you so much for the
• 1:46:44
  courage. Some of you are crying.
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  I salute you for the courage to stand.
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  The Bible says whoever will come to him, he will in no wise
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  castaway. Everybody who means business
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  with God will, must at a point in his life answer this call.
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  Refusing this call is pride. Don't run away from an
• 1:47:11
  opportunity to come to Jesus. Who else can help you?
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  I'm going to lead you to pray this prayer number of you are
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  dedicating your lives. Some of you are making this
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  decision for the first time. It doesn't matter what category.
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  I'd like you to lift your right hand in surrender and total
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  submission to Jesus who is here in our midst more than Joshua,
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  Salman, beyond him, the Christ of God is here.
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  And I'd like you to say after me.
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  Say it sincerely acknowledging that Jesus is here.
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  Say Lord Jesus one more time. Say Lord Jesus, I love you with
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  all my heart. Those falling on line during the
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  prayer tonight, I have heard your word.
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  I declare that I am unable to help myself.
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  So I come to you, the author. I'm the finisher of my faith.
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  I receive forgiveness of sin. I receive eternal life into my
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  spirit. I also receive the abundance of
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  grace, the gift of righteousness.
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  I declare that from today the power of sin, the power of
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  Satan, the power of the grave is broken.
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  Over my life I begin a new journey with the Lord Jesus
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  Christ. No condemnation, no voice speaks
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  against me. I am a new person.
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  From today I go forward ever and backward never.
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  Amen. Keep your hands lifted, Jesus.
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  As always, we present to you the ones you died for.
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  Thank you for giving them the boldness and the courage by the
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  Spirit to publicly make this decision.
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  By the authority of Scripture, I declare your sins forgiven and I
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  declare that you start a new journey with God.
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  I commend you all to the ministry of the Word and the
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  ministry of the Spirit, and I pray that step after step He
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  will build you to be signs and wonders in the name of Jesus
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  Christ. Everything that stands against
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  your liberty in Christ, I come against it right now.
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  I declare that you walk free of every guilt and every
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  condemnation, the peace of God that surpasses all
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  understanding. Let it Garrison your mind.
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  In the name of Jesus Christ, Amen and Amen.
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  Now look at me. My dear brothers and sisters,
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  thank you for making this great decision.
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  There's someone waving the placard there, one of the
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  councillors. Please, all of you, just follow
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  them. Just a few minutes.
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  They'll have your details. Pray with you and you'll be back
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  to your seat. Please.
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  Let's celebrate them. Everyone, don't be tired.
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  Let's celebrate them. Hallelujah.
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  Praise the name of the Lord. Now, just two things very
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  quickly. I apologize.
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  We have to, we have to wrap up, but let me have the honor and
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  the privilege of acknowledging the head of service of the
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  Federation and her family, please.
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  Let's honor them. Madam.
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  Thank you. Can you just wave your hands to
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  us, man? Thank you.
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  Thank you so, so, so much. It's an honor.
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  Thank you. We never take it for granted.
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  And then quite a surprise, my brother, I was preaching in the
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  heat of the someone. I just spotted him, a consultant
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  gynecologist all the way from Maiduguri.
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  Doctor Joseph, you know, send. Thank you, Sir.
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  God bless you. Thank you, thank you.
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  Please be seated, Sir. Thank you.
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  Such an on one for everyone of you.
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  I love and honor you. We sincerely celebrate you in
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  the name of Jesus Christ. Praise the name of the Lord.
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  Now the last Sunday of this month, that would be our first
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  miracle service for for those of you who have not tested of what
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  the miracle service looks like, you are welcome to experience
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  something that you will not recover from in a lifetime.
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  Please. When we invite people is not to
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  increase the Church of a man of God.
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  It is proof of love that we know that there are people in need of
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  the power, the glory and the grace of God.
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  And by the grace of God, Pastor Nathaniel Abbas, you will be
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  with us. Wonderful time in the Spirit,
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  Praise the Lord. There are other guest artists
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  coming up before him. But just to let you know that
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  God is doing a great thing, please do not come to church
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  alone. Pay the price to come with as
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  many. And for your loved ones who
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  listen, please, for your loved ones who are not domiciled in
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  Abuja here and may not make it physically, I'd like you to do
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  well to inform them they can connect the online.
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  The media space has given us an opportunity.
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  There's no excuse as far as connecting to grow and to be
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  beauty is concerned. Have you been blessed tonight?
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  The Lord bless you. Please rise up on your feet.
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  Hallelujah. Praise the name of the Lord.
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  I declare over your life. This week beginning is a week of
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  victory for you in the mighty name of Jesus.
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  May your spiritual life receive such an acceleration this week.
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  Your hunger and your passion for the things of the Spirit will
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  never go down. And because you have believed, I
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  pray for you all through this week, from Monday till Sunday.
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  Experience the miraculous everyday in the name of Jesus
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  Christ. Every source of pain, every
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  source of stress. I declare that it rose out of
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  your life like smoke before the wind.
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  In the name of Jesus Christ. You will not have to tell people
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  you came for Koinonia. The mark of grace upon your life
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  and the testament of the hand of God will be evidence that you
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  met with the King. May the Lord bless you.
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  May the Lord increase you in the name of Jesus Christ.
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  God bless you and see you next Sunday.
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  Whatever you want to say, Lord, you can say through mean, say.
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  Whatever you want to say, Lord, you can say, Do whenever you
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  want to do. Whatever you want to do, Lord.
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  You can do, Lord. You can do.
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  You can do what you want to change what you want, Lord.
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  Whoever you want to hear you, Lord, you can heal through me.
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  Say, Whoever you want to heal, Lord, you can heal.
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  Or whoever you want through you. Through me whoever you want to
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  touch. Jesus.
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  Tears on your Whatever you want to change, Lord, you can change.
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  To me. Whatever you want to change,
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  Lord, you can change. Let's say whatever you want.
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  Don't start. You can start.
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  It's not. Don't you get started to me.
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  Whatever you want. If you want, yeah.