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THE SCHOOL OF FAITH [PART 1] · Apostle Joshua Selman

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  Speaker 1: Blessed be the Lord. Please, while standing, help me appreciate
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  Speaker 1: the man of God.
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  Speaker 2: Pastor Godwin and his precious wife. Please give them a big,
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  Speaker 2: big God bless you. Is this how you celebrate your.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, sir. Thank you sincerely. Thank you, ma, for
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  Speaker 1: this opportunity.
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  Speaker 2: And I honor every man and every woman of God here.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you very much. It's a privilege to serve Jesus
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  Speaker 2: even in this capacity. And I trust that tonight will
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  Speaker 2: be an extraordinary experience for us in Jesus' name. Can
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  Speaker 2: we lift our hands to heaven and ask the Lord
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  Speaker 2: for a very definite visitation tonight? The Bible says, for
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  Speaker 2: everyone that asketh, receiveth.
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  Speaker 1: Someone is praying. familiarity, friends, as many.
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  Speaker 2: As appear before the Lord in Zion.
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  Speaker 3: Someone is praying. If I were you, I would take
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  Speaker 3: a minute or two and just pray in the spirit
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  Speaker 3: to prepare the soil of my heart that as his word.
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  Speaker 2: Comes, it will fall on good ground.
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  Speaker 1: Someone prays.
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  Speaker 4: In Jesus mighty name we pray.
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  Speaker 2: Father we ask that you speak to our hearts tonight.
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  Speaker 2: We have come to be challenged. We have come to grow.
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  Speaker 2: We have come to ascend heights in the spirit so
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  Speaker 2: we can do more even for your glory. Therefore, we
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  Speaker 2: submit ourselves to the wisdom that only comes by your word,
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  Speaker 2: that only.
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  Speaker 1: Comes by your spirit. Our hearts are receptive.
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  Speaker 2: We pray that you speak and that the spirit of
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  Speaker 2: the living God will find unrestrained access tonight to the
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  Speaker 2: glory of Jesus the Son.
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  Speaker 1: Amen and amen. Please be seated. Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: I was very inspired when I saw the theme for
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  Speaker 2: the conference, Audacious, and I thought to myself, I take
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  Speaker 2: my meetings very seriously, so I think and pray and
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  Speaker 2: wonder if the people really mean what they sent as
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  Speaker 2: a team, generally. And so I was very inspired hearing
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  Speaker 2: Pastor give the charge because topics like this are very
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  Speaker 2: deeper like he said than most people see I hope
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  Speaker 2: tonight that as I take my session that it will
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  Speaker 2: really challenge someone in the name of Jesus generally speak
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  Speaker 2: posits divine realities in a man he expects that the
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  Speaker 2: fullness of that experience will come on the strength of
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  Speaker 2: understanding hallelujah for instance the believer receives what you know
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  Speaker 2: as eternal life the life of god at the moment
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  Speaker 2: where you confess the lordship of jesus based on the
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  Speaker 2: authority of scripture you become a bona fide recipient of
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  Speaker 2: the life of god but the experience of that life
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  Speaker 2: is based on a thorough understanding first of god his
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  Speaker 2: ways are we together and then the ability to walk
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  Speaker 2: in that experience. So you can find two people saved
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  Speaker 2: by the same Lord and Christ, recipients of the same
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  Speaker 2: quality of life, but their Christian experiences would differ sometimes
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  Speaker 2: east from the west.
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  Speaker 1: The difference is.
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  Speaker 2: Not in the quality of what they received, but that
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  Speaker 2: unraveling the riches that comes with that life depends on knowledge.
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  Speaker 1: Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 2: It is painful to know what should be, And then
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  Speaker 2: not have the knowledge to step into the experience of it.
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  Speaker 2: This was the case of the man at the pool
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  Speaker 2: of Bethesda. He knew that there was potential for his healing.
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  Speaker 2: He knew that the resources for his healing were available.
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  Speaker 1: You see that?
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  Speaker 2: But there were gaps as far as the steps for
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  Speaker 2: his healing to be maximized were concerned.
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  Speaker 1: And just the gap of the absence.
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  Speaker 2: Of one man made something that could happen in one
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  Speaker 2: minute to linger for 38 years. When Jesus came and
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  Speaker 2: met him, the man said, I have no man. This
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  Speaker 2: is my only thing. I know where the water would be.
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  Speaker 2: I know what should happen when I get in there.
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  Speaker 2: But the last step, the absence of a man, prolonged
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  Speaker 2: his situation that could be solved within seconds.
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  Speaker 1: In fact. Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 2: And prolonged that situation forever. And made it 38 years.
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  Speaker 2: I'm praying that in the name of Jesus. There will
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  Speaker 2: be the hearing of faith tonight. And with it the
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  Speaker 2: walking of miracles. Amen and amen.
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  Speaker 1: Romans 15 and verse 4. Let's start from there.
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  Speaker 2: Romans 15 and verse 4.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible says. Will media help us? Okay thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you media.
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  Speaker 2: For whatsoever things were written before time.
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  Speaker 1: KJV.
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  Speaker 2: Which is my preferred. If we have that, that would
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  Speaker 2: be fine. Otherwise, I'm okay with it. It says they
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  Speaker 2: were written aforetime.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. Romans 15, 4. Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: For whatsoever things were written aforetime. The Bible says they were.
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  Speaker 1: Written for our learning. Pay attention now.
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  Speaker 2: So that we through patience and comfort of the scripture
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  Speaker 2: might find hope. So Paul is speaking to the church
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  Speaker 2: in Rome. And he's given them a very important information.
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  Speaker 2: That everything you see captured in scripture, that the intent
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  Speaker 2: behind it is that it should school you.
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  Speaker 1: Are we together?
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  Speaker 2: It is for our learning. These things were documented to
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  Speaker 2: help us learn to know God and even to understand
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  Speaker 2: his ways. We'll be examining Hebrews chapter 11. I'll be
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  Speaker 2: teaching on the school of faith. The school of faith.
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  Speaker 2: And let's call tonight part one. The school of faith.
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  Speaker 2: The believers walk in life and destiny. Will always demand
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  Speaker 2: partnership with.
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  Speaker 1: The invisible realm.
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  Speaker 2: God so designed that man will not be able to
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  Speaker 2: actualize destiny. fulfill purpose to God's expectation outside of his
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  Speaker 2: participation with the spirit realm.
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  Speaker 1: Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, the Bible acknowledges that man came from the
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  Speaker 2: spirit realm.
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  Speaker 1: Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 2: And so our walk on the earth, living and then
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  Speaker 2: fulfilling our destinies would always desire or demand that we
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  Speaker 2: have this awareness that it is in partnership with God
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  Speaker 2: and in partnership with the realm of the Spirit, that
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  Speaker 2: we ever succeed in this realm. This is very important.
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  Speaker 2: So let's look at Hebrews chapter 1.
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  Speaker 1: We'll read the.
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  Speaker 2: First four verses, but then we'll start with the first
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  Speaker 2: two verses. May I request that we read together.
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  Speaker 1: Ready? One, two, read.
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  Speaker 2: Hebrews 11 and 1. Media, you can correct that back.
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  Speaker 2: It's 11 and 1. Media 11.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, thank you. One, two, read.
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  Speaker 2: Now faith is the substance of things hoped for. The
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  Speaker 2: evidence of things not seen. Please read verse 1 again
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  Speaker 2: one more time. The evidence of things not seen. Verse 2.
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  Speaker 2: For by it the elders obtained a good report.
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  Speaker 1: So let's now read 3 and 4. Verse 3 now.
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  Speaker 2: Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by
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  Speaker 2: the word of God so that things which are seen
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  Speaker 2: were not made of things which do appear. It says
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  Speaker 2: by faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice
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  Speaker 2: than Cain by which he obtained witness that he was righteous.
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  Speaker 2: God testifying of his gifts and that by it he
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  Speaker 2: being dead yet speaking may the Lord help us in
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  Speaker 2: the name of Jesus Christ a few things we have
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  Speaker 2: to learn about the character of faith from this scripture
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  Speaker 2: and the first thing the Bible tells us is that faith.
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  Speaker 5: Is verse 1 the substance the word substance there means
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  Speaker 5: the tangibility the substance of things we can go back
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  Speaker 5: to verse 1 my dear media people The substance of
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  Speaker 5: things hoped for.
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  Speaker 1: The substance of things hoped for.
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  Speaker 2: Then it also calls it the evidence of the things
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  Speaker 2: that are not seen. So the Bible describes faith, number one,
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  Speaker 2: in relation to things. Please follow carefully. The first revelation
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  Speaker 2: of faith we see here from verse 1 is as
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  Speaker 2: a reality in connection to things. The substance of things
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  Speaker 2: and the evidence of things. Now, but when we go
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  Speaker 2: to verse 2, we see a very interesting addition that
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  Speaker 2: most people do not pay attention to. The Bible now
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  Speaker 2: tells you that in addition to things, faith is also
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  Speaker 2: connected to a good report.
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  Speaker 1: Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 2: So he's giving us an understanding about faith. That faith
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  Speaker 2: has a two-fold assignment. Number one, it's assignment in connection
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  Speaker 2: to things. And then number two, it's connection to a
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  Speaker 2: good report. The Bible says, by this faith, the elders obtained.
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  Speaker 2: So what the elders obtained were not just things. Beyond things,
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  Speaker 2: they also obtained a good report. Bible faith does not
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  Speaker 2: stop at obtaining things. That there is a higher layer.
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  Speaker 2: Are we together now? to the economy of faith that
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  Speaker 2: at the end of your journey, you should not just
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  Speaker 2: arrive at obtaining things.
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  Speaker 1: You must have a good report.
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  Speaker 2: So faith from this scripture immediately tells us that faith
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  Speaker 2: has two assignments. Number one, to help the saints obtain
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  Speaker 2: their desires. And then number two, to help the saints.
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  Speaker 1: To have a good This is very powerful.
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  Speaker 2: Notice that most believers in our study or understanding of
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  Speaker 2: faith will limit the operation of faith to things.
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  Speaker 1: And that is right, but that is not enough. Are
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  Speaker 1: we together?
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  Speaker 2: So the average believer understands faith with respect.
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  Speaker 1: To its ability to obtain things.
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  Speaker 2: And that is true because the Bible leaves a provision
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  Speaker 2: for believers to use faith. For instance, the Bible says,
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  Speaker 2: So we know that there is a place for receiving things.
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  Speaker 1: But the Bible tells us that the whole.
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  Speaker 2: Process of faith should not just stop in obtaining things.
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  Speaker 1: Are we following now?
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  Speaker 2: It then means that every time we study faith, there
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  Speaker 2: are two things we should be looking for. It's ability
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  Speaker 2: to deliver things and it's ability to bring the individuals
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  Speaker 2: who have a good report. And Hebrews goes further to
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  Speaker 2: let us know that there are some times that faith
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  Speaker 2: does not deliver things, but it must always deliver a
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  Speaker 2: good report.
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  Speaker 1: So in The workings of faith.
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  Speaker 2: A good report, is greater than obtaining things.
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  Speaker 1: Because when you study.
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  Speaker 2: The entire discourse of all those who were called the elders,
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  Speaker 2: some of them did not obtain things. But the Bible
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  Speaker 2: says all of them obtained a good report. And yet
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  Speaker 2: it called them elders. Are we together now?
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  Speaker 1: This is very important.
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  Speaker 2: So everywhere we study faith, We must seek to find
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  Speaker 2: desires actualized, but then we must also seek to.
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  Speaker 1: Find where reports were established.
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  Speaker 2: Therein lies the disappointment of many believers because we have
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  Speaker 2: limited the understanding of faith to things. And once we
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  Speaker 2: fail to obtain things through faith, We feel disappointed and
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  Speaker 2: sometimes even we men of God, we lack the ability
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  Speaker 2: to explain to people why they seem to have believed God,
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  Speaker 2: but the end of their journey did not end up
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  Speaker 2: with getting things. When you understand the way faith works,
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  Speaker 2: you will know that getting things is an inferior part
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  Speaker 2: of faith, that a more superior approach to faith is
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  Speaker 2: obtaining a good report. So by this understanding, we see
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  Speaker 2: immediately that faith is a platform, but faith is a journey.
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  Speaker 1: Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 2: Faith is a platform. That helps the believer to obtain promises.
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  Speaker 2: To actualize desires. But that more than a platform, faith
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  Speaker 2: is also a journey. And that in that journey, the
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  Speaker 2: end of it is not receiving things. The end of
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  Speaker 2: it is having a testimony. There is something, the journey
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  Speaker 2: does not affect your hand. It affects you, your entire life. Listen,
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  Speaker 2: if you get what I'm teaching you, your Christian experience
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  Speaker 2: will be solid and you will do things that only
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  Speaker 2: God can do.
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  Speaker 1: Are we together?
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  Speaker 2: Let's now look at verse 3. You will understand what
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  Speaker 2: I said. Hebrews 1 or Hebrews 11 now verse 3.
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  Speaker 1: Watch this.
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  Speaker 2: Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by
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  Speaker 2: the word of God so that the things that are
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  Speaker 2: he says that it did not come from the things
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  Speaker 2: that do.
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  Speaker 1: Appear verse 4 now verse 4 it says.
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  Speaker 2: By faith watch this now Abel offered unto God a
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  Speaker 2: more excellent sacrifice than Cain watch this by which he
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  Speaker 2: obtained witness what did he obtain He did not obtain things.
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  Speaker 2: That he was a righteous man. This was the end
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  Speaker 2: of his journey. For him faith was not a platform
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  Speaker 2: to receive things. The first example. Are we together now?
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  Speaker 2: The first example of faith in the Bible. The Bible
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  Speaker 2: says he obtained witness that he was righteous.
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  Speaker 1: Righteous.
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  Speaker 2: God testifying of his gifts and that by it, even
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  Speaker 2: though he was dead, yet he speaks. That the journey
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  Speaker 2: of Abel did something to him. He never got anything physical,
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  Speaker 2: but he earned a place, a good report.
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  Speaker 1: Are we together now? And then you look at the
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  Speaker 1: next person, very strangely, verse 5. Verse 5 now. By faith.
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  Speaker 2: The second example that the Bible gives us. Is the
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  Speaker 2: man Enoch. Enoch was translated. So that he should not
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  Speaker 2: see death.
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  Speaker 1: And was not.
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  Speaker 2: Because God had translated him. And before his translation.
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  Speaker 1: Again.
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  Speaker 2: What he had was not things. He had a testimony.
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  Speaker 2: This was his testimony. That he pleased God. Example number three.
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  Speaker 2: Are we following tonight? Verse 6 please. Gives us the
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  Speaker 2: third example. That without faith it is impossible to please him.
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  Speaker 2: For he that comment unto God must believe that he is.
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  Speaker 2: And then he is the rewarder of them that diligently
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  Speaker 2: seek him. Next verse please. I want us to see
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  Speaker 2: the third example. The third example is Noah. So are
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  Speaker 2: we following now? The first example is Abel. Then Enoch.
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  Speaker 2: Then Noah. It says by faith Noah being warned of
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  Speaker 2: God of things.
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  Speaker 1: Not seen as yet. Moved with fear.
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  Speaker 2: He prepared an ark to the saving of his house.
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  Speaker 2: And by the which he condemned the world. And became
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  Speaker 2: an heir of the righteousness which is by faith.
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  Speaker 1: Noah now.
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  Speaker 2: Verse 8. Now you see what happened with Noah. The
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  Speaker 2: Bible says Noah did not receive anything. But he obtained
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  Speaker 2: a good report that he was a righteous man because when.
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  Speaker 1: God warned him, he moved with fear.
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  Speaker 2: The first time from Hebrews 11, we see promises and
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  Speaker 2: we see receiving and we see inheritance started with the
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  Speaker 2: man Abraham.
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  Speaker 1: Are we together?
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  Speaker 2: By faith, Abraham, when he was called, the Bible says
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  Speaker 2: he went, called into a place which he should go
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  Speaker 2: after he received one inheritance.
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  Speaker 1: We now see obedience, And.
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  Speaker 2: Then in fact the Bible tells us it was not
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  Speaker 2: everything God promised Abraham that he received on his son
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  Speaker 2: in his life. Because the Bible would tell us that
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  Speaker 2: this man did not obtain certain promises. So Bible faith
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  Speaker 2: is not limited to receiving things.
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  Speaker 1: Are we following the journey now?
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  Speaker 2: That Bible faith should not just stop in the realm
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  Speaker 2: of using it as a platform to receive things. That
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  Speaker 2: faith is also the name given to the journey that
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  Speaker 2: affects you more than you're receiving.
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  Speaker 4: Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 2: Many people are not strong and audacious because they have
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  Speaker 2: limited the operation of faith to only become a platform
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  Speaker 2: that helps them receive things. So there is faith for reports.
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  Speaker 2: And then to obtain promises. Let's look at Hebrews 11
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  Speaker 2: from verse 32 down to 35. This is very profound.
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  Speaker 2: and very simple because I want everybody to follow along.
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  Speaker 2: And what shall I say more? For time will fail
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  Speaker 2: me to tell of Gideon and Barak.
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  Speaker 1: Watch this now.
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  Speaker 2: And Samson and Jephthah of David also and Samuel and
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  Speaker 2: of the prophets.
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  Speaker 1: We're reading to 35. 33 now.
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  Speaker 2: Who through faith Watch all the things that faith accomplished.
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  Speaker 2: Subdued kingdoms. Wrought righteousness. Obtained promises. Stopped the mouth of lions. 34.
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  Speaker 2: Quenched the violence of fire. Escaped the edge of the sword.
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  Speaker 2: Out of weakness were made strong. Works valiant in fight.
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  Speaker 2: Turned to flight the armies of the aliens. Now it
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  Speaker 2: switches dimensions in verse 35. Women who received their dead
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  Speaker 2: to life again. Then he says others were tortured not
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  Speaker 2: accepting deliverance. That they might obtain a better resurrection.
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  Speaker 1: You see that now?
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  Speaker 2: In fact, if we extend it to verse 36, it
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  Speaker 2: gives you a very, very, very interesting perspective. Can we
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  Speaker 2: add that to 36? Verse 36 of Hebrews 11. It says,
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  Speaker 2: and others had the trial of cruel mockings and scourgings
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  Speaker 2: and so on and so forth.
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  Speaker 1: Look at this, guys.
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  Speaker 2: The Bible is telling you that these people who went
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  Speaker 2: through scourging, they were not receiving things. They were obtaining reports.
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  Speaker 2: And the Bible adds all of them and it calls
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  Speaker 2: them elders. And it says all of them manifested faith.
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  Speaker 2: That means if your faith just stops or is limited
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  Speaker 2: to receiving things, there is a dimension of God's design
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  Speaker 2: of faith that you may never step into. Are we
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  Speaker 2: together now? Praise the name of the Lord. I've listened
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  Speaker 2: to so many teachings about faith. Blessed by them. But
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  Speaker 2: I think this limitation in our understanding of faith has
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  Speaker 2: affected our confidence. And it has dampened our audacity. We
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  Speaker 2: are not able to face life because we have reduced
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  Speaker 2: faith only to the realm where it is a platform
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  Speaker 2: that helps us to obtain things. I wrote something here
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  Speaker 2: and I wanted to listen and then write. That there
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  Speaker 2: is faith as a school. A journey that helps you
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  Speaker 2: to know God in his various dimensions.
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  Speaker 1: There is faith as a school.
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  Speaker 2: A journey that helps you to know God in his
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  Speaker 2: various dimensions. And then it gives you a noble report
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  Speaker 2: before God. There is faith as a school. There is
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  Speaker 2: faith as a journey. And that at the end of
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  Speaker 2: that journey, it is not things that you receive. At
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  Speaker 2: the end of it, there is an evolution that happens.
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  Speaker 2: You are the one who is changed. You see that now?
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  Speaker 2: Your confidence is affected. Your perspective is affected. And then
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  Speaker 2: there is faith as a platform. For making spiritual realities manifest.
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  Speaker 2: I like 2 Timothy verse.
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  Speaker 1: 1 and 12. 2 Timothy verse 1 and 12. Here's
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  Speaker 1: what it says. It says. But I know whom I
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  Speaker 1: have believed.
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  Speaker 2: 2 Timothy 1 verse 12.
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  Speaker 1: And I am persuaded. For I know whom I have believed.
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  Speaker 1: Is that in your Bible?
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  Speaker 2: And I am persuaded that he is able to keep
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  Speaker 2: that which I have committed unto him.
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  Speaker 1: Against that day.
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  Speaker 2: Notice, he did not say I have believed.
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  Speaker 1: He said, I know whom I have believed. The believing came.
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  Speaker 2: Later on, but my encounter, my intimacy, I'm not just
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  Speaker 2: believing him.
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  Speaker 1: I know whom I have believed.
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  Speaker 2: Looks like what Jesus was discussing with the woman at
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  Speaker 2: the well. He said, you worship what you know not of.
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  Speaker 2: You are just worshiping as a ritual, but we have
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  Speaker 2: come into a place of intimacy where we know the.
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  Speaker 1: God that we believe. Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 2: Job 13 and verse 15 says, though he slay me,
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  Speaker 2: Job is speaking, yet will I trust him. Not just
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  Speaker 2: yet will I receive from him. Job was a man
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  Speaker 2: of faith and he said, though he slay me, yet will.
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  Speaker 1: I trust him.
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  Speaker 2: I'm telling you that faith is not always about receiving.
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  Speaker 2: Faith is also a tool that produces transformation. that helps
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  Speaker 2: the believer to know and become like God, that in
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  Speaker 2: the economy of God, receiving is.
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  Speaker 1: The lesser part of faith.
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  Speaker 2: What faith does to you, the confidence it produces out
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  Speaker 2: of you, the experience of God it gives you, the
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  Speaker 2: report that you have before God is a more superior
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  Speaker 2: purpose to the whole subject of faith.
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  Speaker 4: Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 1: Praise the name of the Lord.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody who begins his walk with God, you see, when
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  Speaker 2: God begins to journey with you through seasons, you are
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  Speaker 2: called a man of faith, not by how many things
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  Speaker 2: you obtained, but the experiences that you went through and
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  Speaker 2: the reports that came out of those experiences.
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  Speaker 1: One of it, like Pastor shared, being a man of patience.
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  Speaker 2: That something about God you wouldn't have known otherwise.
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  Speaker 1: I like how the Psalmist puts it.
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  Speaker 2: Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow
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  Speaker 2: of death. He never said you took me out. I
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  Speaker 2: walk through the valley of the shadow of death. He
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  Speaker 2: says I will fear no evil. Fear was not something
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  Speaker 2: he came into that experience with.
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  Speaker 1: Or courage. He came in with fear.
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  Speaker 2: But something happened as he began to confront that situation.
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  Speaker 2: He learned God through that situation. And his conclusion and
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  Speaker 2: his report came. is that I have found out that
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  Speaker 2: this thing does not have as much power as it
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  Speaker 2: looked before I got into that situation. One of the
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  Speaker 2: ways God makes us courageous is to create a scenario
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  Speaker 2: where we stand before our fears for a long time,
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  Speaker 2: long enough to deflate that fear. And you will find
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  Speaker 2: out that it never really had the power it proposed
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  Speaker 2: to have. So the believer generally uses faith for avoidance.
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  Speaker 2: We use faith quickly to pray and say, Lord, you
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  Speaker 2: are God. I'm speaking your word. May I never get
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  Speaker 2: into this situation. This is what I want. I describe
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  Speaker 2: it by faith. And that is not right. That is
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  Speaker 2: not wrong.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm saying when God.
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  Speaker 2: Is dealing with you, what he seeks to produce out
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  Speaker 2: of you, a noble report will demand that faith for
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  Speaker 2: you does not just become a platform, but it becomes
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  Speaker 2: a school. A school where you learn God experientially. You
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  Speaker 2: learn God pragmatically. There is something about God that only
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  Speaker 2: your tears can reveal. There is something about God that
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  Speaker 2: only the gift of pain in.
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  Speaker 1: Your life can reveal. This is an uncomfortable truth.
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  Speaker 2: But this is how people become champions in the spirit.
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  Speaker 1: Are we together now?
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  Speaker 2: So you get to a point where your focus is
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  Speaker 2: on the knowledge of God. And the reports that you
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  Speaker 2: obtain before him. you care less about whether things appear
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  Speaker 2: or not. I will take time to teach about things.
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  Speaker 2: Faith was a platform to receive things. But I'm saying
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  Speaker 2: your Christian experience will be a plethora of disappointments. In fact,
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  Speaker 2: because of the many disappointments as a result of the
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  Speaker 2: absence of things, you will not pay attention to the
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  Speaker 2: transformation that is happening and the knowledge of God that
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  Speaker 2: you are now having in experience.
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  Speaker 1: Are we together?
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  Speaker 2: So for instance, I'm trusting God for a job and
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  Speaker 2: I've been told that if I believe the word and
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  Speaker 2: I speak the word, the cattle on a thousand hills
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  Speaker 2: belongs to the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: Is that true? God is called the father of spirits.
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  Speaker 2: He can manipulate every human spirit to work his purposes.
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  Speaker 1: In my life. I agree.
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  Speaker 2: So in the place of prayer, your focus is things.
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  Speaker 2: In this case, the job. Your whole attention. That means
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  Speaker 2: the end point of your faith as programmed by your understanding.
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  Speaker 2: is that when a job arrives, God has shown himself
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  Speaker 2: as faithful.
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  Speaker 1: He has answered me. Are we together?
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  Speaker 2: But you do not know that the job is a
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  Speaker 2: lesser part of God's concern. There is something he wants
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  Speaker 2: to make out of your life. Are we together now?
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  Speaker 2: And while your attention is on the job, and now
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  Speaker 2: you trusted God and released your faith, sowed a seed,
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  Speaker 2: spoke the word, submitted your CV, And entrust that after
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  Speaker 2: two months you will get the job.
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  Speaker 1: Now it's two years. The job has not come.
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  Speaker 2: And the devil manipulates your understanding to leave you disappointed.
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  Speaker 2: If they say those who have faith stand up. You
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  Speaker 2: will most likely not stand up. Because your parameter for
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  Speaker 2: measuring faith is the presence of things.
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  Speaker 1: You will not know.
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  Speaker 2: That within those two years God has worked patience within you.
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  Speaker 2: God has worked contentment within you. God has granted you
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  Speaker 2: the strength and the capacity to be able to look
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  Speaker 2: at good doors and still don't open them until you verify.
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  Speaker 1: That God is the one that brought the door.
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  Speaker 2: These are things that you cannot get just in a sermon.
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  Speaker 2: There is a journey and God is saying that in
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  Speaker 2: his economy, that journey is also called faith. Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 1: Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 2: So most believers measure faith based on the presence of things.
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  Speaker 2: So if you say those who have faith, usually the
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  Speaker 2: man with all due respect who has a car, who
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  Speaker 2: has flashy clothes, a good house, things that attest to
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  Speaker 2: the fact that the word of God has worked. While
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  Speaker 2: some members somewhere who may not have anything but a
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  Speaker 2: rich testimony. That I have learned how to trust God
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  Speaker 2: in spite of my father's departure. my mother's departure, I
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  Speaker 2: had 29 by January and I'm still standing by December.
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  Speaker 2: That person may not know that that is a nobler
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  Speaker 2: report before God.
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  Speaker 1: Are we together? Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So the one who has only had five members even
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  Speaker 2: after two years, the man when he stands with someone
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  Speaker 2: who may have a lot more members, generally our assessment
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  Speaker 2: will be that this one is doing better than this
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  Speaker 2: and his faith.
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  Speaker 1: Is working more than this.
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  Speaker 2: But God has taught this man. He has purified his desire.
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  Speaker 2: The pressure of pleasing men is no longer there. It
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  Speaker 2: was pruned out by teaching only five people for two years.
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  Speaker 1: His pride was stung till he died. Are we learning?
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  Speaker 2: Who you become is more important to God than what
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  Speaker 2: you receive. I will say it again. In the dealing
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  Speaker 2: of men with God, who you become, that's why God
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  Speaker 2: uses every opportunity to partner with your expectation for your transformation.
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  Speaker 2: In God's mind, obtaining things is a lesser concern because
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  Speaker 2: he knows that if that transformation happens to you, things,
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  Speaker 2: the thing you even are looking for sometimes, it can
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  Speaker 2: be because of your former version. By the time you
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  Speaker 2: are transformed, you will find out that what you were
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  Speaker 2: really praying for was unnecessary because your growth will now
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  Speaker 2: make it unnecessary.
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  Speaker 1: You will soon find out.
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  Speaker 2: That it was jealousy that created that prayer point, not
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  Speaker 2: a necessity for your destiny.
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  Speaker 1: You were just angry and envious.
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  Speaker 2: And God will say, rather than just giving you that,
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  Speaker 2: he will keep swelling your continuation in the flesh. So
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  Speaker 2: he will use the opportunity, including the disappointment, to grow you.
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  Speaker 1: To a point where you will now, from.
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  Speaker 2: That purified self, that purified version, you will find out
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  Speaker 2: that you did not really have many prayer requests. That
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  Speaker 2: long list was what flesh gave you. So rather than
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  Speaker 2: answering it, he transforms you. And your transformation keeps knocking
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  Speaker 2: out those prayer requests. You find out they were not
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  Speaker 2: requests in the first place. Do you understand what I've
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  Speaker 2: taught so far? So that in God's dealings with men.
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  Speaker 2: As far as faith is concerned. His concern is not
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  Speaker 2: your hand receiving things. Because I can tell you. When
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  Speaker 2: God begins to work with men.
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  Speaker 1: Usually. Because of the flesh. And the nature of.
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  Speaker 2: Of sin and its lust that are enshrined in our hearts,
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  Speaker 2: most of our desires are not with respect to him
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  Speaker 2: or his program. They are usually fueled from a standpoint
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  Speaker 2: of lust. And that does not mean we are bad.
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  Speaker 2: It just means that we are still frail in ourselves.
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  Speaker 2: So when God begins to walk with a man, his
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  Speaker 2: interest is not giving things. His interest is changing that man. Listen,
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  Speaker 2: this is very important because two believers or two persons,
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  Speaker 2: young people for instance, can start out their lives and
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  Speaker 2: after two years, one may not seem to have made
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  Speaker 2: the kind of progress that he desired.
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  Speaker 1: Are we together? And sometimes in church if we are not.
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  Speaker 2: Careful, we bring people out of a very powerful training
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  Speaker 2: they are having with God.
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  Speaker 1: That this sister may not have anything physical.
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  Speaker 2: But then she's obtaining, she's on a journey that is
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  Speaker 2: giving her a good report. And sometimes we abort that
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  Speaker 2: journey in pursuit for things. Your transformation with God is
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  Speaker 2: of more value than the things you receive. Because many
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  Speaker 2: of the things that become the starting point for our
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  Speaker 2: manifesting faith. You see, when you know God, you will
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  Speaker 2: find out that most of those prayer points were unnecessary.
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  Speaker 1: Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 2: When I started my walk with God, I started with
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  Speaker 2: zeal and passion because we were taught that faith gives.
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  Speaker 1: Things and it is true. It remains true eternally.
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  Speaker 2: So our concern with God was how to use faith
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  Speaker 2: to get out of this unfavorable condition we found ourselves
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  Speaker 2: as fast as possible. The speed of that manifestation determined
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  Speaker 2: the strength of our faith.
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  Speaker 1: So we taught.
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  Speaker 2: So that means God if you can take me out
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  Speaker 2: of this poverty.
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  Speaker 1: In one week.
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  Speaker 2: Translate me from one room to a three bedroom flat.
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  Speaker 2: Wipe my tears.
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  Speaker 1: Give me visa. Change my life. These things are wonderful.
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  Speaker 1: You see I mentioned visa and someone smiled. Are we together? Visa.
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  Speaker 2: So usually when we study the subject of faith. This
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  Speaker 2: is what I want. What must I do to make
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  Speaker 2: it happen? That is the scope of our study. You see,
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  Speaker 2: it doesn't matter what motivated the desire. We just believe
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  Speaker 2: that faith is a magical instrument used to fulfill every desire.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't matter how it came. So I want to
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  Speaker 1: go abroad.
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  Speaker 2: Whether it's the will of God or not, that is
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  Speaker 2: none of my business. I was told that faith can
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  Speaker 2: help me get a visa. It can force someone at
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  Speaker 2: the other side of the counter to stamp my visa.
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  Speaker 2: So I now begin to study. Okay, I find speaking
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  Speaker 2: as part of the equation, so I speak. I find
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  Speaker 2: giving as part of the equation, so I give. I
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  Speaker 2: find coming to church as part of the equation, so
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  Speaker 2: I come. I find prophetic blessings, I engage everything. And
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  Speaker 2: now my expectation is to the roof. I stand before
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  Speaker 2: the consular. And I'm denied the visa. And I cannot understand.
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  Speaker 2: So what was I singing on Sunday?
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  Speaker 1: You are God alone. From before time began. You are
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  Speaker 1: on your throne. You are in the visa office now.
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  Speaker 1: You are God alone. And right now. And as if
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  Speaker 1: that is the.
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  Speaker 2: End of it, as soon as you get home, you prophesied,
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  Speaker 2: you dropped a seed. And you expected one million to
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  Speaker 2: appear for your rent. I was young and now I
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  Speaker 2: am old. I have not seen the righteous forsaken nor
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  Speaker 2: his seed begged for bread. And in the presence of
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  Speaker 2: your landlord, your account is still empty. And then you say, God,
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  Speaker 2: what is the name of what we are doing? I
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  Speaker 2: have practiced everything I read in Kenneth Hagin's book. I
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  Speaker 2: listened to my pastor diligently. I emptied my account just
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  Speaker 2: last week. What are you doing to me, oh God?
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  Speaker 2: Then as if that is not enough, your colleague just
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  Speaker 2: passes with a beautiful BMW, a Benz and.
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  Speaker 1: Says, how are you?
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  Speaker 2: It's so good to see you after five years. What
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  Speaker 2: have you been up to now? Say, I'm trying to
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  Speaker 2: go out of this country. He says, well, I know
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  Speaker 2: you've always been a serious Christian right on campus. In fact, me,
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  Speaker 2: I just got born again two years ago. And thank
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  Speaker 2: God for your zeal. I'm sure God will do it.
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  Speaker 2: And he haunts you and leaves. And now I'm describing
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  Speaker 2: for you someone. Put yourself in the shoes of that someone.
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  Speaker 2: And you're kicking stones on your way home because you
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  Speaker 2: don't have your transport. And you stand at home and say, Lord,
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  Speaker 2: am I really a man of faith? And when you
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  Speaker 2: come to church and they say, all those who are faith,
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  Speaker 2: stand up. Your mind will tell you, you dare not
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  Speaker 2: stand up. Where is the car? Where is the visa?
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  Speaker 2: And yet heaven is clapping for you and saying you
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  Speaker 2: are a champion. There is a report you are building.
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  Speaker 2: Are we together now? That the person who has a
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  Speaker 2: car and a house has an obvious reason to roll
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  Speaker 2: on the ground during worship. But that you who may
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  Speaker 2: not have anything, you are learning to trust God in
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  Speaker 2: the midst of pain. And the name you called him,
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  Speaker 2: even in the midst of your disappointed expectation, you did
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  Speaker 2: not change that name. You still called him faithful and true.
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  Speaker 2: There is a report you are building. Many of you
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  Speaker 2: here are administrators. How do you write a report? Do
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  Speaker 2: you summarize a report? A report is elaborate. It takes
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  Speaker 2: a while. You describe things.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible says you are obtaining a good report.
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  Speaker 2: So you find out that what made you cry last year.
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  Speaker 2: If the landlord comes back, you are still eating. I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to call police and no problem. You've been threatened
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  Speaker 2: with police. That fear has gone away. You tell the man,
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  Speaker 2: please sit down.
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  Speaker 1: We're all humans. If you want, take me to the police.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sick of it. It's not desperation. It's growth.
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  Speaker 2: Something has happened to you that what would have made
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  Speaker 2: you have this magical fear-driven fast, fear-driven prayer that is
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  Speaker 2: not of faith. There is a purification that has happened
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  Speaker 2: to you. You get to a point where you say, Lord,
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  Speaker 2: I trust you. But I want you to know that
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  Speaker 2: if I have to walk out with my children and
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  Speaker 2: my luggage, I will stand in the midst of the
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  Speaker 2: shame and I will still call you faithful. My description
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  Speaker 2: of you has now come as a result of conviction.
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  Speaker 2: I have an experience with you that is greater than things.
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  Speaker 2: And if everybody say, where is your evidence? I will
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  Speaker 2: tell him, search my spirit. Beyond my bank account, my
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  Speaker 2: evidence for knowing and trusting and working with God. Listen,
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  Speaker 2: When your faith stops at the realm of things, it
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  Speaker 2: will affect your Christian life. I believe in things so
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  Speaker 2: I'm coming there we're just climbing the ladder gradually that
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  Speaker 2: in walking with God your attention must go beyond things
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  Speaker 2: so many believers waste the journey of faith because the
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  Speaker 2: devil cheats them through their limited understanding where is the
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  Speaker 2: faithful God.
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  Speaker 1: By now you should have had a child. You were
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  Speaker 1: prayed for. Everything happened. You were prophesied upon.
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  Speaker 2: And now it's two years. It's five years. And you
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  Speaker 2: are so embarrassed. You don't know how to explain to people.
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  Speaker 2: So you stop going to church. Because that is a remedy.
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  Speaker 2: And it's not your fault because the members come. It's
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  Speaker 2: just out of concern. Is it that this is your own?
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  Speaker 2: God cannot answer.
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  Speaker 1: Or is it that you are not trusting?
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  Speaker 2: And sometimes we men of God, with all due respect,
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  Speaker 2: we help again to deviate the people from the path
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  Speaker 2: that is correct that they are following because we say
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  Speaker 2: something must be wrong with your faith. But I'm showing
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  Speaker 2: you now that faith is number one. the substance of
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  Speaker 2: things the evidence of things but number two it is
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  Speaker 2: a journey that leaves you obtaining a good report and
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  Speaker 2: that not all men in the bible obtain things but
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  Speaker 2: all men had good reports it says for by it
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  Speaker 2: the elders all of them there were promises there were
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  Speaker 2: people who died without receiving the promise yet the bible
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  Speaker 2: calls it faith When you notice, ladies and gentlemen, certain
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  Speaker 2: scriptures begin to make sense to you. That our light affliction,
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  Speaker 2: which is but for a moment.
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  Speaker 1: Hear this.
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  Speaker 2: Walketh in us. Not give it to us. Walketh in us.
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  Speaker 2: A far more exceeding weight of glory. That while we
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  Speaker 2: look at the things... that we look not at the
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  Speaker 2: things that are seen, but the things that are unseen.
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  Speaker 2: For instance, your prayer request, that the things that you
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  Speaker 2: are seeing are temporal, but that there is a nobler transformation.
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  Speaker 1: There is something else God is doing in you. Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 2: When I started ministry, one day they called me to
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: go and raise a dead body. You know, this zeal
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: and fire of faith.
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: All things are possible. Goodness. I mean, we advocated that
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  Speaker 1: from the depth of our hearts. Now watch this.
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  Speaker 2: I remember getting into the mortuary and there were dead bodies.
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  Speaker 2: Which one am I going to raise? Because it's not
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  Speaker 2: just one or two. And you know how these dead
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  Speaker 2: bodies were already embalmed? So they took me to the
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  Speaker 2: one that I'm supposed to raise. I didn't know what
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  Speaker 2: part of that body I would lay my hands on
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  Speaker 2: because every part was like a stone.
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  Speaker 1: Which part do you lay hands on the head?
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  Speaker 2: All the scriptures I had read on resurrection filed into
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  Speaker 2: my spirit.
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  Speaker 1: In the name of Jesus, I decree, come back to life.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely nothing happened. In the name of Jesus Christ. As
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  Speaker 2: a servant of the Lord Jesus. Come back to life.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. What did I say wrong? When Jesus stood at
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  Speaker 1: the tomb of Lazarus.
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  Speaker 2: He called the name. What is the name of this
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  Speaker 2: guy who has died?
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  Speaker 1: So, so, so and so. Back to life. Yet. In
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  Speaker 1: my mind. I thought I was failing. I did not
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  Speaker 1: know that I was growing.
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  Speaker 2: Is someone learning now? That I left that place not
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  Speaker 2: obtaining things. But there was a good report. Because what
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  Speaker 2: you do after disappointment is really what.
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  Speaker 1: Shows whether you believe God.
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  Speaker 2: What you do after, the name you call God after
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  Speaker 2: your tears.
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  Speaker 1: Where you go to after everything fails.
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  Speaker 2: So many believers leave church and they say, you know what?
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  Speaker 2: I've been there and my life has not changed. What
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  Speaker 2: they mean is that I've not gotten the things that
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  Speaker 2: sometimes my loss has programmed as prayer requests. And we
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  Speaker 2: put pressure on men of God to say, if you
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  Speaker 2: are really powerful, let your God make the things that
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  Speaker 2: I've put on my prayer request come to pass immediately.
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  Speaker 2: And so our measure of faith is the speed with
• 43:52
  Speaker 2: which we tick those lists.
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  Speaker 1: Not just our transformation.
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  Speaker 2: I'm showing you now that the nobler part of faith
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  Speaker 2: is not just obtaining things, but what God is doing
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  Speaker 2: in you. Many years ago, I preached a message called
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  Speaker 2: Knowing God Experientially. And I taught that there is a
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  Speaker 2: dimension of God you will never know by theory. You
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  Speaker 2: will have to pass through fire. You will have to
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  Speaker 2: receive the gift of pain to know God in the
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  Speaker 2: midst of it. The angel appears to a young virgin
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  Speaker 2: called Mary and says, you are favored. I've studied Mary's life.
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  Speaker 2: I still do not know what looks like favor. You
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  Speaker 2: study her life from the day the angel met her
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  Speaker 2: till up her womb. I don't see anything spectacular happening
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  Speaker 2: in the life of Mary that describes our idea of favor.
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  Speaker 2: Yet the Bible says she's not just favor but highly favored.
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  Speaker 2: The next thing that follows that statement is a controversy
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  Speaker 2: and she's about to lose her husband. Suddenly her stomach
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  Speaker 2: is protruding and Joseph says, what is the meaning of this?
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  Speaker 1: You are a virgin? Yes. What happened? My stomach? I
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  Speaker 1: met an angel. I'm sincere. I'm telling you.
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  Speaker 2: This is an angel that appeared to me and he
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  Speaker 2: said the Holy Ghost will come upon me. Imagine telling
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  Speaker 2: your in-laws that kind of thing. It's better to keep
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  Speaker 2: quiet than even to sound stupid. You see, sometimes we
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  Speaker 2: think that these things are just parables. You think that
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  Speaker 2: Mary was just a quiet lady who just endured until
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  Speaker 2: the pregnancy came? The Bible says Joseph was planning to.
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  Speaker 1: Live in peace. He didn't want to embarrass her publicly,
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  Speaker 1: but he said, I can't take this. I'm on my
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  Speaker 1: way going. It took God intervening.
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  Speaker 2: How about other naysayers within the society? They will see
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  Speaker 2: her and say, highly favored, stupid woman. You better confess
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  Speaker 2: the rabbi or the scribe or the Pharisee. Better us
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  Speaker 2: were bad people, the whole society knows. You that has
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  Speaker 2: claimed you are a nice person, look at it now.
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  Speaker 2: In all of our madness, we did not have children
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  Speaker 2: out of wedlock. And yours now, you claim you're a
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  Speaker 2: woman of God and then she had to endure. The
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  Speaker 2: Bible says Mary kept these things to herself. And yet
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  Speaker 2: the Bible calls it highly favored. Ladies and gentlemen, based
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  Speaker 2: on your knowledge of favor in relation to things, what
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  Speaker 2: did she obtain? That the day she gave birth to Jesus,
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  Speaker 2: it was even an uncomfortable thing. And then after that,
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  Speaker 2: she hears that they are looking to kill all children
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  Speaker 2: from two years and below.
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  Speaker 1: What looks like favor in that story? I will tell
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  Speaker 1: you where.
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  Speaker 2: The favor is. A day will come. People will call
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  Speaker 2: to the table of greatness. Those who have a kind
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  Speaker 2: of pain.
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  Speaker 1: That only you have. And you'll be the only one
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  Speaker 1: to be able to stand up.
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  Speaker 2: When you get to heaven, among the many ways we
• 46:55
  Speaker 2: know Jesus, it's not just by the crown. The 24
• 46:58
  Speaker 2: elders also have crowns. But there is a scar that
• 47:02
  Speaker 2: only one person has. That what is a basis for
• 47:06
  Speaker 2: shame today will be what you will be proud of.
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  Speaker 2: tomorrow and the bible calls it fate now faith is
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  Speaker 2: the substance of things the evidence of.
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  Speaker 1: Things we usually stop there so our mind.
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  Speaker 2: Is programmed towards things cars houses nothing wrong breakthrough increase
• 47:30
  Speaker 2: and then the bible says more than things that there
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  Speaker 2: are times you may not get things but your attention must.
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  Speaker 1: Go to the report And the Bible gives us an example.
• 47:41
  Speaker 2: The first three people had nothing to do with obtaining things. Abel, Enoch, Noah,
• 47:50
  Speaker 2: all of them obtained reports. Either as righteous people or
• 47:55
  Speaker 2: whatever it is that happened to them. It's only when
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  Speaker 2: we get to Abraham that we now see. That Abraham believed.
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  Speaker 2: We now see the word obedience. We see the word believe.
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  Speaker 2: We see the word receiving. And even for Abraham it
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  Speaker 2: was not everything. Because the Bible says. Indeed shall all
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  Speaker 2: the families of the earth be blessed. He never saw
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  Speaker 2: that one.
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  Speaker 5: He died.
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  Speaker 1: He saw Isaac. But he never saw the salvation that
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  Speaker 1: would come through him.
• 48:24
  Speaker 2: How about the women who had the opportunity to experience life?
• 48:28
  Speaker 2: But the Bible said they rejected deliverance because there was
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  Speaker 2: something nobler. The report was of greater essence to them
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  Speaker 2: than receiving things. They had the opportunity to use the
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  Speaker 2: power of the Holy Ghost to command deliverance. But they said, no,
• 48:42
  Speaker 2: I'd rather be called a matiah than to be called someone.
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  Speaker 1: They chose that report. It's a very hard teaching to accept,
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: but You see how it's affecting you now. What about
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: my prayer request? I came with it. It's in my pocket.
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  Speaker 1: Leave it there.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to pray on it. There's nothing wrong with
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  Speaker 2: your prayer request. But that if your faith, if your
• 49:05
  Speaker 2: walk with God is simply tied to the God who
• 49:09
  Speaker 2: can be compelled by principles to respond to your prayer request,
• 49:13
  Speaker 2: there is a side of God you will not know.
• 49:15
  Speaker 2: And many good things that are happening in your life
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  Speaker 2: will be mistaken forever.
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  Speaker 1: For evil.
• 49:20
  Speaker 2: You will call God unfaithful on many grounds. Whereas heaven
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  Speaker 2: is clapping for you because you are growing. Back to
• 49:28
  Speaker 2: a statement that pastor made. The first crusade that we
• 49:33
  Speaker 2: went for as a ministry. I'm not sure we're more
• 49:39
  Speaker 2: than 50. We prayed and fasted. God gave prophetic words.
• 49:46
  Speaker 2: We woke up with dreams almost every day. You know
• 49:49
  Speaker 2: how you pray to a point that you are dreaming
• 49:52
  Speaker 2: every day and going for that crusade. The crusade will
• 49:56
  Speaker 2: start about five o'clock. Around two, we're still on the
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  Speaker 2: way and the car spoiled. There was no chance of
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  Speaker 2: even saying getting any car because we did not have money.
• 50:06
  Speaker 2: Yet we're going to show them a God of signs
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  Speaker 2: and wonders in the crusade ground.
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  Speaker 1: Are we together? I had asked the sound people to
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  Speaker 1: be on their way.
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  Speaker 2: We agreed then for 150,000.
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  Speaker 1: Believe me, it was a very expensive amount.
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  Speaker 2: Go by faith. We'll pay you before the end of
• 50:23
  Speaker 2: the crusade. So the guys were on their way there.
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  Speaker 2: It took us singing and praying for that car to
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  Speaker 2: get back to life. As soon as we arrived there,
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  Speaker 2: true story, our ladies had to climb the tree to
• 50:36
  Speaker 2: plug firewood to make, everybody was in every department.
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: Worship team was also in welfare. You cook and then
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: you go and prepare to sing.
• 50:45
  Speaker 2: There's nothing like allocation of, everybody was in every department.
• 50:49
  Speaker 2: If it's time to pray, you pray. If it's time
• 50:51
  Speaker 2: to sing, if they are not complete, somebody will join
• 50:53
  Speaker 2: them and sing.
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  Speaker 1: True story.
• 50:56
  Speaker 2: I was standing and shouting on that crusade ground. The
• 50:59
  Speaker 2: strange thing was, miracles were happening. And my sound people
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  Speaker 2: that I was owing 150,000, they were also there witnessing.
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  Speaker 1: The power of God. I preached with power. I preached
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  Speaker 1: with grace.
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  Speaker 2: Where we're lodging the team, we didn't have money to
• 51:15
  Speaker 2: give even advance. And we needed to go and greet
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  Speaker 2: the traditional ruler. Where is the God that can raise somebody.
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: Out of a wheelchair?
• 51:24
  Speaker 2: What does it take to touch somebody's heart to help
• 51:27
  Speaker 2: us for God's sake? Now the crusade was over and
• 51:33
  Speaker 2: everybody was leaving. No transport to convey the team back
• 51:36
  Speaker 2: to Zaria. I had to negotiate with the driver. I said,
• 51:40
  Speaker 2: I promise you by the time you get to Zaria,
• 51:42
  Speaker 2: your money will be waiting for you there. Just use
• 51:44
  Speaker 2: your money and buy fuel on the way.
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: Finally, after a lot of arguments, he agreed.
• 51:49
  Speaker 2: Now you imagine a preacher that was wearing suit two
• 51:52
  Speaker 2: days before or a day before shouting on a crusade
• 51:55
  Speaker 2: ground and then the next moment you are begging the
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  Speaker 2: person and say the unbelieving driver is now saying what
• 52:00
  Speaker 2: kind of a confusing God are you serving?
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  Speaker 1: Yes sir.
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  Speaker 2: I'm taking now time to share this with you to
• 52:12
  Speaker 2: encourage you because we'll pray shortly. And when they left
• 52:17
  Speaker 2: I remember I needed recharge card then. Phone just came out.
• 52:22
  Speaker 2: I remember I was looking. I said, God, you have
• 52:24
  Speaker 2: to do a miracle.
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  Speaker 1: Where am I going to get a recharge card to
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: put in my phone? I can't even remember what happened.
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: But I finally got recharge card. I pleaded. I said,
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: how do I do this?
• 52:35
  Speaker 2: Because I needed, I had to dismiss the whole team
• 52:37
  Speaker 2: and stayed back. So that they don't say, man of
• 52:40
  Speaker 2: God came, you preach and ran away. The hotel bills
• 52:43
  Speaker 2: were there. We could not pay anything. 150, the sound.
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: People were angry.
• 52:49
  Speaker 2: They said, what is this? You mean even 10,000, you
• 52:52
  Speaker 2: cannot look for it to give us? I had to
• 52:55
  Speaker 2: call somebody who was my teacher before and beg him. Now,
• 52:58
  Speaker 2: not as a man of God. To beg the person, say, please,
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  Speaker 2: can I find 20,000? I can't remember how much I
• 53:04
  Speaker 2: asked him for.
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: Say faith. Say it again.
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  Speaker 2: As soon as we return, the long story is just
• 53:20
  Speaker 2: a miracle. Let me not bore you. But you can
• 53:22
  Speaker 2: imagine how I came out of that situation. Then God
• 53:26
  Speaker 2: gives an instruction and says, next year go back again.
• 53:29
  Speaker 2: For that same crusade, how about God? My parents are alive.
• 53:34
  Speaker 2: What is the meaning of this? Just because I chose
• 53:36
  Speaker 2: to serve you? Wouldn't I have just gotten a job.
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: And lived a happy and peaceful life? Go back again.
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: I said, all right. I escaped prison. I escaped all
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: of these things.
• 53:54
  Speaker 2: I was waiting for my scholarship so that I would
• 53:56
  Speaker 2: pay the sound people.
• 53:57
  Speaker 1: The thing was delayed. It didn't come.
• 53:59
  Speaker 2: I didn't know how to beg them. Someone wrote a
• 54:02
  Speaker 2: post-dated check and gave. They went back to Kaduna to
• 54:06
  Speaker 2: cash it. It was, what do they call the thing?
• 54:09
  Speaker 2: The door checker.
• 54:10
  Speaker 1: They reversed back from Kaduna to Zaria. No shadow you
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: won't light up. Mountain you won't climb up. Coming after me.
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: This is not a special number for me.
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  Speaker 5: Lie you won't tear down.
• 54:33
  Speaker 2: Now, unknown to me, I didn't realize that through those storms,
• 54:40
  Speaker 2: I was not obtaining things.
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: But there was a report. There was a report.
• 54:48
  Speaker 2: How does God give you an instruction to go back
• 54:50
  Speaker 2: again to that same place? What of the pastors that
• 54:53
  Speaker 2: walked with you that you could not even encourage them?
• 54:56
  Speaker 2: You know pastors from PFN to say thank you for
• 55:01
  Speaker 2: helping us. You just wave them and say, may God
• 55:04
  Speaker 2: help you. We're all serving the Lord. And the next
• 55:07
  Speaker 2: day you want, the next year you want to call
• 55:09
  Speaker 2: them again.
• 55:13
  Speaker 1: Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: of death.
• 55:18
  Speaker 2: I start by fearing evil, but I stare at evil
• 55:22
  Speaker 2: and then for a long time it doesn't come close
• 55:24
  Speaker 2: enough to haunt me. And then I say, what was
• 55:26
  Speaker 2: the fear after all? There are times you don't go
• 55:29
  Speaker 2: out of the storm. There are times the fourth man
• 55:32
  Speaker 2: is there with you. Because the miracle is only appreciated
• 55:36
  Speaker 2: in the storm. If they threw the three Hebrew.
• 55:39
  Speaker 1: Boys and they suddenly found them outside the fire... The
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: testimony would not be notable.
• 55:44
  Speaker 2: It was the presence of the fourth man in the
• 55:46
  Speaker 2: midst of the fire that caused Nebuchadnezzar to write a decree.
• 55:51
  Speaker 2: Are we together now? To cut the long story short,
• 55:55
  Speaker 2: after that time, I remember in the midst of my pain,
• 55:57
  Speaker 2: I went to the Lord praying and saying, thank you,
• 56:00
  Speaker 2: true story. I said, Lord, it is an honor for
• 56:02
  Speaker 2: me to be able to serve you regardless what shame
• 56:05
  Speaker 2: and what pain has followed it.
• 56:07
  Speaker 1: I am happy and honored to be called your servant.
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  Speaker 1: A good report.
• 56:11
  Speaker 2: And I remember God spoke some things for me in
• 56:14
  Speaker 2: that experience and said, you will never beg for money
• 56:17
  Speaker 2: for ministry again. And you will never have to borrow
• 56:20
  Speaker 2: money for ministry again. That was the last time till
• 56:23
  Speaker 2: Jesus returns. Now it's easy for people to see what
• 56:29
  Speaker 2: God has done today and what God is doing with
• 56:32
  Speaker 2: all humility. And just believe that all I did was
• 56:35
  Speaker 2: just to open Hebrews 11.
• 56:37
  Speaker 1: Saw it, confessed it, and then it worked. No, sir.
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: There is an experience with God. Your good report.
• 56:44
  Speaker 2: Enhances your obtaining things because you have gotten to a
• 56:48
  Speaker 2: point where having it or not having it does not
• 56:50
  Speaker 2: change your.
• 56:50
  Speaker 1: Disposition with God. Are we together?
• 56:55
  Speaker 2: One other time in my life where my focus now
• 56:59
  Speaker 2: was on my growth and my relationship with God. It
• 57:02
  Speaker 2: didn't matter to me again whether ministry grew or not. Honestly,
• 57:06
  Speaker 2: not from a standpoint of carelessness. It was nobler for
• 57:09
  Speaker 2: me to know Jesus, to love him, to live for him.
• 57:12
  Speaker 2: Whether the nations knew me or not, whether I was
• 57:15
  Speaker 2: a man of God accredited by men or not, that
• 57:18
  Speaker 2: was no longer my concern. It was to know him,
• 57:20
  Speaker 2: to love him, to serve him and to see that
• 57:23
  Speaker 2: I was in his will part time. When God got
• 57:26
  Speaker 2: me to that point, he said something to me. He said, son,
• 57:30
  Speaker 2: if you will let men see me, there is nothing
• 57:32
  Speaker 2: I will not give you.
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: The greatest results.
• 57:37
  Speaker 2: In my life started when my focus shifted from them
• 57:41
  Speaker 2: to him. The greatest miracles in my life started when
• 57:46
  Speaker 2: my focus shifted on the pressure of proving that I
• 57:50
  Speaker 2: was anointed to being concerned about Jesus.
• 57:54
  Speaker 1: If the man on the wheelchair is not healed, I'm.
• 57:56
  Speaker 2: Sorry, I did my best, you can go home, come
• 57:58
  Speaker 2: back again. But if at the end of it I
• 58:02
  Speaker 2: can love Jesus, when he sees that you have allowed
• 58:06
  Speaker 2: faith as a journey, as a school, to build you,
• 58:10
  Speaker 2: the end of your faith pursuit should not be it.
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: It should be... Your transformation.
• 58:18
  Speaker 2: You'll get to a point where it is true that
• 58:21
  Speaker 2: you desire results. It is true that you want to
• 58:24
  Speaker 2: obtain things. Signs and wonders, prosperity and all of these things.
• 58:29
  Speaker 2: But that you have come to a point where you
• 58:31
  Speaker 2: are not embarrassed at all. Your greatest pain is not
• 58:34
  Speaker 2: when you fail to obtain things. But that if for
• 58:37
  Speaker 2: any reason you find out that your relationship with the
• 58:40
  Speaker 2: Lord Jesus Christ has been disturbed by anything.
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: That becomes your concern. The Bible talks about Abel, though
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: dead yet speaketh.
• 58:49
  Speaker 2: The Bible talks about people who went through pain and tragedy.
• 58:53
  Speaker 2: At the end of Job's life, in the midst of
• 58:55
  Speaker 2: all that happened, the Bible says he bowed down and
• 58:57
  Speaker 2: he worshipped. How do you worship when you are getting
• 59:00
  Speaker 2: a report that your children just died?
• 59:03
  Speaker 1: Your estate got destroyed?
• 59:05
  Speaker 2: Some wind came to destroy your farm properties and that Job.
• 59:09
  Speaker 1: Cast himself away? upon the earth and worshipped. God wants
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: to bring you to a point where.
• 59:17
  Speaker 2: Things doesn't become the object of your love and your
• 59:21
  Speaker 2: worship and praise. So if God gives me a car now,
• 59:25
  Speaker 2: by the way, I've told you my other stories. I'm
• 59:27
  Speaker 2: sure that many of you have heard it. In my
• 59:29
  Speaker 2: teaching as we prepare to pray, for many years, even
• 59:33
  Speaker 2: when God started blessing me, God would not allow me
• 59:36
  Speaker 2: to move to a bigger house. God would not allow
• 59:39
  Speaker 2: me to buy the kind of car. I could buy
• 59:42
  Speaker 2: any car that I wanted. I would climb a bike.
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: You can imagine.
• 59:46
  Speaker 2: Service with a crowd of people and you hear the
• 59:49
  Speaker 2: sound of a bike.
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: You think they are dropping someone who came to church late.
• 59:52
  Speaker 1: That was me. My suit was more expensive than the bike.
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: It's not pride. It was not lack. God, what are
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 1: you doing to me like this?
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 2: I remember times when women would come together and come
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 2: to meet me just as mothers concerned to know whether
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 2: maybe there was something worrying me that I could not
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 2: share with somebody. Immediately I start hearing, you know how
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 2: women fellowship, maybe praise and what I know is my house,
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 2: they are now coming to.
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: What is wrong? And I say, I'm fine.
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 2: You are paying two-bedroom flats for people, three-bedroom flats for people,
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 2: and here you are in one room. I would travel
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 2: for ministrations with convoys driving me and return back home
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 2: in one room. And I was proud of it. That
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 2: was where, look, when you say you're a man of God,
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 2: it's not just that you were ordained to ministry, that
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 2: you have died to a point where you can live
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 2: for Jesus.
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 1: The truest description of a man of God is not
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 1: just one who can preach. It's one who has so.
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 2: Died, he has now come back but not with his
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 2: life again. That he lives to project the image of
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 2: the Christ.
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  Speaker 1: Are we together?
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  Speaker 2: I remember for a long time, one day, honestly speaking,
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  Speaker 2: I got concerned to answer God. If I've sinned against you,
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 2: the Lord is gracious and compassionate. What is my own
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 2: sin that you cannot? And God made a statement that time,
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  Speaker 2: I remember. He told me my house was not built yet.
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 2: And I sat down there. People will bring cars and
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  Speaker 2: God will ask me to just pray for them, bless them,
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  Speaker 2: give them back the key to return.
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  Speaker 1: You know how painful that is? I know you can
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  Speaker 1: easily clap and say you love God. You tried.
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  Speaker 2: Let somebody come to meet you. And I'm not talking
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 2: of a car that is almost dead. Read serious car
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  Speaker 2: that will give God glory if you drive it.
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  Speaker 1: And then.
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  Speaker 1: You pray over it and give the person to go back.
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  Speaker 1: And there you are seated. Sleep will not come. The
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  Speaker 1: appetite to eat will not come. And you say, what
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  Speaker 1: is the name of what we are doing? Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 2: And then people are hearing you are paying two bedroom flat.
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 2: It becomes believable to say, are you sure this man?
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 2: Doesn't this look like somebody who is doing something?
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  Speaker 1: Hallelujah. I found out that most of the things I would.
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  Speaker 2: Have wanted as results, I've never had to pray for them.
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  Speaker 2: When I obtained that good report, that good report became
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 2: like a magnet. It drew many things beyond the things
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  Speaker 2: I would have prayed for.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm telling you this truthfully and honestly.
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  Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen, I can tell you, you're becoming Is
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 2: greater than your receiving.
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  Speaker 1: Your becoming.
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  Speaker 2: That conformity. That confidence. Your true audacity. Comes in your
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 2: encounter with God.
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  Speaker 1: Now. On the strength of that. The God you have known.
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 1: And you have encountered. When he sends you. You can
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  Speaker 1: stand and tell the sick be healed.
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  Speaker 2: And you are not speaking and hoping.
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  Speaker 1: You know him. Are we together?
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  Speaker 2: Your pain has revealed him. Your hunger has revealed him.
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  Speaker 2: Your desperation has revealed him. You can believe him for anything.
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  Speaker 1: Anything.
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 2: I was honored to have pastor around during our conference
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 2: when the Lord gave me the instruction and he said,
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 2: I want to do something through your life.
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 1: And he gave me that instruction to.
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 2: Go and organize the conference there. I don't even want
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 2: to begin to tell you the bills. This is an
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  Speaker 2: intelligent church. You have an idea. There are things if
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  Speaker 2: you don't know God.
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  Speaker 1: Don't try it.
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 2: You will become not just an embarrassment to yourself. But
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 2: a lesson to generations. That every time people want to
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 2: teach on the punishment an individual receives. For not knowing
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 2: God well. You are the person who will be used.
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 2: That is a global risk. You destroy yourself and everybody
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  Speaker 2: who has invested trust in you.
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  Speaker 1: Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 2: Then the Lord allows us to put a program in
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  Speaker 2: a weekday in Europe. A weekday over 2,000 plus workers
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  Speaker 2: to feed them and then he says to not collect offering.
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  Speaker 1: No nothing.
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  Speaker 2: So when the Lord brought glory to his name, And
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 2: people were saying all those things. I threw away the
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 2: phone and I was flat on the ground. That's your
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 2: boy you once trained. Thank God for the honor of
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 2: his service to you and to the kingdom. My becoming
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 2: is of greater value to me than everything I have.
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 2: So whatever I obtain or don't obtain, it is I
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  Speaker 2: cannot because something did not come into my life.
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 1: Say, God, where are you? That language.
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  Speaker 2: I divorce myself from that language. My relationship with the
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 2: Lord Jesus is greater than the arrival or the departure
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 2: of things.
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 1: When things coming or things.
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 2: Living have no effect on you, you have broken.
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 1: The power of Satan over your life.
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 2: Because you see, Satan leverages on your disappointment. He uses
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 2: the arrival or departure of things to try to describe
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  Speaker 2: God's faithfulness.
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  Speaker 1: Or otherwise. When you get to a.
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  Speaker 2: Point now where nothing that comes or nothing that goes
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 2: affects your knowledge of God.
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 1: Are we together?
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 2: So someone is sick in the hospital. You reach out
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 2: by faith and you lay your hands. Believing that the
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 2: God of heaven would heal the person. But that if
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 2: you hear that the person has passed on to glory
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 2: in the midst of your tears, you say, Father, I
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 2: give you thanks.
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 1: Not that you begin to ask and say, God, where
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 1: are you? You have failed me.
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  Speaker 2: No. In the midst of your pain, you have grown
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 2: with God to know that God loves you. And in
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 2: him there is no evil. In him there is no
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 2: shadow of turning or variableness. That even when you cannot
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 2: give a name to what is happening to you, you
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 2: can call God in the midst of it and say
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 2: you are faithful. When that happens to you, you have
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 2: gotten to a realm where you frustrate.
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 1: Satan for the rest of your life.
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  Speaker 2: Because there is nothing he can hold on to with
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  Speaker 2: you again.
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  Speaker 1: What is he going to use to say God has
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  Speaker 1: not been faithful? Oh, a child? You tell him, I
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 1: love God more than a child. A job?
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 2: I love God more than a job. Now, when you
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 2: are praying for a job or you are praying for
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 2: a child, listen, the correct, and I'll round up with this.
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 2: We'll pick it from there, hopefully tomorrow. The correct basis
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 2: for wanting things is the desire to use them as
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  Speaker 2: a tool to reveal Jesus through your life.
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 1: Did you get that now?
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 2: When your pursuit and your desire becomes building your conviction
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 2: from knowing him. Now, when you want a car, when
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 2: you want great membership, when you want a great name,
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 2: it is not because of the pressure of showing that
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 2: the word is working. No, the word has been proven
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 2: to work before your arrival. And your experience is too
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 2: small to negate the power of the word. Let God
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 2: be true, he says. And all men liars. If I
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 2: never get healed today, God is still a healer. My
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 2: experience is too small to cancel out the integrity of
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 2: the word that has been proven through the years.
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 1: Are we together now? But now when I bow.
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 2: My knees and I say, God, heal the people. It
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 2: is more than a man of God trying to look
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 2: for defense.
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 1: For his anointing. I have found out.
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 2: That it is a desire to be able to obtain
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 2: this result so that the name of Jesus can be lifted.
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 2: I'm showing you Bible faith that works. So when you
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 2: write your request, Lord give me twins. Lord give me
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 2: a house in Maitama. Lord give me a visa. Lord
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 2: give me another citizenship. Do you know the reason why
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 2: you are confident that God will answer it? Because number one,
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 2: you have so died that answering it or not answering it.
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  Speaker 1: Does not affect your relationship with Jesus.
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 2: But then number two, you are saying, Lord, here is
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 2: an opportunity that in answering this request, you are giving
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 2: me an opportunity to allow your name to be lifted
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 2: and exalted. You have come to a point in the
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 2: spirit that the Bible calls faith. Every desire in your
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 2: life is not isolated from the revelation of Jesus. Now
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 2: you can pray with confidence. You can ask for the twins.
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 2: You can say, Father, make me a kingdom below you.
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 2: And this is not just lost speaking. And the only
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  Speaker 2: way to test whether it is lost speaking or not
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 2: is that your disappointment does not affect your relationship. So
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 2: many people who say I am a man of faith
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 2: in the body of Christ, the truth is that when
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  Speaker 2: you vet it from the lens of this, do you
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 2: have the unashamedness to forego things to obtain a good report?
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 2: And when you want to now obtain things, it's your
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 2: desire and motive just to use them to show whether
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 2: or not God is faithful. God is faithful from the
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 2: time your pocket is empty until it is filled with
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 2: all the money in your life.
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 1: Is somebody getting that now?
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 2: So when I pray for people, whether to be healed
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 2: or speaking over their life, I help them understand that
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  Speaker 2: the answer to it is, the testimonies that they receive
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 2: is beyond just an attestation that this is a man
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  Speaker 2: of God. I bring them to a point where their
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  Speaker 2: requests and their desires are connected to kingdom come. Connected
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 2: to the revelation of Jesus. Now I can pray with confidence. Lord,
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 2: lift this woman. Lord, give this woman twins. Lord, make
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  Speaker 2: this person a millionaire. And I will not pray with
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  Speaker 2: any apology. I pray when I'm teaching about finance, I
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  Speaker 2: teach it as if that's the only thing to be taught.
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 2: When I'm teaching about other aspects of the kingdom life,
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 2: because now I have brought the people to a point
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 2: where their desires are now in.
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 1: Unison with God's will. Here's what the Bible says. This
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 1: is the confidence we have that.
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 2: When we ask anything according to his will, we.
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  Speaker 1: Know that he hears us.
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 2: Faith was never supposed to be an isolated platform to
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  Speaker 2: just receive things regardless whether it is connected to God's
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 2: will or not.
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 1: You see that now?
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 2: So the missing ingredient that we need to correct is
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 2: number one, that faith is beyond receiving things.
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 1: The nobler.
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 2: Reason for faith is obtaining reports that your journey of faith,
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 2: the school of faith should help you. At the end
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 2: of your faith journey, if all you show me is
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 2: a car and a house, I will not be very impressed.
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 2: At the end of your journey, if I stand before
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 2: you in the midst of the car, in the midst
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 2: of the result, in the midst of the designers, I
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 2: should see you go on your knees and call a
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 2: God that you.
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 1: Have come to know through your pain.
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 2: A God whose name when you call is not just
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 2: because a worshiper gave you that name to call.
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 1: Your pain and.
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 2: Your experience has brought conviction to you. And upon the
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  Speaker 2: strength of that conviction, when he commands.
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 1: You, you say yes, sir.
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 2: You will do audacious things.
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 1: And people will look at you. You do not add up.
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 1: And they will say, from whence is this confidence?
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 2: The confidence is beyond just confessing scripture, believe me. You
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 2: have had an experience with God and shame died in
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 2: that experience. Ego died in that experience. Lust died in
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 2: that experience. Your passion is to see Jesus revealed. So
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 2: if God says move, you are moving because you already
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 2: died in the first place. So whether an embarrassment happens
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 2: or not, your ego is not tied to it. Now
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 2: you can believe God in truth. Now faith is, let
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 2: me wrap up, the.
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 1: Substance of things, the evidence of things.
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 2: There was no guarantee in scripture that all the people
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 2: called elders obtained things. But this one thing the Bible
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 2: said about them, it says, Go back with this scripture tonight.
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 2: For by it, faith, not just as a platform to
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 2: obtain things, As a journey and as a school. Verse 2.
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 2: Please media give us verse 2. So we'll wrap up
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  Speaker 2: with verse 2.
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  Speaker 1: For by it he says. The elders. The elders obtained.
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 1: So whether the house comes or not. Good report.
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  Speaker 2: Being called a patient person before God. Being called a
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  Speaker 2: righteous man before God. Being called a true Christian. Being
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 2: called one who loves Jesus regardless the vicissitudes of life
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 2: is a nobler report before God. You see, when you
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 2: have that, it will no longer be a do or
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 2: die affair. The only do or die affair in your
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 2: life will be your love and your pursuit for Jesus.
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 2: When this is brought and reintroduced back to the body
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 2: of Christ, I assure you, we will see miracles.
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 1: In a way we have not seen before. We will
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 1: see prosperity.
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 2: This thing we call prosperity, the truth is that many
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 2: people have not truly handled kingdom wealth. You are really
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 2: wealthy to the degree to which you can give to
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 2: the program of God without it affecting you. For as
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 2: long as you still fear giving, you are not yet wealthy.
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 2: You see, yes, that you have experienced a level of
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 2: overflow by the Spirit of God that no amount of
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 2: giving to the kingdom becomes a source of pain and
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 2: makes you to lose sleep. First, because you love God.
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 2: But number two, He has opened your eyes to see
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 2: what others.
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 1: Do not see. We are going to pray.
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 2: For by it, ladies and gentlemen, we started our journey
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 2: with God, not obtaining things.
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 1: But obtaining a good report.
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 2: And that good report before God and before men has
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 2: brought things, things beyond our prayer request. It has given
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 2: me the confidence to believe God today. The bit that
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  Speaker 2: we are doing for the kingdom and the privilege of
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 2: serving him in whatever capacity he's chosen to bring us
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 2: to and that he's taking us to. My highest desire
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 2: is not to have things. My highest desire is that
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 2: I love him.
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 1: The proof of faith for me is not the arrival
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 1: of things expected.
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  Speaker 2: It's wonderful and we'll deal with that tomorrow.
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 1: But the greatest proof of faith.
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  Speaker 2: Is if you find me knowing God and trusting him
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  Speaker 2: more today than I did yesterday, then I'm a man
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 2: of faith. If I trust God at the same level
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 2: today that I started this year with, my faith has
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 2: not grown.
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 1: It does not matter what else came.
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 2: So heaven treats the subject of faith by your growth
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 2: and the confidence that is imparted to you based on
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 2: the knowledge of God. And pastor shared something beautiful. Don't
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 2: waste your pain. Don't waste your experiences. Don't allow the
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 2: devil lie to you that your faith is not working.
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 2: In the midst of the tears, rejoice because he is
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 2: giving you an opportunity. You are in the school of
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 2: the Spirit, obtaining a good report. I prayed for this
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 2: person and he died. Focus on the report beyond the promise.
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 2: I trusted that by now, October, I should have gotten
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 2: the job. Focus on the patience that has been built.
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 2: Focus on the purifying of your hearts that has happened.
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 1: It is still called faith.
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 2: I trusted that the ministry would have moved, say, to
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 2: her permanent site. I trusted that God would have multiplied membership.
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 2: More money would have come. More members would have given.
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 2: But it seems to not have happened. Focus on the report.
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 2: You have become a more spiritual you. The you that
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 2: does not cry anyhow again. You used to waste your tears,
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 2: but now you know the value of your tears. You
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 2: only cry in his presence, not before the devil. That
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 2: growth happened because faith built you. Is this a good
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 2: place to pray? This is how God trained us. So
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 2: the subject of shame and ego died in the journey.
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 1: What do people say?
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 2: Ah, that one, that burden, I was delivered from it
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 2: years ago. You do things because you fear the Lord
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 2: because of a sense of conscience and posterity. Is someone learning?
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 2: So that way you can trust God for grace. If
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 2: God says empty your account and bring it and drop
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 2: it at the feet of the man of God.
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 1: You will not be casting his voice because of lust.
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 1: I cast that voice. It can't be God.
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 2: God cannot be telling me this by October. God doesn't
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  Speaker 2: work like that.
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  Speaker 1: He is love.
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  Speaker 2: You have so died that all you have belongs to him.
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 2: As a man of God, after 10 years pastoring five members,
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 2: you would teach them with that zeal and not vent
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 2: your anger upon them because of the absence of growth.
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 2: You are teaching them with passion and they are wondering
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 2: where you are getting this passion from.
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 1: And you say, I learned it from Jesus. Whether he
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 1: was speaking to one.
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 2: Woman at the well or he was speaking to the Pharisees,
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 2: he was speaking on a crusade ground his passion never.
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 1: Changed to him he was doing ministry.
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 2: His reputation was a list of his concern the will
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 2: of God was his primary purpose so John 3 16
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 2: came out of a discussion with one man the whole
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 2: template of worship that has guided the church was not
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 2: a discussion on a crusade ground it was Jesus discussing
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 2: with one woman many of the powerful scriptures in the
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 2: bible did not come from him talking with a crowd
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 2: He was talking with individuals.
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  Speaker 1: Faith. Bible faith.
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  Speaker 2: I hope this is a good way to start a
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  Speaker 2: conference that you have so.
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  Speaker 1: Desired and labored. and opened up your heart.
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  Speaker 2: So that every other addition that comes to this conference
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  Speaker 2: falls upon a heart that already understands God's intent. That
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  Speaker 2: any conference, every prophetic word you'll be receiving Every principle
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  Speaker 2: you'll be learning, whether in business, I've seen, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the plethora of seasoned visionary men of God who will
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  Speaker 2: be standing upon this altar all through the week. Have
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  Speaker 2: this at the back of your mind, that the assignment
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  Speaker 2: of a man of God is not to endorse the
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  Speaker 2: loss that is already there. So the spirit of God
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  Speaker 2: is beginning with us and bringing that circumcision in our
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  Speaker 2: heart from tonight to help us understand that faith is
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  Speaker 2: not just as a tool to manipulate God using scripture
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  Speaker 2: so that our will and our.
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  Speaker 1: Desire be met by all means. That is not faith.
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  Speaker 2: The primary assignment of faith is to help you obtain
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  Speaker 2: a good report, a standing, building character, helping your understanding
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  Speaker 2: in the spirit and then From that standpoint, he now
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  Speaker 2: teaches you how to obtain promises with respect to making
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  Speaker 2: those promises a tool for fulfilling his will. That way,
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  Speaker 2: you can ask for the car. You can ask for
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  Speaker 2: the house. You can ask for the children. And it
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  Speaker 2: is not lost. Because it is not just to satisfy
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  Speaker 2: your desire. It comes into your life as a tool
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  Speaker 2: to help you reveal Jesus. When you say, Lord, give
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  Speaker 2: me one billion. He looks at you and he's not
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  Speaker 2: constrained to give you. Because he knows that everything that
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  Speaker 2: comes into your heart and your hand is falling upon
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  Speaker 2: a life that is ever committed to seeing him revealed.
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  Speaker 2: At that point, you will see signs and wonders indeed.
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  Speaker 2: You will see dimensions of grace. You will see levels
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  Speaker 2: of power. You will see favor, influence, prosperity beyond your imagination.
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  Speaker 2: Men will look at you and they will try.
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  Speaker 1: To search how is this result happening. And you will
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  Speaker 1: tell them this result is a product of an understanding.
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  Speaker 2: That faith is not limited to obtaining things. But it
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  Speaker 2: is that you have a good report. Your confidence is
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  Speaker 2: not from what God does or not. Your confidence is
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  Speaker 2: from who you become. Whether God does it or doesn't
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  Speaker 2: do it. Please rise up on your feet. Can you
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  Speaker 2: hold hands with someone on your left and your right
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  Speaker 2: if you can? Let's just take a moment to just
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  Speaker 2: reflect for a minute. Thank you for your time. I
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  Speaker 2: want you to think in one minute. I know we
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  Speaker 2: are going to pray. But think in one minute about
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  Speaker 2: everything that I've shared. For some of you, it's a
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  Speaker 2: reorientation about faith that God is giving you right now.
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  Speaker 2: For many of you now, you are appreciating the journey
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  Speaker 2: that you started with the Lord from January till now, October.
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  Speaker 2: What you call disappointment that you are not even ashamed,
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  Speaker 2: you are ashamed of telling people. You are learning now
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  Speaker 2: that this has been your noblest year spiritually speaking.
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  Speaker 1: In terms of obtaining things. Not much may have happened.
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  Speaker 2: But that every sermon pastor preached. So this is what
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  Speaker 2: it was accomplishing in you. You already began to feel disappointed.
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  Speaker 2: To say I mean come on. Pastor is prophesying. People
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  Speaker 2: are testifying. How come I didn't have a chance to.
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  Speaker 1: Climb this altar.
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  Speaker 2: Because God doesn't just want you to have testimonies. To
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  Speaker 2: the testimony. You are the testimony yourself. A more patient
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  Speaker 2: you has emerged. A more loving you has emerged. A
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  Speaker 2: more spiritual you has emerged. That it is not lust
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  Speaker 2: that drives you for a retreat now. Your retreat is
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  Speaker 2: fixed whether results come or not. You can lock yourself
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  Speaker 2: for three days. Not just because you were threatened in
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  Speaker 2: the office that you will be downsized.
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  Speaker 1: Pray a prayer in one minute.
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  Speaker 2: Father, help me to love you beyond the things that
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  Speaker 2: manifest or otherwise in my life.
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  Speaker 1: Go ahead and pray. Go ahead and pray. Help me
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  Speaker 1: to love you. Bring me to.
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  Speaker 2: That point and that plane in the spirit where my
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  Speaker 2: faith is built and centered around you, not centered around things.
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  Speaker 2: This is the school of faith. Lend me one minute
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  Speaker 2: to a prayer. that obtaining results or otherwise will never
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  Speaker 2: affect my relationship. Ironically, It is this template that will
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  Speaker 2: bring you to a realm of fearful results.
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  Speaker 1: Audacious strides in the spirit. You will do things that
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  Speaker 1: ordinary men are not able to do. You will say things,
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  Speaker 1: you will do.
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  Speaker 2: Things that will surprise you and surprise many.
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  Speaker 1: Results that only God can produce will be wrought through
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  Speaker 1: your life.
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  Speaker 2: Because your focus is on Jesus, his kingdom, your growth.
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  Speaker 1: More than the appearance of things. In the name of
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  Speaker 1: Jesus Christ.
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  Speaker 2: Now tomorrow, by the grace of God, during my session,
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  Speaker 2: we're going to be examining the other dimension of faith.
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  Speaker 2: And I trust that by the Spirit, I'll be showing
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  Speaker 2: you something. A mystery that controls obtaining results in the Spirit.
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  Speaker 2: Haven't established your heart. Make no mistakes about the importance
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  Speaker 2: of results in the life of the believer. I think
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  Speaker 2: I need to just take a minute to say this.
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  Speaker 2: So that your understanding is balanced. Do not think I'm
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  Speaker 2: rejecting results. God is placing our hearts. John 15 and
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  Speaker 2: verse 8 says. Hearing is my father glorified. When ye
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  Speaker 2: bear much fruit. So shall you be my disciples. John
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  Speaker 2: 15 16 says. You have not chosen me but I
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  Speaker 2: have chosen you. And ordained you that you go and
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  Speaker 2: bear much fruit. And that your fruit should remain.
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  Speaker 1: Hallelujah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: The Bible says we are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: Unto good works which God had preordained that we should
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  Speaker 2: walk in them. But this is the correct protocol for
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  Speaker 2: accessing and approaching the subject of result. It is your
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  Speaker 2: heart being right first. Jesus being the center point. And
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  Speaker 2: then everything you obtain you have it at the back
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  Speaker 2: of your mind. That it must be used as a
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  Speaker 2: tool to glorify him. Now you can teach faith. As
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  Speaker 2: a platform for obtaining. And you can let the leads off.
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  Speaker 2: You can teach it and stretch people. Knowing that it
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  Speaker 2: will not become a disaster. You will not regret teaching them.
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  Speaker 2: Because their minds have been so fashioned to see Jesus revealed.
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  Speaker 2: I pray for you that God will help you. In
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  Speaker 2: the name of Jesus, I stand in faith with the
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  Speaker 2: angel over this house and all the vessels of glory
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  Speaker 2: that are here represented. And I speak over your life
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  Speaker 2: that in the name of Jesus, the Lord himself will
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  Speaker 2: reposition your heart to a point and a plane in
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  Speaker 2: the spirit where your standing before God becomes of greater
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  Speaker 2: value than the arrival of things. Receive that grace.
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  Speaker 1: In the name of Jesus. And may the Lord bless you.
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  Speaker 1: May the Lord lift you. May the Lord cause you.
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  Speaker 2: To see marvelous things in the walkings of his hand
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  Speaker 2: in your life.
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  Speaker 1: In Jesus mighty name we pray.
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  Speaker 3: Amen and Amen.