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EMPOWERED (The Power to Become Part 1) – Apostle Joshua Selman (Gateway Int’l Church, Port Harcourt) · Selah Media House

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  20s. Hallelujah, Hallelujah.
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  Can you shout aloud? Believe in Hallelujah.
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  Amen, Reverend George, thank you so much.
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  Thank you so much. I mean, I want to say thank you
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  particularly to your protocol and traffic team.
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  I think those guys did an exceptional job.
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  I don't know how they navigated through the traffic, the rain
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  and everything. Thank you very much.
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  And Sir, thank you again for the honor of bringing the Word of
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  God. I truly, truly appreciate it.
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  And the Bishop, Sir, I heard Reverend George talking about
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  you. The Lord honor you in Jesus
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  name, Amen and Amen. Who is ready tonight?
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  Pray in the Spirit for one minute.
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  Let's pray in the Spirit. Just tearing up our hearts.
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  Please make sure you are praying.
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  You're praying to reposition your heart
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  so you are able to receive. In Jesus mighty name we pray.
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  In Jesus mighty name we pray. Father, tonight we ask that you
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  will visit us in such an unusual way.
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  We pray in the name of Jesus that your word will come, it
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  will rest upon our lives. May your word change us in the
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  name of Jesus. And we pray that whilst your
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  word is busy transforming us, let the sick be healed, let your
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  press be changed. And in the name of Jesus, let
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  our lives turn for good. We vow to give you all the glory
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  in Jesus name. We pray, please.
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  You may be gloriously seated. Thank you Gateway Church.
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  Thank you Port Arcot. I'll be discussing a few things
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  tonight and tomorrow. Hallelujah.
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  And one of the things I was, I was at the the inside the
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  office, just listening to Reverend give the charge while I
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  came. And for me, I was touched
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  particularly by the way that he prepares you to receive the
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  word. It's a very powerful thing, the
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  way that he prepares your heart to receive the word.
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  The brief session. I was blessed myself before, you
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  know, just coming up the way that he prepares your heart to
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  receive because the Bible talks about a parable that was of a
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  sower and a seed. And one thing that was common is
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  that the same seed was what was used across all the soils.
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  But they produce somewhere barren.
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  Some did not produce. And even among the ones that
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  produced, the Bible says there were three levels of results, 30
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  fold, 60 fold and 100 fold. It was not the issue of the
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  sower, it was not the issue of the seed, but something about
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  the kind and the nature of the soil.
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  And the Bible talks about the soil being the capacity to
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  listen, to receive, to engage so that it delivers.
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  I used to think the soil was just the heart of man, but it
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  was beyond the heart of man. It was the capacity of that man
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  to hear, to receive. So your result will not just
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  depend on the will of God. Please listen.
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  Your result will not just depend on the love of God.
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  Your result will not just depend on the quality of truth that
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  you're hearing. Your result will be dependent on
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  #1 how you hear #2 how you receive what you hear #3 your
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  insistence to engage what you hear so that it delivers.
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  Are we together? The Word of God sent to you does
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  not automatically guarantee that you return with transformation.
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  The word must be heard, the word must be received by faith, and
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  that word must be engaged consistently.
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  The Bible says, let us fear lest a promise been left of us of
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  entering into his rest. Hebrews chapter 4.
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  I think so. And then he says they had the
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  word just like we did. He said, but the word did not
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  profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard
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  it. So they heard it, but it was
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  those who mix it with faith that receive profit from the word.
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  Is someone learning now? So let me.
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  Join God's servant to request for those who are here and the
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  many who have fallen on site #1 listen.
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  Pay wrapped, undivided attention #2 prepare the soil of your
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  heart to receive. The things you have learned
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  throughout this conference and we'll be learning tonight, are
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  not cunningly device fables. No, these are not opinions.
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  These are. Truths.
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  That are derived from the word of God and have been proven they
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  sustain the capacity to change the life of any receiver.
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  Are we learning now and then? Of course.
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  Trust the ministry of the Holy Spirit that through the frailty
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  of our words as we attempt to communicate spiritual things
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  using mortal words, the Holy Spirit is able to breathe
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  through our limited communication and still plants
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  that which God desires to rest in your.
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  Spirit, are we together? Thank you Lord Jesus so I'm
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  going to be teaching along your theme.
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  I, I want to use today and tomorrow to discuss, will be in
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  the School of Power discussing a few things about power,
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  spiritual power particularly. So I capture my teaching
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  empowered. This will be Part 1.
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  We'll be looking at certain fundamentals of spiritual power.
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  I was excited when I saw the theme for the conference because
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  knowledge is very important. Knowledge brings predictability
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  to your Christian experience. To the degree to which you
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  sustain structured knowledge, you have predictability to your
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  Christian experience. Just like Reverend shared that
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  when you know how the results come about, you are not afraid
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  because you can replicate it again.
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  The Bible says he that strives for mastery is not crowned until
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  and unless he strives lawfully. Hallelujah.
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  So 2 scriptures very quickly empowered.
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  We're looking at Part 1, First Chronicles 29 and verse 11 will
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  be considering several things along the subject of power,
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  particularly spiritual power, but for the text will give us 2
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  scriptures and then we'll begin our discussion.
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  It's God blessing us already. It says, Thine, O Lord, is the
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  greatness and the power, and the glory, and the victory and the
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  majesty, For all that is in heaven and is in the earth is
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  thine. It says Thine is the Kingdom, O
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  Lord, and thou art exalted above it all.
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  Let's try verse 12. It says both riches and honor
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  come from you, and thou reignest over all.
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  And it is in thy hand, and in thy hand is power and might, and
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  in thy hand it is to make great and to give strength to all.
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  Scripture #2 from where the text was gotten.
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  Luke, chapter one, please. We'll begin our reading from
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  verse 30. 3. So to put.
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  Context with a young lady who is a virgin espoused to a man
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  called Joseph, her name being Mary, is preparing, like every
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  other lady, to have, you know, a wonderful marriage experience,
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  and suddenly she's interrupted by a strange salutation.
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  An Angel Gabriel appears to her and gives a very strange
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  salutation. It says you are highly favored
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  and so on and so forth. Then they begin a discussion and
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  the discussion is about how womb being used to.
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  Birth one who will be called the son of the most High and that is
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  assignment to be a Savior and Mary was perplexed.
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  So let's go now and so the Angel Gabriel here is giving context
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  to what is going to happen. He shall reign over the House of
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  Jacob Forever and ever, and of his Kingdom there shall be no
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  end. Verse 34. 34 And Mary said unto
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  the Angel, How shall these things?
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  Be seen that I know not a man. I'm yet to be legally married.
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  I'm still in the process. And I've not known a man to be
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  pregnant. I'm still a virgin.
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  And now you bring me salutations.
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  I hear you talk about great and lofty things.
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  What I don't hear you mention Joseph, I don't hear you mention
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  a man. I don't hear you mention the
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  formula and the method we are used to to getting that result.
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  And so Mary had an honest answer question.
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  She said, how shall these. Things be verse 34.
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  Seeing that I do not know a man. And then Gabriel replies.
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  He said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon you, and the
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  power of the Highest shall over shadow you.
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  Therefore also that holy thing which shall be born.
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  Shall be called the Son of God. May the Lord bless the reading
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  of His Word in the name of Jesus Christ.
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  The subject of power is not one that is new to the average
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  believer, particularly the average Pentecostal charismatic
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  believer. By the grace of God, the average
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  believer in church, particularly in the church in Nigeria and
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  Africa, has an idea about power. Some describe it using the
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  charismatic features like falling under the anointing,
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  praying in tongues. Every time you see extraordinary
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  or unusual spiritual things happen to a man, particularly
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  through a man of God, usually the verdict over that man is
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  that he's a powerful man of God. Am I right on that?
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  If a man preaches a message that is piercing and gets to you,
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  does a sound exiges? Of.
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  Scripture usually you say that man is powerful.
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  If whilst in the course of teaching or preaching, declaring
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  the Word of God, there are manifestations of the Spirit,
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  from prophetic manifestations to miracles, signs, wonders, all
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  kinds of impartations, you will conclude that that man is
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  powerful. When a man is able to do things
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  that are not easily done, as it were in the natural realm, like
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  you know, whatever it is, finances a crowd like this,
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  exploits in ministry, exploits in destiny, we credit such a man
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  to power. And even where the man is not a
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  man of God, most time we say a powerful.
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  Man had prayed for that man, meaning there was a deposit,
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  some measure of spiritual power. Am I?
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  Right on that. Now you flip to the other side
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  when you find a man doing some. Something extraordinary, and yet
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  he does not acknowledge the God of the Bible as the basis for
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  his result. You will still say that man has
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  contacted power somewhere. The question is not whether or
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  not power was involved, it was the source.
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  Your concern becomes the source of the power.
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  Are we together? Now when Paul saw the slave
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  girl, the damsel, now who had the spirit of divination?
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  In acts chapter 16, the Bible says this lady was prophesying
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  everything she was saying was accurate, spot on, and for a
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  while he looked at her. He knew that whatever it is,
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  this lady was demonstrating power.
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  She was under the influence of a spirit.
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  Only that unfortunately, it was not the spirit of.
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  God, are we together? So everywhere you see
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  extraordinary manifestations in business, in ministry in Korea,
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  intrinsically we know that power must have come into the life of
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  that individual, the life of that organization to produce
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  such a result. And in the name of Jesus, before
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  I begin my teaching, let me prophecy upon someone.
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  The days of ordinary living comes to an end.
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  I'm only saying it to a receiver.
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  The days of doing what unbelievers can do, it comes to
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  an end that in the name of Jesus, at the end of this
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  conference, you'll begin to do things that are extraordinary
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  and supernatural. I say to you again, to a man of
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  God, to a businessman, to a. Student you will you will begin
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  to operate at an extraordinary frequency.
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  You believe that say Amen. Please be seated.
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  Please be seated so. Power is very essential.
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  All through scripture we see that among the many things that
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  God gave the believer was empowerment.
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  In John chapter 1 the Bible says as many as received Him, He gave
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  unto them power. The power to become sons of God.
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  He gave them power. Acts chapter 1 and verse 8.
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  It says What? You shall receive power after
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  that the Holy Ghost has come upon you, and you shall be
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  witnesses unto me in Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, and to the
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  uttermost part of the earth. Acts chapter 4 and verse 33 And
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  with great power give the apostles witness of the
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  resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and great grace was upon them
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  all. Acts chapter 10 and verse 38 How
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  God anointed Jesus of Nazareth the Holy Ghost and with power
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  and he went about through that empowerment, doing good and
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  healing all day that were oppressed of the devil.
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  For God was with are we together?
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  Deuteronomy Age 18 Thou shalt remember the Lord thy God, for
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  it is he that giveth thee. Power.
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  It is he that giveth thee power. Luke 1019 Behold, I give unto
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  you. Power, power to tread upon
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  serpents and scorpions and over all the powers of the enemy.
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  And nothing shall by any means hurt you.
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  Are we still here? Praise the name of the Lord.
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  And so it's important for us to know that it's in a corporate
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  destiny as believers to function.
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  In power and that with that empowerment to be able to birth
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  the purposes of God for our lives and to frontier the
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  Kingdom of God. But my assignment tonight is to
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  be able to put a little theological framework to our
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  understanding of power. I tell you this the reason why
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  the average believer, particularly in the body of
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  Christ, is not able to access true spiritual power as should
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  be. Now I'm speaking apostolically
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  is the reason is among many other reasons is because most
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  people have not taken time to truly study the theology of
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  power. Most people desire power they
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  want impartation. Are we together And when they
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  see a few people who they. Consider powerful.
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  They are not interested as to the understanding of the
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  dynamics of accessing it. They just want the impartation
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  and that's it. So tonight I want to be able to
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  put a little, just some fundamentals and I want to start
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  with doing a few redefinitions. Hallelujah.
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  Praise the name of the Lord. Now it is true according to
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  scripture that believers have been given power and that we've
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  been given authority. 2 words that are very important.
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  It is true according to Scripture, that God in and
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  through Christ has given us access to power, spiritual
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  power, an access to authority. Hallelujah, praise the name of
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  the Lord. In Luke 1019.
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  We read that earlier on, it says, behold, I give unto you
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  power to thread upon snakes and scorpions, and over all the
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  power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt.
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  You will revisit that scripture again in Psalm 8 when you read
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  from verse 4 to 6 very profound Psalm.
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  It talks about the magnitude of exaltation and authority that
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  God gave man. Now this was the Psalmist,
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  prophetically speaking, as to what would happen after the
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  resurrection of Christ. It was Paul who gave us, through
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  his Pauline epistle, the active the the implication of the
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  death, the burial and the resurrection of Jesus.
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  Until Paul came to give us perspective.
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  We knew that he died and he died for our sins, but we did not
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  understand the spiritual implication.
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  It was Paul that taught us that he did not just die, we died in.
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  Him. It was Paul that taught us He
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  did not just resurrect, we resurrected in Him, and that
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  when He was raised up, we were also raised up with Him.
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  Are we together? And so Psalm 8 and verse 4 it
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  says, what is man? That thou art mindful of him,
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  not the Son of man, that thou visitest him.
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  Verse 5 reading to six, it says, For thou has made him a little
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  lower than the angels, the wardiest Elohim, a little lower
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  than God himself, and has crowned him with glory and
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  crowned him with honor. Verse 6, it says, Thou make him
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  to have dominion, authority, sovereign authority over the
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  works of your hands, and you put all things, how many things?
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  All things. Paul made reference to this
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  scripture in Hebrews chapter 2. Thou has put all things under
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  his feet, and in the name of Jesus that will be your
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  testimony. The experience of all things
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  being under your feet. Your life will personify the
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  Scripture in the name of Jesus. Amen.
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  Now you see, But knowing, knowing that God has given us
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  power or access to power is not enough to work in the reality of
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  it. Knowing that God has given us
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  power, knowing that God has given us access to power is
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  important, vital, but it's not enough to bring you into the
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  reality of spiritual empowerment.
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  Hallelujah. So let me start by doing a few.
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  Redefinitions #1 Let's define power.
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  It's very important. I don't want to take for granted
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  we hear the word power and all kinds of ideas come to our mind.
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  So let's define power. Number one, the first definition
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  of power, and these are my definitions as drawn from
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  Scripture. Number one, the first definition
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  of power is the capacity to influence outcomes.
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  The capacity to influence outcomes Any man who has the
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  capacity to influence outcomes is operating in power.
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  The capacity to influence outcomes.
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  Can I give you a second definition number?
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  Two, power is also defined as the force that compels
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  compliance, the force that compels compliance.
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  The capacity to influence outcomes and the force that
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  compels compliance. Are we learning now?
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  Praise the name of the Lord. This is very.
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  Powerful. I have found these definitions
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  very, very powerful as they truly, in my opinion, define
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  power in a way that gives the believer understanding.
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  No matter how you define power, if you lack the capacity to
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  influence outcomes, you are not powerful.
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  No Sir, you are not the. First demonstration of power as
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  seen in the Bible is Genesis 1. The Bible says in the beginning
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  God created the heavens and the earth.
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  Are we still together? Then verse 2 says now the earth.
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  Verse 2 was dark and void and darkness was upon the face of
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  the earth. So there was a situation right
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  now. Are we together now?
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  You know already that between Genesis 11, Genesis 1/2 was a
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  long period of. Time in theology we call it the
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  gap, the gap theory really a long period of time the Bible
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  was written in summary. So it's not that God made the
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  heavens and the earth the next moment it was this was a product
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  of many things that had happened upon the earth that led to
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  darkness and chaos. And then the Bible says watch
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  this now see power in motion. So there is darkness and
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  confusion and deep and the Spirit of God hover around the
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  earth. Verse 3 and God said light be
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  the capacity to influence outcome and the Bible says and
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  there was light the real demonstration of power is the be
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  part of that scripture and there.
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  Was if there was no power, if there was no response from
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  creation to that. Word.
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  Then power was not emotion, and God said light be or let there
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  be light, the Bible says, and there was light.
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  And then verse 4 puts it beautifully.
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  And God saw the light. My goodness, power for you.
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  You don't just say it. You don't just feel it, you.
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  See it. He saw the light.
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  I sense like prophesying to somebody.
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  The things you say you will see happen in the name of Jesus.
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  The things you speak by the authority you will start seeing
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  happen. If you speak lifting, may you
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  begin to see it. If you speak open doors, may you
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  begin to see it. If you speak E, may you begin to
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  see it. And in the name of Jesus, every
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  force of darkness that fights the fulfillment of God's
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  prophetic word over your life, we bury tonight in the name of
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  Jesus Christ. Please be seated so God said and
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  he saw remember when Jesus met a man in the in the you know, when
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  Jesus walked upon the earth called the centurion.
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  So he had an issue. And he wanted Jesus to come and
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  help his daughter. In fact, in one of the synoptic
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  accounts they said, Jarius daughter, he said, come.
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  Jesus said I will honor you. You are a noble man in the
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  military. I'll come to your house, he
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  said. No, you don't need to come, for
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  I am a man under authority. I understand the dynamics of
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  power. I am under authority.
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  I have people under me and I can say to 1 go and he will go.
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  Come and he will come. He says speak the word only.
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  And Jesus said I've not found this faith.
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  Who taught you this? Who gave you this education?
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  Are we together? So power again?
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  Let me just make sure that I don't digress.
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  Is defined as the capacity to influence outcomes and the force
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  that compels compliance the next.
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  Word I want us to define which is closely related to power is
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  the word authority. Please listen very carefully.
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  Authority is defined as the legitimacy to use.
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  Power. The legitimacy to use power.
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  You can have access to power, but if you do not have
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  authority, your use of power is illegitimate.
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  I'll give you an example. If a non robber has a gun, he
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  has capacity to influence an outcome.
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  That's power. He has the capacity to force
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  compliance. But the reason why he's arrested
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  is because he does not have authority.
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  He does not have the legitimacy to use it.
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  Are we together? Praise the name of the Lord.
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  Now the same thing happens when someone steals.
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  If he steals 1,000,000 naira, The truth is that that money,
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  he's told he can use it to change a lot of things
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  immediately. Are we together?
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  He can parent, he can buy clothes, and the people he's
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  paying to would not say, is this stolen money?
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  That's none of their business. That's power.
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  But if he's caught, the reason why he goes to jail is because
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  there was no authority. There.
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  Is someone learning now, very important.
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  So you need both power and authority.
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  Now. Satan has power, but he does not
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  have authority. Listen, please listen.
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  We're establishing a few things here.
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  Very, very important. Are we together, authorities,
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  the legitimacy to administer power?
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  This is very important, the right to represent.
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  And the legitimacy? To use power Now, one of the
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  things I want to teach you, Look up please.
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  In teaching authority, nobody is ever given authority.
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  And by the way, authority is given, authority is given.
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  The nature of authority is that it must be given alongside the
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  jurisdiction of his operation. 3 words you have to understand
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  number one, power #2 authority #3 jurisdiction.
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  Those who practice law here and lawyers will understand what I'm
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  saying immediately. There are certain cases when you
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  take to certain courts, they will tell you they do not have
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  the jurisdiction to prosecute the.
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  Person. Am I right on that?
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  Nobody has authority without jurisdiction.
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  You know what jurisdiction is. Jurisdiction is a predefination
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  of the coordinates, the boundary for the legitimate
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  administration of that authority, outside which it
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  becomes illegitimate. Listen, if you don't know this,
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  like I'm going to be showing you now, God gave manpower but not
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  power over everything. If you don't understand the
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  jurisdiction of the administration of man's power,
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  you will pray a lot of prayers that are not spiritual.
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  When the Bible says we have power and we have authority, it
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  matters to every intelligent person who wants to be empowered
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  to understand the jurisdiction. What is the?
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  Scope. Of the power and authority given
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  to the believer is someone learning now these are
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  fundamentals and is very important power.
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  How many of you know that a man with his family, within the
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  context of that family, he's the head of his home, am I right?
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  He has both power and authority. The law and priesthood conferred
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  that authority on him the day he got married.
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  Am I right on that? Within the jurisdiction of his
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  family, he has the legitimate right to administer as he sees
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  best, but that man cannot go and enter another person's home.
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  Just like that. And now want to flog the
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  person's child or command the person's wife to bring food for
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  me. What is wrong there?
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  The man is still a man. He has authority, he has power,
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  but he's gone out of jurisdiction.
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  That jurisdiction of his being a husband and wife is only defined
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  within. He was not made husband over
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  every woman. He was made husband over his so
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  he cannot just stand and see a rumor.
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  Young lady, you are a woman. Go and bring food for me.
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  No, no, no, no, no. That is outside of Am I right on
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  that? Now let me tell you this, there
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  are many believers because we do not understand the
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  jurisdictional component of power.
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  In the place of prayer, we say all.
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  Kinds of things. And that's the reason why we
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  don't see results. Hallelujah.
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  Praise the name of the Lord. I hope you are learning.
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  So jurisdiction is very important.
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  The sphere which the use of power is allowed beyond which it
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  becomes illegal. The believer is not giving power
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  over everything and everywhere. When the Bible lets us know that
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  we all things are put under our feet.
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  There is a context to that understanding.
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  And if you don't understand, and I'm going to list for you the
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  jurisdictions that God gave us is very important.
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  I hope you are learning tonight. Praise the name of the Lord.
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  Now a few things I want you to note.
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  A few things I want you to note number one, man does not have
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  absolute power. No, there is no mention in
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  Scripture that man has absolute power.
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  Man's power is not absolute. Man's power is derived from a
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  relationship and it can be withdrawn.
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  Are we together now? Man's power is on account of him
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  being a partaker, not an owner. Who is learning now?
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  Very important. Man does not have absolute
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  power. No, the Bible does not teach
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  that only God has absolute power.
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  We read that earlier on already. Praise the name of the Lord.
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  God has absolute power. Give us some 62 and verse 11.
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  God is the only one who has absolute power over everything.
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  The Bible says God had spoken 1 Psalm 6211 twice have I heard
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  that power one rendition will say all power belongs to God,
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  the only person who has absolute.
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  Power over all things is God. Man does not have absolute
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  power. Our power is derived from a
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  relationship, meaning you don't detach from God and still want
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  to walk in power consistently. There are conditions.
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  We together praise the name of the Lord, Amen.
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  This is a very important thought.
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  Man does not have absolute power.
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  Only God has absolute power #2 You may have heard me say it,
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  but let me say it and teach you now.
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  God does not have authority. God cannot have authority.
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  Now listen. Listen.
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  The reason why God cannot have authority is because the nature
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  of authority is that it must be given by someone higher than you
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  and supervised by the one who gave you are.
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  We together praise the name of the Lord so.
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  No, no, don't just go around jumping and fighting anybody who
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  says and say our family new revelation.
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  That's why I'm taking our time to help you understand this.
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  But God cannot have authority. No, it's impossible if you
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  understand authority, because authority is conferred by one
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  higher than you, and the one who gives you that authority must be
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  available to supervise it. Are we together now?
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  We do it in the military, so a general confers honor upon one
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  and upgrades him, but he supervises him.
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  Are we together? And where there is an issue, he
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  can be caught, marshalled, and so on and so forth.
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  The Bible says God tried to look for one higher than him to swear
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  by. He was willing to submit if
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  there was an authority higher than him, the Bible says,
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  finding none. He now swore by himself.
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  Is it in your Bible? Listen, this revelation already,
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  just the revelation that God cannot have authority will
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  disarm principalities, because everywhere you see power on
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  earth it was drawn, even if manipulated.
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  All power comes from a central source.
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  Including the power being manipulated by witches and
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  Wizards, they are manipulating spiritual laws.
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  There are three dimensions, or three levels of God's power.
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  The highest level of God's power is derived from.
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  Intimacy, fellowship. But there is a second dimension
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  of His power that is not relationship dependent.
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  It is hidden in laws and principles.
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  You don't need to have a relationship with God.
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  Are we together? If a thief plans, He will reap.
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  He doesn't need a relationship. Now that is a dimension of power
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  where witches and Wizards manipulate spiritual laws and
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  they produce potent results, and you are wondering it is God's
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  power. But not for his glory.
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  The fact that it works. I hope you are learning now.
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  I'm not saying to go on credit Satan or I hope you get what I'm
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  saying now. I'm just telling you that the
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  fact that there is a there is a semblance of result is because
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  they have learned through divination to manipulate
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  spiritual laws and they get certain results, but they credit
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  the result to Satan. They credit it to men.
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  Anything that works on earth comes from a central source.
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  God is the one who makes all things work.
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  Is not God and something else. There is no other system.
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  There is no other entity that sustains the ability to make
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  anything work. Is not God and another cosmic
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  force is not God and Satan. The Bible said this is the day
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  that the Lord has made. Even Satan waits for that day to
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  be made to work out destruction through it.
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  We together. When we get to the corridors of
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  a new day, every spirit and every entity waits like a child.
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  It is God who opens the chapter of a new day.
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  Then activities happen through that day.
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  If God does not make a day, nobody has today, nobody has
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  tomorrow. There is no entity that has the
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  power to manufacture the concept of future or present.
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  It is not given to any entity. I hope you're learning now.
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  There was no mention of God having authority until Jesus
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  became a man and the reason is because he submitted to his
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  Father. Are we together now?
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  Yes, when he said all power. The word is exusia.
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  All authority in heaven and on earth has been given.
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  By who? By the Father, because he's
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  submitted as the Son. But as God absolute you cannot
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  have authority. What government will supervise
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  him? Who is he now that will say God
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  don't do this or no, no, no, no, no, no, no?
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  No. Are we together now?
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  But for man we need both power and authority.
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  Is the reason why the health of your executing power depends on
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  your level of submission to that government?
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  Before he said resist the devil, he says submit yourself.
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  Therefore, under the mighty hand of God you see the principle
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  again. Then when you are sure your
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  submission is right, resist the devil.
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  So you don't just go and stand before demons when you have not
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  verified the health of your submission.
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  That was the mistake of the sons of Skiva and then the realm of
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  the Spirit said Jesus. I know we see the authority and
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  the submission, Paul. I know we see the government,
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  but where do you stand? You are trying to execute power
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  without authority. Are we learning tonight?
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  Praise the name of the Lord. So the law of authority states
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  that someone must be higher than you who confess that authority
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  upon you and also supervises compliance.
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  Now, if you are going to work in dominion and through Kingdom
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  power, you must have both power and authority.
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  Very quickly I want to list for you man's jurisdiction.
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  Remember I told you that in manifesting power and authority,
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  you need to understand the law of jurisdiction.
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  Are we together? We were not given power
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  everywhere. I give you an example.
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  You cannot begin to pray and change things in the throne
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  room. You don't have that power.
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  It was not given to you. There's no mention in the Bible
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  of any individual commanding the beings in the throne room. 24
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  elders commanding everything to rearranging things.
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  No, there is a there is a limit to your operation.
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  Number two, you don't have the power.
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  Listen, you don't have the power to bind Satan indefinitely and
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  keep him from mobility around the earth.
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  No, no. You can resist him out of your
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  sphere and out of your affairs, but he still has room across the
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  globe because he said there is a time allotted.
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  Who is following now? I hope you know there are other
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  spirits like Satan to who rebelled that are today now
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  bound in everlasting chains. It's in your Bible.
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  You don't have the power to lose them.
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  That is not your jurisdiction. Church is.
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  Quiet. Are we learning?
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  So I'm going to list for you at least four jurisdictions where
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  the believers power functions legitimately #1 the first
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  jurisdiction for administering the power of the believer, or
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  the first area where administering power becomes
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  valid, right? God gave us the power to create,
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  the power to create. Every time you are using your
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  power to create or in creativity, it is within your
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  jurisdiction the power to create.
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  What does that mean? To speak for things and to cause
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  the things that be not to appear as though they were.
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  Are we together in creativity and in creation?
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  You are using power legitimately #2 very quickly.
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  Power over Satan, power over Satan and all unclean spirits.
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  That's the second jurisdiction. If you are using spiritual power
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  to enforce victory over Satan and enforce victory over all
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  kinds of unclean spirits, you are using power correctly
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  because it's within your jurisdiction.
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  Are we together? The Bible says in James 4/7 he
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  says resist the devil. James 47 resist the devil and he
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  will flee. You resist it.
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  You can resist the devil. You can resist unclean spirits.
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  Matthew 10 and verse 1. He gave unto them power.
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  He gave unto them authority. Matthew 10 and verse one.
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  Matthew chapter 10 and verse one 10 and verse one.
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  When he had called the 12 disciples, he gave unto them
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  power. Everybody say power against
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  unclean spirits. You see it now to cast them out
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  every What is an unclean spirit? An unclean spirit is any spirit
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  that does not submit to the governing authority of the
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  Christ is an unclean spirit. Any spirit that is in fraternity
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  and allegiance with Satan is an unclean spirit, and the Bible
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  says to every unclean spirit. Whether it comes as spirits of
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  infirmity, whether it comes as spirits that are behind yokes
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  and curses, it is within your jurisdiction as a believer.
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  You don't have to be a man of God.
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  Once you are an enlightened believer who knows your place in
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  Christ and understands the scope of the power given to you, you
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  can exercise authority. Who is understanding me over
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  unclean spirits, over unclean spirits?
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  You can go back home and say in the name of Jesus, the spirits
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  that fight finances because they are fighting the glory of God
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  and the will of God. The spirits that fight
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  fruitfulness, they are indirect defiers against the command.
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  Be fruitful. They are unclean spirits because
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  they do not but the will of God. You have the power in the name
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  of Jesus Christ to rebuke them. Say I have power, the devil.
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  Did not hear you. Against they have power, so we
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  have power to create, to birth possibilities and transport them
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  from the realm of the spirit to be manifested here number.
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  Two, we have power over Satan and unclean spirits #3 the third
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  scope of the believers power. We have power to change negative
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  circumstances. Especially when they are in
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  direct defiance to the known will of God.
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  We have power to change negative circumstances, especially if and
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  when they are in direct defiance to the known.
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  Will of God look up. Let me explain to you what that
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  means. How many of you know that
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  untimely death is not the will of God?
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  How many of you know that poverty is not the will of God?
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  How many of you know that delay and retrogression is not the
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  will of God? How many of you know that living
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  a life of smallness and mediocrity is not the will of
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  God? How many of you know living in
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  sin and not encountering Christ is not the will of God?
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  He deserves that all men be saved.
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  Are we together? When the will of God is known,
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  every condition that fights the manifestation of that will, it
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  is within your jurisdiction to apply the power given to you and
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  to correct it. Is someone learning now?
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  Hallelujah, this is powerful meaning.
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  I hope that by this introduction someone is getting annoyed that
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  when you go back home you see that exercising power demands
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  knowledge. If you are not aware of the will
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  of God, you will not know what is fighting His will in your
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  life, and you will not know how to use the power given to you to
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  correct it. Hallelujah.
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  Now look at me. What do you do?
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  Ladies and gentlemen, in light of what I've taught you so far,
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  imagine that you go to bed and you see yourself being buried in
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  the grave. When you wake up, what do you
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  do? Cry.
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  Weep. That's an insult to your
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  understanding. What do you do when you wake up?
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  No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. The first thing to do is not to
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  pray. The first thing to do is to
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  search the World Bank. In your mind, is there anything
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  in that experience that is consistent with the will of God?
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  And scriptures begin to rise. I shall not die, but live and
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  declare. It is from that revelation you
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  now declare whatever scenario happened in the dream, I change
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  it. I change it by the power of God.
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  Is someone learning now? You don't just pray out of fear
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  or pray emotionally. Prayer is based on the known
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  will of God and where the will of God is not known, you pray in
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  the spirit until the will of God becomes known.
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  But the moment the will of God becomes known, you enforce it
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  with understanding. I hope you are learning now.
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  The foundation for effective prayer is that it is predicated
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  upon the knowledge of the will of God.
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  If you do not understand the will of God, your prayer life
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  will just be rituals that don't produce power because the basis
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  of negotiating your possibilities is the awareness
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  of the will of God, the known written will of God.
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  But there are times you may not know the will of God as it
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  concerns a situation. That's where the Holy Ghost
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  comes to help you because he's the revealer of the will, will
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  of God. You can engage with Him as you
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  pray in the Spirit. You can engage with him in
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  fellowship. Are we together now?
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  There are three ways according to Scripture.
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  Let me digress just to help someone.
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  There are three ways according to Scripture to know the will of
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  God. Number one, the first way to
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  know the will of God is through the Scripture.
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  The Scripture is a compendium, a revelation of the written will
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  of God in Hebrews 10 and verse 7.
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  Lo, I come in the volume of the book as it is written of me to
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  do thy will. Are we together now?
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  The will of God as contained in Scripture is the first way
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  believers know the will of God #2 the second way believers know
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  the will of God is through the revelatory ministry of the Holy
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  Spirit. The Bible says the Holy Spirit
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  is able to search the mind of the Father and to reveal to us
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  that which is consistent with the mind of God, the things that
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  have been freely given to us, the revelatory ministry of the
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  Holy Spirit. The third way to know the will
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  of God as taught in Scripture is through the ministry of the
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  prophetic. The prophetic can guide you into
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  the knowledge of the will of God.
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  Is someone learning now? But back to our discussion, I'm
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  saying I digress to say your prayer life and I listen to me
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  believers. There are many believers who
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  pray, but we largely pray our myths.
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  That's why there's no power because our prayer is not
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  founded upon knowledge, is founded on sentiments and
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  emotions. God, wouldn't you do this based
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  on what the Bible says? Present your cause, bring forth
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  your strong reason. If you don't go to the court of
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  law and say I need justice. Even the judge himself has a
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  constitution that guides him. You don't just do as you please.
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  There are rules of engagement even in prayer.
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  Here's what the Bible says and this is the confidence that we
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  have that when we ask anything according to his will, we know
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  that he hears us. We don't need to see it manifest
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  we. Know.
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  That he hears. US with someone learning, praise
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  the name of the Lord. This is very important.
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  So we have the power to create. Anything that has to do with
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  creating possibilities and creativity is within the
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  jurisdiction of the Viliba scope of administering power #2 we
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  have power over Satan and unclean spirits.
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  It is a legitimate jurisdiction to administer power against
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  Satan and unclean spirits #3 to change negative circumstances,
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  especially those who are in direct defiance with the known
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  will of God. The will of God has revealed in
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  Scripture. Once it is known you have a
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  right to fight through the word of God and administer the power
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  of God to change any scenario before you that is inconsistent
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  with the known or revealed will of God #4 what is the scope of
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  the believers power? I hope we're learning.
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  We're discussing the subject. Empowered power to administer
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  life. Power to administer life.
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  Oh this is powerful. First Corinthians 1545 power to
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  administer life. The life giving ministry is
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  every believers ministry. You know what it means to give
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  life. To give life does not just mean
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  like a doctor trying to resuscitate a patient, even
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  though that's wonderful. The life giving ministry of the
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  believer is a mandate that was given by God to all believers.
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  Hallelujah. There are names that the
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  believer is called and there are associations that you know the
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  believer. The believer is linked to
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  certain dimensions of the Holy Spirit.
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  He calls him a river and he says out of your belly for instant
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  shall flow, that water gives life.
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  You find that in Ezekiel 47. The Bible says the first Adam
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  was made a living soul and the last Adam was made a quickening.
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  The word quickening there in other modern translations is
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  life giving spirit. Everyone say I am a life giving
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  spirit. Say that like you're learning
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  tonight. Say I am a life giving spirit.
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  Through my words I give life. Say it, say it again.
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  Through my words I give life. As I make contact with men, I
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  transfer life. Listen, if you have this
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  understanding it will change your outlook.
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  I believe as a person honestly and and and forgive me if it
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  sounds like arrogance. I truly do not believe that
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  someone will actually hold my hands, whether to greet you or
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  to shake you, and nothing leaves to you.
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  It's impossible. It's impossible.
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  It's impossible and I'm not just talking of healing or falling
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  down. A transference of life like
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  recharge card. You know how you transfer
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  recharge card? Someone cannot send text
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  messages because he's out of recharge card.
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  The instant he receives that beep, text becomes possible.
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  Calls become possible. There are some things that
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  should be possible when you encounter a believer in his
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  dimension as a life giving spirit.
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  Are we together? That if someone's shop has been
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  going down, someone's business has been going down, you know
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  what, God will make you tasty on purpose so that you go to that
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  shop and rest your hand. He just wants you to make
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  contact to bring life to that business.
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  You are not even aware. You just thought I was tested to
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  go and drink water. But because you are a life
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  giving spirit, you will rest upon that man shop and say give
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  me a bottle of minerals and that's it.
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  It's not about the mineral. You deposited something by the
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  every time you leave, customers start coming, doors start
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  opening. The man will say I don't know
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  you, but after you came, are you a preacher?
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  You said no, but I'm a believer. I'm a believer with
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  understanding that I'm a life giving.
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  Spirit who understands what I'm saying, it is true.
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  Imagine a father having this mentality.
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  You get up in the morning before your children leave to school.
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  You call them, not just rebuking them.
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  Lay that hand. It's not always about
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  transferring anointing. You are transferring life.
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  Life is a component that upgrades a man to function like
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  God. You are blessed and then someone
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  shakes you in the office. Maybe that person was appointed
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  to die by 12 and God will make sure that you go out, maybe to
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  use the restroom he's looking where are the life givers so
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  that you make contact with that person and then change that
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  prophecy on your way to the restroom.
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  The Angel of the Lord orchestrates your path to cross
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  and you just say, my brother, how are you that Sheikh?
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  You did not know. You just aborted death that
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  would have killed that man. This is how believers were
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  designed to function. Everywhere there is death and
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  darkness, God sends you. He doesn't have to send you as a
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  preacher. It doesn't have to be an
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  organized conference like this. This is the orientation that the
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  average believer must carry. This is beyond being a preacher.
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  Life, life, life, life. You step into a house and
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  someone is almost dying and heaven begins to rejoice because
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  nobody in that family had enough spiritual orientation to know
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  their life giving spirit and Satan is ravaging that family.
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  All of a sudden, God will lead you to go for evangelism.
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  There it really is not just about evangelism, it's that
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  there was an emergency and God was looking for any Gateway
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  member who has been taught that you are a life giving spirit.
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  As you show up in that place, you see that now.
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  Do you believe what you are hearing?
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  I absolutely believe what I'm telling you.
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  Life giving spirit, look at your hands.
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  Say my hands. I mean what I'm saying.
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  Say my hands from today release. Life say my hands from today
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  release Life again say my hands from today.
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  As you make contact with man, As you make contact with destinies,
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  release Life, say my mouth. My words release life.
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  Do you believe this? Imagine this revelation.
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  So a worshipper, you are holding the mic to lead praise and
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  worship. It's not just songs.
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  You hold the mic as a life giving spirit.
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  It's not just about dancing and good voice, good, wonderful.
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  But you know that as you stand, you are an Oasis.
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  Something is about to come out from your spirit.
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  Imagine an instrumentalist. You see, you are not just
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  holding the drums or the keyboard.
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  These are channels to transmit life.
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  Our world is dying and. God is looking for men and women
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  who understand the implication of the kind of power life giving
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  spirits, Life giving spirits that every time there is
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  darkness and bones and disarray, God will carry you like Ezekiel
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  and bring you to Port Arcot and says, Son of Man, can this
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  family live again? There's untimely death in this
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  family. It kills people after every two,
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  two years. The most spiritual person in
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  that family just got born again one week does not have the
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  understanding to command victory.
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  And God sends you as an instrument of mercy.
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  God sends you to become a neighbor.
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  God will make you to get a house near someone.
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  It's not about the house. He's finding a way to get life
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  close to the people. When you interpret your life
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  from the length of this, you will know that nothing is a
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  mistake. Nothing, nothing.
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  Again, say my hands, be serious. Say my hands.
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  From today, in the name of Jesus, release life.
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  My words release life. You believe this, that the next
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  time you are shaking someone, you don't need to stand.
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  Host. No, no, no, no.
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  It's a revelation. The stretching of your hand is
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  like a tab that just opened. Something transferred the
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  person. I don't know what happened, and
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  you just laugh. The person goes back and says,
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  do you know what? I used to have negative dreams,
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  all kinds of satanic molestations.
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  I couldn't see the pastor, but I found out that this man is a
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  faithful member of this church, learning and listening.
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  He just held my. Hand and he said it is well and
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  that was it, life giving. Spirits, I'm defining for you
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  the jurisdiction of the believers.
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  Do you know how many people were not supposed to die because you
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  match them without the understanding that I'm a life
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  giving spirit? The devil was so afraid of your
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  coming, but he was disappointed when you arrived because he
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  found out that your arrival did not make any difference.
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  I mean they were even happy to have your presence because there
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  was no understanding to obstruct what you wanted to do.
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  But no more after this conference.
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  In the name of Jesus there will be an emergence of life giving
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  spirits, not just in prophecy, but those who have that
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  understanding. Again, say I am a life giving
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  spirit. Say it again, I'm a life giving
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  spirit. Turn it into prayer in one
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  minute. I'm a life giving spirit.
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  In my place of work as a wife, I am a life giving spirit.
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  As a husband, I'm a life giving spirit.
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  As a parent to my children, I'm a life giving spirit.
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  Come on now. As a student, I'm not just
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  pursuing a career, I'm a life giving spirit.
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  As a worshipper, I'm a life giving spirit.
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  As a preacher, I don't just minister words and communicate
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  intelligence. I am ministering life, life,
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  life. In Jesus name we pray.
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  In Jesus name we pray. So from today, don't waste your
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  handshakes, don't waste your hugs.
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  It's beyond your showing. Love you are.
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  An instrument of God's mercy. Did you get that now?
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  Yes, the next time you are shaking someone, carry that
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  consciousness. God bless you.
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  You don't need to tell them I'm releasing life in the name of
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  Jesus. May God bless you and you expect
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  possibilities in that person's life.
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  Things begin to shift. Things you will be surprised at
• 1:01:45
  the miracles that will happen unconsciously through this
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  revelation. Hallelujah.
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  The power to create power over Satan, our own clean spirits.
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  The power to change negative circumstances.
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  Please be seated. The power to minister life.
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  This one is a very powerful one because the last enemy to be
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  destroyed is death. Every manifestation of sickness
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  and oppression. Is death administering tokens of
• 1:02:18
  itself to a person? Our world is in desperate.
• 1:02:23
  Need of life giving spirits. Life giving spirits, you may not
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  be that vocal, you may not be that articulate in terms of
• 1:02:33
  communication, but let me tell you, when you become a life
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  giving spirit and experience, the world will look for you.
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  They may not understand what you said, but they cannot deny what
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  happened to them. There will no life flowed from
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  here. When I pray as a man of God to
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  minister, I don't just pray for abundance of revelation, as
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  important as that is, but I cry unto God that through the
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  frailty of my words that life, life like water to a thirsty
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  soul, life and whilst you are listening things begin to shift,
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  is the ministry of life. Do you understand what I'm
• 1:03:10
  saying? John chapter 10 and verse 10 the
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  thief comment not. But for to steal, to kill and to
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  destroy it says, but I am come and remember I said, as my
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  father sent me, so send are you. That's why I said the life
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  giving ministries, every believer's ministry.
• 1:03:29
  I am come that. Ye may have life, and that you
• 1:03:33
  may have it more abundantly amplified says that you have it
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  to its fullest. Fullest, fullest, fullest.
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  Hallelujah. Now very quickly, so that we'll
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  pray, I want us to take a few minutes to pray.
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  What exactly is the assignment of power in the life of the
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  believer? I need to say this.
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  Most believers are, I hate to say this, but I have the liberty
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  to say this standing on this altar.
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  One of the things that have brought great reproach to the
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  name of the Lord, particularly among the Pentecostals and
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  Charismatics, in summary, is the abuse of power, the
• 1:04:25
  mismanagement of power. When you do not understand the
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  purpose of a thing, you will abuse it.
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  Are we together? Yes.
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  The word abuse comes from towards abnormal use.
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  When you use a thing beyond its scope, its jurisdiction of
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  function, it becomes abnormal. He becomes abuse.
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  Now I'll tell you this meets the average person today in the body
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  of Christ who is fasting and praying particularly for power.
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  Ask him one question. Why do you want the power and
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  then fold your arms and be ready to be shocked at the various
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  reasons you will hear someone who said they've looked down on
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  me. I'm tired now that sincere but
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  is too small a reason to be given the power of the highest.
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  Another person would say I want to prove a point to my
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  contemporaries that I'm not an anyhow person and it can go on
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  10 day fast, 14 day fast. And you know God is merciful
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  while you are doing all your thing there and almost killing
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  yourself. He already knows you've heard of
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  from day one. His messy will just help you to
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  listen to 1 message that shows you the way out.
• 1:05:35
  I'll tell you this one, in doing business with God, you must
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  understand the purpose for every spiritual investment, whether it
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  is wisdom, whether it is power, whether it is favor, the
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  inability to understand the intent of God behind this lavish
• 1:05:54
  investment. You will corrupt the power and
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  it will end up destroying you. The man Nebuchadnezzar was given
• 1:06:01
  the privilege of power and authority influence, but he did
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  not understand the purpose, and he used it to mock the God of
• 1:06:09
  heaven until he was turned into an animal with the heart of a
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  man for a period of seven years. At the end of that ordeal,
• 1:06:17
  returning back to his consciousness as a man, he began
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  to lift up declarations of worship to acknowledge that
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  there was God who was sovereign above the affairs of men.
• 1:06:27
  Let me tell you this, ladies and gentlemen.
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  When you find God using great people, sometimes it's not
• 1:06:34
  because they are the best. It's because they are the people
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  who truly understood His program by Messy and are prepared to
• 1:06:42
  birth that program with every resource He makes available to
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  them, including wealth, including wisdom, including
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  influence, and including. Power to the degree to which you
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  use the investment, the spiritual investments given to
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  birth the purposes of God. That's the degree to which you
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  will God will be in interested in doing business with you.
• 1:07:03
  There are too many people who want to use spiritual activities
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  like prayer, fasting, what confession to supposedly
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  manipulate the hands of God to get across to their space
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  spiritual resources so that they now use it to gratify the flesh.
• 1:07:21
  So they don't mind praying, they don't mind fasting, they don't
• 1:07:24
  mind confessing the Word. And while all those spiritual
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  activities are around, there are lusts hidden within their heart.
• 1:07:31
  They just want the anointing to arrive.
• 1:07:33
  And you see the way people change when all these spiritual
• 1:07:35
  investments arrive. It's important for you to know
• 1:07:39
  the purpose for power. Can I give you 3 of them for
• 1:07:43
  tonight #1 What is the assignment of power?
• 1:07:48
  What is the assignment of authority?
• 1:07:51
  By the way, let me give you 3. Scriptures, and then I'll just
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  list them for you #1 is found in Matthew chapter 6 and verse 10.
• 1:07:58
  This is Jesus teaching the disciples to pray.
• 1:08:01
  And he said when you pray, pray. Thus our Father, which art in
• 1:08:04
  heaven, hallowed be your name, and then when we get to verse
• 1:08:08
  10, he says thy Kingdom. The word Kingdom means the
• 1:08:11
  governing influence of a king, the culture of that king being
• 1:08:16
  superimposed across every jurisdiction of his Kingdom.
• 1:08:21
  So he says your Kingdom come and that by your will being done in
• 1:08:26
  the earth, the only way the Kingdom of God comes is when his
• 1:08:30
  will is being done. Do you understand that now?
• 1:08:33
  So anytime you pray Kingdom come, you are really praying
• 1:08:36
  your will be done. The wisest way to say your
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  Kingdom come is to say your will be done.
• 1:08:43
  Again, the wisest way to say your Kingdom come is to say your
• 1:08:47
  will be done. The one who is not ready to
• 1:08:50
  allow the will of God to be done through your life and through
• 1:08:53
  your environment is the one who is fighting the manifestation of
• 1:08:57
  the Kingdom of God. So you don't need to try to make
• 1:09:01
  His Kingdom come. Your assignment is to become a
• 1:09:05
  channel of enforcing and manifesting His will.
• 1:09:10
  I can tell you your pastor is causing the Kingdom of God to
• 1:09:15
  come in port tacos and in this region.
• 1:09:17
  Why? By making His will, God's will
• 1:09:22
  that will that all men be saved. That's what is happening here
• 1:09:25
  that will that all men come on to the knowledge of the truth.
• 1:09:29
  That's what is behind all these investments of this conference.
• 1:09:31
  You can know that he's the Kingdom of God has come anytime
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  you're looking for the Kingdom. Look for where the will of God
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  is allowed to find expression. Are we together praise the name
• 1:09:44
  of the Lord. So John chapter 167, it's the
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  second scripture I'll give to you.
• 1:09:50
  The 1st is Matthew 610. The second is John chapter 1-6
• 1:09:54
  and seven. It says there was a man send
• 1:09:57
  from God. I like this scripture.
• 1:09:59
  We can spend all night on packing the riches of this
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  scripture. There was a man sent from God,
• 1:10:06
  his name Joshua Selman. There was a man sent from God.
• 1:10:11
  His name, Reverend George, you think I'll call your name?
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  There was a man sent from God. You use your mouth to call your
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  name. Please keep verse 6.
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  There was a man. The parts that I like here in
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  verse 6 is the word sent from God.
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  You arrived through an equerry body, but don't make a mistake
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  and think you are from there. You pass through there, you are
• 1:10:40
  sent from God. You arrive through a Yoruba
• 1:10:43
  body, through an evil body, through a northern body, through
• 1:10:47
  an American body. Are we together?
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  Your body or your natural descent is not your origin.
• 1:10:52
  No, it is simply the channel coming from your father and your
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  mother that allowed you to come. The Bible says you are sent from
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  God, and the last time I checked it said he.
• 1:11:03
  That comment from above is above all.
• 1:11:06
  He that is of the earth is earthy.
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  One of the reasons why no enchantment and no divination
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  against your life should work is because you come from above.
• 1:11:16
  If you think you are just a Potacot person, you are just a
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  Nigerian. Now I'm not saying to not be
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  happy with your natural descent. Jesus was called Jesus of
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  Nazareth. So is it OK to say man of God of
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  Potacot or man of God or whatever?
• 1:11:31
  That's fine. But remember eventually he was
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  called Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the one who came from above
• 1:11:40
  is someone learning. Now praise the name of the Lord
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  please. Back to that scripture, John 167
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  there was a man sent from God, his name was John.
• 1:11:51
  Then the Bible says in verse 7 the same came for a witness to
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  bear witness of the light. Stop there.
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  The same came for what? A witness he came for when you
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  go to Acts chapter 4 and verse 33, you see that you cannot
• 1:12:07
  become an effective witness except by power.
• 1:12:10
  It says with great power Acts 433 gave the apostles witness.
• 1:12:16
  So if he sent him to be a witness, it means your witness
• 1:12:20
  cannot be effective, effectual outside of the ministry of power
• 1:12:26
  with great power give the apostles witness of the
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  resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ and great grace was upon
• 1:12:33
  them all. Is someone learning tonight?
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  Hallelujah. Now very quickly forsake of
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  time. What is the assignment of power
• 1:12:42
  and authority one to give witness to the lordship of
• 1:12:49
  Jesus. This is the first.
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  Assignment of power every time you receive an importation,
• 1:12:55
  whether as those sent word empowering your spirit or hands
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  being laid on you or through an encounter with the Holy Ghost,
• 1:13:03
  have this that at the back of every empowerment are we
• 1:13:08
  together should be the desire to establish the lordship of.
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  Christ to give witness to the Lordship of Christ, and by that
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  to bring many souls, to bring many to salvation.
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  Whether you are a preacher, whether you are a businessman, I
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  give you an example. If the power to prosper comes
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  upon you and causes your mind to begin to bring extraordinary
• 1:13:34
  solutions, and with that you exchange value and you build a
• 1:13:38
  great business, you see that power came upon you not just to
• 1:13:43
  prosper for nothing, but that the glorification of the Christ
• 1:13:47
  is at the back of the arrival of that power.
• 1:13:49
  Meaning if all you celebrate is the conglomerates and that
• 1:13:53
  money. It does not find its way to
• 1:13:56
  bring souls to the Kingdom. You corrupted that power even
• 1:13:59
  though you succeeded in business.
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  You don't have to practice witchcraft to.
• 1:14:04
  Corrupt divine power. Once you take it outside of its
• 1:14:08
  assignment, you have corrupted it.
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  Are we together? You see that there are many,
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  many, many people who cry for power.
• 1:14:18
  Business people, leaders cry for power.
• 1:14:21
  The power that lifts and the moment they are lifted.
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  There is nothing in their lifting that exalts Christ.
• 1:14:27
  There is nothing in their lifting that brings many to
• 1:14:30
  Christ. I'm not talking about being
• 1:14:32
  fanatical. I'm talking about being an
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  effective witness. Anything in my life that cannot
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  be used. To reveal the lordship of Christ
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  is useless to my assignment. I don't need it.
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  Anything in my life, anything in my life whatsoever.
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  Are we together? I.
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  Receive I manifest your power and your wisdom, till the
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  nations see Jesus lifted. Up.
• 1:15:11
  Exalted I receive, I manifest your power and your wisdom, till
• 1:15:24
  the nations see Jesus lifted up, glorified Hallelujah.
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  The first assignment of power in any dimension, whether it is
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  power to heal the sick, Whether is power to prosper?
• 1:15:50
  Whether is power reflected as influence?
• 1:15:52
  Whether is the capacity to do more science and wonders?
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  Whether is revelatory power. The moment power arrives your
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  life, start thinking Jesus, not fame.
• 1:16:03
  The moment power arrives your life, think the revelation of
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  Christ and forcing His Lord. As a businessman, if God exalts
• 1:16:13
  you, think the Lordship of Christ, not just the spread of
• 1:16:16
  your business alone. As a career person, every time
• 1:16:20
  you get promotion, know that promotion comes neither from the
• 1:16:23
  east or the West or the South. It takes power to lift a man up
• 1:16:30
  because going up is against gravity.
• 1:16:33
  Are we together? Whatever lifts you against
• 1:16:36
  gravity must be more powerful than gravity.
• 1:16:38
  Are we together? It is very natural to go down,
• 1:16:43
  but it is unnatural to rise up and to rise up consistently.
• 1:16:47
  And when that happens to you in Korea in ministry, you must be
• 1:16:50
  aware that there is an invisible hand, the all powerful hand of
• 1:16:54
  God. Always think the Lordship of
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  Christ and think the salvation of man.
• 1:16:59
  Your influence is a waste if it does not reveal Christ and bring
• 1:17:03
  many to Jesus. The finances is a waste quite
• 1:17:06
  honestly from a Kingdom standpoint.
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  If God grants me the grace to heal the sick, I can corrupt it
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  and make merchandise out of it for myself.
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  The sick will be healed by God's genuine power, but Christ will
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  not be glorified because self will block the channel of giving
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  him glory. Are we together now?
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  Someone shout, Say Father as you empower me.
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  Be glorified. Say Father as you empower me.
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  I pray that I will think the lordship of Christ, that I will
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  think the Lordship of Christ beyond my personal ambitions.
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  Say, Father, as you empower me, place it in my heart to use my
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  empowerment to exalt Jesus and to draw many to him.
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  That's. Right now when you come pray
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  like this, you are ready to do business with God.
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  The one who wants to do business, the business of power
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  in this end time must be the one who is prepared to sit at the
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  table of the Spirit. Here is the Holy Ghost seated.
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  Here is you seated. And you're saying, Lord, I want
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  to be given power over nations. And the Spirit of God will ask
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  you show me how the Kingdom will be represented in that growth.
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  If you cannot explain it, come another time.
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  The basis of doing business with Jesus is not self exhortation by
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  business, Yeah, I mean any kind of spiritual transaction that
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  translates to greatness. Even if you go to the alcohol,
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  they will ask you questions. Now as we're giving you this
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  money, what is the need for us? And then you say, well, I'm I'm
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  prepared to kill anybody, but if it's my wife, my husband,
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  whatever it is, let about that I want to be rich.
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  They said that's that's too small a reason.
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  If all you want is to be rich is too small a reason?
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  What else? So well, I will get many young
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  men. I promise to bring 1000 young
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  men to be part of this fraternity.
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  They said that's right. Now this is our language.
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  So you find the man rising. But there is an agenda behind
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  the rising. When you find the musician
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  rising, there is an agenda behind it.
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  When you find a businessman rising, it is only believers
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  that don't have any agenda. We just occupy space.
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  We pray for growth and when we are now there, heaven is saying
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  you now have the chance. You are a voice over millions.
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  What are you doing with that voice for the Kingdom?
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  If you are now a businessman, you have the opportunity to sit
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  on a board that not many people in their lifetime will be there.
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  How is the Kingdom represented here?
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  Are we together? Don't say I'm a billionaire.
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  What church was built through it?
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  What lives were changed? How many souls are directly tied
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  to it? Did that money buy the fuel?
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  That power crusade that that that saved someone.
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  Are you getting the point now? God made me very beautiful.
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  That's a useless language in the spirit until you can tell how
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  that beauty, Esther's beauty, took her to the throne and then
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  it saved the nation of Israel. Everything in the Kingdom is
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  useless until it is connected to Kingdom come.
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  One of the things God is doing in the body of Christ is he's
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  bringing believers into a place of divine purpose, where the
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  basis of celebrating anything will no longer be human
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  achievement, but will be that. The reason why we celebrate
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  anything is that we have found a space through it to glorify
• 1:20:51
  Christ and to bring souls. So if you celebrate a crusade,
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  it's not just because of the crowd, but that among those
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  crowds many were saved. Among those crowds, many were
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  touched. Are we together?
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  I look forward to times in the church where someone will come
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  and give a testimony and say I had a contract of 1 billion.
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  And at the end of it, the reason why we're clapping is not out of
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  lost and admiration is because we know the man, we know his
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  heart and we know how the Kingdom will profit.
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  Are we together now when a politician says, ah, I've
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  finally become a senator, whatever, we are happy because
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  at least under his time the Kingdom will be able to lift his
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  head above the waters. Listen, ladies and gentlemen, I
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  can tell you this, any man you see God doing much with him
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  across the globe is a man who was exalted, has focused on the
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  revelation of Jesus beyond the revelation of self.
• 1:21:50
  The business of power is not for selfish people.
• 1:21:53
  If all you want is anointing so that you have money, so you have
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  a name as a man of God, so you become a celebrity, I don't
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  condemn you, but just know that you are not even on the
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  negotiation table. There is nothing.
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  You are not ready to do business with God, prophet.
• 1:22:09
  You are looking for prophetic power because you want to
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  prophecy. You saw your colleague who
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  prophesied and they gave him a car and that's an easier route
• 1:22:17
  than you just feel that if I, if I can do this for three 4-5
• 1:22:21
  people, I can get a car in a house.
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  And while you are sincere, God says no, this is not enough.
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  Not by God, but that you are tired of seeing people suffer
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  without knowledge, and you are trusting God for grace to bring
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  direction with purity and without corruption.
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  That purity is what leads you to prayer.
• 1:22:40
  You will find grace there. Are you seeing why many
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  believers pray, but it looks like they're just a handful who
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  are being answered? The reason is because God probes
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  the motif of a man's heart beyond the emotions in prayer.
• 1:22:57
  You come prayer, roll, lift one leg, drop it, roll around.
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  That's emotion. But when your heart is stayed on
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  bringing glory to Christ, You've heard me say this many years ago
• 1:23:10
  the Lord spoke to me and he said, Son, if you will let men
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  see me, there is nothing I will not give you.
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  That's it. If you are secured enough to
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  hide behind the cross, get out of the way and let men see me,
• 1:23:25
  that when they see you, you are an OSHA leading them to me.
• 1:23:28
  And I said, Father, with all I receive the grace, that's it,
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  that's it. And that still remains here
• 1:23:34
  today. If you ever clap for Joshua
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  Salman, only clap because Christ can be seen through him.
• 1:23:40
  That Christ can be revealed through him is someone learning.
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  Now praise the name of the Lord. Listen, I'm about to wrap up.
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  I sense that God is speaking this to someone because you by
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  now by the prophetic calendar of your destiny, you should not be
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  at this level. The the reason why you have been
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  pegged down is not demon spirits.
• 1:24:02
  I'm saying this prophetically. God has been trying to get your
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  heart, the lost that in your heart are many.
• 1:24:10
  And if the anointing should land on that loss, you will become a
• 1:24:13
  casualty to the body of Christ. Many people will go down because
• 1:24:17
  you went up. And so God will say no, let's
• 1:24:20
  keep him here. We will not destroy him, but
• 1:24:22
  we'll keep him here until you hear someone like this and then
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  you go back and say purify my heart, Oh God, purify my heart.
• 1:24:30
  The tendencies of man outside of the help of God are many.
• 1:24:35
  I'm telling you Hallelujah. Someone once sent me a text one
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  day and he says apostle, I'm praying that God will give me is
• 1:24:43
  it 1 billion or how many billion?
• 1:24:45
  He said so that I would give you for the Crusades.
• 1:24:48
  I said one pray to die first because to carry 1 billion and
• 1:24:54
  give only dead people give like that if you are alive to self.
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  Money has power. It has turned people.
• 1:25:07
  It has turned people to. Fools, you must be dead enough
• 1:25:11
  to know that anything that comes, if it's for the Kingdom,
• 1:25:15
  it is with joy. There are some of you here.
• 1:25:17
  By your prophetic destiny, you should tap from the grace in
• 1:25:20
  this house, and you should be captains over God's inheritance.
• 1:25:24
  You should be cutting edge men and women of God, serving the
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  purposes of God. I'll tell you the reason why you
• 1:25:31
  are still here. I'm interpreting for you
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  something tonight. It is because for many of you,
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  God has not found a space in your heart for the exaltation of
• 1:25:42
  Jesus and the revelation of His glory.
• 1:25:45
  Esther, you are in this place. It is in your destiny.
• 1:25:49
  But a hazardous will keep looking for you forever, and
• 1:25:53
  that marriage will not happen because you are still a woman
• 1:25:55
  who just wants marriage. You don't yet want the program
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  of God. The day you would die to self
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  and all you want is to be used to bring blessings.
• 1:26:05
  That is the day a hazardous will see you.
• 1:26:08
  Gideon, you can remain in hiding if all you are thinking about is
• 1:26:12
  your father's house. The day you become interested in
• 1:26:14
  God's program more than your background, he will come and
• 1:26:17
  fish you out and call you a mighty man of valor.
• 1:26:20
  If there's anything I've learnt about the economy of power is
• 1:26:24
  that when men die to self, there is no limit.
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  I can know a man who has died to self because you see the
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  excellence of the power that flows through him.
• 1:26:34
  Doesn't mean you will not be celebrated, Doesn't mean you
• 1:26:37
  will not be appreciated. But those things are lesser.
• 1:26:40
  Things. I think I'll wrap up with this.
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  That will raise a cry and ask the Lord to such our hearts.
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  Listen, listen, listen my dear people, this is a very important
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  aspect of this meeting. It's not just praying and
• 1:26:56
  speaking that you receive. It's not just praying that
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  you'll be healed or whatever. I can tell you the easiest way
• 1:27:04
  to get the attention of heaven is to die to self and be about
• 1:27:09
  the revelation of Jesus. There is nothing God will not do
• 1:27:12
  to a man who is determined to enthrone the lordship of Christ
• 1:27:18
  over his life. There are two more, but I'll
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  leave that for tomorrow. Tomorrow I'll show you a few
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  dynamics about power and then hopefully we'll have the time to
• 1:27:27
  pray. But this is an important one.
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  When you look at your pastor and you see what God is doing in and
• 1:27:34
  through his life, if you give him a chance to tell you his
• 1:27:37
  story, if he's not already told you, you look for the part of
• 1:27:41
  the story where he died. That is the part where lifting
• 1:27:45
  came. Any man who has not died and is
• 1:27:48
  rising, you are watching a suicide mission about to happen.
• 1:27:52
  Eventually there will be a crash.
• 1:27:55
  I've been crucified with Christ, he said nevertheless I live yet
• 1:27:59
  not I, but Christ who lives in me and this life that I live in
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  the body that is the flesh. I live by the faith of the Son
• 1:28:06
  of God. I look at the little that God is
• 1:28:09
  doing through our lives across the nations of the earth.
• 1:28:11
  And when people commend generously and sincerely, most
• 1:28:14
  times I go back and I get down my knees and here's my prayer.
• 1:28:18
  I said, Lord, your boy has returned back.
• 1:28:21
  May it never get to my mind. May it never corrupt.
• 1:28:24
  Let the deception of fame and celebrity and greatness.
• 1:28:29
  I cast it like I cast out demons out of my mind, made never get
• 1:28:33
  to my mind to see you high and lift it up.
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  You are shining in the light of your glory.
• 1:28:47
  Pour out your power and luck as we sing.
• 1:28:52
  Holy, Holy, we'll see you shining in the light of your
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  glory. Pour out your power and love as
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  we sing Holy. True empowerment in the Spirit
• 1:29:18
  from God starts with this revelation.
• 1:29:23
  You must know that it is God's desire to empower you by the
• 1:29:26
  Spirit. You must understand the biblical
• 1:29:29
  definition of power and authority and jurisdiction like
• 1:29:33
  you learned. But more importantly, you must
• 1:29:36
  understand the assignment of spiritual power.
• 1:29:40
  Hallelujah. And the first of it that double
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  S as the principal requirement to be empowered is that you must
• 1:29:49
  die to self. Man of God, please hear me yet
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  his voice sent from God to you again.
• 1:29:56
  Die to self. It is the way up.
• 1:29:59
  The way up is down. Listen, In the year King Uzziah
• 1:30:12
  died, I saw. In the year my pride died, I
• 1:30:19
  saw. In the year lost.
• 1:30:23
  Died, I saw. In the year vain glory and self
• 1:30:30
  seeking. Died I saw in the year ambition
• 1:30:35
  that is on to self aggrandizement died I saw.
• 1:30:40
  You want to see higher, You want to fly higher.
• 1:30:43
  You want to be at the cotton edge of God's prophetic agenda.
• 1:30:48
  You want to receive? Let me tell you this, ladies and
• 1:30:51
  gentlemen, I can tell you by the Scripture and I can tell you by
• 1:30:55
  the privilege of revelation. There are levels of the
• 1:30:58
  anointing that is coming upon the body of Christ in this
• 1:31:00
  season. I tell you that we're only
• 1:31:02
  talked about even by the patriarchs who have joined the
• 1:31:05
  cloud of witnesses. God is still searching for man.
• 1:31:09
  Don't say there are already too many.
• 1:31:12
  We have 8.2 billion people upon the earth and there are only 2.6
• 1:31:18
  billion Christians recorded. Not genuinely verified.
• 1:31:23
  There's still about 5.9 billion. Don't tell me there are enough
• 1:31:27
  people. No Sir.
• 1:31:29
  I have the honor of being in the business of soul winning
• 1:31:32
  actively. There is only so much one man
• 1:31:35
  can do, and when the devil hits one man, because there's Cassidy
• 1:31:39
  of men, it would take another 20 years for God to raise another
• 1:31:43
  one. That's the reason why as God
• 1:31:45
  raises while we're doing the work, He says raise all that
• 1:31:48
  stool, raise all that stool so that when one person goes down,
• 1:31:52
  whether because your time is exhausted or whatever, it does
• 1:31:56
  not bring pain to the program of God.
• 1:31:58
  Some of you came for this conference.
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  He had this Clarion call. God is telling you it's time.
• 1:32:04
  It is time. You are delaying somebody's
• 1:32:06
  destiny. Every time you say no, a soul
• 1:32:09
  pays the price. Every time there's laxity in
• 1:32:12
  your growth, a soul pays the price.
• 1:32:14
  Some of your family members who have died today without Christ,
• 1:32:17
  if you were serious with your growth, you would have entered
• 1:32:20
  the anointing and the empowerment of your destiny.
• 1:32:23
  You would have served them before they died.
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  Listen, ladies and gentlemen, we're about to pray.
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  There are worshippers. Let me speak to my worship.
• 1:32:34
  Worship people usually sit here. Are you still here?
• 1:32:36
  This is worship people. There are songs in the spirit,
• 1:32:39
  my brothers and my. Sisters, hear me.
• 1:32:42
  Not just the songs of others. You can go to God from the place
• 1:32:46
  of death. While people are sleeping, you
• 1:32:49
  are with the Holy Spirit. Give me songs that will become
• 1:32:53
  ladders of revival. Not because I want a name.
• 1:32:57
  Not because I want to be. A celebrity person.
• 1:33:00
  Let it let pass through me, pass through my mind, pass through my
• 1:33:05
  voice. Let me sing the songs of Miriam.
• 1:33:08
  Let me sing the songs of revival.
• 1:33:11
  Let me sing the songs of power, The songs that will make the
• 1:33:14
  lost to be saved, the songs that will make backsliders come to
• 1:33:18
  Jesus. If that is in your heart, you'll
• 1:33:20
  be surprised you wake up 1 morning.
• 1:33:24
  With a song from the Spirit, it will flow to you.
• 1:33:30
  There are men of God. We need prophets, genuine
• 1:33:33
  prophets with power and some of them are here.
• 1:33:37
  Some of you are here listening to me right now.
• 1:33:40
  It's in your prophetic destiny. But the way you are joking
• 1:33:43
  around this thing, God cannot trust you that way.
• 1:33:46
  God has designed this conference.
• 1:33:48
  My apologies, my time is up. Just give me two minutes to
• 1:33:50
  press on this. I'm speaking by the anointing.
• 1:33:55
  Some of you, God is saying wake up.
• 1:33:58
  Souls are dying because of your refusal to emerge, because you
• 1:34:02
  are about trying to look for a name.
• 1:34:05
  I want to be the woman of God as the renal.
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  No, no, no, no. There are some of you, the
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  billions that should come to the Kingdom by prophecy.
• 1:34:18
  It was to come through your hands, but those hands are
• 1:34:20
  still. Sold with lust.
• 1:34:22
  They are still soiled with self. God cannot trust you.
• 1:34:26
  He trusted you with 1,000,000. You left God for two weeks
• 1:34:29
  because 1,000,000 came. He was a test.
• 1:34:33
  For the mercy of God can take you back is someone learning my
• 1:34:47
  greatest testimony as a man of God at the end of my life?
• 1:34:53
  It's not that I traveled around the world parking stadiums and
• 1:34:57
  having multitudes and millions follow across the globe.
• 1:35:01
  Thank God for that. My greatest testimony is not
• 1:35:05
  that God has given me by messy access to the ears of a
• 1:35:08
  generation. No, my greatest testimony is
• 1:35:12
  that with everything that He gave me, that let it be that I
• 1:35:17
  did my best to. Hide self out of the way and to
• 1:35:22
  let a generation see Jesus, not a celebrity Jesus, not an
• 1:35:28
  anointed man Jesus not just a powerful miracle Walker.
• 1:35:33
  Jesus, if you don't know me and you know him, my job is done.
• 1:35:38
  My assignment is to make him known.
• 1:35:41
  It is only that in making him known, you will have to be known
• 1:35:45
  to John 17 and verse one. Glorify thy Son, that thy Son
• 1:35:50
  will glorify you. I'm speaking to a man of God.
• 1:35:53
  I'm speaking to a young prophet in the making, an apostle in the
• 1:35:57
  making, a Deborah in the making. I'm speaking to an S time in the
• 1:36:02
  making. I'm speaking to a Joseph in the
• 1:36:05
  making. I'm speaking to the Gateway
• 1:36:07
  family, the global family. I'm speaking to man of God.
• 1:36:10
  You are behind said duel based on your prophetic timeline.
• 1:36:15
  Don't waste the time and keep celebrating birthdays when
• 1:36:18
  nothing is happening. I'd like you to return to the
• 1:36:20
  place of the cross, the place where men die to themselves.
• 1:36:25
  For if you die to yourself and how they desire to reveal Jesus,
• 1:36:30
  you are ready to do business with God.
• 1:36:32
  Allow me for one minute to make 2 altar.
• 1:36:34
  Calls in one. If you are sitting, except if
• 1:36:37
  you are praying, please stand. I just sense to strike while the
• 1:36:42
  iron is hot. There are people here from the
• 1:36:45
  front to the back row. There are many who are following
• 1:36:48
  across your expressions, viewing centers, and across the globe.
• 1:36:53
  You just heard what I said. Even though you are not saved
• 1:36:56
  yet, the Holy Ghost has been quickening you that there is
• 1:36:59
  destiny upon your life. I'm not here to condemn you, my
• 1:37:02
  beloved brothers and sisters. No, the way of the cross is the
• 1:37:05
  way of love, the way of the cross is the way of mercy.
• 1:37:09
  But to let you know that if you do not emerge, somebodies
• 1:37:12
  destiny is going to fail. And don't let no devil look down
• 1:37:16
  on you and make you feel you are not the kind of person God will
• 1:37:19
  use. If it were by qualification,
• 1:37:21
  some of us will not be there. I will be behind the queue by
• 1:37:24
  far, but by the mercy of God, who am I, who is my father's?
• 1:37:29
  You know, when I speak sometimes in the dear man of God, we you
• 1:37:32
  see, I was talking sometimes I say, who are we?
• 1:37:35
  Who is our father's house that God has decided, You know, like
• 1:37:38
  they said, who dash monkey banana in Africa.
• 1:37:42
  But when God gives him banana, he eats because it's God who can
• 1:37:45
  reach out to men who are so undeserving.
• 1:37:50
  Is someone learning I'm going to make the altar call you have
• 1:37:54
  never truly made Christ Lord in your life or you know that
• 1:37:59
  you're not in a healthy functional relationship and
• 1:38:03
  you're saying apostle tonight on hearing you speak.
• 1:38:06
  I don't want to waste the grace of God.
• 1:38:08
  He's giving me a chance now. He's caused his manservant to
• 1:38:11
  put this program together. Wherever you are, I'm going to
• 1:38:15
  count one to five. I want you to run.
• 1:38:18
  Leave your seat. Come and stand here.
• 1:38:20
  Make sure you know what you're doing.
• 1:38:21
  I want someone who is sincere. If you're joking, please sit
• 1:38:24
  down your seat. I mean serious people who want
• 1:38:27
  to make it right with God. Hallelujah.
• 1:38:30
  Praise the name of the Lord. Come.
• 1:38:33
  You are the one that we praise. You are the one we adore.
• 1:38:43
  You give the healing and grace that our hearts always hunger,
• 1:38:52
  oh our hearts always. Wonderful hearts always.
• 1:38:57
  Hunger. Oh, our hearts, always.
• 1:39:06
  Listen to me. No man can come out like this
• 1:39:09
  except by the Spirit. Someone.
• 1:39:11
  God is still asking you to run. Some of you are crying.
• 1:39:14
  Don't be ashamed. Don't be ashamed of your tears.
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  Is the mercy of God the one who died for you?
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  The one who loved you? I still see someone running.
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  Don't be ashamed. Come join them.
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  Join them. Join them.
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  Oh, our hearts always hunger. You are the one that's we
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  praise. You are the one we adore.
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  You give the healing and grace that our hearts always hunger
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  for. Oh, our hearts always.
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  My beloved brothers and sisters, listen to me.
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  Let me tell you what the Bible says.
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  Number one, it says, for all have seen and fallen short of
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  the glory of God. Then it says, for God did not
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  send his Son into the world, John 317 to condemn the world,
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  or that the world through Him might believe.
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  It says For God so loved the world, so loved you and me, that
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  He gave His then only begotten Son, that whosoever that
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  includes you, that believes on Him should.
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  Not perish, it's a law. Or to have life everlasting.
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  Some of you are crying. Don't be ashamed of your tears.
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  You are before the lover of your soul.
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  Men can condemn you. They can point fingers at you.
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  But I want you to know that you are standing before Jesus, the
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  one who died for your sin, the one who is ready to begin with
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  you again. Let me request that you lift
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  your right hand and for one moment, please put the camera on
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  my face. I want to speak to those who are
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  falling on line. You're watching across the globe
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  or you're watching across the various expressions here in Port
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  Arcot. We're honored to be bringing the
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  Word of God right here from Gateway Church at this
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  conference. And I want to encourage everyone
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  who is listening. If the Holy Spirit speaks to you
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  and is nudging it in your heart to make it right with Jesus,
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  then take advantage of that moment.
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  The Bible says in the day that you hear his voice, it says
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  stone harden not your heart, no matter how far you've veered
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  off. He's willing to stretch his
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  loving hands like the father of the prodigal son and to give you
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  a new beginning. I'm going to lead this precious
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  brothers and sisters here in front in prayer.
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  And for those who are falling online, following by television
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  or even watching by rebroadcast, let me request that as I lead
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  them in prayer, you join to pray that prayer to a minute from the
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  depth of your heart and afterwards salvation becomes
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  yours. For those who are in front,
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  please lift your right hand, lift it high above your head.
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  Say this after me, everyone who is in front here, as loud and as
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  clear as you can. Say, Father, I come to you in
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  the name of Jesus. I believe Jesus died for me.
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  I believe he rose again. For my justification right now,
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  I declare that I love Jesus with all my heart.
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  I receive Jesus into my heart as my Savior, my Lord, and my King.
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  I declare that the power of sin, Satan, hell, and the grave is
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  broken over my life from tonight.
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  I'm a child of God. I live for Jesus all the days of
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  my life. Keep your beautiful hands
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  lifted. Let me pray over you.
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  Father, Your Word declares that as many who come to you, you
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  will in no wise castaway. These ones have come declaring
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  Your lordship over their lives. And by the authority of
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  Scripture and in the presence of the Angel over this house, I
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  declare your sins forgiving. And from today I call you bona
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  fide recipients of the life of God.
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  The grace to live the victorious Christian life is imparted upon
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  you. The power to become children of
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  God is released upon you in the name of Jesus.
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  The power of sin, Satan, hell, and the grave is broken over
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  your life forever in Jesus, much less name.
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  We pray. Now, here's the favor I want you
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  all to do. Please look to my left.
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  That will be your right. I see counselors who have been
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  trained. They're waving their hands.
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  They're a number of you, but please let me request that you
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  cooperate with them. They'll have a word and a prayer
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  with you very quickly to my left.
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  That will be your your right. Please cooperate with them.
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  Can we celebrate them as they go?
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  Let's celebrate them as they go. Keep clapping, Keep clapping.
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  Don't stop clapping. Keep clapping.
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  Keep clapping. Hallelujah, praise God.
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  So finally let me lend my voice with the man of God to encourage
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  you. Tomorrow we have another session
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  again and let me let my voice. Please invite everyone you find
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  in this city. There's still many more who need
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  to hear what God is communicating.
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  Please make sure you become a life giving spirit.
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  Extend an invite that they are here so that tomorrow will
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  feast. I'll be showing you a few more
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  things and we'll have the time to pray and minister to your
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  needs. May the Lord bless you and cause
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  your hunger for Him to never go down and that you begin to walk
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  in the reality of spiritual power.
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  In Jesus name we pray, Amen and Amen.