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Setting Spiritual Priorities: New Year Charge 3 · Near East Christian Fellowship Sermons

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>> Speaker A: Welcome to NECF Sermons.
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uplift and strengthen you in your walk with
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>> Speaker B: Amen. Yes. So we'll quickly continue
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from where we stopped. Amen.
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but before then, I would just like
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at least five people. Ten people. Can we
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type what we've been learning regarding how to
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prepare for the year?
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Let me get a response from each and every one of us. Let me get
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a response. You can just type it on the chat
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box. Let me open my chat box so that I can
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see. Yes. Can we
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type it? Everybody, what have
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we been learning? Can we type it?
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Okay. The way to maximize time is to stay in obedience
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to God's will found in his Word. Giving
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ourselves much more to the study of the Word and, being
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committed to your local church. My profitability
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relies on how I spend time in the world.
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Okay. Yes.
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Walking and living in the word of God, being
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led of the Spirit. Okay. Never
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miss any gathering of believers, and effectively participating
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in them. No excuse. Okay. In this
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new year, I need to pray more than
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I plan. Yes. So it's good to plan, but
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it'excellent to pray more. It's good to
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plan. You hear what I'm saying? It's good to
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plan, but it is what'more excellent
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to pray. If you don't pray, you will be
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anxious about everything. Yes. You will
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be anxious. You will be caught up in the wayb of
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being so afraid of everything.
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Yes. Yes.
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Never miss any gathering of believers.
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Effectively participate in a local church.
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Participate in the gathering where saints are.
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participate there. Yes.
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Yes. Working according to what the words deems
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good. The use of our,
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time. I think you need to expand on that. I
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didn't rightly get what you meant there,
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Christopher. Ye
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strengthened your supernatural relationship. Amen.
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Yeah. So which. Which I will just build on this
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evening. Don't leave anything to chance.
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Yes. Pray about
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everything. Melina. Don't leave anything to
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chance. Pray about everything.
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Time is a gift. So we must see time
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in purpose. And we must see that purpose in
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fulfilling God's will. Thank
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you. A wise person is one
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who understands what the will of God is.
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Yes. Pray, walk
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and walk according to the will of God.
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Yes. Yes.
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The reason as, believers why we
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redeem time is important, is to
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do the will of God.
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The way to maximize your time is to
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get engaged in the practice of the
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written word. Yes.
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Value your supernatural relationship. So I must pay
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attention to the Word of God this year.
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Why? Because the word of God is my resource.
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Yes. I judge all seasons with
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the Word of God. I judge all
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seasons with the Word of God. Faith for
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the believer is the word of God. So
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I don't judge every circumstance around me
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with my eyes. Neither do I judge it
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with any kind of parameter. I judge
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the season. I judge the faithfulness of
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God with the Word of God. Yes.
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We can never grow without the
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word of God. Yes, true.
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We can never grow without the
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Word of God.
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Always. The written word is for all seasons. Thank
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you. Thank you. Always putting God's word
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first because my wisdom is in it. So the
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world sees time in years, seasons
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and days. Yes. But the believer
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must see time in purpose
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and in fulfilling God's will for
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his life. Thank you for that,
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Nancy. The believer, must see
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time in purpose and in fulfilling
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God's will for his
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life. Yes. We have two more minutes.
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As many of us that have written something, we want to see it.
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Okay. Praise God. Hallelujah. Yes.
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My decision should align with the purpose of
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God. Not min own, activities,
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or my own plans. Amen. Yeah.
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So last week, you know, we stoped somewhere and then
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we'll continue and we end today,
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right? Yeah. So like I always say
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that this year, I have been saying that
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this year has nothing to offer to
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you. You are the one that has something to
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sow into it. Did you hear what I
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said? A new year has nothing to
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offer to you. It is a time given to
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you as a gift. So you are the
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one that take hold of the gift and then do
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what? And then use it.
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So there is nothing as it where inside
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the year. You are the one
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that have to put in something. This evening I was still
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meditating, you know, on today, on today's
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discussion that we have the teaching that we have. And he said
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there is nothing that makes
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you responsible.
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Right. Much more than understanding
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how to maximize your time. The man
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that understands time is a
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responsible man. How much more? The
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believer that understands how to redeem time and
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do God's will is a responsible
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believer. He's a committed believer.
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So responsibility, as it were,
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is not in the biological. So we'll be
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celebrating more per days the year Jesus, January.
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Now we are already celebrating lots of birthday. Birthdays
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are coming in, everybody celebrating. You know, you are
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21, you are 22, you are 23, you are
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25, you are 30, you are 35, you are
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38, you are 45,
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you can be 45 and still be
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irresponsible. And you can be
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45 and, still be what? Responsible.
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So the definition of responsibility
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is that we are able to meet up with
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the demand of activities laid
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on us. So we are
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able to stand, we're able to understand what is
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God's will. And, we are able to rise to the
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responsibility of working with it. This
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is very important. So this year
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cannot be a year of chance. This year cannot.
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you should never allow this year to just
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fly. Don't allow the time
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given to us as gifts by God.
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2025. To be. Be very
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mindful of this year. Be very
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mindful of this time. Be very. We understand that
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we said time is called chairos. It only
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comes once.
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It is s. An event that we see not much more
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happening. It just comes and then we
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cannot see 2025 again at the
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end of this year. But what we can
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see about your life is that whether you have
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grown or you are stagnant or you are. You are.
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What was the opposite of lack of
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growth? When somebody is not growing, what is the
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opportun? Somebody should help me. The
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person is stunted'stunted.
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Thank you. In fact, Pastor Victor, thank you for that word.
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Stunted. Stunted growth is even
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when you are stunted. It means you are suffering from a
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sickness. In fact, that
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brings my mind to go. When.
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When. I need to say this now because I'll add it to the teaching, but
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let me say it now. When you are sick.
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When you are sick, what happens
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to you? When you are sick? Somebody should tell me. Symptoms
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that tells you that you are experiencing some
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illness inside your body. Symptoms. Yes. What? Number
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one. When you are sick, what begins to happen to you?
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You feel weak. You feel weak. Number
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one. Yes. High temperature.
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Yes. Fever. You
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lose weight. Yes.
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Lack of appetite. Who is this?
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Mathewile something you. You lack
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appartite
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weakness. See, please, as you are writing,
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watch out. These are some of the symptoms you should look out
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for this year. That you will know
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that you are sick spiritually. That you are
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sick towards your life. The man that
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does not redeem time and is not
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meeting up with the demand of responsibility as it were
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working with God's will and then to his life. It
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shows that you are sick when you
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don't desire the gathering of believers. Ah. You are
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sick when you don't
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desire to pray anymore. You are sick
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when you. When you lack the appetite of studying
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God's word. You are what? You are sick. Some of us,
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we started this year. This is Today's day is
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15. We started
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healthy.
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We set out to do lots of things already
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now we have started getting sick. Now
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when you are weak to pray, you'already
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losing weight. Spiritually, you are losing
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weight. You can't carry yourself in the place
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of prayer. You cannot wake up to to attend
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to the activities of studying the Word. We just
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started reading the Bible one year. Some people have even
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left six days. Can you imagine?
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Is that no sickness. You are sick.
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High temperature pain
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and tiredness. You're already tired
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spiritually. So you know, you know we
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are setting out this year,
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I'm taking out first to launch the year.
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I will take 30 days of prayer and fasting.
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I, know up till now the year has been launched,
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but the person has refused to fast. He has refused
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to pray. He has refused to read the word, he
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has refused to set out time for meditation. He has
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even refused to do anything regarding his own
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natural life. It's one of the things
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will end up as the distractions. Beware
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of this distraction. So one of them is this.
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Beware of being sick.
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Thickness of the mind sickness
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spiritually, that comes to you. You begin to lack the
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appetite to do spiritual things. You begin to lack
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the appetite to engage in guarding of
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believers. He said, I don't like going to church. You are
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sick. So we're going to look at
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them before, before we end
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today's teaching.
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So look at all the symptoms that was dropped in the
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chat box. Stunted growth.
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Stunted growth. So the year
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will end and we will be able to check your life.
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Whether we can see a profitability or
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you, you are spunted or you are
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stagnant.
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When you're growing, we will know. When you are not growing,
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also we will know because there will
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be lot of l loopholes
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everywhere in your life.
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So now let's be efficien. Everybody,
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let's go to efficnc.
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Let's go to efficnc.
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So you see, there is no excuse for. I don't feel like
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reading. Wait. Even please help me
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o Pastor Victor. Pastor Chidi,
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as many of us at least I'm seeing the people that are takinging
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their, their Bible reading
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daily. Some people
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join because they don't want to be looked
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after or shouted after. Oh, Pastor
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Chidy or Pastor Victor should not disturb them or Mrs.
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Titi should not ask. I've, not seen you. What's happening?
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They just join. You just join.
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And one amazing thing is it'just three
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chapters a day,
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some four chapters. Can you imagine?
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Let me tell you, we're going toa look at it also as part of the
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destruction. You are already possessed of the
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Holy Ghost. But you can be oppressed by a
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demon. A
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demon can come to resist you from prayers.
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A demon can come to resist you from reading
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God's word. A demon can come
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to resist you from attending the
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gathering of believers.
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Once you make up your mind that you will never come
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to church is not ordinary. It
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against. Is against your makeup as a
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believer. once you make up your mind, I see
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this year I will not read the Bible. It'against
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your makeup. In fact, let me say this
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is against the Holy Ghost that is
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dwelling in your insight. Once you
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say, you know what? I will not pray. Me, I
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will not pray.
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Already you are subscribing to a
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life that is not yours.
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And you can't have a fruitful year like that as a
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believer. So efficieient. Chapter
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5. Now verse 15. He says, See
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then that he works cumectly. Not as
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fools, but what but as wise.
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He say work circumspectly. Pay
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attention. Be
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mindful, be conscious of how you
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liveave your life in 2025.
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He said, Redeeming the time because the days, are
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evil. Wherefore being not unwise, but
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understanding what the will of the Lord is.
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18. Now let's stop at 18, everybody. And being not
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drunk with wine, wherein is what is
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excess. But be filled with what?
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With the Spirit. Be
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filled with the spirit. So throughout
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2025 you can be filled daily with
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the Spirit. Throughout January
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you can be fils daily with what? With the
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spirit. It'very possible for
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you. It's a thousand times
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possible. It's a reality that can happen
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throughout this year.
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Why? Because you have chosen to walk
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tumectly as a wise
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man is possible.
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So I will say this.
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Set goals, please. If you're writing right, you say set
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goals for 2025,
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but set spiritual goals as the
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highest. Set
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goals. Set goals. Set goals. When I
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say don't leave this year to chance, what I mean
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is set goals for 2025.
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Poss sets spiritual goals as the
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highest in all your
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setting of goals this year. Please, I
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beg you with the mercy of God, set spiritual
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goals. First,
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let it be the priority of your goals. Let it be
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the premium of your goals. Let it be at the top of the
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chart of your goals. Set spiritual goals this
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year. Set goals that. I'm gonna pray more
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than I've ever prayed in my life this year I'm gonna
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read the Word more than I've ever read the Word in my
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life. This year I'm gonna attend every
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meeting. Last year I was. I was running
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away from garding of us. This year
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I'mnna set goals. That, pertains to
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me being part of local meetings
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where believers are gathered. I'm gonna attend thell
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meetings. I'm goingn part of the midwichk service. I'm going to part of the
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Sunday service. Set goals.
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This is how you don't live your life to chance.
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Come on. You are too. You are too. You are
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too old now
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just to leift things to chance
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it. One day at, a time
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with Jesus. He saidir
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are not come here suff far
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is ah every day with Jesus.
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Every blessed day.
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If you're saying one day at a time, it means, oh, you can
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have other days that you don't want to go with Jesus.
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Every day must be with Christ.
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What's gonna benna be?
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What's the song? What's gonna be gonna be?
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What goes up, must come down, What's
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gonna be? What's gonna be? There is
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nothing you can do about it. There is
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something we will do about this year.
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There is nothing. What's gonna be gonna be? You
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are the one that will make what's gonna be to be
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very. You cannot leave
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as a believer who is irresponsible.
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See, let me tell you, say no to every
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form of irres responsibility this year.
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Take hold of the time. Take
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hold of the time. Take hold of the
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time. Take hold of the time.
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So in all the goals you are setting this year, which we're going to
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talk about, set spiritual goals as a
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what? As the highest. Praise God. Let
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it be the highest. Let it be the
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highest. We'talked about prayers, we'talk regarding of
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believers. But all of our studying of the words, set those
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goals as the wor. As the highest. Let me say this.
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Please challenge yourself this year
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that I'm gonna do what I've never done regarding my
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spiritual life, say throughout my life.
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O I have never read the Bible back to back.
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You know what? This year I will do it.
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set goals. Read spiritual books.
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Set goals aside the book that we are
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reading in church. Set goals to read other
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books, spiritual books that are gona
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add value your growth as a
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believer. One of the points I was given
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there is that, strengthen all the
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wor. All the spiritual or
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supernatural relationship that God has.
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What that God has given you.
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Strengthen all the supernatural relationships.
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Let's go to Ecclesia. Ecclesiastes, chapter four.
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Everybody. Oh, be a
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Responsible believer this year. Be a conscious
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believer this year. Be a responsible believer this
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year. You are out there. You're hearing me. Be a
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responsible believer this year.
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Set goals for your prayer life. Set goals for
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the reasoning of God's words. Set goals to attend goding of
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believers. Be a responsible believers. When you
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hear that we have prayer cres and his nine hour
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stretch of prayers. Oh, let it excite you.
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Let spiritual things excite you more
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this year. That is where favvency
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comes from. When
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spiritual things don't excite you. There will not
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be favathvency. There will not be
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favvency.
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Ecclesiastes chapter 4.
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Strengthen your what? Strengthen the
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supernatural relationships God is giving
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you. Strengthen them.
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Ecclesia chapter 4, verse 9 to 10. I read
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two are better than one because they have a good
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reward for their what for their label.
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For if they fall, the one
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will do what will lift his what
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will lift up his fellow.
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But waroe to him, that is what that is
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alone. For
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when he followed for he had
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not another to do what to help him up.
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Hallelujah.
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Don't walk alone this year. Don't
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work alone this year. God has led
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you to valuable people. God has
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led people into your life. So
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strengthen those supernatural
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relationships is
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selfishness. Sheer
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selfishness.
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We often say there is no self
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made believer. There is no self
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made billionaire. There's
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no self made milaire. There is no
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self made. No no no. In this kingdom we don't have
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self made people. Self
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made believers. We don't have self made believers.
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In fact we don't have self made medical doctor.
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We don't have. In fact let me even take it extreme. We
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don't have self made native doctor. So
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how will you just arrive? You think you can just arrive in the
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scene just like that? No. Now
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God has. God consistently has
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surrounded you with a system. One of the
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system is a local church. Say sir, I am not
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a people's person. That is not the spirit of God.
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We bind that spirit. We bind
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it. I am not a people's
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person. When you are in the hospital, you know that you
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are a people's person.
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When you lack food to eat close to where you will know
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that you are a people's person.
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He saysir, you know, I find it
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difficult to talk and relate with
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people. Ah See this is not the spirit of God
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speaking through you. You see this here? If
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you're on this platform, we are about 69 71. Now
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if you If you're on this platform and You. You. You
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have this mindset that you are not a people's
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person. You are not a.
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You don't associate with people.
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This year, we lose that
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chain. We lose that mindset. We
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lose every stronghold, ideology
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from everywhere that is at work in
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you, we lose it
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this year.
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One of the things that will be
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responsible for your growth is
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supernatural relationships. One of the
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things that will be responsible for your
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increase is supernatural relationships. One
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of the things that will be responsible for your
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stability, how far you go is
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supernatural relationships. One of the things that
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will be responsible for how your life
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ends at the end of this year is
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supernatural relationships. Brothers and
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sisters.
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Strengthen them. You see, I'm using the word strengthen
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them because you have to consciously do something about
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them. There is a
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supernatural relationship between your pastors
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and you. Strengthen those relationships.
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There's a supernatural relationship between the pastors
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and the members of the church. Strengthen those
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relationships. In
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fact, let me tell you, husband and wife.
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God has brought you together. Is a supernatural
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relationships.
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Strengthen them. Let me say this as
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a caution. Find whatever will cause
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you to lose the supernatural relationship that
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God has brought into your life. Fight it.
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Don't. Don't tolerate whatever will
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destroy the supernatural. The gift
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of men that, ah, God has brought in your
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life is the. When. When
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you fall. When you fall. You see, the
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scripture didn't tell us when you're gonna fall. But he said when
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you fall for there will not be an order to help
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you. No, no, no, no, no. But when you fall,
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there will be so many people to hold you.
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So practically, after service, don't just
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run. Get to two, three people
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and work. Know their names, interact with
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them, reach out to
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people. Few days, I
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was just. I was just meditating about people that always
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complain. Oh, but Pastor Chi, you did not call me Pastor
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Chi. You did not send me message. He did not send me
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message. Did you send Pastori message? Did you message
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him? Can't you see that his lack of growth that is
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disturing you? You are sick.
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Mature people, responsible
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people. When messages are, not sent to them, they
25:08
sen. So send the
25:11
message. If you realize Pastor Victor has not messaged
25:14
you. Messaging. That's
25:17
what responsible people will do. That's what matureur. That's
25:20
what growth brings to your life.
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Let me say this, please. This year,
25:25
reduce your excuses and amplify
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your responsibility.
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You all. I said reduce your excuses for
25:34
irresponsibility and, amplify your
25:37
responsibility. Reduce your excuses for
25:40
irresponsibility and, amplify your
25:42
responsibility. Reduce your Excuses for
25:45
irresponsibility and, amplify your
25:48
responsibility. Rise to
25:51
the demand of responsibilities.
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So one of them is what threaten all the
25:57
supernatural relationship. Ephesians,
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chapter four. See? Ephesians, chapter four, verse
26:02
two. Everybody. Epesians, chapter
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chap. Chapter four.
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Epesians, chapter four.
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Epesians, chapter 4, verse 2.
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I, therefore. Let's start reading from verse one. I,
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therefore, the prisoner of the Lord,
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besech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation
26:25
whereith ye are called.
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With all loneliness and meekness, with long suffering
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for bearing one another in what?
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In love. For bear. With
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meekness, with humility, with
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meekness, with long suffering.
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For bearing one another in what?
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In love and devour.
26:48
To keep the unity of the
26:51
Spirit in the bond of
26:54
peace and
26:56
devor. Do all you can. To
26:59
keep the bonds. Do
27:02
all you can. The people God has
27:05
connected you with. Do all you can to keep the
27:07
bond. Pray for
27:10
them, Reach out to them.
27:13
Do all you can. He said, with all loneliness,
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not pride. With all long
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suffering. For bearing one
27:22
another in what? In love.
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For bearing one another in love.
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Romans, chapter 12, verse 10.
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Romans, chapter 12. 10. Strengthen the
27:35
supernatural relationships God has brought into your Life.
27:38
Romans chapter Twelver 10 is a. Be
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kindly, affectionate one to another.
27:44
With broly what? Broly. Love.
27:47
In honor. Can you see? Brothers,
27:50
sisters, can you see? You say in honor. Do
27:53
what? Preferring
27:55
one another. Reach
27:58
out to those people in love.
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Honor them. Honor them.
28:05
Esteem them. Esteemed
28:07
them. Hebrews chapter
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10, verse 24. Hebrews, chapter
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10, verse 24. You see all the places that we were reading.
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You can see a responsibility laid on you as a
28:19
believer on what to do.
28:21
Hebrews chapter 10. I will say this again because I'm
28:24
hearing it sounding in my spirit. If you're on this
28:27
platform, fightide whatever
28:30
is God is fighting you from attending
28:33
the local church,
28:36
you're on this platform. Whatever
28:39
is stopping you from attending the garden of believers
28:42
this year? Fight it.
28:44
Hebrews chapter 10, verse 24. And let us
28:47
consider one another. Can you see? That we
28:50
should do what? Help
28:53
me. That we should do what? Provoke
28:55
unto love and what, And
28:58
good words. Hallelujah.
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Not fors the assembly of ourselves together as a manner of
29:04
someies, but exhorting what one another,
29:07
Encouraging one another. so much more as
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yes, see the day what approaching.
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Philippians chapter two, verse three to four.
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Philippians Chapter two, verse three to four.
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He said, let nothing be
29:26
done through strife, O vain
29:28
glory. But in lowneliness of
29:31
mind. Let's do what? Let each
29:34
esteem What? Esteem the order. better
29:37
than what? Than themselves.
29:40
Now, everybody. Nowiverse 4, look.
29:43
Not every man on his own things,
29:46
but every man also on the things of what?
29:49
Of the.
29:52
So practically now, how will I strengthen
29:55
all the supernatural relationships knowing
29:57
that I can't fulfill God's will alone? Knowing
30:00
that God has put a system of men
30:03
in my life for my growth, for my stability,
30:06
for my increase. How can I
30:09
be able to do that? Number one, I have to
30:12
not show that relationship.
30:15
Noture the relationship, nurture
30:17
the relationship. Don't be careless
30:20
about the people God has put in your life.
30:23
Please, I beg you, don't be. What?
30:25
Don't be careealless about them.
30:29
Don't be careealless. Don't be
30:32
careless with them. Honor them.
30:35
Oh, my good God, Honor them. Be
30:37
loyal to them. When we say loyalty,
30:40
we mean be devoted without
30:43
reservation when it
30:46
comes to your supernatural relationship. Heal
30:49
every spirit of selfishness.
30:54
You see, scriptural, to put yourself
30:56
ahead of people
31:00
is scriptural. Puts
31:03
people ahead of you.
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Mark, chapter nine, verse 35, chapter 10,
31:08
verse 40 fiver. verse 44. He said, if anyone
31:11
desires to be the greatest in this kingdom,
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he must be the servant of them all.
31:18
Mark 9:35. Mark
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10:44.
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You want to be known. You want to be felt.
31:26
Your impact, your effect in a system,
31:29
in the life of people. God has put in your life. Serve
31:32
people. Let me say this. Serve the relationships God
31:35
has put in your life. Serve them.
31:38
Let me take it a little bit far. If you
31:41
don't feel used in the local church, you
31:44
have been useless.
31:47
You. You what? I said, if you don't feel used
31:50
in the local church, you have been what you have been
31:53
useless. I will repeat it the
31:56
third time again. If you don't feel used,
32:00
you have been what you have been.
32:02
Useless. He said, for
32:05
the Son of man came to
32:08
serve. Let. Let's read this. Let's
32:11
read Mark 10 so that you will see how. Jesus.
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Jesus. Jesus. Everybody
32:18
me
32:21
in this end here. Am I the only one? Am I the
32:24
only one? Pastor friend will just be calling my line. He will be calling
32:26
my life. Yes, we'll call your line. You must feel
32:29
use.
32:32
When it comes to. I'm getting more now. More things are
32:35
coming into my heart. When it comes to the supernatural relationships
32:38
God has sp. In your life. Don't play safe.
32:41
Don't play safe. Safve game, save game.
32:45
Practical. you go to eat with your friends. You go to
32:48
eat after you have eaten
32:52
that days. Somehow, somehow you know that your friends don't have
32:55
money. And then in your heart you have this
32:58
nudg. And then the ndging say, pay for everybody. You
33:00
say, ah, ah. No, don't be me, ma. I'm not a mom.
33:05
No, no, no, no, no.
33:08
They say, oh, your friend is in the hospital who will go
33:11
and stay with him. M in the hospital. He say, o no about me.
33:14
No. I have so many things going on in my life. Ah,
33:17
You have so many things going on in your life, and you can't be dear
33:20
for people. See what March of the 10
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says, verse 44. He said,
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Whosoever of you will be the chief.
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Please learn life from the scriptures.
33:31
Don't learn life from that. From social media,
33:34
from Instagram, from all those TikTok,
33:36
Snapchat. Learn the
33:39
Christian conduct from the scriptures. This
33:42
year. Nobody ever,
33:45
loses by giving.
33:48
Did you hear what I said? Nobody ever
33:51
loses by what? By giving.
33:55
And see, the scripture said
33:59
shall be the servmant of go 45. For
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even the son of man came not to be
34:04
served or minister, to
34:07
minister, to stop and to give his
34:10
life a ransom. For how many?
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For many.
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For many. Can you see?
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For many. We can see. We can
34:22
see that same statement that Jesus
34:25
will give, right?
34:29
He said that also in John, chapter
34:32
15, verse 13. Fifteen, verse
34:35
13. See Jesus'words
34:38
John, chapter 15, verse thirteen. Greater love
34:41
had no man than this. Than a man
34:44
laid down his life for his
34:46
enemies. Everybody now
34:50
what? What? A man laid down his life for what?
34:54
For his friends.
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So sacrifice for the supernatural
35:01
relationships God has put in your life. That is what I'm
35:04
saying. Sacrifice.
35:08
Sacrifice
35:11
for bear with one another.
35:14
Your friend offend you. For surely offenseences
35:17
will come from your friends. Offenses, will
35:20
come.
35:23
Pastor Chidi is on this platform. Pastor Victor is
35:26
on this platform. Pastor Emmanuel is on this platform. I think I've
35:29
seen Mrs. M. Titi. Pastor Chidi,
35:32
let's assume one of these days Mrs.
35:35
If informa now you know there was this misunderstanding
35:38
and then you just woke up and say, me, I'm not doing
35:41
this marriage again.
35:44
No, now it cannot happen.
35:47
Not even because, oh, I've said an O. For better, for
35:50
worse. Just understanding that, God
35:53
has brought this woman in my life
35:56
as a blessing I must keep. I
35:59
will not allow. We don't
36:02
quit. Thank you, Takunda.
36:05
Don't allow misunderstanding. Destroy
36:08
the supernatural relationship God, has put
36:11
in your life. Pastors will correct you. And the
36:14
next option the demon will put in your mind is leave the
36:17
church. Leave the
36:20
church. Pastor Fred hates you. Leave the
36:23
Church. Leave the church. You keep hearing. Leave the
36:25
church. Leave the church. They want to kill you
36:28
here. Leave the church. Leave the church. That
36:31
is not the Holy Ghost. We are not
36:34
going anywhere, Christopher. Thank you.
36:39
We live here. We grow here. One of the words
36:42
I received within the week when I was meditating on this, on this,
36:45
on this part of the sermon, he said, stay where
36:48
you are planted and grow.
36:52
Have you ever seen seasons change
36:55
upon a tree and the tree uproot
36:57
itself
37:00
because there is winter. The tree does not like
37:03
cold. It now uproots itself and enter into the
37:06
room of the person that planted it. Have you ever seen
37:09
anything like that?
37:12
Rainy season, sunny season.
37:15
With fertilizer. With no fertilizer.
37:18
Harsh condition. No condition, good
37:20
condition. We are there
37:23
planted. So stay in the local church
37:26
where God has plant you and grow there.
37:30
We have a generation that don't like correction.
37:33
When you are corrected, you raise your nose in the
37:35
air. Your head now fills the
37:38
room. Your chest, your chest.
37:42
Why are you
37:45
even
37:48
Scripture is scriptural that the child whom
37:51
the father lost is the one that is
37:53
justastised. A generation that does not like
37:56
chastisement. That is
37:59
why all your
38:02
Go go po go po go
38:04
po go po p. Go po go
38:07
p Go. There is nobody like saying pro. You
38:10
are messing up. In fact, let me say this as
38:13
a caution. I both as a caution and an
38:15
instruction. If you are in a relationship with
38:18
anybody now, you're on this platform and nobody
38:21
is correcting you because of. Bad,
38:24
because of your stubborn head, because of your
38:27
whatever. Leave the relationship.
38:32
The people that love you the most are the ones
38:35
that will sharpen you. Sharpening
38:37
is not suitable. But
38:40
it'beautiful at the end of the day,
38:42
she'telling is not sweet. But at the end of the
38:45
day you take shape.
38:47
So get growing, get bigger.
38:50
Get busy investing in the supernatural
38:53
relationships.
38:56
Let me say this now. What I mean is this.
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Let me say this.
39:06
Be truthful to each other. Do
39:09
you? What? I said, be what? Be truthful.
39:12
What
39:15
to each mother.
39:18
Pray for the life.
39:20
Do you What? I said do what?
39:22
If I ask randomly. Now let me say
39:25
this. When you see yourself having more
39:28
misunderstanding with the people God has put in your
39:30
life is because you're not praying for them.
39:36
Husbands and wives know this. The more
39:38
you pray with your wives, the
39:41
more you see less on the misunderstanding.
39:46
The more you see there is something that
39:49
happens when you pray for people.
39:52
You cannot use the same mouth and, pray for them and use the
39:55
same mouth to criticize them or to tear them down.
39:58
It does not work.
40:01
So strengthen the relationship.
40:04
Feed it. pray for them. Pray for
40:07
your pastors. Pray for your friends. Pray, pray.
40:10
Pray for your wife. Pray for your husband. Pray for
40:13
your children. Pray and pray and pray.
40:15
Don't get weary. Let me end on this
40:18
point. Don't get weary in
40:21
investing in the relationship God has
40:23
put in your life.
40:27
Don't get weary.
40:29
Invest, invest, invest.
40:33
Protect the relationship,
40:36
believers. Protect the words
40:39
relationship. Protect people. Protect
40:42
them. Halleluah.
40:44
Amen.
40:46
So, set goals for the
40:48
year. Set goals for the year.
40:52
But above all, set what? Set spiritual
40:55
goals. Spiritual goals should be the highest.
41:01
Spiritual goal should be the highest. At the end of
41:03
2025, we want to see that you have grown
41:06
spiritually.
41:09
Revelational knowledge. Desire it more.
41:14
Don't wait for anybody. Desire
41:17
m it more to grow spiritually.
41:21
That mental goals for this year.
41:25
Do you know what I said? Set mental
41:28
development goals. Don't
41:31
read only the Bible.
41:35
Read, read. Mind provoking books. Abus,
41:39
your mind more. When we
41:42
talk about entrepreneurship, now you don't know anything.
41:45
We talk about investment, now you don't know anything
41:51
we talk about. In fact, as I don't have a
41:54
football team, okay, I said I have Mass
41:57
City, but they told me that man city is, at
42:00
the lower table. This. I don't know
42:02
what happened to them. We used to. We used to be
42:05
on form, you know,
42:08
but it's amazing that now I don't know what is happening to
42:11
us. At least if you
42:14
touch football, I can say some names.
42:17
You touch boxing, I can say some names.
42:20
You touch mma, I can say some names.
42:23
You touch BBC, you touch cnn.
42:25
Some things that are happening in the world. In Nigeria, there are
42:28
spor. Everywhere books. I can say some
42:31
things. You can't see
42:34
anything happening in the world. You can't say anything. Now
42:37
somebody in the side is saying, sir, we are in the world. Are.
42:40
We are not of the world. Thank you.
42:44
Grow. Let your mind grow.
42:48
Let me say this, let me say this. You can never
42:51
be better than the content of your mind.
42:55
You see what I said you can never be.
42:57
What? Better and, productive
43:00
than the content of what? Of your
43:03
mind.
43:07
Attend conferences.
43:10
If you have to pay, pay for them.
43:13
If you have to go and seek people that are experts
43:16
in the field, stick those people
43:19
and, learn. See, please, this year,
43:21
no chance. don't leave anything to chance.
43:25
If you have to buy the books, invest and buy
43:28
the books. Buy the
43:31
books, Buy the books. Buy the
43:33
books. Every area of your life that you
43:36
know that needs to shine more, buy
43:39
the books get the knowledge for it.
43:44
Set. You see, I've said it now. Set spiritual goals
43:47
should be the highest. Set mental goals
43:50
for your mind. Transformation, of your mind
43:53
is important.
43:56
Set physical goals.
43:59
Big stomach is not a sign of good
44:02
living.
44:05
Slim neck is not a sign of
44:07
fitness. He says,
44:10
saysir, you know, this is stomach, body. Your neck is on the
44:13
air and your head is bigak on it.
44:16
He says, I'm watching. I'm watching my weight.
44:19
You are, you are. You are. You are dying because you have been eating
44:22
too much carbohydrate. No protein, no
44:25
nothing. You know,
44:28
rice, rice oil, rice oil, rice
44:31
oil, rice oil, rice oil, fried rice,
44:34
white rice, baked rice, fried rice,
44:37
white rice. G.
44:38
Gariari,
44:42
this is, I'm watching my protein level. You
44:45
are not. There is no any protein level. You are watching.
44:49
We see you. We say, oh, what is. What is
44:52
happening? We can see your stomach is growing big.
44:55
Is growing big. He, the Lord is
44:57
good. We're living a good life where you
45:00
are dying, brother. you are dying, sister.
45:04
If they are confessing white spaghetti and pepper, they are confessing
45:07
their sins.
45:10
Truly, salvation has come into this house today.
45:14
No exercise. No
45:16
exercise, nothing. So set
45:19
physical goals.
45:23
Get to check your food.
45:26
I told us here on this platform, for the first time,
45:29
I got to find out that my ion level is
45:31
low. And I was wondering what am I be using ion
45:34
for? My vitamin D is low.
45:37
There was nothing. I have been eating
45:39
unhealy. Simple.
45:43
You will see. When. When, let me say this
45:46
now. I'm not showing it to shd people now, when you are
45:49
single, you will. You will master the art of
45:51
eating unhealthy. I, have been
45:54
delivered some of you deliverances on the way.
45:57
And it is s happening very soon, sooner than we
46:00
expected. The other is some
46:03
people are sending me s. I believing even what
46:06
to eat. What to eat, brother, is because you are single.
46:10
Sir, are you saying that we should go and marry? Sharp
46:13
shp. No. As a single
46:15
person, you can watch the food you eat.
46:20
You can watch it. You can watch
46:23
it as a
46:26
single person. Married. Husbands, wife,
46:29
children, brothers, sisters, believers.
46:31
This body. This body needs to be
46:34
taken care of.
46:37
If you have to see the doctors, See the
46:40
doctors.
46:43
He says, I've been feeling pain in my head. I've been
46:46
feeling pain. You have not been sleeping.
46:51
Rest. Rest, Believers.
46:54
Rest
46:59
say we. We have been indoor 16 hours.
47:03
After your 16 hours, please also have
47:06
time. To do what? To sleep.
47:11
Believers, as you're listening to me, have
47:14
leisure time.
47:18
Have lessure time. You
47:20
Don't. You don't watch no movie.
47:23
You don't, you don't go out to any park.
47:26
You don't even take a walk. nothing,
47:30
no leisure, nothing.
47:33
Forakem is saying, don't wait to marry before you do
47:35
it. You know, I
47:38
literally know every restaurant in
47:40
Deribboo. How?
47:43
Because every time I'm coming back from work, I take
47:46
myself out. I said, let me, let me learn to
47:49
take myself out.
47:52
I, will go there, sit down, order other food, eat, snap my
47:55
face and feel good.
47:58
And when I'm coming, I put my earpiece and do a video and put
48:01
on, on, on, WhatsApp. And people are saying, oh, this guy
48:04
is catching poo and he's enjoying himself. Of
48:06
course you are waiting for
48:09
bro to be the one to take you out. You are
48:12
joking.
48:15
Set financial goals.
48:18
Set financial goals. Brothers,
48:21
I beg you with the mecies of God.
48:25
Set, financial goals.
48:28
Let me say this now, very important in
48:31
2025, don't take any
48:34
major decision in your life that you don't have knowledge
48:37
about. Do you hear what I
48:39
said? Don't take any
48:42
major decision in your life that you don't
48:45
have knowledge. Get sufficient
48:48
knowledge and information over every
48:51
decision. Major decisions before you take
48:54
them. Don't start
48:57
out any major project without knowledge.
49:01
Don't start out any kind. Don't take any
49:04
move without knowledge. First
49:07
knowledge of God's word and seek
49:09
for counsel because there's safety in them from people around
49:12
you.
49:15
So set financial goals
49:18
is not sinful. To set financial target for the
49:21
year at the end of
49:24
2025. This is the amount of money I want to
49:27
raise. This is the amount of money I want to save.
49:30
This is the amount of money I want to invest. It's not
49:33
sinful if you
49:35
fail financially. You know, you
49:38
know the part of Psalms that said s from When I am
49:41
young and I am old, I have seen,
49:44
I've never seen the righteous and their, children
49:47
beg for bread. You will be the first person we will
49:50
see, will see you. We will see you and your
49:53
children. You will beg for bread and bread till
49:56
we know that you are a bread beggar
49:59
in the sources of income that comes to you.
50:01
Get a job to do, brothers and sisters.
50:04
Learn a skill.
50:08
Learn a skill. Make use
50:11
of your hands,
50:14
make use of your mind.
50:18
sharpen your skills.
50:22
sharpen the things that you are doing. In fact,
50:25
let me say something now to somebody. You have been
50:28
doing things for free. Put a
50:31
price tag now on it. It's time to put A price
50:34
tag. Even if it's $5, put a price
50:37
tag on it. Two
50:40
people that will buy, don't mind, put a price
50:43
tag and continue polishing the
50:45
skill. Some of you are, a virtual
50:49
assistants. Some of you are, a, statistic,
50:52
statisticians. Some of you
50:55
are video editors. Some of you are something to
50:58
land. Some of you are real estate agents. Some of you are
51:01
house agents. Some of you money changers. M.
51:04
Many, many things happening. Some of you are. You are
51:07
baking. You're doing a lot of things.
51:11
Sharpen them.
51:14
Let me say this. amplify. Amplify,
51:18
the sources of income that comes into your life
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in 2025. Come on, you are old
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enough. You have put so much pressure on your
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parents, on pastors, on friends,
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on I find me, find me 2K. By the end
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of five people. You have looked for five people. They should find
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you 2K. That's 10,000 year.
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And you, ah, are the most sharpest person we see
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on Facebook.
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You have a working brain, a
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working hands, a functioning body. But
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you hate hard life. It's a meal. Have, been called to soft
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life. Brother, is money that makes soft life
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soft. So go and
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get busy. In 2025, I'm,
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challenging us. Paul said they have
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learned to use their hands.
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So use your hands this year.
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Set career goals for your career.
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You are a nurse. Don't be a quackk nurse.
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You're a computer engineer. Don't be a quackk
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computer engineer. You're a
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physiotherapist. Don't be a quackk fish. Your
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therapist.
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sharpen your career. sharpen your
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career. In fact, let me say
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this. Get to the peak of your
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career, except you don't want to use
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it. In
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2025, be at your best.
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If somebody is beside you, tell the person, be, ah, at your
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best. In 2025, be at
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your best. Be at your best.
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Spiritually, be at your best.
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Emotionally. Be at your best. Physically,
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be at your best. Financially, be at your
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best. Career wise. Be at your best.
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Don't waste opportunities.
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Don't waste time over anything. Now, I'm bringing
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instruction now for someone. Don't waste time
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over anything. What you have to do, that you
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need to do, do it.
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Start things now and, start from scratch.
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Do you know what I said? Start things now and
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start from where? And, start from scratch.
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Don't be ashamed to start from scratch.
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Don't be ashamed to start from scratch.
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Don't run away from process, brethren.
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In 2025.
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Don't easily give up on things.
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Don't give up on your spiritual life. Don't give
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up on your financial life. Don't give up on your physical
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life. Don't give up. Don't give up.
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Start small.
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Set out to start small.
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Build in pieces. Build in
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pieces. Stay with your
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conviction. Stay with your persuasions. That is
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from God's word.
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See, you must. You must. You must have
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a system inside you and that system. Or you
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have a system inside you.
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Sorry. And that system is the Holy Ghost.
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Every or any area of your life
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that you are ashamed of to talk about,
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please work on it this year. Do you know
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what I said? Any ah, area of your life that you are
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ashamed to talk about. You do what? Work on it this
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year.
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And lastly, now,
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lastly,
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beware of these distractions.
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Do you know what I said? Lastly, you what? Beware
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of these distractions.
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Beware of lukewarmness.
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Lack of appetite for spiritual
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things. Lack of appetite for
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growth, lack of appetite
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for increase, lack of appetite
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for progress. Beware of this
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destruction. Lukewarmness.
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Don't choke yourself with so much
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activity that will make you
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lose yourself.
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Do you what I said don't choke yourself with so
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much activities that may cause you to do what?
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To lose yourself.
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Run away from that
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deception that tells you there is so much
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time.
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Run away that deception that
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tells you there is so much time. There's so much time.
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There's so much time. Run away from that deception
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and Run away from the syndrome
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that I must start big.
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Do you hear what I said? Run away from the syndrome that
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I must what that I must start.
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This is how you prepare for this year. So
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you are the one actually that will invest into the
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year. You are the one that will sow into the
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year that you are the one that will put into the
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year. You are the one truly that will
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give into the year. Please.
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So we want to see your life at ah, the end of
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2025. We want to
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mark you. We want to see your life. We want to
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see how truly effective you have
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been. We want to see how responsible
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a believer you are. We want to see
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how truly you have embraced
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growth throughout, 2025.
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So set our spiritual goals, mental
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goals, physical goals, financial
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goals, career goes set
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out, set out, stretch
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out. Enertge your capacity.
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Enlert your capacity. Embrace the way
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of discipline. Embrace the way of
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diligence. Increase on every
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side. Can we just bless God? Everybody,
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wheresoever you are. Can we bless God?
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Can we bless God? So many
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teachings are coming this year. This is just
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to just bring our mind to the place where we must
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embrace the things that are coming. It's
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not just to motivate us. No no no no no no. Motivation is
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good. It's not sinful.
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But it's for us to stay on God's word. To stay
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on God's will to redeem time. and stay true
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till the end.
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