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Times and Seasons · Apostle Joshua Selman

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Speaker 1: Less and appreciate my dear friend and brother person Nathaniel.
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It's their wife. Thank you, thank you, thank you, such
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such an amazing and a truly humble man of God.
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I love you with all my heart and thank you
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so much for this opportunity in the name of Jesus Christ.
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Just like he was saying while he was up stage here,
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he truly is a privilege to serve the purposes of God.
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And we thank God for some of the blessings that
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we receive while we self, but make no mistakes about it.
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God is God all by himself. It is a privilege
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to be part of the things that we do, and
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that He's able to use us the way he uses us.
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It's an honor. You know. We do some of these
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things not as igh service, but we make it public
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to also mentor a generation on coming. Are we together.
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It's not enough to just keep quiet and say I'm humble.
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It's important we presented template so that the generation will
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learn that you must be vocal about acknowledging the lordship
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of Jesus Christ. He says, and I if I be
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lifted up from the earth, I will draw allelujah. Pride
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is a killer pride is a destroyer. It destroys anything
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at all. Allelujah. So one more time, let's bless the
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Lord for his choice, servant. Thank you personal allelujah. Can
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you lift your hands to heaven and ask the Lord
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for a very definite encounter by his word. Go ahead
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and pray, Father, give me an encounter tonight by your word.
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Siprando scapera called chaffra de geppart the theater and encountering
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the name of Jesus by your word. King Golf, Kings,
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Lord of Lords, fade full lendru lamb of God.
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Speaker 2: We were ship. You're the King of Kings, Lord of Lords,
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fade full lean.
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Speaker 1: Lamb of God. I was shaping very simple song.
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Speaker 3: The King of Kings, Lord of Lords, faith full Landru,
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Lamb of God.
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Speaker 1: I was shop. One more time, King God Kains.
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Speaker 3: Lord of Lords, faithful lantern.
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Speaker 2: Love a God.
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Speaker 3: We praise the brains of life. Em well, Gody, that's the.
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Speaker 1: One who who saves. We praise the cop of life,
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that Gloria screen that she is our sins away Father, Well,
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bless you speak to our hearts, O God, in the
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name of Jesus Christ. Blessed be the name of the Lord,
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please be seated, hallelujah. Some one hundred and two. Then
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will read verse thirteen. I'll be teaching tonight on times
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and seasons Psalms one or two and verse thirteen. Let
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me be gain by encouraging our hearts. That the strength
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of the believer in this kingdom is the degree and
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the extent of light that you have. The extent of
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your spiritual illumination is where your strength is derived from. Hallelujah.
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When a believer does not have high level spiritual illumination,
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you will be around spiritual things, but you will never
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have the power to enjoy the blessings that come. So
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conferences like this, like I would always observe. It's an
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opportunity for us to be exposed to the light, the
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various dimensions of the light of the Kingdom. Allelujah. When
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we have high level illumination and we understand the speakings
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of God, then we can connect our faith with understanding.
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Then it will produce for us. Allelujah. Praise the name
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of the Lord. Tonight's teaching will bless you, and I
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pray that your heart be opened in the name of Jesus.
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Let's read together Some one or two and verse thirteen,
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Ready one to read, thou shall arise and have mercy
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upon Zion for the time to favor her. Yeah, the
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sad time is come. Let's read the bee part together
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for the time. Ready one to read for the time
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to favor her. Yeah, the sad time, Allelujah. The Bible
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records that Jesus wept two times, principally as revealed in scripture.
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The first time he wept was in John chapter eleven,
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when he was at the grave of Lazarus. When he
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was told that Lazarus was gone, he cried, and oh
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how he loved On eleven thirty five. The Bible says,
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Jesus wept, and then they said, oh how that he
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loved him. He wept as an expression of his love
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and compassion that he had for Lazarus. The second time
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he would weep was in Luke chapter nineteen. Look chapter nineteen,
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and we begin a reading from verse forty two. Luke
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nineteen forty two. The Bible says that he stood over Jerusalem,
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and he began to weep, and he said, if thou
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hast known even in this thy day, the things that
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belong on your piece, it says, for nowaday your eyes.
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Let's jump for the sake of time. To forty four,
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the Bible says that they will go through all these things,
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these negative things. It says, because thou knowest not the
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time of divisitation. Allelujah. He wept because many things would
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pass them by. They would become victims of life, victims
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of all kinds of demonic oppressions. And it says, simply
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because you did not know the time of your visitation.
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In second first Chronicle, chapter twelve and verse thirty to
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a popular scripture, First Chronicles, twelve thirty two, it says,
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and of the children of Isaka, which were men that
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had understanding of the times. This was the advantage they
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had over their brethren, that they could discern times, they
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could discern seasons. It says, to know what Israel ought
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to do. And the heads of them were two hundred
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and all their brethren were at their command. May that
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be your testimony, Jesus, Now God designed in fact, let's
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go to Genesis Genesis chapter one. Let me show you
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something before I begin to teach Genesis chapter one. Please,
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what we know as the creation story? Now verse fourteen.
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Genesis one, verse fourteen. The Bible says, please give us
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verse fourteen, and God said, let there be lights in
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the firmament of the heavens, to divide the day from them,
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and let them be for signs. Help me for seasons
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for days and four years. So God made lights, and
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he used those lights to divide seasons. That immediately tells
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you that our activities on earth is a function of
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times and seasons. Please write it down. If you must write,
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as far as our work on earth is concerned with,
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subscribe to the law of times and seasons. That means
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that everything you do on earth must be done in time,
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and must be done with respect to time. In Ecclesiastics,
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Chapter three and verse one, the preacher gave us a
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greater perspective, and he said, to everything, say everything one
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more time. Please to everything, there is a season. Just
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stop there. Please look very carefully to everything. When the
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Bible says to everything, it means there is nothing under
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the earth that will divide the law of times and seasons.
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To everything, there is a season, allelujah, and a time
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for every purpose under the earth. Let's go to these two.
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Now it says it I'm to be born, to be born.
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It's not the issue. It says a time to be born.
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It I am to die, a time to plant. Please
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look up. When a woman gets pregnant, and after three months,
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under any kind of condition, she feels like giving bed.
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Do you call that delivery? Are we together? Why? Timing? Timing?
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The same thing she's afraid of now is the same
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thing you'll be praying for when she gets to nymons
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you name them, and for one you do not. You
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call that losing a child, and for another you congratulate
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and call it delivery, simply because of timing. Are we
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together a time to be born? Then it says a
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time to die, a time to plant, a time to
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pluck up that which is planted the street, please, a
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time to kill, a time to heal, a time to
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break down, and a time to build up. Let's have
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one more verse. A time to weep and a time
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to laugh, it to mourn, and a time to dance.
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The constant word in all of these verses is time.
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So everything we do under the throne oven by the
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law of time and seasons. That is the first thing
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I wanted to The second thing I wanted to know
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is that God him said he in his dealings with men,
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he respects times and seasons. God does not dwell in time.
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God does not need time, but when it has to
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do it his dealings with man, he limits his operation
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to subscribe to time and seasons. Allelujah. In the Greek
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there are many words that express times and seasons, but
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I want us to discuss two of them were looking
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at times and seasons. The first is the word chronos
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c hronos. The word chronos chronos means the passage of time,
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the sequential movement of time, or the quantitative movement of
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time that means sectence, minutes, hours. The passage of time
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is what the Bible calls chronos. Allelujah. And then there
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is another word called chiros kairos. They're all Greek words
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that express time. Chiros kiros means a defining moment. It
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means an opportune time. It doesn't just mean a passage
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of time. It means a moment in time where certain things,
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whatever happens within that time, will have a prolonged effect
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on an individual. Alleluyah. So we have chronos, the passage
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of time, the quantitative passage of time by the minute,
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by the second, by the hour. And then we have cairos.
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It talks about moments, seasons within time. Alleluyah, are we
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learning already now? Please listen. There is a dimension of
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grace that is released in every time and in every season.
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There is a dimension of grace that comes with every
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time and comes with every season. In other words, there
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are supernatural possibilities that if you have the discernment, you
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can experience them simply because you aligned with certain times.
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There's no time to deal with the story in John
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chapter five. John chapter five is a classic example, the
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man at its beautiful Remember the story. The Bible says
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that man had was there for thirty eight years, and
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the Bible tells us that at a certain time, not
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every time. If it just fell in the water at
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a time that the angel did not come to stare,
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you would just come out wet but not healed. The
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Bible says, at a certain time an angel would come
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and steer the water, and whoever was descigning to fall first.
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As merciful as God is, you would think that when
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the water was thered, so many people should come. And
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yet that time could only accommodate one descigning person, the
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first person. I don't know what was wrong with that
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man that two years became five, became ten, became fifteen,
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became twenty, became thirty, became thirty five. Jesus had to
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look at that man, and the Bible says he was
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there for a long time. What was his offense? He
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was near the water away together. He knew what to do,
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but he missed the timing. Thou shall arise and have
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mercy upon Zion for the time to favor her. Yeah,
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the said time is come. So there are graces and
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there are possibilities that are attached to every time. In fact,
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in Ecclesias is, chapter ten, verse eleven, the Bible says,
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he makes all things beautiful, not every time, Please give
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it to us. Ecclesias is three eleven, three and eleven.
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He makes all things, all things beautiful. He had made
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everything beautiful in his time. Notice he never said your time.
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He had made everything beautiful in his time. That means,
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if you can understand the sequence of God's spiritual timing
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and the way he walks, your life will be an
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expression of the beauty and the glory of God. If
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you are with me, say amen, he makes all things
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beautiful in his time. Time is so important in scripture
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that in Psalm ninety and verse twelve. The psami is
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give us a very strong counsel. It was a prayer,
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he said, in your prayer, ensure that you pray and say, oh,
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teach us. So teach us to number our days, why
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that we may apply our hearts onto wisdom. There is
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a relationship between your working in wisdom and understanding times
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and seasons. Teach us to number our days that we
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may apply our hearts onto wisdom. Paul was mentoring the
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church in episodes. In Efficient chapter five, I'm giving you
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a few scriptures before I begin to teach. Five From
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verse fifteen efficients five and verse fifteen, it says, see
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then that you walk sircumspectly. The word circumspectly means accurately,
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work accurately, not as fools, but as wise. Where is
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the wisdom there? Redeeming the time? The word redeem means
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to buy back. Are we together? He's saying, redeeming the
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time because the days are evil verse seventeen. Hopefully we'll
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get into that one tomorrow. He say, wherefore, be ye
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not on wise, but understanding what the will of the
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Lord is, redeeming the time because the days are evil.
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One last scripture John chapter nine and verse four. Jesus
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himself was teaching John chapter nine. Let's read together, these
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are the words of Jesus. Ready one to read. I
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must work the works of Him that sends me Aha,
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while it is day. Hold on, hold on, Why would
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Jesus sound so limited? While it's Jesus, Almighty, Jesus, the
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Word of God, the incarnate of the Father. He's saying
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even for me, since I have become a man, I
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have submitted to times and seasons. In other words, if
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I waste my time, there will be consequences, even as
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far as redemption is concerned. I must work the works
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of Him that sends me. While it is day. It
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says the night comet. It didn't say it may come.
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The night certainly will come. And when night comes, no man,
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no man, provided you are a man, you will not
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be able to work. I must work the works of
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Him that sent me while it is day. It says
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the night cometh when no man can walk again away together. Now,
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most believers do not understand the power of time. I
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have thought, and I have read from Scripture that the
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sendive of dominion is dominion over time, not over things.
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You can have dominion over things, but you are not
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truly working in dominion until you can have dominion over time.
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The greatest desire of a dying man is not more things.
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The greatest desire of a dying man is not more influence.
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For instance, in Isaiah chapter thirty eight, the story of Hezekiah,
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Hezekiah pleaded for more time. That was his prayer. Give
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me time, because the moment you have time, every other
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thing can be restored in time. Are we together? You
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can see that when God wants to show men mercy,
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he restores years more than things. I will restore the years,
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not just the things. You can lose money and get
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it back. You can lose your health and go to
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the hospital. But if you lose time, that is the
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end of it. In fact, did you know that you
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called then entire journey from whenny Money is born to
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when he dies. Life time, life time, for as long
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as his spirit can coexist with his body. If it
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is two days, then his lifetime is two days. If
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it is one hundred years, his lifetime is one hundred years.
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You must understand timing because most believers think all times
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are convenient for everything. At the end of this teaching,
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God will planting you a sense of urgency. There will
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be a divine sense of urgency in your life, and
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you will know that whatever wastes your time is of
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the devil, because that is the most expensive commodity. Are
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we together second to the salvation that you have gotten
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in Christ? The gift of time. Time is an equalizer
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given to everybody. With all the advancement in technology, no
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body has been able to add more time as an asset.
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We have mastered the way of creating robots artificial intelligence
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to help accelerateors. But God, in his wisdom enshort that
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time remains the equalizer for all men. If it is
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morning in Nigeria, provided you are in Nigeria, it will
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not hurry and become afternoon for you. It goes slowly
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and everybody submits to it. Twelve o'clock in Nigeria is
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twelve o'clock for everybody. Six o'clock in Nigeria is six
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o'clock for everybody within that time zone. Everybody helplessly has
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to wait for that time. Are we together? So time
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is a blessing. It is an equalizer. Unfortunately, unfortunately, when
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Satan comes to a man's life, The first thing he
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does is to study your understanding about time. When he
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finds out that you do not have an appreciation of
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the blessing and the divine significance of time, he will
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occupy you with activities so that you will think. Just
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because you are engaging several activities, it means that you
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are working with time. It says, redeemed the time. Because
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the days are evil, praise the name of the Lord.
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There are people who have wasted their time on mundane things,
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waste their time pursuing things that have no purpose, no
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eternal value, away together, and at the end of their
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lives they would look back and regret and say, I
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wish I had time. I wish I had time. I
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wish I had time to do this. I wish I
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had time to do that. When God wants to help men,
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he grants them wisdom to understand time. Now, please look
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up this issue of Chronus and Cairos. Let me say
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a word or two about it. In every man's life,
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watch this now. Chronos, which is the passage of time,
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remains with us for as long as we are alive.
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But Cairos, this opportune time does not come all the time.
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I want you to please listen, let me explain how
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do I okay, let me explain chronus and cairos for you.
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Please look up. Imagine with me a student who is
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in school right, Um, that student is expected to read
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and prepare because there would be exams all the time.
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Is that true? But for a students saying secondary school,
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there's something called junior yek and there's something called the
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senior yek. Now, all exams are important, but those two
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exams can define the next seasons of that person. Is
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that true? Now those periods are called chiros moments. So
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every time the student is expected to be serious. Every
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time the student is expected to read and give his
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or her best. But when you see students who are
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preparing safe for a jump, you see the kinds of
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skills that they employ because they understand that this is
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a defining moment. If I miss this, I may have
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to wait one year again away together. And so you
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see people waking up in the night away together. You
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see all kinds of chain readings. People begin to deploy
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all kinds of creativity to make sure they maximize that moment.
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And a wise person will not say you are working
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too hard because they know that this is a chiros moment.
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So even when you see them stretching themselves beyond the
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usual way they would read, you only encourage them. You
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don't stop them, because you know that if they miss
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out on that opportunity. Another example, imagine with me a
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student who is writing his final exam saying in law school,
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you see that student has done everything, and I mean
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the student is mandated to read and give the best.
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But for that final exam, if it means there are
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people who first while you're reading, pray while they're reading,
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play worship while you're reading, soak their legs in water
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while you're reading andy is killed by all means, everything
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that becomes an advantage to maximize that moment, because there
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are there are moments that when you miss, that is
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the end of it. Are we together so we have
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the gift and the advantage of chronos, the passage of
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time every day. But the Bible teaches us that in
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every man's life there are not many of these seasons,
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but they are there, and that you have to discern
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the technology of your arrival. You need to learn how
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how to know that you are in these seasons, because
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for a man, sometimes in an entire lifetime. You may
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not have more than six of these seasons, and for
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some of us we've already lost two or three, so
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it will take the grace of God to catch up.
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Pay attention, please, Allelujah, that in a man's lifetime you
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will not have these defining moments come all the time.
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For instance, a man who wants to become a professional
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footballer at age sixty. You see his zeal is correct,
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his vision is correct, but he missed a Chiros moment,
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and that they are no biases to that Chiros moment.
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There is no club sites that would take him, no
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matter the skill. The system that has been built around
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that field for bids that you will be part of
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it professionally at that age, are we together? Is someone
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learning now? That means it is not enough to have vision.
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You must understand the timing component to life. I must
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walk the works of Him that sends me Hallelujah. When
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the disciples saw Jesus, they descigned a sense of strange urgency,
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and the disciples wonder why Jesus seemed to be up
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and about. I mean, you are the King of kings,
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having all power. You claim you are the son of God.
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Coming from heaven. What is the russh about? To the
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extent that you will forget to eat after a cru said,
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you will think he should be resting. Then you see
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him with a woman at the well and with the
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same zeal and passion. Then he says, gentlemen, I know
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you are tired. Let's go to the other side. Who's
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sleep in the boat while we're going, He himself was sleeping,
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meaning he was tired. We're not the first to start
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this position to Jesus himself. You see the scripture abating
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for what we do allelujah. Yeah. And Jesus got to
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a point where he let them know that he had
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to do this because there was urgency connected to it.
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Paul the Apostle. When pauland encountered the Lord Jesus Christ,
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the level and the extent of urgency that was in
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Paul to the extent that if they locked him up
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in prison, he didn't have time sympathizing with his situation.
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He said, listen, I don't need your food. Just get
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me a pen and get me something to be able
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to write in prison. All he was concerned, Oh, this
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church have not visited them for three months. I'm sure
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some of these people wolves in ship clothing would be
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in this church. Now let me write something to admonish them.
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If you came to Paul in prison to say how
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are you feeling? That was not what he wanted to hear.
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How is this church doing? The church in takes the
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church in that, and then at the end he said,
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I have the good fight. I have finished my course,
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not our cause. Allelujah away together. Yes. So timing is
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really really very important, very very important. When you give
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birth to a child, a young baby, it would be
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unfair and even wicked of you to now begin to
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flow the child to say I'm talking to you and
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you're not responding, but to me. No, you need to
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give that child time. After five six years and you
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find out, for instance, that the child cannot work, cannot talk,
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that now becomes a cirrus condition. Cyrus condition? Is that true?
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Because you have allowed time? There are certain things that
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should have happened in time already. I'm praying for someone,
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in the name of Jesus, whatever has eaten your years,
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because I will tell you, do you know what the
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locals and the canker worms eat. They don't eat things.
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They eat years. There are spirits whose assignment is not
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your money. There are spirits whose assignment is not your influence.
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There are spirits whose assignment is your years. I will
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restore the years that the canker worm, the captain killer.
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Let me speak to someone. You are here, and you say, apostle,
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I even gave my life to Jesus Christ. Late. Sincerely,
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I have lived all kinds of things, and as it
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is right now, it seems like time is gone. Thank
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God you came for this conference. I decree and declare, man,
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the God who is the lord of time, bring restoration
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to your life. Alle Lujah. Listen there. When you understand
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the power of time, you will now know why God
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brought in two spiritual mysteries first or not to be
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able to help men to maximize destiny. Number one is speed.
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Number two is restoration. This mysteries directly deal with time.
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When God grants a man's speed, why do you pray
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for speed? Why do you ask for speed? Allelujah? If
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I left Abuja by road to come here, you cannot
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say I'm stagnated because the car would still be moving.
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But the problem is with respect to the time allotted,
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I may not arrive to meet the activity. Are we
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together now? So if I can outsource and not that
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agency that can help me. Remember, my movement is with
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respect to time. So someone for instance, and respectfully so
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who left in the money most likely as not arrive
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by now? Are we together now? And then another person?
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Both of us I enjoy movement. When you say who
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are those making progress? All of us will stand. But
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who are those who are experiencing speed? You see, speed
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is the ability to do much within time. I'm saying
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all of this because when I connected to our destiny
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and I connected to these Chiros seasons, because I will
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be showing you prophetically that as individuals, as the body
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of Christ, as a continent, we are in our chiros moment.
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How do you know you are in your chiros moment?
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The Ansie in Genesis one fourteen he said he made
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lights to signify time. That means there is a revelation.
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There is always a body of spiritual truth that helps
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you to know what season you are in. He made lights,
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and he put those lights to signify seasons. You can
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use light revelation to know what season you have stepped into.
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There are many many people listen when a farmer right now,
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this is November December in Nigeria and we call it
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dry season. It would be unwise for a farmer to
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go to the farm right now, is that true and
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then start farming and not look for an alternative source
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of water. Why because you do not have an advantage
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of rain. Well maybe in Legos, Yeah, I don't know
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how it works. Are we together now? But generally speaking,
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in Nigeria we have what we call the dry and
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the rainy season. A farmer does not need to worry
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about rain when it's a rainy season. He just farms
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and he allows the advantage that comes with the season.
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Are we together now? There's what we call irrigation. Irrigation
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means you're trying to simulate rainy season in dry season
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because you want the crops to grow, but that the
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season does not give you that advantage. You have to
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outsource through technology and not a route. So many people
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have missed certain seasons. I'll give you an instance. There
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are people who got deliberately brought close to others within
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a particular season and they did not discern why they
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were there. The man who keep asking them can I
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help you and say no, no worry, little did they
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know the man and only two years and he will
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relocate somewhere. And there were chiros moments. Maybe God granted
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you access to someone in government. It was by God's
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God's grace, and the man was benevolent. God gave you
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unusual access to his ears, his heart, and his hands.
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But because you could not discernd seasons, hallelujah. Yeah, Jacob said,
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the Lord was in this place, but I knew not.
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Do you know? Because Jacob did not discernd the season
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in Genesis twenty eight, you know his punishment for that
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twenty years. Jacob paid the price twenty years, two wives,
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and six extra years. After twenty years, Jacob said, I
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need to leave. And in chapter thirty two, when God
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was coming to him again, he said, this time around,
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He held him and said, I will not let you go.
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I am already this long behind shadow. Unless you bless me.
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I will not let you go. If my time with
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you will be this night, I will utilize the time
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and gain back twenty years. I'm going to be showing
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you how to redeem time, because there is a technology
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that has been given to the believers that when we
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engage it, we are able to redeem and cover time. Hallelujah.
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It is on the strength of these systems of advantage
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that the Bible says, for we know that all things,
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all things can walk together. So don't say I gave
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my life to Christ at forty I mean the time
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I'm already half way. God. Don't worry. There is something
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you can do with God. He designed his system in
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his economy where your one year can be what your
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ten years would have been. Do you believe this in
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the name of Jesus Christ. How do you prepare for
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these defining moments, these opportune seasons. You prepare for cairos
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by maximizing chronus. That means every day, the passage of
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time is the raw material you use in preparing for
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these defining moments. You do not waste every day and
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waste every time and expect to just tumble into opportune times.
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Let me give you an instance. Let's assume, for instance,
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that a young music means trusting God for visibility, that
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God would announce the person. It is not the day
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the opportunity comes that he prepares. Are we together the
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opportunity The time he's looking for is chiros, But his
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performance during the chiros moment will depend on what happens
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in chronos. David prepared for the palace. Not in the palace.
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David took advantage of his chronos. Are we together now?
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He learned how to sling. He killed the lion, he
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killed the bear. It is interesting that nobody was there
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to record and capture it. However, the justice system of
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God preserved that that he was still using his chronos properly.
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One time, I like how God announced this man. The
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Bible says that the father told him, listen, go and
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feed your brothers. And he only took food and heard
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a bas roaring, and he said, what is the meaning
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of this? They said, this man, Goliath of God six thoes,
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young man, go back home. Immediately. He said, what shall
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be done? What shall be done to the man who
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takes this guy down? And they said all kinds of things.
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And he said, listen, I'm able to do this. Listen,
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don't bring shame on our family. We are warriors. And
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he said, listen, don't disrespect me for wanting to take
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advantage of my chiros. Let me defend my preparation. I
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was in the wilderness. I was in the wilderness when
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the lion came. When the pier came, I toy it,
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and Saw looked at him and said, no, there's something
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this man, this is not He has prepared for the
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Cairos moment. And when he stood before Goliath, Goliad said,
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am I a dog Israel, this is what you are bringing.
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And David said, listen, you come to me with your
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stairs and with your boss. But I come to you
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in a name I maximis my moments of preparation. I
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will bring you down and use your own sword, take
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off your head and give it to the birds, and
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with one sling. That is mattery. He didn't throw. The
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Bible does not give us information that he kept doing
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trial and error. He had done that in the wilderness.
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God is speaking to someone already listen, waiting for the
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day God will announced you. Is the recipe for remaining
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a mediocre forever you prepare in prayer. God has told
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you he's sending you to the nations. The secret is
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not to start looking for opportunities. Sing my song gave
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invite me. No, that's not how it works. Where nobody
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sees you, it is your greatest stage. The real stage
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is not where people see you, is where you are alone,
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and you are praying, you are fasting, you are preparing.
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That is chronos being maximized away together according to the
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law of times and seasons. I guarantee you remember the
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Bible says, for everything there is this season, that means
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your season is there. John remained in the wilderness. He
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was not wasting his time. He was eating locusts and wildhorney,
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preparing himself, finding out the sign to identify Jesus, the
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Bible says, until his season of appearing. When that season
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came with precision, when he saw Jesus, he said, behold
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the lamb I have prepared. Seeing you, I know you
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are the one. There are many of us. We do
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not even know how the doors were to enter look like,
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because we have been wasting the season's preparation, either a
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jealousy or competition and all of that, rather than preparing
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for glorious moments. Isn't it amazing, ladies and gentlemen, that
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the captain of our salvation, Jesus himself, he used thirty
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years to prepare for a ministry of three and a
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half years. If you looked at us, you will call
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you would think that Jesus had delayed in purpose. How
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do you prepare for thirty years? What is so special
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about your assignment thirty years? And then after thirty years,
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from age twelve in fact to age thirty. Theologically speaking,
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there is still a debate as to what Jesus was doing,
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because they were the silent days of Jesus. Eighteen years
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we do not hear about Jesus again. What was he doing?
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Where did he go? The last thing we know about
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him is that he was in the temple listening to
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the doctors and asking intelligent questions. At age thirty, we
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see this young man coming to be baptized of John.
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And John saw him and said, behold the lamb that
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takes away the sins of the world. He said, I'm
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not even worthy to untie the latchet of your shoe,
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and he said, suf fi to be so that scripture
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will be fulfilled. He baptized John, and the heavens were up.
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He was full of the spirit, and he began his
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ministry within a short time. The Bible says his fame
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spread abroad because the level of power and grace and wisdom.
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When he gathered the people and spoke, they said, we've
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not had this, not in this fashion. Who is this man?
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Where did they come from? They gave him, according to
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the Synoptic account of Look in Look chapter four, they
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gave him the scroll of isaiahs. And he began to read.
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The Spirit of the Lord is upon me. He hath
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anointed me. He read all of these things. There were
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not invitations. He used his chronos for someone already. The
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spirit of God is speaking. See if you do not
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perform well and you abort these defining moments, it is
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because you wasted. Every day. That means every day is
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counting for that day, every day counting towards that day.
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Every day, Man of God, you're every day, the time
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with God, the time with prayer, the two two hours,
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the one one hour of worship, counting building up for
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that moment of your season of appearing. Ask any body
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today that God has helped and God has lifted. They
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will tell you they can trace to moments, moments, moments
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of pain, moments of labor without reward. Are we together now?
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Moments they knew for most people. Listen, listen, for most
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people they so long ago where God was taking them to.
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Do you know, sincerely, some of these days that God
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has brought us today. We saw them long ago, but
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we knew we're not just going to jump into these days.
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So just wishing and saying I have a dream. M hmm.
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When you have a dream, you wake up and then
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you begin to work with the Holy Spirit, line upon line,
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precept upon precept. For some of us, your service in
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this house is your maximizing because the day will come.
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God will send you like an arrow to some nation
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in the world, and you may be pioneering a mighty revival.
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But let me tell you, if you are a revivalist,
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your first commission will not be revival. You already know
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you are an error when your first assignment becomes what
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you will be doing for the rest of your life.
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That's not how God works with people. If you are Paul,
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he will start with you in a certain way. Are
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we together now? That means if you think God has
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called you to be an apostle, and you will get
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up at your very first assignment in life is apostolic ministry,
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you're an error. That's not how God lives people. God
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can call you to be a worshiper and your first
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assignment is to sweep the church. How does sweeping the church?
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What does it have to do with worship as Steven
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what attending tending to the welfare department had to do
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with him rising to be a very mighty man. God
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will give you instructions He's using, He's preparing you. There
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are some of you because of the nature of the
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assignment God has given you. He will not allow you
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to stay with your parents. He will put you with
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his strict parents somewhere and for ten years. You will
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not want what God, what is all this? I have parents,
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This man is too hash chronos. God is preparing you
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for that time because the kind of body you will
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be carrying, you are going to be leading his stiff
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next people. So it's important for you to be used
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to pain and controversy to build stamina and stature. So
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God will leave you. Listen, I'm speaking to you prophetically. Hallelujah. Yes,
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of course I know that God is calling me to
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be a great kingdom financier. Your first assignment to be
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too empty. Everything you get for that one year, He said, no,
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I resist this spirit. God does not. God cannot speak
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like that. You have already filed the test. Listen, I
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submit to you. We live in a world where people
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do not understand the loss of times and seasons. Instead
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of waiting and wishing for the day, there is already
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an assurance from scripture that your that day will come.
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Wishing for it does not make you step into it.
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It is maximizing your chronus. That means preparing for that
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evangelistic ministry, that apostolic ministry, that ministry of prophetic samestry.
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It does not start with invitations to go from church
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to church. It starts with your relationship. For every time
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you open your Bible, for every time you pray, for
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every time you come to church and sit quietly, and
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they say, listen, join a department. You are the one
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who cleans the pupit. While you are cleaning the pulpit,
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there is a record in heaven your chronus is being maximized.
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One day they would look at you and say, listen,
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you are part of the welfare department. Okay, just lead
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us in a ten minutes prayer. Aha, ten minutes prayer,
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and he say let's all pray, let's hold their hands
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and give Jesus praise, And that ten minutes becomes one hour.
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They will start calling you pastor. It's just that you're
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a pastor that can cook. You see how you are graduating?
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Now ten minutes prayer. One day when they're looking for
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people to do it, lead to five five five five
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minutes prayer. The spirit of God, because he supervises these seasons,
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he will lead somebody to sell that gentleman. Please let
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him come up. And now you have an opportunity. And
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you see when God wants to accelerate your life, he
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will wait until the day your destiny. Help us here
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before you and then that one opportunity. Allelujah. You must understand,
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those who excel in life are people who they leave us.
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See if there is an assessment of them every day.
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And it is true, there is an assessment every day.
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It's only that your grading will not be that day.
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It will be accumulative grading. So every day you find
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someone who is doing well, already praying and fasting, and
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you are wondering, what are you praying for again? What
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are you studying for again? Has God not lifted you?
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It is the preparation every day, maximizing chronos that gives
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you an opportunity. Jesus did not die every day listen carefully,
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but he prepared for his death from the time he
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was born It took him one day to die, but
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it took him a long time to prepare for that
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one day. He kept saying, it destroyed his temple, and
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I would build it. He would be alone, and he
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would go to pray. What was he praying for? Then
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he went to get so many lid listen. With all
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the preparation of g he almost aborted redemption. Father, if
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it's possible, take this cup of me. You're Jesus. The
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Bible says, if you turn aside in the day of battle,
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please listen. He said, your strength is small. God is
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speaking to me to encourage someone right now. Your appetite
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for visibility is what may destroy the seasons coming. You
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need to reduce this, this insistence to be known and prepare.
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You announce yourself by being faithful in your every day.
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Your faithfulness during your chronal seasons is what prepares you
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for that Chiros moment. You don't have to pray for
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it to come. It's been programmed. Doubt shall arise and
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have messed you upon Zion for the time to favor her. Yay,
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the Chiros moment has come. Alleluyah. You prepare in prayer,
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you prepare in fasting, you prepare by rising to a
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level of value and capacity that the moment your season
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comes is with galanty and honor that you step into
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that season, never to come out in shame again. But
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from many people, you see, they think every day is chiros,
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and so they can choose to waste every day, not
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knowing that when these seasons go it takes a long time,
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a long time. Anybody who did not find this year
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is almost over, in fact is over. You have to
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be patient for a few months. While you're doing that,
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you go and get your seats, You get your fertilizer,
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you get everything preparing for that moment, because for sure,
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as far as there is day and night, rainy season
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will come again. Is that true? Your past on he
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shared his story many times when he was with Pastor
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Escot and all the events that happened preparing for those moments.
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You see, there is nobody who comes out of nowhere.
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Let me tell you the truth. All that talk is nonsense.
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There is nobody. Just because you are not in the
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wilderness does not mean the person was not there. While
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you are killing the lion on the bear, nobody sees you.
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There's no audience to clap for you, but the all
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seen eye of God, who controls times.
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Speaker 4: You've got times and seasons in your heads. You called
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for light out of darkness.
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Speaker 1: You don't need a man to be the God you
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are listen, very powerful soul, so he controls times and seasons.
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Who told you that you must arrange your manifestation? Who
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told you you must arrange the season for your announcement?
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It is non necessary body in the economy of God.
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There is already room for your announcement if you utilize
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that opportunity respectfully speaking. Let me tell you, and I
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say this with every sense of humility. I have seen pastors,
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and I have seen leaders desiring to rise, desiring to
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find especially in our days, you know some of this
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celebrity thing. Everybody wants to be known and to be honest,
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you know, it's in men. People want to maximize their destinies.
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But I see how people ignore their every day and
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keep anticipating for that one day, and then the one
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day comes and they're not even aware that it is
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the one day. Because you were so busy, so busy
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getting you were distracted and did not prepare. There are
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other people who will prepare, see one day, will not
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come one day, will come and meet them. While preparing Joseph,
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listen carefully. Joseph never knew that by the next day
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he will be Prime Minister. Every opportunity he had to
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be a blessing with his gifts he did. Because you
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give a portion to seven and to eight, you do
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not know. You do not know which of them you
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are waiting until the day a rich man meets you.
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Then you are kind to him. You will be surprised
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that the person who will announce you to the rich
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man is the poorest person around you. And because you
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refuse to show compassion, you recycle seasons again. There are
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many people who do not show or not to all men.
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They want only specific people, and they believe that when
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you meet somebody who has means, it will first tract
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and accelerate your rising. There are people who will never
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get selous with God until the day you give them
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a salmon. You say you are preaching on Wednesday, and
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all of a sudden there's concordance. Greek and Hebrew, Lexican
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away together. There's all kinds of des They recharge their
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phone data for three days. That is only a preparation
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to maintain your reputation not to bless because the day
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the opportunity will come. Unfortunately, it may come inside a plane,
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not on the pulpit. The person who will announce you
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can be in a plane and God gives you an opportunity.
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Fifteen minutes you are with that person and God says,
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now is your moment. The thing about Cairo's moments is
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that Cairo's moments are not necessarily location dependent. You need
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to be prepared in season and out of season. It
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can happen anywhere if you are asked. If you are
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asked David to suggest where God will announcing, he would
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not say it was on the battleground. He will probably
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choose somewhere else. But simply faithfulness in carrying food was
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what announced the warrior. They did not say, here is
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a competition. If you can kill command stand allelujah. I
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made up my mind that every opportunity God gives me. Listen,
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ladies and gentlemen, I do not There is no such
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thing in my world as superior preparation and imperial preparation.
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I take everything with destiny seriousness. If you tell me
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I'm going to talk to two people, you will see
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me preparing us. If I'm going for a cusaid. Why.
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Number one because I love Jesus, Number two because I
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love the people. But number three I understand that Chronos
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is the unit of Chiros. Every moment as I prepare,
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I'm moving closer to that chiros moment. Allelujah, Yes, Thou
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shall arise and have messy upon Zion. For the time
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I have discerned that there are opportune times, the time
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to favor her. Yeay, the sad time has come. Now
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write a few things, so find somewhere to pray. There
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are three things that you do to maximize time. Three things,
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and then will connect it with the theme for tonight.
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Three things. Number one. The first assignment you have as
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far as times and seasons are concerned, is to master
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the art of discerning seasons. You need discernment. The Bible
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says and of the sons of Isaca, men who had
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an understanding of the times discern seasons. You must know
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how to discernd time. How do you descend time? The
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word of God is the instrument of discernment. The word
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of God primarily is the instrument of discernment. The word
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of God is the primary instrument or discernment. Number two.
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Study the nature of the dealings of the spirit with you,
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and it can help you to point seasons you can
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there is a way God begins to deal with you. Suddenly,
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God gives you an instruction. You are going on thirty
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days prayer and fasting and tells you you are going
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to wake up every night even before persona does is
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Hallelujah challenge. God tells you you will start your own
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one week before him. There are events around your life
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that already become pointers if you can discern. The Bible
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says when Jesus was born, there was a star and
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those who were wise men, the magi, they could read
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the star, and they came with precision. They were not
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born again, They were not led of the spirit. They
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use secular wisdom, using light. They came right where Jesus was. Allelujah,
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you can descend seasons. What is happening in my life?
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I noticed in the last one week everybody is giving
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me money. Everybody is telling me, listen, come and do this.
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Someone wanted to preach and he said, I'm busy, and
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you stand in for me. God, what are you saying?
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What are you saying? Most believers do not have not
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trained their faculty of discernment, so we do not know
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when we step into very defining moments. There are people,
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you know that ordinarily you should not meet. Lord, Why
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did you give me access to be among these great people?
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What should I do now? And we waste it, we
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laugh around with it, and we leave only to find
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out that that door will not be opened like that again.
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If Joseph came before Pharaoh and said, Pharaoh, I'm not
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here to interpret your dreams. Number one, go and catch
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forty first wife. You don't know what has happened to me.
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Let me tell you. I'm here to defend myself. You
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know what would have happened to him if he did
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not drop his offense and childishness and focus on the seasons.
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He would have said, now that I'm with you, Pharaoh,
1:00:19
even if I die, let me die. You know how
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people behave And you know said man has been imprisoning
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X number of years plus the two years that were
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added as a result of the wickedness of the one presser.
1:00:33
He refused to remember me and Pharaoh's Okay, I've heard
1:00:36
you were really sorry about everything. Go back to the
1:00:40
prison or go back to your father's house. Either way
1:00:42
he would not have succeeded. But when he got there,
1:00:46
the ability to have prepared, and once he got there,
1:00:51
Pharaoh said, this is my dream. And he laughed. He said, Pharaoh,
1:00:55
it's not about cows, it's not about plans. You have
1:00:58
seen a mystery that connects you to the loss of seasons,
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that there will always be seasons of plenty and of luck.
1:01:06
Now let me recommend save twenty percent of this and
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that and Pharaoh, and now you are talking. Within that moment,
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Joseph rose and became Prime Minister, no election, no voting.
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You would see Joseph and say where did you come from?
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Let me tell you where he came from. From the
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dreamer to the peat to his faithfulness in the house
1:01:29
of Fortifier, to his getting to the prison. Even though
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he was innocent, all of them were counting for that day.
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Every time you see a day of favor, a day
1:01:40
of favor is equal to many days of preparation. A
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day of manifestation that was well utilized is a cumulative
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of many, many, many great days. I will never wear
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seasons in my life because in my mind, every day counts,
1:02:02
every day counts. I won't pray, I wouldn't say I'm
1:02:05
too tired to pray today. After all, there is tomorrow. Remember,
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the power of the day after tomorrow comes from the
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prayer of yesterday and today. He's a cumulative. We continue
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to abort seasons because we waste our Every day you
1:02:23
get up in the morning, you sleep. You know, any
1:02:26
time you are not serious, you are not at anything,
1:02:29
no project. There is nothing that is running and driving
1:02:32
your life. The Bible says to learn from Jesus. When
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Jesus showed up, there was nothing enough to distract him.
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He had set his face like a flint about my
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father's business at age twelve. Even his parents came to
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look for him, say why are you looking for me?
1:02:49
Don't you go to the temple? Don't they read the scriptures?
1:02:51
Did you not hear that I should be about my
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father's business. That sense of urgency. Now is the acceptable time,
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and that is true. But you see, your now is
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a cumulative of everything you have done with your chronos.
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When God announces you, it is because he has given
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you an opportunity to prepare. And if that season comes,
1:03:23
ladies and gentlemen, and you are not prepared, you know
1:03:26
what happens seasons will recycle again. Truly, you will find
1:03:33
out that a ram you should have entered, a door
1:03:36
that should have opened for you. There are people who
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sit down and keep regretting and shouting and saying, listen,
1:03:43
I've not been promoted, I've not been lifted. This is
1:03:46
unfair in discharge. By now, by my status, I should
1:03:49
be a pastor. By now, I should be an apostle.
1:03:52
By now, I should be a prophet. In fact, is
1:03:54
John because of condition, I should be rich by now.
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All those explanations do not count. Every day you do
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this to the least of the brethren, you come to church,
1:04:05
you are sweeping? Is counting? Are we together? Yea? How
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you use your time for Ruth to be the wife
1:04:15
of Boaz. She didn't just appear one day and say, listen,
1:04:19
are you going to marry me or not? Or you're
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going to waste prophecy. I'm going to be a grandmother
1:04:23
of Jesus. No. Now me advised her and said, everything
1:04:28
you do in that field, we're coming here tomorrow because
1:04:31
we're going to be talking about the global harvest. Allelujah. Yes,
1:04:37
it is a chiros moment among the many things. The
1:04:42
greatest time in human history right now for the global harvest.
1:04:46
But you need to draw a lesson from the life
1:04:49
of Ruth, because now me told her, he said, when
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you get to the field, don't be distracted. There is
1:04:56
something within the field that is for you. When you
1:04:58
go there, be cautious. Everything you do will count. And
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when she went there, she gleaned with honor and respect,
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and the elders and the people. There was Bos there
1:05:09
and he saw her. He said, who is this that
1:05:11
is diligent and faithful? He said, do not hurt her,
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allow her to take as much. And she went back
1:05:18
to Ruth. She maximized every day until she stepped into
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the lineage of Jesus. John utilized every day until he
1:05:29
got to a point where he started wasting his chronicles
1:05:34
true offense through bitterness. And one time he said, go
1:05:38
and tell Jesus, are you the Messiah or should we
1:05:40
expect another? Jesus said, something has happened to you. Offense
1:05:44
has come into you. And he died as a birthday gift.
1:05:49
A prophet who prophesied the Bible says, of all the prophets,
1:05:53
Isaiah Jeremiah, mighty man, none was like John. And look
1:05:58
how his life ended the bet they get for a
1:06:01
girl dancing before the king. They went to remove his head.
1:06:10
When I learned this principle, believe me. You go to
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my room. Now, you put on my laptop. You will
1:06:19
see there is a message and there is a study.
1:06:22
There are no lazy moments in my life. If I
1:06:25
wake up, this is the day the Lord has made.
1:06:28
We're ready to work and must work the works of
1:06:30
him that sent me. It has nothing to do with invitation.
1:06:34
It has nothing to do with ministrations. I can't tell you,
1:06:38
with all due respect and humility, that I have stepped
1:06:42
into seasons in my life, and even in ministry, they
1:06:46
didn't seem to carry a semblance of those honor. It's
1:06:50
just that, thank God, I was prepared. There have been
1:06:53
times I found myself in the midst of people and
1:06:55
they said, Apostle, we're going to give you this time.
1:06:57
You're going to talk. This is what you will talk about.
1:06:59
There was no Bible there, there was no nothing. It
1:07:03
was from the recidue of that preparation. It total Elijah,
1:07:06
eat it now, you will not have that opportunity. Eat now.
1:07:11
He hit and he went back to slip. The angel
1:07:14
tapped him and said don't you understand times and seasons?
1:07:17
Eat now? And the Bible says he went forty days
1:07:21
on the strength of what he has eaten for someone.
1:07:25
Let me tell you the assignment that God is giving
1:07:28
you right now. You will not have the opportunity now
1:07:31
that you do not yet have children. God is saying,
1:07:33
first and pray, because your first said it will be
1:07:37
a set of twins. While you are saying amen, let
1:07:41
me tell you the other side of that story. Are
1:07:44
we together? You will be surprised that the five, six, seven,
1:07:48
eight hours. There are many people today who, by reason
1:07:53
of biological timing, don't have the strength again to be
1:07:56
able to pray and first and do certain things. There
1:08:00
were people who were taking care of your needs. God said,
1:08:03
keep investing in your spiritual life, but you refuse. Now
1:08:08
respectfully speaking, maybe your dad has gone to be with
1:08:11
the Lord, your mom has gone to be with the Lord.
1:08:13
The family responsibility is now on you. The time you
1:08:16
should use to pray, and first you have to use
1:08:18
it to look for money. If you understand this law
1:08:26
of time and seasons, it will change your life in
1:08:30
a way that you cannot imagine. That every day counts,
1:08:34
every day counts every day counts, every moment counts for someone.
1:08:40
God can tell you, okay, while you are trusting God
1:08:42
for a husband or a wife, quickly do the masters now,
1:08:45
Quickly do the PhD now, because the level of commitments
1:08:49
that it would demand of you, it can cost your home.
1:08:53
Utilize the time I have all the time is my life.
1:08:58
The foolishness of a generation that drops thrown people down.
1:09:02
There are others God who say I'm going to give
1:09:04
you a great ministry. But come to oasis and sit
1:09:08
down and look for something to do and serve, and
1:09:12
you find out that God keeps sending you to places
1:09:15
that are uncomfortable. Is because God wants you to taste
1:09:18
of everything. You will be a leader and you will
1:09:21
be an overseer of a ministry. How do you lead
1:09:23
when you do not know the dynamics of leadership? While
1:09:29
the message is going on, God, we say, okay, this
1:09:31
you are locating to stand outside of the road, and
1:09:33
that person is going to be a mighty apostle. And
1:09:35
while you are standing, someone sees you and I used
1:09:38
to know you on campus. Is this how you have
1:09:41
lost your fire? You are standing as a protocol on
1:09:43
the road and you feel stupid. Aha, that's how great
1:09:48
men are bords greater destinies. You stand there and God says,
1:09:54
you'll be patient, and when God is done with you, someday,
1:09:58
when you become a great leader, one who says, listen,
1:10:01
I will be your biggest partner. Twenty years ago I
1:10:05
came for oasis conference where you're not the one who
1:10:08
was standing at the door. God told me twenty years later,
1:10:11
you will be a man of God. I should sponsor it. Listen,
1:10:15
how do I express this thing? Now? Most people have
1:10:21
aborted times, have aboded great destinies. Imagine if Jesus kept
1:10:27
saying I would die. Simple, It's okay, I'm going to die.
1:10:33
That's the most important thing. Judus will betray me. I
1:10:36
don't know when. I just know that I'm going to die,
1:10:38
and then I will purchase salvation. Let's eat and drink.
1:10:41
Ladies and gentlemen. I am the savior of the world.
1:10:45
Don't forget. I am the logos of God. I am
1:10:47
not a false prophet. Jesus would have been surprised. It
1:10:52
was the prayer bank, the first in bank. The commitment.
1:10:58
You see that all the women who later helped him
1:11:01
when he died is because he helped them when he
1:11:03
was alive. If he didn't help them when he was alive,
1:11:07
his body would be there with nobody to come and
1:11:09
clean him. Allelujah. So Number one, you must discern seasons.
1:11:18
Let me hurry up. Number two, you must know what
1:11:25
steps to take when you come into seasons. Not every
1:11:29
step is important when you get into certain defining seasons.
1:11:33
Please listen to me. You must know what steps to take.
1:11:37
The Bible says and of the sons of Isaka, men
1:11:40
who had an understanding of the time and to know
1:11:43
what Israel ought to do. There is what you need
1:11:47
to do when you come into certain seasons. For some
1:11:49
of you, when you come into certain seasons, it's a
1:11:52
call for greater levels of consecration. God will make certain
1:11:56
demands on you on usual demands. Some of you are
1:12:01
even in that season right now. You need to know
1:12:04
what to do by the spirit world, what do I
1:12:07
need to do with this season? And God says from
1:12:09
now till January, from twelvety three, let that be your
1:12:13
prayer time. That is my time meeting with you. It
1:12:16
is not a general instruction for everybody. It is just
1:12:19
from now till January. If you miss because that opportunity
1:12:24
is where it is within that encounter that the real
1:12:27
mantle for your ministry will rest on you. And if
1:12:30
you do not know how to utilize that time. Many
1:12:35
years ago, I used to go to our boy squatters
1:12:40
and carry a stick stick and stand there and preach.
1:12:46
I would be shouting and preaching alone. I didn't know
1:12:49
my mother was hiding somewhere looking at me. It was
1:12:51
later in the future she told me one day because
1:12:54
she had been praying. My grandfather was, you know, the
1:12:57
first trustee pioneer of it denomination, so I come from
1:13:00
a lineage of missionaries and pastors. She had been praying
1:13:05
that either her younger brother or her son let God
1:13:08
use at least one person. And I was there. I
1:13:12
would hold the sticks, and I've been preaching, preaching, and
1:13:15
when it's time we laying handsome blocks. I mean it.
1:13:19
I'm not I'm not joking, and I will sense the
1:13:22
amounting of the Holy Spirit. Literally, if I laid hands
1:13:29
on blocks, how stubborn is the head that I would
1:13:32
lay hands on. That is not preparation. Preparation for some
1:13:44
of you. God has given you a mandate that you
1:13:46
are going to serve the purposes of God with kings,
1:13:50
and as it is right now, God cannot announce you
1:13:53
because announcing you will be a tragedy to your own life.
1:13:57
So God will withhold your horising. Not every closed door
1:14:00
is demonic. There are closed doors that are a sign
1:14:03
of God's messy. Because you are in your chirost moment.
1:14:06
But you have wasted your chronos. So God will give
1:14:09
you a chance to start afresh again. Let's wrap up
1:14:18
Second Corinthians six and verse two from where you got
1:14:21
the theme. Second Corinthians six and verse two. It says,
1:14:29
for I have heard of THEE in the time accepted,
1:14:33
and in the day of salvation, I have succored THEE.
1:14:37
It says, behold now they say, now, profess I to yourself,
1:14:42
say now now is the accepted time. Behold now is
1:14:48
the day of salvation. Now, when you were speaking about this,
1:14:52
you were speaking with respect to salvation. The new birth
1:14:55
and counter were coming there tomorrow are we're together. But
1:14:58
for now salvation is the words so Terrier, the Greek
1:15:01
word is all encompassing, healing, lifting, breakthrough, the fullness of
1:15:07
the life, and the power of God manifest. He says,
1:15:10
now is the acceptable time. The acceptable time for the
1:15:14
believers started from the time Jesus resurrected. Are we together now?
1:15:18
Because you will see in other versions the acceptable time
1:15:21
is the time of His grace that now the wall
1:15:25
has been torn, the veil has been torn, and now
1:15:28
we have access in Christ, we can have access to
1:15:32
our now the acceptable time, regardless what happened before that
1:15:38
in Christ, today can be your day of salvation. He says,
1:15:41
they heard the word just like we. They heard the
1:15:45
word just like we did, but the world did not
1:15:48
profit them, not being mixed with faith. In them that
1:15:52
heard it, he said, today, if you hear his word,
1:15:54
had not your heart like they did in the wilderness.
1:15:57
So for someone, God is speaking to you that this
1:16:02
is your today. Today does not mean twenty four, just
1:16:05
means your season, your season of lifting, your season of shining,
1:16:10
your season of being announced. Are we together now? And
1:16:15
because you know that it is your day, your prayer
1:16:18
now will be a lord, arise and have messy upon
1:16:21
me for the time to favor me, for the time
1:16:26
to lift me, or the time to open up doors
1:16:29
for me, even the set time. When you know your
1:16:34
set time, you maximize it by crying for mersy It says,
1:16:38
call on to me, and I will answer. You say,
1:16:40
messy is not for sin us. It is of the
1:16:43
Lord's message that we are not consumed. Are we together? Now?
1:16:46
Don't make a mistake of thinking the prayer of messy
1:16:49
is for sin us. It is by the messy of God. Listen,
1:16:52
it says, I will have messy upon whom I will
1:16:55
have mercy. I will have compassion upon whom I will
1:16:58
have compassion. The moment to discern your season. You know
1:17:04
that this is a defining moment for me. You begin
1:17:08
to pray, God, show me messy, grant me access by
1:17:12
your spirit to maximize this season. Oh, blessed is the
1:17:16
man who becomes a beneficiary of God's messy. I wish
1:17:19
I had the time to open you up to the
1:17:21
dimensions of God's messy. The messy of God does not
1:17:25
just mean pardoning for an offender. No, the messy of
1:17:28
God means to show pity, to give you a leverage
1:17:45
from the the riseing enough the sun to the said
1:17:51
of the said your name is to A few weeks ago,
1:18:06
I just sensed very strongly in my heart that God
1:18:10
will help me spend some extended time praying in the night.
1:18:14
Nights are usually my time of prayer. But I began
1:18:17
to sense I'm rapping up now. I began to sense
1:18:21
very strongly that a new season was going to open
1:18:26
up for me. And in one of the nights, I
1:18:28
was praying and just worshiping, and I had a vision.
1:18:35
And every time I see God lifting you or go
1:18:37
into another dimension, I usually would see a military man,
1:18:40
and then you know how they dress military people. That's
1:18:42
what I saw. And while I was praying, I just
1:18:47
sensed a very strong anointing of the Holy Spirit, and
1:18:51
the Lord took me to Jeremiah one. From verse nine.
1:18:55
He says authority over nations, authority over nations to pull
1:19:02
down toward root. There is a man to larn grace
1:19:05
for that see having power over cities. Having power remember
1:19:12
in Matthew twenty five the parable of the five talent
1:19:15
the reward that was given to them. There are three
1:19:19
levels of authority that a man can command on Earth.
1:19:22
Number one and is The least level is authority over things,
1:19:27
where God gives you access to money and not all
1:19:30
of that. The second level of authority you can command
1:19:33
in the spirit is authority over nations and territories. The
1:19:38
highest level of authority a man can command is authority
1:19:42
over God's program. God literally makes you his keyword, not
1:19:47
of nations, of his program. That means God will say,
1:19:50
for the next ten years, there is a harvest of
1:19:53
one hundred million souls. You are the one I'm putting
1:19:55
in charge of that program. When I began to have
1:20:02
that vision, I started praying. I said, Lord, whatever I do, take,
1:20:05
by your messy and by your grace, you are granting
1:20:08
us access and authority over systems, over nations. Let it
1:20:12
be for your glory. Are we together now? I'm saying
1:20:15
this because for I believe that for God to have
1:20:18
put this thing now is the acceptable time for some
1:20:22
of us. When you go back home, hallelujah. Challenge should
1:20:25
not just end because it ended. You should do your
1:20:28
own and pray and pray and worship and say Lord
1:20:33
the demands of this new season. Now is the acceptable time.
1:20:37
Heaven has already signified through this world that it is
1:20:41
time for you to carry greater annointings. It is time
1:20:44
for you to step into mantles. It is time for
1:20:47
certain doors to be open. I pray for you that
1:20:50
you will not make the mistake of Jacob Jacob said
1:20:53
the Lord was in displaced and I knew not man
1:20:57
of God, hear me. You may need to object yourself
1:21:01
right now, taking advantage of this time, business man. For
1:21:04
some of you, you will need to settle down and pray.
1:21:07
We're going to pray for just one minute. You don't
1:21:10
even have to stand, whether you are seated or standing.
1:21:12
You are going to cry onto God and say, Father,
1:21:16
I have For some of you. You have. You have
1:21:19
mismandied your chronics. And right now that the Chiros moment
1:21:24
has come or is coming, the truth is there is
1:21:27
no spiritual readness. I like you to cry from messy
1:21:30
from heaven. Cry from messy from heaven. Cry from messy
1:21:34
from heaven. Cry from messy from heaven. Cry to the
1:21:41
holder of times and seasons. Show messy, o God, Shapran
1:21:47
dege lack a Toscar Bardus here, cry that backs lequerscar Barossia.
1:21:53
Speaker 5: Cry from messy, your God, someone is crying, Show me Mandy.
1:22:06
Speaker 1: To maximize every day, To maximize every day as I
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prepare for that defining moment. Allelujah. The Bible says he
1:22:22
that is faithful, and little he says He's faithful in
1:22:26
much if you are unfaithful in the al Righteous Mammone,
1:22:31
he said, who shall commit to you the true riches
1:22:34
of the Kingdom. Let me encourage you that tomorrow, while
1:22:38
you are coming, please invite every other person. We may
1:22:42
not be able to have the time to pray for people,
1:22:45
but one of the things I hope you will do
1:22:46
tomorrow is to invoke the messy of God over your years,
1:22:51
not just your body. We need to cry and say,
1:22:54
Lord the remaining time I have. Can you place honor
1:22:58
and grace and messy upon you that my remaining one
1:23:02
and a half months in twenty twenty two will be
1:23:05
like ten years put together, because that something has happened
1:23:09
to that time. You redeem time by crying for messy,
1:23:15
that the Lord of time will do something upon that time.
1:23:21
But for now, let me speak over your life. I
1:23:23
stand in partnership with the grace that is upon this altar,
1:23:27
and I decree and declare, by the power of the
1:23:30
Holy Spirit, obtain grace to maximize your chronos, Obtain grace
1:23:39
to pray, Obtain race to fast, obtain grace to worship,
1:23:45
obtain chrace to be on fire, obtain grace to connect
1:23:49
to the right people, obtain grace to be diligent in
1:23:54
the name of Jesus Crime. And I declare that the
1:23:58
spirit that is called it wast that wastes years. Any association,
1:24:04
any relationship, anything I told you are connected to that
1:24:09
is a programming from hell to waste your years. I
1:24:12
declare you are free from it right now, past or not?
1:24:20
Is it all right? Two request that the people come
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with your prayer request tomorrow. Will that be fine? Okay?
1:24:27
I want you tomorrow, even for your loved ones who
1:24:31
may not make it, and for those who are falling online.
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I trust that you'll also be a miracle service here tomorrow.
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So you can send in I believe use the link
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the media team in oursis yea would would would give
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the link? You can send in your prayer requests. Please
1:24:46
from all over the world Europe America sending your prayer requests.
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We're going to collate it here and the God of
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Heaven will arise as a mighty terrible one in the
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name of Jesus Christ. The Lord bless you and the
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Lord increase you. In Jesus my prayd