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ENTERING INTO REST · Apostle Joshua Selman

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Speaker 1: I count is a great honor to be here tonight
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at this convention, Allelujah. And I want to start by
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requesting that we please rise and honor our father and
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our mother, Reverend Dr sam Aboy g God, bless you, sir,
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and our precious mother. Let's give them a big God
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bless you. Thank you for this opportunity. I don't take
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it for granted. And in a similar pain, may I
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request that we honor our father's seated here standing, and
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all who have come. I do not know all their names,
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but I honor you in the name of Jesus. Let's
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give them a big God bless you. Allelujah. Please be
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seated the Lord, bless you. Praise the name of the Lord.
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I'm speaking tonight very briefly along the theme of the conference.
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I found it very interesting when I saw the theme
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because I think very deeply as I prepare my messages
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and my teachings, and I take my preparations very seriously,
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and so when I see a topic for discussion, I
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take out time to look at it very carefully and
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see that which the Spirit of the Living God can
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help me draw from my study to bless his people.
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So I trust tonight. And this is also my request
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that you lend me your rapt attention so that we
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will learn, we will grow, will be impatted maximally by
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the word of God. Like you may have heard me say,
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God's method has always been his word.
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Speaker 2: His method to lift is his word. His method to
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restore is his word.
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Speaker 1: His method to redeem is his word. The boundary of
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God's commitment to the believer is his word. He cannot
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act within or outside of the jurisdiction of his word.
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Speaker 2: That means, when the word of God is about to come, it.
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Speaker 1: Is important that we pay attention to receive, because in
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receiving the world, we also receive the keys to our lifting,
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our breakthroughs, our deliverances, and indeed rest on every side.
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But can I start tonight by profess sign over someone
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that in the name of Jesus, the Son of the
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Living God, everything that has stopped you from enjoying rest
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around about, may it give way finally this night. May
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it give way finally this night, in the name of Jesus,
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the Son of the Living God, that everything that will
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not allow you experience the fullness of.
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Speaker 2: The glory of God.
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Speaker 1: I decree and declare standing upon the grace on this altar.
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May it give way once and for all in the
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name of Jesus Christ. Is it all right if we
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pray for just one minute? Please say after me, Father
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one more time, say Father, tonight. I receive grace to hear.
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I receive grace to understand. I receive grace to obey,
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head and pray, Grace to hear, grace to understand, race
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to obey. Someone is prayed tonight. We receive grace, grace
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to hear, but beyond hearing, grace to understand, and beyond understanding,
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the grace to obey, the grace to obey, the grace
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to obey. For Jesus' much less name, we have prayed.
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Can we have a believing Amen, Oh, believed that above
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a Lord all gods, we lay our chray.
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Speaker 3: And a ship.
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Speaker 1: You you be, I.
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Speaker 4: Said, up the lotus around and ships clean, still.
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Speaker 1: Clean, in the name of Jesus, please be seated. Let's
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get to the world. The Bible tells us in Some
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thirty four and verse nineteen. Psalm thirty four and verse nineteen.
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The Bible gives us a very interesting expression, I trust
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that the media will work with us. Thank you. It
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is as many are the afflictions of the righteous. Many
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are the afflictions of the righteous, But the Bible there
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leaves us with an assurance that the Lord delivered them
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from how many? All many are the afflictions of the righteous,
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But the Lord delivered him from them all. So very
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clearly we see it from this scripture that the reality
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of troubles. I wrote, Yeah, the reality of calamities and
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despair is not new to our world. Our world is
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full of events and episodes of calamities, episodes of despair, and.
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Speaker 2: All kinds of troubles. In fact, I think it was
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in John.
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Speaker 1: Chapter sixteen and verse thirty three Jesus himself had this
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to say. He said, in this world you will have
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many troubles. Jesus is speaking now, but he says, be
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of good share. I have overcome the world. That in
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this world. This is a statement coming from the lips
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of the Master himself, that in this world, in this life,
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you will have many troubles. But he leaves you with
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an assurance to be of good share, and he says,
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I have overcome the world. So it is not unusual
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for men to be troubled. The Bible is full of people.
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You see, one of the things I love about scripture
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is that it does not hide any time mention of life.
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The Bible captures victories, the Bible captures defeat, the Bible
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captures triumph, The Bible captures sadness, the Bible captures rejoicing.
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All captured within this Bible to give you a very
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balanced perspective of the character of God and the reality
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of life. Are we together? So it is true that
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troubles and calamities, despair and moments of unease are not
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new to our world. All you have to do is
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to be alive for a sufficient period of time, and
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you will be forced to attest to the fact that,
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an assisted by God, your lot is almost that of
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calamity by default. In fact, yes, how the Bible puts
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it that the whole world li yet in wickedness, and
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for that reason alone, everyone is a potential candidate for pain, calamity,
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despair of any sort, except you baire yourself out through.
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Speaker 2: Knowledge and understanding. Are we following tonight?
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Speaker 1: People have had to go through all kinds of troubles
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in their lives. Troubles, for instance, in the area of health,
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troubles in the area of finances, troubles in the area
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of marriage and relationships, trouble in the area of career
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and their destiny pursuits. Our world is full of people.
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If I ask everyone here right now submit a prayer request,
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so that we pray upon everything. You are writing on
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that request is some usually something you want to get
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out of your life, or something you want to bring
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into your life. The fact that you have something to
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write is an attestation to the fact that almost everyone
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has something he's trusting God to take out of his life,
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or something is trusting God to bring into his life.
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Speaker 2: If you're with me, shout aloud.
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Speaker 5: Amen.
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Speaker 1: People have gone through issues in their lives, in the
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area of their spiritual lives, the area of their health,
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area of their finances, their marriages, their relationships. I'll give
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you a few examples of men and women who went
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through several kinds of troubles. In the Bible. I will
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just give you the scriptures who are not going to
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read them for sake of time. Number one is a
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man Abraham. You would think because Abraham was a patracht
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of faith, he would be immune from trouble. Abraham went
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through all kinds of infertility problems, you find out from
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Genesis fifteen one to three. The Bible does not hide
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the fact that even though Abraham a great man, a
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friend of God, and yet lets us know that that
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man went through seasons over twenty five years of barrenness
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alongside his wife, to a point that he became frustrated.
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He was giving a recommendation that God would raise seed
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for him through another from his house Abraham. How about
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the nation of Israel in Egypt, a whole nation can
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go through seasons of calamity and pain. We find that
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in Exodus chapter three, from verse seven to nine, when
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God was speaking Exodus three seven to nine, when God
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was speaking with Moses in the burning bush, it was
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God himself who said that he had heard the cry
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of his people by reason of their taskmasters, and that
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day he was aware of their sorrows. God himself was
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saying that Exodus three seven to nine, he was now
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charging Moses, giving him the mandate of a deliverer. But
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God himself acknowledge the fact that his people, his covenant people,
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had gone through several years and decades of pain by
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reason of their taskmasters. Can I give you a third example,
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how about the famine in Samaria a whole nation. The
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famine in Samaria. You find that in Second Kings Chapter six,
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twenty five to thirty one. Second Kings, Chapter six, twenty five.
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Speaker 2: To thirty one.
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Speaker 1: The Bible tells us that there was such a grevious
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famine in Samaria that food was so fast women had
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to eat their children to survive.
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Speaker 2: Hallelujah.
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Speaker 1: I'm not sure such a dimension of famine has happened
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in a world that I'm aware of, that a mother
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would look at the child, and rather than seeing a
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child that came from her, she is looking at a
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means for survivor. Allelujah, the famine in some area. Can
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I give you Number four? In Ruth Chapter one, from
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verse one and six. Ruth, Chapter one, from verse one
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and six, the Bible gives us a very interesting rendition
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about two strange personalities. Number one, the woman called Naomi,
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and then her daughters in law Ruth, and of her,
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the Bible says that all of them, I don't know
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what kind of spirit came upon that family. They strangely
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were losing all the men in their lives. I pray
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for someone every pattern you have seen around your life
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and your family that is inconsistent with the speakings of God.
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By the power of the Blood, it will let you
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go this night. It will let you go this night,
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in the name of Jesus Christ. I just thought to
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comment on this. He lost a husband, Naomi Ruth lost
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her husband and her sons. Or lost her husband and
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her sons. Do you know the same kind of spirit
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was at working a woman in the New Testament called
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the widow of Nain. All the men in her life,
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everyone who had the potential to support her, was taken
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out of her life.
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Speaker 2: Allelujah. These were women in great sorrow.
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Speaker 1: They had lost their systems for security and support. Many
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are the afflictions of the righteous. Can I give you
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one more? In Second King, Chapter five and verse one,
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I would like to read that the Bible talks of
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a very friliant man, a warrior in fact, called Naman.
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The Bible calls him the captain of the host of
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the King of Syria. Look up the kind of credential
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that was credited.
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Speaker 3: To this man.
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Speaker 2: That he he was a great man with his master,
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he was an honorable man, and.
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Speaker 1: That by reason of his intelligence and dexterity, the Lord
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had given deliverance onto Syria. And he was a mighty
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man in battle. And you would think with those kinds
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of credential he would escape trouble, the Bible says, But
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in spite of all those great testimonies, but he was
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a leper. There was something in his life that was
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a cause for concern. Hallelujah. Now the Bible tells us
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furthermore in look chapter eight. I found this very interesting
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forty one to forty five. I hope we're still together.
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Look chapter eight, from verse forty one to forty five.
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Let me read that story. I want to draw out
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something from it. This is a story that doubles as
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that of Jarios's daughter and then the woman.
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Speaker 2: With the issue of Lord.
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Speaker 1: So the Bible says, and behold, there came a man
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named Jarios, and he was a ruler in the synagogue,
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the Bible says, and that he fell at the feet
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of Jesus and asked him to come into his house.
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Next verse please reading to forty five. The Bible says,
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for he had an only daughter, about twelve years of age,
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and she was lying there dying. And the Bible says,
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when it came he didn't have a chance to meet
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Jesus easily because the people thronged him. Next verse, then,
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the Bible says, whilce he was on his way, Jesus
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now wanted to honor the requests. To get to his house,
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he stumbled across another woman with no name, named by
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her pain, named by her tragedy, named by her calamity.
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This woman most likely had a name, but her calamity
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so swallowed her it.
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Speaker 2: Replaced her name.
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Speaker 1: She was simply called the woman with the issue of
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blood twelve years.
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Speaker 2: The Bible says she had spent all her.
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Speaker 1: Living on physicians. Neither could she be healed of any
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The Bible says that she came behind him and touched
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the border of his garment, and immediately her issue of
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blood ceased. Now, the point is that the daughter of
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Jarios was twelve years old, the one who was dying,
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and this woman was twelve years old in her calamity,
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meaning the day that young girl was born. That was
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when this woman's trouble also started. Bought twelve years a
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twelve year old girl about to lose her life, a
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twelve year old woman. And if you were asked to
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which one would be better to heal first, both of
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them were sympathetic to their pain. Would you ignore a
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woman who had gone through twelve years of pain? But
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we you ignore a little girl who has potential to
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live a great life. Trouble for you, calamities for you?
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Are we still together? The Bible makes a very interesting
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statement in Second Corinthians, chapter four and verse eight.
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Speaker 2: Please give it to us.
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Speaker 1: Second Corinthians four and verse eight. I usually would like
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us to read together. I hope we can. Otherwise I'll
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just read alone. Second Corinthians four and verse eight. Please
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media help us. Second Corinthians, chapter four and verse eight.
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If you can see it, please I request that we
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read together. Ready, one to go. We are troubled on
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every side. Please hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on.
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This is a very interesting statement. It is one thing
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to be troubled in your health, but other areas will
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be doing well. It is one thing to be troubled spiritually,
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but perhaps financially you are doing well. The Bible tells
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us that it is even possible to be troubled on
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e free side. You know what that means? That there
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can be a problem in your finances at the same time,
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a problem in your spiritual life at the same time.
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A problem with your children and your marriage. That such
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possibility exists in our world. We are troubled, not just dimensionally,
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but on every side. It is that yet not distressed.
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We are perplexed, but not in despair. So men can
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be so troubled. It is not just that men can
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find rest on every side. They can also be troubled
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on every side. I have studied my Bible, by the
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grace of God, and in my study, the clearest example
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the individual that personified is this scripture, in my opinion,
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is the man Job. Job becomes for us a theological lesson,
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a description of a man who was troubled on every side.
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For reference, please write Job chapter one thirteen to twenty two,
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Job Chapter one thirteen to twenty two, and then Job
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chapter two.
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Speaker 2: Seven to nine. For time's sake, I'm not going to
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read it. I'll just.
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Speaker 1: Just recite for you the story. So here is a
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man the Bible says, who was the richest man within
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the east in the then world. And the Bible says
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he was a man who she had God and as
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shured evil, he had everything what you will want to
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call rest on every side. Wealth was there, children, assets,
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a great name. But then the Bible tells us that
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a series of events happened within the heavens and began
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to manifest back to back, all within the space of
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one day. In one day, ladies and gentlemen, the man
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Joe lost his children, lost his assets, lost his reputation,
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lost everything. And then the Bible makes a very profound
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statement that when the last person came to break the
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sad news, Joe.
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Speaker 2: Bound himself to the ground and wash it.
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Speaker 1: Not bound himself to the ground to cause God not
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bound himself to the ground in despair. The Bible says,
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he bowed himself to the ground and wash it, Allelujah.
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And then, as though that would be enough, there were
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only three things that were left.
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Speaker 2: After the first tragedy struck in Job's life.
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Speaker 1: Number one was his wife, Number two was his relationship
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with God, and number three was his health. These were
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the only three things that survived the first attack, and
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then a series of events in chapter two would happen again,
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and the devil is giving liberty to now strike his health.
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Job's health was so was so heat that the Bible
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says that men would look at him and just pass.
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He became a man who was left for dead troubled
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on every side, and the only thing Job had left
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was his wife and his God. But then when I
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studied the book of Job, I am encouraged by just
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one profound statement. And you find that in Job chapter
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forty twoe, verse ten. And may that be a prophecy
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for someone tonight. In the name of Jesus, please give
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it to us and the Lord to the captivity of Job.
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My goodness, there is a God can turn the captivity
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of men. Did you hear what I said that there
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is a God in heaven, not in the earth.
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Speaker 2: There is a God that.
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Speaker 1: Sits in heaven, and that he sustains within his power
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the ability to turn the captivity of men. Did you
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not read in your Bible that when the Lord turned
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again the captivity of Zion is said, we were like
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damn that dream. It would be for someone tonight, like
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a dream. The way my God will turn around your life.
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I say it by prophecy. It will do for someone
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like you are dreaming. The way does will open, the
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way God will settle you, the way God will give
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you peace. The way my God will arise to push
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back every force that has mocked your life.
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Speaker 2: Please be seated.
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Speaker 1: So the Bible tells us that men, all men, can
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be troubled, not just on some sides, not just in
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certain areas, but that men can be troubled on every side.
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Speaker 2: And it is very possible that someone came for this convention.
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Speaker 1: In the midst of the dance, in the midst of
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the screams, in the midst of the shout, you are
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only praying for grace to survive because perhaps this year
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has been maybe your worst experience yet.
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Speaker 2: Now I want you to please pay attention. I just
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thought to borrow from my notes.
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Speaker 1: And explain to us why believers go through tragedies.
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Speaker 2: I just want to list it for you.
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Speaker 1: Two weeks ago I did a teaching back at home
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on deliverance over calamities, and I.
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Speaker 2: Just thought to incorporate that in my notes.
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Speaker 1: I thought it was very important before before we begin
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to talk about entering rest. It's important we have a
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very proper foundation as to why believer us go through tragedies,
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go through calamities, and go through unfavorable seasons.
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Speaker 2: There is a reason.
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Speaker 1: There is an explanation to pay There is an explanation
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to calamity and tragedy. I will least for you not
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necessarily having to explain them. And I pray in the
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name of Jesus Christ that what you're about to hear
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will contribute to your confidence, because sometimes beyond pushing men
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to enter the rest, it's important that we diagnose the
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condition properly. There are people who no matter what kind
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of prayer you pray for, they will still go back
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into their pain because there are certain funda mental mistakes
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that they continue to make.
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Speaker 2: Can we examine this for a minute.
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Speaker 1: Number one, The first reason, according to Scripture, why people
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go through tragedies, losses, calamities is lack of discernment. Please write,
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the absence of dissignment will always lead an individual into a.
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Speaker 2: Circle of calamities. Lack of discernment.
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Speaker 1: Lack of discernment, lack of discernment, hallelujah, lack of discernment
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most people cannot discern. I'm reminded about the story in
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Acts chapter twelve. When you read in the Book of
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Act chapter twelve, the Bible says that Herald made up
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his mind to affect certain Jews, and in doing so
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John I mean James, was held and he was beheaded.
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And when James was beheaded, the Bible says that the
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Herald saw that it pleased the Jews. And now he
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held Peter, proposing that after the Passover he would also
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destroy Peter. But the Bible says in verse five that
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prayers was made by the church.
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Speaker 2: Are we together without ceasing for him?
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Speaker 1: And then the Bible says, the moment the church began
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to pray, I was not there, but I can draw out.
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I can infer their prayer. Content Lord, bring Peter out
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of the prison. Bring him out of the prison.
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Speaker 2: He must not die.
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Speaker 1: And the Bible says, in response to their prayer, an
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angel comes to the prison and brings deliverance onto Peter.
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Speaker 2: Now watch this.
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Speaker 1: Then the Bible tells us that Peter was led out
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and the gates began to open. Now he was giving
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the liberty. And when you read from verse eleven forward,
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the Bible says, Peter came to the very house. When
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he came to the house where the prayer was happening
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for his deliverance, he knocked the door and said, this
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is the answer to your prayer. One young girl opened
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the door and saw him and said, no, it must
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be his angel. She closed the door, and they kept praying, Lord,
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deliver Peter. Lack of dessernment. How do you pray for
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something and then the answer comes and you cannot know? Allelujah.
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Lack of discernment Number two, The second reason why people
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experience losses, pain, tragedies, calamities.
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Speaker 2: I wrote here is carelessness. Carelessness.
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Speaker 1: The second reason carelessness Hebrews, chapter two and verse three
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carelessness carelessness. The Bible says, how shall we escape if
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we neglect so great a salvation? If you are careless
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and you take for granted, how shall we escape?
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Speaker 2: I wish I had the time.
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Speaker 1: To share with you a very interesting story under this point.
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It is found in the Book of Judges, chapter eleven, thirty.
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Speaker 2: To thirty five.
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Speaker 1: I prayed for my own self that God would help
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me to be free from carelessness when I read this scripture,
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a very interesting scripture about a warrior called Jefta. Jef
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Ta was one of the mighty men. He was a warrior,
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and this man on his own, God did not ask
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him to make a covenant. He got up. You can
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see a graphic representation of carelessness. He said, Oh God,
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if you will deliver the children of Ammon to my hands,
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here is my promise. The first thing that opens my door.
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As I return back, I will give to you sounds
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like spirituality, but that is carelessnes And truly he had
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great victory. And the Bible says, when he was returning home,
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watch this his daughter opened the door. The first first
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thing he would see what his daughter she had prepared
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instruments of music. You find that in verse thirty four
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this young girl was out to celebrate her father's return.
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Yet the man had carelessly made a statement that the
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first thing that comes out of his door he would
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sacrifice it. There are many people today who have brought
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self inflicted causes upon themselves because of carelessness.
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Speaker 2: In the name of Jesus and Prince for someone.
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Speaker 1: Either through careless speaking, either thrue careless associations. Whatever calamity
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you may have brought upon yourself, made the God of
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messy tonight, bail you out, Made the God of messy tonight,
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bail you out in the name of Jesus Christ number
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three very quickly. Why do men go through tragedies and pain,
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calamities and seasons of distress, ignorance of the loss of
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the kingdom, ignorance, ignorance of the loss of the kingdom,
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ignorance of the loss of life and destiny.
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Speaker 2: Allelujah.
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Speaker 1: An intelligent God will not design a system like this
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and allow men to free lance their way through it.
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There is an exact formula for living profitably upon the earth.
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Did you hear what I said? There is an exact
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formula for profitable living. There is also an exact formula
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for living a defeated life. You don't just live a
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defeated life. To live a defeated life, you work in
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keeping with certain principles. And to live a victorious life,
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you also work in keeping with certain principles. From Well
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chapter two twelve to seventeen. Then we also go to
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First and Wel chapter four. The Bible lets us know
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that Hoffney and Finnish has based on the principle they
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were supposed to use the fuck and to bring out
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a portion of meat, and whatever portion it brought was theirs.
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But they designed to start bringing choice portions for themselves,
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and they violated due process. Many people today have abused
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annoying things, abuse opportunities, abuse relationships.
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Speaker 2: Are we together?
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Speaker 1: You may have hurt people in our worlds. Say I
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know this man, we used to be friends. I know
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this woman, we used to be classmates. The question is
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what changed. Usually abuse this honor will always close any door.
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Abuse of privileges, abuse of opportunities. Children have abused certain
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privileges that their parents created for them. Parents have abused
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certain privileges that they had with all due respect. Even
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men and women of God have abused privileges. In the
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corporate world, people have abused privileges. Abuse and misuse will
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always lead to tragedy.
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Speaker 2: A wise man, now of blessed memory, Dr.
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Speaker 1: Males Munroe, would say, when the purpose of a thing
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is not known, he says, abuse of it is inevitable.
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The word abuse comes from two words abnormal use. Every
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time a thing is taken out of its jurisdiction of purpose,
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it becomes abuse. The fourth reason why people go through
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tragedies let me quickly run through the remaining two number five.
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The fifth reason why people go through calamities and pain
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and stragedies is as a result of demonic attacks. Demonic
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attacks you cannot rule Satan out. There are times that
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you do everything right, but just because there is an
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adversary that is determined to twards the purposes of God
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in your life. Demonic attacks John chapter ten and verse ten.
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Jesus himself was teaching, and here's what he had to say.
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The thief comet not but for to steal and to
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kill and to destroy, he says, But I am calm
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that ye may have life, and that they may have
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it more abundantly. Jesus called set and a thief in
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First Preit Touch, chapter five and verse eight. First Preit Touch,
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chapter five and verse eight. First Bitter, chapter five and
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verse eight. Here's what Paul Peter now was admonition us
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to do. He says, be sober, be vigilant, because your adversary,
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the devil, as a roaring lion. He walked about. He
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walks about a bell kutta, he walks about Legos, he
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walks about Cardunacano. He works about Europe, he works about America.
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He walks about tall and from the entire earth, seeking
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whom he may divulce.
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Speaker 2: The diligence of Satan can be so inspiring.
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Speaker 1: The Bible tells us that when he was prop by God,
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he said, from whence have you called himself from working
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tall and through the eth That means, provided you are
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in the head one day, the possibility for meeting him
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or his representatives is one hundred.
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Speaker 2: Percent one day he will come around you.
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Speaker 1: Even Jesus said, Satan, come meth to me, say it
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and cometh to me.
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Speaker 2: Allelujah. What does it mean to have rest?
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Speaker 1: I have three expressions here that I believe capture the
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idea of rest is God speaking to someone already. Number One,
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to have rest means to have security. To have rest
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means to have security, any and all kinds of security.
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The moment it's time for you to sleep, the first
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thing you.
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Speaker 2: Do is to lock up your doors. Am I right
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on that?
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Speaker 1: You lock your car, you lock the main door, you
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switch off the light, and you are going to rest.
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So rest is connected to security, all kinds of security,
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spiritual security, financial security, relational security. Rest means security. Number two.
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Rest means freedom from our dominion over troubles and fears.
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Speaker 2: I'll take it again.
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Speaker 1: Rest means freedom from our dominion over freedom from our
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dominion over troubles and fears.
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Speaker 2: You are said to be in a position of rest
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when you have.
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Speaker 1: Freedom from, exempted from, or dominion over troubles and fears.
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Number three. As simple as this would sound, it is
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my most It is the clearest explanation.
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Speaker 2: Of rest for me. Rest in one word is peace.
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Rest in one word is peace.
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Speaker 1: They are so related that in our world we have
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used both words as a parting expression.
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Speaker 2: For people who leave the earth.
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Speaker 1: Here's what we say, rest in, not resting wisdom, not
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resting wealth, not rest in a well furnished grave. The
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only expression we can give to such a man that
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describes our idea of rest is peace. That means, in
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all you're getting, if it is minors peace, you have
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not found rest. If you have progress without peace, you
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have not entered rest. Are well learning tonight? The question tonight,
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as I seek to tie up my teaching, is that
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can a believer, can the believer in Christ experience rest?
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Speaker 2: Round about? Is that possible?
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Speaker 1: Is there such a possibility in the economy of God
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that a believer can be so fortified that the same
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way a believer is plagued with trouble on every side?
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Can a believer actually have rest on all sides? The
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answer is yes. Genesis twenty four and verse one. Let
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me request, when it is projected that we shout that
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scripture together in unison, ready one to read please. And
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Abraham was old and well stricken in age ahah and
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the Lord had blessed Abraham in all things. Someone says
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all things. All things means your spiritual life. Say all things,
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your finances, your home, your children. Yeah, is a man
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who represents a portrait of God's idea of a blessed man.
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And the Bible says, in spite of the tragedies and
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the calamities that he met somewhere in his life, it
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was just a page in his life. That at the
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end of Abraham's life he was old and well stricken
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in age. Yes it is true that he was once
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without child, but not forever. Yes it is true that
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he was once an idol worshiper from all of the Childians,
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but it was not forever. Let me professy to someone.
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Whatever negative name may be around your life, it is
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only a page of your destiny. I speak to you
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in the name of Jesus that my God is rewriting
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your story. My God is rewriting your story where you
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are being called barried. Barin is not the name you
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will have forever. Felure is not the name you will
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have forever. A victim is not the name you will
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have forever. They are pressed if not the name you
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have forever, Allelujah. Jacob got to a point in its
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life where he was tired of an old name, called
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a cheat and a supplanter, and he held on to
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God and he said, I will not let you go
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until you bless me. And in blessing him, his name
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was changed. How about the man called Jabez. The Bible
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says the mother named him after her pain. Jabez got
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angry and he cried to the God of heaven all
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that that would hast bless me, and latched my cost.
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When it's time to pray tonight, someone needs to be
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angry with your current situation and say, Lord, I did
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not come here tonight for negotiation. I must step in
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to the realm of rest on every side in the
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name of Jesus Christ. So can the believer in Christ
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experience rest on every side? The answer is yes. In
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spite of the economic situation, Yes, sir, In spite of
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the onslaughts of demonic forces around families and territories. Yes, sir,
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in spite of your delay in knowing God, Yes, sir,
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in spite of the fact that it looks like it's
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not easy to get jobs again, Yes, sir, in spite
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of the fact that it looks like there is such
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the Cardens, that is bedefinitely in our world. Yes, sir,
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the believer in Christ, not everyone. The believer in Christ
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has a superior advantage, and that in the presence of knowledge,
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you can step into rest on every side. What then,
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are the keys to entering rest? There are keys to
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entering rest.
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Speaker 2: In this kingdom.
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Speaker 1: The Saints excel by the use of keys. A key
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stands for access. There is the key to the kingdom.
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The key to the kingdom is Jesus. There are not
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many keys. There is only one key to the kingdom.
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But when you are in the kingdom, there are the
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keys off the kingdom, the principles and the mysteries by
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which the Saints reign. Allelujah. The Bible says they know not,
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neither will they understand Psalm eighty to one, Verse five.
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They work on in darkness, and all the foundations of
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the earth are out of course. Verse sixcess I have said,
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ye are gods, and all of you not some of
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you not men of God, businessmen, not elders, not children.
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Speaker 2: All of you are children of the most High.
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Speaker 1: Verse seven says, but you shall die like mein men
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and fall like one of the princes. Josia began to
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Lament in chapter four and verse six, he said, speaking
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by the spirit, my people are destroyed.
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Speaker 2: Listen carefully, please, my people.
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Speaker 1: That includes preachers, my people, that includes businessmen, My people,
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that includes people from all the six your political zones
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captured in this nation and across.
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Speaker 2: The nations of the earth.
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Speaker 1: My people. And yet he says, they are destroyed for
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the lack of knowledge. For the lack of knowledge, please
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lend me your attention for the next few minutes. That
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we have haven't established the fact that calamity is the
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potential lot of all all men. Calamities, tragedies, pains, discomfort
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is the potential lot of all men by default, but
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that there is a system in Christ that men and
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women can build themselves out of tragedies and calamities and
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master the art of exerting dominion, and by that they
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establish practically in and through their lives, that.
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Speaker 2: A man can have rest on every side. Key number one?
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Speaker 1: What is the first key for anyone, whether following here
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this beautiful campground, or following by way of television from
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any nation at all, following online? What is my first key?
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If I want to step into the realm of rest
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round about? Are you ready that this decision to be
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spiritually minded. The first key, non negotiable key for anyone
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who desires to work in the experience of rest roundabout
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rest on every side is to be spiritually minded Romans
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eight six. Romans eight six. Paul was speaking, and is
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said to be cannally minded is already death, death in
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its entirety, And then it says, but to be spiritually
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minded is life and with it peace.
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Speaker 2: Spiritually minded.
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Speaker 1: Spirituality involves a number of many experiences and dimensions, the
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chiefs of them been your encounter with the Lord Jesus.
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You may want to write this on thats being spiritually minded.
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True spirituality starts not just with your coming to church,
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not just with your listening to a man of God,
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not just with your listening to a message. True spirituality
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starts with your encounter with the Lord Jesus. Are we
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still learning, still examining the first key that to find
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rest roundabout you must be spiritually minded, and that the
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pathway to becoming spiritually minded is number one, to have
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an encounter with Jesus. Matthew, Chapter eleven and verse twenty eight.
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I love Jesus. Here's what he has to say Matthew
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eleven twenty eight. Can we read it together? One to read?
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Please come on to me, all ye that label and
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a heavy leaden. What's the reward? I will give you rest,
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not just life. I will give your family rest. I
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will give your ministry rest. I will give your business rest.
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I will give your children rest. I will give your
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health the rest. But the keys come on to me,
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Come on to me. The Bible tells us the story
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of a young boy called the prodigal Son. That boy
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had his share of the inheritance and went to live
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at ryotos life, and when he had so declined to
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a point that he was the epitomy of calamity and felure.
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The Bible says he got up one day and said
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to himself, how many hired servants as my father, and
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I am here feeding with the swine. I like the boy,
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He said, I will arise. He didn't say, my father
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will come and meet me there. The father never came
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to meet him in the place of dicadens. I will arise,
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and I will go to my father. And when I
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say my father, I will say unto him, Father, I
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have sin against you and against Heaven. I am not
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worthy to be called your son, Take me as one
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of your slaves. As soon as he got up and
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began to move, the father also left his house and
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began to move. They met somewhere at the.
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Speaker 2: Point of his decision and encounter with Jesus.
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Speaker 1: There are many people who want to receive from God,
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but they do not desire to be spiritual. With all
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due respect, many politicians, many businessmen, captains of industry, parents,
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young people especially, they do not desire to have an
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encounter with Jesus, but they want the fruits of encounter.
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There are certain things that cannot be received through a
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back door. Jesus said this about himself. I am the way,
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not away the way. There is a way that samn
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right onto a man, the Bible says, but other ways
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of death. But hees Jesus speaking, He says, I am
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the way, I am the truth, I am the Life.
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He says, no man comment to the Father except through
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me and encounter with Jesus. When you encounter Jesus, you
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are already on your way to being secure. Proverbs eighteen
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ten Proverbs chapter eighteen and verse ten, very powerful and
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profound rendition. He says, the name of the Lord is
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a strong tower. Hallelujah. The right shous runs into it,
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and they are say the name of the Lord, the
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name of the Lord, not the name of a man.
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The name of the Lord is a strong tower. There
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is no house on heir that you can hide two
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in away from demons. You can hide away from m roberts.
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The military can protect you against physical forces, but they
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may not be able to protect you against principalities and
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powers and rulers of darkness, age, long causes that are
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determined to reduce you to a place of shame. But
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my Bible says the name of the Lord is a
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strong power that the writers can run into it and
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be shore that what killed my father will not kill
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me again. What killed my mother would not kill me again.
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What destroyed people from my lineage would not. I can
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redefine my possibilities when I run to Jesus, allelujah. You
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believe that, Oh God, you are my God, and I
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will have a phrases oga you mya and night will
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have praisy. I will seek you with the morn I
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have learnt to walk in your ways. Step bus, you
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leave me, and I will follow you all of my days.
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Speaker 6: For step by step you leave me, and I will
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follow you all of my days.
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Speaker 7: Oh God, you are my God, and I will ever
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praise you. Oh God, you are my God, and I
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will ever love you.
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Speaker 2: I will see you with the morning.
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Speaker 1: I have learnt to walk in your ways. For step
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mist you leave.
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Speaker 2: Me, and now I will follow you all of my day.
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Speaker 1: Listen, ladies and gentlemen, hear me. This business of Jesus
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Christ is beyond church. This issue of Jesus Christ is
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beyond the pretense and the hypocrisy.
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Speaker 2: The form of godliness.
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Speaker 1: This issue of Jesus must be a genuine encounter. There
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are many things you cannot fake. One of it is
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a solid, genuine encounter with the Lord Jesus Christ. With
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all due respect, there are many people in church who
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have not met him. There are many people in ministry
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who have not met him. There are many people serving
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at various levels in ministries and Christian organizations who are
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working for God but not with him.
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Speaker 2: Please listen, Please.
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Speaker 1: Listen, while I watch several people dancing to the praise
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and worship powerfully. Among the many things that moved in
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my spirit was O God. I pray and hope that
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this dance is to a god they know. I pray
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and hope that this sweating and rejoicing is to a god.
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You know, because there were men in a place called
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Athens who were doing obey sense to an unknown God.
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There are many people giving to an unknown god, singing
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to an unknown god, preaching for an unknown god, moving
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from place to place, wearing t shirts carrying the name
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of a god they do not know. You want the
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rest roundabout? There are things that men cannot give. Rest
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is not found in a bank. You don't find rest
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in a university. There is no cause called rest. There
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is no chef who can cook a meal called rest. No,
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it does not exist in the world of men. Rest
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only resides with the ancient of days. I will give
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you rest. I will give you rest. Now watch this
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what discussing being spiritually minded?
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Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen.
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Speaker 1: Hear me. At the end of my discourse, I'm going
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to be making an altar call, and I believe there
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are people here. You've been around the things of God
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for a long time. You perhaps may have had an
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opportunity to serve in various capacities in church. That does
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not equal to an encounter with God. Having a Christian
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name coming from a Christian family. As advantageous as these are,
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they do not in themselves translate to salvation.
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Speaker 2: You must encounter the God of the Bible, the God
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of the Bible. Allelujah.
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Speaker 1: You are my God, you were my God. How can
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I call on your name and end up in shape?
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No way, no way.
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Speaker 6: How can I sing the song before you and then
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found down before a man?
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Speaker 1: No way, no way. Because you are my God. Ladies
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and gentlemen. I'd rather be a failure with God than
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to succeed without you. And when I say God, I'm
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talking about Jesus Christ, the Son of the Living God.
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Because God in our world today means anything. There are
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people God means themselves.
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Speaker 2: There are others. God means their bank accounts.
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Speaker 1: There are others God means they have several qualifications. As
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important as that is. My Bible says trust in the
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Lord with all your heart. Probhaps three and verse five.
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It says, lean not onto your own understanding.
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Speaker 2: Verse six sys in.
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Speaker 1: All your ways, acknowledge she Man, She shall direct your path.
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Verse seven says be not wise in your own understanding.
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He says, fear the Lord and depart, turn away from
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evil except the lord builty house, My boy says, they
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labor in vain, that would build it, except the lord
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watches over his city.
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Speaker 2: Said the watchman watched but in vain.
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Speaker 1: That it is vain to wake up in the morning
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and to sleep late at night, only to eat the
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bread of sorrow. The Sami said, how many a day
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that rise up against me? Some three many a day
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that say where is your help? But he says, thou, o, Lord, thou,
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oh Lord, thou, o Lord, you are a shield for me.
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He calls him, my glory, and the leaft tarop of
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my head. The Bible says, they looked on to him,
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and their faces were lightened. You cannot look up to
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him and be in shame. When the serpents came to
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a present nation of Israel, they had an opportunity to
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look two directions, the brazen serpent representing the cross, or
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the one that was coming to them.
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Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen.
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Speaker 1: Behind the exploits and the rest of men that we
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admire in our world today, men and women in ministry,
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champions in the kingdom, in business, in family. Behind all
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the excellence the admirable results is a passion for God.
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I've had the honor of your opportunity to meet people
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whose lives are an epitomy of excellence behind all of
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that paraphernalia. When you come to them, you find out
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that their real secret is not the intellect. Their real
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secret is not the banking skill. Their real secret is
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their love and their passion for Jesus Allelujah. In addition
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to having an encounter with Jesus, you want to become
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spiritually minded. Your prayer all times be on fire. We're
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still discussing point one. This is what it takes to
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be spiritually minded. Number one, to have an encounter with
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the Son of the Living God. Number two. Your prayer life.
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It is the Apostolic model that was left with the church.
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You want to be spiritual, it is not without a
1:00:09
healthy prayer life, adds chapter two and verse forty two.
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The Bible says, and they continued steadfastly in the apostles doctrine,
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and in fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayer.
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At chapter six and verse four, it says, but we
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will give ourselves continually to prayer and the ministry of
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the world.
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Speaker 2: Look chapter eighteen and verse one.
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Speaker 1: He expect a parable to the end that men ought
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always to pray and not to faint. First the Salonia,
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chapter five and verse seventeen, he says, pray without seasing. James,
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chapter five and verse thirteen. Is any man afflicted, he says,
1:00:53
let him pray. Mark eleven and verse twenty four. It says,
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what things soever ye desire when ye pray, believe that
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thou receivest them, and thou shalt have it. Ladies and gentlemen,
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the men who will command exploits in their world and
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find rest tame life like an animal are men and
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women who understand the mysteries of the altar. We must
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obtain grace to pray. We must obtain grace to pray.
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Prayer is not for men of God. It's not for
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pastors and apostles and evangelists.
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Speaker 2: Please listen to me. Their parents and the aged another prophet, as.
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Speaker 1: Was old, she still prayed. Young men, Jesus prayed. You
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must pray. We must revite prayer as a culture with understanding.
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A generation that does not pray will be a weak
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generation that will never see the power of God. I
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tell you sincerely, and I'm not just talking of need
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driven pray. Give me, give me, give me I'm talking
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of men who build capacity within the spirit. Peter say,
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desire to sift you like Wait, it says what I
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have prayed for you. That's your faith fell not and
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when thou I confided, strengthen your brethren. Show me a
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man of God who prays. I show you a victor,
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one who will have rest on every side. Show me
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a business man who prays. Show me a mother who prays,
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no matter how stop on that child is. Let the
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mother keep praying. One day, fire from heaven will look
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at that child no matter where he is. I tell
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you most people do not know the power in prayer.
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Go and read charge history and see people who shifted
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the spiritual climate or fur nations not with the power
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of prayer.
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Speaker 2: Prayer with understanding can change things, Yes it can.
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Speaker 1: Elijah was a man of life passion, the Bible says,
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Yet he prayed saying the name of Jesus one more time.
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Speaker 2: In the name of Jesus, I obtain grace to pray.
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Speaker 1: If you came here and your prayer life has gone down,
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or perhaps until now you have believed that anyone who
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is serious in the prayer life must be someone who
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is getting into ministry. Please give yourself a renewed orientation.
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Prayer is an instrument for time survival. You cannot escape
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the arrows that fly by day, the noise and persilences,
1:03:37
the destruction that waste in noonday. Pray for me. Pray
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for me is wonderful, but you must learn to fund
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the ambers the flames from your own altar. There me,
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young people, I hate to be a braa of bad news,
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but let me make an honest admission. The days today
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are very different from the days of our parents. The
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level of honesty has changed. The level of sincerity has changed.
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You will have to use the weapon of prayer to
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create your own reality, or otherwise get said to join
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a long queue that may never move away. Together, sir, prayer, gentlemen, pray, pray, pray,
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and part of what I don't have a job yet
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good news.
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Speaker 2: Pray.
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Speaker 1: Use that time to pray while you are waiting. The
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Bible says, watch and pray. There is a devil who
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has found that you will not rise. He says, say
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on to God, how terrible are that when I walk
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some sixty six and us three through the greatness of
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Thy power shall die? Enemies submit themselves to you you
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want to tame life, you must start out of prayer. Mommy,
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don't watch your children become umbrobers and hooligans and says
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just the times is their days. Don't let them send
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you to the grave. No, you may not have the
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strength to find them because they are now bigger than you,
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or you can bring them to their niece to prayer. Father,
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I will not. My womb will not give back to
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a numbrober. No, my womb will not give bad to
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a prostitute. I cannot give back to a child that
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will be the reason for me to die early.
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Speaker 2: Allelujah.
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Speaker 1: When ministry is not working, Man of God, pray, don't complain.
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There is no reward for complaining.
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Speaker 2: Pray, pray.
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Speaker 1: Someone looks at you in the place of work and justys,
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I hate you. You are supposed to be the next director.
1:05:50
What I hate you. You are not my tribe, You
1:05:53
are not this, and you in there will only be
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you be recording calamity upon calamity. Leave them in peace.
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Go back to the central control room of the universe
1:06:03
and begin to pray certain things. Do you believe what
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you're hearing? Then, in addition to prayer, you must be
1:06:15
sound in Scripture, Now let me submit to you. Haven't
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encourage you to pray. Prayer in ignorance is just wasting
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your energy. What gives power to prayer is the word
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compliancy of your prayer. This we have a generation of
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prayer for people, but most people pray amiss. What gives
1:06:38
power to your prayer is its word compliancy. Beyond the
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sound of your voice, beyond your sweating and rolling from
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left to right. If there is no word compliancy to
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your prayer, you simply dissipated energy in futility?
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Speaker 2: Are we together sound?
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Speaker 1: In Scripture as chapter twenty and verse thirty two, he says,
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And now, brethren, I commend you onto God and to
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the word of His grace, which is able to build
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you up, he says, and to give you an inheritance
1:07:16
among them that are sanctified John one one to three.
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Speaker 2: In the beginning was.
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Speaker 1: The Word, and the word was with God, and the
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Word was God. The Bible says the same was in
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the beginning with God. Verse three says all things were
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made by him the Word, all things, including your tomorrow,
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made by the Word, and without him was not anything
1:07:44
made that was made. The boundary of God's commitment to
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the believer is his word. God cannot be committed to
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the believer outside of the boundary of his world. Please listen,
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love and people of God. God only does what he says,
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not what you want. If what you want is consistent
1:08:07
with what he says, then it will be done. God
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never never does anything that is outside.
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Speaker 2: Of what he has said.
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Speaker 1: Please give us Genesis twenty one and verse one. I
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want us to shout, it's God helping someone's spiritually minded.
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But discausing the case now, because rest roundabout is not
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a gift. Jesus said, I will give you rest. The
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word give you there does not mean you will not
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do anything, and you will just have it because you
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will be learning that. Paul was giving perspective to our
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understanding of rest. He said, dearly minute a rest for
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the people of God. Genesis twenty one and verse one.
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You see that it's good to come to church. The
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Church of the Lord Jesus Christ is the cheap, best
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institution that sponsors transformation. You don't have to write jamp.
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There is no age restriction, Allelujah. All other institutions have quotas.
1:09:05
Once the quotera is full. Sorry for you, but the church.
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All you need to do is leave your house and
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come and sit down. You're not paying school fe ish.
1:09:13
Your school fez is your humility and your meekness and
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your diligence.
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Speaker 2: This is important so that government will know that the
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church is not a.
1:09:23
Speaker 1: Nuisance to civilization. The Church is an active part of
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the transforming force of society. It is true.
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Speaker 2: How did I get here?
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Speaker 1: Genesis twenty one, verse one, Please let's read it together.
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Speaker 2: Ready, one to read.
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Speaker 1: And the Lord visited Sarah as he has said. And
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the Lord did onto Sarah. He did not visit Sarah
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as she wanted. No, the visitation was not based on
1:09:58
her need. It was based on his word. The Lord
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visited Joshua Sealman as he has said. If you cannot
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find what God has said, you will never find what
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he can do. It is what he has said that
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you will do. Show me what God has said, and
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I show you what he can do. Show me what
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God has said, and I show you what you will do.
1:10:21
Did God say you will heal you, Then I show
1:10:23
you that is power can heal you. Did God say
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you will lift you up? Then I show you that
1:10:28
no power can keep you down? Did God say you
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can give you rest roundabout? Where is that spirit that
1:10:35
we want to tell you? When God has said allelujah?
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Genesis chapter one, verse three, the first three words, and
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God said, and God said, CALLI capo theater. And God said,
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when you find what God has said, then you find
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what his power can do. The limit of God's power
1:11:07
is where his word stops. And since his word is unlimited,
1:11:11
it is true that his power is on limited. I
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will learning be spiritually minded. Let me give you the
1:11:20
last I have a few minutes, and I intend to
1:11:23
take a part of it.
1:11:25
Speaker 2: So that will pray.
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Speaker 1: So the decision to be spiritually minded becomes for us
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the first key to experiencing rest on every side. And
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I'm now explaining to you the implication of being spiritually
1:11:42
minded that number one, it necessitates and encounter with Jesus,
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the Son of the Living God. Number two, that your
1:11:49
prayer life has to be alivee and robust. Number three,
1:11:53
your spiritual understanding needs to be heightened because according to
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Isaiah chapter sixty and verse it says, you will only
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arise and you will shine if and when your life
1:12:04
comes longevity of your stay that's not equal to victory.
1:12:11
The man was at the pull of bethesda for thirty
1:12:13
eight years. Time did not change his situation. The day
1:12:18
the light of the world came to him, he was
1:12:20
ready to rise. The Bible says, but the people that
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sat in darkness have seen a great Light's God speaking
1:12:27
to us. Let me challenge you, therefore, by the messes
1:12:31
of God, that in the course of this convention, go
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and find relevant materials, materials that speak to the various
1:12:40
issues of concern, whether electronically or by way of print.
1:12:46
It is your responsibility under God to pursue truth. The
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Bible says, by the truth, there are certain currencies we
1:12:54
used to buy the truth number one hunger, number two, meekness,
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number three, passion. These are the currencies that we used
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to buy the truth. And the Bible says, if you
1:13:05
do find the truth, it is a send it not allelujah,
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is someone learning. Many believers work based on superstitious ideas,
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And with all due respect, it is this bankruptcy of
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light that has impor verished us as a people and
1:13:25
as a continent. We have all kinds of white sayings
1:13:29
that are not based on scripture. One day, go better,
1:13:32
no sir, no, sir, No, sir, you define your lot
1:13:37
by light?
1:13:40
Speaker 2: Are we together amplified?
1:13:42
Speaker 1: Isaiah sixty and verse one says, arise from the depression
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and the prostration that circumstances have kept.
1:13:49
Speaker 2: You, rise to a new life.
1:13:54
Speaker 1: When I found out that the responsibility of understanding was mine,
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I've found before God that there will be no excuse.
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I hate ignorance with passion, and I am ever open
1:14:08
to know the areas where I am ignorant in How
1:14:11
do you know your areas of ignorance? The areas where
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darkness drives, the area where pain exists. The area where
1:14:19
suffering and pain perpetually remains is the area of darkness.
1:14:25
Such for the relevant materials. If it's your finances, don't
1:14:30
keep quiet and say my uncle has the power to
1:14:33
lift me, but it's not attending to me. No. The
1:14:38
word responsible comes from the word responsive. Responsible people are
1:14:44
people of action. They don't sit down and wait for
1:14:47
things to happen. Why is my finance like this? Why
1:14:51
am I always fighting with my husband? This marriage is
1:14:55
not a course. Why are my children stop on not
1:14:57
obeying me? Why does everybody hates me? It is not
1:15:05
unusual to be hated, But if everybody hates you, something
1:15:08
is wrong with you, because even Satan, it's not everybody
1:15:13
that hates him, Allelujah, there are people.
1:15:16
Speaker 2: Who love him.
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Speaker 1: So if everybody around you hates you, it's not just
1:15:21
a spiritual problem. You are perpetually violating something. Somebody should
1:15:26
like you enough, and all you need is for one person,
1:15:29
and if that person is king a hazardous you become
1:15:32
the queen immediately. It didn't matter how many people hate
1:15:39
that esther. The right person who needed to love her
1:15:42
made her queen. It didn't matter how many people hate
1:15:45
that and ahbayah. When the king loved him as a compiera,
1:15:48
he got favor. Who hates you does not matter, but
1:15:52
who likes you in this kingdom. I'm praying for someone
1:15:55
the grace that must rest upon you and cause men
1:15:59
to find favor with men in the name of Jesus
1:16:02
made that Christ come upon you now, allelujah. I think
1:16:09
I'll give one more than we'll pray. I'll finish up
1:16:12
the remaining tomorrow. Is that a good deal? So I've
1:16:17
given you number one, the decision to be spiritually minded.
1:16:20
Let's do number two. What is the second key to
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experiencing rest on every side? You must leave by faith.
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You must leave by faith. Hulbert Couk Chapter two and
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verse four. You also find that in Hebrews ten and
1:16:42
verse thirty eight, the just shall leave by faith. Four times.
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In scripture, the Bible repeats it almost verbatim, that the
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just shall leave by faith. The just shall leave by faith.
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First John, Chapter five and verse four. First John Chapter
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five and verse four. First John Chapter five and verse four.
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For whatsoever is born of God, that includes Joshua Selman,
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whatsoever is born of God over commet the world. And
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it says, this is the victory that overcome the world.
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Help me even our faith. The man who has faith
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is an overcomer. Indeed. And in one word, ladies and gentlemen,
1:17:33
faith is obedience. In one word, faith is obedience. No
1:17:39
matter your definition of faith, if it does not capture.
1:17:43
Speaker 2: Obedience, you did not define it.
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Speaker 1: Well.
1:17:45
Speaker 2: Let me give you two definitions for faith if you
1:17:47
don't mind.
1:17:48
Speaker 1: Number one, faith is the confidence you have, the depth
1:17:55
of conviction that you have about God, and the in
1:18:00
tegrity of His word. Number one, faith is defined as
1:18:05
your confidence, your conviction about God and the integrity of
1:18:13
his word. The confidence and the conviction you have about
1:18:22
God and the integrity of his word. Second definition, please,
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Faith is the name given to the action of obedience
1:18:31
you think. Faith is the name given to the action
1:18:37
of obedience you take as proof that you believe. Faith
1:18:42
is the name given to the action of obedience you
1:18:47
take as proof that you believe. The proof of hearing
1:18:55
is accurate response if you have heard me, I know
1:18:59
you have heard me, because you would respond accordingly.
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Speaker 2: Are we together?
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Speaker 1: Faith is defined is the name given to the action
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that you take as.
1:19:11
Speaker 2: Proof that you believe God.
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Speaker 1: If it be down, bid me come, and he said come.
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Most believers do not know how to live by faith.
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Faith is beyond confessing the Word, as important as that is.
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Faith is beyond agreeing with God as important as that is.
1:19:34
Those are just various equations that ultimately lead to faith.
1:19:38
The foundation for Bible faith is an awareness of the
1:19:42
promises of God. The Bible essentially is a concise capture
1:19:49
of promises, principles, and prophecies. You may want to write
1:19:53
that down that every time you open your Bible, you
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are relating with three realms of realities. One promises a
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definition of God's commitment to you. Scattered from Genesis to
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revelation promises. Number two principles, the modus operandi of the
1:20:11
kingdom teaches you how to live a victorious life.
1:20:15
Speaker 2: Then number three prophecies that give.
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Speaker 1: Perspective and definition to the events present and the events past,
1:20:25
and events that are yet to happen. So every time
1:20:30
you lay hold on God's promises, then you obtain grace
1:20:35
to obey. Until you know the demands to commit God
1:20:41
and then obey them, you are not working by faith.
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Let me repeat myself again for your understanding. Until you
1:20:47
know the demands connected to every result. The Word of
1:20:53
God and God is a compendium of infinite possibilities. But
1:20:57
for every result you desire it kingdom, healing, breakthrough, prosperity,
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there is a demand. There is always what God says
1:21:09
to do to commit him. When you find it, and
1:21:13
you obtain grace to work in keeping with that instruction,
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then you are working by faith. I submit to you
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therefore that on the strength of this definition, many believers
1:21:24
are not working by faith. They are working on sincere assumptions.
1:21:29
They're working on hope. They're speaking, Lord, I believe you,
1:21:33
but they are not working by faith.
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Speaker 2: If I ask one of our wonderful protocol.
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Speaker 1: People here.
1:21:39
Speaker 2: If I ask them to come and say, collect my bible.
1:21:43
Speaker 1: Whoever comes to collect my bible, I tell them there
1:21:46
is one hundred dollars bill insight.
1:21:48
Speaker 2: That's your reward for obedience.
1:21:50
Speaker 1: If the gentleman there starts jumping and says, I'm coming,
1:21:52
believe me, just a sermon. I trust you. I know
1:21:55
you are not a liar. It is it on you
1:21:57
the other day you gave all that talk. Does not
1:21:59
you will never get it as wonderful as that is.
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The instruction is, whoever can take the risk can come
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someone who begin to speak from nineteen nineteen nineteen today
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nothing happens, and another person in one day will get
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up and obey. The one who obeys is the one
1:22:17
who receives, not the one who knows. The Bible says,
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now that ye know, these things happier you if you
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do them. Theuonomy chapter twenty eight, from verse one and two.
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And it shall come to pass, the Bible says, if
1:22:33
thou shalt diligently happen to the voice of the Lord
1:22:36
that God, to do and to observe to do, and
1:22:39
to observe to do, and to observe to do, and
1:22:43
to observe. That is the character of faith, to do
1:22:46
and to observe all that I command you this day.
1:22:50
The reward the Lord your God will set sty on
1:22:52
high above all the nations of the earth verse two.
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And all these blessings will come upon you and will
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overtake you. You hacken to the voice of the Lord.
1:23:05
Then you observe, and you do.
1:23:08
Speaker 2: In the name of Jesus, the grace to do may
1:23:11
be released upon you.
1:23:13
Speaker 1: The first miracle that was performed by Jesus was the
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turning of water to wine in kena of Galilee. You
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find that in John chapter two. The Bible lets us
1:23:23
know that it was a feast just like this, and
1:23:26
wine had finished, and shame was already imminent. And the
1:23:30
Bible tells us that the disciples came and met Mary, the.
1:23:33
Speaker 2: Mother of Jesus.
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Speaker 1: She takes them to Jesus and says, Jesus says, no, no,
1:23:37
it's not yet my time, and she gives them.
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Speaker 2: A very profound instruction. In verse five. She says, whatever
1:23:43
he says to do, do it.
1:23:47
Speaker 1: Whatever he says to do, not think it, not wish it,
1:23:53
not assume it.
1:23:54
Speaker 8: Do it.
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Speaker 1: The moment doing came the willingness to do came Jesus
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gave an instruction, and when you read verse ten and eleven,
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the Bible tells us this beginning of miracles did Jesus
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in Cana of Galilee verse eleven, and manifested his glory,
1:24:14
and the disciples believed on him.
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Speaker 2: Rest roundabout you now say that it's.
1:24:24
Speaker 1: Not just a gift. It is a reward for working
1:24:28
and keeping with certain principles. Let me recap one last time,
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and we pray that the key to exerting dominion over
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situations and circumstances, commanding your portion of rest on every
1:24:42
side is number one. To be spiritually minded. That starts
1:24:47
with your encounter with the Lord Jesus Christ, your salvation
1:24:51
of experience. Then it translates to the health of your
1:24:55
prayer life, the health of your word study, so all
1:25:00
that spiritual exercises, fasting, and so on and so forth.
1:25:04
And then number two, you must learn to live by faith.
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To live by faith means to live by the word
1:25:12
of God. For Jesus himself said, man shall not live
1:25:15
by bread alone, but by every word that proceeded from
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the mouth of God. That means a believer leaves on
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two things bread and scriptural instructions. If you live on
1:25:27
bread alone, you will be wary. Your bread will be spent.
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It is bread and scriptural instructions. Allelujah. We're going to
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pray tonight. I'll stop here and then we'll continue tomorrow.
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There are two other points that I want to show you,
1:25:49
but allow me. In the next three or two minutes.
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I'm going to request that we are rise to pray,
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and then I will speak over our lives. So night,
1:25:59
and then wrap it for my session. Have you been
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blessed tonight? Please ripes up on your feet.
1:26:07
Speaker 3: M hm hm.
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Speaker 1: This is the air I breathe.
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Speaker 8: This is the.
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Speaker 6: Your wholy presence leaving in me.
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Speaker 1: This is my day.
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Speaker 7: This is my day.
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Speaker 1: Your fair rever.
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Speaker 3: Spoke to me. Nah, and that's before.
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Speaker 1: And I'm not sway that. Go ahead and begin to
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talk to the law and shuddently from your heart? Shall
1:27:43
I desire?
1:27:44
Speaker 2: Rest?
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Speaker 1: Rest round about someone's praying. Men, show the very different
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areas in your life where you are trusting him for rest,
1:27:58
m m m.
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Speaker 3: Rest.
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Speaker 5: Rest, Rest in my finances. Someone is praying, Rest in
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my family, Rest in my health.
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Speaker 1: This five roids, this cancer, this pro stract condition, this
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board condition, this defora, eat it into my health. I
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desire rest round about.
1:28:34
Speaker 8: Spiritual rest, carryer rest, rest in the area of fruitfulness.
1:28:42
Speaker 2: Go ahead, take a minute or two.
1:28:44
Speaker 1: You are talking to your savior, your King, your maker,
1:28:48
the cauntain of your salvation. Sava la cala yourself. Someone pray,
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someone pray you were my strength when I am. You
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are dis rssier, you are mine. I'm seeing you, so.
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Speaker 3: Your deep.
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Speaker 1: My listal some littal voice of your worship.
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Speaker 3: You s.
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Speaker 1: You are worthy to.
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Speaker 2: Be glow with.
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Speaker 6: Five.
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Speaker 1: You are worthy of my teaker. You are worthy to
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be clone. Five. You are.
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Speaker 3: In and through my life.
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Speaker 1: You are what.
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Speaker 6: You are.
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Speaker 1: You adeluyah.
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Speaker 2: Are you praying now?
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Speaker 1: You're going to answer Lord for a fresh passion for him,
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a fresh passion for his presence. Go ahead and pray.
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If this is all you're receiving, this convention was a
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wise bagame cry five tresh passion to love you more
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than money, to love you more than titles, to love
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you modern career, more than ambition. Someone pray. You're talking
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to your makeup. Take a minute or to to pray. Lord.
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I desire to love you, not meaning noting a Christian,
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a shorge goer.
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Speaker 8: Asking for fresh fire upon your prayer life. Fresh fire
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upon your prayer life, trash fire upon your prayer life,
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fresh passion for the study of the world, fresh passion
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for spiritrual understanding, fresh passion for the House.
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Speaker 1: Of God, the things of God, for the end that
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you'll be spirit trully minded. Somebody is trying.
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Speaker 3: Rest wrong about.
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Speaker 1: Yes, the world.
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Speaker 6: Will bow down and say you are God. Heavy man,
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We'll bow down and say you monkey.
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Speaker 1: So let's start why peace war with you?
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Speaker 2: Just what? Alle lujah?
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Speaker 1: Now I want to make an altar call. You are
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in this place, and whilst you heard me speak, the
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spirit of God began to convince you that you need
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to make your way right with Jesus. No man condemns you,
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but I call you in love to experience the messy
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of Jesus. You cannot assume salvation. No salvation in Jesus
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Christ only comes when you come willingly to declare His
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lordship over your life. I'm going to come one to five.
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I want to leave your city. You need Jesus, run
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and come and cry before the Lord on the altar here.
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Don't wait for anyone to be the first, be the
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first to say apostle. I need Jesus in my life.
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I begin to count. Now, don't wait for someone to come.
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You are the first person and pronounce. Someone is saying
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I need to re dedicate my life, to make my
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ways right with Jesus. I begin to count.
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Speaker 3: One.
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Speaker 1: Let's telebrndum as they come. Two run to Jesus. Yes,
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the world, we'll plow down and say you wanger. Every man,
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we'll plan out down and say you waky. So that's
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r right now. Why would we wait? Keep love me,
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feel peace, plakes. Just wanna be with you, Just wanna be.
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Speaker 7: King of lovely feel peace, legs.
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Speaker 1: Just wanna be with you, Just wanna be. Jesus, speaking
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about himself, said I am the Way, I am the Truth,
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and I am the Life. He says, no man comment
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to the Father except by me. What does it mean
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to be saved? Number one? It means to come declaring
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your inadiquacy, your inability to help yourself upon your strength.
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For the Bible says by the arm of flesh all
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Norman prevail. It also says that our righteous necess as
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filthy rags. But then the Bible also declares the love
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of the Father revealed in and through the soul constitutionary
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sacrifice of Jesus. Yes, what Jesus said while he was
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speaking with Necodimos, he said, for God's soul of the world,
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that he gave his one and only begotten son, that
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whosoever that blessing is for whosoever believe that on him
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should not perish, but have everlasting life. Verse seventeen says,
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for God did not send his son into the world
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to condemn the world, but that the world through him
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might be saved. You may be saying, Aposu, you don't
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know how I've lived my life. You don't know how
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things are in my life today. Listen to me. Jesus
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is able to give you a new beginning right where
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you are. Gentlemen, it does not matter what you have
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done or what you have not done. You can be
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like the prodigal son tonight as you get up and
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take that step. The Father is waiting. Jesus is waiting.
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There is no other name on the heaven the Bible
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declares given onto men by which we.
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Speaker 2: Must be saved.
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Speaker 1: There must be a renaissance of genuine salvation in the
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house of God. Senduine encounters with Jesus, the Son of
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the Living God, and encounter with an angel does not
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translate to salvation, And encounter with a preacher on his
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own does not translate to salvation except the preacher brings
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a message. Those of you who are in front here
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and together as a congregation, can everyone talk to the
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Lord in one minute? I desire you truly.
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Speaker 3: I needy you. I need every a I needy.
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Speaker 1: Come bless me now, my Savior.
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Speaker 6: I come to you.
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Speaker 1: I need to you need I need. Come bless me now,
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my Savior. My brothers and sisters who are kneeling before
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the Lord, listen to me. Let me have your attention
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for one minute.
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Speaker 2: My time is up.
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Speaker 1: It is the no blessed decision any man can make
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in this side of God's kingdom.
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Speaker 2: And for someone who is watching right now here at
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the four square.
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Speaker 1: Come. You're watching by way of television, you're watching by
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way of internet. This stance is no barrier. Here is
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your chance to make Jesus lord of your life, genuinely, truthfully,
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void of pretense, and void of falsehood. For the Bible
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declares that as many who will come to him, he
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will in no wise cast away. May I request for
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all of you who are kneeling in front. Thank you
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for your bold decision. I salute your courage. Jesus said,
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If you are ashamed of me before men, I will
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be ashamed of you before my father. May I please
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request that you lift your right hand high above your
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head as a sign of surrender, and then please say
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this after me as loud and as cleare as you can.
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Are you ready, say Lord Jesus. Some of you are crying.
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Do not be ashamed of your tears. You are before
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your maker. There is nothing to be ashamed about. He
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is your father, the one who died for you. Say
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it again, Lord Jesus. Tonight I have heard your word.
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I desire rest in my life. I believe that you
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are the son of God. I believe that you died
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for my sain. I believe that you rose again for
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my justification. Right now I receive Jesus into my heart
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as my savior, my lord, and my king. I declare
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that the power of Saint Satan, Hell and the Grave
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is broken over my life. From tonight and forever, I
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am a child of God. I go for whatever and
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back whatever. Amen. Keep those beautiful hands lifted, and let
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me pray for you Father in the name of Jesus,
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in the presence of your people, I stretch my hands
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over these precious ones. They have come, declaring your lordship
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over their lives. And by the authority of Scripture, I
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declare your sins forgiving. And in the name of Jesus,
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the Son of the Living God, I call you bona
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fide recipients of the life of God. By the authority
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of Scripture, I declare that the power of Sain, Satan, Hell,
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and the grave is broken over your life, and the
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grace to leave a victorious Christian life is imparted upon
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you this moment.
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Speaker 2: In Jesus' name, we pray.
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Speaker 1: All right place, all of your please stand, Please stand.
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Just a quick instruction. May I request all of you
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together please move to my right. There are a group
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of counselors who will be having a word with you.
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Let's honor them as they move. Just a moment and
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you'll be back to your seat. Give them a big
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God bless you. Give them a big God bless you. Hallelujah.
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Give them a big God bless you. Is that the
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best you can do. Let's encourage them as they go hallelujah.
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And then, on a final note, let me declare over
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your life. May your rest tonight be full of divine encounters.
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May the Lord send his angels to visit you and
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grant you secrets for your future.
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Speaker 2: In the name of Jesus.
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Speaker 1: For those of you who are seeking your body, you
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will wake up tomorrow and not find that infirmity again.
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In the name of Jesus Christ, I call you blessed,
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and I declare that you are blessed, and it remains
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so with you.
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Speaker 2: In the name of the Father, in the name of
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the Son, and in the name of the Holy Spirit.
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Speaker 1: Amen and Amen, God bless you.