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Redefining The Blessing (Part 2) — Apostle Joshua Selman | Leicester Special Service 2025 · Selah Media House

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  Dear brother and friend, Apostle Joshua Summer.
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  Praise the name of the Lord. Good morning everybody.
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  Awesome moments of prayer and worship already.
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  I love meetings like this. Where we dedicate time to just
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  press into the things of God to learn the ways of God.
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  And Pastor Daley, thank you so very much.
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  Thank you for this opportunity. Let me appreciate and honor
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  every man, woman of God and everyone who here represented
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  and that includes those who are following online.
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  Can we lift our hands to the heavens once again ask the Lord
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  to speak to our hearts. The Bible says the entrance of
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  his word gives light and it is understanding onto the simple
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  John chapter 1 and verse 5 says the light shineth in the
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  darkness and the darkness comprehend that it not with your
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  faith lifted to the heavens with you asking for an encounter this
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  morning. They go from strength to
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  strength, As many as appear before the Lord in Zion.
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  You prayed it, You sang it. That He'll give you an evidence.
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  Let it show that you met with Him.
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  Would you repeat that prayer again?
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  Let your grace rest upon my life.
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  Let your wisdom rest upon my life.
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  Let it be evident beyond doubt that I have met with you in in
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  Jesus name we pray. Father, we ask that you speak to
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  our hearts again. Let your word come power.
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  Let it bring illumination, let it bring direction.
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  We vow to give you all the glory.
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  In Jesus name we pray. Amen.
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  Give Jesus a big hand. Clap.
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  Hallelujah, please. You may all be seated.
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  May all be seated, the psalmist said.
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  I was glad when they said unto me, let us go to the House of
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  the Lord. Hallelujah.
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  In his presence we access wisdom.
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  In his presence we access power. In his presence we access light.
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  Hallelujah is the fountain of wisdom.
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  And so we've been discussing around the theme of the
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  conference. I renamed my topic Redefining
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  the Blessing. So if you just wrote the
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  blessing last night, would you add Redefining the Blessing, I
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  think is a shift that God is bringing to us.
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  We looked at Part 1 yesterday night, examining a few
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  fundamentals, and I'd like to just quickly recap and then
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  we'll connect to this morning's session.
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  Hallelujah. We read a few portions of
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  Scripture yesterday night just to establish the fact that the
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  concept of the blessing or blessings generally is a
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  biblical concept, and we find that scattered from Genesis
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  chapter one. In fact, the first initiator of
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  that concept himself was God. 120 Genesis the Bible says, And
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  God bless them, and said unto them, Be fruitful, multiply
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  Exeterra When we get to Genesis chapter 12, the Bible says, he
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  calls Abraham out of aura of the Chaldeans and sends him to a
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  land and begins to propose a series of blessings to him.
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  I will bless you, make your name great.
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  I will bless them that bless you, curse him that curses you.
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  And in thee he says, verse 3 shall all the families of the
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  earth be blessed? Are we together?
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  And I did tell us that God can bless and men can also bless.
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  I recall the portion of Scripture when Rebecca was being
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  released by her family, a blessing was spoken over her
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  life. And the Bible also tells us in
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  someone he says blessed is the man, so men can be blessed.
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  Blessed is the man. In Psalm One O 3, he says bless
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  the Lord, O my soul and all that is within me.
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  Bless his holy name, you know, so men can bless the Lord for a
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  foundation. We established a few things that
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  blessing generally speaking is connected to favour, still
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  remember, connected to advancement, connected to peace,
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  connected to protection, preservation and trial.
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  So when you mention the word blessing, generally these are
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  the words that are related to or connected to the blessing.
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  And we examine a few Greek and Hebrew words.
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  Just to put us in perspective. We examine the Hebrew word
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  Barack that when we talk about blessing as the word Barack, it
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  generally means to stoop down, to bow.
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  Now that's the expression of blessing when it's in relation
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  to God. When you say bless the Lord, you
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  don't mean give him money or make his life better.
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  Are we together? There's nothing we can add to
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  improve on God's. You know who he is.
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  He feels all things you know in him all things consist.
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  So when we use the word bless is the word Barack, it has to do
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  with worship, to stoop down like the woman with the alabaster
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  box. Remember, that's exactly the
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  portrait of what it means to bless the Lord, to cast your
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  golden crown, to stoop down in worship in obeisance, you know,
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  just to acknowledge and to honour him.
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  It's also the word blessed. And then we looked at word
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  eulogia. You still remember eulogia,
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  EULOGIA and we said it means a good word.
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  So we generally saw that as a pronouncement that produces an
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  effect of wealth and effect of peace, an effect of protection.
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  Now, that's where the proclamation of the blessing
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  comes. Like the priest was commanded to
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  declare the blessing upon the people, like Isaac, blessed
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  Jacob, and like all kinds of blessings happen in the Bible.
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  So when you make a decree, A prophetic pronouncement upon
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  people deposit grace upon their lives, that begins to guide them
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  into several possibilities from prosperity to favour.
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  Are we together? We examine the life of ESO and
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  Jacob yesterday as a case study how that Isaac blessed Jacob
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  instead of Esau. And even though it was through
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  the vehicle of deceit, it still happened that the blessing
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  rested upon him to the point that Esau cried as an adult, a
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  hard working adult and he still cried the value of the blessing.
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  Hallelujah. And I did tell us that another
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  Greek word, and this one has to do with the portrait of a
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  blessed man, is the Greek word macarius.
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  And that does not just talk of a pronouncement.
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  It is the portrait of the result of the blessing.
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  It means to be fortunate. It means it's a portrait of one
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  who's triumphed already, is a portrait of one who's prospered.
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  Hallelujah. Praise the name of the Lord.
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  I pointed a few things yesterday night.
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  If you recall that in the Old Testament the concept blessings,
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  they were largely concerned with speakings remember prophetic
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  pronouncements that were backed up by the power of God and if
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  and when received by faith produce certain effects like
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  favour, preservation, protection.
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  But I need a New Testament. The concept began to change,
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  particularly with the arrival of Jesus as the Christ and we
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  explained a few things and we three very important concepts,
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  the blessing of Abraham, the blessing and then blessings.
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  Still remember you have to keep that as a rule of thumb.
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  And we said the blessing of Abraham.
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  We examine from Isaiah chapter 51 and verse 2.
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  It says to look onto Abraham, your father, and to Sarah that
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  body. For I called him alone, and I
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  blessed him, and I increased him.
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  And we did agree that the blessing of Abraham,
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  unfortunately, unlike the narrative that is the popular
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  narrative across the body of Christ, it has nothing to do
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  with physical or material things.
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  The blessing of Abraham is a mystery that is shrouded in the
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  story of a man. Are we together?
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  Blessing of Abraham contains within it the revelation of the
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  formula to find salvation, to connect to the Christ.
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  So in summary, yesterday we said the blessing of Abraham is
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  justification by faith. Abraham believed God even though
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  it was impossible, and it was credited to him for
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  righteousness. And so we like faithful Abraham,
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  when he gives us a report that we have been saved, that we have
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  been redeemed, are we together, that our sins have been
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  forgiven, no matter how impossible it is.
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  In his case it was the issue of fertility and fruitfulness.
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  In our case, it's an ethony like faithful Abraham.
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  If and when we believe, are we together that he believed that
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  it was credited to him? So when we believe, it is
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  credited to us in that similitude, the blessing of
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  Abraham. So the next time you say you are
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  a partaker of the blessing of Abraham, you are right, But that
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  does not mean God asks you to count the stars and all of that.
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  We usually think of it from a material standpoint.
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  And don't get me wrong, the material part comes later, but
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  the foundation of it is faith, justification by faith, and then
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  it gives room to the blessing. Remember, the blessing is the
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  promise of the Spirit. So the Holy Spirit among the
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  many expressions is also the blessing.
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  It is not what He brings, it is who He is.
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  And then alongside all the resources that come with Him.
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  Galatians 3 from verse 13, Christ has redeemed us from the
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  curse of the law, being made a curse for us.
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  For it is written Cursed is everyone who hangs upon the
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  tree. There you go, that blessing.
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  Would you want to put your phones on silent?
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  That the blessings of Abraham praise, the name of the Lord,
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  will come upon Gentiles through Christ or in Christ to the end
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  that we might receive the blessing, the promise of the
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  Spirit through faith. Are we together?
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  And remember, when Peter preached his first sermon on the
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  day of Pentecost, he made a very profound statement.
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  He said for this promise, the same promise here, the promise
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  of the Spirit, the blessing, the promise is unto you and to your
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  children, your children's children, as many as are far
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  off, even them who the Lord will call.
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  So when it has to do with the blessing, I told us that Jesus
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  Christ came and in his providing for us access to the blessing,
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  He corrected reason why Esau cried.
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  Esau cried because there was no possibility of receiving the
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  same thing which come again. But now the Spirit of God grants
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  us access. So it doesn't matter whether you
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  come late or come early, provided you come into Christ,
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  you have access to the blessing. And I prove to us from Scripture
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  that the Holy Spirit in resting upon the believer, He also comes
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  as the blessing. Psalm 133.
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  Remember how good and how pleasant it is when brethren
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  dwell together in unity. It's like the oil that comes
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  upon the head of Iran, the priest down to his garment
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  versus says for there in that gathering God had commanded what
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  the blessing even life forevermore.
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  And we saw that and this was an adoration of the day of
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  Pentecost. Acts chapter 2 and verse one.
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  Now when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were
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  gathered together like Psalm 133 says.
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  And in that gathering the Bible says suddenly they saw cloven
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  tongues as of fire. It sat upon everyone.
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  And then verse 3 the Bible says that you know they were filled.
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  Verse 4 Now they were filled with the Holy Ghost and they
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  began to speak in other tongues. He came as the blessing because
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  the Bible says there the Lord hath commanded the blessing, in
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  this case the Spirit. So to the believer when you say
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  you are blessed, it doesn't just mean you got a job.
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  No, that's the effect of being blessed.
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  A job is not the reason you are blessed.
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  A kind is not the reason you are blessed.
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  Do you understand what I'm saying now?
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  Because if you base your understanding of the blessing to
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  these things, then you are carnally minded.
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  It that means there are many people without Christ who are
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  blessed. There is no body without Jesus
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  Christ who is blessed, no diligence.
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  You can route some of the effects that are parallels of
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  the blessing even without Christ through diligence.
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  You can buy a car, you can buy a house.
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  But when we talk of the blessing in the Kingdom, we're not
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  connecting it to material things.
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  Those are the effects. In fact, the latter effects, The
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  only condition for an individual to be blessed is number one,
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  that you have gone through the process that released upon you
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  the blessing of Abraham, justification by faith.
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  Now that gives you access to the Spirit who is the blessing
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  himself. And like you're going to be
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  learning this morning and the evening, there is a kind of
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  business you do with the Holy Spirit as the blessing that
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  brings you into blessings. So you can have the Holy Spirit,
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  He's the blessing, and never have the evidence of His
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  presence manifest in your life. Are we together?
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  There are many people who have the Holy Spirit, and the only
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  way you know they have the Holy Spirit is when they pray in
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  tongues. You cannot find the evidence of
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  the blessing in them. And I told you that there are
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  many expressions of the blessings.
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  In fact, primarily they are spiritual, like peace, like the
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  fruit of the Spirit, like the God, like character.
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  You see, these are not things you can outsource outside of the
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  Christ. You can try to tame the flesh
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  using the mechanics, but it wouldn't work.
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  Are we together now? It is only to those who are in
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  Christ and those who have received the promise of the
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  Spirit by faith. They are the ones who say I am
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  blessed. So you don't just abuse it and
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  say I am blessed because you feel you have money.
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  No, no, no, no, you are rich, but you are not blessed.
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  You can be prosperous in as much as we define financial
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  prosperity, but you are not blessed.
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  The concept of blessing is exclusive to those who are in
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  Christ. It's someone learning already,
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  right? So that being said, let's go to
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  today's session. Let's see what's on the menu for
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  today. Pray in the Spirit for one
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  minute. Thank you Lord Jesus, blessed,
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  favored in Jesus much less name. We have prayed, so we're looking
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  at redefining the blessing and this will be Part 2.
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  And for a subtopic, we'll be considering the purpose of the
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  blessing. The purpose for the blessing.
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  I begin with a quote from a daily revered mentor now going
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  to be with the Lord. Doctor Miles Monroe made a very
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  profound and popular statement that when the purpose of a thing
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  is not known, he says abuse becomes inevitable.
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  Hallelujah. The word abuse comes from 2
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  words, abnormal use. Every time the purpose of a
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  thing is not known, you will use it in an abnormal way.
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  Hallelujah. And it's called abuse.
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  So the purpose of the blessing, now that we've understood that
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  the blessing talks about the Holy Spirit alongside all the
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  resources that comes with Him, providing an advantage for the
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  believer in and through Christ. For a text again, let's consider
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  Genesis 12 and verse 3. We're looking this morning at
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  the purpose of the blessing. Genesis 12, verse 3.
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  He's proposing a blessing to Abraham now and he says I will
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  bless them that bless thee and curse him that cursed thee.
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  Just pause for a moment and if you look carefully, this should
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  already comfort someone that for every them or every him that
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  causes you, there are them. The ratio should comfort you.
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  Are we together? For every one person who looks
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  down on you, trivializes you, there are many, many people who
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  love you, who honor you, who desire your good.
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  It is the ratio of him to them. I will bless those who bless you
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  and I will cause him. So it's not that bad.
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  You are loved and I said yeah don't be frustrated, it's not
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  that bad. Don't mind the naysayers, they
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  are a minority compared to many sincere people who love you.
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  Hallelujah. It's only that you see the
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  psychology of the of men is such that even if there are 1000
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  people saying hosanna and there's one person looking, you
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  seem to tilt towards. So you have to train your mind,
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  and the way you train your mind is to think on these things.
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  Philippians 4 and verse 8. Finally, brethren, whatsoever
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  things are honest, pure, true, noble, if there be any good, if
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  there be any virtue, it says think on these things.
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  You can train your mind to think on these things.
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  Hallelujah, Back to our discussion.
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  I will bless them that bless you and curse him that curses you.
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  And he says in thee, I like this.
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  In thee shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
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  The what families there go beyond just nuclear houses and
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  homes. It also extends to people groups
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  in thee. Genesis 12th and verse 3 shall
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  all the families, how many? All the families of the earth
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  shall be blessed. I don't know what version this
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  is in. These shall all the families.
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  Oh, he's just trying to give us some some OK beautiful.
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  We're back to KJV in you shall all the families of the earth be
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  blessed. Second scripture is found in
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  Ephesians chapter 2 and verse 10, Paul the apostle mentoring
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  the church in Ephesus. He makes a very profound
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  statement. I'd like for you to read with
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  me. Read it believing ready, want to
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  go for we are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus.
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  Stop for one more time for you. Take note of that for So we are
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  created in Christ for good works.
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  Which God prepared beforehand that we should work in them.
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  Can we see any other version? Just give us any other version
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  at all. NIV any modern version.
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  Let's see what they say. Oh, I like this.
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  What in the world? What version is that?
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  Media help us. Can you NLT for We are gods.
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  Yeah, I like that. We are gods.
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  Don't mind social media. You are God's masterpiece.
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  The Bible says he has created us anew in Christ Jesus so we can
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  do the good things he planned for us long ago.
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  Not his planning. He's not wondering what to make
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  out of your life. There is a script already.
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  Is someone learning? Now praise the name of the Lord.
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  God bless you. Back to KJV.
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  Everything in the Kingdom I wrote here derives its value to
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  the degree to which it is connected to purpose.
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  Don't forget this profound statement.
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  Everything in the king derives its value to the degree to which
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  it is connected to purpose. The beauty of Esther meant
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  nothing except on unless it became connected to purpose.
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  The moment it became a tool for the salvation of God's people,
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  it found its value there. Are we together now?
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  The believer must sustain such an orientation that you don't
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  celebrate things just for what they are.
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  You only celebrate them because of their ability to boost, to
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  fulfil Kingdom come together, whether it's a job, whether it's
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  a promotion. So here's how we believe our
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  things. You don't come and say, wow, I
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  have a promotion now and then you rejoice.
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  I have a because that's the language of the believer,
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  because I have found a better expression or better influence
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  through that promotion to be able to bless lives, to advance
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  the program of God. Are we together?
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  Nothing in itself exists for itself.
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  Nature to teach us that the orange tree does not eat its
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  orange. The mango tree does not eat the
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  mango. Are we together?
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  Yes. Everything in creation finds
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  fulfillment when it lives where cause bigger than itself, bigger
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  than itself. Hallelujah.
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  Now the man who is not in Christ is largely about self, and so
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  there's no purpose connected to the things that they want is the
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  reason why the Bible says the prosperity of fools.
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  You know why they are called fools.
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  There are two expressions in the Bible that have disturbed me,
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  pastor. Number one is the poor wise man
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  because wisdom and poverty should not go hand in hand.
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  Unfortunately, you'll find that in the Bible.
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  And then the other one is the rich fool.
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  I believe that what made the money fool was the fact that he
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  did not look at a bigger cause beyond himself.
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  He build bands, filled all his treasure.
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  And here's what he says. My soul.
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  Find rest, not knowing that the purpose of the blessing in any
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  expression whatsoever is so that you can reach out to others.
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  Are we learning already? Praise the name of the Lord.
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  So this is very important. Everything in the Kingdom
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  derives its value to the degree to which it is connected to
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  purpose. Your job, your singing, your
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  gifts, your abilities. They only derive their value to
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  the degree to which they are connected to purpose.
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  Now, what is the purpose of the Holy Spirit as the blessing in
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  the life of the believer? It's important for us to know,
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  not just appreciate Him as the blessing, but what exactly is He
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  here in our lives to do knowing that He's the blessing.
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  Hallelujah. Very quickly I'll give you a 2
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  fold assignment or purpose that the Holy Spirit revealing
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  himself in the life of the believer as the blessing.
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  He comes for two reasons. Number one, to help the believer
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  experience the reality of victory, dominion and
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  fulfillment while on earth. I'll give you the first reason.
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  This is why the Holy Spirit comes as the blessing, the
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  purpose of the blessing in the life of the believer to help the
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  believer. If you are writing, please write
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  to help the believer experience the reality of victory, the
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  reality of dominion, the reality of fulfillment whilst on earth.
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  In Second Peter chapter 1 and verse 4, the Bible says whereby
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  are giving to us exceeding great and precious promises, that by
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  these we might be partakers of His divine nature, having
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  escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
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  So Apostle Peter was teaching us that it's important for us to
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  have the experience if it is true that we have become one
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  with Christ. Remember he that is joined to
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  crisis 1 Spirit and that has happened by the Holy Ghost and
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  that when the Holy Ghost comes upon an individual, more so as
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  the he has the singular assignment of guiding and
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  helping that believer experience the reality.
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  Take note of that word, the reality of victory, of dominion
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  and fulfillment. Shout this after me.
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  Say victory like it's your inheritance.
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  Say victory. Say dominion.
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  Say fulfillment one last time. Say victory.
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  Say dominion. Say fulfillment.
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  How many of you believe in that victory, Dominion, fulfillment?
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  It is impossible to walk in victory.
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  It is impossible to walk in dominion.
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  It is impossible to fulfilled life.
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  Are we together without the blessing?
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  So the key truly living a life of victory, living a life of
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  dominion and a life of fulfillment is the blessing.
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  You can go all around, you can do anything, navigate through
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  any other route. You will never truly live a
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  victorious life in Christ. You will never truly walk in
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  dominion in experience, and you will never truly find a
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  fulfilled life or live a fulfilled life.
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  Find fulfillment except and unless the blessing is upon you
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  the second. Hand ready to empower the
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  believer. To fulfill the mandate of being
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  a global blessing. The second assignment of the
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  Holy Spirit has the blessing in the believer's life to empower
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  the believer to fulfill the mandate of being a global
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  blessing. This is 12th and verse 3.
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  In thee shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
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  In thee are you seeing that the Holy Spirit is fair enough?
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  He doesn't work in you so that you become an experiential
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  beneficiary of the benevolence, the victory of Christ.
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  But then He reminds you that there is a mandate that is not
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  all about you. It doesn't stop here.
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  Now, it will be unfair if He just focuses on the nations and
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  then He leaves you. So He starts with you.
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  The reason why a cop overflows is that it is first filled, am I
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  right? So you are filled then when you
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  are filled to the brim, you now begin to overflow to the
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  nations. Remember he spoke about in John
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  Chapter 9 spoke about the Holy Spirit in that great day, the
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  last day, final day of the he said anyone who first let him
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  come and drink and out of your belly will flow rivers.
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  Remember the Bible says this speak he of the Holy Ghost he
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  speak of the Holy Ghost that those who would receive he will
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  be in them a well springing up. Are we together now praise the
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  name of the Lord. So to empower the believer to
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  fulfill the mandate of being a global blessing.
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  Yesterday you said I am blessed now you shout I am a blessing.
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  That's today's catch phrase again say I am a blessing.
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  It doesn't stop by saying I am blessed.
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  It is true that you are blessed. Why are you blessed?
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  Because you have received Jesus. You have been justified by
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  faith. You have received the blessing
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  of Abraham and is giving you access to receive the promise of
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  the Spirit through faith. The Holy Ghost, He is the
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  reason, the foundation for your being blessed.
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  So say I am blessed and now understanding the purpose of the
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  blessing, you can boldly say I am a blessing.
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  You don't need a job yet to say that.
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  Say I am a blessing. If you don't need an award yet
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  to say that, say I am a blessing.
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  That means the capacity, the coming of the Holy Spirit in
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  your life. Are we together?
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  He also comes with the potential.
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  Now, whether you will actually be that blessing or not will be
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  part of my teaching today. We'll begin to take that.
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  But it's important for you to know that He's coming, gives you
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  potential to be a blessing. I like that in thee shall all
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  the families of the earth be blessed.
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  Say I'm a blessing. So he empowers the believer to
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  fulfill the mandate of being a blessing.
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  If you care to write some more. Extending salvation, Extending
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  healing, Extending wealth, extending victory to others.
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  He empowers the believer. Second and more important
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  assignment of the blessing to empower the believer to fulfill
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  the mandate of being a global blessing.
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  Extending salvation. Extending healing.
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  Extending wealth, extending victory, extending deliverance,
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  extending preservation. Like Joseph, Remember Joseph was
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  an instrument of preservation not only for his family, but it
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  later affected the Jews. They would have died of hunger
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  except that God raised Joseph not just as a deliverer.
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  But as a prisoner, I'm prophesying over someone in the
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  name of Jesus. That all who know you will thank
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  God because you are alive again. That all who know you, they
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  will. Thank God because you are alive,
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  that in your lifetime, for those of you who still have your
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  parents and your loved ones alive, they will get on their
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  knees one day and say thank God for giving me a gift.
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  Of a child. That Lester will thank God you
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  are here. That the United Kingdom will
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  thank God you are here. That the body of Christ will
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  thank God you are here. Please be.
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  Seated. Please be seated.
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  Do you know there are certain names we don't name our children
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  in spite of the fact that they're in the Bible?
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  I'm yet to hear someone name their child Lucifer.
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  I wonder why. Sounds like a very beautiful
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  name except that there is a bad story behind it.
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  I'm not sure if anyone name is child Belzebu.
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  The reason is because there is a story behind the name and the
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  story does not bring glory to God.
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  And so I'm saying again that because of the extent of your
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  impact and how much you are a blessing, people will name their
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  children after you, name their businesses after you in the name
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  of Jesus Christ. Please be seated.
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  It is a powerful thing to be a blessing.
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  You know, we live in a very selfish world.
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  We live in a world that is all about ourselves.
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  There's a level and equality of living you will never be able to
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  understand until you are a blessing.
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  If your life is all about yourself, all about your nuclear
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  environment, your wealth, your health, your living there you
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  are fast, short of God's standard.
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  There is a level I can tell you with all humility, I think the
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  greatest fulfillment in my life is not just preaching, it's not
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  just the things that I do, but knowing that you are able to
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  make that contribution significant and consistent
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  enough. You can look at lives, homes,
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  cities, nations, and you see that they have.
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  You are literally shaping cultures, discipline nations,
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  Hallelujah. Every time I have the
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  opportunity to stand and bring the word of God, I am I am
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  honored beyond imagination because there are nations
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  connected. One literally depends on my
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  spiritual efficiency for their growth.
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  I take that as a profound honor. Hallelujah.
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  Praise the Lord and and so God is stretching us this morning
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  and all through this session that it's time to begin to look
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  away from yourself. But can I tell you the truth, it
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  is going to be difficult to truly be a blessing until God
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  sought your own life too. It is such that I have is the
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  reason why we must pray the prayer of the psalmist.
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  Satisfy me early with your goodness.
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  Hear me, the reason why Satan keeps preoccupying us, forcing
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  us and trying to make sure our life does not work?
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  Because he knows that when you are done with yourself, the next
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  thing is to look out for the nations.
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  So he will make sure you are never done with yourself.
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  And all through your lifetime you will be about trying to make
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  your own ends meet and your head bowed down.
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  By the time you lift your eyes, you are days left on earth and
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  you find out that you've lived a very selfish life.
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  Not because selfish person. It's a manipulation from
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  darkness. Are we together?
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  Yeah, it is true. Every man gives according to his
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  riches in glory. Every man gives.
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  It is not just God. Every man gives.
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  Paul said such. I mean Peter said such as I
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  have. You'll need to have first before
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  you are able to give. Am I right on that?
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  Praise the name of the Lord. And so by this I'm praying for
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  someone in the name of Jesus. Everything needed for life and
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  godliness that's been released in Christ and is yet to find
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  expression in your life. I pray for you from the depth of
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  my heart in this season. May the Lord bring you into that
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  reality on time. The word is on time.
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  In the name of Jesus. If it's finances, let it come to
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  you on time. In the name of Jesus.
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  Please be seated. Please be seated.
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  I can tell you one of the ways he distracts from being
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  blessings is to cause trouble around us and we never find
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  personal victories. You cannot go and save another
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  nation when your own nation is in war.
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  You will have to fight first. Are we together?
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  When kings were confronted in ancient times, they called their
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  allies who were already enjoying peace.
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  Come and join us because this war.
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  But when Satan preoccupies you, your child is having some
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  problem, your finances going down, your papers, your health,
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  you will not even have the time to be a blessing.
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  It's a strategy. I say that so that when it's
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  time to pray, you're going to cry unto the Lord.
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  Are we together? Yes, that you step into that
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  covenant of peace, nothing missing, nothing broken so that
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  you can have the time, the time, the time.
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  There is a level of lifting that when God brings to your life, in
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  all honesty, it will sort you and give you peace and give you
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  enough time to not only participate in Kingdom come, but
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  even to fund it. I believe there are people who
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  will rise from here and in the. Name of Jesus.
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  You literally will set up organisations and you begin to
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  fund God's program without manipulation in the name of
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  Jesus Christ. Do you believe that?
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  Please be seated. Say I'm blessed.
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  Say I'm a blessing. One more time, Say I am blessed.
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  Say I'm a blessing, Yes you are, yes you are, yes you are.
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  I am a blessing not just to your spouse, I am a blessing.
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  I believe that the Bible says for I reckon that the sufferings
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  of this present time, Romans 818 they are not worthy to be
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  compared with the that shall be revealed in US.
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  And then verse 19 says for the endless expectation of the
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  creature, I waited the manifestation of the sons, the
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  sons of God, the sons of God. One version says creation is
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  waiting earnestly for God to reveal those who his sons truly
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  are, truly are. Yeah, that's it.
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  Creation is waiting eagerly for that future day when God will
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  reveal who his children Really. Are.
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  You don't look like it now, but keep walking, keep building, let
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  the blessing keeps doing it's work in you.
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  Are we together now? It does not yet appear what we
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  shall be like. And so when the Holy Spirit
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  comes upon an individual as the blessing or generally speaking,
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  when the blessing rests upon a believer, it's for this two fold
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  purpose. Number one, to help the believer
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  experience the reality of victory, of dominion and of
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  fulfillment. Never forget that you should be
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  able to defend the ministry of the blessing in your life.
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  So that after this conference, when you boldly tell people I am
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  blessed, when they say how you can explain, when they said to
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  what end you can explain, you see the missing link?
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  So many believers say, I am blessed, You say, what does that
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  mean? He said, well, I just know that
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  I'm blessed. No, no, it must become the
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  things that are most surely believed that you are.
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  You are persuaded beyond being swayed.
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  Hallelujah to empower believers to fulfill the mandate of being
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  a global blessing. Now I tell you this, do you know
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  that your results are important not only to you, but to God?
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  Have you been told and taught? That it matters to God that you
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  produce results for many reasons.
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  You're producing results. Are we together?
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  It validates many things upon the earth about God.
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  Number one, it validates that his love, like Doctor Monroe
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  would say. It validates that the product he
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  created is efficient. How many of you have seen
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  companies recall thousands of cars simply because they found a
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  widespread defect and they go through losing millions of
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  dollars and billions of dollars, and they do that for the sake of
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  their reputation? The Bible calls it his namesake.
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  There is his logo on your life. And it matters that you are not
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  purported as a fake product. Listen to me.
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  I hope, you know, if we're not doing a business seminar here,
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  maybe one day we'll do it. But in business, what you really
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  buy, you buy reputation, not just products.
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  If I have an original, maybe Gucci or Louis Vuitton or
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  whatever it is, and I simply peel off, I find a way of
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  peeling off and it's original, but only because I peeled off
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  the logo. Are we together?
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  It's considered fake immediately.
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  So what are you really buying when you get into when you want
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  to buy McDonald or buy whatever it is you are looking for that
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  logo? And then you end up proudly and
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  tell them I need this and that. Who told you it's real?
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  You just trust their integrity. Let me tell you this, the
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  integrity of the King is at stake upon the earth until and
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  unless the Saints begin to manifest that life of dominion
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  and victory. Are we together, your results,
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  producing results? And I'll show you a few
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  scriptures now. And my life changed when I
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  realized that as mighty as God is, the preservation of His
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  name, His reputation in the world of men depends on my
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  efficiency. Yes it does.
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  Yes it does. That's why he's gone that far to
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  invest all these resources in my life.
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  He does that because He loves me, but He also does it for His
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  name sake. It's namesake.
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  It's namesake, it's namesake. Hallelujah.
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  It's amazing how nations can go to war because of one person,
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  one person who is a citizen of that nation.
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  And they can, they can spend millions of dollars and all of
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  that just to protect that one person.
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  That's how it is. You are a defender of God's
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  reputation. You are a defender of God's
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  love. Are we together?
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  And it matters that you produce results.
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  Someone shout, I produce results one more time.
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  I produce results in ministry, in business.
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  So let's consider a few scripts. I I'm, I'm one person who is,
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  I'll tell you, by my nature, I'm a very self motivated person.
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  I'm not one person who needs any encouragement, whether you
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  encourage me or not. I mean, I just sit down and
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  think very well, I, I don't try and say you are not encouraging
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  me. I'm not for some reason.
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  It's, it's worked out as an advantage in this Apostolic
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  ministry, but I, I need little or no encouragement.
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  Believe me. I mean, I just fire through and
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  make sure the reason is because my conviction as to producing
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  result did not come from a a carnal desire to be great.
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  I found out from the Bible that the more I produce results, I
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  give evidence to the might, the love, the power, the wisdom of
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  Jesus upon the earth, and that provided fuel enough to drive me
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  to producing results. Are we together?
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  So whether it's investing time in prayer, in fasting, in
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  learning, in building, in creativity and productivity, in
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  leadership, I am all about seeing that my life blossoms
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  producing 100. I don't have time for
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  thirtyfold. I don't have time for sixtyfold.
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  No, no, that's not you can have that if you want.
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  But I mean, in my world it is hundredfold.
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  I mean, we press the throttle to the yes, are we together?
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  But this is what I've learned that God can be glorified pastor
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  in a man Galatians 124 and they glorified God in me.
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  This is powerful and. They glorified God.
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  This is it, ladies and gentlemen.
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  This right here, right here should be your object of
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  pursuit. Not just to be rich, not just to
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  be intelligent, not just to rise to the zenith of your career.
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  And they glorified God in me. That's the point of the believer
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  satisfaction. Until you hit this target,
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  you're not yet there. You keep pressing that they
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  glorify God in me. Are we together?
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  In John 17 from verse one, the Bible says Jesus lifted up his
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  eyes to the heavens. He's about to pray.
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  This is really the Lord's Prayer.
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  Now He lifts his eyes to the heavens, and he says, Father,
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  the hour is come, lest I read with me.
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  Glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may.
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  So God refines the Son to the end that the Son in being
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  glorified brings glory to the Father.
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  In theology, we call it the reflection principle.
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  Are we together now? Yes, the reflection principle,
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  the reflection principle in interpreting the vision, Joseph
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  tells his father, he says I saw the sun, meaning his father, I
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  saw the moon. You see that the moon does not
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  have any glory of itself. It derives its illumination from
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  its alignment with the sun. That's how it is.
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  So when you align yourself to God by His Spirit, you begin to.
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  Shine that light through you to the nations.
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  They see the beauty that is of God through your life.
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  You are the visible expression of His Person, of His glory.
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  They can't see Him. One day we will see him, but for
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  now, except you are given access to visionary encounters, you are
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  not able to see Him. But we are the ambassadors.
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  We are the extensions of His wisdom, His power, His
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  possibilities. Are we together?
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  Ephesians 310 says to the intent that now unto principalities and
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  powers might be made known by the church.
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  The manifold multi layered wisdom of God, the blessing.
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  Now I'll tell you why God desires that you produce
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  results. John 15 verse 8.
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  So the whole of John Jesus is revealed there as the vine.
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  I'm just trying to cook it for the sake of time.
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  In fact, let's look from verse one.
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  Look from verse one who is learning this morning John 15
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  and we'll begin our reading from verse one.
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  I am the true vine, and my father is the husband man.
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  So the father is not the vine. The father is the initiator of
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  that program, the husband man, the one who planted it.
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  Verse 2. Every branch in me that buried
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  not fruit he takes away, and every branch that buried fruit
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  project that it may bring. Talk to me that it may bring
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  more fruit. Verse 3.
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  Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken to you.
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  Verse 4. It says, Abide in me, and I in
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  you. As the branch cannot bear foot
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  of itself except it abides in the vine, no more can ye except
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  ye abide in Me. Verse 5.
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  It says, I the vine, and ye are the branches.
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  He that abides in me, and I in Him the same bringeth forth much
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  fruit, for without me He can do nothing.
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  But 6 If a man abide not in me, he's cast forth as a branch, and
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  is withered, and men gather them, and cast them into fire,
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  and they are burned. 7 It says, If you abide in me, and my words
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  abide in you, you shall ask what you will, and it shall be done
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  unto you. Let's read verse 8 together.
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  12GO uh huh, hearing in other words, this is how my father is
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  glorified that he bear much fruit that he bear much fruit.
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  Jump to verse 16 media John 15 and now verse 16 John chapter 15
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  and verse 16. Let's read together.
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  Don't be tired, one to go. Ye have not chosen me, but I
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  have chosen you and ordained you that you should go and bring
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  forth fruit and that your fruit should remain.
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  Stop there. That your fruit should longevity
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  of your impact that your fruit should remain.
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  Is someone learning? Say I'm fruitful.
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  Oh, you didn't say that like you're convinced.
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  Say I'm fruitful. Yes, I'm fruitful because the
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  blessing is upon me. I'm fruitful in the name of
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  Jesus Christ. Now in Matthew chapter 5, this
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  was an extension of his teachings.
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  We know that to be the Beatitudes.
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  Remember, by the time we get to verse 13, Jesus now begins to
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  describe the church, his body. Now of course, they were not yet
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  saved. They were not really the church
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  as it were, but they were the people He was teaching because
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  the church only came after Jesus had resurrected the body of
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  believers now in Christ. But he says this.
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  Ye. Are the salt of the earth?
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  Do you believe that? And you know the assignment of
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  salt number one, to bring taste value #2 to preserve, to
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  preserve, to preserve, it says. But if the salt has lost its
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  server, where we shall it be salted?
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  It is tense, forth, good for nothing but to be cast out and
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  to be trodden on the foot of men. 14 He says, you are the
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  light. Now I tell you a few things
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  about salt. It is never too late to add salt
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  to food. Now for those of you who cook
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  and, and don't mind me, don't mind me, just praise the name of
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  the Lord. So I'm not speaking from
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  experience, I'm speaking by revelation.
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  Praise the name of the Lord. But but now.
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  Let me have your attention. How many of you know that
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  depending on what you're cooking, there are certain
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  ingredients that are timing dependent.
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  If you fail to add it at the right time, you can produce a
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  disaster for failing. Are we together one time?
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  I think not. Not too long.
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  Somewhere sometime last year I was microwaving something pasta
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  and it was supposed to be for a few minutes.
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  And you know, there are things if you microwave beyond it, just
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  this is something else. I think I got carried away.
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  I, I don't know how I was not there to monitor the thing.
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  And when whatever happened, happened inside the microwave as
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  I opened it, I said, no, this can't be me.
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  I mean, this is, this is, I reject this kind of testimony.
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  It was a disaster. It had burnt.
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  It was. So that's how it is.
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  However, there are times that you may cook and the salt may
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  not taste so much. It is never too late.
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  Even when the food is served, there is still provision to add
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  salt. And so he says, you are salt.
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  In other words, there is always space for your relevance.
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  Is someone learning now? Help those under the anointing.
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  Truly, truly, you are salt. Salt.
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  Doesn't matter how long the system has been, there's room
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  for my contribution. You are the salt of the earth.
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  It's never too late, Never too late, never too late for a
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  believer to be relevant, to glorify the Lord.
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  You are the salt of the earth. Never too late.
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  Your relevance in that company, Your relevance in Leicester,
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  your relevance in the UK. You are the salt of the earth
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  with someone learning there are certain ingredients.
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  Again, I recap that if you didn't.
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  Add them at certain times. You have to give up.
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  As far as that meal is concerned, it's gone.
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  But not salt. Not salt.
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  Even when you serve a meal. In fact, in many instances they
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  now add salt and pepper. They put it in a separate what
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  they call it. So you can add salt.
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  Praise the name of the Lord. You add value to any system.
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  I'm explaining to you what it means to be a blessing.
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  You add value. Your blessing is not in your
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  acquiring, it's in your addition.
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  It's in your. Giving now don't get me wrong
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  we'll soon talk about many of you been stretched when we talk
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  about the money part you just. Be patient, it's coming.
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  It's coming, it's coming, it's coming.
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  There's a protocol to it. Are we together?
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  Yes. When you say I am a blessing,
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  what you said is not I have. What you said is I am a giver.
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  Next time you say I am a blessing, think giving, not
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  having now the carnal man. And sometimes, sometimes we
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  preach us sincerely. So we engineer people's mind
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  into believing that it's in the acquisition of things that they
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  are the blessing. No, When you say I am a
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  blessing, what you mean is I am a giver, not just I have.
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  The fact that you have agreed that you are a giver already
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  means you have The nobler part of being a blessing is that you
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  focus on being a giver. A giver, the one who reaches,
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  the one who extends. Are we together now?
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  Of what good is it if the Bible describes heaven, tells us how
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  wonderful the throne room is, and then leaves us in our sin
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  and our inability to help ourselves?
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  God demonstrated indeed that it was a God of all flesh and that
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  it was a blessing, not just by creating the heavens and the
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  earth, but giving Jesus the greatest gift.
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  Greater love had no man than this.
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  And a man lays down. It's always giving.
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  No one has received a Nobel Prize for receiving.
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  It's always forgiving, forgiving, forgiving.
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  Are we together? You must have that giving
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  mentality. If I come into a system, I don't
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  think, what will I get? I've ranging my mind.
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  Now this, this shift in mentality is one of the things
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  God wants to introduce in this conference.
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  Are you seeing now that for the average person, the moment we
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  talk about blessing, we're not thinking about the world, we're
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  not thinking about our environment.
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  Unfortunately, we're not even thinking about our children.
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  All we're thinking is myself, my car, Ferrari houses.
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  And that's wonderful. But the Kingdom orientation, I'm
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  telling you, is that when you say I am blessed, what you mean
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  is that I am in Christ and I have the Holy Spirit resident
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  within me, and it's given me access to all the resources that
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  makes for my victory from my dominion and for my fulfillment.
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  Now, when you say I am a blessing, you mean I am a giver.
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  I take advantage of the Holy Spirit and the resources is put
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  within me and I extend salvation.
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  I extend healing. I extend hope to someone
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  learning. Now shout, I'm a blessing.
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  Say it again. Say I'm a blessing.
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  As a businessman, I'm a blessing.
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  As a doctor, I'm a blessing. I'm not just treating patients,
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  I am a blessing. As a lecturer, I'm a blessing.
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  As a pastor, I'm a blessing. Please be seated.
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  Hallelujah. Amen.
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  So he says you are the salt of the earth.
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  But if the salt is lost in several, you know what that
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  means? It's capacity to be a blessing.
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  So salt can become salt just in name, but in impact it may not
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  be there. Are we together?
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  And notice how powerful salt is. You don't need the same quantity
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  of salt as the same quantity of rice.
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  No no. So your your.
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  Side don't, don't tell. Me you are few that's it's it's
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  about the presence and the effect.
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  The last I cooked. The last time I cooked and you
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  have no idea how long that has been.
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  The last time I cooked, if I still recall, you don't add say
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  3 hands full of rice say for instance, and three hands full
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  of salt. That becomes too much.
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  So when it has to do with impact number is not listen, you are
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  not disadvantaged. If you are few, God can send two
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  people over Lecter and he sends you a salt and he says within
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  you his capacity to infiltrate the system.
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  But I see that we are more than two here.
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  That means Leicester, that means UK, that means Europe, Are we
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  together now? It means your territory should
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  feel the effect of the glory, the power, the wisdom of God.
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  Listen, I want you to see that Bible also shows us that there
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  is a possibility for salt to lose its servo.
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  That means you can have, for whatever reason, you can have
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  salt and yet it does not taste like salt.
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  Please be seated. Then he now says verse 14, you
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  are light. I like that.
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  We're discussing the blessing. You are the light.
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  Everybody say the light. One more time, say the light.
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  Now hang on, do you know light, just like salt, is a powerful
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  mystery. Let's do an experiment.
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  Let me work on your mind. Assume with me that a room has
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  been dark for 10 years. Assume with me a second room
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  that has been dark for one year, sealed together.
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  Assume a room that has been dark for say.
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  One week and assume a fourth room.
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  That's been dark for a few hours.
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  So 10 years. What's the other?
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  One year, one week? And then a few hours.
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  Now connect all of them to the same source.
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  When you switch on the light which comes up first, does it
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  factor the longevity of darkness?
• 1:00:35
  It doesn't matter that darkness has been there 10 years.
• 1:00:38
  One year, one week was light. If it is true light, it's, it
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  comes up and drives darkness immediately #2 this right right
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  here. We are all enjoying the effect.
• 1:00:56
  It does not have to be everywhere to be felt from one
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  point. It shines.
• 1:01:04
  Are we together now? That means you necessarily have
• 1:01:08
  to be everywhere to everywhere. Are we together?
• 1:01:14
  This is powerful. So when he says you are light,
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  you know what that means. The definition of darkness in
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  Leicester is not your light going off?
• 1:01:23
  Is your presence not there if you are not there?
• 1:01:27
  Darkness means a territory without you.
• 1:01:30
  Darkness means a territory without the church, a territory
• 1:01:34
  without God's people. Is someone learning now, Alina
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  Skoprandiata? I am the light.
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  This is what it means to be a blessing.
• 1:01:44
  I am the light, so when I get into an aircraft traveling to a
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  nation, I begin to rejoice. I feel sorry for darkness
• 1:01:51
  because I carry the blessing. I really feel sorry for darkness
• 1:01:58
  without darkness as ignorance, darkness as sees, darkness as
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  yokes. Are we together?
• 1:02:04
  Yes, that through my speaking as I speak behind the scene, the
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  Holy Ghost is lighting up every darkness.
• 1:02:12
  That's what is happening to you right now whilst you are seated.
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  Every area of darkness in your light is being enlightened.
• 1:02:20
  That's what Paul called it. He calls it being flooded with
• 1:02:25
  light. Ephesians chapter 1, his prayer
• 1:02:28
  that I pray that the eyes of your understanding will be
• 1:02:32
  flooded with light that you may know is a word.
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  Epicnessis coming to oneness with that knowledge.
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  Not just awareness, not just awareness.
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  You are the salt of the earth. You are light.
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  Listen to me ladies and gentlemen.
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  You are not a source of inconvenience to people.
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  Don't carry that mentality. You are not a burden to people.
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  I know you don't have a job yet. I know you things are yet to be
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  in place, but it's first touch with a mentality.
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  Hear me, I preached a message called rise up and walk and if
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  you have the time, you can listen to it.
• 1:03:14
  The mentality to rise up and walk is what attracts the grace
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  to rise up and walk. The man who was a gay beautiful,
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  you know the reason why he was kept in front of the gate so
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  that he will see there was a reason.
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  If the gate was beautiful, my life can be beautiful.
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  So although he was crippled, he was kept there.
• 1:03:38
  He had the mindset to rise up and walk.
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  So when the possibility to rise up and walk came, are we
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  together now? There are many, many, many
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  people who do not have the mentality of a winner.
• 1:03:53
  I'm not talking about a braggadocious, arrogant, you
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  know, marketing of self. I'm talking about settled
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  confidence. I don't need a job to convince
• 1:04:04
  me that I'm light. I don't need a job to convince
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  me that I'm salt. The word of God says so.
• 1:04:10
  I believe first the righteousness that is of faith.
• 1:04:13
  You see, you first believe, then you become.
• 1:04:17
  You don't become, then believe afterwards.
• 1:04:20
  Say I'm the salt. Yeah.
• 1:04:23
  You bring value, You bring value.
• 1:04:25
  Barucha back. Blessed is he who comes in the
• 1:04:28
  name of the Lord. You come into a family, you come
• 1:04:31
  into a territory, you come with greetings, you come with
• 1:04:34
  blessings, You come as a blessing in the name of Jesus.
• 1:04:40
  For the 1-2 days that we've been in Leicester, I expect people
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  and families to have been having angelic encounters.
• 1:04:47
  It's true. We came with a cloud.
• 1:04:49
  We came with a presence beyond this meeting.
• 1:04:52
  Listen, listen, listen, listen. I'll tell you my mentality.
• 1:04:55
  At the risk of sounding proud, these are not the only people
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  I'm speaking to. No, the grace to the territory.
• 1:05:02
  Meet someone somewhere who did not even attend the conference,
• 1:05:05
  does not even know that you know, the lesser blessing is
• 1:05:08
  happening. All of a sudden, his prayer life
• 1:05:10
  is coming alive because grace was supplied.
• 1:05:14
  Your presence. Grace was supplied.
• 1:05:18
  I told you yesterday how many people prayed at Paul and
• 1:05:22
  Silas's prison? Only two, Paul and Silas.
• 1:05:25
  But when the blessing came, everyone, that's how it is
• 1:05:30
  again. Say I'm a blessing.
• 1:05:33
  I carry life. I carry health.
• 1:05:35
  Oh, yes, Yes. When you see me, I represent
• 1:05:39
  God's mercy. I represent hope.
• 1:05:42
  It is true. It has nothing to do with being
• 1:05:45
  a preacher. It's a mentality.
• 1:05:48
  It's a mentality. It's a mentality.
• 1:05:54
  Are we together? You're not the one who is
• 1:05:59
  disadvantaged. No, Refuse to believe that
• 1:06:03
  you're not the one who is disadvantaged.
• 1:06:05
  Why? We look not at the things that
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  are seen, but the things that are unseen.
• 1:06:12
  For the things that are seen are temporal, temporal, temporal.
• 1:06:23
  Take that mentality. I am a.
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  Blessing. This is how I live.
• 1:06:27
  It's my mindset. I don't have to come on pulpits
• 1:06:30
  to be a blessing. No, my atmosphere is a blessing.
• 1:06:34
  My words are blessings. When you see me.
• 1:06:37
  I represent love. I represent hope.
• 1:06:40
  I represent grace. I shake hands with you.
• 1:06:42
  Good for your destiny. Something must change.
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  Yes, Sir, It's true. It's true.
• 1:06:52
  Listen, if all believers carry this mentality, then when you
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  come to church you'll be receiving both vertically and
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  horizontally because your your attention will not just be on
• 1:07:05
  the preacher alone. You now know that whoever it is
• 1:07:09
  that is sitting close to you must have been an orchestration
• 1:07:12
  of the wisdom of God. Are we together?
• 1:07:15
  And that the grace that may not directly flow from the man of
• 1:07:18
  God can flow through someone who seated close to you.
• 1:07:24
  Take away that narrative that only a few people have
• 1:07:28
  blessings. No, no, no, I.
• 1:07:33
  Why not? Because there's some car parked
• 1:07:36
  in my house. I am blessed not because of some
• 1:07:40
  celebrity status. No, that's a poor education.
• 1:07:44
  If you say I'm blessed because of things, you were not mentored
• 1:07:48
  well. No.
• 1:07:50
  When believers become mature and become of stature, their
• 1:07:53
  justification is hinged to Christ and the Spirit, not the
• 1:07:57
  works of not just the works of the flesh, even the efforts,
• 1:08:01
  your efforts is someone learning.
• 1:08:07
  So as a preacher and you say I am blessed.
• 1:08:09
  They ask you why I say because of abundance of revelation.
• 1:08:12
  No Sir, you got it wrong. You got it wrong because there
• 1:08:15
  are so many people. I have so many people following.
• 1:08:17
  You got it wrong. Those are evidences of the
• 1:08:20
  blessing. Are we together?
• 1:08:23
  The reason why I'm blessed is because I have received the
• 1:08:27
  blessing of Abraham. I've been justified by faith,
• 1:08:30
  believing even though not deserving.
• 1:08:33
  It's been imputed unto me as righteousness, and it's given me
• 1:08:36
  access to receive the blessing, the Spirit of grace.
• 1:08:40
  He's come with all the resources as efficiency 1 and verse 3 says
• 1:08:45
  that have been blessed with every spiritual resource in
• 1:08:48
  heavenly places in Christ, and now that I'm in Christ, access
• 1:08:53
  is a possibility. Hallelujah, I'm going to be
• 1:08:57
  teaching you how to activate the blessing, but for now I'm just
• 1:09:01
  drumming it. The purpose of the blessing and
• 1:09:03
  to convince you beyond any shadow of doubt, you must carry
• 1:09:08
  this mentality. I am a blessing.
• 1:09:12
  Imagine if your wife had this understanding to have one.
• 1:09:15
  I am a blessing. I didn't come as a cause to you.
• 1:09:19
  No, imagine if a man had this to a woman.
• 1:09:22
  You know how many marriages will be fixed.
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  I am a blessing. The reason for your joy, the
• 1:09:30
  reason for your peace, the reason for fulfillment.
• 1:09:32
  Again, say I'm a blessing. Imagine if many employees carry
• 1:09:38
  this mentality to their jobs. It doesn't matter how menial or
• 1:09:42
  how noble the job is, provided you are there, you are a factor.
• 1:09:47
  Jacob had this mentality when he went to the House of Labour.
• 1:09:51
  He expected things to change and even though Labour manipulated
• 1:09:55
  him, Leban had to go and consult with diviners.
• 1:09:59
  What is the reason for my prosperity?
• 1:10:01
  And they said it's traceable to peace man.
• 1:10:04
  So when Jacob said you know what, I need to leave there no
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  way for someone. Your corporation will double,
• 1:10:12
  triple, quadruple your salary. I'm telling you to keep you
• 1:10:16
  because they would have learned that you are such an, an, an
• 1:10:20
  advantage to the company. Hallelujah.
• 1:10:25
  And I'm not talking because of your technical value.
• 1:10:29
  Some of them will go quietly and consult with spirits and they
• 1:10:33
  will say among the many people to not drive is this sister.
• 1:10:37
  You drive them, your company goes down.
• 1:10:41
  One man becoming like a nation. Do you believe that again?
• 1:10:46
  Say I'm a blessing? Yes you are.
• 1:10:49
  Yes you are. Yes you are.
• 1:10:52
  You are a blessing to those who know you, to those who do not
• 1:10:55
  know you. You are a blessing because you
• 1:10:57
  carried the blessing. Please be seated.
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  Please be seated. If I have to preach to be a
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  blessing, then I'm not really a blessing.
• 1:11:15
  I'm a blessing to my world because there is a mandate upon
• 1:11:20
  me. It's why the Holy Spirit came to
• 1:11:23
  make me a blessing to the world. And when I see people attest to
• 1:11:27
  the fact that I'm a blessing, I'm humbled and I'm grateful
• 1:11:31
  that finally that which has been real in my life and in my spirit
• 1:11:35
  has become for men. I'm a blessing.
• 1:11:41
  I am God's masterpiece. I'm his workmanship created in.
• 1:11:46
  Christ unto good works, not bad works, not evil works.
• 1:11:50
  Are we together? Do you know the consciousness of
• 1:11:53
  being A? Blessing.
• 1:11:55
  Also transfers upon you the discipline to remain a blessing
• 1:11:59
  so when the enemy comes to suggest to your mind to be
• 1:12:02
  involved in things that destroy people's lives like gossiping
• 1:12:06
  like all of that the knowledge that you are blessing gives you
• 1:12:09
  the staying power to resist it. That means it's it's a it's it's
• 1:12:16
  it's a demeaning experience to your status in Christ to be
• 1:12:21
  involved in the things that still.
• 1:12:23
  And. Kill and destroy.
• 1:12:26
  Are you seeing that now? That's the correct.
• 1:12:28
  That's the Orient plants within you, the discipline.
• 1:12:31
  You know you are a blessing. I can't go to bed knowing that
• 1:12:34
  someone is crying because of what you did.
• 1:12:37
  You woke up in the morning and invested your 24 hours bringing
• 1:12:41
  bleeding many hearts, and you go back to bed rejoicing.
• 1:12:45
  You can't be a blessing that way.
• 1:12:47
  Is someone learning now? Unfortunately, and I'll tell you
• 1:12:51
  this, unfortunately, unfortunately and, and, and and
• 1:12:54
  don't look around, just look at me.
• 1:12:55
  Unfortunately, there are many people in the body of Christ.
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  Who proport to be blessings, but all that they bring to
• 1:13:04
  themselves and those around them is pain and regret.
• 1:13:11
  Now don't feel bad, but it's it's true.
• 1:13:14
  There are people who can never have friends.
• 1:13:17
  The validity of friendship is 2 weeks.
• 1:13:19
  They will say something, do something and bring so much
• 1:13:23
  heart, then leave people then go back again.
• 1:13:26
  It's time for you to. Make up your mind and say,
• 1:13:28
  Satan, that manipulation that keeps making me a disadvantage
• 1:13:32
  to people, I curse it by the blood.
• 1:13:37
  I am a blessed meaning that people should wake up in the
• 1:13:39
  morning and say, Father, thank you for your spirit.
• 1:13:42
  But thank you for Joshua Selman, that a husband should get up in
• 1:13:47
  the morning and look to his wife and say, my wife, thank you.
• 1:13:50
  It's been 10 years. It's been 20 years.
• 1:13:53
  But if at all, I never had God on anything, this one, your
• 1:13:57
  presence in my life is an advantage that children should
• 1:14:02
  be able to look at their parents and say, mommy, thank you,
• 1:14:05
  Daddy, thank you. You are the most visible
• 1:14:08
  expression of the mercy of God to me.
• 1:14:14
  Hallelujah is someone learning that your boss should be able to
• 1:14:19
  look at you. It doesn't matter if your boss
• 1:14:21
  is called Pharaoh or Nebuchadnezzar.
• 1:14:25
  Look at me, please. Let me have your attention for
• 1:14:26
  one. Minute I'm I'm I'm going ahead
• 1:14:29
  of your thoughts already. It doesn't matter if the name of
• 1:14:32
  your boss is Pharaoh or Nebuchadnezzar or Cyrus or who
• 1:14:37
  else. Again, Herod, you can still
• 1:14:40
  thrive. Go and read your Bible.
• 1:14:43
  Daniel did not need to change his boss to be light, to be
• 1:14:47
  salt, to be a blessing. Are we together?
• 1:14:53
  There are times God will place you in Egypt, and unfortunately
• 1:14:56
  the head of Egypt is called the Pharaoh.
• 1:14:58
  He does not even serve your God nor regard all of that.
• 1:15:02
  But God can still make you a blessing and Pharaoh can
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  recognize that you are a blessing and exalt you to become
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  second in command. How about Daniel?
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  The Bible tells us, oh, I like Daniel chapter 3.
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  I mean, it's incredible what happened when you read from
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  verse 24 to the last verse, the Bible tells us that
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  Nebuchadnezzar gets these three Hebrew boys to the burning,
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  fiery furnace. You know what happened there?
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  The Bible says at the end of everything Nebuchadnezzar had to
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  pass a verdict and said when you read from verse 28 beautiful.
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  The Bible says Nebuchadnezzar said blessed be who blessed God.
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  Nebuchadnezzar blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach and
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  Abednego, who had sent his Angel and delivered his servants that
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  trusted in him, and has changed the King's word and yielded
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  their bodies, that they might not serve or worship any other.
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  God except their own. Now the verdict. 29 therefore.
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  I make a decree that every people, nation, language which
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  speak anything against the God of Shadrach, Meshach and
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  Abednego shall be called pieces, and their houses shall be made a
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  dunghill, because there is no other God that can deliver after
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  this salt. Hallelujah, praise the name of
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  the Lord. The Bible says one time the king
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  went to bed, he had a dream, forgot the dream.
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  Imagine how wicked these kings were.
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  A man goes to bed by himself, now has a dream and forgets the
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  dream. He wakes up and calls on all the
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  astrologers, the sorcerers, necromancers, and they are
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  unable to reveal the dream. And he says, well, just to let
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  you know, you are all going to die, I will kill you because I'm
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  angry. He did not punish himself for
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  forgetting his own dream. Are we together?
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  Then they call the attention of Daniel.
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  And he says, you know what king, don't be hasty, give me time.
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  And the Bible says when he went and the secret was revealed unto
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  him, and he shared the dream, you know, and so on and so
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  forth. The Bible says the king
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  worshipped him. I mean the king was so amazed.
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  He remembered everything he said keep your gifts to yourself.
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  I'm not here because of your gift, but just for you to know
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  that there is a God in heaven. And he began to reveal to him
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  the gift. And at the end of it, you see,
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  the Bible says that literally worshipped Daniel.
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  There are people who look down on you now.
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  But very shortly as I teach you how to activate a blessing, I'm
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  telling you, nations and kings, nobles, they will look for you.
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  They will call you to their office.
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  And for some of them, for the first time, they will swallow
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  their pride and say, listen, I have to admit.
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  That you are a blessing. It took me a long time but but
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  your consistency has tongue my ego to a point I cannot deny
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  you're being a blessing. May that be your testimony.
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  In the name of Jesus Christ, praise the name of the Lord.
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  So write this down please. In the Kingdom, when you say I
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  am a blessing, it means #1. Write this down in the Kingdom,
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  when you say I am a blessing, or the implication being a blessing
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  is that number one, you are joined to the blessing.
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  The only one who can be a blessing is the one who remains
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  perpetually connected to the blessing.
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  That's the first thing I needed to write.
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  When you say I am a blessing, it's a declaration that I am
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  joined to the blessing. Are we together?
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  Because it is of his fullness we have received number 2.
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  When you say I am a blessing, it means you are a giver.
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  I'm not talking of money at all. A giver.
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  A giver of life, a giver of hope.
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  Are we together an extension of God's possibilities?
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  When we say we are blessings in the Kingdom, we are.
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  Givers. Givers give us.
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  In the name of Jesus, everything increases when it comes in touch
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  with you. You are a giver.
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  You are a blessing. I, I wanted to look at these
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  things you just wrote. It's very important for our
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  discussion this morning. So anytime you say I am a
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  blessing, number one, it is a declaration to everyone that I
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  am connected to the blessing. The only one who can be a
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  blessing. Truly.
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  You find out in John 15, I am the vine.
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  He says you are the branches. He says it is in your abiding
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  that you bear fruit. So everyone say I am a blessing.
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  Again, say I am a blessing because I am connected to the
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  blessing. One more time, say I am a
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  blessing because I am connected to the blessing.
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  Yes. You're not just connected to a
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  pronouncement, you're connected to the living Spirit, the
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  embodiment in whom I hid all the treasures of wisdom.
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  Are we together? The reason why I'm a blessing is
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  because I am connected to the blessing.
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  Connected to blessing #2 The reason why I am a blessing is
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  because I have a determination within my heart to be a giver.
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  A giver, A giver. You must carry the giver
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  mentality. Again, this is where, with all
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  due respect, I challenge ministers of the gospel.
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  Now, it's good to give, but when our theory of being a blessing
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  ends only with just giving money, No, it's beyond money.
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  You're a giver of life. You're a giver of hope.
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  You can use words and change the trajectory of a man's life and
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  then of course material blessings.
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  You know the Bible says God bless Isaac, but to the sons
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  that came with his other wives, he gave them gifts, but to Isaac
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  he gave nothing. But he truly gave everything the
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  blessing. Hallelujah.
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  Take away a donation mentality and I'm sorry, I'm sorry UK,
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  please don't, don't be sad. I know that your system, of
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  course, when you are filling your forms, they say what's it
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  for? It's good to write donation just
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  because they didn't hear what you are hearing, but carry the
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  mentality. Of a giver when you give in the
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  House of God put together when you give to a man of God when
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  you give to A cause take away a donation mentality you're a.
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  Giver. If you, if you have a donation
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  mentality, it's, it's not a Kingdom mentality.
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  Don't get me wrong. If you're dealing with people
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  who are not of faith, you have to use the terms they are used
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  to. You're filling your forms.
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  You have to use the terms they are used to.
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  You avoid conflict as much as possible.
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  You become all things to all men.
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  But when you come into the Kingdom, you take away a
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  donation mentality. God did not donate to us.
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  He gave and like him, we are givers.
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  Say I'm a giver. Say it again, say I'm a giver.
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  What you are saying is that I I have the benevolence to always
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  release, the ease to release, to release life, to release
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  comfort, to release resources. Do you know resources, Financial
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  resources are the least in your giving list.
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  When you intercede for people, you are a giver, and intercessor
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  is a giver. A comforter is a giver.
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  Are we together? When you encourage someone who
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  is downcast and crying, who's come to the end of his life and
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  you tell him you know what the Bible says, all the days of my
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  appointed time, are you a giver? He's giving.
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  Every preacher should know he's a giver.
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  You are giving, you are giving. I know you are paid a salary,
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  but you are a giver. When you go to work, is it true
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  that man can pay you for your time and your investment?
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  Is that really how much you are worth?
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  No, the salary is only a token, an expression to honor your
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  value. But you must know that I am a
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  giver beyond this. That means we're in expecting
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  rewards. Expect beyond salary.
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  Men can give you that token of appreciation, but God also has a
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  package for you. But that package only comes to
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  the one who has a giver. Mentality You're my glory, the
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  lifter up of my head You're my glory, the lifter up of my.
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  You are my glory, the lifter up of my.
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  Head Hallelujah yesterday when we're done with the session,
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  just, you know, to the green room just to relax a bit and
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  then be on my way. You know, pastor, we I remember
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  a time when we spoke about, you know, a few books you was to
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  write and I saw a number of books that is written brilliant
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  books. In fact, I kept two of them
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  there on head right now, one on the Apostolic ministry, the
• 1:24:43
  other on the thesis, the theology of ministry and a
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  number of things. And I said, that's right,
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  listen, I'm going to be teaching you.
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  I'll leave that for evening. I've been trying to resist the
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  temptation not to go into evenings teaching now, else I'll
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  keep you here till evening. Praise God, because evenings
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  teaching is such that once you start, you should you, you have
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  to finish, praise the Lord, Hallelujah, Amen.
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  And then because I want us to pray for a few minutes to speak
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  over our lives or find somewhere to stop for the morning.
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  But I'm saying there are many ways, you know, my phone is full
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  of text messages from people around the world.
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  Apostle, thank you. I just listened to your message.
• 1:25:28
  I was about to hang myself. I was about to commit suicide.
• 1:25:32
  I was about to do this when your message came.
• 1:25:35
  Now God is able to bless people because you have worked in
• 1:25:39
  partnership with him. You have provided the resources
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  on earth that he can use. There is a message he can use
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  since the man will cannot hear him.
• 1:25:50
  He just sends a message. He just sends a book.
• 1:25:53
  He just sends your organization, he sends your NGO, He sends your
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  value, whatever it is. Are we together?
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  Yes. I want you to leave this place
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  knowing that I am blessed number one.
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  But #2 I am and I want you to leave this place.
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  With capacity to explain and defend why you are blessed.
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  To defend and explain why you are a blessing.
• 1:26:24
  Who is learning? Yes, you failed my course.
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  Woefully, if you cannot tell me why you are blessed and you
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  cannot tell me why you are a blessing.
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  So one last recap and then we'll be upstanding to pray.
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  The believer based on the authority of God's Word is
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  blessed. And the basis for that is that
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  you have been justified by faith, haven't received the life
• 1:26:50
  of God and the free gift that came to Christ.
• 1:26:53
  And it's giving you access to receive the promise of the
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  Spirit. And I told you that in the New
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  Testament, the blessing goes beyond a pronunciation.
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  The speakings of the blessing still stand, but the blessing
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  now has been embodied in the person of the Holy Spirit.
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  And that when he comes and is resident in a believer's life,
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  he becomes the basis for your being blessed.
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  So if you say I am blessed, it is because I've been justified
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  by faith and I have access to the Spirit who is the blessing.
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  And that when the Holy Spirit comes, he comes along.
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  All the spiritual resources that help the believer to live a life
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  of victory, a life of dominion, and a life of fulfillment are we
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  together. That being the first purpose of
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  the blessing, it empowers the believer.
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  The presence of the Holy Spirit in partnership with your will,
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  in partnership with the Word of God, in partnership with the
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  teaching priest. They work together like the
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  ingredients in making a meal. To produce a believer who is
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  victorious, a believer in dominion and who lives a
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  fulfilled life. The second purpose of the
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  blessing is that it empowers you to be.
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  A blessing to fulfill that mandate, Genesis 12 and verse 3,
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  to be a blessing to the entire creation.
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  Are we together? And I told you that every time
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  you say I am a blessing, the implication is number 1.
• 1:28:23
  You are making a declaration that you are a blessing because
• 1:28:26
  you are connected to the blessing.
• 1:28:29
  That's the first basis. I am a blessing because I am
• 1:28:33
  connected to the Holy Spirit. The blessing number 2, when you
• 1:28:37
  say I am a blessing, you mean I am a giver.
• 1:28:42
  I always look forward to seeing the betterment of those in my
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  world more than receiving. Here's how the Bible puts it.
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  It is more blessed to it didn't say it's more rewarding.
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  It uses the word blessed. It is more blessed to be.
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  And so in receiving you are also blessed.
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  And we'll talk of the receiving part of the blessing in the
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  evening. In the evening we'll be looking
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  at the blessings and then we'll pray.
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  We've discussed the blessings of Abraham, justification by faith,
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  the blessing. The Spirit of all grace.
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  Can we pray some prayers Please rise upon your faith.
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  Blessed be the name of the Lord. Hallelujah.
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  Hold hands with someone by your left, right.
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  And would you take a minute to just pray in the spirit and
• 1:29:34
  bless the Lord, Bless the Lord. Now you know the word.
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  Bless the Lord Barack, bless the Lord, bless the Lord, bless the
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  Lord someone in one minute. Can you bless the Lord?
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  Bless the Lord, O my soul and all that is within me.
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  Bless his holy name. Bless the Lord, O my soul,
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  forget not his benefits. Someone go ahead and bless His
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  name. We bless you, we bless you.
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  Bless him because he's deserving Barack to stoop down to worship,
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  to give him honor that is through His name.
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  Thank Him for everything you've received from yesterday night
• 1:30:26
  and this morning. Blessed be the name of the Lord.
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  In Jesus name, we pray. In Jesus much less name, we
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  pray. Now you're going to take a
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  minute to make declarations of faith that I am a blessing.
• 1:30:43
  I am a blessing. I'm not just blessed, but I'm a
• 1:30:47
  blessing. And you will obtain grace,
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  number one, to respect the ministry of the blessing, the
• 1:30:53
  Holy Spirit within you to walk ever conscious of that ministry
• 1:30:57
  and #2 that you are a giver. You're going to make these
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  declarations. Lord, I obtain grace to be a
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  blessing indeed, grace to be a blessing, to manifest as the
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  blessing that I am. Please lift your voice and pray
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  in one minute. Lift your voice and pray all
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  over this auditorium and. Following.
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  Online, would you lift your voice and pray?
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  I am a blessing. I obtain grace.
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  A blessing to my family, a blessing to Leicester, a
• 1:31:39
  blessing to the United Kingdom, a blessing to your place of
• 1:31:43
  work. I am blessed now.
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  I am a blessing. I am blessed.
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  I am a blessing. In Jesus name we pray.
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  Hallelujah. Now please look at me, everyone.
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  The third prayer point I'm going to be giving us.
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  You're going to cast down every imagination.
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  Every high thing, every suggestions of darkness.
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  Look at me, please. Some of you have come from
• 1:32:31
  backgrounds where you are today, products of the ill speakings of
• 1:32:35
  people. They call you names in anger and
• 1:32:40
  you may not know known to you. Those programmings is called the
• 1:32:44
  scourging tongues of men, Job said.
• 1:32:46
  You'll be delivered from it. There are some of you who right
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  now, as it stands, your confidence is as fragile as
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  whatever it is. Anyone who says whatever, you
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  just bent to it. When there's social media where
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  there's whatever it is and it's because of a backlog of
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  suggestions. Words are powerful.
• 1:33:10
  They are spirit and they can minister life or minister death.
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  But right now I want you to pray every mentality, every Speaking
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  of darkness, suggesting me otherwise, trying to threaten
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  this revelation, this mandate in my life, or being a blessing,
• 1:33:29
  either using your past, using whatever has happened in your
• 1:33:33
  life, your fellows of the past, can you take authority over it
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  right now? In the name of Jesus, go ahead
• 1:33:39
  and pray. Rebuke the spirit of share,
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  rebuke, share, rebuke, doubt, rebuke, intimidation, rebuke,
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  envy, rebuke on forgiveness. Go ahead, rebuke jealousy.
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  In the name of Jesus, I am a blessing.
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  This negative traits cannot be found within and around my life.
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  I am a blessing, I am a blessing.
• 1:34:15
  Someone is praying. I am a blessing.
• 1:34:27
  A blessing to Leicester, a blessing to Uka, blessing to
• 1:34:32
  Africa, a blessing to Europe, a blessing to whatever nation.
• 1:34:44
  I cast down every imagination. I cast down every negative
• 1:34:49
  speaking. It may have come from your
• 1:34:52
  spouse to you. It may have come from your
• 1:34:55
  parents to you. It may have come from school to
• 1:34:58
  you. Take authority right in the name
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  of Jesus. Man of God, you are a blessing.
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  It doesn't matter whether the ministry is striving well or
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  not, you are a blessing. My dear sister, you are a
• 1:35:19
  blessing. Yes, you are a blessing in Jesus
• 1:35:31
  name. In Jesus name, Hallelujah,
• 1:35:38
  praise the name of the Lord. Yes, the world.
• 1:35:45
  Will bow down and say you are God.
• 1:35:52
  Every man will bow down and say you are key through your life
• 1:36:00
  now. So let's right now.
• 1:36:07
  Why we wait, King of Lord, we feel this place just want to be
• 1:36:22
  with you. Just want to be with you.
• 1:36:30
  You're the King of Lord, we feel.
• 1:36:40
  Just. Want to be with you now.
• 1:36:53
  I want to encourage everyone under the sound of my voice.
• 1:36:59
  We're going to take the time in the evening to minister to the
• 1:37:03
  needs of God's people because the Bible says there the Lord
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  hath commanded the blessing even life, life, life void of
• 1:37:18
  sickness, life void of diseases. Are we together?
• 1:37:23
  Life void of curses, life void of poverty, life void of
• 1:37:30
  limitations. Praise the name of the Lord.
• 1:37:34
  And so I'll request that as you come in the evening, you can
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  write your prayer requests. Come with your heart open.
• 1:37:43
  I'm going to be showing you in the evening how to activate and
• 1:37:47
  to release the blessing. It's not enough to know that you
• 1:37:52
  are a blessing. It's not enough to know that you
• 1:37:54
  are a possessor of it. You must understand the
• 1:37:57
  spiritual dynamics responsible for releasing that blessing like
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  a river. And I hope you'll have the time
• 1:38:04
  to look at Ezekiel 47, the river that flowed from the east side
• 1:38:09
  of the temple. And the Bible says as the river
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  flowed, every fish that was dead when it came in contact with
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  that river came alive. And that there is a river that
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  flows from the throne of God. And as that river flows, it
• 1:38:26
  brings healing to the nations. It brings forth trees whose
• 1:38:30
  leaves are healing to the nations.
• 1:38:36
  Go back with this mentality that I am blessed, but I'm a
• 1:38:41
  blessing. Yes, it's true.
• 1:38:45
  Yes, with your bills piling up, don't change your confession.
• 1:38:49
  I am blessed, I'm a blessing. The reason why you know that
• 1:38:55
  those bills will change is because the blessing is on you.
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  The blessing is indestructible. It programs a man to become
• 1:39:06
  indomitable, and while it may take time to manifest, I'll show
• 1:39:11
  you why. Many people, although they have
• 1:39:13
  the Holy Spirit, they are not able to manifest the riches of
• 1:39:18
  that life. That's for evening, but for now,
• 1:39:23
  I'm not sure it's out of place to give one person an
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  opportunity to make it right with Jesus.
• 1:39:29
  I was so honored yesterday as I saw a number of our brothers and
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  sisters walk out it. It means a lot.
• 1:39:37
  It's a burden like never before that God has placed in my heart.
• 1:39:41
  Knowing the true implication of salvation and the blessedness of
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  one who encounters Christ. I'm in a hurry to let people
• 1:39:50
  encounter Him. If you listen to everything I
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  taught this morning and this afternoon, I said the blessing
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  is only for those who are in Christ.
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  It's a family word. It's a family affair if you are
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  outside of Christ. There's no possibility to be
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  blessed in the Bible's way and even to be a blessing.
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  So wherever you are, if you are saying apostle, please give me a
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  chance to make it right. I want to be connected to this
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  Jesus. I thought him only to be a
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  founder of a religious movement called Christianity.
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  But now, on hearing you speak, I see that He comes to us as love,
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  a reflection of the Father's love.
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  Wherever you are, I'm looking for just one sincere person.
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  For the sake of that one, we'll wait a minute or two.
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  Wherever you are, please, I'd like you to leave your seat on a
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  shame. Come stand right before me.
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  God bless you. Thank you, darling, thank you.
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  God bless you. God bless you.
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  God bless you. Is there someone courageous
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  enough? Bold enough Timing, enough to
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  make it right with Jesus. I see some of our precious
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  people. Come on, Lester.
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  Can we let this family of God know that we love them?
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  Celebrate them, celebrate them, celebrate them.
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  I see our lovely children coming, celebrate them.
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  Any other person coming, make your way.
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  Do not be ashamed. It's the greatest gift anyone
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  can have access to the life of God.
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  Hallelujah. I want to thank all of you,
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  young and old, all together. Please lift your right hand and
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  let me speak to those who have been following this conference
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  from across the globe. We may not be able to see you,
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  but the Father of Light, the Father of Spirits is aware that
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  you are there. And perhaps you are responding
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  to this call in your home. You're driving whilst listening,
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  or perhaps you're watching later on by way of a rebroadcast.
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  It's never too late to make it right with this Jesus.
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  He's the way, He's the truth and the life with your hands lifted
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  to heaven. I'd like you to say this after
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  me, as loud and as clear as you can't say.
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  Lord Jesus, I love you with all my heart.
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  I believe you are the Son of God.
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  I believe you died for my right. Now I receive you into my heart.
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  Be my Savior, be my Lord, and be my King.
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  I declare from today that I am a child of God.
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  I live for Jesus all the days of my life.
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  I go for whatever and back what never.
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  Amen. With your hand still lifted.
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  Father, thank you. The Bible declares as many who
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  will come to you. You will be no wise castaway.
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  These ones have come declaring the lordship of Jesus over their
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  lives. We decree and declare that
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  indeed it will be a new beginning for everyone of them
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  and the grace to walk in victory.
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  I commend you to the blessing himself, the Holy Spirit, that
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  you will be built, you will be established, and you will serve
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  Jesus all the days of your life. In Jesus matchless name we pray,
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  Amen and Amen. All right, So please may I
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  request all of you who are here, would you look to my right?
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  That will be your left from where you're standing.
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  Please just find your ways there, there, and this way there
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  are counselors who will have a word with you and a quick
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  prayer. If you have any prayer, need you
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  at liberty to communicate to them and thereafter you'll be
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  back to your seat. Let's honor them as they go.
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  Thank you, thank you all, thank you all.
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  God bless you. Thank you all, God bless you.
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  Keep. Clapping as they go.
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  Celebrate them, Celebrate them, celebrate them.
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  Hallelujah, praise the name of the Lord, May the Lord bless
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  you. May the Lord bless you means to
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  be empowered to prosper. I decree and declare in the name
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  of Jesus. The blessing begins to work in
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  your life both as a pronouncement and the ministry
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  of the Holy Spirit. You begin to enjoy the richness
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  of the blessing. Some of you before evening, you
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  return with your testimonies in the name of Jesus Christ.
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  And I pray that at the end of this conference God would have
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  shifted you to virgin dimensions.
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  You will experience his hand, his wisdom, his power in unusual
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  dimensions in Jesus much less name we pray, give.
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  Jesus, a big contract. Amen.
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  I want us to pray for a person put in my spirit that we should
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  discourage. Please, those who are moving.
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  Let's honor the servant of God and let's honor the presence of
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  the Lord. It's just given to us and we
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  just want to do something now. That's not the time to be going.