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5 KEYS YOU MUST ENGAGE WHEN STORMS ARISE IN YOUR LIFE BY APOSTLE JOSHUA SELMAN · Selah Media House

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5 keys that you must engage every time you meet the days of
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adversity, every time you meet seasons that are uncomfortable
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in your life. There are 5 biblical keys that
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that are the road map for you. I give you a guarantee by the
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integrity of the Word of God, if you follow these 5 keys, they
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will inevitably bring you triumph and victory above, out
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of and over any situation whatsoever.
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Are we together? Pray one minute and declare that
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the Lord should grant you the miracle of open eyes.
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Please go ahead and pray. He Namaste la brande get
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parousiata de Brandes cotiva lashida parousia.
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Mighty God. Are you praying?
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Grant me the miracle. Say to those that are fearful
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hearted, do not be afraid. The Lord your God is strong and
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in his mighty hands. When?
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You call on his name. He will come and save you.
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He will come and say you. He will come and say.
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You say to the weary ones. Your God will.
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Totally come, he will come and say this is a.
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Prophetic word for someone. You will not end up in that
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situation while you are there. I wanted to know that His
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Majesty is coming with triumph. He will do it in the open, in
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the presence of everyone, and they will know that He has come
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to you as Ebenezer in the name of Jesus Christ.
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Number one, the first key, if you want to live the life of an
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overcomer in the presence of challenges, the vicissitudes of
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life, the first key, listen carefully, is the revelation of
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the love of God. You must have a strong
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revelation of the love of God. Please pay attention.
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You must draw your strength from the fact that you are His
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beloved. You want to write that down
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beloved that He loves me. Very simple statement but is
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powerful. If you know anything about
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people who are in love, there is nothing they will not do for one
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another. So the awareness and the
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consciousness that I am not only His Son, but I am also his
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bride. His jealousy is there to defend
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me. First John chapter 3 and verse
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one. Let's look at a few scriptures.
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You want to live the life of our overcomer.
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The Bible says, behold what manner of love the Father has
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bestowed upon us. Behold what manner of love that
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means. Look at the extent of love that
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he has so lavish towards you. Because let me tell you this,
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when you go through hope that is deferred, when you go through
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persecutions and all kinds of tribulations and criticisms,
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listen carefully. When you go through all kinds of
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emotional strains that come from this thing sorrow, chances are
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that you will begin to reconsider the reality of God's
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love towards you. Do you really love me?
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The first thing that went wrong when the boat was about to
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capsize. We the disciples is they are,
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they are. Listen to what they told Jesus
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care. Rest thou not that we perish.
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In other words why are you acting this irresponsible to
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what we are going through? You seem to be non responsive to
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our situation. The grace of our Lord Jesus
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Christ, the love of God, the love of God, the love of God.
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Jeremiah chapter 31 and verse 3 is a popular scripture.
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Here I have loved you with an everlasting love.
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This is God unashamedly, like a man declaring his love to a
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woman that he loves with all his heart.
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He's saying it here, I have loved you with an everlasting
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love, it says, and I have drawn you with my loving kindness.
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I have loved you. Everybody say he loves me.
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Yes, Sir. When you have a revelation of
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the love of God, then you know that he's not silent.
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Listen carefully. What's that song now?
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He never sleeps, he never slumbers, he never turns hearing
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a prayer. When we are weak, he becomes
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stronger, so rest in his. Love and cast all.
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Of your care on he. Can we sing it one more time?
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Powerful song. That he never sleeps, he never
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slumbers, He never times of hearing our prayer.
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When we are weak, He becomes stronger.
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So rest in His love and cast all of your cares on He.
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Listen so. Rest in His love and cast all of
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your cares. On him is an advice, is an
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instruction in righteousness. So.
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Rest in his love. And cast all of your cares.
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God is speaking to you. So rest in his love.
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Cast all of your cares. You are not the first to fail in
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business. Listen, please rest.
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In his love, cast all of your cares.
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You're not the first to go through a barriness situation
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that seems shameful. So rest in his love.
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Cast all of your cares on him. You're not the first to be
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challenged by armed robbers and kidnappers.
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No fine rest. I will rest in his love, cast
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all of my cares. This is a prophetic war to a
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family, to an individual. You may be a man of God.
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Here you are in a season where things are not working
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ministries as if God did not call you or thus have turned to
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tell you just one look for a job because this your thing.
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We don't know the name of what you are doing.
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There are times when the results are not obvious.
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It is very painful because there is no explanation you can give.
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There are times where people will ask you where is your
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fasting and where is your prayer?
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There are times it's a popular thing, especially across Africa.
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Where is your God? They say, Where is your God that
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people are dying in your family, Pastor?
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Where is your God? That while you are preaching you
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do not have a child yourself? They say so.
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Rest in his love. Cast.
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All of your kids. Hear me only answer questions
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that have rewards. Don't sheepen yourself to
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respond to every question you will be asked in life.
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Why is this family like this? If you love the Lord, it's an
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unnecessary question. Learn to rest in the love of
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Jesus. Romans chapter 8 and verse 28.
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Jesus is speaking now and we know.
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We know it's an information that is Privy to those who are in the
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Kingdom. If you are out of this Kingdom,
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you may not know because it does not look like it.
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Those who are out of the faith walk by their sensory
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perception. But we who are in the Kingdom,
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the Bible says we are Privy to an information.
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We know that how many things, including the painful departure
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of a loved one. All things including the loss of
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the job. Please hear me.
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All things including the appointment you thought would be
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you and it was someone else. All things, all things work
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together for the good of them that love God.
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This is a love realm. This is a love affair to them
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who are the called according to his purpose.
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How many things? All things Apostle, I missed my
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flight. All things work together.
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If you learn to see through the eyes of the Spirit, you will be
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grateful, Grateful. Don't sit down and say this
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family is it that nobody will rise in this family?
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No, no, no. Learn to say thank you, Lord.
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I do not know what you are doing, but I'm grateful because
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in Your wisdom I trust Your love for me.
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We have some of our little children in the ministry and
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many times if I make them a promise that I'm going to buy
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them something, if they see me, they don't care whether I'm
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under the anointing or whether I'm under whatever, they will
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remind me and come with absolute confidence.
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And they use an implicating word, Daddy.
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They don't call me apostle, they call you apostle.
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That's membership. Daddy is relationship.
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So they run and come to me. Yesterday while we're having our
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time with the School of Ministry students, they just came to me
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and said, ah, there was something they wanted to eat.
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And you see, the moment they said Daddy, they leave.
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That one is either you are really Daddy that is not by you
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have to demonstrate the capacity to provide or you now have to
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painfully look at these children and say sorry you people should
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live here. There are times where you should
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not be embarrassed to be a child again and let ABBA carry you.
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When the oceans roll and thunders roll.
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I will. Soar with you above, Father, you
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are king over the storms. Here's your part that I.
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Will be still and know you are God.
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My soul. Be still and know you.
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I will be still and know you are God.
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My. Soul, be still and know you.
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When the oceans I will soar with you above the sky.
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Father, you are king over the storm, and I will be still and
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know you. I will be still and know you.
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I will be still. I will be still.
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Oh, receive it as a prophecy to your life.
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I will be still and know you. I will be still and know you.
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I will be still and know you. Just the voices I.
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Will be still. I will be still.
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I will be still. So you can look at your rent
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eyeball to eyeball. You can look at your child in
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the ICU and with the pain in your heart, you can look at your
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health and the medical diagnosis that you have cancer and you are
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about to go. And you can sing this song not
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to an audience. You sing a song where you are
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the minister and you are the audience yourself.
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There are times you need to be the prophet of your destiny.
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Ladies and gentlemen, please hear me.
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You need to summon courage tonight, Father.
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You are king over the stones. I will be still and know you.
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I will be still. Don't be ashamed of your tears.
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Jesus wept. It is not inhuman to cry.
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It is not lack of spirituality to cry.
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Be still and know you. God, I'm not singing, I'm
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ministering to you. Be still and know you.
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Listen to me, when Satan wants to destroy you, he will isolate
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you and magnify everything around you so that you no longer
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see the faithfulness of God. All you see are mountains
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around. All you see is the situation.
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All that that seems to negate what God has said.
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Hear me, I'm speaking to you by the Spirit.
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Be strong, be strong. There is something called the
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life of an overcomer. You can stand and look at
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everything, young man. Will you be able to rise one day
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and take care of Mama? I may not be able to show you
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any result right now. I don't have much to say.
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Let my future do the speaking. I will be still and know you.
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I will be still. Hear me.
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I want you to find strength in the love of order.
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A Christian is not just one who goes to church.
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A believer is one who is so jealously loved by the God of
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heaven. Look beyond your challenges.
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Please hear me, believers. I'm ministering to you by the
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Spirit. No matter what the pain is, look
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beyond it and look at Jesus. Don't just look at him as the
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powerful God. You need to look at Him as
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Father. Lord, I know that you love me.
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Your jealousy has been so invested in my life.
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This I believe there are people going through all kinds of
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storms right now. Listen to me.
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Though I walk through the. By the water still my soul, my
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heart will trust in you. My heart will trust in you.
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Listen to what I'm saying. This is not a special.
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Number my heart will trust. In you, apostle, you're only
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speaking now because you have food to eat at home.
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As I'm sitting right now, I have three children.
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Four children. I do not even know how they're
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going to eat after service. Can I minister to you?
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Find strength? It always does not look like it.
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This is what makes you an overcomer.
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There is no gift of overcoming. No, overcoming is not a gift.
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He that overcomes. He says that you will be given a
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whitestone. You will be given a name on that
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stone. You will be given a a mystery
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manner that provides strength. Notice what he does, the first
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thing he does to the overcomer. If he strengthens you by giving
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you manner that gives you strength.
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There is always a word from God that makes you an overcomer.
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The revelation the Bible says in Romans chapter 8 and verse 28.
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We read it that all things, not some things.
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Please listen to me. It is not unusual for you to
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cry. You will find many instances in
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your life where you have to cry, cry with your children, cry with
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your company. You know, after the pandemic
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last year, believe me, without exaggeration, there were many
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people who retired from ministry and said, I'm tired with this
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serving God. I cannot serve God like this and
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have my children beg for bread. I hung my boots.
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Lord, just know that I'm born again.
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But as far as serving you is concerned, discouragement.
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How about those who lost their jobs?
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Some of you here looking at me? How about those who have gone
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through all kinds of tragedy? You started this year with joy,
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not knowing that you have a reason to cry.
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And now, from bereavements to disappointments to pain, when
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you know that he loves you, you can find strength because
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perfect love. Has a unique ability to cast out
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fear. If you know that he loves you,
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you can find strength. Listen to me, brothers and
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sisters, do not let the devil use your challenges to interpret
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the love of God. No, no, Satan is a master of the
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flesh realm. He can use everything happening
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to you and make you think. Is this how love acts?
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I thought the Bible says love gives.
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Where is the giving financially? Where is the giving maritally?
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Where is the giving in terms of fruitfulness?
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Where is the giving in terms of politics?
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Find strength there ones there is the revelation of the love of
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God, that he who began. A good work in me.
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He who started the work, he'll be faithful to complete it.
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Yami. The same energy takes to
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continue is the same energy takes to go back.
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You must make up your mind whether you go back or go for
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what is the same energy, you will dissipate.
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Make up your mind that I will take that leap of faith, even if
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it means to walk on water. That if I perish, let it be that
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I perish at his ward #2 Let's hurry up.
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We need to pray. My spirit is fired up.
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I know that God is ministering very deeply to people in this
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place. Allow Him heal those wounds and
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bring you a life of victory #2 What is the second key that
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grants us the grace to leave us, overcome us in spite of
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challenges? Are you ready?
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The second is the power of the Word, particularly the
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administration of comfort that comes with Scripture, the power
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of the Word. Engage the power.
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Engage the Word. The Bible brings us comfort.
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Romans chapter 15 and verse 4. Scripture can bring comfort to
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the believer for whatsoever things were written aforetime.
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Let's look at a few things that were written aforetime.
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Abraham waited 25 years. He still had a child, written a
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full time. Job went through all kinds of
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things. You would look at Job and think
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his end had come, but at the end of his life he had twice
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everything that he lost written a full time.
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What else was written a full time?
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A young shepherd that looked like he had a destiny without
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color and without dignity, serving sincerely, but remaining
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a mediocre now exalted to become king.
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Written aforetime. The arrogance of kings outside
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of God, and they were brought down to their knees.
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Written aforetime, the Bible says whatsoever things were
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written aforetime, they says they were written to make our
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students. Why?
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So that we, through the patience and the comfort of Scripture,
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might find hope. So every time I open my Bible
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and I read through these stories, I read that Once Upon a
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time the nation of Israel stood before the Red Sea in front of
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them, the Egyptians coming with fierce anger behind them.
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And God still came as a deliverer written for time to
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make me a student that God is able to save to the uttermost.
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Are we together? That Once Upon a time, humans
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not a parable. They were so hungry on earth,
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mana came, not grains that they had to prepare angels.
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Bread came written a full time Once Upon a time, the land of
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Samaria was ravaged with hunger. In 24 hours, God turned their
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lives around. Written a full time to make me a
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student. One time Paul and Silas were
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jailed, bound hand and feet. The Bible says at midnight they
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prayed, they sang aloud and everybody heard them.
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Suddenly the mighty deliverer came.
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There is nothing that is new under the sun.
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There are people who started from ground and God lifted them
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up. There are people in ministry.
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There are people in business. There are people in Korea.
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Listen to me gentlemen and ladies, believers, people of
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God, Koinonia, the body of Christ, God is speaking to us.
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Whenever you go through situations that look
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challenging, that is not the time to run away from Scripture.
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That is the time to stay true to the Word of God.
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Psalms 119, verse 28. Psalms 119 and verse 28.
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Shilanos kati branda Kazusia Takata.
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It says My soul melted for heaviness strengthen thou me
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according unto thy word. My soul is melting.
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Oh God. Overwhelmed by the challenges
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and the vicissitudes of life, not knowing where to go, left or
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right, not knowing how to manage my life in light of all of these
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things. When you look at the things
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happening across our nation, Africa, these things look
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discouraging. It looks like you should just
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run away and people are committing suicide.
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People are swallowing all kinds of things who just die in their
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sleep. It says My soul melted for
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heaviness strengthened down me according unto thy word.
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The Word of God is a comforter and the Word of God is a
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strengthener because you see the dynamics is this.
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The power of God only follows what He says.
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If God has not said it, it is illegal for His power to come to
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the scene. So the Word of God is a
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compendium of what He has said. When you find what He has said,
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you can be sure His power is following what He has said.
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Are we together? Genesis chapter 21 from verse
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one and two, the Bible says and the Lord visited Sarah as he had
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said, and the Lord did unto Sarah as he has spoken.
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If he says it, if he speaks it, he will do it for Sarah
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conceived. That is a testimony and bear
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Abraham his son in his old age. He says at the set time which
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God had spoken. So you need to draw strength
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from Scripture. Scriptures like, yeah, though I
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walk through the valley of the shadow of death, the Bible says
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I fear no evil. Why?
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For thou art with me. Thy rod and thy staff, they
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comfort me. He says, thou preparest a table
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before me in the presence of my enemies, that you anoint my head
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with oil, and my cup runs over. The Lord is my light and my
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salvation. Of whom shall I be afraid of?
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These are scriptures that must comfort you at these times.
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If it's a bereavement, you must comfort yourself that the Bible
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says one day there will be the sound of the Archangel, and that
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those who are dead in Christ will arise first, and we who are
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alive and remain, remain where in him we will be caught.
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To meet to to, to meet them in the air, and then happily after
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rejoicing with Jesus. It says, I know my Redeemer.
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Leave it. Let the weak say I am strong.
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Let the poor say I am rich. Let the depressed say I am
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encouraged and strengthened by the power of God.
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Most believers are not students of Scripture and so when this
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seasons come, there is no legitimate way to draw strength.
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In fact, for most people, they do not know how to draw strength
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from scripture. At best they draw strength from
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respectfully speaking, maybe movies or visitations from
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people. But most believers do not know
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how to sit down with the Word and draw strength from it.
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You can draw strength from the word Ezekiel chapter 2 and verse
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one and two. The Bible says, he said unto me,
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Son of man, stand up upon your feet, and I will speak unto
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thee. And the Bible says, it did not
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have that strength. But from that word the Spirit
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entered into me, when he speak unto me, and set me upon my
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feet, that I heard him that speak unto me.
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You must learn to draw strength from scripture #3 is someone
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learning? What do you do to remain an
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overcomer during the times of adversity?
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During the times where things look unpleasant #3 Engage in
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strategic prayers. Strategic prayers #3 Engage in
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strategic prayers. Psalm 34 from verse 4, please to
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seven. Psalm 34.
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I sought the Lord, and he heard me and delivered me.
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From how many? All my fears I sought the Lord.
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The deliverance did not just come.
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I sought the Lord and He heard me and delivered me from all my
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fears. I have verse 5.
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They looked unto him, the Bible says, and they were lightened,
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and their faces were not ashamed. 6 This poor man cried,
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and the Lord heard him, and saved him.
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Out of how many all his troubles?
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Not some, but seven. The Angel of the Lord encampeth
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around about them that fear him and delivered them you can
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engage in prayers. Can I tell you one of the
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assignments of the spirit of heaviness?
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What we know in the medical world as depression is to bring
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you to a point of silence because if you can open your
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mouth and agree with God, His power can come to bear.
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Depressed people are silent people.
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When you see people get to a point where they just sit down,
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how are you Sir? And then after 5 minutes, they
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just say Nigeria. What else are life?
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What else are? If I don't wake up tomorrow?
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Just know that this one is for you.
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This one is for your brother. I rebuke the spirit of heaviness
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over everyone here. In the name of Jesus Christ.
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The Bible declares to give them beauty for ashes.
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Is that true? The oil of gladness for the
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spirit of heaviness, a garment of praise for that that that
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spirit of heaviness, that they might be called the oaks or
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trees of righteousness. The planting of the Lord, that
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he might be glorified. Strategic prayers, Psalm 61 from
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verse one to four. Please write this because for
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many of you God is already revealing to you the blueprint.
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You prayed already and said, Lord as I'm coming to church,
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give me a road map on how to make sense and then to manifest
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as an overcomer. This is answer to your prayer.
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Hear my cry O God, and attend to my prayer from the ends of the
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earth. Will I cry unto you when my
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heart is overwhelmed? It says, lead me to the rock
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that is higher than I Verse 3. It says, for thou has been a
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shelter for me and a strong tower from the enemy.
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Verse four, I will abide in thy Tabernacle forever.
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I will trust in the covert of thy wings.
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Believers, prayer is not just forgive me, give me, give me.
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There are times that prayer is what supplies the strength and
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the stamina to push through. When Jesus was in Gethsemane,
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you would think you would just be singing and walking around.
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The Bible says he prayed. He was about to to embark on
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something that had an eternal value to everybody on earth.
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He needed to pray. The Bible says he prayed three
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times, repeating the same words. Some of you may need to go back
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from church today. Return back home and pray.
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Use this week to pray. Why?
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Because there are all kinds of giants, there are obstacles,
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there are all kinds of demonic things that are coming to fight
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the devil over, to fight God over your life.
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Don't give them room. Must pray #4 Are you ready for
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number 4? Maintain a lifestyle and an
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atmosphere of joy. Maintain a lifestyle and an
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atmosphere of joy. In this Kingdom.
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Joy is very powerful. Nehemiah chapter 8 and verse 10.
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Very quickly. Nehemiah chapter 8 and verse 10.
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The last sentence says for the joy of the Lord is your
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strength. Everybody say my strength is the
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joy of the Lord. Yes, Sir.
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Bazanji Soroba. Bazanji Kunyaba.
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God is able to use your joy as a fetcher to bring strength to
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your life. Can I tell you there is nothing
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I know that frustrates the devil like watching a believer laugh
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and rejoice when he's brought his best at you.
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You mean in spite of the fact that your son died, in spite of
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the fact that you lost your Now you understand Job chapter 1 The
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Bible says the moment you see why Job was a powerful man, he
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was filled with mysteries. He knew what to do.
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He said yes, I can lose everything, but the one thing
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that will get them back is my joy.
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Can I tell you this, no matter what you lose, if the devil does
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not succeed in taking away your joy, believe me, everything you
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lost only went on errand. It is coming back.
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That's why we sang that song. Say to the weary ones, your God
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will surely come. He will come and say hey.
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Philippians chapter 4 and verse 4.
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Let's hurry up. Philippians 4 and verse 4
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rejoice in the Lord. It never said rejoice in your
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situation. There are times that it does not
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make sense to rejoice in your situation, so you rejoice in the
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Lord. And again I say, rejoice,
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Someone prophesied to yourself, say myself, rejoice.
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Can I tell you, you must obtain grace from God.
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Listen, listen. You must obtain grace from God
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to win yourself from this lifestyle of gloominess and
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anger. What is wrong?
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Good morning. What is good about the morning?
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You see, when you do those kinds of things, you are, you are
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already programming yourself for defeat, joy.
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There are people you see who are very happy and jovial, and you
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think they are rejoicing because everything is already at work.
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No, they are rejoicing to make everything line up, not because
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everything is already lined up. No.
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Next time you find out that things happen in your life that
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challenge your faith, the first thing you should do is Father.
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I may not know what is happening, but like Job, even if
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I have to sit on the ground, I will still worship.
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The Bible did not say Job sat down.
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Please prepare to give us that scripture.
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Job Chapter 1. After Job heard all of those
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things, the Bible says Job, he rent his garment, listen to me,
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and he sat on the ground and worshipped on hearing all of
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these kinds of things. Joy Habakkuk, Chapter 3, 17 to
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19. A classic on the administration
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of Joy. Although the fig tree shall not
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blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vine.
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The labour of the olives shall fail, and the field shall yield
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no meat. The flock shall be cut off from
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the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls.
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Verse 18 Yet. Ah, yet I will rejoice after the
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medical report. Yet I will rejoice after the
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situation that is happening within your territory.
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I rejoice and I will joy in the God of my salvation.
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Now listen it, it, it matters who you are rejoicing in.
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He calls him the God who can save me.
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Yahushua, where you get the word Joshua.
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The one who saves. I am rejoicing because he is
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able to save even to the uttermost.
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He is able to save even to the uttermost.
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He's able to save even to the uttermost.
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Can I tell you this? No matter what you lose in life,
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make up your mind to not lose joy.
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Let me tell you what joy is not. Joy is not just laughing like a
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clown. No, there are times you don't
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have that strength. Joy is an inner state of rest
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and merriment, a confidence that affects your emotions derived
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from the fact that God is still alive and is still in charge.
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There are times that it may not make sense.
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You may not see wind and you may not see rain, but you must
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maintain your joy. Here's what the Bible says.
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It says he that weepeth, bearing precious seeds.
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He said He shall doubtless return rejoicing, bringing in
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the sheaves that they that sow in tears, they will reap in joy,
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not with joy. Joy is a realm.
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You will carry the food in the kitchen.
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That means if you cannot enter the kitchen, there is no food
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for you. It is not with joy.
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If it says with joy, then joy is a tool in joy means it is a ram
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you enter to guarantee your harvest.
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It was Papa Copeland. I was told that Acts God servant
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Bishop David Oedeko and said even though you, we are the ones
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who taught you on faith, you seem to have gotten tremendous
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results and look at the crowds and all of that.
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And Bishop Poedipo replied according to the story.
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And he said, I dance with joy. I dance every one of these
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people. There are times when it does not
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make sense. You will need to go to the shop
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alone and begin to give God glory in an empty shop that has
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nothing there. There are times you need to walk
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around that house and just begin to give God praise that does not
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make sense to thank Him and say Lord I know you are faithful,
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are we blessed? Never allow anything.
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Take your joy. It's a commitment that I made
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with my life. Can I tell you joy has a health
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value in your life. Joy has a finance value in your
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life. Joy has a all wise.
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It profits you when you know how to be joyful.
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So there are many of us here by this, by this world.
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You need to repent of all this gloominess.
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And you refuse yourself from sleeping and you wake up in the
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night asking all kinds of questions.
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No, give him joy and give him praise.
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You go to the office tomorrow and they look at you and say,
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are you aware that the discussion throughout last week
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was on you? Well, it may not be the best,
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but I give God praise. You kick your car Monday morning
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and it looks like it's not starting.
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You don't complicate the issues by almost destroying what is
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left in the car. You just give God praise.
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You're driving and someone almost looks like he wants to
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just hit you and you can squeeze your hand through the window
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because you want to insult the person.
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No, obtain the maturity to bring back your hand.
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I choose to rejoice. I choose to live a life of joy.
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Prophecy to yourself is a choice.
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I choose to live a life of joy. Someone is speaking.
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Principalities and powers are hearing you.
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I choose to live a life of joy. Let your situations and
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circumstances hear you is a choice that in the name of Jesus
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here in Abuja, in the name of Jesus across Europe, everywhere,
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in ministry, in business, in my pursuit, in my career, I choose
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hey Balakata baraka tosiata joy, joy, go ahead and pray just one
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minute before we continue. True.
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One more time. I lift my hands to honor you,
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because your word is true. I lift my hands to honor.
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Your word is true that I will have my baby.
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Your word is true that I'm the head and not the tail.
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Your word is true that I'm above and not beneath.
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Because your word is true. I will see.
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So when I lift my hands is not because I know the answer, I
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know His word is true and the Bible has already given me
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comfort that while I look not at the things that are seen, but
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the things that are unseen. He already tells me the things
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that are seen are temporal, but the things that are unseen.
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Someone needs to begin to look at things that are unseen.
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The greatness that is before you, the anointing and the
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mantle that is at the other side, the other side of your
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tears, the other side of your pain.
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Man of God, do not give up in ministry.
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It looks like things are not working, but you are still
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called. The hand of God is upon you.
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Let no man despise the grace and the gifting of God upon your
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life. Let no man despise your
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ministry. Let no man despise the
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investment of the Spirit upon your family, upon your destiny.
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It does not yet appear, but the hand of God is still on you.
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I lift my hands to honour you. I lift my hands to honor you.
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Hallelujah, we have to wrap up #5 and then we pray that a man
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can sit on the ground and yet worship.
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Powerful. You would think the only way to
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worship is to lift your hands and jump, but it is possible to
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also sit on the ground, even in shame, even in pain, even in
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seeming defeat. And yet worship.
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Are you ready for #5 the fifth key?
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Every time you step into seasons where things don't seem to be
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working in your life, please listen to me.
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You must obtain grace to engage the prophetic.
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The prophetic is a weapon of power when it is administered
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within the boundary of Scripture that every time you are in
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seasons that look like the day of adversity, you will need the
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prophetic. They are taken for a prey and
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non Sayed. Restore There has to be a voice
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other than you that can speak. Restoration.
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There has to be a voice other than you that can speak.
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Lifting. Are we together now?
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When Samaria was in decadence? Hunger, We've shared it here.
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Women were eating their children.
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Then came this strange prophet of God, and he made a
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declaration by the Spirit. By this time tomorrow Moses
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came, unheld his stuff, and told the nation of Israel.
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God has seen your pain for these years and he has sent me as a
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deliverer. All you need to do is to believe
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God and to believe me. I am going to Pharaoh and he
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stood before Pharaoh. He said Pharaoh time up, toss
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sayeth the Lord God of the Hebrews, let my people go.
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When the plagues began to come, Pharaoh said no, no, no, no, no,
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this is too much. Let the men go, leave the women
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and the children. Moses said no way we are going
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plus our cut to everything. I have watched with with shock
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even to me at the way the prophetic works in the lives of
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people who understand it and engage it.
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I have had the honor and the privilege to speak over people
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over impossible situations that sometimes even me, the man of
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God who was used to minister to them.
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I can almost say, my God will this situation turn around and
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then I'm not telling you what I studied.
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I am telling you a reality. This is by the privilege of
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God's mercy. I know what the prophetic can do
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when when a genuine prophetic mantle from a man of God's lips,
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a prophetic anointing, a spoken word backed up by the integrity
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of God's word. When it lands over your
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situation, you just step back and watch it work wonders in
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your life. I told you here and I've shared
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this with you, the prophetic does not just reveal.
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Listen to me. The prophetic creates the
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prophetic and lift a man from your yesterday into your
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tomorrow. Believe me.
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And you have come tonight to encounter that dimension of the
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prophetic. This meeting will not be over
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until that what comes upon your life.
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Listen to me because to live an overcoming life.
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God himself designed these principles.
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The prophetic engaged with understanding and by a prophet
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the Lord God brought Israel out of Egypt and by a prophet where
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they preserved he says believe in the Lord your God.
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So shall you be established. I I said this with with every
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sense of respect and, and I don't mean to brag, please
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forgive me, but there is a level of arrogance that is in the
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world today that will keep punishing many people and they
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will keep going through needless pain because of the arrogance of
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neglecting the prophetic in as much as I know as I would always
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observe that mistakes have been made here and then the body of
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Christ people have, you know, mismanaged the prophetic.
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But can I tell you it is an error If you find yourself
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ignoring the prophetic in one night, I mean literal 24 hour
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one night. God is able to through the
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vehicle of the prophetic lift. People listen, please come, let
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me use one person to show you how the prophetic works.
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Anyone come, you stand here. There are times where the normal
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way to climb this is by walking climb up.
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This is how to walk normally. Is that true?
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Please go back. There are times that there can
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be challenges right here and you are attempting to climb now.
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Please take one step and stay here.
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The destinies that you climb right here, but there are all
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kinds of things stopping you at that point.
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Hold my hands, the prophetic. Are you ready to jump?
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Prophetic does not just take you one step, it will stand and push
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you like this. Are we together now?
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Thank you. The prophetic does not follow
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the sequence of the natural course of things.
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No, it is a dimension outsourced as a system of advantage.
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Yes Sir, the mysteries of the Kingdom that can help men to
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rise. One prophetic word over your
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business, 1 prophetic word over your ministry.
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You can be fasting and praying by yourself.
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God is not stupid to have given gifts in the body.
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This is where sometimes believers, we have to be
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careful. You know we have this mindset.
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Oh look, don't worry about you. You just love God alone and know
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Him for yourself. Listen to me.
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God himself set in motion this. This office is in the body of
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Christ. It is an advantage for the
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Saints. Even when Paul encountered
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Jesus, he still went back to the body for the continuity of his
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growth. I was so honored and blessed
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when you know, His Excellency the ambassador came and he was
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just jumping and celebrating Jesus and in as much as it
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looked very funny and child like I said, this man will never
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remain at the same level. He has found a key that many
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people do not have the maturity to find.
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When the ark was being restored, David was dancing and rejoicing
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and thanking God, and his own wise wife came and said, no, no,
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no, this is not royalty. You are bringing shame to
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yourself and dishonor. And David said, I am, I am, he
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told Saul's daughter. He says I am rejoicing before
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the Lord who took the Kingdom from your Father and gave me so
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that you will not now take it from me and give someone else.
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The Bible says God had the rubbish she was saying and she
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died. Barry, can I tell you this?
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I'm not indoctrinating you negatively.
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You are intelligent people. There is a way the prophetic can
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be administered that makes people behave like animals.
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That's not what I'm teaching you here.
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But I am telling you this, if you have the faith to receive
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the prophetic, ladies and gentlemen, your life can
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literally change overnight. It's true.
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The prophetic has rules. The first rule is faith. faith
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in God and faith in the vessel. Rule #2 honor, honor to God and
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honor to the vessel. These are the rules of the
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prophetic. It does not just work
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arbitrarily. No, no, please help them.
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The prophetic has rules, faith in God and faith in the vessel
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he will use. Please help them.
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I'm, I'm seeing angelic activities in this place now.
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Just help them. Please just help them.
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You know, when you begin to teach like this, the Bible calls
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the angels that they walk in partnership with the war to
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confirm the words of his servant.
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So that's what is happening right now.
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I'm seeing several angelic activities just help people
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because people are already receiving all kinds of
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impartations. I will not be afraid of 10
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thousands of people that set themselves against me
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roundabout. I lay me down and I slept.
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I wait for the Lord sustain me. But thou, O Lord, had a shield
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for. Me.
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My glory, you lift my head, but thou, O blow, had a shield for
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me. My glory, the lifter of my head.
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Hallelujah. I remember one time a gentleman
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who was, I think it was that something happened and they
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relieved him from his job. And when he came and met me,
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usually I would just pray and tell him trust God for another
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job. And the Holy Spirit spoke to me,
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said prophecy to him that you are making decrease that he is
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going back to that job. And it was a very good job when
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I said it, I could see the guy saying Sir, you don't know this
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is XYZ oil company. I said what is my business?
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Who among them can create oil? Are they not mining it?
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The one who created the oil is now making a decree.
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Listen, I lie not. Probably the person is even
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here, or maybe he's listening. It was within three days, three
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days. And it was a very, very strange
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thing that one of the executive members who is a Christian, a
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member of a popular church in this nation, had a dream.
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And in that dream a voice spoke to him and said, bring back this
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young boy, that this young boy is an asset.
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He got up, met with his fellow executives when they called him
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and he called me. I said, next time we enjoy your
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testimony, but next time do not be unwise.
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Not every man of God is a herbalist, and not everybody is
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stupid. I will not come before an
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intelligent congregation globally like this and just make
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a caricature of your pedigree and your intelligence.
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Except that this works. Believe me, it does.
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The prophetic can change literally 180° the tides of
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someone's life. But the challenge is that most
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people just say Amen. But they don't believe.
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Truly, they don't. Thank you for lifting.