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How Nations Become Great (A New Nigeria) by Apostle Joshua Selman Nimmak · Selah Media House

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  Hallelujah, let's lift our hands to the King of Kings and thank
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  him for this privilege to be in his presence.
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  Shama Sabarakos, Siberia Sedaba, mighty atmosphere of worship.
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  Someone say thank you Jesus, bless him for life, wisdom,
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  grace for his presence, ever abiding presence.
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  Thank Him for the breath of the Spirit resting upon us tonight,
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  transforming us. We're receiving of His power,
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  receiving of his wisdom, wisdom that will cause the nations to
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  see Him revealed, see him glorified.
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  Take a minute to just pray in the Spirit and soak in this
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  atmosphere. This is church.
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  This is Koinonia Shabratika Paroska veretusia Balanda
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  Shabbas salegre de Barrahasca Barriada baccato Shabradesia
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  samah 7 de belleko safraka paratus safrade bellequeta
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  barriatus. Yes, Lord, we receive your
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  power, We receive your wisdom. You are the wind of God.
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  Ruach Elohim, help us tonight. Oh God, in the name of Jesus,
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  let your word come with fire, let it come with power, let it
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  change us. And we vow to give you all the
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  glory, for in Jesus mighty name we have prayed.
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  Amen. God bless you.
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  Happy independence. Please be seated.
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  Just help those under the anointing.
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  And then let's get to the business of tonight.
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  We have a lot to do this night. Hallelujah, God is moving upon
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  us so mightily, so marvelously, 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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  I'd like us to please honor Reverend Akila House on the Rock
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  Church just. Thank you so much for.
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  The owner of your presence, Hallelujah.
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  And I just spotted Pastor Sam Dogara.
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  God bless you. House on the rock, Gombe.
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  God bless you, Sir. Thank you.
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  Thank you so much. I welcome everyone in the mighty
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  and matchless name of Jesus. And tonight we're going to be
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  praying for Nigeria. Hallelujah.
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  For those of you who outside of this Nation, Today is first
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  October and we're celebrating the independence of our nation.
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  And so I dedicate my teaching. Tonight is a teaching that
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  applies to all, but then I dedicate it to our pursuit for
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  the new Nigeria, the pursuit for a better, greater, wiser, more
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  productive Nigeria. In the name of Jesus Christ and
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  Father, we ask that you will help us tonight.
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  In the name of Jesus, Let me encourage you before we get to
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  the Word. Always insist that you leave the
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  presence of God. Wiser, always insist that you
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  leave the presence of God. Better, there is no reason why
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  you should come to God's presence and then return back
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  being the old person. The Bible says they go from
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  strength to strength. As many as appear before the
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  Lord in Zion. This teaching is a prophetic
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  message not only for this nation, but for anyone at all,
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  because an individual can become a nation.
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  Hallelujah. Blessing Abraham, he said, I
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  will bless you and I will make you as an individual a great
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  nation. Hallelujah.
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  So let's get to the business of the night.
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  How nations become great. How nations become great Let me
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  encourage everyone connecting online.
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  Please call everyone you know to be part of this teaching session
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  right now, because what you're about to hear will not only
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  profit your nation, our nation will profit your family, your
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  organization, your ministry, and your life.
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  How nations become great. This is with a particular bias
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  to our prayer, our press, our proposal for the new Nigeria.
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  Write this down, please. Nations, just like
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  organizations, families and individuals can become great.
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  Nations just like organizations, just like families and just like
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  individuals can become great. This is the first thing I want
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  us to know. Nations, just like just like
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  organizations, just like families and individuals can
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  become great. This is very profound that a
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  nation just like an organization, just like a
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  family, just like an individual can become great.
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  I've had the honor and the privilege of travelling a bit
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  and as I have gone from nation to nation, I have wondered why
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  certain nations look like the envy of the earth and then other
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  nations still remain in a sorry state.
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  This is also true for families. Many of us here know families
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  that you knew them before before and now is still the same thing
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  you knew them 15 years ago. They are still the same.
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  Nothing growing, nothing changing, no improvement, no
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  transformation. And many of us know individuals
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  like that. In fact, for many, they do not
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  even remain the same. They diminish to very inferior
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  versions of themselves. As you traverse across the
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  length and the breadth of this nation, sometimes you are left
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  in shock as to how things, people, families can deteriorate
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  so painfully. This has been true for many
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  African nations. But it's important for us as we
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  start tonight to know that nations, just like
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  organizations, families and individuals, can become great.
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  You believe that for yourself. Shout aloud.
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  Amen. The second thing I want us to
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  know tonight is that there are scriptural and time tested
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  principles that are responsible for the greatness of nations,
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  the greatness of individuals, the greatness of organizations,
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  that there are scriptural and time tested principles.
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  Nations do not just become great.
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  Individuals do not just become great.
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  Businesses do not just become great.
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  Churches and ministries do not just become great.
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  Greatness is not just an impartation.
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  It's not just a blind desire. There are a number of scriptural
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  and time tested. Please someone attend scriptural
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  and time tested principles that is responsible or are
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  responsible for greatness. Let's look at 2 scriptures #1
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  Genesis 12, one to three. Genesis 12, one to three.
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  Now the Lord had said to Abraham, Get thee out of thy
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  country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house.
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  He says, unto a land that I will show you.
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  Verse 2. He says, And I will make thee a
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  great nation, I will bless thee and make thy name great, and
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  thou shall be a blessing. Verse three.
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  I will bless them that bless you, and curse him that cursed
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  thee, and in thee shall all the families of the earth be
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  blessed. Genesis 28.
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  One and two showing you scriptures that attest to the
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  fact that it is the will of God for individuals, for nations,
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  for families to be great. Genesis chapter 28.
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  Am I right on that? Did I get that right?
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  It shall come to pass if thou shalt diligently hearken to the
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  voice of the Lord to do and observe Deuteronomy.
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  My apologies, I said Genesis, Deuteronomy.
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  Thank you, it shall come to pass if thou shalt hearken
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  diligently. Watch this now unto the voice of
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  the Lord thy God, to observe and to do all His commandments which
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  I command thee this day. Please read the remaining part,
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  that the Lord thy God will set thee on high above all the
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  nations of the earth. The Lord will set thee high
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  above all the nations of the earth.
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  And then verse 2 says that this blessing shall come on thee and
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  overtake you if you hearken to the voice of the Lord.
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  Let me give you one last Scripture, Joshua chapter 3 and
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  verse 7, profound Scripture. The Lord said unto Joshua, This
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  day I will begin to magnify thee in the sight of all Israel, that
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  they may know that as I was with Moses, so I will be with you
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  this day. I will begin to magnify you.
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  Nations can be great, individuals can be great.
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  As I meditated this morning on the independence of our dear
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  nation as a case study to other African nations and indeed
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  nations across the globe, I was really on one hand happy, but
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  then on another hand really concerned.
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  And I began to pray a prayer in my heart that God will help us
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  and grant us the understanding to know how nations truly become
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  great. Hallelujah.
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  There are a number of principles that I want to share with you
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  now. I guarantee you by the integrity
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  of Scripture that if you apply these principles to your life,
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  your family, your organization, and even our nation, there is no
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  power in existence that sustains the power or the ability to stop
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  any nation and any individual that works in keeping with these
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  principles. Are you ready?
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  Number one, the first reason why nations become great or the
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  first principle that is responsible for the greatness of
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  individuals, nations, corporations, is called vision.
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  Please write it down. Vision, vision.
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  What is vision? Vision is the ability to see
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  things as they ought to be and not just as they are.
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  The ability to see things as they ought to be, not just as
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  they are. Comma alongside the
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  determination to bring that picture to manifestation.
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  The ability to see things as they ought to be and not as they
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  are, and then the determination to bring that vision.
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  That picture you have seen to manifestation is called vision.
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  Merely having a wish of a better future, a hopeful future, is not
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  vision enough. That's just imagination well
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  utilized. It only becomes vision when you
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  have the picture alongside the determination to walk that
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  picture to foolish nations and organizations are built and
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  become great through the power of vision.
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  Proverbs 2918 Profound Scripture.
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  Proverbs 2918. Here's what the Bible says we
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  where there is no vision, the people perish.
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  The word perish there does not just mean die.
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  They veer off the course, they decline.
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  One version says they cast off restraint.
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  Where there is no vision, the people decline.
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  Where there is no vision, the people cast off restraint and
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  they even perish. Hallelujah.
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  Some of the nations and organizations, families and
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  individuals who have accented realms of greatness in our world
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  today are people who, number one, are governed by vision,
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  clearly defined vision. Now let me tell you something
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  about vision. There is a. 3.
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  Fold dimension to understanding vision.
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  If you want to become a visionary person, number one,
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  you must understand history #2 you must understand destiny #3
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  you must understand the unity component of vision.
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  I'm going to explain it. It is impossible to be a
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  visionary person without understanding history.
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  History is very important because it helps us to connect
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  things past, to make sense out of things past, and then to be
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  able to come up with resolutions that out of those resolutions
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  will come profound pictures that lead us to the future.
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  An average, the average Nigerian today does not even understand
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  the faintest history of Nigeria. Ask the average Nigerian today
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  how much? How old is Nigeria?
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  Some will say 12, some will say 100.
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  Are we together? Some will say 60.
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  I'm not talking of naive children.
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  Even leaders who are occupying government positions, are we
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  together now? We must have an understanding of
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  history. Families must understand their
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  history, Individuals must understand their history.
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  Churches and ministries. There are many respectfully
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  speaking churches and men of God in Nigeria who do not understand
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  the history of the church. They do not even know the
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  history of the church in Nigeria.
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  You see, life and destiny is a relay and it is dangerous when
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  you receive the button without understanding antecedents.
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  Are we together now? History helps you to know what
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  to correct. It helps you to know what to
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  retain. It helps you.
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  To know what to improve upon. Without the knowledge of
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  history, you will not know what is worth correcting.
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  Without the knowledge of history, you will not know what
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  is worth retaining. Without the knowledge of
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  history, you will not know what is worth improving.
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  Some of the most successful organizations, families, and
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  even nations are very meticulous about preserving history.
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  They will go to any length to see and to insist that they
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  build institutions that preserve their history and insist that
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  their citizens have a clear understanding as to where they
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  are coming from. There are many people, for
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  instance, who know more about the history of other nations
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  than their nations, the history of other families than their
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  families. History is very powerful.
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  I was just contemplating and trying to rehearse in my mind as
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  much of Nigeria's history that I know and I found out that I had
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  to take responsibility myself to refresh my understanding.
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  Hallelujah, most people shout and pray and jump about a new
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  Nigeria, a new Africa, a new world, and they cannot tell you
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  where we are coming from. Hallelujah, History.
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  It's very important your family did not just evolve.
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  What happened that your family became such a great family known
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  to all the community. There must have been a starting
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  point. Are we together?
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  What happened that your family became so poor and the least of
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  the father stripes? What happened?
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  It's important to know history. If you do not know history, the
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  negative aspects of history will repeat themselves in your life
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  because you will not know what to change.
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  You will not know what to fight. You will not know what to
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  retain. You will not know what to
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  improve upon. We just live in blind regret.
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  Hating Nigeria perhaps, hating our families perhaps, Hating
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  certain churches perhaps, and not trying to find out where did
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  this come from? If it's an error in doctrine,
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  where did it come from? If it's accuracy of spiritual
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  understanding, where did it come from?
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  The Bible is a compendium of history.
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  Are we together now? Every believer must know how did
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  how did the Christian faith come about.
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  The Bible documents that among the many things that are
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  captured in the Bible is the history, the journey of the
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  believers faith so that you are not blindly believing Jesus,
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  just believing in Jesus just because you are afraid or scared
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  of hell. Vision Hallelujah.
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  Do you know this complicated nation?
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  Well, not complicated really. I would say diverse.
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  Nigeria is one of the most diverse nations on earth.
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  History tells us this is true. We call it today the Federal
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  Republic of Nigeria. But did you know that history?
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  I hope I'm able to remember this now that I want you to know
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  history now. Hallelujah.
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  Yeah. History tells us that Nigeria.
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  Do you know that there are about 371 ethnic groups in Nigeria
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  alone? 371 ethnic groups, 774 local
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  governments? Are we together?
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  Can we imagine that 36 states including the FCT 6 geopolitical
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  zones, Nigeria? How did Nigeria start?
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  History tells us that of course, being being a diverse, A diverse
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  group of people, what history would tell us that from the
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  1900s, in fact, 1900I recall that history tells us that the
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  British came together, remember and they brought in the form
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  what we call the Northern Protectorate, the Southern
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  Protectorate. 14 years later, January 1st, 1914, Sir Lord
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  Lugard, history would tell us he brought an amalgamation and it
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  became the protectorate called Nigeria.
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  It was not yet a Federal Republic and then by 1960
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  Nigeria now declared independence and was granted the
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  independence from their British colony.
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  This is what history tells us. Are we together now under the
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  leadership of men like Sir Frederick Lord Lugard?
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  And then do you know that the independence of Nigeria, watch
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  this now that the independence of Nigeria, when we came
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  together, we were not yet a Federal Republic.
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  We were a nation. It was in 1963, I recall, I
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  think October. No date was given.
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  I'm, I'm not sure I've seen any date.
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  We just know it's October 1963 that Nigeria officially became a
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  Federal Republic. Hallelujah.
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  Why am I telling you this history so that you have an
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  understanding. So officially, today, Nigeria is
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  63 years as a nation, 60 years as a Federal Republic and 109
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  years from the time of amalgamation.
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  And yet look at our state now. I'm not just exciting you with
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  history, I'm provoking you. When you are 60 years or 63 or
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  109 years, there are fruits that must justify that longevity of
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  time. Vision, vision, Hallelujah.
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  Right from the time of the 1st President of the Federal
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  Republic of Nigeria, you know Chief Namdi Benjamin Azikuwe,
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  many of you don't know Benjamin, so you add Benjamin.
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  To the list. Hallelujah.
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  Yeah, History tells us that he was the last Governor General
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  and then the first president of Nigeria.
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  Now my point is this. Without a sense of history, why
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  do you want to become a governor?
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  Why do you want to become a leader, a House member?
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  You do not know where we are coming from.
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  Why do you even want to become a man of God leading a people
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  within a nation whose history you do not understand?
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  Are we together? History is what frames some of
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  the things that become the policies that govern nations.
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  You cannot bring the policy of another nation to another nation
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  without understanding history and then #2 destiny.
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  Still discussing vision. You must understand history to
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  be a visionary person. Then you must understand
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  destiny. What is destiny?
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  Where we are going to, there is no nation that becomes great in
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  this kind of confusion. There is bankruptcy of clarity.
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  The average African, the average Nigerian cannot give you a clear
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  picture with all due respect of where we are going to, we just
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  say we are going forward. Forward is not a location.
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  Are we together now? Yeah, there is something called
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  the American Dream. It is a concise, clear
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  representation of a nation, graphic enough for anyone to
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  because we think in pictures and I've taught you that
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  transformation is difficult without a reference.
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  So as the average young Nigerian, where are you going to
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  the next 10 years? What will Nigeria be like We say
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  will be great. That is not an inspiring
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  statement. What what do you mean by will be
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  great? What are the indices to measure
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  the greatness? Nations become great.
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  Families become great. Ministries become great when
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  they have vision. The last component of vision is
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  an agreement to all go the same. Direction.
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  You see, let me tell you this. It is impossible to have unity
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  without vision because everybody prior to vision must have their
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  individual pursuits and ambitions.
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  Are we together? A vision must be clear enough to
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  allow people give up their personal agenda and pursue
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  something that is big, cohesive, and galvanizing enough.
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  We do not have this as a nation. Unfortunately for some, his
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  assignment is to make money. Another person is to make sure
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  that he rises above his family members and not with all these
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  these pieces of self driven ambitions.
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  A nation cannot move forward. There are families that have
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  agreed they they have built dynasties today because everyone
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  will tell you what they stand to represent vision.
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  So every time you see nations, families, corporations and
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  individuals that are stunted and are not growing, the diagnosis
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  #1 is the absence of vision. This is true for churches.
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  The Bible says, writes the vision.
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  It says make it plain. With all due respect, there are
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  many spiritual platforms. This includes churches and other
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  spiritual expressions. They cannot tell you why they
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  exist. Why do we exist as a ministry?
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  Someone will say, to win souls, what does that mean?
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  Another person will say To make sure that I worry the devil,
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  what does that mean? Another person to say I must
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  make it, What does that mean? Vision, You cannot unite a
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  people until you bring a creed, a statement that everyone agrees
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  to comply with. Do you know the reason why?
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  One of the reasons I believe, why we're finding it hard to
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  make constructive progress as a people and as a nation is
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  because all of us have not yet agreed and our agreement was not
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  verified. It can 2 work together.
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  Is that not in your Bible? So if I say I'm hungry and you
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  say I'm hungry and you say I'm hungry, now we have a problem.
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  What is the solution? Let us go to the restaurant.
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  You have to verify that all of us have agreed that it is that
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  restaurant we're going to. I may decide to go home to
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  satisfy my hunger. Another person may decide to go
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  to a restaurant. You can't assume that just
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  because all of us are hungry, we all desire to go to the
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  restaurant. No.
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  Are we together now? So you have families who have
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  their agenda. The father has his agenda, the
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  mother has her agenda. The stubborn child who refused
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  to get born again has his agenda.
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  The one who is a pastor has his agenda.
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  And everybody and they say let's unite.
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  There cannot be. Unity, listen to me.
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  There cannot be unity without vision.
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  The binder of all men is vision. Spiritually it's the same thing.
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  You cannot walk with the Spirit of God when you have your own
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  agenda. Are you seeing the reason why
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  when you come to God, you truly want to walk with God?
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  You must be willing to lay down. To lay down does not mean to
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  ignore, to believe that God has a more superior plan for your
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  life than what you will have for yourself, and that even though
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  you do not understand Him, you must trust Him.
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  Knowing that Jeremiah 2911 says, I know the thought that I think
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  towards you, sayeth the Lord. They are thoughts of peace, he
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  says, and not of evil, to give you unexpected end.
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  Can I tell you, no matter how I love myself, I can never love
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  myself more than Jesus loves me? Are we together now?
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  So the one who died for you, if he tells you I have designed a
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  great destiny, it is foolish to argue that while we were yet
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  seen as Christ died for us. And he says, come, I know you
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  have your agenda. You want to make it, you want to
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  be great. I am aware.
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  I, I, I, I died for you. You follow me and I will lead
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  you towards a destiny that will be nothing short of glory.
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  But now you can come with your agenda and you see now this is
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  not just a thing that is a national issue.
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  It will affect your own relationship with the Lord,
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  because you come with your own vision and say, Lord, let me see
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  your own. And it says no, you have to
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  follow me by faith as I unravel it.
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  And you say you are joking. It took me years to build this
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  vision for my life. You want to come and deceive me
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  to lay down and follow you. So you treat me later and leave
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  me alone. No.
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  He met men who were already fishermen.
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  They were succeeding because they knew what they were doing.
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  And he said, Come follow me. And they laid down their agenda
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  and followed him. Could Peter ever make himself an
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  apostle without Jesus? Did he ever believe that he
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  would spearhead the gospel in the capacity that he did?
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  What of Abraham, an idol worshiper, or of the Chaldeans?
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  He was not an irresponsible man. He was just a limited man.
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  Yet God had a vision to make him the landlord of the earth
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  officially, and he called him. He says You come out of your
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  father's house. You will never be able to make
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  constructive progress until you have a vision that is known to
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  all that you lead, not just to you who is leading.
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  If you are the only one who knows your vision, then you go
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  alone. The Bible says.
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  Write the vision, it says. Make it plain.
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  So that he will run that read it.
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  Hallelujah. Number one vision to our lives,
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  our homes, our families. There are many parents who whose
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  children do not understand the vision of the family.
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  Where are we going to just go to school, become an adult and go?
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  Dear husband, what is the name of what we're doing now?
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  We're married. Where are we going to?
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  Don't ask me that question. Let's just keep going.
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  Wherever we die or wherever we reach is where we were going.
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  How do you lead that way? Imagine.
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  Will you follow any man who kicks his car, no matter how
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  great the car is? And he says follow me for a
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  ride. You want to have an idea?
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  Even if you don't know it, it's comforting to know the
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  destination. OK, we're going to the mall.
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  OK, we're going to the police station.
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  OK, we're going to the church. Are we together?
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  Only kidnappers don't tell you where they are taking you to.
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  They don't carry you and tell you OK, I'm taking you to the
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  Bush. You just keep and they fire not
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  4 cylinders. And you just find yourself going
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  almost dying, but you wouldn't die.
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  And then you get somewhere and they say come out, you start
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  walking. You can't return because you
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  don't even know where you went to and you can't bring anybody
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  with you vision. You can never live a successful
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  life from infancy. I tell you sincerely, from the
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  time we started this ministry, there was a vision clearly
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  defined. Clearly defined When we have
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  retreat as the workers, we read out the vision for every worker
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  in this ministry to understand, for every leader to understand.
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  You are running your company. Don't be telling people bring
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  profits. Bring profits.
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  They don't even know what the company exists for.
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  Are we together? The difference between a son and
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  a hireling is an understanding of vision and inheritance.
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  A hireling is not interested in where you are taking the
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  ministry, the company, wherever. So they can still, they can do
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  whatever and they don't care. But a son knows that because I
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  understand this vision, it is also my inheritance, it is also
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  my destiny, it is my business. Are we learning now #2 what is
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  the second principle that makes nations great?
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  Is God helping us already? Let me give you an assignment.
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  Go back home. Before we get to #2 go back
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  home, remember, we're praying for Nigeria.
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  We're praying for ourselves. Go back home today and have a
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  clearly defined vision for your life, fathers.
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  A clearly defined vision for your home Ministers, a clearly
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  defined. The Great Commission is not your
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  vision. It's everybody's assignment.
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  You must find your your unique call.
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  Hallelujah, your company. Don't rejoice and say we make
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  profit. We're a real estate company.
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  What is our assignment? Our assignment is that our part
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  of the national cake must come to us.
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  That's not an assignment. So you find out that you cannot
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  articulate why you are there. If you do not know why you
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  exist, why should you be promoted?
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  Hallelujah. Go and get a clear vision for
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  your life. This is why I exist.
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  I like John chapter 1-6 and seven.
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  Here's what he says about John. There was a man, he says sent
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  from God, whose name was John. Verse 7 says the same came for a
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  witness, to bear witness to the light, that all men through him
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  might believe. The moment John forgot his
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  vision he started declining till he died.
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  When Jesus came it was not just miracles he started performing.
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  The Bible tells us that he went verse 15 down to 18 that it was
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  given to him. Watch this now, it was given to
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  him, the scroll of Asias. He came to Nazareth as his
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  custom was and the Bible says he found the place where it was
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  written. Vision my myth, he said, is to
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  do the will of him that has sent me and finish it.
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  Pauline in Hebrews chapter 10 and verse 7 he says no.
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  I come quoting Jesus, the messianic prophecy on Jesus in
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  the volume of the book. It is written of me to do thy
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  will. Can I tell you vision gives you
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  focus. Vision gives you legitimacy to
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  say no to many things. You don't have the right to say
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  no to many things because our world is full of options and it
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  is not only bad things that kill.
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  Good things that are not needed in your life can also kill you.
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  When Satan tries bad things and it does not work, he will bring
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  good things. His assignment is that you die
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  even if he's by the truth. Vision.
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  I'm praying in the name of Jesus that Africa, African leaders,
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  African church leaders, African political leaders, African
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  economic leaders, Nigerian leaders will be people who will
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  first understand the vision. Not just leave it to radio and
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  TV houses to just coin up something, but that the leaders
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  that everyone himself will know that this is the vision, the
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  Nigerian vision, the African vision.
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  This is the vision for my family.
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  This is the vision for the my church or my ministry.
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  Never call a people to join you over anything.
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  You do not understand yourself. You will be leading them towards
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  confusion. When Moses came and met the
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  people, he said, listen, I have come as a leader with an
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  assignment. The assignment is that I've been
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  sent by the God of the Hebrews to take you out of Egypt, a land
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  of captivity, to a land flowing with milk and honey.
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  And the people said, let's go. That's it.
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  Let's go. Position #2 How nations become
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  great #2 values. Please write it down.
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  Values. Nations become great to the
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  degree to which they have values.
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  VALUESA technical word for it is called policies values.
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  Or policies. In a more technical term, we
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  call it policies, but then we call it values.
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  I wrote here values define a people's ideas about life and
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  gives them a template for living and for conducting their lives.
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  I'll take it again that values define people's ideas about
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  life, and then it gives them a template for living and a
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  template for conducting their lives.
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  Watch this. When you get into a restaurant,
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  a good restaurant, maybe an expensive restaurant, the first
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  thing you see from the door is that there is a manner of
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  behavior. Am I right on that?
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  There is a way the people greet. There is a way the people dress.
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  There is a way the people talk. All of those activities are
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  motivated by values. They are not told what to do.
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  They are motivated by its values, and the values define
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  how they behave. Hallelujah.
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  As a nation we have constitutions.
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  Unfortunately, only the judiciary understands it.
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  I don't know about you, but I'm not sure that I'm aware of many,
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  many things. You just know that if you step
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  into any trouble, you will know you are wrong when you get to
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  court. I'm not being sarcastic, that
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  is, that is very disturbing. Are we together now?
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  Values. When you want to teach people
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  how to drive, among the many things you teach them is not
• 36:57
  just how to move the car. You teach them various signs and
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  what they mean. Is that true?
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  That when you see a red light, it means stop.
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  When you see a green light, you can go.
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  When you see this, when you see that you must have values as a
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  person, values as a nation. Some of the greatest nations in
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  the world are strong because of their policies.
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  The kinds of policies, the policies that protect human
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  life, the policies that protect health, the policies that sit
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  with the children are preserved. Animals are preserved.
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  The ecosystem is preserved. In Africa we largely have values
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  or we we seldom have values. And where we have it, the
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  average person is not aware. So we are rule Breakers by
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  default. You doubt me?
• 37:42
  Stand on the street for 5 minutes and watch what happens.
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  Everybody does what he pleases because there is no code, there
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  is nothing that governs our operation.
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  And it's the same thing in homes.
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  A child gets up, he returns back 12 midnight and the child is 12
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  years old and there is nobody in the house to ask the child,
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  where are you coming from? Whether he came back from
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  stealing, from killing, from destruction, it doesn't matter.
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  Are we together now? This is how people grow in
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  families and become a pain to society.
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  A child of seven years, just as Daddy.
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  I'm going and he comes back after three days.
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  Ah, you are back. OK, Go and take your bath.
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  There's food for you. What does that mean?
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  I hope you know that every armed robber came from a home, every
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  terrorist came from a home. I have taught you here that
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  every national problem was first a community problem that was not
• 38:42
  addressed, and every community problem was a family problem.
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  When the negligence starts from there, imagine that stubborn
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  child now becoming a governor. Are we together?
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  Do you know? As you climb the ladder in
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  organizations, you see a greater sense of decorum and
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  organization. Enter a bank for instance, and
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  you find out that at the lower levels.
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  You may even. Be having an argument with the
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  cashier, but when the head of operations or someone who is in
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  a higher rank comes, you notice there is decorum, there is
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  calmness because values lift men.
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  The Bible says a man watch this who does not have how do how the
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  survivor put it. Now a man who does not have a
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  watch over his spirit is like a city without walls.
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  It is a risk to have a house whose gate is open and anything
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  can come in and go out. Maybe the first thing that will
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  come in is what can kill you. Are we together values?
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  And when I say this, you know the challenge with the average
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  Nigerian is that we always think and blame government.
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  I submit to you as responsible people, everybody including the
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  person speaking to you, we must be willing to admit our share of
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  the contribution into what we now call the current Nigeria.
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  Someone is shouting and insulting presidents, governors,
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  insulting US men of God, and the person who is insulting has not
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  paid his children school fees. He's not even aware how many
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  children he has. Are we together now?
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  And yet they can only say Can you imagine Nigeria is spoiling
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  and the person they just drove his child from school.
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  His wife is there crying. He will return back home not
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  knowing where she got money to cook.
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  And yet he's saying once he now he says I want to contest for
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  election values. Show me any great leader you
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  admire who does not have values for your life, for your
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  organization. Anything goes, you will never go
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  far. Yes, Sir, this is not about
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  being a Christian. It is a principle of greatness.
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  Organizations that have values have longevity.
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  Families that have values have longevity.
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  Churches and individuals that have value have longevity.
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  When it was time to feed the 5000, he said it's not about
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  food. Put them together in an
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  organized manner. Let them sit down first before
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  they eat food. That way we can detect wastage.
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  Hallelujah values. Some of us, with all due
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  respect, we do not have values for our life.
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  You don't know what to watch and what not to watch.
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  Anything your eyes stumbles upon it is welcome.
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  Ask Solomon you've you've read about Solomon's life in
• 41:40
  Ecclesiastes. He said everything my eyes saw
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  is the reason why people do not become great.
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  No values. How much money do I save when it
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  comes for me? How much do I use?
• 41:50
  It doesn't matter Once I touch my pocket and I see 10,000, it
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  must finish to God be the glory God has sent it.
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  Apostle prophesied money came values.
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  Anybody can just invite you and say are you free?
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  You will say yes. Refer to .1 Lack of vision.
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  If you say yes to everything, it means you are going nowhere.
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  Something about where you are going should keep you awake in
• 42:19
  the night that you are not able to sleep.
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  Visionary people watch time. Time will pass.
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  You will find out it was 3:00. Check back and it's 10:00 PM.
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  You will not even know when time flies because you are focusing
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  on building yourself. I reject the spirit of idleness
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  from your life in the name of Jesus Christ.
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  That is the foundation for things like gossip and stories.
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  Because of idleness. I need to give you this.
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  You don't know what is happening in Nigeria now.
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  I'm the minister of Information. No salary for it, no reward for
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  it. How nations become great values.
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  Watch this. I wrote something here.
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  Crime, corruption, laziness, entitlement mentality, they are
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  not just evil actions, they are products of a mindset.
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  Let me repeat to myself, crime, corruption, what you call it,
• 43:25
  laziness and entitlement mentality.
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  They are not just evil actions, they are products of a mindset.
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  There is a belief system that produces those kinds of things.
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  When someone goes to steal, he's not just going to steal because
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  he wants to steal. There is something he has
• 43:44
  believed about himself that by himself, with the dignity of
• 43:49
  Labor, he cannot rise. Similarly, love, respect,
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  diligence, productivity, responsibility are also not just
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  good actions. I'll take it again.
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  They are also products of beliefs.
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  That means when you see a young man, a young woman, when you see
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  a man of God, when you see whoever, you see them
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  respectful, diligent, loving, productive and responsible.
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  It didn't come by default. Those actions are products of a
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  belief system. So crime, the crime that has
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  plagued the Nigerian, African and global society, corruption,
• 44:36
  laziness, entitlement, mentality, all of these things
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  are products, products of a mindset.
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  To cure them will not come by advising.
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  You need a reengineering of people's orientation.
• 44:54
  There are people today who believe that every rich man owes
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  them. They see your car, they can cost
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  you as you are passing and say it is our money.
• 45:04
  Someone sold that idea. Remember what happened to Eve
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  when God appeared and and said it came in the cool of the day.
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  Adam, where are you? He said I heard your voice, but
• 45:14
  I hid because I was naked. He said who told you you've
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  given your ears to another influence?
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  Hallelujah. Nations become great when they
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  have clearly defined values and build systems that re engineer
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  the minds of the citizens with respect to those values.
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  This is true for churches. This is true for organizations.
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  It's true for families. Let me give you an instance.
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  I know this may apply to many people.
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  Remember, growing up as children you were taught that if they
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  give you a gift, you will hand it over to your mother in the
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  presence of the visitor. Remember that, give an average
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  small child something, now he will slap the hand that tries to
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  come and collect it. And then parents say it doesn't
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  matter, they are just children and they keep growing like that.
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  Train up a child in the way you go and when he's old.
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  Yes Sir. Are we learning respect?
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  We were taught to greet people. No matter who you are, no matter
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  how tall you are. You see elderly people, you
• 46:25
  greet them. This is not an issue of culture.
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  It is why God opened doors for people today.
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  You see people calling you, you calling your grandmother by
• 46:34
  their first name. What does that mean?
• 46:38
  The moment you allow the spirit of it does not matter, Come to
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  your life, your company, your family, you can be sure it would
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  destroy your potential for greatness.
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  Say Amen. Hallelujah.
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  We have eroded values of respect, values of diligence,
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  productivity. With all due respect, you can
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  see a young man today, 45 years, 50 years.
• 47:08
  He's still in his widowed, widowed mother or or a widower
• 47:12
  father's home, arguing for space.
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  I need a room. You know I'm not a child again.
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  Then go out. You come back after two weeks
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  irresponsibly drunk and you are back to the home.
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  My food, please. Some even beat their parents.
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  And you know, the strange thing is that when these things
• 47:33
  happen, we still say it does not matter.
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  A young lady of 12/13/18 years leaves the home and by evening
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  she's coming back with 2 million naira cash and nobody's asking
• 47:49
  her where are you coming from? She doesn't have to do anything
• 47:52
  bad, but she should explain even if it's breakthrough.
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  Let's give the Thanksgiving together.
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  Am I right on that? If it is from God, what are you
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  afraid of? Listen, listen, I want you, I
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  want you to, I want you to buy into my passion tonight.
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  This is not only true for Nigeria and Africa, it is to
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  help us reorder our lives. And for many of us family people
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  here, this may be a call to go back and re examine what you are
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  building so that you don't build what will kill you tomorrow.
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  Hallelujah values. There must be something that
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  puts limits and boundaries to your life.
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  What time do you wake up in the morning?
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  What time do you go to bed? Is there a disciplinary system
• 48:45
  in your life where you sleep for no reason for the whole day?
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  Or you just forgive yourself and say no problem after all.
• 48:58
  I made-up my mind that I would never be irresponsible, never be
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  irresponsible. The word responsibility comes
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  from the word responsive. By the privilege of God's grace,
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  and I say this with all due respect, I have told you here
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  I've had the honor of raising and training many children and
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  many families. And can I tell you the truth?
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  Some of these families, their fathers are still alive.
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  And yet I have never seen them for more than a decade.
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  They have never tried to. Who is the person who has been
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  paying my children's school fees?
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  Who is the person who has been paying the house rent?
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  That's why we said I receive. I manifest.
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  Don't sing it. Listen your power #2 your
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  wisdom. Are we together?
• 49:53
  Remember the song I manifest what your power and your wisdom,
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  wisdom, wisdom, values say. In the name of Jesus, I receive
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  grace. To put my life in order, say it
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  again. In the name of Jesus, I receive
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  grace to put my life in order by this teaching.
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  Some of you need to lovingly cut away from certain relationships.
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  If you love your relationships more than your destiny, you are
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  not going far. Don't say we were born on the
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  same day. No, you must have the bold.
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  You don't have to find people and insult them, but anybody.
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  That becomes a consistent distraction to where you are
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  going. For the sake of your children,
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  your destiny, you must obtain grace.
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  This emotional blackmail that has destroyed people on their
• 50:52
  pathway to greatness. We are all from the same
• 50:55
  village. What does that mean?
• 50:58
  Oh, we used to play ball together as children.
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  Wonderful. What does that mean?
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  Anybody that becomes an antagonist to where you are
• 51:06
  going, you must find a way of keeping them at Bay for the sake
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  of where you are going and the people who will be implicated by
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  where you are going. Save values.
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  Do you know not every money is collectible?
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  We're teaching values here. There are some of you.
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  Once someone puts his hand in his pocket, you are bringing
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  your hand. There are things as a man of
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  God. Not every seed is worth
• 51:34
  collecting. There are seeds that when you
• 51:36
  collect it is a seed you have. You have sold your birthright.
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  People have given me gifts today.
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  I have collected some, but there are some I know by wisdom or
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  sometimes by the instruction of the Spirit, that this is not the
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  time for collection. That was the mistake of Gehazi
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  until he became leprous. Is this a time to collect this
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  now? Values.
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  As a man of God, there are people you need to go and pray
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  for. And as soon as you pray for
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  them, you share the grace. You tell them thank you, Sir.
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  May God bless you. I'm leaving.
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  Ah, no, no. Man of God, stay.
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  Sometimes you just need to say thank you.
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  You preserve your honor when you do certain things.
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  Are we together now? Yes, as a man of God, for
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  instance, you don't go around harassing your people and
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  saying, do you know what my birthday is tomorrow?
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  You bring 1,000,000, you bring 2,000,000.
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  Now we all do respect you. Don't do that and then say, May
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  God bless you. I carry the prosperity
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  anointing. How in the world do they believe
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  that the ability to put restraint on your life is a
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  major revealer of the kinds of values that you have?
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  I receive. I manifest your power and your
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  wisdom till my nation. See Jesus lifted up.
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  He's exalted. There are people today who
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  respect certain men of God, certain businessmen.
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  Do you know why? Because they have seen the
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  ability to, to, to express restraint.
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  Restraint. Do you know how many people have
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  met in my life who say, apostle, you have blessed me, please,
• 53:29
  what can I do for you? And these are wealthy and
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  blessed people. And these are not jokers.
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  These are people that if you mention anything within their
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  power, they will do it. You see that You know the power
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  of restraint in the presence of opportunities.
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  Hallelujah. I made-up my mind in the name of
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  Jesus Christ that I would never go to any member and harass
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  them, watch this, harass them and ask all kinds of questions
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  and say, please, what is God saying?
• 54:08
  Did God tell you to buy me a car?
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  You didn't call me to ministry. If I need a car, one ask the one
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  who sent me. God did not call you me to be a
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  burden to you. I I'm not saying there's nothing
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  wrong in giving and all of that. I have told you when people see
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  you as a visionary leader who has standards, give them room.
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  They will. They will surprise you by
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  themselves. Let me tell you sincerely.
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  It is also the reason why you find many platforms, including
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  churches not have growth because nobody will carry his wife and
• 54:40
  children and their destinies and come and sit under your
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  leadership. When you are not a person of
• 54:45
  vision and you don't have standards.
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  They know it's a risk. What happens when you know that
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  woman is a millionaire? What happens when you know that
• 54:53
  person is a billionaire? There are many wealthy people
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  today who don't go to church because if we are ever aware
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  they are there, that's the beginning of their trouble.
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  I want to see you personally. There's a prophetic word unique
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  to you #3 how nations, people, families become great.
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  Are you ready for #3 The third key that is responsible for
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  building nations to greatness is called education.
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  Write it down, please, education.
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  No nation can be great if it does.
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  Not. Respect the power of education
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  let me define for you what I call an educated person because
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  there are many people who went to school but are not educated
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  when I talk about education in addition to going to school,
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  this is what an educated. Person means in my world.
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  The ability to read. The ability to write, the
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  ability to communicate effectively.
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  Please underline that. 1. The ability to read, write,
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  communicate effectively, think constructively and then use the
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  knowledge acquired as a tool to best solutions.
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  This is an educated person. Let me take it again that to be
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  educated means you have the ability to read.
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  I didn't say read English. The ability to write.
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  I didn't say write English. The ability to communicate
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  effectively. One of the major indices to
• 56:44
  measure an educated person is that you have trained your
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  intellectual faculty to be able to communicate your thoughts and
• 56:51
  your ideas effectively. If that does not happen to you,
• 56:54
  you are greatly disadvantaged, even if you went to school,
• 56:58
  because the world thrives on your ability to transfer
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  thoughts, and you must master the art of transferring your
• 57:04
  thoughts so that your audience receive it as intended.
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  There are many, many people who went to school but did not get
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  educated. The ability to read, the ability
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  to write, the ability to communicate effectively, the
• 57:24
  ability to think constructively. The essence of secular education
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  is to prime your creativity. When you do your MSS called
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  masters. When you do PhD, is supposed to
• 57:39
  prime your creativity so that intuitively you can be presented
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  with a set of complicated things and there is a thought line.
• 57:48
  You have trained your mind already to approach life from a
• 57:51
  certain way and then the ability to use knowledge as a tool to
• 57:57
  best solutions. This is what we lack in Africa.
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  We brag a lot about education, but I can tell you secular
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  education is wonderful. But systems we need to review
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  our strategy. You find someone who was
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  educated respectfully speaking, someone somewhere in Africa and
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  bring other people across the world.
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  Maybe they even study the same 'cause when they sit down they
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  will not be able to talk because one has not been trained to
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  think effectively, to communicate their ideas, even
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  when they are right. You ask them, OK, so how do we
• 58:32
  make this work? And they are at a loss.
• 58:38
  The knowledge of physics, chemistry, mathematics, biology
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  and everything in between does not automatically make you
• 58:45
  educated. Priming your creativity, your
• 58:48
  ability to communicate that intuitiveness, this was the
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  whole idea of being educated. It still remains so.
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  So we must be able to trust God to see the power of education.
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  There are many brilliant people today who are gifted, but they
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  are poor communicators. In the presence of
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  opportunities, they fall like a pack of cards because they do
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  not know how to communicate their thoughts and their ideas.
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  One of the things I've seen with developed nations is that they
• 59:19
  have mastered A profound ability to sell themselves, to
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  communicate their ideas. They can bring a point that does
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  not make sense, but by the time they are done speaking to you,
• 59:31
  you will sign without knowing. And that's what has brought
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  Africa to the kind of bondage we're in.
• 59:36
  So people say a lot of things. They give you statistical
• 59:39
  presentations and by the time they are done, they now say sign
• 59:43
  here and then we sign. And then at the end of it we
• 59:49
  realize what did he even say as the second point while I was
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  signing, that if this does not happen, we remain slaves for 30
• 59:56
  years. You signed.
• 1:00:00
  There is a spirit in man. And the inspiration of the
• 1:00:05
  Almighty. Can I tell you this, don't brag
• 1:00:08
  around, just move in and saying I'm a graduate.
• 1:00:10
  Go and begin to reinvent yourself to suit to this world.
• 1:00:14
  Sit down and learn communication as a planned discipline.
• 1:00:18
  Did you hear what I'm saying? Yes, go and get materials from
• 1:00:22
  master communicators. Don't you?
• 1:00:24
  A man of God, you are sent to transfer thoughts to people.
• 1:00:28
  I'm speaking right now and there are people connecting from
• 1:00:30
  across the globe, from different cultures, different levels or
• 1:00:36
  experiences and expertise and all of that.
• 1:00:39
  And you are supposed to transfer this idea to them.
• 1:00:43
  Let's reject laziness. Don't keep your certificate and
• 1:00:47
  saying I studied mathematics, I studied this, there's no job for
• 1:00:50
  me. Can I tell you there are people
• 1:00:52
  today who is not what they studied, that they are
• 1:00:55
  practicing, They went to reinvent themselves, they became
• 1:00:58
  communicators. They they are the think tanks
• 1:01:01
  behind many conglomerates. They can earn somebody's one
• 1:01:08
  year salary in one week because of the the health of their
• 1:01:11
  minds. Please lay your hands on your
• 1:01:13
  head. Say in the name of Jesus I.
• 1:01:16
  Cause illiteracy one more time, Say In the name of Jesus, I.
• 1:01:21
  Cause illiteracy. There are many people who did
• 1:01:26
  not have the opportunity to have secular education, as we call
• 1:01:29
  it, but these people went to reinvent themselves to learn how
• 1:01:33
  to read, to learn how to write, to learn how to think.
• 1:01:37
  In primary school, elementary studies, there's something they
• 1:01:40
  taught you called quantitative reasoning.
• 1:01:42
  Remember that? And verbal reasoning.
• 1:01:44
  The intent was to prime your creativity, unfortunately.
• 1:01:48
  I pray that God will help us. That's why some of you need to
• 1:01:51
  build schools. And I release that grace upon
• 1:01:54
  you in the the name of Jesus Christ.
• 1:01:58
  Quality schools, education, education.
• 1:02:03
  Is someone getting blessed? Now listen, I wrote something
• 1:02:06
  here in Daniel chapter 1. Give us 3 and 4.
• 1:02:11
  Then we jump to 17. Watch this, watch what the Bible
• 1:02:14
  says. And the king speak unto Ashpenas
• 1:02:17
  the master of the eunuchs, that he should bring certain of the
• 1:02:21
  children of Israel. Remember, they were in captivity
• 1:02:23
  now of the King's seed and of the Princess.
• 1:02:27
  What kind of man was for children in whom there was no
• 1:02:32
  blemish, but well favored and skillful in all wisdom, Corning
• 1:02:37
  in knowledge and understanding science, and such as had an
• 1:02:42
  ability in them to stand in the King's palace, and whom they
• 1:02:46
  might teach the learning and the tongue of the Chaldeans.
• 1:02:49
  Go to verse 17. The king is selecting among the
• 1:02:52
  eunuchs people who would serve him, who he would later promote
• 1:02:57
  to man the political affairs of the den Babylon.
• 1:03:00
  And he said in selecting these people, do not just choose for
• 1:03:05
  want of what some dummies or some boys.
• 1:03:08
  There are standards. Search for them.
• 1:03:11
  Find people who have primed their intelligence and their
• 1:03:14
  creativity so that we do not waste our investment on these
• 1:03:18
  people. Go to verse 17 Daniel one.
• 1:03:22
  And As for these four children, God gave them knowledge and
• 1:03:26
  skill in learning and wisdom, and Daniel had understanding in
• 1:03:31
  all the visions and dreams. 18 He says now at the end of the
• 1:03:35
  days that the king had said he should bring them in, and the
• 1:03:39
  Prince of the eunuchs brought them before Nebuchadnezzar. 19
• 1:03:43
  The Bible says, and the king communed with them.
• 1:03:45
  That means he was not a dull king.
• 1:03:48
  The commune with them, testing their understanding and among
• 1:03:52
  them all was found none like Daniel, Hananiah, Michelle and
• 1:03:57
  Azariah, therefore stood there before the king.
• 1:04:01
  When you are praying for favor, God lift me, Take me to our soul
• 1:04:05
  rock, connect me to United Nations.
• 1:04:07
  I want to work with UNICEF. Don't just pray and fast.
• 1:04:10
  Realize that the people are not looking for liabilities.
• 1:04:15
  It's one thing to be a graduate, it's another thing to be
• 1:04:18
  employable, then it's another thing to be an asset 20.
• 1:04:27
  In all matters of wisdom and understanding that the king
• 1:04:32
  inquired of them, he found them 10 times better than all the
• 1:04:36
  magicians. Can you imagine astrologers that
• 1:04:41
  were in all his realm as a result?
• 1:04:43
  21 the Bible says Daniel continued even to the first year
• 1:04:48
  of King Cyrus. Do you know what that meant,
• 1:04:50
  that even when Nebuchadnezzar had died, they could not replace
• 1:04:54
  Daniel? May you be so irreplaceable in
• 1:04:58
  the. Name of Jesus Christ.
• 1:05:01
  That the church, the company would look at you and say in all
• 1:05:04
  fairness, do you know in the presence of competence certain
• 1:05:08
  prejudices like tribe, gender become of non effect.
• 1:05:12
  When you see people saying are you Ebo or Yoruba, I tell you in
• 1:05:15
  most instances it's because your competence has not bailed you
• 1:05:18
  out. There is a level of competence
• 1:05:21
  you get to. People will excuse any other
• 1:05:24
  limitation. I have prayed for people who
• 1:05:28
  work in corporations today and they work among people who are
• 1:05:32
  very, very. They may have certain mentality
• 1:05:35
  that is not good and yet they have.
• 1:05:37
  We have people today, Africans, Nigerians heading political
• 1:05:43
  first. Even in the United States, I've
• 1:05:46
  had the privilege of meeting some of them.
• 1:05:48
  They are not dummies. Education, the ability to write,
• 1:05:53
  the ability to read, the ability to communicate effectively.
• 1:05:58
  I'm giving you this assignment under God.
• 1:06:00
  If you have a problem with communication, go and label in
• 1:06:04
  the spirit. There are online courses.
• 1:06:06
  Instead of gossiping online, use the same time.
• 1:06:09
  Get a course and sit down. Learn from master communicators.
• 1:06:13
  The wall that is evolving now will have no place for people
• 1:06:17
  who do not know how to articulate their ideas
• 1:06:20
  intelligently. You will thank me for what you
• 1:06:23
  are learning Nigeria. Let's learn how to communicate
• 1:06:26
  our ideas. We travel to go and attract
• 1:06:29
  investments and we return empty handed.
• 1:06:31
  You know why? Because we are not lying.
• 1:06:33
  But we, we, we are still at at the level of infancy as far as
• 1:06:38
  communicating our ideas are concerned.
• 1:06:43
  I met a gentleman one time who had some program, he's currently
• 1:06:47
  doing some program with the United Arab Emirates.
• 1:06:50
  And they gave this gentleman, I think, I hope I'm right.
• 1:06:53
  It's not less than $50 million. And I asked him, what did you
• 1:06:57
  tell them? Because these guys are not
• 1:06:59
  stupid people. They've been business veterans
• 1:07:01
  for a long time. What kind of idea did you
• 1:07:03
  propose that as a young boy as you are in your early 20s, that
• 1:07:07
  these people did not have the fear to trust you with that kind
• 1:07:10
  of? Money.
• 1:07:12
  It's true that ideas rule the world.
• 1:07:14
  Even in communicating your Christian faith, it's important
• 1:07:18
  Listen, when you want to become a good communicator, there are
• 1:07:21
  two things you need. One is utterance, the other is
• 1:07:25
  oratory. Utterance is a spiritual
• 1:07:27
  quality. It comes from God, the ability
• 1:07:29
  to speak so that anybody regardless their level of
• 1:07:33
  intellectual level, they can understand you.
• 1:07:37
  That is utterance, but you need oratory, the ability to use
• 1:07:41
  words as a tool to transfer thoughts.
• 1:07:43
  It's a learnable skill, learn it.
• 1:07:47
  People, families, nations become great on the strength of their
• 1:07:52
  ability to think intuitively and to communicate effectively.
• 1:07:57
  Many men of God cannot be called to non church board meetings to
• 1:08:01
  have the opportunity to speak. I had the honor to speak a few
• 1:08:05
  months ago in the world conference of the full Gospel
• 1:08:08
  businessman fellowship. This this is these are the the
• 1:08:12
  the behave of some of the business authorities around the
• 1:08:16
  world from across the globe. Now you don't come in the midst
• 1:08:20
  of this kind of people and speak a lot of confusion and waste
• 1:08:23
  your time. You're speaking to people who
• 1:08:29
  own conglomerates. These are intelligent people.
• 1:08:32
  Now you want to transfer thoughts that become some of
• 1:08:35
  those guys have business schools.
• 1:08:37
  They train executives, they train nations.
• 1:08:40
  Now they come to submit to you in the name of a preacher.
• 1:08:43
  I made-up my mind in the name of Jesus that I will continue to
• 1:08:47
  improve myself building capacity, that my bankruptcy of
• 1:08:51
  knowledge will never bring shame to the name of Jesus, nor the
• 1:08:54
  people who I stand to represent. And this has been my commitment,
• 1:08:58
  and it remains so. Education.
• 1:09:02
  A nation that does not train their people to think.
• 1:09:05
  A nation that does not train their people to communicate
• 1:09:08
  effectively. A nation that does not help
• 1:09:11
  people to see knowledge as a tool.
• 1:09:14
  Knowledge is not an investment until it can be used as a tool
• 1:09:18
  to provide solution. You go to our schools today and
• 1:09:22
  the average person just wants to finish it does not care whether
• 1:09:25
  he's understanding or not. Just write exams, make sure you
• 1:09:28
  pass. If you are lucky and the
• 1:09:29
  questions you studied came, then you pass and move asks an
• 1:09:33
  average graduate to write you an employment letter and you almost
• 1:09:36
  want to cry. He will write a letter as if
• 1:09:38
  he's sending a text to his friend.
• 1:09:40
  You as you, I as I. No comma, no full stop, no
• 1:09:45
  presentation. Then we return back to church
• 1:09:48
  and say the devil is fighting me.
• 1:09:51
  I pray for people. But I'm showing you that any
• 1:09:53
  nation that does not educate its people, it will take more than
• 1:09:58
  the secular mainstream institutions to educate people.
• 1:10:02
  You must be determined to educate yourself.
• 1:10:04
  Take responsibility, give yourself a target that as a CEOI
• 1:10:09
  will stop bragging and saying I'm aceo, I'm a man of God.
• 1:10:12
  Why are people not inviting me even though I am anointed?
• 1:10:16
  It's because they discern that you have the anointing.
• 1:10:19
  But the truth is that the kind of demography they want you to
• 1:10:22
  speak to, you do not have that. You have not primed your
• 1:10:25
  understanding to communicate effectively.
• 1:10:30
  There are preachers who cannot go beyond the shores of Nigeria.
• 1:10:33
  They cannot communicate thoughts to be able to meet a people of
• 1:10:36
  different cultures. I told you it is a learned
• 1:10:40
  ability. One more time, please gently lay
• 1:10:43
  your hands on your head and say I rebuke illiteracy.
• 1:10:48
  Give yourself an assignment, wake up in the morning, go
• 1:10:51
  online. By the grace of God, this is we.
• 1:10:55
  We are proposing a new Nigeria, a new family, a new you.
• 1:10:59
  It will happen when you make up your mind to be educated #4 Are
• 1:11:09
  you ready for number 4? The 4th key that is responsible
• 1:11:14
  for transforming people, families, nations to become
• 1:11:18
  great is leadership. Write it down please leadership.
• 1:11:22
  Let's hurry up so we can pray for Nigeria leadership.
• 1:11:25
  My God, what is leadership? This definition came many years
• 1:11:32
  ago. I was doing a little training
• 1:11:35
  for a group of people in Ghana and I decided to come up with
• 1:11:38
  this definition on leadership and it's remained my most valued
• 1:11:42
  definition of leadership till date.
• 1:11:44
  Watch this leadership. I define it here as the ability
• 1:11:49
  to coordinate human and material resources so as to achieve a
• 1:11:55
  common and predefined goal. Leadership is the ability to
• 1:12:01
  coordinate, The ability to coordinate human and material
• 1:12:08
  resources very important. Everybody at a point in your
• 1:12:13
  life, you will have the opportunity to have access to
• 1:12:16
  human resources and material resources, and you must learn
• 1:12:20
  the ability to put human and material resources together so
• 1:12:26
  that you achieve predefined goals.
• 1:12:27
  We call it leadership the ability, again to coordinate
• 1:12:35
  human and material resources so as to achieve a common and a
• 1:12:42
  predefined goal. I submit to you with every sense
• 1:12:45
  of responsibility that this is grossly lacking in Nigeria and
• 1:12:50
  in Africa. There needs to be an emergence
• 1:12:53
  of leaders. Leadership is not a title.
• 1:12:56
  Leadership is not a vocation, it's a mentality.
• 1:13:01
  The ability to coordinate human resources, material resources
• 1:13:06
  and use it to achieve goals. Any nation that does not know
• 1:13:10
  how to do that can have raw materials like we have in
• 1:13:14
  Nigeria. We have 200 billion people in
• 1:13:17
  Nigeria, the most populous nation in Africa.
• 1:13:21
  We are sitting in the midst of vast resources, but we lack the
• 1:13:25
  ability to coordinate human and material resources to achieve
• 1:13:30
  goals. A dear man of God or a dear man
• 1:13:35
  really He, he served in one of the governments in this nation
• 1:13:38
  and he was telling me this story that they were in Israel and
• 1:13:42
  they had the opportunity to talk with the Prime Minister.
• 1:13:45
  And the Prime Minister told them that Israel being a desert land,
• 1:13:48
  that the foods that Israel will eat for the next 15 years is
• 1:13:52
  already on ground. 15 years on ground.
• 1:13:57
  The Israelis built a technology that that that is able to
• 1:14:03
  produce vegetables in 21 days. Exactly.
• 1:14:11
  Hallelujah. When we say you are a farmer in
• 1:14:13
  Nigeria, people run away and say don't insult me.
• 1:14:16
  Farmers abroad on private jets control economies because there
• 1:14:21
  is a mentality. If I say NMPC now you are
• 1:14:24
  talking federal government job farmers say no.
• 1:14:28
  I reject that spirit. You see that now.
• 1:14:31
  It's a mentality. Leadership, ladies and
• 1:14:35
  gentlemen, must be taught. If I have the opportunity to
• 1:14:39
  contribute to the educational curriculum of Nigeria, there are
• 1:14:42
  three courses that must be introduced #1 Morality and
• 1:14:47
  conscience #2 leadership #3 finance.
• 1:14:51
  It will not start in the university.
• 1:14:53
  It will start from primary school.
• 1:14:58
  Hallelujah. Don't, don't raise educated
• 1:15:03
  rebels. You must start inculcating moral
• 1:15:06
  values. And this is not just with a bias
• 1:15:08
  to the Christian faith. It is how nations become great.
• 1:15:15
  Leadership. Leadership.
• 1:15:18
  It is leadership when you see a piece of paper on the ground and
• 1:15:21
  you pick it, you are leaving that place better than you met
• 1:15:25
  it. That is a leader.
• 1:15:27
  It is leadership to be thoughtful about your family.
• 1:15:30
  Have you eaten my wife? Have you eaten my children?
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  Have you eaten? It is leadership to know that
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  your wife is 9 months pregnant and start preparing from when
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  you know. And don't say I already rejected
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  CS from beginning. Why are they saying CS now?
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  Nine months? Are you seeing the lack of
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  leadership? It is lack of leadership for
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  your children to come. You already know a new time is
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  starting and you don't put the school fees together yet you are
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  donating 5 million in a church because you want a name and yet
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  your children cannot go back to school.
• 1:16:04
  If you come here and you if I know you are not taking care of
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  your children and you bring 10 million, I will hold it, prey on
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  it, lay hands on your head and give you back the money and say
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  go and pay the school fees of your children.
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  Hallelujah, leadership. I have profound respect for
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  leaders because the Bible says strike the shepherd and the ship
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  will scatter. There is a serious leadership
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  deficiency in this nation. There are many rulers, there are
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  many spearheaders. There are many ambitious people
• 1:16:39
  heading organizations and that includes ministries, but there
• 1:16:42
  are few leaders. A leader is a shepherd and he
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  will lay down his life for his sheep.
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  No leader will manipulate the people that God has put as a man
• 1:16:52
  of God will manipulate your people, Take advantage of them.
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  You are not a leader. The ability to coordinate, the
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  ability to harness and coordinate human and material
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  resources and leadership starts from you.
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  Be the first follower of your own philosophies.
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  If you're with me, say Amen. Kanonia is quiet tonight.
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  I hope Nigeria is not quiet. Leadership.
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  Watch this, I wrote. Yes, structures must be put in
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  place for leadership development across all age ranges, both
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  formal and informal. As a man of God, I take
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  responsibility to train our leaders every once and again.
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  It's not enough that they're anointed, they must be leaders.
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  We come from various backgrounds and we run our lives based on
• 1:17:53
  the templates that we saw those before us.
• 1:17:55
  Using leadership brings you to that common ground where you are
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  able to pick very wonderful and positive traits.
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  And now using when you see a leader, a leader does not have
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  to say I'm a leader. It's a mentality, a mentality of
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  love, care, responsibility, productivity.
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  That is leadership. Nigeria needs leaders.
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  I propose to you, Nigeria needs to begin.
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  Can I tell you with every due respect for the generations that
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  are from 60 years and above, I want to encourage the generation
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  of elderly people, both political, economic and
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  spiritual in Nigeria. We must start reaching for the
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  younger generations to train them.
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  This is this gap in knowledge is what destroys nations.
• 1:18:44
  So you find a generation evolved that does not know Pharaoh from
• 1:18:48
  a spiritual standpoint. Now, you can count how many of
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  the fathers of faith in America are life now in the next 10 to
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  20 years. The truth is that they are going
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  to go. I know we like to claim
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  longevity and I believe it, but the truth is according to the
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  course of life, they will go in Nigeria.
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  Here. Thank God for the initiatives
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  that many of our fathers are doing like building universities
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  and leadership institutes to help install the mindsets that
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  made them great. Perhaps someone is here.
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  God has called you to be a leader and to spearhead
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  leadership. And now you're about to drop
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  your passion for leadership because you want to be a man of
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  God on the pulpit. Because they've told you if
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  you're a man of God, you easily get money.
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  You try to be a man of God for one year and you will run and
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  leave that mic on the pulpit and go back to your leadership.
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  Stay where God has called you and thrive.
• 1:19:42
  Stay where God has called you and thrive.
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  Be a leader. Indeed, some of you here by
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  reason of what you are hearing, you will be setting up
• 1:19:51
  Leadership Institute to teach people, raise visionary leaders.
• 1:19:58
  You would think that Jesus was just looking for spiritual
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  people in selecting those who would be his disciples, then
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  apostles. Did you know that he was looking
• 1:20:07
  for leaders? He never called 1 scribe and one
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  Pharisee to be part of his disciple.
• 1:20:13
  He saw Peter and the way he was responsible in his fishing
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  business. He said no, if you are good in
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  your fishing, you'll be good over men.
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  And he unpicked all these people, fasted and prayed all
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  night and chose leaders. Indeed.
• 1:20:26
  And the vision did not die in their hands because they were
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  leaders. I can be a man of God, but a bad
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  leader. Just because you are kind and
• 1:20:38
  sincere does not automatically transit you to a leader.
• 1:20:42
  People ask whether leaders are born or leaders are made.
• 1:20:46
  Leadership potential can be seen in people at birth, but every
• 1:20:49
  generational leader, serious leader, is made, not born.
• 1:20:56
  You train yourself to see life in a certain way and structure
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  your life, structure your organization.
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  Leadership. Can I give you #5 how nations
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  become great? Are you ready?
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  The fifth key that is responsible for transiting any
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  nation, any individual, any family, any organization to
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  become great is called economic empowerment.
• 1:21:29
  Economic empowerment. There is no nation that becomes
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  great when and if it does not contend for economic
• 1:21:38
  empowerment. And you want to listen to what I
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  have to say here. I said here, no nation can be
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  economically emancipated with a dependency mentality.
• 1:21:52
  No nation can be economically emancipated with a dependency
• 1:21:58
  mentality. What does that mean?
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  Depending on government, depending on lock, depending on
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  superstition for your economic month, emancipation, many people
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  in Africa and Nigeria. Can I tell you, and I say this
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  with every sense of responsibility, believing that
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  the government of any nation, including Nigeria will be
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  responsible for your economic empowerment is a joke.
• 1:22:26
  I don't care what government is in power, what political party
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  you study from a standpoint of leadership and economics, there
• 1:22:34
  is no great nation that became great through government.
• 1:22:39
  Every great nation is empowered economically to its private
• 1:22:43
  sector. Every great nation is private
• 1:22:47
  sector driven. The assignment of government is
• 1:22:50
  not to make you rich, is to create an enabling environment
• 1:22:55
  where all kinds of healthy activities leading towards the
• 1:22:58
  growth of that nation happens. A dependency mentality will
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  destroy Africa. When I was teaching about
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  inheritance here, I taught you that there are many young men
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  who are filled with their lives and they have refused to make
• 1:23:13
  efforts to be great. They are waiting and even
• 1:23:15
  praying for their parents to die because they found out that
• 1:23:19
  there's some land somewhere in my Tama and that that land is
• 1:23:22
  150 million. And the gentleman has been
• 1:23:25
  praying. Wouldn't this man die?
• 1:23:27
  I had the other day. He has high blood pressure and
• 1:23:29
  he's saying he has recovered. Do you know that in many circles
• 1:23:36
  in Africa, once people die, it's not even the burial that is the
• 1:23:39
  issue. The arguments that start from
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  day one as if everybody was praying and hoping for the
• 1:23:45
  person to die. I made-up my mind right from
• 1:23:49
  when I was way younger than this, that in the name of Jesus,
• 1:23:52
  I would never live my life trying to say, oh, let my
• 1:23:56
  parents have the tea and bread. And so that you, what kind of a
• 1:23:58
  life is that? And let me tell you something,
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  it is a course to let your children start from the ground,
• 1:24:06
  not with what you are hearing. Make up your mind that my
• 1:24:10
  children will never have to start from the ground again, no
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  matter the price I have to pay. It is selfish to make decisions
• 1:24:17
  today that you do not think of the consequences to your
• 1:24:21
  children and your children's children.
• 1:24:29
  Tonight's teaching is hard bar. Just enjoy it.
• 1:24:31
  You will tell me. Thank you in the name of Jesus.
• 1:24:33
  Happy independence. Yes, Sir, This is what love can
• 1:24:41
  do. Insist that you must be
• 1:24:43
  transformed. Someone is listening to me now
• 1:24:46
  who needs this message? Perhaps some politician
• 1:24:49
  somewhere listening to me who needs this message.
• 1:24:54
  Don't carry sirens and move around with no productivity.
• 1:24:57
  No. Do you know hate poverty as a
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  revelation? Don't like poverty?
• 1:25:02
  It will destroy you. It will make you a slave.
• 1:25:05
  This is not about prosperity. I've taught you there is a
• 1:25:09
  balanced communication. I will never be poor.
• 1:25:12
  My children will never be poor. Koinonia will never be poor
• 1:25:16
  under my watch. You will never be poor.
• 1:25:18
  I will never raise a people who are just spiritually vibrant.
• 1:25:22
  You must also be economically vibrant.
• 1:25:27
  A nation that is not economically emancipated will
• 1:25:32
  remain slaves and will transfer that slavery to the children.
• 1:25:38
  With all due respect, there are for many of you who are widely
• 1:25:41
  travelled, there are places that when you go to and you show a
• 1:25:45
  green passport, be prepared for embarrassment.
• 1:25:48
  Just start saying in the name of Jesus, the fruit of the Spirit,
• 1:25:50
  Lovejoy, peace, patience. Because of the kind of
• 1:25:54
  embarrassment you will receive there, everybody begins to
• 1:25:57
  suspect you. What is in your bag?
• 1:25:59
  Open it, let us check it, turn around, turn around again, turn
• 1:26:03
  around the third time, simply because in our lifetime we will
• 1:26:08
  change it in the name of Jesus Christ.
• 1:26:11
  There is a Nigeria that is imagined that in the name of
• 1:26:14
  Jesus your the passport that you hold Hallelujah Appa, just
• 1:26:25
  because you were born in Nigeria.
• 1:26:27
  Embarrassment everywhere around the airport.
• 1:26:30
  No, you must obtain grace in the name of Jesus Christ and I say
• 1:26:34
  this by the power that raised Christ from the dead.
• 1:26:36
  God is raising a people. Are you hearing what I'm saying?
• 1:26:40
  God is raising a people. This is why there are
• 1:26:43
  ambassadors that will redeem the image of Nigeria here.
• 1:26:47
  I'm saying it prophetically. God is raising us all as
• 1:26:50
  ambassadors that someone will look at you and say before I met
• 1:26:55
  you, I've had a bad image about Nigeria.
• 1:26:57
  But no more, no more, no more. I I usually would not give
• 1:27:02
  Nigerian job, but when I listen to your message, I made-up my
• 1:27:06
  mind that my company will live 1/4 for 1000 Nigerians.
• 1:27:11
  We need to redefine the image of this nation, redefine the
• 1:27:14
  narrative. Not everybody is a thief.
• 1:27:17
  Not everybody is a crook. Not everybody is corrupt.
• 1:27:21
  Not everybody is Yahoo. Not everybody is 419.
• 1:27:25
  There are people today as a young man, when you are
• 1:27:28
  empowered economically, people just look at you and say, hi,
• 1:27:31
  this guy, this kind of money, who knows, maybe you're a ritual
• 1:27:35
  killer. There are ambassadors that God
• 1:27:42
  is sending. I'm telling you this, and you
• 1:27:45
  are part of this ambassadors. You must believe it that because
• 1:27:49
  of your presence and what you stand for, kings and
• 1:27:53
  ambassadors, embassies who say anytime you need any, come
• 1:27:57
  through me. Once you bring somebody through
• 1:27:59
  me, they will stamp their visa because I trust you.
• 1:28:03
  I hope you know that integrity is capital.
• 1:28:09
  There are people today who have not been able to go and see
• 1:28:11
  their families for four or five years because they just suspect
• 1:28:15
  that perhaps they are going to do drugs.
• 1:28:17
  I have prayed for many people. Nigeria, 63 years, 60 years as a
• 1:28:25
  Federal Republic, 109 years from our amalgamation, We have come
• 1:28:32
  of age. We need to start redeeming the
• 1:28:34
  image of this nation. Running away is not how to
• 1:28:37
  redeem the image. We will stay and clean it up.
• 1:28:40
  We will first take responsibility now.
• 1:28:43
  There's nothing wrong in travelling if that is your
• 1:28:46
  destiny, but some of us have chosen that in our lifetime, we
• 1:28:50
  will see the new Nigeria. Hallelujah that someone hands
• 1:28:55
  over something and is trying to bribe you and you hold both the
• 1:28:58
  hand and the money and say I don't condemn you but let me
• 1:29:01
  show you a lesson. Not every Nigerian is corrupt.
• 1:29:04
  You did this, I bless you. Put your money back and learn
• 1:29:07
  the lesson. There are people in this nation
• 1:29:10
  who fear God. God bless you.
• 1:29:11
  Leave my office. Once you do that, the person
• 1:29:14
  goes back with an orientation. Not everybody is a thief.
• 1:29:18
  I repeat, not every man of God is a cook.
• 1:29:21
  Not everybody collected power from from what they call it now
• 1:29:27
  those, whoever it is, what shrine that gives power?
• 1:29:33
  Generalize it. There's a very negative image
• 1:29:36
  people have to the point that you see people, their green
• 1:29:39
  passport, they now carry a black cover and cover anything that
• 1:29:43
  can cover so that no, we are proud Nigerians who are not
• 1:29:47
  ashamed. Listen, listen to me.
• 1:29:50
  There is a Nigeria that is rising and government alone
• 1:29:54
  cannot do it. This is where the emergence of
• 1:29:57
  saviors. The Bible says saviors shall
• 1:29:59
  arise from Zion and they shall judge the amount of Israel.
• 1:30:04
  Hallelujah. And we thank God for the little
• 1:30:06
  contribution that God is helping us to make as we travel around
• 1:30:10
  the nations. We're not just going as
• 1:30:11
  preachers, we're going as ambassadors, first of the
• 1:30:14
  Kingdom, but also restoring the image of this nation.
• 1:30:19
  Nigeria has great people. I know that there are Nigerians
• 1:30:24
  doing drugs around the world, but not everybody's a drug
• 1:30:26
  Baron. There are people who fear God.
• 1:30:29
  Not everybody's one era came from occultism, no.
• 1:30:41
  One thing we ask of you. One thing that we decide.
• 1:30:49
  That as we worship you, Lord, come and change our lives.
• 1:30:58
  One thing we ask of you. One thing that we decide.
• 1:31:07
  That as we worship you, Lord, come and change our lives.
• 1:31:17
  I remember one of us here when he came and showed me the
• 1:31:21
  blueprint for the leadership university he's setting up in
• 1:31:23
  this nation. I was happy and excited.
• 1:31:27
  I said. That's right.
• 1:31:29
  That's right. And then economic empowerment.
• 1:31:34
  I have seen what poverty can do to a family, our children that
• 1:31:40
  are prostituting. Do you go and be a prostitute
• 1:31:41
  with a poor man? How much will he give you?
• 1:31:45
  Remember what Delilah story? When you are economically
• 1:31:50
  incapacitated, I am telling you, listen, do not let your child
• 1:31:54
  look at you one day and say, Daddy, I love you, but may I
• 1:31:57
  never be like you. Mommy, I love you but may I
• 1:32:02
  never be like you. You are the reason for my pain.
• 1:32:05
  I have a past today I'm ashamed to tell people and it was
• 1:32:09
  because of your irresponsibility.
• 1:32:10
  When Kofi Annan was UN Secretary General, he made a statement
• 1:32:14
  that I want to make reference to.
• 1:32:16
  It was during Children's Day, he came up and he said let our
• 1:32:19
  children not suffer the consequences of our
• 1:32:22
  carelessness. As for me, I've made-up my mind
• 1:32:29
  to be economically empowered for myself and for the work of the
• 1:32:33
  Kingdom. If you don't believe in it, save
• 1:32:35
  Johnny. May your revelation bail you out
• 1:32:37
  when you're in the lion's den. But As for me, I have made-up my
• 1:32:41
  mind. I know what it means to be in
• 1:32:43
  the realm of luck and incapacitation, and I know what
• 1:32:46
  it means to have the privilege to be able to be a blessing.
• 1:32:49
  The choice is yours. But as far as I my life and as
• 1:32:55
  far as I have the privilege of leading this ministry, I can
• 1:32:58
  tell you nobody will climb this altar to advocate poverty, no.
• 1:33:04
  If poverty were good, some of it will be in the presence of God,
• 1:33:08
  because everything in His presence reflects glory.
• 1:33:11
  Among the many things mentioned in His presence, we do not see
• 1:33:14
  poverty there. Africa has embraced A theology
• 1:33:18
  that has brought look at many of our young men Now, you see, it's
• 1:33:21
  easy to condemn these guys and say, oh, they are into Yahoo,
• 1:33:25
  they are into prostitution. Most times we address the
• 1:33:28
  symptoms and we don't go to the roots.
• 1:33:31
  Everybody wants to have a sense of destiny.
• 1:33:35
  Did you hear what I said? Every young man wants to get to
• 1:33:37
  a point in his life where he knows I've taught you 6
• 1:33:41
  fundamental needs of every man #1 security number 2, variety #3
• 1:33:48
  love and acceptance #4 significance #5 growth number
• 1:33:54
  six, impact and contribution. And every time people feel left
• 1:33:59
  out of life and destiny, they will invent any formula.
• 1:34:03
  All this talk was saying stop you who and stop.
• 1:34:05
  I will never never promote all those demonic things but I'm
• 1:34:08
  saying we are addressing symptoms.
• 1:34:12
  By the time a lady is watching her mother die and she needs 9.5
• 1:34:17
  million naira to go and send her to India for treatment in the
• 1:34:21
  presence of pain, anything looks like an option to be considered.
• 1:34:28
  Are we together? Let me challenge anybody here.
• 1:34:31
  If you don't have a job, start working on yourself.
• 1:34:34
  Don't sit down and say the government is not giving me a
• 1:34:36
  job. The government cannot employ
• 1:34:38
  everybody. Let me just tell you the truth.
• 1:34:40
  It does not matter what government is in power.
• 1:34:43
  The government cannot give everybody a job.
• 1:34:47
  And corporations right now want to maximize profits.
• 1:34:50
  So if they can downsize 50 people and bring in IT apps and
• 1:34:56
  all kinds of technological advantages to increase them,
• 1:35:00
  don't blame them. We need innovation, we need
• 1:35:03
  intelligence, we need to sell the idea of productivity and
• 1:35:07
  investments. 2 things that the young people must learn in
• 1:35:10
  Nigeria. The power and the value of
• 1:35:12
  productivity. I am gifted is not productivity.
• 1:35:17
  Productivity I am a graduate is not productivity.
• 1:35:23
  Are we together? I met a woman in Lagos.
• 1:35:27
  I've shared the story here. This woman got into White House
• 1:35:31
  and all her business is to sell, we call it in Nigeria, bean
• 1:35:35
  cake, Moi Moi. That's what took her to the
• 1:35:37
  White House. She's met The Who and who's of
• 1:35:42
  the nations. Because of that, what God has
• 1:35:44
  placed in your hand, if you can take it serious, why should I
• 1:35:48
  believe in something you don't even believe in yourself?
• 1:35:52
  There are people today who have built houses frying a Cara.
• 1:35:55
  I know you laugh at them. They packaged it well.
• 1:35:58
  And what you will buy for 100 naira, you now buy for 3000
• 1:36:02
  because they gave it value. That's what productivity is.
• 1:36:07
  There are people here. The 2 million naira you wasted,
• 1:36:11
  you can use it to dig a borehole and start a bottled water
• 1:36:15
  company. The resources you need are
• 1:36:17
  there. What I will never, never based
• 1:36:20
  on the Maslow theory of needs, the hierarchy of needs.
• 1:36:24
  It will be an eternal demand. Let's wake up as the Church of
• 1:36:32
  the Lord Jesus Christ. The Church is supposed to help
• 1:36:35
  society. We are not a burden to Nigeria.
• 1:36:38
  We are contributors to the health and the strength of
• 1:36:41
  nations of nations. Hallelujah.
• 1:36:45
  Reject laziness that when you come to church, you are supposed
• 1:36:49
  to be taught like this, and then grace is released over you.
• 1:36:53
  But when that grace is released over you, you now go back and
• 1:36:56
  put that to work. Try it and fail.
• 1:37:00
  It is more honorable to fail in dignity and diligence than to
• 1:37:04
  sit down waiting for someone to give you money.
• 1:37:06
  Apostle, I want to do it, but I did my calculation.
• 1:37:09
  I need somebody to give me 10 million.
• 1:37:11
  You are joking. You think the world is that free
• 1:37:14
  10 million out of nowhere? If I were not a preacher, if I
• 1:37:24
  were not a preacher, I would never sit down and watch myself
• 1:37:29
  in poverty and lack no that anything my hands finds provided
• 1:37:35
  is proscription and it does not destroy lives.
• 1:37:38
  It does not destroy properties. With all humility, I gave you an
• 1:37:42
  I think, I don't know if I said it here, someone I was going to
• 1:37:45
  add, you know, to my security men.
• 1:37:48
  And then one of them came, A fine young man.
• 1:37:52
  I didn't know he was a graduate. True story.
• 1:37:54
  When this gentleman came, I looked at him.
• 1:37:57
  I said no, no, no, no. No, no, tell me about yourself.
• 1:38:00
  He said I'm a graduate. It's just that I didn't have the
• 1:38:02
  opportunity to get a job. So I decided that instead of
• 1:38:05
  sitting idle, let me go and be trained.
• 1:38:08
  And I said, wow, this is serious.
• 1:38:10
  I now told him, and I'm saying it with all humility, not just
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  to brag. I told him, I said my friend,
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  because you did this as a graduate, instead of going to
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  steal, I'm going to send you to go and do your masters and I
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  will give you money to start business.
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  You will not be a security in my house.
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  Now listen, that gentleman today has gone, but because he was
• 1:38:30
  humble enough, the arrogance of this generation in the midst of
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  nothing, you'll get a job of 50,000.
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  You say 50,000 in Abuja, God forbid if it's not 500,000 and
• 1:38:41
  God says you are not ready to rise, you are not ready to rise.
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  Oh my birthday, I need 500,000 as a budget.
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  No economic empowerment. When you wear tomorrow's clothes
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  today, you will be naked tomorrow.
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  When you eat tomorrow's food today, can I tell you the truth?
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  Please listen. For those of us that God has
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  started placing something in our hand, run away.
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  One of the things I learned with all due respect in this city is
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  that God needs to deliver this city from a fake life.
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  Everybody wants to show we have arrived.
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  If you are not there, you are not there.
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  Just sit down and grow patiently.
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  You see someone in a restaurant eating 200,000 and that's all
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  the person has in his account. And everybody in that place is
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  not your age means economically, it's a message by God.
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  Flying business class without a job, Getting into a choice hotel
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  and celebrating birthdays, Gathering friends together.
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  Burning 12 million? No, the church is the right
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  place to say this. And I'm saying this from a
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  standpoint of love. Can I tell you delete wasters
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  from your life? People who are not there when
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  you have money, as soon as money arrives, it's as if there's a
• 1:40:06
  spirit that makes them know. Here they come.
• 1:40:09
  Tell them I love you. But I listen to apostle and I'm
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  on a journey with determination. Are we together now?
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  Yes. I was going to assist the
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  gentleman one time to marry. And then among the budget, he
• 1:40:24
  brought a budget for honeymoon. I said you are joking, you are
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  joking, you are joking. You think just because a man of
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  God is a giver, we are foolish? No, we are choking.
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  Hallelujah. Praise the name of the Lord.
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  I hope you get what I'm trying to say.
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  There are people today, if you say you want to help them start
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  out in life, what kind of car will I buy?
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  They will tell you a Jeep, first car.
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  There is an orientation. We must, we must trust God for
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  grace. Some of you, even though you are
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  making it, remain in that one room.
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  Cut your cost and keep growing and building so that when you
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  come out of that one room, you don't return back in shame.
• 1:41:22
  Are we together now say all my colleagues have gone, no
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  problem. You start with the dignity of
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  integrity. What can you do with your hand?
• 1:41:35
  I will be more than glad to pray and bless you and perhaps Even
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  so into your life, provided you are serious.
• 1:41:43
  Let's, let's, let's not train lazy and irresponsible people in
• 1:41:47
  church. And then we keep gathering
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  everything and say in Jesus name, no, I challenge every
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  young man here. Listen gentlemen, for the
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  ladies, God bless you, work hard.
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  But for the man in the name of Jesus Christ, I release grace
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  upon you to be productive. No gentleman in this ministry
• 1:42:08
  should have a dependency mentality, no.
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  And if you are here and it's your wife that is feeding you,
• 1:42:15
  well, it depends on the situation.
• 1:42:17
  But if it's more than three months, four months, you are not
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  serious. You are not serious.
• 1:42:22
  Did you hear what I said? I'm not being stupid.
• 1:42:25
  You are not serious. There is a grace called favor.
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  Wake up in the name of Jesus Christ and take responsibility.
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  Don't fold your hand and allow your wife, pay children school
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  fees, bring food for you, do a pay rent for you, buy clothes
• 1:42:38
  for you. Who paid whose dowry?
• 1:42:55
  We'll wrap up soon, but you must hear what I have to say.
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  In the name of Jesus Christ, save money.
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  You don't have to go for every wedding, every birthday party.
• 1:43:08
  Be responsible. Instead of spending 100,000,
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  send 20,000 as your seed and watch online.
• 1:43:17
  Hallelujah, there are many of us who are parts of clubs and
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  societies that the devil is using as loopholes to destroy
• 1:43:25
  our finances. It's not that God has not been
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  faithful, but many of us this society life.
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  I want to show that I belong. If you are not there, you are
• 1:43:34
  not there. You will be there.
• 1:43:35
  You can't be there, but for God's sake, sit down and grow
• 1:43:39
  gradually get into a house that for the whole year you are
• 1:43:44
  palpitating because the rent is not there.
• 1:43:47
  Why give yourself that kind of burden?
• 1:43:51
  Economic empowerment, obtain grace.
• 1:43:56
  Every gentleman here, I repeat and colonial global, wherever
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  you are, I'm going to pray for you at the end of this meeting.
• 1:44:04
  Let something come upon you. Go back some of you this night
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  when you go back home, don't just go and sleep.
• 1:44:11
  Get a clean sheet of paper and sit down and say my destiny.
• 1:44:14
  I'm, I will stop being a child from today.
• 1:44:17
  You can if you are staying with your mother.
• 1:44:19
  Mommy, Daddy, thank you. Give me the next one year and
• 1:44:22
  I'll go out of your house with nobility.
• 1:44:24
  Apostle, challenge me in church today.
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  I will not go out to play football up morning till night.
• 1:44:30
  When I don't have the destiny of a sportsman.
• 1:44:32
  I can go on this. I will play it as leisure when I
• 1:44:35
  prosper. But for now, I will hang my
• 1:44:38
  boots and sit down. Shama Katoski Atapata.
• 1:44:41
  Father, give me an idea. Breathe upon me.
• 1:44:43
  Play this song. Play it still.
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  Creativity comes upon you, spirit, and the Lord can speak
• 1:44:49
  to you and say you know what, you have grace for clothes.
• 1:44:54
  Start selling clothes and someone will call you and say,
• 1:44:57
  you know what, there is a store that I'm opening, can you come
• 1:45:00
  and help us? He who is faithfully little, one
• 1:45:04
  day you'll become a store owner across the globe.
• 1:45:07
  Let nothing be too small provided it is proscription and
• 1:45:12
  it will help you live a life of dignity.
• 1:45:15
  It's better to so Gary with honor, are we together now and
• 1:45:19
  to go and eat in the table of unbelievers because you are
• 1:45:22
  trying to hurry life. I know that some of you see what
• 1:45:26
  God has done in our lives today. This is the reason why sometimes
• 1:45:30
  we tell our stories so that people don't think that you were
• 1:45:33
  sitting down and someone just gave you 1 billion and empowered
• 1:45:36
  you. It's a lie.
• 1:45:38
  Well, maybe it happens so for other men of God, but ladies and
• 1:45:41
  gentlemen, there are times God Himself delays your growth for
• 1:45:45
  the sake of those who will be training so that you can have a
• 1:45:48
  story to tell people. What is around you does not
• 1:45:51
  define you. Koinonia.
• 1:45:53
  I was holding miracle services and I was using a bike.
• 1:45:58
  It was not because of luck. God would not allow me by a
• 1:46:01
  vehicle. My suit was more expensive than
• 1:46:04
  the bike I was climbing. You can imagine a crowd of
• 1:46:09
  people, and here I come with a bike.
• 1:46:11
  And I remember warning our protocol department.
• 1:46:14
  I said never inconvenience anybody to try to get their car
• 1:46:18
  to come and pick me. If I want to buy a car, there's
• 1:46:21
  no car I will not buy. This is an instruction.
• 1:46:23
  I wondered for many years why God will make me go through that
• 1:46:26
  kind of thing one day. God told me, I want the people
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  learning from your life to know that greatness is not just
• 1:46:32
  defined by the things around you.
• 1:46:36
  Today you can hear that maybe someone gave a house, someone
• 1:46:38
  bought this and he said add their lucky me to a warm preach.
• 1:46:49
  I receive, I manifest your power and your wisdom, till the
• 1:46:59
  nations see Jesus lifted up. Exalted I receive, I manifest
• 1:47:15
  your power and your wisdom, till the nation's see Jesus lift it
• 1:47:25
  up. Glorify.
• 1:47:30
  Breathe, Lord, Breathe, Lord, breathe, Lord, breathe.
• 1:47:36
  Breathe upon my life. Breathe, Lord.
• 1:47:42
  Breathe. Breathe, Lord.
• 1:47:45
  Breathe. Breathe.
• 1:47:51
  So ladies and gentlemen, I will be more than willing to pray for
• 1:47:55
  you if you are willing to be serious.
• 1:47:59
  Some of you, your loved ones have been trying to tell you to
• 1:48:01
  be serious. Now God has used this preacher.
• 1:48:05
  I've told you that me, I'm both old and new school.
• 1:48:08
  Work hard, be diligent. If someone gives you money,
• 1:48:14
  thank God for it and keep it quietly and then keep walking.
• 1:48:19
  Keep walking. Lord, I obtain grace.
• 1:48:22
  I will farm. I obtain grace.
• 1:48:24
  I will buy a deep freezer and start selling drinks.
• 1:48:29
  I will start selling drinks. Let the anointing of the Spirit
• 1:48:32
  come upon it. One day someone will see you and
• 1:48:35
  say really, I want to, I will buy a franchise for you of an E3
• 1:48:39
  or another company #7 How nations become great or number
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  six. OK, let me rush straight, Are
• 1:48:53
  you ready? The 6th key that brings about
• 1:48:57
  the greatness of nations is a robust security architecture.
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  Please write a robust security architecture.
• 1:49:07
  There is no nation that becomes great outside of a robust
• 1:49:12
  security architecture. When you call America a great
• 1:49:17
  nation, it is not just a great nation because of its citizens
• 1:49:21
  alone. It is because of the kind and
• 1:49:24
  the quality of security architecture that they have.
• 1:49:29
  Hallelujah. One of the ways or one of the
• 1:49:33
  basis for valuing a house is security, the kind of security
• 1:49:39
  architecture that was programmed in that house.
• 1:49:41
  Am I right on that? So when you say this house is
• 1:49:44
  $10 million versus this house is $1 million, many times it may
• 1:49:48
  not just be the neighborhood is because of the kind of
• 1:49:51
  securities security system that was put there.
• 1:49:57
  This is particularly for nations.
• 1:50:01
  Protecting lives and property is the number one assignment of
• 1:50:06
  government, politically speaking.
• 1:50:08
  Now, protecting lives and protecting the properties of a
• 1:50:14
  citizenry is the primary. Any government that fails to
• 1:50:18
  protect lives and fails to protect properties given ample
• 1:50:23
  time has truly failed #2 creating a secure environment
• 1:50:31
  will always stimulate growth and it will also bring foreign
• 1:50:35
  direct investment. This is true.
• 1:50:38
  Nobody will come and invest billions of dollars in any
• 1:50:43
  nation for that matter, when they feel that their investments
• 1:50:46
  are not safe. It is the assignment of
• 1:50:49
  government in partnership with law enforcement agencies and of
• 1:50:53
  course, by extension, all citizens to sit with that their
• 1:50:57
  localities and their environment remains safe and conducive for
• 1:51:02
  growth, conducive for transformation, conducive for
• 1:51:06
  development. Hallelujah.
• 1:51:12
  I've had the honor of studying great nations, and one of the
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  things that they say when they are attracting investors to
• 1:51:18
  their nation is they try to open them up to the kind of security
• 1:51:22
  architecture they have. Your data will be protected,
• 1:51:26
  your ambassadors will be protected.
• 1:51:28
  Are we together now? Those who are coming to head the
• 1:51:32
  the office, the national office of your company, your
• 1:51:35
  corporation will be protected, and even your finances will be
• 1:51:38
  protected. Security extends to the health
• 1:51:41
  of the financial institutions, the health of the judiciary, the
• 1:51:45
  health of all the arms of government that are responsible
• 1:51:49
  for seeing to it that justice is meted out if and when necessary.
• 1:51:53
  No nation becomes great if your security system is porous.
• 1:51:59
  I say this with all due respect. I love my nation, I love my
• 1:52:03
  nation and I love my leaders, but every time I'm going to the
• 1:52:07
  airport, I feel it's like a weight on my chest because you
• 1:52:11
  see a long queue. What does it take to digitalize
• 1:52:15
  access into the airport, for instance?
• 1:52:18
  I say that as a personal concern.
• 1:52:21
  You go to several parts in Africa and you don't have to
• 1:52:25
  come out and be wasting. It's already programmed.
• 1:52:27
  You come there, deductions are made, the lift goes and you go
• 1:52:31
  in. But in Nigeria, you can miss a
• 1:52:33
  flight because someone is bringing change out of that room
• 1:52:38
  and you remain there. Come on, What does it take, for
• 1:52:41
  God's sake? Some of the people who have
• 1:52:44
  built those other nations are Nigerians.
• 1:52:47
  What does it take to create a system?
• 1:52:49
  For God's sake, you get to the airport, you are almost
• 1:52:51
  confused. Sometimes you don't know where
• 1:52:53
  to go to. You keep asking questions and
• 1:52:55
  moving around like you are mad. No, it ought not to be so.
• 1:53:04
  It ought not to be so. Something can happen.
• 1:53:07
  Security. There are nations where even
• 1:53:12
  terrorist groups have uniforms of some of the law enforcement
• 1:53:16
  agencies. How do you now trust the person
• 1:53:18
  who is standing on the road? I'm not saying this thing.
• 1:53:22
  I'm a responsible citizen and we are all putting hands in gloves
• 1:53:26
  to make to bring a solution. But I'm telling you, any nation
• 1:53:30
  that desires to be great must pay attention and invest in
• 1:53:34
  building a robust non politicized security
• 1:53:40
  architecture. Are we together that you can lie
• 1:53:47
  down and sleep and know that you can sleep in peace?
• 1:53:51
  When you hear the sound of a gun, you should know that it's
• 1:53:53
  either police or military, not an armed robber.
• 1:53:58
  In the name of Jesus Christ investing, we are here today.
• 1:54:05
  By the privilege of God's grace, you cannot be holding a meeting
• 1:54:09
  with this kind of. I submit to you, God has given
• 1:54:13
  us the intelligence to build a very robust security
• 1:54:17
  architecture. All you see is not all that
• 1:54:20
  there is. I assure you, I am committed to
• 1:54:23
  making sure that by the grace of God the horse is prepared for
• 1:54:27
  battle and safeties of the Lord, but the horse must be
• 1:54:29
  responsible for battle. You see the kind of investment
• 1:54:33
  we make him building a responsible security
• 1:54:36
  architecture because we love God and we are responsible people
• 1:54:39
  that when you sit down to hear the word of the Lord, you should
• 1:54:42
  be, you should know that you are safe.
• 1:54:48
  So we outsource whatever it is within our power to build an
• 1:54:51
  intelligent security architecture.
• 1:54:55
  Ladies and gentlemen, a nation that does not pay attention and
• 1:54:59
  I thank God for what God is doing.
• 1:55:01
  I can tell you that by privilege information, I can tell you that
• 1:55:05
  there is a real revival that is happening within the security
• 1:55:08
  architecture of this nation. You take it from me and it is my
• 1:55:12
  prayer that by the grace of God that God will raise and build a
• 1:55:16
  robust security architecture that we know our airports are
• 1:55:20
  safe, our ports are safe. Are we together now?
• 1:55:24
  Our airspace is safe, our neighborhoods are safe.
• 1:55:29
  You shouldn't leave your house and your heart is palpitating.
• 1:55:32
  You're wondering if your children are safe.
• 1:55:34
  I've had the opportunity to be part of a few violence cases in
• 1:55:39
  Nigeria and I it's not a good thing for you to see that kind
• 1:55:43
  of thing. When in Jos many years ago, the
• 1:55:47
  crisis that happened, I was right there.
• 1:55:49
  I was in town when it started. There was one time it post
• 1:55:53
  election violence that happened in Zarya.
• 1:55:55
  I was right there. You do not want to live in an
• 1:56:00
  environment of crisis where there is killing.
• 1:56:04
  I lay me down when I. Slept, he says.
• 1:56:07
  I wait for the Lord sustain me. So nations become great because
• 1:56:14
  of their security architecture. Hallelujah.
• 1:56:17
  You pass around the White House is about the most protected
• 1:56:21
  building on earth. My goodness, the security
• 1:56:24
  architecture within that place is is is is almost God like the
• 1:56:28
  level of intelligence that was invested.
• 1:56:35
  Maybe this is a revelation. For someone that God is saying,
• 1:56:39
  becoming a security expert is your destiny.
• 1:56:42
  Start now while you are receiving the grace.
• 1:56:45
  Don't just shout Amen. Trust God for grace, security
• 1:56:50
  doors, security outfits. You become a security
• 1:56:53
  consultant. Go and receive certifications
• 1:56:58
  and trust God for grace. You are a security expert.
• 1:57:01
  I can tell you it's a job that will be needed forever as fast
• 1:57:04
  as civilization is concerned. Let me give you #7 this is my
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  happy independence gift. Finally, all nations become
• 1:57:19
  great when they honor spirituality.
• 1:57:26
  Now please listen. All nations become great to the
• 1:57:30
  degree to which they honor spirituality.
• 1:57:35
  Just what I said. Spirituality, I wrote here, is
• 1:57:39
  the number one influencer of values, morals and actions.
• 1:57:46
  Spirituality, especially in a continent like ours, whether
• 1:57:51
  you're a Christian, whether you're a Muslim, whether you're
• 1:57:53
  a traditionalist, or whatever faith expression you believe in.
• 1:57:58
  I'm speaking generally now to our nation.
• 1:58:00
  I'm speaking generally to those who are connecting, whether
• 1:58:03
  Christians or not, but it's been proven that spirituality is
• 1:58:08
  about the number one influencer of values, morals, and actions.
• 1:58:18
  Watch this. People will build values to
• 1:58:21
  reflect and honor their spiritual disposition.
• 1:58:25
  People will build values to honor and reflect their
• 1:58:30
  spiritual disposition. That means if my I am a child of
• 1:58:34
  God, I'm a Christian. I believe in Jesus, the Son of
• 1:58:36
  the living God. If the Bible teaches me to love,
• 1:58:39
  if the Bible teaches me to forgive, if the Bible teaches me
• 1:58:43
  to be responsible, You see, in honor to the tenants of
• 1:58:47
  Scripture, I will build a value system that honors my belief.
• 1:58:55
  That means we who God has granted the grace to spearhead
• 1:58:59
  and influence men in matters of faith.
• 1:59:03
  We must be careful the things that we are teaching because
• 1:59:06
  people will build their value systems to reflect and honor
• 1:59:11
  Jesus or whichever deity we propose to them.
• 1:59:15
  When you propose a wicked God who has no problem with killing,
• 1:59:19
  who has no problem with maiming, you will find that there can be
• 1:59:22
  a side effect, that there will be a repercussion.
• 1:59:27
  Generally speaking, most faith practices promote love, peace,
• 1:59:34
  giving, tolerance, forgiveness, responsibility.
• 1:59:39
  Most, as much as I know, most faith practices promote love,
• 1:59:45
  promote peace. I've studied a bit of world
• 1:59:48
  religions. I'll tell you sincerely a bit of
• 1:59:51
  them. Because of what I do.
• 1:59:53
  And even if it's just at the surface, I know that most
• 1:59:57
  religions promote or propose love, peace, giving, tolerance,
• 2:00:05
  forgiveness, responsibility. This is the role that
• 2:00:09
  spirituality has to play. We read about the history of
• 2:00:15
  America and we see and know today that among the many
• 2:00:19
  factors that has made America this great is a statement from
• 2:00:24
  their founding fathers. In God we trust.
• 2:00:29
  In God we trust a statement that was institutionalized.
• 2:00:33
  It was not just an opinion of few people.
• 2:00:36
  And as much as we know, the nation has not come out openly
• 2:00:40
  to say we have stopped trusting God.
• 2:00:42
  So God still honors that covenant in Africa.
• 2:00:48
  We didn't come out to say whether when God we trust, but
• 2:00:52
  our lives show that there are many things, many, many altars,
• 2:00:58
  and today we are victims of some of these things.
• 2:01:02
  I'm praying that one day we can stand as a nation and as a
• 2:01:05
  people and also say in God we trust.
• 2:01:10
  Trust him to raise our children, trust Him to change government,
• 2:01:14
  trust Him to change leaders, to change their mindset and help
• 2:01:18
  them to flee the path of corruption and to be people who
• 2:01:22
  are responsible. Can I tell you, ladies and
• 2:01:24
  gentlemen, every time men seek God, in this case, the God of
• 2:01:29
  the Bible? They always will tilt towards a
• 2:01:32
  great destiny. It's only a matter of time. 3
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  scriptures and we pray for Nigeria Psalm 33 and verse 12
• 2:01:40
  media please help us Psalm 33 and verse 12 my dear people
• 2:01:47
  please prepare someone is going to sing for us the national
• 2:01:50
  anthem. Don't worry if you've forgotten
• 2:01:52
  it. It will be projected stands out
• 2:01:54
  one and. Two, Hallelujah, we are going to
• 2:01:59
  sing the national anthem to remind ourselves again that we
• 2:02:03
  are responsible believers and we have a role to play in nation
• 2:02:07
  building. Here's what the Bible says.
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  Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, and the people
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  whom. He hath chosen for his own
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  inheritance Psalm 95, verse 3, Second Scripture.
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  He says for the Lord is a great God and a great king above all
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  gods. I can speak for myself because I
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  know what Jesus has done in my life.
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  I know what Jesus has done for Koenonia.
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  I know what Jesus can do, will do for Nigeria.
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  Second Chronicles 1512 to 15. And they entered into a covenant
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  to seek the God of their fathers.
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  Did you see that? Now they as a people, entered
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  into a covenant to seek the God of their fathers with all their
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  heart and with all their soul. Next verse that whosoever should
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  not seek the Lord God of Israel should be put to death, whether
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  small or grave, whether man or woman.
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  Verse 14 And they swear unto the Lord with a loud voice, and with
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  shouting, with trumpets and with Cornex.
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  Let's read verse 15 together. Ready one to read?
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  And all Judah rejoiced at the oath, for they had sworn with
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  all their heart and sought him with their whole desire.
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  And he was found of them. Hallelujah.
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  And the Lord gave them rest. This is what Nigeria is looking
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  for. My dear nation, I propose to you
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  the solution. Thank God for government, thank
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  God for the National Assembly, the Senate, thank God for the
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  law enforcement agents. But my Bible tells me that
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  except the Lord builds a house, the labor in vain that build it,
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  Except the Lord watches over a city, He said the Watchmen watch
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  it in vain. There are things only God can
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  do. Did you hear what I said?
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  There are things only God can do.
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  For instance, taking a man from a Dong hill and placing him in a
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  place of honor. Only God can do that one.
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  There are things only God can do.
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  Turning a murderer called Saul when James, when I think it was
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  Stephen, was beheaded. I hope you know that Paul was
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  among them. He was among them who were
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  beheading him, yet he would later become the great apostle.
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  Only Jesus can turn someone who is an armed robber today.
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  Are we together now to become a great blessing tomorrow?
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  Ladies and gentlemen, we have a very robust outreach to prisons.
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  I have been doing this for many years.
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  By the privilege of God's grace, we have built a relationship
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  with several prisons and I've had the honor to send gifts and
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  build relationships with their controllers.
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  I can tell you the truth that the prisons, sometimes there are
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  a few times that we wanted to give money to bail out a few
• 2:05:25
  people who have been there for a long time.
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  And the controllers told us that some of the people are better
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  off there. Even they themselves don't want
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  to leave because they have, they don't have any other family.
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  They have built a family there. Where would they get the food to
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  eat? Where would they get all of
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  that? You can be kept behind bars, but
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  bars don't transform. Only the Holy Spirit can
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  transform a person. By the privilege of what I do, I
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  have held the hands of people and midwife their transitions
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  from the Kingdom of darkness to the Kingdom of God's dear.
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  Son, in this ministry, there are people who were once occultist,
• 2:06:09
  cultist and today God has transformed them to be signs and
• 2:06:13
  wonders. There were people who were once
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  irresponsible people, today they are spearheading the campaign
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  for responsibility. I can tell you Nigeria, let us
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  not allow our pain. Cause us to see God as an
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  interruption to civilization. Any nation can choose to reject
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  God. But by all means and by my plea,
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  not our nation. We are in a delicate season in
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  the history of this nation. We cannot afford to throw God
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  out of the. Equation.
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  My Bible says if my people. Which are called by my name
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  shall humble themselves is that in your Bible and pray and seek
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  my face and turn from their wicked ways.
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  He says then we like hear from heaven and I will forgive their
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  sin and I will heal their land. No government can heal the land.
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  There are people who are bleeding, bleeding from pain
• 2:07:07
  that have been caused by terrorists, bleeding from
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  injustice, bleeding from all kinds of things deserving of
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  merit. But many have been overthrown by
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  sentiments of all sorts. There are many people today who
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  would have gotten certain jobs, but people came and said you are
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  not Yoruba, Sorry, you will not get the job.
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  You are not Ebo, sorry, you will not get the job.
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  You're not from the North, you're not from the Middle Belt.
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  All of these sentiments and biases have put people in a
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  position of disadvantage. There is, there is such, there
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  is a bleeding generation. The average young man today is
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  angry by default is the reason why.
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  Once there is any opportunity to protest, you see people come up
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  because there is a store of anger.
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  Only God can bring healing to our land.
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  I'm telling you this and if we do not allow that great
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  physician to come and carry Nigeria like a patient in ICU
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  and start healing us economically, healing us
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  politically, healing us sociologically, a time will
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  come. Brothers who kill brothers,
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  sisters who kill sisters. When there was famine in
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  Samaria, mothers asked their children, Let it not repeat
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  itself in our nation. Hallelujah.
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  Today you find out, for instance, that a woman dies or a
• 2:08:33
  man dies and you find out that all the family members have to
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  go to police station to write statements because nobody is
• 2:08:39
  sure who killed who. That is the kind of nation we
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  found ourselves in. Ladies and gentlemen, we must
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  pray and trust God. And as we sing this national
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  anthem and pray Koinonia as a contribution to the new Nigeria
• 2:08:53
  that we seek to see, we are calling upon the God of heaven
• 2:08:56
  to say, Lord have mercy. We declare that we are
• 2:08:59
  incapacitated. The Bible says some would trust
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  in horses, some trust in Chariots, he said.
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  But we, our education has taken us only so far.
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  Our security system has taken us only so far.
• 2:09:13
  The government now you see how much the price of dollar is NIRA
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  to dollar. It is not the fault of any
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  single individual. It is a reality right now that
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  complaining and pointing fingers will not.
• 2:09:29
  It is biting everyone. We must take responsibility.
• 2:09:33
  Let me tell you what happened when serpents bite.
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  In the Bible, when the serpent was biting the nation of Israel,
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  there was another brazen altar that was lifted.
• 2:09:43
  You couldn't run away from those serpents.
• 2:09:45
  There were too many. And here's the solution God gave
• 2:09:48
  Moses. And this is the solution that
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  I'm proposing to my dear nation, Nigeria, from the presidency to
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  the legislature, to the judiciary, the executive arm.
• 2:09:59
  Down to governments and all kinds of people.
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  Can I tell you the truth? I have learned by experience.
• 2:10:05
  I don't know what God lifted you, but the one who lifted me
• 2:10:08
  is still alive. If he can lift a man, he can
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  lift a nation. Are we together?
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  Yes. Our national anthem is about the
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  most beautiful anthem among all the nations that I know and it
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  is not because I'm a Nigerian. Believe me, I can see that the
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  hand of God was there in writing our national anthem.
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  You've not seen it in a long time.
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  Once they sing it, don't close your eyes.
• 2:10:38
  It's not a worship song. Open your eyes and see what is
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  written. Are we together?
• 2:10:42
  Please, when you hear them singing, don't close your eyes,
• 2:10:45
  Open your eyes. I want to.
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  There's something I want what you are seeing to do to you, my
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  people. Are you ready?
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  No ad leaping, no harmony singing the way it was in
• 2:10:58
  primary school. Please.
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  There's something we're trying to achieve.
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  Are we together? Everyone stand.
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  Let it be loud and clear, and then we'll sing it.
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  I don't know why we stopped singing Stanza 2.
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  Go ahead. Obey to serve our Father Land
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  with love and strength and faith, the labor of our hero.
• 2:11:56
  Spice shall never be in say to serve with heart and mind.
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  One nation one in freedom is that you is in Oh God of
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  cremation, but thy rector noble cause thy thy army has to rise
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  help on you the truth to God in love and honesty to grow and
• 2:12:59
  live in just a great world behind the day to do the nation
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  with peace. Hallelujah.
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  Please project for me our national pledge.
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  I want you to just listen. Look at it.
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  If you have stolen our money in this nation, don't say this.
• 2:13:46
  If you are adding to trouble in this nation, don't say this.
• 2:13:50
  If you have made-up your mind that you will keep being
• 2:13:53
  corrupt, don't say this. If you make up your mind that
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  you are not going to be a serious person, don't say this.
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  This is what it says. I pledge to Nigeria, my country
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  to be faithful, loyal and honest to serve Nigeria.
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  Hold on politicians, they should make every politician recites
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  this before putting them in any office and they should recite it
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  before Nigerians to serve Nigeria.
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  Not with sentiments and biases, not with prejudices and a
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  corrupt heart. With all my strength to defend
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  her unity and uphold her honor and glory.
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  Now this is where I want you to shout.
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  So here one more time, one more time, one more time.
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  Please let me request everyone if you can and you are
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  comfortable with it. I want all of us to go down on
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  our knees to God for this nation in one minute.
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  I'm going to give you the next. If, if, if, if you're not able
• 2:15:14
  to go down on your knees, That's all right.
• 2:15:16
  But for the next 5 minutes, I'd like you to cry and let your
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  prayer points be Nigeria. Lord, arise, go ahead, pray for
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  the president. Whether you like him or not is
• 2:15:30
  not the issue. Pray for the president.
• 2:15:33
  Pray for the judicial system. Pray for the governors of our 36
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  states. If you are not praying, you are
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  an enemy of this country. Go ahead and pray.
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  And if you are following and you are not a Nigerian, today's our
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  Independence Day. Why don't you invest in praying
• 2:15:53
  for our nation as you also pray for your nation someone.
• 2:15:57
  Cry. Oh God, oh God, oh God, as we
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  pray, as we pray, oh God, hear the cry of your people.
• 2:16:35
  Oh God, as we call on your name. As we pray, as we pray, pray for
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  our military, pray for the air. Force.
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  Father, we pray that corruption will die from our nation.
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  Father we pray. Empower our leaders, give them
• 2:17:14
  the hearts to solve. Truly pray for educational
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  system that in the name of Jesus Christ, God will raise 5 branch
• 2:17:27
  people intellectually. Pray for pastors, apostles,
• 2:17:33
  bishops, regardless what denomination.
• 2:17:38
  Go ahead and pray, Father, show mercy, restore order to our
• 2:17:43
  churches, order to our pulpit, that shepherds will love their
• 2:17:49
  sheep indeed. Someone pray, don't be tired,
• 2:17:57
  this is your own gift. On the 63rd birthday of this
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  country, Shaleke Peraka Tosca Braka Tapata, we call upon you,
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  O God of heaven. You are the ruler of nations,
• 2:18:12
  the one who lives nations. We confess our inner abilities,
• 2:18:18
  our inadequacies, and we cry for help.
• 2:18:22
  Help our government, help our institutions, help our young
• 2:18:28
  people, help the elderly, help our families.
• 2:18:33
  Kaenonia, pray. This is our contribution as a
• 2:18:37
  ministry. Pray for the North, pray for the
• 2:18:43
  South, pray for the East, pray for the West, The hatred that
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  exists among us. Let evil love Yoruba, let Yoruba
• 2:18:56
  love Hausa, let Middle Belt love the South S person.
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  Go ahead and pray all these demonic satanic sentiments.
• 2:19:10
  As we pray. Koinonia, pray that a time will
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  come when your children get admission.
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  They will not deny them because of where they come from.
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  Let this be a Nigerian dream that a time will come.
• 2:19:29
  A Nigerian passport will almost be like having the certificate
• 2:19:34
  of an investment. Pray, pray, pray, pray that in
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  our lifetime there is a God that makes nations great.
• 2:19:49
  There is a God that makes nations great.
• 2:19:53
  We are not a godless people. We believe in the King of Kings
• 2:19:58
  and the Lord of Lords. They cried on to him.
• 2:20:02
  They looked up to him and their faces were lightened.
• 2:20:08
  Let's take responsibility, stop blaming presidency, stop blaming
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  politicians, stop blaming the judiciary, let's take corporate
• 2:20:18
  responsibility that I have a role that I've played, you have
• 2:20:23
  a role that you have played in this current version of Nigeria
• 2:20:27
  and that together as responsible citizens, God can help us.
• 2:20:32
  A few more minutes. You're not wasting your time.
• 2:20:35
  You are kneeling for your children, maybe not for
• 2:20:38
  yourself. As you are kneeling, I want you
• 2:20:41
  to see your children the next 10 years if Christ Harris the next
• 2:20:45
  20 years if Christ Harris that our children will not have to
• 2:20:50
  run out of this nation to have good education.
• 2:21:03
  See Sabash Kaleka de Barakos Yatabada, lion of the tribe of
• 2:21:08
  Judah. We present Nigeria before you.
• 2:21:12
  We present Nigeria before you. Help us, guide us, forgive us,
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  cleanse us, purify us. We repent from our pride and
• 2:21:26
  arrogance. You have made us a giant in
• 2:21:29
  Africa. We take our place in destiny.
• 2:21:33
  We take our place in destiny. We take our place in destiny.
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  Hallelujah, Hallelujah wrapping. Up I want us to pray.
• 2:21:47
  There are three vices I want us to pray and cause.
• 2:21:50
  The spirit behind #1 is this industry called terrorism #2 is
• 2:21:59
  irresponsibility among our young people, whether translated as
• 2:22:04
  prostitution or translated as drugs or translated as Internet
• 2:22:10
  fraud. Did you know that some of the
• 2:22:12
  drug dealers in many nations are Nigerians, young people,
• 2:22:16
  teenagers? Some of their parents think they
• 2:22:18
  are studying abroad, but those young people, they keep sending
• 2:22:22
  money for building projects to happen and those monies come
• 2:22:26
  from. Trafficking and innocent people
• 2:22:28
  have become victims. Unfortunately, this includes men
• 2:22:33
  of God. This includes politicians.
• 2:22:35
  That's why I said there is no tell them.
• 2:22:38
  All of us have to take responsibility.
• 2:22:40
  We're going to pray, Lord. Visit this nation and heal our
• 2:22:45
  youth. Visit this nation and turn the
• 2:22:48
  hearts of our people from this levels of decadence.
• 2:22:52
  Go ahead and pray. I see some of you waving
• 2:22:54
  Nigerian flag. Don't be ashamed.
• 2:22:57
  It's a nation you will be proud of very soon.
• 2:22:59
  It's a nation that you will be proud of.
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  Very. Soon, go ahead and pray, Lord,
• 2:23:03
  deliver our children from Internet fraud.
• 2:23:07
  Deliver them in the name of Jesus from blood sacrifices for
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  money. Let our people understand the
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  dignity of Labor. Restore this nation.
• 2:23:29
  What's that? Your song on Restore.
• 2:23:31
  Please sing that song for me. In one minute, we're wrapping
• 2:23:34
  up. This is our prophetic watch for
• 2:23:39
  Nigeria. Everything that was lost,
• 2:23:45
  restore. Everything that was stolen,
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  restore. Everything that was lost,
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  restore. You will restore.
• 2:24:09
  Restore everything that was lost.
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  Restore everything that was stolen.
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  Restore everything that was lost.
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  Restore you will restore. Hallelujah.
• 2:24:33
  Hallelujah. Press the name of the Lord now.
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  You are going to pray for every one of our six geopolitical
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  zones. A Yoruba man should be able to
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  go to Katsina and build the house and live there in peace.
• 2:24:49
  An evil man should be able to go to Kano or go to Lagos.
• 2:24:53
  Are we together now? It is impossible for us to call
• 2:24:56
  ourselves a united people with the kind of hatred we have for
• 2:25:01
  one another. Oh, you are a Yoruba.
• 2:25:03
  I hate you. Oh, you are evil.
• 2:25:06
  I hate you. Oh, you are from the north.
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  I hate you. You're from the middle belt.
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  I hate you. Oh, you are.
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  You are from Maiduguri. You are from Adamawa state.
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  I hate you. Nobody thrives.
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  Listen, when we do this fire for fire thing we're doing, we are
• 2:25:22
  still the ones who are going to pay that price.
• 2:25:26
  Are we together? When I was growing up, during
• 2:25:30
  Salah, Muslims will bring food to our house.
• 2:25:34
  We used to play football with people in school, Muslims,
• 2:25:38
  Christians, nobody knew the difference.
• 2:25:42
  Hallelujah. One of the closest persons to me
• 2:25:45
  in Zarya today is a Muslim. He runs his school.
• 2:25:49
  When we have the opportunity to sit down, we talk about various
• 2:25:54
  things, including faith. During my birthday, he bought a
• 2:25:57
  beautiful Bible. He wanted to buy me a Quran and
• 2:26:00
  a Torah, but he didn't know what I would think about it.
• 2:26:02
  So he sent me a Bible. We have been there for one
• 2:26:06
  another extremism, whether of a Christian faith or in Islam or
• 2:26:12
  in any other religion, is a. Cancer that must die in this
• 2:26:16
  nation. Extremism.
• 2:26:19
  There are many people who have been there for one another for
• 2:26:21
  30 years and then one day they just become enemies using the
• 2:26:26
  guise of Allah. When you are sick, you don't
• 2:26:29
  ask. That is a Christian who treats
• 2:26:30
  you or a Muslim who treats you, whoever is qualified to treat
• 2:26:34
  you. But right now, someone is doing
• 2:26:37
  a business and it can fix your house.
• 2:26:39
  It was simply because he's an evil man.
• 2:26:41
  He will say God forbid, an evil man will not enter my house.
• 2:26:44
  A Yoruba man will not enter my house.
• 2:26:46
  Everybody in Nigeria, we came from a family of witchcraft.
• 2:26:50
  Everybody has a witch somewhere. Are we together now?
• 2:26:54
  There is no family that is immune by default is a lie.
• 2:27:00
  Where I come from, my people worship masquerades and worship.
• 2:27:03
  All of this is the dead, but I do not do so, and God is helping
• 2:27:07
  us to spearhead a campaign and drive that satanic thing out of
• 2:27:10
  that place. I've travelled by the privilege
• 2:27:14
  of God's grace everywhere in this nation.
• 2:27:16
  I have studied the cultures. There are cultures that bury
• 2:27:20
  people alive. There are cultures that did all
• 2:27:22
  kinds of things. Everybody, it is our nation.
• 2:27:25
  We are going to pray and say Lord, restore genuine love one
• 2:27:29
  for another. That an evil man can sleep on
• 2:27:32
  the same bed with a Yoruba man and not suspect what they will
• 2:27:35
  do to one another. That a handsome man can shake
• 2:27:38
  hands with someone from the Middle Belt, someone from the
• 2:27:41
  South. We may not agree in everything
• 2:27:44
  in terms of faith, but for God's sake, tenants like love,
• 2:27:48
  forgiveness. Let it not be that one day your
• 2:27:52
  children, your child will get a job where he's the only
• 2:27:55
  Christian or Western or Eastern and and he will be persecuted
• 2:27:59
  simply for where he's coming from.
• 2:28:01
  That does not look like the Nigeria we're praying for.
• 2:28:03
  Are you ready to pray? Mention the geopolitical zones
• 2:28:06
  by yourself and say, Lord show us mercy.
• 2:28:08
  Go ahead and pray. Forgive us.
• 2:28:12
  Forgive us for our prejudices. Oh God, forgive us for the
• 2:28:15
  hatred we have sold to ourselves, our companies, even
• 2:28:20
  churches and children. Forgive us for the tribal
• 2:28:23
  sentiments we have used and destroyed the destinies of
• 2:28:27
  innocent. People is someone praying there
• 2:28:33
  are people today who would have gotten jobs but because of where
• 2:28:37
  they. Came from they have been
• 2:28:40
  punished, retired unjustly. We need results in our nation.
• 2:28:51
  One minute we're wrapping up. Remember, when you are praying,
• 2:28:54
  you are not just praying for yourself.
• 2:28:58
  Yes, Sir. Lord, help us.
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  Every geopolitical zone in this nation is a gift to this nation.
• 2:29:06
  The North is a gift to this nation.
• 2:29:09
  The Southwest is a gift to this nation.
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  The Southeast is a gift to this nation.
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  The Northeast is a gift to this nation.
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  The Northwest is a gift to this nation.
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  Mention them. Nobody is an enemy of anybody.
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  Help us. Oh God, the sentiments that we
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  have brought that is destroying us and about to tear our lives
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  and this nation apart. Show us mercy.
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  There are preachers who hate themselves because of regional
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  sentiments. There are businessmen who hate
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  themselves because of regional sentiments.
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  You will restore. You will restore.
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  That's our prayer, Lord, You will restore.
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  You will restore. That's what we see you do.
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  We know God. You will restore.
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  Restore our homes. Restore our educational systems.
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  You will restore. This is the Nigeria of our
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  dreams. You will restore one more time.
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  You will restore, sing, restore. Now restore.
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  That's the prophetic word for Nigeria.
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  Everything that was stolen, restore.
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  Everything that was lost, restore.
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  Lord, you will one more time together now restore everything
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  that was lost. Restore.
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  Everything that was stolen, restore.
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  Everything that was lost restore, You will restore.
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  Thank you for your patience. Let me pray.
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  Father, we bow our knees as a global family.
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  We bow our knees as proud Nigerians.
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  We bow our knees as sons and daughters of this beloved
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  continent. And then for many who are
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  sharing in our pain and also sharing in our destiny.
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  Tonight, oh God, we confess that by ourselves and upon the
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  strength of our righteousness, we do not merit your mercy.
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  But Lord like the. People in Nineveh, from the king
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  to the men to the nobles to the beasts, they called upon a fast
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  and called the God of heaven, and you heard them.
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  This is Nigeria at 63 as a Federal Republic, 60 as a
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  Federal Republic, 63 as a nation, 109 from the time of
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  amalgamation. And Lord, we confess that you
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  have helped us, but there are still many things to be done.
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  Therefore, Lord, our prayer is that you first forgive us.
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  We take responsibility. Even as a ministry.
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  In the ways that we have contributed to the current state
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  of Nigeria, we cry for messy. Let the blood speak upon every
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  family, upon our parliament, our political spheres, the altars
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  and everywhere we cry for messy. And now, God, we pray that
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  beginning from this day, arise like the mighty God that you
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  are, we hand over Nigeria to your loving care.
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  Lord, we pray that you will turn this nation around faster than
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  we thought, faster than we planned.
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  In the name of Jesus, let us become a people of vision.
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  In the name of Jesus, let us become a people of conviction.
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  In the name of Jesus, let us become a people of values.
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  In the name of Jesus, let us become a people educated indeed.
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  In the name of Jesus Christ, let us become a place where leaders.
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  Let Nigeria be a place where leaders, generational leaders
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  are raised in the name of Jesus, where posterity becomes a
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  determining. Factor in doing the things that
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  we do. Lord, we pray that this be a
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  nation that is economically empowered, viable enough in the
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  name of Jesus. We pray, O God, that you reveal
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  for us a robust security architecture that protects lives
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  and properties in the name of Jesus.
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  And finally, O God, on behalf of the global family here
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  represented, we cry, O God, please.
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  Take over Nigeria. No government can lead this
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  nation to its destiny, take over Nigeria.
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  No man of God can lead this nation to its destiny, take over
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  Nigeria. No judicial system can lead this
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  nation to its destiny, take over Nigeria.
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  Every geopolitical zone, every local government.
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  Lord, we pray every of the 371 ethnic groups, 774 local
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  governments, 36 states plus the FCT.
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  In the six geopolitical zones, Lord, we pray, We hand it over
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  to you tonight in our lifetime, may we see the new Nigeria.
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  In Jesus name, we pray. God bless you.
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  Please rise up on your feet and let's give Jesus a big hand
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  clap. Thank you for your patience.
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  It's a sacrifice that tomorrow will rejoice over.
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  Hallelujah. Praise the name of the Lord.
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  Let me just give one announcement and I make the
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  altar call. By the grace of God, on Friday
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  the 6th of October will be the graduation ceremony for our
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  Zarya Campus School of Ministry. So we'll be rushing to Zarya.
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  And then on Sunday, the 8th of October is someone excited by
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  the grace of God. He'll be the graduation ceremony
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  of our School of Ministry students, Abuja campus.
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  So please all family and friends, make sure you are here.
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  It will be a wonderful time as we praise the Lord.
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  Let me make an altar call. Thank you for your patience.
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  You are in this place and once you heard me talk about Nigeria,
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  you are saying apostle, I desire Jesus and I also desire
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  greatness in my life. I know that this is a place
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  where people are being built to know and love the Lord, but I'm
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  sure that someone came to church today wandering and asking and
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  praying and crying and saying, give me a chance to make it
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  right with Jesus. Wherever you are, I want to give
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  you an opportunity to make Jesus Lord of your life.
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  Or you are here and you are saying, I want to rededicate my
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  life to Jesus. Wherever you are, please leave
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  your seat and in one minute I want you to come and stand here.
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  Let's celebrate them as they come.
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  Someone be bold enough to come. Someone be bold enough to come.
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  Koinonia. Is this how you celebrate
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  salvation? Come, come, God bless you.
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  Come God bless you. Come, God bless you.
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  God bless you. Yes Sir, you're making it right
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  with Jesus. May God bless you for your
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  boldness. May God honor you for your
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  determination. Hallelujah.
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  Now if you're joining them, please do so quick.
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  I want to pray right now. I want to pray right now.
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  If you're joining them, please come quick.
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  This is the House of God. This is a place of salvation.
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  Hallelujah for all of you who are here in France.
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  Thank you so much for making this noble decision.
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  It is never a disadvantage giving Jesus your everything.
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  May I please request that you lift your right hand if you can,
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  high above your head. You're joining them or you're in
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  any of the overflows. And for those who are connecting
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  online, here's your chance to make Jesus Lord of your life say
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  after me. Lord Jesus, tonight I have heard
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  your word. I believe in you that you are
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  the Son of God. I believe that you died for my
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  sin. Right now, I receive your life
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  into my heart. I pray that you are my God, my
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  Savior, my Lord, and my King. Let the power of sin, Satan,
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  hell, and the grave be broken over my life from tonight until
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  forever. I am a child of God.
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  Amen. Father, in the name of Jesus, I
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  thank you for this precious ones.
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  They have come declaring your lordship over their lives.
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  I decree and declare that you will preserve them that this
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  decision they have made tonight in the name of Jesus, the grace
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  to walk in keeping with this decision.
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  It is released upon you right now.
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  I call you recipients of the life of God.
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  You go for whatever and back whatever in Jesus mighty name we
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  pray, Amen and Amen. Please let me request that you
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  move to my right. The counselors are there that
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  will be your left. You have a word with them very
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  quickly and then you'll be back to your seat.
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  Let's honor them as they go. Hallelujah, express the name of
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  the Lord. So Koinonia, I want to say a
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  very big thank you. What you have heard tonight, I
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  want to encourage you to get this truth to somebody.
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  Let them listen. This is true for nations, but it
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  is true for organizations, for families, and even for
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  individuals. Do not forget your assignment
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  that you are going to do a retrospect of your life.
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  You are going to come up with a theme and a vision that guides
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  and governs your life. Thank you for being patient thus
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  far. Please rise as we close the
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  service. Hallelujah, we share the grace
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  and fellowship, but I speak the blessing of the Lord upon you in
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  the name of Jesus. Everything your hand finds to do
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  this week, may you experience a mighty acceleration in that
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  area. Let the grace for honor rest
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  upon you in the name of Jesus. As you take practical steps as a
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  contribution towards this new Nigeria, I pray that the Lord
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  will support your effort with results.
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  In the name of Jesus, that indeed the breath of the Spirit
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  will rest upon you. His power and His wisdom will
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  work in your life. Every family here is blessed,
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  Every business here is blessed. Every ministry here is blessed.
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  Go from glory to glory. In Jesus mighty name we pray.
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  Let's share the grace together in fellowship, the grace of our
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  Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, the sweet fellowship of the
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  Holy Spirit. Rest and abide with us now,
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  forevermore. Amen.
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  Surely God's goodness and mercies follow us all the days
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  of our lives as we dwell in the House of the Lord forever and
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  ever, Amen. Happy independence, May God.
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  Bless you.