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Maximizing Personal Retreats — Apostle Joshua Selman · Selah Media House

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  Hallelujah, praise the Lord, let's lift up our hands and
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  bless his name. Jesus, we.
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  Bless you, Jesus, we lift up your name.
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  Jesus, we lift up your name. Jesus, we lift up your name.
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  Lift up your hands and worship you.
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  None. Hey.
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  I need to like you to tell God. Anything you.
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  Know they have done for you throughout this year.
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  Thank you Jesus for January. Thank you Jesus for February.
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  Thank you Jesus for March. Thank you Jesus for everything.
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  Thank you Jesus for name. Thank you Jesus for name.
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  Thank you Jesus for July. Thank you Jesus for August,
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  Jesus for September. Thank you Jesus for October.
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  Thank you Jesus from November. Thank you Jesus for December.
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  Thank you for all our miracle services.
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  Thank you for your testing, thank you Jesus, Thank you
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  Jesus. Thank you Jesus.
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  I've done all things well. We bring the glory.
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  Bless his name. Thank you, Jesus.
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  Thank you Jesus. Thank you Jesus.
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  Blessed be the name of the Lord. From everlasting to everlasting,
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  you are God. Go ahead and listen.
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  Blessed be the name of the Lord blessed.
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  Be the name of the. Lord, blessed be the name of the
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  Lord. Hallelujah.
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  Father, we are not ungrateful people.
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  We thank You because the desires of our enemies did not come upon
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  us. We thank you for preservation.
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  We thank you for your grace. We thank you for your mercy.
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  We thank you for your faithfulness.
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  God, we thank you. You are dependable.
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  You are a liar waymaker. Miracle.
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  My God, that is who you are. One more time as your testimony
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  to him, Father.
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  People call this year many names.
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  But the name you gave us, you demonstrated that it was.
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  So we thank you. We thank you for us as a family.
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  We have seen your hand. We have seen Your Majesty.
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  You have multiplied us. You have increased us.
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  Thank you for your grace. Carpadosa caprica toshi, Cataria
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  toshi, that is. Who you are?
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  Truly. Lord, you crown our ear with
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  goodness, and we thank you. We thank you for those of you
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  who. What we are doing seems strange.
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  This is the secret behind the. Finger of God, Nicodemus came to
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  Jesus by night and said, Rabbi, we know that thou at a man sent
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  from God, for no man can do these things except God be with
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  him. There is no level of intellect,
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  there is no level of wisdom, there is no level of human
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  science that is capable to do this.
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  Father, we are not ashamed. Be glorified, be glorified.
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  Joshua Salman is nothing without your wisdom.
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  Absolutely, absolutely, absolutely.
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  Thank you for your graves. Thank you for your word.
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  Thank you because you are true, dependable, reliable, faithful.
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  Hallelujah. You see our our generation is a
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  very arrogant generation. We are very embarrassed Whenever
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  the spotlight leaves us, whether it is to God or to any other
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  person, we frown at it. There is such a grave in our
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  generation for power, for honor, for recognition.
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  So when times come like this, when we all become oshas to bow
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  before the king, sometimes because of our little
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  achievements here and there, we pride ourselves into believing
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  that it was a product of our wisdom.
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  But every wise man who knows God knows how weak a man is.
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  When you see God's result separates the man from the
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  result. This is the finger of God.
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  This is the finger of God. This is the finger of God. 45
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  nations of the world. This is the finger of God.
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  Light in the darkness that. Is Jesus.
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  Thank you when you speak. It is within your power to make
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  it happen. Forgive us for our own belief.
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  Forgive us for thinking you are a man.
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  You are God, the creator of the ends of the year.
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  I wish I told you people to rehearse this.
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  Song, Creator of the Universe, What can you do?
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  What can you do? Jesus.
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  What can't you do? What can't you do?
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  What? Can't you change?
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  What can't you change? What can't you change?
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  This is wonderful. Just take that part of the song
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  you. Are rainbow great?
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  Almighty God, you are rainbow Jesus.
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  You are rainbow. You are rain.
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  You're the great almighty God. For the last time you were able.
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  God bless you. Please be seated.
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  Yes, he is able. Yes, He is.
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  Able. You are Jesus, the name above
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  every other name. What can't you change?
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  Why can't you change Jesus, Master of the Universe?
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  What can you do? What can you?
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  Do. Let me encourage you tonight.
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  Believe us. Whatever God tells you, He can
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  do it. Believe me, believe me.
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  Don't mind what you see when He's speaking to you, just take
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  your eyes away and with childlike foolishness say Lord,
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  I believe. If God tells you I am lifting
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  you on the wings of eagles, say Lord, I believe, don't ask, can
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  say who is my uncle? I believe, I believe this
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  ministry is a testimony. Of.
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  What God can do when he finds men who can dare to believe Him.
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  Jesus will give you the praise. In the name of Jesus Christ,
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  Hallelujah. Praise the Lord.
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  Let's honor our worship team. Come on.
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  Absolutely. I mean, praise the Lord.
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  Look guys, I am so proud of you. You do not imagine.
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  I was talking to a Jimmy and he said, look, very soon we're
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  going to start our own record label.
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  Wow. Absolutely, we'll make it
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  happen. And by the Spirit of God, it
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  will bless the nations of the world.
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  And you have the opportunity to we go around the nations of the
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  world and be a blessing to the body in the name of Jesus.
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  Let's honor them one more time. Thank you.
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  Manasseh is with us today. Blessing the Bishop is around.
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  Hallelujah. Bless you, Sir.
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  Thank you so much. I want to welcome everyone who
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  will be very brief tonight. We're going to pray.
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  I want to start tonight. I'm going to give us a very
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  strong admonition, which also double S as an instruction.
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  So please be ready to write. The Lord put this in my heart to
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  share with us. It's been a wonderful year and
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  God has been faithful, but let me remind you that the year is
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  not over. Like Bishop David Oedipo will
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  say he made the heavens and the earth in seven days.
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  I don't care whether it's prophetic 7 days or real seven
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  days. My faith can agree on the one I
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  want God to move on. Praise the Lord, whether it's
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  1000 years, seven days, I know that even if it is in one day,
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  he says as soon as Zion travels, she shall put forth a child.
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  He said, have you ever had this proverb that a woman will give
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  birth in one day, be pregnant in one day and give birth in one
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  day? That's God for you.
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  Hallelujah. I still believe that the best of
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  the year for me is still to come.
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  I truly believe God has done things that have brought tears
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  out of my eyes. But I believe for myself that
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  between now and December 31st, I'm yet to see the hand of God.
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  And so, but I want to encourage us even as we begin to set the
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  pace for 2018, if you'll be there, you can write.
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  No, Gone are the days where people in in a false show of
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  humility, they say we don't know whether we can see tomorrow is a
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  lie. Don't don't let any man bring
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  that nonsense around your table. No, you can believe there are
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  scriptures that authenticate the quality of your life, the
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  longevity of your life, and the problem is that we come from
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  environments that sociologically condition us to defeat.
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  Thank. You, Jesus, I want to give you a
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  few things that the Lord put in my heart to encourage us.
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  Really, this is this is what I'm here to do this night and then a
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  few other things that God will grant us grace to do.
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  Now, most believers are not taught the relevance of a
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  retreat. Most Christians are not taught
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  that a retreat is part and parcel of the spiritual growth
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  process of a believer. We teach fasting, we teach
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  prayer, but very few believers have been taught as a corporate
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  doctrine. Not just a time out away from
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  people, but a retreat that you end and begin seasons in your
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  life in the presence of God. It is risky to end and begin
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  seasons in your life in the flesh.
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  The most spiritual aspect of your life should be when seasons
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  are ending and when seasons are beginning, because that's when
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  Satan gets at people. When the when, when the seasons
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  have been cleared up and you're moving, it's difficult for Satan
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  to derail you. Are we together now?
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  So it is very, very important. Every one of us must make sure
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  that we use this one month that we're having and take out at
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  least a few days for a quality retreat.
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  Now, there are different kinds of retreats.
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  We have our workers retreat as a ministry.
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  There are all kinds of retreats. Families have their retreats.
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  But this retreat I'm talking about is a retreat when you are
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  exclusively alone with God, not even husband and wife, not even
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  father and children. No, there are certain things God
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  will never tell you in public. There are certain things that
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  you will only hear from God when you are alone with Him.
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  Are we together? It is.
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  It is a very deep and simple spiritual mystery that
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  guarantees victory. Many believers have not paid
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  attention to it. Retreats.
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  Very important end of year retreats.
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  Very important. You must take out time.
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  End of year retreat cannot be done in a few hours.
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  That is laziness. You didn't have a retreat, you
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  just had a quiet. Time.
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  A retreat should be at least minimum 2 solid days.
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  You can't spend one day. One day alone should be
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  dedicated to Thanksgiving. Is God speaking to us so every
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  single one of us and those following online we must take
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  out time to have personal retreats.
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  What are the activities that should happen in the retreats #1
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  Thanksgiving your end of year retreats is barring of God's
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  power until you begin and. Lavishly communicate
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  Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving. What we did here tonight is just
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  a representation. The same way you spend the night
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  with you, praying and putting your needs, you must thank God.
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  Mention them one by one. Let me tell you, I know this
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  about God. He never gets tired hearing
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  people thank Him. Lord, thank you, thank you.
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  You gave me tea. Thank you.
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  Last year it was without blue band.
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  You added blue band this year. This year.
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  So you observed it. You see that not, Lord?
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  You thank you for the food you gave me.
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  That's a careless Thanksgiving, Father.
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  Thank you. Last year it was tap water.
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  Now you gave me bottled water. Thank you.
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  That means you are careful. You are forgetting not his
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  benefits when it comes to request.
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  We are very meticulous, Lord. Give me one to. 3-4 Then when it
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  comes to Thanksgiving, say, Lord, even me, I can't remember
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  you, not God, don't you know everything?
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  I just thank you for everything. Let's go to another prayer
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  request and God says how selfish, Selfish.
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  When you thank God, mention things 1 by 1.
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  Lord, thank you. I was on my way to Kaduna and
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  the car wanted to capsize. You save me, thank you.
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  I'm going to say this happened January.
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  So Lord I didn't forget. You are too faithful for me to
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  forget that event and say you remember this for me.
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  Get ready for another dimension Thanksgiving, write it down.
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  Thanksgiving. We must take out quality time.
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  Thank you #2 I'm teaching you how to maximize, to set the
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  pace, to maximize your retreat. What do you do during your
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  personal retreat? Review your progress for the
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  current year, 2017. Now that's what you do.
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  You sincerely, honestly, unashamedly review the year.
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  And I would dwell here a bit to help us understand.
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  I want all of us to really understand these things.
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  The second thing you do at a retreat is to review the year,
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  and you don't just review the year carelessly.
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  You break your review into six different units.
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  Write it down. The first area is your spiritual
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  life. You review your spiritual life,
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  Review your passion for God, review the illumination of the
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  Word that you have accessed. What do you know now that you
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  did not know last year? What do you understand now that
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  you did not understand last year?
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  Review your. Character.
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  Create a skill for it. Can I say I am improving not
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  just in the knowledge of God? Am I useful to society?
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  Am I becoming a leader? Am I becoming a person of
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  character? So your spiritual life is the
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  first area that you have to review.
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  Let me tell you something about retreats.
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  You must be honest. You see why you have to be
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  alone? Excuse me?
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  You must be honest. You must be unashamed.
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  You must be very sincere before God #2 mental development and
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  your capacity. You review that area.
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  Did I cooperate with the Word of God to develop my mind?
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  Did I acquire useful informations that will set me on
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  the cutting edge of relevance? Did I just pray and fast and
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  build my life spiritually and allowed my mind and my relevance
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  with my sociological environment to die?
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  Are we together now? Yes.
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  It matters that we not only grow spiritually, but we sustain the
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  ability to be useful. We must be able to communicate
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  the life of Christ to our environment.
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  So you review it? What books did I read?
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  What do I know about leadership? Did I learn anything?
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  Did I build my mind? What do I know about mindsets?
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  Am I still carrying my village in my head, moving around with
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  it? Am I still carrying the
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  attributes that keep me poor and a failure?
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  Am I still carrying the attributes that make good things
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  to live my life? God helping us #3 Review how
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  much you have taken care of your body, your health in a retreat.
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  Yes Sir, that's the best place so that you can easily ask for
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  forgiveness when? Because the only person you
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  really have offended is God. This body belongs to Him.
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  For some of us, 2017 has been a useful year spiritually and a
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  cheerless one health wise. Is that true?
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  Review Oh this year Lord, I apologize, I ate anyhow.
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  I did all kinds of things anyhow.
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  Destroyed my body. Why do you make this reviews?
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  Because you need this body to last very long.
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  Are we together? Gone are the days when people
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  don't talk about this in church and they tell people the most
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  important thing is your spiritual life.
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  And you see someone of 32 looking like 50, they ask him
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  how old are he said I will be 33 next year.
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  So So why are you looking at his a condition?
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  Make crayfish bed. No, you are not a crayfish.
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  We are created in the image and the likeness of God.
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  Some of those sayings, we must start getting them out of the
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  body of Christ. They look very nice, but these
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  are the things that authorize Satan to destroy our lives.
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  Hallelujah, your health and some of us, it is not even poverty,
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  it's carelessness. Write that word down.
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  This is a word that you should look at very carefully during
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  your retreat. Many people's lives are
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  destroyed, including their health, because of one word,
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  carelessness on attentiveness to details.
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  Hallelujah #4. Review your assignment, the
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  reason for which God brought you.
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  Review your purpose for Kingdom service.
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  These are things that you review at a time of retreat.
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  Lord, I look at the compass of my destiny.
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  Did I make progress this year? Can I say from prophecy to
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  manifestation, I have moved forward?
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  You see this assignment and purpose thing, you hardly even
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  hear it again. People don't talk about it says
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  no, I come as it is written of me in the volume of the book to
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  do your will. The reason why many people have
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  time to waste their life is because they are not occupied
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  with purpose. If purpose does not occupy you,
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  anybody can call you any day and say are you free Sir?
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  Yes, come and follow me somewhere.
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  God designed your time to be well invested, fulfilling your
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  assignment. This idleness that our
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  generation has is because we are not occupied in purpose.
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  And then the recent, I would say trick of the devil is to make
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  people busy but not moving forward.
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  Motions like sitting on a rocking chair.
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  The chair is rocking consistently, but you are not
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  making progress. Oftentimes Jesus would retreat
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  and look, OK, I must be here, I must be there.
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  Your assignment, your purpose. I don't know my purpose, but you
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  can look at your service in the House of God.
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  Use that as a template. What was your level of
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  commitment? What was your level of
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  diligence? Are we together?
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  Very important. This is what I do during my
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  retreats #4 the 4th area number. What number?
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  5I beg your pardon? Your finance?
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  Write it down. Your finances?
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  You have to flog it out in the secret place.
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  Are we together now? You've looked at your spiritual
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  life, mental transformation, your body, your health.
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  Is that true? And then your assignment, then
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  your finances. We're very unapologetic about
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  the usefulness of financial resources, both in the quality
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  of our lives and Kingdom advance.
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  I'm not one of those pretentious people that would downplay the
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  role of financial resources in helping an individual live a
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  useful life. I've shared it again and again
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  with us that living to seek money all your life is a cause.
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  It's not just bad, it's a cause. It's one of the most distracting
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  strategies for Satan. When a man spends all your life
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  looking for money, it's a course.
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  Nobody was ever designed to do that.
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  What time then do you have in building this chase?
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  For money has made us to leave our children to the hands of
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  Satan, has made us to leave our purpose.
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  There are people called as prophets and apostles, but they
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  only realize one week to their death.
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  They spend their whole life chasing money and they never
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  find it. Please let me say it again and
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  again. Do not ever plan to continue
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  pursuing money all your life. There is an exact time where God
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  should help you put together financial resources that afford
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  you the opportunity to serve God so that you can turn and focus
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  on the more useful things. Making financial pursuit
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  priority in your life forever is a cause.
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  It may be within the time you are seeking.
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  That's all right. So this is very important review
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  because for some of us, our whole lives is built around
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  money, money and we never get it.
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  You talk 2 minutes money everything money you say Jesus,
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  the person replies back with money money money every time you
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  have to review. Is that true?
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  Was I able to engage the keys that bring for wealth and
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  abundance this year or I just had it and it didn't work?
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  You will easily know whether you engage it by the results you
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  got. Finance is 1 area where your
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  disobedience shows immediately. Immediately be sincere.
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  This year God gave me 1,000,000 naira.
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  God gave me 100,000 naira. What did I do with it?
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  I made a mistake. I gave 100,000 naira to four one
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  Niners. You don't jump that.
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  What is the lesson that I have to learn there?
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  Is that true? God gave me 200,000, I bought a
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  shoe and I bought a shirt that is not yet my level to prove a
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  point to people who are not interested.
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  Oh Lord, forgive me, don't say it's alright, ask for
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  forgiveness because that is sin. Is that true?
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  When God gives you resources and you waste it, If nobody has told
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  you it is sin, believe me Lord, I gave you offering of 10/10
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  naira. I gave you offering of 2020
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  naira, but my average dinner was 2000 naira.
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  It's a sign that you are not a serious believer.
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  I know you think I'm not talking about money.
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  You know that God has helped us, but it's important.
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  These are some of the things that you do during your retreat,
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  a measure of your passion for the House of God, and that
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  includes with your resources all these 1010.
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  You know, most times we lie to ourselves that it doesn't
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  matter. The amount does not matter.
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  Are we not Bible Students? He that so expiringly what is
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  firingly small scanty shall reap what is shall reap scanty.
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  That's why you get 1 testimony for most, correct?
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  You are reaping. But he that so went bountifully,
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  lavishly, extravagantly, He said he will read the Bible said that
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  scriptures cannot be broken. So don't say that it does not
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  matter. It could be a time for you.
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  I remember it was in one of my retreats, honestly speaking,
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  that the Lord challenged me on this.
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  The level of giving it was far less than the level of God's
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  blessing on my life. And the Lord rebuked me and I
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  made-up my mind and I made a vow.
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  There is a minimum amount I will never give as offering again
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  forever till Jesus comes. Yes, it's true, it's true, it's
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  true. So review it.
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  What do you understand about finances?
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  Review it. If all you know about finances
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  is business and job is better, you have to sit down and float
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  that area because neither of them in themselves will give you
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  money. Number six relationships.
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  The 6th area that you will look at in your retreat is your
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  relationships. Marital relationships, career
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  relationships, business relationships, destiny
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  relationships. Some of us almost wasted our
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  year today because of the presence of bad and useless
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  associations. Association that should have
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  nothing nothing to do with our lives is all this is our tribe
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  is our church is our this is that true?
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  The Bible says she that works with the wise will be wise, but
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  it says the companion of fools will be destroyed relationships.
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  It matters. Review them.
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  Review them. Who did you give access to this
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  year? Whose presence destroyed your
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  productivity? Who did you give access to this
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  year that destroyed your potential for more results?
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  Who should you have given access to this year that would have
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  improved your life? Some of you, your relationship
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  here, you even need to go back and check with the Holy Spirit
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  what degree of access did you give Him relationships.
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  Now when you review these six areas, let me be honest with
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  you, your entire life revolves around these six areas.
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  Your spiritual life, your mental development, your health and
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  physical well-being. Is that true?
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  Your assignment, your career, whatever it is, your financial
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  resources and your relationships.
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  There is no man that will ever be a failure if he excels in
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  this area. Usually what I do is that I
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  scale all six areas and look at the best performing area and the
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  worst performing area. And I must answer why I wouldn't
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  just say I will improve. Why?
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  Why was this the best and why was this the worst?
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  If your relationships were inside, for instance, was the
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  worst this year? What don't I know about
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  friendship? What have I not learned?
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  Maybe I'm neglecting or no. Maybe I'm not valuable enough.
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  Maybe I'm too much of A talkative.
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  Maybe I'm not somebody who can be committed secrets.
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  Maybe I'm somebody who is not friendly.
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  Maybe I'm someone who is jealous.
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  Lord help me, you write it down. Are you seeing how people grow
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  in retreat? You never come out of that
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  experience the same. No Sir.
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  People jump into the new year and laugh and fast for 10 days
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  or 21 days and become the same old them again.
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  And you see, the Bible says you never put new wine in an old
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  wine skin. If your wine skin is old,
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  nothing new will ever come. You will have to replace that
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  wine. Skin like a slick molten,
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  shedding off the old skin so that there can be room.
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  For expansion, he said, go and borrow vessels, borrow the wine
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  skin, borrow not a few. And the more the wine skin, the
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  more capacity for the anointing to function.
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  Is that true? You must take out time.
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  So this is the second thing you do, the first thing.
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  Let's review Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving then the second
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  thing you do is a review of the year.
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  I gave you 6 aspects of your review.
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  The third thing is that you must plan for 2018.
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  Plan for 2018. I'll tell you how to plan
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  shortly, please. Right.
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  This is very important plan for 2018.
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  It's amazing how many people don't plan.
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  They think just because they are writing what they would do, they
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  think that's planning. That's not planning.
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  Many times those things are just wishes because at the end of the
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  year, less than 1% of them ever happen.
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  That's not a goal. How do you plan?
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  Set clear goals in these six areas we just reviewed.
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  Set clear goals with scriptural backings in each of them.
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  I am convinced that if you set a goal in any of these six areas
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  and it doesn't have a scriptural backing, it will not come to
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  pass because there is no basis for committing God.
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  Remember, your success is based on your partnership.
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  You're not going to plan alone for by the arm of.
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  Flesh, shallow man prevail. You must plan and add a
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  scriptural backing that means a spiritual basis for committing
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  God in those areas. And then you must add time
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  targets to them. Every day is not conducive for
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  everything. No Sir.
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  When you buy a product, if we pick up this bottle of water,
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  you will see there's a little inscription there, the
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  manufacturing date, and then they write something best
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  before. In other words, to get the best
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  of this pro, this product, it should be consumed within this
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  time range. Time target to your goals puts a
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  healthy pressure on you to be able to achieve them.
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  The reason why I believe that a lot of us have defaulted on our
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  goals is because there is no time allocation.
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  So we make it look like every day is conducive.
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  No, Sir. If you build your house at 70
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  years, it's not a testimony. If you finish school at 60
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  years, it's not a testimony. Is that true?
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  If a woman gives birth to her first child at 60 years, it's an
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  unusual testimony. It's because it's not supposed
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  to be so. Is that true?
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  If God blesses you at 80 years, who are you going to live before
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  you will be angry? And be frustrated.
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  So there are things that we must trust God to help us fast track
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  in our lives. Say Amen.
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  And let me come to the gentleman and just talk to us a little.
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  Please plan turn to any brother seated name and say brother.
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  Plan. Just leave the sisters one
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  minute, Say brother, plan, listen.
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  Spiritual people, spiritual people are some of the poorest
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  planners we have, especially in this country.
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  We don't plan for our greatness. We just hope and wish and pray,
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  Bishop Political said. Praying without planning is
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  playing without knowing. You have to be like Nehemiah.
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  With one hand you are building, but with another hand you are
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  holding the sword. Both hands cannot hold the
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  sword. One hand is holding the sword
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  and another hand is building. It says every house is built by
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  some man, but God is the builder of all that some man must build.
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  The horse is prepared for battle, but safeties of the
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  Lord. But it does not stop you from
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  preparing the horse. Are we together now?
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  I expect every gentleman here to start planning, married or not.
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  Sit down and plan. Here's what scripture says.
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  When I was a child, I thought like a child, correct?
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  I understood like a child. I acted like a child.
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  It says now that I am a man, I lay aside these childish things.
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  Some of you, that's what will happen in your retreat.
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  You have to sit down. Tell yourself, this childishness
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  in my life must go forever. Come on, this foolishness in my
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  life must go forever. This stupidity in my life must
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  go forever. Somehow we have this belief that
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  because God is able, without our engaging him through the
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  application of the wisdom of God, things will just happen.
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  Just like that. Are tired of irresponsible
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  fathers were tired of irresponsible gentlemen were
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  tired of nuisances to society. A gentleman who should be
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  capable of feeding and taking care of his siblings and taking
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  care of his generation is still depending on his old and aged
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  parents blasting in tongues. But depending there he should
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  not be. He should not be.
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  There is an honor that comes when certain things are in place
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  in your life. Is that true?
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  I'm speaking to everybody, but I'm speaking especially to our
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  gentlemen. Please let's go back to God and
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  plan this rat race of visiting everybody.
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  Today you are here, tomorrow you are there.
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  My brother, what are you doing with your life?
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  You say it is. Well, no, it's not.
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  Well, you see the one plan. What are you doing with your
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  life? Oh, I want to marry Apostle
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  Wonderful. And eat what?
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  Show me the blueprint of, of the timetable of your cooking, the
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  capability to be able to send and take care of the family.
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  Especially do you know, because in Africa, let's be very honest,
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  if I unpick everybody here, almost everybody here has at
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  least four or five people depending to eat from him.
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  Is that true? Leave the ladies, gentlemen, I'm
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  talking to you. I'm coming to the ladies.
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  Pick anybody at random. There is one neighbor, one one
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  cousin, you know 1 relative that you didn't even know you are
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  related to that needs you to feed.
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  So gone are the days where you say I have enough for myself.
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  No, you must flog it out. Plan, plan.
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  I will take the month of January to study only on finances, even
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  if they give you a message on rapture.
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  You say I'm born again. I have a goal.
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  I'm studying on finances. I'm spending the month of
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  February to study on faith. On faith.
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  I'm studying the month of the month of March to study on the
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  anointing. I'm studying the month of June
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  or April or whatever to study on my gifting.
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  Some potential I'm spending the month of July to study on
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  ministry or my assignment. That's how we grow.
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  You don't get up every day and open to any part of scripture
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  and just read and convince yourself that you are growing.
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  You must plan. Are we together?
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  By the grace of God, there is almost a message concerning
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  every major area of your life. Go to the media stand.
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  There are teachings. The media department can help
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  you compartmentalize the teachings.
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  If it is success, if it's your spiritual growth, character
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  development, you know, salvation, etcetera.
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  Whatever it is, there are teachings and they are all.
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  Free. Come with them.
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  Was planned #4 The fourth thing that I want us to do by the
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  grace of God is that all of us as a family of faith,
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  individually, we are going to be studying the book of Proverbs.
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  Write it down. We are going to be studying the
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  Book of Proverbs, all the 31 chapters.
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  Study, not read. There's a difference between
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  studying and reading. You can take 22 chapters and
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  finish it in 15 days. You didn't study, you read.
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  You glanced through. Let's use this break period to
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  extensively study the Book of Proverbs.
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  Go online. There are all kinds of
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  commentaries that have been done on that book.
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  Study carefully. Don't read to finish, read to
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  understand the book of Proverbs. The Lord put this in my heart
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  was studying The 5th admonition, which comes as an instruction is
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  that everyone of us, as much as God has granted us the
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  understanding, have a sacrificial seed wrapped with
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  expectation. This is between you and God.
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  A sacrifice is not a seed. A sacrifice is bread.
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  He said cast your bread upon the water.
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  He gives seed to the sower and bread to the eater, but there
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  are times He will challenge you to give both the bread and the
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  seed a sacrificial seed. I'm already doing mine and I'm
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  doing it again and again. It's a principle I have
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  practiced for many years that at the end of the year into the
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  next year, they will, I will, I will have to commit to something
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  that cost me, go to God and to the ministry.
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  Every year without fail, I do this.
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  I'm not talking of 10 naira, 20 naira, something that even you,
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  you will stand and say, Lord, I give thanks between you and God.
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  Why are you doing that? You are engaging the mystery of
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  sacrifice and securing the year coming.
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  Now, please don't do it if you don't have the revelation.
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  This has nothing to do with trying to manipulate money.
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  And this is a mistake that men of God make when it comes to
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  things like seeds and sacrifice. You see them expressing a lot of
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  desperation. I, I always say this, every man
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  of God's success is not based on the giving of members.
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  It is based on his own obedience to the principle of the Kingdom.
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  Colonia will only prosper to the degree to which you are
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  complying with the precepts of the Kingdom.
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  Are we together these five things?
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  I promise you that when you do them, you will be ready for an
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  amazing 2018 #1 Thanksgiving #2 review.
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  That number 2 for me is one of the most important.
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  You have to review. Don't just wait and say, ah, a
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  possible send us the prophetic word for next year.
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  My body is shaking. I need to know what is the
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  prophetic word? This is how a lot of people keep
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  recycling carelessness again, after again and, and and and
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  then again and again. And they find out that the year
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  remains the same. Different words coming, but
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  there's no progress in our lives.
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  So go back, get a notebook. Don't just get a little piece of
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  paper, say sign that you are not serious with your own destiny.
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  Get a notebook and sit down and write these things out.
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  Come up by the Spirit. One of the things I can
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  guarantee you that will happen in your silence is that the Holy
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  Spirit will speak to you. He will correct you, He will
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  applaud you, will rebuke you, He will encourage you, He will
• 49:23
  challenge you. Let the chastening of the Lord
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  not be something that you resent.
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  Whatever happens in that secret place, embrace it as a refiners
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  fire. It is going to be the key to
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  your next level. Is that true?
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  Praise God, so you do this. This is my first encouragement
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  for us tonight. These five things the Lord put
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  it in my heart and I failed to share with us to help us
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  maximize our time. Proverbs chapter 4.
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  Blessed be the name of the Lord. We're reading the 1st 10 verses
• 50:02
  Proverbs chapter. 4. Just to encourage us, and then
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  we pray. Proverbs chapter 4.
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  Is it projected? OK hear ye children, the
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  instructions of a father, and attend to no understanding.
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  For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law.
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  Solomon is teaching us here. For I was my father's son,
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  tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother.
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  He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thy heart retain my
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  words, Keep my commandments and leave.
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  Verse 5. Get whistle, get understanding,
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  Forget it not, neither decline from the words of my mouth.
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  Verse 6 Forsake her not, who is the her wisdom understanding,
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  Forsake her not and she shall preserve thee.
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  Take note the benefits of embracing wisdom and
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  understanding. She shall preserve thee.
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  Love her and she shall keep thee. 7 says wisdom is the
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  principal thing, therefore get wisdom, and with all thy getting
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  get understanding. It says, Exalt her, and she
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  shall promote thee. She shall bring thee to honor,
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  who will bring you wisdom and understanding.
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  Not just wisdom. Wisdom and understanding will
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  bring you to honor. When thou dost embrace her while
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  reading to verse 10, verse 9, she shall give unto thy head an
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  ornament of grace. A crown of glory shall she
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  deliver unto you past. 10 Hear, O my Son, and receive my
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  sayings, and the years of thy life shall be many, from
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  preservation to honor to longevity.
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  Wisdom and understanding. Wisdom is the capacity to
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  understand the mind of Christ. Wisdom is the ability to
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  communicate the scriptural solution concerning every issue
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  of life. The scriptural solution to every
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  issue of life is called wisdom. You are wise to the degree to
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  which you comprehend the the ability to proffer scriptural
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  solution. There are cultural solutions to
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  life's problems. There are occultic solutions to
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  life problems. There are emotional solutions to
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  life's problems. None of them in themselves are
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  able to provide lasting solutions.
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  But the wisdom of God, the wisdom of God, I have pursue the
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  wisdom of God with my life, because when I was exposed to my
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  own folly and the fact that I am so limited and the consequences
• 53:44
  of foolishness. The Bible says he that works
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  with the wise shall be wise himself.
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  But he said just being the companion of a fool, your
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  destruction is guaranteed. If as a companion of a fool you
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  are destroyed, then what happens to the just being a friend to a
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  foolish man, Allowing his foolish decisions to influence
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  you in guarantees room for you. That means every fool has no
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  hope. Foolishness is bankruptcy of the
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  knowledge of God's principles. It's not just acting foolishly.
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  The foolish action is a product of bankruptcy.
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  In your spirit and in your mind. I'd like us to carefully examine
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  the decisions in our lives. I want us to carefully examine
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  the things that we do. The degree to which you have
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  succeeded is a show of how you have manifested the wisdom of
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  God. Every time results are not
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  produced in your life is because there was a defaulting in the
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  wisdom of God. It's an uncomfortable truth, but
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  it's the secret to rising and pressing for.
• 54:57
  Wisdom I am ever ready to be shown.
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  By God, the areas in my life where I am bankrupt of the
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  wisdom of God. It doesn't embarrass me.
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  I want to know. I search for it like one who is
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  looking for treasure. If you do not contend for
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  wisdom, your life will be an unending circle of pain and an
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  ending circle of regrets and an ending circle of many things.
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  Most of us look at our lives this year and we can see several
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  points in our lives where foolishness veered us off the
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  path of glory and brought us into a lot of pain.
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  Some of us lost destiny. Help us.
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  Some of us lost the gift of men. Is that true?
• 55:47
  Some of us lost opportunities. Some of us lost access.
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  Several things. No wisdom.
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  Some of us this. Year.
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  We approached our parents wrongly and right now there is a
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  divide between US and our parents.
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  Lack of wisdom. Some of us had sealed with no
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  knowledge and it brought a lot of trouble to our businesses, a
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  lot of trouble to our ministers. Wisdom is very important.
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  The Bible says it is the principal thing.
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  The Bible says I commend you to the word of God.
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  He says he's able to make you wise.
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  The word of God makes men wise. Just by focusing your attention
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  on the word of God and imbibing the principles, the modus of
• 56:36
  Randy of the Kingdom, it makes you wise.
• 56:38
  The Word of God teaches you how to relate with difficult people.
• 56:42
  The Word of God teaches you how to speak and when to speak so
• 56:47
  that you don't get into trouble. The Word of God teaches you how
• 56:50
  to respond to unbelievers. Many of us come from families
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  where there is a mixture of people who are both of the faith
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  and not of the faith. Wisdom teaches you how to
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  communicate. Wisdom teaches you that when you
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  are angry, be silent because every time you speak, you speak
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  in the flesh. There are many people who trust
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  obeying this principle would have saved them businesses worth
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  millions of naira. They uttered words that they are
• 57:16
  still paying for it today. Are we together, our challenges?
• 57:22
  Doctor Mike Murdock will say there is no money problem
• 57:24
  anywhere and I agree with him. Most of our challenges.
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  Because you see, we are victims of our understanding and most of
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  the things we have executed in our lives are reflections of the
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  limitations of our knowledge, our wisdom, our understanding.
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  Just what the Bible says, it says true wisdom.
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  A house is built then, it says by understanding it is
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  established. The firmness of that house is a
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  product of understanding, it says.
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  True knowledge is a house filled with every pleasurable thing we.
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  Make up. Our minds that we are going to
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  access the Word of God not just as an instrument to heal us of
• 58:08
  the guilt of spirituality. I would say for many people, our
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  study of the world is just to so that the devil does not plant
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  any seed in us, that we are backsliding, but we are not
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  learning anything. This is the greatest book that
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  will help your career and your business.
• 58:28
  This is the greatest book that will help your marriage.
• 58:32
  This is the greatest book. The sufferings in our world
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  today is because we have ignored the truths that are here.
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  We have read it like a religious book.
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  We have read it to preach. We have read it to to carry out
• 58:46
  Bible studies and prayer sessions, but we have not read
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  it for the purpose of accessing wisdom.
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  For the way of the Lord is the way of ways.
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  I choose the way. Listen, there is no age you get
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  to a life that guarantees that all your decisions will be
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  Florida. State Accurate.
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  This is the book that coordinates our success.
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  There is no educational height you get to that guarantees that
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  your decision making process will be accurate.
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  Even if you study psychology, it is not enough to give you all
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  the parameters that are needed in themselves to make wise
• 59:40
  decisions. I have lost confidence in myself
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  outside of the world. It says thy world is a lamp to
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  my feet and a light to my part in this wicked world.
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  Listen, this ministry by the grace of God was built on this
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  world. I have meticulously built my
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  life on this world. I don't trust any other thing
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  that is not this world. I bring you a proposition
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  tonight as we round up this year.
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  I want you to return to a place where you hold a non quenchable
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  hunger and value for the world. Many of us free, but our lives
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  are bankrupt of wisdom. Our decisions show the absence
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  of the influence of the world is very clear that we're not being
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  governed. By the world.
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  I can know how much you have imbibed the world by the
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  Excellency and the quality of your communication.
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  I'm not talking of linguistic excellence.
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  I'm talking of the wisdom that flows from your words.
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  I see your behavior. I see how you disappoint your
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  enemy's expectations. And I know you have stayed with
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  the world when you become a victim of people's expectations.
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  Wait and see. He's going to shout at this
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  person. You come and shout.
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  You have given yourself sheep to life.
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  The Word of God is not coordinating you.
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  Jesus disappointed the expectations of the people many
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  times. For instance, when they brought
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  to him the woman who was caught in adultery, they expected he
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  was going to run because they were talking about the Word of
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  God. You know, every time Satan wants
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  to challenge you, he uses Scripture.
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  Moses said this and Jesus kept quiet wisdom.
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  For there is a time to speak and there is a time to be silent.
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  There are times where your loudest communication is in your
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  silence. Your silence will answer more
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  than any word. For instance, when responding to
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  your critic, your critic already knows the truth.
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  Don't try to explain. It's a waste of time.
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  You don't respond to critics by verbal communication.
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  You respond to critics by consistency.
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  Consistency of your results. Is that true?
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  When I look at our lives and I see our lives surrounded by
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  pride and arrogance, it is because we have not seen the
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  deception of pride. The deception of pride is like a
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  man climbing a ladder and you take the ladder away.
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  That's exactly what pride does. I love the word of.
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  God. I stopped reading my Bible to
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  finish it. I stopped reading my Bible to
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  crime scriptures. I found out that it was truly a
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  road map in this darkness. Darkness where there is
• 1:02:42
  deception. How many of you have followed
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  people's advices and their advices crushed you?
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  Not because they were bad people, they were just humans.
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  I advise you to beat your wife if she goes wrong.
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  Say I tried it on my own wife. Look at how she's behaving now.
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  You tried it on your own wife and that's when you, you, your
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  prayers stop being answered. That's the first thing that
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  started happening to you and many other bad things happened
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  to you. I can look at your life and know
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  how much the word of God has prevailed by the quality of the
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  results that you produce. You see, let me tell you
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  something. If I look at your life and I see
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  you are dirty and. Utter.
• 1:03:24
  As simple as. Neatness, I know you don't have
• 1:03:26
  respect for the word of God. If the word of God can purge
• 1:03:29
  your spirit, then your life will reflect it.
• 1:03:33
  You cannot be growing in the world and you are dirty and kept
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  looking like a thief all the time and say it does not matter.
• 1:03:39
  No Sir, no Sir, the word of God will make you to buy a iron
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  because it will teach you that there is a way you appear before
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  kings, there is a way kings behave, and the Bible tells you
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  that you have been made according to Revelation chapter
• 1:03:54
  5 and verse 10 will be made unto God a Kingdom of kings.
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  And. Priests.
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  So you speak like a king, You act like a king.
• 1:04:06
  Is that true? It is a word of God that is the
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  antidote to these conflicts that our cultures create in our
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  heads. Christian versus Hausa,
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  Christian versus Yoruba, Christian versus evil.
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  You don't know which one to embrace and which one to live.
• 1:04:24
  I propose to you a culture that is above and superior to every
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  other one. That any part of your culture
• 1:04:31
  that does not subscribe to the Word of God ejected immediately.
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  The Kingdom is a culture. Most of us, our lives have been
• 1:04:40
  destroyed because of our our unfortunate loyalty to cultural
• 1:04:46
  tenants that are completely Antichrist.
• 1:04:49
  So although we are attempting again and again to be spiritual,
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  but the the thinkings that we have imbibed from culture
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  continue to fight God in our lives.
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  I have no loyalty to. Anything.
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  That is not of God. This is it.
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  This is my new culture. Scripture tells me that I've
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  been called out of every tribe. I'm not saying culture is bad in
• 1:05:15
  itself, but trust me, there are demonic and satanic areas.
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  There are certain aspects of cultures that are not seen in
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  themselves. But I tell you, there are
• 1:05:25
  weights. A weight is something that can
• 1:05:28
  provide an impedance. It can stop your movement says
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  my yoke is easy and my burden is light.
• 1:05:38
  So when you are carrying a witch that is destroying your life in
• 1:05:44
  our place we don't do this. In our place women cannot talk.
• 1:05:49
  Who is this woman I'm preaching? I can't listen to her because in
• 1:05:52
  our with your place, who invented it?
• 1:05:57
  Oh, God is speaking, I will listen.
• 1:06:01
  In our place, young people don't talk to old people, even
• 1:06:04
  respectfully, even under the anointing.
• 1:06:09
  Are you seeing that now? It is important that we
• 1:06:13
  recalibrate our minds so that we begin to view life from the
• 1:06:19
  perspective of the Kingdom. They drove children from coming
• 1:06:24
  to Jesus. Something about their culture
• 1:06:27
  taught them that. And Jesus let the little
• 1:06:30
  children come to me and do not forbid them.
• 1:06:33
  He said. For for such.
• 1:06:35
  That means these children roaming around are teaching you
• 1:06:37
  a lesson. You are not learning that until
• 1:06:40
  you become like one of these, not childish, but childlike,
• 1:06:45
  very malleable in your faith and understanding, He says the
• 1:06:49
  Kingdom is for such. Are you getting blessed tonight?
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  Get wisdom, get understanding, make a conscious decision that
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  in the name of the Lord Jesus, although I was born in so, so,
• 1:07:05
  so place, I was born under so, so, so condition.
• 1:07:09
  By the grace of God, my children will not live under that kind of
• 1:07:12
  condition. The Lord by His Spirit will lead
• 1:07:15
  me. It's not about Nazareth, it's
• 1:07:20
  not about where you come from. It's about your ability to work
• 1:07:23
  with the Word of God and bring that transformation.
• 1:07:28
  Hallelujah. By the grace of God, I have made
• 1:07:32
  it a personal commitment as a minister that I will never
• 1:07:37
  create seditions. Or.
• 1:07:40
  Favoritism based on geographic factors.
• 1:07:43
  Never, never. You will never see me do that.
• 1:07:47
  I love my people. Wonderful people, love my region
• 1:07:51
  where I come from. But by the grace of God, I've
• 1:07:54
  traveled to every one of the regions of this nation and they
• 1:07:57
  love me unreservedly because I do not and will never, never try
• 1:08:02
  to create any sense of superiority of one culture above
• 1:08:07
  another. I love everyone.
• 1:08:09
  The Bible says there is neither male nor female, neither Jew nor
• 1:08:13
  Greek born nor free. We are all in Christ so I cannot
• 1:08:18
  see. I can say IK is evil and say I'm
• 1:08:21
  pastor, Alpha is from Kobe state promises from Delta and I say
• 1:08:25
  you are my person. Be careful.
• 1:08:27
  Those are the kinds of mindsets that robots because your destiny
• 1:08:31
  helper will come as directed. It may not be from your place,
• 1:08:40
  Joseph of Arimathea. The Bible does not record that
• 1:08:45
  he was part of the disciples of Jesus.
• 1:08:47
  How about Simon of Cyrene, the people who played very major
• 1:08:52
  roles in the life of Jesus? Jesus was rejected by his own
• 1:08:56
  people. They run away.
• 1:08:58
  Another prophetess, Simeon in the temple, Joseph of Arimathea,
• 1:09:03
  look at the strange people who came and attended to him.
• 1:09:09
  Wisdom. There are ministries that have
• 1:09:11
  crashed into pieces because of lack of wisdom.
• 1:09:16
  They make it look like if you are this tribe, you are not
• 1:09:18
  welcome. If you are that tribe, you are
• 1:09:20
  not welcome. We must be careful because we
• 1:09:23
  are dealing with a global society.
• 1:09:25
  Part of the principles you learn when you study global leadership
• 1:09:28
  is that you must concentrate on the points of similarity.
• 1:09:32
  Concentrate on the points of similarity.
• 1:09:35
  Nobody will be comfortable in an atmosphere where their core
• 1:09:39
  values are being insulted simply because we are trying to
• 1:09:43
  demonstrate the superiority of another culture.
• 1:09:47
  So we unify ourselves as believers with one common
• 1:09:52
  culture. It's called the Kingdom.
• 1:09:55
  The Kingdom is God's culture where we allow the influence and
• 1:10:00
  the reign of Christ to permeate our lives regardless of our
• 1:10:04
  geographic differences. I love the word of God gives me
• 1:10:50
  wisdom. It is the Bible that teaches us
• 1:10:53
  how to be wise financially. He says a good man leaves an
• 1:10:57
  inheritance for his children's children.
• 1:10:59
  So when you see a young man spending as if he would not
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  marry, you see that living a fake and a foolish life.
• 1:11:07
  That's a selfish man because he's not thinking about his
• 1:11:10
  children and his children's children.
• 1:11:15
  The Bible says it. The Bible says there is he
• 1:11:18
  that's scattered here, the wisdom of God.
• 1:11:21
  There is he that's scattered, that increases.
• 1:11:24
  There is he that withholded more than his meat and tends to
• 1:11:27
  poverty. That means there is a
• 1:11:28
  relationship between greed and luck.
• 1:11:31
  The Bible establishes it. So when there is luck in your
• 1:11:34
  life, you check and you see that there is Scripture is fulfilled
• 1:11:38
  in your life. The Bible talks about tithing,
• 1:11:41
  that there is a relationship between the opening of your
• 1:11:43
  heavens and your tithing. Regardless of whatever opinions
• 1:11:47
  are, scripture cannot be broken. It is by these two immutable
• 1:11:51
  things God swore His word will not be broken.
• 1:11:56
  Heaven and earth will pass away, but brothers and sisters, men
• 1:11:59
  and their philosophies and their pride and their arrogance,
• 1:12:02
  nations and kingdoms will rise and fall, but the Word of God
• 1:12:05
  remains consistent. One of the greatest fears, if I
• 1:12:10
  would say in my life is to find out that at the end of my life I
• 1:12:14
  believe they lie. I wasted my time following a
• 1:12:18
  man, following a philosophy and then at the end you tell me I'm
• 1:12:21
  sorry. Me too.
• 1:12:22
  I'm as confused as you. I choose the word of God that
• 1:12:25
  liveth and abideth forever. This ministry is a tithing
• 1:12:30
  ministry. I'm a tithing person.
• 1:12:32
  There is no devil and no doctrine that will ever stop us.
• 1:12:36
  That's why there is no amount of recession.
• 1:12:39
  I say it with all humility, by the grace of God Almighty that
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  is. Capable of limiting me as.
• 1:12:46
  Person and limiting the work of God for say I will build my
• 1:12:49
  church and if you allow me build it, I will build it in such a
• 1:12:53
  manner that the gates of hell will not prevail.
• 1:12:58
  This this is the wisdom of God. I have learned from the wisdom
• 1:13:01
  of God that as a man of God, your assignment is to lift up
• 1:13:05
  Jesus, not yourself. This is the secret to crowd you
• 1:13:08
  lift up yourself. Who pay for it, it says.
• 1:13:11
  And I if I be lifted, the reward for lifting me is mysteriously I
• 1:13:17
  will draw all men, not some men, not some territories.
• 1:13:22
  When I found this, I said, Lord, I have no business building.
• 1:13:25
  Any. Empire.
• 1:13:26
  It is about Jesus. King of Kings and the Lord of
• 1:13:29
  Lords, thank God for the honor, but I'm so happy to let you know
• 1:13:35
  that the one who really deserves all the glory and all the honor
• 1:13:40
  is Jesus, the head of the Church.
• 1:13:41
  The Buddha of Colonia came from the world.
• 1:13:47
  I'm showing you things from the world.
• 1:13:51
  I have found out in the Word of God that when you are not the
• 1:13:55
  body of Christ, there are dimensions you.
• 1:13:57
  Enter It is it is the word of God that gave me that wisdom, so
• 1:14:01
  I can insult a man because I do not like something about him,
• 1:14:06
  yet he's carried an anointing that can help me.
• 1:14:08
  It is for this cause many a week, for this cause many are
• 1:14:13
  sick, for this cause many to sleep.
• 1:14:16
  There are many people who would have cheaply received miracles,
• 1:14:19
  but the vessels that carry the anointing are not appealing to
• 1:14:23
  them. The scripture says there is a
• 1:14:26
  treasure in Ethan vessel. He didn't tell you the vessel is
• 1:14:29
  golden. He said the vessel is Ethan so
• 1:14:32
  he can be angry like Elijah or tempers like Moses.
• 1:14:36
  They still are anointed when I. I found out I don't have any
• 1:14:42
  problem with any man of God. You never hear me open my mouth
• 1:14:46
  and tear down a man and his ministry because I believe that
• 1:14:49
  there is always something I can. Learn.
• 1:14:51
  Even if I cannot learn spirituality, I can learn
• 1:14:54
  excellence. I can learn.
• 1:14:55
  Leadership. When you search for Jesus
• 1:14:57
  everywhere you will find Him. I learned from this scripture
• 1:15:05
  that as a man, as he thinketh in his heart, so is he.
• 1:15:09
  So I stopped wasting my time packaging a reality that is not
• 1:15:12
  here. Gone are the days where people
• 1:15:15
  try to buy suit, buy shoe with empty understanding and then
• 1:15:20
  their minds reduce their lives. What have you seen?
• 1:15:24
  Territories like that? They try to do physical things.
• 1:15:27
  They have not educated the people in that environment.
• 1:15:29
  Then they make up in six months. They.
• 1:15:33
  The top to look like the mindsets of those living in that
• 1:15:36
  environment. No sensitization.
• 1:15:42
  So I learned that the key. To my lifting is not buying
• 1:15:46
  clothes, buying shoes, buying all these things to prove a
• 1:15:49
  point that I can wait with the Holy Spirit to reconstruct my
• 1:15:53
  understanding and that inevitably the things I so
• 1:15:57
  admire will helplessly run towards.
• 1:15:59
  Me. Oh my God.
• 1:16:01
  And how? How true.
• 1:16:04
  This is one of the truest revelations I know in Scripture.
• 1:16:09
  The supernatural power of the transformed mind and its ability
• 1:16:14
  to effortlessly draw to your life the realities that are
• 1:16:18
  consistent with your understanding.
• 1:16:20
  It is true. Are we together?
• 1:16:26
  The wisdom of God tells you there is hope for a tree, even
• 1:16:29
  if it caution in our society where we are, we are more than
• 1:16:34
  happy to conclude on people you look at someone and say this guy
• 1:16:40
  used to be an. Armed robber, there's no hope
• 1:16:42
  for him. But when you study the word of
• 1:16:44
  God, the Bible is full of people that God transformed their lives
• 1:16:48
  overnight. And my Bible says that rejected
• 1:16:51
  stone. That rejected stone.
• 1:16:54
  I'm speaking to someone in your family and all the nonsense and
• 1:16:57
  rubbish that they say about people.
• 1:17:02
  There are people who started this year with their pride of
• 1:17:04
  spirituality and right now they're not they're almost not
• 1:17:08
  even born again because their pride humble them.
• 1:17:11
  They maintain their spiritual life by.
• 1:17:13
  Themselves, but there are people who started this year said Lord,
• 1:17:16
  if you are looking for any vessel, can you use this
• 1:17:19
  drunkard? And God said that's all I want
• 1:17:21
  come and right now as I speak. In various stages around the
• 1:17:25
  world, setting up place the Kingdom of darkness because he
• 1:17:28
  uses the foolish things. When you understand this, you
• 1:17:31
  will never run your mouth at anybody and conclude on people.
• 1:17:35
  You don't see a woman who is frying a car and.
• 1:17:39
  Look and say oh. Dear poor woman, because God can
• 1:17:41
  pick someone, He says the word of God makes men wise.
• 1:17:45
  The way we speak sometimes shows that we have not read scripture.
• 1:17:52
  What I say, poor man, rich man, I will hug you and greet you.
• 1:17:58
  I won't say you. You are this.
• 1:18:00
  No, No. Of course I will give you all.
• 1:18:02
  No. Because God, I have seen in my
• 1:18:05
  little life how God has transformed people overnight and
• 1:18:10
  made Princess to be servants and servants to become Princess.
• 1:18:16
  If the Barber of Joseph knew he was probably the Prime Minister,
• 1:18:20
  he would have begged him and say, Sir, don't forget me, you.
• 1:18:25
  There were people of Bus and John lifted simply because they
• 1:18:28
  dared to advise him while he was in prison.
• 1:18:31
  When he came out, he sent for them, created one committee and
• 1:18:34
  dropped them guys before I changed the committee.
• 1:18:41
  And he said it very openly, not anything in the hiding.
• 1:18:44
  I brought this person here because he was there for me.
• 1:18:47
  Wisdom. Wisdom teaches you to be there
• 1:18:50
  for people at their worst areas because they will never forget
• 1:18:53
  you. People forget you when they if,
• 1:18:57
  if, if I hold a banquet for plenty people.
• 1:19:00
  You hold that banquet as a king, so you forget everybody.
• 1:19:03
  But when someone comes to you in The Cave of Abdullah, you say I
• 1:19:06
  will never forget you. Everybody run away from me, but
• 1:19:09
  you stood here. One of the quickest way to be
• 1:19:12
  rich is find somebody rising, find a vision rising, be part of
• 1:19:17
  it with all diligence. That's a free ride to the
• 1:19:21
  wealthy place. I guarantee you some of our
• 1:19:26
  parents today know people that would have changed their life in
• 1:19:29
  a habit. They're crying for rent, whereas
• 1:19:31
  somebody that they would have helped with 50 naira 20 years
• 1:19:35
  ago would give them an estate today.
• 1:19:38
  The Word of God making us wise, making us wise, making us wise,
• 1:19:45
  making us wise. Hold your Bible in one minute
• 1:19:48
  and I'd like you to pray and say, Lord, there is, there is
• 1:19:51
  wisdom in this scripture. There is wisdom in this
• 1:19:54
  Scripture. There is wisdom in this
• 1:19:56
  Scripture. I'm tired of foolishness in my
• 1:19:59
  life. Lord, I come to terms with the
• 1:20:01
  fact that my decisions are obviously showing the bankruptcy
• 1:20:06
  of the Word of God. The quality of my decisions are
• 1:20:10
  a revelation that the wisdom of God is not at work in my life.
• 1:20:14
  The quality of my decisions, the quality of my results are
• 1:20:19
  questioning the efficacy of the Word of God in my life.
• 1:20:22
  Are you praying? I'm not asking you whether you
• 1:20:27
  have been faithful with Bible study.
• 1:20:29
  I'm not asking you whether you have been faithful with your
• 1:20:32
  your devotion or whatever it is. I'm.
• 1:20:35
  Asking you, have you allowed the wisdom of God to influence your
• 1:20:39
  understanding? Do you live your life trading
• 1:20:44
  the mysteries of the Kingdom? Or do you live your life
• 1:20:47
  guessing and hoping that at a point in your life things will
• 1:20:50
  change? It's risky to run your life by
• 1:20:53
  your own, your own formula. Hallelujah.
• 1:21:00
  Sit down. The wisdom of God.
• 1:21:04
  Come. The wisdom of God teaches us how
• 1:21:07
  to relate with people. Is that true?
• 1:21:11
  When when you study the wisdom of God, the word of God, you
• 1:21:15
  will know that whoever wants friends will not sit down and
• 1:21:19
  say call me, text me, be my friend.
• 1:21:23
  That friendship is a harvest. You have to sow the seed.
• 1:21:29
  So if I sit down and I find out that I love God, but there are
• 1:21:33
  no friends. As a lady, nobody likes me.
• 1:21:36
  As a guy, nobody likes me. The secret is that something
• 1:21:40
  about your life is creating an environment that is pungent to
• 1:21:45
  friendship. See that when you lack help us
• 1:21:52
  in your life, the Bible gives you a prescription.
• 1:21:58
  When you lack help us in your life, I can tell you immediately
• 1:22:01
  there are things you are not doing.
• 1:22:03
  Among them there is no prophecy on your life because destiny
• 1:22:07
  help us don't come on their own. It is one aspect of your life
• 1:22:11
  that it is pure. Prophecy that calls them.
• 1:22:23
  I will learn it about fear, living in fear.
• 1:22:29
  There are many of us. We have used our words to
• 1:22:31
  program wars. Ladies, it is not for us.
• 1:22:35
  We are not us. We are the.
• 1:22:36
  We are the what they call that thing where the outcasts were
• 1:22:41
  the ones who are parents cannot leave it to these people.
• 1:22:45
  And the Bible says do not say before an Angel I made a
• 1:22:49
  mistake. We have programmed nonsense and
• 1:22:52
  rubbish a name God did not call you.
• 1:22:55
  You have allowed yourself to be called it again and again.
• 1:22:59
  You called yourself ugly. There is no way in Scripture
• 1:23:02
  where you are called ugly. You call yourself irresponsible.
• 1:23:06
  The Word of God does not. Call you that way.
• 1:23:11
  Open my eyes. Help me believe I am.
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  Watch this. Hallelujah.
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  So friendship. The Bible says cast not away
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  your confidence. Confidence is not pride.
• 1:23:30
  Confidence is psychological stability.
• 1:23:33
  That is on the strength of the truth you have found in
• 1:23:36
  Scripture. That's confidence, stability
• 1:23:41
  that is based on the truth of God's word.
• 1:23:44
  If you tell me Apostle I, I was passing across a shrine and I
• 1:23:48
  had them talking about you that they will kill you tomorrow.
• 1:23:51
  I'm going to sleep this night. I won't wake up and do any
• 1:23:53
  special prayer to the God and you can't be just.
• 1:23:57
  A joke if you know the. Mysteries that keep this man
• 1:23:59
  standing. You surround yourself with
• 1:24:04
  mysteries like Chariots. When the spirit of death knocks
• 1:24:08
  on your door, 3 scriptures come out like like fire.
• 1:24:12
  I found I word and I ate it. It was a joy and a rejoicing.
• 1:24:16
  The word was not written for preachers, brothers and sisters.
• 1:24:20
  It was written for those who can't believe my mother started
• 1:24:26
  learning these principles. And you would find that people
• 1:24:29
  will start calling. Take a bag of rice.
• 1:24:32
  Give your mother take this. Give your mother working for
• 1:24:35
  her. She's not a preacher and it's
• 1:24:38
  not because she's my mother. It works for anybody.
• 1:24:44
  Declare ye that he might be justified.
• 1:24:46
  I will never say I am a failure. No Sir, no Sir, no Sir, no Sir.
• 1:24:53
  Just because there is no food in your room.
• 1:24:55
  Most believers who come guide this life self a looter
• 1:25:00
  continuum. Victoria Escaratta is a is a
• 1:25:03
  'cause you are recite you are enchanting is the same thing as
• 1:25:06
  being given a charm in a happily shrine.
• 1:25:09
  And you read it. That's what you have been doing.
• 1:25:14
  You come in and you see lack and insufficiency, You declare,
• 1:25:18
  while I look not at the things that are unseen, but the things
• 1:25:21
  that are seen. For the things that are seen are
• 1:25:24
  temporal, subject to change, but the things that are unseen.
• 1:25:28
  I know that one day I will feed nations.
• 1:25:30
  Come on now. You are going through times in
• 1:25:33
  your life you don't understand what is happening.
• 1:25:36
  You don't give room to depression.
• 1:25:39
  He slay me, yet will I trust him?
• 1:25:41
  I know my Redeemer leaves. Bible said.
• 1:25:46
  Job did not cost God the way we act.
• 1:25:51
  Is a revelation as to whether the Word of God has worked in
• 1:25:54
  us. You go back and you meet
• 1:25:57
  friends. A mega And then they say one
• 1:26:01
  kind of very devilish, poisonous and vulgar word you call a human
• 1:26:06
  being a dog you call a human being.
• 1:26:08
  It used to be a joke, but now that you have the.
• 1:26:10
  Revelation, you lovingly say, no, I'm not a dog.
• 1:26:14
  I know exactly dogs. In Scripture I used to
• 1:26:17
  communicate Gentiles and people who are at the business levels
• 1:26:21
  of life. I will not confess that Bible
• 1:26:24
  says he has made me a king and a priest.
• 1:26:28
  I remember when I was in secondary school, there's
• 1:26:29
  something they call yabi, you know it, where two people will
• 1:26:33
  sit down and look for very nasty expressions, very full God
• 1:26:39
  descriptions of themselves. The goal is for it to be funny.
• 1:26:42
  So somebody, usually they're a group of people who are like the
• 1:26:45
  referees. I will say my own.
• 1:26:47
  You'll be angry and say your own.
• 1:26:49
  And then, you know, that's why people were not doing well.
• 1:26:53
  Notice people enter just one and by the time they finish writing
• 1:26:57
  exams, they come out. The only thing they come out
• 1:26:59
  with is a good certificate. Common sense gone.
• 1:27:02
  Health gone. They are sick, they have
• 1:27:04
  troubles. God has not given me the spirit
• 1:27:10
  of fear. The Bible says I shall not be
• 1:27:12
  afraid of the arrows that fly by day.
• 1:27:15
  In my world there's nothing like Ember months he daily looks.
• 1:27:19
  This is the day the Lord has made it is said the Lord and
• 1:27:22
  Satan. The Lord alone made that day.
• 1:27:25
  Satan 2 was waiting for God to make the day.
• 1:27:28
  It was God that made the day. I rejoice in it and I am glad.
• 1:27:34
  You will never see me frowning my face and you ask me why is a
• 1:27:37
  kite this world? Nigeria said.
• 1:27:39
  No. Except for with joy shall I
• 1:27:41
  draw. I've taught you this.
• 1:27:43
  Frustrate Satan by remaining joyful.
• 1:27:47
  It's a rejoice in the Lord, not in your resource.
• 1:27:50
  If you rejoice in your resource, and there you don't see it, you
• 1:27:53
  will not rejoice again. If you rejoice in your CGP and
• 1:27:56
  your job your new employment, I rejoice in the Lord.
• 1:28:02
  I saw on him, regardless of the results, my eyes on him.
• 1:28:06
  You pick a medical report and he looks at you.
• 1:28:08
  He says that the medical report says you have all kinds of lungs
• 1:28:11
  and all kinds of groups and the devil says that's it.
• 1:28:14
  In case you don't know, the name is cancer.
• 1:28:17
  It's just that it's for me. Keep watching and you sit down
• 1:28:21
  and go online. Signs of cancer, they say, such
• 1:28:24
  like lungs. Hey you come and meet Mega and
• 1:28:28
  then he will confirm it. He say it's.
• 1:28:29
  True. And drop that report and say,
• 1:28:33
  Lord, if I die, who dance? You are reducing the number of
• 1:28:37
  people who praise you. Ask Hezekiah.
• 1:28:42
  Isaiah went to him in chapter 38.
• 1:28:44
  I said, Hezekiah, set your house in order.
• 1:28:47
  Hezekiah said, nonsense, I respect you, a prophet of God,
• 1:28:50
  but leave me on God. Shut the door.
• 1:28:52
  Hezekiah said, God, what did I hear you say?
• 1:28:55
  Remember your temple. When you talk about the temple,
• 1:28:59
  God listen. So Lord, your household.
• 1:29:01
  And he said no, no, no, please, Isaiah.
• 1:29:03
  Go back, go back, go back. I think it was a prayer
• 1:29:22
  department. I was I was yes, on Tuesday I
• 1:29:26
  was rounding up their session with them and I told them
• 1:29:28
  something I said, I said Walker in this ministry there are
• 1:29:32
  benefits that should be yours. They are not they are not
• 1:29:36
  privileges. They are rights as a worker.
• 1:29:41
  There are certain things that should be yours.
• 1:29:45
  The Bible says a worker is worthy the world worthy day is
• 1:29:48
  deserving of his wages. Not just a worker in Koinonia, a
• 1:29:54
  worker in the House of God. The.
• 1:29:58
  Closest similar to wages is salary.
• 1:30:01
  That means that there should be something that leaves heaven for
• 1:30:03
  me. You have gotten your salary for
• 1:30:07
  being a civil servant of Nigeria.
• 1:30:09
  Have you gotten your salary for being a worker in the House of
• 1:30:12
  God? Is God speaking to you?
• 1:30:19
  The way I speak, the way the way I understand is a revelation.
• 1:30:29
  When you look at your child and beat your child and kick your
• 1:30:32
  child and say you are, you are an idiot.
• 1:30:35
  You are a stupid child. I don't know why you are your
• 1:30:37
  foolish mother. You are revealing something.
• 1:30:41
  The kicking is a revelation. It's a revelation that number
• 1:30:44
  one, you don't know that children come from God #2 you do
• 1:30:47
  not know that fatherhood is an office recognizing the realm of
• 1:30:51
  the Spirit. There is a.
• 1:30:53
  Food office that fatherhood has. The mother of Chavez was angry.
• 1:30:58
  She didn't know that motherhood is an office, and out of her
• 1:31:02
  anger she named her child Chavez.
• 1:31:05
  Every time Chavez was to be good, that office cried in the
• 1:31:09
  realm of the spirit. And one day, Chavez was angry.
• 1:31:13
  And said no, I can't continue like this.
• 1:31:16
  I can tell you more than half of Africans are carrying all kinds
• 1:31:20
  of tragedies that the office of father and mother.
• 1:31:23
  Provided out of anger your father looks at you and just
• 1:31:27
  says look he will not be well with you just because that time
• 1:31:30
  you were in the world and you stole his shoe or you stole a
• 1:31:33
  goat. I went to one sell it and he
• 1:31:35
  looked at you and in anger he costume said this is how you
• 1:31:39
  will be like a goat all through your life and you will think
• 1:31:42
  it's a joke until you find out you put a goat side by side with
• 1:31:47
  the way you are behaving and you see that it's exactly the same.
• 1:31:52
  Story I'm rounding up I know a gentleman that the mother cost
• 1:31:56
  him and said until a rat stop stealing he will not stop
• 1:31:59
  stealing. Yes true story God is my
• 1:32:02
  witness. He was a popular face that I
• 1:32:05
  need this guy will come out of prison now as they are waving
• 1:32:10
  him signing in two weeks he's coming back again.
• 1:32:15
  That prophecy secured the spirit of theft in his life
• 1:32:19
  comfortable. The only.
• 1:32:23
  Thing that can set him free is the anointing.
• 1:32:28
  You see the reason why we speak over people?
• 1:32:32
  Yes, you speak over people to superimpose and veto the
• 1:32:38
  ordinances that have been communicated upon their lives.
• 1:32:41
  Listen brothers and sisters, I want you to understand that
• 1:32:44
  these are spiritual ordinances. Fatherhood and motherhood did
• 1:32:48
  not end with the Old Testament. In the New Testament, a man
• 1:32:53
  treats his wife back and the Bible says he's heaven to be
• 1:32:56
  closed. This is why many fathers are
• 1:33:00
  going to hard life in Nigeria. I'm telling you this, this
• 1:33:04
  attitude of treating mothers and treating women as if they're a
• 1:33:08
  piece of rock. Your father here please I
• 1:33:11
  apologize. I have great respect for men and
• 1:33:14
  wanna be 1 all my life so I I don't in any way downplay men
• 1:33:18
  but I want to be sincere with you.
• 1:33:21
  Where you treat your wife, not a woman, Your wife who determine
• 1:33:25
  whether your heavens will be close or not so you can label
• 1:33:29
  you, finish insulting your wife, call a stupid woman.
• 1:33:32
  You are not your five useless. Children, you are going for the
• 1:33:35
  business meeting. They call you when you are
• 1:33:38
  almost there and say, Sir, just go back into work again.
• 1:33:40
  So what do you mean into work? I just prepared my paper.
• 1:33:43
  The heavens. You always know when the heavens
• 1:33:45
  are closed because a forest becomes a fruitful vine and
• 1:33:49
  becomes a wilderness irrecomfortable depletion from
• 1:33:59
  as they say, from grace to grass closer.
• 1:34:04
  That's why the Bible says until the Spirit be poured upon us
• 1:34:06
  like rain from. High.
• 1:34:08
  Then a wilderness will become a fruitful vine.
• 1:34:11
  Then a fruitful vine will be counted for a forest.
• 1:34:14
  Thank you, Hallelujah. I'm going to pray tonight and
• 1:34:20
  then I'm going to speak over your life.
• 1:34:23
  I really believe in the power of prayer.
• 1:34:25
  Listen, let me encourage you with this kiss that I've shared
• 1:34:29
  with you. I expect every wise young man,
• 1:34:33
  whether you are staying with your parents or not, or if if
• 1:34:37
  both of your parents have gone to be with the Lord.
• 1:34:39
  You have spiritual parents, you have all kinds of
• 1:34:42
  representatives. If I were you, do something for
• 1:34:47
  your earthly parents that will provoke a blessing from them.
• 1:34:51
  As you are going home now, don't just go as a big man.
• 1:34:54
  Big man. No money. close.
• 1:34:56
  Heavens, go and meet your parents.
• 1:34:59
  Mommy, I don't have so much money, but I made pepper soup
• 1:35:03
  for you. I went round the city looking
• 1:35:06
  for Bush meat that you like. I found it.
• 1:35:09
  Really. My daughter?
• 1:35:11
  You mean Bush meat? OK, God bless you.
• 1:35:13
  You know I came with this one specially.
• 1:35:16
  Please pray for me. What kept you and Daddy for 50
• 1:35:21
  years? Let that grace come.
• 1:35:25
  Your mother will look and say kneel down.
• 1:35:28
  That's it. I can guarantee you that prayer
• 1:35:30
  is not noise. He said go and make me fancy
• 1:35:35
  that I may bless you. You don't bless without fancy
• 1:35:37
  the foolishness of young people. You stroll to anybody and they
• 1:35:41
  don't bless me. You think it works like that?
• 1:35:43
  Was I? Was it just because he was
• 1:35:45
  hungry? He's a principle.
• 1:35:49
  Honor your father and your mother.
• 1:35:52
  I'm telling you, this is some of us.
• 1:35:54
  This is what will break this joblessness, these problems.
• 1:35:58
  Some of us. You just need to go back home
• 1:36:00
  and say Mommy, I'm sorry for five years I have given you a
• 1:36:03
  lot of headache. You people don't even like
• 1:36:05
  seeing me. But I want to tell you that I
• 1:36:08
  got connected to a ministry and God has changed my life.
• 1:36:11
  I just want you to speak about my life.
• 1:36:13
  I don't have much but I came with 100 Naira recharge card.
• 1:36:17
  They may have 10,000 Naira in their phone, but that 100 naira
• 1:36:20
  is what will open you up. They will say kneel down.
• 1:36:23
  Let me tell you whether your father is a believer or not, if
• 1:36:26
  he speaks to you, it's an office.
• 1:36:28
  It will open your destiny. Are we together?
• 1:36:35
  You go back home and you see the people in your community
• 1:36:38
  loitering their life. Christmas is when people die
• 1:36:41
  from. Bike as a result.
• 1:36:43
  Of drinking, they learn how to ride bike during Christmas until
• 1:36:48
  they die from it and you just sit down and say look 3 or 4
• 1:36:52
  friends, let's see what we can do one day.
• 1:36:55
  Small program somewhere at the back of 1 football field, put
• 1:36:59
  one speaker and the rest organize something, even if it's
• 1:37:03
  for the children, instead of our little children dancing on this
• 1:37:07
  devilish dance that they start spoiling the hearts of this
• 1:37:10
  small children, gather them. And then even if it's biscuits
• 1:37:14
  and sober or something, you have done something noble for the
• 1:37:17
  Kingdom and then take God on Exodus chapter 23, verse 25, you
• 1:37:23
  shall be and serve. Me and I will bless your bread
• 1:37:27
  and water. I will take 6 that's far away
• 1:37:30
  from you. There will not be bodiness in
• 1:37:32
  your life and your days. I will prolong.
• 1:37:34
  Lord, I served you during this break.
• 1:37:37
  I come for the blessings that follow service.
• 1:37:42
  Are you ready to pray? Please rise up on your feet.
• 1:37:47
  Elohim thy. Kingdom thy will be.
• 1:38:25
  Let's hold hands together and begin to pray in the Spirit and
• 1:38:28
  seal the remaining part of this year.
• 1:38:32
  Seal the remaining part of this year.
• 1:38:33
  Go ahead and pray. The. 2017.
• 1:39:10
  In honor and. Glory, you crown our year with
• 1:39:16
  honor, and the mountains drop fatness for us, you crown our
• 1:39:22
  year with honor. The year of triumph, you crown
• 1:39:27
  it with honor. Hallelujah, Hallelujah.
• 1:39:44
  We're going to pray and say, Lord, if there is anything
• 1:39:47
  according to your predetermined counsel that I should experience
• 1:39:51
  for 2017 and is still lagging in my life.
• 1:39:55
  The remaining days that we have, I think we should have about 20,
• 1:40:00
  maybe about 16 more days, am I right?
• 1:40:03
  16 days is too much for God to do a fearful mirror.
• 1:40:07
  Open your mouth and release your faith.
• 1:40:09
  Move, oh God, move. Oh God, in 16 days you can still
• 1:40:18
  confirm your word concerning my life.
• 1:40:59
  The. You can still give me the job,
• 1:41:21
  you can still give me the propulsion, I can still recover
• 1:41:27
  everything that was lost. Hallelujah, Hallelujah.
• 1:41:49
  I want us to pray a very serious prayer right now.
• 1:41:53
  Most of us are going back to spend a break with our loved
• 1:41:58
  ones or around. I like to pray.
• 1:42:01
  When Jonah entered the boat, people started weeping and
• 1:42:07
  losing everything because one man in disobedience was in the
• 1:42:12
  boat. He made the boat unusually heavy
• 1:42:16
  and was about to cap sight. But when the act of God entered
• 1:42:20
  the House of a man called Uber Adolf without prayer in 90 days,
• 1:42:25
  three months, everything changed.
• 1:42:28
  I like you to pray and say, Lord, I am a living Tabernacle
• 1:42:32
  as I go home or wherever it is that I'll be going to.
• 1:42:36
  I represent your possibilities. I represent the of God.
• 1:42:45
  I go to smash the works of. Darkness.
• 1:42:51
  Every activity of divination, every activity of darkness over
• 1:42:57
  my loved ones, in the name of Jesus, as I step my feet, I
• 1:43:03
  decree and I declare. By the power of the Holy Ghost,
• 1:43:07
  the heavens are open unto me. In the name of Jesus, I
• 1:43:32
  challenge every force. Hallelujah.
• 1:43:40
  Don't be tired of praying I want us to challenge 3 demonic forces
• 1:43:46
  over our family listen one is the spirit of sickness and
• 1:43:50
  infirmity 2 the spirit of poverty and hardship 3 the
• 1:43:55
  spirit of. Death.
• 1:43:57
  Lift your voice and trust them. Lift your voice and trust.
• 1:44:01
  Them in the name of Jesus, I represent the government of
• 1:44:08
  heaven over my life and my family I command the spirit of
• 1:44:15
  death. Take your hands off my loved
• 1:44:17
  ones. There will be no sound of money.
• 1:44:21
  In the name of Jesus, pray I come against necromancy.
• 1:44:28
  I come against manipulations of. The consolations to destroy.
• 1:44:33
  By the life of anyone of my loved ones, they are covered.
• 1:44:38
  I leave the standard of the blow.
• 1:44:40
  I leave the standard of the blow.
• 1:44:45
  I leave the standard of the blow.
• 1:44:48
  No death, Not by accident, not by terrorism, not by plane
• 1:44:55
  crash. I cause sickness.
• 1:44:59
  I cause insanity, I cause sickness We cause cancer.
• 1:45:07
  We cause arthritis. We cause hepatitis.
• 1:45:12
  We cause every killer disease, every terminal disease.
• 1:45:17
  Take your hands off our loved ones.
• 1:45:23
  We cause the spirit of poverty and hardship, stealing resources
• 1:45:30
  from our loved ones, causing conflict in homes.
• 1:45:34
  Aborto Secretary, pray, challenge the Spirit.
• 1:45:47
  I come against you in the name of Jesus.
• 1:45:59
  Hallelujah, Hallelujah. Are you ready to pray?
• 1:46:06
  I like you to program faithful that as I step out all through
• 1:46:12
  from now till January when I come back is going to be
• 1:46:16
  faithful whether you have an uncle or not financial faithful
• 1:46:22
  all kinds of open gods open your mouth and.
• 1:46:25
  Declare it create. I command favor in the name of
• 1:46:32
  Jesus. I call for the help us for my
• 1:46:36
  family, help us for my destiny. Lord, I receive, I receive, I
• 1:46:42
  receive all kinds of favor, all. Kinds of favor.
• 1:46:57
  Faithful in the name of Jesus, Faithful.
• 1:47:11
  Hallelujah. Listen.
• 1:47:18
  I want you to believe me. We're rounding up.
• 1:47:22
  But you see, not many people in this life have truly encountered
• 1:47:27
  favor. Favor is an experience that
• 1:47:33
  happens once, but the result continues without stop.
• 1:47:39
  We're going to pray this prayer again.
• 1:47:41
  Listen, the hardship in many of our families, even salary will
• 1:47:47
  not join. Is that true?
• 1:47:51
  There are some of us now. If you get a job and you are
• 1:47:54
  giving your loved ones three, 300,000 per month, even after
• 1:47:58
  five years, it will not solve the problem. 15 people in the
• 1:48:02
  house, only one person is working is earning 20,000.
• 1:48:06
  That's a cost. When I say fever I'm not saying
• 1:48:12
  look at your employer to give you 1 bag of rice or one of your
• 1:48:16
  rich uncle in America. Take your mind away from any
• 1:48:19
  man. Don't add faces.
• 1:48:21
  Your own is to just create with your words.
• 1:48:24
  Are you ready to pray for me and for my family?
• 1:48:27
  Lord, surprise us. Surprise us before December
• 1:48:33
  31st. Lord, do something that has not
• 1:48:36
  been done. If they show dimension of favor,
• 1:48:42
  pray. No matter what kind you are,
• 1:48:45
  feed, provoke another, provoke another, pray, provoke another.
• 1:48:57
  In the name of Jesus I created, I call it for.
• 1:49:03
  I call it for in my life I call it for In this ministry I call
• 1:49:11
  it for. For my loved ones, I call it for
• 1:49:15
  strange favor. Between now and 31st December,
• 1:49:20
  Strange favor. Hallelujah.
• 1:49:31
  Will soon round up. I like you to pray.
• 1:49:33
  Listen, one of the major reasons why there is trouble in our
• 1:49:39
  homes is because someone there has not given his life to Christ
• 1:49:44
  and therefore does not subscribe to the value system of the
• 1:49:47
  Kingdom. I hear what I'm saying now.
• 1:49:50
  It is terrible to have someone in a family that does is has not
• 1:49:56
  given his life to Christ or is not interested in being
• 1:50:00
  passionate, especially if they have authority over you, because
• 1:50:04
  they will. Force you to.
• 1:50:05
  Stay in their mood. You pray for 30 minutes, they
• 1:50:08
  say. Are you the first to be born
• 1:50:10
  again? I have been born again.
• 1:50:12
  I'd like you to pray two things Lord massive encounters.
• 1:50:17
  I'd like you to pray for your loved ones that don't know
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  Jesus. Lord, this is this is the season
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  they must encounter Jesus little voice and.
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  Pray. I pray for my brother.
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  I pray for my sister. I pray for my father.
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  I pray for my mother. I pray for my uncle.
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  I pray for my step siblings. Pray, pray, Lord, tired of the
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  challenges that their lack of encountering Christ is bringing
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  to us. Financial troubles, spiritual
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  troubles. They continue to become doorways
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  and courthouse through which darkness comes into destroy our
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  entry. Give them an encounter.
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  Give them visions, give them dreams.
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  In the name of Jesus, break their pride.
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  Oh God, give them solid encounters, encounters with your
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  power. Change them, change them, change
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  them. Some of them have found that
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  they will never give their life to Christ.
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  I like you to pray and say Lord is your Majesty.
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  Prove them wrong. Prove them wrong.
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  Hallelujah. One last prayer and then we're
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  done for tonight. Listen, all these prayer points
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  I'm giving you when you go back, pray them, especially this
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  prayer of salvation. I can tell you this with a
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  little experience. I have counseling families. 90%
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  of the problem is that there is someone who is comfortably a
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  gateway for. Satan to destroy people.
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  You notice how sad and does it in every family.
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  He must search for somebody. One bad boy, 1 bad girl, or
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  maybe our fathers, our mothers. Everyone tries to press into
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  God. You just said that police are
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  calling you. Go to the police station.
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  They will tell you they've caught your brother stealing a
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  laptop. The bill is 400,000 and before
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  you know it, the money you have saved.
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  That's a Defora. All this stealing you see young
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  people do, especially all these young guys steal something
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  shamefully, come and put their parents in trouble.
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  The money that should be the school fees of five people, you
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  have to take it and go and settle police.
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  Is the devil. What about the young boys that
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  have not reached age of driving? They smuggle out a car and go
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  somewhere an expensive car they just bought with their friends,
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  get drunk and smash the car. These are all the skinnings of
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  darkness. Many parents, they are almost
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  dying of depression because of the stubbornness of their.
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  Children. A lady jumps the fence and
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  disappears one week. Nobody has seen her, they are
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  all afraid. They start contacting the
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  police, paying money and then she strolls in after 8 days and
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  say why are you looking for me? Is the devil a smart young
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  gentleman about to graduate? They will go and find him under
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  the gutter because he went for a nonsense party.
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  Christmas party that is the birth of Jesus Christ drinks to
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  stupor and the friends strip him of phone and everything and they
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  leave him on the ground. They come and carry him in the
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  morning, arrest him in the police station and the whole
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  family spends Christmas going to the station.
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  I'd like you to say the devil is a liar and I'm showing you.
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  These are the things in in many families.
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  Satan does not want to see everybody rising.
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  You see a gentleman, the only graduate, and because he's a
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  giver, a wicked accident will happen and just destroy both of
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  his legs or one kind of devilish sickness where there will be
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  chemotherapy or something that is eating over 70 to 100,000 per
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  week in six months. It has tried the finances of the
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  family, he said. I will stand up on my watch and
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  set myself upon the tower. You have to be Watchmen when you
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  are at home. Don't see things happen and join
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  everybody. Cry.
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  You know what to do. Go and lock yourself and say,
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  Lord, this cannot continue to be.
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  Quarrel between father and mother, quarrel between husband
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  and wife, all these bad, bad things the devil brings during
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  this season a time of joy and merriment.
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  All of a sudden that spirit comes into our families.
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  Fire on the mountain. Everybody's living like a
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  stranger. Don't you see that is an attack?
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  I'm telling you so that when you go back home, everybody used to
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  run away, but now you are the one who will move and say no
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  way. I put an end to this evil in the
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  name of Jesus. With your hands let me speak
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  over your life. In the name of Jesus Christ.
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  I decree and declare by the power of the Holy Spirit.
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  As you return back, you return in the power of the Spirit.
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  In the name of Jesus. Christ, any name and any
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  identity the devil has given your family, that is a mockery
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  to redemption. I stand here in the name of
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  Jesus, and I declare that within this one month, may the Lord
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  change your story. I pray from the depth of my
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  heart for any individual and any family that is called the
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  cupboard, that the glory has departed.
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  I declare that because of your going back, let there be a
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  restoration of glory. Let there be a restoration of
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  honor. Let there be a restoration of
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  dignity. Anyone here still trusting God
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  for a job? I'm declaring you will not
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  return next year without a job. In the name of Jesus Christ, I
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  decree and declare if if there is any manipulation of
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  witchcraft. For those of you who are
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  travelling to the village and there are all kinds of warnings
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  here and there, either because your people are used to
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  witchcraft, I declare you will go and come back safely.
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  You will go and return safely. In the name of.
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  Jesus, hear me any strange spirits that enters your family
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  during these times of love to scatter the families I declare
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  in the name of Jesus their end comes this season.
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  Hallelujah. There are families right now who
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  are even waiting for you to come because even one chicken they
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  cannot afford for Christmas. I call on my God.
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  I cry before the God of heaven that between now and next week,
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  let there be a miracle of supplies.
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  A miracle of supplies a miracle of supplies a miracle of
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  supplies. Hallelujah.
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  I pray for those who are students.
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  Do you know there are students that when they go home, as soon
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  as their parents see them, their.
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  Hearts begin to palpitate because of school fees in the
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  name of Jesus. The kind of favor your parents
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  have never seen. I pray in the name of Jesus, let
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  there be that kind of favor for them.
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  The kind of favor that will make your schoolfish look like pocket
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  money. In the name of Jesus.
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  Christ. I pray for your spiritual life.
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  Most people leave this environment and go back and
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  return back as old as whatever. I pray for you.
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  You will return with even greater fire than you left with.
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  Whoever the devil is arranging in your life between now and
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  January to destroy you, I prophecy that your path will not
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  cross. In the name of Jesus Christ.
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  In the name of Jesus Christ. And for those of you who will be
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  travelling, there are people who will be travelling from
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  tomorrow, whether by air, whether on the road.
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  I speak to your journey. I decree and declare you.
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  No armed robbers on the road in the name of Jesus Christ, you
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  will arrive safely and you will return back safely in the name
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  of. Jesus Christ, I'd like you to
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  wave your hands to Jesus.