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The Blessing (Part 1) · Apostle Lazarus Femi

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Speaker 1: Apostle Femi Lazarus is a man raised by God to
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Speaker 1: demonstrate his wisdom and authority to the last day church.
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Speaker 1: He is the lead pastor of Sphere of Light Church
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Speaker 1: and God told him years ago that a time will
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Speaker 1: come where my wisdom will be needed to navigate tough
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Speaker 1: times in the body of Christ.
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Speaker 2: Then I will cause your voice to be heard.
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Speaker 1: And all who pay attention to my word on your
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Speaker 1: lips will not lack light and direction. He's a man
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Speaker 1: sent from God, sent to raise God's end time armies.
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Speaker 1: With Apostle Fermi Lazarus, every minute counts as you listen attentively.
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Speaker 3: It's as simple as you don't have an idea of
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Speaker 3: what the future holds.
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Speaker 2: God is going to raise you one day to be
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Speaker 2: the group manager of a company. Blah, blah, blah. Your
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Speaker 2: life will change. Somebody came to apply for the post
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Speaker 2: of security this, this, that. They were trying to even
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Speaker 2: let's check this person up. You check the person on
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Speaker 2: social media. You now open the DM and saw that
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Speaker 2: 10 years ago you sent the person a DM asking
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Speaker 2: for urgent 2K. Desperation can take you out of the
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Speaker 2: original purpose. I was stolen away out of the land
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Speaker 2: of the Hebrews. And they also have done nothing. That
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Speaker 2: they should put me here. Whatever you can do to
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Speaker 2: help me. This, this, that. Look at verse 16. when
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Speaker 2: the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good he
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Speaker 2: said unto Joseph in my own dream too this this
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Speaker 2: that and he told him his own interpretation cut off
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Speaker 2: your head let me ask you a question are you
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Speaker 2: ready for my question Before I ask you the question,
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Speaker 2: let me give you a background. There are some of
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Speaker 2: you that if you try 200 times to japa It
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Speaker 2: won't work. And it is not any of your father's house.
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Speaker 2: It is destiny. Because the design, the kind of destiny
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Speaker 2: you carry is not the one that can be smuggled
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Speaker 2: into any country. When you come, kings must be waiting
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Speaker 2: because of the size. When it is heavy, sometimes it
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Speaker 2: looks like it is sloped. I want to insist that
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Speaker 2: there are people you don't know that in another two,
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Speaker 2: three years you'll be together as colleagues. They only went
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Speaker 2: ahead of you into limelight, but you are not being
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Speaker 2: left behind.
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Speaker 4: I've entered places where they'll be like, my God, Apostle Lazarus,
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Speaker 4: so good to see him.
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Speaker 2: We have Apostle Lazarus in our midst, my God, And
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Speaker 2: that's not my first time of coming there. I came
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Speaker 2: years back in a different version. Now I'm back in
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Speaker 2: another version. Listen and listen very well. The same doors
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Speaker 2: you knocked that look like, who are you? I'm telling you,
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Speaker 2: there are people that practically we have met before. Practically.
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Speaker 2: Either I was trekking by the side of the road,
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Speaker 2: I saw them do something. We had met before. And
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Speaker 2: now we are meeting again and they are like, my God,
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Speaker 2: what an honor. I don't owe you the duty of saying,
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Speaker 2: I've been here before. I even came there with Pam
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Speaker 2: Sanders that day. I would also write, I'm so glad
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Speaker 2: to be here, so good to see you. Because The
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Speaker 2: one that came before and the one that is here now,
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Speaker 2: they are two different people. Indeed, I'm a first-timer. Joseph
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Speaker 2: wanted to come out. He needed the favor of this guy.
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Speaker 2: But that has not got out. Favor is powerful Favor
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Speaker 2: is beautiful. Favor is brilliant. But favor has limitations.
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Speaker 3: Let me give you an instance.
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Speaker 2: The highest David can do for me, people say true favor,
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Speaker 2: is to make him eat by the table. That's as
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Speaker 2: far as he gets. If this guy should answer the
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Speaker 2: plea of Joseph.
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Speaker 3: Where do you think Joseph will apply? Because bring me out.
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Speaker 3: Please help me talk.
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Speaker 2: Once he comes out, he will also apply. Can I
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Speaker 2: even get a job as one of those serving in
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Speaker 2: the palace? The same Joseph. The one who is there
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Speaker 2: next after Pharaoh. Pharaoh said, it is only a matter
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Speaker 2: of the throne that I'll be higher than you. That
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Speaker 2: same guy could have settled to be serving where? At
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Speaker 2: the palace. Listen. There are people that will not favor you.
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Speaker 2: And it is not their fault. It is what you represent.
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Speaker 2: So forgive them. In case you already hold somebody in
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Speaker 2: your mind. Why didn't they this? Why didn't this person
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Speaker 2: favor me? Why look at this? I was in need.
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Speaker 2: I basically don't answer.
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Speaker 3: Relax. It is so that God alone can take all
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Speaker 3: the glory.
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Speaker 2: Because the route through which God designed for Joseph to
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Speaker 2: emerge is a route that when he comes out even
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Speaker 2: the chief butler and his former employer will say well
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Speaker 2: done sir how do you think Potiphar's wife will be
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Speaker 2: looking at Joseph when he became prime minister She will
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Speaker 2: regret the day she lied against him. See, the reason
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Speaker 2: why you keep fighting those who hurt you in the
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Speaker 2: past is because you have not seen the future. You
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Speaker 2: keep going back to the past. You keep sharing the stories. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: 2000 and this. I was this, this. The deed is
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Speaker 2: because you have not shifted. Your past is still as
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Speaker 2: painful as it is because you are still there. When
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Speaker 2: you shift, the only thing you can do about the
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Speaker 2: past is to thank God for it.
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Speaker 3: Thank God for those who hurt us.
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Speaker 2: Thank God for those who did this. As long as
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Speaker 2: Joseph was in prison, he can't thank God for his
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Speaker 2: brother selling him. He'll be angry. If they didn't sell
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Speaker 2: me as a slave, I would not be here. If
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Speaker 2: they didn't sell me as a slave. But he became
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Speaker 2: grateful the moment he became a prime minister.
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Speaker 3: Everything will soon make sense.
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Speaker 2: Sometimes it doesn't make sense in the middle. Sometimes it
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Speaker 2: doesn't look like it will ever make sense. Sometimes it
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Speaker 2: doesn't look like God. You see, God is a master builder.
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Speaker 2: And when you are building, there is a point in
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Speaker 2: the building that everything looks disoriented. Cement here, water here,
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Speaker 2: block here. You are wondering, does this person have a vision?
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Speaker 2: Your life is a building. And you might be at
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Speaker 2: the phase where there's water, there's cement, there's this. You
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Speaker 2: are wondering, God, can you still have a plan for
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Speaker 2: a life like this? Is it can you still make
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Speaker 2: anything out of my life? Can a guy who is
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Speaker 2: struggling to even come out of Ife become a prof?
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Speaker 2: A guy who is saying, even if it is passed,
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Speaker 2: let me... Can that guy later become the VC of
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Speaker 2: the same school? Can a student who has been rusticated
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Speaker 2: build the biggest lecture charter for the same school? Sometimes...
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Speaker 2: It doesn't look, what is happening now and the future
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Speaker 2: that God seems to be talking about, they don't look
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Speaker 2: like they can ever meet.
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Speaker 3: But God is the wisest builder. When he starts, sometimes
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Speaker 3: he looks like.
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Speaker 2: He's not wise. He looks like, uh-uh. Is there any hope?
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Speaker 2: But the Bible said there is hope for a tree.
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Speaker 2: Though it be cut down, if the storms remain in
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Speaker 2: the head, add the scent of water to spring back
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Speaker 2: to life.
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Speaker 5: Again.
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Speaker 2: There are some of you sitting here that you are
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Speaker 2: still in that category of, and this is what your
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Speaker 2: 2023 has been. Can you please do me a favor?
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Speaker 2: Please help me. What can you do for me? But
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Speaker 2: not again. I said not again. I said not again.
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Speaker 2: Let me ask you a question. Which of these testimonies
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Speaker 2: do you prefer? My house rent has expired and the
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Speaker 2: landlord was on my neck and God sent somebody.
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Speaker 3: He blessed me with the money. Or I just paid
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Speaker 3: the rent of 10 other students.
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Speaker 2: Which do you prefer? Speak loud and clear. Ah, you
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Speaker 2: won't believe. I didn't have transport fare to go to church.
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Speaker 2: I didn't have transport fare. But as I was standing outside,
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Speaker 2: God just taught the art of Sister Mary. She just
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Speaker 2: came to give me 500 naira. I want to give
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Speaker 2: God praise. God is mindful of me. And then, I
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Speaker 2: placed a boss outside to drop students in different locations.
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Speaker 2: Which do you prefer? Is the first one not favorable?
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Speaker 2: Is the first one not favorable? Favor is not God's
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Speaker 2: original design. It's a makeup plan for something that goes wrong.
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Speaker 2: Favor is a makeup plan. As beautiful as it may seem,
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Speaker 2: it is a makeup plan. You guys are going to
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Speaker 2: get something this morning. Okay? Sit down for a while.
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Speaker 2: Now I'm getting to my teaching. Let me ask you
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Speaker 2: a question. How many of you want the healing anointing?
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Speaker 2: Put your hands down.
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Speaker 3: How many of you want to be healed this morning?
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Speaker 2: If you want to be healed, it's because there's an
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Speaker 2: aspect that needs healing.
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Speaker 3: Let me ask you a question.
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Speaker 2: Being healed from cancer and not even having it at all,
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Speaker 2: which do you prefer? Huh? So are you saying that
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Speaker 2: as powerful as healing is, you prefer health? Yes. So
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Speaker 2: it means healing was not an original design. It came
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Speaker 2: to place because something went wrong. Let me give another illustration.
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Speaker 3: What do you prefer? The blessing or a miracle? You
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Speaker 3: are not answering well.
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Speaker 5: Huh?
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Speaker 2: Huh? oh you won't believe what was happening as we
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Speaker 2: were driving between Lagos and this this this some boys
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Speaker 2: double crossed our car as they carried me that side
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Speaker 2: taking us that bush and suddenly they were stunned and
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Speaker 2: this this this and driving safely nobody even double crossed
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Speaker 2: which do you prefer some dimensions are a sign that
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Speaker 2: something went wrong there is something higher than favor We'll
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Speaker 2: bless God for 2023. We'll bear testimonies like, I was broke.
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Speaker 2: God sent somebody to help me.
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Speaker 3: Enough is enough. Because when they come, you'll say, God
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Speaker 3: has blessed me already.
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Speaker 2: When the king of Sodom wanted to bless Abraham, Abraham said,
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Speaker 2: don't bring anything. Say less, they will say, they have
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Speaker 2: made Abraham rich. Pastor Chris Shackleman shared a story. That's
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Speaker 2: why I want you pastors to listen. They went to,
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Speaker 2: from Benin. The church started in Benin. They went to worry.
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Speaker 2: A pastor promised them, a politician said, I'm going to
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Speaker 2: sponsor your ministry. I'm going to this, this, that. So
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Speaker 2: he and the entire team, they will travel from Benin
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Speaker 2: to worry every time. The man will not pick their call.
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Speaker 2: When they get to the office, they will wait and
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Speaker 2: wait all day. The same pastor, Chris Oyakilome. indeed there
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Speaker 2: are things you only beg for because you can't see
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Speaker 2: the future yet share the story we see before when
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Speaker 2: we go to Ibadan in that same street where the
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Speaker 2: church is two buildings from the church there is a
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Speaker 2: complex shops we went there together oh we wanted them
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Speaker 2: to give us those shops for us to do church
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Speaker 2: when was this January 2020. Just give us the shop.
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Speaker 2: In fact, we are going to join the shops together.
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Speaker 2: So we can. Then they give us the price for
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Speaker 2: the shops that we want to join together. Everything was 630,000
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Speaker 2: or so. It was too much. We could not afford it.
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Speaker 3: I was looking at it.
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Speaker 2: Are you trying to mock us? This is just a
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Speaker 2: church that wants to start in the back door. We
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Speaker 2: passed in front of our current facility. I did not
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Speaker 2: even look at it. Because, I mean, why should I
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Speaker 2: look at it? I'm saying there are things you are
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Speaker 2: not seeing because you think they are not yours. And
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Speaker 2: they exist. You won't miss them. It looks like I'm
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Speaker 2: in the wrong church. You won't miss them. I say again,
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Speaker 2: you won't miss them. When you drive into Ife, there
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Speaker 2: are Properties you don't know exist. Because what you are
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Speaker 2: looking for is not property but a kiosk. Somewhere we
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Speaker 2: can manage. But I see God shifting your vision. I'm
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Speaker 2: telling you, there are things you are not aware they exist.
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Speaker 2: Because they are not in the range of your need.
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Speaker 2: Meanwhile you need them. You know sometimes you don't even
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Speaker 2: know what you need. Sit down for a moment. Sit
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Speaker 2: down for a moment. I heard this story from Pastor Nkechi.
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Speaker 2: Pastor Nkechi. And she spoke about the fact, the time
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Speaker 2: she and her husband got married. And they traveled to Morocco, Casablanca, precisely,
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Speaker 2: for their honeymoon. Their husband was working as an engineer
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Speaker 2: in Morocco. And when they were going to lodge in
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Speaker 2: a hotel, the only hotel that was available was ramshackled,
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Speaker 2: was bad, was a bit smelly. They could not cope there.
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Speaker 2: And it was around the festive season that All hotels
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Speaker 2: are booked. But she said somehow, she just insisted, we
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Speaker 2: can't stay here. And the owner of the hotel was
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Speaker 2: laughing that people that will take this place will come
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Speaker 2: in now. So you can go. And we can bet
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Speaker 2: you can't find any other hotel available because this is
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Speaker 2: a festive season. And they left. And true to it,
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Speaker 2: they drove every hotel was fully booked. They were asking themselves,
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Speaker 2: honeymoon night, is it going to be inside the car?
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Speaker 2: Where are we going to sleep? Eventually, they saw a
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Speaker 2: very beautiful building in front. And they were checking.
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Speaker 3: Could this be a hotel?
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Speaker 2: So they drove in. And lo and behold, it was
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Speaker 2: a brand new hotel that they were opening that night.
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Speaker 2: And as they drove in, they saw them opening it,
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Speaker 2: and they said, well, we're a couple, we want to
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Speaker 2: take this place. And they said to them, you are
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Speaker 2: the first customer That will be taking this place. So
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Speaker 2: as a bit of our appreciation. Take it for free.
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Speaker 2: The best in Casablanca. So she said. As they entered
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Speaker 2: the hotel. Everything cha cha. Nobody has used before. Compared
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Speaker 2: to the terrible one. Said and she stood. At the
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Speaker 2: balcony of the hotel. And she looked at that other one.
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Speaker 2: Where the man said. You can't find something else. Receive
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Speaker 2: the boldness to reject what is just enough. And the
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Speaker 2: audacity to press into what is more than enough. I
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Speaker 2: have come to open your eyes to one thing. The
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Speaker 2: reason you feel what you are going through is frustration.
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Speaker 2: It's because you don't know who you are. It is
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Speaker 2: not frustration. It is God saying, you are more than this.
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Speaker 2: What you are asking for is not what I want
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Speaker 2: to give you. Yes, you are asking for something, but
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Speaker 2: this is not all there is to my majesty. I'm
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Speaker 2: telling you. If you ask Joseph, could he have believed
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Speaker 2: that his own exit from the prison is more glorious
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Speaker 2: than these guys?
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Speaker 3: Sit down for a moment.
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Speaker 2: Are you aware? Oh. What do you think will happen
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Speaker 2: to Joseph? After that guy got out from prison. The
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Speaker 2: guy did two extra years without remembering him. If they
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Speaker 2: had called or tackled for those who have been haunted
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Speaker 2: by enemy of father's house and mother's house.
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Speaker 3: Don't you think Joseph will come out?
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Speaker 2: Huh? That my life is finished. Near success syndrome. Sometimes
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Speaker 2: it is not those things. It is just that there
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Speaker 2: is something God is building and you are not at
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Speaker 2: that point yet. Sometimes you honestly don't have problems. There
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Speaker 2: are times that people are, but there are times that
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Speaker 2: you actually don't have a problem. You have not just
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Speaker 2: gotten to that point where what God has designed is waiting.
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Speaker 2: Sometimes the girl you are asking of that is joking
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Speaker 2: with you, it is not how you marry, it is
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Speaker 2: her mentor. And let me say vice versa too. Sometimes
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Speaker 2: the boy want to kill yourself over. It is not him.
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Speaker 2: It is the boss.
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Speaker 3: Let me share a story with you.
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Speaker 2: A guy broke a girl's heart.
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Speaker 3: A soldier.
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Speaker 2: They had planned marriage. Everything on the wedding day. They
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Speaker 2: have scorned it. The girl was in a mess, crying, this, this, this.
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Speaker 2: He ran away with another girl. Years later, another man
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Speaker 2: took interest in her. She picked herself up, got healed,
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Speaker 2: married the man. About four, five months after they got married,
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Speaker 2: the then military head of state picked the man she
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Speaker 2: married And made him the state governor. The military governor.
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Speaker 2: For Lagos state. Guess who they use. As the one
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Speaker 2: that will be carrying the bag. The boy that broke
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Speaker 2: her heart. Sometimes all the tears. Is because you actually
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Speaker 2: don't know who you are. I've come to tell you.
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Speaker 2: That is the truth. Many of you here. Don't know
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Speaker 2: who you are. Ife would be proud that somebody like
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Speaker 2: this once lived here. And two years after, it was
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Speaker 2: no longer those boys that now had a dream. It
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Speaker 2: was the head of state himself. You have solved the
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Speaker 2: problem of those who can't lift you. But you are
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Speaker 2: entering a season where you will solve the problem of
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Speaker 2: those that in their hands, God has designed liftings. Listen
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Speaker 2: to this. You will only be rewarded at the level
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Speaker 2: of the problems you solve. Please understand what I'm saying.
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Speaker 2: Sit down for a while. Maybe if I need to
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Speaker 2: come out in plain terms, I am saying in 2024,
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Speaker 2: it will no longer make sense to say that, my father,
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Speaker 2: my house friend is finishing, send an uncle. No! No!
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Speaker 2: Being blessed is better. Which do you prefer now? This
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Speaker 2: person is sick to the point of death. Ah, she
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Speaker 2: should not die. And having health. Which do you prefer?
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Speaker 2: Some testimonies I approve that we allow something to go wrong.
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Speaker 3: I've said this before. And I've said it again.
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Speaker 2: I am aware that in Sphere of Light Church, Ife,
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Speaker 2: God is raising unlikely giants.
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Speaker 3: I'm aware.
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Speaker 2: You are getting more than just a degree from Ife.
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Speaker 2: You are getting more than a degree. God is raising them.
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Speaker 2: And that's why I'm teaching what I'm teaching. You will
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Speaker 2: not need the kind of favor you have been crying after.
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Speaker 2: God will link you to the topmost echelon himself. He's
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Speaker 2: just getting started. Sit down for a moment. And the
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Speaker 2: next thing we saw, Genesis 41. Pharaoh himself dreamed a dream.
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Speaker 2: The Bible said there was no interpreter. That could be
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Speaker 2: found in the whole of Egypt. They got all the astrologers.
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Speaker 2: Nobody could. And they knew. Do you know the reason
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Speaker 2: why nobody could interpret? Because they know that they can't
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Speaker 2: lie to him. If they lie to him. Their head
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Speaker 2: can be cut off.
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Speaker 3: If he finds out.
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Speaker 2: So everybody prefer to say. We don't know. But meanwhile.
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Speaker 3: There is somebody in the prison. who wanted to be
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Speaker 3: smuggled out.
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Speaker 2: And if he had been smuggled out, he probably would
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Speaker 2: have escaped Egypt. Huh? He probably would have escaped Egypt.
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Speaker 2: Sometimes the place you want to run away from is
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Speaker 2: the place where God wants to use you as a leader. See,
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Speaker 2: Egypt is a toxic environment. I want to jump out
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Speaker 2: from Nigeria. When you were born in Nigeria, life is
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Speaker 2: already against you. Meanwhile, there's an ordination. And the ordination
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Speaker 2: is in this same country. you are going to lead
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Speaker 2: social sector. So you are not permitted to be among
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Speaker 2: those that will run away. I know some of you
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Speaker 2: don't like like I'm speaking against Japa. Say my visa
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Speaker 2: is in progress. If God's plan for you is here,
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Speaker 2: there is no way you are going. We are in
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Speaker 2: this together. You didn't say amen. That amen didn't go
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Speaker 2: to my right. I didn't hear it at the back.
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Speaker 2: Many people have jacked back to where their future partner
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Speaker 2: does not exist. They are struggling. That's the fact. God
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Speaker 2: will give them sand and clay. Since you took yourself there,
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Speaker 2: mold your own. And you see people that are complaining,
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Speaker 2: the boy is not fine, the girl is not fine.
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Speaker 2: Imagine the one you will mold. They will use the
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Speaker 2: person for all of him. And even cameraman will leave
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Speaker 2: camera around. Pharaoh sent for all the magicians. He sent
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Speaker 2: for all the astrologers. Pharaoh told them, but Bible says
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Speaker 2: there was none. God is about to use you to
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Speaker 2: do what no one else.
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Speaker 3: What no one else.
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Speaker 2: If what you are doing is what every other person
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Speaker 2: can do, your life can be special. You can sing.
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Speaker 2: Any other person can sing. But there's something called the
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Speaker 2: mark of difference. God is placing something on your life
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Speaker 2: that just one limelight is enough. One manifestation is enough.
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Speaker 2: One opportunity to come out is enough. God is placing
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Speaker 2: something on your life that the nations of the earth
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Speaker 2: will begin to ask, who is this? When people begin
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Speaker 2: to ask, who is this person? It is a sign
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Speaker 2: you are getting something right. Meanwhile you have always existed.
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Speaker 2: But at a level of visibility. There is a change.
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Speaker 3: I say there is a change.
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Speaker 2: I say again there is a change. I say again
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Speaker 2: there is a change. I say again there is a change.
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Speaker 2: In the name of Jesus. So the one who is
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Speaker 2: graced to do what they couldn't do. Has been in
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Speaker 2: the prison. But it matters that the problem is designed
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Speaker 2: to solve. Comes to the uppermost chamber in the town.
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Speaker 2: In the land. You have solutions. But you need the
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Speaker 2: right people with the right problem. Sit down for a while.
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Speaker 2: Do you understand what I'm saying? The same problem you
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Speaker 2: have been solving. And no reward. If you solve that
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Speaker 2: problem for the right people. You'll be amazed at the result.
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Speaker 2: Oh yes.
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Speaker 1: Yes.
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Speaker 3: If the right person hears your message, they say, who
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Speaker 3: is this person?
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Speaker 2: Imagine just receiving a call this morning and say, I
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Speaker 2: heard that guy, Pastor Darryl Davies, say, who is he?
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Speaker 3: Say, he's in Ife. Say, my God, he blessed me.
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Speaker 3: He blessed me.
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Speaker 2: Can I get their ministry account? And you hear somebody
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Speaker 2: wants your ministry account, you're even reluctant. They will just
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Speaker 2: send all this 5K, 2K. I'm not a problem.
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Speaker 3: And they say, actually, not Naira account, dollar account.
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Speaker 2: Say, eh? Okay. Okay.
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Speaker 3: And you are surprised. Okay, but we don't have. But
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Speaker 3: my friend, do you have a dollar account? Just borrow us.
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Speaker 2: And the fellow said, ah. Say, what was happening? Say, ah.
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Speaker 3: Somebody sent some to your ministry to my account.
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Speaker 2: Ah. How much? $ 100, 000. You don't need, this is what
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Speaker 2: I'm saying. I'm saying the same thing you have been doing.
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Speaker 2: If you do it before the right audience, it will
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Speaker 2: look like you just started it. The same songs you
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Speaker 2: have been singing, the right ear needs to hear it.
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Speaker 2: The same problem you have been solving, the right person
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Speaker 2: needs to have the problem. See, the issue is that
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Speaker 2: you are praying to be a solution. Solution suggests that
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Speaker 2: there will be a problem. It is important that the
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Speaker 2: right people have the problem. When it comes to lifting,
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Speaker 2: the day you be lifted, you actually don't have to
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Speaker 2: do anything different. It is the same thing, but before
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Speaker 2: different audience.
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Speaker 3: Do you understand what I said?
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Speaker 2: When it comes to lifting, I stand before God to
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Speaker 2: tell you, you don't actually have to do anything different.
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Speaker 2: Jesus picked the Bible to read Luke 4.18 according to
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Speaker 2: his custom. But that day, the eyes of all them
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Speaker 2: that hear him were fasting on him. The same thing, sir.
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Speaker 2: You know, recently people have been asking all over the country,
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Speaker 2: who is this man? My God, how come I'm just
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Speaker 2: discovering this man? I have been like this for the
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Speaker 2: past 13 years. But there's a shift. There's a shift.
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Speaker 2: I'm saying you don't have to do extra on the
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Speaker 2: day of your lifting. The same thing, sir. But the
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Speaker 2: right people. Can I give you a minute? It doesn't
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Speaker 2: look like you care. Maybe a minute to ask for
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Speaker 2: the right audience. Maybe a minute to ask for the
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Speaker 2: right observer. Maybe just a minute. A minute.
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Speaker 5: Maybe just a minute.
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Speaker 2: Who knows? Maybe just a minute.
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Speaker 5: Out of my belly. shall flow rivers, rivers of living water.
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Speaker 5: Out of my belly shall flow rivers, rivers of living water.
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Speaker 2: Out of my belly shall flow rivers. Rivers of living water. Amen.
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Speaker 2: Sit down for a while. Let me digress a bit.
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Speaker 2: Dear believer, let me beg you in the name of
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Speaker 2: Jesus Christ. Never let anyone convince you that praying about
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Speaker 2: the prosperity of God upon your life is a way
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Speaker 2: of being materialistic. Never allow anyone deceive you that something
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Speaker 2: that is a package in Christ for you is a
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Speaker 2: way of being wrong when you ask for it. There
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Speaker 2: are certain dimensions that you can never operate in as
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Speaker 2: long as you are small. See, when you are with
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Speaker 2: the wrong people, you will feel you need extra. When
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Speaker 2: you are with the right people, you know you are
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Speaker 2: just enough. The same girl. Around the wrong guys. Nobody
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Speaker 2: seen her. But one day she will pass in front
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Speaker 2: of somebody and the person will scream. What were others
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Speaker 2: watching that this person is still single? Your problem is
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Speaker 2: not delay. You just need to walk before the right people.
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Speaker 2: That's all. You are what somebody has prayed for all
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Speaker 2: their lives. But listen.
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Speaker 3: This is the point where we are going to begin to.
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Speaker 2: Digress.
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Speaker 3: And so Pharaoh sent.
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Speaker 2: The guy said to Pharaoh. He said ah. I have
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Speaker 2: been wrong.
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Speaker 3: Since there is now a challenge.
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Speaker 2: I know a boy. In the prison. I had a dream.
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Speaker 2: My friend also had a dream. Nobody could interpret the dream.
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Speaker 2: But this guy interpreted the dream. Gave everyone according to
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Speaker 2: their dream.
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Speaker 3: So yes.
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Speaker 2: Go to verse 14 and 15. And Pharaoh sent and
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Speaker 2: called Joseph. And they brought him out hastily. Meaning that
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Speaker 2: the same place where you feel the day you'll be needed. Come, come, come.
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Speaker 2: No protocol, no signing out. Just bring him out. He's
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Speaker 2: needed at the top. Say, hey, you should sign out.
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Speaker 2: All these belongings, when he entered prison five years ago,
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Speaker 2: we could say he will not need them again. They
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Speaker 2: brought him out hastily. Out of the dungeon. It looks
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Speaker 2: like they were dragging Joseph. Joseph, it's time. The king
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Speaker 2: needs you.
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Speaker 3: Joseph said, hold on.
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Speaker 5: Wait.
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Speaker 2: He must have heard something. They need an interpretation. I'm
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Speaker 2: the only one that can do it. The king can wait.
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Speaker 2: When you have value, protocols can wait. When it is favorable,
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Speaker 2: it can leap on somebody else. But when it is valued,
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Speaker 2: protocols can wait. Understand that. This is a very serious one.
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Speaker 2: So he paused. Because now it is obvious nobody else
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Speaker 2: can do what they need him for. So the whole
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Speaker 2: Egypt was on a standstill. So he paused. And he
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Speaker 2: shaved himself. They did say Joseph be shaved. He already
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Speaker 2: had the mentality of the throne. His mind was not imprisoning.
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Speaker 2: He might be in the prison, the mind was not locked.
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Speaker 2: The problem is that you allowed your mind be in
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Speaker 2: the same problem you are in. He shaved himself. Then
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Speaker 2: he changed his raiment. We need to meet at the
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Speaker 2: level of mutual value. If he came out with the
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Speaker 2: prison clothes and appeared before Pharaoh with prison clothes, Pharaoh
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Speaker 2: would just, look at this, Pharaoh would just look at
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Speaker 2: him and say, he's a prisoner, give him fudu. Are
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Speaker 2: you aware that at the time Pharaoh said that he
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Speaker 2: interpreted the dream, he now went forward to say, let's
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Speaker 2: look for a man who is discreet and wise.
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Speaker 3: Who can do... See, he didn't just interpret the dream.
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Speaker 2: He gave solution. Interpretation is the gift of the spirit.
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Speaker 2: Solution is wisdom. Beyond the gift he had, he has wisdom.
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Speaker 2: That I have an economic policy that if you implement...
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Speaker 2: When other nations have strutted for seven years, based on
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Speaker 2: my policy, you will not lack food. But look for
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Speaker 2: a man who is wise, having known that all wise
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Speaker 2: men have failed at this. Pharaoh said to him, who
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Speaker 2: is wise but you? Do you know that if he
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Speaker 2: was wearing prison clothes, Pharaoh will not consider him. He
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Speaker 2: will feel a prisoner does not have capacity. It will
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Speaker 2: be later at night before Pharaoh will now say, hold
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Speaker 2: on a minute, oh. The guy was even a prisoner,
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Speaker 2: but he can do the job. There is a way
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Speaker 2: not to appear when your light shines. Am I before
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Speaker 2: the wrong people? There is a way not to appear.
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Speaker 2: Because the reason why I'm saying this is because I
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Speaker 2: am prophetically calling something out. Many of you are going
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Speaker 2: to begin to sit in certain corridors... That you have
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Speaker 2: admired for a long time. And it matters how you
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Speaker 2: will enter. When you get before Pharaoh... You won't even
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Speaker 2: know explanation of how you got to prison. Enter into
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Speaker 2: the joy of the moment. Forget about the story of
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Speaker 2: how you got to prison. It doesn't matter and it
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Speaker 2: can't matter anymore.
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Speaker 3: In one moment he was in the prison... In another moment,
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Speaker 3: he was in.
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Speaker 2: Charge of the whole of Egypt. Potiphar and everyone that tripped,
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Speaker 2: they will now have to come and say, well done, sir.
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Speaker 2: He did not, see, listen, he did not come out
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Speaker 2: from the prison by favor. It was the value he represented. Ah.
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Speaker 2: Favor may bring you out, it can't put you in
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Speaker 2: charge of the land. No, sir. Favor does not have
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Speaker 2: that jurisdiction. Let your light so shine Before men. That
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Speaker 2: they will glorify your father. He said kings will come
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Speaker 2: to the brightness. Isaiah 60. Of your word. This one
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Speaker 2: is not just shining torch lights. This one that kings
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Speaker 2: come to. You must explode. The era of holding back.
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Speaker 2: Is enough. Do you know why? There are many Joseph's
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Speaker 2: amongst us. It is anyone who solves the problem that
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Speaker 2: will be assumed to be the only anointed one. Let
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Speaker 2: me come again. There are many Josephs amongst us. It
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Speaker 2: is the one who solves the problem that will be
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Speaker 2: assumed to be the only anointed one. I sense that
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Speaker 2: God is saying ahead of 2024, push out. Enough of
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Speaker 2: being obscure. Enough of doing it small. Enough of starting small.
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Speaker 2: Let's just manage. Let's just manage. It's time to push
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Speaker 2: it in the fullness of the potential. In the depth
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Speaker 2: of the wisdom. And what God has graced to it.
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Speaker 2: It is time to launch out. Knowing fully well this
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Speaker 2: one now is for kings.
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Speaker 3: It's time to pull off the prison garment. It's time
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Speaker 3: to shave. Joseph was, listen, listen. As I studied what Joseph.
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Speaker 2: Was doing, this move It's only the move of a
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Speaker 2: man who knows. I only need one opportunity. I don't
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Speaker 2: need two. I don't need three. I have waited all
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Speaker 2: my life for just, now that it is with Pharaoh,
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Speaker 2: let me achieve. I am never going back there. Is
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Speaker 2: there something you know you are never going to go
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Speaker 2: back to? Is there a dimension you know you can
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Speaker 2: never be back to? Is there something you are aware of? That, listen,
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Speaker 2: I am not just going out by mistake. I am
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Speaker 2: living this level for good. You can never find me dead.
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Speaker 2: Is there a dimension like that? Can I give you
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Speaker 2: one minute? Is it too much? To find what I'm
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Speaker 2: saying to flame. And say, yes, this is the moment.
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Speaker 2: This is the moment. This is the moment. No, no, no, no.
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Speaker 2: I have not been waiting for 20 opportunities. Just one
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Speaker 2: is enough. Just one. Based on the level of value,
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Speaker 2: capacity development, what I've trained myself to do. In Jesus'
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Speaker 2: name we are praying. Now listen. While you are in
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Speaker 2: that waiting season, don't mourn it. Build capacity that requires
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Speaker 2: just one exposure. While you are in that waiting season,
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Speaker 2: don't cry. Don't mourn. Build your mind. Make sure your
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Speaker 2: mind is not in prison. Listen to this. Listen to this. Listen.
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Speaker 2: There is a way life is designed. Listen. That if
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Speaker 2: a man has more than enough, And his mind is
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Speaker 2: very poor. It is important that the finance adjusts to
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Speaker 2: the level of the mind. If the mind of a
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Speaker 2: man is wealthy. And there is no resources in his hands.
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Speaker 2: The law of God's justice demands. That the level of
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Speaker 2: resources must meet up with his mind. How do we
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Speaker 2: shift in spirit of life church? It is the mind first.
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Speaker 3: And that's why it doesn't.
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Speaker 2: Matter how big where I meet you is.
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Speaker 3: I'll tell you it's small.
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Speaker 2: The Bible said in 3 John verse 2, Beloved, I
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Speaker 2: wish above all things that you prosper in being earth,
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Speaker 2: even as your soul was. You will prosper in other
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Speaker 2: things once the prosperity of the soul goes forward. But
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Speaker 2: if you prosper in those things, your mind is impoverished.
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Speaker 2: It is important by the law of justice. Thy impoverishment
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Speaker 2: cut up with that mind. You are the reflection of
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Speaker 2: the state of your soul. Is there, listen to what
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Speaker 2: I'm saying. Is there a capacity you are seriously building now?
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Speaker 2: That you know, I just need one opportunity to do this. Listen,
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Speaker 2: many believers mourn and cry, Oh God, open me up,
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Speaker 2: expose me, let my helpers see me. But they lack
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Speaker 2: the capacity to draw the attention of the lips in
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Speaker 2: the desire. They lack the character, they lack the integrity.
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Speaker 2: This is a sober moment. And I will need somebody
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Speaker 2: to cry to God now. Help me to be readily prepared.
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Speaker 2: For the lifting my destiny so desires. Help me to
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Speaker 2: build strength. On all sides. Both of character. And of capacity.
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Speaker 2: Is that the way you pray? Help me oh. Help me.
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Speaker 2: Help me. In Jesus' name we are praying. We cannot
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Speaker 2: have a takeover church if they are still praying for
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Speaker 2: favor in the hands of unbelievers. We cannot. We need
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Speaker 2: a generation of believers who will rise at the level
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Speaker 2: of value. That your placement will be on the platform
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Speaker 2: of mutual value. Not just favor. God have escape his mentality.
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Speaker 2: I just want to escape poverty. No. I am rising
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Speaker 2: as a giant. Do you understand what I'm saying? Do
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Speaker 2: you understand what I'm saying? Is it making sense what
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Speaker 2: I'm saying? That if your job is the work of
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Speaker 2: a photographer. You are not just saying, just take the
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Speaker 2: king's passport. No, no, no, no. Your work has gone
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Speaker 2: ahead of you to announce you. Because when they see,
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Speaker 2: they wonder, who is this mind? Who is this around
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Speaker 2: the town? Is this fellow in Nigeria? But instead... What
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Speaker 2: we do, listen, listen. What we do in the body
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Speaker 2: of Christ is escape his mentality. Is escape his mentality.
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Speaker 2: There are certain dimensions. Listen to what I'm saying. Look
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Speaker 2: up ministers, some people are pastors, hear me well. There
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Speaker 2: are dimensions your ministry cannot smell without influence.
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Speaker 3: Can I come again?
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Speaker 2: There are dimensions your ministry cannot smell without influence. It
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Speaker 2: is important that the light of God shines upon your
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Speaker 2: life And it shines so bright. That men are seeing. Listen.
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Speaker 3: I discovered something in God.
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Speaker 2: That I don't have to be everywhere. For our churches
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Speaker 2: to grow everywhere. The light of God's influence. Can lift
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Speaker 2: me from where I am. And men begin to ask.
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Speaker 2: Where is this ministry?
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Speaker 3: And the ones in Waurisi.
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Speaker 2: The ones in Benissi. The ones in Lagos. And everywhere
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Speaker 2: will begin to grow. Without traveling anywhere. It is called
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Speaker 2: the light of influence. It is called the light of influence.
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Speaker 2: This year you prayed for favor for our friend. Make
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Speaker 2: sure it is the last time. Make sure it is
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Speaker 2: the last time. This year you waited by the roadside
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Speaker 2: and said, God, now I want to know if you
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Speaker 2: love me. Let somebody come and give me a lift.
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Speaker 2: Make sure it is the last time. In the first place,
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Speaker 2: you have no business being there. It is good when
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Speaker 2: you are getting married. People give things to you.
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Speaker 3: It is fantastic.
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Speaker 2: But it is only beautiful if you are not waiting
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Speaker 2: for them. If you were waiting for them before you
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Speaker 2: could buy a wedding gown, before you could buy a
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Speaker 2: cow and all those things. In all honesty, that's not favor.
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Speaker 2: It is something very serious. When Jacob came to meet Esau,
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Speaker 2: the Bible said he separated his band into two. Got
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Speaker 2: some cattle, brought some things. He thought he would meet
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Speaker 2: Esau at the level where the guy was proper. And
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Speaker 2: Esau said, I don't need these things. I'm blessed.
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Speaker 3: He said, I'm blessed.
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Speaker 2: I'm blessed. Because Isaac told him, he said, when you
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Speaker 2: become restless, He will break the yoke. So as far
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Speaker 2: as he was concerned, he saw broke the yoke. For
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Speaker 2: their generation, he was the best. For their time, he
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Speaker 2: was the rich guy. He was the prosperous guy. The
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Speaker 2: only path he could not take was the edge stage
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Speaker 2: of city. The fact that the Messiah will now come
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Speaker 2: through this one. He can't change that one. But as
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Speaker 2: far as he was concerned, in his own lifetime, he
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Speaker 2: broke it. He will break the yokes. Again I decree
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Speaker 2: you will break the yokes. Listen, there are places you
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Speaker 2: are looking for favor to enter. But it is not
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Speaker 2: favor that will bring you there. They will need you.
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Speaker 2: When they need you, it is not favor. No. No.
47:40
Speaker 2: When they need you, it is not favor. When you
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Speaker 2: are a girl and a man is marrying you, he
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Speaker 2: is bringing you favor.
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Speaker 3: He needs you.
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Speaker 2: It doesn't matter how highly placed he is. God described
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Speaker 2: you as his helper. He's not doing you a favor.
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Speaker 2: He needs you.
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Speaker 3: Do you understand what I'm saying here?
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Speaker 2: I see the church shifting from needing favor to giving it.
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Speaker 2: From being in desperate need of, whoa, just one person
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Speaker 2: to help us escape, to be the one who is
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Speaker 2: now lifting up.
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Speaker 3: See, the strategy has changed.
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Speaker 2: By 2023, 2024, anyone we've seen giving testimony like, they
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Speaker 2: almost sent me out of the hostel, blah, blah, blah.
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Speaker 2: And then some of my uncle sent 20,000. You will
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Speaker 2: know that it's old still. Because God is raising giants.
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Speaker 2: Who don't have business being in that situation in the
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Speaker 2: first place?
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Speaker 3: Oh, I'm a musician, I sing. Oh, I'm a tech expert. Oh,
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Speaker 3: I'm a creative. Oh, I'm a fashion designer.
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Speaker 2: Can you live your life in such a way that
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Speaker 2: you only need one opportunity? And I give you a
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Speaker 2: phone call. And I said, phone call, is that you?
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Speaker 2: Say yes. Say listen, as I'm speaking now, I'm with
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Speaker 2: the First Lady of Nigeria. And I've told her about you.
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Speaker 2: They will send you a measurement. Can you make something?
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Speaker 2: Do you have a level of value that can connect
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Speaker 2: at that level? Favor is not God robbing Peter to
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Speaker 2: pay Paul. Until you bring something of value to the table,
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Speaker 2: it is injustice.
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Speaker 3: What did I say?
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Speaker 2: Until you bring something of value to the table, it
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Speaker 2: is what? Can you please pray? Father, I grow in value.
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Speaker 2: Not just in waiting. Can you pray these prayers? Help
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Speaker 2: me to expand capacity Please pray. Please pray. Rivers of
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Speaker 2: living water. Here I.
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Speaker 5: Am.
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Speaker 2: Oh, yes. In Jesus' mighty name we pray. Now there
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Speaker 2: is a dimension in the blessing called excellent spirit.
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Speaker 3: One of the, listen, listen, listen.
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Speaker 2: One of the components of the blessing is something called
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Speaker 2: enlargement of hearts. Enlargeness of heart and largeness of heart
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Speaker 2: are not the same thing. Enlargeness of heart is one
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Speaker 2: of the things responsible for the manifestation of excellent spirit.
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Speaker 2: Enlargeness of heart is the reason why you will have
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Speaker 2: the biggest church in the environment or you say it's
50:53
Speaker 2: not enough. The problem is the level people are that
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Speaker 2: you are beating them. That is the size of their mind.
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Speaker 2: That is the size of their desire.
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Speaker 3: I saw this practically while we were on campus.
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Speaker 2: One of my friends got a D in a course
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Speaker 2: that we took together and I was so angry. I mean,
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Speaker 2: how can you get a D in this course? We
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Speaker 2: need to complain and request for your papers to be remarked.
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Speaker 2: And he laughed in a very strange way I've never
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Speaker 2: seen in my life. And he said, Abba, there's no
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Speaker 2: need to recall it. He said, this is my capacity.
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Speaker 2: I said, my God. There are people who are praying
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Speaker 2: for God to change their level, but internally, they have
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Speaker 2: accepted that as their capacity. Are you following what I'm
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Speaker 2: saying here? When your heart is enlarged, you will never
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Speaker 2: be convenient with being a mediocre. It is one thing
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Speaker 2: you must see that guarantees that indeed there is a
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Speaker 2: bright future. You cannot place the possibility of a bright
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Speaker 2: future on just favor. There must be something you are
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Speaker 2: bringing to the table at the level of value. And
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Speaker 2: that happens when your heart is enlarged. Yes, everybody is
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Speaker 2: praising what you are doing, but you say, I can't sleep,
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Speaker 2: it's not enough. This is not the best of God.
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Speaker 2: Until you get to that point, sincerely, certain prayer points,
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Speaker 2: you see, in Christianity, we are funny. We make it
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Speaker 2: look like as long as we are prayerful, we have
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Speaker 2: the advantage. It's not true. Should God cheat the whole
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Speaker 2: community and reject the one who has the capacity and
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Speaker 2: pick the one because this one just prayed? No, we
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Speaker 2: know you prayed, but what problem can you solve? We
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Speaker 2: can't see anything. And say God will honor the prayer.
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Speaker 5: No, no, no, no, no.
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Speaker 2: To your prayer add virtue. There must be something coming.
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Speaker 2: We bless God for the hand laid on you. We
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Speaker 2: bless God for the impartation. But what you do and
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Speaker 2: at the level you do it. How many continents can
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Speaker 2: it survive? The things you do. How many platforms can
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Speaker 2: it withstand? If we call people who think differently. Will
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Speaker 2: they not ever reach all these things? You can be
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Speaker 2: a one eyed man in the land of the blind.
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Speaker 2: Are you following what I'm saying here? Place your hands
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Speaker 2: on your head. Father, anoint me today with an excellent spirit.
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Speaker 2: Cause a shift and a revolution in my heart. Let
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Speaker 2: there be a shift. Shift me, Lord. In Jesus' mighty
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Speaker 2: name we are praying. So listen, as you begin to
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Speaker 2: do the right thing as a church, you will never
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Speaker 2: have to pray that Father, as our members are coming,
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Speaker 2: hasten their step, come speedily. Because they are actually running
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Speaker 2: to church because of the value you bear. Certain prayer
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Speaker 2: points are assigned, you don't even know the protocols. There
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Speaker 2: are protocols, guys. And men can arise through knowledge. Men
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Speaker 2: can rise through knowledge. If you take all the branches
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Speaker 2: of Sphere of Light Church today, take all the instruments,
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Speaker 2: take every money in the account, and put me in
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Speaker 2: a place to start afresh, in less than six months
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Speaker 2: we'll have more. Because at certain points, your asset is
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Speaker 2: no longer physical things.
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Speaker 1: Ah.
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Speaker 3: Let me tell you again.
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Speaker 2: When you are at the level where you are just
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Speaker 2: escaping poverty, your access is in things. Your asset is
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Speaker 2: in things. But at the level of administering value to nations,
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Speaker 2: your asset is no longer those things. If you strip
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Speaker 2: me of these things, how can Warren Buffett, who is
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Speaker 2: not a born-again Christian, give 90% of his money to
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Speaker 2: Bill Gates Foundations? And in another two years, he was
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Speaker 2: back among the top guys. What does he know about
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Speaker 2: the blessing that you don't know? That's why you fight
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Speaker 2: for money. You fight. You are even wrestling with God
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Speaker 2: over your offering and tithe. Because you think that is
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Speaker 2: your asset. And you neglect the blessing on their head.
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Speaker 2: The capacity to think with a different expression. To see
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Speaker 2: what nobody is seeing. I see ministers ask questions. Why
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Speaker 2: all these are Father's body of Christ? Why can't they
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Speaker 2: just call 100 ministries and just bless them with 10
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Speaker 2: million every age?
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Speaker 3: That's not the pathway of greatness.
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Speaker 2: No. As you ascend through the ladder, something is happening
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Speaker 2: to you that makes each level legitimate. You cannot be
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Speaker 2: thrown over the ladder. The protocol will draw you back.
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Speaker 2: Unless you have bared the level of value for that place.
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Speaker 2: But to come to stay and to dwell, you must
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Speaker 2: understand the protocol's. Through wisdom a house is built. By
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Speaker 2: understanding it is established. There is a need for knowledge,
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Speaker 2: for the rooms to be filled with pleasant riches. You
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Speaker 2: need to know something to fly.
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Speaker 3: I told the pastor something. I said by 2024, the.
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Speaker 2: Smallest branch of Spirit of Life Church we are starting
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Speaker 2: will have at least 500 members. I did not say
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Speaker 2: that with hope. I say because I entered into a
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Speaker 2: body of knowledge. Every year we had, I predicted before
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Speaker 2: we entered. Do you understand what I'm saying? We don't
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Speaker 2: predict the new year by prophecy alone. We can predict
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Speaker 2: the new year by looking at growth. Listen again. That's
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Speaker 2: the reason why many of.
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Speaker 3: Us are frustrated through prophecies.
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Speaker 2: Any prophecy you receive, that the level of what they
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Speaker 2: said you will have is not in alignment with the
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Speaker 2: growth you have. It's not yours. This is how to
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Speaker 2: know what is not yours for the new year. They
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Speaker 2: prophesied this year you will marry, but you know, I
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Speaker 2: have not developed the capacity for that yet. What I
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Speaker 2: need now is just a relationship. Discard that one. It's
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Speaker 2: for someone else, not you. Even if they call your name,
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Speaker 2: it's for another person with a name. I am saying
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Speaker 2: you can accurately predict the next year by looking at
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Speaker 2: the growth quotient. I knew when I went to pray,
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Speaker 2: I was shut down in fasting and prayer. And I
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Speaker 2: wrote down three things you begin to see in Spirit
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Speaker 2: of Life Church. They are all happening. And I've also entered.
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Speaker 2: And I still have the secret place to enter. I mean,
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Speaker 2: this one is shut down. When I entered those places
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Speaker 2: with days of fasting, the only thing I come out
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Speaker 2: with Expect this from us. Expect this from us. It
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Speaker 2: is not, we trust God. We trust God looks very,
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Speaker 2: very powerful when it is religious. When you don't add it,
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Speaker 2: it's not like you are not trusting God. Say, what's
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Speaker 2: your plan for 2024? We are trusting God. That person
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Speaker 2: doesn't know what to do. I am saying we can
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Speaker 2: accurately predict the next phase through knowledge. Looking at. Now
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Speaker 2: I have known this. It is against the law of justice.
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Speaker 2: For a man who knows this. To be at this level.
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Speaker 2: I saw an analogy yesterday. And I want to give
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Speaker 2: you the same thing. Pastor Joseph please come. If Pastor
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Speaker 2: Hiya Adebwe. Should enter into this room.
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Speaker 5: Now.
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Speaker 2: And just say. I'm hungry. I'm not sure we will
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Speaker 2: still be here standing. I bet half of us will
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Speaker 2: be out of this place. looking for the best place
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Speaker 2: you can get food through. Because the level of transformation
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Speaker 2: that has happened to him does not permit that kind
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Speaker 2: of problem. The issue is that your growth is tolerating
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Speaker 2: your problem. no that's what is happening the level of
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Speaker 2: transformation you have is still compatible with the problem it
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Speaker 2: is compatible with the fact that you love to pray
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Speaker 2: for rent every year it is compatible the fact that
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Speaker 2: you need transport and wait by the roadside i i
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Speaker 2: say this on that go with all humility By the
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Speaker 2: level of transformation that has happened to my life, rent
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Speaker 2: can never be a prayer till I see Jesus. There
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Speaker 2: are people who say that, you want to kill us?
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Speaker 2: You mean our post was thrown out of the house?
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Speaker 2: Where were we? Because certain level of growth is not
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Speaker 2: compatible with certain problems. Stop just crying, God take me
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Speaker 2: out of the problem. Will you please grow? No. Isaiah
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Speaker 2: 10 27 to come to pass afterwards.
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Speaker 3: Listen to this.
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Speaker 2: That I will break the yokes of the Assyrians from
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Speaker 2: off your shoulders. And the body shall be destroyed by
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Speaker 2: the reason of the anointing. And our translation says that
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Speaker 2: the yoke will no longer fit your neck because you
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Speaker 2: have grown so fat. Meaning that increase is actually anti-yoke.
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Speaker 2: There are certain yokes that can't enter because of growth.
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Speaker 2: Please do you understand this? I mean, if I, if I,
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Speaker 2: so we stay, our estate in Abuja, I love to
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Speaker 2: jog to the gym.
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Speaker 3: I jog to the gym trying to exercise myself.
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Speaker 2: Many times I see cars parking, people turning, ah, that's
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Speaker 2: supposed to be. If I decide, I say, I want
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Speaker 2: to trek from, the level of growth will not allow it.
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Speaker 2: Somebody somewhere will have to park. It is good that
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Speaker 2: we are praying, but please add growth. So that your
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Speaker 2: prayer will be of strong effect. It is very powerful
1:00:56
Speaker 2: we are praying. But do what? There is a kind
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Speaker 2: of transformation that will happen to you. That effect cannot
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Speaker 2: contain you again. And it will be just.
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Speaker 3: I decree and declare over everyone here.
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Speaker 2: There is no more guesswork. That doesn't sound like your prayer.
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Speaker 2: There is no longer assumption. You will never have to
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Speaker 2: guess again. From today you know exactly what to do. Listen.
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Speaker 2: How many of you are aware that a major key
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Speaker 2: has been given to you today? That you are not
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Speaker 2: to live here still praying the same prayers in all
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Speaker 2: honesty sir. There are things I know will happen in
1:01:44
Speaker 2: the spirit of light church. Because through walking with God,
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Speaker 2: it brought me to a level of growth where I
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Speaker 2: began to see the things I've seen somewhere before. Now
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Speaker 2: I start seeing them different. And I now understand. Little
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Speaker 2: wonder we are at this level. Now I know we
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Speaker 2: are ready for the shift. When you come to that
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Speaker 2: level of transformation, you can speak as a prophet. Knowledge
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Speaker 2: is very prophetic. And say, expect this from us. Expect
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Speaker 2: this from... The reason why I announce it is because
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Speaker 2: it will come to pass. We have a facility that
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Speaker 2: we are going to buy. The facility is over 200
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Speaker 2: million naira. I said we would have bought this facility
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Speaker 2: before August. And it is not going to be with sweat.
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Speaker 2: Oh God, it's a body of knowledge. When you see
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Speaker 2: people who are where you are not, beyond laying on
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Speaker 2: of hands, seek to know what they know. If their
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Speaker 2: hands come on your head and you shift, you will
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Speaker 2: only be a visitor. Your knowledge will bring you back
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Speaker 2: to where you used to be. But if you get
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Speaker 2: wisdom from them plus impartation, you will climb fast and
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Speaker 2: you will remain. I decree from today, your future will
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Speaker 2: no longer be a guesswork. You know exactly what to do.
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Speaker 2: You will not diminish in value. You will rise to
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Speaker 2: the place of God's influence. You will not be an
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Speaker 2: advertisement of mediocrity. When there is influence and shallowness of mind,
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Speaker 2: the man becomes a picture of mediocrity. It will not
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Speaker 2: be you. You will rise to a new face.
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