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The Afflictions of the Righteous by Apostle Joshua Selman (Koinonia Global) 04·06·2023 · Selah Media House

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  Yes, my old. Hallelujah.
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  Can you turn that into a heartfelt prayer tonight?
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  The Bible says, call on me and I will answer I will show you
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  great and mighty things which thou knowest not.
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  The Lord is nigh them that call upon him.
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  Shabako sabrandege belle cosietas.
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  Someone is lifting up his or her voice in worship.
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  Let the. Fire from your altar.
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  Touch, my God, let the fire from your altar touch.
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  Let the fire from your altar touch.
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  Sometimes you have no words to say, so say.
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  Let's. Be the name of the Lord.
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  From everlasting to everlasting, you are God.
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  One generation will declare your praise even to another.
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  Hallowed. Be your name in the midst of
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  your people, Emma shabba rakoska brendege belle cosi abash.
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  Speak O God, speak O God, for your people are ready and
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  willing to listen. Hallelujah, Hallelujah.
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  It is unto you that we have come.
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  It is unto you our hearts are opened, our spirits are
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  receptive, that you will breathe upon us yet again.
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  For the Bible says they go from strength to strength.
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  As many as appear before the. Lord the.
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  Old workings of your. Spirit.
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  So in my life. Be glorified.
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  Be glorified in my life. Be glorified.
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  Be glorified. Hallelujah.
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  The patterns of God are so powerful that for as long as you
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  walk in keeping with those patterns, it is impossible to go
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  down His integrity. Listen carefully.
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  His integrity is back of His Word.
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  His integrity is back of His patterns.
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  This is what gives us the confidence to know that if He
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  did it yesterday, He will do it again today, and we can predict
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  tomorrow with accuracy that may sound like pride because of the
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  consistency of his character, that by these two immutable
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  things the Bible declares that it is impossible for God to lie.
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  This is our confidence. This is our consolation.
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  Hallelujah. So you have come tonight, I
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  beseech you, that your heart be open.
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  You have not come to meet a politician.
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  You have not come to meet an earthly monarch.
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  You have not come to meet some ambassador.
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  You have come to Jesus, the head of the Church.
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  The 1 today exalted both Lord and Christ.
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  Hallelujah the multi breasted 1 and the Bible says they looked
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  onto him and their faces were lightened.
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  May the Lord do us good tonight in Jesus mighty name we pray.
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  Let me one more time salute all those who are worshipping with
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  us for the first time. Thank you very much.
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  Remains an honor to have you worship with us and for our
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  family Connecting online Azaria family and our global family
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  blessings and grace to you in the name of Jesus Christ.
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  Koinonia is a place that God has covenanted even with himself
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  that this is a House of encounters.
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  This is a place of transformation, a place of
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  revival indeed, And this is a. Place where the.
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  Multifaceted possibilities of the Spirit are allowed to find
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  expression on restraint, and tonight will not be any
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  different. In the name of Jesus,
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  Hallelujah. As always, we're committed to
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  bringing you the Word of God. You know, I was thinking whilst
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  preparing to come to church that the teaching of the Word of God
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  please listen. The teaching of the Word of God
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  in partnership with the ministry of the Holy Spirit is the only
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  platform for the Enlightenment of the Saints.
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  The Saints are not enlightened just by passion.
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  The Saints are not even enlightened just by desire.
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  It will take more than desire and it will take more than
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  passion for the Saints to be enlightened.
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  It will take the ministry of the teaching priest in partnership
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  with the Holy Spirit to bring genuine enlightenment that leads
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  to transformation. How do you know that what you
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  are receiving is light indeed? Two things #1 John 15.
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  The light shineth in darkness, and the darkness comprehended
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  it. Not so if it is light.
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  Indeed, it must sustain the power to veto the presence and
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  the influence of darkness. The Bible says that was the true
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  light. That means there are false
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  lights, information that carry a semblance of liberty, but they
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  do not sustain within them the power to set free.
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  Indeed, that was the true light that lighted every man.
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  When it has to do with the ministry of light, every man is
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  qualified to have access to light.
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  There are realities in the Spirit where the Bible will say
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  he gave on to some, but when it has to do with the ministry of
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  light, he says that was the true light which lighted every man,
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  regardless race, regardless background.
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  That was the light, the true light which lighted every man.
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  Hallelujah. The sun, as we know, is older
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  than every man on earth, yet its illumination and its strength,
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  its ability to shine, has never diminished.
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  Are we together now? That is the Excellency of light.
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  That light does not sustain within it.
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  The weakness of fading light is consistent in its illumination.
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  Every time light seems to fade, the problem is not the light,
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  the problem is the object reflecting it.
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  So there are times on earth where the night time looks very
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  dark. It is simply the problem of the
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  alignment of the moon, not the illumination of the sun.
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  As for the sun, it remains ever bright, and the Bible says the
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  path of the just is as a shining light.
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  Is that in your Bible that shineth?
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  More and. More, more and more is the
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  destiny of every believer in Christ, even unto the perfect
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  day. May you find light tonight in
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  the name of Jesus Christ. It takes light to rule lighter.
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  Do men light a lamp and put it under a bushel?
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  Once that lamp is lit, it is impossible to hide it.
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  Hallelujah. So it's important for you to be
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  very intentional about your receiving the Word of God.
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  Don't be careless about it at all.
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  Jesus gave a parable, and it was the parable of the sower.
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  And he said that a sower came and sowed good seed, but on four
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  different kinds of soils. Are we together?
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  And they produce several kinds of harvest for even the soils
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  that were good, some thirtyfold, some sixtyfold, and some a
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  hundredfold. That means it is the
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  responsibility of every believer to open up your heart, because
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  the Bible tells us how to be a good soil.
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  It says the one that fell on good soil are they that heard
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  the Word and understood it? So you're hearing and your
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  understanding is what makes you a good soil.
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  Praise the name of the Lord Tonight I want to teach on a
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  topic that I believe is going to speak to so many of us.
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  I believe that this topic will give us wisdom, will give U.S.
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  intelligence, will mature our understanding as to the ways of
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  God, and will help us to be able to command greater levels of
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  victory because this is the assignment of the teaching
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  priest according to Jeremiah 3 and verse 15.
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  It says, and I will give you pastors or shepherds according
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  to my heart. It says they will feed you with
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  knowledge and they will feed you with understanding.
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  It says and that from a child thou has known the Holy
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  Scripture which is able to make you wise unto salvation.
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  Hallelujah. So when the word of God is
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  taught, it helps you to understand the ways of God and
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  it fades away ignorance from your Christian experience.
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  In the presence of light you can now walk in dominion.
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  Hallelujah. Dominion is not a possibility
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  outside of light. It takes light to dominate some.
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  I mean Isaiah chapter 60 and verse one.
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  It says arise shine not because you are tired of sitting down.
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  It says for your light is calm amplified will say arise from
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  the depression and the prostration that circumstances
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  have kept you rise to a new life.
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  Hallelujah. Praise the name of the Lord.
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  I'm teaching tonight on a topic that I title the afflictions of
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  the righteous and I want you to please pay attention.
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  You would be learning a lot tonight.
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  The afflictions of the righteous.
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  Psalm 34 and verse 19, help of spirit of the living God.
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  We depend on your wisdom. The Bible says many are the
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  afflictions of the righteous. Many are the afflictions of the
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  righteous. Then it says, but the Lord
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  delivered him out of them all to very powerful information.
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  Number one, many are the afflictions of the righteous,
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  and then #2 it says the Lord delivered him out of them all.
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  Say, Amen. Second Scripture, please.
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  Romans chapter 8 and verse 28. Romans 828.
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  The Bible says and we know. This is an information that is
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  Privy only to believers. It is not general knowledge.
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  It says and we know. We who are of the fold, we who
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  are. People who have submitted to the
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  world, he said. There is an information we know
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  that gives us the staying power through negative seasons.
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  It says and we know that all things work together for good.
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  Not to everybody, to them that love God, to them that are
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  called according to his purpose. Can we look at one more
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  scripture? Second Corinthians chapter 4,
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  please? 17 and 18 2nd Corinthians
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  chapter 417 and 18. Here's what Paul says for our
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  light affliction, which is but for a moment, he says, walketh
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  for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory. 18
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  says, while we look not at the things which are seen, but the
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  things which are not seen, He says for the things which are
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  seen are temporal, subject to change, but the things which are
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  not seen are eternal. May the Lord bless the reading
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  of His Word. Hallelujah Now to start tonight.
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  The Bible teaches us that we have been called as believers
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  into a life of victory, that for the believer there is a very
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  definite implication. When you give your life to Jesus
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  Christ, as we know, you receive of His life and you surrender
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  your life to Him. The Bible tells us number one,
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  that there is a translation from the Kingdom of darkness into the
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  Kingdom of His dear son #2 The Bible tells us that you become
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  the righteousness of God in Christ because now you have
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  access to Christ, to that gift of righteousness.
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  Are we together then? The Bible tells us, according to
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  John chapter 10 and verse 10, that for believing in Jesus you
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  have access to that life. I am come that ye may have life,
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  and that you may have that life. More abundantly.
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  Jesus was speaking to Nicodemus in John chapter 3 and when we
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  get to verse 16 he says for God so loved the world that he gave
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  his only begotten son, that whosoever believeth.
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  In. Him should not perish, but have
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  everlasting life, the Greek words away 17 says.
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  For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the
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  world, it says, but that the world through him might be
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  saved. So there are many implications
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  to being a believer. When you become a believer, you
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  are not an ordinary person. Among other things, the Bible
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  tells us that you are the righteous.
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  Are we together? You are a bonafide recipient of
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  the life of God. You now sustain the potential to
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  work in victory. 1st Corinthians 15 and verse 57 the Bible says
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  now thanks be to God. First Corinthians 15 and 5757
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  thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory and that that
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  victory comes through our Lord Jesus Christ.
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  So it's important for us to know that the Bible teaches in a very
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  clear and non mistaking way that believers are called to a life
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  of victory. You must have that at the back
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  of your mind. Number 2 is is that the basis
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  for the believers victory in the Kingdom is the finished work of
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  Christ. You must be able to defend your
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  confidence as to the fact that you should live a victorious
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  life because situations and circumstances will challenge
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  that victory. The basis for the believers
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  victory in the Kingdom is the finished work of Christ.
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  That means the summation of everything Jesus did from his
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  death, his burial and his resurrection.
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  This is the basis. Listen, as simple as this point
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  is, if you do not know what is the basis for your victory, you
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  will just become a religious person who is speaking what
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  seems to be right. But it does not sustain any
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  power in the spirit because the anointing is released on the
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  strength of understanding, understanding, understanding.
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  It is not what you say or do that releases power.
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  It is the understanding that supports what you say or what
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  you do. So this is a Kingdom that is
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  predicated upon understanding the spirituality and the
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  correctness of your activity notwithstanding that.
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  Means you can act. Correctly, you can even speak
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  correctly, but from a standpoint of ignorance, it will not
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  produce any results. Are we together?
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  The sons of Skiva were saying the the correct thing.
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  We are draw you by Jesus. The statement was correct, but
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  the requisite understanding that will release the power to back
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  what we were saying was not there.
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  So it is not just what we do in terms of its correctness, it is
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  the spiritual understanding that supports our speakings and our
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  doings that releases the power of God.
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  Ephesians 418 says having their understanding darkened, it has
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  been alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that
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  is in them because of the blindness of their hearts.
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  In fact, the assignment of the Prince of this world, as Paul
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  taught us, is to blind the minds of the people.
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  Are we together now? So the Bible teaches that we
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  have been called on to a life of victory in Christ.
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  And the Bible teaches us that the singular basis for the
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  believers victory is on the strength of that which Christ
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  has done. Of course, in partnership with
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  our understanding and our acting upon that truth even in faith.
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  Are we following so far? The Third Point I want us to
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  know as a foundation tonight. Is that the Bible is also very
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  clear as to the fact that there will be moments of affliction.
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  Listen now haven't established the fact that the word of God is
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  clear as to the believers heritage and destiny of
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  perpetual victory and the Bible tells us that the basis for our
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  victory is Christ and that which he has done are we together.
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  But the Bible is also is not silent as to the fact that
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  believers will face moments of afflictions, losses, pain, and
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  challenges. You would think the Bible should
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  be silent about these issues, but the Bible is very clear as
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  to the fact that there will be moments of afflictions, there
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  will be moments of losses, there will be moments of pain and
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  challenges in the life of the believer.
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  Psalm 20, please, from verse one to five.
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  The psalmist wrote it so beautifully.
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  He said the Lord here be in the day of trouble.
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  So the psalmist identifies such a moment in the life of the
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  believer called the day of trouble.
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  This was not negative confession, he's saying in my
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  study. Even as a king, I have come to a
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  point where there are time periods in the lives of men,
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  even those who are of the fault, even the covenant people, that
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  there is such a day called the Day of trouble.
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  It says the name of the God of Jacob.
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  Defend thee, verse 2. Send thee help in that day of
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  trouble from the sanctuary, and strengthen thee out of Zion
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  Verse. Three, it says, Remember all thy
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  offerings, and accept thy burnt offerings were reading to five.
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  Verse 4 Grant thee according to thine own heart, to fulfill all
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  thy counsel. The last verse it says, We will
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  rejoice in thy salvation, and in the name of our God will we set
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  up our banners. It says the Lord will fulfill
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  all our petitions. So the psalmist is saying that
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  there is a day called the Day of trouble.
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  Hallelujah. Several examples we can find in
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  Scripture of men and women who. Were purported to be righteous
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  and yet had moments and seasons of very, very disheartening
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  conditions. An example was as we find in
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  Scripture. An example is Abraham and Sarah
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  in Genesis chapter 15, from verse one to three, the Bible
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  tells us that after these things, the word of the Lord
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  came to Abraham in a vision saying, fear not Abraham.
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  It says, I am thy shield and thy exceeding great reward.
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  Can you imagine this kind of salutation?
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  And yet Abraham was in the midst of something that was a serious
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  problem. Verse 2 It says, And Abraham
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  said, Lord God, what will thou give me, seeing I go childless,
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  and the steward of my house is the Eliezer of Damascus.
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  Verse 3 And Abraham said, Behold to me, Thou has given no.
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  Seed and lo one born in my house is my heir.
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  Do you know what he was saying? Thank God for all these
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  wonderful salutations, but I'm in the middle of a situation.
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  This is what matters to me right now.
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  I go childless. In fact when you read chapter 16
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  and verse one give us 16 verse one the Bible tells us now Sarai
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  Abrams wife bear him no children.
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  Can you imagine that this this is Abraham that the Bible would
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  call the friend of God? This is Sarah his wife.
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  And yet, even as people who were so close to God, they had such
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  an issue in their life, trusting God for the fruit of the womb.
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  And the Bible is not silent about that story.
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  You would think the Bible would just wrap it up and say Abraham
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  was a great man, came from all of Chaldeans, was a noble man,
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  received a promise from God, finally offered Isaac, and
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  became a great man. That's an intelligent way to
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  summarize the Bible. But the Bible goes to be that
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  detail to tell us the concerns of that man, Abraham.
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  Are we together? Example #2 Israel in the land of
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  Egypt. The Bible records that Israel,
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  God's own chosen people, his covenant people, were in
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  captivity. You find that in Exodus chapter
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  1. The full text is 1 to 14, but
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  let's jump to verse 8 for the sake of.
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  Time Hallelujah. Is someone learning already?
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  That the nation of Israel, God's covenant people, were in
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  captivity. And did you know for all that
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  430 years God still called them my people, and they still
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  identified him as their God, and yet they were in captivity.
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  Now there arose a new king over Egypt which knew not Joseph
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  verse 9 He says, And he said unto his people, Behold, I hope
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  you know that the captivity of the nation of Israel started as
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  a plan to manage fear and jealousy.
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  That was what led graduated to become 430 years of captivity.
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  Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and
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  mightier than we. Come on, let us deal wisely with
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  them less they multiply, and it come to pass that when they have
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  fallen out any war they join also our enemies and fight us.
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  That was the whole basis for subjugating them.
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  There was a time they were equal in terms of ranking and
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  privileges, but another king came up and said, no, we can't
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  let this happen. One day they will become allies
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  with our enemies and they will defeat us.
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  And so they suggested captivity and bondage as a strategy to
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  keep them limited. Are we together now?
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  And verse 11 now for time. The Bible says therefore they
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  did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens
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  and their beautiful feral treasure cities, Python And
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  Ramesses. This were gods in Egypt and you
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  read down to 14. It just tells you the captivity
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  that God's own people went through.
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  How will you imagine that God, who is the mighty God, is
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  watching from heaven? And not for two years, not for
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  10 years. This is the longest time
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  officially recorded that God's people went into captivity
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  consciously under their taskmasters.
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  Hallelujah. Example #3 is the mysterious
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  story of Job. We find that in chapter 1 down
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  to chapter 2. Just write it for reference.
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  Up till this day it has remained A theological debate as to the
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  the real spiritual lesson behind the story of Job because it
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  takes extreme level of spiritual intelligence, discernment, work
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  with God to be able to decipher the book of Job is is laced with
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  all kinds of confusion. It starts by telling us of a
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  noble man, the greatest and the wisest as his time in the East
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  and the Bible records, that he was a man that feared the Lord
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  and eschewed evil, qualified to be called a righteous man by the
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  standard, whatever standard was there.
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  Now the Bible tells us that there was a summon in the
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  heavenlies. This is where the story gets
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  very interesting and that Satan was also there.
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  The Bible never called him Lucifer at this time, it
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  identifies him already as Satan. This is a very disturbing
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  scripture because when you read from the banishing of Satan from
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  heaven, the Bible says a place was no longer found for him in
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  heaven, and yet the Bible says Satan came among them.
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  So this can be an endless debate among theologians.
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  That's not our goal tonight. I'm just showing you that there
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  is such a disturbing reality and you find it in the Bible.
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  Are we together now? And then a discussion happens in
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  heaven. And based on the text, Satan is
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  given permission to touch everything around Job except his
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  life. Then the Bible says that there
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  was a day on earth. Can you see that the
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  manifestation of affliction and all kinds of evil also work with
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  times. There was a day on earth for the
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  execution of that which was finished in the Spirit.
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  And the Bible says one report after report, the sons, his
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  cattle, all kinds of things happened to that man.
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  But I love something that the Bible says happened to Job.
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  It says that with all of these things that drove, bowed his
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  head and worship. What an what an interesting,
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  what an interesting expression. Do you know what it means that
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  in one day you lose your daughters, you lose your sons,
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  you lose your business, you lose everything.
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  And the Bible says he shaved himself, He fell down and
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  worshiped. Example #4 Are we learning?
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  The Bible talks about a wonderful woman in Scripture
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  called Ruth. You find that in Ruth chapter 1
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  and we read from verse one to five.
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  Now there are two women who had the privilege of their names as
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  books of the Bible. One is Esther, the other is
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  Ruth. Hallelujah.
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  The Bible says it came to pass in the days when George is ruled
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  that there was a famine in the land and a certain man of
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  Bethlehem, Judah, went to sojourn in the country of Moab.
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  He and his wife had two sons. He's talking about Naomi now.
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  The Bible says his name was Elimelech and then the wife was
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  Naomi and then they had two sons, Malone and Chilion.
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  And they got married to Ruth and to Oprah.
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  Are we together just rushing? For sake of time, Let's go to
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  verse 4. For the sake of time, we're
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  reading to five. The Bible says they took them
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  wives of the women of Moab. And one was called Oprah and the
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  other was called Ruth. And they dwelled there about 10
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  years. Watch affliction.
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  Watch Tragedy. The Bible says the two sons also
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  died. I don't know what kind of spirit
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  was walking there, but the husband of Naomi died.
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  And then the sons that got married to them also died, the
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  Bible says. And the woman was left of her
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  two sons and her husband separated from them.
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  And you know the story that looked like the end of Ruth's
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  life. In fact, the woman told them,
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  when you read the full text, he said, look, go and find husbands
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  for yourself. Just leave me.
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  I'm a woman with many sorrows. And then Oprah went and Ruth
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  refused. And that led to a series of
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  events that will finally connect her to Boaz.
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  And now you know from history that she was part of the
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  genealogy of Jesus. Many are the afflictions of the
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  righteous. Are we learning?
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  He says. But the Lord delivered him from
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  them all. Still giving examples?
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  Example #5 Jesus himself. You would think because he's the
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  Son of the living God, the creator of the ends of the
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  earth, he would be exempted from affliction.
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  When you read from Luke chapter 22 all through forsake of time,
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  you just write it. The Bible tells us that Jesus
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  himself got to a point where he had to stand before Pontius
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  Pilate. In fact, right from Gethsemane.
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  He looked at the people when they came with swords and all of
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  that. He said, why are you using
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  knives to come and catch me? I was all around with you in the
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  temple. What offense have I committed?
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  But. This is your hour and the power
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  of darkness, he said. Am I right on that?
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  And Jesus was caught, malhandled in, you know, with the council,
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  Pontius Pilate. And, you know, the story went
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  through all kinds of things until he died, even the death on
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  the cross. The cross is a very interesting
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  place. I've taught you the cross is the
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  place where both good and bad people meet.
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  There were three crosses there at Golgotha and there were three
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  men there. One among them was Jesus and the
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  other were thieves. So be careful who you talk about
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  on the cross. You might be talking about
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  Jesus. The cross is a mysterious place
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  like the prison where both good and bad people are.
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  Hallelujah, Jesus number six giving you examples from
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  Scripture. The Bible talks about Peter, the
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  early apostles, now Peter in Acts chapter 12 from verse one
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  to four. Know the story.
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  That's the story of Peter. The Bible says Herod stretched
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  forth his hand to vex Saturn of the church.
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  Reading to verse four he says verse 2 and he killed James.
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  Can you imagine James, the brother of John with the sword?
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  And when he saw that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded further
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  to take Peter also. And verse 4 The Bible says that
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  he apprehended Peter and he put him in prison and delivered him
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  to 4 quaternions of soldiers to keep him, intending that after
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  Easter. He would bring him forth to the
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  people. You would think a great apostle
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  who just preached Peter, preached the official sermon to
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  launch the manifestation of the ministry of the Holy Spirit.
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  How would a man filled with the Holy Spirit, mentored directly
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  by Jesus, received? They were the first fruits of
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  the ministry that ushered in the dispensation of the Spirit.
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  And yet this man was now bound as a criminal, kept in prison.
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  Hallelujah do I talk about Paul and Silas in Acts chapter 16
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  that this man, the Bible says that they went to preach and
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  they found a certain damsel who was possessed by the spirit of
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  divination and by the authority of the spirit.
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  They casted that demon out and then the Bible tells us that as
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  a result they will let them. They flog them and put them in
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  prison. You can imagine Paul and Silas
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  in prison, bound hand and feet. Many are the afflictions of the
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  righteous, but the Lord. Delivered them from them all.
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  Now please listen carefully. I wrote something down here.
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  I said believers must be trained to know and respond to these
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  periods of affliction and challenges.
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  Believers must be. Trained.
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  Because you see, we live in a world where because of the loud
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  proposition of our victory in Christ, most believers are at a
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  loss when they begin to face moments where they cannot
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  understand what is happening around their lives, their
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  families. And many believers have turned
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  away from the things of God because of the negative
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  situations and circumstances around their lives, because
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  they've tried to find meaning and perspective as to why some
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  of these things I understand. And the affliction of the
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  Sinner, the Bible says mark the wicked.
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  Their end is destruction. So I don't need to ask why the
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  wicked is being punished. I don't need to ask why the
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  wicked is being destroyed. But the Bible says many other
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  afflictions of the righteous, the destruction of the Sinner is
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  imminent, based on God's justice system and based on the laws of
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  the Spirit. Because the Bible says that.
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  How does he put it now? It says good understanding,
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  procurate favour, that is Proverbs 1315.
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  It says, but the way of the transgressor is hard.
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  The transgressor is the violator of God's principles.
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  So when people violate principles and become wicked,
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  their end is already predicted from Scripture now.
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  But how do you reconcile the righteous seeming to go through
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  the same experience as the wicked in the face of
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  challenges? What then is the Excellency of
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  righteousness? What then is the Excellency of
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  godliness by reason of what I do?
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  Almost on a daily basis, without exaggeration, I receive calls
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  and text messages from people, many of them believe us, seeking
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  explanation, communicating their various annoyance and
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  lamentations as to many things that may have befallen them from
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  bereavements. There are people who have lost
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  loved ones and some of the loved ones at the point of death.
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  They were same by his tribes. I am healed and yet they still
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  died. How do you explain that to a non
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  believer? How do you explain people who
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  got into all kinds of trouble because they refused to give
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  bribe or collect bribe? They stood for their integrity
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  and made-up their minds that they would not compromise and
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  you would think their refusal, you know they are.
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  They are rejecting. Compromise should immediately
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  bring them to elevated positions of honor.
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  Many of them went through declines, sadly, even unto
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  death. About Matthiadom, those who
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  stood for Jesus even at the point of death.
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  Hallelujah. How about believers who have
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  trusted releasing their hearts, releasing their all?
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  How about believers who emptied the accounts serving the
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  purposes of the Kingdom and there seem to have been a
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  boomerang effect that has affected them when the pandemic
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  struck it. It hits believers, it hits
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  unbelievers alike. And let me tell you the truth,
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  if explanation and perspective is not given to this, we are
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  going to lose many believers in the days that come because many
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  people will be confused. I understand the affliction of
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  the wicked, but it is difficult to understand the affliction.
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  Of the righteous. Hallelujah.
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  As a man of God, I have seen miracles, all kinds of
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  manifestations of God's power. And I'm indebted to God
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  eternally for trusting us with disgrace and apostleship to do
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  the things we have done. But I've had to stand and weep
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  with people at their funerals. I've had to comfort families.
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  I've also had to, you know, just keep quiet and give God the
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  glory. Because in in spite of the
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  spiritual intelligence and the grace given, we have been
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  confronted even as men of God with situations where it is
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  wisest to just be silent. Because any other thing you say
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  will be a communication of foolishness in light of that
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  kind of catastrophe. There are times that believers
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  are so plagued with certain situations that the best way.
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  The best way is just to say, Lord, we thank you.
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  We may not understand, but we thank you.
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  Hallelujah. I have studied this myself and
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  by the Spirit of God I have. Come up with five keys.
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  And. This is really the core of my
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  teaching. Tonight, I want you to please
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  pay attention. I guarantee you that you will
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  need this teaching in your life, and with it you'll be able to
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  help others. And if you're a man of God here,
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  please lend me your attention, because you will be confronted
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  with situations that will require this.
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  Level of Spiritual understanding.
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  There are 5 keys that are found from scripture that is able to
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  help the righteous to not only manage afflictions but to turn
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  that affliction. To victory even in the Spirit.
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  You see, we agree from Scripture that challenges are not unusual.
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  In fact, here's what Jesus said. In this world you will have
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  tribulation. Jesus is speaking, he says, but
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  be of good share, for I have overcome the world.
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  This is not a prophet. This is not some apostle.
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  This is Jesus the Christ Himself saying in this world there is a
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  guarantee that you will have this and that tribulation.
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  It says what be of good share, I have overcome the world.
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  Hallelujah. There are 5 biblical keys that
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  the Bible gives the believer as the keys that will help them to
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  experience victory in spite of. Or in the midst of challenges,
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  Are you ready for the five keys? Pray in the Spirit for one
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  minute and ask the Lord to open your understanding.
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  Hey, Bashala kruska venica tosia, give us understanding
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  even by your word. Many are the afflictions of the
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  righteous, the righteous businessman, the righteous
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  apostle, the righteous prophet, the righteous.
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  Mother, the righteous student, the righteous politician, even
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  the righteous nation. Hallelujah.
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  Key #1 Key number one, Are you ready?
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  The first key that the Bible gives not.
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  You must understand that the Word of God is not a
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  recommendation. That the word of God is not an
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  opinion. It may look like a
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  recommendation. It may look like an opinion, but
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  for the believer who wants to work perpetually in victory, the
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  word of God is life. The word of God is instruction.
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  It says, my son, pay attention to my words, incline your ears
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  to my sayings. It says, do not let them depart
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  from your heart. Keep them in the midst of your
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  your your mouth. Keep them in the midst of your
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  heart. He said they are life.
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  Not to everybody, to those that find them and health, even to
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  their flesh. So you must take the Word of God
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  as final authority, as touching anything the Word of God
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  presents the mind of God concerning.
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  Any and all matters are we together?
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  Number one, the first key. Any believer, any righteous
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  person who is going through a season of affliction, doesn't
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  matter what it is called, the first recommendation from
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  Scripture is to look on to Jesus.
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  Please write, as simple as that sounds, do not assume you
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  understand what I'm saying. Just write and listen to look on
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  to Jesus, to look on to Jesus. Now we can read Psalm 34
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  beginning from verse one. Look unto Jesus.
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  He says, I will bless the Lord at all times.
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  His praise shall continually be in my mouth.
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  Verse 2. My soul shall make her boast in
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  the Lord. The humble shall hear of, and
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  hear thereof, and be glad. Verse 3 It says, O magnify the
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  Lord with me, and let us exalt his name together. 4I sought the
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  Lord, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears.
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  5 It says, they looked unto him. Is that in your body Bible?
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  And they were lightened, and their faces were not ashamed.
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  Verse 6, It says, The poor man cried, and the Lord heard him,
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  and saved him out of all his troubles.
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  Reading to 10, The Angel of the Lord encampeth round about them
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  that fear him, and delivered them.
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  Verse 8, It says, All taste and see that the Lord is good.
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  Blessed is the man that trusted in him.
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  Verse 9 All fear the Lord ye his Saints, but there is no one to
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  them that fear Him. Final verse The Young Lions do
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  lack and suffer hunger, it says, but they that seek the Lord
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  shall not want. Any good things?
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  Say aloud. Amen.
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  Hallelujah. So the Bible says to look unto
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  Jesus. You find that in Hebrews chapter
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  12 and verse 2. Hebrews chapter 12 and verse 2,
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  looking unto Jesus. He says, the author and the
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  finisher of our faith, please look up.
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  I can tell you it is very difficult to look unto Jesus in
• 44:51
  the face of challenges, tribulations.
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  What does it mean to look? Now pay attention.
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  To look means to direct one's gaze and focus towards someone
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  or something. That's what it means to look.
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  To look means to direct one's gaze, to direct one's focus away
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  from other things towards someone or towards something.
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  But then to look also means to rely on or to depend totally
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  upon. When the Bible says look unto
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  Jesus number one, it means to set your gaze upon Him, not
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  wavering whatsoever, but #2 it means to depend and rely totally
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  upon Him even when you do not understand him.
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  Look unto Jesus, the biblical recommendation for managing
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  seasons and moments of affliction.
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  Look unto Jesus, the Bible says. There is a very strange and
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  interesting story. You find that in Numbers chapter
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  21 from verse 4 down to 9, the Bible talks about the nation of
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  Israel, that when they came by the way of the Red Sea, the
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  Bible says to compass the land of Edom.
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  The soul of the people was discouraged because they kept
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  walking endlessly and it looked like there was no victory, no
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  rest for them. They were hungry, they were
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  angry. And the trouble started.
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  From verse 5 reading to verse 9, the people speak against God and
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  against Moses. Wherefore have you brought us up
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  out of Egypt to die in the wilderness?
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  For there is no bread, there is no water, and our soul loathed
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  this light. Bread. 6 The Bible says the Lord
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  sent fiery serpents among the people, and they beat the
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  people, and much people of Israel died.
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  Therefore the people came to Moses and said, We have seen,
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  for we have spoken against the Lord and against thee.
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  He says, Pray unto the Lord that he takes away the serpent from
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  us. And Moses prayed for the people.
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  How did God answer the prayer? The Lord instructed Moses and
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  said, Make thee A fiery serpent and set it upon a pole, and it
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  shall come to pass that everyone that is beaten when he look at
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  upon it shall leave. What kind of an instruction is
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  that? What is the relationship between
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  a serpent, a brazen serpent, and healing and life and victory?
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  It was not about the serpent. He was teaching them that there
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  is life and dominion in trusting God's plan, in trusting God's
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  way. As foolish as it is, once it is
• 47:45
  God that has spoken, He's saying even in the midst of the fiery
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  serpent, the wisest thing to do in front of a snake is to run
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  away, not to look. Hallelujah.
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  It is stupid for someone to sit down and watch a serpent crawl
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  around you. Are we together now and is about
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  to kill you? The wisest human instruction is
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  to run away, not to look at some serpent somewhere.
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  And yet that is the foolishness of God's path.
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  He was teaching them that the ways of God may not make sense,
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  but in them there is life. Look and leave my brother,
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  Leave. Look to Jesus Christ and leave
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  this recorded in his word. Hallelujah.
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  Tis only that you look. Apostle, you have no idea what
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  is happening in my life right now.
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  It's on account of my faith in Jesus that I'm in this trouble
• 48:52
  right now. Look to Jesus, Hallelujah to
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  depend upon him. Psalm 123 from verse one and
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  21231 and two, the Bible says unto thee, Lift I up mine eyes,
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  all thou that dwellest in the heavens.
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  Verse 2 it says, Behold, as the eyes of the servant look upon
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  the hand of their masters, it says, and as the eyes of the
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  maiden unto the hand of her mistress, so our eyes wait upon
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  thee, O Lord, until that he have mercy upon us.
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  Can I tell you there's no time? But probably let me just give
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  you 3 scriptures that helps us to know why should you look onto
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  Jesus. Number one is found in Psalm
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  127. I hope I've not lost you.
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  We're still looking at the first reason or the first
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  recommendation from scripture to look to Jesus.
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  Psalm 127 from verse one and two says except the Lord builds a
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  house. I am showing you why you need to
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  look onto Jesus that they label in vain that build it and accept
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  the Lord keep at the city. The watchman walketh but in
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  vain. Verse 2 says it is vain for you
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  to rise up early and to sit up late to eat the bread of sorrow,
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  for he giveth his beloved sleep. Why do we need to look unto
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  Jesus? Romans Chapter 9 and verse 16 it
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  says it is not of him that willeth nor of him that runeth,
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  but it is of the Lord that showeth mercy.
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  That means no matter what else you do, you can stretch your
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  human imagination from border to border.
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  If God does not show you mercy, everything you are doing will
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  end up being moving around in circles.
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  Hallelujah, why do we need to look unto Jesus?
• 50:51
  Psalm 62 and verse 11 I have spoken once and twice.
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  Have you heard that power belonged to God?
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  When you look unto Jesus, you are looking unto the only
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  person, the only God who has the power to do something about your
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  situation. My Bible tells me some trust in
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  horses and some trust in Chariots.
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  It says, but we will trust in the name of our God.
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  This is true. Men can want to help, they may
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  be sincere on that, but do they have the?
• 51:25
  Power. Hallelujah, someone say, look
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  unto. Jesus.
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  Let me give you one more scripture.
• 51:34
  Why do you need to look unto Jesus at times of adversary, at
• 51:40
  times of pain? Psalm 133 from verse one.
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  Behold how good and how pleasant it is.
• 51:51
  Psalm 113 my apologies 113113113 Praise ye the Lord, praise ye he
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  served the servants of the Lord, Praise the name of the Lord.
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  Verse 2. It says blessed be the name of
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  the Lord from this time forth forever.
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  Verse 3 it says from the rising of the sun onto the going down
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  of the same, the name of the Lord is to be praised and how
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  we're reading to verse 9 the Lord is high above all the
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  nations and his glory above the heavens.
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  Watch this now, it says, Who is like unto the Lord our God, who
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  dwelleth on? High verse 6.
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  Who humbled himself to behold the things that are in heaven
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  and are in earth? 7 Who raiseth the poor?
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  I'm showing you why you need to look unto Jesus.
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  God is the only one who can raise men, the poor out of the
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  dust, and lifted the needy out of the dunghill, that he may set
• 52:47
  him to sit with Princess. Even the Princess of his people,
• 52:51
  verse 9, he maketh the barren woman to keep house and to be a
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  joyful mother of children. This is what He can do.
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  When you look onto Jesus, it may sound like foolishness in the
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  midst of challenges because there are many times I have
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  taught you here when God is silent.
• 53:15
  The most difficult face in the believer's life is when God is
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  silent. Even though he's the Word.
• 53:23
  There are times God is mysteriously silent, and I've
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  taught you that the silence of God is also a language.
• 53:30
  You must know what God is saying when he's not speaking, because
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  when God is not speaking, he's saying something.
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  Look on to Jesus. Now let.
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  Me give you a word of caution while looking at 5 keys.
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  And the Spirit of God had to put it in my heart to write this
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  down. According to Matthew 11 and
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  verse 6, it says, blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended
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  in me. Can I tell you if you've not had
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  the temptation to be offended in God, it's either you are really
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  a baby or you've not lived long enough on this earth because
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  there are moments in your life when you feel is is almost as if
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  you feel cheated for loving Jesus.
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  Are we together? John came in the spirit and the
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  power of Elijah. Watch this.
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  John was the prophet who ordained Jesus to ministry.
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  It was revealed to John. John had the secret code that
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  would identify Jesus. When he saw Jesus by prophecy,
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  he said, behold the Lamb that takes away the sins of the.
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  World. Now John is locked up, courtesy
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  Herodias the daughter. As a birthday gift.
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  He was locked up and was about to be beheaded in anger when the
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  disciples came to him. You know what he said?
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  The same person who identified Jesus, who announced him.
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  He said go and ask him, are you the Messiah or should we expect
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  another? That is what offense can do.
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  The man who ordained Jesus in ministry, In fact, he trained
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  some of the disciples who would later be the disciples of Jesus.
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  And yet he said, Jesus, I, I've my pain vetoes every vision I
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  have about you. My pain vetoes anything God told
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  me about you. I am in a moment of pain.
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  You claim to be the Messiah and now I am locked up in prison and
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  you do not even have the courtesy to come and visit me.
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  I hear a rumor that as a birthday gift my head is going
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  and you do not even show any sign of concern.
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  Take that message. To your Jesus.
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  The disciples come to Jesus in a crusade ground and says, Sir, we
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  don't mean to embarrass you, but there's a serious situation.
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  The man who announced you most, the man who cried out and said
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  he was the voice who was sent to bear witness to you is in total
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  doubt of you right now. What can destroy a man's
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  ministry more than somebody who loved you and endorsed you
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  openly and is now saying, go, I'm not even sure what I laid
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  hands on. And the Bible says Jesus with
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  calmness and intelligence, he turned and began to lay hands,
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  healed a few people. He said, go and tell John what
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  you see, the blind see, the deaf hear, and so on and so forth.
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  The gospel is preached. Then he says, 11 verse 6.
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  Now blessed is he what? So whosoever shall not be
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  offended in me, Lord, where were you when I was losing my job?
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  Where were the angels of protection when my loved one was
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  being attacked by terrorists or died in a car crash?
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  I don't mean to get too emotional, but I'm just, I'm
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  discussing on the afflictions of the righteous.
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  Lord, where were you when, for the sake of my integrity as a
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  man of God, I seem to have gone down?
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  Where were you when Potiphar's wife was all around Joseph?
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  And because of his integrity, he didn't go to the palace, he went
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  to the prison, the afflictions of the righteous.
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  How do you explain Joseph holding a woman's, the wife's,
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  what they call it now, her veil or whatever it is he was
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  holding, How could he say that he did not have anything to do
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  with her? That was evidence enough.
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  And yet God was watching in heaven.
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  How do you explain Hannah crying year after year going to Shiloh?
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  How do you explain that? How do you explain God's people
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  under the rule and bondage of the Egyptians?
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  Many are the afflictions of the righteous.
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  Let me tell you this. The believer is not a believer
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  because of results. The believer is a believer
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  because you have committed yourself to trust in Jesus.
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  Hallelujah. Look onto Jesus is the first
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  biblical recommendation. I've had very painful
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  experiences in the lives of people as I as I serve the
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  purposes of God. And sometimes you know when they
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  can't see Jesus, you who is the closest to him based on what
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  they perceive whatever they would have told him is what they
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  tell you Hallelujah. Since I cannot see Jesus, you
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  claim to be the one who has come in his name.
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  You better be prepared to help me convey to Jesus and I will
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  tell you loud and clear where was he when this happened.
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  I know many people who I called in maybe the face of
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  bereavements and whatever. And I said, can we say word of
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  prayer is the apostle. With all due respect, please do
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  not talk to me about anything Prayer now.
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  And I know that they don't mean it.
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  It's just what pain can do. Hallelujah.
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  I heard about the story of someone who had an accident and
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  he had to rush out and he stood watching his car burn and it
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  burned to ashes. There was absolutely nothing he
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  would have done and that was a car that was like 2 months old.
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  What was the value of dedicating the car in church?
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  They poured oil on that car and he still burnt after two months.
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  How about the business of believers that went down from
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  COVID and some of those people were great sponsors of the
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  gospel. Now just follow me.
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  I'm a good pilot who land well. You just follow me.
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  Hallelujah. How about a man of God who
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  gathered sick people and shouted in the name of the Lord that
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  they will be healed, and laid hands on them one by one, till
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  they arrested him and threw him out of that place?
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  And he left that crusade ground as if he was leaving a funeral.
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  Where is the Jesus I kept shouting and talking about?
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  Let me tell you, ladies and gentlemen, I'm not just playing
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  with words, nor am I playing with your mind.
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  I'm revealing something that may be someone's situation.
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  Right. Now, and you know, in the midst
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  of challenges, you forget every title you have, you forget every
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  even Jesus wept. Very disturbing scripture.
• 1:00:36
  John 1135, If you see Jesus weeping, will you not cry too?
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  That means you're in trouble. John 1135, The comforter of
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  those who were always weeping is now weeping.
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  It doesn't matter why he's weeping.
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  The fact that you saw tears coming out of his eyes,
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  Hallelujah. Life wept, Hope wept.
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  Victory wept, the fountain of wisdom wept.
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  Weeping always carries a a picture of limitation.
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  When people weep, it seems to communicate hopelessness or
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  despair. And the Bible says Jesus wept as
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  God. He never cried, but when he
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  became a man, he cried. Jesus was angry.
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  The Bible does not hide his frustrations.
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  He went into the temple and flogged people in anger.
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  He caused a fig tree because he was hungry and came to the tree
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  and the tree would not deliver, and he caused that tree.
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  Look to Jesus. Listen to me.
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  There will be moments in your life where you truly will not be
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  able to find answers intellectually.
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  That's why there is a realm of peace that surpasses all
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  understanding. That means that peace is beyond
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  the realm of arguing. What is this?
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  What is that? Remember at the apex of of of
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  jobs problem the wife was even confused.
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  She said cause God and die and Job said no.
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  Why do you speak like one of these foolish women?
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  He said all the days of my appointed time I will wait.
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  I don't know what is happening to me.
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  Different people came and started communicating several
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  opinions and Ellie who one time shot them and he said you guys,
• 1:02:38
  I respect you. I wanted to speak but I have a
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  limitation in age, he said. But there is a spirit in man and
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  the inspiration of the Almighty make it man of understanding.
• 1:02:50
  Job himself who encouraged himself in the Lord got to a
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  point where he was angry. And when you reach chapter 38,
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  the Bible said his summon God. He said, God, I've finished
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  comforting myself. We need to talk.
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  Please come and explain to me the reason behind this pain.
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  And the Bible says God came in a whirlwind and a discussion
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  began. Hallelujah.
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  Look on to Jesus #2 depend on him #2 Now let me give you #2
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  commit to prayer. Even in the midst of pain, even
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  in the midst of hopelessness, even in the midst of despair,
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  commit to prayer. That is the second point.
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  James chapter 5 and verse 13. James 513.
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  Is any among you afflicted? Let him pray, the Bible says.
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  Let him pray. When you see afflictions, you
• 1:03:50
  see despair. You see all kinds of things he
• 1:03:53
  says to pray. It is difficult to pray when you
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  are in pain. That is where spirituality is.
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  Tested. Lord, I do not know what is
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  happening, but I pray. I pray Hallelujah. 1st
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  Thessalonians 517 he says pray without season.
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  First Thessalonians 517 pray without season.
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  Someone say prayer, shout it against a prayer.
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  Prayer is very, very powerful. When you do not know what to do,
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  pray. It is in the place of prayer.
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  That direction comes. When you do not know what to do,
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  pray. Pray even in the spirit.
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  Pray in your understanding. I don't know where the solution
• 1:04:36
  to these bills will come from. There's already a death sentence
• 1:04:40
  around my life and my children. Health wise, you do not know
• 1:04:43
  what to do, pray. The Bible says the biblical
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  recommendation for managing affliction.
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  Is to pray man of God, pray, businessman pray it does not
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  take a certificate to pray it takes hunger and passion and the
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  recognition that there is a God that rules over the affairs of.
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  Men say pray, commit to prayer. That is the second biblical key.
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  Every time you do not know what is happening in your life, that
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  is not the time to start running from pillar to post discussing
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  things with people who don't have the power to solve your
• 1:05:22
  problem. Can I tell you the truth?
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  Running around will only depletes the energy that is
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  left. Use that same energy, lock the
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  door and begin to pray. And sometimes you honestly may
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  not know how to pray. You may allow your tears to the
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  prayer and while you sing, or you may allow prayer to just
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  come from any material while you soak in the glory there.
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  Pray, pray, pray. I thought I would get the job
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  now. This is the 10th year, 15th
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  year, fifth year without a job. Pray.
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  Someone in the hospital has already said, forget about me,
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  just focus on the children. As for me, I'm going pray.
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  Listen to what I'm telling you and please take it seriously.
• 1:06:14
  Pray. Man of God, since pandemic, it
• 1:06:18
  looks like your ministry just went down.
• 1:06:20
  The key is to pray. Discussion may be consoling, but
• 1:06:24
  you have to pray. You can pray yourself to
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  comfort, You can pray yourself to faith.
• 1:06:30
  Prayer is like exercise. Nobody likes it, but you have to
• 1:06:33
  start. Once you start, something
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  happens to you. What a friend we have in Jesus,
• 1:06:44
  all our sins, and what a privilege to carry everything.
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  Most people will do any other thing but pray.
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  They will cry, which is human and which is OK, but they will
• 1:07:14
  not pray. Prayer has nothing to do with
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  whether you have the appetite and the desire.
• 1:07:23
  It is a requirement. You must pray #3 let's hurry up.
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  Is God speaking to someone? Number one, look to Jesus,
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  meaning depend on Him even when you do not understand Him.
• 1:07:37
  The word trust is the word bata, trust in the Lord.
• 1:07:41
  That means to throw yourself at Him, expecting Him to hold you.
• 1:07:45
  Unlike the Hebrew boys that even if you do not deliver us, O
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  King, we have made a determination that as far as
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  Jesus, as far as God is concerned, we will not bow.
• 1:07:56
  That's why you see, conditional Christianity is dangerous.
• 1:07:59
  The kind of Christianity that says God, I will only serve you
• 1:08:02
  based on the fact that you bless me.
• 1:08:05
  No, God is a covenant keeping God, but our love for Jesus and
• 1:08:11
  our love for the things of the Spirit must be beyond the
• 1:08:14
  results that come. That even if I'm in the midst of
• 1:08:17
  Fire and Rescue does not come. Let it be that I die.
• 1:08:20
  Trust in Him. Are we together #3 What is the
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  third approach to dealing with afflictions as a believer?
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  Are you ready? Meditate upon and speak the word
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  over that situation. Meditate upon and speak the word
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  over that situation. Meditate upon and speak the word
• 1:08:48
  over that situation. Joel chapter 3 and verse 10.
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  Joel chapter 3 and verse. 10 Joel, Joel, Joel.
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  Chapter 3 and verse 10 it says beat your ploughshares into
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  swords and your pruning hooks into Spears.
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  It says, let the weak say, Hold on.
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  Where do you have the strength to say?
• 1:09:14
  When you are weak? There is always strength to say,
• 1:09:18
  even when there is no strength to do.
• 1:09:21
  You may not have the strength to do, but God will always ensure
• 1:09:26
  that the strength to say remains with you, that when you lose
• 1:09:30
  every kind of strength there is within your spirit man the
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  strength to say. The strength to say gives you
• 1:09:38
  the strength to do. Let the weak say.
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  Let those who are crying say. Let those who are discouraged
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  say. That means in the mind of God
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  there is no situation that happens to the believer that
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  should make him lose the ability to say.
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  There is always strength enough to say.
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  Let the weak say I am strong, he never said.
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  Let the weak say strength. I am strong to personalize it
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  and to believe. It let the weak say I am strong.
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  Isaiah 3 and verse 10. Isaiah 3 and verse 10 Say unto
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  the righteous the same righteous with many afflictions.
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  He said, Say to that righteous that it shall be well with him.
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  Someone say it must be well with me.
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  In fact, say it is well with me. Prophecy to yourself.
• 1:10:46
  Say in the name of Jesus, I decree and declare that it is
• 1:10:50
  well with me. Don't mind what the devil is
• 1:10:53
  saying, say in the name of Jesus I decree and declare that it is
• 1:10:57
  well with me. Say unto the righteous that it
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  shall be well with them. Yes, I know I will come out of
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  this. Let the weak say I am strong.
• 1:11:09
  Let the person in debt say, I will come out of it in the name
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  of Jesus, because thanks be to God that causes us to triumph.
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  Say unto the one who has lost the breadwinner in their family.
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  Father is God, Mother is gone, and you are alone.
• 1:11:24
  I may not see wind, I may not see rain, but one thing I know
• 1:11:28
  is that my valley shall be filled with water, because there
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  is ABBA, the one who never dies. And the Bible says that if He
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  can cloth the lilies of the valley and feed the birds that
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  do not sow and do not reap, we are violating A fundamental
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  spiritual law. Yet in it they never lack.
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  Hallelujah. Meditate on and speak the Word.
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  Can I tell you when you learn to speak the word is not a
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  Pentecostal suggestion. Speaking the Word is part of the
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  frame. Do you know God is very powerful
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  and He has taught us. The Bible says He created us in
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  His image and in His likeness. His likeness means to function
• 1:12:09
  like Him. And all through Scripture we see
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  God. God create by speaking.
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  He blesses by speaking, He restores by speaking, He lifts
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  by speaking. Every time God opens his mouth,
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  something leaves his mouth that ministers life to creation.
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  The Bible says even for man that he breathed upon that man.
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  To breathe upon the man does not mean he used his nose.
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  He opened his mouth and life came and entered into that man.
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  Are we together speak the Word Psalm one O 7 from verse 2 and
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  3. Psalm one O 7 from verse two and
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  three. Let the redeemed of the Lord say
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  so. Let the blessed of the Lord say
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  so. Let the healed of the Lord say
• 1:12:56
  so. Let the lifted of the Lord say
• 1:12:59
  so. It's not enough to know so you
• 1:13:02
  must say so. Whom he had redeemed from the
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  hand of the enemy. Verse three he says, and
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  gathered them out of the lands from the east and from the West
• 1:13:12
  and the north and the South. Say so.
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  Say so in the name of Jesus. I'm coming out of this situation
• 1:13:19
  in the name of Jesus. The Lord is my light and my
• 1:13:21
  salvation. Of whom shall I be afraid of?
• 1:13:24
  I may not understand what is happening to me, but in the name
• 1:13:27
  of Jesus, the Bible says all things work together for my
• 1:13:30
  good. I expect glory at the end of
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  this confusion. I may not know what the process
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  is all about, but I know the end, that the end is glory and
• 1:13:40
  is glorious. And upon that I place my faith.
• 1:13:43
  Learn to say so. Learn to say so you don't say
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  what is happening, you say what the word of God says.
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  Hallelujah. Meditate upon.
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  And speak the word over that situation is someone learning.
• 1:13:59
  That means as you return back now you can carry whatever is
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  the is the basis for the challenge, the affliction,
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  whatever it is, you continue to make declarations even if it
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  looks like it's a hopeless situation like death.
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  Because the most the the the most hopeless thing that can
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  happen to a man as far as this side of God's Kingdom is
• 1:14:19
  concerned is that the person passes on to glory.
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  So physically you may not see the person again.
• 1:14:25
  Even at that you may not have the person back again, but you
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  can decree and declare in the name of Jesus.
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  I know that the comfort of the Spirit is at work in this
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  family. It may be a difficult thing, but
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  by the power of the Holy Spirit, with each passing this strength
• 1:14:39
  is released upon us and whatever role that person played in the
• 1:14:43
  name of Jesus, God will come through.
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  God will raise men in multiplied ways to play that role.
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  See, there is a way the believer was designed to function.
• 1:14:52
  When you allow emotions to drive the vehicle of your Christian
• 1:14:56
  life, you will end up being a disaster, sincerely so.
• 1:14:59
  You will need to push emotions aside and peg yourself at the
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  Word of God. No matter what you feel that
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  which God said you must say, Are we together?
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  The word confession comes from the word homologial.
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  It means repeat as you have heard, and the purpose of
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  repeating it is for creation, not just for emphasis.
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  I prophesied as I was commanded and there was a sound.
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  Is someone learning already? I'm giving you biblical keys.
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  Number one. I said, look unto Jesus, depend
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  totally upon him #2 commit to prayer #3 meditate upon and
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  speak the word of God over that situation, over that situation,
• 1:15:47
  because every situation has an ear.
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  And believe me when I tell you it can hear the Word.
• 1:15:52
  Of the Lord, Are you ready for number #4 now listen carefully,
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  please listen carefully #4 seek comfort, prayer and.
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  Help from friends and the family of believers.
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  I will take it slowly. Seek comfort the righteous now
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  in the midst of affliction. Seek comfort, comma, prayer,
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  and. Help.
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  From godly friends and from the family of believers, this is you
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  can start this because it is a very major secret to overcoming
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  afflictions. Seek comfort, prayers and help
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  from friends and the family of believers in Acts chapter 4 when
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  we read from verse 21, please give us Acts chapter 4 and verse
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  21. Remember when Peter and John
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  were threatened as a result of the man had get beautiful who
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  had been healed. So when they had further
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  threatened them, he says they let them go, finding nothing how
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  they might punish them because of the people for all men
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  glorified God for that which was done next verse it says for the
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  man was above 40 years old, on whom this miracle of healing was
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  showed 23 and being let's go, they went to their own company.
• 1:17:24
  Everybody said their own company.
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  So they had a larger community of believers where they could
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  resort to to find company. The Bible says, and they
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  reported all that the chief priests and the elders had done,
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  and together as a company, verse 24.
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  Now the Bible says when they heard the company, they lifted
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  their voice, said they. Not just the one person.
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  He came to a company of believers and they could find
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  comfort. They could pray together.
• 1:17:55
  They lifted up their voice on to God with 1 accord.
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  Listen, many believers do not survive afflictions and
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  tragedies and negative situations because they lack
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  these four points. Many believers do not have a
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  larger company of friends and like minded believers.
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  Did you know it is a terrible thing for a believer to not be
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  connected to a larger body of believers?
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  Because when when disaster strikes like this, no matter how
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  powerful you are, you will need the company of believers to
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  shield you and encourage you. There are times that someone you
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  hear will not come from. Yourself.
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  It will come from someone. Else.
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  Speaking to you are we learning 1st Thessalonians 5 and verse 25
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  is a brethren, pray for us. There are times that as much as
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  you may want to pray for yourself, you may not have that
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  energy, but there should be some brethren that you can honestly
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  say pray for us. Even though we are apostles.
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  Do you have the brethren that can pray for you?
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  Do you have the brethren that can love you, that can come and
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  shield you? Hallelujah.
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  Philippians 119. Philippians 119.
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  For I know Paul is speaking, that this shall turn to my
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  salvation. How?
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  Through your prayer. Paul, the prayer warrior is
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  saying, I require the prayer and the shield of other believers
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  and the supply of the. Spirit of Jesus Christ.
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  For this fourth point, I wrote something very interesting here
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  and I please want you to listen. I said Living an isolated
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  Christian life will not profit you in the day of adversity.
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  Living an isolated Christian life.
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  Hallelujah, an isolated Christian life.
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  In Ecclesiastes chapter 4 when you read from verse 9 to 12 it
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  talks about the power of unity. 2 are better than one it says,
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  because they have a good reward for their label.
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  Reading to verse 12. For if they fall, one will lift
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  up his fellow, but war to him that is alone when he fallen,
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  for he had not another to help him up.
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  It says, And again, if two lie together, then they have heat,
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  But how can one be warm alone? Verse 12 Now it says, And if one
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  prevail against him, it says, 2 shall withstand him.
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  And a threefold cord is not easily broken.
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  Living an isolated Christian life will not profit you in the
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  day of adversity. Can I tell you, having brethren,
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  having godly friends, and having a family of believers who love
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  you and know you and support you will require you sowing seeds of
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  love, sowing seeds of care, and sowing seeds of.
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  Help. To believe us too, you have to
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  make those investments waiting for these days.
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  Now let me tell you the truth, the proof of your being
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  connected to a spiritual family is not attendance, is genuine
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  connection, connection that is proven by service and your own
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  input. Also, attendance does not mean
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  you have a spiritual family. Have you registered your impact
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  by registering your love? By registering your care?
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  Who knows you are there? Who has been a beneficiary of
• 1:21:33
  your kindness? There are many people who attend
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  believer meetings, but nobody knows them enough to come and
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  knock on their door and say, I heard that you have been crying
• 1:21:44
  for the past two days. You have blessed me too much.
• 1:21:47
  I will not leave this place. Your home is my home.
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  Your tears is my tears. Let me tell you what, besides a
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  man who has not spent his life investing and sowing seeds of
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  love, seeds of kindness, because you will find, do you know there
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  are believers who go through pain and they go through it
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  alone because they have not made any commitment to anyone nor any
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  spiritual family enough? No track record of service, no
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  track record of giving no. Track.
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  Record of prayer, no track record of support.
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  They just freelance participation.
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  Unfortunately for those people who are besides that believer,
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  do you know there are many believers who have cheaply come
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  out of affliction because of the power of a larger body of
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  believers. Why is your face gloomy like
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  this? I've not been able to pay my
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  rent. I'm not an irresponsible person,
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  it's just that things have been happening in my life.
• 1:22:44
  How much is the rent? I'm even afraid to say it is 1.5
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  million and you may not even know the person you are talking
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  to. You will say come and see me
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  tomorrow. You thought you will give you
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  rent. He will give you the key of your
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  house and say I have watched you every time when it's time to
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  collect offering. I see your service in the House
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  of God. I you always have that smile,
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  that glow when people are Assad. I've taught you that challenges
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  are as large as the ignorance of the victims you see.
• 1:23:18
  Invest in strategic relationships.
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  There are many of you who will not call on anybody.
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  When you hear that people are sick is none of your business.
• 1:23:27
  When you hear that someone is in trouble, it's none of once it
• 1:23:30
  does not. Affect you.
• 1:23:31
  It is none of your business. No.
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  Rejoice with them that rejoice, weep with them that weep and
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  you'll be making investments and you will be surprised.
• 1:23:43
  Moments where you need help. The body will come and wrap
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  their hands around you and say no.
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  Let that sword Pierce us instead of touching you.
• 1:23:52
  You have made too much commitment.
• 1:23:54
  There was a woman in the Bible. Remember that some a woman who
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  died in the Bible and people came and said look at what she
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  this woman cannot die. Who will continue doing this?
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  Can I tell you? You can prolong your life using
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  your kindness and benevolence. Your contribution to the program
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  of God can be so significant. God will not allow any devil to
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  take your life. Are we together?
• 1:24:23
  This will require you sowing seeds of love, sowing seeds of
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  care, sowing seeds of help to many believers.
• 1:24:31
  Matthew chapter 5 and verse 7. He says blessed are the
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  merciful. Jesus was teaching.
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  He says, For they shall obtain mercy.
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  Galatians chapter 6 and verse 10.
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  There is such a concept as the household of faith.
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  It says, as we therefore, as we have therefore opportunity, let
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  us do good to all men. Say, Do good to all men.
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  Then it says especially on to them who are of the household of
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  faith. Can I tell you?
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  You have heard me say, But let me repeat it, If your absence is
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  not missed, it means that your presence was not contributing
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  much. You know that you are an active
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  contributor to the program of God, because people should be
• 1:25:23
  able to detect your absence. Where is that Lady who always
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  smiles on Sunday, whose glow can even if you are sad and you look
• 1:25:31
  at that Lady, where is she? And someone says she lost her
• 1:25:34
  mom. He said, well, I don't know.
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  How about let me know where can I send something to that Lady?
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  Believers are quick to wrap their hands around people who
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  become active contributors to the growth of others.
• 1:25:46
  There are others. Listen to what I'm telling you.
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  This is very powerful. It is a terrible thing to not
• 1:25:52
  have a friend, to not have somebody who loves you and
• 1:25:55
  believes in you, who can cry. You see believers go through
• 1:25:59
  situations alone. No.
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  Let me repeat #4 again, for emphasis, seek comfort, prayers
• 1:26:10
  and help from godly friends and then from the family of
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  believers. It's a culture in this ministry
• 1:26:20
  to make sure that all who are genuinely connected to this
• 1:26:24
  ministry as much as possible are shown the care and the love that
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  is needed. As much as God can grant us
• 1:26:30
  grace to do. I do not believe in using
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  people. I believe in people being
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  blessed. And for as long as God grants
• 1:26:37
  us, the grace will continue to extend hands of love and
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  benevolence. All wise as much as God grants
• 1:26:43
  us grace. Hallelujah.
• 1:26:47
  Growing up, I used to wonder why our parents and elderly people,
• 1:26:51
  every wedding you see them there, every burial and you are
• 1:26:55
  wondering what is it that you know?
• 1:26:56
  Everybody, they return back and they say I'm traveling
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  somewhere. Who is getting married again?
• 1:27:04
  One woman like this, I used to know her in 1971, I had that
• 1:27:08
  last one is getting married. And that's why you are traveling
• 1:27:10
  to the South. They return back.
• 1:27:12
  They are moving from pillar to post.
• 1:27:14
  And in our foolishness as children, we thought they were
• 1:27:16
  just wasting time. Can I tell you, you know how
• 1:27:19
  much I invest. You've invested in people
• 1:27:21
  because like Gideon, when you blow that trumpet, 33,000 people
• 1:27:25
  should show up. Why are you crying?
• 1:27:29
  My child has not been able to go to school.
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  No, not under my watch. Please allow this.
• 1:27:35
  I will leave this child's education to me.
• 1:27:37
  I remember when I was in primary school.
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  I remember you were there for me.
• 1:27:41
  Can I tell you the truth? The law of seed, time and
• 1:27:44
  harvest works powerfully, powerfully.
• 1:27:48
  There are many today. Your carelessness of yesterday
• 1:27:51
  has become a padlock to your destiny.
• 1:27:53
  It locked your destiny and threw the key away.
• 1:27:56
  That every time you want to move the memories of your
• 1:27:59
  carelessness of yesteryears, I'm praying in this service in the
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  name of Jesus, that the God of all mercy will show someone
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  messy. You believe that.
• 1:28:09
  Shout aloud. Amen, the body of believers.
• 1:28:15
  Don't just be an attendant, be connected, genuinely.
• 1:28:19
  In truth, there is always something that you can do to add
• 1:28:23
  to the smiles of believers and build quality godly
• 1:28:28
  relationships. How do you do that?
• 1:28:30
  By being friendly, I have taught you, and by being an active
• 1:28:34
  contributor to the growth of people.
• 1:28:36
  Practice the law of honor. Don't downplay and demean people
• 1:28:40
  and expect them to invest their time and attention during the
• 1:28:43
  days of adversity. No, people will reciprocate
• 1:28:46
  based on their perception of who they think you are.
• 1:28:49
  Are we together? This is very, very important.
• 1:28:57
  As tired as I can be sometimes there are people if I see their
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  call and I I see their text, I will make efforts to get up and
• 1:29:05
  respond. Why?
• 1:29:06
  Because I love everybody. But the truth is that their
• 1:29:09
  participation and their contribution in my life is not
• 1:29:12
  at the same level. Are we together now?
• 1:29:15
  Yes. What investments are you making
• 1:29:23
  now for those days? Man of God?
• 1:29:26
  Does somebody believe in you enough to say I will never watch
• 1:29:29
  you in shame no matter what it is?
• 1:29:31
  I will come and wrap my arms around you and make sure that I
• 1:29:34
  stand by you to see that this rent issue or this financial
• 1:29:38
  issue gets out of the way. Can I tell you depending on
• 1:29:41
  yourself, by yourself to come out of affliction and challenges
• 1:29:45
  may end up burying you there. Sometimes you will need, even if
• 1:29:48
  you are Jesus, you will need Simon of Cyrene to help you
• 1:29:52
  carry that cross to Golgotha and war betides.
• 1:29:56
  Even a Savior who does not have help is someone learning.
• 1:30:04
  Build godly relationships. Be kind, be loving.
• 1:30:07
  Don't just be anointed. Don't just be a prayer warrior.
• 1:30:10
  Don't just be a war giant in the face of affliction.
• 1:30:14
  People do not care. I have taught you, people don't
• 1:30:17
  care how much you know until they know how much you care.
• 1:30:23
  People will not come to help you just because we're a prayer
• 1:30:25
  giant, just because we're a war giant.
• 1:30:27
  Sometimes it's that sense of compassion and honor and
• 1:30:31
  empathy, and you will be surprised how people will arise
• 1:30:35
  to come to your rescue. May you never lack help us.
• 1:30:38
  I'm prophesying to you that in the name of Jesus Christ, may
• 1:30:41
  you never lack help us, that at every point in your life may
• 1:30:46
  there be someone who can arise genuinely and sincerely.
• 1:30:51
  I've taught you in discussing destiny, help us.
• 1:30:54
  Let me do a one minute recap. I've taught you that there are
• 1:30:57
  four kinds of destiny. Help us.
• 1:30:59
  Let me run through them very quickly.
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  Number one, they first are called divine connectors.
• 1:31:04
  They do not have the solution to your challenges, but they know
• 1:31:08
  who has that solution and they always are bridges.
• 1:31:12
  For instance, the slave girl connecting Naman to Elijah.
• 1:31:18
  Divine connectors do not have the power to solve your problem,
• 1:31:22
  but they know somebody who knows somebody who can connect you.
• 1:31:26
  And statistic tells us that everybody is maximum of four
• 1:31:29
  people away from where your solutions are.
• 1:31:32
  No matter how serious that problem is, 4 people
• 1:31:35
  strategically arranged will connect you and your solution.
• 1:31:40
  Number two, men of influence The second category of destiny
• 1:31:45
  helpers, men of influence. These are men who have the
• 1:31:48
  credibility, they have the track record, they have the ears of
• 1:31:52
  the territory, they are endorsement about you and they
• 1:31:56
  are speaking over. You can rewrite age long
• 1:31:58
  narratives in a. Moment.
• 1:32:01
  One person can sign a signature and say, truly, this man is
• 1:32:06
  supposed to go to prison. But at my influence, I write
• 1:32:11
  something and that's it. Can I tell you God still works
• 1:32:16
  with men who And there are men who are gatekeepers, whether
• 1:32:19
  they are believers or not. I've told you that there are
• 1:32:22
  gatekeepers. You don't castaway.
• 1:32:24
  God grants you favor to be able to pass through them.
• 1:32:29
  Some of you have been grounded at this point.
• 1:32:31
  Afflictions have remained indefinite in your life because
• 1:32:35
  you do not understand the power of destiny.
• 1:32:37
  Relationships, the power of destiny help us men of
• 1:32:41
  influence. One person, his signature can
• 1:32:45
  give you a job. His signature can veto whatever
• 1:32:49
  limitation and grant you access. Everything you see on earth is
• 1:32:53
  controlled by men. Behind every system is a man,
• 1:32:59
  and that man has a will. He has an emotion, even if he's
• 1:33:02
  the unrighteous judge. That was in Luke 18.
• 1:33:06
  A man who does not fear God nor regard men, that's a dangerous
• 1:33:11
  man. May you never meet such a man in
• 1:33:13
  your life. I said May you never meet such a
• 1:33:16
  man in your life. A man that does not fear God and
• 1:33:20
  does not regard men. You can't talk to him about God.
• 1:33:25
  You can't bribe, you can't do anything.
• 1:33:26
  You're in trouble does not fear. God does not regard men, but the
• 1:33:30
  Bible says a weak woman came and used his strategy to weary that
• 1:33:34
  man away until he avenged her adversaries.
• 1:33:38
  There is always a man behind every system on earth.
• 1:33:41
  And let me tell you, when God wants to help you, He gives you
• 1:33:44
  access to great men. Don't insult great men.
• 1:33:47
  Don't insult rich men. Don't insult people who have
• 1:33:50
  paid the price to rise to certain positions.
• 1:33:53
  Rather, obtain wisdom by God and say that God should
• 1:33:56
  strategically position you. Joseph you need Pharaoh to
• 1:34:00
  manifest your destiny. Daniel you need Darius you need
• 1:34:04
  Nebuchadnezzar to manifest your destiny.
• 1:34:06
  And this app systems and people who God himself recognizes.
• 1:34:12
  Are we together now #3 you need gifted men.
• 1:34:16
  I'm teaching. I'm just doing a quick recap on
• 1:34:19
  destiny. Help us to buttress .4.
• 1:34:21
  You need gifted men especially for many of us here who are
• 1:34:27
  businessmen or even men in ministry.
• 1:34:29
  One gifted person can save you financial leakages. 1 gifted
• 1:34:34
  person can bring efficiency to your life beyond your
• 1:34:37
  imagination. The best corporations in the
• 1:34:40
  world sometimes are. Behind them are a few
• 1:34:44
  intelligent people who are making global impact, redefining
• 1:34:48
  civilization. The whole corporation is sharing
• 1:34:51
  the glory. But the truth is that the brains
• 1:34:53
  behind them may not be mortal. Four or five gifted men.
• 1:34:57
  Finally, and maybe not most importantly, but more
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  importantly, burden bearers. I told you that the assignment
• 1:35:06
  burden bearers are not after your titles.
• 1:35:08
  They are not after whoever. Whatever you are, they are after
• 1:35:11
  you as a person. Burden bearers may not be able
• 1:35:14
  to move you forward, but they have an assignment to stop you
• 1:35:17
  from going back. These are men who will cry with
• 1:35:20
  you. These are people who will see
• 1:35:22
  your nakedness and still cover you and cry with you.
• 1:35:25
  May God send boredom bearers to your life in the name of Jesus,
• 1:35:29
  the Son of the living God. Many are the afflictions of the
• 1:35:35
  righteous, but the Lord delivered him from them all.
• 1:35:41
  So the charge here is to build godly relationships and to make
• 1:35:45
  meaningful contributions within the spiritual family that you
• 1:35:48
  find yourself. You are in.
• 1:35:50
  Koinonia here make. I'm not talking of finances.
• 1:35:53
  Finances about the least contribution you can make.
• 1:35:56
  Your prayer, your participation that through your life someone
• 1:36:01
  is loving Jesus, through your life someone is encouraged.
• 1:36:04
  Someone who would have left the things of God is now drawn back
• 1:36:07
  to your life. Hallelujah, can I give you the
• 1:36:11
  last #5 What is the 5th biblical strategy when you are in a
• 1:36:19
  season of adversity of any kind? Engage the prophetic.
• 1:36:25
  Engage the prophetic. Engage the prophetic.
• 1:36:32
  Hosea chapter 12 and verse 13. Hosea 12 and verse 13.
• 1:36:37
  And by a prophet the Lord brought Israel out of Egypt.
• 1:36:42
  And by a prophet was he preserved one more time.
• 1:36:46
  And by a prophet the Lord. It was the Lord that did the
• 1:36:49
  deliverance, but he used a prophet and by a prophet.
• 1:36:53
  Was he preserved? Every time believers went
• 1:36:58
  through seasons of adversity, seasons of affliction and
• 1:37:03
  tragedy, midwifing their breakthrough.
• 1:37:06
  Where the ministry of prophets? Is it the exodus of Israel from
• 1:37:10
  Egypt? Is it the axe head floating in
• 1:37:13
  Second Kings chapter 6 from verse one to seven Hallelujah.
• 1:37:18
  Is it the wife of the Tsunamite? I mean the the the the the wife
• 1:37:22
  of the sons of the prophet. Is it the Tsunamite woman?
• 1:37:25
  Is it the widow in Zarephath? You can name all of these
• 1:37:28
  people. Is it Samaria, the land of
• 1:37:30
  Samaria, going through famine every time there was affliction
• 1:37:34
  in negative season, whether to people, whether to nations,
• 1:37:39
  whether to businesses, Affliction can never turn to
• 1:37:42
  victory. Isolating the prophetic,
• 1:37:45
  genuine, authentic, Apostolic and prophetic ministry has a
• 1:37:50
  role to turn people's captivity around.
• 1:37:54
  It is a mandate and a mantle that God has placed.
• 1:37:57
  Listen to me, let me assure you God has anointed men.
• 1:38:02
  God has laid His hand upon men. Men that if you believe and open
• 1:38:07
  up your heart to receive of the spiritual investment in their
• 1:38:10
  life, I guarantee you, like night becomes day, affliction
• 1:38:15
  can turn to victory right before your eyes.
• 1:38:18
  The prophetic is a potent ministry in spite of abuses.
• 1:38:23
  When I say the prophetic is a combination of the Apostolic and
• 1:38:26
  the prophetic, yes, there are abuses across the globe.
• 1:38:29
  Yes, we hope that God, especially in Africa, will fix
• 1:38:32
  some of these excesses and these mistakes here and there, but do
• 1:38:36
  not make a mistake of throwing the baby on the bathwater.
• 1:38:40
  The Jesus needed three major prophets in his life to emerge
• 1:38:44
  1. Simon of Cyrene 2.
• 1:38:46
  Another prophetess 3 John the Baptist, Jesus as the word.
• 1:38:52
  You ignore the prophetic, especially in the times of
• 1:38:55
  adversity. You do that to your detriment. 1
• 1:38:58
  Prophetic declarations Do you know I've told you when I sit
• 1:39:02
  back and I watch people share testimonies, you would think
• 1:39:05
  that because God used me to birth this testimony and this
• 1:39:08
  has happened so frequently, I should be used to it.
• 1:39:11
  Sometimes I stand as a spectator and I'm watching the wonder
• 1:39:15
  walking power of God, that with one utterance backed up by the
• 1:39:18
  anointing of the Spirit, like that which will come upon
• 1:39:21
  someone this night in the name of Jesus, that you'll see doors
• 1:39:25
  just like that. Because listen, the Bible says
• 1:39:28
  he confirmed the words of his messengers.
• 1:39:34
  He confirmed the words of his messengers.
• 1:39:37
  One prophet stands over Samaria and says by this time tomorrow
• 1:39:43
  he was not speaking to a company, he was not speaking to
• 1:39:46
  a region. He was speaking to a whole
• 1:39:48
  nation. And a foolish advisor stood by
• 1:39:52
  the king and said, no, this cannot happen.
• 1:39:54
  Let me tell you the truth, be careful.
• 1:39:56
  What you say cannot happen. The Kingdom of God is a
• 1:39:59
  compendium of infinite possibilities waiting for you to
• 1:40:03
  engage with understanding. And one of it, I assure you, is
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  the prophetic. I have watched with all humility
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  people rise from grass to grace by the at the instance of the
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  prophetic. I am a beneficiary of the
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  prophetic myself. Speak and doors just open.
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  Go, let it be well with you, let doors be open and that's it.
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  I'm telling you it is. It's still a wonder how the
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  prophetic works, that one declaration and the Spirit of
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  wisdom moves in motion. And even if it is for lepers,
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  the Holy Ghost will begin to arrange insignificant conditions
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  that insist and ensure that you come out of that situation.
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  You're not the first to go through a financial situation.
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  You're not the first to go through an embarrassing
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  situation. You're not the first to go
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  through a health challenge. Listen, the Bible says the thing
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  that was is the thing that is and is the thing that is to
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  come. I guarantee you by the integrity
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  of Scripture, there is absolutely nothing happening to
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  you that is happening the first time.
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  The Bible chronicles men and women.
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  Who? Wear afflictions until they
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  wrote victory out of them. That time will fail me to talk
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  of Gideon and Jephta and Barack, men who through.
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  Faiths of cute kingdoms wrote righteousness shut the mouth of
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  lions, women who received their dead back to life.
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  The Bible says that things that are written at four times, they
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  are written for our learning, so that we, through patience and
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  the comfort of scripture, might find hope.
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  Hope that I will come out of this.
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  Hope that I will have the last laugh.
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  Hope that the ministry will rise again.
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  Even if you are Samson, your hair can grow again.
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  Even if they pluck out your eyes, listen, there are three
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  things they would they were supposed to remove from Samson
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  to destroy him. Satan did not remove the third
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  one. And that was what brought the
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  greatest victory. His hair, his eyes, his hand.
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  His hair was cut off, His eyes was plucked out, but his hand
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  was left. And it was with that hand he
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  said, God, no matter what I've done wrong, grant me one last
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  time. And while the hair was growing
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  back, the eyes could not grow back, but the hand came and he
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  pushed. The Bible says he killed more
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  people in his death. Even if you are Mephibosheth,
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  who went through, I've taught you about Mephibosheth, the
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  mystery of the carelessness of a midwife.
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  Mephibosheth's strategy was not because of his carelessness.
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  A midwife did not handle him well and he made him cripple.
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  There are situations you may be having right now that you do not
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  have. Any active role in making it
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  happen. They met Jesus and said, who's
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  saying that this man was born blind?
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  Was it him or his father? Jesus, answering, said neither.
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  But that the glory of the Lord will be revealed.
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  The Bible talks about the widow. Who was losing all the men in
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  her life, had lost her husband, now had lost her only son.
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  Her life was shattered. But just when they were about to
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  cross the gate of name. Here comes Jesus.
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  When you see Jesus you see hope. When you see Jesus you see
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  restoration. When you see Jesus, it is a
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  symbol that light can come at the end of darkness.
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  Listen to me. A 33 year old body was.
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  Hanging. On the cross, and you would
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  think that was the end of it. Even Satan believed that was the
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  end. Men believed that was the end.
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  Kings believed that was the end. Principalities and powers
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  believed that was the end. But many are the afflictions of
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  the righteous, provided you are righteous.
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  There is a guarantee that the Lord, that the Lord shall
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  deliver him from them all, from them all.
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  Financial afflictions. Marital afflictions.
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  Ministerial afflictions. My Bible says many, not few,
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  Many are the afflictions of the righteous.
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  Hallelujah. Sit down.
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  We'll soon pray. One of the most tragic
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  renditions of affliction in the Bible was the story of the
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  Manjo. You would think that after
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  losing his sons and his finances, that would be the end
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  of it. The Bible says another
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  conference was held in the heavenlies, and again Satan
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  demanded to touch and afflict his body, and Boyles began to
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  come out of the body of Job. That could not be explained.
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  Everybody ran away from him. Do you know, you know what it
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  means to be the greatest man in the East is like, maybe, let's
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  say for want of what, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos?
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  And then you see them on the streets of somewhere in the
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  United States and you say, what happened to you?
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  And it says in one day, not one year, one day, everything
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  crashed. The friends of Job ran away.
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  The family ran away from him. Everything that was where were
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  the people that he raised in his journey to becoming great, they
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  run away. It was only him and his wife the
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  same way it was only Jesus and Mary.
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  And then the Bible says. Job 42 Hallelujah Understand
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  this is the Jesus we serve and the Lord porn the captivity of
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  Job and the Lord turn the captivity of Joe.
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  I don't know who I'm prophesying to, but in the name of Jesus
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  Christ I call upon the God of Joshua, the one who is able to
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  turn night to day. Let every captivity in your life
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  give way in the name of Jesus Christ.
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  Let every captivity in your life give way in the name of Jesus.
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  I'm a Wiener man. A Wiener man is 1 my batter for
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  me. I'm a Wiener man.
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  A Wiener man is 1 my batter for me.
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  I'm a Wiener man. A Wiener man is 1 my batter for
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  me. So when you see any believer,
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  whether a man of God, whether a businessman, whether a family
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  going through affliction, just ask them, are you the righteous?
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  If they dare say yes, begin to dance and rejoice in the midst
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  of the storm and they will be wondering what is the meaning of
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  this madness. You tell them that I came for
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  Koinonia and I heard a message that many are the afflictions of
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  the righteous, but there is a guarantee that the Lord not an
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  Angel. The Lord will deliver him from
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  them all. Hallelujah, let's finish Job
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  4210 and the Lord turned give it to us the captivity of Job when
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  he prayed for his friends and the Lord gave Job twice as.
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  Much so God can do that. God can go that far to give me
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  twice what I have lost. He never said twice money, twice
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  influence, twice anointing, twice joy, twice grace.
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  Anything a man lose, the Bible says God can restore.
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  Don't you think I'm motivating you?
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  This is a prophetic word that no matter what it is, listen, you
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  may say. Apostle, but the person I'm
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  talking about has died. God can bring 10 fathers. 10
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  husbands, God can bring one person, that is equivalent to 10
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  sons. I know you may never see your
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  loved one again because they have gone, but you find comfort
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  number one that you will meet them again but that in the
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  interim, as far as shame is concerned, it is not you that
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  will see shame. I can imagine passing through a
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  place called Laudable. You would have seen a popular
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  crippled man called Mephibosheth.
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  And you look at him and say what happened to you.
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  Then he would begin a story. It's not my fault.
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  Maybe I would have been a great man.
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  But the midwife, as my mother was bringing me forth, the
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  midwife was careless. And because of the carelessness
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  of that midwife, my limbs became crippled, never to walk again.
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  But one day, same Lord again, a king is sitting in the palace,
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  and he becomes restless. The king called David.
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  Out of the many things that would have occupied his mind, he
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  begins to think and say, Is there anyone in the House of
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  Saul that I may show kindness? Soul is long dead, and he spent
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  his life persecuting me because the mantle for kingship had
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  transferred to me. However, is there any man in his
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  house? And they said there is nobody or
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  however there is one crippled man called Mephibosheth.
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  And immediately he sent for Zeba.
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  He said, Zeba, go to Laudiba, go and fetch that crippled man.
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  You did not bring anything unclean to the palace of the
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  king. But he said for this one you are
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  exempted. They brought the man and he
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  thought they were going to kill him.
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  What have I done now? I don't even have the energy to
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  fight or look for trouble. Why is the king looking for me?
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  So this is how my life is going to end.
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  Not knowing that this God. Once you are the righteous, the
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  Bible says that the Lord will deliver you from every
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  affliction. He brought him to the palace.
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  Listen, when he brought him to the palace, he said Zeba.
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  You have 15 sons, their assignment to be to farm and
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  make sure that there's endless supply for this crippled called
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  Mephibosheth. But As for you, you will dine
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  with me here all the days of your life.
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  So don't be surprised that after this service someone calls you
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  and says, I don't know what was happening to my spirit.
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  But in the name of Jesus, God has said to stand by you in
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  ministry. God has said to restore the
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  battle you have been fighting for 10 years, for 20 years
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  finally comes to an end. Many are the afflictions of the
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  righteous. Many are the afflictions of the
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  righteous. Look at me, never become ashamed
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  of your battles. It is common to all men.
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  Fight the marital battles with dignity.
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  Fight the academic battles with dignity.
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  I know that you may be an orphan.
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  Stand in integrity and fight the fight of faith.
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  Don't act as if you are is is a unique thing or you are a man of
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  God. And probably it looks like
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  ministry is not growing. Don't be.
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  Ashamed, Stand tall and fight it with dignity.
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  I'm a man of God, but four of my children are wayward.
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  And it's, it's a bad testimony. Don't worry.
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  Many are the afflictions of the righteous.
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  You fight with faith. Lord, I dedicated these children
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  to God Almighty. Now I hear that they are
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  drinking all around and wasting their life.
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  I call upon the one who turns the affliction of the righteous.
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  And you begin to pray and sometimes you may be discouraged
• 1:51:53
  and you find comfort within the body of believers.
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  Listen. Let me advise you, and I'm doing
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  this by responsibility, Let me advise you, make sure as a
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  believer you do not add to the pain of people in church.
• 1:52:09
  Are we together now? When you hear that people are
• 1:52:12
  going through things and issues in their lives, your assignment
• 1:52:15
  is not to be a rumor monger multiplying people's pain.
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  OK, yes, the child is behaving. He's not a responsible person.
• 1:52:24
  He's all around doing all kinds of things.
• 1:52:26
  What can we do as a contribution?
• 1:52:29
  That's a believer's response. I may not know the family, but
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  let's all hands and invested 2 minutes prayer.
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  Oh Lord, for the sake of your name, let this man of God not
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  see shame. And all of a sudden they will
• 1:52:41
  tell you that the child came for Koinonia and it did, no matter
• 1:52:45
  what overflow he was seated, that the power of God fetched
• 1:52:48
  him out. And that was the end of that
• 1:52:50
  demonic thing. And you watch that one soul now
• 1:52:53
  becoming tall. Listen, I don't claim to know
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  everything, but let me tell you sincerely, I have watched God
• 1:53:06
  transform people. I have watched people's night
• 1:53:10
  become day. I have watched the relegated in
• 1:53:14
  every dimension become nobles, become people of dignity and
• 1:53:19
  honor. Creator of the universe, what
• 1:53:30
  can't you do? What can't you do, Jesus?
• 1:53:38
  One more time, listen. He's the creator of the
• 1:53:43
  universe. What can't you do?
• 1:53:50
  What can't you do? You're the name above every
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  other name. What can't you change?
• 1:54:06
  What can't you change? Can I tell you, ladies and
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  gentlemen, look at me. If you had seen some of us maybe
• 1:54:19
  some 151718 years ago, you would never imagine that would be the
• 1:54:25
  same people being used by God. I don't know who has concluded
• 1:54:28
  about you. I don't know what.
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  Devil. I know you may not carry a
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  semblance of the palace, but when you are chosen, you are
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  chosen. It's as simple as that.
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  Kala shalaka, Paretosia krakata balaka, Toshka Frande.
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  The lifter of men. The lifter of men, the one who
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  can wipe away the tears of men. Pali shateka parus yata.
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  Listen. Listen to me.
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  Ladies and gentlemen, can I tell you something good can come out
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  of Nazareth, whatever Nazareth means to you, Apostle.
• 1:55:08
  Right now I'm in the network of all kinds of problems.
• 1:55:11
  I have financial problems. Maybe I'm suffering with the
• 1:55:14
  police. Maybe in ministry.
• 1:55:16
  Perhaps you've not even been doing ministry properly.
• 1:55:19
  You are just playing all kinds of games around ministry and
• 1:55:22
  things have not been working well and your life has plunged
• 1:55:25
  down right now like something I assure you, provided you can
• 1:55:30
  answer that name, Righteous. My Bible says many other
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  afflictions of the righteous. Mama, hear me, I know you have
• 1:55:39
  cried and you have cried over your children, cried over your
• 1:55:43
  job promotion that is due 1020 years.
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  You've not been lifted. You are looking for promotion
• 1:55:49
  when God is talking of restoration.
• 1:55:51
  There is a big difference between promotion and
• 1:55:53
  restoration. Promotion means to go higher.
• 1:55:56
  Restoration means to gain time to be brought back to where you
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  would have been. Hallelujah.
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  I want you to believe this because the next 5 minutes I'm
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  going to pray and prophecy over your life from the depth of my
• 1:56:11
  spirit. We have been given the grace to
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  bless, to speak and to create possibilities.
• 1:56:17
  This is the assignment of the prophetic.
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  And listen, don't you sit down and say Apostle, you don't know
• 1:56:22
  the trouble I'm in. I'm owing 10 billion hundred
• 1:56:26
  years. Even if it's 10 naira, it's
• 1:56:27
  still fixed. That will bring you out.
• 1:56:33
  Apostle, can I rise again as a man of God?
• 1:56:36
  I started walking in the prophetic, but I got I doubled
• 1:56:39
  into all kinds of things. And right now it looks like that
• 1:56:42
  grace is not there. We're wrongly mentored and we're
• 1:56:45
  just playing games. Provided you answer that name
• 1:56:49
  righteous, something can still happen.
• 1:56:53
  How about those trusting God for the fruit of the womb?
• 1:56:57
  How about those trusting God to end all kinds of yokes and
• 1:57:00
  curses, family curses, marital curses, financial curses,
• 1:57:05
  ministerial curses. This is why he sent you here.
• 1:57:09
  This one thing I know about God is that God leads is that God
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  restores is that God is able to wipe the tears of men that you
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  look at your former self and you cannot even know again that
• 1:57:26
  people look at your life and your life becomes a sermon.
• 1:57:30
  Everybody who looks at your life a series.
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  Can. Come out of your life and people
• 1:57:35
  can say you mean this is what God can do.
• 1:57:38
  Everything I've said is found in Ephesians chapter 3 and verse 10
• 1:57:43
  to the intent that now on to principalities and powers in
• 1:57:49
  heavenly places might be known by the Church, the manifold
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  wisdom of God. I will hold on through the
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  store. I will hold onto your word.
• 1:58:09
  My life will soon reveal you're the lifter of man.
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  The lifter of man. No matter what I'm going
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  through, I will hold on through the store.
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  I will hold on to your word. My life will soon reveal you're
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  the leader of man. The leader of man.
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  One more time. I will hold on through the
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  stone. I will hold on to your word.
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  My life will soon reveal your little man.
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  Man of God, you will rise again because you are the righteous.
• 1:59:12
  Businessman. You will rise again because you
• 1:59:15
  are the righteous. I speak to every family here.
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  NE South and West you will rise again.
• 1:59:23
  That statement E cupboard that has been used over your life.
• 1:59:27
  The departure of the glory that men look at your life and it
• 1:59:30
  looks like it's a warning and a lesson to others.
• 1:59:33
  This God that you call or lower Bogoro, the one that can turn
• 1:59:38
  the life of men around, when God arises from his throne, it says,
• 1:59:43
  let God arise, let God arise, let God arise and all his
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  enemies be scattered, let God arise, and financial affliction
• 1:59:54
  scattered, let God arise, and every curse and every yoke be.
• 1:59:58
  Scattered Can I tell you, let men laugh at you while you look
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  to Jesus. Let men laugh at you while you
• 2:00:08
  pray. Let men laugh at you while you
• 2:00:10
  speak the word. Let men laugh at you while you
• 2:00:14
  enjoy the comfort and the blessing of the church.
• 2:00:17
  Let men laugh at you while you receive the prophetic.
• 2:00:20
  You have received the spiritual combination.
• 2:00:23
  Victory is a formula. Something plus something plus
• 2:00:27
  something plus something is what equals the manifestation of
• 2:00:30
  victory. Lord, you took my pain away, and
• 2:00:40
  then you gave me joy. You're my peace, my melody in
• 2:00:45
  the center of the storm. You gave me a brand new song to
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  sing to you. That's why I will lift up my
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  voice and sing. Yeah.
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  Yeah. Listen, I'm not wasting your
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  time. I want you to listen very
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  carefully to me. There are many of you here.
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  As beautiful as your clothes may look, as wonderful as your faces
• 2:01:25
  may look, it's like there is you are you are being torn apart by
• 2:01:29
  situations. Maybe someone is watching me
• 2:01:32
  from a hospital. You have served God with all
• 2:01:35
  your life, but here you are by yourself or with a loved one and
• 2:01:40
  literally that loved 1 is going or maybe there is a family right
• 2:01:43
  now that has been bereaved and as I'm speaking right now,
• 2:01:47
  people are just crying and saying God, where were you?
• 2:01:54
  You've. Taken the pain and the sun,
• 2:01:59
  You've given me peace and deny you no need to cry 'cause you're
• 2:02:08
  always with me. You're my father, My ever.
• 2:02:43
  Hear me, please look at me. Do not be afraid of your wounds.
• 2:02:51
  No. When you see a patient in the
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  hospital about to go to a surgical procedure, no matter
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  how healthy that patient is, before that time, you lie down
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  as though you are helpless. And then once the anesthesia is
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  given, sometimes the patient is even sleeping, losing
• 2:03:14
  consciousness, and watch what happens.
• 2:03:17
  The doctors can be there for hours, removing things,
• 2:03:21
  replacing things, all kinds of bypasses happening.
• 2:03:25
  And at that point, if they told you that we're a human being,
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  you will not even believe it. I've had the opportunity to
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  watch a few delicate surgeries where they had to literally take
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  part of a man's call out and walk on the brain, walk on
• 2:03:41
  several things, you know, remove tumors and all of that.
• 2:03:44
  And sometimes you see heart bypass surgeries and all kinds
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  of complicated surges for hours. And literally, you are watching
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  a supposed dead body there. You would think that body will
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  never come back to life. And while the doctors are
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  working, sometimes they themselves become afraid because
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  of what they see. But then eventually they seal
• 2:04:08
  that person up and in a few hours the person just wakes up
• 2:04:14
  and pain. And from one moment to the
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  other, and after a few months, that same person is running
• 2:04:21
  around and you cannot even, you will never believe that person
• 2:04:24
  was once there. Can I tell you the truth?
• 2:04:29
  You are not the first to fail in ministry.
• 2:04:31
  Everybody has had a shelf of failure and pain.
• 2:04:35
  You're not the first to fail in family.
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  I know your marriage is about to tear apart.
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  All kinds of things are happening and you are wondering,
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  Lord, but I love you. I've served you all my life.
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  Probably you are someone, you are a student.
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  You are not doing well. You love the Lord.
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  You have options to compromise. I was touched when I heard the
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  testimony of the gentleman who was here said he bought all
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  kinds of Rams because you are looking for results.
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  And you see, the thing sometimes with the body of Christ is that
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  we're experts at multiplying the pain of people.
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  When you find people who are going through seasons and
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  moments of pain, this is a call to the body of Christ.
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  We must learn to be people of love.
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  It does not bring glory to God when we continue to celebrate
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  the pain, the downfall, whatever it is of one another.
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  That's not the way the Kingdom works.
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  Once Upon a time, the disciples were going with Jesus and they
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  saw some other people doing ministry and they did not
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  understand what they were doing. And the disciples requested for
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  permission from Jesus. Should we call down fire on
• 2:05:42
  them? Because you are the only one.
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  It's only your voice that should be heard.
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  You are Jesus, and truly Jesus was the voice.
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  And yet Jesus said, do you? Not know what spirit you are.
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  In other words, that's not part of your ministry.
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  I'm here to heal, I'm here to mend, I'm here to lift, I'm here
• 2:05:59
  to bind. Man of God, don't be ashamed of
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  the fact that you are serving the Lord and it looks like there
• 2:06:09
  are financial issues. Don't worry, the God of heaven
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  is bringing wisdom and is helping you.
• 2:06:16
  You may become the discussion of many people, but it's good they
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  are aware so that there will be witnesses when you rise.
• 2:06:24
  They will say this one is not fake.
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  I saw it. I saw the man needing millions
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  of dollars for their building. And I I saw how.
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  God raised people mysteriously. I saw how the children, none of
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  them could go to school because of poverty.
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  But I also know through their life what favor is that?
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  One person stepped into the family and rewrote the story.
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  I don't know what you are going through, but the Lord sent me
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  this morning and this this night to speak to you and to let you
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  know that the word righteous and the word affliction is not
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  strange. The word righteous and the word
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  affliction sometimes can go hand in glove, but it is defeat that
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  should not be that you never, never settle and say I am
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  finished. Don't use that word for
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  yourself. Jesus already said it for you
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  and He never said I am finished. He said it is finished.
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  You are not permitted to say I am finished.
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  You only say it is finished. You may cry, but I want you to
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  know that God is the lifter of men.
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  My life is a testimony. God raised some of us to be an
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  inspiration to a generation that you should not make a mistake to
• 2:07:50
  doubt God. Only a fool will say there is no
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  God. If you ever doubt whether God
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  can help men, my life, it is written on my life, Ebenezer,
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  God who can help men, Hallelujah.
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  So as you see the businessman right now battling with loans,
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  battling with trouble, what you should do as a believer is to
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  invest prayer and to encourage them.
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  You will come out of it a politician who lost the
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  election, maybe somebody who thinks they work out for don't
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  find joy in adding to the pain of people.
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  It is an Antichrist Luciferian spirit.
• 2:08:33
  Are we together? Don't worry man of God.
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  So I hear you are doing ministry, playing games and
• 2:08:39
  doing all kinds of things, but I'm happy that you have now
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  repented. Genuinely, you can start from
• 2:08:44
  where you are and the God of heaven can lift you with the
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  dignity of Kingdom integrity. I hear you're a business person
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  and you lost the deal. Things have gone bad.
• 2:08:53
  I hear you, a lady who who always have to sleep around to
• 2:08:57
  raise money, house, rent. But now I hear you have made-up
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  your mind to work with God. Don't feel bad, God can help you
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  right from where you are. Can I tell you when anybody
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  laughs at you, just verify if you are still the righteous.
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  Once you find out that you are the righteous, give God praise,
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  because I can assure you that sooner or later, anybody who
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  laughed at you will have to bury his head in shame forever.
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  Can I pray for you now? I really want to speak over your
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  life tonight and I want you to believe it.
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  You're going to pray one prayer that in the name of Jesus, every
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  discouragement, every mountain that stands before me, I
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  announce to you that I am the righteous and therefore I am
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  coming out of it. Open your mouth and begin to
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  pray following online. Pray Azaria family, make sure
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  you're praying in the name of Jesus.
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  Someone is speaking as a man of God, a businessman, career
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  person, politician, parent, whatever the situation is.
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  It says, let the weak say. So the weak can say.
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  The weak may not be able to do, the weak may not be able to
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  rise, but the weak can say. And the moment you can say, all
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  other things will begin to fall in line.
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  Someone open your mouth and pray.
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  Speak over your health. Speak over the failing business.
• 2:10:32
  Speak over the marital issue. Speak over the ministry issue.
• 2:10:39
  Speak over the job challenge. Many are the afflictions of the
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  righteous. Many are the afflictions of the
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  righteous. Someone is praying.
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  Many are the afflictions. Someone pray in the hospital.
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  You are in the hospital, but make sure you are praying.
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  You've lost a loved one, but make sure you are praying.
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  You may be crying listening to me, but make sure you are
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  praying. You may be discouraged, offended
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  with God, but make sure you are praying.
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  Many are the afflictions of the righteous.
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  Nigeria, Africa, I know things may not be as we want for now
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  because of all the economic issues there, but many are the
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  afflictions of the righteous. I dare to say Nigeria is a
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  righteous nation, therefore the Lord will deliver him from them
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  all. Pray hey Pasha katos
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  kataprendeka Bella katos katos sanda brasca sabaka tabala katos
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  katapakata. Bella.
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  Hallelujah, Hallelujah. The Bible says the righteous man
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  falls 7 times, but he leaves them with an assurance.
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  That he will. Rise that the righteous preacher
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  can be afflicted, the righteous mother can be afflicted, the
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  righteous family can be afflicted, the righteous
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  business can be afflicted, the righteous laborer can be
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  afflicted, the righteous prophets, the righteous apostle,
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  the righteous teacher, the righteous pastor, the righteous
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  evangelist. You'll find out you're a man of
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  God and it looks like there's some sickness in your body.
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  There's nothing to be ashamed of.
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  Don't join all this hypocrisy and all of that.
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  You pray, get people to pray. You need to go to the hospital.
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  Go to the hospital and treat yourself with nobility.
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  It does not make you less anointed.
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  Take responsibility over your life and your health.
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  While you are trusting God to strengthen you, a day will come
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  you will overcome that realm of that epileptic condition.
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  You can stand strong, but until then, you owe yourself your
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  responsibility to be serious. Your child is wayward.
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  Don't be ashamed and don't be afraid.
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  Believers can come and stand by you.
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  We can pray and cry together and say, Lord, we will not lose this
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  one to the devil. Hallelujah, your business falls
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  off. It looks like things are going
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  wrong. No problem.
• 2:13:47
  Go and listen to my message. Principles of Restoration.
• 2:13:50
  There I teach on five reasons why people lose things.
• 2:13:54
  There are things you may need to learn.
• 2:13:56
  There are corrections you may need to make.
• 2:13:58
  There are all kinds of things. But by all means, let that word,
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  I am righteous, the righteousness of God in Christ
• 2:14:06
  Jesus, I am righteous. And because I am righteous, the
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  Bible says, even though the afflictions are many, it leaves
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  me with an assurance that the Lord delivered him from them
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  all. It never said from them, it says
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  from them all. You will hear testimonies of
• 2:14:28
  people who will come and tell you, I did not believe that God
• 2:14:32
  could bring me out of this. There are many of you who will
• 2:14:35
  sing and dance with tears coming out of your eyes because you
• 2:14:40
  know you will look at what God is doing in your life and say to
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  God, even me, there's a song we used to sing, Is it too high?
• 2:14:49
  Take it down for me, he says. I am so glad that Jesus loves
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  me. Jesus loves me.
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  Jesus loves me. I am so glad that Jesus loves
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  me. Jesus loves me.
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  Listen, I'm indoctrinating your mind to believe that if there
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  are two people on earth and they say who does Jesus love, You
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  should have it at the back of your mind be indoctrinated with
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  this revelation. I've told you if God says he's
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  going to bless 10 people in Koinonia, I will start praying
• 2:15:31
  for the remaining 9 because I know one position has gone at
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  the instant of that statement. It is the truth.
• 2:15:39
  I have convinced myself to believe that He loves me.
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  It's not just some emotional, blind thing that does not have a
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  basis. When I had a revelation of what
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  He did for me on the cross, and that even though He's exalted
• 2:15:55
  Lord and King, he doesn't want to take a chance, He's still
• 2:15:58
  making intercession for me. Was that not what Job did for
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  his son's paradventure? That's the responsibility of a
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  father. It may not look like it, but you
• 2:16:18
  will rise. It may not look like it, but you
• 2:16:21
  will shine. It may not look like it, but in
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  the name of Jesus, I'm praying for you.
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  Listen, let me pray for every parent here in your lifetime.
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  You will see God lift your children and save it from the
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  depth of my. Spirit.
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  And while I'm speaking respectfully, some of them I'm
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  their palace right now. While I'm speaking, some of them
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  are somewhere, maybe Internet fraud.
• 2:16:48
  While I'm speaking, some of them have vowed all kinds of things.
• 2:16:52
  Don't worry if the prodigal son could come back home.
• 2:16:55
  I assure you, by the God of heaven who delivers the
• 2:16:59
  righteous, I'm praying again for every parent in your lifetime,
• 2:17:03
  you will have a cause to rejoice.
• 2:17:13
  Hallelujah. Now, before I speak over your
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  life, I want you to mention the areas I leave you with God for
• 2:17:21
  the next 1-2 minutes. What areas of affliction have
• 2:17:24
  you seen in your life that you truly desire that the Lord will
• 2:17:28
  take this out of your life? I want you to open your mouth
• 2:17:31
  and pray. I'm releasing my faith with you
• 2:17:33
  and I'm about to speak over your life.
• 2:17:35
  You will marvel and wonder at the power of this God.
• 2:17:38
  After tonight's service. Go ahead and pray.
• 2:17:41
  He has given us the grace and the.
• 2:17:42
  The function to speak, being commanded to bless.
• 2:17:46
  And this we must do. But I like you to release your
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  faith. Don't spare, don't be quiet.
• 2:17:51
  Don't let the devil lie to you that God cannot bring you
• 2:17:55
  deliverance. Someone is praying.
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  Shabra Kateba, Katos Caliber, Andaga DeVos.
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  Is it your marriage? Is it finances?
• 2:18:06
  Is it your health? Is it your ministry?
• 2:18:09
  Is it a new level in your life? Is it your work with God?
• 2:18:12
  Your prayer life, your word study life?
• 2:18:15
  Is it your family? Go ahead and pray, it says, to
• 2:18:19
  be anxious for nothing, but in everything, by prayer and
• 2:18:23
  supplication with Thanksgiving, it says, Let your request be
• 2:18:28
  made known unto God. In the name of.
• 2:18:43
  Jesus Christ, let me pray for you now.
• 2:18:49
  All speak from the heavens and the earth will hear.
• 2:18:57
  All speak from the heavens and I'll hear from the earth.
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  All speak from the heavens, and the earth will heal.
• 2:19:13
  My altar is calling you. Oh God, My sacrifice is calling
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  you. My altar is calling you my
• 2:19:38
  altar. Let the fire from your altar
• 2:19:49
  touch my body. Let the fire from your altar
• 2:19:57
  touch my body. Let the fire from your altar
• 2:20:04
  touch my body. Set the fire from your.
• 2:20:16
  Listen, I've shared with you my story.
• 2:20:19
  When the Lord Jesus Christ appeared to me, He stretched his
• 2:20:24
  hand towards me and light at his brilliance, that light and it
• 2:20:30
  didn't, it didn't shine on me. It entered me when that light
• 2:20:36
  entered me. How I survived and did not die
• 2:20:41
  is a question I will ask Him when we go to heaven because no
• 2:20:44
  man can receive that kind of light and still survive.
• 2:20:49
  As I began to study on light through the years, I would learn
• 2:20:54
  that the light of God is the basis of His illumination.
• 2:20:57
  Remember sight is the ice plus light.
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  Sight is not because you have eyes.
• 2:21:03
  If you enter a dark room, even if your eyes are correct, you
• 2:21:06
  would not see because it takes a union of an eye and light to
• 2:21:11
  equal sight. So light entered me.
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  But then I also read from Habakkuk chapter 3 and verse 4
• 2:21:20
  amplified it says and in that sun like splendor is the hiding
• 2:21:26
  place of his power, that the power of God hides in his light.
• 2:21:34
  When you buy a perfume or you buy whatever product, they don't
• 2:21:38
  give you the products that you bought alone.
• 2:21:40
  Usually it will come in a container.
• 2:21:43
  Am I am I right on that or a carton or some packaging?
• 2:21:47
  You don't really need the packaging per SE, the beauty and
• 2:21:50
  everything. Sometimes you can buy perfumes
• 2:21:54
  that are so small, but then the whole packaging can look like
• 2:21:57
  you are carrying maybe an AC or something and you keep opening
• 2:22:01
  layer to layer and there you find a small thing is when you
• 2:22:05
  apply it, you will know the value of that small thing, as
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  small as it is. Am I right on that?
• 2:22:09
  So when the Word of God comes, contained within it is His
• 2:22:13
  wisdom. Contained within it is His
• 2:22:16
  favor, but contained within it is His power.
• 2:22:20
  So what he was doing to me, Jesus was not just working on my
• 2:22:24
  mind and my spirit. It was an infusion of spiritual
• 2:22:28
  power that it is from the abundance of that which we
• 2:22:31
  receive that we speak over people, over cities and nations,
• 2:22:35
  and literally shift the spiritual climate of men,
• 2:22:40
  systems and structures. No man can do this.
• 2:22:44
  It's not just about speaking, I'm saying this so that as I
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  speak over your life you truly believe with your heart you can
• 2:22:54
  stand and spectate and yet nothing happens to you but your
• 2:22:59
  heart can be open. The Bible says blessed is he
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  that comes in the name of the Lord.
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  We have not come just by ourselves.
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  We were sent and they said, when I sent you luck as thou anything
• 2:23:11
  he equips when he sends, Are you ready to receive In the name of
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  Jesus, the Son of the living God, the one who has raised men
• 2:23:20
  and the one who has anointed men?
• 2:23:22
  I speak over your life and I speak over your destiny.
• 2:23:26
  Every affliction that has brought you tears, that has
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  brought you shame, that has brought you pain, in the name of
• 2:23:35
  Jesus the Son of the living God, I decree and declare that
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  affliction comes to an end now. That affliction comes to an end
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  now. Affliction comes to an end now.
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  That affliction comes to an end now.
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  That affliction comes to an end now.
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  They said they are taken for a pray and non say at restore.
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  I've come as a voice of restoration and in the name of
• 2:24:09
  Jesus I prophecy to someone between now and the end of June.
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  I stand by the God who has raised men, the one who has
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  given the grace to appoint unto. Men in the name of Jesus,
• 2:24:22
  between now and the end of June, Return with strange testimonies.
• 2:24:27
  Return with strange testimonies. I program strange testimonies
• 2:24:32
  around your life in the name of Jesus Christ.
• 2:24:41
  I speak to everyone in ministry here.
• 2:24:44
  I don't know what has brought you down.
• 2:24:46
  I don't know what is the area of struggle, but I prophecy to you.
• 2:24:50
  Rise to the place of. Prophecy rise to the place of
• 2:24:54
  Destiny Rise to the place of. Prophecy rise to the place of
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  destiny in the name of Jesus Christ.
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  You may be here and your affliction has to do with losses
• 2:25:07
  and pains. You lost money, you lost things,
• 2:25:10
  you lost relationships, you lost opportunities in the name of
• 2:25:15
  Jesus, like Samuel prophesied to Saul, I decree and.
• 2:25:18
  Declare May that missing donkey, whatever it is, I commanded to
• 2:25:22
  return back to your life. I commanded to return back to
• 2:25:27
  your life in the name of Jesus Christ.
• 2:25:37
  I decree and declare, you see, look at me.
• 2:25:40
  When it has to do with the world of men, the way you pray over
• 2:25:44
  men is different from the way you pray over things because
• 2:25:48
  things were not given dominion. So you can command them.
• 2:25:52
  But when it has to do with men, you can't command men per SE
• 2:25:56
  because God honors their will. Are we together?
• 2:25:59
  But there is a name. God is called the Father of
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  spirits. Have you heard of that name
• 2:26:05
  before? The father of spirits means
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  every spirit can be summoned by him.
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  The body is a slave to the spirit.
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  Even those who practice witchcraft know this.
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  When they summon people, they don't summon their bodies.
• 2:26:20
  Your body can remain in the room there and they can summon your
• 2:26:23
  spirit. And manipulate it and return it
• 2:26:26
  back to the body and you wake up a victim of what has.
• 2:26:29
  Happened in the Spirit. There is a name.
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  God is called the Father. Your boss is a spirit.
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  You know that your business is first a spirit.
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  Yes, Sir, James said in chapter 2 and 26.
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  A body without a spirit is dead. Situations are alive because
• 2:26:53
  they have spirits connected to them.
• 2:26:55
  If you separate that situation from the spirit, the situation
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  will die because it becomes a body without a spirit.
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  Are we together? I'm saying this because of the
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  prayer. I want to pray for you.
• 2:27:07
  I may not have the power to command a human being to come to
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  violate their will, but I can say, like Michael said, the Lord
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  Repuke you so I. Can call on the God who is the
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  Father of Spirit and cause him to summon the spirit of your
• 2:27:25
  destiny helper and insist that they find no rest till they
• 2:27:28
  bless you in the name of Jesus Christ and insist that they
• 2:27:33
  arise by the spirit and partner with prophecy over your life.
• 2:27:38
  I decree this in the name of Jesus Christ, the Father of
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  spirits. Watch him in action when he woke
• 2:27:50
  a hazardous from sleep. The Bible says that night could
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  not a hazardous sleep because the father of spirits needed
• 2:27:57
  Mordecai to be blessed. Watch the father of spirits move
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  and he granted a dream to Pharaoh, and Pharaoh was
• 2:28:05
  troubled by that dream and he could not sleep until Joseph
• 2:28:09
  came to land light, until Daniel came to limelight.
• 2:28:13
  When God moves as the father of spirits, men never rest until
• 2:28:17
  men are blessed. I'm praying it again.
• 2:28:22
  I don't know who has been ordained by God.
• 2:28:25
  Paracos Cadabella Catasyata to be stationed around your life
• 2:28:30
  and your destiny, but in the name of Jesus Christ I call on
• 2:28:34
  my God, who is also your God. From now to the end of June, may
• 2:28:39
  the Father of spirits summon every destiny helper in the name
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  of Jesus Christ and every. Negative spirit that has been
• 2:28:57
  attached to situations, prolonging them.
• 2:29:01
  There are situations that are no more natural when listen,
• 2:29:04
  listen. When spirits participate with
• 2:29:08
  bodies, they create longevity to whatever process there is.
• 2:29:14
  That means man can bless you based on the law of time and
• 2:29:17
  chance, but when the spirit of favor comes upon you, there is
• 2:29:21
  longevity to that blessing. It does not stop.
• 2:29:24
  Are we together the same way? Watch this the same way somebody
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  you can get a slight headache just as because of a wear and
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  tear of your activity, but when a spirit partners with that
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  condition, it will now have longevity.
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  The assignment of spirits is to sustain processes to bring the
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  other longevity factors. Anything you see staying
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  unnecessarily long is already an indication that there is a
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  spirit component. That disfavor has stayed too
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  long. There is a spirit component.
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  Are we together now? That business issue that can be
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  solved in one day has taken 3-4 years.
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  There is a spirit that one is within the office of the
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  believer to deal with. Let me speak over you that every
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  unclean spirit, like the Bible calls it a spirit that is not of
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  the Christ that has attached itself to any situation around
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  your life, manipulating it and creating pain.
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  I separate you from that spirit now.
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  I separate you from that spirit now.
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  I separate you from that spirit now.
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  And I decree and declare, let the blessing speak on your life.
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  Let the blessing speak on your finances.
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  Let the blessing speak over your family.
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  Let the blessing blessing speak over your ministry.
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  Let the blessing speak. Go and prosper in the name of
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  Jesus. Rise and scale heights in
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  destiny in the name of Jesus. I speak life to your prayer
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  life, life to your worst. Study life in the name of Jesus
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  Christ. No one under the sound of my
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  voice will die. Pretty much only I say it again.
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  No one under the sound of my voice will die.
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  Pretty much hardly in the name of Jesus Christ.
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  And for one last time, let me speak favor over you.
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  For God's sake. Let your heart be open to
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  receive. In the name of Jesus.
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  I prophesied this grace that is called favor.
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  Let it rest on your life. Let it produce extraordinary
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  results. Men rising to your health.
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  Men rise. Listen to your rescue.
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  God using men to roll away shame, to roll away reproach.
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  In the name of Jesus Christ. Thank you, Jesus.
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  Thank you Jesus. So shall it be.
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  So shall it be, so shall it be. In the name of Jesus, keep.
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  Standing for one last time everybody, you are in this place
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  tonight. I started my teaching by saying
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  my concern tonight is the affliction of the righteous.
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  The keyword in all of this discussion tonight is the word
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  righteous. Not even the word affliction.
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  Your only immunity in doing business with God is that you
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  willingly receive of His life, thereby qualifying to be called
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  the righteous. This whole business of this
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  night is about the righteous one who has received the abundance
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  of grace like the Bible says, even the gift of righteousness.
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  And this happens only through Jesus.
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  For the Bible declares that God so loved the world, like we read
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  earlier, that He gave his one and only begotten Son, that
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  whosoever the blessing is, for whosoever believeth on him
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  should not perish, but have life everlasting.
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  There are many people here by the Spirit of God who are
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  saying, apostle, I came for service to be blessed, but now I
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  cannot say I am the righteous because I have not placed my
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  trust in Jesus Christ. I want to make it right.
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  You want to make that relationship right with Jesus,
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  some for the first time and for others who are truly
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  rededicating your life to Jesus. You are making this decision
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  consciously. Wherever you are, I want to give
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  you a minute. Leave your seat with all
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  boldness and conviction. Remember, I told you there's
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  nothing to be shamed and afraid of.
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  Jesus is able to give you a new beginning right now, whether
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  you're in Zaria, you're here in Abuja, all the overflows outside
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  and for a global family connecting from anywhere across
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  the globe. I count 1 to 5 and I want you to
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  leave your seat boldly and come and stand here.
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  Jesus is speaking to you. Do not fight it.
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  Win that war. I begin my counting now.
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  One, let's celebrate them as they come.
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  Run to Jesus. 2 Come, come. Your story is about to change by
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  the lifter of men. The lifter of men come to Jesus.
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  Please hold on through the storm.
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  Hold on to His word. Your life will soon reveal.
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  He's the lifter of man, the lifter of man.
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  Apostle. I want to come out, but I'm
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  ashamed of my friend. I'm ashamed of my family.
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  Leave them and come. This is a destiny decision.
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  The wisest decision any man can make under heaven is to receive
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  of the life of Jesus. The Bible says there is no other
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  name given unto men by which we must be saved.
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  Those who are following online, make sure you connect by faith.
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  And as I begin to pray with them, I want you to participate
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  very fully in the prayer. If you're coming, come quickly.
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  I'm about to lead them to pray now.
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  I see people coming from outside.
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  Please rush and come very quickly.
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  Double up your steps so that you can make it, and then we'll
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  pray. Let's celebrate them as they
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  come. They're still coming, coming to
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  Jesus, the King of kings and the Lord of Lords, the Savior,
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  Redeemer. Hallelujah.
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  I thank and celebrate everyone of you for making this bold
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  decision. The Bible declares that as many
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  who will come to Him, He will in no wise castaway, appreciate
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  your courage. Thank you for standing boldly to
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  make this decision. May I please request that you
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  lift your right? Hand as a sign of surrender high
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  above your head, and say this after me as loud and as clear as
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  you can say, Lord Jesus, tonight I have heard your.
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  Word. I believe.
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  That you died for. Me.
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  I believe that you rose again for my justification right now I
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  receive Jesus into my heart as my Savior, as my Lord, and as my
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  King. I declare that the power of sin
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  Satan. Hell and the grave is broken
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  over my life. From tonight and forever, I am a
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  child of God. Amen.
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  Keep your hands lifted, Father. Thank you for these precious
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  ones. The Bible declares that as many
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  who will come to him, he will. In no wise castaway by the
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  authority of Scripture, I declare your sins forgiven.
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  I call you bona fide recipients of the life of God, and I
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  declare that the power of sin, Satan, hell, and the grave is
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  broken over your life. From tonight you walk in victory
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  and you walk in liberty. You go whatever and backward
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  never in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen and Amen.
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  Now please let me request all of you who have come to the front.
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  Let's let's see one of these gentlemen.
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  Let's see Coyote or anybody you can just talk to our mother
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  here. Let me just give one person room
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  aside from my mother here. Please let me request everybody
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  just move. You can go, Mama.
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  Don't worry, they'll have a word with you and everyone.
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  Please move to my right, which is your left.
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  The counselors will have a word with you very quickly, and then
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  you return to your seat. Let's honor them as they go.
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  Give them a big hand. Clap.
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  Hallelujah. Is this the best you can do?
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  Koinonia, celebrate salvation. Hallelujah.
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  Praise the name of the Lord. Just two quick announcements and
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  then we're done for tonight. Thank you very much.
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  Let me again appreciate all our friends and family, those who
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  have come, especially our international guests.
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  Thank you so much. Always an honor and a pleasure
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  to share fellowship and faith with you.
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  May the Lord bless you in Jesus name.
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  And then next week, we're going to be waiting upon the Lord next
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  week. So next week, please, everyone,
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  Koinonia Global, we're fasting. You can break anything from,
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  let's say 3:00 so that you have enough time to be able to
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  refresh before you come. Since it's a night service and
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  it's extended, please, I like you to fast and pray.
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  The prayer emphasis will be on all our platforms, so make sure
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  by Saturday night into Sunday morning, the request will be
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  there. Just take some time.
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  You can pray as a family. You can pray as individuals
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  while waiting upon the Lord and trusting God that this June will
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  be an extraordinary time in your life.
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  You believe that? Shout aloud, Amen.
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  Hallelujah, Please stand as we share the grace, the grace of
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  our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, the sweet fellowship of
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  the Holy Spirit. Rest and abide with us now and
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  forevermore, Amen. Surely all the days of our lives
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  as we dwell in the House of the Lord, forever and ever, Amen.
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  God bless you and see you next week.
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  Lord, you took my pain away and then you give me joy.
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  You're my peace, my melody in the center of this world.
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  You gave me a brand new song to sing to you.
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  That's why I will lift up my voice and say yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You're taking the pain and the
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  sorrow all the way. You've given me peace on the
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  nine years old. No need to cry 'cause you're
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  always with me. You're my father, my everything.
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  The. The.
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  None.