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Restore My Soul (A Cry for Personal Revival) — Apostle Joshua Selman (Rebroadcast) · Selah Media House

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  Hallelujah, Hallelujah. God bless you in Jesus name.
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  I'm happy to be in Enugu again. This is this is happy new year
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  for me in Enugu. God bless you in Jesus name.
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  Thank you so much Pastor Edwin. It's an honor to be here again
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  and to bring God's word to his people and I like us while
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  standing to not just honor the man of God, the Angel over this
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  house, but I really want us to take a moment and honor our
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  Father Bishop Honu Bogu. Let's give him a big God bless
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  you. I was very humbled when I heard
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  that he flew in all the way from London, arrived yesterday and
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  then was at the airport. In fact, I was trying to tell
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  the people where I come from, a man at this age should not be
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  found in the airport receiving a small boy like this, but he has
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  so decided to do so. And I truly honor you, Sir.
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  Daddy, thank you, thank you, thank you sincerely.
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  I honor every man and every woman of God in this place.
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  You would notice that I do this all the time before I teach.
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  I do it because I believe it #2 I do it so that those who are
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  watching will learn. There is nobility in showing
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  honor. When you honor people, it shows
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  that you recognize that we're only what products of God's
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  grace. Hallelujah.
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  I truly believe with all my heart that this conference was
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  designed by God For someone here tonight.
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  I was very touched and humbled when I saw several people, all
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  of the overflows outside here. I think there's one outside of
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  the fence. Hungry and desperate people.
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  I want to assure you that you came to meet.
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  Beyond a man. There are things that men cannot
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  do. But there is the God of heaven,
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  the one who satisfies the hungry.
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  Who brings water even to the thirsty Hallelujah.
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  And I'm also honored to find, you know, your noble people
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  within the land coming also politicians coming to
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  participate. It's a very great thing because
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  we lead out of our convictions. Whatever you believe is what you
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  translate to policies is what governs your actions.
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  And so I really want to say thank you and I trust that
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  tonight will really be a time that God will just dig deep into
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  our spirits and walk the things that produce victory and
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  restoration. Let me encourage you to not be
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  distracted. There are people who label so
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  much to come for meetings, but once they arrive, they hand over
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  their concentration to the devil and they literally waste their
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  time. They don't get anything, they
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  don't gain anything. They laugh, they snap pictures,
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  they share the grace and go back.
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  Let your heart and your spirit be in this place in the name of
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  Jesus. Father, give me an encounter
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  tonight. Can you cry to the God of heaven
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  by your spirit? Those who are following online,
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  I'd like you to connect. The Word of God is about to come
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  for our profiting. A man of God is praying.
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  Someone desperate for God is praying, someone hungry for
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  restoration spray. Indeed God has anointed voices
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  to speak restoration. They are taken for a pray and
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  non say and restore. Now God has anointed us to bring
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  words of restoration. My heart is opened, my spirit is
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  alive. I am sensitive to your speaking.
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  So God, speak to me, speak to my destiny.
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  Someone is praying, take a minute and speak, Speak to me, O
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  God, Hallelujah, Praise the name of
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  the Lord in Luke chapter 15. I believe Jesus gave among the
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  many parables that he gave, he gave one that is called the
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  parable of the lost coin. Hallelujah.
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  And in that parable, he said a woman had 10 coins representing
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  treasures, and then that for whatever reason, one of the coin
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  was missing. And so she needed to find that
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  one coin because she was given 10, but for some reason one was
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  missing. And the Bible says the first
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  thing that she did was to light a candle.
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  It is vain to such in darkness you will not find it.
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  One thing she knew was that that coin was in that room, but where
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  exactly it was she could not find.
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  And so she lit a candle. Hallelujah.
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  And the Bible says the spirit of man is the candle of the Lord,
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  and when he lights that fire upon your candle, the Bible says
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  she began to such. It takes zeal and passion,
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  hunger and determination to such.
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  And as she began to get a broom and sweep, we don't know how
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  long it took her, but eventually she swept the corner and there
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  came the treasure. And she called everybody to come
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  and rejoice with her. I'm praying for you.
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  Some of you have lost many things.
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  Some of you lost levels of honor in the spirit.
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  Some of you have lost strategic relationships.
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  Some of you are about losing your bishopric due to
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  carelessness, insensitivity. Some of you have lost direction
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  in life and ministry. It's my prayer for you that as
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  this fire lands upon your spirit, that in the name of
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  Jesus, the Son of the living God, you will find that which
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  was missing, no matter how long it's been missing.
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  In the name of Jesus Christ, you will find that which was
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  missing, no matter how long it was missing.
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  In the name of Jesus Christ. Let's take two minutes and pray
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  in the Spirit desperately, passionately, seriously, go
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  ahead and pray. We're praying in the Spirit
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  passionately for the next two minutes.
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  If someone still pray? In the name of Jesus Christ, let
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  me give you one scripture, we'll pray it, and then we'll be
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  seated. Amos Chapter 9, verse 13 and 14.
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  Please help U.S. media. Amos chapter 913 and 14.
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  I believe this is a prophetic word for someone.
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  It says, Behold, the days come, sayeth the Lord, that the plow
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  man shall overtake the Reaper, and the treader of grapes him
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  that sowed seed, and the mountain shall drop sweet wine,
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  and the hills shall melt. Verse 14, It says, And I will
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  bring again the captivity of my people of Israel, and they shall
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  build the waste cities and inhabit them.
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  They shall plant vineyards and shall drink the wine thereof.
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  They shall also make gardens and eat the fruit thereof.
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  I'm praying for you that everything that has left your
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  life, by whatever means, in the name of Jesus Christ, the Son of
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  the living God. As you hear the word tonight,
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  let there be a restoration. As you hear the word tonight,
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  let there be a restoration in the name of Jesus.
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  In the name of Jesus. When Samwell met Saul, Samwell
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  never asked the donkey that was missing to go back.
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  At the instance of that encounter, the Bible tells us
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  that the donkey began to find his way home.
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  Remember, it was the same donkey that led them on that journey
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  three days until they decided to stop wasting their time and to
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  go and meet a seer who had the counsel of God.
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  And as soon as Saul met with Samuel, someone was not even
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  talking to him about what was missing.
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  Again, he began to deal with nobler things, the matter of his
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  ordination and his election. And he said, but so that you
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  will know that you really encounter the man of God, that
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  which you are looking for, that it has gone back for someone
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  while you are in charge, something else is looking for
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  you. And that's something else, for
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  someone can be a desire and a longing in your heart, and for
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  some that may be the desire that has attempted distracting you
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  from God. But while you are in the House
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  of God, what you have been looking for made find you.
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  I prophecy to you made find you in the name of Jesus Christ,
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  prosperous by your word tonight, and be glorified.
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  For in Jesus name we pray, Amen. Please be seated.
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  Please be seated. The Lord steadied in my heart to
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  start with us in a very interesting way tonight.
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  The subject of restoration is one that I have studied myself.
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  I, by reason of this work, have had occasion to talk to people
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  who have lost things, have lost loved ones, have lost
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  opportunities, have lost relationships, people who had
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  backslidden and were trusting God for a restoration of fire
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  and grace. And so the subject of
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  restoration is one that, generally speaking, everyone who
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  has particularly served in the ministry should have been
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  accustomed to because losses are almost a human phenomenon.
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  People lose time, they lose things, they lose joy.
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  Are we together now? And so I wanted to listen to the
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  things that I'm going to be sharing with you because the
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  secret of excelling in this Kingdom is that you receive
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  light. Ezekiel chapter 2, one and two,
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  He said, Son of man, stand up upon your feet and he did not
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  have the strength to. And verse 2 says the Spirit
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  entered me when he speak unto me and set me upon my feet, the
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  Spirit entered me. Hallelujah, God is a restorer.
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  Now the Bible identifies God with several names, and like you
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  may have learned, the names of God are a capture of the various
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  dimensions that are contained within His person.
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  So the experience was this way in the Old Testament, every time
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  they saw a marvelous dimension of God, they would name him
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  after that dimension, so that if you wanted to see a replica of
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  that dimension, you would invoke that name.
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  Are we together? So whether you call him Jaira or
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  Rafa or Sikenu or Shalom, is still the same God.
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  But various expressions. All those names came because men
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  saw spectacular manifestations of God in their lives, and they
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  trapped those experiences in names.
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  And every time you call God that name, what you are doing is
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  invoking the power that reproduces that experience.
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  Are we learning now? So when you call him Jaira, he
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  doesn't heal your body. That dimension is not for
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  healing. That dimension deals with
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  insufficiency. Are we together now?
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  When you call him Rafa, you don't prosper financially and
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  other dimensions. Rafa deals with health and cure,
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  he says. And I will restore health and
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  cure. Are we together?
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  So it's important to know that God operates dimensionally.
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  He is God Almighty, but in dealing with men, He operates
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  dimensionally, and studying the systems that govern his various
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  dimensions will be your advantage in this Kingdom.
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  That means it is possible for you to know God and to know how
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  He moves as far as a certain area is concerned, say your
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  health, and never know how God or the Kingdom operates in
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  another area. Say leadership.
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  Say your finances. You can excel in that area where
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  you have found light and so feel woefully in another area.
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  Your knowledge of God in one area does not automatically
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  cover for the deficiency in another area.
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  Are we together? Yes, Job said.
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  I have heard of the with the hearing of the ear, he says.
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  But now my ICD and not that dimension of reality.
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  There were things I heard about you.
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  I've experienced some results myself, but now I have seen you
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  clearer. I have come into a greater
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  comprehension of light. And so we're going to be dealing
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  with restoration all through my session across various levels.
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  You know that the Bible is full of people who lost many, many
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  things. People lost joy in the Bible.
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  People lost peace in the Bible. In fact, the psalmist said it
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  this way. It says, restore unto me, not
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  time, not things, the joy of my salvation.
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  Hallelujah. People lost their peace.
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  People still lose their peace. People lost their health.
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  Like you'll be learning. An example was a man called
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  Hezekiah. The Bible archives several
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  people who went through all kinds of bodily ailments, some
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  recovered, some died. Are we together?
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  And then the Bible talks about people who lost money.
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  Nations lost whatever it is. Kings lost their throne.
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  People lost their estate. Even those who were once with
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  God are spirit beings in the angelic order.
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  The Bible says they lost their original estate.
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  And so losses are things that are scattered all around our
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  world and sadly is even experienced even in the realm of
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  the spirit. You will think if you were not
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  on earth, losses would not come to you, but the Bible had
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  recorded losses even in the realm of the Spirit.
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  The angels that fell experienced those losses right from the
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  realm of the Spirit. And so it's important to
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  understand the subject of restoration.
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  Now we can lose time, we can lose things.
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  The most expensive thing to lose as far as the earth is concerned
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  is time. When you lose things, if you
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  have time, you can receive things back.
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  But when you lose time, it is a great lost.
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  I'm praying for you that everything you have lost, as our
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  faces are, so are the various things we've lost in our lives
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  or whether you've lost time or things or relationships.
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  I'm praying that whilst you hear the Word, there will be
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  restoration tonight in the name of Jesus.
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  Now there is a law in the Spirit.
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  My teaching begins now. There is a law in the Spirit
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  that governs the overall efficiency of believers.
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  I want you to please listen when you find a believer excelling in
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  his spirit adventure. There is a law that governs the
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  centrality of a believer's excellence.
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  And most people have not learned that principle.
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  And so they chase excellence across different areas of their
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  lives while violating that law. And they find out that after
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  investing time, energy to build, whether it's relationships,
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  whether it's finances, whether it's a career, eventually
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  everything falls back like a pack of card because they keep
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  violating a law that many of them do not understand.
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  I'm praying that God will open your eyes now to see in the name
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  of Jesus Christ. Psalm 23, please, from verse 1
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  and 2, the first thing that God wants to restore tonight is your
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  soul. The Lord is my shepherd.
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  He says I shall not want. Let's read verse 2 together.
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  He restoreth my soul. Verse three He restoreth my
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  soul. This is the first thing that He
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  restores. He restoreth my soul.
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  Many believers do not know that there is a law in the spirit
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  that your life will be an overall reflection of the
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  quality of your spiritual life, the quality of your solical
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  health. The Bible says it in 3rd John.
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  John has only 1 chapter, the third, Third John 1 now and
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  verse 2 it says, Beloved, I wish above all things, are we still
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  together, that ye prosper and be in help.
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  Third, John, I wish above all things above what I wish above
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  your prospering financially. I wish above your getting a job,
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  I wish above your getting children, I wish above your
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  excelling in business, I wish above your getting a visa.
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  Are we together now? I wish above your having, you
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  know, being a house owner, those things are wonderful.
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  So the first thing here is that the wish, this wish is not the
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  only one he has. He had many wishes and many
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  desires for the people. The Spirit of God speaking to
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  his servant, I wish many things for you, but there is one that
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  surpasses every other desire. He says that he may prosper.
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  Say I will prosper one more time.
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  Say I will prosper. He says I wish above all things
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  that he may prosper and be in health.
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  But he now benchmarks everything based on a reference.
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  He says even as thy soul prosperity, that means before
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  God marks you to be successful in the spirit.
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  It doesn't matter what you achieve and it doesn't matter
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  what you have. The realm of the spirit will
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  have to vet the state of your soul, the health of your
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  spiritual life. Are we together in order to
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  verify if your success is true and lasting?
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  That means when you find an individual excelling in any area
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  of his life, if it is at the expense of his soul, then it is
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  not true success in the spirit. Are we together now?
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  Are we learning? This is very powerful, the
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  business of the soul. Let me tell you, this is the
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  greatest pursuit and the greatest need of every man.
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  Most people will not know that what they really need is the
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  health of their soul. If I told you now that the
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  greatest problem you have is a spiritual problem, a problem of
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  your spiritual life and the health of your soul, you will
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  most likely say no. I'm like, what I need is money.
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  What I need is a house. What I need is something
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  tangible that I can interact with, but that there is a law in
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  the spirit. I hope you know that I'm talking
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  about those who are in the Kingdom.
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  If you are outside of the Kingdom, your soul, in fact your
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  soul is the collateral that you have to give in exchange for any
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  other thing you get. You're going to be learning that
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  the commodity a time comes in the spirit where everything you
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  have to purchase to your life will either be as given by God
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  or as traded with your soul. Because your soul is currency in
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  the Spirit, you can give it up for other lesser things.
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  We're going to be considering a few scriptures and one of it is
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  the one that says what shall it profit a man speaking profit?
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  It's a business language. What shall it profit a man?
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  If you gain the whole world and you use your soul as the money
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  that bought that, you can literally go to the market of
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  life and destiny and exchange your soul for money, exchange
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  your soul for fame. You don't have to be demonic and
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  you don't have to be occultic. Many people are doing it.
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  The idea of selling your soul, most times when we hear, we
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  think it is something that you have to be occultic to say OK,
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  take my life and give me money. No, many people are already
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  doing it. One of the ways you know through
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  success is to find out what happens to your spiritual state
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  as you rise. If you find out, you can know
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  who is behind your success by looking at the consequence of
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  that rising on your spiritual life.
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  The moment you find out that for every increase, every open door,
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  every advancement, your spiritual life is suffering, you
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  are transacting with Babylon, this demonic satanic system.
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  You may not know Satan to Jesus off the mountain and he said bow
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  to me. That is how you sell your soul.
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  You don't sell your soul by giving it.
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  You sell your soul by bowing to something.
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  Is someone learning now whatever you bow to, a transaction happen
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  in the spirit. Satan came and met Jesus and
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  said look, all of the glories of this world.
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  I have it, but I don't need it. What I need is your loyalty,
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  your allegiance. You came as God Incarnate.
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  Bow to me and I can give you everything.
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  He was willing to relinquish part of what Jesus was coming to
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  die to receive. Why follow the route of the
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  cross when you can just trade your soul and you have it.
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  And there are many people today who do not understand this
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  system in the Spirit. What shall it profit a man?
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  What shall it profit a man of God?
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  What shall it profit a worshipper?
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  What shall it profit a businessman?
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  What shall it profit a student? A career person?
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  If you gain that kind of business man, you will not even
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  know what you are losing because you'll be focused on what you
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  are gaining. But the same while you are
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  gaining, you are losing something else, but your
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  attention isn't what you are gaining.
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  You can gain fame, you can gain increase, you can even gain
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  speed and mistaken that gain for true profit.
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  Only that when you check your soul you will find out that it
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  died because you grew. It died because increase came,
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  it died because it don't open. At that point you know that
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  Satan scammed you. He came and sold you something,
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  distracted you, and you thought you were gaining whereas you
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  were dying. Hallelujah.
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  This is a lot that I found out in my life because, you see,
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  like Reverend said before I came up, every human being wants to
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  make progress. I think I've said it here in
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  this church that psychologists teach that one of the keys for
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  measuring happiness is progress, or a sense of it.
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  To the degree to which you perceive you are making
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  progress, that is the degree to which you will be happy.
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  If you believe or perceive that there's some level of
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  stuntedness in your life or in ministry, if you are
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  responsible, it should be a source of concern.
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  Am I right on that? Yes.
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  And there's no woman who gives birth to a baby and expects that
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  baby to start running, walking, talking in one day.
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  But after a year, maybe one year and a half, two years, if the
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  baby cannot talk, the baby cannot walk, the baby cannot do
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  whatever. Immediately it becomes a medical
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  condition. Are we together?
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  Because instinctively she knows that that baby has now assumed a
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  state where he or she should begin to at least motion the
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  things that make for growth. So when people become stagnated
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  and staunted, whether as a man of God, as a businessman, as a
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  career person generally becomes a source of concern.
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  Now, let me tell you this. Satan does not attack you every
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  day. Know this, There are days that
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  even if you call Satan to attack you, you will say I'm not on
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  duty. He's not a fool.
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  Satan knows that there is something about the desperation
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  of men. The desperation of men is his
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  marketing strategy for this exchange.
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  Listen carefully for as long as you are a young person, having
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  someone to sponsor you, taking care of you, It may be difficult
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  to succumb to certain temptations because there are
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  harvest overseas. You did not sow.
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  So when Satan comes, he's easy to drive away that temptation.
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  But the day you are now on your own and there's house rent.
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  Hello. And the price of fuel is
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  whatever it is. Now, in the midst of that
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  desperation, Satan comes. The Bible calls him a thief, and
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  only a foolish thief steals all the time.
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  Thieves don't steal all the time.
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  There is timing and intelligence and preparation.
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  Are we together? They steal when you are not
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  around or while you are asleep. You say while men slept.
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  Now many of you, I'm saying this because this transaction that
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  has destroyed you now started at the point of your pain and your
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  desperation. Every time believers are in
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  want, every time believers are crying for more.
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  Be careful. It's not only God's attention
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  you are calling. You are also calling the
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  attention of the realm of the Spirit because they know that
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  desperation makes men vulnerable.
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  You are desperate for marriage. You are desperate for a child.
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  You are desperate for a job, you are desperate for anointing, you
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  are desperate for increase. If someone comes to meet a young
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  boy and says come, I want to take you somewhere and conjure
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  some demonic things and give you power, that temptation will not
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  work because the boy is not desperate.
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  It is dangerous to try to give people things when they are not
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  hungry enough. So there is a hunger level that
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  Satan waits for. Until he perceives that hunger,
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  he will not come to attack you. Are we together now?
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  Yeah. The day he sees that the
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  financial issue is becoming a family problem, that's when he
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  comes with his options. Because chances are excellent
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  that you will now listen to it. What shall it profit a man if he
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  gains the whole world? Have you seen someone try to
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  look for water when he's testing?
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  I mean, if you bring me a drum of water now, I'm not that
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  testy. At best I would just take one
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  bottle and that's fine. Are we together?
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  But when I am really thirsty, like unto death, if you bring
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  water, sometimes you can tell me this bottle is 100,000.
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  Because of my desperation, I become vulnerable to you.
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  I don't want to die. And even though I know you are
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  cheating me, it's not 100,000. But I prefer my pain solved.
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  This is how Satan traps many people.
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  He knows that there's something that befalls all men is called
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  exhaustion. Please listen.
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  Listen, I want to show you a transaction that has been
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  happening to your spirit man that you are not even aware of
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  because some of us, you have to kill that business with the
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  spirit now. Destroy that business with Satan
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  now. Else you will find out that
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  everything you are trying to build now will eventually fall
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  because you have violated a law. I wish above all things that ye
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  prosper and to be in health even as thy soul prospering.
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  There are men of God, for instance, who want power,
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  justifiably so want increase, want open doors.
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  Many of you have come to receive impartations and you will
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  receive. Many of you have come to receive
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  healings. You have come to receive, you
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  know, breakthroughs and all kinds of things.
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  And I, I tell you in the name of Jesus Christ, every desire you
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  came here with God will honor you and even surpass your
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  expectation. Are we together?
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  But there is a spiritual Lord that we must trust God for grace
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  to open our eyes to see that the health of your spirit, the
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  health of your soul is the PowerPoint that controls
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  everything around your life and destiny.
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  And it does not matter how healthy you think you are
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  financially healthy, if it is at the expense of your spiritual
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  life, you are holding shadows. Eventually you will lose it.
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  You have influence, you have positions, you have titles, you
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  have whatever kind of accomplishment.
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  Listen, in my little work I have seen people who you would maybe
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  proport that you wanted your life to be like them.
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  Their life look complete. It looked excellent, it looked
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  filled with all kinds of things. But there was one thing that was
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  missing. While they were in pursuit of
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  this thing, Satan came casting on their desperation and he
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  received their soul, their allegiance, their worship, their
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  time and asked them to do every other thing.
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  I can tell you if you can surrender your soul to Satan,
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  you will not attack any part of your life again.
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  He doesn't need any other thing from you again.
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  The reason why he taught your finances is not because of
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  finance. He's touching something else
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  through your finance. The reason why he touches your
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  health is not because of your health.
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  Satan does not need money. He does not need increase.
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  He does not need a child. Why should he lock the womb of a
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  woman? What does it do to him?
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  Does he need the children? No.
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  What Satan wants is to allow time or pain push you to that
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  point of desperation. When you become desperate, He
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  comes as a negotiator. Give me your soul and I can give
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  you any other thing and you may not.
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  You won't come and say give me directly.
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  Let me tell you how He comes by your exhaustion in prayer.
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  I'm tired of this prayer. I can't go and pray again.
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  Something is happening. If again is happening in the
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  Spirit without you knowing, are we together?
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  You wake up in the morning and to open the scripture.
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  Honestly, look, I'm overwhelmed by my problems.
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  Something is happening. It is gradual.
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  Then a call comes from someone and it says Nuko, It's just that
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  I don't want to tell you, but there's somebody a two years ago
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  you have said, God forbid, don't talk to me about anything.
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  But two years later, in the face of desperation, our boy is true.
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  I'm 49 years old now. I don't have my own child.
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  He said there's somebody. It's not like he's bad exactly.
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  He doesn't really do anything bad, but it's not that me too.
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  I don't understand him, but he's not I'm not sure I've seen
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  anything that is directly evil. And the Spirit of God is telling
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  you what you see your your desperation has caused Satan to
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  so close the door of your sensitivity.
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  You cannot even know that this is you are entering into a
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  fallen snare, and then you do not know.
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  At that point. Compromise starts gradually
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  until you find yourself in the heart of the things that have
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  violated your convictions. You have sold your soul.
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  Your prayer life dies. Your what life dies and then in
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  exchange you will see that a semblance of increase comes.
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  Satan is not stupid. If he makes everything fail in
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  your life, it will lead to conviction, repentance,
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  brokenness and a retreat. So he will not crumble every
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  aspect of your life like that. He will allow you to be enjoying
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  breakthrough. All of a sudden a job came.
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  You even danced around it not knowing that that job was an
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  arrow. Did you hear what I said?
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  When the Bible talks about arrows that fly, he's not
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  talking about a sharp object or there are many things we call
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  breakthroughs that are arrows. It was targeted at your
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  spiritual life. The job came, but from the day
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  the job came, you can't remember praying again.
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  From the day the job came, the moment the Holy Spirit wants
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  your time, they say, look, we demand this and Are you ready
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  for increase or not? And you remember more money.
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  God, I will attend to you later on.
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  There are many people who have violated this law of preserving
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  the health of their soul and this includes preachers.
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  There are times that when the devil wants to destroy a man of
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  God, he does not bring luck. He brings abundance and
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  ministerial open doors not orchestrated by God.
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  Doors will open in a very strange way.
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  Doors who open that don't depend on your prayer life.
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  Doors who open that don't depend on your fasting.
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  Doors who open that don't depend on your engaging the world.
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  Whether you obey God's world or not, those doors are opening
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  here. It's an attack when you find out
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  that certain results are coming without your engaging the Word
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  of God consistently. It is an attack by Satan because
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  he knows that it will keep you complacent and that's how he
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  destroys you. Are we together?
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  Whether I pray or not, seems like the favor is coming whether
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  I pray or not. Why do I need to pray?
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  It looks like I can share the word every time.
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  And at that point, you will not see the value of prayer again.
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  You will not see the value of fasting again.
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  Who is learning tonight? You will not see the value of
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  walking with God because after all, you are surrounded by such
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  abundance. Just when the Holy Spirit begins
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  to preach your heart to say, can't we get back to the secret
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  place? And a lot of 10 million just
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  enters your account. And he said, but I'm doing well.
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  I'm doing well. I always found out why a rich
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  man would be called a fool, because foolishness and wealth
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  don't go together. But there was such a man in the
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  Bible called a rich fool. Do you know what was foolish?
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  Now I know he did business with somebody to get that wealth and
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  that business ate up his soul. He set my soul find rest, not
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  knowing that he had everything in that room minus his soul.
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  Jesus called him a fool because when he checked his entire life
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  he found money, but his soul had gone.
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  His allegiance and his worship. He transferred it from worship
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  to God Almighty worship to things.
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  This is a very simple principle you have to learn tonight,
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  ladies and gentlemen, at the back of many people's tragedy.
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  You know, this thing they call rise and fall is not totally
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  demonic. It is the natural consequence of
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  violating this law and pursuing a lot of things, so you hold on
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  to what looks like result. But because your soul is dead,
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  it is not powered by your passion for God.
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  It is not powered by your zeal for God.
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  You'll become a celebrity and one day you'll find out that you
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  are like a fan with no power. It's just rotating itself to a
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  stop. And it will stop just when the
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  audience is ready to clap for you.
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  And you'll find out that your life has gone back to square 1.
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  Hallelujah. I wish.
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  Above all things, these are lessons that God taught me in my
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  life. When you want to grow by God,
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  let me tell you how He starts. It doesn't matter whether God is
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  calling you to be a Kingdom financier, A prophetess, an
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  apostle, A businessman. Once you come to the school of
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  the Spirit, everybody starts with the same course.
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  It is as you grow that you are now diverged to your various
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  departments in the Spirit. The person who is going to
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  become a prayer warrior. The person who is going to
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  become a Kingdom billionaire. Are we learning?
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  The person who will be a healing evangelist.
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  The person who is going to be a professor doing great things for
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  God. The person who is going to be a
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  captain of industry. Once you come to the school of
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  the Spirit, all of you start from the same training.
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  It is as you grow, the Holy Spirit begins to diverge you to
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  various trainings as far as His call an election and ordination
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  for you is concerned. But let me tell you how Satan
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  deceives people. The moment you want to do
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  business with Satan, he focuses on your desperation and your
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  lost, not your passion. He wants to distract your
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  passion for God, so the first thing he does is to examine your
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  vulnerabilities. Weapons of fashion.
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  What does this person like? At this point, this lady is
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  desperate for marriage. At this point, this lady is
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  desperate for a child. At this point this lady is
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  desperate for increase. At this point, this young man is
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  desperate for the prophetic since he had a dream that he was
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  a prophet. All he wants is that man to.
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  Satan's attack will be fashioned around your desires.
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  Satan will never waste his time creating a desire around
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  something that does not connect to you or an attack that does
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  not connect to your lost. Are we learning now?
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  If I am not hungry, if you want to tempt me with food, you are
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  wasting my time. I'm wasting your own time too.
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  Are we together? Imagine that you bring baby
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  food, what children eat, maybe milk or something.
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  And is that possible? I want to tempt you with this.
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  I will look at you in picture. I know something is wrong with
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  you because that temptation cannot work, because temptation
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  requires something from you to connect with.
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  Are we learning now? Many of us right now?
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  You came for this conference, and the truth is that although
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  you have the call of God upon your life, you are beginning to
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  transact with this system, this godless system, and transact
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  with the devil. Even without knowing.
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  How do I know that? Because you are having a
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  semblance of increase. But when we look at your life
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  from a spirit standpoint, your spirit man is dying from the
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  dead. Doors began to open.
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  As a man of God, you cannot remember having a personal
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  retreat for God again. But your name is spreading fire.
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  I tell you it is not breakthrough, it is an attack.
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  That thing you call open door is an arrow.
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  It is designed to destroy your life because a time.
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  Do you know even the early church faced this temptation.
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  The Bible says when increase was coming quarrel, it was Satan
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  that planted that seed among the people.
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  Certain women began to quarrel Acts after six.
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  Look, they are, they are victimizing us.
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  The devil wanted to penetrate the Apostolic community.
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  He said, how do I come now? These guys are zealous serving
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  the Lord. How do we deal with this?
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  And he said, you know what, Let's use welfare.
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  Let's begin to plant bitterness. Let's begin to plant anger.
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  Let's begin to plant jealousy. Is someone learning now?
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  And he planted that seed, and the coral began to grow.
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  And when the apostles came, the goal was not to feed the people
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  evenly. The goal was to take the
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  Apostolic community away from the things that keep their
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  spirit robust. The goal of that attack was not
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  to bring order necessarily. Satan is not interested in who
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  eats or who does not eat. But the apostles detected it and
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  said, aha, we now see that something the consequences of
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  increase now wants to tell on our spiritual life.
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  He said, appoint others in this business.
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  But As for us, we have found what keeps us relevant.
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  We have found what keeps us in fire.
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  He says we will give ourselves continually at six and verse 4,
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  to prayer and to the ministry of the world.
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  Satan lost that temptation. Let me tell you what would have
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  happened to many of us. You get to a point where you say
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  no, no, no, no, no. I've labeled too much.
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  I can't build this ministry and watch it crumble.
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  You know what? Let me take a retreat from my
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  time of prayer and the rest. Let's deal with administrative
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  issues. When Satan finds you in that
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  state, he starts multiplying the problem in your church and
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  before you know it, you have become a businessman and
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  administrator. Every other thing at the expense
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  of your prayer, at the expense of the world, at the expense of
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  your growth. Because you are still in church
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  does not mean you are with God. You will not know that you have
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  left the place of your consecration, the place of power
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  and the place of grace. Most people do not know why they
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  lose things eventually. I am telling you that the
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  attacks that come to you, usually they happen as an end
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  point after Satan has distracted you away.
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  It doesn't matter what you are celebrating his shadows, it will
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  take time and drop. That's why you find out a man
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  can be ministry for a very long time.
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  So supposedly doing well, but at the expense of his spiritual
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  life, Satan does not mind your 15 year success.
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  It does not intimidate him. Because in one year, after he
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  has laid hold on that which keeps you relevant, you can
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  crumble in one year that what you built in 15 years can
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  crumble in one year. Hallelujah.
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  What shall it profit a man if he should gain the whole world?
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  When I started my work with God, I had needs, I had financial
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  needs, I had a lot of other needs.
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  But the way God trained us was He took our eyes away from
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  everything, including ministry. Including ministry.
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  The focus was on Him. The focus was not on power.
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  The focus was not on anointing. The focus was not on healing.
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  The focus was not on greatness. The focus was not on fame.
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  Look at me. The focus was not on becoming a
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  great man. The focus was not on
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  breakthrough and revelation. When God calls you, let me tell
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  you what He does. He takes your mind away from
• 43:45
  every other thing until your gaze, your eyes, is fixed on
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  Him. That's when your progress begins
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  in the Spirit. When he was going to call Moses,
• 43:55
  look at me, how did he start the journey with Moses?
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  The first thing he did was he simulated a burning Bush.
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  He never spoke to Moses about Egypt and all of these things
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  until he got his attention. Only God knows how long it took
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  Moses. Moses said, I will turn aside.
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  Something else had my gaze, but I will turn aside and see this
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  great sight and when he saw he said that's it.
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  Remove your shoes where you stand his holy ground.
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  And he began this thing until Moses became a sign and a
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  wonder. I know that many of us came to
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  receive restoration and breakthrough, but let me tell
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  you this. The first restoration you need
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  tonight is not financial restoration in as much as that
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  is important. The first restoration you need
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  tonight is not held. The first restoration you need
• 44:44
  tonight is not relationships. We are going deep down to show
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  you what went wrong. It's like diagnosing a vehicle
• 44:51
  that has refused to own. It used to be a beautiful
• 44:54
  vehicle carrying many people and for a reason you cannot
• 44:57
  understand, it just stopped. The tires still look fine.
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  The paint still looks fine. The steering still looks fine.
• 45:04
  The stereo is still bringing music, but the car is not
• 45:08
  moving. I will tell you what is wrong.
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  Even as I saw prospers, Satan has taken advantage of your
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  vulnerability and your desperation and taking away
• 45:19
  passion. Do you know the average young
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  person in church the moment you bring teachings on presence,
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  power, surrender immediately they shot down is an attack.
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  They do not even know that it's an attack once you bring it.
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  Probably most people will prefer impartition 1000 times to the
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  teachings that build them to become powerful is the reason
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  why people fall down under the influence of oil and hands and
• 45:48
  rise up. And you cannot tell what
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  changed. Because for someone, while he's
• 45:54
  seen a man of God, he's thinking, if I receive this
• 45:57
  anointing now all these guys that think I'm nothing, they
• 46:00
  will see what will happen. That that kind of thinking is
• 46:04
  already revealing something to you that something is wrong.
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  God cannot endorse that kind of thing.
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  We together. I look at my life today by the
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  message of God, and sometimes when I'm alone, tears just run
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  down my eyes and I say, my God. I thank God for this one.
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  Training to focus on the health of your soul.
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  For some of you, you began this work with God 10 years ago.
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  If you had followed this pattern, you would have been
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  mighty by now. But you became distracted in the
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  training because you thought the training was for men of God.
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  And since you are not a man of God, you said, my own is.
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  I'm a businessman. All this thing about prayer, the
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  word short my own is God. Don't you handle money at the
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  end of it, you who is the Kingdom financial?
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  You still not have the money and the one you left at the altar
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  praying now has the resources and is still looking at you and
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  say you are still here. Because in this Kingdom
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  everything multiplies as the health of your soul.
• 47:05
  Your spirit man tells if it is God that increases you.
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  Even if God is calling you to be a Kingdom financier, that
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  training bar will have nothing to do with money until you die
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  to self and get to a point where he can trust you with
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  everything. Are we together?
• 47:26
  Many believers in church really do not understand the ways of
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  the Spirit. And so most times, with all due
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  respect, we think that the way God lived is that you just come
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  with hunger, full of our losts and our desires, and we just
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  say, God, I am your son, you died for me.
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  Here is the scripture, because I can paint a scripture on you to
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  blackmail you. Oh yeah, give me the
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  breakthrough. I need a wife, I need a husband,
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  I need children. And your word says the cattle on
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  1000 Hill belongs to you. I place a demand.
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  Unfortunately, does not happen that way.
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  Everything in this Kingdom revolves around the wheel of
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  God. The moment your desire, your
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  template, your outlook in life becomes in defiance to the will
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  of God. It doesn't matter how accurate
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  your scriptural recitation is, you will never secure the help
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  of God. Hallelujah.
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  I have seen people pray, I have seen people fast, but I have
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  examined the content of their prayer and fasting and watch
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  study and it tells why they don't get answers from it
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  because they are using spirituality to feed lost and
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  God says no. Even if it is scripture you are
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  quoting, I have to examine your heart.
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  Is it going to be at the expense of the health of your soul?
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  Listen, you have heard me say this my dear people, and let me
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  repeat it here in your presence. There is nothing in my life
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  today by the messes of God that I cannot give God nothing,
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  nothing. When I started with God and God
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  started lifting me, I prayed to him.
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  I said, Lord, this is a personal prayer from me to you.
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  May I never know the full extent of my impact.
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  I don't want to know it because it can be distracting.
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  If I have that knowledge, Satan can come to me and say, I hope
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  you know you are a very great man.
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  Do you know how great you are? I hope you know that the
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  temptation of great men is to fall down.
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  When Jesus met Satan met Jesus, he said he took him to a holy
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  mountain and said fall down. Angels who hold you.
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  I have seen the help of God in my life.
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  I have seen the mercy of God in my life.
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  Let me tell you how I found it. I didn't find it by looking for
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  it. I found it by looking away from
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  from all those things and staying with him, staying with
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  him, staying with him, making your spirit man so large and
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  robust. And before you know it, you
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  become a magnet in the spirit. You will begin to draw the
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  things that even listen, listen, listen.
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  Let's assume that this man of God is a businessman.
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  Do you know most times if say, for instance, just in this
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  example, I tell him, Sir, can I design A spiritual growth
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  template for you? The man who said, no, I'm not a
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  man of God, I'm a businessman. Bring things that deal with
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  common sense. Give me five years with this man
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  eventually. I'm not a businessman, but I can
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  follow a template that even him as a businessman, he will still
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  be behind. And he's saying you are not a
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  businessman, but what are you doing in the cycle of wealthy
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  people, the health of your spirit man.
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  I'm showing you a key tonight that if you find some of you
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  need to go back home and shelf a lot of useless activities, they
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  are not adding to your growth. They will not add to your
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  growth. I assure you.
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  They will waste your time, waste your energy with everything
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  about your life. And at the end of it, you find
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  out that it looks like you've been making progress, but the
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  progress is on to futility. But there is one thing you can
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  find. Mary found this.
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  It's a matter matter. You are worried and you are
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  obsessed about many things. But one thing is needful.
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  Someone say one thing. Shouted say one thing.
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  There is one thing that if you find in life, you would have
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  found the key to wealth, you would have found the key to
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  increase. There are things that when you
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  find in like my brothers and my sisters, the people you now
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  admire today will look for you and call it an honor to stand
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  before you. If I ask us to write our prayer
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  request now what area are you trusting God for restoration.
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  Someone will say apostle as I stand right now.
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  I've lost 1 billion, I've lost 500 million and you answer
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  person, What am I going to do about this and now I'm looking
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  for loan or I'm looking for someone to help my business.
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  But if I tell you give me a chance to recommend a part for
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  you out of that problem is that apostle, you're not a
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  businessman. Do your preaching Jesus that
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  give you money and I asked the person, so how are you going to
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  come out of this challenge? I have called Senator sources
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  and so and then he promised to connect me to 1 foundation
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  abroad. I'm already calculating
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  everything. I hope that give or take at
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  least 200 million will come in. And then when that 2 million
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  comes, I'll do business and at least in two years.
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  Oh dear, listen, let me tell you, the man talking to is not
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  stupid. Someone else can go before God
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  and say, Father, if you do not open my eyes, I cannot see.
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  If you do not help me, there is no human way I can come out of
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  this. And the Lord says, you know
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  what, leave the issue of business, leave the issue of
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  profit, focus on me. Satan desires to sift you and
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  you can throw business and everything and stay and say I
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  have lost everything in my life. I will not lose my soul.
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  Lord, let's start again my brother, you can be in that
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  place and one idea in his presence, one connection in his
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  presence, the Spirit of God. Is it not in your Bible that the
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  steps of a good manner ordered by the Lord you can get up from
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  the your frailty and step into a conference like this and God
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  will orchestrate that you sit down there and help her and the
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  person says young man, what do you do and says I, I'm, I'm just
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  a graduate. He says the Spirit of God said I
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  should hold your hand till you are established.
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  Now when you come back and meet the person who left God to look
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  for success, the person will say no, you are just lucky.
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  I'm sure if you just, you succeeded just because you are a
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  ministry, it's a lie. It is the profit of His
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  presence. I used to think this template
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  only works for men of God, the template of making sure that you
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  are surrendered and staying in His presence.
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  And quite honestly, I used to be concerned because I said if you
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  stay in His presence, praying, building capacity, won't you
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  lose in time? There are many important things
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  to do. I found out that nobody loses
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  with God. When your spirit man becomes
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  robust and enlarged, you will lay up gold.
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  As does I tell you. If you came for this conference
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  trusting God to receive restoration and to be free, I am
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  telling you the way out. Take a minute away from
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  business, take a minute away from marriage, take a minute
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  away from children, away from breakthrough.
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  Can you take a minute and stay tonight and say God is between
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  me and you? This is not the issue of
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  healing. Again, I know that they die
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  mostly of cancer, but cancer You will be a later discussion for
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  when you find Him, when you touch him, when you encounter
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  the God of the Bible, not the one you hear people saying they
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  met, when you encounter the God of Israel, when He places
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  something upon your life, you will go out and in in a moment.
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  I'm telling you it will not take that long.
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  God will raise men, God will raise systems.
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  He will give you wisdom. Well starting tonight, because
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  tonight is is a cry for a restoration of our soul.
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  And when you pray that prayer, some of you whilst in the place
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  of prayer, there are other prayers, you will not need to
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  pray again. You will go back home and on
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  reaching home, someone will call you and say you know what, I've
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  been trying to reach you. The job is now waiting for you.
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  And that's when you find out that it's not that God could not
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  give you the job. He has seen that Satan wants to
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  use that job as a transaction to steal away your passion, to
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  steal away your hunger, to steal away your fire.
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  And let me tell you this, if you hear me saying this thing and
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  you feel in your heart I'm wasting your time, it's an
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  attack on your destiny. It's an attack.
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  There are things only God can do in the life of a man.
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  I have studied success from a business standpoint.
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  I have studied success from an entrepreneurial standpoint.
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  By the message of God. I have studied success from a
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  leadership standpoint. I have studied success from a
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  spiritual standpoint. I have come to a conclusion that
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  it doesn't matter what route you take, if your soul, the health
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  of your spirit man, if that is not sorted, you will prosper,
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  you will make money, doors will open, but there is calamity
• 57:07
  eventually waiting for you. It doesn't matter even if it's
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  after 20 years, you can do ministry without his presence
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  and excel. And one day overnight something
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  happens to you. Satan is not foolish, he does
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  not attack him. One day he gives you room so
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  that you can continue without God's presence, so that you can
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  continue without your fire. Listen to me.
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  I came here by the Spirit tonight to challenge you using
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  my life and to honor your sacrifice of coming to this
• 57:45
  place For some of you, what God is calling you to do now.
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  He says, Son, I've always cried for your attention.
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  You've gotten so busy, busy trying to make life walk, busy
• 57:58
  trying to build a house, not knowing that except the Lord
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  builds a house, the labor in vain that build it, except the
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  Lord watches over a city, the Watchmen watch it, but in vain.
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  There are people by the messes of God that I've met in my life
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  today, and it's almost like a dream.
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  I would never have imagined that at this point in my life.
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  By what connection would I have gotten to that level?
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  But God for you when he finds your heart, who is God speaking
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  to when God can find your heart, there are many things that
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  happen in the secret place that becomes your security.
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  Number 1 is a circumcision that happens within your heart
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  because you see the tendencies of men is such that until God
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  vets you, if you can deceive yourself.
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  The Bible says the heart of man is desperately weakened.
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  Oh God bless me and I will bring the money to church is a lie.
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  You are sincere, but you are still lying.
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  You don't even you know the state of your heart.
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  The Bible says that the heart of man is deceptive above all
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  things. You know what it means to have
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  plenty and it does not affect your passion for God.
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  You know what it means to be lifted and still be humble and
• 59:12
  remain on your knees. It is not human, it is not
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  natural. It is a circumcision that
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  happens when you stay with him. When God demands that you stay,
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  He's not delaying your growth. When God demands that you stay,
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  he's not wasting your time. My dear sister, hear me, I'm
• 59:29
  speaking to you by the Spirit. Don't let naysayers make you
• 59:32
  feel that The time invested in God's house, the time invested
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  in building your health capacity in the Spirit when you plant.
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  Sometimes a plant does not just sprout and start bearing fruit.
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  There are trees like the baobab tree and other trees that would
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  take a long time. It will look like progress is
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  not happening. One way you know you are walking
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  with God is that they will always be silent years in your
• 1:00:02
  life. Yes, that only God can tell what
• 1:00:04
  is happening to you. You yourself cannot tell whether
• 1:00:07
  you are making progress or not. Because all the parameters to
• 1:00:11
  measure success will be missing and God will keep it
• 1:00:14
  intentionally. He will teach you to be used to
• 1:00:17
  Him without things and be comfortable before He brings
• 1:00:20
  things. Did you hear what I said?
• 1:00:22
  He will teach you to be used to His presence.
• 1:00:25
  That if I have His presence without money, I am still
• 1:00:29
  successful. If I have His presence without a
• 1:00:32
  name, I am still successful. When His presence becomes your
• 1:00:36
  all, everything added to it does not distract you.
• 1:00:45
  The Sammy said, Among the many things I desire to restore,
• 1:00:49
  restore my soul, restore my soul for someone.
• 1:00:53
  Restore my soul means restore my prayer life.
• 1:00:56
  Apostle, I did not start this way.
• 1:00:58
  I used to be on fire, that fire upon my altar.
• 1:01:02
  For some of you it was so whilst you were on campus, before you
• 1:01:05
  became a businessman, while you were a faithful member of a
• 1:01:09
  fellowship. It was prayer every time.
• 1:01:12
  And by that momentum you were getting ascendance in the
• 1:01:15
  spirit. You began in the spirit who
• 1:01:17
  distracted you. What distracted you now for some
• 1:01:21
  family life became the temptation and the big Satan
• 1:01:25
  used to distract you. Orders, ministry orders money,
• 1:01:29
  orders, the desire to make it. God is the one who designed this
• 1:01:33
  system. He is not evil to leave your
• 1:01:36
  needs unattended to. But there is a protocol.
• 1:01:39
  Tonight I came to show you a law that you have been violating
• 1:01:42
  that is responsible for most of the losses in our lives.
• 1:01:46
  When Satan comes to you and he looks at the direction of your
• 1:01:51
  attention, that's what you attack.
• 1:01:54
  When he looks at the direction of your attention and he finds
• 1:01:57
  it at fame or money, he will attack that area.
• 1:02:01
  But when he finds your eyes fixed on Jesus, that while your
• 1:02:04
  account is multiplying, your eyes is still on Jesus because
• 1:02:08
  you have been trained in the secret place, that every time
• 1:02:11
  you look away from Him the waters will sink you.
• 1:02:15
  Peter, that was the lesson. Walking on water was not just
• 1:02:18
  about a miracle. He was teaching you how to be
• 1:02:22
  undistracted by the things around you to focus on Jesus.
• 1:02:26
  When Peter looked away from Jesus and began to look at other
• 1:02:30
  things like ministry, like growth, like whatever it is, he
• 1:02:33
  sunk. Let me tell you this.
• 1:02:38
  When I was to start ministry, the difficulty was how to be
• 1:02:42
  able to raise finances for ministry because I made-up my
• 1:02:45
  mind that I was going to serve God void of compromise, that I
• 1:02:49
  would never manipulate anybody for myself or to fund the work.
• 1:02:54
  And based on the visions that God was showing me, I knew that
• 1:02:58
  this work would require enormous, enormous resources.
• 1:03:02
  How was God going to help me through this?
• 1:03:05
  By His mercy, I remember times when I will come to God and say,
• 1:03:10
  Lord, what is the key to this? And He would teach me, stay in
• 1:03:14
  my presence. There is a curriculum for your
• 1:03:17
  growth. There is a curriculum for your
• 1:03:20
  excelling. There are people already
• 1:03:22
  positioned. There is wisdom to navigate you
• 1:03:25
  to the place of grace and power. But stay.
• 1:03:28
  I thank God by His mercy that I stayed the foolishness of
• 1:03:32
  waiting upon the Lord. It will look like you are not
• 1:03:35
  making progress. Let me say this to you, and I
• 1:03:37
  submit with all humility. I'm about to pray for you.
• 1:03:41
  Now. There are many people, or there
• 1:03:44
  were many people those days, they were in a hurry to make it.
• 1:03:48
  Now, I don't say this, you know, being sarcastic.
• 1:03:51
  I mean, if you saw them, you would think if they did not do
• 1:03:54
  ministry in one year, they would die.
• 1:03:56
  It was like, I want to do mini. I want to.
• 1:03:59
  I want to shine. I want to heal the sick.
• 1:04:02
  I want to do whatever. And sometimes humanly, you'll be
• 1:04:06
  tempted to say, I hope this is not the way and I'm missing out.
• 1:04:09
  And I will tell you, stay for someone.
• 1:04:13
  All through January it looked like you did not make progress
• 1:04:16
  in any aspect of your life except that your prayer life was
• 1:04:20
  healthy, except that your word life was healthy.
• 1:04:23
  Please do not feel foolish. You are sowing in the Spirit.
• 1:04:26
  You are making an investment. In one year God can bring the
• 1:04:30
  job and the husband and give you triplets.
• 1:04:33
  You would turn back and say, So what was the anxiety about?
• 1:04:38
  What was it about Hallelujah? Many years later, by the mercy
• 1:04:47
  of God, when God began to do the things that He's now doing
• 1:04:52
  through our lives, I look back with pain in my heart.
• 1:04:56
  And some of these wonderful people yesteryears, I look at
• 1:04:59
  their hurry. They wanted to make money fast.
• 1:05:03
  They wanted fame fast, they wanted increase fast.
• 1:05:07
  And you are now wondering, so with all that journey, where is
• 1:05:11
  it? Because let me tell you this, it
• 1:05:13
  is vain to wake up in the morning and to sleep late at
• 1:05:18
  night only to eat the bread of sorrow.
• 1:05:21
  I have learnt in my life, if this God does not stand behind
• 1:05:25
  you to help you, you will waste your time and weary your days.
• 1:05:30
  It will look like you are making progress, only that you will
• 1:05:32
  turn back and find out that 15 years was wasted.
• 1:05:36
  You will go around only to find out that you are back to the
• 1:05:39
  place you started. This is my call.
• 1:05:42
  Tonight we are going to cry the cry of restoration.
• 1:05:46
  Lord, I'm trusting you for houses.
• 1:05:49
  I'm trusting you for a car. I'm trusting you for increase.
• 1:05:52
  But for tonight, restore my soul.
• 1:05:56
  Restore my soul. This transaction I've been doing
• 1:05:59
  with Satan unknowingly, that my increase has been at the expense
• 1:06:04
  of my prayer life. My fame has been at the expense
• 1:06:08
  of my consecration. My rising has been at the
• 1:06:12
  expense. Do not allow your growth become
• 1:06:15
  A cause to you. The key is to give God your
• 1:06:18
  heart when your heart belongs to Him.
• 1:06:22
  When Satan comes around you, it doesn't matter what he beats you
• 1:06:25
  with, whether increase or challenges, it has no effect on
• 1:06:30
  your heart. Do you know why?
• 1:06:32
  Because you are totally surrendered.
• 1:06:34
  Now let me say this before we pray.
• 1:06:36
  When you come to Jesus, really you don't give him your heart,
• 1:06:40
  you receive his life. That's what happens.
• 1:06:43
  Giving him your heart is not a language of born again, it's a
• 1:06:46
  language of surrender so that you'll be used by him when you
• 1:06:50
  now hand over your all. He said, my son, give me your
• 1:06:54
  heart and let your eyes incline onto my ways.
• 1:06:59
  Tonight I came to propose a formula, a formula that turned
• 1:07:04
  this small boy. You see by his message what God
• 1:07:07
  is doing tonight. I don't claim I know everything.
• 1:07:11
  I don't claim I know everyone. But there's one thing that the
• 1:07:15
  people that do know their God, the people that do know their
• 1:07:21
  God, it doesn't matter where they start from.
• 1:07:24
  It doesn't matter who has risen or not risen in their family.
• 1:07:29
  Allow God to bear that circumcision to make out that
• 1:07:33
  circumcision within your heart tonight.
• 1:07:35
  You are a man of God. I do not doubt truly the hand of
• 1:07:38
  God is upon you, but this appetite of wanting invitation,
• 1:07:43
  let me go for ministry. I am a great man.
• 1:07:45
  Put my face on the poster. You are transacting with Babylon
• 1:07:49
  not knowing. Just because it's a spiritual
• 1:07:51
  adventure does not mean you are free.
• 1:07:53
  Take away all those things and stay.
• 1:07:55
  Neither do men light a lamb. If you are truly elite, it is
• 1:07:59
  impossible to be kept in hiding. It doesn't matter who victimizes
• 1:08:03
  you. When you stay and that
• 1:08:05
  circumcision happens, the gift you receive from His presence is
• 1:08:09
  fire that cannot be quenched. And when you carry that fire,
• 1:08:13
  whether as a businessman you carry that fire, it doesn't
• 1:08:17
  matters. Whatever you will excel, you
• 1:08:20
  will rain. That's when you will see that
• 1:08:22
  the there is a compensation system.
• 1:08:25
  I must say this, while you are walking with God, you will lose
• 1:08:31
  many things. I have to tell you the truth.
• 1:08:34
  There are many losses that are not demonic.
• 1:08:36
  There are consequences of sacrifice.
• 1:08:38
  Did you hear what I said? Please and no good.
• 1:08:40
  Listen to me. Listen to this man of God.
• 1:08:43
  While you walk with God, you don't start by gaining.
• 1:08:47
  When you walk with God, you start by losing.
• 1:08:50
  Except a corn of wheat falls to the ground and talk to me.
• 1:08:55
  And when you walk with God, there is a price.
• 1:09:00
  You will lose friends, people will misperceive you.
• 1:09:05
  That is the price. You will start by losing a lot.
• 1:09:08
  To a point. You will be stripped off
• 1:09:11
  everything that makes you confident in yourself so that
• 1:09:15
  your confidence becomes Him when He strips you that much.
• 1:09:19
  It is also a measure of the weight of glory.
• 1:09:22
  Now let me tell you this, there is a compensation system at the
• 1:09:26
  end of the journey. Don't feel cheated no matter
• 1:09:29
  what you lose in the journey, if it is God who is helping you, I
• 1:09:32
  assure you, if his money you lost, if his friends you lost,
• 1:09:36
  if it's your reputation you lost.
• 1:09:38
  Don't worry about that. By the time He's the maker makes
• 1:09:41
  you in one day so lost everything.
• 1:09:48
  The one thing he had what is honor and reverence for God and
• 1:09:52
  even his wife said Mister man, you've lost all cause God and
• 1:09:56
  die. John said why do you speak like
• 1:09:58
  this? One of these foolish women, He
• 1:10:00
  says all the days of my appointed time.
• 1:10:02
  I don't know if I would have had the kind of stamina to wait like
• 1:10:05
  Joe, not when after losing my children, my estate, and then my
• 1:10:10
  health, maybe I would have caused God one day to say, God,
• 1:10:13
  you know what? I don't trust you.
• 1:10:15
  Kill me if you want to, but not Joe.
• 1:10:18
  He said, I know my redeem, my leavers, to the point that three
• 1:10:22
  men came together and the Bible said they sat down for one week.
• 1:10:26
  They were looking at Joe. Do you know what it means to sit
• 1:10:29
  near a sick person for one week and you can't talk to the
• 1:10:31
  person? How did you reduce like this?
• 1:10:36
  What kind of attack came on your ministry?
• 1:10:39
  What kind of attack came on your family?
• 1:10:42
  And Ellie, who said is not always about what the person did
• 1:10:46
  wrong. There are mysteries in the
• 1:10:47
  spirit. There are times we lose to gain
• 1:10:51
  you shed of certain weights. I'm saying this to someone
• 1:10:54
  because you lost a job, you lost friends.
• 1:10:57
  Someone said if you will compromise you will get an oil
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  and gas company work and you refused.
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  You thought by the next day a breakthrough will come.
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  And sometimes preachers we need to be careful as we teach people
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  there is a process before emergence happens.
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  Just because you say no to Satan does not mean God's answer will
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  come immediately. There are times no answer will
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  come for two years, five years you will feel foolish for say no
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  to the devil, but wait. Still wait.
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  You made-up your mind that you would stay and everybody who
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  started with you has gone ahead of you.
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  They call you one day and say please, we are concerned about
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  your destiny. Tell them I came to church
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  tonight and I had one word, wait, wait.
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  I will wait. I will wait.
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  Thank God for your ministry. Go ahead, I wish you well, but I
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  will wait. The ordination upon my life and
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  the weight of glory that I carry requires a building.
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  I will wait, provided it is waiting upon the Lord.
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  I will wait. Let the circumcision happen.
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  And God looks at you and says, I want to trust you with nations,
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  but because of the background you came from, maybe you came
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  from a polygamous background. The tendency for pride, the
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  tendency for wickedness is there so that it does not destroy you
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  in the future. Allow me to circumcise you and I
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  tell you why that is happening. It will be painful.
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  Waiting is the hardest thing I know for a believer because you
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  wait in the silence of God, As a man of God, someone will come
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  for counseling over something that you are going through.
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  You will solve your problem by prophecy and then you still
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  remain in that situation and you said somebody came to you and
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  said look, I'm trusting God for finances.
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  You said let's pray. And as you spoke the person sent
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  you a text one hour and said you are really anointed and you your
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  rent has not been paid. The person said no, you are
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  really outcome with my friend again.
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  So you after praying for 10 people or a barren woman praying
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  and a woman comes with triplets and said I've never experienced
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  graces like this. And you said, God, what of me?
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  Here is my message for you tonight.
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  Wait, wait, wait. Some of you are, I'm wrapping up
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  now. You are about the finish line.
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  Wait. Because you see if you are to
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  run a marathon and you are the last round and you are tired,
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  they would not say because you went 7 rounds for eight, you've
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  done well. You still lost.
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  You are the person who was not in the field who received the
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  same lot. Shame.
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  I made-up my mind that if it is God bar I rather be a fool in
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  the presence of men. But I will stay with you.
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  I have seen the value of his presence.
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  I look at my life today and, and, and I don't, I don't say
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  this to be arrogant. I hope you don't misunderstand
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  me for arrogance. Honestly, I have seen the mercy
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  of God. Sometimes when I'm alone, I've
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  tried to cry in the midst of people.
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  My tears will not just come out. So I don't know why I'm not a
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  very emotional person, but when I try to cry, Oh yeah, come now,
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  the tears will not come. But when I'm alone, because I
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  consider the things he's done in my life, I I remember that small
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  boy and I stand, I said, Lord, look what you've done in my
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  life. And it says teach people what I
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  did in your life. Don't just enjoy it.
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  Teach people that the secret is when you forget about all and
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  stay with him. Master, we have left all low.
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  We left all, we left all, we left all, we left all.
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  We left invitations. We left opportunities.
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  If you ever think you stay with God and become a failure, the
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  formula that was given to you was wrong.
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  But if it is God's formula, as your soul prospers, every other
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  thing will eventually catch up, and sometimes it will catch up
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  so fast. When God began to show us mercy
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  as a ministry, when God began to show me mercy as a person, at a
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  point I was going to say, Lord, what is this?
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  It's like this train is running too fast.
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  But that's what happens when you build capacity in the Spirit in
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  one day. Question, how long did it take
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  job to be restored? Have you read your Bible?
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  Job 42. Understand return and 11.
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  That's how long it took joke to be restored.
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  All while he was going through that season, ladies and
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  gentlemen, all the people who had capacity to help him were
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  there, but mysteriously they were far from him.
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  Oh, but there is an east wind that can blow.
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  Help us from everywhere and in one day, back-to-back, somebody
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  comes to you and says, gentleman, you are in this
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  choir. God said I should give you a
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  house. You will first look at it and
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  say no, this is a joke. Let me tell you this.
• 1:16:05
  I shared these stories to inspire you.
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  For many years I stayed in one room as a man of God.
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  I would travel and preach, be kept in very nice places.
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  I didn't stay because of luck. I was paying for people 2
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  bedrooms, 3 bedrooms, keeping people paying school fees and
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  God would tell me to stay in one room.
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  I said what is all this one again?
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  If I've seen against you, I'm sorry, what?
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  What? What did I do wrong like that
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  stay. I remember people who bring
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  vehicles and give me. You see that?
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  Bring vehicles and give me and the Holy Spirit said, no, I can
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  supply pray on the vehicle and take it back.
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  I remember a time when a group of women, I was in my room
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  praying. I had, you know how women sing
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  choruses and they're coming to your house.
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  You know, that's a serious issue.
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  Once you see them together singing choruses and they, they
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  just ask concerned mothers. They wanted to know if there was
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  something wrong with me that I was not sharing.
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  When they left, I said God is, is something wrong with me?
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  Do you know what it means to be paying rent for other people?
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  And you're staying in one room. And I used to counsel in that
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  one room. Oh, I did not hide it.
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  You enter the room and you think it's an office only that is an
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  office with a bed, well prepared bed, office with DSTV and and
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  free to air. What kind of one room?
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  It is like that people who bring cars.
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  I remember I used to climb bike to go for miracle service.
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  Now everybody's life may not follow that template.
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  I'm only giving you an example to show you what it means to
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  stay until you are made Hallelujah.
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  Imagine a crowd of people like this and you hear a bike outside
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  and that's me with my Bible and I drop and the people are
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  looking with shock and disbelief.
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  Is it that these guys are wicked?
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  They cannot bike out for this man of God.
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  So people offered. There were people who decided to
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  Oh yeah, let's do it. I remember it was a miracle
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  service kind of protocol is here when a woman from Lagos sent a
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  Sienna and sent that Sienna and they dropped it and they called
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  me that a woman had brought a car for me.
• 1:18:32
  I said God, who is this car for? And God said no, this one is for
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  you. I didn't look at that car.
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  I passed. I went for for the miracle
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  service. It was when I returned back in
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  the night that I now looked at it.
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  That's when I knew what had happened to me.
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  The string that connects the heart with things was no longer
• 1:18:51
  there. This was the circumcision that
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  God was doing. That there is an invisible
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  string in the heart of man. That those are the strings that
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  make you look like a puppet in the midst of things.
• 1:19:05
  Money moves you here. Titles move you here.
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  Fame moves you here. God now brought that
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  circumcision to my heart and I'm honored today.
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  The rest is history. To God be the glory.
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  I cannot tell you the things that God has done in my life
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  today. God carried the lifetime of many
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  people and gave me in one lifetime, many people.
• 1:19:30
  Today we're able to do the things that we do for the
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  Kingdom across the nations. Our first crusade, we were not a
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  little more than your choir. After fasting for two weeks, I'm
• 1:19:42
  praying the car spoiled on the way.
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  We didn't have money to call mechanic.
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  It was praying in tongues that got that car back.
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  I tell the truth and I lie. Not the ladies.
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  Everybody was in every department that time.
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  Just find a department that is empty and joined.
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  The ladies would climb trees to plug some wood so that they
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  could cook and they were still in the washing team.
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  They would. Quickly cook a rush and one
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  dress, but today to God be the glory.
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  Listen so that we do not waste prophetic words and so that you
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  do not shout Amen for nothing. What many of you need right now
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  is that circumcision. Tonight and for the next 5
• 1:20:29
  minutes we are going to be crying before the Lord leave the
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  issue of car. Listen to me, I'm telling you
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  how to get the car businessman, I know you are owing.
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  If you run away from God, you would you are still in trouble.
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  Are we together? My sister?
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  I know you want marriage, you want children.
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  God wants you to settle more than you can, but you stay.
• 1:20:53
  The next 5 minutes we're going to pray and cry like the 20 and
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  4 elders. Lord, that circumcision, rest
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  all my soul, restore my soul, restore my soul in the name of
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  Jesus Christ. Everything that has given me
• 1:21:10
  cheap to Satan, everything that has given my destiny, my
• 1:21:14
  ministry cheap. Someone go ahead and pray.
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  For some of you, you need to start with repentance.
• 1:21:20
  For some of you, you need to cry and say, Lord, walk upon me.
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  Take a minute and pray. Participate in the prayer.
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  This is between you and your Maker.
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  The Bible says. Seen then, that we are
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  surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, Let us lay aside
• 1:21:37
  every weight and the sin that thought easily beset us, and to
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  run with perseverance the race that is set before us.
• 1:21:44
  Looking unto Jesus, who is the author and the finisher of our
• 1:21:48
  faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the
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  cross, and despise the shame. Someone is crying to God.
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  Someone who came to church with genuine hunger.
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  Restore my fire. Restore my prayer life.
• 1:22:08
  Restore my appetite, Restore my passion.
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  Go ahead and pray. I know you are a man of God, but
• 1:22:18
  take away that ministerial regalia for one minute and cry
• 1:22:22
  before your makeup. I know you are a champion in the
• 1:22:25
  Spirit. Take away that regalia for one
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  minute. I know you are a daughter of
• 1:22:30
  Abraham. There is an alternation in your
• 1:22:32
  life. I do not doubt it, but someone
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  cry. Restore, not restore my money,
• 1:22:38
  leave money for tomorrow, not restore my car, leave the issue
• 1:22:42
  of car for tomorrow. Not restore my reputation, Leave
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  reputation for tomorrow. Restore my relationship.
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  Restore the rest, the state of my heart.
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  Restore my passion, restore my fire.
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  Take a minute to pray. Holy, holy, holy, let Satis see
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  who comes in the name of our God.
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  Holy, holy, let Satis see who comes in the name of our God
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  Hosanna. Hosanna Lusar is she who comes
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  in the name of our God. Lusar is she who comes in the
• 1:23:52
  name of our God. Lusar is she who comes.
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  Now listen, ladies and gentlemen, hear me until you
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  encounter that refiners fire. I sense a very strong anointing
• 1:24:17
  in this place. This anointing is not for
• 1:24:19
  impartation. This anointing is is to restore
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  your fire and your hunger. Let me tell you the truth, some
• 1:24:29
  of you, you are the one delay your manifestation.
• 1:24:32
  It is not in God's hand. It is at the mercy of your zeal
• 1:24:36
  and your passion that they will take God seriously and
• 1:24:41
  accelerate the death process. Through your hunger and passion,
• 1:24:45
  you also accelerate the manifestation.
• 1:24:51
  Death walks in us that life will walk in you.
• 1:24:55
  Listen, listen. A man of God once asked me a
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  question and he said what really is the secret of results in
• 1:25:06
  ministry? He was trying to really
• 1:25:09
  investigate honestly, is that apostle?
• 1:25:12
  What will you say is the real secret of having results in
• 1:25:16
  ministry? Is it eloquence in speech?
• 1:25:20
  Is it soundness in communication?
• 1:25:22
  Doctrine? Is it depth of the word?
• 1:25:25
  Is it prayer? Is it excellence?
• 1:25:27
  Is it administration? Is it relationships?
• 1:25:31
  All of these are the various elements that make for
• 1:25:33
  excelling. But if you were to tell me one
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  key, what will it be? I told him guess and he said
• 1:25:41
  prayer. I said no, you failed.
• 1:25:44
  He said what? I said no, you failed.
• 1:25:46
  He said what then? Excellence.
• 1:25:48
  I said no, you failed. The greatest key to excelling in
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  ministry is not outside you, it's within you.
• 1:25:55
  The state of your heart with God, The state of your heart
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  with God is greater than your prayer life.
• 1:26:05
  The state of your heart with God is greater than Bible
• 1:26:09
  recitations. Can I tell you, you can get
• 1:26:13
  everything right and be surprised that it will not work
• 1:26:17
  because the state of your heart is corrupt?
• 1:26:22
  One minute I've stretched you a bit.
• 1:26:24
  You're going to cry and say, Father, everything that will
• 1:26:29
  make me leave you now or the future, everything that will
• 1:26:33
  make me to dethrone you in my heart, everything that will make
• 1:26:38
  me exhaust things above you. Touch my heart of it right now.
• 1:26:43
  Open your mouth and pray. Whether it's titles, whether
• 1:26:47
  it's position, whether it's money, whether it's increase.
• 1:26:52
  I'll show you a formula that controls excellence in the
• 1:26:56
  Spirit. The business of working with God
• 1:26:59
  is predicated on death, allowing for that circumcision within you
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  to be complete. Restore my soul, restore my
• 1:27:09
  hunger, restore my prayer life, restore my zeal.
• 1:27:20
  In Jesus mighty name we pray. In Jesus mighty name we pray.
• 1:27:27
  I pray about many things in my life, but there are a few things
• 1:27:31
  I've found out that it was no longer necessary to pray over
• 1:27:34
  them. While my hunger was directed to
• 1:27:38
  His Majesty, it also doubled as a magnet attracting many things
• 1:27:44
  to my life. It is true when the Bible says
• 1:27:47
  if you seek first His Kingdom and His righteousness, truly all
• 1:27:52
  other things, all other things, all other things.
• 1:27:59
  I want to make an altar call. Please no movement.
• 1:28:03
  There are two altar calls in one.
• 1:28:04
  I want to make tonight the first crisis, spiritual restoration.
• 1:28:09
  Tonight there's someone who came here and whilst you heard me
• 1:28:13
  speak, you had the overflow outside the Holy Spirit in the
• 1:28:17
  silence, everybody having all kinds of reactions to this
• 1:28:20
  teaching. But for you the Holy Spirit was
• 1:28:22
  pointing to you and said this is it.
• 1:28:25
  This is what I've been showing you through dreams.
• 1:28:27
  This is what I've been showing you through prophecy.
• 1:28:29
  This is what I've been showing you through the teachings you
• 1:28:32
  have been hearing, that it is upon the strength of that death,
• 1:28:36
  that circumcision, that pruning, that surrender, that real
• 1:28:41
  restoration, increase and advancement happens to you in
• 1:28:44
  the Spirit in a way that profits you both here and in eternity.
• 1:28:49
  I want to call two people in one.
• 1:28:51
  One, those who are saying apostle, if you will give me
• 1:28:54
  this noble opportunity within the next minute or so that we
• 1:28:57
  have, I truly want to make it right with Jesus.
• 1:29:01
  I've heard people talk about this Jesus thing, but I've never
• 1:29:03
  really taken it seriously. But on hearing you teach, the
• 1:29:06
  Holy Ghost began to speak to me #2 those who are saying apostle.
• 1:29:12
  I remember making this decision but honestly as it is right now,
• 1:29:16
  my life is in a spiritual ICU. I need help fast.
• 1:29:21
  God bless you my dear sister. I see someone coming before the
• 1:29:23
  Lord with her baby. Now if you come, don't kneel
• 1:29:25
  because the space is limited once the front is filled.
• 1:29:30
  Some of you are already coming before my counting.
• 1:29:33
  Once the front is filled then that will be it.
• 1:29:36
  You stand where you are. You want to make it right with
• 1:29:38
  Jesus. I want to help her place.
• 1:29:40
  She's holding a baby so she doesn't fall with her baby.
• 1:29:43
  You want to be born again, genuinely afresh.
• 1:29:47
  No games, no church. Whatever it is, let's celebrate
• 1:29:51
  them as they come. Come.
• 1:29:52
  I count 1 to 5. 2 Those who are outside, you can walk to the
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  front of your screens. You may not have the liberty to
• 1:30:07
  all come in, but all of the overflows you can walk to the
• 1:30:11
  front of your LED. Hallelujah, don't miss any of
• 1:30:51
  the sessions. When we settle this, we can now
• 1:30:54
  deal with the dynamics of the various areas where you are
• 1:30:57
  trusting God for restoration. It now makes sense to receive
• 1:31:01
  the healing, the miracles, the signs, the wonders, the
• 1:31:04
  prophecies, and the impartations if and when you have gotten this
• 1:31:07
  law. Well, for someone, you need to
• 1:31:09
  go back home and listen to this message again this night,
• 1:31:12
  because I tell you sincerely, you have done every other thing
• 1:31:15
  right, but because you missed this one thing, that's why
• 1:31:19
  you've struggled in business, struggled in destiny.
• 1:31:22
  If you can get this right, many things, even before December,
• 1:31:27
  you'll be surprised. You will now see that life is
• 1:31:30
  not that hard. It is as hard as the absence of
• 1:31:34
  divine assistance in your life. Thank you, all of you, for
• 1:31:37
  coming. I believe that many of you are
• 1:31:39
  making this decision for the first time, and yet there are a
• 1:31:42
  number of others. There's such a great harvest
• 1:31:44
  tonight. I know that many others are
• 1:31:48
  coming because they desire a rededication.
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  Now, there are two things I'm going to ask you to do.
• 1:31:53
  One, I'm going to lead you to the salvation prayer.
• 1:31:56
  And once we are done, I'm going to lead you their counselors.
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  I know there are a number of you.
• 1:32:01
  I'm sure that the counselors have been prepared.
• 1:32:06
  They would have have some time with you, have a word with you,
• 1:32:08
  and then you're back to your seat.
• 1:32:10
  Please lift your right hand as a sign of surrender to this Jesus.
• 1:32:14
  Not Joshua Selman, not Reverend Edwin, not any of the ministers.
• 1:32:18
  Here it is on to your King, your maker self.
• 1:32:22
  Timely Lord Jesus, minute from your heart say Lord Jesus,
• 1:32:27
  tonight I return, tonight restore me.
• 1:32:33
  I believe that you are the Son of the living God.
• 1:32:38
  I believe that you died for my sin.
• 1:32:42
  I believe that you rose again for my justification right now.
• 1:32:48
  I received Jesus into my heart as my Savior, my Lord and my
• 1:32:55
  King. I declare that the power of sin,
• 1:33:01
  Satan, hell and the grave is broken over my life.
• 1:33:08
  I'm a child of God. I go for whatever and back
• 1:33:12
  whatever in Jesus name. There are two of you.
• 1:33:16
  The power of God is coming on you the rest I'm I'm going to
• 1:33:19
  ask you to leave, but I just once you are praying that
• 1:33:22
  prayer. I just saw light two people, the
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  power of God and the reason why that impartation is coming is
• 1:33:29
  because there are demonic things around your life.
• 1:33:32
  Let me just speak that word. I'm not ministering, doing
• 1:33:35
  anything tonight. This is the assignment God gave
• 1:33:37
  me while the threshing floor doing a walk of circumcision.
• 1:33:41
  But for those two people, in the name of Jesus, wherever you are,
• 1:33:44
  I stretch my hands now and I declare, let that fire, let it
• 1:33:48
  rest on you. In the name of Jesus Christ,
• 1:33:52
  help the woman. Let it rest on you and I 'cause
• 1:33:55
  that spirit of infirmity lives your life forever.
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  In the mighty name of Jesus Christ, I declare and declare
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  that the reign of darkness goes never, never, never to prevail
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  over your life again. I set you free.
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  Every chain holding you, I declare and declare.
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  Be loose from it right now. You will experience liberty,
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  liberty that comes by the power of the Holy Spirit in the name
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  of Jesus. And I decree and declare unto
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  you in the name of Jesus Christ what he says to 1.
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  He says to all, even before the other services will be
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  ministering. I decree and declare that
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  everything you came with that has held you down, bound you,
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  kept you captive, you are released from it right now in
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  Jesus name, by the power of the Holy Spirit.
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  In Jesus mighty name we pray, Amen and Amen.
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  OK. Now for those of you, does that
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  concern the people here? OK, all of you who are here,
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  please look to the screen, whether inside or outside.
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  You would see a number 08026337373.
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  You are required to text new life, Text new life to that
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  number. And then there are counselors
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  who have been trained to have they would get to reach you and
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  then to follow you up in an organized manner.
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  There are so many people and and I'm sure this is the wisest
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  approach to make sure you take advantage of it.
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  I will speak over your life now. Then you return back to your
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  seat. Father, thank you for these
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  precious ones. They have come declaring your
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  lordship over their lives. I decree and declare in truth
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  that this relationship, this restoration begins for you and
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  it remains so all the days of your life.
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  No going up and coming down. The Lord preserve you in Jesus
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  name. Please return back to your seat
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  and for everyone else who has come, let me speak over your
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  life in the name that is above all names.
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  You came for this conference and as you submit yourself to this
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  law, this law of total surrender, this law avoiding
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  yourself of any tendency of transacting with Satan to end
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  success, to end, you know, a great life.
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  I pray for you in the name of Jesus Christ, that by the power
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  that raised Christ from the dead, everything that he has
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  used to lay claim on your destiny, I declare that you are
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  released right now. Shout aloud, Amen.
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  You are released right now as you go home, may your testimony
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  arrive your home before you. I say to a believer as you go
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  home that before you get to your house, let science and wonders
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  be waiting for you in honor to this world many of the things
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  you have been praying for. Now that you have gotten the
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  order right, may they come to you as speedy answers, speedy
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  answers, speedy answers. In Jesus mighty name we pray.
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  Now do me this one favor before I return back please.
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  I'd like you to covenant with yourself that tomorrow and the
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  evening and all through these sessions that you are going to
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  do the work of an evangelist. I know that there's a crowd of
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  people all across, but there is still need for people.
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  Some of you whilst hearing me teach you knew by the Spirit
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  that there are people who need to hear this message because
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  this is the answer to the prayers that they have been
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  praying. Do well to #1 give these
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  teachings to them for their edification #2 don't come
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  tomorrow morning alone the evening don't come alone.
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  Come with your heart prepared to receive and the Lord will do you
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  good in Jesus name, Amen and God bless you.