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Beauty For Ashes (An Answer To Hopelessness And Despair) by Apostle Joshua Selman · Selah Media House

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  Hallelujah, clap your hands, all you people, and shout unto God
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  with a voice of triumph. Hallelujah, blessed be the name
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  of the Lord. Good evening Koinonia Global,
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  good morning, good afternoon, good day.
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  Anywhere you're connecting from. I want to thank God for His
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  grace and His mercy upon our lives.
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  Let's lift up our hands in one minute and just give Him thanks.
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  Lift up your hands whether you're in your home connecting.
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  Lift up your hands and bless His name for His wisdom.
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  Bless His name for His power. Bless His name for His breath.
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  Bless His name for His Word. He sends his word to heal, to
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  deliver, to transform. Now His word is about to come
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  again. Ask him for a visitation
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  tonight, particularly for the many who are now connecting
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  online. Distance is no barrier in the
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  Spirit. Send your word.
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  Send your word for my lifting. Send your word for my
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  transformation. Send your word for salvation,
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  for deliverance, Send a word of hope.
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  In Jesus mighty name we pray. Amen.
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  I want to thank everyone for connecting.
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  You would notice that tonight's service was designed to be a
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  virtual service. So we have a few people within
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  the auditorium here, mostly workers.
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  And to all our precious workers and to those who have made the
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  time to be here, thank you very much for your sacrifice in the
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  name of Jesus, Amen. For those of you who have been
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  following events around our nation, we decided to make for a
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  virtual service tonight so as to allow our people the liberty to
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  enjoy security until we assess the situation and we see it
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  fitting off. We trust that by next week we
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  should be back. So this is only for tonight and
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  but that does not hinder your transformation.
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  God is still in the business of changing you in the name of
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  Jesus Christ. Please be seated for those who
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  are in here and for the many who are connected.
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  Please call your friends and your loved ones everyone who
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  needs to connect. Tell them the Word of God is
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  about to come. Koinonia is beyond a place of
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  worship. It is a school in the Spirit, a
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  school of the Spirit where we are built, where we are
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  established. And I know that tonight God has
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  a very definite word for someone.
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  And so let me your attention and get everyone who needs to
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  connect online right now so that we are edified, we are
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  strengthened in the name of Jesus.
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  Hallelujah. I was almost tempted to ask my
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  dear people who are in this auditorium, it doesn't even look
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  like a virtual service. I was going to say, what are you
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  doing here? I mean, I said stay at home.
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  And many of you refused in the name of Jesus, Always glad to
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  fellowship together. Tonight's message is dedicated
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  to those who are currently in a season of hopelessness and
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  despair. Tonight's message is dedicated
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  to people who have cried and are crying, have bled and are
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  bleeding. People who have been asking the
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  question, God, where are you? You would want to listen to what
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  I have to say. By the Spirit, I believe that
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  the Lord gave me this message. It's beyond the Koinonia family.
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  This is a message that is dedicated to the body of Christ.
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  It is an attempt by the Spirit to make sense of hopeless
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  situations and to show you the theology of perpetual victory.
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  Even in the midst of storms, in the midst of prevailing
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  circumstances, the Bible has shows us that victory is the
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  believers heritage in Christ and should be our expectation at all
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  times, regardless conditions. And I want to show you by the
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  Spirit tonight how believers emerge in spite of any and
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  everything at all. Are you ready for tonight,
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  beauty for ashes? I'm teaching you tonight on this
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  subject, hoping to give an answer to the subject of
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  hopelessness and despair. And please, I want you to lend
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  me your attention. This message is first for your
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  edification and then that you become an extension of comfort
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  to many who are confused right now, asking questions that
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  science may not be able to answer.
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  The Lord give us understanding in Jesus name.
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  Isaiah chapter 61, we're reading from verse one to three.
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  Isaiah 61 from verse one to three, Isaiah chapter 61, the
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  Spirit of the Lord, it says it's upon me because he has anointed
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  me to preach good findings to the meek.
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  He had sent me to bind up the broken hearted to proclaim
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  liberty to the captives and the opening of prison to them that
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  are bound. Verse 2, To proclaim the
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  acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of vengeance of our God,
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  to comfort all those who mourn. Verse 3, to appoint unto them
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  that mourn in Zion. And then the Bible says to give
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  unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the
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  garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness, that they might be
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  called the trees of righteousness, the planting of
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  the Lord, that he might be glorified.
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  May the Lord bless us mightily tonight in the name of Jesus.
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  Let me start by reminding us that manifesting the
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  possibilities that come with the Spirit life is a product of
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  quality training. When the believer is not
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  trained, you will not know how to navigate yourself through the
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  maze of experiences that are scheduled around your spiritual
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  life, both good and bad. Unfortunately for many
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  believers, because they have not been mentored into making sense
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  of any and all spiritual situation, they find themselves
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  in offense. They find themselves confused.
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  They find themselves discouraged, especially in the
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  midst of unfavorable situations. I have taught you here that
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  training exposes you to the knowledge required for victory
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  while minimizing error and minimizing waste.
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  The advantage of training is that it gives you an opportunity
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  to experience victory with minimal error and minimal waste.
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  Hallelujah. The first thing I want to
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  establish tonight is that tragic and unpleasant situations are
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  real. Tragic and unpleasant situations
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  are real in as much as we are people of faith.
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  The Bible does not teach the believer to ignore the reality
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  of tragedies and unfavourable situation.
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  The Bible does not teach us to act as though they were not
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  there. We can superimpose them with a
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  superior belief, but that it is not unscriptural to come to
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  terms with the fact that tragedies and unpleasant
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  conditions are real. Hallelujah.
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  And the effect of tragedies and unpleasant conditions are also
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  real When you lose a loved one, the effect is real.
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  When you lose your job, the effect is real.
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  When you go through some turbulent time in your health,
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  your marriage, your job, your church, your ministry.
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  All of these things are real. The Bible does not teach us to
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  pretend. Believing by faith is not the
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  same as pretense. Are we together?
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  The Bible does not teach believers to pretend.
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  The Bible teaches us to triumph over pain, triumph over
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  situations, but it starts with recognizing the reality of those
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  situations. I need to say this, crying and
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  weeping I wrote here over painful and tragic situations is
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  not unbelief. The Bible makes provision for
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  even believers to cry. The Bible makes provision for
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  believers to express their humanity decently in the midst
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  and the presence of unfavorable situation.
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  The Bible is full of great men, even patriarchs who had to cry,
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  had to weep. Some of them had to ask God
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  painful questions. You talk of Abraham and Sarai.
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  You talk of the nation of Israel in bondage.
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  You talk of men like Gideon. You talk of men like Ruth.
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  Hallelujah. You even talk of Jesus himself.
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  John 1135. The Bible says Jesus wept
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  Hallelujah. The Bible talks about Jonah.
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  He was frustrated and he asked the Lord to just take his life.
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  Even Elijah himself was frustrated.
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  And so it is not unscriptural to come to terms with the reality
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  of tragedies and unpleasant conditions.
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  Please look at me. If you have been alive for as
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  little as one year upon the earth, I am sure that you may
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  have faced a situation or two or more in your life that has
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  called for he has called for sober reflection.
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  There is no man, no matter how spiritual, no matter how
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  prosperous, no matter how educated, who is entirely immune
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  from situations that are unpleasant.
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  Are we together? The faith?
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  Life does not promise us unpleasant situation.
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  It only promises us victory in the midst of of victory in spite
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  of. Are we learning now?
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  I'm teaching on beautiful ashes. First point, that tragedies and
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  unpleasant conditions are real and that you must come to terms
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  with that. When someone dies, that death is
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  real. When someone goes through pain,
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  that pain is real. When someone loses their job and
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  they no longer have salary, that is a real situation.
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  Hear me again. God does not teach believers to
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  pretend. We are people of faith, and the
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  basis of faith is a superior promise that is greater than the
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  current tragedy. He does not teach believers to
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  pretend. Sometimes we get too hard and we
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  get too harsh on people when their humanity finds expression,
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  especially in the midst of painful situations.
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  We have people who get disappointed, we have people who
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  get pained. We have people who grieve and go
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  through very, very unpleasant seasons.
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  And sometimes in a bit to challenge people to still remain
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  in faith, we swing to the other side of the pendulum and we try
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  to strangle away the humanity of people people and make them feel
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  guilty for crying. We make them feel guilty for
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  taking a minute to absorb whatever pain they are going
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  through. And so, in teaching this very
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  important sermon tonight, the first thing I wanted to know is
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  that tragedies and unpleasant conditions are real.
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  As a man of God, you will think that all I've seen in my life
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  are just miracles and signs and wonders and pleasant
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  testimonies. I have cried myself.
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  I have cried for others. Hallelujah.
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  We have lost people within the ministry.
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  There are people who have come with testimonies that are not
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  the best. There are still people till date
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  who are trusting God, releasing their faith to be healed in
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  several areas in spite of the many testimonies we already
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  have. It takes a lot of honesty to
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  admit this, that tragedies and unpleasant situations are real.
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  Is someone learning already? Perhaps someone came to church,
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  or someone is connecting from across the globe finding
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  meaning. Where is God in the midst of
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  this pain? How could God be there when my
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  child died? How could God be there when my
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  wife died, my husband died? How could God be there when I
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  lost my job? Did you know that if you do not
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  understand a message like what I'm about to teach you, God will
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  be so confusing it will not make sense to trust Him.
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  And you know pain has a way of re educating and reorienting
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  your mind, bringing you to a point where you no longer
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  believe God because it doesn't seem to make sense believing
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  Him. It looks like the lot of the
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  unbeliever and the believer eventually becomes the same.
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  Tragedies and unpleasant conditions are real.
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  They are real. I remember as a very, very, very
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  young boy just beginning to love the things of the Spirit.
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  We used to have one gentleman where a group of friends who
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  love Jesus with all our hearts, serving him with just God,
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  filled with the Holy Spirit, experiencing supernatural
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  things. And then at a point he, the
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  gentleman was a sickler. I still remember it's many years
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  now and one time he just fell. I'll the crisis just broke out
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  and I had the honor to be the only person who went with
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  another, you know of a senior teachers to go and see him at
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  the hospital smiled at him. We joked you know and I told him
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  I said don't worry you'll be fine and we'll be praying
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  waiting for you to get fine. Not knowing that was the last
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  time I was going to see him and a few hours later they told me
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  he had gone. I couldn't believe it until I
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  saw the poster with his face and I had to tap myself and say you
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  mean this guy is gone? Let me tell you the truth, when
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  you find people crying, when you find people going through pain,
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  don't be too quick to make them feel foolish.
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  If you have nothing to say, let your hands do the speaking.
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  Embrace them in love and allow those tears to sponsor the
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  healing process. Are we together?
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  Tragedies and unpleasant conditions are real.
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  But the second thing I want us to know is that for the believer
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  in Christ, the Bible has good news.
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  And here's the good news. Romans chapter 8 from verse 28,
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  the Bible says, Romans 828 For we know and we know that all
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  things for a believer say all things.
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  And we know that in spite of the reality of tragedies, in spite
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  of the reality of unpleasant situations that seem to weave
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  themselves into our lives at one point or the other, my Bible
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  says, and we know that all things work together.
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  All things may not come together, but they work
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  together. They may not come together, but
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  they work together for the good to them that love the Lord to
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  them who are the called according to his purposes, the
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  called according to his purposes.
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  So the Bible tells us the second point to note that all things
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  can work together. Now that's a very expensive
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  statement. All things, including tragic
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  situations, including painful situations, including situations
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  that can almost make a man cause God.
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  How do you say all things work together?
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  Perhaps it would have made sense to say all good things work
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  together, all wonderful things, all hopeful things.
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  But the Bible authoritatively says all things can work
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  together. Someone say all things.
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  Shout it again. Say all things work together.
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  Prophecy to yourself. Say all things are working
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  together. Speak like a believer.
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  Say all things are working together.
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  Even if you are crying. Say it one more time.
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  Say all things are working together.
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  Now take a moment and just meditate on that statement.
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  Imagine the many things that become all things for you.
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  All things mean the death of your father.
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  Maybe all things mean the death of your mother.
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  Unfortunately, maybe all things means the job that refused to
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  come. All things means that your
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  spouse. All things means a painful
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  divorce. No matter what it is, the Bible
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  never says all things come together.
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  You can't blame everything on God, but the Bible says provided
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  it arrived your life, it can be made a raw material.
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  All things, all things do not come from God because the Bible
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  defines the character of the things that come from God.
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  It is every good and perfect gift that comes from the Lord.
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  So there are things that do not come from the Lord, but that
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  provided it arrived the believers life.
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  The intelligence of God remodels the strategy to make all things
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  all things. Are we learning now?
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  So do not confuse what I am saying.
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  I am not saying all evil. Evil does not come from God.
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  The Bible tells us that that God is full of grace and truth.
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  If it is evil, we know that it comes from the enemy.
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  Everything that is anti God, anti salvation, anti redemption
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  for sure. Do not let your pain convince
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  you. All things do not come from God,
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  but God is able to make all things walk together.
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  All things. You may have been careless with
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  your job and you lost the job. The job loss did not come from
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  God. It came as a result of your not
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  designing and knowing the principle that makes for
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  increase and excellence. But now that you are in the
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  loss, what then is your advantage as the believer?
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  You put your money in the wrong place and the money disappeared.
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  It may not be God, it can be God that led to that loss.
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  But now that you are in that situation, will God leave you
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  like that? No Someone say all things.
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  This a message of hope. Say all things.
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  Begin to reminisce on the many things that make up your all
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  things. Because our all things differ.
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  What what is all things for me may be very different.
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  All things your carelessness of yesterday.
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  Maybe you live the wayward life as a child.
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  All things. Now that you are saved, it looks
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  like there is no hope. I can tell you all things, all
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  things can work together. They may not have come together,
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  but now that they are in your life, the intelligence of God is
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  vast enough to reinvent a strategy that incorporates that
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  tragedy and produces victory out of it.
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  This is the difference between a believer, one in Christ, and one
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  who is outside. Christ is someone learning.
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  So I started by saying tragedies are real, unpleasant situations
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  are real, pain is real, losses are real, defeat is real.
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  I can tell you that we're not called to pretend.
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  We're not called to act as if it's not there.
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  It's there. And the effect can be very
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  telling on a believer. But the believer is one who has
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  access to more superior information, one of which is
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  that all things may not come together.
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  All things that are in your life may not have come from God, but
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  provided it's arrived your life and your destiny space, it can
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  walk together for the good to them that love the Lord and the
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  Bible says to them who are called according to his purpose.
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  Is someone learning Romans chapter 8 and verse 18 Romans
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  818. What does the Bible tell us For
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  I reckon that the sufferings of this present time, Someone read
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  that sentence after me. The sufferings of this present
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  time one more time, the sufferings of this present time.
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  You would think such a statement should not come from the lips of
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  a man who is full of faith in the body of Christ today.
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  If you mention this word suffering, and you join it with
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  time, he is interpreted as unbelief.
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  And here is Paul, Paul who had an encounter with Jesus.
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  He makes Paul to tell you that there is such a season in a
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  man's life. He says the sufferings of this
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  present time, the inconveniences, the constraints
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  that come with this present season are not worthy to be
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  compared with the glory which shall be revealed in all shout
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  Amen. So that every time you see
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  sufferings, know that there is a parallel to it that is waiting.
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  Don't just receive the suffering and don't expect glory.
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  That the sufferings of this present time, whatever name you
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  call it, death, accident, tragedy, whatever it is, he said
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  it is nothing to be compared with the glory.
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  It's like telling a student in school that the suffering you're
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  going through, burning midnight candles, putting your legs in
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  cold water, still remember, and all the strategies that we
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  invent to study and push through that the sufferings are not
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  compared to the blessings that come by the time you become a
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  consultant. It's a word of hope.
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  The sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be
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  compared with the glory that shall be revealed in US.
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  Can I give you more scriptures? Second Corinthians, chapter 4,
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  eight to 10. All things can walk together.
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  Here's what Paul again says. We are troubled on every side.
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  How many sides? Every sides that it is possible
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  for a man like Job to be troubled on every side.
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  Trouble. You turn to your finances and it
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  looks like he's going haywire. Then you turn to your marriage
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  and it's almost upside down. Then you turn to your spiritual
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  life and you find out that it looks like that candle is going
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  down. You turn to your relationships
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  and I mean things are just going around your life.
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  Let me tell you the truth, not many people have experienced
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  this statement. Troubled on every side, but I
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  have met people who are troubled on every side by reason of this
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  work that God has given. I've had the honor of speaking
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  to, praying with counseling, and comforting people who represent
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  the scripture to the point that when you are done praying, they
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  don't say Amen and it's not unbelief.
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  They are used to pain. They are used to the word not
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  working. So when you say in Jesus name
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  while you are shouting and sweating, they are just
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  listening to you and it is not unbelief.
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  Sometimes pain can stop you from shouting.
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  Amen. They said it, they just did not
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  voice it out. Oh, come lay down the burdens
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  you have carried for in the sanctuary.
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  Oh come lay down the burdens you have carried for in this
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  sanctuary. Gods, there is a steal anointing
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  in this sanctuary. There is a stillness in the
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  atmosphere. Please come lay down the burdens
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  you have carried for in this sanctuary.
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  God, back to that scripture. The Bible says we are troubled
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  on every side, yet not distressed.
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  It says we are perplexed, but not in despair.
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  The next verse, please. It says persecuted but not
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  forsaken, cast down but not destroyed.
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  Verse 10 always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord
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  Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in
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  our body. So it's not just pain, it's not
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  just persecution, It's not just to be perplexed and to be
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  downcast. It says we are bearing that
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  reproach, but we also know that the glory, the life might be
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  also made manifest in our body. 2nd Corinthians 417 I'm giving
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  you these scriptures to establish the fact that all
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  things can work together. Let's read 2nd Corinthians 417
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  together. Ready read for our light
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  affliction, which is but for a moment worketh for us.
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  You see the word there again, a far more exceeding and eternal
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  weight of glory. One more time, Koinonia for our
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  light affliction, whatever you call it, which is but for a
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  moment worketh for us. Now take note of that Scripture.
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  The Bible never said worketh for all light afflictions do not
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  work glory for all, but for we who are in Christ, our light
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  afflictions. And no matter how long it looks,
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  the Bible calls it a moment relative to the glory that is
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  coming. It says it worked for us a far
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  more exceeding and eternal weight of glory.
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  Let me give you the last scripture.
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  James chapter 1. I love this 2 to 4.
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  James chapter 1-2 to 4. Establishing the fact that all
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  things work together for the good of them that love the Lord
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  and those who are the called according to His purposes.
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  Let me read for you and you listen, my brethren.
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  It says count it all joy when you fall into diverse
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  temptations. Please give me amplified.
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  You would think the word dear just means temptations like
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  being tempted. Is the word trials trials,
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  trials? What are the version NIV?
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  I'm looking for the word trials. It says count it all joy when
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  you fall into beautiful. It says whenever you face trials
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  of many kinds, knowing this verse 3 says that the trying go
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  back to KJV. Now knowing this, that the
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  trying of your faith worketh patience.
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  You see that word again worketh patience.
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  Verse 4 it says, but let patience have its perfect work,
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  that ye may be mature and complete.
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  Perfect as the word mature. The word entire means complete,
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  wanting nothing. In as much as we have.
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  Admitted that tragedies and unfavorable situations are real.
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  We must also know. That in Christ.
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  This is the defining. Point in Christ.
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  If it is not in Christ, then your lot, your doom is already
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  predicted unfortunately. But in Christ the Bible says all
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  things work together for the good to them that love the Lord
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  and to them who are the called according to his purposes.
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  Now please look up back to the scripture we read.
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  The Bible says in Isaiah chapter 61 verse three that among the
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  many things that God is able to give the Saints is beauty for
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  ashes. Please look up how many of you
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  have seen ashes before. Ashes is defined as the residue
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  that is left after burning happens.
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  Am I right? Do you know the process that
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  leads to ashes? Ashes first starts usually with
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  a tree blossoming beautiful tree.
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  Then that tree is cut down, loses its life till it becomes
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  wood. Then you would think that was
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  the end of the tragedy, that wood is now subjected to fire
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  till it becomes coal, and then from coal it finally becomes
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  ashes. And the Bible says even at that
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  point, there is still something God can do about it.
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  From a tree. To wood, that is bad enough
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  because the life is gone. Are we together now?
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  Now what is left is further bond until it becomes coal, and then
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  the coal is burnt until it becomes ashes.
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  Ashes is the final state of anything.
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  When it's been burnt thoroughly, the form, the beauty, the color,
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  the glory is totally gone. You call it ashes, and the Bible
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  says such a reality can be a man's experience.
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  Are we together? Pay attention now, beauty for
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  ashes now look up. When we were in school, we were
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  taught something called synonyms and antonyms.
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  Remember, and if you recall properly, just does your English
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  for one minute. The opposite of beauty is not
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  ashes. If I'm to use an antonym for
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  beauty, it may be maybe something else.
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  I'm not sure. Ashes would have been the best
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  word there. But the Bible says that when God
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  comes, he looks for ashes. When he finds ashes, he gives
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  beauty. Now one of the things you are
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  going to be learning here is that God is a miracle Walker.
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  But the way He walks His miracles is that sometimes He
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  still leaves you with your water.
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  He only turns it to wine. But there are times you will
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  have to take the ashes away. You will never see it again.
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  There is nothing that can come out of the ashes.
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  What happens is not is a replacement.
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  He is not turning water to wine. When He turns water to wine, the
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  water is there. He doesn't need to give you
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  anything new. He will still use the water as
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  the raw material, but the Bible says there is a way He can look
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  at your life and see that what is there is ashes.
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  He will collect the ashes away and give you beauty.
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  Beauty. For ashes, He does not give you
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  beauty to wrap the ashes with it.
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  He collects the ashes. You may never see it again.
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  When you understand this, you will learn, as you'll be
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  learning right now, that even in the midst of hopelessness there
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  is something you may never see again.
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  Like your loved one who is dead, you may never see them in the
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  flesh. Consider that as ashes, but that
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  God can bring beauty. He can put something in your
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  life. He may not be equal to a mother.
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  He may not be equal to a father. He may not be equal to the pain.
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  It is not all the time that water turns to wine.
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  If it is God, even ashes can be collected and beauty is given
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  back. Is someone learning now?
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  This is very powerful. When you learn this, you will
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  know that there is nothing called hopeless for the
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  believer. Because in our world.
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  Today. We perceive.
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  The zenith of hope, provided there is life.
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  The moment life. Is gone, whether from a human
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  being or from a thing. We generally say it is hopeless
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  to mean nothing can be done about it.
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  And you may be right. But walk with me as I show you
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  how believers can walk perpetually in victory.
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  Lay your hands on your head in one minute and ask the law to
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  open your eyes. Out of the.
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  Ashes of my dying. Today I see the breaking of a
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  brand new day. In which the.
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  Name of the Lord alone is glorified.
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  I see the breaking of a brand new day.
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  Hallelujah in Jesus name. Now I want to give.
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  You 6 keys very quickly. These are irrefutable Kingdom
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  keys. They represent the technology,
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  the law of conversion, how beauty can be replaced for
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  ashes. It happens when you know how to
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  engage these mysteries. For someone who has cried, for
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  someone who 2024 has been a plethora of tragedies.
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  The Lord by this teaching is giving you the solution to your
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  prayer is showing you the road map out of pain.
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  I know you have cried, but the Lord is saying you have cried
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  enough. Here is the way to come out.
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  Are you ready now? Number one, the first key that
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  gives perspective and brings solution to any condition of
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  hopelessness and despair. Are you ready #1 Remain
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  conscious of the love of God towards you.
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  Remain conscious of the love of God towards you no matter what
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  happens in your life, no matter how much you do not have answers
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  to it, whether it's a situation of death, sickness, perhaps
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  someone right now is watching, battling cancer.
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  You have an autistic child, you've lost your job, you're
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  losing your home, you've lost your ministry.
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  Things have gone bad, haywire around your life.
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  No matter what you lose, never lose the consciousness of the
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  love of God towards you. Jeremiah 31 and verse three.
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  The first key that represents an anchor.
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  The anchor you hold till victory is established.
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  The Lord has appeared. Of hold on to me, saying, Hey, I
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  have loved you with an everlasting love, therefore with
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  loving kindness have I drawn you.
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  With loving kindness have I drawn you.
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  Romans chapter 8. We looked at that earlier.
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  Now let's go to verse 32, Romans chapter 8, the consciousness of
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  the love of God. The Bible says.
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  He that did not spare his son, do you know what that means?
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  To demonstrate how far the extent of his love for you and
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  I, The Bible says not even his son Jesus was spared.
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  But delivered. Him up for us all, how shall He
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  not with Him also freely give us all things?
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  There is something you need to know about how much God loves
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  you that can become an anchor when life does not make sense.
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  If you lose. The consciousness of the love of
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  Jesus. You will fall prey to every
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  explanation Satan will give you as to the reason why things are
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  the way they are in your life. You can lose your job, you may
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  lose your home, God forbid. You may lose any other thing,
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  but let it not be that you lost with it the consciousness of the
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  love that Jesus has for you. Someone says he loves me.
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  One more time say He loves me. 2nd Corinthians chapter 13 and
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  verse 14 one of our uncle scriptures here it says the
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  grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. The love of.
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  God and the communion Koinonia of the Holy Spirit.
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  It says, let it be with you all. Amen.
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  The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, the
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  love of God, the love of God, no matter what you are going
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  through, the love of God. God, where are you that it looks
• 39:49
  like I'm praying and answers are not coming and the devil tells
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  you, is this how love looks like?
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  You debunk that statement immediately.
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  I may not know what I'm going through.
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  I may not even have a sense of the solution, but one thing I
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  may never, I should never. You should never.
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  Considering your life is that God hates you, it's a lie.
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  If you hear that, it's a familiar spirit riding through
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  your pain. Someone say again, he loves me.
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  Shout it. Say he loves me, possibly.
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  If he loves me, where is the rent?
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  He still loves you Possibly. If he loves me, why did he watch
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  my my brother die, my sister died?
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  Why did he watch me lose the visa?
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  Why did he watch me lose out on the opportunity?
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  If he loves me, why did he allow my business to go down?
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  I tell you, no matter what happens in your life, you are
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  already on your path to hope and recovery, triumph and victory.
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  If you can hold on to this confidence that he loves me.
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  He loves me. He loves me, He loves me.
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  Lord, you seem so far away. 1,000,000 miles on what it feels
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  today. And though I haven't lost my
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  faith, I must confess right now that it's hard for me to pray.
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  But I don't know what to say ye, and I don't know where to start.
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  But as you give to grace, help me with all that's in my heart.
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  I will see and I will pray. Even in my darkest hour, through
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  the sorrow and the pain, I will see and I will pray.
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  I leave my hands to order You because Your word is true.
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  I will see. This is very powerful.
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  Lord, it's hard for me to see all the thoughts and plans you
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  have for me. Very powerful song.
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  But I will put my trust in you, knowing that you die, to set me
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  free. That is my.
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  Confidence that you went that far for me, but I don't know
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  what to say. I don't know where to start.
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  But as you give the grace, with all that's in my heart, I will
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  see. I will pray.
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  Even in my darkest car, through the sorrow and the pain, I will
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  see and I will pray. I leave my hands toward all you
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  because the word is true. I will see.
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  The consciousness. Of the fact that he loves me.
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  As you stand and watch them bury your brother, As you watch them
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  go down in death. Never allow the devil lie to
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  you. As you watch yourself.
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  Lose your job and you wave your company goodbye and you're
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  confused, not knowing where the next meal will come from.
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  No matter what you lose, do not lose the consciousness of the
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  love of God through Christ. There is victory in knowing He
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  loves me. There is victory in knowing He
• 43:56
  has a plan for me. Is it not in your Bible?
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  I know the thoughts that I think to what you say at the Lord.
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  Thoughts of peace are not of evil.
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  Listen, when you lose the consciousness of God's love for
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  you as a man of God, you are ready for any compromise.
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  Lord, I know you love. Me.
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  But where? Where will I get the bills from
• 44:18
  the money? Where will I act?
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  Someone say again he. Loves me?
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  Yes Sir, no matter what is going on in your life right now, among
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  the many things that you try to give us an explanation, let it
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  never be that you lose the consciousness of the love of
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  Jesus. Is someone learning already key
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  number one that can help a man experience?
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  Beautiful. Ashes is that you must remain
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  conscious of the love of God towards you.
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  I wrote something here and I want you to listen.
• 45:06
  Still on .1. Refuse to be offended with God.
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  Refuse. To be offended with God.
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  Refused. To be offended.
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  I think that should be Matthew Chapter 11.
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  Please give it to us a lesson we have to learn from John the
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  Baptist. Matthew Chapter 11, please.
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  From verse one. The Bible says it came to pass
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  when Jesus had made an end to commanding his 12 disciples.
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  He departed thence to teach and to preach in their cities.
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  Reading to 6 now. Yeah, that's the scripture.
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  When John had heard in prison, where was John in prison?
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  John could not be offended when he was in the wilderness.
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  He would not be offended at the Senate of his ministry.
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  But when he got to prison, Many things happen when men are in
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  prison. The Bible says he had imprisoned
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  the works of Christ, and he sent two of his disciples.
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  Next verse please. And he said unto him, I doubt
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  the one who should come, or should we look for another?
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  That is the character of offense.
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  This was the man who ordained Jesus in ministry.
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  But now because he had become so offended, he's sending a message
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  to Jesus that even though I brought you to ministry, I saw
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  the heavens open. I had the voice that spoke in
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  light of my pen. Now I doubt if you are the
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  Messiah. Are you the one who should come,
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  or should we expect another? Look at how Jesus responded.
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  Verse 4. Jesus said unto him, Go and show
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  John again, those things which you do, and which do you do here
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  and see? Verse 5.
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  The blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are
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  cleansed, the deaf here, the dead are raised up, the poor
• 46:58
  have the gospel preached to them.
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  Read verse 6 together. 1 to go, And blessed is he whosoever
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  shall not be offended in me. He said John.
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  Your problem is not my miracles. Your problem is not my ministry.
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  Your problem is not my person. You are sending a message to
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  doubt my credibility. But what is really wrong with
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  you is offense. Offense can make you speak in a
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  way that you will be surprised. How do you expect John to be
• 47:31
  asking the credibility and the validity of Jesus?
• 47:35
  He was John himself. John saw it.
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  He baptized Jesus. He saw heavens open John.
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  The Bible says John had the works of Jesus.
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  There are times that God. Can move so mightily you become
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  offended the more you hear testimonies on stage.
• 47:53
  Here it annoys you because that was also your prayer request.
• 47:58
  How could you give? Someone, his second child.
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  Oh God, when I'm still asking for one.
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  How could you give someone twins?
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  How could you give someone multiple jobs when I'm still
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  asking for one? This is God for you.
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  Never be offended I made-up my mind that no matter what happens
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  in my life, I will rejoice always I will never be offended
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  I know he loves me whether I understand or do not understand
• 48:31
  the things around my life He loves me someone say he loves me
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  #2 let's hurry up the second key on your journey to.
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  Receiving Beauty. For ashes ready.
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  Always hope for and expect God's best in everything.
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  Always hope for and expect God's best in everything.
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  The power of hope. Always hope for and expect God's
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  best in everything. Psalm 42 and verse 5.
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  Always hope. For and expect God's best in
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  everything, he says, Why are thou cast down all my soul, and
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  why are thou disquieted in me? Hope thou in God, for I shall
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  yet praise him for the help of his countenance.
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  Why is my soul cast down, He saying, Why is my soul
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  disquieted? He says, Hope thou in God.
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  Romans chapter 5 and verse 5. The Bible says hope make it not
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  ashamed hope. That means hope has a way of
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  eroding shame. When you place your hope in
• 49:48
  Jesus, then shame is on its way out of your life.
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  Look at me please. There are three levels of hope.
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  I preached a message years ago on hope and I'm on.
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  I'm sure that in the future I will do one again.
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  But just to teach you there are three levels of hope you need to
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  understand. Number one, there is hope in the
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  midst of current conditions. So the condition is still there,
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  it's not changed, and so you are hoping that it will change hope
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  in the midst of the current condition.
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  Then there is hope in spite of or against all hope.
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  The Bible says that means that situation has become physically
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  hopeless. Maybe the person you are
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  trusting God to live has now died.
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  From a biological standpoint, that is a hopeless situation.
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  The burial date has been fixed, but in the midst of it you can
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  still have hope in spite of are we together.
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  So there is hope in the midst of trusting for change.
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  There is hope in spite of victory, in spite of the
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  tragedy. And then there is what the Bible
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  calls eternal hope. That even if it.
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  Fails within this life the assurance that you are in
• 51:13
  Christ. Eternal hope.
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  These are the levels of hope. I will say it again, hope in the
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  midst of current situations. The character of that hope is
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  that it is trusting God that the current situation will change
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  and not become worse than it is. Then there is hope against hope.
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  That means a state of hopelessness physically has
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  happened. But the Bible says even in that
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  situation, you can still hope in God.
• 51:45
  And then #3 there is what the Bible calls eternal or blessed
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  hope. Hope beyond death, Hope beyond
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  the grave, Hope beyond this life.
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  If you do not have. These three levels of hope, you
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  will never truly experience this reality of beauty for ashes,
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  hope in the midst of situations. I'm trusting God that the
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  joblessness would turn for my favor to become a great job.
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  I'm trusting God that the Baroness will turn to twins or
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  triplets. You know, one of our precious
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  ladies who I've known her for a while and she sent me a text.
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  I'm sure she's following now, perhaps from the hospital.
• 52:30
  She's been trusting God for the fruit of the womb, and I've seen
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  the pain that this lady has had to go through and just yesterday
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  night, or was it this morning, this lady sends me a text
• 52:40
  message thanking God for a miracle.
• 52:43
  Triplets. God gave her triplets.
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  I mean, I was I. Was so happy I said come again
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  You mean was it a mistake? I said no triplets, God for you
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  hope that a negative situation can change.
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  That is the first level of hope. But that even when that
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  situation closes, because you can water a plant that is dying
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  to come alive, but when a plant is dead, there's no point
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  watering it again. Water does not.
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  Resurrect a dead plant, it's over.
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  But even at that, you can still have hope that a plant can grow.
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  Maybe not the plant you wanted to grow, but another one can
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  still grow. And then if all fails in this
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  life, your consolation is that there is hope beyond the grave.
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  There is hope beyond this life. Someone say, I have hope, let
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  the devil hear you. I have hope and.
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  You mean you? Have all three levels of hope.
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  I have hope that what is plaguing me now that is
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  unfavorable will change and may it change in Jesus name.
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  And then the second level of hope, maybe your sponsor, maybe
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  your human health, maybe the person you are leaning on has
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  gone to be with the Lord Apostle.
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  But your message may not bring my mother back to life.
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  I know, I understand. But even in that state, there is
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  still another level of hope that what your mother represented to
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  you, God can bring another person to play that role.
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  He may never be like your mother, but it will cover what
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  her absence would have caused in your life.
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  Are you learning now? And then when all fails.
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  You know that there is. Eternal hope because I am in
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  Christ no matter what happens. The Bible says to be absent in
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  the body is to be present with the Lord.
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  Who is learning tonight. Don't.
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  Forget these three. Levels of hope I just taught
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  you, the one that is taught in church unfortunately and that's
• 54:51
  why there are lots of immature believers, is just the first
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  level Hope in the midst of current conditions.
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  So when life pushes beyond the gates of your current conditions
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  and what you are trusting God for never happens.
• 55:06
  I like Joe. What's the second level of hope
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  though? He slay me, yet will I praise
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  him? I praise him to see him turn my
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  morning to dancing. But what if I never have the
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  child? Hope against.
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  All hope. I like the way the Bible puts
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  it. Hope Abraham now who hoped
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  against all hope. Against all hope, against all
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  hope. You were trusting God that your
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  tubes will not be removed from the surgery.
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  But the doctor said sorry, we have to take away everything.
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  That means there will not be a child.
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  You may not have a physical child, but hope against all hope
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  that for the believer, even at such point, listen hope, it
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  should not only be tied to the arrival of a miracle.
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  There are times that hope is not tied to any physical
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  manifestation, it is tied to God.
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  It is not all the time you hope on the arrival of things.
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  There are times that you leave the issue of things and hope in
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  God, and the Bible says there will be a consolation.
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  God's throne is made-up of righteousness and justice, and
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  He will find a way of making out compensation for trusting Him.
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  When you know this. About God, you never feel
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  cheated when you hope for things and you are still disappointed.
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  You find consolation that in the economy of God your compensation
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  will still route itself back to you, because God is not a man
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  that you should lie. You fasted and you prayed for
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  two weeks stretch so as to not lose the job, so that the loved
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  one will not die and the person died and he said I wasted my
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  time. You didn't speak like a
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  believer. That investment of prayer will
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  be deposited in another area of your life and the reward will
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  come. There are no wastages serving
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  God. There are no wastages loving
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  God. Everything done in the name of
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  the Lord has a reward system. He may not be in.
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  The area of your expectation. But I tell you, if it is the God
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  of heaven, it will still come to you.
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  The Bible talks about Mattias. There are 7 crowns that the
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  Bible teaches that will be given to the Saints. 1 of it is the
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  Mattias crown. You know where Mattias is?
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  One who died for Christ. Not everybody who died for
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  Christ wanted to die. Some of them wanted to leave God
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  for Christ. They died and the Bible says
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  even at that because they trusted God.
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  If God does not compensate them, then he's not faithful.
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  And just so there is a crown for them, you will see them, and you
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  will know that these ones were the ones who endured for the
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  cross to death. You're not a.
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  Man, you're not a man. You're the God.
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  Who opens doors no man can shut? You're not a man, no.
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  You're not a man, no. You're the God.
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  Of everything, no one like you, no one like you, Jesus, no one
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  like you. No one.
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  No one like you is. Ain't no one like.
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  You no one like. You father, no one like you
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  myself. You're the God of every day, no
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  one life. Never lose hope.
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  In the Lord. Never lose hope in the Lord.
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  This message for someone these 3 levels of hope should comfort
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  you because most people who are not mentored methodically, when
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  what they are hoping for does not come to pass, they feel
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  disappointed and they don't know how to give answers again.
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  Did it make sense that I fasted and prayed and the pestle still
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  died? Did it make sense that I was
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  trusting God that I would get the visa and it still did not
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  happen? I trusted God that my colleague
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  would get the job. I even fasted.
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  What happens when the current situation still does not change?
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  Move to the second level of hope.
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  There is hope for change in the current situation, but there is
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  hope against hope. Hope against hope.
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  Yes, the person is dead now. Yes, I've lost the job now.
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  Yes, I had to go through the surgery.
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  Initially I didn't want to go through it, but now I may not
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  from a physical standpoint have any child again.
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  But I still hope in the Lord is someone learning.
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  Always hopeful. And expect the best.
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  God's best in everything. Please look at me.
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  I believe, and this is my personal understanding of God, I
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  believe, that God only has the best for my life.
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  So as I partner. With God to see His word come to
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  pass in my life, I have indoctrinated myself beyond
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  repair that it is only God's best that is allowed to happen
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  in my life. I truly believe that.
• 1:00:46
  I truly believe that. Are we together when the oceans
• 1:00:52
  rise and thunders? Rise.
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  I will soar. With you above the storm.
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  Father, you are king. Over the floor.
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  My soul, Hallelujah for someone. God is speaking to you.
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  You have given up on God. You have given up on church.
• 1:01:27
  You've given up on everything. Spirituality.
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  After praying. After fasting, after releasing
• 1:01:33
  your faith, after sowing seeds, after doing all you know to do,
• 1:01:38
  perhaps things did not change and it degenerated.
• 1:01:43
  Maybe a health condition, maybe your finances, maybe your
• 1:01:46
  marriage. You trusted God that a divorce
• 1:01:49
  would not happen. You release your faith, but it
• 1:01:51
  still happened. You trusted God that the surgery
• 1:01:54
  will not happen, but it still happened.
• 1:01:56
  Your trusted God that the house would not be repossessed,
• 1:02:00
  unfortunately, was still repossessed.
• 1:02:02
  Let me tell you, there are three levels of hope.
• 1:02:04
  Don't learn just one. There is hope for change in the
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  midst of the current situation, and when it fails, move to the
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  next level of hope. There is hope against hope, and
• 1:02:17
  even if that fails, you console yourself that there is an
• 1:02:21
  eternal hope that God will reward me for standing even in
• 1:02:25
  the midst of no result. If you understanding me, say
• 1:02:27
  Amen #3 The third key I want to give you beauty for ashes.
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  This is a miracle that. Is happening to someone right
• 1:02:38
  now. Are you ready?
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  Never lose your joy. Never.
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  Lose your joy. You will think.
• 1:02:48
  This is very simple and elementary.
• 1:02:50
  Never lose your joy. Habakkuk, Chapter 3.
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  And verse 17 to 19 very quickly. Habakkuk 317 to 19.
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  Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be
• 1:03:06
  in the vines, the labour of the olives shall fail, and the field
• 1:03:10
  shall yield no meat. The flock shall be cut off from
• 1:03:14
  the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls.
• 1:03:17
  Next verse yet someone say, yet it is true that I'm crying, yet
• 1:03:23
  I will rejoice. It is true that things don't
• 1:03:25
  seem to be making sense, yet I will rejoice.
• 1:03:29
  I will joy in the God of my salvation.
• 1:03:33
  Nehemiah chapter 8 and verse 10 says the joy of the Lord, the
• 1:03:38
  joy of the Lord. The joy of the Lord is my
• 1:03:41
  strength. The joy of the Lord is your
• 1:03:44
  strength. The joy of the Lord is your
• 1:03:47
  strength. Never lose your joy.
• 1:03:51
  When Satan. Makes out an attack to your
• 1:03:53
  life. Let me tell you, he's not
• 1:03:55
  looking for your marriage. He's not looking for your
• 1:03:57
  children. He's not looking for your
• 1:03:59
  health. He's looking for your joy.
• 1:04:01
  He knows that a joyless believer is a defeated believer.
• 1:04:05
  Are we together now? Make up your mind to maintain
• 1:04:08
  your joy and Satan will use men to keep saying things.
• 1:04:12
  The more depressed you are, the more Satan is happy.
• 1:04:15
  Someone learn to shame the devil from this service that even if
• 1:04:19
  it does not make sense, sit in the midst of fire and still
• 1:04:22
  rejoice. Yes, Sir.
• 1:04:27
  I rejoice in the God of my salvation.
• 1:04:30
  I don't rejoice in the situation.
• 1:04:31
  There's nothing to rejoice in there, but I rejoice in the God
• 1:04:35
  who can save me. Is the word Jehoshua where you
• 1:04:38
  get Joshua, God, who saves the one who is my salvation?
• 1:04:48
  Never lose your. Joy culture yourself as a
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  believer, no matter the tragedy. Now, joy is not the same as
• 1:04:56
  happiness. You don't have to be smiling to
• 1:04:58
  be joyful, but eventually joy leads to laughter.
• 1:05:02
  Did you get what I said? Joy is of the spirit, is of the
• 1:05:05
  Holy Ghost. I'm not saying be a clown.
• 1:05:07
  No, there are times that tears are coming out of your eyes and
• 1:05:11
  yet you are full of joy. Joy is a shield.
• 1:05:15
  Against offense, when you have joy, it's impossible to be
• 1:05:19
  offended. When the Devil.
• 1:05:22
  Wants to attack you? He will make sure he brings down
• 1:05:24
  the gate of joy. Then he can penetrate and deal
• 1:05:27
  with many other things in your life.
• 1:05:32
  I've made-up my mind. That I will not lose my joy.
• 1:05:37
  When you lose your joy. You will lose sleep when you
• 1:05:40
  lose your joy. You will lose many other things.
• 1:05:43
  Some of you are looking by far older than your age.
• 1:05:46
  You are say, 3035, but you are being mistaken for 5155.
• 1:05:50
  Why? The absence of joy is telling on
• 1:05:53
  your physical health. When you tell people you are. 30
• 1:05:57
  They say you are joking, they think you are lying, they think
• 1:05:59
  you are reducing your age so that you get something, maybe a
• 1:06:02
  job. But that is that is really your
• 1:06:04
  your age. It's just that pain and lack of
• 1:06:07
  joy has added an edge to your life that should not be.
• 1:06:13
  Are we together? Someone will see you.
• 1:06:16
  A young lady. Good afternoon, Ma.
• 1:06:17
  And they think you're a mother of four, five children.
• 1:06:20
  Just because there's no joy. Rejoice in the Lord always and
• 1:06:26
  again. I say rejoice.
• 1:06:29
  Someone say I rejoice. Prophecy, I say.
• 1:06:31
  I rejoice. I'm not downplaying your pain.
• 1:06:34
  Ladies and gentlemen, this is how the economy of the Kingdom
• 1:06:37
  walks. When you want beauty for ashes,
• 1:06:40
  you must remain in joy. Joy is such a mysterious
• 1:06:43
  spiritual force. It is the atmosphere that allows
• 1:06:46
  for harvest. If you are not in joy, the
• 1:06:49
  possibility for harvest is not even there.
• 1:06:52
  The Bible says they that sow in tears will reap in joy.
• 1:06:56
  Like saying go and collect your food in the kitchen.
• 1:06:59
  You will have to enter the kitchen to pick up the food.
• 1:07:01
  If there is no kitchen then the possibility for getting your
• 1:07:05
  meal is not there. Joy is beyond a feeling.
• 1:07:08
  It is a spiritual atmosphere like a cloud.
• 1:07:11
  You can step into a realm called Joy and live there.
• 1:07:16
  Did you get what I said? That it is beyond a feeling.
• 1:07:19
  I feel happy. I feel joyful.
• 1:07:22
  You're not entirely wrong, but joy must move beyond being a
• 1:07:26
  feeling of of glad tidings to an atmosphere.
• 1:07:30
  Is it Shields you? Someone again say I.
• 1:07:34
  Rejoice that you walk out of this place in spite of what is
• 1:07:39
  happening around our nation, in spite of what is happening
• 1:07:41
  around the globe. Find a reason to rejoice.
• 1:07:45
  You don't rejoice in the situation, you'll be lying.
• 1:07:48
  You rejoice in the God of your salvation.
• 1:07:51
  Who can change that situation Again say I rejoice.
• 1:07:55
  So next time you go. And write down the list of all
• 1:07:57
  the things challenging you. And while the devil wants to lie
• 1:08:00
  to you, you are maintaining the consciousness of your love for
• 1:08:04
  Jesus, maintaining hope, expecting the best of God in
• 1:08:08
  everything, and then holding on to that anchor of joy.
• 1:08:12
  Joy #4 is someone learning tonight the 4th key When you
• 1:08:26
  want to turn beauty or you want to receive beautiful ashes,
• 1:08:30
  Never stop believing and engaging the Word of God.
• 1:08:35
  Never stop believing and engaging the Word of God
• 1:08:39
  regardless what the devil tries to tell you using your current
• 1:08:44
  situation. Never stop believing and never
• 1:08:48
  stop engaging the Word of God. Don't say I prayed and it did
• 1:08:53
  not work, so I will stop. Don't say I, I, I spoke no, you
• 1:08:57
  never stop when you are in the midst of fire.
• 1:09:00
  The three Hebrew boys remember Daniel chapter 3.
• 1:09:04
  You would think that because they were going to be thrown in
• 1:09:06
  fire, they would say, well, that's it.
• 1:09:08
  Their first, the first level of hope was that they would not
• 1:09:11
  enter the fire. But they said, even if we are
• 1:09:14
  there and we eventually die, O King, we will not bow.
• 1:09:19
  I can imagine the Bible does not record it, but I can imagine
• 1:09:22
  that in the midst of that fire, maybe someone was quoting
• 1:09:25
  something the little they knew. The God of Abraham.
• 1:09:29
  Isaac and Jacob, you are a shield and a defense for me.
• 1:09:32
  And they saw the 4th man. He just stood there.
• 1:09:36
  And the Bible says they were men who the fire had no power over.
• 1:09:44
  Is someone learning second Peter chapter?
• 1:09:48
  Three and verse 9, never stop believing and engaging the word
• 1:09:53
  of God. Second, Peter 3 and verse 9 give
• 1:09:55
  it to U.S. media. The Bible says the Lord is not
• 1:09:58
  slack concerning His promises as some men count slackness.
• 1:10:04
  There is a way men count slackness after two years, three
• 1:10:08
  years if God has not come. He said God is slack.
• 1:10:11
  But the Bible says the Lord is not slack concerning His
• 1:10:16
  promises, therefore never stop. It has not manifested but never
• 1:10:23
  stop. Are we together?
• 1:10:25
  Hebrews chapter 613 to 15 Never stop for someone.
• 1:10:30
  This is a prophetic word. For when God made a promise to
• 1:10:33
  Abraham, he says, because he could not swear by no greater,
• 1:10:37
  he swore by himself, saying, surely blessing I will bless
• 1:10:42
  thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee.
• 1:10:46
  And so after he had patiently endured, do you know what it
• 1:10:51
  means to wait for God for over 25 years?
• 1:10:56
  If you were. Abraham's colleague most likely
• 1:10:59
  is when your children will be getting married.
• 1:11:02
  That's when Sarah, a woman who should be preparing to be a
• 1:11:06
  grandmother. That's when she was receiving
• 1:11:08
  her child. And yet the Bible says God is
• 1:11:10
  not slack because the one child that came was equal to a nation.
• 1:11:17
  Is someone hearing now? You've trusted God for two years
• 1:11:21
  and you're about to write the word off?
• 1:11:23
  No, don't talk to me about that. That's what again, I'm I'm
• 1:11:26
  tired. I pray.
• 1:11:27
  Don't talk to me about giving again.
• 1:11:29
  I don't believe it. No, God is not slack.
• 1:11:32
  The Bible says so after he had patiently endured who spoke to
• 1:11:36
  Abraham? But the Bible says the word of
• 1:11:39
  God is quick and powerful. So why did Abraham wait 25
• 1:11:43
  years? There are things we may not
• 1:11:45
  understand on this side of God's Kingdom, like why God had to
• 1:11:48
  wait 30 years, Why he had to die for three days?
• 1:11:52
  Couldn't he go to hell and finish everything in 5 minutes?
• 1:11:55
  Was hell so difficult that he spent three days there?
• 1:11:58
  There are sides to this Kingdom economy that is not given to us
• 1:12:01
  to know so that we do not be offended through our words, we
• 1:12:05
  give God praise and exhaust the level of knowledge given to us.
• 1:12:09
  The hymn writer says we will understand it better by and by.
• 1:12:15
  Is someone learning now? Because sometimes bringing
• 1:12:18
  foolish explanation to scripture can cause us to air in words and
• 1:12:23
  sin against God. There are many things that may
• 1:12:26
  not seem to add up yet. Why did Jesus go?
• 1:12:31
  To the grave for three days. He healed people instantly.
• 1:12:36
  Where did he keep his power? Did it take him that long?
• 1:12:38
  What kind of battle was he fighting?
• 1:12:45
  Is someone learning, Listen to me, never stop believing and
• 1:12:52
  engaging the word of God. And I've taught you that there
• 1:12:55
  are three ways to engage the word of God #1 you study the
• 1:12:59
  word of God #2 you listen to the word of God #3 you declare or
• 1:13:05
  confess the word of God. These are the three levels of
• 1:13:08
  engaging the Word as revealed in Scripture.
• 1:13:11
  Let me repeat it again that to engage the word profitably #1
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  you study the Word of God. To show yourself approved unto
• 1:13:19
  God #2 you listen to the word of God.
• 1:13:23
  Because faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God
• 1:13:26
  #3 you confess the word of God, because you declare doubt that
• 1:13:31
  ye might test be justified. If you are not studying.
• 1:13:35
  The Word of God. You will lack spiritual
• 1:13:38
  intelligence if you are not listening to the Word of God.
• 1:13:41
  Faith will not be built. And if you are not confessing
• 1:13:43
  the Word of God, you cannot partner with the Spirit to
• 1:13:46
  create and manifest realities and possibilities in your life.
• 1:13:50
  You understand me so far. Shout Amen.
• 1:13:54
  Never stop believing and engage in the word of God.
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  Never stop believing and engage in the word of God.
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  Never stop believing and engage in the word of God.
• 1:14:09
  No matter what happens, I believe God's word.
• 1:14:12
  Many years ago I used to say this, that God forbid, but even
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  if I die of sickness, the last word that will come out of my
• 1:14:19
  mouth is by his stripes I am healed.
• 1:14:21
  And I really meant what I was saying.
• 1:14:24
  You see, most believers really do not believe the word.
• 1:14:28
  Most believers are scientific Christians.
• 1:14:30
  I say that to mean we are Christians whose faith surrounds
• 1:14:34
  logic and stops there. It shows because.
• 1:14:39
  Every time it looks like there is a bit of delayed
• 1:14:42
  manifestation, we fall like a pack of cards now.
• 1:14:47
  Something happens to. You when you are fully
• 1:14:49
  persuaded, fully persuaded that God is faithful, fully persuaded
• 1:14:56
  that God is able, fully persuaded that God is loving,
• 1:15:01
  Hallelujah. Never stop believing and
• 1:15:06
  engaging the word of God. You get up in the morning in the
• 1:15:09
  name of Jesus. I decree and declare this growth
• 1:15:12
  is leaving my body. I confess by the power of the
• 1:15:15
  Holy Spirit that by his tribes I am healed.
• 1:15:18
  I place a demand upon the finished work of Christ in
• 1:15:21
  Calvary over this situation. I release my faith in spite of
• 1:15:25
  this report. I decree and declare that I
• 1:15:28
  believe the report of the Lord. A time will come.
• 1:15:30
  You will feel like a fool confessing because you've been
• 1:15:33
  confessing for six months and your financing to went to, to go
• 1:15:36
  down your, your health seems to go down your children.
• 1:15:40
  You are laying hands on your child and you are saying the
• 1:15:42
  name of Jesus. This prodigal son will get born
• 1:15:44
  again by afternoon. They call you that you should
• 1:15:46
  come and pick your child from a prison cell.
• 1:15:48
  And once that that you hear that kind of thing, the devil will
• 1:15:51
  say, keep wasting your time. I have taught you Koinonia.
• 1:15:54
  Let the redeemed of the Lord say so.
• 1:15:58
  Let the healed of the Lord say so.
• 1:16:01
  Let the blessed of the Lord say so.
• 1:16:04
  Do not let anyone make you believe that confessions of
• 1:16:07
  faith. Faith is gibberish.
• 1:16:10
  Now the value to. Confession is that it is first
• 1:16:13
  deposited in your heart as a revelation.
• 1:16:17
  So for many people they just confess blindly.
• 1:16:20
  The journey to confession starts with conviction.
• 1:16:23
  That is within your heart are we together?
• 1:16:25
  For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness.
• 1:16:29
  Then with the mouth confession is made unto Soteria salvation.
• 1:16:35
  If you do not. Believe with your heart you will
• 1:16:38
  just be speaking and unbelievers gibberish so you take out time
• 1:16:41
  to meditate on scripture until it becomes spirit and life.
• 1:16:46
  But when that deposit is made within your spirit, you speak.
• 1:16:51
  The righteousness of. Faith speaks.
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  The righteousness of faith speaks.
• 1:16:56
  It is not silent. It speaks that which God has
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  done. It speaks that which would
• 1:17:02
  desire God's Word to make happen in your life what things so ever
• 1:17:06
  you desire. When you pray, believe that thou
• 1:17:09
  receiveth them and thou shalt have them.
• 1:17:11
  The Bible says, declare ye that thou mightest be justified.
• 1:17:17
  Look at me. If you have stopped engaging the
• 1:17:21
  Word of God, then you are partnering with Satan to keep
• 1:17:25
  those ashes until they rise to a point where they bury you
• 1:17:29
  yourself. Are we together now?
• 1:17:33
  God is coming tonight desiring to give you beauty for ashes.
• 1:17:37
  What? You see, I have taught you that
• 1:17:40
  God does not do anything outside of His Word.
• 1:17:43
  The Word of God defines the jurisdiction for the
• 1:17:46
  administration of God's power. Let me say that again.
• 1:17:49
  The Word of God's Scripture defines the boundary, the
• 1:17:53
  jurisdiction for the administration of God's power.
• 1:17:58
  God's power, as mighty as infinite as it is, works only
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  within the jurisdiction aloud by His Word, because He has exalted
• 1:18:07
  His Word even above His reputation.
• 1:18:10
  Is someone learning now? So if you expect God to move
• 1:18:13
  superstitiously over your life, I hate to disappoint you, but
• 1:18:17
  you might be very disappointed. There has to be a.
• 1:18:21
  Scriptural basis for the power of God arriving in your life.
• 1:18:26
  Here's what Mary said. Be it unto me not according to
• 1:18:30
  your power. Be it unto me according to your
• 1:18:35
  word. Be it unto me according to your
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  word, not according to your power.
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  The energizing was. Sponsored by His power, but that
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  power was carried through the tray of His Word.
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  I've taught you that the word of God is like a tray.
• 1:18:51
  If I ask you to bring water or bring a meal for me, if you
• 1:18:55
  truly honor me, you will not carry water and put it at your
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  back pocket and remove it and give me.
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  You will place that water on a tray.
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  Place your plates there. That tray is the Word of God.
• 1:19:04
  With it comes God's power, With it comes God's favor.
• 1:19:08
  So when you want God to bring His power His favor, the
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  vehicle, the tray that conveys that power to you is His Word.
• 1:19:19
  If you ignore the. Word of God You are ignoring the
• 1:19:22
  possibility for change. If you are ignoring the Word of
• 1:19:25
  God, you are ignoring the potential for change.
• 1:19:30
  Whether it is to turn your water to wine, whether it is to
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  replace ashes for beauty, you will still need His Word.
• 1:19:40
  Nevertheless. At thy word and he said, come.
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  And he began to walk. Is someone learning now,
• 1:19:49
  Apostle, I don't have a job. Use that time to lend his word.
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  Use that time to hear his word. Use that time to rewrite your
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  possibilities in the Spirit. Apostle I'm I'm in the midst of
• 1:20:02
  pain and I cannot find comfort anywhere.
• 1:20:05
  Get the Word of God rather than hearing nonsense.
• 1:20:08
  Get the Word of God rather than going on social media and hear
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  the remaining part of your faith into many slices.
• 1:20:16
  There are people who. Carry their pain, their faith is
• 1:20:18
  on reserve and then they go to social media and they don't use
• 1:20:22
  the content properly. They listen to nonsense for 30
• 1:20:25
  minutes and at the end of it there is 0 faith.
• 1:20:28
  It was on low but by the time social media is done with you 0
• 1:20:33
  faith. And the devil says finish.
• 1:20:36
  Off because I'm coming. That's what he's waiting for.
• 1:20:40
  Faith is a. Product of God's Word.
• 1:20:44
  Faith is a product of God's word.
• 1:20:48
  You ignore the word of God. You have ignored the potential
• 1:20:51
  for change. When we talk about beautiful
• 1:20:54
  ashes, we say that with respect to the word of God.
• 1:20:57
  John chapter one, verse one in the beginning was the word and
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  the word was with God. Are you learning and the word
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  was God. The Bible says the same was with
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  God in the beginning. I like verse 3.
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  The Bible says through him all things were made by him and
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  without him, outside of him, outside of Him, ignoring him was
• 1:21:17
  not anything made. Ignoring the word, nothing can
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  be made. Hallelujah.
• 1:21:26
  I speak over someone tonight. Whatever has drained your
• 1:21:29
  passion for the word of God, Maybe anger, maybe offense,
• 1:21:33
  maybe pain, maybe tragedy, maybe prolonged situations.
• 1:21:37
  You carry your Bible in the morning and you just throw it
• 1:21:40
  back because quite honestly, you are not interested in this
• 1:21:42
  church thing again. You carry a message to listen to
• 1:21:45
  and you just delete it and you're not ready.
• 1:21:47
  You throw away your phone in the name of Jesus.
• 1:21:50
  Let passion for the Word be reignited in your spirit, man.
• 1:21:54
  Let passion for the Word be reignited in the name of Jesus.
• 1:22:04
  Never stop. Believing and engage in the word
• 1:22:07
  of God can I give you #5 the fifth key that is responsible
• 1:22:13
  for the business of receiving beauty for ashes that.
• 1:22:18
  Comes as a. Solution to hopelessness and
• 1:22:21
  despair, to tragedies and unfavourable situations.
• 1:22:26
  Ready. Pray without season.
• 1:22:30
  Pray without season. Pray without season.
• 1:22:35
  Philippians Chapter 1 and verse 9.
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  We have learned through. Spiritual intelligence that your
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  darkest moments should be your most prayerful moments.
• 1:22:46
  Your darkest moments should be your most prayerful moments.
• 1:22:51
  Your darkest moments should be your most prayerful moments.
• 1:22:56
  One is it. 19119 Philippians 119 please.
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  For I know that. This shall turn to my salvation
• 1:23:06
  through your prayer and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus
• 1:23:11
  Christ. I know that this financial
• 1:23:14
  situation, this health situation, I know that this
• 1:23:18
  ministry situation, this whatever situation, this legal
• 1:23:22
  situation, I know that it shall turn to my salvation through
• 1:23:28
  your prayer, through your prayer, Psalms 18 and verse 6,
• 1:23:37
  pray without seizing. In my.
• 1:23:42
  Distress. I didn't just cry.
• 1:23:46
  I didn't just lament. I didn't just call on people to
• 1:23:50
  sympathize with me. In my distress I called upon the
• 1:23:54
  Lord and cried unto my God. And he heard my voice out of his
• 1:24:00
  temple, and my cry came before him, even to his ears.
• 1:24:07
  In my. Distress I cried unto the Lord.
• 1:24:11
  Believe us, hear me, when you are in your darkest hour, obtain
• 1:24:15
  grace to pray. Obtain grace to pray.
• 1:24:20
  This is why God gave us the prayer language because there
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  are times that you may not even be able to make sense of the
• 1:24:26
  things that are happening around your life.
• 1:24:28
  At such points you engage in the spirit because those dark
• 1:24:33
  moments can be moments of intense warfare.
• 1:24:36
  Intense warfare that Satan is determined the onslaught of hell
• 1:24:41
  will come at his best against you, your children, your health,
• 1:24:45
  your job. That's not the time to watch
• 1:24:47
  unfold your your arms. Any man who is a general in the
• 1:24:51
  army, you know that when you hear battle cry, that is not
• 1:24:55
  when to dress in mufti and fold your arms.
• 1:24:57
  No, you go back and put on your warfare regalia and carry the
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  whole armor of God and go to the place of prayer and engage with
• 1:25:06
  power until victory is established.
• 1:25:10
  Many believers lose out on situations that victories
• 1:25:14
  already established there because they could not pray
• 1:25:16
  through Prayer is like bathing is like the process from
• 1:25:20
  pregnancy to bathing. When a woman is.
• 1:25:24
  Pregnant and after three months all the discomforts that comes
• 1:25:28
  with pregnancy, she can shout at the child but the chance he
• 1:25:32
  remains there and the woman too wants the chance to come.
• 1:25:35
  But when she gets to her 9th month, she becomes sensitive,
• 1:25:40
  unusually sensitive, because at any point she can be given her
• 1:25:45
  EDD, plus or minus. She gets the clothes ready, she
• 1:25:49
  gets everything ready, the car always having fuel there.
• 1:25:52
  Because at any point she can be in the marketplace shopping, and
• 1:25:58
  then contraction will start. And before you know it from that
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  place, she does not return home again.
• 1:26:03
  But she was ready. Everything was already in the
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  car. The Bible says be sober.
• 1:26:08
  Then he says be vigilant. Be vigilant, Don't be careless.
• 1:26:15
  Study Spiritual. Patterns this attack on my
• 1:26:19
  child. This thing I'm seeing that
• 1:26:21
  happened to my elder brother, I notice every July, every August
• 1:26:26
  is like there is something Satan wants to do.
• 1:26:29
  I, I, I, I need to deal with this thing.
• 1:26:32
  I notice that there is every July, every August, somebody
• 1:26:36
  must die. I'm, I'm coming by faith to stop
• 1:26:39
  it. And so when the season comes,
• 1:26:41
  you know that there is a programming in the spirit that
• 1:26:44
  that event will always bring tragedy.
• 1:26:47
  That's not the time to fold your arms and carelessly go around
• 1:26:51
  wasting away. You take tonio priestly regalia.
• 1:26:54
  It's time to pray without season.
• 1:27:01
  Hallelujah, It's time to pray without season.
• 1:27:05
  There are specific. Periods in my life where there
• 1:27:09
  are moments of intense sensitivity because there are
• 1:27:12
  times when God's word comes to me.
• 1:27:15
  It is how God walks with me. He does not speak to me all the
• 1:27:19
  time anyhow and my work with him has made me understand certain
• 1:27:23
  Kairos moments. And when I get to those times, I
• 1:27:27
  know that the devil also waits around the corridors of those
• 1:27:30
  seasons because your heart is open at those seasons and he
• 1:27:34
  wants to appear as an Angel of light.
• 1:27:36
  That is the time when you are sensitive.
• 1:27:40
  Many believers are. Careless.
• 1:27:42
  It is the reason why sometimes some tragic situations even
• 1:27:46
  happen in the 1st place. Be sensitive, be sensitive.
• 1:27:51
  You are in a strategic period of your life.
• 1:27:53
  Be sensitive. Maybe someone I'm speaking to
• 1:27:56
  you, you may need to take a few days after today before you make
• 1:28:00
  a major decision that destroys your life.
• 1:28:03
  Take three days fast and pray God grant me revelation.
• 1:28:08
  Should I leave Nigeria or should I stay?
• 1:28:10
  Don't take that kind of decision over coffee.
• 1:28:13
  You are joking. That means you don't love your
• 1:28:14
  destiny. Are we together now?
• 1:28:17
  No. There are decisions that are too
• 1:28:19
  serious, too destiny implicating to take them carelessly.
• 1:28:24
  You go to the place of prayer until you have prayed and
• 1:28:28
  prayed. Don't trust what you hear.
• 1:28:32
  It may look like. God till prayer distills that
• 1:28:35
  voice, you will find out that Satan came nicely appearing as
• 1:28:39
  an Angel of light. How many things do you have as
• 1:28:42
  plans? You see them well calculated
• 1:28:45
  until you take them to the place of prayer and you watch the red
• 1:28:48
  viral from the throne, striking a lot of things that are
• 1:28:52
  fabrications of your own desire, and you credited them before
• 1:28:55
  your prayer to the voice of God. Prayer distills prayer purifies.
• 1:29:02
  Is someone learning? Pray without season.
• 1:29:06
  You want beauty to be turned to ashes.
• 1:29:08
  Pray without season, pray without season, pray for your
• 1:29:12
  life, pray for your ministry, pray for everything around you.
• 1:29:17
  Remember I've taught you in an acts after 12 they caught James
• 1:29:21
  and beheaded him and the church kept quiet.
• 1:29:25
  They now caught Peter waiting for you know, Passover so that
• 1:29:30
  they will kill him also. But the Bible says prayers was
• 1:29:33
  made by the church unto God for him and God sent angelic
• 1:29:38
  assistance and that night as they were planning for the next
• 1:29:42
  day tomorrow to destroy him, that night they had a visitation
• 1:29:46
  and God delivered Peter out. Same thing happened to Paul and
• 1:29:49
  Silas. The Bible says at midnight they
• 1:29:52
  prayed and they sang loud enough and the jailers heard them.
• 1:29:56
  Suddenly there was an earthquake.
• 1:29:58
  It came and rattled the prison, opened all the doors, and
• 1:30:02
  salvation came not only to the apostles, but also to the jail
• 1:30:06
  and his family. When you pray and pray.
• 1:30:11
  Sincerely when you pray and pray non pretentiously unto God, not
• 1:30:17
  just to satisfy the each of religion, when you pray and it
• 1:30:20
  is fervent, it is effectual. I tell you sincerely produces
• 1:30:24
  power in the spirit. Hallelujah number six.
• 1:30:32
  This will be the 6th point very quickly.
• 1:30:36
  What is the 6th key on your journey to receiving beautiful
• 1:30:43
  ashes? Stay connected to the larger
• 1:30:47
  family of believers. Stay connected to the larger
• 1:30:51
  family of believers. Every triumphs, tragedy strikes.
• 1:30:56
  That is the worst time to isolate yourself from the larger
• 1:31:00
  body of believers. We see this Apostolic model in
• 1:31:03
  the book of Acts, the early Church.
• 1:31:05
  When persecution broke, they found comfort being in their own
• 1:31:10
  company. Stay connected to the larger
• 1:31:14
  body of believers. Acts chapter 422 and 23.
• 1:31:18
  Acts chapter 4. Hallelujah, it says for the man
• 1:31:24
  was above 40. The man who was healed now who
• 1:31:27
  the miracle of healing was showed verse 23.
• 1:31:32
  It says and being. Let go.
• 1:31:34
  They went to their own company, the Apostles.
• 1:31:38
  Now they went to their own company and reported all that
• 1:31:43
  the chief priests and the elders had said to them.
• 1:31:46
  Do you know that it was on account of this?
• 1:31:49
  They went to their own company and on hearing they chose to
• 1:31:53
  pray. Remember the prayer in Acts
• 1:31:55
  chapter 4. It was on account of this report
• 1:31:58
  the church said let's pray and they pray together, that you
• 1:32:01
  grant that signs and wonders be wrote through the name of your
• 1:32:05
  holy Son. And the Bible says in response
• 1:32:08
  to that prayer, the building shook and they were filled with
• 1:32:12
  the Holy Ghost again. This is why spiritual.
• 1:32:16
  Families are very important. When the devil wants to destroy
• 1:32:21
  you, he flutters you into believing that your spirituality
• 1:32:25
  alone and by yourself is sufficient.
• 1:32:27
  You do not need the power of a spiritual family.
• 1:32:30
  And when disaster strikes, usually through offense, church
• 1:32:35
  failed me. I don't like this one.
• 1:32:37
  This one happened. I don't like this church.
• 1:32:39
  There's favoritism, there's tribalism, there's this in this
• 1:32:42
  church. You may be right, but it is
• 1:32:45
  still a risk to be alone. They return to their.
• 1:32:50
  Own company. Hebrews chapter 10 and verse 25.
• 1:32:55
  The Bible says to neglect not the gathering or the assembling
• 1:32:58
  of yourselves. Hebrews 10/25.
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  Please give it to us to neglect not forsaking the assembling of
• 1:33:05
  yourselves together as the manner of some is, but exhorting
• 1:33:10
  one another, and so much the more as you see the day
• 1:33:15
  approaching. What do you get from a larger
• 1:33:17
  family of believers? Strength, support, and comfort.
• 1:33:23
  What do you get from a larger body of believers?
• 1:33:26
  Strength, support and comfort. We make it as a principle.
• 1:33:36
  In this ministry that when people within certain
• 1:33:39
  departments have issues around their lives, it's almost
• 1:33:43
  mandatory that there has to be a system where the people within
• 1:33:47
  their department can cover for them, providing strength,
• 1:33:51
  providing support. When someone is believed, that
• 1:33:54
  person should not be left alone, not when you are in the larger
• 1:33:57
  body of believers. Let me tell you the truth, there
• 1:34:00
  are many people whose situations would have been dealt with if
• 1:34:05
  they had the support of the larger body of believers.
• 1:34:10
  When the believers were. Persecuted, they came and they
• 1:34:13
  were among themselves. They pray together.
• 1:34:16
  You have heard me say that community, Kingdom community
• 1:34:20
  living is the key to sustaining Kingdom values.
• 1:34:24
  There are times that you are in the midst of a bedeviled
• 1:34:27
  community. It's difficult to freely and
• 1:34:31
  confidently practice your faith. You will need the covering.
• 1:34:36
  You will need the support. You will need the strengthening
• 1:34:39
  of fellow like minded believers. If you decide to remain alone,
• 1:34:43
  you will compromise without knowing.
• 1:34:47
  You can be in an. Office where only one person out
• 1:34:50
  of 1020 people is a genuine believer.
• 1:34:53
  I tell you eventually those those tons and thistles will
• 1:34:57
  choke on you until the sea refuses to grow.
• 1:35:00
  You need a larger body of believers.
• 1:35:05
  Whatever fights. You whatever makes you to ignore
• 1:35:10
  the gathering of believers. Are we saying that?
• 1:35:13
  Now it is of the devil is the reason why you see making an
• 1:35:17
  announcement of a virtual service today is simply because
• 1:35:20
  of a special situation to protect our people.
• 1:35:24
  Is. Our response to the security
• 1:35:28
  situation and our response to responsibility.
• 1:35:31
  But there are many believers who they make it a habit.
• 1:35:35
  They cannot identify with any spiritual family.
• 1:35:40
  They freelance anywhere at all as their passions drive them.
• 1:35:44
  It's a risk. One day disaster will strike.
• 1:35:48
  And if you do not have a spiritual family where you draw
• 1:35:51
  support, where you draw strength, where you draw
• 1:35:54
  comfort, there are many people who would not have been
• 1:35:57
  embarrassed. The spiritual families they are
• 1:35:59
  part of, if a good spiritual family, should be able to step
• 1:36:03
  in and cover for their shame. Let me tell you something with
• 1:36:06
  family, even if you meet your child misbehaving outside, you
• 1:36:10
  solve the problem outside and call him inside.
• 1:36:13
  Remember, that's what happened to you.
• 1:36:15
  They can spank you left, right and center inside the house, but
• 1:36:19
  when they've solved the problem outside. #2.
• 1:36:23
  It matters where you are found. Anybody who finds you in your
• 1:36:27
  father's house treats you with honor, but when you are found on
• 1:36:30
  the roadside, they treat you like a prostitute or a fugitive.
• 1:36:35
  Are we together now? When a young man wants to get
• 1:36:38
  married to a lady, if he comes and finds her in her father's
• 1:36:41
  house, like Isaac found Rebecca and they went to the father's
• 1:36:45
  house, they would treat you with honor, with dignity because of
• 1:36:49
  where you were found. But when they find you by the
• 1:36:51
  roadside. Sorry to play with your.
• 1:36:55
  Mind, that's the difference between a prostitute and a
• 1:36:58
  responsible lady that is found somewhere.
• 1:37:00
  Nobody asked a prostitute. Where's your father?
• 1:37:02
  Where's your mother? Where's your elder brother?
• 1:37:05
  That's not their business. They may not even know the
• 1:37:08
  person's name. But when you find someone at
• 1:37:11
  home, it is with honor and with dignity.
• 1:37:13
  Is someone learning now? Many of us.
• 1:37:18
  Stand naked and careless spiritually and we do not know
• 1:37:22
  the power of spiritual families. So when disaster strikes, there
• 1:37:27
  is no body. Let me tell you this, even when
• 1:37:30
  you lose your physical family, do not lose your spiritual
• 1:37:33
  family. It's possible for your physical
• 1:37:35
  family to go, maybe death or whatever.
• 1:37:37
  Make sure you stay connected genuinely by covenant to a
• 1:37:42
  spiritual family. You enjoy the blessings of
• 1:37:45
  intercession, you enjoy the blessings of covering, you enjoy
• 1:37:49
  the blessings of covenants that that family has with God.
• 1:37:53
  There are many people who receive certain results before
• 1:37:56
  they even grow to the level of spiritual intelligence to
• 1:38:00
  command that result themselves. The advantage of a family.
• 1:38:04
  Look up please. If you are a father and you go
• 1:38:07
  and hunt meat, does your child need to know how to hunt meat to
• 1:38:10
  eat it? No, he enjoys the blessings of a
• 1:38:14
  responsible father. One day he will grow to become a
• 1:38:17
  hunter, but meanwhile he will not suffer because his father
• 1:38:22
  can be a leverage for him. And even when that son becomes a
• 1:38:25
  prodigal son, the fact that there is still a home and a
• 1:38:29
  father back at home, that means there is still hope.
• 1:38:31
  Imagine it is better to have a prodigal son than a prodigal
• 1:38:36
  father. Because a prodigal.
• 1:38:39
  Son has where to return to a prodigal.
• 1:38:42
  Father does not have where to go to.
• 1:38:44
  Are we together? Do not neglect.
• 1:38:55
  And when I talk of the Garden of the Saints, I hope you know that
• 1:38:58
  just because you come around does not mean you are connected.
• 1:39:02
  Being connected generally is by covenant and by understanding.
• 1:39:06
  There are people who can sit down anywhere, but they are not
• 1:39:09
  connected at all. You know they are not connected
• 1:39:12
  because the grace does not speak.
• 1:39:16
  When they tell you. I'm connected to this vision,
• 1:39:19
  this grace, this ministry. People have to look and say no,
• 1:39:22
  something is wrong. It's not true.
• 1:39:24
  You cannot stay in the kitchen for five hours and then don't
• 1:39:28
  smell food. And there was soup there.
• 1:39:31
  Everything is being prepared there.
• 1:39:35
  Red oil flying. Around and you're wearing a pure
• 1:39:37
  white shirt and nothing even touched you come on now what
• 1:39:41
  kind of shirt are you wearing we need to verify whether it's the
• 1:39:44
  kitchen you really or you are calling the place you wear a
• 1:39:46
  kitchen are we together there's a way you hug someone and you
• 1:39:54
  can tell what food the person cooked not even that he was at
• 1:39:58
  the kitchen I'm. Looks like this is serious
• 1:40:02
  African soup here. Something is going on and say,
• 1:40:04
  how do you know? It's not word of knowledge, the
• 1:40:06
  implication of presence, proximity.
• 1:40:11
  Are we together? You believe me, there are many
• 1:40:15
  people who do not carry that gene.
• 1:40:18
  They do not carry that embracing at all.
• 1:40:23
  They that be. Planted in the House of God, not
• 1:40:27
  they that be planted. It matters where you are
• 1:40:29
  planted, the House of God, He says.
• 1:40:31
  They shall flourish in the courts of our God, that in old
• 1:40:35
  age they will be fat and flourishing.
• 1:40:40
  Fat and. Flourishing.
• 1:40:43
  One of the reasons why God connects people to spiritual
• 1:40:45
  families is because He knows that transformation and
• 1:40:49
  empowerment is a gradual process.
• 1:40:52
  Are we together now? And there are certain spiritual
• 1:40:54
  realities that people need to experience, but their level of
• 1:40:58
  growth cannot sponsor that which they desire.
• 1:41:01
  So God plans them to enjoy the leverage of covering, the
• 1:41:05
  leverage of graces, the leverage of covenants, while they are
• 1:41:08
  mental to maturity. While they are mental to.
• 1:41:13
  Maturity so there are many attacks, I will tell you
• 1:41:16
  sincerely upon many believers that are unnecessary is because
• 1:41:20
  the devil found them naked. The devil found them defenseless
• 1:41:25
  and void of spiritual intelligence, and he took them
• 1:41:28
  for a prey. You have seen an ion.
• 1:41:32
  Attacking an antelope, Most times the antelope or the
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  elephant or whatever animal, even though the lion is the king
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  of the jungle, it's not able to attack them.
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  You know why? Because the mother and the that
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  they are a herd. They even though the lion is
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  powerful, they can kill it. So he waits for.
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  One who fears off carelessly. Fears off enough?
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  And then he runs to that one and picks up that one.
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  And I have watched sometimes where even as the lion is
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  running there, the bigger elephants also run.
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  They live where they are going and three or four of them come
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  and they push him and sometimes they kill the lion.
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  I have watched, I think a Buffalo, one of these animals
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  lift a lion 2-3 times and he dropped dead.
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  Don't try my child again. The power of family.
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  There are some of you. You'll be.
• 1:42:25
  Surprised some of the prayer we are praying, we don't even know
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  where the body is coming from. It's because of you.
• 1:42:32
  Your carelessness is giving Satan room somewhere, but your
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  advantage is that covering and the Lord says wake up, something
• 1:42:38
  is about to happen and from nowhere, from the realm of the
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  spirit, while the devil thinks is so close to you, you hear
• 1:42:44
  tongues thundering from the spirit.
• 1:42:47
  Shabaka Paraka Ah, destroy it. Not for there is a blessing in
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  it. Destroy it.
• 1:42:54
  Not now. Don't think I'm playing games
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  with your mind. This is how it works.
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  Hallelujah to remain conscious of the love of God towards you.
• 1:43:14
  To always hope. For and expect the best of God
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  in everything to. Never lose.
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  Your joy, regardless what happens around your life.
• 1:43:26
  To never stop. Believing and engaging the Word
• 1:43:29
  of God to pray without season. The darker the night, the more
• 1:43:35
  tragic the situation, the more fiery and aggressive and
• 1:43:39
  intentional and consistent the prayer should be.
• 1:43:43
  And then to stay. Connected to a larger family of
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  believers. Now listen to this, ladies and
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  gentlemen, I. Told you earlier on.
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  That God can turn water to wine. Let me tell you how that miracle
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  works. He doesn't introduce anything
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  new. It is the water you already had.
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  He will simply turn it to wine. The size may not be affected.
• 1:44:07
  Maybe the color and the taste and the chemical composition.
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  That's all that changes. But when you stand before His
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  Majesty with ashes, there are times that nothing can be done
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  over that ashes. So here's what He says.
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  Bring it now. You have to trust him enough to
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  take the ashes. I told you, ashes is the final
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  state of burning. From a flourishing tree to a log
• 1:44:34
  of wood, to burned coal, to ashes, the tree, wood, coal,
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  ashes. And he says, give it to me when
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  you hand it over to him. To you, it may look like every
• 1:44:52
  situation is hopeless. Then you see him coming.
• 1:44:57
  With a garment. Beauty he calls it, and he wraps
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  it around you like the father of Joseph wrapped the coat of many
• 1:45:05
  colors. Now I don't know what it was
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  before it became ashes. It's amazing that when anything
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  becomes ashes, you cannot really tell what it was before.
• 1:45:17
  It is not always wood. When they cremate men, they also
• 1:45:20
  become ashes. So it's not always wood.
• 1:45:23
  Even flesh, when you burn it intensely, it can become ashes.
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  When bones are crushed and burnt, they become ashes.
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  Ashes does not reveal what it was before.
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  So sometimes listen carefully. The law of receiving beauty for
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  ashes is that you must trust God for grace to forget about the
• 1:45:43
  ashes, because you cannot receive the beauty still
• 1:45:47
  remembering the ashes. Remember ye?
• 1:45:52
  Not the former things. I know that you lost your job,
• 1:45:57
  but for as long as you are still thinking about that job lot, for
• 1:46:02
  as long as you are still reminiscing on Sodom and
• 1:46:04
  Gomorrah, you didn't carry everything.
• 1:46:06
  I know you left your chair in the parlor while it is being
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  burnt, but do you know that God is able to do something in your
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  future? You may never see that chair
• 1:46:14
  again. You may never see your loved one
• 1:46:16
  again. You may never go back to that
• 1:46:18
  office again. Maybe that relationship did not
• 1:46:21
  work and it's for real. It's gone, never comes again.
• 1:46:24
  Most believers cannot go forward because their heads are still at
• 1:46:28
  yesterday. Their bodies are trying to move
• 1:46:30
  forward, but they miss yesterday so much.
• 1:46:34
  They do not even see what God is doing today.
• 1:46:37
  The law of conversion, receiving beautiful ashes demands that you
• 1:46:41
  forget about what that ashes was.
• 1:46:45
  That ashes was a. Beautiful plant, the picture may
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  be with you, but you have to stop it from distracting you.
• 1:46:52
  I know that you once had a father, a mother, you once had
• 1:46:57
  brothers and sisters, and now they've slept the slept of the
• 1:47:00
  sleep of death. You may not forget them, but you
• 1:47:04
  cannot allow that pain to stop you from moving forward.
• 1:47:07
  Agreed. You can have moments of grief
• 1:47:09
  for a while, but the time must come.
• 1:47:11
  You will tell yourself I need to move forward.
• 1:47:14
  You lost the job 10 years ago. The company has even been
• 1:47:17
  folded. Don't sit back and say I
• 1:47:20
  remember my 5 million was in that company, My 10 million was
• 1:47:25
  in that company. All the days of railway,
• 1:47:27
  unfortunately it has gone. I worked in a.
• 1:47:31
  Typewriting company. It will never return again.
• 1:47:35
  Stop missing a typewriter. There are better gadgets that
• 1:47:39
  can serve. You will not have the privilege
• 1:47:41
  of punching them one by one again.
• 1:47:44
  Are we? Are we together?
• 1:47:46
  But you can have a better presentation.
• 1:47:48
  Now hear me. Do you have the courage to look
• 1:47:52
  at the ashes that you've held so dearly?
• 1:47:55
  Because to you, it is not ashes. You still remember the tree, you
• 1:48:00
  still remember the wood, You still remember the coal and the
• 1:48:05
  ashes. So when you hold it, others are
• 1:48:07
  looking at dust, but you are looking at a story, a story of
• 1:48:12
  decline, a story of pain. But do you have the courage to
• 1:48:16
  look beyond it and receive his beauty?
• 1:48:19
  Jesus is saying give me the ashes.
• 1:48:22
  Listen to me, ladies. And gentlemen, that situation of
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  pain, you cannot live like that after 1020 years.
• 1:48:30
  Yes, the job issue has come. Yes, the surgery happened and
• 1:48:34
  your wound was taken away. Yes, I numb your legs were
• 1:48:37
  amputated, unfortunately, sadly, Yes, the accident happened, it
• 1:48:41
  truly did. Yes, this happened, You lost
• 1:48:44
  your job. Yes, you went to jail for five
• 1:48:46
  years. Now you are released and your
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  life listen. Meditating on yesterday and
• 1:48:51
  remaining there is like holding on to the ashes.
• 1:48:55
  But Jesus is standing tonight and he said I'm not going to
• 1:48:59
  turn that ashes to something else.
• 1:49:01
  It is still a miracle. You are waiting for the ashes
• 1:49:05
  and you wish Jesus, if you can turn the ashes to coal, the coal
• 1:49:11
  to wood and the wood back to a tree.
• 1:49:14
  This is what I want you to do. Are you not the God that turned
• 1:49:17
  water to wine? And then he says, I'm also the
• 1:49:20
  God that gives beauty for ashes, so that if your miracle does not
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  afford you turning ashes back to coal, back to wood and back to a
• 1:49:35
  tree, it may never happen again. But he can give you.
• 1:49:42
  Beauty and look at me. I wish I had time I would have
• 1:49:47
  explained to you what the Bible calls beauty.
• 1:49:50
  Beauty there does not mean looks.
• 1:49:53
  Beauty means everything that can take away pain.
• 1:49:58
  Beauty means everything that can erode the memory of pain and
• 1:50:04
  tragedy and suffering. Let me tell you, if it is the
• 1:50:08
  God of heaven, there is something He can do in your
• 1:50:11
  life. Your mother may never return in
• 1:50:14
  this side of God's Kingdom. Your father may never return.
• 1:50:17
  Your siblings may never return. The job may never come again,
• 1:50:20
  unfortunately and sadly. Maybe the marriage may never
• 1:50:23
  work again, unfortunately. But let me tell you the truth.
• 1:50:29
  Look at those ashes and present it to the Master.
• 1:50:33
  Let your hands be empty enough, then watch what else he gives
• 1:50:37
  you. He will give you.
• 1:50:40
  Beauty for ashes. Beauty.
• 1:50:45
  So someone looks at you and says you've been an orphan for 10
• 1:50:49
  years, but it does not look like that in your life.
• 1:50:52
  God raised other parents from everywhere to cover for you to a
• 1:50:56
  point where if you tell the story people will say is a lie.
• 1:50:59
  You mean you've lost your job for 15 years but today instead
• 1:51:03
  of a job, you never went back to the job, but God gave you a
• 1:51:06
  business, a flourishing business.
• 1:51:09
  You lost the ministry, but now God has called you and placed an
• 1:51:14
  Apostolic and a prophetic anointing upon you to an extent
• 1:51:17
  that those who knew you as a man of God 1020 years.
• 1:51:21
  If they if they say you, they will never believe that you are
• 1:51:24
  the one carrying this power again.
• 1:51:26
  Do you know Joseph never returned back to his father's
• 1:51:29
  house? Read your Bible.
• 1:51:31
  You taught Joseph from Egypt. He missed his home.
• 1:51:35
  But Joseph did not receive the miracle of turning water to
• 1:51:38
  wine. Joseph received beauty for
• 1:51:42
  ashes. You thought that Joseph would go
• 1:51:47
  back home. He wanted to go back home.
• 1:51:50
  He missed the playground. He missed everything that was
• 1:51:53
  happening there. But sometimes God does not take
• 1:51:59
  you back by turning water to wine.
• 1:52:02
  He tells you, you may never go back there again, but I will
• 1:52:05
  give you something else. Now look at me, please.
• 1:52:08
  We're about to pray, God. Something else will always be
• 1:52:13
  better than what you had before. Find a way of believing.
• 1:52:19
  What I'm telling you, when God brings any replacement to your
• 1:52:24
  life, it will always be better, more superior in quality.
• 1:52:31
  But. The key is, do you?
• 1:52:32
  Have the courage to give him the ashes.
• 1:52:36
  Some of you have been holding the ashes of your pain for 10
• 1:52:39
  years. You've been holding the ashes of
• 1:52:41
  regrets for 10 years. You've been holding the ashes of
• 1:52:45
  tragedy, financial tragedy, your health for 10 years.
• 1:52:50
  Jesus is coming by way of this message tonight and said hand it
• 1:52:53
  over to me. Lay it down, lay it.
• 1:52:57
  Down. Lay it down for someone, you may
• 1:53:01
  not even hand it over. You may be like the woman with
• 1:53:03
  the alabaster box. You would just break that thing
• 1:53:07
  and say ashes. You were once a three.
• 1:53:10
  I played under your shade. I watched man caught you to
• 1:53:14
  become wood. I watch fire burn you to become
• 1:53:18
  cold. Now you are reduced to ashes.
• 1:53:21
  But I'm ready to lay down because something else is
• 1:53:24
  coming. Let me tell you what happens
• 1:53:26
  when you lay down the ashes. He will hold your hands and say,
• 1:53:31
  come. You will open up a realm and you
• 1:53:34
  will see many trees. You would see that it was an
• 1:53:37
  orchard he wanted to give you. While you were weeping over a
• 1:53:41
  tree, He now gives you an orchard, and with that orchard
• 1:53:45
  you have many shades to lay in and also bring others into that
• 1:53:49
  experience. Ladies and gentlemen from.
• 1:53:52
  A human standpoint. There are people we may never
• 1:53:55
  stop missing. We've loved people.
• 1:53:58
  There are memories that may never leave our minds.
• 1:54:01
  Memories of yesterday. But here's what the Bible says.
• 1:54:04
  This one thing I do, forgetting the things that are behind and
• 1:54:10
  reaching forth for the things that are before me.
• 1:54:13
  It didn't say forgetting the bad things.
• 1:54:15
  I've taught you things don't have to be bad and tragic.
• 1:54:18
  Sometimes you have to just be strong to say you know what?
• 1:54:22
  Yesterday I wave you goodbye. I love you, I miss you, I'll
• 1:54:27
  keep you in my mind, but be gone for good.
• 1:54:31
  I have to face the future because that destiny is waiting
• 1:54:34
  for me. Don't tell me about the story of
• 1:54:36
  something bad that happened. Do you know how possible I would
• 1:54:39
  have been married 20 years ago? I understand.
• 1:54:41
  Can you hand over those ashes? You are still holding on to it
• 1:54:45
  and many good men are coming now.
• 1:54:47
  God the same. Can't you see beauty?
• 1:54:49
  You are saying ashes of yesterday.
• 1:54:51
  Are you willing to give that beauty and get out of the way?
• 1:54:54
  I mean give the ashes and let beauty come.
• 1:54:57
  I have my first car. A ghastly motor accident
• 1:55:00
  destroyed it. My first crusade.
• 1:55:02
  Nobody would leave all those things.
• 1:55:05
  Embrace the new. Is someone ready to pray?
• 1:55:09
  Go ahead and begin to speak to the Lord, everyone falling on
• 1:55:14
  line and praying. Whether you are sitting, whether
• 1:55:17
  you're standing, take any position you're most
• 1:55:19
  comfortable, but please pray, pray, everyone pray.
• 1:55:28
  Animal Las. Sopalas cabaret de caparatos
• 1:55:30
  yata. There is an answer.
• 1:55:33
  To hopelessness, there is an answer.
• 1:55:37
  To despair, there is an answer to confusing tragic situations.
• 1:55:43
  The answer is found in this message that my God, your God,
• 1:55:49
  is able to make all things work together.
• 1:55:56
  He may not have. Caused the all things.
• 1:55:59
  The all things may not have come from him, but he has the power
• 1:56:03
  to make all things sad stories, all things negative stories, all
• 1:56:10
  things tragic situations, painful situations, all things
• 1:56:16
  to work together to the good of them that love the Lord.
• 1:56:22
  And to those who are the called Koinonia, take a minute to
• 1:56:25
  invest in prayer. Shanila.
• 1:56:30
  Kaparakos sate Brenda cabelaque para tusiata.
• 1:56:41
  Beautiful ashes, beautiful ashes.
• 1:56:46
  Turning my morning to dancing, my sorrow to joy.
• 1:56:52
  That nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors to
• 1:56:56
  Christ. Someone is praying.
• 1:56:59
  Lord, I know that it ends up in praise.
• 1:57:01
  I lost my loved one, but I choose to trust you.
• 1:57:05
  It will end up in praise. I lost my job, but it will end
• 1:57:09
  up in praise. I believe you for the visa.
• 1:57:14
  I believe You for the healing. I didn't want to go through the
• 1:57:19
  surgery. Now I'm having to go through it.
• 1:57:22
  Or I had to go through it. Now I've lost my organs, but in
• 1:57:26
  the midst of it, I still know that beauty can become a
• 1:57:32
  replacement for the ashes. One more minute to pray,
• 1:57:41
  Apostle. I lost ministry to wrong
• 1:57:44
  mentorship. I I lost ministry.
• 1:57:47
  I lost my place and my relevance to carelessness and
• 1:57:51
  licentiousness. But the Bible says there is
• 1:57:54
  hope. Listen carefully.
• 1:57:56
  Hear me, ladies and gentlemen. The Bible tells you that there
• 1:58:00
  is hope, and that hope make it not a shame.
• 1:58:07
  When the tree is not. Caught the scent of water can
• 1:58:10
  bring it back to life, but sometimes the tree can be cut
• 1:58:15
  away from the root, down to lots of wood, burn to coals, then it
• 1:58:21
  becomes ashes. When it becomes ashes, don't try
• 1:58:25
  to make a tree out of it again. When it becomes ashes, look to
• 1:58:29
  the Master. He comes with beauty yourself.
• 1:58:33
  Don't just desire to return back to your Father's house.
• 1:58:37
  That may not be your destiny again.
• 1:58:39
  That house you left, you have left for good, but look towards
• 1:58:43
  the assignment in the palace. There is a Prime Minister in
• 1:58:47
  you. There is an ordination upon your
• 1:58:49
  life. In Jesus name we pray.
• 1:58:59
  I believe that this is. Also a message for Nigeria.
• 1:59:04
  Remember, you know the. Former things.
• 1:59:07
  There are things we'll never get back to, unfortunately.
• 1:59:10
  Discussing problems, blaming hands, pointing fingers may not
• 1:59:16
  do the job. I believe that our destiny by
• 1:59:21
  far exceeds our pain as a nation.
• 1:59:25
  This is also true for every African continent, every African
• 1:59:30
  nation across the continent. Kenya, you find out Malawi
• 1:59:35
  nations that have had uprisings and all kinds of things.
• 1:59:38
  One assurance we may not know all the way to happen, but that
• 1:59:44
  the future of Africa as a continent and of this great
• 1:59:48
  nation, I can tell you the glory that is coming over this nation
• 1:59:53
  will by far outweigh the pain, by far outweigh the moments of
• 1:59:59
  tragedies. You believe that?
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  In the next one minute, as responsible citizens and
• 2:00:04
  believers invest prayer for Nigeria.
• 2:00:06
  Go ahead, let's pray for Nigeria.
• 2:00:09
  We cannot be blind to the things that are happening.
• 2:00:12
  Pray for the government, pray for the youth, pray for the
• 2:00:16
  private sector, pray for politicians.
• 2:00:19
  Pray for truthfulness and honesty.
• 2:00:22
  Pray that men, especially men in power, will look beyond
• 2:00:26
  themselves, be guided by the fear of the Lord, conscience,
• 2:00:30
  and a sense of posterity. Go ahead and pray.
• 2:00:35
  For wisdom for the leadership at every level that.
• 2:00:39
  They would come. Up with pragmatic, intelligent,
• 2:00:43
  applicable solutions. The mountain that.
• 2:00:47
  Nigeria faces like many African countries is not insurmountable
• 2:00:53
  that we can shelve selfishness, prejudices, biases and face this
• 2:00:59
  mountain with honesty and solve this problem and scale to the
• 2:01:04
  next level of our prophetic destiny.
• 2:01:06
  Pray for every hope. Pray that God will raise help.
• 2:01:11
  Nobody should sleep without food.
• 2:01:13
  Pray that God will raise help. This is not a prayer for
• 2:01:17
  Christians. This is a prayer for all men.
• 2:01:19
  Christians, Muslims, non Christians, pray for everyone
• 2:01:23
  together that I say people who will enjoy the mercy of God.
• 2:01:31
  Pray that anyone. Who does not mean well for this
• 2:01:34
  nation? That God will judge them.
• 2:01:36
  That anyone Who does not mean well for the people in this
• 2:01:40
  nation, there will be no peace for them.
• 2:01:42
  But pray that those who mean well for this nation, wisdom be
• 2:01:46
  given to them now will be given to them, that those who mean
• 2:01:50
  well for our nation, in the name of Jesus Christ, they will find
• 2:01:54
  access. Pray for the government from the
• 2:01:56
  presidency, the Senate, the House members, the governors,
• 2:02:00
  the local government chairman, the ministers that they will
• 2:02:03
  serve their Fatherland in truth. Void of.
• 2:02:08
  Selfishness in truth. In Jesus name we.
• 2:02:15
  Pray. Let me speak over your.
• 2:02:18
  Life as we wrap up the service. We're closing early.
• 2:02:23
  So that you can rush back home, but.
• 2:02:26
  Before I speak over. Your life.
• 2:02:27
  Allow me the privilege of making an altar call.
• 2:02:31
  For the fact that there. Are people here gathered
• 2:02:33
  tonight? It was to be an entirely virtual
• 2:02:35
  service, but we're honored to still have people who came
• 2:02:38
  around. I cannot take the chance of
• 2:02:43
  assuming that everyone here within this place has made it
• 2:02:49
  right with Jesus. I cannot take the chance to
• 2:02:52
  assume that of the 10s of thousands of people following
• 2:02:56
  across the social media space. That everyone has.
• 2:03:00
  Made this decision for Jesus. You are in this place and you're
• 2:03:04
  saying apostle, even though this is a virtual service.
• 2:03:08
  Now that I've found myself here in this auditorium on hearing
• 2:03:11
  you speak, I need Jesus. I need restoration to my
• 2:03:15
  spiritual life. I need help from God, or #2 you
• 2:03:20
  are saying, apostle, if you will give me an opportunity.
• 2:03:24
  Even though I'm far separated by distance across the nation's, I
• 2:03:29
  still want to receive this prayer.
• 2:03:31
  I'm going to count one to five. I need just one sincere person
• 2:03:35
  who is making this first decision or dedicating your life
• 2:03:39
  to Jesus. I wanted to leave your seat and
• 2:03:42
  come and stand here. If there is one person, I am
• 2:03:45
  satisfied tonight. God bless you come.
• 2:03:50
  Kaenonia, let's celebrate. Them, God bless you.
• 2:03:52
  Thank you for the courage. Thank you, Sir.
• 2:03:55
  Thank you, Ma. Come, come, come, come.
• 2:04:08
  God bless you. Kaenonia keep clapping.
• 2:04:12
  Amazing what the. Lord has done for us intended to
• 2:04:19
  be a virtual service, but He still brought many.
• 2:04:23
  He still brought many. Are you clapping?
• 2:04:25
  He still brought many who need to make it right.
• 2:04:27
  Come, God bless you. Hallelujah.
• 2:04:38
  Now there are some of you who ordinarily should have been
• 2:04:42
  here, but because we didn't allow you the liberty of coming
• 2:04:46
  to church physically. Please, I want you to.
• 2:04:50
  Connect as I pray this prayer, do not allow yourself to be
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  robbed of an opportunity to make Jesus Lord of your life as.
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  I pray for these. Ones you're following me from
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  your homes, your offices everywhere, be serious and make
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  this decision, this destiny defining decision for my dear
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  brothers and sisters who are in front here, thank you, thank
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  you. I salute you for your courage to
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  have come to make this decision for Jesus.
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  Let me request that you lift your right hand as a sign of
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  surrender and say this as loud and as clear as you can.
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  Say, Lord Jesus, those online, here's your chance to join them.
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  Say it again. Lord Jesus, tonight I have heard
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  your word. I love you with all my heart.
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  I believe that you are the Son of God.
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  I believe. That you died for my sin.
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  I believe. That you rose again for my
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  justification. Right now I receive you into my
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  heart as my Savior, my Lord, and my King.
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  I declare that the power of sin, Satan, hell and the grave is
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  broken over my life. I am a child of God from tonight
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  and forever. Amen.
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  Keep your beautiful hands lifted Father.
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  Thank you for these precious ones.
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  They have come declaring your lordship over their lives.
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  I declare by the authority of Scripture that their sins are
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  forgiven and in the name of Jesus I call you bona fide
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  recipients of the life of God. I pray for you that from tonight
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  the power of sin, Satan, hell and the grave is broken over
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  your life. I call you the righteousness of
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  God in Christ Jesus and you are empowered to live the victorious
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  Christian life from today. You'll go forward ever and back
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  whatever in Jesus name we pray, Amen.
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  Please do me a favor. I want you to look to my right.
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  That will be your left. There are counselors who you
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  will have a word with you very quickly, just a word and a
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  prayer, and then you'll be back to your seat.
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  Please do cooperate with them. Let's honor them as they go.
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  Thank you so very much. Thank you so very much.
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  Keep clapping until they're gone.
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  Keep clapping until they're gone.
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  Keep clapping until they're. Gone.
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  Hallelujah. Let me speak over your life.
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  Now restore. Everything that was stolen,
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  restored. Everything that was lost,
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  restored. Restored.
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  The first sets of people. I'm speaking to.
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  Are those who there. Is still hope in the midst of
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  their situation? Water can still be turned to
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  wine. Your water is not ashes, it
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  still gives life as water. It only needs to be turned to
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  wine. Therefore, I pray for you every
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  situation that can change. By the power that raised Christ
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  from the dead, we enforce change now.
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  Every situation that can change. Health situation, marriage
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  situation, job situation, career situation.
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  In the name of Jesus, let water be turned to wine.
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  In the name of Jesus, let there be a solution now.
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  Then the. Other set are those whose trees
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  have become wood, wood have become coals, coals have become
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  ashes. There's no need water turning to
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  wine. I pray for you first and
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  foremost, the grace to be free from the grip of yesterday.
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  The grace to. Be free from the grip of
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  yesterday. I said again, the grace to be
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  free from the grip of yesterday, and then I decree and declare
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  Receive duty for ashes. It may not be as you expected,
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  but may it come in another form that still glorifies God in your
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  life. It may not be as.
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  You expected, but I'm saying it again, may it come in another
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  form that still glorifies God. You receive beauty for ashes in
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  your finances, beauty for ashes in your marriage, beauty for
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  ashes in your spiritual life, beauty for ashes over the
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  testimony of your life, beauty for ashes in the name of Jesus
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  Christ. I still pray that you will
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  receive a garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness, that
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  you will be called the ox of righteousness, the planting of
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  the Lord, that He might be glorified in your life.
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  Everything that represents shame, everything that
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  represents hopelessness. I pray for you.
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  Let the balm in Gilead bring you healing.
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  Healing over death, healing over tragedies, healing over
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  calamities, healing over losses in the name of Jesus.
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  For someone I speak. To you prophetically, remember
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  you not the former things, nor consider the things of old.
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  I decree and declare you open up your eyes and see.
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  God is doing a new thing. God is doing a new thing for
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  someone. A new thing may mean a new job
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  for somebody, may be another child to replace the one that
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  died for someone. God will give you hope over a
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  testimony you have lost in the name of Jesus Christ.
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  Father, you have given. Me this message, and I've
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  brought it to your people, the grace that follows this message,
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  let it be deposited upon this teaching.
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  Let it be deposited upon your people, that everyone who
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  listens to this teaching will find hope.
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  And for they who are the hearers, like Revelation says,
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  let them be blessed because their ears have heard this truth
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  in the name of Jesus. The grace to work in keeping
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  with all the keys that I've shared.
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  And I pray that many of you will come to testify here that you
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  gave up your ashes and in next change you got beauty.
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  That will be your testimony this week.
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  I say it again that you gave up ashes and you received as a
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  replacement beauty received testimonies this week, good news
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  this week. I say it again, testimonies this
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  week, good news this week, elevation this week.
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  May your hands hold good things, may your ears hear good reports
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  as you travel. You are blessed.
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  I declare safety for you. In Jesus mighty name we pray.
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  Amen and Amen. Now I understand that for those
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  of us who are in here, there was an interim arrangement.
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  We made a bit of arrangements to see how we can support your
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  transportation, but so you work with the security department so
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  that we help those who are here, those who have come and those
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  who need that assistance as much as we can provide so that it
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  helps you to get your to your house fast, in peace and safely.
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  So it's a commitment towards your security.
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  Hallelujah. Praise the name of the Lord.
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  Have you been blessed tonight? Father, we bless you and we
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  thank you and we decree and declare the name of Jesus that
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  this world haven't ministered to us.
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  We empower us to minister to others in Jesus mighty name.
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  We pray. So next week we're back here
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  fully and do tell everyone this was just for tonight.
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  Next week Sunday, we're back powerfully by the Spirit of God
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  and every other announcement. I have a very special
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  announcement over a November conference.
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  I'll leave that for next week when we're all back.
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  Fully praise the name of the Lord, but keep praying for UK.
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  We're already planning. God is granting grace.
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  The Lord bless you all in Jesus name.
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  Let's share the grace and fellowship and then afterwards
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  you'll reach for your homes. The grace of our Lord Jesus
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  Christ, the love of God, the sweet fellowship of the Holy
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  Spirit. Rest and abide with us now and
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  forever, Amen. Surely God's goodness and mercy
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  follow us all the days of our lives as we dwell in the House
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  of the Lord, forever and ever, Amen.
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  God bless you all. See you on Sunday.
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  Restore everything that we lost. Restore everything that was
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  stolen, restored. Everything that was lost
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  restored. Your restore said everything
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  that was stolen. You will restore to restore to
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  everything that was left. You will restore.
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  You will restore to restore everything.
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  Whistle, whistle.
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  We start. Now we restart everything, we
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  start, we start, we let hold rise like the strimble in the
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  hole in light everybody that. Take it, get home, let it rise,
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  let it rise, let home, let it rise.
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  And we better get it home, right?
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  Let home, let it rise.