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Holy Ghost Meetings pt 3 · Near East Christian Fellowship Sermons

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Welcome to NECF Sermons. Each message here is
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designed to uplift and strengthen you in your
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walk with God. Don't miss out. Stay with us until
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the end for a rewarding experience. Let's dive
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right in. Can you just be praying under your
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breath in the Holy Ghost? So this is an instruction.
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Can you just be praying under your breath in
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the Holy Ghost? As you listen to me, likewise
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be praying. Under your breath in the Holy Ghost.
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I know that song was for many here. Including
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myself. Hallelujah. That song including myself.
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I won't stop trusting the lover of my soul. I
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will not. He has proved himself over and over
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and over again. I won't stop trusting the lover
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of my soul. Whatever I lacked, he has made me
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full of it. When I'm doubting, he has assured
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me 10 ,000 times. In the storms he has led me,
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calmly in the midst of it. Nothing will stop
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me from trusting the lover of my soul. Hallelujah.
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Praise God. Hallelujah. So there's a word here
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during the prayers that we got, and the words
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is, Karatismos will be glorious. Hallelujah.
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The word says Karatismos will be glorious. Prepare
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and plan to participate in every session. Men
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will be built and clarity will come. Hallelujah.
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And then the last word here says also desire
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supernatural experiences much more. Hallelujah.
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Can you say I have supernatural experiences?
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I see supernatural experiences by the ability
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of the Holy Ghost through my life and in my life.
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Hallelujah. You see, the Holy Ghost has been
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given to us by God not to be a dormant spirit.
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Hallelujah. We heard last week, the Holy Ghost
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has been given to us. He's an active spirit.
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Praise God. He's living and he's active and he's
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dwelling in the believer. Praise God. So the
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believer, having the Holy Ghost in himself or
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within himself or in his life, daily ought to
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be seen his walkings. That's why when you read
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Galatians, it says walk in the Spirit. Hallelujah.
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Where we read last week in Romans chapter 8,
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it says the Spirit of God dwells in your inside.
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So mind the things of the Spirit. So we'll continue
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from where we stopped, but in a different form
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this morning. Amen. However, I'll give us some
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notes. We're going to just highlight it somewhere
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because we're going to come back to it. Praise
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God. Hallelujah. We're going to come back to
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it. Amen. So the topic we've been handling throughout
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this season is Holy Ghost what? Holy Ghost meetings.
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Hallelujah. Praise God. Holy Ghost meetings.
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Why Holy Ghost meetings? Because Holy Ghost meetings
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or believers meetings are for believers. Amen.
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And then we heard last week that we are spiritual.
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Amen. And what has qualified us to be spiritual?
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Because we have the spirit of God where? In our
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inside. How did we get the spirit of God? Let's
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echo it. How did we get the spirit of God? At
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salvation. Salvation how? By what? Yes. So we
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had the gospel of Jesus Christ. We believe with
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our heart that God has raised him from the dead.
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And we confess the Lord Jesus. We got saved.
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So at salvation, we first had an encounter with
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the Holy Ghost there. Amen. So what happened
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at salvation is that Jesus released his spirit
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to dwell in our inside. Hallelujah. You see,
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from that day onward, what has happened to you
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is that you got a new nature in Christ Jesus.
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You don't have a nature issue. Amen. What is
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disturbing you is not a nature issue, as it were,
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because already your nature has been transformed.
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You're in Christ Jesus. I'm not talking about
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now your body. Hallelujah. Praise God. So you
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have the Spirit of God. We read it in 2 Corinthians
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5. For if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature.
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All things are passed away, and behold what?
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All things are become new. So you see, the Holy
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Ghost in the believer is not passive, it's active.
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Do you hear what I said? The Holy Ghost inside
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you is not what? Passive is what? It's active.
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And you understand a little bit why I mention
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this. You don't yield to passive things. You
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yield to active things. You see, everybody, even
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in the natural, you would love to associate yourself
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with things that are working. Is it not? When
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you try things, one, two, three, four, five,
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and they are not working, right? Do you want
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to associate yourself with them? No. So two things
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are there. It's either the things in themselves
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are not working or you don't understand how they
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work. And so you will buy a device and then the
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manufacturer will put a manual inside, right?
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But in Africa, we don't care about manual. Right?
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Yeah, so everybody on the streets just believes
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that when he sees the on button, he switches
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it on, he just knows how the thing functions.
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But you see there, he will put the manual, he
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will put the instructions. In fact, they've even
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helped us, they will draw diagrams, they will
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show you how to put the battery, they will show
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you everything. You see, all those things are
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in a bit so that you will enjoy the device. Hallelujah.
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And you see, the manufacturer didn't leave you
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ignorant of how to use the device. You see, what
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God had done for the believer is that God had
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put his spirit in the believer so that the believer
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is not ignorant of his identity in Christ Jesus.
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So the Holy Ghost inside you will keep walking.
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will keep walking, will keep speaking, will keep
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giving you promptings, will keep instructing
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until you come to a place of maturity where you
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understand and continue or begin to yield. So
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your maturity in Christ Jesus is as a result
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of your yieldedness and participation. Do you
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hear what I said? Your maturity in the things
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of God, in the things of the Spirit, is as a
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result of what? Your yieldedness and your what?
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Participation in the things of the Spirit. On
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Wednesday we had in the teaching, that while
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we are discussing or having these teachings,
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is so that we know how we ought to behave ourselves
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in the church, in a gathering, in a meeting.
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Nothing grows the believer like teaching of God's
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word. If you want to grow, if you want to grow,
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if you want to grow, you need teaching of God's
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word. Your mind cannot be transformed beyond
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how you expose yourself to God's word. Yes. You
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strive for mastery, you want to mature. and measure
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up to the full stature of Christ, then yield
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yourself to what? To the teaching of God's word.
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Beloved, I will not have you what? Ignorant.
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And that is why I'm informing you this morning
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that your growth is directly proportional to
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your participation in teaching meetings. Teaching
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meetings will grow you as a believer. Teaching
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meetings will deepen. your relationship and commitment
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to Jesus, teaching meetings automatically read
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you of flesh. The workings of flesh. It reads
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you of it. Because what? Your identity every
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day is before you. Every day your identity is
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before you. Every day. Why do you think you will
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pay tuition fees? And the lecturers would get
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into your class every day of the week. And at
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the end of four years, you come out, you are
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so convinced that you're a medical doctor. Did
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they come and manipulate your mind? Did they
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come and tell you that you're a medical doctor
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by words? What did they do? They exposed you
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to an ideology. So what God has provided for
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the believer's growth is to expose us to the
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ideology of Christ. Not the philosophies around.
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No. And that ideology is called the gospel. And
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that gospel is a strategic, specific doctrine
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about Christ. It's not money. It's not fame.
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If you want to have money, go to Harvard Business
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School. You're going to be taught how to establish
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organizations and ETC. But you see, if truly
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you want to grow and be effective as a believer,
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then you have to what? Find yourself in a local
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church. Someone says, sir, I don't know the local
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church you belong to. How can I know the local
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church? I say the scripture has already answered
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it. And that is why we are here. Praise God.
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Hallelujah. So teaching will grow you, will deepen
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your relationship with Christ. Teaching, nothing
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more. So let me say a few points here, added
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to teaching meetings, and then we get into what
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we have. Acts 2, verse 44, everybody. Acts chapter
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2 verse 42. Acts chapter 2 verse 44. See what
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the scripture says. And all that believed were
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together and all had things in common. Right?
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And sold their possessions and goods and parted
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them to all men as every man had need. And they
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continued daily with one accord in the temple
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and breaking bread from house to house, did eat
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their meat with gladness and singleness of heart,
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praising God and having favor with all the people.
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And the Lord added to the church daily as what?
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As should be what? Saved. 42. Go to 42, everybody.
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And they continued what? Is it once a week? Is
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it two hours a day? How did they continue? They
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continued steadfastly in what? The apostles'
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doctrine and fellowship and in breaking bread
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and in what? And in prayer. See Acts chapter
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4 verse 4 now, everybody. How be it many of them
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which heard the what? Heard the what? The word.
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So the word was taught. The word was preached.
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That is the only way that they must have heard
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about it, right? Good. So, and many of them that
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heard the word did what? believed, and the number
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of men was about what? 5 ,000. Amen? Acts chapter
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5, verse 12 to 14. You see, the hearing of the
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word brings about increase and multiplication.
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Amen? Acts chapter 5, verse 12 to 14. Join himself
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to them. But the people did what? Magnified them.
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And believers were the more added to the Lord.
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Multitudes. Both of what? Men and what? And women.
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Hallelujah. So we saw them as believers. They
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got into Christ. They were addressed as believers.
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Right? All the places that we read, they were
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all addressed as what? Believers. Believers.
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Believers. Believers. Believers. Right? They
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had the words, they got saved, and they are now
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what? Believers. Amen? So, but now let's go to
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Acts chapter 6. Let's go to Acts chapter 6. Acts
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chapter 6 verse 1. See now from believers what
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is already happening now to them. Acts chapter
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6 verse 1. And in those days, when the number
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of the what? When the number of the... When the
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number of the... When the number of the... Who
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is a disciple? Come on now. Who is a disciple?
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Okay, if you're in training center, who is a
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disciple? Pastor Victor, they are not answering.
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Who is a disciple? Come on now. Who is a disciple?
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Okay, you. Okay, but you is a big answer. Who
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is a disciple? Okay, a believer is still a big
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answer. Who is a disciple? A follower is still
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a big answer. Break it down. Who is a disciple?
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Someone who is going under training. I have marked
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your face. Someone who is undergoing what? Training.
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Every believer that God saved or that God saved
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should not be left hanging in the air. He must
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be trained. Hallelujah. There were Thomas believers.
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They had the word. The number of the believers
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increased. It increased. But as we got into chapter
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6, what has happened what? Disciples. We now
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see Philip among them. We now see Stephen among
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them. Disciples. Every believer in the local
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church must be a disciple. Non -negotiable. That's
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why you're not growing. You see, in the program
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of God, you don't choose who discipled you. That
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is why when you read Ephesians, it says that
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he is the one that gives the gifts. He gave the
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apostles. He gave the teachers. He gave, okay,
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all of them are teachers. He gave the evangelists.
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He gave the prophets. He gave the pastors. Did
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you choose them? You don't. See, you know, me,
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I like, I like Pastor Shoko Bleke. Anytime he
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is teaching, he injures me. It's just because
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you are ignorant. Every time Pastor Munene, he
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teaches, I know he is attacking me. It's me.
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It's my... Because even the way he is looking
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at my direction, who are you in that? Who are
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you? If you feel he is talking to you, then yes,
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he is addressing you. So you got saved by hearing
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the gospel, right? But you don't remain there.
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If not, like I always say here, you become what?
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UFO. Unidentified flying objects. You're online,
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church. You're online, church. In fact, sometimes
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you touch shrine. You come out. You touch mocks.
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You come out. They invite you to cloud nine.
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Here. You go there. Sometimes you come here.
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You know? The glory of God fills everywhere.
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You cry on your knees. You get out there. And
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your mumutious friends carry you again. You move
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around and then you're just struggling with identity
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crisis everywhere. The cure to identity crisis
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for every believer is teaching. Do you hear what
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I said? The cure to what? To identity crisis
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for every believer is what? So now see everyone.
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Was multiplied? There arose a murmuring of the
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Christians against what? The Hebrews because
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their widows were what? Neglected in what? In
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daily ministration. And from there we can keep
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reading. You will see how they were addressed
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as disciples, disciples, disciples, disciples,
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disciples. You must be discipled. You are a product
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of teaching if truly you yield yourself to discipleship.
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There's so much that will change in your life.
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You see, you are too full of yourself. Really.
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Small revelation. You think you have arrived.
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And the revelation is just how to go through
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BLB. You just understood how to check. Let me
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use one. Zoe, just that, cardboard. You know,
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according to BLB, you don't know anything. Revelational
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knowledge excites. I'm telling you, it excites.
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So let me say this as a word of caution. The
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more you feel excited, it should be a sign for
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you to calm down. You know, in someone's language,
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it's a Nisuru, Nisuru, Nisuru for a ballet. The
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more you want to, what? Me what? Nisuru. Calm
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down. There is more you need to know. Praise
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God. You know why I said that now. Hallelujah.
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So now, if you're writing, please write this
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now. It's important. So every church ought to
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be a Bible school. Every church ought to be a
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what? A Bible school. Listen to me. I will not
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have you ignorant. Listen to me. Every church
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ought to be a what? And I say it on this authority.
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If you go to any local church and you're not
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taught God's word, Something is going to happen
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to you now in a short time. Every local church
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ought to be a Bible school and the teaching meeting
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is a classroom. You come, you sit down, and you
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are taught. You hear, you walk with the instructions.
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Amen? It's important. Except your teacher does
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not understand the responsibility. But if a teacher
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understands the responsibility, he will want
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your full attention. It's so unfortunate that
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we come here on a Sunday morning, on a Wednesday,
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on a Friday, and that is when you feel best fit
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for you to carry your phone and play Candy Crush.
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I don't know the games that are online now. So,
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in teaching meetings, we only have one person
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that is teaching. I need to say this now. In
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teaching meetings, we only what? Have one person
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that is what? Our participation is actively in
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listening, learning, taking notes and asking
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questions. In teaching meetings, only one person
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is what? Is teaching. What is our participation?
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How do we ought to behave ourselves? In what?
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Actively in listening, learning. Taking notes
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and what? Asking questions. You should never
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be found. Teaching is going on. You and your
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two friends. You are in corner. You are also
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having your teaching class. How do we ought to
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behave ourselves in teaching meetings? How do
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we ought to behave ourselves? Actively what?
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Listening. learning, taking notes. This is a
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full characteristic or feature of a disciple.
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Pastor Fred is my discipler. Pastor Fred is my
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discipler. Pastor Fred is my discipler. But when
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we see your life, there is nothing comparing
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you to this type of life and behavior. It means
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that you are not actively listening. It means
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you are not actively listening. When you actively
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listen, you actively learn, right? You take notes,
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you ask questions. In a short time, you will
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be like your teacher. Hallelujah. Because that's
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the fruit of teaching. The fruit of teaching
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is that the disciple becomes a what? Yes, the
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discipler. Hallelujah. So, take this down. We
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are coming back to them. The second kind of meeting
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is prayer meetings. Put number two, prayer meetings.
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There is a manner in which we ought to behave
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ourselves in prayer meetings. We are going to
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talk about it in detail. Number one is what?
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Teaching what? Meetings. Number two is what?
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Prayer meetings. Write this down. Number three.
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Outreach meetings. Evangelical meetings. Evangelical
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meetings, number three. Number four. Healing
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meetings. Healing what? Meetings. Glory to God.
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We're going to talk about all this in detail.
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Number five. Leaders' meetings. Leaders' meetings.
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You see all the meetings that I'm asking us to
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write, there is a posture. And all of them are
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from the scriptures. Leaders' meetings. Are we
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all there? Number one is what? Number two? Number
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three? Number four? Number five? And then number
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six now. In itself now. Holy Ghost meetings.
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Or you can say believers meetings. Holy Ghost
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meetings or believers meetings. Thank you, Holy
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Spirit. Can we pray in the Holy Ghost for two
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minutes, everybody? Can we just pray in the Holy
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Ghost? And what are we praying for? Just praying
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the Holy Ghost for two minutes. And when I say
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praying the Holy Ghost, I mean praying tongues.
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What are you praying for again? Can you say pray?
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That you pray the Holy Spirit, use me to be a
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blessing to my neighbor this morning now. Use
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me, use me much more. Speak through me for my
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neighbor. Speak through me for my friend. Speak
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through me for my wife. Speak through me for
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my husband in the name of Jesus. Thank you, Holy
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Ghost. Our eyes are open. We see by the Spirit.
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We hear by the Spirit. We have supernatural experiences
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by the Spirit of God. We have hearing ears. We
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have seen eyes by the Spirit of God. Our hearts
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are open. We receive instructions and directions
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by the Spirit of God. We prophesy by the Spirit
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of God. We give a word of knowledge by the Spirit
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of God. We give word of wisdom by the Spirit
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of God. Tongues and interpretation of tongues
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by the Spirit of God. The power to heal is available
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by the Spirit of God. In the name of Jesus, we
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are edified and we leave this place rejoicing
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by the Spirit of God. Weaknesses are taken. Fears
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are taken. Depressions are taken. Diseases are
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healed. In the name of Jesus. Baptism of the
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Holy Ghost. Demonstrations of the gift of the
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Holy Ghost. Strength, strength, strength, strength
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supplied to us in the name of Jesus. We thank
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you, Holy Ghost. In Jesus' name. What is a Holy
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Ghost meeting? Holy Ghost meeting or a believer's
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meeting, you can say it's a meeting where we
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see the demonstrations of the Spirit of God.
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Where we see the demonstration of the Spirit
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of God. We give the Spirit of God a room to manifest
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Himself. We give the Spirit of God what? Room
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to what? To manifest Himself. However, it has
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an order because there is someone, there is a
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leader that will give us instructions on what
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to do. But often, it's not programmed. Amen?
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Holy Ghost meetings are not what? Are not programmed.
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However, it has an order, right? But it's not
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what? It's not programmed. We're going to look
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at it in the Scriptures. So we give room for
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the Spirit of God to do what? To manifest. We
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see the demonstrations of the Spirit. So in Holy
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Ghost meetings, what we find, two major things
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we find. Number one, the teaching of God's word.
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And number two, the demonstrations of the things
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of the Spirit. In Holy Ghost meetings, we see
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two things. Number one, we see the teaching of
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God's word. And number two, we see the demonstrations
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of the things, or you can put it, the manifestation
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of the things of the Spirit. In Holy Ghost meetings,
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we see first of a necessity and a priority, the
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teaching of God's word. And secondly, we see
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room given or the Holy Ghost allowed to demonstrate
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or manifest himself. So why should we give room
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for the word? Acts chapter 10. Acts chapter 10.
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Because the teaching of God's word gives birth
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to every experience we see in the spirit. Hallelujah.
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The teaching of God will do what? Will give birth
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to what? Will give opportunity for every experience
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or manifestation we see. Amen. So Acts chapter
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10 now everybody. Let's read the scriptures.
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Acts chapter 10 verse 34 to 46. So it's going
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to be a long reading. We're going to read it.
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Please don't be showing scriptures. I want everybody
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to read his Bible. Please. Just help me, right?
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I love you. Everybody go into your Bible. Acts
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chapter 10 verse 34. Acts chapter 10 verse 34.
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Let's read. Then Peter opened his what? Then
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Peter what? Then Peter what? Say in the Holy
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Ghost meeting. In the Holy Ghost meeting, I always
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open my mouth and the Spirit of God moves through
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me. Yes. Then Peter opened his mouth and what?
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And said, you're going to see why. Of a truth
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I perceive that God is no respecter of what?
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Of persons. But in every nation he that feareth
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him and walketh righteousness is accepted with
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him. The word which God sent unto the children
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of Israel. Preaching peace by Jesus Christ, he
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is Lord of all. That word, I say ye, I say, ye
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know which was published throughout all Judea
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and began from Galilee after the baptism which
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John preached. How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth
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with what? With the Holy Ghost and with power
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who went about doing good and healing all that
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were oppressed of what? Of the devil for God
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was what? 38, again, let's read together. One,
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two, go. How God anointed Jesus Christ with what
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of Nazareth? With what? Holy Spirit and with
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what? Say, I have the Spirit of God. I have the
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power of God. I have the Spirit of God. I have
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the power of God. I go about. I go about doing
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good. I go about preaching the gospel and healing
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all that are oppressed of the devil. For God
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is with me. And we are witnesses of all things
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which he did, both in the land of the Jews and
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in Jerusalem, whom they slew and hanged on the
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tree. Him God raised up the third day and showed
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him openly, not to all the people, but unto witnesses
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chosen before of God, even to us. He was speaking
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about himself now. Who did eat and drink with
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him after he rose from the dead. And he commanded
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us to preach. Hallelujah. And he commanded us
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to what? To preach. And he commanded us to what?
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See why Peter is making emphasis on that now.
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Unto the people and to testify that it is he
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which was ordained of God to be the daughter
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of the quick and the dead for the dream. To him
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give all the prophets what? Witness that through
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his name whosoever believeth in him shall receive
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remission of what? Sins. While Peter yet what?
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Speak. The people started laughing. Is that what
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your scripture says? While Peter yet spake these
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words. What happened? What happened? So what
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gave opportunity for the move of the Holy Ghost?
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Huh? Talk now. This is a classroom. What gave
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opportunity for the move of the Holy Ghost? Huh?
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The what, my sister? Touch her, touch her. Yes,
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what gave opportunity for the move of the Holy
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Ghost? The Word. He was teaching. Hallelujah.
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He was teaching. The Holy Ghost now began to
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move. Fell on all of them which did what? Had
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the Word. All of them that were there, the Spirit
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of the Lord did what? Fell upon them. 44, 45.
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And they of the circumcision which believed were
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astonished. And as many came with Peter, because
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that on the Gentiles also was poured out the
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gift of what? Of the Holy Ghost. See 46. For
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they heard them. With what? How did they hear
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them? They heard them with what? With tongues.
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What were they saying with tongues? And magnified
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God then answered what? Peter. Teaching was coming.
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Teaching, teaching, teaching, teaching. What
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was the thing that Peter was preaching? The previous
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verses. As he was teaching, he didn't change
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the message. He didn't say there is going to
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be one spectacular power that is going to come.
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What was he talking about? He was talking about
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the death, burial and what? The resurrection
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of Jesus Christ. He said, while he yet spake.
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For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ.
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Right? Romans chapter 1. Let's read it together.
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We need to read it together. So that you will
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know. There is no any kind of special message
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you need to preach for the Holy Ghost to come
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upon people. Hallelujah. Same message. Romans
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chapter 1. Verse 16. For I am not ashamed of
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the gospel of Jesus Christ. For it is the power
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of God unto salvation. To what? To everyone that
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what? Believe it to the Jew first and also to
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what? To the Greek. There is no special kind
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of message you preach for the Holy Ghost to move.
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No. Same message. The death, burial, and what?
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Resurrection of Jesus. Same message that gets
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people saved. It's same message that gets people
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filled with the Holy Ghost. It's same message
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that causes the manifestation and the demonstration
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of things of the Holy Ghost through their lives.
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Same message, sir. There is no another kind of
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message again. You know, I think, you know, because
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I was just telling them how Jesus died and rose
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again, that is why I think the Spirit did not
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move. No. That is what, that is actually what
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makes the Spirit move. Hallelujah. Praise God.
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Hallelujah. Hallelujah. So we see, the speaking
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of the word, The teaching of the Word, which
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will not go back to it now, brought about the
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demonstrations of the Spirit. Nothing more. All
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that had the Word, the Spirit of God, fell upon
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them. In catatismus, what will be happening is,
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as we are hearing the Word, the Spirit of the
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Lord will be falling upon people. We're going
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to see people feel much more with the Spirit
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of God. We're going to see demonstrations of
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things of the Spirit like no other day that we
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have seen. We're going to see convictions stirred
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up much more. We're going to see people see by
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the Spirit of God. We're going to see people
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hear by the Spirit of God. We're going to see
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people heal instantly by the Spirit of God. The
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teaching of those words. Nothing more. You see,
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if you understand what I just said now, you will
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stop running from church A to church B, to church
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C, to church 3. That is why you keep following
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majors, majors, majors, majors everywhere. Your
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life is still a minor. The Lord will give you
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understanding. Stay where you are and grow. Tell
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your friend, stay where you are and grow. Stay
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in NECF and grow. Please tell the person there
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is nothing you are looking outside for there.
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Yes. Oh, let me say this now as it's coming to
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my heart now by the Spirit of God. All that you
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need as a believer, you'll find it in this local
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church. You know, I was talking to someone some
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last two weeks. She said, sir, you know, why
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me? I said, but we have not been seeing you in
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church. We have not been seeing you in cell meetings.
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We have not been seeing you in this. She said,
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sir, every time I come around, I feel people
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are judging me. I said, actually, your feelings
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are valid. But... You see, this judgment, we
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have to give it a context. Are they judging you
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or you feel judged? She said, I actually feel
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judged. I said, so what did you do to prove them
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that this feeling is not true? She said, I did
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not say anything. So I said, so where have you
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been that we have not seen you? She said, I'm
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attending this church. Definitely I will not
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tell you people their name. I said, so since...
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you enter that place. You know, because she shared
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a problem with me and the problem was that when
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she, there are certain people, I will not call
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names definitely, there are some people in this
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church that when she sees their life, when they
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talk about Jesus, they talk about Jesus out of
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conviction and they don't talk about Jesus out
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of duty. And I ask her, have you gone to meet
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them and then they tell you they are before and
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now? Do you know that they came to this place
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worse than you? But you see, that thing you call
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duty is actually what makes it works. That feeling,
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now that you moved to that place, so far, have
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you feel any kind of this thing? She said, not
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yet, nothing. I told her, I said, you will never
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see it. I know what, I took her to 2 Timothy,
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chapter 4. He said, you know, a time will come,
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they will heap for themselves. false teachers
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with itching ears. They would be jumping around.
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When she read it, she shouted. I said, I didn't
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say it. You read it. And you know, she caught
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herself and read Amplified. So I now said, having
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said all these things, what will you do? She
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says, I will go and pray. I said, no, you don't
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pray about a church to be part of. The scripture
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has answered your prayers on which local church
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to be part of. See, if you're hearing me here,
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never pray about a church to join. Never. The
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church to join has been defined in the word.
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Your prayers have been answered. You just have
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been praying for two months. Where? You're lying.
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It's just that you don't know. Find a church.
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Where God's word is giving much more credence.
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Find a church where prayers is giving much more
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credence. Find a church where you are encouraged.
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Let me say this hard now. Find a church where
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they are on your neck to serve God as a duty.
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That is how you grow. Our mothers are here. They
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will tell you. Yesterday I was with Pastor Victor.
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One of his babies is finding difficulty to this
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season. But... Imagine now, she says she will
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not eat. What will you do? She must eat. You
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don't negotiate your growth in Jesus. It's God's
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responsibility for you as a believer to do what?
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To grow. Every responsible father wants to see
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his sons and daughters do what? Grow. You become
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an issue if you're not growing. However, since
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then I've not seen her around. Maybe she's still
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praying. I'll give her some additional one week.
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And then I'll call her again. Tell your friend,
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don't run away from church. Because you feel
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judged. Now say this now. If you feel judged,
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it's because you are guilty. Yes. It's a word
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for somebody. So. Holy Ghost meetings, what gives
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back to demonstrations is what? Teaching of God's
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Word. Amen? So now the second thing we see, the
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first thing we see is what? The Word of God is
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giving what? Is giving place first. Do you know
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why? Because the Spirit of God has been given
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to us so that we can become speaking spirits.
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The Spirit of God. So what the teaching of God's
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word will do to us is that the teaching of God
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will reveal to us our identity in Christ. That
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the teaching of God's word will unveil to us
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to know that we are what? Speaking what? Spirits.
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Oh boy, we change things by words in this kingdom.
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We speak. We speak life. We speak life. We speak
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life. Speak life. Speak life. Speak life. When
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something is not going right, we speak life.
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We bring order to every chaos around. See, I'm
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a speaking spirit because the Spirit of God dwells
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in me. Yes. He's a speaking spirit. So the demonstrations
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of the gifts of the Spirit are a product of speakings.
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Yes. 1 Corinthians 12, verse 3. So that we'll
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see scriptures now. So while Peter yet speak,
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imagine Peter was there and he refused to speak.
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Do you think anything will happen? Oh, I just
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got this now in my heart. When we come much more,
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all these weeks that are coming ahead of us into
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Carthaginus, learn to speak. Because by speaking,
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things will begin to happen. Because by speaking,
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you will see the supernatural. Because by speaking,
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order will be set in places where there are chaos.
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Yes. 1 Corinthians now, chapter 12, verse 3.
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See. Please pay attention to that verse. Wherefore,
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I give you to understand. No man by keeping quiet
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by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accost. Please
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pay attention. Verse 3, everybody. Wherefore,
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I give you to understand that no man, by keeping
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quiet by the Spirit of God, calleth Jesus a ghost.
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No man what? No man what? How does the man speak?
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By what? By the Spirit of what? Of God. And that
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no man can say that Jesus is Lord, but by what?
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When I was standing at the back there, he said,
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if you can say that Jesus is Lord, then you can
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say healing take place. If you can say Jesus
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is Lord, then you can say eyes open. If you can
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say Jesus is Lord, then you can say ears open.
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If you can say Jesus is Lord, because the same
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spirit that has worked in your heart to say Jesus
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is Lord is the same spirit that is working in
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you now to say eyes open, eyes to open. And this
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son shall follow them that believe. In my name.
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It's not another spirit. Same spirit. You will
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have supernatural experiences every day. Hallelujah.
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Praise God. Hallelujah. So God has given us a
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spirit so that we can speak. No man can say.
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by the Spirit of God. No man can speak by the
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Spirit of God. No man. On Wednesday, by God's
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grace, we're going to build on a short path.
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And I believe from there, we're going to have
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full understanding and instructions of what is
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going to come in the Karatismos much more. Hallelujah.
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Position yourself for this conference. Participate
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in this conference. If it's in your power to
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tell your boss to give you that one week, please
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tell your boss and be around. Amen. Please do
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all you can. This year is going to be different.
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I know by the Spirit of God now. I know what
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I'm saying now. I've seen it. I've seen it. Not
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once, not twice. I've seen it. I'm praying about
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it every day from last month till today. I've
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been praying every day for this program. The
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pastors have been praying every day for this
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program. A prayer team are praying every day
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for this program. So what will stop you from
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praying for this conference? What will stop you
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from preparing your hearts for this conference?
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Can we rise to our feet? Desire the supernatural
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in your life, in your family. As a husband, as
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a wife, upon your children, upon your friends,
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desire to see the supernatural. The Spirit of
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God is speaking through us and is even doing
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now. My hands, they heal my eyes. They see my
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ears. They hear in the Holy Ghost. My hands,
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they hear my ears. They see. One more time. My
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eyes, they see me. Can you say, Lord, I have
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supernatural experiences? I see supernatural
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experiences. Can you declare it? Can you declare
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it? Can you declare it? Can you declare it? The
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Spirit of God is a speaking Spirit. And that's
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the Spirit that is within you. I hear you by
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the Spirit of God. I prophesy by the Spirit of
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God. I see by the Spirit of God. I bring direction
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to my friends. I bring so much of the abilities
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of the Holy Ghost. Much more. We appreciate you
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being here today. We hope you carry this word
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with you throughout your week. Don't forget to
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