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EBENEZER (WHEN GOD HELPS MEN) 2CHRONICLES 26:15 WITH APOSTLE JOSHUA SELMAN ||08|12|2024|| · Selah Media House

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You're not wasting your time. No, you're not.
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Wasting your time, not in His presence.
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You're not wasting your time, not in an atmosphere of worship.
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The yours is the glory forever, I say.
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Yours is the key down. The Yours is the power of Yours
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is the glory. All the.
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The. None.
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The latus que saneke paratus Guwahati English woman largest
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in worship. King of the Ages for worship.
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The glory fight tonight, it's in Jesus name.
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We have worshiped. It's in Jesus name that we have
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worshipped. Every time God decides to move
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in a certain way, you must have the ability to discern what the
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Spirit is doing. Please play the strings for me.
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I enter the holy of Holy. I enter through the blood of the
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land. I am to to worship you only.
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I am to to order. I am boy, your name is
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hopefully. Hopefully.
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I have searched and searched all the earth, have searched and
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searched all the earth, and I found that.
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I have searched and searched all the earth, searched and searched
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all the earth, and I found that. I have searched and searched all
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the earth, searched and searched all the earth, and I found that
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one more time. We have searched and searched
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all the earth, searched and searched all the earth.
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We found that.
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Yeah, yes. Hallelujah, let me tell you this
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some some of my encounters with strange graces came in the place
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of worship that was not planned, just went to the place of prayer
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as usual and collided with very strange graces.
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For one simple reason that you stay until that glory rests upon
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you. I think this is something the
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body of Christ is losing. We are an organized people, but
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we must be sensitive. Very deep spiritual transactions
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happen in the place of worship, and sometimes people are
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careless. And what you've been praying
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for, fasting for four years, just comes with that glory, and
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you're not discerning enough to receive.
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One thing I can assure you of is that if it's His presence,
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you're not wasting your time. To the carnally minded, this is
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just a waste of time, singing and singing and singing.
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But to those of us who have tasted of the things of the
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Spirit, we know how grace is delivered, is delivered in the
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place of staying that endurance allowing His presence to.
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Minister to you until life is transmitted onto you.
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Sometimes God allows this thing so that you can learn.
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It is the way of the Spirit. It is the way of power.
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The moment you become excessively mechanical with the
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Spirit, He will be compelled to make do with the allowance you
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have given him. But certain levels of glory you
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may never taste in your life. Hallelujah, Father, we honor you
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and we give you praise. Thank you for the privilege of
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worship. Be glorified tonight in Jesus
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name. Please be seated if you can.
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We bless the Lord for the privilege.
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Those under the anointing just just leave them well organized
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people. But I mean there are people who
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are just resting, allowing the glory to rest on them.
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Please don't, don't bother them, don't disturb them.
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It is at such times that worship great ministries are birthed,
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great visions, great anointings. You know, it's important to know
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how God answers prayer and I teach you this all the time.
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You see, please look at me. As different as our faces are,
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so are our. Needs.
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So when you see God insisting on us, the thing about God is that
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for the sake of one person, he can insist on a people because
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of something he wants to do to one person, all the rest can be.
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Beneficiaries, but because of the hunger that rises from the
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heart of one person, Hallelujah. Praise the name of the Lord and
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for all of you who have submitted yourself to worship,
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may the Lord bless you. You will reap the blessings and
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the benefit of being a true worshipper.
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In Jesus name we pray so it's good evening to everyone again.
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We're happy and honored to be in the presence of God.
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The psalmist said, I was glad when they said unto me, let us
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go to the House of the Lord. We find many things in his
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presence. The fullness of joy and the
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Bible says as his right hand are pleasures even forevermore.
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May your portion be delivered to you tonight.
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Shout he believe in Amen. OK, just a little housekeeping
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and then we'll see how far God will help us tonight.
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By the way, it's good for you to know that tonight is our second
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to the last service officially. I think you should celebrate
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Jesus. Hallelujah.
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By this time next week, we're going to be having the last
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physical service, physical gathering for the year.
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We have a culture in this ministry where we take breaks
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for about a period of one month, and I'll tell you why by next
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week. But it's a very healthy practice
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that has been very profitable. It's allowed people to connect
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with their families. It's allowed our workers to
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rest. It's allowed people to spend
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time with God to draw strength for the season ahead.
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So by God's grace, it's not carved on stone, but for as long
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as God has not brought any restraint or walk in keeping
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with that pattern that is delivered unto us.
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So just for you to know that next week, by the grace of God,
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we'll be here gloriously to celebrate the final service for
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20/24. It will be a time of extravagant
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praise, and we're going to have some time to pray that every
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balance of prophecy yet to manifest in our lives that in
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the name of Jesus, before the services ended, God would make
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performance of that word in the name of Jesus Christ by next
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week. Also, we'll announce, I think
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shortly after next week, the doors will be open for the 2025
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set of the Koinonia School of Ministry.
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Hallelujah. Now we're saying this to pre
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inform you and usually we're patient until the later part of
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December or January. But this is part of our
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commitment to see that we caught the time and then we give
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especially our international community ample time to be able
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to prepare and do all that is needful.
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So by next week, look forward to the announcement.
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I think soon after next week, the links will be out.
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Make sure that you plan and it'll be an exciting time,
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especially because the next set will be the first to experience
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our upgraded curriculum for the School of Ministry.
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Hallelujah. This week, beginning by His
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grace will be in Zarya to wrap up the service.
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The final session with Zarya, the centre and just a rundown of
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the timetable because Zaria is connecting with us tonight.
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So Zaria and environs and for those who will be travelling
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from here, please pay attention. Tuesday 10th will be the Welfare
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outreach. From 8:00 AM on Wednesday will
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be the Workers Appreciation Dinner for Zaria and then
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Thursday, 8:00 AM, I'll be meeting with the prayer
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department in Zaria. I've not had any time with them
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and I promise them that we'll have a session so that they can
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also receive their blessing. So prayer department and
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everyone who is interested, please make sure that you are
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available. 8:00 AM on Thursday and then by 5:00 PM it will be a
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night of worship. It's going to be an extravagant
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night of worship. We're having our people from
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here and so that's that's the bill there.
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Let's let's give Jesus a big hand of praise.
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Of course, everyone is invited. It's going to be streamed live
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so you can connect with us on Koinonia Global.
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By the grace of God, we make sure that it's streamed live and
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then on Friday will be our final service.
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Our final service will be on Friday and then we quickly
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return to wrap up here and that does it for the year 2024.
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If you'll be alive and strong to experience all these, give Jesus
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a big hand clap. Hallelujah.
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The final announcement is our end of year sacrifice would
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begin to make that commitment from next week.
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For those of you who do not know, we have a spiritual
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practice as a global family at the final service of the year.
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We take the time to honour the Lord and honour everything he's
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doing with an end of year sacrifice is being a practice
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that we've held for many years and that with understanding.
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And so this is first to a global family and then as many as
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connect to this vision. That would be an opportunity for
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you. I will do the prayer.
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Please don't make any seats any until I do the prayer.
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It's beyond the money. It's number one.
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An expression of love and gratitude #2 an expression of
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your commitment to support the work of the Lord #3 you are
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connecting for your own harvest. The laws of the Kingdom will
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never break for as long as the earth remains.
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So I'm saying this so that you take this week as a person, as a
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company, as a family, as a church.
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Make sure you plan. Let it be premeditated.
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Don't just jump in and you know, irrationally or emotionally.
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Make decisions where people of the Spirit take the time to
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think. Plan with God, plan with your
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spouse, plan with your children, your company, your executives
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and then we'll make the prayer not during the offering when I
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come up, when we're done, there'll be a session for that
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when I'll make that declaration and then we'll give everyone an
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opportunity. And this concerns our global
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family across our established expressions and all other
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expressions is not limited to US, Canada and UK loan, but all
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others. We may not have specific bank
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details for your nation, but you can always do well to make do
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with our details, which will be displayed at the point of that
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announcement and when we are prepared for prayer.
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So please make sure you take the time to plan.
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We're trusting God for an awesome time.
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Do invite everyone for this final service to celebrate the
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hand of God and to receive the prophetic declarations and then
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to remind us our recap on this next week, again to remind us
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that by 31st 6:00 PM Nigerian time, we always bring the
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prophetic word for the next year.
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So where people who are guided by the speakings of God.
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I understand that not everyone believes in or is comfortable
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with the concept of prophetic words, but for us it's been a
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pattern that has guided the activity of the Spirit through
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this ministry and we've had our results to show that when you
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are guided by a prophetic word from the Lord.
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The results are there to show. So for as long as God has not
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restrained us on that would listen for his voice to hear
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that which he will be speaking to us as a global family guiding
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our activities for the next year.
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So please look out six PM on the dot, Nigerian time, you can look
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to our social media platforms and then you take advantage of
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that. And whilst we're on break,
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please be aware that our media ministry will be active in every
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way. There will be sermons and
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teachings and all kinds of content that is faith building,
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refreshing, and hopefully we'll be able to come up with all
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kinds of combinations that can help your retreat, help your
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work. I'm sure that the media would
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work with leaders within the house to even come up with
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recommendations, teachings that custom builds to help you during
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your retreat, help you during your time, almost anything you
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want to find knowledge about as far as spiritual growth and
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transformation is concerned, there is a message already on
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ground for it, so look out for that.
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The Lord will bless you in Jesus name.
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I've taken a bit of time, so we'll see how God will help us
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tonight. I'm teaching tonight on the
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topic. Ebenezer, when God helps man,
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please listen very carefully because this is beyond a
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teaching, it's an impartation. I'm trusting that there is a
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grace that will come from this altar tonight that will cause
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people to. Truly be an.
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Expression of God's goodness as we wrap up this year Ebenezer
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when God helps men Second Chronicles chapter 26 we'll read
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verse 5 then we'll jump to 15. We'll consider a few more
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scriptures and then I'll begin to summarize my thoughts.
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We have spent some time in worship and I believe that that
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is not a waste because now you can understand why God insisted
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on us to have a moment of worship in the name of Jesus.
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And he sought God in the days of Zechariah who had understanding
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in the visions of God. And the Bible says as long as
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he. Sought the Lord God.
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Made him to prosper. I've told you that God has the
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power to cause. Men to prosper.
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It is very scriptural to believe that the prosperity of the
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believer in Christ are we together is directly connected
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to the help and the wisdom of God.
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Verse. 15 And he made in Jerusalem engines invented by
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conning men. To be on the towers and upon the
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bulwarks, and to shoot arrows and great stones.
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Without the Bible says and his name listen spread far abroad,
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For he was marvelously helped. Until he was strong, may that be
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your testimony. In the name of Jesus Christ, I
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say it again. May that be your testimony.
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Let's go to 1st. Samuel Chapter 7 and verse one,
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the context from whence we brought this word.
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Now I'm going to jump a lot of words.
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These words are really very difficult.
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You see how they are. Look at the first word there.
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My goodness, I mean, they would have just abbreviated them.
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But Bible for you. Thank God we're not in their
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culture. So the men of that place, you
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see right there, Hallelujah, the Bible says.
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They fetched up the ark of the Lord.
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And brought it to the House of Abinada in the hill and
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sanctified Eliazza his son to keep the ark of the Lord.
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We're reading to verse 14. It's a long read.
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Please be patient and it came to pass while the ark are boarding.
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See same place again once I jump it.
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Just know if you studied English help me pronounce it when I get
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there, that the time was long, for it was 20 years and all the
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House of Israel lamented after the Lord.
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Verse 3 Samuel speak to the House of Israel.
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Saying if ye do. Return to the Lord with all your
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heart, and put away strange gods, the gods of Asharath, from
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among you, and you prepare your hearts unto the Lord and serve
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him only. He says He will deliver you out
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of the hand of the Philistines. I'm giving you a.
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Context now and the children of Israel did put away Berlin and
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Asharath and serve the Lord only verse 5 and Samuel said gather
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all Israel to miss. Bear, and I will pray the Lord.
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I will pray for you unto the Lord.
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Verse 6. And they gathered together in
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misper, and drew water, and poured it out before the Lord,
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and fasted on that day, and said, we have.
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Sinned against the Lord and some will judge the children of
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Israel in misper verse 7 and when the philistines.
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Heard that the children of Israel were gathered together to
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misper. The Lord of the Philistines went
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up against Israel, and when the children of Israel heard it,
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they were afraid of the Philistines. 8 And the children
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of Israel said unto Samuel, Cease not to cry unto the Lord
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our God for us, that he will save us out of the hand.
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Of the Philistines. And Samuel took a sockling lamb,
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and offered it for a burnt offering wholly unto the Lord.
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And Samuel cried unto the Lord for Israel, And the Lord heard
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him. May the Lord hear you.
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And Samuel was offering, as Samuel was offering unto the
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Lord, the bond offering. The Philistines drew knight to
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battle against Israel. But the Lord Thunder with a
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great Thunder on that day upon the Philistines, and discomfited
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them, and they were smitten before Israel.
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Four more verses. And the men of Israel went out
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of Misbah, and pursued the Philistines, and smote them
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until they came on the Beth car, verse 12.
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And Samuel took a stone. And set it between Misper and
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Shen, and he called the name of it Ebenezer, saying he that told
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the Lord had helped us. Verse 13 So the Philistines were
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subdued, and they came no more into the coast of Israel, and
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the hand of the Lord was. Against the Philistines all the
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days of Samuel, the final verse. And the cities which the
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Philistines had taken from Israel were restored to Israel,
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from Ekron to Gath, and the coast thereof did Israel deliver
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out of the hands of the Philistines, and there was peace
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between. Israel and the Amorites, Amen
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and Amen. So tonight I want to show you a
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very deep mystery in the Kingdom.
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The word Ebenezer, as you know, comes from the Hebrew expression
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the stone of. Help.
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Teachings along the lines of help are not new in this House,
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but it's important to establish this.
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As the Lord has placed it in my heart.
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And so you see that according to that scripture, it was a stone
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that was set up as a memorial by prophet.
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Samuel to commemorate the help that the nation of Israel
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received from the Lord and he called it Ebenezer, a stone of
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help. And so we're dealing essentially
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tonight using that caption one to explore.
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What it takes to be marvelously helped.
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What happens when God decides to help?
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God decides to assist. A man let me do a very simple
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definition of help. I like to do definitions because
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it's important that we have common understanding so that we
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are not vacillating concepts while I discuss what does it
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mean to help write down. Please to give assistance or
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support. In its simplest form, that's
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what it means to help. To give assistance or support.
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Another definition, help means to make it easier or possible
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for someone to achieve a goal. Listen to make it easier or
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possible for someone to achieve a goal by offering one services
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or resources To make it easier or possible for someone to
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achieve a goal by offering one services or resources.
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So every time you make the journey easier or possible like
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you have been taught for someone, usually by offering
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your services or offering your resources, you have helped such
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a person very quickly. What is the goal and the intent
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behind help? Now that you understand that
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help means to give assistance, support, it means to make
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anything at all easier or possible by offering one
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services, by offering one's resources.
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What is the goal behind help? The goal is to make any task or
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any desire possible, achievable and as easy as possible.
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Listen carefully. The goal behind showing help or
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receiving help is to make a task or a desire possible.
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The achievement of it now achievable and as easy as
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possible. So when you cry for help, it is
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a cry to make a task, a goal, or a desire possible to make it
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achievable and to make it as easy as possible.
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Hallelujah. This is very elementary, but
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very powerful. Most people cry on to God for
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help, but they have no idea nor definition of what they are
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trying to request for. And in the Kingdom, our prayer
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is governed by intelligence of understanding.
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If you do not even know what you're asking for, Faith is
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dependent on intelligence. It connects to an idea that is
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not abstract. It has to be defined.
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The clearer your goals, the clearer your ideas and your
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requests are we together, the more your faith connects to the
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power of God to receive and make it manifest in your life.
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And once there's vagueness in understanding, you will be
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saying a lot of church words, a lot of Bible words.
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But because you are bankrupt of what they mean know what you
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really expect from God, you may not be able to release your
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faith to receive. And that's why I took the time
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to define help. We're exploring what happens
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when God helps a man. A few things I want you to
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understand tonight #1 every man succeeds in life and destiny to
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the degree to which they find help.
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Please write that every man, every woman, every pastor, every
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church, every organization succeeds in life and destiny to
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the degree to which they find help.
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Let me repeat it one more time. I hope you're writing Every man
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succeeds in life and destiny to the degree to which they find
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help. Listen, by the message of God, I
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have studied success from a Kingdom standpoint and fairly.
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I'm able to piece together for you the variables that I
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understand from Scripture and from wise people if you ask me
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today to explain for you the variables that must be in place
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to command Kingdom success. There are variables of
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godliness, character, variables of value and intelligence, but
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chiefest among them that I know by Scripture, through my life,
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and by the experience of others is the help of God.
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We are as successful in life and destiny as the help that is
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offered us. It's a very important thing for
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you to understand. There are many people.
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For instance, I have seen many gifted people.
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I have seen many anointed people even in ministry, and sometimes
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you see how limited they are. Remember the testimony of the
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gentleman. The gentleman was sharing a
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testimony here and he did say how that you know there was
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nobody to help and support and assist him.
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But when help came, a miracle also came.
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Many of you right now, to the degree to which you are bankrupt
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of help, that is the degree to which it looks like your gifts
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have not been recognized. Sitting right now within your
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spirit, within your minds is capacity to be global by every
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definition. But what you lack is not value.
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What you lack is help. I have heard people sing while
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they're packaging, You know, you can meet a trader and while the
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trader is trying to, maybe you are buying rice or buying
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something from an open market. You see them raise a worship
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song and you almost want to say, what in the world are you doing
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here? You should be somewhere in the
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studio and the person will tell you, Madam or Sir, condition we
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say, you know, I don't want to say that.
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I'm not sure if that is right. I think crafish bends because it
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is dry. It's not because of condition.
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Hallelujah. Sometimes we need to reason out
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these white sayings that have come unreasonably.
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Do I still have your attention? Very important.
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So that to the degree to which you are assisted.
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I've seen people with average understanding, not to insult,
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just to compare, average understanding, average
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qualifications. But they found themselves in the
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midst of marvelous help, first of God and then of men.
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And some of those people became elevated to a position that a
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position of greatness, advancement, and notoriety
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versus other exceptional people who maybe because they did not
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have financial help, us as a case study, they remain limited,
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barely went through school, barely got a job.
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And then you find out that there is nothing the person they are
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celebrating. There's nothing that person has
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in terms of intellectual capacity that those gentlemen
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who are disadvantaged do not have.
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Hallelujah. I seldom doubt when whether
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social media or mainstream media celebrates what they call the
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best, the greatest, the most exceptional.
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Usually those concepts are relative, because you have to
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dig down to find people who are more competent by every
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standard. But the limitation, the
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difference between a champion in many regards and someone who has
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capacity but is not exalted is that they lack help.
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And by this definition already I'm praying for you that even
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for the year ends in the name of Jesus, the help requirement for
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prophecy to manifest in your life whilst you are hearing me
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speak may gravitate towards you. Tonight is a night to shout Amen
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with all your heart. Hallelujah, be seated.
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God bless you. So number one, that every man
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succeeds in life, succeeds in ministry, succeeds in family,
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succeeds in destiny. Not just because they have
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capacity As important as that is not just because they are
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spiritual as important as that is not just because they are
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valuable as important as that is not just because they have
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character and are disciplined but many the in many instances
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the difference between grace and grace, glory and shame increase
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and decrease or decline for many people is just the introduction
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of strategic help you believe that the second thing to learn
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tonight as we discussed this subject is that God helps men.
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Very simple but profound statement.
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Say that after me God helps men. Yes Sir, he does.
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God helps men. God can and he desires to help
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men. The Bible is full of men and
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women who enjoy the help of God. God helps men some 121 verse one
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God helps man. That's the second point I want
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you to note very simple but carries with it such profound
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power when you understand the light that is hidden there.
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God helps man. I will lift up my eyes onto the
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hills. He says from whence comment my
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help verse 2 it says my help. Someone say my help comes from
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the Lord. Say it as a prayer and a
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prophecy. Say my help comes from the Lord.
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Let your situation hear you one last time.
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Say my help comes from the Lord. My help in ministry comes from
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the Lord. My help in destiny comes from
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the Lord. The Bible says some trust in
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horses and some trust in Chariots.
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It says but we will trust in the name of our God.
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Do you know you can align 2 people literally like stand two
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people on stage here and you can wait with intelligence.
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You don't even have to be born again.
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You can point someone who is currently enjoying the help and
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the mercy of God. When God helps you, the
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difference becomes clear, unmistakable.
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Even unbelievers will know that this one there are some
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possibilities that are beyond your effort by yourself.
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The help of God. God helps men.
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He helped the nation of Israel. God helps men.
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He helped Abraham, God helps men.
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He helped Gideon and you know against the Midianites.
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God helps men, God help Joseph. Are we together?
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God help Samson. The Bible is full of men and
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women who obtain help from God. God help Esther, God help Ruth,
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even now that the latter part of their lives were better than the
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former. There have been many, many
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people in Scripture, many people through history, marvelously
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helped by God. May you be the next in the name
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of Jesus Christ. And by this I'm speaking to a
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man of God. You have done all you know to do
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walking in integrity. But the missing ingredient,
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honestly, the reason why ministry still the way it is
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right now is because help us not come.
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I pray for you. May Ebenezer arise and show you
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hell. I pray for a family with very
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responsible children. No compromise, loving the Lord,
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but they keep begging, they keep crying.
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It looks like help cannot arise from anywhere and your
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spirituality is becoming a mockery in the name of Jesus.
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The help that is needed to command favor, to command
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increase in your life that before the years ended, May God
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make it manifest in you. Every man succeeds in life.
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Please sit down and destiny to the degree to which they are
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helped. They are businesses with very
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simple, elementary, basic ideas, ideas that should not command
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the kind of global attention and notoriety, but simply because
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those ideas fell into the ears of men with capacity and
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influence. And we together, they drove
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those ideas to fruition. Sometimes when we celebrate the
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tech giants, sometimes when we celebrate the social media
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giants, sometimes when we celebrate giants across various
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endeavors, you know, even they themselves know that they are
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not the best. They are just the ones who were
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helped. There's some young man I think I
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was what, what city did we travel to?
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And we're we're about returning from one of the sessions at a
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conference that should be somewhere in the East.
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And I saw people gathered. I was inside the car and I saw
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people gathered and they were looking at some gentleman.
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He had designed AG wagon, truly a mini G wagon, everything
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outsourced locally designed that you are gone and I think he was
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doing a display of it and people were around just watching and I
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nodded my head. I said look at this now, the
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same kind of brain that somebody had, but whilst you call another
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person, the founder of Mercedes-Benz, while you call
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another person Ford, you call all these people.
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That gentleman has no name, not because he has no idea, but the
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help. Again, I'm praying for you all,
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whatever you have walked on that is ready for the world to see,
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only limited by help. May the God of my covenant send
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help speedily. Send help speedily.
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Send help speedily. Please be seated.
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I once met a woman many years ago, I think I went to preach
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for Pastor Kingsley Okonko and his wife introduced me to a lady
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who, you know, came and we're just discussing at the Green
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Room. And she told me how that it was
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bean cake, what you call moemoi in Nigeria.
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That's what took her to the White House.
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Not the ability to speak, not not in, not necessarily
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brilliant and smart woman, but when she sat down and narrated
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her story, it didn't add up. I said no.
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When you see questions, don't add up, don't argue, help.
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When God steps in, it doesn't matter whether the question is
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balanced or not. He will push it and force it to
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work. I pray for someone you've done
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your best to. I told you to receive tonight in
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the name of Jesus. May God, who is the helper of
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man help you. May God, who is the helper of
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man help you. Please be seated.
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God helps men. If you are in doubt, ask
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Koinonia. God helps men.
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If you are in doubt, ask Joshua Salman.
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God helps men. In the name of Jesus, God helps
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men. If you have not access your own
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help is because you have not come to terms with the fact that
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there is an ability to outsource help and grace beyond your
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efforts. Do not forget these foundational
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things you're learning #1 every man succeeds in life and destiny
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to the degree to which they find help #2 God helps man.
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Luke chapter 153 and 54. Luke chapter 1.
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The Bible says he had filled the hungry with good things, and the
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rich had he sent empty away. 54 He had helped his servant Israel
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in remembrance of his mercy. Let me read that well.
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He has helped his servant, Joshua Selman, in remembrance of
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his mercy. He has helped His servant.
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If you are ever in doubt whether God helps men, read your Bible
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and if you are tired of reading your Bible, read my life.
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If you are tired of reading my life, read Koinonia.
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If you are tired of reading Koinonia, read your neighbor's
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story and you will see that God helps men.
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In the name of Jesus Christ, God helps men.
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Why do we need help? This is very powerful.
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I want to give you 3 very powerful reasons why all men
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need help. Most of us know that God helps,
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but until I bring you to a point where you see the necessity of
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receiving help from God, you may not release your faith even
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though you'll be shouting Amen, but in truth, you will not open
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up your heart to receive. Why do we need help in life and
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destiny #1 all men I wrote here, even at their best are limited.
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The first reason why we need help?
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All men, I don't care who you are.
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All men are, even at their best, are limited.
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All men. This is a reality that has come
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upon all men. It doesn't matter how
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privileged, it doesn't matter how intelligent, it doesn't
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matter how gifted. By default, all men, even at
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their best, are limited. Limited in knowledge, limited in
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managing their emotions, limited in strength and capacity to push
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through unassisted. Psalm 103 will read 14 to 16.
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Psalm 100 and 314 to 16. All men are limited.
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The Bible says, for he knoweth our frame.
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Someone said thank you Jesus, that is good news for you ladies
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and gentlemen, that God knows your frame.
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He knoweth our frame. He remembered that we are dust.
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Verse 15 he says As for man, his days are as grass as the flower
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of the field, so he flourish it. Final verse 16, he says for the
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wind, pass it over it and it is gone and the place thereof shall
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not be known anymore. God knows, he knows what he
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created. Are we together in His image?
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We are powerful in Christ. We are powerful but as humans,
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unassisted by the Spirit of God, unassisted by the Word of God,
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unassisted by the grace of God, every man by default is limited.
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And let me tell you the truth, this is both a sermon and an
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advice. The earlier you realize that you
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are limited outside of God, you will jump many seasons of pain.
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Don't allow life teach you a lesson that you are limited by
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repeating your failure again and again.
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The earlier you realize that you are limited, meaning you can be
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exhausted, you are limited, meaning you do not know all
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things. We are limited in knowledge.
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The Bible says we see in part, you know the, the, the
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implication of that statement. We make decisions in life based
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on our perceptions. And the fact that you see in
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part means one day you will make an honest mistake with your
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judgments. It has nothing to do with
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whether you are good or bad. It is just the reality of your
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being human. And May God help you that you do
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not make an honest mistake when you are making a destiny
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defining judgment, like assuming God wants you to be in America,
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assuming God wants you to be in Canada, or assuming God wants
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you to remain in Nigeria. Are we together now?
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He knows that we are limited. The Bible says He knows our
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frame, that we are dust. Who is learning tonight?
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Jeremiah chapter 10 and verse 23, Jeremiah 1023.
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Why do we need help? The Bible says, oh Lord, I know
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that the way of man is not in himself.
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It is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.
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This is a very honest admission. You know what this means?
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It means that man does not have the capacity to lead himself to
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a safe haven. If you are given the liberty to
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lead yourself using the lens of intelligence, the lens of
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instincts, it will only take you so far.
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The variable that are required, you see, life is like, it's like
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a journey and there's nobody. Even if the road is straight,
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are we together? The contours are not straight.
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Sometimes it will be healing, sometimes you have to go down.
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And for those who drive and drive large cars, there is a
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skill that is deployed based on the topography of the road.
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Only a foolish man will find a road that is very bumpy and then
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he will be speeding at 120 kilometers.
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You may kill yourself. Are we together?
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There is a road there, but it does not mean you will pass.
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Well, there is still a skill to pass the road.
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So don't tell me I have found the road.
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Do you know how to pass it such that you will not be hurt?
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It is not in man to direct himself.
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Probably if it were up to me to direct where Kolonia would be by
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now using brain work, we'll probably still be in Zaria.
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Or maybe from Zaria would have just flown somewhere to America
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or flown some state and be roaming around and struggling as
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if God did not call us praying and fasting and asking
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questions, whereas we had veered from the blueprint of the
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Spirit. I always recall the story that I
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say here about. I think that should be 2013 when
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I was happy and thinking and there were many sincere people
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who were encouraging me. They say Apostle, the ministry
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is doing well. I think it's time for you to
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branch out now. Have other expressions,
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especially in Abuja, there was a group of women who were praying
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and fasting that God will bring Kolonia to Abuja.
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I mean, if you are surrounded with that kind of good news,
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praise God. And I thought to myself for a
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while, I said this is a good thing.
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I think I should maybe consider it.
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And then I remember the dream, seeing an aircraft leave Zaria
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to Abuja and it was written on it E and I just when it wanted
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to land, it crashed. I said the devil is a liar.
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I knew immediately I didn't need to pray and fast.
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I knew the meaning of that, that you are on your own, fly
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yourself. Just because you are in the air
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does not mean you will land. You will land and crash.
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I'm praying for you where you are going before God and God is
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at the back and you are not allowing to walk in peace with
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Him. May God reverse you to meet His
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pace and where God has gone ahead of you and you have not
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seen and you are still staying there.
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In the name of Jesus, I push you to catch up with the movement of
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the Spirit. Please be seated.
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Is someone learning? Praise the name of the Lord.
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This is very powerful. All men at their best are
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limited because you do not know. There are many people who have
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thrown and lost money in business, not because they are
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bad. They saw a property, for
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instance, and just assumed in their mind that real estate is
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very profitable and without proper counsel.
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In fact, sometimes even with proper counsel, life just
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happened. Are we together now?
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Somebody announced his breakthrough before an armed
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robber, not knowing was an armed robber, was in a restaurant
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eating and he just shouted, testifying, and the man had a
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say. You mean it?
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When did this happen? The money just landed yesterday.
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How much? 10 million.
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Congratulations. That one is not necessarily
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carelessness because you are testifying.
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It's not. It's not.
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You can't say it's carelessness. The man was testifying the
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goodness of God. It just so happened that the
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listener was an armed robber. Hello.
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Let me tell you the truth, there are times that things befall you
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in life that no matter the safety net you put around you,
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it's just a human thing. Are we together?
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Someone can fuel his car and carry a security man on a 6-7
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hour journey. And then we were laid by armed
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robbers. He made all his preparations,
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good car, healthy car, working well, even security aids, but
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they were just overpowered. At such times you cannot say
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it's carelessness. Man even at his best is still
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limited. The psalmist said here my cry, O
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God, attain unto my prayer says from the ends of the earth.
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Will I cry unto you that when my heart is overwhelmed, there is
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such a possibility in the life of a man that you can put
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everything in place? My heart overwhelmed.
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I remember some years ago, true story, someone prepared, prayed,
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planned for. I think maybe US visa if I
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recall the story. And then the person slept off.
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I think the interview was supposed to be in the morning.
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The person just woke up, spend most of the night praying or
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prophesying in the name of Jesus.
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This time around, without waste of time, in 1-2 minutes my visa
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will be stamped. The person woke up only to find
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out was maybe around. Was it 10 or 11?
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Now what do you say about that? Do you say the person should not
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sleep? I'm sure he put an alarm.
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It's just that sometimes your body is tired and your body does
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not care whether you have a visa interview when your heart is
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overwhelmed. May God lead you to the rock
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that is higher than you. I've told you that sometimes I
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admitted to you. Sometimes when I'm praying, you
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know, I get so tired. And when I'm praying, I even
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sleep off. Honestly, most people tell you
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they do. I do.
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So I'm not all the time. But sometimes I sleep off and
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even to my shock, and sometimes I'm holding my photo, reading
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the scripture. Honestly, I can't tell whether I
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dropped it. Whatever, I'm just kneeling down
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and that's it. And when I wake up, you know, of
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course I feel guilty by say Lord you, you know my frame that I'm
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dos. It's not it's not intentional.
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I'm not lazy, I'm not slack. It's just that this thing.
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This is the place of surrender. Do to me what you want.
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This is the place of encounter all.
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Right, so let's rush. Please sit down.
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Why do we need help #1 All men, even at their best, are limited
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by every definition of limitation #2 why do we need
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help? Listen to this.
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And then you write, I wrote here that human factors, the second
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reason, can negatively alter and affect the results of correctly
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engaging principles. Let me explain that.
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And then you write, human factors can negatively alter and
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affects the results that should come from correctly engaging
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laws and principles. That means laws and principles
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by default should always produce.
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But sometimes, because of human factors, even when you engage
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the loss of success, the loss of advancement correctly, human
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factors can veto the performance of those laws.
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I give you an instance. I will repeat it.
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Listen, the law of diligence, the law of diligence is that
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when you are diligent and you are valuable, you should not be
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ignored. Am I right on that?
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That law is only true when there is no tribalism.
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That law is only true if your father did not fight anybody
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whose battle you are inheriting. That law is only true if you are
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in a corporation or around a people who are God fearing and
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sincere. The moment you bring in factors
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like selfishness, factors like greed, factors like interest, it
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makes even your obedience and adherence to principles to not
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believe the profit that should come.
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You understand what I'm saying now that all things work only
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under normal circumstances and humans do not make circumstances
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normal because they come in with prejudices, they come in with
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biases, they come in with all kinds of sentiments.
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So someone wants to lift you and another person comes to say
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because you are from the North, because you are from the Middle
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Belt, because you are Yoruba, because you are Ebo, or because
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you are not Nigerian, or because you are Nigerian, or because you
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are not African, or because you are American, It doesn't matter
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the excuse. There are many people today who
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are competent, deserving of reaping from the fruit of
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diligence and a profitable label.
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But human factors, now you understand, please write, I
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said. The second reason why we all
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need help is that human factors can negatively alter and affect
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the results of correctly engaging principles.
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I wish there was a better way to put it, but it's the truth.
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I hate to say this, but there are sincere people today who are
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in prisons world over who should not be in prison.
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The Bible tells us the man Joseph.
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Joseph's life was an experience. If you did not read the story of
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Joseph to the end, you would think that integrity did not
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have profit. Are we together now?
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Because the loyalty of that gentleman, being sent by his
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father to bring food and cater for the welfare of his brothers,
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took him to the pit, and then his integrity over Potiphar's
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wife landed him in prison. If the story stopped there and
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you did not see the end, you will have a business for
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compromise. And you say integrity is not
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profitable because here is a man who feared God sincerely and yet
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landed in the prison. How about Jesus when they looked
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at him? What does what?
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What does a good leader do to secure loyalty that Jesus did
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not do? Is it integrity of heart He had
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it. Is it compassion He had it.
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Good leadership he had it. Feeding them spiritually and
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physically, He had it. Question, who do you think
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shouted crucify him? Same people with the crumbs of
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the bread on their lips. They still shouted crucify Him,
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forgetting that he was the one who fed them.
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They said let his blood. They were willing to cost their
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children. Let his blood be upon our
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children, but crucify Him. They were willing to release a
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terrorist. Barabbas, there are times that
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you do all you know to do and whilst engaging correct
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principles, they should deliver under normal circumstances,
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principles of integrity, principles of, you know,
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diligence, principles of competence.
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But sometimes, many times in fact, human factors can tamper
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with those principles and cause them to not deliver as as they
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should. At such points you need help #3
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Why do we need help? Is someone learning?
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Can I give you the third reason? The reality of Satan and demonic
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forces. The reality of Satan and demonic
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forces alongside their determination to fight our peace
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necessitates help. The reality of Satan and demonic
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forces alongside their determination to fight our peace
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and you may even add our advancement, necessitate help.
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Again, let me repeat the third reason why we need help.
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In fact, I'll stop at the third. The reality of Satan and demonic
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forces alongside their determination to fight our
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peace, fight our progress, fight our advancement, necessitate
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help. First Peter chapter 5 and verse
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8 the Bible says be sober, be vigilant because your adversary
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the devil as a roaring lion walketh about seeking whom he
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may devour is someone learning now so number one that all men.
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The first reason why we all need help, you and I and everyone who
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is following, watching across the globe that all men, even at
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our best, are limited #2 that human factors, if and when
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introduced to our lives, can tamper the results that
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principles should deliver when correctly engaged.
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So you can engage the principles that should produce certain
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results, but because human factors come in and tamper with
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your progress, you may not get the results that you ought to
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get. And then #3 the reality of Satan
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and demonic forces, alongside their determination to fight our
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peace, our progress, our advancement necessitates help.
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Has someone learned so far how God helps men?
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Let's look at this very quickly how God helps men.
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I've said it here in summary, but I want you to listen now and
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learn please. You need to get this.
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You need to get this number one. The first way God helps man is
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by showing mercy. The first way God helps man is
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by showing mercy. So that every time you say help
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me, oh God, I'm giving you intelligence to know the scope
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of what you are asking for and how help is delivered.
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How God helps man #1 God helps every man at all by showing
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mercy. Now, the concept of God's mercy
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is a very broad concept. I don't have the liberty to
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teach on it extensively. I've done many teachings on
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mercy, but I'll try to summarize a bit.
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The mercy of God is hinged on #1 the nature of God, that God is
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love. You must understand the basis
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for His mercy. The mercy of God is hinged on
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two things. Please listen #1 the nature of
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God #2 the fallen nature of man. These are two concepts you have
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to understand, else you may never understand the mercy of
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God. That there is a contrast between
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the nature of God and the nature of man.
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The nature of God according to scripture is that He is love.
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The Bible says God is love. First John chapter 4 and verse
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8. I'm showing you how God helps
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men by administering His mercy. God is love, not that He has
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love, not just that he shows love, but that God is love.
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How about man's nature? Man's nature is a very
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interesting description. The Bible puts it very powerful
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in Psalm 51 and verse 5, Psalm 51 and verse 5.
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He said, Behold, I was shapen in iniquity and in sin did my
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mother conceive me? This was the verdict of the
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psalmist. Are we together?
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He's contrasting the nature of God.
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The Bible tells us, furthermore, about God, that he's gracious
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and compassionate. He's slow to anger and rich in
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love. But you contrast that against
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the nature of man. So God is all loving, God is all
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merciful, God is all caring, His Father and man.
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By His nature, especially the fallen nature, the Bible already
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concludes that all have seen and fallen short of the glory of
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God, that not even the best of our righteousness by ourselves
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is able to help us. Who is learning tonight?
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So it's very important for you to understand that the concept
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of mercy is hinged on God's love verses the inability of man to
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help himself being shaped in iniquity and shaped in sin.
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What does it mean to show mercy? I'm explaining this for your
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understanding. I'll give you 2 definitions very
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quickly for tonight #1 Mercy means compassionate treatment of
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those in need or distress. Mercy means compassionate
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treatment of those in need or those in distress.
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Compassionate treatment of those in need or those in distress.
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Are we learning #2 Mercy means refraining from harming or
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punishing offenders. Mercy means refraining from
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harming or punishing offenders. That means when you are
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deserving of punishment by reason of an offense, when you
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are granted pardon. Are we together?
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It is called Messi so #1 compassionate treatment of those
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who are in need or distress #2 refraining from harming or
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punishing offenders. In fact, Messi extends to
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showing care, showing care and providing succor, Showing care
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and providing Sukkor, or you may say relief.
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Showing care and providing Sukkor keeps reframing from
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harming or making out the punishment due our sin, due our
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carelessness, due our limitations.
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And then #3 that He shows us care and provides Sukkor even
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when we have need someone. Say mercy Lord.
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Cried now with understanding. Say mercy Lord.
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Mercy is not for sinners, it's for those who acknowledge that
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they are incapacitated. Most times we leave the concept
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of mercy just for sinners. No, for as long as you leave,
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for as long as you walk with God.
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If the mercy factor is taken away, we will not be able to
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relate with God. Are we together?
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Because the very concept of covenants is such that when you
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default, there should be a penalty, sometimes immediately.
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Mercy. Compassionate treatment in
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distress, refraining from meting out harm or punishment to offend
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us, and then showing care and providing suko.
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So when God Forgives, when God withholds punishment, when God
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withholds calamity that should befall you by reason of your
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carelessness, sin or whatever it is, is because he has shown you
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mercy. I'm praying for someone in the
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name of Jesus for you or for your family, for you or for your
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business, for you or for your spouse, for you or for your
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children. Every accusation in the realm of
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the spirit that wants to empower hell to met out judgment upon
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your life, We decree and declare that a standard mercy rises in
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your favor. A standard of mercy rises in
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your favor. A standard of mercy rises in
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your favor in the name of Jesus. Please be seated.
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I have thought, and you've heard me teach this extensively, that
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the foundation for mercy is compassion.
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You cannot show a man mercy until you are first
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compassionate. The Bible says we do not have a
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high priest who has not been touched with the feelings of our
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infirmity, that he was in every way tempted like us and yet
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without sin. God shows us mercy because he's
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compassionate. What does it mean to be
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compassionate? To show concern for the
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sufferings. To show concern for the
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misfortunes of others. So Messi, write this down.
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Messi is a fruit or a byproduct of compassion.
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Never forget that. Anytime you want to ask Messi
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from a person, first verify whether that person is
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compassionate. The Bible talks about the woman
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in Luke 18 who went to cry for vengeance for some wrong that
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had been done by her adversary. The Bible describes the judge as
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a man who did not fear God nor regard men.
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That was a man without compassion, and for as long as
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his heart was not touched, he remained adamant in
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communicating help. But one time his heart became
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softened, and to the degree to which it was softened, he was
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willing to help that woman. Are we learning now?
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I thank God. You see, as God.
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Even though God was mighty and is mighty, He truly listened
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carefully. He needed a human experience to
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be able to relate with the frailty of men and so he wore a
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body. He never cried as God.
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He never slept as God. He was never weak as God.
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No man could bring an accusation against him as God.
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Are we together? He never needed support as God.
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He never needed anybody to help him as God.
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But when God became a man, that was a mystery.
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This is why Jesus today, seated as a man, still makes
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intercession even though everything is finished, because
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he knows when he walked upon the earth he saw the viciousness of
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falling men who were under the grip of Satan.
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When Jesus came as a man, even though he was God Incarnate, God
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as a man cried, God as a man was hungry.
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God as a man was frustrated. I like the Bible because of its
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truthfulness. It reveals the humanity of Jesus
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without hiding anything. When Jesus Christ it will tell
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you Jesus wept when Jesus was hungry, the Bible says, and he
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was unhungered, straight. He was hungry to the point that
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he cost a fig tree for not delivering fruit.
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Even though it was not the time of fix.
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Jesus entered the temple and flogged menu drove them out.
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The zeal of the Lord consumed him.
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He called them brood of Vipers. He was angry.
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The zeal of heaven consumed him. Jesus showed compassion.
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He paid him. That man that he had trusted
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betrayed him as a man. So today when he sits at the
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right hand of the Father and he sees us doing what we're doing,
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he says, Father, forgive them not just what they know not.
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I know the pain. I know what it means to walk
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upon the earth and be given a mandate and be called Beelzebub.
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Therefore grant this man of God strength.
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Therefore grant his mother strength.
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Are we together now? I know what it means to be
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rejected. So what when, when, When you
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walk with God, one of the things you drink of is His compassion.
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I told you this last week, if you truly grow in Christ, you
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must taste of His compassion towards people.
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It is the reason why God never starts with people above.
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He stands from the ground. You know why?
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Because there are certain experiences you need today.
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When someone cries, you remember that Once Upon a time you'll
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never pay the house rent and they embarrass you.
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And from that story, you still have the memory.
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You will not be able to reach out and help people.
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I'm explaining to you what I mean by mercy is the fruit of
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compassion. So when you want God, a man, to
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show you mercy, what you really need to pray for is that God
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should bring to you compassionate people.
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To the degree to which you have compassionate people within your
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space, that is the degree to which you will find mercy.
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I'm praying for you where you have been surrounded by wicked
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people with the heart of stone. In the name of Jesus, May God
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replace them with compassionate people.
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Who is learning tonight. Mercy is a fruit of compassion,
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a product of God's nature. Now listen carefully.
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Compassion is a feeling that the action you take in response to
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compassion is what we call mercy.
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Mercy is an action word. Are we together?
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Yeah. You show mercy.
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You communicate mercy. Mercy is an action word.
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You can't say I feel mercy. You can feel compassion, but
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when you respond to your compassion, the act that is a
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proceeds of compassion is called mercy.
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Someone say mercy, Lord, shout it like you need it.
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So the first way God shows men help is by showing them mercy,
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the psalmist said. It is of the Lord's mercy that
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we are not consumed. Are we together?
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How many of you today have received results beyond your
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prayer life? You know that what you enjoy is
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beyond your prayer life. There are many of you who are
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the encountered men and looking at the updated version of you
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now, the bad attitude you displayed in their presence.
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You should not have been favored, but God looked beyond
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it. When you see the extent of God's
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mercy in your life, it calls for praise, it calls for worship.
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Sometimes when some of us get on our knees and tell God thank
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you, it's because we have seen how frail we are and we've seen
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the mighty power of God move through frail vessels.
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I remember in one of our conferences this year, I can't,
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I can't recall which of them now.
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I, I, I was just few minutes before I'll go up the stage and
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I was almost in tears. It was like a rewind of my life.
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Everything happened within minutes.
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When you take the time to think of the mercy of God in your
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life. That song says when I.
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Think of the mercies of Jesus and all he has done for me.
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My very soul shout Hallelujah. Thank God that when you were
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insulting the prayer language of tongues, God ignored you because
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He saw the sincerity of your heart.
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Thank God that when you were cursing an anointed man in your
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room quietly, God look beyond you, 'cause if the anointing on
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that man had descended on you, you would have been surprised.
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Thank God for the times when you sat down and cause your helpers
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in secret and God still insisted that they bless you.
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Are we together now? There are many of you today who
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by merit are not deserving of the place and the things that
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God has given you. God took you from nowhere, that
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some of you men favored you even beyond what they did to their
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own biological children. They still have their children
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alive. But for some reason they decided
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to hold your hands. And they will tell you, I don't
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know what it is about you. And at that point you have not
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known anything about favor. So you can't say it's favor.
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It's not favor to you. It's messy.
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Are we together man of God? Remember when you were invited
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to preach when you didn't even know what you were saying?
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They still tolerated the nonsense you were saying on
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stage hoping you will grow. Now you you don't even want to
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listen to your messages of yesterday because almost 80% is
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rubbish, messy. Are we together?
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Someone said thank you Jesus. Now let me tell you the truth,
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because of this revelation that I have most times in my place of
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prayer, I spend quality time telling God thank you.
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Do you know I had to ask God to help me?
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And I'm being honest with you here because sometimes I even
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feel guilty asking for things. I look at my life today and I
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say, will I be honestly fair if I still ask God for things?
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God has done things in my life today that in many lifetimes I
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would not tell Him thank you enough.
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The way God helps men. The way my God is helping you
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this night. For some of you, you have never,
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aside from salvation from sin, truly, you have never really
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experienced the mercy of God. You know why?
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Because you have educated yourself to think messy is for
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sinners. And since I am now saved, I
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don't need the mercy of God again.
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Maybe I need wisdom. Maybe I need anointing.
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Let me tell you, in this Kingdom, the higher you rise,
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you will hold mercy like a treasure.
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Because a time comes in your life where no other thing can
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open a door for you. You stand in front of that door.
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Your knowledge is frail, connections frail, everything
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frail. You have to bring the key of
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mercy to say mercy. Open this door for me.
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Hallelujah. Do you believe what you are
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learning tonight? Someone shout again.
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Show me mercy. Now you will see the wisdom in
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blind Battimio. He didn't know so much, never
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had the opportunity to join people in Jesus lecture.
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But the one thing he knew was the power of God's mercy.
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And he said, thou son of David, he didn't say heal me.
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What if it's not healing I need? Just because I'm blind does not
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mean I need healing. He said, thou son of David, have
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mercy on me. Let me tell you the truth, the
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prayer that God should show you mercy is a very powerful prayer.
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It takes ignorance to just every time you feel you don't need the
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mercy of God, I am telling you, you are in a realm of pride and
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confusion because the vicissitudes of life, it will
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place a demand on you, your obedience sometimes, because you
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are human. If every door was to open
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entirely based on your prayer life, if everything was to work
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entirely based on your obedience, you will not even go
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far. I'm a testimony of God's mercy.
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Kolonia is a testimony of God's mercy.
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It's not a license to not take responsibility, but to know that
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even at the best of our obedience, there is more that
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God has done. It's like if you send me with
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100,000 or let's say 10,000 naira to the market and I bring
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back a truckload of goods. Does that add up?
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Now you didn't send me to go and steal, you send me to go and
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buy. You had something, but for
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whatever reason, something happened in the market and I
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returned back with bags of rice, bags of vegetables.
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You will ask me what happened because with respect to the
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amount you carried there, it didn't add up.
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This is what messy does that you carry your little faith, little
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obedience, little consecration, little love for Jesus and with
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sincerity of heart you presented before the Lord and say Lord
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This does not add to much, but can you bring glory to your name
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out of this. He will pick it up and say let
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me show you what you know. He will add something to that
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equation and you will do big things for Jesus, things that
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would dumbfound people is the reason why, with all due
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respect, I tell you when men salute us and clapped for us.
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I'm not really overly excited because I'm the one who knows
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the part of the equation that is a function of obedience and a
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part of the equation. A large part of it that is the
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mercy of God. I'm sure we'll sing that song at
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the end of this this service that that that K string song is
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needed in this kind of Samo. Someone say Messi, shout it
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again, say Messi. For those of you who are still
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full of yourself and full of your ability, safe journey.
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I hope that you learn early enough that you can wake up in
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the morning and sleep late in the night, only to eat the bread
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of sorrow. Is that in your Bible?
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It says some trust in Chariots and some trust in horses, but we
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will trust in the name of our God.
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There are times that your horses are ready, your Armory is ready,
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your intelligence is ready. You will still be defeated.
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And if you think that does not work, ask the nation of Israel.
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You think if they were to fight man to man, there would be a
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match for the nation of Israel, A vast army, the best of their
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army, including Pharaoh himself. Pharaoh decided to come and
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fight, but when God decided to show mercy, a frail people still
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complaining, a frail people still grumbling.
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It's not like the people were saying Lord we worship you,
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thank you for mercy. They were busy insulting Moses.
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You better know what to do with us now.
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God would have said for doubting me, you will perish here.
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He said no, leave them, you are the leader over them.
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Go and tell the Red Sea part. Sita and Tita stretch forth your
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Rd. and while the nation of Israel they were you know while
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they were moving on right? You thought they would say oh
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thank you Jesus. They were still there until they
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crossed and now they started complaining again.
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Moses, what are you going to do? They are see coming.
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Oh tells you how humans are right When you understand the
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mercy of God, you will be patient with men because every
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time men misbehave towards you, they should remind you of you.
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They should remind you of you before God.
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It is of the Lord's mercy that we are not consumed.
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Someone again shout mercy. It's a powerful prayer that you
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should pray for the remaining part of your life.
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Show me mercy. When you get up in the morning
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and you thank the Lord before you thank him for tea and bread.
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Thank Him for mercy. First, leave tea.
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Leave bread. The hand to hold the tea and
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bread is as a result of God's mercy.
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I told you I have seen very healthy people who have no
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reason being sick by reason of their adherence to, you know,
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the things that make for diet and nutrition.
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But mysteriously, some of those people, perhaps even following
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right now in hospitals, diagnosed of mysterious things
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for someone. Perhaps you smoke for half of
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your life, drunk for the remaining half, and got born
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again in January, and yet you go for tests and they say your
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body's like that of a baby. My brother, if you ever think
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it's because you drank water or you drank, you stop drinking
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minerals or whatever it is, you are joking.
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You should kneel down and say Messi, thank you.
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Thank you for Messi. Do you believe what you are
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learning #2 the second way God helps men.
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Who is learning tonight? The ministry of men.
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The ministry of men. The second way God helps us.
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Ebenezer, Ebenezer. Ebenezahe, Ebenezahe.
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Please be seated the Ministry of Men.
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Ladies and gentlemen, please sit down and listen.
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Sit down and listen. I hope you know that humans, men
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are the highest of God's creation.
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Do not forget this. The reason why men are very
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important, especially in your success equation is that men,
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humans are the highest of God's creation.
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I taught you here in Kanonia that every activity that happens
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upon the earth is man dependent or men dependent.
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You see, remember that every activity that happens upon the
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earth is man or men dependent, whether it is ministry men
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dependent, business men dependent, governance men
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dependent. Wars happen because of men.
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Peace happens because of men. Progress happens because of men.
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Retrogression happens because of men.
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Amazing joy comes through God because of men.
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Pain also comes because of men. Almost all your sad stories
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today are men connected. Almost all your stories of
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triumph are still men connected. Men are very important.
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When you ignore men, you have ignored a major factor as far as
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destiny actualization is concerned.
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Recall that I thought here during one of the teachings that
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both God and Satan listen require men for their program to
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be carried out upon the earth. Both God and Satan require men.
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Both God and Satan require men for their program to be carried
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out upon the earth. The life giving ministry of
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Jesus, I said, requires men. The ministry of destruction,
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stealing, killing, death by Satan also require men.
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Without man, the program of God will not come to fruition upon
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the earth. Without man, the program of
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Satan and Hell will not come to fruition upon the earth.
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Every time you see evil thriving within a life, a family, a
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community, Satan has found sufficient man to come into
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partnership with him. Every time you see the program
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of God, the life giving, destiny, actualization program
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of God come to pass in lives and destinies is because he's found
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man. The program of God and the
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program of Satan require men. Hallelujah.
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This is very important. I told you that there are all
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kinds of men. The Bible says, for instance, in
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Psalm 89, remember I have found David my servant.
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God is looking for men and then the Bible talks about all kinds
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of wicked and unreasonable men that you are delivered from.
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Satan also is looking for men. These are very important things
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for you to know. If you find good men in your
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life, you find helpful men in your life, you find valuable men
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in your life, you find kind men in your life, I assure you that
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your destiny will make commendable progress versus
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wicked men, selfish men. Are we together now Evil men,
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men who have come under the influence of Satan and demons?
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You cannot have a flourishing destiny in partnership with such
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men. Very important leads me to the
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subject of relationships. If it is true that men are this
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important, that they represent God's help to you, God's help to
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me, it matters that you understand how to relate with
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such men. Because if men are that
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important and you do not know how to relate with men, then
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your life is going to become a disaster.
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It's not a negative speaking, it's the truth.
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Destiny fulfillment is impossible without
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relationships. This you have been taught.
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For instance, it's your relationship with Jesus Christ
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that brought you salvation. It's your relationship with the
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Holy Spirit that has helped you to grow in grace.
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It's your relationship with the Word of God that has brought you
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intelligence. It's your relationship with the
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man of God that has brought you structured mentorship towards
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spiritual growth. We are relational beings.
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This is very important when teaching about relationship in
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this House. I recall teaching you, I'm just
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doing a quick recap, that relationships are bridges to an
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exceptional life. If you didn't write it that day,
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please write it now. Relationships are bridges to an
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exceptional life. Relationships are also bridges
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to a life of pain and regret. Let me say that again.
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Relationships are bridges. They connect you from where you
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are to an exceptional life. Relationships are also bridges.
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They connect you from where you are to a life of pain and
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regret. If you live where you are right
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now and your life declines and degenerates to a state of pain
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and regret, the bridge you followed are called
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relationships or men. If you live where you are now,
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to a life with glory and excellence and peace and
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godliness and power and fulfillment, the bridge that you
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crossed are called men. Relationships are bridges to an
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exceptional life. They are also bridges to a life
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of pain and regret. An important information about
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relationships is that relationships are currencies.
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I hope you don't forget this. I'm repeating it for your
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understanding. Relationships are currencies.
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They can buy anything. Money can buy anything.
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In fact, money only has its value because of relationships.
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Relationships are currencies. They can buy anything that money
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can buy. I wrapped up that teaching by
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showing you that the easiest way I know from scripture, from my
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life, and from the life of truly successful people.
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The easiest way to succeed in life and destiny listen is
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through relationships. When a millionaire gives birth
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to his son, what is the financial status of that son?
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Please talk to me. A good, honest, God fearing
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millionaire. What's the status of that song?
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He most likely is a millionaire too.
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Did he learn any financial principles?
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Did he obey any financial law? Did he go for any investment
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meeting? Did he invest into anything?
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Did he transact anything? He was simply born by Messi.
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Are we together? How about the one who is born
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from a family that you know is not necessarily very prosperous?
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That gentleman can be smart, but he has to walk through the maze
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of all the troubles that come with that kind of family until
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God shows him mercy to take his head beyond the waters and now
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begin to make meaning out of his life.
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So I'm saying that the easiest way to prosper, the easiest way
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to succeed is through relationships.
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I pray the prayer that day. Let me remember it and pray it
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again that in the mighty name of Jesus, whoever is needed in your
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life as a bridge, needed in your life meaning your ministry,
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meaning your family, meaning over your finances.
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Whoever is needed as a bridge, a bridge to your growth, a bridge
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to your rising and prophesying over your life before December
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31st. May the God of all grace bring
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them to your life. Bring them to your life.
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Bring them to your life, bring them to your home, bring them to
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your ministry, bring them to your business.
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In the name of Jesus, Hallelujah.
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The Bible tells us that God is able to use men to help us.
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God is able to use men to bless us.
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It is very important for you to know that God truly uses men.
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Hallelujah. I think it's Romans chapter 16
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from verse one to four. I wish we could look at through
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NIV or KJV anyone. These were the men and I've
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taught you in this house who helped Paul, the great Paul.
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You talk about the right of 2/3 of the New Testament.
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You would think he did that independent of help.
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He had the Holy Spirit, He was born again, He had obtained
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mercy and grace from God, but he still needed men.
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I commend you to our sister Phoebe, a servant of the church
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in Canceria or Canceria also. Verse 2.
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It says, I ask you to receive her, listen in the Lord in a way
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worthy of the Saints, and to give her any help she may need
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from you. Why?
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It says, for she has been a great help.
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Listen to many people, including me say, including me.
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She has been a great help to many people, including me.
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Verse 3 greet Priscilla and Aquila, my fellow workers in
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Christ. Verse 4 they risked their lives
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for me. How may you find such people?
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Honestly, not everyone can do can risk their lives that if I
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said they risked their lives for me, not only I but all the
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churches of the Gentiles are grateful to them.
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One person, one person that your children can say God visited,
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visited us, but He came through this man.
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He came through this woman. I'm praying for you again.
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The man who can risk their life, can risk their reputation, can
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risk their resources. From my heart, you don't have to
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receive it, but for someone who knows the value of help, I'm
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praying for you. May such men show up in your
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life. There are such people that God
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has graciously brought to my life.
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These are people that sit and play.
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Sometimes I am almost flattered by the level of their
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commitment, their generosity, their participation, and their
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interest in my life and my welfare.
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If you have not met such people, you will not know the value of
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men. Maybe for someone you've only
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met wicked people. So you hate men when people are
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coming on. I'm tired.
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Until you find one man that is like a nation who will wake you
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and say have your children eaten.
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Are you happy today? I hear you are on a building
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project. Why didn't you tell me?
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To what level has it gotten to leave the remaining to me?
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Such people, Sincere people. Not everybody is a criminal and
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not everybody is a friend for food.
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There are genuine people sent by God.
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May you find such and may you be such.
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Please be seated. Please be seated.
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Hallelujah. So the first way God helps men
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is by showing mercy. Remember, the second way is
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through the ministry of men #3 very quickly.
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The third way God helps men is through the ministry of the Holy
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Spirit. I wouldn't talk much here.
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The ministry of the Holy Spirit. The Bible tells us that the Holy
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Spirit helps our infirmity. It says for by thee, Proverbs 18
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and verse 29. For by thee I have run through a
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troop. It says, by my God I have leapt
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over a wall or I leap over a wall.
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God is able to help men, and He helps men by His Spirit.
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Zechariah 4 and verse 6. Not by might, not by power, but
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by my. Spirit saith the Lord, by my
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spirit by my spirit. Romans 826.
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The Bible says the spirit itself helped our infirmity or our
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weakness. Go back to KJV, please.
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Amplified. I mean, KJV says infirmity, NIV
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says weakness. So God knows we are weak and He
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sends us the help of the Holy Spirit.
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And I've taught you here that the Holy Spirit helps us by
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revealing the mind or the will of God.
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It is the first way the Holy Spirit helps us by revealing the
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mind of God to us. The Holy Spirit guides us.
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We're told in Scripture that by His ministry we're guided into
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all truth. The Holy Spirit directs us, The
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Holy Spirit empowers us. He empowers us from within to
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become like Christ. He empowers us without to be of
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service, anointed to be of service.
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So the Lord helps men by granting them encounters with
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the ministry of the Holy Spirit, helping you by revealing the
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mind or the will of God, helping you by providing guidance,
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helping you by providing direction, and helping you by
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empowering you. And I told you that that
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empowerment is first within working out the character of the
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Christ in you and then placing grace upon your head to be a
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faithful witness. Praise the name of the Lord.
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Now, this is really where I want to dwell very quickly.
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How to activate the help of God. I want to show you how to
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activate the help of God number one.
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The first way we activate the help of God, do not forget this,
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is to maintain a posture of brokenness and humility before
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the Lord. Maintain a posture of brokenness
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and humility before the Lord. Maintain a posture of brokenness
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and humility before the Lord, before whatever else you do.
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That heart condition and that posture is important.
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You will never truly secure the help of God when you are full of
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yourself, full of pride, full of your achievements.
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Hallelujah is the reason why you find very frail people, people
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who know not self condemnation, but they work perpetually in
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this orientation that they are not much outside of God.
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Are we together? A broken, a contrite, a humble
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heart before the Lord. I compound the issue of humility
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again and again and again. My dear people, please listen.
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Fight pride like a cancer patient fights cancer.
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Fight pride. What cancer is to the medical
1:35:44
world is what pride is. Are we together to the soul of
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man? If you've ever seen a cancer
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patient battle for his life, say stage 4, are we together?
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How it incapacitates a person until death?
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Just carry that picture. That is exactly what pride does
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to the spirit and the soul of a man.
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When you become full of yourself, full of your
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achievements, full of your whatever, it is, the inability
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to acknowledge God as the help in your life.
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For as long as I'm alive, and by the messes of God, for as long
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as this ministry is alive, we will never fail to acknowledge
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the help of God. It may not be fashionable, but
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it's the mysterious secret behind His hand upon our lives.
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Hallelujah, we thank Him all the time and sometimes when we do it
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and look like mad people, it is the madness that brings ever
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increasing results. Man of God, learn to be humble
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before God and even in the presence of your people.
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Let me tell you the truth, if you do not know too many Kingdom
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principles and you can master humility, you have held onto the
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nerve of progress in the Spirit. Let this mind be in you.
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The Bible says which was also in Christ Jesus, who though being
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God did not consider it robbery, but the Bible says he humbled
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himself. Are we together, became a man
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and was obedient unto death, humbled himself.
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It took humility for God to become a man.
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It's like a man becoming an animal.
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I always pray and ask the Lord to search my heart.
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I've told you here, admittedly, that sometimes as human beings,
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you know, in the face of obvious achievements, in the face of the
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mighty things that God is doing and continues to do through our
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lives, sometimes pride can seem to slip through your ears, slip
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through. Once you are riding on that
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chariot of glory and honor. People can call you all kinds of
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things. And sometimes as humans, we
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forget that God showed us mercy. And then he reminds us again
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that without me, John chapter 15, ye can do nothing.
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Ye can do nothing that should be between 3:00 to 5:00.
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Without me, ye can do nothing. I'm ever conscious of the fact
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that outside of the mercy and grace of God, one person cannot
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be healed through my life. There will not be 1 testimony
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here in Koinonia. I can speak and preach and teach
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as intelligent as I can and yet it will not translate to any
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impact. Behind the words that come from
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this free lips of clay is grace. Grace that has come by the mercy
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of God and this is what produces global transformation in the
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life of those who. Here we have the honor of
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disciplined nations today, helping people to know the Lord
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to be transformed by the power of his word.
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Are we together to find meaning as they serve the Lord It is not
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because we're necessarily the best.
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It is the mercy and the. Help of God.
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But then I can tell you this state of brokenness.
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Brokenness. Always acknowledge God.
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Let men do their clapping. You can't stop them.
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Let let men call you great names, You can't stop them.
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Even if you tear your clothes, they will still call you Zeus
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and Hermes because of the Excellency of the hand of God
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upon your life or you Remember, Remember, always remember to
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tremble before the Lord and to let the people know that this is
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all of meal. If you see anything
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extraordinary is because there is an extraordinary God holding
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the hands of an ordinary man and doing wonders through those
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hands. I'm praying for you that when
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people look at you, they would not only see your results, they
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will see the humility that follows the results.
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It's like you're not receiving the prayer.
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I'm praying for you again, that when men see you, the only thing
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they say is not just that your results are exceptional, but
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they will say behind this exceptional result is an
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extremely humble believer. Please be seated.
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So the first key to activate the help of God is to maintain a
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posture of brokenness and humility.
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Please look up. I have had the honor of being of
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help to many people. It is something that I do with
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grace, I do with passion, and it's a privilege for me to be
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able to help people in various ways as the needs arises.
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And I can tell you as a man, as human as I am, for people who
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maintain a posture of humility, a posture of brokenness, are we
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together laced with gratitude? Usually it is difficult to stop
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helping those kinds of people to the point that even though they
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do not directly ask you for help, in fact, sometimes even
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when they have grown to a point where they do not actively need
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that help. Again, because of their
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disposition, is like they secure a debt from you towards
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themselves and you feel guilty that you have not stretched your
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arms to show them mercy. But there are people that when
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you help, you only help because it's a prophetic instruction.
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Are we together now? As far as their behavior is
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concerned, there's no reason why you should help that way.
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Full of themselves. Full of pride.
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If there is one thing that I detest in my life is pride.
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Pride makes everything beautiful to shrink and become ugly.
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Pride is a divider of honor. It's a depleter of grace.
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The Bible says that he giveth grace to the humble.
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Are we together? God himself opposes the proud,
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and I've taught you here in Colonia.
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Let me teach you one last time before the years ended, that
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every time God finds pride, He will fight you.
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And when God is fighting you, the only prayer that can save
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you is the prayer of mercy. Are we together?
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Because the anointing cannot fight God, It was only designed
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to fight anything that is Antichrist.
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And if God Himself is the one fighting you, Jonah, where can
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you run to when God is the one fighting you?
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It's not the fish. Jonah never blamed the fish.
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He was wise enough to know that the fish had no business.
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He was commanded to swallow him. In fact, I hope you know that
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that fish swallow Jonah so that it can vomit him there.
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Jonah would not be able to swim to safety in an ocean.
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He was in the belly of the fish. He had at least enough soukor to
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pray. The Bible told us his prayer
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point in the belly of the fish. Are we together?
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You want to know the miracle that happened to Jonah?
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Go and study what? The kinds of acidic content in
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the belly of a fish. Once you are there, you would
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die. It's worse than embalming you.
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You would die. It's better to embalm you alive
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than to throw you inside the belly of a fish.
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You will die. You will die.
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The acidic content there will roast you.
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You will die. And yet Jonah had the time to
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pray. He said God all kinds of prayers
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and then the fish would have still vomited him in the river,
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in the ocean and left him to die.
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But the fish took him to safety and vomited him there.
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When Jonah came out to say I repent, repent, send me, send
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me, let's go to Nineveh. Obedience is truly better than
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sacrifice. Hallelujah.
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Place your hand on your chest as a prophetic contact and pray.
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Prayer. One minute, Father, Everything
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that looks like pride, whether it is secretly hiding somewhere
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in my life just waiting for results to be activated, I
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decree and declare, let it die tonight.
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Take one minute to pray. Go ahead and pray.
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Ladies and gentlemen, pray, pray, believe us pray.
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Pastors, pray. Zaria, make sure you're praying.
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If you're falling online, make sure you pray.
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Being arrogant is not the issue of being good or bad.
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It's a human thing. Sometimes it slips into our
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lives unknowingly. Pride is so powerful that the
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possessor of that trait may not even know that he's under the
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charm. Like witchcraft and the
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influence of pride. Go ahead and pray.
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Let it be from the depth of your heart.
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Please go ahead and pray. Worthy is your name, Jesus, you
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deserve the praise. Worthy is your name.
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Worthy is your name, Jesus, you deserve the praise.
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One more time, this your name. Jesus, you deserve to pray.
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Hallelujah #2 the second key that activates the help of God
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over the life of a man. I hope you understand what I'm.
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Teaching you now, yeah. Just because you know the
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channels for administering help does not mean you will enjoy the
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help. Help is activated number one by
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your heart posture #2 Help is activated when you pray the
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prayer of mercy and help. Prayer works based on a call and
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response system. When you pray the prayer of
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mercy and help the prayer of mercy and help Daniel chapter 4,
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please from verse 34 to 37, the prayer of Messian help the
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repentant prayer of Nebuchadnezzar.
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This is Nebuchadnezzar praying or recounting what happened to
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him as a beast. And at the end of the days I,
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Nebuchadnezzar, lifted up my eyes to heaven, and my
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understanding returned to me. And I blessed the Most High, and
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praised and honored him that liveth forever, whose dominion
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is an everlasting dominion, and his Kingdom is from generation
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to generation. Reading 237.
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And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing,
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and it do it according to his will in the army of heaven, and
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among the inhabitants of the earth.
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And non constant take his hand, or say to him, What doest thou?
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36 He says At the same time My reason returned unto me, and for
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the glory of my Kingdom, my honor and the brightness
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returned unto me, and my counselors and my Lord sought
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unto me, and I was established in my Kingdom.
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An excellent majesty was added to me, Verse 37.
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Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of
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heaven, all whose works are truth, and his ways, his ways
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judgment, And those that work in pride he's able to obey.
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Those that work in pride, he's able to obey the prayer of
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mercy, the prayer of help, the prayer of mercy, the prayer of
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help. Every time you find yourself in
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need of help, I want you to know that if you do not call, I was
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speaking out, I think it was in Ghana, and I said that there are
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certain spiritual realities that are a call and response system.
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They work based on a call and response system.
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He says, call unto me Jeremiah 33 and verse 3 and I will answer
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you. If you don't call unto me.
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I see the pain you are going through, but I cannot answer
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you. He says In my distress I cried
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unto the Lord and he heard me. In my distress I cried unto the
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Lord. Blind Battimio said, Thou son of
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David, have mercy upon me. Jabez cried unto the Lord and
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said, Oh that thou wouldest bless me, Are we together now?
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Every time people were in trouble in Scripture, be it
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individuals or the nation of Israel, they cried unto the
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Lord. The Psalm is full of several
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cries, crying unto the Lord to show up and show you mercy.
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Someone said the prayer of mercy and the prayer of help.
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Listen to me when your heart is overwhelmed and when you are in
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a situation that needs the mercy of God, I like you to pray.
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Pray like Nebuchadnezzar prayed. Pray like Jonah prayed.
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Are we together? Even Jesus himself prayed.
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Because of the agony of Gethsemane, He prayed.
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Father, if it be Thy will, take this cup off me.
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Nevertheless, let your will be done the prayer of mercy and
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help. Now let me tell you what many
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people do, especially when they're in trouble and things
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are not working in their lives. They ask people to pray for
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them, but they never pray. They discuss with people who
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have no power to help them, and then they spend the time they
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should be using praying, attracting sympathy.
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Are we together in anger? If you are related to me and you
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see my pain and don't help, God will judge you.
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Send send it on the social Instagram or those your things.
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They send it there and then no response.
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Then they get angry. Then they they spend their time
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attracting sympathy. Whereas they can come to the God
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of all grace and say, Lord, who can claim to lift when you do
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not lift? Who can claim to show mercy if
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you do not show mercy? Except the Lord builds a house,
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the labor in vain that build it, except the Lord watches over a
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city, the watchman watch, but in vain.
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He said it is vain to wake up early in the morning and to
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sleep late in the night, only to eat the bread of sorrow, but he
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gives his beloved sleep. Do you believe in the prayer of
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mercy? You believe in the prayer of
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help? I'm reminded of Psalm 20.
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I always like to pray that prayer.
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Let me pray for you. Verse one.
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Give it to U.S. media. The Lord here did the day of
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trouble, the name of the God of Jacob defend you.
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Leave US1 The Lord here did in the day of trouble, the name of
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the God of Jacob, defend you one last time.
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The Lord here did in the day of trouble, the God of Jacob defend
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you. Verse 2, Send you help from His
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sanctuary, and may He strengthen you out of Zion.
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Verse 2 again, may He send you help from His sanctuary, and may
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He strengthen you out of Zion in the name of Jesus Christ.
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When Jonah was in the belly of the fish, he did not waste his
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time. I wish we had time to consider
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the prayer of Jonah. That should be chapter 2 or so
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or chapter 1. Now while the fish was there, he
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cried by reason of his affliction.
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He says, I have us too. I cried by reason of my
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affliction to the Lord, and he heard me out of the belly of
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hell, cried I, and thou heardest my voice, for Thou has cast me
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into the deep in the midst of the sea, and the floods
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encompass me roundabout all Thy billows and thy whales Passover
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me, it says. Then I said, I am cast out of
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thy sight, yet I will look again towards your holy temple.
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Verse 5 The waters compass me, and the depth, and so on and so
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forth. Verse 6 you'll just tempt me to
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continue. Let's try.
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Verse 6 I went down to the bottom of the mountains.
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The earth with her bars was about me forever.
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Yet has thou brought me up? Has thou brought up my life from
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corruption? Oh Lord my God, you know there
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are ways that you just pray and cry towards the Lord.
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He sees that you are sincere. And sometimes you may not have
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all the intelligence in prayer, it may just be a very sincere
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cry. Let me.
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Tell you the truth, the day this rendition stops being a song,
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that's the day you will see the power of the prayer of Messi.
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The most powerful prayer of mercy I know in the Bible is
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Psalm 51. Go and read it.
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If you are in trouble and you know that this one, you are
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overwhelmed, go to Psalm 51. Start from verse one to the end.
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Have mercy upon me, O God, according to your loving
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kindness, according to the multitude of your tender messes.
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Blot out my transgression and begin to recite it.
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Wash me thoroughly and cleanse me from my sin and begin to cry
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that cry of mercy. For I acknowledge my
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transgression and my sin is ever before me.
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Not as a charm. A chance that somebody gave you.
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And you are reciting something with no understanding.
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When life it has overwhelmed you.
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All doors have closed, all help is gone.
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I tell you, take the Psalms and pray it with understanding.
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And then for those of you who can sing this song, take away
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all the the you are. You are not producing an album.
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This is you facing death, and you are crying before the Lord.
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Listen, for those of you who don't know what that means in
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the Hausa language, it means I have no one else but you.
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That is sweet music to the ears of the Lord.
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When you get to a point where you make him see that there is
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no man who has capacity to rescue me, you will see the
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jealousy of God arise over you. I like that part.
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We'll sing you one more time. Just that part Jiyatuwata.
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NI Banda wani SE Kai chiya duwata Banda wani say one more
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time, chiya duwata, hear my prayer.
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Yes. Hallelujah.
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If you have never prayed the prayer of mercy, you better
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learn one and keep it. Archive it.
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Because for as long as you are alive, days will come.
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No matter how yielded you are, you will be faced with
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situations that your intelligence in prayer will not
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serve. You will have to push away all
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the mechanics and just want something that can give you
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expression to cry as you pray and sing.
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For some of you, this song you're hearing, it may not make
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sense now. You may not even know how to
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sing it in house. Perhaps you don't know how to
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speak it, for the day will come. Challenges will force you to
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lend this line. You may not know everything, but
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for some of you, you will just lie down and say, Lord help me,
1:58:29
I now hear that my brother, my sister has cancer.
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I've done everything I know to do.
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Where are we going to get 50 million to take them to India or
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take them anywhere? And even that one does not have
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a guarantee at that point. The.
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Let me give you the last case. Some of you are crying.
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Don't be ashamed of your tears. There are people who have not
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gone through anything in life. Hallelujah.
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There are people who have stood between life and death.
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The cry of mercy. Lenito, Leonard.
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Ellie. Leonard Ellie God forbid before
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they tell you that you are finally losing your job, learn
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it early. God forbid before your husband
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starts misbehaving, learn it early.
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Before your wife starts joining bad companies and behaving
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somewhere else, learn it early so that the day your child
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starts misbehaving and does not reflect the values you raised,
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in which you can cry to God and sing this song as a night vigil,
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chanting it again and crying before your Maker.
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Man of God, learn it so that the day you are persecuted and you
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do not have the liberty to defend yourself, you can stay in
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the secret place and raise that cry to the God of your
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salvation. Learn it so that the day you are
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incapacitated financially and there are bills before you, let
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it not be that your lips will be empty at such times.
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Spiritual men are not empty. No, there will always be
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something to say towards heaven. Hallelujah, Hallelujah.
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Let me encourage you, go back home.
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These are my people, so I have the liberty.
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Get this, get this, this, this, this, this, this.
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Worship and listen to it again. Use it to pray, even if it's
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just for 10 minutes. Cry to God.
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Cry to God prayer of salvation. Lord, show me mercy.
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Give my mother a chance to live longer.
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Give my father a chance to live longer.
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Give my husband a chance to see your salvation.
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Take away shame from my life. I have exhausted everything I
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know to do. Please sit down.
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Let me give you the last key. How do we activate the help of
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God #1 the posture of brokenness and humility before the Lord #2
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the prayer of mercy and help #3 Listen.
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The third way we activate the help of God is by sowing seeds
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of help, because help is a harvest.
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Sowing seeds of help. Galatians 6-7.
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Galatians chapter 6 and verse 7. Sowing seeds of help.
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Be not deceived, kaenonia. Be not deceived.
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Believers, be not deceived. The body of Christ.
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God is not mocked. Whatsoever a man soweth that he
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shall reap. If you do not show men mercy,
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you do not show men help, and you are not planting that seed
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of help and mercy. You are not going to have a
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harvest of help because the earth still works based on the
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law of seed time and harvest. Matthew chapter 5 and verse 7.
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Matthew 5 and verse 7. Blessed said are the merciful
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was their reward for they shall obtain.
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If you are wicked and you are sowing seeds of wickedness,
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don't be surprised when you see your farm full of wickedness.
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You programmed it. If you are inconsiderate like
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the judge that did not fear God, oil or a show of have regard for
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men. Listen some of you here right
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now. I'm sorry to say this but you
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come from families where you are wondering why the family will
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never find rest from battles. I hate to insult you and I do
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this with every sense of respect, but some of us, maybe
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our parents spend their youths causing problems for people and
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families gossiping around causing problem and
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unfortunately, unfortunately will.
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I say you were born from such a family.
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Every time people see you, they remember the pain that those who
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went before you cause for them. And there are some of you who
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are some of the nicest people today, but nobody can come near
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you. Let a gentleman come to marry a
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lady from that family. And people say don't make that
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mistake. Her father was an evil man, her
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mother was an evil man. They cause pain in this
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community. Somebody wants to help you and
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he's just sharing it with his friend.
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I feel like helping his brother. They say, which one?
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Call the name again? What did you say the son name
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was? Is it that man who was an
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engineer that later traveled, God forbid, kill me before you
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help him? And the man says, oh, sorry, I
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didn't know. I'm praying for you.
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Every inherited battle that came because of the carelessness of
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those who went ahead of you, maybe some of them did it
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innocently. Colony, I pray for you from my
2:05:25
heart in the name of Jesus Christ, every harvest of evil
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and every harvest of wickedness that either as a result of seeds
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that were sown on your behalf or the ones you sold yourself, I
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pray for you. May the mercy of God cancel out
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such a harvest. Please be seated.
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There are some of you today. I hope you know I've taught you
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here that when Stephen was being killed, I hope you know, those
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who were killing Steven removed their clothes and they kept it
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at the feet of Paul, who was Saul.
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Then they cast it at at the feet of Saul.
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Bring it here while you kill this man.
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Some of you, there are costly mistakes you made that is
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haunting you till tomorrow. Things you said that you
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shouldn't have said and what you said leaked out through the
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ears, the mouth of a bird and went to the ears of wrong
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people. And you are paying for it today.
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You don't know why the company hates you so much.
2:06:33
You don't know why the manager has vowed that you will not be
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promoted. You made a careless statement
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and somebody who does not like you nor the manager just likes
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himself hadith and in the presence of interest betrayal
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came. I'm praying for you again.
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Oh, every harvest that is waiting for you.
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I'm waiting for your children as a result of mistakes you made in
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words and in actions. It says deliver me from
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presumption sins. I pray for you.
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May message speak for you tonight.
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Hallelujah. Please be seated.
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Remember when the Lord was speaking to Ananias to go to the
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House of Judah and help Paul, Ananias began to complain.
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He said, God, don't do this to me.
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I have heard about this man. I've heard about the wickedness,
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the evil that he has done to the Saints, why in Jerusalem?
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And God said, don't worry, something has happened to him.
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He's a chosen vessel. I have chosen him in spite of
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that limitation. Aside, being a man of God, one
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of my greatest desires in life is that my name never becomes a
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padlock to anyone here and never becomes a padlock to your
2:07:55
families. And we're together now that it
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becomes a key that your door will not be closed simply
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because you hear that name. Joshua Selman.
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This is a very powerful thing. Sow seeds of help.
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Some of you have never helped anybody.
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You have people around your neighborhood remember teaching
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last week. You have never helped anybody.
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Your salary is for you alone, your wife alone, everything.
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You alone when you hear that their Kingdom projects is none
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of your business. After all, I'm not in, my
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children are going to school, I am fine.
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No life is too dynamic to be that ignorant and selfish.
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The Bible says in the morning sow your seeds, and in the
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evening do not withhold your hand.
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Give a portion to seven-year to 8, for you do not know the
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disaster that shall come upon the earth.
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You scatter kindness like seeds because you do not know which
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portion of the farm will yield it.
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You give to people you know and to strangers you do not know.
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If I only bless people I knew, I probably would never secure the
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blessing of some of the people who spoke over my life.
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The women that blessed me and prophesied upon me and said my
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son forever walk upon gold. I didn't know any of them.
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I saw them once, never to see them again.
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If they are not angels and they are humans, maybe they would
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have died self. You can imagine how many years
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ago and yet because of one help, help of less than 100 naira,
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less than 100 naira. What kind of investment do you
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use with 100 naira to secure an anointing?
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It was not transactional. It was by fate.
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I saw these poor women, They were about to buy sugar cane and
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I came as a young boy. I said please, I may not have
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much, but you are mothers, let me just practice honor, allow me
2:09:52
to buy it for you. And they insisted.
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I said please and I bought the sugar cane for them and that was
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it. They began to bless me, and one
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of the women looked at me and said, My son, forever walk upon
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gold, forever walk upon gold. The kingmaker anointing people
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who can swear a blessing upon your life and smash every
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mountain, doesn't matter how long it stood there.
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Let me tell you the truth, my brothers and my sisters, every
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mountain is relative to the grace that confronts it.
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There are graces when you carry graces that come from a swan
2:10:30
blessing. When Isaac blesses Jacob, is he
2:10:33
not blessed? Bring me if anything, he said.
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And when he brought it, he swore a blessing upon him, and he so
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cried and says there nothing else.
2:10:44
He said everything has gone. I released it from my heart.
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Sow seeds of kindness, Sow seeds of mercy.
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Sow seeds of help. You can't solve everybody's
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problem, but listen to me. Don't watch too many people cry
2:11:04
and at least not choose one to help wipe their tears.
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If you can't wipe their tears, give them a handkerchief.
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If you can't give them a handkerchief, give them an
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encouraging scripture. It is not always about money.
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Most times when we talk about help, people think it's always
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about money and they say no. No, no, no, no, no, no.
2:11:22
No, I don't have money. I don't.
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I'm trying to watch my finances. No, there are times it's just
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your shoulder for them to lean on while they cry.
2:11:31
And while they're crying, you're telling them that you'll be out
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of this. I know, I know you have a court
2:11:37
case right now and it's difficult to, to advocate your
2:11:40
innocence, but I'm holding your hands.
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Some of you, the help you will give them is to say for the next
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three days, let's wake up in the night and pray together. 30
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minutes. I return back from work late,
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but I will sacrifice for your sake.
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Go ahead, let's pray. And whilst you are praying, they
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are praying secretly too. And when God comes through for
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them, there will also be a package for you from heaven.
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Because when God blesses, he blesses everybody who was part
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of the process too. Are we together?
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Don't program evil for your children because of wickedness.
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Some of you need to go back and ask God for forgiveness.
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I've said things I should not say, and if God does not help me
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as my children are growing, they will inherit battles they cannot
2:12:26
explain, battles they cannot explain.
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Please obtain grace from God to sow seeds, seeds by the mercy of
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God. I know by His mercy there are
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certain levels of life my children will never go to again
2:12:43
in the name of Jesus Christ because of seeds, seeds that
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have been sown. There are people today who have
2:12:50
gotten jobs and beyond their credentials.
2:12:53
They just mentioned Koinonia and it became like a seal.
2:12:57
He said OK, you have the job, Hallelujah.
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Nobody has received a Bible from you ever.
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Nobody has received a prayer from you ever.
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You did not remember anybody's birthday in your life once.
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It is not you and your wife, maybe and your children, some of
2:13:21
you, even your spouse. It's just you alone once.
2:13:24
It does not concern you. You hear someone is crying, No
2:13:27
problem, we all cry. Someone lost his job.
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Hey, I suffered for 10 years before I got another one.
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You are sowing a bad seed while wrapping up what I'm telling you
2:13:38
this take it seriously. You see back, the older you go,
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you will see the foolishness of the misbehavior of many people's
2:13:46
youthfulness. A young person usually does not
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know what is programming because you are still bubbling with
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pride and strength is when you allow time to pass a bit, then
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you turn back and you say what have I done?
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What have I done? Every elderly person here, you
2:14:04
will see them nodding their head saying this thing is true
2:14:07
because some of them have had to heal, some of them have had to
2:14:10
go through a lot of things. Life was not designed by
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prophecy to be that hard for them, but they had to fight the
2:14:17
battles of those before them before starting their own
2:14:20
journey. Imagine that you spend 50 years
2:14:23
of your life correcting something that mistakes that
2:14:26
were made then. Now at 50 you are about to start
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your own life, Hallelujah. Whereas there are children that
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from Beth from the day they are born.
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Someone says the only thing I want you to do, just tell me
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when they are ready to go to school and you can be sure that
2:14:46
their school fees. The best schools around the
2:14:48
world because of what your father did in 1960, this 1970,
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this 2000 and this I covenanted with myself and my wife and my
2:14:58
business and whatever that I will continue to bless you.
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Again, I pray for you. May your name never be a
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padlock. May your name never be a
2:15:09
padlock. May it not close doors towards
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you and others in the name of Jesus Christ.
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Hallelujah. So we activate the help of God
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by maintaining a posture of brokenness, by praying the
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prayer of mercy, and by showing sowing seeds.
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Now let me give you this. What is your response to the
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help of God? And this is where we end
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tonight. I have to end with this.
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There are three ways to respond to the help of God.
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Ebenezer, we're looking at how God, when God helps a man, there
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it is a tripartite response. If you want to sustain the help
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of God, you must know how to respond to his help every time
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you see it. Number one, the first way you
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respond, every time you see God show up for you, every time you
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see God stepping for you to help you, you respond with
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Thanksgiving. Write that down, please.
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Thanksgiving Psalm 136 from verse one you respond with
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Thanksgiving, let's hurry up or give thanks unto the Lord for
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his good, his mercy, and dorret forever.
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Verse 2 it says give thanks to the God of gods for his mercy
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and dorret forever. Verse 3 it says give thanks to
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the Lord of Lords for his mercy and dorret forever.
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Verse 4, it says to him who alone do it, great wonders for
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his mercy alone and Dorret forever.
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Final verse to him that by wisdom made the heavens for his
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mercy and Dorret forever because of the abundance of his mercy.
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He has shown me this help you responded Thanksgiving.
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Look at me. Never trivialize the help of God
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when you see it, no matter how small, even if the help is not
2:16:54
yet completely manifest in your life.
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Once you see that finger, the finger of God, before you will
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see His hand, begin to give thanks #2 What is your second
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response every time you see and experience the help of God?
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Testify of His goodness before His people.
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Testify of His goodness before His people.
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Psalms 2222. Testify of His goodness before
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His people. I will declare thy name to my
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brethren. In the midst of the congregation
2:17:29
will I praise you? It matters that you testify
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before God's people, that you have seen the hand of God.
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Oh Lord, you have been so good. You are so good to me, oh Lord
2:17:45
you. Are excellent in my life every
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day. Oh Lord, you have been so good,
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you. Are so good to me.
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Oh Lord, you are excellent in my life.
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Hallelujah, testify of the goodness of God.
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That's what the woman did in John chapter 4.
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The Bible tells us that when she encountered Jesus and she saw
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everything that he did to her, she left her water pot and she
2:18:18
ran. She ran to the city and said
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come see a man that told me everything.
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I have done everything. Is this not the Christ?
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And the people came. Why do you testify before the
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people of God? So that God's people can see His
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goodness. I have seen the Lord's goodness,
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His mercies and compassion. I have seen the Lord's goodness.
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Hallelujah, praise the Lord #3 What is your third and final
2:18:54
response to the help of God? Use the blessing that comes from
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His help to glorify God. Use every blessing that comes by
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the help of God to your life, whether it's finances, whether
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it is an open door, whether it's increased breakthroughs of any
2:19:13
kind. Use every blessing that comes by
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His help for His glory. When God helps you and you use
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whatever blessing that comes, are we together to destroy lives
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and to bring reproach to His name?
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Then you have pegged the continuity of enjoying His help
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in your life. You must use it for His glory.
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You must use it for His glory if God grants you promotion by His
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hand. It must be for His glory.
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If God opens doors for you, it must be for His glory.
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If God brings you to strange financial resources and He
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empowers your hand, it must be for His glory.
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Many believers cry to God. Listen as I wrap up.
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Many believers cry to God. Father, open doors for me,
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please give me this. Give me a wife, give me a
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husband. Are we together?
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Give me children, give me promotion, prosper my business.
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And just when the blessing arrives for some people, they
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don't even take one week in Thanksgiving.
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They forget. They forget I'm now a chairman.
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I'm now a governor, I'm now a president, I'm now an
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ambassador. Are we together?
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My children are now all graduates from college, and I
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don't have any concern. Again, something happens to man
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when we forget God. He doesn't hate us, His love,
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but you are not able to secure His mercy.
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Again. Those who remember the goodness
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of God are the ones who multiply His hand upon their lives.
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Have you learned something? Tonight I'm praying for you, LED
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Ebenezer, the one who has helped this ministry, the one who has
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helped this vessel that stands before you, the one who has
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taken many in this ministry literally from grass to grace,
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and the one who keeps lifting us every day in the name of Jesus.
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May he show up for you, I said. May he show up for you.
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May he show up for you. Open your mouth in one minute
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and ask for grace. Thanks for grace.
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Grace to work in keeping with the things that activate.
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The most important part of this discussion tonight is to know
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how to activate the help of God by maintaining a posture of
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brokenness and humility. Are you praying by learning how
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to pray the prayer of help and mercy unashamedly, and then by
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sowing seeds of help, sowing seeds of mercy?
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File before God in prayer tonight That as you lift me, I
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will thank you all the days of my life.
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As you lift me, I will remain ever grateful in the secret and
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in the open. As you lift me, I will testify
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of your goodness, your good hand, Your mercy, your favor for
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the congregation of your people. I will let them know you are
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faithful. I will let them know that you
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confirm the words of your servant and you perform the
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counsel of your messengers. I will let them know that you
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are the God that do it wonders. I will let them know that you
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are truly a prayer answering God.
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And as you bless me, as you lift me, as you show me help in every
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area of my life, I will use the blessing that comes to glorify
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you. In Jesus name we pray.
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Amen. Now lift your voice in one
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minute and ask the Lord for one or two areas where you need His
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help. Before this year is ended, I
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want to release my faith and speak it over you.
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Go ahead, pray from your heart. This is personal supplication
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between you and the Lord. In the next one minute, don't
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keep quiet. You are trusting God to visit
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you in a particular area before 2024 is ended.
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A global family. Make sure you are praying Zaria.
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Make sure you are praying the next.
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One minute, Father, come true for me.
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Restore my joy, save my loved one, open up financial doors for
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me. Take away sorrow.
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This diagnosis that the hospital brought to my life.
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I want it. And then I want my organs
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functioning normally. This this plague of death over
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my family, let it come to an end.
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This shame and reproach, this struggle.
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Are you praying, Lord, help my company, help my business with
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no recorded profits this year. But Lord, that in in the weeks
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that I left, do something extraordinary in my life.
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Help my wife, help my husband, help my children, help my
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school, help my business. Maybe a pastor is praying.
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Help my ministry open up doors. Send help from Zion.
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In Jesus name we pray. In Jesus name we pray.
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Let me make the altar call and then I speak over your life.
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You need Jesus. You came here tonight.
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This is a penultimate service. We have one more and we're done.
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Give me the honor of leading you to Jesus.
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He's the helper. He's the only one who is able to
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show you help wherever you are. There's no point, Cajolin.
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You have heard the word, You know that you need help.
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You're not able to save yourself.
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Perhaps this is the first time you are responding to an altar
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call or you want to rededicate your life.
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You're saying apostle. The truth is that I cannot help
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myself. Things have happened around my
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life. I have tried and tried to help
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myself, maybe break addictions. I have tried and tried, you
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know, to love Jesus, but it's just not working.
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You need the help from God wherever you I'm going to count
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1:00 to 5:00. You want Jesus to come into your
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life as your savior. Whether you're off the balcony,
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you're here, or any of the overflows Zaria online, please
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leave your seat in the next one minute.
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Quickly come and stand before me here.
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Give me the honor of leading you to Jesus.
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Let's honor them as they come. Thank you.
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Thank you, my dear brothers. Thank you, my sister.
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Are you celebrating them, Koinonia?
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Thank you. Thank you, Sir.
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Keep coming. Come quickly.
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Come quickly. Make haste as you come.
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God bless you. Keep clapping, Koinonia, you're
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sowing seeds of encouragement. God bless you.
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God bless you. You have come tonight to receive
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help. He's giving you a change of
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story. Finally.
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It doesn't matter how your past has been.
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It doesn't matter what has worked or what has not worked.
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Jesus is willing to help you. He's willing to show you mercy.
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Let's clap on to the last person.
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He's here. God bless you in Jesus name.
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I pray now as I leave this once in prayer, let me encourage
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someone who is watching by television.
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You're watching over the Internet.
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You're saying apostle? You can see me, but I can see
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you. I want you to know that God sees
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you and He's willing to give you a new beginning.
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You can start afresh with Him. In the name of Jesus, pray the
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prayer as I lead these ones. Thank you very much my brothers
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and sisters for coming. Please lift your right hand.
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This is to Jesus, the captain of your.
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Salvation. Say this as loud and as clear as
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you can say. 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 justification right now.
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I receive Jesus into my 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'm a child of God.
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I go for whatever and back whatever.
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Amen. I bless you with the blessings
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of heaven and I pray that from tonight you will walk in the
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newness of life as the righteousness of God in Christ
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Jesus. Everything that.
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Stops you from walking as a believer.
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I curse it right now from your life.
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I declare that it gives way right now.
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I release you to experience the power, the grace and the wisdom
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of God. In Jesus name we pray, Amen and
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Amen. Please look to my right, you
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will have a gentleman is waving the placard on behalf of the
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councillors. Please just move to my right,
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they will have a word with you very quickly.
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And then you return to your seat.
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Let's honor them as they go. Hallelujah, praise the name of
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the Lord. Speak over your life and where?
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Don't remember next week? Sunday is our final service for
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2024 on site. And every other thing from then
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until we resume. I'll announce the resumption
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date for 2025 and then we're going to celebrate next week.
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And I'll just be speaking over your life, the final dose of the
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prophetic word for the year, and trusting that you will return
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with a harvest of. Testimonies in Jesus name.
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But for now lift your hands. I declare the Lord bless you.
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Shout Amen again from Monday up until Sunday.
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Receive help every day. Receive help in the morning.
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Receive help in the afternoon. Receive help in the night.
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I say it again. Receive help all day.
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Receive help from strangers. Receive help from familias.
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Receive help from your workplace.
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Angelic interventions this week in the name of Jesus.
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May God visit you by his power in the name of Jesus.
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No weapon, fashion against you will prosper from Sunday to
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Sunday let it be laughter. From Sunday to Sunday.
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Let it be laughter Sunday to Sunday.
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Let it be increase Sunday to Sunday.
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Let it be advancement. No preceding there will be
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better than the one coming in the name of Jesus.
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From glory to glory, Grace. To grace power to power, I place
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a mark of honor upon your head. Let everyone who sees you honor
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you for your shame. Receive double for
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disappointments, receive increase for someone I announced
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to you. Good news arrives this week.
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Good news arrives this week. Good news that causes you to
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dance. Good news that causes you to
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live for joy. You will not hear it alone.
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All who are around you will receive good news also.
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In the name of Jesus. Nothing will cut short your
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life. You are protected and preserved.
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In Jesus mighty name we pray together.
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Let's share the grace and fellowship, the grace of our
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Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, the sweet fellowship of the
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Holy Spirit. Rest and abide with us now and
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forever. Amen.
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Surely. Is heightened on this mountain
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to drink from your love. The.
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Yeah.