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The Voice of God by Apostle Joshua Selman (WAFBEC 2023, The Covenant Nation) · Selah Media House

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Praise the name of the Lord. It's my joy to be here.
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Thank you, thank you pastor. Thank you so very much for this
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opportunity. While standing just before we
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sit, I really want to celebrate with Pastor 10 years of impact
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and Hallelujah, he made a statement just before I came up.
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Longevity is a product of wisdom.
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Anything that lasts is because it is standing upon wisdom.
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Hallelujah. So Sir, we salute you.
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Thank you for the vision, thank you for your love and for your
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labor in the name of Jesus Christ and for this session, can
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we lift our hands to heaven and ask the Lord to speak to us?
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Go ahead and pray. Let it be from the depth of your
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heart. Speak to me, speak to me, speak
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to me who is like Him, Lion and the Lamb seated on the throne.
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All the nations of deer, yes, we will break, I don't know, from
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the rising of the sun till the end of every day.
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All the nations of deer. Speak to our hearts this
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afternoon and cross your word to lift us, to change us, to
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transform us. Let us go from one dimension of
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glory even to the other. In Jesus name we have prayed.
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God bless you. Please be seated.
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I'm teaching this afternoon on The Voice of God.
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I want you to please pay attention because I believe that
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in addition to all that you have learned phenomenal speakers that
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this is 1 teaching that for many of us will be an answer to age
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long prayers for many of us. This will bring perspective and
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confidence to your work with God.
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The voice of God. Psalm 29 let's start from verse
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3. Psalm 29 from verse 3, it says
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the voice of God is upon the waters, the God of glory,
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thundereth. We're reading tonight, The Lord
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is upon many waters. Verse 4, the voice of the Lord
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is powerful. The voice of the Lord is full of
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majesty. The voice of the Lord breaketh
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the Cedars. Yeah, the Lord breaketh the
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Cedars of Lebanon. He maketh them also to skip like
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a calf. Lebanon and Syrian like a young
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Unicorn. The voice of the Lord divided
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the flames of fire. The voice of the Lord shakered
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the wilderness. The Lord shakered the wilderness
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of Kadesh. The last verse.
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The voice of the Lord maketh the Hinds to calve, and discovered
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the forest. And in his temple dot everyone
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speak of his glory. One more scripture Ezekiel
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chapter 43 from verse one and two Ezekiel 43 afterwards he
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brought me to the gate, even the gates that look at towards the
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east. Verse 2 And behold, the glory of
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the God of Israel came from the way of the east.
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And his voice was like the noise of many waters, and the earth
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shined with his glory. The Bible is very clear as to
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the fact that the Kingdom life was so designed that the
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advancement and the progress of the believer largely principally
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depends on his ability to be LED of God of the Spirit.
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The faith life was designed by God such that there is no
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possibility for meaningful progress outside of the voice of
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God. Hallelujah.
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The believer was designed to continually depend on The Voice
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of God for leadership and for direction.
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So even Jesus, when he came in the flesh, he was very, very
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vocal as to his need for the leadership of the Spirit.
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The Bible would tell us that after his baptism, the Spirit
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drove him into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.
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Then the Bible says he returned in the power of the Spirit.
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Hallelujah. Probably one of the greatest
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psalms that we know. Psalm 23 is a very profound
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Psalm of David because it captures the leadership of the
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Holy Spirit and the implication or the leadership of God
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generally speaking. He says, let's look at it.
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The Lord is my shepherd. He says I shall not want.
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He makes me notice now this same Lord being my Shepherd, He makes
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me, He leads me. Verse 3, He restores, He leads
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me, verse four, He guides me. You see, so there is leadership,
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there is guidance, there is making all by this great
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shepherd. It therefore means that if you
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do not understand the voice of God and the nature of His
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leadership, you may be stunted in a position spiritually and it
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will affect every other aspect of your life.
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Hallelujah. There are many believers today
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who have not been able to walk in the fullness of their
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prophetic destinies, not because of rebellion, but the inability
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to hear and to understand the speakings of God.
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Understanding the communications of God, therefore, it's a very,
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very important pursuit for any serious believer.
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Hallelujah. In fact, the Bible tells us in
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Romans chapter 8 and verse 14 that one of the seals of our
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sonship is that we have the ability to be LED for as many,
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he says, that are led by the Spirit of God.
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They are the sons of God. Are we still together?
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There seems. To be a great confusion as to
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the concept of the voice of God. The average believer understands
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the implication of being led by God, but it seems that largely
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in the body of Christ there's serious confusion.
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Our lives and our results, or the lack of it, clearly show
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that there is something about this subject that has not been
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properly understood. Hallelujah.
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And so I'm. Hoping that within the times
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that we'll have to share that God will grant us clarity and
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understanding as to the concept of His voice.
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If you believe that, please shout aloud.
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Amen. What exactly is the voice of
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God? The Bible talks about the voice
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of God, but what does it mean? Now please look up the concept
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of voice is not limited to the speakings of God alone.
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This is the first thing I want you to understand.
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The Bible generically uses the expression voice, but then it is
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not limited to the vocal communications or the speakings
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of God. Are we together when we talk
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about the voice of God? It represents?
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You may write this down if you're writing.
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It represents all the spiritual channels and the pathways that
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God uses to communicate His will and His intent.
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Let me take it again that the concept of the voice of God is
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not limited to the speakings of God alone, but that it
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represents all the spiritual channels.
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The voice of God represents all the spiritual channels and
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pathway uses to communicate His will and intent.
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If you're writing on the line, the word spiritual channels on
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the line, the word wheel and intent, that is very important
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because the whole idea behind the voice of God or the
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communications of God is to make his wheel and his intent known.
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Please look up. Please look up.
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I need you to understand that the power of God, which is
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responsible for all the possibilities we enjoy in this
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Kingdom, are we together. The power of God is the
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principal sponsor for every result that we enjoy in this
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Kingdom. But the power of God has
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jurisdictions for operation. It does not operate arbitrarily.
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The power of God was mandated by God to only function within the
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jurisdiction of His will and His intent.
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That means outside of the will and the power of God.
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I mean the will and the intent of God.
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The power of God does not have any assignment.
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The assignment of the power of God is to make the will and the
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intent of the Father come to pass.
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That means you only call for the attention of the power of God to
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the degree to which you are consistent with the will of God.
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It's important you understand this.
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The administration of the power of God only functions and finds
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expression within the jurisdiction of His will.
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It says when you pray, you pray that your Kingdom come.
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How? By your will being done in earth
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as it is in heaven, are we still together?
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That means if you cannot discern, perceive, or receive
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the will and the intent of God, you may never be able to
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experience the possibilities of God.
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This is why the voice of God is so important, because His power
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follows His voice. You are the one that we praise.
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You are the one we adore. You give the healing and grace
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that are always hunger for. Are we following so far so we
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have established the fact that the concept of the voice of God.
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Is not limited to his speakings, his vocal communications alone,
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but that it's a holistic capture of all the channels and the
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pathways that God uses to communicate His will and His
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intent. Please say after me will say
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after me intent one more time. Say will say intent.
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The entire scope of the dealings of God with man centers around
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these two words, His will and His intent.
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The purpose of spiritual communication from God to man is
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to make accessible to man the will and the intent of God.
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Hallelujah. So for this session would look
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at how God speaks. How exactly does God speak?
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Because there are many believers who are at a loss as to how God
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speaks or how God communicates. The Bible reveals several
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channels that have been used by God to communicate his will and
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his intent that we generically call the voice of God.
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In fact, Hebrews chapter 1 and verse one it says God who in
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sundry times and diverse manners speak.
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Take note of that diverse manners speak God, who in sundry
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times and diverse manners speaking time passed to the
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fathers by the prophets, have in these last days spoken to us.
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So you see different channels sundry times, diverse manners.
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He speak. Now He has spoken to us through
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His Son. So there are many channels for
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spiritual communication. I'm not discussing them, but let
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me just list a few of them for your knowledge #1 the Bible
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teaches that the primary channel for God's communication as far
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as His intent is concerned is the Holy Scripture.
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Please write. So the Scripture is the
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principal channel. It is amazing that the Scripture
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that we have represents the voice of God.
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Are we together? And that from a child thou has
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known the Holy Scripture, which is able to make you wise unto.
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Salvation, it says. The Holy scripture #2 dreams,
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visions and supernatural encounters.
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The Bible is very clear as to the fact that God uses dreams,
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visions, and supernatural encounters to communicate His
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intent. We see this scattered from
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Genesis to Revelation. Whether it is for Abraham,
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whether it is for Joseph the Father, the earthly father of
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Jesus. Hallelujah.
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Whether it is for Pharaoh revealing that seven years would
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come with plenty and seven years would come with famine.
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All of these prophetic encounters, dreams, visions,
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supernatural encounters #3 the prophetic now proper.
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The prophetic. I think that should be Jose
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chapter 12 and verse 10. I hope I'm right on that.
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It says I have spoken to you by the prophets.
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So God speaks by the prophets. The prophetic is a channel for
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His communication. Is someone learning now I have
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multiplied visions, he says. Let's finish the scripture.
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I have used similitudes even by the ministry of the prophets #4
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Another channel for spiritual communication is called the
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knowing or the weakness of the Spirit.
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Fathers of faith who have joined the cloud of witnesses like Papa
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Hagen would talk a lot about the knowing of the Spirit.
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The Bible says the Spirit itself bears witness with our spirit,
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that we are the sons or the children of God.
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There is a knowing. The Spirit can bear witness with
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your spirit. Hallelujah.
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There are many other channels, but at least this one's is just
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to be able to guide our understanding to see that when
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we are talking about the voice of God.
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I repeat again that the voice of God is not limited to the
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vocabulary communications of God like we know.
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Our concept of voice means sound that comes from the lips or the
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mouth of a man. But I'm telling you now that in
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dealing with spiritual communications, the most
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important thing is the transference of His will and His
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intent to the believer. That means at the end of
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whatever you call here in God, if the will and the intent of
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God does not get to you, is not God that you heard?
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It doesn't matter how spiritual, it doesn't matter how flamboyant
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we convert your hearing God. Not by the accuracy of what you
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think, not by the charismatism that happened.
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Remember, there can be sound and rain, but then the voice may not
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be there. The proof of accurate hearing.
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Is that we see that your life evolves into the will and the
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intent of God with exactitude and precision.
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Are we together? So how does God speak?
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What is the language of God? Does he have a language?
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Hallelujah. While while I was in the green
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room, I was enjoying the praise and the worship, except that for
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for largely for it. I really didn't understand what
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you know from from a cultural standpoint.
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Now I was enjoying it, of course, but I didn't know the
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meaning of the words because, for instance, I'm not Yoruba by
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earthly, you know my earthly connection now, So there are
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languages. If I speak something in Yoruba
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now, I expect most or all Yoruba people to be able to respond.
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Is that true? So what is the language of God?
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If we are talking about the communications of God?
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Does he speak Greek? Does he speak Hebrew?
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Does he speak English? What is the language of God?
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You will test what you are hearing now against many things
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you have been calling. God said so you said you had
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God. What exactly did you hear?
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You should have the confidence to answer this question.
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What did you hear? For someone who will say God
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told me, I think it's time to move left.
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So does God speak English? Does God speak French?
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It is amazing that every nation hears God.
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So what exactly does he tell them?
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Please pay attention now. Are we together?
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The language of God is not Greek.
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It's not Hebrew, it's not English, it's not Yoruba.
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In fact, the Bible tells us Paul was speaking in First
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Corinthians 13 verse one, that there are the language or
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tongues of men and tongues of angels.
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So we know that there are languages even in the realm of
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the Spirit. But I guarantee you by the
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integrity of Scripture that none of these is the language of God.
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It does not mean that he cannot communicate through these
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channels, but that is not the language of God.
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The language of God is not vocabulary.
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The language of God is light. Please write it down.
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The language of God is light. First, John chapter 1 and verse
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5 already tells us that God himself is light.
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This is the message it says which we have heard of him.
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And declare unto you that God is light.
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Not God has light God is light and in him there is no darkness
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at all if it is true that he is light, then everything that
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emanates from him must be light. Are we together Psalm 119 verse
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130 Psalm 119 are we still together please the Bible says
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the entrance of thy word giveth what he didn't say he giveth
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information the. Entrance of thy word.
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Just follow me carefully. The entrance of thy words giveth
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light. Then there is another kind of
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giving again. It now gives understanding.
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But leave the issue of understanding.
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The first thing it gives is light.
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That means once that light does not arrive, there is no
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possibility of understanding. The entrance of thy word giveth
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light. Is someone learning Matthew
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chapter 17 and verse 5? The language of God is light.
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The Bible says this was at the transfiguration, that while he
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yet speak, behold a bright cloud overshadowed them, and behold a
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voice out of the cloud which said, This is my beloved Son, in
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whom I am well pleased. Then he says, Hear ye him.
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My question is, were they not listening?
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So what did he mean by hear him? You would hear the Bible say
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again and again that he that hath an ear.
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Now remember he was talking to people who were created in God's
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image. So what kind of?
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Ear is this. That he that hath an ear, let
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him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches.
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Are we together? I want to explain to you
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something very powerful now, and I'm praying in the name of
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Jesus, the Son of the living God, that your spirit will be
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alive to receive. I stand by the integrity of the
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Lord to tell you this. If you understand what I'm
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teaching you now, it will shift the climate of your spiritual
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experience to new dimensions and to New Horizons.
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Are we together? I have established the fact that
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the goal of the speakings of God listen carefully.
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It's not just to supply information, but to supply his
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intent and his will. Is it possible to have two
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gentlemen? Please?
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Any 2? Gentlemen, please come.
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Thank you. Just stand here.
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Everyone. Please watch you.
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Stand here, Sir. You stand here, Sir.
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Face me now. All of you, watch this.
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Anything I ask you to do, I want you to try to do it.
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Decipher whatever you think I'm saying.
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Are we following? Oh, dear.
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I'm. I'm not.
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What did I say? So that should come.
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What did I say? You asked me to move forward
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from a vocal standpoint. This one interpreted what I said
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as what come. This one interpreted what I said
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as what? But both of them got the intent
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of my communication. Are you seeing that?
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Now? Please go back again.
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Watch this. What did I say?
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Said come forward and go left. What did I say?
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Come again, spread out. Look at this.
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So now, if this is the only mentor you have to learn the
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speakings of God, you are already in trouble because you
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are limited to His vocal expression of His perception of
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the intents of God. Are we together now?
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Sit down, sit down, sit down, sit down.
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Let's pray in the Spirit for one minute.
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Shabba lacosa brande Gabella Cosia deca balaka tasca Brenda
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Gabella tociata savrasca Barre de barrendo siata.
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Someone is rising in the spirit following from across the
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nations of the earth. Light is coming for you now.
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Sabrateca paradeca paluciata. Years of confusion been
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mystified in the presence of God.
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Hallelujah. Now watch this.
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So back to our example. This gentleman, based on his
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perception of what I said, he said come.
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So if he's to write a book to document this event, he will
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say, and God said, come, when you now read this one, he will
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say, and God said, step forward. You now see why there's the
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synoptic Gospel, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, all an attempt to
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capture the speakings of God from the listen, listen to me.
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This is very powerful. Both of them are right, except
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that it is a risk to absolutely depend on their perception to
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understand God. Most important thing is not
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their linguistic prowess or their vocal ability that can
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help, but I am satisfied working with any of them because tent
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and my wheel was successfully transferred.
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Are we together? When you study communication now
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in English or mass communication, they teach you
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that the goal of speaking, whether it's a verbal or
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nonverbal communication, that the goal is to transfer the
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thoughts of the speaker to the audience or the listener, the
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final recipient. Am I right on that?
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So sometimes you may need to use the power of imagery.
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Sometimes you may need to use linguistic communication
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prowess. Sometimes you may need to use
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your hands. Like for people who are deaf and
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dumb. How do you tell those who are
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deaf and dumb that while you are laughing, they are laughing too?
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What did they understand by what you said?
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Because while you are laughing, they are also laughing.
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They are not at a loss at all as far as communicating your intent
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is concerned. It then means listen carefully,
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that the language of God cannot be what this man said.
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It cannot be what this man said, although everything they said
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captured his will. Are we together?
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Thank you, gentlemen. So I said that the language of
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God is light, but let me explain very quickly, what is the
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dynamics of spiritual communication?
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How does that light become understanding to the believer?
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For you to understand this, you need to understand the spiritual
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composition, the design of man. The Bible very clearly tells us
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that man is spirit. Man does not have a spirit.
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Man is spirit because God is spirit.
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Are we together and that that spirit is hosted in a body and.
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That body and that spirit are incompatible because of the
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realms that they come from. The spirit is from above.
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This body was made from the door.
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So there is no system of compatibility.
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Are we together now? The mind comes, that solical
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component made-up of the will, the emotions, the intellect.
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That is what creates the bridge between the spirit and the body.
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The body is an instrument of execution.
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Are we together now? That means that which the spirit
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desires through the faculties of the mind, you are able to
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execute it. This is so.
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God communicates His intent captured in His light.
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Please listen. Let me explain to you now that
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light is received by your spirit man.
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Your spirit man would have received that light.
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But you see, it cannot be profitable to you, because at
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that realm as light, it cannot minister to your mind and your
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body. There still has to be a
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technology of conversion so that understanding can come.
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It is at the point of understanding that faith can be
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engaged. Is someone following?
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Now there are times that you know your spirit has received
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something from God. You know by the witness of the
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Spirit and you, it cannot profit you because you don't even know
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what to obey. You just know that in the place
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of prayer, your spirit has received something.
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All the components that accompany the speakings of God
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are there. Joy, peace.
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I know that I've received something, but what exactly have
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I received? There must be a system of
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conversion now. Watch this.
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This is where your mind comes in.
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In the body of Christ we have taught people how to grow their
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spirits, but we have ignored the place of the mind.
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We have ignored the fact that the mind has a vital role to
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play in interpreting the speakings of God.
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Now you are about to see the role.
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Play that as robust as your spirit man is receiving the
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light that comes from the communications of God will not
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give you the basis to manifest faith properly.
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If there is something wrong with your mind, the mind consists of
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the. Will the emotions and the
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intellect now watch this your mind through learning I wrote
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here and through environmental conditioning has associated
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certain words, an expression with certain feelings.
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Let me explain to you what I mean that through learning,
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going to school, any kind of education at all and through
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your environmental conditioning you have associated certain.
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Words are we together now? Certain vocabulary expressions
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to certain feelings. For instance, if I say ball, you
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can't think banana because you have associated that object.
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Are we together now? This is powerful.
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That means the healthier your mind is, the more it can create
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the vocabulary expressions that interprets the light you have
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received. Are we together now?
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Listen, if you understand this, you will know what happened.
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Respectfully speaking to the fathers of old, they received
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many things from God, but because they ignored
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transformation, they were not able to interpret the speakings
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of God with accuracy. So their prophetic actions came
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with a plethora of error. There was no purity in their
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interpretation because they ignored the place of
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transformation and it's a mistake that many spiritual
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people are making. They feel is in contact with God
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through prayer. They ignore the role that the in
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accurately interpreting the speakings of God.
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I always wondered why Jesus the Word Incarnate when he came in
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the flesh at age 12. The Bible tells us that he was
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in the temple. Is that in your Bible learning
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under the Pharisees and the scribes?
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Why would the Word be learning again?
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No wonder when Satan came, he said it is.
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The assignment of your mind, therefore, is to give the light
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of God for expressions, so that understanding can be
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established. Let me take it again.
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The assignment of your mind with respect to the speakings of God
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is to give the light of God that you have received in your spirit
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vocabulary, expressions so that understanding can be
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established. In Ephesians chapter 5, I
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believe verse 16, the Bible tells us we can understand the
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will of God. Did I get that?
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17 Be not therefore unwise, but understanding what the will of
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God is. There is no basis for
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manifesting faith until and unless there is understanding.
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If you do not understand the instruction I gave you, how can
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you obey? Because faith in one word is
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obedience. Any other thing that is captured
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in your faith equation. If obedience is missing, you did
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not manifest Bible faith. If it be thou bid me come.
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He only came because he understood what was said.
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Like my example with the gentleman.
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Remember you see that their obedience was almost effortless
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because their understanding was fruitful.
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That means what manic the laxity in obedience is not necessarily
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rebellion on your own part is that you do not even understand
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what God is saying. Hallelujah.
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Yes, khalisa branda capociata, The assignment of your mind is
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to give the light of God that captures His will and His intent
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to give it vocabulary expressions.
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Now watch this from the example I gave the gentleman based on
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their level of intellectual exposure.
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We together there are levels of orientation.
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That was what was responsible for interpreting what I said.
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So if this gentleman is more enlightened than this one,
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chances are excellent that his interpretation will be a lot
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more intellectual and meticulous because he has an array of
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options. You will now know why the Bible
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says to be transformed because your transformation puts you in
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a position where you have an array of scriptural options to
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accurately interpret that light you receive from your spirit.
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I presume that everyone here has a phone.
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This is the same technology that is used.
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Watch this. Now how many of you remember a
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phone call? What they call it 3310?
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Come on 3310, have you forgotten so early?
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Are we together now? Watch this and then many of you
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know the concept of MMS, is that true?
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There are times when I may want to send you an MMS, maybe a
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picture saying I love you, God bless you and it is captured in
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pictorial form. Is that true?
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I can send it to you now. Watch this.
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The goal is for you to know that I care.
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Don't forget. The moment I press send, does it
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leave us a flower? No, it leaves us what waves.
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Notice that you are not interested in the waves.
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You are interested in capturing the intent that flower to give
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you a feeling of being loved and accepted.
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But it comes to your phone. Now notice it will now depend on
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the configuration of your phone for the accuracy of its
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interpretation. By the time those waves come
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into your phone, the quality of your phone can misrepresent what
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I sent. Is someone learning?
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Now the phone will do its best to use whatever tools are within
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its reach to interpret what it thinks I sent.
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And there are times you will be offended over something that
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should bless you. Could that be what has been your
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situation with God? That there are many times God is
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saying listen, the direction is left, but because of the absence
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of transformation, you hear something else.
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When you upgrade that phone to a better phone, you will be
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surprised that you now see that MMS.
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So this is what you wanted to say.
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Now you can respond with joy. So the Bible says Philippians
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chapter 2 from verse 5. It says let this mind be in you,
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which was also in Christ Jesus. There was already a construct,
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an intelligent word based construct, that even though
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Jesus was the word Internet, he paid the price to equip his mind
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with the requisite vocabulary that interprets the speakings of
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God. God with accuracy and Paul is
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saying let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus.
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Someone can sleep and that's what people call sleep talking.
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You know that where people just say a lot of nonsense while they
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are sleeping and if they wake up they can deny it.
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Now, chances are excellent that if someone is shouting and
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talking about, say, a masquerade or something, someone who leaves
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maybe somewhere in the US who has never seen a masquerade,
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chances are excellent in his sleep talking, he may never
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mention the word masquerade because it's not captured within
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the frame of his understanding. Are we together now?
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Believe us, Please hear me, for as long as we ignore the
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supremacy of the. World.
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For as long as we do not contend for transformation, there will
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be gaps in our perceiving the will of God.
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As far as spiritual communication is concerned, the
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more you immerse yourself in the world, the more you are giving
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your mind healthy scriptural tools which which to interpret
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the speakings the light of God. So many believers assume This is
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one of the reasons why I get concerned when people who do not
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respect the Word claim their hearing God and even claim their
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hearing for others. The margin of error.
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I will not trust that hearing. Do you know why?
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Now I'm saying this is this is an opinion that is based on
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scripture. I will not trust that hearing
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because the word of God is not the basis of your vocabulary
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composition. Chances are excellent that there
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will be gaps in your interpretation is the reason
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why, respectfully speaking, the prophetic has both blessed and
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cursed people because the light comes in the place of prayer.
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But because there is no sequent transformation, the
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interpretation of the speakings of God end up deviating people
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from the ways of God. Listen carefully.
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I believe in the prophetic, but let me tell you, our generation,
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and I'm speaking prophetically to the body of Christ,
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especially those who are called into the Apostolic and the
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prophetic ministry. Pressing to the dimension of
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prayer will expose us to the realm of the Spirit.
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And like you'll be learning in my subsequent sessions, there
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are many voices. Paul said there is, as it were,
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many voices, and none of them is without signification.
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So we need to verify whether what you had is God, and we
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can't verify just by the pleasantness of what you heard.
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We first need to vet the word component that was resident in
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your mind as at the time you heard, because Satan can appear
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as an Angel of light. Listen, we are living in very
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perilous times where there is a heightened need for discernment,
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and discernment is not by superstition.
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Discernment happens at the instance of your stability
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through the world. You are grounded through the
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world and on the basis of that stability you can decipher by
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the character of Scripture what is of God and what is not.
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For the Bible says the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the
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latter time some shall depart from the faith, and they shall
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give heed to seducing spirit and the doctrine of demons.
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The character of seduction is that you must desire what it is
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bringing for it to be called seduction.
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There are many people who went to the place of prayer and
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returned back with speakings that were not of God.
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When you judge it from the lens of the authority of Scripture,
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it is found wanting. And they took steps based on
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their interpretations of what they felt God was saying.
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And the result that we see is not the glory of God.
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And we will never settle for less.
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We know there's more that's found in you and we we'll never
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settle for less when we know the smallest found in you.
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And I will never settle for less.
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I know the smallest found in you.
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I've studied a bit on the history of the church in
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Nigeria. I'm a student of history and I'm
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a student of revivals. The reason is because I desire
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by the grace of God, like Pastor so graciously prayed and said,
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and I'm so grateful for that. That compliments her.
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We intend to last and stay for a long time.
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So the goal is to find out the ingredients that sponsor
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longevity. And the way you do it is by
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following some them who through faith and patience have
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obtained. There are people who run this
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race. When others were laughing at
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them, ignoring the world, they stayed on the stability of
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scripture. And when the door settled, like
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the house that was built on the rock, most of them are standing
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today. Please hear me.
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Whether you are called into the Apostolic, the prophetic,
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evangelical, the pastoral, if you do not contend for
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transformation, I guarantee you, you are at the risk of aborting
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longevity. Whether in life and ministry,
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gifts will come and go, celebrity ministry will come and
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go. What will keep you?
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The Bible says the rains came, the floods came, all kinds of
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things came, but it was the house that was built.
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Both houses were built. The problem is not the building,
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the problem is what it is built on.
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Hear me, if I never hear the voice of God in my spirit, and I
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can respect the authority of the Word of God, it is accurate
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enough to leave me with precision, prophetic precision.
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I'm not downplaying gifts. Listen carefully.
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The Bible says to covert earnestly, but I can tell you
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every other gift has not been tried, but the Word of God has
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been tried seven times. In fact, the Bible calls it the
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most sure word of prophecy. I respect your administering
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spiritual gifts to the degree to which you respect your authority
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of Scripture. Alicia Ali Capranda Capo Theater
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I'm saying this respectfully, especially for younger ministers
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that are coming up. The deception of gifts can it
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can abort a great destiny overnight.
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Settle with the world, obtain grace from God to settle with
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the world. Let the world dwell in you
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richly, says the degree to which the word of God has dwelt in you
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richly in fact, and chapter 20 and verse 32 says, and now I
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commend you to God. Paul was speaking and to the
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word of his grace he says, which is able to build you up and to
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give you an inheritance among them that are sanctified.
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Ephesians 418 says having their understanding darkened.
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It says been alienated from the life of God through the
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ignorance that is in them because of the blindness of
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their minds is someone learning. So the voice of God represents
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every spiritual channel that God is able to use to communicate
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His will and His intent. The most important component in
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the voice of God is not the speakings of God, but the safe
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transference of His intent from His heart to your heart.
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If that arrives safely, all the channels that midwife that
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process are only enhanced by the health of your mind.
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No matter how much you claim to hear God, if we do not see His
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will being done as you obey what you perceive that you heard, we
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have a right from the authority of Scripture to vet it.
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Are we together? The voice of God will always
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birth the will of God. I started by telling you that
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the power of God is principally responsible for the
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manifestation of all the possibilities that we find in
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the life of the believer, but that the power of God is
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jurisdictional in its operation. The jurisdiction of the power of
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God is the will of God. The power of God is not mandated
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to function outside the will of God, and if ever it functions
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outside of the will of God is to bring that person or that
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situation into. The will of God.
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The end of the administration of the power of God.
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The end. Of the speakings of God is that
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the will of God be established in the life of the believer.
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If we're together, say Amen. We need to return back from this
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session and begin to pay a healthy respect for the Word of
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God. It is important that we respect
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the Word of God, especially respectfully speaking for those
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of us who are laborers in the vineyard.
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We must love and appreciate the ministry of the Word beyond
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preaching. I found your Word and I did eat
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it and it was a joy and a rejoicing possible.
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I've been trying to hear God. While you are waiting, let the
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world dwell in you so that when He speaks, your interpretation
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will not retrogress. He will not retrogress you again
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because of poor hearing. Hearing that does not come
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through a transformed mind will carry a side effect of error
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even if it was God that spoke because one of the ways I did a
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teaching one time knowing God as we prepare to pray one of the
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ways. There are four ways according to
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scripture that we know God. Number one is 2 scripture.
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Scripture itself. Scripture reveals the character
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of God so that by the study of Scripture we are able to learn
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how God operates the models operandi of the Kingdom.
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The second way that we learn God as revealed in the Bible are
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through His names. The names of God are a capture
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of the various dimensions that are contained in God, that as we
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learn His names, we also learn him #3 we learn God by studying
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Jesus. The Bible calls him the express
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image of the invisible God. So as we study Jesus, we have a
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right to vet everything the prophet said using the reference
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of Jesus. That means everything they
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attributed to God. If we did not see it in the life
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of Jesus, we have a scriptural basis to say they were in error
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or it was a human limitation. For instance, when the Bible
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says a lying spirit came out from God, remember that
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scripture? Yes, now we do not see that
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there is any darkness in Jesus full of grace and truth.
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That is the character of the Christ that was revealed.
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That means we have a right to say either the interpreters were
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wrong or the prophet who received that word was limited.
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And you are not in error using the reference of Jesus.
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And the last and final way we learn God according to Scripture
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is to experience. Job said, I have heard of you
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with the hearing of the ear, but now my eyes see a Thee.
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Khalid Salika Brandakabadia, You can imagine how powerful it is
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to come and sit in a conference like this.
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And in a moment light enters your spirit for some of you, by
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reason of what you have received now in addition to all that you
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have. Heard you will know how to
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reject the speakings of Satan because you see, for our focus
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is on getting God to speak, not necessarily building capacity to
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interpret his speakings. And since your passion is to get
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God to speak, Satan will help you and also speak.
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Hear me, God speaks. Settle it.
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The question is not whether He will speak.
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The question is to work on your ability to accurately perceive
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His communications and do not limit Him to a unique mode of
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operation. Because for many of us, you are
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looking for God to communicate in a certain way.
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Your faith and probably limited mentorship has still tell you to
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understand the speakings of God only through certain ways.
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He has the authority as God to use a plethora of options.
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Your assignment is to make sure your spirit is robust.
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This is why fasting and prayer helps you to gain that
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accendance like a transistor radio.
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There's waves all the time, but if your transistor radio cannot
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receive it is because you have not tuned to the frequency.
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And do you know sometimes you are just a few digits to the
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frequency and yet the radio will still be making a lot of noise,
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but the moment you tune it and get there, This is the
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assignment of prayer and fasting to build your spirit to rise to
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the frequency of the communications of God.
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But if you stop there, you are in trouble.
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But we will give ourselves continually.
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Acts chapter 6 and verse 4 to prayer for the ascendance of our
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Spirit man, but to the ministry of the.
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World. For the transformation that
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interprets his speakings so that we can receive his communication
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with balance, exactitude and precision.
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Have you been blessed? Please rise up on your feet.
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You are the one that we pray it. You are the one, we are told you
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give the healing and raise that it's always hunger for.
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Yummy God, if you are the one I must see through a dream that is
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limited spiritual understanding. So you have been waiting for a
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dream for five years and God use many other channels to say I'm
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waiting for you. It is important to stop pegging
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God at certain operations now, because his father based on
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relationship. It is possible for you to
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sincerely from your heart, because the character of
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fatherhood according to Scripture is not just having
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children, but benevolence. If you, being evil, know how to
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give, there are many times you will overlook and honor the
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simplicity of your faith, even if it is in ignorance.
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But when you rise to maturity in the Spirit, you must be able to
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allow the Word of God put you in a position where whether it
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comes by the witness of the Spirit, whether it comes to
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dreams, every other spiritual operation that God speaks to you
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through must pass through the sieve of the world for its
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accurate understanding. So if you have a dream, look at
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me. I'm wrapping up.
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I shared it with my people many times.
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If I were Joseph, please look up.
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If I were Joseph and Pharaoh called me and said I had a
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dream. 7 cows, 7 lean ones. My mind will go straight to
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witchcraft not farming. How does cows represent years?
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How does plants? I would just say this is this is
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destruction coming. But because he had regard even
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though they were in the old. It is amazing.
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You have given many things interpretations because you have
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used brain walk, not scripture. Watch this.
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Three or fours can see a chain in the spirit.
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It does not mean bondage. Ornaments are also made of
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chains. So don't just say because you
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saw a chain it is bondage. No, no.
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You can see someone naked in the Spirit and say something is
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wrong. Shame.
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No, nakedness also means intimacy.
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Listen, the basis of our remaining inaccuracy and with
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precision as we minister the world and as we guide God's
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people to higher spiritual experiences would not be the
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gift on our lives. No, as wonderful as that is.
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And it would not just be opinions that have come based on
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age long, respectfully speaking, limited mentorships.
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We must return to the Word of God and obtain grace from God to
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begin to bring accurate perspectives to spiritual
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speakings so that God's people are built holistically.
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One last example and then we pray, assuming that because of
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my work with God, God gives me an instruction and says, Joshua
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Salman, you will never have more than three cars.
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Now that is not a doctrine, it is a personalized dealing
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because based on my work with God, He has vetted me to see
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that if I have more than that, it can distract me.
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So He created a unique limitation to help my
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efficiency. So by my obedience, you will see
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me excelling. If you come to ask me what is
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the secret of your resource, I will tell you I have only three
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cars. Your your mistake now will be to
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copy me verbatim. No, you must discern the essence
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of what God did, not just the action that the goal was that he
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wanted to constrain me to be effective.
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You will now go to God and receive your own version of that
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dealing. We have copied people blindly.
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And what has worked for one based on the unique construct of
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his ministry, has become the limiting factor for another.
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I hope you were blessed tonight. Father, I obtain grace.
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Someone pray. I obtain grace in the name of
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Jesus to contend for transformation by the Word.
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Go ahead and pray. I submit all my spiritual
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experiences, no matter how great they are, no matter how
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spectacular they are. I submit them to the authority
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of Scripture for proper interpretation, for proper
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vetting, so that I do not work in error.
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The margin of safety for the believer is dwelling with the
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world. Someone is praying.
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Hallelujah. One last prayer, Father, the
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grace to be a student of Scripture.
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Plant a hunger in my heart for the Word so that I contend for
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transformation, giving you the tools to accurately interpret
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the light that comes upon my Spirit.
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Someone, lift your voice and pray.
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Lift your voice and pray. Lift your voice and pray.
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Lift your voice and pray.