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Black Tax · Apostle Lazarus Femi

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  Speaker 1: Apostle Fermi Lazarus is a man raised by God to
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  Speaker 1: demonstrate his wisdom and authority to the last day church.
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  Speaker 1: He is the lead pastor of Sphere of Light Church
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  Speaker 1: and God told him years ago that a time will
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  Speaker 1: come where my wisdom will be needed to navigate tough
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  Speaker 1: times in the body of Christ.
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  Speaker 2: Then I will cause your voice to be heard and
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  Speaker 2: all who pay attention to my word on your lips
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  Speaker 2: will not lack light and direction. He is a man
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  Speaker 2: sent from God, sent to raise God's end time armies.
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  Speaker 2: With Apostle Fermi Lazarus, every minute counts as you listen attentively.
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  Speaker 3: Amen. Thank you, Father.
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  Speaker 4: We have a very, very interesting subject to discuss this morning.
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  Speaker 3: I pray to God to help me. Amen. Amen. And
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  Speaker 3: I feel this subject matters. Needs to be discussed. Amen.
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  Speaker 3: Needs to be discussed. So I'm going to be. So
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  Speaker 3: let me share the big picture.
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  Speaker 4: This series is not just a series about family relationship.
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  Speaker 3: Or for the fun of it. Okay. It's about culture overhauling. Okay.
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  Speaker 4: God has a bigger agenda. And we are going to
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  Speaker 4: be wasting our time if we don't begin from the family.
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  Speaker 3: Okay?
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  Speaker 4: Once we have this mindset established, then we export it
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  Speaker 4: from that system to our nation.
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  Speaker 3: Things will shift. You know, so let me... There's fire
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  Speaker 3: on the mountain.
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  Speaker 4: In fact, we are new in Abuja, but I've discovered
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  Speaker 4: Abuja is not better than anywhere else. It's the same culture.
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  Speaker 4: Go to Ghana, the same thing. Travel anywhere in Africa.
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  Speaker 4: It's the same thinking. So we're going to buy a
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  Speaker 4: shoe from a store. And it was not my size.
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  Speaker 4: We say change the shoe. Or if you don't have
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  Speaker 4: this specific one, that is my size. Return the money
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  Speaker 4: so we can buy somewhere else. And they say we
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  Speaker 4: have a company policy. We don't refund money in this company.
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  Speaker 4: I wanted to see the owner. Because that would be
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  Speaker 4: me looking at a rich guy who is about to
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  Speaker 4: become poor.
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  Speaker 3: Any culture where money is valued above satisfying people you
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  Speaker 3: are servicing, you will crumble.
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  Speaker 4: It's just a matter of when. So God is addressing
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  Speaker 4: cultural beliefs. He's addressing things.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: Sometimes people are excited when the pendulum is not swinging
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  Speaker 4: in their direction.
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  Speaker 3: But you have to understand that God is also interested
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  Speaker 3: in dealing with you. Hmm.
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  Speaker 4: So there is a very serious issue and we need
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  Speaker 4: to discuss it in church because that's where balance exists.
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  Speaker 4: The issue is that anything that is a matter that
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  Speaker 4: we fail to discuss, those who are not balanced will
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  Speaker 4: take it up. Give their own false narrative and that
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  Speaker 4: narrative becomes our narrative.
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  Speaker 3: And everybody will.
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  Speaker 4: Run with it as if that's all that exists. So
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  Speaker 4: we are going to be dealing with the subject of
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  Speaker 4: black tax.
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  Speaker 3: Black tax. I'm not teaching taxation. This is not economics class.
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  Speaker 3: We're accounting. Okay?
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  Speaker 4: So black tax refers to financial burden by those who
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  Speaker 4: have attained level of success in the family. It's called
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  Speaker 4: black tax because it is an African thing. Whether African, American, whatever.
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  Speaker 4: And I'm going to show you why. It's an African thing.
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  Speaker 3: Okay?
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  Speaker 4: Black tax refers to financial burden or responsibility borne by
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  Speaker 4: those who have attained a level of success in the
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  Speaker 4: family who provide support to less financially mature or secure
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  Speaker 4: family members.
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  Speaker 3: Okay?
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  Speaker 4: But unfortunately, black tax can be a crab culture. I'm
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  Speaker 4: going to explain what that means.
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  Speaker 3: So there is a concept. it's a culture exhibited by crabs.
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  Speaker 4: If you want to cage crabs, you don't have to
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  Speaker 4: cover anything you are putting them in.
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  Speaker 3: Just put more than one. Okay?
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  Speaker 4: The other one will never allow the one we're trying
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  Speaker 4: to climb, climb out. So what is happening is that
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  Speaker 4: Somebody's trying to break free financially and become at least
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  Speaker 4: the first of a kind in the family who we
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  Speaker 4: can say broke free. But the taxes, the responsibilities, the people.
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  Speaker 3: And at the end of the day, if there's no wisdom,
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  Speaker 3: everybody will remain at the same level.
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  Speaker 4: Okay?
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  Speaker 3: Okay? Generosity is a very, very important subject. It is
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  Speaker 3: very important. Okay? And it is scriptural. And that's where
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to start from. Okay?
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  Speaker 4: Either gives to the poor. The Bible says lend to God.
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  Speaker 4: Whether poor on the street or poor in the family.
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  Speaker 4: When you do that, the Bible says you are lending
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  Speaker 4: to God.
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  Speaker 3: Look at it. Proverbs 19 verse 17. Please turn your
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  Speaker 3: Bibles there.
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  Speaker 4: Proverbs 19 verse 17. Proverbs 19 verse 17. Proverbs 19,
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  Speaker 4: 17 says, He that has pity on the poor lends
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  Speaker 4: to the Lord, and that.
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  Speaker 3: Which is given will he pay again. Okay?
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  Speaker 4: He who has pity on the poor lends to God.
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  Speaker 4: And then God is going to repay him.
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  Speaker 3: Is that okay now?
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  Speaker 4: I want to show you another translation that brings this
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  Speaker 4: home more.
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  Speaker 3: Okay?
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  Speaker 4: Um.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: Being kind to the poor is lending to the Lord.
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  Speaker 4: He will reward you for what you have done. Mercy
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  Speaker 4: translation says, mercy to the needy is a loan to God.
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  Speaker 3: And God pays back those loans in full. So, very powerful. Okay?
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  Speaker 3: God wants us to give. Say it, God wants us
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  Speaker 3: to give. Come on, say it again. God wants us
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  Speaker 3: to give He wants us to be givers. He wants
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  Speaker 3: us to take care of the poor. Alright? Very important.
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  Speaker 3: God wants us to give. In fact, it's more rewarding
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  Speaker 3: when we give. Alright? Than when we receive. Is that
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  Speaker 3: okay now?
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  Speaker 4: It is more rewarding when we give than when we receive.
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  Speaker 3: Okay? So that's the balance. Giving is scriptural. It is
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  Speaker 3: unscriptural giving.
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  Speaker 4: For God to bless you and you shut your bowels
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  Speaker 4: of compassion from your family.
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  Speaker 3: This is unscriptural.
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  Speaker 4: The Bible says that a man that cannot provide for
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  Speaker 4: his household is worse than an infidel.
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  Speaker 3: So, listen, listen. I'm trying to give you a balance
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  Speaker 3: before I start.
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  Speaker 4: As God lifts you, as God changes your level, you
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  Speaker 4: must be interested in flowing out.
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  Speaker 3: You must be interested in being a sukkah. You must
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  Speaker 3: understand that.
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  Speaker 4: That through your life, because of your existence, the level
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  Speaker 4: of struggle and hardship in the family will be at
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  Speaker 4: least minimized.
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  Speaker 3: Okay? Very important.
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  Speaker 4: So what is lacking in most cases is the wisdom
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  Speaker 4: and the balance to go about this.
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  Speaker 3: If not, we are going to have the crab system.
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  Speaker 3: Let me give you an illustration.
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  Speaker 4: One day some set of people went to the swimming
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  Speaker 4: pool to swim.
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  Speaker 3: Okay? And the.
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  Speaker 4: Biggest guy there has been boasting inside the car. When
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  Speaker 4: I get to the swimming pool and say, me, I
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  Speaker 4: did swim.
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  Speaker 3: I'm like fish. I can swim.
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  Speaker 4: He said, I've swam one kilometer. So when I get there,
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  Speaker 4: how many feet deep is the swimming pool? They say, ah,
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  Speaker 4: go Johnny, go Johnny, go. He got there, removed his shirt,
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  Speaker 4: jumped inside the water. The girl started seeing bubbles. They
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  Speaker 4: were not seeing him. Where is this guy? Where is
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  Speaker 4: this guy? Alright, so another guy jumped in to save him.
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  Speaker 4: Unfortunately for the guy that jumped in to save him,
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  Speaker 4: he was not as big as the person he was
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  Speaker 4: trying to save. So the moment he tried to lead
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  Speaker 4: that person out of panic, that one held him down.
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  Speaker 4: it took more than four lifeguards to come and then
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  Speaker 4: bring the boat of them. If not, both the savior
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  Speaker 4: and the person they are trying to save would have drowned.
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  Speaker 4: So what is happening is that people don't wait to
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  Speaker 4: attain a level of strength before they jump into responsibilities
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  Speaker 4: and they die there.
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  Speaker 3: That's what happens. Okay?
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  Speaker 4: They fail to understand that that it takes maturity financially
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  Speaker 4: to remain a giver.
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  Speaker 3: Okay?
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  Speaker 4: If your finance is built on emotions, you are going
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  Speaker 4: to be very poor. Because in this life, problems, no,
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  Speaker 4: they finish. They can't finish. In fact, a few years ago,
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  Speaker 4: our NGO.
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  Speaker 3: We had this award program where we were.
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  Speaker 4: Recognizing different NGOs doing similar things in the country.
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  Speaker 3: And we invited one of my brothers who is now
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  Speaker 3: in America around.
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  Speaker 4: A powerful NGO. And the first statement he made shook me.
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  Speaker 4: He said, this is what I'm going to say as
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  Speaker 4: I receive this award. You can't do everything. You can't
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  Speaker 4: do everything. I've been on the street. I know the
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  Speaker 4: language of the street. I know what's going on around.
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  Speaker 4: I've been with people in different situations and different conditions.
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  Speaker 3: Okay? Let me give you one illustration. I remember years back,
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  Speaker 3: one of our members was sick. Then at Lefebvre.
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  Speaker 4: So I received a call. I was told, she's not
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  Speaker 4: feeling fine. She's been rushed to the hospital. So I
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  Speaker 4: called those who were there.
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  Speaker 3: I said... What's happening? Are they treating? I said yes.
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  Speaker 4: Let them do everything they have to do. Just let
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  Speaker 4: us know if there's any challenge. While we were talking,
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  Speaker 4: I heard a woman crying in the background. She was
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  Speaker 4: crying and wailing. I said, confirm, what's happening with that woman?
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  Speaker 4: She said, her son is dying. They brought the son
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  Speaker 4: to the hospital trying to admit the son. But the
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  Speaker 4: doctors won't take the boy because they can't pay any deposit.
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  Speaker 4: And the boy is gasping. I said, tell the doctors
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  Speaker 4: to take in that boy Let me know the amount
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  Speaker 4: I have to pay. I'm going to send in the money.
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  Speaker 4: How much do we have to deposit? He said, 10,000. 10,000?
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  Speaker 3: Tell them to take over the case now. Now!
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  Speaker 4: As they informed the woman, there's a pastor willing to
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  Speaker 4: pay for your child. You know what she said?
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  Speaker 3: She said, you should not bother. You should bring the money.
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  Speaker 3: I was shocked. Your son is dying. You were crying.
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  Speaker 3: I offered to help. Now, the money came. You said,
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  Speaker 3: The pastor should just give you the money that you
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  Speaker 3: know what to do.
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  Speaker 4: What I'm trying to tell you is that poor money
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  Speaker 4: is not the need of every poor people.
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  Speaker 3: If you think you can solve.
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  Speaker 4: Poverty problem by throwing money around, you don't know anything yourself.
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  Speaker 4: People are poor not first because they lack. They are
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  Speaker 4: poor because there's a knowledge gap. Let me show you scriptures.
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  Speaker 4: Matthew chapter, no, Luke 4, 18. Luke 4 from verse 18.
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  Speaker 4: There's an insight from this scripture that you might need
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  Speaker 4: to see. And then we're going to go to Proverbs
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  Speaker 4: chapter number 24.
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  Speaker 3: Luke 4, 18.
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  Speaker 4: Jesus speaking, they say, the spirit of the Lord is
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  Speaker 4: upon me because he has anointed me to preach the
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  Speaker 4: gospel to the poor. you think that if God's spirit
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  Speaker 4: is upon you it should be upon you to give
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  Speaker 4: people what they need how do you tell me that
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  Speaker 4: good news is what poor people need I said that's
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  Speaker 4: what I've observed they need there's an information that is
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  Speaker 4: missing and that's the first thing.
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  Speaker 3: Let me ask you a question so you can know
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  Speaker 3: you need to learn.
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  Speaker 4: This morning since the day you've been throwing money around
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  Speaker 4: who have you brought out of poverty.
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  Speaker 3: If none Then there's something you don't know. Okay? There's
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  Speaker 3: something you don't know. Give me Proverbs chapter number 24.
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  Speaker 3: Proverbs 24. I'm going to show you some things. Are
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  Speaker 3: you with me? Now, let me start reading from verse 3.
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  Speaker 4: Proverbs 24 from verse 3 says, True wisdom is an
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  Speaker 4: house built and by understanding it is what?
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  Speaker 3: Established.
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  Speaker 4: True knowledge shall the chambers be filled with precious and
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  Speaker 4: pleasant what?
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  Speaker 3: Riches.
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  Speaker 4: Anywhere there is wealth, anywhere there is abundance, there is
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  Speaker 4: more than opportunity. There is actually knowledge. If you want
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  Speaker 4: to have money, you want to walk in abundance, it
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  Speaker 4: doesn't answer to fasting and prayer alone.
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  Speaker 3: It answers to a body of knowledge also. Okay? That's
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  Speaker 3: the truth.
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  Speaker 4: Our curriculum for financial abundance is wrong. If I call
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  Speaker 4: for a prayer meeting, and I call it breakthrough moment,
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  Speaker 4: apologies if I say no, I don't know anybody who
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  Speaker 4: hosts that kind of meeting, and I say breakthrough moment
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  Speaker 4: is on Mondays between 8 and 10 a.m.
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  Speaker 3: That self-sabotage.
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  Speaker 4: Somebody will either have to be sacked from place of
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  Speaker 4: work to make it to that meeting. Or will have
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  Speaker 4: to be jobless. Do you understand what I'm saying? Because
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  Speaker 4: in Africa, we are sentimental about many things. In fact,
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  Speaker 4: I believe one of the problems we have is that
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  Speaker 4: the things that are our responsibility, we have put it
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  Speaker 4: on God. So for instance, yesterday I was following a
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  Speaker 4: program a man saw his girl, his daughter, about I
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  Speaker 4: think either 14 or 16 year old daughter with a
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  Speaker 4: boy and they were hugging each other. When he saw her,
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  Speaker 4: he called the girl inside and beat the girl so
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  Speaker 4: much so the following morning she died. When they were
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  Speaker 4: asking him, what have you done? You know what he said?
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  Speaker 4: He said, I believe God gives and God takes. It's
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  Speaker 4: our culture. We don't take responsibility.
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  Speaker 3: Okay?
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  Speaker 4: If we're running service, the gen goes off. We say
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  Speaker 4: the devil knows what we're about to say is powerful.
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  Speaker 4: That's why he's offing that gen. The gen is actually
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  Speaker 4: going off either because there's no fuel or it's just one.
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  Speaker 4: That devil is activated through lack.
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  Speaker 3: Okay?
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  Speaker 4: That's the idea. Somebody is living in a dangerous environment.
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  Speaker 4: Androbras come. And then they kill the person. God did
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  Speaker 4: not take him. There is no money to get a
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  Speaker 4: gated place.
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  Speaker 3: First and foremost.
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  Speaker 4: If we understand that this is the way life works,
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  Speaker 4: then we will take responsibility. And then we will change
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  Speaker 4: our outcomes. Do you understand what I'm saying? Hannah said,
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  Speaker 4: God has restrained me from having a child.
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  Speaker 3: Was it God? When you read the story of Hannah,
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  Speaker 3: was it God that kept her from having a child?
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  Speaker 3: It wasn't God.
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  Speaker 4: Actually, in those days and times, they were not exposed
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  Speaker 4: to many of the medical advancements we're exposed to now.
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  Speaker 4: Did you ever see the Bible diagnose anybody's medical condition?
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  Speaker 3: If you die, just die. Say, God took him.
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  Speaker 4: When the man said that he knows that God gives
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  Speaker 4: and God takes, I.
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  Speaker 3: Said, that's it. It's the same thing. It's everywhere. It's everywhere.
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  Speaker 4: When I was in Genesis 1, I changed my result
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  Speaker 4: from 33 to 3. I just cancelled one thing. When
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  Speaker 4: my father beat me, I said it was the devil.
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  Speaker 4: And many African children have become irresponsible because they know
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  Speaker 4: that it doesn't matter their level of irresponsibility. When the
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  Speaker 4: parents go to meet a prophet, the prophet will say,
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  Speaker 4: it's the devil. That is some spirit. They are trying
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  Speaker 4: to make him do this. And this is somebody who
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  Speaker 4: is irresponsible.
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  Speaker 3: He is in charge. Everybody has offered to help him.
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  Speaker 3: He will drink with the money. But what will we say?
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  Speaker 3: It's the devil. It's Batu. It's family Batu. It's family battle.
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  Speaker 3: Family battle bought Gouda for him. Bought Igbo for him.
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  Speaker 3: Family battle. It's a wrong thing, sir. Okay?
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  Speaker 4: Do you understand what I'm saying? It's a wrong ideology.
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  Speaker 4: And I want us to get that right. Are you
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  Speaker 4: following what I'm teaching? Or I've left you somewhere?
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  Speaker 3: Anywhere there's riches and abundance, Bible says it is through what? Knowledge.
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  Speaker 3: By knowledge shall the chambers be filled. By knowledge.
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  Speaker 4: So one time, my younger brother came to stay with me.
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  Speaker 4: He said, your younger brother needs to come and stay
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  Speaker 4: with you for Waeke. I said, no problem. So he came,
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  Speaker 4: paid for his Waeke, paid for the lessons, did everything
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  Speaker 4: in the house. So when we were done, he said,
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  Speaker 4: I want to write jam. I need money for jam.
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  Speaker 4: I said, ah, Not that fast. I said, money for
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  Speaker 4: jam is available, but this is what we are going
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  Speaker 4: to do. You are going to lend something. What do
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  Speaker 4: you want to lend? He said, he likes fashion designing.
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  Speaker 3: I said, good. I will pay for that. Lend it
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  Speaker 3: for a year. Then pay for your jam fee yourself.
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  Speaker 4: So he lent it, paid for his jam fee, and
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  Speaker 4: paid his way out of school. Because most times, Your giving,
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  Speaker 4: your generosity has become tremendous.
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  Speaker 3: And you don't know.
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  Speaker 4: That you are helping people become irresponsible. So let me
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  Speaker 4: give you another illustration.
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  Speaker 3: There was a case. And I knew the case wouldn't
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  Speaker 3: end well. I was angry. Some boys were dancing. Chicken
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  Speaker 3: in public. Chicken in public. They paid you as security
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  Speaker 3: guys dancing. You understand what I'm saying? They sacked them. Nigerians.
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  Speaker 4: Because those boys, I will sponsor you. I will give
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  Speaker 4: you a job. How do we reward the responsibility? And
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  Speaker 4: then finally, we offered to take them to Turkey. Didn't
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  Speaker 4: get them born again. Have no understanding about what Christianity
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  Speaker 4: is and it's a church that is sponsoring them.
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  Speaker 3: Nothing.
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  Speaker 4: They were going to Turkey and were clubbing. And were
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  Speaker 4: calling the sponsors out. What did you expect?
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  Speaker 3: They were not doing the right things before you gave
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  Speaker 3: to them. So listen to this.
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  Speaker 4: What I want to show you actually is that sometimes
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  Speaker 4: we are giving not because we are generous.
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  Speaker 3: We are giving for our ego. We are giving for
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  Speaker 3: our ego. Ah, that one. You didn't understand. Let me
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  Speaker 3: make you understand. It's an African thing.
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  Speaker 4: When people are getting married, most times in many African homes,
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  Speaker 4: and parents say, I will support you.
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  Speaker 3: They are not supporting you for you. They are supporting
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  Speaker 3: you for their friends.
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  Speaker 4: And if care is not taken, they will take the
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: stage and they don't even know who is getting married.
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: It's ego to prove your size. This is who I am.
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: And meanwhile, you are not standing on your two legs yet.
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  Speaker 4: Okay?
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: Do you understand what I'm teaching? Is this simple enough?
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: I don't want anything complex. We reward rubbish. We promote emotionally.
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: Bishop T.D. Jake said, in fact, he said, because.
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: I teach ministers how to understand ministry management, structure, and
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: all those things.
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: I train pastors. And one time I was talking to
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: Bishop T.D.
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  Speaker 4: Jakes and he said, he said he thinks the problem
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: of the church is that we are quick to employ,
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  Speaker 4: we are slow to sack. He said, but organizations out
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: there are slow to employ and quick to sack.
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  Speaker 3: Why? Because both of the things we do, we do
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  Speaker 3: them by emotions.
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  Speaker 4: In fact, one of the reasons why many of our
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: environment or society can't experience development is because the person
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: selling paper by the roadside is the younger sister's friend
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: to the brother or of the governor's wife. And if
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: they want to, they will call and call. You can't
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: do anything. Emotions is anti-development. You have to replace it
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: with wisdom and discretion. I'm not saying don't be emotional.
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: I'm saying be wise.
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  Speaker 3: Is that okay? And that's why I start with that.
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: Scripture that God wants us to be givers. It is
• 23:03
  Speaker 4: very important for us to learn to give. Give. So
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: you must understand that solving poverty problem is not just
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: about releasing money. For instance, now look at Nigeria. In
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: the last administration, we borrowed billions of dollars from World Bank.
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: Just about two months to the end of the administration.
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: Billions of dollars.
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: And what we said we wanted to do with those
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: billions of dollars is that we would distribute per household.
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: We are going to share 10,000 households. 20,000 households.
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: And what we are giving to them is not strong
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: enough to bring them out of poverty.
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: Cluelessness.
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: But sometimes we look at this and say, what are
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: these guys doing? But you are not doing any better.
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: You are not doing any better. You are distributing per household. 50,000, 20,000, 10,000
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: in a way that will make them keep coming back
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: again and again and again.
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  Speaker 3: That's our problem. We are clueless. We are clueless. Financially,
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: literacy looks like messy. But they are not the same.
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: Financially smart, you look messy because you are throwing money around. Meanwhile,
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: you just don't have plans. Okay?
• 24:36
  Speaker 4: It's not like you are messy food. After all, there's
• 24:38
  Speaker 4: no plan. So that's why it looks like you are merciful.
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: You are planless. You are not kind. Okay? Take it
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: as a fact. Yes.
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: So I said black tax refers to financial burden or
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: responsibility borne by those who have attained a level of
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: success in the family to provide support for less financially
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: secure family members. This concept, however, is a black people thing,
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: just so you understand.
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: It's an African thing.
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  Speaker 4: In fact, in countries like America and all that, it's
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: one of the reasons why black people don't succeed like
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: their contemporaries.
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: Because that crab system keeps bringing you down into the same.
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: Bucket, into the same mold. I've always said this, you
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: cannot solve a problem you're a part of. One way
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: to be a solution is to first detach yourself then
• 25:34
  Speaker 4: you can begin to solve. Don't give aid in a
• 25:38
  Speaker 4: way that you too will soon need aid.
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: Okay? Do you understand what I'm saying? Alright? If you
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: are flying, I love this concept very well, very much.
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: And the air hostess, the air crew, they are giving
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: you their safety procedures.
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: They tell you that in case of the pressure drops
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: and so on and so forth, an oxygen mask will fall.
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: A bit They said, if you have your child and
• 26:07
  Speaker 4: you are there, fix your own first. Then fix the child.
• 26:13
  Speaker 4: And I've been thinking, why? If you fail to fix
• 26:16
  Speaker 4: your own, you can gas out. Both you and the
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: child will die. You must understand that. Because I sense
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: that God is preparing us as his people for a
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: major season.
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: And a body of wisdom and orientation is important and needed.
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: Is that okay now? I said, is that okay? Yes. Okay,
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: so understand the balance. Generosity is scriptural. Scriptural. God wants
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: us to give. He wants us to be givers.
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: He wants us to lend. He wants us to take
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: care of widows. In fact, James was saying that this
• 27:05
  Speaker 4: is a religion that God accepts. He said, when we
• 27:08
  Speaker 4: give to the poor, when we take care of orphans,
• 27:13
  Speaker 4: I believe that every believer, as God is lifting you,
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: must have a system of flowing to the less privileged.
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: To orphans, who are orphans indeed, to the less privileged,
• 27:31
  Speaker 4: to environment where it is needed. Some people have stopped
• 27:36
  Speaker 4: giving because they've been defrauded in several locations. You've committed
• 27:43
  Speaker 4: your entire life to people only to find out they
• 27:46
  Speaker 4: were using you. Don't shut your bowels of compassion. You
• 27:50
  Speaker 4: change the people but keep doing what you are doing. Okay? Okay?
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: There are still genuine people around. There are widows who
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: are widows indeed.
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: Yes. There are orphans who are orphans indeed.
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: There are many pictures flashing in my mind.
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: You see, what the devil wants to do is that
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: he wants to get us tired.
• 28:25
  Speaker 4: I'm frustrated.
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: I say, you know what? I'm not helping anybody again. No, no, no, no.
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: What you want to make sure is that you are
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: doing the right things. Sometimes you see.
• 28:37
  Speaker 4: People in the hospital who are very sick and can't afford.
• 28:40
  Speaker 4: Somebody's wife is pregnant about to give birth. Do I
• 28:42
  Speaker 4: tell people that childbirth is not an emergency? You have
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: nine months to prepare.
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: Okay? The one who knows how to impregnate a woman
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: must also know how to See, if you need money,
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: you need money. Don't play blame game.
• 28:58
  Speaker 4: Fingers are not equal. Don't accept to be the short one.
• 29:03
  Speaker 4: Have I lost you? Nobody should be guilt-tripped for not giving.
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: What if the person doesn't have? Okay?
• 29:21
  Speaker 4: One day I had a very scary encounter about giving
• 29:25
  Speaker 4: One of my friends was going to get married. So
• 29:28
  Speaker 4: he came around. I said, you know what? I was
• 29:30
  Speaker 4: to be his best man. So I said, don't worry
• 29:32
  Speaker 4: about the suit.
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: I'll just buy it.
• 29:34
  Speaker 4: Say wow thank you for that i said welcome you
• 29:37
  Speaker 4: don't worry this i'll just take care of that you
• 29:40
  Speaker 4: don't worry just buy that and all that then he
• 29:43
  Speaker 4: just give me another budget again i said i'm not
• 29:47
  Speaker 4: the only one in your cycle of friends let's tell
• 29:49
  Speaker 4: the rest he said a statement he said you know
• 29:53
  Speaker 4: amongst our friends you are the only one that god
• 29:55
  Speaker 4: has lifted ah if i go with this mentality you
• 29:59
  Speaker 4: will kill me I am not giving because I have.
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: I am giving because I have a heart.
• 30:06
  Speaker 4: And sometimes many people who are receiving don't know that
• 30:09
  Speaker 4: this person has his own problems.
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: He just has a heart. Okay?
• 30:16
  Speaker 4: Sometimes when you give to people, the only thing they
• 30:18
  Speaker 4: owe you is thanks. T-N-X Very demonic way to respond.
• 30:29
  Speaker 4: Or you give to people and they use it against you.
• 30:32
  Speaker 4: And say you are trying to use your money to
• 30:33
  Speaker 4: control me. Okay. But never shut your bowels of compassion.
• 30:45
  Speaker 4: Because you give to wrong people.
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: Is that okay now? There is a balance.
• 30:49
  Speaker 4: Somebody say there is a balance. Somebody say there is
• 30:52
  Speaker 4: a balance. Tyler Perry said. When he began to. Break
• 30:57
  Speaker 4: through financially. The first day I made one round. $ 30, 000.
• 31:00
  Speaker 4: So at the end of the year, he was broke.
• 31:03
  Speaker 4: Then the second year, he moved up and made $ 2.
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: 8 million.
• 31:07
  Speaker 4: At the end of the year, he was broke. Then again,
• 31:09
  Speaker 4: the third year, he made about $ 6. 7 million. At the
• 31:12
  Speaker 4: end of the year, he was still broke. Some kind
• 31:17
  Speaker 4: of problem knows when money enters your hand. And that's
• 31:20
  Speaker 4: why you have to plan yourself. I'm not sure I've
• 31:24
  Speaker 4: discovered that the moment small money start entering, that's when
• 31:29
  Speaker 4: Some uncles who you don't even know exist. In the
• 31:38
  Speaker 4: days that things were dry, that street was running you.
• 31:42
  Speaker 4: You will reach out to them. They always have ready-made story.
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: Suddenly.
• 31:47
  Speaker 4: In fact, one time a family member called me and
• 31:50
  Speaker 4: was talking about his... My own is that if you
• 31:53
  Speaker 4: want to ask me for money, ask sometime. You can't
• 31:56
  Speaker 4: take the money and take my time. don't use one
• 31:59
  Speaker 4: hour to explain, I don't like it. The time is
• 32:02
  Speaker 4: more expensive. So he took my time, he took my time.
• 32:07
  Speaker 4: Several times I would press mute, on, mute, on, mute, mute,
• 32:10
  Speaker 4: and I'm talking mute on, so he can, but the
• 32:12
  Speaker 4: man is very patient. And that was bad for me.
• 32:15
  Speaker 4: He was reporting his son who is into Yahoo, blah, blah, blah.
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: I knew where this matter is going, is that you
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: want to collect money, no problem.
• 32:23
  Speaker 4: But I was surprised, that after collecting, he now told me,
• 32:27
  Speaker 4: He said, I know you are a pastor. He said,
• 32:29
  Speaker 4: but you know that my son, he can't even be
• 32:31
  Speaker 4: in charge of your offering. Wow, I've seen things in
• 32:41
  Speaker 4: this life. Interesting, because in church, people come and throw offerings. Pastor,
• 32:48
  Speaker 4: take dollars. That's the mindset. And that shows the reason
• 32:52
  Speaker 4: why he was calling me that he's pastor. They are
• 32:54
  Speaker 4: dashing their money. You just reported that this boy is
• 32:57
  Speaker 4: here who is smoking. He said, the boy has the
• 33:00
  Speaker 4: spirit of God.
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: He has the spirit of God. Just like that. You
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: can't do a lot with a lot. You can't. Okay?
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: I want to bring....
• 33:29
  Speaker 4: I want to show you a few complications around the
• 33:31
  Speaker 4: subject of black tax.
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: Is that okay? Can I show you some complications around
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: that subject?
• 33:39
  Speaker 4: Are you sure you want to hear it? Number one,
• 33:47
  Speaker 4: once you.
• 33:50
  Speaker 3: Get trapped with bills, Both necessary and unnecessary builds.
• 33:58
  Speaker 4: You will not be able to build substantially like your colleagues.
• 34:03
  Speaker 4: You will be left behind. Let this be very clear
• 34:13
  Speaker 4: in your mind. One person cannot solve family problems.
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: You can't.
• 34:22
  Speaker 4: Anybody who tries to become hell shall die, shall die.
• 34:28
  Speaker 4: You have just one life.
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: Okay? You can't solve all the problems. Once you... Listen, listen, listen.
• 34:38
  Speaker 4: Once you... There are very few people that can accept
• 34:43
  Speaker 4: your generosity and still understand that you are giving because
• 34:47
  Speaker 4: you care.
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: Not because you have so much.
• 34:49
  Speaker 4: 99.99% of people hold you to it. That you are
• 34:54
  Speaker 4: giving because you have more than enough. It's a scamming system.
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: So let me explain.
• 34:57
  Speaker 4: One of the ways you know you're just giving money
• 34:58
  Speaker 4: to scammers is that you don't give once. Nobody calls
• 35:01
  Speaker 4: you to scam you and collect money once. So let
• 35:04
  Speaker 4: me explain. One time, I landed in trouble. I wanted
• 35:07
  Speaker 4: to make money quickly. So I just got somebody born again. Ah,
• 35:12
  Speaker 4: I've suffered though.
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: And I didn't know that this person did not born
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: again very well. Didn't born again. He didn't enter.
• 35:21
  Speaker 4: So the person just got access to scam me. Then
• 35:25
  Speaker 4: he just called and said, Pastor, you know, there's a matter.
• 35:29
  Speaker 4: I'm importing some goods from America. And then the person
• 35:33
  Speaker 4: who was to help me package those things, while he
• 35:36
  Speaker 4: was packaging, the wallet fell inside.
• 35:39
  Speaker 3: You know, he's now thinking about it again. The wallet
• 35:44
  Speaker 3: fell inside.
• 35:45
  Speaker 4: And inside that wallet, the wallet contained, I think, about $ 50, 000, something, $ 1, 000.
• 35:49
  Speaker 4: And now, the issue is that they have stopped it
• 35:51
  Speaker 4: at the airport. And they are saying such money cannot
• 35:54
  Speaker 4: be allowed to pass.
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: Say, wow.
• 35:57
  Speaker 4: Say, in fact, the person is saying now that once
• 36:00
  Speaker 4: we can help him clear it and the money gets
• 36:02
  Speaker 4: to Nigeria, say, I will give you out of it. Ah!
• 36:05
  Speaker 3: Interesting. Like how much? In Jesus name. Like $ 10, 000 for helping.
• 36:09
  Speaker 4: I sat down. I calculated $ 10, 000. I'm going to open this.
• 36:11
  Speaker 4: I will put this in. I didn't have the money.
• 36:22
  Speaker 4: I said, how much do you need to clear this good?
• 36:24
  Speaker 4: They said, for now, for now, there's an emergency. If
• 36:28
  Speaker 4: you can send 100,000. I didn't have 100,000. I called
• 36:31
  Speaker 4: somebody I know. Somebody who respects me so much. I said,
• 36:37
  Speaker 4: can you quickly just give me 100,000? They said, I
• 36:40
  Speaker 4: don't have that amount. But there's my school fees. They
• 36:43
  Speaker 4: just gave it to me. I'm not paid.
• 36:45
  Speaker 3: And I can give 50,000 out of it. I said,
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: bring it. They said, don't worry. We're going to be rich.
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: Hmm.
• 36:52
  Speaker 4: I called somebody else, collected another 50,000, making 100 and
• 36:55
  Speaker 4: sent to them. Then they called again. I said, the
• 37:00
  Speaker 4: goods have landed in Nigeria. But now they have to collect.
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: And you know, this, this, this. And I say, now
• 37:06
  Speaker 3: we need 250,000. I don't have.
• 37:08
  Speaker 4: I still have people I can gather again. Gather another 150,000
• 37:12
  Speaker 4: and send to them. I kept telling them, relax.
• 37:17
  Speaker 3: Money is coming. Money is coming. Money is coming. i
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: didn't know one day i just noticed that every time
• 37:28
  Speaker 3: they call.
• 37:29
  Speaker 4: Me it's more money more money more money i was
• 37:30
  Speaker 4: happening so one time they didn't know they have dialed
• 37:33
  Speaker 4: my number and i picked then the guy who had
• 37:38
  Speaker 4: been speaking phonetics speaking american english suddenly i didn't hear worry.
• 37:45
  Speaker 3: Broken english Say, how about that guy, Namaga? He don't pay.
• 37:50
  Speaker 4: Say, don't mind that guy. We'll go run him. For
• 37:55
  Speaker 4: over 15 minutes, I was hearing what I was hearing.
• 38:00
  Speaker 3: I was shaking.
• 38:01
  Speaker 4: All the vision of the organization I'm going to open
• 38:04
  Speaker 4: with 10,000, they vanished. I started thinking about how I'm
• 38:09
  Speaker 4: going to explain.
• 38:11
  Speaker 3: Say, you go explain, I don't get evidence. Ah! Voila! Hmm.
• 38:18
  Speaker 4: So, finally when they saw that, I found out that
• 38:23
  Speaker 4: I've been on the line. They saw how long and
• 38:24
  Speaker 4: what they've been saying. They caught the call and blocked
• 38:28
  Speaker 4: my number. Both converts and a convert friend, everybody blocked me. Then,
• 38:34
  Speaker 4: the people that I borrowed from, now started calling me
• 38:37
  Speaker 4: for money. One of the church elders now gathered and said,
• 38:43
  Speaker 4: Pastor Femi, sit down.
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: We heard you collected money. Ah! That's one of the
• 38:49
  Speaker 3: worst moments of my life. I paid the money. I
• 38:54
  Speaker 3: paid the money. What did I even do? Actually, I
• 38:57
  Speaker 3: know I did many things. You know. So, be careful, sir.
• 39:03
  Speaker 3: Be careful of offering to do what you.
• 39:08
  Speaker 4: Can't afford to do. Sometimes, because you two, you have
• 39:12
  Speaker 4: an agenda. Do you understand what I'm saying? That's one very,
• 39:16
  Speaker 4: very serious moment.
• 39:17
  Speaker 3: There are very few people who can deal with the.
• 39:20
  Speaker 4: Fact that you are giving and respect the fact that
• 39:24
  Speaker 4: you are only doing because you have a heart? So
• 39:29
  Speaker 4: let me give you a balance. In giving to people,
• 39:33
  Speaker 4: never let them have the impression that you have more
• 39:35
  Speaker 4: than enough. Because sometimes you can be your own enemy.
• 39:40
  Speaker 3: Okay? I know you are kind. I know you are good.
• 39:43
  Speaker 4: It is kind people that die first in familism. Their
• 39:49
  Speaker 4: responsibility kills them.
• 39:50
  Speaker 3: Without wisdom. Okay. I know you are kind. I know
• 39:55
  Speaker 3: you are generous. But add wisdom to it. Add wisdom
• 40:02
  Speaker 3: to it. Okay. So you can be able to build.
• 40:11
  Speaker 3: Add wisdom. In fact. In fact. I advise I don't
• 40:20
  Speaker 3: know if it's a worldly advice.
• 40:23
  Speaker 4: That sometimes it's good to also share your problems with
• 40:26
  Speaker 4: those who depend on you okay just calculate that by
• 40:30
  Speaker 4: this time of the month this person will call and they'll.
• 40:33
  Speaker 3: Call first okay yeah you need wisdom to do life
• 40:46
  Speaker 3: that's the fact You need wisdom. Okay? You need wisdom.
• 40:56
  Speaker 3: I've told you what to do. Sometimes you need to call.
• 41:01
  Speaker 3: Let me ask you a question. If you look at
• 41:03
  Speaker 3: your life right.
• 41:03
  Speaker 4: Now, at least five people that you can call and say,
• 41:09
  Speaker 4: I have a challenge and we listen to you and
• 41:12
  Speaker 4: give what they have.
• 41:12
  Speaker 3: Do you have?
• 41:13
  Speaker 4: Because sometimes people who are givers, we ignore them We
• 41:19
  Speaker 4: feel they have.
• 41:20
  Speaker 3: They are strong. We just need them to rot. To
• 41:25
  Speaker 3: have plants. And it's good to also have givers around
• 41:28
  Speaker 3: your life.
• 41:28
  Speaker 4: It's good to also have givers around your life.
• 41:32
  Speaker 3: Have plants. I want to say something.
• 41:40
  Speaker 4: Wrong culture in Africa has made it so that everybody
• 41:42
  Speaker 4: just wants to survive regardless of who goes down.
• 41:49
  Speaker 3: It's a dysfunctional system.
• 41:51
  Speaker 4: It has made people move from being loving to having
• 41:55
  Speaker 4: survival mentality.
• 41:59
  Speaker 3: Yes. Okay?
• 42:03
  Speaker 4: If you want to destroy a country, put them in
• 42:09
  Speaker 4: survival mode. They will kill themselves.
• 42:11
  Speaker 3: Because everybody will do anything to survive. People will do
• 42:16
  Speaker 3: anything for food and for water.
• 42:18
  Speaker 4: That's the case, the dysfunctional case of many homes in Africa.
• 42:25
  Speaker 4: It got so bad in Israel that mothers began to
• 42:28
  Speaker 4: eat their children.
• 42:29
  Speaker 3: That's survival mode.
• 42:35
  Speaker 4: Sir, ma, you did not start the problem. You can't
• 42:41
  Speaker 4: end it.
• 42:43
  Speaker 3: But you can help. And I'm going to show you
• 42:45
  Speaker 3: how you can help.
• 42:47
  Speaker 4: In a substantial way that in another couple of years,
• 42:52
  Speaker 4: you'll be glad.
• 42:53
  Speaker 3: And let me say this to you. There is a
• 42:54
  Speaker 3: way you're giving as a man will demonize your wife.
• 43:01
  Speaker 4: In fact, once you are coming from a dysfunctional background,
• 43:04
  Speaker 4: one of the things to do as you prepare to
• 43:06
  Speaker 4: settle down is to begin to cut those excesses. Because
• 43:10
  Speaker 4: when you have your family and you have to focus
• 43:12
  Speaker 4: on your family, they will say it is your wife
• 43:14
  Speaker 4: that has made you so. And the attack will be
• 43:17
  Speaker 4: on your wife. They say, before you came to his life,
• 43:20
  Speaker 4: he was doing this, he was doing that.
• 43:22
  Speaker 3: You see, because you were not smart. You were not
• 43:25
  Speaker 3: being wise.
• 43:27
  Speaker 4: Don't destroy the woman God has placed around you. And
• 43:30
  Speaker 4: everybody thinks he's a witch. So you tell somebody, I'm
• 43:33
  Speaker 4: going to give you this now, but let me call
• 43:34
  Speaker 4: my wife. Don't bother calling. What do you want to say?
• 43:39
  Speaker 4: Everybody say, if you don't give, they say, he wants
• 43:41
  Speaker 4: to call your wife. So it's the wife that says
• 43:42
  Speaker 4: she's not giving. One of the things I have to
• 43:48
  Speaker 4: learn in a hard way after marriage, getting married, is
• 43:53
  Speaker 4: that I've lived my life.
• 43:57
  Speaker 3: As my own boss for a long time. So I
• 44:02
  Speaker 3: say things spontaneously. And my wife many times will just say,
• 44:07
  Speaker 3: where is that coming from? We've not discussed this one.
• 44:09
  Speaker 3: I say, ah, it's true. It's true. It's true. It's true.
• 44:13
  Speaker 4: Or just a few moments. We're going to have four
• 44:17
  Speaker 4: family members. They'll be with us for two weeks.
• 44:19
  Speaker 3: How?
• 44:22
  Speaker 4: One of the worst cases I received years ago. I
• 44:24
  Speaker 4: can't share any recent case, all right? Because I hold
• 44:27
  Speaker 4: people's matter confidential. Years back, somebody got married. The husband
• 44:32
  Speaker 4: and wife, no money. In fact, they moved to one-room apartment.
• 44:38
  Speaker 4: Listen to what I'm saying. This matter is true life matter.
• 44:41
  Speaker 4: The father told her on wedding day that two of
• 44:44
  Speaker 4: her siblings would be moving in with them.
• 44:47
  Speaker 3: One room apartment.
• 44:52
  Speaker 4: The ideal thing is that every man should provide for
• 44:55
  Speaker 4: his own household. That is, parenting will not end until
• 44:58
  Speaker 4: the children can stand on their own. That is the
• 45:00
  Speaker 4: scriptural design. This functionality I've made in such a way
• 45:04
  Speaker 4: that we do it halfway. You continue from there while
• 45:06
  Speaker 4: you are also doing your own If care is not taken,
• 45:08
  Speaker 4: you will do your own to halfway. Your children will
• 45:10
  Speaker 4: continue from there. The pattern will keep going on. Somebody
• 45:13
  Speaker 4: has to break the cycle.
• 45:16
  Speaker 3: Okay? Do you understand what I'm saying here? Very important.
• 45:19
  Speaker 4: So, don't plan to start eating children's food at 50.
• 45:28
  Speaker 4: Ibu Kwanwo Sika is in her 60s and she's still active. See,
• 45:33
  Speaker 4: your purpose will keep you healthy and young. lack of
• 45:37
  Speaker 4: it will make you old. You will envy being called.
• 45:40
  Speaker 3: Grandpa on time because you want to begin to eat
• 45:43
  Speaker 3: children's food. That's the literal word we call it. That
• 45:48
  Speaker 3: translates literally.
• 45:53
  Speaker 4: Plan to be the kind that even at 70, your
• 45:56
  Speaker 4: children want to.
• 45:57
  Speaker 3: Be like you. I'm not trying to insult parents. But
• 46:06
  Speaker 3: I'm saying as.
• 46:06
  Speaker 4: Much as we give them the honor, we must recognize
• 46:09
  Speaker 4: what we must not repeat. One of the best gifts
• 46:16
  Speaker 4: you can give your children is to make sure that
• 46:17
  Speaker 4: they don't have to inherit black tax.
• 46:24
  Speaker 3: Is that clear?
• 46:26
  Speaker 4: Is that very clear? You must break the cycle. And
• 46:29
  Speaker 4: you can't break that cycle by throwing money around. I'm
• 46:31
  Speaker 4: going to show you.
• 46:33
  Speaker 3: You must break the cycle. You know, I have a
• 46:42
  Speaker 3: very strong burden.
• 46:45
  Speaker 4: And I believe one of the strong expressions of my
• 46:47
  Speaker 4: ministry is to speak to the mailman.
• 46:51
  Speaker 3: And it's not attack.
• 46:52
  Speaker 4: I just have a burden for the mailman. And I
• 46:55
  Speaker 4: can tell you that there's a way to prepare for marriage.
• 46:57
  Speaker 4: One of it is that don't give yourself to too
• 47:00
  Speaker 4: much giving.
• 47:01
  Speaker 3: And tax at home.
• 47:02
  Speaker 4: Give with wisdom. And do what you can continue. Don't
• 47:08
  Speaker 4: promise what you can't do.
• 47:11
  Speaker 3: Okay? Okay?
• 47:12
  Speaker 4: Give in such a way that you will still be
• 47:13
  Speaker 4: strong to repeat it is that clear very important so
• 47:17
  Speaker 4: i'm showing you the complications of black tax number two
• 47:24
  Speaker 4: many people believe that givers have more than enough that's
• 47:29
  Speaker 4: why they are giving and the implication of this belief
• 47:32
  Speaker 4: system is that people will have more bills and responsibilities
• 47:35
  Speaker 4: responsibilities to your own believing that you have so much
• 47:40
  Speaker 4: that's why you are giving.
• 47:43
  Speaker 3: When something is available abundantly, everybody wants to waste it.
• 47:47
  Speaker 3: That's the culture. Okay? Rain is a gift from God.
• 47:54
  Speaker 4: Isaiah 55 says that as the rain and the snow
• 47:56
  Speaker 4: will not return back to heaven, but thy waters the earth.
• 48:00
  Speaker 3: Rain is a gift.
• 48:01
  Speaker 4: But that's what we waste the most. I like to
• 48:05
  Speaker 4: waste because it's abundant. I remember one time in Kano.
• 48:11
  Speaker 4: Probably precisely 2011 or 2003. I can't remember. No, 2007
• 48:16
  Speaker 4: or 2003. I can't remember. It was a riot called
• 48:19
  Speaker 4: Galadima Riot.
• 48:21
  Speaker 3: In Kano. Okay? So people invaded the market and they
• 48:27
  Speaker 3: were looting.
• 48:29
  Speaker 4: Somebody would go to the market and loot 10 cartons
• 48:34
  Speaker 4: of tomato paste.
• 48:34
  Speaker 3: What will you do with it? This one will go
• 48:40
  Speaker 3: and loot. Plenty of yam.
• 48:43
  Speaker 4: Because once it is available abundantly, we waste it. Okay?
• 48:52
  Speaker 3: So many givers are creating culture of wastage. Because there's
• 48:57
  Speaker 3: no plan. There's no plan. I think if Nigeria....
• 49:08
  Speaker 4: Will do well. There's a financial culture that we need
• 49:12
  Speaker 4: to study.
• 49:14
  Speaker 3: And it's a bit close to the Jewish culture. It's
• 49:17
  Speaker 3: the Igbo system.
• 49:20
  Speaker 4: There's no, listen, there's no financial system in this country
• 49:24
  Speaker 4: that has proven a right to leave people out of
• 49:26
  Speaker 4: poverty like their system. You serve for a certain period
• 49:32
  Speaker 4: of time. You are taking care. See, that's serving people.
• 49:34
  Speaker 4: You will serve. Once you are done serving, somebody settles
• 49:39
  Speaker 4: you And you see that when they settle people, they
• 49:46
  Speaker 4: stand on their feet. What does that tell us? Paying
• 49:52
  Speaker 4: money to people who are not doing anything is wastage.
• 49:56
  Speaker 4: It's wastage. 2,000, 10,000 there.
• 49:59
  Speaker 3: 10,000.
• 50:00
  Speaker 4: What are you doing now? When I was your age,
• 50:05
  Speaker 4: who was I calling? They will never grow to be
• 50:10
  Speaker 4: mature and responsible.
• 50:14
  Speaker 3: Because you are not living out of poverty. You are
• 50:15
  Speaker 3: just throwing money around. Okay? Number three.
• 50:20
  Speaker 4: Your generosity can be toxic. It is possible you give
• 50:24
  Speaker 4: because of these three reasons.
• 50:25
  Speaker 3: Number one, prestige.
• 50:28
  Speaker 4: Number two, guilt. Number three, compulsion. So people give out
• 50:33
  Speaker 4: of guilt. In fact, this one is a serious matter.
• 50:37
  Speaker 4: It's a psychological thing. Where people think that you feel
• 50:41
  Speaker 4: it is a sin for you to have and somebody
• 50:43
  Speaker 4: else doesn't have. God is not cheating on them to
• 50:48
  Speaker 4: bless you. Can I come again with that statement? God
• 50:54
  Speaker 4: is not cheating on anybody to bless you. Never feel
• 50:58
  Speaker 4: guilty because you have and somebody else doesn't have. Everybody
• 51:04
  Speaker 4: should take responsibility for the outcomes they have. Once we
• 51:10
  Speaker 4: begin from there, we will know how to help each other.
• 51:14
  Speaker 4: The moment you feel guilty for having, people will guilt
• 51:17
  Speaker 4: trip you and manipulate you.
• 51:23
  Speaker 3: Is it because you are the one that God has
• 51:25
  Speaker 3: blessed now? So you think you... No, no, no, no, no.
• 51:29
  Speaker 4: Thank God for the blessings of God. But this blessing
• 51:32
  Speaker 4: came on something I was doing. And the same blessing
• 51:37
  Speaker 4: available for you.
• 51:39
  Speaker 3: Something you should be doing.
• 51:39
  Speaker 4: So you say you want to use money to start
• 51:42
  Speaker 4: a business. We gave you the money to start a business.
• 51:44
  Speaker 4: We didn't see the money.
• 51:45
  Speaker 3: We didn't see the business.
• 51:48
  Speaker 4: So you said you need money to pay for school fees.
• 51:50
  Speaker 4: We gave you to pay for the school fees. We
• 51:52
  Speaker 4: only found out you have reached out to another family
• 51:53
  Speaker 4: member because you didn't pay for the school fees. You
• 51:56
  Speaker 4: were hurt with it. You said you need money for
• 51:59
  Speaker 4: so and so. Every time we give to some people,
• 52:02
  Speaker 4: you are not using the money for the purpose. Nobody
• 52:07
  Speaker 4: should feel guilty for another person's outcome. People choose what
• 52:11
  Speaker 4: they become. People choose what they become. And there are
• 52:15
  Speaker 4: critical seasons that if people are not serious and they
• 52:17
  Speaker 4: miss that season, they may struggle for life.
• 52:22
  Speaker 3: Anyone who has the opportunity to study should study.
• 52:25
  Speaker 5: The one who has the opportunity to learn something should
• 52:26
  Speaker 5: learn it. Failing to study and failing to learn something
• 52:30
  Speaker 5: will make you poor.
• 52:32
  Speaker 4: Period.
• 52:33
  Speaker 3: You either have to be in school Or you are
• 52:37
  Speaker 3: learning something. Learn a business. Learn a trade. Learn something, sir. Okay?
• 52:42
  Speaker 4: You have an uncle whose wife is telling you they've
• 52:44
  Speaker 4: not eaten today. What's the job of the uncle? That
• 52:51
  Speaker 4: statement the wife is saying, is it true? Or they've
• 52:54
  Speaker 4: just found their father Christmas?
• 53:01
  Speaker 3: These are issues.
• 53:02
  Speaker 4: And we have to discuss them. So never feel guilty
• 53:08
  Speaker 4: because God has blessed you. Never feel guilty because you
• 53:14
  Speaker 4: have and somebody doesn't have up to you.
• 53:17
  Speaker 3: It is not your fault if anybody doesn't have. Hello.
• 53:22
  Speaker 3: Can I say this again? Can I say this again?
• 53:25
  Speaker 4: It's looking like I'm touching the Africans where it ought now.
• 53:30
  Speaker 4: I said it is not your fault that you have.
• 53:34
  Speaker 4: It is not your fault. It is also not your
• 53:36
  Speaker 4: fault that somebody doesn't have. It's not your fault.
• 53:40
  Speaker 3: Okay?
• 53:40
  Speaker 4: Everybody should take responsibility for their outcomes. Then we see
• 53:43
  Speaker 4: what we can do. Are you following me?
• 53:50
  Speaker 3: Are you sure?
• 53:53
  Speaker 4: This guilt is the reason why when you enter a car,
• 53:57
  Speaker 4: a vehicle, with somebody who is younger to you, you
• 54:00
  Speaker 4: feel you are under obligation to pay.
• 54:03
  Speaker 3: Who sent you? Who told you he's my age?
• 54:07
  Speaker 4: Ah, bro.
• 54:08
  Speaker 3: Don't pay, don't pay, don't pay. Egmore.
• 54:11
  Speaker 4: Egmore is broke. He's not going to have money for
• 54:13
  Speaker 4: food this afternoon. Say, don't worry, don't worry, don't worry.
• 54:16
  Speaker 3: I got you, I got you. It's your ego. You
• 54:24
  Speaker 3: are not nice. It's just your ego. When you go
• 54:28
  Speaker 3: to supermarket, say, don't worry, I will handle the bills.
• 54:33
  Speaker 3: What's my business? What do I buy? God bless you.
• 54:35
  Speaker 3: Thank you. See, my own philosophy is, leave me with
• 54:39
  Speaker 3: my bills. I will leave you with yours. Is that okay?
• 54:41
  Speaker 4: Let nobody trouble each other. Supermarket, oh, so good to
• 54:45
  Speaker 4: see you.
• 54:45
  Speaker 3: How are you doing? Good to see you.
• 54:47
  Speaker 4: I will not even greet you in a way that
• 54:48
  Speaker 4: you say, you came to supermarket with your two legs.
• 54:50
  Speaker 3: You should buy what you know you can afford. True?
• 54:52
  Speaker 3: So good to see you. God bless you, my friend.
• 54:55
  Speaker 3: Take care of yourself. See you some other time. Bye-bye. Anyway, Lord,
• 55:00
  Speaker 3: I have to leave.
• 55:01
  Speaker 4: Okay? Say, ah, somebody's trying to sell something and say,
• 55:06
  Speaker 4: I can't afford this. Say, ah, I owe you, sir.
• 55:10
  Speaker 4: How do you know me? How do you know you
• 55:12
  Speaker 4: owe me? I have issues I'm dealing with. You say
• 55:16
  Speaker 4: you owe me. What you are trying to do is
• 55:18
  Speaker 4: that you are trying to massage my ego. So I
• 55:21
  Speaker 4: will put money into what I'm not ready for. Do
• 55:26
  Speaker 4: you understand what I'm saying?
• 55:27
  Speaker 3: Hmm.
• 55:31
  Speaker 4: And most times, it is poor people who need to
• 55:33
  Speaker 4: make statements. When you truly have it, you are not
• 55:36
  Speaker 4: under pressure to make any statements. It is poor people
• 55:39
  Speaker 4: that use money they don't have to buy things they
• 55:41
  Speaker 4: don't need to impress people who don't like them. Somebody
• 55:48
  Speaker 4: is having sleepless night over the kind of wedding gown
• 55:50
  Speaker 4: she wants to make. Nobody has told you that. Wedding
• 55:54
  Speaker 4: gown is once. You can actually rent. There is no problem.
• 55:59
  Speaker 4: I told people Getting married sleepless night because of reception.
• 56:03
  Speaker 4: You are about to feed those who are not hungry.
• 56:07
  Speaker 4: And your wedding is just one out of hundreds they
• 56:09
  Speaker 4: will attend.
• 56:10
  Speaker 3: Let them go home. Join together. You want a pastor
• 56:16
  Speaker 3: that can help you in a way that nobody will
• 56:17
  Speaker 3: even know.
• 56:19
  Speaker 4: That they did not eat. I have the strategy. The
• 56:25
  Speaker 4: fact that you have the money doesn't mean you can
• 56:27
  Speaker 4: afford everything. Stop killing yourself, sir.
• 56:32
  Speaker 3: Okay?
• 56:34
  Speaker 4: Stop killing yourself. I have to prove. December is coming.
• 56:38
  Speaker 4: We'll go to the village for Christmas. You'll go to
• 56:44
  Speaker 4: the village. Your colleagues are coming. So you want to
• 56:49
  Speaker 4: do competition with the money you don't have. January is coming.
• 56:56
  Speaker 4: January is a long month. Always long.
• 57:00
  Speaker 3: And he's stubborn.
• 57:01
  Speaker 4: To be drawing like snail. Once you pass there. Everything
• 57:05
  Speaker 4: start moving. Start uploading status.
• 57:13
  Speaker 3: Help your guy. Help your guy. When they do. They
• 57:22
  Speaker 3: do do him. You don't know. It's amazing. It's amazing.
• 57:32
  Speaker 3: Look up.
• 57:33
  Speaker 4: One time I went to an environment I've lived for
• 57:35
  Speaker 4: about 10 years. So as I was going back, I
• 57:39
  Speaker 4: was in the car. I discovered that the woman who
• 57:43
  Speaker 4: was selling La Casera by that same road was still
• 57:47
  Speaker 4: selling it there. I think the idea of business is,
• 57:55
  Speaker 4: of all those kind of stressful business, is to walk
• 57:58
  Speaker 4: your way out of it. I tell people, you don't
• 58:02
  Speaker 4: make money and just pour back. You are trying to
• 58:07
  Speaker 4: bail yourself out of it. In fact, if you are
• 58:09
  Speaker 4: going to build wealth, salary is not the route.
• 58:12
  Speaker 3: That's the fact. Hello, that's the fact. So, listen to
• 58:17
  Speaker 3: what I'm saying.
• 58:18
  Speaker 4: If I say, shout the loudest amen by this time
• 58:20
  Speaker 4: next year, you'll be the 10th richest man in the world.
• 58:22
  Speaker 3: Nah, lie.
• 58:23
  Speaker 4: You will not be. It doesn't come by amen. It
• 58:27
  Speaker 4: comes with a body of knowledge. So, we pray. But
• 58:30
  Speaker 4: do you understand what I'm saying? If amen should make
• 58:34
  Speaker 4: people rich, then we know where we'll find the richest people.
• 58:38
  Speaker 4: If it's by amen, me too, I'll be at the back.
• 58:41
  Speaker 4: I'll not even say shout amen. Amen!
• 58:44
  Speaker 3: As I shout my amen, one million dollars. But I lie.
• 58:54
  Speaker 4: And if care is not taken, we just like the
• 58:55
  Speaker 4: amen for what it sounds like. The fact that it
• 58:58
  Speaker 4: gives us the impression that we are building a powerful ministry.
• 59:01
  Speaker 4: Our amen is shaking everywhere. Have I lost you, sir?
• 59:10
  Speaker 4: are you tired of me i can stop here and
• 59:12
  Speaker 4: just wrap up are you sure okay so i'm showing
• 59:19
  Speaker 4: you the what the complications number four you are not
• 59:27
  Speaker 4: else i die God introduced himself to Abraham as El Shaddai.
• 59:32
  Speaker 3: And you are not.
• 59:34
  Speaker 4: You are a person. You are one human being that
• 59:38
  Speaker 4: has breath in the nostrils. If you die today, the
• 59:44
  Speaker 4: person that loves you the most will cry. Those who
• 59:47
  Speaker 4: love you will cry. Cry a couple of weeks. The
• 59:52
  Speaker 4: one who was not eating the first day, the second,
• 59:55
  Speaker 4: the third day, I can manage, go start.
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 3: Start from there. And they start eating rice. And eventually
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 3: they start saying, so this person is gone. Yes, gone.
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 3: They go back to their normal life. Don't kill yourself.
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 3: Don't die. It's an advice.
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 4: Don't die.
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 3: You are more profitable alive. Don't die.
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 4: When was the last time you checked your BP? You
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 4: are young, but your blood pressure is rising because you
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 4: are carrying too much load.
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 3: Don't die.
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 4: In fact, you are not even taking care of yourself.
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 4: You are always making the money. You look like a servant.
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 4: You can't buy the food you need. Take care of yourself.
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 4: Some of this sickness you are having is because you
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 4: are not eating good food. It's the wickedness you are
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 4: doing to yourself. Gary has wanted to kill you. Say,
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 4: I like Gary.
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 3: It's poverty. You don't like Gary. You're only broke. Period.
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 3: But we know some rich people who also like Gary.
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 4: Shut up there. The defender of the poor. There are
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 4: many things you will discover you like that you don't
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 4: know yet.
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 3: Okay? That's the truth.
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 4: You like the barber that will handle your head and
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 4: the one who will do it well, you see, because
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 4: this one is cheap. But have you discovered that you
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 4: now struggle to get good things that you need? You
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 4: feel guilty when you get them or you feel cool
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 4: when you throw the money out. It's a sign that
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 4: something's already wrong. I'm not saying you should become self-absorbed
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 4: and then begin to live for yourself alone, but I'm
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 4: saying be balanced.
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 3: Okay? Okay? The balance.
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 4: Dear men that like to give, understand that your wife
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 4: too have need.
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 3: Okay?
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 4: That thing you are throwing out, if you give it
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 4: to your wife too, there will be more peace in
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 4: the home. Some people are not generous to their immediate families.
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 3: They are Mr.
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 4: Nice Guy everywhere. But the wife is confused. Everybody is
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 4: sharing testimony of your generosity. But the wife cannot attest
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 4: to it.
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 3: Why?
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 4: Your children, their clothes are torn, everything tattered. But you
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 4: have more than enough. You have become an infidel. A
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 4: man who can't provide for his own household.
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 3: That's scripture. That's scripture. Okay? That's scripture.
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 4: Sometimes you love people, but you still have to let
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 4: them know that we are not going to drown together.
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 3: And I'm not going to change my strategy. Is that
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 3: okay now?
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 4: Um... I mean, I mentioned that young boy that died,
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 4: the musician. The moment he died, the day of the burial,
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 4: family member already fighting over a house and car. Survivor mode.
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 3: When people enter that mode, money becomes more important than life. Yes.
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 4: Number five, understand that if you die today, which I've mentioned,
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 4: everybody will survive. So understand that you are only taking
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 4: care of those challenges because you are alive.
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  Speaker 3: Okay? It is not that deep. If you were not there,
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 3: it would be done. Hello.
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 4: I said if you were not there, it would be done.
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 4: It was being done before you became prosperous. The same
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 4: way it was being done, it can be done.
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 3: It's not that deep. it's not that deep. Okay? Do
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 3: what you have to do. I will show you the balance.
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 3: But you must understand that. Okay? Number six.
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 4: Sometimes you need to understand that the money you are
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 4: throwing around is not a sign of generosity necessarily. It
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 4: is a sign of financial illiteracy. Anything you have no
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 4: plan for can fly.
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 3: Okay? It is not a sign of generosity. It is
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 3: a sign of what? Financial what? Illiteracy. Yeah. Do you
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 3: have a budget system? A budgetary system? Do you have plans?
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 3: What's your financial goal for the next five years? What
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 3: are you working at? What are you working towards? What
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 3: are you building? Okay?
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 4: What are you building? Do you have investment? Do you
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 4: have savings? Or we just think everything will answer by amen.
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 4: It won't work.
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 3: It won't work.
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 4: Do you have investment? Do you have savings? What are
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 4: you building? What's your financial policy? That is what.
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 3: Determines where money goes.
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 4: And sometimes to be a good manager of your money,
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 4: you can't be the one in charge. The one who
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 4: is too emotional cannot be the one managing it.
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 3: You need structure beyond you.
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 4: You need some account that even you can't access. So
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 4: that the day you want to become foolish, the fact
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 4: that you can't access it will bite off. And you'll
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 4: discover that that problem that that person wants to kill
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 4: you with will still be solved without you.
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 3: That's the truth. You can't have access to the place
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 3: where you are putting your life savings.
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 4: Then you go and break every time. When you started
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 4: this year, we saw what you wrote in your financial plan.
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 4: Biggie banking, whatever system you plan to use. You broke
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 4: it more than five times. Still now you have nothing. See,
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 4: I'm going to have a system and next year it's starting.
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 4: You have started again. You are not still listening. You
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 4: have started again. By next year, by the grace of God,
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 4: I'm going to.
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 3: You have not changed your orientation.
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 4: By December, now you start seeing pictures flying around. So
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 4: I've been saving this money in my piggy bank, broke it,
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 4: so I can't believe what I'm seeing here.
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 3: So I say, ah, motivated. Next year I'll do the
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 3: same thing.
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 4: But it's this mindset. You've broken it. You've eaten it.
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 4: Anytime you go to eat in a.
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 3: Restaurant, I say, serve them round. Serve them round. It's
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 3: that nice guy. Anti-kindness. Your angels are shaking their head.
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 3: Because they know that you are not wise. What's the balance?
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 3: What's the balance? Let's look up everybody. Let me ask
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 3: you a question. How many times have you ever had
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 3: to cry to God for oxygen? Okay, hold on.
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 4: How many times have you ever had to cry to
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 4: God For mangoes. Before mango season will come. How many
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 4: times have we ever had to pray for what's your
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 4: best fruit?
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 3: Watermelon. How many times have we ever had to pray, God,
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 3: we want watermelon season.
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 4: God designed everything in such a way that there will
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 4: be a cycle of consistent production.
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 3: Look up, there's a wisdom there. Okay?
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 4: So, God planted trees in the garden and beyond the garden.
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 4: The trees will have fruit. The fruit will have seeds.
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 4: And when you eat the fruit, even if you throw
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 4: away the seeds, they will grow. Everything that God made,
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 4: he gave them the ability to reproduce themselves.
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 3: So what do you want to do? You want to
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 3: learn from God. Don't give bread. Give seeds. That is,
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 3: look up. Oh, what do you need? Say, my rent.
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 3: My rent. Take this rent now.
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 4: Okay, another time.
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 3: What do you need? Rental. Take this rent. That's bread. Come,
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 3: let's talk. What do you want to do with your life? Say,
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 3: I've been trying to do this and all that. Okay,
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 3: I'm going to support that business. All right?
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 4: If you are as smart as you claim to be,
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 4: you should be able to make money from that business.
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 4: And that becomes recurrent order of production activity. So that
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 4: you will never have to have rent as a prayer point.
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 4: The issue is that many times what you are throwing
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 4: around is still enough to help this person stay sustained.
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 4: but you are not thinking production you are thinking consumption
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 4: that's the problem please sit down so when the bible
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 4: says that God finished everything he rested that rest is
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 4: not from tiredness that rest is what you have When
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 4: there are principles in charge.
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 3: That's what you have. If you go and climb. 20
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 3: building store. And jump. And in between where you have jumped.
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 3: And hitting the ground. You say father I shall not die.
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 3: You have violated the principle. You won't have rest. You
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 3: will kill yourself. Okay.
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 4: That's very very important. So rest is what you have.
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 4: When there is a body of wisdom in charge.
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 3: God are the rest.
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 4: Because you will never have to worry. About the rat
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 4: giving birth. Never have to worry about the lion giving birth.
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 4: You will never have to worry about how they will eat.
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 4: There is a balanced cycle.
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 3: Create systems. That gives you rest. Is it too deep
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 3: what I am saying? Is it too deep?
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 4: Create systems.
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 3: Create systems. Okay? Every time mommy, daddy want this money,
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 3: want that. Okay, say, okay. That's your business. How is
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 3: it going? Say it's fine. Okay.
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 4: Let me just put this money inside so that you
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 4: can take it off from there.
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 3: Period. You are versed. Seed.
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 4: Any farmer that eats the fruit and throws away the
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 4: seed has thrown away the future.
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 3: Do you understand what I am saying?
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 4: And you must understand that what I am saying is
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 4: even at a level. There is a level where you
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 4: cannot afford to even give anybody's seat yet.
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 3: Even you need to be strong first. You are not standing.
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 3: Stand first. Then you can now extend helping hand. But
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 3: you are not standing. You will drown. You will drown.
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 3: You will drown.
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 4: You can even miss your future partner. You can miss
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 4: your future partner like that. But once they see you
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 4: and look at the budget around your life, they run.
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 3: Hmm.
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 4: They can look at you and say, the way this
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 4: guy is thinking. So these ones, they are my load now. See,
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 4: do say anything you want to say. Not everybody will cope.
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 4: And people have the right to run.
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 3: Okay? People have the right to run. True or not true?
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 4: When they see that this thing can't work, they have
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 4: the right to run and.
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 3: Just avoid you.
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 4: Just small conversation they are having now. that let's go
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 4: on a date and then just get something nice. You
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 4: have brought three friends. And then, ah, what is that look?
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 4: He said, won't you buy take away for my friends? Ah,
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 4: oh boy, pack your shoes. If you like, do Mr.
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 3: Nice Guy. Don't worry, I'm capable, Mr. Capable. I'm going
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 3: to chest everything. He goes on then. Okay?
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 4: Don't give in such a way that you will fuel
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 4: people's irresponsibility. What you want to do is that you
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 4: want to make sure you are not the only one
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 4: doing this. So, let me help you so you can
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 4: also be strong, then we can be two, helping the rest.
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 4: Then the both of us will pick one more again,
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 4: help you become strong, and then you guys can. At
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 4: some point, I can focus on the things I'm doing,
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 4: you guys can do those stuff and help yourselves. creating
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 4: a network that you have broken the patterns of dysfunctionality.
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 3: Okay? Now, nobody should deceive anybody with, I'm in school,
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 3: I don't have money. No.
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 4: Your mates are learning tech programs in school. You can
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 4: learn graphics designing and make money from your house. There
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 4: are freelancers, those who write online. And I have people
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 4: who are making thousands of Naira from writing.
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 3: You can write. Why are you not trying to do
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 3: anything I just want me to do? No, you can't write.
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 3: I will recommend you learn. People can learn many things.
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 3: You can learn many things. You can learn photography. Alright?
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 4: I have one of my boys, the photographer. Sometimes he
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 4: comes around, travel different places to go.
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 3: And take people's pictures. Collect hundreds of thousands. Okay?
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 4: When he came, he was looking for admission. I said,
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 4: while you are waiting for this admission, why should you
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 4: be waiting?
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 3: Start learning something.
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 4: Then I called up my brothers, one of my friends
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 4: who is a good photographer. I said, please, I want
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 4: one of my boys to come and learn from you.
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 4: He said, no problem.
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 3: Went there, learned. It came amazing.
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 5: Start your way from there. Don't sit there and say, God,
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 5: change my story. Change your own story. You have the
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 5: pen in your hands. Rewrite it.
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 4: God is not coming down from heaven to help anybody.
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 4: He has given you all that pertains to life and godliness.
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 3: Walk with it. And that's why we think God will
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 3: come and change Nigeria. He will not.
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 4: Nigeria by nigerians the day you become tired you break
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 4: their yoke from your neck you are not tired yet
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 4: it has not gotten to boiling point forget about any
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 4: prophecy about nigeria it no go walk no listen to
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 4: what i'm saying prophecies are powerful but no prophecy fulfills
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 4: itself people fulfill it and sometimes those who don't even
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 4: know the prophecy that fulfills it just walking by what
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 4: is right because those who know it think it will
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 4: happen by itself it will not it will not happen
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 4: by itself So don't create a system where you have
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 4: helped people to be irresponsible.
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 3: Anybody can learn. Once you can read and write now,
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 3: you can make money. You can make money. Once you
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 3: can read and write, you can make money.
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 4: You say, I don't... Because mommy is no more.
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 3: I know you are not planning to go and join
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 3: her there. Walk. If you are hungry, I will kill you. Walk. Hunger.
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 3: I'm telling you.
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 4: People go to America, walk in McDonald's, walk in all those.
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 4: There's nothing stopping you from starting a chicken republic here.
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 4: It's a replica of McDonald's.
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 3: There's nothing stopping you. Start from, I sold Indomie by
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 3: the roadside, sir. I sold noodles with apron. With tie.
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 3: There are still places I go today where they see me.
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 3: Uncle Mathematics. I taught math. Ah.
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 4: One time I thought that the way to make more money,
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 4: I would tell them.
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 3: This equation I've given you, take it to your schools.
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 3: If they can solve it, I will stop teaching. They
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 3: will take it and come back. I will be proud.
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 3: I will pay for my lecture before I start. I
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 3: was surviving. And sometimes it is this thing we went
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 3: through that made us strong. We didn't die. We only
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 3: passed through. It only came to pass. It came to pass.
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 3: I'm a man on the journey, but this is where
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 3: I am at the moment. Period. Okay?
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 4: Knowing where you are is not a crime. Trying to
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 4: fake it is the problem. You can't fake it till
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 4: you make it. Do what is genuine. Is that okay now?
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 3: Is that clear enough? Are you being blessed? Are you sure? Okay,
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 3: that's the balance.
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 4: Create structure. Some of you have family WhatsApp meetings, WhatsApp group.
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 4: Interesting one.
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 3: As you are wrapping up the year, have family conversation.
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 4: For men's fault, let no man trouble me for I
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 4: bear my body the marks of Christ.
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 3: Okay? You don't know how to start. Table all your problems.
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 3: Let them read it. And say, I need help. Say, please.
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 3: I need help. You know, when you want to ask
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 3: somebody for money, and the person now come and say,
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 3: this is my problem. Say, ha ha.
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 4: The person that is coming to ask for money will
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 4: not be able to ask again. Say, but you were
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 4: coming to see me. Say, but God, don't worry. I
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 4: think I'll be fine. Actually, you would have been fine.
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 4: Because you think I have. Let me share my problem
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 4: with you. You are too quiet. That's your problem. Share
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 4: your burden too. Maybe God might even raise somebody there
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 4: who have just hit one jackpot. I can give you $ 100, 000.
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 4: I say, brother, what can I give you?
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 3: But you won't share. No, you won't share. Okay? Help
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 3: people to become more responsible. Is that clear now? Is
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 3: that clear?
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 4: Number two, help but never promise what you can't do.
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 3: Alright?
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 4: In fact, understand, put your recurrent expenditure in view before
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 4: you promise. That is, the cycle of your spendings. Put
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 4: it in view before you promise it. Don't promise. By
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 4: next year, I'm going to build your house. No promise.
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 4: Do you know the economic forecast for next year? Do
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 4: you know what is going to happen? Maybe COVID will
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 4: come or something else will come again now.
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 3: People will start crying.
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 4: Now you have gone to promise somebody what you have not.
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 4: The year you have not started.
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 3: Ah. Somebody reach out. People used to reach out to our.
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 4: Ministry and say, we want to invite Apostle to come
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 4: and preach in our place.
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 3: We have prayed. The Holy Ghost said he's the one. Nah, lie.
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 4: The Holy Ghost did not say. You are inviting me
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 4: for two reasons. Only people, only few invite for the
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 4: third reason. Those who know the uniqueness of your anointing
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 4: and want it.
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 3: They are very scarce.
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 4: Many people invite because they see that you have the
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 4: ability to pull people. And if you don't go, they
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 4: will tell somebody it's the same format that the Holy
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 4: Ghost said. I told people, I said, you can spend
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 4: your life servicing people's admiration and not do what God
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 4: has called.
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 3: You to do. Okay?
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 4: They say, come on minister. I say, let's next year
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 4: start first. So I have plans. We have to go
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 4: and plant church in different countries. I will not be
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 4: feeling guilty that I promised you. In fact, as your
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 4: life increases, the less you promise. Because a lot of
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 4: logistics are.
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 3: Is that clear? Okay? Promise less. Sometimes the people complain.
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 3: They are not the problem. You are the one who
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 3: have said what you can't do. Number three.
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 4: Consider your immediate family. And make viable plans for them.
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 4: Consider your immediate family. If you don't have one yet,
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 4: stop in Africa. Particularly if you are coming from a
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 4: dysfunctional background. Before you marry, you need at least three
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 4: years to prepare the ground. Because you are doing things
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 4: that doesn't make sense. A woman will come that will
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 4: help adjust those things. They will demonize her and say
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 4: she's your problem. Ever since he's married now. Meanwhile, this
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 4: woman is trying to help you build wealth. Trying to
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 4: help you build. She knows what both of you will face.
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 4: She knows the days that both of you don't have.
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 4: But we will not listen.
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 3: Because you are a man. You are manly. Remember what now?
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 3: Helping people.
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 4: Is scriptural but you want to make sure you are
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 4: stepping into what is necessary or you are helping people
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 4: to do what is necessary not that people are just
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 4: trying to take advantage of you okay There are things
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 4: that somebody else can do. In fact, there are needs
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 4: that people bring to you that what they need is advice. Say, wow,
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 4: do you know that this is what I can advise you? Okay,
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 4: so go about it this way. If you go about
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 4: it that way, you will never feel obligated to throw
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 4: money around always. You don't have to respond to every
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 4: problem with credit alert. It's not a good orientation.
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 3: Is that okay?
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 3: So you want to plan.
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 4: This teaching will be relevant in preparing you.
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 3: And helping you get it right. Am I correct?
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  Speaker 4: And helping you build sustainably. Your health will recover also.
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  Speaker 4: Your blood pressure will be normalized. You'll become more effective.
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  Speaker 4: Cut off the excesses. Then you can do what is important.
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  Speaker 4: In fact, that's when you'll be able to truly help.
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  Speaker 4: You'll be able to help the people who really need it.
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  Speaker 4: Not just everybody thronging in on you.
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  Speaker 3: Okay? So understand as I leave you now and I
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  Speaker 3: pray for you. Never feel guilty because you have and
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  Speaker 3: somebody else doesn't have. It is not your fault. Okay?
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  Speaker 4: You are trying to help people. You are trying to
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  Speaker 4: help them get the balance. You are trying to help
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  Speaker 4: them come up. You are trying to help them mature.
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  Speaker 4: You are trying to help them understand. But you must
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  Speaker 4: understand that it cannot and must not be done out
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  Speaker 4: of necessity.
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  Speaker 3: It must be done out of sheer generosity. Okay? Okay?
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  Speaker 4: Don't be bullied into a system where everybody feels we
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  Speaker 4: have to milk you.
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  Speaker 3: Is that okay now? Very, very important.
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  Speaker 4: I'm still going to take you on how this black
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  Speaker 4: tax affects the African church. Because there's a church tax.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: I've taught people in this church that you have to
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  Speaker 4: give in such a way that you remain a giver.
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  Speaker 4: There's a way you give that even after pouring anointing
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  Speaker 4: oil on you, 25 liters, you'll be very broke. There
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  Speaker 4: is reward for generosity. There is no reward for foolishness.
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  Speaker 4: The motivation of right giving is love. That's the motivation.
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  Speaker 3: I love you Lord.
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  Speaker 4: There is sacrifice. We sacrifice too. But there is a balance.
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  Speaker 4: Is that clear now? Can I ask you to please pray?
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  Speaker 4: And there are different kind of people here. You may
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  Speaker 4: be the one who is a beneficiary of black tax.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: And God is saying it's time to step up. And
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  Speaker 4: you will be the one who is actually being drowned
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  Speaker 4: by it. And God is saying it's time to be wise.
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  Speaker 3: Whichever one.
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  Speaker 4: Ask God for wisdom. To navigate the next phase. The
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 4: next season of your life. Ask him for wisdom. To
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 4: navigate the next phase. To navigate the next season. Wisdom
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  Speaker 4: to prepare. To become strong. You can even become more effective.
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 4: In the things that you do. You become more powerful.
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  Speaker 4: Become more effective.
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  Speaker 3: Ask God for wisdom.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: Okay. Take the prayer seriously. Don't joke with it. Ask God.
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  Speaker 3: I receive wisdom. I receive help. I receive strength. In
• 1:24:21
  Speaker 3: the name of Jesus.
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  Speaker 4: From today I'm not confused. I know what to do.
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  Speaker 4: We build strong and healthy families. Strong and healthy systems.
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  Speaker 4: In the name of Jesus.
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  Speaker 3: Strong and healthy families. Strong and healthy systems.
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  Speaker 4: In the name of Jesus. I receive the wisdom to build.
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  Speaker 4: To build well. Wisdom to build well. Wisdom to build well.
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  Speaker 4: Wisdom to build well. In the name of Jesus. Now
• 1:24:51
  Speaker 4: put your family in the hands of God and ask
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 4: God for strength and help.
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  Speaker 3: In the name of Jesus.
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  Speaker 4: That they will help them too and raise people so
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  Speaker 4: there can be more help coming from different sources.
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  Speaker 3: Yes. More help coming from different sources. Oh yes. Pray
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 3: that prayer. Please pray. Pray for your siblings. Pray for
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  Speaker 3: your younger ones. Pray for your friends.
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  Speaker 4: Pray that the pattern of dysfunctionality of lack ends. The
• 1:25:19
  Speaker 4: specific wisdom to end it and change the narrative.
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  Speaker 3: Ask for it. Ask for it. Ask for the.
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  Speaker 4: Wisdom to change the narrative. The wisdom to end the
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 4: pattern of dysfunctionality.
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  Speaker 3: In the name of Jesus. Thank you, blessed Father. We
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  Speaker 3: give you all the praise. Thank you, Lord. In Jesus'
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  Speaker 3: name we pray.