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The Audacity To Press On · Apostle Lazarus Femi

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  Speaker 1: Apostle Femi 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.
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  Speaker 1: Cause your voice to be heard and all who pay
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  Speaker 1: attention to my word on your lips will not lack
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  Speaker 1: light and direction. He is a man sent from God,
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  Speaker 1: sent to raise God's end time always. With Apostle Fermi Lazarus,
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  Speaker 1: every minute counts as you listen attentively.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, we give you praise.
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  Speaker 3: The Lord is strong and mighty. The Lord is mighty
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  Speaker 3: in battle. We honor you, Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: We bless you, Father. We give you praise. Blessed be
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  Speaker 2: your holy name. Blessed be your holy name. Blessed be
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  Speaker 2: your holy name. Oh, we bless you, Father. We bless you, Jesus. Oh, hallelujah.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, Jesus. Oh, we give you praise, Father.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, Lord.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you because we know That tonight is a night
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  Speaker 2: that destiny will be consolidated. We know and we trust
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  Speaker 2: that it will be exact piece of puzzle required. Exact
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  Speaker 2: piece required to solve the puzzles of our lives. That
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  Speaker 2: everyone under the sound of my voice will leave this
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  Speaker 2: meeting knowing what next to do. We give you praise,
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  Speaker 2: dear Lord. In Jesus' mighty name, we are prayed. Let's
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  Speaker 2: give the Lord a big hand. Thank you. You may
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  Speaker 2: please be seated.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, streams of life.
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  Speaker 2: Please, you may be seated. Hallelujah. Now, we've been on
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  Speaker 2: a series, the audacity of faith. Now, there is no
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  Speaker 2: faith that is not audacious. Audacious. Audacious. One of the proof,
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  Speaker 2: one of the signs that a man is walking in
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  Speaker 2: faith is that there is.
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  Speaker 3: Audacity.
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  Speaker 2: Amen. There is no faith, or let me say that,
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  Speaker 2: faith and timidity don't go hand in hand. The righteous
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  Speaker 2: is as bold as a lion. Amen.
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  Speaker 3: I said the lion is as bold as a lion.
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  Speaker 2: Praise God. Now, follow me quickly. I've laid foundations on
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  Speaker 2: the subject of faith. And if you're connecting with this
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  Speaker 2: series for the first time, you want to get all
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  Speaker 2: the parts that I've taught in this series.
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  Speaker 3: And it's going to do you good. Praise God.
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  Speaker 2: I'd like us to turn our Bibles quickly to the
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  Speaker 2: book of Hebrews chapter number 11. Hebrews chapter number 11. Now,
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  Speaker 2: we have done some work. On this part of scriptures.
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  Speaker 2: But I'm going to have to step further. To show
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  Speaker 2: you a few more things. Now from verse 1 says.
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  Speaker 2: Now faith is the substance of things hoped for. The
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  Speaker 2: evidence of things not seen. Are you with me now?
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  Speaker 2: Is the substance of things you are hoping for. Then
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  Speaker 2: it is the current evidence. Of what you are yet
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  Speaker 2: to see.
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  Speaker 3: Are you with me? Now let's look at this. From
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  Speaker 3: Amplified Translation.
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  Speaker 2: It says, now faith is the assurance, the confirmation, the
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  Speaker 2: title deed.
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  Speaker 3: Of the things we hope for.
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  Speaker 2: Being the proof of the things we do not see
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  Speaker 2: and the conviction of their reality. Faith perceiving as real
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  Speaker 2: fact what is not revealed to the senses. Very important,
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  Speaker 2: you know. Alright, and I said this before while teaching
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  Speaker 2: in this series, that faith is not futuristic. Amen. Let
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  Speaker 2: me say that the language of faith is not futuristic.
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  Speaker 2: The language of faith is now. Amen. Why? Because faith
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  Speaker 2: is not a three-dimensional reality. Now, three-dimensional reality speaks of,
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  Speaker 2: and please, it's nothing spooky.
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  Speaker 3: Just follow me. The same way you have your 3D world.
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  Speaker 2: Amen? The realm of senses, what can be felt, what
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  Speaker 2: can be seen, what can be touched. Are you following
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  Speaker 2: what I'm saying here? Both of the things we interact
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  Speaker 2: with are in three dimensions.
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  Speaker 3: Are you with me now?
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  Speaker 2: Good. Now, faith is an assurance from a realm that
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  Speaker 2: is beyond this three-dimensional world. And that's why Jude, speaking
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  Speaker 2: in Jude verse 20, he said, But ye beloved, You
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  Speaker 2: build up your most holy faith by what? Praying in
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  Speaker 2: the Holy Ghost. Alright, I love the way, let's go there.
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  Speaker 2: Let's look at what the Amplified said. Because we need
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  Speaker 2: to understand this. Look at the book of Jude. Just
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  Speaker 2: one chapter, verse 20.
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  Speaker 3: Now look at it.
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  Speaker 2: He said, but ye beloved, building up yourselves on your what?
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  Speaker 2: Most holy faith. Praying how?
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  Speaker 3: In the Holy Ghost. Now look at the way the
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  Speaker 3: Amplified said it.
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  Speaker 2: He said, but you, beloved, build yourselves up. Founded on
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  Speaker 2: your most holy faith. Make progress. Rise like an edifice
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  Speaker 2: higher and higher. Praying in the Holy Spirit. Now look
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  Speaker 2: at this. Now what the Bible is saying here is,
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  Speaker 2: there is something that happens to our faith walk as
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  Speaker 2: we pray.
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  Speaker 3: Are you with me now?
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  Speaker 2: You cannot have the evidence if you don't rise beyond
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  Speaker 2: this material reality to see it. And that's why you
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  Speaker 2: can see someone might be disturbed, going through issues of life, worried,
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  Speaker 2: and all that, until the fellow goes to pray. Real
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  Speaker 2: Bible faith is built on the foundation of what God
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  Speaker 2: has said. And that's why faith comes by what? Hearing. Hearing.
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  Speaker 2: Faith doesn't come through imaginations, no. Faith comes by hearing.
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  Speaker 2: That is, you cannot build faith on what you have
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  Speaker 2: not heard. Are you with me now? The same way
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  Speaker 2: you lay foundation before you build a house. And the
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  Speaker 2: book of Psalms 11 verse 3 says, if the foundation
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  Speaker 2: is destroyed, what can the righteous do? So, now everything
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  Speaker 2: is not black and white. Permit me to start with that. Audacity. Audacity.
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  Speaker 2: is for a man who is in faith, not for
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  Speaker 2: a man who is in error. It is dangerous to
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  Speaker 2: be in error and be bold about it. Are you
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  Speaker 2: with me now? Because, now, this is it. I have
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  Speaker 2: found two scriptures, example in Matthew chapter number 4, that
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  Speaker 2: the devil can coin what was intended to mean something
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  Speaker 2: else to justify his own oppression. When he told Jesus
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  Speaker 2: to jump from the mount, after all, God has said
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  Speaker 2: he will give his angels charge over his feet. Now,
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  Speaker 2: what the Bible said in Psalms 91 is that, Because
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  Speaker 2: I have set the Lord continually before my face, therefore
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  Speaker 2: will he keep my feet from stumbling, and he will
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  Speaker 2: give his angels charge over my feet. Why?
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  Speaker 3: Because I have set the Lord continually.
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  Speaker 2: Before my face. The moment the devil was trying to
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  Speaker 2: make Jesus do his own biddings, the devil brought what
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  Speaker 2: God said about a man who has set the Lord
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  Speaker 2: before his face, To justify Jesus doing what he intends.
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  Speaker 2: What I'm trying to say is this. Good message can
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  Speaker 2: endorse bad behavior if a wrong heart receives it.
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  Speaker 3: Can I come again?
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  Speaker 2: Good message can endorse bad behavior if a wrong heart
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  Speaker 2: receives it. Meaning that the devil now has been able
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  Speaker 2: to succeed to make it mean what will justify a
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  Speaker 2: man's wrong walk. It was not intended. Are you following
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  Speaker 2: what I'm saying here? People can be in error and
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  Speaker 2: they have messages for it. Meanwhile, if you check the
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  Speaker 2: depth of that message came from, it came to speak
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  Speaker 2: to a man who is in righteousness, not for a
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  Speaker 2: man who is in error. For instance, somebody can say
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  Speaker 2: that you can, anywhere you are.
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  Speaker 3: Not celebrated, you can get out of that place. Don't
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  Speaker 3: stay where you are tolerated.
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  Speaker 2: In what context? If you are making a mistake and
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  Speaker 2: misbehaving in the place and you are placed on that discipline,
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  Speaker 2: that is not being tolerated. That is being helped. The
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  Speaker 2: devil can make anything mean what he intends when the
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  Speaker 2: believer has not journeyed on getting the right heart. And
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  Speaker 2: that's why you can see people walk in error and
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  Speaker 2: there are quotable quotes that suit every problem, every situation.
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  Speaker 2: It's like those things exist online. Meanwhile, many of them
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  Speaker 2: are demonic and some of them came from genuine thoughts.
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  Speaker 2: What I'm telling you is that you can pick good
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  Speaker 2: things that was intended to bless those who are in God.
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  Speaker 2: And you can use it, or the devil can help
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  Speaker 2: you use it to justify your error. And it will
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  Speaker 2: speak well. But like Jesus, you must know what is written.
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  Speaker 2: Are you following what I'm saying? Please, you need to
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  Speaker 2: understand me. Because sometimes, as we do all this teaching,
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  Speaker 2: we also need to give disclaimer. We have to be
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  Speaker 2: humbled in the fact that our message is not for everyone.
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  Speaker 2: And sometimes at the junction of life that you are in,
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  Speaker 2: it is important you don't make certain conclusions. Particularly, let
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  Speaker 2: me give this word. You cannot hear... Please get what
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  Speaker 2: I'm saying. And I'm saying this for my love for
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  Speaker 2: the church and the body of Christ. The place where
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  Speaker 2: God will supply the building material to build your life
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  Speaker 2: is in your spiritual family. Every other person who is
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  Speaker 2: saying things in the body of Christ will say them
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  Speaker 2: to consolidate. You cannot pick those things above where your
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  Speaker 2: spiritual history is registered.
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  Speaker 3: Let me give you an instance.
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  Speaker 2: If... A patient is being treated in the hospital. And
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  Speaker 2: now doctors are on shift. A new doctor needs to
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  Speaker 2: come on board. It will need to go through the records.
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  Speaker 2: It will need to check. And there are certain drugs
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  Speaker 2: that cannot be administered until we know your medical history.
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  Speaker 2: What are the sicknesses or diseases that are prevalent in
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  Speaker 2: your bloodline? Alright? There are certain drugs. For instance, some analgesics,
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  Speaker 2: you can't use them if you have ulcer. Do you
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  Speaker 2: understand what I'm saying? Even drugs now. If you have
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  Speaker 2: these underlining conditions and you now take these drugs, while
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  Speaker 2: it's taking care of what it's taking care of, it
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  Speaker 2: is also destroying something. True? So there are certain traits
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  Speaker 2: that when somebody is already walking in rebellion, now you
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  Speaker 2: now teach the fellow to be bold. You must know
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  Speaker 2: at what point certain messages are not for you. Close
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  Speaker 2: them and be blessed by your Bible. Are you following
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  Speaker 2: what I'm saying? Because, as you go on in life,
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  Speaker 2: there are things that God will want to see on
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  Speaker 2: in that, but there can be messages that are good,
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  Speaker 2: but can't end at Him. Please, are you following what
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  Speaker 2: I'm saying? Now, I'm giving this disclaimer so we understand
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  Speaker 2: that we don't have a generation of people who, while
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  Speaker 2: we bless God for these messages, the body of Christ
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  Speaker 2: and everything you hear, Here and there. You must understand,
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  Speaker 2: Paul speaking in 1 Corinthians 3 verse 10. He said,
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  Speaker 2: I as a wise master builder, I've done what? I've
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  Speaker 2: laid well the foundation. But let everyone be careful how
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  Speaker 2: they what? Build. Means that the place where the foundation
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  Speaker 2: is laid, particularly, is with the master builder God has
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  Speaker 2: placed over your life. And that's why you see that
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  Speaker 2: every message we teach in series, number one, is spiritual.
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  Speaker 2: Based on the instructions and the perceptions we have in
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  Speaker 2: our spirit. That this is where the people are in
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  Speaker 2: their journey. Number two, it is based on what is next.
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  Speaker 2: Based on what God has instructed us to build. We
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  Speaker 2: don't bring roofing sheet immediately after foundation. We still build
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  Speaker 2: some coaches more. True? Yes.
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  Speaker 3: There are background works that are done.
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  Speaker 2: And if you follow my teachings, you will discover that
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  Speaker 2: everything complements each other. Follow them from five years ago,
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  Speaker 2: you will discover it is a continuity. Praise God. Please,
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  Speaker 2: are you following what I'm saying here? Because my concern
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  Speaker 2: and fear for the bulk of media contained messages is
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  Speaker 2: that while they are good, if we don't have believers
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  Speaker 2: who are feeding structurally, they may appear haphazardly. Because, are
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  Speaker 2: you following what I'm saying? When I go to bookshops
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  Speaker 2: to buy a book, how do I know the book
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  Speaker 2: to buy? One, it can be by recommendation. But number two,
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  Speaker 2: it is based on where I am in my journey.
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  Speaker 2: Who is speaking to where I am currently? It also
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  Speaker 2: influences the kind of messages I listen to. While we
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  Speaker 2: have many powerful ministers who are a blessing, including myself,
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  Speaker 2: we have to honestly acknowledge not everyone is a blessing
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  Speaker 2: to us. Based on the uniqueness of our journey, based
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  Speaker 2: on where we are. My message is blessing those it
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  Speaker 2: is blessing. It cannot bless everyone in the body of Christ.
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  Speaker 2: That's the truth. And in this we have our comfort
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  Speaker 2: and shall I call it our humility. That we can
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  Speaker 2: only do our part. Are you following what I'm saying now?
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  Speaker 2: If this thing is not revealed to you, you can't
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  Speaker 2: get it. There is no man you ever listen to
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  Speaker 2: that bless you if God did not open your eyes
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  Speaker 2: to the person. It is also because a season came
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  Speaker 2: that the body of grace that that fellow represents is
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  Speaker 2: required in your life.
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  Speaker 3: So please you must understand this. Are you with me now?
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  Speaker 2: So the reason why I'm saying this is that every preaching,
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  Speaker 2: every message is not black and white. It is not.
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  Speaker 2: So you have to, my duty is to bring you
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  Speaker 2: the counsel of God, but your duty is to know
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  Speaker 2: how to interpret it in respect to where you are
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  Speaker 2: in your journey with God. That I cannot do for you.
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  Speaker 2: Are you following what I'm saying here? I said that's
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  Speaker 2: your duty. And I cannot do that for you. So
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  Speaker 2: you have to know how to interpret that based on
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  Speaker 2: where you are.
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  Speaker 3: So please stay with me. Let's go back to Hebrews 11.
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  Speaker 2: Amen. Hebrews chapter number 11, even there say amen. Now
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  Speaker 2: we saw in verse 6 that the Bible is saying,
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  Speaker 2: or the Bible says, but without faith it is impossible
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  Speaker 2: to please him. For he that cometh to God must
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  Speaker 2: believe that he is and is the rewarder of them
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  Speaker 2: that what? Diligently seek him. Can we read again verse 6,
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  Speaker 2: Hebrews 7, 6, 1, 2, 3, go. But without faith,
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  Speaker 2: it is impossible to please Him. For he that cometh
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  Speaker 2: to God must believe that He, what? He is.
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  Speaker 3: And it's the rewarder of them that, what?
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  Speaker 2: So it means that the life that pleases God and
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  Speaker 2: the life that honors Him is a life of faith.
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  Speaker 2: Please follow me. It's a life of what? Faith. Now,
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  Speaker 2: tonight I'm going to show you different aspects of your
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  Speaker 2: life where you need to be audacious. That is, this aspect,
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  Speaker 2: it's a core course. You either learn it, do you
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  Speaker 2: understand what I'm saying? Or you live another person's life
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  Speaker 2: in yours. And there's no mercy for those who have
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  Speaker 2: not learned to live by conviction. In fact, you have
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  Speaker 2: not really started living until you begin to live by conviction.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm going to show you how delicate it is
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  Speaker 2: to live based on the opinions of men. Because you
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  Speaker 2: are timid. Now, see, look up everybody. One of the
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  Speaker 2: things you must learn is that whether genuinely or knowingly,
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  Speaker 2: people have a way of passing their insecurities on others.
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  Speaker 2: People have a way of passing their own belief system
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  Speaker 2: on others. In the sense that the subtle or direct
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  Speaker 2: attempt to conform everyone to be what they want them
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  Speaker 2: to be. See, I understand you are a simple person.
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  Speaker 2: I understand you just love God. But what I'm telling
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  Speaker 2: you is that you will be unfortunate not to master
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  Speaker 2: living by conviction. And I use that word respectively. Because
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  Speaker 2: people will make you live their lives, live their fears,
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  Speaker 2: live their insecurities, and will still insult you for not
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  Speaker 2: being yourself. That's how serious it is. You will have
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  Speaker 2: no justifiable reason as to the reason why you are
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  Speaker 2: not an originale.
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  Speaker 3: Are you following what I'm saying now? Don't be everything
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  Speaker 3: else except yourself.
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  Speaker 2: And sometimes you look at the level of intimidation that
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  Speaker 2: people try.
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  Speaker 3: To pass on others.
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  Speaker 2: Why are they talking like this? Why are they doing
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  Speaker 2: like this? Why can't it be like this? Why can't
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  Speaker 2: it do like that? And you observe all the whys
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  Speaker 2: and all that. It is a subtle attempt to make
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  Speaker 2: sure at the end of the day we are just
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  Speaker 2: like each other. See, if all God wants on earth
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  Speaker 2: is you, there's no.
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  Speaker 3: Reason why he has created all of us.
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  Speaker 2: Are you following what I'm saying? If the only kind
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  Speaker 2: of minister God wants on earth is Ephraim Lazarus, there's
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  Speaker 2: no reason why he has called others. But God is
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  Speaker 2: a God of varieties. Are you following what I'm saying here?
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  Speaker 2: And it is important that we... This is a very
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  Speaker 2: serious night and I pray God help me. Love people
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  Speaker 2: but don't live their lives. See, you can respect me
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  Speaker 2: as your pastor but live your life. And I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to teach you. There is a separate assignment... That God
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  Speaker 2: has called you for.
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  Speaker 3: And called you for. to That requires originality.
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  Speaker 2: God has not called you to be an echo He
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  Speaker 2: has called you to be a voice So you've got
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  Speaker 2: to find your voice And you've got to speak distinctively.
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  Speaker 3: And make it loud Please are you following what I'm
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  Speaker 3: saying here?
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  Speaker 2: There are unique giftings, unique graces, characteristics, traits, strengths, and
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  Speaker 2: weaknesses that you have. And all are important to the
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  Speaker 2: fulfillment of your assignment. Let me tell you something. The
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  Speaker 2: moment you live the life of comparing yourself with people,
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  Speaker 2: what is likely going to happen is that you accept
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  Speaker 2: them and trust yourself. You must understand that Just as
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  Speaker 2: God finished making Adam and said this is good. When
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  Speaker 2: he finished making you, he also said good. God did
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  Speaker 2: not say Adam was not good. He said it is
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  Speaker 2: not good for him to be alone. It is not
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  Speaker 2: good for a good person to be alone. So it
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  Speaker 2: is not marriage that makes you good. You are good
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  Speaker 2: because he perfected his work. Are you with me now?
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  Speaker 2: Because sometimes you may get the coinage That you are
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  Speaker 2: not good until you are married. And the implication of
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  Speaker 2: that is that you feel your destiny hangs on someone.
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  Speaker 2: That when they leave, you think they have gone with it.
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  Speaker 2: By yourself, he said good.
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  Speaker 3: Do you understand what I'm saying? I have taught before
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  Speaker 3: and I mark exams.
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  Speaker 2: Okay? Anything that will make me put good, it means
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  Speaker 2: the fellow is good. When God finished and he looked
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  Speaker 2: at you, he said, by all standards, God is the highest. Yes.
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  Speaker 2: If you say it's good, nobody can say it's not good.
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  Speaker 2: It is okay that you are not good enough for someone,
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  Speaker 2: but you are good enough for destiny. It's for them.
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  Speaker 2: Are you following what I'm saying? One time like that,
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  Speaker 2: years back, more than 12 years ago, a lady walked
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  Speaker 2: up to me in church, pastoring then in the church,
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  Speaker 2: and said to me, she said, I just want to
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  Speaker 2: let you know I don't like you.
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  Speaker 3: I said, no problem, but come.
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  Speaker 2: Why?
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  Speaker 3: He said, how can everybody like you? So I have
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  Speaker 3: to be different. I don't like you.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: You do. You don't just know how to say it.
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  Speaker 3: And you are proud.
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  Speaker 2: I also said that life is not easy for the blind.
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  Speaker 2: Now I will not talk like that. I will just
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  Speaker 2: move on. See, deal with it. You can't be everybody's speck.
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  Speaker 3: Deal with it.
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  Speaker 2: Okay? Okay?
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  Speaker 3: Talk now.
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  Speaker 2: True? One man's food is another man's poison. Even in ministry,
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  Speaker 2: not everybody will enjoy your message. Some will say that
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  Speaker 2: I don't feel convenient listening to Apostle Samuel. I'm not
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  Speaker 2: sent to you simple. It's not like I'm not sound.
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  Speaker 2: Do you understand what I'm saying? When you see those
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  Speaker 2: that I'm sent to, the message is everything to them.
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  Speaker 2: This idea of trying to make yourself acceptable, you are
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  Speaker 2: not ice cream. An ice cream finish on time because
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  Speaker 2: it will not melt. They will finish you, sir. And
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  Speaker 2: the moment people know that their opinion can control you,
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  Speaker 2: they will finish you. They will use you. There is
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  Speaker 2: no pity in this world, though. You've got to understand
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  Speaker 2: this or you are destroyed. I'm telling you. And I
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  Speaker 2: say sometimes upbringing too has not done justice. You see,
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  Speaker 2: we raise children in such a way that the disciplines
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  Speaker 2: and everything we teach them is based on the opinion
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  Speaker 2: of others. And right from their young age, you are
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  Speaker 2: comparing them. Say, Jibola is your mate. Look at the
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  Speaker 2: way he's behaving. And you make them feel they are
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  Speaker 2: nothing compared to that person. And they grow up with
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  Speaker 2: those stigmas. There are many who have not broken free
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  Speaker 2: from the stigma of their childhood days because of words.
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  Speaker 2: But we are not just a product of nature. We
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  Speaker 2: are a product of nature. You must re-educate yourself. He
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  Speaker 2: that made me said, good. And the meaning of that
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  Speaker 2: good is excellent. Are you with me this morning? Very important. Alright,
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  Speaker 2: because the uniqueness of your journey will require boldness. Require what? Boldness.
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  Speaker 3: Require what?
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  Speaker 2: Do you know that the fact that you have a
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  Speaker 2: gift doesn't mean you will use it. There might be
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  Speaker 2: people who can sing. But will never do because of
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  Speaker 2: cancel culture. True? Yeah. True. Everybody will look at me. See.
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  Speaker 2: Why are you afraid of everybody looking at you? Let's
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  Speaker 2: start from there. The reason why you are afraid is
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  Speaker 2: because you feel you are inadequate. And you feel you
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  Speaker 2: don't deserve it. but this time you celebrate people that
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  Speaker 2: you know you have better giftings, but they only have
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  Speaker 2: more audacity to do it.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not saying you should not celebrate them, but I'm
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  Speaker 3: saying manifest.
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  Speaker 2: What excuse will you give that all the giftings died
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  Speaker 2: because you are thinking of what you will think? What
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  Speaker 2: excuse will you give that you could not pursue those
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  Speaker 2: God-given agenda, which is time-bound? It's the time factor that's
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  Speaker 2: the concern. The fact that you cannot always do everything again.
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  Speaker 2: There are certain things that when the time passes, that's it.
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  Speaker 2: You have to go to the next phase. And like that,
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  Speaker 2: the quality of life or what you could become, start reducing.
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  Speaker 2: Till they, at the last day of their life, begin
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  Speaker 2: to regret what they have not done. Follow me. All right?
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  Speaker 2: Because we're going somewhere. Now let's begin to look at
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  Speaker 2: the list in Hebrews 11. From verse 7 now. It says,
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  Speaker 2: By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not
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  Speaker 2: seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to
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  Speaker 2: the saving of his house, by which he condemned the world,
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  Speaker 2: and became heir.
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  Speaker 3: Of the righteousness which is by faith.
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  Speaker 2: By faith Abraham, when he was called to go into
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  Speaker 2: a place which he should, after receiving an inheritance, obeyed
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  Speaker 2: and went out, not knowing where he went. By faith
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  Speaker 2: he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a
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  Speaker 2: strange country, dwelling in Tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the
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  Speaker 2: heirs of him of the same promise. For he looked
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  Speaker 2: for a city which has foundation, whose builder and maker
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  Speaker 2: is God. Through faith, now you can see, One of
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  Speaker 2: the things that is common to the men that are
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  Speaker 2: listed in Hebrews 11 was that the proof of faith
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  Speaker 2: was that they went on their journey. What was the
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  Speaker 2: proof of faith? They went on their journey. Noah built
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  Speaker 2: an ark. He began to build. I'm saying that there
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  Speaker 2: are certain things that are important but you look stupid
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  Speaker 2: doing it. But you must continue. Do you understand what
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  Speaker 2: I'm saying? The fact that people are mocking a person
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  Speaker 2: doesn't mean it's foolish. It may be the one doing
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  Speaker 2: the right thing that everyone will come to learn. See,
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  Speaker 2: when I do certain things and you insult me for
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  Speaker 2: doing them, you are not necessarily right. You might not
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  Speaker 2: have come to the level of growth to see what
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  Speaker 2: I see. And when you get there, you will also start.
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  Speaker 2: But if I have stopped, you will say, why did
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  Speaker 2: I stop? I'm telling you that there are people who
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  Speaker 2: are bold and they are bolder than you. And they
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  Speaker 2: are louder than you. And you'll be a victim of
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  Speaker 2: their thoughts and their personal prejudice because you accept everything
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  Speaker 2: who climb and sinker. You have to fight for your
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  Speaker 2: journey and insist on what God said. Do you understand
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  Speaker 2: what I'm saying? When our ministry started, people gathered and
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  Speaker 2: I hope any one of them is online. I hope
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  Speaker 2: with all love in my heart that they have seen
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  Speaker 2: what they stood up against and where will we have
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  Speaker 2: put all these destinies if I succumbed. And who can
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  Speaker 2: withstand you with Bible verse? Are you following what I'm saying?
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  Speaker 2: One time, some group of ministers called my people who
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  Speaker 2: are following me and said, you are following him. They
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  Speaker 2: called them to a pastor's meeting and said, sit down.
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: They said, the fellow you are following does not have
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  Speaker 2: a future. They said, everything about this ministry will die
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  Speaker 2: in less than six months. They said, everything about this
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  Speaker 2: ministry will die. They were not saying that, maybe you should.
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  Speaker 2: They were bold about it. Are you following what I'm saying? Ah.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, I remember one of those days, I went
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  Speaker 2: to a place on the U campus called Membo to cry.
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  Speaker 2: Went to Weibo! And God said, what are you doing there?
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  Speaker 2: Get up! Go and eat. That's all. Get up. Go
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  Speaker 2: and eat. There are people that don't deserve getting tears
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  Speaker 2: from your eyes. They are against me. If you know
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  Speaker 2: the future of what you have started, you know why
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  Speaker 2: the devil instigates men. Why do you think they should
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  Speaker 2: not be against you? Are you following what I'm saying here?
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  Speaker 2: One time somebody came to where I was preaching. He
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  Speaker 2: said he was waiting for me to finish preaching so
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  Speaker 2: they will flog me out of that place. My God.
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  Speaker 2: He said he will call Students Union. They will drag
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  Speaker 2: him out of this campus. Why is he doing ministry here?
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  Speaker 2: Why not here?
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  Speaker 3: The heart is the Lord and the fullness thereof.
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  Speaker 2: Why not here? Praise God. And I stood my ground.
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  Speaker 2: You must fight For everything God has given you to do.
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  Speaker 2: There's an illustration in Revelations of the woman that was
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  Speaker 2: pregnant with the man child. The dragon stood by her
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  Speaker 2: to withstand her. There is a devil trying to abort
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  Speaker 2: the divine pregnancy you are carrying. He wants you to
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  Speaker 2: have stillbirth. And one of the primary ways you have
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  Speaker 2: succeeded in doing it again and again is through intimidation.
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  Speaker 2: Particularly through people you honor. The moment the devil sees
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  Speaker 2: that you honor a person's voice, he may want to
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  Speaker 2: use it against you. And you can be in a
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  Speaker 2: meeting and after the entire meeting, what you have done
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  Speaker 2: is that you have canceled all God's plan.
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  Speaker 3: Because the person, and see, see, listen. Hear what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 3: Hear what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 2: When you have spiritual people who are very charged, the
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  Speaker 2: authority that follows what they are saying can come as
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  Speaker 2: though God has put a stamp on it. Because power
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  Speaker 2: is power. And you can finish hearing and say, I'm
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  Speaker 2: not qualified for this. I'm not qualified for that. I'm
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  Speaker 2: not qualified for this. And I want to leave this
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  Speaker 2: as a note of warning. You will never qualify for anything.
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  Speaker 2: Because God doesn't call the qualified. He qualifies those he calls.
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  Speaker 2: Seeing therefore that we have received this ministry, having received what? Mercy.
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: Are you following what I'm saying here? How that not
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: many wise were called, not many nobles were called. God
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  Speaker 2: used the foolish things of this world to confound the wise.
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  Speaker 2: You are foolish. Yes, I am. That's why God chose me.
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  Speaker 2: It is my foolishness that was the qualification. It's not anything,
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  Speaker 2: not a strange stuff. Are you following what I'm saying here?
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  Speaker 2: Bunk of people gathered. He's not going anywhere in life.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, the people who are following me, who are
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  Speaker 2: coming for my meeting, they will be stopping them on
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  Speaker 2: the road. They will be stopping them. Are you going
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  Speaker 2: for his meeting? Your life will be finished. By the
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  Speaker 2: grace of God, I have never, and by his grace,
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  Speaker 2: I will never have any record of scandal. So it's
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  Speaker 2: not like maybe I was doing something bad. Just people
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  Speaker 2: who believe that God must get permission from them before
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  Speaker 2: he can call you. That God must pass through us.
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  Speaker 2: Who are you for God to call you and we
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: didn't know? But you must stand and fight. Because those
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  Speaker 2: that will make you useless will be the first to
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  Speaker 2: abuse you. Do you understand what I'm saying? People say,
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  Speaker 2: they say, we've always known it's not getting anywhere. We've known.
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  Speaker 2: We saw.
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  Speaker 3: We saw it's not getting anywhere. I wanted to give
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  Speaker 3: an illustration.
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  Speaker 2: Let me try.
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  Speaker 3: Oh God, help me.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to try to make it in code. During
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  Speaker 2: some of the presidential stuff in one of the countries
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  Speaker 2: in Africa. One of the men said that this guy
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  Speaker 2: that is contesting, his name is Peter, and he will
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  Speaker 2: deny all of you the same way Peter denied Jesus. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 2: behind the back, they went to meet him and say,
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  Speaker 2: step down now. He's an old man. If you now succumb,
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  Speaker 2: they will say, we told you. Let me share a
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  Speaker 2: story with you. I said tonight is a... Are you
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  Speaker 2: feeling what I'm saying? What's happening? Should I even share
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  Speaker 2: this story? He's sensitive. You know, sometimes you people are
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  Speaker 2: the ones who get blessed. There might be people who
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: now cut that part and say, Pastor, what did you
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  Speaker 2: say here? You don't understand what I'm saying. He's the
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  Speaker 2: body of Christ. But hear me. Now this is a
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  Speaker 2: story that happened to me. Growing up as a child,
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  Speaker 2: one time I was victimized. And I'm going to put
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  Speaker 2: it in code. And a woman used this thing to
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  Speaker 2: pound yam and hit my head with it and I
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  Speaker 2: passed out. And family gathered and said this woman is
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  Speaker 2: a witch. She wants to kill this boy. And said
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  Speaker 2: she needs to leave this house. And I stayed in
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  Speaker 2: my room where I was. And they were having family
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  Speaker 2: meeting in the parlor. And the woman came to meet
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  Speaker 2: me and knelt down.
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  Speaker 3: I was a young boy. She was crying.
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  Speaker 2: She said, if they make this show now and I leave,
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  Speaker 2: who will take care of these children?
• 35:03
  Speaker 3: Who will take care of this?
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: And I joined her in crying. So she said, go
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  Speaker 2: there and defend me. And please, on my behalf, tell
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  Speaker 2: them I didn't do it. So out of pity, I
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  Speaker 2: went there. And I said, she didn't do it. The
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  Speaker 2: moment I said that, the first thing that happened was
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  Speaker 2: that a dirty slap landed on my face. And it
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  Speaker 2: was the same woman who slapped me. And from that moment,
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  Speaker 2: I couldn't talk again. And she said, I told you
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  Speaker 2: guys that he wants to scatter this house. Do you
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  Speaker 2: understand what I'm saying? I'm saying people will give you
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  Speaker 2: things to do. And we say, we've known that you
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  Speaker 2: are a fool. You must have conviction that is rooted
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  Speaker 2: in prayer and follow it. And even when it is
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: not making sense, stay! It takes commitment, it takes audacity
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  Speaker 2: to stand. If not, you'll never do anything in your life.
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  Speaker 2: Something is not working for a while, you chicken out.
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  Speaker 2: Are you following what I'm saying now? Because your life
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  Speaker 2: will only be easy if you want to fit in.
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  Speaker 2: Fit in, be a mediocre like everyone else, you will
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  Speaker 2: have no problem. But the moment you take a stand
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  Speaker 2: that you'll be different, you will have to fight. Fight.
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  Speaker 2: Do you understand what I'm saying? Live like any other person.
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  Speaker 2: Think like them. Be a mediocre like them. See what
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  Speaker 2: they are seeing.
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  Speaker 3: They will like you. But the moment you choose.
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  Speaker 2: To be different, you must be willing to walk alone
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: till vision begins to speak. That courage is what many
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  Speaker 2: believers don't have. They cry too much. They're always looking
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  Speaker 2: for counseling. There are many things you don't need counseling over.
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: God has said, go. Go! What's counseling? Are you following
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  Speaker 2: what I'm saying here? You don't seem to like what
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: I'm teaching. Are you with me? Very important. Very important.
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  Speaker 3: If not, the devil is going to afflict you. Oh,
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  Speaker 3: thank you, Jesus. Are you with me? Are you with me?
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  Speaker 3: Are you getting something? Now listen to me.
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  Speaker 2: Hear me out. Many people are alive but only few
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  Speaker 2: are living. Your life doesn't start counting until you really
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: start living a purposeful life of conviction. Are you following
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  Speaker 2: what I'm saying? You You know I've given Disclaimer before
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  Speaker 2: I started You don't have to Live based on people's
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  Speaker 2: impression Somebody look at you and say I feel there's
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  Speaker 2: not people like you that God should call Are you
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  Speaker 2: deputy God? No Where were you when you laid foundation
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  Speaker 2: of the heaven and the earth? Nowhere You say you
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  Speaker 2: think God should not call people like me. But he
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: should call people like you. Are you following what I'm saying?
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: And even when, if you have made a mistake and
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  Speaker 2: they know your past, have you repented? Are you walking
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  Speaker 2: in righteousness? God can still use you. In the same
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  Speaker 2: place where you have been called forsaken, he can still
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  Speaker 2: use you.
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  Speaker 3: That's the truth.
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  Speaker 2: Because I'm still going to get there. Many people don't
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: have the audacity to heal. It takes audacity to heal.
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: And many don't have the audacity to heal. So they
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: bleed to death. There are believers who are happy and
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  Speaker 2: smiling that one mistake they make, they may never recover
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  Speaker 2: from it. Not because God will not forgive them, but
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  Speaker 2: because they will never forgive themselves. And many of you
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  Speaker 2: don't know that it is pride to be saying a
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  Speaker 2: whole me. How did I make this mistake?
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  Speaker 3: Who are you? That's why you fell. It is pride
• 39:29
  Speaker 3: to sit and say, a old me.
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  Speaker 2: A old me. See you have not been dependent on
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: the grace of God. It is that grace that keeps
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  Speaker 2: us from falling. And Jude is able to keep us
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  Speaker 2: from what? Falling. And present us spotless. Before the Father.
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  Speaker 2: A old you is not captured in that picture. It's
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  Speaker 2: unto him. Are you with me now? Very important. Now
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: if you observe and you read through Hebrews 11, you'll
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: find out the class of people that was mentioned or
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  Speaker 2: that has been mentioned in Hebrews 11 are men who
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  Speaker 2: heard God's voice, believed what they heard and followed after
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  Speaker 2: it even when there was no proof.
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  Speaker 3: They heard God's voice. They believed what they heard.
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  Speaker 2: And they did what?
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  Speaker 3: And they followed after it.
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  Speaker 2: Noah began to build and hack at a time that
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  Speaker 2: it had not rained before. People could not understand. Sometimes
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  Speaker 2: God will inspire you to do what has not been
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  Speaker 2: done before. Aversion. In a way that has not been done.
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  Speaker 2: Some people come to me and say, actually God is
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  Speaker 2: calling me to start a church walk. And this church walk,
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  Speaker 2: we are not to be having Sunday service. It is
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  Speaker 2: actually Wednesday evening and it's church. There is no way
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  Speaker 2: it is written in the Bible that church must be
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  Speaker 2: Sunday Sunday. I believe you. Is it God? I said
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  Speaker 2: I believe you. There is something, there is a loophole.
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  Speaker 2: That needs to be filled. That those of us who
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  Speaker 2: are doing Sunday Sunday may not feel. Hence the reason
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  Speaker 2: why God has called you to do that. Are you
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  Speaker 2: following what I'm saying there? And. You see. It may
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  Speaker 2: give you inspiration of a different style. And a different method.
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  Speaker 2: To the end that a different class of you can
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  Speaker 2: be saved. Everyone cannot be black and white. Let's respect
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  Speaker 2: these differences. Let's respect it. And people die young for
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: insulting what the Holy Ghost is doing in ministries and
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: in lives. Because they don't know. And they shoot themselves
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  Speaker 2: in the leg. Be careful before you stand against any man.
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  Speaker 2: You may be standing against the next big thing. Let
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  Speaker 2: me come again. Be careful before you stand against any man.
• 42:03
  Speaker 3: Because everybody has their part to play in prophecy.
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  Speaker 2: May you not be the one to now know that
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: you fought against what God is doing. Every time God
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  Speaker 2: is doing something, he does it as the supreme God.
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  Speaker 2: And it shows you I don't need to consult before
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  Speaker 2: I do it. Make sure that your own path that
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  Speaker 2: will be remembered and captured in prophecy or in the
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  Speaker 2: journey is the path of an antagonist. Because you didn't know.
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  Speaker 2: And you think God must always work based on your mentality.
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  Speaker 2: Or God must work based on what you think. No.
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  Speaker 2: God is bigger than you. Your small head cannot capture
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  Speaker 2: his eternal plan. You receive yours and move on. I
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  Speaker 2: said your head is too small to capture his eternal plan.
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: You receive yours and move on. Let's stop all this
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  Speaker 2: arrogance and pride. Nobody has been called to be God
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  Speaker 2: in anybody's life. People will say I'm their spiritual father.
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  Speaker 2: Bless God for the privilege. Submit to me and say
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  Speaker 2: I want to do this program and give me permission.
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  Speaker 2: God has given you a sovereign call. Are you walking
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  Speaker 2: in error? No.
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  Speaker 3: I'm to guide you, not permission. The one who called
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  Speaker 3: you has said go ahead.
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  Speaker 2: Who am I? How do I stand to permit what
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  Speaker 2: God has called for? Unless we see that something is missing.
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  Speaker 2: We call people back and say, oh boy, sit down.
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: And sometimes you look at people, they are ready to
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  Speaker 2: drop everything. I'm saying, thank God for accountability. And I'm
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: speaking as, and that's why I say what I'm saying
• 43:36
  Speaker 2: is delicate. Thank God for accountability structure. But I'm saying, sir,
• 43:41
  Speaker 2: You must have certain convictions because you will not always agree.
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: The goal of leadership is not to clone people. It
• 43:53
  Speaker 2: is to help them become the best they can in
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  Speaker 2: their own uniqueness.
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  Speaker 3: Do you understand what I'm saying?
• 43:59
  Speaker 2: In their own uniqueness. I have one of our pastors
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  Speaker 2: who pastor our Lagos church. He's a unique person. The
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  Speaker 2: way he dance, unique. I don't have that energy. Very unique.
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  Speaker 2: The pastor in Ibadan. They can all hear me now.
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  Speaker 2: Also unique. He has his own method. He's talking quietly.
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  Speaker 2: That's him. That's who he is. The one in Ife.
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  Speaker 2: Also another unique person. The idea is this. Now look
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  Speaker 2: at it. Ephesians chapter number 3 verse 10. Let's read
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  Speaker 2: this together. To the intent... That the wisdom of God
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  Speaker 2: is seen by principalities and part. This wisdom is displayed.
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  Speaker 2: It's a manifold wisdom displayed to different people in church.
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  Speaker 2: The wisdom of God is not fully captured in one dimension.
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  Speaker 2: Do you understand what I'm saying? It's not fully captured
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  Speaker 2: in one dimension. Now, if you understand my voice, and
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  Speaker 2: certain visions have died in your heart because you were
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  Speaker 2: in an environment where it was not understood. It is
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  Speaker 2: your fault he died. Nobody owes you approval around your race.
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  Speaker 2: What did I say? Okay, the approver, what does he
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  Speaker 2: bring to your account? Let me say this to you.
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  Speaker 2: You know, when you are cooking, you say a pinch
• 45:26
  Speaker 2: of salt, seasoning, and all that.
• 45:29
  Speaker 3: Men who fulfill their sin must have a pinch of salt. Tenacity.
• 45:34
  Speaker 3: I don't want to use the word stubbornness. I don't
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  Speaker 3: want to make that mistake.
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  Speaker 2: But I'm saying that you must have a pinch of
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  Speaker 2: the ability to continue regardless of who disagrees. And I
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  Speaker 2: say this because many of those who disagree will later repent.
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  Speaker 2: But may it not be that you stopped. May it
• 45:54
  Speaker 2: not be that you stopped. I'm saying again, may it
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  Speaker 2: not be that you stopped. When they will come back
• 46:00
  Speaker 2: and say, we didn't know it would be like this.
• 46:03
  Speaker 2: And I want to please implore that leaders must be careful.
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  Speaker 2: So you don't play God in people's life. So you
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  Speaker 2: don't play God in people's life. Rather you help them
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  Speaker 2: see and you help them become. Leaders must be very,
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  Speaker 2: very careful. So you don't play God in people's life.
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  Speaker 2: You rather help them become. Praise God. Are you following
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  Speaker 2: what I'm saying there? Now instead of like church, we
• 46:30
  Speaker 2: raise God's end time armies. We are not raising civilians.
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  Speaker 3: Amen.
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  Speaker 2: Are you following what I'm saying? If God said his
• 46:40
  Speaker 2: colleagues are not supposed to do this, go ahead. That's
• 46:42
  Speaker 2: the essence of the training. Our duty is to train
• 46:45
  Speaker 2: and give you wings to fly. And support you. And
• 46:48
  Speaker 2: stand by you. Are you following what I'm saying? Not
• 46:51
  Speaker 2: to cut down those visions to sizes. Praise God.
• 46:55
  Speaker 3: When my wife got married, I asked her, what do
• 46:58
  Speaker 3: you like to do?
• 47:00
  Speaker 2: She said, counseling. I've never thought of that in my life.
• 47:03
  Speaker 2: Of many things God told me about my spouse, he
• 47:05
  Speaker 2: didn't tell me about counseling. Fact.
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  Speaker 3: I never for one day say, are you sure?
• 47:12
  Speaker 2: Go ahead. Babe, I want to do this. Go ahead.
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  Speaker 2: You don't even say anything. I said, go ahead. Start.
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  Speaker 2: I prefer you start and fail than not to start
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  Speaker 2: at all. Start and make mistakes then we'll correct it together.
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: And mistakes is part of variety. Enjoy it, sir. This
• 47:32
  Speaker 2: fear of not, I don't want to make any mistake.
• 47:33
  Speaker 2: Who are you? Make your mistakes on.
• 47:35
  Speaker 3: Time and move on.
• 47:36
  Speaker 2: None of us are doing what we are doing because
• 47:39
  Speaker 2: we have made mistakes. One time, one of my friends
• 47:43
  Speaker 2: sent my message to me. I said, what were you
• 47:45
  Speaker 2: saying there? I said, Toph, mercy on you. Toph, just
• 47:50
  Speaker 2: forgive me. Okay? I'm sorry. I told my wife, I said, ah, God,
• 47:55
  Speaker 2: it's in my life now. But I appreciated it more.
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  Speaker 2: Are you following what I'm saying? Ah, The mistake you
• 48:03
  Speaker 2: don't want to make in the days of obscurity, you
• 48:04
  Speaker 2: make it in grand style when light shines. Make your
• 48:07
  Speaker 2: mistakes and move on. Say you are singing you sang
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  Speaker 2: off key.
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  Speaker 3: Recover.
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  Speaker 2: Find the key. Find. So you don't go and sing
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  Speaker 2: down at that national stadium. Find the key in your
• 48:18
  Speaker 2: local church and get back on track. Praise God.
• 48:22
  Speaker 3: I remember one time they were doing auditioning and.
• 48:26
  Speaker 2: A young lady was removed from the choir.
• 48:29
  Speaker 3: Because in spirit of light church, we help.
• 48:32
  Speaker 2: You all say, okay, you go to sanitation and then
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  Speaker 2: do protocol and all that. You can protocol God's people
• 48:40
  Speaker 2: and all that.
• 48:42
  Speaker 3: But I went back to pray. And I saw that.
• 48:45
  Speaker 2: This girl's music is going to shake the world. In fact,
• 48:49
  Speaker 2: there's one of the very powerful Nigerian singers now. I
• 48:53
  Speaker 2: don't want to mention his name. One of the strong
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  Speaker 2: vocalists we have. I pastored him about 12 years ago.
• 49:00
  Speaker 2: This guy was removed from the choir because he couldn't sing.
• 49:04
  Speaker 2: He couldn't sing. Sometimes you send away your Joseph because
• 49:08
  Speaker 2: he has not become. But it is important for Joseph
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  Speaker 2: not to say that is the end of the dream.
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  Speaker 2: That you are not in choir is not the end
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  Speaker 2: of your music ministry. Jephthah was sent away but he
• 49:22
  Speaker 2: became a mighty man. They called him back. The same
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  Speaker 2: choir can call you back as music instructor. The same choir.
• 49:29
  Speaker 2: And say come and be music because you went and
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  Speaker 2: found yourself. Have that courage too. Don't let people determine
• 49:37
  Speaker 2: your mortality. Have the courage too. Are you following what
• 49:40
  Speaker 2: I'm saying here?
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  Speaker 3: And many of those who were singing then in that choir,
• 49:44
  Speaker 3: they become what they have become.
• 49:48
  Speaker 2: See, we need the eyes of the Spirit. Are you
• 49:51
  Speaker 2: following what I'm saying? When we say this is my passion,
• 49:53
  Speaker 2: I've always wanted to do this. But we're in a
• 49:55
  Speaker 2: church where they will pray and send to department. Now
• 49:57
  Speaker 2: they didn't send you there. That's not the end of
• 49:59
  Speaker 2: that passion. That is they giving you opportunity to prove
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  Speaker 2: beyond measure that it was true. Do you understand what
• 50:10
  Speaker 2: I'm saying? Let me share part of my story I
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  Speaker 2: used to be in the choir Okay I know you
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  Speaker 2: struggle to believe And what I went through in the
• 50:21
  Speaker 2: choir And what I put the choir through Was horrific
• 50:25
  Speaker 2: They passed me through and I also passed them through
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  Speaker 2: But I didn't know I didn't know We were having
• 50:35
  Speaker 2: It was CAC Our district chairman was coming Praise God.
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  Speaker 2: We were to sing. Our group.
• 50:44
  Speaker 3: And during the rehearsal, they didn't put Mike in my hands.
• 50:48
  Speaker 2: You see. But you know, this kind of moment where
• 50:52
  Speaker 2: the engineer who is hearing Mike just gave you. And
• 50:55
  Speaker 2: nobody is connecting. He gave me. Nobody is connecting in
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  Speaker 2: my hand. No problem. We shall sing. And I began.
• 51:07
  Speaker 2: But unfortunately for the team, My eyes were closed throughout.
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  Speaker 2: Unfortunately for them. I noticed by the time we finished,
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  Speaker 2: people were reluctant to clap. See, my innocence can be amazing.
• 51:25
  Speaker 2: I was too convinced that they had been touched. I
• 51:29
  Speaker 2: was too convinced that they are too touched to clap.
• 51:36
  Speaker 2: Until we began to have meetings. And the choir director
• 51:39
  Speaker 2: now said. Actually. Go for me. Sherry. Some people have
• 51:49
  Speaker 2: naturally loud voice. And they don't need mic. Why now?
• 51:58
  Speaker 2: He said so. You should not have taken that mic.
• 52:06
  Speaker 2: And I was on my own. JJ cause I was
• 52:10
  Speaker 2: always wearing suit in church and you said the Holy
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  Speaker 2: Ghost said you should call me to your band on
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  Speaker 2: my own after that day they stopped calling me for
• 52:24
  Speaker 2: real I just observed we are staying not far from
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  Speaker 2: the church they will be singing they won't call me
• 52:34
  Speaker 2: you don't call your family again But praise God. I've
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  Speaker 2: not given up. I know you don't believe. You are
• 52:50
  Speaker 2: mocking me. Go with Jojo. Praise God. Fail.
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  Speaker 3: Do it again.
• 53:05
  Speaker 2: Don't quit. Do it again. Does it matter? You must
• 53:14
  Speaker 2: have the audacity to pursue. Please, are you following what
• 53:20
  Speaker 2: I'm teaching you here? Now this is a very, very
• 53:24
  Speaker 2: important subject.
• 53:26
  Speaker 3: And I need you to follow me with all your heart.
• 53:33
  Speaker 2: The truth of the matter is that everything you fail
• 53:35
  Speaker 2: at shows you a way it is not going to work.
• 53:40
  Speaker 2: alright I was speaking to one of my brothers this
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  Speaker 2: morning and he asked me he said how do you
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  Speaker 2: how do you do the things you do how do
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  Speaker 2: you have the courage to do the things you are
• 54:00
  Speaker 2: doing like you left your church in Ibadan say yes
• 54:08
  Speaker 2: and you went to start a fresh work I said
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  Speaker 2: yes And God says again, anytime says, get.
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  Speaker 3: Out of this place, I will.
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  Speaker 2: So how do you do all this?
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  Speaker 3: And I say, I don't think.
• 54:22
  Speaker 2: I don't think. I simply obey. I never thought about
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  Speaker 2: coming to Abuja till I entered the plane. I never
• 54:29
  Speaker 2: thought about it. My wife was with me at the airport,
• 54:31
  Speaker 2: hugging and trying to cry.
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  Speaker 3: I just left.
• 54:33
  Speaker 2: I said, we'll talk later. When next we'll see, I
• 54:36
  Speaker 2: don't know. I don't know. And I'm not emotionless. I
• 54:43
  Speaker 2: don't think.
• 54:44
  Speaker 3: About obeying God. As he said it, we prayed about it.
• 54:47
  Speaker 2: Because women, when you pray about it, when you now
• 54:50
  Speaker 2: want to do it, don't tell my wife I said that. Okay?
• 54:56
  Speaker 2: But now you need audacity. You need courage. I went
• 55:00
  Speaker 2: on a six-week trip recently. I never thought about that
• 55:04
  Speaker 2: trip until I landed in Ibadan. In fact, it was
• 55:07
  Speaker 2: after three days, it occurred to me that in six weeks,
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  Speaker 2: So all the thing of, ah, my husband is going.
• 55:15
  Speaker 2: When are we going? Ah, after six weeks. That's going
• 55:17
  Speaker 2: to be a long time. It was falling to me.
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  Speaker 3: Because I have not thought about it.
• 55:22
  Speaker 2: You must be pragmatic about obeying God. Now, I'm not
• 55:28
  Speaker 2: saying that you should not be family conscious. Are you
• 55:33
  Speaker 2: following what I'm saying? Aha. What I'm saying is, sometimes
• 55:38
  Speaker 2: the way you think about things, at the end of
• 55:41
  Speaker 2: your thinking is that you say, there's no point.
• 55:47
  Speaker 3: That's the end of your own thinking.
• 55:48
  Speaker 2: Say, there's no point. Let's just leave it. Let's postpone it.
• 55:51
  Speaker 2: And you now go past the timeline. And then you
• 55:54
  Speaker 2: miss the mark. Are you following what I'm saying? God
• 55:59
  Speaker 2: has said it. It can't die. I am not the
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  Speaker 2: owner of the church. Jesus said, I will build my church.
• 56:04
  Speaker 2: Nothing can go down. See, don't violate your importance. Don't
• 56:08
  Speaker 2: overrate it. Are you following what I'm saying? Don't overrate it.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, if people say, Papa, don't go. We will
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  Speaker 2: miss you. It is good for you that I go.
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  Speaker 2: Because there is a part of your life that needs
• 56:23
  Speaker 2: that kind of courage to execute. And you will never
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  Speaker 2: become if I sit with you. In fact, we will
• 56:29
  Speaker 2: begin to have problems. True or not true? Praise God.
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  Speaker 2: Say it loud and clear.
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  Speaker 3: I'm audacious.
• 56:36
  Speaker 2: I'm audacious. Come on say it again. Come on say
• 56:40
  Speaker 2: it again. I am not afraid of anything. I am
• 56:44
  Speaker 2: not afraid of anything. I do everything God asks me
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  Speaker 2: to do. Praise God. Whether it is common or uncommon.
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  Speaker 2: Whether it is normal or normal. I obey God promptly.
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  Speaker 3: Praise God. Are you with me now? No room for
• 57:05
  Speaker 3: fear in destiny.
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  Speaker 2: No room. Why should somebody be eating their food, living
• 57:10
  Speaker 2: their life, and they are panicking in your heart?
• 57:13
  Speaker 3: You can't live your own life.
• 57:15
  Speaker 2: Once I started this, and sometimes God will say, start something,
• 57:19
  Speaker 2: and somebody here will start it around you. Start yours too.
• 57:22
  Speaker 2: The sky is wide enough for birds to fly. And
• 57:25
  Speaker 2: it is only in Nigeria. And I think, among the westerners,
• 57:31
  Speaker 2: that once somebody wants to start something, one of my
• 57:33
  Speaker 2: boys started to run the pharmacy. And the pharmaceutical store
• 57:37
  Speaker 2: came to meet him and said, you have to close down.
• 57:40
  Speaker 2: Because based on our rules, we can't have two pharmaceutical
• 57:43
  Speaker 2: stores in the same environment.
• 57:46
  Speaker 3: This is what has enthroned mediocrity.
• 57:50
  Speaker 2: One time I told one of my boys, I was
• 57:52
  Speaker 2: going to start the branch of their ministry.
• 57:56
  Speaker 3: And I said, there's a hall just beside our church.
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  Speaker 3: There's a hall. I said, I can't take the hall.
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  Speaker 3: I said, I'm saying there's a hall. He said, you
• 58:05
  Speaker 3: can't take the hall.
• 58:06
  Speaker 2: Okay, if a club comes to take that hall and
• 58:07
  Speaker 2: they are disturbing us, is that what gives you joy?
• 58:12
  Speaker 2: Go to the market, you see both boys all in
• 58:14
  Speaker 2: the same line, saying the same thing. And they are brothers.
• 58:18
  Speaker 2: But in ministry, it is disloyalty if you have your
• 58:20
  Speaker 2: church around my own. Because you follow me. Who brought
• 58:26
  Speaker 2: us this nonsense? Meanwhile, if a mosque comes to get
• 58:30
  Speaker 2: a place, you prefer it than for... And you don't
• 58:36
  Speaker 2: blame people, they've seen things too. They've seen things. They've
• 58:40
  Speaker 2: seen things. They've seen things. Praise God. When we get
• 58:48
  Speaker 2: out of this facility, which is a matter of days,
• 58:54
  Speaker 2: we look for a ministry that has a calling, but
• 58:59
  Speaker 2: can't afford it. And we give them. And we look
• 59:02
  Speaker 2: for equipment we can leave. And say, please take it.
• 59:07
  Speaker 2: Are you following what I'm saying? Praise God. The sky
• 59:13
  Speaker 2: is wide enough for birds to fly without ruffling feathers.
• 59:16
  Speaker 2: It's wide enough. See, this is your humility. You've learned
• 59:21
  Speaker 2: many things wrongly. Many of you, when you enter into
• 59:24
  Speaker 2: a bus, you believe you must pay for the person
• 59:26
  Speaker 2: you know. Who gave you that burden? Where is it written?
• 59:32
  Speaker 2: You feel obligated to do many things, even when it
• 59:35
  Speaker 2: implicates you. You just have that obligation. It's my younger sister,
• 59:45
  Speaker 2: my mommy's friend's younger brother's son's cousin. We can't be
• 59:50
  Speaker 2: in the same boat. Meanwhile, it is not compassion. It
• 59:55
  Speaker 2: is sense of obligation.
• 59:56
  Speaker 3: You are being robbed.
• 59:58
  Speaker 2: You are being robbed. And many of you have done it.
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 2: And you notice that there's no reward for it. Now
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 2: you're almost offended. What kind of God am I serving now? No,
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 2: he didn't send you now. You only reward what he commands.
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 2: Did he send you? Your ego sent you. Your ego
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 2: sent you. Your ego sent you. Praise God. You want
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 2: to get married, they say some people, um, um, This
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 2: is what they want. Can you afford it? No.
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 3: Tell them to drink water. I said tell them to
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 3: drink water. I said tell them to drink.
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 2: And many of the problems people face at the junction
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 2: of getting married is a problem of stupidity. You can
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 2: get married quote me anywhere with 1,000 naira.
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 3: I will join you.
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 2: Come wearing jeans and shirt. Your parents agree. Are they there?
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 3: They will sign.
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 2: No problem.
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 3: My wife is a marriage counselor.
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 2: Counsel you.
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 3: We know you.
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 2: There is no scripture that says you must wear suit.
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 2: Show me the scripture, I will resign. There is no
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 2: scripture that says you must wear wedding gown. Even what
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 2: you can afford is that. A cabin biscuit, pick at
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 2: the door if you like. If you don't like, go.
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 2: Wedding reception is calling those who are not hungry to
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 2: come and eat it. Why should you die for it?
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 2: Why should you die for it? Who sent you now?
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 2: You know who sent you? Your ego. Your ego. We
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 2: bought many things when we were getting married. I regret now.
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 2: I regret now. Because I don't have memory of any
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 2: of those things. After we finished our reception, they were
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 2: begging people on the street, come and eat. There's meat. Come, come, come.
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 3: You see that?
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 2: Praise God. Don't kill yourself. Are you following what I'm saying?
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 2: One of my, I don't want to go into details.
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 2: I was asking my wife, what does your fiance do?
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 2: She said, tell him I am a pastor. Now I
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 2: do many of that things, but because of the way
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 2: he acts, tell him I'm a pastor. I want truth.
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 2: Because of the way he was asking. And he too
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 2: is a pastor, so let's see whether we will destroy ourselves.
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 2: You want to destroy your kind. I say, pastor cannot
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 2: take care of you. I say, tell him I'm a pastor.
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 3: And that's it.
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 2: And I say, actually. You want to marry my daughter?
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 2: I say, yes. What do you do? I say, sir, actually.
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 2: I know God called me. And I'm doing it, sir.
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 2: But I'm also into... I am not ashamed of the
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 2: gospel of Christ. It is the power of God unto salvation.
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 2: I am a pastor. Is that a vocation? Paul said
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 2: in Ephesians 3 verse 1, he said, as the person
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 2: of God, I beseech you to walk worthy of the
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 2: vocation that you have received. So, being a pastor is
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 2: a walk. And if God has called you, be bold
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  Speaker 2: about it. And if anybody leave you because you are
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 2: a pastor, another one will come. Who has been praying
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 2: to marry one? See, never beg any girl to like you. Sorry, ladies.
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 2: I'm going to find one for you too, okay? No,
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 2: I will. I will balance it. Are you following what
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 2: I'm saying? The girl said she can't marry a pastor.
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 2: It is her decision. Don't beg her that God is flashy.
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 2: You have a problem God didn't create for you. You
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 2: will not recover from it. Why should you beg? The
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 2: girl said, I can't marry you because you are a pastor.
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 2: I said, I don't like you too. I thought we
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 2: are on the same page. But since we are not,
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 2: you can go. See, there are things that must be
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 2: deal breakers. One of it is you have to compromise
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 2: your calling. So you say, actually, are you following what
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 2: I'm saying here? This is a deal breaker. My wife,
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 2: I know you are wondering what I'm about to say.
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 2: I will say it. I will say it. I met
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 2: at a time I told God, anybody that will stress
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 2: me is not my wife. Stress me. Because I have
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 2: seen hell, sir. So I must see consolation. I faced hell.
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 2: I waited for two years. Two years.
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  Speaker 3: One day I got up, I said, I'm not blind,
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 3: I'm not liberal, I'm not crippled.
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  Speaker 2: I'm done. I'm not going to pass today in this
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 2: waiting journey again.
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  Speaker 3: This is the end.
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 2: So when I asked, God said, That's your wife. I
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 2: was mentoring her. I'm still mentoring her. Just that now.
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 2: She argues with me. And I said, give me your
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 2: three-year plan. Now that's the entry point. Praise God.
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 3: That's the way I entered. Give me your three-year plan.
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 3: She sent me the three-year plan.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, sir. So I sent this out. I said, we
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 2: want to marry you. You don't know what's going on.
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 2: She said, yes, sir. Forget about that one. She said, yes, sir.
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  Speaker 3: We are dealing with you.
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 2: Send the three-year plan. She was calling me. Sir, have
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 2: you seen this? I said, stay there. I read through
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 2: the three-year plan. I didn't see marriage. I said, God,
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 2: are you sure what you told me? I said, write
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 2: your five-year plan. She wrote five-year plan.
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 3: I didn't see marriage. I said, God, you can't go
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 3: straight like that.
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 2: You'll go down on your head. Experience. I said, this
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 2: one is not ready. God said, ask her. So I
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 2: went to meet her. You are a mature lady. How
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 2: come you don't have marriage in your plans? Say, because
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 2: I'm ready. Okay, I'm ready too. There's no point stressing ourselves.
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 2: You know this is the person, but you just want
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 2: to stress his life. You just want to stress him
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 2: to wait. Are you the living ones of Israel? They
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 2: have to wait for 410 years for you. You have
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 2: to wait. Any man that will merit me Must wait. See,
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 2: listen to what I'm saying. It can be God and
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 2: the person can tire out. It can be God and
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 2: the person can tire out. Many young sisters in church
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 2: have been pegged by a wrong belief system. You are
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 2: not anybody's eternal life. Nobody should wait and wait all
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 2: their life. If you know it's God, humble yourself and
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 2: say yes. Why should you stress about this one? You're saying,
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 2: keep coming, keep coming, keep pursuing after me, keep pursuing.
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 2: Let me be sure it's serious. You don't have the
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 2: Holy Ghost. If you do, those who do, hear God's
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 2: voice on time. But this one is taking you a
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 2: year to know he's the one. I mean, when they
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 2: do those things, there are about 10 people they are
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 2: comparing you with. In most cases.
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 3: You are just one of those numbers.
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 2: You see. And you are carrying Bible. I used to
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 2: like a sister. I noticed every time I go there,
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 2: I'm on cue. When I say my eyes have seen,
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 2: you think it's joke. Every time, there's no day I've
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 2: never gotten there and I'm the first person. On cue.
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 2: I said, is this sister a counselor? Is she a doctor?
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 2: Is she a sojourner? Is she seeing people? The old step,
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 2: they say, ah, pastor, you're around. Ah, he will soon
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 2: finish his side though. And the guy too come out
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 2: and say, ah, pastor, how you doing? I said, I'm fine,
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 2: I'm fine, I'm fine. I didn't come there to evangelize,
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 2: not to do anything to see this sister. Only for
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 2: me to find out that we are four. And amongst
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 2: the four of us, There was a soldier. I ran.
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 2: I ran. I ran for my life. I ran. I
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 2: didn't look back. If my wife had told me she
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 2: is the same name with that, I don't want to
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 2: mention it. The same name said with that sister, I
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 2: would have said, God, why? I ran. Four soldier. Now
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 2: you hear that they've carried apostle. God forbid. Praise God.
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 2: And many of these things are so. Because of the
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 2: depravity in the culture of Africa. You have to use
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 2: the money. You don't have to impress people who don't
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 2: like you. People borrow from apps that will send your
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 2: name to even your friends and enemies. And you borrow
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 2: to wear a gown for a party that you are
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 2: not even an invited guest. Nobody even knew you came.
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 3: But now the lone harp will now say so so
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 3: and so and so person.
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 2: And only God knows the category of people they went
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 2: to invent to be writing those messages. Because they are bad.
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 2: True or not true? You must be secure in where
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 2: God has placed you or where you are in your journey.
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 2: Praise God. I said, praise God. You must be secure
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 2: where God has worked. And where you are in your... Now,
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 2: let me say this as we move on. One of
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 2: the facts about life is that there will always be
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 2: somebody ahead of you.
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 3: Let that one bully you. And there will be those
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 3: at your level.
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 2: Relate. Okay?
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 3: And there will be those coming behind you.
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 2: Support them. You see? Don't put yourself under pressure. No.
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 2: Because your age mate, that your age mate doesn't mean
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 2: you have the same timeline. See, don't die now. Follow
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 2: this thing step by step. It takes audacity to follow
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 2: up step by step. It is not working yet, but
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 2: it will work. See right, the vision, make it put
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 2: upon the tables. That he may run, that he did it.
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 2: It will speak at the end. Every vision speaks at
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 2: the end. I saw a story by Pastor E. Adebwe
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 2: where he was talking about a day in redemption camp.
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 2: The same redemption camp. That his children, they were going
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 2: to eat that night and there was not going to
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 2: be meat. There was not going to be meat. So,
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 2: that morning, he took them on a walk and he
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 2: began to prepare them that today you are going to
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 2: learn something new.
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 3: He said, what's that?
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 2: He said, you'll be eating okra meat. He said, what?
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 3: He said, Say okra meat. They will cut okra in
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 3: big size. So you will eat it as meat.
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 2: We can't wait. Because there was no money for meat.
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 2: And while they were talking he said his dog that
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 2: went with them just ran to the bush and was
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 2: fighting something there. It was a squirrel. And the dog
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 2: killed it. So he collected the squirrel and that was
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 2: what they had that morning. It takes boldness to remain
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 2: in the midst of it. When people can look at
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 2: it and say you have failed. And say no, it
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 2: will work. This is where we are in the journey.
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 2: When you take a seed and put it in the earth,
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 2: it first dies. But that death is part of growth.
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 2: Sometimes somebody is doing something and it's doing well. Doing
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 2: amazing well working with a company. And God said, okay,
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 2: now I resign from that place and come and serve me.
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 2: And financially you may not look like you are measuring
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 2: up to the youth that used to work in that company.
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 3: But let me tell you something. You are more than
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 3: that person.
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 2: Now there is something that is definitely God whose voice
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 2: will speak at the end. Do you understand what I'm saying?
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 2: If you don't have this kind of audacity, you will
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 2: always want something that is instant, instant, instant. And what
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 2: that does is that there will be no future.
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 3: There are three ways.
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 2: For future to be. I'm just going to tell you,
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 2: of course, the foundation of it all is that you
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 2: follow God's plan. But one of it is that you
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 2: must see something true from start to finish. Be a
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 2: part of a vision. From start to finish. From start
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 2: to finish. From start to finish. Be a part of
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 2: a vision. Sometimes I go online and I stumble on
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 2: pictures of people in their small days, with Pastor Chris,
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 2: and you look at them. It takes audacity to know
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 2: it will work. And to stay there. And to what?
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 2: Now somebody can come to the church now. And say.
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 2: Is this where they are using Abuja? Oh this, this, this.
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 2: I can't stay here. But give us two weeks. See.
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 2: My life is a demonstration that everything works. I hope
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 2: that I've saved you. When God said go to Abuja,
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 2: I didn't have any headache. There's no headache about getting
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 2: any venue to impress anybody. I can start anywhere, including Palo.
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 2: And we'll live stream. Because this voice is for nations.
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 2: And we'll share pictures. One time our church collapsed and
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 2: it was heap of sand everywhere. That's where we're doing service.
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 2: We'll do worship and praise. You'll be seeing sand. That
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 2: is where We are doing it. You see, because many
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 2: people don't have past record. You know why?
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 3: They have deleted it out of fear. They have deleted
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 3: it out of fear.
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 2: And they lie.
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 3: Have you seen children that lie about their mother? I
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 3: say that's our household.
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 2: They lie. Because they want to conform. They want to
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 2: be like. See, there's no way I can't start church.
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 2: That's the thing you don't know about me. There's no way.
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 2: Put me in the sun with chair, I will start
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 2: a church there. As God said, and you will see
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 2: that place with one guy who is wearing funny clothes.
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 2: That place will become a place where thousands will come
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 2: and sit down. I see. Do you understand what I'm saying?
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 2: Audacity to stay with it till it grows. To stay
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 2: with it till it grows. To stay with it till
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 2: it grows. And you are not buried in between. You
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 2: are not dying in between. There is no depression. There
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 2: is nothing. We just keep enjoying everything. I am too
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 2: aware that a generation will see this and say, I
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 2: trust God too. Everything you are part of now is
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 2: an amazing throwback. You will be glad you are a
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 2: part of this move. Now it looks so normal. But
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 2: you will sit down, remember these days, and say, thank God!
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 2: Consider it a privilege. And enjoy it. Look around. Everything
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 2: you see here is too brief. Too brief. Now, how
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 2: do I speak with this kind of confidence? Because I know.
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 2: I know him who have sent me. I know. First
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 2: week here, we look for a house in this Abuja. We.
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 2: If you are not careful, you say, I go back
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 2: to my village. One time, one man said, we speak
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 2: the same language as this. The man said, I have 2.5
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 2: million on top of the house rent. I said, my God.
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 2: My God. In this city. God bless you, sir. And
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 2: I told my wife. I said, people might be looking online. See,
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 2: I have no business making impressions on anyone. I said,
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 2: I'm ready to go and buy students' room. All the ladies,
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 2: they will go and sleep somewhere. Alright? We've already settled
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 2: for one hour. Go and sleep there. We'll be inside
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 2: this place. We'll be sleeping and waking up and doing ministry.
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 2: I have no business trying to get scared that.
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 3: Ah, they will hold me.
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 2: Who am I? Who am I? Who am I? Let
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 2: this generation not break the pattern of process because you
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 2: want to give impression. That you are in process doesn't
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 2: mean you are failing. I saw a video that interested
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 2: me during the week by our pastor in Ibadan. And
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 2: I loved the video. He got up from the reception
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 2: and he walked to the church and.
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 3: I said, yes, this is my boy.
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 2: I love him. So I love this video. I can't
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 2: take that kind of video here because we don't have
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 2: those kind of things here. And I'm not failing. And
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 2: this place explode. Bam! If I'm training you, you can't pastor.
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 2: We believe in our product here. Say, because it's Abuja,
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 2: I must build one there. Never. God said the next
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 2: place is Kano.
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 3: Kano I go. Abuja I see you once in a while.
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 2: And it can't die. And it can't go down. Same
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 2: effect everywhere. Come on. Let's stop all this nonsense. When
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 2: we came here, all of us were sweeping this place
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 2: and I said in a matter of days we are
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 2: going to our next venue. It's 16 million there are,
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 2: not 16 billion. If by now we can't do 16 million,
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 2: what have we been doing? I said the money will come.
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 2: I don't have any iota of here. I said I
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 2: don't have. Nothing about this ministry has kept me awake
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 2: and thinking at night that I can't sleep. Nothing. Say
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 2: I can't sleep. I will pray.
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 3: And I will sleep.
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 2: And I will eat.
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 3: And fast when I need to fast.
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 2: I can't have high blood pressure because of the church
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 2: of Jesus. Is it my church? Is it my church?
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 2: You don't understand what I'm telling you yet. I'm saying
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 2: if this Bible study is to be holding in my power,
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 2: we will live stream. And we will enjoy the process.
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 2: Our joy is not because we're expanding. Our joy is
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 2: because we're in His will. And the courage to stay
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 2: there when it doesn't look like, that is what is cast.
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 2: Are you following what I'm saying here? Maybe because I'm
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 2: wearing suit, you feel, I'm rugged, sir.
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 3: There's no village I can't pass on. Put me anywhere.
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 3: Are you following what I'm saying here?
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 2: Very, very important. So you don't kill yourself because something
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 2: has not come to the time issue. Our church, our ministry,
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 2: we started 24th of august 2014 as a discipleship group
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 2: we had our first keyboard now this will shock you
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 2: the first time sphere of light church will ever release
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 2: money to go and buy a keyboard was 2020 six
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 2: years after 20 i told them keyboard is not my
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 2: priority is there a mic to preach yes go and
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 2: buy a keyboard is there a mic to preach yes
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 2: now it's not like the money we could not have
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 2: bought but We bought our first sound five years after.
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 2: Somebody heard my message. It was full.
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 3: We used to record.
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 2: I said, this message is too deep for it not
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 2: to be clear. I said, I'll send money. And the
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 2: fellow sent 200,000. We added 150. We bought mixer amp,
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 2: two speakers, microphone, generator, another level. And we enjoyed every process.
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 2: One time I was using a phone. The phone would
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 2: not pick network in my house. I would have to
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 2: go to the streets to search for network. And I
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 2: was preaching to thousands on telegram. And nobody knew. You
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 2: don't have to look like your level. You don't have
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 2: to look like your problem. Do this thing with excitement.
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 2: And one time, one of my boys in Lagos picked
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 2: it up and felt, let's help this man.
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 3: And he walked to my room with a brand new phone.
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 2: Hi.
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 3: I thank him.
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 2: One time, we were going to go and do apostolic
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 2: work in Lagos. For like a month plus. Everybody in
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 2: the ministry contributed money. I said, our pastor is going.
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 2: I thought about partnership before I went. So you can
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 2: partner with your man of God. So they partnered. Every
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 2: partnership totaled to 54,000. So I said, okay, this thing
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 2: can be used gradually, transport and all those things. But
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 2: I also need a good phone so I can be
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 2: communicating with them. So I called Pastor Henry. I said,
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 2: let's go to Computer Village. Okay. This is a story that...
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 2: So we went to Computer Village. And I met a guy.
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 2: I didn't know that Computer Village just entered the store
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 2: you want to. Don't let anybody meet you. So the
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 2: guy said, I know this phone you want. He said,
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  Speaker 2: let me shock you. He said, I will... Do you
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 2: know Computer Village? He said, there's a phone that I
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 2: can give you now. And that phone is so powerful,
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 2: it will charge other phones. I said, you don't mean it.
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  Speaker 2: He said, it's true. He said, it's true. I said,
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  Speaker 2: let's go there. He took us through different corners and
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 2: corners and brought out this phone.
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  Speaker 3: I said, we mentioned the amount. I said, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 3: you can't.
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  Speaker 2: I priced it. The phone worked well until I got home.
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 2: When I got home and first I was pressing the touchscreen,
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 2: I have to press up and the guy was not traceable.
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 2: I struggled with that phone for over a year. And
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 2: I gave to one of my boys. He began to
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  Speaker 2: grow lean. I said, I've given this boy the problem
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 2: of his life. He began to grow lean. One time again,
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 2: we went to Oyo, to his place. God said, go
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  Speaker 2: to Oyo again, go and raise me an altar in Oyo.
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 2: We went to Oyo, we went. In his house, then,
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 2: you have to make a choice. Sit down, don't let
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  Speaker 2: them know you. Because they must not know what I'm
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 2: about to say. You have to make a choice. And
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 2: the choice is a difficult one. You will choose for
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 2: the night. Do you want breeze? Alright? And plenty mosquito. Or,
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 2: no mosquito, but it's a cell room. So we're oscillating.
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 2: Today we'll say breeze. But by the time it's 3am,
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  Speaker 2: it will look as though they flogged you. But that's
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 2: where you could afford. One time I said I want
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 2: to use the toilet. He said, ah, pastor, we'll have
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 2: to walk. Where we walk to is more than from
• 1:23:13
  Speaker 2: here to Jabi. I said, are we not going to visit?
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 2: He said, ah. He said, it's even because it's you.
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 2: What did we go to do there? Ministry. That was
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  Speaker 2: where we were. Do you understand what I'm saying? Maybe
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 2: now I'm going to any of our centers and I
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 2: book hotel, they book hotel for me and they are
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 2: getting hotel of certain amount. One day I'm going to
• 1:23:46
  Speaker 2: get it. Oh God, there's a process. There's a process.
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 2: There's a process. And the thing is that you have
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  Speaker 2: to enjoy the process. Don't mourn it. Enjoy it. Don't
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 2: mourn it. Enjoy it. I can't see. I've heard Bichobo
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  Speaker 2: Edepo and his father say that they have never borrowed. Me,
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 2: I've sent my boys to go and collect credit of SPAG.
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  Speaker 2: So is it to them I'll say we have never borrowed?
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  Speaker 2: We have. Because I've met some of them for a
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  Speaker 2: long time. SPAG. Credit. Tell them.
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  Speaker 3: They will write.
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  Speaker 2: It. They have a separate note for me. I owe you.
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 2: And the woman know once it's SPAG.
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 3: They say don't go here. He's pastor.
• 1:24:28
  Speaker 2: Then pepper terror. Two. Then egg and then say that's
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 2: pastor's ration so he will pay so by now we
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 2: are borrowed in fact before when we want to do
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 2: program everybody will start getting angry because we are going
• 1:24:46
  Speaker 2: to collect ATMs we will donate our ATM 1525 some
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 2: parents will say don't ever go near my children we
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 2: look like problem but it takes audacity to continue You
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 2: must continue. You must continue. You must continue. You must continue.
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 2: You must continue. You can't give up. You can't shut
• 1:25:09
  Speaker 2: it down. You can't stop it. And people sometimes feel
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 2: that maybe those who have certain things to show are
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 2: showing it because they have things to show. They would
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 2: have shown if there is nothing to show. Are you
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 2: following what I'm saying here? Don't let anybody put you
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  Speaker 2: under any undue.
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  Speaker 3: Pressure of anything.
• 1:25:26
  Speaker 2: You need audacity. You need audacity. There's nothing.
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 3: I'm telling you.
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  Speaker 2: See, the moment you become free from opinion, that's true freedom.
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 2: There's nothing that puts me under pressure. Eventually, we go.
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 2: And we enjoy every step of the way. Are you
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 2: following what I'm saying? And see, in our ministry, we
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 2: put out plans and say, we are going to do this.
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 2: At first, it will look like, how will this be done?
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 2: Until it is done. Until it is done. Until it
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 2: is done. Don't shut down that walk because you are
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 2: talking to one person. Speak to that one person like
• 1:26:04
  Speaker 2: you are talking to nations. No ministry is failing because
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 2: of numbers.
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 3: You must understand. People are potentials and they are seeds.
• 1:26:13
  Speaker 2: Do it and serve. One time in that ministry, my
• 1:26:16
  Speaker 2: room was the parlor, was the everything. We have leaders meeting.
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 2: Everybody will sit like witchcraft. Witchcraft. They will sit, arrange
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 2: themselves from the bed. You see leg line up like
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 2: it's a coven. And that is where we were. That
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 2: was where we were. Before they will come out and
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 2: pack everything and put them corner corner boxers. Put somewhere
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 2: this one and that. They must not see this one
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 2: and that one and cover. That was where we were.
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 2: Are you full on yourself? You will never know. Don't
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 2: mourn process. If you know that the future is bright,
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 2: you will have rest today. The reason you are agitated
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 2: is because you are not sure of the future. In fact,
• 1:26:56
  Speaker 2: you'll be excited about documenting the throwbacks because you know
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 2: it will come. You will walk with that sense of
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 2: precision and accuracy because you know it will happen. Praise God.
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 2: I said praise God. And let me give you very
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 2: important points to note. Very, very important points to note.
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 2: And you must stay there and stay with it. Never
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 2: let anything put you under pressure. I have stories to
• 1:27:22
  Speaker 2: tell you, man. I have stories to tell you. Praise God.
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 2: Now let me give you five aspects of your life
• 1:27:34
  Speaker 2: where you need to be audacious. Number one. It takes
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 2: audacity to commence what God has placed in your hands.
• 1:27:44
  Speaker 2: Before you can talk about doing it, you have to start.
• 1:27:47
  Speaker 2: And sometimes people have fear of commencement. And sometimes starting
• 1:27:51
  Speaker 2: is the most difficult part. But you must start anyways.
• 1:27:56
  Speaker 2: And listen, here is the mistake you make. Fear. Don't
• 1:27:59
  Speaker 2: wait for fear to leave before you start. Start afraid.
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 2: Fear will die somewhere in between. Start afraid. Many of
• 1:28:06
  Speaker 2: the things I announce, I announce them without thinking. So
• 1:28:10
  Speaker 2: it becomes too late to think.
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  Speaker 3: They're already announced.
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  Speaker 2: Start! Every business God placed in your heart, you never did.
• 1:28:21
  Speaker 2: The books he says you write, you didn't write them.
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 2: Sometimes the things he asks you to, people they ask
• 1:28:27
  Speaker 2: you to call, you never call them. And you wonder
• 1:28:28
  Speaker 2: why you are behind. You never commenced. The way God
• 1:28:32
  Speaker 2: killed fear of commencement in my heart was the day
• 1:28:34
  Speaker 2: I had to start selling Indomie by the roadside. Close
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 2: to the same church where they have... treated me bad.
• 1:28:41
  Speaker 3: And they will pass and say, we knew you would
• 1:28:43
  Speaker 3: end up like this.
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 2: The same people who said, I don't follow him because
• 1:28:46
  Speaker 2: the ministry will not survive six months. It was close
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 2: to that same church. I had to go and start
• 1:28:50
  Speaker 2: Indomie business by the roadside. And how do you want
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 2: to explain that? And when they were passing, nobody came
• 1:28:56
  Speaker 2: to even say, ah, pastor, what are you doing here?
• 1:28:59
  Speaker 2: They were laughing. But that only came to pass. That's
• 1:29:03
  Speaker 2: not the end. And the fact that I could survive,
• 1:29:06
  Speaker 2: they passed, I didn't die. No stain. So it's just
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 2: their impression. I went back again. And I was able
• 1:29:13
  Speaker 2: to gather the money and therefore that face and survive.
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 2: It was better than begging. Those who can't give me
• 1:29:18
  Speaker 2: when I'm in need cannot determine what I do. If
• 1:29:22
  Speaker 2: I ask you to borrow me, will you borrow me? No.
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 3: So why should I be afraid of? Are you following
• 1:29:26
  Speaker 3: what I'm saying here? I said I stole noodles.
• 1:29:29
  Speaker 2: Indomie. With apron. With egg. And tea. Whether what you
• 1:29:34
  Speaker 2: call advanced Meshai. I don't know. And when that place
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 2: was over, it was over. Now we don't look like
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 2: what we have been through. Praise God.
• 1:29:50
  Speaker 3: Number two.
• 1:29:52
  Speaker 2: It takes for that city to survive process. Process, I
• 1:29:55
  Speaker 2: know I've given you a lot of things in between.
• 1:29:57
  Speaker 2: Process comes with its own challenges. With its own sense
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 2: of intimidation. Are you following what I'm saying here? And
• 1:30:07
  Speaker 2: sometimes process comes with uncertainty. Turn your Bibles with me.
• 1:30:12
  Speaker 2: Deuteronomy chapter number 8. We'll start the reading from verse 2.
• 1:30:15
  Speaker 2: Deuteronomy chapter number 8. Now very, very popular scripture. Deuteronomy
• 1:30:20
  Speaker 2: chapter number 8. We'll start the reading from verse 2.
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 2: Deuteronomy chapter number 8 from verse 2.
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  Speaker 3: Now, very interesting scripture.
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  Speaker 2: If you are there, say Amen. Now look at it.
• 1:30:33
  Speaker 2: He said, Now you shall remember the way which the
• 1:30:35
  Speaker 2: Lord your God led you these 40 years in the wilderness.
• 1:30:38
  Speaker 2: Now there is a wilderness experience. What does he do?
• 1:30:40
  Speaker 2: To humble you. To prove you. To know what is
• 1:30:43
  Speaker 2: in your heart. Whether you will keep his commandment or not.
• 1:30:45
  Speaker 2: Said he humbled you. And suffered you to hunger. And
• 1:30:48
  Speaker 2: then fed you with manna. Which you know not. Neither
• 1:30:50
  Speaker 2: did your fathers know. That he might make you know.
• 1:30:52
  Speaker 2: That man does not live by bread only. But by
• 1:30:54
  Speaker 2: every word that proceeds from the mouth of God. Meaning that.
• 1:30:56
  Speaker 2: The days of process is to teach you how to
• 1:30:59
  Speaker 2: live by the word. It is to teach you that
• 1:31:01
  Speaker 2: your greatest asset is what he has said. Not any promise.
• 1:31:05
  Speaker 2: I heard Pastor Chris was sharing one time. That their
• 1:31:08
  Speaker 2: ministry started. And they went to Benin. A man promised
• 1:31:11
  Speaker 2: them to Port-a-Court. I remember we saw that story. The
• 1:31:15
  Speaker 2: man promised them that he's going to give them some money.
• 1:31:17
  Speaker 2: They will go every time. If you hear everybody's story,
• 1:31:21
  Speaker 2: there's no one who doesn't have a story of their process.
• 1:31:25
  Speaker 2: So enjoy yours. See process as an opportunity to have
• 1:31:30
  Speaker 2: a story and craft it well. You may not determine
• 1:31:34
  Speaker 2: other people's impression and their action, but you can determine
• 1:31:38
  Speaker 2: yours because the stories will be told or never to
• 1:31:41
  Speaker 2: be told.
• 1:31:43
  Speaker 3: It is those who win that their stories are told.
• 1:31:47
  Speaker 2: That's the truth. The best stories might not be said
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 2: yet because they gave up. And the fact that it
• 1:31:53
  Speaker 2: is interesting doesn't mean it will be told. You must finish.
• 1:31:57
  Speaker 2: That is how to archive it.
• 1:31:59
  Speaker 3: You must finish.
• 1:32:00
  Speaker 2: Tell your neighbor you must finish. I'm telling you sir,
• 1:32:03
  Speaker 2: be stubborn enough to finish. Survive this process. Are you
• 1:32:07
  Speaker 2: following what I'm saying here?
• 1:32:08
  Speaker 3: Be stubborn to finish.
• 1:32:12
  Speaker 2: Wherever you are, fill that place with the glory of
• 1:32:14
  Speaker 2: God through worship. Be grateful. Be glad and rejoice. Thank
• 1:32:17
  Speaker 2: Him for what you have. You can afford to eat
• 1:32:19
  Speaker 2: once in a day. Convert the rest to intermittent fasting.
• 1:32:23
  Speaker 2: And enjoy it. And giving God thanks. Giving God thanks.
• 1:32:28
  Speaker 2: Giving God thanks. Recently I took the guys on excursion
• 1:32:33
  Speaker 2: to one of the houses I've lived.
• 1:32:36
  Speaker 3: And as we went there, I began to ask myself,
• 1:32:38
  Speaker 3: how did I live In this place.
• 1:32:40
  Speaker 2: For how many years? How did I survive this place?
• 1:32:45
  Speaker 2: You can be too much in love with God. You
• 1:32:46
  Speaker 2: don't even know the process. Just enjoy it every day
• 1:32:49
  Speaker 2: as it comes.
• 1:32:50
  Speaker 3: Enjoy it.
• 1:32:50
  Speaker 2: Don't mourn it. Enough of mourning. Enjoy it. Praise God.
• 1:32:56
  Speaker 2: And it takes audacity. You will lose friends and lose
• 1:32:59
  Speaker 2: people who don't understand your journey. But maintain the road.
• 1:33:03
  Speaker 2: Number three. It takes audacity to break the box and
• 1:33:07
  Speaker 2: set standards. To break out of the box. It takes
• 1:33:12
  Speaker 2: audacity to break out of the box and set standards.
• 1:33:15
  Speaker 2: Now listen to what I'm saying. The journey to excellence
• 1:33:18
  Speaker 2: or attempt to be excellent is or can be a
• 1:33:22
  Speaker 2: very lonely journey. The journey to excellence or attempt to
• 1:33:26
  Speaker 2: be excellent can be a very lonely journey because people
• 1:33:29
  Speaker 2: will not understand your tenacity, your strength, your grief and
• 1:33:32
  Speaker 2: the reason why you are doing what you are doing.
• 1:33:34
  Speaker 2: And sometimes if you have built yourself to live on
• 1:33:36
  Speaker 2: people's opinions, You will feel alone most of the times.
• 1:33:39
  Speaker 2: But we must understand, that is the part of patriarchs.
• 1:33:42
  Speaker 2: That is the part of patriarchs. Once you want to
• 1:33:45
  Speaker 2: set a standard, you want to break out of the box.
• 1:33:47
  Speaker 2: Be ready to walk alone. Till the vision invites people.
• 1:33:50
  Speaker 2: Are you following what I'm saying here? There are people
• 1:33:54
  Speaker 2: who tell you that your own is too much. They
• 1:33:57
  Speaker 2: feel it is too much because they don't have the
• 1:33:59
  Speaker 2: same fervor and the same zeal. Maintain your pace.
• 1:34:02
  Speaker 3: Are you following what I'm saying here?
• 1:34:04
  Speaker 2: Very important. Very important. It takes audacity to break out
• 1:34:10
  Speaker 2: of the box. It is easy to do what everybody
• 1:34:12
  Speaker 2: is doing. But to become unique takes grace. And you
• 1:34:17
  Speaker 2: must be bold. Because people criticize what they don't know.
• 1:34:22
  Speaker 2: For many years in this nation, there was one man
• 1:34:24
  Speaker 2: of God. I won't mention his name. Almost all pastors
• 1:34:27
  Speaker 2: were criticizing him. Worst case was when they got divorced.
• 1:34:31
  Speaker 2: It was a mistake in almost every church. But there
• 1:34:34
  Speaker 2: is a doggedness to stand up. To getness. To stand.
• 1:34:40
  Speaker 2: Having done all. Stand. And when you are surviving insult
• 1:34:48
  Speaker 2: and annihilation. Survive it in love.
• 1:34:52
  Speaker 3: Survive it in love.
• 1:34:53
  Speaker 2: Praise God.
• 1:34:55
  Speaker 3: Are you with me? I said praise God. Is this
• 1:34:58
  Speaker 3: delivering somebody from something?
• 1:35:02
  Speaker 2: Number four. You need audacity to try again. You only
• 1:35:07
  Speaker 2: try again when you have failed before. Or you can
• 1:35:10
  Speaker 2: go back again. Failure is when you stop. Not because
• 1:35:14
  Speaker 2: it didn't work. Failure is when you call it quit.
• 1:35:17
  Speaker 2: Do you understand what I'm saying? You need audacity to
• 1:35:21
  Speaker 2: do what? Try again. It doesn't matter what the records are.
• 1:35:26
  Speaker 2: You can get it right and get back to the rink.
• 1:35:29
  Speaker 2: Somebody said you are not a champion just by the
• 1:35:31
  Speaker 2: number of punches you can give the enemy. But how
• 1:35:34
  Speaker 2: many punches can you withstand? There are people who are
• 1:35:38
  Speaker 2: loud until there's one punch. Very loud. Just one issue. See,
• 1:35:45
  Speaker 2: for some of us who have been through all this fire,
• 1:35:48
  Speaker 2: there's a way you become very rugged. But you cannot
• 1:35:51
  Speaker 2: be prepared for what is coming next year.
• 1:35:53
  Speaker 3: It will still check you somehow.
• 1:35:55
  Speaker 2: True. There's a way you talk when you don't have experience.
• 1:36:00
  Speaker 2: Praise God. I said praise God. Somebody is trying again.
• 1:36:06
  Speaker 2: You've asked six sisters out. All of them gave you
• 1:36:08
  Speaker 2: a yes. Gave you a no. Your wife can still
• 1:36:10
  Speaker 2: be around. Go again. Go again.
• 1:36:13
  Speaker 3: Don't say from now I become like Kapo so and
• 1:36:16
  Speaker 3: so and so.
• 1:36:16
  Speaker 2: No.
• 1:36:17
  Speaker 3: I don't mention name. You are the one that laugh.
• 1:36:18
  Speaker 2: It's your business.
• 1:36:20
  Speaker 3: Go again.
• 1:36:21
  Speaker 2: Don't give yourself a calling that God give you because
• 1:36:23
  Speaker 2: sisters are saying no to you. Go again. Your wife
• 1:36:27
  Speaker 2: is somewhere waiting hoping you will come. True. You've done business.
• 1:36:31
  Speaker 2: It crashed. It didn't work. Do another one. See, there
• 1:36:34
  Speaker 2: are people who keep walking. You can't do it to
• 1:36:36
  Speaker 2: keep them down. They just can't stop. I like such people.
• 1:36:42
  Speaker 2: They just won't stop. You hit them, they get up.
• 1:36:45
  Speaker 2: You push them, they get up. It crashes, they come up.
• 1:36:48
  Speaker 2: Say one thing, say I want to go and drink poison. Poison?
• 1:36:54
  Speaker 2: You want to put inside what, pepper soup or what?
• 1:36:57
  Speaker 2: So you want to die sweet or you want to
• 1:36:59
  Speaker 2: die how? Why should you die when you can live?
• 1:37:06
  Speaker 2: And the Lord says, it has happened, it has happened.
• 1:37:09
  Speaker 2: While they are mourning, the Lord will say, this fellow
• 1:37:11
  Speaker 2: is gone now. You can help me get custard. It's painful,
• 1:37:15
  Speaker 2: but custard, make sure there's milk. Please, make sure there's milk.
• 1:37:18
  Speaker 2: And then that fried fish, let them put it inside stew.
• 1:37:22
  Speaker 3: That's how they celebrate your exit. But never, don't throw
• 1:37:25
  Speaker 3: in the towel.
• 1:37:28
  Speaker 2: Bounce back and bounce back well. Say that the enemy
• 1:37:33
  Speaker 2: may punch me, but I will keep getting up. I
• 1:37:36
  Speaker 2: will keep getting up. I will keep getting up. I
• 1:37:40
  Speaker 2: will keep getting up. I will keep getting up. I
• 1:37:44
  Speaker 2: will keep getting up. You must have that kind of tenacity.
• 1:37:49
  Speaker 2: That kind of tenacity. You need a taste of stubbornness
• 1:37:53
  Speaker 2: to survive this life. Be stubborn enough in a good
• 1:37:55
  Speaker 2: way now to keep going. To keep going. Praise God.
• 1:38:00
  Speaker 2: Sometimes when we run service before, when we run service,
• 1:38:03
  Speaker 2: we know all the fairies will not come back. We know.
• 1:38:06
  Speaker 2: When we are saying first, we know that they will
• 1:38:08
  Speaker 2: not come back because we have shown them paper. We
• 1:38:11
  Speaker 2: knew how the praise and worship went. One time we
• 1:38:14
  Speaker 2: went to collect drum from Baba Luku. He said, the
• 1:38:19
  Speaker 2: drum he wants to give us now is electric drum.
• 1:38:20
  Speaker 2: I should have known. I should have known. So I said,
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  Speaker 2: no problem. I too, I thought, ah, 45, electric drum,
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  Speaker 2: bring it. When they beat the thing, they do, twa, twa, twa, ah!
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  Speaker 2: We knew, I see, I sat down, as we were
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  Speaker 2: coming first time, I just feel my arms laughing.
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  Speaker 3: I said, these ones I'm seeing, they will not come back.
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  Speaker 3: I was not, they didn't come back.
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  Speaker 2: I knew. I knew. Do you understand? We keep running service,
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  Speaker 2: we'll go again. We will go again. This service, we'll
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  Speaker 2: do another service. Closing ministry. Let's close it. Close what?
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  Speaker 2: This one will work. Praise God. It only opens for
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  Speaker 2: those who don't stop.
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  Speaker 3: You need to be audacious to try again.
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  Speaker 2: Praise God.
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  Speaker 3: Are you with me?
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  Speaker 2: Somebody needs to go back to what God has called
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  Speaker 2: you to That you stopped because you felt you were
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  Speaker 2: not adequate. Go back!
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  Speaker 3: And try again.
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  Speaker 2: People will push you with their opinions and tell you
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  Speaker 2: you are not good enough.
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  Speaker 3: Go back.
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  Speaker 2: Just keep bouncing back. Are you aware that there are
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  Speaker 2: ministers who don't enjoy listening to their own messages? They
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  Speaker 2: hate the way their voice sounds. Nations can't hear you
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  Speaker 2: if you hate to hear yourself. Are you following what
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  Speaker 2: I'm saying there? It's a bad habit. Stop it. You
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  Speaker 2: can't help me fall in love with what I've not
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  Speaker 2: fallen in love with. How can you be insecure about
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  Speaker 2: it and I like it? You think I'm doing you
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  Speaker 2: a favor for liking it? Are you following what I'm saying?
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  Speaker 2: Go back. And I shared the story of how I
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  Speaker 2: read from the book of Steve Alcovey that those who
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  Speaker 2: are different in what they do must have done for
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  Speaker 2: at least 10,000 hours. You are tired. God is your strength.
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  Speaker 2: And I began to preach to the wall. I said
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  Speaker 2: I will cover 10,000 hours. Preaching to the wall, preaching
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  Speaker 2: to the wall, preaching to the wall. Somebody said, I
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  Speaker 2: heard my message. He said, it's boring. No problem. Hear
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  Speaker 2: another one. Hear. And I said, look at what they said.
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  Speaker 2: I said, God didn't call me to. Hear, hear. One
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  Speaker 2: tear will not drop. We keep doing this thing because
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  Speaker 2: the devil will come as the voice of men to
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  Speaker 2: try to stop you. When Peter said to Jesus, you
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  Speaker 2: will not die. Jesus did not say, I rebuke you, Peter.
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  Speaker 2: He said, get behind me, Satan. Sometimes it's the devil speaking,
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  Speaker 2: not the people. Start again. They say, with all these
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  Speaker 2: things you have seen now, you can't bounce back.
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  Speaker 3: Bounce back.
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  Speaker 2: Even Samson, the hair grew. Even Samson. Even Samson. The
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  Speaker 2: hair grew. Even Samson. What have you done? What mistake
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  Speaker 2: did you make? What can't God forgive? And you stand
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  Speaker 2: there and you are sobbing because you feel you have
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  Speaker 2: made a mistake. Bounce back. Bounce back. The endless expectation
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  Speaker 2: of creation waits for the manifestation of sons of God.
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  Speaker 2: There are those whose life is tied to your manifestation.
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  Speaker 2: You must get up and refuse to be knocked down.
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  Speaker 2: Praise God. Are you with me now? Somebody broke your heart,
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  Speaker 2: love again. You broke somebody's heart, repent.
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  Speaker 3: Then love well.
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  Speaker 2: Praise God.
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  Speaker 3: Some of you have served breakfast. You have professional server.
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  Speaker 2: Hotspot. depends than love number five you need audacity to
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  Speaker 2: be different takes courage not to look like everyone else
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  Speaker 2: takes courage not to think like everyone else takes courage
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  Speaker 2: not to talk like everyone else it takes courage not
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  Speaker 2: to see things the way they see it it takes
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  Speaker 2: courage you must keep moving nothing must stop you Now,
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  Speaker 2: hear what I'm saying. Somebody said that you just came
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  Speaker 2: to Abuja in February. Now you are talking about changing venue.
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  Speaker 2: We will. And I said that you will have less
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  Speaker 2: than a week here. Do you understand what I'm saying?
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  Speaker 2: These words have never fallen to the ground. And listen
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  Speaker 2: to what I'm saying. The part that you have in
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  Speaker 2: the 16 million, you will drop. Because it's not just
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  Speaker 2: yes sir. The part I have, I will drop. But
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  Speaker 2: that we will do this thing in small ways. A
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  Speaker 2: lot of the devil.
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  Speaker 2: Don't let people convince you that maintain the fire but
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  Speaker 2: keep it small. What's the essence? I showed you a
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  Speaker 2: story this morning in PPC. That a wise poor man
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  Speaker 2: delivered a city. But his story was not told. Nobody
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  Speaker 2: remembered him. You must know how to combine all that
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  Speaker 2: is for you in Christ. We are getting out of
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  Speaker 2: this place. Because hear what I'm saying. Some of you,
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  Speaker 2: your husband is not here of this size. Some of you,
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  Speaker 2: your wife is not here. You are just looking up
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  Speaker 2: and down. But we must press. You, because you are
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  Speaker 2: getting married soon. I know you don't. That's what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 2: His wife is in the abutibadon. You hear what I'm
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  Speaker 2: saying now? That's the truth. Every time we expand, we
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  Speaker 2: expand to accommodate ingredients of people's destiny. It is not
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  Speaker 2: just for nothing. Hence, we keep doing it. Praise God.
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  Speaker 2: I don't mind starting small, but I can't remain small.
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  Speaker 2: I'm allergic to it. And you must be allergic to
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  Speaker 2: it too. Praise God. Now, we have raised the banner
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  Speaker 2: this morning. 16 million NERA projects. We don't need more
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  Speaker 2: than 16 people to give a million NERA each, plus myself.
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  Speaker 3: That's all.
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  Speaker 2: We are done. I'm not saying what I'm saying by faith.
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  Speaker 2: Get 15 people today, tomorrow we pay, and we are done.
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  Speaker 2: One million NERA each, we've completed. And get what I'm saying,
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  Speaker 2: one million is not a big disser. Do you understand
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  Speaker 2: what I'm saying? It is not a what? How many
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  Speaker 2: of you are here now? If I can count 1
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  Speaker 2: to 15, we are done. No more announcements. We have
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  Speaker 2: our Festival of Life anniversary next month, towards the end
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  Speaker 2: of next month. You all, I'm carrying you to a battle,
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  Speaker 2: whether you believe it or not. Whether you believe it
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  Speaker 2: or not. You would have landed before you know. But
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  Speaker 2: I have told you. Hear me. I was praying.
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  Speaker 3: God said, go and start another branch for me before
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  Speaker 3: the meeting.
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  Speaker 2: Now, it is not a worry. The one who has
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  Speaker 2: called it will provide it. we want to clever this
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  Speaker 2: one Lagos church they are getting the venue of millions
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  Speaker 2: of Naira they are doing projects of millions Abuja 16
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  Speaker 2: million how shall these things be the Holy Ghost praise
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  Speaker 2: God I said praise God it's the season and if
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  Speaker 2: you have issue with being bold watch me you will
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  Speaker 2: catch the spirit you will you will You just have
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  Speaker 2: to be around enough. You just notice that fear has died.
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  Speaker 2: I'm telling you. You look for it. This same thing
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  Speaker 2: with me. You can't find it again.
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  Speaker 3: Praise God. I said praise God. God told us when
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  Speaker 3: we were coming.
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  Speaker 2: He said we are coming to erase the functionaries of
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  Speaker 2: his plan in this city. In this city.
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  Speaker 3: That's why we are here.
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  Speaker 2: First week we have issues trying to get accommodation. I
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  Speaker 2: stood in the office space. He said, look out.
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  Speaker 3: I looked out.
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  Speaker 2: He said, I will give you a city within this city.
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  Speaker 2: A city within this city. Tell me a city. So
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  Speaker 2: when God tells you that, 16 million is not what
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  Speaker 2: is keeping you awake at night. Nonsense.
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  Speaker 3: Nonsense.
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  Speaker 2: One time I was preaching in church and I said,
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  Speaker 2: we want to do a project. I said, we should
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  Speaker 2: give those who have 200,000, we should give. And God said,
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  Speaker 2: it's not only to your mind. So I said, if
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  Speaker 2: you have a million, give. People got on your chat online. Say,
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  Speaker 2: when you mentioned a million, I knew it was me.
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  Speaker 3: And then you got to give.
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  Speaker 2: Praise God. There are people who can give 10 million.
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  Speaker 2: I said, is it a project?
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  Speaker 3: It's led.
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  Speaker 2: And you'll be that person. Now, I said now, you'll
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  Speaker 2: be that person. You will never be stranded. You will
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  Speaker 2: never be stranded. Now, one of the ways to join
• 1:46:34
  Speaker 2: to poverty is to be hungry when you hear church projects.
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  Speaker 2: You must be happy. It's that time God expand the
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  Speaker 2: muscle of his children. Praise God. I said, praise God.
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  Speaker 2: Somebody is doing something, you drop out of school, receive
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  Speaker 2: correct to go back to school. Don't drop out and say,
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  Speaker 2: I'm out now. Where do I start from? Start from
• 1:46:51
  Speaker 2: where you stopped. Start. You can always pick yourself up
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  Speaker 2: and start. True? If you have started three years ago,
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  Speaker 2: by now you are almost done. So start now. Say,
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  Speaker 2: next three years you are done. Never let anything keep
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  Speaker 2: you down never let anything keep you down never let
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  Speaker 2: anything keep you keep moving never stop I said keep
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  Speaker 2: moving I said keep moving we are building 100,000 capacity
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  Speaker 2: tents as though we are building a poultry pen now
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  Speaker 2: that's capacity instead it looks like we are building poultry
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  Speaker 2: pen there's no pressure nothing in this place there's no
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  Speaker 2: pressure now I thought we were going to be here
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  Speaker 2: for like some 6 months get out of this place
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  Speaker 2: now get out of this place.
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  Speaker 3: Are you following what I'm saying there? Very important.
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  Speaker 2: Praise God.
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  Speaker 3: Have you been blessed?
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  Speaker 2: Now what I'm teaching you is both impactful and contagious.
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  Speaker 2: You are not just hearing a message, your spirit is entering.
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  Speaker 2: You leave this place knowing what next to do. Bold
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  Speaker 2: to stand in God's plan. Bold to execute. Bold to
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  Speaker 2: become all that God has designed for you to become.
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  Speaker 2: Praise God. You will never coward back again. Or chicken out.
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  Speaker 2: Or chicken out because of impressions of men. Rather, you
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  Speaker 2: stand tall and stand bold. You receive the audacity to
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  Speaker 2: execute it in the exact size and beauty. In the
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  Speaker 2: name of Jesus. The hand of God is upon you. you.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody here will be timid. The smallest amongst us will
• 1:48:24
  Speaker 2: be as mighty as David. In the name of Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: Spirit of light church is the ground where mighty men
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  Speaker 2: are raised. You will not remain a dwarf. This same
• 1:48:35
  Speaker 2: spirit will enter into you and you will never remain
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  Speaker 2: a dwarf. Amen. In the name of Jesus. There is
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  Speaker 2: a grace here that lifts men. There is a grace
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  Speaker 2: here that lifts men. The testimonies are too consistent to
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  Speaker 2: be a lie. There is a grace that lifts men.
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  Speaker 2: And I speak that same grace upon your life. I
• 1:48:53
  Speaker 2: said I speak that same grace upon your life. I
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  Speaker 2: speak that same grace upon your life. I speak that
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  Speaker 2: same grace upon your life. I speak that same grace
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  Speaker 2: upon your life. You will never be down. You are strong.
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  Speaker 2: You are courageous. You are not timid. You are not timid.
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  Speaker 2: You are strong. You are courageous. You bounce back. I
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  Speaker 2: said you bounce back. You set the pace. You do
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  Speaker 2: what God has said you should do. You are not timid.
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  Speaker 2: The hand of God is upon your life. In the
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  Speaker 2: name of Jesus. Everything you lay your hands upon will work.
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  Speaker 2: Everything you lay your hands upon will work. All the
• 1:49:30
  Speaker 2: visions you left out of fear. Go back to them now.
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  Speaker 2: I speak light. I speak light. I speak light. I
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  Speaker 2: speak light. In the name of Jesus. Put your hands
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  Speaker 2: on your head. Say it again. I receive the spirit
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  Speaker 2: of boldness. Not the spirit of fear. In the name
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  Speaker 2: of Jesus. I stand out in all that I do.
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  Speaker 2: I do it boldly. I am not afraid. Like a lion.
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  Speaker 2: I don't turn aside from any prey.
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  Speaker 3: In the name of Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: Praise God. Give the Lord a big shout of praise. Hallelujah.
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