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The Other Side of Faith – Apostle Joshua Selman · Selah Media House

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Do I start by saying Happy New Year?
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Amen. Glory be to the name of the
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Lord. Thank you very much Pastor Poji
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for this opportunity. Please let's give him a big, big
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God bless you alongside his dear wife.
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My salutations to every man and every woman of God here.
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The Lord bless you in Jesus name.
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Let's lift our hands in one minute and cry again for wisdom.
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Let's cry that the Lord will speak to us in the name of
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Jesus. The Bible says for everyone that
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asketh receiveth is someone praying.
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Ask him to give you an encounter by his word.
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Bible says they go from strength to strength.
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As many as appear before the Lord in Zion.
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We look to Yahweh, Yahweh. Our hope is Yahweh, Yahweh.
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Yes, we look to Yahweh. Yahweh.
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Spirit of the living God, we pray that you will speak to our
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hearts and defy us maximally in this session.
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And to Jesus be all the glory. Amen and Amen.
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Please be seated. Please be seated.
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Thank you again for this opportunity.
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I want to request that you please lend me your attention.
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I want to share something that the Lord placed in my heart that
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I truly believe will help and add to our understanding as far
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as the walkings of faith is concerned.
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In this Kingdom, we rise upon the strength of the light that
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we have. Hallelujah, the Bible says God
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called the light day, and the darkness he called night.
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And so day in the Spirit is not the chronological passage of
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time, but when your light comes. Hallelujah.
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Yeah, he called the light day, and the darkness he called
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night. And the Bible says weeping
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endures for as long as it is night, but joy comes with the
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morning. So I want us to pay attention.
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We're exploring in this conference faith in its
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entirety. When I saw the theme, I was
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really very encouraged because I think that many believers
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understand instinctively the subject of faith and its
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relevance to the believers life. But most people, and even those
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who have been raised by those who preach faith, have not
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really understood the entire dimensions of faith that are
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responsible for the holistic development and the victory of
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the believer. And I trust that all through the
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sessions in this conference that God will add line upon line,
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precept upon precept until we have a thorough understanding of
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the workings of faith. So Are you ready this afternoon?
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I'm teaching on a subject that I titled The Other Side of Faith.
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Please write it down and please listen.
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The other side of faith, the other side of faith.
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The Bible is full of other sides.
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When you read, I think that's Mark 435.
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Jesus said, let us go to the other side.
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There is always the other side to everything and if you do not
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understand the other side of faith, you will not be standing
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on a very strong foundation. Hallelujah.
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Now let me begin this session by establishing a few things and
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please lend me your attention. Number one, I wrote here that
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the end of the believers journey with God.
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Please listen, the end of the believers journey with God is
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that you eventually become a manifestation of the glory of
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God. This is God's goal at the back
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of His dealing with all believers, regardless your
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assignment, regardless your background, the moment you begin
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to journey with God. This is the.
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Intent at the back of his mind, not just heaven.
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Are we together not just victory over Satan as it were, but Gods
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goal for every believer? Is that eventually in your
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Christian? Experience you become a holistic
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capture of the glory of God in Romans chapter 8 when we read
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from verse 18 and 19. The Bible says Paul is speaking
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now, for I reckon that the sufferings of this present time,
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he says, are not worthy to be compared with the glory that
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shall be revealed in US. The next verse says, for the NS
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expectation of creation awaited the manifestation of the sons of
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God. Are we together now?
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So the Bible tells us that there is a dimension of God's glory
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that God seeks to be revealed in a believer.
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In fact, the apostle coins it beautifully.
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He calls us living epistles. That means our lives should be
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an explanation of the multifaceted dimensions of God.
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Ephesians to understand says we are his workmanship.
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Are we still together created in Christ Jesus.
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He says unto good works which God had before time at four
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time. It's a preordination.
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God is not just inventing it, hoping you know that he would
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make our lives become that he was at the back of his mind at
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the point of our creation. So every believer must have.
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This. That your life eventually should
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become a manifestation of the glory of God, so regardless
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where God finds you. When He begins that journey with
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you as a believer, you must sustain this orientation that
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regardless my life, whether it carries any capture of glory and
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grace or not, that as I begin to walk with God, the end product
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of God's dealing with me are we together is that my life will
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eventually when you know this, it will sustain the staying
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power. It will give you the ability to
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continue even when you don't understand what God is doing.
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Are we together now? Yes, when you drive safe from
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here to the farthest part in Lagos for over 99% of your
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journey, you do not see your destination.
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But the awareness that it is there, it motivates you to
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continue. Are we learning already?
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So most believers are at a loss as to what God is doing with
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them exactly. They just know instinctively
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he's making a profit out of me. He's making an apostle, he's
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making a businessman. I tell you that is that is not
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enough motivation as far as the challenges you will have to
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overcome to become. You need to know that God's goal
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for me and you in. Christ is that we eventually
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become a manifestation of the glory of God.
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Galatians 124 must become our testimony eventually, and they
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glorified God. In me.
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Are we learning already? This is the first point I need
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to establish. So regardless what you are going
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through, whether you understand your work with God currently or
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not, you must have this at the back of your mind that the end
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of every believer's journey is that you and I become
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experientially a manifestation. Of the glory of God.
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I like the way Paul puts it teaching the Ephesians, the
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church in Ephesus. In Ephesians, I believe chapter
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3, understand he says to the intent that now on to
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principalities and powers in heavenly places might be made
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known by the ecclesia, the Church, the manifold
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multifaceted wisdom of God. Hallelujah.
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The glory of God is a holistic capture of everything that makes
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God God, his wisdom, his power, his favour, every dimension,
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every component in God that makes him desired, that makes
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him admirable, that makes him worthy of our worship.
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He intends that it be imported and be made manifest in the life
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of the believer. That means eventually your life
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should become a. Sign and a wonder.
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It is true, this is not just something you claim, it is
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something you become. It's the end product of a
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journey that your life becomes a fearful wonder first to you and
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them to creation. This is how God is glorified.
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John 17 and verse 1 he lifted his voice to heaven.
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Jesus is praying now and he said, Father, the hour has come.
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He says, Glorified thy Son, that thy Son may glorify thee.
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John chapter 15 and verse 8. Herein is our Father glorified.
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When ye bear much fruit, so shall you be my disciples.
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Verse 16 of the same chapter says, You have not chosen me.
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He says, but I have chosen you and ordained you.
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You know what it means to ordain.
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To legitimize your operation, I have ordained you and
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legitimized you to go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit
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will remain. God's goal for you and I in
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Christ is that we become eventually an experiential
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manifestation of the glory of God.
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Hallelujah. You must have this at the back
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of your mind. The second point that I want to
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establish very quickly is that our work with God and our
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exploits in the Kingdom, listen carefully, will always demand
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partnership with the realm of the Spirit.
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Our work with God and our exploits in this Kingdom will
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always demand our partnership with the realm of the spirit.
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The structure for manifestation is that the spirit and the bride
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say come, not the bride alone, not the spirit alone.
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It is the union of the spirit and the Bride that can say come.
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Healing comes when the spirit says come, and the bride also
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says come. Everything that happens on earth
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is a union between the spirit and the bride.
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So if the Spirit is saying come, if the Spirit is saying be
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lifted, is the Spirit is saying advance and the bride does not
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sustain the intelligence. To work in partnership that may
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never manifest. Are we together now?
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At every point in your Christian life, there will be a demand for
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partnership. With the realm of the spirit.
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Jesus began to teach us this in what we have come to know as the
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Lord's Prayer. He says when you pray, pray in
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this manner, not just by this recitation, in this manner.
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Our Father, he says, then he says, which art in heaven
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immediately He tells you that He recites in a domain that is
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beyond physical. So you will need another
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technology to be able to make that connection.
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He's not physical like flesh and blood.
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Which art in heaven are we together now?
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That means any discussion between you and God will demand
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your awareness of the realm of the Spirit.
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Then in Hebrews Chapter 11, verse 3.
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We'll go there shortly, the Bible says.
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True faith we understand we were not there, but true faith we
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understand that the walls were framed, they had their material
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expression by the word of God, so that the things which are
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seen, this is how the Spirit operates, were not made of the
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things which do appear. John 1 and verse. 3.
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The Bible says all things were made by him and without him.
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That means outside of partnership with him, the word
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was not anything made that was made.
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Are we together? So you must understand.
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That your entire journey, this has nothing to do with whether
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you are a man of God in ministry or a businessman, a career
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person, a family person. The moment you come into this
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life, this Kingdom life, the demand is that you must
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consistently work in partnership with the realm of the spirit.
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In fact, James put it beautiful in chapter 2 and verse 26.
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He says he was teaching on faith and works and he borrowed an
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interesting phenomenon and he says as the body without the
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spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.
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That means anytime you see a material frame, there is a
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spirit component that sustains it.
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If your business only has a body, it will die.
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There has to be a spirit sustaining it.
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Are we together? Now this was what David
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understood when he stood before Goliath.
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He said you are a body that is powered by a covenant.
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I come to you. He says.
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You come to me with your spheres, but I come to you in
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the name. This material frame is not what
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will fight you. There is a backing from the
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Spirit. This is what he was telling
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Goliath. It would be stupid for a young
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boy to stand before that beast. Veterans of war were running
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away from him and here comes a very young teenager.
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Your Christian experience will always demand partnership with
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the realm of the Spirit. This is what necessitates the
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understanding of the subject of faith.
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Are we together now? So four times in the Bible
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Scripture says that just shall live by faith.
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You find that first in Hebrews chapter 2 and verse 4.
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Please write for reference Hebrews 2 and verse 4, then
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Romans 117, then Galatians 311. Finally we find that in Hebrews
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1038. Habakkuk chapter 2.
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My apologies. Habakkuk chapter 2 and verse 4.
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Did I say Habakkuk? Yeah.
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Romans 117, Galatians 311, Hebrews 1038.
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All of this together they speak the same language.
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That the just in Christ, whoever is in Christ, will live by
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faith. Now let's talk about faith.
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Are you ready? Hebrews 11 Thank you Jesus.
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Hebrews 11. You see why church is a
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beautiful place. There are things you only get in
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church. I was glad when he said unto me,
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They said unto me, Let us go to the House of the Lord.
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Hebrews, Chapter 11. This we have known and believed
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to be about the most concise capture of the subject of faith.
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Let's look at verse one. Please lend me your attention.
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This is truly where my teaching starts.
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It says now faith is the substance of things.
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Everybody say things. Please one more time say things.
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The substance of things hoped for.
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Then it says the evidence of things not seen.
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One more time, say things. So verse one carries an idea
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that faith has to do with things we together.
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The common expression there is that faith is the substance, the
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tangibility of the things that we hope for.
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Then it calls it the evidence of the things.
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So faith has to do with things. Number one.
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This dimension is not new and strange to the average believer.
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We understand that faith gives a man capacity to obtain things.
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Are we together? But I want to introduce to you
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another dimension, and This is why I call it the other side of
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faith. Let's read verse 2 together to a
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Christian. Let's shout verse 2 together.
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Ready one to read for by it one more time.
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Please, what did the elders obtain?
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A good report. So the Bible tells us that
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number one faith is required to deal with the matter of things,
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but that there is a dimension to faith that many believers do not
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understand. It does not deliver things.
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It delivers a testimonial, a good report.
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It says all the elders in Hebrew, Hebrews 11.
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They obtained a good report. So from Scripture here #1 we see
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that faith has two assignments. Please pay attention.
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Number one, the first assignment of faith is to deliver desires
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and deliver promises that are consistent with the will of God.
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The first assignment of faith as revealed here is as a platform
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that delivers desired expectations, that delivers
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promises. But this is not the only
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assignment of faith in God's economy.
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The most superior assignment of faith, Listen carefully, is a
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platform for obtaining good report.
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What is good report? A testimonial before God.
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I looked up that word testimonial testimonial and let
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me read for you what I found. Then we continue.
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Is God speaking to someone already?
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A testimonial is defined as a written declaration certifying
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to a person's character, conduct, or qualification.
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I take. It again a.
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Testimonial is a written declaration certifying to a
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person's character, a person's conduct, or a person's
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qualification from which recommendations are made.
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That means the basis for promotion, the basis for
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increase is. When you examine a man's
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testimonial, are we together in corporate life, you don't
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promote people emotionally and arbitrarily.
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No, there is a record. Are we together a record of
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service? A record.
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It is the recommendation whether to leave that person at that
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level or promote him to a higher.
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Realm. Is at the basis of examining his
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testimonial. And the Bible says the
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assignment of faith is to print out your testimonial, what you
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will present before God and life that necessitates your rising
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necessitates your advancement. And the Bible says with that
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faith all the elders obtain good reports.
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Hallelujah. That means everywhere we study
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faith in the Bible, you must look out for these two things #1
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desires and expectations obtained, but #2 reports and
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testimonials established. If your perspective of faith is
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only about receiving things and desired expectations, there is a
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side of God you will never experience and there is a side
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of grace you will never touch. Are we together now?
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Now the average believers understanding of faith is just
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with respect to things and you are right.
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It is only that you are incomplete.
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That's why verse one starts by telling us that now faith is.
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Are we still together? The substance of things and the
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evidence of things one more time the substance of things and the
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evidence of things and things are very important.
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Mark 1124 Jesus was teaching and he says.
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What things so ever ye desire, he says, When ye pray, believe
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that thou receiveth them, and thou shalt have them.
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So there is a place for obtaining promises.
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Scripture calls them exceeding great and precious promises.
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It says that by them we might be the partakers of His divine
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nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world
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through lust, through faith, many obtained promises in
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Scripture, but that faith through faith Bible faith is not
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limited to just obtaining things.
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There is a higher and more superior assignment of faith.
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We by faith obtain good reports. Are we still together?
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Now let's look at Hebrews eleven.
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My God, verse 4, the Bible. Then, to buttress this
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understanding, it lists for us. Five people.
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Among others, in fact many of them, but the first five.
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I want to examine the 1st 5 personalities in the Bible that
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he calls elders. You will find out that none of
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them necessarily received any promise, but they all receive
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reports. Because you will be learning
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that there are sometimes in your journey where the promise is not
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yet in view. And because of that the devil
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will make you believe you are not working by faith.
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Yet there is a report the whole journey.
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Is building a track. Record.
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Go to verse 4. Let's hurry up forsake of time.
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I'm just starting my session now.
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He says by faith. The first elder that the Bible
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now begins to teach us faith using his life is the man Abel.
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He says by faith Abel offered unto God, Are we still together
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a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained
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witness? A testimonial.
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What was his testimonial? That he was righteous.
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That is it. He didn't obtain things, but
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there was a testimony before God that he was righteous, willing
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to give everything to honor God and the Bible still calls it
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faith. This is the number one
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personality that the Bible you so you need to understand the
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mind of God in discussing faith. Are you ready for number 2 #2 is
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called Noah. Please give it to us verse 5.
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Let's hurry up media. Let's work together verse 5
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still Hebrews 11 and verse 5. OK Enoch, my apologies.
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The Bible says by faith Enoch was translated.
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Remember, he's telling us elders now.
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That he should not see death and was not found because God had
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translated him. Read the remaining part please
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for before his translation verse 5.
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Now just keep verse 5 media for before his translation.
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He had this testimony that he pleased God.
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This was his report. Second individual, no mention of
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things, but there was a testimony.
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Are you ready for number six verse?
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Go to verse 7. The third person I believe the
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man Noah. Are you ready for Noah now?
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So we have looked at #1 Abel #2 Enoch #3 by faith again.
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Noah been warned of God of things not seen as.
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Yet the Bible says he was moved with reverence.
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Reverence. He prepared an ark.
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To the saving of his house by which he condemned the world and
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became an heir of righteousness by faith.
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That was his testimony that he referenced God.
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He took God seriously. When God spoke, he did not join
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the mockers to mock him. Are you ready for #4?
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Let's go to verse 11 the 4th personality that the in that
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order is the man Abraham that we know and call the father of
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faith. Let's go to verse 11/11/11
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Hebrews by faith Abraham when he was called to go into a place
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watch this now which he should after receive 1 inheritance.
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The Bible says he obeyed and he went out not knowing where he
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was going to go. That's verse 8.
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Jump to verse 11. Please jump to verse 11.
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Thank you through faith. No no, no Hebrews 11 and 11.
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Thank you through faith. He says Sarah also received
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strength watch this to conceive seed and was delivered of a
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child when she was past her age. What was her report?
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She judged him faithful that had promised.
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Is someone learning now? So can you see that the Bible
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tells us that these elders? Do you know that not all of them
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obtain promises? You want me to show you in the
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Bible? The Bible talks about women who
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died, who called their dead back to life and others rejected
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willingly. The promise for a better
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resurrection. There were those who had the
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power to receive deliverance, but they chose report modern
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things. They said in God's economy,
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having a testimony before God is greater than just obtaining.
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Things and they had the power to be delivered, but they said will
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not be delivered and yet the Bible called all of them elders.
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Are we learning now because you? See, the character of faith is
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this. Watch this.
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The testimony of knowing and trusting God through the journey
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is more superior to the desires obtained in the journey.
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The testimony you're becoming with God is greater than you're
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receiving. Both of them are important and
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needed for your overall excelling.
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But in order of spiritual priority, the testimony of your
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trust in God, the testimony of your becoming, that spiritual
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evolution is of greater value in the Spirit than obtaining
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things. Are we together?
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Any faith Johnny? I wrote here.
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Should leave you knowing and trusting God better even more
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than the results you obtain. So if all you show me in your
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work with God are the physical materials that come by engaging
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the Word, I will congratulate you.
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But I will tell you there is a side of God you do not yet know.
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Are we learning so Bible faith, therefore, is a combination of
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reports and promises obtained, not promises alone.
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Bible faith is a combination of a testimonial before God and
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then the promises that come. Are we together.
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There is faith as a school, there is faith as a journey
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that. Helps you know God in his
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various dimensions. And the Bible says it gives you
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a noble report. Second Timothy 1 and verse 12.
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The apostle was speaking and he says I know whom I have
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believed. I know whom I have believed.
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I didn't just believe him, I know whom I have believed.
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You can try to walk out and believe who you do not know.
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Jesus was rebuking the woman at the well and he said you worship
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you, what you do not know. So you can have all of the
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activities of religion happening and yet you do not know Him.
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Remember in Athens they were bowing down and wrote an
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inscription to an unknown God. He says, I know whom I have
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believed. Are we still together?
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He says and I am persuaded. Please go back to Second Timothy
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that he's able to keep that which is committed unto him, the
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end point of this journey of faith with God.
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When you obtain that testimonial, it plans
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conviction. That conviction is the raw
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material that brings promises. Are we together now?
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Yes. See when you meet people who
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just mechanically believe God, you see the difficulty in trying
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to receive the embarrassment. Their ego is on the line.
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They are hoping the war does not fail them.
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There is no testimony yet. They are just trying to obtain
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as proof that they met God. But a man that has a testimony
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with God is not embarrassed whether results come or not,
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because he has obtained A nobler part.
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And can I tell you, for such people, results always happen
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eventually. Halima Shapran Das ka Villa
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Caparo Theatre. Do you believe what you're
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hearing? Listen, the Bible lets us know
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that faith on one hand, let me repeat again for your
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understanding, is a platform, a spiritual platform that converts
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spiritual realities. Remember what Paul said, that we
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have been blessed with all spiritual blessings in heavenly
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places in Christ. I have other sessions who deal
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with the dynamics of obtaining promises, but to start my
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session tonight, it's important that we bring this other side of
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faith because there are many people you've been trusting God,
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as you call it, for many promises to be made manifest.
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And if they say those who have faith stand up, you may feel
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embarrassed because you do not have any physical evidence.
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But I'm telling you that faith does not stop at things.
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There is a report you have in the Spirit.
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I don't have a job yet, but my prayer life has grown trust in
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God. I don't have a job yet, but God
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kept me through 2023 not knowing everyone.
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There is there is. All the names of God, you see,
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were products of experiences. They did not just name him
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arbitrarily. No, there was an experience that
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produced the knowledge of Rafa and Jaira and Sikenu.
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God has not stopped being named. Your entire spiritual journey
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should give God a name. That should be your gift to a
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generation. But in my work with God I have
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come to. Learn him so you can stand like
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the psalmist and said, the Lord is my light and my salvation.
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Of whom shall I be afraid of? He says the Lord is the strength
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of my life. This is conviction.
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Conviction because there are many believers who have been
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discouraged. There are people post COVID,
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there are many believers who aren't trying to recover.
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I trusted God and yet this person died.
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I trusted God and this person battled cancer.
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And you know, sometimes we just cover it up quietly in church
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and will say, well, God is faithful, but there are many
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believers about to leave the things of God because it does
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not make sense. The reason is because we have
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given a definition that only ends up obtaining things.
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I am in a dimension for you, like Job said though he slay me
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yet will I trust him? Listen, this is what gives
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stability to the believers experience.
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So people who ask and say, why do you rejoice?
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No house yet, no car yet, and you tell them the things have
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not come. But there is a testimony of
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faithfulness through the storm. There is a testimony of singing
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in the midst of the storm. This one is called Faith
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Hallelujah. Listen, Job had things, but Job
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did not have a testimony. And Satan told God based on what
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we read in Scripture, he said he's only serving you because of
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things. And God said you can't take the
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things. Let the man get the testimony,
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let the man get the testimony, let things go away, but let the
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testimony remain. And the wife of Job said, why do
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you still hold on to your integrity?
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Trust God and die. And Job said all the days of my
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appointed time there were no things.
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His body was not healed, but there was a testimony.
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Hear me. And then in Job chapter 42 and
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verse 10, the Bible says and God restored things will always
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happen when the track record is established.
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Remember, I define for you a testimonial as a credential that
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is is a concise capture of your integrity, your character, your
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trustworthiness. That is the basis for your being
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recommended. Can I tell you there are many of
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you. I have always read the story of
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Mary Gabriel comes to Mary and say you are highly favored.
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I do not see our definition of favor happen for once in the
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life of Mary because everything that surrounded her life after
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that announcement was controversy and trouble.
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So I don't understand, Gabriel. You came from the presence of
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God and you tell a woman. She's highly favored and the
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next thing is 1 trouble after the other.
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You will be learning that for you to truly be a champion in
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the Spirit, you must have both crowns and scars.
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Listen, the difference between Jesus and the 24 elders, All of
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them have crowns, but only one has His scar on His hand.
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When you get to heaven and you are searching for those with
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crowns, Matthias have crowns. Elders have crowns, many have
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crowns, but search for the one whose car is a testimony of love
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that he had the option of calling 10,000 angels yet
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because of his love. So when the Bible says for God
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so loved the world. It was not a statement is a
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report card. My beloved, the most beautiful.
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Listen to me. There are times Abraham your
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faith is focused on giving back to Isaac, whereas God is focused
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on changing you from Abraham to Abraham.
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The whole journey of fate of Abraham, he just wanted to see
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Isaac manifest, yet God's interest was making him Abraham,
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not Abraham. Sarai to Sarah, Saul to Paul,
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Cephas to Peter, every time God met man, his interest was them
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before their conditions because it transformed.
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You cannot remain in the same condition that met your old
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self. Do you believe what you are
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hearing? I'm teaching you authentic Bible
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faith that makes you a champion in this Kingdom so you can laugh
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through stones. And when those who do not ask,
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they don't, they don't love God. They ask you questions or you
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just lost your father. Why are you dancing and
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rejoicing? But it looked like you, I mean
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your office just packed up. Where is your God?
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The next time they ask you tell them while things are on their
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way coming there is a report and accreditation in the Spirit.
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Who is God speaking to? Now?
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I've given you an answer and an answer you have been desiring.
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What answer do I give men when they say where is your God?
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Tell them the problem is your understanding.
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Don't miss any session. I will be teaching you what we
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call results in the Kingdom. Because you see, everything we
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call results in the Kingdom is with respect to the will of God.
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Beyond your desire. We're going to examine the
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subject of results. Are we together?
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So there are some of you. While heaven is clapping for you
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already a champion is imagining the Spirit.
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You are busy saying God, but the car has not come and God says
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you mean the five years training is just to give you a car.
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No, come on, no come on. Hallelujah, you've forgotten the
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discipline of prayer that situation brought for you, that
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it was on account of it. I know the man eventually died,
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but how about the three hours prayer every night now that the
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person is gone? It has become a habit in you.
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You can't undo it again. That is a track record in the
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spirit. How about your diligence, A
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heightened level of consecration you came into?
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Although listen. The reason most of you do not
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know why sometimes God keeps quiet regardless what you are
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going through is not that He's irresponsible.
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He has found your confusion as a healthy tool that leads you to
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His presence. He will prefer to leave you
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there until you get there. As He trains you, He will give
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you a higher perspective. And He's not afraid of time
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passing because He can restore. He's not afraid of things
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leaving because He can restore. Listen, all through the time
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that Job went through his tragedy, God never spoke until
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chapter 38. And when God shows up, you would
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think you would come for Job and say Job, I understand, He said.
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Who is this that duck in a council without knowledge?
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This is the victory that overcomes the world, even our
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faith. Are you taking a minute or two
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to absorb this reality as an imprint upon your spirit?
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Hallelujah, listen to me. I hope you know that Jacob's
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frustration in the Bible. Watch this now.
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In chapter 28 of Genesis the Bible says Jacob came to a place
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called Laws and he lay there to sleep and then the Bible tells
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us watch this that he saw a ladder that us that went to the
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heavens and angels ascending and descending.
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He was not transformed with that encounter because all he was
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looking for was things. The next thing that will happen
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to Job's life was his tragedy in the House of Laban, and Laban
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began to manipulate him against the indices of things.
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But by the time we get to Genesis chapter 32, the Bible
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says for him to receive an encounter, he had to dismiss.
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Things cows go away, wives go away when he was alone.
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No things God said. You are ready for a report now
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and he came to him and in all of that encounter there was nothing
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about things he said. What is your name?
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Oh, it bless me. Oh, and God says, let me show
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you how we. Bless in the Kingdom we give.
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You. Credibility in the Spirit.
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Hear me, let me speak to a man of God here.
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You ministry may not look like it is working, but there is
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credibility you are establishing in the Spirit.
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This is what the Bible means when he says Jesus.
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I know Paul, I know he. They are not known in the Spirit
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because they have. They are known in the Spirit
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because of what they have become.
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There is a registering the Spirit where the rankings of men
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are recorded. This is what translates to
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authority within the cosmos. You don't just tell people be
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healed just because you saw it in Scripture.
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Believe me, you'll be disappointed.
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There is a level of stature that is established in the Spirit on
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account of your becoming. Let no man trouble me, he said.
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For I bear in my body there is a record that I've served God in
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the midst of pain. Take it hard for me Is God
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speaking to someone? For by it the elders obtained
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there are many. Elders that did not obtain
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anything in terms of promises, the Bible still asks them.
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There were others who were brought back to life, but there
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were others who refused. They rejected deliverance and
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the Bible still. Called all of them elders.
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The one thing all of them had was face.
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Then in verse 37 it says time will fail me to talk of Gideon
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and Jafta and Barack. It says men who to face of two
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kingdoms who are getting there, shut the mouth of lions, rot
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righteousness, obtain promises. But then it does not stop there.
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Verse 34 it says quench the violence of fire escapes, the
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edge of the sword out of weakness were made strong.
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Once valiant in fight turned to flight the armies of the aliens.
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35 women who received their dead back to life and others were
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tortured. Watch this not accepting
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deliverance that they might obtain, so they still obtain
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something. The Bible calls it a good
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report. Hallelujah.
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Do you know how the anointing, how olive is made?
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You carry the olive and then in the squeezing and in that
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pressing. They will keep going around and
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pressing it. When you sympathize with the
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condition of the olive oil will never go.
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There are many. The human spirit never truly
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yields itself voluntarily. No, there are situations that
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compel you. Yours is to give God permission
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to have access to that making process.
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So while the devil is mocking you.
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I'm saying your life is not rising.
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No job, no money. You have broke and your entire
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six hours prayer is full of a determination to force things to
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manifest. God is saying things will come.
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They will so come, but not to this version of you.
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You are the one I want to change.
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I I will change you to a version that cars will not stop coming
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to and that is when before you call, you will answer.
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He will give the heathen as an inheritance for you.
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Do you believe what I'm saying? Man of God, there is a version
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of you that members have been sent to come to, not this
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version. No.
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Not the weak and the lazy version.
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Not the competitive and the jealous version.
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No. So while you pray and say Lord
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bring increase, he now says go for seven days fasting.
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And at the end of it you are disappointed because you think
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in that instruction he will tell you the strategy for church
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growth and you will never hear anything about church growth.
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Your disappointment because part of the raw materials for your
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making. Now you understand that the
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Bible says. For we know.
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That all things all. With the mastery of a chef, God
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is able to make all things your pain, your disappointment, they
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all become ingredients to produce something that is
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presented to the nations as a trophy.
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We call it glory, the glory of God in and through your life.
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Can I tell you, show me any man in Scripture, in modern history,
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and in the church today who is a champion of faith?
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If the only thing you see is promises, runaway, runaway.
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When you listen to great men, you don't listen just about the
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promises. The promises are flashing, but
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the report is why the promises remain.
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Are we together? If we ask for support you now to
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tell us the story of his journey of this church and his journey
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with God. You are going to find many
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points in the history of this church where certain promises,
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when the promises don't come, they are on their way.
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Sometimes they are not delayed by demons, they are delayed by
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the laxity in your transition. This is why it's important you
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manage your prayer about God destroying enemies, because
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maybe you'll be learning in the course of this conference who an
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enemy of God is. An enemy of God is not someone
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you hate. No, an enemy of God is anyone
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who becomes a consistent interruption to the
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manifestation of His will, even if it is Jonah.
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The jealousy of God fights anything that takes his place
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and interrupts his purposes, even if it is something he gave.
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That is why in the realm of the Spirit, promises don't amount to
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much. Not that they are, they are
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inconsequential, they are needed.
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But your track record, your testimonial in the Spirit.
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My dear sister, please hear me once.
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You are trusting God to give you a job in Lagos once you are
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trusting God to manifest certain things.
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I want you to not disrespect the health in your prayer that has
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come as a result of that, the health in your work, study,
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life. Somebody told you, oh come, I
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will sleep with you and give you a job and you refuse.
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And now you are feeling stupid for recusing because there are
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many people who are just conscious of things and they are
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saying what is there and they are saying about God after
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refusing when when Joseph refused, there was the name of
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that woman, Potiphar's wife. You would expect God to just
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intervene and reward him immediately.
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Do you know how many years he spent in the prison for
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refusing? That was his track record.
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You see the pattern now. There are many times believers
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think just because of standing for righteousness, certain
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promises manifest immediately. They will come, but you will
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celebrate their coming. When you change that is when you
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see the. Beauty of the manifestation.
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Can I tell you there are many people's Christian lives today
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who have become defeated because promises were manifested to the
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wrong versions of them. The version that received the 1
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billion was not a consecrated version.
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The version there are certain temptations you have no business
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going through if God grants you grace to change.
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So there are times you are saying God just give me this 1
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billion and God says it is in your destiny to have it.
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But you don't know the temptations that come into the
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realm of a 1 billion owner. You don't have the stamina to
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survive the attacks. Lord promote me to this office
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and he says it's in your journey, so you may go to the
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place of prayer and promotion is at your mind.
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It is not wrong, but you will find out that God's interest is
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not the promotion, and the the more you yield to that becoming,
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the faster the promises come. Listen, for many years I studied
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why a lot of people have balloon results.
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Today you are up, tomorrow you disappear.
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The reason is because most people do not understand the
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power of this heritage of a spiritual testimonial.
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I will. Sing, I will praise even in my
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darkest, through the sorrow and the pain, I will see and I will
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pray. I lift my hands to honor you
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because your word is true. Listen, I lift my hands to honor
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you because your word is true. See it.
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I lift my hands to honor you because your word is true.
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I leave my heads to honor you because your word is true.
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I will see. Can I tell you Satan becomes
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utterly frustrated over a life that values reports beyond
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things? Because the basis of lost is
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things. The basis of the excelling of
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temptations over men is their passion for things, James said
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from Welsh comment. This thing among you, does it
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not come from the loss of your heart?
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He say ye desire, and you have not, when a man.
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Focuses on becoming. You have mastered the art of
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frustrating Satan becoming because he knows that having it
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or not having it will not affect your prayer life.
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Having it or not having it will not affect your world life.
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Having it or not having it will not affect your coming to
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church. If the car is not there.
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You will track with honor and rejoice while you are on your
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way to church and nobody will know while you are celebrating
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the day you give testimonies, men will say by your behavior
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there was nothing that showed that there was this ups and
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downs and you will tell them it's because I have.
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Learned that the most superior dimension to faith is my
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spiritual. Evolution.
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But can I tell you, for everyone who remained alive in Scripture
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who contended for a good report, eventually promises came
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without. End I like.
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The way the book of Job concludes, he says and Job, God
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turned the captivity of Job give us place as I wrap up 42 and
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verse 10 and Job God turned the captivity of Job when he prayed
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for his friends. He got to a point where he said,
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do you know what I trust God. I'm no longer the issue.
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God, just keep take responsibility over what you are
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doing. Let me focus on my friends
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because I want them to also have that transition that I'm having.
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Let me intercede for them. There was a dimension of God.
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Joe only knew through the storms and through the pain.
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And the Bible says, let's finish it so that you will see that God
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is faithful. He does not scam people.
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He's not a fraudster. His word can be depended upon.
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It's just the dynamics of His operation that many people do
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not know. They say rejoice not over me, my
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enemies. This is what gives believers the
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staying power so that the day they call you and say the
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promotion has come, you'll say, all right, I will respond to
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you. I'm in church walking and they
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say, where's your excitement? They say no, I had it.
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Since my growth is more important than that.
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Do you believe this? Let's finish that scripture.
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I have to wrap up. I have about 3 minutes left.
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The Bible says also the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had
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before, twice. Verse 11.
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How did it come? They came on to him, all his
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brethren and all his sisters. So he had brethren and sisters.
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Where did they suddenly go to during the time of his travel?
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And the Bible says all day, who had been of his acquaintance
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before, And they did eat bread and bemoaned him, and comforted
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him over all the evil that the Lord had brought upon him.
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I'm sure you have a better spiritual understanding to that
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expression. The Bible says and every man
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watch. This gave him a piece.
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Of money. So his money was already in the
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hands of men. The things you are praying for
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are not in heaven, believe me. They are already in the hands of
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man, because the earth has he given to the sons of man and
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the. Earth is still.
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Full There are four elements of dominion according to Psalm 24.
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Number one is the earth #2 is the fullness, the resources
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there. Number 3 is the mindset that
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governs the cosmos #4 are the inhabitants when God wants to.
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Give a man true dominion. He connects you to our authority
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across these four areas. The earth, land, the resources
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that are in the earth. As for the earth, out of it
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comes bread. He says the increase of the
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earth is for all that. Even the king is fed by that
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which comes from the field. You don't find money in heaven.
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You don't find all of that. They all reside within the
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cosmos. Your promotion is here already.
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Listen, when the Bible says all things are yours, I want you to
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believe it. The delay in its arrival is not
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necessarily your not understanding God.
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That's not the only reason, but the major reason for most
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believers is that God's interest is not just to give you things.
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You see, when you are really inclined in the realm of the
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Spirit, you will see that things do not have so much value.
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Satan was willing to give everything to Jesus if you would
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just bow down. He showed him the glories of the
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world. Is that in your Bible and said
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all these things have been given.
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All these things have been given just bow have a report that
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you've worshipped me since you are the express image of God.
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Let me have it that you are that we can have acknowledged my
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superiority and things can go. This is the system of
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negotiation when Satan comes to men.
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Do you know how men lose their souls?
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The Bible says what shall he profit a man if you would gain
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the whole world and lose your soul?
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The question is, there is a relationship between gaining the
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cosmos and losing your soul. Gaining in the cosmos is
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transactional. It will always be at the expense
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of your soul. You can know a man who has been
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blessed by God because he prospers even as his soul
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prospers. This is the one thing you cannot
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have with Satan. The moment you prosper by Satan,
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the focus is on your getting. Things.
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That's what made men. It makes men rich fools.
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You now understand the problem of the rich fool.
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He had things. But no track record.
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He said my soul find rest on things and God said this is a
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foolish man. So when God wants to walk with
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you, the first thing is not to give you a car in a house.
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Don't think that I hate cars and houses.
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So I hate poverty more than you. So don't think that I'm talking
1:00:04
with some kind of no, but I want to show you a more excellent way
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because when you understand faith, there is a grace that
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gravitates things to you. I want you to believe this.
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There was an anointing when Noah had a track record with God.
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There was an anointing that came upon the ark.
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All the animals without being called, they began to come by
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themselves. This is the reason why the lives
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of many people look mysterious from nowhere.
1:00:37
Someone will stand up and hold your hand in ministry and say I
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will help you and I will support you.
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And you are wondering where is this coming from?
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It is because once there is that track record in the Spirit, then
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you will understand the dynamics.
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So all that we have learned as far as obtaining promises are
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concerned, they are valid and powerful and true, consistent
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with the operation of the Kingdom.
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But I'm showing you another layer to it, not a replacement,
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but an addition, a more superior addition that in the economy of
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God before we now deal with the matters of confession and the
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rest. I will teach you all those
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dimensions in addition to all that you have learned, but that
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at the back of all your manifesting, what you call
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faith, there is a settled understanding that it is not the
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result that controls my knowledge of God's faithfulness.
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No. Can we pray?
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Please rise. I will hold on through the storm
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and I will hold. On to your birth.
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My life will soon reveal you're the lifter of man.
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The lifter of man. In one minute my time is up.
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I want you to pray and say, Lord, I contend for a testimony
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in the Spirit, a testimony of my love for you, a testimony of my
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honor for you. Regardless what happens about my
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life, I believe you for the best as declared by your world.
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You are not a man that you should lie, nor the Son of man
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that you should repent. But I add to my faith experience
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today the other side of faith. Building testimonials in the
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Spirit. That I love you.