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When God Is Silent (How to Interpret the Silence of God) by Apostle Joshua Selman · Selah Media House

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It is true that there are times God can be silent as far as
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revealing His will over your life and destiny is concerned.
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I was led of the Spirit to teach you this because I believe that
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there are many people who are in the season of the silence of
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God. There is something called the
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season of the silence of God. You pray, you fast, you do
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everything, and it looks like you are not hearing Him.
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Let me tell you what that means. Every time God is silent, it
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means three things. Number one, it means He's
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walking on you. That is the first thing.
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Every time God is silenced and He withholds revealing His will
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to you, it can mean number one, that you as the vessel that will
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be used to do His will. There is a walk that He's doing
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in you. And revealing His will to you
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will be a waste in that state. And so his silence means that
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you, you should continue the training of the building until
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He makes you the vessel that is able to do that.
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Will you want him to reveal? Please listen very carefully.
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God is speaking to someone right now.
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God, why have you been silent on me, my family, my destiny every
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time God is silent #1 the son that his silence is a message
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that I am making the vessel who I will use to achieve my will.
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Look up please. God was silent on Jesus for 30
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years. Read your Bible, you don't hear
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Jesus communicating with God as a small child and yet he was God
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from the time God spoke around his birth.
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You don't hear any discussion again.
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He went to pray. He went to learn.
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For 30 years we don't hear the voice of God over Jesus issue
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again. Every time God is silent, focus
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on you, not him. He's doing something in that
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vessel. Jesus was in the temple at age
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12. Because as powerful as Jesus is,
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even though he was God Incarnate, at that state, he
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would not be able to fulfill the will of God.
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He needed to learn. He needed to grow.
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Luke chapter 2 and verse 52. Your Bible says in those moments
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of silence, Jesus increased in wisdom.
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He increased in stature. He increased in favor with God
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and man. Don't waste your moments of
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silence when God is silent. Rather than lamenting in
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impatience, focus on allowing Him build you.
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Lord, I know that you have not spoken concerning this and that,
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and that it means that there is something.
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The vessel that you want to use for that task has not yet become
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the fashion that necessitates the revelation of your will.
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Is someone learning tonight? Listen what you are learning
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tonight. You are going to use it to help
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so many people. For some of you, this message
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now you will call your loved ones and say, hey, I came for
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Kanonia. I found the key.
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I found the key. While you have prayed and
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submitted your prayer here at Miracle Service, prayer after
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prayer, vigil after vigil, most people do not focus on God
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making them. They just focus on God revealing
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His will. Every time God reviews His will,
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there is a version that will fulfill that will.
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And if you have not become that version, He will withhold His
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speakings and focus on your training.
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Powerful. Another example I use Jesus.
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Let me give you one more. When Joseph had a dream, that
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was the end of it. There was nothing else he saw or
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had again. He just had a dream of his
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destiny. The sun, the moon, 11 stars.
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When Joseph entered the pit, I'm sure he would say, God give me,
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explain to me why a righteous man would be inside the pit By
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my own brothers, silence. When they were selling him to go
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to Egypt. Silence.
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But was he ever out of the will of God?
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Please talk to me. Even in your confusion, God is
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still leading you. This is a powerful message
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tonight. As confused as you may think you
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are, God is still leading you. Let me tell you how God leads.
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Look at me. I want to teach you something
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powerful. If God's desire is for you to go
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this way and enter a door, please watch me.
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If God's desire is for you to go left and enter the door to your
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destiny, and in all honesty and sincerity of heart, believing
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Him, you move right, He will remove the door there and bring
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it here to make sure you do not miss His will.
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That is how determined God is. Believe this about God.
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Most of you don't know how powerful God is.
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Have you read the scripture that says all things work together?
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Not for everybody to them that love the Lord.
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So anytime you don't understand your life, just ask do I love
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the Lord? If your love is still in place,
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find rest. Trouble only starts when the
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challenge is toll away your love, then you are in trouble.
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All things interpreting the silence of God.
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Every time God is silent, number one, it means he's walking on
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the vessel. Joseph.
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Look at the tragedies that follow Joseph's life from the
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well. Joseph will get up.
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They sold him in prison and he started serving.
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He became the head of the prisoners.
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Just when he was about to rest, Potiphar's wife came with her
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own trouble. Are we together now and then?
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Oh dear, look at what happened to Joseph, that he was in the
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prison there and he was holding the cloth of Potiphar's wife.
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How could you deny he was holding the cloth of Potiphar's
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wife? How would he ever explain to
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them? Next stage it went to the prison
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and he was there in the prison. Do you know he had legitimate
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grounds to be offended. How in the world did I get here?
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Simply because of the dream. God is, is, is, is.
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That is not worth it. Please carry it and give
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somebody. That's what somebody wants to do
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here. Now to say, Lord, I am tired of
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this thing. Beware when God appears to you
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and say you are highly favored because sometimes what follows
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that statement is controversy. Read your Bible, he said you are
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highly favored. You thought that immediately
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after that you will see people who come together with gifts and
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say Mary, you mean God appeared to you.
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The favor of God can be very controversial and he calls it
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favor. How do you explain that you are
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pregnant and yet you claim you're a virgin and instead of
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God to now speak and defend you, he now keeps quiet.
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Learn how to live in the silence of God.
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My dear people, Joseph went to the prison and he stayed there
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even in his confusion and pain, he was in the will of God.
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And one day watch this, he saw two people and he interpreted
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their dreams and he said please, when you go to Pharaoh, he
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didn't say tell him to make me king.
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He said all I want is to get out of this place, please tell
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Pharaoh I'm innocent. And the man got there, guess
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what happened? He forgot him two years.
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If you are Joseph and you come out and become Prime Minister,
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who is the first person you are going to deal with?
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You will first deal with the wine presser, followed by
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Potiphar's wife. When he became king, it was
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unnecessary. When when the will of God is
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manifest in your life, there are battles that become unnecessary.
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You have won. Are you learning this now?
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So after two years in patience, the voice of God was about to
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come. Let me tell you, even when you
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enter the season of His voice, you will not know you are that
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close. It will be 1 morning.
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And then the king sent for fear for Joseph, just like somebody
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came for Koinonia here tonight. You don't know that this is the
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voice of His Majesty. After 10 years, after 15 years,
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after 20 years, after five years, after two months, finally
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His Majesty is about to speak. Sit down.
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Let me tell you how God speaks. When God is speaking to end your
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seasons, he does not come as a still small voice.
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Read your Bible when it has to do with bringing your season to
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an end. He comes in majesty.
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He will do things that will let them.
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It will be impossible to doubt that He's the one that came.
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Hallelujah. And on that morning, Joseph got
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up in the morning. How are you, dear prisoners?
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How are you, Joseph? God bless you.
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He's been a long time. 2 years plus.
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We don't know how long he stayed in the prison.
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We know that the two years was from the time the one presser
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left. So X number of years plus two
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years. He didn't know that that money,
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he'll be Prime Minister. The gate, The jailer did not
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know he was going to open the gate for his boss.
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Hear me while you are praying and trusting God.
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Lord, if you will only give me a job of 200,000, I will be
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grateful the day the voice of God comes to honor you for being
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patient through the season of silence.
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Somebody will call you and say I'm living Nigeria.
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I've been looking for someone to help my company, can you come
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and do it for me? And you will think it's a lie
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that when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion, we were
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like 10 that 3. Please sit down.
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The king sent for Joseph and they brought him out of his
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dungeon. I'm sure his heart was beating
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when he came to stand because they didn't tell him why they
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asked him to come out. If a king should send for you
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from prison, you are either going to go back or you they
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will execute you. And I can imagine him shaking
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and standing before the king, Your Majesty.
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And the king said, well, I slept and I had a dream.
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And they say you can interpret dreams, said, well, it is not
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within my power. God will give Pharaoh an answer
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of peace. This is what you saw, Pharaoh.
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This is what you saw. So what is the solution?
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Gather 20% of all of this and save for seven years.
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And when he finished, Pharaoh said, since God revealed it to
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you, who else in Egypt is able to do this?
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I am Pharaoh, and it is only in the throne that you will be
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second to me. You become the administrator
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right away. Look up.
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There are many things you would have done when he was in prison.
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When he was in prison, he probably would have been
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gathering some money to build his own house and make meaning
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of his life. Everything he would have done if
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you were not in the prison came to him in one day.
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Read your Bible. A wife came in.
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He didn't need to look for a wife.
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Portifera, the wife of the priest, the priest of on his
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daughter. They gave him free, they changed
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his name. They put royal robe.
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Everything in one day. Can I tell you while you are
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waiting? Don't be regretting what you
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would have been doing. It is already in the plan.
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The compensation is in the plan. Believe me when I tell you this,
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Shana malaka Tosiata, the compensation has already been
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built. Hear me.
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I know, Ohana, that you've been waiting a long time for a child.
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But be patient. The child that is coming is not
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a normal child. He is the one who will anoint
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all the kings of Israel. So be patient, hear me.
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Do you know why patience is powerful?
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Patience is powerful because it can help you to be able to
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gather together the kind of compassion you need through your
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pain so that you will sustain certain results when they come.
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When certain destiny things come to easy, there is no memory Bank
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of pain. You will be careless over many
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great things, but when you you think Joseph had the time to be
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careless after spending X + 2 years in the prison, the memory
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of his pain in the prison will not make him take his job
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lightly. That's why some of us press into
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this thing of God because we know where he brought us from.
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Sit down. Let's wrap up.
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When God is silent, number one, it means He's walking on you,
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the vessel #2 When God is silent, what does that mean?
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It means He is working on other factors needed to help you do
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His will. Look up, please.
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The will of God does not only depend on your obedience.
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The will of God depends on the synergy of many other people and
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many other factors. And sometimes when God leaves
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you in his silence is because he's at the other end of your
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destiny, rearranging the people and the conditions that must
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make you to work in purpose. Let me show you one scripture
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very quickly. Luke chapter 1 from verse 39.
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Is God helping someone tonight? Luke chapter 1 from verse 39.
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This is the story of Mary and Elizabeth.
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If Elizabeth had a child before that time, there would be no
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occasion that will bring two of them together.
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And Mary arose in those days. The moment watch this now, the
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moment Mary finished her interaction with the angels, she
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found out that her stomach started protruding.
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She was afraid because no one else could relate with her
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situation. But she remembered there was
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Elizabeth, a woman who has also gone through that season.
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And so as soon as she went to meet her.
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Do you know that one of the major reasons why Elizabeth was
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delayed was so that the timing of Jesus and John the Baptist?
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Imagine if she gave back and John did everything, roam around
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and died. Do you know how frustrating John
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would have it would have been for John to be in the
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wilderness? All the while Jesus was growing?
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John was also in the wilderness. It was the moment he started his
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ministry. That was when Jesus was also
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ready to be baptized. If John were born earlier than
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that time, John would not be able to have the patience to
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wait until Jesus grows. Imagine John as an adult and
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then Jesus will start growing. How old will he be when Jesus
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will be 30? So for that sake, Elizabeth had
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to wait. There are times that the silence
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of God means he's putting other things in place that would need
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to the bone, that would be joined to bone to make sense of
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your destiny and purpose. Hallelujah.
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Are you hearing what I'm saying now?
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Let's finish up 3940 now. And entered into the House of
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Zacharias and saluted Elizabeth. Verse 41 and it came to pass
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that when Elizabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the babe
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lived in her womb and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost.
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I thought God was silent so the Holy Ghost could still speak
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through Elizabeth. Why didn't you speak for that
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long? I thought Elizabeth had
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backslidden, that she would not hear the voice of God again.
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And the moment she met with Mary, the Holy Ghost came again,
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and she began to speak. Thou art blessed among women,
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and blessed is the fruit of your womb.
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Uh huh. Next verse.
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And whence is this to me, that the mother of my Lord should
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come to me? Are you seeing prophecy?
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Who told Elizabeth that this young lady was carrying his
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Lord, her Lord 44 and law? As soon as the voice of my
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salutation sounded in my ears, the babe leaped in womb for joy.
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Destiny had connected. Can I tell you this for some of
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you, the reason why God is delaying you like this is
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because the person in the blueprint of your destiny to
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connect you, the person just got born again.
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And that's why God is anointing people like us to hurry up with
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the training of that person so that the person will rise to a
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position where that destiny connection can happen.
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Are you getting what I'm saying? Now imagine Boaz roaming around
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and asking I am a responsible man, will I not get a Good Wife
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to marry? Whereas something was happening
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at the back end, Ruth and Naomi, God was preparing the great
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grandmother of Jesus and unknown to the man who would be a great
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grandfather of Jesus. Can I tell you this, every time
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you don't understand God, give thanks and know that He's doing
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something, preparing a table, fixing things that you will
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never, never need to have any trouble about again in your
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life. For many years in Zarya again,
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we're looking for land for ministry.
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No ministry will stay that long without at least having a
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property to start building and all of that.
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And we looked around for land. We looked around for land.
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I prayed and prayed and fasted. I said, Lord, there has to be
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land in Zarya here for us. Every time you call people, you
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are knowing them. There has to be.
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I mean, there should be something.
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I prayed and prayed and but then when I learned this, I knew that
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something was happening and I kept quiet.
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One day one thing led to the other and then I go.
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I, I slept and I had a dream and I saw directly opposite the
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teaching hospital in Zarya. I saw myself standing there and
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there was an empty land there. And the Lord told me, this is
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true, that one day this will be the place that you will buy.
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They had done an excavation there to fix the road and so
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because he was depressed, I'm not sure most people could
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afford buying it and all of that.
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And that was where God kept that land to get that much that size
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of a land in Zarya is is is quite a big 36 plots and right
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there God kept it. I'm sure the cold that was tired
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to be wondering what am I doing here?
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My colleagues are moving around. Why am I being tied here like
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this? Not knowing that he was being
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tied there, Even the owner did not.
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He said the code that no man had ridden on.
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That means when the owner bought it, he just felt something was
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leading him to tie it. I'm sure the code to say, who
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did I offend? I've been here for a long time
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not knowing that you have the privilege to be the one to write
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Jesus, the triumphant entry. But when the time came, Jesus
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himself said, now that I have come, all things are ready.
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Go and lose that cold. And if any man asks you why are
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you now losing what you tried before, tell them the Master for
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some of you God tied you because of something great.
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He stopped you when other people were going for what He kept you.
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And now he's about to reveal you like a trophy because all things
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are ready. Is someone learning #3 when God
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is silent, what does that mean? The third thing that happens
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when God is silent is that it is possible that He's fighting on
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sin battles and averting certain dangers that may befall you on
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your way to executing His will. He's fighting on sin battles and
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averting certain dangers that the devil is already programming
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ahead of you while you are up and doing.
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As far as his will is concerned, this is very powerful.
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The third reason why God can be silent as far as revealing His
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will is concerned is that he can be at the other side fighting
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battles, unseen battles. Look up please, when Satan tries
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to stop your destiny and he cannot stop it when he knows
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that it is sure you are moving the path of destiny, the next
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thing he does is to begin to program all kinds of wars on
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your path to actualizing destiny.
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God seeing that can suspend that which is his will for your life
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and then deal with the obstacles you'll be waiting for in future.
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And then the moment that is done, He will release you to go.
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One scripture Matthew chapter 2 and verse 20, the Bible says
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when Jesus was born Herod was angry.
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The spirit of the Antichrist was moving through Herod to make
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sure that they would kill all the children and the Angel told
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Joseph and Mary he said wrong with this child and go and hide
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him. Now do you know they hit Jesus
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there and there was no manifestation of Angel again or
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the voice of the spirit silence. They just went remember where
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they run towards a temporary place.
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When do we return back to live our normal lives?
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Silence. Verse 20 says the Angel now
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appeared and said arise and now take the young child and his
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mother and go back into the land of Israel.
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Why? For they are dead which sought
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the young child's life. Now you can go back.
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It is over all those who would have attacked him and frustrated
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the ministry, all the courses and the yokes that would have
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been waiting for you. While God is suspending the
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revelation of His will, He's making sure that all those
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things are dealt with. When the road is clear, He says
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now you can go. The part is clear before you.
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Most believers are not matured enough.
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I hope that what you have learned tonight has helped you
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so that you can give God praise even when it does not make
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sense. And with this understanding, you
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can comfort many others. The silence of God is an
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advantage. Arise, take your business now
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arise, take your family now arise, take your child.
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We're about to pray, but let me share a true life story that
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happened to someone. I pray for a lot of people and a
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couple came and met me one time. True story.
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And the man was really lamenting and he said he was not able to
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have a child. Listen carefully.
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And there was a health problem between him and the wife and all
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of that. And I, I comforted him.
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I said we'll pray. I know it's not easy.
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I was even going to refer him. Maybe you'll see our commended
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Dr. for you to see and all of that.
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And then true story. I held their hands to pray for
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them and suddenly my eyes opened.
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This is a true story. If I'm joking, I'll tell you I'm
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joking. As I held their hands, the Lord
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opened my eyes and I saw a strange vision that would teach
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me a lesson about what I just taught you.
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In that vision, I just saw the man enter a room with the wife
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and I saw children, three children.
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They were running around and then in the scene changed and
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all of them entered a car and they were driving and going
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somewhere and then a truck or something like that, I can't
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really remember, came and just smashed everything and all the
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children died. That was what I saw in my
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vision. I mean it, I stand by God to
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tell you this, All the children died and I saw them wailing and
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wailing and I came back to myself and I said, you say you
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don't have children or you lost children.
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They say no, we've never had children.
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I said give thanks. You don't know what God was
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stopping. Are you are you getting what I'm
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saying now? It see when you walk with God,
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BA, when God says give thanks, just give thanks.
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You don't know the battles. Some of you here respectfully
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speaking not to get too emotional.
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Some of you have you have prayed for God to open some doors and
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the moment the door opened, the trouble that came with that
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door, it was almost not worth it again.
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And God is saying, I don't want that to happen to you again.
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Allow me deal with the battles that the devil has programmed.
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Then it will be a triumphant entry for you.
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Is someone understanding what I'm teaching now?
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This is very, very powerful. Very powerful.
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If you do not understand this side of God, you will never be
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able to give thanks even when you don't understand him.
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If God did not train Moses for the extra 30 years and simply
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because of the pressure to make sure prophecy comes to pass and
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he pushed Moses prematurely like that, he may have brought them
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out of Egypt, but they would all die.
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Even with all the training. It was only Joshua and Caleb in
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that generation that entered the promised land.
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So you would wonder what was the hurry now for did you read the
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story of the of the of the that was a Tsunamite woman, right?
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The one who had a child who later died.
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Remember there was a time that the prophet will be passing and
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she would see him and say please let me honor you.
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I discern you a man of God. One time he said OK because
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every time you honor a grace you provoke something from that
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grace to bless you. He said what do I do for you?
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I have influence. Should I speak in the Gov to the
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government? He said no, I live among my own
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people. Do you have a child?
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No, according to the time of life you will have a child.
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I remember the day, or I can imagine the day, they were
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dancing with the child, wondering join us, sing
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Hallelujah, not knowing that a few moments after that the child
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was going to die and the child died.
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They brought Gehazi. His spirit didn't allow the
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anointing walk. He came with the rod and nothing
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happened. Because it's not just in the
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road. It your heart is the battery
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that powers that rod. If your heart condition is
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corrupt, you can hold a real rod and it will not wake anybody.
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And the prophet had to come himself.
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He was teaching us a lesson there, that when God gives you
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breakthrough, He takes responsibility for maintaining
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it. Can I tell you this?
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Look up now. I want to tell you this as we
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wrap up. Every time through ignorance you
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indict the integrity of God. He will let you have your way,
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but you will be ready for the consequences of going out of his
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program. Let me repeat every time you
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insist and you put pressure on God and you say Lord, I don't
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understand this your thing. I have a will you give me a will
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I choose to do things my way. God will honor you the same way
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is Sina can stand and say I don't care.
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Carry your Calvary there and go. I didn't ask you to die for me.
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God will honor them to live their lives, but at the end of
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it, when they die, for sure they are going to hell.
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It is dangerous to wrestle with God.
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It is possible to wrestle with God and you will be the winner.
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I hope you know that it is possible to wrestle with God and
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you will be the one who wins. But let me tell you this, every
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time your will defeats the will of God, start being afraid for
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yourself. It would take mercy to redeem
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you. Tonight's teaching is very
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serious. It would take mercy to redeem
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you when you get out of the will of God.
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There are stories upon stories I can tell you of people who
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stubbornly push through God. I don't care.
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You are the one that we praise. You are the one we adore.
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You give the healing and grace that are hearts always hunger.
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We're going to pray. There was a time I was given an
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invitation to go to a particular nation.
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I would not mention the name and my people already know.
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The moment my spirit begins to fight something, they just leave
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me alone quietly. Because once my spirit starts
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fighting something, I know that there is something that is wrong
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I may not fully understand. We started planning for that
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meeting and the people were very happy.
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I was excited to go to that land.
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It will be my first time there and I perceived the people to be
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very serious. But we started the planning to
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go and stamp my visa. My visa was in another embassy.
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There was a delay. Very silly things were causing
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it was many things were affecting the preparation.
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At the point I told them stop, something is wrong.
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I know my work with God, something is wrong.
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Eventually I asked them to tell the people that I'm sorry, I may
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not be able to make it. True story.
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They were very sad. Now I love them even today.
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Perhaps they are following, but I said I may not.
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I'm not going to be able to honor the meeting.
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I'm sorry, but they got really sad.
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They got sad and I said what is wrong?
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If you've spent some money, maybe bookings, don't worry, let
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me just have your bills. I will refund you in full.
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Later on, I would discover that when it was announced that I was
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coming to that nation, true story.
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People from neighboring nations started saying we're coming to.
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And when they saw the volume of people and the kinds of people,
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they sat together and said, look, we're not going to waste
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this opportunity. They now came up with a program
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where people will pay a particular amount and then they
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will have a private session with me.
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They gave them an assurance that if they pay that money, they
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will give them. And the people said if it's a
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possible, no problem. How much is it?
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Some people were going to pay for themselves and their whole
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families. And while I was here, my spirit,
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I'm teaching you how to walk in the will of God.
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If your prayer life is dead, you will fall into many traps
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cheaply. Not every open door is God's
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door, or not every open door is a door you should enter at that
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time. Sometimes it may be the door you
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will eventually enter. It was a difficult thing.
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Later on, in anger, they did not tell the people I was not coming
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again because they didn't want to be disappointed and so the
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meeting would start. Crowds of people came and they
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brought somebody with all due respect to the body of Christ.
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They carried one prophet from a nation and took somewhere and
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one young boy. That boy made a caricature of
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the gospel. He did so many and it was a land
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that is very conservative. That young boy did a lot of
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nonsense things was trying to it turn.
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I think I was hearing he was turning water.
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You know I'm, I'm not, I don't speak against, I, I, I believe
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in miracles, but I know what is not a miracle.
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Hallelujah. A lot of nonsense.
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And imagine respectable people who flew in.
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You can imagine a man of status with his children who flew in.
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People were fasting and praying to encounter God.
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Here comes a young boy ill prepared for ministry who just
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came and wasted their time. People were just kissing and
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they got up and walked away. They said no wonder apostle did
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not come. And I said Lord, you see how you
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protect us and sometimes we don't know that it is your love.
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Many restraints is the love and the mercy of God so that certain
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battles will be fought. Are we together?
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When Koinonia started, after about 2-3 years or thereabout, I
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started having an inspiration. Should I come to Abuja to come
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and set up Koinonia? I was in this same city having a
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retreat and I saw a plane. The plane was written Eni.
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The plane left Zarya and it was coming to Abuja.
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The moment he was about to land Abuja, it crashed and everybody
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within the plane died. I knew what God was saying that
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don't you dare do anything that is outside of my timing.
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It was still in His plan that will be here.
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But timing is as important as the word.
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The word go and the word go now are not the same.
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The word go and the word go later are not the same.
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So just because God tells you you are going to go left, you
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need to ask Him. Now that I know where I'm going,
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when am I going? When am I going?
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Because if you miss one day or if you exceed with one day, it
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can corrupt the entire process of the journey.
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Has God spoken to someone tonight?
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There are only two prayer points.
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We are going to pray tonight within the time that we have the
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prayer. First prayer is Oh God, where I
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am already at the edge of making a fatal disaster over my life, I
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obtain grace for AU tone this night.
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Open your mouth and begin to pray.
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Please pray from the depth of your heart.
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Someone is praying. Talk to the Lord.
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Chabrande que baratos ka de Bala Husky de Bala ingrate ka TE Bala
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ka tosha de Bella ka tosh. Lord, where I have missed out on
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your will for my life, I obtain grace in the name of Jesus
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Christ. Someone is praying where I have
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feared of. Sincerely.
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I thought you are the one telling me to do the business.
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I thought you told me to start ministry.
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Now I realize you're not the one.
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I'm not ashamed to cry. Show me mercy because he said
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his yoke is easy and his burden is light.
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When you are carrying what is killing you fat.
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And be sure that it is God's burden you are carrying.
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Shabran de ke balaka tosh koto brandeger de.
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Don't be tired. Please pray, this is about your
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destiny. Hallelujah, Prayer point #2
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Lord, grant me the grace and the staying power that all the days
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of my appointed time I will wait until your voice comes to lead
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me. Destroy the spirit of
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impatience. Listen, especially this our
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generation. There is pressure to prove a
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point. I am now a millionaire.
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Ministry is now working. I now have 30,000 members.
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Be careful, for 10 years you may be pastoring 10 people.
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Those 10 people are not yet your members.
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They are the leaders who are raising afterwards.
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God will now bring members and you will find out that you are
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leading a global ministry. It is this lack of understanding
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the will of God and the timing of God that has brought many
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people to rub their hands in all kinds of satanic things.
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You are going to pray Lord, the grace to stay, the grace to stay
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in the area and the place of your will.
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No matter the sun, no matter the rain, the stamina to insist to
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see that your will come to pass in my life.
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Someone pray, lift your voice and pray.
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Shalaga de branaga de barratos kadebraha kazia.
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Somebody pray. Somebody pray from the depth of
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your heart. Shalabra kadeba, shalabra nagada
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barratos kodia. Hallelujah first.
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John 514 and 15. First, John 514 and 15, please
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media help us. First John 514 and six, this
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will be our memory verse for tonight.
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Use it to pray throughout this week.
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Let's read it together. And this is the confidence we
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have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will,
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He here at US15 And if we know that He hear us whatsoever we
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ask, we know that we have our petitions that we desired of
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Him. Your confidence is that once you
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are in the will of God, find rest.
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Once you are in the will of God, find rest.
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For some of you, you are about to quit your job right now and
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God is saying that job, if you are, can be patient three more
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months just when your promotion is on his way, come in.
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Don't let the devil cheat you because the salary is not a
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reflection. Don't make the mistake of Hagar
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when they banish Hagar. Hagar went away in anger.
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When God matter is a return back to your Mistral, your mistress.
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Listen, please use this week to pray.
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Pray in the Spirit. Write the various aspects of
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your life out and say Father with clarity, reveal your will.
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Don't mind people who say it doesn't matter.
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You have a brain. Be careful.
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Brain has landed many people in trouble.
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It is better to be foolish and to wait.
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When His word comes, influence comes, grace comes.
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The man you are seeing today standing before you, that by the
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privilege of God's grace you celebrate, is a product of the
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honor that comes in standing with the will of God.
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I pray for you in the name of Jesus, the Son of the living
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God. For all of you who are asking,
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Lord, direct me. Let me know your counsel for the
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next chapter of my life. Receive precision of
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understanding of His will in Jesus name.
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Some of you who will come to you in dreams this night, some in
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visions this night, some He will give you a scripture this night,
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some he will reveal to your spirit this night.
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But by all means may my God reveal to you.
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By all means, may my God reveal to you #2 I want to pray
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specially for all those who have been in the waiting room of
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destiny, waiting on the word of the Lord.
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I want to pray for you. Everything that was lost shall
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be returned unto you. Everything that was stolen shall
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be restored unto you. Everything that was lost shall
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we return unto you. Everything that was stolen shall
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unto you. Can I tell you this?
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Hear me, It does not take God anything to compress the
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blessings of your 20 years, of your 10 years, of your five
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years, and bring it in a moment. Therefore I prophecy to you,
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especially for those who have been waiting on the word of the
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Lord. In the name of Jesus.
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With His Word, let there be restoration, with His Word, let
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there be multiplication. With His Word, let there be
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increase in the name of Jesus. Hear me for some of you, as the
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Word of God is coming in this season, it will come with a
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grace to pursue. It will come with a grace to
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overtake. And by all means to recover all.
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I say it again, it will come with a grace to pursue.
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It will come with a grace to overtake.
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Hear me, some of you may have been buried 5/10/15 years.
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It's not one child that will come.
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Four children at once will come to compensate for the time of
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waiting in the name of Jesus Christ.
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Joseph, do not fear, your compensation is already in the
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palace. Joseph, do not see your season
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of the prison as a waste. Your compensation If you insist
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to come out of the prison, God will open the door, but you will
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return back to Potiphar's house. But if you wait for his timing,
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you will never need to go to Potiphar's house again.
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From the prison you are going to the throne.
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May the grace that enthrones let that grace rest upon you.
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May the grace that lifts, let that grace rest upon you.
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In the name of Jesus Christ, please let me encourage you.
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Please I plead with everyone of you watching and listening.
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In the name of Jesus Christ, the Son of the living God, listen to
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this message again. Please, if you love Jesus and
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you honor me as your man of God, go and listen to this.
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Go to Koinonia Global, some of you this night.
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Go and settle down again. Believe me when I tell you many
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of you did not hear what I said. Go back and listen with your
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heart open and you will truly hear what the Lord told you
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through this message. Are we together?
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Everybody go and settle down and listen.
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You will share a word for your business, You will share a word
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for your health, for every aspect of your life.
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Apostle, I need Jesus. I can't hear this kind of
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message. The Bible says it is the will of
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God that all men be.