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Why You Need a Retreat by Apostle Joshua Selman · Selah Media House

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  You have never had a retreat. Don't be too busy for a retreat
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  is an attack. Go for an end of year retreat.
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  I'm repeating myself, you have heard me before.
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  Most believers are not taught that a retreat is part of the
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  believers process. Retreats are times where you set
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  apart. You set apart time to be with
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  the Lord, to be all by yourself, flogging it out with destiny.
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  Listen carefully. A retreat is a time that is set
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  apart away from the noise. If God grants you grace and your
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  buoyant enough, you can travel somewhere, be alone with God at
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  any level. You can even use your house just
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  away from the noise and destruction.
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  Take a day, take it two days, take 3 days and spend with the
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  Lord. What do you do in a retreat #1
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  Thanksgiving. The first thing we do in a
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  retreat is to personally, lavishly express gratitude to
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  the God who has kept you. Please learn this.
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  Believers must be taught. What do you do in a retreat #2
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  An honest appraisal of the current year.
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  The year ending. Now you do an appraisal of the
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  year. This is the second thing we do
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  in a retreat. After you are done thanking God,
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  rolling before your Maker, thanking him for all He's done,
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  the next thing is you must appraise the year.
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  And I've taught you the indices that you used to appraise your
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  year, your spiritual growth, your level of mental
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  transformation, your level of health and wholeness.
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  Are we together? Your relationships, your
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  finances, purpose, and you know, destiny advancement.
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  You gauge your life against this indices.
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  Have I done well this year? What would I have done better
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  this year that I did not do? What opportunities did I miss?
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  What opportunities did I maximize?
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  What instructions did I ignore? What was the price, the
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  consequence? Are we together?
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  Let me tell you this, when you are doing an appraisal of
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  yourself, do not lie to yourself.
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  Be sincere and honest, as transparent before God as you
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  can be. OK?
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  This year I lost a lot of opportunities because of
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  carelessness. This year, from a spiritual
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  standpoint, I was not serious. My prayer life not to feel
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  condemned. It is between you and God.
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  It's nobody's business. This year had my highest rating
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  in terms of spiritual growth. But as a father, I must confess
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  that this year I was. I did not perform my fatherly
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  role to my family as should be. I allowed my wife to be the best
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  in feeding us all through this year.
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  And I did not even tell her thank you.
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  You're having a retreat now. Lord forgive me.
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  Don't feel condemned. Lord, forgive me.
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  This year I allowed my children. I don't even know where they got
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  their school fees from. It's only God that saved them.
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  They would have prostituted themselves.
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  I take responsibility. A retreat is not the time to
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  dance and ask God for more anointing.
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  You appraise yourself first after Thanksgiving, appraisal.
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  As a man of God, did I teach Koinonia the best that I could?
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  Did I help the people? Did I manipulate the people?
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  Did I teach them truth? Was I sound in Scripture?
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  Is there something about my teaching method I need to
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  change? As ACEO?
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  Go for a retreat. It doesn't matter that it's a
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  secular corporation. OK?
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  Have I paid my people well? We made so much gain this year.
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  Did I share the honor? Did I increase their salary?
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  Some of the pillars in my company?
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  Did I bless them or I just ignored everybody I had told the
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  prophet alone? As Aceo and the Holy Spirit
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  tells you, this is wrong. You need to change.
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  Motivate your people, encourage them.
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  The security man who stopped armed robbers from killing you,
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  he's still receiving 5000. Till now you'd have been dead,
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  long dead. The man has a secret to all your
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  office doors and all of that, and he's not touched one narrow.
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  You are still giving him 5000. He told you his wife has given.
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  Bet you are still giving him 5000 retreats.
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  That's where you flog it out. As a man of God, I need to
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  improve on my teaching. There's a lot of spiritual
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  laziness. No, I need to step up.
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  Maybe I need to go and meet another man of God.
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  Have some time of discussion. Let iron sharpen iron.
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  You see that now As a minister, I think we need to move to the
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  next level structural establishment.
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  As a businessman in the place you are appraising yourself.
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  We had potential to have 5 branches of my business, but
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  laziness and carelessness and fear kept me in one place.
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  This is what you do during a retreat.
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  Any great man, whether in the secular or in the faith walk who
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  does not practice retreats can never be exceptional.
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  End of year retreat Now generally speaking, you
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  shouldn't wait till the end of year before you do retreats.
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  You can fragment your life across various faces.
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  There are people who have retreats once every month.
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  They have retreats at strategic periods of their lives, their
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  birthdays, their anniversaries. But every believer has a Kingdom
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  culture. One of the reasons why we give
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  break, you can imagine, I told you already that a dear man of
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  God confronted me one time and said, apostle, you're an
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  interesting person. How do you give a ministry this
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  size break? What if you resume and nobody
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  comes? You know, we give breaks for
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  these kinds of reasons to give you room because your
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  relationship with God is greater than ministry.
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  If you remain faithful, Koinonia people and you are going down
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  spiritually. We're only playing games here.
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  You know that, right? So this is you and God now,
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  spending time with God, spending time with family, spending time
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  building your destiny. I want you build too, not just
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  the ministry build. It is people who are builds that
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  can build a vision. You believe that if a CEO goes
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  to have two days with his directors or alone with God,
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  imagine what happens when he returns by January, February,
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  that person would have surpassed ordinary standards.
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  Now let me tell you the truth, this is the reason why most
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  Africans do not thrive because we do not believe in this
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  without trying to, you know, create any bias of regional
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  biases. One of the things that you learn
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  from the West is that they, they maximize moments like this.
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  They take the time they can travel somewhere to 1 village
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  that nobody knows and you will see someone who is a
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  multimillionaire in a village somewhere.
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  Just book an Airbnb and sit down there asking serious questions.
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  These are the kind of people that Jesus said they are not far
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  from, you know, the Kingdom because they are practicing.
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  All that is left is for them to be born again.
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  But as far as pro Kingdom principles are concerned, they
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  are working in it. Let me challenge you.
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  For some of you, you have never had a retreat.
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  Don't be too busy for a retreat. It's an attack.
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  There are things God has wanted to tell you.
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  He's been wanting to tell you for a long time.
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  But maybe you're being a worker. You're being diligent as a
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  worker will even distract you. The vicissitudes of life.
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  Now in that silence he can come to you and say, since much I've
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  been wanting to point something to you, but you are too busy to
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  hear. Now.
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  Thank God you have given me time and One Direction from him.
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  That leads me to the third. What do you do in a retreat #3
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  planning and resolutions for the next season.
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  I hope you. I hope I've not lost you.
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  We're talking about retreats now go for an end of year, a
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  personal retreat. What do you do in a retreat?
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  Thanksgiving. What do you do in a retreat?
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  An honest appraisal of the year you are.
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  Praise yourself. What do you do in a retreat?
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  Planning and resolutions for the next season.
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  Now you begin to plan. How much do I earn?
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  How can I plan better? How?
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  How do I need to, you know, walk my spiritual life?
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  I started this year, as you know, an ordinary staff.
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  Now I've occupied A managerial position.
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  I have to design a new spiritual formula for my remaining
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  spiritually vibrant. This is where planning comes.
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  You plan. What do you do in a retreat?
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  You obtain the doing grace. There is a grace called the
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  doing or the enabling grace. It says now that you know these
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  things, happy are you if you do them.
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  It's not enough to just plan. Most of you have your books full
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  of things you plan to do this year.
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  Some of you did not do even 1. Don't end the retreat just by
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  proper beautiful planning. No many other devices in a man's
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  heart. The Bible says however, the
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  counsel of the Lord alone that shall stand.
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  And when God gives you counsel, He also gives you the doing
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  grace, the doing grace. When we started this year, there
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  are many things that God gave us an instruction that we do.
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  We did not know what as yet how they would be done, but glory be
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  to God, listening to Him and obtaining that doing grace
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  granted us the opportunity to do very great things for God this
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  year. Let me recap again that a
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  retreat is a time that is set about apart to be with the Lord,
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  is a time of renewal, is a time of refreshing, is a time to get
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  direction for your life.