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Your Prayer Life · Apostle Joshua Selman

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  Speaker 1: What is my first key if I want to step
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  Speaker 1: into the realm of rest round about? Are you ready
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  Speaker 1: the decision to be spiritually minded? The first key, non
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  Speaker 1: negotiable key for anyone who desires to work in the
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  Speaker 1: experience of rest roundabout, rest on every side is to
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  Speaker 1: be spiritually minded Romans eight six. Romans eight six, Paul
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  Speaker 1: was speaking, and is said to be cannally minded is
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  Speaker 1: already death, death in its entirety, And then it says,
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  Speaker 1: but to be spiritually minded is life and with it peace.
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  Speaker 2: Spiritually minded.
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  Speaker 1: Spirituality involve a number of many experiences and dimensions.
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  Speaker 2: The chiefest of them been your encounter with the Lord Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: You may want to write this on thus being spiritually
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  Speaker 1: minded true spirituality stats not just with your coming to church,
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  Speaker 1: not just with your listening to a man of God,
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  Speaker 1: not just with your.
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  Speaker 2: Listening to a message.
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  Speaker 1: True spirituality stats with your encounter with the Lord Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: Are we still learning, still examining the first key that
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  Speaker 1: to find rest round about you must be spiritually minded,
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  Speaker 1: and that the pathway to becoming spiritually minded is number one,
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  Speaker 1: to have an encounter with Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: Matthew, Chapter eleven and verse twenty eight. I love Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: Here's what he has to say, Matthew eleven, twenty eight.
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  Speaker 1: Can we read it together, one to read? Please come
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  Speaker 1: on to me. All ye that label and a heavy leader.
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  Speaker 1: What's the reward.
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  Speaker 2: I will give you rest, not just life.
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  Speaker 1: I will give your family rest. I will give your
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  Speaker 1: ministry rest. I will give your business rest. I will
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  Speaker 1: give your children rest. I will give your health rest.
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  Speaker 1: But the keys come on to me, Come.
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  Speaker 2: On to me.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible tells us the story of a young boy
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  Speaker 1: called the prodigal Son. That boy had his share of
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  Speaker 1: the inheritance and went to live at ryotos life, and
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  Speaker 1: when he had so declined to a point that he
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  Speaker 1: was the epitomy of calamity and felure. The Bible says
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  Speaker 1: he got up one day and said to himself, how
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  Speaker 1: many high servants as my father, and I am here
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  Speaker 1: feeding with the swine. I like the boy, He said,
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  Speaker 1: I will arise. He didn't say, my father will come
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  Speaker 1: and meet me there. The father never came to meet
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  Speaker 1: him in the place of dicadens. I will arise, and
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  Speaker 1: I will go to my father. And when I say
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  Speaker 1: my father, I will say unto him. Father I have
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  Speaker 1: sin against you and against Heaven. I am not worthy
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  Speaker 1: to be called your son. Take me as one of
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  Speaker 1: your slaves. As soon as he got up and began
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  Speaker 1: to move, the father also left his house and began
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  Speaker 1: to move.
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  Speaker 2: They met somewhere at the point of his decision and
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  Speaker 2: encounter with Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: There are many people who want to receive from God,
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  Speaker 1: but they do not desire to be spiritual. With all
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  Speaker 1: due respect, many politicians, many businessmen, captains of industry, parents,
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  Speaker 1: young people especially, they do not desire to have an
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  Speaker 1: encounter with Jesus, but they want the fruits of encounter.
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  Speaker 1: There are certain things that cannot be received through a
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  Speaker 1: back door. Jesus said this about himself. I am the way,
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  Speaker 1: not a way. The way. There is a way that
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  Speaker 1: sameth right onto a man, the Bible says, but the
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  Speaker 1: end thereof are.
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  Speaker 2: The ways of death.
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  Speaker 1: But hees Jesus speaking, He says, I am the way,
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  Speaker 1: I am the truth, I am the life. He says,
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  Speaker 1: no man comment to the Father except through me.
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  Speaker 2: And encounter with Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: When you encounter Jesus, you are already on your way
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  Speaker 1: to being secure.
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  Speaker 2: Proverbs eighteen ten.
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  Speaker 1: Proverbs chapter eighteen and verse ten very powerful and profound rendition.
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  Speaker 1: He says, the name of the Lord is a strong tower. Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 1: The right sus runs into it, and they are say
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  Speaker 1: the name of the Lord, the name of the Lord,
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  Speaker 1: not the name of a man. The name of the
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  Speaker 1: Lord is a strong tower. There is no house on
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  Speaker 1: earth that you can hide too in away from demons.
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  Speaker 2: You can hide away from our robots.
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  Speaker 1: The military can protect you against physical forces, but they
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  Speaker 1: may not be able to protect you against principalities and
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  Speaker 1: powers and rulers of darkness, age, long causes that are
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  Speaker 1: determined to reduce you to a place of shame.
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  Speaker 2: But my Bible says the name.
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  Speaker 1: Of the Lord is a strong power that the writers
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  Speaker 1: can run into it and be shore that what killed
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  Speaker 1: my father would not kill me again, what killed my
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  Speaker 1: mother would not kill me again.
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  Speaker 2: What destroyed people from my lineage?
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  Speaker 1: I can redefine my possibilities when I run to Jesus, Allelujah.
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  Speaker 1: You believe that Oga you are my eger, and I
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  Speaker 1: will have a phrasey Hoga mya, and I will have praisy.
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  Speaker 2: I will seek you with the morning.
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  Speaker 1: I have left to walk in your ways.
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  Speaker 2: Step bus you leave me and.
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  Speaker 3: I will follow you all of my days.
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  Speaker 1: For step by step you leave me, and I will
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  Speaker 1: follow you all of my days.
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  Speaker 3: Oh God, you are my God, and I will have
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  Speaker 3: a praises. Oh God, you are my God, and I.
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  Speaker 2: Will ever love you.
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  Speaker 3: I will seek you with the morning.
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  Speaker 1: I have learned to work in your ways.
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  Speaker 2: Firstep mister, you leave me, and now I will follow
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  Speaker 2: you all of my day.
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  Speaker 1: Listen, ladies and gentlemen, hear me. This business of Jesus
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  Speaker 1: Christ is beyond Church. This issue of Jesus Christ is
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  Speaker 1: beyond the pretense and the hypocrisy the form of godliness.
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  Speaker 1: This issue of Jesus must be a genuine encounter.
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  Speaker 2: There are many things you cannot fake.
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  Speaker 1: One of it is a solid, genuine encounter with the
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  Speaker 1: Lord Jesus Christ.
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  Speaker 2: With all due respect, there.
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  Speaker 1: Are many people in church who have not met him.
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  Speaker 1: There are many people in minnis who have not met him.
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  Speaker 2: There are many people.
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  Speaker 1: Serving at various levels in ministries and Christian organizations who
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  Speaker 1: are working for God but not with him.
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  Speaker 2: Please listen, Please listen.
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  Speaker 1: While I watched several people dancing to the praise and
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  Speaker 1: worship powerfully, among the many things that moved in my
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  Speaker 1: spirit was all God. I pray and hope that this
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  Speaker 1: dance is to a god.
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  Speaker 2: They know. I pray and hope.
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  Speaker 1: That this sweating and rejoicing is to a God.
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  Speaker 2: You know, because there.
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  Speaker 1: Were men in a place called Attends who were doing
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  Speaker 1: obey sans to an unknown God. There are many people
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  Speaker 1: giving to an unknown god, singing to an unknown god,
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  Speaker 1: preaching for an unknown God, moving from place to place,
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  Speaker 1: wearing this that's carrying the name of a god they
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  Speaker 1: do not know. You want rest roundabout? There are things
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  Speaker 1: that men cannot give. Rest is not found in a bank.
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  Speaker 1: You don't find rest in a university. There is no
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  Speaker 1: cause called rest.
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  Speaker 2: There is no.
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  Speaker 1: Chef who can cook a meal called rest. No, it
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  Speaker 1: does not exist in the world of men. Rest only
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  Speaker 1: resides with the ancient of days.
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  Speaker 2: I will give you rest. I will give you rest. Now,
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  Speaker 2: watch this what discussing being spiritually minded? Ladies and gentleman.
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  Speaker 2: Hear me.
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  Speaker 1: At the end of my discourse, I'm going to be
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  Speaker 1: making an altar call, And I believe there are people here.
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  Speaker 1: You've been around the things of God for a long time.
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  Speaker 1: You perhaps may have had an opportunity to serve in
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  Speaker 1: various capacities in church. That does not equal to an
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  Speaker 1: encounter with God, having a Christian name, coming from a
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  Speaker 1: Christian family. As advantageous as these are, they do not
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  Speaker 1: in themselves.
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  Speaker 2: Translate to salvation.
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  Speaker 1: You must encounter the God of the Bible, the God
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  Speaker 1: of the Bible.
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  Speaker 2: Allelujah. You are my God, You are my God. How
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  Speaker 2: can I call on your name and end up in shame?
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  Speaker 3: No way, no way.
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  Speaker 2: How can I.
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  Speaker 1: Singing the song.
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  Speaker 3: Before you and then found down before a man? No way,
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  Speaker 3: no way.
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  Speaker 1: Because ladies, a gentleman, I'd rather be a failure with
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  Speaker 1: God than to succeed without you. And when I say God,
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  Speaker 1: I'm talking about Jesus Christ, the Son of the Living God.
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  Speaker 1: Because God in our world today means anything. There are
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  Speaker 1: people God means themselves. There are others God means their
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  Speaker 1: bank accounts. There are others. God means they have several qualifications.
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  Speaker 1: As important as that is. My Bible says, trusting the
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  Speaker 1: Lord with all your heart. Prohaps three and verse five
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  Speaker 1: it says, lean not onto your own understanding. Verse six
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  Speaker 1: says in all your ways acknowledge, man, she shall direct
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  Speaker 1: your path. Verse seven says be not wise in your
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  Speaker 1: own understanding. He says fear the Lord and depart, turn
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  Speaker 1: away from evil.
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  Speaker 2: Accept the Lord. You will say house.
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  Speaker 1: My Bible says, they labor in vain, that would build it,
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  Speaker 1: except the Lord watches over a city.
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  Speaker 2: Said the watchman watched but in vain.
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  Speaker 1: That it is vain to wake up in the morning
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  Speaker 1: and to sleep late at night, only to eat the
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  Speaker 1: bread of sorrow. The Sami said, how many a day
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  Speaker 1: that rise up against me? Some three many a day
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  Speaker 1: that say where is your health? But he says, thou o, Lord,
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  Speaker 1: thou o, Lord, thou o, Lord, you are a shield
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  Speaker 1: for me. He calls him my glory, and the left
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  Speaker 1: tarop of my head. The Bible says they looked onto
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  Speaker 1: him and their faces were lightened. You cannot look up
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  Speaker 1: to him and be in shame. When the serpents came
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  Speaker 1: to oppress the nation of Israel, they had an opportunity
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  Speaker 1: to look two directions.
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  Speaker 2: The brazen serpent representing.
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  Speaker 1: The cross, or the one that was coming to them.
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  Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, Behind the exploits and the rest of
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  Speaker 1: men that we admire in our world today, men and
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  Speaker 1: women in ministry, champions in the kingdom, in.
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  Speaker 2: Business, in family.
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  Speaker 1: Behind all the excellence, the admirable results.
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  Speaker 2: Is a passion for God.
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  Speaker 1: I've had the honor on your opportunity to meet people
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  Speaker 1: whose lives are an epitomy of excellence behind all of
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  Speaker 1: that paraphernalia. When you come to them, you find out
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  Speaker 1: that their real secret is not the intellect. Their real
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  Speaker 1: secret is not the banking skill. Their real secret is
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  Speaker 1: their love and their passion for Jesus allelujah. In addition
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  Speaker 1: to having an encounter with Jesus, you want to become
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  Speaker 1: spiritually minded. Your prayer all times be on fire. We're
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  Speaker 1: still discussing point one. This is what it takes to
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  Speaker 1: be spiritually minded. Number one, to have an encounter with
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  Speaker 1: the Son of the Living God. Number two. Your prayer life.
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  Speaker 1: It is the Apostolic model that was left with the Church.
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  Speaker 1: You want to be spiritual, it is not without a
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  Speaker 1: healthy prayer life, Adds Chapter two and verse forty two.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible says, and they continue steadfastly in the apostles doctrine,
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  Speaker 1: and in fellowship, and in breaking of bread.
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  Speaker 2: And in prayer Acts chapter six and verse four.
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  Speaker 1: It says, but we will give ourselves continually to prayer
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  Speaker 1: and the ministry of the world. Luke Chapter eighteen and
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  Speaker 1: verse one hexpect a parable to the end that men
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  Speaker 1: ought always to pray and not to faint. First the Salonia,
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  Speaker 1: Chapter five and verse seventeen, it says, pray without seasing change.
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  Speaker 1: Chapter five and verse tive is any man afflicted, he says,
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  Speaker 1: let him pray. Mark eleven and verse twenty four. It says,
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  Speaker 1: what things soever ye desire when ye pray, believe that
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  Speaker 1: thou receivest them, and thou shalt have it. Ladies and gentlemen,
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  Speaker 1: the men who will command exploits in their world and
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  Speaker 1: find rest tame life like an animal are men and
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  Speaker 1: women who understand the mysteries of the altar.
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  Speaker 2: We must obtain grace to pray. We must obtain grace
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  Speaker 2: to pray. Prayer is not for men of God.
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  Speaker 1: It's not for pastors and apostles and evangelists.
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  Speaker 2: Please listen to me.
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  Speaker 1: Their parents and the aged another prophet, as was.
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  Speaker 2: Old, she still prayed. Young men, Jesus prayed. You must pray.
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  Speaker 1: We must revite prayer as a culture with understanding. A
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  Speaker 1: general that does not pray will be a weak generation
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  Speaker 1: that will never see the power of God.
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  Speaker 2: I tell you sincerely, and I'm not just.
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  Speaker 1: Talking of me driven prayer, Give me, give me, give me.
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  Speaker 1: I'm talking of men who build capacity within the spirit.
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  Speaker 1: Peter said that desire to sift you like Wait, it
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  Speaker 1: says what I.
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  Speaker 2: Have prayed for you.
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  Speaker 1: That's your faith fell not and when now and conforted.
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  Speaker 2: Strengthen your brethren. Show me a man of God who prays.
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  Speaker 1: I show you a victor, one who will have rest
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  Speaker 1: on every side.
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  Speaker 2: Show me a business man who prays.
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  Speaker 1: Show me a mother who prays, no matter how's top
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  Speaker 1: on that child is. Let the mother keep praying. One day,
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  Speaker 1: fire from heaven will look at that child, no matter
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  Speaker 1: where he is. I tell you most people do not
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  Speaker 1: know the power in prayer. Go and read charge history
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  Speaker 1: and see people who shifted the spiritual climate of nations.
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  Speaker 1: Not with the power of prayer. Prayer with understanding can
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  Speaker 1: change things.
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  Speaker 2: Yes it can. In life. Jib was a man of
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  Speaker 2: life passion, the Bible says.
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  Speaker 1: Yet he prayed saying the name of Jesus one more time.
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  Speaker 1: In the name of Jesus, I obtain grace to pray.
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  Speaker 1: If you came here and your prayer life has gone down,
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  Speaker 1: or perhaps until now you have believed that anyone who
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  Speaker 1: is serious in the prayer life must be someone who
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  Speaker 1: is getting into ministry. Please give yourself a renewed orientation.
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  Speaker 1: Prayer is an instrument for time survival. You cannot escape
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  Speaker 1: the arrows that fly by day, the noise and persilences,
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  Speaker 1: the destruction that waste in noonday.
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  Speaker 2: Pray for me. Pray for me is wonderful, but.
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  Speaker 1: You must learn to fund the ambers the flends from
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  Speaker 1: your own altar. Hear me, young people, I hate to
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  Speaker 1: be a pera of bad news, but let me make
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  Speaker 1: an honest admission. The days today are very different from
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  Speaker 1: the days of our parents. The level of honesty has changed,
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  Speaker 1: the level of sincerity has changed. You will have to
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  Speaker 1: use the weapon of prayer to create your own reality.
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  Speaker 1: Or the wise get said to join a long kill
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  Speaker 1: that may never move.
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  Speaker 2: Away.
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  Speaker 1: Together, sir, pray you gentlemen, pray, pray, pray, and possible.
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  Speaker 1: I don't have a job yet, good news, pray. Use
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  Speaker 1: that time to pray while you are waiting. The Bible says,
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  Speaker 1: watch and pray. There is a devil who has found that.
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  Speaker 2: You will not rise. He says, say on to God,
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  Speaker 2: how terrible are that?
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  Speaker 1: Whend I walk some sixty six and stree through the
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  Speaker 1: greatness of thy power shall die. Enemies so meets themselves
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  Speaker 1: to you. You want to tame life, you must master
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  Speaker 1: the out of prayer. Mommy, don't watch your children become
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  Speaker 1: umbrobers and hooligans and says just the times is their days.
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  Speaker 1: Don't let them send you to the grave. No, you
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  Speaker 1: may not have the strength to find them because they
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  Speaker 1: are now bigger than you. But you can bring them
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  Speaker 1: to their knees to prayer. Father, I will not My
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  Speaker 1: womb will not give back to an umbrober. No, my
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  Speaker 1: womb will not give bad to a prostitute. I cannot
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  Speaker 1: give back to a child that will be the reason
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  Speaker 1: for me to die early.
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  Speaker 2: Allelujah.
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  Speaker 1: When ministries not working, Man of God, pray, don't complain.
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  Speaker 2: There is no reward for complaining. Pray, pray.
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  Speaker 1: Someone looks at you in the place of work and
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  Speaker 1: justseys I hate you. You are supposed to be the
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  Speaker 1: next director. What I hate you? You are not my tribe,
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  Speaker 1: you are not this, and you in there will only
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  Speaker 1: you be recording calamity upon calamity.
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  Speaker 2: Leave them in peace.
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  Speaker 1: Go back to the central control room of the universe
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  Speaker 1: and begin to pray.
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  Speaker 2: Certain things.
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  Speaker 1: Do you believe what you're hearing. Then, in addition to prayer,
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  Speaker 1: you must be sound.
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  Speaker 2: In scripture.
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  Speaker 1: Now, let me submit to you. Haven't encourage you to pray.
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  Speaker 1: Prayer in ignorance is just wasting your energy. What gives
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  Speaker 1: power to prayer is the word compliancy of your prayer.
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  Speaker 1: This we have a generation of prayer for people, but
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  Speaker 1: most people pray amiss. What gives power to your prayer
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  Speaker 1: is its word compliancy. Beyond the sound of your voice,
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  Speaker 1: beyond your sweating and rolling from left to right. If
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  Speaker 1: there is no word co pliancy to your prayer, you
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  Speaker 1: simply decipated energy.
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  Speaker 2: In futility.
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  Speaker 1: Are we together? You must be sounding. Scripture A, chapter
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  Speaker 1: twenty and verse thirty two, it says, and now, brethren,
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  Speaker 1: I commend you onto God and to the world of
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  Speaker 1: His grace, which is able to build you up, he says,
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  Speaker 1: and to give you an inheritance among them that are sanctified.
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  Speaker 2: John one one to three.
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  Speaker 1: In the beginning was the Word, and the word was
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  Speaker 1: with God, and the word was God. The Bible says
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  Speaker 1: the same was in the beginning with God. Verse three
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  Speaker 1: says all things were made by Him, the world, all things,
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  Speaker 1: including your tomorrow made by the Word, and without him
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  Speaker 1: was not anything made that was made. The bound of
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  Speaker 1: God's commitment to the believer is his word. God cannot
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  Speaker 1: be committed to the believer outside of.
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  Speaker 2: The boundary of his world. Please listen, beloved people of God.
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  Speaker 1: God only does what he says, not what you want.
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  Speaker 1: If what you want is consistent with what he says,
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  Speaker 1: then it will be done. God never never does anything
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  Speaker 1: that is outside of what he has said. Please give
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  Speaker 1: us Genesis twenty one and verse one. I want us
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  Speaker 1: to shout, it's God helping someone's spiritually minded. But discausing
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  Speaker 1: the case now, because rest roundabout is not a gift.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus said, I will give you rest. The word give
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  Speaker 1: you there does not mean you will not do anything,
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  Speaker 1: and you would just have it because you will be
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  Speaker 1: learning that. Paul was giving perspective to our understanding of rest.
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  Speaker 1: He said, theary minute a rest for the people of God.
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  Speaker 1: Genesis twenty one and verse one. You see that it's
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  Speaker 1: good to come to church. The Church of the Lord
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  Speaker 1: Jesus Christ is the cheapest institution. The sponsors transformation. You
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  Speaker 1: don't have to write jams. There is no age restriction. Allelujah.
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  Speaker 1: All other institutions have quotas. Once the quota is full,
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  Speaker 1: Sorry for you, but the church, all you need to
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  Speaker 1: do is leave your house and come and sit down.
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  Speaker 1: You're not paying schoolfe is Your school. Fe is is
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  Speaker 1: your humility and your meekness and your diligence. This is
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  Speaker 1: important so that government will know that the church is
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  Speaker 1: not a nuisance to civilization. The church is an active
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  Speaker 1: part of the transforming force of society.
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  Speaker 2: It is true, how did I get here?
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  Speaker 1: Genesis twenty one, verse one, Please let's read it together.
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  Speaker 2: Ready, one to read.
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  Speaker 1: And the Lord visited Sarah as he has said. And
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  Speaker 1: the Lord did onto Sarah. He did not visit Sarah
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  Speaker 1: as she wanted. No, the visitation was not based on
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  Speaker 1: her need. It was based on his word. The Lord
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  Speaker 1: visited Joshua Selman as he has said. If you cannot
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  Speaker 1: find what God has said, you will never find what
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  Speaker 1: he can do.
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  Speaker 2: It is what he.
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  Speaker 1: Has said that you will do. Show me what God
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  Speaker 1: has said, and I show you what he can do.
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  Speaker 1: Show me what God has said, and I show you
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  Speaker 1: what you will do. Did God say he will heal you?
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  Speaker 1: Then I show you that is power can heal you?
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  Speaker 1: Did God say you will lift you up. Then I
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  Speaker 1: show you that no power can keep you down? Did
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  Speaker 1: God say he can give you rest?
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  Speaker 2: Roundabout?
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  Speaker 1: Where is that spirit that W want to tell you?
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  Speaker 1: When God has said.
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  Speaker 2: Allelujah?
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  Speaker 1: Genesis chapter one, verse three, the first three words, and
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  Speaker 1: God said, and God say, Cali couple's theater, And God say,
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  Speaker 1: when you find what God has said, then you find
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  Speaker 1: what his power can do, the limit of God's power
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  Speaker 1: is where his word stops. And since his word is unlimited,
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  Speaker 1: it is true that his power is unlimited.
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  Speaker 2: I will learn it. Be spiritually minded.
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  Speaker 1: Let me give you the last I have a few minutes,
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  Speaker 1: and I intend to take a part of it, so
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  Speaker 1: that will pray. So the decision to be spiritually minded
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  Speaker 1: becomes for us the first key to experiencing rest on
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  Speaker 1: every side.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm now explaining to.
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  Speaker 1: You the implication of being spiritually minded that number one,
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  Speaker 1: it necessitates and encounter.
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  Speaker 2: With Jesus, the Son of the Living God.
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  Speaker 1: Number two, that your prayer life has to be alive
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  Speaker 1: and robust. Number three, your spiritual understanding needs to be
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  Speaker 1: heightened because according to Isaiah chapter sixty and verse one,
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  Speaker 1: it says, you will only arise and you will shine
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  Speaker 1: if and when your life comes, longevity of your stay
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  Speaker 1: that's not equal to victory. The man was at the
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  Speaker 1: pool of Bethesda for thirty eight years.
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  Speaker 2: Time did not change his situation.
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  Speaker 1: The day the light of the world came to him,
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  Speaker 1: he was ready to rise. The Bible says, but the
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  Speaker 1: people that sat in darkness have seen a great light.
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  Speaker 2: Is God's speaking to us.
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  Speaker 1: Let me challenge you, therefore, by the messages of God,
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  Speaker 1: that in the course of this convention, go and find
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  Speaker 1: relevant materials, materials that speak to the various issues of concern,
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  Speaker 1: whether electronically or by way of print. It is your
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  Speaker 1: responsibility under God to pursue truth.
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  Speaker 2: The Bible says, by the truth, there.
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  Speaker 1: Are certain currencies we used to buy the truth number one, hunger,
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  Speaker 1: number two, meekness, number three, passion. These are the currencies
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  Speaker 1: that we used to buy the truth. And the Bible says,
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  Speaker 1: if you do find the truth, it is a send
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  Speaker 1: it not allelujah, is someone learning. Many believers work based
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  Speaker 1: on superstitious ideas, And with all due respect, it is
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  Speaker 1: this bankruptcy of light that has impoverished us as a
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  Speaker 1: people and as a continent.
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  Speaker 2: We have all.
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  Speaker 1: Kinds of white sayings that are not based on scripture.
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  Speaker 2: One day, go better? No sir, no, sir, no, sir.
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  Speaker 1: You define your lot by light?
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  Speaker 2: Are we together amplified?
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  Speaker 1: Isaiah sixty and verse one says, arise from the depression
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  Speaker 1: and the prostration that circumstances have kept you, rise new life.
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  Speaker 1: When I found out that the responsibility of understanding was mine,
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  Speaker 1: I found before God that there will be no excuse.
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  Speaker 2: I hate ignorance with passion, and I.
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  Speaker 1: Am ever open to know the areas where I am
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  Speaker 1: ignorant in How do you know your areas of ignorance?
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  Speaker 1: The areas where darkness drives, the area where pain exists,
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  Speaker 1: The area where suffering and pain perpetually remains is the
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  Speaker 1: area of darkness. Such for the relevant materials. If it's
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  Speaker 1: your finances, don't keep quiet and say my uncle has
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  Speaker 1: the power to lift me, but it's not attending to me.
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 1: The word responsible comes from the word responsive. Responsible people
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  Speaker 1: are people of action. They don't sit down and wait
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  Speaker 1: for things to happen. Why is my finance like this?
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  Speaker 1: Why am I always fighting with my husband? This marriage
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  Speaker 1: is not a curse. Why are my children stop one
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  Speaker 1: not obeying me? Why does everybody hate me? It is
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  Speaker 1: not unusual to be hated. But if everybody hates you,
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  Speaker 1: something is wrong with you. Because even Satan it's not
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  Speaker 1: everybody that hates him, Allelujah, there are people who love him.
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  Speaker 1: So if everybody around you hates you, it's not just
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  Speaker 1: a spiritual problem. You are perpetually violating something. Somebody should
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  Speaker 1: like you enough, and all you need is for one person,
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  Speaker 1: and if that person is King Ahazarus, you become the
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  Speaker 1: queen immediately. It didn't matter how many people hate that esther.
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  Speaker 1: The right person who needed to love her made her queen.
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  Speaker 1: It didn't matter how many people hate that. In Ahbayah,
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  Speaker 1: when the king loved him as a compiera, he got favor.
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  Speaker 1: Who hates you does not matter, but who likes you
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  Speaker 1: in this kingdom. I'm praying for someone, the grace that
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  Speaker 1: must rest upon you and cause men to find faivor
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  Speaker 1: with men. In the name of Jesus made that prace
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  Speaker 1: come upon you now, Allelujah. I think I'll give one
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  Speaker 1: more than we'll pray. I'll finish up the remaining tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: Is that a good deal? So I've given you number one,
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  Speaker 1: the decision to be spiritually minded. Let's do number two.
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  Speaker 1: What is the second key to experiencing rest on every side.
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  Speaker 1: You must leave by faith. You must leave by faith
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  Speaker 1: Hulbakuk Chapter two and verse four. You also find that
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  Speaker 1: in Hebrews ten and verse thirty eight, the just shall
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  Speaker 1: leave by faith. Four times in scripture, the Bible repeats
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  Speaker 1: it almost ferber team that the just shall leave by faith.
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  Speaker 1: The just shall leave by faith. First John, chapter five
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  Speaker 1: and verse four. First John chapter five and verse four.
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  Speaker 1: First John Chapter five and verse four. For whatsoever is
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  Speaker 1: born of God, that includes Joshua Selman, whatsoever is born
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  Speaker 1: of God over commet the world. And it says, this
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  Speaker 1: is the victory that overcomeed the world. Help me even
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  Speaker 1: our faith. The man who has faith is an overcomer.
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  Speaker 2: Indeed.
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  Speaker 1: And in one word, ladies and gentlemen, faith is obedience.
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  Speaker 2: In one word, faith is obedience.
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  Speaker 1: No matter your definition of faith, if it does not
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  Speaker 1: capture obedience, you did not define it.
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  Speaker 2: Well. Let me give you two definitions for faith if
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  Speaker 2: you don't mind.
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  Speaker 1: Number one, faith is the confidence you have, the depth
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  Speaker 1: of conviction that you have about God and the.
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  Speaker 2: Integrity of his word.
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  Speaker 1: Number one, faith is defined as your confidence, your conviction
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  Speaker 1: about God and the integrity of his word, the confidence
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  Speaker 1: and the conviction you have about God and the integrity
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  Speaker 1: of His word. Second definition, please, Faith is the name
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  Speaker 1: given to the action.
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  Speaker 2: Of obedience you take.
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  Speaker 1: Faith is the name given to the action of obedience
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  Speaker 1: you take as proof that you believe.
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  Speaker 2: Faith is the.
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  Speaker 1: Name given to the action of obedience you take as
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  Speaker 1: proof that you believe.
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  Speaker 2: The proof of hearing is accurate response if you.
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  Speaker 1: Have heard me, I know you have heard me, because
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  Speaker 1: you would respond accordingly.
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  Speaker 2: Are we together?
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  Speaker 1: Faith is defined is the name given to the action
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  Speaker 1: that you take as proof that you believe God. If
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  Speaker 1: it be down, bid me come, And he said come.
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  Speaker 1: Most believers do not know how to live by faith.
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  Speaker 1: Faith is beyond confessing the Word, as important as that is.
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  Speaker 1: Faith is beyond agreeing with God, as important as that is.
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  Speaker 2: Those are just various equations.
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  Speaker 1: That ultimately lead to faith. The foundations for Bible. Faith
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  Speaker 1: is an awareness of the promises of God. The Bible
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  Speaker 1: essentially is a concise capture of promises, principles.
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  Speaker 2: And prophecies.
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  Speaker 1: You may want to write that down that every time
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  Speaker 1: you open your Bible.
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  Speaker 2: You are relating with three realms of realities.
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  Speaker 1: Number one promises a definition of God's commitment to you,
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  Speaker 1: scattered from Genesis to Revelation promises. Number two principles, the
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  Speaker 1: modus operandi of the Kingdom teaches you how to live
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  Speaker 1: a victorious life. Then number three prophecies that give perspective
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  Speaker 1: and definition to the events present and the events past,
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  Speaker 1: and events that are yet to happen. So every time
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  Speaker 1: you lay hold on God's promises, then you obtain grace
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  Speaker 1: to obey.
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  Speaker 2: Until you know the.
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  Speaker 1: Demands to commit God and then obey them, you are
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  Speaker 1: not working by faith. Let me repeat myself again for
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  Speaker 1: your understanding. Until you know the demands connected to every result.
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  Speaker 2: The Word of God and God.
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  Speaker 1: Is a compendium of infinite possibilities. But for every result
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  Speaker 1: you desire in the Kingdom, healing, breakthrough, prosperity.
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  Speaker 2: There is a demand.
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  Speaker 1: There is always what God says to do to commit him.
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  Speaker 1: When you find it, and you obtain grace to work
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  Speaker 1: in keeping with that instruction, then you are working by faith.
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  Speaker 1: I submit to you therefore that on the strength of
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  Speaker 1: this definition, many believers are not working by faith. They
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  Speaker 1: are working on sincere assumptions. They're working on hope. They're
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  Speaker 1: speaking Lord, I believe you, But they are not working
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  Speaker 1: by faith. If I ask one of our wonderful protocol
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  Speaker 1: people here, if I ask them to come and say,
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  Speaker 1: collect my bible. Whoever comes to collect my Bible, I
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  Speaker 1: tell them there is one hundred dollars bill insight.
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  Speaker 2: That's your reward for obedience.
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  Speaker 1: If the gentlemen there starts jumping and says, I'm coming,
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  Speaker 1: believe me, Joshua sermon, I trust you.
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  Speaker 2: I know you are not a liar. It is it
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  Speaker 2: on you.
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  Speaker 1: The other day you get all that talk. Does not
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  Speaker 1: you will never get it as wonderful as that is.
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  Speaker 1: The instruction is, whoever can take the risk can come
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  Speaker 1: someone who begin to speak from nineteen nineteen nineteen. Today
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  Speaker 1: nothing happens, and another person in one day will get
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  Speaker 1: up and obey.
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  Speaker 2: The one who.
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  Speaker 1: Obeys is the one who receives, not the one who knows.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible says, now that ye know these things, happy
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  Speaker 1: are you if you do them?
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  Speaker 2: The Tounomy chapter twenty eight, from verse one and two.
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  Speaker 1: And it shall come to pass. The Bible says, if
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  Speaker 1: thou shall diligently happen.
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  Speaker 2: To the voice of the Lord that God.
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  Speaker 1: To do and to observe, to do, and to observe,
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  Speaker 1: to do, and to observe. To do and to observe.
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  Speaker 1: That is the character of faith. To do and to
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  Speaker 1: observe all that I command you. This day, the Lord,
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  Speaker 1: the Lord your God, will sets tea on high. Are
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  Speaker 1: both all the nations of the eath verse two. And
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  Speaker 1: all these blessings will come upon you and will overtake you.
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  Speaker 2: You hackn to the voice of the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: Then you observe, and you do in the name of Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: the grace to do may be released upon you. The
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  Speaker 1: first miracle that was performed by Jesus was the turning
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  Speaker 1: of water to wine in Cana of Galilee. You find
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  Speaker 1: that in John chapter two. The Bible lets us know
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  Speaker 1: that it was a feast just like this, and wine
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  Speaker 1: had finished, and shame was already imminent. And the Bible
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  Speaker 1: tells us that the disciples came and met Mary, the
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  Speaker 1: mother of Jesus. She takes them to Jesus and says,
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  Speaker 1: Jesus says, no, no, it's not yet my time, and.
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  Speaker 2: She gives them a very profound instruction. In verse five.
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  Speaker 2: She says, whatever he says to do, do it.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever he says to do.
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  Speaker 2: Not think it, not wish it, not assume it, do it.
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  Speaker 1: The moment doing came, the willingness to do came. Jesus
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  Speaker 1: gave an instruction, And when you read verse ten and eleven,
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  Speaker 1: the Bible tells us this beginning of miracles did Jesus
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  Speaker 1: in cana of Galilee verse eleven, and manifested his glory,
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  Speaker 1: and the disciples believed on him. Rest roundabout you now
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  Speaker 1: say that it's not just a gift. It is a
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  Speaker 1: reward for working and keeping with certain principles. Let me
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  Speaker 1: recap one last time, and we pray that the key
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  Speaker 1: to exerting dominion over situations and circumstances, commanding your portion
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  Speaker 1: of rest on every side is number one.
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  Speaker 2: To be spiritually minded.
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  Speaker 1: That starts with your encounter with the Lord Jesus Christ,
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  Speaker 1: your salvation of experience. Then it translates to the health
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  Speaker 1: of your prayer life, the health of your word study extent,
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  Speaker 1: so all that spiritual exercise is fasting, and so on
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  Speaker 1: and so forth and dead. Number two, you must learn
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  Speaker 1: to live by faith. To live by faith means to
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  Speaker 1: live by the word of God. For Jesus himself said
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  Speaker 1: man shall not live by bread alone, but by every
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  Speaker 1: word that proceeded from the mouth of God. That means
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  Speaker 1: a believer leaves on two things, bread and scriptural instructions.
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  Speaker 1: If you live on bread alone, you will be wary.
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  Speaker 1: Your bread will be spent. It is bread and scriptural instructions.
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  Speaker 2: Allelujah.