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The Good Fight of Faith (Making Dominion a Functional Reality) by Apostle Joshua Selman · Selah Media House

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  Hallelujah. God bless you.
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  Please, you may be seated. Let's celebrate the worship
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  team. Blessed be the name of the Lord.
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  Please be seated. Let's get to the business of
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  tonight. Tonight I want to teach you how
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  to make Dominion a functional. Reality in your life I want to
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  show you by the. Wisdom of Scripture, How to walk
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  into the reality of your possession and how to make that
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  which is finished in Christ become a functional reality in
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  your life. And the Lord will help us in
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  Jesus name. I'm teaching tonight on the good
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  fight of faith. The good fight of faith. 3
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  Scriptures very quickly. Deuteronomy chapter 2 and verse
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  24. Deuteronomy chapter 2 and verse
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  24, the good fight of faith, making dominion a functional
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  reality. It says, rise ye up, take your
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  journey, and Passover the river Ammon.
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  Behold, I have given into your hand Saihon the Amorite, the
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  king of Heshbourne and his land. Then he says, begin to possess
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  it and contend with him in battle.
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  Take note of that statement I have given into your hand.
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  The kings and their land. But you rise up, knowing that I
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  have given you. You begin to possess it and to
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  contend with him in battle. Let's look at the amplified
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  rendition of the same scripture, amplified Deuteronomy 2. 24 Well
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  NIV let's see. I just want to see what any
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  other version says NIVNLT. OK, it says, set out now and
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  cross the Amon Gorge. See I have given to your land
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  Cyhon the Amorite, the king of Heshbourne and his country.
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  Now take note, it says. Begin to take possession of it
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  and engage him in battle. Obadiah chapter 1 and verse 17
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  only 1 chapter verse 17. Upon Mount Zion there shall be
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  deliverance, popular Scripture, and there shall be holiness, and
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  then the House of Jacob shall possess their possessions.
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  Take note of the word possess their possessions.
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  The last two words, it is their possessions, but they must
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  possess their possessions. First Timothy chapter 6 and
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  verse 12. This is Paul speaking to his son
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  Timothy in the gospel, and he encourages him to fight the good
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  fight of faith. Now, contextually speaking, what
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  Paul was referring to here has to do with the labor to preserve
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  sound doctrine. So Paul's communication to
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  Timothy from a contextual standpoint has to do with the
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  battle against false doctrine. Are we together?
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  Yeah. But then it extends also to mean
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  the fight that brings every spiritual resource that God has
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  made available to the believer to be made manifest in
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  experience. Because I think in Second
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  Timothy, is it Second Timothy 4 or thereabout?
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  Paul Down says. I have fought the good fight of
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  faith. I have finished the race.
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  I have kept the faith. So he did not just tell Timothy
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  to fight the good fight of faith in terms of preserving doctrine.
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  47 Second Timothy 47. He said, I have fought the good
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  fight. I have finished my 'cause I have
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  kept the faith. Hallelujah, Amen.
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  Now let me lay a foundation and let it come as a reminder.
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  That for you to excel in the Kingdom.
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  It's important that you have a very thorough knowledge of
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  certain spiritual realities. Please lend me your attention.
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  The believer will never be able to walk in dominion practically
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  functionally, if you are ignorant of certain spiritual
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  realities among them. Is the knowledge of God.
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  You must have a revelation of who God is.
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  That's why I asked the worship team to sing for us that song.
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  It says salvation belongs to our God, you know, and to the one
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  who sits upon the throne. I think you'll find that in
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  Revelation chapter 4 and verse 10.
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  I think I'm right for understand.
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  Give it to us what they just sang now.
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  And the four and 20 elders fall down before him that sat on the
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  throne and worship him that liveth forever, saying this and
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  that and that and that. So the worship is to him that
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  sits upon the throne and to the Lamb.
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  You're excelling in the Kingdom, generally speaking, depends
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  foundationally on the depth of your revelation of who.
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  God is. And who Jesus Christ is his Son,
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  and in fact, who the Holy Spirit is.
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  It's important that you understand the Triune Godhead.
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  Two years ago we picked a series that unfortunately we couldn't
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  finish the foundational doctrines of the Christian
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  faith, but at least we did part 1-2 and three.
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  And you may want to make reference with where we teach
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  about. The Godhead.
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  It's important to know who God is, to know who the Father is as
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  God Almighty, to know who the Son is, Jesus Christ as Savior,
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  as Lord, and as Christ, and to know who the Holy Spirit is.
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  Your journey to excellence in the Spirit will will not even
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  happen if you do not have knowledge of God.
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  You can have knowledge of every other thing but your knowledge
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  of God. And by God I mean understanding
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  the Triune Godhead functionally. Your knowledge of God the Father
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  as Creator, your knowledge of Jesus as Savior, as Lord, and as
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  Christ, the knowledge of the Holy Spirit, as the custodian of
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  the wisdom, the power of God, the one who strengthens the
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  believer to function in dominion.
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  And the Bible is very clear as to their distinct ministries.
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  But there are certain things by way of recap that I have taught
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  you in knowing God. The Bible says the fear of the
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  Lord is the beginning of wisdom. And it says the knowledge of the
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  holy, that is understanding. Your understanding is yet
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  unfruitful until you encounter the God of the Bible.
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  Proverbs 910. The fear of the Lord is the
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  beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the holy is
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  understanding. Daniel chapter What now 1132 But
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  the people that do know their God the be part they shall be
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  strong strength, capacity, stamina, and they shall do
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  exploits. John 17 three.
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  This is life eternal, that they may know thee the only true God.
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  There are false gods, but that they may no deed the only true
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  God. And perhaps I may have pointed
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  out to you here that there are many things that have tried to
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  be God and still try to be God in the life of everyone,
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  including a believer. For an unbeliever, there are
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  idols, traditional practices, Satan masquerading as different
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  things, elements of culture, trying to be God.
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  But for the believer, there are certain things that try to be
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  God. Number one is your belly.
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  The Bible says whose God is their belly #2 mammon.
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  You cannot serve God and mammon #3 you know the flesh or self.
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  All of this try to be God. I'm put in perspective to John
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  17 three, and this is life everlasting, that they may know
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  thee, the only true God and Jesus Christ.
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  Whom? Thou hast sent and if you care
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  to lend your ears to this recap, in teaching you about God, I
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  taught you that the greatest way to know God is by studying his
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  nature and his character. That's not the only way, but the
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  greatest, the richest way to have an experiential knowledge
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  of God, a theological knowledge of God, a doctrinal
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  understanding of God, is to study his character.
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  The two other ways we know God is by studying his works or His
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  wisdom, and then by studying His power.
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  So we know God essentially by studying his nature and
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  character, then by studying his wisdom and principles, and then
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  by studying his works or by studying his power.
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  Hallelujah, the Bible tells. Us at least seven things about.
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  God. That brands God in a very
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  distinct way. These are theological
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  foundations as to the knowledge of God.
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  I'm digressing to Ladies Foundation because it is very
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  important for you to know how to work in dominion.
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  Dominion is not just a product of the knowledge of principles.
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  It starts with the knowledge of a person, then the principles
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  that person has put in place. You can learn principles and not
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  know God. When spirits come in to
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  manipulate principles, it takes the knowledge of God to override
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  their operations. It never said the people that
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  know the ways shall do exploit, it said the people that do know
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  they are God. Principles only function when
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  demonic spirits don't alter them.
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  You've heard me teach that 1 + 1 in principle should always be
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  two, but 1 + 1 plus demonic interference can be -100 Are you
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  seeing that now? A diligent hand in principle
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  should always be prosperous. A diligent person should never
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  lack bread. But a diligent person whose
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  destiny has been hijacked by demonic forces will not amount
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  to the rewards that follow diligence.
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  So you must go beyond the knowledge of principles to the
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  knowledge of God. And I did tell you a number of
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  things about God. Classically we call God the self
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  existent 1. That is one quality of God, one
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  quality that brands God as God. That God is eternal.
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  God is self existent. It's a very profound quality of
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  God. What does it mean to be self
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  existent? You don't outsource life from
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  any other any other space. Man has to depend on God.
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  All life forms biologically have to depend on God.
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  But God does not depend on any entity.
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  For his survival. Are we together now?
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  You take a fish out of water, it dies.
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  You uproot a tree from the ground, it dies.
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  You take away man from the presence of God, he dies.
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  But God does not need any other thing to support his living.
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  He is self existent. God is omniscient, meaning he
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  knows all things. I told you God does not improve
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  in knowledge. God does not study to learn.
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  God does not under good transformation.
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  These things don't exist with God.
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  God's knowledge is not progressive.
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  He does not see impact. He knows all things.
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  There's no such thing as future or past with God.
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  His realm is now. You see it now.
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  So what is tomorrow to you? What is next here to you is only
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  fragmented to help you understand the operations of God
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  upon the earth. But God does not dwell.
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  He's already he. He's.
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  Alpha Omega. The beginning is there.
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  Tomorrow He can go into yesterday.
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  I'm going to tomorrow. Everything lies bare.
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  Before him is a mystery that the human mind cannot comprehend.
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  God is omnipotent. What does it mean?
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  The word potent or potency is a measure of power.
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  He is all powerful. Man is not all powerful.
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  No man's power is in measures and it is derived from a
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  relationship. God does not need to relate with
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  any other entity to be powerful. He is omnipotent.
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  Is someone learning now? Yes, God does not need
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  anointing. What does he need it for?
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  The concept of anointing is his way of empowering man to
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  function like him. Jesus only needed the anointing
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  when he became man. Are we together now?
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  Praise the name of the Lord. It's important for you to
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  understand this. God does not fight, it looks
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  like God fights but he does not fight.
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  He issues commands and it is so it is men who now fight out
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  their ways. God never fought.
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  Satan is never shown in the Bible when he passed a decreed
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  was Michael that fought Satan. The battle that happened was
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  when Jesus became a man and he went to Hades.
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  Is someone learning now? There are certain attributes of
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  God you must know. So he is omniscient.
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  He knows all things, your future, and that's why when he
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  tells you to relax, trust Him is because He has seen the end.
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  Are we together? That He knows the thoughts that
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  He thinks towards you and that they are thoughts of peace and
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  not of evil to bring you a future and unexpected end.
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  Jeremiah 2911. He says that upon the awareness
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  that the end is victory #3 God is.
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  Omnipresent. It's a very profound quality of
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  God. Omnipresent means he does not
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  need to move to be in a location.
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  He has an all seeing eye. His presence is everywhere.
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  I'm right now in this auditorium.
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  I'm not in London. Maybe online.
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  Yes, Internet has been able to create a sense of omnipresence,
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  but as a person you cannot be everywhere at the same time.
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  You can't even be in two places at the same time.
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  Maybe through, maybe. Well, I won't say you can't be
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  in two places at the same time. You can stand at the border of
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  two cities, one leg in, one leg out, and you have both places,
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  but you can't stand in three places at the same time.
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  Maybe, who knows, maybe you can stand.
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  I don't know, geography. What?
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  One thing I know is that you can't be everywhere at the same
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  time. But God is omnipresent.
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  But there are other attributes of God like the Bible teaches.
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  Let me give you 4 of them just for knowledge.
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  Are you learning anything God? Is.
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  Spirit. This is a very profound
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  revelation of God. In trying to learn God, you must
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  know that God is spirit. He said that in John 4/24.
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  Remember with the woman at the well, God is spirit, God is
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  Spirit. This is very profound.
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  Numbers 23 and verse 19. What does that mean?
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  God is spirit? I'll tell you the implication.
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  The meaning of God's Spirit is that he's not a man.
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  The weaknesses of men does not apply to him.
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  One of it is that men lie. Men do not lie because they are
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  bad. Men lie because they are men.
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  There are times a lie is not just a non true statement
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  intentionally said to. Deceive.
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  That's one definition of a lie. But a lie is proposing something
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  you do not have the capacity to make manifest.
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  It is a lie, and we're saying God, as God does not have that
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  limitation. I can tell you, by God's grace,
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  I'm coming to your house by 8:00 tomorrow and something can
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  happen. We always say events beyond our
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  control. With respect to my integrity, I
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  lied, even though I can give a justification for it.
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  But if you are judging me by my word, I told you a lie.
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  I said I was coming, you prepared, and I did not come,
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  the reasons notwithstanding. But we are saying that God is
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  spirit. The meaning of that is that all
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  the limitations that happen with men by reason of wearing a
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  mortal body, it does not apply to God.
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  God is holy. This is very profound.
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  The is from the Hebrew word kadosh.
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  The word holy means to be set apart.
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  Is the word consecrated, and the idea is that there is no guilt
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  and there is no deception. When we say God is holy, is not
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  measuring holiness in terms of the presence or absence of sin,
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  are we together? It is rather about the extent
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  and the purity of His integrity. God has integrity is one of the
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  greatest measure of holiness. Integrity same within as
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  without. The Bible says He's in whom
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  there is no variableness or shadow of turning.
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  That means God does not play 419.
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  He does not play jokes. Integrity.
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  That's where the word integer comes.
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  Integrity. How many of you know that?
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  Anyway, let me leave that. I wanted to give an analogy with
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  mathematics, but I don't want to just walk on our minds.
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  God is holy. He's set apart.
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  That quality is beyond sinlessness.
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  We're not just saying He cannot sin or He's pure.
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  There's a difference between purity and holiness.
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  Purity is derived from holiness, but holiness goes way beyond.
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  Purity is the quality of being the same within and without.
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  No guile. Are we together now?
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  That means when God speaks to you because He's holy, you can
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  trust Him. He's not going to change His
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  word. Next revelation of God is that
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  God is light, God is light, God is light, God is light.
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  The meaning of that is that there can be no deception in
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  Him. The meaning of that is that
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  darkness cannot stand in His presence.
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  The meaning of that is that nothing can hide from His
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  presence. The Bible does not say God has
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  light. He said God is light and you
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  know the Bible says that He dwells in unapproachable light.
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  The meaning of that is that there is no part of your life
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  you can hide from Him. Not only is He omnipresent is
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  that His light. The Bible defines light as that
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  which makes manifest. Anything that reveals what is
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  hidden is called but the greatest and the richest quality
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  of God as revealed in Scripture is not even His omnipresence.
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  Please everybody listen if they ask you what is the greatest
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  attribute of God, don't say He's all powerful.
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  God does not consider that His greatest attribute.
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  When they tell you what is the greatest attribute of God, it is
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  not His wisdom. God does not consider that His
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  greatest attribute. The greatest attribute of God is
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  that God is love. Write that down for your
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  education. God is love first.
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  John chapter 4. When you read from verse 7 down
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  to 12, this is the greatest, most promoted attribute of God
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  because the greatest demonstration of His Godship was
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  not just demonstrated in power, but in love.
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  Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God, and
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  everyone that loveth is born of God and knoweth God.
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  Verse 8. He that loveth not knoweth not
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  God, for God is love. Say that after me God is love
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  one more time God is love. Now verse 9 is a hearing.
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  Give us. Verse 9.
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  Media. In this was manifested the love
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  of God towards us, because that God sent His only begotten Son
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  into the world, that we might have life through him.
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  Verse 10. Hearing is love, not that we
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  love God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be a
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  propitiation for our sins. You may want to extend it to
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  verse 12. Really be loved.
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  If God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.
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  The final verse, verse 12. No man had seen God at any time,
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  but if we love one another is proof that God dwells in US and
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  His love has been perfected in US.
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  So the proof that you really carry God is not just power,
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  it's not just wisdom is that His love can flow through you to
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  others. Is someone learning.
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  The greatest attribute of God that the believer must know and
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  the believer must manifest is love.
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  If you are learning so far, say Amen.
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  So I'm saying that there are certain things we need to know,
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  spiritual realities in order to work in dominion. 1 of it I said
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  is the knowledge, the revelation of God #2 the second
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  foundational knowledge we must know is why we were created.
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  You will be surprised that many believers cannot tell you from a
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  biblical standpoint why they were created.
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  Working in Dominion will be a useless pursuit for you if you
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  do not know why you were created.
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  Understanding why we are created reveals our mandate.
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  It reveals how we were going to function based on the law of
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  first mention. We go to Genesis chapter 1 from
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  verse 26 to 28. That's where the concept of man
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  was mentioned in the Bible and why he was created.
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  The Bible says God said let us make man in our image and after
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  our likeness. The word image there means our
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  nature, our character. The word likeness means to
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  function like us. Likeness talks about
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  functionality, to speak like God, to do things like God, to
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  be creative like God that is functioning like God.
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  And then the image of God talks about the nature of God which
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  was embodied in Christ. And it says, let them have
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  dominion. Take note of that word over the
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  fish of the sea, the fowl of the air, the cattle, and the earth,
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  and everything that creeps upon the earth.
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  And then He spoke to us in verse 28.
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  Be fruitful, multiply, replenish, subdue.
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  Let me summarize for you very quickly.
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  Why did God create man? There are four major reasons for
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  the creation of man, interwoven in one statement.
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  But let me try and break it #1 God created man as an extension.
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  Please listen very carefully. As an extension of His nature.
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  As an extension of His government upon the earth.
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  God created man. As an extension of His nature
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  and an extension of His government upon the earth.
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  An extension of His nature. In fact, the highest revelation
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  of God's nature on earth is man. Write that down.
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  The highest revelation of God's nature on earth are not plants.
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  They are not animals. All of them carry pieces and
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  portions of God, as we see in trees, as we see.
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  That's why the Bible says let everything that has breath
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  praise the Lord. But the highest and the richest
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  revelation of God on earth is man.
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  If you want to see and know about God thoroughly upon the
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  earth, study the man He created, especially the man who has now
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  allowed himself. Are you seeing that to the
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  degree to which you allow yourself to be refined, that is
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  the degree to which you look? Like God to your wall, the Bible
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  calls us living epistles. Now when you study the fallen
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  man, he does not give you a correct picture of who God is.
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  In summer learning, we were created by God to be an
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  extension of His nature, to be an extension of His government
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  upon the earth. Other extended assignments were
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  created to know Him because it is a knowing Him that were able
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  to relate with Him. God wanted and always desire to
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  create a family, a family. God is a family oriented God and
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  he decided and desire to create a family, a family that is a
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  replica of this person for relationship, for dominion.
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  We were created to know him. Next, we were created to love
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  Him. Next, we were created to worship
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  Him. And then, of course, with
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  respect to our corporate mandate, this one is not just
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  that we are created, but now we are.
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  Saved, which extends as part of our assignment.
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  We are saved not just to reveal His glory, but to draw men to
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  the saving knowledge of Him. We are not just created to draw
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  men to Him, because when man was created, the fall had not
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  happened. But in God's predetermined
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  counsel, He knew that it will happen and already planned, was
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  already in place. So when, man.
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  Fell all that happened from Genesis chapter 3-4 up until
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  Jesus came and died and resurrected by the glory of the
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  Father. All of that was.
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  A restorative process please look up I hope you know from
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  Genesis chapter 1 to up until the fall of man everything that
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  happened from Genesis 3, when. Man fell up until the
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  resurrection of Jesus acts chapter 2 verse one all that
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  thing that happened was simply a restorative process.
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  The prophets, the law, parables, poetry, every, everything was an
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  adoration of what Jesus was going to come and do.
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  The restorative process officially happened when Jesus
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  resurrected, and the dispensation of the Holy Ghost
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  started with the first fruit of 3000 people.
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  Are we together now? From that time up until now, we
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  are in the dispensation of the Holy Spirit.
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  So from the Old Testament up until Jesus came, it was a
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  dispensation of the Father. When Jesus came all through his
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  artwork for about 3 1/2 years, it was a dispensation of the
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  sun. From the day of Pentecost up
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  until now is the dispensation of the Spirit and the operations
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  are different. It's.
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  Important for you to know this, you need to know why we were
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  created to be an extension of his life, his image.
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  To be an extension of his government on Earth now.
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  A corporate mandate is found in first John and John chapter 1
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  from verse six to seven. There was a man sent from God
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  whose name was John, but you can put your name there whose name
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  was Joshua sermon, whose name was Koinonia.
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  The Bible says verse 7. This the mandate.
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  The same came for a witness to bear witness of the light.
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  That man through him might believe that men through him
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  might believe, that men through your profession might believe,
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  that, Men through your resources might believe.
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  That Men through your preaching might believe.
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  That men through your singing might believe.
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  That men through your creativity might believe.
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  If men do not believe, what you have is useless to the Kingdom.
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  The value of anything you have, from skill to beauty to talent
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  to anointing, is that you cause men through the channel of what
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  is giving you to believe. To believe in Jesus is called
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  the saving knowledge. There is the saving knowledge,
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  the knowledge that leads unto their salvation because it
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  desires that all men be saved and that they come unto the
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  knowledge of the truth. If you're.
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  Learning say Amen. Now very quickly, the third
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  thing you need to know in order to work in victory is to be
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  aware of the provisions that have been made available for you
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  in Christ. So I said #1 you must have a
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  revelation of God #2 you must understand man and know why God
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  created man, that we were created to be an extension of
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  the image, the life, and the government of Jesus Christ.
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  Upon the earth. That through the efficiency of
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  our witness today, we will bring many to the saving knowledge of
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  Jesus, and then we will immerse our territory to adopt and live
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  by the value system of the Kingdom.
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  The Bible says that the whole earth shall be filled with the
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  knowledge of the glory of God, as what has covered the sea.
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  Is someone learning now? But in addition to these two,
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  you must be aware of the provisions and the promises that
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  are available in Christ for a victorious life.
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  Or this is powerful, whereby are given to us exceeding great and
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  precious promises. Give it to us that by these you
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  might be partakers of His divine nature.
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  Having escaped the corruption that is in the world through
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  loss, Apostle Peter is teaching us now.
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  Second Peter chapter 1, three and four, verse 4 particularly
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  wherefore, whereby are given to us exceeding great and precious
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  promises. So watch this to achieve this
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  mission of dominion, to achieve this mission of being a witness,
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  to achieve this mission of being an extension of God's
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  government. There are certain provisions.
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  Please listen believers, there are certain provisions that were
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  made available for us in Christ. The Bible calls them all
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  spiritual blessings. Ephesians one and verse 3.
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  Blessed be God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who had
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  blessed us. Say I've been blessed.
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  Shout it like you're learning. Say I've been blessed with all
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  spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ or you must end
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  in Christ. In Christ is the passcode for
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  access. Once you remove in Christ, you
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  don't have access to anything again.
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  The way to access all things in the Spirit is in Christ, Wisdom
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  in Christ, favor in Christ, authority in Christ outside of.
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  Christ you have no access because it is his righteousness
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  you have. It is of his fullness you have
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  received. Is someone learning now?
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  You must be aware of the provisions.
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  So God did not leave us with the dream or the mandate of working
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  in dominion, working in victory, extending His influence, His
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  government, bringing nations under subjection to Him,
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  influencing cultures and systems with the value system of the
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  Kingdom. It would be a failed project if
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  these provisions were not in place.
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  Whenever you are giving somebody a mandate, after telling
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  somebody the message, what do you give the person?
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  The resources? Am I right on that?
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  The resources. When the military goes to fight
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  war, the first thing is an awareness of the mission and
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  then they receive the strategy. They call it Operation whatever.
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  They can call it Operation Scorpions thing.
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  They're defining this operation Anything.
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  Once they define it, the next thing is they have to give them
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  the equipping. Am I right on that?
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  You don't get up and put your hands in your pocket and say,
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  I'm a military man, I was trained in NDA and stand in the
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  middle of terrorists as all of you come out.
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  What will happen to you, but not what you lack is not skill.
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  What you lack is the resources. Have you seen any policeman
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  coming to stand where they are still and say what's going on
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  there? And he just put his hand in his
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  pocket and you are hearing guns firing around and he said, well,
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  let me just put my head and check.
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  No, no, there are weapons. You are not left with a mandate
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  alone. There is an equipment, there are
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  resources. Most times we are aware of the
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  mandate, but we are not aware of the resources that have been
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  given to us. So we go.
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  Empty handed and when we stand and say I have dominion, I want
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  to work in dominion life will now say, so where are the
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  resources, where are the tools that make for the dominion?
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  He equipped us. He equipped us Promises,
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  resources, the Bible calls them exceeding great and precious
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  promises. Now let me tell you how God
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  equipped us. There are three levels of this
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  equipping. You want to write that down?
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  How God equipped A believer to work in dominion?
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  There are three levels of this equipping #1 the first way He
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  equipped us. Was giving us access to superior
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  knowledge. Please write it down.
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  The first way God equips meant to work in Dominion is to give
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  them access to superior knowledge.
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  You are equipped to the degree to which you have superior
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  knowledge number. 2 The way God equipped us was to give us
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  access to the Holy Spirit and the divine resources that come
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  with his presence. Write that down.
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  So access to superior knowledge by the word #2 access to the
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  person of the Holy Spirit alongside the divine resources
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  that come with his presence. And by now you should know what
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  I'm talking about. Resources of wisdom, resources
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  of power. Are we together?
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  Resources of favor? Grace is in all its definition,
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  the third way God equips us. Are we together?
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  Is to create promises, the promises promises that commit
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  him to stepping over our lives. There are things he said if you
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  do, he will come. Leviticus Chapter 9 and verse 6.
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  This is what the Lord commanded that He should.
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  Do, and the glory of the Lord shall appear unto you.
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  So the third way God empowers us is to give us access to the
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  knowledge of His promises. We can have the knowledge of His
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  person, superior knowledge, but you need to know His ways and
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  how to activate those ancient parts that lead you to the place
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  of power. That's why He said I am the way,
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  I am the truth. I am life.
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  He didn't say I'm the way alone. He didn't say I'm the truth
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  alone. He didn't say I'm life alone.
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  I am the way, I am truth and I am life.
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  Who is learning? Look at me, believers, if your
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  life fails to manifest dominion today, right now, dominion in
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  all its ramifications spiritually, are we together
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  financially, in terms of influence, in terms of your
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  health? I can tell you the problem is
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  not the integrity of God. That's why I took out time to
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  define for you who God is based on his qualities.
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  God is holy, God is righteous, God is faithful, and he's true.
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  Why that is it that our lives seem to show us if God told a
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  lie, as if He made a proposition to raise witnesses and mighty
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  men and later went behind and is betraying us with His presence
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  or the absence of His presence. The reason is because we do not
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  know the provisions that have been made available for us in
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  Christ, nor how to activate. Them provisions, provisions.
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  If you do not know how to access wisdom, you can be in Christ and
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  your life will not work. If you do not know how to
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  activate favour, you can be in. Christ and your life will not
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  work if you do not know the value of competence and skill
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  like we pray. These are the resources that
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  come with His presence. I'm praying for you that from
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  the things I'm going to be sharing with you now in the name
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  of Jesus, where you have been found wanting, where Satan has
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  taken advantage of you so that although you are in Christ, it
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  looks like there's nothing to show.
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  I pray for you. As you find this kiss tonight,
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  you will begin to walk in the experience of victory.
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  Shout Amen like you are receiving.
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  These are the days where you do not just say you are a
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  Christian, you show you are a Christian.
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  These are the days where you don't just profess before men, I
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  love God. You show, you don't just say I
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  am powerful, you show. You don't just say I have a deep
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  relationship with Christ, you show.
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  The Bible says that we have been called out of darkness into
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  light to show for the excellencies of him that has
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  called us from darkness to light.
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  Showing forth is the wardog zazo, a display, a manifestation
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  of the world that riches the wisdom, the glory of God,
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  provisions the knowledge of this exceeding great and precious
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  promises, that by them we might be partakers of His divine
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  nature. That means the difference
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  between any 2 believers, or one of the differences between any 2
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  believers, is their access to the knowledge of the provisions
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  that have been made available for us in Christ to live a life
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  of dominion and to live a life of victory.
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  Hallelujah, when you know the provisions that are available in
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  Christ. The final thing for this
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  teaching tonight that you need to know, please write it down,
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  is you need to understand the administration and the
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  activation systems for these promises to work or the
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  activation protocol. I would use that word, the
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  administration and the activation protocol for these
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  promises to work. You need to know the
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  administration system and the activation protocol for the
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  promises to work. Or please listen to me,
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  believers. Knowing what God has given you
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  is wonderful enough, but not enough to bring you in victory.
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  You need to understand how Dominion is administered, how
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  these promises are administered. Look at me, everybody.
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  How many of you know that having been aware that someone has
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  transferred 1,000,000 naira into your account is wonderful to
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  know it's now in your account? Am I right on that number 2
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  knowing that you can use an ATM to withdraw that cash?
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  It is a wonderful knowledge #3 having the ATM in your hand.
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  Now you are aware. You are aware that someone
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  deposited the money. You are aware that it can be
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  accessed through the bank or through ATM in this instance.
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  And how many of you know you can hold your ATM?
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  You are this close to receiving your cash, but how many of you
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  know that? If you do not know how to slot
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  the card, how to punch the numbers?
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  Are we together? You can slot your card and punch
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  nonsense three times. It will swallow your card.
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  You will now call the person. Who sent the money and say you
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  deceived me and the person says what are you saying?
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  Check your account balance and you will see your account
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  balance is still writing plus 1,000,000.
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  The problem is not the integrity of the he's done his own part.
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  It was you and your ignorance in front of the ATM that caused
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  that delay. So what do you need to do?
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  You need to call an officer, usually sent from that man or
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  someone else to come and help you.
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  They have a way they remove the ATM and then they teach you how
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  to use it. If your ATM fails to withdraw,
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  either the card is expired or you do not know how to punch it,
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  or there are few times when there's no money there.
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  But in this example, let's assume everything is fine from
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  the standpoint of the giver and the bank.
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  That's how many believers are. So we stand with our ATM and we
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  sing all kinds of praises and we audaciously.
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  Tell people I have 1,000,000 just as an example.
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  You guys. We even ask those who need to
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  receive it to stand with us. Then we slaught the card and we
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  do not know how to operate it. It says they know not, neither
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  will they understand. They walk on in darkness and all
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  the foundations of the earth are out of course.
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  So for an example, you call everybody and say gather
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  yourselves together. The healing power of Jesus is
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  available here. When he rose from the dead, he
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  purchased for us healing, and you gather the sick people.
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  And you said, now I am going to draw healing from Jesus Christ
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  by his Spirit. And administer it to you.
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  The people are waiting there, and then you do everything you
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  know to do, and you read from Scripture.
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  By His stripes I am healed. And at the end of that meeting,
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  nobody gets healed, nobody gets touched.
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  And you see that act of failure becomes an indictment to God's
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  integrity. Because those who live
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  disappointed now cannot understand is the reason why we
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  must understand the administrative system and the
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  activation protocols. Many times the bank will send
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  you your card in an envelope. Am I right on that?
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  Maybe your MasterCard or Visa card and then they will send it
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  with a little instruction. Punch this, this, go to the ATM,
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  punch this, punch that. From that time your ATM begins
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  to work. And there are those who can use
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  that card so well, they will hold that card and stand in
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  front of anything and just swipe the thing with authority.
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  No plan for embarrassment. They are aware of how much is
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  there. They are aware that the card
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  should work. They are surprised if it does
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  not work. They will blame the people and
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  say maybe it's your POS that is not working.
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  But if it's my. Card.
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  My card is fine. I pray for you.
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  You will begin to work your life with a level of mastery.
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  You will be surprised when results don't happen.
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  I pray for you. In the name of Jesus.
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  From tonight, fear dies. From tonight, trial and error
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  dies. Step into a realm of mastery.
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  Mastery in ministry, mastery in your finances, mastery in your
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  health. In the name of Jesus Christ,
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  mastery. He that strives for mastery is
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  not crowned. Unless he strives lawfully.
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  Now, one of these activation protocols, one of these systems
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  of administration is what I want to teach you very briefly is
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  called the fight of faith, how to make realities that are
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  finished in Christ become functional realities in your
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  life here and. Now the fight of faith, that
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  just because it is finished in Christ.
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  Does not guarantee that it will be made manifest in your life.
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  You know there are many people by the time they die and meet
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  Jesus Christ, and they happen to see how much God intended for
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  them to live. They will cry to Christ, not
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  because they missed out on their eternal destiny, but that they
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  fail to maximize the fullness of the riches of Christ.
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  When you stand before Jesus, one day he will tell you that there
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  were 10 million people who were not supposed to die if you had
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  gotten this revelation. But because you did not get it,
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  these are the souls that paid the price.
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  There are many pastors who should not have quit ministry.
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  If you have gotten these keys financially, you would have been
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  able to support the work and they would have stood in for
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  Jesus. But because you did not
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  understand how to activate these realities in the Spirit, these
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  are the consequences. Can I tell you, ladies and
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  gentlemen, every time you fail to complete your understanding
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  as to how to manifest dominion, God's program suffers on earth.
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  You just be aware of that. God's program suffers on earth.
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  What is the good fight of faith? Paul talks to us as he spoke to
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  his son Timothy about fighting the good fight of faith.
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  The word good fight immediately suggests that there are bad
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  fights. And let me define for you in
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  passing what a bad fight is #1 any kind of contention that does
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  not lead to the revelation of God's glory, every kind of fight
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  that does not lead to your fulfilling your destiny is a bad
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  fight. Every kind of contention that
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  does not lead to the revelation of Jesus and the glorification
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  of the same is a bad fight. A bad contention.
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  Any kind of fight that does not lead to making your world a
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  better place is a bad fight. Many of us are involved in many
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  bad fights, many bad fights. Every fight that is motivated by
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  selfishness is a bad fight. Every fight that is motivated by
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  flesh or lost is a bad fight. Every fight that is motivated by
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  the influence of. Evil spirits is a bad fight.
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  Motivated by flesh. Bad fight.
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  Glorifying self and Satan. Bad fight.
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  But any contention that leads to the revelation of Jesus Christ
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  and the glorification of the same is a good fight.
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  Any kind of contention that leads to the growth of the
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  believer and causes the life of God to be made manifest in
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  greater dimensions in the life of that believer is a good
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  fight. I need to say this so that when
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  we talk about fight we are essentially talking about
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  contentions and that there is an unprofitable contention.
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  The Bible calls it a bad fight, and then there is a good.
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  Fight. Some of you have been involved
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  in bad fights. They have depleted your energy
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  spiritually, intellectually, emotionally, and even
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  physically. Fights with no rewards finds
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  that whether you win or lose, Jesus will not be revealed.
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  That's not just a bad fight, it's a useless fight.
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  A battle that does not have rewards is a useless battle.
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  When David was going to fight Goliath, he said, so that I
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  don't waste my time, please tell me what shall be given to the
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  man that brings down this person.
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  He said #1 He will marry the King's daughter.
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  David said. I'm listening.
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  He said #2 His family will be exempted from tax #3 The king
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  who honor him, he said, cleared the way for me.
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  I want to fight Goliath. If these three things can happen
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  to me, then it's a good fight. When he brought Goliath, he was
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  not just happy that Goliath came down, he was happy because the
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  we had been cleared for his reward.
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  Good fight. Any useless fight, any
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  demonically engineered fight to waste your arsenals.
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  Look up how many of you know that the Bible says the weapons
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  of our warfare. And if I don't know so much.
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  I'm not a military man, but one thing I.
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  Know is that the military is stepping into a realm of what
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  they call precision warfare where they minimize because it
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  takes a lot to make these weapons.
• 49:45
  Imagine that you make a way together like some of the
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  fights. Unfortunately that's going
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  around the world now. Most of the nations are working
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  to see that they send precision missiles so that if you spend
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  $1,000,000 to build 1 weapon you don't want to waste.
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  It through the carelessness of a fighter jet, you want to hit it
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  on target. Many believers waste their
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  weapons. You carry your weapons and
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  deplete it on useless battles. Just when you are furnished.
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  Then the real battle comes and you don't have the energy to
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  fight again. One strategy you find this It
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  was an ancient strategy of fighting war.
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  That when people want to defeat a territory, they send their
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  civilians and they send some of their weakest men and they
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  deceive the people, thinking that's the army and the people
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  keep fighting. Once they are almost done, then
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  the real warriors, the Knights, they now begin to manifest with
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  arrows, with balls, with fires and defeat the people.
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  They don't lose because they were not empowered is that?
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  They wasted their weapons on the wrong people.
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  Are we together? Where you are fighting to defend
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  jealousy, when you are fighting for competition is a useless
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  battle. Where you are fighting to
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  glorify self is a useless battle.
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  I pray for you right now. It's going to be precision
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  victory in your life. From tonight you will know what
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  to fight and what not to fight. Everyone of you who's been
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  involved in a bad fight, I release grace upon you, right?
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  Now. You will leave Satan and his
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  trouble to go out of your life and you will begin to fight the
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  fight of faith, the good fight of faith.
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  In the name of Jesus we pray. So what is the good fight of
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  faith? Very quickly, The Good Fight of
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  faith number one, talks about the contention, the contention
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  and the overall spiritual process that leads to
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  establishing and manifesting victory in the life of the
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  believer as a functional present day reality.
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  Let me take that again. The good fight of faith talks
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  about the contentions and then it also talks about the overall
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  spiritual process that leads to establishing and manifesting the
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  victory that is in Christ now as a functional present day reality
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  in the life of the believer. Let me take that again.
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  When we talk about the good fight of faith in this teaching,
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  we refer to the contentions and then we also refer to the
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  overall spiritual process that leads to establishing and
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  manifesting the victory that is in Christ as a functional
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  present day reality in the life of the believer, as a functional
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  present dash day reality in the life of the believer.
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  So the good fact of faith talks about the contentions, the
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  necessary spiritual contentions, and then the overall process
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  that leads to establishing and manifesting the victory that is
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  already in Christ to become a functional present day reality
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  in the life of the believer. You understand me so far, say
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  Amen. So there's victory that's been
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  wrought. In Christ.
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  But the contentions that you need to work with by faith to
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  establish and manifest that victory so that it becomes in
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  your life a functional present day reality.
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  That's what the Bible calls the fight of faith.
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  The contentions There are contentions, ladies and
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  gentlemen. And these contentions are
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  predicated upon certain facts. Please look up #1 that there is
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  what we call the legal side of redemption, as EW Kenyon will
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  call it, and the vital side of redemption.
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  The legal side of redemption talks about realities that are
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  finished in Christ, but the vital side talks about the
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  dynamics of making those realities manifest.
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  Healing is finished in Christ, but may not be finished in your
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  body. We together, blessings of all
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  sorts may be finished in Christ, but not manifest in your body.
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  Salvation has been finished in Christ, but there are still many
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  people going to hell today from the foundations of the earth.
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  The Lamb was slain. The legal side of redemption,
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  the vital side of redemption is whosoever shall call upon the
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  name of the Lord, he shall be saved.
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  That salvation that's finished in Christ is not imputed
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  automatically. It is at the instance of your
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  declaring the Lordship of Christ.
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  It becomes to you a reality. Look at this if someone rises up
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  right now from the wheelchair. The day that person rose off
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  from the wheelchair is not the day the healing was purchased.
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  The healing was already purchased more than 2000 years
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  ago. Are we together?
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  But that was the day that legal side became vital.
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  The word vital means functional in the persons life.
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  How many of you know that? God forbid, but if you have say,
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  fever today, or malaria or typhoid, the drugs that would
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  treat you is not the day you go to the hospital that the doctor
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  looks for the drug. The drugs already been there,
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  but the day it is administered into your body, that's the day
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  it becomes healing for you. If you are suffering from
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  typhoids today, every pharmacy already has the cure, but the
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  cure in the pharmacy does not do you any good.
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  Am I right on that? You will have to find a way of
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  going to the hospital or getting a qualified Dr. or medical
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  practitioner to take the drugs that is on the shelf or
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  somewhere in the lab and administer it to you in the
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  various forms of administration. Then you will now walk into the
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  functional reality of health. That's how it is spiritually.
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  The good fight of faith is necessary because realities that
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  are finished in Christ do not automatically manifest in the
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  life of the believer. They are prophetic realities as
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  finished in Christ. But it takes faith and the
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  operation of the Mistress of the Kingdom to make it manifest here
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  and now #2. The second reason why the fight
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  of faith is necessary is because Satan is a stubborn and a
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  rebellious spirit. Please write that down.
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  This is a very important aspect of this teaching.
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  The second reason why believers need to engage the fight of
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  faith to possess your possession is because Satan and all demon
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  spirits are stubborn and rebellious spirits.
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  Satan is more aware, more aware than you, of what Jesus did on
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  the cross because he was the victim of what Jesus did.
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  Are we together now? The principal victim, as far as
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  the work of the cross is concerned, was Satan himself.
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  He was defeated utterly. The keys were collected from
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  him. So you are not trying to teach
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  Satan what happened. The memory remains eternally
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  edged in him of the victory. That was wrought in Christ.
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  However, because Satan is a stubborn and a rebellious
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  spirit, he will not let you go, not without a fight.
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  Hence the need for the. Fight of faith.
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  When Satan attacks your body, he knows the scripture that says by
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  his tribes I am healed. When Satan attacks your
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  children, he knows the scripture that says your the seed shall be
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  mighty upon the earth. When Satan attacks your job, he
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  knows the scripture that says the works of your hands should
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  be blessed. But Satan?
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  Is called Antichrist what does that mean he's always against
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  the program of God Satan does not fight you because of
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  ignorance he fights you because he's a rebellious spirit and I
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  pray for you in the name of Jesus that from this standpoint
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  you will wear your warfare regalia and use this year to
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  fight until you worry the. Devil say Amen.
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  Shout Amen. The fight of faith.
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  Now listen to me, ladies and gentlemen.
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  Herein lies the subtle deception that has produced aware but weak
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  people in the body of Christ. The theology that neglects the
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  reality of a fight of faith may be a sincere, well-intentioned,
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  but poisonous theology. You will never work in the
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  reality of your possession until you learn how to fight the fight
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  of faith. The fight of faith is not adding
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  to what Jesus has done the fight of faith.
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  Is making a withdrawal from the account where deposit has been
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  made. When you find the fight of
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  faith, you are not adding to what Christ has done.
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  When you find the fight of faith, you are in partnership,
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  sponsored by the awareness of what Christ has done to make
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  good what He has done. In your life in reality, the
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  fight of faith There are 6 aspects to the fight of faith.
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  And this is the zenith of my teaching tonight #1.
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  So when we talk about the fight of faith, there are 6 aspects to
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  it, and if you fail to understand these six aspects,
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  your knowledge of the fight of faith will be limited.
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  Pray in the Spirit for one minute because someone's life is
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  about to change. Someone is learning how to fight
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  that fight of faith. And to rot victory for someone.
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  You are doing this on behalf of your family for someone.
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  You are doing this on behalf of your children for someone.
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  You are doing this on behalf of all those who will come ahead of
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  you. You are doing this on behalf of
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  the well-intentioned people connected to you who are not
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  aware of this understanding. Shaprate la caparanto siata.
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  One minute you are praying his tongues.
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  In Jesus name we pray. So write this down.
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  There are 6 aspects to the fight of faith.
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  Number one, the first aspect or the first dimension of the fight
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  of faith is the contention for accuracy of thoughts, ideas and
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  belief systems. Please write that down.
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  The first dimension to the fight of faith is the contention for
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  accuracy or the contention to gain accuracy in your thoughts,
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  your ideas, and your belief system.
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  Ephesians 6 and verse 12. The contention?
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  To gain accuracy in your thoughts, in your ideas and your
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  belief system. Let me tell you this, the
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  journey for transformation is a fight is real warfare because we
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  are fighting against ancient thoughts.
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  Some of these thoughts were transferred from generation to
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  generation. Are we together now?
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  The first aspect of the fight of faith, or the first dimension,
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  is the contention to gain accuracy in thoughts, ideas and
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  belief systems. The Bible says, for we wrestle
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  not against flesh and blood, but against principalities.
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  Watch this against powers, against rulers of darkness, of
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  this world, against spiritual wickedness.
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  No, no, no, no. This is not the scripture I'm
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  looking for, for the weapons of our warfare given in
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  Corinthians. 2nd Corinthians 10 and verse 4, verse 4 for the
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  weapons. Thank you.
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  We'll come to the Ephesians one later on for the weapons of our
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  warfare. Everybody look up and not canal
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  but. Mighty through God to the
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  pulling down of strongholds let's read verse 5 together 1 to
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  read 5 casting down imaginations and every high thing that exalts
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  itself against the knowledge of God and.
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  Into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ.
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  That right there, ladies and gentlemen, is a fight of faith.
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  The mindset that kept your father down, the mindset that
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  kept your mother down, the mindset that kept your whole
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  lineage down. Then a young boy arises one day
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  and say I want to change the narrative.
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  Satan will fight you with everything he's got, but for the
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  one who says no way. I'm on this battle of
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  transformation. While others are sleeping, you
• 1:03:33
  are awake. You are letting this mind be in
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  you, which was in Christ Jesus. He may not look like it from
• 1:03:39
  your lowly estate. Hear me, believe us as you
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  submit yourself. Bible study is warfare is not
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  education is warfare. There is a replacement going on.
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  Satan cannot do anything. About a man who has rejected the
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  software that empowers his operation.
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  Before Satan attacks, he sends a mindset.
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  When you receive that mindset, that is the virus that
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  introduces him officially. To your life.
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  When the Bible talks about the fight of faith, leave demons
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  first. We are coming there.
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  You combine all the demons in this world and Satan will leave
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  you with joy knowing that his software is.
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  Still in you, ladies and gentlemen, the fight of faith is
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  not just about casting demons. There is a place for that.
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  But the real warfare is the warfare of replacing thoughts,
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  replacing ideas, replacing thoughts.
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  How can I live a life? Of forgiveness how can I live a
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  life void of hatred how can I not fight and and and all is is
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  a. Thought and the devil.
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  I told you that a stronghold. Look up please.
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  A stronghold is a belief system, a mindset that has demons
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  guarding it to keep the victim perpetually thinking that way.
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  That's the reason why when you advise and counsel people, they
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  will be looking at you and say that's a nice idea, but they
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  would get up and go and do exactly what you said they
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  should not do because it's beyond their desire.
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  There is a stronghold that is engineering their behavior.
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  Parents please listen to this. You need more than counseling to
• 1:05:36
  set your children free from a stronghold that came as a result
• 1:05:40
  of external environment. The guy has watched pornography
• 1:05:44
  for 10 years and you are saying an advice?
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  Don't don't don't get into porn. You know it's not good for your
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  future. He says yes.
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  You think that would deliver him?
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  There is already an image in his mind.
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  There is, there is already a program in there.
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  All Satan needs to do is to align with seasons, biological
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  seasons in the life of men and. Women and you would trigger that
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  image and the person is back again.
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  This one will need more than counseling.
• 1:06:15
  I'm telling you warfare, Sir. Every time you open your Bible,
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  just know that hell is frowning. Every time you listen to a
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  message, just know that hell is frowning.
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  Every time you're on your way to Koinonia, just know that the
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  spirits are for those who went ahead of you.
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  That is why they will find you with annoyance.
• 1:06:38
  They will find you with petty. Things so that you don't go to
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  church. You think it's quarrel between
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  husband and wife. Satan has no business between
• 1:06:46
  your marriage. There's none of his business.
• 1:06:48
  He wants to stop you from hearing what will reprogram your
• 1:06:51
  mind. Yes Sir, yes Sir, yes Sir.
• 1:06:59
  He knows when you keep hearing, something will happen to you.
• 1:07:02
  Look up, please. How did you learn most of the
• 1:07:05
  songs you learned? There is no book where you wrote
• 1:07:07
  the song you just kept hearing. When a new album comes out, do
• 1:07:11
  you know how many songs are in your head and you never learned
• 1:07:17
  any of them? The the people who wrote the
• 1:07:20
  song did not preach as as as impactful as I'm preaching to
• 1:07:25
  you. Yet the song entered easily.
• 1:07:27
  You know why? Because the the devil is not
• 1:07:29
  afraid of the song. But the reason why you keep
• 1:07:32
  preaching and preaching and it doesn't enter that easily is
• 1:07:35
  because there is warfare between the speaker and your spirit.
• 1:07:40
  If you can learn 10 songs in one day, what is it about one verse
• 1:07:45
  that cannot stay in your spirit? Should that not tell you there
• 1:07:50
  is war going on somewhere? You play a secular song, for
• 1:07:55
  instance, and in 5 minutes you already know the part of it you
• 1:07:58
  still remember, and yet to learn one scripture you forget later
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  on. You are not that dull.
• 1:08:07
  It is because there are spirits assigned every time the seed was
• 1:08:10
  sown. Have you forgotten that as he
• 1:08:13
  was sowing, another farmer was waiting with seeds too?
• 1:08:16
  And while men slept, he also came and sold.
• 1:08:21
  Let me tell you, ladies and gentlemen.
• 1:08:23
  The first aspect of the fight of faith that every one of us must
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  learn. Nobody is born transformed.
• 1:08:31
  Transformation is one of the labeled dimensions of faith.
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  It is. Hard.
• 1:08:36
  Work to be transformed because you are fighting and editing.
• 1:08:41
  You see, your mind does not need to be deleted because it's not
• 1:08:45
  everything there that is wrong. If you want to know what a
• 1:08:48
  deleted mind is, go to the hospital and see people who have
• 1:08:52
  had complete memory loss. They can't walk again, they
• 1:08:55
  can't talk, they can't remember their wives and their children.
• 1:08:58
  That's not God's goal for you. What God wants to do is an
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  editing of the files in your mind.
• 1:09:05
  Files of hatred, files of wickedness, files of
• 1:09:09
  irresponsibility, files that sponsor prayerlessness, files
• 1:09:13
  that sponsor worthlessness, files that engineer wrong
• 1:09:17
  confessions, files that engineer an entitlement mentality.
• 1:09:23
  And the way that replacement happens is as you engage with
• 1:09:26
  the word of God. Ladies and gentlemen, for every
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  time you study, for every time you listen, for every time you
• 1:09:34
  speak, for every time you meditate, I want you to know
• 1:09:38
  that you are warring a good warfare by faith.
• 1:09:43
  It may not look like it, but you are winning because I told you
• 1:09:47
  warfare for the believer is not fighting to see if you will win.
• 1:09:52
  You are manifesting because you have won.
• 1:10:02
  Let me tell you this, when you find a believer who is so
• 1:10:05
  thoroughly refined and so thoroughly transformed, make no
• 1:10:09
  mistakes about it. Nobody received the gift of
• 1:10:12
  transformation. Now others are fortunate because
• 1:10:16
  the spiritual debris in their mind is less than that of
• 1:10:20
  others. I'll give you an example.
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  If you come from a family that was where the your parents were
• 1:10:25
  already born, again, most likely the rubbish in your mind will
• 1:10:29
  not be to the degree of someone who came directly from idol
• 1:10:32
  worship. Are you getting the point now?
• 1:10:34
  They're still rubbish there. But I'm saying that to to mop up
• 1:10:37
  that rubbish will be of less energy than somebody who's
• 1:10:41
  tried, whose father was a herbalist, the mother was a
• 1:10:45
  diviner, the elder brother served the devil.
• 1:10:49
  You see that now? You see those kinds of things?
• 1:10:52
  Or he lived in a family with hatred and all kinds of things.
• 1:10:59
  If God ever gave you a foundation of godly parents,
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  even if they were not enlightened, you better thank
• 1:11:07
  God for them because it saved you this journey.
• 1:11:10
  Did you hear what I said? If God granted you grace and you
• 1:11:14
  started going to church as a young boy, forget that you were
• 1:11:17
  sleeping in church. Is it better than sleeping
• 1:11:19
  elsewhere? Every contribution that came
• 1:11:23
  towards helping your journey should be appreciated.
• 1:11:26
  Now that you in this. However, you cannot stop there.
• 1:11:29
  It's time to fire on all four cylinders.
• 1:11:32
  Some of us stopped the journey of transformation years ago,
• 1:11:35
  where in the journey of complaining, regrets and God is
• 1:11:38
  saying I want to do much with your life as a man of God, as a
• 1:11:42
  businessman, but something in your mind is limiting the power
• 1:11:46
  of God. You need to get back on that
• 1:11:48
  warfare in the name of Jesus. You want to be Deborah.
• 1:11:52
  You must know what Deborah knows.
• 1:11:53
  You want to be Mary. You must know what Mary knows
• 1:11:57
  you want to be. Jesus, you must know what he
• 1:11:59
  knows. Let this mind be in you, which
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  was also in Christ Jesus. He did not just win because he
• 1:12:05
  was a. Son of God, he won because he
• 1:12:07
  had the mind of Christ. Hear me, victory is a mindset
• 1:12:14
  before an achievement. Defeat is a mindset.
• 1:12:17
  You've heard me say a loser's mentality cannot produce a
• 1:12:22
  victor's destiny. No, you can have the destiny of
• 1:12:26
  a victor, but with a loser's mentality.
• 1:12:29
  No, the mindset to rise up and walk is what makes the prophecy
• 1:12:35
  to rise up and walk happen. The mindset of a prophet is what
• 1:12:39
  makes the pro the destiny of a prophet to be activated.
• 1:12:43
  The mindset of a winner is what makes the destiny of a winner to
• 1:12:47
  walk. So when Satan cannot do anything
• 1:12:49
  about your prophecy, he finds the mindset that must connect to
• 1:12:53
  that prophecy. But in the name of Jesus, the
• 1:12:56
  Son of the living God, I pray for someone.
• 1:12:59
  Even if they this is your first step tonight.
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  Begin that fight of faith. Begin that fight of faith.
• 1:13:06
  Begin that warfare with Scripture.
• 1:13:08
  In the name of Jesus, hear. Me ladies and gentlemen, while
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  you fight that fight of faith, replacing old ideas, old
• 1:13:22
  Antichrist anti destiny, anti greatness ideas.
• 1:13:26
  Now look up. I've said it here many times.
• 1:13:29
  Well, let me repeat myself. When I talk of being transformed
• 1:13:33
  by superior information, with all due respect, I don't mean
• 1:13:38
  westernized information. Are we together?
• 1:13:43
  With all due respect, thinking like an American, thinking like
• 1:13:46
  an European, thinking like an Asian is wonderful if that
• 1:13:50
  thought is word compliant. When I talk of transformation,
• 1:13:53
  I'm talking of the word compliancy of your thoughts, not
• 1:13:58
  just the technological compliancy of your thoughts.
• 1:14:01
  You can graduate from thinking like someone who is is is in a
• 1:14:07
  low estate and think like someone who is Western but is
• 1:14:10
  still an. Antichrist idea and it will not
• 1:14:12
  work for you. So when I talk about.
• 1:14:14
  Transformation. I'm not just saying you used to
• 1:14:17
  use your hand to eat, now you are using spoon, fork and knife.
• 1:14:20
  Congratulations. But that is useless as far as
• 1:14:23
  your destiny is concerned. I'm talking about the word of
• 1:14:26
  God reprogramming your mind. Yes, I surrender ito yes.
• 1:15:24
  Please sit down. The first aspect of the good
• 1:15:28
  fight of faith is the contention to gain accuracy in thoughts,
• 1:15:34
  ideas, and belief systems number. 2.
• 1:15:38
  What is the second aspect of the Fight of Faith?
• 1:15:41
  Are you ready The label? Of establishing spiritual
• 1:15:46
  realities. Through.
• 1:15:48
  Words in prayer, the label of. Establishing spiritual reality.
• 1:15:56
  Through. Words in prayer.
• 1:15:59
  That's the second aspect of this fight of faith, the prayer
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  ministry using words, faith filled words, word, compliant
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  words to establish realities. Matthew chapter 12 and verse 37.
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  You cannot separate dominion from words, for by your words
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  thou shall be justified and by your words thou shall be
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  condemned. Isaiah chapter 43 and verse 26,
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  Popular Scripture, 4326. Isaiah put me in remembrance.
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  It says let us plead together. Declare thou that thou mightest
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  be justified. Declare thou, declare I am free
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  in prayer and you are justified to be free.
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  Declare I have a great tomorrow in prayer.
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  It is. Let me tell you this, when you
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  stay in the place of prayer, it is a fight of.
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  Faith. It is a fight of faith, Sir.
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  While we look not at the things that are seen but the things
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  that are not seen. While we look at the job that is
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  not yet there. While we look at the life that
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  is not yet there. While we look at prophecy still
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  hanging over your head, and you take your eyes away from it and
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  begin to speak in the name of Jesus.
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  Though my beginning be small, but my letter N shall greatly
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  increase. You are using words in the place
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  of prayer in the name of Jesus. What my father could not do,
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  what my mother could not do, because I am alive, there will
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  be beneficiaries of the. Grace of God upon my life in the
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  name of Jesus, the spirit of untimely death that has killed
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  people in my family. I come as a Savior, I rise as a
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  savior, he said. With long life shall I satisfy
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  you and show you my salvation. I.
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  Decree and declare. The spirit assigned to cause
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  death. You have no power over my life.
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  I come as a priest. The label.
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  Of establishing spiritual realities through words in
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  prayer. Isaiah 4121.
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  Please believe us. Lend this otherwise.
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  Forget about dominion. Somebody may what I'm saying
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  make you angry this night. May it make you angry.
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  A holy provocation. The Bible says, produce your
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  cause, sayeth the Lord. He said, bring forth your strong
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  reasons. Look at me, ladies and
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  gentlemen. Let me tell you what bring forth
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  your strong reason means. Why should witchcraft stop
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  working in your family? Bring forth your strong reason
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  because the price has been paid. Don't say it to me.
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  Say it in prayer. Why should you rise, Gideon?
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  You come from the least of your father's house, and your
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  father's house is the least of the tribe.
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  Why should you be a mighty man of value?
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  Let me tell you, ladies and gentlemen, well, it has to do
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  with your destiny and it has to do with prophecy.
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  I want you to always carry the regalia of a fighter.
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  Things will not change because you want it to change.
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  Things will change because you pray it to change.
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  Pray it to change ministry is not growing is because people
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  don't like me. Maybe it's the tribe I'm coming
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  from continuing complaining and regretting you will finish all
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  you can and depress yourself and remain there.
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  But when you know that there are territorial spirits that fights
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  the destiny of men and you go back and begin to engage and
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  pray. Shabba Qatar, Qatar.
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  The Bible says the works of my hands are blessed in the name of
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  Jesus Christ. He's anointed me to be a
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  minister and a priest. The war cannot die.
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  The vision cannot die. Jesus said all that you have
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  given me. Father, where are those who have
• 1:19:52
  given me? I gravitate them by prophecy.
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  They leave the north, the South and the east and the West.
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  They connect to the grace. Because you have given me Who is
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  Lenny? The fight of Faith number 2 has
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  to do with establishing spiritual realities in your
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  life. As a functional reality, through
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  words in prayer, through words. Brothers and sisters, for as
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  long as I live, my mouth will not be silent over my destiny.
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  My mouth will not be silent over Koinonia.
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  My mind will not be silent over you.
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  God has given me a responsibility over your
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  spiritual life and over your well-being and for your sake I
• 1:20:45
  won't keep quiet whether I'm tired or not.
• 1:20:47
  The devil will hear my voice for your sake or he will or he will.
• 1:20:52
  I will weary hell for your sake. When you are sleeping, I'll be
• 1:20:56
  awake. I'm not saying sleep, wake up to
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  and pray, but I will pray for you.
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  Oh, I will pray for you. I can tell you I love you that
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  much. I will pray for you.
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  Sit and take your hands off that lady's life.
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  But she's not serious spiritually, but she's on the
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  covering that can help her in the name of Jesus Christ.
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  He said he showed me Joshua the high priest.
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  He was not Joshua. That removed his garment.
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  Someone removed it for him. Let me tell you this please, if
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  you don't know how to pray, destiny advancing prayers, learn
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  it all. Learn it is part of the end time
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  weapons for victory. Shaka Baka, you get up in the
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  morning in the name of Jesus. Nothing dies in my hands.
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  Nothing fails in my hands. You are driving to walk.
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  The devil is reminding you of somebody who annoyed you.
• 1:21:51
  The devil is reminding you of how you failed, how you lost.
• 1:21:54
  Money in business, hey. Silence that voice.
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  In the name of Jesus, silence that voice.
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  Silence that voice. The earth is the Lord and His
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  fullness hereof. How about the school feast of
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  your child? I may not see wind, I may not
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  see rain, but my family shall be filled with water.
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  How about the Church? It doesn't seem to grow.
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  I do not see members living in the name of Jesus.
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  I decree and declare by the power of the Holy Spirit, He
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  will multiply me. I will not be small, He will
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  glorify me. I will not be filled.
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  How about your children that are wayward in the name of Jesus.
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  The God who brought the prodigal son back home is bringing my
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  children back home. I may not know where they are,
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  but the grace that preserved the boy that he did not deplete unto
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  death. He told about Lazarus.
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  He said this sickness is not unto death.
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  Let me prophecy over someone that problem is not unto death.
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  It will not kill you. He may have wounded you, but I
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  tell you to not kill you in the name of Jesus Christ.
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  Hear me, do you know one of the major reasons Jesus went to
• 1:23:07
  resurrect Lazarus? Because he spoke that the
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  sickness is not unto death. There were many people who died.
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  Jesus did not raise them because he didn't say anything about
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  their situation. But he spoke about Lazarus and
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  he had to defend what he said. He already said the sickness is
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  not unto death. So when Lazarus died.
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  Aside from other dynamics that played out, he said let's go and
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  wake him up because my word cannot fail.
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  God has already called you a winner.
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  So when you are losing, take that loss in prayer and say,
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  Lord, why am I losing? You have called me a winner.
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  Let the world not say you said this and this happened.
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  Bring forth your strong reasons. Present your cause.
• 1:23:55
  Present your cause someone. Pray in one minute.
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  Pray in the Spirit, in one minute say I am victorious.
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  Please don't keep quiet. In the name of Jesus, speak over
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  your finances, speak over your ministry, speak over your career
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  following online. Are you praying?
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  This is a fight of faith, a contention for accuracy,
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  superiority of belief systems in the contention, the labor in
• 1:24:26
  faith to manifest spiritual reality through words in prayer.
• 1:24:42
  In Jesus name we pray. Please sit down.
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  What is the fight of faith? The third dimension of the fight
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  of faith. Are you ready?
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  The labor and the contention to work in obedience.
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  The labor and the contention to work in obedience.
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  Obedience is costly. Obedience is expensive.
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  Obedience can even be discouraging.
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  There are times when it looks foolish to obey God.
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  There are times when it looks unwise to obey God, because you
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  will obey God with immediate. Human consequences, but the
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  profit of obedience cannot be quantified.
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  When we talk about the fight of faith, it is the label #3 and
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  the contention to work consistently.
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  You may add that to work consistently or to work
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  perpetually in obedience. Isaiah 119 If they be willing
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  and if they be obedient, you will eat the good of Abuja.
• 1:25:51
  You will eat the good of Nigeria.
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  Hallelujah. Your obedience does not need a
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  visa. It can draw good from everywhere
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  and bring it to you. You can obey God in Abuja and
• 1:26:08
  the reward will come from America and no human will stop
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  it from coming. You don't need any migration
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  pass. It will gravitate itself from a
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  place of prophecy until it comes to your life.
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  Let me tell you this, ladies and gentlemen.
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  But if you have not faced the pain of obedience, then you have
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  not obeyed God, truly. Did you hear what I said?
• 1:26:29
  If you have never faced the pain of obedience, then you have not
• 1:26:33
  obeyed God truly. Obedience is costly, painful,
• 1:26:37
  it's warfare. You are in an office and there's
• 1:26:42
  ten billion naira floating. And just for keeping quiet, your
• 1:26:49
  own share is 2 billion. Think of what 2 billion can do
• 1:26:52
  for you and don't say small money where you don't have
• 1:26:56
  anything in your account. 2 billion is a lot of money.
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  Just keep quiet. You don't need to help push it,
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  just keep quiet. Let it pass and you say no for
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  the sake of my integrity and for the name of the Lord.
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  No, this is wrong. Let it go back and people will
• 1:27:14
  insult you and their children will insult your children in
• 1:27:17
  school and say you are the one stopping us from eating.
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  May God punish you. God asking God, who asks us to
• 1:27:23
  obey, to help him punish you. There are times obedience leads
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  to loneliness. There are times obedience makes
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  you controversial. There are times obedience makes
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  you confuse yourself. God, what is the name of what
• 1:27:41
  we're doing? He said just carry Isaac, keep
• 1:27:44
  going. Abraham, what is this journey?
• 1:27:48
  What are you doing with Isaac? May God bless you.
• 1:27:50
  I wish you good speed. Go home, I'm on my way going.
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  Then when Isaac now asked by himself, Father, what are we
• 1:27:56
  doing? He said let's keep going.
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  Obedience. Who is Lenny?
• 1:28:06
  The labor and the contention of working consistently in
• 1:28:11
  obedience. 2nd Corinthians 10 and verse 6.
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  Quickly. Having the readiness to judge
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  all disobedience. Having the readiness to judge or
• 1:28:21
  to revenge all disobedience. When your obedience is fulfilled
• 1:28:26
  or complete you. Cannot have the authorization to
• 1:28:30
  judge disobedience in disobedience Jesus used
• 1:28:35
  obedience to judge disobedience The.
• 1:28:38
  Rebellion of Satan was not judged by Jesus.
• 1:28:40
  Rebellion. If Jesus was stubborn, he would
• 1:28:44
  not be able to defeat Satan. It took obedience even unto
• 1:28:47
  death. Ladies and gentlemen, let me
• 1:28:52
  tell you this. The fight of faith has a
• 1:28:55
  dimension to it that insists that you will obey God whether
• 1:29:00
  it is immediately profitable or not.
• 1:29:04
  Did you hear what I said? That you will obey God whether
• 1:29:07
  it is immediately profitable or not?
• 1:29:10
  Let me tell you, we live in a world where when righteousness
• 1:29:14
  does not produce immediate short term profit, most believers get
• 1:29:18
  offended. God boy, you said I should do
• 1:29:20
  this. I.
• 1:29:21
  Gave promise asked me to give where is he?
• 1:29:25
  I gave and after giving I'm not seeing anything or.
• 1:29:32
  What is going on here? There is see that scattered and
• 1:29:38
  yet tends to penury. There is see that withholded, or
• 1:29:44
  they see that scattered and yet increases.
• 1:29:46
  They see that withholded and turns to penury.
• 1:29:49
  It may not always happen immediately.
• 1:29:53
  We have advanced systems of agriculture today, hydroponics
• 1:29:57
  and other advancement, precision farming where you can time with
• 1:30:01
  the precision of a surgeon that in 21 days the farm can deliver
• 1:30:06
  vegetables. There are people today who run
• 1:30:09
  poultry in four weeks exactly or five weeks is matured enough
• 1:30:15
  ready for harvest. I mean, science has gone that
• 1:30:17
  far. Well, let me tell you one thing
• 1:30:20
  you may not always be able to take out is the time factor.
• 1:30:24
  Once you plant, trust God. What time with Thanksgiving?
• 1:30:28
  Everybody said I receive grace to obey, Said Against I receive
• 1:30:33
  grace to walk in obedience, The obedience of prayer, the
• 1:30:41
  obedience of fasting, the obedience of learning, the
• 1:30:44
  obedience of giving, the obedience of honor, the
• 1:30:48
  obedience of compliance, the obedience of sacrifice, the
• 1:30:52
  obedience of surrender, the obedience of alignment.
• 1:30:56
  Or it may. Cost you a while, but learn from
• 1:30:59
  Jesus. He humbled Himself and was
• 1:31:02
  obedient unto death. But the story did not stop
• 1:31:05
  there. Wherefore don't take away that
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  part from the equation. God that so highly exalted him
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  and given him a name that is above every other name.
• 1:31:15
  Ladies and gentlemen, every time you say Jesus is Lord, what you
• 1:31:18
  mean is Jesus was obedient to be Lord.
• 1:31:22
  There is no dominion for the disobedient.
• 1:31:25
  The word Lord means absolute master owner.
• 1:31:28
  There is a relationship between the consistency of obedience and
• 1:31:33
  dominion. #4. What is the 4th aspect?
• 1:31:40
  Is someone learning tonight? So that the fight of faith #1
• 1:31:45
  refers to the contention to gain accuracy in thoughts, in ideas
• 1:31:52
  and belief systems. In other words, the warfare of
• 1:31:56
  bringing the Word of God into your mental space, replacing old
• 1:32:01
  Antichrist ideas, forcing your mind through the discipline of
• 1:32:07
  diligence to come under divine alignment to submit to the
• 1:32:12
  superiority of the world #2. The label of establishing
• 1:32:18
  spiritual realities through words in prayer #3.
• 1:32:23
  The contention and the label of consistently working in
• 1:32:29
  obedience #4 the 4th dimension of the fight of faith.
• 1:32:34
  Are you ready? Contending against demonic
• 1:32:38
  spirit and satanic infrastructures.
• 1:32:43
  Contending against demonic spirits and satanic
• 1:32:48
  infrastructures. Now we talk spirits.
• 1:32:52
  Now we talk Satan contending against demonic spirits and
• 1:32:58
  satanic infrastructures, or this is a major part of the fight of
• 1:33:03
  faith. Spirits are real, James 47.
• 1:33:07
  Satan is real. Demons are real.
• 1:33:10
  Ephesians 6. James 47 says resist the devil.
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  There is a spirit called the devil.
• 1:33:19
  Ephesians 6 and verse 12. We looked at it earlier on, he
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  says. We wrestle not against flesh and
• 1:33:25
  blood, our contention is beyond the human realm, but against
• 1:33:30
  principalities, powers, rulers of the darkness of this world,
• 1:33:35
  against spiritual wickedness. These are different cadas of the
• 1:33:40
  demonic satanic organogram. Satan has an organized demonic
• 1:33:45
  infrastructure. The Bible calls it the gates of
• 1:33:48
  hell. A legion 10,000 demons sank in
• 1:33:56
  the destiny and the life of one man.
• 1:33:58
  But when Jesus proved them, it was not all of them that spoke.
• 1:34:02
  It was 1 spirit that spoke representing them.
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  Ladies and gentlemen, let me tell you this, the believer who
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  ignores the reality and the presence of Satan.
• 1:34:14
  Now you should not be frightened by the presence of Satan.
• 1:34:18
  You should not. You should not be beguiled to
• 1:34:21
  live in fear and almost worship Satan.
• 1:34:24
  No, no, no, no, no, no, no. But to walk in ignorance and
• 1:34:28
  shrug it away. You may have your destiny as the
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  price to pay for it. Satan is real as an evil spirit,
• 1:34:36
  as a rebellious spirit, as an unclean spirit.
• 1:34:40
  Jesus himself acknowledged the presence of Satan and told us
• 1:34:44
  that there is an intelligent demonic infrastructure that is
• 1:34:49
  Antichrist in his formation with a singular.
• 1:34:52
  Goal to thwart everything. God to thwart everything Destiny
• 1:34:57
  to thwart everything. Christ to thwart everything.
• 1:35:00
  Dominion to strip the sense of. Dignity.
• 1:35:04
  Now the principal work has been done through the victory of
• 1:35:07
  Christ, but Satan will continue to wage war.
• 1:35:11
  What do you think Satan and demons are doing roaming around
• 1:35:15
  the length and the breadth of the earth?
• 1:35:18
  He will fight what He can fight in your life.
• 1:35:20
  He will fight you with death. He will fight you with sickness.
• 1:35:24
  He will fight you with discouragement.
• 1:35:26
  He will fight you with pain for those who know how to fight.
• 1:35:34
  Spirits are real. Not only do I believe because
• 1:35:38
  the word of God says I have seen.
• 1:35:40
  Many of them I've shared with you my encounters.
• 1:35:44
  I've seen demon spirit. So I'm not one person who comes
• 1:35:47
  out to tell you I've seen everybody in heaven and hell, I
• 1:35:49
  will say that. But I've seen real spirits.
• 1:35:51
  I have seen demon spirits. I did not see any of them that
• 1:35:55
  shook. Me that says stretch your hand
• 1:35:57
  young man, you are doing a good job.
• 1:36:02
  They are called wicked spirits. They are called unclean spirits
• 1:36:06
  with a singular mission that is together summed up in John
• 1:36:10
  chapter 10 and verse 10 that the.
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  Thief cometh not but for to steal.
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  To kill and to destroy again. To steal, To kill and to destroy
• 1:36:20
  one last time. To steal, to kill and to
• 1:36:23
  destroy. Nothing friendly in that
• 1:36:27
  mission. You want to have an idea of the
• 1:36:32
  character of Satan. You look at the wickedness in
• 1:36:35
  our world today and to know that the people who do them are
• 1:36:39
  simply being manipulated. They are not Satan.
• 1:36:42
  Themselves. So the wickedness that is
• 1:36:45
  engineering those operations should give you an idea of who
• 1:36:49
  Satan is. Are we together?
• 1:36:52
  Yeah, that a man can carry a baby and lift her up and watch
• 1:36:58
  the baby and put a knife and slaughter the baby slowly and
• 1:37:02
  laugh afterwards. And yet that man is not Satan.
• 1:37:06
  He's not even Satan possessing the man.
• 1:37:08
  He's maybe a small demon spirit somewhere.
• 1:37:11
  That's the enemy fighting you. If he can slaughter a small
• 1:37:14
  innocent child. Don't make the mistake of being
• 1:37:17
  flattered that you will leave your destiny.
• 1:37:19
  You are going to fight. He will kill your children if he
• 1:37:22
  can. I'm not scaring you.
• 1:37:24
  He will kill your reputation. He will kill everything God.
• 1:37:29
  But thanks be to God in the name of Jesus, who causes us to
• 1:37:32
  triumph. Is someone hearing what I'm
• 1:37:35
  saying the fight of faith? Is warfare.
• 1:37:41
  Contention against spirits. Man of God, Satan will use
• 1:37:45
  spirits to fight you. He will fight your reputation.
• 1:37:49
  He will fight your testimony. He will fight your finances.
• 1:37:53
  He will fight your convictions. John the Baptist took Satan for
• 1:38:00
  granted and he paid for it just because he had seen the king,
• 1:38:06
  just because he saw the Lamb that was slain.
• 1:38:08
  I'm sure, maybe, perhaps he got so confident that because he had
• 1:38:13
  seen Jesus and even ordained Jesus to ministry, it made him
• 1:38:17
  immune from Satan until Satan came to him and used the door of
• 1:38:21
  offense, created a rock of offense and changed on the
• 1:38:26
  Baptist. John the Prophet became John the
• 1:38:30
  Unfortunate and he was beheaded and died like one who God did
• 1:38:35
  not anoint. The only man the Bible says that
• 1:38:38
  he anointed from his mother's womb.
• 1:38:43
  If John was anointed from his mother's womb, you you were not
• 1:38:45
  anointed from your mother's womb.
• 1:38:47
  You search for the anointing in a meeting and let me tell you,
• 1:38:51
  brothers and sisters, do not fear Satan, but don't take him
• 1:38:55
  for granted. He's a vicious, determined
• 1:38:57
  spirit. I pray for you in Jesus name and
• 1:39:00
  I stand with the voice of intercession on behalf of your
• 1:39:03
  destiny anywhere. Satan seems to have gained
• 1:39:06
  ground by the power that raised Christ from the dead.
• 1:39:09
  We cast him far from your life. We cast him far from your
• 1:39:13
  family. We cast him far from your
• 1:39:15
  business. We cast him far from your
• 1:39:18
  ministry. We cast him far from your body
• 1:39:22
  in the name of Jesus Christ. Again, I said to you, We cast
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  him far from your body, far from your life, far from your
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  destiny. Contending against demonic
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  spirits and satanic infrastructures.
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  Let me give you #5 very quickly. What is the 5th aspect of the
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  fight of faith? Are you ready?
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  The fight of faith #5 also refers to the patience and the
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  persistence of faith. The patience and the persistence
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  of faith, In other words, waiting in.
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  Hope. Until your promise manifests the
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  patience and the persistence of faith.
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  Fighting does not always mean motion.
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  Fighting also means stamina, the staying power waiting in hope.
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  Until the promise manifests, until your destiny manifests.
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  Hebrews chapter 612 and 15 very quickly.
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  Hebrews 612 and 15. That ye be not slothful, but be
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  followers of them. Watch how they obtain promises.
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  Who through faith and patience obtain the promise.
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  It is always faith and patience. Faith in partnership with
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  patience. Verse 15, 6:15 and so after he
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  the Hebrew Abraham had patiently endured the Bible says he
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  obtained the promise. Romans chapter 8 and verse 25.
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  The fight of faith includes and involves the patience and the
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  persistence of faith. Now look up.
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  Please let me digress for one minute real quick and tell you
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  the difference between. Waiting in hope or in faith and
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  the waiting that is unto vanity. The difference is you are
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  waiting based on what God has said, but He's just waiting on
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  imaginations. Are we together?
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  If you are just waiting, one day go better.
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  That's not the weight of fate. That's weight that is going to
• 1:41:54
  lead to disappointment because the Word of God is not backing
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  that waiting. But when God tells you, he says
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  all the days of my appointed time, I will wait until my
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  change comes. When you wait upon the Lord,
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  when you wait based on the word of God, it is the weight, the
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  patience, the persistence of faith.
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  Romans 825 Give it to us, please. 825 Romans Romans
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  chapter 8 it says, For if we hope for that we see not, then
• 1:42:32
  we do so with patience, or we through patience wait for it.
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  Give us NIVNIV of this same scripture. 825 Romans NIV.
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  It says, But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for
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  it patiently. Wait for the breakthrough.
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  Patiently Wait for the prophecy. Patiently Wait for the
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  promotion, patiently for someone.
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  Let me speak to you. Wait for the marriage, patiently
• 1:43:05
  Wait for the child. Patiently wait for the
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  anointing. The alternative of not waiting
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  patiently is to route through a formula that will end up
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  bringing pain every time. You cannot wait for Isaac.
• 1:43:21
  Let me tell you this. Impatience will always give
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  birth to the child that fights your promise.
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  Impatience will always. Give birth to the child that
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  fights your promise. Every time you cannot wait for
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  Isaac, it will make you give birth to Ishmael, and Ishmael
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  and Isaac will remain in contention forever.
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  Sometimes you save yourself future wars by telling Hagar
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  thank you, but just go. I will wait.
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  Someone is a prophetic word for you, right?
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  Now, because you are a man of God and you are boiling, where
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  would this anointing land on my head if this anointing has
• 1:44:04
  landed on my head now? And because you wanted to just
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  run around, God, out of mercy, made the embassy to reject your
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  visa. That's what has kept you quiet
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  now. Like it's not like you are
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  disciplined is that there's nothing else to do.
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  God just kept you so that you hear words like this.
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  The visa is in your destiny. But wait, wait, most people join
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  bad. Gangs bad associations because
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  they are trying to hurry seasons.
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  How many of you have tried to stone a mango?
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  3 To bring down green, small mangoes that are not yet ripe.
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  You know how difficult it is. You keep throwing stones, keep
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  throwing stones. Eventually you will break
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  somebody's glass. They take you to the police
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  station. You will pay and not eat the
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  mango. You see the trouble?
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  That's Ishmael. There, but sometimes you just
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  need to be patient for one moment.
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  Two more months, three more months.
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  The Bible says after four months, then comes the harvest
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  and you find out that a green mango just becomes red or orange
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  or whatever color and on its own.
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  Years ago I used to have a very fruitful mango tree near my
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  house. And my goodness, you need to see
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  the wonder of God's wisdom. When it is rainy season by
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  yourself, that's what will wake you.
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  It's just just like rain early in the morning.
• 1:45:30
  We used to have all these people who the locals around the area,
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  they come by 5:00 AM with buckets and they come to park.
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  The mango go free for everybody. Nobody can remember who planted
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  the tree. Is God that gave the increase.
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  Everybody comes to carry the thing and go and sell it in the
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  market. Many of the things you are
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  fighting to get to impatience. If they will come, it will be
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  your reality. You will even be tired of it.
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  Don't hurry seasons. Thank God for speed, but don't
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  hurry seasons. Is someone learning?
• 1:46:05
  I always give this example. How many of you have seen
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  children try to dress like adults?
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  The little girl will want to wear her mother's wig by force.
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  And one day you know what children do?
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  Signs and wonders. The mother will come back and
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  meet the daughter painted, her eyes painted.
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  Everything painted. The ground painted.
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  Everything poured, everything on the ground and you see the
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  little child. One day they sent me a video of
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  some children who walked wonders in the fridge.
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  I think the. Mother was doing something and I
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  don't know, I think the younger brother tried to help the sister
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  open the fridge. They brought down water, they
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  brought down ketchup. I wouldn't tell you what they
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  did with it, but at the end of it, this was them.
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  Playing. Everything was on the ground.
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  The mother saw them. She didn't know what to do with
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  the children. That's what happens to most of
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  us. You just need to wait.
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  You know how expectant you were to get to 18 still remember now
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  think of how old you are now. That's right.
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  You couldn't wait. You even lied where you were 15.
• 1:47:08
  You said I'm are you 18? I'm kind of 18, but you are you
• 1:47:11
  are there now. One day you will wake up to your
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  shock and you'll be celebrating 17.
• 1:47:21
  If you like, say you are 20, we will know you are 70.
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  But who got the message? The patience of faith.
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  The patience of faith. Some of these days, I tell you
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  the truth, I saw them many years ago, maybe not exactly in this
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  form, but I saw them. I saw crusades those days.
• 1:47:45
  I didn't understand what city or in what form, but I saw it.
• 1:47:50
  Sometimes when I open my notebooks and I'm looking at it,
• 1:47:52
  tears just come out of my eyes. The precision of some of these
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  visions, you see that? But God granted us grace to
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  wait. Sometimes when God has shown you
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  something very far and you are not yet there, it will look like
• 1:48:12
  you are not moving, but no, you are moving.
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  No, you are moving. No, you are moving the patience
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  of faith and pray for someone. Hold on to what God has said and
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  keep fighting as you wait. Man of God, don't allow
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  naysayers to hurry you. In two seasons He has anointed
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  you. It is in your destiny.
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  But wait for the season. Seasons must coincide with
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  prophecy to produce profit. When you get a correct prophecy
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  and try to execute that prophecy in the wrong season.
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  You will still. Fail as if God did not send you.
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  And let me tell you something, ladies and gentlemen, I don't
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  know about you, but if you know anything about waiting, it is
• 1:48:57
  the greatest proof of faith, because the waiting period in a
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  man's life is when you live in the silence of God.
• 1:49:05
  I've taught you this. God will not say anything about
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  the issue of your family, anything about the issue of your
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  ministry. When God is silent, His silence
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  is a voice. His silence means, trust me, His
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  silence means I'm walking away for you.
• 1:49:23
  His silence means I'm carrying you until you get into the
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  season of your manifestation. For someone, let me prophecy one
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  minute. I know you have been waiting,
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  but in the name of Jesus, I sense in my heart that the wait
• 1:49:36
  is almost over. In the name of Jesus.
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  And let me tell you this, ladies and gentlemen, by the time your
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  wait is over, is God himself that opens the door for you and
• 1:49:50
  he ushers you with Gallancy. You step into the next season
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  legitimately and with honor and dignity.
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  And anybody who tries to look at you as though you should not
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  have stepped into that season, God becomes your defense because
• 1:50:04
  he's the one who ushered you into that season.
• 1:50:07
  There are many things you would not need to say about your life
• 1:50:09
  when God brings you into a season.
• 1:50:12
  Is someone learning now? Hallelujah, the fight of faith,
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  the patience and the persistence of faith, waiting in hope for
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  the manifestation of the promise.
• 1:50:25
  James chapter 1, three and four. James 1/3 and four.
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  Knowing this, he said that the trying of your faith walketh
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  Patience was 4. But let Patience have her
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  perfect walk, that he might be perfect and entire, lacking
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  nothing. One of the things I know
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  patience does is to birth maturity.
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  One of the major elements that makes a believer matured is
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  patience. Patience.
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  In Jewish days you were not considered an adult until you
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  attend a biological age of 30. That's why Jesus had to wait
• 1:51:06
  until he was 30 to begin manifesting his ministry.
• 1:51:10
  You were not considered a full grown adult until you were 30.
• 1:51:13
  I think I'm right on that, Hallelujah.
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  And so sometimes life will just keep you intentionally and you
• 1:51:23
  may not understand, you may feel qualified for the next level,
• 1:51:27
  but it is God who accredits men. If God says wait, Please wait.
• 1:51:34
  What do you do while waiting? Pray, what do you do while
• 1:51:37
  waiting? Give thanks.
• 1:51:39
  What do you do while waiting? Sowing to the life of those who
• 1:51:42
  have entered the season you are coming into.
• 1:51:44
  Is someone learning now? What do you do while you are
• 1:51:47
  waiting? You continue to learn from those
• 1:51:49
  who have gone ahead of you so that the mistakes they made you
• 1:51:53
  will not make it. Don't waste your waiting days.
• 1:51:58
  Apostle. My own is that no man has even
• 1:52:00
  said he wants to marry me. When will he come?
• 1:52:03
  Is that every woman I've seen? There's no woman who is saying
• 1:52:06
  every woman I walk to, she says you are not the one.
• 1:52:10
  Let me tell you what to do. Every time you are waiting
• 1:52:14
  number one. Keep praying while you are
• 1:52:17
  waiting number. 2 Keep giving thanks while you are waiting #3
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  Carry your notebook and your paper and be an observer.
• 1:52:26
  Be a learner while you are waiting.
• 1:52:29
  Waiting is a great privilege because you have the opportunity
• 1:52:33
  now, from hindsight, somebody's past is your future and you can
• 1:52:38
  see there is no destiny without mistakes.
• 1:52:42
  You have the opportunity to see, oh, this preacher, this what he
• 1:52:46
  did, he wouldn't have done it this way.
• 1:52:47
  Let me learn so that when I'm coming, I can jump there.
• 1:52:50
  This businessman, he went 10 steps and one decision brought
• 1:52:54
  him three steps. Let me note it.
• 1:52:56
  The one who is busy learning from those who have gone ahead
• 1:52:59
  will not even know when the waiting period is over and then
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  sowing to the life. That's why I feel sorry for
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  those who criticize those who are ahead of them.
• 1:53:09
  They are doing themselves a great disservice.
• 1:53:12
  Anybody who has gone ahead of you and does not get it right,
• 1:53:16
  that is a great privilege for you.
• 1:53:18
  You have learned from the pain of the person so that you don't
• 1:53:21
  make that mistake. Again, I will hold on through
• 1:53:28
  the storm. My life will soon reveal you're
• 1:54:03
  the lifter of man. One more time.
• 1:54:07
  Let it be from the depth of your heart that I will hold on to the
• 1:54:15
  sun, and I will hold on to your world.
• 1:54:21
  My life will soon reveal you're the lifter of man.
• 1:54:28
  Let me tell you a little story. There was a year in my life I
• 1:54:35
  had 43 invitations to US, 4343 invitations to the US, and God
• 1:54:45
  will constrain me by every means.
• 1:54:48
  How 43 invitations? Not ten, not 15, not 30.
• 1:54:55
  Who does not want to grow? Who does not want to get into
• 1:54:58
  other territories? But I'm looking from hindsight
• 1:55:01
  now, and I can see the wisdom of God.
• 1:55:04
  Sometimes when God keeps you, it is His loving hand, because a
• 1:55:08
  red carpet is being prepared before you.
• 1:55:11
  But if you are not patient, you will leave you, and you will
• 1:55:14
  open the door and see that all that is before you are Muddy
• 1:55:17
  Waters. And you will be stuck in that
• 1:55:19
  mud until everybody behind you goes ahead.
• 1:55:23
  The consequence of choosing your way?
• 1:55:28
  Hallelujah. Once Upon a time, and I'm saying
• 1:55:32
  this to encourage, you never had the opportunity to travel
• 1:55:36
  anywhere. Not to go anywhere, not that
• 1:55:40
  travelling necessarily means anything, but I'm just saying
• 1:55:43
  this. These are the journeys.
• 1:55:50
  I remember the first time I travelled, I think it was to
• 1:55:52
  Ghana, I went by road, one of the transport companies.
• 1:55:57
  We spent almost a whole day at the various borders.
• 1:56:02
  You see all those borders, I know them very well, very well,
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  Very. I know what happens there.
• 1:56:09
  I can't recite what happens there.
• 1:56:11
  I can't tell you what pain happens in which border.
• 1:56:19
  There was a time many years ago, I've shared the story with you
• 1:56:23
  going to Maiduguri to preach and at that time there was crisis.
• 1:56:28
  I was about to take a flight. I used to leave Zaria to come to
• 1:56:32
  to Abuja because we couldn't get that flight in Kaduna.
• 1:56:35
  I think it was just one flight a few days a week and on my way
• 1:56:38
  coming, we're already on the Abuja, Kaduna Expressway when
• 1:56:42
  the airline is is gone. Now they sent a text and said
• 1:56:45
  the flight is cancelled and it was a Friday.
• 1:56:49
  I now told the person driving me can you drive me to Maiduguri?
• 1:56:53
  He said yes, you will pay so strong amount.
• 1:56:55
  I said let's go. I left Kano.
• 1:56:59
  It was less than one hour when there was a bomb blast and a
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  coffee was was put in place. I would have been trapped there
• 1:57:06
  in Kano. I remember that night.
• 1:57:09
  I'm sharing this with you. Sometimes it's important for you
• 1:57:12
  to know people did not just jump into this thing.
• 1:57:15
  There is the patience of faith. There's a place called Potiscom.
• 1:57:19
  We spend the night right there in the car because they had
• 1:57:23
  locked, they had locked the the border and there were military
• 1:57:27
  people all around. There were hundreds of cars.
• 1:57:32
  We had to stay there from that time until 6:00 in the morning
• 1:57:35
  when they would open it up. And I said, God, look at Neil.
• 1:57:41
  I'm inside a car. Mosquitoes, no water.
• 1:57:45
  I mean, anybody who came with water to sell around the
• 1:57:47
  neighborhood, people would just pick it up because nobody really
• 1:57:50
  planned to stop there. People plan to have passed but
• 1:57:53
  because of crisis and you know, fighter at the time.
• 1:57:59
  I was going to preach that time, you know, for the Christian body
• 1:58:02
  there because they needed a lot of love and support and nobody
• 1:58:05
  was going there. And I said, let's, let's just
• 1:58:08
  make it happen for these people. I remember staying there that
• 1:58:11
  night and. I One of the songs that I sang,
• 1:58:17
  I was just whom in it should I sing it for you?
• 1:58:20
  I love, I love. That was the song I was singing
• 1:58:23
  in that car. I love your presence.
• 1:58:29
  I love, I love I. Love you Jesus.
• 1:58:38
  I love, I love, I love your presence.
• 1:58:47
  When it was morning, as soon as the military people opened the
• 1:58:49
  way, everybody was rushing. That was another hold up again
• 1:58:53
  because people would not be patient.
• 1:58:55
  The guys with trucks were bullying all the smaller cars
• 1:58:58
  and everybody had to wait. It was chaotic.
• 1:59:00
  Just to clear people. I remember getting to Oh dear,
• 1:59:06
  you will get to a place and come out of the car and you lift your
• 1:59:10
  hands. No matter who you are, if you
• 1:59:13
  like, say you're a man of God. The military people were
• 1:59:15
  serious. They don't tolerate nonsense.
• 1:59:17
  You don't respect yourself. They beat the living daylight
• 1:59:19
  out of you there, lift your hands.
• 1:59:22
  They check you and you pass. And when I got there to preach
• 1:59:26
  the I could see some of them crying.
• 1:59:28
  They couldn't believe that we came to bless them.
• 1:59:32
  Those days have gone, but thank God they.
• 1:59:34
  Came because there is a lesson from those days.
• 1:59:38
  That keeps us today. So when you're in an aircraft
• 1:59:41
  and someone is clapping for you, just when pride wants to arise,
• 1:59:44
  God brings the memory of those days and tells you, make sure
• 1:59:49
  you don't allow pride to reduce you back to your yesterday.
• 1:59:52
  And you bend down and bow your knees, even if it's in the
• 1:59:55
  aircraft and say, Lord, I give you thanks.
• 1:59:57
  You are the reason for where I am now.
• 2:00:00
  Maybe somebody got brought this word to remind you, you need to
• 2:00:03
  take some time and remember the last 10 years, the last 20 years
• 2:00:07
  and you will not complain about today again.
• 2:00:09
  You will get down your knees and say, Lord, it will take me a
• 2:00:12
  telescope to see back into yesterday.
• 2:00:15
  Is someone learning now let me give you one more.
• 2:00:20
  We have to pray the fight of faith, the 6th aspect of the
• 2:00:28
  fight of faith. Now listen to this.
• 2:00:30
  The fight of faith number six involves the wisdom to navigate
• 2:00:35
  the complexities in the world of men, the wisdom to navigate the
• 2:00:42
  complexities that exist in the world of men.
• 2:00:46
  The fight of faith is not just contending against spirits.
• 2:00:50
  It's not just contending against demons, it's not just contending
• 2:00:54
  against thoughts, it's not just obedience, but the fight of
• 2:00:58
  faith also involves the wisdom to navigate the complexities
• 2:01:03
  that exist in the world of men. Ladies and gentlemen, it is
• 2:01:08
  possible to win the war against spirits, to win the war against
• 2:01:13
  inferior thoughts, and not have the wisdom to navigate the world
• 2:01:18
  of men. You will still be a victim.
• 2:01:22
  How many of you know that? Engaging principles like the law
• 2:01:25
  of honor, engaging principles like people skills,
• 2:01:30
  friendliness, the law of value, all of these things, they are
• 2:01:34
  warfare arsenals. They help you survive in today's
• 2:01:37
  world. Can I tell you, ladies and
• 2:01:39
  gentlemen, there are some battles with men you must try
• 2:01:43
  and avoid, because there are some battles with men if you
• 2:01:47
  fight. You will lose.
• 2:01:48
  Even if those men are not born again.
• 2:01:51
  There are men who are gatekeepers and they may not be
• 2:01:56
  born again, but they are cyruses.
• 2:01:59
  I'm telling you, as much as you can avoid battles with them, it
• 2:02:04
  is not weakness. There are some battles you
• 2:02:06
  should avoid. Are we together?
• 2:02:12
  I have taught you here when you want to deal with the world of
• 2:02:16
  men. Don't fight everybody still
• 2:02:18
  remember. Find out who your adversary is
• 2:02:21
  before you fight. If the name of your adversary is
• 2:02:24
  Goliath, what do you do? You fight.
• 2:02:27
  But if the name of your adversary is Saul, don't fight
• 2:02:30
  David. No matter who pressures you,
• 2:02:33
  David, don't fight Saul. Even though the anointing is on
• 2:02:39
  you, even though the anointing has left him, David still called
• 2:02:43
  Saul God's anointed. Don't fight.
• 2:02:50
  There are some. Battles that if you fight, it's
• 2:02:53
  your great grandchildren that will keep fighting that battle
• 2:02:56
  because it will cost you your life and victory will never
• 2:02:59
  come. How do you solve those problems?
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  I'm sorry. Remember, honestly, there are
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  certain battles that would not even start.
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  If you have the humility to say I'm sorry, sometimes I'm sorry.
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  It's not from the one who is wrong to the one who is right.
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  It's from the one who is wise and needs peace.
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  Did you hear what I said? I'm sorry.
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  It's not always from wrong to right.
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  Sometimes I'm sorry is from the one who is the voice of wisdom
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  as a way of brokering peace. There are some battles I will
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  not fight in my life. God did not send me to fight
• 2:03:40
  those battles. No matter the pressure, I will
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  not fight. I will never fight the body of
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  Christ. I will never fight the fathers
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  of faith. You see, is someone learning.
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  Now, there are principles that govern spiritual things.
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  One of it is to understand the wisdom of navigating the world
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  of men. There are men who are very
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  difficult but very gifted. The key to working with them is
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  adaptation. They are very difficult, but if
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  those people endorse you, they can open a door, a 10 years
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  door. They can open it in one day.
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  The key is to endure them. I hope you know Elijah was a
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  temporal man. Read Bible history.
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  Elijah was not just an anointed man, he had temper, but the
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  anointing was still on him and sometimes you would think
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  because of that God will remove it.
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  It's amazing how this treasure is in Ethan vessels.
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  The man who got us ordained to anoint you uses all kinds of
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  vulgar and cross words. Now it is not a justification,
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  but don't go around fighting the anointing.
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  No, and you're the insult while learning how to not insult your
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  sons when you get to that position.
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  Because it's easier said than. Done.
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  So while of that is you are very stupid.
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  No problem Sir, this and that and that.
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  Or you kneel down and you still pray and you'll be surprised.
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  God will still anoint you. And when that is over, the day
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  you now become a father yourself and you now know the pain of
• 2:05:28
  being a father where you want to open your mouth, God will remind
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  you that as a son you hated a father insulting you.
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  So zip your mouth only bless and don't curse.
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  One of the things leadership should teach you is when you
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  have not placed your legs in the shoes ahead of you, bar not shut
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  your mouth. Believe me, shut your mouth.
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  There are many noisemakers, not just in the body of crimes, but
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  in society, people who cannot manage anything, but they can
• 2:05:59
  run their mouth against anything and anyone and everybody.
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  I have learned by experience and by the wisdom of the fathers.
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  The older you earn, the more God leaves you in this life, the
• 2:06:12
  more silent you become because you now see how difficult some
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  shoes. Are.
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  Yes, Sir. Is someone learning There are
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  many young people who insulted their parents?
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  My father is irresponsible. He cannot provide for us.
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  One way God answers you is to hurry you to get into the realm
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  you are criticizing. He will promote you in a hurry
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  so that you now become a father. Well, my father, what is there?
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  Managing three children. And God quickly brings a lady
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  you like. Oh yeah, marry.
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  And she now gives birth to one child.
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  And you now know what it means to have to lose a job just when
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  your child is 2 years old and the child of two years old is
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  giving you headache. You now turn back and see that
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  your mother. Raised 9 of you, you will now
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  know what it means to love 9 stubborn children.
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  Learn this as a principle. Don't be too quick to talk about
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  things and realms you have not gotten there.
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  It is easier said than done. I'm telling you, you've heard me
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  say it takes. Vision to start.
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  It takes discipline to continue, but it takes messy to finish.
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  Please. You may want to write that down.
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  You wouldn't need it now. For somewhere in your life, what
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  I've said will make sense to you.
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  It takes vision to start, agreed.
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  It takes discipline to continue, agreed.
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  But. For any man who finishes, it is
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  the mercy of God that finally escorts you to the finish line.
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  When our backs were against the wall and it looked as if it was
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  all over you, we made our way. And we're standing here only
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  because you. Men, Hallelujah.
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  Ladies and gentlemen, without these six elements of the fight
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  of faith, please listen to me. There is no possessing your
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  possession. These are the six elements of
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  the fight of faith that will turn that which is finished in
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  Christ to make dominion functional and manifest in your
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  life. I run them for one last time.
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  The contention to gain accuracy in thoughts, in ideas and belief
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  systems. In other words, the warfare of
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  replacing old Antichrist, inferior, non word compliant
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  ideas with that which is consistent with the word.
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  The labor of establishing spiritual realities through
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  words and in prayer, consistently so.
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  The labor under contention to work in consistent obedience.
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  Even if the. Result does not show
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  immediately. Consistent obedience #4
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  contending against demonic spirits and all satanic
• 2:09:29
  infrastructure that stand against your destiny and all who
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  are connected to you. Meaning establishing the
• 2:09:37
  victory, the finished work of Christ over those demonic
• 2:09:41
  arsenals binding them, casting them, declaring that they are
• 2:09:46
  limited as far as their entrance to your life and destiny is
• 2:09:48
  concerned. And then #5.
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  The patience and the persistence of faith, waiting in hope for
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  the manifestation of the promises, Waiting in hope until.
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  Your destiny emerges waiting in the silence of God until His
• 2:10:08
  Word becomes good in your life. And then finally the wisdom to
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  navigate the complexities that are in the world of men.
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  Ladies and gentlemen, even if Satan were not in existence, the
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  world will still be difficult without the wisdom to navigate
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  this system. Men are a great blessing.
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  I think he's God servant. Bishop David Oedipal, who was
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  asked, I was told a few years ago, many years ago in fact, he
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  said, what are the greatest gift in your life?
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  What's the greatest gift in your life?
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  He said men and he said, what's the greatest trouble in your
• 2:10:41
  life? He said men, the reason why you
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  cry will be men, and the reason why your tears will stop will
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  still be men. Promotion comes from God, but it
• 2:10:56
  comes through men. Demotion comes from Satan, it
• 2:10:59
  still comes through men. Victory is manifest through men.
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  Defeat is manifest through men. If you do not know how to
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  navigate the complex world of men, there are men you will need
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  in your life, but they are arrogant and there's nothing you
• 2:11:15
  can do. They don't plan to change.
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  You just have to know how to navigate through them.
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  There are men who have hot temper but they are ahead of you
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  but they carry what you need. You need to know how to navigate
• 2:11:27
  the complexities. There are men who are very
• 2:11:30
  insecure, very, very insecure, yet they have something your
• 2:11:35
  destiny needs. You will need the wisdom of
• 2:11:38
  navigating through their their emotional limitations until you
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  receive the treasure that is in them.
• 2:11:45
  Are we together? There are men who are very
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  confident and very mature. You need to know how to
• 2:11:52
  appreciate God for these people and not take them for granted.
• 2:11:58
  The world of men is very complex.
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  As a preacher, as a career person, as a business person,
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  you need to know how to navigate the world of men if you want to
• 2:12:07
  walk in victory. Ladies and gentlemen, when Paul
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  says I have fought the good fight, this is what he means,
• 2:12:16
  that I have taken advantage of the word of God.
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  Even from the days of being a scribe, I've hidden the word in
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  my heart and my mind. I have engaged in prayer,
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  establishing spiritual realities.
• 2:12:30
  I have paid the price to work in obedience.
• 2:12:33
  I have fought the. Beasts of Ephesus in my journey
• 2:12:37
  and kept them at Bay. I have stayed in prisons on
• 2:12:42
  favorable conditions until things changed, and finally I
• 2:12:47
  have received the wisdom to work with men.
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  When Paul stood before Felix, when he stood before Agrippa, it
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  was by wisdom that he navigated the discussion of the gospel.
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  He stood before Agrippa and communicated the gospel.
• 2:13:05
  He started his presentation by honoring Agrippa, celebrating
• 2:13:09
  his intelligence and then it was an intelligent presentation of
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  his encounter at the. End of it, Agrippa said he was
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  almost converted the wisdom to work with men.
• 2:13:22
  There are times the way to ask men to do anything is to
• 2:13:25
  celebrate them genuinely first before you bring your request,
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  because unfortunately they are people who like those kinds of
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  things and because they are the gatekeepers of your destiny,
• 2:13:38
  they never provide help until they are aware.
• 2:13:41
  That you know, and you must make them know that you are aware of
• 2:13:44
  the achievements. That is the pathway to their
• 2:13:46
  mind. That's the pathway to receiving
• 2:13:48
  favor from them. I don't know about you, but I
• 2:13:55
  want to see every victory that's been wrought for me in Christ
• 2:13:58
  manifested in my life, especially in this year of
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  deliverance and exemption. I don't want to be a victim of
• 2:14:04
  anything that Jesus has already paid for, and I know believing
• 2:14:08
  what He has done is only one part of the equation.
• 2:14:11
  I must engage the fight of faith, and I owe you to teach
• 2:14:14
  you tonight as a global family that it takes fighting the good
• 2:14:20
  fight of faith. The land has been given to you
• 2:14:24
  or you must arise and contend and possess your possession.
• 2:14:29
  Please rise up on your feet, hold hands with someone by your
• 2:14:31
  left and right, and pray in the Spirit.
• 2:14:37
  Go ahead and pray. Thank God for all that you have
• 2:14:40
  heard and learned tonight that there is a fight of faith.
• 2:14:46
  That is the contention that. Makes Dominion a functional
• 2:14:51
  reality in your life. The difference between walking
• 2:14:55
  in the awareness of a prophetic word that never manifests and
• 2:14:59
  having it become a functional reality in your life is that you
• 2:15:03
  wore a good warfare with the prophecy that's been spoken unto
• 2:15:08
  you. That's what Paul told his son in
• 2:15:09
  the gospel, that thou mightest wore a good warfare.
• 2:15:14
  Someone open your mouth and thank God for all that you have
• 2:15:16
  heard and learned. Sabratina Caparantos Theatre I
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  will contend I have been given, but I will contend I have been
• 2:15:26
  raised up with Christ, but I will contend.
• 2:15:29
  Contend against thoughts, contend against spirits, Contend
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  with time until victory becomes a functional reality in my life.
• 2:15:43
  Until dominion becomes a functional reality in my life.
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  Someone lift your voice and thank Him.
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  Shaprata makaparantos capratika parakatos yata emprata
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  caparakatos caprende caparatos. Those outside, are you praying?
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  Overflows, are you praying? Those who are connected online,
• 2:16:10
  make sure you are praying in Jesus name.
• 2:16:14
  We pray, lift your voice and ask the Lord to grant you the grace
• 2:16:17
  to fight, the grace to fight, the grace to fight, the grace to
• 2:16:23
  fight, the grace to contend and not be weary the grace to fight.
• 2:16:27
  If you turn aside in the day of battle, the Bible says your
• 2:16:31
  strength is small. Someone lift your voice and
• 2:16:34
  pray. Contend for the grace to fight
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  meaning the grace to pray, the grace to fight meaning the grace
• 2:16:42
  to study the the grace to fight meaning the grace to walk
• 2:16:46
  perpetually in obedience. The grace to fight meaning the
• 2:16:50
  staying power to wait, the grace to fight meaning the wisdom to
• 2:16:55
  navigate this complex world of men.
• 2:16:58
  If someone pray shapa nata sakata like a paracos yata EM
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  bratana kaska pranta kaparantos kata brigate leka prakate
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  parakata prante ke parakata. I fight a good fight of faith
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  over my health. I fight a good fight of faith.
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  Mention the various areas of your life where you need to see
• 2:17:24
  the Word of God manifest where you need to see victory manifest
• 2:17:28
  where you need to sit dominion manifest.
• 2:17:31
  Obtain grace to fight. To fight means to pray obtain
• 2:17:35
  grace to fight. To fight means to study the Word
• 2:17:39
  obtain grace to fight. To fight means to meditate until
• 2:17:44
  conviction is established. Obtain grace to fight to fight
• 2:17:48
  means to work in obedience obtain grace to fight.
• 2:17:52
  Fight means wisdom. Obtain grace to fight.
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  Fight means the waiting of patience.
• 2:18:09
  In Jesus name we pray one final prayer.
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  I'd like you to open your mouth and decree and declare that
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  every thought or every spirit or every habit.
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  That is stopping me from accessing the victory that is in
• 2:18:26
  Christ by the blood of the eternal covenant.
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  I cost it forever. Open your mouth and pray.
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  Every belief system, every mindset, every paradigm shift,
• 2:18:37
  every inaccurate or wrong understanding or incomplete
• 2:18:42
  understanding. Of the Word of God.
• 2:18:46
  That is not allowing victory and dominion to be a functional
• 2:18:50
  reality in my life. I come against it.
• 2:18:53
  Every demonic spirit, every plot of darkness is someone praying.
• 2:18:58
  Every plot of darkness. You are praying for your
• 2:19:14
  destiny. You are praying for your
• 2:19:16
  children. You are praying for your
• 2:19:18
  business, you are praying for your organization, you are
• 2:19:22
  praying for Koinonia. There is what you must do and
• 2:19:27
  the glory of God appears unto you.
• 2:19:37
  In Jesus name we pray. Let me add this one last prayer.
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  Father move. My destiny forward and let me
• 2:19:45
  walk in dominion. Open your mouth and pray.
• 2:19:47
  Advance my life, Advance my life.
• 2:19:51
  It's an honest prayer from a serious believer.
• 2:19:54
  Open your mouth and pray, Lord. Advance my life, advance my
• 2:19:58
  destiny. Let me go forward.
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  Let me go forward strategically, consistently.
• 2:20:06
  Are you praying? Let me go forward financially,
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  Let me go forward spiritually. Let me go forward as far as my
• 2:20:15
  understanding of your prophetic blueprint from is concerned.
• 2:20:19
  Let me go forward maritally, relationally.
• 2:20:23
  Let me go forward career wise. Someone is praying.
• 2:20:36
  In Jesus name we pray every attack over your destiny, every
• 2:20:43
  gang up of hell, and every. Spirit that has been assigned in
• 2:20:48
  this year 2026. To fight you, to fight the word
• 2:20:52
  of God, to fight prophecy, to fight your integrity, to fight
• 2:20:56
  your joy, to fight your faith in the name of Jesus.
• 2:21:00
  Because the Lord brought you to church today, I pray for you
• 2:21:04
  from the depth of my heart. I declare that that battle is
• 2:21:07
  over. Now that battle is over.
• 2:21:12
  Now that battle is over, leaving you victorious over leaving you
• 2:21:19
  victorious over leaving you victorious in the name of Jesus
• 2:21:26
  or he makes wars to cease. I pray for you by the power of
• 2:21:30
  the Holy Spirit, no matter how long that battle has been
• 2:21:34
  against thoughts, against Spirit, battle against the
• 2:21:39
  forces that keep you in disobedience, I decree and
• 2:21:42
  declare. Let victory be established now,
• 2:21:48
  therefore I speak over your life.
• 2:21:50
  Go forward, go forward, go forward.
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  Make. Progress.
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  Advance financially advanced, Spiritually advanced, maritally
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  advanced, relationally advanced, Career wise advanced.
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  In the name of Jesus, tell me I forbid you from going up and
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  down. You will go up and stay up.
• 2:22:20
  I say it again, no going up and down.
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  You will go up and stay up. Any man that digs a pitch for
• 2:22:28
  your destiny this week, they will enter into that pitch.
• 2:22:35
  Hear me every spirit, I say it again, assigned over your
• 2:22:40
  destiny, through dreams, through visions, manipulators of
• 2:22:44
  destiny, manipulating your mind, making you to behave in a way
• 2:22:49
  that stops dominion from being revealed through your life.
• 2:22:53
  I declare the influence of those spirits over your destiny comes
• 2:22:57
  to an end. Now the grace to work in
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  obedience. I release upon you the grace to
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  have dominion consciousness. Receive it in Jesus name.
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  Wave your hands and give Jesus praise.
• 2:23:20
  Wave your hands and give him praise.
• 2:23:24
  Hallelujah. Everybody stand if you are able
• 2:23:29
  to. Please stand.
• 2:23:32
  I want to invite you very quickly to come to Jesus.
• 2:23:35
  Why Jesus? Because he's the only way, the
• 2:23:39
  truth and the life. Why Jesus?
• 2:23:42
  Because he's the begotten of the Father who was given as a
• 2:23:46
  propitiation for our sins. Why Jesus is the only one who
• 2:23:51
  loved you that much to give his life.
• 2:23:54
  Other people can give their time, other people can give even
• 2:23:58
  themselves their lives, but their blood is unable to cleanse
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  you. Why Jesus?
• 2:24:04
  Because he came as the image of the invisible God.
• 2:24:07
  Why Jesus? Because he's the only one who is
• 2:24:10
  able to connect you to the Father.
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  Ladies and gentlemen, it is true that God so loved you that He
• 2:24:16
  gave His only begotten Son. The Bible declares that
• 2:24:19
  whosoever and that includes you who will believe on Him, there's
• 2:24:24
  a law that that person should not perish but have life
• 2:24:27
  everlasting. He says for God did not send his
• 2:24:29
  Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world
• 2:24:33
  through. Him might be saved.
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  You are in this place, my dear brother, my dear sister, in this
• 2:24:39
  auditorium spread across the overflows outside, following
• 2:24:44
  online. And you're saying, apostle, I
• 2:24:46
  hear you. I know I need Jesus.
• 2:24:48
  Wherever you are, I'm going to request counting one to five
• 2:24:52
  that you leave your seat. Do that gallantly.
• 2:24:55
  Do that truthfully, do that without guile.
• 2:24:58
  Leave your seat and come stand right in front of me.
• 2:25:01
  It's always an honor to lead you to Jesus.
• 2:25:03
  God bless you, my dear brother. Who is the second?
• 2:25:06
  Who is the third? Who is the forthcoming?
• 2:25:08
  We have seen the first. Let the remaining come.
• 2:25:11
  File up quickly. Join this gentleman.
• 2:25:14
  Join him. Join him.
• 2:25:17
  Join him. You may not be the first to
• 2:25:20
  stand here, but you receive equal reward.
• 2:25:22
  The bloods been shed equally for everyone.
• 2:25:24
  Keep coming. There's room at the cross.
• 2:25:26
  I begin my counting now 1-2. It's a new season.
• 2:25:32
  Is a new day. Come, the hand of God is strong
• 2:25:36
  upon you. That's why he brought you here.
• 2:25:40
  Young and old. Male, female.
• 2:25:43
  Come three. Keep clapping.
• 2:25:45
  Koinonia. Let's encourage them.
• 2:25:48
  Someone is an apostle. I'm not sure if I'm saved or
• 2:25:51
  not. You can have and find the
• 2:25:53
  assurance of salvation tonight. Join them. 4 At the 5th count, I
• 2:25:59
  begin to pray. At the cross, At the cross where
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  I first saw the light and the burden of my heart rolled away.
• 2:26:11
  It was there by faith I received my sight.
• 2:26:15
  And now I'm happy all the way. At the cross, at the cross come
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  where I first saw the light and the burden of my heart He rolled
• 2:26:27
  away. It was there by faith.
• 2:26:31
  I received my sight and now I am happy.
• 2:26:43
  Pays to love Jesus, Pays to know.
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  Him, our lives are testaments of what He can do with a life that
• 2:26:51
  is truly yielded to him. Ladies and gentlemen, the
• 2:26:54
  invitation tonight is beyond being a member of a church, is
• 2:26:57
  beyond identifying with the faith practice.
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  It's a call to build a functional relationship with the
• 2:27:05
  lover of your soul. I want to thank you and thank
• 2:27:08
  those who might be following online.
• 2:27:11
  Every time we talk to people like this who are quick to also
• 2:27:17
  add those who are following online, you're at the back of
• 2:27:20
  our camera and we may not be able to see you, but I want you
• 2:27:23
  to know that the God of all grace is seen you.
• 2:27:25
  And as I lead this once in prayer, please do join very
• 2:27:28
  quickly and mean it from your heart with your hands lifted
• 2:27:31
  high above your head. Please say this after me say
• 2:27:34
  Lord Jesus tonight I have heard your word say I love you with
• 2:27:40
  all my heart. I believe you are the Son of
• 2:27:44
  God. I believe you died for my sin.
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  I believe you rose again. For my justification right now,
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  I receive Jesus into my heart as my Savior, my Lord and my King.
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  Say I believe that the power of sin, Satan, hell, and the grave
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  is broken over my life from tonight.
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  I'm a child of God. I live for Jesus all the days of
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  my life. Amen, with your hands still
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  lifted, Father, thank you for this, my dear brothers and
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  sisters here on site and the many online who are declaring
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  Your Lordship tonight. Your Word declares that as many
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  who will come to you, you will. In no wise castaway, this ones
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  have come declaring Your Lordship.
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  Thank you, O God, for the integrity of Your Word.
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  And upon the strength of Your Word, we call them bonafide
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  recipients of your life. And in the name of Jesus, the
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  grace to walk in victory is imparted upon you.
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  You leave for. Jesus loving him, serving him,
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  growing in grace, serving his purposes.
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  All the days of your life you go forward ever and back what
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  never, only to be called victorious, never defeated, for
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  it's in Jesus, much less name we pray, Amen.
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  Please look to my right. That is your left from where
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  you're standing. There are counselors who will be
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  having a quick word and a prayer with you.
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  Thereafter you'll be back to your seats.
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  Please let's appreciate them. Hallelujah, Amen.
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  Praise the name of the Lord. OK, just a final reminder that
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  #1 the venue and the date. The venue and the date for Sound
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  of Revival UK has been let out. Please remember it is Liverpool
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  and then it is 22nd and 23rd of May.
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  It's a Friday and it's Saturday. 3 sessions, two days.
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  Please do us the good of spreading it as far and as wide
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  as you are able to use in your platforms.
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  And there are limited spaces. I can tell you without being
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  political. I'm not even sure if there's any
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  space left, but I'm sure that the QR code the link will be
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  made available. Please media, make sure it's
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  clear so that people can quickly register for the spaces that are
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  available again when Liverpool this time around and make sure
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  you hurry up. Usually when we make
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  announcements like this, we make it on time because there's
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  usually, you know, a crash in on hotels and accommodation,
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  particularly for those of you who live within and around
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  Europe. Please make sure you are able to
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  secure a space, particularly for your accommodation so that we
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  don't have a lot of pressure on our PR department over advices
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  on logistics and the rest. At least we have a few.
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  We have a month and then a few weeks passion on that and the
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  Lord will help you in the blessed name of Jesus.
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  Next week will be on a fast. The media will communicate that
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  will be fasting. On Sunday you can break as
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  usual. The media will send the time,
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  the prayer focus by Saturday night, by God's grace will put
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  the prayer focus. Please make sure by the way,
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  those of you who have not connected to our social media
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  platforms, I usually don't say that a lot, but let me say that
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  now, all our social media platforms, Koinonia Global, not
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  just Abuja, please make sure you connect to all our platforms and
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  then we're building a global membership.
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  Make sure the WhatsApp channel, can you put it up so that
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  everybody will see it. All of you who follow the
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  teachings and follow every place, we're building family and
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  we're building this community. Make sure you are part of it
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  across our various expressions. We're doing regional and then
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  we're doing global. So please make sure you connect
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  and send the Word to us many, so that you help us build that
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  global community. By God's grace, now and in the
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  nearest future, we'll be doing a lot of programs that will be
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  fully online so that we're able to reach people beyond having to
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  be there physically. The days that are before us are
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  already teaching us that it's important to have a strong
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  online and offline presence and a channel to be able to reach
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  our family beyond being there physically.
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  Praise God, we may not have the opportunity to go to every city
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  and every region in person for various reasons.
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  And so that we're not limited as far as discipleship,
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  transformation, revival, and salvation is concerned.
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  So help us on this journey. Make sure you connect to all our
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  social media platforms. And as always, let me encourage
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  you. Please listen to this message
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  again. The good fight of faith, how to
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  make Dominion to be a functional reality in your life.
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  Listen as a student. Listen as one who has been
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  trained, Listen and learn, listen and make notes.
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  Listen and pray. And then you can give us many
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  people who are on an onward journey to becoming enlightened,
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  powerful, anointed and visionary believers.
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  And by the grace of God, we'll do that.
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  And God is helping us. In Jesus name I speak over your
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  life. Your week is blessed, receive
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  it. Your week is blessed.
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  From Sunday up until Sunday next week, you walk in the blessing.
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  You walk in wisdom, you walk in power, You walk in victory, You
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  walk in dominion in the name of Jesus.
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  The noisome pestilence is far from you.
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  It will not come near your dwelling.
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  Good things will happen to you this week in the name of Jesus
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  Christ. It will be a week of laughter,
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  dancing, and rejoicing for you. I said again.
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  It will be a week of laughter, dancing, and rejoicing for you
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  in the name of Jesus Christ. They that come against you in
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  one way will be scattered in seven ways.
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  The Lord will protect you. The Lord will defend you.
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  The works of your hands are blessed this week.
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  Your mind is blessed this week. Your understanding is on foot
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  for this week. You will know something about
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  God this week you did not know before.
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  You will begin to see results in your life this week.
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  The anointing will speak evidently this week.
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  Help us will finally arrive this week.
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  In the name of Jesus Christ, I decree and declare.
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  In dreams and visions, God will show you the blueprint for the
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  next season. As you go in the air, you are
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  blessed. As you go by Rd. you are
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  blessed. As you go by sea, you are
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  blessed. As you walk on foot, you are
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  blessed. The rod of the wicked will not
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  rest upon your lot. You are exempted from evil.
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  I declares your week of deliverance and exemption.
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  It's your week of deliverance and exemption.
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  It's your week of advancement and promotion.
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  It's your week for a new song. In the name of Jesus Christ,
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  shout Amen 7 times 234 567 Give Jesus praise.
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  The Lord bless you. Have a great week and then I'll
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  see you on Sunday. God bless you.
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  I will go through the storm. I will hold on to your word.
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  My life will soon reveal that you are a little man.