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Ichabod (Obtaining the Grace to Last) by Apostle Joshua Selman (Koinonia Global 2023) · Selah Media House

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  Isaiah chapter 32 and verse 15, we'll just pray this song and
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  then we'll be seated until the Spirit be poured upon us from on
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  high and the wilderness be a fruitful field, and a fruitful
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  field be counted for a forest. Can you go ahead, take the next
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  5 minutes to pray this song. All of the graces that you heard
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  them mention, turn it into prayer.
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  Go ahead, let it rest on me Indeed.
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  The power to prosper, your wisdom, the power for science
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  and wonder. Someone is praying the grace
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  called favour Paratos sharp render Gabaratosias scate
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  palatos chabrander gabaratos. Someone pray until the Spirit be
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  called upon us from on high. When the grace is upon of your
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  life, it speaks instantly and loudly.
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  Shada baccatos shabran de gaberatos rante kabalatos
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  shabran de gaberatos. Someone is crying for the power
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  to prosper, the antidote for luck.
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  Want, begging, borrowing. Are you praying the power for
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  the supernatural? Commanding signs and wonders.
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  Pray for the grace called Favor. Define your possibilities in
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  this wicked, selfish, bedeviled wall.
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  Let Favor single you out. Turn you to a sign and a wonder
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  for Jesus mighty name we pray. In Jesus mighty name we pray.
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  I want you to listen to this before you sit down.
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  The ignorant believer will always remain A defeated
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  believer. Being a believer
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  notwithstanding, the ignorant believer will always remain A
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  defeated believer. The ignorant believer will
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  always remain A defeated believer.
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  Joseph one verse 6 says my people, even though they are my
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  people, they are destroyed for the lack of knowledge.
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  The blessing that we have received in this Zoe life is
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  accessed experientially by knowledge.
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  So just because you have received the life of God does
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  not mean you will have the experience of that life, not
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  without knowledge. Hallelujah, we're still going to
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  pray. One more prayer.
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  Please lay your hands on your head and cry for knowledge.
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  Father, what I need to know tonight as far as my walking in
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  victory, my excelling, my prospering, my walking in
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  science and wonders is concerned, Let it be released
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  upon my life. I am a receiver tonight.
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  Go ahead and pray. Go ahead and pray.
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  Go ahead and pray. We'll sing that song one more
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  time. While you are praying, rest on
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  me. None.
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  2nd Corinthians Chapter 9 and verse 8.
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  Second Corinthians 9 and verse 8.
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  And God is able to make all grace.
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  That means grace is dimensional, all grace to abound towards you.
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  Why that ye always having all sufficiency in all things, not
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  some things may abound onto every good work.
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  It is impossible to abound onto every good work until these
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  various dimensions of graces find expression in your life.
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  For instance, if you are limited in wisdom, that alone will keep
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  you defeated forever. If you lack favor, you will live
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  a hard life that will plunge you into compromise and decadence.
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  The advantage of these graces is that they empower the believer
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  to become an expression of the glory of God.
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  Indeed, I'm praying for you tonight that every grace that is
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  missing in your life, may tonight be the moment where you
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  access it. I say it again, every dimension
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  of grace that is missing that he that to it has not yet found
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  expression in your life. May this be the night that you
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  will access it in Jesus name. For in Jesus mighty name we
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  pray. Please be seated.
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  Good evening everybody, blessings to our global family.
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  Let's get to work. In Jesus precious name we pray
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  Hallelujah. We've been on a series of
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  spiritual vaccination against failure, against losses, against
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  defeat. Hallelujah.
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  And tonight, by the grace of God, we'll be having the last
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  dose of that spiritual vaccine from deliverance, from calamity.
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  Then lessons from an overcomer. These are a series of teachings.
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  They are named different things, but they are all survival
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  strategies. These are Kingdom strategies
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  that help the believer to thrive and to survive.
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  These are end time strategies. If you have missed any of these,
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  please discipline yourself and get these teachings deliverance
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  from calamity, lessons from an overcomer.
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  And then you listen with all your heart.
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  Are you ready from for tonight's teaching?
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  Right. So tonight we're obtaining
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  grace. The focus of the teaching
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  tonight is to find out the mystery behind longevity of
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  impact. We'll be learning tonight while
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  great people fall. We'll be learning tonight while
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  people celebrate victory today and exploits.
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  And then tomorrow there are no more in the scene.
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  Are you ready? The title of the teaching
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  tonight is Ichabod Obtaining Grace to Last.
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  Ichabod is spelled ICHABOD. Ichabod first Samuel 4.
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  We're reading from verse one help of spirit of the living God
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  in Jesus name and the word of Samuel came to all Israel.
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  Now Israel went out against the Philistines to battle and pitch
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  beside Ebenezer and the Philistine speech in affect.
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  So long reading, Be Patient. And the Philistines put
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  themselves in array against Israel.
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  And when they joined battle, Israel was smitten before the
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  Philistines, and they slew the army in the field, about 4000
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  men. So Israel is being defeated now.
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  And when the people were coming to the camp, the elders of
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  Israel said, Wherefore had the Lord smitten today before the
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  Philistines? Let us fetch the ark of the
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  covenant of the Lord out of Shiloh unto us, that when it
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  cometh among us it may save us out of the hand of our enemies.
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  Was 4. So the people sent to Shiloh,
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  that they might bring from fence the Ark of Covenant of the Lord
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  of Host, which dwelleth between the cherubims.
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  And the two sons of Eli, Hofni and Feinerhaus were there with
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  the Ark of the Covenant of God. And when the Ark of the Covenant
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  of the Lord came into the camp, all Israel shouted with a great
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  shout, so that the earth rang again.
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  THE Six. And when the Philistines heard
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  the noise of the shout, they said, what minute the noise of
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  this great shout in the camp of the Hebrews.
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  And they understood that the ark of the Lord was coming to the
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  camp. And the Philistines were afraid,
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  for they said, God is come into the camp.
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  And they said War to us, for there have not been such a thing
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  hitherto. War to us.
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  Who shall deliver us out of the hand of these mighty gods?
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  These are the gods that smote the Egyptians with all the
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  plagues in the wilderness. Be strong and quit yourselves
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  like men, O ye Philistines, they are encouraging themselves.
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  Now that ye be not servants unto the Hebrews, as they have been
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  to you, Quit yourselves like men and fight.
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  So they went on to fight all the same, and the Philistines
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  fought, and Israel was smitten, even though the ark was there.
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  They fled every man to his tent, and there was a very great
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  slaughter, for there fell of Israel 30,000 footmen, verse 11.
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  And the ark of God was taken, and the two sons of Eli, Hofni
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  and Phinehas were slain, and they ran a man of Benjamin out
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  of the army, and came to Shiloh the same day, with his clothes
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  rent and with the earth upon his head.
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  And when he came low, Eli sat upon the seat by the wayside,
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  watching, for his heart trembled for the ark of God.
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  And when the man came into the city and told it all, all the
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  city cried out. 14 And when Eli heard the noise of crying, he
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  said, What minute the noise of this tumult?
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  And the man came in hastily and told Eli. 15 Now Eli was 90 and
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  eight years old, and his eyes were dim, and he could not see.
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  And the man said to Eli, I am he that came out of the army, and I
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  fled today out of the army. And he said, What is there done,
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  my son? He's finding out the information
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  now. And the messenger answered and
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  said, Israel is fled before the Philistines, and there had been
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  also a great slaughter among the people, And thy two sons also,
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  Hofni and Fenihas, are dead, and the ark of God is taken. 18 And
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  it came to pass, when he made mention of the ark of God, that
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  Eli fell from off his seat backwards by the side of the
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  gate, and his neck break, and he died, for he was an old man and
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  heavy, and he had judged Israel 40 years. 19 And his
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  daughter-in-law, Fenhas's wife was with child near to be
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  delivered. And when she heard the thing
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  that the act of God was taken, and that her father-in-law and
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  her husband were dead, she bowed herself and travelled, for her
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  pains came upon her. Verse 20 And about the time of
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  her death, the women that stood by her said unto her, Fear not,
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  for thou has his son. But she answered, But she
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  answered not, neither did she regard it. 21 And she named the
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  child Ichabod, saying, The glory is departed from Israel, because
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  the act of God was taken, because her father-in-law and
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  her husband were all dead. Last verse 22 and she said the
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  glory is departed from Israel for the act of God is taken.
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  The Lord bless his word in Jesus name.
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  So at this time the sons of Eli, Hofni and Phinehas, they had
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  become very lawless boys. And then Israel went to war
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  against the Philistines and about 400,000 of them were
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  defeated, or 4400 or 4000 really.
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  And then when they were defeated, they said no, it is
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  because the ark of God is not in our midst.
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  Go and get the ark and bring it in our midst.
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  And they brought the ark thinking it will be the basis
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  for their victory. And even with the ark in their
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  midst, the Bible says 30,000 other people were slaughtered.
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  The ark was taken away from them and then Hofni and Finihas were
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  slain. And when Eli heard this, the
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  Bible says he fell and he died when his daughter-in-law, the
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  now wife of the late Finihas, when she heard this, even though
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  it was not time, she had to travel and give birth to a
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  child. And the people were encouraging
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  her, don't worry, you've given birth to a son.
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  And she said no, I will not make it.
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  And she named the child Ikabod. She said the glory is departed
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  from Israel. The word Ichabod is a Hebrew
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  word and it means like you read the glory has departed or
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  without glory or where is the glory.
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  So just like Jabez, it was customary for the people in
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  those days to name children after their experiences.
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  Are we together now? Yes, it is a practice that till
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  today is still strong among Jewish nations.
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  They would name children after experiences.
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  They would name children after all kinds of things.
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  Now every believer in Christ has the destiny of ever increasing
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  glory. Let's start from there.
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  Every believer in Christ, you and I in Christ, we all have a
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  destiny of ever increasing glory.
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  Proverbs 4 and verse 18 The Bible says, but the path of the
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  just is as the shining light that shineth more and more onto
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  the perfect day. So more and more is the destiny
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  of every believer in Christ. Hallelujah.
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  Ezekiel 36 and verse 11. Ezekiel chapter 36 and verse 11.
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  Ezekiel 36 and 11. I will multiply upon you, man
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  and beast, and they shall increase and bring fruit, and I
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  will settle you after your old estates.
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  And then he says, I will do better unto you than at your
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  beginning, and ye shall know that I am the Lord.
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  So God is committed to ensuring that our experiences are better,
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  even at the latter parts of our lives, than the beginning.
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  Every believer in Christ has the destiny of ever increasing
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  glory. Hallelujah.
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  Ecclesiastes Chapter 7 and verse 8 tells us that better is the
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  end of a thing than the beginning thereof.
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  That means in the mind of God and the way God operates, the
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  end of a thing is of more importance, of more value, and
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  of more significance. Better is the end of anything at
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  all than the beginning. Hallelujah.
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  Very, very important. Now, most people are excited
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  when they begin things in life. Begin businesses, begin a home,
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  begin a ministry, begin schooling.
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  Usually beginning is characterized by so many things,
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  joy for some. If you're sending your child to
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  school, he's about to start school.
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  Usually he's rejoicing, not knowing what and what he will
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  face. Sometimes beginning start with
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  pain, for instance, the beginning of an individual's
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  life. You may come from a family that
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  may not have any sense, any advantage whatsoever.
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  Beginnings are also characterized in many regards by
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  overconfidence. Most times you know beginners
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  because there is a sense of overconfidence.
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  They believe that they are able to handle life on their own and
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  most times would not listen Hallelujah.
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  But for everyone, usually your beginning relative to your end
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  starts with ignorance. So we have all of this to
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  characterize beginnings, and it is in God's mind that no matter
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  how an individual begins, that the end of that person's life,
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  the end of that person's destiny, becomes glorious.
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  So it's all right to start from any state, whether poverty,
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  whether spiritual laxity, like the dear lady who shared the
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  salvation of our entire family you can imagine.
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  Hallelujah. So if you were to look at that
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  Lady 10 years ago, you probably would see a beginning that was
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  not Kingdom, not Scripture compliant, but glory to God.
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  Right now you see the miracle that God has done.
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  So it is a very powerful thing. Job 87 Let me show you a
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  scripture there. Job 87 It says do thy beginning
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  was small, yet thy latter and should it didn't say would.
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  It means it is supposed to be this way, but whether it happens
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  or not is a different explanation altogether.
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  Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should
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  greatly increase. When the Bible says a thing
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  should be, it doesn't mean it must be.
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  The moment you see should be. It means that there are
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  conditions, and if those conditions are met and are kept,
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  then that reality becomes your manifestation.
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  Otherwise, it will just remain as prophecy.
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  Unfortunately, our world today is full of very pathetic
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  stories, stories of grace to grass, as we call it, and then
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  full of very inspiring stories. Stories of grass to grace.
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  You find that in ministry. You find that in business.
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  You find that across nations that Once Upon a time,
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  individuals who were nobodies, individuals who had no
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  comeliness, individuals who had no, there was nothing admirable
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  or desirable about their lives. And under certain conditions
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  they began to grow. They began to evolve and some of
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  them did it so well that they have now become references
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  across the nations. And at the same time, the Bible
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  is full of people who the chapters of their lives started
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  from their points of victory. We may not know so much about
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  what happened, but at the time we met them, at the time we knew
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  them, they were people who were celebrities.
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  They were great. And at the end of their lives,
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  all that we see in their lives is catastrophe, disaster.
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  An example is the Mangihazi. The Bible does not give us any
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  picture about the training process of Gehazi.
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  By the time he's introduced in scripture, he's already serving
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  a great man with potential to even be the next prophet.
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  But at the end of Gehazi's life, we see a man who had become
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  leprous and left for dead. Hallelujah.
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  So what is this factor that makes the end or the latter part
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  of man's life so glorious for some and then for others it
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  becomes an object of shame? There are names today that when
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  you call, unfortunately people do not want to be associated
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  with it because of the kinds of ugly stories that are about
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  around that name. And there are names that when
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  you call people who want to be part of it because it represents
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  inspiration. Tonight you must learn how to
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  last, how to remain. Everyone has a right to start.
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  The Bible, in fact, tells us that in a race, say a marathon,
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  there are several people who are ready to start, maybe 30, maybe
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  40, maybe 100. And there are some from the
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  beginning. They know they will not finish.
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  They were only attempting. There were others who hope.
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  Well, let's see how it goes. But there were others who were
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  already determined from beginning that we will finish
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  this race. And once the gun is shot on your
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  marks, get set, go. There are people who they laugh
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  at themselves while they are going because they know they are
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  wasting their own time. They don't intend to last after
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  they circled a few once, twice on their own, even without being
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  tired. They just say no, I have to
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  reconsider this. I'm I'm not it's not worth it.
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  And then there are others with on bending determination, not
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  smiling. You call them, they don't care.
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  You insult them, they don't care.
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  With that kind of determination, they keep moving until they
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  eventually finish. Hallelujah.
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  And so I want you to pay attention as I share with you
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  why greatness is short lived. I want to show you why great
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  people fall, why great institutions become shadows of
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  themselves. The key is to plant in us
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  through this teaching, the power to last, that starting is not
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  enough. Are we together?
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  Yes. Your real stamina is not
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  measured in your ability to start.
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  Your real stamina is measured in your ability to remain.
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  With all due respect, in Nigeria today, I do not know how old the
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  oldest company in Nigeria is, perhaps maybe one of the banks
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  or maybe some institutions and they're just a few years.
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  There are structures that don't last because they were not built
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  according to standard. There are corporations and
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  organizations that don't last. In fact, it is said that for
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  most businesses that start, most ventures that start in Nigeria,
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  at least 80% of them die before the end of the first year.
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  Hallelujah. Isn't it amazing?
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  That is true for churches, that is true for businesses, schools
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  and whatever it is. So why is greatness short lived?
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  Why does greatness suddenly turn to shame?
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  What is the key that governs longevity of impact?
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  Are you ready now? Number one, the first reason why
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  greatness is short lived in the life of individuals, in the life
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  of ministries, in the life of organizations is pride upfront.
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  Let's get that out of the way. Pride, pride, Proverbs 1618
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  behind everything that was once glorious and is no longer
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  glorious, pride had a role to play.
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  The Bible says pride goeth before destruction.
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  You know what it means? That means anytime you see pride
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  dancing around your corridor, it came with escorts.
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  Destruction and a fall is part of it.
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  Pride goeth before destruction and and haughty spirit before a
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  fall. Proverbs 1812 The first reason
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  why greatness is short lived in the life of people is pride.
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  It says before destruction the heart of man is haughty and
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  before honor is humility. You see how they work?
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  Proverbs 29 and verse 23. Proverbs 29 and verse 23.
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  Let's read together. Ready one to read.
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  A man's pride shall bring him law, but honour shall uphold the
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  humble in spirit. One more time.
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  A man's pride shall bring him law, but honour shall uphold the
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  humble. What is pride?
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  The honour? Shamedness, to acknowledge God
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  as the basis for where you are. The honor shamedness or the what
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  they call it now is it honor, shamedness?
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  The refusal, let me use that expression, the refusal to
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  acknowledge God, that you step in God's way and you want to be
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  at the center of everything, to receive the credit for where you
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  are as though you were not helped by God, as though you
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  were not helped by men. The refusal to acknowledge God
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  as the reason, the basis, the principal factor for whatever
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  result you have is called pride. And my goodness, our world today
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  is plagued with men and women who are already disasters going
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  to happen in ministry, in business, in politics.
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  Hallelujah. The number one factor that
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  sustains the ability to cut short a man's impact, to cut
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  short a man's greatness. Please pay attention.
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  No matter who you are, if you decide to embrace a life of
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  pride, there is no longevity to your impact.
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  You see, let me tell you this, before a man falls, he always
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  looks like he cannot fall till he falls.
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  Did you hear what I said before a man falls, when you see the
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  kind of assumed stability you would doubt and say it's
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  impossible. There is nobody who cannot go
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  down pride. James chapter 4 from verse 6 to
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  8. But He giveth more grace.
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  Wherefore he saith, God resisted the proud.
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  Koinonia, let's say this together want to go?
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  God resisted the proud one more time.
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  I have taught you here that the anointing was supposed to fight
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  anything that is against the will of God.
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  The anointing does not fight what is the will of God.
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  So if God is the one resisting you, there is no amount of
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  impartation that will give you victory.
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  The power of God fights unclaimed spirits.
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  The power of God fights situations that are inconsistent
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  with the will of God. But if God is now the one
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  fighting you by himself, then you are in trouble.
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  And the Bible says there is such a condition where God can fight
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  a man who wins. When God fights you, the Bible
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  says, but he giveth grace, not to the Christian, to the humble.
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  So if the Christian is the proud, he will still become a
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  victim of God's wrath, God's power, pride.
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  Hallelujah. I learned this lesson in life,
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  and let me tell you the truth, ladies and gentlemen, it's
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  easier to talk about pride when you don't have anything.
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  It's easier to talk about pride when you are poor, when nobody
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  knows you, when you don't have any anointing, you don't have
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  any influence. In the presence of greatness,
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  you will know how difficult it is to be and to remain humble.
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  Did you hear what I said? In the presence of greatness,
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  there are people who have not done anything, passing comments
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  on people and saying this one is proud.
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  You don't have anything that should compel pride.
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  That's why in the presence of pride, you will know why.
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  I mean the presence of greatness.
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  Do you know why Nebuchadnezzar built in 90 feet stature?
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  You think he started like that? He started as an ordinary man.
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  But my goodness, the level of results that he had.
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  There is something called the pride of life.
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  I have taught you that the pride of life is the the self
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  exaltation that comes on account of obvious results.
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  If you don't have results, you are just proud.
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  Are we together? Which translates to foolishness
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  because there is nothing to be proud about.
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  But there are times where you have results, say results, and
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  your results are loud. Your results are clear.
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  At such point it becomes justifiable to be proud.
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  After all, I have anointing, you can see it.
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  After all, I have favor, you can see it.
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  After all, I have influence, you can see it.
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  After all, you have become Beulah and Hefzibah, you can see
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  it. It is at this stage.
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  Listen, when Satan wants to stop you, he starts to stop you at
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  the beginning of your journey. If he fails to stop you at the
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  beginning of the journey, he will rest for a while.
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  You will think you are. You have defeated him, but he's
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  waiting for you at the corridors of greatness, because something
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  happens to men the moment they become great.
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  Let me repeat myself again, my dear people.
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  Something happens to men. Every man upon the face of the
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  earth in the presence of greatness.
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  The temptation of pride will always test you.
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  Are we learning pride? Pride has destroyed preachers.
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  Pride has destroyed businessmen. Pride has destroyed captains of
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  industry, Pride has destroyed people in the academia.
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  There are people who made a boast of several things.
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  They are still begging till today.
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  Pride, you get to a point where you become clear.
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  The devil tells you, without you this company cannot run.
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  Without you, this ministry will not run.
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  Do you know you are the single reason why this family is
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  working? The moment the devil starts
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  making you look like everything fails without you, you already
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  know you're in trouble. And it may be true every house
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  is built by some man, but the truth is that God is the Builder
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  of all. How do you know that you are
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  suffering from pride when people no longer matter to you?
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  You believe that everybody must bow before you and acknowledge
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  you because of what you are doing #1 and you believe that
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  everybody is of less importance except you.
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  You are the principal defining factor in that equation of
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  success. Beware, pride has already got
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  into the corridor and sometimes pride can come as a sincere
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  communication of acknowledging your value, celebrating your
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  value. Joshua Salman, you are doing so
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  much travelling around the world.
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  Usually you start by saying thank of God that soon you feel
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  too big to bow and you say but but come to think of it, this
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  thing they are not lying. Are we together?
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  And you know, most times there are many people who they don't
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  do the boasting themselves, but they have arranged a system that
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  does the boasting for them. You are still proud.
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  Are we together? May God deliver us from pride.
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  Oh shout Amen. Oh shout Amen this night.
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  This night is the night to say Amen when you are supposed to
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  say Amen because this thing has destroyed people.
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  Listen, I hope you know that that's what brought Lucifer
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  down. I will be like the Most High.
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  I will exalt myself above the stars of God.
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  If there is anything for you to fight as a survival strategy,
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  ladies and gentlemen, as you rise, as God lifts you, the
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  first thing to check in your life if you want to last is
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  pride. Pride.
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  You can be simple and yet proud. I hope you know there is a
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  difference between simplicity. There are people who are
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  generally not simple. They are very lavish about life,
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  but in truth they are humble. It's just their disposition.
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  There are others who are very simple and very proud.
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  Then there are those who are still loud and proud all
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  together. Listen, you have really gotten
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  victory. If you have victory over the
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  pride of life, there are a few things that when you really
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  conquer, you deserve to give yourself a pat at the back.
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  One of it all is not having money in your account.
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  Believe me, if you are able to successfully resist the spirit
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  of pride, you have signed in for longevity of impact.
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  With all due respect, many years ago, as many of you may have
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  experienced, I remember when God started out with us.
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  My goodness, it was at a time where there were many preachers,
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  there were many people and those days you will see people that
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  you will never believe. You would think at the end of
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  one week even the White House will call them and say what kind
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  of anointing do you have? I tell you sincerely, some of
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  those people, with all due respect, today, they are not.
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  They are nowhere to be found because of pride.
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  Hallelujah. There are preachers with all
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  kinds of pride, with all due respect and not to insult, but
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  just starting out in ministry. But my goodness, when you hear
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  people talk, sometimes you have to hold yourself and say, my
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  God, what kind of orientation is this?
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  I me, myself, and then, you know, sometimes as preachers and
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  then of course as great people generally we have diplomatic
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  ways of surrounding people who their assignment is to just sing
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  our praises. And then we use this false sense
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  of real well, glory be to God. But the truth is there's no
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  glory going to God anywhere. Humility is discernible.
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  Humility is feelable. When you stand before a humble
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  person, you will know you can be confident and yet humble.
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  Do you know why a humble person is ever conscious of projecting
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  Jesus, not self? You know that you are working in
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  humility because the desire to stand in God's way is not even
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  there at all. I've told the Lord whatever He
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  will give me that will stop men from seeing Him.
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  May it never come into my life that that is a useless gift is a
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  gift that will end up being a burden to you, the carrier and
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  extra luggage that is not necessary for your destiny.
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  And I'm saying this because while greatness inspires
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  sometimes, let's be careful what we copy from great people.
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  You must sustain the wisdom to edit in love.
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  Oh God has made Joshua Salman great.
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  Be careful the things you copy don't swallow everything hook,
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  line and and what they call the other thing.
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  Are we together now? Do you know there are people
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  this pride you see sometimes is as a result of a background of
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  failure, especially for Africa. There are many people who missed
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  greatness in their childhood. Are we learning?
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  There are people who missed an opportunity to be great, Either
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  they were insulted by parents or they were insulted by in maybe
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  school institutions. So naturally, the moment you
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  make it, that desire to shout it and slap it at the face of
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  everybody, unlike you're believing or you're disbelieving
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  me, I have arrived. And in case you do not know, I
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  have an assignment to make sure I slap it on your face that I'm
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  no longer the version you used to know.
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  I'm now the rich version of me, the anointed version of me.
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  I'm now the CEO version of me. And sometimes when you live long
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  and access Wisdom, you will find out that it's totally
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  unnecessary. The pressure to prove a point
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  and the pressure to let men know you have made it is a sign that
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  you have not really made it. Because can I tell you success
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  is loud? It is visible, it is clear.
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  When you have made it, it becomes clear.
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  Even a blind man knows that you have made it.
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  Don't play with me. Or do you know how rich I am?
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  Does wealth hide? Where do you hide it?
• 39:41
  Does wisdom hide? Does genuine power hide?
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  Neither do men light a lamp and put it under a bushel?
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  If God has made you, he has made you.
• 39:52
  It's as simple as that. One of the ways to encourage
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  people and to inspire them is to combine humility with your
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  result. It's a beautiful sight to behold
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  that you watch people who are gifted, who are skilled, who are
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  great, but then their lives become so inspiring because they
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  wrap that excellence with humility.
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  This is a prayer that I keep praying for myself even to deal
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  today. There are some prayers you never
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  graduate from praying. 1 of it is keep me humble, oh God, keep
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  me humble, keep me humble As men sing your praise, keep me
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  humble. It's the same people who say
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  shame on him. He has fallen.
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  So when people are clapping for you during your triumphant
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  entry, I have taught you, beware.
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  Most people are only clapping for themselves through you.
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  Are we together? You want to last?
• 40:48
  You want to know why great men go down?
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  I tell you the number one reason is pride.
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  Pride, pride that when you submit yourself to pray and say,
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  Lord, every time when men look at me, may they see you.
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  Yes, they will acknowledge your hand upon my life, but beyond
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  me, may they see you, may they see your power, and may they see
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  your glory. May they see your wisdom.
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  Let it not be all about Joshua Salman.
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  Let it not be all about Koinonia.
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  And you see, let me tell you, the world that we live, we live
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  in now makes you look like a fool.
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  The moment you project Jesus beyond self, they tell you a
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  fool. The way you gain influence is to
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  shout it once. People know, and it's true in
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  our world. From a secular standpoint, when
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  you shout it, whether it's true or not, there is an attitude.
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  You give results that you seem to command respect.
• 41:48
  There are people who are not ten years old in their impact, five
• 41:52
  years old in their impact. You celebrate them, you dance
• 41:55
  around their crowns, and in one year, 2 years, 10 years perhaps
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  they've gone and they are still alive.
• 42:04
  It is not a good thing. From the rising of the sun to
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  the setting of the same Your name is stupid.
• 42:24
  From the rising of the sun. I'm never tired of sharing with
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  you my experience. And the Lord told me very
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  clearly, Son, if you will let men see me, there is nothing I
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  will not give you. This is a condition.
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  Can I tell you seated here looking at me as sincere people
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  who want to make it for some, seated looking at me now as
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  sincere people who have made it to a level.
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  And I understand the pressure of wanting, you don't want people
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  to downplay what you stand for because we live in a world where
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  there are people who will see the results on your life and
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  still downplay it. And I know sometimes it can be
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  ego stinging. So the pressure to have to prove
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  a point and slap it on people's face that listen, don't look
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  down on me. I am a millionaire, I am a
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  billionaire, I'm an anointed person, I'm the CEO.
• 43:30
  But I'm telling you from the lens of wisdom, it is
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  unnecessary. Your passion to remain must
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  exceed your passion to be known. Your passion to remain to last
• 43:44
  must exceed your passion to be known.
• 43:47
  Write it down, please. Your passion to remain must
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  exceed by far your passion to be known.
• 43:56
  If your passion to be known becomes greater than your
• 43:59
  passion to last, you will be known, but you will not last.
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  Please someone write this both in your heart and then on
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  whatever writing material you're using.
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  Your passion to last, your passion to remain, must by.
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  It must exceed by far your passion to be known.
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  A man can be known and yet not last, but it is difficult to
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  belong within a system and yet not known.
• 44:32
  Is someone learning why greatness is short lived?
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  Why glory suddenly turns to shame?
• 44:39
  Why longevity does not happen for many people?
• 44:42
  Reason #1 pride. What is the solution?
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  In all your ways, acknowledge him.
• 44:51
  Proverbs chapter 3 and verse 6. In all your ways, acknowledge
• 44:57
  him. In all your ways, in all your
• 45:00
  results, acknowledge him. When self wants to use your
• 45:04
  results to promote, to shout it, remember that I'm here because
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  of him. The nations can think what they
• 45:12
  want to think. They can say what they want to
• 45:14
  say. But my niece will never be tired
• 45:17
  of going on the ground to say thank you, no matter how high
• 45:21
  you rise. Hallelujah.
• 45:24
  Every time I thank God for this ministry, I thank God for my
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  life. I say it again and again.
• 45:30
  Lord, may I never become an idol to a generation such that they
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  forget you to Remember Me now. It's a bad bargain.
• 45:38
  Remember our discussion, previous discussions.
• 45:41
  I rather be forgotten, but if I can make Jesus known or not
• 45:45
  worship respected at the expense of my being known, it was a good
• 45:50
  bargain. I don't think I'm just talking
• 45:52
  because I'm here on stage preaching no pride.
• 45:59
  Run away from pride. Run away from pride.
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  If it is at work in your life right now, bind it, cast it, get
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  it out of your destiny and say in the name of Jesus, I desire
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  to last. Make up your mind that I will
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  not be the kind of person whose story will be used tomorrow to
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  encourage someone to say don't be like this person.
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  Do you know it is better to never rise than to get to a
• 46:25
  point where your name is written as a memorial, a lesson to
• 46:29
  encourage people anytime they want to use somebody today.
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  Every time we talk about in the Bible, we want to warn young men
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  to last. The individual we use is
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  something. Do you know the many great
• 46:44
  things that Samson did? But simply because of the end of
• 46:47
  his life, everybody forgets that he toy a lion, that he did all
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  of these things. Can I tell you when you go down,
• 46:54
  you will be surprised how people forget all that you did when you
• 46:58
  were up. Yeah.
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  What I'm telling you, when you go down, it doesn't matter what
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  you were doing while you were up.
• 47:05
  It will take the mercy of God for men to remember your
• 47:09
  exploits when you are down. Ichabod.
• 47:16
  We're obtaining grace to last. Obtaining grace to remain #1
• 47:22
  pride. Let's go to number 2.
• 47:24
  Is God speaking to someone? The second reason why greatness
• 47:31
  is short lived in the life of many is an arrival mentality.
• 47:38
  Arrival mentality, the inability to continue learning.
• 47:46
  The inability to continue improving.
• 47:49
  First Corinthians 8 and verse 2. Arrival mentality.
• 47:54
  What is there to know again? What is there to learn again?
• 47:59
  What is there to pray about again?
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  I have received the highest award.
• 48:06
  Do you know that it is often said that for most graduates, as
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  soon as they graduate, their mental capacity starts declining
• 48:15
  because the pressure to learn is no longer there and they
• 48:18
  literally stop growing mentally. If any man think that he knoweth
• 48:24
  anything, the Bible says he knoweth nothing.
• 48:28
  Yet, as he ought to know, you really know real champions
• 48:33
  because they always carry an unassuming personality, ever
• 48:38
  open to learn. The man is a professor, but he's
• 48:42
  listening to you, and even though what you are saying may
• 48:44
  not make sense, he's still listening with an open heart.
• 48:49
  One of the ways you know great people who will last is their
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  passion to keep learning. They learn from the great.
• 48:56
  They learn from the small. They learn from colleagues.
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  They learn from superiors. They learn from subordinates.
• 49:04
  They remain. They are students for life.
• 49:08
  The School of Wisdom is a school where you never graduate.
• 49:11
  You are only admitted the day you graduate.
• 49:14
  You graduate into failure. Arrival mentality, The level of
• 49:23
  light, ladies and gentlemen, that you need to excel in life
• 49:27
  and destiny. I submit to you by the integrity
• 49:30
  of Scripture, there are very few people who have accessed that
• 49:33
  level of light. I've had the honor and the
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  privilege of meeting a few people who have excelled notably
• 49:40
  in their fields of endeavour. And sometimes you will be amazed
• 49:43
  at the level of intellectual investment they have made and
• 49:48
  that they keep making, whether it's in sports, whether it's in
• 49:52
  music, whether it's in ministry, you know, and so on and so
• 49:56
  forth. Sometimes when I'm studying, I
• 49:58
  get this very sincere text messages from people.
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  Oh, Apostle, thank you for transforming us and doing this.
• 50:04
  And then I lost look at it and I smile.
• 50:07
  I'm grateful on one hand. And then I just look at my Bible
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  face forward and I continue reading because I have taught
• 50:15
  you no body claps for you twice for doing the same thing.
• 50:19
  Once you receive the applauds for a level of result, that is
• 50:23
  it. If you don't grow, you will not
• 50:25
  receive any applauds again. Arrival mentality.
• 50:31
  Yesterday's excellence will always be tomorrow's mediocrity.
• 50:36
  Yesterday's excellence will always be tomorrow's mediocrity.
• 50:42
  Once Upon a time, owning A typewriter was a breakthrough.
• 50:46
  If you own a typewriter, it was proof that you had made it.
• 50:50
  But today you can pack typewriters and give someone and
• 50:54
  the person will insult you and return it back to you.
• 50:59
  How about Nokia 3310? If I package it and give it to
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  you today I said with love from me, you accept.
• 51:06
  I tell you it's a prophetic message that you start hearing
• 51:08
  God. Otherwise you most likely may be
• 51:10
  angry. Apostle.
• 51:13
  You mean did I offend you? Why will you give me this?
• 51:16
  But Once Upon a time, it was a people's toll to get it.
• 51:19
  People like to get it. Yesterday's excellence will
• 51:24
  always be tomorrow's mediocrity, or today's excellence, in fact.
• 51:31
  So you need to be careful. That you got an award yesterday
• 51:34
  does not mean you will get an award tomorrow.
• 51:37
  Our world is full of people who live in there.
• 51:40
  Yesterday, their arrival mentality kept them there while
• 51:46
  the world was moving forward. And when you talk, they start
• 51:49
  giving you stories of yesteryears.
• 51:50
  I once was the most brilliant person, are you now?
• 51:55
  I once was the most intelligent person, are you now.
• 51:58
  Those days I was the one who interpreted for TL Osborne, what
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  happened to you now? Celebrating yesterday at the
• 52:09
  expense of the impact and the exploits of today is a disaster.
• 52:14
  Your yesterday should never be better than your today.
• 52:20
  If I give you stories only of yesterday as though God is not
• 52:23
  working today, something is wrong.
• 52:25
  The Bible says Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today and
• 52:30
  forever. If he did it yesterday, where
• 52:33
  did you keep him that your result is no longer happening
• 52:36
  again? I used to pray for the sick
• 52:40
  yesterday, thank God, but what is happening now?
• 52:43
  There are still sick people today.
• 52:45
  I used to teach yesterday. Job said all that I was in the
• 52:50
  days of my youth when the secrets of the Lord was upon my
• 52:53
  Tabernacle. Can I tell you, may you never
• 52:56
  lack testimonies, that the only thing you have is yesterday's
• 52:59
  result? I'm saying it again, may you
• 53:02
  never lack testimonies that you cannot tell people what God is
• 53:06
  doing in and through your life today.
• 53:08
  The only thing you have to say are the things that happened
• 53:11
  yesterday. I was rich, I was anointed, I
• 53:17
  was blessed, I was serious. No arrival mentality.
• 53:24
  Champions never arrive. They are aware that there is
• 53:28
  always more. You see and know the character
• 53:31
  of a champion by their passion to know more.
• 53:34
  I am. I'm passionate about knowing the
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  things and the areas of my ignorance.
• 53:40
  And when I find an area that I don't know anything about, I
• 53:43
  don't spare. I don't pity myself because of
• 53:45
  fatigue. I must drive that ignorance as
• 53:48
  soon as possible. There is something we call in
• 53:52
  our world a local champion mentality.
• 53:55
  Have you heard that kind of thing?
• 53:56
  Where in a small group of mediocres you are the highest,
• 54:01
  perhaps the wisest, perhaps the most enlightened?
• 54:05
  And this cancer of local champion mentality has destroyed
• 54:09
  preachers, destroyed business people, destroyed great people,
• 54:17
  a rival mentality. Oh, turn to the book of this.
• 54:21
  And the man is watching what I already know it.
• 54:24
  I'm sure with this way he's going with this revelation.
• 54:27
  He must talk about 1st court. You just watch and see the
• 54:31
  person who is talking has never healed anybody.
• 54:35
  Nobody knows you. No influence, no power, no
• 54:38
  grace. You have failed in almost every
• 54:40
  area of your life. And mostly those who fail are
• 54:43
  the ones who are the commentators of Destiny.
• 54:46
  They can comment. They can comment.
• 54:57
  It's in you, Lord. It's in you, Lord.
• 55:03
  We know that's more that's found in you.
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  It's in you, Lord, It's in you. Lord.
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  Have you seen a group of billionaires, some millionaires,
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  sitting together and with all due respect, someone who just
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  shows up in their midst and sits down there and they are asking
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  somebody a question that this our man has no idea about and he
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  will not let the people who have results answer while they are
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  talking? Well, I don't agree with that.
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  Exactly what are you saying? What have you had?
• 55:44
  You see how people disgrace themselves in Destiny?
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  People are talking about the anointing and someone who has no
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  understanding of the dynamics of the anointing is editing and
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  complaining. I say well it's not exactly like
• 55:58
  that. And then those who really have
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  the anointing, I say OK we're listening and you are just
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  saying rubbish and confusing yourself and making a fool out
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  of your destiny. Then when it is time to make it
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  happen, usually they step back. May you never be ashamed, say
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  Amen. May you never be ashamed.
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  I rebuke from your life and arrival mentality.
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  Listen, always have the heart of a learner.
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  I'm teaching you how to last. Who would imagine that the Word
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  Incarnate, the Logos of God, at age 12 will humble himself and
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  go to the temple to learn what from people He created and
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  without Him was not anything made that was made.
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  But when He became a man by himself, He went to the temple.
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  I'm sure he would sit down there and then the Pharisees will be
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  teaching him. There was this one that appeared
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  to Moses and you'll be saying, wow, tell me more about it.
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  So when the light appeared, he said I am that I am and the I am
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  himself is listening and nodding his head.
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  What humility is greater than that?
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  If God can sit down to learn as a man, anybody that refuses to
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  sit down and learn, you have begged your potential for
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  growth. Hallelujah champions learn, they
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  learn all the time. They learn with their hearts
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  opened. They learn with their hearts
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  opened. You know that a man is going to
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  last in life and destiny because of their passion to learn.
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  Hallelujah, one day someone gave me a book.
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  Not not, I think maybe just I don't know if it's AI think it's
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  some lady wrote one book and just put it as a gift among the
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  gifts they gave me. And and I opened it and looked
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  at the book and to be honest with you, it was something I
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  didn't seem to pay attention to, but the topic caught my
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  attention and I just said, wow, this is interesting.
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  Turned to the back, read about the person and I just opened
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  just one small chapter and read just one line.
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  And I was so blessed, so blessed by what that Lady.
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  I just read that part alone and then I kept it, but I was
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  blessed. I remember one time I think I
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  was looking for a particular, I was just researching on a
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  particular topic, true story. And then I saw a video, maybe
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  like 5-10 minutes on YouTube. I don't even know the person and
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  the entire, I'm not sure that it was up to maybe 30 or 40, what
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  you call that thing weather lights or follows, you know, the
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  people listening to him. And then I listened to what the
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  gentleman was saying and my God, it was 5 minutes of profound
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  wisdom, yet nobody was listening.
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  I said this gentleman now may have known about me.
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  I never know that I am part of those who have benefited from
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  him. I'm sure you'll be praying and
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  say, oh God, let me meet this man one day not knowing that the
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  man you are praying to meet listen to your 5 minutes video
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  and was blessed by it. Some of you will never admit it
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  that you're a big man and say no.
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  I learned from a little child that is a that is A and a sting
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  to your ego. You say no, I received it from
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  heaven. What is there to say you just
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  learned? Does it take away your
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  anointing? Where did you learn how to cook
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  this nice meal? You know I have my thing with
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  God. Tell the truth.
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  There is nothing to be embarrassed about.
• 59:37
  Ladies and gentlemen, I went to someone's house.
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  And so you may say I saw them cook rice in a way I've never
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  known. I asked a polite question.
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  They taught me, period. Glory be to God, honor to the
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  Saints. What is the lie about?
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  An unnecessary, expensive lie. Say Amen.
• 1:00:04
  Arrival mentality. You must fight it.
• 1:00:07
  You must fight it. It is the cancer of great men.
• 1:00:11
  It is easy to study when you have not become.
• 1:00:14
  It is easy to study when men do not know you.
• 1:00:17
  But when you get to a point where your results are clear and
• 1:00:20
  obvious, can you sit down and listen to someone you trained
• 1:00:25
  and learn from Him? It is one of the biggest
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  disaster of men of God. If I'm not preaching and I sit
• 1:00:34
  down, there are times I go to preach in meetings and perhaps
• 1:00:37
  there might be a number of preachers, some preaching before
• 1:00:39
  me and after me. If I have the time.
• 1:00:42
  It doesn't matter whether I train the person, whether we're
• 1:00:46
  colleagues, whether I say Father, it doesn't matter.
• 1:00:48
  Once the Word of God is coming or any platform to dispense
• 1:00:52
  wisdom, I listen to it carefully.
• 1:00:54
  If there's nothing I can learn, glory be to God.
• 1:00:57
  At least I did not waste my time.
• 1:01:01
  Are we learning an arrival mentality?
• 1:01:05
  When you find what you do not know, Humble yourself and learn.
• 1:01:10
  Humble yourself and learn. Humble yourself and learn.
• 1:01:15
  Reject an arrival mentality so that the word E cupboard would
• 1:01:19
  never be used over your life and your destiny.
• 1:01:22
  No, and I have taught you that everywhere you see greatness,
• 1:01:27
  respect it. When you see greatness,
• 1:01:30
  especially when you have access to it, respect it.
• 1:01:36
  If I have the honor of meeting any of our fathers of faith the
• 1:01:39
  short time for discussion, that is not the time to start making
• 1:01:43
  any contributions. No, it doesn't mean I'm a dummy.
• 1:01:47
  There are things I know, but then I keep quiet because there
• 1:01:51
  are many things I do not know and you use the opportunity and
• 1:01:55
  ask questions. Many of you would have been
• 1:01:57
  wiser if you did not waste your time.
• 1:02:00
  Have you seen people who come for counseling and for 15
• 1:02:04
  minutes they are teaching you? They sit down and say, well I
• 1:02:08
  want to tell there's a way. God walks with me.
• 1:02:10
  So here's how it works. Every time, January, February,
• 1:02:13
  He speaks to me. So God told me to answer you,
• 1:02:15
  Why are you here? You are wasting my time, you are
• 1:02:19
  wasting the time of other people if you are not yet to listen and
• 1:02:23
  learn. And meanwhile while they are
• 1:02:25
  saying all that things, you have ex rayed them by the Spirit.
• 1:02:27
  You have found them wanting on many grounds, and yet they will
• 1:02:30
  not listen. Then at the end they say, Well,
• 1:02:32
  I just felt it in my spirit. It always comes once in a while
• 1:02:36
  to agree with me, agree with you.
• 1:02:38
  Leave this place. You are not ready to receive,
• 1:02:40
  not ready to receive. You are in trouble, you are
• 1:02:44
  owing, you are in debt, you are confused, you are oppressed and
• 1:02:48
  you are saying agree with you. What is there to agree about
• 1:02:56
  Koinonia? Are you learning arrival
• 1:02:59
  mentality? Always give yourself to
• 1:03:05
  continuous learning. First Timothy chapter 415 and
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  16. First Timothy 415 and 16.
• 1:03:13
  Meditate upon these things the Bible says, Give yourself holy,
• 1:03:18
  not half heartedly holy to them, that thy profiting may appear
• 1:03:24
  unto all. Verse 16.
• 1:03:26
  Take heed unto yourself, and to doctrine.
• 1:03:31
  Continue in them, for in doing this you shall save both
• 1:03:36
  yourself and them that hear you. May I never get to a point as a
• 1:03:41
  man of God where I feel I've arrived.
• 1:03:44
  I've known all the mysteries, I've known everything it takes.
• 1:03:47
  No, the victor's path, the Champions path, is the path of
• 1:03:54
  continuous learning. Don't just learn from fathers,
• 1:03:59
  don't just learn from contemporaries.
• 1:04:02
  Also learn when it has to do with knowledge.
• 1:04:05
  Nobody has monopoly of it. Did you hear what I'm saying?
• 1:04:08
  Nobody has monopoly of knowledge.
• 1:04:11
  There are things only fathers can teach.
• 1:04:13
  There are things it is those under you.
• 1:04:16
  One day you will be listening to a a program, something from
• 1:04:19
  someone, perhaps someone you raise, and you will hear the
• 1:04:22
  person communicated dimension of truth in an interesting way and
• 1:04:27
  that becomes what ushers you to study.
• 1:04:30
  Hallelujah. Praise the name of the Lord #3
• 1:04:40
  Why is greatness short lived? Why is there no longevity of
• 1:04:44
  impact in the life of many? Are you ready for #3
• 1:04:48
  Distractions and compromises, Distractions and compromises.
• 1:04:55
  Galatians 57 to 9:00 distractions.
• 1:05:01
  Ye did run well. Galatians 57 who did hinder you
• 1:05:07
  that you should not obey the truth?
• 1:05:11
  Ye did run well. It's a question.
• 1:05:14
  He's saying you started well. What happened now that has
• 1:05:18
  hindered you from remaining? Verse 8 it says this persuasion
• 1:05:26
  comment not from him who calls you that means you have
• 1:05:30
  something has happened to you. This is not how you started.
• 1:05:34
  You have exposed yourself to another influence.
• 1:05:37
  The last verse a little living living at the whole long.
• 1:05:42
  Do you know what he's saying the character of Satan is that all
• 1:05:46
  he needs is to introduce something small the living what
• 1:05:49
  they call living in our this day yeast.
• 1:05:53
  Thank you. You don't put the yeast the same
• 1:05:56
  size as the flower, but you just put it as little as it is and
• 1:06:01
  watch the wonder. It will cause the entire door to
• 1:06:04
  rise. That's what he's saying there.
• 1:06:08
  A little living, living at the whole long distractions.
• 1:06:13
  Philippians Chapter 3, please. 13 to 15 brethren, Paul is
• 1:06:19
  speaking. I count myself, I count not
• 1:06:23
  myself to have apprehended, but this one thing I do Hallelujah
• 1:06:29
  for getting those things which are behind and reaching forth
• 1:06:32
  onto those things which are before. 14 I press, someone say
• 1:06:37
  I press, let your destiny hear you say I press, I press towards
• 1:06:42
  the mark of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. 15 Let us
• 1:06:48
  therefore, he says, as many as I matured.
• 1:06:52
  Be first minded. You must have a mentality that
• 1:06:58
  you must press no distraction. There are two dimensions to
• 1:07:03
  distractions #1 getting into areas beyond the scope of your
• 1:07:10
  grace is why great people go down.
• 1:07:16
  The first part of destruction is getting into areas beyond the
• 1:07:21
  scope of your grace. Ephesians 4 verse 7.
• 1:07:26
  A painful lesson in that area was learnt in the life of John
• 1:07:30
  the Baptist. John the Baptist was not a
• 1:07:33
  marriage counselor. He did not even marry himself.
• 1:07:37
  Instead of him to keep quiet, He had served God faithfully, the
• 1:07:41
  greatest of all prophets, provided he was within the area
• 1:07:46
  of His grace, no power could touch him.
• 1:07:49
  But when he veered off and now started talking about matters
• 1:07:53
  beyond the scope of His grace, his head went for it, The Bible
• 1:07:57
  says. But onto every one of us.
• 1:07:59
  Listen is given grace according to the measure of the gift of
• 1:08:05
  Christ. There are men of God, There are
• 1:08:07
  business people. There are great people today
• 1:08:10
  whose downfall started not necessarily because of anything
• 1:08:13
  they did wrong, but they veered off and began to communicate
• 1:08:18
  along areas where grace was not given.
• 1:08:23
  Are we together? Yeah, this is very important
• 1:08:27
  destruction. So God gives people mandates.
• 1:08:31
  I'm not just talking in ministry.
• 1:08:33
  God gives people assignments and chances are excellent.
• 1:08:36
  You see, the deception of greatness is because once grace
• 1:08:40
  is on you, whatever you are doing becomes so easy.
• 1:08:44
  You will think every other area will be like that.
• 1:08:46
  It is the grace of God on you that makes what you are doing
• 1:08:50
  easy. And then chances are excellent
• 1:08:53
  that people will now veer off into other areas where grace was
• 1:08:57
  not supplied and they want to command the same authority.
• 1:09:01
  That's what gets them into trouble.
• 1:09:03
  There are people who have no business doing detailed
• 1:09:06
  teachings on finances. They don't have the grace.
• 1:09:10
  They could share it generally or learn from those who really have
• 1:09:14
  it. There are people who understand
• 1:09:17
  very little, perhaps about the dynamics of prayer.
• 1:09:21
  One of the the major trouble in the body of Christ today is
• 1:09:25
  because everybody believes he has authority to teach on
• 1:09:27
  everything. So people stand.
• 1:09:31
  I can teach excellently well in an area and you will be
• 1:09:35
  surprised at the rubbish. I will teach in another area,
• 1:09:39
  the ability to discern your area of grace and stay there with all
• 1:09:44
  humility. It profits you and then it
• 1:09:47
  profits the body. Are we together?
• 1:09:51
  No matter how much I teach on relationship and family and
• 1:09:55
  whatever, I will never understand marriage and
• 1:09:58
  relationship like a woman, like Mommy Funke Adejimo and then my
• 1:10:04
  dear friend and brother Pastor Kingsley and his wife is a grace
• 1:10:07
  God gave them. By the time you now feel I can
• 1:10:10
  do it, I can do all things. You see that statement is within
• 1:10:15
  the will of God. Are we learning now?
• 1:10:19
  Most times that calamity graduates from pride?
• 1:10:23
  It starts from pride and then we delve into areas and we claim to
• 1:10:27
  be authorities in areas and we come up with misleading
• 1:10:31
  information. When you function within the
• 1:10:35
  area of grace, the grace given to you insist that you remain
• 1:10:39
  accurate within that area. Hallelujah.
• 1:10:45
  There are people. Who get up and.
• 1:10:46
  Make expensive risks in their lives that.
• 1:10:49
  Ruin their ministries? They just get up and produce
• 1:10:52
  posters. Healing meetings?
• 1:10:55
  They go online and copy the poster that Benny Hinn used to
• 1:10:59
  advertise his his meeting healing meeting expect this and
• 1:11:04
  that understand and shout and vow.
• 1:11:06
  If anybody lives here sick, except I'm not a man of God and
• 1:11:10
  the secret is a wow this is wonderful.
• 1:11:12
  We're in a good place. Then at the end of the grace
• 1:11:14
  after praying for if you are healed come out.
• 1:11:16
  Nobody comes out you sing praise and worship.
• 1:11:19
  I mean just check nobody should they lie they were not healed.
• 1:11:25
  If you are learning. That's all right if you are
• 1:11:28
  starting. But where you claim to be an
• 1:11:30
  authority in healing and power, no Sir, no Sir, it's not there,
• 1:11:36
  Period. Are we together?
• 1:11:47
  Many people claim things they don't have grace to defend.
• 1:11:50
  Distractions can I tell you be comfortable where God has kept
• 1:11:54
  you and serve with excellence. Never be intimidated.
• 1:11:58
  You are only a king within your Kingdom.
• 1:12:01
  Don't enter not about person's Kingdom and fight the throne.
• 1:12:04
  No, in your Kingdom there is a. Throne for you there is a.
• 1:12:09
  Seat for you. There is a crown for you, there
• 1:12:12
  is a sceptre for you. Remain there and then respect
• 1:12:16
  other kingdoms that you do not. Have access to.
• 1:12:21
  Hallelujah, a gentleman with with numb, just just jokingly, I
• 1:12:28
  believe a nice young gentleman. He sent me a text and say
• 1:12:31
  apostle. I wanted to impart grace upon
• 1:12:34
  me. I wanted I was wondering how
• 1:12:35
  does that happen? He said I want to be able to
• 1:12:37
  raise a song and sing and I said my you know, I, I, I think I
• 1:12:42
  just replied him a scripture. Let every man abide in his
• 1:12:45
  calling. I said this guy is going to
• 1:12:46
  frustrate himself. Now you will write a number of
• 1:12:49
  songs and not know which one to raise because it's not about
• 1:12:52
  having songs. This thing is of the spirit.
• 1:12:54
  There is a grace. There are people who try to sing
• 1:12:57
  and you know, you're saying what?
• 1:12:58
  Why now? You would have just done
• 1:13:00
  whatever you are doing. Hallelujah.
• 1:13:05
  And then. There are many, many worshippers
• 1:13:06
  who now. Try to preach to and they sing
• 1:13:09
  beautifully and then they say, OK, let me share something and
• 1:13:11
  you're like, why did you do that?
• 1:13:13
  You would have just stayed where God called you.
• 1:13:16
  Why did you now scatter everything again?
• 1:13:21
  This thing is about grace. So if it is not on this your
• 1:13:24
  head. Is not there.
• 1:13:25
  It's as simple as that. In the name of Jesus Christ.
• 1:13:33
  Destruction. So the first area of destruction
• 1:13:36
  is not is getting into areas beyond the scope of your grace.
• 1:13:41
  You must be careful. God never sends a man to do
• 1:13:45
  everything. God never empowers a man to do
• 1:13:48
  everything. There is what men like Watchmani
• 1:13:52
  will call the limitation of the body.
• 1:13:55
  Your heart is responsible for pumping blood, but your heart is
• 1:13:59
  not your brain. You can have a healthy heart and
• 1:14:03
  have something called brain damage.
• 1:14:05
  You will see act like a fool even though your heart is empty.
• 1:14:08
  Am I right on that your heart may have a problem and your
• 1:14:12
  brain is still working well. You will not even just act like
• 1:14:15
  a fool, you will die immediately.
• 1:14:17
  So the various parts of your body have their function.
• 1:14:20
  And the reason why the whole Organism functions well is
• 1:14:24
  because the parts of the body limit themselves.
• 1:14:27
  If I need to pick something by mistake, I'm, you know, my hands
• 1:14:31
  are full. I may use my mouth to hold the
• 1:14:33
  phone, but the mouth is not designed to carry things.
• 1:14:37
  There are times you may need to wear off.
• 1:14:39
  Temporarily because. Of something you need to do.
• 1:14:42
  But the hand is at its best when it is reaching and holding, not
• 1:14:46
  walking. If you use the hand to walk, you
• 1:14:49
  will frustrate the hand. It was not built to walk.
• 1:14:51
  It was built to reach. It was built to hold.
• 1:14:54
  Are we together? The second area of destruction
• 1:15:02
  and compromises is not protecting your focus or your
• 1:15:07
  pursuit. So while discussing the third
• 1:15:10
  reason why people's greatness is short lived destruction and
• 1:15:14
  compromises, the air part is getting into areas beyond the
• 1:15:19
  current scope of your grace and then #2 not protecting our focus
• 1:15:26
  and pursuits. Acts chapter 6, please from
• 1:15:28
  verse one, if you do not create systems and structures to
• 1:15:33
  protect your focus, eventually you will find out that you are
• 1:15:36
  doing many things. There are people who are doing
• 1:15:39
  many things in ministry, in business, in career, in destiny,
• 1:15:45
  and they are honestly not making any progress.
• 1:15:47
  As we say, Jack of all trades, master of none.
• 1:15:51
  Act 6, verse one In those days, watch this.
• 1:15:54
  Now when the number of the disciples was multiplied, so
• 1:15:58
  this problem came. As a result of increase
• 1:16:01
  multiplication, there arose a murmuring of the Christians
• 1:16:07
  against the Hebrews because their widows were neglected in
• 1:16:11
  the daily ministration. Verse 2 Then the 12 called the
• 1:16:16
  multitude of the disciples and said unto them, It is not reason
• 1:16:20
  that we should leave. Watch this, leave the word of
• 1:16:23
  God and serve tables. Those are two kinds of
• 1:16:27
  ministries. Serving table is not a lesser
• 1:16:30
  ministry. The apostles were given the
• 1:16:34
  ministry of the word and prayer. And now because an issue came as
• 1:16:40
  a result of the increase, they came and met them and said,
• 1:16:42
  listen, come and discuss this issue.
• 1:16:44
  Some women are being neglected. There is tribalism going on
• 1:16:48
  here. There is all kinds of things
• 1:16:49
  going on here. And the apostle said no verse,
• 1:16:52
  verse 2. Now three, we should leave.
• 1:16:55
  We shouldn't leave the walk. Don't distract our focus, he
• 1:16:59
  says. Wherefore these are the
• 1:17:01
  apostles. They were secured enough to say,
• 1:17:04
  listen, it's not incompetence, is that if we find ourselves in
• 1:17:08
  an area where grace was not given, we will be distracted and
• 1:17:13
  majors will become minors and minors will become majors, he
• 1:17:16
  says. Wherefore, brethren, look ye
• 1:17:19
  among you 7 men full of honest reports, full of the Holy Ghost
• 1:17:26
  and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business.
• 1:17:34
  But As for us, verse 4, we will give ourselves continually, say
• 1:17:39
  continually, say continually. We will give ourselves
• 1:17:44
  continually to prayer and the ministry of the world.
• 1:17:48
  I like this, very inspiring. I submit to you with.
• 1:17:54
  Every sense of humility. There are many people, many men
• 1:17:59
  of God especially. Their troubles started when the
• 1:18:02
  church expanded too much. They stopped being preachers and
• 1:18:05
  became administrators because now millions and billions are
• 1:18:10
  coming into the account. Now international guests are
• 1:18:14
  flying from all over. And now sometimes we men of God
• 1:18:18
  can be so insecure we don't trust anybody and we feel I have
• 1:18:22
  to supervise this finance by myself.
• 1:18:23
  How much entered there? And before you know, it is
• 1:18:26
  Sunday again and you come to preach and say let's just sing
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  whatever comes from God. And you find out you are leaving
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  your assignment because you are attending to things that are not
• 1:18:36
  within your area of call. Just because you are heading a
• 1:18:39
  vision does not mean you are the one who knows everything.
• 1:18:43
  You must know your area of grace and give people within the
• 1:18:46
  vision room under your supervision to bring out your
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  best. Are we together?
• 1:18:55
  There are certain roles in this. Ministry if.
• 1:18:58
  I were the 1. Playing it, I probably would
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  have produced a disaster out of it.
• 1:19:04
  Koinonia is not excelling today just because Joshua Salman is a
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  visionary person. It is a composite of many
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  people's intelligence together. Are you getting the point now?
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  Yes, it is true. And if you cannot understand.
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  And accept this. You would destroy your
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  organization is why most organizations don't last.
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  There are people who set up businesses and allow intelligent
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  people to come and run it. They own the business but they
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  don't leave the business. They are humble enough to be
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  advised. To be counseled.
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  As to how the business should go.
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  But there are people who will sit down and die there and say
• 1:19:45
  no, it is my work God gave me and before you know it, the
• 1:19:49
  vision is not going well because they want to do everything.
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  Imagine if I'm the one who is decorating this stage for you.
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  I know you like me because you are hearing me preach.
• 1:20:02
  It's because I'm staying in my area.
• 1:20:03
  Of grace. Give me the assignment of fixing
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  this flower and you'll be surprised.
• 1:20:08
  My first question is, is it necessary?
• 1:20:13
  Are you in charge to see flowers?
• 1:20:15
  You see my mindset so I will remove everything now and say
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  you are. Not serious.
• 1:20:21
  Oh, tell somebody. Put the picture of 1 big Bible,
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  open it to maybe someone leave it there every Sunday.
• 1:20:29
  That's what you will see because my passion is to make sure you
• 1:20:32
  receive the word. What is my business with the
• 1:20:34
  flower or the color? No put get this, you know this
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  kind of Bible that looks like cake.
• 1:20:39
  This big Bible someone as you entered every Sunday you will
• 1:20:44
  keep seeing it. You love the word, but you are
• 1:20:47
  tired of the atmosphere, no creativity.
• 1:20:50
  So you step out of the way and allow those God granted grace to
• 1:20:53
  do that work. This is why you are celebrating
• 1:20:55
  what we are seeing today. Are we together?
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  You are a great leader. Here can I tell you begin to
• 1:21:10
  examine the core area of your. Call and.
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  Start raising people who function in every other area
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  that is not around your core assignment so that your life
• 1:21:20
  becomes efficient. Efficient Moses was about to
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  kill. Himself until.
• 1:21:26
  God gave him a strategy. This guy was counseling people
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  from morning till night. Moses would have died a natural,
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  he would have just died like that.
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  And God told him no, no, no, no, no, no.
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  Jethro, his father-in-law gave him a counsel and said no, go
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  and appoint people, set up a structure.
• 1:21:45
  There are major issues that are your business.
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  Train other people. Listen, as a leader, if you are
• 1:21:51
  not training people, you are destroying your future.
• 1:21:56
  You can know too much. To not need people.
• 1:22:00
  You will always need people for as long.
• 1:22:02
  As you are alive and. For as long as your destiny,
• 1:22:05
  positives, alive, distractions and compromises, create
• 1:22:10
  structures. Create systems that protect your
• 1:22:14
  focus. Hallelujah, create structures.
• 1:22:20
  With all due respect, and this is my personal opinion, I don't
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  think a man of God who is really called into ministry should have
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  all the time every to be everywhere doing everything.
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  You are in every club, you are in every group.
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  You go and watch football. On on Saturday.
• 1:22:39
  And then on Sunday morning, quickly before you run to church
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  and then. After that you are.
• 1:22:45
  Doing this one you are you are distracted by so many things.
• 1:22:49
  All things are lawful, but not all things are expedient.
• 1:22:54
  It's always said there are those who watch movies.
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  But there are those who are the. Movie themselves that have been
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  watched. Hallelujah.
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  Many people are busy doing so many things, no?
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  Hallelujah. Many, many.
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  Years ago, let me tell. You something, it may make you
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  laugh. Somebody was organizing his
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  wedding and he sent me a text that would I mind being his.
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  What's that man that stands there?
• 1:23:24
  I said, are you OK my friend? One look for people I can.
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  Pray for you. I can so go and.
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  Do your thing, he said. Will I mind?
• 1:23:32
  It's not pride, I just told him. I said no, no, no, no, no.
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  There is an honor that priesthood carries.
• 1:23:40
  You think whatever you want to think.
• 1:23:41
  It's just the truth. Are we together?
• 1:23:44
  Yes. If you see me, stand by junction
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  to your house pricing hot. Corn by myself, I say, Madam,
• 1:23:54
  I'm arguing and I'm touching the thing.
• 1:23:56
  I'm cleaning this and that. I know you will just laugh, but
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  something will affect you. You will just say no, it's
• 1:24:03
  unnecessary. Not at this level.
• 1:24:05
  There are some things that are not.
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  Pride is wisdom to protect your focus.
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  Are we together now? Yes, there are people who God
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  has lifted, but they will go for weddings and you see them
• 1:24:16
  dragging souvenir, dragging rice, saying I have four
• 1:24:20
  children, you gave me two, come on, come on, man.
• 1:24:26
  That is in. Honor and does not know it.
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  Will perish is like a beast that perishes.
• 1:24:33
  Hallelujah. Say in the name of Jesus, I
• 1:24:37
  obtain grace to protect my focus.
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  There are a few times by the grace of God.
• 1:24:48
  That you will see me come here. I think it's only.
• 1:24:51
  Maybe once? Twice.
• 1:24:52
  Usually it's during the graduation of the School of
• 1:24:53
  Ministry students. I don't come here to come and
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  check. Have they said the sound?
• 1:24:57
  Well, no, if we're starting ministry, that's fine, but at
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  this level, systems have been created.
• 1:25:03
  There are great, loyal, faithful and gifted people that God has
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  brought in this ministry, and I allow them to do their work
• 1:25:11
  while I settle down to bring you the Word.
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  Are we together now? Yes, that's why when I come, I
• 1:25:19
  sit down quietly. As they are taking the.
• 1:25:22
  Testimonies I sit down quietly and and receive as my precious
• 1:25:26
  worship team. People are leading worship.
• 1:25:28
  I sit down and allow them. Mine is to create the the a
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  template for them and it's the assignment to stay with God.
• 1:25:35
  Imagine if I was 1 giving them songs every week.
• 1:25:37
  You will soon be tired. You will know I'm the one giving
• 1:25:39
  the songs. Hallelujah.
• 1:25:44
  We're enjoying. Their creativity.
• 1:25:46
  Because we give them that. Autonomy to stay with God yours
• 1:25:50
  is to teach them to be spiritual and how to receive Hallelujah
• 1:25:55
  protect your. Focus.
• 1:25:57
  There are. Levels in life where not, and
• 1:25:59
  I'm saying it to down to many, there are certain things at your
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  level. If God has honestly lifted you,
• 1:26:07
  they will become distractions like washing your car by
• 1:26:10
  yourself. You would think it's humility,
• 1:26:13
  but there is a wave. God has lifted you.
• 1:26:15
  That two hours to wash your car or three hours to wash your
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  clothes. You are blessed.
• 1:26:20
  Look for somebody, employ somebody, take it to a dry
• 1:26:23
  cleaner and have the time to pray and focus on what you
• 1:26:27
  should do. It's as simple as that.
• 1:26:30
  There are things in my life I will never do again.
• 1:26:32
  I can do them, but I will not do them.
• 1:26:34
  It's a distraction, don't copy me.
• 1:26:39
  If you are starting, I wash my clothes so.
• 1:26:41
  I did everything by myself before I started.
• 1:26:44
  I'm bringing this balance because sometimes people hear
• 1:26:47
  all kinds of things in church. Someone will now go and say you
• 1:26:50
  know what, I've made-up my mind and then before you know it, in
• 1:26:54
  one month, especially in this our lovely Abuja, your whole
• 1:26:57
  money will go into dry cleaning. If you are learning, say Amen.
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  Listen. Become comfortable with
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  greatness and create a system to protect it without feeling bad.
• 1:27:13
  Are we together? Yes.
• 1:27:17
  Great people last because they unclutter their lives.
• 1:27:23
  They remove things that are unnecessary and settle with the
• 1:27:26
  things that are necessary. Necessary.
• 1:27:30
  As busy as I am, I'm busy doing few things that are very
• 1:27:34
  necessary and very required. And if you are a good and nice
• 1:27:40
  and. Kind person, God will.
• 1:27:42
  Always send people who help you. Their assignment is to protect
• 1:27:46
  your focus and to make your life easier.
• 1:27:49
  That's why it's good to be kind and loving.
• 1:27:51
  You will always find available people, people you do not even
• 1:27:55
  have to pay on their own and by themselves.
• 1:27:58
  They will be glad to serve number. 4 Let's hurry up, Is
• 1:28:08
  someone learning SO number? One Why?
• 1:28:12
  Greatness. Is short lived, is.
• 1:28:14
  Pride #2 arrival mentality #3 distractions and compromises.
• 1:28:22
  And then #4 Are you ready? The fourth reason why many great
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  people fall from grace to grass. I put here violating your
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  winning strategy. Violating your winning strategy
• 1:28:38
  is the reason why great people fail.
• 1:28:41
  Violating your winning strategy either the strategy God gave you
• 1:28:47
  or the strategy that was built after years of discipline,
• 1:28:52
  sacrifice and investment. Show me a man who violates your
• 1:28:56
  winning strategy. You will not last again.
• 1:28:59
  This is true for ministry. This is true for business.
• 1:29:02
  This is true for every area in life.
• 1:29:04
  Violating your winning strategy, either divinely inspired
• 1:29:09
  strategy or strategy that is a composite of many years of pain,
• 1:29:15
  sacrifice and wisdom. Can I tell you this?
• 1:29:18
  Listen, exploits and victory is always strategy dependent.
• 1:29:25
  Exploits and victory is always strategy dependent.
• 1:29:34
  See every home that is excelling today, Wonderful children, great
• 1:29:39
  spouse, there is a strategy. The moment they begin to violate
• 1:29:44
  the strategy, there will be problem.
• 1:29:46
  See a student who is excelling academically, returning back
• 1:29:51
  with great results? There is a strategy that keeps
• 1:29:54
  them producing that result. Are we together?
• 1:29:58
  See a bank, a restaurant, even a church.
• 1:30:02
  In business we call it quality control systems so that you do
• 1:30:07
  not veer off to maintain excellence, to maintain
• 1:30:13
  delivery. Hallelujah.
• 1:30:19
  The question God is asking somebody now.
• 1:30:23
  Is have you kept your winning strategy When God calls a man
• 1:30:28
  into ministry, there is a strategy.
• 1:30:30
  God. You remember what I taught you,
• 1:30:32
  that it is the will of God plus the strategy to bring that will
• 1:30:38
  to pass that is equal to victory.
• 1:30:40
  If the only thing you have is the will of God and you do not
• 1:30:44
  have a strategy given by God. The way that we run Koinonia is
• 1:30:50
  a. Strategy God gave.
• 1:30:53
  It's not something that was just invented, but there are aspects
• 1:30:57
  of running this ministry, for instance, that is a product of
• 1:31:02
  gleaning from the mind of intelligent people who have
• 1:31:05
  built organizations that have lasted.
• 1:31:09
  No system fails. When they respect their winning
• 1:31:12
  strategy. Leaders, let me teach you this.
• 1:31:15
  Beware of people who come into your vision with their own
• 1:31:18
  strategy. No, if it is Goliath you want to
• 1:31:24
  bring. Down.
• 1:31:25
  Don't. Assume He will fall by despair.
• 1:31:28
  Goliath is a warrior. Two, you need to stay with God.
• 1:31:31
  If it's Jericho you want to bring down, you need to get the
• 1:31:34
  strategy from God. And can I tell you, when God
• 1:31:39
  gives you a strategy, even when you want to change it, consult
• 1:31:43
  Him. There is no major decision that
• 1:31:45
  happens in this ministry, no matter how intelligent it is,
• 1:31:50
  that I will not pray about after all the data and everything is
• 1:31:54
  brought. OK, beautiful.
• 1:31:56
  Just give me some time. I have to go to Godfather.
• 1:32:00
  This is your vision. This is your work.
• 1:32:03
  This is what we have. What do you have to say about
• 1:32:05
  it? If God is silent, I keep quiet
• 1:32:08
  until the day he speaks. Is someone learning now?
• 1:32:17
  Don't just celebrate success within your organization.
• 1:32:20
  Teach everybody who is part of your organization.
• 1:32:24
  Your organization can mean your home.
• 1:32:26
  It can mean your church. Teach them why you win.
• 1:32:30
  Don't just allow them enjoy that you are winning.
• 1:32:33
  Please hear me. Teach your children why you win.
• 1:32:36
  Teach them why there is always money in that house.
• 1:32:39
  Teach them why the presence of God is always mighty in that
• 1:32:42
  house. Don't just allow people come and
• 1:32:45
  enjoy success and leave. Teach them.
• 1:32:48
  Why do we win in this ministry? Why do we win in this business?
• 1:32:53
  Why has God so elevated this vision?
• 1:32:57
  If you teach them, they will preserve it.
• 1:32:59
  If you don't, they will lose it, especially when you are not
• 1:33:02
  there. Are we together?
• 1:33:08
  So you have children. Listen.
• 1:33:10
  To my message redefining. Inheritance.
• 1:33:12
  There are many children whose parents only made them enjoy
• 1:33:16
  success. They did not teach them the
• 1:33:18
  winning strategy. What did Daddy do to become so
• 1:33:22
  wealthy even though he was not an educated man?
• 1:33:26
  Ah, he was a man who understood honor.
• 1:33:29
  Now you are giving your son all the millions and billions and
• 1:33:31
  not teaching him the law of honor.
• 1:33:33
  He will soon lose it. I told you that one of the
• 1:33:37
  major. Inheritance that parents.
• 1:33:40
  Give children is their mindset. The first thing to transfer is
• 1:33:44
  not money. Transfer your conviction.
• 1:33:50
  Violating their winning strategy.
• 1:33:54
  Every time we have our workers retreating.
• 1:33:56
  This ministry among. The many things we seek to do is
• 1:34:00
  to bring a new, a renewed orientation.
• 1:34:04
  Why has God lifted us this way? Why has God lifted His name in
• 1:34:09
  and through our lives this way? And then you help the people.
• 1:34:13
  Listen, let me give you a secret.
• 1:34:15
  Whether it's in church, whether it's in whatever it is, no
• 1:34:18
  matter how gifted people are, if they come to join your vision,
• 1:34:23
  let them learn why you win. Don't just absorb people to come
• 1:34:27
  with their ideas. If they are not humble to learn
• 1:34:30
  why you win, then they can enjoy it from afar, but they should
• 1:34:34
  not come and destroy what you are doing.
• 1:34:37
  This is what is called the doctrine of Balaam.
• 1:34:43
  He makes the presence of God fight you by doing.
• 1:34:47
  Something that compromises on your winning strategy.
• 1:34:50
  Let me show you one scripture. Perhaps God is speaking to
• 1:34:53
  someone. If the glory that was Once Upon
• 1:34:56
  your life has departed, go back and check.
• 1:34:59
  There was something God gave you as a unique formula for your
• 1:35:02
  victory. Man of God, there was something
• 1:35:05
  God gave you. You see Baba Deboye today in his
• 1:35:08
  old age, when he stands, no matter what stage he gets to, he
• 1:35:13
  must go down on his knees. It's not a ritual, it's a
• 1:35:16
  strategy. It may not apply to you, but
• 1:35:20
  it's his way of demonstrating before the nations that God sent
• 1:35:24
  me. I am not God myself.
• 1:35:28
  He will fly across the. Globe and you will still see
• 1:35:31
  him. All his instrument of worship
• 1:35:33
  and you will kneel down, raise a song or two, worship His God and
• 1:35:37
  stand up and teach. And you will see that even in
• 1:35:40
  old age he's fat and flourishing, spreading across
• 1:35:43
  the globe. And another ignorant young man,
• 1:35:46
  you. There are people who have
• 1:35:47
  different, there are others. As soon as they come, they turn
• 1:35:50
  to the back of their seat and kneel down and pray.
• 1:35:52
  It's not a ritual. There are strategies that God
• 1:35:55
  gives people. There are things I do before the
• 1:35:58
  miracle service. There are things I do before
• 1:36:00
  every service. There are unique covenants that
• 1:36:03
  I have with God. The moment you forget what keeps
• 1:36:08
  power on your head, Samson, the secret to your strength is your
• 1:36:12
  hair. Are we together?
• 1:36:16
  David, the secret to your strength.
• 1:36:19
  Is your worship. This is important.
• 1:36:25
  It is not enough to understand the.
• 1:36:27
  Anointing God has given you. Understand what keeps it,
• 1:36:31
  Understand what builds it. Businessman There are people who
• 1:36:38
  have become billionaires today. Not because of some intelligence
• 1:36:44
  necessarily, but God gave them a secret.
• 1:36:47
  Every time they are about to go and bid for a contract, they may
• 1:36:52
  take a day, they will fast, they will roll, they will speak,
• 1:36:55
  sing, worship. Others will just meet a man of
• 1:36:58
  God who speaks to them. That is their winning strategy.
• 1:37:00
  It's not a strategy for everybody.
• 1:37:03
  Ladies and gentlemen, hear me. If you see men go from grace to
• 1:37:08
  grass, they have violated the strategy God gave them to win.
• 1:37:14
  There is what we are doing as a ministry to the glory.
• 1:37:17
  Of God. That keeps this ministry rising,
• 1:37:19
  you see, and for as long as we work in keeping with it.
• 1:37:25
  For as long as we work in keeping with it.
• 1:37:28
  There is no. Power in existence, even if it's
• 1:37:30
  after 30 years, that will bring this vision down.
• 1:37:33
  Let me show you a scripture. Second Chronicles 15 we read
• 1:37:42
  from verse 12 to 15 is. God helping someone, and they
• 1:37:46
  entered into a covenant. Watch this, they entered into
• 1:37:51
  what? A covenant to seek the Lord God
• 1:37:55
  of their fathers with all their heart and with all their soul,
• 1:38:00
  13. That whatsoever whosoever would
• 1:38:04
  not seek the Lord God of Israel should be put to death, whether
• 1:38:08
  small or great, whether man or woman. 14 And they sware unto
• 1:38:15
  the Lord with a loud. Voice and with.
• 1:38:17
  Shouting, and with trumpets, and with cornets, and all, Judah
• 1:38:22
  rejoiced at the oath. It was beyond a desire.
• 1:38:26
  It was a covenant. For they had sworn with all
• 1:38:29
  their heart, and sought him with their whole desire.
• 1:38:33
  And the Bible says he was found of them.
• 1:38:36
  What was the result? And the Lord gave them rest
• 1:38:40
  round about. I think it was God servant,
• 1:38:46
  Bishop or Edeko who said when. Covenant University started on
• 1:38:50
  the day that they were going to do the commissioning, the
• 1:38:53
  dedication that the Lord told him to lie down flat on the
• 1:38:57
  ground and hand over that meeting.
• 1:39:01
  With all due respect, I will tell you something.
• 1:39:03
  When we were preparing for the Manchester Conference, usually
• 1:39:07
  we hold a meeting with the workers before the main meeting
• 1:39:10
  starts. One of the things we did was as
• 1:39:13
  a workforce, all of us got down on our knees and we handed over
• 1:39:18
  the conference to God. You are the only one who can
• 1:39:21
  change the heart of men. You are the only one who can
• 1:39:24
  heal. You are the only one who can
• 1:39:26
  deliver. It's a strategy God gave.
• 1:39:30
  In all your ways, acknowledge Him so you will see an ordinary
• 1:39:35
  mother. She may.
• 1:39:37
  Not have everything. But she has a covenant with God.
• 1:39:40
  God would tell her Mama, pray from 12:00 to 2:00 every day
• 1:39:44
  without fail. That is your secret.
• 1:39:47
  For as long as you do this, you will never beg.
• 1:39:50
  The woman may not know much, but once it's 12 on the dot, Mama
• 1:39:55
  may be tired, but she remembers that there is a winning
• 1:39:58
  strategy. And she's prayed.
• 1:40:01
  She's done that for 10 years, 20 years.
• 1:40:04
  One day, her once forgotten son now becomes a captain in
• 1:40:10
  industry. And even when people take his
• 1:40:12
  name to Harbalis, the Harbalis will say, you brought the wrong
• 1:40:15
  person. And one day, the mother will
• 1:40:17
  say, call my son, do you know why you are this great?
• 1:40:20
  Oh, I just returned from Harvard.
• 1:40:22
  Nonsense. Come, let me show you something
• 1:40:24
  when you were born, God told me you will be great and God said
• 1:40:28
  to make that prophecy come to pass.
• 1:40:32
  There are families their their winning strategy is that they
• 1:40:35
  covenanted with God that any missionary that comes around any
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  area, maybe their village, they must provide a room.
• 1:40:42
  Have you seen that kind of thing?
• 1:40:45
  Some of your parents did it, and you.
• 1:40:47
  May not know why the. Children today, regardless how
• 1:40:50
  stubborn they are, God still blesses them.
• 1:40:55
  God is a covenant keeping God. Oh.
• 1:40:57
  Let me tell you the truth. Hallelujah.
• 1:41:02
  Praise the name of the Lord, yes.
• 1:41:05
  If you will let men. See me there is nothing I will
• 1:41:08
  not give. You fine the day I stop men from
• 1:41:12
  seeing the Lord. It's not that he would judge me,
• 1:41:15
  it is that the covenant itself was designed to bring you down.
• 1:41:20
  So if I see people boasting and bragging.
• 1:41:22
  It's none of my business, I. Know what protects the oil on my
• 1:41:25
  head? If you will let men see me,
• 1:41:28
  there is nothing I will not give you.
• 1:41:33
  Not every preacher. May be comfortable talking like
• 1:41:35
  me. I'm being so.
• 1:41:36
  Vulnerable like me and I respect it.
• 1:41:39
  I don't know what covenant God gave them, but As for me, the
• 1:41:42
  nations must see Jesus through my life and I'm not ashamed.
• 1:41:45
  It has nothing to do with my reputation or my ego.
• 1:41:49
  The results show that I'm not a fool for allowing the nation see
• 1:41:54
  Jesus. Is someone learning?
• 1:41:59
  I remember 1 great. Businessman.
• 1:42:00
  A billionaire. Businessman we.
• 1:42:02
  Had the privilege of ministering in a conference together and
• 1:42:06
  then he was talking and we had an opportunity to just share and
• 1:42:09
  he was telling me. He said, listen, there's a
• 1:42:11
  sacrifice. There are things I do with God
• 1:42:14
  that translates to the things you see, including unbelievers.
• 1:42:18
  They have covenants that they keep.
• 1:42:20
  Do you know that every time you see greatness, somebody is doing
• 1:42:24
  something somewhere? That is not normal, that is not
• 1:42:27
  natural. Hallelujah, with all due
• 1:42:31
  respect. I will tell you and I'm.
• 1:42:32
  Saying it sincerely, I I say it with every sense of humility.
• 1:42:37
  One of the secrets behind the mysterious blessing of God upon
• 1:42:41
  this ministry was a sacrifice, something that happened years
• 1:42:45
  ago. The Lord gave me an instruction,
• 1:42:48
  didn't have much, he said, to empty the account of this
• 1:42:51
  ministry. 00 naira. When that happened, of course it
• 1:43:01
  was a test it didn't reach. Seven days and God came through
• 1:43:05
  in a way and he had vowed that forever this ministry will never
• 1:43:09
  beg is the truth is the truth. Hallelujah.
• 1:43:17
  So there are people who do not behind please, if there is
• 1:43:22
  anything you must learn today behind every sustainable
• 1:43:26
  results, there are winning strategies.
• 1:43:29
  Don't think people just excel like that.
• 1:43:31
  No, no, no. With all due respect, I will
• 1:43:37
  tell you every time I've had the honor of meeting our Father in
• 1:43:41
  the Lord that the Jew, whether in his office here, whether
• 1:43:45
  wherever, I have almost always met him praying, always met him
• 1:43:50
  praying. He will sit down as old as.
• 1:43:54
  That man is, you will think. He's weak and tired.
• 1:43:57
  Service is going on and he's in his office praying, praying in
• 1:44:00
  tongues for a long time. And after what he gets up and is
• 1:44:04
  ready to come out. 1 declaration.
• 1:44:06
  There is somebody here, this and that, and people say Amen.
• 1:44:10
  And you see people return with children as if they stole them,
• 1:44:13
  and you'll be wondering, thinking what happened?
• 1:44:15
  Can I tell you sincerely, God or not, Covenants.
• 1:44:21
  Hallelujah. I remember the time I.
• 1:44:25
  Emptied my account like empty everything because I love the
• 1:44:30
  Lord. I said Lord this.
• 1:44:32
  Is for you, no coercion. No manipulation.
• 1:44:35
  There is nothing that you give me that I will not give you.
• 1:44:38
  Don't just covert people's results.
• 1:44:41
  There are winning strategies and if God tells you, please make
• 1:44:47
  sure you keep it. How can a global ministry like
• 1:44:50
  this be going on break? Can you imagine right now?
• 1:44:56
  After the second week of. December or thereabout we're
• 1:44:59
  having the last coinonial service and that's it.
• 1:45:02
  Go on break till January. What if you don't come back?
• 1:45:11
  I'm just saying it is suicidal from from an honest.
• 1:45:14
  Standpoint. No man of God does that kind of
• 1:45:16
  thing, that God has helped you, now you want to create sorrow
• 1:45:19
  for yourself again. But if it's a strategy he gave,
• 1:45:23
  until he changes it, it will not stop.
• 1:45:27
  How can a ministry this size? And has never held this.
• 1:45:30
  Convention with literally millions of followers across the
• 1:45:36
  globe. You must be a madman to not do
• 1:45:38
  that. But that is the foolishness of
• 1:45:39
  obedience. Listen, I'm speaking to.
• 1:45:44
  Someone you started a business with?
• 1:45:46
  God and you vowed before God prosper me. 50% goes for me, 50%
• 1:45:52
  goes for the ministry. You did it the first year, you
• 1:45:54
  became a billionaire immediately.
• 1:45:56
  Now, when the Holy Spirit don't disturb me, when I said that
• 1:45:59
  Nigeria was all right, OK, And you see?
• 1:46:04
  God respects you, He will respect you.
• 1:46:08
  Even at the expense of your rising.
• 1:46:12
  Please go back and. Find out what is the secret
• 1:46:15
  behind. Any result you are seeing today?
• 1:46:18
  If it was prayer, keep praying. If it was fasting, keep fasting.
• 1:46:23
  Are we together violating? Their winning strategies there
• 1:46:30
  are things. Koinonia will always do.
• 1:46:32
  There are things Koinonia will never do Never, never.
• 1:46:38
  When we were having the conference, let me make
• 1:46:40
  reference to it again. You can imagine such size of
• 1:46:45
  people. And God comes to me while
• 1:46:47
  praying and it says, I want to make a statement.
• 1:46:50
  There is a negative narrative that they've had about the
• 1:46:54
  church. I want to correct that
• 1:46:56
  statement. And because of that, number one,
• 1:46:59
  you will not collect offering nor mention money all through
• 1:47:03
  the course of that conference. How do you pay the bills?
• 1:47:07
  You have no idea, ladies and gentlemen, how much was spent
• 1:47:11
  for that conference. You are wise.
• 1:47:12
  You use your mind. And then a workforce of over
• 1:47:21
  2000 people. You are to feed them also.
• 1:47:24
  Bless the people. Return back.
• 1:47:26
  No talk of money, no nothing. Yes, Sir, it is your work.
• 1:47:31
  This is the strategy. It was the violation of
• 1:47:35
  strategy. That.
• 1:47:37
  Eventually led to the defeat of Israel, the death of Hofni and
• 1:47:41
  Fenihas. You know that now a strategy was
• 1:47:44
  given to them to not choose just to use the fork and whatever
• 1:47:48
  meat comes out they should take it with contentment.
• 1:47:51
  But the children said no, no way they will use that the thing and
• 1:47:55
  push and look for something that is is sumptuous.
• 1:47:58
  And God was saying I'm warning you now they kept bringing the
• 1:48:01
  thing out till they went to die and their father saw them.
• 1:48:05
  They were violating strategies, but because of his heart don't
• 1:48:08
  love people too much to leave them die.
• 1:48:12
  There are times that your compassion can be used.
• 1:48:15
  By the devil. To destroy people.
• 1:48:17
  You know how God helped you to stand when the people,
• 1:48:21
  especially the people around you, if they are violating the
• 1:48:24
  spiritual secrets that make for strength, love them, but correct
• 1:48:29
  them in love. That was the mistake of Eli.
• 1:48:34
  There would never have. Been a mention of Ichabod, he
• 1:48:37
  would have called those boys to say Listen my dear sons, I'm a
• 1:48:40
  George in Israel now for 30 something years getting to 40.
• 1:48:44
  My secret with God was ABCD. Why did God jump?
• 1:48:50
  Eli's sons and went to somewhere.
• 1:48:54
  Because I'm sure God gave them a grace period and saw that these
• 1:48:58
  boys were not interested in repentance, conversion, nor his
• 1:49:02
  program. If you never believe that God
• 1:49:05
  collects the bishopric of people, you have not read your
• 1:49:07
  Bible. Well, just because God used you
• 1:49:10
  yesterday, man of God, it doesn't mean he will use you
• 1:49:14
  tomorrow, no. Hallelujah, your winning
• 1:49:23
  strategy. For someone, your life was
• 1:49:27
  built. On sacrifice.
• 1:49:28
  Don't stop it because you have now become great.
• 1:49:32
  Don't stop it. Your life was built on prayer.
• 1:49:35
  Your life was built on the world.
• 1:49:37
  There are some of you. You have a covenant with God.
• 1:49:40
  Every time it is two or three days to your birthday, you go
• 1:49:43
  for a retreat. Now that you're a big man, make
• 1:49:46
  sure people do not distract you. When is your birthday?
• 1:49:49
  They will say they slaughtered chicken or cow.
• 1:49:53
  Will you die if you don't eat it?
• 1:49:55
  They should eat it on your behalf with love after you meet
• 1:49:57
  with God. Or they should, they should
• 1:49:59
  refrigerate it for you. You eat it.
• 1:50:02
  After the retreat, you go back to your God and your Maker Lord.
• 1:50:06
  I'm here again. I started meeting with you when
• 1:50:09
  I was 18 years. I am now 50 years and God will
• 1:50:13
  say you are still coming. Yes Sir, I'm still here.
• 1:50:16
  I have given you global visibility.
• 1:50:18
  You are still here. Yes Sir.
• 1:50:20
  And God says, let's go to the next level.
• 1:50:26
  Listen to me if you don't keep this.
• 1:50:30
  Principle. There are consecrations and
• 1:50:33
  covenants that protect anointings and protect impact
• 1:50:39
  every time you see glory turning.
• 1:50:41
  To shame. Somebody has left his covenant
• 1:50:45
  with God and men can distract you.
• 1:50:49
  You can forget your winning formula.
• 1:50:51
  John G Lake was crying A Allen, a man was crying for the healing
• 1:50:57
  anointing. He said, God, what does it take
• 1:51:00
  to carry the healing anointing? He went inside the room.
• 1:51:03
  He looked at his wife and said, honey, you will not see me again
• 1:51:07
  for the next one week. Don't feel bad.
• 1:51:09
  I I will not come out until God speaks to me.
• 1:51:13
  He entered and shut the door. And prayed and.
• 1:51:17
  Cried and God gave him 7 secrets.
• 1:51:20
  He said if you keep these secrets there is no sickness,
• 1:51:23
  you will not heal. He came out rejoicing and told
• 1:51:26
  his wife. I found it, found it.
• 1:51:32
  When you see men. Do the things that they.
• 1:51:34
  Do I remember? Truthfully speaking, those days
• 1:51:38
  when I was see men of God park, stadiums, park meetings, it it
• 1:51:42
  looked to me as if I said how do how do these guys get people to
• 1:51:46
  even hear them? I mean in my naive dude, is it
• 1:51:50
  publicity they use? What does it take for people to
• 1:51:53
  come and crowd themselves like this?
• 1:51:56
  ABBA? Until I found out that the
• 1:51:59
  secret behind every glory bar are many covenants and many
• 1:52:04
  consecrations. There is someone God is calling
• 1:52:07
  you today. I'm saying there was something
• 1:52:09
  you did that you never learnt. Anytime your money's about to
• 1:52:13
  finish, God will wake somebody. But now you are literally
• 1:52:17
  begging. You are a shadow of your
• 1:52:19
  yesterday return back to your covenants.
• 1:52:21
  There is a winning secret. God gave you scati baratos kyata
• 1:52:28
  embratos, scati balakos yata. I'm telling you this as a
• 1:52:32
  prophetic word. God is saying return back.
• 1:52:35
  Return back to the covenants. There are people who were once
• 1:52:38
  powerful. They are no longer powerful.
• 1:52:41
  NO0 power, it's gone. Worship people.
• 1:52:53
  Some of you the secret behind your receiving.
• 1:52:55
  Songs was to lock yourself at least a few minutes, a few hours
• 1:53:00
  in a week. That's your time with God.
• 1:53:02
  You carry your keyboard or your your guitar and you lie down
• 1:53:07
  before the Lord and cry. Make sure as God lifts you.
• 1:53:11
  You don't just say I'm a popular.
• 1:53:12
  Person, you will write a song that is so nice and nobody will
• 1:53:16
  listen to it because the presence factor is missing.
• 1:53:19
  Who am I speaking to? Someone needs to repent.
• 1:53:22
  God is showing you This is why your glory has gone down.
• 1:53:28
  This is. Why your glory has gone down
• 1:53:31
  This is why the glory of. Your ministry has gone down.
• 1:53:33
  This is why your impact has gone down once the presence factor
• 1:53:39
  is. Missing once.
• 1:53:41
  The winning formula is missing. There.
• 1:53:53
  Are things you must keep doing to keep seeing the glory.
• 1:54:02
  There are things you must keep doing to keep seeing the glory.
• 1:54:07
  Hallelujah at the beginning. Of every year.
• 1:54:11
  Without fail, there are things I do.
• 1:54:14
  There are things I do by the Spirit.
• 1:54:18
  There are things I do by the Spirit.
• 1:54:22
  Maybe there are only a few times.
• 1:54:25
  I enter every new year from an old year praying in tongues is
• 1:54:31
  tongues that transceats from. 12th to.
• 1:54:34
  That new year there are if for any reason I've missed it, maybe
• 1:54:39
  it's not once, maybe I was in a meeting until the next year came
• 1:54:44
  New year 31st to. First, no you.
• 1:54:47
  Can't be playing Paratha Pakatosyata as soon as that year
• 1:54:52
  lands. I'm commanding January already
• 1:54:56
  I'm commanding February because in this ministry by 6:30 first
• 1:55:01
  of December, 6:00 PM on the dot W African time, the prophetic
• 1:55:06
  word for the next year comes so once we go on break as we.
• 1:55:11
  Are enjoying break me I'm. Not doing break.
• 1:55:14
  I'm waiting before God to say what is the the the the leading
• 1:55:17
  for the next year and before the 30th or 28th to 30th.
• 1:55:22
  There must be now there are people who don't believe in
• 1:55:25
  prophetic words. That's all right.
• 1:55:27
  I respect whatever revelation, but this is how God has guided
• 1:55:31
  us when he said it was a year of open doors This year we believed
• 1:55:35
  him and the results have spoken for themselves.
• 1:55:40
  Hallelujah. It's in this.
• 1:55:44
  Kind of atmosphere. I lie down in his presence.
• 1:55:47
  Shabba Katabata Lord, there are millions of people depending on
• 1:55:51
  this direction. What are you saying?
• 1:55:53
  Oh God, what are you saying? Oh God.
• 1:55:56
  Shakeba katusiata grando kaparusiata, turn the plates
• 1:56:01
  upside down. Mantos kapricata katuskiata.
• 1:56:05
  You are signing your register for the relevance of the next
• 1:56:08
  season just because you are relevant.
• 1:56:12
  Now I tell you, believe this. Does not mean you remain
• 1:56:16
  relevant. I have seen people with all
• 1:56:18
  humility rise at the cutting edge of ministry, at the cutting
• 1:56:24
  edge of business you would never imagine.
• 1:56:27
  With all due respect, there are musicians today, worshippers
• 1:56:31
  today. You almost don't know where they
• 1:56:34
  are. Again, please.
• 1:56:38
  Everybody go back and ask the Lord what is the?
• 1:56:41
  Secret behind the glory that you have placed on my life.
• 1:56:47
  There are many men of God here Don't just be allowing people to
• 1:56:50
  clap for you and say ah, you are a powerful man of God.
• 1:56:52
  You are joking. You are just two years in
• 1:56:54
  ministry and you are bragging. You don't know the challenges
• 1:56:57
  and and the mountains. Even those who are standing,
• 1:57:02
  they were shaken. Talk less of you that is already
• 1:57:04
  shaken without a wind. Take away that pride and sit
• 1:57:08
  down and say Lord, what is the formula you are giving me?
• 1:57:13
  There is a. Covenant I have with God.
• 1:57:16
  It is impossible for me to lack what to preach on Sunday.
• 1:57:21
  It's not just because of study, I tell you this.
• 1:57:26
  It is a covenant with God. There are things I do with.
• 1:57:29
  God, what He wants the people to hear on Sunday must be there on
• 1:57:34
  time. If you think it is easy, go and
• 1:57:37
  be preparing 6 messages every week.
• 1:57:41
  You will be tired. One day you will preach
• 1:57:43
  everything you know and you'll be tired, but not when you're
• 1:57:47
  standing on this. I have a covenant with God.
• 1:57:51
  Provided I am standing doing ministry, I will never ever
• 1:57:55
  break down. Maybe when I'm done I can sit
• 1:57:59
  down and rest, but when that anointing is on me I can stand
• 1:58:03
  and preach till the next day. If I were pretending this bar.
• 1:58:08
  I would have died by now, believe.
• 1:58:10
  Me when you see extraordinary. Results.
• 1:58:15
  I'm teaching you something. There is a covenant with God
• 1:58:19
  that this ministry will never beg and never borrow till Jesus
• 1:58:24
  comes. This is not about prosperity.
• 1:58:28
  Oh, this? No, no, no, no, no.
• 1:58:29
  No, no, no, no. Is someone learning in one
• 1:58:37
  minute? I'd like.
• 1:58:38
  You to raise a cry from heaven and say, Father grace upon my
• 1:58:44
  life where? Have I thrown away?
• 1:58:46
  My winning formula, you gave it to me in the secret.
• 1:58:51
  This is what made me a millionaire.
• 1:58:53
  You gave it to me in the secret and I conquered the financial
• 1:58:56
  realm. Right now my world is shaking.
• 1:58:59
  Thou son of David, have mercy on me.
• 1:59:02
  Someone pray. Someone pray.
• 1:59:14
  Someone pray, someone pray sake para cosiata where you have
• 1:59:23
  violated your willing strategy behind the exploits.
• 1:59:29
  Of men in the spirit behind. The exploits of men in Destiny.
• 1:59:34
  There are secrets. There are covenants.
• 1:59:51
  Take a minute. To pray for in Jesus name we
• 2:00:02
  pray, in Jesus name we pray. Never forget this secret if.
• 2:00:10
  You do not want to. Answer the name E Kabod in your
• 2:00:12
  lifetime. Find out the secrets behind
• 2:00:16
  your. Glory and protect.
• 2:00:18
  It sit down #5 Are you ready? I sense that there's going to be
• 2:00:31
  a mighty impartation, I tell you.
• 2:00:34
  God is God is shaking someone from the core of your spirit.
• 2:00:39
  There is a man of God who came here to hear this thing, this
• 2:00:42
  thing I just said. God is telling you, this is it.
• 2:00:44
  I've answered you. I've answered you already.
• 2:00:47
  I've answered you. This is what you left.
• 2:00:50
  And within the glory went. This is it, Leviticus.
• 2:00:57
  Chapter 9 and verse 6 and the Lord.
• 2:00:59
  Said unto Moses, This is the thing which the Lord commanded
• 2:01:04
  that ye should do, and the glory of the Lord shall appear unto
• 2:01:10
  you. You want to see the power of
• 2:01:18
  God? You want to walk in?
• 2:01:20
  Science and wonders. There are things if you do not
• 2:01:24
  understand. It will remain like a.
• 2:01:26
  Movie. This thing is not magic.
• 2:01:29
  Not everybody is fake, no. Hallelujah. #5 Let's hurry up
• 2:01:44
  these two points. There are two points remaining
• 2:01:46
  and please I want you. To pay attention, especially for
• 2:01:49
  those watching online, I want you to listen right now.
• 2:01:53
  If you think the fourth point was powerful, wait till you hear
• 2:01:55
  what I'm about to say #5 The fifth reason why greatness is
• 2:02:02
  short lived and why people's glory turns to shame is called
• 2:02:09
  honor. Dress weaknesses and
• 2:02:12
  vulnerabilities on address weaknesses and vulnerabilities.
• 2:02:18
  If you can't spell it, ask your neighbor on address weaknesses
• 2:02:22
  and vulnerabilities. I will not forget Lord.
• 2:02:35
  Your benefits I will not forget. Lord.
• 2:02:43
  Your benefits, let me not forget.
• 2:02:50
  Your benefits I will not forget. Unaddressed weaknesses and.
• 2:03:05
  Vulnerabilities. Write it and please listen.
• 2:03:09
  If you are a great man here, whether you are a ministry
• 2:03:12
  especially please, I want you to listen to me.
• 2:03:15
  I have something to tell you on address weaknesses.
• 2:03:21
  And. Vulnerabilities.
• 2:03:25
  I preached a message many years ago.
• 2:03:26
  While revivals die. I'm a student of revivals.
• 2:03:30
  I'm a student of awakenings. I have studied revivals across
• 2:03:34
  continents. I have had the honor of meeting
• 2:03:37
  a few people who spearheaded prophetic moves of God, and I
• 2:03:41
  began a study, first for myself and then as a contribution to
• 2:03:46
  the body of Christ. Why do revivals die without
• 2:03:50
  achieving their purpose why do we have mighty moves of God and
• 2:03:55
  then eventually everything goes down and at the end of my
• 2:03:58
  research I found only one reason why revivals die is called the
• 2:04:03
  humanity of men the fact that the vessels that.
• 2:04:08
  Spearhead that revival. Are humans.
• 2:04:11
  It is the reason why the revival dies.
• 2:04:14
  Listen to this. I heard a man.
• 2:04:17
  Of God say this. Years ago that any weakness
• 2:04:20
  unaddressed will eventually destroy you.
• 2:04:26
  It is not weaknesses and. Vulnerabilities that destroy
• 2:04:29
  men. It is weaknesses and
• 2:04:32
  vulnerabilities that are unaddressed.
• 2:04:37
  Hallelujah. Can I tell you the truth?
• 2:04:40
  Every man born of a woman has weaknesses and vulnerabilities.
• 2:04:46
  Vulnerabilities means there are things you are easily given to,
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  and it does not necessarily have to be sinful, it's just that it
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  can be used against you. Are we together?
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  Yes, there are many many. People their own.
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  Vulnerability is lost now. It has nothing to do with
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  whether you are good. Or.
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  Bad lost women. Men.
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  Or both. Lost there are people who.
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  Don't have that weakness. But money they can pray in
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  tongues from morning till night, but let them hear the sound of
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  money, and the old man has come alive.
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  You will thank me for what you. Are hearing there are people
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  their weakness is anger and offence.
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  If the devil wants to destroy them.
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  One thing triggers anger and offense.
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  They can boil even as men of God.
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  They can boil even as whatever it is, and as I'm praying, any
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  spirit of anger here that has trapped anyone's life, in the
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  name of Jesus, I command that spirit to leave you now.
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  Sheke Parukatasiata. I call that spirit by.
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  Name. And I command it to leave you.
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  Now listen. Our miracle service has started.
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  Oh, this one is is not till next week again.
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  Sit down. Listen.
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  There are people. Their weakness is an increase.
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  What did I write here? Their weakness is an obsession
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  for recognition is a weakness. An obsession.
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  Even if it's a devil that calls their name and ushers them, they
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  are happy is a weakness. Listen to me.
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  Do you know how the spirit of. Seduction works.
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  The character of seduction is that that temptation has no
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  power over you until it can connect with something that is
• 2:07:02
  already within you. If Jesus is not hungry, telling
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  him turn these stones to bread would be a useless temptation
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  because if there is nothing within him that can relate to
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  that, are we together now? One of the ways that spirits
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  manipulate men watch this. One of the ways that people
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  become victims of spirits is they are called trigger points
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  in the spirit. So when the devil wants to come
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  into a family, they study the couple or they study the
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  children. What is the weakness that
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  becomes a gateway into this family?
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  If it is lost, they will position a way of entering it.
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  If it's money, they would do something to crush the finances
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  so that in that state of desperation, you see that if
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  it's obsession for recognition, Satan will make the husband to
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  dishonor the wife, the wife to dishonor the husband or the
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  children. All these joining of heads you
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  see in Holmes, he's a devil. Oh, he's only looking for an
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  entrance point. Please listen to me.
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  Weaknesses and. Vulnerabilities don't care.
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  Whether you're a man of God, don't care whether you're a
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  businessman, don't care whether you're a child, don't care
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  whether you are educated. If you become honest with
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  yourself and deal with them, you have found your key to
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  remaining. Hallelujah.
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  Hebrews chapter. 12 and verse 1 weaknesses and vulnerabilities
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  wherefore seeing we also are compass about with so great a
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  cloud of witnesses. Watch this.
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  Let us lay aside every word and the sin that means not
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  everything, that this sin is not the only thing that destroys
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  you. For those who think is only sin,
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  no, there are words, weaknesses, vulnerabilities.
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  There are people because of your obsession.
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  For for money. The devil can program somebody
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  who is very rich but devilish. That's how you see people
• 2:09:14
  destroying the glory of people because they are so they have a
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  weakness. And do you know what weaknesses
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  and vulnerabilities do not necessarily have to bring any
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  profit for you before you pursue them.
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  There are people today who drink, and it's not that it
• 2:09:32
  brings any satisfaction, it's that they just found themselves
• 2:09:35
  bound by it. You don't like what I'm saying?
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  Listen, no weaknesses and vulnerability.
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  Among the many things you must know about yourself is what can
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  bring you down so that it becomes your prayer point.
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  Did you hear what I said? You must find out what can bring
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  you down and start crying before the Lord roll like a madman and
• 2:10:05
  say Lord help me before I destroy my destiny.
• 2:10:10
  There are people today the cancer.
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  That can bring them down. Is offense so every time the
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  devil wants to cause problem he will make them to not be
• 2:10:19
  recognized in a place or create something and they say me me
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  politicians that's how they get into trouble Hallelujah one of
• 2:10:31
  the biggest deception of. Satan is this.
• 2:10:34
  False idea of holiness where people actually believe that
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  because they've not gotten into any trouble, they are free.
• 2:10:42
  Moral trouble, economic trouble, and when it has to do with
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  weakness is bad. Nobody has the right to point
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  hands at everybody. Everybody lies down before God.
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  You would have looked at the young boy, David in that boy was
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  a murderer. Would you have believed that in
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  that fine young man? Ladies, that's the kind of man
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  you would want to marry. Yet if if I told you, you are
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  about to marry a murderer, you will not believe it.
• 2:11:09
  David, for you, just because people have not acted out they
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  are lost does not mean they are free from it.
• 2:11:16
  Somebody who does not my God forbid me.
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  Even if it's one. Billion and they call things
• 2:11:21
  they don't know anything about instead of them to say mercy O
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  God 1 billion, I will not leave Jesus for it.
• 2:11:28
  And then you are not paid salary for three months and by yourself
• 2:11:32
  you start scrolling your phone, you call X everything.
• 2:11:38
  Y everything. Said everything in in search for
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  who will give you money and you will not know when you find
• 2:11:44
  yourself. Lying with a.
• 2:11:46
  Medical condition. Sorry, I just have this.
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  Thing There's one pain I can't explain.
• 2:11:53
  I need 400,000 for the pain. Who is treating you like that?
• 2:11:57
  Send me the money and at the end of it you say, look, anytime you
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  feel you are standing, you are already on your way going down.
• 2:12:06
  The only reason why we stand, I'm telling you, is by the mercy
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  of God. And the earlier you accept this
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  bar, the better for you. There are many arrogant people
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  who have made noise like this to their detriment, and today they
• 2:12:20
  have become a disaster to the nation's vulnerabilities, an
• 2:12:27
  obsession for fame. There are people who.
• 2:12:30
  Love the Lord. Oh but this obsession for fame,
• 2:12:33
  they would do anything to promote themselves to be famous.
• 2:12:39
  It is your assignment to be. Honest with yourself what are
• 2:12:42
  my. Vulnerabilities.
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  Now that there's no money in many places, that's when you
• 2:12:47
  will know people's vulnerabilities.
• 2:12:49
  How do you know vulnerabilities when trouble comes?
• 2:12:54
  There are people who love God, but they can do anything doable.
• 2:12:58
  Let your imagination stretch as far as you think.
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  I'm saying once it will bring money, they're willing to do it.
• 2:13:08
  Hallelujah, praise the name of the Lord.
• 2:13:12
  Are we together for a child to. Arrange to kidnap their parents.
• 2:13:21
  You've heard of people arranging?
• 2:13:23
  To kidnap their own loved. Ones then they join the people
• 2:13:25
  to cry and after they are done crying, you've heard the story
• 2:13:30
  is when they start sharing the money and the team backfires
• 2:13:33
  then eventually someone will say no I didn't take that risk for
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  nothing. It is your responsibility.
• 2:13:41
  Under God, the. Moment you attain the state of
• 2:13:44
  greatness I taught you, there are three groups of people who
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  always come to you. Remember our teaching yesterday,
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  last week, Wicked people. Let's recap.
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  Selfish people and ignorant people.
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  And you must be aware of these people.
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  It is for you to begin to pray, Sataka.
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  Paraka to. Siata, Lord help me in the name
• 2:14:06
  of Jesus. Lord, show me mercy.
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  Many people today have been destroyed perpetually.
• 2:14:13
  Their bishopric has even been taken their.
• 2:14:16
  Relevance has gone. Hallelujah.
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  When I was writing this, writing out all of these things, there
• 2:14:23
  was 11 weakness that stood out and the Lord told me talk about
• 2:14:28
  it. It's called offence.
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  I want you to listen. Offence.
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  Comes with. Growth.
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  And increase. Offence comes with growth and
• 2:14:45
  increase. That means the more you grow,
• 2:14:49
  the more you increase, the higher your chance of being
• 2:14:52
  offended. Hallelujah.
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  With growth and increase comes the awareness of honor.
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  Comes the awareness of shame. Comes the awareness of
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  disappointment. Comes the awareness of
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  embarrassment. There are people who have no
• 2:15:12
  business feeling ashamed or pained except because they have
• 2:15:17
  risen to a point that is now notable.
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  Acts chapter 24 and verse 16. Acts 2416.
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  Give it to us, it says. And hearing.
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  Do I exercise? Myself, is that in your Bible to
• 2:15:35
  have always a conscience void of offense towards God and towards
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  men. It is possible for a man to be
• 2:15:44
  in this state void of offense towards God, void of offense
• 2:15:49
  towards men. There are preachers today hating
• 2:15:53
  one another. There are businessmen today
• 2:15:55
  hating one another. You trace the story, it goes to
• 2:15:59
  offense ego. Ego is such a in fashion today.
• 2:16:04
  It has become an industry. An industry has literally been
• 2:16:08
  built around the ego of great men.
• 2:16:11
  Offense Revelation, Chapter 2. Four and five.
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  No, no. No, James one, my apologies. 19
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  and. 20 James one, let's hurry up. 19 and 20 Wherefore, my
• 2:16:27
  beloved brethren, God is speaking to you.
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  Now let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak.
• 2:16:37
  And slow to. Wrath.
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  Is that in your Bible verse 20? For the wrath.
• 2:16:44
  Of man walketh. Not the.
• 2:16:46
  Righteousness of God, He already told you, no matter how anointed
• 2:16:50
  you are, when you allow this cancer of offense to eat into
• 2:16:54
  your heart, you will be surprised are the many things
• 2:17:00
  that you will do as a result. There are offended preachers,
• 2:17:06
  offended businessmen, offended parents, offended spouses, and
• 2:17:13
  you see, the pain from offense can be so deep you can feel it
• 2:17:17
  physically. You know how you feel like
• 2:17:20
  peptic ulcer or something? You literally feel as if they
• 2:17:23
  are piercing you with a knife. There are people who cannot
• 2:17:26
  sleep. Oh, he did this to me.
• 2:17:28
  She did this to me. Offense.
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  This was the issue between Esau. And Jacob, the offense was so
• 2:17:40
  strong, the brothers of Joseph after they.
• 2:17:44
  Betrayed him if. Joseph was not free of this.
• 2:17:49
  Do you know what he would have done?
• 2:17:50
  He would have probably gathered them 1 by 1 and slaughtered them
• 2:17:54
  1 by 1. Number one for collecting my
• 2:17:57
  coat of many colors, putting me in a well and selling me for 30.
• 2:18:01
  She kills. I will slaughter all of you one
• 2:18:03
  by one. When the brothers discovered
• 2:18:06
  that Joseph that they wanted to kill was now Prime Minister,
• 2:18:10
  they were afraid and he said set the table before them, let them
• 2:18:13
  eat. He said you meant it for evil.
• 2:18:15
  Ah, what's that song? You take what the enemy meant
• 2:18:19
  for evil and turn it for good. Sing it one more.
• 2:18:27
  Time you take what the? Enemy.
• 2:18:30
  You take what the enemy. Hallelujah if you don't repent.
• 2:18:45
  From that they will see mentality, they will see it's
• 2:18:49
  unnecessary. Your destiny is too expensive to
• 2:18:52
  peg yourself with that kind of mundane pursuit.
• 2:18:58
  Are we together offense? You need to find your weakness
• 2:19:09
  and your. Vulnerability and obtain grace
• 2:19:13
  to deal with it there are preachers when.
• 2:19:17
  They get angry. They come box physically.
• 2:19:22
  I'm not talking of reporting to police by.
• 2:19:25
  Themselves. They will box you and beat you.
• 2:19:29
  What happened? You call him Joshua Selman
• 2:19:32
  instead of Apostle Joshua Selman.
• 2:19:35
  That's what warranted that, that that boxing.
• 2:19:40
  Hallelujah. There are men if they are.
• 2:19:43
  If their wife say. Honey, you say you are stupid.
• 2:19:47
  Honey better call me by my name. Call me daddy.
• 2:19:55
  It's not for me to dictate what you should do in your home, but
• 2:19:58
  it's unfortunate, easy things that bring offense.
• 2:20:03
  Can I tell you the truth if you know?
• 2:20:06
  God you will not. Keep men in your heart if you
• 2:20:10
  know God BA. You will not keep men in your
• 2:20:13
  heart. Now don't think to be free from
• 2:20:15
  offense. It's just something you just
• 2:20:16
  laugh like that. There are people who have been
• 2:20:18
  wounded and that wound is so deep it will not jump out
• 2:20:21
  overnight. But this is where the Holy
• 2:20:23
  Spirit comes. He brings to your life that balm
• 2:20:27
  in Gilead, and with that balm, healing comes.
• 2:20:33
  With that balm, healing comes. Is someone learning?
• 2:20:42
  Can I tell you? When I see.
• 2:20:46
  Young. Men in ministry talking.
• 2:20:47
  About fathers and talking about other people and shouting and
• 2:20:51
  carrying a false sense of holiness.
• 2:20:53
  Sometimes I just lay my hand on my chest and I pray sincere
• 2:20:57
  prayer for them. I say, oh God, please help these
• 2:21:00
  people. You've never held 1,000,000,
• 2:21:05
  never held 10 naira and you are shouting, making stupid noise
• 2:21:10
  and there are people they have not.
• 2:21:12
  There are certain circles. If God brings you into you have
• 2:21:15
  to go back and go and pray. Pray of repentance in case most
• 2:21:21
  people have no. Idea what honor can do.
• 2:21:25
  Most people have no idea what liftings can.
• 2:21:27
  Do, I told. You last week.
• 2:21:30
  That is the reason why you see, the older people get, the less
• 2:21:34
  noisier they become. They just keep quiet.
• 2:21:37
  Ah, this thing, this man did this.
• 2:21:41
  I will. Kill him more and the elderly
• 2:21:42
  man. Just says instead of you to
• 2:21:45
  discern what he's saying, you are there.
• 2:21:47
  Shouting. As a young man.
• 2:21:52
  Hallelujah. Discern your.
• 2:21:55
  Vulnerabilities. Discern your weaknesses.
• 2:22:00
  There are people who cannot see women.
• 2:22:04
  There are people who cannot see men.
• 2:22:07
  There are people who cannot see pleasure.
• 2:22:09
  Once they see a nice. Car.
• 2:22:11
  Something in them starts shaking.
• 2:22:13
  Who is the owner of this car? I must know the person.
• 2:22:19
  Nice house there. Are people who are almost
• 2:22:22
  getting arrested right now because they can go and lie down
• 2:22:24
  somebody's car just because they want to claim it?
• 2:22:27
  It's not just your desire to have it.
• 2:22:29
  Sometimes it is lost. Are we together?
• 2:22:35
  Most times offense. Comes when expectations are.
• 2:22:38
  Disappointed. Sometimes offense comes when
• 2:22:41
  you're lost, is not actualized. Please listen to me, Koinonia.
• 2:22:48
  You are hearing this preacher talk to you.
• 2:22:50
  Because I want you to last. I do not want anybody to receive
• 2:22:54
  that statement, Ichabod. In their lives.
• 2:22:58
  You must obtain grace. Find out what your.
• 2:23:01
  Vulnerabilities are pray, flog it and create systems by grace
• 2:23:07
  to protect yourself. There are others.
• 2:23:11
  Your weakness is food. It sounds funny, Food gluttony.
• 2:23:20
  Except you don't see food. You will.
• 2:23:22
  Misbehave. No matter what you are wearing
• 2:23:25
  once food comes around you. Lose your your.
• 2:23:29
  Your dignity lose your decorum and you will fight.
• 2:23:33
  You are sweating trying to make sure you get 1 and get another
• 2:23:36
  one or the remaining the juice and you you become disoriented
• 2:23:41
  in the presence of food you can. Collect food from children and
• 2:23:47
  you are laughing while you are eating their.
• 2:23:49
  Food. It's lost Gluttony.
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  Are we learning? Lay your hands on your head.
• 2:24:03
  Don't pray. Yet just lay your hands on.
• 2:24:05
  Your head. I want you to think in one
• 2:24:08
  minute. What is that one?
• 2:24:10
  Thing if you were Satan, what will you use to bring you down?
• 2:24:15
  Start praying over it now. What is that one thing?
• 2:24:18
  Please pray sincerely. If you were Satan, what is that
• 2:24:22
  one thing you would use to bring you down?
• 2:24:25
  Be very honest and talk to the Lord Shabalaka Tosa Prende
• 2:24:29
  Quebeleco Theatre. Lay your hands on your head and
• 2:24:33
  cry, thou son. Of David.
• 2:24:35
  Have mercy upon me. Have mercy upon me, have mercy
• 2:24:40
  upon me. I was broke the other day, you
• 2:24:43
  may say. I found myself trying to arrange
• 2:24:46
  a preacher to come and preach and manipulate members and raise
• 2:24:49
  money for me because I need to pay my rent.
• 2:24:52
  This issue of finances, Lord help me before it tears me into
• 2:24:56
  pieces. Go ahead and pray.
• 2:24:59
  Nothing to be. Ashamed of this is church.
• 2:25:05
  For some. Of you, your weakness is lying
• 2:25:07
  once you open. Your mouth. 80% of what you are
• 2:25:11
  saying is not the truth. Even if you swear by the name of
• 2:25:15
  the Lord you are still lying. Pray and say Lord help me, I've
• 2:25:18
  trained myself and my destiny. Lying on stage as a preacher in
• 2:25:22
  the name of Jesus. Exaggerating things and telling
• 2:25:26
  lies for some is pride full of ourselves.
• 2:25:31
  Please go ahead and pray. Don't feel condemned but pray.
• 2:25:39
  There are people today because of money and titles, they are 50
• 2:25:44
  years, but they have said they are 35 years because they must
• 2:25:47
  get it by force. People have forged.
• 2:25:52
  Documents today forged all kinds.
• 2:25:55
  Of including Christians simply because they are looking for
• 2:25:58
  opportunities. Oh ladies and gentlemen, lift
• 2:26:01
  your voice and pray. Ask God to show mercy.
• 2:26:06
  Honeymoon like a paroski atabah. Was that your Rest on Me song
• 2:26:13
  again? Find.
• 2:26:16
  A comfortable key and sing that rest on me song again.
• 2:26:20
  Please pray for one minute. Rest on me, Rest on me oh.
• 2:26:46
  Rest on me, oh, Rest on me, oh. Rest on me.
• 2:26:59
  Holy Spirit, rest on ye. Hallelujah, listen to me, hear
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  me. The thing with weakness, even if
• 2:27:14
  it is one more year left for you on Earth, you can rubbish
• 2:27:18
  everything good you have done simply because you did not
• 2:27:22
  address this, seeing that we're surrounded by so.
• 2:27:27
  Great, a cloud of. Witnesses, it says, let us lay
• 2:27:31
  aside every weight and the sin that don't easily beset us, and
• 2:27:35
  to run with perseverance. Give yourself an assignment if
• 2:27:41
  you need. To take a day off.
• 2:27:42
  To cry before God, go and cry before God.
• 2:27:47
  You can't lie to God. Roll on the ground.
• 2:27:51
  And say, your Majesty, this is me coming before you.
• 2:27:55
  I want to last. Help me.
• 2:27:59
  Hallelujah. Can I give you the last one?
• 2:28:03
  Ichabod obtaining grace to last, what is the?
• 2:28:11
  6th and final reason. Why many?
• 2:28:17
  Many people. Have their greatness short
• 2:28:20
  lived. Are you ready?
• 2:28:22
  Loss of passion and fire for God.
• 2:28:29
  Loss of passion and fire for God.
• 2:28:35
  This is the final and the greatest reason why people have
• 2:28:42
  their greatness short lived. It may not necessarily be
• 2:28:46
  anything wrong as far as whatever they're engaging is
• 2:28:50
  concerned. The problem can be that it is
• 2:28:52
  the secret place that is wrong. Ministry is still right.
• 2:28:57
  Everything is happening right. Business is still right.
• 2:29:01
  Everything is happening right. Boy, you have stopped getting
• 2:29:03
  the result. You are preaching with the fire
• 2:29:06
  you preached yesterday, but the impact is no longer the same.
• 2:29:09
  You are singing the songs you used to sing yesterday, but the
• 2:29:12
  impact is no longer the same. You still have the finances you
• 2:29:16
  had yesterday, but the impact is not the same.
• 2:29:19
  There is a problem. Loss of passion and fire for
• 2:29:25
  God. Second Chronicles 26 Five.
• 2:29:28
  Uzziah and he sought God in the days.
• 2:29:32
  Of Zechariah who? Had understanding in the visions
• 2:29:36
  of God. Ladies and gentlemen, my Bible
• 2:29:38
  says as long as he sought the Lord, God made him to prosper.
• 2:29:46
  As long as he sought the Lord. Can I tell you, and I mean this
• 2:29:51
  from the depth of my heart, and I don't say it from a standpoint
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  of pride, I can close this Bible for one year and still not like
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  what to preach. I can rise up from here now.
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  I can jump into. A plane.
• 2:30:07
  I'm preaching a conference back-to-back for the next two
• 2:30:09
  weeks and I'll not like what to say.
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  It is not always about what you are saying, it's about who you
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  are loving. Sometimes what you are saying
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  may not change, but because there is a disconnect between
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  your love life and that of Jesus, what you are saying may
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  be right, but the impact is no longer right.
• 2:30:30
  Is someone learning? There are many.
• 2:30:33
  Pastors that stop walking with God and they are only working
• 2:30:38
  for God, Walking for God. Revelations.
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  Chapter 2. Four and five.
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  Loss of passion and fire. Nevertheless, speaking about the
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  church in Ephesus, I have somewhat against thee, because
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  thou has left thy first love. What is his recommendation?
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  Remember, therefore, from whence thou had fallen, and repent and
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  do the first works, or else I will come unto thee quickly.
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  Watch this, and will remove thy Candlestick out of his place,
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  except thou repent. Hallelujah.
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  Can I tell you this? The secret of any man who has
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  remained in this work, this business of thy Kingdom, come
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  beyond everything they do, beyond the skill, the talent, is
• 2:31:35
  their love for Jesus, their genuine, passionate love for
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  Jesus. I had a busy schedule all
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  through last. Week and when I returned.
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  Thank God for many of you and I appreciate your love and
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  concern. You know, sending text messages
• 2:31:51
  and saying, apostle, how do you rest?
• 2:31:53
  You know this and that and that. And as much as I appreciate it,
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  I have made a covenant with God around my life.
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  I am motivated by my love for Jesus.
• 2:32:05
  I don't have to do the things I do on Wednesday.
• 2:32:08
  Now I'm in Lagos with Persona at the Oasis conference Wednesday,
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  Thursday, from there I head to Asaba, Friday, Saturday again,
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  then I'm back on Sunday. Me for you love, say love.
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  There are things only love can make you do.
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  There is a level of growth is no longer about money, it's no
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  longer about fame. All those points have been
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  proven. The only thing that motivates
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  you to continue when every point and every statement has been
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  made is your love. I'd rather die loving him.
• 2:32:44
  Than to live without. Him it is true.
• 2:32:49
  Hallelujah, you want. To know the secret behind the.
• 2:32:53
  Jealousy of God upon the lives of many great people.
• 2:32:56
  Find out their love for Jesus translated in their service.
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  Translated in their. Giving translated in their
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  living for him, love for Jesus. I will spend my life and be
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  spent for Him because I truly love him.
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  I'm not just serving him. No, if He gives me an
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  instruction today to close Koinonia and stop ministry, I
• 2:33:22
  will ask the media to do a video for me before the whole world.
• 2:33:25
  I will say, oh world, you know how much I've served God and how
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  much I love you people. But right now, the one who was
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  with me when you did not know me has given me an instruction and
• 2:33:36
  that's the end of it. Do you love him that much?
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  The proof that you love him is what you can lay down for him.
• 2:33:47
  Love is not talk. I love you, I love you.
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  Our world has disregarded that statement called love.
• 2:33:53
  When we say love now, it means many things to people to a point
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  that it does not hold any value. Again, can I tell you the real
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  proof of love is what you can lay down, not what you can say
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  greater. Love had no man than.
• 2:34:08
  This than a man laid down. Hallelujah for some of us who
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  have given all. We laid down everything,
• 2:34:20
  everything for him, everything and anything he ever gives us.
• 2:34:27
  He only gave us a stewards. It belongs to him.
• 2:34:30
  It truly belongs to him. The stage belongs to him, The
• 2:34:34
  Mic belongs to him, the people belong to him, The wisdom
• 2:34:38
  belongs to him, The power belongs to him, The influence
• 2:34:42
  belongs to him. Koinonia Global belongs to him.
• 2:34:50
  May nobody in this ministry beginning from me.
• 2:34:54
  Ever take the place of God? Say Amen.
• 2:34:57
  May nobody ever get to a point where we push God out and say I
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  am the one. No, May it not happen in the
• 2:35:08
  name of? Jesus Christ, now listen to.
• 2:35:12
  This every great person who desires to last in today's world
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  must have these three things were wrapping up.
• 2:35:24
  I just thought to add this in my preparing this note it it came
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  strongly to my spirit to just bring this as my concluding
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  words. Every great person who desires
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  to last in today's world must have the following #1 prophetic
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  intercessors who hold you up in prayer.
• 2:35:50
  If you want to last in this end time, especially in light of the
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  evil that is in our world, you must have prophetic intercessors
• 2:36:00
  who lift you up before God. 2nd Thessalonians 3.
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  One and two. Let's hurry up.
• 2:36:07
  Second. Thessalonians 3 one and two.
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  Finally, brethren, pray for us. We are anointed people, we are
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  apostles, but pray for us that the word of the Lord may have
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  free course and be glorified even as it's with you, verse 2,
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  and that we may be delivered from all reasonable and wicked
• 2:36:31
  men. Why?
• 2:36:32
  For all men have not faith. Pray for us first.
• 2:36:38
  Peter chapter 5 and verse 8 says be sober.
• 2:36:41
  It says be vigilant because your adversary, the devil, as a
• 2:36:46
  roaring lion, walketh about seeking whom he may devour.
• 2:36:51
  Ladies and gentlemen, there is a project in the Kingdom of
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  darkness that is only for great men.
• 2:36:58
  Did you hear what I said? There is a project in the
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  Kingdom of darkness for all men, but there is a project in the
• 2:37:05
  Kingdom of darkness. Once you are not great, you have
• 2:37:09
  not attained a level of greatness in destiny or in the
• 2:37:13
  spirit. Those spirits have no business
• 2:37:15
  looking for you. It's like a monitor system in
• 2:37:18
  the spirit. The moment you hit a certain
• 2:37:22
  threshold of greatness and Kingdom influence, certain
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  weapons are fashioned against you.
• 2:37:30
  At that point, it is not enough to know how to.
• 2:37:32
  Pray for yourself. You must have an army of people
• 2:37:36
  and can I tell you any great man you love, great preacher, great
• 2:37:40
  businessman. The greatest way to show them
• 2:37:43
  love is not just giving money. The greatest way to show them
• 2:37:47
  love is to lift them before God. When people tell me they are
• 2:37:52
  praying for me, I know some are just talking, but when I I know
• 2:37:55
  understand that some mean what they're saying, I appreciate it
• 2:38:00
  beyond anything. You must have an army of
• 2:38:06
  prophetic intercessors. Who uphold you in?
• 2:38:09
  Prayer #2 You want to survive these last.
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  Days and to be able to. Have longevity of impact.
• 2:38:19
  You must have a system of accountability.
• 2:38:22
  Write it down, please. A system of accountability for
• 2:38:27
  correction, for advice, for counsel, for guidance, and to
• 2:38:35
  speak over you prophetically. You want to last.
• 2:38:39
  You must have a system of accountability for correction,
• 2:38:45
  for advice, for counsel, for guidance, and to speak over you
• 2:38:52
  prophetically. Let me give you an advice.
• 2:38:55
  Never submit to a man you cannot listen to.
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  Never submit to a man. Never submit to persons.
• 2:39:04
  Never submit to any group or any system that you are not
• 2:39:08
  committed to listening to. No, that you cannot take
• 2:39:12
  correction, you cannot take counsel, you cannot humble
• 2:39:16
  yourself to receive prophetic words over.
• 2:39:18
  That is not submission. There are many things people
• 2:39:21
  call submission in the body of Christ today.
• 2:39:24
  It is clear that the Graces have not flown to them.
• 2:39:27
  The Graces have not flowed to them.
• 2:39:29
  Do you know why? Because their hearts are not.
• 2:39:31
  Truly connected. It's just a ritual.
• 2:39:38
  You must have a system of accountability for.
• 2:39:41
  Correction for advice, for counsel, for guidance, for
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  prophetic speakings over your life.
• 2:39:50
  This is a formula. It has never changed.
• 2:39:53
  It will not change. When you see people who rise and
• 2:39:57
  last, it is because there is a system within their life.
• 2:40:02
  This is very powerful. Can I tell you the truth?
• 2:40:05
  The dynamics for excelling in life, it the the, the, the
• 2:40:12
  dynamics, the variables are so many.
• 2:40:15
  You will need assistance at many points.
• 2:40:18
  In your life. When you start, you usually will
• 2:40:22
  start with a lot of. Overconfidence.
• 2:40:24
  I know what to do. I mean, after all people have
• 2:40:26
  recognized me. No, you will need help.
• 2:40:31
  You will need help. You will need help number.
• 2:40:33
  Three to last in. Addition to prophetic.
• 2:40:38
  Intercessors a system of accountability #3 You must have
• 2:40:44
  the gift of godly and faithful friends I want you to listen you
• 2:40:50
  will never truly be able to survive these are prophetic
• 2:40:55
  survival strategies the gift of godly, underlying godly and
• 2:41:01
  underlying faithful 2 words you should never throw away the gift
• 2:41:08
  of godly and faithful friends proverbs 1824 a man that.
• 2:41:17
  Had friends. Must show himself friendly and
• 2:41:21
  there is a friend that's to get closer than a brother.
• 2:41:26
  Can I tell you, please look up. Many of you have been so
• 2:41:30
  wounded, betrayed, injured by friendship.
• 2:41:33
  Once you hear the word Fred, you don't even want to listen to
• 2:41:37
  you. You are full.
• 2:41:38
  Especially if you are a great man.
• 2:41:40
  It's impossible to have become great without the scars of
• 2:41:45
  relationships and the rest. But don't allow the devil
• 2:41:47
  deceive you. Not everyone is a deceiver.
• 2:41:50
  There are godly and there are faithful people.
• 2:41:53
  Say Amen that your assignment is to ask God to help you find
• 2:41:59
  them. If you find them using your
• 2:42:01
  mind, you will keep making mistakes.
• 2:42:03
  Only God can bring good people to your life.
• 2:42:07
  Are we together faithful and godly people?
• 2:42:11
  Ecclesiastes, 49 to 12:00. Many great.
• 2:42:17
  People are very lonely. It is very.
• 2:42:20
  Lonely at the top is the reason why, with all due respect, you
• 2:42:24
  see many great people doing crazy things.
• 2:42:27
  They are on drugs, they take drugs, they take all kinds of.
• 2:42:31
  Things because of. Sheer loneliness.
• 2:42:35
  They are at a point where everybody is celebrating them.
• 2:42:37
  They have all the money, they have all the fame, they have
• 2:42:41
  everything, but they don't trust anybody.
• 2:42:44
  They don't trust anybody. And so you.
• 2:42:47
  See that their best friend? Is their cat or their best
• 2:42:51
  friend is is their rabbit or whatever it is.
• 2:42:53
  Whatever, they keep it there and they can even wield their
• 2:42:57
  inheritance to the rabbit because in their mind is more
• 2:43:00
  trusted if you do not have. Excuse me if you do not.
• 2:43:07
  Have good people in your life, believe me you are in trouble.
• 2:43:11
  Don't just celebrate money in your account, you must pray and
• 2:43:14
  say God in my lifetime, give me the opportunity of tasting of a
• 2:43:19
  godly, the gift of a godly and a faithful friend.
• 2:43:24
  Ecclesiastes 4/2 are better than one because they have a good
• 2:43:29
  reward for their label 10 for if they fall, watch this one will
• 2:43:34
  lift up his fellow. That is the the purpose of godly
• 2:43:38
  people to help you. These are people you can cry to.
• 2:43:45
  You know, I've always, I've always given.
• 2:43:47
  You this charge. Is there someone in your life
• 2:43:50
  today who can pay any price to see that you love?
• 2:43:57
  Is there someone in your life today?
• 2:43:59
  That if you call the person. And say, listen, I'm about to be
• 2:44:02
  taken to the police station. The person who said where are
• 2:44:04
  you? I'm coming with you.
• 2:44:06
  Not anyway. Keep me posted.
• 2:44:09
  If they do arrest you, I will find out.
• 2:44:10
  If I call you and it's not you don't pick.
• 2:44:13
  I know you are in prison. I will be praying, can I tell
• 2:44:19
  you? You have met people.
• 2:44:23
  Who broke your? Heart but.
• 2:44:25
  Don't conclude on that. There are people who will stand
• 2:44:28
  with you. There are people who will cry
• 2:44:31
  with you. Some of you have already been
• 2:44:33
  fortunate to find those people. Can I advise you swallow your
• 2:44:36
  pride and keep them. Don't ever open your mouth and
• 2:44:40
  say I don't need you there. You say sorry, lay down, swallow
• 2:44:43
  your pride and keep them because when you find godly and faithful
• 2:44:47
  friends, they are like gold. Don't throw it away.
• 2:44:50
  You may not find it again in your lifetime, believe me.
• 2:44:55
  Believe me, great people. Are lonely at the top.
• 2:45:02
  Because they do not have anybody to talk to.
• 2:45:04
  They are afraid of talking to everybody.
• 2:45:06
  Because they are billionaires, they don't know who.
• 2:45:09
  And you see, because we are beings of expression, we are
• 2:45:13
  beings of emotion. One of the way they punish
• 2:45:17
  prisoners, some of the worlds, you know, most notorious
• 2:45:21
  prisoners is to take them to a place where they incarcerate
• 2:45:25
  them. And they have no they are not in
• 2:45:28
  touch with anybody. Imagine being in a place you
• 2:45:31
  don't know whether it's morning, you don't know whether it's
• 2:45:33
  night. You don't see trees, you don't
• 2:45:36
  see plants, you don't see seas, you don't see nobody.
• 2:45:39
  You are left alone. And those bold people who can
• 2:45:42
  kill people, they begin to cry after days and weeks like
• 2:45:46
  children, because nobody was designed to stay in isolation.
• 2:45:52
  Some of you today are giving up quality relationships because
• 2:45:55
  you are looking for money quality relationships.
• 2:45:58
  God brought the gift of faithful people to your life, but you are
• 2:46:02
  throwing them away because the only person you are looking for
• 2:46:06
  is the person who can solve your problem.
• 2:46:08
  You will rise to the top and find out that it's a lonely
• 2:46:11
  place full of deceivers. The top is full of interest.
• 2:46:15
  Everybody there is looking for something or trying to protect
• 2:46:19
  something. There are few people in your
• 2:46:21
  life who will love you as you are.
• 2:46:23
  They will see your nonsense and still love you the way you are.
• 2:46:27
  When you find such people, share this advice coming from someone
• 2:46:31
  who loves you. Protect them.
• 2:46:33
  Swallow your pride and protect them at all cost.
• 2:46:38
  There are people today who can carry their.
• 2:46:40
  Salary and give you. And say, if this will bring joy
• 2:46:43
  to your face, I will do it. There are people today who will
• 2:46:47
  sit down and cry with you as a preacher.
• 2:46:50
  There are people today who want to know how is the man doing?
• 2:46:54
  Not the man of God. How is the man doing?
• 2:46:57
  I know the man of God is doing well, but how is the man doing?
• 2:47:02
  Our world is full of people who just want to take.
• 2:47:05
  Most people. When they come to great men,
• 2:47:08
  they take in how Sir, we say ale, Baku musamu, have you heard
• 2:47:13
  those kind of things? They come to you wanting to pray
• 2:47:17
  on everything they can find. May God give you so that you'll
• 2:47:20
  get from it too. So most great people are.
• 2:47:24
  Already wounded, they suspect. Everybody, the moment you come
• 2:47:28
  and say good afternoon, Sir, what are you looking for?
• 2:47:31
  It is strange to them to care for them to the point that
• 2:47:35
  they're not even interested. Why are you here?
• 2:47:39
  That my rent again? I take go.
• 2:47:41
  I knew that's why you came. Why else are you here?
• 2:47:44
  Oh, demons have been oppressing me.
• 2:47:45
  OK, Father. Let the demons go away with all
• 2:47:51
  due. Respect to him of blessed memory
• 2:47:54
  the. Man called A A Allen.
• 2:47:57
  I will not say much because I'm speaking on air.
• 2:48:00
  The latter part of his life there were certain things that
• 2:48:04
  were not the best expression of finishing strong, and that
• 2:48:07
  happened in his life Credited to loneliness.
• 2:48:12
  Great people can be lonely. It is it is very lonely at.
• 2:48:17
  The top I tell you. Is the reason why you find out
• 2:48:21
  that great men can become so silly.
• 2:48:24
  Little children can become their best friends.
• 2:48:26
  They throw away people. They can leave somebody to be
• 2:48:29
  waiting for hours wanting to see the CEO and the man is playing
• 2:48:33
  with his grandson and laughing and you're wondering what is
• 2:48:36
  this grandson doing to this man? It is because there there was
• 2:48:40
  always a child in him. He caged that child to become a
• 2:48:44
  champion and now that he's a champion, that child is still
• 2:48:47
  crying for expression. Unfortunately, everybody there
• 2:48:50
  is looking for a great man. There's nobody to relate with
• 2:48:53
  the child. So when he finds a child like
• 2:48:56
  him, he can now sit on the ground and now play.
• 2:49:00
  You watch some of these guys in the Middle East, watch how most
• 2:49:04
  of them spend their money. They climb camels and they run
• 2:49:07
  around and return back with dust in their body.
• 2:49:10
  These are millionaires and billionaires, and you're saying
• 2:49:12
  this is all you do with your money to play around with camels
• 2:49:15
  and animals? No, there was something they
• 2:49:18
  gave up to be great. And now, when they became great,
• 2:49:21
  since they could not find solace in men, they resort to animals
• 2:49:27
  among the many. Things that becomes a blessing
• 2:49:31
  to. You ladies and gentlemen, is the
• 2:49:33
  gift of good people. There are people today who would
• 2:49:37
  not have died if they had good people in their life.
• 2:49:40
  Someone to pray with you, someone to cry with you.
• 2:49:44
  The person can say I don't have all the money but this 1-2 bar
• 2:49:48
  of yam I have, let's eat it together and give God thanks.
• 2:49:52
  I am telling you again, you may not have too many of these
• 2:49:55
  people in your life, but if one ever comes around your life,
• 2:49:59
  look for a psychological treasure chest and puts them
• 2:50:03
  inside and protect them. Throw away your pride and
• 2:50:07
  protect them. Are we learning like?
• 2:50:16
  I said yesterday, there are some of you.
• 2:50:17
  Who are too innocent to understand what I'm saying.
• 2:50:20
  You will make reference to this message by next year when
• 2:50:23
  certain results would have manifested in your life.
• 2:50:26
  You will sit down in your office and be crying alone and clean
• 2:50:29
  your tears when your workers want to enter.
• 2:50:32
  Sir, just to tell you the mail has come and at a point you want
• 2:50:35
  to say go away, let the money go away.
• 2:50:38
  Have you ever wondered why wealthy people hang themselves?
• 2:50:42
  Does it make sense at least the person would have given you the
• 2:50:45
  money bar before dying. How does someone who have
• 2:50:50
  everything? In his life made.
• 2:50:52
  One day you will see them write a letter and just hang
• 2:50:56
  themselves and die. What were they looking for that
• 2:50:59
  money could not give them? What were they looking for that
• 2:51:02
  fame could not give them? Even in the secular, there are
• 2:51:06
  celebrities today who are struggling with mental health
• 2:51:09
  and depression. They have everything life can
• 2:51:13
  offer. Their homes are littered with
• 2:51:15
  awards. Many of them get into drugs.
• 2:51:19
  They get into all kinds of unfathomable practices.
• 2:51:24
  Because of that cry for expression.
• 2:51:27
  I'm praying for you. I'm praying for you, Koinonia.
• 2:51:31
  I'm praying for you that if there is anyone here you do not
• 2:51:36
  have a sincere person, you can. Call a friend.
• 2:51:39
  I'm praying for you. I don't know how God will do it
• 2:51:42
  all, but I'm praying for one preacher.
• 2:51:45
  I'm praying for one mother. I'm praying for one businessman.
• 2:51:49
  I'm praying for someone who has been wounded from childhood till
• 2:51:53
  adulthood. May my God, beginning from
• 2:51:56
  tonight, may my God bring good people to your life for.
• 2:52:03
  Someone watching from America, you're watching from from.
• 2:52:07
  Europe, you're watching from across Africa you are saying,
• 2:52:10
  Apostle, you just spoke about me.
• 2:52:12
  I need the gift of good people. May my God answer your prayer.
• 2:52:20
  And for some of you who based on carelessness, you threw.
• 2:52:24
  Away some of the best gifts God gave you.
• 2:52:27
  I'm praying. I'm praying for you again.
• 2:52:30
  Some of you threw away God carried treasures and gave you,
• 2:52:36
  but you threw them away good friends, good people.
• 2:52:40
  Some of them it was even your parents, some of them it was
• 2:52:44
  even your spouse. And today they are no more and
• 2:52:47
  you are living in regrets saying if I knew how important this
• 2:52:51
  person was, they loved you. Whether.
• 2:52:56
  You had money or not they believed in.
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  You, whether you were famous or not, these are people who can
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  come and enter the prison and say go out, I will stay.
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  I am telling you again, if God ever brings such people to your
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  life, please open your eyes, receive them with sincerity, and
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  let them know I've taught you how to maintain relationships.
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  If you cannot contribute value, contribute gratitude.
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  If you cannot contribute value, contribute gratitude.
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  Hallelujah there. Are great people here listening?
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  To me they. Know what I'm saying?
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  When you are up there, it is a lonely path.
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  You can be married and still be lonely.
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  There are things, with all due respect, that even your spouse
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  will not understand. It's a peculiar situation that
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  is based on where God has kept you.
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  You will need the gift of friends.
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  Most of us have money. Money cannot talk.
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  Money cannot say I love you. Money cannot say I'm praying for
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  you. Money cannot say I will be there
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  with you. Jesus said there is a friend
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  that stick it. I mean now the Bible says there
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  is a friend that stick it closer than your brother.
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  And let me give this one counsel and then we pray never be the
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  reason for somebody else's pain. That is not a ministry God gave
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  anybody. Did you hear what I said?
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  Never be the reason for anybody's pain.
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  Do not be the reason for the downfall of any man of God.
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  Do not be the reason for the crying of anybody.
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  It is a wicked way to live. Don't be the reason why a family
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  is in tears and pain. Don't be the reason why you join
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  the heads of two friends and stand behind and laugh.
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  No, we are called to be binders. We are called to be peacemakers.
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  There are people who are in church.
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  The problems in many churches ferment from gossip and the bad
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  ministry of people. There are people when they show
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  up anywhere, it is trouble. Did you hear what this one said?
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  Did you hear what? In this company, Huh.
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  Look, I know that I'm the one who knows.
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  Be careful because you are bringing a course on yourself
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  there. Are people today who are the
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  reason behind the trouble of. Spouses, Oh, have you had this?
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  I had your husband said this. I had your wife said this.
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  They join their heads and they stand and they're smiling.
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  There are people today who are the reason behind the pain of
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  good friends. There are people today who are
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  the reasons why preachers cannot see eyeball to eyeball.
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  They come here, they say yes, Sir.
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  They get information here. They go there and say yes, Sir.
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  They give information. You see, there is God is a God
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  of justice and judgment. Oh, you, I hear that.
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  You. Want to help this lady please.
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  So let me give. You an advice this lady don't
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  help this lady. Oh, I know that her mother is a
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  widow, but we heard that this lady used to be a bad girl
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  before. But have you found out whether
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  she has repented? And the man says, really?
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  Ah, that's it. She comes by the next day and
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  comes with the same friend gossiping about her.
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  And the man says go away. And the friend said don't worry,
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  all things work together. I pray for you, if there is
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  anyone in your life who is causing you pain and then
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  standing by you, May God take them out of your life.
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  May my God take them out of your life.
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  Take deceivers out of your life. Take Wicked.
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  People out of your life. When the glory departs from.
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  Men it is because of this pride. When the glory departs from men,
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  it is because of this an arrival mentality.
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  When the glory. Departs from men.
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  It is because of distractions and compromises, not staying in
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  your area of grace, being a busy body everywhere and not
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  protecting your focus and your call.
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  When the glory departs from men, it is because they have violated
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  their covenant, their winning strategy with God, what God gave
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  them, all the secrets that were behind the mysterious results,
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  complacency or anything in between made them to compromise
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  on it #5 When the glory departs from men, it is because of their
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  weaknesses and vulnerabilities. They shrugged it away and
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  carried a false sense of holiness and just felt I am all
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  right just because you are not in trouble yet.
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  Number six. The greatest of all?
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  Reasons when the glory. Departs from men.
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  It is because their passion and their fire for God.
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  Even if you are a preacher, you can write books on fire and not
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  have fire. You can hold conferences on fire
• 2:58:14
  and not have fire. Just because your message had
• 2:58:18
  fire yesterday does not mean it has fire now.
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  Rise upon your feet, King of my life.
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  You are my home and I leave. My weed is yours, You're the
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  king of my life. My heart is yours.
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  My mind is yours, My weed is yours.
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  You're the king of my life. Hallelujah.
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  One prayer for yourself, then I speak.
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  Over you, Lord. The name Ichabod will never be
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  used in my life. Go ahead and pray.
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  The name Ichabod. The name Ichabod, it will never
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  be said he was once a great man of God but has been destroyed
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  now. It will never be said she was
• 3:00:05
  once a vibrant woman of fire, someone pray.
• 3:00:10
  It will never be said he was once a great man.
• 3:00:14
  It will never be said Koinonia was once a cotton edge ministry
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  desired by nations. Someone pray.
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  This is the last spiritual. Vaccination you are receiving.
• 3:00:33
  Sabala. Bash calabrende que baracosiata.
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  Grace to last. Grace to last preacher.
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  Pray Grace to last in ministry. In Jesus name we pray in Jesus.
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  Name we pray. Let me make the altar.
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  Call now. The greatest?
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  Way to live a life of meaning and to last is your passion for
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  Jesus. You are in this place, and
• 3:01:10
  whilst you heard me speak, the Holy Ghost told you that you
• 3:01:14
  need to restore. Your relationship.
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  Or you need to make it right with Jesus the first time.
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  Now, like I will always say you have a choice.
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  You can throw away this message and say I don't care.
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  We will respect you, but I hope your destiny will be able to
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  respect your indecision for Jesus.
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  But for as many who want to make it right, right now, I want to
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  make this call one to five. We're out of time.
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  I want you to run wherever you are and come and stand right in
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  front of me or across the balcony here within this room.
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  Don't be silent and don't wait until someone else comes.
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  I count one to five. Run to Jesus.
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  He's able to give you a new beginning, one colonia.
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  Celebrate them as they come. You will never be.
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  The Saint you've. Touched this grace, your life is
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  changed. You will never be the.
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  Saint. You've touched this grace.
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  Your life is change. Come three.
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  You will never be the same. If you're coming, please hurry
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  up so we finish. You will never be the same.
• 3:02:54
  If you're joining them, please come quickly all the overflows
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  you can. Move to your screens, your
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  projector stand and just remain there.
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  And for those who are online, I want you to join.
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  You're making Jesus Lord of your life.
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  It doesn't matter how long things have been, God is able to
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  give you a new beginning. Now please may I request that
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  you lift your right hand high above your head.
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  Say this after me. Lord Jesus, you're joining them.
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  Please come very quickly. I see someone running.
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  Say, Lord Jesus, tonight I desire you above anything else,
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  and above everything else I declare that Jesus is Lord.
• 3:03:36
  Of my life. My Savior and my King, I declare
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  that the power of sin, Satan, hell and the grave is broken
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  over my life from tonight. I am a child of God.
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  I go for whatever and back whatever.
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  Amen. Keep your hands lifted, blessed
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  Father. Thank you for this precious
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  ones. I'm praying in the name of Jesus
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  that based on the authority of scripture and upon your
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  confession, let the power of sin, Satan, hell and the grave
• 3:04:15
  be broken over your life. I just saw the anointing coming
• 3:04:19
  on one personnel. In the name of Jesus, I decree
• 3:04:22
  and declare you are free. Every spirit that has held you
• 3:04:25
  down, I call it by name and I curse it by the God of heaven in
• 3:04:29
  the name of Jesus Christ. I release you right now from
• 3:04:33
  every stumbling block, everything that ties you down,
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  and I launch you into a season of victory.
• 3:04:39
  You go for whatever and backward never, Amen and Amen in Jesus
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  name. Let's celebrate them now,
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  please, all of you, just look to my right.
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  You will see a group of counselors waiting to receive
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  you. They'll have a word with you
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  very quickly and you'll be back to your seat.
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  Let's honor them in the name of Jesus.
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  Thank you very much. It's been quite a stretch
• 3:05:02
  tonight. Please allow me a minute to make
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  the following very important announcements and then we're
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  done to let you know that next week will be our final miracle
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  service for 2023. So it's going to be an
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  extraordinary time in this place.
• 3:05:21
  Not the final service, the final miracle service.
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  We don't do miracle service in December because we're on break
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  so that people can rest, have their retreats, have their time
• 3:05:31
  with family and friends. So our final miracle service to
• 3:05:36
  wrap up this year's series of miracle services will be next
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  week Sunday. Make sure you invite everyone
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  within this town and all who are coming in from across other
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  regions and other nations. You're most welcome.
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  Hallelujah. And then the Media Department.
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  The Media and Productions Department is now open for new
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  members. All those who are interested and
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  want to become part of our Media and Productions Department,
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  please send an application to media@koinoniaglobal.org.
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  They are particularly looking for competent people in the area
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  of visual mixing, video editing, good writing skills,
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  videography, photography, graphic designs, projection,
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  then broadcast and production. I'm told that it ends on Sunday
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  26th November, so please take advantage of the time and then
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  all other departments that we announced earlier on.
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  I don't know if their doors are closed, but you can go to the PR
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  desk after the Grace and find out.
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  Get more information. Hallelujah.
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  Remember to come with your prayer request next week and
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  then also come with the request of your loved ones.
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  Hallelujah. Then by the privilege of God's
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  grace, I want to listen, please, by the privilege of God's grace,
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  we're going to be fasting on Saturday.
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  Everybody, as a global family, we're waiting upon the Lord just
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  one day and there's no service. So as much as possible, at least
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  children can fast till 12 or one.
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  Let them fast, they will not die.
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  Children can fast till 12 and then adults stretch it to six or
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  at least from 4. You can break 5.
• 3:07:21
  The prayer request will be projected Friday night slash
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  Saturday morning. Just look to all our social
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  media platforms. The prayer focus will be there.
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  Let's pray and prepare our hearts to come and receive of
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  God and make sure you invite everyone to seek those who are
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  trusting God for miracles. We trust God for a mighty move
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  of His Spirit in the name of Jesus.
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  Have you been blessed tonight? Thank you very much for your
• 3:07:44
  patience. Let's share the grace, the grace
• 3:07:47
  of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, the sweet
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  fellowship of the Holy Spirit, rest and abide with us now and
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  forever. Amen.
• 3:07:55
  Surely God's goodness and mercies follow us all the days
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  of our lives as we dwell in the House of the Lord forever and
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  ever, Amen. God bless you.
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  See you on Sunday.