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THE POWER TO FUNCTION (HOW SPIRITUAL POWER WORKS) WITH APOSTLE JOSHUA SELMAN · Selah Media House

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  Lift your hands, wave it. In this atmosphere of worship,
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  just acknowledge His Majesty in our midst tonight.
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  The Lord in the midst of His people is mighty.
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  Father, we give you praise. It is all right to pray in the
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  spirit in an atmosphere like this.
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  Sheila mantos savrati gabel like a parantos theatre.
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  Shabba macatas savran de gabel eneke parado siata majesty.
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  We worship him. Blessed be the name of the Lord.
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  From the rising of the sun to the going down of the same.
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  Your name alone to is to be praised.
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  We give you praise. We give you praise.
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  Someone praise him. Thank.
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  Him. It says, Bless the Lord, O my
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  soul and all that is within me. Bless his holy name, Bless the
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  Lord O my soul, forget not his benefits.
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  In Jesus name we pray now lift your hands and cry for an
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  encounter tonight. Ask the Lord to give you a life
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  transforming encounter. The Bible says ye have not
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  because you ask not. So go ahead and ask and ask in
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  faith, believing that you will not withhold any good thing from
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  you. Is someone asking what things so
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  ever ye desire? He says when he pray, Believe
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  that thou receive us them, and thou shalt have them unto you
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  that answers prayer shall all flesh come.
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  You have not called the seed of Jacob to seek you in vain.
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  Give us life transforming encounters tonight through the
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  airwaves, to our family connected online across the
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  globe and to us who are here on sight.
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  Our hearts are open, our spirit receptive, attentive to Your
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  Word for making for our rising. All powerful all.
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  Glorious. There's nothing like the name of
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  Jesus. All powerful, all glorious.
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  There's nothing like your name. All powerful, all glorious.
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  There's nothing like the name of Jesus.
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  All powerful, all glorious, there's nothing like your name.
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  All powerful, powerful, All glory.
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  There's nothing like the name of Jesus.
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  All powerful, all glory. There's nothing like your name.
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  We receive understanding tonight, oh God, we receive
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  encounters, we receive wisdom, we receive impartations, we
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  receive direction, we receive strength from heaven to you be
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  all the glory, for in Jesus, much less name, we pray
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  blessings to everyone. Give Jesus a hand clap and then
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  please, you may be seated. It's always good to have us in
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  the House of God. Thank you very much for your
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  sacrifice. It is for your profiting.
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  Every time he comes, He comes for our sake.
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  Amen and Amen and Amen. Reverend Akila, thank you again.
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  Always an honor to have you in our midst, the Lord.
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  Bless you in Jesus name. Hallelujah.
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  While sitting, I'm going to lead us to pray a prayer that I've
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  been praying for myself, I think for the last maybe two months or
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  so. And every time we have the
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  opportunity to pray with the workers, we take the time to
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  pray. And it's a very simple prayer,
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  but then very, very profound that God will cause your knowing
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  him, your loving him, and you're serving Him to produce evidence
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  in your life. It's a very simple but powerful
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  prayer. Hallelujah.
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  We serve the Lord beyond results.
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  We serve the Lord beyond things. But I can tell you this based on
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  the authority of God's Word. Your faith is strengthened, your
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  testimony is established in the world of men to the degree to
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  which you experience consolations of His goodness as
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  a result of knowing Him, as a result of loving Him, and as a
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  result of serving Him. So Are you ready to pray whilst
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  you're seated? You're going to pray that prayer
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  self. Tell me as loud as you can, say
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  Father, like you a believer. Say Father, let there be
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  evidence in my life. Let there be a testimony for my
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  knowing you, for my loving you and for my serving you.
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  Lift up your voices and pray in one minute.
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  Someone go ahead and pray. Shalina makaso brandige la
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  cosiata Let there be a testimony.
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  Someone who is hungry to see the power of God in your life.
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  Someone who is hungry to have an evidence, an attestation to the
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  fact that you have met him. Pray let this.
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  Be. With every sense of seriousness.
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  In Jesus name we pray. In Jesus name we pray.
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  Still praying. Psalm 86 and verse 17 amplified
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  please. Psalm 86 and verse 17 amplified.
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  Everyone please let's read together.
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  Ready 1 to go. Show me a sign of Your evident
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  goodwill and favor, that those who hate me may see it and be
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  put to shame. Because you, Lord, will show
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  your approval of me when you help and comfort me.
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  You will show your approval of me when you help and comfort me.
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  Now let's read it from KJV KJV1 to go show me a token for good,
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  that they which hate me may see it and be ashamed, because Thou
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  Lord has opened me and comforted me.
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  Lift up your voice and pray again.
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  Father, give me an evidence, a token of your blessings, a token
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  of your lifting. Let there be something
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  undeniable, something unmistakable upon my life, given
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  by God as an evidence to the world of men, that it pays to
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  know Jesus, that it pays to serve Jesus, that it pays to
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  love Jesus, that it pays to leave for Jesus.
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  Someone is praying. From heaven, let grace come upon
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  my life. From heaven, let wisdom come
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  upon my life. Let there be a manifestation of
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  Your goodness upon my life. Let it be clear before the world
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  of men that You have showed me mercy.
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  Let it be clear before the world of men that those who come to
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  you and walk in Your ways are never put in shame, are never
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  left in shame. Someone, go ahead and pray for
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  one minute in this season. I don't know about other seasons
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  past, but in this season I place a demand upon Your goodness.
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  I place a demand upon your mercy, I place a demand upon
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  your fatherhood. I place a demand upon your
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  goodness as God. Reveal your goodness in my life.
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  In Jesus mighty name we pray. Let me assure you already that
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  in this world of men, results matter.
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  Do not let anyone trivialize the place and the role of consistent
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  word inspired results in the life of a believer.
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  Results can make an unbeliever become a believer and if you
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  doubt it, ask the madman in gatherer.
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  If you doubt it, ask the woman at the well.
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  Results can cause a man to be converted to the saving
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  knowledge of Jesus. Results can cause a whole nation
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  to repent. A whole nation to repent results
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  'cause hedonistic kings in the Bible like Nebuchadnezzar in
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  Daniel chapter 3 from verse 24 down to 30, to pass a decree, a
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  political governmental decree, that anyone who speaks against
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  the God of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, that that person will
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  be accused and put to death. His family will be made a
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  donghill because there is none who can deliver after this sort
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  results, results when God places his hand upon a man's life, when
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  God places his hand upon an organization, upon a family,
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  upon a business. Hallelujah.
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  I recall, I think it was a woman in Zarephath.
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  One of these women, when her son came back to life, she told the
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  prophet, she said, now I know regardless what he did,
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  regardless his status, he was not convincing enough.
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  I'm praying for you already that in this season, perhaps for
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  someone this month, may my God, he will make a statement.
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  He will write something upon your life.
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  It will be evident to the nations in the name of Jesus
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  that he is with you. I'm prophesying over someone, my
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  God, I don't know about your God, but my God will make a
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  statement with your life. It will be clear beyond doubt,
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  clear beyond argument that God has decided to place honor upon
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  your life. You believe that shout, Amen.
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  Hallelujah. The next thing I want to talk
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  about quickly before we get to the teaching, please be seated
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  tonight is to bring a word on gratitude.
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  Gratitude, Gratitude is very important.
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  The Holy Spirit quicken this in my spirit while I prayed for
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  tonight's meeting to emphasize again the need to be grateful.
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  You know, sometimes when we live in certain levels of results
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  consistently, we trivialize them.
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  Number one, we forget that they came from God and we forget that
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  He has the power to withdraw them.
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  Whilst you see, the human spirit was designed such that when you
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  experience a level of possibility, first you are
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  grateful, then you get accustomed to that reality and
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  then you forget. So it's not an intentional thing
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  for men to remember. They have to train and engineer
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  their mind to always bring to bear the goodness of God.
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  I'll give you an instance, someone who does not have a job,
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  it's easy to release your faith expecting.
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  And when you have that job, particularly if it's an
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  honorable one, the first few maybe weeks, months or even
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  years, your heart is ever conscious of the goodness of
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  God. You still remember, but over
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  time you get used to the realities, the blessings, the
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  possibilities that come with that new realm, that new
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  dimension of living. And chances are excellent that
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  in in the state of that abundance and rest, you can
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  forget, number one, that without God, there's no sustainability
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  to that blessing. And that, number two, it is in
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  your being grateful that you 'cause that blessing to remain
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  and to multiply. It says, let the people praise
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  him, and then the earth shall yield her increase.
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  And God, even our God will bless us.
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  It says our God will bless us and all the nations will fear
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  Him. Hallelujah.
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  And so it's important for us to know that this is how it works
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  in the Kingdom. If you don't lay to hearts to
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  give God thanks and you get used to the fact that at your beck
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  and call, certain possibilities that may be the prayer points of
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  many. I hope you realize that at every
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  point in your life, your reality is someone's desire.
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  At every point in your life you have a house.
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  You are trusting God for a car. Someones prayer is to have a
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  house for someone. You don't have a house, but you
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  are healthy. Someone else will give up his
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  house to receive your health. At every point in your life, I'm
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  telling you not to compare. You can be sure you are not the
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  worst of anyone at all. It is only because you are
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  looking from the lens of another person's problem, or another
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  person's possibility, or another person's privilege.
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  It's easy to see the advantage that is in someone else's life
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  and forget that there's a plethora of others that work in
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  you. For instance, health while
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  someone is laboring, not having sleep.
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  You even have the power to sleep and you fight it.
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  For someone with drugs and with whatever, sleeping in a palace
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  is a problem. You are not even able to sleep.
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  It's a miracle if they have sleep for two hours.
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  So it's important for us to be grateful we.
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  Bless Your holy name, sing your praises forever and forget not
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  your benefits. I will not forget, Lord.
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  Your benefits, I will not forget, Lord.
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  Your benefits? How can I forget, Lord?
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  Your benefit I will never forget, Lord, so lay to heart to
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  give God thanks. Don't just prepare to do it in
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  church alone. Let it be your lifestyle when
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  you get up in the morning. Thank you Jesus, not Lord.
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  When are you going to answer me? That's a thoughtless believer's
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  prayer. When you grow to maturity, one
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  of the evidences is that you will remain ever grateful, ever
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  thankful, ever thoughtful. You lay to heart to give God
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  praise for every single thing, regardless how great or
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  regardless how casual it is. Someone shout from the depth of
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  your heart, say thank you Jesus. One more time, say thank you
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  Jesus. Amen and Amen.
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  Welcome to church again. It's a good thing to be in the
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  House of God, particularly a house like this, because your
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  appearance every time is a declaration of your commitment
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  to continue your work with God until you are made, until you
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  are built, until you are furnished.
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  Tonight the Lord is going to help us mightily.
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  And as always, it's my assignment to work in
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  partnership with the Spirit of God to make sure that the
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  teachings that come here are #1 spirit inspired #2 are ward
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  derived, ward based #3 are intelligently communicated.
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  They are life applicable such that whoever hears and receives
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  will #1 be edified by it, but number 2 will be empowered to
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  work in keeping with the truths and the principles communicated
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  for your profiting. I remind you again that the goal
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  behind the teaching ministry in this ministry is to produce a
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  people who are enlightened, but beyond being enlightened, that
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  it will begin from enlightenment and it will culminate in your
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  being victorious and working in dominion.
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  Are we clear on that? It's important for you to know
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  that we are not the kind who become and remain ever learning,
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  but never coming onto the knowledge of the truth.
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  So it begins with enlightenment and that by the Word of God in
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  partnership with the Holy Spirit.
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  But the end of every journey, every teaching, including that
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  which you'll hear and learn today is to produce a people who
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  are victorious, holistically victorious, and then people who
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  work in the experience of dominion.
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  If I just described you shout a loud believing, Amen.
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  Hallelujah. And it's quite an interesting
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  subject that we'll be looking at tonight is is one that has
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  ministered deeply to me. It's one that by the message of
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  God I have studied a bit on and I have seen the value of my
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  knowledge on this whys and on this subject is help to produce
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  efficiency in my life as a person, as a man of God.
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  It's been at the back of driving God's vision in this ministry
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  and is responsible for things working.
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  And so I'm praying tonight, particularly if you are a
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  minister of the gospel, I beseech you, by the mercies of
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  God, you will want to understand what I'm teaching tonight.
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  And more importantly, there is an aspect of it that is my
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  emphasis tonight and I'm praying and hoping in Jesus name that as
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  you listen, you will learn in Jesus matchless name, we pray.
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  I'm teaching tonight on the power to function, the power to
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  function. I want to show you how spiritual
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  power works, how spiritual power works.
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  These I believe in understanding the subject of power.
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  This has been the missing link through the years.
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  We have done a great job in helping the body of Christ and
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  the body of believers understand how power comes.
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  We understand fairly enough the dynamics for accessing spiritual
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  power, and for many you have even gone for that to learn how
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  power multiplies. But not many people understand
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  the modus operandi of power, spiritual power.
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  Not many people understand how spiritual power was designed to
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  work. So you can find believers who
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  receive importations. They fall down, they shout.
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  In every Pentecostal charismatic circle, an average of 1% shouts
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  or false under the anointing, at least per service.
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  And sometimes sadly, does not translate into a life of potency
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  and power. And I'll be showing you tonight
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  the missing link. Most believers and especially
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  those who are called into the work of the ministry regardless
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  the sincerity of your hearts, many times they work in keeping
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  with the rules they've been taught as regards the arrival of
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  spiritual power, but they have not so learned the dynamics of
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  walking out spiritual power so that it becomes evident in their
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  lives. I'm praying in the name of Jesus
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  that God will open our eyes. Are you ready for tonight?
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  Pray in the Spirit for one minute again to prepare the soil
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  of your heart as you receive this most treasured revelation
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  tonight. I'm praying that it will really,
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  really help every single one of us to ascend in the Spirit and
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  that this becomes a token of God's love and mercy to the body
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  of Christ. That it will help us all
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  together as we rise to attain that unity of faith of that
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  perfect man, the fullness of the stature of the measure of
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  Christ. We are praying now.
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  One minute my heart is open, O God, minister to me.
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  In the name of Jesus we pray, Amen and Amen.
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  Second Peter chapter one, please.
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  We read verse 2 and 3. Second Peter chapter one, our
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  text for tonight. Apostle Peter opens up this
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  portion of Scripture by saying grace and peace be multiplied
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  onto you. So he's talking about grace and
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  peace. Then he says through the
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  knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.
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  The verse of emphasis now is verse 3.
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  It says, according as His divine power, very profound expression,
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  according as His divine power had given unto us, how many
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  things? All things, even the things that
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  pertain unto life and the things that pertain unto godliness.
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  So we'll pause there. And that's really the emphasis.
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  So the Bible tells us three things here in one, one verse
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  number one, that all things have been given unto us #2 He shows
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  us that these all things are broken into two compartments,
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  that they are all things that pertain unto life and all things
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  that pertain unto godliness. Are we learning already?
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  And then #3 that these all things are made available and
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  made possible to the believer as coding as his divine power.
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  That means the depth, the degree to which is divine power is made
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  available in your life, to your life.
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  That is the degree to which you'll be able to access
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  inexperience, all things that pertain to life and all things
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  that pertain to godliness. So very quickly, let me simplify
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  this statement so that I guide our understanding, you know, so
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  that we have a unified understanding as we begin to
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  build. Number one, there are things
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  that pertain unto godliness. These are matters that deal with
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  your overall spiritual health and progress.
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  An example your your knowledge of the Word, an example the
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  strength of your prayer life, your consecration, your work
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  with God, everything that makes for your spiritual health, your
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  spiritual progress, your spiritual efficiency.
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  They are called the things that pertain unto godliness.
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  Who understands this? So when you are teaching on
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  matters of faith, matters of prayer, matters of spirituality,
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  the understanding of the Word, all of this together, they come
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  under the group called the things that pertain unto
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  godliness. To the degree to which you are
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  efficient in this subject, as I mentioned now, that is a degree
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  to which we will say you are godly or you are spiritual.
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  But then the Bible says there are things that pertain unto
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  life. That means these things refer to
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  all of the things that must be present in your life to be
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  efficient and effective as a person as far as your sojourn on
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  earth is concerned. An example?
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  Things like finances, things like the welfare, the well-being
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  of your family, are we together? These are the things that
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  pertain unto life. And so the Bible tells us that
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  the power of God is so vast, it is able to attend to the things
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  that pertain unto godliness and the things that pertain unto
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  life. Meaning that you don't have to
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  choose to focus on the things that pertain unto godliness and
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  leave the things that pertain unto life deficient, or focus on
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  the things that that pertain on to life and leave the things
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  that pertain on to godliness deficient.
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  The power of God caters for everything.
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  Are we together. And that if you are excelling
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  spiritually and failing in every other aspect of your life, the
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  power of God is not to blame. Because in the economy of
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  spiritual power, it was designed to attend to every area of your
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  life to solve the matters that deal with your spiritual life as
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  much as the matters that deal with your everyday life.
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  Who is learning so far? So you will find already from
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  this this preamble that I gave, that there are two kinds of
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  believers. There are those who press to see
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  the word of God or to see results as far as the matters to
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  life are concerned. You want to pay your children
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  school fees effectively without stress.
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  You hope that one day as a young man you grow to be able to build
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  your house. These are things that pertain on
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  to life. Matters of bread, matters of
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  water, matters of relevance. You want to get a job, you want
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  to grow, you want to support, support a family, and so on and
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  so forth. These things do not necessarily
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  have any eternal value per SE, but there are things that make
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  your sojourn upon the earth effective.
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  And God as Father is thoughtful and benevolent enough to allow
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  His power to attend to those matters too.
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  Are we together? And then on the other hand,
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  there are people who focus on their spiritual lives and forget
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  to cater for the things that attend on to their everyday
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  life. So you have them praying
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  tongues, their consecration is fine.
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  They love God, they attend church, they serve in church.
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  But their children cannot go to good schools, they cannot live a
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  decent life. Are we together?
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  If you learn, go through the lens of their everyday living,
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  you will not like the God you learn from that testimony.
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  The only consolation to their lives is that they fear God.
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  In truth, they will not compromise.
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  They are righteous people, but they are failures.
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  They are broke, they are mediocres.
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  Everything low is their portion when it has to do with living
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  upon the earth. And I'm telling you already from
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  this teaching that His divine power, the economy of God's
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  power was designed to attend to all things that pertain unto
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  life and the things that pertain unto godliness.
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  Is this deliverance for someone already so that immediately your
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  heart is open to receive and embrace all that the power of
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  God can deliver unto you. If you're ready to receive shout
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  I receive. All right then haven't laid that
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  foundation. Let's look at a few things now.
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  I want to make a very emphatic statement that the believer in
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  Christ cannot leave the fullness of the life or a life of
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  victory, dominion without power. The believer in Christ cannot
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  live the fullness of a life of victory and dominion without
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  power. The Bible is very clear, without
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  any shadow of doubt as to the fact that spiritual power is and
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  remains A vital component, a vital component in the believers
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  manifesting the fullness of God's life.
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  In fact, I doubt if there is any book of the Bible where you do
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  not find an expression of spiritual power of some sort.
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  From Genesis to Revelation, regardless what book of the
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  Bible and regardless what story, you will find expressions that
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  connote power or show the value of power in building society, in
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  bringing deliverance to men. Are we together in helping to
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  unravel hard sayings and hard puzzles and so on and so forth.
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  The entire discourse of redemption from start to finish
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  was a business of power. The arrival of Jesus, the
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  incarnation. You find out in Luke chapter 134
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  and 35. Mary is talking with Gabriel the
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  Angel, and he said, how shall these things be seen, that I
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  know not a man in verse 35, the Angel said unto her, the Holy
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  Ghost shall come upon you. And the power we see power now
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  playing a role even in the the arrival of Jesus.
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  How about his earth walk? The Bible says what manner of
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  man is this? That even the winds and the
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  waves obey him. Everybody knew that he was a man
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  of power. Nicodemus confessing in John
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  chapter 3 and verse 1. He comes to him and he says,
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  Rabbi, we know that thou at a teacher come from God.
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  He says for no man can do these miracles which thou doest,
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  except God be with him. And in many instances Jesus
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  demonstrated his power. For instance, the first recorded
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  miracle in the Gospels according to John's synoptic account is
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  found in John chapter 2 when you read from verse one to 10, the
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  wedding, the multiplication or the miracle of water turning to
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  wine in Cana of Galilee. And the Bible says in verse 10,
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  it says this beginning of miracles of verse 11.
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  Now did Jesus in the presence of his disciples and manifested
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  forth his glory, and the disciples believed on him.
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  So his entire earth walk from healing the sick, rescuing the
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  demonic, multiplying bread. It was a business of power down
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  to his death. It was by the power of the Holy
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  Ghost. The Bible says if that same
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  spirit that raised Christ from the dead dwells in your mortal
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  body, He will revitalize your mortal body.
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  Paul now was giving us a spiritual perspective as to the
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  resurrection of Christ, and he said it did not just happen.
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  There was an energy, a dimension of power that was exerted that
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  brought Jesus from Hades to the earth and enthroned Him in
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  efficient chapter 1 and verse 19.
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  Among the many things He prayed that we'll get to know was the
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  exceeding greatness of His power to us, what we believe according
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  to the working of His mighty power, Verse 20, verse 20, which
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  He wrote in Christ when He raised him from the dead.
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  So Jesus did not just rise from the dead because He was the Son
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  of God. He took power.
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  The Bible says He was declared to be the Son of God with power
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  even by the Spirit of holiness, the apostles as they walked and
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  lived their lives, It took power to give witness, to bring
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  validation to the fact that Jesus was already alive.
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  It took power as 433 with great power give the apostles witness
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  of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus.
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  And great grace was upon them all.
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  Living, victory, dominion, excellence is the business of
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  power. And to the one who does not
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  understand this concept and then does not understand the
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  dynamics, having a walking knowledge of how spiritual power
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  works, you may never be able to walk into the experience of
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  victory. And I'm praying for you tonight
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  that as you learn in the name of Jesus, may there be a transition
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  in the Spirit that you will move from the believer who is
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  powerless to one who is full of. Power.
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  The unfortunate thing about the subject of power is that we
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  have, we have carried A charismatic court.
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  And one upon power. So if I am to animate power or
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  personify power, I will describe power akin to a boxer carrying a
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  coat that was given to him by the charismatic understanding of
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  it. So the moment we talk about
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  power, what comes to the average person is the ability to speak
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  with a Husky voice with all kinds of spiritual rhetorics and
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  people falling left, right and center.
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  And if you have an individual who does not operate toss, you
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  believe, but he's not carrying power.
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  But it's a very limited understanding.
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  As you'll be learning tonight, there are many people who need
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  power who do not know they need power because they've not been
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  taught how far power is needed as far as manifesting victory is
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  concerned. May the Lord open our eyes in
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  the name of Jesus Christ. Hallelujah.
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  Very quickly, let's define power.
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  I wouldn't take for granted that we have an understanding of
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  this, even though this is no new subject and it's definition is
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  not new to us in this House. But for the purpose of what
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  we're dealing with tonight, it behoves us to define power again
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  so that we have a unified understanding.
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  Let's define power #1 power is defined as the capacity to
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  influence outcomes. We're defining power from a
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  spiritual standpoint, from a biblical standpoint.
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  Physics has its definition of power and science generally, and
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  they all relate. But now we're giving it a
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  spiritual context. That number one, power is
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  defined as the capacity to influence outcomes.
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  Please write that down to the degree to which you sustain the
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  wherewithal to influence outcomes, any kind of outcome,
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  spiritual outcomes, economic outcomes.
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  That is the degree to which you are powerful.
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  Ready for the next definition? Power, furthermore, is defined
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  as the force that compels compliance.
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  These are my definitions and is consistent with God's idea, the
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  force that compels compliance. Please be sure to write this The
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  Force that Compels Compliance. I will give you a third
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  definition. Power is defined as the capacity
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  to create and sustain a thing or a process.
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  The capacity to create and sustain a thing or a process.
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  It is called power, The capacity to create, to birth, and then to
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  sustain anything or any process. 3 definitions.
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  Quick recap again number one, power defined as the capacity to
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  influence outcomes. Say Amen if you have that down
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  #2 power defined as the force that compels compliance.
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  Hallelujah #3 power defines as a what the capacity to create and
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  sustain anything or any process. Hallelujah with the first
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  manifestation of power by these definitions is found in Genesis
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  chapter 1. The Bible says in the beginning
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  God created the heavens and the earth.
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  Verse 2 says and the earth was without form, it was void, and
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  darkness was upon the face of the deep.
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  And the Spirit of God moved or hovered around the face of the
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  waters. Now you see the definition of
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  power. And God said he used words to
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  speak. And God said the literal Hebrew
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  rendition is and the talking spirit said light be.
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  And there was. And verse 4, the Bible says the
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  light he commanded to reappear and he saw that it was good and
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  he divided the light from the darkness.
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  The ability to divide light from darkness is real power.
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  Did you hear what I said? The ability to divide.
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  I didn't say the ability to drive darkness.
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  The Bible didn't say he drove darkness.
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  He literally divided light from darkness.
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  Is someone learning 3 scriptures to buttress on power?
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  First Chronicles 29 and verse 11.
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  Very powerful scripture made minister to you like it's done
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  to me. Thine, O Lord, is the greatness
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  it says, and the power and the glory and the victory and the
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  majesty, for all that is in the heavens and in the earth is
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  dying. And thine is the Kingdom, O
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  Lord, and thou art exalted above it all.
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  In fact, let's. Push to verse. 12 Then it says,
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  both riches and honor come from you, and you reign over all, and
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  it is in your power and might, and it is in your hand to make
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  great and to give strength to all.
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  Second Scripture, Ephesians chapter one.
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  We read that earlier on verse 18 and 19.
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  This is Paul praying that the eyes of our understanding being
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  enlightened, that we may know one, the hope of His calling and
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  the riches of the glory of the inheritance of the Saints #3 and
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  to know the exceeding greatness of His power.
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  I like this. It's not called power.
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  It's called His power. It belongs to Him.
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  It is to us Word, but it comes from Him and belongs to Him
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  according to the working of His mighty power.
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  Why do we need spiritual power very quickly?
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  Why do we need spiritual power? A businessman should hear and
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  learn this right now. A politician should hear and
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  learn this now. A man of God should hear and
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  learn this now. A family person, a career person
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  should hear and learn this now. That power is not limited.
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  Spiritual power, in fact, is not limited to those who are in
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  ministry. Anyone desiring to live the
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  victorious life, anyone desiring to frontier the program of God
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  first need power. But let me arrange it for you
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  now. Why do we need spiritual power?
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  2 reasons very quickly. Keep this and never forget #1 to
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  subdue the forces of darkness and unfavorable conditions that
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  fight against our destinies and our peace.
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  I'll take it slowly, say long read, but please write.
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  The first reason why all believers need spiritual power
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  is number 1, to subdue the forces of darkness and
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  unfavorable conditions. Are you saying that now that
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  power attends to both spirits and conditions, not just spirit
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  entities alone? To subdue the forces of darkness
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  and unfavorable conditions that fight against our destinies and
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  fight against our peace. The first reason why you and I
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  need power for as long as we're alive and for as long as we
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  continue to sojourn in this faith work.
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  This will be one of the reasons why we need power to subdue the
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  forces of darkness and unfavorable conditions that
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  fight against our destinies and our peace.
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  Psalm 66 and verse 3. Psalm 66 and verse 3 say unto
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  God, popular scripture, How terrible are thou in thy walks?
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  It says, Through the greatness of thy power shall thine enemies
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  submit themselves unto you. I've told you that Satan, as
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  well as all unclean spirits are stubborn spirits.
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  The Bible shows us that Satan is a stubborn spirit and every
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  unclean spirit is a stubborn spirit.
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  They will not just leave because there was already a verdict over
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  them to the advantage of the believer they are exiting.
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  Your life must be enforced, and power is that which brings that
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  enforcing. Are we together?
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  So the first reason why we need power again is to subdue the
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  forces of darkness and unfavorable conditions that
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  fight against our destinies and fight against our peace.
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  Reason #2 Why do we need spiritual power?
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  To fulfill our God ordained assignments.
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  To fulfill our God ordained assignments and advance God's
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  program upon the earth. To fulfill our God ordained
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  assignments and advance God's program upon the earth.
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  Second reason to fulfill our God ordained assignments an advanced
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  God's program upon the earth Acts chapter 10 and verse 38 how
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  God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost Son with
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  power and he went about about his assignment doing good
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  healing all day that were oppressed of the devil.
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  You go about doing business without power, it will not work.
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  You go about raising a family without power, it will not work.
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  You go about touring this bedeviled world without power,
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  it will. It will not work.
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  It doesn't just take prophecy to fulfill your assignment.
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  It doesn't just take the awareness of your divine job
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  description to succeed. It takes power.
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  Someone shall. Power.
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  The devil did not hear you say power.
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  Let me admit to you, as I've done here at least once, twice,
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  or even 3 times, that skill and human abilities can only.
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  Take us so far. Don't wait until you fail enough
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  to learn this. Learn it early.
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  Skill and human abilities can only take us so far.
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  The Bible is full of people whose skills failed in the
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  presence of real life situations.
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  Our world today is full of experts, professionals across
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  several fields, intelligent people, people who have
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  stretched their intellect from border to border with no
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  attesting results to justify that intelligence.
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  Whilst skill and intelligence should never be downplayed, I
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  can tell you that in a world whose root is from the realm of
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  the spirit, you will need more than skill and intelligence to
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  work in dominion. Do you believe this Hallelujah?
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  Is it not in your? Bible that except the Lord
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  beauty house? How many of you know that
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  laziness cannot build a house? Is that except the Lord beauty
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  house? They label in vain.
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  The one who labels already is out of the realm of laziness,
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  but the Bible says he can see labor in vain.
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  There is such a description of a man's productive state as
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  laboring in vain, and it says, except the Lord watches over a
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  city, the city the watchman walketh but in.
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  Vain too. It says it is vain to wake up
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  early in the morning and to sit up late in the night.
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  This looks to me like a very diligent man.
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  I don't find anything that represents laziness in this
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  story, but the Bible says he eats is the bread of sorrow.
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  This is what happens when the frail efforts of man is
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  exaggerated and exalted above the advantage of spirit power.
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  Are we learning now? Praise the name of the Lord.
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  So skill and human abilities are important but can only take us
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  so far. Second reason one last time.
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  We need spiritual power to fulfill our God ordained
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  assignment and to advance the program of God upon the earth.
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  Now very quickly. There are keys to accessing and
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  utilizing spiritual power to its fullest.
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  This is where our discussion begins.
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  There are keys to accessing and utilizing spiritual power to its
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  fullest. Every time God gives to men, as
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  revealed in the manifesto of Jesus, He gives to its fullest
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  abundant life. For instance, Amplified says he
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  gives it to its fullest. There are keys to accessing and
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  utilizing spiritual power to its fullest, meaning that.
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  Just because it is God's idea and it's for profiting to have
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  and work in spiritual power, it does not automatically mean
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  listen, please lend me your attention.
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  It doesn't mean that because it is the will of God for you and I
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  to work in spiritual power that it automatically means we will
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  work in power. Are we together?
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  You can be saved, genuinely saved.
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  It gives you access, but it does not necessarily translate to
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  experience. Your initial salvation
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  experience gives you access. But it does not automatically
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  translate to experience. So you can have a believer who
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  is saved, genuinely born again, and the only thing about the
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  person's life that makes you know or think he's saved is that
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  you witnessed him as he came to the altar.
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  Nothing else in his life shows the victory and the profit of
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  knowing and serving the Lord. There are keys for accessing and
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  utilizing power to its fullest. There are three of them.
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  I'll give it to you. And this will be the core of our
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  discussion. Number one, the first.
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  Key. You desire to access and then to
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  utilize spiritual power to its fullest.
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  Are you ready? Number one, you must identify
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  and connect to the source of all power.
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  You must identify and connect to the source of all power in your
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  quest to access and to utilize spiritual power.
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  Your journey is a failed one already if you do not identify
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  and connect to the true source of power.
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  Let me have your attention. Please look up.
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  In Luke chapter 10 and verse 19, Jesus made a very profound
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  statement. He said, behold, I give on to
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  you power. Talk to me ladies and gentlemen,
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  who gives power in this case God represented, I give unto you
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  power to tread upon serpents, scorpions.
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  And then he says over all the power.
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  So Satan has power and I hope I have the time to explain to you
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  how that came about. Satan has power, he has capacity
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  to influence outcomes. Ask Janus and Chambers, ask
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  those who are occulties, they manipulate spiritual laws.
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  And let me digress for a moment to help us understand this now
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  in. Discussing the power of God
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  classically speaking, there are three levels.
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  Gods taught his power at 3 levels.
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  The highest level for accessing spiritual power is.
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  Through intimacy with God, that's the highest level, the
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  highest dimension of spiritual power that can come into a
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  believers life is access through intimacy.
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  Are we learning already #2 The second level of spiritual power
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  is accessed through the understanding and adherence to
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  laws, not just spiritual laws, Laws and principles.
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  Generally, there is a dimension of the deposit of God's.
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  Power. That is in laws, the law of
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  gravity, the law of aerodynamics, the law of seed
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  time, and. Harvest.
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  And this dimension of God's power does not depend on knowing
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  Him. It does not depend on
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  acknowledging His Lordship. It is purely a product of
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  understanding. Are we together and application.
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  Who is learning now? So the next time you say why are
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  people prospering without God, it is because they have mastered
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  how to tap into the second layer of God's power.
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  It is not relationship dependent.
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  It's not the highest level of power, but if you ever see
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  produce is because the power of God is behind it.
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  This is also the realm that occulties and all kinds of
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  people, they manipulate these laws.
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  Job 3833 NIVNLT Do you know the laws of the universe or do you
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  know the laws of the heavens? It says cans thou establish
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  Lords dominion. NLT says, do you know the laws
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  of the universe? Can you use them to regulate the
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  earth? How do you regulate the earth by
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  using the laws? Today there are many in in many
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  in many developed nations. Did you know that science has
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  turned scientists literally into rainmakers?
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  They can control climate and weather.
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  And it's not superstition. There is intelligence to it.
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  Geophysics has gone so far as to be able to predict weather
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  conditions with precision and accuracy.
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  How about agricultural hydroponics?
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  Today you are able to grow plants with precision.
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  You can calculate how long a yield can be on an acre of land
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  with digital God like precision. This is the power of spiritual
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  laws. Mechanized farming has is
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  striving today upon the knowledge of this aerodynamics.
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  I can leave here right now to London and be sure that all
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  things being equal, in six hours, Max 6 hours, 30 minutes,
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  I'm landing at Heathrow or whichever airport are we
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  together. You can know that with
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  precision. I can leave Abuja and know that
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  in 15. Minutes.
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  I'm landing Lagos. Can you imagine that precision?
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  The power of laws. So the next time someone tells
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  you you don't need God to succeed.
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  He's not wrong, but they have to be wise because success is
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  defined by different parameters. Good success starts with a
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  relationship with God. But I'm telling you for sure,
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  you can ignore the highest level of power that comes through
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  intimacy. I'll give you an instance.
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  Those who consult native doctors, they don't know the
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  name of the native doctor. The native doctor does not say.
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  OK, hello, ladies and gentlemen. I know you are here to receive
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  power. Just to let you know that my
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  name is Native Doctor XYZ. You don't need.
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  He doesn't need to know your name.
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  You don't need to know his name. Just move backwards.
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  Enter the shrine. Sit down.
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  He will tell you whatever. If he's a chicken to bring, if
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  it's a goat or a fowl or whatever it is according to the
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  weight of what you want done. And once you are done, pay him
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  his money. The agent that brought you gets
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  his caught and everybody goes in peace.
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  It's as simple as that. Oh yes, as simple as that.
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  That's how it works. Praise God.
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  At the end of it, the person who helped you, you don't know his
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  name, you can't even remember where you went.
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  You just know that you are on your way through a forest and
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  finally you arrive somewhere. But when you walk with God, he
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  demands that it starts with a relationship, and the power you
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  get, the highest level is derived from that relationship.
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  Are you seeing the difference Now?
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  Praise God, but let me finish my digression so that we go back to
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  our discussion #1 the highest level of spiritual power, I
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  said, is access through intimacy.
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  That I may know Him and the power, that I may know Him and
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  the power. You know Him first, then you
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  know His power. Are we together?
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  That I may know him and the power.
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  That I may know him. Philippians 310 and the power,
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  when it has to do with that level of power, you know him
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  first, then you know the power that comes from him.
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  The second level of power I said is is hidden in laws and
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  principles, both spiritual laws and physical laws.
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  Whether you are a terrorist, whether you are an evil man, if
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  you farm on a fertile soil, you will get a bumper harvest.
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  If it does not happen, then demon spirits affected it.
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  Are we together? But under normal scientific
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  conditions it should yield. That's the reason why a born
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  again tongue talking believer can hop into an aircraft and
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  have an unbeliever another one, maybe another fake practitioner
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  may not even be a Christian. And the person can be vocal.
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  You know that is a professional pilot, but he does not serve
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  God. He can even be insulting God
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  from the start of the journey until you arrive and you who is
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  tongue talking you sit down behind you have Jesus Christ,
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  but you can't fly that plane except if it's a gift that is
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  given to you. And unfortunately, the laws of
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  science will not even allow you to experiment that thing.
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  Just sit quietly and then you arrive.
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  Are we letting now? Now the third level of power?
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  The third level of power comes through covenant alignment.
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  You don't need to know God, you don't need to understand the
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  laws of the Kingdom, but you can become a beneficiary of the
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  spiritual atmosphere of one who understands that law and is
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  engaging it. An example of such we see is
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  Lots prospering. You see that lost prosperity had
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  nothing to do with wisdom. Classically speaking, wealth is
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  connected to wisdom. But we don't find Lot behaving
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  as a wise man. He only followed Abraham, but
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  everything Abraham had, Lot had. And when they separated, the
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  first decision Lot made landed him in Sodom and Gomorrah.
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  There are certain possibilities that happen to men.
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  I am telling you this. It has not is not a proof of
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  their spiritual health. It's not even a proof of their
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  consecration nor their obedience.
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  They are fortunate to come under a spiritual climate, Either a
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  church they are part of or a man of God whose covenant with God
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  can speak for them. You will find them manifesting
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  possibilities and their spiritual lives cannot defend.
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  It is the reason why you cannot use resource alone to test
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  spiritual because someone can be enjoying possibilities.
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  That is not a product of his prayer life.
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  It's not a product of his fasting.
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  He's a beneficiary of a man's intercession.
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  He's a beneficiary of a man's giving.
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  Is there any man in the House of Saul that I may show kindness
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  for Jonathan's sake? So if you had Jonathan, you'll
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  find things working. Like this for you?
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  There are many, many people even in today's world.
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  Have you seen lawless children who are rich anyway, can't see
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  their parents? They break every rule you are
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  studying to learn and they go Scott free.
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  It's not their fault. Are we together?
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  The third level? So back to our discussion.
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  There are keys to accessing and utilizing the power of God to
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  its fullest spiritual power. Now number one, I said you must
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  identify and connect to the source of all power, the source
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  of all power. Psalm 62 and verse 11.
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  Never forget this believer. Never forget this child of God.
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  God has spoken once and twice. I have.
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  Heard. That power belongs to God.
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  Can you shout this for your mind to receive it?
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  Say power belongs to God. One more time.
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  Say power belongs to God. Any kind of spiritual power and
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  any expression of spiritual power.
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  I can tell you this. Never credit Satan with
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  inventing any power. Satan has had to depend on the
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  power that is already available, and he manipulates it and uses
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  it for his own purpose. Are we together?
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  So when you see Satan act invincible as if he has that
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  power, whether it is prophetic power by divination, whether
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  it's whatever it is, I want you to know that he's only tapping
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  into possibilities that are available to all men by reason
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  of spiritual laws. Hallelujah, praise the name of
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  the Lord. So that's number one.
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  Number two, very quickly, let's go.
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  What is the second key to accessing and utilizing
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  spiritual power to its fullest? And this is where I'm going to
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  dwell. I'm going to dwell here for the
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  major part of our discussion tonight.
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  You must understand the various kinds and expressions of
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  spiritual power alongside a working knowledge on how they
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  operate. Again, a long statement, but
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  I'll take it slowly. The second key to accessing and
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  utilizing spiritual power to its fullest.
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  You must understand the various kinds and the various
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  expressions of spiritual power. Let me stop there to allow you
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  to get there. I want you to write this down.
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  You must understand the various kinds and expressions of
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  spiritual power alongside a walking knowledge on how they
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  operate. You must understand the various
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  kinds and the various expressions of spiritual power
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  alongside a walking knowledge on how they operate.
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  Please look up, Lend me your attention at the risk of
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  sounding proud, and forgive me if you feel so.
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  Let me tell you ladies and gentlemen, this is the missing
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  link in our understanding the theology of spiritual power by
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  the masses of God. I can tell you that this is an
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  area where we have experienced the hand of God.
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  So I'm not just speaking because I read it or because the Holy
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  Spirit impressed me to teach it. By the grace of God, I can tell
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  you with confidence that I know a bit as to The Walking dynamics
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  of the power of God. And it is from the standpoint
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  that vantage position all beats by His mercy that I want to
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  teach you now. And please lend me your wrapped
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  undivided attention and trust what you are hearing.
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  It will produce wonder walking results in your life.
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  You believe that, Say Amen. So we said that the first key is
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  to know and connect to the source of all power, being God,
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  God, the God of the Bible, God Almighty, and Jesus Christ
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  himself, his Son. But the second is you must
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  understand the various kinds and the various expressions of
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  spiritual power. Lend me your attention now.
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  Do you know? To the average believer, when
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  you mention power, all they think about is demons and the
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  capacity to expel them out of your life and perhaps healing
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  and that's the end of it. But I'm going to be showing you
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  that. If that is the only scope as far
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  as your understanding power is concerned, then you may never be
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  able to manifest Kingdom power as God intended for the purpose
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  of our discussion. I'm going to be teaching you 5
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  expressions of spiritual power. 5 There are 5 expressions of
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  spiritual power. Same Holy Ghost, same power.
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  But like science teaches on energy and power, it can
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  manifest itself through 5 expressions and each of them has
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  a unique dynamics for releasing them.
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  And if you do not know, you will be surprised that you'll only be
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  operating in one expression and then the rest will not work in
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  your life. Is someone learning?
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  Praise the name of the Lord. 5 expressions.
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  Pray in the Spirit in one minute.
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  Thank you Jesus, light is coming, Thank you Jesus,
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  knowledge is coming. Thank you Jesus, someone is
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  extending. Finally, you are getting a hold
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  of how the power of God works. Blessed is he who comes in the
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  name of our God. Blessed is he who comes in the
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  name of our God. Blessed is he who comes in the
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  name of A. Alleluia #1 So the power of God
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  already? I'm sure you've already picked
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  this as an idea that the power of God does not work
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  generically. No, there are expressions to it,
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  and every expression has a boundary as to how it functions
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  so that when you receive spiritual power, you don't just
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  say I am powerful. You'll be surprised how much
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  level of ignorance is in believers as far as the subject
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  of power is concerned. So let's look at it quickly.
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  Number one, the first expression of spiritual power is called the
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  power to become. Write it down, please.
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  The power to become This is the first expression of spiritual
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  power. This expression of God's power
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  is responsible for growth, for change and transformation.
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  The power to become Write it down, please.
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  It is responsible for growth, for change and for
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  transformation. Genesis chapter 1 three and four
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  we already read that and God said light be so when there was
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  darkness, the dimension or the expression of power that was
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  released here are we together there was no need for.
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  Healing. There was no need for whatever.
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  What was needed was change and transformation.
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  And he said light be and there was, and he saw that it had
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  changed to become good. The power to become is the
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  expression of God's power that is responsible for growth, for
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  change, and for transformation. John 112.
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  John 112. Can you play the strings for me,
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  please? John 112.
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  But as many as received him look up believers, As many as
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  received him he gave unto them. Power to become, someone said.
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  Power to become. This is powerful.
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  The power does not just make you a son of God.
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  The power makes anything become. It is the power responsible for
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  growth. You don't have the power to
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  become. Your organization cannot grow.
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  Your life cannot grow. It is the power that is released
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  when the Word of God is taught. This power works hand in hand
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  with the teaching ministry. This is the power that creates
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  transformation. It evolves people from their
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  former versions to a more superior version.
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  It's called the power to become. Is someone learning praise the
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  name of the Lord as many as received him, he gave them power
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  to become in first chronicles 29 and verse 12 we read that
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  earlier on the power to become both riches and honor come from
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  thee, and thou reignest over them he says and in thy hand is
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  what power and. Might, and in thy hand with that
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  power it is to make great, and to give strength to all.
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  When the Lord opened my eyes to see this, I was I was really,
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  really surprised. The operation of this power is
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  most visibly seen in salvation, transformation, or having a
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  sound mind healing the healing ministry and the manifestation
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  of prophetic. Words.
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  These departments of spiritual possibilities are sponsored by
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  this dimension of power, salvation.
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  It is the power to become that can turn a Sinner, to become
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  converted in a moment that someone comes to church, an
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  unbeliever, A Sinner, and at the instance of the Word of God that
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  person is willing to lay down their life, lay down their old
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  ways. It is called the power to
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  become, in the case of salvation, to become sons of
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  God. But it's also the power that
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  turns a student into a master. It is the power that turns weak
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  to strong. When the power to become is upon
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  a man, don't judge that man. You will say I'm sorry for the
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  rest of your life because it's the power that can turn Saul to
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  Paul. Are we together?
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  Everybody who desires to learn, you must cry for the power to
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  become. So when you say I'm receiving
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  power, it's important to understand what dimension, what
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  expression of that power is profitable.
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  Without the power to become, man will never be able to
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  understand, no matter how well you teach.
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  A teacher of the world that has not so obtained this dimension
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  of power will only be an intelligent communicator of
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  information. People will not.
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  Instinctively they will agree with you, but they cannot be
• 1:05:15
  changed by it. Have you seen people like that?
• 1:05:18
  You sit under such an intense atmosphere of oratory masters at
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  communicating words, but you cannot fish a sizable enough
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  people who are transformed by that.
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  Word when the Lord. Opened my eyes to see this, I
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  prayed and I said Lord let my words not become empty.
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  Let it go beyond the intelligence, the vocal
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  expressions. This is what happens to you when
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  you listen to me is beyond the election.
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  You are under the influence of the power to become.
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  Power to become. It can change a man in India
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  regardless your culture. It can change a man in Saudi
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  Arabia. It does not factor the weight of
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  the impact that culture has had on your mind.
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  Under the influence, you can turn anyone.
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  Teachers need this in secondary schools.
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  Teachers need this to change society.
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  It is also the power that transforms societies.
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  You local people in the prison, if they do not have the power to
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  become, bring them out, they will go back again.
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  It is the power to become yes, Sir, it is true.
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  Every time you find a people under any kind of influence and
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  they are changing methodically, structurally, I'm telling you is
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  beyond the words they are hearing.
• 1:06:43
  I've taught you that there is a layer of spiritual reality that
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  is intellectual. It feeds your mind, but there is
• 1:06:51
  a layer that is above intellect. You yourself cannot understand
• 1:06:54
  what is happening to you. Yet you are changing.
• 1:06:57
  I receive, I manifest. Now you understand what you're
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  singing, Your power and your wisdom.
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  Till the nations see Jesus lifted up, Exalted I receive, I
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  manifest. Your power and your wisdom till
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  the nation see Jesus. So when you tell someone in the
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  name of Jesus, may your life change.
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  The dimension of power released through that prophetic word is
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  the power to become. That's the grace that moves that
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  person and creates a scenario and will change that man's life.
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  Every time change occurs, every time growth occurs, every time
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  transformation occurs, every time manifestations happen.
• 1:08:08
  It's not every part of power that worked.
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  It is the power to become. When you have this power they
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  can keep you in a room with the most rebellious people.
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  I am telling you they will change.
• 1:08:22
  Parents need this power more than a road.
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  You can counsel and say change now.
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  Why are you smoking and drinking?
• 1:08:30
  You can pray and fast. What you lack is the power to
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  become. This is the power that is
• 1:08:38
  missing in institutions and organizations.
• 1:08:41
  And for a long time you will find the institution still
• 1:08:44
  stunted. They do everything they know,
• 1:08:47
  but there is no growth. Let that grace come on your
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  organization and you will be surprised to watch what happens.
• 1:08:54
  Can I tell you the power to become is a real revelation?
• 1:08:58
  It's changed my life and if you're wondering why God has
• 1:09:02
  given this ministry extraordinary growth that we
• 1:09:06
  have come to be known as a platform that transforms
• 1:09:09
  believers is beyond oratory is beyond English.
• 1:09:13
  Every time you hear the word as you arrive here, there is
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  already an influence waiting for you.
• 1:09:18
  It sucks you in like a magnet and whilst you are hearing it
• 1:09:22
  pounds upon every spony heart and begins to re engineer your
• 1:09:27
  convictions. The power to become by the mercy
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  of God. I can tell you, I know what I'm
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  saying. They are not cunningly devised
• 1:09:35
  fables. The things that we have seen,
• 1:09:37
  the things that we have heard, the things that our hands have
• 1:09:41
  handled, the power to become piracy.
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  I manifest your power and your wisdom till the nation.
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  See Jesus, lift it up. Exhorted, I receive.
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  I manifest your power and your wisdom, till the nation.
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  See Jesus lift it up. As you are listening to me, look
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  at your organization. If it is not growing, it may not
• 1:10:34
  just be that maybe your your points and your ideas are wrong.
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  It is that this spiritual. Advantage called the power to be
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  calm. It is impossible.
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  This is the same power that causes a seed to become a tree,
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  a seed a seed Resurrection power.
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  Is an expression of this. It is buried in shame, but it
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  pours in glory. So when God wants to help a
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  family that has never been great, it is not just binding
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  and casting. I will show you how these powers
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  work. I'm telling you, this is what
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  takes small and makes great. You are a businessman and what
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  you have is just capital. This right here, ladies and
• 1:11:21
  gentlemen, is what can cause 5 loaf and two fish to feed 5000
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  The power to become. Who understands what we're
• 1:11:29
  learning? When this is on you, the size of
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  what you carry no longer becomes a disadvantage.
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  You can have two children, may not go to the best of schools,
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  but let the power to become rest on them.
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  They can carry one book, one tape and become champions.
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  The power to become. This is the first power to
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  function. You will never work in dominion
• 1:11:57
  as a leader, as a man of God, as a captain over God's
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  inheritance, if you do not understand the power to become
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  so. God can bring all kinds of
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  people to you. Already You see one person who
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  had this ability in the Bible, David.
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  When David was in The Cave of Adulam, they brought to him men
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  who were distressed. They brought to him men who were
• 1:12:19
  in debt. God knew and He turned them into
• 1:12:22
  mighty warriors. Mighty warriors.
• 1:12:27
  We need more of disgrace in the body of Christ because there is
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  a lot of sound, truthful teaching.
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  But sometimes we wonder why people are not changed by it.
• 1:12:36
  They hear and they not preach. Preacher Kai, this is nice.
• 1:12:40
  And at the end of it, two years, three years, no transformation.
• 1:12:43
  When growth is lacking, when change is lacking, when
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  transformation is lacking, when prophecies don't manifest, you
• 1:12:52
  need the power to become. Please be seated.
• 1:12:59
  See the army of the Lord marching in the name of Jehovah,
• 1:13:07
  Jehovah. We're the army of the Lord
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  marching in the name of Jehovah. Jehovah.
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  Every teacher of the world should go and cry to God in the
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  place of prayer. Grant unto me by your mercy.
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  The power to become for myself and for those who come under the
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  influence of that teaching ministry.
• 1:13:58
  And you will watch transformation in one moment.
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  You will turn children into science and wonders.
• 1:14:04
  You will turn adults into science and wonders.
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  Nothing is too late for the man who is under the influence.
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  Of the power to become for as long as there is a hearing ear.
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  Remember the parable that was given in the Bible that a lion
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  came and ate a lamb. It ate everything and when the
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  shepherd came, he only found two ears and one leg. 2 ears and one
• 1:14:29
  leg? Or is it 1 ear and two legs and
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  the shepherd still rescued it? That's right.
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  Am I? No, no, no, no.
• 1:14:36
  Look for it. For me, I think that should be
• 1:14:37
  Amos, the book of Amos or somewhere as a shepherd, that
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  that's how God will rescue his people.
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  Amos, look at it as the shepherd take it out of the mouth of a
• 1:14:48
  lion, 2 legs and one ear. What kind of how do you?
• 1:14:53
  I mean the lion has eaten the lamb and nothing is left except
• 1:14:57
  2 legs and one ear. And the shepherd said there's
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  still hope. There is still hope.
• 1:15:03
  I mean intestines eating every part.
• 1:15:05
  You know why? Because if there is one ear to
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  hear and two feet to take a step of faith, there will always be
• 1:15:12
  restoration as a shepherd. So don't tell me your situation
• 1:15:18
  is hopeless. Come under the influence of the
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  power to become. I'm telling you it can redirect
• 1:15:25
  your life. That's the power that came upon
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  roof. She lost her first marriage.
• 1:15:30
  Her husband died. You thought everything was over.
• 1:15:33
  I know we call it different names, restoration,
• 1:15:35
  breakthrough, but I'm showing you from a power angle.
• 1:15:39
  These are the expressions of power that birth those
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  possibilities. When you are under the influence
• 1:15:44
  of that power, let men laugh at you.
• 1:15:46
  They will only be wasting their time.
• 1:15:47
  Change is inevitable. To the one who is under that
• 1:15:51
  influence, can you pray in one minute?
• 1:15:53
  Lord, I desire the power to become for my life.
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  Someone pray. One minute.
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  The expression of God's power that is responsible for growth,
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  for change, for transformation. In Jesus name we pray.
• 1:16:31
  Hallelujah. So when Gabriel told Mary the
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  power of the highest, this was what he meant, She said.
• 1:16:39
  How shall these things be? Every time you see the power to
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  become, you hear the word be be. You shall receive power.
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  After that the Holy Ghost come upon you, and you be unto me.
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  Unto me you shall be witnesses. It makes men.
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  It doesn't just tell you what should be, it molds you.
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  It evolves you to become a personification and animation of
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  that possibility, the power to become.
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  Do you believe this? #2 let's hurry up.
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  The second expression of spiritual power.
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  We're in the school of power tonight.
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  The second expression of spiritual power.
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  Are you ready? Is called power against.
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  Power against this is manifestation of spiritual power
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  as a defense. I'll explain that very quickly.
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  Power against this expression of God's power.
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  Empowers the believer to resist the operation of demonic
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  spirits, the activities of evil men, and to counter satanic
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  accusations. I'll take that again.
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  The power against is an expression of God's power that
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  empowers the believer to resist the operation of demonic
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  spirits, the activities of evil. Men and to counter satanic
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  accusations. Matthew chapter 10 and verse
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  one. Ephesians 6 and verse 12.
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  Media prepare this quickly. Matthew 10 one back to Matthew
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  10 and verse one. And when He had called on to
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  himself, the 12 disciples write and then read, I'll repeat
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  myself again, so don't worry you just look up.
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  When He had called the 12 disciples, He gave them what?
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  Talk to me. He gave them power against
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  unclean spirits, to cast the spirits out and to heal all
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  manner of sicknesses and all manner of diseases.
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  Power against this is a system of defense.
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  Ephesians 6. 12. 612 We wrestle not talk to me, ladies and
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  gentlemen, we wrestle not against.
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  There has to be an opponent to counter by faith for this power
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  to be activated. Power against.
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  It is not. Against flesh and blood.
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  But it is against. So this power is against
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  principalities. It is against powers against
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  rulers. Notice how many times the Bible
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  uses against in one statement. One statement at least four
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  times against. Against principalities, against
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  powers against rulers, against spiritual wickedness in high
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  places, power against So it is an expression of God's power
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  that empowers the believer to resist the operation of demonic
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  spirits, the activities of evil men and the and to counter
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  satanic accusations. Write this down.
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  This is the dimension of power activated and released.
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  When you engage in warfare prayers when you engage in
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  warfare prayers, this is a dimension of spiritual power
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  that is released power against. It is the dimension of power
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  activated and released when you engage in warfare.
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  Prayers. Now listen, please.
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  It demands A thorough knowledge. Of the Believers authority
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  alongside a rich and consistent prayer life.
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  Activating and releasing this power demands A thorough
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  knowledge. On the Believers authority.
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  If you want to release this power, it demands that you must
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  have a thorough knowledge now we together on redemption realities
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  the finished work of Christ, the believers authority alongside a
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  rich and consistent prayer life. If your knowledge of the
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  scripture, particularly the believers authority is low or
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  zero and your prayer life is inconsistent, you cannot release
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  this dimension of power. Power against.
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  Now look at me. You can have the power to become
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  and shockingly not have the power against.
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  So you can grow, you can build, and with one demonic attack,
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  everything you have built comes crumbling.
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  There are people who have power, but what dimension of power they
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  have the power to become. Everything grows, everything
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  rises. And in one day.
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  This one is an insurance system. It protects what has been built.
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  Power against it demands A thorough knowledge of the
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  believers authority alongside a rich and consistent prayer life.
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  You do not. Have a sound knowledge, you see
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  why many believers who may be excelling in life, business
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  growing. When it gets to the issue of
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  warfare after 10 years, 15 years, five years, something
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  just happens. Now notice what I said.
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  This power fights #1 demonic attacks #2 the activities of
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  evil men. The power to become can involve
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  you to become a director, and unreasonable and wicked men can
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  come and speak against your rising, your stain.
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  If you do not know how to engage, the power against you
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  would drop down. I'm telling you it would drop
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  down. It is terrible to rise and not
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  be able to stay there. Because you lack the power
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  against now, whether you like it or not.
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  Here comes the funny saying, Who did I trouble?
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  That trouble has come to me now. Once God comes to you, look
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  somewhere around. Satan is there too.
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  He want to know why is God coming to you?
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  Why are angels coming to you? And he will be interested like
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  he did for Eve. I want to know what God says.
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  I told you that even Satan depends on the speakings of God
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  to attack you. If he has not heard what God has
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  told you, he cannot attack you. He kept pressing on Eve.
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  What did God tell you? I want to know.
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  And the moment Eve said it, I said I know it.
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  I now know how to attack her. And he got her.
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  And Paul was speaking. He said, I fear lest Satan
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  beguile you. True subtlety, like he did to
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  Eve in the garden. You see that Satan also depends
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  on the Word of God. You are not the only one who
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  needs the Word of God. He needs it too, to attack you.
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  If he has not heard what God has said about you, he remains
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  important. But when he hears that's the
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  reason why the moment prophecy goes ahead of you, the Bible
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  says this charge I give unto you, my son Timothy, that you
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  wore a good warfare. Every time prophetic
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  declarations come, it's not the time to cross your leg and
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  laugh. Just know the prophecy and every
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  good word from God also invites Satan.
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  Everything good is also why bad comes.
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  Promotion is why evil comes. A good life, good children is
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  also why bad children come. Look at me, ladies and
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  gentlemen. Have you seen, say, potato?
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  When you put potato together, how many of you know that when
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  you leave it there, eventually you may find one getting rotten
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  and then maggots or whatever begin to come?
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  They were attracted to anything good.
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  The moment you are carrying the grace and the glory of God.
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  Let me tell you this for your information, you don't need to
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  violate any spiritual law. Satan is attracted to anything
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  and anyone that glorifies God. Write that down.
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  Satan is attracted to anything and anyone that glorifies God
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  and he will not leave by default.
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  He must be resisted. The power that resists the devil
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  is called the power against. Let's finish up is someone
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  learning James chapter 4 and verse 7 the Bible says to submit
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  yourself under therefore to God and then it says resist the
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  devil. The power to become is not the
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  one that plays this role. It is power against you wore a
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  good warfare. What is warfare?
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  In the place of prayer and true spiritual intelligence, you
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  establish an experience in your life, the victory that has been
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  finished in Christ. When we say warfare, you are not
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  just trying to box Satan one and he boxes you like a military man
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  fighting and sustaining injury. No, the believer approaches
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  warfare from a standpoint. Of victory, all be it.
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  It is not imputed to you as an experience until you engage
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  using the power of prayer and the weapon of spiritual
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  intelligence. Are we together?
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  Let me show you how the power against worked in the life of
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  Jesus. Matthew chapter 4.
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  So the Bible says that the Spirit drove Jesus to the
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  wilderness and when he went there he was being tempted of
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  the devil. Let's see how he resisted the
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  devil. So when the Bible says resist
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  the devil, don't guess your way. Go to the Bible and study how
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  Jesus resisted the devil. That becomes your template.
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  Notice resisting the devil for Jesus was an interplay of a
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  strong prayer life and a word life.
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  He had prayed for 40 days and 40 nights, yet he would have fallen
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  like a pack of cards had he not known the word.
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  So if the only thing you do is to pray and pray and pray and
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  you are not sound in scripture, the power against will fail you
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  1000 times. It will not even work.
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  So Satan comes to Jesus haven't fasted 40 days, 40 nights
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  praying. In this case the Bible calls him
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  the tempter. So he came and he said if you
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  are the son of God, my God. Notice Satan never said anything
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  about his prayer. He went straight to something
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  the word of God said challenging his being a Messiah.
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  If you are the Son of God command the stones to be bred.
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  Are we together and Jesus said it is prayerful people, you must
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  also learn to say it is. Jesus did not say I prayed.
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  He didn't say I fasted. He said it is written.
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  If you are ever looking for a theological balance between the
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  ministry of the world and prayer, go to Matthew. 4.
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  Matthew Chapter 4. Man shall not live by bread
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  alone. Listen, but by every word that
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  proceeded out of the mouth of God.
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  Notice how Satan switched next temptation, verse 5.
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  The devil taken him into a holy city and set at him on the
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  pinnacle. Jesus started speaking
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  scripture. Satan also switched to
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  scripture. He said to him, If thou be the
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  Son of God, cast thyself down for it is who is saying it is
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  written now This is where discernment to prayer balances
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  it because if you have it is written and you are not
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  prayerful. Satan will use it is written to
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  bring you down. There are people who say once is
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  in the world, That's it. Oh my God, the world can be
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  twisted to become an instrument of mass destruction, except you
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  sustain discernment that only comes through the place of
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  prayer. Is someone learning?
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  Now? I hope you know I've taught you
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  that the Bible as itself, this written manual, is not
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  necessarily what you call the Word of God.
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  It is a concise capture of the thoughts of God.
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  But this is a compendium of many stories canonized through
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  history. Are we together?
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  Printed by White Taker House, Zonda Van, and publishing
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  houses. Many of them, with all due
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  respect, were not even born again to them.
• 1:29:35
  They are running businesses. The Bible Society of Nigeria has
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  Bibles, Gideon's International, many, many people, individuals,
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  churches. It is not the letter here.
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  The letter here is a compendium of a religious manual.
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  There are many faiths, practices across the globe that need the
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  Bible. There are many theological
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  people, in fact many PhD people, who need the Bible to write
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  their dissertation. They are not Christians.
• 1:30:02
  For instance, if you study world religion, you may be asked to do
• 1:30:05
  a thesis on the evolution of Christianity through the
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  centuries. You don't have to be a
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  Christian. You approach it purely from a
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  historic standpoint and you will need to make reference to
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  prophecies here, make reference to the archaeological
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  presentations as captured in the Bible.
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  That does not automatically mean you're a child of God.
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  So if you say it is written to mean I choose the word and I
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  ignore prayer. Satan will use his scripture and
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  manipulate you. He will manipulate you 1000
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  times. Look what he told Jesus and tell
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  me what he said that was wrong here.
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  For it is written. He shall give his angels charge
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  over you. Did the psalmist not say this?
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  And in their hands they shall beg you, lest you dash your feet
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  against the stone. Say, Raymond, you would have
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  held Satan and said there's no need of fighting.
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  We can be partners in this work. You know it is written.
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  I know it is written, but watch a man of prayer.
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  Watch the response that is derived from prayer stamina.
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  It is written again, thou shalt not tempt the Lord your God.
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  So he calls a beautiful suggestion, temptation.
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  How did he interpret it and discern prayer The same way
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  Peter comes to Jesus and says, ah, don't die now, you know,
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  don't go to the cross. And he said, get thee behind me,
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  Satan. I'm sure Peter was wondering, he
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  says Satan has desired to sift you like wheat, but I have
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  prayed for you that your faith failed not.
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  And when you are converted, use this prayer strategy to also
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  strengthen your brethren. That means in their zeal to
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  knowing God, times will come in their lives where they will see
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  a vision that looks like God. It has, it is written in it.
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  But when you judge by discernment, you will find out
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  this temptation. If it's in the Bible, I would do
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  it. That means you will go to hell.
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  There are many, many things that will come using the guise of it
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  is written and destroy your life.
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  Are we together? Laziness can.
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  There is a place in scripture if you twist, you can justify
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  laziness. He giveth his beloved sleep.
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  Man must sleep and you go to bed, but you forget.
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  A little sleep and a little slumber, a little folding of the
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  eyes, and poverty comes upon you like an armed bandit.
• 1:32:29
  The Bible is a prophetic book pending on what spirit
• 1:32:33
  influences you. You can make it speak any
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  language, so don't just tell me it was read from the Bible.
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  You judge spirits and that's the assignment of prayer.
• 1:32:41
  Who is learning tonight power against colonia?
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  Blessed are your ears, for you hear these things now don't
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  forget. To manifest power against is
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  beyond being a prayer warrior, you must be sound.
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  You must have a a a sound theological construct of the
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  believers authority. It is the reason why, and I'm
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  saying this with with with a heavy heart and with every sense
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  of humility and responsibility. I charge ministers of the gospel
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  in righteousness fellow Co laborers.
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  It's important that in addition to teaching people to pray, they
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  must have a strong theological foundation of a sound exergesis,
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  a sound discourse of the believers journey to victory.
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  You know, in Africa, we. Pray.
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  But the challenge is that our prayer is bankrupt of spiritual
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  intelligence. Our prayer is full of sympathy,
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  full of traditional expressions. So someone goes to pray
• 1:33:50
  sincerely, a tired, frustrated believer and let me give you an
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  idea of how he or she prays. Father, I thank you in the name
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  of Jesus and I'm I'm bringing all these kind of things to you.
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  I've been telling you about this and that and that and in the
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  name of Jesus I am this and that and this and that.
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  And Father, I'm asking you, if you are God, you have to do
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  this. I'm giving you 2 weeks and this
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  and that and you say all. Kinds of things.
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  Look what you are doing to those people.
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  They are mocking me and you are just watching.
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  Amen. And you see, once you see all
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  those kinds kinds of things, you feel comforted.
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  But don't forget there is a protocol for answered prayers.
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  God is a God of love, but He operates under the influence of
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  His word, meaning He will not just answer you out of
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  compassion. Compassion moves Him to you.
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  But response is a product of your correctly engaging the
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  word. That's why if you are getting it
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  wrong, His message draws you to where you can hear the right
• 1:34:45
  Word. God's expression of mercy to a
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  man is taking him where you can hear the Word.
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  Regardless what it is, you will not escape the Word.
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  The Word must always midwife correct divine manifestations in
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  your life. If you're understanding me so
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  far, say Amen. Praise God, we pray a lot of
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  emotional sympathetic prayers. We pray a lot of Tractor African
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  prayers. We feel our prayers with all
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  kinds of emotions and just because we feel it is heartfelt,
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  but it is not effective. The Bible says the fervent
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  effectual prayer. You know what makes prayer
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  fervent? The word there is heartfelt,
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  that your energy, your heart, your emotions are invested into
• 1:35:29
  it, but it must also be effectual.
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  What makes prayer effectual is that it is constant assistant
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  with the will of God, and it is word compliance.
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  If your prayer is not consistent with the word will of God and it
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  is not word compliance, then it's missed the rule for
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  producing power, he said. This is the confidence we have
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  that when we ask anything according to His will, we know
• 1:35:55
  that He hears us. Hallelujah, praise the name of
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  the Lord is someone learning. Who are discussing power against
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  so I'll tell you why you're trying to cast out that demon
• 1:36:07
  from your dream or why you woke up and even tried physically and
• 1:36:11
  the devil seemed to make mockery of you and you are now doubting
• 1:36:14
  and say, am I really a Christian?
• 1:36:16
  I'll tell you what is wrong. There is a low level of what
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  bank within your spirit and there's not sufficient
• 1:36:23
  investment in understanding. So even though you are praying,
• 1:36:26
  you just got up and say hey this demon, God forbid I saw myself
• 1:36:30
  in a grave that grave I wouldn't die.
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  You don't know I am plans, Apostle said.
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  All of those kinds of things will not bring you victory.
• 1:36:38
  This is Nigerian film Lamentation.
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  You have to be a believer. You see, we shout all kinds of
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  things. Oh no, God, you see this kind of
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  thing. I can't die.
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  I won't die. And you're still afraid I won't
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  die. I'm confident I won't.
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  And you know no, but there's one who can wake up and like arrows
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  at least 5 scriptures. As you are waking up from that
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  scene, you saw yourself in a grave.
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  He shall keep his bones and none is missing.
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  I said before you, life and death.
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  I have been raised up with Christ.
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  Are we together now? I've been given authority.
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  These are the scriptures that build a Garrison, and upon the
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  strength of that conviction, you pray, not out of fear, but as a
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  Kingdom responsibility, your partnership with the Word and
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  the Spirit to stamp and declare that I am still willing to
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  leave. I am still willing to walk in
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  victory. Who is learning tonight?
• 1:37:41
  Power against. Demands knowledge.
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  And confidence that is derived from the certainty of the things
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  you have. Learned.
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  Backtop by an extended period of prayer investments.
• 1:37:55
  If you only pray during as an emergency response system, the
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  realm of the Spirit will have no respect for you.
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  And let me tell you, ladies and gentlemen, beware of people who
• 1:38:04
  downplay prayer. I've taught you prayer is not
• 1:38:07
  the only key, but prayer is a foundational key.
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  And where it is not the only key, it becomes the hand that
• 1:38:14
  holds the key. Praise the name of the Lord.
• 1:38:18
  Is someone learning? Hallelujah.
• 1:38:22
  Are you ready for #3 Tell me you are learning by shouting.
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  Amen. So we've discussed 2 expressions
• 1:38:30
  of spiritual power #1 the power to become #2 the power against 2
• 1:38:39
  / 5. Can you imagine?
• 1:38:41
  So for someone who is in this power team, why am I falling
• 1:38:45
  down? Things are not working.
• 1:38:47
  I'm showing you what is wrong. Your mind is stayed on one
• 1:38:51
  dimension of the operation of power, not knowing that you can
• 1:38:54
  see. Just having the knowledge of
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  these two alone already gives you an edge.
• 1:38:58
  Ready for number 3 #3 the third dimension of prayer of power or
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  third expression is called exemption.
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  Power is called power over, exemption power, power over,
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  power over. There is power to become, There
• 1:39:21
  is power against, there is power over.
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  Let's define this. This is an empowerment to rise
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  above the realm and the reach of wicked spirits, territorial
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  forces and man made limitations. I'll define this for you again.
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  Exemption power or power over, is an empowerment to rise above
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  the realm and the reach of wicked spirits.
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  Territorial forces and man made limitations.
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  The character of this power is that it exempts and enthrones.
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  It exempts and enthrones. It does not just defend, it
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  exempts and enthrones. Luke chapter 10 and verse 19
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  amplified Luke 10. 19. Power over the exemption.
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  Power. Behold, I have given you
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  authority and power to trample upon serpents and scorpions and
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  physical and mental strength and ability over all the powers that
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  the enemy possesses and nothing. Read the last sentence,
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  everybody. Let me show you how that power
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  works. Ready 1 to go one last time.
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  Last sentence What do you understand?
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  By any way or any means? And nothing shall by any means.
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  KJV Nothing shall by any means, by any means hurt you.
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  Nothing shall by any means hurt you.
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  There is power above. Now watch this Psalm 18 and
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  verse 29. I'll describe for you how this
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  power operates. Are you ready to read?
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  Don't be tired. 18 and 29 want to go for by thee I have run
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  through a troop, and by my God I have lived.
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  Keep that there. Do you see two experiences
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  there? When you are running through a
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  troop you need power against? Who is learning now?
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  Power. The troop is before you.
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  You are at the level of the troop, so you run against.
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  You need an energy that is greater than what the troop is
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  bringing. But there is another dimension
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  where by my God, I can leap over a wall.
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  It doesn't matter whether the world breaks or not.
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  You can leap over a wall. Who is learning?
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  By my God, I can leap over. A wall.
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  By my God, I can leap over a wall.
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  Efficient one. We read that earlier.
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  Let's read again. 19 to 22 power above, and what is the exceeding
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  greatness of his power to us word who believe according to
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  the working of his mighty power. Verse 20, which he wrote in
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  Christ, was the operation of this power when he raised Him.
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  What does it do? It raises people, it raises
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  things I told you, it exempts and it enthrones.
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  He raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in
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  the heavenly places. 21 Far above, Come on now, far above
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  principalities and power, and might and dominion, and every
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  name that is named, not only in this world, but that which also
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  is to come. 22 And the Bible says he had put all things under
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  his feet and gave him to be the head over all things to the
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  church. 23 I believe, says the fullness of him that feels all
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  and in all power above. Now listen and then you write,
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  walking in. The experience of this power
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  demands A thorough understanding of the Word.
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  It demands seasons of strategic warfare and then practical
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  ascension through a life of consistent prayer.
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  Let me tell you what this happens.
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  This is an aggregate of walking in the power against, and as
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  your revelation begins to grow, the power against is not
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  supposed to be your final lot as far as the operation of power is
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  concerned. Are we together?
• 1:44:08
  A day should come through a sound progressive knowledge of
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  the Word, consistent track record of ascending Rams through
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  prayer. You get to a point where what
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  challenge you yesterday, even though you could resist it can
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  no longer reach you. Is someone learning now?
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  So the ultimate is not to keep fighting.
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  Then you win, keep fighting. You can gain ascendance in the
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  spirit where you enter your Sabbath in experience.
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  So you only become a helper of many.
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  I tell you the truth without any sense of pride.
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  There are certain attacks that cannot happen in my life again.
• 1:44:47
  It can't. It's not possible.
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  My realm of spiritual reality has afforded me the luxury to
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  watch from an eagle's view. I know it cannot come near me
• 1:44:57
  again now. Once Upon a time it was
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  something that could battle. I could, I could stand by the
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  word of God and wage war. And I saw the power against
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  work. But I know that there is power
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  above it, exempts and enthrones. You see when you study the life
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  of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, they were in the fire
• 1:45:21
  and there's what the Bible says that the fire had no power over
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  them. They saw the 4th man in the fire
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  and they were brought out of that dungeon where the power was
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  and they were exalted. But do you know something very
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  interesting? The Bible starts by telling us
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  that Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego were not the only
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  eunuchs that came. Question Where was Daniel in all
• 1:45:45
  of these things? Because the instruction was that
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  everybody will bow. How come Daniel was not there?
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  Your Daniel, it would have been Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach,
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  Abednego. God helped everybody, but where
• 1:46:06
  was Daniel that he did not join in the bowing?
• 1:46:09
  Because we know for sure that there were not only three
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  people. The story makes it look like
• 1:46:14
  only three people stood for Jesus, but there was a Daniel
• 1:46:17
  and yet he was not in the fire. The power above.
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  Let me tell you, ladies and gentlemen, challenges are not
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  generic. There are people who have lost
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  the ability to experience certain levels of reality.
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  God has lifted them by understanding.
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  And by mercy are we together. Let me use a financial
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  explanation so that you will understand how many of you know
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  from a physical standpoint. I'm not even talking spiritual
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  things. There are people from a
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  financial. Standpoint in all honesty, they
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  will never understand certain things again.
• 1:46:57
  Are we together? Praise the name of the Lord.
• 1:46:59
  They have been so lifted, especially those who walked in
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  righteousness. If you go to Buckingham Palace
• 1:47:06
  today or you go to the Sultan of Brunel and the children or the
• 1:47:09
  King of Qatar or any of these people and discuss certain
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  things with them and say do you know honestly we have a problem
• 1:47:16
  in our house. Can you imagine the Sabbos
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  meets? I don't.
• 1:47:20
  There is not that they are not they cannot on.
• 1:47:22
  It's not that maybe they are they are intentionally rejecting
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  yours. There is no possibility of
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  conceiving those things. Or if you tell them an aircraft
• 1:47:32
  went and left me, they can only sympathize with you.
• 1:47:36
  But it's not. They were never.
• 1:47:37
  They've never entered commercial.
• 1:47:39
  They don't even know what it looks like.
• 1:47:41
  I'm talking of the children now. It's not that they grew.
• 1:47:44
  They were born in it. Are you getting what I'm saying
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  now? Power above I prophesied to
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  someone. There are certain attacks.
• 1:47:57
  Your children will not know because in the name of Jesus, by
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  the time they are born you would have extended the realm and you
• 1:48:05
  would draw them with you in the name of Jesus Christ.
• 1:48:10
  Certain things you suffered as a result of ignorance or your
• 1:48:14
  level of knowledge was low. I decree and declare you will be
• 1:48:18
  the last person to go to the realm of pay those who come
• 1:48:24
  after you. You will be so fortified with
• 1:48:27
  knowledge. What took you 20 years.
• 1:48:29
  In two years they would have gotten it and they will start
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  manifesting that result in the name of Jesus Christ.
• 1:48:38
  Please be seated. The Bible tells us that in all
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  of Babylon, three Hebrew boys refused.
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  But that detail, looking at it like that from the lens of what
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  we know, didn't seem accurate. Because there was a fourth man
• 1:48:58
  called Daniel and he kept his integrity all through.
• 1:49:03
  He had his own challenge where he was thrown into the lion's
• 1:49:06
  den. But with respect to
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  Nebuchadnezzar, and I've read a bit on it, one day I will tell
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  you the story of what really happened.
• 1:49:14
  There was a place he sat with the elders that did not allow
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  him go through this. There is an altitude in the
• 1:49:24
  spirit you can accent to through light, through prayer, through
• 1:49:31
  understanding. I am telling you that when evil
• 1:49:34
  comes, if Satan wants to attack you, you only have to use those
• 1:49:38
  around you. But to you directly, it's
• 1:49:41
  already a failed project. Is someone.
• 1:49:46
  Learning praise the name of the Lord.
• 1:49:49
  Power above it demands, I repeat again, a thorough understanding
• 1:49:54
  of the world, not just the believers authority.
• 1:49:57
  This one. You see, let me tell you, ladies
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  and gentlemen, all these blessings are available at
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  redemption. But working in the experience of
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  it, there is a threshold level of depth in the world you must
• 1:50:09
  have. There is a threshold level of
• 1:50:12
  prayer build up this this will have to be an ascendance in the
• 1:50:17
  spirit that has happened through a consistent track record of
• 1:50:22
  prayer. And then finally you evolve into
• 1:50:27
  a believer whose life is practically indomitable.
• 1:50:32
  Men like God's servant will shout and say it is a far above
• 1:50:35
  mentality, but there is a far above reality.
• 1:50:42
  So you can hear certain people tell you I have not fallen sick
• 1:50:46
  in five years, in 10 years. And honestly, some are telling
• 1:50:50
  lies, but there are some who are telling the truth.
• 1:50:52
  They truly have not. And it looks like in this mortal
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  body, flesh and bone, but they have accended the realm.
• 1:50:59
  Of course, they take care of themselves.
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  But I'm telling you they have tested of the reality of eternal
• 1:51:04
  life. It has become true in their
• 1:51:06
  life. It has become true.
• 1:51:11
  Hallelujah, I heard a. Story.
• 1:51:13
  I don't know how true it is that the late Arch Bishop Benzoni de
• 1:51:19
  Hosa, someone who had some kind of palsy, came to him and was
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  seeking prayer and the man jacked him up and said he should
• 1:51:29
  look up. And he said, God, this man was
• 1:51:31
  created in your image. If that's how he looks, leave
• 1:51:33
  him like that. Can you imagine?
• 1:51:42
  There is a kind of business you must do with God to make that
• 1:51:45
  kind of audacious statement. Someone shout.
• 1:51:53
  I'm far above. You see, when I taught you when
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  we discussed the topic rise up and walk, I taught you that the
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  mentality to rise up and walk is what attracts the possibility to
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  rise up and. Walk so once you are waiting for
• 1:52:10
  the power that takes you up, you can have the mentality.
• 1:52:15
  Still remember that that is the reason why the Lapras man was
• 1:52:18
  kept at gate beautiful. He needed to look at the gate as
• 1:52:22
  a picture of the beauty that could happen in his life.
• 1:52:25
  It was not yet his experience but he was kept at the gate as
• 1:52:30
  he gazed on it every day. Even though carried it built
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  something in him. The day the disciples said rise
• 1:52:36
  up and walk, he already had the mentality.
• 1:52:38
  So even if the reality of high above has not yet come to you,
• 1:52:43
  you can start with the mentality and you start by believing it is
• 1:52:48
  MyHeritage in Christ. I may still be begging for
• 1:52:50
  transport today, but in the name of Jesus, I am far above someone
• 1:52:54
  again shout far above like you believe it's say far above.
• 1:53:02
  We have been raised up with Christ, the Bible says, and we
• 1:53:04
  have been made to sit far above and I'm telling you there is
• 1:53:08
  exemption power. It is my personal challenge to
• 1:53:11
  my Christian work that in my lifetime before Christ comes,
• 1:53:14
  that God will grant us grace to evolve and literally become a
• 1:53:18
  demonstration of what it means to be a superhuman.
• 1:53:22
  That elemental forces and the things that tame men in terms of
• 1:53:26
  health, in terms of bodily degeneration, that you can gain
• 1:53:30
  ascendance in the Spirit, where the reality of eternal life
• 1:53:35
  flows from your spirit through your mind to your body.
• 1:53:38
  The Bible teaches us that even among the stars there are bodies
• 1:53:42
  that are celestial and there are bodies that are terrestrial.
• 1:53:46
  It says even among the stars, one different from another is
• 1:53:52
  someone learning. Believe this, believe this,
• 1:53:58
  believe this. If you fear their fears, you
• 1:54:00
  will receive their lot. There are certain things I don't
• 1:54:05
  expect to happen to me. If it happens to me, the power
• 1:54:10
  against is an advantage that I have to worry of, but from a
• 1:54:13
  mentality standpoint, I don't have a provision for it.
• 1:54:18
  When I wake up in the morning, I don't expect trouble.
• 1:54:21
  Bible basis. This is the day that the Lord
• 1:54:24
  has made. I go to Genesis 1.
• 1:54:26
  What happens to what God makes his is good and it remains good.
• 1:54:30
  I don't expect trouble, but if for any reason trouble comes,
• 1:54:33
  there is an advantage of the power against who is growing now
• 1:54:38
  praise the name of the Lord. Hallelujah.
• 1:54:43
  So walking in this experience demands A thorough understanding
• 1:54:46
  of the word seasons of strategic warfare.
• 1:54:50
  Are we together now? There are many careless
• 1:54:52
  believers who just say I'm in Christ and the meaning of that
• 1:54:55
  is everything is possible I and they read scriptures and do not
• 1:54:59
  understand that they are layers of revelation that makes.
• 1:55:02
  Those scriptures, spirit and life and they fold their arms.
• 1:55:05
  You are seeing everybody dying, attaching your family, and
• 1:55:08
  without any active time of praying, feeding with the world,
• 1:55:13
  being mentored to understand the theology of victory, you just
• 1:55:17
  fold your arms and say, God forbid me.
• 1:55:18
  I know I have. There's something about my blood
• 1:55:20
  you have there. Some.
• 1:55:21
  All these superstitious demons don't like my blood.
• 1:55:24
  My blood is bitter. Have you had?
• 1:55:25
  Those kind of. My blood is bitter, my flesh is
• 1:55:28
  not. You are joking.
• 1:55:30
  Your blood is bitter. Who told you that?
• 1:55:36
  They are interested in your blood?
• 1:55:37
  They're interested in killing, destroying you.
• 1:55:40
  You know, please don't feel bad. Don't feel bad and don't look
• 1:55:42
  down on anybody. But I am telling you, some of
• 1:55:45
  those superstitious things are the, the you are, you are, you
• 1:55:48
  are. I mean, it's a field day for
• 1:55:50
  demons. They like believers like that.
• 1:55:53
  And they create a stronghold around that theology.
• 1:55:56
  And while you continue to justify what you are doing,
• 1:56:00
  they, they get to wreck your life.
• 1:56:02
  Your knowledge must be structured.
• 1:56:04
  It must be what based. It must be aggregated
• 1:56:07
  theologically to understand your victory.
• 1:56:10
  What is the basis? Satan, don't come to me.
• 1:56:12
  Based on what? Based on what?
• 1:56:16
  There is a basis. Are we together?
• 1:56:19
  The Bible says bring forth your strong reasons.
• 1:56:21
  Present your course, said the Lord.
• 1:56:23
  He said, bring forth your strong reasons.
• 1:56:26
  If we're together, say Amen. Let me go to #4 quickly.
• 1:56:29
  I hope someone is learning. Are you ready for the 4th
• 1:56:32
  expression of power? I'm not going to dwell much
• 1:56:35
  here. It's called the staying power.
• 1:56:38
  The staying power, The 4th dimension, the 4th expression of
• 1:56:43
  spiritual power is the staying power.
• 1:56:48
  This one talks of spiritual stamina, Listen, the ability to
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  endure and to survive seasons until growth occurs or until
• 1:56:59
  victory is established. The staying power is the ability
• 1:57:05
  to endure and survive seasons, particularly negative or
• 1:57:10
  unfavorable seasons, until growth occurs or until victory
• 1:57:15
  is established, is called the staying power.
• 1:57:20
  The power to wait, the power to endure, the power to remain.
• 1:57:28
  If you do not have the staying power and you do not know the
• 1:57:32
  dynamics of the staying power, can I tell you this?
• 1:57:35
  You will never even survive until the Word of God manifests,
• 1:57:39
  because I will tell you this in the economy of victory, it takes
• 1:57:43
  time for victory to be manifest. Are we together?
• 1:57:47
  Someone said time again. Let me hear you say time.
• 1:57:51
  It takes time, ladies and gentlemen, from the day you
• 1:57:53
  believe God for your finances until you become structurally
• 1:57:57
  established, it takes time. From the day you trust God to
• 1:58:01
  set you free completely from the influences of demon spirits and
• 1:58:05
  their access to your life, it will take revelation.
• 1:58:08
  It will take time. It's a gradual process.
• 1:58:13
  It's a gradual process, and at such times you need the staying
• 1:58:17
  power. Let's consider a few scriptures.
• 1:58:20
  The staying power. Proverbs 24 and verse 10.
• 1:58:24
  Proverbs 24 and verse 10. The ability to endure and to
• 1:58:28
  survive seasons, especially negative, unfavorable seasons,
• 1:58:33
  until growth occurs or until victory is established.
• 1:58:37
  Proverbs 2410. It says, if thou faint, talk to
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  me, ladies and gentlemen, in the day of what?
• 1:58:44
  There is such a day in the life of a man, for whatever reason
• 1:58:47
  called the day of adversary. And it says, if you faint in
• 1:58:51
  that day, it is because your strength is small.
• 1:58:55
  Someone said the staying power. So sometimes you see as you are
• 1:58:59
  falling under the anointing, your mind is thinking science
• 1:59:02
  and wonders. God is imparting and imputing
• 1:59:06
  upon your strength because it will take one year, 2 years,
• 1:59:09
  three years before you mold into a believer that can manifest
• 1:59:13
  supernatural power. And so that you are not
• 1:59:15
  discouraged, there is an increasing so you can be in the
• 1:59:19
  midst of fire like it says in Isaiah 43, one and two it says
• 1:59:23
  fear not, I have redeemed you, I have called you by name, you are
• 1:59:27
  mine. Verse 2 it says when you pass
• 1:59:30
  through the rivers it shall not overflow you.
• 1:59:33
  When you walk through the fire you shall not be burnt.
• 1:59:38
  He never said when you rush through the fire, you walk
• 1:59:41
  through the fire. It's a time of silence,
• 1:59:45
  quietness, pain and inconvenience.
• 1:59:47
  Job 1414. Job chapter 14 and verse 14.
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  If a man die, shall he leave again?
• 1:59:57
  It says all the days of my appointed time I will wait.
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  When until my change comes? Someone say I will wait one more
• 2:00:08
  time. I will wait until my change
• 2:00:11
  comes. I will wait until the Word of
• 2:00:13
  God is made manifest. An example of one person who had
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  that dimension of spirit power in the Bible was the woman the
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  prophetess called Anna. You thought she went to the
• 2:00:24
  place of prayer and after two days or one week Jesus would
• 2:00:28
  arrive. You know how long she prayed?
• 2:00:30
  Read your Bible from the time she was a widow at about 24
• 2:00:34
  years thereabouts. She waited an extra 60 years.
• 2:00:38
  Someone say wait about 60 years or thereabouts.
• 2:00:43
  She was 84 in total, 24 when her husband died, and then about 60
• 2:00:49
  or 64 years. She had to wait and departed not
• 2:00:53
  from the temple, but served God with fast things and prayer
• 2:00:58
  night and day. 38 the Bible says, and she coming in that
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  instance, she gave thanks and, you know, gave all.
• 2:01:06
  She said that she had looked forward to the redemption of
• 2:01:09
  Jerusalem. She looked forward to it, but it
• 2:01:12
  did not happen in one day. There are many believers who
• 2:01:15
  cannot stand one week until prophecies manifest.
• 2:01:19
  They are discouraged. They cannot stand one month
• 2:01:22
  until prophecies manifest. They are discouraged.
• 2:01:24
  They cannot stand one year. God boy, you spoke.
• 2:01:28
  This is one year. What you need is the staying
• 2:01:31
  power. Is someone learning?
• 2:01:34
  Let me speak to a man of God here.
• 2:01:36
  Let me speak to a businessman. Everything you are doing is
• 2:01:39
  right. What you just need to do is
• 2:01:41
  wait. There are some things that
• 2:01:44
  cannot jump process. It will happen gradually, step
• 2:01:48
  by step, line upon line, precept upon precept.
• 2:01:52
  I recall an example that I always give here.
• 2:01:54
  If a baby, a baby takes say 1 drum of breast milk, does he
• 2:02:00
  become an adult? Do you suddenly call him an
• 2:02:02
  adult? He becomes a well fed baby.
• 2:02:06
  If an adult, he decides to go on a hunger strike and he shrinks
• 2:02:12
  until he's about to die. Do you call the person a baby?
• 2:02:16
  No, you call him a malnourished adult.
• 2:02:19
  But As for being a baby or adult, time has run his course
• 2:02:23
  in the life of that individual. There are some things that will
• 2:02:26
  only happen with time. Even prophecy.
• 2:02:29
  He prophecies sometimes and says according to the time of life.
• 2:02:35
  Is someone learning now? All the days of my appointed
• 2:02:38
  time? I will wait.
• 2:02:40
  Someone shout. I will wait.
• 2:02:42
  Shout it like you're receiving this grace.
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  Yeah, I will wait. Isaiah chapter 40.
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  I like this from verse 29. Isaiah chapter 40.
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  And verse 29. Here's what the Bible says,
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  speaking particularly among the youth and the young men.
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  If you back up to verse 28, let's let's hurry up on it.
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  So let's see how we can connect this.
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  Hast thou not known? Has thou not heard the
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  everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the
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  earth? He fainted not, neither is He
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  weary. There is no searching of His
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  understanding. He giveth power.
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  What does He give? The faint?
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  Did He say He gives? Counsel, did he say?
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  He advises. So when you are fainting, what
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  do you need? Now you know the the kind of
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  power, what kind of power, the staying power.
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  When you are fainting, you don't need, you don't just need the
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  power. Now you see all of these
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  dimensions of power. They work together.
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  If you look at it, it's like ingredients that mix in a pot.
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  You won't see what is happening. But when you go to a school, a
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  culinary school, that's when they begin to show you what
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  does. What are you getting the idea
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  now? So when you look at the results
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  in a man's life, you just see things working.
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  But I'm showing you that it's an interplay of many expressions of
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  power working together in synergy to produce what you call
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  victory. Do you understand me so far?
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  Let's finish up that scripture. He gives power to the faint, and
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  to them that have no might he increases strength.
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  Verse 30 A tragedy that comes on all men, even the youth shall
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  faint and be wary, and the young men shall utterly fall. 31 I
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  like this, but they that. So what is the condition for
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  receiving that power? No, you are wrong.
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  Wait on, wait on your problems does not bring you that power.
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  If you desire the staying power, the requirement is to know how
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  to wait on the Lord. And to wait on the Lord is not
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  just fasting alone, is to learn how to stay in His presence.
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  Stay in His presence, stay in His presence to wait on the
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  Lord. Shot yourself from the noise and
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  say, Lord, I don't have strength again if you don't come, He
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  says. How does he put it here?
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  My cry, O God, and attend unto my prayer.
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  From the ends of the earth will I cry unto you, It says, When my
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  heart is overwhelmed, is that still in your Bible?
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  It says Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.
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  There are times that your heart can be overwhelmed.
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  The vicissitudes of life can so tell on you.
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  Even the most courageous can be shaken at such times.
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  Between night time and morning, you see the sun just not just
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  appear. No, it's a gradual process.
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  Am I right on that? And I'm telling you that
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  transition from night to morning can be very painful.
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  Morning to afternoon can be easier.
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  Light has already arrived. But from night to morning, it
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  can be very painful. At such times, let me take a
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  minute to minister to someone. Perhaps you are in a night
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  season right now. You came to this place and as I
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  was mentioning all of this, this is the one that most resonated
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  with you because as it stands right now, nothing is working in
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  your life. I remind you of a scripture that
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  says we are troubled on every side.
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  A man can be troubled on every side.
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  There are those who are troubled in their marriage, troubled in
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  their finances, troubled in their career.
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  But honestly, there are others like Joe who are troubled on
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  every. Side they are perplexed to such
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  a one what you need tonight and I'm hoping your heart is open to
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  receive it before you leave back home.
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  You need the staying power man of God.
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  It is true that the Apostolic call is on you.
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  It is true that the pastoral call is on you, but let me tell
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  you the truth. Between night and morning, you
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  have to be patient until light comes.
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  You have to be patient until your word comes.
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  You have to be patient until you become that vessel unto honor.
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  And while that is happening, I'm amazed that Jesus spent three
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  days in Hades. You thought such a wonderful,
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  powerful Savior should only spend at least one hour.
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  What is what was he doing for three days?
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  Just go down, defeat Satan, collect the keys, preach to the
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  departed Saints, bring them out. Should it take him three days
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  that long? But sometimes some things are
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  subject to time. The Bible talks about how the
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  harvest comes. He says first the blade, the
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  air. Then the full.
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  Corn. So if you see the blade, there's
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  no fruit yet, but you can at least rejoice that something is
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  happening. Is someone learning?
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  Yes Lord, you seem so far away. Let me sing it again. 1,000,000
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  miles on what it feels today. I'm ministering to someone.
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  You need the staying. Power.
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  And though I haven't lost my faith, I must confess right now
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  that is hard for me to pray. But I don't know what to say.
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  I don't know where to start. But as you give the great soul
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  that's in my heart, I will see, and I will pray even in my.
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  Darkest eye through the. Sorrow and the pace, I will see.
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  I will pray. I lift my hands to water here
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  because the word is true. I will see.
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  And I tell you the truth, one of the power leakages I've learnt
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  in life is the pressure to explain every season to men.
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  It's a total waste of time. There are times you do not owe
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  anybody any explanation, he said.
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  Though I not we, though I walk through the valley of the shadow
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  of death, I shall fear no evil, for thou art with.
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  Me, I thought you to say, for thou brought me out of it.
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  He says, Thou art with me. There are times he picks you out
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  of the fire, but there are times he goes in there with you who is
• 2:09:26
  learning. Now I lift my hands to honor you
• 2:09:34
  because your word is true. I lift my hands to honor you
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  because your word is true. I lift my hands to honor you
• 2:09:48
  because your word is true. I will see.
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  You can see this ministry today and look at this man standing
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  before you and the narrative you get from what you see now.
• 2:10:02
  He's a man who just loved God and was anointed and God started
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  lifting him. You are dangerously mistaken.
• 2:10:09
  There is a long gap the same way you see Genesis chapter one
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  verse one and one verse 2. And when you you hear it as a
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  narrative you think it just happened.
• 2:10:18
  There was darkness and then God just spoke.
• 2:10:20
  Every life is like Genesis one verse one and Genesis one verse
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  2. There is a gap that only the
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  person who went through can explain.
• 2:10:30
  If you thought the word of God always worked for me, you are
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  mistaken, dangerously mistaken. There were times everything was
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  done well. Now I know it was just the
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  process. God teaches you to trust Him
• 2:10:42
  before results. Then He give you results because
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  now your trust is not based on results.
• 2:10:47
  It's called the other side of faith where you don't obtain
• 2:10:51
  promises but you obtain a good report.
• 2:10:54
  I told you that faith is not always about obtaining promises.
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  The elders did not all obtain promises, but all of them
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  obtained a good report. You know what a good report is?
• 2:11:05
  A testimonial that you trusted God through the storms is
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  greater than the testimonial that the storms changed.
• 2:11:13
  That you trusted God is a nobler report than to say the storms
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  changed. I lift my hands to honor you
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  because your word is true. I will see.
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  So my dear brother and sister, at this point of your life, even
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  though trusting God, even though praying every time, your
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  consecration, your love for Jesus laboring in silence,
• 2:11:42
  everybody who looks at you says you are such a disappointment of
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  a Christian. You don't have to tell them.
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  It is only time that is passing. You see, for many years delay
• 2:11:51
  and process will look the same. Delay and process.
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  Watch this. There are times the farm that
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  has seeds in it and the farm that was not plowed will look
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  the same for a few days, sometimes for a few weeks and
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  you will mistaken them and just say who are these careless
• 2:12:09
  farmers? Not knowing that for the one
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  farm there is a seed inside is just how the seed grows.
• 2:12:17
  I told you that there are two places in life, but if you find
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  people, don't conclude the prison and the cross.
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  The prison and the cross are two mysterious places.
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  Don't think everybody in the prison is a criminal.
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  Joseph is there. Don't think everybody on the
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  cross is a criminal. Jesus is there.
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  The prison and the cross are two places.
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  When you get to keep quiet, you may be talking against your
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  Prime Minister, not know, and by the moral he becomes a Prime
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  Minister and you become a perpetual victim.
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  And you can be talking against the Savior, not knowing that
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  he's dying for your sins, not for his sins.
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  The prison and the cross. Unfortunately, both of them lead
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  to the same place, the throne. The prison leads to the throne.
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  The cross leads to the throne. It's only that one is more
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  excellent than the other. The throne is eternal.
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  Is someone learning the staying power?
• 2:13:22
  This is the power to wait. Efficient 6 and verse 10 says
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  be. Strong in the Lord and in the
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  power of His might be strong. You are praying every day and
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  the word of God has not manifested.
• 2:13:36
  Don't stop praying. Obtain the staying power and
• 2:13:39
  keep praying. You are coming to church every
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  day, but you have to trek and people look at you more than
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  Teresa or more than Mary. You are going to this your
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  church again. Save Johnny all these things you
• 2:13:52
  are doing, you will see who will marry you with this kind of
• 2:13:56
  church church thing. And sometimes you feel stupid
• 2:13:58
  for loving God. I introduce to you an expression
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  of God's power that is so needed, especially in this
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  season that many believers are passing through is called the
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  staying power, the grace to stay until the Word speaks back to
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  our song. I will soar with you above the
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  storms, Father. You are king over.
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  I know what it means to cry. Oh, my life did not start with
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  laughter. There are times you cry, and
• 2:14:47
  there are times you cry alone. You don't cry because you are a
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  demon. You don't cry because of defeat,
• 2:14:53
  you cry like Jesus because you are looking at the throne, but
• 2:14:58
  between the throne is Gethsemane and the cross.
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  And sometimes you say, Father, if it be thy will, take this cup
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  off me. But he says it is my will
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  nevertheless, let your will be done.
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  So when you see Jesus carrying a cross, he's not dying for his
• 2:15:14
  sins, He's dying for the sins of many.
• 2:15:17
  Some of you, what you are carrying on your back today that
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  your prayer and fasting, it looks like a slow process is
• 2:15:24
  because God has trusted you with the generation of many people.
• 2:15:28
  He's been wanting to break something from your family.
• 2:15:32
  Nobody has given him attention. Finally he's found you and
• 2:15:36
  that's why he's insisting on you.
• 2:15:38
  And sometimes you're saying God let me enjoy my life like any
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  other person and he says, no, I found you.
• 2:15:44
  There are generations coming out of you.
• 2:15:47
  I want to correct something in this family lineage, and now
• 2:15:50
  that I found you, remember I taught you that when you go
• 2:15:54
  through seasons like this, your consolation should be that there
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  is a compensation system at the end of the journey.
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  Yes there is, yes there is, yes there is, yes there is.
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  The Bible speaks about seeds and how they grow.
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  It is sown in dishonor, but it will repeat with honor when the
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  farmer is sowing. Birds don't come around when
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  he's sowing necessarily. Other people don't come around
• 2:16:20
  to help him harvesting. He goes through the pain waters,
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  everything. Sometimes wild animals can sneak
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  into the farm and eat some of the crops.
• 2:16:29
  He has to drive them. But with all of that story, one
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  day, few months, there's a bumper harvest and you see them
• 2:16:36
  coming with tractors. Here's what the Bible says.
• 2:16:39
  He says he that weepeth sharing precious seeds.
• 2:16:43
  What makes the seeds precious is that it comes with tears.
• 2:16:46
  He says he shall doubtless return again, rejoicing,
• 2:16:51
  bringing the chiefs. Let the moccas laugh while you
• 2:16:55
  trust God. Let the unbelievers do their
• 2:16:57
  analysis and conclude on you and your ministry, your business,
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  your family, and everything about you.
• 2:17:03
  It's all right that you become a subject of discussion.
• 2:17:06
  God allows them so that they become witnesses, so that when
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  you become, they will say truly, I was part of those who talked
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  against that brother, that sister.
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  I am a testament of the faithfulness of God.
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  Are you learning something tonight?
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  Let me give you #5 the power to function.
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  I'm showing you how spiritual power works and I told you now
• 2:17:28
  you understand with me that many believers do not understand the
• 2:17:31
  dynamics of spiritual power. So when you say to a believer
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  receive power, all his thinking is science and wonders.
• 2:17:38
  No, there are various expressions, the power to
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  become, the power to ward off the arsenals of darkness, the
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  manipulations of men and the accusations that come from men
• 2:17:51
  and. Spirits #3.
• 2:17:53
  The power of exemption, the power above #4 the staying
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  power, the grace to endure, the grace to wait, the grace to
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  remain #5 Are you ready for the 5th?
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  The 5th is called the power to get, or the power to obtain.
• 2:18:12
  Now pay attention to this. The power to get Shalaka to
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  Siata Deuteronomy, chapter 8 from verse 15 to 18.
• 2:18:30
  The power to get Let's start from verse 5, verse 13, a quick
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  read. When your herds and your flocks
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  multiply, When your silver and your gold multiply.
• 2:18:46
  When all that you have is multiplied, go to verse 13
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  again. Let me turn it into a prophecy.
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  In the name of Jesus, your herd and your flocks will multiply.
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  In the name of Jesus, your silver and your gold will
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  multiply. Keep it there.
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  And in the name of Jesus, everything you have will
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  multiply by the power of God. 14 When it says, Then your hands be
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  lifted up, and doubt, forget the Lord thy God, who brought thee
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  forth out of the land of Egypt from the House of bondage. 15
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  Who led thee through the great and terrible wilderness, wherein
• 2:19:29
  there were fiery serpents? Watch this, and scorpions, and
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  drought, where there was no water?
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  Who brought thee forth out rock water out of the rock of Flint?
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  16 Who fed thee in the wilderness with manner which
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  your father's knew not, that He may humble you, that he may
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  prove thee to do thee good at the.
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  Letter N 17. And thou shalt say in your
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  heart, My power and the might of my hand had gotten me this
• 2:19:56
  wealth. Stop there, stop there.
• 2:19:58
  Verse 17. Are you seeing that a man can
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  falsely credit his obtaining things to his power and the
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  might of his hands that a man can get, in this case, wealth?
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  But then it applies to anything he says.
• 2:20:13
  Do not make the mistake. Of thinking when things begin to
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  gravitate towards you, that you now credited to your power and
• 2:20:23
  the might of your hand. Verse 18 But thou shalt remember
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  the Lord your God, for it is he that giveth thee the power to
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  get Stop there. Stop.
• 2:20:36
  There is called the power to obtain the power to obtain the
• 2:20:44
  power to obtain. I describe for you what this
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  power is very quickly after we consider 2 scriptures, Psalm 44
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  and verse 3, the power to obtain, For they got not the
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  land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own.
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  Arms save them but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the
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  light of thy countenance, because thou has a favor unto
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  them. Ecclesiastes chapter 5 and verse
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  19 amplified. Let's read this scripture.
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  Ecclesiastes, are we together? One to read also every man whom
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  God has given hold on, God has given what riches and
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  possession. And the power to enjoy them.
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  Hold on, don't rush, don't rush, don't rush.
• 2:21:42
  A man can have riches and possession and not have the
• 2:21:46
  power to enjoy them. You can have it and not have the
• 2:21:51
  power. KJV Every man also to whom God
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  had given riches and wealth, and had given him the power to eat
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  thereof, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his
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  labor, He said, This is the gift of God, the power to get.
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  I describe it for you. It's.
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  A supernatural empowerment listen that attracts people, it
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  attracts conditions, and it attracts resources to your life.
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  That's the first manifestation of that ability.
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  It attracts people, it attracts conditions, and it attracts
• 2:22:37
  resources to your life, attracts people, attracts conditions and
• 2:22:44
  attracts resources to your life. It furthermore empowers your
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  mind to think profitably and to birth supernatural solutions.
• 2:22:57
  It furthermore empowers your mind to think profitably and to
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  birth supernatural solutions. The power to get or the power to
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  obtain. Again, I read for you how it
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  works. It is a.
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  Supernatural empowerment that attracts people, attracts
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  conditions or situations, attracts resources to your life.
• 2:23:22
  It furthermore empowers your mind to think profitably and to
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  birth supernatural solutions. This is the power to get or the
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  power to obtain. You have that down.
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  Now listen. It is the empowerment.
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  Listen carefully. It is the empowerment that makes
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  value and intelligence to deliver.
• 2:23:51
  It is the empowerment that makes value and intelligence to
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  deliver. And if you do not have the power
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  to obtain, even if you are valuable, even if you are
• 2:24:06
  intelligent, it will not translate to profit.
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  It will not translate to results.
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  It is the empowerment that makes value and intelligence to
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  deliver. You may want to write this down.
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  It works in the presence of wisdom, Favor, faith, and the
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  prophetic. It works in the presence of
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  wisdom, favor, faith, and the prophetic.
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  Oh, this is powerful. This is powerful.
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  We read earlier on in Psalm 127 and verse 2.
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  This is what the man in that story was lacking, that it is
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  vain to rise up early in the morning.
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  As far as I'm concerned, I see value there to a measure.
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  I see productivity there to a measure.
• 2:24:55
  When I see early and I see sitting up late, this thing
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  spell diligence, but he eats the bread of sorrow because he lacks
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  the power to obtain the power to get.
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  Now don't feel insulted, but this is what makes the labor of
• 2:25:11
  many profit less. The diligence is there, the know
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  how is there. The intellectual composition for
• 2:25:18
  their success is there, but they lack or they disrespect.
• 2:25:22
  They over depend on intellect and they do not.
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  Know. Like a new clock without a
• 2:25:28
  battery. That's how your intellect is
• 2:25:31
  without the power to obtain. This is what Peter lacked in
• 2:25:37
  John chapter 21. John chapter 21, the Bible tells
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  us that when you know Peter feeling bad that Jesus had gone
• 2:25:46
  from verse one, when you read the Bible says he told himself
• 2:25:49
  that you know from the sea of Tiberias, he went there and he
• 2:25:53
  said, I go out fishing. In other words, Jesus scammed
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  us, he died. Now he's left us with nothing.
• 2:25:59
  I go out fishing and they say unto him, listen, verse 3, we go
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  also with you. And they went forth and entered
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  into the ship immediately that they might.
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  And the Bible says and that night they caught, they caught.
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  It was not a laziness issue. It was not a lack of
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  productivity issue. It was not a lack of strategic
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  relationship issue because Peter was in company of like minded
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  people. All the points that makes for
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  profit were there, but they caught nothing was for.
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  But when it was morning, the morning was now come.
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  Can you imagine that kind of profitless labor?
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  Jesus stood on the shore, but the disciples did not know that
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  it was Jesus. Verse 5 And the Bible says Jesus
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  said unto them, children with all your giftings and abilities
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  and your endowments. Have you caught any meat and
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  they answered no, There are times that professionals in the
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  midst of the the education in the midst of the experience you
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  have registered the company with corporate affairs nothing wrong.
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  You are diligent. You've gone to take extra
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  courses, extra certifications wonderful, but the sad reality
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  is that the equation of growth and success in the world is not
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  linear. There are many factors, both
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  spiritual man made are we together and products of
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  sentiments that will make 1 + 1 to not become two.
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  Mathematically, 1 + 1 should be two, but pragmatically 1 + 1
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  depends on many things. It depends on the person holding
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  the pen. If the person holding the pen
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  hates you, he can make your 1 + 1 to be 0, and because he's
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  holding the pen you are watching 1 + 1, but your answer becomes
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  0. There are many, many people
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  holding 10 + 10 and life gave them a result of 0.
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  Some held 1000 + 1000, some because of their intellectual
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  prowess. They held 1 million * 1,000,000.
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  They should be captains. And yet life still gave them
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  zero. Let's see what Jesus did
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  quickly. We're about to pray and Jesus
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  said to them, what's the power to get cast your net to the
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  right side Now it was the power of God that was released, but
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  you know what dimension of power now it was the power to obtain.
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  The Bible says if you cast your net at my word, because I've
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  released this power, read the last four words after sheep.
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  It says cast your net on the right side of the sheep.
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  Read it as a prophecy. Want to go and ye shall find one
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  more time and ye when you take that step with the empowerment
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  to obtain you will never return empty.
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  He says and ye shall find and the Bible says they cast their
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  oath and they were not go back to verse 6.
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  Please go back to verse 6 and they were not able to draw it
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  out for the multitude of fish. I'm praying for someone by
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  reason of this empowerment you will receive tonight.
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  You will have to sit down and decide which job to take in the
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  mighty and much less name of Jesus Christ.
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  As the power to obtain comes upon you, you will watch things.
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  God will give you options, options, options in the name of
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  Jesus. back-to-back breakthroughs, back-to-back
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  testimonies, blessings meeting, blessings in your hands in the
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  mighty and much less name of Jesus.
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  Hallelujah, I told you that disgrace.
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  It functions in the presence of or is enhanced by wisdom, favor
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  are we together value productivity and the prophetic
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  the power to obtain. There are people who never seem
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  to lack help. Let me tell you, this is the
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  grace that they were given. Send them anywhere.
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  In one week, they have found a keyboardist.
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  In one week, have you seen people like that?
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  They have found a drama in one week.
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  They have found an auditorium in one week.
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  No, it looks like they can never be disadvantaged.
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  They are stranded somewhere at the airport, the flight has gone
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  to leave them and someone comes to meet them and say I can
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  arrange something for you. You know that you have the power
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  to obtain because you are never without help.
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  No matter what happens, help must fish itself from anywhere
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  and come to you. There are pastors who have this
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  empowerment. They may not be able to give it
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  language as to why things work. They are never lacking men, so
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  they easily call it favor. But from a power standpoint, I'm
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  telling you, it's the power to get, the power to obtain.
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  Take them to Ghana, take them to South Africa.
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  As soon as they land there, call them after three days and say
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  how are you coping? And they will laugh, say coping.
• 2:31:06
  As soon as I arrive from the airport, someone came to help
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  me. I went to a house and saw a
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  former classmate. Then it coincided.
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  Their stories are always in this version.
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  It is the power to get. There is a grace on them.
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  Do you believe this? If you like this, you will
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  suffer. Your life will be hard.
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  I'm telling you there are people like that.
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  They are never without help. Help will always arise for them.
• 2:31:34
  Help will always arise for them. They can be sitting quietly
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  thinking, what do I do now? Someone stole my phone and
• 2:31:41
  someone just comes and says sorry, are you OK?
• 2:31:43
  I just felt you are sitting without help and they say
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  someone just robbed me. He said, oh, I walk in that that
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  stand is my own come sorry for all of this.
• 2:31:51
  And it begins a relationship. They come late for work and it's
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  because of their coming late. They meet the boss.
• 2:31:58
  Their life is very mysterious. Everything always works in the
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  advantage is the power to obtain.
• 2:32:05
  And I'm praying for you that dimension of power honestly.
• 2:32:08
  Made rest upon your head, made rest upon your life, made rest
• 2:32:14
  upon your destiny. In the name of Jesus, show me a
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  man who has obtained the power to obtain, and I show you a man
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  whose life cannot be disadvantaged.
• 2:32:29
  Take him anywhere. Just give him time.
• 2:32:32
  Now it works like a magnet. How many of you know?
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  Look up, please. How many of you know that if
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  there are metals here, whether it's mixed with sand and you
• 2:32:41
  pass a very strong magnet, you don't need to pick the metals 1
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  by 1 from wherever they are. They will start springing up.
• 2:32:49
  That's how the grace is. It is what the businessmen call
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  the law of attraction. They credited to the universe.
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  What I'm giving you is Bible name.
• 2:32:57
  It is the power to prosper or it is the power to obtain.
• 2:33:02
  When that grace comes on you, exactly what a magnet does is
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  what happens in your life. You will step into a place and
• 2:33:11
  calls will start coming. I, it was just in my heart to
• 2:33:14
  call you and he said, do you know I'm just in your city and
• 2:33:17
  say, Can you imagine? I just came back from a trip.
• 2:33:20
  You call it a coincidence? No, the grace regulates your
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  possibilities. I'm telling you, believe this.
• 2:33:28
  I know what I'm saying. When this grace is on you, when
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  you pass what belongs to you, you will know anything at all,
• 2:33:40
  whether it's a property, a friend, somebody with a destiny
• 2:33:43
  helper. You can look at somebody as a
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  perfect stranger and just say, I don't, I can't explain it.
• 2:33:50
  But there is, it's like there is a role this man is to play in my
• 2:33:53
  life and it teaches you to position yourself.
• 2:33:56
  We give this thing psychological names, but I'm telling you there
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  is a spiritual explanation to it.
• 2:34:02
  I have seen people in my life. And I knew.
• 2:34:05
  They would have a role in the future to play now it may not be
• 2:34:08
  immediate. You just mock them the day they
• 2:34:11
  play that was so this is it. This is it.
• 2:34:16
  There was a reason why Naman and the wife looked at that small
• 2:34:20
  girl. I'm sure the wife said you know
• 2:34:22
  what I don't know what, but bring this Ephesians 418
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  expressions. It did please the Lord.
• 2:34:30
  And to bring to pass his agenda for the nations.
• 2:34:34
  Matthew chapter 10-7 and eight as he go preach saying the
• 2:34:39
  Kingdom of heaven is at hand. Alongside that message, you have
• 2:34:44
  the empowerment to heal the sick, to cleanse the lepers, to
• 2:34:47
  raise the dead, to cast out devils.
• 2:34:49
  The empowerment follows your passion and your commitment to
• 2:34:53
  please the Lord and to bring His agenda for the nations to pass
• 2:34:59
  in Acts One, verse 8, Acts 433, Matthew 10, seven and eight,
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  Acts 1 and verse 8, Acts 433. Can I give you #5 praise God, a
• 2:35:11
  desire to please the Lord and to bring to pass His agenda for the
• 2:35:16
  nation? 'S what is the fifth key to
• 2:35:18
  receiving, activating and increasing in the anointing
• 2:35:25
  importation from careers? Of these graces impartation from
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  careers of these graces Philippians 1 and verse 7.
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  The end part says ye all are partakers of my grace.
• 2:35:44
  The empowerment that comes from the spirit on this wise is
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  transferable when the conditions for transfer are met.
• 2:35:52
  Importations from careers of these.
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  Graces. Romans one verse one Remember
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  Paul was speaking, I long to see you, that I may impart upon you.
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  Romans 111 My apologies. 111 that I may impart upon you.
• 2:36:08
  So these graces and the empowerment can be imparted.
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  Remember in Numbers chapter 27 when you read from verse 18 to
• 2:36:17
  20, the Lord mandated Joshua, Moses to take Joshua the son of
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  none, in whom is the Spirit, and to lay his hands upon him, verse
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  19, and to set him before Eliazad the priest.
• 2:36:31
  And before the congregation then he was instructed Moses, now
• 2:36:34
  verse 20, to take some of his honor and to transfer an impact
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  upon him. So that the congregation of the
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  children, the children of Israel, may be obedient.
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  And then Deuteronomy chapter 34 and verse 9 gives us a picture
• 2:36:49
  of what really happened when Moses attended to Joshua.
• 2:36:52
  It says Joshua the son of None. Deuteronomy 34 nine the son of
• 2:36:57
  None was full of the. Spirit of wisdom, for Moses had
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  laid his hands upon him. So the laid on of hands as a
• 2:37:04
  principle of contact and transfer can allow you to access
• 2:37:08
  the power of the Holy. Spirit Hallelujah #1A genuine
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  encounter with Jesus as a key to receiving, activating,
• 2:37:20
  maintaining, and increasing spiritual power #2 The ministry
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  of prayer and fasting as a culture, as a lifestyle, with
• 2:37:29
  revelation, with understanding. Number 3A.
• 2:37:32
  Thorough and progressive revelation of the mysteries of
• 2:37:36
  the Kingdom. The more you grow in the
• 2:37:38
  knowledge of the world, when there's exactitude to your
• 2:37:41
  spiritual understanding, it will translate to spiritual power for
• 2:37:46
  a desire to please the Lord and to bring to pass his agenda, not
• 2:37:51
  your agenda, His agenda for the nation's.
• 2:37:54
  Number 5, an importation from the careers of these graces with
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  proven results. And then number six, this is
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  where we end tonight. Number six.
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  Is faithfulness Luke? Chapter 16 and verse 10.
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  Faithfulness. One of the missing keys as far
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  as increasing in the power of the Holy Spirit in any dimension
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  at all. He that is faithful in that
• 2:38:19
  which is least, the Bible says, is faithful also in much.
• 2:38:23
  And he that is unjust in the list is also unjust in the
• 2:38:28
  March. Matthew 13 and verse 1213, and
• 2:38:32
  verse 12. Matthew it says, For whosoever
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  hath in the presence of faithfulness to Him shall be
• 2:38:39
  given, and he shall have more, but whosoever had not in the
• 2:38:45
  presence of unfaithfulness from him shall be taken away, even
• 2:38:49
  that which he had is a spiritual.
• 2:38:51
  Law. When God grants you grace, He
• 2:38:53
  watches for your faithfulness. You may not manifest all these
• 2:38:57
  five expressions as at yet for you.
• 2:38:59
  God can start by giving you the staying power, and that's the
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  only dimension of the power of the Spirit you have.
• 2:39:06
  Whilst you are looking for the power for science and wonders,
• 2:39:09
  power that translates to influence, you want to build a
• 2:39:12
  lot of things. God can test you with this and
• 2:39:15
  when you are faithful there, it begins to grow and spread into
• 2:39:19
  every other dimension. We're about to pray, but let me
• 2:39:22
  repeat for you one last time every dimension of.
• 2:39:25
  Power I taught you #1 the power to become the grace for growth,
• 2:39:31
  transformation, and change #2 power against This is a
• 2:39:39
  spiritual system of defense that helps you to resist the
• 2:39:43
  operation of demonic spirits. Activities of evil men and
• 2:39:47
  satanic accusations 3 Exemption power We call it the power over
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  it exempts a man from tragedies and enthrones.
• 2:39:56
  You in a. Position where you are far
• 2:39:58
  beyond the reach of certain vicissitudes of life #4 the
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  staying power, stamina. The grace to endure and survive
• 2:40:07
  until seasons change, the power to wait, the power to endure,
• 2:40:12
  the power to remain #5 is the power to obtain.
• 2:40:16
  The power to get. This one attracts possibilities
• 2:40:20
  to your life that are consistent with your desires, the will of
• 2:40:23
  God, and everything that equips you to live the fullness of this
• 2:40:29
  life. As far as the matters that
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  concern life and godliness is concerned.
• 2:40:34
  Now you understand the Scripture that we opened up with that
• 2:40:38
  according to His divine power, aggregated as all these
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  expressions are we together? Yes, have given us.
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  All things that pertain unto life and godliness.
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  Please stand on your feet, hold hands with someone if you can
• 2:40:54
  find one. And then we'll take a minute to
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  pray this teaching tonight. The power to function.
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  Begin to lift your voices and thank God for that which you
• 2:41:07
  have heard tonight. Blessed are your ears for the
• 2:41:09
  things that you have heard, your eyes for the things that you
• 2:41:12
  have seen, your heart for the things that you have received.
• 2:41:15
  Someone who is grateful, someone who already is moving to a
• 2:41:19
  higher level of spiritual power. Begin to give God praise for
• 2:41:23
  these that you have heard. Chabranti Gibelantos
• 2:41:29
  Sabracatosyata, according as His divine power, according as His
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  divine power had given us the power to become, had given us
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  the power against, has given us the power above, has given us
• 2:41:45
  the staying power, has given us the power to obtain, has given
• 2:41:50
  us all things that pertain unto life and godliness.
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  With all of these expressions of power, now you have the
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  wherewithal to influence outcomes.
• 2:42:05
  You have the wherewithal to compel compliance.
• 2:42:08
  You have the wherewithal to. To.
• 2:42:10
  Create and to sustain anything and any process.
• 2:42:19
  Someone go ahead and pray and thank God for that which you've
• 2:42:22
  learned. Now begin to pray and say, I
• 2:42:24
  receive supernatural power in all of these expressions.
• 2:42:29
  I receive it in the name of Jesus to attend to the matters
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  of life and godliness. Receive it for your ministry.
• 2:42:38
  Receive it for your family. Receive it for your destiny.
• 2:42:53
  In Jesus mighty name we pray. In Jesus most glorious name we
• 2:42:58
  pray. Everyone stand.
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  The first dimension of this power as I described is called
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  the power to become, and this is a direct product of
• 2:43:10
  acknowledging the Lordship of Jesus over your life.
• 2:43:13
  We do this not as a ritual, it comes from the place of
• 2:43:17
  conviction that God's ultimate desire for all men is that we be
• 2:43:21
  saved and then to come on to the knowledge of the truth.
• 2:43:24
  You are in this place, scattered everywhere, all the overflows
• 2:43:28
  outside and our family connected across the globe.
• 2:43:31
  Now is a chance for you to make it right with Jesus.
• 2:43:35
  And I want you to take the business of salvation very
• 2:43:37
  seriously. No coercion.
• 2:43:39
  Let this be from your heart. This is your only way.
• 2:43:42
  Your only. Route.
• 2:43:44
  There's not another. As far as living the victorious
• 2:43:47
  Christian life is concerned, the Bible says as many who will come
• 2:43:51
  to him, He will. In no wise castaway you are in
• 2:43:53
  this place and under the influence of my voice.
• 2:43:55
  The Holy Spirit is beckoning on you to make it right with Jesus
• 2:43:59
  tonight. Either as a first time decision
• 2:44:02
  or you want to rededicate your life to Jesus Christ, I have the
• 2:44:06
  honor of giving you get a chance to make it right with Jesus.
• 2:44:09
  I'm going to count 1 to 5 and I want you to leave whoever.
• 2:44:13
  Just assume there's no one by your left and right.
• 2:44:15
  This is between you and the lover of your soul, the one who
• 2:44:18
  died for you, the one who died to purchase redemption.
• 2:44:22
  As I count 1 to 5, I'd like you to leave your seat and come
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  stand before me. If you're coming from the
• 2:44:27
  balcony or from the Isles, please make haste and do that
• 2:44:31
  very quickly. I'll begin my counting now.
• 2:44:33
  God bless you, my brother and my sisters.
• 2:44:35
  You come one. Let's celebrate them as they
• 2:44:38
  come. God bless you, bless you.
• 2:44:41
  Thank you for coming. God bless you.
• 2:44:44
  Come, come to Jesus. 2 Codonia. Are we still celebrating them?
• 2:44:53
  You're establishing your victory once and for all.
• 2:44:57
  Come three. As many as will come to him.
• 2:45:03
  He will in no wise castaway. The Bible declares the name of
• 2:45:07
  the Lord is a strong tower. The righteous runneth to eat,
• 2:45:10
  and they are saved. It says there is no other name
• 2:45:13
  under heaven given unto men by which we must be saved.
• 2:45:16
  Ye must be born again. I'm still counting. 4.
• 2:45:21
  The Spirit of God is still convicting you.
• 2:45:23
  And you are saying apostle. I think I'm a good man.
• 2:45:26
  I'm not sure I've done anything exactly evil.
• 2:45:28
  Can I join them? Absolutely.
• 2:45:30
  Come, you can have tonight once and for all what the Bible calls
• 2:45:34
  the assurance of salvation. By the 5th count, I begin to
• 2:45:39
  pray. So if you're coming from
• 2:45:40
  outside, make haste, make haste all the overflows you can move
• 2:45:45
  to your projector screen and stand there to receive prayer.
• 2:45:49
  And for those who are following by television, the viewing
• 2:45:53
  centers, following online, I like you to pray this prayer and
• 2:45:58
  trust God for His supernatural manifestation of His hand.
• 2:46:02
  Thank you very much, my brothers and my sisters, for making this
• 2:46:06
  noble decision. It's known to be the wisest
• 2:46:08
  decision any man can make in this side of God's Kingdom.
• 2:46:12
  And I thank you for the courage to make this noble decision.
• 2:46:15
  May I request that you lift your right hand as a sign of
• 2:46:17
  surrender high above your head. Say this after me as loud and as
• 2:46:21
  clear as you can Say, Lord Jesus, tonight I have heard your
• 2:46:26
  word. I love you with all my heart.
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  I believe that you are the Son of God.
• 2:46:35
  I believe that you died for my sin.
• 2:46:38
  I believe that you rose again for my justification.
• 2:46:43
  Right now I receive Jesus into my heart as my Savior, my Lord,
• 2:46:51
  and my King. I declare that the power of sin,
• 2:46:57
  Satan, hell and the grave is broken over my life from
• 2:47:03
  tonight. I'm a child of God.
• 2:47:06
  I go for whatever and back whatever.
• 2:47:09
  Keep your beautiful hands lifted, Father.
• 2:47:10
  Thank you. The Bible declares that as many
• 2:47:13
  who come to you, you will. There will be no wise castaway.
• 2:47:16
  I declare by the authority of God's Word that the power of
• 2:47:20
  sin, Satan, hell, and the grave is broken over your life from
• 2:47:24
  today. You walk in victory and I call
• 2:47:26
  you bona fide recipients of the life of God.
• 2:47:29
  You go from glory to glory in Jesus, much less name.
• 2:47:33
  We pray. Amen.
• 2:47:34
  A big congratulations to you. Let me request that you look to
• 2:47:37
  my right. That will be your left.
• 2:47:39
  From where you're standing. There are counselors who are
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  waving the placard, ready to receive you.
• 2:47:44
  They'll have a word and a prayer with you quickly, within a
• 2:47:46
  minute, and you're back to your seat.
• 2:47:48
  Let's honor them as they go. Thank you so much for
• 2:47:50
  cooperating with them. Cordonia.
• 2:47:53
  Are you still celebrating them? Hallelujah, blessed be the name
• 2:47:59
  of the Lord. Thank you for your patience.
• 2:48:01
  Now Please be patient. Just an announcement or two and
• 2:48:05
  then we're done. Praise the name of the Lord.
• 2:48:08
  Hallelujah. We have some of our lovely
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  people here and let me just appreciate them.
• 2:48:14
  Silas all the way from the UK through Lagos, Tosin from US
• 2:48:18
  through Lagos. May God bless you.
• 2:48:20
  And that's that's David Abu, you Pastor David Abu, am I right?
• 2:48:24
  Yes, it's him and his wife. Let's celebrate them.
• 2:48:27
  God bless you. Thank you so much.
• 2:48:30
  Thank you. An honor to have you.
• 2:48:31
  I'm just looking now and seeing you.
• 2:48:33
  Thank you very, very, very much. Hallelujah.
• 2:48:36
  Praise the name of the Lord. This is an announcement.
• 2:48:42
  A quick one from the ushering department.
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  The ushering department is now open for new members who are
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  willing and ready to serve. Finally.
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  Yes, you are clapping. Some of you have waited and
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  waited. Finally, the doors are opened so
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  they are open for members who are willing to serve faithfully
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  with excellence, honour and love.
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  How to join is to send a formal application including your name,
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  your spiritual journey and you know why when you become part of
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  them, your your experience in service and your availability
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  through this e-mail Koinonia oshas as one word.
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  You'd see their Koinonia oshas at Gmail dot.
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  Com. You can also submit a
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  handwritten application and hand it over to any OSHA you find
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  around. And if you are at a loss as to
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  who is an OSHA, just go to the PR desk outside of this place
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  and you can drop it there and they'll make it available to one
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  of the executives. Praise the name of the Lord.
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  Have you been blessed tonight? Let me speak the blessing upon
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  you and then we're done. In the name of Jesus, beginning
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  from tonight, every dimension of this power as discussed may
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  begin to function in your life. Shout Amen like you are
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  receiving it in the name of Jesus Christ.
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  By the influence of this power in all its ramifications in your
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  life, begin to go from glory to glory.
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  I release you to go from grace to grace.
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  The things that seem to challenge you yesterday would no
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  longer have power over you. In the name of Jesus Christ, I
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  speak over your weak beginning. I call it blessed.
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  Blessed all through the week in Jesus name.
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  Let this be a week of testimonies.
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  Let this be a week of good news. Good news from Sunday to Sunday.
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  May God raise men, even strangers, to bless you.
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  I pray for you every pending issue that you've been waiting
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  for. Finally, the answer, the
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  testimony arrives this week. In the name of Jesus Christ,
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  those you do not know will run over themselves will bless you.
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  I declare that the wisdom of the Spirit is at work in your life
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  this week. You will not die.
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  You have no covenant with the grave.
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  Your bones are kept and none is broken.
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  Life is your portion this week. Favor is your portion this week.
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  Lifting is your portion this week.
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  Exaltation is your portion this week.
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  Honor is your portion this week. In the name of Jesus and his
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  scheduling of events to make you cry, we cancel it right now in
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  Jesus name. I call this week a week of
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  laughter for you. It will be evident through your
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  life that God lifts man. It will be evident through your
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  life that God helps man. I call you empowered.
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  Receive the power to function. Receive the power to function.
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  Receive the power to function. In the mighty and much less name
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  of Jesus shall three believe in Amens.
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  Now together let's share the grace and fellowship, the grace
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  of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, the sweet
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  fellowship of the Holy Spirit. Let it rest and abide with us
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  now and forever, Amen. Surely God's goodness and His
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  mercy follow us all the days of our lives as we dwell in the
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  House of the Lord, forever and ever and ever, Amen.
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  God bless you and see you next week.