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Find Out What Can Bring You Down - Apostle Joshua Selman · Selah Media House

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  Among the many things you must know about yourself is what can
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  bring you down so that it becomes your prayer point.
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  Do you hear what I said? You must find out what can bring
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  you down and start crying before the Lord roll like a madman and
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  say, Lord, help me before I destroy my destiny.
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  There are people who cannot see women.
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  There are people who cannot see men.
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  There are people who cannot see pleasure.
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  Once they see a nice car, something in them starts
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  shaking. Who is the owner of this car?
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  I must know the person. Huh?
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  Nice house. There are people who are almost
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  getting arrested right now because they can go and lie down
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  somebody's car just because they want to claim it.
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  It's not just your desire to have it.
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  Sometimes it is lost. Are we together?
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  Most times offense comes when expectations are disappointed.
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  Sometimes offense comes when you're lost.
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  It's not actualized. Please listen to me, Koinonia.
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  You are hearing this preacher talk to you because I want you
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  to last. I do not want anybody to receive
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  that statement, Ichabod in their lives.
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  You must obtain grace. Find out what your
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  vulnerabilities are, pray, flog it and create systems by grace
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  to protect yourself. There are others.
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  Your weakness is food. It sounds funny.
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  Food gluttony except you don't see food.
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  You will misbehave no matter what you are wearing.
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  Once food comes around, you lose your your your dignity, lose
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  your decorum and you will fight. You are sweating trying to make
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  sure you get 1 and get another one or the remaining the juice
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  and you you become disoriented in the presence of food.
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  You can collect food from children and you are laughing
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  while you are eating. Their food is lost.
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  Gluttony. Are we learning?
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  Lay your hands on your head. Don't pray yet, just lay your
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  hands on your head. I want you to think in one
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  minute, what is that one thing? If you were Satan, what will you
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  use to bring you down? Start praying over it now.
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  What is that one thing? Please pray sincerely.
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  If you were Satan, what is that one thing you would use to bring
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  you down? Be very honest and talk to the
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  law. Shabba la Cato soprende
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  Quebeleco Theatre. Lay your hands on your head and
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  cry. Thou son of David, have mercy
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  upon me, have mercy upon me, have mercy upon me.
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  I was probed the other day, you may say.
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  I found myself trying to arrange a preacher to come and preach
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  and manipulate members and raise money for me because I need to
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  pay my rent. This issue of finances, Lord
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  help me before it tears me into pieces.
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  Go ahead and pray, nothing to be ashamed of.
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  This is church for some of you. Your weakness is lying.
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  Once you open your mouth, 80% of what you are saying is not the
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  truth. Even if you swear by the name of
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  the Lord, you are still lying. Pray and say Lord help me, I've
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  trained myself and my destiny. Lying on stage as a preacher in
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  the name of Jesus. Exaggerating things and telling
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  lies for some is pride full of ourselves.
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  Please go ahead and pray. Don't feel condemned, but pray.
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  There are people today because of money and titles, they are 50
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  years, but they have said they are 35 years because they must
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  get it by force. People have forged documents
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  today, forged all kinds of, including Christians, simply
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  because they are looking for opportunities.
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  Oh ladies and gentlemen, lift your voice and pray.
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  Ask God to show mercy. There are people today, the
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  cancer that can bring them down is offense.
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  So every time the devil wants to cause problem, he will make them
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  to not be recognized in a place or create something and they say
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  me, me, politicians, that's how they get into trouble.
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  Hallelujah. One of the biggest deception of
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  Satan is this false idea of holiness, where people actually
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  believe that because they've not gotten into any trouble, they
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  are free. Moral trouble, economic trouble,
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  and when it has to do with weakness is bad.
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  Nobody has the right to point hands at everybody.
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  Everybody lies down before God. You would have looked at the
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  young boy David in that boy was a murderer.
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  Would you have believed that in that fine young man?
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  Ladies, that's the kind of man you would want to marry.
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  Yet if if I told you, you are about to marry a murderer, you
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  will not believe it. David for you.
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  Just because people have not acted out they are lost does not
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  mean they are free from it. Somebody who does not mind, God
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  forbid me, even if it's 1 billion and they call things
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  they don't know anything about, instead of them to say mercy, O
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  God, 1 billion, I will not leave Jesus for it.
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  And then you are not paid salary for three months and by yourself
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  you start scrolling your phone, you call X everything Y
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  everything said everything in in search for who will give you
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  money. And you will not know when you
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  find yourself lying with a medical condition.
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  Sorry, I just have this thing. There's one pain I can't
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  explain. I need 400,000 for the pain.
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  Who is treating you like that? Send me the money.
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  And at the end of it, you say, look, anytime you feel you are
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  standing, you are already on your way going down.
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  The only reason why we stand, I'm telling you, is by the mercy
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  of God. And the earlier you accept this
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  bar, the better for you. There are many arrogant people
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  who have made noise like this to their detriment.
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  And today they have become a disaster to the nation's
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  vulnerabilities, an obsession for fame.
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  There are people who love the Lord.
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  Oh, but this obsession for fame, they would do anything to
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  promote themselves to be famous. It is your assignment to be
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  honest with yourself. What are my vulnerabilities?
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  Now that there's no money in many places, that's when you
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  will know people's vulnerabilities.
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  How do you know vulnerabilities? When trouble comes?
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  There are people who love God, but they can do anything doable.
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  Let your imagination stretch as far as you think.
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  I'm saying once it will bring money, they're willing to do it.
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  Hallelujah, praise the name of the Lord.
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  Are we together for a child to arrange to kidnap their parents?
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  You've heard of people arranging to kidnap their own loved ones.
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  Then they join the people to cry.
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  And after they're done crying, you've heard the story is when
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  they start sharing the money and the team backfires.
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  Then eventually someone will say, no, I didn't take that risk
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  for nothing. It is your responsibility under
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  God. The moment you attend the state
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  of greatness I taught you, there are three groups of people who
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  will always come to you. Remember our teaching yesterday,
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  last week, Wicked people. Let's recap.
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  Selfish people and ignorant people.
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  And you must be aware of these people.
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  It is for you to begin to pray Sataka paraka to Siata.
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  Lord, help me in the name of Jesus.
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  Lord, show me mercy. Many people today have been
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  destroyed perpetually. Their bishopric has even been
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  taken. Their relevance has gone
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  Hallelujah. When I was writing this, writing
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  out all of these things, there was 11 weakness that stood out
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  and the Lord told me, talk about it.
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  It's called offense. I want you to listen.
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  Offense comes with growth and increase.
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  Offence comes with growth and increase.
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  That means the more you grow, the more you increase, the
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  higher your chance of being offended.
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  Hallelujah. With growth and increase comes
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  the awareness of honor, comes the awareness of shame comes the
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  awareness of disappointment comes the awareness of
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  embarrassment. There are people who have no
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  business feeling ashamed or pained except because they have
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  risen to a point that is now notable.
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  Acts chapter 24 and verse 16. Acts 2416.
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  Give it to us, it says, and herein do I exercise myself.
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  Is that in your Bible to have always a conscience void of
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  offense towards God and towards man.
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  It is possible for a man to be in this state, void of offense
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  towards God, void of offense towards men.
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  There are preachers today hating one another.
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  There are businessmen today hating one another.
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  You trace the story, it goes to offense, ego.
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  Ego is such a in fashion today. It has become an industry.
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  An industry has literally been built around the ego of great
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  men. Offense Revelation chapter 2,
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  four and five. No, no, no, James Wan, my
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  apologies, 19 and 20. James Wan, let's hurry up. 19
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  and 20. Wherefore, my beloved brethren,
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  God is speaking to you. Now let every man be swift to
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  hear, slow to speak, and slow to wrath.
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  Is that in your Bible, verse 20 For the wrath of man walketh not
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  the righteousness of God. He already told you, no matter
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  how anointed you are, when you allow this cancer of offense to
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  eat into your heart, you will be surprised at the many things
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  that you will do as a result. There are offended preachers,
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  offended businessmen, offended parents, offended spouses.
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  And you see, the pain from offense can be so deep.
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  You can feel it physically. You know how you feel like
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  peptic ulcer or something? You literally feel as if they're
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  piercing you with a knife. There are people who cannot
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  sleep. Oh, you did this to me.
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  She did this to me. Offense.
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  This was the issue between Esau and Jacob.
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  The offense was so strong. The brothers of Joseph after
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  they betrayed him, if Joseph was not free of this, do you know
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  what he would have done? He would have probably gathered
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  them 1 by 1 and slaughtered them one by one.
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  Number one for collecting my coat of many colors, putting me
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  in a well and selling me for 30 she kills.
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  I will slaughter all of you one by one.
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  When the brothers discovered that Joseph that they wanted to
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  kill was now Prime Minister, they were afraid.
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  And he said set the table before them, let them eat.
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  He said you meant it for evil. Ah, what's that song you take?
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  What the enemy meant for Hallelujah.
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  If you don't repent from that, they will see mentality.
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  They will see it's unnecessary. Your destiny is too expensive to
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  peg yourself with that kind of mundane pursuit.
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  Are we together? Offense.
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  You need to find your weakness and your vulnerability and
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  obtain grace to deal with it. There are preachers.
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  When they get angry, they come box physically.
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  I'm not talking of reporting to police by themselves.
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  They will box you and beat you. What happened?
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  You call him Joshua Selman instead of Apostle Joshua
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  Selman. That's what warranted that,
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  that, that boxing Hallelujah. There are men if their if their
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  wife say honey, you say you are stupid.
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  Honey better call me by my name. Call me Daddy.
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  It's not for me to dictate what you should do in your home, but
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  it's unfortunate easy things that bring offense.
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  Can I tell you the truth? If you know God, you will not
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  keep man in your heart. If you know God BA, you will not
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  keep man in your heart. Now don't think to be free from
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  offense. It's just something you just
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  laugh like that. There are people who have been
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  wounded and that wound is so deep it will not jump out
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  overnight. But this is where the Holy
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  Spirit comes. He brings to your life that balm
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  in Gilead, and with that balm, healing comes.
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  With that balm, healing comes. Is someone learning.
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  Can I tell you when I see young men in ministry talking about
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  fathers and talking about other people and shouting and carrying
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  a false sense of holiness, sometimes I just lay my hand on
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  my chest and I pray sincere prayer for them.
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  I say, oh God, please help these people.
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  You've never held 1,000,000, never held 10 naira, and you are
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  shouting, making stupid noise, and there are people, they have
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  not. There are certain circles.
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  If God brings you into, you have to go back and go and pray, pray
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  of repentance. In case most people have no idea
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  what honor can do. Most people have no idea what
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  liftings can do. I told you last week that is the
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  reason why. You see the older people get,
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  the less noisier they become. They just keep quiet.
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  I just think this man did this. I'll kill him all.
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  And the elderly man just says instead of you to discern what
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  he's saying, you are there shouting as a young man.
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  Hallelujah. Discern your vulnerabilities,
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  discern your weaknesses. Hear me.
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  The thing with weakness, even if it is one more year left for you
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  on earth, you can rubbish everything good you have done
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  simply because you did not address this.
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  Seeing that we're surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses,
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  it says, let us lay aside every weight and the sin that not
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  easily beset us, and to run with perseverance.
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  Give yourself an assignment. If you need to take a day off to
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  cry before God, go and cry before God.
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  You can't lie to God. Roll on the ground and say, Your
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  Majesty, this is me coming before you.
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  I want to last. Help me.
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  The problem can be that it is the secret place that is wrong.
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  Ministry is still right, everything is happening right.
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  Business is still right, everything is happening right.
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  Boy, you have stopped getting the result.
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  You are preaching with the fire you preached yesterday, but the
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  impact is no longer the same. You are singing the songs you
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  used to sing yesterday, but the impact is no longer the same.
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  You still have the finances you had yesterday, but the impact is
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  not the same. That is the problem.
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  Loss of passion and fire for God.
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  Second Chronicles 26, Five Uziah and he sought God in the days of
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  Zechariah, who had understanding in the visions of God.
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  Ladies and gentlemen, my Bible says as long as he sought the
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  Lord, God made him to prosper. As long as he sought the Lord.
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  Can I tell you, and I mean this from the depth of my heart and I
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  don't say it from a standpoint of pride, I can close this Bible
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  for one year and still not like what to preach.
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  I can rise up from here now. I can jump into a plane.
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  I'm preaching a conference back-to-back for the next two
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  weeks and I'll not like what to say.
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  It is not always about what you are saying, it's about who you
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  are loving. Sometimes what you are saying
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  may not change, but because there is a disconnect between
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  your love life and that of Jesus, what you are saying may
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  be right, but the impact is no longer right.
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  Is someone learning there are many pastors that stop working
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  with God?