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Lessons from an Overcomer (Destiny-Defining Principles) by Apostle Joshua Selman | Koinonia Global · Selah Media House

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  Hallelujah, let's lift our hands and give praise and thanks to
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  the King of Kings, the Lord of Lords, Alpha Omega, beginning
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  and the end. Go ahead and bless his name.
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  We extol you, King of all the ages.
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  One generation will declare your praise to another.
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  You reign eternally, unquestionably.
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  King. Go ahead, give him thanks.
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  Let this come from the depth of your heart.
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  To our King, our Maker, the ruler over the nations.
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  Father, we bless you. We praise you.
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  Shabaleke Parados caffredi balantos shabraka palatos Y
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  Best. We thank you, Majesty, We bless
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  you, we bless you. Go ahead and thank Him.
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  Miraculous manifestations of His hand, the doings of the Lord in
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  the midst of His people. Thank Him in advance for that
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  which you'll be doing in your life tonight.
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  Hallelujah. Praise the name of the Lord.
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  I want you to ask the Lord to give you a very definite
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  visitation tonight. Father, there are many people
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  who have come gathered in your name.
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  But visit me this night. Go ahead and pray.
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  Visit me. Give me a visitation like you
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  did. Sarah.
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  Give me a visitation like you did.
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  Solomon. Give me a visitation like you
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  did Gideon. Give me a visitation like you
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  did Hannah. Give me a visitation like you
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  did the woman at the well. Give me a visitation like you
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  did in a book Necodemus. Give me a visitation like you
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  did Paul. I cry for a very definite
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  visitation by your spirit. Are you praying for everyone
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  that asketh Receiveth? For in Jesus mighty name we
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  have. Prayed Father, speak to our
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  hearts tonight. We have come to hear, We have
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  come to receive. We have come to be lifted, to be
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  elevated in the Spirit. We have come to be enlightened
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  and to be empowered. We pray in the name of Jesus
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  that you will find by your Spirit unrestrained access in
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  our midst. And we pray that you will bless,
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  you will heal, you will deliver, you will transform, and to Jesus
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  be all the glory. Amen and Amen.
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  Can you greet one or two people and then please be seated.
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  Tell them God bless you, Hallelujah, Amen and Amen and
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  Amen and Amen. I want to appreciate everyone
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  for your commitment to learn. It is true that without vision
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  the people perish, but it is equally true that without people
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  the vision will not come to fruition.
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  Every God ordained vision is God dependent and it is also men
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  dependent. Hallelujah.
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  The Bible says the Lord gave the Word.
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  Great was the company of them that published it.
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  Tonight is another opportunity to be radically transformed by
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  the power of His Word. I have taught you here that
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  God's method has always been by His Word.
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  He lifts by His Word, He answers prayers by His Word, He exalts
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  by His Word, He promotes by His Word.
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  So when the Word of the Lord comes to you, then you know that
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  the coming of that word has brought the beginning of a new
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  season, perhaps the end of another one.
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  And this means that when the Word of God is about to come,
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  you must pay rapt attention so that Satan does not distract you
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  and rob you of your portion. Hallelujah, Praise the name of
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  the Lord. I truly believe that tonight's
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  teaching will radically transform everyone.
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  I have told you here that I'm committed to seeing that week
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  in, week out when you are gathered here in the name of the
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  Lord, that we receive wisdom, superior wisdom, illumination
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  from God. We learn the ways of the
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  Kingdom, we are prepared, we grow in the Spirit by light, and
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  then we are prepared to live victorious Christian lives.
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  And let me remind you again, like I've stated, times without
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  number, that the end of the journey of the believer with God
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  is glory. Hallelujah that when you begin
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  your work with God you must have this at the back of your mind,
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  that God's intent for you is not just that you will serve him,
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  but that your life becomes a manifestation of the glory of
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  God, the end of the believers life.
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  If you allow the Word of God to mold, to build, to culture, to
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  train you, if you submit to the ministry of the Holy Spirit, it
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  does not matter your current level.
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  And believe me when I say this, the.
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  End of your life is the glory of God manifest the glory of God
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  revealed. That means you're coming here
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  Week in, week out is your commitment towards this
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  transformation project. Your coming means that you are
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  saying I agree with you. Oh God, that you keep transiting
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  me. You keep building me until the
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  glory of God is revealed. Inexperience through my life.
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  May that be your encounter tonight.
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  Shout a believing Amen. Hallelujah.
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  And tonight's teaching is also a build up from last week's
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  teaching. I've been sharing with us keys
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  that help us survive and thrive even within this end time.
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  The word speaking concerning the sons of Issachar, he said there
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  were men that had understanding of the times and they knew what
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  Israel ought to do. It is terrible to be in
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  ignorant, in ignorance as far as the ways of God is concerned.
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  So I want you to fasten your seatbelts tonight and please
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  lend me and lend your destiny a rapt attention.
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  And for those of us who are connecting from across the
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  globe, you will do well to invite your loved ones and tell
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  them you need to hear what apostle has to say by the
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  Spirit. You need to sit down and learn
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  by the Spirit of God and the Lord would do us good in Jesus
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  name. Lessons from an overcomer.
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  Lessons from an overcomer I want to teach you destiny defining
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  principles today from the lens of Scripture and from the lens
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  of those who have overcome. We are gleaning from the pain of
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  many today. We are gleaning from the tears
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  of many. We are gleaning from the
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  experience of many. For many of you, what you are
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  hearing tonight will save you the next 1020 years of your
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  life. Believe me, what you are hearing
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  tonight perhaps will save you your lifetime.
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  And for many of you, you will redeem time and gain mastery
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  over destiny. You believe that?
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  Shout aloud. Amen.
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  Lessons from an Overcomer 3. Scriptures.
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  Revelations chapter 3 and verse 21 to him that overcometh, I
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  will grant to sit with me in my. Throne even as I also overcame
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  and I am sat down. Sat down with my father in his
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  throne. Not to everybody.
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  To him that overcometh scripture #2 Second Timothy chapter 3 were
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  reading 14 down to 17 lessons from an overcomer.
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  But continue thou in the things which thou has learned and has
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  been assured. Of knowing of whom thou has
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  learned, 15 and that from a child thou has known the Holy
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  Scripture which is able to make thee wise.
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  Take note unto salvation through faith that is in Jesus Christ.
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  16 Now it says, all Scripture is given by inspiration of God and
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  his profitable. Take note of that expression.
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  Scripture is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for
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  correction, for instruction in righteousness.
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  To what end? That the man of God may be
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  mature, thoroughly furnished onto all good works?
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  Are you ready for the third Scripture?
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  Proverbs chapter 1, beginning from verse one reading to 5.
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  The proverbs of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel.
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  The intent of the book to no wisdom.
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  An instruction to perceive the words of understanding.
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  Verse 3. To receive the instruction of
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  wisdom. It says justice and judgment and
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  equity. To give subtlety to the simple
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  and to the young man. Knowledge and discretion.
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  The final verse it says, a wise man will hear and increase
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  learning, and a man of understanding shall attain unto
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  wise counsel. May the Lord.
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  Grant us grace and understanding in Jesus name.
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  We live in a world where we admire victorious people.
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  We admire overcomers in sports, in music, in the academia, in
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  politics. Every time you see a life and an
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  individual who has succeeded, notably in any area, usually
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  they are worthy of our admiration.
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  We have names that we call them. For those of them who are on
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  social media, in our social media age, we usually would look
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  for their pages and like and follow them religiously, hoping
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  to gain wisdom, hoping to be inspired.
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  Generally speaking, in our world, success at any level
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  inspires. Success at any level provokes
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  people to want to replicate that result.
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  Hallelujah. If someone stands here and he
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  says I am a professor, say of medicine and surgery, a young
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  aspiring Dr. would usually be inspired just by the sight of
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  that individual. When you see a general in the
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  army, say a four-star general, you know.
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  Very, very rare position. A young man who is in the army
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  will usually be inspired by that sight.
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  Our world celebrates overcomers. We call them all kinds of names.
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  Sometimes we call them celebrities.
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  Sometimes we look for the names that best, you know, fit our
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  description of them. It is a very wonderful thing to
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  be an overcomer. Let me give you the definition.
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  To overcome means to confront, to challenge and to prevail
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  over. This is what it means to
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  overcome. To overcome means to confront,
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  to challenge, and to prevail over.
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  To overcome also means to gain mastery of.
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  You are called an overcomer to the degree to which you are able
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  to. Confront to challenge and then
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  to prevail over. To overcome also means to gain
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  mastery of Hallelujah. Many years ago, I used to listen
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  a lot to this genre of music called the Music of the Masters.
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  I mean, those guys just play all kinds of things and they play as
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  though they are not humans. They can play the keyboard, they
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  can play whatever. They use all kinds of skill.
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  I mean, they stretch your imagination beyond the borders.
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  They are called masters. They are overcomers.
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  Spent years in learning and they have gained mastery.
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  Let's define classically who an overcomer is.
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  I've written it down here and please write one who faces
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  challenges or one who faces challenges and subdues or gains
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  control over them. One who faces Oh, my apologies,
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  let me let me just structure my definition.
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  One who faces comma challenges, that's the appropriate
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  expression and subdues or gains control.
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  One who faces comma challenges and subdues or gains control
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  either over an. Enemy a condition.
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  Or a situation. I'll take it one more time.
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  A Nova coma is one who faces, one who challenges, and one who
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  subdues or gains control over an enemy, over a condition, over a
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  situation. This is known as a Nova coma.
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  So the character of a Nova coma is that you must be confronted
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  with situations where you have to face them with courage and
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  confidence. You have to challenge them with
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  audacity, and then you subdue, you overcome, you gain mastery
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  over. May that be your testimony from
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  tonight in the name of Jesus Christ.
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  Among the many things that makes Masters professionals, or
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  overcomers as we call it, admirable are the many stories
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  that they have from their vantage position now.
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  Are we following now? You will never have someone who
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  has truly overcome, who does not have a story or a lesson,
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  something to tell you about their journey.
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  In fact, it is often said that the secret of men is hidden in
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  their stories. Am I right on that?
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  That when you are listening to a great man, one who has achieved
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  any kind of fit or stride in life and destiny, usually in the
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  midst of the stories, the stories convey their pain, they
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  convey lessons, they convey all kinds of secrets that if and
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  when you understand, you are able to reproduce their results.
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  Among the many things, I repeat, that we gain from overcomers of
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  victorious people, it's not just the results that they now enjoy.
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  It is the lesson and the stories, the gems that they have
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  found on the way. Can I tell you, some of these
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  men to become overcomers, they had to sustain scars and
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  injuries. Some of these men, for them to
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  become overcomers, they made mistakes.
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  Some of them to become overcomers, they went through
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  things that they might not want you to go through again.
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  It is profitable to listen to an overcomer.
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  There is time redemption when you listen to an overcomer,
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  capacity to redeem time, capacity to subsidize the price
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  that you have to pay. As far as Destiny actualization
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  is concerned, you are about to learn.
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  A few destiny defining principles from the life of
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  overcomers. Overcomers in scripture,
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  Overcomers in our world today. I have been able to, by the
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  Spirit of God, to distill for you years and decades of pain,
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  years and decades of blood, years and decades of tears from
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  people, some of them dead, some of them alive, some of them
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  captured in Scripture. To the end that God will grant
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  us the wisdom that He will reveal to us through these
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  principles, the strategies that empower the Saints to survive
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  and to thrive. Are you ready?
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  Lesson number one, The first lesson that we learn from an
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  overcomer is that ignorance is not a demon.
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  You do not solve the problem of ignorance just by casting it
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  out. You go for knowledge.
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  Lesson #1 from an overcomer. Ignorance is not a demon.
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  The problem of ignorance is not solved by casting it away.
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  There are spirits that enhance an ignorant persons remaining in
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  that state. But essentially the starting
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  point for all men is ignorance. All men start in ignorance by
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  default. It is not a negative condition
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  until it is allowed to prolong or be prolonged in your life.
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  Are we together? Yes.
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  It is the remaining of ignorance that makes it a problem.
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  All men begin their journey in destiny in ignorance, including
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  Jesus. The Spirit of God drove Jesus in
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  Matthew chapter 4 to go and pray and to be tempted of the devil.
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  But it was not the Spirit of God that drove him at age 13 to go
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  to the temple. As an act of his will.
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  He went to the temple and invested time.
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  Aware of his ignorance, he began to do something about it.
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  Jesus was not the only young man in his day, but he was one of
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  the few who dedicated themselves to learn ignorance.
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  It is not a demon. There are many believers who
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  want a short term fast fix solution to the issue of
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  ignorance. And most church people,
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  especially in Africa, just believe that with one prophetic
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  declaration, age long ignorance will suddenly evaporate out of
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  your mind, leaving you with superior wisdom.
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  It does not happen like that the cure for ignorance is not just
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  prayer The cure for ignorance is not just deliverance.
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  The cure for ignorance is the discipline to stay with light
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  until light drives away darkness.
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  Lessons from an overcomer ignorance is not a demon.
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  Many people today that includes. Men and women of God in ministry
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  that includes family people that includes aspiring people in our
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  world today are left at the mercy of their ignorance.
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  They continue to fail and to recycle pin perpetually bringing
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  all kinds of flimsy excuses and justifications.
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  And many of them have invented all kinds of imbalanced
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  strategies to deal with the ignorance.
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  First and foremost, many will not even admit that they are in
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  ignorance. Can I tell you a real miracle
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  begins at the point where you are aware of your state of
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  ignorance? Even if you do not know the way
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  out yet. That you are aware that I am in
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  this state of ignorance already begins to put you in a position
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  of victory for as long as you live.
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  I want you to learn and to know this ignorance is not a demon.
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  All men, including the ones who you call over commerce, started
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  from a standpoint of ignorance. Are we learning?
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  Second Timothy chapter 2 from verse 15, Second Timothy chapter
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  2 and verse 15. It says study to show yourself
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  approved unto God. Can you imagine that receiving
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  an approval unto God as far as destiny actualization is
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  concerned has a dimension of it that only study can bring?
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  A Walkman that needed not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the
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  word of truth. There is a relationship between
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  laziness and shame. The Bible says study to show
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  yourself a proof and that in doing that there will be no need
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  for shame. Proverbs chapter one please from
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  verse 20. Please be patient as I read
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  while you learn wisdom. Cry it without it says she
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  uttered her voice in the streets.
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  Next verse she cried in the chief place of concourse, and in
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  the openings of the gates in the city she uttered her voice.
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  This is Proverbs. Now how long is simple?
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  The word simple. There is the word ignorant.
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  Will you love ignorance or simplicity?
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  And the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate
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  knowledge. Next verse it says, Turn you at
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  my reproof. Wisdom is speaking.
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  Behold, I will pour out my spirit upon you.
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  I will make known my words unto you, because I have called
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  wisdom knowledge, and you have refused.
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  I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded me.
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  But ye have set at not all my counsel, and would not and would
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  none of my reproof. I will also laugh at your
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  calamity. He says.
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  I will mock when fear cometh the consequences of ignorance, when
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  your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a
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  whirlwind, when distress and anguish cometh upon you.
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  Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer.
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  They shall seek me early, but they will not find me. 29 It
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  says for that they hated knowledge, and did not choose
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  the fear of the Lord. Verse 30.
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  They would none of my counsel. They despised all my reproof.
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  Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be
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  filled with their own devices. Two more verses.
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  For the turning away of the simple or the ignorant shall
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  slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them. 33 But
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  who so hacknet unto me, shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet
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  from the fear of evil? Ignorance is not a demon.
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  Ladies and gentlemen, please hear me.
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  You want to actualize destiny, and you want to live a
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  victorious life. You must learn to take
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  responsibility by the spirit and to contend for high levels of
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  spiritual illumination. Hallelujah.
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  Another angle to this first point is that just because you
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  are enlightened in an area does not cover for the darkness in
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  another area. Every area must be uniquely
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  pursued to get light. You may have light in the area
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  of healing, but it will not bring you prosperity by default.
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  All the various dimensions of your life, you must pay
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  attention to every one of them and to pursue light.
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  Hallelujah. Therein lies the fallacy of
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  short term success. You can excel in an area and
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  usually results have a way of flattering us.
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  Because in the presence of results in an area, it is
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  difficult to admit that you are ignorant in another area.
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  After all, you have results. You may be an excellent
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  preacher, but you may be a bad leader.
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  Are we together now? And because of the results that
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  you get in preaching, it will bring it to a point where it
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  will be difficult to admit that you need to have leadership
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  built in you. Because you judge by the
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  sincerity of your priesthood. And you will automatically
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  assume that because I preach and people are blessed, it then
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  means that I'm an an exceptional leader.
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  You can be a responsible father in terms of your willingness to
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  help your children, but ignorant of the principles that make you
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  a father indeed. Hallelujah.
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  Dimensional success is dangerous because you will excel in one
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  area and believe that just because of the excellence in
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  that area, there is no need for improvement or development in
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  any other area. Hallelujah.
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  I'm reminded of First Corinthians chapter 8 and verse
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  2. Very profound scripture, the
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  Bible says, and if any man think that he knoweth anything, he
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  knoweth nothing. Yet as he ought to know.
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  Hallelujah. It is important for us to know
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  that for you to excel in life, you must come to terms with the
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  fact that getting light lights that empowers the knowledge, the
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  information that you need to rise and thrive.
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  You will not be spoon fed with it.
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  You have to challenge yourself and rise to the occasion.
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  It will take a long time for you to have knowledge.
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  Listen, it took one day for the Holy Spirit to come upon the
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  apostles, but it did not take one day for them to be
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  transformed to be prepared for that impartation.
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  The ratio of impartation to transformation was 3 1/2 years
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  to 1. Day there was one day of
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  Pentecost. But there was no one day of
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  lecture, many years of lecture, Jesus teaching them, helping
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  them, allowing them to ask questions when they were now
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  prepared. I have taught you here,
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  Koinonia, that the value of the anointing is that it comes upon
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  a vessel that is enlightened and transformed.
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  When you try to bring impartation upon a life and a
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  vessel that rejects enlightenment and rejects
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  transformation, you only wasted that impartation.
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  It was will have no profit. Ignorance is not a demon.
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  This finance thing, why is it not working?
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  The devil must be attacking me. I told you that spirits are
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  opportunist. They have found a loophole in
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  your understanding and built a stronghold around it.
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  I can tell you no spirit is as powerful as they look.
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  It is the gap, the space that our ignorance has provided in
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  their life. For as long as the demons find
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  when the vessel swept but empty, they will always call your kind
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  and make the present stage to be worse than the first.
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  When I found this, I made-up my mind that anything that does not
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  work in my life, I will not blame anybody.
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  I will take responsibility by God and I will sit down.
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  Remember my teaching last week? The first lesson we learned from
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  overcomers is that there are people who take the
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  responsibility to contend for light.
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  How do you know light has come by the absence of darkness?
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  If darkness is still there, you do not have light enough.
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  The ultimate test for the presence of light is the absence
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  of darkness. Write it down, please.
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  The ultimate test for the presence of light is the
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  absence, the dispelling. Of darkness.
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  Many believers are plagued with the cancer of ignorance.
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  Ignorance. About the ways of the Kingdom.
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  Ignorance about the laws of the cosmos.
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  I hope you know that this universe was not designed by an
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  intelligent God to just be run with with with blind ideas.
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  There are exact laws, spiritual laws, but there are exact
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  natural laws. There are laws.
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  You find this law scattered in biology.
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  You find this law scattered in agriculture.
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  You find this law scattered in engineering.
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  All those today we call scientists are men who have
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  stumbled across the laws that God created to govern the
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  activities of the cosmos. There are laws that control the
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  realm of the spirit, but there are laws that control the earth.
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  For instance, while the earth remain.
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  It is not a spiritual law alone. It is a law that allies to all
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  men. Now, there are certain
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  principles that only apply to believers, but there are
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  principles that apply to all men.
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  They are the laws of the universe.
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  My question is how many of them do you not know and how many of
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  them are you currently a victim of lessons from an over coma
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  ignorance? Is not a demon.
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  That means everybody has a chance to as quick as your
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  passion can afford you get out of a realm of ignorance.
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  You must take responsibility and say in the name of Jesus.
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  I am tired of wallowing around this ignorance.
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  You came from a family where no one has risen, no glory, no
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  beauty. I can tell you for as long as
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  you keep blaming people and hoping like we say Nigeria one
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  day go better. That is just a is a wise saying
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  that does not have any biblical basis.
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  It will not work. Time does not change things.
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  Time only reveals ignorance is not a demon.
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  The day you begin to take responsibility over your life
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  and over your destiny, obtaining grace and assistance from the
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  Spirit, and you go through the labor of contending for light,
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  you are now subscribing for your exit.
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  Out of your realm of shame, out of your realm of mediocrity, out
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  of the realm where nothing seems to be working.
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  Behind everything that works is light.
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  Light is the battery that powers everything that works.
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  Behind every great business is an information that the owner of
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  that business knows. Behind every great ministry, I
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  tell you sincerely, there are secrets.
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  Men rise, and they stand upon the abundance of the secrets,
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  the mysteries, and the principles that they have found.
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  There are laws that govern the anointing.
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  There are laws that govern leadership.
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  There are laws that govern influence.
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  There are laws that govern abundance.
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  There are laws that govern relationships.
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  There are laws that govern restoration.
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  Are we together? There are laws that govern
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  longevity. It is your assignment under God.
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  To. Find these laws by the Spirit,
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  can I tell you? And I say this with every sense
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  of humility. Happy are you when God plants
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  you under a man of God who by sacrifice has distilled his laws
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  and brings it cheaply for you. That is a real He has brought.
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  He has subsidized the price. That you have to pay.
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  This is the blessing you get when you come to the House of
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  God, that people have paid the price by the Spirit and through
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  the sacrifice of alignment, the labor of mentorship, the
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  sacrifice of adaptation, to get these truths together, distill
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  them, and to communicate them with grace.
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  Lessons from an Overcomer There is no overcomer who sits on the
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  throne of glory in ignorance. There is a realm where ignorance
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  is not permitted. The gate will not open.
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  Did you hear what I said? There is a realm where ignorance
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  is not permitted. Even the worst of men in that
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  realm is still sufficiently ignorant or sufficiently
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  knowledgeable. There is a realm where ignorance
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  cannot pass beyond. It is up to you to make up your
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  mind right now, listening to me here and across the globe,
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  whether you are ready to remain. Did you know that regardless the
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  prophetic word that comes year after year, regardless what
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  resolutions you make year after year, in ignorance, your lot is
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  already defined in ignorance. I don't need to be a prophet to
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  reveal what your tomorrow will be.
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  Just show me the abundance of ignorance you have decided to
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  keep and with the precision of an artist I can paint your
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  tomorrow not by word of knowledge.
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  There are many people who their ten years will look like today,
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  in fact was done today. It is not prophesying doom, it
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  is that the level of emotional attachment they have to
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  ignorance will not allow them rise.
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  They are so attached to ignorance they dread the
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  discipline. Of knowledge are we learning?
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  Koinonia is quiet. Amen.
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  You came to. Church, when I find out you are
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  quiet, we will sing. I will get your spirit up and
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  continue what I'm doing. Amen.
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  Is someone learning? So imagine with me that there
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  are two seats here on stage. One seat is for you.
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  You are now seated there, and the other seat is occupied by a
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  very old ancient man who is talking to you, giving you an
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  opportunity to learn. This is what is happening to you
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  today. The name of that man who is
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  seated there is an overcomer. Whether you call him Jesus,
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  whether you call him Paul, whether you call him Abraham,
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  whether you call him whatever it is, there is one name that binds
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  them. All they are overcomers.
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  And they are letting us into their lives and into their
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  scars. And the first lesson that they
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  are teaching us tonight is that ignorance is not a demon.
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  It does not respond to sentiments.
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  It does not respond to all kinds of prejudices.
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  You must be willing and ready to contend for light.
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  High level spiritual illumination is what cures
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  darkness from your life lesson number. 2.
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  Are we learning? What is the second lesson that
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  we learned tonight from a Nova coma?
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  You cannot have consistent results until your desires and
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  expectations are defined. You cannot have consistent
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  results until your desires and expectations are defined.
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  You cannot have consistent results until your desires and
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  your expectations are. Defined please underline the
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  word defined Luke chapter 18 please from verse 39 to 41.
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  My goodness, someone is being radically transformed.
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  And there which went before, rebuking that he should hold his
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  peace, but he cried the more that he been blind.
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  Battemio, thou son of David, have mercy on me 40.
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  And Jesus stood and commanded him to be brought unto him.
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  Watch this. And when he was come near Jesus,
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  your Jesus the overcomer asked the money question, What will?
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  Thou that I should do for you. I am a compendium of limitless
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  possibilities. But then my response to you will
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  be at the instance of your defining what your desire is.
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  The man said that I may receive my sight.
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  The man would have said that you have to talk to the king.
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  For me, that they should be giving me arms every day.
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  Just because you see someone in a state does not mean they are
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  willing to come out of it. Giving definition to your
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  desires will coordinate the power of God to meet you at the
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  point of your need. Lesson #2 You cannot have
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  consistent results until your desires and expectations are
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  defined. Mark 1124 My goodness, please
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  pay attention to what you are learning now.
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  Therefore I say unto you, What things so ever ye desire.
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  What things so ever ye desire, when you pray on those things,
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  specific things, believe that you receive as them, and thou
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  shalt have them. I will tell you why many people
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  never become successful. I will tell you why many people
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  never actualize great things in life.
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  They have no definition. Over their desires they have
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  vague ideas. You ask an average person what
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  do you want God to do for you. They will say things like maybe
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  general goodness just to show up for me.
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  Or you ask them what is wrong with you.
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  The first assignment of every doctor is not treatment is to
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  diagnose what the problem is and diagnosis can.
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  Take a long time. Am I right on that?
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  They will need to send you to run a test and the result can
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  show multiple possibilities. Then they subject you to a more
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  intricate test. The joy of the doctor is that he
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  finally zooms down. People begin to rejoice over
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  diagnosis, not just treatments. They are finally happy that
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  we've known the name. The moment it has a name, you
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  begin your your chances are high that you will be healed and you
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  will survive. When that sickness has a name,
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  you ask any man. Medical practitioner, the worst
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  state any doctor can be in, is trying to treat a patient whose
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  condition has no definition. That is true for medicine.
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  It is also true for your life. What kind of believer do you
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  want to become? I just want to love God.
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  That is vague. I just want to be great.
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  That is vague. I hate poverty.
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  That is still vague. I want to be rich.
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  That is vague. I want to be a big man.
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  Very vague. Ignorantly vague because a big
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  man is is a. Statement that was not even
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  introduced by big men. Hallelujah.
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  Are we together? You cannot have consistent
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  results until your desires and expectations.
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  Are defined, given definition to your desires is a miracle.
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  I can tell you this. It is in this area that both
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  religion and science and psychology, they come together.
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  They all agree that your life will revolve greater when there
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  is definition to your expectations.
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  What do you desire? That I may receive my sight.
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  When your desires are defined, you will know when the goals
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  have been achieved. Hallelujah, Lord, bring
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  increase. Lord, bring increase.
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  What does that mean? How do you know your prayer has
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  been answered? Lord, take away shame from my
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  life. By what definition will you know
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  shame has left? How do you know God has answered
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  you? And how do you know the devil is
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  stopping the prayer? Lord, let my destiny help ascend
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  for me. That is wonderful, but what is
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  the definition? Now we pray generally and you
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  hear me prophesied generally, but when it has to do with the
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  life of a victorious 1 and overcomer, ladies and gentlemen,
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  there needs to be definition in your life.
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  Most believers want to succeed, but they are totally at a loss
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  as to what success is and the indices that they will use to
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  measure success. I have helped you in this house
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  and I will help you again that when you talk about success,
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  there are about 7 areas that if you do not excel in, you are not
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  successful. Can I do a one minute recap for
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  you #1 very quickly, Please write it down.
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  We're still on .2. Number one, your spiritual
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  growth, the first area that you measure success in.
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  You want to make progress, you want to advance.
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  Number one is your spiritual growth #2 mental transformation.
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  You are successful to the degree to which you now adopt superior
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  belief systems that translate towards a winning and a
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  victorious life. I refer you to my message, The
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  victor's mentality, The mentality of a victor.
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  The second area that we measure success is in the area of your
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  mental transformation. There is nothing called a
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  billionaire madman. No, you give a madman 1 billion,
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  you did not help him. He's not even aware because he's
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  not in a mental state that is fine and healthy #3 The third
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  area to measure success is in the area of purpose.
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  And of course you can call it your ambition, your career,
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  whatever it is purpose and your ambition, that which you desire
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  to do as far as life and destiny is concerned.
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  Can I continue The 4th area to measure success is your health
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  and Wellness. You are only successful in the
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  Kingdom to the degree to which you are healthy and you are
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  well. Your physical agility and your.
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  Wellness is a very, very potent index for measuring success.
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  I'm teaching you this so that when you say Lord, I desire to
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  be successful, you understand the areas.
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  Are you seeing that now your mind can cooperate with your
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  prayer so that you can get answers and you will know God
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  has answered you. Your spiritual growth and
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  advancement, mental transformation, purpose and
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  destiny, health and Wellness #5 your financial well-being.
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  Usually this is where most people zoom down to when they're
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  talking about success. They are really talking about
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  money, financial well-being. It is true that in all you're
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  being successful. If you log in this area, you're
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  not wholesomely, you're not entirely successful.
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  Number six relationships. The 6th area that measures and
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  defines your being successful is the quality of the relationships
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  that you have and you enjoy in your life.
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  You are as secured from an egg standpoint as the relationships
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  that you have. Let me repeat myself again.
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  From an egg standpoint, you are as secured as the.
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  Relationships that you have #7 The 7th area that measures
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  success generally is fulfillment.
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  Fulfillment and meaning, meaning, MEANING, meaning the
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  area of fulfillment and meaning that you want to ensure that
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  your life counts. You want to be satisfied knowing
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  that you are serving God and that you are becoming a blessing
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  to humanity. You cannot have consistent
• 45:55
  results until your desires and expectations are defined.
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  Watch this if you have your roof leaking in your house, do you
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  know sometimes the leakage can start from one point Or let me
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  use a plumbing issue. Let's say you have, you know, a
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  leakage from your pipe. The water can flow safe from
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  your living room or from the toilet, the bathroom, and then
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  it flows down to the bedroom. It may even flow to other areas
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  in, in, in, you know, maybe even to your living room.
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  But when you are solving the problem, you, it's not where the
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  water is. You have to go back and find out
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  where is the point from where's that leakage started?
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  Is the longevity of that leakage that caused that damage to even
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  reach your living room. Do you understand what I'm
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  teaching you? So you have to go past the
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  living room and then you finally you get to the point where you
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  say so it's from maybe the toilet or the sink, and then you
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  start to fix it there. When you fix that one, you can
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  clean up the water that is there and you know you have done a
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  good job, but when you leave the part that is still leaking and
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  try to mop up the water in the living room, you only wasted
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  your time. Am I right on that?
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  There are many, many people who are just trying to mop up
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  problems, bringing temporal solutions.
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  They have not yet brought definition to their desires.
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  There are believers who want empowerment from God, but they
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  do not have a clear definition. We think in pictures.
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  That is the reason why you hear a lot of people would tell you
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  that they have images that represent their future images.
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  Now, when that is done within the limit of Scripture, that is
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  fine. Are we together?
• 47:41
  Now you understand why the Lord granted me that instruction to
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  get the map of Abuja, get the map of Nigeria, get the map of
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  Africa and get the map of the globe.
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  Why will God ask me to do that? I'm in a season of intense
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  prayer, praying for the next level of Koinonia and God does
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  not even start revealing to me where we will be meeting.
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  He just says you go and get the map.
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  No one that he told Abraham, he said come out, count the stars.
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  I want you are asking me to bless you, but there is
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  vagueness, there is no definition.
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  I need to help your imagination so that I can release for you so
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  you can understand what I have in store.
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  He said count the stars and he began to count and he was lost
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  and he said, so shall thy seed be.
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  Finally verse 6 Abraham believed God and it was counted unto him
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  for righteousness. There are things God wants to
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  do. This is why Baha, my dear people
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  believe in the power of dreams and visions.
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  It is God's way of helping to prepare your mind.
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  You see, when you have seen something and you've held it in
• 48:50
  your imagination, it becomes difficult for the devil to steal
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  it from you. So a young lady who just comes
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  for Koinonia receives a prophetic word from a poor and a
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  mediocre family. She goes back home and he has
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  the spirit of grace. You sit down and you see
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  yourself standing in a place in a crusade ground, ministering,
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  for instance, or running an NGO, a multinational NGO, blessing
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  people. And you wake up.
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  I'm still in that room. I'm still on the ground.
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  You are not there. You've left that place.
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  It's just that you are not aware.
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  You don't know the power. Listen, I'm not just playing
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  with your mind. No, that you were able to
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  receive that you're not in that condition.
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  Again, I'm telling you this. It's just that it will take time
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  for your body to get where your mind has gotten to.
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  But I can tell you at that instance that you received it.
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  The moment Mary said be it unto me, according to your word, she
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  became pregnant. Hallelujah.
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  Those consultants who teach people how to plan, they usually
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  teach people, for instance, in the area of finances, when they
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  want to help you, they will say, go and calculate how much does
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  it take to run your family per week.
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  And you will see the person who is praying and crying and
• 50:17
  shouting, saying I don't know. How much is your chance Goofy?
• 50:20
  The last time I know, I think he's around 70 or 80 around
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  that. I you cannot rise that way.
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  How much is your rent? I don't know.
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  How much is your transportation? I don't know.
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  God help me and God, what do you want me to do for you now?
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  How can I touch a destiny helper to help you?
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  That is the reason why if God gives such a person 1,000,000
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  two million, he would rejoice and roll on the ground even if
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  here and in two weeks he's back to his or his former self again
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  because there was no definition of desires.
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  There will always be wastage of opportunities when there are no
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  definitions to your desire. Hallelujah.
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  I truly believe, watch this that part of the reason why Joseph
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  excelled was because he prepared.
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  He knew that based on the law of time and chance, one day I will
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  stand before the King. It may take long.
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  There is no guarantee. No date was given to me.
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  And I'm saying this prophetically to someone.
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  Do you know you are closer to meeting your helpers?
• 51:28
  Are you prepared? Have you imagined yourself in
• 51:30
  the boardroom? Or do you want until the day God
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  now opens the door, You now disgrace yourself and your
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  destiny as a result of lack of definition.
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  Many years ago, let me tell you many years ago, a younger, much
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  younger version of myself back in our family house in just I
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  used to go to our boys quarters in the night.
• 51:52
  You've heard my story. I will carry a mic, a stick now
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  representing a mic and I'll be shouting at the back of that
• 52:00
  house preaching alone. I never knew that my mom once
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  peeped at me and she saw me doing it once and I will sense
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  the power of God. I'm preaching.
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  That's going only at the end the Bush.
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  It's true. Do you believe what I'm telling
• 52:20
  you? Let me sincerely admit to you,
• 52:24
  if you do not have a definition for your desires, it will never
• 52:29
  come to pass. I hate to be a bearer of bad
• 52:31
  news. Oh, I'm going to be a great man
• 52:33
  of God. Do you have individuals that
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  represent where you are getting to or I'll be greater than
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  anybody. Be like them first, then you can
• 52:42
  be greater than them. Some of these foolish and blind
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  strategies that people bring is the reason why they don't rise.
• 52:49
  They will tell you I'm going to be greater than have an idea.
• 52:52
  I'm going to be a great crusade person.
• 52:54
  There are a few people that can be a starting point priming your
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  creativity. Reinhard Bonker is there of
• 53:01
  blessed memory. Billy Graham is there of blessed
• 53:04
  memory. At every level there is someone
• 53:07
  who can relate to your desires. Lessons from an overcomer are we
• 53:15
  learning? You must give definition to your
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  desire. You will see someone who is in
• 53:21
  A1 room but he has already given an architect an architect
• 53:25
  friend. He says help me draw a three
• 53:27
  bedroom front and the man said well I would draw it all but I
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  know you're wasting your time. No, and he would draw it and
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  write it there. Or some persons who spell their
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  goals in the name of Jesus. By the end of 2023, I should be
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  worth at least 10 million naira. May not be too much at whatever
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  level someone may laugh at you and say just that, no problem,
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  allow them. You just keep dreaming with God
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  in the name of Jesus. As a man of God, I should have
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  the privilege at the end of the year.
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  I should be serving His grace to these people and this region.
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  Planning is powerful and there is no planning without deploying
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  your imagination. Listen, I want you to respect
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  what you are hearing. Believe me, even from an
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  intellectual standpoint, you will not hear what you are
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  hearing without paying a price. I assure you on this, ask any
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  consultant and any intelligent person what you are hearing for
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  free is what people who pay 10s of thousands of dollars to
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  travel for seminars to listen to.
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  I pray and hope that you respect it.
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  Lesson #2 from Manova Coma is that when there is no definition
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  to your desires, there is no sustainable success.
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  Let's rush. Are we learning?
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  Lesson #3 Are you ready? People are not really affected
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  by what happens to them. Listen.
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  And then you write. People are not really affected
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  by what happens to them. They are affected by the meaning
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  they give what happens to them. It is not what happens to people
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  that affects them. It is the definition and the
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  meaning they give, what affects what happens to them that causes
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  the pain and the despair. Let me say it again and then I
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  will, I will, I will dictate it for you to write.
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  People are not really affected by what happens to them.
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  They are affected by the meaning and the definitions and also the
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  interpretations that they tie to what happens to them.
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  Please look up. Don't worry, you will write What
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  is the difference between falling in church and falling?
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  In a restaurant. Young lady, as I'm teaching
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  right now, the power of God carries you up and lands you
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  down. You get up rejoicing and even
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  your seatmates say, my God, he has visited you versus you fall
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  down in a restaurant, you fell down.
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  You the worst fall may even be here.
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  What is the difference? It's not the falling down, it's
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  the meaning that you attach to that experience.
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  That's what causes depression. That's what causes joy.
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  It is never what happens to you that has that power to destroy
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  you. You have associated happenings
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  around your life and you have connected them to certain
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  meanings. There are events that mean
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  failure to you. There are events that mean
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  weakness to you. There are events that mean
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  oppression to you. What is making someone cry is
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  another person's desire. Someone will cry and say I got
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  only 1,000,000 is a meaning you connected to it.
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  That based on your level 1,000,000 is a testimony of a
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  failure. Whereas for someone that
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  1,000,000, he would talk about it as though, I mean, he just
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  got to heaven. Now you write, please.
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  People are not affected by what happens to them.
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  They are affected by the meaning they connect to the happenings.
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  People are not really affected by what happens to them.
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  They are affected by the meaning that they connect to those
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  happenings. This is the reason why comfort
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  and counseling is powerful. What happens when you are
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  comforted? What happens when you are being
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  counseled? Your perceptions are being
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  changed. That's all.
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  The situation is not being solved necessarily.
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  It is your perception. For instance, if you lose a
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  loved one because of the pain, or let's let me use something
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  more more bearable, you lose a job and you get angry and angry
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  and someone sits with you down and says, do you know, perhaps
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  the Bible says all things work together for good.
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  Is that true? What?
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  What is happening to you now? The person says.
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  I know the story of someone who lost a job and did not know it
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  was a springboard to the next level.
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  At the end of it. The person who was crying 10
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  minutes ago is now suddenly rejoicing.
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  Did you give the person a job? No, you changed the meaning
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  associated to that situation. Can I tell you when you learn
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  this principle you can laugh through storms?
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  What happens when you make a video and you have only two
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  likes or two follows? Why do you cry ABBA all of this?
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  Can you imagine I suffered to preach this message and only two
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  people? Are you sure it was only two
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  people? What if the first click was a
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  congregation listening to you? But you have, so there is a
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  meaning. People are not really affected
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  by what happens, I assure you. Why do you hate to let people
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  know that your father, with all due respect, maybe some person
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  doing some menial job and you lie and call him your uncle.
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  No, that's my uncle. My real father is abroad.
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  Why are you telling that lie? It's not necessarily because
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  we're a bad person. There is a meaning you feel that
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  when you reveal the true status of your father in that lonely
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  estate, it may affect people's perception about yourself worth
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  and you will lose your sense of significance.
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  That means a secured believer is one who redefines the meaning
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  that you have associated to many things and with many things in
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  your life. Hallelujah.
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  Are you learning It is truly not what happens to you that
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  destroys you. I mean, you just called me
• 1:00:00
  Joshua Selman, not Apostle. Josh, do you know who I am?
• 1:00:04
  What is the meaning of that? Perhaps maybe from that culture
• 1:00:08
  they feel it's OK to just say Joshua Selman and you have saved
• 1:00:11
  me. You will soon know now that God
• 1:00:13
  called me. All that complaint is simply
• 1:00:18
  because Apostle was missing. No, it is a meaning you have
• 1:00:21
  connected to it. There are people who are so
• 1:00:25
  insecure that even if it's a little child that taps your leg
• 1:00:28
  and says uncle, they will slap him because they are used to
• 1:00:30
  respect how dare you tap my feet, this little boy.
• 1:00:33
  And they slap the boy and say you don't know who I am.
• 1:00:39
  Why will a man pound on his wife slapping her and saying do you
• 1:00:42
  know I'm older than you? It should be obvious.
• 1:00:44
  Why would a woman revenge back and say you would you would you
• 1:00:47
  would you would stay without food this night and all that
• 1:00:50
  drama is happening? Do you know at the end of it is
• 1:00:53
  simply that there is an oscillation.
• 1:00:55
  They are stinging their ego and simply because of the meaning,
• 1:01:02
  meaning lessons from an over coma #3 we are not really
• 1:01:09
  affected by what happens to us. It is the definition and the
• 1:01:14
  meaning that we associate. So because of this meaning and
• 1:01:21
  definitions, another word for it is called ego.
• 1:01:24
  Ego is an industry. There are businesses that are
• 1:01:28
  literally built out of this deficiency in men.
• 1:01:32
  Are we together? Yes, if you watch me and I come
• 1:01:36
  down from a car and it's a nice Jeep or some Lincoln Navigator
• 1:01:40
  or something, that's right. But if I come out from maybe a
• 1:01:43
  gulf or somewhere, you don't say no, no, no, no.
• 1:01:45
  Now this should not be. There are people who stand
• 1:01:51
  behind aircrafts they have never entered and may never enter soon
• 1:01:57
  and snap in front of it and just say to God be the glory.
• 1:02:00
  I just arrived. What?
• 1:02:02
  I'm not. I'm not trying to be sarcastic.
• 1:02:05
  I'm not trying to be sarcastic. All right, But why do we go
• 1:02:09
  through this pressure? Why do we go through all of
• 1:02:12
  those kinds of things? That house, you see, is my own.
• 1:02:15
  In fact, I don't want to say. Much and then.
• 1:02:18
  We wrap up everything and just say to God be the glory, but the
• 1:02:21
  truth is that we hope that by some meaning, even if it is by
• 1:02:28
  falsehood, we will earn respect. Are we together?
• 1:02:32
  People will believe that well, we are serious people, maybe we
• 1:02:34
  are wealthy, and so on and so forth.
• 1:02:36
  Can I tell you when you learn to give things proper meanings,
• 1:02:40
  offense will be minimized in your life.
• 1:02:44
  The direct consequence of violating this principle is that
• 1:02:48
  you will live a life in unnecessary pain and offense.
• 1:02:52
  Someone can be looking at you and thinking about his rent and
• 1:02:55
  you think the person is IU. I've noticed that this person
• 1:02:59
  is, I mean, and honestly, the person is just, you know, you
• 1:03:02
  can be looking at someone and you are not there.
• 1:03:04
  The person is thinking of what explanation you will give the
• 1:03:07
  landlord and you are there misunderstanding the person and
• 1:03:11
  looking at the person through the lens of your insecurity.
• 1:03:20
  Can we do #4 #4 what lesson do we have to learn tonight from an
• 1:03:28
  overcomer? Is someone becoming wiser?
• 1:03:32
  Are you ready for #4 All right, so let's go.
• 1:03:37
  You need encouragement slash motivation to start anything,
• 1:03:42
  but it takes discipline and endurance to be consistent.
• 1:03:47
  You need encouragement slash motivation to start anything.
• 1:03:55
  When you are about starting anything, what you need is
• 1:03:57
  encouragement and motivation. But it will take discipline and
• 1:04:04
  endurance to be consistent in life.
• 1:04:09
  The secret to starting is motivating motivation, but the
• 1:04:13
  secret to remaining and to be consistent is discipline and
• 1:04:18
  endurance. Discipline and endurance.
• 1:04:23
  You need encouragement and motivation to start anything.
• 1:04:28
  A business, a ministry, a home, you just need encouragement.
• 1:04:33
  But everyone who has stayed in any field of success will tell
• 1:04:37
  you that you get to a point where you need beyond
• 1:04:39
  motivation. It will take discipline and it
• 1:04:43
  will take endurance. And talking about discipline,
• 1:04:46
  there are two dimensions to discipline #1 there is the
• 1:04:49
  staying power, it's called discipline #2 there is the
• 1:04:53
  ability, the power of restraint. You need both.
• 1:04:57
  You are not disciplined if you do not have #1 the staying
• 1:05:01
  power, the ability to continue even if alone, and then #2 the
• 1:05:07
  ability to say no to many good things.
• 1:05:13
  You need encouragement and motivation to start anything in
• 1:05:17
  life, but it will take discipline and endurance.
• 1:05:22
  Believers, please listen to me. This is a very profound point.
• 1:05:26
  Most people think that those who today we call overcomers
• 1:05:30
  champions in the spirit and in destiny that it was motivation
• 1:05:35
  that took them all through. I I disagree totally.
• 1:05:39
  Go and ask any champion in any field.
• 1:05:42
  There are times that the kind of challenges you have before you
• 1:05:46
  motivation will not solve it. You need the staying power to
• 1:05:50
  continue even if you do not know the in the name of what you are
• 1:05:52
  doing, motivate me to get to Lagos.
• 1:05:58
  You can encourage me when I start say by Rd. by the time I
• 1:06:02
  am 7 hours, don't motivate me, you are wasting your time.
• 1:06:06
  Pray for me for the staying power to remain in that car till
• 1:06:09
  I arrive. Are we together?
• 1:06:12
  We have a wall that is so in need of motivation and
• 1:06:15
  motivation is important. Don't get me wrong, it helps to
• 1:06:18
  prime you to start, but there are times you will need to stay
• 1:06:22
  alone and said, though he slay me, I will still trust him.
• 1:06:28
  Hebrews chapter 6 and verse 15. Many people lack the staying
• 1:06:32
  power he says. And so after he the Hebrew
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  Abraham had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.
• 1:06:45
  Abraham did not just obtain the promise because God said he
• 1:06:48
  would. It took patience.
• 1:06:50
  It took endurance. Can I tell you the truth?
• 1:06:54
  For some of you, by reason of what I'm saying, God is telling
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  you, go back to what you were doing.
• 1:07:00
  It is still my will. Stay there.
• 1:07:03
  It will not magically. You know, we have this idea that
• 1:07:06
  because you are in the will of God, the results will happen
• 1:07:09
  overnight. No Sir, there are times you will
• 1:07:11
  cry. You are still in the will of
• 1:07:12
  God. There are times it will not make
• 1:07:14
  sense. You are still in the will of
• 1:07:16
  God. This stubborn child, was it a
• 1:07:19
  cost to get you? He's still a pastor.
• 1:07:21
  Trained him. Endure, endure, endure.
• 1:07:27
  Hallelujah. A gentleman heard that I prayed
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  for 72 hours. And you know these guys who get
• 1:07:39
  motivated, and that's wonderful. It's good to inspire people.
• 1:07:43
  The guy now sent a text that he was going to, you know, go past,
• 1:07:46
  he said. And his his challenge himself
• 1:07:50
  that you go past, you know, 72 hours.
• 1:07:54
  And of course, there are many ways to learn, many ways to
• 1:07:59
  learn. Are we together?
• 1:08:04
  You know, when you hear it, you think it's just easy.
• 1:08:06
  What is there, I assure you, by experience, by the time you pass
• 1:08:11
  four or five hours, there has to be a grace that carries you
• 1:08:15
  through. There is absolutely nothing that
• 1:08:18
  will motivate you about that experience.
• 1:08:20
  Again, if you don't know this, you are not a person of prayer.
• 1:08:28
  Even if the Holy Ghost is shaking all the chairs in your
• 1:08:31
  room, I assure you it is discipline that will drive you
• 1:08:34
  through. Are we together say discipline?
• 1:08:39
  Yes, Sir, The staying power for somebody.
• 1:08:45
  You are about to veer off the path of destiny, whereas the
• 1:08:48
  path you have taken is the right path.
• 1:08:50
  You just need to remain. If you're travelling again, in
• 1:08:53
  my example from Abuja to Lagos, even if by air, it will be
• 1:08:57
  unwise after 15 minutes to start shouting at the crew members or
• 1:09:00
  the pilot to say I thought that this flight is supposed to be a
• 1:09:04
  fast one. No, you will have to endure.
• 1:09:07
  How do you endure? Sometimes you do nothing.
• 1:09:10
  Just sit down till you arrive. Just sit down.
• 1:09:13
  There are times you have to drive if you're the one driving,
• 1:09:16
  or fly if you're the. One, the pilot in charge.
• 1:09:19
  But there are times that you do not need to do anything.
• 1:09:22
  It's called the staying power, the ability to remain until the
• 1:09:26
  law of process runs its course in your life.
• 1:09:31
  Those who are good in the kitchen, you know this.
• 1:09:33
  There are times you mix everything.
• 1:09:35
  There's nothing else to do. Just close the pot and wait.
• 1:09:39
  Have you tried to taste food when it's on fire?
• 1:09:43
  You just want to pick the piece of meat by force.
• 1:09:46
  You know what it does to you. Because of impatience, you will
• 1:09:51
  burn your tongue and get you maven out of shock.
• 1:09:54
  You may push the whole food down.
• 1:09:57
  That's what happens to people. Impatience has cheated many
• 1:10:00
  people from actualizing their destiny.
• 1:10:03
  Just wait 30 more minutes. The food is yours.
• 1:10:10
  Are we together? You can roam around the kitchen,
• 1:10:14
  but wait. You can be hungry, but wait.
• 1:10:17
  Watch videos of food, but wait. Once the meal is ready, they now
• 1:10:22
  serve it beautiful and you can sit down and take your time to
• 1:10:26
  enjoy your meal. Say in the name of Jesus, I
• 1:10:30
  receive grace to wait, I receive grace to stay, I receive grace
• 1:10:38
  to stand, I receive grace to be disciplined.
• 1:10:43
  Do you know that 1,000,000 is 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1,000,000?
• 1:10:51
  There are many people who want to save and their target is
• 1:10:54
  2,000,000 naira. When they get to 700,000, they
• 1:10:58
  get angry one day and say look, it's only when I'm alive I'll
• 1:11:01
  get to 2 million. And they convince themselves all
• 1:11:03
  kinds of things. And usually they keep the money
• 1:11:06
  where they will not even see it. So they just reach their hands
• 1:11:09
  and pull out whatever is there. One day you place your hand and
• 1:11:12
  not find anything there and you say who's to no.
• 1:11:15
  It was carelessness and in discipline that finished that
• 1:11:18
  money. Just because you do not know
• 1:11:21
  what you did with it does not mean you did not use it.
• 1:11:24
  And for people, they will say their money is disappearing.
• 1:11:27
  Now, there are real cases like that, but in most cases it's a
• 1:11:31
  lie. It's just the carelessness of
• 1:11:33
  the individual. You need encouragement and
• 1:11:38
  motivation to start. But it will take discipline, it
• 1:11:42
  will take endurance. It will take endurance.
• 1:11:46
  Listen, I wrote here, you must learn to say no to many good
• 1:11:50
  things if you desire greatness. We have been taught that you
• 1:11:55
  only say no to evil things. No, there are many good things
• 1:12:00
  in your life you must sustain the courage to say no to.
• 1:12:07
  He's changing everything in obedience to Christ.
• 1:12:14
  Rearranging everything in obedience to Christ.
• 1:12:21
  Remolding everything in obedience to Christ.
• 1:12:27
  That's what he's doing. Rearranging everything.
• 1:12:32
  In obedience to Christ, Hallelujah.
• 1:12:37
  Have you seen someone running a race, a real race, say a finals,
• 1:12:43
  some marathon, and then while they are on, say maybe they just
• 1:12:47
  have two or three more turns and they are done?
• 1:12:50
  And someone just dangles some ice cream and says listen,
• 1:12:55
  remember you like ice cream. Is ice cream wrong?
• 1:12:58
  No, but with respect to what you are doing, it is a distraction.
• 1:13:02
  Can I tell you if the devil uses evil things to get you and you
• 1:13:07
  resist it, you will use good things.
• 1:13:09
  The most important thing is that you go down, whether by good or
• 1:13:13
  evil. There is a tree called the Tree
• 1:13:15
  of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.
• 1:13:17
  Both good and evil are connected to that tree and it has one
• 1:13:20
  assignment and to destroy you. There are many things in your
• 1:13:24
  life. It's not just about good or bad.
• 1:13:26
  It's about wise and unwise. There are many things that may
• 1:13:30
  be good but may not be wisdom for you with respect to the
• 1:13:34
  making that is happening to you. Is someone learning in obedience
• 1:13:40
  to Christ? Stay in obedience to Christ, in
• 1:13:46
  obedience to Christ. Bring in my life in obedience to
• 1:13:51
  Christ. So you must learn from an
• 1:13:59
  overcomer that the great are people who master the art of
• 1:14:03
  staying, even if in their tears. When a woman announces that
• 1:14:10
  she's pregnant, usually people celebrate and say wow,
• 1:14:14
  especially if she's trusted God for a while.
• 1:14:16
  People can say, this is beautiful, we're happy to know
• 1:14:18
  this. Five months, six months, and you
• 1:14:23
  find out that no matter what you say, it doesn't bring that
• 1:14:26
  laughter. It brought up month one and two
• 1:14:28
  again, because at that point, what she needs is not
• 1:14:30
  motivation, the staying power. She will complain but the baby
• 1:14:36
  is still there. She will argue I her husband but
• 1:14:40
  he's still there until she finally gives birth and
• 1:14:43
  everybody comes to rejoice. And sometimes she can't even say
• 1:14:46
  this is the last time and then see that now is someone
• 1:14:57
  learning. Getting angry that there is
• 1:15:01
  nobody encouraging me is a joke. They encourage you when they
• 1:15:05
  were launching and cutting the scissors of that pharmacy.
• 1:15:09
  Now that no one is buying the drugs, now that people are not
• 1:15:11
  coming, you do not need motivation.
• 1:15:14
  You need encouragement by the Spirit.
• 1:15:17
  And sometimes it does not come just by saying go forward.
• 1:15:20
  It is discipline. Remain, remain, don't give up,
• 1:15:24
  remain. This one is beyond motivation,
• 1:15:27
  is beyond positive speaking. You just need to stay until it
• 1:15:31
  happens. I'm praying for someone who is
• 1:15:33
  weary and weak in ministry, in life and in destiny, as a
• 1:15:38
  parent, as a student. It looks like you have stretched
• 1:15:42
  yourself and you have gotten to your wits end.
• 1:15:45
  In the name of Jesus, the Son of the living God, The staying
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  power that and gracing that causes men to remain until they
• 1:15:53
  manifest. May it rest upon you now.
• 1:15:58
  May it rest upon you now. May it rest upon you now.
• 1:16:04
  Please sit down. Are you ready for #6 the 6th
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  lesson Number what, 5? Thank you for following.
• 1:16:12
  OK, so #5 do not be hasty with words or with commitments.
• 1:16:24
  Do not be hasty with words or with commitments.
• 1:16:29
  Think, pray, and seek counsel before making destiny defining
• 1:16:35
  decisions. I'll take it again slowly.
• 1:16:39
  Do not be hasty. This is the fifth lesson we
• 1:16:42
  learn from an overcomer. Do not be hasty with words and
• 1:16:48
  do not be hasty with commitments.
• 1:16:50
  Put that down first. Do not be hasty with words, and
• 1:16:55
  do not be hasty with commitments.
• 1:16:58
  Think. Pray and seek counsel before
• 1:17:05
  making destiny defining decisions.
• 1:17:09
  Think, pray and seek counsel before making destiny defining
• 1:17:18
  decisions. This is a profound truth.
• 1:17:22
  Do not be hasty with words. Do not be hasty with
• 1:17:25
  commitments. By the grace of God.
• 1:17:28
  I've studied many successful people, especially within the
• 1:17:32
  body of Christ and in ministry. I found out that the older they
• 1:17:36
  get, the more they place value on their words.
• 1:17:40
  Have you noticed that people speak faster when they're
• 1:17:42
  younger? The aged treasure their words
• 1:17:48
  and sometimes they can be silent for very long, but in their
• 1:17:53
  silence they are processing a lot of things.
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  Young people are full of zeal and they can shout and say 1000
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  words and then find out they made a mistake they cannot
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  recall again. Do not be hasty with.
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  Words. The Bible says even if fool when
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  he's silent is regarded wise. Many of us today have committed
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  ourselves in lives and things and people to our pain because
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  if only we were a big patient would have made better
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  decisions. Is someone learning.
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  Here's what the Bible says in Proverbs Chapter 11 and verse 4.
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  Did I get that right? I mean, I've made a mistake I've
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  missed somewhere. My apologies.
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  Do not be hasty with words or with commitments.
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  Now let me explain a bit on that.
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  Listen, I wrote here that humans are largely interest motivated
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  and self-centered. You need to know this.
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  Humans are largely interest motivated and self-centered.
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  That means in your entire lifetime you can count literally
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  on the palms of your hands the number of people who will come
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  to participate with your life and destiny, not expecting
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  anything in return. Humans are largely interest
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  motivated and self-centered, and nothing is wrong exactly with
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  that, except for the fact that you'll be learning further that
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  because humans are self-centered, in the presence
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  of interest, everyone is a St. Did you hear what I said?
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  In the presence of interest, everybody is a St.
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  Meaning, provided I can see how I can benefit from this process,
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  I will usually be at my best. You know, people, in truth, when
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  there is an awareness that their expectations are disappointed,
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  that's when you truly know who people are.
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  Hallelujah. Do not be hasty with words, do
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  not be hasty with commitments. Like I said last week, there are
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  people who have made commitments even in church and they were
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  hasty to make those commitments and it is now to their detriment
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  and it is now to their peril. If only Herod was patient, he
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  would not have made such a costly statement to tell the
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  girl because you have danced, ask anything up to half of my
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  Kingdom. How could he say that?
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  And the lady went and consulted and they said beautiful bring on
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  a platter the head of John. And because he was a king and he
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  had spoken. There are many of you who made
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  hasty statements. I will sponsor 10 of you from
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  primary school till university. And camera caught it.
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  We live in a social media age. Today, after five years, someone
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  comes to review your commitment for you.
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  Sorry Sir, just to remind you that you are that philanthropist
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  that we knew five years ago. You promised these people that
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  you pay their school fees for the rest of their life, and now
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  you are trapped in something you do not have the capacity to
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  sustain. There are things before destiny,
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  defining decisions. Pray, think, and then consult
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  with wise people. This is what made ordinary
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  people to become overcomers. They were not hasty with words
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  when they brought a woman to Jesus.
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  Remember the story? A woman who was caught in
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  adultery, the Bible says in the very act of it.
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  And then the people say, yes, you claim that you are sent from
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  God. This woman now has been caught
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  in adultery. What do you have to say?
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  What's Jesus? The overcomer, the wise?
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  The Bible says he sat quietly and he was writing on the
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  ground. I'm sure the people were
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  impatient, boiling, hoping to trap him.
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  If I were Jesus, I'm sure they would have caught me
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  immediately. Maybe that's where they would
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  have even crucified me because of careless statements.
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  And you would not have died a savior.
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  You would have died a loser. You see that?
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  He kept quiet and he was writing, and then he looks up
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  from the residue of wisdom. He says, he who is without sin
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  among you should cast the first stone.
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  End of discussion. What's the effect of such
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  wisdom? The Bible says, and they were
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  convicted from the oldest. What kind of word do you say
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  that from the eldest to the last their conscience gets under
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  arrest? One sentence, ladies and
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  gentlemen, from the oldest. Because the older you are, the
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  more you need repentance and forgiveness.
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  And so from the oldest to the youngest.
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  And the Bible says they left and the woman was standing alone
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  there. And he says, woman, where are
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  done? Accuse us.
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  And then he said, hath no man condemn thee?
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  And he said, go and see no more. That was it.
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  There are many times that before you make the business decision,
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  can I tell you the moment people want to rush you, there is most
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  likely deception around the corner.
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  Let me give you this as a powerful secret.
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  The moment just sign. Don't worry, you will read it
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  tomorrow. You just sign.
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  Is it not me? You don't trust me again?
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  Are we not from the same village?
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  Tell them please, anything that is so.
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  There are few things that demand that kind of urgency.
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  Very few things. Maybe life and death issues, I
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  can agree, but most cases are not life and death issues.
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  It's just deception. And so you sign something and
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  they say thank you and you know, sometimes when people are about
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  to deceive, they are polite, they are very nice.
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  So don't worry, we're very nice. And as soon as you sign it and
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  stamp it, then you realize you just signed up for every other
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  thing you will get. 30% of it will go to that company, whether
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  you have left them or not. Can you imagine that when a
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  construction company comes and because they are trying to give
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  you this, you sign and stamp and they tell you if you leave the
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  construction company and you sell the house to someone else,
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  to the 10th person that occupies the house, you will still be
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  remitting to the original person.
• 1:24:38
  You didn't look at it, you just signed.
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  It's after five years, they will come with a lawyer and with your
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  signature. You will argue and argue and
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  still pay in the name of Jesus whatever wants to rush you
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  unnecessarily. God gives speed but he does not
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  rush. Men, please listen to me.
• 1:24:58
  God gives speed but he does not rush people unnecessarily.
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  This is also true for ministry. Don't feel you are too anointed
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  to wait for God and you Commission yourself and crash
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  land for nothing. And beware of those who deceive
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  you and tell you, look, you are too anointed to be in this
• 1:25:17
  state. You are still a prayer warrior
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  in the prayer department. If I had half of your anointing,
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  I'll be a general overseer. And you say, really?
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  I even have an extra auditorium. We can start from there.
• 1:25:33
  Reminds me of what happened after our first crusade in this
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  ministry. True story.
• 1:25:38
  We usually hold our crusades in collaboration with the PFN.
• 1:25:42
  And so after the crusade was a small crusade, but it was a
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  quite a phenomenal 1. And did you know that after that
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  there were a few pastors, true story.
• 1:25:52
  They called me and they said, look, would you want to come and
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  establish a branch of your ministry there, say breakthrough
• 1:26:03
  God is my witness. It looked very tempting.
• 1:26:06
  I mean, there were sincere people.
• 1:26:08
  They said no, no, no. With this kind of result, I
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  think you should be here and I told them, I said, let me go to
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  the Lord and inquire of him. I remember I will use the direct
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  words. The Lord told me if I did that I
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  would die. It was not causing me.
• 1:26:23
  I I'm looking from from hindsight now, the level of
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  ignorance that I had in my life at that time.
• 1:26:30
  If I had made a mistake of branching out, it would have
• 1:26:33
  been a disaster to my to my my peril in 2013.
• 1:26:40
  I think he was. Remember the vision that I saw a
• 1:26:44
  plane and it was written the name of the ministry, Eni.
• 1:26:48
  It was about to land in Abuja and it crashed.
• 1:26:52
  I knew that it was in the will of God to come here, but it was
• 1:26:55
  not the timing yet. I submit to you by the Spirit of
• 1:26:59
  God, and some of the people who did this are following,
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  watching. Now.
• 1:27:02
  There are people who have opened offices for me across a number
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  of nations. And by the Spirit of God, I
• 1:27:08
  politely requested, I told them, please, I appreciate your zeal.
• 1:27:12
  I know that you are taking a step.
• 1:27:14
  I appreciate your initiative. But please can you help me
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  unclose it? Can you look at open doors and
• 1:27:22
  still know that this may not be God that opened it?
• 1:27:25
  I told you, even the prison, you enter the prison through an open
• 1:27:29
  door. It takes an open door to be in
• 1:27:32
  jail. So when the door is open, verify
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  where you are going first so that you don't find yourself in
• 1:27:39
  a prison. Because even a prison has a
• 1:27:41
  door. Hallelujah.
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  Do not be hasty with words. There are times you need to tell
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  the people. All right, no problem.
• 1:27:54
  Please can you allow me a day? Let me think about it.
• 1:27:57
  And sometimes in the place of prayer, the Holy Spirit will
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  tell you, call so, so, so, and so person.
• 1:28:02
  Call so, so, so, and so person. There are many people, with all
• 1:28:06
  due respect, who have been scammed because they were hasty
• 1:28:10
  with commitments. You just saw some e-mail, for
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  instance. You know, most of these boys do
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  all those things. You just want 20 million U.S.
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  dollars, 10 million U.S. dollars and the devil will program it
• 1:28:22
  immediately after miracle service and you will just
• 1:28:25
  believe. You see, This is why ignorance
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  is not good. God does not bless people that
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  way. There is a system for growth
• 1:28:33
  line upon line, precept upon precept.
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  If you have not managed 100,000 with dignity, God will never
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  give you a billion just like that.
• 1:28:42
  He loves you too much to kill you.
• 1:28:46
  Hallelujah. Have you ever been blessed in a
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  way that you are now afraid of what you had?
• 1:28:53
  You suspect yourself, you suspect your wife, you suspect
• 1:28:56
  your children. The way you are behaving, people
• 1:28:58
  know something has happened in your life because you are not
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  normal again. You are not used to that R.E.M.
• 1:29:02
  and you did not grow into it. Why is this door suddenly
• 1:29:09
  locked? What is your business?
• 1:29:10
  As I know something must be there.
• 1:29:15
  I release grace upon you. Do not be hasty in making
• 1:29:19
  commitments in the name of Jesus Christ, joining associations,
• 1:29:25
  joining clubs, becoming part of whatever, relocating even
• 1:29:30
  sometimes and then moving from one region to one region.
• 1:29:34
  Perhaps you were in a region in Abuja that was manageable, your
• 1:29:37
  budget was fair and fine on that and someone just tells you
• 1:29:40
  there's an opportunity here. I can support you for the first
• 1:29:43
  year, How about the other years and you did not think about it?
• 1:29:47
  There are times you maximize moments.
• 1:29:49
  But can I tell you, you are never disadvantaged if you have
• 1:29:53
  to pray before you act? You are never disadvantaged if
• 1:29:57
  you have to seek counsel before you act.
• 1:29:59
  Even if in the process of praying, thinking and seeking
• 1:30:03
  counsel you missed that opportunity.
• 1:30:05
  I can tell you God, for His name's sake, will recycle
• 1:30:09
  another season to honor you. Again, this is God for you.
• 1:30:14
  Hallelujah. Someone comes and says I want to
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  marry you. You don't find out anything, you
• 1:30:22
  don't pray. I want to marry you.
• 1:30:24
  But I'm coming from a family of witches and wizard.
• 1:30:26
  No problem. Look, I'm supposed to be the
• 1:30:28
  next priest. It doesn't matter.
• 1:30:30
  And you don't think, what am I getting into?
• 1:30:32
  Do I have the stamina to stand against the forces now?
• 1:30:37
  I can tell you can be victorious, but it's important
• 1:30:40
  to count the cost. I'm the only Christian out of 30
• 1:30:44
  people. We are 43 now, family.
• 1:30:47
  I'm #39 no problem. I still love you like that and
• 1:30:51
  and most people don't think. I hope you get what I'm telling
• 1:30:55
  you now and then. People make all kinds of rush
• 1:30:58
  and careless decisions and they may have to spend their lifetime
• 1:31:02
  paying that price. Hallelujah.
• 1:31:08
  Say in the name of Jesus, I obtain grace to pray.
• 1:31:14
  I obtain grace to think. I obtain grace to seek counsel
• 1:31:21
  before taking destiny defining decisions.
• 1:31:27
  Hallelujah. I struggled with the Lord for
• 1:31:30
  three years When He began to speak to me about moving from
• 1:31:34
  Zarya, I wasn't sure whether I was going to just or coming to
• 1:31:37
  Abuja, but I just knew that the season had wrapped up.
• 1:31:41
  Now, there are times where you stay unnecessarily long.
• 1:31:45
  That's not what I'm talking about.
• 1:31:47
  I'm just saying that it's important that you stay with God
• 1:31:51
  and when you are convinced and you get a matching order, then
• 1:31:54
  you can take that step. Hallelujah, praise the name of
• 1:31:58
  the Lord. Do not be hasty with words.
• 1:32:05
  Someone calls you and says we're looking, we want to raise 1
• 1:32:09
  billion and we need 10 people called 100 people who will bring
• 1:32:14
  1010 million. We know you have the capacity
• 1:32:17
  and you feel motivated by that accolade.
• 1:32:19
  And you say I'm in, in fact, add me three people's spots.
• 1:32:25
  And then eventually when you are not able to redeem it and they
• 1:32:28
  ask you why, you say I was expecting some money.
• 1:32:31
  You would have been patient. All right, I'm, I'm, I'm
• 1:32:35
  interested in this, but would you just allow me, you know, let
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  me discuss perhaps with my wife, my children.
• 1:32:40
  There are people who have sold properties.
• 1:32:42
  Their wives did not know their properties.
• 1:32:45
  The major property that God has put as a a refuge for the
• 1:32:50
  family. True story.
• 1:32:53
  I remember someone who reached me one time and they noticed
• 1:32:57
  that there were some members around their land, you know,
• 1:32:59
  going around and thanking God. True story and and the woman
• 1:33:05
  became if I'm joking, I'll tell you I'm joking.
• 1:33:08
  They were going around singing praises around the land and you
• 1:33:11
  know the woman was concerned. Do you know that one of their
• 1:33:14
  sons, you know these boys. I'm in the name of Jesus.
• 1:33:19
  May you have good children. This boy went being that he was
• 1:33:26
  the only son unknown to them that he had negotiated with the
• 1:33:31
  church. Now I don't blame the church.
• 1:33:33
  He came as spies is his land, his late father's land, and he
• 1:33:38
  negotiated everything with the church, gave them at a
• 1:33:41
  discounted price. They were happy and they
• 1:33:44
  transferred money to the guys account.
• 1:33:46
  The mother did not know, no other person knew, and the boy
• 1:33:49
  was just happy. They're not knowing.
• 1:33:51
  So the woman, the woman saw the people rejoicing.
• 1:33:53
  It was their property they had paid for it for.
• 1:33:57
  The gentleman just felt if I tell these people they will
• 1:33:59
  close my door and most likely you will be surprised.
• 1:34:03
  You will think because it's a lot of money to be used.
• 1:34:05
  Well when the waster lands upon your life, even 1 billion will
• 1:34:09
  vanish like 10 naira. I'm telling you, have you seen
• 1:34:12
  people go down from grace to grass minus you in Jesus name,
• 1:34:22
  Hallelujah #5 Do not be hasty with words, do not be hasty with
• 1:34:30
  commitments. Think, pray, seek counsel before
• 1:34:36
  making destiny defining decisions.
• 1:34:39
  You can't call me and say apostle, should I wear a yellow
• 1:34:42
  clothes or a white cloth? No, that is not a destiny
• 1:34:44
  defining decision. No, that's unnecessary.
• 1:34:48
  But there are certain destiny defining decisions.
• 1:34:52
  Are we together now? Are you ready for number six?
• 1:34:57
  Number six, I want you to listen to this one.
• 1:35:05
  In fact, I just felt stared to tell you something I learned
• 1:35:08
  from Doctor Mike Murdock years ago.
• 1:35:10
  Still on .5 before we get to 6. Patience is a virtue that forces
• 1:35:16
  deception to reveal itself. Patience is a virtue that forces
• 1:35:24
  deception to reveal itself. Deception is an impatient trait.
• 1:35:31
  The moment you are patient, you are frustrated.
• 1:35:34
  Deception. The strength of deception is
• 1:35:37
  that you are impatient the moment you make up your mind to
• 1:35:42
  be patient. It is a virtue that forces
• 1:35:45
  deception to reveal itself. Hallelujah.
• 1:35:54
  When the disciples came to Jesus, they were happy and all
• 1:35:58
  of them were doing their thing. Judas was there, Thomas was
• 1:36:01
  there. Jesus never spoke to them about
• 1:36:05
  the Kingdom, about even them being apostles.
• 1:36:08
  They just kept following. One time they got tired and 1 by
• 1:36:12
  1 by 1, they first started fighting themselves.
• 1:36:15
  Then they started doing a lot of things.
• 1:36:16
  As soon as they caught Jesus, they disappeared.
• 1:36:19
  Within 72 hours they were all lost.
• 1:36:21
  Only John. Jesus resurrects and then he
• 1:36:25
  meets Peter in John 21 and he says Simon by John and lovest
• 1:36:29
  thou me more than this? Peter was caught to the heart.
• 1:36:33
  Peter was broken and he realized that he was never truly
• 1:36:37
  following Jesus just because he loved him.
• 1:36:40
  He was hoping that he will find a place there.
• 1:36:43
  I advise you again, this is also true for leaders.
• 1:36:47
  Patience is a virtue that forces deception to reveal itself.
• 1:36:52
  Number six, Are you ready? The 6th lesson that we learned
• 1:36:58
  from The Overcomer is concerning critics and naysayers.
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  You want to hear this now? Critics and naysayers, they do 2
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  important things that is needed for you to actualize destiny #1
• 1:37:16
  Critics and naysayers confirm that you are making notable
• 1:37:21
  progress. Critics and naysayers are a
• 1:37:26
  system of confirmation that you are making notable progress.
• 1:37:32
  Show me a man that is doing something worthwhile.
• 1:37:36
  If there are no critics and there are no naysayers, you are
• 1:37:40
  probably wrong. Critics and naysayers confirm
• 1:37:44
  that you are making notable progress.
• 1:37:48
  The other angle to it is that critics and naysayers can be
• 1:37:53
  used to caution you from decline and destruction.
• 1:38:00
  Critics and naysayers, The first part I take it again, confirm
• 1:38:04
  that you are making no table progress.
• 1:38:08
  But critics and naysayers listen carefully, can also be used by
• 1:38:13
  God to caution you from decline and destruction.
• 1:38:23
  So critics work both ways. They can become a system of
• 1:38:28
  confirmation, helping you see and know that you are making
• 1:38:31
  notable progress. But as uncomfortable as it is,
• 1:38:36
  critics and naysayers can also be used as a system of caution
• 1:38:45
  to save you from decline and to save you from destruction.
• 1:38:50
  This is where the tragedy of only wanting supporters around
• 1:38:55
  you comes and and this is a weakness in leaders.
• 1:39:00
  We usually want those who sing our songs, those who sing our
• 1:39:04
  praises and say nice things around us.
• 1:39:07
  Unfortunately, if you are surrounded by only supporters,
• 1:39:11
  you may not arrive. You need both the ministry of
• 1:39:15
  supporters and you need the ministry of critics and
• 1:39:19
  naysayers. This is an uncomfortable truth,
• 1:39:24
  but it is wisdom that comes from overcomers.
• 1:39:30
  It is not unusual to have critics and naysayers.
• 1:39:34
  It is because you are doing something notable that has
• 1:39:37
  attracted their sight and their attention, and they can be used
• 1:39:41
  as a system of confirmation that you are making notable progress.
• 1:39:45
  But there are times that in the midst of the naysayings, in the
• 1:39:49
  midst of the criticism, look carefully.
• 1:39:53
  There may be a message there that can be God speaking to you.
• 1:39:57
  You may not believe me, but time will make you appreciate what
• 1:40:00
  I'm telling you. If you do not have an open heart
• 1:40:04
  towards criticism, you may not arrive at your destination.
• 1:40:11
  A man of God will say criticism is an opinion harshly, harshly
• 1:40:17
  explained. There are people who may say
• 1:40:25
  things in a wrong way, but the content of what they are saying
• 1:40:29
  is worth your consideration. Is just the presentation that
• 1:40:32
  was wrong. Are we together?
• 1:40:35
  War betides a leader, I tell you, Whether you are a
• 1:40:38
  businessman or you are a man of God and you are surrounded by
• 1:40:42
  only supporters who sing your praises.
• 1:40:45
  No, there are times God will allow the ministry of critics
• 1:40:52
  and even naysayers. It will challenge you.
• 1:40:55
  It will cause you to look at what you are doing.
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  Clara, you see that now it helps to strengthen your conviction
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  over what you are doing. Unfortunately, because the
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  nature of criticism. Look up please.
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  If I have 100 people who are singing my praises and saying
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  wonderful and lovely things about me and I have one person
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  who says something negative, usually from our psychological
• 1:41:23
  build up, the one person the criticism may seem to over
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  shadow all the wonderful things. This is where maturity comes in.
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  We call this in leadership, emotional intelligence, the
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  ability to stand before uncomfortable situations and
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  still be at ease. Are we together?
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  You need this, you need this. Someone can look at you and say
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  all these people thieves, that's your car and your tire is even
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  about to remove. Maybe the person made a mistake.
• 1:41:58
  But look properly, it could be true that in the midst of the
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  naysayings is telling you that you may have an accident,
• 1:42:05
  Something is wrong with your tire.
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  Hallelujah, I know you would want me to pray that you will
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  never have critics. You will never have naysayers.
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  You are trying to say that you do not want to be Jesus or
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  Satan, because either way, whoever you choose among them,
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  you will still have critics and you have naysayers.
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  There are people who hate Jesus with a passion.
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  There are people like me who hate Satan with a passion.
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  Are we together? Either ways, you will never live
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  in a world where all men love you.
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  It does not exist. But if you live in a world where
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  all men hate you, something is wrong with you.
• 1:42:49
  It's true. All men cannot hate you, ladies
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  and gentlemen. It's a proof that something is
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  wrong. There must be someone honest and
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  sincere. This is also something for you
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  to work on. Critics and naysayers play these
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  two sets of vital roles #1 they can help you confirm that you
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  are doing something notable. You see, the thing about success
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  is that the moment your result begins to speak, usually in a
• 1:43:21
  world, everything becomes wrong with you.
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  The shoes you are always wearing.
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  Now there's a problem with that shoe.
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  Are we together? Yes.
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  Unfortunately, it is the cross that comes with success and
• 1:43:33
  people must be trained to be at peace.
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  We've been controversial at peace.
• 1:43:39
  We've been misunderstood. It is the cross that you have to
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  carry. You don't like what I'm saying?
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  Unfortunately, I'm not lying. What you are hearing is the
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  truth from the throne of grace. Hallelujah, possible.
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  In my experience, everybody really loves me.
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  I think I just have this thing about me that makes everybody
• 1:44:04
  loves me. Congratulations.
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  Keep receiving prophecy about promotion and increase from me
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  and watch what happens soon. One day you will be elevated to
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  a position where all of a sudden the person who used to clap for
• 1:44:17
  you has a problem clapping. Now the success is too much.
• 1:44:21
  Not within this short time. The kite was you.
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  The marriage was you. The house was you.
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  All right, you tell the person. I think you need to adjust this.
• 1:44:32
  So it's because you now bought a car.
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  It's not about good or bad. It is a weakness in human
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  nature. Are we together?
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  Yeah. The moment success becomes
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  notable, your chances are very high to be criticized.
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  You see, politicians, we talk about everybody, you know,
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  sometimes, in all fairness, I know that we ministers of the
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  gospel, we receive our own too. But honestly, sometimes I pity
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  politicians. My goodness, how those guys
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  survive these things, I don't know.
• 1:45:05
  How do you survive walking? And you are hearing someone
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  insult you, and sometimes people can insult you to your, your,
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  your, this, your dad. And you see the people just
• 1:45:13
  smile. Whether it was called for or
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  uncalled for, that kind of stamina is noteworthy.
• 1:45:22
  There are pastors who start and say, I'm sincere, I love the
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  Lord. I mean, what have I done?
• 1:45:26
  Unfortunately, you don't have to do anything.
• 1:45:29
  You just have to be alive and to make progress.
• 1:45:34
  Receive grace in the name of Jesus, to not be wounded by
• 1:45:39
  critics or naysayers. You can convert your pain to
• 1:45:44
  something that becomes a springboard for your glory.
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  Hallelujah. When people criticize you, look
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  open heartedly into what they are saying.
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  If you find out on careful examination that it is nonsense,
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  ignore it and move on. But when you find out that there
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  is something there for you to adjust with your life, with your
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  organization, take advantage of it.
• 1:46:08
  It doesn't matter how it came. The most important thing is that
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  the truth got to you and you become better by receiving it.
• 1:46:16
  This is painful bar, but please receive it because it will make
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  you a champion. When you look at any throne and
• 1:46:23
  you see an overcomer sitting there, he used the ladder of
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  supporters and the ladder of critics and naysayers all
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  together. He used them to climb to that
• 1:46:35
  elevated position. May you have the strength to for
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  bear even when people misunderstand you.
• 1:46:42
  May you have the stamina to remain and to continue and not
• 1:46:46
  lose sleep. In the name of Jesus,
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  Hallelujah, praise the name of the Lord.
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  I once had a man of God who said he was being criticized so
• 1:46:56
  badly, he felt so bad. And then he flew out of this
• 1:47:00
  nation to go and meet one of the fathers of faith.
• 1:47:03
  And he was talking to him and he said, Sir, I mean, how could I?
• 1:47:06
  I love my people with all my heart.
• 1:47:08
  I've been serving them with integrity of heart.
• 1:47:10
  How could they say this about me?
• 1:47:12
  And he said, According to him, he said the father of faith was
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  just smiling at him. And when he was done, the only
• 1:47:17
  thing he told him was that sit down, let me tell you my story.
• 1:47:20
  He had only gone halfway the story and the man said, that's
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  all right, I've received my motivation.
• 1:47:25
  If what happened to you, you are still standing.
• 1:47:27
  You mean you went through this kind of thing.
• 1:47:30
  It is true that uneasy lies the head that wears the crown.
• 1:47:34
  Don't desire Rams you are not prepared for.
• 1:47:36
  Honestly, there are times you need to thank God for what you
• 1:47:39
  call delay because the forces that are waiting for you there,
• 1:47:43
  if you are not built, you will hit the throne because of what
• 1:47:46
  happens there. Are we together?
• 1:47:54
  Critics and naysayers confirm that you are making notable
• 1:47:59
  progress in life, but they can also be used to caution you from
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  decline and to caution you from destruction.
• 1:48:09
  I repeat one last time, you will need both supporters and
• 1:48:13
  critics. Unfortunately, you don't have to
• 1:48:19
  invite any of them. They come on their own.
• 1:48:23
  This is what makes it painful. No sane man will invite
• 1:48:27
  naysayers to their lives. The system was designed to bring
• 1:48:30
  both. So on one hand they are calling
• 1:48:33
  you King of kings while they are eating the bread that was
• 1:48:36
  multiplied. Then a few weeks later they
• 1:48:40
  curse you to your face and say release Barabbas instead of this
• 1:48:44
  one. Let his blood be on our
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  children. And Jesus was silent and he
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  looked at them with compassion. He even said, Father forgive
• 1:48:52
  them for they know not what they do.
• 1:48:56
  Is someone learning by this teaching?
• 1:48:59
  When you see anyone who you perceive to be an overcomer, now
• 1:49:03
  you can respect them. These are the keys, painful
• 1:49:07
  keys. You see painful keys.
• 1:49:10
  So when you look at fathers of faith like our Father and the
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  Lord, that they are devoid, you imagine at 81 turning 82, that's
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  how old he has been criticized. That's how old he may have been
• 1:49:26
  misunderstood. But that man you see right there
• 1:49:29
  is a testament of endurance. Our father, Dad, your neighbor
• 1:49:33
  who comes here all the time, you see him, he's turning 85 now, 85
• 1:49:39
  years old. There are people who cannot
• 1:49:43
  survive two months in an organization.
• 1:49:46
  They pray and they fast for that position.
• 1:49:48
  They become a director and in two weeks they have 39 meals
• 1:49:52
  full of insults. They say I want to leave this
• 1:49:54
  office. What is this?
• 1:49:56
  Yet someone was sitting there for 16 years and thanking God
• 1:49:59
  every Sunday. One of the ways God helps you is
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  by giving you your desires. If you insist, He will give you,
• 1:50:10
  Lord, I must become a senator. What is there in taking care of
• 1:50:14
  a constituency? I know I can do it and God says
• 1:50:17
  be careful. I know all these people, they
• 1:50:19
  are just thieves and arm robbers and God answers your prayer by
• 1:50:22
  helping you to win election. As soon as you get there, you
• 1:50:25
  discover that the amount of insults you get from those who
• 1:50:29
  are entitled alone, you want to leave that office.
• 1:50:32
  Have you noticed all those who become president?
• 1:50:34
  They live quietly. Have you noticed in Nigeria and
• 1:50:37
  across the globe, there is nobody who leaves that place
• 1:50:41
  just rejoicing? I say quietly, yes Sir.
• 1:50:47
  Yes, Sir. Have you seen many who work in
• 1:50:57
  certain organizations, by the time they're about to retire,
• 1:51:01
  they are quiet. They give thanks to God.
• 1:51:04
  Those who are waiting for that position, the people are not
• 1:51:07
  even fighting. No problem, just allow me retire
• 1:51:09
  and go. And then the person who gets in
• 1:51:11
  there, he gets in there with zeal.
• 1:51:13
  Don't worry, in 10 days I will transform this organization.
• 1:51:17
  And after two years, they look for every man of God they can
• 1:51:21
  find. Something must be going wrong.
• 1:51:22
  Nothing is wrong. That's how it is.
• 1:51:26
  That's how it is. That's how it is.
• 1:51:31
  Lord, you must give me triplets. I don't want just a child.
• 1:51:34
  And someone said, don't worry you, I want triplets.
• 1:51:37
  And God says, all right, answer her prayer.
• 1:51:38
  Then the triplets come. Now you don't know what to do
• 1:51:41
  with yourself. After two months, you call all
• 1:51:47
  your friends and say sorry we are busy and they say you are
• 1:51:50
  wicked. We say no, no, no, just do your
• 1:51:51
  thing. It's your cross, carry it.
• 1:51:55
  I once listened to a message years ago.
• 1:51:57
  I think it's by TD Jakes or so. Can you stand to be blessed?
• 1:52:01
  Very powerful message. It takes stamina to sustain the
• 1:52:05
  blessing. Many people are praying for what
• 1:52:08
  is bigger than them. There are things you call delay,
• 1:52:11
  but is the mercy of God to prepare you first so that what
• 1:52:15
  you are praying for does not become what kills you.
• 1:52:20
  Number six, Koinonia for you. Number what, 7, Are you ready?
• 1:52:34
  This one? You need to listen to it.
• 1:52:35
  In the name of Jesus Christ, there are three groups of people
• 1:52:41
  you must be aware of. It requires great wisdom to deal
• 1:52:46
  with these people. Please, I want you to write this
• 1:52:49
  and learn lessons from an overcomer.
• 1:52:54
  These are destiny defining principles.
• 1:52:58
  There are three groups of people you will always find around your
• 1:53:02
  life. It will take a lot of wisdom and
• 1:53:06
  discretion to deal with them. Otherwise you will never arrive
• 1:53:10
  at the place of destiny. Are you ready?
• 1:53:12
  Number one? Wicked people.
• 1:53:16
  Don't worry, you just write. Trust me.
• 1:53:21
  Are you ready? Let's talk about wicked people.
• 1:53:25
  Unfortunately, you may not be able to drive them indefinitely
• 1:53:29
  from your life. You will find them in your
• 1:53:30
  neighborhood. You will find them around your
• 1:53:32
  organization. And sometimes, as painful as it
• 1:53:36
  is, they will be too useful to be thrown away completely.
• 1:53:39
  Wicked people, I want to teach you something that you'll be
• 1:53:42
  grateful for. Proverbs chapter 6 and verse 18.
• 1:53:48
  There are three groups of people.
• 1:53:50
  This is a lesson coming from an overcomer, a heart that devises
• 1:53:56
  wicked imaginations. Part of the six things that the
• 1:53:59
  Lord hates. A feat that be swift in running
• 1:54:05
  to mischief. Let's read Proverbs chapter 4
• 1:54:07
  please. From verse 14 to 17.
• 1:54:11
  Wisdom is coming from someone now in the name of Jesus.
• 1:54:15
  It says, enter not into the path of the wicked and go not in the
• 1:54:21
  way of evil man avoid it. It says pass not by it.
• 1:54:26
  Turn from it and pass away. 16 The Bible says, for they slip
• 1:54:33
  not except they have done mischief and their sleep is
• 1:54:38
  taken away until they cause someone to fall.
• 1:54:42
  Verse 17 For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine
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  of violence. There are people like that on
• 1:54:50
  earth. Believe me, I'm not just trying
• 1:54:53
  to be negative. There are people who have chosen
• 1:54:56
  to partner with the devil to be wicked.
• 1:54:59
  An evil heart it is called. There are wicked people in our
• 1:55:09
  world. There are wicked people around
• 1:55:12
  your organization. There are wicked people in
• 1:55:14
  church. There are wicked people in
• 1:55:17
  society. It is not within your power to
• 1:55:21
  drive them away. You have to sustain the wisdom
• 1:55:25
  to need them. Some of those wicked people are
• 1:55:28
  your superiors. For now.
• 1:55:29
  You must learn to work with them.
• 1:55:31
  Some of those wicked people are. They come in various forms.
• 1:55:36
  Believers must be educated to know how to deal with wicked
• 1:55:39
  people #2 The second of the three groups of people you must
• 1:55:45
  be aware of if you want to enjoy the life of a Nova coma is
• 1:55:52
  selfish people. I will tell you the difference
• 1:55:56
  shortly, but please write #1 wicked people #2 selfish people.
• 1:56:02
  Who are they? Who are these groups of people
• 1:56:05
  called selfish? Now please watch this.
• 1:56:08
  Selfish people are not necessarily evil people.
• 1:56:11
  They are just people who are indifferent about your state,
• 1:56:15
  provided they get what they're looking for.
• 1:56:18
  The character of selfishness is that it does not mind who is
• 1:56:22
  wounded in the process. The most important thing for a
• 1:56:25
  selfish person is obtaining your desire.
• 1:56:28
  It does not matter who dies, it does not matter who cries, it
• 1:56:33
  does not matter who is in pain. A selfish person does not see
• 1:56:37
  anything at their side. All they see is what they
• 1:56:40
  desire. They want it so bad.
• 1:56:43
  It does not matter who dies, they will betray family for it.
• 1:56:46
  They want it so bad they will do anything, provided it ends with
• 1:56:52
  them achieving it. Are we together now?
• 1:56:57
  A selfish person has no business harming you if there is nothing
• 1:57:01
  that becomes a point of conflict between both of you.
• 1:57:04
  You may even look like an ally for a while.
• 1:57:08
  Unfortunately, you will find these people everywhere, and I'm
• 1:57:11
  hoping. I'm praying with all my heart
• 1:57:13
  that you are not one of those people #3 Are you ready for the
• 1:57:20
  third ignorant slash? Naive people write it down when
• 1:57:27
  I explain ignorant slash naive people.
• 1:57:31
  Naive is spelled NAIVE. Naive people.
• 1:57:35
  What does it mean to be naive? To show lack of consciousness?
• 1:57:40
  To show lack of experience? Are we together to show lack of
• 1:57:45
  wisdom, lack of maturity? Lack of judgment?
• 1:57:48
  There are people who are void of that level of maturity.
• 1:57:52
  They are called naive. A naive person is like a
• 1:57:56
  notebook that nothing has been written on.
• 1:57:59
  That's what makes them dangerous, because they become
• 1:58:02
  whatever is suddenly written there.
• 1:58:04
  The easiest people to deceive are not wicked people.
• 1:58:08
  They are the deceivers themselves.
• 1:58:09
  They are not selfish people, but naive people.
• 1:58:12
  Now let me tell you this. When Satan wants to destroy you,
• 1:58:17
  the greatest tool he needs is a wicked person.
• 1:58:21
  If he cannot find a wicked person, he will make do with a
• 1:58:25
  selfish person. If he cannot find a selfish
• 1:58:28
  person, he will make do with a naive person.
• 1:58:32
  All three can cause the same harm to your life.
• 1:58:36
  The difference is that a wicked person because his wickedness
• 1:58:41
  from a premeditated standpoint. So before and after your pain
• 1:58:45
  they are happy. It was the plan.
• 1:58:47
  A selfish person like Judas is focused on making money out of
• 1:58:52
  Jesus, not with the intention for Jesus to die.
• 1:58:55
  Usually when the harm is done and what they are looking for
• 1:58:59
  they now have then they have the conscience to regret and they
• 1:59:03
  say but I didn't want it to go this far.
• 1:59:05
  Have you heard of people who beat someone till the person
• 1:59:07
  died and when they're in police they would tell you the plan was
• 1:59:11
  not to kill the person. I arranged the kidnap of the
• 1:59:16
  person so that I would get 10 million.
• 1:59:19
  I didn't plan that the person will die.
• 1:59:26
  Wicked people, selfish people, ignorant or Naive people can be
• 1:59:33
  tools that can become a disaster to your life, except and unless
• 1:59:39
  you sustain the wisdom to live with them.
• 1:59:43
  Unfortunately, for the rest of your life, you will be immersed
• 1:59:47
  in the midst of these kinds of people every day, including
• 1:59:51
  tomorrow, including forever. You would think that because
• 1:59:57
  Jesus was the Son of the living God, he would not have these
• 2:00:00
  kinds of people around him. They were among his disciples,
• 2:00:04
  unfortunately. They were among the scribes and
• 2:00:07
  the Pharisees. They were among the members of
• 2:00:09
  his congregation. They were among the onlookers.
• 2:00:13
  And for the rest of his life on earth, Jesus, your Jesus, my
• 2:00:18
  Jesus, as the word of God, the word God Incarnate.
• 2:00:23
  He lived in the midst of these people.
• 2:00:26
  Do you know? All these three people, I don't
• 2:00:28
  have the time to show you, I would have shown you that all
• 2:00:31
  these three people play their role together and made the death
• 2:00:35
  of Jesus possible, even though we know now that it was the
• 2:00:38
  hidden wisdom of God. But these three groups of
• 2:00:40
  people, the naive people who said crucify him, let his blood
• 2:00:46
  be upon our heads, the scribes and the Pharisees who plotted it
• 2:00:51
  intentionally, and Judas who wanted to make money out of
• 2:00:56
  Jesus, not to destroy him. Ladies and gentlemen, please
• 2:01:01
  hear me. If you do not sustain the wisdom
• 2:01:07
  to work with these people, you will get into trouble.
• 2:01:11
  Hallelujah. Especially naive people.
• 2:01:15
  I hope you know that the first fall was because of this, The
• 2:01:19
  woman you call Eve, Eve did not fall because she was a wicked
• 2:01:23
  woman. No, she was beguiled.
• 2:01:26
  I think his 2nd Corinthians 11 and verse 3.
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  Did I get that right? Please give it to us.
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  But I fear that's right, lest by any means, as the serpent
• 2:01:37
  beguiled Eve through subtlety. You see that now.
• 2:01:41
  So your mind should be corrupted by the simplicity that is in
• 2:01:45
  Christ. Satan comes to a naive woman and
• 2:01:49
  begins to sell a narrative and sell an idea.
• 2:01:52
  How many good people have been turned into wicked people
• 2:01:55
  because they were so naive? It is the reason why believers
• 2:02:01
  must be trained and be mentored. There are people today who have
• 2:02:05
  been made to steal. They are not thieves, they were
• 2:02:07
  just naive. There are many young boys today
• 2:02:10
  that have been made to join terrorist groups by the time
• 2:02:13
  they catch this ball. Some of them are barely
• 2:02:16
  teenagers in their early adulthood and you would find out
• 2:02:19
  they were just indoctrinated with extremist views.
• 2:02:23
  They were not wicked people by default.
• 2:02:25
  They were not selfish people by default.
• 2:02:28
  They were just naive, uneducated, inexposed people who
• 2:02:31
  became victims of the desire and the plan of others.
• 2:02:35
  I'm praying for you. Whatever will make you a prey in
• 2:02:39
  the hand of Satan and in the hand of wicked men.
• 2:02:42
  I'm praying in the name of Jesus.
• 2:02:44
  May God not allow that thing come around your life.
• 2:02:52
  Tonight's message may not apply to everybody.
• 2:02:55
  There are people who are too innocent to benefit from this
• 2:02:58
  message. They have not grown enough to
• 2:03:00
  see the value of this message. There are teachings that you
• 2:03:03
  need to archive. You may not understand the
• 2:03:05
  implication till you rise beyond certain levels.
• 2:03:08
  Then you will rush and look at that message.
• 2:03:11
  There are those who this is a description of the season that
• 2:03:14
  they found themselves in. Hallelujah, three groups of
• 2:03:23
  people, this one. It was a direct teaching that
• 2:03:28
  the Holy Spirit taught me. I did not read it in any book.
• 2:03:31
  These three groups of people as much as possible.
• 2:03:36
  You keep praying and sanitizing your environment, but you have
• 2:03:39
  to get used to it. The cosmos is filled with a
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  mixed multitude. Believers are just a portion of
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  those on earth. Did the Bible not tell you not
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  all men have faith? That means don't expect
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  everybody to say God bless you. You find God bless you in
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  church, but you will not find God bless you everywhere.
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  There are people who honor you and say apostle, God bless you.
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  But there are other people who are who are vicious and wicked.
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  There are others who are selfish.
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  Unfortunately, this selfishness has spilled even to spouses,
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  spilled into leaders. There are people who would not
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  mind their entire families go down.
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  With all due respect, provided they go forward, there are
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  parents who will not mind their children becoming prostitutes,
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  provided they return with money for them to eat.
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  The Lord will show us mercy in Jesus name.
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  Can I still give you one more? I will not forget Lord your
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  benefits. I will not forget Lord your
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  benefits. I will never forget, Lord, your
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  benefits. I'm reminded I just raised that
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  song because of a story that I heard.
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  True story of a woman who arranged a kidnap of one of her
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  loved one by herself. Arranged that kidnap.
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  I was joining all the people to cry too.
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  How many young boys today talk to armed robbers and say my
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  father has money in this other room?
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  The second one and when the armed robbers come plus the boy,
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  they tell him to lie down too and he will lie down and you
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  will think he's innocent. By the time they carry the money
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  is when is this is when the sharing formula goes wrong.
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  Usually that's where people just capture everything.
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  Hallelujah, I'm praying for you making reference to my teaching.
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  The seen eyes. Anybody who you have drawn to
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  your life and is holding a sword you cannot see on your neck.
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  I'm crying unto my God tonight. May God open your eyes to see
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  this night. May God open your eyes to see
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  this night. Listen, in this world bar, if
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  God does not show you messy, you will be helping to hold the
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  knife that will kill you and not know.
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  I'm not, I'm not planting fear. This is wisdom.
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  This is how life works. Whenever you see an overcomer,
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  there are men who know this, that among all the people who
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  say apostles, Sir, yes, Sir, yes, Ma.
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  Your Majesty, you are the greatest man of God in the
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  world. Among those mixed multitudes,
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  you must have the intelligence to discern that there are wicked
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  people, there are selfish people, there are naive people.
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  But like I taught you when I taught you on Destiny, help us.
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  I'm happy to also announce to you that there are sincere
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  people. Do not think everyone is out to
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  destroy you. No, don't allow your pain stop
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  you from knowing that they are sincere people.
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  Don't throw the baby and the bag.
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  What I need to balance this before we get to the last point.
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  There are sincere people. I pray you become one of them.
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  That you become a breath of fresh air to someone and that
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  the person will say from the day you came into my life, you
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  healed me from the pain of 20 years.
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  I never believed that there would be Christians who could be
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  sincere but thank God for the gift of you.
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  I'm praying again for someone who came to church saying God
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  please bring a good friend to my life.
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  I'm tired of people piercing me. I've spent my life with injuries
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  from betrayals. May my God who is also your God
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  send sincere people to you. Can I tell you, sincere people
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  have a therapeutic effect? When you find godly and sincere
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  people, you can sleep with your eyes closed.
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  And the thing about life and about God is 1 sincere person
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  can bring the healing, the healing that 100 people may have
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  caused for you. There are sincere people.
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  Burn this at the back of your mind.
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  Probably you are seated next to one.
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  There are sincere people. Don't draw a conclusion from
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  your years of pain and betrayal, from your years of whatever.
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  Oh, they cheated me in business. Oh, church people are terrible.
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  All pastors are demons. They just go, no, don't conclude
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  like that. There are still sincere people.
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  There are still sincere people. This is a prophetic message for
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  someone. Are there still good men?
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  Yes. Are there still good women?
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  Yes. Are there still good parents?
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  Yes. Are there still good
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  politicians? Yes.
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  Are there still good leaders? Yes.
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  Are there still good men of God? Yes.
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  Are there still sincere Christians?
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  Yes. If you are not part of that
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  sincere army, there is room for you to join.
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  But do not conclude that all men are evil.
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  You may be wrong. There are evil men.
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  There are selfish men, there are naive men, but my goodness,
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  there are men who are called gifts when they come into your
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  life in a moment. Believe me when I tell you this.
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  This ministry, Koinonia, you see, has enjoyed the ministry of
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  such men. There are few of this men God
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  has brought in my own life. Truly, you can call them
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  consolations by God. And Adam had children.
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  He knew his wife, he had Cain and Abel.
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  What did Abel do for Cain to kill him?
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  Cain killed Abel and was arguing with God.
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  You can imagine the pain of that loss in the heart of Eve.
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  But then the Bible says it beautifully.
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  And Adam knew his wife again, and she bore Seth.
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  And the Bible says men began to call upon the name of the Lord.
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  I'm praying for you one more time, maybe to a preacher who
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  has been badly wounded, betrayed by the people around you, maybe
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  some parents. You have trusted people and they
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  went to your back and 'cause you pain, your heart is bleeding
• 2:10:49
  right now. You've lost money, you've lost
• 2:10:51
  trust. You shared secrets about your
• 2:10:53
  life with people and they made a shipwreck of your destiny.
• 2:10:58
  As a consolation. May my God send true gifts to
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  your life. May my God send good people to
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  your ministry, to your business, to your organization in the name
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  of Jesus Christ #8 Lessons from Manova Coma.
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  The 8th and final destiny defining principle that I want
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  you to learn tonight is this. Define the most important things
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  in your life. Not everything is worth dying
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  for. Define the most important things
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  in your life and I will guide you.
• 2:11:45
  Not everything is worth dying for.
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  Please don't kill yourself unnecessarily.
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  There are things that are not worth dying for. 8th principle,
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  define the most important things in your life.
• 2:12:06
  Not everything is worth dying for.
• 2:12:10
  There are people who have died today.
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  If they have the opportunity to come back they will smack
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  themselves at the cheek and say it was not worth it.
• 2:12:19
  I can tell you everything in life does not hold equal value.
• 2:12:25
  You will never rise to the state of a Nova coma, and you would
• 2:12:30
  have wasted the lesson from your your discussion with an
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  overcomer if you do not know this.
• 2:12:36
  All great people, all champions in the spirit, in ministry, in
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  organizations, and in life. They know.
• 2:12:44
  Some of them have learned from their many years of pain that
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  not everything in life is worth dying for.
• 2:12:52
  I have studied the subject of fulfillment myself, and I have
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  taught you a few teachings around fulfillment.
• 2:12:59
  I refer you to two of my teachings, one What seekest thou
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  #2 the law of seasons. But in my studying the subject
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  of success and fulfillment, I found out at the end of my study
• 2:13:15
  and gleaning from the wisdom of fathers and champions indeed,
• 2:13:20
  that there are only three things that are worth dying for.
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  The most important thing in your life is defined as what you can
• 2:13:28
  die for, not what you are living for.
• 2:13:32
  The most important things in your life are defined not just
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  because you are living for them, but that you can die for them.
• 2:13:40
  Anything you cannot die for is not that important.
• 2:13:45
  Don't let it give you heart attack.
• 2:13:46
  There are people today carrying self-inflicted health, health
• 2:13:51
  concerns because they have put themselves in positions where
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  they do not, they have not defined the most important
• 2:14:04
  things. Can I share with you my
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  perspective about the three most important things in your life?
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  Number one, your relationship with Jesus.
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  This is the first thing that is worth dying for, not just living
• 2:14:20
  for. It is worth dying for.
• 2:14:23
  If you can only live for Jesus, you are not serious.
• 2:14:28
  Genuine love is demonstrated in the ability to both live and if
• 2:14:34
  need be, die for A cause. Your relationship with Jesus
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  Mark, chapter 835 to 37. Mark 835 For whatsoever
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  whosoever will save his life is that in your Bible he shall lose
• 2:15:21
  it. But whatsoever shall lose
• 2:15:24
  whosoever shall lose his life, for my sake and the Gospels, the
• 2:15:29
  same shall save it. Reading 237 For what shall it
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  profit a man, the Bible says, if he shall gain the whole world
• 2:15:37
  and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in
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  exchange for his soul? Ladies and gentlemen, your
• 2:15:47
  relationship with Jesus is the guarantee of your eternal
• 2:15:51
  destiny. It should be the most important
• 2:15:55
  thing in your life. It's not a preacher's
• 2:15:57
  manipulation. No, no, no.
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  I don't care what you have. I don't care what you dwell in.
• 2:16:06
  If Jesus it's not at the epicenter of your life, you have
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  not defined your priorities. Right #2 what is the second
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  thing worth dying for? Your family, both biological and
• 2:16:22
  spiritual family is worth dying for.
• 2:16:26
  When Job lost everything in his life, the only thing that was
• 2:16:30
  left was family. Business could not stand the
• 2:16:33
  test of time. Reputation could not stand the
• 2:16:37
  test of time. Assets, as we call them, could
• 2:16:41
  not stand the test of time. At the end of his life, only one
• 2:16:47
  woman stood by side. And even that woman stood there
• 2:16:51
  in her pain and she said, why do you hold on to your integrity
• 2:16:55
  job, you're my husband, but cause God and die.
• 2:16:59
  But at least she stood by him. Can I tell you respect those who
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  can see all your limitations and still love you for who you are?
• 2:17:09
  Not everybody has that patience. If you do not respect those who
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  have seen the good, the bad and the ugly and still love you the
• 2:17:18
  way you are, you are making a big mistake.
• 2:17:23
  Worth dying for Jesus and the gospel?
• 2:17:27
  Worth dying for family. Now, I know that a lot of people
• 2:17:32
  say all kinds of things about church, and they are largely
• 2:17:36
  right. All church is full of
• 2:17:37
  hypocrites. Church is full of this.
• 2:17:39
  But can I tell you the safest place you can never be
• 2:17:42
  spiritually is the House of God. In the midst of all of all these
• 2:17:48
  stories here and there, you will still find people who love you
• 2:17:52
  in church. You will still find those who
• 2:17:54
  will cry with you in church. If you think I'm joking, lose a
• 2:17:59
  loved one or let something happen, and that's when you will
• 2:18:01
  know that many people are selfish.
• 2:18:04
  It is in church you will find someone who does not know you,
• 2:18:07
  but just seeing you cry can come to you and say, what is the
• 2:18:10
  matter? Can I help you?
• 2:18:12
  Don't get used to wicked people and think everyone is wicked.
• 2:18:16
  In church, there are good people.
• 2:18:18
  There are all kinds of vessels, vessels of clay, vessels of
• 2:18:22
  wood, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold.
• 2:18:28
  Many years ago I made a commitment with my life that
• 2:18:32
  aside, being a man of God, one of my greatest goal in life is
• 2:18:37
  to be a shoulder for as many wounded people.
• 2:18:41
  Beyond being a man of God, my greatest testimony is not just
• 2:18:45
  that I was or I am a great man of God, but that someone.
• 2:18:50
  I'm not called to solve everybody's problem.
• 2:18:52
  But then the much that I can do, not little, the much that I can
• 2:18:56
  do, if I can use my life to wipe somebody's tears, it may not be
• 2:19:02
  the best, but it was not the worst.
• 2:19:05
  You see, we're not called to do everything when it has to do
• 2:19:08
  with being there for people. You don't need ordination.
• 2:19:11
  You don't need education. You just need a good heart.
• 2:19:15
  There are things you will need qualification to do.
• 2:19:19
  Showing love and kindness is not one of those, educated or
• 2:19:23
  otherwise. You can show love and.
• 2:19:25
  Kindness. Are we together, wealthy or
• 2:19:28
  otherwise? You can show love or kindness
• 2:19:32
  When it has to do with love and kindness.
• 2:19:34
  Gender does not necessarily matter.
• 2:19:36
  Age may not matter. Our world is full of bleeding
• 2:19:42
  people. Bleeding preachers.
• 2:19:44
  I once saw a photo, I think it was on YouTube or so.
• 2:19:47
  I can't remember what I was looking for.
• 2:19:49
  And then I saw, I think it was a, a, a graphic representation
• 2:19:52
  of something and a man who was holding on to his small sun,
• 2:19:56
  shielding the sun from some something or so.
• 2:19:59
  And there were all kinds of arrows on that man.
• 2:20:02
  I said how? True.
• 2:20:04
  Some of you never know what men of God go through.
• 2:20:08
  The stress, the pain, the internal crisis, having their
• 2:20:13
  own issues that they have to throw away.
• 2:20:15
  This is true for preachers. This is true for leaders and
• 2:20:20
  most times. The church sometimes can be full
• 2:20:22
  of very ungrateful people. They do not know that every
• 2:20:26
  sermon you hear comes from a standpoint of blood, tears, and
• 2:20:30
  sacrifice. How about leaders?
• 2:20:34
  You come to your workplace and you see ideas that keep scaling
• 2:20:39
  that organization, not knowing that someone lost sleep for that
• 2:20:43
  idea to come about. I'm praying for you that you
• 2:20:46
  will train your spirit to respect greatness when you see
• 2:20:49
  it. There is no gift of greatness in
• 2:20:52
  the Bible. Greatness is a cumulative of
• 2:20:56
  this journey. And tonight we're learning
• 2:20:59
  lessons from a Nova coma so that you will become one yourself.
• 2:21:05
  Three most important things. Number one, your relationship
• 2:21:09
  with Jesus #2 your biological and your spiritual family #3
• 2:21:17
  your assignment. John chapter 4 and verse 34.
• 2:21:23
  Jesus expressed it so beautifully. 434 John he said my
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  meets, the word meets there means my nourishment, almost as
• 2:21:34
  though my living, my remaining is based on this, the ability to
• 2:21:40
  do the will of him that sent me and to finish his work.
• 2:21:44
  Can I tell you, sometimes I leave a very busy schedule by
• 2:21:51
  Tuesday when Cote d'Ivoire to Wednesday, we return back
• 2:21:55
  straight and I'm preaching at the Foursquare convention
• 2:22:00
  Thursday and Friday morning. As soon as I'm done, headed from
• 2:22:05
  Abekuta back to Lagos and then to Port Arcot to still preach
• 2:22:11
  that same night. One session with House on the
• 2:22:14
  Rock and sometimes you are stretched to the borders and you
• 2:22:19
  keep asking why all this? I can tell you, the joy that
• 2:22:24
  comes to your heart when you know that your life is being a
• 2:22:27
  blessing cannot be contained with anything.
• 2:22:30
  No amount of money will replace it, no amount of fulfillment.
• 2:22:35
  If you have not tested this, your life is not valuable
• 2:22:38
  enough. There must be fulfillment beyond
• 2:22:41
  material things that you'll get, and it comes by pouring yourself
• 2:22:46
  as a drink offering. Someday if Christ tarries will
• 2:22:50
  all not be here. Hallelujah.
• 2:22:54
  And like I would always say, the hymn writer says first will we
• 2:22:57
  pass from the F? And it's toiling only to be
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  remembered. We used to sing this song in the
• 2:23:04
  seminary. And some will even cry.
• 2:23:06
  And then we'll go back and do exactly what the song was
• 2:23:09
  warning against. Hallelujah.
• 2:23:15
  Your relationship with Jesus is worth dying for.
• 2:23:18
  Let me tell you what is not worth dying for.
• 2:23:20
  Fame, money, positions, titles, competitive achievements.
• 2:23:33
  They are not worth dying for. You will hurt yourself and
• 2:23:36
  Pierce yourself with many sorrows and not even leave to
• 2:23:40
  see yourself step into it. There are some people today who
• 2:23:43
  will not sleep. Why?
• 2:23:46
  Because you saw a rapper that someone wore Please after
• 2:23:49
  Kolonia go and sleep. I release that grace upon you.
• 2:23:54
  Are we together? There are people today who will
• 2:23:57
  not sleep because they checked their social media or whatever
• 2:24:02
  and saw two likes 2 follows, 2 shares and they said no.
• 2:24:07
  This can. I mean, it can be.
• 2:24:09
  Go and sleep, please. This person was my junior in
• 2:24:16
  school and is now dedicating his house.
• 2:24:19
  No, please, go and sleep. It's only when you are awake
• 2:24:22
  that you can go forward. Dead men don't go forward.
• 2:24:25
  There is no progress to dead people.
• 2:24:27
  Are we together? Yeah.
• 2:24:30
  There are things that are not worth losing sleep about.
• 2:24:34
  Please, I give you a sound counsel, a lesson from an
• 2:24:39
  overcomer. Learn to be contented while you
• 2:24:43
  aspire for greetings at every level.
• 2:24:46
  Contentment is not mediocrity is gratitude.
• 2:24:50
  Celebrate seasons, don't hurry out of them.
• 2:24:53
  You will miss the season you are rushing out of now.
• 2:24:58
  Rushing out of now. Hallelujah.
• 2:25:03
  With all humility. There are things I cannot do
• 2:25:05
  again by reason of this supposed public or celebrity life.
• 2:25:10
  Sometimes I look back and I wish I had moments where I could
• 2:25:13
  smuggle myself, maybe to just walk around.
• 2:25:18
  Literally, Can you imagine someone if someone sees you on
• 2:25:23
  the street, even if you are just walking, the person will kneel
• 2:25:26
  down their self. Finally, I know God, I will not
• 2:25:29
  let you go. They can literally hold your
• 2:25:31
  trouser in the junction. And you know, Nigerians are
• 2:25:33
  people of faith, they don't care if they tear the trouser and get
• 2:25:38
  your blessing. To them, it's a good bargain.
• 2:25:45
  Hallelujah. I'm generally not the kind of
• 2:25:50
  person who likes all this. Oh, you are this and I usually
• 2:25:53
  don't like it. But sometimes you get to a point
• 2:25:56
  where you can't hide again, you can't do anything.
• 2:26:00
  And most people get beguiled by those things.
• 2:26:03
  When you see great people, you usually admire, you inspire.
• 2:26:07
  And then for many people that that inspiration from them now
• 2:26:12
  becomes cancerous because you lose sleep.
• 2:26:15
  I can't believe this is it Not this guy that I even got filled
• 2:26:19
  with the Holy Ghost. He's the one who now has a
• 2:26:22
  membership of 1000 people and I am here with three people.
• 2:26:26
  Four people. Please, dear man of God, do not
• 2:26:28
  leave sleep. The one person you are training
• 2:26:31
  is equivalent to a nation. A competitive spirit is
• 2:26:34
  cancerous, literally medically cancerous.
• 2:26:38
  It will destroy you. Anything that will not give me
• 2:26:43
  sleep. May God not bring it around my
• 2:26:44
  life. Are we together?
• 2:26:48
  Yes, be content with the car you have now while trusting God for
• 2:26:53
  a greater 1A. Greater 1 will come, but drive
• 2:26:56
  the one you have with pride and don't let nobody bully you.
• 2:27:02
  Be content with the house you have now.
• 2:27:04
  Don't worry. Be content with the one cloth,
• 2:27:07
  the one shirt you have now. Man of God, be content with the
• 2:27:11
  50 faithful members that God has given you.
• 2:27:15
  Serve them with all your heart. Now.
• 2:27:17
  Let me say this before we find a place to pray.
• 2:27:24
  If I wear that overcomer who was giving you the lessons, I will
• 2:27:31
  add one more. Learn from scars and learn from
• 2:27:35
  crowns. If you learn from victorious
• 2:27:40
  people alone, you did not learn well.
• 2:27:44
  There is something only pain can teach.
• 2:27:47
  There is something only failure can teach.
• 2:27:50
  Please, I want you to listen to me.
• 2:27:52
  I give you this as a bonus principle.
• 2:27:55
  And then we pray. We live in a world today that
• 2:27:59
  downplays those who have failed and focuses on those who have
• 2:28:04
  succeeded. The person who has failed knows
• 2:28:07
  something that the successful person may never know.
• 2:28:11
  Believe me, there is something that a woman who had three
• 2:28:16
  children immediately after nine months, there's something she
• 2:28:20
  can teach you. But there is something only the
• 2:28:23
  woman who knows the pain of barriness can teach you.
• 2:28:26
  You must learn to learn from people who have failed and have
• 2:28:31
  remained, not just those who have succeeded.
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  The person who has failed and refused to give up is as
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  powerful a teacher as the person who has succeeded is someone
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  learning. Now if I were that overcomer in
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  this teaching, and I had the privilege to teach you, I will
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  add #9 and that would be learn from scars as well as crowns.
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  I know you are a man of God and you have experienced miracles
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  and explosion spreading your branches all over.
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  There is something you can teach us.
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  But I also want to hear from the man who has only passed out 10
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  members for 10 years and has not given up.
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  There is a kind of wisdom only that man can bring.
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  Are we together? Yes, I want to learn from the
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  woman who gave birth immediately and the one who waited 20 years.
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  Both of them have something to tell me.
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  I want to learn from the man who never had an opportunity to be
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  educated, but he was able to raise three or four children,
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  not just the CEO who became a billionaire at 19.
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  Both of them have something to tell me.
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  Can I tell you? Do not fall prey to the mistake
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  that many have made. Do not just respect successful
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  people alone, respect those who have failed and are still
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  standing. When a man fails and refused to
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  give up, there is something he has and he can tell you is
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  someone learning. The one who is very wealthy can
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  teach you financial principles, but the one who has little can
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  teach you joy and gratitude in the midst of little.
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  You need to learn from both of them.
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  The wealthy man may not be able to sleep if he loses 1 billion,
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  but the person who has stayed, have been little and knows how
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  to sleep, can teach you how to find rest when things do not
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  work. Most believers ignore people who
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  have scars alone, without a crown, not knowing that the road
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  to the throne is the cross when we get to heaven.
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  I have taught you, among the many ways we know Jesus, it's
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  not just a crown on his head. He's not the only one with a
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  crown. The 24 elders have crowns.
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  The Saints will be given crowns, but there is only one who has a
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  kind of scar that no one can replicate.
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  That scar is what brands him a savior.
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  Not everybody can show you their crown, but if they can show you
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  their scar, respect them. The man does not have a car, but
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  he has trekked with his children from primary school until they
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  are now in university. Let him teach you how to be
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  joyful without things. There is something he can teach
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  you. I learn from everyone.
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  The Bible says go to the ants and learn.
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  They have something to teach you.
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  When I meet a man who has failed and is crying, I tell him, what
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  can you teach me? When I meet a man who has
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  succeeded exceptionally, I tell him, what?
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  What can you teach me? I do not learn only from
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  victors. I learn from those who are
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  testaments of endurance. They have failed.
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  They can teach you how not to. Fail.
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  You are the one that we pray, You are the one we adore.
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  You give the healing and raise that our hearts always.
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  It is not only elderly people that can teach children can also
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  teach. Elderly people can never become
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  children again. For children have a chance to
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  become elderly people respect them, they have the advantage of
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  time. Elderly people can have wisdom,
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  but there is no time to correct certain mistakes again.
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  But children have the advantage of time, They can be solved
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  today and become Paul tomorrow. Respected.
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  I've visited the prison many times and we have various
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  projects to the prison and I am inspired sometimes beyond
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  imagination, as I see these inmates.
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  Some of them have come to a point where they have admitted
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  their wrongs. Do you know there was a time
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  that we wanted to help out, to build a few people who had been
• 2:33:37
  there for a long time and the the controllers advised us that
• 2:33:43
  they have learned from experience that some of these
• 2:33:46
  people have no family. They are better off there.
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  Even if you build them, they will not go because it has
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  become their family. They are better off in that
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  place. So when you sit down with that
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  person and you ask him what do you have to teach me, he will
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  tell you. Listen to instructions.
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  I was teaching, I'm wrapping up now.
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  I was teaching at a youth session, my final session in
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  South Africa this year. And I just decided to inspire
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  some of the people, the youths within the nation there as a
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  final session. And I just want to borrow an
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  example as I wrap up. And I told them I was going to
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  simulate a discussion between an elderly you and a younger you.
• 2:34:40
  If the 10 year old you meets with the 50 year old you and
• 2:34:45
  they discuss what will be their discussion?
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  Will it be well done? You are what I always wanted to
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  be or something is wrong. I wish I could go back.
• 2:34:58
  I have told you that at the end of your life you will always be
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  remembered. Only be remembered by the
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  problems you created or the ones you solved.
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  There are many of you who right now are in that conversation.
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  If the 10 year younger version of you looks at the you now, you
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  will watch him bleed and he says this is not what I wanted to
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  become. This was not our discussion.
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  What happened. Now that you are alive, you can
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  make the you now to celebrate with the you that is waiting in
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  your 20 years from now. That 1020 years from now you can
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  look back to this version of you and say well done.
• 2:35:38
  I made the wrongs right. I built the relationships, I got
• 2:35:43
  my life back in order. I'm praying for you that the
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  7080 year old version of you will not turn back and watch the
• 2:35:52
  younger version crying and say I kept calling your attention when
• 2:35:57
  you were 30. I said you were missing it, you
• 2:35:59
  did not listen. You got to 40.
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  I said you were missing it, you did not listen.
• 2:36:03
  Now you are 80 and you are full of regrets.
• 2:36:07
  There are many elderly people today who are going to their
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  graves in pain. They made certain mistakes and
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  watch this. This is the conclusion of my
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  discuss tonight. The man who is sitting today as
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  an overcomer is not always smiling.
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  Sometimes they cry even on the throne because they remember in
• 2:36:29
  regret opportunities missed some of these principles that they
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  did not adhere to. I was sent by that overcomer to
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  you to tell you the mistake you are making has been made by
• 2:36:42
  someone and the end of it is not joy.
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  You have a chance to correct it now.
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  The lack of wisdom that you are doing now, someone has done it
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  for you already. He finally became an overcomer.
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  But there are things. The man called Abraham, even
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  though he was a patriarch of faith, don't forget Ishmael came
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  and Ishmael fought Isaac. He still fights Isaac till
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  today. And so the lesson from the
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  overcomer called Abraham is that impatience will always make you
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  give birth to what fights your promise.
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  Make sure you don't just say I'm a seed of Abraham.
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  Learn from the pain of the patriarch.
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  If you were to meet with David today, David will tell you that
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  I was a great man after my God's heart, but there were mistakes I
• 2:37:39
  made with my life. Do not make that mistake.
• 2:37:44
  How about Solomon the wise? You will see him seated today.
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  And if you were to see Solomon, he will tell you Read the book
• 2:37:51
  of Ecclesiastes for the next one month, and he will cry while
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  he's saying it. Read the book of Ecclesiastes
• 2:37:58
  and give it to every successful person to read that of writing
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  many books. There is no end and much studies
• 2:38:05
  a weariness to the body. But this is the conclusion of
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  the matter. Fear God and keep his
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  commandments, he said, for this is the whole duty of man.
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  If you were to meet the man Paul seated as an over coma, he will
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  say, I have a message for you. No God early, no God early.
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  It will save you a lot of problems.
• 2:38:31
  No God early, if you were to meet Esau and meet Jacob, they
• 2:38:35
  would tell you do not sell your destiny for a pottage of steel.
• 2:38:39
  It is not worth it. Do not sell your birthright
• 2:38:42
  because you are hungry and your your birthright is greater than
• 2:38:47
  your hunger today. And then if you sit and watch
• 2:38:54
  the greatest overcomer of all times, he's called the King of
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  Kings, He seated himself upon that throne.
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  Let me tell you what He will tell you.
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  Come unto me, all ye that are heavy laden and are weary, and
• 2:39:11
  he will tell you, I can give you rest.
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  Rest from yesterday, rest from pain, rest from misery, rest
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  from curses. I can give you rest.
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  He says my yoke is easy and my burden is light.
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  You shall find rest indeed for your soul.
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  Take my yoke upon you. If you meet the overcomer, he
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  will tell you no matter how your sins are, I paid that price for
• 2:39:44
  you as proof of love. You may not be able to do
• 2:39:48
  anything about yesterday, but you can start afresh today and
• 2:39:52
  make meaning with your today for a great tomorrow.
• 2:39:59
  We are surrounded by overcomers. They are called a great cloud of
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  witnesses. I've been assigned by the Spirit
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  to glean from their wisdom and to share with you tonight
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  irrefutable destiny defining principles that have turned
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  ordinary men to become champions.
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  Hoping. That soon enough in your
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  lifetime, you will have a chance to sit upon this rare throne
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  that not many sit on as an overcomer yourself.
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  That your name will be turned from Joshua Salman to an
• 2:40:34
  overcomer, from Mary, from Grace to an overcomer.
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  That people will look at you and indeed, you will be called an
• 2:40:42
  overcomer. Please rise upon your feet.
• 2:40:51
  Please hold the hands of someone by your left and right.
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  I am victorious, I have overcome.
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  I am victorious. I have overcome.
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  I am victorious, I have. I am victorious.
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  I have. Whilst you are holding the hands
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  of your neighbor left and right, I want you to pray a very
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  simple, sincere prayer from the depth of your heart.
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  You're going to say, Lord, 'cause my neighbor to become an
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  overcomer, that they do not ignore this lesson that has come
• 2:41:59
  from the pain of overcomers. Go ahead.
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  That is your only prayer for tonight.
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  Pray for your neighbor. Stake in the pain and the sorrow
• 2:42:19
  away. You've given me peace.
• 2:42:22
  On the night. There's no need to cry 'cause
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  you're always with me. You're my father, My.
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  Ever reason Oh man my sing it. Lord, you took my pain away, and
• 2:42:56
  then you gave me joy. You're my peace, my melody in
• 2:43:01
  the. Center of the storm.
• 2:43:03
  You gave me a brand new soul to sing to you.
• 2:43:08
  That's why I will lift up my voice and say yay yay.
• 2:43:29
  Go ahead and pray, Father, cause my brother, my sister, cause my
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  neighbor to learn this profound destiny altering lessons from
• 2:43:42
  the overcomer, from Abraham, the overcomer, all the overcomer,
• 2:43:50
  Jesus, the greatest of all overcomers, from our fathers who
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  have become overcomers. Hallelujah, Hallelujah.
• 2:44:09
  I pray for you in the name of Jesus.
• 2:44:11
  For many of you who have been wounded in life and destiny, you
• 2:44:15
  have felt like you have failed and failed and failed and failed
• 2:44:20
  and failed. I'm speaking by the Spirit of
• 2:44:23
  the living God that every negative voice that has spoken
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  to you that you will never emerge, you will never become.
• 2:44:30
  May that voice be silenced. Now, for those of you who have
• 2:44:38
  made all kinds of mistakes around your life and destiny,
• 2:44:42
  and you are wondering whether it's worth continuing the
• 2:44:45
  journey, I bring you glad tidings.
• 2:44:48
  There is hope for a tree, even if it be caught up at the scent
• 2:44:52
  of water. Receive grace to keep going.
• 2:44:55
  Receive grace to keep going. Receive grace to keep going.
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  I pray for you, for everyone who has ignored hitherto any of
• 2:45:07
  these eight lessons that we have today learned from the
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  overcomer. I pray for grace that you will
• 2:45:14
  retrace your steps, grace to take the wisdom of the overcomer
• 2:45:19
  seriously in the name of Jesus Christ.
• 2:45:25
  Finally, I pray for you that every power that wants to fight
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  your becoming and overcomer inexperience becoming an
• 2:45:33
  inspiration to all around you and to younger generations.
• 2:45:37
  I'm praying that that power is cleared out of the way I call
• 2:45:44
  you by faith and by grace and overcomer.
• 2:45:48
  Your life will become an inspiration to many people.
• 2:45:52
  Your life will become a motivation to many people in the
• 2:45:57
  name of Jesus Christ. But from today, people will look
• 2:46:01
  at your life and the energy to continue will be impacted upon
• 2:46:06
  them in the name of Jesus Christ.
• 2:46:11
  Let me make the altar call now. You heard the message that I
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  brought you from the chiefest overcomer himself.
• 2:46:18
  Please keep standing. Let's just honor the altar call.
• 2:46:21
  We're done in a minute or two. You have heard Abraham's
• 2:46:27
  perspective, Paul's perspective, Joshua Salman's perspective, but
• 2:46:33
  Jesus himself calls on you and this the chiefest of all
• 2:46:38
  overcomers. In fact, the reason why they are
• 2:46:42
  all order overcomers he's. Calling you to make it right
• 2:46:46
  with him tonight. It doesn't matter what has gone
• 2:46:49
  right or wrong in your life, ladies and gentlemen.
• 2:46:51
  When you come to Jesus, He gives you an opportunity to make it
• 2:46:55
  right. I want to call two groups of
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  people in one right now, two groups of persons.
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  Number one, those who are making this decision for the first
• 2:47:03
  time, you're saying, apostle, I will do myself a disservice to
• 2:47:07
  ignore this call. Not after the things that I've
• 2:47:10
  heard today. And then #2 the second group,
• 2:47:15
  there are people who are saying I need to rededicate my life.
• 2:47:18
  As you kept reading the list, I found out that I was a victim of
• 2:47:22
  almost all of them. I have almost all through my
• 2:47:26
  life ignored the counsel of this over coma and I want to make it
• 2:47:31
  right. I'm going to count 1 to 5, leave
• 2:47:34
  wherever you are and literally run.
• 2:47:37
  Come and stand before me as I leave you to make this decision
• 2:47:42
  and to encounter this overcomer. Please may I request that you
• 2:47:45
  stand so there will be space. I'm counting now one.
• 2:47:49
  Let's honor them as they come. 2 Come, come, don't be ashamed.
• 2:48:02
  The overcomer calls you regardless your past, regardless
• 2:48:06
  yesterday, regardless your limitations.
• 2:48:09
  He gives you a new opportunity. No, I has sinned, no ear has
• 2:48:18
  heard what God has prepared for me, so I submit to his work in
• 2:48:26
  me till Christ be formed in me. No, I has seen, no, He has heard
• 2:48:35
  what God has prepared for me. So.
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  I submit to His work in me till the Christ is formed in me.
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  Ladies and gentlemen, brothers and sisters, thank you.
• 2:48:52
  Thank you for making this noble decision.
• 2:48:54
  You're joining them. Please hurry up.
• 2:48:56
  It's my joy and honor to introduce to you, The Overcomer.
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  Jesus himself, the captain of our salvation, the one who sits
• 2:49:05
  at the right hand of the Father. He calls you into a functional
• 2:49:10
  relationship. The Bible says as many as will
• 2:49:14
  come to him, he will in no wise castaway.
• 2:49:17
  May I request that you lift your right hand please high above
• 2:49:20
  your head as a sign of surrender, and say this after
• 2:49:23
  me. Believe it whilst you say say
• 2:49:25
  Lord Jesus, I have heard your. Word, I come to you just as I
• 2:49:32
  am. I believe that you died for my
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  sin. I believe that you rose again
• 2:49:41
  for my justification. Right now I receive your life,
• 2:49:47
  and I declare that eternal life is in my spirit now.
• 2:49:54
  I declare that you are my Savior.
• 2:49:58
  You are my Lord, You are my King.
• 2:50:02
  I also declare that the power of sin, Satan, hell and the grave
• 2:50:11
  is broken over my life. I am a child of God from tonight
• 2:50:17
  and I live the victorious Christian life.
• 2:50:20
  Amen. Father, Thank you for this
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  blessed ones. They have lifted their hands
• 2:50:25
  declaring your lordship over their lives and I'm praying for
• 2:50:28
  them in the name of Jesus that the grace to walk as a true
• 2:50:33
  believer. May that grace be released upon
• 2:50:35
  you and by the authority of Scripture, the power of sin,
• 2:50:38
  Satan, hell and the grave is broken over your life.
• 2:50:42
  In Jesus mighty name I pray, Amen.
• 2:50:45
  Please may I request that you move to my right.
• 2:50:47
  There are counselors waving the placard.
• 2:50:50
  They will have a word with you very quickly and then you'll be
• 2:50:53
  back to your seat. Let's honor them as they go.
• 2:50:55
  Thank you so very much. Thank you so very much.
• 2:51:00
  Koinonia, are you still clapping?
• 2:51:07
  Hallelujah. All right, while standing.
• 2:51:11
  Just a quick announcement and then I'll speak.
• 2:51:15
  A final blessing on your life and we're done.
• 2:51:17
  Thank you for your patience. This is coming from the media
• 2:51:20
  department. The Media and Productions
• 2:51:22
  Department is now open for new members.
• 2:51:27
  All interested persons should send their applications to
• 2:51:31
  media@koinoniaglobal.org. Media at koinoniaglobal.org.
• 2:51:37
  They are particularly looking for competent people in the
• 2:51:41
  following area. Visual mixing, video editing,
• 2:51:46
  good writing skills, videography, photography,
• 2:51:50
  graphic designs, projection, broadcast and production.
• 2:51:54
  So God has graced you in any of these areas too well to apply
• 2:51:58
  and you can get to APR desk after the grace and there'll be
• 2:52:03
  more information. I'm told that the application
• 2:52:06
  closes in two weeks. By the 26th of November the
• 2:52:10
  doors will be closed. So take this as an opportunity
• 2:52:13
  to serve in the House of God. Next is from the Austrian
• 2:52:18
  Department. The Austrian Department is also
• 2:52:20
  open for new members. Interested persons should send
• 2:52:25
  the application to koinoniaoshasasoneword@gmail.com.
• 2:52:30
  Or you can put in writing your application address to the head
• 2:52:34
  of department, The head of the Austrian Department.
• 2:52:39
  The application closes on the 15th, 15th of November.
• 2:52:46
  Hallelujah. And then, like I said, Cote
• 2:52:49
  d'Ivoire, I hope you are ready. Tuesday and Wednesday, I mean
• 2:52:52
  Cote d'Ivoire, it's going to be an awesome time.
• 2:52:55
  It's a joy to bring the word of life to the Francophone nations.
• 2:53:02
  And then Thursday, 16th and 17th with the Foursquare preaching at
• 2:53:07
  their convention. And then same on Friday the
• 2:53:12
  17th, same day, we'll rush and I'll be in Potacot for one
• 2:53:18
  session, just one session with House on the Rock, Potacot, and
• 2:53:23
  then I'll be back. Hallelujah.
• 2:53:25
  Have you been blessed tonight? In the name of Jesus, I pray for
• 2:53:28
  you. By reason of that which you have
• 2:53:31
  learned today, I impart the grace upon you.
• 2:53:35
  To walk as an overcomer in the name of Jesus Christ.
• 2:53:40
  As you apply these wisdom keys, I'm praying for you from the
• 2:53:43
  depth of my heart that you will experience extraordinary results
• 2:53:48
  in life. In the name of Jesus, may my God
• 2:53:52
  bless you. May my God lift you.
• 2:53:55
  May He cause His face to shine upon you.
• 2:53:58
  May He lift up His countenance upon you and give you peace.
• 2:54:02
  I prophecy to you that it is well with you.
• 2:54:05
  The week beginning will be one of your best weeks this year.
• 2:54:09
  You will find favor, you will find honor.
• 2:54:12
  The Lord will give you speed. No weapon fashioned against you
• 2:54:16
  will prosper in the name of Jesus Christ.
• 2:54:19
  You go from glory to glory in Jesus, much less name.
• 2:54:23
  We pray together. Let's share the grace and
• 2:54:26
  fellowship, the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of
• 2:54:30
  God and the sweet fellowship of the Holy Spirit.
• 2:54:33
  Rest and abide with. Us now and forever.
• 2:54:36
  Amen. Surely God's goodness and mercy
• 2:54:38
  shall follow us all the days of our lives as we dwell in the
• 2:54:42
  House of the Lord forever and ever.
• 2:54:44
  Amen. God bless you.
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  See you on Sunday.