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El-Ezer with Apostle Joshua Selman (The Transforming Church, Abuja, Nigeria) · Selah Media House

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Of making my contribution to this conference and then to this
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most important theme. When I saw the theme of the
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conference, it struck my heart because it's a description of my
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life for me. I'm not It's not, it's not a
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preacher's note. It's a testimony.
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I know what it means to be helped by God.
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Sharing are not necessarily just a preacher's note.
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Honestly, it is. It is me hoping to share my
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heart and I'm hoping in the name of Jesus that God will bless us.
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Amen and Amen and Amen. Your confidence and your
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exploits in this Kingdom is connected to your knowledge of
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God. The degree to which you reign,
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the degree to which you do exploit in this Kingdom is
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connected to your knowledge of God.
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Daniel Chapter 11 and verse 32, the B part says, but the people
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that do know their God, it says they shall be strong and they
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shall do exploits. So doing exploits in all its
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ramification in this Kingdom is directly connected to the depth
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of your knowledge of God. Hallelujah.
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The Bible says the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.
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It says the knowledge of the Holy, that is understanding to
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the degree to which you have a functional knowledge of God, not
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just a theoretical knowledge, a functional knowledge.
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And let me digress for one minute and just say a word or
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two about knowing God. As mighty as mysterious as God
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is, He can be known. He wants to be known, and He's
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created the platforms and the resources for the Saints to be
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able to know Him. There are at least four channels
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according to Scripture that can help you believe and know God.
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Let me just run through it #1 is through the Scripture.
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The first way we know God is through the study of the
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Scripture. Hallelujah.
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He said he searched the Scripture for in them you think
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you will find life and you will not come to me.
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He said the Scripture testify of me.
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So when we search the Scripture it helps us to know God,
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particularly to understand his character.
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And you may have heard me say that Psalm one O 3.
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In my personal opinion, contains the richest compendium of God's
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character in all of Scripture. When you read Psalm one O 3 from
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verse one to the end, it's a concise description of God's
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character #2 The second way we know God is by studying his
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names. We know God by studying his
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names. There was a reason why God
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allowed himself to carry multiple names as he related
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with men. So he's the God Almighty.
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There are names that are personal to him, but there are
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names that are testaments of the various dimensions of himself
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that was revealed to His people from Jaira to Rafa, you know,
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and Eliza as we have it here. It's a revelation of what God is
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able to do in Exodus chapter 6. Exodus chapter 6.
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Are we getting blessed already? Let me just do it.
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Give us Exodus chapter 6 and verse 3.
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I'd like us to read it together. This is just the what they call
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it appetizer. What do you eat before the main
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course? So what do we know?
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Appetizer. Let's read together.
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We'll read 6-1 to go. I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac,
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and to Jacob as, but by my name, Yahweh or Lord, I was not known
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to them. So one of the ways you know God
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is by learning His names. So His possibilities and His
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various dimensions are trapped in His name.
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When you study Jaira, it's an unveiling of a dimension of God
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you will not find in any other name.
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You will not find Jaira in Rafa, yet is the same God.
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Are we together #3 The third way we learn God, according to
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Scripture, is to study the man Jesus.
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When you study the man Jesus, you find through the revelation
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of Jesus or through the manifestation of Jesus, the
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revelation of God. Hallelujah, the Bible says God,
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who in sundry times and diverse manner speak to us in time
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passed through the prophets, had in this last days spoken to us
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through His Son, whom He had appointed heir of all things,
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and the Bible calls him the brightness of his image.
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Hallelujah, and so on and so forth, upholding all things by
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the word of His power. The Bible calls him the express
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image of the invisible God. So when you studied the man
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Jesus, you learn God. This is life eternal.
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John 17 three, that they may know thee, the only true God,
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and Jesus whom thou has sent Hallelujah.
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So when you study Jesus, you understand God.
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And what is very particular about learning God through Jesus
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is that Jesus also came as a verification system to every
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knowledge that had been proposed about God.
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That means everything the prophets, everything the Patrick
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said about God, Jesus came as a marking script.
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He came as a verification system so that whatever they said God
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was, if we did not find it in Jesus, we use Jesus as a mocking
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script to correct our understanding of God as they
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give it to us. You understand that now.
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So, for instance, when you read scriptures like a lying spirit
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came from the Lord, you know immediately that it was an error
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in judgment of the prophets. The prophets were human because
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the Bible tells us that when He came, He was full of grace and
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truth. That statement already cancels
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out that possibility in God because he's not a man that he
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should lie, not the Son of God or man that he should repent.
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So when the Bible says a lying spirit is either an error in the
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understanding of the prophets or an error in translation, usually
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that's where we get the error, either in limitation because we
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see in parts and we prophecy in parts.
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Are we together or there was a problem in translation?
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Because the Old Testament was largely written in Hebrew, and
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then the New Testament was a combination of Greek and
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Aramaic. Here and there you'd find Latin
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too, and the words, the Hebrew and Greek words are very strong
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pregnant words. One word can have a variety of
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meeting of meanings, and so in selecting English is a very
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limited word. So in selecting the English word
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to represent the Hebrew or Greek connotation, many times those
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who did the translation did their best, but they were
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limited. Are we together?
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An example is using the word eternal or everlasting for the
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words away. You see, it's a very limiting
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word, but they did the best that they could do.
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So eternal life, the word zoway is beyond eternal, is beyond
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everlasting. You see that?
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But that was the best English word that could capture as much
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as possible what zoway was represented.
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I hope you're getting me so far. Praise God.
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So we learned God number one through the study of scripture
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#2 by studying His names #3 by studying the person Jesus #4
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experience. The fourth way is the weakest
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way we know God, but it's also one of the ways we know God
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experience, Job said. I have heard of deal with the
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hearing of the ear, he says. But now my eyes see a day a man
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can experience God. Hallelujah, you can understand
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God. Let the wise man not glory in
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his wisdom. Let the rich man not glory in
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his riches. Let the strong man not glory in
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his strength or might, but let him that glory at glory in this
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that he understandeth and knoweth me.
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You can taste and see that the Lord is good.
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Not just here is someone about him.
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There is an experience. Is someone learning now?
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So I, I just started I, I said that so that because we're going
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to be discussing a name now, the whole discussion is about the
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name. So I just wanted to put that as
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a background. So when you say I want to know
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God, there's no superstition about it.
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These are the boundaries. If you go outside them, you will
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encounter familiar spirits. You will encounter all kinds of
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extra biblical phenomena. They may be spiritual, but they
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will not paint a picture. This Maybe there might be more,
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but in my study of scripture, these are the boundaries of a
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believers learning God. When you go beyond these
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boundaries, you are prone to error.
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Are we together? You notice experience was the
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weakest, but it is still there because it's important.
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But the value of experience is that there is Scripture.
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You understand his names, you understand Jesus, then your
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experience can support. So when you say I know God, I
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say how? If you say I had a vision, I
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doubt you. I don't care that the vision is
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spiritual and authentic. Experience is the weakest way of
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knowing God, even though it is powerful.
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By experience I don't mean encounter.
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They're two different similar words, but they are not the
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same. An encounter is different from
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an experience. Hallelujah, praise the name of
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the Lord. OK, so let's go to our topic
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now. I'll be teaching along your team
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and we're trusting that God will grant us grace in the name of
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Jesus El Ezer, God my helper. So let's let's explore the help
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of God. I can imagine what Reverend Sam
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has done in terms of establishing your understanding
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and we'll just build on that as God grants grace in Jesus name.
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So like, you know, the word El ezer is a Hebrew word, has many
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expressions, but it literally means God my helper or God who
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has helped me. Hallelujah.
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It's one of the expressions. It was very customary for the
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people to name God after their experience with him.
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Or sometimes God himself will instruct them to build a
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monument around that name and then offer sacrifices around it
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so that if their children asked them what happened, why this,
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they would use the name and initiate it story that will
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plant or sustain the fear of God in the people.
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Are we together now? Praise the name of the Lord.
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Now the idea of help. Please look up.
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I'm teaching now when you hear the word El azar, the Greek, the
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OR the English translation in simple terms just says help.
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But the word help there is very limiting because it's a very
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broad word. It doesn't just mean to assist
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alone. There are three, there are three
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layers. Are we together?
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Now? There's a tripartite
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understanding that equals that word help that is used there.
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Number one talks about support and assistance.
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So when he says El Azar, he uses a word help there.
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Number one, it talks about support and assistance #2 it
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talks about strength and empowerment.
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I'm showing you the dimensions of help as captured so #1 talks
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of help, support and assistance #2 it also helps us.
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Strength, providing strength and empowerment.
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In the New Testament, we call it the enabling grace.
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Are we together now? The grace that empowers men to
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do. And then #3 we talk of rescue
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and deliverance. So let me take that slowly.
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It's important we get this foundation.
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So when we're talking about God, who is my help or my helper, I
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want to immediately to peg your understanding along these three
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layers of help. For the average person, you may
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just think assistance. That's the generic understanding
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of help. Are we together?
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So generally speaking, to help means to assist so that you are
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able to fulfill a task or accomplish a task.
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Am I right on that? If I say help me pick this, I
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will participate in the process, but I just need your assistance.
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And help has two major assignments, to make things
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possible and to make things easy.
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That's the whole assignment of help.
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When you help a man in whatever way you come in, you help you
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make things possible and you make things easy.
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If I say you have helped me, that means you have provided
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strength or whatever to make things possible and to make
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things easy. Everybody say possible, say
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easy. One more time, say possible, say
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easy now. So I'm, I'm talking about the
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help of God is 3 dimensional #1 it talks of providing support
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and assistance. You have that down #2 providing
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strength and empowerment. The Holy Ghost who is called the
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helper is also the one who strengthens, remember?
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And then #3 providing rescue and deliverance.
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So every time you say I'm trusting God for help, you must
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talk intelligently. As a believer, your mind should
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be brought, Are we together? Now you know why it's important
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to teach believers truth. It helps your prayer.
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Prayer is supported by understanding and intelligence.
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When you say I receive help, your mind can say I receive
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assistance and stop there. Whereas what you need is
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deliverance. So when you are supported by
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this understanding and you say I receive help, you know what you
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are saying you can mean I receive support, I receive
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assistance, I receive strengthening and empowerment.
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Are we learning already? And then I receive was the third
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one rescue and deliverance. Any one of these three elements
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is translated help. Now you understand the word
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Eliza, right? So I just needed to put that
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that introduction. God helps men settle it for a
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fact. I don't think we need to draw,
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drag, and argue. God helps men.
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Isaiah chapter 41 from verse 10 to 14.
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Very profound scripture. I'd like us to read.
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And somewhere along the line, I'd ask you to support me as we
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read Isaiah chapter 41. I'm reading 10 to 14.
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Ready. Let me read and then you'll come
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in somewhere. But please look while I read.
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Fear not, for I am with you. Be not dismayed, for I am your
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God. Now you read, I will strengthen
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you. Yes, I will help you.
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I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.
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Verse 11 it says, Behold, all those who were incensed against
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you shall be ashamed and disgraced.
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They shall be as nothing, and those who strive with you shall
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perish. Is this a prophecy for someone?
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They say, you shall seek them and not find them.
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Those who contended with you, those who war against you shall
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be as nothing, as a non existent thing.
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Verse 13 For I the Lord your God will hold your right hand,
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saying to you, fear not, I will help you.
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Verse 14, it says fear not O worm Jacob, you men of Israel, I
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will help you say at the Lord and your Redeemer, the Holy One
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of Israel, the Lord bless the reading of his word in Jesus
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name. So God helps men.
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Second Chronicles chapter 26 and let's read verse 5.
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Then we jump to verse 15, verse five.
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He sought God in the days of Zechariah who had understanding
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in the visions of God and as long as he sought the Lord God
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made him to prosper. Jump to verse 15 please.
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He made devices in Jerusalem invented by skillful men to be
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on the towers and on the corners, to shoot arrows and
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large stones. Read the last sentence with me.
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One to go. So his fame spread far and wide,
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for he was marvelously helped till he became.
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Are you saying that this help now does not talk of
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deliverance? This one talks of empowerment?
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Is someone learning now? Ready for one last scripture.
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Let's go to the book of Acts, Acts chapter 26 and verse 22,
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Acts 2622 Hallelujah. I like this one, therefore,
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haven't obtained help from God. To this day I stand no, no, no,
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no, no, no relieve the other things.
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This is we've got to what we're looking for.
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KJV says haven't obtained help from the Lord.
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I continue, I continue the stamina to remain that when the
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door settles, you are still standing and they said by what
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means are you still standing, haven't gone through fire,
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haven't gone through water and you tell them you were
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marvelously helped of God. I prophesied to someone in the
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name of Jesus over your life, over your ministry. 2026 will be
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the most evident year of God's help in your life.
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I prophecy to a believer. 2026 will be the most evident year of
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God's help. Even the blind will know you
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have been carried on the wings of the Spirit.
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In the name of Jesus Christ, please be seated.
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Please be seated. Hallelujah.
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Now take note of the following thoughts #1 Every man succeeds
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in life and destiny to the degree to which they find help.
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I choose my words carefully. Every man succeeds in life and
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destiny to the degree to which they find help.
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There are many variables that equal success, but among them, a
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major part of that success pie chart help is the variable that
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is needed there. I've seen very intelligent
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people, very articulate people, very resourceful people.
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But simply because they lack help, perhaps help as a leverage
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of endorsement, they can remain stunted.
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They can remain, you know, in the dark as far as destiny is
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concerned, every man succeeds in life and in destiny to the
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degree to which they find help. Second thought, God desires and
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is willing to help men. God desires and he is willing to
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help men. Psalm 121 and verse one.
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It's important for you to not just know that God can help men,
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but that he desires to help men. He says I will lift up my eyes
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onto the heels. Are we together?
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He says from whence comment my help when you read KJV it
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presents this as a question. It says from whence comment my
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help and then it says my help verse 2.
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I like that one my help, not your help.
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I don't know where you get yours from.
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This is a risk to generalize and say our help because some trust
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in horses, some trust in Chariots, but my help comment
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from the Lord, which made heavens and the earth.
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Is God blessing you already? Let me send you.
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Let me give you one more scripture that just came into my
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spirit. Let's go to Psalm 20.
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I will read it, but let it be a prayer for you.
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Psalm 20 verse one. It just came strong into my
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spirit. The Lord here be in the day of
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trouble. The name of the God of Jacob
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defend you. I say it again, the Lord here be
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in the day of trouble, the name of the God of Jacob depend you.
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Verse 2, verse 2 send thee so help is sent.
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Send thee from his sanctuary. Are you in his sanctuary
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tonight? That means you are in the place
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of help. Send thee help from his
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sanctuary and strengthen thee out of Zion.
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Say I receive help, turn it into prayer.
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In one minute I receive help. Help in ministry.
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Come on, someone is praying. I receive help in my finances, I
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receive help over my job. I receive help in the name of
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Jesus. Man can be helped.
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The Lord heard in the day of trouble.
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The God of Jacob defend you. Send thee help in 2026 from his
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sanctuary Shabraka Tabaka Parrataka Pregate 22nd.
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Send thee help Sandy, Hell, Sandy support Sandy strength
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Sandy deliverance by his Spirit in Jesus much less name.
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We pray. Please be seated.
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Have you understood me so far? Hallelujah.
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I'm trying to rush because I want us to stay somewhere where
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at this. I'm hoping we'll be able to
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cover much tonight. Hallelujah.
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So I said that the word LSR describing the help of God
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carries A threefold dimension. Help us support and assistance,
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help us empowerment and strengthening, and then help us
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rescue or deliverance. And that it's important for you
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to know that every man succeeds in life and destiny to the
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degree to which they find help. There are people who may not be
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as gifted, they may not be as as resourceful, but the edge in
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their life is that they found help.
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And like you'll be learning, they found help on time.
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And when I describe the character of God's help, you
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will be learning that help has timing.
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Help can come late. There are two qualities that
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describe God's kind of help. You're making me go ahead of
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myself. I don't know what kind of hunger
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is in this place this night, but don't tempt me.
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Bible say we should resist temptations.
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Hallelujah. But just as a teaser, wait for
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me till I get there. But just for you to know that
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help can come too late. That was the reason why the
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sister of Lazarus cried when Jesus arrived.
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He said your your communist is a waste.
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And Jesus said me, I'm the resurrection and the life.
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I'm not just a healer. Hallelujah.
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Now, when help comes on time, it is called help in time of need.
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Have you read that in your scripture?
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Let us therefore come boldly before the throne of grace.
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I hope God is ministering to someone that we might obtain
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grace and find help in time of need.
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Help can come after or beyond the time of need.
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So in profession over your life tonight and tomorrow, I'm not
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just going to pray for help. I will pray that it comes early.
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It says satisfy me early, early. There are many people who if
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they had gotten help medically, help financially on time.
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Come on now. The man who stayed 38 years, he
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was not a possibility. Problem was that his help, even
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though his help was Jesus, he came after 38 years.
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The man who healed him was not 38 years old.
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So his trouble started before the arrival of Jesus.
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Please sit, Please sit. Please sit, Please sit.
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I've turned from a chef to a pilot.
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So I think we're ready to fly now.
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Why do we need help? Shamanda Krapasinika Palatosiata
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It's important for us to appreciate the necessity for
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help. Why do we need help?
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There are certain certain facts that will help to guide our
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desire for help. If you do not know why you need
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help, you may not appreciate it when it comes number one.
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The first reason why we need help is that all men, even at
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their best are limited. Please write that down.
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The first reason why we need help is that all men, even at
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their best are limited. Very uncomfortable but profound
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statement. All men even at their best are
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limited. Psalm one O 314 to 16.
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All men even at their best are limited.
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Read with me, the Bible says, For he knoweth our frame, He
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remembered that we are dust. It's not an insult, it's an
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honest description. He says, As for man, watch this,
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His days are as grass as the flower of the field.
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So he flourisheth. Verse 16.
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For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone, and the place
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thereof shall know it no more. That's the frailty of man,
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unassisted by God. So when you find people who are
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proud in their own strength, you refer them to a scripture like
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this, that the best of man is still limited.
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Are we together now in Jeremiah chapter 10, I believe, and verse
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23. Give us Jeremiah 10 and verse 23
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very quickly describing the state of man.
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It says, O Lord, I know that the way of man is not in himself.
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It is not a man that walketh to direct his steps.
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Kai, this statement is a very is a great deliverance that it is
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not a man to direct his steps. No matter how visionary you are,
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there are some things about your destiny you will not know.
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It will come as a description of God's help, not a product of
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research, not a product of investigation, not a product of
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intelligence. I know that I will.
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The sun, the moon and 11 stars will bow.
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But that's how much I know. How I will get there is a
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mystery. Only the help of God.
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When they threw that guy, hunger alone would have destroyed.
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Can you imagine a vision that powerful?
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You can look at Potiphar's wife. Those are major issues.
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But hunger would have killed him right in the dry well there.
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But the help of God caused his brother to say, you know what,
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let's not kill him, let's sell him, let's sell him, let's sell
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him, Thank you Jesus. All men at their best are
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limited #2 why do we need help? If you are learning, shout Amen.
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The second reason why we need help, I wanted to listen.
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And then you write human factors like sentiments and biases, like
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injustice, like greed, like selfishness.
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Human factors can sometimes alter or negatively affect our
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results even when you follow the principles correctly.
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Human factors, factors like injustice, factors like greed,
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factors like selfishness, factors like tribal sentiments,
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It can veto your obedience or principles and still punish you
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even when you get things right. Someone can say you are
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deserving of promotion, but because you are Yoruba, because
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you are Hauser or because I fought with your father before
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he died, how is that your business?
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You see that now? The reality of human factors is
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what necessitates helps. It is vain to wake up in the
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morning. Does that sound like laziness?
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No, it sounds like diligence. When you wake up in the morning,
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you're a serious person. When you sleep late at night,
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you are hard working, but you can see.
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Eat the bread of sorrow, Yahweh. Father of mercy, I come to you,
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Yahweh. Father of mercy, I come to you.
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Father of mercy, I come to you. Father of mercy, let me tell you
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this, don't wait until life teaches you a lesson to know how
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wicked men can be. There are times everything can
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be right on your own part, but a man just stands your way and
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says I don't like you or I don't like your father or I don't like
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where you come from. You can get 100% in the
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promotion interview and somebody will keep human factor.
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Sir, there are many people today who should not be in the prison,
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but they are there. There are many people who should
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be in the prison, and they're the ones taking those who should
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go to the prison there see that help.
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There are people who have zero financial intelligence, yet they
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have money and they are wasteful while they're having it.
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But there is a system of help that replenishes.
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And there are diligent people who know what to do with money.
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They have the intelligence. They've read every book.
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All they need is the leverage, and yet it is not there.
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Yahweh, Father of mercy, I call on you.
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Yahweh, the Father of mercy, I call on you.
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You're the Father of mercy. I call Hallelujah.
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Listen, don't feel insulted. So how many of you know there
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are many irresponsible people who have AUS passport?
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It's not a product of diligence. They were born there.
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And as as as much as it is painful, they can still go
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everywhere that passport can take them.
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But there are diligent people who were born somewhere else and
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simply because please sit down, sit down.
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Let's, let's do this, let's discuss this thing.
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At the end of this meeting. You will cry for help with all
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your heart. You will learn from this
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teaching that the race is not to the swift, that the battle is
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not to the strong nor bread to them who have understanding.
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Honestly, it is God that shows man mercy.
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I have heard people preach and wondered why they're still at
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that level of ministry based on the level of insights they have.
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I've seen people. One day, one time I was
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returning somewhere from the East Reverend Sam and I saw
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people gathered. I think it was a new war
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somewhere. I saw people gathered around
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just look like a, you know, AT Junction, and I was wondering
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why they were gathered there. It was a young gentleman who had
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simulated a Jiwagon. He built it and he was just
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running it. But that gentleman may not go
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anywhere. There are many people today who
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are 100 and 31120. They are still alive, but simply
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because they don't know them, they are not in the Guinness
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Book of Record. The person who is there, he's
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not, he's not the truth, but he's the one they know.
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Father of mercy, Hallelujah. Human factorsa human factorsa
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human factors #3 The reality of Satan and demonic forces.
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The third reason why you need help.
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Unfortunately, Satan is alive. He's still alive.
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Demons are still alive, and they are not alive.
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Lazing around they are visionary with the project to thwart
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everything God about your destiny, the reality of Satan
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and demonic forces alongside their determination to fight
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your destiny. It's an adversary he says I will
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build my church then he says, and the gates of hell.
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The gates of Hell is an is a description of the
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infrastructure of Satan killed bespoke to destroy the destiny
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of the Saints. Hallelujah, did you?
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The Bible talks about a young boy called Jabez.
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It starts that story with the end.
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Then it now tells us the context.
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He says and Jabez was more honorable than his brethren.
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But what happened? The Bible says the mother bought
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him in sorrow and she named him Jabez.
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He was not a good name. He was a description of her pain
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and it followed him. One day he got angry.
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He said, oh, that that would have blessed me.
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Reverend Sam, there's the story of the man who was crippled from
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Beth. Crippled from where?
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So it's not the issue of you didn't fight anybody.
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They even asked Jesus. They said, come on, this is not
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fair. Who's seen that this man was
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born blind? Was it him or his father?
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You have to explain to us why someone just arrives and arrives
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with blindness, arrives and arrives crippled.
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The man had get beautiful, was crippled from bed.
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I understand the man who maybe lived the riotous life like the
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prodigal son, then found himself feeding with swine.
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But what do you say about the person who was born that way?
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Demonic forces are demonic forces.
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Did you hear in your Bible that when Jesus was born there was a
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crying Rama? Women lost their children
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because a savior was born. Why should people die because a
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savior arrived? I thought the arrival of the
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savior should even redeem lives. And because a savior arrived,
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children his age mate two years and above they died.
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So if you were Jesus age mate, because you were his age mate,
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you would die. You didn't do anything wrong.
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You were just born together with a savior.
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I'm working your mind for a reason.
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Are we learning now? Let me tell you, ladies and
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gentlemen, when you look at this world, you see that many things
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don't balance. Am I right on that?
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Some of you came to church angry.
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You've been angry for the past two weeks.
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God sent me to give you perspective.
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What kind of father? What kind of mother?
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You see that now and then demonic forces administered
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healing, administered deliverance to many people.
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Beautiful lady, handsome gentleman.
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But because of where you come from or because of those
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connected to you, demonic forces are real.
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So you need help. Help us deliverance, Help us
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deliverance, it says. I have heard the cry of my
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people by reason of their taskmasters, and I am come down
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to deliver them for someone in the name of Jesus.
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This is the night you wave goodbye to certain calamities in
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the name of Jesus Christ. Every pattern insulting the
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grace of God, mocking the dignity of your life as a
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Christian in the name of Jesus. It is buried tonight forever.
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There's nobody in Africa and Nigeria I know except your
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parents or grandparents. Paid the price before you
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arrive. But the average person, when you
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arrive, you will first deal with what was older than you first
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before you start living your life.
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And if you are not careful, you will finish that battle when you
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are 15. That's when you will now start
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living your own life. Yes Sir, that you arrive and the
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battle you are fighting is older than you.
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It was there, your father could not fight it and he was waiting
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for you. You arrive and you, you are
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fighting and if in ignorance you keep pushing and by the time
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maybe you are 40 or 50 then you are done with it.
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Then you now turn back and say, OK, let me live my life and you
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find out there's no time. Again I pray for you.
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May help. Come on time.
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May help, come on time. Oh, in the name of Jesus, say I
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receive help. Say it again.
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I receive help. Say I receive help.
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Please be seated. We need help because men are
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limited. We need help because men are
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wicked. We need help because Satan is
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ever determined to fight the program of God.
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Can I tell you when God was revealing the blueprint of your
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destiny to you, you were not the only one hearing there was an
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invisible audience paying attention to what God said
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concerning your life. Satan, at the verdict that you
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are called to be Esther, Satan also had the verdict that you
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are called to be a deliverer. Did you hear what I said when
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your mother was praying and said, Lord, I give you this, my
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daughter, for your glory. Satan had the conversation and
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let me tell you, Satan is a patient spirit.
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He can wait 30 years till you grow.
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So don't think you are not praying, you are not fasting,
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but I don't sense any oppression.
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It's because you are not doing anything serious.
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Satan is dealing with serious people while waiting for you to
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grow. The day you now give your life
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to Christ, that's the day you have a strange dream.
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And the spirit said, well, you have struck a chord in the
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spirit. I was there to stop your father,
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I was there to stop your mother. And now we are here.
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And if you do not understand the appropriation system in the
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Kingdom to appropriating your life what is finished in Christ,
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you'll be surprised how your life just nose dives.
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That's why you hear a lot of people say as a non believer I
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was fine. Satan did not oppress me once I
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got born again. Of course you think he wastes
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energy. Why will he attack you when you
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belong to him? He that does not have his spirit
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is none of his. Is someone learning so far?
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I'm provoking you tonight and I'm praying for you that what
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happened to me will happen to you.
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That you get angry, you look at your life and cry for help.
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I trust God that even if we stop wherever I still have a session
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tomorrow, I want us to take a few minutes later on to do some
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prayers. Some prayers, some prayers so
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you don't waste these two weeks. Hallelujah, it's time for some
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doors to open. Let me tell you this, ladies and
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gentlemen, everything you tolerate, you have given it the
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authorization to remain in your life.
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As I'm speaking to you, I'd like to look at your life.
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Look at your parents, look at your family.
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The tonight's discussion is not just to sit down and feel, no,
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no, no. Look at things in your life.
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If it does not represent the glory of God, then brace up so
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that when it's time to pray, you pray.
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Seriously, pray seriously, pray seriously.
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People rise up just when they're about to celebrate their
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success, they go down. You watch those before you.
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Some of them were serious people, but they did not have
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intelligence more serious than you spiritually, and they still
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went down. What makes you believe that by
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default without understanding even the understanding of the
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help of God? Nathaniel looked at Jesus.
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He said forget about this guy. You are calling me to follow
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Jesus. If he said Nazarene, I will not
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follow him. They don't have longevity of
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impact. He said, can anything good come
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out of Nazareth? It was a curse upon them.
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Ask something. So when they said another
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celebrity I showed him say forget it, he will not last.
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There is something that follows them.
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They shine for a season and either a woman or whatever
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brings them down. He said don't waste my time.
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And Jesus said don't insult Nathaniel, he's an Israelite
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indeed. He's not telling lies.
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He's not telling lies. How long did Jesus last?
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3 1/2 years in ministry is only that he died purposely.
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Take it half for me, You are my hiding place.
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You always feel my heart. Which songs of deliverance?
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Whenever I am afraid I will trust in you.
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I will trust in you. Let the weak say I am strong in
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the strength. Hallelujah.
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Please sit down. Let's see what?
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Let's see what else we can cover.
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Let's see what else we can cover.
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Glory be to God. Now there are two there, the
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help of God even though he walks through men.
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But there are certain features that brand the help of God.
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When God is helping a man, you can verify that it is God
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helping that man using these parameters #1 God's help.
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Even though it may look late, but it is always timely.
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God's help is always timely. Hebrews 4 and verse 16.
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He calls it help in time of need.
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Help in time of need. Now, let me tell you something.
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Let me just, I'm just trying to cramp in so many things I told
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you earlier on that help can come too late.
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Still remember it is true that help can come too late.
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If you're looking for say 1 or 5 million naira or 20 or 30
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million naira, say for someone's kidney transplant, speaking
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medically, by the time the man it deteriorates or someone who's
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been struggling, battling cancer and no money for chemo and it's
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at stage 4, even if you give that person $1,000,000 and is
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dying the next day, help has come, but it came too late.
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Is someone learning now? Help would have come, but it
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came too late #2 Help can come as at a level that does not
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contribute significantly in providing solutions.
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Please look up, look up, look up before you write.
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So number one, that help can come too late, but #2 help can
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come at a level that is insignificant.
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Are we together? I'll give you an example.
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If you are looking for a house rent of 5 million and I give you
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1000 naira and I said just buy recharge card with it and make
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calls. In truth, I helped you, but that
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help is not significant relative to the issue.
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So you don't just need help to come on time.
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He must come to the degree that makes an impact.
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Someone learning. Now, many people saw the man at
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at Bethesda. Some said, how are you Sir?
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The fact that he could not move his leg and he lived 38 years
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meant someone was kind enough to give him food.
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Someone was kind enough to take him to the toilet.
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Remember the Bible said the man could not move.
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He was there 38 years. I am sure that someone was kind.
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It was customary those days to help the people.
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For instance, you see perspective of this in Acts
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chapter 3, the man who was carried daily and brought back.
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So when the Bible says he was there, it didn't just mean he
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was by the sea forever, it just meant that was his condition.
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They would carry him there. The man had to eat, the man had
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to go to toilet, The man had to bath.
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Someone helped him but not enough to heal him.
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So you see him praying for help. You don't just pray for any kind
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of help. It must be significant enough to
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provide an impact in your life. Is someone learning now, so
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you're looking for in financial terms to help you 10 million or
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you are trusting God for someone to speak over your destiny and
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someone just gives you, he just counsels you.
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You don't counsel demons out of people.
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Are we together? But the person has helped.
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He did the best that he or she could do.
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Help must come on time and it must come to the degree that
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provides a significant impact as far as your needs are concerned.
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Are we together? You have five children.
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You want to pay their school fees and someone says, well, I'm
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sorry, I can't, I can't help you with your school fees, but I can
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give you 5 KG bag of rice, at least feed them.
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You will say thank you because as far as that person's capacity
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is concerned that is help but it doesn't add anything so much.
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You'll now see the reason why the disciples spite at the young
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lads bread. There were 5000 people and they
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were looking for remember when the young lad brought 5 loaf and
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four fish they said well thank you but what is this compared to
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among so many people, 5000 men aside, women and children and
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you're bringing 5 loaf and two fish.
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Sounds silly isn't it? Jesus said let them sit down,
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they will still eat. Your season has come.
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Hallelujah, we have a few minutes.
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Let let me just now this what I will do for sake of time.
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I would just list it for you and then tomorrow we'll deal with
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it. Will that be fine?
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I want to show you how God helps men there in my study, there's
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at least five channels through which God helps men.
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And some of the channels are compressed together.
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And I will, I'll show you very quickly tomorrow, Hopefully
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we'll have the time and then we'll discuss those channels
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because it's important for you to know how God helps, not just
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that he helps. Are we together?
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So how God helps man? Number one, the first way God
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helps man is through supernatural intervention.
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It is an act of His mercy. Supernatural intervention.
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Deuteronomy chapter 6, please, Media, let's do it fast from
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verse 6, Deuteronomy chapter 6 from verse 6.
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Supernatural intervention is the first way God helps men.
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And these words which I commanded this day shall be in
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thy heart. Verse 7 And thou shalt teach
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them diligently to your children, and talk of them when
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thou sit us in your house, and when thou walk by the way, when
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you lie and when you rise up. Verse 8.
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No, no, no, that's not what I'm looking for.
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Give me Daniel. Give me Daniel chapter 3.
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You see Deuteronomy 16, I omitted something.
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Give me Daniel chapter 3 from verse 24.
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I want to show you the scripture I was looking for in Deuteronomy
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was the deliverance. I think it may be 16.
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Maybe I omitted something. Now then, like Bokad, Nezza,
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watch this, this was Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.
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Remember the story, They were cast into the fiery furnace.
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It was not a man that helped them.
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The Bible says the likeness of the Fourth was like the Son of
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Man. Remember, he says, fear not, for
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I've redeemed you, have called you by name.
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When you walk through the fire, I will be there.
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Nebuchadnezzar was astonished and rose up in haste and speak,
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and said to the councillors, Did we not cast three men bound into
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the midst of the fire? And they said, Oh King, that's
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true. 25 He answered Low, I see four men loose walking in the
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midst of the fire. They have no heart.
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And the form of the 4th is like the Son of God.
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Verse 26 Nebuchadnezzar came and said, Shadrach, Meshach, and
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Abednego, servants of the Most High, come forth, and come
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Heather. Then they came out in the midst
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of the fire. 27 And the Princess, the governors, and all
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those men, they saw them, It says, men upon whose body the
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fire had no power, nor was an hair of their head singed,
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neither their courts change, nor the smell of the fire upon them.
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Verse 28 Then Nebuchadnezzar said, Blessed be the God of
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Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who had sent his Angel.
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The word Angel there is literally the is God not just
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his Angel like an Angel who came?
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Are we together now and delivered his servants that
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trusted in him? We don't trust in angels like
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that. Are we together?
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They are ministering spirits and have changed the King's word and
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yielded their body that they might not serve or worship God.
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And then the decree came in verse 29.
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The point is that God helps men by intervening supernaturally.
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The Scripture was looking for in Deuteronomy says that God by the
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breath of his nostrils, He brought deliverance to the
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nation of Israel. So God brings help by
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supernatural intervention #2 very quickly.
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The second way God helps man is through the ministry of angels,
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Hebrews chapter 1 and verse 14. The ministry of angels, Hebrews
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chapter 1 and verse 14. Are they not all ministering
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spirits? The Bible says they are sent
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forth to minister for them. Who shall be the heirs of
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salvation? The ministry of angels in
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Genesis chapter 19. We don't have the time to read
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it, but that was the story of Lot in Sodom and Gomorrah.
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Remember when rescue was coming to Lot, it was angels that were
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sent am I right? And when the angels they came in
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the form of man and when the Sodomites saw them, they entered
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Lord's house to bring him out before calamity would strike.
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The Bible says the man came and knocked the door.
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You see how crazy those guys were?
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They said open the door where are these angels that we may
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know them. And Lord said don't bring this
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embarrassment of I will even give you my daughters.
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They said no. And the Bible says the angels
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pulled lot in and stroke the people with blindness and they
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wearied themselves in front of the door.
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The ministry of angels, Acts chapter 12 When you read from
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verse 1 to 11, the Bible tells us that Harold made-up his mind
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to vex Saturn of the Jews, and he caught James and beheaded
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James, and when he saw that he pleased the Jews.
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Is that true? The Bible says he now caught
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Peter and kept him, and with a quaternion of soldiers waiting
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that after the Passover he will hand him over to the Jews.
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The Bible says the night he was kept here, but prayer was made
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unto God by the church for Peter, and then the Bible says
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in response to that prayer, angels came, light was shown
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into the prison, the chains fell off, and the Angel began to lead
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him out. He led Peter through the 1st
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court, led him through the 2nd court, and the Bible says he
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came to the iron gates that opens up to the city.
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And when he led Peter, Peter, confess something that I want to
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pray for you. Can I show you?
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Give us Acts chapter 12 and verse 11.
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Let me turn it into prayer for someone, everybody, nobody read,
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please. This is a powerful prayer, one
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to go. And when Peter was come to
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himself, he said, now I know of his shorting, that the Lord had
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sent his Angel listen, and had delivered me number one out of
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the hand of herod #2, out of the expectation.
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He was delivered from two things, one out of the hand of
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error #2 out of the expectation. God does not just deliver you
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from trouble, He delivers you from the expectation of the
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wicked. They expect you to cry, they
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expect you to fail. It has not happened yet.
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But why do the people imagine a venting?
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I know for a Shorty He sent his angels to deliver me from Herod
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and deliver me from the expectations.
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So there were those who were there.
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They look harmless, but they had a desire, their wishes to see
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you cry. God can deliver you from the
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expectation, the ministry of angels.
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How about Jesus himself? In Matthew chapter 4, the Bible
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tells us when he was done, when Satan tempted him, number one,
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number two. Number three, He rebuked Satan.
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He left him for a season and the angels came and ministered to
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him. Even Jesus was ministered to by
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the angels #3 What is the third way God helps men?
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This one would deal with this one seriously tomorrow because
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he's a he's a pregnant is like a woman carrying I don't know how
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many children. Now the ministry of men the
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ministry of men. The 3rd and very major way God
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helps sends his help to a man is through the ministry of men.
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Psalm 115 and verse 16. The heaven of heavens belong to
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the Lord, but the earth had He given to the children of men.
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Ladies and gentlemen, this is the world of men.
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The heaven of heavens belong to the Lord, but the earth had he
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given to the children of men. Now listen, please sit down.
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There are various categories of men in the Bible who represent
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different dimensions of help. Are we together now?
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When we talk about help through the ministry of men, it's a very
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complex dimension of God's help. There are many categories of men
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in the Bible who represent various aspects of the ministry
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of men. You can talk about the Bizarles
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and the Ohiliabos. Are we together now?
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Holy Apps and the Bizarles, creativity, they came in.
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Talk about the Jethro's Moses, his father-in-law.
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Remember he counseled him. As anointed as Moses was, he
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would have died before his time. Even though he still died.
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I don't know if he was before his time, but at least he lived
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longer because Jethro advised him and said you're on your way
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to your grave. How about the wine pressure?
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As anointed and gifted as Joseph was, it took someone to say I
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remember my wrong this day. King, there is a man you need to
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pay attention to. How about the slave girl, the
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little girl who was held captive and went to the House of Naman,
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and she said, oh, that my master would listen to me.
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She attended to Naman's wife. Thank God Naman listened to her
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and that's how he got his healing.
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How about Aaron and her holding the hands of Moses so that
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victory sustained in battle? How about the Jonathans?
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How about the Rahabs who hid the spice?
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Are we together? How about Naomi?
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Who can tell Ruth? I'm not sure Ruth would have had
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the patience to wait till she met boss, but I'm sure Naomi
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counseled that. When she came and said a man
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treated me favorably. She said, aha, I see those signs
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now. Behave yourself as you go there,
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this, this, this and that. It didn't just happen because it
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was the will of God. Someone's counsel played a role.
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It's true. God presents the opportunity.
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Counsel helps you to manage and maximize the opportunity.
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You can blow up an opportunity that was sent by God, and God
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says I've done my best for you. You had me, but you did not hear
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counselors. It was your hearing me that
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brought the opportunity. But counselors help you to
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manage the opportunity. Are we together now Naomi's.
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How about Boras himself? Boras was a helper, he was a
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good man. When he saw the young lady, he
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said make sure nobody harasses this lady, leave some part for
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her to clean. This is without knowing she will
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be his wife. Let me tell you this, if you are
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only good to the person you want to marry, you are not a good
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person. If your goodness is not lavish
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enough, then it has sentiments and biases in it.
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You hate everybody except the person you love.
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Something is wrong with your understanding of love.
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You give, you don't give to anybody and then you zoom down
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one lady or one guy. You are not a giver, you are an
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investor. You're a businessman and it will
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be a bad investment. Hallelujah.
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Now how about how about Joshua's?
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The Joshua's who stood with Moses?
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Now strangely, how about Cyruses and Pharaohs?
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Cyruses and Pharaohs, 2 men. You should never play with Cyrus
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and Pharaoh. They are endorsers.
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They are the kind of gatekeepers who cannot castaway.
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God grants you favor to walk through them.
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Binding and casting them is a useless prayer because God
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respects your position. Cyruses and Pharaohs, they took
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Pharaoh to promote Joseph and there are Cyrus is there.
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You see, God's ideal is not to work with unbelievers, but where
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believers are not ready and if they are on readiness will fight
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his program. He will route through his wisdom
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and use cyruses. That's why the Bible says honor
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all men because you don't know which Cyrus is part of your
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program. If you honor only believers, you
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will be surprised that your dishonor to the one person
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that's the one person that they are launching is on.
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Are we together now? Daniel did not serve
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Nebuchadnezzar's God, but he are not Nebuchadnezzar.
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Don't tell me your place of work is so pungent.
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Learn from Daniel, he had an excellent spirit, a stainless
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track record, and yet he was impactful.
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The various ministry of men, Judas's Judas, Judas, when God
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is apportioning people to you. If it is God himself that sent
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Judas, don't drive him more. Remember I was not a demon that
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brought Judas. God selected the disciples and
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selected Judas. There are certain adversaries
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that are the initiation for glory and if God were to leave
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you to choose yourself, you would drive it so Joseph on your
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way to your brothers, you will see a well somewhere there.
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Don't close that well, although you will be in it.
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What is necessary for your destiny.
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Can I tell you this, if I am to choose my path to life, I will
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not arrive. You know why?
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Because many of the things that have carried me now in the
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spirit of Judas's, I would have fought them spiritually and God
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said no. It's in my wisdom.
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I know how to walk all things. Will Jesus ever manifest
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redemption without Judas? It is amazing that it was not
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Satan that selected Judas. Jesus fasted all night and saw
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Judas knew his name, the son of Perdition, and said, come join
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them. Let me tell you ladies and
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gentlemen, it is a reason why that prayer thy will be done is
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a powerful prayer. Because if you are to select the
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variables for your own destiny, the way we are as men, you will
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select people who love you too much to let you emerge.
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Did you hear what I said? Their love for you is why you
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will never manifest destiny. They love you too much.
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When you're about to fast, they say again, nothing challenging
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you whether you saw or not. They will bring a harvest to
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you. So you will not respect the law
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of sea time and harvest when God is positioning you for destiny.
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When you see John receiving. When you see Peter receiving.
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When you see Judas receiving a possible I know he's Judas still
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keep him there. You don't drive every Judas.
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No, just because he's Judas does not mean you drive him.
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There is a purpose is someone learning Now this is very
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powerful. Now you understand why the Bible
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says for we know that all things, all things, ladies and
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gentlemen, all things. Anybody who does not like me, I
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will drive him out of be careful, be careful.
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Many people who don't like you will be the reason why you rise,
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the reason why you pray, the reason why you watch your step.
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You know there's someone praying.
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He will get up in the morning and he's.
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Something happened to her. I've been waiting.
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I thought by now something should have happened to her.
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They keep you in check. Look at me, the Holy Spirit
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comes, or the Angel comes to meet a woman and says you are
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highly favored. And yet nothing in her life
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looked like favor. As soon as he was done
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announcing it was trouble. First the guy to marry her said
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I'm going, you have to explain to me.
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This is all this talk. You and God go and explain.
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I don't know what to tell the rabbi, the son Henry and all of
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that. You say you're a virgin.
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Your stomach is protruding. I'm the closest man to you.
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I don't want stories. I've been I've been a Carpenter.
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I've been diligent. Then you now give back to the
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child and the guy. I don't know what she told him
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that I later agreed. Now then because of census, an
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Angel says run away with the child.
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You see all the controversy around him.
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He said there's too much burden for a child that did not come
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from me. That's why Abraham just drove.
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Ishmael said please go leave me, let me have my own.
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Are you getting the point now? And yet he called it favor.
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Look at me, let me teach you something about favor.
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One of the ways God favors you sometimes is to let you have a
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scar only you will have because that scar becomes the only
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reason why they will listen to only you.
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There are certain platforms that you will not climb because of
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skill. You will climb because you are
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the only one who has that scar. Your access to certain platforms
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will not be your brain, it will be your pain.
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It's true. I'm not just doing rhetorics
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with words. It's true.
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Have you suffered enough to teach me about success?
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Have you been oppressed enough Else I don't trust your
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compassion. No wonder the Bible says we do
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not have a high priest. You see that Jesus was in every
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way tempted. He submitted himself.
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I always wondered why he had to become a man and then go through
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all. I understand He would have just
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become a man, Die in two weeks. You would have become an adult.
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He's still a man. Died in two weeks and returned
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back quietly. If you know, you know.
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If you don't know, you don't know.
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But he came as a child, went through all those things.
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You take what the enemy meant for A and you turn it for good.
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You turn it for good. That's your testimony.
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You take what the enemy meant for A.
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Let me tell you this There are two reasons why I respect
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people. One, because of their crowns.
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It's a testament of diligence, endurance, discipline, adherence
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to principles. But the second reason why I
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respect them is because of their scars.
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When you are learning from great people, don't just learn from
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the crowns alone, learn from the scars.
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There is a lesson only the scars can teach.
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The crown cannot teach it. Are we together?
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So when you look at Jesus, your eyes should not just go to his
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head alone. Make sure you look at His hands
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too. There is a reason why even
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though he's in heaven glorified, the scar would not heal.
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The scar will remain there. It's a testament.
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No one has it like him. There are Mattias in heaven, but
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not the one who was crucified for the sin of anyone.
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Is someone listening now? Let me tell you this.
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Many things you are ashamed of today will be the reason why men
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will respect you tomorrow. Don't rush seasons in your life.
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Don't rush seasons. God gives speed, but it does not
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rush men. You went through a season, no
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school fees. You went to a season, no house
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rent. In fact, let me tell you this.
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One of the ways God raises saviors is to allow them taste
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of the things they would deliver people from.
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That way you will have compassion.
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God wants to raise you as a Kingdom financier.
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I'm telling you, you will go through seasons where you will
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do everything right and yet the heaven to be closed financially.
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You will taste what it means to be at the rock bottom when you
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rise there that that that memory will be edged.
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You'll become an anchor that sponsors compassion.
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Compassion can be theoretical. It's from your pain.
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You say I've been there before. I know what it means.
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Are we together now, Apostle? So are you saying that
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everything I've gone through, I lost my father last year?
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I lost my father this year? It may not have been the will of
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God, but God can still use it and bath His glory.
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Nothing in the life of a believer is a waste.
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If you can hand it over, put it in your alabaster box.
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Don't just put the perfume, put the pain to put everything down.
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Break it before him. Are we together now?
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When you are serving the alabaster box, don't just carry
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your incense. No, no, Carry everything.
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The pain, the tears. The woman worship with her
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tears. She worship with her hair.
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She worship with her past. She worship with her pain.
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She worship with her wealth. That's what made it through.
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Worship the ministry of men. Our time is up.
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Please give me 5 minutes. Can you give me 5 minutes?
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Hallelujah. Follow me. 5 minutes.
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I'll pay back tomorrow. Please sit.
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Please sit. Please sit.
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Now, generally speaking, we're still talking about the Ministry
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of men. Men will minister to you at 3
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levels. Let me teach you this before we
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pray. Men will minister to you at 3
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levels. Number one, there will be men
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who are above you. Coaches, mentors, endorsers.
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There will always be men who are above you, the ministry of men
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who are above you in receiving help.
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Now they come as coaches, they come as mentors.
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Are we together? They come as endorsers, men of
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influence. Number two, men who are at your
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level. They will come as allies, they
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will come as friends, they will come as encouragers, they will
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come as contemporaries. And then men who are below you,
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they will come as aids, they will come as ordinary men, they
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will come as critics. All of them together create the
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formation for your receiving help from men.
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So help comes from men at 3 levels.
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Let me repeat that again. Men who are above you, your
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coaches, your mentors, your endorsers, there is a way to
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relate with them. There are men who are your
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contemporaries, your allies, your friends.
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There is a way to relate with them.
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Are we together? There are those who are below
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you. There are aids who help you.
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There is a way to relate with them.
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The way you relate with Pharaoh is not the way you relate with
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the slave girl, the way you relate with Jonathan.
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Are we together? You need to know how to relate
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with these people at the various levels.
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It's very important #4 the fourth way God helps men.
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Are you ready? The prophetic.
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Now the prophetic is through the ministry of men too, but I
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isolated it differently. And I'll take time to still
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teach on these things tomorrow and share some more.
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Hosea 12 and verse 13, the Bible says and by a prophet the Lord
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brought Israel out of Egypt and by a prophet he was established
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the prophetic. The prophetic as a ministry is
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one of God's system. The Bible says we see not our
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signs. There is no prophet, there is
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none that knowing how long when God wants to send help,
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especially help us empowerment and help us deliverance, He will
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often use the prophetic. It's very, very important.
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Let me give you #5 and we'll just stay here, and then we'll
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come back. The fifth way God helps man is
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through the ministry of the Holy Spirit, the Helper himself.
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And this we can spend all night discussing the Holy Spirit.
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But let me give you just two scriptures, Psalm 18 and verse
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29. God can help men to advance in
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life. It says for by you I can run
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through a troop and by my God, I have leaped over a wall.
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There's no man who can run through a troop.
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Ladies and gentlemen, A troop represents the size of people in
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this place. The difference is that they are
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all armed, Well armed. Some with Chariots and horses
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and weapons of war, veterans of war.
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What is the possibility of me beating everybody here?
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Even if you just lie down, I'm to beat you.
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I'll still be tired. Are we together now?
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And he says by you, I can run through a troop and then by my
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God, I can leap over a wall. It's a metaphor to describe the
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extent of victory, that it does not matter how things are, you
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will still fish your way out. And it's by the help of God.
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Your pastor today is a testament of the help of God.
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The Transforming Church is a testament of the help of God.
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This man who stands before you is a product of God's mercy and
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help. Every man you have seen who has
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risen in righteousness and in truth, it is by the agency of
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God's help. Ladies and gentlemen, I believe
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that God placed this burden in the heart of Reverend Sam for
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your sake, for our sakes, because you are stepping into a
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season where the reality that is befalling the world will
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necessitate your understanding of the help of God.
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This is the year when, if you understand this teaching, there
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will be a clear distinction, a clear demarcation between those
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who serve God and those who have true spiritual intelligence
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known how to access the help. We'll take it from here tomorrow
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and then I will show you how to provoke help.
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There are keys. Help does not just commit
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descent. Are we together now?
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Can we spend one minute to pray in the Spirit and then we wrap
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up whole hands with someone and begin to give God thanks?
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If you got anything from this teaching tonight, Linda Kapranda
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Katapala El Aza. Helped by God, helped by God,
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marvelously helped by God. Someone pray and thank him,
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because you are stepping into a season where it will not be you
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alone. The help is coming your way,
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showing you messy, showing you help.
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Shabran de gabaratos kabraskyna caparandos yata.
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Shabanda Gadda, Branda Gadda, press by you I have run through
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a troop. By my God I leap over a wall.
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Supernatural possibilities by the help of God haven't obtained
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help from the Lord. I continue this day.
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In Jesus name we pray. In Jesus name we pray just one
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prayer point for tonight. Father, by your mercy, send me
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help speedily. By your mercy, send me help
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speedily. Hold someone's hand and pray
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passionately. Pray seriously, send me help
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speedily. Shabbaka dabaka dabaka, dabaka
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dabaka. Send me help, O God.
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Send me help, O God. I am incapacitated.
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Send me help, O God, someone go ahead and pray, cry for help.
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Send me help by your Spirit. Send me help by your Spirit.
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Let help come as divine assistance.
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Let help come as the strengthening in my inner man,
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so that I will not turn aside in the day of battle.
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Let's strength come. Let help commerce the staying
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power, the stamina to stay, to remain till I finish.
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Let help commerce rescue timely deliverance, deliverance from
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calamities, deliverance from expectations.
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Are you praying?