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Apostle Joshua Selman - Essentials for a Victorious Christian Life (Koinonia Zaria)inonia Za · Selah Media House

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  In Jesus name we pray. Father, we are gathered tonight
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  again to learn your ways. We thank you for granting us the
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  privilege to fellowship together.
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  Your word says to neglect not the gathering of ourselves even
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  as we see the days approaching. And so we are here to receive.
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  We ask in the name of Jesus that our time invested in your
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  presence will be a worthy investment.
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  Give us wisdom, give us understanding, give us the
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  fortitude to receive your word. We vow as always to give you the
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  glory, for it is in Jesus matchless name.
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  We pray God bless you. Walk up to 2-3 people and tell
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  them good evening, be expectant, good evening, be expectant, good
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  evening, be expectant. And then you may please be
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  seated. I want to say thank you to as
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  many who were able to make it tonight.
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  It's a joy to have all of us together and it's good to be
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  with us again. Zarya is always home, home away
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  from home now, so we thank God for this opportunity.
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  Straight to the point. We're getting into the ministry
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  of the world. Every time God grants us the
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  grace to converge together, we use it as an opportunity for our
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  corporate edification and our growth.
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  And that happens by and through the ministry of the world.
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  The only way the believer grows is through a thorough
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  understanding of the Word of God.
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  Evangelism does not bring growth.
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  Evangelism paves the way for salvation.
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  And when the unbeliever hears the gospel and believes the
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  message of the gospel, are we together?
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  Then you receive eternal life into your spirit.
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  And upon receiving eternal life into your spirit, you are.
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  Called. A child of God, born of God,
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  born of the Word, born of the Spirit.
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  But that does not mean you are an adult.
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  It doesn't mean you can do much for the Kingdom.
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  The Bible says as little babes that you desire the sincere milk
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  of the Word so that you may grow.
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  So this is how it works. From an unbeliever you receive
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  the gospel. Evangelism is your authorized
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  platform that allows you to bring the message of the gospel
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  to reach the unbelievers and then upon declaring the Lordship
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  of Jesus, they become believers. But they are babes, infants.
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  And the reason why they are babes is because #1 the
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  character of Christ is not yet experientially formed in them.
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  Now you need to understand eternal life is is like a
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  compendium of everything that is consist that consists in God,
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  the life of God. Let me put it this way.
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  How many of you know that when you give birth to a baby,
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  everything that baby will become is already within him?
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  Are we together now? Yes.
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  You don't give birth to a male child having beard on his face,
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  but that beard is in that child waiting for a certain level of
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  growth. That's how eternal life.
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  Is are we together? That baby right there has all
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  the configuration in a woman to later carry a child even as a
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  baby. But not at that state are we
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  together. There are principles and
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  processes. There are changes that happen
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  with time. So eternal life is a compendium
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  of everything in God-given to man that can transit you to the
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  God class. But it doesn't mean the riches
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  of that life will be released just because you have it.
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  Releasing the riches of the life we have received in Christ is
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  knowledge based. Knowledge based.
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  Even your the efficiency of your lifestyle is still knowledge
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  based. It's knowledge that affects and
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  influences your thinking, that eventually affects your life.
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  Is someone learning already? This is a very good preamble.
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  So I said all of that to let you know that the only way believers
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  grow is through the teaching ministry, the teaching of the
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  world. The only way believers grow is
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  through structured discipleship. Make reference to my teaching
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  discipleship, Raising the Men that Transform Nations if you do
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  not disciple believers. Through the structured.
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  Teaching of the world, you're going to produce a powerless
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  people. Are we together?
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  The highest evangelism can do is to produce a saved person, and
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  that's it. The ministry of evangelism is
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  done. The ministry of growth that
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  transceives the believer until he or she becomes a witness is
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  no longer an evangelism issue. That is the assignment of the
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  teaching priest in partnership with the ministry of the Word,
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  the ministry of prayer, the ministry of the Holy Ghost.
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  So we're not gathered tonight. Most of us here are already
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  saved. Most of us here are born again.
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  So this is largely A believers meeting.
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  Are we together now? My assignment tonight is to
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  supply us with greater Kingdom tools that will help us to rise
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  to a point of victory in spiritual things, in life and in
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  destiny. You cannot become victorious
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  because you want to be victorious.
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  Desire is important but is only a minute fraction as far as
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  becoming effective and victorious is concerned.
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  You must be taught the ways of God.
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  You must be taught the principles of the Kingdom.
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  Are we together? You need to understand how the
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  Kingdom operates. Salvation is like obtaining an
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  admission letter when a medical student obtains an admission
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  letter. He may wear.
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  The same kind of lab coat as a consultant, but they are not the
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  same. The power is not in the lab
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  coat. The lab court is in a means of
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  identification. You know the difference when you
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  now want to approach complicated medical issues.
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  Are we together? The admission letter gives the
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  person potential to be a doctor. It means every time you see the
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  person around the medical school, the person is
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  legitimately operating. There are people who hang around
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  the hospital, hang around the medical school, hang around
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  airports. They've never flown, but their
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  airport staff, they can tell you everything and even describe an
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  aircraft, but they've never flown.
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  Are we together now? This is very important because
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  of what we're going to discuss. My my passion for the maturity
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  of the Saints has been enhanced like never before by the Spirit
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  of God. I said it when we're having a
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  discussion with the workers yesterday that of course we'll
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  have moments hopefully tomorrow when we just speak over our
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  lives. But when I come in the midst of
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  believers, I'm not eagerly concerned about science and
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  wonders again. I'm concerned about trying to
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  see how I can deposit as much within the people that can help
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  them become matured. Miracles, science and wonders
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  attract, but they do not grow people to become matured.
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  Are we together now when we go to the crusade ground?
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  If it's a miracle service, there's largely a mixed
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  multitude of people and so they need to see the display of God's
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  power according to John 448. Except ye see miraculous signs
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  and wonders you will not believe.
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  So that's the goal, to help them believe.
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  John chapter 2030 and 31 Many other miracles did Jesus in the
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  presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book. 31
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  but these are written that ye might believe.
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  So the goal of the miraculous is to give witness.
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  Acts 438 with great power gave the apostles witness of the
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  resurrection. That was the witness they gave.
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  The resurrection is not the only witness you have to give.
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  Are we together? They gave witness of the
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  resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and great grace was upon them.
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  But when you begin to teach believers line upon line, you
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  are helping that person to attain unto maturity, watering
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  that person by the Word, helping them to understand the ways of
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  God. You will produce a victorious
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  people. Your assignment is to trust what
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  you are hearing. You see that I don't need to
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  prophecy to tell you how your future will be.
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  I just need to see your interest as far as the Word of God is
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  concerned. If you ignore and neglect the
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  Word of God, there is no way I can help you.
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  It is true. So there's no superstition to
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  the Christian faith. You determine your
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  possibilities. God has.
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  Given you his template, he has proposed his idea already for
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  you. He's already painted a picture
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  for you. He sent Jesus to die.
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  He left you the Holy Ghost. He left you the word of the Word
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  of God. He left you men and women gifts.
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  It is your responsibility to believe in Him and to open up
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  your heart to all those spiritual resources so that all
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  together they begin to build you.
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  You must crave for maturity, mothers or parents.
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  How many of you will give? Birth to a child and then after
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  six months, one year, maybe 1 1/2, the child is not moving,
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  not crawling, not growing. The child still looks like a
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  malnourished child. No responsible parent will sit
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  back with that child at home. You will take that child to the
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  hospital because it immediately tells you something is wrong
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  with that child. Are we together?
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  By the time the child now gets to two years, can't talk, can't
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  hear, can't move, is incoherent. You know that there is an issue
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  you need to deal with first. Many of us are like that.
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  Two years in the faith, one year in the faith, five years in the
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  faith. The only thing we have to say is
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  I've been here for a while, but the evidences of growth are
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  missing in our lives for some. It is only when we begin to pray
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  in tongues that we even verify that you are saved.
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  Fruits of the Spirit, almost zero.
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  Wisdom of the Spirit, almost 0 faith, almost 0 Love almost.
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  These are the indices. So I'm going to walk you through
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  a journey tonight. Wherever we stop, we'll just end
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  there. But my passion for you, my dear
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  people, is to introduce you to a more superior way of the
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  Kingdom. Are we together?
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  And if you can lay hold on this, then you know that you are a
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  champion. It is true, just claiming I'm
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  great, I'm a champion, I'm victorious.
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  We'll end you in disappointment if you don't learn the tools
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  that that your confession is the starting point, but you need to
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  be equipped with knowledge. Can I tell you this?
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  It is often said you can catch a fish and bring to a man, but you
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  can't force the man to eat it. Hallelujah, you can't force the
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  person. I'm looking at all of us right
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  now, and that includes those who are connected online.
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  And I'm seeing people with great potentials to be victorious, but
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  most believers have unanswered questions.
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  Most believers are literally in the realm of frustration right
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  now in their Christian experience, especially those who
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  have stayed for a while because they have served God sincerely
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  the best they know to. And this thing is just not
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  working. Everything is failing.
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  Everything is falling apart. There's a generation right now
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  that that is completely disinterested in.
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  The things of God. Do you know why?
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  Because they've done everything they know to do honestly.
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  They followed the way of righteousness.
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  They got cheated, seriously cheated.
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  While people say, oh, God will reward you on edge, they sort
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  themselves as victims. Everything bad happens to them
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  and they're wondering where then is the power of the cross?
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  Where then is the power of the Holy Spirit?
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  Where then is the supremacy of the world?
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  I mean, it does not add up, no victory.
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  The name does not work. The world does not seem to work.
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  The blood does not seem to carry any efficacy.
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  Same dreams, same oppression. And then we come and shout
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  Hallelujah. Glory be to God.
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  But our frustrations keep growing.
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  Let me tell you what happens to such a believer.
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  A day will come, you will reach a crescendo.
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  You will say, you know what, I can't live in a lie again.
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  And that's what makes a lot of people after 10 years, 20 years,
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  I've seen people who used to be serious with God years ago, but
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  because they did not stay to lend the way of the Kingdom,
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  they were just excited about the Pentecostalism around
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  Christianity. After 15 years, 20 years, you
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  find all of them not. I'm not talking of people who
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  are backslidden. I'm talking of people who are
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  completely not interested in God.
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  And those are the kinds of people who become a big
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  stumbling block because no matter what you say, they will
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  quote the verse for you and say we were once there.
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  The Bible talks about those who have given themselves on to
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  perdition that they have tested of eternal life and all of that.
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  And if those people say if any man.
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  Draws back, my soul will not have pleasure in such a man.
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  So tonight's teaching is to help you.
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  My my question for you tonight is have you seen the victory of
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  Christ in your life? If the answer is no, then be
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  patient and listen. There is an explanation, maybe
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  for you, maybe for your family. I tell you this, our pursuit of
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  the Christian faith should not be need driven, but when your
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  needs are not met it will frustrate your conviction.
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  Eventually one day you will start asking questions no man
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  can answer. I've met a lot of people whose
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  parents were pastors. They hate God.
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  Today you hear them say things like my father gave his best, my
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  mother gave her best. They served the Lord with all
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  their hearts. When others were amassing
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  wealth, amassing a lot of things, they said no.
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  We follow the path of righteousness, but their.
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  Children went to school abroad and today the children are
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  privileged and those ones are barely standing.
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  You see that now? Now it is not to make
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  unrighteousness marketable, but there has to be an explanation.
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  Hallelujah. More people roam around the
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  corridors of compromise because of frustration.
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  The power of temptation is that it latches onto something in you
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  that is already frustrating you. If you are not hungry, the
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  temptation of turning stones to bread will have no power over
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  you because you are fool. If Satan met Jesus when he was
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  at the temple eating and enjoying and said turn the
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  stones to bread, he will not even attend to him.
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  But he had to wait until he was hungry.
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  So Satan studies your frustrations.
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  He will not attack you every day that he has not come does not
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  mean he will not come. He's waiting till you get
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  married. He's waiting till you have two
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  children and the bills mount up. Then he will come to you to test
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  your conviction. Did you say God is faithful,
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  waiting until the day they diagnose you of some lump in
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  your breast and they say you are going to die and he says, Did
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  you say God is faithful? Satan knows how to tempt people.
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  He doesn't come when you are strong, He comes when life has
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  beaten you down. That's what he did to John the
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  Baptist. Remember, John's story should
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  make everybody afraid of not pressing forward.
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  Read the story of John, one of the only people who was filled
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  with the Holy Ghost from his mother's womb.
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  Because of the nature of his assignment, there was no man
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  available who would have gotten him filled with the Holy Ghost
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  and he needed to have the Holy Ghost to ordain Jesus.
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  Are we together? You must understand that the
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  arrival of John the Baptist was after a period of 4400 years.
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  From Malachi until Matthew there was no mention of prophet.
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  There was, it was a dark period of the Church, so there was no
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  prophet anywhere. At best it was just the priest,
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  the high priest, Zechariah being one of them that served in the
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  temple. And so he came at a point that
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  was difficult. Zechariah himself could not even
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  believe God's report about him talk less ordaining John.
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  So God had to invent his strategy by himself to get John
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  filled or filled with the Holy Ghost.
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  And he kept it in the wilderness so that he would not be corrupt
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  with the corrupted by the mindsets, the prevalent mindset.
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  If John had the opportunity to roam around, please help me walk
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  on the sound. If John had the opportunity to
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  walk around with other people, I'll tell you what would have
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  happened. Eventually he would have seen
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  things he would have. Heard things that would have
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  disturbed him, so God trapped him in the wilderness until his
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  season of appearing from the wilderness.
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  He went to Jordan to baptize, and the purpose of the baptism
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  was not just to adumbrate. Redemption.
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  It was to identify Jesus. It was his strategy, the one of
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  whom the Holy Ghost comes after you baptize.
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  That is the Messiah. So John will baptize.
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  And watch the people. He said, you can go, He will
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  baptize and watch the people, nothing will happen, you can go.
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  And then suddenly he sees Jesus coming and says, behold the Lamb
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  that takes away the sins of the world.
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  The people did not understand what he was saying.
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  And Jesus came to be baptized and John said, no, I'm not
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  worthy to untie even the latchet of your shoe.
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  He said Sophie to be. So.
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  This thing is more than, whether you want it or not, the Bible.
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  Says as he dipped him in water and he came out, the heavens
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  were open, the Holy Ghost descended upon him, God spoke
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  and that began the ministry of Jesus.
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  You see that? Now.
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  That same John, how, how do you? It's not that he participated in
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  it. He was the one who initiated
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  that process. Do you know what it means to
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  baptize Jesus, to ordain Jesus to ministry?
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  And you saw the heavens open. It was not spiritually.
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  You had the voice of God. He descended upon him.
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  Now Fast forward just a few years, less than three years.
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  John becomes offended, trapped in prison, and he sends his
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  disciples. He said go and tell that same
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  Jesus. Are you the Messiah?
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  Are you the one we are expecting, or should we expect
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  another one That was a voice of offense.
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  He had become so discouraged. He did not know that Jesus came
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  as a savior to him too. We never saw John in Jesus
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  crusades. We saw the scribes, we saw the
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  Pharisees, but we never saw John.
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  We saw his mother, We saw every other person.
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  But John was not there. He did not know that just
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  because he ordained Jesus did not mean he was immune himself.
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  He was the greatest prophet. He was not there when Jesus was
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  teaching the Beatitudes. John was not there to hear.
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  Blessed are the peacemakers. Blessed are you when men
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  persecute you. He was alone all his life He had
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  been in the wilderness. Don't forget now there were
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  things for him to learn, but even though he had the
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  anointing, he ordained Jesus because he did not know the
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  things that were meant for growth.
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  He could not survive the times. Look at how he ended.
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  Of all the prophets, none was as great as John, but he ended a
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  terrible way. God cannot use a man and leave
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  the man like that. But that's what happens when you
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  don't grow. It is my prayer for you so that
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  after 10 years, 15 years. We don't see you and you look
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  like a shadow of yourself. And by the time we check the
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  photos, we'll see you sitting in front and say, are you not the
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  one who was sitting in front? You say, So what about it?
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  I tried ministry. I tried politics.
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  It didn't work. Now just to let you know that
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  anything that works. And for it.
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  And before you say God forbid, you better fortify yourself with
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  knowledge. If John could be offended with
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  Jesus, then think twice. Born of the Spirit, God shuts
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  the mouth of his father. Look at John's credential.
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  His mother was a prophet, or the father was a high priest, the
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  one who the anointing was on. At that point, there was nothing
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  from his background that should produce a failure.
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  Filled with the Holy Ghost in the wilderness.
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  Didn't even have the opportunity to have any negative past.
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  There was no past, no generational cause, no nothing.
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  And yet it did not work out for him.
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  The greatest prophet. Let me tell you, ladies and
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  gentlemen, if you don't submit to the ministry of the Ward and
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  you make assumptions that because I was there at 1
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  Crusade, you'll be surprised, you will fall like a pack of
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  card. It's happened to many people
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  before. I've not started my preaching
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  home. I'm just warming up your heart.
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  Wherever we stop, I'm not in a hurry.
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  This is home. But just to shake you and tell
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  you, listen, the clock is ticking, your destiny is
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  calling, but your knowledge is not.
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  Your knowledge bank is too small.
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  You can't answer that call. You see, you don't have all the
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  time to learn. Every year in ignorance makes
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  your life more expensive. Every single year it is cheaper
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  to learn some things. Are we together?
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  So let's look at 2 scriptures I'm teaching tonight on well is
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  a is a generic term essentials for a victorious Christian life.
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  We look at Part 1 today. Essentials for a Victorious
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  Christian Life. I'll be walking you through
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  many, many thoughts. Wherever we stop, we'll be
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  looking at certain truths in the Kingdom that can empower us to
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  live effective and to live victorious Christian lives.
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  Hallelujah, Second Peter chapter 1.
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  Let's read 8 and 9 Essentials for a Victorious Christian Life.
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  Your name is the highest. Your name is the greatest.
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  Your name stands above them all. Your name is the highest.
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  Your name is the greatest. Your name stands above them all.
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  Above all and don't mean your all power and position.
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  Your name stands above alone. Your name is the highest, your
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  name is the greatest. Your name stands above alone
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  above all the roads and don't mean your all power.
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  Help us Holy Spirit, Second Peter chapter 1.
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  Let's go verse 8 for if these things be in you, the context
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  starts from verse 3. But for sake of time it says, if
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  these things, not if one thing is a body of knowledge, if these
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  things be in you and abound, they make that you shall neither
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  be burning nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus
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  Christ. Verse 8.
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  But he that lacketh these things, so we're discussing
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  these things is blind and cannot see afar off, and had forgotten
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  that he was purged from his old sins.
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  Second Scripture, First Timothy, chapter 4 and verse 15.
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  Paul is speaking to his son in the gospel.
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  Timothy, please let me pause for a moment.
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  I just got into the world. Let me honor our fathers.
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  Please help me honor our daddy. Professor Mary, God bless you
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  Sir, God bless you. God bless you in Jesus name.
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  And our father, Daddy Tula, such an honor.
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  God bless. You.
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  Bless you greatly and I see our mommy somewhere at the back.
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  God bless you man. In the name of Jesus, Doctor
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  anointed you and your wife. God bless you.
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  Thank you sincerely. Hallelujah.
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  I just needed to do that. So let's get straight to the
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  second verse. Let's read together if you see
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  it projected. 1 to go. We're still talking of these
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  things again. Ready 1 to go again, not
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  meditate on one thing. No, meditate on these things is
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  a body of knowledge. Meditate on these things.
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  Give yourself wholly to them that you're profiting.
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  May appear unto all. Now let's read together. 1 To go
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  meditate on these things. Give yourself wholly to them
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  that you're profiting in the name of Jesus.
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  I speak over your life. May your propheting appear
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  before all the prophet of your prayer life.
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  May it appear the prophet of the knowledge of the Word of God.
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  May it appear the prophet of the character of the Christ.
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  In you may it appear in the name of Jesus Christ.
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  Hallelujah. Essentials for a victorious
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  Christian life. Let me do a quick recap.
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  I want to borrow a few thoughts from my teaching on
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  discipleship, and you may want to.
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  If you were not there and you did not follow, please go and
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  listen to it. Discipleship, Hallelujah, a very
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  powerful teaching building the men that transformed nations.
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  And I wrote something that I want to just read very quickly.
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  Haven't taught you that there are two kinds of discipleship.
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  Remember, there's what we call knowledge based discipleship.
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  So that has to do with recalibrating the spiritual
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  understanding or the understanding of the person you
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  seek to raise you supply. Truth that transforms their
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  mind. And then there is lifestyle
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  based discipleship where you obtain grace from God to live in
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  keeping consistent with the truths that you know.
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  Discipleship is twofold. It is knowledge based and it is
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  lifestyle based. Knowledge based fest is what
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  empowers you to be effective living that life.
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  If you don't have the knowledge and you want to live the
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  lifestyle you will be working in legalism, you will not be able.
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  To have that because the knowledge affects your thinking
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  and then your thinking gives room and grace is released upon
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  you. The doing grace, the enabling
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  grace, then your lifestyle becomes in conformity to the
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  things that you know. Are we together?
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  Praise the name of the Lord. Now I shed a few elements and I
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  want to read them out. That means this.
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  They represent the cost content. If I'm to use that expression in
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  seeking to become a believer who is matured and victorious.
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  There are a number of things you have to know.
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  Hebrews chapter 6 lists a number of them as foundation, six of
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  them in fact, but I'm I'm going to give you the ones that I've
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  written here. When you read Hebrews chapter 6,
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  it gives you the foundation. Let's look at it just in one
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  minute Media Hebrews 6. Therefore, leaving the
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  principles of the doctrine of Christ, it says, Let us go on to
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  perfection, not laying again the foundation of #1 repentance from
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  dead walks #2 faith towards God. Verse two, number three of the
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  doctrine of baptisms #4 of laying on of hands #5 of the
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  resurrection of the dead, and number six of the eternal
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  judgment. Verse 3 now says And this we
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  will do if God. Permits.
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  God has permitted us already, so this we will do.
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  In the name of Jesus Christ, are we together now?
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  Praise God. But now let me just read for you
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  the things that I wrote. You may want to write this down
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  if you do not know at least this.
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  Once I mention it, you cannot attain.
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  Maturity in the Spirit, it's impossible.
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  Number one, salvation through the finished work of Christ.
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  I'm listing for you the cost content.
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  This is not all of it, but this represent the foundational
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  pillars for the believers growth.
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  If you do not have this understanding, you cannot be a
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  victorious believer. Salvation through the finished
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  work of Christ. It's not enough to lend
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  salvation. If your knowledge of it is not
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  routed through the finished work of Christ, you are already You
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  have put yourself in a position of defeat.
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  You can lend salvation through the works of the flesh.
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  You can learn salvation by trying through the energy of the
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  flesh. That's poor theology.
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  Biblical salvation must be hinged on the finished work of
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  Christ. Are we together?
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  That revelation of the finished work of Christ is what empowers
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  you. The enabling grace is called to
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  live out the fullness of that which has been finished in
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  Christ. So salvation through the
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  finished work of Christ #2 the responsibility of obedience and
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  alignment in becoming like Christ.
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  This is very important. The responsibility of obedience
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  and alignment in becoming like Christ.
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  This is where you understand the difference between the saving
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  grace and the enabling grace. Let me read it for you.
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  Again, the responsibility of obedience and alignment in
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  becoming like Christ. Look up please.
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  Most times there's been an age long debate as to the real
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  formula to becoming like Christ. So on the one hand, like I said,
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  we lean on the finished work of Christ, but most believers don't
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  know that that's not when we said the finished.
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  Work of Christ. The word finished here means a
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  reality from his own standpoint, but it takes a a a walking of
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  certain spiritual dynamics to make it real and make it true in
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  your own life. Are we together now?
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  It is called the legal side of redemption.
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  Then there is the vital or the experiential side of redemption.
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  Healing is finished in Christ, the legal side, but faith in
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  that finished work makes it vital or experiential.
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  Are we together? Even if you die of sickness
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  today, it doesn't change the fact that healing is finished in
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  Christ. Victory is finished in Christ,
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  complete deliverance finished in Christ.
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  But whether or not your life will capture that which is
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  finished in Christ depends on this second thing I've told you
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  now, the responsibility of obedience and alignment in
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  becoming like Christ. No matter what you know about
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  the finished work of Christ, if you do not learn further the
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  responsibility of alignment, the responsibility of obedience in
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  becoming like Christ, you will live a defeated Christian life.
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  All of these dimensions are products of grace, but it's not
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  the same operation of grace. Salvation functions under the
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  saving grace. You don't do anything, you just
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  receive by faith. But conformity functions under
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  the enabling grace. Are we together?
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  The enabling grace you will do. There is the doing of obedience,
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  but the strength comes from God, who is learning.
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  Now this is very powerful. Most believers will not
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  understand this difference. And so you have a lot of
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  believers, They know what Christ has done, but the appropriation
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  system they do not know. And so it's never captured truly
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  in their lives. The responsibility of obedience
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  and alignment in becoming like Christ.
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  Can I give you #3 Let's that be the name of the Lord.
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  Walking in love Walking in love. This is one of the cost
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  contents. Working in love.
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  You can never become a matured believer until you understand
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  the law of love and love is both vertical and horizontal.
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  Love towards God and love towards men.
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  The theology that makes love 1 sided.
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  If you love men alone and don't love God, you are a hypocrite.
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  If you love God alone and you don't love men, you are a
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  hypocrite. Are we together?
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  It starts with loving God, but then it translates to loving.
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  Men. This is very important.
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  Walking in love #2 or next now #4 am I right #4 the value of
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  the word. The value of the word.
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  I'm showing you the things you have to learn.
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  And this will consider tonight the value of the word.
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  Matthew 4 and verse four. Man shall not live by bread
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  alone, but by every word, the preceding word, the word that
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  proceeds out of the mouth of God.
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  John 13. All things were made by him, and
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  without him was not anything made that was made.
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  The value of the word. The believer who does not know
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  how to live by the word of God will be a defeated believer.
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  You can hold your Bible, it does not mean you are living by the
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  word. You can wear a shirt that has a
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  vase on it, it doesn't mean you are living by the word.
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  Hopefully tonight I would pick that aspect to teach you how.
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  What does it mean to live by the word?
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  Does it just mean to confess the word?
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  What does it mean when we say a believer is living by the word?
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  What does that mean? Next, how to live by faith?
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  How to live by faith? You have to understand the law
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  of faith, the law of faith. Now faith is the substance of
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  things hoped for, the evidence of things not saying, for by it
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  the elders obtained a good report.
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  If you don't know how to live by faith, you will not be able to
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  transport spiritual realities from where they reside in
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  heavenly places in Christ to your domain.
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  You need to know how to live by faith.
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  This is where the manifestation of spiritual possibilities come
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  in, and this is also where the capacity to to obtain
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  testimonials of loving Jesus and serving.
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  Him, you may want to listen to my message.
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  I think I've done a number of messages on faith.
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  There's the school of faith. There is the other side of
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  faith. You want to listen to that
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  message, especially if all hell has broken loose over you.
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  You want to listen to that message.
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  I grew up learning A1 sided theology of faith, but as I
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  began to study the word of God, the Lord showed me that that
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  theology. Of faith was not balanced.
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  It largely came from the West, sincerely so.
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  But there was an angle to it that made it incomplete, and
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  that's what led to that teaching the other side of faith, that
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  faith is not just a tool for receiving things alone.
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  Faith is also the basis for establishing testimonials.
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  So even when you don't obtain promises, the testimony that you
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  trusted God through the storm is also a report that you have
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  faith. Not everybody in Hebrews 11
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  obtain promises, but all of them obtain a good report.
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  Others obtain a good report that they had the capacity to escape
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  death and yet looking for a better resurrection, they died.
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  The Bible called them elders. They were not elders because of
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  physical results. Some were elders because the
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  word manifested for them. Others were elders because the
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  word did not manifest and yet they still believed God.
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  So your understanding of faith is incomplete if it only looks
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  at things manifesting. If you stop and just obtaining
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  things, you will be a frustrated believer because when the things
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  you trust to manifest don't manifest, you will be
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  frustrated. Are we together?
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  But when you know that faith covers both receiving things
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  that are manifest and then obtaining testimonials, you can
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  be proud through challenges knowing that you are still a man
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  of faith and you will not wait for the arrival of things to
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  validate whether you have faith or not.
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  The devil will cheat you 1000 times.
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  He will say, where is the as a sign that you have faith?
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  Where is the increased bank account as a sign that you have
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  faith? You cried over your sister, your
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  brother, and the more you prayed, the more they
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  deteriorated. Eventually they died.
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  Where is the faith now? When you are equipped with this
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  other side, you can tell the devil.
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  The faith is in my report, the testimonial of unbendedness in
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  the midst of the challenges that I had the option to go to a
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  herbalist and yet I refused. Is someone learning now?
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  So you can walk through the value of the shadow of death and
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  be very proud of it. You can pray for someone in the
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  hospital and even if the person dies, you don't return back
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  frustrated and say, God, you fail me.
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  No, there is a testimonial and the Bible says for having bought
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  the promise or the report there is still a reward for you.
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  Someone say faith. Are you saying now this is the
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  balanced understanding of faith? Because there are many young
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  people who believe they are full of faith and their approach to
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  faith is going to frustrate them.
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  There are many gaps. By the time you go for a
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  bereavement, you don't know what to tell the people because they
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  now say, look, man of God, how do you just finish a miracle
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  service and somebody died? What do you explain?
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  Because your understanding of faith is lopsided is the reason
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  why many Pentecostals run away from burial.
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  Run away from it because they don't have a salmon there.
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  Salmon is wrong only when a child has arrived, when there's
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  victory. No, you don't wait until things
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  manifest the testimonial that you love God and trust Him even
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  if you don't obtain promises. It makes you.
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  In fact, in the realm of the Spirit, the report is nobler
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  than the whatever it is that you possess.
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  That means if you are to ask God to rank the people.
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  Those who raised others to life and those who died without
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  receiving the promise, those who died will stand first before
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  those who were raised back to life.
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  You see that now. Faith.
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  Another angle of faith that I got to learn myself eventually
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  was the fact that Bible faith was not designed to be a vehicle
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  just to manifest any lost and any desire.
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  Bible faith is only connected to the manifestation of the will of
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  God. This is powerful.
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  Faith is not a tool you use to just untwist God to make
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  anything you want manifest. Are you saying that there's a
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  lot to teach, Isn't it? I'm supposed to be brushing
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  through the topic. So.
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  But the thing just touched me and I decided to stay there and
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  just help somebody. Screw that nuts.
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  That is already losing. Because you see, for many
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  believers and with all due respect, among the Pentecostal
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  charismatic circle. So here's what happens.
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  We just believe that faith is like a system of tying God down,
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  that if you are really God, this is what I want.
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  And because I place your word on it, because I place the name of
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  Jesus on it, it must come to pass.
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  And the Scripture that confuses us most times is Mark 11 and
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  verse 24. That's where we get the mistake.
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  I wouldn't tell you where that came from, but there's growth
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  right now. It says, I say unto you, what
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  things so ever ye desire. You see that statement?
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  What things so ever looks like a blank check.
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  No, no, when you mature you will understand that every liberty
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  you are given is within the coordinates of the will of God.
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  So when he says what things so ever, he does not just mean
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  stretch your loss and anything you want.
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  This kind of teaching, if not balance, will produce crazy
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  people in church. You will be surprised at the
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  vain imaginations that people place the blood of Jesus, the
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  word of God on it. I can look at this man's shoe
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  and while I'm is his shoe, but because of the appetite of
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  covetiousness, since I cannot go to a herbalist, I said Lord I
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  don't know how you are going to do it.
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  Make this man restless. I need this shoe in Jesus name.
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  We call it by faith. That's wrong.
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  Faith is not supposed to be a tool to just manifest our lost
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  and our desires. God is only committed to
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  manifesting that which is consistent with the will of God.
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  Is this deliverance for someone already?
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  So before you begin to place a demand on the manifestation of
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  it, it is important for you to understand what the will of God
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  is. The Bible says and this is the
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  confidence. Look for it for us first John.
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  This is the confidence we have in him Read with me believers 1
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  to go that if we ask now you see that's your anything in Mark 11.
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  This is it anything according to his will.
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  So here's how Jesus manifested faith.
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  Father, if it be thy will you see it now take this cup off me.
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  This how I would have prayed it. Father, if you are God, take
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  this cup off me and he say I am God.
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  Drink the cup. You see that now?
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  But here's how maturity prays. Father, if it be thy will, take
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  this cup of me. How is it an act of faith that I
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  trust His thoughts, knowing that it is bigger than my own
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  thoughts? I know the thoughts that I think
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  towards you. I am limited.
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  I see Him part, I understand Him part.
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  And if God moves me this way, whether I understand it or not,
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  I trust His love. You see, I do faith rest on
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  love, knowing that God will always be towards the direction
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  of your interest, so He does not need to explain everything to
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  you before you obey. If you want God to explain
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  everything before you obey, you are not walking by faith.
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  That's a Thomas dimension. Let me feel His hand first, then
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  I will believe. But blessed are those who have
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  not seen, but they believe. The only way to believe a man
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  when you have not seen is to know he loves you and to know he
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  has your interest at heart. If I say Jakes or Sam or Dave go
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  round, turn round and pick something at the back and
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  return, they've not seen it. The only reason why they will
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  obey me is 1. Reverence, but #2 an awareness
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  that I love them and whatever they are going to go and pick,
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  they will run with joy. Because when you study the track
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  record, we shared a lot of welfare materials this morning
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  so chances are excellent that another persons package may be
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  there. So you will run knowing that.
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  Are we together? Most people do not believe God
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  because they are not sure He has their interest at heart.
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  They suspect that He will ruin their lives.
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  That's why they cannot trust him.
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  So when God says go left, they say God.
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  But is it really true is because a part of you is still doubting
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  God. It's like something in you is
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  saying God is going to do me 419.
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  Let me tell you why it looks like 419 because you have
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  already built your life by yourself and you suspect that
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  obeying him will demand that you crumble.
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  And in that one you are right. You are right.
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  He will have to crumble that mountain.
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  They rebuild it in a way that gives him glory.
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  If his presence is going to rest upon it, it must be built
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  according to his pattern. Living by faith.
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  Has someone learnt now? Now that does not mean you go
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  around harassing A preacher when you hear someone saying don't,
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  don't. The purpose of knowledge is to
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  enlighten you so that from a vantage position you can look at
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  people with. Compassion.
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  Are we together? Knowledge that is not that is
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  not laced with love. I was teaching the walkers
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  yesterday and I said one of the ways to know that the Holy Ghost
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  is the one behind your growth is that with the growth of
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  knowledge comes the growth of compassion.
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  If compassion diminishes as knowledge grows, you are eating
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  up the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
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  The moment knowledge leads to pride leads to impatience.
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  You are impatient with people. You don't have compassion.
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  It's not the Holy Ghost building you or you are not aligning to
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  his dealings. If it is the Holy Spirit
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  building you, the more knowledge grows, the more compassion
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  grows. Because you can now look at
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  people from God's standpoint, and you can love even the
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  unlovable. Now imagine everything I started
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  telling you from when I mounted this stage.
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  Look at 2 believers, one person who does not know anything about
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  what I just said, what is a Christian, and one who has taken
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  the time to learn a few of these things.
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  Do you think that Christian experience will be the same?
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  Whereas this one will be struggling with anger and Satan
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  will cash into his ignorance. This person will almost
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  miraculously be free from all those things and you'll be
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  asking, is it that people don't annoy you?
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  There is something they know. Are we together now?
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  There is something they know. Let's look at the next topic.
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  My God, what are the elements? What are the cost, Content,
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  productivity, productivity we took time last week to discuss
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  on freedom from poverty, lack and.
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  Want you want to listen to that message, but generally
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  productivity. You cannot raise matured
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  Christians if you do not bring in eventually now.
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  You can't get someone born again immediately and start teaching
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  him on productivity by the next day.
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  No, that teaching is useless to that state.
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  You have to 1st teach him repentance from dead walks death
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  to the flesh. Are we together character.
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  Then you now start bringing some of these other sides of the
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  Kingdom like productivity. When you teach someone who just
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  got born again, prosperity, finance, productivity,
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  relationship, how to choose a life partner, you just destroy
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  that person because there is still Babylon.
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  That man in his mind is still in Egypt.
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  You are now giving him tools to explore his being in Egypt.
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  The first thing you do is you bring him out of there mentally.
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  Are we together to a level where he's dead to self?
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  Then any other thing you teach him now profits him.
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  This is the major problem with the church.
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  So you hear teachings on finances, teachings on a great
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  life, and you see the people who are shouting, you know they are
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  not just shouting because they love God, they are shouting
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  because it appeals to their lost.
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  But when people die, for instance, just understanding the
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  will of God immunes you as you learn things like progress,
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  influence, prosperity, because you now know that everything you
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  receive from those teachings is still with respect to the will
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  of God. Is someone learning now?
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  Am I helping you? But you must learn productivity
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  if you cannot teach. People productivity, they will
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  not live a life of impact and they will not be emancipated
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  economically. This is again the balance.
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  So we have very good people. They are holy, they are
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  righteous, but they are poor, they are broke, they are
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  struggling. And I'll tell you this, most
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  people find God, find Jesus Christ, find salvation.
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  As students and as a young student, you are most likely,
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  most likely under the support of your parents, under the support
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  of a guidance or enjoying some kind of scholarship.
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  Are we together? So there are many things you
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  take for granted, but give yourself a few more years.
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  Marriage comes in, children come in.
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  Or maybe your father, your mother, who used to be alive
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  when you were a student, now they've transited to be with the
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  Lord and you are left with the responsibility of raising 2345
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  people. That's when you will see that
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  all the things you knew, it was not enough to make you strong.
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  Now you understand prayer, you understand fasting, but you
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  don't understand productivity. Your three siblings who are
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  under you, you need to pay their school.
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  Fees. Now you've added a wife and your
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  wife is pregnant with twins. And then there's rent issue.
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  And then there's insecurity where the cheapest place in your
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  area has Boko Haram attacking them.
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  You need to move to a nobler place for peace, but it will
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  mean three times doubling your rent.
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  That's when you will see that insufficiency can affect
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  spirituality. You will go to the place of
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  prayer and be walking around. They will think you've been
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  praying for three hours, but you are just worrying.
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  Lord, you feed the birds, where is my own?
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  And God says your feeding is in a topic you neglected.
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  You embrace fasting, you embrace prayer, but you were not
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  mentored to be productive someone learning.
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  I was on my way coming from home and then I think there's a some
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  Rd. safety people. They came together and I they
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  were just standing in front of my gate and then I was passing
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  and I saw them. I said what is this?
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  I have, I have, you know, they just grouped themselves.
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  I understand why they are there and then.
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  I just put the this thing down and they didn't even greet me.
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  One was just pointing a letter. I thought it was a seed.
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  I said when do unbelievers understand giving it just I saw
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  that it was heavy. I said this cannot be a seed.
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  It's a letter and I just thought to myself, I said you Can you
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  imagine? But you see, let me tell you
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  make an honest admission. I know that they most likely are
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  pleading for support and it may not be so much.
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  Do you know imagine if I'm owing a landlord and as I'm coming
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  right now. I'm trusting God that in my
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  arrive in Zarya, I must cough out money from you.
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  You notice there was no offering today.
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  We'll leave that for tomorrow. Not because there's no giving.
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  It's just that there's a lot to do tonight is this is teaching,
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  but. Some of the things we're able to
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  do, that's because as God was teaching, when he came to the
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  issue of productivity, we didn't run away from that lesson.
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  We said teach it to God. If he's coming from you, let me
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  advise you. Don't create your lecture
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  manual. You are a student.
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  Only a foolish student tries to edit the manual that comes from
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  the institution. The institution training you
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  already has what it takes to build you.
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  Whether you like the topic or not, submit to it.
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  When we started our journey, I was not serious about the issue
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  of finance. We just started fasting, prayer,
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  loving God, pressing into the things.
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  That's how we all start and that's how we should be.
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  It's correct, but eventually God now comes in and says, you see,
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  in addition to this, I'm the one who knows where you are going.
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  The fact that you dreamt does not mean you know where you are
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  going. You need to introduce this,
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  this, this, and it was a difficult time.
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  Let me tell you, if you start with God and you are pressing
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  into spiritual things, learning those things will be like you
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  are backsliding. I mean come on, I need to press
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  our just in prayer and you are getting revelations, seeing
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  angels, seeing demons, you are learning new things, devoting
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  materials and here God comes with something that is a
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  distraction. Never fight God when you enter
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  the seasons, He's the one training you.
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  The topic you ignore today will be the topic Satan will use to
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  attack you in the future by the message of God who are able to
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  do minutes to devoid of pressure and not trying to compromise and
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  untwist people. It's not because we are more
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  righteous than those who are doing it, it's because somebody
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  rejected that training. If he's teaching you on fasting,
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  stay there. If he's teaching you on
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  consecration, stay there. If he's teaching you on
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  finances, stay there. It may be an uncomfortable
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  lecture, but learn it. When you get to the future, you
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  will say thank God because you will stand in front of a door.
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  That certain keys will not open. Is someone learning now?
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  Productivity, productivity, productivity.
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  What else do we need to learn? Selflessness.
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  Let me just give you the last one.
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  I'm just listing for you some of the courses that must be covered
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  in your spiritual growth process.
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  Selflessness. Nothing created by God lives for
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  itself. This teaching is the cure to
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  self. Let me tell you this self is a
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  natural thing in the fallen man is a natural disposition.
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  What is the need for me? What is the need for me?
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  That's the language of natural people.
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  But when God begins to educate you, he begins to let you
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  understand Kingdom living. And when you come to that point,
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  you will realize that nothing God created lives for itself.
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  The mango on a tree does not eat itself.
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  The guava does not eat itself. Yam, that is that you plant on
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  the ground, it doesn't eat itself.
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  The beauty of having or living is given when you are taught
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  selflessness. Then God can prosper you, He can
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  lift you. Because now you know that only a
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  major part of that blessing is really needed in your life.
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  So why will God give you so much?
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  You hear a lot of bills. I'm a billionaire.
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  I don't have a problem with what you are saying is the mindset
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  that is saying it. I'm a billionaire means I'm a
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  rich food for some. I'm a billionaire means God will
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  have much as far as birthing his purposes are concerned.
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  So you'll find a lot of people that I'm a billionaire.
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  I can't be poor and understand what they mean to say, but from
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  a carnal mind that is always acquiring the worth and the
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  value of a man's life does not constitute in the abundance of
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  the things that he has. Again, it is what has destroyed
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  us as a body. So if I come with a Jeep and I
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  come with military people and I'm wearing designers from head
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  to toe, chances are excellent that you will think the Word of
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  God is working for me. I'm in close relationship with
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  Jesus. You will be disappointed that
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  that's not the case. Those are not parameters to be
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  thrown away, but there are nobler spiritual parameters that
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  measure success. Are we together?
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  So that when you find someone doing well, having the physical
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  things, it does not discourage you to mean, OK, this thing is
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  not working for me. Now just imagine everything I've
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  taught you again, two believers, one who just got born again does
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  not understand the ways of the Kingdom.
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  And then another person who by mercy and by grace and by
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  mentorship, has understood some of these things, their lives
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  cannot be the same. Lives cannot be the same.
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  Lives cannot be the same. There are still a lot others
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  like the power of prayer, the power of fasting.
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  Most believers don't know it. Even those who pray have not
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  learned the power of prayer. Those who fast have not learned
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  the power of fasting. Are we together?
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  What of the power of worship? Do you know there are few people
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  in our generation who understand the power of worship?
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  Most people know that they worship.
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  They like it because of the emotional state it gets them
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  into, that striking of chords and keys and arrangements of
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  melodies. But it's deeper than that
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  worship. That's why there are.
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  Few people that really carry the presence of God because they do
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  not understand worship. In 2005, I took a study on
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  Jewish worship and the mystery of God's presence.
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  I wanted to know what was it about Jewish songs that would
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  just bring that dense presence of God, and that study opened me
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  up to a realm and understanding of worship.
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  It's beyond the singing. Ladies and gentlemen, I want you
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  to be angry with where you are spiritually.
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  Not hateful, but angry that I have come past this mountain
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  long enough. It's time to move higher.
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  It's time to not just be claiming maturity, but to
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  actually grow. When you say you are mature,
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  there are indices that show it primarily your thought your.
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  Words. Your understanding like the
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  Bible teaches, but there are a lot of others.
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  The depth of knowledge that you have.
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  The degree to which self has died.
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  The degree to which you are invested in the program of God,
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  the degree to which the character, the love of Christ is
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  formed in you, these are the indices that measure maturity.
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  Hallelujah. Most believers have refused to
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  grow, or does one to grow, but those mentoring them do not know
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  any better. Everybody can only give to the
• 1:00:06
  limit of what he knows. Is the reason why you see us
• 1:00:09
  investing in the School of Ministry, upgrading the
• 1:00:12
  curriculum, helping teaching every day?
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  I was just meditating maybe like an hour or so before I would
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  leave home to come. And I was just thinking to
• 1:00:22
  myself, as I was brushing through my notes, I just thought
• 1:00:25
  to myself, I said, my God, the power of transformation, how
• 1:00:30
  that you can literally handpick a people and tell them, sit
• 1:00:34
  together, let me teach you by the Spirit of God and raise
• 1:00:38
  mighty men after a conference in New York.
• 1:00:44
  I returned back and the Lord spoke to me and said I will give
• 1:00:46
  you the grace to disciple nations.
• 1:00:49
  That thing came with a greater burden.
• 1:00:51
  I've done that before, but it's a sudden, a passion to see
• 1:00:56
  people. Mature and to see people
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  transform, not knowledge. If knowledge does not lead to
• 1:01:01
  maturity, it's a waste of time. I know, I know that you have
• 1:01:07
  authority in the spirit that is based on knowledge.
• 1:01:10
  You don't need to know everything.
• 1:01:12
  You need to know what it takes to be a victorious believer.
• 1:01:18
  For the way of the Lord, Easter way of we start.
• 1:01:26
  I choose the way of the Lord. For the way of the Lord, Easter
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  way of we start. I choose the way of the Lord.
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  For the way of the Lord is the way of wisdom.
• 1:01:54
  I choose the way of praying in one minute.
• 1:02:02
  And say, Lord, I am willing to grow.
• 1:02:04
  I am willing to grow. I am willing to attain unto
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  maturity. I'm not ashamed to declare my
• 1:02:12
  need for growth. Someone lift your voice and pray
• 1:02:14
  one minute, not assume growth. I want to grow, laying hold on
• 1:02:22
  eternal life. I want to grow understanding
• 1:02:25
  doctrine, understanding the mysteries of the Kingdom, that
• 1:02:29
  which makes for power, that which makes for wisdom.
• 1:02:41
  We look to Yahweh, Yahweh. Our hope is Yahweh, Yahweh.
• 1:02:56
  We look to be our way. Yahweh forever.
• 1:03:05
  Yahweh. Yahweh.
• 1:03:24
  1 more time. Father, we desire to grow.
• 1:04:04
  We desire to grow. Help us and show us mercy.
• 1:04:08
  In Jesus name we pray. Please be seated.
• 1:04:12
  Please be seated. I've said so many things
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  already, but let's look at at least let's pick one of the
• 1:04:24
  subtopics, How to live by the Word of God.
• 1:04:30
  I want to show you very briefly how to live by the Word of God.
• 1:04:42
  John 19, John chapter 1 and verse 9.
• 1:04:46
  Let's read together, everybody. One to go.
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  That was the true light. Hold on.
• 1:04:54
  The fact that he spoke about true light immediately suggests
• 1:05:00
  that there are false lights. What is false light?
• 1:05:04
  It's a spiritual information that carries a semblance of
• 1:05:08
  truth. It looks like the truth.
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  It proposes to bring you victory.
• 1:05:14
  It proposes to bring you liberty.
• 1:05:17
  But in the presence of real life situation it fails woefully.
• 1:05:22
  It falls short of its ability to deliver to you what truth should
• 1:05:29
  deliver, because the character of truth is that it sets free.
• 1:05:33
  If it is truth, there must be liberty.
• 1:05:36
  Ye shall know the truth. John 832 I believe for he he
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  shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
• 1:05:44
  Now go back to John 19. He says that was the true light.
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  There are false lights, false informations about victory,
• 1:05:53
  false informations about wealth and abundance, false
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  informations about walking with the Holy Spirit.
• 1:05:59
  They look spiritual, they sound spiritual, they even sometime of
• 1:06:04
  their public knowledge. But the truth is that when you
• 1:06:07
  put them to test. They don't deliver.
• 1:06:11
  The Bible says that was the true light that lighted every man.
• 1:06:18
  If it is true light number one, it brings liberty, it enlightens
• 1:06:23
  and it is for every man. Truth that is only for a select
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  group of people. It.
• 1:06:28
  Compromises on the nature of God because the same Lord is rich
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  unto all. If it is truth, it should
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  deliver one In UK, in US, in Zarya.
• 1:06:39
  In Lagos, in Abuja, it should have equal value.
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  Hallelujah. That was a true light that
• 1:06:46
  lighted every man. In Genesis chapter 1 from verse
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  one, the Bible says in the beginning God created the
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  heavens and the earth and the earth was without form and void
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  and darkness was upon the face of the deep.
• 1:07:05
  Take note. And then the Spirit of God moved
• 1:07:08
  upon the face of the waters. Verse 3.
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  Read the first 3 words, everybody first 3 words, one to
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  go, one more time, one more time.
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  The word and means saying was not the first thing he did and
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  means there's a connection to something that was already
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  there. Are we together then #2 Tells us
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  the person and then #3 he tells us whatever activity followed
• 1:07:37
  and God said now read the last three words or the last four
• 1:07:44
  words one to go and God said and there was whatever he said was
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  and God said I'm showing you the power of the word were coming
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  into understanding the supremacy of the word of God and the value
• 1:08:05
  of the word in a man's life. So the Bible here says and God
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  said and if you want to understand this Scripture, you
• 1:08:12
  have to go to John chapter one in the beginning.
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  So you connect this with John 11.
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  In the beginning was the word and the word was with God and
• 1:08:22
  the word was God. Are we together?
• 1:08:25
  The same was with God in the beginning.
• 1:08:27
  He says without Him. So we now know what happened,
• 1:08:30
  that light came. It was not just the Speaking of
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  an expression, it was the presence of the Word.
• 1:08:39
  Are we together? Not just the Word as a man's
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  thoughts? The Bible says all things were
• 1:08:44
  made by Him, not by it, and without Him was not anything
• 1:08:49
  made that was made anyway. So here the Bible shows us the
• 1:08:53
  power of the Word. Verse 3 it says all things were
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  made by him and without him was not anything made that was made.
• 1:09:02
  Go to Colossians one. Verse 15 and 16 Colossians 1.
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  The Bible calls that him the Word, the express image of the
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  invisible. God the first born of every
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  creature verse 16 it says, For by Him were all things created
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  that were in heaven and that when the earth visible and
• 1:09:23
  invisible, whether they be Thrones or dominions,
• 1:09:26
  principalities or powers, all things were created by the world
• 1:09:30
  and created for the world. Hebrews one was one to three.
• 1:09:35
  God wins sundry times and diverse manners speak to us
• 1:09:40
  through by the fathers and through the prophets had in this
• 1:09:43
  last days spoken to us by his Son, whom he had appointed heir
• 1:09:49
  of all things, by whom also He made the walls.
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  Don't forget, just follow me closely.
• 1:09:55
  Verse three. He not only made the word, the
• 1:09:57
  Bible says who is the brightness of his glory and the express
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  image of his presence, and he upholds all things by what?
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  Talk to me. He upholds all things by what?
• 1:10:08
  All victories, all results. He upholds all things by the
• 1:10:13
  word of his power. Now we get to Matthew chapter 4
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  and verse 4. Jesus in resisting Satan, when
• 1:10:22
  he tempted him to turn stones to bread, He made a profound
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  statement. He said, man, this is a law.
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  It's not a suggestion. Jesus was not the first to say
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  it. Man shall not live by bread
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  alone. Bread there does not just mean
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  what you eat. It means that which is of a
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  human origin. That means man shall not live by
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  education alone, bread alone. Man shall not live by
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  relationships alone, bread alone.
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  Bread here refers to that which is derived from human origin.
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  It says but by every word. So not only did the word create,
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  not only are all things upheld by the word, the Bible says man
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  as a law. That means if you live by any
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  other thing that is actually alone minus the word of God,
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  there's no guarantee for your victory.
• 1:11:15
  It is certificate plus the word of God that equals victory.
• 1:11:19
  It is the a good voice plus the word of God that equals victory.
• 1:11:23
  Are we together? Yeah, no matter what you have,
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  if the Word of God is not above it and connected to it, there is
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  no possibility of victory. Acts 20 and verse 30.
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  And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and then to the word of
• 1:11:43
  His grace, which is able to build you up, to build you up,
• 1:11:50
  and then to give you an inheritance among them that are
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  sanctified. That means among those who are
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  sanctified, there are those who can be possessors of that
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  inheritance. But there are those who are
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  sanctified, but they will never possess the inheritance among
• 1:12:05
  those who are sanctified. It is only those who are placed
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  value on the word of God that become possessors.
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  Possessors. Most believers have not learned
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  to build their confidence on the word, on what God said.
• 1:12:28
  The Bible shows us many times in Scripture that all things in a
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  man's life are built and upheld by the Word of God.
• 1:12:39
  There are at least 4 characteristics of God's Word.
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  Let me just list it for us quickly.
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  Number one, God's word is creative.
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  God's word is creative. It can make the things that be
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  not to appear. God's word is creative #2 God's
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  word is corrective. It can fix things that are
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  already there, but not in the form as they should be.
• 1:13:09
  God's word is creative. God's word is corrective #3
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  God's word is revelatory, it reveals, it can show a man
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  things to come. God's word is revelatory.
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  God's word is transformative. It is not only creative, the law
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  of the Lord is perfect, it is reviving the soul and that from
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  a child. Look for that scripture for me.
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  Thou has known the Holy Scripture which is able to make
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  you wise unto salvation. It is able to make you wise.
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  It is able to make you wise, and that from a child.
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  Thou has known the Holy Scripture, and because you have
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  held onto the Holy Scripture, it is able to make you wise.
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  Remember the Bible says in Colossians 3 and verse 16 it
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  says, let the word of Christ dwell in you richly.
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  In all wisdom, let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly.
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  Hallelujah. This is very important.
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  In this Kingdom, your victory is not just hinged on what Christ
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  has done. Please listen.
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  In this Kingdom, your victory is hinged on your believing, and
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  you're engaging what God has said concerning you.
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  Believing and engaging, doing business with what God has said.
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  Believing and engaging what God has said, what He has said
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  concerning your life. That means you see, look at me.
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  What you call grace is an awareness of the provisions that
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  God has made available to you. Are we together?
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  Faith only becomes functional over what grace has provided.
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  Please listen carefully. Faith only becomes functional
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  over what grace has provided. Your faith cannot work until you
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  are aware of the exceeding great and precious promises.
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  For instance, faith for healing is predicated upon the awareness
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  that by His tribes you are healed.
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  Are we together? Faith for finances is predicated
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  upon the awareness that God has is willing to give you all
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  things richly to enjoy. So the assignment of grace.
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  Grace is like a warehouse. Are we together?
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  Faith is like the vehicle that goes to the warehouse to pick
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  the thing out and bring it to your house.
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  How many of you have tried to order a product online?
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  The only reason you can order the product is if it's
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  available. Sometimes it tells you it is out
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  of stock, meaning there's no point trying to order.
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  If you pay, you are wasting your time.
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  Even if you to pay, it remains there.
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  The money remains in your whatever it is your, your, your,
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  your, your account there with them until the product is
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  available. Then they notify you.
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  Now you can order the product is available.
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  Whatever Grace has not made available, faith cannot bring to
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  you. So when you want to walk by
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  faith, you have to understand what God has made available.
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  This is why the Word of God is important, because the Word of
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  God gives you an information, is the compendium of the thoughts
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  of God towards you. But it's also a compendium of
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  the provisions, the exceeding great and precious promises that
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  have been made available for you in Christ, for your victory.
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  It's the Word of God that lets you know that healing is
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  available. It's the Word of God that lets
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  you know that restoration is available.
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  You only can apply your faith if you know it is there.
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  Am I right on that? Now look up please.
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  Someone may be pressed wanting to use the restroom but you may
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  just have to endure and sit there.
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  But if I tell you, OK, in case you need to use the restroom,
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  there is a restroom immediately you can find people get up and
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  start go because they wanted to use it but not knowing it is
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  there. So there are many believers who
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  remain defeated because they have not.
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  The way to make man people of faith is not to teach them to
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  believe is to 1st teach them it is there awareness first before
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  believing. If you do not know it is there.
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  This is where the word of God comes.
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  Are we together now? I hope I'm taking it simple
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  enough for you to learn. You cannot walk in victory until
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  you are aware of #1 the promises that have been made available
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  for you in Christ. You cannot walk in victory until
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  you are aware of the principles, the modus operandi of the
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  Kingdom that if and when engaged by faith, will produce a
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  victorious person. Look up, please.
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  Is it not the Word of God that taught us that there is a law
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  called the law of sea, time and harvest?
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  How would you have known it? Is it not the word of God that
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  has taught us that if you dishonor your father and your
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  mother and the Lord, it can cost you your days?
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  You cannot release your faith to activate that reality if you are
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  not aware. They know not, neither will they
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  understand. They walk on in darkness and all
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  the foundations of the earth are out.
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  Of course it says, I have said ye are God and all of you are
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  children of the Most High, but you shall die like men, men and
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  fall like one of these. Princess, listen, an ignorant
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  person does not have a faith problem.
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  An ignorant person does not have a believing problem.
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  He has a knowledge problem. When knowledge comes, then with
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  it comes understanding. Once understanding arrives, then
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  faith can kick in. You see, faith does not just
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  work arbitrarily. Faith depends on the presence of
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  knowledge and the presence of understanding.
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  Then it can work. Is someone learning now?
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  The assignment of the Word of God is to open you up to the
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  vast resources that are available for your victory.
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  Man shall not leave my bread alone, but by every word that
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  proceeds from the mouth of God. Look up, please look up.
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  Do you know what God has said concerning himself?
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  Do you know what God has said concerning you?
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  Do you know what God has said concerning the devil?
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  Do you know what God has said concerning your tomorrow?
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  Do you know what God has said concerning your tomorrow?
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  You see, if you do not take the time, you know what God has said
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  concerning these various places, you are going to hear another
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  voice and you will have faith, but your faith will be on the
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  wrong thing. I hope you know you can place
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  faith on the wrong thing. Are we together now?
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  Faith is activated when there is knowledge and when there is
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  understanding. And if that knowledge and
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  understanding is in error, your faith will be connected to
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  error. You will only.
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  Keep attracting pain to your life.
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  What has God said? Exceeding great and precious
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  promises. I'll tell you what God has said.
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  God has said concerning himself. Look at this.
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  That He's the creator of the ends of the earth.
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  I need to study what God has said concerning Himself.
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  Why? Because there are many other
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  spirits and elemental forces contending to be God over our
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  world. And in your life there are
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  spirits that come from where you are coming from.
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  They will claim to be God. If I don't know what the one
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  true God has said, I will fall prey to any spirit.
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  Are we together now? What has God said concerning
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  Himself? He called himself the living
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  word. What has he said concerning
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  himself? That his Alpha, his Omega?
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  What has he said concerning himself?
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  That all power belongs to him? Please listen and learn.
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  What has God said concerning himself?
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  That there is no such enough his understanding?
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  What has God said concerning himself?
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  That he's the eternal One? Now through the word of God I
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  learned the nature of God and learned the character of God.
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  And there are 6 fundamental pillars that represent the
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  nature of God #1 His omnipresence #2 His omnipotence
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  #3 His omniscience. Are we together #4 the fact that
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  He's the eternal one. There are six of them, can't
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  remember the remaining. If you do not know this about
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  God, you will not even be able to trust him.
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  So when God speaks to you, that's why I told you.
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  And God said it is not leave the same part.
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  Who is that God who said? Sometimes I look at my little
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  children when I come around and I give welfare and instruction
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  and say buy something for the children.
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  It is not whether welfare want to.
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  Do it or not, it is the passing and the capacity by which that
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  that statement. It didn't come as a suggestion
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  if the head of welfare, for instance, doesn't feel like
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  buying something for the children, if I give an
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  instruction, it becomes law there.
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  Get something for them. So when you say and God said the
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  first question is who is that God?
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  Who is that God that said 1000 shall fall by your side and
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  10,000 by your right side. Don't worry about what he said.
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  Investigate the one who said it first.
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  Bible faith is not connected to a principle, is connected to a
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  person. The awareness, the revelation of
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  that one person is someone learning the supremacy of the
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  word of God. So you don't live your life by
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  all kinds of opinions. It doesn't matter what social
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  media says. It doesn't matter what your past
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  says. It doesn't matter what your
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  tribes men say. It doesn't matter what yoke of
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  darkness. Whatever your your interest in
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  life is to keep learning what God has said.
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  That's the most important information.
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  It is better to know what God has said than to know what
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  school said. I'm not saying what school said
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  is wrong, but by and large. What God said is what will
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  stand. There are many things doctors
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  have said that did not stand. There are many things the
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  government said that did not stand.
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  But when he speaks, His word abides forever.
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  You cannot become a victorious Christian until you know what
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  God has said. But to know what God has said,
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  you have to use the word to learn about Him Himself, to
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  learn about Him himself. He's the eternal one.
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  This is God for you. When God says I am lifting you,
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  it's difficult to comprehend the weight of that instruction until
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  you have a revelation of the person who has spoken.
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  In my little capacity as a man, as a man within the little
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  capacity, from the standpoint of resources and influence, I can
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  look at a fellow man like me and choose or be instructed by God
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  to help that person and the person.
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  Begins to rejoice. If I look at someone, I say I'm
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  going to give you a house or I'm going to buy you a car, there
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  will be no iota of doubt because for some reason you have
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  investigated into the possibilities.
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  You think, you look at my life. I think no, buying you a house
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  will not be a problem. Buying you a car will not be a
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  problem. You see that now, if I say I'm
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  going to give you Nigeria and say hey man, Hallelujah.
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  Because you know that for some reason that one is beyond my
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  personal scope. But if I tell you by tomorrow
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  I'm moving you from where you are, into your own house,
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  anywhere in Zarya, you will rejoice.
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  Now listen, I'm not God. Oh, but you can't have that
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  confidence because you know me. But it took time for you to get
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  there. You had to watch me say some
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  things and watch whether I did it.
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  That's why God gave you the Bible.
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  He said investigate my character.
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  Check it. Investigate my character and see
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  whether I am dependable or not. See what I did at the
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  wilderness? Is someone learning?
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  Investigate my character. Only a powerful God is not
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  ashamed to tell you. Vet it.
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  Use any chapter, Use any book. See what I did when enemies
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  came. I'm showing you how to live by
• 1:25:53
  the word of God. The faith problem is not a
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  believing problem, is a revelation problem.
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  Most people do not know the God whose word they are told to
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  trust. That's why they do not believe
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  Him. No shadow you won't light up.
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  Mountain you won't climb up. Coming after me.
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  No wall you won't keep down. Lie you won't tear down coming
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  after me. No shadow you won't light up.
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  Ladies and gentlemen. One of the.
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  Greatest investments you will make in your life is to minimize
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  the voices you are listening to and stay with the Word.
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  What has God said? You are already making the
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  bargain for a victorious life. Our world is noisy, full of
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  arrogant sounds that don't have the power to produce.
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  You meet somebody who say, look, let me tell you this and that
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  and that. And while they are talking, do
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  they have the capacity? He say, Who shall declare thing,
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  and he shall stand when the Lord has not instructed it.
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  One of the greatest investments A believer can make.
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  Listen to me is the investment of knowing God.
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  Knowing God, the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.
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  That should be Proverbs 19 or thereabout and the knowledge
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  910. The knowledge of the holy is
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  understanding. There are things you cannot do
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  in this Kingdom until you know God, man of God.
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  You want to do ministry before you kill yourself.
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  I know you know where you are going, well you will need to
• 1:27:56
  know the one who sent you more than where you are going.
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  Where you are going to be useless to you if you don't know
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  the person sending you. Hallelujah.
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  I bless God today for the privilege He gave me to spend a
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  little time to really, really study who this God is.
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  From that study will come confidence.
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  You can stand and speak boldly, sometimes arrogantly.
• 1:28:25
  It will look like it will not happen till it happens because
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  of the God who bugs you. I tell you ladies and gentlemen,
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  the reason why we cannot see victory in our lives is because
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  we have disrespected, we have undermined who God is.
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  Our minds have not taken time to trap a rich revelation of who He
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  is. So when God says, I will open
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  the door with Amen, But your faith is weak because your
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  revelation is weak. Your faith will always assume
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  the posture of your revelation. Hallelujah.
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  So God looks at you and says, although your father is dead,
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  your mother is dead, you have four siblings, Then he comes to
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  you like Abraham and says, I am your exceeding great reward.
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  Now that statement will not make any sense to you till you know
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  God. Hallelujah.
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  Many years ago, before people got to know Joshua Salman, most
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  times I would go to preach in some churches or ministries and
• 1:29:29
  it may just be a handful of the youths who have listened to my
• 1:29:31
  message so you see them. Excited that I'm coming and you
• 1:29:35
  find the elders or other people sometimes even annoyed at the
• 1:29:38
  young people. What is the whole thing?
• 1:29:40
  Why? Why you so excited, you know,
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  And then those days I used to do a lot of dress.
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  I would wear jeans and polos even when I'm going to wear my
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  jeans and polo. And you see the people waiting
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  at the airport waiting for a long time, flight delays.
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  They wait there with cars parked.
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  And then once I come down protocol used to dress on suits
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  that time. I mean, it's not now they do
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  their funky. They used to dress, wear suits.
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  And they'll come down, they're greeting them and greeting them.
• 1:30:07
  And here comes this guy just wearing his black bag and coming
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  out and they look at me. You could see the
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  disappointment. This the guy we've been waiting
• 1:30:14
  for for this conference? I hope we made the right choice
• 1:30:19
  and I don't feel bad because that's how it should be.
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  Just give me the mic. That's it.
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  Now, I'm not saying it to brag. Are we together?
• 1:30:29
  Yes, it's not unusual to disrespect God or you cannot
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  stay that way as you press into him.
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  The woman at the well did not start respecting him.
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  She started speaking. She thought he was one of her
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  customers. I'm sure she was already
• 1:30:43
  positioning herself to say this number 7 now and Jesus played
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  along. But as the conversation went on,
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  she said no, no, no, no, this is not a love issue.
• 1:30:53
  Again, this not this not this man did not come to look for a
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  customer. He said, I perceive this one.
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  You are not. I perceive you are a prophet.
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  He said quickly, let me ask something that has been burning
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  in my heart, this issue about worship, eh, it's not my
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  business. I thought you came to patronize
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  me, but this and that and Jesus looked at her.
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  She had no idea who was with her.
• 1:31:15
  And Jesus said go and. Call your husband one statement
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  and the woman looked at him. Husband, I don't have a husband
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  5 gone the one with me, It's not even with me and Jesus said
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  truly the spirit of truth is working in this woman.
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  She's not lying again. And then they began to speak At
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  the end of it, she left her fetching Potter Fetcher.
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  She ran to the city and said, come, I say you.
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  We know the kind of. Forget, Just leave who you know
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  me to be. Come see a man.
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  See a man? Nobody told her there are five
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  steps to get into the city to call the people.
• 1:31:57
  The revelation was so strong she ran there and said, come, I
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  don't care what you think about me.
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  Let me tell you the truth. The real trigger to moving and
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  running in life is to stay till you know him.
• 1:32:10
  Something about him hits your spirit.
• 1:32:14
  You get up like caliber and say, let's go up at once.
• 1:32:16
  I see the mountains, but I've seen the God that is bigger than
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  that. Mountain, let's go.
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  To live by the Word means to #1 have a revelation.
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  Listen to me, ladies and gentlemen.
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  You must have a revelation of the God who spoke.
• 1:32:36
  You must. You must have a revelation of
• 1:32:39
  the God who spoke, not just what He said.
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  We are coming to what He said. Your revelation is not accurate.
• 1:32:46
  If you just focus on the sayings, you first focus on the
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  one who spoke. That's where your confidence is.
• 1:32:54
  Then what? He said.
• 1:32:57
  A Bible is full of the many things God has said, but you
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  cannot believe what was said until you believe who said it.
• 1:33:07
  Someone said I believe in Jesus. Say I believe in Jesus again,
• 1:33:13
  like you really mean it. I believe in Jesus.
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  Conviction. Let's see how Paul puts it.
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  But I know whom I believed. I I show you why Paul was a man
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  of faith. Give it to us.
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  But I know whom I believed. It's not what he said is the
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  whom. First, I'm correcting something
• 1:33:34
  in your understanding, for I know whom I have believed, and I
• 1:33:41
  am persuaded that He is able to keep that which I have committed
• 1:33:46
  unto Him Against that day. I submit to you believers, A
• 1:33:51
  major part of the faith problem is not obedience, is the
• 1:33:55
  revelation of God. When you catch a revelation of
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  God, it is almost natural to obey Him, the God who lived.
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  Why is it that people cannot give?
• 1:34:10
  Because they are focused on the instruction to give.
• 1:34:13
  They are not focused on God and what He has said and the
• 1:34:17
  integrity of the one who said give and it shall be given unto
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  you. It is difficult to blindly obey
• 1:34:23
  instructions because you read them.
• 1:34:26
  You must have the revelation of the integrity of the one who
• 1:34:29
  wrote it down. God is not a man that He should
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  lie. He's not the son of man that he
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  should. Let me tell you a little story.
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  And I'm, I'm happy our Father that the Tula is here and that
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  is here. I remember many years ago when
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  God began to speak about Koinonia, the ministry was
• 1:34:55
  already ongoing. We're already holding crusades,
• 1:34:58
  but Koinonia as a weekly meeting had not started.
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  And that time, until that time, I don't think I'd come around
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  this part of summer room. Nothing brings me here I'd even
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  know there was a place like this.
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  The closest I've gone to was the churches around and then one
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  other in front. Listen to the story and then God
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  speaks to me and says son, you're about to enter another
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  phase and another season and this is what will happen.
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  Gave me the instructions and he spoke about Koinonia.
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  I said Koinonia. Wow, the grace of our Lord Jesus
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  Christ and I said where now I was thinking through there used
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  to be the viewing center just opposite Abu.
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  I was thinking I said could that be where we'll use but in my
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  visions I saw a crowd of people. I said I don't know any
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  auditorium maybe aside from is it blue roof.
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  Now that could take that that size of people.
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  How was this thing going to happen?
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  One night I was praying and I had the word CGC.
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  I'd never known anything like this.
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  I said what is CGC? One thing led to the other.
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  I eventually got in contact with her father and and the rest is
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  history. God began to walk out his plans.
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  That which came because God said is what today is blessing the
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  nations and is blessing the globe.
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  I'm saying this to you. You will not go far in life and
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  destiny if you do not know God. To really to understand the
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  scope of living by the Word, you must have a revelation of who
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  God is. Coincidentally, it is still the
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  Word of God. I will reveal to you who God is.
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  Your first encounter with the Word should not to lend
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  principles. It should be to know God.
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  Your first encounter with the Word should not be to discover
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  principles or discover mysteries.
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  It should be to have a revelation of God.
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  Please write that down. In desiring to grow by the
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  world, your first or your initial encounter with the world
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  should not be for the purpose of learning principles.
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  It should be to have a revelation of who God is.
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  When you take the time to have a rich revelation of who God is,
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  then you cannot explore the principles, you cannot explore
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  the promises. You cannot explore the
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  speakings, and no matter how high, how lofty, how difficult
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  they are to be believed, when you remember the one who said
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  it, you will believe. I know that God is mighty.
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  He has revealed Himself to me by His word in a way that between
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  me and Him it will be seen against God.
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  If I doubt some things that He says to me at my level of
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  relationship, there are things that God I can take for granted
• 1:37:57
  saying to me. And if I dare Tom to say, ah,
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  God, but will this be possible? Maybe to another believer he
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  will understand, but to me it will be seen against God because
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  He has revealed something to me. Do you know one of the reasons
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  why Moses did not enter the Promised land?
• 1:38:12
  Because Moses had such a rich revelation of God when he now
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  doubted God later he said, no, Moses, I've shown you my
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  presence. I've shown you too many things
• 1:38:22
  about me to doubt me. So when you find people act as
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  if they have great faith, what they really have is not great
• 1:38:31
  obedience. What they have is deep
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  revelation about God that makes it easy to believe him.
• 1:38:38
  If God tells me to empty my account today, I will empty it
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  not because I have some things that I can call people to say,
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  Oh no, no, no, no. It's because God has given me a
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  deep revelation of his nature. If God tells me tomorrow and
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  says apostle, well I'm I'm sending you to the Middle East
• 1:38:57
  for the next 6 months you are going to do an Apostolic work
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  for me in the Middle East and we will see that and think twice.
• 1:39:03
  I've seen God do a number of things.
• 1:39:05
  I've seen what he can do. You see when you trust God and
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  he produces result, you use that and store it as a memorial.
• 1:39:14
  It builds faith so that by the time you have worked with God,
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  it's like muscles exercising. You know that I trust God so
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  much I believe him. We have gone for crusades where
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  we did not have the money. Not now that God has even
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  helped. There's almost nothing to doubt
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  God here now. Do you know what it means to to
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  be doing the crusade? You don't even know where the
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  money will come from. The car spoiled on the road.
• 1:39:42
  We prayed in tongues to get it back because there was no hope
• 1:39:45
  of sending a mechanical. We are conserving everything.
• 1:39:48
  True story. One of the reasons why the West
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  cannot work by faith is that their system works so much.
• 1:39:59
  The system looks like God. So when it is to trust God, most
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  times they cannot trust God because there is a system that
• 1:40:08
  has mimicked God in terms of accuracy and it's OK for a good
• 1:40:13
  system like that. So when you are trusting God for
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  healing, on one hand they are saying, well, let's just thrive.
• 1:40:18
  It doesn't work. But in Africa, you already know
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  your father has died, your mother has died.
• 1:40:23
  Your uncle is a is not a good man.
• 1:40:25
  Your auntie, they promise that they'll kill you when they see
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  you is you aren't God alone. Thank God alone.
• 1:40:34
  Yes, Sir, you aren't God alone. Your great grandfather was a
• 1:40:39
  wizard. Your grandfather, they told you
• 1:40:41
  you are supposed to be the next. You said no.
• 1:40:43
  They said think well, you said no.
• 1:40:45
  So you already know that there's there's no issue of passive
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  Christianity. You know what you left you
• 1:40:52
  either be a priest unto God or you go back.
• 1:40:54
  You already know. So for you prayer is not luxury.
• 1:40:57
  It's not about getting things. You are building power and
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  stature because you know where you are coming from.
• 1:41:05
  It's someone learning. Now for someone you may be a
• 1:41:09
  last one. You have seven siblings, one is
• 1:41:12
  working with the governor, one is an ambassador.
• 1:41:15
  If we are teaching on finances and increase.
• 1:41:17
  You may even sleep during the service because your elders if
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  one hates you at least who is that guy that like Joseph Ruben?
• 1:41:23
  At least there's one who will not allow you to drown in the
• 1:41:26
  well. But where you know that you are
• 1:41:29
  the breadwinner and the breadwinner is not for your
• 1:41:32
  siblings. It's for your great grandparents
• 1:41:34
  1st and then it comes down to your siblings.
• 1:41:38
  When God is teaching you the supplies of the Kingdom, you'll
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  listen. I tell you this, the reason why
• 1:41:45
  many people do not take God's watch seriously is because they
• 1:41:48
  still have alternatives. They still have alternatives.
• 1:41:54
  Yeah, they still have alternatives.
• 1:41:59
  They still have alternatives. You are my God.
• 1:42:10
  You are my God, then you are my God.
• 1:42:18
  You are my God, and now forever be chasing after you.
• 1:42:38
  I'll be chasing now to you regardless of options in my
• 1:42:44
  world. I'll forever be chasing now to
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  you. I'll be chasing now to you.
• 1:42:56
  One more Time, Lord, I'll forever be chasing now to you.
• 1:43:11
  If God says I am the head, I stay there.
• 1:43:14
  I am the head, Sir. I don't need to feel like the
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  head. His word has said I'm the head.
• 1:43:20
  I believe to see the revelation of the one who spoke and the
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  integrity of what he said. I stay there.
• 1:43:27
  If he says I am above all principalities, all powers, that
• 1:43:32
  is my reality. I don't care what 'cause I don't
• 1:43:36
  care where I'm coming from. That's my reality, Sir.
• 1:43:41
  If he says I will call on a nation and many nations will
• 1:43:45
  respond, I may not look like it, but I stay there.
• 1:43:48
  I know the one who has spoken. He will not fail the Young Lions
• 1:43:57
  give it to us, the Young Lions, to lack and suffer hunger, he
• 1:44:03
  says, For they that seek the Lord.
• 1:44:06
  Not they that are where he's there.
• 1:44:09
  I'll forever be chasing after you all.
• 1:44:13
  There are benefits when you become a sick.
• 1:44:16
  Of God there are benefits, not just the church worshiper.
• 1:44:34
  One more time, let it come from the depth of your heart.
• 1:44:37
  I'll forever be changing after you.
• 1:44:50
  Man of God. If you will suspend the
• 1:44:53
  obsession for ministry for a while and focus on the
• 1:44:57
  revelation of who God is, it is the greatest way to prepare for
• 1:45:01
  ministry. Knowing where God is sending you
• 1:45:04
  is not as important as knowing the one who sent you, the one
• 1:45:08
  who sent you, the one who sent you, the one who sent you.
• 1:45:14
  I'm showing you how I live my life.
• 1:45:16
  I don't know how to live any other way.
• 1:45:19
  A major part of my study of Scripture is not just learning
• 1:45:23
  mysteries. He's having a deeper revelation
• 1:45:26
  of this God. I need to know who he is.
• 1:45:29
  I don't know him so much. At the end of Paul's life, he
• 1:45:32
  didn't say that I may know more. He said that I may know Him.
• 1:45:35
  He found it. That's the secret.
• 1:45:38
  Because when you know him, when you know him, ladies and
• 1:45:42
  gentlemen, Bible faith that works is built within you.
• 1:45:45
  Now, let me tell you this, it's very difficult.
• 1:45:48
  I want to teach these kinds of things when you have results
• 1:45:51
  because people will think it is because of the abundance of the
• 1:45:55
  results. I've been talking like this
• 1:45:57
  from, from, from for many years old, many years, many years.
• 1:46:03
  It's very difficult to teach these things because when you
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  look around and you see all the results, it looks like, of
• 1:46:08
  course, obviously there are no guarantees in life.
• 1:46:14
  The Bible already said man shall not leave by bread alone, but by
• 1:46:21
  every word, my finance, by the word of God, my daily life.
• 1:46:27
  If you ask me, Joshua Sermon, what makes you believe Koinonia
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  will not fail? I will say no, no, I know what
• 1:46:33
  I'm doing. That's a foolish answer.
• 1:46:34
  You know you are living by the word because all your answers in
• 1:46:38
  defense. Of your confidence must be
• 1:46:40
  derived from the word of God. Are we together?
• 1:46:44
  Yes. Oh, I know this, Chairman.
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  You won't find that as part of my answer.
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  No. Why do you think you would not
• 1:46:50
  fail? Here is the answer.
• 1:46:52
  But I know whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he's
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  able to keep that. You know how many things I kept
• 1:46:59
  with him my whole life? I kept it.
• 1:47:01
  I didn't just keep my brain. I kept everything with him.
• 1:47:05
  The Bible tells us he's a faithful caretaker.
• 1:47:08
  You keep it with him. I have committed it unto him.
• 1:47:11
  It does not fail. What is the basis of my making
• 1:47:16
  progress and the Lord working with them?
• 1:47:20
  I show you how to live by the world.
• 1:47:23
  What makes you think your children are going to be
• 1:47:25
  responsible people? I think I send them to good
• 1:47:27
  school. Not a very good answer.
• 1:47:30
  I will tell you why. The Bible says blessed is the
• 1:47:34
  man that feared the Lord, that delighted greatly in his
• 1:47:37
  commands. His seed shall be mighty.
• 1:47:41
  Live the issue of the seed shall be mighty.
• 1:47:43
  Do you fear the Lord? Then do you delight two things.
• 1:47:47
  You can fear the Lord, but do you delight in His commands?
• 1:47:50
  If you do, your seed will be mighty, and then the generation
• 1:47:54
  of the upright shall be blessed. Ladies and gentlemen.
• 1:48:00
  It is a risk if you are running your life by and with any other
• 1:48:05
  software outside of the word of God.
• 1:48:08
  I can tell you by the message of God, it will fail you eventually
• 1:48:13
  to fail you to fail you. My uncle said I should not
• 1:48:18
  worry, just finish the MSC. As soon as I finish he walks in
• 1:48:22
  foreign affairs. He has promised me a visa if he
• 1:48:26
  wakes up back and if the next government coming in are his
• 1:48:31
  friends back. Did you not read in your Bible
• 1:48:34
  that vain is the help of a man? Men are channels, not sources.
• 1:48:39
  When you make them sources is idolatry immediately.
• 1:48:47
  How can I? Bow before you and then bow down
• 1:48:52
  before a man. Nowhere.
• 1:49:01
  How can I sing the song before you and then sing the song
• 1:49:06
  before a man? Because you are my God.
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  Listen, when you know God and you know his word, if someone
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  says I promise you, you will say thank you and keep it aside and
• 1:49:34
  put the word of God on it. If the man obeys God, wonderful
• 1:49:38
  God, I give you praise. But if the man calls and says,
• 1:49:41
  sorry, I changed my mind, say no problem, it's not, I'm not
• 1:49:43
  disappointed. There was already a provision
• 1:49:46
  for your humanity. I cannot risk my life trusting
• 1:49:51
  man as against the word of God. I would have failed ministry
• 1:49:54
  1000 times. Listen, let me tell you the
• 1:49:56
  truth, There are many things we have done now that has brought
• 1:50:00
  victory. Very good people said that's not
• 1:50:02
  the way. Very sincere.
• 1:50:04
  People said that's not the way sometimes.
• 1:50:08
  Sincerity can be the reason why you die.
• 1:50:10
  The word of God. Very good people said that's not
• 1:50:13
  the way, but I know that I had God and I know that I saw it is
• 1:50:19
  someone learning now? I'm showing you how to live by
• 1:50:22
  the word of God. You are not the first to come
• 1:50:33
  from a family that does not have any privilege.
• 1:50:35
  Don't, don't, don't put yourself in that point of disadvantage.
• 1:50:40
  Let me tell you something about the Word of God.
• 1:50:42
  The Word of God is an equalizer. Anything you think is a
• 1:50:46
  disadvantage in your life, once you bring the Word of God into
• 1:50:49
  that space, you have gotten your, your.
• 1:50:52
  I don't want to use the competitive edge, your
• 1:50:55
  advantageous edge. You found it.
• 1:51:00
  I'll tell you a very funny story.
• 1:51:02
  Many years ago, we used to meet in the campus.
• 1:51:04
  Then I'd never entered an aircraft in my life.
• 1:51:07
  I was seated outside preparing for a meeting and I saw an
• 1:51:11
  aircraft passing and the Lord spoke to me.
• 1:51:14
  He said my word will put you in that aircraft.
• 1:51:18
  I told the people those days. One day I was travelling
• 1:51:23
  somewhere and I sat down and I almost got emotional because I
• 1:51:27
  remember that word. Everybody knows what got him
• 1:51:31
  inside the aircraft. What takes you there is what?
• 1:51:34
  Keeps you if. Corruption takes you there.
• 1:51:39
  Then you will have to depend on corruption to stay.
• 1:51:43
  Please believe us. Don't just be entertained
• 1:51:45
  tonight. I'm programming you.
• 1:51:48
  At the end of this teaching you should stand and say I cannot
• 1:51:52
  fail. I.
• 1:51:53
  Cannot fail and you are not just bragging.
• 1:51:57
  Whilst you are saying it, listen, listen.
• 1:51:58
  Once you are saying it, you see the devil say don't talk.
• 1:52:01
  People have spoken like this. With all due respect, I don't
• 1:52:04
  know what they believed. I don't know what I can't take
• 1:52:07
  responsibility over what they believed.
• 1:52:09
  But for me, I know they looked onto him and their faces were
• 1:52:14
  lightened. My brothers and my sisters, hear
• 1:52:17
  me be in Zarya, but don't let Zarya be in you.
• 1:52:21
  You are called to a global life, a global destiny.
• 1:52:27
  Nobody may know you now, but if you take the Word of God
• 1:52:31
  serious, I give you a guarantee. Not too long from now, your
• 1:52:36
  world will celebrate you. Hallelujah, I will never.
• 1:52:41
  Feel like a second class citizen.
• 1:52:43
  It is not a money issue is that I found out that I am one with
• 1:52:47
  Christ. That's how expensive I am one
• 1:52:50
  with Christ. Join to the Spirit of God, then
• 1:52:54
  raised up with Christ far above principalities and powers.
• 1:52:58
  Where did I lend that the word of God?
• 1:53:01
  You say? Let me tell you this, when the
• 1:53:03
  devil fights, your passion for the world is beyond just
• 1:53:07
  fighting you from knowing memory versus he knows.
• 1:53:11
  That the faith problem is not just an obedience problem, it is
• 1:53:14
  a revelation problem. He will stop you from knowing
• 1:53:18
  what has been made available for you in Christ so that in that
• 1:53:22
  state of ignorance you cannot even place a demand.
• 1:53:27
  I live by the Word of God. I live by the Word of God.
• 1:53:30
  The Word of God is final authority, not final opinion,
• 1:53:35
  final authority. There are many voices, Paul
• 1:53:37
  said. There is, as it were, many
• 1:53:39
  voices, and none of them are without signification.
• 1:53:42
  That means you will hear voices. You will hear all kinds of
• 1:53:45
  voices. Trying to lead you to different
• 1:53:48
  parts to life. I read in my Bible Joshua
• 1:53:52
  chapter 3 and verse 8. Very powerful scripture.
• 1:53:56
  I want to show you sit down for a moment, sit down, sit down.
• 1:54:02
  Is it 3 verse 8? I will begin to magnify you in
• 1:54:07
  the sight of the Egyptians. Look for that Scripture for me.
• 1:54:11
  I will begin to magnify you. I read that scripture and my
• 1:54:17
  goodness, it was too good to be true.
• 1:54:19
  What is the word that I found? This is what God intends for
• 1:54:23
  ME37 This day. I like the person he spoke to.
• 1:54:30
  He spoke to Joshua. Can put your name there, but the
• 1:54:34
  original person he spoke to how we together we need to stay on
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  that original person this day. He said I will begin to magnify
• 1:54:47
  you. I saw this during one of my
• 1:54:49
  birthdays many years ago. I will begin to magnify you in
• 1:54:52
  the sight of all Israel that they may know that as I was with
• 1:54:56
  Moses. So I'll be with you.
• 1:54:58
  I received it and I cried it in my heart.
• 1:55:01
  For the last three years of my life, every one of my birthdays,
• 1:55:05
  this is the Scripture God has been giving me.
• 1:55:06
  Psalm 7121. I will increase your greatness
• 1:55:11
  and comfort you on every side. Increase your greatness.
• 1:55:16
  Genesis 12. Three.
• 1:55:17
  In thee shall all the families of the earth be blessed, be
• 1:55:23
  blessed, be blessed. Isaiah 61 to 3 Arise, Joshua
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  Selman, arise Koinonia, shine, for your light is come.
• 1:55:35
  The glory of God is risen upon you.
• 1:55:38
  Darkness shall cover the earth, gross darkness the people, but
• 1:55:43
  the Lord shall arise upon you and His.
• 1:55:45
  Glory shall be seen on you. Verse 3.
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  Gentiles shall come. The only people I go to are
• 1:55:54
  souls. If it's Gentiles, they come.
• 1:55:58
  I don't go to them. If you see me going towards
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  someone, I'm chasing his soul. I'm not chasing men for favor.
• 1:56:05
  If it's for favor, they will come.
• 1:56:10
  They will come because He will place something upon my life
• 1:56:13
  that they need. So when they see the light like
• 1:56:17
  that. Star the Magi, they will look
• 1:56:19
  for it and say we have found a place.
• 1:56:22
  And they will come bearing gifts of gold, frankincense, and man.
• 1:56:26
  It was that revelation God gave me and I vowed with my life that
• 1:56:30
  I will never manipulate anybody to collect money or gain for
• 1:56:36
  ministry. Rather than manipulating anyone,
• 1:56:39
  I rather cry unto God and say place.
• 1:56:41
  Something on this head. Oh God, place something on this
• 1:56:44
  head. You know what the kings need?
• 1:56:48
  Place it on my head. You know that Pharaoh is itching
• 1:56:51
  to have his dream interpreted. Grant me capacity to interpret
• 1:56:55
  Pharaoh's dream, and he will send for me.
• 1:56:58
  When he sends for me, I will come.
• 1:57:00
  But I'm not only coming to interpret his dream.
• 1:57:03
  I'm coming to sit at my throne. Apostle, why do you think
• 1:57:14
  Koinonia is going to rise? Because I saw a vision.
• 1:57:17
  No, Sir, I've taught you. It is written is greater than I
• 1:57:22
  saw it is written is greater than I heard if you build your
• 1:57:27
  life just when I saw, except if what you saw is scripture and
• 1:57:31
  what you heard is scripture. There are many people who have
• 1:57:35
  had higher lofty visions, but because it was not connected to
• 1:57:39
  the eternal world, it still failed.
• 1:57:42
  I will teach you one more thing before we're done, but I need to
• 1:57:45
  challenge you. Ladies and gentlemen, it is time
• 1:57:48
  for you to return back to the world.
• 1:57:50
  Return back to the world, place your life at risk on the world
• 1:57:56
  and watch if you will fail. I don't know how to live any
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  other way. If you speak to me, my opinion
• 1:58:04
  is the word of God. I wouldn't tell you.
• 1:58:06
  Well, I think it's like this. If the word of God says walk in
• 1:58:13
  love, that's my law, I walk in love.
• 1:58:17
  If the word of God says leave by faith, that becomes a law for
• 1:58:20
  me, leave by faith. If the word of God says pray
• 1:58:23
  without ceasing, I will not experiment to see what will
• 1:58:26
  happen. I already know that I may not
• 1:58:29
  leave to tell the story, especially that you have cause
• 1:58:31
  havoc for the gates of hell. So you pray without ceasing.
• 1:58:35
  Is someone learning. If the word of God tells me that
• 1:58:42
  I shall not die, but leave and declare the works of the Lord
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  for every day, if I get up and I see myself breathing, I know
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  where I'm alive. I'm not just alive to run my
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  agenda. My life is already spent on him
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  and I know that while I'm about that, it doesn't matter.
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  He makes diviners mad. No enchantment and no divination
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  against me will. Stand I am about the King's
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  business. I enjoy the diplomatic immunity
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  that comes with being sent. If God is going to bless 10
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  people, you've heard me say it. I start interceding for the
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  remaining 9. I am aware of how jealous He is
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  over me. I don't know how it is between
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  you and him, but I can tell you I have a special place in God's
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  heart. Ask Him.
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  That's how I've indoctrinated my myself.
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  He's done this for me and I believe it.
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  I want to leave you with this consciousness before we even
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  talk about certain things. If you don't believe the word of
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  God, I can't help you, can't help you, can't help you.
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  Man shall not live by bread alone.
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  Let me trust him and let him fail me.
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  Then we can discuss afterwards. He's worth the risk of my life
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  if you have trusted things of lesser value with your life.
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  Then you can as well trust him. Trust him and let him fail you.
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  Then you can say, OK, God, I trusted you and you failed me.
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  What now is the explanation? Is someone learning now for a
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  few years that I've lived and for a few years that I've had
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  the honor of serving in the ministry.
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  I can tell you this, if you truly trust the Lord, He will
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  shock you. It will shock you.
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  Every time I come into Zarya, I'm almost in tears as I'm
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  driving to my house. One of my pastor friends came in
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  to preach a few weeks ago for I think it was Bishop Bakari was
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  his first time. When he came into Zarya and went
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  around, he called me and said apostle, I'm almost in tears.
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  He said Some of us from the West, when they hear your story,
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  we don't really understand the gravity.
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  He said when he came to Zarya and went around, they showed him
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  a few places. He said, how did the world know
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  you from here? That's the song right there.
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  Remember the song? That's the answer to that
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  question, that God can take a man from anywhere to anywhere,
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  anywhere. It doesn't mean anything to me
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  whether I'm in Zarya, whether I'm in London, whether I'm in
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  Abuja, it makes no difference. I am in His presence.
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  That's what is most important. My rod will blossom anywhere.
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  Am I wasting your time? Tonight's teaching is to get you
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  to think about your life. I'm helping you to know whether
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  you are going to make progress or not.
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  Without prophesying, you can know now.
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  Whether 2026 will be like 2025 or 2024, you don't need to enter
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  the new year to know. I just need to see your value
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  for the word of God. If I see that you are careless,
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  you are non challenged over the world, you don't care.
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  You are just running your life hoping to get a job, a wife, a
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  husband. Then things will work out.
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  Then eventually maybe some money or you are waiting for your
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  father to die and then you argue about the house.
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  They slice your own share. Then you invest it.
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  If that is the engineering in your mind.
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  I already I heard to be a bearer of bad.
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  News. But you're already setting off
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  for a life of pain and misery. Jesus, Jesus, precious Jesus.
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  Oh, for grace to trust you more. Just that part Jesus.
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  Jesus, precious Jesus, I pray for grace to trust you more.
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  I cry for grace to trust you more.
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  I long for Grace to trust you. My question for you tonight is
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  what has God said concerning your life?
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  Do you know it? Do you know what God has said?
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  Three assignments to give you one.
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  Please go back and search. You can listen to my message.
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  The knowledge of the Holy. Please write it down.
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  The knowledge of the Holy. There are not many teachings
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  that have come across that help you and give you a revelation of
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  God. The knowledge of the Holy.
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  Get it in colonial global. The knowledge of the Holy.
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  You need to go back and Start learning about God.
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  There are a number of attributes of God you must learn.
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  God is spirit, God is love, God is eternal, God is almighty.
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  You learn these things about God.
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  Your confidence is heightened. If you care you can read Psalm
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  one O 3. I've read my Bible a few times.
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  Psalm one O 3 has the richest capture of the revelation of the
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  nature of God. In my experience of study of
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  Scripture. You can study it.
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  You need to know who God is. Assignment #2 You need to learn
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  the promises of God concerning the various aspects of your
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  life. And I'll give you 2 teachings to
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  help you on that. Number one, exceeding great
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  promises. Exceeding great promises.
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  I've done a teaching on that exceeding great promises #2 line
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  upon line, the power of structured knowledge.
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  Zarya, I hope you connect to Abuja, to Len.
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  I hope you connect to Len because I'm, I'm weighing you as
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  I'm standing in the spirit and there's still need for a little,
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  maybe next year, hopefully work out some time where we can maybe
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  take some time to do teaching weekends, maybe 2-3 days where
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  we can just come. I know that the leaders are
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  strong, but we're doing well. But there's a benchmark.
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  You know, when you come, you can perceive, you can perceive the,
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  the prayer strength is stronger than the revelation strength in
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  Zarya. There's a lot of prayer, but
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  there's not so much of knowledge.
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  It means there's needs to start balance.
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  The prayer is good, but there's this strong prayer strength in
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  Zarya, but it's it's there's, there's need to be an upgrade in
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  structured revelation. A lot of the revelation you can,
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  there's energy that comes from light.
• 2:06:14
  It's not, it's like I can sense this as I'm standing here.
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  It's like a bulb that is not lighting up.
• 2:06:20
  You know how NEPA brings it. The light is there, but it's
• 2:06:23
  just like, you know how it is like oil is not.
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  I need high level light like this one high level light.
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  Then you add prayer to it. You see, this is one of the
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  Apostolic graces. You can, you can perceive the
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  spiritual temperature. You know that there's there's
• 2:06:41
  quite there's good, good work has been done in terms of
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  prayer, but in terms of revelation and understanding,
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  yes, there's need for growth. So all of you who serve in
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  ministry at different levels, doesn't matter what level, take
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  it as a challenge. It's not just ka anonia anybody,
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  even if you have a group of two people you are helping, take
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  this as a challenge as there's need for growth, there's need
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  for growth. Someone learning, pray, but
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  teach people. When you teach people, then you
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  pray, then you see the value. Adopt the policy.
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  How? It starts with prayer, but it
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  should not stop there. We will give ourselves
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  continually access for to prayer and then the ministry of the
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  world to prayer. And the ministry of the world,
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  if you pray alone and you don't press for a high level spiritual
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  illumination, it will affect you.
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  Hallelujah. Pray in the Spirit for one
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  minute, Let me see if I can take the next maybe 15 minutes to
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  give us one other aspect. Go ahead and pray.
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  Father, I obtain grace to live by Your Word, to press for a
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  personal revelation of God, and then to understand Your
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  promises. Hallelujah.
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  Amen. OK, I was going to give you.
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  OK, let me, let me finish it quickly.
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  I want to teach you how to live by the Word of God.
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  Let me just run it through for you.
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  In summary, I've said many things.
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  Number one, you want to live effectively by the Word of God.
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  The first thing you need to do is to get a revelation of God
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  himself, and that comes through the Word of God.
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  That means when you open Scripture, your first port of
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  call should not be to lend promises.
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  It should be to have a revelation of who God is.
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  When you have a revelation of who God is, number 2, you begin
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  to explore through the wisdom of Scripture the promises, the
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  promises that have been made available for the Saints in
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  Christ #3 when you find those promises, you practice
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  meditation. Meditation is the spiritual
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  technology, not just spiritual really, but then it's applicable
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  in this way spiritually, where these revelations become a
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  stronghold in your mind, you ponder on them.
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  You often times you see the word sealer in the Bible.
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  It means to pause and to think about it.
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  So the revelation of God, the revelation of His promises, and
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  then meditation so that they become spirit and life #4 Speak
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  the Word, confess the Word, declare the Word.
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  You live by the Word by declaring the Word.
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  Your conversations must be cultured around the Word of God
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  #5 Obtain the doing grace to obey the principles connected to
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  the promises. Obtain the doing grace to obey
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  the principles connected to the promises.
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  Number six, number what now #6? Always rejoice over the world.
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  Always rejoice. Joy and Thanksgiving is one of
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  the ways to live by the Word. Rejoice over the Word.
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  Thank God for the Word. I'll run through the list.
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  Number one, in seeking to live by the Word of God, I said #1
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  you have to press. I'll put it in various ways.
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  You press for a revelation of God Himself.
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  That's the first part of call. It primarily comes through
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  scripture #2A revelation of the promises exceeding great and
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  precious promises #3 Meditation. When you find those promises,
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  you meditate upon them until they become strongholds in your
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  mind, until they become spirit and Life, and then #4.
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  You speak the word. Declarations.
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  For by thy words you are condemned, and by the words you
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  are justified. Son of Man, can these bones
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  leave? He said only thou knowest.
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  He said. Prophecy.
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  You will have to use the leaps of faith to speak it into being.
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  The righteousness that is of faith speaks.
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  It doesn't just know it speaks. And then next obtain the doing
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  grace. You obtain the doing grace so
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  that you walk in obedience to the principles that are
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  connected to the promises. Immediately you see from that
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  statement that every promise of Scripture as revealed by the
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  Word of God has a participatory component to it.
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  So there is a component where God proposes for you what He
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  wants to do and then it would demand on your own part, actions
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  of obedience. You have that down.
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  And then number six, rejoice and give thanks over the world.
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  That's in summary, how to live by the word of God.
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  Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that
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  proceeded out of the mouth of God.
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  Pray in the Spirit in one minute, and then I'll give you
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  one more key. Shalabrandoga, subedesha.
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  Those outside make sure you are praying.
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  Thank you Jesus, in Jesus name we pray.
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  So let me talk about one more area.
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  Remember we're discussing essentials for an effective
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  Christian life. I generally begun by touching
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  several areas that you need to know some.
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  These things if you are to be a believer of stature.
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  And power and authority and wisdom, and we picked for a case
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  study how to live by the Word of God.
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  And let me give you one more component and then we'll end for
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  today. Let me teach you the
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  transforming power of prayer. The transforming power of
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  prayer, not just the power of prayer.
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  I touched on that yesterday. Let me see what I can add to it,
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  and then we'll pray the transforming power of prayer.
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  Now, prayer is a very major component of spirituality.
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  Spirituality generally depends on prayer.
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  One thing the prophets of Bao and Elijah did in common is that
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  both of them prayed Hallelujah, even though they prayed to
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  different spiritual entities, but at least they prayed.
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  Almost every organized religion I know on earth has some sort of
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  ways of connecting to the divine through prayer, obeisance, or
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  whatever it is, rituals, mediums, whatever it is.
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  So let's discuss prayer generally.
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  What is prayer? 2 definitions very quickly.
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  Number one, prayer in its simplest definition, Are you
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  ready? Prayer has to do with making
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  contact with God on the basis of His word.
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  That contact is a pregnant statement.
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  The contacts can mean fellowship.
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  The contacts can mean, you know, petitioning heaven over a matter
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  what prayer generally has to do with making or establishing
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  contact with God on the basis of His Word.
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  It's important that second part of the definition.
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  If it is not on the basis of His Word, you are not praying the
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  Bible way. You can make contact with God or
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  make contact with the realm of the Spirit or the Divine through
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  another route, like rituals, like whatever it is, that's not
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  the Bible's way. This definition, as simple as it
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  sounds, can deliver you from occultism.
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  There are many people who have found themselves victims of
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  extra biblical or cultic practices.
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  And just because it brings you returns of knowledge or answers
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  from the realm of the Spirit does not mean you are doing it
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  right. You don't have to be a wicked
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  person to double into principles of occultism.
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  I don't want to go into doing things that or describing things
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  that may sound offensive to many people, but in my little work
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  I've seen sometimes, and this particularly comes with the
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  prophetic ministry in an attempt to help people to pray and make
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  contact with heaven, they begin to introduce things and
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  introduce principles and practices that when you begin to
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  investigate from the lens of the world the individuals
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  practicing. It may not be evil.
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  They may not even intend to deceive.
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  It's just that the person who mentored them taught them that
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  this is how to access the realm of the spirit, administer
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  deliverance to many people who found themselves open to the
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  realm of the prophetic. They were sincere people, but
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  the routes that they followed to be open to the realm of the
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  prophetic, as per how they were mentored, upon investigating it,
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  you will know that they followed an occultic pathway and there
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  will be side effects. Just because the heart of the
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  person is sincere does not mean you are following God's way.
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  Is someone learning now? Yeah, I've ministered to people
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  who went somewhere sincerely. They didn't intend to go to a
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  native doctor. They just met maybe a man of God
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  or someone. Please activate the prophetic.
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  And they washed their eyes. They did all kinds of things and
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  truly they began to see others were giving certain things to
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  chant and they did it. Others were taken somewhere,
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  part, whatever, you know, all kinds of things.
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  So when I'm describing prayer so that we do not confuse it,
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  making contact with God on the basis of his word, you take away
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  that you are doing another kind of ritual.
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  Is someone learning? Yeah.
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  So I have taught you in this house a quick recap that there
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  are four major assignments of prayer, four major assignments
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  of prayer. Number one, the first assignment
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  of prayer is for your growth and your transformation.
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  And I'll talk a bit about that. The first assignment of prayer
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  for the believer is not even for receiving things.
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  In fact, a major part of your prayer life should be invested
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  in this area for your growth and for your transformation.
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  Luke 929 And as he prayed, the fashion of his countenance was
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  altered, and his raiment became white and glycerin.
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  A major part of your prayer life should not just be for receiving
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  things, but because you want to grow, you want to accent, you
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  want to evolve, you want to become a greater believer #2 The
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  second assignment of prayer is for making petitions and for
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  obtaining requests. Please write that down for
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  making petitions and for obtaining requests.
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  Making petitions, obtaining requests.
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  Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer, by prayer,
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  by prayer. Philippians 4/6 by prayer and
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  supplication. It says, Let your request be
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  made known unto God. The Bible says, He that told you
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  have not asked for anything. It says, Ask, and you shall
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  receive, that your joy may be full.
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  So the second assignment of prayer is for obtaining requests
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  for making petitions #3 The third assignment of prayer is
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  for spiritual legislation. That means you speak, things
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  seem to be you make decrease, you pass judgments, you
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  establish verdicts in the Spirit, declare doubt that he
• 2:19:07
  might just be justified. The Bible says so when?
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  You begin to pray and establish realities.
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  That are consistent with the will of God, consistent with the
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  word of God. Son of man, can these bones live
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  again? He said only down noise, and he
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  said prophecy. I prophesied as I was commanded,
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  and there was a sound. Hallelujah Press the name of the
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  Lord. Where the word of a king is,
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  there is power, not where the begging of a king is.
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  The third assignment of prayer is to make decrease to establish
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  spiritual realities. Spiritual legislation #4 The 4th
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  and final assignment of prayer. I believe there are many more,
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  but sufficient for a discussion tonight.
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  The 4th and the final assignment of prayer is for warfare and
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  intercession. For warfare and intercession, I
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  sought for a man to stand in the gap, to stand to stand at the
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  hedge, and there was no one. Ezekiel 2230I sought for a man
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  among them that should make up the hedge and stand in the gap
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  before me for the land, that I should not destroy it, but I
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  found none. Intercession warfare.
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  Every time you see believers, pray.
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  We are usually engaging prayer to achieve one of these four
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  goals. Number one, growth and
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  transformation #2 obtaining requests and establishing
• 2:20:35
  promises. Making requests and obtaining
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  promises #3 making spiritual decrees, legislating the Word of
• 2:20:44
  God to be made manifest and visible in your life, and then
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  #4 for warfare and intercession. Hallelujah.
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  Listen to my message. Effective prayer dynamics.
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  I think something like that, effective prayer dynamics.
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  I teach you on the various kinds of prayer.
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  I'll just touch two or three of them.
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  That's not what I'm discussing, but I needed to put this so that
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  whoever is watching weather as a rebroadcast, you can.
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  I don't make the assumption that you followed all other meetings.
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  That's why I'm taking out time to put this now.
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  The Bible says praying all kinds or all manner of prayer.
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  Prayer is not just a unilateral or unidirectional approach.
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  There are various kinds of prayers, and I list a few of
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  them for you very quickly. Yeah, beautiful Ephesians 618,
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  praying always with all prayer. Give us Amplified.
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  Let's see what Amplified says praying.
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  Can we see amplified? Yes, amplified.
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  That's what I'm looking for. It says praying at all times, on
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  every occasion, and in every season in the Spirit with all
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  manner of prayer. So there are different kinds of
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  prayer. Let me list a few of them for
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  you #1 there's what we call praying in the Spirit.
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  It is a kind of prayer. It's not the only kind of
• 2:22:13
  prayer. Praying in the Spirit, Praying
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  in the spirit #2 that is the prayer of Thanksgiving.
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  The prayer of Thanksgiving. Try to give you one more.
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  There is decrease the prayer of decrease.
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  That's why you are not asking, you are making decrease.
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  So you get the remaining from the teaching, effective prayer
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  dynamics. But there are different kinds of
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  prayer. That's the point.
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  Look up. Let me give you an example of
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  all of them. So when you pray in the Spirit
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  primarily, the Bible lets us know that the Holy Ghost is
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  praying the will of the Father through you.
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  Are we together? Yes, that we know not what to
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  pray for us. We ought to, but that the Holy
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  Spirit makes intercession for us in groanings which cannot be
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  altered. The KJV expression does not give
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  it. It doesn't really give it
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  context, as it were. The idea is not just groanings
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  that cannot be altered, is words that are not.
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  How does it put it amplified? Says in, with unspeakable
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  yearnings and groanings too deep for utterance.
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  The idea for many people is that you're not able to speak, but
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  that's, that's not the idea. You still are able to pray.
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  It's just that there are words that have not been learned.
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  They are not your usual lingua franca.
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  The Holy Spirit is taking advantage of your faculties and
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  praying the will of God in and through you.
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  And that is the primary channel for the edification dimension of
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  prayer. When you want to be edified, to
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  be built up, you submit to praying in the spirit #2 the
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  prayer of Thanksgiving. Let me tell you how it works.
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  If you listen to that teaching, you find out that I did a
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  thorough teaching there. I explained to you how you know
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  how to use it. But I want to give you an
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  example. Please look at me, all of you.
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  So there's a way I can say, Father, please give me, give me
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  a car or give me a house in the name of Jesus.
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  Lord bless my day. But the prayer of Thanksgiving
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  uses Thanksgiving is an act of faith.
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  So whatever you would have asked God for, you give thanks for it.
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  That's how you pray the prayer. So I give you an example, but I
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  thank you because you are faithful God thank you for this
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  day. I thank you because my going out
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  is blessed. I seen that I thank you because
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  my coming in is blessed. I thank you because help us are
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  stationed. So everything that is a request
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  is torn to Thanksgiving is an act of faith.
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  It is a kind of prayer. In fact, a major part I have
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  used this for years. A major part of my petitions is
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  not really directly requesting Lord give me.
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  I give thanks because I already I'm aware of his desire to give
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  it to me, so I give thanks. One practice of this was seen in
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  how Jesus resurrected Lazarus. This kind of prayer.
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  He didn't say Lord, I'm here again.
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  He said no, I thank you, I thank you.
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  They took away the stone and he said, Father, I thank thee that
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  thou has heard me. Is someone learning now?
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  Is a very powerful model of prayer.
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  Lord, I thank you because I know my day is blessed.
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  I thank you because I know this issue of house rent.
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  You have gone ahead of me. Your word says you will make my
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  crooked part straight. And I thank you by faith.
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  You see, it takes a level of maturity to start praying that
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  prayer because there are believers who are not satisfied
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  until you tell God everything the way it is.
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  And He created a model for you too that thank you one.
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  It looks like you are cheated in the thing you want to really.
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  Bring it down and let God hear everything.
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  You know there are people who pray as if they are quarreling
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  God they now say father Alpha Omega beginning and the end land
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  of the tribe of Judah. Then they now really turn and
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  say God, you see the the way things are right now God, I'm
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  I'm telling you, you are not you don't live in Zaria.
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  I've been watching that one comes on that petition and the
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  rest, but matured believers who know God, they turn their
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  request to Thanksgiving someone say thank you Jesus again say
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  thank you Jesus. It's a very powerful prayer
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  model. I tell you that sometimes whilst
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  you are speaking God is already answering because the Bible says
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  be anxious for nothing. It says in everything by prayer
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  and supplication. We've that's it right there we
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  if you omit the Thanksgiving part, then you don't have faith
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  you don't have faith. There are times that people may
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  be making requests. They may be saying I should help
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  them with something. And then sometimes I've not even
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  told them I would give them maybe same money.
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  Someone is saying please help me 10 naira.
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  And I'm saying, what is it for? And the person says, well, maybe
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  for school or something. And I say, oh, I see that means
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  you're a serious student. The person starts thanking me
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  immediately. I've not said bring your
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  account, say thank you, Sir, thank you.
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  Because in their mind they just believe it is done.
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  And sometimes I feel indebted. I now say, OK, you see this,
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  this what happens between US and God.
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  What's up? If you now say send your account
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  number, they don't need to see. They start thanking you.
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  Thank you and sometimes they use a thank you as a reminder.
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  This is me thanking you again. It's a very wonderful way to
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  remind people instead of the so I've been waiting.
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  I'm near, I've been standing at the ATM for two hours.
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  How is that the person's business?
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  Thank you. Is someone learning again?
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  Someone said thank you Jesus. Now begin to mention a few
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  things you are thanking him for. I'm not just talking of the
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  things he has done, even the things you are trusting Him to
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  do. I'm showing you a powerful
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  prayer strategy. Lord, thank you because I know
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  my year ends well. Thank you for January, February,
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  March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October,
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  November. I thank you for 2020. 6 I thank
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  you because my rent is fully paid by the power of the Holy
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  Spirit. I thank you because it is well
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  with me. Someone pray, I thank you
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  because the challenges that I now face, I know in the name of
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  Jesus that they will return to praise.
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  I thank you because my faith will fail.
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  Not one minute. Someone tell him thank you,
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  don't doubt, say thank you. All things have not yet lined up
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  in my life, but I give you thanks, I give you thanks, I
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  give you thanks, I give you thanks, I give you thanks, I
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  give you thanks, I praise you because I will have the last
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  laugh. I thank you in Jesus name.
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  We pray you see that strategy of prayer.
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  You turn your requests to Thanksgiving, you verbalize them
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  as though it's already done, and you give thanks.
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  How about spiritual legislation? That one, you are not talking to
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  God, you are speaking to things or you are creating.
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  When you pray that kind of prayer, you are not asking, you
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  are declaring, you are establishing.
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  For instance, in the name of Jesus, I am the head and not the
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  tail. I decree and declare.
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  My day is blessed. I decree and declare.
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  Gentiles, come to my light now I'm not talking to God.
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  I'm not talking to God, I'm reaffirming homologio.
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  I'm repeating that which God has said.
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  Let the redeemed of the Lord say so.
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  So you are not. Prayer is not always talking to
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  God. It is generically talking to
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  God. But prayer sometimes is
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  establishing spiritual realities.
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  You are using your lips of faith, empowered by the Spirit,
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  and you're establishing things. It is well with me in the name
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  of Jesus, my going out is blessed.
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  My coming in is blessed. Who is learning now?
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  I'm teaching you how to pray because many of you pray, but
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  you don't know how to pray your prayer if you are not praying.
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  In tongues, it's better to even stay there.
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  At least the Holy Ghost is helping you.
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  Once you switch to understanding, you are
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  completely praying amiss. It's a very powerful prayer
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  model. In the name of Jesus I am
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  blessed. My going out is blessed.
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  My coming in is blessed. The lines fall for me in
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  pleasant places. I have a goodly heritage.
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  I decree and declare The hand of the Lord is upon my head in the
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  name of. Jesus Christ, the wisdom of God
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  is not working me. This is me speaking or in the
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  name of Jesus, I decree and declare.
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  Every force of darkness clears the way for me.
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  The Bible says I've been raised up with Christ.
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  You are not asking God. He's done it already.
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  It is finished already. You are making that decree to
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  establish it in your own life forever.
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  Oh Lord, the world is settled in heaven, not in your life.
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  It takes faith, and you're releasing the power of faith to
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  make it settled in your life. Is someone learning now I shall
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  not die, but live and declare the works of the Lord.
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  I am the children that the Lord has given me.
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  We are for science. You are praying, but it's a kind
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  of prayer. You are not giving thanks.
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  You are not making petitions. You are reaffirming.
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  You are establishing what God has said.
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  The bones did not come back to life because the Holy Ghost said
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  it. It was when the prophet repeated
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  what the Holy Ghost said, there was a sound.
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  So some of you, you have found what God has said, but you have
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  not repeated it yet. That's why there's no sound.
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  If you have said it, then I say it too.
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  Is someone learning there's? I cannot leave my house to go
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  and start my day. This is a kind of prayer that
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  even if you are busy, you can say there are some kinds of
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  prayers, especially the prayer of fellowship.
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  You need time. That one is intimacy, Koinonia,
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  but there are some kinds. When you are making decrease,
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  you can make decrease while you are driving.
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  In the name of Jesus, I decree and declare by the power of the
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  Holy Spirit, my going out is blessed.
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  My coming in is blessed. Are we together now?
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  You don't need to say, oh, I'm distracted.
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  You don't need a special time for that kind of prayer.
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  That one you, whether you are a priest or king, you can pray
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  that one. There are certain levels of
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  prayer that they demand that you put on your priestly regalia
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  because it's deep fellowship. You can't have a deep time of
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  fellowship with the Holy Spirit while you are driving or
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  watching news or doing whatever. You need a dedicated time, but
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  when you are making decrease, even if you are busy in the
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  office, in the name of Jesus you are marking your student script.
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  I declare by the power of the Holy Spirit, His wisdom is not
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  working me. Favor gravitates towards me.
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  By the power of the Holy Spirit. Everything good comes my way.
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  Evil is far from me. I am Beulah, I am Hephzibah.
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  The hand of God is not working me.
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  In the name of Jesus. Everyone who looks upon me
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  desires to favor me, because the hand of God is upon my life.
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  I am circumspecting my ways is someone.
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  Standing now effective prayer models.
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  Now let me give you the transforming power of prayer.
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  Time is up. That one part is what I want to
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  talk about. When God wants to build a man
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  spiritually, He exposes you to the ministry of prayer by the
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  Holy Ghost. Please listen.
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  And when you are exposed to the ministry of prayer by the Holy
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  Ghost, among the many things that happened to you in the
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  place of prayer is that you engage extensive periods of
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  praying in the Spirit. Now the purpose of praying in
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  the spirit for that extensive period of time, it's not a one
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  off thing. It's something that you stretch
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  two seasons. Among the many things it does to
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  you is to transform you. The word transform means to
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  change you from within. Are we learning now?
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  The only example I can give to you is a reptile molting.
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  If you've seen a snake mold, you see the.
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  Former self out the dry self. Usually the new version of the
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  snake is larger, is enlarged, it is bigger.
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  That's what happens to you when you pray.
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  So the weak version of you comes to the place of prayer.
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  The canal version comes to the place of prayer.
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  The doubtful version comes to the place of prayer.
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  As you begin to engage, you are being transformed.
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  And when I say you are being transformed, it's not a vague
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  concept. There are certain changes that
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  begin to happen to you and I want to list them for you.
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  If these things don't happen to you in the place of prayer, you
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  are not being transformed by prayer #1 the first thing that
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  happens to you when you are praying the prayer of
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  transformation is that God reviews to you the true state of
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  your heart. A revelation of the true state
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  of your heart is the first thing that happens.
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  It is going to be difficult for you to contend for
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  transformation until God reviews to you.
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  The true state of your heart war is me.
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  I am undone. I am a man of unclean lips, and
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  I dwell amidst the people of unclean lips.
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  Can I tell you when prayer is really changing you?
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  The first thing that comes is not power.
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  The first thing that comes is a revelation of the two.
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  You will see your inadequacies. You will see your weaknesses.
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  You will see your limitations. God will make them glaring
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  before you, not to condemn you or to let you deal with them.
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  The an exposition of the flesh is what you will see there.
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  So while you think you are all right, by the time you begin to
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  pray, the Holy Ghost is like opening up a chapter and you
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  begin to see certain things. You see that happen to Isaiah
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  the prophet. You would have looked at Isaiah.
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  He was not a fake man of God. He was a prophet.
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  You thought everything was all right, but as he subjected
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  himself, there was an exposition of the state of his heart.
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  In the year that King Uzziah died, I, Isaiah, saw the Lord.
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  Are we together? He was seated upon the throne,
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  high and exalted. The train of his row filled the
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  temple. Look at Isaiah's verdict.
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  He says, Who is me? I am undone, and I am among a
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  people of unclean lips. God did not say how you are too
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  harsh on yourself. No, let me tell you how God does
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  it. In the place of prayer, He
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  exposes you to His Holiness. When He exposes you to His
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  Holiness, it does something to you.
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  He won't let it condemn you, but it will have an impact on you,
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  the holiness of God. He exposes you the weight of His
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  Holiness. It reveals the field of your
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  heart. It reveals the tendencies of the
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  flesh. And then He comes as a God of
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  love and says now that this and that is there and you have seen
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  it, let's begin to work on it. Oh, there is pride here, there
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  is lust here, there is jealousy here.
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  You will be embarrassed because usually you go to the place of
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  prayers emoji going to receive more power and God will say,
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  leave this one. This is not a power issue.
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  Let's deal with this better. Let me be the one to deal with
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  it. I'm kind, I'm merciful, I'm
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  loving the world is not. If you will let them deal with
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  it, they will kill you. It's better for me to be the one
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  to deal with it. And then you lie down before him
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  and say, God have mercy on me, and he begins to walk.
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  You are changing. Prayer is changing you.
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  Are you seeing that now? For most people, when they go to
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  the place of prayer, their mind is just on receiving.
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  And while these two is also receiving, but they are not
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  concerned about growth. They just want God give me, all
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  right, God, I'm there now what can you give me?
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  Anointing I wanted, the prophetic I wanted.
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  And then they make some declarations and they go out.
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  You find out that those people will be praying for many years.
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  They are getting answers, but if you look at them, you don't see
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  changes. There are people like that.
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  They are very prayerful, but they are still wicked.
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  They are very prayerful, but they are still full of loss.
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  They are still full of hate. They are still full of anger.
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  I mean, they can pray, but you don't see God in them.
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  They have not tapped into the transformative power of prayer.
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  Are we together? You can preach, you can sing,
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  but the anger is still there, it didn't die.
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  The hatred is still there, it didn't die.
• 2:39:29
  The lost is still there. It didn't die.
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  The unforgiveness is there, it didn't die.
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  That means prayer is not changing you.
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  You are receiving through the channel of prayer, but you are
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  not being changed by it. The proof you are changed by it
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  is that when you see a man having a character challenge,
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  give him one wand. You won't find it again one day,
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  you'll just see he's not around for two days, three days, and he
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  comes out of that place literally like a cloth that has
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  been washed with bleach because the Holy Ghost has done
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  something there. He's removed that filthy
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  garment. Is someone learning now, Zarya?
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  It is good to pray. Believe us, it is good to pray.
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  The most important aspect of prayer.
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  Is tapping into the transformative dimension of
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  prayer. There are many things you may
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  not need to ask for when you are changed.
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  I can tell you that when I go to pray, sometimes I don't ask for
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  things I just said. Lord, you are the only person
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  who has the truest verdict about my life.
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  Search my heart, try my thoughts.
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  I never go to the place of prayer as an emoji.
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  It has. Killed people, it has deceived
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  people until they lost their bishopric.
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  I won't be that stupid if I'm before God is an audience of
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  one, I can cry before him and roll there and tell him.
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  Search my heart, search my heart and let me tell you this
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  purification is in levels. There are times where if God
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  should touch an area of your life, it will be too harsh A
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  discipline based on your spiritual level.
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  So He will build you up and hold for a while and let you see the
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  result for submitting to that training so that the next time
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  He comes, even though it is painfully circumcision, you have
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  seen the benefit of living that level.
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  Somebody learning now. So God will not come with a one
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  off training. The weight will be too much on
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  you, so the fact that he kept quiet.
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  You can have three major areas, maybe character flaws.
• 2:41:29
  He will touch one and you think he did not see the other two.
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  He just leaves you so that you grow a bit.
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  Then later on he comes. And says OK.
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  Let's deal with this now. I dealt with lost.
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  You are free from lost, but there's still pride and there's
• 2:41:42
  a tendency to be a thief in the future.
• 2:41:45
  I left that one. I wanted you to at least attend
• 2:41:48
  two or three meetings. First, see the power that comes
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  from it. Then one day He will call you.
• 2:41:54
  Now let me tell you what happens to many believers.
• 2:41:56
  Please listen. We're about to pray.
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  When you start getting results from your initial purification
• 2:42:03
  process, it beguiles you that you have graduated from the
• 2:42:07
  school of transformation. So the next time God calls you
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  say no. Somebody suffering from loss
• 2:42:12
  cannot get this result. Someone's having pride cannot
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  get this result. And God is giving you His own
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  verdict, and when you argue with Him, He will leave you.
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  But the challenge is that when you now wrestle with Him and He
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  lets you be, the only other way is to use the furnace of
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  affliction. Your pride is going to drive you
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  on reverse gear until something happens one day.
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  It will be more embarrassing, it will be more painful, even
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  though it to still walk out the glory of God in you.
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  You don't like what I'm saying. This is how we are changing the
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  place of prayer. So you go to the place of prayer
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  and He's walking on you. You are spending time for hours,
• 2:42:59
  but you are not asking for anything.
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  Sometimes He will demand you to just be silent and you stay
• 2:43:05
  there. And that glory rests on you and
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  it starts revealing to you a number of things.
• 2:43:11
  You start seeing that you don't have the capacity to handle that
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  1 billion yet that 1,000,000 yet.
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  And you start praying. Lord, grant me grace.
• 2:43:20
  Grant me grace. Is someone praying?
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  Now grant me grace. I have tendencies.
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  I have tendencies. I saw that tendency in secondary
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  school, but it just I thought it had left.
• 2:43:33
  Let me tell you something with the tendencies of the flesh.
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  Because it hides, it can. Hide in such a way you would
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  think you are free from it. It is waiting for a RAM that
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  activates its operation. You may think you are free.
• 2:43:47
  After 10 years, it will wake up one day from nowhere and you
• 2:43:51
  have you find yourself. Just say that it's not just an
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  attack, it's been there. It was not killed.
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  That's why you must stay in His presence.
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  And let me tell you this, believe the verdict of God
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  concerning you. If God tells you there is pride,
• 2:44:05
  don't argue, no matter how humble you think you are.
• 2:44:09
  Just lie down flat on the ground and say, God, I can't lie before
• 2:44:12
  men, but can I lie before you? Search my heart.
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  I show you how the mighty are made through prayer.
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  Most people pray, but they have not benefited from the blessings
• 2:44:23
  of prayer because most times when we go to the place of
• 2:44:26
  prayer, we just pocket our hands.
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  Shala da Bah, Bah, Bah, Bah, Bah, Bah, Bah, Bah.
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  And then you are checking your phone and you are laughing.
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  They just send a phony text and you just respond and say I'm
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  coming, Bah. Bah.
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  Bah Bah Bah. Lord, I thank you.
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  I'm about to go for this powerful meeting.
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  Oh God, they are depending on me.
• 2:44:41
  The seeker depend you are not being transformed if the prayer
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  is not useless, but these are elementary levels in prayer.
• 2:44:47
  Until you get to a point where the burden of the Lord comes on
• 2:44:51
  you, you will start crying for things you don't know.
• 2:44:54
  You see that now you are literally you have become a
• 2:44:57
  puppet. Something from God has entered
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  you, and you are just crying there and weeping.
• 2:45:04
  Before the Lord and somebody would think you have done
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  something that maybe, but you're in His presence.
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  Lord help me, show me mercy from that place.
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  Something happens to you. You will know something has
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  happened by the next time you go for a meeting.
• 2:45:20
  You are not going conscious to see power manifestation.
• 2:45:23
  You are just going as an ambassador.
• 2:45:27
  Sometimes you can just stand there and say Hallelujah, glory
• 2:45:30
  be to God and that weight that Shekinah would just rest on the
• 2:45:36
  people. You see someone you know that
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  says stop one person. But in that silence and you know
• 2:45:42
  there's an upgrade in the spirit.
• 2:45:44
  You have enlarged in the spirit. Prayer has changed you, the same
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  thing you said before, you will say now without changing it, but
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  the effect will be like a hammer that is resting on destinies.
• 2:45:58
  You don't have to be able to shout, and AT Pentecostal you
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  are coming from a place. Gabriel said.
• 2:46:05
  I am Gabriel, you see that from the presence of the Lord in whom
• 2:46:11
  I stand. A revelation of the true state
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  #2 how do you know you are transformed?
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  You will begin to receive spiritual endowments.
• 2:46:32
  In the place of prayer, you will begin to receive spiritual
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  endowments. I listed 2 yesterday.
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  I will list it for you. There are at least eight or nine
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  of them of these spiritual endowments that you receive in
• 2:46:47
  the place of prayer as proof you are changing.
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  But I will give you 2. Listen everybody, number one,
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  intelligence, high level intelligence, you start
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  receiving it in the place of prayer.
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  A man who is changed by prayer, something starts happening to
• 2:47:04
  your understanding and alteration of the way you
• 2:47:08
  understand things. You will understand things at a
• 2:47:11
  frequency. That sometimes scares you when
• 2:47:15
  you see someone who has submitted to the transformative
• 2:47:18
  power of the Spirit. Even in analyzing life, they
• 2:47:21
  come with angles. That you're wondering how did I
• 2:47:24
  not see it this way? It is part of the gifts, the
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  tokens that come in the place of prayer.
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  As proof you have been transformed intelligence.
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  Write it down is very important. One way you know that someone
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  has subjected himself to the ministry of prayer for his
• 2:47:41
  transformation. I'm telling you his
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  intelligence. Whether you are educated or not,
• 2:47:47
  if you submit yourself to the ministry of prayer, you will
• 2:47:51
  have a high level intelligence. You will import many things from
• 2:47:55
  the realm of the Spirit. You will.
• 2:47:57
  You will have. Understanding of things you did
• 2:48:00
  not remember reading in scripture.
• 2:48:02
  You will now open the Bible in verse you have looked at every
• 2:48:05
  day and you will just see it come to another dimension.
• 2:48:09
  You see it now, you will stand to preach, and the notes you
• 2:48:13
  prepared is not what you will end up saying because you have
• 2:48:16
  been overtaken by the spirit of wisdom that came to you in the
• 2:48:19
  place of. Prayer intelligence is someone
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  learning. Another endowment you receive is
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  utterance. Utterance.
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  The capacity to speak, not oratory utterance.
• 2:48:39
  If prayer is really changing you, one of the gifts you must
• 2:48:43
  eventually. Receive in the secret place is
• 2:48:46
  utterance the capacity to communicate spiritual realities
• 2:48:50
  with such depth and power. Such depth and power. 5 People
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  can say the same thing, but the effect will not be the same
• 2:49:00
  because for one you are speaking just based on knowledge, another
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  person is speaking under the influence of utterance.
• 2:49:07
  Somebody will open John 316 and say not necessarily anything,
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  but you will see that the way you are saying it, the examples
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  you use, the songs you sing while saying it, is not
• 2:49:20
  something that is premeditated. It comes as a result of
• 2:49:24
  utterance. Utterance is the capacity to
• 2:49:26
  make men here and understand what you are saying.
• 2:49:30
  The way God intended it to be is called utterance.
• 2:49:33
  You can have oratory grammatic prowess that is important, but
• 2:49:39
  if you don't have utterance, you will never be a communicator of
• 2:49:43
  divine realities. Many of you have been looking
• 2:49:46
  for utterance. It's not an impartation.
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  Go and get it in the place of prayer.
• 2:49:50
  Stay there and keep praying. Stay there and keep praying.
• 2:49:55
  Stay there and keep praying. You will test what you have
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  gotten in the secret. When God gives you an
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  opportunity one day they call you and say, please can you help
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  us? You just have 5 minutes.
• 2:50:07
  Just wrap up this prayer. Just wrap up this prayer.
• 2:50:11
  And so just tell us something about trusting God and wrap up
• 2:50:14
  the prayer and you will just collect the mic.
• 2:50:17
  You did not premeditate it. You will be so flattered by what
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  you will say. You want to listen to your
• 2:50:22
  message because as they are giving you that credit, you know
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  that you have no hand in what you are saying.
• 2:50:29
  It will cause you to go back again and say, God, let's do
• 2:50:31
  this thing. I I've seen the benefit.
• 2:50:34
  I've seen the benefit. Let me tell you this one of the
• 2:50:37
  greatest gifts you can get. Do I say this?
• 2:50:43
  It is one of the true riches is utterance, the ability to
• 2:50:48
  communicate truth with power. It will bring you favor.
• 2:50:52
  It will open doors for you. Do you know, as a preacher of
• 2:50:56
  the gospel, especially if you're in ministry, don't just pray for
• 2:50:59
  knowledge. You must pray for utterance.
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  You can know what you know, but not say it in a way that people
• 2:51:05
  understand. They will not place a demand on
• 2:51:07
  the grace of God upon you. The real gift is not just in the
• 2:51:12
  knowledge alone for the utterance.
• 2:51:14
  Maybe God is helping somebody, a man of God.
• 2:51:16
  You are wondering why you know so much, but nobody wants to
• 2:51:19
  listen to you. What you lack is utterance.
• 2:51:22
  Your Bible studies, well, keep learning your doctrine, but go
• 2:51:26
  and submit yourself to prayer. Put worship and keep pressing.
• 2:51:30
  Do it every day. Do it every day.
• 2:51:33
  You are You are robbing minds with the Spirit.
• 2:51:36
  Your vocabulary will start changing, not by copying.
• 2:51:40
  This will be divine to know the right words, to use the right
• 2:51:44
  examples, to use the right persuasions and stresses.
• 2:51:48
  How to structure your communication.
• 2:51:51
  That one, you cannot learn it, it comes from heaven, comes from
• 2:51:59
  heaven. Show me somebody who has a sound
• 2:52:03
  knowledge of the world but has not prayed who get this
• 2:52:07
  utterance. You will see that what they are
• 2:52:09
  saying is true, but it's not a defying.
• 2:52:12
  And you are wondering why it's not a lie.
• 2:52:14
  Everything they are saying is doctrinally sound.
• 2:52:17
  But that penetrating power, No, it's like bringing groundnut.
• 2:52:21
  You have not broken it through for the real thing, the real
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  not. You need to bless people.
• 2:52:27
  This is a very powerful secret. Most times when you pray as a
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  man of God, especially when God helps you, it is not so much to
• 2:52:35
  get new revelation, but it is that uttrance will rest upon
• 2:52:38
  what you are saying that the opening of your mouth.
• 2:52:41
  God, pray for uttrance or if you want to do ministry and last,
• 2:52:48
  don't just pray for knowledge, pray for uttrance.
• 2:52:50
  My washing people pray for uttrance.
• 2:52:53
  You can have a good voice to sing, but the moment you open
• 2:52:56
  your mouth to say 1-5 minutes charge, you just cut everything
• 2:53:00
  because there's no uttrance. You see people like that.
• 2:53:02
  It's better to just sing and go back.
• 2:53:11
  And can I tell you this, when uttrance comes, it also gives
• 2:53:15
  vocabulary to the kinds of songs that you bring.
• 2:53:19
  No mad. Whatever may come my way, how
• 2:53:26
  far, How far, How far? This is not composition, no.
• 2:53:33
  No matter whatever may come my way.
• 2:53:40
  How far, How far, How far? When you hear certain songs that
• 2:53:52
  resonate in your spirit, it looks as if your heart is being
• 2:53:55
  pierced with multiple swords. That thing you see is a spirit
• 2:54:00
  communication. They just gave it earthly words.
• 2:54:03
  That's why your spirit man cannot resist.
• 2:54:05
  It there are songs when you hear you appreciate it, but you know
• 2:54:09
  that I am not criticizing. But this, this thing, there's no
• 2:54:13
  life. You know it is dead.
• 2:54:15
  You even forget it as soon as you're done singing it.
• 2:54:18
  But there are songs that come with life.
• 2:54:20
  I'm showing you the transformative power of prayer.
• 2:54:23
  My life changed when I found this.
• 2:54:25
  It's a secret I will never leave.
• 2:54:27
  Ladies and gentlemen, I know you pray, but the reason why prayer
• 2:54:31
  has not changed us is because you don't know how to align to
• 2:54:34
  the Holy Ghost. You just do.
• 2:54:35
  Bah, Bah, Bah Bah. It doesn't.
• 2:54:36
  I don't care whether you do. 13 hours there.
• 2:54:39
  You see that now? It is not necessarily about the
• 2:54:43
  time spent alone, but that understanding what God seeks to
• 2:54:47
  do that you are going to the place of prayer.
• 2:54:49
  Now you're saying, Lord, I'm going to grow, I'm going to be
• 2:54:52
  transformed. And whilst you are pressing,
• 2:54:55
  whilst you are pressing, songs begin to come.
• 2:54:58
  That's another thing that that you get as proof that you have
• 2:55:02
  been changed by prayer. Whether you are a musician or
• 2:55:05
  not, within the cause of your prayer, you must get a line, a
• 2:55:10
  phrase. Sometimes you sing it for the
• 2:55:12
  cause of the prayer, then it dies.
• 2:55:14
  Sometimes it's not even for the public.
• 2:55:16
  It's a channel for communication.
• 2:55:18
  It is impossible to not have new songs.
• 2:55:22
  Impossible. Do not be drunk with wine, but
• 2:55:27
  be he wedding in excess, but he be filled with the Spirit.
• 2:55:33
  Verse 19. When you are filled with the
• 2:55:35
  Spirit, you will speak to yourselves in psalms, in hymns,
• 2:55:41
  in spiritual songs, not just in words.
• 2:55:46
  You can go to the place of prayer and while you are
• 2:55:48
  worshipping, you are just singing in the Holy Ghost.
• 2:55:51
  One line will just stay there. Sometimes there may not be words
• 2:55:55
  on that line, it may be a melody, and with every time as
• 2:55:58
  you are singing it, something is happening in your spirit, like a
• 2:56:01
  river pouring into you. Sometimes when you have music
• 2:56:05
  knowledge, you can trap it down, then develop it and add words to
• 2:56:08
  it. But sometimes most people don't
• 2:56:11
  have that knowledge, but they stay there.
• 2:56:13
  Listen, if you are not a serious believer, what I'm saying now
• 2:56:17
  will not profit you. You will not really understand
• 2:56:19
  what I'm. Saying.
• 2:56:21
  You have to have a certain threshold passion for God, for
• 2:56:24
  what I'm telling you tonight to profit you.
• 2:56:30
  Hallelujah. That's how many of these songs
• 2:56:36
  you hear or sing. That's how it came.
• 2:56:38
  Lay the weight of your glory For let it cover all the earths.
• 2:56:46
  Let it cover all the earths. Let it come, Let it come.
• 2:57:09
  There are many more songs that should come that should help
• 2:57:13
  believers know God worship people.
• 2:57:16
  Let me give you an assignment. Sing, but please pray.
• 2:57:22
  Don't just gather together and learn songs.
• 2:57:25
  Are we together? There are times you come for
• 2:57:28
  rehearsals. Obtain grace from God.
• 2:57:30
  You can stay one hour, one hour 30.
• 2:57:33
  Minutes may not be all the time, but you are praying.
• 2:57:36
  Just put worship to be playing and you are praying.
• 2:57:40
  Praying in the Spirit. You will see what will begin to
• 2:57:42
  happen to your worship. You don't need to come and
• 2:57:45
  become pastors on stage. You are carrying a revelation
• 2:57:50
  and understanding. Lines will come from those
• 2:57:53
  songs. Trap them.
• 2:57:54
  Sometimes they will come to bless the nation, but God can
• 2:57:57
  use it and bring bread to you. Listen to what I'm telling you.
• 2:58:01
  When you share a worshipper who prays versus a worshipper who
• 2:58:06
  just sings. The difference is unmistakably
• 2:58:09
  clear. Unmistakably clear, Sir,
• 2:58:12
  unmistakably clear. You see this from Hosanna.
• 2:58:16
  He was in the place of prayer. I wrote the remaining for that
• 2:58:20
  Hosanna. Hey, I didn't write it.
• 2:58:22
  I was praying and I had it. Send now help.
• 2:58:26
  I said what is this one again? And then the hand of God came
• 2:58:31
  upon me. I began to write what it has
• 2:58:34
  become today. The same way songs come.
• 2:58:40
  That's how solutions will come, because we are praying and all
• 2:58:45
  of a sudden a word will come. It's time to leave Syria.
• 2:58:50
  That's it. Listen, never move until that
• 2:58:53
  Rhema war comes. If you move, you will make a
• 2:58:56
  costly assumption. Are we together?
• 2:59:01
  I can tell you points in my life.
• 2:59:03
  The first conference we had abroad, that's how we came.
• 2:59:07
  It was in the place of prayer. It's not a usual thing for
• 2:59:10
  ministry to have a conference abroad when you've not had your
• 2:59:13
  conference back home. But God said so and then took us
• 2:59:17
  to the largest indoor theater in the whole of UK on a weekday.
• 2:59:22
  Something must be wrong with you to do that kind of thing.
• 2:59:25
  But that's what God said, the place of prayer.
• 2:59:28
  Let me tell you, if you get that secret, you will come up with
• 2:59:33
  things that don't make sense, but the results that your life,
• 2:59:37
  your journey may look slower than usual, but every step you
• 2:59:41
  take, you will not go back again.
• 2:59:42
  You will never go back again. Father, what do I need to do?
• 2:59:47
  You brought me to the earth. There is a strategy for my
• 2:59:50
  finances. I am not lazy, but I'm tired of
• 2:59:53
  popping everybody. Go back and submit yourself.
• 2:59:56
  One day you are praying and God will say through your worship
• 3:00:00
  ministry, your bread will come. You will start taking your
• 3:00:03
  worship ministry seriously. Or God will say, I put God can.
• 3:00:07
  He has many ways to help you. He can give you a revelation of
• 3:00:12
  the fish. Where you can ask you where was
• 3:00:15
  the coin taken from the fish? You said the mouth instead of
• 3:00:19
  put your coin in your own mouth, know how to bring it out.
• 3:00:22
  That can be a revelation immediately you know that this
• 3:00:25
  one God has said I will bless you through the platform of
• 3:00:28
  ministry. It will minimize you wasting
• 3:00:31
  time throwing things around. If coin came from the mouth of
• 3:00:35
  the fish, are we together? Then it means he can bring, he
• 3:00:39
  can use your utterance. Would settle you and bring bread
• 3:00:43
  to your table. Our time is spent.
• 3:00:48
  What you are going to spend will end by 9:30.
• 3:00:52
  This is 915. We're going to pray for 10
• 3:00:55
  minutes. Serious prayer inside and
• 3:00:57
  outside. Hallelujah.
• 3:01:00
  We're going to hold hands and we'll pray.
• 3:01:03
  I want us to stretch in the Spirit for 15 minutes.
• 3:01:07
  I want God to do something in someone's life.
• 3:01:09
  Please don't be tired. It's a training that is for our
• 3:01:12
  good. After that, maybe we'll just
• 3:01:15
  sing Hosanna once, twice, and then we'll wrap up.
• 3:01:18
  We'll prepare for tomorrow. Tomorrow we'll have the time to
• 3:01:20
  pray and minister and doing partition.
• 3:01:23
  But now I want us to pray. I want us to pray.
• 3:01:30
  I want us to pray for the next 10 minutes as you pray.
• 3:01:36
  I like you to see God changing you.
• 3:01:39
  For some of you while you are praying, you will be showing you
• 3:01:41
  the areas to walk on. Don't wrestle with the Spirit.
• 3:01:45
  He will be showing you areas of the flesh that you need to walk
• 3:01:50
  on. If you need to quickly pick a
• 3:01:52
  pen or your phone and type it, do so.
• 3:01:56
  And then for some of you, as you are praying, be mindful of the
• 3:01:59
  things that keep coming, Utterance, intelligence, open
• 3:02:04
  your mouth and. Begin to pray in the Spirit.
• 3:02:25
  Can we have two or three or four mikes?
• 3:02:40
  Lift your voice.
• 3:03:08
  Learning to live by the world. Happening to the transformation
• 3:03:13
  power of press. None.
• 3:04:27
  None. None.
• 3:05:27
  In Jesus name we pray. In Jesus name we pray.
• 3:05:33
  Tomorrow I'll show you hopefully the remaining things that will
• 3:05:37
  get. One of them is that you'll be
• 3:05:40
  open to the realm of visions, the power of sight.
• 3:05:44
  You will receive the gift of sight.
• 3:05:46
  Jeremiah 33 and verse three. Call on to me and I will answer
• 3:05:51
  you, and you will get to a realm where that answer will come as
• 3:05:54
  the things you see I will show you.
• 3:05:57
  Great and mighty. Things great and mighty things.
• 3:06:02
  I like you to pray this. There are things God tells you,
• 3:06:05
  but there are things He shows you.
• 3:06:07
  I like you to pray, Lord. Open my eyes, open my eyes, open
• 3:06:12
  my eyes, open my eyes. Open my eyes.
• 3:06:49
  Open my eyes. Rescore sight, Sight in the
• 3:07:03
  great and mighty things. None.
• 3:08:16
  None. In Jesus name we pray.
• 3:08:34
  In Jesus name we pray. He said leave me for the day
• 3:08:39
  breaketh. He said I will not let you go
• 3:08:43
  until you bless me. And that blessing was not
• 3:08:46
  something he gave. He changed him.
• 3:08:51
  He said, what is your name? He said I am Jacob.
• 3:08:54
  He said thou shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel for us,
• 3:08:58
  a Prince. You have had power with God, and
• 3:09:02
  you have prevailed He. Touched the hollow of his tie,
• 3:09:07
  left him crippled, and blessed him, the Bible says when he
• 3:09:12
  blessed him. The sun arose, and he called the
• 3:09:15
  place Penny L. For I have seen God face to
• 3:09:18
  face, and my life is preserved. The patience will see your face.
• 3:11:05
  You are running. Hallelujah.
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  I release grace upon you for the secret place.
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  Grace upon you for the secret place.
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  Listen, this night is not for receiving material things.
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  Tonight is spirit business. We're discussing very serious
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  spiritual things. Tomorrow we can pray over
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  whatever it is, but this one is to make you an effective person.
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  I pray for you, for someone. You are receiving the gift of
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  sight. I stretch my hands.
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  You will see. Things And in case you were
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  walking in this revelatory realm and something happened that has
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  blinded you, I placed grace upon you right now.
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  I placed grace upon you right now.
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  I placed grace upon you right now.
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  I placed grace upon you right now.
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  Declare restoration over your capacity to see.
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  I pray for you. Whatever has killed your prayer
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  life, worshippers, walkers, every battle over your prayer
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  life to cripple you so that you are not changed, so that you do
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  not become mighty, I decree and declare fresh fire on that
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  altar, fresh fire on that altar, fresh fire on that altar, fresh
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  fire on that altar where you have given yourself to prayer
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  but you have not subscribed to the transformative power of
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  prayer. I pray for you.
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  From tonight, the evidence of being prayerful will start
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  showing in your life. You will not be praying for
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  nothing. You will pray and you will be
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  changed. You will not just pray and
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  receive things, You will pray and you will be transformed.
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  Let me let me tell you this for some of you, by reason of what
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  you'll be learning today and tomorrow, I tell you this,
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  nations will start placing a demand on the grace upon your
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  life. People will start calling you
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  from different territories to come and sing His praises, to
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  come and declare His counsel in the name of Jesus.
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  Where you have knowledge without utterance.
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  I pray for you. May my God grant you the gift of
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  utterance in Jesus name. We pray, Wave your hands to
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  Jesus. We have two minutes and we're
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  done. Amen.
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  Now, just a quick, a quick announcement and then we're
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  ready #1 the doors for the School of Ministry.
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  Let me just say that quickly so that we get that out of the way.
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  We have officially opened up doors for School of Ministry
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  media. Do you have it?
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  Not sure you have it to project. OK, beautiful.
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  So for our Abuja and Zarya campus, so those within Zarya
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  and environs, please make sure you take advantage of it
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  quickly. We already have, you know, the
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  spaces running out. Let's see how many people were
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  able to get, we have an average of usually an average of about
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  5000, you know, applications, but sadly we're not able to take
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  everybody. We're hoping to expand our
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  capacity by the grace of God, so we'll do that.
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  So all who are interested, please get the idea to your
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  friends and your loved ones, those who need to be mentored
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  structurally to learn the ways of God, the Lord bless you in
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  Jesus name. Tomorrow we're back here. 5
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  please let's come on time so that five I'll be, I'll be sure
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  to come here early so that we can have the time.
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  I still want to share a few things with you.
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  Then we'll pray. It's our final service for the
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  year. So here's how we'll do it.
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  Just a moment. You'll be a prophetic and
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  impartation service. The worship team will give us
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  very serious praise. We thank God for what he's done.
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  We'll take a few testimonies and then I come up, share a few
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  things, and then we'll pray and then we'll release.
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  Is the final blessing for the year over your life.
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  Please invite everybody. I know it's a holiday season.
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  Many have gone home, but as many who were able to get around,
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  please let them come. So that would have a time of
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  great edification. Let me encourage everyone, if
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  you are able to, please try to listen to this message again
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  before tomorrow. I'm sure that if it's not up
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  online already, at least the audio or so should be ready.
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  The media would communicate that.
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  Please listen again. I can assure you, you didn't
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  hear more than 50 to 60% of the things that were said.
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  Just listen again for the punch line where you will get your
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  word and you'll receive it, adding faith upon faith, and
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  then the Lord will bless you. So we're here 5:00 PM tomorrow.
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  There's no activity in the morning.
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  You have the time to rest prepare.
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  You will be our final service for the year.
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  I hope I'm right on that. So final service and then
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  afterwards, we wish ourselves a good break and then we'll be on
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  our way going again. I want to thank our fathers for
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  their presence and staying this long.
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  Thank you so much, Daddy. It's such an honor.
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  In the name of Jesus Christ, Hallelujah, I will speak a
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  blessing. Come again?
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  Oh, the altar call. Let me do that quickly.
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  My apologies. I was looking at the time.
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  Let me give someone an opportunity to make it right
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  with Jesus. Now hold on, hold on, please.
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  No distraction. No distraction.
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  Tonight's call is not for everybody.
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  I want to make 2 calls in one. You are in this place and you're
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  saying apostle? I've been looking for a chance
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  to make it right with Jesus. There are not many of us, but I
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  want to be among those who want to get it right.
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  Or you are saying apostle, I want to rededicate my life to
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  Jesus. Whether you are outside or
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  inside or perhaps you are falling online tonight.
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  I just need one sincere person who is saying this is my moment.
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  I really want to get it right. I want my life changed.
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  He's giving me a new beginning. Wherever you are, leave your
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  seat inside, outside quickly. I want you to come and stand in
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  front of me for your sake. Don't wait for anyone to come.
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  Be the first. Make your way very quickly.
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  I want to pray for you. And then afterwards we'll be
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  ready to speak over our lives. Is anyone coming from outside?
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  Inside. Let's celebrate them as they
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  come. Let's celebrate them as they
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  come. It's not the only one.
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  God bless you as you come. God bless you, Ma, God bless
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  you. God bless you.
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  God bless you. God bless you.
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  God bless you, God bless you. I see my dear brother coming.
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  I see one other coming. Pardonia.
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  Keep clapping, Keep clapping. God bless you.
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  Keep clapping. Keep clapping.
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  Thank you. Thank you, SAS.
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  Thank you. Thank you.
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  Thank you. Let's pray.
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  I want to thank you all for taking the time to come.
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  I want you to say this after me. I see my lovely daughter here.
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  She joining them. Join them, darling.
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  God bless you. I'm very proud of you.
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  Thank you. The other gentleman.
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  Please join them. Save time in Lord Jesus tonight.
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  I have heard your word. I love you with all my heart.
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  I believe that you died for my sin.
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  I believe that you rose again for my justification.
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  Right now I receive Jesus into my heart.
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  Be my Savior, be my Lord, be my king.
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  I declare that from tonight my sins are forgiven.
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  I am a child of God. I go for whatever and back
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  whatever. In Jesus name I pray, Amen.
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  Let me pray for you Father. Thank you for this.
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  My brothers is my sisters, is my precious children who have come.
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  I ask in Jesus name that you will bless them, you will keep
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  them, You who has saved them, even to the uttermost protect
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  them. Let it be the beginning of a
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  life of grace and glory in Jesus name, pray.