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What You Must Do Differently This Season · Apostle Lazarus Femi

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Speaker 1: Apostle Fermi Lazarus is a man raised by God to
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Speaker 1: demonstrate his wisdom and authority to the last day church.
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Speaker 1: He is the lead pastor of Sphere of Light Church
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Speaker 1: and God told him years ago that a time will
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Speaker 1: come where my wisdom will be needed to navigate tough
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Speaker 1: times in the body of Christ.
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Speaker 2: Then I will cause your voice to be heard.
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Speaker 1: And all who pay attention to my word on your
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Speaker 1: lips will not lack light and direction. He is a
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Speaker 1: man sent from God, sent to raise God's end time armies.
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Speaker 1: With Apostle Fermi Lazarus, every minute counts as you listen attentively.
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Speaker 2: Praise God. Now this is the first Sunday of the
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Speaker 2: year 2024. And if the first is gotten right, everything
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Speaker 2: else will be gotten right. Amen? So I want us
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Speaker 2: to pay very keen attention this morning. Let's turn our Bibles, please.
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Speaker 2: The book of Psalms. The book of Psalms.
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Speaker 3: 100. 100.
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Speaker 2: Psalms 100. If you are there, say Amen. I start
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Speaker 2: the reading from verse 1. Now the Bible begins with
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Speaker 2: something very amazing. It says, Make a joyful noise unto
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Speaker 2: the Lord, all ye lands. Maybe Abuja is not part
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Speaker 2: of the land. Okay, so I caught you there. The
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Speaker 2: word make there is the word bara. That describes that
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Speaker 2: the kind of noise you are to make is something
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Speaker 2: that you probably have not heard before. As a matter
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Speaker 2: of fact, the root word there is the word invent.
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Speaker 2: We have exhausted you. Are you not tired? okay let's
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Speaker 2: test our creativity it's coming it's coming some laughter will
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Speaker 2: provoke your laughter okay let's borrow something this morning correct
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Speaker 2: We are getting there. You know, there's something about joy.
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Speaker 2: When you are joyful, you are always inspired. Nobody is
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Speaker 2: as inspired like the person who was just dropping their hemp.
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Speaker 2: He believes everything is possible. When you tell him, you
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Speaker 2: become a billionaire to say, why not? I mean, if
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Speaker 2: you have been there before, you know what I'm talking about.
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Speaker 2: But let's pretend. But there's something we get high on.
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Speaker 2: That no substance can take men there. And it's the
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Speaker 2: Holy Ghost. It's the Spirit of God on our inside.
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Speaker 2: When the Spirit is moving, we sing hymns, psalms, and
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Speaker 2: spiritual songs. You would dance without a drum. Okay?
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Speaker 4: Okay?
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Speaker 2: When you are joyful, you don't have to be told
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Speaker 2: to show it. You manifest it. Let me give us
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Speaker 2: 30 seconds to rejoice. You better break the chain. Break
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Speaker 2: the chain and rejoice this morning.
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Speaker 5: Come on Rejoice Come.
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Speaker 3: On Rejoice Come on Rejoice.
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Speaker 2: Thank you Jesus Now please be seated Let me show
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Speaker 2: you something in the Bible Hmm Many of the names
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Speaker 2: we call God are actually product of the encounters of
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Speaker 2: different individuals. As God reveals himself to you, a new
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Speaker 2: name is better. But there were instances in the Bible
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Speaker 2: that it was God saying, this is what you should
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Speaker 2: call me. I want to show you one of those instances.
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Speaker 2: The book of Exodus chapter number 34, the story really
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Speaker 2: began from Exodus 33 when Moses was telling God, I
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Speaker 2: will not go unless you show me your glory. I
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Speaker 2: can't lead this great nation. How many of you are saying, God,
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Speaker 2: I'm not ready to proceed this year unless I see
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Speaker 2: your presence. I'm not going to go anywhere. And God said,
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Speaker 2: now that you have decided to see my glory, so
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Speaker 2: in Exodus 34, Something happened. Let me jump for the
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Speaker 2: sake of time. And the Lord descended in the cloud
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Speaker 2: and stood with him there and proclaimed the name of
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Speaker 2: the Lord. Now Moses was standing. The Bible said the
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Speaker 2: Lord descended and proclaimed the name of the Lord. And
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Speaker 2: the Lord passed by. Now, I have experiences of what
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Speaker 2: it means to descend, for the Lord to descend. Let
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Speaker 2: me tell you something you've not heard from me before.
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Speaker 2: Before our ministry started in Abuja last year, one of
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Speaker 2: the first things I did was to travel down. Didn't preach,
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Speaker 2: didn't do anything. Just prayed for some days. Just prayed.
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Speaker 2: Just come down to pray. And when we started praying,
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Speaker 2: I think just in the early part of it, last year,
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Speaker 2: it got to a point I started seeing symptoms in
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Speaker 2: my body that I've never heard of medically before. Terrible symptoms.
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Speaker 2: When we broadcast our morning prayers, many people didn't know
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Speaker 2: that it was taking me sometimes over four hours to
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Speaker 2: record an hour of prayer. So I couldn't go live.
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Speaker 2: Because people would know something was wrong. And one of
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Speaker 2: those days, I called my wife. I said, okay, now
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Speaker 2: I have to go to the hospital. My wife knows
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Speaker 2: that this man doesn't talk like this. She said, okay,
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Speaker 2: we have to go now. And as we were about
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Speaker 2: stepping out, I said, hold on. I didn't send myself here.
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Speaker 2: My PPA is not hospital. So let me ask the
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Speaker 2: one who sent me. I am going to the hospital.
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Speaker 2: Are you aware? So I said, my wife, give me time.
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Speaker 2: So I requested for a chair. So I sat down
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Speaker 2: in our compound. And I said, God, you sent me
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Speaker 2: here to preach and to raise you and help me.
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Speaker 2: Now I have to go to the hospital. Shall I go?
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Speaker 2: As I asked that question, the Lord opened my eyes
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Speaker 2: and I saw what looked like a descent of a
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Speaker 2: strong angel. It was like a bullet landed and hit
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Speaker 2: the ground. That was all I just saw, like a flash.
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Speaker 2: I told my wife, I'm not going anywhere again. The
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Speaker 2: Lord is here. All the symptoms, 100%, they were still there.
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Speaker 2: Nothing changed. He has responded. I mean, I didn't come
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Speaker 2: here on my own. So I went to bed that night.
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Speaker 2: Feeling the symptoms around 21, They said, somebody wants to
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Speaker 2: see you downstairs. I said, who? It was Oropo. I said,
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Speaker 2: Brother Rafa, don't come this time of the night. But
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Speaker 2: I just knew I have to see you. I said,
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Speaker 2: this is what is happening. We joined our hands, agreed
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Speaker 2: as brothers. Because I'm sharing this story because part of
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Speaker 2: the things God will use for you is strategic relationships. Alright?
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Speaker 2: I woke up feeling like a newborn baby. All symptoms gone.
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Speaker 2: When God descends He brings his own protocol There is
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Speaker 2: a dimension of the anointing Where you are not limited
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Speaker 2: by the atmosphere Of where you are ministering Because now
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Speaker 2: you move with your own wave When God moves The
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Speaker 2: host of heaven follow him So God descended there Let's
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Speaker 2: continue that scripture Are you with me? The Lord descended
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Speaker 2: in the cloud And stood with him there and proclaimed
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Speaker 2: the name of the Lord. Who is proclaiming the name?
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Speaker 2: The Lord himself. Whatever it was God said that day,
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Speaker 2: we are going to chant it prophetically. this morning Are
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Speaker 2: you with me? Say yes if you are with me
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Speaker 2: And the Lord passed by This scripture is one of
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Speaker 2: the most amazing scriptures Come, look at this The Lord
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Speaker 2: descended in the cloud The Lord stood with him there
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Speaker 2: And proclaimed the name of the Lord The Lord stood
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Speaker 2: with him. Then the Lord passed by him and proclaimed
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Speaker 2: the name of the Lord. And the Lord, okay, look
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Speaker 2: at what he said. Look at the name. And proclaimed
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Speaker 2: the Lord. Even the Lord said his name is the Lord.
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Speaker 2: The Lord God. Merciful and gracious. Long-suffering and abundant in
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Speaker 2: goodness and truth. Can we chant this together? Say after me,
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Speaker 2: the Lord. The Lord. Hi. Look at our numbers. We
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Speaker 2: need to roll our D's in a way that the
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Speaker 2: grounds will shake. When I call a name, before you
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Speaker 2: call it, you stamp your feet on the ground. Are
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Speaker 2: you there? No, sit down. Don't worry. Sit down. Say
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Speaker 2: it again. The Lord. The Lord. One more time. The Lord.
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Speaker 2: The Lord. The Lord God.
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Speaker 3: The Lord God.
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Speaker 2: Merciful. Merciful. And gracious. And gracious. and abundant in goodness
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Speaker 2: and truth. The Lord! The Lord of hosts is his name.
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Speaker 2: The Lord! The Lord God!
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Speaker 4: Merciful and gracious and abundant in goodness and truth.
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Speaker 2: The Lord.
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Speaker 4: The Lord God. Merciful and gracious. And abundant in goodness
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Speaker 4: and truth.
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Speaker 2: Now give me sounds. This is a prophetic house. The
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Speaker 2: Lord is going ahead of us as a mighty terrible one.
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Speaker 2: When Israel went out of Egypt. Give us that scripture.
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Speaker 2: Psalms 114. And the house of Jacob and people of
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Speaker 2: a strange language. The Lord was his sanctuary and look
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Speaker 2: at it. Can you give me that scripture? Judah became
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Speaker 2: his sanctuary and Israel his dominion. Yes. The sea saw
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Speaker 2: it and fled. Jordan turned back. The mountains skipped like rams.
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Speaker 2: The little hills like lambs. Yes. What hails you? Thou
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Speaker 2: see that you fled. Thou Jordan that you turned back.
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Speaker 2: O mountains that you skipped like rams. O little hills
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Speaker 2: like lambs. Tremble, O head, at the presence of the
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Speaker 2: Lord God of Jacob. Who turned the rock into a
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Speaker 2: pool of water. When the Lord goes ahead, obstacles melt. See,
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Speaker 2: when we do these things, you have to, and it's
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Speaker 2: part of the things I'm going to teach you this morning,
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Speaker 2: you have to know that we are not just talking,
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Speaker 2: we are generating power. Are you with me? Who is
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Speaker 2: ready this morning? Raise the sound for me. His name
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Speaker 2: is the Lord! The Lord!
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Speaker 5: Merciful and gracious. And abundant in goodness and truth.
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Speaker 3: The Lord.
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Speaker 5: The Lord God. Merciful and gracious. And abundant in goodness
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Speaker 5: and truth.
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Speaker 2: That is his name. Look at what David said about
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Speaker 2: this name in Psalms 118. No, Psalms 18 precisely. Psalms 18.
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Speaker 2: You know, I am so aware of the protocols of
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Speaker 2: the Spirit around my life. And I want to bring
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Speaker 2: you to that awareness. Look at what it says. Psalms
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Speaker 2: 18 from verse 2. Psalms 18 from verse 2. The
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Speaker 2: Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer,
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Speaker 2: my God, my strength, in whom I will trust, my
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Speaker 2: buckler and the horn of my salvation and my high tower.
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Speaker 2: I will call upon the Lord who is worthy to
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Speaker 2: be praised. So shall I be saved from my enemies.
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Speaker 2: The sorrows of death compassed me and the floods of
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Speaker 2: ungodly men made me afraid. The sorrows of hell compassed
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Speaker 2: me about. The snares of death prevented me in my distress. See,
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Speaker 2: as long as we can call the Lord. He didn't
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Speaker 2: change the fact that he said he was in distress.
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Speaker 2: In my distress, I called upon who? Somebody say it again.
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Speaker 2: The Lord. Who did he call in his distress? You
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Speaker 2: know why? He is the Lord over everything. He is
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Speaker 2: the master over the storm. In my distress, I called
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Speaker 2: upon the Lord. And cried unto my God. He heard
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Speaker 2: my voice out of his temple. And my cry came
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Speaker 2: before him. Even into his ears. Then the head shook.
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Speaker 2: When he shows of his earthquake. And trembled. And the
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Speaker 2: foundations also of the hills were moved. And were shaken.
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Speaker 2: Because he was wrought. Then went up smoke out of
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Speaker 2: his nostrils. And fire out of his mouth devoured. Coals
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Speaker 2: were kindled by it. He bowed the heavens also. And
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Speaker 2: came down. And darkness was under his feet. He rode
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Speaker 2: upon the cherubs and did fly. Yea, he fly upon
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Speaker 2: the wings of the wind. This is the God we
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Speaker 2: are calling. When he shows up, the new protocol. Let
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Speaker 2: me tell you something. This year you are going to
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Speaker 2: win without fighting. There is a level you get to
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Speaker 2: that you don't have to fight. You just praise him.
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Speaker 2: I was with Bishop Waluke in his office and he
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Speaker 2: shared a story with me. He said, son, there was
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Speaker 2: a time when hell was let loose against me. He
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Speaker 2: said he started over a hundred days of fasting. One
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Speaker 2: of those nights, he began to praise God in his compound.
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Speaker 2: He began to praise God at night in his compound.
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Speaker 2: Then suddenly he discovered That a man was standing there.
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Speaker 2: He just discovered. And the man called him. By his
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Speaker 2: traditional name. That nobody calls him by. And he said
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Speaker 2: to him. I will say it the way he said it.
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Speaker 2: Then I will interpret. He said. You dance and rejoice.
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Speaker 2: I will make your enemies barren. Of good things. When
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Speaker 2: we come before the Lord and we are dancing, does
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Speaker 2: it look like a small thing to you that the
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Speaker 2: one who made the heavens and the earth have chosen
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Speaker 2: that he will be honored in our praise? I can
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Speaker 2: tell you stories. God fighting without you fighting? Ah, let
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Speaker 2: me share one with you in case maybe you doubt.
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Speaker 2: Our ministry is a very calm one, but right from
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Speaker 2: campus days, it's quite disruptive. in the sense that it
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Speaker 2: upsets the norms. One of those days as the campus president,
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Speaker 2: fellowship president, of the Joint Christian Campus Fellowship, I had
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Speaker 2: the mini crusade. And part of those who came to
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Speaker 2: give their lives, because I didn't know, it's not my fault,
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Speaker 2: not like if I knew I would do anything about it,
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Speaker 2: was the girlfriend of the kapon, or the head of
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Speaker 2: the cult group. And I graciously led her to Christ.
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Speaker 2: In fact, got her baptized in the Holy Ghost immediately.
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Speaker 2: So she went there and she knew from the meeting
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Speaker 2: she was going to break the relationship. So she went
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Speaker 2: and reached out to him and said, I'm done. He said,
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Speaker 2: you're done with.
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Speaker 6: Who?
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Speaker 2: Then his boys brought him news that there's one pastor
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Speaker 2: now that she's following. I said, yeah. So he sent
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Speaker 2: four of his people to come and carry me during
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Speaker 2: the service. Imagine preaching now. And some boys just came.
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Speaker 2: And you know, if you drag a person by the hand,
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Speaker 2: he's still quiet. They dragged me by the throat. You know,
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Speaker 2: when people, if you say nothing can be more dehumanizing
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Speaker 2: than talk. And they dragged me like that. And they
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Speaker 2: dragged me like that. And you know what members did?
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Speaker 2: They could only watch. And you know, our church was
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Speaker 2: on the building street. Then I was not, it's not
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Speaker 2: a civilized church because I was pastoring under a ministry.
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Speaker 2: But I was hearing some people saying, this thing is small, small.
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Speaker 2: And the boy is surrounded You, you think that only
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Speaker 2: you shall be preached this today. You go collect. Collect what?
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Speaker 2: And while they were talking, two amongst them were flashing
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Speaker 2: their guns. We didn't come here to kill. I mean,
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Speaker 2: these are people that killed. Something happened. Something that made
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Speaker 2: me slap myself. Am I a fool? I can't tell
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Speaker 2: from where. I just couldn't stop laughing. You know? So,
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Speaker 2: I kept saying, because normal. See, I'm not going to
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Speaker 2: tell you. I'm telling you the fact. I was afraid.
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Speaker 2: That's the default thing to do, is that I will
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Speaker 2: beg that poor boy, calm down. I'm not like you,
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Speaker 2: I've been out. We'll switch to pigeon. I'll beg you, normal, normal.
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Speaker 2: You free me. I'll tell you guys. I know you
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Speaker 2: feel collected that you don't give Jesus, but we'll negotiate.
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Speaker 2: We'll negotiate. but you know this Holy Spirit I don't
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Speaker 2: start laughing you know the laughter I wanted to cooperate
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Speaker 2: because nothing is funny these guys are with a gun
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Speaker 2: one of them was looking at me why are you
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Speaker 2: laughing you think it's a joke you want to stop
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Speaker 2: laughing then the guy Started pushing my chest. Then he
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Speaker 2: said something very strange. He said, stop looking at me.
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Speaker 2: Stop looking at me. Stop looking at me. Then the
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Speaker 2: cultist said, I rebuke you in Jesus name. Who should
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Speaker 2: rebuke who?
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Speaker 3: Honest truth.
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Speaker 2: I rebuke you. I was there before my very eyes.
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Speaker 2: The boy that was pushing my chest, that particular one,
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Speaker 2: broke out in tongues. Let me tell you, all those
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Speaker 2: four boys that came that day, they are now preaching
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Speaker 2: the same gospel to me. All of them. I know
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Speaker 2: you have heard me teach, but there's power. And when
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Speaker 2: God shows up, he fights for you without you even
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Speaker 2: having to do anything. He takes charge. The one who
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Speaker 2: fights for a person, the one he's fighting for becomes afraid.
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Speaker 2: That God, I didn't say you should do up to this.
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Speaker 2: Somebody was going to attack me. I faced issues. Early night.
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Speaker 2: I was rushing towards where I was. Just tell me
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Speaker 2: how this makes sense. You know the knob of doors?
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Speaker 2: The knob of doors. As fellow was coming, the knob
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Speaker 2: entered the hand and came out on the other side.
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Speaker 6: How?
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Speaker 2: That was when I now saw what the person was
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Speaker 2: coming with. When we call upon God, we are not
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Speaker 2: calling on lying vanity. The God that we call is real.
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Speaker 2: Can you call his name again? Say, you are the Lord.
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Speaker 3: You are the Lord.
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Speaker 2: Okay. That may look far away. Now, say it after me.
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Speaker 2: You are my God.
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Speaker 3: You are my Lord.
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Speaker 2: My defender.
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Speaker 3: My defender.
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Speaker 2: My defender. My defender. My defender. Imagine that the most
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Speaker 2: powerful force in the universe is my daddy. The most
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Speaker 2: powerful force. Say, thank you, Lord. Please be seated. I
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Speaker 2: got a sense to say, this year, God will fight
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Speaker 2: for you and you will hold your peace. You didn't
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Speaker 2: say that, amen, loud and clear. God will fight for you.
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Speaker 2: He will hold your peace. You will know what it
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Speaker 2: means for God to defend a person. Don't worry. Don't
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Speaker 2: get into a fight. Don't get into an argument. The
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Speaker 2: fruit you will bear this year will defend you. It
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Speaker 2: will vindicate you. You have been lied against by people
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Speaker 2: who have said we will watch you and see how
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Speaker 2: you will make it alive. I don't even know. Maybe
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Speaker 2: there is somebody who even came to this church and
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Speaker 2: somebody promised you that you are going to regret. Not lie.
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Speaker 2: Who is it that says it when God has not
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Speaker 2: said it? In fact, anything you do that the devil
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Speaker 2: did not fight is not correct. One of the signs
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Speaker 2: that you are in God's will is that you will
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Speaker 2: be challenged, be contested. Say it again. He is the Lord.
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Speaker 2: I want to give us a very important plea this
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Speaker 2: year that we should praise God more. Personally. If the
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Speaker 2: media can help me project Jeremiah 30 verse 19, I
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Speaker 2: would love us to really look at that scripture. That's
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Speaker 2: my plea this year. That's my plea. I will praise
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Speaker 2: God more. Praise Him more. Look at it. Then out
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Speaker 2: of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of them
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Speaker 2: who make merry. When thanksgiving and the voice of merriment
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Speaker 2: comes out, what is the next thing? I will multiply you.
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Speaker 2: You will not diminish. Can you give us in King James?
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Speaker 2: I will also glorify them. They shall not be. What
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Speaker 2: is the secret? Thanksgiving. What did Jesus do to feed
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Speaker 2: the mortal with bread and fishes? He gave thanks. It's
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Speaker 2: not by shouting. Oh Lord more. Minister to him first.
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Speaker 2: We must learn that this year. Is that okay now?
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Speaker 2: Minister to him first. Oh God. I have come in
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Speaker 2: three days fasting and prayer. What do you want? Just
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Speaker 2: to say thank you. Ah. I will give even to
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Speaker 2: the ends of the earth. And what did Esther do?
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Speaker 2: She went to the king at the time that you
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Speaker 2: don't go to see the king. That's when the strategies
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Speaker 2: of war have been formulated. And the king has married
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Speaker 2: from different regions. Even not the queen is allowed to
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Speaker 2: see that time. And she broke the protocol. She could
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Speaker 2: be killed. And the king said, what do you want?
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Speaker 2: She said, I have prepared a meal for my god.
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Speaker 2: You will risk your life so I can eat. Ah.
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Speaker 2: What do you want? There is a reason why God
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Speaker 2: seeks worshippers. Everybody asks him, give me, give me, give me.
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Speaker 2: It is only a worshipper that says, I've come to
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Speaker 2: give you. I've come to give you praise. So this year,
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Speaker 2: praise God more. More than you have ever done. You
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Speaker 2: are a true worshipper if you can continue when God
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Speaker 2: alone is your only audience. Even when you are alone
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Speaker 2: in that room with God. Roll on the floor. Dance.
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Speaker 2: This year, no grief or discouragement. Go forward regardless. And
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Speaker 2: be careful of people planted around you who consistently bring
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Speaker 2: you down. Be careful. Let me say this to you.
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Speaker 2: It is a sign of poor esteem if you stay
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Speaker 2: around your abusers. Something is wrong with your mind. Don't
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Speaker 2: hang around people who have no revelation of you. If
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Speaker 2: you have to explain who you are a billion times,
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Speaker 2: they are not your friends. And some people bring you
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Speaker 2: down at the expense of their own image so that
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Speaker 2: they now project themselves more. Very important. Don't allow it.
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Speaker 2: Watch out for discouragement. Many of you have written things
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Speaker 2: you want to do this year. This is January. Are
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Speaker 2: you still motivated? Are you still motivated? Just to let
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Speaker 2: you know that different things will happen into the year.
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Speaker 2: There's somebody sitting somewhere who is in a happy relationship.
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Speaker 2: They may serve you breakfast. Make sure you know it's
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Speaker 2: the truth. You know it's the truth. Let me tell
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Speaker 2: you ahead. They may. I'm not saying you should go
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Speaker 2: and prepare your breakfast yourself. But just make sure you
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Speaker 2: prepare your heart like Job. Job is slimy. Yet will
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Speaker 2: I So if somebody is not happy now, and dancing
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Speaker 2: and dancing, my wedding is in May. April, they give
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Speaker 2: you pick four. You know what pick four is? General market.
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Speaker 2: Click two. Come break up is pick X. We don't
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Speaker 2: know the number of years. In the midst of it,
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Speaker 2: God is still faithful. Some people have picked their own four.
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Speaker 2: counting down they don't know his ex temple we pick
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Speaker 2: i'm not saying that it must happen but for some
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Speaker 2: it's not going to happen we get to a point
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Speaker 2: where our motivation for praising god is not in the
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Speaker 2: physical things we see are you with me regardless of
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Speaker 2: the situation are we that I have one of my
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Speaker 2: big daddies. I love the man. The man called us
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Speaker 2: one time. He said, let me talk to you people
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Speaker 2: as if... family. He said, the day I ever become
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Speaker 2: sick to the point that I cannot eat again, I
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Speaker 2: don't spend money to go and buy coffee. He said,
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Speaker 2: because no matter what is happening in this life, it's
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Speaker 2: food first. And the man proved it. He will be
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Speaker 2: sick to the point that they have to carry him.
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Speaker 2: The moment he hears the aroma, he will be healed
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Speaker 2: till he's done eating. Let me tell you, how many
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Speaker 2: years ago, we erected a structure. The weak were supposed
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Speaker 2: to move inside. The structure collapsed. The weak. The weak.
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Speaker 2: We spent millions of naira. I'm telling you, millions of naira.
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Speaker 2: If I were to calculate what went down then, we
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Speaker 2: were close to about 50 something million naira. I got home,
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Speaker 2: took my food, I ate. That's right. I had a meeting.
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Speaker 2: I did my meeting online. Did my prayers with my wife.
30:52
Speaker 2: Went to sleep. Following morning after the devotional, I said
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Speaker 2: to her, oh, babe, just to let you know that
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Speaker 2: the building crashed. What are you... I said, just to
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Speaker 2: let you know the building... Are you whining me? Because
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Speaker 2: I used to whine my wife. My wife, I whine
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Speaker 2: like a dog. She's online. You whine her. She will
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Speaker 2: be rolling on the floor and be laughing. You think
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Speaker 2: maybe I'm just reading St. James. Thou art fierce amongst men.
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Speaker 2: And he made calls. Is it true? You came home
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Speaker 2: like that? Yes. At famine, at destruction, thou shalt have.
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Speaker 2: That was what Job said. Regardless, make sure your... Because
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Speaker 2: listen to what I'm saying. When the devil was going
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Speaker 2: to test Job, the devil told God, he said, listen,
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Speaker 2: the reason why Job is serving you is because you
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Speaker 2: have made an hedge around him. He said, that's the
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Speaker 2: reason why. He said, if all these things should be
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Speaker 2: taken down, He will deny you. God said, go and
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Speaker 2: touch them. And the devil touched everything. And Job's confession was,
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Speaker 2: do easily. Yet will I still praise him. You must
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Speaker 2: make sure that the things that are the yardstick of
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Speaker 2: your praise are not physical. And I tell people, and
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Speaker 2: I say this before God. I'm saying this because he
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Speaker 2: can test me even now. There is nothing I have
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Speaker 2: that is an asset outside his presence.
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Speaker 6: Nothing.
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Speaker 2: Get a car. It doesn't change my mood. Thank God
32:39
Speaker 2: it will make the work easier. But it's not. It's
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Speaker 2: not the basis for my esteem. It is a tool
32:48
Speaker 2: for the work. But the devil knows that. The only
32:52
Speaker 2: way I can tamper this individual is to touch their
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Speaker 2: relationship with this God. My God is more than the
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Speaker 2: things I have. More than the material thing. Now we
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Speaker 2: must be able to tell ourselves this uncomfortable truth as believers.
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Speaker 2: He is beyond all those things. He is. And no
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Speaker 2: matter what the situation is, I will praise him. Is
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Speaker 2: anybody saying that? Say no matter what the situation is,
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Speaker 2: I will praise him. I want to beg you specially.
33:28
Speaker 2: And I want to please request that this year you
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Speaker 2: will serve God more. Is there anybody saying I will
33:40
Speaker 2: serve God more? Let me show you a scripture. I
33:57
Speaker 2: want to show you something.
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Speaker 3: 1 Corinthians chapter number.
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Speaker 2: 3 Let me start the reading from verse 1 for
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Speaker 2: contextual understanding. So he said, When I gave you me,
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Speaker 2: you couldn't take it. Even now, you are still not
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Speaker 2: able to take it. Look at what he says. He said,
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Speaker 2: neither yet are ye able, but still ye now. He said,
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Speaker 2: for ye are yet cannot. Whereas there is amongst you
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Speaker 2: envy and strife and divisions. Are ye not cannot and
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Speaker 2: walk as men? For one said, I am of Paul.
35:09
Speaker 2: Another said, I am of Apollos. Are ye not cannot?
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Speaker 2: Who then is Paul? And who is Apollos? What ministers
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Speaker 2: by whom ye believe? And even as the Lord gave
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Speaker 2: to every man. This is what touched me when I
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Speaker 2: read that scripture. That Paul and Apollos, they are ministers
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Speaker 2: by whom you believe. That's what Paul was saying. This
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Speaker 2: is the testimony of our lives. That some people have
35:29
Speaker 2: come to know God better because of our existence. What
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Speaker 2: God wants to give you is not just a good marriage.
35:35
Speaker 2: What God wants to give you is not just a
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Speaker 2: good job. It's not just a good health. God wants
35:41
Speaker 2: to make you co-laborers. The reason why he never killed
35:46
Speaker 2: you when you accepted Jesus is because you have a work.
35:52
Speaker 2: You have a work. And by the end of the year,
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Speaker 2: the sum total of the things that brings you joy
36:00
Speaker 2: should not just be that you earn more this year,
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Speaker 2: you got better contract this year, but that there are
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Speaker 2: people who are in a better shape because of the
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Speaker 2: grace of God that is coming through your life. You know,
36:15
Speaker 2: I struggle to just go anywhere. Even at the airport sometimes.
36:25
Speaker 2: Meet people and they break down in tears. Break down
36:29
Speaker 2: in tears. Say, you have no idea of how you
36:33
Speaker 2: have blessed my life. You have no idea. I won't
36:37
Speaker 2: mention names. I was at the airport yesterday coming from Lagos.
36:42
Speaker 2: And I got to the lounge. And I met one
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Speaker 2: of Nigerian presidential aspirants in this last one. And I
36:52
Speaker 2: didn't want to disturb, just want to enjoy yourself. She
36:57
Speaker 2: walked up to me and said, Pastor Lazarus, she held
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Speaker 2: my hand. You have blessed me more than you can imagine.
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Speaker 2: You are a blessing to me. Sometimes I meet people
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Speaker 2: and they are shaking and they are crying. you have
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Speaker 2: no idea what God has used you for. When we
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Speaker 2: get to heaven, see millions of people running down. That
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Speaker 2: one message you preached, it saved me. I was about
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Speaker 2: to commit suicide, but you helped me. You can't be
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Speaker 2: everywhere at the same time, but your works can spread.
37:33
Speaker 2: But do you know, people may say that to Pastor
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Speaker 2: Lazarus that you are a blessing, but do you know
37:37
Speaker 2: the first time this ministry ever got a sound, it
37:39
Speaker 2: was a man from India who heard my message recorded
37:41
Speaker 2: by a phone. And said this is too powerful for
37:43
Speaker 2: it not to be clear. You guys should go and
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Speaker 2: price this sound. Many things I can afford. He sent
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Speaker 2: us I think 250,000. Yes. Now it may look small.
37:52
Speaker 2: But then it was many things. That was the first
37:54
Speaker 2: time we could get a mixer ham. Every time people
37:58
Speaker 2: get blessed. God credits it to his account too. It
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Speaker 2: is not everybody who will preach. But some things will
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Speaker 2: go far. Because of people's truth. And that's what our
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Speaker 2: life is about. Talk about the things we have. This
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Speaker 2: year I want you to live your life for God more.
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Speaker 2: For God more. More dedicated. Maybe you are not called
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Speaker 2: to preach the gospel. But do you know you can
38:30
Speaker 2: be an intercessor? You can have a prayer project. That
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Speaker 2: this person has blessed me so much. And I adopt
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Speaker 2: you as my prayer project. You may never find out
38:45
Speaker 2: that I'm praying for you. But every blessed day, it
38:49
Speaker 2: is a covenant between me and God that you are
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Speaker 2: my new prayer project. The most powerful people in this
38:56
Speaker 2: kingdom are intercessors. All our ministries is at their mercy. Intercessors.
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Speaker 2: Those who go on their knees and cry out and
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Speaker 2: burn incense. on behalf of people who may never know.
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Speaker 2: Please be seated. You know, sometimes as I pray, I
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Speaker 2: tell people my primary ministry is not even teaching, it's
39:16
Speaker 2: not preaching. It's intercession. That's my primary ministry. In fact,
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Speaker 2: that's where my topics are born from. That's why when
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Speaker 2: I teach, I struggle to hold tears because I have
39:28
Speaker 2: cried before God. I'm not teaching as one wants to
39:32
Speaker 2: make sense. There are things God is dealing with. These
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Speaker 2: are real issues. These are real issues. These are real issues.
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Speaker 2: Are you with me now? Intercession. Let me say this
39:45
Speaker 2: to you. If the devil can get you to stop praying,
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Speaker 2: He has done too much to you. He has done
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Speaker 2: too much to you. The moment a person stops praying,
39:59
Speaker 2: you'll be susceptible to many things. You'll be prone to
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Speaker 2: many things. Many dysfunctionalities. Many irregularities. Many wrong stops. You'll
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Speaker 2: be prone to them. The moment you can stop praying.
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Speaker 2: I know some of you started the year saying, this
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Speaker 2: year I want to pray better. I want to pray more.
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Speaker 2: i want to do this more all right start we
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Speaker 2: have prayer meetings every morning and if you look at
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Speaker 2: the format it's not give me give me no it
40:29
Speaker 2: is to help you master a cultural prayer you pray
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Speaker 2: by yourself oh yes ah you pray by yourself so
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Speaker 2: you will learn it i'm going to pray when you
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Speaker 2: stay around those who are born in you born you
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Speaker 2: will see there's Many of the things we struggle with
40:45
Speaker 2: as believers, there are principles that if we understand the principles,
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Speaker 2: we will not struggle. Are you with me now? We
40:51
Speaker 2: will not struggle. You don't have to struggle about everything.
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Speaker 2: I'm struggling about the world. I'm struggling. No, no, no, no, no.
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Speaker 2: Are you with me now? I'm not going to serve
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Speaker 2: God more this year. You will live as a Christian
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Speaker 2: more this year. People will look at your life and
41:05
Speaker 2: want to love Jesus more this year. Amen. People will
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Speaker 2: love Jesus because of you this year. Love him more.
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Speaker 2: Serve him more. They say if you are a Christian.
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Speaker 2: I want to go to church. It means that if
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Speaker 2: you are a boss at work. You will not oppress people.
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Speaker 2: You will not oppress people. And say. You. Yeah.
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Speaker 3: You.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. I like you. I like you. If I had
41:41
Speaker 2: met you. If I had met my wife. I'll have
41:44
Speaker 2: married you. And after you have now done that, you
41:48
Speaker 2: now upload, please attend my church. People say, if this
41:52
Speaker 2: is your church, I will never come to that church.
41:54
Speaker 2: Are you aware there are people that they can't go
41:56
Speaker 2: to their church because of what they have done?
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Speaker 6: Oh yes.
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Speaker 2: You too, you know people that can. You say, if
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Speaker 2: you go to this church, if it's accepted as the
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Speaker 2: last church, and that's where rapture will take place first,
42:06
Speaker 2: then I will now think, I will even think about
42:07
Speaker 2: it when that time comes. Be a good ambassador of Christ.
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Speaker 2: Don't go about hurting people. Don't create problems. Number three,
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Speaker 2: counsel as we join into the year. Be contented with
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Speaker 2: your role in the body of Christ. Whatever role God
42:38
Speaker 2: has allowed you to play as a silent laborer, if
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Speaker 2: what you are doing is visible, be okay with it.
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Speaker 2: Are you okay with it? And let me say this
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Speaker 2: to you. You may never know the reason why certain
42:56
Speaker 2: burdens come upon your life at certain seasons. You may
42:58
Speaker 2: never know. You may think it's just about, I can't tell.
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Speaker 2: I can't tell the reason why I just can't stop praying.
43:04
Speaker 2: I can't tell the reason why every 2 a.m. I
43:05
Speaker 2: just get, the Holy Ghost just wake me up. I
43:07
Speaker 2: can't tell. You just wake up and start pressing forward. No,
43:09
Speaker 2: He wants you to pray. He wants you to pray.
43:13
Speaker 2: He wants you to pray. He wants to intercede. As
43:19
Speaker 2: I spend time ministering to the Lord. He tells me.
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Speaker 2: Pray for Pastor Chukwe. Make us so and so and so.
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Speaker 2: From heaven on earth. Now intercede. I don't know the person.
43:26
Speaker 2: I may never meet the person. Pray for so and
43:28
Speaker 2: so name. So and so place. I may never know.
43:30
Speaker 2: It just brings me names. Just brings me. I may
43:34
Speaker 2: never know them. I may never minister in their church.
43:36
Speaker 2: They may never see my videos. Just brings me names.
43:39
Speaker 2: When we begin to intercede. We partner with God in
43:42
Speaker 2: being part of his emergency system. You see. And I
43:48
Speaker 2: say this not as a way to sound special. But
43:51
Speaker 2: I'm showing you that every believer can get there. One
43:53
Speaker 2: of the most difficult things for me to do is
43:55
Speaker 2: to drive. Not that I can't drive. But sometimes as
43:59
Speaker 2: people pass, I see things. I see things. I just
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Speaker 2: can't stop praying. I don't know this person. Sometimes I
44:07
Speaker 2: pass and I see six months. And I see a
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Speaker 2: number hanging. What's that? What's the devil planning in six months?
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Speaker 2: I stand in agreement with a brother I don't know.
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Speaker 2: Who also doesn't know. That we erase this. We are
44:19
Speaker 2: partnering with God in his emergency system. Pray for your children.
44:25
Speaker 2: Lay hands on them. Don't say you are not a pastor.
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Speaker 2: You are a priest. Over your home. God has planted
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Speaker 2: you there. As the expression of his authority. Speak words
44:36
Speaker 2: over them. Your wife is pregnant. Lay hands on the womb. Prophesy.
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Speaker 2: The kind of child. This is what you will be.
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Speaker 2: You will be kind. You will be gracious. You are healthy.
44:45
Speaker 2: Release words. Release words. I didn't want to serve God.
44:52
Speaker 2: I was never going to serve God. I was not interested.
44:54
Speaker 2: I was always depressed. And I found a way to
44:59
Speaker 2: always look a bit happier to attend parties. Until I
45:04
Speaker 2: became their DJ. And I walk and they say, DJ son!
45:10
Speaker 2: I say, yo man! We'll buy a trouser that we
45:15
Speaker 2: should use belts to hold it. We'll not hold it.
45:18
Speaker 2: wear like three boxers and sack them across different layers.
45:22
Speaker 2: The trousers should be so I used to have one
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Speaker 2: big trouser, a G-unit, a big trouser with my big
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Speaker 2: canvas on top. That's how I used to walk. As
45:29
Speaker 2: I'm walking, it got to a point in my second
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Speaker 2: year where everybody started walking like me. When the principal,
45:34
Speaker 2: I said, you are Lazarus' disciple. Me, that should be
45:38
Speaker 2: discipling nations. I wanted to be, just live me, my life.
45:47
Speaker 2: And many times God interrupted me. My first admission medicine.
45:51
Speaker 2: I was preparing to go. Everything scattered. Everything. I wept.
45:58
Speaker 2: I cried. We have made plans. We are going to
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Speaker 2: go to school. But we are where we are today.
46:07
Speaker 2: Because God redirected. The path. Listen to what I am saying.
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Speaker 2: One thing really saved me. Every night. My father will
46:17
Speaker 2: walk into the room where we are lying down. He
46:20
Speaker 2: will lay hands. As he's doing that. All of us
46:28
Speaker 2: were pressing phones. When he goes, we go back. Don't go.
46:32
Speaker 2: But those prayers were like money invested in a bank.
46:37
Speaker 2: When the time came, they came to save us. My
46:41
Speaker 2: life would have been finished from part one. I was
46:45
Speaker 2: teaching mathematics tutorial on campus. So a girl started like me.
46:51
Speaker 2: I was not doing anything relating to mathematics. I just
46:54
Speaker 2: offered to take because I love math. And the girl
46:56
Speaker 2: started following me home. She would follow me home and cook. No,
47:00
Speaker 2: not cook at first. Just, oh, bye-bye, say bye-bye, Lazarus, bye-bye.
47:04
Speaker 2: The later I started coming and making noodles. This girl
47:08
Speaker 2: will come. And one time my mom came to school
47:10
Speaker 2: to do some things. And I saw the girl coming around.
47:13
Speaker 2: I said, Pastor, this girl, which? I said, just my friend,
47:15
Speaker 2: just a friend. They just a friend. I said, Pastor,
47:17
Speaker 2: just a friend, yes. Be careful. My mom made soup,
47:23
Speaker 2: meat on top, everything. All the old step people had.
47:26
Speaker 2: I had just one meat left. Myself and the sisters
47:29
Speaker 2: served rice and beans. I can't forget. That's the most
47:32
Speaker 2: awkward rice and beans in my life. Sat down, put
47:34
Speaker 2: the meat on top, put stew on top like sacrifice.
47:37
Speaker 2: Sat North Pole, West Pole, or South Pole. We're eating.
47:42
Speaker 2: When it was time to eat the meat, he said, no,
47:45
Speaker 2: I said, you eat the meat. I can always buy meat.
47:46
Speaker 2: I said, you eat the meat. He said, no, no,
47:48
Speaker 2: you eat the meat. I said, you eat the meat.
47:49
Speaker 2: He said, you eat the meat. He said, you eat
47:52
Speaker 2: the meat. Okay. And finally, she got tired. I said,
47:55
Speaker 2: it's because you are not, I said, you are not enlightened.
47:59
Speaker 2: If it's guys that know what is happening, they would
48:01
Speaker 2: have put the meat in their mouth and passed it
48:03
Speaker 2: to our own mouth. So, I said, I said, In
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Speaker 2: the house I came from, everybody ate their meat with
48:17
Speaker 2: their mouth. So I ate my meat. I said, this
48:24
Speaker 2: one was passing by. I said, I don't know that one.
48:28
Speaker 2: True life story. All the stories I shared, the people
48:32
Speaker 2: concerned about their life, they can't even come across it.
48:36
Speaker 2: Nobody can come and say, why are you... True life story.
48:38
Speaker 2: She sat down and opened the lapses. Foolish me. I
48:43
Speaker 2: was there saying, what's going on? My God, what's going
48:46
Speaker 2: on now? What's going on now? Why is he doing this?
48:49
Speaker 2: And she was looking at me in a strange way.
48:53
Speaker 2: What should you have done if you have sense? Please.
48:58
Speaker 2: I didn't have sense. I sat down. What's going on?
49:01
Speaker 2: My God, what's he trying to do now? What's he
49:09
Speaker 2: trying to? Even your angels run. They say, we have
49:17
Speaker 2: left you. That day, the story could have ended because
49:32
Speaker 2: of what followed. By herself, suddenly, she began to say,
49:39
Speaker 2: I can't look at you. I wasn't praying. I did
49:44
Speaker 2: not even have a prayer life as such. As at
49:46
Speaker 2: that time. So this could only have been. Somebody praying
49:50
Speaker 2: for me. Said I can't look at you again. I
49:54
Speaker 2: can't look at you. Your eyes is burning. Fire. And
49:56
Speaker 2: right there. She was removing her hair. Was cutting her hair.
50:02
Speaker 2: I was shouting fire. People were gathering. Then right there.
50:09
Speaker 2: She began to confess of how she had slept with
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Speaker 2: her pastor at home. And she had destroyed the ministry.
50:15
Speaker 2: How she had locked the womb of her pastor. How
50:17
Speaker 2: she began to confess who she killed. She left her
50:23
Speaker 2: shoes behind and ran out. Ran away. I was sitting
50:31
Speaker 2: there saying, what did I just hear? My husband was asking,
50:37
Speaker 2: what happened? What happened? I said, Can I explain? After
50:41
Speaker 2: a while, I traveled. One of the boys have always
50:45
Speaker 2: told me, Pastor, you are through this. We know pastor
50:49
Speaker 2: like you. You to do this thing now. This girl
50:53
Speaker 2: likes you. You follow this girl. By the time I
50:55
Speaker 2: came back from that trip, the same girl had been
50:58
Speaker 2: with him throughout the holiday. The boy began to cough
51:05
Speaker 2: from that season till today he has not recovered. After
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Speaker 2: a while, a major revival broke out on campus. I mean,
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Speaker 2: on fire. Electorate joined the move. Fire everywhere. Things were happening.
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Speaker 2: In fact, before that time, we went to evangelize somewhere.
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Speaker 2: And I told the brothers with me, we evangelize boys hostel,
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Speaker 2: let's evangelize sisters hostel. That was how we were doing. Okay? Okay?
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Speaker 2: Then one of the brothers said, no, no, there's this
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Speaker 2: hostel I want to go to. I said, don't go there.
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Speaker 2: Follow me. I'm your leader. He said, no, no, pastor, please.
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Speaker 2: I just passed through there. There are souls there. I
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Speaker 2: must win. I said, go and win this. Give me
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Speaker 2: the names. When he came back, as we're putting the
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Speaker 2: names together of the souls, as I was checking the name,
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Speaker 2: I saw the name of the sister and son name.
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Speaker 2: I said, give me that list. Sister, son, and son.
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Speaker 2: So you be the one to follow up these people.
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Speaker 2: You follow me. Okay? Because I saw that he had
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Speaker 2: preached to that girl. No problem. The sister will follow up.
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Speaker 2: After a while, we stopped seeing that brother in the fellowship.
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Speaker 2: Week one, week two, week three, what was going on?
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Speaker 2: So I went to his house, past nine to ten,
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Speaker 2: and knocked. I mean, this is my fellow brother. He
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Speaker 2: asked who was there. Maybe I wanted to give him
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Speaker 2: a surprise. I didn't talk. As he opened the door,
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Speaker 2: he was on boxers. No shirt. I looked over his shoulder,
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Speaker 2: seated on the bed. It was that same girl. I said,
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Speaker 2: I can't pretend. Even to save my life, I can't.
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Speaker 2: Is that not so and so? He said, yes. What's
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Speaker 2: she doing there? He said, she has accommodation problem. I said, listen,
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Speaker 2: accommodation problem. Don't worry. I will call sister so and
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Speaker 2: so now. She will come and pick her here. Accommodation
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Speaker 2: and feeding will be sorted. He said, no. I said,
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Speaker 2: you can't be here staying with your sister. What's going on?
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Speaker 2: He said, this, this. Why am I even overbearing? Is
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Speaker 2: it because he's in the fellowship? Why do I think
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Speaker 2: I have right over him? began to shout so i
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Speaker 2: said listen let me ask you a question between this
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Speaker 2: sister and the fellowship pick one he said if it's
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Speaker 2: because i want to win this i go with the
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Speaker 2: sister i should never have asked if that question was
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Speaker 2: really he went with her and never returned back to
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Speaker 2: ministry Another move broke out. Fire everywhere. Campos. Holy Ghost
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Speaker 2: was moving. Electra joined the move. When you walk, people
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Speaker 2: are falling on that night. The man, you know, minister
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Speaker 2: promised us to buy us sound equipment. I sent leaders
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Speaker 2: to his house. Let me go and, because we're not
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Speaker 2: staying for two weeks, let me give this hamper and
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Speaker 2: tell him that from the fellowship, you know, that make
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Speaker 2: sure you give us the equipment you want to give us.
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Speaker 2: As they got to his house, they met him on
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Speaker 2: a wrapper, on Toel, where they were talking to him
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Speaker 2: The sister came out of the room, the same sister,
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Speaker 2: also unto her. Listen to what I'm saying. If there's
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Speaker 2: anyone that has been sent to assassinate the purpose of
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Speaker 2: God in your life, the God who made the heavens
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Speaker 2: and the earth will deliver you from them. Listen, I
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Speaker 2: don't have time. but I would have told you. The
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Speaker 2: story still did not end there. The sister ran through
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Speaker 2: the campus like the tail of a scorpion, stinging anywhere
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Speaker 2: she saw grace. The man before you will never have
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Speaker 2: been standing here but for intercession. This year, pick somebody
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Speaker 2: as a prayer project. I may not have what it
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Speaker 2: takes to give you money. I may not be able
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Speaker 2: to buy you suits. But I will pray for you
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Speaker 2: with my life. A woman of God. Went to meet.
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Speaker 2: He said. To him. Who is praying for you? He said.
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Speaker 2: Who is praying for you? I. For the past. I
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Speaker 2: have adopted you. As a prayer project. And he was
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Speaker 2: shocked because he had never spoken to him before. Who
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Speaker 2: is praying for you? And who are you praying for?
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Speaker 2: The woman said she told God that instead of this
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Speaker 2: man falling, take me home. Do you know what that means?
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Speaker 2: That I will pray so much. If it means a
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Speaker 2: day for him to fall, go and read the story
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Speaker 2: of Chazji Fini. And Father Nash. The moment that man.
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Speaker 2: The moment he died. He packed up the load of
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Speaker 2: evangelistic ministry. And went back to pastoring. Because you understand.
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Speaker 2: What is powering things behind the sin. That if I
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Speaker 2: go on my knees. And praying for people. Angels. Do
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Speaker 2: you know how powerful it is. And that's why the
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Speaker 2: devil fights prayer. Even for your own children. If care
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Speaker 2: is not taken. Even for your own families. cares not
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Speaker 2: take it pray this year like no man's business you
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Speaker 2: have been struggling with fasting fasting begins on Thursday 11th
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Speaker 2: of are you excited 11th of January and we go
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Speaker 2: on for the next 21 days let me give you
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Speaker 2: a way out struggle with fasting totally go dry start
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Speaker 2: with 3 days take fruit Many of you, the sediment
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Speaker 2: of the weight of the flesh, six to six will
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Speaker 2: not cure it. You need to go dry. Six, seven hours.
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Speaker 2: Even at work. What are you doing? You are keeping
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Speaker 2: your spirit man on fire. Setting it ablaze. This is
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Speaker 2: how our discernment is sharpened. Talk more to God than
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Speaker 2: you talk to men. So you'll not be a talkative.
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Speaker 2: Talk more to God. Build muscles in the place of
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Speaker 2: prayer stretch. Build muscles. Say, I've never prayed for 30 minutes. Oh,
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Speaker 2: no problem. No problem. No problem. Go and get worship instrumental.
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Speaker 2: Start from that 30 minutes. Then build from there. 35 minutes.
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Speaker 2: 40 minutes. You will notice that there are decisions you
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Speaker 2: have been making. It is because you are not praying.
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Speaker 2: When we pray, skills fall off. Skills. You can't go
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Speaker 2: through this year doing trial and error. Pray and break
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Speaker 2: through in the place of prayer. Till you know precisely
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Speaker 2: what to do and what not to do. You must
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Speaker 2: pray through. Are you following what I'm saying here? Are
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Speaker 2: you following what I'm saying here? You must what? Pray to.
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Speaker 2: Pray till prayer knows somebody's prayer. You see, talk calmly.
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Speaker 2: Just talk calmly. People have come to our ministry and said,
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Speaker 2: who is your PR?
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Speaker 7: Prayer.
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Speaker 2: Who is handling your social media? Upgrade their salary. I
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Speaker 2: think that's the most people. That means I should pray more. Prayer.
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Speaker 2: Where are all these people coming from? It's the wind
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Speaker 2: of the spirit. As we speak, spread as a wave
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Speaker 2: of healing to the ends of the earth. Let angels
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Speaker 2: carry it about. Spread it to those who need to
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Speaker 2: see it. And when people see it, even Muslims are
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Speaker 2: caught to their heart. Why can't I stop? It is
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Speaker 2: something called anakazo. Compelling power. It compels people. You must
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Speaker 2: do beyond what you did last year. You can't be
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Speaker 2: begging anybody. Beg God. Talk to God. Let God talk
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Speaker 2: to them. Do you understand what I'm saying? This year,
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Speaker 2: strategies will fail. Embrace prayer. Is that okay now? Embrace what?
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Speaker 2: As I'm talking now, there's fire burning in my heart.
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Speaker 2: Let me tell you the way out. Don't eat till 6pm.
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Speaker 2: Then do two hours when you get up. You have started.
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Speaker 2: You will notice that tomorrow, the energy to fast will come.
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Speaker 2: I want to fast. Go and load yourself with a Baha'u'llah.
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Speaker 2: 10 o'clock will look like 4 p.m. You'll now have usher.
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Speaker 2: You've not had usher since this yesterday. Amen. Thank you, Daddy.
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Speaker 2: Thank you, Lord. Can I release us for another two minutes?
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Speaker 2: We're just raising sense of prayer. If you can't pray
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Speaker 2: in the Holy Ghost, don't worry. praying understanding from tuesday
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Speaker 2: we begin to have impartation every after every service to
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Speaker 2: pray for those who want to baptize the holy ghost
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Speaker 2: pray you can stand you can be on your seat
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Speaker 2: whichever way pray then make sure that you are building
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Speaker 2: yourselves on your most holy faith charge charge charge charge
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Speaker 2: charge charge charge.
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Speaker 3: Chant Chant Chant Chant.
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Speaker 8: You have two more.
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Speaker 2: Minutes. You have two more minutes.
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Speaker 8: Adua choco, kadu pepili chucha. Adua choco, kadu pepili chucha.
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Speaker 8: Chadua keo, mena chadua keo. Chadua keo, mena chadua keo.
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Speaker 8: Adua choco, kadu pepili chucha.
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Speaker 2: Amen. Be seated. Let's raise that prophetic sound. Favor is coming.
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Speaker 2: There are certain things. See, you may have things to celebrate,
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Speaker 2: but you will not know it could have been much
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Speaker 2: more if you pray. If only there's a man that
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Speaker 2: can bend his knees in prayer. I want us to
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Speaker 2: do something prophetic. I'm done. We raise that sound. Favor
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Speaker 2: is coming. It's coming like a flood. The rain of favor.
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Speaker 2: SLC has broken.
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Speaker 3: Through.
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Speaker 2: Rain is falling, Lord. Rain is falling. It's falling like
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Speaker 2: a cloud.
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Speaker 3: It's falling like a flood.
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Speaker 5: It's fair of light that broke the truth.
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Speaker 2: The rain is falling.
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Speaker 3: It's the rain of favor. The rain is falling. The
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Speaker 3: rain is falling. It's falling like a flower. It's falling
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Speaker 3: like a flower.
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Speaker 6: The rain is falling. The rain is falling. It's the
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Speaker 6: rain of favor. The rain of power. The rain of help.
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Speaker 6: The rain of mercy.
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Speaker 7: It's falling like a flood. Swear of light, we have
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Speaker 7: broken through. The rain is falling. The rain is falling.
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Speaker 7: Thank you, Father.
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Speaker 2: Blessed be the God of David. He's teaching my hands
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Speaker 2: to walk and my fingers to fight. Blessed be the
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Speaker 2: God of David.
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Speaker 8: He's teaching my hands to walk And my fingers defy.
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Speaker 2: Amen. Thank you, Father. You carry the fire of God
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Speaker 2: throughout this year. And it will burn. It will burn.
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Speaker 2: It will burn. Amen. Please be seated. Be seated. See,
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Speaker 2: I'm not one who likes to talk about many things,
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Speaker 2: but I can tell you encounters through prayer. Through prayer.
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Speaker 2: One time, I prayed, prayed, prayed. The Muslim girl living
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Speaker 2: above my home upstairs broke out from her sleep with
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Speaker 2: tears in prayer. The security men of the environment gathered
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Speaker 2: one night and said, I must pack out. They said,
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Speaker 2: why are you always praying like this? How can we
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Speaker 2: not pray? If you come from places where people don't
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Speaker 2: really rise like myself, you know you have to pray.
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Speaker 2: You have to pray. You can't copy people. Some are
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Speaker 2: coming from places where they have inheritances. Don't copy people.
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Speaker 2: Pray true. We are starting prayer watches. Serious prayer watches
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Speaker 2: as a church. Every time. Come on, mix it up.
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Speaker 2: Rakopakatai Plug it in your ears. You do it for
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Speaker 2: like 31 days. You'll notice prayer becomes default. Not trying
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Speaker 2: to pray. It is a flow. Never you say, I
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Speaker 2: struggle with prayer. You don't. It's the very hair we breathe.
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Speaker 2: It's the very... We stand no chance without it. You
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Speaker 2: are not struggling. You just need somebody to hold your hand.
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