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Greater Light (The Mysteries of Dominion) Part 1 by Apostle Joshua Selman · Selah Media House

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  Koinonia, a place of encounter with the.
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  Holy Spirit. And transformation by the
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  principles of God's Kingdom. Give him quality thanks.
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  Almighty God, the gracious 1. Someone is saying thank you to
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  Jesus. Go ahead and give him quality
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  thanks tonight. He has gathered us to bless us,
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  scathered us to change our lives.
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  Lift your hands, lift your voices and give him quality
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  thanks. Sorry, I give him quality thanks
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  all across the globe. Give him quality thanks.
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  Thank you Jesus, for your mercies.
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  Thank you Jesus, for your faithfulness.
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  You are a good God. The wonder walking God.
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  Shebalato Capran de Gebalato Separatism.
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  Thank you for light. Thank you for your grace.
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  Thank you for your goodness. Upon my life is someone praying,
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  a grateful heart, a desperate heart.
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  Thank you Jesus, now ask him to give you an encounter tonight.
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  Appear unto me by your word tonight in the name of Jesus.
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  Let it elevate me to a new realm in the spirit, a new dimension,
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  a higher level of experience in the spirit.
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  Shanina caparandos cafredi Gabella Caparosi shabbilande
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  para SU sia pragata Bala kata prande gabele capas.
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  A hungry heart is praying, a desperate heart is crying unto
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  God. Shanay Bala so pregibita the
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  casuala capran de gabela that linka pradina capara to siata la
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  caparia de gata. My eyes are fixed on you, fixed
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  on you, Jesus, for my transformation, fixed on you,
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  Jesus, for my healing, fixed on you, Jesus, for my elevation,
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  fixed on you, Jesus, for the accomplishment of your speakings
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  over my life. In Jesus mighty name we pray.
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  In Jesus mighty name we pray. Our eyes are on you tonight.
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  Oh God, we pray that Your word will come strong upon our
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  hearts. Break away Stony hearts.
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  Give us hearts of flesh. Give us wisdom.
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  Cause us to experience You in a greater dimension.
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  We vow to give you all the glory and to you be all the praise
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  given tonight, for in Jesus name we have worshipped and prayed.
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  Shout aloud, Amen. God bless you.
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  Please be seated. Good evening everybody.
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  The psalmist said, I was glad when they said unto me, Let us
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  go to the House of the Lord. Many things happen in the House
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  of the Lord. There is understanding in the
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  House of the Lord. You encounter the God of the
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  Bible when you come to the House of the Lord.
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  Hallelujah, there is fellowship 1 towards another Hallelujah.
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  The Bible says if we walk in the light as he's in the light, we
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  have fellowship with one another.
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  And the blood of his Son cleanses us from all
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  unrighteousness. And may tonight be one of such
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  encounters for you. In the name of Jesus, I honour
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  everyone. Thank you so much.
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  For your commitment and your diligence to learn, I want you
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  to see yourselves as students in the school of the Spirit.
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  I have told you, and it is worthy of a reminder that you,
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  beyond members, beyond congregants, beyond fans,
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  Hallelujah. This is a destiny project.
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  God is making men. God is building men.
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  God is furnishing. Men in the name of Jesus and I
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  pray that that which you hear tonight will contribute to your
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  growth and your excelling in the Spirit you believe that say
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  Amen. Now let me encourage you before
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  we go straight to the teaching of the word tonight that.
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  You have a role to play in your becoming God's expectation for
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  you. God has a desire.
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  He has an expectation for you. But whether or not you will
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  become that portrait inexperience does not just
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  depend on God, doesn't even just depend on the preacher.
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  It depends on your cooperation and your participation.
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  Hallelujah. God's role is to give the Word
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  and to supply the grace. My assignment is to teach you so
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  diligently by the Spirit, to help you understand the ways of
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  God and to become a channel for that grace to flow through your
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  life. But your own role is to receive
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  by faith to understand the truth, and to obtain grace to
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  engage it. Are we together?
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  You are the final factor that is responsible for your becoming,
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  the final factor that is responsible for the
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  manifestation of God's Word in your life.
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  And if you do not play your role effectively, God can play His
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  role effectively. I can play my role effectively,
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  but your results will still be short.
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  The reason is because that which depends on you, you did not do
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  diligently. And so it's important for you to
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  understand this tripartite cycle that God has a role to play in
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  your becoming in your excel in His role is to send His word.
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  His role is to supply grace because everything comes from
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  Him. My role as a prophetic midwife
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  is to help you interpret the speakings of God and to
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  communicate the counsel of God that makes for your holistic
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  development. Hallelujah.
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  And then to allow through my life that the requisite grace
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  that must rest upon your life past season for your making, for
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  your building. But your own role is to have a
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  prepared heart to #1 receive, believe, and then obtain grace
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  to engage. If you do not engage the truths
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  that you hear, you will never see the results in your life.
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  That is the truth. They heard the war just like we
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  did, but the war did not profit them, not being mixed with faith
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  in them that heard it. Hallelujah.
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  So it's important for us to not waste the abundance of light
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  that God is granting us access to week after week.
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  I'm reminded of I think that should be Philippians chapter 2
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  Paul to the church in Philippi either 11 or 12.
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  It says that you. Walk.
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  Out your salvation the be part of that scripture.
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  I think that should be 12 Philippians 212.
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  Please give it to us and let's see yes.
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  Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, listen not
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  as in my presence only, but now much more.
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  In my absence, he says, work out your own salvation.
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  With fear and trembling, work out your own salvation.
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  The picture that I have in my mind is the picture of his
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  students. No matter how diligent the
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  lecturer is, he will not write your exam for you.
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  Hallelujah. Now.
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  Yeah, I can cook, I can serve. I can even help you.
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  I can support your eating, but it cannot get to your stomach
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  through my mouth. It will only get to my own
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  stomach through my mouth. If it must get to your own
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  stomach to nourish you, then it must pass through your own
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  mouth. Are we together?
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  So many believers have not taken the responsibility to insist
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  that they must bear fruit. The Bible says He shall be like
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  a tree that is planted by the rivers of water, which yield its
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  fruit in season, and whose leave does not wither.
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  He says whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.
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  It is your responsibility to cry for the dimensions that are
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  missing in your life and your Christian experience and to stay
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  there and insist until there is a performance in your life.
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  Are we together now? Walk out your own salvation.
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  Let me tell you the truth, at one point or the other, every
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  one of us will have to sit down like a student in the Spirit,
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  and you will write your own exams, you will write it by
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  yourself, and your level of preparedness determines whether
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  you will pass the exams or not. There are students who because
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  of their diligence, not just their intelligence, their
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  diligence, they know they will pass the exams and it's not
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  pride. Hallelujah.
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  I know students who are really very brilliant, really very
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  brilliant. They may hardly read.
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  They just have that advantage of intelligence and they can write
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  and pass. But I know other students that
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  may not be, as you know, intellectually sound, but they
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  use diligence to remedy for the absence of intelligence.
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  They literally stay and read and burn the midnight candles and do
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  whatever it takes and eventually you will see that they excel.
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  Some of us here, you already have a leverage of a great
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  spiritual heritage. Maybe your parents were already
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  ministers. Maybe you had the opportunity to
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  have a good foundation from the time you got born again.
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  You didn't have the opportunity to double into error and false
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  teachings and nonsense. So there's nothing much to
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  correct. Yours is not necessarily
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  renewal. Yours is just transformation.
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  There's minimal renewal because your mind follow the right path
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  to mentorship. But others you are still doing
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  AU turn. You've not even started the
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  journey. You are still doing AU turn from
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  a life of receiving wrong information.
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  Your level of diligence will not be the same.
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  Are we together now? A child who had an opportunity
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  to be mentored by a godly father, a godly mother, went to
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  a godly mission school, had the opportunity to be under mentors
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  and tutors who taught them directly.
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  The truth is that provided that child is interested in becoming,
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  the rate at which that child will become will be faster,
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  richer, better, more predictable than an individual who got born
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  again by himself, maybe under a family of idol worship limited
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  to serve the true living God because he was still under his
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  parents, had to wait 10 years in error to leave the house to now
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  start correcting all those things.
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  You see, you will, you will need a greater strength of passion to
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  contend for renewal and then transformation.
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  So as we're scattered here, seated in this place, let me
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  tell you, we're not at the same journey and it's not the same
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  peace. The level of what God is
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  cleaning in my mind, your mind, your mind differs for others.
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  You've already you've made the job easy for the Holy Spirit.
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  Others, your parents have helped to make the job easy for the
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  Holy Spirit. Are we together?
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  But there are others in truth, your level, the the level of
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  transformation required. It would take grace from God.
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  And because time is not on your side, you must give them more
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  diligence so that you can cover up grounds.
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  Because based on the prophetic calendar of your life, you
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  should have been in ministry by now.
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  You should have been doing Kingdom exploits by now.
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  And yet by now you are still learning the regiments of the
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  Kingdom. Are you saying that now if you
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  have that orientation, you pay attention a lot more than
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  someone who can just freelance knowledge?
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  You listen with rapt attention, with the intention to hear and
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  to receive and then to become on time.
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  I pray for you that you will never trivialize the Word of God
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  in your life. I pray for you that you will
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  never trivialize transformation. Let me tell you one truth.
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  Opportunities never present themselves as the at the same
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  rate or the same level always. A day is going to come you will
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  not have this kind of convenience again for various
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  reasons. For various reasons.
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  Are we together now? There are people today that wish
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  they had the opportunity to be here, physically present, but
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  maybe their job, maybe some other, you know, endeavour life
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  has placed a demand on them. There are people right now while
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  service is going on, they want to attend.
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  They literally are having to juggle between their jobs and
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  then to follow online whilst they are listening and some of
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  them are drawing from the residues of the days they had to
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  eat for the journey being far. Are we together for someone?
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  God is asking you to eat because the nourishment from this food
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  will not benefit you alone. You have a cross to carry even
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  for those connected to you. Maybe out of a family of 678
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  siblings, you are the first to have come this far with God.
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  It can't be that God is working on you alone for yourself.
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  Imagine that your sister is listening to me in you, your
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  brother listening to me in you. So you're not just listening for
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  yourself, you're listening for the sake of those who will be
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  liberated from your attentiveness.
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  That means if you lose a word that you should receive, you
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  will also punish another person's destiny who is
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  depending on you. Are we together?
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  So when you come to church, pay attention.
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  Pay attention, let your hearts be open, let your spirit be
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  ready to receive in the name of Jesus Christ.
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  Now we're going to go into a two-part series tonight.
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  My my desire for us like never before in this season is to be
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  able to lay hold on eternal life and the principles that make for
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  dominion. More intentionally.
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  I have a goal for us by the Spirit of God.
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  There is a standard and a reference that God desires every
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  believer to attain onto. And it is my assignment to work
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  with the Spirit of grace week in week out to keep chiseling those
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  dimensions in our lives and to see that we become that
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  portrait. I was standing up there where
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  the media is the day, the gentleman during the School of
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  Ministry practical, the gentleman was trying to draw me.
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  I had no idea what he was doing. I mean, of course I knew it was
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  me he was going to draw, but how it was going to happen and with
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  confidence I was invited. So I didn't even know whether it
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  was me or not. And the gentleman with dedicated
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  focus, never seen someone paint with both hands.
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  I know that there are people who are ambidextrous, but I didn't
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  know that. I mean, someone could do that
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  kind of thing. And as he was painting with
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  dedicated focus, I kept looking and it started looking like me,
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  started looking like me, started looking like me.
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  Eventually I was still confused. Is this me again?
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  Is this guy missing something? Which part of me?
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  I can't find my face, Am I inverted?
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  Am I falling? Am I left?
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  Am I right? Is it a mirror image?
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  What is he doing? And when the gentleman was done,
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  all he did was to flip it, and that was me looking really like
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  me. Hallelujah.
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  Do you know what that means? You are like that portrait and
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  there is something God is painting.
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  And even when you do not understand trust, even when you
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  do not understand trust, when you do not understand trust,
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  trust, trust, Trust that you are becoming something.
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  When God flips you, you will marvel and wonder.
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  So this is what He was doing. This is the extent of wisdom He
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  was putting in me. This is the extent of power that
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  is putting within me. Are we together?
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  This is the extent of favor. I have been able to come into
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  that. Let me tell you the truth.
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  When God is done with you, all that will be left is beauty and
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  glory. Do you believe that the Bible
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  says in Romans 8 and verse 18? For I reckon that the sufferings
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  of this present time is not worthy to be compared with the
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  glory that shall be revealed. In.
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  US 818, the glory that shall be revealed in us.
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  There is a dimension of glory that is going to be revealed in
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  you, going to be revealed in me. And week in, week out, I want
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  you to capture the picture of that, my dear painter.
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  That's what God is doing. Hallelujah.
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  And I want you to know that the painter is not me.
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  The painter is God himself. I am the brush.
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  He's using that brush. Are we together now?
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  You are that canvas. He's painting something upon
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  your life. And As for me and him, I've I've
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  made-up my mind as a covenant to be and remain malleable.
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  The brush is not rebellious. The brush looks dead.
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  And you see the degree of death by the ease with which the
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  painter can use the brush to write and paint on that canvas.
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  Are we together now? Yours is to stay believing that
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  God is molding you stay believing that God is.
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  The prophet is still forming. The apostle is still forming.
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  The evangelist is still forming. The Kingdom financier is still
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  forming the man, the woman of influence.
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  Esther is still. Forming the Bora, still forming.
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  Gideon still forming. You wouldn't form in one day.
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  The guy knew what to do, but it took time for the portrait.
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  That's how it is with God. The Bible says now are we the
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  sons of God? And it does not yet appear.
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  So for every truth that you are served with, receive it as a
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  component of that portrait. Are we together now?
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  Yes. If you receive it, then you will
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  watch the beauty and the glory that God brings out of your
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  life. He won't stop.
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  He won't stop. Till I lose, just like him, he
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  won't stop, He won't stop. Till my life looks like him, he
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  won't stop, He won't stop. Till I lose, just like him, he
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  won't stop, he won't stop. Hallelujah.
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  So I'm teaching on a two-part series called Greater Light.
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  Part 1 We'll be looking at the mysteries of dominion, Greater
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  light Genesis 116 Greater light The mysteries of dominion and
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  God made true great lights. The Bible says the greater light
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  was given an assignment to rule the day and the lesser light to
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  rule the night. The greater light to rule the
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  day and the lesser light to rule the night.
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  The greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule
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  the night. Keep that scripture there.
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  The greater light does not rule the night.
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  No. The greater light only comes
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  when there is day. The assignment of the greater
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  light is to turn morning to shine at its brightest.
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  When there is night, you do not need the greater light.
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  The light from the moon is sufficient.
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  And so here's how the journey is.
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  The journey from night to afternoon starts this way.
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  The moon gives light through the night.
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  Are we together? And the moment the morning
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  comes, the moon begins to fade in as much as we know and we can
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  describe. And then the light from the moon
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  is now replaced by the sun itself.
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  Even though we know that there are many from the dimension we
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  no one understand the sun takes over from the moon.
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  You would think because it were morning the sun would not come.
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  The assignment of the sun is to take over from the morning and
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  turn morning to afternoon. So the moon turns night to
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  morning, but once you get to the morning, you do not need the
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  moon again. The moon may not be able to
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  serve and the sun takes over. There are many things that
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  cannot happen in the morning. Even though it is no longer
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  darkness, it is difficult for your clothes to dry on.
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  Time. In the morning, because many
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  times with the morning will also come due.
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  With the morning will also come a lot of things.
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  So there are inconveniences you are in your morning but it may
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  not be enough to give you the kind of result that you need.
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  Sometimes even though it is morning, it can affect
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  visibility and flights can be grounded but once it is
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  afternoon. So the Bible says the path of
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  the just are we still here is such a shining light.
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  Then it gives the progression that it shining more and more.
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  The question is from where to where it shining more and more
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  from the night time Are we together the dawning of a new
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  day? And when the moon called the
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  lesser light is done with its own ministry, then the sun, the
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  greater light now takes over. And the Bible says the greater
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  light rules in the day. So the first assignment is for
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  you to come out from night to day.
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  When you get to day, you still need another kind of light that
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  keeps you in dominion and causes you to shine at its brightest.
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  The Bible says arise, shine. Isaiah chapter 60.
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  Are we still together? For your light is come, and the
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  glory of the Lord is risen upon you.
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  Verse 2 it says, for darkness shall cover the earth.
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  Give us verse 2. And.
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  Gross darkness, the people it says, but upon you the glory of
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  the Lord shall rise, and his glory shall be seen upon you.
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  Verse three. Now it says Gentiles shall come
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  to your light. Gentiles shall come to your, but
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  kings do not come to your light. Kings come to the brightness of
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  your rising. Gentiles come to your light.
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  The light that shows in your morning is enough to bring
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  Gentiles, but not kings. Unfortunately, the Gentiles do
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  not come with treasures. They don't have it.
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  It is kings that have the treasures.
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  The treasures that reward you are resident within the palaces
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  of kings, and the Bible says the kings will.
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  Come. In honor to the brightness of
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  your rising. Is someone learning now?
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  So God made 2 great lights. They are all called great
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  lights, but now in terms of their power to illuminate and to
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  turn darkness to brightness, to glory, The Bible says the lesser
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  light rules in the night, but once you get to your day, you
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  now need the greater light. Someone say I receive greater
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  light one more time. Say I receive greater light for
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  one last time. Say I receive greater light,
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  Amen and Amen Job 38 and verse 303333.
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  Or well, we can do 32 and then end at 34.
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  It still falls in line. Can you direct the sequence of
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  the seasons or guide the bear with the corpse across the
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  heavens? Then it says, do you know the
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  laws of the universe? NLT says.
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  New living translation. Or NIVI think, it says, do you
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  know the laws of the heavens also something like that, And
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  can you set up God's dominion upon the earth?
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  34 it says, can you raise your voice to the clouds and cover
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  yourself through that mystery with a cloud of water, greater
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  light? This is very powerful.
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  So he's probing Job here and he's asking Job, do you
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  understand the mysteries by which the universe is regulated
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  by the mysteries that are responsible for the supernatural
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  extraordinary manifestations of power within our world?
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  First Timothy as a reference, chapter 2, when you read 1 to 4,
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  particularly verse 4, the Bible tells us that God desires that
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  all men be saved. And then let's just jump to
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  verse 4 for time that we come on to the knowledge of the truth,
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  the knowledge of the truth. Now please look at me.
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  Truth is in levels. Truth is in levels.
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  All truth can liberate. All truth should liberate, but
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  they do not liberate at the same dimension.
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  Truth is likened to light and light does not shine.
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  The illuminating power of light is not at the same dimension.
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  Are we together? When you have a flood of light,
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  the kind of brightness that can be produced from that dimension
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  of light is by far different from that which comes from a
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  phone or something of that sort. Hallelujah.
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  I think I gave this example already from this place that if
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  you were in your night time at home, notice the transitions in
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  the kinds of lights that you use.
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  Sadly, there are parts of the world that don't easily
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  experience blackout, but in Africa, we're accustomed to a
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  lot of blackout where I mean, everything just goes from the
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  power holding company and you're left in pitch darkness.
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  Now watch how it starts from pitch darkness.
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  The first thing you usually would do is to use your phone
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  light or a Lantern or a torch light.
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  That is light. But remember that light is
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  helping you find another kind of light.
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  You don't stop there. You start with a torch light or
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  a Lantern. Am I right on that?
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  And then with the torch light or a Lantern, usually, in fact, you
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  start with maybe your phone light or a torch light.
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  Then you find where a Lantern is and you can put that Lantern.
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  And then if you're fortunate to have a generator, you now use
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  the torch light or the Lantern or whatever kind of light to the
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  generator house. Are we together?
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  As soon as you put on the generator, you switch off the
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  torch light is no longer needed because the light from the
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  generator and depending on the capacity of the generator, there
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  are certain generators because they have low capacity.
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  You will off your AC, you will off your fridge.
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  The only thing that will be on is just the.
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  Bulbs. Because the generator is too
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  small and cannot carry the weight.
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  Are we together now? The load that is in your house
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  is too much for that generator. But let's assume that you have a
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  generator large enough to take a number of your appliances.
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  Please look up how many of you know that as you run that
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  generator, your greatest expectation is not to run on
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  Gen. forever. You are hoping that the power
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  holding company will normalize light and AS.
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  Soon as you see your indicators show you that there's light as
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  it has come from the power holding company.
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  What do you do? You switch on your Gen. and if
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  it's in the night you own your security lights and the moment
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  you get to morning do you leave the lights on?
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  You switch them on because the light of the sun is there.
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  Look at the various progressions.
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  So if I see you with a torch light in the night, you.
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  Cannot come around that torch light and say I'm fine, I'm
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  fine. This is my expectation.
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  Now the torch light, if you do not have that torch light, you
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  may not even get to the generator room.
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  Am I right on that? So once you have that torch
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  light, you are grateful for it, but you know that that is not
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  your ultimate expectation. So the torch light helps you so
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  far until you get to a Lantern, until you get to a generator
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  room, and then eventually if you're fortunate, light now is
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  restored and then you switch on the generator.
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  Are we together now? And then by morning you are
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  happy because you don't have to pay anything for sunlight.
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  It is one of the reasons why you are happy.
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  Do you know? That there are limitations to
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  the lights that you have in your house.
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  For instance, it cannot accept you are using a washing machine,
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  the lights that is generated from your generator or the power
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  holding company may not easily and naturally dry your clothes.
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  So it still has limitations. When you want to dry your
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  clothes, you don't put it under a phone light.
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  By morning it will still be wet. That light does not have the
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  kind of power. Are we together now?
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  Yes. Even if you on the gem and you
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  put it, sometimes you can use your iron and force a wet cloth
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  to be dry. There are consequences.
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  It can turn a white material to look something else because you
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  were using an unnatural means. Are we together?
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  But try the sun. Try the sun in Abuja.
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  Are we together? You hang that thing there and
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  sometimes before you are done strolling, half of it is already
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  done. Greater light producing
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  different levels of results, helping you to command different
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  dimensions of dominion. So the Bible says he made 2
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  great lights and then he made the greater light to rule the
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  day and the lesser light to rule the night.
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  Now that God has helped you to come into your day, the light
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  that helps you to be in command. Even during the day.
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  Let that light rest upon you tonight.
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  In the name of Jesus Christ. In the name of Jesus Christ, for
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  instance, I give you an example. If you are called into the
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  ministry, there is a level of light that helps you to
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  jumpstart the work of the ministry as committed to you.
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  But by the time you get to a point where by mercy and by
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  grace you have gotten to your day, the dynamics will change.
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  Are we together? The kind of light you need to
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  sustain a ministry like this by the grace of God is not the kind
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  of light. The light that was given to me,
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  that was used to start Koinonia, If I use that kind of light, it
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  will not even last one day. No, there is greater light and
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  it keeps getting greater. Are we together?
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  The dynamics of leadership, the dynamics of spirituality,
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  accessing higher and greater levels of grace.
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  Praise the name of the Lord, That's Azaria family following
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  God. Bless them in the name of Jesus.
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  So I'm saying that the level of light illumination that you have
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  determines the kind of command that you have.
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  Are we together now? For many of us you have light,
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  but you've been camping around a torch light and wondering why
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  your house is not shining bright.
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  Some of you have been holding a Lantern and your oil is almost
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  about to dry off. I'm here to bridge the gap so
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  you will not be called a foolish virgin in the name of Jesus
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  Christ. Are we together now?
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  And there are others God has granted.
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  You a generator set. But I hope you know that as he
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  keeps expanding you, it will get to a time where the load will be
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  too heavy for that generator you are carrying.
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  And there are many things it cannot do even though it
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  produces light. But I'm praying that for someone
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  it will be like the. Light of the sun in the name of
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  Jesus Christ. It will be like the light of the
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  sun that anything that is wet, you can drop it there and in a
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  matter of minutes. Even if it's a destiny, even if
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  it's I mean you will command results at a frequency that will
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  cause you to marvel yourself. May this greater light rest upon
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  you. In the name of Jesus Christ.
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  All right, so let's go to the Word of God.
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  Genesis chapter one, please. From verse 26 down to 28, we're
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  dealing with greater light, the mysteries of dominion.
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  This is Part 1. Samala Kubara to Sieta.
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  And God said, let us make man in our image and after our
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  likeness, and let them have dominion over the fish of the
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  sea, over the fall of the air, over the cattle, and over the
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  earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the
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  earth. Amplified, please.
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  Verse 26, back to 26. Amplified.
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  There's something. I want you to see what version
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  of Amplified are you guys using here my version of Amplified
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  there's something I'm looking for.
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  Do we try Amplified Classic? Will it have what we're looking
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  for? There is an information about
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  OK, so let's make do with what we have so that we save time.
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  God said amplified says here let us Father, Son, Holy Spirit make
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  mankind in our image. Now is the word image that I
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  wanted to give you greater clarity, but I'll still do the
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  teaching Amplified version as projected here doesn't do the
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  kind of justice we're looking for after our likeness.
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  It says and let them have complete authority.
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  Now back to KJV. Let's do 27 and 28 so that I'll
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  begin to teach. 2728 KJV So God created man in his own image, in
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  the image of God. Created He him male and female,
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  created he them. 28 And God bless them, and said unto them,
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  Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue
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  it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the fowl
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  of the air, over every living thing that moveth upon the.
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  Earth. The Lord bless the reading of
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  his word in Jesus name, so the Bible tells us in verse. 2826
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  Now that God created man and there were two very important
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  information here that I want you to get.
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  Please listen carefully while discussing greater light that
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  God created man number one in his image.
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  Everybody say image one more time shouted say image and then
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  the Bible says after his likeness.
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  So God created man. It matters that you understand
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  how God created man and the components that were present at
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  his creation. So God created man in his image
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  and then after his likeness. Let me try to pull up Genesis
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  126 from my own amplified rendition here, and then I'll.
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  Read for you what it says. From my amplified rendition,
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  this is what it says and God said, let us, Father, Son, Holy
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  Spirit, make man in our image according to our likeness.
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  Then it says not physical but a spiritual personality and moral
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  likeness. Then it says and let them have
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  complete authority. And then it reads on, Are we
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  together now? So the Bible tells us that God
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  made man. Thank you very much media.
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  God bless you. God made man in his image and
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  then after his likeness. You have to understand these
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  twofold dimensions. What exactly does it mean for
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  man to be made in the image of God?
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  Because no other creature was made in the image of God.
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  No other creature was made in the image of God.
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  Only man was made in the image of God.
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  So here we have the making of man image.
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  And likeness, image and likeness.
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  I'll tell you very quickly what the image of God is.
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  The image of God talks about the spiritual quality, the nature of
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  God, the spiritual quality. The image of God is not
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  something physical, it is the spiritual quality.
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  Are we together a spiritual quality, the image of God, the
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  nature of God? And then the Bible says man was
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  made in the likeness of God. The word likeness here means to
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  function like God, to function like God.
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  So when the Bible says man was made in the image of God, it
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  means that God captured the essence of who he is and he
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  imprinted it upon that man. And like you'll be learning the
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  image of God as revealed in Scripture most visibly manifest
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  is Christ. The Bible calls him the express
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  image of the invisible God. That should be Hebrews one and
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  verse 2. The express image one verse 3 of
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  the invisible God, are we together?
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  The express image of his person. That means if you want to know
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  what God looks like, the nature of God.
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  When Jesus walked upon the earth, he revealed for us, He
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  gave us an opportunity to really know what God looks like.
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  I've done several teachings there, but it's important that
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  you understand this. Listen, no man will be able to
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  walk in true dominion if you do not understand these two
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  dimensions. The image of God and the
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  likeness of God, the nature of God, and then how God functions.
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  And I want you to work with me very carefully tonight as we
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  unravel these two dimensions. Greater light.
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  If you want to access the grace for dominion, you want to live
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  an invincible life within this side of God's Kingdom, then you
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  have to understand the implication of being created the
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  way you were created. There was every kind of
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  intention invested in the creation of man the way God
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  created him. And if you do not subscribe to
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  that template, something will be wrong with your exercising
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  authority. Something will be wrong with the
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  quality of your crystal experience.
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  Something will be wrong with the kinds of results that you
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  command in life, in business, in destiny.
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  The key is to go. Back to the original template
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  and find out the implication of being created in the image of
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  God, being created in the likeness of God.
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  Please look up Do you know why? The fish in the sea never have a
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  problem swimming because they have not violated the template
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  of their design till today. Can you imagine that The fish do
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  not have presidents, governors, they do not have advancement in
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  terms of the human kind of civilization, and yet you go to
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  any sea across the globe, you find fishes swimming very
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  freely. Are we together?
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  The reason is because they work in keeping with the templates
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  that was given originally. How about animals?
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  They have their own primitive way of leadership and all of
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  that. But isn't it amazing that even
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  in the animal world there is no guarantee for anything?
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  No guarantee for food because you can be prey today and be a
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  predator tomorrow. What sort of a life is that?
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  You are not even sure what you will become any day.
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  So you can kill an animal today, and by tomorrow you are the one
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  who will be killed. Depending on where you are, the
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  mistake of location can turn you into a prey immediately.
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  And yet, in the midst of all of these things, can we imagine
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  that the animal Kingdom continues to thrive in spite of
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  the volcanoes, in spite of the Tornadoes, in spite of the
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  wickedness of men, in spite of what we have done to them?
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  Hallelujah, I said. We.
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  So don't, don't look at me. I included myself there.
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  You know the amount of fish we eat per day.
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  You have no idea. You know the amount of goats
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  that die per day, cows that die per day, including today.
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  Are we together now? And isn't it amazing?
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  Now, listen, I'm saying this for a reason, that regardless the
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  kind of disadvantage this lower animals have because they were
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  able to maintain status quo as designed, it still did not
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  tamper with them. This is powerful.
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  Very, very. Powerful.
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  It is only humans. We are the most disoriented of
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  God's creation, even though by destiny and ordination we are
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  the highest of His creation. And I will tell you the problem
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  is that there is a high level deviation from God's pattern.
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  And so we seek to command dominion using our own formula.
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  And life has refused to obey us. It has refused to obey us
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  financially. It has refused to obey us
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  spiritually. The forces of darkness do not
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  seem to pay attention nor respect our presence.
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  God created man in his image, and God created man after his
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  likeness. Let's consider the image of God.
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  I told you that the word image there is the nature of God.
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  What is the implication of being created with potential to have
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  and to manifest the nature of God?
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  First and foremost, the Bible teaches us that the nature of
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  God can be learned, the nature of God can be understood.
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  I've shared this with you extensively in Isaiah chapter.
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  40. Let's read verse 28 to 30.
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  We're discussing the nature of God.
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  Hast thou not known? Hast thou not heard the
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  everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the
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  earth? Watch this now.
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  The Bible says he fainted not. Now, do you know the implication
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  of studying the nature of God? Because that is the accurate
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  lens, the accurate Vista. You know how far you can go.
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  You know the implication of the nature you are carrying when you
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  study God. In theology we call it the
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  reflection principle. All you are is derived from all
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  that He is. You cannot know how much you
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  have, you cannot know how far you can go, you cannot know how
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  great you can become until you study Him.
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  The Bible says as He is, so are we in this world now?
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  Are we learning? Now so the Bible tells us that
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  the creator of the ends of the earth, that he fainted not.
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  And there is no searching of his understanding. 29 He says, he
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  giveth power to the faint, and to them that have no mighty
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  increase That strength I like. 30 He says, even the youth shall
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  faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly.
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  Fall final verse 31 he says, but they that wait upon the Lord,
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  they shall renew their strength, they shall mount up with wings
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  as eagles, they shall run and not be weary.
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  They shall walk and not faint. You know what he's telling you?
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  He, he begins by telling you that God, your Creator, he does
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  not faint and he's not weary. Then he says, as a man
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  unassisted by God, you will faint and be weary, but that
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  like God, you can rise to that realm where although you are a
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  human being, the possibility of fainting and weariness will no
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  longer be found in your life because you have outsourced a
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  system that keeps you fresh, keeps you going even though you
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  are human. And he calls it waiting upon the
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  Lord that when you bring that mystery to your life, you can be
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  like God in terms of manifesting that possibility.
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  Who is learning now? Now let's go to one more
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  Scripture helping you to understand the nature of God so
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  that you will see what He's done in your own life.
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  This is very powerful. Psalm 145.
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  Please give us from verse 8. Let's see how far God will help
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  us tonight. Psalm 145, Are you ready?
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  The Bible says the Lord is gracious.
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  The word gracious there means kind is the quality of kindness.
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  The Lord is gracious and full of compassion.
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  Look at me. Do you know what that means?
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  Every believer in Christ who understands that he was built
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  having the nature of God or the potential to manifest that
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  nature. These possibilities should be.
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  Captured in your life. Back to the Scripture, please.
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  The Lord is gracious and full of compassion.
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  That means I can be gracious and full of compassion regardless my
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  background, regardless my temperament.
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  I was created in the image and the likeness of God.
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  That means these qualities are compatible with my being.
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  That means my life and my reality should not fight my
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  having these qualities because I was created in the image of
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  Christ. Anything that is short of this,
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  I must see it as a deviation to the original.
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  Template and I must cooperate with the spirit of grace to see
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  myself restored. This is what the status quo of
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  the believer is. Gracious, full of compassion,
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  slow to anger, and of great mercy.
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  Let's read on. The Lord is good to all the
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  quality of goodness, and his tender mercies are over all His
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  works. Next verse.
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  Please, all thy works shall praise thee, O Lord, and the
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  Saints shall bless thee. He says they shall speak of the
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  glory of your Kingdom, and talk of your power.
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  Read on to make known to the sons of men his mighty heart and
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  the glorious majesty of His Kingdom.
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  Verse. 13. He says thy Kingdom is an
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  everlasting Kingdom, thy dominion endured throughout all
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  generations. Reading to 20 the Lord upholdeth
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  all that fall. This is he's describing for you
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  the nature of God, and he raiseth all those that are bowed
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  down that. Means when you are becoming like
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  Christ inexperience we should be finding through your life these
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  manifestations. The eyes of all wait upon thee,
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  and thou giveth them their meat in season.
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  He's describing God for you now. Thou openest thy hand and
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  satisfies the desire of every living thing.
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  You know why the fish still eat even though they cannot talk, as
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  we know. You know why other animals as
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  low as they are. He's that intentional about
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  their survival. The Lord is righteous in all His
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  ways, and holy in all His works. Are you learning now?
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  Verse 18. The Lord is nigh unto them that
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  call upon Him, and all upon, and them that call upon Him in
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  truth. Verse 19 He will fulfill the
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  desire of them that fear him. I like this.
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  He will hear their cry, and he will save them.
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  Final verse The Bible says the Lord preserved all them that
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  love him, but all the wicked shall he destroy.
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  This is a description of God's nature.
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  It's important for you to learn the nature of God because the
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  nature of God becomes your assignment as far as
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  transformation is concerned. I told you that transformation
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  is the name given to the journey that makes you become like the
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  Christ. Inexperience.
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  Transformation should never, never be an impossible pursuit
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  because you were originally designed.
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  To be like Christ? Are we together now?
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  Next scripture, the nature of Christ.
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  First John chapter 4. Please give us 7 and we'll read
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  down to verse. 12 First John chapter 4 seven Apostle John
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  John the Beloved Here's what he has to say about the nature of
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  God as revealed in Christ Jesus. Beloved he says let us love one
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  another. Now he talks about love, for
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  love is of God and everyone that loveth is born of God and
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  knoweth God. Verse 8 it says he that loveth
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  not knoweth not God, for God is love.
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  Say that after me for God is love, one more time, for God is
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  love. The next verse please.
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  It says in this was manifested the love of God towards us.
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  Because that God sent his only begotten son into the world that
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  we might live through him. Next verse is that sharing is
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  love. Not that we love God, but that
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  he loved us and sent his son to be a propitiation for our sins.
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  Final verse we're reading to verse 12.
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  Beloved, if. God so loved us, we ought also
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  to love 1. Another verse 12 it says no man
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  had seen God at any time. If we love one another is proof
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  that God dwelleth in US and his love is perfected in US.
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  Someone say love, so the Bible says God is.
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  Love. God is love.
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  That that nature of love is the hallmark.
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  Are we together now? When a man is carrying God, the
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  ultimate proof that his carrying God is not power.
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  It is love, the very nature of the Christ.
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  When you read Galatians of the five, when we get to verse 22,
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  the Bible says the fruit of the Spirit.
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  Notice he never put an S to fruit.
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  The fruit of the Spirit is love. Now when you read from KJV like
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  you have learned, it looks like there are 9 Lovejoy, peace,
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  suffering. But I have taught you that the
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  fruit of the Spirit is love, but that that love begins to express
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  itself as joy, peace, patience, or long-suffering, gentleness,
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  goodness, faith. 23 Now meekness, temperance.
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  And it says against such there is no law.
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  Are we together the fruit of the Spirit, the fruit of the
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  recreated human spirit? That means the nature of God
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  finding expression within a recreated human spirit should be
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  tossed love in all its variety, as joy, as peace, as patience,
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  as meekness, the nature of God. The Bible tells us that God is
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  love. Jesus had this to say about
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  himself in Matthew Chapter 11 when we read 28 to 30.
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  Matthew Chapter 11 from verse 28 to 30, here's what it says.
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  Come unto me, all ye that labor are not heavy laden.
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  He says I will give you rest. Verse 29 He says, take my yoke
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  upon you and learn of me and learn of me, for I am meek.
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  This is what he's saying about himself as God Incarnate.
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  I am meek and lowly in heart, and ye shall find rest for your
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  souls. Come and learn of me, for I am
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  meek and I am lonely. Hallelujah.
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  Now, do you know the implication of manifesting the love of God
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  there? Are many laws in the spirit that
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  will not obey you until you walk in love.
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  One of them is faith. Faith that moves mountains.
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  Faith is not just a function of intelligence and light and
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  understanding. What?
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  The battery that powers faith? And causes the realm of the
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  Spirit to honor your speakings is when they find that nature of
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  love, that nature of God in you. The Bible says God created man
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  in his image. Are you seeing that now?
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  Do you know I have studied my Bible and I also studied the
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  results that came from the apostles.
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  I noticed that the extent of their exploit was largely
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  dependent on the nature of the love of God that was at work in
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  them. Yes, Sir.
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  Yes, Sir. No wonder the one who is called
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  John the Beloved. Of all the encounters, nobody
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  was given the privilege. In as much as they met Jesus,
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  they had all kinds of things. John had spectacular
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  manifestations. Bible history would tell us that
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  John was thrown in hot boiling oil.
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  And he would not even be roasted.
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  He would not be burnt. They didn't know what to do with
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  him. And so they banished him to an
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  island called Patmos. And that was where he received
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  the revelation of Jesus as captured in this book that we
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  call Revelation Love. There are many people who want
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  to work in dominion. There are many people who want
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  the laws of the Spirit to work for them.
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  But they fast and pray sincerely so, and they do not know that in
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  order of priority until you are restored to this pattern where
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  you manifest the image of Christ and then you function like
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  Christ, creation will obey you like they obey the Son.
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  Are we together now? Even among ministers of the
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  gospel, as we have seen fathers, patriots, some have gone to be
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  with the Lord. Some are here now that they are
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  exploits. I can tell you for many of them
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  is a function of their love life.
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  The nature of Christ that has been formed within them.
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  Many believers do not place value on embracing and seeking
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  to see manifest in their life the nature of God.
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  We are trying to function like God, and I'll come to that
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  shortly. So we speak like God, for
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  instance. We command things to obey us,
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  like God for instance, and then. They do not seem to obey us.
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  It is the same scripture that Jesus, you know, spoke that if
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  in fact it's even a culture of what he did and you.
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  Say it like he said and mean it like he meant, but you don't get
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  the result because that nature has not been formed in you, and
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  the realm of the Spirit only honors those who have become a
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  reflection of the nature. It is image and.
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  Likeness, not likeness alone. Image and likeness.
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  Jesus, I know, Paul, I know. I used to think it was just
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  because of the Excellency of revelation that they had, but
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  now I'm learning by the Spirit of God that it was the nature of
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  God. The degree to which the nature
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  of God is furnished in experience within you, I tell
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  you, that is the degree to which the realm of the Spirit will
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  comply to you as intended. Are we together?
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  There are many people who do not pay attention to embracing and
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  contending to see manifest in their lives the nature of God,
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  man. Was first created in the image
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  the image. The image, the image of Christ,
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  the image of Christ, the image of Christ.
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  When you understand this, mysteries like the communion can
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  work for you. Otherwise you can take 1 full,
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  what they call it now jar of that black current and it will
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  never do anything in your life. You can eat the wafers, Finish
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  it, and you'll find out that no demon moves anywhere because you
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  see, you do not even understand the implication.
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  So most people do it as a ritual.
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  They take the wafers, they swallow whatever it is, no
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  matter how small or how large. In fact, do you know Paul got
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  angry and was even rebuking the people because they got to a
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  point where they did not understand this implication of
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  oneness with Christ, that that mystery was supposed to reenact
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  an experience within you. The concept of that oneness that
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  you are now inseparable as it is with God in Christ.
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  So it is with you and many people started taking that the
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  wine and they got drunk and so many things were happening in
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  the church in Corinth and Paul had to come and call for a
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  conference and said nonsense is going on here.
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  I hear that some of you take this communion from the
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  communion you get tipsy, you fall and the essence of it.
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  That's where he began to talk about partaking of the body and
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  the bread of Christ unworthily. He says for this, some of you
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  are weak, some of you are sick and some of you do sleep.
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  Not this. The Lords body Hallelujah.
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  The nature of Christ. Listen, there was first a nature
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  that Jesus had that made Him victorious.
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  It was not just the things He said, It was not just the things
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  He did. It was not just the places He
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  went to. There was something intrinsic
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  within him. For instance, Jesus said this
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  about himself, that Satan cometh to me.
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  Did you read that in your Bible? And that he did not find
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  anything. He cometh to me.
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  He cometh to me. Meaning no matter what you know,
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  if Satan comes to you and can find something within you that
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  becomes a connection point, he has legal authority.
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  Be patient as we get to Part 2. I will be teaching you something
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  about altars and you will. You will learn.
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  You will learn a very deep mystery that if you do not know,
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  you can be a prayer warrior, you will still be frustrated.
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  You can be a giver, you will still be frustrated.
• 1:01:18
  You can be a sincere person, you will still be frustrated.
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  You can quote scripture. You will still be.
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  Frustrated, knowest thou the ordinances of heaven?
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  And turns thou establish the dominion thereof.
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  I'm speaking to you that the realm of the Spirit respects
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  careers of the nature of Christ. Not in theory, careers of the
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  nature of Christ. There is an elevation in
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  experience in the Spirit. Now from a human standpoint, we
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  don't seem to place so much value on people because we live
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  in a wicked world. And the more you are like Christ
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  in this world, people think you are cheap, you are weak, they
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  take advantage of you, but you do not know what happens to you
• 1:02:01
  in the realm of the Spirit. The greater credibility is not
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  even among men. We call it a man of character.
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  If you are meek, you are humble. These are wonderful things.
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  It can end your relationships. But the the greater weight of
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  carrying the nature of Christ is seen in the realm of the Spirit.
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  It translate to a greater command of power.
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  Creation will respond to you in a way that will surprise you if
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  you do contend to have the nature of Christ.
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  For instance, the Bible says faith works by love.
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  How many people have tried to fix unbelief by focusing on
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  love? Most times when we want to fix
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  unbelief, we focus on revelation, and there's nothing
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  wrong with that. But you get revelation and don't
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  walk on the love component. The Bible says faith walks by
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  love. Are we together?
• 1:02:56
  Faith walks by love. The more you grow in
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  understanding the love of Christ, the more you grow in
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  having that love. I can tell you, please look up
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  as a man of God by the privilege of God's grace.
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  I understand a bit about working in the anointing and I have seen
• 1:03:15
  that most people cannot walk in the anointing, not because
• 1:03:19
  something is wrong with their prayer life, not because
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  something is wrong with revelation.
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  Something is wrong with that nature component.
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  Are we together? When the love life, representing
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  other dimensions of the nature of Christ, finds expression in
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  you and is fully formed within you, there is no limit to the
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  kind of power, the kind of grace, and the kind of glory
• 1:03:49
  that emanates from your life. Believe us.
• 1:03:51
  Are you learning now? It looks like a very simple
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  subject, but I'm telling you why creation is not respecting many
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  of us. The reason why you speak to
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  situations and circumstances. They do not hear you, they do
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  not pay attention, they are not even interested.
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  I'll tell you why. The reason is because you have
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  not contended for that. Love, You know, our world has
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  abused love. When we say love, what most
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  people think of is a woman, or if the female gender and
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  something very weak and affectionate are we together.
• 1:04:22
  The things that carry love in our world usually die for
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  nothing, and so we don't respect love.
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  When we say love, you just think something that is so weak unto
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  death. No, that should not be your
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  description of love. Love is powerful.
• 1:04:36
  It is God's very nature. What faith could not do love
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  deed? What power could not do love
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  deed? It was love that finally nailed
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  the subject of the fall of man seen Satan, Helen, the grave.
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  It was love that dealt with those things on the cross, not.
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  Power. Hallelujah, the nature of
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  Christ, that everything you see reflected in the Bible as the
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  nature of God as revealed in Christ, that must become your
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  assignment. I seek to be patient.
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  I seek to be kind. I seek to be humble.
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  I seek to be gracious. I seek to be merciful.
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  I seek to be loving, inexperienced.
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  Let me tell you the truth, there are many diseases that will not
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  be found in your life if the nature of God dwells in you.
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  I'm not talking about just from a spiritual standpoint.
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  From a psychological standpoint, you will be delivered from many
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  diseases like high blood pressure as a result of anger,
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  envy, and jealousy. The overthinking that comes from
• 1:05:40
  that state can kill you. Are we together?
• 1:05:46
  Do you know that many diseases that destroy people start from
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  the realm of the mind, an attitude of competition?
• 1:05:53
  I need to get this. I need to get this.
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  And you think? And you are depressed.
• 1:05:58
  Are we together now? You see, the nature of Christ
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  was supposed to correct many things in our world, many things
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  we are fighting now and trying to manage with drugs.
• 1:06:09
  With all due respect, the ultimate cure is embracing the
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  nature of Christ. And I'm not just talking about
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  the supernatural implication of having that nature, that the
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  nature of Christ itself, dwelling in an environment of
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  God's nature is therapeutic. Everything we do today, from
• 1:06:27
  security to food, nutrition, is our human way of trying to
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  simulate the atmosphere of the fruit of the Spirit.
• 1:06:34
  Why do you get dogs? You are looking for peace
• 1:06:38
  because you know there is some criminal somewhere who will not
• 1:06:41
  allow you have your peace. Are we together?
• 1:06:44
  So the price of dogs have increased because of the problem
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  of men and because of the absence of God's nature.
• 1:06:51
  Who is learning? As much as you came to church,
• 1:06:56
  even though it was the House of God, you locked your car.
• 1:06:58
  True or false, why did you lock your car knowing that believers
• 1:07:03
  are the ones who are gathered here?
• 1:07:05
  The bank you have now in church, you locked it and you are still
• 1:07:08
  watching it. Do you know why?
• 1:07:10
  Because not all men have faith, the awareness that human beings
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  are tampering with the manifestation of the fruit of
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  the Spirit, the nature of Christ.
• 1:07:20
  There are businesses that have been formed as a result of that
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  deviation. Isn't it amazing how much we
• 1:07:29
  invest in security today? I don't know anybody who intends
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  to grow and last who does not invest in security.
• 1:07:39
  Security has become billion dollar businesses today.
• 1:07:42
  You know why? Because somebody who does not
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  have the nature of Christ is still on earth and most likely
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  near your neighborhood. You can call him Mama an armed
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  robber. You can call him a kidnapper.
• 1:07:54
  These are the deficiencies of not having.
• 1:07:56
  The nature of Christ. Lovejoy, peace is someone
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  learning now. When somebody because of an
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  attitude of hatred goes to speak to your destiny helper and says
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  don't promote this lady, don't promote this man.
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  You see the reason why we even pray favor provoking prayers.
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  Those prayers would not have been necessary, in fact, if
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  everyone were walking with the nature of Christ.
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  Because you know that wickedness is real and that there are
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  people who will vow. Vow to see that you do not rise.
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  Vow to see that your children do not rise.
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  Are we together? Why do we pray against
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  encounters with wicked and unreasonable people?
• 1:08:52
  The Bible says all men. It is not all men that have
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  faith. I'm just telling you that most
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  of the problems in the world today that we are trying to
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  solve is a direct problem that is a consequence of the absence
• 1:09:05
  of the fruit of the Spirit. The absence of the fruit of the
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  Spirit. That means the more you restore
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  that nature, you are restoring everything to God's original
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  pattern. Where did greed come from?
• 1:09:20
  Do you know how many problems in the world today exist just
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  because of this one negative human trait called greed?
• 1:09:28
  There are wars today in our world fueled by greed.
• 1:09:32
  There are people in pain today courtesy greed.
• 1:09:35
  There are companies that are folded today because of greed.
• 1:09:39
  Are we together? There are families crying over
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  their loved ones today because of greed.
• 1:09:44
  I mean just pick greed. And self, how about hatred?
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  Tell me all the problems in the world that exist today because
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  of the deficiency of love. Hatred.
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  There is a whole industry built around hatred.
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  That means if hatred stops, the industry will die.
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  Hallelujah. Who would have believed today,
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  ladies and gentlemen, that billions of dollars is being
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  transacted from nation to nation in the name of peacekeeping?
• 1:10:17
  You see that now. And we thank God for all those
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  who work to keep peace across Africa, across the nations of
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  the earth. But is it not because somebody
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  is determined to distort God's order?
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  There are different groups and different sects being formed
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  around the world every day, every week because of the desire
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  of men. Take pride as an example.
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  I'm just showing you these things that most of the problems
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  in the world, they are not the issues of policies, they are not
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  government issues. They are not even issues of skin
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  color. It's the deficiency of living in
• 1:10:56
  an environment that is bankrupt of the nature of God.
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  This is the difference between heaven and earth.
• 1:11:05
  The first thing you see in heaven is not the power of God.
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  It's an atmosphere that carries within it the nature of Christ.
• 1:11:13
  Let me tell you the truth. Look at me if you want Kingdom
• 1:11:16
  to come. The first thing you need is not
• 1:11:19
  a download of God's power. The first thing you need is a
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  download of God's culture, God's environment, God's culture.
• 1:11:27
  Simulate an organization that has the fruit of the Spirit and
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  you will see the extent of advancement that will happen
• 1:11:33
  there. When you see companies grow and
• 1:11:37
  they tell you these companies are nice, do you know that they
• 1:11:40
  have brought policies that are consistent with the fruit of the
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  Spirit? That is the reason why they are
• 1:11:45
  going forward or no? They greet people, they show
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  manners. Are we together now?
• 1:11:51
  They value integrity. You translate them into
• 1:11:54
  policies. All the nations today you call
• 1:11:57
  first world Now, whether they believe in Jesus personally or
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  not. I am saying any policy that
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  simulates heaven is because it has captured within it the
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  nature of God. They may not call it that way.
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  We have. I can summarize all of them.
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  The world is in hunger, looking for the nature of God.
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  They do not know it is God's nature they are trying to get.
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  They call it peace, they call it justice, they call it equity.
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  Are we together now? These are just intelligent,
• 1:12:28
  intellectual names. I am telling you the problem of
• 1:12:31
  the world today is that we have deviated from this reality of
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  the image of Christ and we are paying for it.
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  Love, love, love, love. What makes somebody who is due
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  for promotion and then they fight the person simply because
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  of the color of his skin or the region that he comes from?
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  Party spirit, seditions. These things are not found in
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  the nature of Christ. He sits upon a throne that is
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  made-up of righteousness and justice.
• 1:13:08
  Every time men deviate from living in the environment of
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  God's nature, God's love, the fruit of the Spirit, there will
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  be consequences. Who is learning so far build a
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  business? Whose environment and whose
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  culture? Is parallel and similar.
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  And in consistency with the fruit of the Spirit and watch
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  what happens to that business. You literally can use the fruit
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  of the Spirit, translate them into policies, run your business
• 1:13:40
  and watch what happens. In this organization there is
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  love. Before you report anybody, tell
• 1:13:48
  me 3 things you love about the person.
• 1:13:50
  Then you can criticize. If you cannot tell me, go back
• 1:13:53
  to your office. Fruit of the Spirit.
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  You don't have to paste it on people's face and say the fruit
• 1:13:58
  of the spirit is love. In this company, there's joy.
• 1:14:02
  Are we together? So as the CEO, maybe once a week
• 1:14:06
  you stroll into every office, crack a joke and let the people
• 1:14:09
  laugh. And then you go back and see
• 1:14:11
  what happens to their productivity.
• 1:14:13
  The fruit of the spirit is beyond just a nature.
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  It is the environment that optimizes the function of man.
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  When man goes out of the fruit of the Spirit, it's like a fish
• 1:14:25
  going out of water. Are you learning now?
• 1:14:27
  It's like a bird not having the ability to fly.
• 1:14:31
  When you read a bird using the ability to swim, it will fall
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  short of it. Man has gone out of his
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  spiritual ecosystem is the reason why we have sicknesses
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  today. We cannot explain is the reason
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  why we are intellectual and yet not moving forward.
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  God created man in His image who is learning.
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  Let me tell you the truth, one of the secrets of longevity is
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  to walk in the fruit of the Spirit.
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  Believe me when I tell you this, the fruit of the Spirit.
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  Read it and pray it in your life, that in the name of Jesus
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  I walk in love. In the name of Jesus I live a
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  joyful life. I will never wrinkle my face
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  because of the problems happening around my nation while
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  I am trusting God for a miracle. You tell yourself in the name of
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  Jesus I enjoy peace. I refuse to overthink.
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  My mind will not be stressed because of over thinking.
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  There are young men today in their their late teenage early
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  20s who are having high blood pressure like people of 60 years
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  because of worry. Jesus took time to warn us.
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  He said which of you by worrying can add 1 cubit?
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  Who is learning now to the point that in our world today, if they
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  see you joyful and happy and jovial, people look at you and
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  say what is wrong with you? Do you know there are
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  corporations that look for stuff?
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  And what they're finding is the joy of the spirit.
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  They don't know that's what they're finding.
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  They just say you have to be friendly.
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  What is friendliness? So when somebody comes, is very
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  happy, a young lady greets everybody, they crack a joke,
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  she laughs very generously and naturally they said this is my
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  secretary. The man is an unbeliever, but he
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  knows God when he sees it. Are you learning?
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  Everybody you drive around your life is because you detected
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  something in them that is in defiance to the nature of
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  Christ. You may not give it that
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  definition, but that is what? Why do you throw away someone
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  and say, you know what, this person, you won't be my friend
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  again. This one, even though you are a
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  sister in Christ, you are not my sister again.
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  What is the difference you have? Found something that is in
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  defiance. Show me an individual who is a
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  healthy capture of the fruit of the Spirit.
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  I show you a man. Who will be desired the same way
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  you desire Jesus? Same way you desire Jesus and it
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  doesn't matter whether you are a preacher.
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  Are we together now? It doesn't matter.
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  Whoever you are, once you carry that nature of Christ, you
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  become the desire of nations, the desire many people want to
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  come around you. You are joyful.
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  You are patient. Take the quality of kindness.
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  I hope you are learning tonight. There are people who are so
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  kind. If you don't see them after two
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  days, you feel as if you lost something.
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  Where is this person? She's so kind.
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  Where is this man? He's so kind.
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  You can give them a job. Not because of their degree,
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  because of that quality called kindness.
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  There are businesses that have been built.
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  Why do comedians make a lot of money?
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  How do you pay 30 pounds, 50 lbs VIP, 1000 lbs VVIP, whatever it
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  is to sit down somewhere and laugh and laugh and laugh and
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  laugh and laugh and go? Home.
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  And you don't consider it silly. Do you know why that is how
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  desperate men are to look for joy and peace.
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  Hallelujah. Now look up.
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  Why do people drink themselves to stupor?
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  You meet all of them and say why are you like this?
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  Look up, we found you in a gutter.
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  It's in my worries. Let me tell you there is peace
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  that only Jesus gives. That guy is trying to use
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  another route to seek to find that health of that nature
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  called peace. Who is learning tonight?
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  God knows what He built that he called man.
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  We have distorted that architecture and we are paying
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  the price today. There are people who cannot
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  rejoice. There are people who are not
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  gentle. We have cliches that support a
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  rough, scattered and lawless life.
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  We give it beautiful names even though they are destructive
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  traits. I'm a hustler.
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  I'm a That's how I am. You see that now.
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  You are not gentle to the point that some of us feel insulted
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  when they say you're a gentleman.
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  Say I'm not, I'm not. I was a gentleman and I
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  suffered. I'm a rough man.
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  I drag it. You slap me.
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  I give you many slaps so that you will not slap me again.
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  The Lord is gracious and compassionate.
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  Show me a husband that is a capture of the fruit of the
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  Spirit. I show you a man whose wife
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  would thank God for him every day.
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  Show me a wife who is a capture of the fruit of the Spirit.
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  I show you a woman who her husband will say thank God for
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  you. Show me a child who is a capture
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  of the fruit of the Spirit. The parents would thank God for
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  this child every day. When you say my child is
• 1:20:04
  stubborn, you are describing the absence of a fruit of the Spirit
• 1:20:08
  whose name you do not know, so you call it stubborn.
• 1:20:11
  When you say my child is wicked, what are you saying?
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  What is wickedness? The absence of goodness.
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  The absence of kindness. So Moses said, Lord, show me
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  your glory, and God said, I will allow my goodness. 1 of this
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  quality. Let me tell you the truth, my
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  greatest desire is not just to be a man of power.
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  My greatest desire is not just to be a man of science and
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  wonders. When I seek to know the Lord the
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  more. My greatest desire is that God
• 1:20:43
  will find greater space within his life to manifest His nature,
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  that the nations will see you and see that you are the most
• 1:20:51
  visible portrait of the Christ that they can trace.
• 1:20:55
  And it will not matter at that point whether you come from
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  Nigeria or Ghana or South Africa or you are Yoruba or IBO are you
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  see Now do you know that when you blame someone and say you
• 1:21:08
  are behaving like from so, so so place, you are just using
• 1:21:11
  regions? But the truth is that it is the
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  absence of the fruit of the Spirit.
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  When believers come together who are a rich manifestation of the
• 1:21:19
  fruit of the Spirit, you will not know any man in the flesh
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  again. You will not even know who comes
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  from here or there, who comes from Ghana or South Africa.
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  When the Bible says that we come to the fullness of the stature
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  of the measure of Christ, this is what it means that I can see
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  a believer from Abuja, a believer from Lagos, A believer
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  from Maiduguri, A believer from Ghana, South Africa, Zimbabwe, A
• 1:21:46
  believer from America. We can all come together and
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  literally know we are a family because we have been bound by a
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  common nature, not just a common creed.
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  Are we together now? Why do you pay a huge amount of
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  school fees parents to send your children to certain school?
• 1:22:09
  It is not just the educational standard in terms of the
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  intellectual composition of the school.
• 1:22:15
  Most times when we award people degrees, we say they have
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  qualified in both learning and character.
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  Learning and character are we together now is the reason why
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  when you find out that their character is compromised, even
• 1:22:29
  though they have earned that degree, you can withdraw it on
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  account of that character Are we together the first component You
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  want creation to honor you, You want life to work for you, You
• 1:22:41
  want gates to be open for you. I tell you, pay the price to
• 1:22:45
  build within you. The nature of a Christian is the
• 1:22:49
  nature of God as revealed in Christ.
• 1:22:51
  He says come and learn of me. Can you be somebody who is
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  loving? Can you be somebody who is kind?
• 1:22:59
  Can you be somebody who is gentle?
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  With all due respect for some of you I'm describing A foreigner
• 1:23:04
  because it's not you at all. As I said, gentle you are
• 1:23:08
  wondering, kind, you are wondering, loving, patient.
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  You are none of this. Welcome to church.
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  This is where you open up your heart and say God walk upon my
• 1:23:16
  heart. The Holy Spirit does an inner
• 1:23:19
  walk, an inner walk before he does an outer walk, that when
• 1:23:24
  you appear before men that Jesus, they've not seen, when
• 1:23:28
  they look at you, they know that you are the closest
• 1:23:30
  representation of Him. You are gentle, you are kind.
• 1:23:35
  Life will work for you to the degree to which it finds the
• 1:23:39
  nature of Christ flowing in you. And let me tell you the truth, I
• 1:23:44
  respect psychology and I know that we're taught that we have
• 1:23:47
  different temperaments, phlegmatics, choleric, sanguine,
• 1:23:51
  etcetera. I understand and I respect the
• 1:23:54
  experts who have come up with those things.
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  But there's one thing I know. It doesn't matter what you are,
• 1:23:59
  you can change. Do you hear what I said?
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  It doesn't matter. Fill your form and find out who
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  you are. But you can't change.
• 1:24:08
  For God's sake, you can't change.
• 1:24:11
  Don't say I'm an angry person. It is something that I've told
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  God if I am kind, provided nobody looks for my trouble.
• 1:24:18
  But if you touch me, I'm like fire.
• 1:24:20
  Change, change. Who is learning what I'm saying
• 1:24:24
  now to be like Christ? There are preachers who are not
• 1:24:28
  like Christ. Annoy them and you know they are
• 1:24:31
  not like Christ and it's not something to be excited about.
• 1:24:34
  No, no, not at all. There are businessmen who love
• 1:24:39
  God but place money in front of them.
• 1:24:41
  They forget their businessmen, they will push anybody and match
• 1:24:45
  on any neck until they see profit.
• 1:24:48
  When they see the figure our heart, they can say you are my
• 1:24:50
  brother, what were you saying before?
• 1:24:53
  And while I owe it to train you by the Spirit so that when
• 1:24:58
  people look at you, it's not by praying in tongues and
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  manifesting. Power.
• 1:25:04
  And science and wonders if that is the first thing people see
• 1:25:07
  about you to know you are a Christian.
• 1:25:09
  You are a faulty, distorted Christian.
• 1:25:13
  I'm telling you this sincerely that when you show up on Monday,
• 1:25:18
  the reason why they say pastor is coming is not because you are
• 1:25:21
  holding a Bible that later you will steal and it's not because
• 1:25:26
  you are using church words. Oh, good afternoon, Sir.
• 1:25:30
  How are you, my brother, sister, this and that, that's wonderful.
• 1:25:35
  But the nature of Christ do you know?
• 1:25:39
  There is a. Presence that the nature of
• 1:25:41
  Christ carries that is discernible even by a non
• 1:25:44
  Christian. Have you found people just come
• 1:25:48
  to you and they sit down and say sorry, I want to share some
• 1:25:51
  things about my life. I will tell you what brought
• 1:25:54
  them. It is that nature of Christ a
• 1:25:58
  meeting drawing people the same way they would come to Jesus.
• 1:26:02
  That was what compelled Nicodemus to come to Jesus by
• 1:26:04
  night. Are you learning now to be like
• 1:26:09
  Christ, To be like Christ in experience?
• 1:26:13
  Fight everything that violates its nature within you, the fruit
• 1:26:18
  of the Spirit. Open your Bible and look at it.
• 1:26:21
  This issue of temper, I need to deal with it.
• 1:26:24
  This issue of pride, I need to deal with it.
• 1:26:27
  When you when you don't deal with it, it would destroy your
• 1:26:31
  destiny and stop you from becoming Hallelujah.
• 1:26:48
  The nature of Christ finding expression.
• 1:26:52
  Please look at me. Let me have your attention.
• 1:26:54
  I hope as you're laughing, you're Lenny.
• 1:26:56
  Because we're dealing with very serious things here.
• 1:26:59
  Very serious things here. You.
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  Get the glory, you get the praise, you take the honor.
• 1:27:13
  I just want to say Hallelujah. Look at me.
• 1:27:18
  Some of you can receive any other nature of Christ minus
• 1:27:22
  giving. You will prefer to love your
• 1:27:27
  enemy 1000 times than to give. Are we together?
• 1:27:34
  Once you hear giving like this, your spirit gets angry.
• 1:27:37
  I'm not asking you to give, I'm just telling you something is
• 1:27:40
  wrong. During offering you act as if
• 1:27:43
  you are not in church. Once he's done and worship team
• 1:27:47
  stands, you lift your hand, you shout, you jump, you even push
• 1:27:50
  people around you. No, how about loving your
• 1:27:54
  brother? Some of you love God so much but
• 1:27:57
  you hate every other person who is not him, even those created
• 1:28:01
  in his image. You are a hypocrite.
• 1:28:03
  The Bible says you cannot claim to love God that you have not
• 1:28:06
  seen when you hate your brother that you have seen.
• 1:28:10
  There are people who come to church and sorry for whoever
• 1:28:12
  sits by your left and right. That becomes an uncomfortable
• 1:28:16
  service for them because you love God who you have not seen.
• 1:28:20
  And the reason why you love him is because you have not seen
• 1:28:22
  him. Because when you see him, he
• 1:28:24
  looks like your neighbor that you hate.
• 1:28:28
  Are we learning? Now in my life, be glorified be
• 1:28:38
  glorified. In my life, be glorified, be
• 1:28:50
  glorified. You got the glory.
• 1:28:54
  You got the glory. You got the praise.
• 1:28:59
  You take the I just want to say thank you.
• 1:29:05
  You get the glory. You get the praise.
• 1:29:09
  You get the praise. You take the.
• 1:29:12
  I just want to say thank you. Lay your hands gently on your
• 1:29:20
  head and cry to the Lord. Walk on my character.
• 1:29:24
  Walk on my character, Mention it by name.
• 1:29:27
  Walk on my character. Walk on my character.
• 1:29:31
  I I came to church seeking for power, but walk on my character.
• 1:29:36
  I was not just created in the likeness of God.
• 1:29:39
  I was first created in the image of God, carrying his character,
• 1:29:45
  carrying his character, the image of God.
• 1:29:48
  Go ahead and pray. Shamaka parata.
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  Gabelleke parusiata M prati la caparantos cotti braca de la
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  cosia walk on my character. Someone pray, cry unto the Lord.
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  Shaleke parantas ke belike parieta.
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  To be like Jesus, to be like Jesus, to reflect the Christ
• 1:30:12
  like character. Cry unto the Lord, walk upon my
• 1:30:17
  character. The fruit of the Spirit find an
• 1:30:20
  expression within me. Podge, my life of wickedness.
• 1:30:25
  Podge my life of hatred. Someone pray Podge my life of
• 1:30:29
  pride. You get the glory.
• 1:30:38
  You get the praise. You take the honor, take the
• 1:30:42
  honor. I just want to say thank you.
• 1:30:47
  You get the glory, You get to pray.
• 1:30:53
  You take. The honor corporate people, let
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  me challenge you in one minute. Anyone here who is a business
• 1:31:05
  owner, captain of industry in this house, let me challenge
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  you. Go and translate the fruit of
• 1:31:11
  the Spirit. Into policies.
• 1:31:14
  Let it become the code of conduct and the modus operandi
• 1:31:19
  that governs your company void of sentiments and watch what
• 1:31:23
  happens. I give you a guarantee.
• 1:31:25
  Turn it into policies. It doesn't matter whether your
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  company captures believers, non believers.
• 1:31:32
  You see, the fruit of the Spirit was not supposed to produce
• 1:31:35
  fanatics. It was supposed to produce
• 1:31:37
  Christ like individuals. If you're becoming a Christian
• 1:31:42
  cannot allow you to be a blessing to non Christians.
• 1:31:44
  You are not an authentic Christian.
• 1:31:48
  This is not a promotion of fanaticism.
• 1:31:50
  I'm a friend to many people. I have my values, but I'm a
• 1:31:53
  friend to believers, non believers.
• 1:31:55
  I meet with them in the course of the things that we do.
• 1:31:59
  We interact with all kinds of people.
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  Are we together? Use the fruit of the Spirit.
• 1:32:06
  Design your policies. You're my driver.
• 1:32:09
  This is the policy. I want a joyful person smiling
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  everyday. If there is a reason why you
• 1:32:14
  cannot smile, let me know. Don't hold bitterness, open up
• 1:32:17
  to me. Are we together politely?
• 1:32:20
  So come up with a policy. The only kind of criticism
• 1:32:26
  allowed in this corporation is constructive criticism.
• 1:32:30
  If it will move the company forward, I am for it.
• 1:32:33
  If you are tearing other people, leave the company.
• 1:32:36
  It's better to lose one person than to lose the future of the
• 1:32:39
  company who is Lenny Parents use this to govern your house.
• 1:32:45
  Don't let people carry their atmosphere.
• 1:32:47
  Antichrist Babylonian atmosphere and just come from the knock,
• 1:32:50
  you know is that there's a familiar there's a strange
• 1:32:53
  spirit about to enter your house.
• 1:32:57
  Now. In this house, when someone goes
• 1:33:00
  wrong, you say I'm sorry immediately specifically, and it
• 1:33:04
  ends there. In this family, everybody's
• 1:33:07
  everybody's keeper. Are we together?
• 1:33:10
  In this family, there is mutual respect.
• 1:33:13
  There's no such thing as first born, last born.
• 1:33:15
  Everybody respects everybody in this family.
• 1:33:19
  The man is head, not alpha and Omega, so he can apologize if
• 1:33:24
  he's wrong. It doesn't matter that his
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  father. Are we together?
• 1:33:30
  The day the children shout at the father?
• 1:33:31
  You don't. It's your fault.
• 1:33:33
  No, you don't shout at your father.
• 1:33:35
  That is wrong, my colleague shouts at his father in school.
• 1:33:40
  It is wrong with him, wrong with you.
• 1:33:42
  And if I catch you with that boy again, are we together?
• 1:33:48
  You're laughing. But I mean what I'm saying.
• 1:33:51
  The fruit of the spirit should not only be in us, it should be
• 1:33:55
  translated into policies. That becomes the environment for
• 1:33:59
  business, the environment for governance, the environment for
• 1:34:03
  leadership. I'm I'm giving you many of you
• 1:34:06
  and you are you are policy makers.
• 1:34:08
  I'm giving you a challenge. Go and use the template of the
• 1:34:14
  put together 12 or. 13 character traits that represent the nature
• 1:34:21
  of God as found in Christ translates them into a business
• 1:34:25
  friendly atmosphere and watch what happens.
• 1:34:28
  But every client that comes to this place, you greet them with
• 1:34:31
  courtesy. You demonstrate the nature of
• 1:34:33
  Christ. See what happens to your
• 1:34:35
  productivity. You know the thing I like about
• 1:34:37
  faith, The gospel must be taught in a way that is is useful to
• 1:34:42
  society. I don't believe in teaching
• 1:34:44
  truths that produce fanatics without a point of application.
• 1:34:48
  As far as you're becoming, you're excelling and the.
• 1:34:51
  Building of a nation is concerned.
• 1:34:54
  With all due respect, let me challenge our correctional
• 1:34:57
  centers. Review what you are using to
• 1:34:59
  correct prisoners. If not, they are only going out
• 1:35:03
  to return back again. Don't steal.
• 1:35:06
  It's not how you turn thieves to say this.
• 1:35:09
  I recommend with every sense of joy the fruit of the spirit.
• 1:35:15
  Yes Sir, Turn it into programs. If you walk in prisons here hear
• 1:35:21
  me. It's my honest recommendation,
• 1:35:24
  turn it into programs. Don't just say you know, you see
• 1:35:30
  what you are doing. You are now here and depends.
• 1:35:33
  Well, I'm here. You think you would change like
• 1:35:35
  that? No, the deliverance part, you
• 1:35:37
  can do it or connect them to Koinonia.
• 1:35:40
  Let me help you undo that one. But once they are done that
• 1:35:46
  rehabilitation, listen, let me tell you the truth.
• 1:35:49
  If I were a policy maker, from a governmental standpoint, I will
• 1:35:53
  put together people and recommend policies.
• 1:35:57
  And before you bring a policy, you must tell me the reference.
• 1:36:00
  Where did it come from? Are we together so that we see
• 1:36:05
  where it has worked before you implement it?
• 1:36:08
  Don't ship everything to your organization and say one
• 1:36:12
  somebody run a business with it. Did it produce results?
• 1:36:17
  You teach the people within your organization.
• 1:36:19
  When one person cries, everybody cries.
• 1:36:23
  That's how you build unity. Are we together?
• 1:36:28
  When you are about to reward excellence, you start by
• 1:36:30
  appreciating everybody. Then you appreciate the person
• 1:36:33
  who was uniquely. Exceptional.
• 1:36:35
  The remaining fine consolation, because you started by telling
• 1:36:38
  them thank you too. But when you isolate others and
• 1:36:41
  you say you are not like this other foolish people, you have
• 1:36:44
  brought a lot of money to this corporation.
• 1:36:46
  You make them hate him. That was the mistake of Jacob.
• 1:36:49
  Jacob would have appreciated all his sons then he would have now
• 1:36:53
  given Joseph a coat of many colors.
• 1:36:55
  But he kept loving only Joseph. And.
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  Shouting it. And the brothers hated him for
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  three reasons. Let me do a crash course and
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  teach you 3 reasons why men hate you #1 men who hate you because
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  of the love of your father towards you, in this case, God.
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  Number two, men who hate you because of your dreams.
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  They hated Joseph because of his dream.
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  Number three men hated him because of the gift his father
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  gave him, the coat of many colors.
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  Now let's go very quickly. To functioning like Christ.
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  I hope someone is letting so God made man.
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  We're still considering Genesis chapter 1 and verse 26 that God
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  made man in his image. We're looking at the topic
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  Greater Light, and for Part 1 we're considering the mysteries
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  of Dominion. And in a very unassuming way,
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  I'm showing you that you're working in the experience of
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  Dominion has a lot to do with your receiving, manifesting, and
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  experience the nature of Christ and creating.
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  An atmosphere that captures the nature of Christ.
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  Now let's look at what it means to function like God.
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  This is what it means, The likeness of God.
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  Now please look up. I used to think the likeness of
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  God means having the form of God.
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  Even though that is true, it does not stop there.
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  So when the Bible says God made man in the likeness of God, God
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  has two hands, man has two hands.
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  God, as we know, has revealed in Christ, has one head.
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  Man has one head. Are we together?
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  He walks upon his feet like man walks upon his feet.
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  So there is the form of God. But then the greater implication
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  of being built to function like Christ is that you must have.
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  The requisite knowledge you must know how God works, how God
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  obtains results, how God manifests dominion, and then to
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  replicate it in your life. And I want to open your eyes to
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  a few things very quickly. Are you ready to function like
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  God? Genesis chapter one, verse one,
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  the Bible tells us. Let's look at a few things very
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  quickly. My God, I'm already sensing a
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  very strong anointing. That means something is going to
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  happen here now in the name of Jesus.
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  Genesis 1 verse one in the beginning God created.
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  Everybody said God created one more time shouting say God
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  created. That means every other person he
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  created is also a creator. Are we together?
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  In the beginning? God created.
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  In the beginning God created. In the beginning God created.
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  So the Bible says that He created the heavens and He
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  created the earth. That means within everybody,
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  every believer is the ability to change your reality and to
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  change your environment, that there is something within man.
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  In functioning like God, you have the liberty to fade away
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  any scenery in your life that is inconsistent with God's
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  blueprint. Are we together the Bible did
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  not say God explained he said God created the heavens and the
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  earth verse 2 the Bible says and the earth was without form and.
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  Void. And darkness was upon the face
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  of the deep. What does this tell you?
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  It means challenges. Dark days are not unusual.
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  Even God experienced it in His journey to creation.
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  Are we together now that you are going to face moments that may
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  not be not so good? The Bible says the earth, for
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  whatever reason, was now without form and void.
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  And darkness was upon the face of the deep.
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  The Bible says the Spirit of the Lord moved upon the face of the
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  waters. Lesson #3 We learn never give up
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  on things because they are not walking.
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  You are learning to function like God.
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  When there was darkness, God did not run away waiting for someone
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  to create lights, then he will come back.
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  The Bible says the Holy Spirit moved upon the face of that
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  darkness, upon the face of that water.
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  The company is not walking, make it work, don't run away.
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  Are we together now? Anything that is not working,
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  champion stay until they make it.
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  Work. Verse 3 the Bible says and God
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  said everybody say and God said, so we see now that God created,
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  we see that God. Stayed even in the midst of an
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  unfavorable environment. Now the Bible says God said that
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  means every spirit he created is a talking spirit, that you
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  create realities by speaking. This is how God functions.
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  God functions by saying he frames realities by saying the
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  Bible says and God said he did not discuss the prevalent
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  situation. He just said let there be light,
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  let there be light, let there be light.
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  The Bible says and there was light number. 4 How to function
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  like God and God saw the power of vision.
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  If you are to function like God, you must have the ability to
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  see. God saw the light.
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  You must see opportunities. God did not see the darkness.
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  Even though there was darkness, the Bible says God saw.
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  It matters what you see, not just that you see.
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  It matters what you see. Who is learning Now from verse
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  one to four, I'm showing you how to function like God.
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  That God created that when there was darkness and chaos and
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  anarchy, He did not run away. He stood there and solved that
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  problem. And that God spoke.
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  He created man to have capacity to speak.
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  And the Bible says God saw man. Can see God has given every man
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  the power of vision, the ability to see things as safe as they
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  should be. Even if they are good, you can
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  see it better. God saw the light.
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  God saw the light. God saw the light.
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  Who is learning very powerful. Most people do not know how to
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  function like God. Let's read 1 Psalm 121 from
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  verse one and. 2 If you are learning, shout.
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  Amen. Psalm 121 verse one and two, I
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  will lift up my eyes to the hills from whence comment my
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  help. Verse 2 it says my help comment
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  from the Lord which made the heavens and the earth.
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  God is a maker. You know what it means to make?
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  To make means to coordinate resources together to produce
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  something glorious. That's what it means to make, to
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  make his different from creation.
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  God made man. God created man.
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  You can create and you can make. Making requires intelligence.
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  It is beyond speaking. You have to learn the art of
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  bringing together all of the systems of advantage, humans,
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  material resources together. That's how you make.
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  And the Bible called God a maker.
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  God called, I mean the Bible calls him a maker.
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  That means everyone is a maker, everyone is a maker, everyone is
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  a maker. You can produce a glorious life.
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  Are we together now? This is very powerful, very,
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  very powerful. Now the Bible also tells us,
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  like you have learned, that God has.
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  Let's go to Revelation chapter 4 please, from verse 10:50.
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  While learning how to function like Christ, I'm showing you He
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  says the four and 20 elders fell down before him and sat down on
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  the throne and worshiped him that liveth forever and ever and
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  cast their crowns before him, saying pay attention now Thou
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  art worthy, O Lord, to receive. Glory help me and honor and
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  power, for thou has created all things, and for thy pleasure
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  they are and were created. I like these 3 words.
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  Glory and honor and power. Glory and honor You are worthy
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  to receive. That means it should be captured
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  in the life of every believer. Glory and honor and power.
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  Say that after me Glory and honor and power.
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  Glory and honor and power. Everything that makes God, God,
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  his wisdom, glory, everything that makes God God his
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  intelligence, glory. And the Bible says honor and
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  then power found in him and he must be found in all the Saints.
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  The Bible calls God Almighty not only the Creator, it calls him
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  the owner and the ruler of everything.
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  First Chronicles chapter 29 and verse 11.
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  I'm showing you a few things so that.
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  You will see how God functions. Dying, oh Lord, is the greatness
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  and the power and the glory. There you find it again, and the
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  victory and the majesty. For all that is in the heavens
• 1:46:05
  and is in the earth is dying. Dying.
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  Is the Kingdom, oh Lord, and thou art exalted above it all,
• 1:46:12
  please. Look at me.
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  Did you ever read in your Bible that we have been raised up with
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  Christ? Efficiency chapter 1.
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  Efficiency chapter 2. That means everything that God
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  has that was invested in Christ. That is now the believers
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  reality. Listen, you cannot function like
• 1:46:30
  God until you know what God has, until you know what God carries,
• 1:46:34
  not just who He is. When you talk about who He is,
• 1:46:38
  you talk about His nature. But you must know what God has
• 1:46:42
  because it also belongs to you in Christ.
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  Are we together? It belongs to you in Christ.
• 1:46:50
  Paul taught us that we are possessors of this.
• 1:46:54
  The Bible calls it inheritance in light that the Saints have an
• 1:46:58
  inheritance and that inheritance is in light efficience after one
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  and verse 3. The Bible says God had blessed
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  us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ.
• 1:47:12
  The Bible tells us that we have been given exceeding great and
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  precious promises that by them we might be partakers of his
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  divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the
• 1:47:23
  world through lust. What did God give Jesus as a
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  reflection of himself? He gave Jesus power.
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  He gave Jesus authority. All the Saints have power and
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  the have authority, but the power and the authority they
• 1:47:39
  have is knowledge activated. Are we together knowledge
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  activated? There is no mention in the
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  Bible. Of God functioning in ignorance.
• 1:47:50
  That means in ignorance the Saints cannot function like God.
• 1:47:54
  He dwells in the midst of light. He functions from a standpoint
• 1:47:58
  of light. He speaks in light.
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  He. Acts in light.
• 1:48:04
  When the Saints dwell and remain in darkness, they are not able
• 1:48:07
  to function like God. Now Psalm 115, please and verse
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  16. Let's hurry up.
• 1:48:13
  Psalm 115 and verse 16. The heaven, I like this.
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  Even the heaven of heavens are the Lords read with me.
• 1:48:21
  Koinonia, I want to go. But the earth had he given to
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  the children of men one more time.
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  But the earth had he given to the children of men.
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  The real trustee of this earth is everyone who is in Christ,
• 1:48:41
  not everyone who is alive, everyone who is in Christ.
• 1:48:45
  The real trustee of the earth, I repeat, is everyone who is in
• 1:48:50
  Christ, not everyone who is alive.
• 1:48:52
  Let me tell you the truth, when you have this mentalities as a
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  man of God, you know that you have a property somewhere, I
• 1:48:59
  don't know where it is, but there is somewhere you know that
• 1:49:03
  the issue of housing is settled in.
• 1:49:05
  Christ, it is just the wisdom for you to find your portion,
• 1:49:08
  but by this revelation there is you walk tall, not in pride, but
• 1:49:14
  in confidence. Knowing that I may be in a
• 1:49:17
  rented apartment today, but. In this planet called Earth,
• 1:49:21
  there is a space for me. I am in Christ.
• 1:49:23
  The earth was wheeled to Abraham and to his seed, his seed being
• 1:49:28
  Christ. And since I am in Christ, I am a
• 1:49:31
  beneficiary, A partaker. Not just the spiritual
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  blessings, but the estate that was given to Abraham.
• 1:49:40
  Apostle, this is a nice word. You don't believe it.
• 1:49:44
  You will not have any land, I tell you Hallelujah.
• 1:49:49
  And if you be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed and heirs
• 1:49:54
  according to the promise. You have this revelation.
• 1:49:57
  You can function that way. You can know that there is a
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  permanent site for Coedonia. You can know that there is a
• 1:50:04
  permanent site for every vision. You can know that where you are
• 1:50:07
  now there is a place. I don't know where it is, but I
• 1:50:11
  know it is there, this revelation.
• 1:50:13
  Already is helping you function. Like God who is learning?
• 1:50:18
  Let me tell you some more how God functions.
• 1:50:21
  The Bible says even God look up please, who quickened the dead
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  and collect those things that be not as though they were.
• 1:50:29
  That means God does not wait for things to manifest before he
• 1:50:32
  calls them. He calls them to manifest.
• 1:50:35
  You get up in the morning and with the spirit of vision you
• 1:50:39
  begin to design A life using words.
• 1:50:41
  You are functioning like God. Do you believe this?
• 1:50:48
  Man was created in the image of God, and he was created in the
• 1:50:53
  likeness of God. Now there are a few things about
• 1:50:58
  man that I need you to know about.
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  Four of them. Then I will show you three ways
• 1:51:05
  classically, of functioning like Christ.
• 1:51:08
  And we'll begin to pray #1 I've taught you in this place, and
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  let me repeat it. That man generally is the
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  legitimate steward of the earth. The legitimate steward of the
• 1:51:25
  earth is man generally. God intended for the earth to
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  come under the stewardship of men, But because men have been
• 1:51:35
  separated now into fallen men and those who are in Christ, are
• 1:51:39
  we together? Access to be possessors,
• 1:51:43
  stewards and custodians of God's property.
• 1:51:47
  Look at me, if you have a son and you have a property and
• 1:51:51
  someone who is outside of that family wants to lay.
• 1:51:54
  Claim on the. Property.
• 1:51:55
  What do you do? You'll get a lawyer because
• 1:51:58
  something is wrong. Am I right on that?
• 1:52:00
  The prodigal son, provided he was within the family.
• 1:52:03
  He had access to his father's estate when he chose, as an act
• 1:52:07
  of his will, to go out of the family.
• 1:52:10
  Whatever he was given, that was all he had.
• 1:52:12
  He lost everything. When he came back into the fold,
• 1:52:16
  he now was reintroduced into that covenant of sonship.
• 1:52:21
  This is how it is. Make no mistakes about it, the
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  earth may not be in the hands of believers.
• 1:52:26
  Now it is clear that believers are not the ones who are
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  possessors. And when I talk about the Earth,
• 1:52:33
  I don't just talk about the land.
• 1:52:35
  Mass are we together? I'm not just talking about the
• 1:52:37
  land mass, I'm talking of manipulating the mind control
• 1:52:40
  systems too. The earth believers are not
• 1:52:45
  supposed to be victims of policies and a modus operandi
• 1:52:49
  that is Antichrist. It is because we do not
• 1:52:51
  understand how to function like Christ.
• 1:52:54
  We have been so reduced to a point where we are victims of
• 1:52:57
  anything that comes from anywhere.
• 1:52:59
  Unfortunately, Satan went ahead of many believers and he's
• 1:53:03
  captured the kings and the gatekeepers of the world and
• 1:53:07
  they continue to manipulate the cosmos to come up with policies
• 1:53:11
  and come up with things that are Antichrist.
• 1:53:13
  We are largely victims, but I believe in Jesus name that
• 1:53:18
  things are changing. There are some of you here.
• 1:53:22
  By accessing Kingdom influence, God is going to elevate you like
• 1:53:26
  Esther and put you at strategic places where you will you will
• 1:53:31
  protect and defend the cause of the Kingdom.
• 1:53:34
  Who believes what I'm saying? Refer to my message Redefining
• 1:53:38
  the Coming Revival. I teach you that the coming
• 1:53:41
  revival will be beyond pulpits. It will not be the way we have
• 1:53:44
  described. It will not just be the campaign
• 1:53:47
  of filling stadiums alone. God is going to be raising
• 1:53:50
  people strategically, and He's going to be keeping them across
• 1:53:53
  several places. You will see Estas in that
• 1:53:56
  revival. You will see Daniels in that
• 1:53:58
  revival. It's not only Elijah's you will
• 1:54:01
  see. It's not only Paul's that you
• 1:54:03
  will see. You will see Gideons that will
• 1:54:05
  arise. You will see Joseph's that will
• 1:54:07
  arrive. Are we together now?
• 1:54:09
  The revival? Will not come the way we have
• 1:54:11
  seen the Welsh and the rest. It will not just be the revival
• 1:54:14
  of stadiums and healings and wheelchairs.
• 1:54:17
  It will be revivals of changing policies, rising to a point of
• 1:54:21
  Kingdom influence where one man can single handedly protect the
• 1:54:26
  cause of Christ across the continent with one policy.
• 1:54:30
  One policy, one policy let. Me.
• 1:54:36
  Tell you the truth. Not everybody is going to be a
• 1:54:39
  prophet, not everybody is going to be an apostle, not everybody
• 1:54:43
  is going to be a teacher. And unfortunately, we've
• 1:54:47
  marketed this ministry so much that anyone who is not in the
• 1:54:51
  fivefold fields is not part of God's program.
• 1:54:53
  No, go and read your Bible. The fivefold without a Daniel
• 1:54:58
  will be in trouble. It was because there was nobody
• 1:55:01
  in the parliament, and since Daniel was not there, nobody to
• 1:55:06
  defend him. If there were enough people in
• 1:55:09
  Babylon, they would have said no.
• 1:55:11
  This policy, we cannot see how it applies to Babylon.
• 1:55:15
  It is dangerous when we only have Christians in church.
• 1:55:19
  It is dangerous for the nation. We must have Christians in the
• 1:55:22
  assemblies, in the presidency. Are we together?
• 1:55:25
  We must have Christians as CEOs. We must have Christians as
• 1:55:29
  policy makers. This is the Apostolic model that
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  was left with the Church. There was a time the Lord told
• 1:55:37
  the told Apostle Paul, I think he said do not be afraid.
• 1:55:41
  I have many people in that city. Your advantage is number.
• 1:55:45
  There are many people who are believers.
• 1:55:48
  We need vice chancellors who are men who function like God.
• 1:55:51
  Are we together now? We need lecturers who are men
• 1:55:54
  who function like God. We need chief medical directors
• 1:55:57
  who do not just understand medicine and surgery but have
• 1:56:00
  the anointing they know how to function like God.
• 1:56:03
  Are we together now? We need CE OS who are not just
• 1:56:06
  intelligent people counting naira and Kabul and dollars, but
• 1:56:10
  people who can defend the cause of Christ.
• 1:56:12
  If you are one of such shouting loud.
• 1:56:14
  Amen. When God created man in His
• 1:56:22
  image, let me tell you the truth, He did not create man to
• 1:56:26
  just attend miracle services and crusades forever.
• 1:56:29
  It is a very distorted theology of Kingdom advance.
• 1:56:34
  A major part of a believer's life should not just be in
• 1:56:38
  church and crusade grounds. Church is a training ground.
• 1:56:42
  The cosmos is the field if all we keep doing, with all due
• 1:56:47
  respect, is to bring members and keep pounding them with
• 1:56:51
  knowledge without a strategic way of helping them deployed,
• 1:56:55
  both we, the men of God and the members will soon be.
• 1:56:58
  Frustrated. What I teach you now, tomorrow
• 1:57:04
  you're in your office. By Sunday you are excited to
• 1:57:06
  return because you've applied it and you've seen it work.
• 1:57:09
  Now coming to church becomes an exciting adventure.
• 1:57:13
  What more do I need to learn? I applied this and it worked
• 1:57:16
  like fire. I applied the law of honor
• 1:57:19
  functioning like Christ as a CEOII redesigned a model and in
• 1:57:24
  one week doors of favor open. Why wouldn't you want to come to
• 1:57:28
  church? You would drag all your
• 1:57:30
  executives and say, let me tell you, church is not just a place
• 1:57:33
  that builds fanatics. It builds intelligent people
• 1:57:37
  that the world can apply to nation building.
• 1:57:40
  You've you've heard me, you you can you can literally bring
• 1:57:43
  statistics to show that from the time I became a member of this
• 1:57:47
  church. Look at our productivity.
• 1:57:52
  This is a language. That will subdue principalities
• 1:57:56
  and powers, not just blind fanatism.
• 1:57:59
  It will only work among a few small minded people, but at a
• 1:58:03
  macro level it will have no effect on God's program.
• 1:58:06
  I'm telling you, are we together?
• 1:58:09
  Do you realize that there is an intentional plot by hell?
• 1:58:13
  Oh I I wish I have the liberty to tell you the things that are
• 1:58:17
  cooking that will be unveiled as the days come.
• 1:58:21
  And it is targeted at the church.
• 1:58:23
  We have no idea the the spirit of the Antichrist because we
• 1:58:28
  have refused to learn how to. Function in the image and the
• 1:58:32
  likeness of God. Darkness is brewing up policies,
• 1:58:36
  brewing up strategies, strategies to destroy schools,
• 1:58:39
  strategies to destroy an entire generation of children and.
• 1:58:43
  What are we doing in the church? Just shouting Hallelujah, which
• 1:58:46
  is important and we are losing our minds and not thinking.
• 1:58:50
  We are not translating Kingdom come intelligently to serve
• 1:58:54
  God's purpose. But things are changing to
• 1:58:57
  function like Christ. Look at me when Jesus walked
• 1:59:00
  upon the earth. I want you to notice how Jesus
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  did ministry number one. He started by doing all kinds of
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  crusades, healing. That means if we are to function
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  like Christ, there must be captured within the church.
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  Are we together now? A people and a platform that
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  allows Christ to be revealed? Do you know what it means to
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  gather? 5000 people aside, women and
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  children, It was beyond a crusade.
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  It was a statement that God is alive.
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  It is not all programs that are just for soul winning alone.
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  There are times that there are statements that show the health
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  of the church, that the church is still alive in numbers enough
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  to influence. Society, are we together #2 we
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  see that Jesus did not shy away from the powers that be.
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  Do you read in the Bible how Jesus interacted with people
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  from an economic standpoint? One person whose economic
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  approach was punishing a lot of people called Zacchaeus.
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  Is that not in your Bible? You would think, I hope, you
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  know, Jesus was not going to his house.
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  Jesus was on his way passing. But when he saw Zacchaeus, he
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  says, Zacchaeus, come down, I'm going to your house.
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  There must be a space within the church where the purposes of God
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  must be represented in our economic policies.
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  Not just crusades, our economic policies.
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  How about Nicodemus? Nicodemus was an intellectual.
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  He was a doctor of the law. He came to Jesus by night.
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  I hope you know the whole of John 316 was a conversation
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  between Jesus and one intellectual.
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  Person. We have used it today to save
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  millions of people, but it came as a conversation.
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  There must be a part of the church that relates to the
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  intellectual world. We must know that just because
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  we are anointed, we are not dummies.
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  He's not only a creator, he's the only wise God.
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  Now to the King eternal, he says the King immortal, the king
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  invincible, He calls him the only wise God.
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  It is in his, He is the fountain of wisdom functioning like God.
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  Let me tell you the truth, most of the challenges in society, in
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  addition to not having the nature of Christ, most of the
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  defeats that is in the life of believers is because we have not
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  been trained to function like Christ.
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  There are many dimensions to that function, but I want to
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  give you 3 for the purpose of Part 1 of this series and then
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  we'll pray. Let's do that very quickly.
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  Who is learning everything I've been teaching?
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  To function like Christ number one, look up please, according
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  to God's design as revealed in the life of Jesus.
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  Please, please lend me your attention.
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  According to God's design as revealed in the life of Jesus.
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  We find that in Matthew chapter 4 and verse 4.
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  The very code to function like Christ is given to us there that
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  man. Shall not leave by bread alone,
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  man shall not leave by bread alone, but by every word that
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  proceeded out of the mouth of God, Who is learning now that in
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  functioning like Christ. Your first assignment is to
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  prioritize the Word of God. If you do not know the Word of
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  God and you do not have access to the Word of God, you cannot
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  function like Christ. Jesus himself said that man, any
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  man, a businessman, a man of God, a man as a father, a man as
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  a politician, a man as a professional, a man as a
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  diplomatic career person, a man as anyone in the fivefold
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  ministry, whoever that person is, if you want to function like
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  Christ, then it will have to go beyond bread.
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  He says you function by respect and engaging every word that
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  proceeds from the mouth of God. Say, tell me the word of God one
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  more time. Say the Word of God.
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  So to the believer in Christ intending to function like God,
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  the Word of God becomes the template.
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  Are we together? The basis for everything you do
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  must be with respect to what God?
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  Said with respect to what God said, not with respect to what
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  you feel, not with respect to what society is saying.
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  The believers entire Christian experience is with respect.
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  To the word of God. The way you give with respect to
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  the word of God, The way you talk with respect to the word of
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  God, the way you do things with respect to the word of God.
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  If you lose the Word of God factor, you have no.
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  Basis of functioning like God. Look at this, when God made Adam
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  and Eve, I thought the only thing he gave them was a garden.
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  But the real thing he gave them was His word, because when Satan
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  came, he didn't bother about the garden.
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  The 1st place Satan went to was what God said.
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  Satan knows he has an understanding that if he wants
• 2:04:25
  to distort a man and stop that man from functioning like
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  Christ, all he needs to do is to bring you to a point where you
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  do not respect the supremacy of God's Word and that you build
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  your life on any. Other thing.
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  Minus the Word of God, He knows you are defeated.
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  Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that
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  proceeded from the mouth of God. Colossians chapter 1 and verse 9
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  still speaking about the Word of God.
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  This was Paul praying. He says for this, 'cause we
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  also, since the day we heard it, listen carefully, do not cease
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  to pray for you and to desire that you might be filled with
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  the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual
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  understanding. Spiritual understanding.
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  Now when we talk about knowledge in the Kingdom, we do not just
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  mean knowledge of secular things.
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  There are three kinds of knowledge a believer needs to
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  excel #1 which is the highest is spiritual knowledge.
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  Spiritual knowledge, the knowledge of the Word of God #2
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  intellectual knowledge, the knowledge of the laws that
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  govern the cosmos. The knowledge of the laws that
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  govern the cosmos. Then #3 knowledge as specific to
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  whatever field of endeavour. I'll repeat that again.
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  There are three kinds of knowledge every believer needs
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  to have. Generally speaking, the highest
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  is spiritual knowledge. Knowledge as revealed by the
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  Word of God #2 the knowledge of the laws of life.
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  This physical world, you see, has laws and you must know it.
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  There are laws you need to know else will fail #3 the knowledge
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  in your field. Now whether you are a doctor.
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  So if the only thing you know is the knowledge of medicine and
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  surgery, or the knowledge of law, or the knowledge of what
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  they call it now engineering, or the knowledge of architecture,
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  you will be limited in life. In as much as you are an
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  intelligent person, you may say, let me tell you the truth, the
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  knowledge of your field, your field of practice with respect
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  to the realms of knowledge available, is the lowest level
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  of knowledge you can obtain. So don't just say I'm a
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  graduate. I have masters in business
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  administration. I'm, I'm a consultant in
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  medicine and surgery. Now I I appreciate you with
• 2:06:57
  respect. To your field you will do well,
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  but with respect to living, you will live so poorly and so
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  defeated. Have you seen people who are so
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  intelligent as far as their field of endeavour is concerned,
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  borates them as part of their life and destiny is nothing to
• 2:07:14
  be desired is because they did not contend for these three
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  realms of knowledge? Let me repeat it again for your
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  learning. The highest level of knowledge
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  that every believer must contend for is the knowledge, spiritual
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  knowledge, the knowledge of the ways of God as revealed in
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  Scripture. Are we together?
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  The second level of knowledge is the knowledge of the laws that
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  govern the cosmos. There are laws that govern the
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  cosmos and then #3 knowledge in your area of specialty or your
• 2:07:47
  area of, of endeavour. So you can be an architect, and
• 2:07:50
  yet the results in your life and the quality of your life is
• 2:07:54
  beyond the practice of architecture because number one,
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  you have wholesome spiritual knowledge #2 you understand the
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  laws that govern the cosmos. I'll give you an example.
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  The law of relationships. There is both a spiritual law
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  and one of the fundamental laws that governs the cosmos.
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  You can be very intelligent, but not knowing that law alone can
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  cost you so much. Are we learning?
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  Everybody say the Word of God. When you see that we emphasize
• 2:08:26
  the word of God, it is because this is the modus operandi, the
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  basis for every believers decisions and choices should be
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  the word of God. Everything.
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  The way you build business by the world, The way you build
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  ministry by the world, The way you build family by the world
• 2:08:48
  are we together The way you build your cooperation by the
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  world, The way you build your spiritual life.
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  If it must be accurate, it must be by the.
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  World Now let me tell you this. The greatest attack in your life
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  will come from Satan distracting you and making you trivialize
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  the place of God's word. Show me a man who does not place
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  value on the word of God, but desires to function like Christ.
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  I'll show you a man who wants to drive a car without battery,
• 2:09:20
  fuel, tires. How will that car be driven?
• 2:09:25
  Are we together? Now imagine a man who wants to
• 2:09:27
  drive a car. The cars do not have tires, no
• 2:09:31
  battery to start the car, nothing else and yet the man can
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  be sitting there for years kicking the car and saying I
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  know one day I will use this car to go to Lagos.
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  You're wasting your time. There are components in a car
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  you can do without. If your mirror is broken, the
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  car will still move. But if there's no tire, the car
• 2:09:53
  will not move. The components in this car call
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  your destiny. Do not all have equal value.
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  There are things you can do without.
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  For instance, everybody does not need to love you.
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  The paint of a car can scratch and yet it can speed more than a
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  new car. There you have to major on the
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  majors and minor on the minors. Imagine a man who would rather
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  give up his tire to buy paint for his car.
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  Is that a wise man? This is what a lot of people are
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  doing. They are giving up their
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  spiritual life so that they will look beautiful or look handsome.
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  My. Goodness, my God.
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  Imagine a very a well decorated car, no battery, no Kickstarter,
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  no steering, no nothing. But there is a big DVD player
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  inside shouting around. I said sit down, we're going,
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  will you get anywhere? No Sir.
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  Listen, I hope you get what I'm saying.
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  Now there are many of us who cannot function like Christ
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  because we have not respected the word of God.
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  When Jesus came watch this, what was he doing at age 12?
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  Talk to me. Jesus went to the temple.
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  Are we together? And he was listening.
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  This was the Word Incarnate. He knew that if he was to
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  function like his Father, because he had now come in the
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  flesh, stripped himself. Don't think that Jesus came with
• 2:11:18
  memory of Scripture in his head. No, He stripped all of that.
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  He came as a human being. Everything he knew that he said,
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  it is written, he learned it. It did not come automatically.
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  He stripped himself of everything.
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  God became a man. He went to the temple knowing
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  that he needed these resources of It is written.
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  Please look at me. If you don't take the word of
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  God serious in your life, I give you a guarantee that eventually
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  you will fail. You will not be able to function
• 2:11:48
  like Christ. You will speak but not like God.
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  You will move but not like God. You will act but not like God.
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  You see, the fruit of the Spirit help you to be like Christ.
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  The gifts of the Spirit help you to act like Christ.
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  Whether is the gift of wisdom, whether is the gift of whatever.
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  Together they help you to act like Christ.
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  Are we together? You think like Christ, you act
• 2:12:17
  like Christ. But for most people, we have
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  focused, like I said earlier, on, on gifts and all of that
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  without focusing on the nature of Christ, but that when you get
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  the issue of the nature of Christ, you are allowed the Holy
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  Spirit to do that inner work producing the.
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  Character of the. Spirit.
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  The next assignment is that you must respect the Word of God.
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  The beautiful thing about the Word of God is that it is the
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  tool that builds both the image and the likeness.
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  Same word. So as you submit yourself to the
• 2:12:51
  Word of God, watch this. Now that which is locked up
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  within you, potentially in the new birth experience, now begins
• 2:12:59
  to find expression. I don't know how people live
• 2:13:04
  without respecting the Word of God.
• 2:13:06
  They don't study it, they don't care about it, and yet they want
• 2:13:10
  to get God's result. You can never get God's result
• 2:13:15
  until you follow God's strategies.
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  Did you hear what I said? You can never get God's result
• 2:13:21
  until you follow God's strategy. So apostle, I want to prosper.
• 2:13:27
  The Bible says I should prosper. You have various options. 1 of
• 2:13:32
  it is to open up the word of God and find out how did God design
• 2:13:37
  His creation to prosper. Follow it diligently and you
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  will arrive at God's result. Are we together?
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  Man shall not live by bread alone.
• 2:13:52
  By every word. I give you an instance.
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  I have drummed it here in Koinonia.
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  Let's try it again for one last time tonight.
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  The Bible says, let the redeemed of the Lord say so.
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  The power of words. It says, declare ye that thou
• 2:14:07
  mightest be justified. How many believers know that if
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  you are to function like God, your speaking must be seen as a
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  vital component to your life and your destiny?
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  And yet many people do not speak.
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  I'm not talking of just jumping and shouting rubbish, I'm
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  talking of creating your life with intelligence, knowing that
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  God said for him to see, so you must say for you to see.
• 2:14:33
  No weapon, fashion against me will prosper in the name of
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  Jesus Christ, I decree and declare.
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  My September must be better than my August.
• 2:14:43
  My October must be better than my September, my November better
• 2:14:47
  than. October, December better than
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  November. What is the basis for that
• 2:14:51
  speaking that the part of the just is as a shining light that
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  shine it ever brighter more and more on?
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  To the perfect day. Are you learning this now?
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  It is true. The Bible says he keepeth his
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  bones and none is lost. So you prophecy in the name of
• 2:15:10
  Jesus as I saw John, my body is healthy, my organs are healthy,
• 2:15:14
  my body rejects any virus, rejects anything that is not of
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  God. This is.
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  True. If you do not learn to function
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  like this, you are not functioning like God.
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  Surely they shall gather, but because their gathering is not
• 2:15:30
  of the Lord, they will scatter. They come against me in one way,
• 2:15:34
  and they flee in seven ways. Hallelujah, I'm showing you how
• 2:15:39
  to function like God. When you understand the Word of
• 2:15:43
  God, now you can engage these 3 dimensions.
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  One of them is speaking. Speaking the talking spirit
• 2:15:52
  produce other talking spirits who designed their lives with
• 2:15:57
  the power of words, the power of words.
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  I will never stop speaking God's Word over my life.
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  I will never stop speaking God's Word over you.
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  I will never stop speaking God's Word over Koinonia.
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  I will never stop speaking God's word over my destiny.
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  Someone say I will speak. Say I will declare.
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  Say I will decree one more time. Say I will speak.
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  Say I will declare, say I will decree.
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  Never allow a day pass without you making declarations of God's
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  word. But here's the question.
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  If you have not hidden that word in your heart, you will have no
• 2:16:39
  vocabulary, spiritual vocabulary.
• 2:16:42
  The problem with many believers is not that they do not want to
• 2:16:45
  speak, is that they are bankrupt of the scriptures.
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  They have not hidden their the scripture enough to declare it.
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  You want to function like Christ?
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  Get on the project of transferring the Word of God
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  from the pages of this book into your spirit man.
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  That's what Jesus did for 18 years.
• 2:17:07
  He invested his time with the Word of God and in three years
• 2:17:11
  he lived an invincible life, demonstrated dominion, and
• 2:17:16
  finished the plan of redemption. In the name of Jesus, Koinonia
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  goes from glory to glory. The Bible says I am the children
• 2:17:26
  that the Lord has given me. We are for science and we are
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  for wonders. In Israel.
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  Koinonia will never go up and come down.
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  That epileptic destiny is not part of our heritage.
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  In the name of Jesus Christ, I decree and declare that the Lord
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  multiplies me. I will not be small.
• 2:17:42
  He glorifies me. You see that now the Lord is my
• 2:17:46
  light and my salvation. Of whom shall I be afraid of?
• 2:17:48
  The Bible says whatsoever you do and prosper, you lay your hands
• 2:17:52
  in the morning before you go to the office.
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  Don't think you have been childish.
• 2:17:56
  I'm showing you how God functions in the name of Jesus.
• 2:17:59
  Every document I lay my hands upon in the office will not
• 2:18:02
  bring me trouble. I will not sign anything that
• 2:18:05
  will lead to the dismissal of my job.
• 2:18:08
  You lay your hands on your mind. I have the mind of Christ.
• 2:18:11
  In the name of Jesus, I have the mind of Christ.
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  I decree on the declare. I'm performing optimally in an
• 2:18:18
  extraordinary dimension. The spirit of grace is at work
• 2:18:21
  in me. You quote the scripture like
• 2:18:23
  Elihu. That there is a spirit in Joshua
• 2:18:26
  Salman and the inspiration of the Almighty makes me of
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  understanding. My heart is indicted.
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  A good matter. Yeah.
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  I speak of excellent things. As a preacher, you will tell
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  yourself my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.
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  That when I open my mouth, I'm not speaking gibberish.
• 2:18:44
  I'm writing and reading, rewriting and deleting and
• 2:18:46
  rewriting over the destinies of man.
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  I will call on one man and a nation will respond.
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  You believe that? Listen, every time God had a
• 2:18:58
  need, there was provision. Every time Jesus had a need,
• 2:19:03
  there was provision. Is that Go to the street whose
• 2:19:06
  roads divide? You will find A cause there that
• 2:19:09
  no man had written on. There is something for you that
• 2:19:13
  no one has touched. If you don't know how to call
• 2:19:16
  it, you can remain where you are.
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  Are we together? Greater light, How to function
• 2:19:23
  like Christ? Let me tell you the truth,
• 2:19:25
  ladies and gentlemen, walk with the simplicity of this truth and
• 2:19:30
  watch what happens in your life. You know how the spirit of
• 2:19:33
  depression functions. It brings you to a point of
• 2:19:36
  silence. Medical science will tell you
• 2:19:38
  when you say depressed person is not a noisy person, he keeps
• 2:19:42
  quiet. Then he takes a deep breath.
• 2:19:45
  So my life, not me. I get up in the morning.
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  This is the day the Lord made, not the Lord and Satan.
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  This is the day the Lord made. He considered my interest in
• 2:19:56
  making that day. I rejoice and I am glad in it.
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  Hallelujah. Even when you are going through
• 2:20:04
  trouble and negative circumstances, what does the
• 2:20:07
  word of God say? Count it all joy, my brethren,
• 2:20:11
  when you go through diverse temptations, knowing this, that
• 2:20:15
  the trying of your faith produces patience.
• 2:20:18
  It says let faith, let patience have His work, that you may be
• 2:20:22
  matured and tired, wanting nothing.
• 2:20:26
  You get to the office and they. Drop a sack letter and say your
• 2:20:30
  services are not needed. If you don't just say God, just
• 2:20:33
  kill me, just kill me. No, that's not how God
• 2:20:37
  functions. When he saw darkness, the Spirit
• 2:20:40
  of God did not run away from the darkness.
• 2:20:42
  He hovered around the face of the darkness.
• 2:20:44
  Look at that situation eyeball to eyeball.
• 2:20:46
  I will run away from you. I'm tired of running away from
• 2:20:50
  the financial situation. I will not run away from the
• 2:20:52
  rent situation. When you run, you will leave to
• 2:20:55
  fight another day. I trust you with faith.
• 2:20:58
  I may not have a job now. I don't have an idea how I will
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  come come out of that financial situation, but I start by
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  speaking the same spirit that raised Christ from the dead, who
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  raised me from death, and bring me to a point of blessings.
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  Start from there. Greater light kings reign by
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  their words. It is their words that are
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  penned down and become policies. Are we together now?
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  I wake up in the morning, I'm speaking, I walk around, I'm
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  speaking in the name of Jesus. I am blessed, I'm blessed.
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  I can whom it beyond just just below my breath, but I'm
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  speaking, I'm speaking. I'm flying if I'm not sleeping.
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  You would see me just mom, if I'm not praying in tongues, I'm
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  making declarations as this plane is flying.
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  That's how my destiny will fly to.
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  I don't waste opportunities, no, the same way this plane could
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  not be resisted 35,000 feet above sea level, living every
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  mountain, every valley. That's how my destiny is
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  following too. Hallelujah, the name of Jesus.
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  I'm a well watered garden. Well watered garden in the name
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  of Jesus Christ. Well watered garden.
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  Colonia, you go from glory to glory.
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  It is your heritage in Christ. In the name of Jesus, our young
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  men in Koinonia are gainfully employed.
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  They are responsible people. Armed robbers are not being
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  raised here. Touts are not being raised here.
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  Responsible, visionary, Kingdom driven people.
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  Our ladies are after the order of Esther.
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  In the name of Jesus Christ. Women with nobility and power.
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  Women with character and virtue. Found it in the Bible.
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  Where did you find this apostle? Genesis chapter 17 and verse 6
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  Genesis. And I will make the exceeding
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  fruitful, and I will make nations of thee.
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  And kings shall come out of thee.
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  Kings shall come out of thee. So when you hear someone come to
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  testify and say I was an ordinary person.
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  I am now walking UNI sit back there and I said that's right
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  the speaking is walking kings kings things.
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  Hallelujah, you can transfer the same mentality as a mother.
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  Lay hands on your children every day before they go to school.
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  Let them learn it. Once they are done with
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  breakfast, they line up. Let them remind you that you
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  forgot to speak over their life. My son, you are great.
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  Say after Tammy I'm a champion. Say after Tammy I'm a warrior.
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  Speak to him before some some I'll mannered young boy
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  somewhere goes to destroy the confidence of your child in
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  school, especially in this day that we live in.
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  Some bully gets up somewhere and rubbishes your child and he
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  begins to fail. Say after Tammy boy you are a
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  champion he says I'm a champion. Say I'm the head and not the.
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  Tail. Before you know it, he begins to
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  say, Mommy, you forgot to say this.
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  I'm a champion. I'm the head and not the tail.
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  If somebody tells him you are stupid, he will say, my mother
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  did not say I'm stupid. She's told me I'm a champion.
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  I'm a champion. I am victorious.
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  Hallelujah. As a man of God, you may not be
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  ministry yet. Don't let some ignorant person
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  look at you and just call you a reef raft.
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  Why young? All these young guys going
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  nowhere? No, you are going somewhere.
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  They may be sincere, but not everybody's on serious.
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  You may not yet have a platform, you may not yet have a ministry,
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  but that is a mighty man in the spirit.
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  You have been furnished from the the furnace of affliction, but
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  it does not mean you will not carry grace.
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  Hallelujah, I will never repeat after.
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  Satan, did you hear what I said? I will never repeat after Satan,
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  he can say anything he says, but you will not get a second voice.
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  Even in Parliament when they pass a policy, they say who is
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  there to 2nd that policy? It cannot be passed into law
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  until there is a secondment. Come on, talk to me, government
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  people. Is that not true?
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  So there are wonderful bills that they bring, but because
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  they lack a secondment, it dies there.
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  If certain sexual failure. Make sure you realize there is a
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  bill about to be passed over your destiny, but that you have
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  the power to refuse. You have the power to reject.
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  I function like Christ. I call the things that be not.
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  I call the things that be not. I call the things that be not.
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  Hallelujah, I've not spoken to politicians in a long time.
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  Let me speak to them. Politician, if you lose
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  election, don't say I'm finished.
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  You are repeating after Satan. Your relevance should not be
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  tied to just an electoral office.
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  It should be tied to your value, elected or otherwise.
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  I am serving my grace to my nation.
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  Then I become a lamb. Standard cannot be denied,
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  regardless the party of political affiliation.
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  Do you believe this? Believe it, believe it, young
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  lady, believe that you can prosper by God in righteousness.
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  Don't just sit down waiting for somebody to marry you into a
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  blessed life that is wonderful, but by God you can run through a
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  troop. By your God, you can live over a
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  wall. Are we together now?
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  Don't listen to nonsense that comes from society.
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  Being a woman is not a cause. Being a female is not a 'cause
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  there is no female female brain or male brain.
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  Well, biologically they have, but spiritually as designed by
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  God, there are people championing all kinds of courses
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  across the globe. You can challenge yourself.
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  Everybody say I will function like God by speaking.
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  Say it by speaking consistent with the world.
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  Say it again, I will function like God by speaking consistent
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  with the Word. Say it again, I will function
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  like God by speaking consistent with the Word.
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  Don't forget what I taught you tonight.
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  Never repeat after Satan. Never leave this place knowing.
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  Make up your mind. I will never repeat after Satan
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  if he calls me a failure, that's the bill about to be passed.
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  It dies there because there is no secondment.
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  But if God says you are lifted, I echo it.
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  Yes, I am lifted or let it be passed into law that I am
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  lifted, that every human being who sees me there is a bill on
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  my life. I call it prophecy.
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  God has said I'm lifted. I agree that I'm lifted.
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  The wisdom that puts me in that experience becomes.
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  Mine. Hallelujah.
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  Sit down, let me give you one. Our time is gone.
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  I can't do justice with the other two.
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  This thing has has fired my spirit.
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  But we have to end you function like God by speaking, and the
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  basis of your declaration is the word of God, regardless what
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  you. See, you are not just speaking
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  gibberish. It is the word of God.
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  True faith. We understand that the walls
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  were framed by the word of God. Hallelujah.
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  My business is blessed. Yes, Sir.
• 2:28:48
  Pray your home is blessed. You get up in the morning, you
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  walk around in the name of Jesus.
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  Where I'm staying is only my. Starting point, I will not end
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  here in the name of Jesus. I already see things that I'm
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  doing for the Kingdom. I may not be able to give as
• 2:29:05
  much as I want to give, but in the name of Jesus Christ, I
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  finance the projects of the Kingdom.
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  You are a man of God. You are going to church.
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  Don't drag yourself and hope that you see members who are
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  happy. No, in the name of Jesus, the
• 2:29:19
  Lord is sending daily to the church as many who should be
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  saved. They are receiving the Word and
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  they are being transformed by it.
• 2:29:26
  As I speak to them. I'm not wasting time.
• 2:29:28
  Their spirits are open. They are receiving the Word.
• 2:29:31
  It's bearing fruit in them. Look at me, believers, the basis
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  of your counseling should be the word, the basis of your
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  addressing anything. If you must speak, let it be
• 2:29:47
  with respect to Scripture. Write that down.
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  If you must speak, let it be with respect to Scripture.
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  If you must speak. Good morning.
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  How are you? I'm fine.
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  May God bless you. How is everything?
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  God bless you. How are your children?
• 2:30:04
  God bless you. How is Nigeria?
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  We bless the name of the Lord. You see, you can't tell about,
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  you can't say of Jesus Christ. When I speak over Nigeria, I do
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  not speak over a Nigeria that is defeated.
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  I don't speak over a Nigeria that is corrupt.
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  I speak over a Nigeria that is loving God, serving God,
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  exporting the gospel as a spiritual resource.
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  And that things are changing gradually.
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  We may not see it, but in the name of Jesus I know that things
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  will change and God will make that happen for his namesake in
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  the name of Jesus Christ. So the first way that we
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  function like Christ, using the word of God as a reference, is
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  by speaking like Christ. God is a talking spirit.
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  All believers are talking spirits and must function as
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  soul. Listen carefully.
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  God is a speaking spirit. God is a speaking spirit.
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  All believers must be speaking spirits.
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  They are speaking spirits and they must function as such #2
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  How do you function like Christ? By working in obedience.
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  Listen carefully, how do you function like Christ by working
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  in obedience. Philippians chapter 2 from verse
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  5. Let this mind be in you, which
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  was also in Christ Jesus. Verse 6 quickly, please the
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  Bible says, who built in the form of God.
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  Listen carefully taught it not robbery to be equal with God.
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  Verse 7 the Bible says, but made himself of no reputation, and
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  took upon himself the form of a servant, and was made in the
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  what likeness of man? Verse 8 the Bible says, being
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  found in fashion as a man. I like also read the remaining
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  part of verse 8 together. He humbled himself and became,
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  listen, nobody is born obedient, people become obedient.
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  Did you get it there? Nobody is born obedient.
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  The psalmist said in iniquity, did my mother conceive me,
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  became obedient even unto death, the death of the cross, the
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  prophet of obedience. Verse 9, the Bible says
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  Wherefore God had so highly exalted him.
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  Obedience always leads to exaltation.
• 2:32:28
  You ask how did Jesus rise from the earth to sit on the throne?
• 2:32:32
  It was not just speaking. Are you saying now if the only
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  thing you do is speaking, you will get results but you'll be
• 2:32:38
  limited? The exaltation of Jesus went
• 2:32:41
  beyond speaking. Please look at me.
• 2:32:43
  This is where I have a bit of a disclaimer for believers.
• 2:32:49
  For most believers, they believe that the entire scope of
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  functioning like Christ is to speak alone.
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  I refuse. Jesus spoke, but he went beyond
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  speaking. The basis for his exaltation was
• 2:33:05
  not speaking. The Bible does not tell us, but
• 2:33:08
  many times Jesus spoke, destroyed his temple, and I will
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  build it again in three days. He spoke, but we see that beyond
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  speaking, he obeyed. What did He obeyed?
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  The principles as consistent with God's desire.
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  God's desire was that without the shedding of blood there is
• 2:33:26
  no remission of sin. So Jesus obeyed even unto death.
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  Can I tell you the truth? In addition to speaking, if you
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  must function like Christ, you must learn the ways of God and
• 2:33:37
  obtain grace is to obey someone shall obedience one more time.
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  Say obedience. Don't be tired, you're almost
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  there. Say obedience.
• 2:33:46
  A speaking spirit who does not work in obedience will still be
• 2:33:50
  a limited spirit. Many are limited, I'm sorry to
• 2:33:54
  say. There are ministers of the
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  gospel who speak wonderful and great things and don't obey God.
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  Servant Bishop Oedego will say faith.
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  He is not saying what God has said alone.
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  Faith is doing what he has said as a way of committing him to
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  deliver. I agree, Faith is beyond saying
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  what God has said. Faith is doing what God has said
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  so as to commit His word to deliver.
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  Please look at me. The riches that are hidden in
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  the Word of God only. Answer.
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  To obedience, you start by speaking, but you don't stop
• 2:34:34
  there. Who is learning tonight?
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  Don't think this is elementary. Believe me, this is greater
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  light. It is the IT.
• 2:34:41
  It gives you an explanation as to why many people don't seem to
• 2:34:47
  rise. They don't speak like God.
• 2:34:50
  They don't obey. We learn from Jesus.
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  Are we together? Let me give you an example of a
• 2:34:56
  few things you need to obey if you want to rise.
• 2:34:59
  Here's what the Bible says. A diligent hand shall be made
• 2:35:02
  fat. Is that in your Bible?
• 2:35:04
  So you can speak in the name of Jesus?
• 2:35:06
  Increases on my life. You are right.
• 2:35:08
  But if you are not diligent. Here's what the Bible says.
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  Whatsoever your hand, find that to do.
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  Ladies and gentlemen, please hear me.
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  The Bible says do it as unto the Lord.
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  Is that true? Yeah.
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  So there are many people who do not obey.
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  You don't obey the principles that are connected to the
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  results you desire. And you wonder why, in spite of
• 2:35:30
  abundant confession, things don't change.
• 2:35:36
  Obtain grace to speak, but obtain grace to obey everybody.
• 2:35:40
  Say obedience. Obey the laws of the Kingdom.
• 2:35:43
  Honor is a law, obey it. Diligence is a law, obey it.
• 2:35:48
  Godliness is a law, obey it. What else?
• 2:35:51
  Again? Capacity.
• 2:35:53
  Value is a law obeyed. Relationships is a law obeyed.
• 2:35:59
  You will see the result there. Number one, to function like
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  God, the Word of God must be the basis of everything you do in
• 2:36:07
  the Kingdom. You speak like God.
• 2:36:09
  To function like God, and that your speech must be with respect
• 2:36:14
  to the Word of God #2 you obey consistent with the principles
• 2:36:20
  that are hidden in Scripture. Let me give you #3 and then
• 2:36:23
  we'll prepare to wrap up. Who has learned today?
• 2:36:27
  Are you ready? The third way we function by
• 2:36:30
  like God is by sacrifice. Sacrifice.
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  Yes Sir, yes Sir, yes Sir. If you only talk like God and
• 2:36:43
  obey like God, and you are afraid of sacrificing like God,
• 2:36:48
  there is no dominion for you. Sacrifice, obedience unto death.
• 2:36:54
  There is obedience, but there is obedience unto death.
• 2:36:58
  Sacrifice. Psalm 50, verse 5 Gather unto
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  me, my Saints, they that have made a covenant with me by
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  sacrifice. Did you hear what Paul said?
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  Let no man trouble me, for I bear upon my body.
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  I didn't just speak the word of God.
• 2:37:15
  I did not just obey God. There are scars as proof of
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  sacrifice, the sacrifice of praise, the labor of prayer, the
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  labor of the world. These are sacrifices.
• 2:37:28
  None of these things are convenient.
• 2:37:30
  Sacrifice. Hallelujah.
• 2:37:35
  Do you know what it means to lock yourself and pray for two
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  hours, Three hours maybe more than that you are challenging
• 2:37:43
  yourself is beyond obedience. You have entered the realm of
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  sacrifice. You know what it means to empty
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  your account for the sake of the gospel and say I want to make
• 2:37:53
  sure that God's program does not dye my hands.
• 2:37:56
  Sacrifice. This is beyond obedience and
• 2:37:59
  there are people who have entered that realm.
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  Here's what the Bible says. Greater love had no man than
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  this, that a man lays down his life.
• 2:38:07
  Can I tell you a man who speaks to be anointed, a man who obeys
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  to be anointed, a man who sacrifices to be anointed?
• 2:38:16
  The difference will be clear, very clear.
• 2:38:20
  Are we together now? Very clear.
• 2:38:23
  The realm of sacrifice is the realm where any spiritual
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  activity agrees that it is the necessary requirement for
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  attaining certain heights in the spirit.
• 2:38:35
  Whether you practice, God forbid, occultism or any bad
• 2:38:38
  practice, there are heights. Have you heard of people who
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  slept on graveyards because they were looking for power?
• 2:38:45
  Two days, three days, one week, because they are looking for
• 2:38:49
  power to get money in business. They understand sacrifice.
• 2:38:53
  The Church has embraced a gospel of excessive convenience and we
• 2:38:59
  have thrown away the sacrifice dimension.
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  Jesus came full of compassion, full of grace and truth, but a
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  point came in his life where his obedience had to move to the
• 2:39:09
  realm of sacrifice, to the point where he said, Father, if it be
• 2:39:13
  thy will. Let me tell you, ladies and
• 2:39:15
  gentlemen, I don't, I don't. I hate to sound arrogant, but if
• 2:39:19
  you fear sacrifice, forget greatness, forget dominion.
• 2:39:25
  I've had a busy stretch of the week right from I don't know
• 2:39:29
  what day. I don't know how many sermons
• 2:39:31
  are preached from Wednesday or Thursday.
• 2:39:33
  I start doing a lot of other things.
• 2:39:36
  I return back. Now I'm here after service.
• 2:39:39
  It's not like I'm going home to go and sleep.
• 2:39:41
  There are still things to be done.
• 2:39:43
  There are meetings, the sound of revival, just about a week
• 2:39:46
  coming. Sacrifice.
• 2:39:48
  You don't carry the anointing on a vessel that craves for
• 2:39:51
  convenience. Sacrifice go and ask any Ceoi
• 2:39:57
  know you see the Jeep that is coming out of you, see the
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  beautiful office, find out how late they stay to have meetings
• 2:40:03
  while you are sleeping. Sacrifice is the language of
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  champions. Sacrifice is the language of
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  greatness. Let me tell you the truth,
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  sacrifice at a point in time in your life you will get to a
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  point where sacrifice is no longer circumstantial.
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  It literally becomes the realm that you live in.
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  That death will walk in you, so that life will walk in others.
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  It's a mystery, but it is true. The more you die, the more you
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  live, The more you are weak, the more you become strong.
• 2:40:36
  I love this. It's a principal law that
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  governs the anointing. God created man in his image and
• 2:40:48
  in His likeness the image of Christ.
• 2:40:52
  The character the nature of God has revealed in Christ, as
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  captured in the fruit of the Spirit, that it should be the
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  template of the believer. And then in.
• 2:41:03
  Addition, it should become the environment that is the original
• 2:41:09
  ecosystem that every believer was designed to function and
• 2:41:14
  exist in and that if you run away from embracing and pressing
• 2:41:19
  to see manifest in your life the nature of God, there are health
• 2:41:23
  consequences, there are psychological consequences,
• 2:41:27
  there are spiritual consequences, there are physical
• 2:41:30
  consequences. But when you learn to function
• 2:41:34
  like Christ, your next assignment, I mean you learn to
• 2:41:38
  be like Christ, understanding the implication of being created
• 2:41:42
  in this image. I'm now in Christ being restored
• 2:41:45
  to that image. Your next assignment is to learn
• 2:41:49
  how to function like Christ. And I've told you when you get
• 2:41:52
  to the realm of functioning. Like Christ?
• 2:41:55
  Your modus operandi is not opinion, is not emotions, is not
• 2:42:01
  assumptions. It is the word of God.
• 2:42:03
  And that from a child thou has known the Holy Scripture which
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  is able to make you wise unto salvation.
• 2:42:10
  And now, brethren, Acts 1032, I commend you to God unto the word
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  of His grace, which is able to build you up and to give you an
• 2:42:18
  inheritance among them that are sanctified.
• 2:42:21
  You contend for light, high level spiritual illumination,
• 2:42:26
  and when you find it and hide it in your in your heart, then your
• 2:42:30
  next assignment becomes to speak it, to declare with faith, to
• 2:42:35
  declare with understanding, to use words to paint a picture of
• 2:42:39
  your destiny, and to insist until things begin to change #2
• 2:42:46
  in addition to speaking, you obtain what I call the doing
• 2:42:49
  grace. In fact, there's a teaching like
• 2:42:51
  that. Go online and search for a
• 2:42:53
  colonial global. The doing grace.
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  There is an end, there is the saving grace, but there is the
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  grace that enables you. You do the doing, but the power
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  comes from God. The doing grace, the grace to
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  obey, the grace to obey, the grace to obey.
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  And then number three, that is the realm that many of us need
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  to get to tonight. The realm of sacrifice where
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  your life is literally poured as a drink offering.
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  Can I tell you when you get to that point of sacrifice, no
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  enchantment and no divination against you can stand because
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  you have gotten to the realm in the spirit called Galatians 220.
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  I have been crucified with Christ.
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  Nevertheless, I live, yet not I, but Christ that lives in me and
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  the life. That I now live in the flesh.
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  It says I live by the faith of the Son of God.
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  It is at that point God will reprove people for you.
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  Someone will be thinking evil against you because of the blood
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  that drips from your altar. They are judged before they
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  execute their will. Sacrifice there are people to
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  make enchantments again is a waste.
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  I tell you, they have died. Many.
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  Times. Serving the purposes of God.
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  A sacrifice are we together You provide the fire.
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  Many of us sing that song without understanding how
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  provide. The.
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  Sacrifice. Remember that song you provide?
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  I will open up yourself, fill me up, fill me up, fill me up, fill
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  me up, fill me up till I overflow.
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  I want to run over. Fill me up.
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  Till I overflow at this point in my Christian experience, this is
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  my assignment to myself, not just as a sermon to you.
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  If I was created in the image of Christ, If I was created to
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  function like Him, my personal project becomes number one, that
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  Christ be fully formed in me. Fully formed in me that the
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  fruit of the Spirit find unrestrained access in my life,
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  that I become as clear a portrait as possible of the
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  living Christ to my. World, my next assignment
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  becomes to learn further. Please do not miss or well, next
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  week. Next week is what's now.
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  It's still another service or beautiful.
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  I thought it was a miracle service.
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  So come next week, come prepared.
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  I want to show you something about altars.
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  I want to open your eyes to something about altars.
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  We're going to be delving into something deep in the spirit.
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  I want to show you why conditions never change in spite
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  of the fact that people pray and pray.
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  You pray and still see yourself where you used to see yourself.
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  In the midst of your prayer, the same oppression happens.
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  There is an explanation. Hallelujah.
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  And then next week, we'll take the time to pray some prayers.
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  I have found a key by the Spirit.
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  Tragedy can end, I tell you. Circles can end if you don't
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  know it. This is greater light.
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  You can remain at the surface and keep laboring, laboring with
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  torchlight, whereas there is sunlight that can come.
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  Please, if you know that things have not been working in your
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  life, I want you to come next week with your heart open.
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  Come prayerfully, prayerfully. And open your eyes.
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  But for now the challenge for you is that if you want creation
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  to respect you, then you must allow God to reset you to the
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  version he authorized Creation to respect.
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  Any other thing you become that is inconsistent Creation would
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  treat it as an antivirus. It will not work.
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  You need to be restored to that version.
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  That reveals and manifests the nature of Christ.
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  Love being the highest of that manifestation.
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  And then to speak like Christ, to be given to obedience and
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  then to master sacrifice. Sacrifice as a key that elevates
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  you. Rise up and let's pray.
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  We have to end now. Hold hands with someone as we
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  pray. Fill me up till I overflow I
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  want to run over. I want to run over.
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  Fill me up till I overflow. I want to run over.
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  One more time. Fill me up, give me up till I.
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  Overflow. There's just one prayer point
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  for us tonight, and I want you to pray till the next.
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  One minute with all your heart, Father, I contend for a greater
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  revelation of your nature and character.
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  I contend for grace to function like you, like never before.
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  Lift your voice and pray. Lift your voice and pray.
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  It says, my little children, of whom I travel in birth, until
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  Christ be formed in you, until Christ be formed in you.
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  Someone pray the nature of Christ formed in me the
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  character of the Christ formed. In me, the fruit of the Spirit
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  manifesting in me, manifesting through me, I believe, I pray,
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  manifesting through me, manifesting through me.
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  Lovejoy, peace, patience, self-control, goodness, I am.
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  Merciful. I am kind.
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  I am compassionate, loving Jesus and loving man.
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  Decree and declare that I begin to function like Christ, Like
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  Jesus. I'm a talking spirit.
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  I will not be silent. I make declarations.
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  I recreate my destiny. I change things.
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  I keep things. I addict things using the power
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  of prophetic speakings. Obtain grace to obey, having the
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  readiness to judge all disobedience.
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  If and when your obedience is complete, go ahead and pray.
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  The grace to be all way obedient.
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  The grace to be all way obedient.
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  The obedience that commits God to perform the obedience that
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  commits God's word to perform. The obedience that produces
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  strange order of miracles. Obtain grace to live a
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  sacrificial life. Obtain grace to give yourself as
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  a sacrifice upon the altar. You function like Christ by
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  speaking like Christ, consistent with the Word of God, obeying
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  the principles that are contendary as proof that you
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  believe God, and living a life of sacrifice.
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  Hallelujah, Hallelujah. As always, let me challenge you,
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  ladies and gentlemen, please take the time.
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  Take the time. Take it as an instruction in
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  righteousness. Take the time.
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  Listen to this teaching again. Don't assume you understood what
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  I said. Listen carefully this time
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  around, like a student listening void of distraction.
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  Sit down sometimes. This night sometime, maybe
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  tomorrow morning, just settle down and listen again.
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  Pray the prayers with all your heart and watch what your life
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  becomes. Have you been blessed tonight?
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  Let me give someone an opportunity to know Jesus
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  tonight. Remember, we spoke about the
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  nature of Christ. Let's minimize movement.
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  We just have one or two minutes and we're done.
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  You are in this place and you are saying, apostle, I cannot
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  leave this place. Without making Jesus Lord of my
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  life, there's no need to cajole you.
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  There's no need to manipulate you.
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  You know that you need Jesus. You were sent from your homes to
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  this place. Some of you, you traveled so far
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  to be here. And once you heard me speaking,
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  the Holy Ghost began to speak to you.
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  That when the man of God makes an altar call, make sure you do
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  not sit there. I want to give you an
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  opportunity to make it right with Jesus it.
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  Pays to make it right with Jesus.
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  Whether you are seated inside, whether you are outside,
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  wherever you are, Syria, UK, Canada, US, wherever across the
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  globe, I want to give you an opportunity to make it right.
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  If you are in this place, I'm going to ask you to step forward
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  very quickly. I count 1 to 5.
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  Leave your seat in a hurry and please be here standing.
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  Take your bags, your Bibles, wherever you came to church
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  with. Let's begin to count now as they
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  come. One, God bless you.
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  God bless you. Come 2.
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  God bless you, God bless you. Keep coming.
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  For your sake. We'll spare one more minute to
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  allow you make your way to the front.
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  If you're coming from any of the overflows, please make haste.
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  Make haste. Else will be required to just
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  stand in front of your LEDs. Zarya make sure that those who
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  are making this, responding to this call that they come out
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  accordingly. Come, it matters.
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  That you make it right with Jesus.
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  Do not say I will do it another day, maybe too late.
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  Today is the time. Now is the hour of salvation.
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  Hallelujah. God bless you.
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  I see my little ones coming to make it right with Jesus.
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  Let's celebrate them as they come.
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  Hallelujah. I want to thank all of you for
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  making this decision. It pays to know Jesus, to love
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  him, and to serve Him. Let me request that you lift
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  your right hand as a sign of surrender to this Jesus.
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  Say after me as loud and as clear as you can.
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  Say, Lord Jesus, I believe you that you are the Son of God.
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  I love you with all my heart. Tonight I believe that you died
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  for my sin. I believe that you rose again
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  for my justification right now. I receive Jesus into my heart as
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  my Savior, my Lord, and my King. I believe that I'm saved and I'm
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  a child of God. The power of sin, Satan, hell,
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  and the grave is broken over my life.
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  From tonight. I go for whatever and back
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  whatever. Amen.
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  Keep your hands lifted, Father. Thank you for this ones.
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  I decree and declare according to their confessions that they
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  are saved today, saved forever, saved eternally in the name of
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  Jesus. They spend their days loving
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  you. They spend their days living for
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  you. They spend their days serving
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  your purposes. The power of sin, Satan, hell,
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  and the grave is broken over your life.
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  I'm seeing a spirit just roaming around.
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  I command that Spirit to live now in the name of Jesus Christ.
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  I decree and declare every influence on anyone causing
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  chest pain, severe chest pain. Let it be broken right now by
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  the power of the Holy Spirit, in the name of Jesus, Amen.
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  Please look at me, gentlemen and ladies, please move to my right.
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  That will be your left. There are counselors who will be
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  glad to have a word with you. They will pray with you and then
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  you'll be on your way. Let's honor them as they go.
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  Let's honor them as they go. Hallelujah, praise the name of
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  the Lord. Have you been blessed?
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  Tonight I decree and declare in the name of Jesus.
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  The nature and the character of Christ will be evidently
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  manifested in your life. In the name of Jesus, men will
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  look at you and they will see Jesus in the mighty name of
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  Jesus. And I pray for you, the grace to
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  function like God in experience. Let that grace be released upon
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  you. You will speak like Christ and
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  see results. You will obey and see the
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  results. You will live a life of
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  sacrifice and be elevated nonstop.
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  In the name of Jesus. I declare that your week
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  beginning is blessed. Let it be a week of testimonies.
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  A week of science and wonders. Shame and reproach is far from
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  you. This is the week you encounter
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  destiny. Help us.
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  This is the week that you rise to another level.
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  You will know God better this week.
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  You will love God better this week.
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  You will see results in your life.
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  The Lord bless you. It is well with you.
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  In Jesus name we pray together as a family of faith.
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  Let's share the grace and fellowship, the grace of our
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  Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, the sweet fellowship of the
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  Holy Spirit. Rest and abide with us now and
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  forever. Amen, Surely Gods goodness and
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  mercies follow us all the days of our lives as we dwell in the
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  House of the Lord forever and ever.
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  Amen. Greet someone, hug someone on
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  your way out. The Lord bless you and see you
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  next week.