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EXPERIENCING PERSONAL REVIVAL · Apostle Joshua Selman

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  Speaker 1: Well to take us in the second session of this
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  beautiful real I see twenty twenty two. No stranger to
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  this family, amazing gifted grace, Man of God and a
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  personally voice God Is release from Nigeria to the nations
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  was a great blessing yesterday. You know, yesterday was a
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  profound word. He spoke to me. He came from me.
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  I don't know about you. Phraise God, and I know
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  He's come for you this beautiful month. If you're glad
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  to receive again, rise on your feeling along Jesus Christ
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  received ags and for Sir Joshua, salmon, as it comes
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  again to be a blessing. Salibrate grace, Salbrate.
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  Speaker 2: Brace, Brace the name of the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning, everybody, also good Thank you so so much.
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  May the Lord bless you and your dear wife. Let's
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  pray Father bless our hearts this morning. We have come
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  to learn, we have come to grow, We have come
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  to encounter your grace, and we ask that our eyes
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  be opened in the name of Jesus, for the Bible
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  declares that they go from strength to strength as many
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  as appear before the Lord in Zion. So we pray
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  that your world will come and prevail over our lives.
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  Hallelu Yeah, dye the glory.
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  Speaker 3: Halleluia, ah Man, Halleluia, dye the glow.
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  Speaker 1: ReVibe us.
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  Speaker 3: Halleluiah, dye the glow. Halllu here a, hallelu here dying
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  the glory. Read fve us, Halleluia, dying the glory, Halleluia. Amen,
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  Hallelui are dyne the glory, readvive us.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, let this be true in our lives, even this morning.
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  And we vowed at forever Jesus be glorified. Amen and Amen,
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  God bless you, please be seated. Yesterday the Lord began
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  to deal with us alone the lines of the theme,
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  giving us understanding and perspective as to the content and
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  that which we should experience in our faith adventure. And
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  we discussed yesterday how that it is possible that in
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  the life of a believer there can be seasons, and
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  there can be moments where your faith and even your
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  conviction be challenged. The Bible causes the day of adversity,
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  that there is such a moment in the life of
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  a believer. We did establish again that not everything negative
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  in the life of the believer is a product of sin.
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  Is at who's seen that this man was born blind,
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  his father or him? He said neither, but that the
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  glory of the Lord will be revealed. Are were together,
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  and we discuss the fact that the Bible gives us
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  a very clear picture as to the fact that weariness
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  and spiritual fatigue is something that is common to men.
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  He says, hast not known, hast thou not heard that
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  the Everlasting God, the Lord, the creator of the ends
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  of the earth, that he does not faint, and he
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  is not weary. That there is no suching of his understanding.
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  Then the Bible says, he gives power to the faint,
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  and to them who have no strength. He increases might.
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  Then he says even the young men will fall, and
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  that the youth will faint, and the young men shall
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  utterly fall. But then he says, they that wait upon
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  the Lord, they will renew their strength. They will mount
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  up with wings as the eagles. They will run and
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  not be weary, they will walk and not faint. We're
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  examine a few keys that will help us to survive
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  these seasons of adversity. We spoke about the revelation of
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  the love of God, that the awareness of the love
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  of God can strengthen a man at moments and times
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  when you do not understand what is happening around your life.
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  The love of God is ever consistent. I have loved
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  you with an everlasting love, and I have drawn you
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  with my love in kindness. I'm just doing a quick recap.
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  Number two, we said that we draw strength from the
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  comfort of scripture. It says and that from a child
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  the things that are written a four time there for
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  our learning, so that we, through patience and comfort of
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  scripture might find hope a well together. Number three, we
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  looked at the power of strategic prayers that when we pray,
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  it can grant us strength to survive the days of adversity.
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  And then we looked at the power of joy, that
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  joy is a mystery in the realm of the Spirit
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  that can provide strength for the believer. Then we also
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  looked at the importation of strength Ekelt Chapter two from
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  verse one and two. And the Spirit entered into me
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  when he speake unto me and set me upon my feet.
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  And we took time to just thank God for those
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  who are coming to the end of these seasons of
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  their lives, and then to build stamina for those who
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  are beginning these seasons. I told you that there is
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  a dimension of pain that is a gift, that it
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  is an uncle, it garnishes your honor. I told you
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  that when you go to heaven today, one of the
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  ways you will know Jesus it is not by the
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  crown on his head, but the scar on his hand.
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  It's not the only one who has a crown on
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  his head. Elders have crowns, but there is only one
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  who has his car That what for you today may
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  be a symbol of shape. Tomorrow may be your trophy.
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  That would be what would legitimize you into realms of
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  power and grace and influence. This morning, I want to
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  teach very briefly, and then we pray on experiencing personal revival.
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  Experiencing personal revival, I just want to draw two keys.
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  By the privilege of God's grace, I'm a student of revival.
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  I have studied the moves of God across continents, across nations.
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  I've had the honor and the privilege of meeting a
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  few people who have been mightily and used by God
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  to pioneer awakenings across territories. And I thank God for
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  the bit that He's done in and through our lives
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  within the capacity that we have served the Body. And
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  I can tell you I understand a bit about the
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  subject of revival. I'll go straight to the point. Many
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  people desire to see territories changed. Many people desire to
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  see awakenings. And this, I believe is the burden that
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  is in the heart of the Man of God to
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  see such an awakening, the move of the Spirit across
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  territories where people come into a heightened consciousness of the
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  things of God, where there is territorial allowance for the
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  activity of the Holy Spirit to find expression in the
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  lives of people. In fact, realise and the Bible lets
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  us know that this is a possibility. Once and again
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  we see through scripture that there were moments in modern history,
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  and moments even in Church history, where there were marvelous
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  moves of God that God came to breathe upon a people,
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  to breathe upon individuals. But the character of true revival
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  is that it always starts as a personal revival before
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  it becomes territorial. No revival starts as a territorial revival.
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  It will always start as a personal revival. When you
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  read the Book of judges, and you follow closely the
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  story of this young man called Gideon. God desired to
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  step in and bring an awakening over the people and
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  to grant them the strength and the grace to defeat
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  the Medianites. But his started. The structure of that move
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  was that he found a young man called Gideon, and
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  Gideon was hiding, and when he appeared to him, he said, oh, down,
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  mighty man of Velor. He called him by his prophetic destiny,
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  and Gideon said, no, don't flatter me. I am the
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  list in my father's house, and even the list among
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  my people. And now he began to give him certain
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  requirements that will look at. And at the end of it,
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  it was the man who was already revived that blew
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  the chauffeur, and thirty thousand people came in response to
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  the chauffeur that was blown by one who had been revived.
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  And when thirty thousand people came, he said, no, this
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  is too much and there's no time. That's not the
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  subject I'm dealing with here. But when you studied that scripture,
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  you will see that there were three principal tests that
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  were given to Pune the people. Hundred Test number one
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  whoever is not sure of what he is doing. If
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  you are so conscious of home and your family, here
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  is your chance. Go back. And half of the people
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  went back immediately. That is a very powerful revelation that
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  in the midst of a crowd, not everybody is that
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  determined to know God and to get to the place
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  of destiny. And God said, the people are steal too many.
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  Let another test come and the last time, the final
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  test was when they got to the river. That would
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  be a discussion for another day. There was a posture
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  that a few people took that disqualified them, and there
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  was a posture others took three hundred of them, and
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  he said, these are the men that have qualified. Now
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  we can proceed. So I'm just trying to say that
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  territorial revivals are products of personal revival. And I'm going
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  to look at two kids very quickly this morning, hoping
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  we'll have a chance to pray. Number one, the first
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  key that controls the experience of personal revival is the
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  power of brokenness. The power of brokenness. Two Scriptures, Second Chronicles,
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  Chapter seven, will read verse thirteen and fourteen, very popular
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  scripture across the body of Christ. If I shot up
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  heaven that there be no rain, or if I command
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  the locals to devote the land, or if I send
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  pestilence among my people verse fourteen. If my people, So,
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  this is an affair that has to do with God's people.
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  He's not talking about the heathen. If my people understand
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  the context. Now, there are times he talks to people
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  who are outside of the fold. But this discussion has
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  to do with his people. And in case you are
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  not sure, I'm aware that they are called by my name,
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  it says. But if they shall humble themselves and pray
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  and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways,
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  it says, then will lie hear from heaven and will
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  forgive their sin, and will heal their land. Notice it
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  never said I will forgive their sins. I will forgive
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  their sin, and I will heal their land. The next
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  scripture I'm about to give you, I pray that you
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  archive it among your most treasured scripture us. If you
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  truly desire to experience God, never forget this scripture for
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  the rest of your life. Isaiare fifty seven and verse
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  fifteen Isaire fifty seven. For first, say it the high
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  and lofty one that inhabited eternity, whose name is holy.
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  I dwell in the high and holy place. That is
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  my first location. But my second location is that I
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  also dwell with him that is of a contrite and
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  a humble spirit. Why to revive the spirit of the
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  humble and to revive the heart of the contricte ones,
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  look at this scripture. I am high and lofty. I
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  well in my holy place. But in case you cannot
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  find me there, there is a location that is within
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  your rich find a person who is humble, and I
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  am there. He tells you two locations where you can
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  find him. One the high and the holy place, is
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  who shall ascend to the heel of the Lord, and
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  who shall stand in his holy place. And he says
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  here that you will also find me with him who
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  is of a contracte and a humble spirit. And I
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  am there for the singular purpose of reviving the spirit
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  of that humble man and to revive the heart of
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  the contract ones. Brokenness attempts to describe a state of realization,
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  a state of acknowledgement of our imitations and inadiquasis outside
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  of the help of God. Brokenness is an attempt to
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  come to a state of realization, a consciousness and also
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  a state of acknowledgement of our limitations and our inner
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  dequasis outside of the help of God. That means when
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  an individual comes to a point in your life where
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  you are aware and you are conscious of the fact
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  that hon assisted by the grace and the messy and
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  the help of God, there are heights you cannot attain to.
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  There are levels of expectations from God that you cannot meet.
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  Is called brokenness. And the Bible lets us know in
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  Some fifty one and verse seventeen, Some fifty one and
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  verse seventeen that the sacrifices of God are a broken spirit,
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  a broken and a contracte heart. Oh God, noo will
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  not despise. There is a kind of man that God
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  cannot avoid. Are we together that when God finds a
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  man who is broken and contrite in heart and spirit,
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  he does not have the ability to ignore such a one.
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  This is a very powerful revelation because several people will
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  tell you they are trying to find God. Several people
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  will give you an impression as though God is far
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  and he seems to hide his presence. It's like he
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  enjoys the distance. And here the Bible is saying that
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  God has such if I would use for want of
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  word and addiction, that there is a kind of man
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  that if God sees, he cannot ignore one who is broken,
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  one who is contract more than one who is prayerful,
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  were coming there, more than one who firsts, more than
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  one who is a church goer, more than one who's
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  thought is the Bible. There is an ingredient God seeks
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  for in man. And believe me, no matter what other
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  spiritual activity you are involved with and involved in, if
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  brokenness is absence, forget about intimacy with God. It is
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  the reason why you will find out, very strangely that
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  in the dealings of God with men, he would pick
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  the most unlikely, because by every standard they may not
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  seem to qualify or to match up. But the moment
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  he finds brokenness. It is something I learned about God
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  very early, that God God cannot resist a broken and
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  a contrite hat. Kneeling down does not mean you are broken.
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  Crying does not mean you are broken. Brokenness is a
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  consciousness is an awareness that translates into an acknowledgement. Brokenness
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  starts with revelation, an awareness, then it translates into an acknowledgement.
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  This is the reason why I love the Psalmist so much.
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  We began to discuss yesternight with the Psalm of David.
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  The Psalmist was one person who mastered the presence of
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  God because he was indeed a man who was broken
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  and contrite. When you read the entire Psalm fifty one,
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  Psalm fifty one is a psalm of messy is it
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  is a capture of a man pouring his heart and
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  his soul before his maker. You take the time to
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  read the entire text of Some fifty one, and I
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  tell you, if you are not broken at the end
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  of it, you are not a Christian. Andeluyah Some fifty
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  one profound honor, shame, declaration of a man's helplessness and
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  his inadequacy in the face of God's power, holiness, grace,
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  and beauty. No under God called him. God never called
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  Abraham a man after his heart, never called Moses, who
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  saw him face to face, a man after his heart.
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  This was a title that God carved and gave the
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  Psalmist as a gift for the depth and the extent
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  of his brokenness. He called him a man after his heart.
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  Are we learning this morning a state of realization that
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  translates into an acknowledgment of our limitations and inadequations. Now
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  we live in a world where our confidence is largely
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  hinged on our various levels and degrees of competencies. It's
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  usually an embarrassing thing to discover that you are incapable
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  in any area. It's not something the human would receive normally.
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  Are we together now? Chances are excellent that if I
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  cannot put on this mic, it would take me a
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  lot of struggle to ask someone to assist me, because
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  the awareness of being inadequate is something that men do
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  not easily want to admit. It takes a long journey
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  with God to come to a point where we realize that, look,
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  there's no point wasting time. I do not know my
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  way around this. That in God's dealing with men, he's
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  aware of that tendency that men can read my role
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  and galyvands around seasons of failure. I would never come
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  to a point where the simply acknowledge that God, I
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  am tired of this forty years, Johnny, open my eyes
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  and show me the way. And God is loving, but
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  he's also disciplined enough to allow you until your brokenness
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  calls in. You would think that just because you are suffering,
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  God is touched with the feelings of your infirmity. But
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  he's bound himself with the rules of engagement. He does
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  not just engage erratically and emotionally. If your brokenness and
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  your hunger and your desperation do not call on him,
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  you will be shocked that you are in a season
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  of obvious failure, and yet you will never get the
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  attention of God. This is something about God that many
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  believers do not understand, so they get angry and say, God,
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  you mean you're watching me like this? This is what
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  happened to Ken. In the Bible. Ken would have simply asked,
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  what did Abel do that I am not getting? Because
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  it was clear that it was not a communication gap.
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  God was hearing him. God spoke to him, and it
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  was not even repent and decided, Am I my brother's keeper?
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  Are you not? God? Use your old seen eye to
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  find where my brother went to God? If you heard
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  the voice of God, would you answer that way? You'll
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  be on your knee saying thank you Lord for speaking
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  with me. But here, he says top bond Man, to
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  the point that God cost him and he said, hold on,
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  I know I'm coused. What you be careful with what
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  you were saying. If you cost me this way, everyone
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  who sees me will now kill me. What does it
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  profit you? And God said, you know what? Okay? What?
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  What sort of a man is this? Another person who
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  showed us the the danger of pride was the woman
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  called Vashti. There is no record of Vashti apologizing. There
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  is no record of verasity coming before King a hazardous
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  to say I realized my wrong. There was no brokenness.
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  Are we blessed? A state of realization that translates into acknowledgement?
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  You see? Let me tell you this. If we really
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  want to experience the more of God, we must learn
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  early how to tremble before him, to come before him
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  in total openness, and to not allow ourselves to suffer
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  too long before we admit that we need this help.
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  Are we together? Ye? Believers would stretch their wisdom, Believers
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  would stretch their connections. Believers who stretch their skill, they
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  will give all kinds of excuses and continue to go
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  around several circles. And you see the thing about God
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  is he will step out and he will patiently wait
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  where you kept him while hoping that you will realize
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  that he means more to you than what you have
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  thought him to be and where you have kept him. Finally,
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  after many years, or many seasons of trying and stretching ourselves,
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  we finally come to a point where we are forced
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  to give up. And now we say, Lord, I think
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  I need you, and he says, you think you're not
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  yet there. I need the, Oh, I need the Here's
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  the part I love hold on every ah, I need
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  the That's the part of the song that most blesses me.
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  It's not that you need him how long and how
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  frequent I can need you and then dump you and
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  hope that when I have any problem I will call
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  you back. But the writer was intelligent enough to admit
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  his frequency.
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  Speaker 4: Every uh needy, Come less me now, my savior, the
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  power of brokenness.
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  Speaker 1: You cannot imagine how easy your Christian experience would be
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  when you remain a broken vessel before God, malleable and
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  ever open that perpetually your life spells inadequacy outside of
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  the messy and the help of God. This is not
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  self condemnation. This is not looking down on yourself. Are
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  we together? Look what happened to the prophet in Isaiah
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  chapter six, in the year King Osiah died, the Bible
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  says Isaiah saw the Lord, and he saw him high
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  and lifted the train of his rope filled the temple.
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  Isaiah said, woe is me, for I am undone. I
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  am a man of on clean lips, and I dwell
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  amidst the people of on clean lips. You think God
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  will say, oh, that's too much humility. Why do you
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  have to stretch that far? The Bible says, a life
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  call a Sarah came with a life call and touched
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  his lips and said, your iniquity is taken away from you.
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  And now he said, who shall we send and who
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  shall go for us? And he says, send me. I
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  told you. Territorial revival is always a product. It is
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  the one who is truly revived that can bring revival
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  to a territory the power of brokenness. My first charge
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  to us therefore this morning, is that there is no
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  shame in realizing and acknowledging that you are incomplete outside
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  of the assistance of God. You were designed that way.
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  The intelligence of God was involved in the design of man,
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  and he made sure there was a gap. He left
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  a man that only his size can feel. So no
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  matter what you used to fill that void, eventually you
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  will find out that anything that is not the size
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  of God will not fit that space. The Bible says
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  He has put eternity in the heart of man. So
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  we try to cover the space of God with achievements.
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  We try to cover the space of God with all
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  kinds of things, And eventually you will find out that
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  no matter what you try to use to replace Him
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  in your life, you will end up with the same
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  conclusion that you need him more than you ever realized.
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  Are well together now. He does not become for you
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  a God that just comes into your life because you
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  want to prosper, because you want a job that when
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  it has to do with the business of brokenness, you
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  are not looking for things. You're looking for him. He
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  has become your life. You're not just trying to say, oh,
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  I've discovered that your presence in my life gives me
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  a job, gives me children. Thank God for those things.
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  And you are right. But more than that, your might
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  trashure my priority. Who can compare to you for great
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  resoure of your weal? See oh moreingsta you truely everything
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  There are many preachers who it would take them many
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  years to realize that, no matter how competent you are,
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  you were designed to be inadequate. Outside of Him. There
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  are many business many to take them. You say, let
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  me tell you there are certain languages. When you hear
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  they are revealers that there is no brokenness in that vessel,
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  my thing, my business. The moment we begin to credit
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  achievements to ourselves immediately it reveals that there is something
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  about brokenness that has not been administered in us. When
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  you truly become broken, you get to a realm called
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  galliations to twenty that have been crucified with Christ. Nevertheless,
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  I leave yet not eyebot Christ that lives in me,
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  and that the life that I live in the flesh,
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  I live only by the faith of the Son of God,
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  who loved me and gave himself for me. You no
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  longer become ashamed to let the nations know that behind
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  everything that you see that looks glorious, you see, and
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  you will sing His praises with honor shameedness. When people
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  try to shut you down and say you are falling
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  your hand, you tell them you don't know where I'm
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  coming from Ah, and I will not be silent. AH
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  will all always.
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  Speaker 5: There's longs.
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  Speaker 1: Aha Ah. This must be more than a special number
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  in your life, the desire to see men that through
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  your life. I would always say this way, the more
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  men look at you, if you are truly broken, they
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  should not see you, because when you look at a mirror,
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  you don't see the mirror. Strangely, the more you look
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  at the mirror, you see the object that the mirror
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  is reflecting. So through your results and through everything that
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  people see, they come to one conclusion. You are a
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  testament of what God can do in and through a
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  man Galatians one, twenty five, twenty four. And they glorified
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  God in me, and they glorified God in me, and
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  they glorified God in me. You can glorify God, but
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  your life can become a mirror that people sit and
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  watch it like a movie, and at the end of
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  it they say, God will give you glory. This has
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  to be You are went together. Let me tell you sincerely,
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  it's not because believers do not pray. I'm not sure.
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  I may be wrong, but I'm not sure. There is
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  a generation that prays like our time in the body
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  of Christ. There are people who have fasted four years.
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  The longest I've seen and witness in my life is
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  four hundred days non stop, six to six. I wrapped
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  up the last day with the person. This happened many
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  years ago. And yet at the end of that first
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  you would think that person you should touch his hands,
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  and your hands should come out through his king because
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  of the level of spiritual emphasis. Because you see, these
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  activities in themselves do not carry intrinsic power. Their power
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  is derived from the sincerity of the state of your heart.
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  This is what people do not understand about spiritual activities,
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  that spiritual activities in themselves do not administer any power.
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  Their power is derived from the state of the practitioner
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  of those activities. That means you can engage in a
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  correct activity, and yet because of the corruption of the
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  state of your heart, it does not give life to
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  that activity. Are weay together? Yes? What gives credence to
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  the things that we do spiritually is the state of
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  our heart. And in this respect, brokenness, whilst you are
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  seated in one minute, I like you to pray and
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  just pour your heart before the God of Heaven and
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  tell him Lord, I'm tired of living my life as
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  though you are not the authority over me. The honor
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  shamedness to admit that I need help, The honor shamedness
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  to admit that my business needs help, The honor shamedness
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  to admit that honor sister, that cannot go far. I
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  repent of it. Someone is praying, lift your voice and pray.
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  Perhaps there are parents struggling with children, and rather than
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  going to God who gave the children, we will resort
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  to all kinds of things. War to them who go
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  down to Egypt for help, and make God a last result.
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  After we've explored every other thing. Someone is praying, Let
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  it be from the depth of your heart, broken struggling
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  in your job, and yet you will never talk to
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  God about it because you do not believe in his
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  ability to help you. We can go to men, We
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  can resort to systems and structures and famulas, but would
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  never come to the God of the universe. The one
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  who has mastered the art of helping men, dear, must
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  be that shur knowing repentance. Lord. I have tried and tried,
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  and tried and tried. I don't want this here to
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  be like last year. Struggling and trying and giving all
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  kinds of flimsy excuses. No matter what it takes. I
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  need you. I don't need your contribution. I need all
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  of you. I'm not asking you to come and contribute
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  into a template that appealed for myself. I repent and
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  I bring out a clean slit. Whatever you write on
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  it is what I will read. My heart, my mind,
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  my soul belongs to you. Your praying hero belongs to you.
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  Belongs to you. Find that pride one son for all
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  this morning. Don't be ashamed. It belongs to you.
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  Speaker 3: Hm hm.
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  Speaker 1: The songs we see, they all belong to you. And
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  even be.
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  Speaker 5: I breathe.
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  Speaker 6: Eroll belongs to you, belongs to you. He belongs to you.
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  Speaker 1: How in the world do you think you're going to
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  raise five four hundred million narra in two months? Calculating
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  economically is a waste of time. Don't let your pride
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  kill you. You're already in financial trouble. Come to he
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  who can open a door that no man can shot.
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  I know you are a businessman, I know you have sertifications.
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  But accept the Lord. Beauty house they labor in vain
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  that build it. Accept the Lord. Watches over a city.
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  My Bible sends the watchman watch it, but in vain.
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  It is vain to wake up early in the morning
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  and to sleep late in the night, only to eat
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  the bread of sorrow. But he give it his beloved sleep.
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  Amazing how long it takes the human fighting God in
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  pride before we get to a point where we say, Lord,
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  help me. It's as simple as that, help me, thou
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  son of David. He said, have messy on me. It's
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  a language that many people have not learned. Lord, you
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  stay back. I think I can manage my family. The
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  child is only stubblen. I'm used to it. I I've
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  been a counselor for ten years, and God says, I
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  respect you. I gave you a will. Do not wait
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  for situations to damage you and tear you too far
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  before you call on him. The Bible says, the Lord
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  is ny them, not them who need him, them that
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  call upon him. We're getting into the prime ministry. Shortly
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  you will be learning that the highest proof of humility
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  is prayer. Prayer is not just about spirituality, is the
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  highest demonstration of humility, that every time you pray, you
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  are it is. It is the most fucal way of
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  acknowledging your limitation? Are we learning something? This morning? Broken?
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  For some of us? After this service, you need to
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  go back, keep all those spieces of papers and all
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  those accolades, and say, Lord, help me, help me. The
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  way this business is, the way this and that is
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  happening around my life, the way my family is running.
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  I need you, if you I love Moses. If you
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  do not go with us, Moses said, I'm not going anywhere.
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  I have mastered the pain that comes when you are
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  not there. I'm not going to make that mistake again.
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  If you will not go with us, just be sure
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  that this is where we are camping. And God said,
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  you got it. My presence will go with you, and
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  with that presence I will give you rest. Are we learning?
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  Can I tell you? Results do not happen to the
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  most competent necessarily, Results do not have to the most
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  deserving Necessarily. There are many people who it is they
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  know how to step back and just allow the Master
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  right through their destinies. And you will find out that
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  you will see a man with five children, all well behaved,
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  ask the children how the parenting happened. You will see
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  gaps in the principle of parenting, you will know that
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  many things that should make children well behaved, that man
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  did not do it. And yet the one thing he
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  acknowledged was that I am not the head of this home.
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  I am only the steward of this home. And because
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  of that state of brokenness, God said, Okay, if left
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  for your ignorance, you will produce and robots. But because
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  you have given me my space in this home, let
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  me take responsibility. Can I tell you this? You allow
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  God to take responsibility and pilot your destiny, and then
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  you sit back and marvel and wonder at the destiny
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  you will take you to. Is someone learning this morning? Yes,
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  let's break that pride. Some of you need to go
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  unlock your place of business and say there's not been sales.
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  It's not just the issue of going on Google to
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  say principles of sales. Drop that thing. I'm not the
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  person talking to you is not stupid. There are times
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  you need to just drop it and say, Lord, you
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  are the king of kings, you are the lot of lords.
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  If you do not open a door, that door cannot
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  be opened. And God says, you're speaking my language. Now
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  I'm listening to you are we together teach everyone around
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  you this principle. Do not allow your pride to stretch
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  you too far before you come to him, be ever
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  broken before him. To be ever broken means to work
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  in this consciousness. If it does not help me, I
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  cannot be helped. If it does not lift me, I
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  cannot be lifted. The door that he does not open,
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  I will weary myself in front of it. But if
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  he does open that door, he can open it in
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  a way that no man can shot. Number two. The
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  second principle that can help us experienced personal revival is
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  the ministry of prayer. The ministry of prayer, look chapter
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  eighteen and verse one. Look eighteen and verse one. There
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  is a relationship between weariness of fainting and prayerlessness. Here's
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  how Jesus put it. He spake a parable onto them
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  to this end that men ought always to pray and
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  not to faith, so that if you are not praying,
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  you will not be able to do anything about that
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  situation of weariness. To face their means exhaustion. It means
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  he's saying that it is not only usual for the
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  human to be exhausted, but there is something that prayer
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  can do that can remedy that constraint. Allelujah Some sixty
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  five and verse two, very powerful Scripture Some sixty five
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  and verse two. All thou that hearest prayer onto the
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  shall all flesh come onto thee the one who can
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  hear prayers, shall all flesh come? What is it about
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  prayer that makes it powerful? Is it the speaking? Is
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  it the timing? I have studied the subject of prayer
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  very thoroughly. By the grace of God, I've had the
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  honor of meeting a few people who I would say
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  have have have been given that grace for prayer and supplication,
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  and I've engaged with them to find out. I've read
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  books by men and women of prayer like im Bounds,
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  Childs g. Finny. These are people who were proported the
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  body of Christ, received them as gifts, even in the
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  area of prayer. I studied their materials very thoroughly in
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  an attempt to what is it about prayer that makes
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  it powerful? Is it the one praying? Is it the
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  one being prayed too? Is it the times and in prayer?
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  Is it the attitude? Are we together? Is it what
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  is said in the prayer? It was an attempt to
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  piece together the ingredients that really make prayer effectual, because
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  I learned from Scripture that there is a condition in
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  prayer called praying amiss. Now it's a very dangerous thing
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  because it is praying, but it is praying amiss. And
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  then Apostle James was teaching us using this template called Elijah,
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  that the phavent and effectual prayer of the righteous. Is
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  that true? That it has vailed much Amplified says, it
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  is dynamic in its working, it says. So I wanted
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  to understand the whole subject of prayer because I want
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  to live an efficient Christian life. And then I also
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  wanted to know because you see, I found out that
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  there for a long time there have been an error
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  in the body of Christ, the make believe that prayer
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  is the one and only key required for the victory
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  of the believer. I hate to be the bearer of
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  bad news, but that is not true. There are people
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  who the only emphasis, as far as the growth and
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  the development of the believer is concerned, is prayer. And
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  I have seen many believers who have prayed, and I
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  have seen the benefits of prayer in their life, and
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  I've seen them compromise on the other principles, and I've
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  seen the deficiency of those principles in their lives. I
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  will give you the keys of the kingdom, not a key.
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  Are we together? So what is it about prayer? What
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  exactly is prayer? To what point do they say a
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  man is praying? Is it when you are talking or
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  when you are silent? Praise God follows of the tub?
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  At what point would you say that a man is praying?
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  I hope you can sell them, and I'm sure they're
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  working on it. So let me just have your hands.
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  And when do you know? And when do you say
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  that a man is praying? I think while they're working
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  on it. Okay, if that's fine, I was going to
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  ask us to pray, so that we just allow them
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  do the work. But when when do I know? If
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  I am talking, if you meet me talking, does that
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  mean I'm praying? Is it when I mentioned the name
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  Jesus that I'm praying. We're not doing an extensive study
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  on the subject of prayer. But you see, the only
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  way you become efficient in prayer is when you are taught.
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  You will never truly be able to pray efficiently until
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  you are taught the disciples came to Jesus, and they said,
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  teach us to pray like John taught his disciples. They
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  were not prayer less people. They were inefficient in their prayers.
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  They noticed that there was a way Jesus prayed and
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  there were results that came from his prayer life, and
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  that they also prayed, but it looked like their lives
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  did not capture any results, and they said, teach us
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  to pray. But for the purpose of our discussion this morning,
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  we're looking at prayer with respect to experiencing personal reviver
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  So I have studied that prayer, according to Scripture, achieves
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  four main things in the life of the believer, and
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  I just want to bring it to our understanding and
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  then have some time to pray. I believe there may
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  be more, But from my study of Scripture, I have
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  found out that the prayer ministry seeks to achieve four
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  principal things in the life of the believer. Are you ready?
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  Number one, the first assignment of prayer in the life
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  of the believer is as a tool for transformation. Transformation.
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  The first, and believe it or not, the highest assignment
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  of prayer in a believer's life is for transformation. Popular scripture.
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  Look Chap nine from verse twenty eight and twenty nine.
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  This is Jesus. Now look chapter nine, twenty eight and
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  twenty nine. And it came to pass about an eight
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  days after these sayings, he took Peter and John and
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  James and went up into a mountain to pray. So
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  Jesus went to pray. Read verse twenty nine with me
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  if you can see projected, ready want to read. And
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  as he prayed, the version of his countenance was altered,
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  and his raiment was white and glistering. Believe me, prayer
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  is able to help the believer evolve into higher and
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  superior versions of yourself. That the weak you, the small you,
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  the timid you, the flesh driven you, the canal you
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  can evolve into a superior version of yourself if you
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  know how to pray. Show me a weak believer, timid,
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  Show me a believer that is bankrupt of light, your
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  organs of interaction with the realm of the spirit dea
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  didn't subject that person to a constructive, methodical pathway of prayer,
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  and you will A champion will be waiting for you
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  at the other end. Many believers are weak because they
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  do not pray. They do not pray with the understanding
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  that prayer is meant for transformation. Why would Jesus pray
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  as the word transformation? You know why people get saved
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  in church? Respectfully speaking, And after many years you look
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  at them. There's no growth, there's no transformation. Preachers will
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  keep laboring to teach truth and they keep shouting Amen,
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  receive it. And after many years you sit down with
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  them and speak, and you are almost heart broken as
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  a preacher, because it looks like you've been wasting your time.
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  I tell you, for many of them, they've not subjected
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  themselves methodically to the ministry of prayer. Away together, no discernment,
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  no sensitivity, cannot receive spiritual things that veil after many years,
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  is still there. You subject people through the ministry of
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  prayer and leave them there and watch what happens. You
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  just watch what happens. There is a transition that begins
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  to happen to them. Their language begins to change, not
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  just the prayer language, but their language, the construct of
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  their understanding begins to change. Their confidence begins to increase.
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  Let me tell you find someone who is suffering from
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  common plex and inferiority. Among the many things you bring
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  as a remedy. Subject that person through seasons of prayer
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  and watch what happens. Prayer, if and when done properly,
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  is powerful. Are we learning Yeah, transformation. When we pray,
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  we are transformed. That light that is locked up within
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  our spirits find expression. It is true. So if you
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  find out that you've been stagnated at the same level spiritually,
• 55:35
  you look at yourself and there is no growth. January comes,
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  December comes, January comes, December comes, prophecies come, and nothing.
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  You don't feel that movement. You can give yourself the
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  discipline of prayer for a season. Prayer like eating, prayer
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  like exercise does not happen. You don't see all the
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  results in one day. The key is consistency. Consistency. You're
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  not going to leave cannily for thirty years and then
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  pray for five minutes and expect it to cover up
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  for all that time. You will need to be consistent.
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  I would always encourage people. It's not a doctrine, but
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  it's a formula I have found in my life. If
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  you want to take your destiny serious, master the art
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  of praying in the night. Believe me when I tell
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  you this. You go and read your Bible, and see
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  what prayer in the night happened at midnight, tall and
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  silas you see it, while the day was before the
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  day would break, Jesus would leave and go to pray.
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  These are mysteries of the spirit. Chances are excellent that
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  it would not be easy for you to pray effectively
• 56:45
  in the day. Your eyes alone would distract you. Are
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  we together? Your phone is there ringing, everyone is calling you.
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  Children are disturbing you. You're not pray that way. Your
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  entire being must be involved in prayer. If it does
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  not touch you, it will not touch God. Some of
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  us start praying, and before you know it, the text
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  comes in and you hold it and you're like, ah, okay,
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  let me just quickly respond. And one hour you are there,
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  two hours you're there, and at the end of it,
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  you just remember you were praised in Jesus name or
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  your way out. You didn't pray. In all honesty, you
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  didn't pray. You can't get the same results with someone
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  who came and gave his heart and he's all in prayer.
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  Please stay after iime in the name of Jesus, I
• 57:33
  obtain grace to pray. Preachers, we must trust God for
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  grace and subject our membership to intense moments and seasons
• 57:44
  of prayer, not just prayer and fast in prayer, that
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  we create a way to supervise their growth, especially leaders.
• 57:52
  When leaders in church don't pray, they will give the
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  man of God headache. When leaders don't pray, they will
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  be kindly minded. Simple decisions that should be It should
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  be unanimous if they were sensitive. Because they are working
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  in the flesh, there will always be canal and mundane arguments.
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  Don't trust people who don't pray. Don't trust what they
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  tell you. Don't trust what you hear. They are speaking
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  in the flesh, no matter how well meaning. Before I
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  trust you, let me see your prayer life. Are we
• 58:30
  learning number two? The second assignment of prayer in the
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  life of the believer is as a tool for making
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  requests I wrote here and obtaining promises. There is an
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  allowance in the prayer ministry for us to make requests
• 58:54
  and to obtain promises. Philippians Chapter four, from verse six
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  and seven addresses the issue of anxiety once and for
• 59:04
  all Philippians. For six and seven, it says, be careful
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  the word there is anxious for nothing. It says but
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  in everything, by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your
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  request be made known onto God. Back to verse six,
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  place let your requests be made known. You see the
• 59:23
  Bible is saying it here. Don't assume that God knows
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  what you are, what you are going through, or what
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  you desire. It says, let your requests be made known
• 59:34
  onto God. Then it says verse seven that the God
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  of Peace shall and the peace of God, which surpasses
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  all understanding, shall guard your heart and your minds. If
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  we're dealing with the subject of prayer in the standard way,
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  I will teach you something about the relationship between prayer
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  and peace. There are there is the tripartite manifestation of
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  the Kingdom. Every time you see this tripe tite manifestation,
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  the Kingdom has come, righteousness, peace, and joy the most
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  the most how do I put it now? The one
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  that is easy to detect of all of them is peace.
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  In fact, it is one of the ways that God
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  speaks Psam eighty five, verse eight tells you that he
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  speaks peace. You can know that your prayer is answered,
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  not because of the appearance of the results. I will
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  hear what God the Lord will speak for he will
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  speak peace unto his people. Someone once asked me and said, Apostle,
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  how long do you pray? I said, that's not a
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  very wise question. It's a sincere question, but it's not
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  a wise one. Never in the Bible talk about watching
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  for one hour. It was just reference. There is never
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  a doctrine. You do not pray based on timing. You
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  pray based on contact, and you pray based on result.
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  You pray until peace comes. If it takes ten hours,
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  stretch that far. Of course, naturally speaking, if you discipline
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  yourself to prayer, you will invest and commit time. But
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  to use an alarm clock and just pray for five
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  hours or two hours or one hour and then stop it,
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  you are being canal. That's the reason why that prayer
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  does not profit people. In true fellowship, timing is usually
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  not an issue. Imagine that someone comes to you is
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  not being official, maybe a husband and a wife, and
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  he's talking and the man is checking his watch and
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  he says, okay, ten minutes, May God bless you, and
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  she says, so what were we doing. It's a fellowship.
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  That's not fellowship, that's discussion, that's formal whatever office duty.
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  That's fine. So we come to God, and there are
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  times that God would just want his presence to rest
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  upon you. Do you know there are times that it
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  will take you more than one hour saying thank you,
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  just thank you. And there are times that you go
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  to pray where you will shockingly not be able to
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  say anything. Yet you are praying. There is a level
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  of stillness that is prayer. God defines the menu for
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  that that that feast. He is the Lord of host.
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  You don't just go with your preconceived idea. Point one, Father,
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  thank you. You are the line of the tribe of Judah,
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  the rows of Sharon, the lily of the valley. Now
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  that is done. Father, I'm here again. I've told you
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  this thing. I've been in a budge at this house
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  rent six hundred thousand, one million. What is it that
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  you cannot give me? Is it that? And you are pray?
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  This is your praying. Now here yourself praying. I've not backsleading,
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  I've been trusting you. Don't think I don't have options.
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  It's just because you are God and a lord. No, no,
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  no no. And then we wrap up with thanksgiving. Lord,
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  I thank you because I know you, and Heaven is watching.
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  Angels are watching. Demons are also watching in shock and say,
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  what kind of ignor? And people like this? Can I
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  tell you this. If you must pray, your heart must
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  be involved. But let me tell you sincerely, the Bible
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  says that prayer can be used to obtain requests. Let
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  me encourage you. Learn to pray and to take every
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  matter of your life to God in prayer and expect
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  him to respond. Expect him to respond. Expect him to respond. Lord,
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  I thank you. There's this thing happening in my office.
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  I thank you. But you see, in making requests, God
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  does not answer you because you asked him. He answers
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  you because he said he would do it. So if
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  you cannot connect what you want to what God has said,
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  he will not be answered. God only answers prayers because
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  what you want is connected to what He has said
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  you would do. The protocol of God's dealings with men
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  is that he only does what he says. If God
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  has not said it, whether to you or that which
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  is written, there is no basis for him doing it.
• 1:04:28
  I want to rise God, I want to rise since
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  here prayer, But that prayer will not be answered. You
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  have to find what He has said about your rising, Lord,
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  I want to rise, and you have said this. You see,
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  God only does what he says. He does not do
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  what you want. He does what you want that is
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  connected to what he has said. Please lend this very
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  simple principle is the reason why many believers do not
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  obtain answers to prayers. They ask what you see, they
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  do not ask properly. He's bound to his word. That
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  he honors his word even above his name. So when
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  you approach the parliament of heaven, there must be intelligence
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  to your prayer. Away together, Yes, Lord, I'm tired of suffering.
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  Move me forward. What is the basis? Why should God
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  commit himself that far? And you find a scripture it
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  was the Lord that caused Moses an error to advance,
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  and that God is no respector of persons. You see,
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  you are constructing your request with intelligence. He said, to
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  present your cause. He said, to bring forth your strong reasons.
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  Number three, the third assignment of prayer in the life
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  of the believer, I wrote down here is for spiritual legislation.
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  You can put in bracket decrease and creation. Amazing two
• 1:06:11
  scriptures numbers fourteen and verse twenty eight. Numbers fourteen and
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  verse twenty eight, tell them, as truly, as I leave
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  saith the Lord, as ye have spoken in my ears,
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  so will I do unto you. Second scripture Job twenty
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  two and verse twenty eight. Job twenty two and verse
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  twenty eight, it says thou shall also decreate thing. Listen,
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  there is a dimension of prayer that is not talking
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  to God. It is using his authority to create possibilities.
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  Prayer is not always talking to God. There is a
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  dimension of prayer that is responsible for making decrease over
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  creation and creating possibilities in your life. It is not
• 1:07:09
  always about asking God to do things. There are times
• 1:07:12
  that in prayer you use that God given authority to
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  now begin to create possibilities. And whatsoever Adam called it,
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  that was the name thereoff. If you call it a
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  blessed tomorrow, that becomes the name thereoff. If you call
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  it favor in spite of the storms, that is the
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  name it will be. Your days and your moments are
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  waiting for you to give them an identity, waiting for
• 1:07:46
  you to give them definition. If you do not give
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  them a name, the devil will give them any name,
• 1:07:54
  and they will become what they were instructed to become
• 1:07:59
  are we together? This is very powerful that you wake
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  up in the morning and you decree, this is the
• 1:08:04
  day that the Lord has made. I rejoice and I
• 1:08:07
  am glad in it. I profess high, and I declare
• 1:08:10
  that gentiles come to my light, their kings, to the
• 1:08:13
  brightness of my horising. And you walk through that day
• 1:08:18
  as if creation owes you, and you begin to see
• 1:08:23
  all kinds of miracles and all kinds of doors open
• 1:08:26
  for you. And this brings that the joy that comes
• 1:08:31
  from knowing that your life is producing and commanding results
• 1:08:34
  will bring a consolation to your Christian experience. Listen to me,
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  do not be silent. Learn to create possibilities away together
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  every day. Is that the messy of your speaking instruct
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  it to become for you what the world of God
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  says should be. The third assignment of prayer, you must
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  learn to legislate. We have I'm showing this church and
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  probably following we have members of parliament in this nation,
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  House of Assembly, Senate, And did you know all that
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  they do is to use words, develop and enact policies.
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  And these policies directly affect people passes through first reading,
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  second reading, and all of that they adopted, it becomes law. Speaking.
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  They are paid to speak. They speak from their minds,
• 1:09:33
  from their thinkings, from their perspectives. If you keep quiet
• 1:09:39
  over your destinies, what you do not want that will happen.
• 1:09:42
  I assure you, whether you plant or not, something will
• 1:09:46
  always grow in the firm, provide that there is rain,
• 1:09:50
  and unfortunately it's what you do not want that will
• 1:09:53
  grow away. Together, Speak over your business, Speak over your
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  in histry, Speak over your family. Your assignment is to
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  keep speaking. In the name of Jesus Christ, I will
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  not give bed for sorrow. In the name of Jesus.
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  My mind is fruitful. The favor of the Lord is
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  upon me. In the name of Jesus, I am escaped
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  from these six things, even the scodron tongues of men.
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  You are praying, and you are making decrease. You forget
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  about what who is thinking or not thinking. Your assignment,
• 1:10:26
  your destiny is absolutely dependent on the power of creation.
• 1:10:32
  Things only happen to you if you are silent negative things.
• 1:10:37
  I may number four. Are you ready for this? The
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  fourth assignment of prayer is as a tool for warfare
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  and intercession. Paracado's theater Warfare and intercession apostle. Is this necessary?
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  Live long? That's my answer. I don't have much to
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  tell you. Please make sure you are alive for long,
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  and you will revisit this message again and again and again.
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  John ten ten. The thief commet, not Satan, is called
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  the thief. I don't know how many of you want
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  to be friends with thieves. The thief comet not brought
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  for to steal, to kill, and to destroy. This is
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  his triparthite character of destruction, to steal, to kill, and
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  to destroy. First John, chapter five and verse nineteen. We're
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  rapping up now, First John five nineteen. Someone's destiny is
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  changing this morning in the name of Jesus, First John
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  five nineteen. And we know that we are of God.
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  It says, please help me read the remaining part and
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  the whole worlds job. Does that include the region of
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  your office? Does that include where your church is? Does
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  that include your village? Does that include Nigeria? Does that
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  include the space of the land you just bought? The
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  whole world light in wickedness when speaking with my people,
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  would always make this observation. Nigerians know how to lament emotionally,
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  and we say, who did I offend? Very comforting statement,
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  but how erroneous. You do not have to offend anyone.
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  Everyone is born in the middle of an old story
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  that you are forced to be part of the story
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  of the issue between light and darkness. It's not something
• 1:12:52
  that started with us. Everyone was born in the middle
• 1:12:56
  of an old and ancient story. And can I tell
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  you that story is so constructed that the moment you
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  appear in it, you're most acting that scene. Nobody invites
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  you to be part of that movie. Provided you are born,
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  you pass through the womb of a woman, you must
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  be part of it. Satan knows that everyone born of
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  a woman is a potential tool in the hand of God.
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  Number One, He does not even give you a chance
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  to grow. If he can kill you, he will with joy.
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  I guarantee you Satan does not have to wait for
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  you to be born again to be trained and mentored.
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  In the Bible, children were killed. He killed them without
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  thinking twice. And then you now come to stand before
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  God's people and surrender your heart to Jesus Christ. I
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  hope you know that when you were giving your life
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  to Christ, it was not the preacher who led you
• 1:13:57
  that was seeing you alone the rem of the Spirit,
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  including the demons principalities, and like I would tell my people,
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  most believers do not understand the power of the life
• 1:14:10
  they just received. But Satan and demons understand what you received.
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  They know the potential of this life you have received,
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  and they know that by your declaration you have drawn
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  a line. I think he was on Sunday. I was
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  talking to my people, and I was helping them to
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  see and appreciate the extent of the rebellion and the
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  stubbornness of Satan that for millions millions of years at
• 1:14:48
  least as we know, maybe more from the time he
• 1:14:53
  was casted from heaven, Satan is still fighting God till today.
• 1:14:58
  What determination that he will not give up. Satan comes
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  to you and talks to you about God as if
• 1:15:05
  he does not you can imagine, as if he does
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  not factalk his defeat in the discussion Setan never talks
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  to you as if he's defeated. I hope you will laugh.
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  Let me tell you what I'm about to tell you.
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  Someone came and met me. I think I was praying
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  for people after service one time, and a young boy
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  came just tood before me, and I saw something that
• 1:15:32
  looked like the poster of an election. And I looked
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  at him, and he came with conviction, and I opened
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  it and I wanted to run away. Was coming up
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  a president of Nigeria, having shouted and thought that all
• 1:15:48
  things were possible. I looked at this, my dear brother,
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  and I didn't know what our good if become diplomatic,
• 1:15:56
  do wh I go directly? I looked at this boy,
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  and you will know. You see the gaps in knowledge,
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  the decades of learning. This guy would need to yes president.
• 1:16:08
  I don't know what party. I'm not sure there was
• 1:16:10
  a party yet. In all fairness, In all fairness, I'm
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  not If I'm joking, I'll tell you I'm joking. He
• 1:16:17
  stood at the line for prayer. He said he came
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  to receiving. I told him, I said, look, my dear brother,
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  let me tell you this God works in seasons number
• 1:16:29
  one and life is in levels. The gentleman did not agree.
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  You see that? And I told him, I said, do
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  you know what it means to be the president of
• 1:16:45
  any nation? And then the president of Nigeria. He was
• 1:16:48
  absolutely convinced. Absolutely, it would have been better if he
• 1:16:54
  said maybe he had a dream or prophecy, he just
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  came and just believed that he wants to change Nigeria.
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  It's never been class rep He's never been maybe not
• 1:17:12
  even counselor leader of some whatever it is. You think
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  God hates us that much as a nation. I know
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  we've seen against God as a nation, but or come on, please,
• 1:17:26
  there's still a remnants that this gentleman was almost making trouble.
• 1:17:34
  I just said, Niel down, just laid hands on him
• 1:17:37
  and said, please just just carry your trouble and go.
• 1:17:39
  I'm not ready. So imagine do you know with that
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  kind of determination, there is nothing you would tell that guy.
• 1:17:53
  That's the kind of determination Satan us over your destiny
• 1:17:58
  that as on wise see, it looks Satan still believes
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  in his agenda. That's what That's the point I'm trying
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  to I'm trying to pass across. You would think Satan
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  should be so afraid because of your last testimony and
• 1:18:10
  not come again, Satan. You watch him. The Bible said
• 1:18:14
  he left Jesus for a season. You testified as a
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  triumph of light over darkness. If I were Satan, I
• 1:18:22
  would give up. The way the miracle happened, He stopped
• 1:18:27
  the first child and you'll give that to twins and
• 1:18:30
  you think Satan will fold his arms, He will rest
• 1:18:32
  and come back again. This is the kind of adversary
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  we have. If you do not know who Satan is
• 1:18:41
  and his level of determination, you will take him for
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  granted to your perier. I'm showing you the necessity for
• 1:18:48
  the warfare and the intercessory dimension of prayer. Satan will
• 1:18:53
  kill anything he finds to kill. You know, Satan does
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  not have an urgenda that of himself. He's told this
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  what God wants and creates an agenda out of it.
• 1:19:06
  It's not like he has a preset. No no, no,
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  no no. He looks at your life. He does not
• 1:19:11
  have any personal bias towards you. He just wants to
• 1:19:14
  know what God is doing. And he hears that God
• 1:19:17
  wants to lift you that in this year, God is
• 1:19:19
  taking Progic to another dimension. He says, fine, now we
• 1:19:23
  have an assignment. His assignment is a soft set of
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  whatever God is saying. Any time God is speaking, don't
• 1:19:30
  you ever think you are the only one hearing. Satan
• 1:19:33
  is a very intelligent listener. When he came to Adam,
• 1:19:38
  he said, what did God say? And don't tell me
• 1:19:40
  what I just want to know what God said, because
• 1:19:43
  my assignment is tied to what he said. Are we
• 1:19:50
  learning so the moment he said discharge, I give on
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  to you, my son Timothy, that you wore a good
• 1:19:58
  warfare with the See. God has spoken to you. I'm
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  lifting you this year and I'm bringing on on glory
• 1:20:07
  to your life. Don't just say amen and stop. You
• 1:20:10
  must engage carass quotabakatos. Yeah, you go to the place
• 1:20:14
  of prayer and word of all of those things. First Bitter,
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  chapter five and verse eight, have a few more minutes.
• 1:20:22
  First Bitter five and verse eight. Let me show you
• 1:20:24
  a very powerful scripture. It says, be sober. First Bitter
• 1:20:27
  five and verse eight. Be sober. It says, be vigilant.
• 1:20:32
  What does it mean to be vigilant? To be vigilant
• 1:20:35
  means to be sensitive, to not be careless, to be discerning.
• 1:20:39
  It says, because your adversary, not your boss, not the
• 1:20:45
  one fighting you. Those are puppets. The devil, as a
• 1:20:49
  roaring lion, walked about seeking whom he made DeVore. Jesus
• 1:21:04
  gave us power and authority over Satan. There are families
• 1:21:08
  who continue to watch the devil wreck them and shred
• 1:21:12
  them into pieces, and they keep getting depressed. There are
• 1:21:18
  lives you think. The devil wants you to continually be
• 1:21:21
  anointed in ever increasing dimensions. He's seeing the havoc that
• 1:21:25
  the annointing in your life has done so far to
• 1:21:28
  the kingdom of darkness. Will he grant you access to
• 1:21:31
  intelligence and systems and structures that can multiply the anointing?
• 1:21:36
  He will fight it to the nail. Satan knows what
• 1:21:40
  you did with the last ten million God gave you.
• 1:21:42
  He knows how the House of God benefited. You think
• 1:21:45
  you will sit down and just allow doors to be
• 1:21:48
  open anyhow, You don't know Satan. He's every other thing
• 1:21:51
  but lazy and foolish, two things you cannot credit to Satan.
• 1:21:56
  He's not lazy and he's not foolish. Why is it
• 1:22:02
  that other people who are not Christians, they don't even
• 1:22:04
  pray and they move forward. There is nothing that is
• 1:22:08
  pro kingdom in their agenda. So Satan has no concern
• 1:22:11
  about fighting them. Satan attacks, but in truth he has
• 1:22:16
  a protocol. Listen, many of you watch football. If you
• 1:22:22
  are playing, say a semi final or a finals, and
• 1:22:26
  you are supposed to weaken that team your target will
• 1:22:29
  be the strongest of the key players they call them.
• 1:22:32
  Is that true? If you can bring one or two out,
• 1:22:36
  I think you've done a good job as first, making
• 1:22:38
  a contribution to the defeat of that team. That's what
• 1:22:42
  Satan is doing. So the fact that Satan is not
• 1:22:46
  letting you rest should tell you the role you play
• 1:22:49
  in God's agenda. Why is it that out of ten
• 1:22:52
  people in your family, he seems to have isolated you.
• 1:22:55
  I tell you why because in his mind you are
• 1:22:58
  equal to the strength of the ten people. Rather than
• 1:23:02
  seeking to destroy the ten people one by one. Why
• 1:23:05
  is Satan focusing on your church? Why is Satan focusing
• 1:23:09
  on you as a man of God? You are worth
• 1:23:11
  to him. In his thinking, you are worth to him
• 1:23:14
  more than five thousand preachers. Fighting you is most profitable
• 1:23:18
  to him than fighting is a way of conserving energy. Ah,
• 1:23:23
  God theater, when he comes to you, it should be
• 1:23:28
  a consolation that you are really valuable in God's agenda.
• 1:23:36
  Is God's speaking now, Sat and leave my family alone.
• 1:23:40
  That's not it. He's found out that there is something
• 1:23:43
  in that family you are not aware of that is
• 1:23:46
  pro kingdom. Satan, Why are you fighting my marriage? Why
• 1:23:51
  are you fighting my fruitfulness? Why are you fighting this?
• 1:23:54
  Satan does not fight anything for itself. He looks beyond
• 1:23:58
  that thing and sees it will achieve. So, Hannah, if
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  someone is coming out of you, get ready to be buried.
• 1:24:07
  It's not about your womb. It's about sam Well. Who
• 1:24:10
  else will annoy us all? Who else will anoin? David Elizabeth?
• 1:24:16
  If John is coming out of you, who will ordain Jesus?
• 1:24:19
  Who will save the world? You are on my list. Joseph,
• 1:24:29
  if you're rising, will bring preservation to God's people so
• 1:24:35
  that they become God's covenant people, the people from whom
• 1:24:38
  the Messiah will come. Then get ready for trouble. Can
• 1:24:42
  I tell you this? This is an information I'm giving
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  you as we prepare to pray. I can tell you
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  this by revelation, and I can tell you this from scripture.
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  Satan attacks, but it does not attack anyhow. He attacks
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  based on on how much point that attack will score
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  as far as his advancement is concerned. So he can
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  isolate preachers, he can isolate businessmen. If you plan to
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  be serious with God, listen to this message. If you
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  don't plan to be serious with God, that's all right.
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  But if you plan to be serious with God, I
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  want you to know that not everybody is willing to
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  be serious with God. The moment you declare to be
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  serious with God, you have drawn the line with Satan.
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  Will he come, Yes, uninvited. Yes, he's called a thief.
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  A thief's invited. All you need to do is to
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  be successful bull the house. Your success and your results
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  is the invitation. But we have a God in heaven. Now,
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  thanks be to God who causes us. How long? All ways? Now,
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  thanks be to God, preacher, Now, thanks be to God,
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  business man. Now, thanks be to God. That in spite
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  of the skinnings of darkness, there is already a way
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  of escape. Someone should rejoice that there is a way
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  of escape, a way of escape. In prayer. I can
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  engage by the power of prayer and subdue everything that
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  looks like a manifestation of darkness. This morning, we're going
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  to take five minutes to engage. I know that we
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  have spoken about these four points, but I am concerned
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  about the thought because this is where many of us
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  are in and in the next five minutes, I like
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  us to take some time to pray. Can I tell
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  you there are certain gates you need to bring down
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  this morning. You need to tell yourself enough is enough.
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  The Bible says, I Daniel understood by books. He knew
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  when his season had come to an end. When seasons
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  come to an end, do not let's say it and
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  prolong it. Thus far have you come? He said, no, Father,
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  shall you go? It's time to release the gates of ministry.
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  To release the gates? Can? I tell you Creation is
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  waiting for that command. If you know how to pray,
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  you will try young and prevail over situations and circumstances.
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  I am a product of prayer. I know what prayer
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  has done in my life, and I know what it
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  continues to do. No matter how wicked man is, Let
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  that man pray, no matter how big the situation is,
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  Let that man pray. Look eighteen and verse one. He
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  spect a parable to this end, that men ought always
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  to pray and not to faint. He said there was
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  a king, a George, and unjust George. That that man
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  did not fear God, and he did not regard men.
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  And there was a weak, helpless widow who came to
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  him and said, avenge me my adversary. And the Bible
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  says for a long time, you will not hear her.
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  But for her importunity, her persistence and staying power. And
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  Jesus says that if this woman she had no system
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  of physical defense, but she knew how to pray. The
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  man said, even though I do not fear God and
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  I do not regard men, yet this woman, by her
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  continual disturbance, she can weary me. If you can weary men,
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  you can wear it close doors. You can wear it
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  close seasons and open them up. Are we learning? Please?
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  In the next five minutes, there's no prayer point. You
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  are praying in the spirit and you are engaging with understanding.
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  And then if one or two prayer points come from it,
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  I'll communicate it. But I'm sure that if, if, if, if, if, if,
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  I'm allowed you can just walk around within your limited space.
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  But I want you to pray seriously. The next five minutes.
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  You are praying. This is warfare and intercession. Left your
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  voice and begin to pray. Shutta brand gets shut bread
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  casta bread that got the guitar. You're praying. This is
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  for your destiny, this is for your ministry. Shot cut
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  back up to gotto Branta shut I get the brands,
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  Yata and breads gotto, pray, gettas shut that tap back
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  at alls kata branch em bracatas cotto brandkatatos macataprana secast
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  is someone praying, hold onto the horns of the altar
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  and pray. It's time to shift climates and seasons my
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  life most experienced. A personal revival. Is time for that
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  which is asleep to be a working in me. Pray
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  Shanna Sana. You who is following in your home, following
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  in your office, make sure you are connecting and praying
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  right where you are. Go ahead and pray the hindrances
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  that have come as a result of controlling powers over
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  my life and over my destiny. I challenge you by
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  the God of Heaven shanega techos cotto, paccatos, empra katats
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  gott topeka ta catos, cut the brand gettos can li
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  katar shut that brand that got the girls, cut the
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  bread that's got thick at the coach era at le
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  cos yah taba randas in the name of Jesus, Now
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  please listen Allelujah. When it has to do with prophetic
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  prayer of warfare and intercession, there are rules of engagement.
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  There are three principal ways from scripture that certain affects
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  and even inflicts believers. Never forget this three number one
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  and the highest platform for his invitation into the life
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  of the believer. It's called the power of covenants. Number
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  two is ignorance. Number three is disobedience. These are the
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  only as complicated as Satan looks, if he ever finds
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  access to any life and any destiny, it must be
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  one or more of these three platforms. And the way
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  you close those doors and you deal with it different covenance.
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  When Satan is having access to a believer, a church,
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  a business, and individual based on covenance, you don't cast
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  him away. It takes the ministry of the blood. You
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  see that now the blood has an assignment to nor
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  lify covenance on legal basis, because the Blood has a voice.
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  So there are rules of engagement. You've heard me say,
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  as powerful as God is, he could not cast seen
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  out of man to say, man I am God, and
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  I am creator the earth is man I cassin, I
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  declare you righteous. The Blood had to precede that, speaking
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  the Bible says, blotting out every handwriting and every ordinance
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  that spoke against us. He nailed it to his cross.
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  I think he was Isaah forty nine that says, shall
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  the prey be taken the captive of the Mighty, and
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  the prey from the terrible? He said, first, said the Lord,
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  even the lawful. There is a kind of captivity that
• 1:33:34
  is called lawful captivity, And the Bible is saying, even
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  under that condition, there is still a provision in the
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  economy of God where an individual can be free. Don't
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  you think this is not an issue. There are many
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  ignorant believers who do not know that covenance are a
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  system of authorization. Listen, if I am a thief and
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  I step into this assembly to pick this, if I
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  hear any sound, what do I do? I run away
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  because I'm a thief. But let's say I meet God forbid.
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  But let's say I meet any of the ushers or
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  somebody who is a worker in dischurch, and he sells
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  this for me, and I pay him, and I come
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  to pick it. If I hear you coming, will I
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  run away? Why? Because I paid for it. You are
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  not going to tell me go away. You have to
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  bring a George. There has to be a system of appeasile.
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  That's what Jesus came to do Hm. There are spirits
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  that are not cast away this kind you overcome them
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  by the blood of the Lamb. Believe me. This is
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  why many believers just pray all kinds of sincere and
• 1:34:52
  well meaning prayer that does not produce power in the spirit.
• 1:34:55
  Because there are rules of engagement. High speak the blood,
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  high plead the blood, eternal saving blood.
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  Speaker 5: I don't have to cry for you have paid the price.
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  Speaker 1: The blood. There are many demons were minding their business,
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  and many parents and individuals went and invited them and
• 1:35:33
  said I need assistance, and they said, we don't just
• 1:35:37
  give assistance. Say I know, I'm desperate. Fine, and later
• 1:35:41
  on you just wave them off. You see, let me
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  tell you this, I'm not glorifying Satan. When the missionaries
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  came to Nigeria, listen carefully. They brought the evangelical dimension
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  of the gospel. But many of them did not have
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  the spiritual intelligence to understand the modus operandi of the kingdom.
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  They did not open us up to the dynamics of
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  victory in its entirety. Many of them came and they
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  did not even know why they died. They just came
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  to villages and brought the gospel and died. Some went
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  back and now they did their best. Woman's give them
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  that honor except that personal and territorial revival. Let me
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  challenge you go and study on the revival in Fiji Island.
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  If you can go, I'm sure it should be on YouTube.
• 1:36:28
  You go and read about the documentary. They killed a
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  massacred some missionaries who came to preach, and before one
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  of the missionaries died, I think, in anger or sadness,
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  he made a pronouncement over the entire Fiji Island. They
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  laughed it over, shrugged it over, and swept it under
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  the carpet. Many years later, the fish refused to produce
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  from the river they would plant. There's a documentary. Clubs
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  refuse to grow. And the people were suffering. And then
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  it got to a point where some prayer warriors said, no,
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  we can't be here. They began to pray. You see,
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  when you don't know what to do, pray, it is
• 1:37:10
  in prayer that what to do comes. They began to pray,
• 1:37:15
  and a prophetic word came that they were legal speakings
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  over that place. Do you know these people prayed and
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  some other people, well, they were praised that don't mind
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  these people nothing who happened to their shock. That land
• 1:37:29
  remained buried until a few people came with spiritual intelligence.
• 1:37:34
  Fortunately they could access the grandchildren of those missionaries that
• 1:37:39
  were modered, and when that happened, they invited them over.
• 1:37:43
  It was in national ceremony where they apologized to them
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  and they prayed and the people released blessings on the land.
• 1:37:51
  It was not more than twenty four hours. Go and
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  find out the documentary fish from nowhere, different species that
• 1:37:58
  were missing, those came out from the ref. This eth
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  is mysterious and there are rules of engagement. Can I
• 1:38:06
  tell you covenance are powerful? Covenance are not emotional? No,
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  It is the reason why anything God takes serious in
• 1:38:17
  your life, he creates a covenant around it, marriage, your salvation.
• 1:38:22
  When God wants to take anything serious, he does not
• 1:38:26
  trust the vacillations of emotions. If God has not brought
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  a covenant to that thing, he will not get his best.
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  Everything that God takes serious he connects to covenant. And
• 1:38:47
  then disobedience, having the readiness to judge all disobedience if
• 1:38:54
  your own obedience is complete. And then ignorance efficients for
• 1:38:59
  eighteen having their understanding, darkened, been alienated from the life
• 1:39:04
  of God through the ignorance that is in them, because
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  of the blindness of their heart. Why am I giving
• 1:39:11
  you these kids because we are going to pray. There
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  are some of us who in our prayer right now,
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  you need to plead the blood that I will never
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  have a reputation of what happened to my father and
• 1:39:22
  what happened to my mother. I have been called out
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  of every tribe and every tongue, and in the name
• 1:39:28
  of Jesus, the legal binding, the speakings, the ill speakings,
• 1:39:32
  connected to my territory, connected to my bloodline. What then,
• 1:39:36
  is the advantage of my encounter with the blood. You
• 1:39:39
  can engage it just because you are born again. That's
• 1:39:43
  not automatic. You have to engage it with understanding. Are
• 1:39:47
  you ready to pray now? Please lift your voice in
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  one minute and begin to pray her last got the
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  preend a deva Lacaus theater. The blood is a basis
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  for access. Plead the blood upon your life, your finances,
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  your family, that everything that gives the devil legal access
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  over my health, over my life, over my joy, over
• 1:40:19
  my peace, over my church, over my spiritual life. I
• 1:40:23
  stand by the blood of the Eternal Covenant. And I decree,
• 1:40:27
  and I declare that in the name of Jesus, the
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  Son of the Living God, that blood that speaks better
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  things than the blood of ever, that blood that advocets
• 1:40:39
  my release, that blood that advocatets my freedom. Certain the
• 1:40:44
  Lord rebukes you. The blood is against you, Satan. The
• 1:40:49
  Lord rebukes you, failure. The Lord rebuke you, sad bath.
• 1:40:55
  The Lord rebuke you. Someone pray h shut left brad
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  tokata a pratoskatos theata, The Lord rebuque, The Lord rebuke,
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  The Lord rebuke, the Lord rebuke you. Don't be tired
• 1:41:20
  of praying. The flesh may be weak, but the spirit
• 1:41:22
  is willing. It's been waiting for this chance so that
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  they don't be opened over you once and for all.
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  Are you praying? Mm hmm in the name of Jesus,
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  In the name of Jesus, we're still praying. First Corinthians
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  sixteen and verse nine. First Corinthians sixteen and verse nine.
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  There are many of us. There are doors that have
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  been opened. The truth is, when you go to God
• 1:42:28
  and say open the door, he will tell you I've
• 1:42:30
  opened it. But another's feel it has stood in the
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  place of that door to close it and stop you
• 1:42:36
  from passing a great door, and the effectual is opened
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  onto me exaid. But there are many so adversaries don't
• 1:42:47
  just follow men, They follow doors. They stand at the
• 1:42:51
  corridors of doors. They know that anyone who enters this
• 1:42:55
  door is going to the next season. Can I tell
• 1:42:58
  you this? Look at me? Please? Doors connect rooms to rooms.
• 1:43:02
  Doors midwife seasons between one season and another. Is a
• 1:43:09
  door between your kitchen and your living room? Is a door?
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  So you doors assystems of transition. When that door is closed,
• 1:43:20
  you will remain in the same season for a long time.
• 1:43:23
  Someone is ready to bring that door open. Are you
• 1:43:26
  ready to pray? Now? You are going to pray that
• 1:43:29
  every door, doors of ministry, doors of influence, doors of power,
• 1:43:35
  doors of higher levels of grace. You are going to
• 1:43:38
  engage by the power of the spirit. Those doors must
• 1:43:41
  be open right now. Lift your voice and pray. Please
• 1:43:44
  pray like a priest paras call the tossiata. Someone is praying.
• 1:43:52
  Har let get brays lekatsiata dos be open in the
• 1:43:57
  name of Jesus. Every spirit a signed by the devil
• 1:44:04
  to stand at the corridor of one season. Connection another
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  in my life. I come against you. I engaged by
• 1:44:12
  the blood of the Lamb. I engage by the power
• 1:44:15
  of the Word. In the name of Jesus Christ. Go
• 1:44:19
  ahead and swing those doors open. Go ahead and swing
• 1:44:26
  those doors open. Well, pray hurry that costata. Your life
• 1:44:33
  must carry a testimony of the goodness and the messy
• 1:44:37
  and the grace of God. Hallelujah, hallelujah, in the name
• 1:44:49
  of Jesus. This next prayer point, please listen. If you
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  are a man of God, if you are in business,
• 1:44:58
  if you are a leader, anything you are doing that
• 1:45:01
  demands influence, please pay attention to this next prayer point.
• 1:45:04
  Can I tell you this. One of the greatest areas
• 1:45:08
  of attack of Satain overbelievers is their influence. What is
• 1:45:13
  your influence? Your capacity to compel men to buy into
• 1:45:17
  your ideologies? The Kingdom advances based on evangelism and influence,
• 1:45:24
  not evangelism alone. Sayturan fights the influence of men. What
• 1:45:33
  does it mean to fight your influence, to fight your relevance,
• 1:45:36
  to fight your voice so that your voice cannot speak?
• 1:45:40
  Are we together two scriptures? Are you tired? Be patient?
• 1:45:46
  We're going to pray this morning. Are we together Zachariah,
• 1:45:52
  Chapter one, from verse eighteen. I will not be afraid
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  of ten thousands of people that set themselves against me
• 1:46:09
  round about. Hi lay me down and I slept. Help
• 1:46:16
  that woman, and that the anointing, the power of God
• 1:46:18
  is coming on someone at the back for the Lord
• 1:46:22
  sustain me. But thou, oh Lord, had a shield for
• 1:46:30
  me my glory. Thou lived. Psychariat chapter one and verse eighteen.
• 1:46:41
  God is opening someone's eyes right now. Allelujah. Please, there
• 1:46:48
  are two people, just two people. I just saw lights
• 1:46:51
  from here from the stage. The power of God just
• 1:46:54
  coming on two people. And I'm saying, is second just
• 1:46:57
  come to an end? Please help them two people. I
• 1:47:01
  just saw that light. I don't know where they are.
• 1:47:03
  Just helped them right now, the power of God, that light.
• 1:47:06
  The Lord is saying that there is a season. By
• 1:47:08
  this prayer, as simple as it is, the Lord is
• 1:47:11
  bringing an end to that season, an end to that season.
• 1:47:16
  Zakaraiah one and verse eighteen. Place goodness. Then lifted eye
• 1:47:22
  up my eyes and sow and I beheld four horns,
• 1:47:27
  how many nineteen? And he said, and the Angel said,
• 1:47:35
  unto me, what be these? And he answered, I said,
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  onto the Angel What be this? And he answered, this
• 1:47:41
  are the horns which have scattered my praise, my covenant,
• 1:47:47
  and my peace. Three things This horns fight my praise,
• 1:47:55
  my covenant, and my peace Verse twenty And the Lord
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  showed me four capiners twenty one. Now he gives passives
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  to pray, even the prayer that produces results. May you
• 1:48:16
  reap from your prayer life in the name of Jesus.