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THE-HOUSE-OF-GOD · Apostle Joshua Selman

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  Speaker 1: Easy you, Lord, weido we Aliluijah. Shall we lift up
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  our hands to heaven and bless the name of the Lord,
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  give him all the praise. Worship him. Go ahead and
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  bless him. Indeed there is more. Indeed there is more.
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  Can you worship him from the depth of your heart? Father,
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  we thank you throughout the less age, you will be
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  crowned with praises. Love most excelt tady a free nation,
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  the sovereign of a creed shied love be magnified. Allelujah. Father.
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  As a family of faith, we choose to say thank
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  you for the marvelous and all inspiring things that you
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  continue to do in our midst. Indeed, no man can
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  do these things except God be with him. Lord, we
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  thank you for being in our midst. We choose to
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  be grateful. We choose to be discerning. We choose to
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  see the things that you are doing. And Lord, we
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  join the nations from end to end to say thank you,
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  Thank you, Thank you for the miracles, thank you for
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  the signs the wonders, thank you for the healings, thank
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  you for transformation. Thank you for salvation. We bless you,
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  and tonight we have come to learn. We have come
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  to be built, We have come to be established in righteousness.
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  We pray that our hearts be opened, and we pray
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  that Your Holy Spirit and indeed your world will prevail
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  over our minds and our lives. Change us ol, God,
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  and let us go from glory to glory in Jesus name.
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  I pray, Amen, God, bless you, please be seated, Allelujah,
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  Praise the Lord. Very touched and very humble hearing the testimonies,
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  you would think that because these realities, you know, every
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  day I receive testimonies from people literally around the world,
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  just sharing the marvelous walkings of the Spirit through the
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  world and through this ministry. And you would think that
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  havn't gone through this routine for a very long time.
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  You would think there would be no more excitement. But
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  I tell you sincerely, for every time I hear and
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  get to see the wonder walking power of God through
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  this ministry across the globe, I am humbled afresh. You
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  must maintain that attitude of excitement. You must maintain that
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  attitude that celebrates the slight test manifestation of the hand
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  of God for as long as no man can do
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  it by his strength. With all God thanks and forever, Allelujah,
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  Praise the Lord. Let me tell you something. Please listen
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  to me. I give you a guarantee by the spirit
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  of the Living God, if you pay attention to the
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  things that you are learning week in week out, if
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  you make up your mind as a determination to submit
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  yourself to these doctrines and this truth, I give you
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  a guarantee based on the integrity of the world of God,
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  you will never live an ordinary life. Believe me, Believe me.
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  The responsibilities on you to be determined. It is not
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  something you don't get determined when you come to church.
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  Speaker 2: You make up your mind.
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  Speaker 1: God giving you the grace that i will submit to
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  these truths.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not going to come and argue.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to come and try to Tampa with
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  these spiritual equations. I am childlike enough to receive with meekness,
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  like the Bible says the ungrafted word. The Bible says
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  that the Word of Christ should dwell in you. In
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  all wisdom, We're not going to become great just by wishing.
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  We're not going to be able to do so much
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  for the kingdom just by blind desire.
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  Speaker 2: It takes more than that. There is a pathway.
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  Speaker 1: According to Jeremiah, chapter six and verse sixteen, the Bible
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  says to stand in the way that ancient party says,
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  to ask for the old path, where is the good way?
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  And then it says to walk daring, and you shall
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  find rest for your souls. So every time I come
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  here for Cooinonia, whether it's here in Abuja or anyway
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  at all, I am, I am. I come with a determination,
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  and I come with a safe assumption that everyone who
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  would be under the influence of my voice would have
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  made up their minds to receive, not just here. Hearing
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  and receiving are two different things. Make up your mind
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  to not just be a hearer. Oh I'm writing, I'm writing,
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  be determined, a students kind of determination. I am receiving
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  truth that is consistent with scripture, backed up by the
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  presence and the power of the Holy Spirit. First to
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  help me know the Lord and love him more. Listen carefully.
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  This is the protocol. Number one in order of priority
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  is that my assignment here is to feel your desire.
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  Speaker 2: For the things of God.
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  Speaker 1: That is my primary assignment. In order of priority, that
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  you should never be part of this vision and not
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  love Jesus and not be passion on it about the
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  things of God. So your heart and your commitment and
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  your fire number one, number two, that you are able
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  to understand the systemic character of God, the structure of
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  the Kingdom, that nothing just happens, and then to submit
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  yourself to the truths that make for transformation, transformation, metamorphosis.
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  You are moving from one state to the other, superior
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  versions of yourself, so that the version of you that
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  came is not the version that remains. You should never
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  be the same person who came to church and then
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  you return back as the same person.
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 1: No, nobody meets with the Word of God sincerely and
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  returns but the same.
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 1: You should return wiser, you should return better. You should
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  return with a greater sense of illumination.
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  Speaker 2: John one five.
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  Speaker 1: And the light shine it in darkness, and the darkness
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  comprehended it not. So I want you to make up
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  your mind. If you are yet to do so, make
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  up your mind inspired by the spirit and discharge that
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  every time I come for Coinonia or every time I
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  invite people to join me, that includes those who are
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  following from around the world, make up your mind to
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  be a student. Submit yourself to knowledge, Submit yourself to doctrine,
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  submit yourself to truth. Be malleable enough to allow the
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  Word of God come, not just to inform you, not
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  just to be an addition upon the negative templates that
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  may have been in your mind. You must submit to
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  the world of God. There are things you will hear
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  that are a reminder. There are things you will hear
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  that are a new spiritual information.
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  Speaker 2: There are things you will hear that is a tool.
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  Speaker 1: For deliverance, largely deliverance through transformation.
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  Speaker 2: Now we come.
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  Speaker 1: From different cultures, we come from different you know, we've
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  gone through different experiences. And when God brings this convergence,
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  listen very carefully. You must submit yourself to learn as
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  though you do not know anything. This arrival mentality is
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  why many people do not receive from the Lord.
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  Speaker 2: Are we together?
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  Speaker 1: So when you come before the Rabbi, the Rabbi being
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  the spirit of God, not just the vessel he's using
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  the spirit of God, you must.
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  Speaker 2: Be intentional see the value.
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  Speaker 1: Listen carefully, see the value behind the truths.
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  Speaker 2: That you learn.
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  Speaker 1: That every spiritual truth, every spiritual principle you learn, has
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  value to your destiny allwise, not just material value. That
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  is the least the peace and satisfaction that comes to
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  you knowing that you are working in dominion. Ignorance is dangerous.
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  It keeps you in fear, It keeps you in doubt.
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  The Bible calls knowledge and wisdom stabilizers. It says they
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  shall be the stability of your times. Allelujah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Every time the Word of God is about to come,
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  beware of the following number one distraction, because Satan wants
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  to fight you from receiving the world. You can be
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  in a meeting and not really be there, distracted by
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  all kinds of things, whether it's your electronic device or
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  whatever it is. Let your mind, your spirit, your soul,
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  your body be there with a determination to learn. Allelujah.
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  Speaker 2: Yes. Number two familiarity. You have to be careful.
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  Speaker 1: Never get to a point where all you think I
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  know John Chapter three, verse.
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  Speaker 2: Then you help the preacher say sixteen.
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  Speaker 1: You will be surprised that it is six symbol you
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  will never learn anything.
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  Speaker 2: Allelujah Yeah. Approach the Word of.
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  Speaker 1: God with the passion of a child. Jesus was speaking
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  about the kingdom, and he said, let the little children
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  come to me. It says, do not forbid them for
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  such that means it will take that level, that attitude.
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  Speaker 2: Being childlike to receive the things of the Kingdom.
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  Speaker 1: As for me, I remain committed under God to make
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  sure that every opportunity God grants that I do not
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  waste your time shadow boxing. It is my commitment under
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  God to ensure that every time we are gathered like this,
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  you are exposed to sound doctrine that is consistent with
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  the template given by the Apostles, consistent with the recommendations
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  of Scripture. Caught across several divides, to the end that
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  we be built.
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  Speaker 2: And established holistically.
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  Speaker 1: The keyword holistically lobsided spiritual growth will end us in
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  all kinds of imbalances like we see across the body
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  of Christ. I will never be the kind of preacher
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  who will come to teach you on spirituality and your
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  passion for God and your love for God, and ignore
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  the need for you to rise to a position of
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  kingdom influence where your voice be heard and that you
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  are relevant as far as kingdom come is concerned. God,
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  according to Scripture, is mindful of every aspect and every
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  dimension of our lives. Cutting across mental transformation, fire and
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  passion for spiritual things. The supernatural finances. Peace all wise,
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  and this we will do as God grants grace. My
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  path is to remain committed. Your part is to remain
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  intentional about reception. So whether you're in the main auditorium
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  or any of the overflows outside or following from across,
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  you know, make up your mind every opportunity you have
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  to listen to the truths that come from this altar.
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  Speaker 2: Be determined to receive them as.
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  Speaker 1: The words of God to you through a man away
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  in agreement. So one more time, I like you to
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  pray tonight and ask the Lord for illumination the lights
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  shining in darkness.
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  Speaker 2: Go ahead and pray.
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  Speaker 1: Our destinies are at the messy of the truths that
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  we know.
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  Speaker 2: If someone praying, go ahead and pray.
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  Speaker 1: You are praying for yourself, but you are also praying
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  for the destinies connected to you. There are destinies depending
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  on your understanding, depending on your level of enlightenment, depending
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  on your level of spiritual illumination.
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  Speaker 2: For their sake, pray, pray for understanding.
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  Speaker 1: Pray that you're anointing, that that's the word of God
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  will fall upon you. Whilst the word of God is
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  taught every dimension of spiritual truth has an engracing that
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  follows it. In Jesus' name, we pray Amen. Many years ago,
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  I had a vision. You've heard me talk again and
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  again about this vision. In this vision, I was caught
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  up in the realm of the spirit, and I saw
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  this giant door, sort of very ancient door, look like
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  these ancient city gates, And the Holy Spirit just zoomed
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  that vision closer to me, and I found out that
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  that giant gate or door was made up of smaller doors.
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  Smaller doors just like if you have an idea of
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  how the post office used to be, you know those boxes.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, So that was how it was.
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  Speaker 1: And it was opening and closing, opening and closing, and
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  every time it opened, I saw light coming out of it,
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  then it to close, then open again.
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  Speaker 2: And as I came.
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  Speaker 1: Closer, I found out that on every one of those
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  smaller doors there was a scripture written. That was when
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  the Lord taught me that every revelation of truth in
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  scripture has the grace and the anointing that backs it.
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  Speaker 2: That means if you claim.
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  Speaker 1: To have caught a dimension of spiritual truth and you
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  do not have the anointing and the engracing to validate
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  it here and now. It may not yet be a
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  revelation to you, because for every revelation of God's word
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  that you have that becomes spirit and life to you,
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  there is an anointing that is back of that revelation
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  that compels you to produce results consistent with the truth
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  you have learned. I've taught us here that the assignment
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  of the anointing is to validate the speakings of God.
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  If God does not say anything, the anointing has no ministry.
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  Please understand this. The anointing does not walk outside of
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  the world. Here is the balance between the age long
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  error that has existed, especially among Penecostals and Charismatics. There
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  are a group of people who choose the anointing and
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  ignore the word, and there are a group of people
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  who choose the Word and ignore the anointing. Never has
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  there been such a dichotomy. According to scripture, they walk
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  hand in hand. The anointing only begins its operation after
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  the Word of God has been sent forth. The anointing
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  is the validator of the world. That means, if God says,
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  be lifted, the anointing the engracing that insists that in
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  spite of all odds you remain lifted comes into motion.
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  The anointing is always there, but it has no assignment.
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  For as long as the Word of God has not
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  come forth, A we together now, So in order of priority,
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  the Word of God precedes the anointing. The Bible never
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  says in the beginning there was anointing. It never says
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  in the beginning there was power. He says, in the
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  beginning was the word John one one, and the Word
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  was with God, and the world was God. Jesus Christ
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  called himself the Christ of God.
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  Speaker 2: But then his primary name is the.
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  Speaker 1: Word of God. Are we together a man? So tonight
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  I'm here again as a faithful spiritual chef to serve
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  us a menu in the spirit that makes for nourishment,
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  that makes for growth. According to Jeremiah, chapter three and
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  verse fifteen, he says, and I will give you past
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  us or shepherd according to my heart, which will feed you.
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  So every man of God, according to scripture, is a
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  spiritual chef. And the assignment of this spiritual chef is
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  to make sure you combine the ingredients accordingly.
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  Speaker 2: You don't cook in the presence of the people.
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  Speaker 1: You prepare the meal, and when they come, you never
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  call the people until the feast is ready, according to scripture.
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  Is that true? And so when all things are ready,
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  then you go to the byways and the highways, and
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  you compel the people to come. This may be an
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  encouragement for a man of God here, Probably it is
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  important that we sustain the grace to be diligent.
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  Speaker 2: Ministry is serious business.
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  Speaker 1: Just because we have advantages like the anointing, the spirit
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  of wisdom, it does not mean that we ignore or
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  negate the need to be students, to study, to be diligent,
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  to be sound in.
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  Speaker 2: Here's how the Bible puts it.
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  Speaker 1: It says, study to show yourself approved onto God, a
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  workman that needs not to be ashamed, rightly dividing.
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  Speaker 2: The world of truth.
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  Speaker 1: So, if you're a ministry here or God is calling
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  into ministry, realize that beyond titles, beyond whatever ministerial office
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  you are mandated by God, every man of God, every
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  man of God who participates in the ministry of building men,
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  must be a teacher.
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  Speaker 2: I repeat, every man of.
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  Speaker 1: God who participates in the ministry of building men must
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  be a teacher. The teaching ministry is the exclusive platform
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  that makes for the growth and the maturity of the saints.
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  Speaker 2: And if for any reason.
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  Speaker 1: That man of God is not a teacher, you must
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  honor shamedly outsource a sound teaching ministry that becomes the
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  pillar for growth and development.
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  Speaker 2: Are we together, amen, tonight? I'm teaching.
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  Speaker 1: On a subject that I believe would bless us all
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  the House of God. Please write it down. We're exploring
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  by the spirit what the church is the Ecclassia, the
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  House of God. Every Sunday, every Wednesday, Tuesday, or every
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  other day, especially in Africa, we have.
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  Speaker 2: People moving from their homes.
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  Speaker 1: To Christian religious places of worship, and on average, most
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  believers will tell you, I am.
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  Speaker 2: Going to church. Is that true? Where are you?
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  Speaker 1: They say?
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  Speaker 2: I am in church?
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  Speaker 1: And the word church has been seldom understood by many believers.
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  And we've had preachers here and there try to bring
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  illusion to the subject of the House of God and
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  the Church. It is my responsibility under God and my
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  joy to enlighten us, according to Scripture, to understand, in
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  addition to the truths that we have learned and we
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  continue to learn, to understand.
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  Speaker 2: What exactly is the Church.
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  Speaker 1: The goal for this teaching is to bring us to
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  superior spiritual knowledge as to the implication of being in
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  and being part of the House of God. Are we blessed?
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  Genesis twenty eight. Let's start from there for our reference.
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  Genesis twenty eight. Let's be the name of the Lord.
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  Let's begin our reading from ten. This is a scripture
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  about Jacob and his encounter with the God of Heaven.
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  The first encounter. He had two principal encounters. The first
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  was in twenty eight, Chapter twenty eight, the second was
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  in chapter twenty two. Having been in Leven's house for
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  over twenty years, now, the Bible says, Jacob went out
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  from Beersheba and went towards Haranha. And he lighted upon
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  a certain place and tarried there all night because the
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  sun was set, the Bible says, and he took the
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  stones of that place and put them for his pillows.
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  Now I don't know how he slept on stones and
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  laid down in that place to sleep. And the Bible
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  says he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on
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  the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven.
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  And behold, the angels of God are sending and descending
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  on it. Follow the dream carefully thirteen and Behold, the
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  Lord stood above it and said, I am the Lord,
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  God of Abraham, thy father, and the God of Isaac.
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  At this point there was no god of Jacob. The
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  land whereon thou liest to THEE, I will give it
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  and to thy seed ahah, And thy seed shall be
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  as the dust of the earth, And thou shalt spread
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  brought to the west, to the east, to the north,
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  to the south, and in thee, and in thy seed
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  shall all the families of the earth be blessed next us.
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  And behold, I am with THEE, and will keep THEE
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  in all places with that thou goest, And I will
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  bring THEE again into this land. For I will not
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  leave THEE until I have done that which I have
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  spoken to you of. This is a good place for
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  someone to say, amen, that God is saying, I will
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  not leave you until I do to you everything I
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  said I would do. Sixteen Jacob awaked out of his
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  sleep and said, surely the Lord is in dis place,
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  and I knew it not.
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  Speaker 2: Right, So we see lack of discernment here.
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  Speaker 1: Seventeen he was afraid and said, how dreadful is displace?
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  Here was his conclusion, This is none other but the
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  house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.
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  In other words, this kind of experience based on what
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  my father taught me. If such an experience should happen
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  where you have the innumerable company of angels, is that true?
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  Where you have God himself speaking to a defy, to
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  reveal his promises, to show you his ways, and to
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  assure you of His presence. He says, this is none other.
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  There is no other environment that can capture this kind
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  of encounter except the House of God.
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  Speaker 2: Allelujah. This is very powerful.
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  Speaker 1: Next scripture Matthew, chapter sixteen, the first biblical mention of
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  the word Church. From verse thirteen Matthew sixteen and verse thirteen,
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  Jesus was with the disciples, and the Bible says he
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  came into the coast of cesarea Philippi, and he asked
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  the disciples.
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  Speaker 2: So the revelation of the.
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  Speaker 1: Church, according to Jesus, began with a question, what is
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  the question? Who do men say that I the son
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  of Man am his identity as the son of Man?
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  And they said, some say that thou art John the Baptist,
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  Some say Elias, Elijah. Now some say Jeremiah. Some say
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  you are one of the prophets, and then fifteen he said,
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  unto them, but whom say ye that I am? That
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  means these people are giving their propositions because they are far,
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  they are not close. They've not had the privilege of proximity.
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  Now that you have been with me, we've eaten together,
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  we've gone for crusades together.
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  Speaker 2: What is your conclusion about me?
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  Speaker 1: And Jesus Christ was amazed that none of them could speak.
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  Speaker 2: All of those multitudes, the.
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  Speaker 1: Seventy two, the twelve. Now they stood, and they were
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  completely in limbo, not knowing.
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  Speaker 2: What to say in response to that question.
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  Speaker 1: Sixteen and Simon Peter answered and said, thou at the Christ,
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  Thou at the Christ, the son of the Living God.
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  Seventeen Jesus answered and said, unto him, blessed art thou Simon,
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  son of Jonah. For flesh and blood has not revealed
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  it unto you, but my father, which is in heaven.
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  Now he makes a very strong statement, and I say
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  onto you, thou art Peter, and upon this rock I
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  will build my church, and the gates of Hell shall
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  not prevail against it. Please keep that scripture there. He says,
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  you are, Peter, and upon this rock. Now I'm not
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  here to bring up theological debates. Many people who have
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  said the rock is Peter, many people who have said
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  the rock no, no, no, no no. It's very clear from scripture.
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  He says, you are Peter. And upon this rock, what rock,
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  Upon this revelation, upon this understanding, you have heard that
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  I am Christ.
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  Speaker 2: The Son of the Living God.
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  Speaker 1: Are we together now, Yes, upon this revelation, I will
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  build my church, And if allowed to be built by me,
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  it will be so formidable that the gates of Hell
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  shall not prevail against it. And we're still together. So
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  Jesus here is speaking about the church. He made mention
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  of the fact that more than just dying for the
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  sins of the world, that he came to inaugurate an institution.
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  He came to inaugurate a phenomenon, if I would call it,
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  called the church. And he said that this entity will
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  be so formidable. Listen carefully. It will be the entity
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  that sustains the power to triumph and prevail over the
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  gates of hell. The idea of church did not start
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  with the founders of ministries. The idea of church did
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  not start with some of our patriarchs alife and dead.
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  The idea of church was not just a government initiative
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  to have an institution that supports activities that relate to
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  faith and spirituality. No, the idea of church was God's
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  own invention. It was a product of God's only intelligence.
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  Speaker 2: Listen very carefully, because.
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  Speaker 1: Many believers view church as several things. For others, they
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  believe that church represents a building that has some level
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  of excellence connected to it, where believers come together and
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  then they have.
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  Speaker 2: The opportunity to worship God.
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  Speaker 1: Orthers believe that church refers to individuals or does believe
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  that church refers to any platform that carries a semblance
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  of spirituality or any platform that seems to have loyalty
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  to the tenets of the Christian faith. So my question tonight,
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  very briefly, is what is the church. I'm going to
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  be giving you three dimensions of the church in our
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  discussion tonight.
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  Speaker 2: What exactly is the church?
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  Speaker 1: Because if you do not know what the church is,
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  you will embrace any definition that the devil gives you
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  about the church. The reason why many people do not
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  respect the church is because they do not even understand
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  what it is. It is a very mysterious entity that
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  the government cannot define it is a mysterious entity that
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  academicians cannot define.
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  Speaker 2: It was not a product of a research from an institution.
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  Speaker 1: The Church came from the mind of the Fountain of
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  Wisdom himself. So Johnny with me as we explore three
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  definitions which represent dimensions to our understanding of the Church.
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  Number one, the first revelation of the Church according to scripture,
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  is found in Jeremiah chapter fifty one, from verse twenty.
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  Speaker 2: Please give it to us.
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  Speaker 1: Jeremiah chapter fifty one, from verse twenty. It says, thou
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  at my battle axe and my weapons of war. For
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  with the I will break in pieces the nations, and
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  with the I will destroy kingdoms. Uh huh, it says,
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  And with the I will break in pieces the horse
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  and its rider. And with the I will break in
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  pieces the chariot and its rider.
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  Speaker 2: And with the I will break in pieces.
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  Speaker 1: Man and woman. With the I will break in pieces
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  old and young. With D, I will break in pieces
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  young man and the maid. Last verse, I will also
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  break in pieces with B the shepherd and his flock,
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  And with D I will break in pieces the hosbandman
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  and his yoke of oxen. With D, I will break
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  in pieces captains and ruler. Is there any class of
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  society that was missing here? None? You are my buttle acts.
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  I am using you. So the first definition of the church,
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  write it down, please, that the church is a spiritual
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  strategy more.
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  Speaker 2: Than a people.
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  Speaker 1: The first revelation of the Church that I want you
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  to have is the church as a spiritual strategy, an
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  invention from God's intelligence, a spiritual strategy. Listen to me,
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  mandated to be used by God as the only tool
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  that is able to pudge, to cleanse, to build, and
• 32:57
  to reveal Christ and his purpose is in its fullness.
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  Speaker 2: This is the church. The Church is a strategy. For instance, if.
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  Speaker 1: If I have a flat tire or I have a
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  problem with my car and I'm unable to move it,
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  I can hire another car that will help to drag
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  it to a place where it will be fixed. And
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  a strategy is usually invented where I can connect is
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  that true, and connect with a moving car that is
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  alive a towing van and then connect to the vehicle
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  and the towing van pushes it. That is a strategy
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  to remedy for something. The fact that the church came
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  into being is already proved that there was something that
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  was not correct a way together now, So the Church
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  has come as a spiritual strategy to remedy a condition,
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  to remedy a situation. There are names that were called
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  in scripture. One of it is light, another is salt.
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  Jesus Christ himself called us light and salt. That immediately
• 34:10
  suggests that for us to be called light means there
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  is darkness. For us to be called salt means there
• 34:17
  is a level of tastelessness somewhere and lack of preservation.
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  Speaker 2: So the Church is a spiritual strategy.
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  Speaker 1: The Church, in fact, is the only spiritual strategy that
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  sustains the ability to reveal Christ in his fullness and
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  to bring him glory. Please write it down, the only
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  spiritual strategy that has the capacity to reveal Christ to
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  subdue principalities and powers.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, this is powerful. Thow at my battle acts.
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  Speaker 1: That means, wherever there is darkness, wherever there is confusion,
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  listen carefully. Wherever there is lack of growth and enlightenment,
• 35:07
  wherever the purposes of God have not been made institutional
• 35:12
  within any territory, it is a reflection that the Church
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  may not be there, or the Church may not be
• 35:18
  shining as light. The church is a strategy, So do
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  not ask why you are put in the midst of darkness.
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  You are a strategy, God's strategy.
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  Speaker 2: Are we together?
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  Speaker 1: For every car that you buy, usually you would have
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  a few tools in that car.
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  Speaker 2: Is that true?
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: Most people would have a toolbox containing screwdrivers and.
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: You know, and spanners and all of those things.
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: You would harm an extra tire somewhere in the car,
• 35:51
  and you would have a jack you know, to help
• 35:53
  you if you have a flat tire. All of those
• 35:56
  things are tools, and there are strategies to make sure
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  for no reason do you stop moving forward if you
• 36:03
  need to.
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: So when you have a flat tire, what do you do?
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  Speaker 1: You go to the back of that car and open
• 36:09
  up the toolbox and you begin to effectively use the
• 36:12
  tools that will help maybe replacement. There are times that
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  you can bring out an extra tire that helps to
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  move the car. There are times that you can bring
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  out all kinds of tools.
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  Speaker 2: That is how you are.
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  Speaker 1: That means whenever there is darkness, God pulls out from
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  his toolbox and brings someone out. The church is a
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  spiritual strategy. Wow, I am not just a man of God.
• 36:39
  I am a strategy. Do you know what that means?
• 36:43
  I am a strategy, a tool to be able to
• 36:47
  achieve something very divine, achieve something very exact as far
• 36:53
  as the revelation of the Christ is concerned. That immediately
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  cures you from this sense of complex and inferiority. You
• 37:05
  did not just happen across the surface of the earth.
• 37:08
  You were a strategy. A strategy takes time to bring forth.
• 37:13
  Many of you are mathematicians. If you are, you are
• 37:15
  trying to solve a problem. You sit down, you think
• 37:18
  scientists who come up with all kinds of hypotheses and
• 37:22
  go through all kinds of verification systems until it becomes
• 37:25
  a theory. You are the final decision of the intelligence
• 37:29
  of God.
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: Did you hear what I said?
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  Speaker 1: Your arrival the church as a strategy means you are
• 37:36
  the final decision of a conclusion. The parliament of Heaven
• 37:40
  sat down and thought of how the purposes of God
• 37:43
  will remain, and you were the conclusion of that meeting.
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  The church is a spiritual strategy. The only strategy that
• 37:54
  sustains the ability to make Kingdom come a reality is
• 37:58
  God speaking to anyone. So when you know this, you
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  do not begin to frown at the church every time
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  you see the church involved.
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  Speaker 2: In issues that represent darkness.
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: If it is true that the church is a strategy,
• 38:24
  it means that strategy should find expression in politics, in government,
• 38:31
  in business. Am I right? He said, I will break
• 38:34
  in pieces, and he began to least different people. Men
• 38:38
  were captured in that experience. Women made rulers, princes captains everyone.
• 38:45
  So the cure for the political dicadems in Africa generally
• 38:52
  is the church.
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: The cure for the economic problems of men.
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  Speaker 1: This is the reason why when you say the church
• 38:59
  has no in empowering men, you are already it is
• 39:04
  what do we call it? Now?
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: You are insulting the very definition of the church.
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: Wherever there is darkness is exactly where we are invited.
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: If someone learning, now, yeah, can I tell you the truth.
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: If everybody becomes a preacher called into the fivefold ministry,
• 39:24
  the church will die because that was not the Bible,
• 39:28
  says some.
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: He gave some.
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: So the proposition that every body should become a man
• 39:34
  of God like to preach as the way to bring
• 39:37
  Kingdom come is a very sincere but inaccurate understanding. The
• 39:43
  pul pit is the platform that shapes the understanding of
• 39:46
  the people like I'm doing.
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: But the real place of assignment is not the pul pit.
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: The real place of assignment is wherever there is darkness.
• 39:54
  Help me list a few places that you know in
• 39:56
  our world today where there is darkness in one world?
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  Or two words, everywhere?
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: Am I right on that? Someone say? Everywhere?
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  Speaker 1: Does that include the government? Does that include schools? Does
• 40:11
  that include our banking systems? Everywhere? So?
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  Speaker 2: How relevant is the church? Are you sure the church.
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: Should be relevant in activities of finances? Are you sure
• 40:25
  the church should be relevant in politics and governance?
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: Are you sure the church.
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: Should be relevant in handling demons and principalities and powers?
• 40:33
  No other strategies sustains the power to do that. Listen,
• 40:37
  Can I be honest with you? Based on scripture and
• 40:41
  based on history. Almost, and I'm saying this as an
• 40:45
  opinion which is grounded on scripture, Almost every order, religion,
• 40:52
  and institution that I know do not have the power
• 40:56
  to cast out demons. What happens is or called pacifism.
• 41:01
  Pacifism is an act of appiasle. It was an ancient
• 41:05
  ritual that was used to appeace demons. That means when
• 41:09
  the spirit comes and is troubling an individual, through some
• 41:14
  activity of necro mencin and all of that, you conjure
• 41:17
  the spirit to ask you what it wants. And the
• 41:20
  spirit can say, I'm hungry, you are eating, and I'm
• 41:23
  not eating, and you are to what do you want?
• 41:25
  You're saying, Bring one good. You see it happen in
• 41:27
  our cultures. Bring one good, Bring one chicken, make sure
• 41:31
  it's black, and so based on what the spirit is
• 41:33
  asking for, you politely and laboriously go and look for
• 41:36
  what it's looking for, and then it will seem.
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: To pacify itself.
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: You will see that the individual will have a semblance
• 41:44
  of healing. Then you continue making progress and the spirit
• 41:48
  will come again.
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: In ancient times.
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: Old Testaments, particularly when they found people who were demon
• 42:00
  they were usually stoned to death because since they did
• 42:03
  not have the ability except for a few people who
• 42:06
  were involved in casting out demons, and the art of
• 42:11
  deliverance or casting out demons was not something that was
• 42:15
  really understood, you see from scripture. So when Jesus showed
• 42:21
  up as a model of the church and there were
• 42:25
  demonic people, instead of killing the people, he could meatly
• 42:29
  with sogical precision separate the influence from the individual. And
• 42:34
  when they saw this, they said, no, you are using Behlzebo,
• 42:37
  the prince of demons. You have found a way of
• 42:42
  rising in the realm of the spirit to negotiate your
• 42:45
  way with this prince of demons.
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: You are just manipulating us.
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: And Jesus said, no, if I cast it by bells,
• 42:51
  by who do your own fathers, because many of them
• 42:55
  entered into covenance and fraternity with demon spirits. Now look
• 42:58
  or please listen. Most of the African cultures today have
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  people who are mediums.
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: Is that true?
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: Their assignment is to be the mediators between the spirit
• 43:11
  entities that control those territories. We have all kinds of names,
• 43:18
  but they are all the same. So when a land
• 43:24
  seems to be burying, listen carefully, when a land seems
• 43:28
  to not produce optimally, or when there is war and
• 43:32
  people are dying, or there's a plague or pandemic of
• 43:35
  some sort, usually these individuals who can be priests or
• 43:40
  mediums or whatever they are, they are mandated to go
• 43:44
  through divination and all kinds of Satanic operation to now
• 43:49
  ask those spirits what is wrong?
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: Is that true? And to do that?
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: They have to use divination and conjure these spirits.
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  Speaker 2: Should I teach this? Listen, listen.
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: The only way you move spirits from one safe location,
• 44:11
  according to them, to another safe location is to simulate
• 44:15
  the habitation of that spirit.
• 44:17
  Speaker 2: Let me give you an instance.
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: Now, we will never glorify the devil in the name
• 44:22
  of Jesus. But say I were not a believer, and
• 44:25
  say I'm some idol worshiper in the village somewhere. If
• 44:29
  I want to call a spirit from wherever it is,
• 44:32
  two wear festival that is happening.
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: Do you know what I need to do? My first
• 44:36
  assignment is.
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: To study the habitat of that spirit spiritually, and then
• 44:42
  through these sacrifices I simulate the same environment of that spirit.
• 44:47
  It can now live wherever it is and come right
• 44:50
  there and still feel at home. This is the reason why,
• 44:54
  based on that same principle, God is comfortable to be
• 44:58
  in heaven and yet live in your.
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: Heart because your heart is a.
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: Simulation of the Throne, so he can stay comfortable in
• 45:07
  your heart. The Holy Goost has never complained living in you.
• 45:12
  Are we together now? Yes? What happens is when you
• 45:18
  go through that process of salvation something really happens to
• 45:22
  your heart. It is Heaven manifesting in your heart. Now
• 45:26
  on legal basis, the Holy Spirit can reside within your
• 45:29
  heart and find the same comfort that he had when
• 45:32
  he was on Jesus.
• 45:35
  Speaker 2: Powerful mystery.
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: Listen to me, Most of the problems in our world
• 45:42
  today are spiritual in origin. Did you know that?
• 45:46
  Speaker 2: And then do you believe that? Please?
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: Believe, please, in the name of Jesus, and in the
• 45:52
  name of Wisdom.
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: Believe early that most of the problems that.
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: A man will face in his lifetime, personally and institutionally
• 46:01
  are largely spiritual in origin. Now, when they manifest physically,
• 46:06
  they will have political expressions, they will have economic expressions.
• 46:11
  Away together they will have sociological expressions, medical expressions, intellectual expressions.
• 46:18
  But largely the same way, all things came from the
• 46:21
  realm of the spirit.
• 46:22
  Speaker 2: All troubles come from the realm of the Spirit.
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: For further study, I make reference to the Book of Job,
• 46:29
  and you will learn there that.
• 46:30
  Speaker 2: Nothing just happens in this realm. The Book of.
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: Job, we've studied it a bit, at least chapter one.
• 46:36
  Here Job was a sincere man who was going about
• 46:40
  his business. The Bible says his feared the Lord and
• 46:42
  issued evil, and then he would offer sacrifices in advance
• 46:46
  for his children. Then the Bible says, one day something
• 46:50
  happened in the heavens is that true Satan was in
• 46:55
  their midst, and God made a boast of Joe. According
• 46:59
  to script, have you considered my servant Joe? And then
• 47:03
  the devil told the Lord, he said, does he serve
• 47:07
  you for nothing? Give me the permission to touch him,
• 47:11
  and you will see paraphrasing, if you will not cost
• 47:14
  you to your face. And he said, okay, go, I
• 47:18
  give you permission to touch every other thing.
• 47:20
  Speaker 2: But preserve his life. Seen two.
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: There was a certain day everything was finished in the
• 47:27
  realm of the spirit. Let me digress a bit and
• 47:30
  challenge you. I made up my mind that nothing will
• 47:35
  be discussed in the realm of the Spirit about me
• 47:39
  without my participation. No way, I will not be a
• 47:43
  victim of the conclusion of it. No no, no, no, no
• 47:47
  no no.
• 47:48
  Speaker 2: I am a spirit and I.
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: Dwell in a body. I have the advantage of duality
• 47:52
  of rems. I have to be invited in that meeting
• 47:55
  and find out whether the conclusion there has Kingdom come
• 48:00
  connected to it. You don't have to be there in
• 48:03
  a visionary experience. The Word of God is a worthy
• 48:07
  messenger that can enter the realm of the Spirit and
• 48:10
  represent your interest there. So when I talk of being
• 48:13
  captured in the realm of the spirit, you don't need
• 48:16
  a visionary experience. Send the world to be present in
• 48:19
  that meeting, and you are sure that your interest will
• 48:22
  be defended. This is how we are represented in the realm.
• 48:28
  Speaker 2: Of the Spirit. We don't have to necessarily be there physically.
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: The Word of God or turned from the lips of faith,
• 48:35
  can be captured in that meeting. So when there are
• 48:37
  principalities and powers sitting down and discussing your destiny, don't
• 48:41
  keep quiet and be the victim of the conclusion. On
• 48:45
  a certain day. Listen, do you know the attack that
• 48:49
  was going to happen? In the Book of Esther they
• 48:52
  use divination to find a date. It was the realm
• 48:55
  of the Spirit that gave them a.
• 48:56
  Speaker 2: Dates to attack.
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: They didn't just wish of The Spirit has a way
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  of measuring the weaknesses of men, and it found that
• 49:05
  day to be the most conducive.
• 49:07
  Speaker 2: For whatever reason, it says strike on this date.
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: It has become a principle today as military men, most
• 49:15
  terrorists who go for war, they have priesthood that go
• 49:18
  along with them. They don't just hold the sword, they
• 49:22
  tie all kinds of things that represent their participation.
• 49:25
  Speaker 2: With the realm of the Spirit.
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: So, if you are discussing my destiny the realm of
• 49:35
  the spirit, even while I'm sleeping, the Word of God
• 49:40
  will show up in that meeting, invited or not, provide
• 49:43
  that you mentioned my name. Mentioning my name is the invitation.
• 49:47
  You cannot mention my name and say I'm not invited.
• 49:55
  Can I tell you the days that we're live in.
• 49:58
  If you allow things just happen and you become the
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  victim of the conclusion, you will see things happen in
• 50:04
  your life that will surprise you. Every time you pray,
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  whether it is convenient or not, you are sending words
• 50:14
  like messengers to line up in the realm of the spirit.
• 50:17
  They are like spiritual immigration officers protecting your interest. Anything
• 50:22
  that does not represent what the Word of God said,
• 50:24
  they have the assignment to fight it even while you
• 50:27
  are asleep some of you. This is why in your
• 50:29
  sleep you see all kinds of things happen. The Word
• 50:32
  of God is engaging the realm of the spirit to
• 50:35
  your advantage. Listen, If you don't believe what I'm sharing
• 50:41
  now you're not a Christian. Believe me, because this is
• 50:44
  how the world of God walks. The Word of God
• 50:47
  does not just walk in this physical rema alone. No,
• 50:50
  He's been exhorted above thrones, dominions and every name that
• 50:54
  is named, whether in this world or in the world
• 50:57
  to come. They were talking about job. Do you think
• 51:03
  that Satan just left the presence of God and just
• 51:06
  ran to Joe?
• 51:06
  Speaker 2: He someone demons.
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: Now here's what will happen on this day, toss day.
• 51:12
  This man will wake up in the morning as before,
• 51:15
  but then it will be tragedy from morning till night.
• 51:19
  But now in christ you have the advantage. Why because
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  the Spirit of God. If the Holy Spirit can such
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  the mind of God, it can search anybody's mind. Don't
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  worry about trying to know what the devil is doing.
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  The Holy Ghost saves you the trouble. The challenge with
• 51:43
  many people is that we are not discerning enough to know.
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  So the Holy Ghost comes and then he tells you
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  what to do, and you fire those scriptures, send them
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  to the realm of the spirit.
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  Speaker 2: Scriptures, just enters. What is going on here.
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  Speaker 1: We're discussing his downfall based on what it is written.
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  Speaker 2: You shall be the head and not the tale. This
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  is true.
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  Speaker 1: Believe it. Habara cold shut da ba lakatos Heah. Listen
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  to me.
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  Speaker 2: I want you to believe what I'm teaching you. This
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  is how we reign in this kingdom.
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  Speaker 1: So there are many of you now wanting to know
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  who is meeting against you. With a waste of time,
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  you can only respond to the ones that you know.
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  But the Word of God, complete and whole, send it
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  in prayer, Send it through your confessions to the realm
• 52:50
  of the spirit to form a garrison around your destiny.
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  Speaker 2: Let me tell you this.
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  Speaker 1: Before Jesus died, he kept sending the word that I
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  will die, but after three days I will resurrect. Can
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  I tell you if Jesus Christ did not send the word,
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  those gates will not open because now being dead, he
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  did not have a body. And according to the law
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  of territory, once you exit this ram, it would take
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  someone with a body to call you from that realm.
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  You cannot enter without a body. I know that the
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  gate said who is this king of Glory? But let
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  me ask you a question. Who said lift up your
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  heads the same way you can be sleeping, And a
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  scripture is saying touch not my anointed. See. If you
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  don't understand this, you will not understand the ministry.
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  Speaker 2: Of prayer investments.
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  Speaker 1: That you can send the Word of God into twenty
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  twenty three, you can send it into twenty twenty four.
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  It is only you that celebrates New Year. The Word
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  of God does not celebrate new Year. There is no
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  such thing as new year. The realm of the spirit
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  is is a continual.
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  Speaker 4: Someone in one minute can use send words, send words
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  in one minute. I am the head and not the tale.
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  In the name of Jesus above only, and not beneath.
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  Speaker 1: I decree and declare, by the power of the Holy Ghost, gentiles,
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  come to my light King, So the brightness of my rising,
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  the favor of the Lord is upon my life. I
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  decree and declare. No we found that it is fashioned
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  against me, shall prosper. And every term that rises up
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  against me, it will fall in judgment. Don't be silent.
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  I decree and declare. A thousands shall fall by my side,
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  ten thousands by my right side. None shall hurt me
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  with my eyes shall I see and behold the reward
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  of the wicked, that when men say there is a
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  casting down, I decree and declare that there is a
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  lifting up. In the name of Jesus. My part is
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  as a shining light that shines ever brighter, even onto
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  the perfect day. I know whom I believe, and I
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  am persuaded that he's able to keep that which is
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  committed onto him against that day. I am above only,
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  above thrones, dominions, seated with Christ in the name of Jesus.
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  Blessed in the morning, blessed in the evening, blessed in
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  the afternoon, blessed in the city, favored by the spirit
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  of the Living God. Allelujah. Listen, please hear me, believe us.
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  You have been trained to know how to be victorious.
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  Speaker 2: This is what you are receiving. Strategy. Hear me.
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  Speaker 1: I would tell you the principal way the Church is
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  used as a strategy to bring everything to the obedience
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  of Christ. Do you know how in this kingdom the
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  Church executes its role as a strategy through the power
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  of speakings words. The primary tool for change for a
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  believer is not just physical action. The words, especially when
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  you are dealing with demonic forces. When you are dealing
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  with systems and structures, there is now a place for
• 57:05
  intelligence and active participation. But when you are dealing with
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  the realm of the spirit, it is immateial, even though
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  it is real. So the weapons of our warfare, but
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  they are mighty through God.
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  Speaker 2: The Bible says to the pulling down of strongholds.
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  Speaker 1: It says, those weapons they are able to cast down
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  imaginations and every high thing that exalts itself above the
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  knowledge of Christ, and to bring every thought to the
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  obedience of Christ. Hear me, for every time you see
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  evil and darkness happening and you don't do anything about
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  it and say I am helpless, you are insulting your construction.
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  Many times, because we have not seen the power of
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  words in action, we feel that all we do is
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  it just to pray. Go and ask Daniel in Babylon,
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  ask what the parliament sought for. They said, please silence
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  this man for thirty days. Sat Tan wants to act.
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  But every time the spirits of the Medice and the
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  Passians the world from Daniel will step into the realm
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  of the Spirit and completely aborts that process. They had
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  to calm down with an advice that was backed up
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  by government. Silence this man from prayer just for thirty
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  days to give us room to cause havoc. Can I
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  tell you this, It is not lack of money that
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  is making the devil.
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  Speaker 2: Prevail over your family.
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  Speaker 1: I told you that when it stands from the rem
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  of the spirit, when it arises physically, it will now
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  have an expression whether it will now diverge itself according
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  to different areas. So when you see that everybody who
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  has a job in your family is losing their job,
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  everybody who has.
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  Speaker 2: Joy does not seem to last in that family.
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  Speaker 1: The fact that you can discern it is proof that
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  God is holding a battle asks that is refusing to
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  rise in his hand. God is saying I want to
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  do something in this family. And here's what a lot
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  of us say. Well, I'm not the wealthiest person, I'm
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  not the most educated, and we bring all those canal
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  and fleshly excuses.
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  Speaker 2: Let me tell you what to do from tonight.
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  Speaker 1: Step into your room, switch from being a man to
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  being a strategy. Lock that door and say, Father, there
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  is something that can be done over this situation. I
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  may not be able to physically give my brother a job.
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  I may not be able to physically stop this plague
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  of death, but in the name of She's a step
• 1:00:00
  into that control room and begin to send words to
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  manipulate realities from the realm of the spirit until they
• 1:00:08
  become consistent with the word of God.
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 2: Do you believe what I'm sharing with you?
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 3: Can?
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 2: I tell you this?
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 1: Every time you pray only in the face of danger,
• 1:00:28
  you are praying late. The real advantage of prayer is
• 1:00:37
  to go as a forerunner to your results. That means
• 1:00:43
  tomorrow's prayer should not be prayed tomorrow. Ah, you pray
• 1:00:47
  late already. Tomorrow's prayer should enter tomorrow and wait for
• 1:00:51
  that day so that anything that is inconsistent with God's
• 1:00:56
  word is stopped immediately. Words are powerful. The Bible says
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  He used words. He abhords all things by the word
• 1:01:10
  of His power. Have this mentality. You are not a
• 1:01:17
  nuisance to society.
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 2: Listen.
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 1: We keep using moundane parameters and not mundane because their
• 1:01:25
  vanity is necessarily but that based on the superiority of
• 1:01:28
  what you have, we feel that the only time you
• 1:01:32
  are relevant is when I have money. Our world loves
• 1:01:36
  and celebrates and even worships money, or sometimes we feel
• 1:01:40
  some level of extended intellectual qualification. So we feel I
• 1:01:45
  am only relevant if I can buy a car, or
• 1:01:49
  I can buy physical things. But everyone here who is
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  in Christ, I want you to know that you are
• 1:01:55
  a strategy and there is something you can do. If
• 1:02:01
  you cannot bring physical money to solve the problem, if
• 1:02:04
  you cannot use influence to partner with systems and structures
• 1:02:10
  to make change, you can handle the wicked spirits that
• 1:02:14
  walk tirelessly.
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 2: Let me tell you this. If God opens your eyes to.
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 1: See the spiritual activities, the monically speaking that go on
• 1:02:24
  from morning till night over the destiny of one person
• 1:02:27
  who is not even a preacher, you will be afraid
• 1:02:30
  and it wild jack you up to be serious. If
• 1:02:36
  a legion of spirits entered one man, a legion in
• 1:02:43
  one man, Satan has a dog get a level of
• 1:02:50
  doggedness and resilience. If he did not leave Jesus Christ,
• 1:02:55
  he left him and returned back. Can I tell you
• 1:02:58
  every destiny? See, I don't mean to scare you. The
• 1:03:03
  beauty and the glory of your destiny seems to be
• 1:03:06
  an invitation. Whenever Satan sees light, he goes there to
• 1:03:11
  find out exactly what is going on there.
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 2: Let me tell you one of the ways that Satan knows.
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 1: That you have entered a prophetic season, because according to
• 1:03:20
  the realm of the spirit, and according to scriptures, Satan
• 1:03:23
  is not omnicient. Are we together now? Satan does not
• 1:03:31
  know all things. Satan omnipotence, omnipresence, and omniscients are three
• 1:03:39
  exclusive abilities that make God God. He did not even
• 1:03:42
  share that one with man. These are the three principal factors.
• 1:03:48
  So when we say He has made us gods were right.
• 1:03:54
  But I told you that our dominion is shared dominion,
• 1:03:57
  not absolute dominion. Whoever is God, he is the one
• 1:04:01
  who can be omnipresent all places at the same time, omnipotent,
• 1:04:08
  all powerful, omniscient, all knowing. Satan is not omniscient. That
• 1:04:14
  means he depends on many factors for the supply of
• 1:04:17
  his information. One of it is angelic activities, because every
• 1:04:23
  time a man steps into a prophetic season, there are
• 1:04:27
  heightened angelic activities responding.
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 2: Do you know what those angels are doing?
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 1: They are moving across the earth and compelling the human
• 1:04:37
  systems that most partner with prophecy to make the world
• 1:04:40
  of God come to pass. So the angels are busy
• 1:04:43
  making you to go to Ascoro when you should not go,
• 1:04:47
  because there is someone you need to meet there. All
• 1:04:50
  angelic activities and the moment Satan discerns a heightened angelic
• 1:04:55
  activity around the life, around the ministry. He knows he
• 1:05:01
  was once in the system, so he knows prophecy is
• 1:05:07
  about to happen here, and so he will come and
• 1:05:11
  try to fight you. One of the ways you know
• 1:05:13
  I've taught you here that you are stepping into a
• 1:05:16
  defining moment is on usual attacks. Let me tell you this,
• 1:05:23
  most of them will make no sense. This is why
• 1:05:28
  you need to pray, waiting to understand your situation before
• 1:05:33
  you praise. Living a defeated life. The prayer language was
• 1:05:37
  given us an advantage and all purpose weapon. Is someone
• 1:05:45
  learning in church today say I am a strategy, Yes, sir,
• 1:05:51
  The church is a strategy that was invented by God's intelligence.
• 1:05:57
  That means when you downplay the church, you are downplaying
• 1:06:01
  the principle strategy that sustains the ability to reveal Jesus.
• 1:06:08
  The strategy is not the denominationalism. The strategy is not
• 1:06:13
  the religiosity. The strategy is the Church in its purest
• 1:06:18
  and its essence are We're blessed.
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 2: Please be seated.
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 1: Thank you.
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 2: Number two very quickly.
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 1: I'm telling you someone will walk out of this place
• 1:06:34
  with confidence.
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 2: When someone comes and.
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 1: Says, I just saw you and I felt like sharing
• 1:06:40
  something you would not ask, and I, mycho spiritual a question.
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 2: No, I'm not a counselor.
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 2: That strategy. Because you are a strategy.
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 1: The Holy Goos will direct that person and the person
• 1:06:54
  tells you, look, nothing is working in my life.
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 2: I'm not able to rise. I'm not able to succeed.
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 1: And while the person is speaking, because you are an
• 1:07:04
  effective but to acts, suddenly that annoytioning will begin to rise.
• 1:07:11
  And while you want to look for Apostle Joshua Salman's number,
• 1:07:14
  the Holy Spirit to say, no, no, no, he's the
• 1:07:17
  one who teaches.
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 2: You that you are the strategy. Now you do what
• 1:07:21
  the strategy does, and you can tell him, well, I'm
• 1:07:25
  God's but to acts. Let's pray, and the Holy.
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 1: Spirit said, that's it, that's your own part. You pray,
• 1:07:31
  and the person returns by the next day and says,
• 1:07:35
  who are you? Then many of us don't have an answer.
• 1:07:41
  The devil, says, Answer him and say, I'm a jobless
• 1:07:44
  young Nigerian who just gave his life to Christ and
• 1:07:47
  is suffering.
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 2: Reject that kind of answer. If you don't have anything to.
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 1: Say, say I am strategy. Strategy of what the CCTV
• 1:08:09
  camera in many organizations is a strategy to ensure and
• 1:08:15
  insist that a level of maximum security be kept. Is
• 1:08:19
  that true?
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 2: Yes, So the CCTV is a strategy.
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 1: And it functions to make sure that it captures the
• 1:08:30
  happenings around the vicinity to the end that all will
• 1:08:34
  come and go are protected. So God has made us
• 1:08:39
  strategies regardless where you find yourself. If you find yourself
• 1:08:45
  in politics, you are a strategy that means your assignment
• 1:08:49
  starts when you identify what is wrong.
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 2: Bad governance Okay in Africa, I am a strategy.
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 1: Holy Spirit, there has to be away. If you find
• 1:09:03
  out that economically speaking, people within a territory are not
• 1:09:08
  making progress, I am a strategy. And he comes to
• 1:09:12
  you as that strategy and says, in explaining you as
• 1:09:16
  a strategy, you are a kingdom financier. Work with me
• 1:09:21
  and let me bless you so that you can establish
• 1:09:23
  amenities and give these people an opportunity to enjoy quality living.
• 1:09:29
  You are more than a kingdom financier. You are God's
• 1:09:32
  strategy to bring redemption. Moses was more than a prophet.
• 1:09:37
  Moses was the strategy that God used to bring an
• 1:09:41
  exodus of God's people. You know, as I talk like this,
• 1:09:48
  I remember the many visions. Let me share one of
• 1:09:52
  them with you. It is fresh to me today. It
• 1:10:00
  was many years ago, never fade because it did not
• 1:10:04
  come from a human standpoint. I remember in that vision,
• 1:10:11
  I was in an elevated place, and then I saw
• 1:10:16
  a whole generation of people. And in that vision they
• 1:10:20
  were crying and saying no food and no water. I
• 1:10:25
  knew it was not just a group of people, it
• 1:10:28
  was a whole generation. And I felt very responsible. And
• 1:10:33
  then I was talking with those who were in front,
• 1:10:36
  just like those cities in front, I said, who is
• 1:10:39
  the cause for this? And they pointed their hands unanimously
• 1:10:42
  at me and said, you are the reason why we're
• 1:10:45
  starving from lack of food and water. And I said
• 1:10:48
  to myself, I said no, no, no, I would not
• 1:10:50
  do this kind of evil against you. And then I
• 1:10:52
  made up my mind. In that vision, I said I
• 1:10:54
  am coming to rescue you. But then I.
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 2: Remembered in that vision it looked like some people had.
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 1: Chased me into that place of confinement, and I was
• 1:11:05
  just trying to hide like Gideon.
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 2: And I made up my mind with the courage of esther.
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 1: I said, if I.
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 2: Perish, I perish. Now watch this.
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 1: I opened that door. The moment I opened the door
• 1:11:18
  to go down, I just saw this giant looking, gray bearded,
• 1:11:24
  gray headed man, very old, with a bright garment.
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 2: Giant man.
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 1: He smiled at me and he said, give me your hands.
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 2: He said, I will walk with you. Now I know
• 1:11:37
  it was the Holy Spirit.
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 5: You see.
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 2: He held my hand and he said, I will work
• 1:11:43
  with you.
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 1: Very small me, very insignificant me from that vision, but
• 1:11:50
  being held by the hands of an ancient giant, please
• 1:11:55
  help those under annoying. It never tires me to share
• 1:11:59
  this experience. Listen carefully. The moment that happened, we were
• 1:12:04
  to jump from building to building, but there were small
• 1:12:07
  ladders that were connecting one building to building. I was
• 1:12:10
  too small to take that giant lip, so he jumped
• 1:12:14
  to the other side of the building and was waiting
• 1:12:16
  for me to climb slowly through the ladder to connect
• 1:12:19
  and he just placed his hand and was smiling at me,
• 1:12:21
  and I was back to myself.
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 2: What kind of a vision is this?
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 6: Now?
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 2: I understand I am a strategy.
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 1: You must believe that about yourself. You are not just
• 1:12:37
  adding to the census the number. If you don't have
• 1:12:41
  this mindset, you will live a defeated life. You will
• 1:12:44
  live an angry, jealous, defeated life of failure. You must
• 1:12:48
  know that you count. This is more than a motivation.
• 1:12:51
  God is counting on you. Don't say there are many people.
• 1:12:54
  There is a unique assignment to you as a strategy.
• 1:12:58
  Watch this now. Imagine with me for a moment, that
• 1:13:01
  those who hold the keys to the doors here one person.
• 1:13:05
  Have you been stranded in a meeting because one person
• 1:13:09
  did not do his duty? Have you seen people like that? Yeah,
• 1:13:14
  imagine the crowds of people here inside and outside, on
• 1:13:17
  able to access this facility simply because the man who
• 1:13:22
  was holding the padlock to the main gate fell asleep,
• 1:13:27
  and he just gets off as sorry.
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 2: I've kept you people here for four hours. I really
• 1:13:32
  was asleep. That's how significant you can be.
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 1: That means if you do not arise with the mindset
• 1:13:38
  of a strategy, if you're a man of God here
• 1:13:41
  hear me. Don't say there are too many churches. No,
• 1:13:43
  there are those uniquely assigned to your grace. And if
• 1:13:47
  you fail because you think people are doing great things,
• 1:13:51
  if you fail, provide that you are genuinely called most
• 1:13:56
  times men of God. Come to me sincerely. So say, apostle, well,
• 1:14:00
  you are the people who are doing ministry.
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 2: We are here.
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 1: You're not just a joke, but then an honest joke
• 1:14:05
  to express that we're not making progress. And I tell
• 1:14:08
  them something I said, Listen, if the whole world depended
• 1:14:11
  on Joshua Salman to supply the spiritual nourishment.
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 2: The church will fail, fail so woefully.
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 1: Because there are many dimensions captured in this assignment that
• 1:14:23
  have not been given to me. And you must be
• 1:14:25
  unashamed to admit, accept, and then celebrate the other investments
• 1:14:31
  that cut across the body. Wait for my teaching the
• 1:14:33
  unity of faith. Allelujah, Yes, encounter with the Body of Christ.
• 1:14:43
  So when you know this, you can encourage someone. He's
• 1:14:47
  playing this keyboard right now, the sound people are doing
• 1:14:53
  what they are doing, Everybody walking to make this happen.
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 2: I know that you give the credit to josh yourself
• 1:15:00
  because it's the face that you see. But behind this face,
• 1:15:03
  this strategy, there are other strategies that are making it happen.
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 1: One more time, professide to yourself, say I am God's strategy.
• 1:15:14
  I think that's a better expression, because if you say
• 1:15:17
  you are a strategy, your efficiency depends on who built you.
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 2: We have fake products and we have real products.
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 1: Fake products are products, but they're limited by the.
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 2: Inexperience of those who produce them. Is that true?
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 1: That is what we call original And usually when people
• 1:15:38
  build an original product, they have some sort of seal
• 1:15:41
  of authenticity.
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 2: That they put on that product. I am God's strategy.
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 1: If you're a politician, know this, I am God's strategy
• 1:15:51
  in politics. A business man, I am God's strategy in business.
• 1:15:55
  You're a minister, I am God's strategy. Can I be
• 1:15:58
  honest with you? Every time I come for coin on
• 1:16:00
  your or travel for administrations. Many times it can be
• 1:16:05
  quite exhausting sometimes, but then I'm awakened by the fact
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  that I am God's.
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  Speaker 2: Strategy, privilege strategy for this meeting.
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  Speaker 1: When I come into a meeting and I sit down
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  and I look at the people, I begin to get happy.
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  Do you know why, because all they need to do
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  is to invite me up stage. Leave me and the devil,
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  leave me on principalities, leave me in yolks and courses,
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  leave me and ignorance, leave me an imbalance.
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  Speaker 2: I know what to do to them. Listen. Fire does
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  not fear how many things are put on it.
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  Speaker 1: You don't put wood. And fire says is too much,
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  you just leave it for a while. Fire never says
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  too much. It sustains a unique ability. You can't catch it.
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  Yet everything physical submits to it. He makes his angels
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  winds and his minister's flames. So when someone comes to
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  me and say, apostle, there is darkness around my life.
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  There is spiritual ignorance. I'm losing my fire for the
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  things of God. Another word is summary to what you
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  have said. Is I need you, as God's strategy to
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  be used by God. To step in and with all
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  pleasure You're welcome. May God locate you in an area
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  where your efficiency will be without struggle by discharge. Let
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  me wrap up this first part by encouraging you listen
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  to me. The moment you find yourself struggling in an
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  area is proved that the grace is not there. Don't
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  kill yourself and say there are people who are not
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  ministers of the gospel like preachers.
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  Speaker 2: Just admit it with all honesty and look for where.
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  Speaker 1: There is grace for you.
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  Speaker 2: There are people who are not calling to the prophetic.
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  Speaker 1: They have stretched themselves almost to death because they want
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  to make sure they're operating the prophetic. There are people
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  who are not apostles.
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  Speaker 2: It is not a degradation.
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  Speaker 1: There are people who are who are beautiful pastors. They
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  are shepherds. They may not even be very effective teachers,
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  but they are homely. They can bring everything together. When
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  you find yourself operating in an area. How many of
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  you have held a bunch of keys, and they are
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  all keys, but you use the wrong key for a door.
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  Sometimes it can even enter the hole and not be
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  able to turn. It looks exactly like the real key,
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  except that it is not. I submit to you therefore
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  that you must obtain grace from God to really know
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  what area have I been assigned to. Some of you
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  are intercessors, like another prophetess, like semeyond the prophet. Find
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  rest in that noble ministry and see it as noble
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  as preaching before a crowd on a crusade ground.
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  Speaker 2: There are some of you who are kingdom financiers.
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  Speaker 1: You may never have the opportunity to minister as we
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  are doing, but God has annointed you to be the
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  strategy that ensures that the.
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  Speaker 2: Work of the kingdom never fails. Don't fail in that assignment.
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  Speaker 1: There are many kingdom financiers who left the work of
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  kingdom financing to go to the pulpit, simply because there
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  seems to be some psychological attachment to being on the pulpit,
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  especially when you are leading and heading the ministry. Ecologically speaking,
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  you are generally considered. If I ask you to arrange
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  people in the Kingdom according to nobility of call, chances
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  are that you will place people like us in front
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  simply because of the supposed charismatism around our call.
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  Speaker 2: Or you may be wrong.
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  Speaker 1: It will take God to arrange people according Do you
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  know the more God hides you, the more you are nobler.
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  Speaker 2: Look at it.
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  Speaker 1: In the building of the human body, there are parts
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  that you cannot see. Imagine if your heart was on
• 1:20:33
  your head, you would die. When an angry person comes
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  near you, he will hold that hat and squisite till
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  you die. So God kept it and covered it with bones.
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  Now you ignore the heart simply because it's not the
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  hands and the fingers you are seeing. When your heart fails,
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  let every other thing be alive, you will still die.
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  Speaker 2: Correct.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm teaching you, as Kingdom people, that the more
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  you are exposed doesn't mean you are not noble. Every
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  call is a high calling. But let me tell you,
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  when God intentionally hides you and makes you to play
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  a background role, just know that He's protecting you jealously.
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  Speaker 2: It is a sign that you are truly noble.
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  Speaker 4: Some of the people who pray for me, as say Ministry,
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  you may never see them.
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 2: They may never come on this poor Pete.
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  Speaker 1: I met with a group of women a few weeks
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  ago while I traveled to a particular region, and I
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  was told that this women very about seven or so
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  of them, very very you know, marvelously helped by God.
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  Accomplish women. And I said, Apostle, God gave us a
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  mandate to pray for you. We are your intercessors by God.
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  When I saw them, I was so broken. I said,
• 1:21:52
  what do I do to these people to let them
• 1:21:54
  know that I love and appreciate them. Now, when you
• 1:21:57
  see Joshrselman doing well and doing explore You think he's
• 1:22:01
  just a product of his personal prayer life.
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 2: Until the day we stand before Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: You will see how many people's prayer provided the leverage
• 1:22:09
  for us to rise to this level. And anybody, listen,
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  let me teach you the moment you are in a
• 1:22:15
  position of visibility, be wise enough to know that the
• 1:22:18
  invisible is what bets the visible.
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  Speaker 2: Are weay together? Because our world.
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  Speaker 1: Is sensual and kinnarly minded, chances are that you who
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  is the one in the elevated position that is seen
• 1:22:33
  by everyone. Usually, if someone wants to sow a seed, now,
• 1:22:37
  chances are that he will not give you the seed.
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 2: That's my intercessor.
• 1:22:40
  Speaker 1: It's me you will bring the sea to because he
• 1:22:42
  believes I'm the one blessing him. But let me tell you,
• 1:22:46
  when God's reward system begins to spread round, he will
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  pick you and honor you with the same gravity that
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  he's honoring the preacher. There are people because of the
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  efficiency as God's strategy. Praying for men of God, for instance,
• 1:23:03
  praying for nations, you will find out that God will
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  covenant with them, that your whole family must have leaders
• 1:23:10
  They may not be very educated, but you will never
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  lack leaders in those families. It is God's covenant and
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  his reward system. I hope that one time will have
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  the opportunity to look at the subject of prophetic intercession,
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  and I'm going to be teaching you the benefits and
• 1:23:28
  the blessings that follow an intercessor. But for now, it's
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  sufficient for you to know that you are God's battle acts.
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  Next time someone looks at you and says you are
• 1:23:42
  useless a nonentity, either because some physical results that they
• 1:23:48
  expect to be there is not there, maybe like money,
• 1:23:51
  a car, a house, or some earthly parameters of defining success,
• 1:23:57
  find solace in the fact that you are a strategy.
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  Every key remains dormant until it gets to the door
• 1:24:03
  it was assigned to open. You can hold a key
• 1:24:08
  for a long time and think that key is useless.
• 1:24:14
  If that is the key that opens the restroom when
• 1:24:16
  you are pressed, you will know how efficient that key is.
• 1:24:20
  If that is the key to the kitchen when you
• 1:24:22
  are hungry, you will know how efficient that key is.
• 1:24:25
  So that God may not seem to be doing so
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  much physically with you, it does not mean you are
• 1:24:31
  not part of that army. It does not mean it's
• 1:24:34
  just that we have not gotten to the page of
• 1:24:35
  the story where your.
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 2: Relevance is needed.
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 1: Keep building yourself, keep waiting, knowing that you are strategy.
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  Marry you are strategy. But if the Angel has not
• 1:24:46
  announced the coming of Jesus, it will look like you
• 1:24:48
  are just a not marry woman.
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 2: Be patient, Elizabeth.
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 1: If John the Baptist is not yet ready to come,
• 1:24:55
  it will look like you are just some barrying woman
• 1:24:58
  who married a prophet.
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  Speaker 2: I am God's strategy. Number two. What is the church?
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 1: Is God speaking to someone? The church refers to the
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  men and the women. So first the church is a strategy,
• 1:25:20
  and then the second the church refers to the men
• 1:25:24
  and women the human vessels. The human vessels that are
• 1:25:36
  number one, the host of heaven on s, and then
• 1:25:43
  number two the executors of God's purposes.
• 1:25:46
  Speaker 2: I will take it again.
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  Speaker 1: The church refers to men and women that are number one,
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  the host hosts. We are the ones who host God.
• 1:25:58
  God will not go on dwell in some mountains. Somewhere,
• 1:26:02
  He dwells in believers. So the church refers to these
• 1:26:07
  human vessels that have sustained the ability to hold this
• 1:26:11
  treasure Heaven in us. And then the church also refers
• 1:26:18
  to the men and the women who are the executors
• 1:26:21
  of God's purposes.
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  Speaker 2: First Speitach chapter two and verse five.
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  Speaker 1: Let's hurry up. First s Peita chapter two and verse five.
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  It says he also as lively stones are built into
• 1:26:37
  a build up, into a spiritual house and holy priesthood
• 1:26:41
  to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 2: He calls us lively stones.
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  Speaker 1: He says, we are a spiritual house those human We
• 1:26:55
  are that temple that God resides.
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 2: He resides in me. He lives in me.
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 1: The reason why you feel the presence of God on earth,
• 1:27:07
  the reason why you see Him manifest on earth, is
• 1:27:10
  because there are human.
• 1:27:12
  Speaker 2: Vessels that have accepted to be hosts for him.
• 1:27:18
  Speaker 1: And number two, there are human vessels that have accepted
• 1:27:22
  to be the executors.
• 1:27:24
  Speaker 2: Of His purposes.
• 1:27:25
  Speaker 1: Can I tell you this, Plans and purposes are vain
• 1:27:29
  until you find not only a strategy, you find the
• 1:27:33
  human vessels that are willing to execute it.
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 2: I give you an instance.
• 1:27:36
  Speaker 1: If you come up with a beautiful plan, even a
• 1:27:39
  beautiful strategy is saved for building a structure like this,
• 1:27:44
  you will need someone who will carry that plan and
• 1:27:47
  translate it from what is written on paper to this
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  material expression. The Church, in addition to being a strategy,
• 1:27:56
  we are the executors of the will and the purer God.
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  That means, every time God wants to execute his will
• 1:28:05
  and his purposes, we are the ones.
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  Speaker 2: He says, are we together? Romans chapter twelve.
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 1: Please give us Romance chapter twelve, and we'll start our
• 1:28:21
  reading from verse four. Romance Chapter twelve and verse four
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  it says for us, we have many members in one body,
• 1:28:31
  and all members have not the same office.
• 1:28:34
  Speaker 2: Uh huh.
• 1:28:36
  Speaker 1: So we being many are one body in Christ and
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  every one members of another. The Church does not just
• 1:28:49
  refer to a strategy alone. The Church also refer to.
• 1:28:54
  Speaker 2: A people, a people, the people.
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 1: People, the ones who become the principal executors of His
• 1:29:05
  will and his plan.
• 1:29:06
  Speaker 2: Let me tell you what that means.
• 1:29:08
  Speaker 1: That everything God decides to do is executed on earth
• 1:29:12
  through the Church.
• 1:29:14
  Speaker 2: Here's how Jesus put it in his prayer. He says,
• 1:29:17
  when you pray.
• 1:29:18
  Speaker 1: Ask the Father that it be done in earth as
• 1:29:21
  it is in heaven. The earth is not just talking
• 1:29:25
  about the physical land. The first earth is you. Let
• 1:29:29
  it be done in my life and then through my
• 1:29:32
  life as it is in heaven. That means when there
• 1:29:37
  are no human vessels, look or please, did you know
• 1:29:40
  that every time there are no human vessels, even when
• 1:29:43
  there is a strategy for God's program, God's program becomes
• 1:29:48
  limited until he finds a man. Read your Bible and
• 1:29:52
  see how many times God's programs were delayed because there
• 1:29:56
  were no sufficient human vessels that were walked upon and
• 1:30:00
  trained to be the executors of his will.
• 1:30:05
  Speaker 2: It took Moses a long time.
• 1:30:08
  Speaker 1: God had a strategy to save his people from Egypt
• 1:30:13
  and to take them to a land flowing with milk
• 1:30:16
  and honey. But he needed a man, and then from
• 1:30:22
  that man he would mobilize eight people. Same thing happened
• 1:30:25
  to Gideon when they had come under the yoke of
• 1:30:30
  the Medianites. God found a man, Gideon, and from that
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  man he mobilized thirty two thousand people, and they were
• 1:30:38
  reduced to three hundred, and Gideon, alongside three hundred men,
• 1:30:42
  brought victory for the nation of Israel. Can I tell
• 1:30:45
  you this, The Church refer to men, not sheeers. Cheers
• 1:30:51
  without men is not the church. A good salmon without
• 1:30:56
  the men to listen to, it does not make the church.
• 1:31:00
  The church refer to the men and the women. Based
• 1:31:05
  on this definition, you see that this whole idea, Now
• 1:31:10
  I say this respectfully, but this whole idea of refusing
• 1:31:17
  people from coming to the House of God to hear
• 1:31:19
  the world of God, simply because sometimes it's misunderstood to
• 1:31:24
  be just a passion to have crowd.
• 1:31:26
  Speaker 6: No.
• 1:31:27
  Speaker 1: No, the church refers to men and women. And if
• 1:31:31
  those men and women are not there to hear to
• 1:31:34
  be changed, it means that the purposes of God will
• 1:31:37
  suffer because there would not be sufficient people to be
• 1:31:41
  executors of the same.
• 1:31:43
  Speaker 2: Are we together.
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 1: In gathering. It is your, your kingdom responsibility to bringing
• 1:31:53
  more men to the fold, so that they be trained,
• 1:31:56
  so that they be equipped, and then they can be
• 1:31:59
  you God.
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  Speaker 2: Without men, there is no church.
• 1:32:05
  Speaker 1: Assume with me, for instance, that I come in here
• 1:32:08
  and there is absolutely nobody. Now I'm preaching and I'm talking.
• 1:32:14
  All I'm doing is just rehesults or talking with the
• 1:32:16
  Holy Spirit. But as far as church is concerned, church
• 1:32:19
  happens when there is God and when there is a men.
• 1:32:24
  It took God and Jacob to be called the house
• 1:32:28
  of God. Even heaven it is not called the house
• 1:32:33
  of God. It took God and a man on earth,
• 1:32:39
  and Jacob said, surely this is the house of God,
• 1:32:43
  even though the gate of heaven. Can I tell you this.
• 1:32:48
  If you're a preacher here, or you are a worker
• 1:32:51
  in church, you have a kingdom responsibility to see that
• 1:32:55
  in gathering never ceases with you. You have a kingdom
• 1:32:59
  responsibility not through force and manipulation, but through revelation that
• 1:33:04
  it is noble. Every time you bring people to the
• 1:33:07
  House of God, you give them an opportunity to experience
• 1:33:11
  the ministry of transformation, of building, of training. The more
• 1:33:17
  God finds men, the more his purposes can advance. Did
• 1:33:20
  you believe that, Yes, sir. The more genuine believers we
• 1:33:28
  have within our territory, the more the purposes of God
• 1:33:31
  can find expression. When there are few men who call
• 1:33:35
  upon the name of the Lord, when there are few
• 1:33:38
  men who sustain spiritual intelligence, it's going to be difficult
• 1:33:42
  to advance.
• 1:33:43
  Speaker 2: The purposes of God.
• 1:33:46
  Speaker 1: So we have to continue to pray that in as
• 1:33:49
  much as God has blessed us as a ministry and
• 1:33:52
  as a global family, there are still many people who
• 1:33:55
  need to be part of this fold, and we must
• 1:33:58
  continue to trust God through the science and wonders, through
• 1:34:02
  the ministry of the Holy Spirit, and through the responsibility
• 1:34:05
  of in gathering.
• 1:34:06
  Speaker 2: God is going to grant grace.
• 1:34:08
  Speaker 1: That His house be filled with men, not just men
• 1:34:13
  who endorse the call of a man of God, but
• 1:34:16
  men who can be trained, can be equipped, and can
• 1:34:20
  be efficient man of God. If that is your motivation
• 1:34:24
  for ingathering, fire on. But if the motivation becomes a
• 1:34:28
  mundane pursuit just to bring some accreditation and add to
• 1:34:33
  the list of those who are making things happen, it
• 1:34:36
  is not a pure motivation. My motivation as a man
• 1:34:39
  of God has always and will ever remain to see
• 1:34:43
  that God brings as many people who need to be trained,
• 1:34:47
  who need to be equipped and to be released to
• 1:34:50
  become this first army that God will use for kingdom come.
• 1:34:57
  And this will not fail to do in the name
• 1:34:59
  of Jesus Christ. So every time you say the church,
• 1:35:03
  you are referring to a spiritual strategy, the strategy that
• 1:35:08
  brings dominion over principalities and powers, and cease to read
• 1:35:12
  that Jesus Christ is enthroned. When you say the church.
• 1:35:16
  It also refers to men. Without men, there is no church.
• 1:35:20
  I repeat, without men, there is no church. That means
• 1:35:26
  the extended meaning of this is that every time God
• 1:35:30
  sends men to church, we must obtain the grace to
• 1:35:35
  treat those men with honor, knowing that without men there
• 1:35:38
  is no church. Now, it is not a license to
• 1:35:41
  come and trouble people in church, and people just transfer
• 1:35:45
  the pain they've heard from office and the pain they've
• 1:35:47
  heard from other things, and just punished the church to
• 1:35:50
  be No, no, no, no no, that's not what I'm teaching.
• 1:35:53
  Speaker 2: But I'm saying that if you know that the church
• 1:35:57
  refers to men, every.
• 1:35:59
  Speaker 1: Time God sends those men, you are grateful, and you
• 1:36:03
  serve them the meal of God's work principally, and then
• 1:36:07
  make sure that within the time that they are under
• 1:36:10
  your influence they feel the love, the warmth, the peace,
• 1:36:15
  the fellowship that befits those who are called by the
• 1:36:19
  name of the Lord. Here in lies my reservation about
• 1:36:27
  ignoring the relevance of men as far as making a
• 1:36:31
  church happen. Now, you know, people are subject to their
• 1:36:34
  whatever it is that they have to say.
• 1:36:37
  Speaker 2: As first Kingdom come is concerned.
• 1:36:39
  Speaker 1: But I will never be the man of God who
• 1:36:41
  will come here and downplay your relevance and downplay.
• 1:36:45
  Speaker 2: The fact that you are here.
• 1:36:46
  Speaker 1: The reason why I am effective doing what I'm doing
• 1:36:50
  is because you are here. Can I tell you the truth,
• 1:36:52
  No matter how sound your call is, if God does
• 1:36:56
  not send the men to come and listen and be
• 1:36:59
  trained and submit to that teaching, you are not effective.
• 1:37:03
  For God so loved the world. When Jesus came, his
• 1:37:07
  entire attention was on men. Even when he resurrected, he
• 1:37:11
  went back to men to train those.
• 1:37:14
  Speaker 2: Men to keep helping men.
• 1:37:18
  Speaker 1: The church refers to men, invest in excellence, invest in media,
• 1:37:26
  invest in quality sound, but not to the detriment of
• 1:37:31
  the men. That means if the church refers to men,
• 1:37:34
  the highest attention should not be given to speakers. The
• 1:37:38
  highest attention should not be given to esthetics. The highest
• 1:37:43
  attention should not be given to some other non human entity.
• 1:37:49
  The highest attention in any church should be to the men.
• 1:37:54
  And that means that the most important part of any
• 1:38:00
  short service, if I would use that expression, is the
• 1:38:03
  plant that deals directly with men, the worship, the prayer,
• 1:38:09
  the word. Did you know that everything from opening prayers
• 1:38:12
  to the grace is about men. When you are praying,
• 1:38:16
  you are praying that God will make the service a
• 1:38:18
  blessing the worship. The worship team is calling us together
• 1:38:22
  in worship to just press into God as we lay
• 1:38:26
  down our crowns and worship him. The testimonies are coming
• 1:38:30
  to encourage men and to become a blessing that people
• 1:38:34
  can believe the word session.
• 1:38:37
  Speaker 2: It comes as a.
• 1:38:39
  Speaker 1: System of building and edification for the men. Everything is
• 1:38:44
  about men, man of God. When ministry becomes all about you,
• 1:38:50
  there is something wrong. When ministry becomes all about Joshua Selman,
• 1:38:56
  the alpha and the omega of the activities that happen there.
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  You may be well meaning, but something is wrong. True
• 1:39:03
  ministry is not about the man that God uses. There
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  is a place for the honor that priesthood demands. But
• 1:39:10
  I'm telling you the real assignment of a minister is
• 1:39:14
  to build men. If you hate those men, you can
• 1:39:18
  never truly build the people you hate. You can never
• 1:39:21
  Let me give you an advice again. If you're a
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  man of God or you are involved around ministry, never
• 1:39:27
  be exalted too high that you lose touch with the
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  man you are sent to, because you will be aborting
• 1:39:34
  and even destroy your assignment. The reason why you are
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  called is for the men. Without men, there is no church.
• 1:39:43
  We must sustain compassion, We must sustain the stamina to
• 1:39:50
  deal with men and to do so well.
• 1:39:54
  Speaker 2: As many of you know, I've had quite a.
• 1:39:58
  Speaker 1: Very serious schedule right from when theay been traveling over
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  four states or so, and then this morning and then
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  write here. And sometimes people say, Apostle, you're stretching yourself
• 1:40:08
  too much, and all of that. But when I remember
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  that the church is not a building, When I remember
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  that the Church is not dispupit, the church refers to men,
• 1:40:22
  the men that Jesus died for, the man that he
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  so loved and loves, the men that He will use
• 1:40:30
  to birth his purposes, the men that become the principal
• 1:40:35
  conduit for kingdom come. I am motivated afresh to bend
• 1:40:40
  over backwards to see that those men are trained. I
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  believe in excitement, I believe in joy, I believe in fun,
• 1:40:50
  I believe in gladness of heart. But can I tell
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  you we must trust God to restore the discipline of discipleship,
• 1:40:58
  to make sure that every time we go God, we
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  do not waste the time of God's people. Are we
• 1:41:04
  together by the grace of God. God will grant us
• 1:41:08
  grace that every time you come here. Everything that makes
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  up the program is intended to be a blessing to
• 1:41:16
  you men. It is all about men in as much
• 1:41:22
  as it is all about Jesus Christ, for God so
• 1:41:25
  loved the world that was his motivation. The church is
• 1:41:32
  a spiritual strategy. The church refers to men and women
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  the vessels that you will use to birth His purposes.
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  Number three, and this is the last point for tonight.
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  The church also refers to an institution, the only institution
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  that is mandated to teach and mentor and build people
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  in the ways of God.
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  Speaker 2: The Church is an institution.
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  Speaker 1: Write it down, please, First Timothy, chapter three and verse fifteen.
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  The church also refers to an institution, not a spiritual institution,
• 1:42:15
  a physical institution, First Timote, chapter three. The b Part
• 1:42:21
  says to behave thyself in the House of God, which
• 1:42:26
  is the Church of the Living God. The Bible calls
• 1:42:29
  it the pillar and the ground of truth. That means,
• 1:42:36
  whenever you are looking for there is a place in
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  a buchat the coldfish market.
• 1:42:41
  Speaker 2: That means, when you are looking for fish, where do
• 1:42:43
  you go to You don't.
• 1:42:44
  Speaker 1: Run to a bank. You don't run to a bank
• 1:42:47
  amid the cashier and say can I have tilapia?
• 1:42:51
  Speaker 2: Or can I have a shack? Or can I have
• 1:42:53
  all of this? They will take you straight from there
• 1:42:55
  to the hospital. Is that true? That means every time
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  you are searching.
• 1:43:05
  Speaker 1: For a place where you can find truth, truth being Jesus,
• 1:43:12
  truth being doctrine, truth being the ethics that make for
• 1:43:17
  civil living and intentional living and visionary living. The church
• 1:43:24
  is that institution mandated with the responsibility of shaping culture correctly.
• 1:43:30
  Speaker 2: The Bible calls it the pillar and the ground of truth,
• 1:43:35
  aware learning.
• 1:43:36
  Speaker 1: Now, it is based on this definition that our regular
• 1:43:40
  convergence as believers for church services for midweek services become
• 1:43:45
  valid provided that the things that are communicated within that
• 1:43:49
  institution are truths that number one reveal Jesus.
• 1:43:53
  Speaker 2: Number two equip the believers.
• 1:43:56
  Speaker 1: Number three help in contributing to the moral, the spiritual,
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  the economic.
• 1:44:01
  Speaker 2: Stability of a region. The church.
• 1:44:06
  Speaker 1: The church is not just a place for Christians. The
• 1:44:09
  church is a ground and the pillar of truth. Two
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  more scriptures, Are you blessed Hebrews Chapter ten, Please we
• 1:44:20
  read verse.
• 1:44:21
  Speaker 2: Twenty four and twenty five Hebrews.
• 1:44:24
  Speaker 1: Chapter ten, the Bible says, and let us consider one
• 1:44:28
  another to provoke onto love and to good works. Twenty
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  five It says, not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together,
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  as the manner of some is, but exerting one another.
• 1:44:45
  Speaker 2: And so much the more.
• 1:44:47
  Speaker 1: As you see the day approaching, the Bible says, as
• 1:44:51
  an institution, do not neglect the assembling of ourselves together.
• 1:44:56
  Say after me, the church is an institution. Now I
• 1:45:01
  know that sociologically we call it a religious institution. Well,
• 1:45:05
  from a secular standpoint we agree. But from a kingdom standpoint,
• 1:45:09
  the church is not a religious institution. The Church is
• 1:45:12
  a real institution. Are we together valuable to God? Valuable
• 1:45:19
  for nation building? Valuable? The Church is the principal contributor
• 1:45:25
  for as far as the moral correctness of a territory is,
• 1:45:33
  any territory without the Church will be a territory of
• 1:45:36
  lawlessness and mayhem and carelessness and in discipline and lack
• 1:45:41
  of responsibility.
• 1:45:43
  Speaker 2: When you know this as a man of God, and
• 1:45:45
  when you know.
• 1:45:46
  Speaker 1: This even as a state, you will respect ministers, not
• 1:45:50
  just as some religious by God who are around indoctrinating
• 1:45:53
  people with some kind of spiritual ideas.
• 1:45:56
  Speaker 2: No, we are contributors to nation building because we.
• 1:46:00
  Speaker 1: Are bringing principles that are applicable here and now, even
• 1:46:04
  though spiritual in context, but they have their applicability everywhere.
• 1:46:11
  Speaker 2: The church is an institution.
• 1:46:14
  Speaker 1: Are we together next time you are listening to the
• 1:46:18
  institutions that you have. We have educational institutions that are
• 1:46:22
  mandated with the responsibility of making sure that secular education
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  happens within a territory, that people are academically enlightened.
• 1:46:31
  Speaker 2: We have all kinds of institutions.
• 1:46:33
  Speaker 1: We have the judiciary as an institution mandated with the
• 1:46:37
  responsibility of making sure that justice and fairness and equity
• 1:46:41
  is protected. We have a political system as an institution
• 1:46:46
  mandated with the responsibility of leadership and governance. The church
• 1:46:52
  is an institution. Whenever you are confused about life, whenever
• 1:46:57
  you are confused about purpose, whenever you are confused about destiny,
• 1:47:02
  whenever you need to find God, whenever the devil is
• 1:47:05
  oppressing you are buffeting your life left, right and center.
• 1:47:09
  Whenever you are fine, you are looking for a place
• 1:47:11
  where you find a family of like minded people. The
• 1:47:16
  solution is the church. Can I tell you this when
• 1:47:22
  you want to make good friends, come to the church.
• 1:47:25
  Ah personal Church, Yes, sir, Church. Forget about your experience
• 1:47:29
  the church, the church. There is no guarantee from scripture
• 1:47:44
  that God said I would tabernacle.
• 1:47:46
  Speaker 2: In a bank.
• 1:47:47
  Speaker 1: There is no guarantee from scripture that God said I
• 1:47:50
  would tabernacle in a classroom. There is no guarantee from
• 1:47:53
  scripture that God said, where you gather in the law court,
• 1:47:57
  I am them. But God made a covenant with his
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  house that his presence would jealously be represented in his house.
• 1:48:07
  So as an institution, the church is the principal avenue
• 1:48:15
  for learning the ways of God. The manual for the
• 1:48:19
  growth and the maturity of the believers in the church
• 1:48:22
  is the Bible in partnership.
• 1:48:24
  Speaker 2: With the Holy Spirit.
• 1:48:26
  Speaker 1: If the Bible is administered outside of the leadership of
• 1:48:31
  the Holy Spirit, it just becomes a historic material. The
• 1:48:37
  Bible only comes alife when the ministry of the Holy
• 1:48:40
  Spirit is honored, and then we are taught the ways
• 1:48:43
  of God.
• 1:48:43
  Speaker 2: We are mentored, and we are guided. Listen to me,
• 1:48:47
  please hear me.
• 1:48:48
  Speaker 1: Believers during the pandemic last year, sadly, when there was
• 1:48:56
  a lockdown for about three months or thereabout. Do you
• 1:49:00
  know how many people's lives went down spiritually and otherwise
• 1:49:06
  because there are people based on their background, they have
• 1:49:09
  no family anywhere. There are people who have lost father.
• 1:49:12
  Listen to me, people who have lost mother. The only
• 1:49:16
  family they have literally is the church. Do we agree
• 1:49:22
  on that. There are people who support financial support comes
• 1:49:29
  from the church. There are people today educated because they
• 1:49:33
  were part of the church. There are people who have
• 1:49:35
  found purpose and meaning to their lives because they were
• 1:49:38
  part of the church. You cannot tell how many people
• 1:49:42
  today who have found relevance in their lives only because
• 1:49:46
  they came to the church. I was glad when they said,
• 1:49:49
  unto me, let us go to the house. That is
• 1:49:53
  why the church is called the House of God. If
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  you are looking for love, you will find it in
• 1:50:01
  the church. If you are looking for family, you will
• 1:50:05
  find it in the church. Apostle. But my biggest pain
• 1:50:08
  has come from the church. That is because the devil
• 1:50:11
  also came to the church. So we have to get
• 1:50:13
  him out of the church. He's not invited. There are
• 1:50:21
  people today when they lose loved ones, they have no
• 1:50:24
  body to come and mon with them, but the church.
• 1:50:27
  There are people today when it's time for celebration, married children,
• 1:50:32
  whatever it is, it is the Church.
• 1:50:33
  Speaker 2: That comes to rally around them.
• 1:50:35
  Speaker 1: There are people when they're in pains today nobody can stand,
• 1:50:39
  but the church never you ignore the church as an institution.
• 1:50:44
  The church is that one family. There are two kinds
• 1:50:47
  of families on earth. There is the physical family that
• 1:50:51
  is of biological origin, but there is the spiritual family.
• 1:50:55
  The spiritual family is a real family. If you are
• 1:50:58
  in church, have this family mentality. Coming to churches like
• 1:51:06
  coming home the only place where God can accept you
• 1:51:11
  as you are while he's changing you can. I tell
• 1:51:18
  you this. If you ignore the church, there are many
• 1:51:22
  things you would not be able to achieve. There are
• 1:51:24
  times that your fire can go down, and then you
• 1:51:27
  come to the church and you sit down, you know,
• 1:51:30
  sitting and hearing the testimonies of these precious people.
• 1:51:33
  Speaker 2: And I'm wondering, what if there was no church.
• 1:51:36
  Speaker 1: There was no church for three months, and some people
• 1:51:40
  did not just backslide, they just went completely slickly. Do
• 1:51:44
  you know that Moses is absence for ninety days? You
• 1:51:47
  know what he came back and met. These were people
• 1:51:50
  who were calling up on your way. Moses went up
• 1:51:53
  the mountain, not that he went to sleep, He went
• 1:51:56
  to meet God. He came back and found an idol
• 1:52:00
  that was made with the precious gold that God gave them,
• 1:52:03
  and they said, this be the God that brought us
• 1:52:06
  out of Egypt. Moses was angry. He made them grand
• 1:52:10
  that thing to powder and drink it, and God punish
• 1:52:13
  him because of it.
• 1:52:14
  Speaker 2: You see how this thing works. He had to go
• 1:52:17
  and carve that rock by himself.
• 1:52:26
  Speaker 1: Can I tell you this. I know that many of
• 1:52:29
  you have been wounded from church. I know many of
• 1:52:33
  you have had bitter experiences from church. But regardless what
• 1:52:39
  has happened, church still remains your zone of safety.
• 1:52:45
  Speaker 2: Can I tell you this.
• 1:52:47
  Speaker 1: I repeat that church is the safest place. Everybody cannot
• 1:52:53
  be a devil. All you need is to find one
• 1:52:56
  person who loves you genuinely, one person who loved Jesus genuinely,
• 1:53:01
  one person who prays genuinely. And I can tell you
• 1:53:04
  there are enough people in every true church to communicate
• 1:53:08
  the love of Christ. Allelujah. It is God's idea and
• 1:53:18
  it is his intention that every believer becomes part of
• 1:53:22
  a larger community of believers for the purpose of you say,
• 1:53:27
  community living is the key to sustaining Kingdom values.
• 1:53:31
  Speaker 2: It's going to be difficult for you to excel in isolation.
• 1:53:35
  Speaker 1: So when God picks you here connects you to a
• 1:53:38
  larger body of believers, it is.
• 1:53:40
  Speaker 2: Your assignment to connect.
• 1:53:42
  Speaker 1: Indeed, this is the place, Oh then come do to
• 1:53:52
  me what you.
• 1:53:57
  Speaker 6: This is the place of sand, This is the place
• 1:54:13
  where my life is shap.
• 1:54:21
  Speaker 1: Let me tell you this. By the privilege of leadership,
• 1:54:24
  especially for many years and even now, largely among young people,
• 1:54:30
  I have learned the power of the church as an institution.
• 1:54:34
  I have met people who have lost father, lost mother,
• 1:54:39
  and literally have had to depend on the Church for
• 1:54:43
  everything that their physical family would give them. I've had
• 1:54:48
  the privilege, and I say this to the glory of
• 1:54:50
  the name of Jesus, of helping to raise people literally
• 1:54:55
  some from primary school, secondary school, even university the church.
• 1:55:01
  There are people today who would never go to school
• 1:55:04
  if they were not in church. There are people today
• 1:55:07
  who would never get a job if they were not
• 1:55:09
  in church. There are people today who would never find
• 1:55:12
  love if they were not in church. There are people
• 1:55:15
  today who would never even be able to bury their
• 1:55:18
  loved ones if they were not in church. There are
• 1:55:20
  people today who would never have been able to marry
• 1:55:23
  if they were not in church. There are people who
• 1:55:25
  would never be able to take care of their children
• 1:55:27
  if they were not in church. The church is not
• 1:55:30
  a disadvantage. Please find a way of believing this tonight.
• 1:55:36
  The church as an institution. There are people who hate
• 1:55:39
  anything in church, and they bring all kinds of stories
• 1:55:43
  and all kinds of memories. They tell you the church
• 1:55:46
  is a place where there are corrupt people. There are politicians,
• 1:55:49
  there are devils there. Do you stop using the road
• 1:55:51
  because there was an accident there? That is the only
• 1:55:55
  road available. The church is a blessing. Is the head
• 1:56:02
  of the church. If you don't trust the body, trust
• 1:56:05
  the head. Did you hear what I said? Let me
• 1:56:15
  repeat myself. If you don't trust the body, trust the head.
• 1:56:21
  The body may fail, but the head may never fail.
• 1:56:25
  Speaker 2: You will never fail. The church is an institution.
• 1:56:31
  Speaker 1: So as you gather week in week out here in
• 1:56:35
  Koinonia and all of the churches that are scattered represented
• 1:56:40
  in the body of Christ, I want you to have
• 1:56:42
  this mindset. Whenever you pick your Bible, you pick your children,
• 1:56:46
  and you are on your way to church. Remember this
• 1:56:50
  that number one the church is a spiritual strategy. Number two,
• 1:56:56
  I am that church in addition to God's strategy.
• 1:57:01
  Speaker 2: I am the host.
• 1:57:04
  Speaker 1: And then the executor of his will and his plans
• 1:57:09
  and his purposes. His purposes depend on me. He can
• 1:57:13
  do without me what he has chosen to involve me
• 1:57:16
  in his program. So you don't go to church as
• 1:57:20
  a second class citizen. I'm not the one leading worship.
• 1:57:23
  I'm not the head of department. I am just a
• 1:57:26
  regular worker. Did you know sometimes people send me text
• 1:57:29
  messages and they say, apostle, good afternoon, sir. I am
• 1:57:33
  a regular or I'm just an ordinary Cononia member. And
• 1:57:38
  sometimes even when I don't want to reply, I'm tempted
• 1:57:41
  to reply.
• 1:57:42
  Speaker 2: There are no ordinary members here. Everyone is the church.
• 1:57:48
  Speaker 1: The nature of our work may seem to provide some
• 1:57:52
  level of elevated positions. What I tell you intrinsically, every
• 1:57:57
  single one, as far as crisis concern, we carry equal value,
• 1:58:02
  the value on the price being the blood of Jesus.
• 1:58:07
  Speaker 2: Are we blessed? And I advocate this, and I cry
• 1:58:12
  and call on men and women of.
• 1:58:14
  Speaker 1: God as much as possible, give honor to whom honor
• 1:58:18
  is due. But we must be careful so that we
• 1:58:21
  do not allow the broken and those who feel that
• 1:58:25
  they are no good come to church again and further
• 1:58:28
  feel miserable simply because you are not wearing a designers,
• 1:58:33
  simply because you don't seem to speak very friendly. I
• 1:58:37
  made it as a personal commitment as a man of
• 1:58:40
  God that when it has to do with honor, I
• 1:58:43
  will communicate honor to all men and to those deserving
• 1:58:46
  of honor.
• 1:58:47
  Speaker 2: But when it has to do with my.
• 1:58:49
  Speaker 1: Disposition towards men, I will treat everybody with love, and
• 1:58:53
  I will treat everybody with sincerity.
• 1:58:57
  Speaker 2: If I'm giving a hug, I'm not going.
• 1:58:59
  Speaker 1: To hug you because you are rich, or because you
• 1:59:01
  are holding an envelope, and then hug another person and
• 1:59:03
  look at him and almost be asking what are you
• 1:59:06
  doing here? No, No, it has never been my philosophy
• 1:59:15
  to treat people, as far as my attention is concerned,
• 1:59:20
  based on whatever it is. Now, whoever your father is,
• 1:59:23
  whoever your mother is, whoever you are, thank God for
• 1:59:27
  your pedigree you would be given or no that is
• 1:59:30
  commensurate to your sacrifice. But as far as my mindset
• 1:59:33
  and my understanding is concerned, everybody who God brings to
• 1:59:37
  this place is a valuable and special person.
• 1:59:40
  Speaker 2: In truth, I may not be able to reach everybody
• 1:59:43
  I wish I could. I really will sadly I'm not
• 1:59:48
  able to do so.
• 1:59:50
  Speaker 1: But I'm using this message tonight to talk to you
• 1:59:53
  and to talk to our global family that as far
• 1:59:55
  as Joshua Salman is concerned and coin Onia is concerned,
• 2:00:00
  there are no ordinary members. Everybody who was purchased with
• 2:00:03
  the blood of Jesus is a special and a unique person,
• 2:00:07
  whether you sit inside, whether you sit outside. I remember
• 2:00:11
  during the graduation of the School of Ministry students, I
• 2:00:16
  was walking around. Usually that's what I do because I'm
• 2:00:19
  not preaching. So I was walking around and I was
• 2:00:22
  almost going to look for a place to sit, and
• 2:00:24
  all this my security and protocol. People that will not
• 2:00:27
  let me rest. They were doing their job, you know.
• 2:00:29
  And I was standing and people were watching me as
• 2:00:32
  though it was Jesus Christ, and I said, come on, listen, listen.
• 2:00:35
  I'm a human being. My mother is alive, my father
• 2:00:37
  is alive. It is only the privilege of God's grace.
• 2:00:41
  I only sit here because of leadership, because of protocol,
• 2:00:45
  and because of the assignment. The day I'm not doing
• 2:00:48
  that assignment. I should be able to sit anywhere and
• 2:00:51
  feel comfortable. If I cannot do that, I'm only insecure.
• 2:00:54
  It has nothing to do with God because my value
• 2:00:57
  is not based on the position. My value is the
• 2:01:00
  revelation of who I am. Lend this. Are we together now?
• 2:01:08
  So if you find me seated somewhere up there and
• 2:01:11
  I sit in between two people and I'm listening to
• 2:01:13
  the world of God and say, Wow, powerful, this is great,
• 2:01:16
  chances are that you can even be uncomfortable there.
• 2:01:26
  Speaker 2: Believer us listen to me.
• 2:01:29
  Speaker 1: I have an assignment to see that you are grounded
• 2:01:31
  in truth and that every time you say church. So
• 2:01:36
  for people who neglect the gathering of the believers and
• 2:01:39
  they say church is just in the heart, correct them
• 2:01:42
  and say you are right, but not completely right. There
• 2:01:45
  is something you only receive when believers are gathered together.
• 2:01:50
  Are we together now? That corporate gathering some one toty three?
• 2:01:54
  Behold how good and pleasant it is when brethren dwell
• 2:01:58
  together in unity. Bible says, it is like the oil
• 2:02:01
  that comes upon the head of aaron, down to his bed,
• 2:02:05
  to his cat, to his garment, and so on and
• 2:02:07
  so forth. He says, there God had commanded the blessing allelujah.
• 2:02:16
  Now there are two things we are going to do
• 2:02:17
  before we pray. Please rise, everybody. I'm going to give
• 2:02:35
  you a little task. In one minute. You're going to
• 2:02:40
  walk around to as many people as you can find
• 2:02:43
  in one minute, and even if it is to appreciate
• 2:02:45
  them and greet them and tell them we are the Church,
• 2:02:50
  You are valuable, you are blessed. Bless them with all
• 2:02:53
  your heart. Don't relay anybody. Go ahead, make sure you're
• 2:03:01
  doing it inside and outside. Or know them and appreciate
• 2:03:04
  them sincerely. You don't have to know them together. We
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  are the body of Christ, regardless what you believe, regardless
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  what you don't believe, regardless what family you come from.
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  It's a culture. Now, please return back to your seat rejoicing.
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  Hold hands together. If you can, Lord, make us instruments
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  of your hoppy. Where there is hatred, let your love increate.
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  Law Makers, instruments of your Orpye the walls upright and prejudice.
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  Speaker 2: Chelsea.
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  Speaker 1: When we.
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  Speaker 2: Your instruments, listen to me, let me encourage you. Never
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  make it a culture. Never look down on anyone.
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  Speaker 1: In terms of stratification, in terms of finances, in terms
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  of spiritual exposure in terms of enlightenment.
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  Speaker 2: The truth is were not at the same level.
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  Speaker 1: Nevertheless, you should be comfortable to hug somebody whose father
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  is some relegated things somewhere.
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  Speaker 2: This is the church.
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  Speaker 1: They should be able to find that kind of love
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  without explanation, love without reason.
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  Speaker 2: The moment you have a reason, it is no longer love.
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  So someone comes to sit near you.
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  Speaker 1: And you frown your face because you are all wrapped
• 2:05:27
  up in your designer. They say, turn to your neighbor,
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  and you just look at don't you turn?
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  Speaker 2: No, no, no, no. You may be saying no to
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  the next ten years of your life. Can I tell
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  you this.
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  Speaker 1: There have been times before, you know, God made me
• 2:05:50
  a known face. There were times when people began to
• 2:05:55
  hear about me and what God was doing. But because
• 2:05:57
  the people who had never seen me, they did not
• 2:05:59
  know this was apostle, and you know, it was not
• 2:06:02
  the best of experience. And then when they did find
• 2:06:06
  out that I was that man of God, they suddenly
• 2:06:09
  came back with some hypocritical approach, and I said, no, no, no,
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  the first you is the real you. That's you that
• 2:06:16
  did not behave well is the real you. So make
• 2:06:22
  it a point of duty. The first core value in
• 2:06:25
  this ministry is love, not power. Love.
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  Speaker 2: Everything is motivated by love.
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  Speaker 1: Away together now, yes, now, when they share the grace,
• 2:06:38
  you don't just stand up and carry your children and
• 2:06:40
  you push everybody and go out. No, Hello, good morning,
• 2:06:44
  good afternoon. You're going to walk after the service. Oh,
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  God bless you.
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  Speaker 2: This is very important.
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  Speaker 1: You may think this is just some childish Christian thing,
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  but you may be healing someone right now, may be
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  listening to me. And finally, people looking for a home
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  more than a simon. People are looking for a home.
• 2:07:05
  You can listen to a salmon online. You cannot find
• 2:07:08
  a home online. There is a difference between listening to
• 2:07:13
  teachings online and being in the presence of God. Here
• 2:07:17
  a place of genuine laughter and love, no pretense, a
• 2:07:24
  weay together. He is his will there, every need piece, suppler,
• 2:07:34
  you are important to me. Some of you if you had,
• 2:07:45
  if you had your way, you will reject that part
• 2:07:47
  of the song.
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  Speaker 2: I don't need it to you.
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  Speaker 1: Do you do?
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  Speaker 2: Come to terms with it?
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  Speaker 1: Listen. God is not ashamed to declare how vulnerable he
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  is towards us. I need you to be an effective
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  No matter how anointed I am, you're coming here. Among
• 2:08:05
  the many things that it does is it validates the
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  fact that we are blessing. There is nothing to tell
• 2:08:11
  lies about. There is nothing to be ashamed about.
• 2:08:14
  Speaker 2: You say. When people know you are sincere, they will
• 2:08:16
  love you truly.
• 2:08:17
  Speaker 1: But when you are playing games and doing all of
• 2:08:19
  these things, the people would let you know they are
• 2:08:21
  not stupid. When people come here and there is room
• 2:08:27
  for interpretation, maybe the miracle service the moment I descernd
• 2:08:30
  they're struggling to speak English, I tell them say, any language,
• 2:08:34
  be comfortable. I'm not going to respect and honor you
• 2:08:41
  just because you are speaking Polish Queen's English. That is
• 2:08:44
  an advantage, but not the basis for the love. Provided
• 2:08:48
  you name the name of Christ, you deserve to be loved.
• 2:08:52
  I pray tonight that this teaching will help to build
• 2:08:54
  our understanding and make us very, very mature believers.
• 2:09:00
  Speaker 2: We're going to pray a time is gone.
• 2:09:02
  Speaker 1: Prayer point number one, Lord, help me to be effective
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  as your battle acts as the man that you will
• 2:09:11
  use in this season, Please were praying. And then number three,
• 2:09:18
  as part of this institution called the church, lift your
• 2:09:22
  voice and pray. Let it be from the depth of
• 2:09:25
  your heart. I am your battle acts. Use me for
• 2:09:32
  your glory in whatever way you see and however you please.
• 2:09:39
  Speaker 2: Go ahead and pray.
• 2:09:41
  Speaker 1: I will go. I will go.
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  Speaker 2: Everywhere you lead me.
• 2:09:52
  Speaker 1: I will go. I will go. I will go.
• 2:10:04
  Speaker 2: Wherever you leave me.
• 2:10:08
  Speaker 1: I will go. Hi will go, Hi will go. I
• 2:10:18
  am your battle arts, to whatever nation, to whatever region,
• 2:10:23
  whatever the responsibility is. My soul says yes, says yes,
• 2:10:34
  says yes, yes, My soul says yes. Someone is praying. Lord,
• 2:10:44
  I am that available. But to acts. Sharpen me and
• 2:10:48
  make me ready to be used, especially in this time.
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  Speaker 2: Lord.
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  Speaker 1: If you're healing someone in this nation, don't do it
• 2:11:18
  without me. Don't do it without me.
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  Speaker 6: Lord.
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  Speaker 1: If you're lifting someone in this city, please don't do
• 2:11:35
  it without me. Why pray. Don't retired. Whoever you want
• 2:11:45
  to live, Lord, you can live through me.
• 2:11:54
  Speaker 2: Whoever you want to bless. Lord, you can bless to me.
• 2:12:06
  Speaker 5: Whatever you want to say. Lord, you can say to me.
• 2:12:18
  Whatever you want to do, Lord you can do. Listen
• 2:12:30
  whoever you want to hear. Lord, you can hear whoever
• 2:12:44
  you want to.
• 2:12:47
  Speaker 6: Change.
• 2:12:49
  Speaker 1: Lord, you can change very powerful song. I'm available you
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  me for the change. Use me for the healing. Let
• 2:13:04
  me not be the one causing the pain, but bringing
• 2:13:07
  the healing. Whoever you want to bless, whoever you want
• 2:13:20
  to save, whoever you want to transform. Oh God, I'm
• 2:13:26
  here's your church. Find comfort in using me. Allelujah. The
• 2:13:34
  last prayer point and we're done. Please hear me. We
• 2:13:39
  must pray first for coin Onia and then for every
• 2:13:44
  church as a local assembly and every platform that provides
• 2:13:49
  the gathering of believers. Can I tell you we cannot
• 2:13:52
  lose the church as an institution. Westernization should not be
• 2:13:57
  the reason why we lose the gathering of the safe.
• 2:14:00
  Speaker 2: There is a blessing. The church is a platform for.
• 2:14:03
  Speaker 1: Mentorship that builds the trains that equips. It is the
• 2:14:09
  place where people can find God. The church is a
• 2:14:13
  city of refuge. That church is akin to the Act
• 2:14:16
  of Noah, when rain was about to fall, they found
• 2:14:20
  a place of safety. Are we together?
• 2:14:25
  Speaker 2: This is your house, your.
• 2:14:32
  Speaker 1: We well come you Lord, we were This is your
• 2:14:42
  your we well come you. Last prayer point the grace
• 2:14:53
  to be an active part of this institution called the church.
• 2:14:57
  Lift your voice and pray, active through in gathering, Active
• 2:15:05
  as a walker, active as a participant, not a fan.
• 2:15:13
  There are no fans in the church. There are active
• 2:15:17
  people praying, saving, bringing souls, providing financial resources. Lord, whatever
• 2:15:25
  role I have to pray to keep this institution, that
• 2:15:30
  is the pillar and the ground of truth alive, I
• 2:15:33
  obtain grace.
• 2:15:34
  Speaker 2: Go ahead to pray.
• 2:15:39
  Speaker 1: Pray for every local assembly you know, Lord, keep them,
• 2:15:43
  keep that institution. Keep the building from being idolized. But
• 2:15:49
  let it become a center for transformation, a center for salvation,
• 2:15:54
  a center for encounters. The house of God.
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  Speaker 3: Hm hm hmm.
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  Speaker 1: It is only in the house that God has commanded
• 2:16:29
  the blessing. May His favor be your pown and the
• 2:16:37
  towns and generation in your family. Made his favor.
• 2:16:49
  Speaker 2: Your pawn, The towns and.
• 2:16:53
  Speaker 1: Generation receive it as a blessing. That's what you get
• 2:16:58
  when you come to shurch.
• 2:17:01
  Speaker 2: May favor.
• 2:17:04
  Speaker 1: Your pal and the towels and generation in your family.
• 2:17:15
  Speaker 2: Ah man.
• 2:17:22
  Speaker 6: T a.
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  Speaker 1: Hey blah chaplada.
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  Speaker 2: Father.
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  Speaker 1: We pray that Coinonia will remain a place of encounters.
• 2:17:56
  We pray that Coinonia will remain a place of revelation.
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  We pray that Coinonia will remain a place of transformation.
• 2:18:07
  We pray that Coinonia will remain the House of God.
• 2:18:13
  In the name of Jesus Christ. Lord, we declare from
• 2:18:17
  tonight's teaching that we are willing to be sharpened the
• 2:18:21
  battle access that you will use to beat down the
• 2:18:26
  gates of darkness. Lord, we declare that we are the
• 2:18:29
  men and women you have found worthy to become hosts
• 2:18:34
  of your presence and advances of your purposes.
• 2:18:39
  Speaker 2: And Lord, we thank you for this family Coinonia.
• 2:18:44
  Speaker 1: We thank you for every church and every ministry represented
• 2:18:49
  in the body of Christ. Or God strengthened the bond
• 2:18:53
  of fellowship, bring unity over your body. Let all the
• 2:18:59
  war of the divides, the prejudices, and all the things
• 2:19:04
  that divide us and weaken our strength. I pray, o God,
• 2:19:08
  that they will fade in light of what you are doing.
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  But as for this ministry, I pray that you will
• 2:19:17
  increase our bond of love. You will increase our bond
• 2:19:22
  of fellowship, that in truth we will love one another
• 2:19:27
  without discrimination. We will love one another without favoritism. We
• 2:19:33
  will love one another in spite of our different levels
• 2:19:37
  of stratification. In the name of Jesus Lord, we commit
• 2:19:42
  ourselves to love one another. We commit ourselves to loving you.
• 2:19:45
  And we pray that in and through our lives, Jesus
• 2:19:49
  will be revealed. We pray by extension of God committing
• 2:19:53
  our global family scattered across all the nations of the earth.
• 2:19:58
  Speaker 2: In the name of Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: We pray that that bond of unity and that bond
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  of love will rest upon every one of us. We
• 2:20:06
  pray for the teachings the principal channel that you have
• 2:20:10
  used to extend your blessing through us to the nations.
• 2:20:13
  Lord Annoys, those teachings are fresh. May they go across
• 2:20:17
  the length and the breath of this nation and across
• 2:20:20
  the globe. May they bring salvation, May they bring healing,
• 2:20:25
  May they bring liftings.
• 2:20:26
  Speaker 2: In the name of Jesus Christ.
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  Speaker 1: And as for you, because you came to church tonight,
• 2:20:31
  I decree, may the Lord bless you. I decree, may
• 2:20:36
  the Lord prosper you. I decree, may the Lord reveal
• 2:20:40
  himself to you. I decree that everything that has mocked
• 2:20:44
  God concerning your life, as a result of your coming tonight,
• 2:20:49
  I professy and I declare that it ceases from happening
• 2:20:52
  in your life. A sense in my spirit that there
• 2:21:00
  are people who, whilst they heard these our brothers and
• 2:21:05
  sisters sharing their testimony of financial miracles. Their hearts were
• 2:21:09
  just open, and they said, oh, that God would step
• 2:21:11
  in for me. The prophetic dimension to activating wealth. Like
• 2:21:16
  I've always thought, it's not a license for laziness. But
• 2:21:20
  there are times when you are in the sea. There
• 2:21:22
  are times when your net is good. There are times
• 2:21:25
  when your fishing skill is there, but you will still
• 2:21:28
  not catch fish. At that point, you do not need
• 2:21:30
  fishing skill.
• 2:21:31
  Speaker 2: You need Jesus.
• 2:21:33
  Speaker 1: And for those who have exhausted all that they know
• 2:21:36
  to do and it looks like financial doors are not opening,
• 2:21:39
  I profer side to you in the name that is
• 2:21:42
  above all names, return with strange miracles. Please just help
• 2:21:53
  those are not the anointing. Everyone here who is sick
• 2:21:57
  in his body. The devil has taken advanceantage of you,
• 2:22:01
  not the church. The church is a place where we
• 2:22:04
  separate light from darkness. I decree and declare that everything
• 2:22:08
  that represents darkness in your life, let it be far
• 2:22:12
  from your life now, and everything glorious in your life
• 2:22:20
  that you have lost for people here there are people.
• 2:22:24
  The proverb ecaboard seems to be the proverb around your life.
• 2:22:28
  I declare, may that proverb never be heard around your
• 2:22:31
  life again. Every business here hear the word of the Lord.
• 2:22:40
  I decree and declare the grace to excel. Let it
• 2:22:43
  come upon you. Every dormant gift that is lying down
• 2:22:50
  within you. I decree and declared that gift is activated.
• 2:22:56
  And all those who can discern and rew that gift,
• 2:23:01
  I call them to pay attention to you, Yarmi.
• 2:23:09
  Speaker 2: If there is anyone here whose spiritual life is.
• 2:23:12
  Speaker 1: Going down, pray your life going down, your passion for
• 2:23:16
  God going down. Don't feel condemned and don't feel like
• 2:23:20
  there is no hope for you. This is the church,
• 2:23:23
  the place where you find hope. Therefore, decrean, declare fresh
• 2:23:27
  fire upon your spiritual life. For everyone here who has
• 2:23:34
  been bereaved and is in and through any kind of
• 2:23:37
  emotional pain.
• 2:23:38
  Speaker 2: With the Crean, declare, let the healer bring healing right now.
• 2:23:47
  Speaker 1: And we stand here prophetically and we'll lend our voices
• 2:23:52
  together with many who are praying over Nigeria, over Africa,
• 2:23:57
  over Abuja. With the Chorean declare, in the name of
• 2:24:02
  Jesus Christ, that the purposes of God.
• 2:24:05
  Speaker 2: Will be established in our land.
• 2:24:10
  Speaker 1: In the name of Jesus and every controlling power over
• 2:24:14
  this territory, the territory of the f City, the nation
• 2:24:19
  of Nigeria, the continent of Africa. We lend our voices
• 2:24:24
  as the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, as a
• 2:24:27
  united force with the Krean, declare, like that goon fell
• 2:24:30
  before the Act, we declare that every al time that
• 2:24:33
  does not project Jesus, let it fall before the ac
• 2:24:36
  of its presence. In the name of Jesus, the Lord.
• 2:24:45
  Bless you, the Lord, Honor you in Jesus' name. Please,
• 2:24:50
  everyone remains standing, let me play with us. Just give
• 2:24:53
  me two minutes. Let's be disciplined.
• 2:24:55
  Speaker 2: Two minutes.
• 2:24:56
  Speaker 1: Let me make the altar called. Please do moving around.
• 2:24:58
  Just two minutes and we're done. There are people here.
• 2:25:01
  God has given you an opportunity to hear this world tonight.
• 2:25:05
  You came from various places. Please less minimize movement. It's
• 2:25:10
  a culture. Listen, you have to train yourself in the
• 2:25:12
  house of God. Patience for two three minutes will not
• 2:25:15
  stop you from doing what you're doing as much as possible.
• 2:25:18
  Whenever the altar call is coming. Accept otherwise, let's just
• 2:25:22
  discipline ourselves to receive them and then will wrap up.
• 2:25:25
  There are people here across the balcony here in the
• 2:25:29
  main auditorium, all the overflows and following online. You are saying, Apostle,
• 2:25:35
  have heard you teach, and I want to become part
• 2:25:38
  of the church. The Church is not just men, men
• 2:25:42
  who are in Christ, men who have accepted the free
• 2:25:45
  gift of salvation.
• 2:25:46
  Speaker 2: Two categories of people I want to call quickly.
• 2:25:49
  Speaker 1: Number one, those who are saying I need Jesus as
• 2:25:52
  a matter of life and death. Number two, those who
• 2:25:56
  are saying, Apostle, my life has gone haywire. I need
• 2:25:59
  restoration to my Christian experience. If you belong to any
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  of these two categories, I'm going to count one.
• 2:26:05
  Speaker 2: To five, please very quickly.
• 2:26:07
  Speaker 1: I'd like you to rush and common stand, be very bold,
• 2:26:11
  don't be afraid, don't be ashamed.
• 2:26:13
  Speaker 2: God bless you. Let's celebrate them as they come.
• 2:26:17
  Speaker 1: Who is this King of glory, the Lord Strong and mighty,
• 2:26:24
  the Lord mighty in battle armed? Who is this King
• 2:26:33
  of glory keep coming, the Lord Strong and mighty, the
• 2:26:39
  Lord keep coming for die, the power and glory forver
• 2:26:55
  and ef aarmed.
• 2:26:59
  Speaker 2: For that, the power.
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  Speaker 4: Forver and e Armen, allelujah. Now before I pray for
• 2:27:18
  all those who have come to give their heart to Jesus.
• 2:27:23
  Speaker 1: Let me just make one very important announcement. Please let
• 2:27:26
  me have your attention. By God's grace, our medical team
• 2:27:31
  is embarking on an outreach to one of the I
• 2:27:34
  d p C and I was going to say prays
• 2:27:39
  the name of the Lord. Are you happy to celebrate Jesus? Amen?
• 2:27:44
  Can I have doctor Chip please come, he's the head
• 2:27:47
  of the medical team. Please quickly, just come now. The
• 2:27:52
  medical team is searching for volunteers. Volunteers who will participate
• 2:27:56
  in the medical outreach. Particularly, they are looking for doctors, nurses,
• 2:28:03
  lab scientists and pharmacists. All interested persons. Please, if you're
• 2:28:07
  interested in being part of this outreach is a noble cause.
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  When is it the date fourth of December? So we
• 2:28:15
  have just on Saturday on the fourth of December. You're
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  a paramedic, you're a medical person, and you feel that
• 2:28:21
  this is an opportunity you want to be part of it.
• 2:28:24
  Please immediately after the service, he's going to be standing
• 2:28:27
  right here. You can come and meet him and say
• 2:28:30
  I want to be part of it, and probably you
• 2:28:33
  want to just come in and support them in whatever way.
• 2:28:35
  We have taken responsibility as a ministry but then we're
• 2:28:38
  also going to open up doors. Should you want to
• 2:28:41
  do anything without coercion by revelation from a heart of love,
• 2:28:45
  please feel free to do it. And so this is
• 2:28:47
  what tests running our humanitarian services. So the medical team
• 2:28:52
  is leading on this, and we want to see that
• 2:28:55
  we're able to bless the people and to bless God's people.
• 2:28:59
  So many people at that IDP camp, and we want
• 2:29:02
  to just supply food, medicals and see how probably we
• 2:29:06
  sing a ballhole or two or just do something for
• 2:29:09
  the community.
• 2:29:10
  Speaker 2: God is granting us grace in the name of Jesus Christ.
• 2:29:13
  Speaker 1: So please, immediately after the service you want to be
• 2:29:17
  part of this as a volunteer, please do well to
• 2:29:20
  see doctor. He'll be waiting there. The Lord bless you
• 2:29:23
  in Jesus' name. I celebrate every one of you for coming.
• 2:29:27
  Thank you so much for making this bold decision. Please
• 2:29:30
  lift your right hand high above your head, and I
• 2:29:33
  want you to pray this prayer. Let it be from
• 2:29:34
  the depth of your heart. Say afterime me, Lord Jesus,
• 2:29:38
  I believe in you that you are the son of God.
• 2:29:43
  I believe that you died for me. I believe that
• 2:29:48
  you rose again for my justification. Tonight I have heard
• 2:29:53
  your word. I receive eternal life into my spirit, and
• 2:29:59
  I declare that you are my Savior. You are my Lord,
• 2:30:04
  and you are my King. I decree and declare that
• 2:30:10
  the power of sin, Satan, hell, and the grave is
• 2:30:16
  broken over my life. From today I leave a victorious
• 2:30:21
  Christian life, serving the purposes of God and being a
• 2:30:26
  blessing to humanity. In Jesus' name, a man, keep your
• 2:30:31
  hands lifted, Father, thank you for this. Precious people. We
• 2:30:33
  love them so they have come before you making their
• 2:30:37
  declaration to start a new life in Christ. I pray
• 2:30:41
  by the authority of Scripture that their sins are forgiven.
• 2:30:44
  And I decree and declare that you enjoy the ministry
• 2:30:47
  of the world and the ministry of the Holy Spirit.
• 2:30:50
  May the Lord bless you. May the Lord honor you.
• 2:30:53
  In Jesus' name, Thank you and congratulations. May I request
• 2:30:57
  that you just move to my right. There are few
• 2:30:59
  counts us who will just attend to you within a
• 2:31:02
  minute or two, and you'll be back to your seat.
• 2:31:04
  God bless you. Let's celebrate them as they go. Let's
• 2:31:10
  celebrate them very quickly. Hallelujah. And then maybe I would
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  want to say this next week, by the grace of God,
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  the twenty eight will be our last miracle service, not
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  the last service, but the last miracle service for.
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  Speaker 2: The year twenty twenty one.
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  Speaker 1: Please let me encourage you everyone you love and seriously
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  intend for them to receive the power of God, healings, miracles, restoration,
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  whatever it is. Do well to inform them five on
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  the dot we're starting. And then on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday,
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  I will be in Zaria Wednesday for a teaching program,
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  Thursday for the graduation of a school of ministry students,
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  and then Friday for the last miracle service for Zaria
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  for the year twenty twenty one. So pray for us
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  and you can connect online. The Lord will bless you
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  in Jesus name. Thank you for your patience.
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  Speaker 2: Let's you the grace, the.
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  Speaker 1: Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God,
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  the sweet fellowship of the Holy Spirit.
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  Speaker 2: Let it rest on a bibe with us nown forever. Amen,
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  God bless you.
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  Speaker 1: See you next week
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  Speaker 6: And bitche