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The School of Faith (Part 1) by Apostle Joshua Selman (His Treasure House, Abuja–Nigeria) · Selah Media House

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  Hallelujah, blessed be the this well standing.
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  Help me appreciate the man of God as the Godwin and his
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  precious wife. Please give them a big, big God
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  bless you. Is this how you celebrate your
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  thank you Sir, Thank you sincerely.
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  Thank you Ma for this opportunity and I honor every
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  man and every woman of God here. Thank you very much.
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  It's a privilege to serve Jesus even in this capacity and I
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  trust that tonight will be an extraordinary experience for us.
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  In Jesus name, can we lift our hands to heaven and ask the Lord
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  for a very definite visitation tonight?
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  The Bible says for everyone that asketh receiveth, someone is
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  praying, familiarity, praying as many as appear before the Lord
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  in Zion. Someone is praying by where you
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  I'll take a minute or two and just pray in the Spirit to
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  prepare the soil of my heart that as His word comes, it will
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  fall on good ground. Someone pray.
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  In Jesus mighty name we pray. Father, we ask that you speak to
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  our hearts tonight. We have come to be challenged.
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  We have come to grow. We have come to acts and heights
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  in the Spirit so we can do more even for Your glory.
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  Therefore, we submit ourselves to the wisdom that only comes by
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  your word, that only comes by Your Spirit.
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  Our hearts are receptive. We pray that you speak and that
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  the Spirit of the living God will find unrestrained access
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  tonight to the glory of Jesus the Son.
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  Amen and Amen. Please be seated.
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  Thank you. I was very inspired when I saw
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  the theme for the conference audacious and I thought to
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  myself I take my meetings very seriously.
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  So I think and pray and wonder if the people really mean what
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  they sent as a team generally. And so I was very inspired
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  hearing pastor give the charge because the topics like these
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  are very deeper like he said than most people see.
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  I hope tonight that as I take my session that it will really
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  challenge someone in the name of Jesus.
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  Generally speak posits divine realities in a man.
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  He expects that the fullness of that experience will come on the
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  strength of understanding. Hallelujah.
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  For instance, the believer receives what you know as
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  eternal life, the life of God. At the moment where you confess
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  the Lordship of Jesus based on the authority of Scripture, you
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  become a bona fide recipient of the life of God.
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  But the experience of that life is based on a thorough
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  understanding first of God, his ways are we together, and then
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  the ability to walk in that experience.
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  So you can find two people saved by the same Lord and Christ,
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  recipients of the same quality of life, but their Christian
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  experiences would differ sometimes east from the West.
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  The difference is not in the quality of what they received,
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  but that unraveling the riches that comes with that life
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  depends on knowledge. Hallelujah, Hallelujah.
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  It is painful to know what should be and then not have the
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  knowledge to step into the experience of it.
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  This was the case of the man at the pool of Bethesda.
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  He knew that there was potential for his healing.
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  He knew that the resources for his healing were available.
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  You see that. But there were gaps as far as
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  the steps for his healing to be maximized were concerned.
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  And just the gap of the absence of one man made something that
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  could happen in one minute to linger for 38 years.
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  When Jesus came and met him, the man said, I have no man, this is
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  my only thing. I know where the water would be.
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  I know what should happen when I get in there.
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  But the last step, the absence of a man, prolonged a situation
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  that could be solved within seconds.
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  In fact, Hallelujah and prolong that situation and made it 38
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  years. I'm praying that in the name of
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  Jesus, there will be the hearing of faith tonight and with it The
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  Walking of miracles. Amen and Amen.
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  Romans 15 and verse 4. Let's start from there.
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  Romans 15 and verse 4. The Bible says this.
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  Will media help us? OK, thank you.
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  Thank you media, for whatsoever things were written before time.
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  KJV, which is my preferred. If we have that, that would be
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  fine. Otherwise I'm OK with it.
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  It says they were written a four time.
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  Thank you. Romans 15 Four.
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  Thank you for whatsoever things were written a four time.
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  The Bible says they were written for our learning.
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  Pay attention now so that we through patience and comfort of
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  the Scripture might find hope. So Paul is speaking to the
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  church in Rome and he's given them a very important
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  information that everything you see captured in Scripture that
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  the intent behind it is that it should school you.
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  Are we together? It is for our learning.
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  These things were documented to help us learn to know God and
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  even to understand His ways. We'll be examining Hebrews
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  Chapter 11. I'll be teaching on the School
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  of faith, the School of Faith, and let's call tonight Part 1,
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  the School of Faith. The believer's walk in life and
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  destiny will always demand partnership with the invisible
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  realm. God so designed that man will
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  not be able to actualize destiny, fulfill purpose to
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  God's expectation outside of his participation with the spirit
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  realm, Hallelujah. In fact, the Bible acknowledges
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  that man came from the spirit realm.
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  Hallelujah. And so our walk on the earth,
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  living and then fulfilling our destinies would always desire or
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  demand that we have this awareness that it is in
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  partnership with God, in partnership with the realm of
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  the Spirit, that we ever succeed in this realm.
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  This is very important. So let's look at Hebrews chapter
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  1. We'll read the first 4 verses,
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  but then we'll start with the 1st 2 verses.
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  May I request that we read together?
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  Ready One to read Hebrews 11 and one media.
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  You can correct that back. It's 11 and one media 11.
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  OK, thank you. One to read now.
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  Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of
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  things not seen. Please read verse one again one
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  more time the evidence of things not seen verse 2 for by it the
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  elders obtained a good report. So let's now read 3 and 4 verse
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  3. Now true faith, we understand
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  that the world's were framed by the word of God, so that things
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  which are seen were not made of things which do appear.
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  For it says, by faith Abel offered unto God a more
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  excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness,
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  that he was righteous God testifying of his gifts, and
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  that by it he been dead. Yet speaking.
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  May the Lord help us in the name of Jesus Christ.
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  A few things we have to learn about the character of faith
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  from this Scripture. And the first thing the Bible
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  tells us is that faith is verse one, the substance.
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  The word substance there means the tangibility, the substance
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  of things. We can go back to verse one, my
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  dear media people. The substance of things hoped
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  for. The substance of things hoped
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  for. Then it also calls it the
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  evidence of the things that are not seen.
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  So the Bible describes faith number one in relation to
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  things. Please follow carefully.
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  The first revelation of faith we see here from verse one is as a
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  reality in connection to things, the substance of things and the
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  evidence of things now. But when we go to verse 2, we
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  see a very interesting addition that most people do not pay
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  attention to. The Bible now tells you that in
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  addition to things, faith is also connected to a good report.
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  Hallelujah. So he's given us an
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  understanding about faith. That faith has a 2 fold
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  assignment. Number one, it's assignment in
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  connection to things and then #2 it's connection to a good
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  report. The Bible says by this faith the
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  elders obtained. So what the elders obtained were
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  not just things beyond things. They also obtained a good
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  report. Bible faith does not stop at
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  obtaining things that there is a higher layer.
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  Are we together now to the economy of faith that at the end
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  of your journey you should not just arrive at obtaining things,
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  you must have a good report. So faith from this Scripture
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  immediately tells us that faith has 2 assignments #1 to help the
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  Saints obtain their desires and then #2 to help the Saints to
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  have a good report. This is very powerful.
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  Notice that most believers in our study or understanding of
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  faith will limit the operation of faith to things.
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  And that is right. But that is not enough.
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  Are we together? So the average believer
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  understands faith with respect to its ability to obtain things.
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  And that is true because the Bible leaves a provision for
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  believers to use faith. For instance, the Bible says
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  what things so ever ye desire. It says, when he prayed, that
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  you believe that thou receiveth them and thou shalt have them.
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  So we know that there is a place for receiving things, but the
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  Bible tells us that the whole process of faith should not just
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  stop in obtaining things. Are we following now?
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  It then means that every time we study faith, there are two
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  things we should be looking for. It's ability to deliver things
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  and it's ability to bring the individuals who have a good
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  report. And Hebrews goes further to let
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  us know that there are sometimes that faith does not deliver
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  things, but it must always deliver a good report.
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  So in the workings of faith, a good report is greater than
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  obtaining things. Because when you study the
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  entire discourse of all those who were called the elders, some
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  of them did not obtain things, but the Bible says all of them
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  obtained a good report, and yet it called them elders.
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  Are we together now? This is very important.
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  So everywhere we study faith, we must seek to find desires
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  actualized, but then we must also seek to find where reports
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  were established. Therein lies the disappointment
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  of many believers because we have limited the understanding
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  of faith to things and once we fail to obtain things through
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  faith, we feel disappointed and sometimes even women of God.
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  We lack the ability to explain to people why they seem to have
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  believed God but the end of their journey did not end up
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  with getting things. When you understand the way
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  faith works, you will know that getting things is a very is an
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  inferior part of faith, that a more superior approach to faith
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  is obtaining a good report. So by this understanding, we see
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  immediately that faith is a platform, but faith is a
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  journey. Hallelujah.
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  Faith is a platform that helps the believer to obtain promises,
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  to actualize desires. But that more than a platform,
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  faith is also a journey. And that in that journey, the
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  end of it is not receiving things.
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  The end of it is having a testimony.
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  There is something. The journey does not affect your
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  hand, it affects you your entire life.
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  Listen, if you get what I'm teaching you, your Christian
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  experience will be solid and you will do things that only God can
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  do. Are we together?
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  Let's now look at verse three. You will understand what I said.
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  Hebrews 1 or Hebrews 11. Now verse 3, watch this.
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  Through faith we understand that the words were framed by the
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  word of God, so that the things that are it says that it did not
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  come from the things that do appear.
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  Verse 4. Now verse 4 it says by faith,
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  Watch this. Now Abel offered unto God a more
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  excellent sacrifice than Cain. Watch this by which he obtained
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  witness. What did he obtain?
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  He did not obtain things that he was a righteous man.
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  This was the end of his journey. For him, faith was not a
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  platform to receive things. The first example.
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  Are we together now? The first example of faith in
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  the Bible, the Bible says he obtained witness that he was
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  righteous. God testifying of his gifts and
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  that by it, even though he was dead, yet he speaks that the
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  journey of Abel did something to him.
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  He never got anything physical, but he earned a place, a good
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  report. Are we together now?
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  And then you look at the next person very strangely, verse 5,
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  verse 5. Now by faith, the second example
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  that the Bible gives us is the man Enoch.
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  Enoch was translated so that he should not see death and was not
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  because God had translated him. And before his translation,
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  again, what he had was not things.
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  He had a testimony. This was his testimony that he
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  pleased God. Example #3 Are we following
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  tonight? Verse 6 please, gives us the
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  third example that without faith it is impossible to please Him.
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  For he that comment unto God must believe that He is, and
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  then He's the rewarder of them that diligently seek Him.
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  Next verse please. I want us to see the third
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  example. The third example is Noah.
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  So are we following now? The first example is Abel, then
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  Enoch, then Noah. It says by faith Noah been
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  warned of of God, of things not seen as yet moved with fear.
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  He prepared an act to the saving of his house, and by the which
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  he condemned the world and became an heir of the
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  righteousness which is by faith Noah.
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  Now verse 8. Now you see what happened with
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  Noah. The Bible says Noah did not
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  receive anything, but he obtained a good report that he
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  was a righteous man because when God warned him he moved with
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  fear the first time. From Hebrews 11 we see promises
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  and we see receiving and we see inheritance started with the man
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  Abraham. Are we together by faith?
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  Abraham, when he was called, the Bible says he went called into a
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  place which he should go after he received one inheritance.
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  We now see obedience. And then in fact, the Bible
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  tells us it was not everything God promised Abraham that he
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  received on his saw in his life, because the Bible would tell us
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  that this man did not obtain certain promises.
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  So Bible faith is not limited to receiving things.
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  Are we following the journey now that Bible faith should not just
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  stop in the realm of using it as a platform to receive things.
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  That faith is also the name given to the journey that
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  affects you more than you're receiving.
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  Hallelujah. Many people are not strong and
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  audacious because they have limited the operation of faith
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  to only become a platform that helps them receive things.
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  So there is faith for reports and then to obtain promises.
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  Let's look at Hebrews 11 from verse 32 down to 35.
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  This is very profound. I'm bring simple because I want
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  everybody to follow along. And what shall I say more?
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  For time will fail me to tell of Gideon and Barack.
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  Watch this now. And Samson and Jephta, of David
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  also, and Samuel and of the prophets were reading to 3533.
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  Now who? Through faith?
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  Watch all the things that faith accomplished.
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  Subdued kingdoms wrought righteousness.
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  Obtain promises. Stop the mouth of lions. 34
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  Quench the violence of fire, escape the edge of the sword,
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  out of weakness were made strong.
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  Wax valiant in fight, turn to flight the armies of the aliens.
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  Now it switches dimensions in verse 35 women who received
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  their dead to life again. Then it says orders were
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  tortured, not accepting deliverance, that they might
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  obtain a better resurrection. You see that now.
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  In fact, if we extend it to verse 36, it gives you a very,
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  very, very interesting perspective.
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  Can we add that 36, Verse 36 of Hebrews 11, it says an orders
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  had the trial of cruel mockings and scourgings and so on and so
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  forth. Look at these guys.
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  The Bible is telling you that these people who went through
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  scourging, they were not receiving things.
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  They were obtaining reports and the Bible adds all of them and
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  it calls them elders and it says all of them manifested faith.
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  That means if your faith just stops or is limited to receiving
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  things, there is a dimension of God's design of faith that you
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  may never step into. Are we together now?
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  Praise the name of the Lord. I've listened to so many
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  teachings about faith, blessed by them, but I think this
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  limitation in our understanding of faith has affected our
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  confidence and it has dampened our audacity.
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  We're not able to face life because we have reduced faith
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  only to the realm where it is a platform that helps us to obtain
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  things. I wrote something here and I
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  wanted to listen and then write that there is faith as a school,
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  a journey that helps you to know God in his various dimensions.
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  There is faith as a school, a journey that helps you to know
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  God in his various dimensions, and then it gives you a noble
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  report before God. There is faith as a school,
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  there is faith as a journey, and that at the end of that journey
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  it is not things that you receive at the end of it.
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  There is an an evolution that happens.
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  You are the one who is changed. You see that now your confidence
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  is affected, your perspective is affected, and then there is
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  faith as a platform for making spiritual realities manifest.
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  I like Second Timothy verse 1 and 12.
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  Second Timothy verse 1 and 12. Guess what it says?
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  It says, But I know whom I have believed.
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  Second Timothy 112 And I am persuaded, for I know whom I
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  have believed. Is that in your Bible.
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  And I am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have
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  committed unto him against that day.
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  Notice he did not say I have believed.
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  He said I know whom I have believed.
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  The believing came later on, but my encounter, my intimacy, I'm
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  not just believing him. I know whom I believe.
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  Looks like what Jesus was discussing with the woman at the
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  well. He say you worship what you know
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  not of. You are just worshiping as a
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  ritual, but we have come into a place of intimacy where we know
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  the God that we believe. Hallelujah.
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  Job 13 and verse 15 says though He slay me, Job is speaking, yet
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  will I trust him? Not just yet will I receive from
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  him. Job was a man of faith and he
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  said though he slay me, yet will I trust him.
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  I'm telling you that faith is not always about receiving.
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  Faith is also a tool that produces transformation, that
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  helps the believer to know and become like God.
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  That in the economy of God, receiving is the lesser part of
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  faith. What faith does to you, the
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  confidence it produces out of you, the experience of God, He
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  gives you the report that you have before God is a most
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  superior purpose to the whole subject of faith.
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  Hallelujah, praise the name of the Lord, everybody who begins
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  His work with God. You see, when God begins to
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  journey with you two seasons, you are called a man of faith,
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  not by how many things you obtained, but the experiences
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  that you went through and the reports that came out of those
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  experiences. 1 of it like Pastor shared being a man of patience.
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  That's something about God you should.
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  You wouldn't have known otherwise.
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  I like how the Samus puts it. Yeah.
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  Though I walked through the valley of the shadow of death,
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  he never said you took me out. I walked through the valley of
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  the shadow of death. He says I will fear no evil.
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  Fear was not something he came into that experience with all
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  courage. He came in with fear, but
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  something happened as he began to confront that situation.
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  He learned God through that situation and his conclusion and
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  his report is that I have found out that this thing does not
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  have as much power as it looked before I got into that
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  situation. One of the ways God makes us
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  courageous is to create a scenario where we stand before
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  our fears for a long time, long enough to deflate that fear, and
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  you will find out that it never really had the power it proposed
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  to have. So the believer generally uses
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  faith for avoidance. We use faith quickly to pray and
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  say, Lord, you are God, I'm speaking your word.
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  May I never get into this situation.
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  This is what I want. I describe it by faith, and that
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  is not right. That is not wrong.
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  But I'm saying when God is dealing with you, what he seeks
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  to produce out of you, a noble report will demand that faith
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  for you does not just become a platform, but that it becomes a
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  school. A school where you learn God
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  experientially, you learn God pragmatically.
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  There is something about God that only your tears can reveal.
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  There is something about God that only the gift of pain in
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  your life can reveal. This is an uncomfortable truth,
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  but this is how people become champions in the Spirit.
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  Are we together now? So you get to a point where your
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  focus is on the knowledge of God and the reports that you obtain
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  before Him. You care less about whether
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  things appear or not. I will take time to teach about
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  things. Faith was a platform to receive
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  things. But I'm saying your Christian
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  experience will be a plethora of disappointments.
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  In fact, because of the many disappointments as a result of
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  the absence of things, you will not pay attention to the
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  transformation that is happening and the knowledge of God that
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  you are now having an experience.
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  Are we together? So for instance, I'm trusting
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  God for a job and I've been told that if I believe the word and I
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  speak the Word, the cattle on 1000 Hill belongs to the Lord.
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  Is that true? God is called the Father of
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  spirits. He can manipulate every human
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  spirit to work His purposes in my life.
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  I agree. So in the place of prayer, your
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  focus is things, in this case the job, your whole attention.
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  That means the end point of your faith, as programmed by your
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  understanding, is that when a job arrives, God has shown
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  himself as faithful. He has answered me, Are we
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  together? But you do not know that the job
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  is a lesser part of God's concern.
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  There is something He wants to make out of your life.
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  Are we together now? And while your attention is on
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  the job and now you trusted God and release your faith.
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  So the seed spoke the word, submitted your CV and entrust
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  that after two months you will get the job.
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  Now it's two years, the job has not come and the devil
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  manipulates your understanding to leave you disappointed.
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  If they say those who have faith stand up, you most likely not
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  stand up because your parameter for measuring faith is the
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  presence of things. You will not know that in
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  within, in those two years, God has worked patience within you.
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  God has worked contentment within you.
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  God has granted you the strength and the capacity to be able to
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  look at good doors and still don't open them until you verify
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  that God is the one that brought the door.
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  These are things that you cannot get just in a sermon.
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  There is a journey and God is saying that in his economy that
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  journey is also called faith. Hallelujah.
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  So most believers measure faith-based on the presence of
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  things. So if you say those who have
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  faith, usually the man with all due respect who has a car, who
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  has flashy clothes, a good house, things that attest to the
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  fact that the word of God has worked.
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  While some members somewhere who may not have anything but a rich
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  testimony that I have learned how to trust God in spite of my
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  Father mother's departure, my mother's departure.
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  I had 20 naira by January and I'm still standing by December.
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  That person may not know that that is a nobler report before
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  God. Are we together?
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  Yeah. So the one who has only had five
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  members even after two years, the man when he stands with
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  someone who may have a lot more members, generally our
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  assessment will be that this one is doing better than this and
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  his faith is working more than this.
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  But God has taught this man. He has purified his desire.
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  The pressure of pleasing men is no longer there.
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  It was pruned out by teaching only 5 people for two years.
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  His pride was tongue till he died.
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  Are we learning who you become is more important to God than
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  what you receive. I will say it again in the
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  dealing of men with God, who you become.
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  That's why God uses every opportunity to partner with your
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  expectation for your transformation.
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  In God's mind, obtaining things is a lesser concern because He
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  knows that if that transformation happens to you,
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  things the thing you even are looking for, sometimes it can be
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  because of your former version. By the time you are transformed,
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  you will find out that what you were really praying for was
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  unnecessary because your growth will now make it unnecessary.
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  You will soon find out that he was jealousy that created that
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  prayer point, not a necessity for your destiny.
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  You were just angry and envious. And God will say, rather than
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  just giving you that, you will keep fueling your continuation
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  in the flesh. So He will use the opportunity,
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  including the disappointment, to grow you to a point where you
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  will now from that purified self, that purified version, you
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  will find out that you did not really have many prayer
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  requests. That long list was what flesh
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  gave you. So rather than answering it, He
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  transforms you, and your transformation keeps knocking
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  out those prayer requests. You find out they were not
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  requests in the 1st place. Do you understand what I've
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  thought so far? So that in God's dealings with
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  men, as far as faith is concerned, His concern is not
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  your hand receiving things? Because I can tell you when God
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  begins to walk with men, usually because of the flesh and the
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  nature of sin and its loss that are enshrined in our hearts,
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  most of our desires are not with respect to Him or His program.
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  They are usually fueled from a standpoint of lost.
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  And that does not mean we are bad, it just means that we are
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  still frail in ourselves. So when God begins to walk with
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  a man, His interest is not giving things.
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  His interest is changing that man.
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  Listen, this is very important because two believers or two
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  persons, young people for instance, can start out their
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  lives and after two years one may not seem to have made the
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  kind of progress that he desired.
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  Are we together? And sometimes in church, if we
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  are not careful, we bring people out of a very powerful training
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  they're having with God that this system may not have
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  anything physical, but then she's obtaining she's on a
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  journey that is giving her a good report.
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  And sometimes we abort that journey impossible for things.
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  Your transformation with God is of more value than the things
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  you receive because many of the things that that become the
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  starting point for our our manifesting faith.
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  You see, when you know God, you will find out that most of those
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  prayer points were unnecessary. Hallelujah.
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  When I started my work with God, I started with zeal and passion
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  because we were taught that faith gives things and it is
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  true. It remains true eternally.
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  So our concern with God was how to use faith to get out of this
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  unfavorable condition. We found ourselves as fast as
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  possible. The speed of that manifestation
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  determined the strength of our faith.
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  So we thought. So that means God, if you can
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  Take Me Out of this poverty in one week, translate me from one
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  room to a a three bedroom flat. Wipe my tears, give me Visa,
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  change my life. These things are wonderful.
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  You see, I mentioned Visa and someone smile.
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  Are we together Visa? So usually when we study the
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  subject of faith, this is what I want.
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  What must I do to make it happen?
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  That is the scope of our study. You see, it doesn't matter what
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  motivated the desire. We just believe that faith is a
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  magical instrument used to fulfill every desire.
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  It doesn't matter how it came. So I want to go abroad.
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  Whether it's the will of God or not, that is none of my
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  business. I was told that faith can help
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  me get a visa. It can force someone on the
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  other side of the counter to stamp my visa.
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  So I now begin to study. OK, I find speaking as part of
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  the equation. So I speak.
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  I find giving as part of the equation.
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  So I give. I find coming to church as part
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  of the equation. So I come, I find prophetic
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  blessings. I engage everything.
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  And now my expectation is to the roof.
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  I stand before the consular and I'm denied the visa and I cannot
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  understand. So what was I singing on Sunday?
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  You are God alone from before time began.
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  You are on your throne, right the visa office now.
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  You are God alone and right now, and I see that is the end of it.
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  As soon as you get home, you prophesied, you drop the seed,
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  and you expected 1,000,000 to appear for your rent.
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  I was younger, now I am old. I've not seen the righteous
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  forsaken nor his seed beg for bread.
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  And in the presence of your landlord, your account is still
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  empty. And then you say, God, What is
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  the name of what we are doing? I have practiced everything I
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  read in Kenneth Higgins book. I listened to my pastor
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  diligently. I emptied my account just last
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  week. What are you doing to me?
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  Oh God, then I see that is not enough.
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  Your colleague just passes with a beautiful BMW events.
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  I say how are you? It's so good to see you after
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  five years. What have you been up to now see
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  I'm trying to go out of this country says well I know you've
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  always been a serious Christian right on campus.
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  In fact, May I just got born again two years ago and thank
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  God for your zeal. I'm sure God will do it and he
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  haunts you and leaves. And now I'm describing for you,
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  someone put yourself in the shoes of that someone and you're
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  kicking stones on your way home because you don't have your
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  transport. And you stand at home and say,
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  Lord, am I really a man of faith?
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  And when you come to church and they say all those who are faith
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  stand up, your mind will tell you dare not stand up.
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  Where is the car? Where is the visa?
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  And yet heaven is clapping for you and saying you are a
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  champion. There is a report you are
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  building. Are we together now that the
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  person who has a car in a house has an obvious reason to roll on
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  the ground during worship, but that you who may not have
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  anything, you are learning to trust God in the midst of pain?
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  And the name you called Him, even in the midst of your
• 37:53
  disappointed expectation, you did not change that name.
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  You still called Him faithful and true.
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  There is a report you are building, many of you here,
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  administrators, how do you write a report?
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  Do you summarize a report? A report is elaborate.
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  It takes a while. You describe things.
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  The Bible says you are obtaining a good report.
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  So you'll find out that what made you cry last year.
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  If the landlord comes back, you are still eating.
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  I'm going to call police and no problem.
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  You are, you are already you've been threatened with police.
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  That fear has gone away. You tell the man please sit down
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  we're all humans. If you want take me to the
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  police. I'm sick going.
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  It's not desperation, it's growth.
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  Something has happened to you that what what would have made
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  you have this magical fear driven fast fear different
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  prayer that is not of faith. There is a purification that has
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  happened to you. You get to a point where you
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  say, Lord, I trust you, but I want you to know that if I have
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  to walk out with my children and my luggage, I will stand in the
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  midst of the shame and I will still call you faithful.
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  My description of you has now come as a result of conviction.
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  I have an experience with you that is greater than things.
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  And if everybody say where is your evidence, I will tell him,
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  search my spirit beyond my bank account, my evidence for knowing
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  and trusting and working with God.
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  Listen, when your faith stops at the rim of things, it will
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  affect your Christian life. I believe in things, so I'm
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  coming there. We're just climbing the ladder
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  gradually, that in working with God, your attention must go
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  beyond things. So many believers waste the
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  journey of faith because the devil cheats them through their
• 39:46
  limited understanding. Where is the faithful God?
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  By now you should have had a child.
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  You were prayed for, everything happened, you were prophesied
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  upon, and now it's two years. It's five years and you are so
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  embarrassed you don't know how to explain to people.
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  So you stop going to church because that is a remedy.
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  And it's not your fault because the members can't.
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  It's just it's out of concern. Is it that this, your own God
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  got no answer? Or is it that you are not
• 40:18
  trusting? And sometimes women of God, with
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  all due respect, we help again to deviate the people from the
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  path that is correct that they are following because we say
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  something must be wrong with your faith.
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  But I'm showing you now that faith is #1 the substance of
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  things, the evidence of things, but #2 it is a journey that
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  leaves you obtaining a good report, and that not all men in
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  the Bible obtain things, but all men had good reports.
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  It says, for by it's the elders, all of them.
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  There were promises. There were people who died
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  without receiving the promise. Yet the Bible calls it faith.
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  When you know this, ladies and gentlemen, certain Scripture now
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  certain Scriptures begin to make sense to you that our light
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  affliction, which is bought for a moment here.
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  This walketh in us, not give it to us, walketh in us a far more
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  exceeding weight of glory. That while we look at the things
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  that are, we look not at the things that are seen, but the
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  things that are unseen. For instance, your prayer
• 41:30
  requests that the things that you are seeing are temporal, but
• 41:34
  that there is a no blood transformation.
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  There is something else God is doing in you.
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  Hallelujah. When I started ministry, one
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  day, they called me to go and raise a dead body.
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  You know, this zeal and fire of fate, all things are possible.
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  Goodness, I mean, we advocated that from the depth of our
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  hearts. Now watch this.
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  I remember getting into the Mortuary and they were dead
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  bodies. Which one am I going to raise?
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  Because it's not just one or two.
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  And you know how these dead bodies were already embalmed, So
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  they took me to the one that I'm supposed to raise.
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  I didn't know what part of that body I would lay my hands on
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  because every part was like a stone.
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  Which part do you lay hands on? The head.
• 42:24
  All the scriptures I had read on resurrection filed into my
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  spirit. In the name of Jesus, I decree
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  come back to life. Absolutely nothing happened in
• 42:38
  the name of Jesus Christ. As a servant of the Lord Jesus
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  come back to life. OK, what did I say wrong?
• 42:45
  When Jesus stood at the tomb of Lazarus, he called the name.
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  What is the name of this guy who has died?
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  So, so, so and so back to life. Yet in my mind I thought I was
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  failing. I did not know that I was
• 43:00
  growing. Is someone learning now that I
• 43:04
  left that place? Not obtaining things?
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  But there was a good report because what you do after
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  disappointment is really what shows whether you believe God,
• 43:18
  what you do after the name you call God, after your tears,
• 43:24
  where you go to after everything fails.
• 43:27
  So many believers leave church and they say, you know what?
• 43:31
  I've been there and my life has not changed.
• 43:33
  What they mean is that I've not gotten the things that sometimes
• 43:37
  my lost as programmed as prayer requests and we put pressure on
• 43:41
  men of God to save you are really powerful.
• 43:44
  Let your God make the things that I've put on my prayer
• 43:47
  request come to pass immediately.
• 43:49
  And so our measure of faith is the speed with which we take
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  those lists, not just our transformation.
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  I'm showing you now that the nobler part of faith, it's not
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  just obtaining things, but what God is doing in you.
• 44:06
  Many years ago I preached a message called Knowing God
• 44:09
  experientially, and I thought that there is a dimension of God
• 44:13
  you will never know by theory. You will have to pass through
• 44:16
  fire. You will have to receive the
• 44:19
  gift of pain to know God. In the midst of that, the Angel
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  appears to a young virgin called Mary and says you are favored.
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  I've studied Mary's life. I still do not know what looks
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  like favor. You study her life from the day
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  the Angel met her till opera room.
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  I don't see anything spectacular happening in the life of Mary
• 44:42
  that describes our idea of favor.
• 44:45
  Yet the Bible says she's not just favor, but highly.
• 44:49
  The next thing that follows that statement is a controversy and
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  she's about to lose her husband. Suddenly her stomach is
• 44:58
  protruding and Joseph says, what is the meaning of this?
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  You are a virgin. Yes.
• 45:05
  What happened? My stomach.
• 45:07
  I met an Angel. I'm sincere.
• 45:09
  I'm telling you this is an Angel that appeared to me and he said
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  the Holy Ghost will come upon me.
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  Imagine telling your in laws, that kind of thing.
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  It's better to keep quiet than even to sound stupid.
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  You see, sometimes we think that these things are just parables.
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  Do you think that Mary was just a quiet lady who just endured
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  until the pregnancy came? The Bible says Joseph was
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  planning to live in peace. He didn't want to embarrass her
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  publicly. But I can't take this.
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  I'm on my way going. It took God intervening.
• 45:38
  How about all that naysayers within the society?
• 45:42
  They will see and say highly favored stupid woman.
• 45:45
  You better confess the rabbi or describe or the Pharisee that
• 45:51
  tells us where bad people, the whole society knows you that has
• 45:54
  claimed you are a nice person. Look at it now.
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  In all of our madness, we did not have children out of wedlock
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  and yours. Now you claim you're a woman of
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  God and then she had to endure. The Bible says Mary kept these
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  things to herself, and yet the Bible calls it highly favored.
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  Ladies and gentlemen, based on your knowledge of favor in
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  relation to things. What did she obtain at the day
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  she gave back to Jesus? It was even an uncomfortable
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  thing. And then after that she hears
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  that they are looking to kill all children from two years and
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  below. What looks like favor in that
• 46:34
  story? I will tell you where the favor
• 46:38
  is. A day will come.
• 46:41
  People will call to the table of greatness those who have a kind
• 46:46
  of pain that only you have, and you'll be the only one to be
• 46:49
  able to stand up when you get to heaven.
• 46:53
  Among the many ways we know, Jesus is not just by the crown.
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  The 20 and 4 elders also have crowns, but there is a scar that
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  only one person has. That what is a basis for shame
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  today will be what you will be proud of tomorrow.
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  And the Bible calls it faith. Now faith is the substance of
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  things, the evidence of things. We usually stop there.
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  So our mind is programmed towards things.
• 47:24
  Cars, houses, nothing wrong, breakthrough, increase.
• 47:30
  And then the Bible says more than things, that there are
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  times you may not get things, but your attention must go to
• 47:37
  the report. And the Bible gives us an
• 47:40
  example. The first three people had
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  nothing to do with obtaining things.
• 47:46
  Abel, Enoch, Noah, all of them obtained reports either as
• 47:53
  righteous people or whatever it is that happened to them.
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  It's only when we get to Abraham that we now see that Abraham
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  believed. We now see the word obedience,
• 48:04
  We see the word believe. We see the word receiving.
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  And even for Abraham it was not everything, because the Bible
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  says indeed, shall all the families of the earth be
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  blessed. He never saw that one.
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  He died. He saw Isaac, but he never saw
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  the salvation that would come to him.
• 48:24
  How about the women who had the opportunity to experience life,
• 48:28
  but the Bible said they rejected deliverance because there was
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  something nobler. The report was of greater
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  essence to them than receiving things.
• 48:36
  They had the opportunity to use the power of the Holy Ghost to
• 48:40
  command deliverance, but they said no.
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  I'd rather be called the Mattia than to be called someone.
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  They, they, they chose that report.
• 48:47
  This is a very hard teaching to accept, but you see how it's
• 48:54
  affecting you. Now, what about my prayer
• 48:57
  request? I came with this in my pocket.
• 48:58
  Leave it there. We're going to pray on it.
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  There's nothing wrong with your prayer request, but that if your
• 49:04
  faith, if your walk with God, is simply tied to the God who can
• 49:09
  be compelled by principles to respond to your prayer request.
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  There is a side of God you will not know, and many good things
• 49:17
  that are happening in your life will be mistaken for evil.
• 49:20
  You will call God unfaithful on many grounds, whereas heaven is
• 49:25
  clapping for you because you are growing back to a statement that
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  passed on me. The first crusade that we went
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  for as a ministry, I'm not sure we're more than 50.
• 49:41
  We prayed and fasted. God gave prophetic words.
• 49:46
  We woke up with dreams almost every day.
• 49:49
  You know how you pray to a point that you are dreaming every day
• 49:53
  and going for that crusade? The crusade will start about
• 49:56
  5:00. Around 2:00 we're still on the
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  way and the car spoiled. There was no chance of even
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  saying getting any car because we did not have money yet.
• 50:06
  We're going to show them a God of science and wonders in the
• 50:09
  crusade ground. Are we together?
• 50:12
  I had asked the sound people to be on their way.
• 50:14
  We agreed then for 150,000. Believe me, it was a very
• 50:19
  expensive amount. Go by faith, we'll pay you
• 50:22
  before the end of the crusade. So the guys were on their way
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  there. It took us singing and praying
• 50:29
  for that car to get back to life.
• 50:31
  As soon as we arrived there, true story.
• 50:34
  Our ladies had to climb the tree to plug firewood to make.
• 50:37
  Everybody was in every department.
• 50:39
  Worship team was also in welfare.
• 50:41
  You cook and then you go and prepare to sing.
• 50:45
  There's nothing like a location of everybody was in every
• 50:48
  department. It's time to pray.
• 50:50
  You pray if it's time to sing. If they are not complete
• 50:52
  somebody you join them and sing. No true story.
• 50:56
  I was standing and shouting on that crusade ground.
• 50:59
  The strange thing was miracles were happening and my some
• 51:04
  people that I was owing 150,000 they were also there witnessing
• 51:07
  the power of God. I preached with power, I
• 51:10
  preached with grace. Where we're lodging the team.
• 51:14
  We didn't have money to give him an advance and we needed to go
• 51:17
  and greet the traditional ruler. Where is the God that can raise
• 51:22
  somebody out of a wheelchair? What does it take to touch
• 51:25
  somebody's heart to help us for God's sake?
• 51:31
  Now the crusade was over and everybody was leaving.
• 51:33
  No transport to convey the team back to Zarya.
• 51:37
  I had to negotiate with the driver and said, I promise you,
• 51:40
  by the time you get to Zarya, your money will be waiting for
• 51:43
  you there. Just use your money and buy fuel
• 51:45
  on the way. Finally, after a lot of
• 51:47
  arguments, he agreed. Now you imagine a preacher that
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  was wearing suits two days before or a day before shouting
• 51:55
  on a crusade ground. And then the next woman you are
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  begging the person and say the unbelieving drivers now say what
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  kind of a confusing God are you serving?
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  Yes, Sir. I'm taking now time to share
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  this with you to encourage you because we'll pray shortly.
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  And when they left, I remember I needed recharge card.
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  Then phone just came out. I remember I was looking.
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  I said, God, you have to do a miracle where I'm going to get a
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  recharge card to put in my for. I can't even remember what
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  happened, but I finally got recharge card.
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  I pleaded, I said how do I do this because I needed I had to
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  dismiss the whole team and stayed back so that they don't
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  say man of God, can you preach and run away.
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  The hotel bills were there. We could not pay 150.
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  The sound, the sound. People were angry.
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  They said, what is this? You mean even 10,000?
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  You cannot look for it to give us.
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  I had to call somebody who was my teacher before.
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  I'm begging now, not as a man of God to beg the person to please
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  can I find 20,000? I can't remember how much I
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  asked him for. Say faith.
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  Say it again. As soon as we return the the
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  long story is just a miracle. Let me not bore you.
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  Or you can imagine how I came out of that situation.
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  Then God gives an instruction and says next year go back again
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  for that same crusade about God. My parents are life.
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  What is the meaning of this? Just because I chose to serve
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  you, wouldn't I have just gotten a job and lived a happy and
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  peaceful life? Go back again.
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  I said all right. I escaped prison.
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  I escaped all of these things. I was waiting for my scholarship
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  so that I will pay the sound people.
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  The thing was delayed. It didn't come.
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  I didn't know how to beg them. Someone wrote a post dated check
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  and gave they went back to Kaduna to to cash it.
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  It was it was what they call the thing the dodge checker.
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  They reverse back from Kaduna to Zarya.
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  No shadow, you won't lie it up mountain you won't climb up
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  coming after me. This is not a special number for
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  you. Now, unknown to me, I didn't
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  realize that through those storms I was not obtaining
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  things. But there was a report.
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  There was a report. How does God give you an
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  instruction to go back again to that same place?
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  What of the pastors that walked with you that you could not even
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  encourage them? You know, pastors from PFN, you
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  say thank you for helping us. You just wave them and say, May
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  God help you. We're all serving the Lord.
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  And the next day you want the next year, you want to call them
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  again. Yeah.
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  Do I walk through the valley of the shadow of death?
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  I start by fearing evil, but I stare at evil.
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  And then for a long time, it doesn't come close enough to
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  hurt me. And then I say, what was the
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  fear? After all, there are times you
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  don't go out of the storm. There are times the 4th man is
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  there with you because the miracle is only appreciated in
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  the storm. If they threw the three Hebrew
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  boys and they suddenly found them outside the fire, the
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  testimony would not be notable. It was the presence of the 4th
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  man in the midst of the fire that caused Nebuchadnezzar to
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  write a decree. Are we together now?
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  To cut the Long story short, after that time I remember in
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  the midst of my pain I went to the Lord praying and saying
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  thank you. True story.
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  I said Lord it is an honor for me to be able to serve you
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  regardless what shame and what pain has followed it.
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  I am happy and honored to be called your servant.
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  A good report and I remember God spoke some things for me in that
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  experience and said you will never beg for money for ministry
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  again and you will never have to borrow money for ministry again.
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  That was the last time till Jesus returns.
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  Now it's easy for people to see what God has done today and what
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  God is doing without humility and just believe that all I did
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  was just to open Hebrews 11, saw it, confessed it, and then it
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  worked. No Sir, there is an experience
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  with God. Your good report enhances your
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  obtaining things because you have gotten to a point where
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  having it or not having it does not change your disposition with
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  God. Are we together?
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  One other time in my life where my focus now was on my growth
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  and my relationship with God. It didn't matter to me again
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  whether ministry grew or not, honestly not from a standpoint
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  of carelessness. It was nobler for me to know
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  Jesus, to love Him, to live for Him.
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  Whether the nations knew me or not, whether I was a man of God,
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  accredited by men or not. That was no longer my concern.
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  It was to know Him, to love Him, to serve Him, and to see that I
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  was in His will. Part time.
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  When God got me to that point, He said something to me.
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  He said, Son, if you will let men see me, there is nothing I
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  will not give you. The greatest results in my life
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  started when my focus shifted from them to Him.
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  The greatest miracles in my life started when my focus shifted on
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  the pressure of proving that I was anointed to being concerned
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  about Jesus. If the man on the wheelchair is
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  not healed, I'm sorry. I did my best.
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  You can go home, come back again.
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  But if at the end of it, I can love Jesus, when he sees that
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  you have allowed faith as a journey, as a school to build
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  you the end of your faith possible should not be it.
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  It should be your transformation.
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  You'll get to a point where it is true that you desire results.
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  It is true that you want to obtain things, science and
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  wonders, prosperity and all of these things, but that you have
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  come to a point where you are not embarrassed at all.
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  Your greatest pain is not when you fail to obtain things, but
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  that if for any reason you find out that your relationship with
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  the Lord Jesus Christ has been disturbed by anything that
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  becomes your concern. The Bible talks about Abel do
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  dead yet speaking. The Bible talks about people who
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  went through pain and tragedy At the end of Job's life, in the
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  midst of all that happened, the Bible says he bowed down and he
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  worshipped. How do you worship when you're
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  getting a report that your children just died, your estate
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  got destroyed, some wind came to destroy your farm properties and
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  that Job cast himself upon the earth and worshipped.
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  God wants to bring you to a point where things it doesn't
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  become the object of your love and your worship and praise.
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  So if God gives me a car now, by the way, I've told you my other
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  stories. I'm sure that many of you have
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  heard it in my teaching as we prepare to pray for many years,
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  even when God started blessing me, God will not allow me move
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  to a bigger house. God will not allow me buy the
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  kind of car I could buy any car that I wanted to.
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  I would climb a bike. You can imagine service with a
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  crowd of people and you hear the sound of a bike.
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  You think they're dropping. Someone who came to church late.
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  That was me. My suit was more expensive than
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  the bike. It's not pride.
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  It was not luck. God, what are you doing to me
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  like this? I remember times when women who
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  come together and come to meet me just as more that's concerned
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  to know whether maybe there was something worrying me that I
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  could not share with somebody. In the middle I start hearing
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  you know how women fellowship may be present.
• 1:00:15
  What I know is my house. They are now coming to what is
• 1:00:19
  wrong and I say I'm fine. You are paying two-bedroom flats
• 1:00:22
  for people, 3 bedroom flats for people and here you are in one
• 1:00:25
  room. I would travel for ministrations
• 1:00:28
  with convoys driving me and return back home in one room.
• 1:00:32
  And I was proud of it. That was where.
• 1:00:34
  Look, when you say you're a man of God, it's not just that you
• 1:00:37
  were ordained to ministry, that you have died to a point where
• 1:00:41
  you can live for Jesus. The truest description of a man
• 1:00:46
  of God is not just one who can preach, it's one who has so
• 1:00:49
  died. He has now come back, but not
• 1:00:52
  with his life again, that he lives to project the image of
• 1:00:56
  the Christ. Are we together?
• 1:01:03
  I remember for a long time, one day, honestly speaking, I got
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  concerned once in God. Is it?
• 1:01:08
  I seen it. If I've seen against you, I'm
• 1:01:10
  sorry. The Lord is gracious and
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  compassionate. What is my own sin that you
• 1:01:15
  cannot? And God made a statement that
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  time. I remember he told me my house
• 1:01:19
  was not built yet and I sat down there.
• 1:01:21
  People will bring cars and God will ask me to just pray for
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  them, bless them, give them back the key to return.
• 1:01:28
  You know how painful that is. I know you can easily clap and
• 1:01:30
  say you love God. You tried.
• 1:01:32
  Let somebody come to meet you and I'm not talking of a car
• 1:01:35
  that is almost dead rich, serious car that will give God
• 1:01:38
  glory if you drive it. And then you pray over it and
• 1:01:44
  give the person to go back and there you are seated.
• 1:01:48
  Sleep will not come, the appetite to eat will not come
• 1:01:51
  and say what is the name of what we are doing?
• 1:01:59
  Hallelujah and then people are hearing you are paying
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  two-bedroom flat to me it it becomes believable to say, Are
• 1:02:06
  you sure this man isn't I? Doesn't this look like somebody
• 1:02:09
  who is doing something? Hallelujah.
• 1:02:16
  I found out that most of the things I would have wanted as
• 1:02:21
  results. I've never had to pray for them.
• 1:02:25
  When I obtained that good report, that good report became
• 1:02:29
  like a magnet. It drew many things beyond the
• 1:02:33
  things I would have prayed for. And I'm telling you this
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  truthfully and honestly, ladies and gentlemen, I can tell you
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  you're becoming is greater than you're receiving.
• 1:02:44
  You're becoming that conformity, that confidence, your true
• 1:02:50
  audacity comes in your encounter with God.
• 1:02:55
  Now, on the strength of that, the God you have known and you
• 1:03:00
  have encountered, when he sends you, you can stand until the
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  sick be healed and you are not speaking and hoping you know
• 1:03:09
  Him. Are we together?
• 1:03:11
  Your pain has revealed him, your hunger has revealed Him.
• 1:03:15
  Your desperation has revealed Him.
• 1:03:18
  You can't believe Him for anything.
• 1:03:21
  Anything I was honored to have pastor around during our
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  conference when the Lord gave me the instruction and he said I
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  want to do something through your life and he gave me that
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  instruction to go and organize the conference there.
• 1:03:39
  I don't even want to begin to tell you the bills.
• 1:03:41
  This is an intelligent church. You have an idea.
• 1:03:47
  There are things if you don't know God by don't write, you
• 1:03:50
  will become not just an embarrassment to yourself, but a
• 1:03:54
  lesson to generations that every time people want to teach on the
• 1:03:59
  punishment an individual receives for not knowing God,
• 1:04:03
  well, you are the person who will be used.
• 1:04:07
  That is, that is a global risk. You destroy yourself and
• 1:04:12
  everybody who has invested trust in you.
• 1:04:16
  Hallelujah. Then the Lord allows us to put a
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  program in a weekday in Europe, a weekday over 2000 plus workers
• 1:04:28
  to feed them. And then he says do not collect
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  offering no nothing. So when the Lord brought glory
• 1:04:38
  to his name and people were saying all those things, I threw
• 1:04:42
  away the phone and I was flat on the ground.
• 1:04:46
  That's your boy you once trained.
• 1:04:49
  Thank God for the honor of His service to you and to the
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  Kingdom. My becoming is of greater value
• 1:04:58
  to me than everything I have. So whatever I obtain or don't
• 1:05:03
  obtain, it is I cannot because something did not come into my
• 1:05:07
  life, say, God, where are you? That language?
• 1:05:09
  I, I divorce myself from that language.
• 1:05:12
  My relationship with the Lord Jesus is greater than the
• 1:05:14
  arrival or the departure of things.
• 1:05:17
  When things coming or things living have no effect in you on
• 1:05:22
  you, you have broken the power of Satan over your life.
• 1:05:26
  Because you see, Satan leverages on your disappointment.
• 1:05:30
  He uses the arrival or departure of things to try to describe
• 1:05:33
  God's faithfulness or otherwise. When you get to a point now
• 1:05:37
  where nothing that comes or nothing that goes affects your
• 1:05:41
  knowledge of God, are we together?
• 1:05:47
  So someone is sick in the hospital.
• 1:05:49
  You reach out by faith, and you lay your hands believing that
• 1:05:52
  the God of heaven would heal the person, but that if you hear
• 1:05:55
  that the person has passed on to glory in the midst of your
• 1:05:59
  tears, you say, Father, I give you thanks.
• 1:06:02
  Not that you begin to ask and say, God, where are you?
• 1:06:04
  You have failed me. No, in the midst of your pain
• 1:06:09
  you have grown with God to know that God loves you and in Him
• 1:06:13
  there is no evil in Him there is no shadow of turning, of
• 1:06:17
  variableness, that even when you cannot give a name to what is
• 1:06:21
  happening to you, you can call God in the midst of it and say
• 1:06:25
  you are faithful. When that happens to you, you
• 1:06:28
  have gotten to a realm where you frustrate Satan for the rest of
• 1:06:31
  your life because there is nothing he can hold on to with
• 1:06:35
  you again. What is he going to use to say
• 1:06:39
  God has not been faithful or a child?
• 1:06:43
  You tell him, I love God more than a child, a job.
• 1:06:46
  I love God more than a job. Now when you are praying for a
• 1:06:49
  job or you are praying for a child, listen, the correct and
• 1:06:53
  I'll round up with this. We'll pick it from there
• 1:06:54
  hopefully tomorrow. The correct basis for wanting
• 1:06:59
  things is the desire to use them as a tool to reveal Jesus
• 1:07:04
  through your life. Did you get that?
• 1:07:07
  Now when your pursuit and your desire becomes building your
• 1:07:12
  conviction from knowing Him. Now when you want a car, when
• 1:07:17
  you want great membership, when you want a great name, it is not
• 1:07:21
  because of the pressure of showing that the world is
• 1:07:24
  working. No, the world has been proven to
• 1:07:26
  work before you arrival and your experience is too small to
• 1:07:30
  negate the power of the world. Let God be true, he says, and
• 1:07:33
  all men liars. If I never get healed today, God
• 1:07:37
  is still a healer. My experience is too small to
• 1:07:40
  cancel out the integrity of the world that has been proven
• 1:07:43
  through the years. Are we together now?
• 1:07:47
  But now when I bow my knees and I say, God heal the people, it
• 1:07:51
  is more than a man of God trying to look for defense for his
• 1:07:55
  anointing. I have found out that it is a
• 1:07:58
  desire to be able to obtain this result so that the name of Jesus
• 1:08:03
  can be lifted. I'm showing you Bible faith that
• 1:08:07
  works. So when you write your requests,
• 1:08:10
  Lord, give me twins. Lord, give me a house in my
• 1:08:14
  tama. Lord, give me a visa.
• 1:08:18
  Lord, give me another citizenship.
• 1:08:21
  Do you know the reason why you are confident that God will
• 1:08:23
  answer it? Because number one, you have so
• 1:08:26
  died that answering it or not answering it does not affect
• 1:08:29
  your relationship with Jesus. But then #2 you are saying,
• 1:08:32
  Lord, here is an opportunity, that in answering this request
• 1:08:37
  you are giving me an opportunity to allow your name to be lifted
• 1:08:41
  and exalted. You have come to a point in the
• 1:08:43
  Spirit that the Bible calls fate.
• 1:08:47
  Every desire in your life is not isolated from the revelation of
• 1:08:53
  Jesus. Now you can pray with
• 1:08:54
  confidence. You can ask for the twins.
• 1:08:57
  You can say, Father, make me a Kingdom billionaire.
• 1:09:00
  And this is not just lost speaking.
• 1:09:02
  And the only way to test whether it is lost speaking or not is
• 1:09:06
  that your disappointment does not affect your relationship.
• 1:09:11
  So many people who say I am a man of faith in the body of
• 1:09:15
  Christ. The truth is that when you vet
• 1:09:17
  it from the lens of peace, do you have the honor shamedness to
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  forgo things to obtain a good report and when you want to now
• 1:09:26
  obtain things, is your desire and motive just to use them to
• 1:09:31
  show whether or not God is faithful.
• 1:09:34
  God is faithful from the time your pocket is empty until it is
• 1:09:38
  filled with all the money in your life.
• 1:09:40
  I I somebody getting that now. So when I pray for people,
• 1:09:43
  whether to be healed or speaking over their life, I help them
• 1:09:47
  understand that the answer to it is the the testimonies that they
• 1:09:52
  receive is beyond just an attestation that this is a man
• 1:09:56
  of God. I bring them to a point where
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  their request and their desires are connected to Kingdom come,
• 1:10:04
  connected to the revelation of Jesus.
• 1:10:06
  Now I can pray with confidence, Lord, lift this woman.
• 1:10:09
  Lord, give this woman twins. Lord, make this person a
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  millionaire. And I will not pray without with
• 1:10:15
  any apology. I pray when I'm teaching about
• 1:10:18
  finance, I teach it as if that's the only thing to be taught when
• 1:10:21
  I'm teaching about other aspects of the Kingdom life.
• 1:10:24
  Because now I have. I brought the people to a point
• 1:10:26
  where their desires are now in in unison with God's will.
• 1:10:33
  Here's what the Bible says. This is the confidence we have
• 1:10:37
  that when we ask anything according to His will, we know
• 1:10:43
  that He hears us. Faith was never supposed to be
• 1:10:47
  an isolated platform to just receive things regardless
• 1:10:53
  whether it is connected to God's will or not.
• 1:10:56
  You see that now. So the the missing ingredient
• 1:10:59
  that we need to correct is number one, that faith is beyond
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  receiving things. The nobler reason for faith is
• 1:11:08
  obtaining reports that your journey of faith, the school of
• 1:11:12
  faith, should help you at the end of your faith journey.
• 1:11:15
  If all you show me is a car and a house, I would not be very
• 1:11:19
  impressed at the end of your journey.
• 1:11:21
  If I stand before you in the midst of the car, in the midst
• 1:11:25
  of the result, in the midst of the designers, I should see you
• 1:11:28
  go on your knees and call a God that you have come to know
• 1:11:32
  through your pain. A God whose name when you call
• 1:11:35
  is not just because a worshipper gave you that name to call.
• 1:11:38
  Your pain and your experience has brought conviction to you.
• 1:11:44
  And upon the strength of that conviction, when he commands
• 1:11:47
  you, you say yes Sir, you will do audacious things and people
• 1:11:51
  will look at you. You do not adopt and they will
• 1:11:54
  say, from when is this confidence?
• 1:11:56
  The confidence is beyond just confessing scripture.
• 1:11:59
  Believe me, you have had an experience with God and shame
• 1:12:02
  died in that experience. Ego died in that experience,
• 1:12:06
  lost died in that experience. Your passion is to see Jesus
• 1:12:10
  reveal. So if God says move, you are
• 1:12:13
  moving because you already died in the 1st place.
• 1:12:15
  So whether an embarrassment happens or not, your ego is not
• 1:12:18
  tied to it. Now you can believe God in
• 1:12:20
  truth. Now faith is.
• 1:12:28
  Let me wrap up the substance of things, the evidence of things.
• 1:12:34
  There was no guaranteeing Scripture that all the people
• 1:12:38
  called elders obtain things for this one thing the Bible said
• 1:12:42
  about them. It says for by it verse 2, go
• 1:12:46
  back with this Scripture tonight for by it faith, not just as a
• 1:12:51
  platform to obtain things as a journey and as a school.
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  Verse 2, please media give us verse 2.
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  So we'll wrap up with verse 2 for by it, it says the elders,
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  the elders obtained. So whether the house comes or
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  not, good report, being called a patient person before God, being
• 1:13:15
  called a righteous man before God, being called a true
• 1:13:19
  Christian, being called one who loves Jesus regardless, the
• 1:13:23
  vicissitudes of life is a nobler report before God.
• 1:13:28
  You see, when you have that, it will no longer be a do or die
• 1:13:32
  affair, the only do or die affair.
• 1:13:34
  Your life will be your love and your pursuit for Jesus.
• 1:13:38
  When this is brought and reintroduced back to the body of
• 1:13:41
  Christ, I assure you we will see miracles in a way we have not
• 1:13:45
  seen before. We will see prosperity, this
• 1:13:48
  thing we call prosperity. The truth is that many people
• 1:13:51
  have not truly handled Kingdom wealth.
• 1:13:53
  You are really wealthy to the degree to which you can give to
• 1:13:57
  the program of God without it affecting you.
• 1:14:03
  For hungers, you still fear giving.
• 1:14:05
  You are not yet wealthy, you see, yes, that you have
• 1:14:11
  experienced a level of overflow by the Spirit of God, that no
• 1:14:15
  amount of giving to the Kingdom becomes a source of pain and
• 1:14:20
  makes you to lose sleep first because you love God.
• 1:14:23
  But #2 He has. Open your eyes to see what
• 1:14:26
  others do not see. We're going to pray for by it.
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  Ladies and gentlemen, we started our journey with God, not
• 1:14:36
  obtaining things, but obtaining a good report.
• 1:14:40
  And that good report before God and before men has brought
• 1:14:43
  things things beyond our prayer request.
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  It has given me the confidence to believe God today, the bits
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  that we are doing for the Kingdom and the privilege of
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  serving Him in whatever capacity He's chosen to bring us to, and
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  that He's taking us to my My highest desire is not to have
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  things. My highest desire is that I love
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  Him. The proof of faith for me is not
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  the arrival of things expected. He's wonderful and we'll deal
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  with that tomorrow. But the greatest proof of faith
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  is if you find me knowing God and trusting Him more today than
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  I did yesterday, then I'm a man of faith.
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  If I trust God at the same level today that I started this year
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  with, my faith has not grown. It does not matter what else
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  came. So heaven treats the subject of
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  faith by your growth and the confidence that is imparted to
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  you based on the knowledge of God.
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  And pastor shared something beautiful.
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  Don't waste your pain. Don't waste your experiences.
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  Don't allow the devil lie to you that your faith is not working.
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  In the midst of the tears, rejoice because he's giving you
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  an opportunity. You are in the school of the
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  Spirit obtaining a good report. I prayed for this person and he
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  died. Focus on the report beyond the
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  promise. I trust that by now, October, I
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  should have gotten the job. Focus on the patience that has
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  been built. Focus on the purifying of your
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  hearts. That has happened.
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  It is still called faith. I trusted that the ministry
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  would have moved, say, to her permanent side.
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  I trusted that God would have multiplied membership.
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  More money would have come, more members would have given.
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  But it seems to not have happened.
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  Focus on the report. You have become a more spiritual
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  you, the you that does not cry anyhow.
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  Again, you used to waste your tears, but now you know the
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  value of your tears. You only cry in His presence,
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  not before the devil. That growth happened because
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  faith built you. Is this a good place to pray?
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  This is how God trained us. So the subject of shame and ego
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  died in the journey. What do people say?
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  That one that that burden I was delivered from 8 years ago.
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  You do things because you fear the Lord because of his sense of
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  conscience and posterity is someone learning so that way you
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  can trust God for grace. If God says empty your account
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  and bring it and drop it at the feet of the man of God, you will
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  not be casting his voice because of lust.
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  I cast that voice. It can't be God.
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  God cannot be telling me this by October is if God doesn't work
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  like that, He's love. You have so died that all you
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  have belongs to him as a man of God.
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  After 10 years pastoring 5 members, you would teach them
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  with that seal and not vent your anger upon them because of the
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  absence of growth. You are teaching them with
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  passion and they're wondering where you are getting this
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  passion from. And you say I learned it from
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  Jesus. Whether he was speaking to one
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  woman at the well or he was speaking to the Pharisee, he was
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  speaking on a crusade ground. His passion never changed to
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  him. He was doing ministry.
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  His reputation was it was a list of his concern.
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  The will of God was his primary purpose.
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  So John 316 came out of a discussion with one man.
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  The whole template of worship that has guided the church was
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  not a discussion on a crusade ground.
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  It was Jesus discussing with one woman.
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  Many of the powerful scriptures in the Bible did not come from
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  him talking with the crowd. He was talking with individuals.
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  Faith, Bible faith. I hope this is a good way to
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  start a conference that you have so desired and labored and
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  opened up your heart so that every other addition that comes
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  to this conference falls upon a heart that already understands
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  God's intent that any conference, every prophetic word
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  you'll be receiving every principle you'll be learning,
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  whether in business, I've been, I, I've, I've seen, you know,
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  the, the the plethora of seasoned visionary men of God
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  who will be standing upon this altar all through the week.
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  Have this at the back of your mind that the assignment of a
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  man of God is not to endorse the loss that is already there.
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  So the Spirit of God is beginning with us and bringing
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  that circumcision in our hearts from tonight to help us
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  understand that faith is not just as a tool to manipulate God
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  using Scripture so that our will and our desire be met by all
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  means. That is not faith.
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  The primary assignment of faith is to help you obtain a good
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  report, a standing building character, helping your
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  understanding in the Spirit. And then from that standpoint,
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  He now teaches you how to obtain promises with respect to making
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  those promises a tool fulfilling His will.
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  That way you can ask for the car, you can ask for the house,
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  you can ask for the children. And it is not lost because it is
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  not just to satisfy your desire. It comes into your life as a
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  tool to help you reveal Jesus. When you say Lord give me 1
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  billion, he looks at you and he's not constrained to give you
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  because He knows that everything that comes into your heart and
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  your hand is falling upon a life that is ever committed to seeing
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  him revealed. At that point, you will see
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  signs and wonders indeed. You will see dimensions of
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  grace. You will see levels of power.
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  You will see favor, influence, prosperity beyond your
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  imagination. Men will look at you are not.
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  They will try to search how is this result happening and you
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  will tell them this result is a product of an understanding that
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  faith is not limited to obtaining things not from what
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  God does or not. Your confidence is from who you
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  become, whether God does it or doesn't do it.
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  Please rise up on your feet. Can you hold hands with someone
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  on your left and your right if you can?
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  Let's just take a moment to just reflect for a minute.
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  Thank you for your time. I want you to think in one
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  minute. I know we're going to pray, but
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  think in one minute about everything that I've shared for
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  some of you. It's a.
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  Reorientation about faith that God is giving you right now for
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  many of you now you are appreciating the journey that
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  you started with the Lord from January till now October, what
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  you call disappointment that you are not even ashamed, you are
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  ashamed of telling people. You are learning now that this
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  has been your no blessed year, spiritually speaking, in terms
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  of obtaining things. Not much may have happened.
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  But that every salmon pastor preached.
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  So this is what it was accomplishing in you.
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  You already began to feel disappointed to say, I mean,
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  come on, pastor is prophesying. People are testifying.
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  How come I didn't have a chance to climb this altar?
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  Because God doesn't just want you to.
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  Have testimonies? To the testimony, you are the
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  testimony yourself. A more patient you has emerged.
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  A more loving you has emerged. A more spiritual you has emerged
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  that it is not lost. That drives you for a retreat.
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  Now your retreat is fixed, whether results come or not.
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  You can lock yourself for three days, not just because you were
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  threatened in the office that you'll be downsized.
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  Pray. Pray in one minute.
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  Father, help me to love you. Beyond the things that manifest
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  or otherwise in my life, go ahead and pray, go ahead.
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  And pray help me to love you. Bring me.
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  To that point and that plane in the Spirit where my faith is
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  built and centered around you, not centered around things.
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  This is the school of faith. Lend me one minute.
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  We're praying that obtaining results.
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  Or otherwise will never affect. My relationship.
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  Ironically, it is this template that will bring.
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  You to a realm of fearful. Results.
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  Or that's just right in the Spirit.
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  You will do things that ordinary men are not able to do.
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  You will say things. You will do things that will
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  surprise you and surprise many results that only God can
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  produce will be wrought through your life because your focus is
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  on Jesus, His Kingdom, your growth more than the appearance
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  of things in the name of Jesus Christ.
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  Now tomorrow, by the grace of God.
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  During my session we're going to be examining the other dimension
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  of faith and I trust that by the Spirit I'll be showing you
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  something a mystery that controls obtaining results in
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  the spirit haven't established your heart.
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  Make no mistakes about the importance of results in the
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  life of the believer. I think I need to just take a
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  minute to say this so that your understanding is balanced to not
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  think I'm rejecting results. God is placing our hearts.
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  John 15 and verse 8 says hearing is my father glorified, when he
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  bear much fruit, so shall you be my disciples.
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  John 1516 says You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you
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  and ordained you that you go and bear much fruit, that your fruit
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  should remain. Hallelujah.
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  Yeah, the Bible says where his workmanship created in Christ
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  Jesus onto good works which God had preordained that we should
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  work in them. But this is the correct protocol
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  for for accessing and approaching the subject of
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  result. It is your heart being right,
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  first Jesus being the center point, and then everything you
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  obtain. You have it at the back of your
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  mind that it must be used as a tool to glorify Him.
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  Now you can teach faith as a platform for obtaining and you
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  can let the lead off. You can teach it and stretch
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  people knowing that it will not become a disaster.
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  You will not regret teaching them because their minds have
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  been so fashioned to see Jesus revealed.
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  I pray for you that God will help you in the name of Jesus.
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  I stand in faith with the Angel over this house and all the
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  vessels of glory that I hear represented.
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  And I speak over your life that in the name of Jesus, the Lord
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  Himself will reposition your heart to a point on a plane in
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  the Spirit where you're standing before God becomes of greater
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  value than the arrival of things.
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  Receive that grace in the name of Jesus and may the Lord bless
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  you. May the Lord lift you.
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  May the Lord cause you to see marvelous things is the walkings
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  of His hand in your life. In Jesus mighty name with grace,
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  Amen and Amen.