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Discovering your Purpose on the Earth · The Landmark Church Podcast

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  SPEAKER_00: Oh Father, we thank you.
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  SPEAKER_00: We give you all the praise.
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  SPEAKER_00: You are worthy of it all.
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  SPEAKER_00: You are worthy to receive the praise.
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  SPEAKER_00: You are worthy to receive the honor.
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  SPEAKER_00: You are worthy to receive the blessing, the glory, and power.
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  SPEAKER_00: For from you are all things.
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  SPEAKER_00: We are created for your pleasure.
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  SPEAKER_00: I am created for your pleasure.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is in you all things consist.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is in you we live.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's in you we move.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it's in you we have our being.
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  SPEAKER_00: We give you praise.
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  SPEAKER_00: For these you are worthy.
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  SPEAKER_00: No other God can be called a father.
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  SPEAKER_01: No other God can be called a friend.
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  SPEAKER_01: No other God is beautiful as you are.
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  SPEAKER_01: No other God can do us the way you do us.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so for all this, please accept our thanks, accept our praises in Jesus' name.
• 0:54
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, I said, Father, please accept our thanks, accept our praises in Jesus' name.
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  SPEAKER_01: Lord, we ask tonight that you meet us right where we are in the name of Jesus.
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  SPEAKER_01: We cast down every imagination, every eye thing that wants to exalt itself above the knowledge of God.
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  SPEAKER_01: We cast it down and we say, Jesus be enthroned on our praises.
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  SPEAKER_01: Jesus be enthroned in my heart.
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  SPEAKER_00: In the name of Jesus, we give you all the praise and glory.
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  SPEAKER_00: In Jesus' mighty name, we have prayed.
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  SPEAKER_01: Walk up to somebody and give them a good God bless you in Jesus' name.
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  SPEAKER_01: Walk up to somebody and give them a good God bless you.
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  SPEAKER_01: Give them a good encouragement.
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  SPEAKER_01: God bless you.
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  SPEAKER_01: Welcome to this our special Friday meeting.
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  SPEAKER_00: God bless you and welcome to church.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let us have our seats in Jesus' name.
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  SPEAKER_00: Hallelujah.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if you came in here frowning, put a smile on your face.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_01: If I'm talking to you, you know I'm talking to you.
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  SPEAKER_01: If you came in here frowning, put a smile on your face.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is God's presence.
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  SPEAKER_01: In the presence of the Lord, there is fullness of joy.
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  SPEAKER_01: And at his right hand, there are what?
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  SPEAKER_01: Pleasures forevermore.
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  SPEAKER_01: Somebody say pleasures forevermore.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yes, somebody say pleasure is mine.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yes, yes, yes.
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  SPEAKER_01: Good to see you, Innie.
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  SPEAKER_01: How's been your week?
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  SPEAKER_01: You look like you need a hug.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's like baby.
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  SPEAKER_01: Let me give her a hug.
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  SPEAKER_01: She needs a hug.
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  SPEAKER_01: Give her a Holy Ghost hug.
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  unknown: Very good.
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  SPEAKER_01: There you go.
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  SPEAKER_01: Thank you.
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  SPEAKER_01: She needs a Holy Ghost hug.
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  SPEAKER_01: Hallelujah.
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  SPEAKER_01: All right, welcome to church.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, we've been talking about purpose, calling, and spiritual gifts.
• 2:42
  SPEAKER_01: Somebody say purpose, say calling, say spiritual gifts.
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  SPEAKER_01: Say it again.
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  SPEAKER_01: Say purpose, say calling and spiritual gifts, purpose, calling, and spiritual gift.
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  SPEAKER_01: And we said that our purpose is the reason why.
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  SPEAKER_01: Purpose answers the question, the reason why.
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  SPEAKER_01: There is a reason um Steve Jobs created the Apple phone.
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  SPEAKER_01: There is a reason why.
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  SPEAKER_01: You understand?
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  SPEAKER_01: There is a reason why.
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  SPEAKER_01: So purpose is the reason why.
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  SPEAKER_01: There is a reason why the manufacturer of this TV created it.
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  SPEAKER_01: There's a reason why.
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  SPEAKER_01: So purpose is the reason why.
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  SPEAKER_01: The purpose is the reason why.
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  SPEAKER_01: And we said the calling is what exactly the specific assignments that you ought to do.
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  SPEAKER_01: So purpose answers the question of what, where should I do it, and with whom should I do it, for whom should I do it, and um, you know, whom should I do it for?
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  SPEAKER_01: You see.
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  SPEAKER_01: So calling answers that question.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then we said spiritual gift, and I said purpose is the reason why.
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  SPEAKER_01: That means who is our manufacturer, who is our creator?
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  SPEAKER_01: God is our creator.
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  SPEAKER_01: So it's only God that knows our reason why.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is important.
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  SPEAKER_01: Only God knows our reason why.
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  SPEAKER_01: And on Tuesday, we spend the time talking about you know, God's purpose being glory.
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  SPEAKER_01: God's purpose for everything he does is what?
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  SPEAKER_01: For glory.
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  SPEAKER_01: God wants glory in everything he does.
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  SPEAKER_01: And we missed you on Bible study on Tuesday.
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  SPEAKER_01: We had a great time.
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  SPEAKER_01: See, God's purpose is glory.
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  SPEAKER_01: Glory, he wants glory in everything.
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  SPEAKER_01: He said he will gain glory on the Egyptians, on Pharaoh.
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  SPEAKER_01: When they were refusing to let the children of Israel go, God was gaining glory in them.
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  SPEAKER_01: So God's purpose in everything he does is to take glory, is to receive glory.
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  SPEAKER_01: Jesus said, Father, I have glorified you.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now glorify me also.
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  SPEAKER_01: Because Jesus knew that the end of God, the end of God in everything is doing.
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  SPEAKER_01: You don't have to think about it, you don't have to wonder about it.
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  SPEAKER_01: The end of God is what?
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  SPEAKER_01: His glory.
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  SPEAKER_01: Somebody say glory.
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  SPEAKER_01: Say it louder, say glory.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yes, that's the end of God.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's the end of God.
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  SPEAKER_01: And the wise thing to do then, if I know the end of God, and I said, I charged us on Tuesday, that God is very relentless about bringing his purposes to pass.
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  SPEAKER_01: God is very relentless.
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  SPEAKER_01: God will stop at nothing to bring his purposes to pass.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yes, God was there is nothing that can stand in God's way of bringing his purpose to pass.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's why we even have the story of redemption.
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  SPEAKER_01: The the the story of redemption is because this is true.
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  SPEAKER_01: When Pilate and the Jews and the Gentiles were crucifying Jesus, they were actually performing the purposes of God.
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  SPEAKER_01: Acts chapter 4, verse 31 and 32.
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  SPEAKER_01: They were doing God's bidding, everything, whether they know it, whether they don't know it, your boss, you know, the president of nations, you know, the people in authority in any council, in any state, in any place, they are performing ultimately, they are performing the work of God.
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  SPEAKER_01: And that should give you assurance.
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  SPEAKER_01: That should give you assurance.
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  SPEAKER_01: If you are aligned to God's purpose, that's where your safety is.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's where my safety is.
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  SPEAKER_01: Because God will stop at nothing, at bringing his purposes to pass, at taking glory out of everything, then the wise thing is then for you and I to align ourselves to God so that when my purpose is aligned to God's purpose, then nothing can stand in the fulfillment of my own purpose as well.
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  SPEAKER_01: Do you understand that mathematics?
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  SPEAKER_01: Do you understand that mathematics right now?
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  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_01: So that if I am aligned with God and I know that God cannot be stopped, then I know my own purpose cannot be stopped as well.
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  SPEAKER_01: That gives you confidence in the face of the challenges of life.
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  SPEAKER_01: That gives you confidence.
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  SPEAKER_01: All right, let's take it a little deeper tonight.
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  SPEAKER_01: Gonna take it a little deeper tonight, and we're gonna talk about how do I know my specific calling?
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  SPEAKER_01: How do I know my specific calling?
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  SPEAKER_01: How do I know my specific calling?
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  SPEAKER_01: You see, an understanding of this thing is very crucial.
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  SPEAKER_01: There is nothing as powerful, nothing as compelling as somebody that knows their calling, somebody that knows their assignment, and they are relentlessly pursuing it.
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  SPEAKER_01: Nothing as powerful.
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  SPEAKER_01: Because when you know your assignment and you know your calling, it attracts things to you.
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  SPEAKER_01: Listen to what I'm saying.
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  SPEAKER_01: When you know your calling, when you know your assignment, it attracts things to you, it attracts the right relationships to you, it attracts the right people to you, it attracts the things you need for the fulfillment of that purpose, for that purpose that you have in your life.
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  SPEAKER_01: Not everybody will like you.
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  SPEAKER_01: The fact that you are pursuing God's purpose for your life does not mean everybody will like you, does not mean you know, except your ice cream, even not everybody likes ice cream.
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  SPEAKER_01: Is there somebody here that does not like ice cream?
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh there's nobody that does not like ice cream, okay.
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  SPEAKER_01: But when you are pursuing God's purpose for your life, the things that you need for the fulfillment of your life and your destiny will be attracted to you.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yes, this is true.
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  SPEAKER_01: I told us on Sunday that the donkey that Jesus rode into Jerusalem, he did not own it.
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  SPEAKER_01: The tomb in which he was buried, he did not own it, he did not pay for it.
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  SPEAKER_01: The reason why those things were attracted to him, the upper room where he if he had this last supper, he did not buy that house.
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  SPEAKER_01: The reason why those things were attracted to him was because he was fulfilling purpose, he was walking in destiny.
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  SPEAKER_01: So when you and I know our calling and we are walking in the fulfillment of that calling, the things that we need, everything we need, the critical relationships that you need for that life and your destiny will be attracted to you.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is the wisdom of God.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now, you can decide that you don't want to embrace the wisdom of God, then you are going to just be living your life.
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  SPEAKER_01: Your life is going to be an experiment.
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  SPEAKER_01: Your life will become an experiment that others will look at and they will use as a proverb for those that don't follow God's agenda for their lives.
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  SPEAKER_01: I don't want your life to be like that.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yes, I don't want your life to be like that.
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  SPEAKER_01: Because the wisdom of God is what preserves our lives.
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  SPEAKER_01: You see, when we find out our calling and we are pursuing it relentlessly, the things you need, the spouse you need for your life and your destiny will be attracted to you.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm telling you, the critical relationships you need for your life and your destiny will be attracted to you.
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  SPEAKER_01: If I had any other wife than my wife, I will not be able to do what I'm doing.
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  SPEAKER_01: If I had any other wife than the wife I have, I will not be able to do what I'm doing.
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  SPEAKER_01: Not everybody can stand with you when you are following God's purpose for your life.
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  SPEAKER_01: I told you that your your calling will separate you.
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  SPEAKER_01: It will separate you.
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  SPEAKER_01: Acts chapter 13, verse 2.
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  SPEAKER_01: As they ministered unto the Lord and fasted, the Holy Spirit said, Separate now unto me Paul and Barnabas for the work I have called them to do.
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  SPEAKER_01: So your calling has a thing of separating you.
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  SPEAKER_01: Not everybody can walk with you on that lonely path of call of destiny and of your assignment.
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  SPEAKER_01: Not everybody has the training, and not everybody is willing to be subjected to the training and the rigors that is needed for you to fulfill your life and your destiny.
• 9:43
  SPEAKER_01: This version of you cannot fulfill your life, your life's calling.
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  SPEAKER_01: I don't know if you're hearing what I'm saying.
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  SPEAKER_01: This version of you cannot fulfill your life's calling.
• 9:51
  SPEAKER_01: Some of us need to be retrained, some of us need to be trained, some of some of us need to unlearn and relearn certain things.
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  SPEAKER_01: For you to be able to walk into the fullness of God's plan for your life.
• 10:03
  SPEAKER_01: You need to unlearn certain things, some junks that you've that you've picked up on the way, junks that you've picked up that are not serving you, that will never serve you.
• 10:11
  SPEAKER_01: You need to unlearn it.
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  SPEAKER_01: This version of me cannot fulfill the ultimate of God's purpose for my life.
• 10:16
  SPEAKER_01: This version of you may not be able to fulfill God's purpose for your life.
• 10:20
  SPEAKER_01: We need to learn, we need to unlearn, we need to relearn certain things.
• 10:25
  SPEAKER_01: Today, I want to share with us what are some things that will help us know without a shadow of doubt your calling and my calling.
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  SPEAKER_01: So that the resources that you need for your life and your for your destiny will begin to be attracted to you.
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  SPEAKER_01: Somebody say amen to that.
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  SPEAKER_01: Say a louder amen to that.
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  SPEAKER_01: Come on, say a bigger amen to that.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_01: Some of us, as you begin to walk in your purpose, the right spouse will be attracted to you.
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  SPEAKER_01: There is something attractive about that.
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  SPEAKER_01: A woman, a man who is serious and pursuing God's plan for their life.
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  SPEAKER_01: Something attractive, something beautiful, something glorious about it.
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  SPEAKER_01: You see?
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  SPEAKER_01: So when you begin to walk in your purpose, then the things you need begin to get attracted to you.
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  SPEAKER_01: So if you are writing and you should be writing, four things that you need to know your calling.
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  SPEAKER_01: Somebody say burden, burden, you need burden, you need revelation, you need providence, and you need fruitfulness.
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  SPEAKER_01: Burden, revelation, providence, and fruitfulness.
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  SPEAKER_01: Everybody say burden, say it louder.
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  SPEAKER_01: Say burden, revelation, say providence, and fruitfulness.
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  SPEAKER_01: These are the four things that when you pay attention to them, your calling will become will be unveiled to you.
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  SPEAKER_01: I want that for you.
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  SPEAKER_01: I want that for you.
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  SPEAKER_01: I don't want you to walk in darkness.
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  SPEAKER_01: You want to be your calling will be unveiled to you before you.
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  SPEAKER_01: Your burden, revelation, providence, and fruitfulness.
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  SPEAKER_01: And we're going to unpack that this evening.
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  SPEAKER_01: A burden, let's look, let's look at the first one.
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  SPEAKER_01: Burden.
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  SPEAKER_01: A burden is something God places on your heart.
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  SPEAKER_01: A burden is what something God places on your heart.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's something that is not something we create, it's not something you construct, it's not something that you just say, ah, this would be a good idea.
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  SPEAKER_01: No, God places a burden on your heart.
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  SPEAKER_01: We don't manufacture it.
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  SPEAKER_01: A burden could be like a disfat a dissatisfaction that you have about the state of things.
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  SPEAKER_01: A burden could be a need.
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  SPEAKER_01: You just have this need to meet that dissatisfaction.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know, there's a need in the world that you want to meet.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's that could be a burden.
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  SPEAKER_01: A burden could be a longing on your heart.
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  SPEAKER_01: A burden could be a desire to want to help.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know, you just have this desire to want to help.
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  SPEAKER_01: Anywhere I find myself, I find myself in any church, I always want to help.
• 12:45
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know if you're hearing what I'm saying.
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  SPEAKER_01: Any church I have been, in any anywhere in the world, there is always a desire to, I just want to get involved.
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  SPEAKER_01: I just want to help.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's that's my that's my nature.
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  SPEAKER_01: They've called me church boy, they've called me um what's this utility boy.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's what they used to call me when I was in Vicitembu Bowie.
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  SPEAKER_01: They say utility boy.
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  SPEAKER_01: Because I'm everywhere, I'm in media, I'm in choir, I'm in pastoral care, I'm everywhere.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm I just want to help.
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  SPEAKER_01: I just have that need to move the church forward.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yes, that's a burden.
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  SPEAKER_01: You you just want to help, you want to improve things, that's a burden.
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  SPEAKER_01: You want to win, that's a burden.
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  SPEAKER_01: You want to advance, that's a burden.
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  SPEAKER_01: You want to advance something, you want to move something forward.
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  SPEAKER_01: You believe that this thing can be better than it is, that's a burden.
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  SPEAKER_01: You believe that this situation can be better than it is.
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  SPEAKER_01: This life can be better than it is.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's a burden.
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  SPEAKER_01: You see that?
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  SPEAKER_01: That's a burden.
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  SPEAKER_01: You want to remedy things, you want to you want to make what is wrong right.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's a burden.
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  SPEAKER_01: You want to rebuild something, that's a burden.
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  SPEAKER_01: Nayima chapter 2, verse 12.
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  SPEAKER_01: Naima chapter 2, verse 12.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm sharing with you the things that you need to pay attention to so that your calling and your specific assignment become unveiled to you.
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  SPEAKER_01: Naiman chapter 2, verse 12.
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  SPEAKER_01: Look at what it says.
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  SPEAKER_01: Then I arose in the night, and I and a few men with me, I told no one what my God has put in my heart.
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  SPEAKER_01: Let's read this together.
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  SPEAKER_01: What my God had put in my heart.
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  SPEAKER_01: Everybody with a lot of verse, one more time.
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  SPEAKER_01: What my God had put for the last time, what my God had put in my heart.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's a burden.
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  SPEAKER_01: God put that thing in Emma's heart.
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  SPEAKER_01: The city walls of Jerusalem have crumbled.
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  SPEAKER_01: He put that burden in his heart to go and rebuild it, to go and make what was wrong, make it right.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's a burden.
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  SPEAKER_01: Burdens don't stay burdens.
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  SPEAKER_01: Burdens don't stay burdens.
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  SPEAKER_01: Burdens should morph into a desire.
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  SPEAKER_01: Burdens don't stay burdened.
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  SPEAKER_01: You see, when you just you just have a burden and you just sit there, and your burden does not change into a desire, you will become frustrated.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's why we have a lot of frustrated Nigerians because everybody believes that Nigeria should be better, but everybody is just um saying it.
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  SPEAKER_01: Nobody is saying that there is something I can do to make Nigeria better.
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  SPEAKER_01: Very few are actually doing something, very few have allowed the burden to make Nigeria better, change into a desire for a better nation.
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  SPEAKER_01: And the proof that your burden has changed into desire is pursuit.
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  SPEAKER_01: Because the proof of desire is pursuit.
• 15:23
  SPEAKER_01: Somebody said the proof of desire is pursuit.
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  SPEAKER_01: Say it again.
• 15:28
  SPEAKER_01: Say the proof of desire is pursuit.
• 15:32
  SPEAKER_01: You can't tell me that you have a desire in your heart when you are not pursuing that thing.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's what that's what that means.
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  SPEAKER_01: The proof of desire is pursuit.
• 15:39
  SPEAKER_01: When you say that you have a desire for something, it must show.
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  SPEAKER_01: I must see that you are following that thing.
• 15:44
  SPEAKER_01: You are pushing, you are, you are, you are running after it.
• 15:47
  SPEAKER_01: You can't tell me you want to become you you want to become, you know, um, you know, a chartered accountant and you've not you've not registered for the CPA, you've not, you've not done anything.
• 15:57
  SPEAKER_01: You want to become a CPA and you've not you've not taken accounting classes in school.
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  SPEAKER_01: No.
• 16:01
  SPEAKER_01: You're joking.
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  SPEAKER_01: The proof of desire is pursued.
• 16:06
  SPEAKER_01: The proof of desire is pursuit.
• 16:07
  SPEAKER_01: You want to become a CEO and you spend all your time watching Netflix and chilling.
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  SPEAKER_01: No, you don't have that.
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  SPEAKER_01: That desire is not strong.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now your burden has not morphed into a desire.
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  SPEAKER_01: Burdens don't stay burdens.
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  SPEAKER_01: If you allow burdens to just remain burdens, they will just lead to frustration.
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  SPEAKER_01: At the end of the day, it will lead to a sense of helplessness.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_01: When you just let the burdens just sit there, you're not doing anything with it.
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  SPEAKER_01: It remains a burden, it will become frustration, and at the end of the day, you will have this sense of helplessness when you have just allowed that burden to sit on your heart for too long.
• 16:40
  SPEAKER_01: So burdens don't stay burdens, burdens morph, change into a desire to act.
• 16:46
  SPEAKER_01: Somebody said desire to act.
• 16:48
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, it must change into a desire to act.
• 16:50
  SPEAKER_01: You see, of every big goal that you have, there is a small version of it.
• 16:58
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know if you're hearing what I'm saying.
• 16:59
  SPEAKER_01: See, your goal is a Rolls Royce.
• 17:01
  SPEAKER_01: You want to build a Roll Royce, you want to build a Bentley.
• 17:05
  SPEAKER_01: That's your goal, and that is great because God's plan for your life is huge, it's not small.
• 17:10
  SPEAKER_01: God's plan for your life, listen to what I'm saying to you.
• 17:13
  SPEAKER_01: God's plan for your life is not small.
• 17:15
  SPEAKER_01: I think somebody needs to convince themselves.
• 17:16
  SPEAKER_01: Say, God's plan for my life is not small.
• 17:20
  SPEAKER_01: Say louder, say God's plan for my life is not small.
• 17:24
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, it's big.
• 17:26
  SPEAKER_01: Now, of that big dream that God has for you, that you maybe you've gotten a glimpse of, you see, of this rose royalist that you want to build, there is a there is an under-accorded version of it.
• 17:36
  SPEAKER_01: There is a total comedy version of it, of that your big Rolls Royce.
• 17:41
  SPEAKER_01: And the proof that that Rolls Royce will come to fruition is that you begin to work on the under-accourt version of your vision.
• 17:48
  SPEAKER_01: You begin to work on the total comedy version of your vision.
• 17:52
  SPEAKER_01: You begin to work on the on day version of your of your vision.
• 17:55
  SPEAKER_01: Some of us you might need to start working on the motorcycle version of your vision before it's done.
• 18:01
  SPEAKER_01: It is when you have you have put your hand on the plow and you are working on that underacut version of your Rollerous vision that you have, that that Rollerous vision has any chance of coming to life.
• 18:13
  SPEAKER_01: So the proof of desire is pursuit.
• 18:18
  SPEAKER_01: You start on doing something.
• 18:20
  SPEAKER_01: So the question for you this evening is what burden, what spiritual burdens do you have?
• 18:25
  SPEAKER_01: What disturbs you that you know that God has placed on your heart?
• 18:28
  SPEAKER_01: What has what has God placed on your heart?
• 18:30
  SPEAKER_01: And burdens are not concerns.
• 18:32
  SPEAKER_01: You are concerned about traffic when you're driving to work.
• 18:35
  SPEAKER_01: Now that's not a burden.
• 18:37
  SPEAKER_01: I'm concerned, you know, if you are in Nigeria, you are concerned if by the time you get home, there will be lights.
• 18:41
  SPEAKER_01: That's a concern.
• 18:42
  SPEAKER_01: That's not a burden.
• 18:44
  SPEAKER_01: You are concerned if um, you know, something something will happen.
• 18:47
  SPEAKER_01: That's a concern.
• 18:48
  SPEAKER_01: Burdens are not concerned, burdens are things that you are willing to pray for, you are willing to kneel by your bed and pray for burdens.
• 18:55
  SPEAKER_01: It's not a concern.
• 18:57
  SPEAKER_01: Burdens are things heavy on your heart that God placed on your heart that you are willing to cry for, willing to pray for, willing to fast for, willing to wait on God for.
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  SPEAKER_01: It grips you, it colonizes your existence until you begin to attend to it.
• 19:12
  SPEAKER_01: That's a burden now.
• 19:13
  SPEAKER_01: That's a burden.
• 19:15
  SPEAKER_01: For me, when I see people living below their potentials, when I see people under the yoke of the enemy, under the yoke of Satan, when I see people blind and ignorant, that's a burden on my heart.
• 19:25
  SPEAKER_01: That's a burden.
• 19:25
  SPEAKER_01: And I want to pray for them, I want to encourage them, I want to challenge them, I want to charge them, I want to shake them.
• 19:31
  SPEAKER_01: That's a burden for me.
• 19:33
  SPEAKER_01: That's a burden for me.
• 19:35
  SPEAKER_01: A burden is something that breaks your heart.
• 19:38
  SPEAKER_01: It makes you angry, it makes you sorrowful.
• 19:39
  SPEAKER_01: That's a burden.
• 19:41
  SPEAKER_01: What breaks your heart?
• 19:42
  SPEAKER_01: For example, if you hear the story of a younger that came to this country at, say, 18, she came to this country at 18, you know, a father, you know, sent her to this country or sent her to Canada at age 18.
• 19:52
  SPEAKER_01: And then for something, you know, things became tough for her, and then she she you know, she got herself involved in prostitution and drugs just to make ends meet.
• 20:01
  SPEAKER_01: Right?
• 20:02
  SPEAKER_01: She got herself involved in prostitution and drugs, and something led to another, she got caught, and now she's spending time in prison.
• 20:08
  SPEAKER_01: Now, if you hear that story and your disposition is, well, it's just one of those things.
• 20:14
  SPEAKER_01: Now, if you just say it's just one of those things, now the chances are that you are called to help girls like that is very slim.
• 20:21
  SPEAKER_01: But if you hear a story like that and you are moved with compassion, you're like, wow, how can we go and help her?
• 20:26
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, what are the options?
• 20:27
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, can we talk to a lawyer?
• 20:29
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, is she better now?
• 20:30
  SPEAKER_01: Is she getting addiction treatment in prison?
• 20:33
  SPEAKER_01: Now, we are now saying that maybe you are called it's a burden for you.
• 20:38
  SPEAKER_01: But when you hear that kind of story, you're like people get themselves, all these young people that don't know their left and right, you cannot tell us that your burden, that your calling is to help girls in prostitution and drugs.
• 20:50
  SPEAKER_01: No, no, no.
• 20:51
  SPEAKER_01: Burden will break your heart, it will challenge you, it will break your heart.
• 20:56
  SPEAKER_01: So, burden is something that you're willing to pray for, something that you are willing to fast for.
• 21:02
  SPEAKER_01: Nehemiah was in the palace, was in a palace.
• 21:06
  SPEAKER_01: So God placed that burden upon his heart that the walls of Jerusalem have been broken down, and he responded in fasting and prayer.
• 21:13
  SPEAKER_01: Jemaiah responded in fasting and prayer.
• 21:15
  SPEAKER_01: I'm showing us four things that would allow us to know your specific calling in life so that you're not beaten about the bush in your life and in your destiny.
• 21:25
  SPEAKER_01: Number two is revelation.
• 21:28
  SPEAKER_01: Revelation is number two.
• 21:30
  SPEAKER_01: Number two things that you must pay attention to, that I must continue to pay attention to for me to know my specific calling and assignment in life.
• 21:38
  SPEAKER_01: Revelation.
• 21:39
  SPEAKER_01: What revelation has come to you from the word of God, from the inner witness, and from prophetic insight?
• 21:46
  SPEAKER_01: Let's read it together.
• 21:47
  SPEAKER_01: Everybody want to go.
• 21:48
  SPEAKER_01: What revelation has come to you from the word of God?
• 21:51
  SPEAKER_01: Somebody say word of God of God from inner witness and from prophetic insight.
• 21:58
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, and this order is important.
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  SPEAKER_01: Word of God first.
• 22:01
  SPEAKER_01: The word of God first.
• 22:02
  SPEAKER_01: You see, one big mistake that Christians make is that you know they attend a meeting and they say, Oh, that meeting was very powerful.
• 22:09
  SPEAKER_01: And the apostle just, you know, pointed at me from the crowd, and she she she called me forward and she said, I have, you know, uh an evangelistic ministry, or I have a pastoral ministry, or she saw the the the the oil of the pastor upon my head, and they began to run with that.
• 22:27
  SPEAKER_01: That's a big mistake.
• 22:29
  SPEAKER_01: That's a big mistake.
• 22:31
  SPEAKER_01: You see, and some people even go after prophets.
• 22:36
  SPEAKER_01: Excuse me, they go after prophets to to unveil their calling to them.
• 22:40
  SPEAKER_01: The way the place you start when you're looking for revelation about your calling is where the word of God.
• 22:46
  SPEAKER_01: You start from the word of God, you don't start hunting down prophets together.
• 22:50
  SPEAKER_01: You know, when the Holy Spirit said in Acts 13, separate now unto me, Paul and Barnabas for the work I've called them to do, there were prophets in that meeting.
• 22:57
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know if you're hearing what I'm saying.
• 22:58
  SPEAKER_01: There were prophets, renowned prophets, certified prophets in that meeting.
• 23:02
  SPEAKER_01: They were there, but the disciples they were not were not looking for prophets and say, Oh, tell us, tell us what is the Holy Spirit saying.
• 23:08
  SPEAKER_01: The Holy Spirit is the one that moved on his own accord and then spoke.
• 23:15
  SPEAKER_01: So we start from where?
• 23:16
  SPEAKER_01: The word of God.
• 23:17
  SPEAKER_01: Why?
• 23:17
  SPEAKER_01: Because we see in part and we know in part, we all see in part and we know in part.
• 23:23
  SPEAKER_01: Nobody has a full idea of God's plan for your life, not even your parents, not even your pastor.
• 23:30
  SPEAKER_01: Your pastor does not have the full idea, does not have the full breadth of what God has in plan for you, what God has in plan for me.
• 23:37
  SPEAKER_01: They don't know.
• 23:39
  SPEAKER_01: Because God has eaten it from everybody, He has hidden it from them.
• 23:42
  SPEAKER_01: So that's why you must start from the Word of God.
• 23:45
  SPEAKER_01: You start from the Word of God because the Word of God is the sure word of prophecy.
• 23:50
  SPEAKER_01: Every, you know, everything on earth will pass away, but the word of God stands forever.
• 24:01
  SPEAKER_01: So you don't run on somebody just telling you, oh, you're going to be a businessman or you're going to be a pastor.
• 24:05
  SPEAKER_01: No, you don't run, you don't run with that.
• 24:07
  SPEAKER_01: You don't, you know, I don't know how many of us have been I've been seeing these um videos on YouTube.
• 24:12
  SPEAKER_01: Some of these prophets that are using Facebook to mine data.
• 24:15
  SPEAKER_01: So when they're having a meeting like this, and they've announced the meeting, these so-called prophets, those that have identified that they will come for that meeting, they will go on their Facebook pages and look for information about them.
• 24:27
  SPEAKER_01: They look for information about them, and then they will come to that meeting and then they'll start using that information.
• 24:31
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, I see, I see this street, I see this street, I see this name.
• 24:35
  SPEAKER_01: Um, you live on this street.
• 24:36
  SPEAKER_01: Then they've used Facebook to mine the data.
• 24:40
  SPEAKER_01: Some people have gotten married based on those things.
• 24:43
  SPEAKER_01: Some people have stopped their cancer treatment based on those things, based on fake prophecy.
• 24:48
  SPEAKER_01: This is why you cannot base your life and your calling on what?
• 24:52
  SPEAKER_01: On prophecy.
• 24:53
  SPEAKER_01: You don't start from prophecy, you start from what cannot be moved.
• 24:57
  SPEAKER_01: The word of God.
• 24:57
  SPEAKER_01: Somebody say the word of God.
• 24:59
  SPEAKER_01: That's where you start from.
• 25:01
  SPEAKER_01: That's where your security is.
• 25:03
  SPEAKER_01: First Peter chapter 2, verse 19.
• 25:05
  SPEAKER_01: 1 Peter chapter 2, verse 19.
• 25:07
  SPEAKER_01: We have also a more sure word of prophecy, whereunto ye do well that ye take heed as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawns and the day star arise in your heart.
• 25:19
  SPEAKER_01: The word of God is the sure word of prophecy.
• 25:23
  SPEAKER_01: And you also need the inner witness.
• 25:25
  SPEAKER_01: What's the inner witness?
• 25:26
  SPEAKER_01: During your time of worship, during your time of prayer, what do you feel?
• 25:31
  SPEAKER_01: This calling that you think you have, this notion that you have, during your time of worship, your time of prayer, what do you feel?
• 25:38
  SPEAKER_01: What do you feel?
• 25:39
  SPEAKER_01: Do you feel a sense of restraint?
• 25:41
  SPEAKER_01: Do you feel a sense of inner restraint?
• 25:42
  SPEAKER_01: Or do you feel a sense of peace in your heart?
• 25:45
  SPEAKER_01: Psalm 85, verse 8.
• 25:47
  SPEAKER_01: I will hear what God, the Lord will speak, for it would walk, it will do what?
• 25:50
  SPEAKER_01: It will speak peace unto his people.
• 25:52
  SPEAKER_01: The Lord speaks peace.
• 25:54
  SPEAKER_01: If God is speaking, he speaks, speaks.
• 25:55
  SPEAKER_01: Psalm 85, verse 8.
• 25:57
  SPEAKER_01: Psalm 85, verse 8.
• 25:59
  SPEAKER_01: The Lord will speak peace unto his people.
• 26:03
  SPEAKER_01: So when you are praying, that's the inner witness we're talking about.
• 26:06
  SPEAKER_01: When you are praying, when you are worshiping in your personal time of worship and prayer, do you feel a sense of restraint about this thing?
• 26:14
  SPEAKER_01: Or do you feel a sense of peace?
• 26:16
  SPEAKER_01: Do you feel like yes, you are a fish in water?
• 26:18
  SPEAKER_01: Or do you feel like do you feel like as you are trying to pursue this thing, it's like it's like you have left your natural habitat?
• 26:25
  SPEAKER_01: Do you feel like, oh, this thing is aligning with my natural giftings and my abilities?
• 26:30
  SPEAKER_01: Your calling should should have that that characteristic about it.
• 26:34
  SPEAKER_01: So do you feel a sense of peace, or do you feel a sense of anxiety?
• 26:37
  SPEAKER_01: Do you feel out of place or out of sorts about your calling?
• 26:41
  SPEAKER_01: And of course, prophetic insight, prophetic insight could be you have a dream, for example.
• 26:45
  SPEAKER_01: You know, it could be you have a dream.
• 26:47
  SPEAKER_01: That could be prophetic insight.
• 26:48
  SPEAKER_01: Listen, that order is important.
• 26:49
  SPEAKER_01: In revelation is what has God shown you from the word of God, from your inner witness, and from prophetic insight.
• 26:59
  SPEAKER_01: From prophetic insight.
• 27:01
  SPEAKER_01: So it could be a dream you you see yourself speaking to young people, you see yourself speaking to a large crowd, you see yourself attending to people in need, you see yourself counseling couples, you see, you see yourself helping children, you see, you see yourself traveling to someplace, you see yourself bring certain things that are pointing, that may be pointing to what God has called you to do.
• 27:21
  SPEAKER_01: Somebody say amen.
• 27:22
  SPEAKER_01: If you are seeing, say amen.
• 27:24
  SPEAKER_01: So we've talked about burden, we've talked about revelation, and the third thing that we must pay attention to is providence.
• 27:31
  SPEAKER_01: Somebody say providence.
• 27:32
  SPEAKER_01: All right, providence is the third one.
• 27:34
  SPEAKER_01: Providence, providence.
• 27:35
  SPEAKER_01: What is providence?
• 27:36
  SPEAKER_01: You see, this one is the a very tricky one, is it's very tricky, is the one that you can do something about, and it's the one that you should not do something about.
• 27:46
  SPEAKER_01: Let me say that again.
• 27:47
  SPEAKER_01: This providence, we're talking about things that would help you that your calling will just begin to unveil before you.
• 27:54
  SPEAKER_01: Your calling will just begin to unveil itself before you.
• 27:56
  SPEAKER_01: You don't have to struggle about it.
• 27:57
  SPEAKER_01: You're you pay attention to the burdens of God on your heart, you pay attention to revelation from the word of God, from your inner witness, and from prophetic insight, and then providence.
• 28:09
  SPEAKER_01: You see, providence, you can do something about it, you can force certain things, but it's the one that you should not force.
• 28:15
  SPEAKER_01: You should not force it because these are open doors, they are opportunities given to you, they're just opportunities given to you.
• 28:22
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, any, I want you to do this.
• 28:24
  SPEAKER_01: You didn't ask for it, and just said, Oh, I want you to do this, and you do that, and then that becomes the open door to your next level.
• 28:31
  SPEAKER_01: You see, that is just an open door.
• 28:33
  SPEAKER_01: You you didn't ask for it, you didn't lobby for it.
• 28:35
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, I want you to.
• 28:36
  SPEAKER_01: I remember, you know, my pastor he called me, um, Pastor Bayo.
• 28:41
  SPEAKER_01: He called me one time, this was in 20 um 17 or 18, 2017, and wanted me to head the department, in a department at the church.
• 28:50
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, I was like, but there's this person there.
• 28:53
  SPEAKER_01: Is that I want he wants me to head that department?
• 28:55
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, this is I didn't ask for it.
• 28:57
  SPEAKER_01: That was just providence.
• 28:59
  SPEAKER_01: That was just that was just somebody seeing the gift of God that oh, if I give him this responsibility, he would it would do it well.
• 29:06
  SPEAKER_01: You didn't ask, you don't lobby for it, you don't you don't push the doors open.
• 29:09
  SPEAKER_01: No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
• 29:11
  SPEAKER_01: Many people have done that and they've missed divine timing, providence.
• 29:15
  SPEAKER_01: It allows you to begin to see God's calling on your life.
• 29:19
  SPEAKER_01: It's the same um Pastor Bayer that just called me one day.
• 29:21
  SPEAKER_01: We are just starting, and just he just said out of nowhere, you now that you have the call of God upon your life.
• 29:27
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, where did that come from?
• 29:30
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, I'm like, we are just starting.
• 29:32
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, was it you wasn't?
• 29:33
  SPEAKER_01: I think we're maybe we're talking about um marriage or something like that, and was like, for somebody like you now that has the call of God upon your life, I'm like, so you just went deep like that.
• 29:43
  SPEAKER_01: We're not talking about that.
• 29:45
  SPEAKER_01: We're just talking about we're just chilling here.
• 29:47
  SPEAKER_01: You have the call of God upon your lap.
• 29:49
  SPEAKER_01: You see, that's providence.
• 29:50
  SPEAKER_01: People just making some comments that begins to point to things that are deeper for you, but you don't force the doors open.
• 29:58
  SPEAKER_01: Look at David, for example.
• 29:59
  SPEAKER_01: David was just taking cheese and bread to his brothers, his three brothers that were in Saul's army.
• 30:03
  SPEAKER_01: Goliath comes out twice every day, in the morning and in the evening.
• 30:07
  SPEAKER_01: It comes out twice every day.
• 30:08
  SPEAKER_01: What it happened that it was when David got there that Goliath came out.
• 30:12
  SPEAKER_01: That's providence.
• 30:14
  SPEAKER_01: Why didn't David get there when Goliath was not speaking?
• 30:17
  SPEAKER_01: Are you hearing what I'm saying?
• 30:19
  SPEAKER_01: Why did why didn't David get there?
• 30:20
  SPEAKER_01: Why was it that it was at the time when Goliath was speaking just twice every day?
• 30:25
  SPEAKER_01: It was, I mean, and there are 24 hours in the day.
• 30:28
  SPEAKER_01: It was the time when Goliath was speaking that David got there.
• 30:31
  SPEAKER_01: Providence.
• 30:32
  SPEAKER_01: God arranging things to point to you, to signal to you that that's the direction you should start going into.
• 30:40
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, divine timing.
• 30:42
  SPEAKER_01: David had that.
• 30:44
  SPEAKER_01: David had that.
• 30:46
  SPEAKER_01: So you're not forcing the doors open because if you force the doors open, you may miss divine timing.
• 30:51
  SPEAKER_01: If you look at Genesis chapter 7, verse 16, the Bible tells us about Noah and his ark that God shut the door.
• 30:57
  SPEAKER_01: God shut the door, and after the rain had you know finished falling, and after about 150 days, Noah sent a raven out to go and see if the land was good.
• 31:08
  SPEAKER_01: And then, you know, the raven came back, sent the dove out, the dove came back, sent the dove out again, then the dove came back with uh uh a branch, and then he sent the dove out again, and then the dove did not come back.
• 31:22
  SPEAKER_01: Then he knew that it was time to open the door.
• 31:24
  SPEAKER_01: If Noah had pushed that door open, what God prevented them from would have been a snare to them.
• 31:31
  SPEAKER_01: The waters that God was preventing them from, saved them from, would have become a snare.
• 31:35
  SPEAKER_01: Are you hearing what I'm saying?
• 31:37
  SPEAKER_01: You don't force the door open, doors that God has shut, don't force it open.
• 31:42
  SPEAKER_01: The doors that he has shut, don't force it open.
• 31:45
  SPEAKER_01: Let providence play out.
• 31:48
  SPEAKER_01: Let it play out.
• 31:49
  SPEAKER_01: So providence is when God begins to give you small, little, tiny opportunities.
• 31:54
  SPEAKER_01: They will not look big.
• 31:56
  SPEAKER_01: I I hope you catch.
• 31:57
  SPEAKER_01: I hope you catch my heart in this teaching.
• 31:59
  SPEAKER_01: I hope you catch my heart.
• 32:02
  SPEAKER_01: This opportunity will not look big, you'll just be you know you might want to despise them.
• 32:06
  SPEAKER_01: Just small opportunities.
• 32:07
  SPEAKER_01: Lead this department.
• 32:09
  SPEAKER_01: Help us post this on social media.
• 32:11
  SPEAKER_01: Just record something.
• 32:13
  SPEAKER_01: It won't be anything.
• 32:14
  SPEAKER_01: You won't be able to naturally connect the dots.
• 32:17
  SPEAKER_01: You won't be able to do that.
• 32:18
  SPEAKER_01: That's providence.
• 32:19
  SPEAKER_01: You won't be able to naturally connect the dots.
• 32:22
  SPEAKER_01: But God opens those little doors, and then there are confirmations.
• 32:27
  SPEAKER_01: There are confirmations of the things that God wants to do in your life.
• 32:31
  SPEAKER_01: I told us, you know, my pastor gave me the opportunity to lead the Sunday school department at Upper Church.
• 32:37
  SPEAKER_01: No, I was doing my best, leading the departments in the Christian education department, rather.
• 32:41
  SPEAKER_01: Doing my best, organizing trainings, you know, for people in the church.
• 32:46
  SPEAKER_01: You know, just from there.
• 32:47
  SPEAKER_01: I was leading a different department before.
• 32:50
  SPEAKER_01: Before he asked me to lead the Christian education department.
• 32:52
  SPEAKER_01: And it was from there that you know we are here today.
• 32:56
  SPEAKER_01: Just providence.
• 32:57
  SPEAKER_01: I didn't ask for it.
• 32:58
  SPEAKER_01: I didn't, I didn't ask for anything.
• 33:00
  SPEAKER_01: I didn't ask to lead any department.
• 33:02
  SPEAKER_01: I didn't ask to start a church.
• 33:03
  SPEAKER_01: It was providence.
• 33:04
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, we've seen the gift of God in you over the years.
• 33:08
  SPEAKER_01: Now go and do it.
• 33:09
  SPEAKER_01: You see, providence.
• 33:11
  SPEAKER_01: You let it you don't force the doors open.
• 33:14
  SPEAKER_01: You don't force the doors open.
• 33:16
  SPEAKER_01: And then there are confirmations.
• 33:18
  SPEAKER_01: There are confirmations, different ways.
• 33:19
  SPEAKER_01: There are confirmations.
• 33:20
  SPEAKER_01: You know, when I teach Sunday school, sometimes I finish preparing Sunday school and I'm like, what I prepared there is more than Sunday school.
• 33:29
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, I'm not I'm not trying to, you know, beat myself on the back or pat my own, but I know that what I prepared for this Sunday school, this is not Sunday school.
• 33:38
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know if you're hearing what I'm saying.
• 33:40
  SPEAKER_01: This is more than Sunday school.
• 33:41
  SPEAKER_01: What I just prepared and what I just taught is more than Sunday school.
• 33:44
  SPEAKER_01: It's more than Sunday school.
• 33:46
  SPEAKER_01: And everybody agrees.
• 33:47
  SPEAKER_01: It's more than Sunday school, it's beyond Sunday school.
• 33:50
  SPEAKER_01: Although I'm a Sunday school teacher, but I was delivering more than a Sunday school teacher.
• 33:54
  SPEAKER_01: That's what I'm saying.
• 33:55
  SPEAKER_01: And then there are confirmations.
• 33:56
  SPEAKER_01: People come to you and say, Oh, that was this.
• 33:58
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, the little thing you taught becomes the takeaway for many people on a Sunday.
• 34:03
  SPEAKER_01: Becomes the takeaway.
• 34:05
  SPEAKER_01: Why?
• 34:05
  SPEAKER_01: Because there are confirmations.
• 34:07
  SPEAKER_01: Confirmations.
• 34:08
  SPEAKER_01: You see, confirmations that that is the right track that I want you to go in.
• 34:13
  SPEAKER_01: That is the calling on your life.
• 34:14
  SPEAKER_01: That is the gift I've given you.
• 34:17
  SPEAKER_01: That's the calling on your life.
• 34:18
  SPEAKER_01: So there are confirmations.
• 34:20
  SPEAKER_01: As God opens those doors, you don't force the door, those doors open.
• 34:24
  SPEAKER_01: God begins to confirm it from the mouth of two or three witnesses.
• 34:28
  SPEAKER_01: And then you begin to understand that that is the direction that God wants to go in your life.
• 34:33
  SPEAKER_01: God will help you in Jesus' name.
• 34:35
  SPEAKER_01: I said God will help you in Jesus' name.
• 34:39
  SPEAKER_01: The last one is fruitfulness.
• 34:41
  SPEAKER_01: Somebody say fruitfulness.
• 34:43
  SPEAKER_01: Fruitfulness.
• 34:43
  SPEAKER_01: Say it again.
• 34:44
  SPEAKER_01: Say fruitfulness.
• 34:45
  SPEAKER_01: And now we end here tonight.
• 34:47
  SPEAKER_01: Fruitfulness.
• 34:48
  SPEAKER_01: As you begin to pursue your calling in life, why there may be challenges, and of course, there will be challenges.
• 34:55
  SPEAKER_01: There will be challenges.
• 34:56
  SPEAKER_01: In fact, it's those challenges that God uses to build you up and to form character in you.
• 35:02
  SPEAKER_01: Like I said, you and I cannot fulfill God's purpose the way we are.
• 35:05
  SPEAKER_01: You perish the thought that you are everything that you ought to be, to be God's best.
• 35:12
  SPEAKER_01: No, you are not.
• 35:12
  SPEAKER_01: I'm not.
• 35:14
  SPEAKER_01: It is the challenges that we face as we pursue our purpose, our calling, that God uses to refine us, to reveal ourselves to us, to show us our shortcomings.
• 35:27
  SPEAKER_01: And it begins to form character in us.
• 35:29
  SPEAKER_01: However, as you have those challenges, there should be evidence of fruits along the journey.
• 35:37
  SPEAKER_01: There will be evidence of fruit along the journey.
• 35:40
  SPEAKER_01: There'll be evidence of fruit along the journey.
• 35:42
  SPEAKER_01: Somebody telling you that oh, that that made a difference for me.
• 35:45
  SPEAKER_01: People telling you that made a huge difference for me.
• 35:47
  SPEAKER_01: There should be evidence of fruit in your journey.
• 35:51
  SPEAKER_01: Because Psalm 7, I'm sorry, Matthew 7, verse 16.
• 35:55
  SPEAKER_01: You will know them by their fruits.
• 35:57
  SPEAKER_01: You will know them by what?
• 35:58
  SPEAKER_01: By their fruits.
• 35:59
  SPEAKER_01: You will know them by their fruit.
• 36:00
  SPEAKER_01: Knowledge comes by fruit.
• 36:02
  SPEAKER_01: Are you hearing what I'm saying?
• 36:03
  SPEAKER_01: Knowledge comes by fruit.
• 36:04
  SPEAKER_01: You know them by their fruit.
• 36:06
  SPEAKER_01: Do men gather grapes from thumb brushes or figs from thesus?
• 36:10
  SPEAKER_01: No, we don't.
• 36:12
  SPEAKER_01: So you know knowledge comes by fruit.
• 36:14
  SPEAKER_01: What fruit am I bearing?
• 36:16
  SPEAKER_01: What fruit is my life bearing?
• 36:18
  SPEAKER_01: Ask yourself now.
• 36:19
  SPEAKER_01: What fruit am I bearing?
• 36:20
  SPEAKER_01: What fruit is my life bearing?
• 36:23
  SPEAKER_01: You know by fruit.
• 36:24
  SPEAKER_01: Knowledge comes by fruit.
• 36:26
  SPEAKER_01: If you want to be this and that, and that your life is not bearing any fruit in relation to that, you should ask yourself questions.
• 36:35
  SPEAKER_01: What can I change?
• 36:36
  SPEAKER_01: What should I change?
• 36:37
  SPEAKER_01: You see, what can I change and what should I change?
• 36:41
  SPEAKER_01: And how to give us an assignment.
• 36:44
  SPEAKER_01: So if you say you are called to the marketplace, for example, to be a voice and all that, well, how has it been in the past 10 years?
• 36:51
  SPEAKER_01: If you are called to the marketplace to be at to be an apostle in the marketplace, how has it been in the past 10 years?
• 36:56
  SPEAKER_01: As doors opened unto you, you know, have you seen doors open to you?
• 37:00
  SPEAKER_01: Have you seen people come to you and ask you questions about how you are doing your work?
• 37:04
  SPEAKER_01: Those are fruits that you begin to see in your life that point to God's calling on your life.
• 37:10
  SPEAKER_01: Do you carry a burden for those who occupy those places of influence in those places?
• 37:16
  SPEAKER_01: Do you have do you have do you have a burden that they're using their authority and they're using their influence to to guide things in in the wrong direction?
• 37:24
  SPEAKER_01: Or they're using their their influence for the for the enemy.
• 37:27
  SPEAKER_01: Do you do you does that bother you?
• 37:29
  SPEAKER_01: You see?
• 37:30
  SPEAKER_01: And what are you going to do?
• 37:31
  SPEAKER_01: Do you have a plan when God opens certain doors?
• 37:34
  SPEAKER_01: Do you have a plan of how you are going to use that influence for the benefit and for the profit of the kingdom of God?
• 37:41
  SPEAKER_01: Some of us will need to come up with that plan even before you have the opportunity.
• 37:44
  SPEAKER_01: Come up with a plan.
• 37:45
  SPEAKER_01: I read about a man, you know, who wanted to build a big school and he was going to need a million dollars.
• 37:50
  SPEAKER_01: And one Sunday morning he went to his church and he preached a powerful sermon.
• 37:53
  SPEAKER_01: What I would do with a million dollars.
• 37:55
  SPEAKER_01: And he preached that sermon.
• 37:56
  SPEAKER_01: In fact, he had he had been talking about it for like many years.
• 38:00
  SPEAKER_01: So one day the Judas just spoke to him.
• 38:02
  SPEAKER_01: Why not share this thing with with people with a larger audience?
• 38:05
  SPEAKER_01: So he put a banner out in the in the community.
• 38:08
  SPEAKER_01: Come to you know this church on Sunday morning.
• 38:11
  SPEAKER_01: What I would do with a million dollars.
• 38:13
  SPEAKER_01: On that Sunday morning, the church was packed.
• 38:16
  SPEAKER_01: And that day he forgot his note at home.
• 38:18
  SPEAKER_01: But he preached the sermon anyway because he's been talking about it for many, many years.
• 38:21
  SPEAKER_01: So he preached a powerful sermon.
• 38:23
  SPEAKER_01: What I would do with the million dollars.
• 38:24
  SPEAKER_01: So he shared the vision.
• 38:25
  SPEAKER_01: What I'm going to do with the million dollars, the schools I'm going to build, I'm going to hire people, and things like that.
• 38:30
  SPEAKER_01: At the end of the meeting, somebody came to him and said, I was sitting there and I listened to your message, and it was so powerful.
• 38:36
  SPEAKER_01: Next um on Monday, come to my office, I'll give you a check for a million dollars.
• 38:41
  SPEAKER_01: You see?
• 38:42
  SPEAKER_01: So you have a plan even before you have the opportunity.
• 38:46
  SPEAKER_01: Have a plan, have a plan.
• 38:47
  SPEAKER_01: What am I going to do if I'm asked to lead, you know, 50 people today?
• 38:51
  SPEAKER_01: What am I going to do if I'm asked to lead 20 people?
• 38:54
  SPEAKER_01: What am I going to do if I'm if I'm asked to lead 500 people?
• 38:57
  SPEAKER_01: What am I going to do with a church of a thousand people?
• 39:00
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, have you thought about it?
• 39:02
  SPEAKER_01: What am I going to do if I'm actually lead a thousand people?
• 39:04
  SPEAKER_01: What am I going to do?
• 39:06
  SPEAKER_01: So you it's in the process of planning that your character and your your abilities begin to get fine-tuned.
• 39:12
  SPEAKER_01: You begin to, oh, there's some gaps here.
• 39:15
  SPEAKER_01: I need to fill these gaps.
• 39:16
  SPEAKER_01: I need to fill these gaps.
• 39:18
  SPEAKER_01: Right.
• 39:18
  SPEAKER_01: So you have a burden, and you see the burdens you carry.
• 39:21
  SPEAKER_01: Now, let's talk about the assignment.
• 39:23
  SPEAKER_01: I want to give us an assignment.
• 39:24
  SPEAKER_01: I want to give you an assignment.
• 39:26
  SPEAKER_01: I want to give you an assignment, and I hope you do it.
• 39:29
  SPEAKER_01: You see, when God puts you within a body of believers, when God put you within a body of believers, he knows what you need per time.
• 39:37
  SPEAKER_01: He knows what you need per time, and he inspires the leaders in that body of believers to um dispense what you need per time.
• 39:44
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, it is only wise that we follow those instructions.
• 39:49
  SPEAKER_01: It's only wise that you that you don't cant yourself out because God knows what you need and he inspires the people that he has put over that local assembly to bring and to dispense to you exactly the things you need per time.
• 40:01
  SPEAKER_01: So I'm just encouraging us to do this assignment.
• 40:04
  SPEAKER_01: The assignment is what we've talked about today is that you uh the things you need to have your calling unveiled to you, four things that you that you must pay attention to.
• 40:13
  SPEAKER_01: Number one is what burden, number two is what revelation, number three is what providence, and number four is what fruitfulness that must be fruits.
• 40:25
  SPEAKER_01: There must be fruits, and I want to give us this assignment.
• 40:28
  SPEAKER_01: The first assignment is you speak in tongues for 20 minutes every day for the next 21 days, speak in tongues for 20 minutes every day for the next 21 days.
• 40:39
  SPEAKER_01: What you do when you are speaking in tongues is you are opening your heart up to God, you are opening your heart up to the Holy Spirit.
• 40:46
  SPEAKER_01: Remember in um 1 Corinthians chapter 2, verse 10.
• 40:51
  SPEAKER_01: 1 Corinthians chapter 2 and verse 10.
• 40:54
  SPEAKER_01: But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit, for the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.
• 41:02
  SPEAKER_01: So what you do as you speak in tongues is you are opening yourself up, you are opening your spirit man up for the spirit of God to minister to you.
• 41:11
  SPEAKER_01: You are becoming more sensitive to the Holy Spirit.
• 41:14
  SPEAKER_01: That's what you're doing as you speak in tongues.
• 41:17
  SPEAKER_01: You are becoming more sensitive, you are creating a landing pad, as it were, for the spirit of God.
• 41:22
  SPEAKER_01: You are you are you are breaking up your fallow ground.
• 41:25
  SPEAKER_01: Many of us need to break up our fallow ground.
• 41:27
  SPEAKER_01: You are breaking up your fallow ground so that the seed of God's word can be planted in you.
• 41:32
  SPEAKER_01: That's what you do in speaking in tongues.
• 41:34
  SPEAKER_01: So you speak in tongues for a long time, for 20 minutes at a minimum, so that the spirit of God can begin to minister to you, can be can begin to show you deep things of God.
• 41:44
  SPEAKER_01: Begin to show you deep things that you did not know before.
• 41:47
  SPEAKER_01: Deep things about your life, give you clarity about your destiny, deep things about things.
• 41:52
  SPEAKER_01: Deep things.
• 41:53
  SPEAKER_01: So that's what you do.
• 41:54
  SPEAKER_01: You are breaking up your phallogram and you're making your heart conducive for God to speak to you.
• 42:00
  SPEAKER_01: So that's the first assignment.
• 42:01
  SPEAKER_01: You speak in tongues for 20 minutes every day for 21 days.
• 42:07
  SPEAKER_01: And then, number two, you begin to notice, you begin to notice what God begins to place on your heart, begin to notice it.
• 42:14
  SPEAKER_01: Begin to pay attention to what is reigniting in you.
• 42:17
  SPEAKER_01: Some of you have had burdens.
• 42:19
  SPEAKER_01: You had the burden when you came to this country 20 years ago, you had a burden in your hand when you came to this country 10 years ago, but somehow life has you know pushed that burden to the side.
• 42:29
  SPEAKER_01: This is an opportunity.
• 42:30
  SPEAKER_01: You will reignite certain burdens during this period, it will reignite the burden, or it will give you fresh burdens.
• 42:37
  SPEAKER_01: You know, you might think that oh, this is what God wants me to do with my life, but it might give you fresh burdens.
• 42:42
  SPEAKER_01: But make sure you are speaking in tongues first, speak in tongues for some time, and you give it, you give it time, give it time, and then you begin to pay attention to what God is saying to you.
• 42:53
  SPEAKER_01: Somebody say amen to that.
• 42:54
  unknown: Amen.
• 42:55
  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
• 42:55
  SPEAKER_01: What are you doing when you when you speak in tongues?
• 42:57
  SPEAKER_01: You are breaking up your fallow ground, you are making your heart conducive for the Holy Spirit to plant the seed of his word.
• 43:02
  SPEAKER_01: You are making your heart conducive for God to have a landing pad on your heart.
• 43:07
  SPEAKER_01: That's what you do when you speak in tongues.
• 43:09
  SPEAKER_01: And then the Holy Spirit can begin to share his burdens with you.
• 43:11
  SPEAKER_01: Remember, our burdens, our purpose must be aligned with God's purpose.
• 43:17
  SPEAKER_01: Our purpose must be aligned.
• 43:19
  SPEAKER_01: We can't just go ahead and just do some social um thing and say, Yeah, that's your purpose.
• 43:24
  SPEAKER_01: No, no, no, no.
• 43:25
  SPEAKER_01: Social, some social crusade.
• 43:27
  SPEAKER_01: You're just doing some social crusade that doesn't have any meaningful impact on the on the word of God, on on the on the work of the kingdom.
• 43:33
  SPEAKER_01: No, you're a child of God.
• 43:35
  SPEAKER_01: You're a child of God.
• 43:37
  SPEAKER_01: Your purpose must be linked to the kingdom, to advancing the kingdom.
• 43:42
  SPEAKER_01: Purpose must be linked to advancing the kingdom.
• 43:44
  SPEAKER_01: So you are noticing what those bodies that the Holy Spirit begins to share with you and the and the ones that he's reigniting in you.
• 43:50
  SPEAKER_01: And then what inner witness do you have when you read your Bible?
• 43:54
  SPEAKER_01: If you are breaking the fallow ground, you are making your heart more sensitive to the Holy Spirit by speaking in tongues, you better be reading your Bible.
• 44:02
  SPEAKER_01: Let me say this again.
• 44:04
  SPEAKER_01: If you are breaking up the fallow ground, you are reading your you are you are speaking in tongues, what you are speaking in tongues, you are you are you are making yourself open.
• 44:11
  SPEAKER_01: You are opening yourself up.
• 44:12
  SPEAKER_01: That's what you do when you are speaking in tongues.
• 44:14
  SPEAKER_01: You see, you are opening yourself up to the Holy Spirit to minister to you.
• 44:18
  SPEAKER_01: You better also be doing what?
• 44:19
  SPEAKER_01: Be reading your Bible.
• 44:22
  SPEAKER_01: Because if you are not reading your Bible, something will may come and land where the grande you've prepared.
• 44:28
  SPEAKER_01: Something that you don't like may come and land there.
• 44:30
  SPEAKER_01: What we want to land there is what?
• 44:32
  SPEAKER_01: The word of God, the seed of the word of God.
• 44:34
  SPEAKER_01: So as you speak in tongues for 20 minutes, make sure you're also reading your Bible for at least 15 minutes.
• 44:39
  SPEAKER_01: At least 15 minutes.
• 44:41
  SPEAKER_01: And then you begin to ask yourself, okay, what inner witness am I seeing as I read my Bible?
• 44:45
  SPEAKER_01: What inner witness?
• 44:46
  SPEAKER_01: Or what character of the Bible appeals to me?
• 44:49
  SPEAKER_01: What what which character of the Bible do I see myself as?
• 44:52
  SPEAKER_01: You see, which character of the Bible do I see myself do I see myself as?
• 44:55
  SPEAKER_01: And as you you you pay attention to that and you study that character of the Bible, then you begin to see yourself in the Bible.
• 45:01
  SPEAKER_01: Luke chapter 2, verse 21, Luke chapter 2, Luke chapter 4, verse 21, rather.
• 45:06
  SPEAKER_01: Jesus said, after reading the scroll, he said, today this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing.
• 45:11
  SPEAKER_01: Today this scripture is fulfilled.
• 45:13
  SPEAKER_01: So Jesus saw himself on the pages of scriptures.
• 45:15
  SPEAKER_01: Jesus saw himself on the pages of scriptures.
• 45:17
  SPEAKER_01: So as you are reading your scriptures, ask yourself, what is resonating with me?
• 45:22
  SPEAKER_01: Is Joseph resonating with me?
• 45:24
  SPEAKER_01: And if Joseph is resonating with you, be ready to be thrown into the pit.
• 45:31
  SPEAKER_01: That was supposed to be a joke, but I think I guess it was a dry joke.
• 45:34
  SPEAKER_01: Um if Joseph is resonating with you, be ready, be ready for to be to be wrongly accused.
• 45:42
  SPEAKER_01: You know, if Daniel is resonating with you, be ready to be thrown in the in the in the den of lions.
• 45:49
  SPEAKER_01: But you ask yourself, you ask yourself that you know which character of the Bible is resonating with me, and how can I study that?
• 45:55
  SPEAKER_01: How many of us have been blessed tonight?