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THE-GENERAL-ASSEMBLY-DAY-3 · Apostle Joshua Selman

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  Speaker 1: Father, in the name of Jesus Christ, we thank you
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  Speaker 1: for all that you have done so far in this meeting,
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  Speaker 1: in this conference, for the outpouring of your Spirit, for
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  Speaker 1: all chance you have granted for your outstretched hand. And
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  Speaker 1: as we go into this session, I ask in the
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  Speaker 1: mighty name of Jesus that you, through my lips, water
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  Speaker 1: the seeds that have already been planted, and add some
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  Speaker 1: significant contribution to the work that is already going on.
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  Speaker 1: I ask that you grant utterance, that I speak as
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  Speaker 1: your oracle, that your God goes forth, and that light
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  Speaker 1: shines on our path, and wisdom is imparted unto us.
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  Speaker 1: In Jesus' name, amen. All right, may all be seated.
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  Speaker 1: Let's put our hands together for Apostle Selman. This has
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  Speaker 1: been a conference with excellence. And we cannot separate the
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  Speaker 1: quality of revelation and impartation that has been going on
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  Speaker 1: from the spirit of the convener also, who's operations in
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  Speaker 1: the spirit, creates an environment for the kinds of things
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  Speaker 1: that we are hearing. So Apostle, we appreciate you deeply
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  Speaker 1: for what God is using you to do in this
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  Speaker 1: generation around the world. It's no longer Nigeria, it's around
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  Speaker 1: the world. I even suspect he's bigger in countries outside
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  Speaker 1: Nigeria than even in Nigeria. Amen. Amen. All right, my
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  Speaker 1: dear friend, Reverend Kula came with all cylinders firing. And
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  Speaker 1: that was a powerful message. All right, so I'll go
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  Speaker 1: back to Revelations chapter 3 and verse 18 and simply
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  Speaker 1: finish what we started last night. The I solve part
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  Speaker 1: in Revelations 3 and verse 18. It says, so I
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  Speaker 1: counsel thee to buy of me gold that is tried
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  Speaker 1: with fire that thou mayest be rich and white raiment
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  Speaker 1: that thou mayest be clothed and that the shame of
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  Speaker 1: thy nakedness do not appear and to anoint thine eyes,
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  Speaker 1: verse 18 still, verse 18, with eyesalve there that thou
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  Speaker 1: mayest see So this afternoon, I want to speak about
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  Speaker 1: our eyes being anointed with eyes of that we may see.
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  Speaker 1: If we go to Genesis chapter 19 and verse 10
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  Speaker 1: and verse 11, this was the story of what happened
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  Speaker 1: in Sodom and Gomorrah.
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  Speaker 2: And I want to talk about five levels of seeing.
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  Speaker 1: In other words, five levels at which you can have
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  Speaker 1: spiritual sight. And hence, Sodom and Gomorrah, the angels had
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  Speaker 1: come to deliver Lot. And the Bible says the men
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  Speaker 1: had gathered together, everybody in the town, and they wanted
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  Speaker 1: to take, all right, to themselves, the angels. But these
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  Speaker 1: men put forth their hands, those angels now, and pulled
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  Speaker 1: Lot into the house. So then... and shut the door.
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  Speaker 1: Now the next verse says, and they smote the men
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  Speaker 1: that were at the door. Now where were the men?
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  Speaker 1: The men were at the door. And they smote the
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  Speaker 1: men that were at the door of the house with blindness.
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  Speaker 1: both small and great. So they worried themselves to find
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  Speaker 1: the door. When there is spiritual blindness, the blessing there
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  Speaker 1: is right before you.
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  Speaker 2: They were standing at the door.
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  Speaker 1: And from morning till evening, They were going around at
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  Speaker 1: the door and never saw the door. And they got
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  Speaker 1: tired and left the place because they were blind spiritually.
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  Speaker 1: And so when it talks about this eye slave here,
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  Speaker 1: or eye salve rather.
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  Speaker 2: It's talking about the opening up of our eyes.
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  Speaker 1: The eye salve is an ointment for the eyes that
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  Speaker 1: causes you to see and have spiritual insight and also clarity.
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  Speaker 1: And any blessing that God gives, which brings a breakthrough,
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  Speaker 1: he always uses something that is available to you that
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  Speaker 1: is inside your house is just that you are not
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  Speaker 1: seeing it correctly. When Jesus wanted to feed the multitude,
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  Speaker 1: at the end of the day, they talked about the money,
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  Speaker 1: they talked about things. Jesus said, go into the crowd.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever you can find, bring it. The reason why they
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  Speaker 1: ate loaves and fish was because what they brought were
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  Speaker 1: five loaves and fish. And the person who brought it
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  Speaker 1: didn't see the thing correctly. He said, what is this.
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  Speaker 2: Among so many?
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  Speaker 1: In other words, without spiritual eyes, you will cast away
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  Speaker 1: Things that God himself has designed to bring about multiplication
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  Speaker 1: and massive breakthroughs into your life. It's an issue of
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  Speaker 1: recognizing it spiritually. God never goes outside of you to
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  Speaker 1: bring about what will bring that significant breakthrough in your life.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody that has worked with God with prophetic insight, they
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  Speaker 1: have always known that. That when the woman came, Elijah
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  Speaker 1: asked her, what do you have in your house? The
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  Speaker 1: woman didn't see it correctly. She said, all that we
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  Speaker 1: have is just this oil here, cruz of oil, and
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  Speaker 1: this small muscle here, and we will eat that and die.
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  Speaker 1: And she did not recognize what was in her hands.
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  Speaker 1: Elisha said, what should I do? Tell me, what do
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  Speaker 1: you have in your house? Thine handmaid hath not anything.
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  Speaker 1: In other words, she said, I don't have anything. She
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  Speaker 1: didn't consider it to be anything worthwhile.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going somewhere.
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  Speaker 1: But Elisha, people with prophetic insight, they know it is
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  Speaker 1: always in your house. When God met with Moses, he
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  Speaker 1: said to Moses.
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  Speaker 2: What do you have in your hand?
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  Speaker 1: And Moses looked at it and said, it's just a rod.
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  Speaker 1: And God said, it's more than a rod. And so
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  Speaker 1: when there is spiritual sight here, a person begins to
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  Speaker 1: see Things that they have been calling casual, looking at,
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  Speaker 1: the job that they have, that they have been looking
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  Speaker 1: at this and saying, I'm just a front desk person.
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  Speaker 1: But with spiritual insight, and that's what I want to
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  Speaker 1: discuss this afternoon. When the eyes salve upon the eyes there,
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  Speaker 1: a person begins to see beyond the ordinary, into the
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  Speaker 1: true nature of things. And it's from there, stuff begins
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  Speaker 1: to come out. Which means this is more powerful, that's
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  Speaker 1: what was said in Revelations 3.8, than even riches in.
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  Speaker 2: A bank account.
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  Speaker 1: Because what Peter said was 200 penny, which means this
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  Speaker 1: amount of money is not enough to even feed these people.
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  Speaker 1: But Jesus had that insight into things and he understood it.
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  Speaker 2: So he said, go in.
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  Speaker 1: God always has the provision in that particular place.
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  Speaker 2: When the wine finished in the feast.
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  Speaker 1: And they came to Jesus, Jesus understood that the miracle
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  Speaker 1: must always be accessible. It is something before you that
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  Speaker 1: God is going to use. And so he looked around
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  Speaker 1: and saw it. and said, fill this pot with water.
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  Speaker 1: There were empty pots that were right there. Nobody had
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  Speaker 1: ever seen anybody do that. And it's very frustrating when
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  Speaker 1: you don't have spiritual insight. The same way those people
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  Speaker 1: were at the door, and they worried themselves to find
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  Speaker 1: the door. Without this kind of insight there, real insight,
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  Speaker 1: What happens is you can be praying about God providing
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  Speaker 1: wine for you in that feast. And because you are
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  Speaker 1: not seen correctly, the empty pots he wants to use
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  Speaker 1: that look empty. And the water that he wants to
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  Speaker 1: use that looks like water that is common. You can
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  Speaker 1: even carry away the pots because we are praying. And because,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you're believing that the same way the wine came,
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  Speaker 1: the first way is the way he's going to do it.
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  Speaker 2: And so you miss out on what God wants to do.
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  Speaker 1: So the first thing I came to do this afternoon
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  Speaker 1: is to understand, to make you understand, you are empowered.
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  Speaker 2: And that to him that has.
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  Speaker 1: It shall be given.
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  Speaker 2: But to him that says.
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  Speaker 1: I have not, even that which he has shall be
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  Speaker 1: taken away from him. In other words, everybody has something.
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  Speaker 1: But some people look at themselves and say, I have not.
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  Speaker 1: I belong, you know, to the people that have not.
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  Speaker 1: And so what happens is, even that which they have
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  Speaker 1: is taken away from them. But the people that say
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  Speaker 1: that I have, and they're conscious of that, to them
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  Speaker 1: more will be given. Amen. You know, many years ago,
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  Speaker 1: I was reading a book by an economist on the
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  Speaker 1: mystery of capital.
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  Speaker 2: And it was Hernando de Soto.
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  Speaker 1: He was a Chilean, and I think Bill Clinton describes
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  Speaker 1: him as the greatest mind, economic mind, all right, in
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  Speaker 1: the developing world. And he says, if you combine all
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  Speaker 1: the foreign investments that have ever, and he listed.
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  Speaker 2: All of them, all that have come into Africa.
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  Speaker 1: He said if you go into the savings of the
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  Speaker 1: people that consider themselves poor in Africa and you gather
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  Speaker 1: together all their savings, you will find out that it
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  Speaker 1: exceeds every form of foreign investment that has come into
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  Speaker 1: the continent.
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  Speaker 2: That the wealth is actually with the people.
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  Speaker 1: The problem is they are holding that thing in a
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  Speaker 1: defective way. In other words, the scripture says the slothful
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  Speaker 1: man does not roast what he took hunting. In other words,
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  Speaker 1: he went to hunt, but he did not roast it,
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  Speaker 1: which means he didn't derive full value out of what
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  Speaker 1: he had in his hands. And so even though he
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  Speaker 1: had come and hunted and felt that the hunting, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the fiscal work he had done was the real work.
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  Speaker 1: He said the real work is actually, all right, the
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  Speaker 1: extraction from that particular.
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  Speaker 2: Thing, the full value there.
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  Speaker 1: Which means the man who killed the cow and ate it,
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  Speaker 1: some other person has extracted value from it. They have
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  Speaker 1: used the hunts to make what we call China plates.
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  Speaker 1: They have used the hides and skin there to make
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  Speaker 1: exotic bags that are worth thousands of dollars. They have
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  Speaker 1: bought out a dairy industry with cheese, with butter, with
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  Speaker 1: milk out of that. They have gone into every single
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  Speaker 1: part of that cow that that man just killed and
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  Speaker 1: ate and brought out industries worth billions out of those things.
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  Speaker 1: So when we talk about eyes that see there, in
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  Speaker 1: other words, God has always made.
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  Speaker 2: The provision The issue is for us to have.
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  Speaker 1: Eyes and eyes that see is more important and significant
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  Speaker 1: than money that you have in your bank. Are you
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  Speaker 1: following what I'm saying here? And so is this eye
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  Speaker 1: solve here, which means the person goes into a territory
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  Speaker 1: and is able to look and they don't waste time.
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  Speaker 1: It has been said, a genius sees what other people
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  Speaker 1: don't see. A skillful man can hit a target, but
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  Speaker 1: the genius is the one that spots the target. And
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  Speaker 1: so even though he doesn't have as much skill as
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  Speaker 1: other people, he may not have as much resources as
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  Speaker 1: other people, but because he saw it first and entered
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  Speaker 1: into it first, he has that advantage, all right, and
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  Speaker 1: he enters into certain things. So I want us to
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  Speaker 1: understand this and embrace this and understand the power of
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  Speaker 1: this I solved. In other words, it is always in
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  Speaker 1: your house. The blessing is always in your house. If
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  Speaker 1: you are a pastor, the people that will grow that
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  Speaker 1: church and multiply that church are inside of that church.
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  Speaker 1: You may be bypassing them. You may consider them as
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  Speaker 1: being casual people. And you're not putting enough attention on them.
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  Speaker 1: But the church, if it's going to grow organically, is
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  Speaker 1: going to come by you recognizing the people that are
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  Speaker 1: within that particular place. Because to him that has, more
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  Speaker 1: shall be given. But to him that goes around and says,
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  Speaker 1: I have not, even that which he has shall be
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  Speaker 1: taken away from him. It is interesting. In statistics of
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  Speaker 1: church today, 82% of people that are moving into megachurches
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  Speaker 1: are coming from small churches. Only 2% are coming directly
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  Speaker 1: from the world. In other words, small churches are now
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  Speaker 1: becoming feeder programs for megachurches. But it's the small churches
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  Speaker 1: that are even reaching people and getting them saved. And
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  Speaker 1: then after some time, and the reason is because a
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  Speaker 1: lot of the pastors hold their small churches in and
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  Speaker 1: look at themselves as being inferior to a person with
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  Speaker 1: a megachurch, look at themselves then as though what is
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  Speaker 1: this among so many, preach to them with a sense
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  Speaker 1: of dissatisfaction, preach to them there with a sense of inferiority,
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  Speaker 1: and people pick that up in the spirit, and then
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  Speaker 1: they move away and say we're going to a place,
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  Speaker 1: all right, that is where we should actually go to.
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  Speaker 1: So it's important that we understand this. If we're going
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  Speaker 1: to have true and genuine growth there, that everybody begins
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  Speaker 1: to recognize that the miracle is inside my heart. That
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  Speaker 1: the thing that God is going to use to get
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  Speaker 1: me to the next level is available unto me. I
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  Speaker 1: just have to see this correctly. I have to open
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  Speaker 1: my eyes there and in prayer I will see this
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  Speaker 1: and see what is around me and see them correctly.
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  Speaker 1: These are not empty pots. This is not just water
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  Speaker 1: I use to wash my hands. That I see in
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  Speaker 1: the realm of the Spirit how we can extract value
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  Speaker 1: out of these things. There's a story I tell often.
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  Speaker 1: It's a powerful story and I'll tell it again. In
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  Speaker 1: Genesis chapter 21 and verse 11. Genesis 21 and verse 11.
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  Speaker 1: We have the story here, and I want us to
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  Speaker 1: understand it. Because we have been blessed already with every
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  Speaker 1: spiritual blessing in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. God has
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  Speaker 1: done his part, and he has given to us. And
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  Speaker 1: in Genesis chapter 21 and verse 11, we see Abraham here.
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  Speaker 1: He had an issue within his family. And we'll talk
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  Speaker 1: about this. Abraham had problems. had tried to help God.
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  Speaker 1: And so what happened was Ishmael came forth. And so
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  Speaker 1: when it was time for Isaac, and Isaac now came,
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  Speaker 1: there was a conflict between Isaac and Ishmael. But as
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  Speaker 1: far as Abraham was concerned emotionally now, Ishmael was his
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  Speaker 1: first son. Ishmael may have looked just like Abraham. Ishmael
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  Speaker 1: had grown up in the house for, say, 13 years
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  Speaker 1: just with Abraham. They had developed a bond. And then
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  Speaker 1: one day, Sarah said, Ishmael has got to go. And
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  Speaker 1: God spoke to Abraham and said, Sarah is correct. Ishmael
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  Speaker 1: has got to go. Now, so what happened in Genesis,
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  Speaker 1: or the scripture there, 21-11? was that the thing was
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  Speaker 1: very grievous. It really hurt Abraham. Very grievous in Abraham's
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  Speaker 1: sight because of his son. And then the next verse
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  Speaker 1: tells us, And God said to Abraham, Let it not
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  Speaker 1: be grievous in thy sight. Which means it hurt Abraham
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  Speaker 1: to make this decision. Because of the lad and because
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  Speaker 1: of the bondwoman, And in the next phase, I'll talk
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  Speaker 1: about how we shouldn't give birth to Ishmael. Because if
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  Speaker 1: you give birth to an Ishmael, you... can almost create
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  Speaker 1: a civil war within your church or within your organization
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  Speaker 1: or within your family there. And it becomes more difficult
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  Speaker 1: to do what God wants you to do. But God
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  Speaker 1: said unto him, let it not be grievous in thy sight,
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  Speaker 1: because of the lad and because of the bondwoman. In
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  Speaker 1: all that Sarah has said unto thee, hearken to her voice,
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  Speaker 1: for in Isaac shall the seed be called. And in
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  Speaker 1: the next verse, he now tells us, and also the
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  Speaker 1: son of the bondwoman, that's Ishmael, I will make a
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  Speaker 1: nation because he is thy seed. So Abraham was going
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  Speaker 1: to make a decision now to let Ishmael go. The
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  Speaker 1: scripture has described Abraham in four chapters before this, that
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  Speaker 1: Abraham was.
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  Speaker 2: Very rich in silver and in gold.
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  Speaker 1: And in cattle. Very.
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  Speaker 2: He didn't say rich.
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  Speaker 1: Very rich in silver, gold, and cattle. Should you not
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  Speaker 1: think that if Abraham is going to send his first
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  Speaker 1: son out of the house, And you should have some
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  Speaker 1: sense of guilt. It's not the fault of the boy.
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  Speaker 1: You are the one who gave birth to this boy.
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  Speaker 1: He is your first son. And back then when they
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  Speaker 1: send you out. So you can see this Abraham was
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  Speaker 1: very rich in cattle. In silver and in gold. If
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  Speaker 1: they send you out. You are not coming back again.
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  Speaker 1: Which means when they say we send you. You are gone.
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  Speaker 1: And Ishmael wasn't going to come back. The next time
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  Speaker 1: Ishmael came back. into the area where Abraham was, was
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  Speaker 1: for the funeral of Abraham. So he was going. Don't
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  Speaker 1: you think that the father, you are sending out your
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  Speaker 1: first son. You have silver, gold, and cattle in abundance.
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  Speaker 1: Won't you take some silver, some gold, and some cattle
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  Speaker 1: and give it to the boy and say, you can
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  Speaker 1: go with this. This should be enough for you. You know,
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  Speaker 1: so you have something, and this is your inheritance from
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  Speaker 1: my house. You have something to start life with. And
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  Speaker 1: at least Abraham would have been pacified by that, that
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  Speaker 1: I've done something good. And Ishmael would also have left,
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  Speaker 1: at least he would be glad in his heart, that
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  Speaker 1: my father has left me with some inheritance, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I can go with this. But look at what Abraham
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  Speaker 1: did in the next verse. Very significant. In Genesis 21. Alright,
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  Speaker 1: let's go to verse 14. Genesis 21 verse 14. And
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  Speaker 1: Abraham rose up early in the morning.
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  Speaker 2: And he took bread. One loaf of bread. This is
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  Speaker 2: a man that is very rich in silver.
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  Speaker 1: Gold and cattle. He took one loaf of bread. And
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  Speaker 1: a bottle of water. And Ishmael was leaving his house
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  Speaker 1: looking at silver, gold, and at cattle. And you are
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  Speaker 1: sending me out and all you give me is a
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  Speaker 1: loaf of bread. And all you give me is a
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  Speaker 1: bottle of water. And we are going into the wilderness,
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  Speaker 1: into the desert. And he gave him that to Hagar,
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  Speaker 1: putting it on her shoulder.
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  Speaker 2: And the child, and he sent her away.
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  Speaker 1: And she departed and wandered in the wilderness of Bathsheba.
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  Speaker 1: And then the next verse, after some time, the water
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  Speaker 1: was spent in the bottle. And what did Hagar do?
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  Speaker 1: She took her child, Ishmael, and cast the child under
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  Speaker 1: one of the shrubs. For she went and sat over
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  Speaker 1: against him, a good way off as it were a
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  Speaker 1: bow shot. For she said, let me not see the
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  Speaker 1: death of my child. And she sat over against him,
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  Speaker 1: lifted up her voice and wept.
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  Speaker 2: So Hagar began crying. She wasn't praying. And I will
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  Speaker 2: show you this.
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  Speaker 1: She was crying that this boy is going to die.
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  Speaker 1: This boy is going to die. And she put him
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  Speaker 1: far away from her because as a mother, she couldn't
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  Speaker 1: look at the son deteriorate his skin and his flesh
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  Speaker 1: getting eaten up under the sun and die. She could
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  Speaker 1: not do it. So she put him away and started
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  Speaker 1: wailing and crying. But I believe that Ishmael understood something.
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  Speaker 1: And I believe that a week before, so when God
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  Speaker 1: gave Abraham that instruction to let go of Ishmael, that
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  Speaker 1: Abraham called Ishmael and taught him the covenant. He said,
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  Speaker 1: sit down. This is how great nations come out of people.
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  Speaker 1: This is how people become great. Alright, what happens is,
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  Speaker 1: I will say this. They may start off with little.
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  Speaker 1: But there is one quality that they have. And he
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  Speaker 1: taught him and told him. That once this bottle of
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  Speaker 1: water finishes. And this loaf of bread finishes. The covenant
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  Speaker 1: is going to kick in. And Ishmael, what you should
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  Speaker 1: do is to pray this unto God. This is your
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  Speaker 1: prayer point. Pray this single prayer unto God and my
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  Speaker 1: God will show up because this is how it always happens.
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  Speaker 1: And so she went there and wept. The next verse,
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  Speaker 1: verse 17. The Bible tells us, God heard the voice
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  Speaker 1: of who? The lad. He didn't hear the voice of Hagar.
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  Speaker 1: Hagar wasn't praying. The lad, Ishmael, was the one that prayed.
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  Speaker 1: God heard the voice of the lad and the angel
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  Speaker 1: called to Hagar and said out of heaven unto her,
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  Speaker 1: what in let thee? In other words, what's troubling you?
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  Speaker 1: What's the matter?
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  Speaker 2: Why are you troubled?
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  Speaker 1: Because as far as they were concerned, there's no trouble here.
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  Speaker 1: What in let thee? Fear not. God has heard the
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  Speaker 1: voice of the lad where he is. In other words,
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  Speaker 1: where you drop that boy, he has prayed unto God
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: the prayer you should pray during this time. When you
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: come to a point where you have come to an
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  Speaker 1: end in yourself, he has prayed it and God has
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  Speaker 1: heard him. Therefore, the next verse, he said to her, arise,
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  Speaker 1: lift up the lad and hold him in thy hand,
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  Speaker 1: for I will.
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  Speaker 2: Make him a great nation.
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  Speaker 1: In other words, there's a nation in what you threw
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  Speaker 1: away and said this is for death and all of that.
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  Speaker 1: There is a great nation on the inside of it.
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  Speaker 2: Listen, I hope you are hearing me.
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  Speaker 1: In the spirit. What will make this continent great is
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  Speaker 1: inside this continent. Are you following what I'm saying here?
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  Speaker 1: What we need are eyes that see, eyes that see,
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  Speaker 1: eyes that see.
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  Speaker 2: Look at what it says. Arise, I will make him
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  Speaker 2: a great nation. Look at the next verse.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible says, and God opened her eyes and she
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  Speaker 1: saw a well of water. The well was always there,
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  Speaker 1: but her eyes were closed. If you are in any
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  Speaker 1: situation and you say, God, where is the provision? I
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  Speaker 1: am telling you, it is there. And what he prayed
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  Speaker 1: was that open my eyes. Open our eyes that we
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  Speaker 1: may see. And she went and filled the bottle. Which
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  Speaker 1: means this is no longer just a bottle of water.
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  Speaker 1: This is a continuous supply. They opened them up to
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  Speaker 1: a perpetual supply. That they could use for farming. They
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  Speaker 1: could use there for different things. Not just drinking. That
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  Speaker 1: bottle of water was only to drink. Now they had
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  Speaker 1: gotten a well there. From the well several things. But
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  Speaker 1: the well was always there. They just did not see it.
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  Speaker 1: That's why David prayed in Psalm 13. This was his prayer.
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  Speaker 1: Covenant people understand this prayer. He says, Psalm 13, verse 1. David,
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  Speaker 1: Psalm 13. How long will thou forget me, O Lord? Forever.
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  Speaker 1: How long will thou hide thy face from me? Verse 2.
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  Speaker 1: He says, how long shall I take counsel in my soul,
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  Speaker 1: having sorrow in my heart daily? How long shall my
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  Speaker 1: enemy be exalted over me? What was the prayer he prayed?
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  Speaker 1: Consider and hear me, O Lord. Lighten my eyes, lest
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  Speaker 1: I sleep the sleep of death. In other words, open
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  Speaker 1: my eyes. And if you open my eyes, this death
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  Speaker 1: cannot have control over me again. That was his prayer.
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  Speaker 1: And that's the prayer here. And that's why he says,
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  Speaker 1: I serve him. The ornaments there that will cause you
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  Speaker 1: to see. That you understand that, listen, I'm not going
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  Speaker 1: on the outside. I'm not trying to meet this person
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  Speaker 1: or meet that. I want to recognize to him that has,
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  Speaker 1: it shall be given. To him that has not, even
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  Speaker 1: that which he has will be taken. Which means the
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  Speaker 1: person who says I have not, actually has. He just
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  Speaker 1: doesn't see or she doesn't see it and recognize that.
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  Speaker 2: So when they go into relationships.
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  Speaker 1: There, they lose what they have because they.
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  Speaker 2: Don't see what they have. on the inside of themselves.
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  Speaker 1: So it's important that we understand the power of this
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  Speaker 1: eyesalve here, which is eyes that see, which is we
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: stop looking down on things. I was telling Reverend Julian,
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  Speaker 1: I think we were in Nairobi together last week, and
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: I told him, you know, I will invite people from here,
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: invite people from here, you know, for our meeting today.
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  Speaker 1: And one day God stopped me and said, look, what
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  Speaker 1: you are. In fact, somebody told me something. And then
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  Speaker 1: after that, it rejigged my consciousness. And God said, all
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  Speaker 1: those things you are looking for everywhere is in Africa.
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  Speaker 1: Enter into Africa. The treasures are embedded there. There's enough
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  Speaker 1: resources in the continent. Go into the continent there. So
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: the second principle here about this scene.
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  Speaker 2: So never talk in the way that you don't have.
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  Speaker 1: Don't say that, you know, because I was born on
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  Speaker 1: the wrong side. Everybody was born on the wrong side.
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: Jesus himself was born on the wrong side. Are you
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  Speaker 1: following what I'm saying? By natural birth, he was born
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  Speaker 1: on the wrong side. He was born outside wedlock. You
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  Speaker 1: can be complaining about things. All those things you can
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  Speaker 1: find in people, but they didn't make noise about those things.
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: They understood and said, God, there's something inside this.
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  Speaker 2: So the second thing I want us to see about.
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  Speaker 1: This, I solve here.
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  Speaker 2: Because not only does it give you.
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  Speaker 1: Insight into things, it also gives you clarity on issues.
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: And the second thing is there must be clarity, insight,
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: and then clarity there. In John chapter 9 and verse 6, Jesus,
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: when he had spoken, he spat on the ground, made
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: clay of the spittle, and anointed the eyes of the
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: blind man with clay. Now in another rendition of this,
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  Speaker 1: I think it's in Luke or Mark, it's told the man,
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  Speaker 1: open your eyes and look, he anointed him with clay.
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  Speaker 1: And the man said, I see men as trees that
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  Speaker 1: I see men as trees. And Jesus now told him
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  Speaker 1: that second thing there in verse 7. He said, go
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  Speaker 1: and wash in the pool that is called, John 9, 7, please,
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  Speaker 1: pool that is called Siloam, which means saint.
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  Speaker 2: John 9, 7, please.
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  Speaker 1: All right, said to him, go wash in the pool
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  Speaker 1: of Siloam, which by interpretation, it means saint. And when
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  Speaker 1: he went and washed there, He said, he came back
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  Speaker 1: seeing clearly. Now, the second thing about this is that
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  Speaker 1: you're needed in order to have this eye of your
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: eyes to see, you're needed to pray. You see, it's
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  Speaker 1: more than being gifted. It's more than being anointed. You
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  Speaker 1: have got to be saved. And therefore you have to
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: wash your eyes in the pool called saint. A person
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  Speaker 1: can be called of God. A person can be gifted
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  Speaker 1: and anointed by God. But that person has not yet
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  Speaker 1: been sent by God. And a lot of problems that
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: we have today is that there are many people... that
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  Speaker 1: are called, and they are gifted, and they are responding
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  Speaker 1: to the calling and to the gifting, without washing their
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: eyes in that pool called Siloam, that they may be sent.
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  Speaker 1: I will confess to you, when we started the church,
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  Speaker 1: looking back now with hindsight, I was called an anointed. Anointed.
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  Speaker 2: But I was not yet sent by God.
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  Speaker 1: But the circumstances under which I was, I knew that, look,
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  Speaker 1: I had no choice. Something had to start. But I
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  Speaker 1: was not yet sent. And once you get to that
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  Speaker 1: place of being sent, resources begin to come in. Jesus said,
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  Speaker 1: when I sent you, did you lack anything? Once you
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: get into that place of being sent, there is a
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  Speaker 1: grace that comes into your life. Paul said, when they
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  Speaker 1: saw the grace that was given unto me, the same
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  Speaker 1: he says that I shall preach this among the Gentiles.
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  Speaker 1: You can see he was sent. When you are sent,
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  Speaker 1: there's clarity. You know who you are supposed to speak to.
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  Speaker 1: You know where you are supposed to go. There's clarity
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  Speaker 1: on it. Being sent, there is clarity. When you're anointed,
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: you'll see men as trees there, all right? Everything will
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  Speaker 1: be hazy. You won't know, you know, any opportunity that
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  Speaker 1: comes your way, you'll go with it.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you'll be seeing men as trees.
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  Speaker 1: People will know you're anointed, but the real impact is
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  Speaker 1: not there because you have not yet been sent. And
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: I'm sure what to do here so that a person
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  Speaker 1: gets sent by God. And so when you are sent there,
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  Speaker 1: Paul said, the one that was mighty in me towards
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  Speaker 1: the Gentiles. You can see he knew where his calling was.
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: He said the same was mighty in Peter towards the circumcision.
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  Speaker 1: In other words, if Peter crossed and came to the,
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  Speaker 1: all right? he crossed and came to the Gentiles, that
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  Speaker 1: grace will have been withdrawn and the might of God
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  Speaker 1: will not have been seen. If Paul moved to go
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  Speaker 1: and preach to the Jews, that grace will not have
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: been seen.
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: And you will see it in the book of Acts.
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  Speaker 1: You will see in Galatians that when Peter crossed, and
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  Speaker 1: came to the Gentile territory. You could see he became
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  Speaker 1: almost like an ordinary man, that Paul had to rebuke him.
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  Speaker 1: You would also see that when Paul also tried to
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  Speaker 1: go to Jerusalem to go and win people, in fact,
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  Speaker 1: he almost lost his entire ministry and all of that.
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  Speaker 2: They had to carry him, you know.
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  Speaker 1: Like a mere man and all of that because they
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: went outside the areas of their grace. So what happens
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: is we've got to understand that there's the calling. And
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: then there's being sent. Let's use Moses as an example.
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: So if you believe, and I'm not just talking about
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: ministry here, you can be an entrepreneur and you're working
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: in a place. And God has put it in your
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: heart that one day you are going to start a
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: business that is going to go global.
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  Speaker 2: You have to be sent.
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: So you don't give birth to an Ishmael that when
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  Speaker 1: the time comes and you are now sent and you
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  Speaker 1: go with the Isaac, the Ishmael is fighting against the
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: Isaac and you have a conflict on your hands here
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  Speaker 1: because you stepped out prematurely and created something out there
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  Speaker 1: that is now militating and working against you, all right,
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  Speaker 1: when you now get sent. But there's something you do
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  Speaker 1: while you are there working in the office. You know
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  Speaker 1: that God has called me to do that. And you're
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: walking there. And you're going to see this. You'll find
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  Speaker 1: out that, if we have time to get into it,
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: the ideas that you are going to use, the ideas
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: you are going to use there, you probably will come
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: into contact with. With those ideas, where you are working,
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  Speaker 1: you will see it. You will see the opportunity in
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  Speaker 1: that particular place as a reward for your faithfulness and
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: your devotion to that particular thing.
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: Even when you knew on the.
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: Inside of yourself that God has called me to start
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  Speaker 1: my own business. Because the Bible says, a man who
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  Speaker 1: is not faithful in the things of another man, who
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  Speaker 1: shall give him his own? And if a man is
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: not faithful with the unrighteous mammon, he says, who will
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  Speaker 1: give him the true riches? So you are faithful, you
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  Speaker 1: are doing. But there's something that you are doing that
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  Speaker 1: Moses failed to do that cost Moses, all right, big time.
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  Speaker 1: And we see in Acts chapter 7 and verse 23.
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  Speaker 1: Now you're going to the pool that is called sent,
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: where you're going.
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: To get clarity now.
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  Speaker 1: Where a person knows in very clear terms, this is
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: what I'm supposed to do.
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: And please let me advise you.
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: The Bible says you shall go out with joy and
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  Speaker 1: you shall be led forth in peace. Don't ever live
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: anywhere because, you know, you are just offended at people
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  Speaker 1: and you are angry. The Bible says many shall be offended.
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: The next verse, it tells us, and false prophets shall arise.
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: A prophet is not just, a prophet is a seer
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  Speaker 1: in the scriptures. He's not a speaker. He's a seer.
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: That's why when he came, he said, he said, I
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: have not sent them. He says, for they have seen nothing.
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: They have seen nothing. A prophet testifies of what they
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: have seen. The real key to the prophetic ministry is
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: not the speaking, but they have the ability to see.
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: And so when he says false prophets will arise there,
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: what he's saying is that people with wrong visions will arise.
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: When you get offended, you see what you are not
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: supposed to see, all right? And then you start running
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: with something you're not supposed to run with. Let me
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: give an example. There was a gentleman in church when
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: we started church there. And what happened to him was
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: working in a corporation, a big corporation. And there was
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: a promotion exercise. They didn't give him the second one.
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: They didn't give him.
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: And he got offended and resigned.
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: But he just happened to come in for a midweek service.
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: And I was teaching on offense. as the bait of Satan.
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: And I said, you go out with joy and you
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: are led forth in peace. Always go out with joy
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: and be led forth in peace. Don't go out of
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: a place with offense in your heart. And he scratched
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: his head. He said, and as far as he was concerned,
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: he was going to start a nail making factory in Lagos,
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: which means they'll be making nails. And he said, he
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: was working for one of the top consulting firms in Nigeria.
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: From his working in that consulting firm, he had seen
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: There was a deficiency. All right, back then, this was
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: in the 90s, he nailed there in the country. He
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: was going to do that. And he had put in
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: his letter of resignation. He had the message. He said
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: he went back and told his boss, I'm sorry, could
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: you give me back my letter of resignation? You know,
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: I want to stay in here. And he said he
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: stayed there. Now, he didn't tell me this until about
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: a year and a half after. And then he told
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: me a year and a half after, he said, you
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: know what?
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: I heard that message.
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: And I went back. I sat down. He said, there
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: was a next promotional exercise. I got it. There was
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: another promotional exercise. I got it. He said, and I
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: was happy and I was good and I was in
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: a place of joy. And then he said, and then
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: God said, you can go now. And he said, I
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: had nothing. I just, I didn't even have an office.
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: I am talking about the top consulting firm, not just
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: in Nigeria, globally at that particular point in time. He said,
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: I had nothing. My office was going to be in
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: a dining table. He said, my wife was pregnant with
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: our first child. My father-in-law came and said, you are taking,
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: making a risk here. How can you go out like this?
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: You and your wife and all.
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: He said, he just knows this is the time to go.
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: So he, you know, left the place on Friday and
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: was going to start on his dining table, his business, to,
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: he still held onto it, a nail manufacturing company. On Sunday,
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: he got a phone call on Monday morning from his boss.
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: And his boss said, well, there is an oil company
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: that has just come in, oil servicing company, and they
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: want us to do their taxation for them. However, when
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: we charge them and give them the invoice, they said,
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: this is too expensive for us. And so they said,
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: we'll go and look for somebody else. Then I said,
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: wait a minute, hold it. The guy who will have
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: led the team to come and do and help you
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: work on your tax has just resigned from here, but
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: he has the mind, he knows the quality of work.
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: If I call him, can he, and he won't charge
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: the way we charge. Will you allow me? He said,
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: oh yeah, call him, call him, call him, call him.
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: All right, this was in 1996 or so. And he
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: went to do that job. I think they paid him
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: then $ 26, 000. That nail factory has not started till now.
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: It is that thing that he has been doing. You see,
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: when you are offended, you don't see correctly in the
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: spirit realm. And so it is important, all right? That
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: you take offense. That's what he's still doing. He built
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: an entire ward for a general hospital in Lagos from
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: that business. But you see, it was something. It was there.
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: But Satan wanted to push him out of that particular
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: place there with offense in his heart. So what happened
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: here in Acts chapter 7 verse 23? Let's look at Moses.
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  Speaker 1: Acts 7 verse 23. Let's look at the life of
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  Speaker 1: Moses quickly. All right, Acts 7 verse 23. And when
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: he was full of 40 years old, it came into
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: his heart. This is when Moses was called. It entered
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  Speaker 1: into his heart. To visit his brethren, the children of Israel.
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: And seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: and avenged him that oppressed and smote the Egyptians. For
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: he supposed that his brethren would have understood how God
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: by his own hand, that's by his hand, Moses, will
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: deliver them, but they understood not. And the next day
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: he showed himself unto them. He was responding to a calling.
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: The calling was correct. He showed them as they strove
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: that he will have set them at one again, saying, Sarge,
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: your brethren, why do you do wrong one to another?
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: And he that did his neighbor wrong thrust him away, saying,
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: who made thee a ruler and a judge over us?
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  Speaker 1: Who made you a ruler and a judge? Will thou
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  Speaker 1: kill me as thou did to the Egyptian yesterday? Then
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  Speaker 1: fled Moses at this same, and was a stranger in
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  Speaker 1: the land of Midian, where he begat two sons. And
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  Speaker 1: when forty years was expired... There appeared unto him in
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  Speaker 1: the wilderness, in the mount of Sinai, an angel of
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  Speaker 1: the Lord in the flame of fire in a bush.
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  Speaker 1: And when Moses saw it, he saw it this year
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  Speaker 1: as they said, the voice of God. Verse 32. It
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  Speaker 1: tells us that I am God of thy fathers and
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  Speaker 1: God of Isaac, God of Jacob. Then Moses trembled and
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  Speaker 1: thus behold. And verse 33. Then he said to him,
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  Speaker 1: put off your shoes, this is your holy ground. And
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  Speaker 1: next verse. I have seen, I have seen the affliction
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  Speaker 1: of my people which is in Egypt. I have heard
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  Speaker 1: their groanings, and I, hear what God said, I am
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  Speaker 1: come down. God himself said, I have come down to
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  Speaker 1: deliver them. Now come, and I will send thee. He
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  Speaker 1: got that calling, and I believe, well, you can't, it's
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  Speaker 1: what I believe, like Reverend Julian says, an opinion, but
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  Speaker 1: I'm strong, I'm correct on this opinion.
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  Speaker 2: Because, When you see that God.
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  Speaker 1: Told Abraham 400 years, they will come out.
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  Speaker 2: They came out on the 430th year.
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  Speaker 1: Why did it extend to 30 years after what God
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  Speaker 1: had said? What had happened was that on the 390th year,
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: it entered into the heart of Moses. Moses should have
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: spent that time praying to God about the calling, not
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  Speaker 1: stepping out into it. He should have taken the calling
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: and that's what some of you should be doing. Praying
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  Speaker 1: to God and praying about what you feel on the inside.
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  Speaker 1: Being faithful where you are but praying and praying and praying.
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: Even if you read the Bible and you have insight
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  Speaker 1: from the scripture, it doesn't mean you should go and
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  Speaker 1: start something. It means take this insight and go and pray.
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: Daniel understood by books, all right, what was written in
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  Speaker 1: the book of Jeremiah. He turned his face to prayer.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus knew he was called. The first thing they did
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  Speaker 1: was that he went on 40 days of prayer there.
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  Speaker 1: You'll turn yourself to prayer and not to act on
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: that call. Because if you act, you are going to commit.
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  Speaker 1: That's what happened to Moses. The same thing Abraham did.
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  Speaker 1: He went in and caused problem. All right? They go
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: in and cause problem. And I believe it had to
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: extend another 30 years until the children of Israel began
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: to cry unto God. And God said the condition for
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: somebody to be sent is now here.
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  Speaker 2: And God said, I have come down.
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  Speaker 1: So there's a difference between you going to do something
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  Speaker 1: and God coming down and saying, I've heard the prayer.
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  Speaker 1: I am now sending you. And when he sent him,
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: there was clarity. He said, go to Pharaoh. He gave
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  Speaker 1: him the message.
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  Speaker 2: Tell Pharaoh.
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  Speaker 1: Let my people go that they might serve me it
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  Speaker 1: was clear when you are sent there is clarity these
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  Speaker 1: are the people you are sent to this is the
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  Speaker 1: message you are sent to do this is the product
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: you are sent to these are the homogeneous group or
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  Speaker 1: the groups of people you are sent to with this
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  Speaker 1: particular thing there is clarity there you have washed in
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: the pool called asylum And so it became clear. And
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: he says, go to Pharaoh and tell him, Thorsia the Lord,
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  Speaker 1: let my people go that they might serve me.
• 46:39
  Speaker 2: He gave him the message.
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: He told him who to send the message to in
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: order for the deliverance to be wrought. Signs, wonders began
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  Speaker 1: to happen with the rod that was in the hands
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  Speaker 1: of Moses. Moses was correct 40 years before that, but
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  Speaker 1: he didn't process it properly. He was anointed by God
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  Speaker 1: for it. but didn't process it properly. The time where
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  Speaker 1: you're anointed is not the time where you are sent.
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: David was anointed as king in his bedroom. He had
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  Speaker 1: to go through, in his father's living room, he had
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  Speaker 1: to go through a process for him to arrive.
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  Speaker 2: At the point where he became king.
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  Speaker 1: There was a time where a person is anointed and
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  Speaker 1: there's a time where a person is sent. And one
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  Speaker 1: of the reasons why we're having a lot of failures
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: is that many called people are stepping out, many anointed
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: people are stepping out, many gifted.
• 47:29
  Speaker 2: People are stepping out, many people are.
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  Speaker 1: Working that haven't developed within the corporate sector, all right,
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: the skill sets to be able to manage real businesses
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: and all of that. This is why I'm saying this.
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: To a very great degree, women are getting more economically
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: powerful than men, particularly today in this country. The reason
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: is that the man says, I want to be an entrepreneur.
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: He resigns from the job. He doesn't yet have capacity.
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: He has not yet been sent. The woman stays there
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  Speaker 1: on the job. They are becoming managing directors of banks.
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: They are entering into powerful things. But the men prematurely
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: get out. And because they are not saints, they don't
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: see anything clearly. They are anointed. You talk to them.
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  Speaker 1: They have ideas. They have all of this, but they
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: are not saints. They can give you a hundred ideas,
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  Speaker 1: but none of those ideas are working. When you are saints,
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  Speaker 1: you have washed at the pool called Siloam, you know clearly.
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  Speaker 2: And what happens?
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  Speaker 1: The resources begin to come. He says, when I send it,
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  Speaker 1: did you lack anything? Which means if you go into
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  Speaker 1: a house, you will find somebody who will invest in
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: that thing and give you peace. He says, you might
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: go into some places and, you know, they won't give
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: you the peace. They won't take you in. And all
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: of that.
• 48:37
  Speaker 2: He says, don't bother yourself. Don't force yourself on anybody.
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  Speaker 1: When I send you, I have prepared people that will
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  Speaker 1: receive you, give you peace, will help you to finance
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  Speaker 1: what you are doing without requiring that they take your
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: soul in exchange for it. So he may be called
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: and anointed or gifted, but it's not yet time. And
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: so you have to spend time with God in prayer there.
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: Jesus spoke about this when he started his ministry. He said,
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: before you say physician, heal yourself. He said, answer this
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: question first. He said, was.
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  Speaker 2: Elijah, were there not many widows.
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  Speaker 1: In the whole of Israel? And God is compassionate towards widows.
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: So he went there. He said, there were many widows
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  Speaker 1: in Israel. But only to the widow at Zarephath was
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: Elijah sent. In other words, Elijah can be anointed, but
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  Speaker 1: the anointing will only work where he is sent. And
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: when he got there, he was sent to that place.
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: So if you are anointed and not sent, you may
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: share the word of God.
• 49:52
  Speaker 2: And people will say, man, you are powerful, you are anointed.
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: But you know, because you are not sent, you may
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  Speaker 1: not answer the questions that are in their hearts. You
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  Speaker 1: may not solve the problems that are in their lives.
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: They are impressed at your anointing. They are impressed at
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  Speaker 1: your gifting. But it's not transforming their lives. It's not
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  Speaker 1: actually making the kind of impact that it's supposed to make.
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  Speaker 1: And so there's a waiting period between a time when
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  Speaker 1: a person is called and anointed... and when a person
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  Speaker 1: is sent. And this waiting period, I'm telling you a
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: lot of times, right, people have gone out, they are correct,
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  Speaker 1: all right?
• 50:31
  Speaker 2: They are right in what they have done there. It's
• 50:33
  Speaker 2: just like we.
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: Heard Bishop Fungariro say, you can carry the ark, and
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: you didn't do it the right way. Your intent was correct.
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: And in the things of God, it's more than intent.
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: You have to do it right. You can't just say, well,
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: I meant right. You may mean right, but at the
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: end of the day, people have lost their lives, but
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: you meant right. You come just beyond meaning right. You
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: have to have the wisdom on the inside of yourself,
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  Speaker 1: all right, to be able to get that particular thing done.
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: So there's the pool that is called sent, and all
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  Speaker 1: of us should go there as a second thing of seeing.
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  Speaker 1: Which means, number one, there's the prayer where I pray,
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  Speaker 1: where I see what is in my environment. And you
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: are walking and God begins to show you pockets, you know,
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  Speaker 1: of opportunities that are there. You start seeing things. You say, well,
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: they just made me a receptionist, a front desk person.
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  Speaker 1: But if you are praying, God, give me eyes to
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: see things in this business here. You begin to collate data.
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  Speaker 1: You know, let me say this here. A person might,
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: you know, Jesus said, Jesus said, he told the people,
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: he said, you've never heard his voice. Neither have you
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: ever seen his shape. But you search the scriptures, but
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: you haven't seen it. You can see God in your environment, literally.
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: If your eyes are open, you see him in your
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: environment there. You know, there's a story. This is not
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: a story. An actual fact is documented in a book by.
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  Speaker 2: Peter Wagner of blessed memory.
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  Speaker 1: And he was talking about why, you know, he was
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: talking about... you know, everything anybody tells you to do
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: to succeed, anything, if you go and meet somebody and say, well,
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: what do you do to succeed? This is why you
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: have to see. And he tells you, I did one, two, three, four, five.
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  Speaker 1: I guarantee you, you will see people who have done
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: the one, two, three, four, five and failed. If you
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  Speaker 1: want me to say, what did you do? I fasted,
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: I prayed, I read my Bible. I guarantee you, you
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  Speaker 1: will have 10 people that fasted, prayed, read their Bible, nothing.
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  Speaker 1: This is the mystery of sin. All right? Someone says, well,
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: I'm a giver. I did this.
• 52:54
  Speaker 2: I guarantee you, you will see one, two, three.
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  Speaker 1: And one of the things that is not helping us
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: in the church is that we are not scientific about things.
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: Scientific means that you look at, if 10 people say that, listen,
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: you know, we got blessed. You look into the lives
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  Speaker 1: of the 10 people to identify the common traits within them.
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  Speaker 1: And then you begin to know exactly what is triggering
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  Speaker 1: all of that. Listen, a person can come out, let
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: me tell you this, and tell you this is why
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: I succeeded. And they are not lying, but what they
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: are actually saying is not the correct thing. Because they
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: themselves may not have understood what was at play within
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: the environment themselves. that actually made them. You better not
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: come out and say, oh, I did this, I did that.
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: And they are speaking truly from their heart. But you know,
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: they don't understand it. And you just may not know,
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: but you are being truthful. You know, he was talking
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  Speaker 1: about this church that was growing in a certain area
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  Speaker 1: in America. And it was in the northern part of America.
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: And culturally, the southern part of America is different culturally
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: from the northern part of America. So what happened? Now
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: the church was growing. And so they went to meet
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  Speaker 1: the pastor and asked him, so why is your church growing?
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: And he said, because we preach the undiluted word of God.
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  Speaker 1: We stick to this, teach people, do discipleship. And people
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  Speaker 1: love that. And that's why our church is growing. So
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: they took it down. Thank you very much. Then they
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: went across the street, down the road, to look at
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  Speaker 1: other churches not growing. So they asked the pastors, why
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: are your churches not growing? They said, you know, people
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: don't like the undiluted word of God. We preach the
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: undiluted word of God. We teach this. The exact thing
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  Speaker 1: the other man said, that said he's making his church grow,
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: is the exact thing these people said, that they said,
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: he's not making our church grow. So they knew that
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: something is going on here that these men don't understand.
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: So what did they do? They went and did the research.
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: And then they found out that there was migration, that
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: that pastor whose church was growing grew up in the south.
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: And that there was a migration of people from the
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  Speaker 1: south into that particular area in the northern part of America.
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: And so they had been going to churches, but they
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  Speaker 1: just didn't.
• 55:08
  Speaker 2: Connect culturally with those churches.
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  Speaker 1: So when they entered into the church of this man
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  Speaker 1: who grew up in the south, they didn't even know
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  Speaker 1: what was going on.
• 55:16
  Speaker 2: I will give examples and laugh the jokes.
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: They said, aha! We connect with these. So what really
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: was going on? was that there was a movement of
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  Speaker 1: people from the south. And once that movement stopped and
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: people stopped migrating into those areas there, what happened was
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: that the church stagnated at that particular point in time.
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: So when God gives you eyes that see, you can
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: even look into something and you will see clearly that
• 55:47
  Speaker 1: this is what is actually going on in this place.
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: You will look in as a front desk person and
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: look at it and say 10 people come into this
• 55:55
  Speaker 1: organization every day.
• 55:57
  Speaker 2: Only two of them bring great business.
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: Every time 10 come, and you will understand the kind
• 56:03
  Speaker 1: of two people that actually, the background, the way they are,
• 56:08
  Speaker 1: and you come out with data, and you go out
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: and go and meet your bosses and say, listen, I
• 56:14
  Speaker 1: have discovered something. Let's not waste time with this set
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: of people. This kind of people that come in this way,
• 56:20
  Speaker 1: they say, what are you talking about? I have looked
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: at this over six months. I have tracked it. These
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: are the kind of people, if we focus our marketing
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: and our advertising to this kind of people, you will
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: see that actually it's going to scale up. Use this
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: particular thing. They use it. The business scales up. They
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: know that they have an asset in their hands there.
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: It is not just a front desk person now. It's
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: somebody who is there gathering data. Somebody who is there
• 56:45
  Speaker 1: interpreting things. This is what God is saying, that your
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: eyes are opened up. I tell the ushers in church,
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  Speaker 1: you are the only people. You are the only people
• 56:53
  Speaker 1: that meet everybody that comes into this church. No other
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: group of people meet everybody that comes in. Everybody that
• 56:59
  Speaker 1: comes into the church meets with an usher. So you
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: can gather data for us. You are the ones that
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: can know whether somebody was happy or not. Whether somebody
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: at the end of the service, that position is not just,
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  Speaker 1: I'm an usher.
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  Speaker 2: Are you following what I'm saying here? Have eyes that see.
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  Speaker 1: That's when you go to work and you are excited
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  Speaker 1: about what you are doing. Because you are processing things.
• 57:25
  Speaker 1: You are thinking at a level. That's why David could say,
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: I have more understanding than my teachers. In other words,
• 57:31
  Speaker 1: they teach, but I see things into what they are
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: teaching that they themselves that are teaching it don't see it.
• 57:43
  Speaker 2: So the third one I want to look at here.
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  Speaker 1: Of sin is So there's washing in the pool called Salem.
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: If you have an idea, don't just jump out. Take
• 57:54
  Speaker 1: time to pray and pray and ask God for clarity
• 58:00
  Speaker 1: so that there's no guesswork, so that you are not
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: making mistakes that become an obstacle in the future, so
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: that you get it right the first time, so that
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  Speaker 1: you meet with the right people and things work out right.
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  Speaker 1: The third level of sin is when you see into scriptures.
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  Speaker 1: In other words, when God opens up your eyes to
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: see scriptures. And when you get to that level, you
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: are no longer reading the Bible.
• 58:34
  Speaker 2: The Bible is reading you.
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: Once you start seeing into the scriptures, when you take
• 58:42
  Speaker 1: up the Bible and you are reading it, every character
• 58:45
  Speaker 1: that is in your office that is playing politics, you
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: are seeing those characters in the life of David. You
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: are seeing the decisions that David made. You are seeing
• 58:56
  Speaker 1: those characters in the life of Jacob. You are seeing
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: that everything just keeps happening in cycles and seasons. You're
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: going to the book of Kings, what you are calling politics,
• 59:08
  Speaker 1: you see that this is how. You see how you
• 59:12
  Speaker 1: are supposed to approach your boss or approach your client
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  Speaker 1: from what you have seen inside the word of God.
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: They say, where did you get this idea? You say,
• 59:22
  Speaker 1: I got it out of the book of Jeremiah. The
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: other people are looking at Jeremiah. Where did you see this?
• 59:28
  Speaker 1: They say, I brought it out of this place here.
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: I saw things inside the scripture that compelled me to
• 59:35
  Speaker 1: act this way. That compelled me to, you know, to
• 59:38
  Speaker 1: go and make a decision here. To know who I
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: should call that will talk to this person. That will
• 59:45
  Speaker 1: actually get this particular door opened up unto me. That
• 59:49
  Speaker 1: I saw that God was here. Man was here. And
• 59:52
  Speaker 1: that God needed a mediator between him and man. another
• 59:56
  Speaker 1: so you understand that there are certain things if God
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  Speaker 1: needed a mediator you also might need a mediator between
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: you and somebody and God tells you who that mediator
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: is and as you are studying I met it and
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 1: you recognize that person and you call him can you
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 1: help me talk to this particular individual they say where
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 1: did you get it I saw it in the scripture
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 1: the way God chose Jesus to mediate I also have
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 1: chosen this person to mediate the scriptures begin to talk
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: to you Which means it now becomes a book of instruction,
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 1: a life manual for you.
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 2: And you get practical.
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: And so you can go into the book of Chronicles,
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 1: the book of Kings, and begin to see how things
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 1: play out. And how individuals and how decisions are made.
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 1: And you enter into a position and you look at Solomon.
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 1: The minute he entered into that position... where the warfare
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 1: came from. And by you reading that, you can know
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 1: now that I've been promoted to this position as CEO,
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 1: these are the angles where the warfare, these are the
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 1: type of people, you know, that will fire arrows at me.
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 1: These are the decisions that I've got to make. You
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 1: understand that. You'll see every person in your life, the
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 1: role that they are supposed to play as you are
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  Speaker 1: reading the word of God.
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  Speaker 2: And how do we get to this particular point?
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  Speaker 1: Quickly, if we look at Luke chapter 24, verse 18
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  Speaker 1: to verse 19. Luke 24, 18 to 19. Now, Jesus
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  Speaker 1: was raised from the dead. Jesus was raised from the dead.
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  Speaker 1: And you should pray this. This, I believe, is my
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  Speaker 1: personal opinion. This is the most important prayer in the
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  Speaker 1: New Testament. The most important prayer any Christian can pray
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  Speaker 1: is Ephesians chapter 1, verse 16 to verse 18. It's
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  Speaker 1: the most important. The Bible says the God of this world, Satan,
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  Speaker 1: blinds the minds of people. Satan, what he's doing is
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  Speaker 1: to blind the minds of people. His power is literally broken,
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  Speaker 1: not just legally now in Christ, but literally your life
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  Speaker 1: is broken when God opens up the eyes of your understanding.
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  Speaker 1: And if he didn't need to open up the eyes
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  Speaker 1: of your understanding, Paul would not have been praying that
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  Speaker 1: for the church at Ephesus. Paul knew that I've got
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  Speaker 1: to pray this for it to happen there. But if
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  Speaker 1: you look at Luke 24, all right, that we saw here,
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  Speaker 1: and verse 18 and verse 19. Luke 24, 18 and 19. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Jesus was raised from the dead.
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  Speaker 2: And this was close past here.
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  Speaker 1: So look. I won't stretch these thoughts, but if you
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  Speaker 1: don't see, if you don't see, then the woman who
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  Speaker 1: was at the well, who had had five husbands, and
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  Speaker 1: was living with a sixth person who wasn't her husband,
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  Speaker 1: you will never think that such an unclean person will
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  Speaker 1: be the point of contact to opening up an entire
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  Speaker 1: city for the ministry of Jesus. In fact, the woman
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  Speaker 1: at that well told Jesus, you are not permitted to
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  Speaker 1: even have conversations with me.
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  Speaker 2: So you'll be in a position where you even look.
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  Speaker 1: At some people and say, I cannot have conversations with that.
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  Speaker 1: But people have eyes. Eyes that see. Eyes that see.
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  Speaker 1: He saw that woman for what she is. And that's
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  Speaker 1: why Peter was struggling. And God said, don't call unclean
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  Speaker 1: what I've called clean. And the people that God may
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  Speaker 1: bring into your life, the kind of people that God
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  Speaker 1: wants to bring in, you might be doing, you know,
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  Speaker 1: human wisdom of networking and networking and networking. And you
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  Speaker 1: just may not realize that the people you are supposed
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  Speaker 1: to network with are people that are on the lower
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  Speaker 1: strata of humanity, that doors may be opened up onto you.
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  Speaker 1: If you don't see, you might walk past that man
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  Speaker 1: who was there lying half dead. And you are going
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  Speaker 1: to battle confessing, all right, that you have victory in
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  Speaker 1: Jesus Christ. And saying God has given me his prophetic word.
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  Speaker 1: We are going to have victory. We are going there
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  Speaker 1: to overcome, to recover and take all as he told you,
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  Speaker 1: all right. But you walk past that man because you
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  Speaker 1: have no time. But they stopped to give him water
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  Speaker 1: and something to drink and food. And the life came
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  Speaker 1: back into that man and they held a conversation with him.
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  Speaker 1: A man that his own masters had said, you are
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  Speaker 1: good for nothing and cast him aside. That was the
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  Speaker 1: man that told them exactly what to do. That reduced
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  Speaker 1: the casualty there and they recovered everything with no casualty.
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  Speaker 1: It was somebody else that cast him aside, and somebody
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  Speaker 1: else picked him up, gave him life, and he gave
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  Speaker 1: strategic information. You may walk past people who are in
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  Speaker 1: an organization that have strategic information. You walk past the driver,
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  Speaker 1: and it's the driver that has heard the conversation, that
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  Speaker 1: knows where the thing will swing to, but you don't
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  Speaker 1: greet them because, you know, I'm a big man, I
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  Speaker 1: came here for some strategic thing, and I don't talk
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  Speaker 1: to people like this. Many people have discovered things by
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  Speaker 1: talking to people on the lower level. Many people have
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  Speaker 1: discovered things here. I can't say some things, but there
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  Speaker 1: are many people that are influential. I have a friend,
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  Speaker 1: very influential, and he says, I eat where the drivers eat.
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  Speaker 1: I eat where? He said, that's where the information is circling.
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  Speaker 1: That's where the real conversations are going on. They're giving
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  Speaker 1: us information as to what? You walk past them because
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  Speaker 1: you don't believe that you can become the prime minister
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  Speaker 1: and By any information you receive when you are in jail.
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  Speaker 1: Anybody in jail is not worth networking with. But that
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  Speaker 1: is where Joseph got the contact to go. So God
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  Speaker 1: walks down while we are trying to go up. And
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  Speaker 1: in our trying to go up, that's why it says
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  Speaker 1: to him that has not. You are trying to go
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  Speaker 1: up and say I'm working with big men and all
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  Speaker 1: of that and you do not know. Alright? that, listen,
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  Speaker 1: they humiliate you, they take you before court of law,
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  Speaker 1: they do all these things and say, well, these people
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  Speaker 1: are not treating me because you are gravitating towards, all right,
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  Speaker 1: the wrong set of people. So this is important. That's
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  Speaker 1: why I say you must have eyes that see. You
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  Speaker 1: must have eyes that see. I switched on the television
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  Speaker 1: one day. And let me just say this. I thought
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  Speaker 1: I would preach about that, but I had to finish this. Listen.
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  Speaker 1: It says, wherever the soles of your feet step, I
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  Speaker 1: have given it unto you. And some of us Christians,
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  Speaker 1: the reason why we are not in influential places is
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  Speaker 1: that we are trying to get into the influential place
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  Speaker 1: from the top. And we don't know that Joseph was
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  Speaker 1: the brain behind Pharaoh. He wasn't Pharaoh. But everything, there
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  Speaker 1: are people that are influencing things that are not visible.
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  Speaker 1: And it costs you nothing, costs you nothing to enter
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  Speaker 1: into those positions, just loyalty and faithfulness. And you can
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  Speaker 1: enter into there and sit in those rooms and have
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  Speaker 1: those conversations. And you didn't have to spend money on
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  Speaker 1: an election and spend money on this. And you are
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  Speaker 1: having those conversations because you have come to understand the
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  Speaker 1: principle that wherever the sole of my foot touches, that's
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  Speaker 1: what I'm going to give unto you. They open up
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  Speaker 1: the door, but you think that the position they are
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  Speaker 1: giving to you is not the right position. But what
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  Speaker 1: they are giving to you is access. And at whatever
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  Speaker 1: level the access is, you take that access. Because you know,
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  Speaker 1: once the sole of my foot enters into that place,
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  Speaker 1: I will be able to dominate within this place. I
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  Speaker 1: was listening one day, I just switched on television, I
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  Speaker 1: bumped on it, and it was, I think God wanted
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 1: to see, it was the former president of South Africa,
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  Speaker 1: Thabo Mbeki. And he was talking and he said it
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 1: was his 80th birthday and he was giving a speech.
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  Speaker 1: I just tumbled on it and he said, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we went to, I think it was Mali. He said,
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  Speaker 1: when we got there, they took us to the place.
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  Speaker 1: He said, I just went first, we got in and
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  Speaker 1: then I went to visit, you know, where the history
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  Speaker 1: of Africa is, you know, all that had happened in
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  Speaker 1: the past. And he said, they put it in the place,
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  Speaker 1: all the documents, the literature, all of that.
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  Speaker 2: And he said the cameraman.
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  Speaker 1: From SABC, the South African Broadcasting Corporation, was there following
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  Speaker 1: him recording it. And the man lowered his camera and said, sir,
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  Speaker 1: I need to say something to you. And he said what?
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  Speaker 1: He had access. He was a cameraman, but he had access.
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 1: A cameraman, but he had access. That people may queue.
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  Speaker 2: Up for something, but he will always follow him. He said, sir,
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 2: I want to tell you something.
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  Speaker 1: He said, the history of Africa should not be placed
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  Speaker 1: in a building like this.
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  Speaker 2: It's not befitting of Africa.
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  Speaker 1: And he said, please, when you meet with the president
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  Speaker 1: of Mali, can you tell him to build a museum
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  Speaker 1: for us? So at least we'll have this document in
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  Speaker 1: a place there. And Prime Minister Thabong Beg said, I'll
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  Speaker 1: discuss that with him. He was saying this himself. He said,
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  Speaker 1: so when he met the president of Mali, he went
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  Speaker 1: to him and said, sir, I want to say one
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  Speaker 1: thing to you. He said, what? He said, that place
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  Speaker 1: where all those documents are, you know, it's not really
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  Speaker 1: good for Africa. This is the history of Africa. This
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 1: is where all these things are, you know, things, trade routes.
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  Speaker 1: And the man looked at him and said, Prime Minister,
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  Speaker 1: you come from a rich country, I'm from a poor country.
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  Speaker 2: He said, if you have.
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  Speaker 1: an opportunity to build a museum or build boreholes for
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  Speaker 1: your poor people, which will you do? And he said,
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 1: I will build boreholes instead of a museum. He said, yes,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to use our money to build boreholes. And
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 1: Prime Minister Timberlake said, if you build boreholes, we will
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  Speaker 1: build a museum for you. There is a museum now,
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 1: state of art, built by South Africa, but nobody knows.
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 1: It was the man from SABC that suggested it. I
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  Speaker 1: am telling you that there are many people suggesting things.
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  Speaker 1: You will be amazed how powerful people finally make the decision.
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  Speaker 1: You'll be amazed that they just turn around and ask
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 1: somebody around them, what do you think about this particular thing?
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 1: They asked Hillary Clinton, Secretary Hillary Clinton. They said, why
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 1: was your husband so successful, Bill Clinton, in economic policies?
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 1: He said, we will sit down with strategists and we
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 1: will debate and come to a conclusion. He said, it
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 1: will come out of the situational room. And he'd be
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 1: walking down the corridor and see a janitor and say,
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 1: come here, come here. This is the decision we want
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 1: to make here about it. If you were to make
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 1: a decision on your family as to how to spend money,
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 1: and he would draw the thing, the man would say,
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 1: this is exactly what I'll do. He would call another one,
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 1: what would he say? He said he would do the
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 1: policy according to the common sense those people gave him.
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  Speaker 1: That's why I said you look at it and say,
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 1: what is this among so many? And you despise. You
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 1: don't know how many, listen, if you get to go
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 1: and get the book, Mystery of Capital by Hernando de Soto,
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 1: where he spoke about the fact that Africa is a
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  Speaker 1: wealthy continent. Listen, a wealthy continent that is sitting on wealth.
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 1: But the problem is, it is held in defective ways.
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 1: So God will open up the eyes. So these two men,
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 1: In Luke 24, 18 and 19, it says, Luke 24, 18.
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  Speaker 1: So this was after the resurrection of Jesus. One of them, Clopas,
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 1: was answering, said unto him, now Jesus was, after he
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 1: was raised from dead, he was walking on the streets.
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 1: And he found two gentlemen who were discussing. They had
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  Speaker 1: just come from his tomb.
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  Speaker 2: And they were discussing. So Jesus met up with them.
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  Speaker 1: And so he asked them a question. And the Bible
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  Speaker 1: says they looked at Jesus and said, why are you
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 1: people sorrowful? What's going on? Why are you worried? And
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 1: this is what they said to Jesus. Are thou only
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 1: a stranger in Jerusalem? And hast thou not known the
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 1: things which are to come to pass there in these days?
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 1: The next verse tells us, And he said unto them,
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  Speaker 1: what things? And they said unto him, now they were
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  Speaker 1: telling Jesus that he's a stranger. This is Jesus you
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  Speaker 1: are talking to. You know, when your eyes are not opened,
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 1: it's a terrible thing. You are telling Jesus, telling him
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 1: about the resurrection, that you're a stranger in this land.
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 1: You just come to this land. This is Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: Now, they said to him, what things?
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 1: And he said unto them, concerning Jesus, they said, which
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 1: was a prophet, mighty indeed, and a word before God
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 1: and all the people. And then the next verse tells us,
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  Speaker 1: And how the chief priests and the rulers delivered him
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 1: and condemned him to death and have crucified him.
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  Speaker 2: The next verse tells us, but we trusted.
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  Speaker 1: That he had been, that he would be redeemed from
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 1: Israel and bring forth all of these things. Now, let's
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  Speaker 1: go to verse 27 because of time. Verse 27, quickly.
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 1: Luke 24, 27. So it says, Luke 24, 27. And
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  Speaker 1: beginning at Moses and all the prophets, Jesus expounded to
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 1: them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself. Now
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 1: verse 31, because of time. So he was expounding. And
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 1: their eyes, all right, now before, all right. Now before this,
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 1: let's look at verse 29. So, from verse 29. But
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 1: the constrain him, said, abide with us. towards evening and
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 1: the day was fast spent and he went to tarry
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 1: with them. And then the next verse he tells us,
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  Speaker 1: and he came to pass as they sat at meat
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  Speaker 1: with them.
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  Speaker 2: He took bread, blessed it, broke it and gave it
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  Speaker 2: to them. And the Bible says.
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  Speaker 1: Their eyes were now opened and they knew him and
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  Speaker 1: he vanished out of their sight.
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  Speaker 2: Now hear what they said.
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  Speaker 1: They said one to another, did our hearts not born
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  Speaker 1: within us while he talked with us by the way?
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 1: And while he opened the scriptures to us. So when
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  Speaker 1: the scriptures are being opened to you, your heart begins
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 1: to burn. And it's a man that God sends to
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 1: open the scriptures to you. That's what happened when Daniel
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  Speaker 1: understood by books what was written in the book of Jeremiah.
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 1: Through the books he was reading, the scriptures were opened
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  Speaker 1: unto him. And your heart begins to burn. And it's
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 1: a sensational feeling. But you have to go beyond the
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  Speaker 1: scriptures being opened.
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  Speaker 2: That is the foundation. That has to happen.
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  Speaker 1: To the place where your own understanding is opened, which
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  Speaker 1: means your eyes are opened up. If we look at
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  Speaker 1: verse 45, the Bible says, and I close here at
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 1: verse 45, it says, Luke 24, and then he opened
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  Speaker 1: their understanding that they may understand the scriptures. You can
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  Speaker 1: open the scriptures to people. But it's only God that
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 1: can open the understanding of the people. So that when
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  Speaker 1: the scriptures are opened up, they understand the scriptures. So
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 1: that they are not always ever learning, but not coming
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  Speaker 1: to the knowledge of the truth. In other words, always
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 1: having this sensational feeling inside.
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  Speaker 2: But it doesn't get to the place where you are transformed.
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 1: Is this opening of your understanding that Paul called with
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  Speaker 1: an open face, beholding, which means you go from hearing
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 1: to a place of beholding.
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  Speaker 2: Your face has been opened.
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  Speaker 1: And that's why Paul prayed in Ephesians chapter 1 and
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 1: verse 16. And this is a prayer you should offer up.
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 1: Ephesians 1, he says, I cease not to give thanks
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  Speaker 1: for you, making mention of you in my prayers, that
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 1: the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory,
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  Speaker 1: may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 1: in the knowledge, which means as the knowledge is being passed,
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 1: you have the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 1: knowledge of him, that the eyes of your understanding may
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  Speaker 1: be enlightened, so that you may know the hope You
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 1: come to that place of purpose, assignment, you are sent.
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 2: You know the hope of his calling.
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  Speaker 1: You know the riches of his glorious inheritance, which is
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 1: the riches there is the wisdom of God. And then
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 1: from there you also come in contact with the power
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 1: of God. So if we look at Peter who went
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 1: to catch fish, caught nothing. Three things happened. Wisdom is
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  Speaker 1: profitable to direct. He came in contact with the riches
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  Speaker 1: of the glorious inheritance, which is wisdom. He came in
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 1: contact with it when Jesus said, cast your net on
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 1: the right hand side and launch out into the deep.
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  Speaker 1: Direction was given. He came in contact with power when
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 1: he began to bring the fish and he saw it.
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 1: and he called his partners, and both of them's boats
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 1: began to sink. He saw power that came from the wisdom,
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 1: which was the direction of God. And he saw it
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  Speaker 1: and said, I'm a sinner. What he meant was, I'm
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  Speaker 1: not worthy of these things. You have done exceedingly abundantly
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  Speaker 1: above what I can ask or.
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  Speaker 2: Think, according to this power.
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 1: He saw it. But most importantly, like we said yesterday,
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  Speaker 1: he knew the hope of his calling. So even though
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  Speaker 1: he experienced all of this, he said, now, We are
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 1: going to catch men. So what happens is three things happen.
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 1: You see purpose. You get the wisdom of God, which
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 1: is what I am supposed to do in this situation.
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 1: You experience the power of God, the same power that
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 1: he wrought in Christ when he raised him up from
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 1: the dead. But most importantly, you have your reason for being,
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 1: your purpose. And so that is clearly defined. And you
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 1: go after that completely. I believe there are people under
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 1: the sound of my voice here that there is something
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 1: that God has for you on this earth. In other words,
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 1: we've come to this meeting and God wants to open
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 1: up your eyes to see something. And in closing, I
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 1: will tell this story, which I found to be a
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 1: remarkable story. And I had the experience at the beginning
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 1: of this year when Brother Copeland called Word of Faith
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  Speaker 1: ministers together in his ranch. He does it every year
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  Speaker 1: in January. So we went for it. And there was
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  Speaker 1: a minister by the name who had been listening to,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I'm young from time to time. All right.
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  Speaker 1: Mark Hammond. And he's 83 years old now. I didn't
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  Speaker 1: even know he was three years old. But this man
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  Speaker 1: got up and he was preaching. He took one of
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  Speaker 1: the sessions. And in those sessions, he said something that
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  Speaker 1: will remain with me for the rest of my life.
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 1: He said, when I was 80 years old, God came
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 1: to me and to tell me something about his assignment
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  Speaker 1: I had not yet done. 80 years old. And I'm
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  Speaker 1: telling everybody, listen, you are not too old. Listen, you
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  Speaker 1: may retire and be at home, but God still has
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  Speaker 1: his purpose for your life. Eight years old. He said,
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  Speaker 1: by all standards of ministry, and I like how he
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  Speaker 1: said it. He said I was, by what we call
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  Speaker 1: standard of ministry, I was successful. He said 1.8 million
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  Speaker 1: people in the... He said, I pastored one church in
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  Speaker 1: Minneapolis for 45 years. 1.8 million people had walked up
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  Speaker 1: to our altar and given their lives to Christ. 14,000
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  Speaker 1: people had gone through our ministerial training to become ministers.
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  Speaker 1: He said, and the income that we had gotten into
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  Speaker 1: the church... had gone up to $ 20 billion in those
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  Speaker 1: 45 years. By the standards of ministry, millions had gotten
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  Speaker 1: born again, trained for ministry and all of that. He said,
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  Speaker 1: you will have looked at me and said, you know,
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 1: it's time for you to retire your legacy. He said,
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 1: on my 88th birthday, God came to me and told me,
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 1: He said, you still have 50. He said, for 45 years,
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  Speaker 1: I pastored one church. He said, you have to open
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  Speaker 1: 50 churches for me before you come home to be
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  Speaker 1: with me at the age of 80. And those 50
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  Speaker 1: churches are in third world nations. He said, and when
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  Speaker 1: I say raise those churches, I mean, leave the church
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  Speaker 1: with a building and leave the church with a pastor
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  Speaker 1: that you have raised up at the age of 80.
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  Speaker 1: He's going into South Sudan. He's going into places, remote
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 1: places in Africa. He's going into El Salvador and all
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  Speaker 1: of that. At the age of 18, assignment, assignment, purpose.
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 1: Life will come back instantly to you. You start looking young, assignment, purpose.
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  Speaker 1: And when he finished preaching, he turned around to Brother
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  Speaker 1: Copeland and he said, in 30 years, I've been coming
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  Speaker 1: for this conference, 30 years, I have never, ever left
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  Speaker 1: this conference without sitting through. But because of this assignment,
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 1: I am sorry, Brother Copeland, for the first time. I
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  Speaker 1: have to give you the microphone. I have to head
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  Speaker 1: my way. Right, and Brother Coburn said, I understand, hugged him.
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  Speaker 1: And the man walked away because of assignment and walked away.
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  Speaker 1: There are people under the sound of my voice now
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  Speaker 1: who are saying there's an assignment. And I pray for
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  Speaker 1: you in the mighty name of Jesus that in this conference,
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  Speaker 1: you will wash your eyes in that pool called Siloam.
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  Speaker 1: A pool where you will leave this place seeing clearly
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  Speaker 1: what God has placed and what he has for you.
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  Speaker 2: And leave this place with intercession, with prayers.
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  Speaker 1: That God himself will come down and initiate things on
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  Speaker 1: this earth for the fulfillment of that call in the
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  Speaker 1: mighty name of Jesus Christ.
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  Speaker 2: God bless you all.
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  Speaker 1: Koinonia.
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  Speaker 2: It was wonderful being here.
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  Speaker 1: And there has been massive utterance that I've had on
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  Speaker 1: this platform, a testimony to the quality of this ministry,
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 1: a testimony to the quality of intercession that has gone
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  Speaker 1: in the background for the fulfillment.
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  Speaker 2: I salute, all right. God bless you all.
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  Speaker 1: Let's give Pastor Pojo a big, big round of applause.