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The Discerning of Spirits: Building Accuracy in Perception by Apostle Joshua Selman · Selah Media House

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  Yes, I will. Obey the declaration of
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  surrender. Oh yes, Lord.
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  We will open. One more time, from the depth of
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  your heart. Yes to your, yes to your ways.
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  Oh yes, Lord, go ahead and bless his name.
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  When we truly surrender, He reveals His glory through our
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  lives. When we truly surrender, He
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  reveals His beauty through our lives.
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  When we truly surrender, He reveals His power through our
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  lives. When we truly surrender, He
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  reveals Himself through our lives.
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  Turn this song to a prayer tonight.
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  Go ahead and pray. Let it be from the depth of your
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  heart. She might not be sopran.
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  Together like a better to sleep. Oh yes, I love it.
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  Hallelujah, Father. We are committed to following
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  You as you lead us. You have led us thus far, and
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  You've only LED us to parts of life, parts of glory, parts of
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  beauty, and parts of power. You have built trust in our
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  hearts for You. We trust You for the journey
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  ahead. We may not know everything that
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  lies in the future, but our confidence is in the integrity
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  of the shepherd. For when you lead, you only
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  guide to parts of righteousness. Tonight I pray, O God, in the
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  name of Jesus, that we make renewed commitments to submit
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  our wheels, our intellect, our everything, That we submitted
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  willingly to your wisdom, to your leadership, knowing that
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  you are that true shepherd, that guides, that leads, that
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  protects, that feeds, that preserves until we become the
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  full expression of your will. We have come tonight to receive,
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  to be guided, to be LED, to be fed, to be equipped.
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  We submit to the wisdom of your Spirit tonight, and we ask like
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  never before that you will breathe upon us tonight, move
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  upon us tonight. Let the entrance of your ward
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  give light, let it provide understanding even to the
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  simple. We vow as always that you'll be
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  glorified in our midst, for it's in Jesus name.
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  We have prayed. Give Jesus a big hand clap, big
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  hand clap. Hallelujah, you may be seated.
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  Good evening everybody, good evening.
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  The Lord will make your evening good indeed.
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  In Jesus name everything goodwill come your way tonight.
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  Testimonies come your way tonight, liftings come your way
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  tonight, revelations come your way tonight, impartations come
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  your way tonight, direction comes your way tonight in the
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  name of Jesus Christ. For the Bible says every good
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  gift and every perfect gift comes from above, from the
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  Father of light, in whom there is no variableness nor shadow of
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  turning. And we give God praise.
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  We thank Him for another opportunity He's provided.
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  It remains my joy and commitment every week as I bring us God's
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  Word. I'm confident on the integrity
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  of His Word. I know that when you stand upon
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  God's Word, it will always deliver, more so when you allow
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  that word to be planted in you. He says, If you abide in me,
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  John 15, one to five, and my words abide in you.
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  If you abide in me, and you allow my words to abide in you,
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  Hallelujah. It's the secret to bearing
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  fruit. It says, for without me ye can
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  do nothing. And so let me encourage our
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  hearts before we get to the ministry of the Word.
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  Whenever you come to church, make sure you are truly
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  connected. Don't just be there in body and
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  then your mind distracted, thinking of something or someone
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  you know. Sometimes people can be in
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  church and they're thinking of bills, they're thinking of
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  children, they're thinking of spouses, thinking of jobs,
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  thinking of disappointments or opportunities that are before
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  them. The time invested in God's
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  presence will always yield and will be for your profiting.
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  Our gathering is not unto God's prophet, it is unto our prophet.
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  He feels all things and in all, with or without us.
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  He remains God. But we need Him every day, every
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  other time, for our survival. It is Him.
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  In Him we leave, in Him we move, the Bible says, and it is in Him
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  we have our being #2 God's method will never change.
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  It will always be by His Word and through His Spirit.
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  So if there's anything in your life that is an issue of concern
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  when you come to God, expect miracles but not superstition.
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  Expect the supernatural but not magic.
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  The dynamics of the supernatural is explainable.
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  It is spirit, but it can be explained the human mind can
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  comprehend the supernatural. It is always an interplay of the
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  Word of God and the Spirit of God.
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  Genesis chapter 1123. The Bible says in the beginning
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  God created the heavens and the earth.
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  It says now the earth was without form, it was void and
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  darkness was upon the face of the deep.
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  And then for change to occur, we see first and foremost that the
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  Spirit of God was present. He was hovering across the face
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  of the waters, the face of confusion, the face of chaos,
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  anarchy, uncertainty. No matter what the situation is,
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  the moment you see the Holy Ghost moving, if you can get His
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  presence to that scene, then change has begun.
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  Did you hear what I just said? It doesn't matter how hopeless
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  like you heard during the worship.
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  It doesn't matter the level of despair, the level of confusion.
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  Your assignment is to create the atmosphere that is conducive for
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  the manifested presence of God. But when you can get the Holy
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  Spirit to your direction, to your vicinity, now He's
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  everywhere. But His manifested presence is
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  not everywhere. I've taught you in this house
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  that there are three dimensions of God's presence #1 is called
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  His omnipresence, His ability to be everywhere.
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  The psalmist said, where can I hide from your presence?
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  Whether it's in heaven, whether it's in Hades, you are there #2
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  the Bible says where two or three are gathered in my name, I
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  am there. I call it His Emmanuel
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  dimension, that one does not come except on invitation.
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  That dimension of His presence #3 is called His Shekinah, where
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  He reveals Himself and He makes Himself known.
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  There are evidences, there are tokens of His presence.
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  An example of such is liberty. Now the Lord is that Spirit, and
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  where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty, liberty in
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  every ramification, liberty of your mind, liberty of your
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  spirit, liberty of expression, freedom from every ailing
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  situation, every captivity whatsoever.
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  May that be your testimony in Jesus name.
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  And so the supernatural is an interplay between the ministry
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  of the Holy Spirit and the world.
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  So the Holy Spirit over round the face of the waters.
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  Genesis 1 and verse 2 and then verse 3 says the Holy Spirit now
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  hovering the word came. Verse 3 it says and God said you
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  would think because the Holy Spirit were already hovering,
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  there would be miracles. Nothing absolutely happened
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  absolutely until the Word came. And God said let light be or let
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  there be light and there was light.
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  You see the same pattern in Ezekiel chapter 37.
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  Son of man, can these bones leave?
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  The spirit of God speaking took him to a Wilder, a valley that
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  was full of bones that were very dry.
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  Can these bones leave? And he said, only thou knowest.
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  And he said prophecy, I am there, but you speak to the
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  bones and tell them, hear ye the that was spoken by the Spirit of
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  God, but it had to be received from the lips of a man
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  communicated by faith. And the Bible says I prophesied
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  as I was commanded. Verse 5 and there was a sound of
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  a six. You read down to 10 and 11.
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  I'm praying for you in the name of Jesus Christ.
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  That number one, you trust the presence of the Holy Spirit in
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  this place. You don't have to wait for
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  someone to be flying up and down shouting under the anointing.
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  Those are evidences of his presence, evidences of his
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  ministry. The primary basis for the Holy
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  Spirit or knowing that the Holy Spirit is here is faith, not the
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  physical evidence. Hallelujah.
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  If you have to wait for someone to shake, to shout, to jump, to
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  roll around, then you now say, wow, God is in this place, then
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  you are carnal. The spiritual man walks by
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  faith. The basis of your confidence,
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  you're believing is the word of God.
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  Physical evidence or no evidence, you're believing
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  first, then it leads to an evidence, Hallelujah.
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  So you must trust the presence of the Holy Spirit.
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  He came here before us, and He's here because he's in an
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  atmosphere where He's received by faith and welcome.
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  We have used our will to verbalize our need for Him
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  through our prayer, through the worship, acknowledging Him in
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  testimonies. And now the Word is about to
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  come. You must then trust the ministry
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  of the Word. Matthew 4 Four.
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  Man shall not live by bread alone.
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  Bread means that which is of human origin.
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  Man made Man shall not leave by his job alone.
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  Bread alone man shall not leave by intellect alone.
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  Bread alone man shall not leave by business alone.
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  Man shall not leave by the assistance from men alone, but
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  by every word that proceeded out of the mouth of God.
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  The preceding word is also known as the Sent Word.
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  And the Bible says, He sent forth His word, and His word
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  healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.
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  Are you ready for the Word tonight?
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  Go ahead and lift your voice in one minute.
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  Ask a lot to speak to you. I am ready.
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  My heart is opened in the name of Jesus.
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  Go ahead and pray. A believer is praying.
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  A receiver is praying. An expectant person is praying.
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  Or go ahead and lift your voice. Cry.
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  Let your word come in a way that changes my life for real, lifts
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  me for real, anoints me for real, move me from where I am to
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  the next dimension. In the spirit is someone
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  praying. Blessed be the name of the Lord
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  Shimalantos Ibrahimnikata, for it's in Jesus mighty name.
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  We have prayed. Tonight I'm teaching on the
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  discerning of spirits and I believe that this teaching is
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  very timely and it will be a great blessing to you as you
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  lend your attention to listen. We want to build accuracy in
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  perception. God is helping us.
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  It's line upon line, precept upon precept, here a little and
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  there a little. Now you remember, do not forget
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  the kind of believer you are becoming.
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  I have taught you in this house and every once and again I
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  remind you, because transformation is vision
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  dependent, it's important you cast before the people what they
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  are becoming in Christ, what they are becoming as they submit
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  to the Word of God. You cannot just growing, there
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  has to be a reference. Children look at their parents
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  to know what they will one day be like.
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  Students look at their teachers to know what they will one day
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  be like. Are we together?
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  Transformation is based on 2 laws.
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  Number one, looking onto Jesus through His Word and by His
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  spirit #2 being followers of them who through faith and
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  patience have obtained the promise.
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  That's the law of transformation.
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  It is impossible to be transformed constructively
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  without a reference. Transformation is based on a
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  reference. When a medical student goes to
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  medical school, he's exposed to the environment where in one day
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  he will work and one day he might even become a lecturer, a
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  professor. Are we together?
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  That environment does something to him.
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  It keeps a vision that is cast before him.
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  He knows one day he will be a doctor in experience.
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  He knows one day he will be a consultant.
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  It's the same thing that happens after you train lawyers for a
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  while. You take them to the law school,
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  then they are called to bar. But there are people before
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  them. There is a modus operandi they
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  follow through the rediments of their practice.
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  They know that one day they will become senior advocates.
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  One day they will become practitioners at the highest
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  level. That's how it is spiritually and
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  transformation or what you are becoming.
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  The metamorphosis that is happening to you in this House
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  concerns #1 your passion for Jesus.
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  Fueling and refueling your passion for Jesus #2 doing a
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  walk upon your spirit and your mind, quickening your
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  understanding. You are gaining mastery by
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  submitting to the things that we teach every week and every other
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  week. You are gaining mastery. 1 You
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  are understanding doctrine, and then #2 You are understanding
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  the precepts, the mysteries, the principles of the Kingdom #3 You
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  are becoming empowered believers, empowered by the
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  Spirit, empowered by the anointing.
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  Empowerment gives you the wherewithal, the capacity to
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  demonstrate the things that you believe.
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  Transformation without empowerment will leave the
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  believer frustrated. Because you are enlightened.
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  You know what should be, but you do not have the wherewithal to
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  make it happen. Are we learning?
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  And then #4 God is guiding us through these teachings to be
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  people of vision and purpose. He said in Jeremiah chapter 1
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  and verse 5. From whence you and your
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  mother's womb, before thou came, as forth I called you, and I
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  ordained you to be a prophet unto the nations.
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  Hebrews 10/7. Lo, I come in the volume of the
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  book as it is written to do your will.
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  Believers are beings of purpose. We're not just beings of
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  progress. The value of progress is that it
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  leads to purpose. Let me say that again.
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  The value of progress is that it leads to purpose.
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  If progress does not lead to purpose, you are shadow boxing.
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  You cannot be going nowhere. You imagine someone who is
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  running at 80 kilometer per hour, 100 kilometer per hour and
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  after five hours you ask the person where are you going to?
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  He says I I don't know exactly. Most likely you will turn around
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  and find yourself where you see that now speed is useless until
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  direction is confirmed. Every time direction is wanting,
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  you are forced to reduce your speed until you know where you
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  are going. So among the many things that
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  you are becoming are believers with purpose.
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  You are finding your place in God's grand scheme of things.
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  That's why topics like the Great Commission come walking in
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  purpose, helping you to understand God's idea for your
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  life, that He did not just save you for nothing.
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  He did not just make all these spiritual investments in your
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  life for nothing. Additionally, God is building us
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  to become a people whose relevance transcends the four
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  walls of the church, whose relevance transcend the pulpit.
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  He's producing agents of societal and agents of
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  territorial transformation, relevance like we considered
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  yesterday, looking at last week, looking at discipleship.
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  He's trained us to be people who are relevant to our world, not
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  just fanatics who shout, roll, cry, jump.
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  Are we together and then make the faith life look
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  superstitious. The value of the faith life to
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  society must be very clear and unmistakable.
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  So through our prayer, our rolling, our impartation,
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  anointing and everything we do, we must access wisdom in the
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  secret place and then step out to the marketplace, to society
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  and begin to download that wisdom.
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  The Bible says according to Ephesians chapter 2 and verse
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  Ted. We are his workmanship created
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  in Christ Jesus on to good works which God had preordained that
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  we should work in them. Is someone learning now?
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  It's important for you to see a picture.
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  I'm using words to paint for you a picture in your mind that as
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  you're seated now, whether you're coming here for the first
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  time or you've been here connected, genuinely, sincerely
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  following online for the first time, or you have submitted
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  yourself to learning through this ministry, through this
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  platform, this is what we are about.
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  Every topic is so designed by wisdom and by the leadership of
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  the Spirit to continue this journey.
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  It's an ongoing journey fueling your passion, transforming you,
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  empowering you, planting seeds of purpose and meaning to your
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  life, making you, turning you into an agent of territorial
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  transformation. And then helping you to live a
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  victorious life or you cannot remove victory from the
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  equation. Are we together?
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  That whilst you are about solving the program of God, you
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  do that as a victorious believer.
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  A defeated believer cannot birth the program of God effectively.
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  There is a dimension of victory that speaks to the praise of His
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  name. So we're being equipped with the
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  tools, one of which you'll be learning tonight, that equip you
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  holistically to become a thoroughly furnished believer.
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  Thoroughly furnished believer. You understand the ministry of
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  the Word, the ministry of the Spirit, the ministry of man.
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  See that now, the ministry of prayer, the place of diligence,
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  and all the laws that empower an individual to reign within the
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  cosmos favor honor diligence. You see, when you hold these
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  laws, it's like a man who is holding keys.
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  You'll never get stranded. You stand before a door, you
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  know what key opens it. This is what you are becoming.
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  And finally, you are a believer who is becoming a fulfilled
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  believer. I define fulfillment as the
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  satisfaction that is derived from knowing you have lived your
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  life effectively, serving the purposes of the Kingdom and
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  bringing glory to the Lord. Life is vain.
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  If you are only successful, you must also be fulfilled.
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  There are many successful people who are not fulfilled.
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  They are successful. There are results, there are
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  evidences, there are goals that are accomplished, but at the end
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  of it, they did not spend their lives.
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  I'll give you an example. The rich fool was successful,
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  but he was not fulfilled because nothing about his success spoke
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  to the praises of Jesus. It didn't better men.
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  It was all about self and one of the things you are learning
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  through our teaching sessions is the pruning of self to help you
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  know that life can be lived from a higher dimension.
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  You can live a life that is void of self.
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  It doesn't take too much to be satisfied as a mature disciple
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  believer. So when God lavishes resources
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  upon you, whether spiritual, financial, intellectual, it is
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  for you to live for A cause that is bigger than yourself.
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  Are we learning tonight? Praise the name of the Lord,
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  help us Holy Spirit in Jesus name.
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  The designing of Spirit. 2 scriptures for a start.
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  First Corinthians chapter 12. We begin from verse 8 to 10.
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  So Paul in the church in Corinth, he's arranging for us
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  what we know to be the gift of the Spirit, and he's helping us
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  understand the administration of that gift.
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  In fact, you want to understand, let's back up to verse 4 so that
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  we'll get the context, but we're dealing specifically with verse
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  10. It says now there are
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  diversities of gifts for the same Spirit.
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  So he's mentioning gifts and he's mentioning the Spirit.
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  There are differences in administration.
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  That means even where it is the same gift, the way you
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  administered is different. You now see your automatically
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  that this requires flexibility. You can have two prophets, 2
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  apostles, two Kingdom administrators, same gift, but
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  the models operandi the way the unique expression of it can be
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  very different, but it is still the same Lord.
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  Verse 6. He now says there are
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  diversities of operations, but it is the same God that walketh
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  All in all. Verse 7.
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  But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to
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  profit without the manifestation of the Spirit is different from
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  the offices that are given to some.
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  Are we together when it has to do with distribution of
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  ministerial offices? There are apostles, there are
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  prophets, there are evangelist, and in one expression Paul would
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  even go to talk of helps administrators and so on and so
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  forth. But he's saying here that the
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  manifestation, you know what that means, the outworking of
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  the Holy Spirit is given to every man to profit without.
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  Verse 8. Now he begins to help us
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  understand the manifestations and the distributions.
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  For to 1 is given by the Spirit, the word of Wisdom to another,
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  the word of knowledge, all by the same Spirit.
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  Verse 9 to 1 To another faith, or the gift of faith by the same
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  Spirit to another, the gifts of healing by the same spirit,
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  wholesome healing spirit, soul, body to another, the working of
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  miracles to another, prophecy to another, discerning of spirits
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  to another, diverse kinds of tongues to another.
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  Interpretation of tongues. Second Scripture very quickly.
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  Hebrews chapter 5 and we'll read just one verse, verse 14.
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  Hebrews chapter 5 and verse 14. But strong meat belongs to them
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  that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their
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  senses exercised to discern both good and evil.
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  May Your word bless us tonight in the name of Jesus.
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  Now the subject of discernment is one that is very critical to
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  the believer survival, especially in the world that we
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  live in today. We live in a world today, I
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  wrote here where truth is increasingly becoming relative.
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  We live in a world where there seems to be valid opinions over
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  everything. We live in a very intelligent
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  dispensation. The Bible calls its knowledge
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  increasing. Are we together?
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  We have an array of opinions for everything.
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  There's almost no subject matter that can be discussed on earth
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  where you have a single opinion, from religion to politics, to
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  human living, to health to food, to the reasons why people die,
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  to the reasons why people stay alive.
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  Isn't it very interesting? You find someone stay alive,
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  they ask the person why you are alive, They say I smoke
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  everyday. Another person says why you are
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  alive. You say because I avoided
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  smoking from age 20. And you are wondering now who is
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  right? Hallelujah.
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  Truth has become increasingly relative and someone says we,
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  we. It's at dispensation that sold
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  most visibly the idea of my truth.
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  You hear people say this is my truth, respect my truth.
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  You can have your truth and yet we call it truth.
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  So in a world where truth is increasingly becoming relative
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  and where opinions, it seems like their opinions about
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  everything. And this has again become a
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  bigger issue because today there are technological channels,
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  avenues that make opinions, any opinion at all, loud and
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  dominant. It used to be that when an idea
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  is true, it sustains A forceful power to eventually gain
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  dominance. But now, with the advent of
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  privileges like technology, a lie can gain magnitude.
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  And such dominance over people, over families, over cultures,
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  over societies, are we together. And it is very possible that
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  truth and righteousness can be stifled on the wings of
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  technology and a lie can be sold, it can be rebranded,
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  repackaged, given a narrative that is so appealing, so
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  alluring, so compelling. This is the kind of world we
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  live in. This is a world where evil can
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  be made to appear good. This is a world where good can
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  be made to appear evil. In this kind of world,
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  discernment is no longer a luxury, It is a vital necessity.
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  If at all we are to live and thrive as believers, then we
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  must place premium on the subject of discernment.
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  Who is understanding me so far? This is very, very important.
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  Almost any issue you want to think about, there's someone who
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  is saying something about it online.
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  How to live long? Enter Someone is saying
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  something. How to die now Enter Someone is
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  saying something. How to be rich?
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  Enter Someone is saying something.
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  How to be poor? Enter Someone is saying
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  something. How to be great fast Someone is
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  saying something. How to be great slow Someone is
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  saying something and now char GBT and other you know they
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  they've come to literally put a turbo engine on this journey.
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  You literally can make anything you you would.
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  You would be surprised to know the things that people have
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  browsed. If I were the devil, what would
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  I have done? Enter.
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  And you know, because at least at a personal level, it gives
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  you a level of privacy. No one except those responsible
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  for the intelligence systems know what you are doing.
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  So you can ask anything and be a foolish You can be childish.
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  Just do your thing. Unlike what you do if you own a
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  television. Everybody sees what you're
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  watching. They know what you are engaging
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  with. Are we together?
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  And this has brought people to a point where even young people
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  especially, we have all kinds of gens, Gen.
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  Z, Gen. alpha Gen. every other thing they're asking questions.
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  There's a relativity of truth. It's becoming a serious thing.
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  Across cultures. You find people lead all kinds
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  of marchings across streets asking questions.
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  It's important for us to be a people of discernment.
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  Even among preachers, with all due respect, there's been an
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  increasing divide as to what is right, what is necessary, what
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  is unnecessary. Everything to be challenged has
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  been challenged. As far as the Christian faith is
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  concerned. Some of the things that would
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  easily take for granted as doctrinal pillars, they've been
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  challenged across pseudo Christian sects, Christian
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  sects, among men of God, among theologians.
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  So when men of God are communicating opinions now, they
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  just say there is a school of thought that says this.
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  It's reducing spirituality to philosophy and it's important
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  that we understand this subject of discernment.
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  Hallelujah. Now the Bible uses many indices
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  to measure spirituality and maturity.
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  For instance, the Bible measures growth in the world.
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  It says as little children, that you desire the sincere milk of
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  the Word, that ye may grow. We together on that from a child
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  thou has what, what, what does he put?
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  Thou has known the Holy Scripture, which is able to
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  build, make you wise, you know unto salvation, and so on and so
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  forth. Among the many indices that are
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  used to measure spirituality and maturity in the Kingdom is the
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  subject of discernment. Discernment is very important.
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  First Corinthians chapter 2 and verse 14.
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  First Corinthians chapter 2 and verse 14 the Bible says, but the
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  natural man receiveth not the things of the spirit.
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  So there is a body of reality called things of the spirit.
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  In fact, many years ago I preached a message along this
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  team, the things of the Spirit. There are there are certain
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  subjects, certain discussions that are categorized onto this
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  caption the things of the Spirit of God.
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  It says for they are foolishness unto to him, neither can he know
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  them. The reason is because they are
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  spiritually discerned. And to strengthen your
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  understanding, the natural man from Bible language means one
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  who is on regenerate. One who is not in Christ is
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  another word for an unbeliever. One who is not in Christ an
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  unsaved person. It's a Bible language for an
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  unsafe person in natural man. One who only functions by the
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  impulses of the senses is sensual.
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  He doesn't have any spiritual advantage that connects him to
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  truth in its absolute definition.
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  Romans chapter 12 and verse 2. Can we look at NIV.
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  Romans 12 and verse 2. NIV while forming a foundation
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  for discussion. Romans 12 and verse 2 the Bible
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  says do not conform to the pattern of this world, it says,
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  but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.
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  Then you will be able to test. There you have it now there you
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  will be able to test and approve what God's will is, His good,
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  His pleasing, and His perfect will.
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  The Bible uses discernment as a measure of spiritual maturity in
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  the believer's life. We read the final Scripture
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  already, but let's read it again.
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  Hebrews 5 and verse 14. Hebrews 5 and verse 14.
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  Solid food. Okay, you are.
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  We're trying NIV now. Solid food, he says, is for the
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  mature, who by constant use have trained themselves to
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  distinguish between good and evil.
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  Are we learning already? Praise the name of the Lord Now
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  the Bible furthermore mandates that all believers learn to test
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  spirits. In first John chapter 4 and
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  verse one, the Bible mandates believers to test spirits.
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  Beloved, it says believe not every spirit, but try or test
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  the spirits whether they are of God.
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  Why? Because many false prophets are
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  gone out into the world. Apostle John is encouraging us
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  now. He's calling us the beloved.
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  He says do not believe every spirit.
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  What that means is do not believe every influence, every
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  motivation. I'm about to define discernment
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  shortly, but he says believe not every spirit.
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  It says try or test the spirit, whether they are of God.
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  That means they are within the reach of the believer.
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  The tools that we can use to test spirits to see whether they
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  are of God. He says because there are false
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  prophets that are gone out into the world.
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  Hallelujah. Finally, in 2nd Corinthians 11
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  and verse 14, Second Corinthians 11 and verse 14, the Bible tells
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  us that Satan can transform and appear as an Angel of light.
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  It says and no marvel for Satan himself is transformed into an
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  Angel of light. Remember when Jesus was speaking
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  to the disciples? He sent them and they went and
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  they came back with great reports.
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  They said, wow, even the demons were subject to us through your
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  name. He said do not rejoice just
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  because demons are subject, but you rejoice because your names
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  are written in heaven. And he said, I saw Satan fall
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  like light. Satan can appear as an Angel of
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  light. And indeed, he's appeared to
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  many. He's appeared to preachers, he's
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  appeared to founders of Christian movements.
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  Unfortunately he's appeared to families, he's appeared to
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  well-intentioned people and he's masqueraded himself as an Angel
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  of light and his soul. Narratives, narratives that are
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  outrightly false or narratives that have been packaged using
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  the court of pat truth and then a lie.
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  For instance, the Bible says the Spirit speaketh expressly that
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  in the latter times some shall depart from the faith and shall
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  give heed to seducing spirits and to the doctrine of devils,
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  the doctrine of demons. First, the motive one was one.
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  The spirit speaketh expressly that in the latter times or the
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  end times, some shall depart from the faith is called
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  apostasy, A deviation. I've done a teaching on that and
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  all teaching a deviation from God's patterns.
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  Then it says as they deviate from the faith, they will give
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  heat to seducing spirits. They are all spirits.
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  They talk like the Holy Spirit, they behave in many ways like
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  the Holy Spirit, but they are not Him.
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  And then these spirits churn out what we call the doctrine of
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  devils. And I submit to you that some of
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  these doctrines have found their way.
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  They've crept into the body of Christ.
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  They've crept into churches, they've crept into
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  denominations. They've crept into hearts,
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  malleable hearts. There are people who have gone
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  to pray and suddenly return back with all kinds of operations
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  that are, when you test them against the word of God, you
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  find it wanting. There are sermons that have been
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  communications that qualify to be called doctrines of devils.
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  An individual does not have to be false or fake to be false.
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  You can be genuine, you can be sincere, but that which comes
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  from you may not be consistent with the Word of God.
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  Are we learning now? Now what is discernment?
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  Let's discuss discernment. What is discernment?
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  Haven't laid this foundation. We need discernment.
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  The Bible has a lot to say. It is one of the tests of
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  spiritual maturity. The Bible says that we should
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  test spirits knowing that Satan himself can appear as an Angel
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  of light. What is discernment?
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  I'll give you 2 definitions quickly #1 Discernment is the
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  supernatural ability. Perhaps you may want to listen
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  and then write. Discernment is the supernatural
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  ability I wrote here given by the Holy Spirit to distinguish
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  between good and evil, to distinguish between truth and
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  falsehood, and to distinguish activities initiated by the Holy
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  Spirit and that which is initiated by any other spirit
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  influence. I'll take that slowly.
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  Just listen. I'll dictate it for you to write
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  that when we talk about discernment #1 it's a
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  supernatural ability. And that number two, it is given
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  by the Holy Spirit. Bible discernment is given by
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  the Holy Spirit, and that it empowers an individual to #1
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  distinguish between good and evil #2 distinguish between
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  truth and falsehood #3 to distinguish between activities
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  initiated by the Holy Spirit and activities initiated by any
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  other spirit. And we're going to be learning.
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  Our focus tonight will be on spirits.
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  Discernment is not limited to spirits, but we're zooming our
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  discussion to the discerning of spirits.
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  Another word for spirits. There is not just entities.
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  It also means influences. Are we together?
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  So now you write, discernment is the ability given by the Holy
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  Spirit to distinguish between good and evil.
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  You put a comma there. Between truth and falsehood,
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  between the activities initiated by the Holy Spirit and that
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  which is initiated by any other spirit, demonic spirit, for
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  instance. That's the first definition.
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  Second definition. Discernment is also a
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  supernatural ability that allows believers to evaluate teachings,
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  to examine motifs, and to assess situations using superior
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  wisdom, helping them to avoid deception so that they walk
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  accurately in the will of God and live consistent with the
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  Word of God. Long definition, but very
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  important. Listen one more time and then
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  I'll allow you right. This second definition captures
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  a lot. It's broader and is very
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  applicable. It says that it is a
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  supernatural ability. It's also a supernatural ability
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  that allows believers to #1 evaluate teachings.
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  So you are able to evaluate a teaching and to know whether
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  this is of God or otherwise #2 it empowers you to examine.
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  Motifs. Oh, this is powerful.
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  You'll be learning a lot tonight.
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  Because if all you do and to assess people is to look at the
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  physical activities, many things that carry a similitude of
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  goodness will end you in trouble.
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  Are we together? Examining motifs is the ability
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  to look deeper beyond the physical activity.
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  You understand motifs and motivation and then #3 to assess
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  situations using superior wisdom, helping them, the
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  believer now to avoid deception, and then to walk accurately in
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  the will of God and to walk consistent with the Word of God.
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  I don't know what part of this definition you'll be able to
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  capture, but let me try. I'll dictate once you're just
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  right ready go. It is also the supernatural or a
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  supernatural ability that allows believers to evaluate teachings,
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  comma to examine motifs, examine motifs and assess situations
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  using superior wisdom. You still put a comma there and
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  assess situations using superior wisdom.
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  Helping them to avoid deception so that they work accurately in
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  the will of God and live consistent with the Word of God.
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  Helping them to avoid deception so that they walk accurately in
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  the will of God and live consistent with the Word of God.
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  You understand me so far? Shout aloud.
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  Amen. You want me to dictate it one
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  more time? Say, come again.
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  All right, so I'll give you one last time.
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  It is a supernatural ability that allows believers to
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  evaluate teachings, comma examine motifs, and assess
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  situations using superior wisdom, helping them to avoid
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  deception so that they walk accurately in the will of God
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  and live consistent with the Word of God.
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  Whether you are done or not, shout Amen.
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  Now, there is a difference between discernment and
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  instincts. It's very important.
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  They can work together to birth the will and the purposes of
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  God. But there is a very striking
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  difference between discernment and instinct.
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  And there's something about the human spirit.
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  You see, there are certain latent abilities that are
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  trapped within the human spirit and these abilities can be
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  developed by reason of use. Factors like age, factors like
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  academic knowledge, are we together?
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  Factors like experience can add to building the Bank of your
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  instinct. And so those things create for
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  want of word. If I would borrow a word from
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  science and medicine, I would say some neuro pathways such
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  that when events happen, it's like how a computer works.
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  It can diagnose a situation and come up with an inference within
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  a moment. And because a human spirit is
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  also a spirit, it is able to trap feelings, trap energies and
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  send those impulses. Are we together?
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  Yes. So it is possible for you to
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  just know you are not born again, you are not filled with
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  the Holy Spirit, but you can just know that this this does
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  not add up there. There is a logic that is trapped
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  in the human spirit by. Reason of use.
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  That's why sometimes you can see an old, sometimes uneducated
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  mother or father can look at someone and say, no, I don't
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  think you should get this job now.
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  They didn't hear the Holy Spirit.
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  They didn't do anything. And in a very strange way, you
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  can develop your instincts to gain the mastery of one who
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  operates discernment. There are people who have
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  literally by instinct, they have built empires.
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  There are business people who are purported to have God like
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  abilities because they have trained their instinct.
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  They can tell you with. Precision, sometimes God like
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  precision. The trends of businesses are we
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  together they can reject offers, they can do whatever to a point
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  that corporations they have developed a science around hand
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  picking these individuals. We call them Genesis, we call
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  them all kinds of people, but they they have developed their
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  instincts. But this is not discernment.
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  Instinct is not necessarily engineered by the Holy Spirit.
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  It's an advantage that every spirit has, including a human
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  spirit. Hallelujah.
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  Look up, please. How many of you have seen dogs
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  begin to act in a certain way when there's danger looming
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  around? We use dogs.
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  The military use dogs. Are we together?
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  They are not. Necessarily filled with the Holy
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  Spirit that's trained instincts. Dogs for you, they can snuff
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  every kind of thing. You hide it anywhere.
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  I mean, people have hidden all kinds of things, cocaine inside
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  them. And the dogs came and sat down
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  close to them. Now that's not word of
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  knowledge, that's not word of wisdom.
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  But dogs for you, instincts, are we together?
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  When you pass many airports around the world, you see them
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  quietly watching you. And later they just leave the
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  owner and go and sit near someone and they direct that
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  person come with us. And truly, you will find out
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  that there's something hiding somewhere.
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  Are we together? How about birds and other
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  animals? In fact, natural scientists
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  sometimes purport that animals have an uncanny way of being
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  able to detect changes in weather conditions.
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  And that's true. When you watch Natural Wild, you
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  see animals, birds, fishes. They literally.
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  Move. From the north to the South of
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  various regions, maybe during winter.
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  During summer they have an uncanny ability with no advisor.
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  So instincts are powerful, but they are not discernment.
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  Discernment is engineered by the Holy Spirit.
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  It is most superior and precise in its operation.
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  Is someone learning? Now praise the name of the Lord.
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  If you're following so far, say Amen.
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  I just needed to point that out so that you don't make a mistake
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  of thinking because you've been scoring the points right.
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  And even though you are not born again, and even though you've
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  not been trained, you've not opened up to the ministry of the
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  Holy Spirit, you can say I use my instincts to know the right
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  job. I, you know, I, I heard there
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  used to be this octopus or something.
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  I hope I'm right on that one octopus that used to decide who
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  wins election and they just put all kinds of faces and then I
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  don't know which of the hands and our fingers it uses to
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  point. I'm telling you, the day it will
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  fail you, you better build the day.
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  You have to decide on something that matters most.
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  That's the day instincts fail. But discernment, if correct and
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  by the Spirit, always wins. Hallelujah.
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  Now, clearly, from all our definitions, we come to the
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  conclusion that discernment involves 3 things.
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  Discernment involves 3 things #1 the capacity to know the source
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  and the influence behind physical activities.
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  From all of the discussion so far, we arrive at 3 conclusions.
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  One, that discernment has to do with the capacity to know the
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  source and the influence behind physical activities.
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  So one who has and has trained his discernment will, number
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  one, have the capacity to know the source.
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  We'll be looking at Scripture shortly.
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  And the influence behind any activity whatsoever #2
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  discernment also involves the capacity to know the motive and
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  the motivation behind actions. So it does not just reveal the
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  source and the influence, meaning what Spirit is
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  sponsoring that activity, but #2 it helps us to know the motive
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  and the motivation behind actions.
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  The motive and the motivation behind actions.
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  And then #3 discernment involves an empowerment to make decisions
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  and to make judgments that lead to the will of God.
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  Discernment involves an empowerment to make decisions
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  and judgments that lead to the will of God.
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  Is someone learning so far? So in discussing the subject of
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  discernment, you must anchor on these three things, the capacity
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  to know the source and the influence meaning, the spirit
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  that is behind an activity #2 the capacity to know the motif
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  and the motivation behind any and every action, and then #3 an
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  empowerment to make decisions and judgments that lead to the
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  will of God. Koinonia, we're learning.
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  Amen. Now the Holy Spirit very clearly
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  from Scripture, as we read in First Corinthians 12, the Holy
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  Spirit is the primary source of discernment.
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  The Holy Spirit is the primary source of discernment.
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  We're talking with respect to the believers work.
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  Now, like you'll be learning from Scripture, there are other
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  spirit influences that can give you capacity to perceive.
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  We'll be considering the story of the damsel.
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  Remember Paul and Silas, the story of the damsel?
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  There was a spirit that empowered her.
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  She prophesied accurately, not missing anything to a point,
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  that they build a business around that gift.
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  If it was epileptic, the people will not make money.
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  She had a level of precision and accuracy.
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  She became a divine I suit, say a young girl.
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  She was under that influence and those guys, after seeing her
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  display all those things one day they called her and build an
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  administrative system around her gift and they started extracting
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  money from people. It was that deliverance and the
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  annoyance that it brought to the people who were merchandising
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  that gift that led to the prison in Acts Chapter 16, who go there
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  shortly. But just for you to know that in
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  the economy of the Kingdom, the Holy Spirit is the primary
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  source of discernment. First Corinthians 12, understand
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  the Bible tells us it is by the Spirit, the gift of discernment.
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  It is all by the same Spirit. Hallelujah, praise the name of
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  the Lord, all by the same Spirit.
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  Now for tonight, we're going to be looking at 4 levels of
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  discernment, and this is very important.
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  Even though our focus is on the discerning of spirits, I
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  generally want to show you 4 levels.
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  In my study of the subject of discernment, I have found 4
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  levels of discernment that are important and applicable to
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  every believer #1 discerning of times and seasons.
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  Discerning of times and seasons. Let's consider for a text
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  Ecclesiastes chapter 3 from verse 1 to 8.
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  Discerning. This is the first level of
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  discernment. That means if you are to enjoy
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  discernment for your profiting, then you must understand how to
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  discern times and seasons. Shout it after me.
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  Say times and seasons One more time like you are learning.
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  Say times and seasons. Right.
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  So it says to everything, how many things?
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  This is very important when the Bible says there is a season and
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  a time for everything and every purpose.
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  It then means if you do not sustain the faculty to discern
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  times and to discern seasons, there are many things that will
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  leave you behind. Many seasons will.
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  Come and pass and you will not know how to maximize them.
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  Are we together? Let me now go ahead of myself.
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  So we're reading to everything. There is a season and a time to
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  every purpose under the heavens. Reading to verse 8, A time to be
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  born. Do you believe that?
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  And a time to die. A time to plant, a time to pluck
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  up that which is planted. A time to kill, a time to heal,
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  a time to breakdown, a time to build up, a time to weep, a time
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  to laugh. May this be your time to laugh.
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  Force India to just speak into your life.
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  May this be your time to laugh. And any devil that wants to
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  manipulate time and take you back to the days of crying, the
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  days of weeping. We come against that devil now
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  in the name of Jesus Christ. Let's continue quickly.
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  A time to mourn and a time to dance.
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  Verse 5. A time to castaway stones and a
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  time to gather stones together. A time to embrace my goodness
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  and a time to refrain from embracing. 6A.
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  Time to get and a time to lose. A time to keep and a time to
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  castaway. A time to rend and a time to
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  sow. A time to keep silence.
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  Hello, a time to keep silence and a time to speak.
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  Final verse, A time to love and a time to hate.
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  May this time never come to your life, except it is to hate
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  demons, hate Satan, hate all kinds of bad things in the name
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  of Jesus Christ. Then it says a time for war, a
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  time of war and a time of peace. I think we once discussed this
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  and we see that in every verse there was one word that was
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  consistent time. Hallelujah First Chronicles
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  chapter 12 and verse 32. The Bible says and of the sons
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  of Issachar, men who had understanding of the times, they
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  had understanding of the time. So a man can understand times, a
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  man can understand seasons to know what Israel ought to do.
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  The Bible says the heads of them were 200 and all their brethren
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  were at their command. Can I give you one more
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  scripture? Luke chapter 19 from verse 41
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  and we read up until 44, Luke 19.
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  This is Jesus who came near Jerusalem.
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  He stood looking across Jerusalem, the Bible says, And
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  when he was come near, he beheld the city and wept over it.
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  One of the reasons why Jesus wept in the Bible saying, If
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  thou has known even thou at least in this thy day, the
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  things that belong unto your peace, it says, But now they are
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  hidden from your eyes, for the day shall come upon thee, and
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  thy enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee
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  roundabout, and keep thee on every side.
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  Verse 44 And shall lay thee with the ground, and thy children
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  with thee, and they shall not live in the one stone upon
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  another, because thou knowest not the time of your visitation.
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  The reason why you become a victim to your enemies, they
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  will so discomfit you is because you do not know the time of your
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  visitation. Hallelujah.
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  Can I give you one more scripture?
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  I just felt like giving you one. It just came to my spirit.
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  Psalm 102 and verse 13. Oh, I like this one.
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  I receive it for myself in the name of Jesus Christ.
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  Psalm 102 and verse 13. Thou shall arise.
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  Thou shall arise and have mercy upon Joshua Salman for the time.
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  The time to favor him. Yeah, the Kairos time is come.
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  I receive it for myself, and then I receive it for you.
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  I receive it for myself, and then I receive it for you.
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  Or may, September, October, November, December be the time
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  to favor Zion in the name of Jesus Christ.
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  Please be seated. God is the God of times and
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  seasons in recreating the earth, as we find in Genesis chapter 1,
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  the Bible says that He made the stars.
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  He made certain lights to signify days, to signify times,
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  to signify years. There are lights that signify
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  seasons. And like you may have learnt in
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  my teaching the law of seasons, I refer you to my teaching the
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  law of seasons. Seasons come with certain
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  advantages. We walk, we don't do spring,
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  summer, autumn and so on and so forth as we have back in the
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  West. We usually do rainy and dry
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  season in Nigeria. So allow my bias.
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  In Nigeria, we only know two seasons, dry season and rainy
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  seasons and whatever that means to you as you are connected
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  across the globe, it just means that seasons come with your
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  advantage. Are we together?
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  Yes. It was rainy as I left home.
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  So a farmer who's had his crops planted now does not need to go
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  through the label of trying to channel water to his farm
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  because the season brought that advantage.
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  Is someone learning now? Seasons come with certain
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  advantages. I'll give you an instance.
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  There's no baby who has to go through the worry of.
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  Cleaning himself or herself. Because the season of that baby
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  already provides certain advantages.
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  Am I right on that? Praise the name of the Lord, A
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  young boy who is born by responsible parents, for
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  instance. And from infancy to teenage,
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  usually under normal circumstances, he does not need
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  to worry about looking for his fees or her fees, because the
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  parents or the guardians, they usually will handle their
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  education up until they become graduates, up until they become
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  adults. So seasons come with their
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  advantages. Hallelujah.
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  Praise the name of the Lord. There are students who are
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  students. They have the privilege of
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  enjoying certain scholarships. You'll find some of the
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  universities and colleges in Nigeria.
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  There are states that give scholarships.
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  The federal government gives scholarships, certain NGOs give
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  scholarships. But the scholarship is only for
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  students. So provided you are a student
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  and you can prove that you're a student, you stand a chance to
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  enjoy the scholarship. There are non students who enjoy
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  the scholarship courtesy their children or their loved ones who
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  are students. As they collect the money, they
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  share it round and it goes round.
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  Are we together now? Very important.
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  There are certain people who by reason of their connection, by
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  reason of certain seasons, they are in very curious moments of
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  their life. Some things happen to them
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  freely, very, very freely, but others may not have that
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  privilege. I don't want to start
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  distinguishing nations and distinguishing whatever it is,
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  but there are. There are certain.
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  Well, let me just let that be. Nigeria is a good nation.
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  In the name of Jesus, we'll keep going from glory to glory, to be
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  a good season for us, always in Jesus name.
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  Are we together? Yeah.
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  I wanted to just contrast different regimes and the
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  possibilities that came from them.
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  But there's no point having to talk about that.
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  But seasons come with different advantages.
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  You get the point now? Yes, Very, very important.
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  And they come. With.
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  A modus operandi, a way to behave and certain advantages
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  that come to them. And most people do not know that
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  the way it is physically, that's how it is.
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  Also in the spirit. I'll give you an example.
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  Did you know that as a young believer?
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  And, and you hear a lot of people who are very honest, they
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  will tell you that as soon as they got born again, It's it's a
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  trend among young believers. Almost everything they ask or
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  don't ask get answered, you know, and they're happy and they
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  feel, I mean, why I'm matured believers praying and fasting.
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  I mean, I just said Lord before I even said answer me, he came.
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  You are right, You know how a parent nurses a child, a child
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  just cries and the next thing, breast milk is there cleaning
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  and all of that. And God allows them so that they
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  are not discouraged. Then they get to a point where
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  the responsibility component of being a believer is now
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  introduced. God now tells.
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  Them Well, this is not the norm, it is an exception.
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  As an act of mercy, you are going to now learn how to work
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  out your salvation with fear and trembling.
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  It is at that point they now realize that wow, so in the
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  midst of all these good things, there are still curses and yolks
• 1:03:05
  that are not dealt with experientially.
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  They begin to see other manifestations.
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  Then they now appreciate those who have gone ahead of them and
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  their diligence and so on and so forth.
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  So my point is that times and seasons come with your
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  advantage. Another example, how many of you
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  know that it is easier to dry your clothes outside in the
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  daytime? Your chances of those clothes
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  drying very fast, especially on a sunny day, sometimes 10
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  minutes, one hour and the clothes are dried versus trying
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  to dry your clothes in the night, especially when it is wet
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  and you know very rainy, your clothes might not easily dry.
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  These are some of the advantages.
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  There are people, farmers for instance, especially in the
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  rural areas during the dry season, you see the roads filled
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  with maize, corn, whatever it is, and they are trying to dry.
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  They, they take advantage, advantage of the weather and the
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  season. Hallelujah, praise the name of
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  the Lord. Now, if you do not sustain the
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  intelligence to compartmentalize your life and to understand that
• 1:04:13
  life works based on times and seasons, three things will
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  happen to you #1 you will not have a system of measuring
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  whether you are suffering from delay or making progress.
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  Are we together? There are times that will pass
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  you and you will never know that the time is gone.
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  We have fragmented life in this place for the purpose of
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  education into Four Seasons. Remember morning or the stage of
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  learning afternoon or stage of manifestation, maximum impact
• 1:04:44
  evening or the stage of legacy and then night the stage of rest
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  courtesy our school of ministry curriculum.
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  So you can come for school of ministry and then you learn
• 1:04:55
  every other thing in detail. Do we have our school of
• 1:04:57
  ministry alumni? All right, so praise God look
• 1:05:05
  forward to when I'm sure soon enough by I'm sure or not before
• 1:05:09
  the the convention, we should be able to start putting things to
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  open up for the next session. Praise the name of the Lord
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  every other question you have. Wait until that time.
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  Discerning times and seasons. Daniel in the Bible.
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  One of the reasons why he began to submit himself to pray was
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  that he opened the book, he says.
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  And I, Daniel, understood by books.
• 1:05:38
  And as he read, he saw that based on that which was written,
• 1:05:42
  there was a season where the captivity of God's people was
• 1:05:46
  supposed to come to an end. And that that season he was
• 1:05:49
  right at that season. Are we together 70 years in the
• 1:05:53
  desolation of Jerusalem? It was to come to end, but that
• 1:05:57
  season had come and yet nothing was happening.
• 1:05:59
  Happening That spelled victory and liberty.
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  And he took responsibility. Knowing the season, he began to
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  pray and when he prayed truly he sought the Lord in fasting.
• 1:06:12
  The Bible says sackcloth, ashes and all of that, and then
• 1:06:15
  Gabriel comes to him. And when Gabriel comes to him,
• 1:06:18
  he said I was sent by God to come and give you understanding.
• 1:06:22
  Meaning if he did not know the season, he would not be able to
• 1:06:27
  align himself and pray. Are we together now?
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  Let me tell you this, there are prophecies are connected to
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  seasons and sometimes you can have a prophetic word over your
• 1:06:40
  life, but that prophecy was connected to a season.
• 1:06:43
  Even when you get to the season, nothing will happen.
• 1:06:47
  Your knowledge of the season is what makes you begin to engage
• 1:06:51
  spiritually. John remain in the wilderness,
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  the Bible says until his season of appearing.
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  There is a season of appearing. So you can be a man of God.
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  And whilst you know your season of waiting and training, you may
• 1:07:05
  not know that the green light has already been shown on your
• 1:07:08
  face and yet you may remain there.
• 1:07:10
  No visibility, no growth, no advancement.
• 1:07:13
  And when you check the calendar in the Spirit, God will say by
• 1:07:17
  now you should have attained this height.
• 1:07:19
  I'm praying for someone where you missed seasons in the name
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  of Jesus. As you are listening tonight and
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  as you are learning tonight, let the grace to catch up released
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  upon you. Let the grace to catch up be
• 1:07:33
  released upon you. Let the grace to catch up be
• 1:07:37
  released upon you. Hallelujah, Be seated.
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  I'll tell you this now, this is my opinion.
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  When the Lord took Abraham, if you, if you study your Bible, he
• 1:07:53
  opened Abraham to a vision and began to show him the captivity
• 1:07:58
  of the nation of Israel in Egypt.
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  And according to their discussion, he told him, after
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  400 years, after 400 years, I will come again and bring them
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  out into a land and all of that. But you know that by the
• 1:08:15
  calculation it was about 430 years.
• 1:08:21
  The 30 years added, I mean, it will look like God lied.
• 1:08:24
  Why was 30 years added to 400 years?
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  And yet God did he calculate wrong?
• 1:08:31
  And I sought for a reason yesteryears.
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  And my conclusion was that the training process of the man who
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  would be the deliverer perhaps maybe what added to it.
• 1:08:43
  But later on, as I grew in the Spirit, one day God told me the
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  reason for the delay was because of the absence of an
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  intercessor, that even when the time came, there was nobody who
• 1:08:59
  could call on heaven. God had to initiate the help by
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  himself. Moses sensed in his spirit as a
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  young man that I am a deliverer, but the dynamics he didn't know
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  and because he moved in a season that was wrong.
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  He used a wrong a wrong. What do we call it now, a wrong
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  strategy. He was a deliverer, but it will
• 1:09:21
  not be by killing an Egyptian. Are we together?
• 1:09:26
  Can I tell you the truth? There are many Kingdom
• 1:09:28
  financiers who are 419 today is because there is a grace in
• 1:09:33
  them. There is a grace they don't know
• 1:09:36
  what why they're they think they're upset about money.
• 1:09:40
  It's not just no, it's something that is inherent in them.
• 1:09:45
  With all due respect, many of the prophets you see or people
• 1:09:48
  who go to the devil there is within their preordination A
• 1:09:52
  prophetic destiny. But because they could not wait
• 1:09:55
  for seasons, the devil will now lure them and say come remember
• 1:10:00
  Satan wanted to give Jesus what God would give him later on, but
• 1:10:04
  not the season. He said why go through all of
• 1:10:07
  this, bow to me and I will give you this thing.
• 1:10:10
  You don't need to go to hell, you don't need the cross, you
• 1:10:13
  don't even need to train. Imagine if he collected it.
• 1:10:16
  No disciples, no apostles, no training, no revelation on the
• 1:10:21
  Holy Spirit. What then would be the value of
• 1:10:23
  his coming? Is someone learning?
• 1:10:29
  Knowing seasons can help you know what to receive or what to
• 1:10:34
  reject. They may not be evil things, but
• 1:10:38
  if you have the capacity to dissent seasons, you will say
• 1:10:41
  yes to many, many, many. Listen, Listen if you don't
• 1:10:45
  understand seasons. That's what I meant to say.
• 1:10:47
  You will say yes to many good things.
• 1:10:50
  Satan does not only destroy with evil things, when he tries evil,
• 1:10:56
  he will push you. Now please don't feel bad.
• 1:10:59
  And and and this. Is not to mock or whatever it
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  is. Why is it that when a young boy
• 1:11:08
  sits in a car at age 9 or 10 and drives that car, even if he
• 1:11:14
  drives successfully, when the VIO or the police catch that
• 1:11:18
  boy, they are going to take him. Do you know why it was not about
• 1:11:22
  driving successfully or not? Is that the boy has not gotten
• 1:11:26
  to the season When he gets to 18 years, are we together?
• 1:11:31
  Even if he hit someone, nobody will query him on age.
• 1:11:35
  It will be competence. They know it's the season.
• 1:11:38
  It's someone learning now. One of the ways Satan has
• 1:11:42
  cheated people is to amplify your appetite for things before
• 1:11:46
  their season, and then you begin to drive.
• 1:11:51
  You have a desire to get things whereas it's not the season.
• 1:11:57
  Try to pluck a mango from a mango tree.
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  When it's not the season and you see how difficult it is, you
• 1:12:04
  will be throwing stones until you break the glass of someone
• 1:12:07
  else. But when it is the season you
• 1:12:09
  are in bed and you see mangoes falling like rain, you come out
• 1:12:13
  in the morning and you literally have to pick.
• 1:12:15
  Seasons come with the advantage. Hallelujah is someone learning
• 1:12:20
  now? This is very powerful.
• 1:12:23
  Why do you discourage young girls, teenagers and young boys
• 1:12:28
  and tell them no going around, no, no party, no this and that?
• 1:12:33
  You know why? Eventually they will get
• 1:12:35
  married. The parents who are prohibiting
• 1:12:37
  them know that one day they'll be given the liberty to raise
• 1:12:40
  their own families. But not this season.
• 1:12:44
  Is someone learning now? I can tell you this, one of the
• 1:12:48
  ways Satan destroys you is to push you forward before your
• 1:12:52
  season because when it is not your season you don't have the
• 1:12:56
  equipping to manage the opportunities, not the
• 1:12:59
  challenges that come with it. There are things we call delay.
• 1:13:03
  That is not delay. God is making you time until
• 1:13:06
  there is a synchrony of divine seasons.
• 1:13:11
  There was a season that if Jesus was exposed he would have died.
• 1:13:16
  It's in your Bible. God had to say take him back and
• 1:13:19
  hide him until Herod dies and God kept watching.
• 1:13:24
  When Herod died he said now you can bring the boy out.
• 1:13:27
  Imagine if Jesus was born and he said Oh dear, the reason why
• 1:13:32
  Jesus did not die as a baby was not because he was the son of
• 1:13:35
  God. It was because an Angel appeared
• 1:13:38
  and told Joseph they are going to kill people wrong with this
• 1:13:41
  child. If every other person in Rama
• 1:13:44
  had that opportunity to, their children will be saved.
• 1:13:49
  Is someone learning the reason why Moses did not die with all
• 1:13:54
  the children in his generation was because God moved someone
• 1:13:58
  and they hid him. The Bible said knowing that he
• 1:14:01
  was a proper child, they hid him in a basket.
• 1:14:08
  There are seasons when the devil launches attacks over people,
• 1:14:15
  but because people do not understand, those who come picky
• 1:14:18
  just sense that for the next one month, it's like the devil is
• 1:14:22
  trying to look for blood within a territory.
• 1:14:24
  I will tell you this, I'll tell you a story.
• 1:14:26
  One time, and I say this with with a sad heart, there was a
• 1:14:30
  plane crash in this nation many years ago.
• 1:14:33
  The time that plane crash was to happen, I traveled to one of the
• 1:14:38
  regions. As I was flying in the air.
• 1:14:40
  This is true. I sensed in my spirit that there
• 1:14:44
  were territorial spirits over the airwaves.
• 1:14:47
  It was like there was a covenant that was crying for blood.
• 1:14:51
  I sensed this in the air. I started praying in the spirit.
• 1:14:53
  Nothing happened to our own aircraft.
• 1:14:55
  We landed and then while we were returning, we were returning
• 1:14:59
  back to Kano. That was when there was a plane
• 1:15:01
  crash. It was when I arrived that I saw
• 1:15:04
  people trying to call to find out if I was in that aircraft.
• 1:15:09
  Now, really sad that there are people who went away, but you
• 1:15:12
  can begin to sense things. Seasons.
• 1:15:15
  Let me tell you this, if you understand the message I'm
• 1:15:18
  teaching you tonight, you have cheated the devil forever
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  because there is no way the devil will trap you.
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  Many things that happen to people.
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  If you learn the things I'm about to show you now, you will
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  see that there was. It's like heaven was trying to
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  say, see, I'm sending you signals.
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  But because our faculties are not trained to understand the
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  impulses of the spirit, it happens.
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  And people say what happened now the discerning spirits.
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  Are we learning? So the designing of seasons,
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  there are many things that you will avoid when you can design
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  seasons. You can know when it is not a
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  season for a thing. And even though a door is open
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  before you, you will not go because the backing that
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  supports that season is not yet there.
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  The opportunity is there, but the spiritual knowledge, the
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  system of defence is not yet there.
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  Are we together now? This is very powerful, very,
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  very powerful. And then you also know when to
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  start engaging in warfare because you know it is your
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  season and the devil. Listen, let me tell you this.
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  Satan is many things except a fool.
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  He can pray on your patience to wait for seasons and allow even
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  when the seasons have elapsed. He would deceive you that you
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  are still in a process whereas there is already a green light
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  in the spirit. It is the ability to dissent
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  season. You say no, no, no, this does
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  not add up. Now you begin to pray.
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  As you pray you will now see that there's already angelic
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  assistance and to push you into that new season.
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  I sense in my spirit for someone what you are calling process
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  finished long ago. Is the devil manipulating you
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  into believing that you are still in the process?
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  In the name of Jesus, I came here tonight to announce to you
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  that you are going to bear a new season by the Spirit of God.
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  You will bear a new season by the Spirit of God.
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  You will bear a new season by the Spirit of God.
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  Hallelujah. There was a time in my life as a
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  man of God when I knew it was not my season, but there was a
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  time I knew that the light has come.
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  Hallelujah. There was a time I would not, I
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  would not worry about certain things.
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  Listen, you need to know your day of visitation.
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  Are we together now? Yes.
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  You need to know it, you need to know it.
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  You need to know when the anointing for your destiny is
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  coming so that you position yourself to receive it.
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  You need to know when to start praying, but you need to know
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  when to receive answers. Please be seated.
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  The signing of times and the signing of seasons.
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  This is the first level of discernment.
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  There are a number of things that begin to happen to men.
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  You see, believers, let me teach you something.
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  The Bible says the spirit of man.
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  This spirit of man, you see, is a mystery.
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  It is the candle. Of the Lord.
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  And provided that spirit is connected to that fire, you
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  always know when seasons are coming, when seasons are
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  wrapping up. I have taught you.
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  Let me recap for you again and then we'll go to the next.
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  I want us to focus on spirits. Four things happen when a season
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  is about to change. I taught you in this house.
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  If you forgot, let me remind you again.
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  Let me see how many of them I can quickly bring when a season
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  is about to change in your life. Number one, there is an unusual
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  desire and an unusual grace to pray.
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  An unusual desire, an unusual grace to pray, especially to
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  pray alone. Corporate prayer is wonderful,
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  but you sense a grace pulling you Hallelujah, pulling you away
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  from the crowd, away from activities, and you find God
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  drawing you alone. There are things he wants to
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  show you alone. The grace to pray.
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  And for many of us, when you get to that point, Satan brings a
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  counter destruction, legitimate reasons and then you find out
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  seasons are passing and the grace to praise boiling within
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  you, but you are not able to take advantage of it.
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  When the season passes, the grace lifts and then you don't
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  know what has happened. Again.
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  Hallelujah. Is somebody learning now?
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  Yes #2 an unusual grace to give When a season is about to
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  change, there is an unusual grace to give.
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  It's true, it's true. Sacrificial giving is like a
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  grace rest on you and at that point it's a city, you can give
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  anything. Sometimes we even question if
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  you are not being manipulated. It's not about the giving.
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  These are indicators of seasons #3 when a season is about to
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  change, there is unusual angelic and demonic activities, two of
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  them together. Because you see, the angels
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  signify revelations, and when demonic spirits see angelic
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  movements, they know that they excel in strength and the answer
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  to the Word of God and the answer to seasons.
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  Immediately you find out that all kinds of demonic attacks,
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  they come using offense, they come using anger, hatred,
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  dreams, slumber, compromise. Anything the devil can bring to
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  abort that season, that's his desire.
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  And if you do not have the discernment and the staying
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  power, you will lose that season.
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  You will lose that season. Is someone learning the fourth
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  thing that happens? In fact, truly there are many,
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  but let me try and give you one more.
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  The fourth thing that happened when a season is coming is God
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  will usually send a word because a word is the key that opens up
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  seasons. He will send a word.
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  It will come in dreams, it will come through prophecies, it will
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  come through a sermon. As I'm speaking now, seasons
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  cannot open outside of the word of God.
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  There must be a preceding word, a preceding word that comes from
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  God. Hallelujah.
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  I can tell you based on the reference of this test, some of
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  you right now as you are hearing me, you don't need a prophetic
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  word. You know seasons are changing by
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  what I'm telling you now. You know it, You know it.
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  The grace to give when others are sleeping.
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  You are waking up and you've been asking God, what is it?
• 1:22:51
  And can I tell you this, sometimes the prayers have no
• 1:22:55
  prayer points. God just says pray.
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  He won't tell you why pray. You are praying in tongues.
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  OK, give me a clue Lord, let me understand.
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  He doesn't want you to be distracted.
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  If He shows you the warfare that your prayer is dealing with,
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  fear will not even allow you continue.
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  He will blind you from the vision and just allow you to
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  focus in prayer. It is true.
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  It is true is after the prophecy has been birthed, then he will
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  now show you what you were dealing with.
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  That's how ministries are birthed.
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  That's how dimensions are sustained.
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  That's how people emerge. But most believers are dull of
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  both hearing and training. They do not know.
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  So when seasons happen like this, they just know that I mean
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  an unusual season. I don't know what it's about.
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  And then they lose the season. And then it moves like the hand
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  of a clock. Years become wasted.
• 1:23:54
  Years turn to decades. And then sometimes we pray and
• 1:23:57
  say, God, but are you not faithful?
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  And God will say, I came many times.
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  I came and I knocked. I came and I knocked.
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  But because you've not been strained to see the light,
• 1:24:07
  listen, how do you think the magi got to snow?
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  Thy was Jesus, there was a star. That star appeared according to
• 1:24:16
  a certain season. And the Magi came when they told
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  Harold, he said, we're looking for this and that.
• 1:24:23
  Herod said, all right, you go when you find the child, tell
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  me. And then he called his
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  astrologers. He said, go and open the book,
• 1:24:31
  check what was the season for the manifestation of the
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  Messiah. And they said truly, based on
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  what they saw, this is the time he said, find, kill the
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  children, find everybody. I come in the volume of the
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  book. It was written about me to do
• 1:24:54
  your will, O God, I come in the volume of the book.
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  It was written about me to do your will.
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  O God, I will do your will, do your will.
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  Lord, I will do. Hallelujah, Hallelujah.
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  We're going to pray in the Spirit for the next two minutes.
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  Father, every season that is before me, I obtain grace to
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  discern it. I will not abort seasons.
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  I will not waste seasons. You have said when the days of
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  your power, I align myself in the Spirit.
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  Kaenonia pray a global family connecting online.
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  Pray written in prophecy. Written in prophecy.
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  Let it be made manifest in this season.
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  Written already in prophecy, written in the scrolls of the
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  Spirit. Let it be made manifest in this
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  season. Shaprakata belakata paratos
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  krakata pranta kata prandas ka lakata.
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  One minute. Pray in the spirit.
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  Be serious, pray in the Spirit. For some you are in your season
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  of lifting. For some you are in your season
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  of testing, for some you are in the season of manifestation
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  times and seasons. And of the sons of Issaka Man,
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  who had an understanding of the times.
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  They knew what Israel ought to do.
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  In Jesus name we pray. In Jesus name we pray.
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  When we started ministry, the Lord told me something.
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  He said I should focus on building.
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  Men and not concentrate on structures.
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  Because I'm somebody who by by my personality, I like order, I
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  like to go forward. And I said, I mean, what, what
• 1:27:45
  does it take? We can put anything together
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  block by block, build something. But the Lord told me is that
• 1:27:51
  focus on building. Men leave the issue of
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  structures and buildings. It was an unusual part.
• 1:27:58
  And for a long time, even when we had lands, there was no talk
• 1:28:04
  of building. There were times I considered
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  it, but every time I just knew it was not the season.
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  At a point I said, look, let me say with God, I hope that I'm
• 1:28:14
  not the one delaying a certain destiny in this ministry.
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  But when the season came, I'll tell you this, I was waiting
• 1:28:23
  maybe until later in the future. What I'll tell you this, where
• 1:28:26
  God gave us us a property. I stood there five years ago and
• 1:28:34
  the Lord said I will give you this place.
• 1:28:39
  A few people here are aware. He said I will give you this
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  place, but it would have been stupid for me to at that time
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  now begin to fight in the flesh. You see, God can show you
• 1:28:52
  something, but you must find out what season is that thing
• 1:28:57
  supposed to come into your life? If If not, you will start
• 1:28:59
  fighting the fight in the flesh. He told you you're a mighty man
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  of God. Now you are starting and you,
• 1:29:06
  nobody's listening to you. It's a seed.
• 1:29:08
  God did not call you. It's because graces and
• 1:29:11
  manifestations are connected to seasons.
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  Are we together now? Yes, when the season came, one
• 1:29:19
  thing led to another, but I mean immediately it came, God walked
• 1:29:24
  out everything by His Spirit, seasons, seasons.
• 1:29:30
  I remember one of the lands we bought in Zarya, for a long time
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  we kept looking around where were we going to get a large
• 1:29:37
  land and all of that. And I was thinking to myself,
• 1:29:40
  where? Where for God's sake?
• 1:29:41
  One day when the I was not even praying about it, I just had a
• 1:29:45
  dream. No, no, no, I think I was, I
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  just was praying and I rested my head a bit and then it was in
• 1:29:53
  the spirit. I saw myself standing opposite
• 1:29:56
  the teaching hospital. I said is there a property like
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  that there? I called someone back home.
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  I said please go and check. Is there something like that?
• 1:30:05
  And the rest is history. That's how God gave us all the
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  properties that we have. Let me tell you this, ladies and
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  gentlemen, one of the if you are struggling too much in making
• 1:30:16
  something happen by your flesh, stand back.
• 1:30:19
  That's the first thing. Just stand back and ask
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  yourself, number one is God. Is this number 2?
• 1:30:26
  Is this the season? Two questions you must answer
• 1:30:30
  because seasons come with ease. There is a measure of ease that
• 1:30:36
  comes with seasons. Is someone learning now?
• 1:30:40
  Hallelujah. We're going to pray one more
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  time. I don't know what season you are
• 1:30:45
  in, but in the name of Jesus, do you know what we do today called
• 1:30:50
  Sound of Revival? I saw it many years ago and I
• 1:30:54
  was wondering. I never would have imagined that
• 1:30:57
  we will start international conferences first before we do
• 1:31:00
  national conference. It's not the pattern of
• 1:31:03
  ministry. You don't start overseas, then
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  you come back home. But that's the foolishness of
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  the leadership of the Holy Spirit.
• 1:31:13
  If you are, if you are open and foolish enough and malleable to
• 1:31:17
  follow Him, He may be unconventional, but your life
• 1:31:20
  will be a sign and a wonder. Are we together now?
• 1:31:24
  Praise the name of the Lord. When the season came, I knew the
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  season came and all the graces and every kind of resource,
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  human material aligned itself. We're going to pray.
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  Everybody shout this after me and let it be from the depth of
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  your heart. Say, Father, I received grace to
• 1:31:44
  step in to every prophecy allotted for this season.
• 1:31:51
  I will not miss it through carelessness.
• 1:31:54
  I will not miss it through lack of discernment.
• 1:31:58
  Open your mouth and train one minute.
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  If this season is for your lifting, then grace up to step
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  into it. If this is a season of warfare,
• 1:32:12
  obtain grace to push through in the Spirit until you emerge.
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  If this is a season of training, obtain grace to stay and not run
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  around until you are built, until you are furnished for the
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  seasons that are before you. In Jesus name we pray.
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  Please be seated. Please be seated.
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  I once prayed for a man, it's a true story, very good man, very
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  gifted, very skilled, but for a strange reason he was qualified
• 1:32:51
  for a certain position. But there seemed to be a lot of
• 1:32:54
  sentiments and for a while we prayed together, but it looked
• 1:32:59
  like nothing was happening. And at a point you could see
• 1:33:02
  that his heart was disappointed in God.
• 1:33:04
  And one day I was praying and God gave me a word for him.
• 1:33:08
  Then I reached this man and I tell him, the Lord says I should
• 1:33:10
  tell you, fear not, do not be dismayed XYZ.
• 1:33:14
  And the Lord says I should tell you that even though it looks
• 1:33:19
  like it was people antagonizing you, but God allowed that
• 1:33:23
  antagonism to keep you until a certain season.
• 1:33:27
  Do you know true story. I'm I'm not going to mention
• 1:33:30
  names, just for honor. When a season came, in a very
• 1:33:35
  strange way, they open a new department that gave an oversea
• 1:33:40
  privilege. And that was how they put it.
• 1:33:42
  Because every other person ahead of him had gone and there was no
• 1:33:45
  basis of lifting anyone except him.
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  And if they had their way, they would relinquish every position
• 1:33:52
  for that new one because that new one came.
• 1:33:54
  He had better packages. He was connected to institutions
• 1:33:58
  abroad and based on merit. There was no way around it
• 1:34:02
  because everyone who fought him had been promoted.
• 1:34:05
  He was the only one. There was no way to look down on
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  him. I said the wisdom of God.
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  There are men. Listen.
• 1:34:12
  There are times where God is silent even when it looks like
• 1:34:15
  the enemy is fighting you. If you see God look weak, He has
• 1:34:19
  found a way of walking glory through it.
• 1:34:21
  Just be patient. Listen to what I'm telling you.
• 1:34:26
  There are times that men will mock you and talk and God keeps
• 1:34:29
  quiet like he's not watching. Relax.
• 1:34:31
  The God I know, He has found a way around it to birth glory.
• 1:34:36
  Now sometimes the devil will lure you to interrupt what he's
• 1:34:40
  doing. I hope you know that.
• 1:34:43
  I'm sure if I were one of Jesus disciples maybe I would have
• 1:34:46
  tried fighting those people out of zeal, not knowing that my
• 1:34:50
  fighting them out of zeal will be aborting the plan of
• 1:34:53
  salvation. Compassion can lead you to fight
• 1:34:56
  God many times. It's not only an evil heart,
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  it's the reason why believers must be spiritual.
• 1:35:05
  They must be trained to be spiritual.
• 1:35:07
  Number 2 is the reason why you never compare yourself.
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  Comparison will abort many precious seasons in your life.
• 1:35:17
  I can tell you stories after stories of things that happened
• 1:35:21
  to people and as at the time it was happening, they were angry.
• 1:35:26
  If they had their chance, they would tell God change this, but
• 1:35:29
  looking in on hindsight, they would turn back and say, Lord,
• 1:35:33
  thank you, thank you, Hallelujah, praise the name of
• 1:35:39
  the Lord. If you had asked Joseph create
• 1:35:43
  your own way to fulfilling the prophecy that was on your head,
• 1:35:48
  you know what Joseph would say. From my father's house, let
• 1:35:51
  Pharaoh call me and then let me move straight from my father's
• 1:35:56
  house to the throne. If that worked, you'll be one of
• 1:35:59
  the most foolish prime ministers because pain would not have
• 1:36:02
  taught him anything. He would have taken many things
• 1:36:05
  in life for granted. Or look the route I have taught
• 1:36:10
  you in this house. When sincerity and righteousness
• 1:36:13
  leads you to trouble, the story is not ended.
• 1:36:16
  When sincerity and righteousness leads you into trouble and it
• 1:36:21
  looks like serving God has no profit, Find rest.
• 1:36:25
  My God is working something out. I can tell you this.
• 1:36:28
  Find rest. Find rest, my dear sister.
• 1:36:31
  Are we together? Find rest, my dear brother,
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  every time. Righteousness does not seem to
• 1:36:38
  profit the patient. There is a season of reward.
• 1:36:42
  There is a serious season of reward.
• 1:36:48
  I'm looking at Jesus in my vision and my imagination,
• 1:36:52
  walking down the streets of Golgotha, and I'm looking at
• 1:36:56
  women looking at him and say something is wrong.
• 1:36:58
  I can't understand. It doesn't add up.
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  You call yourself savior. We went to the temple.
• 1:37:04
  It's written in the books that you will save the world.
• 1:37:07
  What is the meaning of this? A naked man, the man who raised
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  the dead. You could imagine the people who
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  benefited from his crusades just watching him to say we've been
• 1:37:16
  scammed. Even the disciples themselves
• 1:37:18
  got angry. They were offended.
• 1:37:21
  He had wasted 3 1/2 years of their lives and it was like a
• 1:37:25
  ship that was led to the slaughter.
• 1:37:28
  He had the power to save himself and the whole world, but he kept
• 1:37:32
  quiet because it was a season, he said.
• 1:37:35
  It is your hour and the power of darkness.
• 1:37:39
  It is your hour. I have the power to call a
• 1:37:42
  legion of angels, Pontos Palla said.
• 1:37:44
  Do you not know that I have the power to deliver?
• 1:37:46
  He said. No, no, no, no, no, no.
• 1:37:47
  No, you've gone too far. No man can do this, except it is
• 1:37:50
  given unto him. It is your hour and the power of
• 1:37:55
  darkness. Jesus is LED like a sheep and
• 1:38:00
  you can imagine Satan feeling very fulfilled that finally he's
• 1:38:04
  used men to trap Jesus and abort salvation.
• 1:38:07
  He's hanging on the cross, the nails to his hand, to his feet,
• 1:38:11
  his side. Blood and water gushed out.
• 1:38:14
  The Bible says finally he gives up the ghost and you would think
• 1:38:17
  that was the end of the story. But that was only a change of
• 1:38:20
  season. The Bible says as soon as he
• 1:38:23
  died, the the sun disappeared. I mean the cloud was covered and
• 1:38:28
  the temple cotton was rent from top to bottom.
• 1:38:33
  And when that happened, after three days, he resurrected.
• 1:38:36
  It was a new season. Ladies and gentlemen, I'll tell
• 1:38:39
  you this before we finish this issue of season, we can spend
• 1:38:42
  all night here, but I need to talk about spirits.
• 1:38:45
  When you are going through seasons and the worship team
• 1:38:49
  sang it very beautifully, you may not know the reason.
• 1:38:53
  You may not know what it is that God is saying.
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  Don't expect God to always give you explanations.
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  That's why believers must be trained to walk by faith.
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  The one who walks by faith walks.
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  Trust in the Word of God. I may not have all the answers,
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  but I trust you as a Good Shepherd.
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  We live in a world where we never take a step until we are
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  an assurance driven generation, insurance driven generation,
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  guaranteed driven generation. Unfortunately, the work of His
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  Spirit spiritual man is not like that.
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  There are many times the mission will be follow me.
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  You will not know the name of what you and God are doing.
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  You just keep following, sometimes like a madman.
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  But in the midst of that desert you will see an Oasis and that
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  the things you will learn on the way is what keeps you powerful
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  when you arrive. I'm speaking a word of comfort
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  to someone. If you don't have a definition
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  as to what is happening between you and God, it's called faith.
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  Faith believers must be taught to live by faith.
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  To live by faith means to work based on the conviction that he
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  knows the thoughts that he thinks towards you, that they
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  are thoughts of peace and not of evil, to bring you an expected
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  end. Oh, I believe him.
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  I may not understand what he's doing, but I know that my path
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  will always lead to life. That my path, everything in my
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  life only goes forward. There's no going backward.
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  It's like you are inside an aircraft when you are flying
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  from any region to any region. How many of you know that
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  sometimes you may need to go and use the restroom?
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  I'm pending on where it's located.
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  Let's assume it's at the back. You will be walking backward in
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  the aircraft, but are you going back overall?
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  You are going forward. That's how your destiny is.
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  You may be going back inside the situation, but overall from the
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  hands of prophecy, you are going forward.
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  You would have looked at Joseph and called it delay, called it
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  backwardness, but Joseph was actually going forward.
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  That was the only way to the throne.
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  Let me prophecy over someone in the name of Jesus, your pain,
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  your shame, your disappointment. I decree by the power that
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  raised Christ from the dead. May it move you faster to
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  prophecy, faster to prophecy, faster to prophecy all the
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  things they said about you or did not say about you, all the
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  things they did to you or did not do to you.
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  Let it act together like the ingredients of a meal and move
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  you to prophecy in the name of Jesus Christ.
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  Please be seated, because they did not know their time of
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  visitation, they did not know their time of visitation for a
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  long time. In this ministry, we never had
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  any special programs, no convention, no conferences, and
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  you would wonder why? I mean, aside from the miracle
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  services and the rest, there was nothing at all that will bring
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  the globe. But when the season came, God
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  gave the Word. And when God gives the word,
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  every testimony you see from this nation and around the
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  world, it's not because of a super powerful superhuman man of
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  God. There are certain things that
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  are season advantage if you can discern certain seasons and
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  align properly. Are we together now?
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  A man who plays football exceptionally well.
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  He can juggle the ball and even use his fingers.
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  But he's 55 years. Will he ever be recognized as
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  far as playing for any nation or club side is concerned?
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  No. Do you know why?
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  No matter how gifted he is, the best he can be is a coach, no
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  longer a player. The season for that, as accurate
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  and powerful as it is, the season is passed.
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  A politician who becomes a governor or president or any
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  other person, as we have it in our nation and other nations, is
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  just for 210 years or four years each.
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  Are we together? There are governors right now
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  who's exhausted their time. There are presidents who've
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  exhausted their time. Once it is your season and it is
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  over, full stop, That's it. You go whether you like it or
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  not. Isn't it amazing how it is
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  seasons? There are children who wish not
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  to leave their parents, but unfortunately when they get to
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  certain age, the parents will call them.
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  As a young man, at your age, I was already out of my house.
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  I'm officially ushering you out of my door.
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  You are a visitor from today. You are my son, but you are a
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  visitor. Be on your way.
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  I've given you the word of God. Here's my little support.
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  Go and make your life work. Seasons.
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  Most people fear seasons because many seasons push you out of
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  your comfort zone. Many seasons make you to do
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  things you've never done before. Let me speak to someone.
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  Don't be afraid when seasons change.
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  The only way to move forward is when seasons change as they
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  change. If you can ride with the tide,
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  then by the grace of God you get to the place of prophecy.
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  Every spirit of fear that is stopping you from stepping into
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  new. Seasons.
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  Listen to me, Listen to me. How many of you know?
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  That as a young man, if Christ tarries one day you have to
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  build your house. Am I right on that one day you
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  will have to raise your family? Am I right on that?
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  Now we live in a world where people are afraid of daring new
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  things. You are used to staying with
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  your parents and then you are staying in a little house that
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  you are renting and they are paying for you and God tells you
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  it's time. Right now He's a God of portions
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  to push you. There are people who are they
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  are totally listen. They are afraid of anything that
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  puts them in a position of leadership.
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  They fear it because they will not be pampered again.
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  You will be the brain behind things and the chief risk taker
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  and they don't like it. Every fear, let me say that
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  every fear that is stopping you from taking advantage of seasons
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  and moving to the next level, I decree and declare that spirit
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  of fear stopping you from building, stopping you from
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  getting a job, stopping you from going forward in Jesus name I
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  cause that spirit. Right now, Hallelujah, praise
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  the name of the Lord. Let's go to #2 4 levels of
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  discernment. Let's see how far we're able to
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  cover. You're learning now discerning
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  times and seasons. When I list all four, I will
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  tell you how to grow and how to prime your discernment #2 The
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  second level of discernment is discerning what the Holy Spirit
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  is doing, discerning what the Holy Spirit is doing, or
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  discerning activities that are engineered by the Holy Spirit,
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  brought forth by the Holy Spirit.
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  Discerning what the Holy Spirit is doing.
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  That's the second level of discernment, discerning what the
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  Holy Spirit is doing. Most people have not been
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  trained to know when it is the Holy Spirit that is behind a
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  thing. There are times.
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  That a thing can look very controversial and yet is still
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  the Holy Spirit behind it. You must sustain the
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  intelligence to understand how God.
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  Leads how the Holy Spirit functions in as much as he
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  functions like the wind. John 38 The wind bloweth where
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  it listeth. You cannot tell where it goes,
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  nor where it comes. So is everyone that is born of
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  the Spirit. However, there are biblical
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  indices that can tell you an activity, no matter how
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  mysterious and supernatural it is.
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  You can know whether it is the Holy Spirit that is behind it or
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  another spirit. And I'm going to show you now,
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  please lend me your attention. First off, have this at the back
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  of your mind that the Holy Spirit is on earth.
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  He's not in heaven from the time the Holy Spirit came officially
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  to begin the dispensation of the church.
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  There's no record in Scripture that is gone back in heaven.
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  Jesus said I have many things to tell you, but He cannot bear
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  them. Now.
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  How be it when He, the Spirit of truth is come, He will guide
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  you. So the Holy Spirit was to come.
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  In fact, the Bible says in one of the renditions that He is
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  with you and shall be in you. Hallelujah.
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  So the Holy Spirit officially began his dispensation, and He
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  began it with the dispensation of the church on the day of
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  Pentecost. Until then, there was number
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  record, except for Jesus, the Son of the Holy Spirit,
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  permanently indwelling anyone. The Bible says because Jesus had
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  not been glorified, the condition to receive the
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  indwelling of the Holy Spirit is that you needed to have
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  righteousness equal to that of Jesus and no one could attend
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  unto that state. Are we together?
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  And so it was when Jesus died. He resurrected, ascended on
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  high, and then gave us the gift of His righteousness.
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  If and when we believe in His substitutionary sacrifice, then
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  it makes way to receiving the promise of the Father which is
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  the Holy Spirit. The Bible says Christ has
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  redeemed us from the cause of the law being made a cause for
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  us, for it is written curses everyone that hung it on a tree
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  that the blessing of Abraham justification by faith might
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  come upon we the Gentiles, that we now haven't been justified by
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  faith. We might receive the promise of
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  the Spirit through faith. Are we together?
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  So the Holy Spirit officially began his dispensation in
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  believers birthing the church and in dwelling the believer
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  from the day of Pentecost and from that time, ladies and
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  gentlemen, up until now. And it will continue until this
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  dispensation is over. The Holy Spirit is in is on the
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  earth. When you know that the Holy
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  Spirit is right here, you will know that the church cannot
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  fail. Sometimes we take the issue of
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  the church too personal, as though if we don't have God, it
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  will fail. The church will never fail.
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  Man can fail, denominations can fail, but God's program for the
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  church cannot fail because the Holy Spirit is behind it.
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  The Holy Spirit behind any move. Three tests to know when the
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  Holy Spirit is the one who is behind any activity #1 The Holy
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  Spirit always confirms the Word and reveals Jesus.
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  Test #1 The Holy Spirit always confirms the Word and reveals
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  Jesus. When the Holy Spirit is behind
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  any activity, there will always be a confirmation of the Word
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  and the revelation of Jesus. Everywhere you see scriptures
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  confirmed, everywhere you see the Word of God coming to pass
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  in the life of an individual, a people, it is engineered by the
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  ministry of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit will always
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  confirm the Word and always reveal Jesus.
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  Can I give you #2 please do not forget this.
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  Do not forget this number 2 every time.
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  Verse 5, the Bible says Philip went down to Samaria, and there
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  he preached Christ unto them to tell you the Holy Ghost was
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  behind it. They gave heed everyone to the
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  things that Philip speak, hearing and seeing the miracles
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  which he did. Verse 7 says, for unclean
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  spirits, you know, went out of them that were possessed, and
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  those who had palsies and were lame, they were healed.
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  Bible says verse 8 and there was great.
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  Everybody say joy. You see one of the fruits of the
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  Spirit there, a fragrance that followed the move of the Spirit,
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  great joy. Did you see the same thing
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  happened to the jailer in Acts chapter 16?
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  After the jailer received the glad tidings, the same man who
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  was about to kill himself, but as the gospel came to him and
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  his family, there was joy. If you only focus on power and
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  you don't find the fruits of the Spirit, you will be deceived and
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  misled. Are we together now?
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  Always watch for the manifestation of the fruit of
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  the Spirit. It's like a perfume that comes
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  from everything the Holy Spirit is doing.
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  There is joy, there is peace, there is righteousness
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  consistent with the Word of God. Are we together #3 everything.
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  When the Holy Spirit is involved in anything, it eventually watch
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  this. It eventually reveals the glory
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  of God in the lives of the man. The Holy Spirit is a is an
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  upholder of dignity. He eventually reveals or births
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  the glory of God. When the Holy Ghost is behind
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  anything, the glory of God must eventually come out and come
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  through through the life of those individuals.
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  Now let me tell you this, His processes sometimes can be
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  controversial, like telling naman to go and wash 7 times.
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  Perhaps if I were the 1 assessing that situation, I will
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  call what's his name, Elijah Diviner for sure.
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  I'll say Elijah, you need to one check what spirit LED you
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  because this one, I don't think it's of God worst off that Jesus
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  himself spun on the ground and took put him and put in the eyes
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  of people. Now let me tell you this, ladies
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  and gentlemen, there's a balance to this and I want you to listen
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  very carefully. There are many people because of
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  the the extremes we find in the Bible as to the operation of the
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  Spirit. Sometimes there are a lot of
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  people in the body of Christ in Nigeria, unfortunately, and
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  across Africa who have brought a lot of extra biblical practices
• 1:53:59
  and they have, they have given an endorsement to it saying that
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  the Holy Spirit works in mysterious ways.
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  I agree. But let me tell you this,
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  anything that reduces human dignity is not a blessing.
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  Are we together? The time human dignity was
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  reduced in the Bible when a man became a beast, it was recorded
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  as judgment. It was not a blessing.
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  Anything that turns people the zenith of God's creation to
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  become like what they call it now, beasts.
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  Whether through the practices that happen in church, are we
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  together? There are certain practices
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  within the body of Christ that honestly must be reviewed
• 1:54:44
  quickly, and it must stop manipulative practices, Not by
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  the Spirit of God. I'm not talking about the
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  extremes like dehumanizing human beings and talking about them.
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  Those ones are already out of the window.
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  But there are other subtle practices.
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  Anything that manipulates men usurps their will.
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  I'll tell you this. The move of the Spirit never
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  forces people beyond their will. When the Holy Ghost is the one
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  engineering any process, there must be an agreement.
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  Are we together now? Salvation is the highest,
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  noblest, and the greatest gift God gave man.
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  And even at the expense of your eternal destiny, God will not
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  force you to be saved. God can insist on a man, but
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  when you choose as an act of your will to reject him, he will
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  respect your will. Are we together?
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  If I tell you give me 20 naira and you must give me by force,
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  and if you don't give me, you will die, Toss, said the Lord.
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  You see, that's manipulation. You can judge spirits
• 1:55:53
  immediately because number one, fear.
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  Are you saying that you don't find the fruit of the spirit
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  there? When an Angel appears to men,
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  what does he tell them? First, fear not.
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  It is human to be afraid, but fear not many of the practices
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  that happen that are purported to the Holy Spirit.
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  You see that number one, it does not confirm the word #2 it does
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  not reveal Jesus Christ. You hardly find Jesus revealed
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  there. Are we together now?
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  Very, very important. In addition to that, we don't
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  find the fruit of the Spirit. That's why I told you the
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  teaching ministry in this ministry, by the message of God,
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  no matter what I'm teaching you, it cannot leave you with fear,
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  doubt, to leave you broken. The end of it is victory because
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  that's what the Spirit of Christ is, the Spirit of victory.
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  If I teach you on rapture, I'm not going to leave you afraid,
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  wondering. So it means I'm dead like this.
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  That means another spirit manipulated me.
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  At the end of it. I must leave you with the
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  assurance of salvation and show you the path to rest.
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  Who is, who is learning now praise the name of the Lord.
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  There are many subtle manipulative practices that we
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  purport to the Spirit of God, but on checking it from the lens
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  of God's Word, it is not the Holy Spirit.
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  A good man can be influenced by multiple spirits.
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  You can do things that you believe sincerely is of God, but
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  when you check it from the lens of the world, sometimes it comes
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  through poor mentorship. A sincere mentee blindly
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  followed his mentor and landed in trouble every time.
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  The Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit enhances human dignity.
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  Now, for a while, there are practices that may not make
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  sense. Listen, don't misunderstand me.
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  For instance, what does it mean to shout?
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  What does it mean to jump? What does it mean to roll?
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  If you see that immediately to look like an abuse of human
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  dignity. But it is a mystery.
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  Those who are in Christ understand it.
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  The end of it is glory. You get the point that the
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  process may seem sometimes controversial.
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  It may make you childish, it may make you childlike, But at the
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  end of it, it will enhance your dignity.
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  Paul and Silas praying and singing in prison.
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  It looks like an insult to intelligence.
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  What an intelligent person should be doing is trying to
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  make friends with the jailer. But they prayed and they sang.
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  Eventually dignity was restored. Is someone learning now?
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  You can test whether is the Holy Spirit who is behind the things
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  that are happening in the teachings.
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  Question. Is it revealing Jesus in your
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  life? Is it confirming the Word?
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  Is the fruit of the Spirit growing in you for every time
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  you listen to the teachings on this altar?
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  Are you becoming more like Christ?
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  Beyond becoming like a man, Are you becoming more like Christ?
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  Is someone learning now and then?
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  Is it enhancing your dignity? Yeah.
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  Sometimes you fall, sometimes you shout, sometimes you fly as
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  though you were short through a gun.
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  But all those activities, does it end up making you powerful?
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  There are many, many people, with all due respect, who sit
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  under supposed graces, and the longer they stay, the more they
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  become something else. They are not like Christ.
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  The fruit of the Spirit does not proceed from the sermons, does
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  not proceed from the principles and the practices.
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  I can tell you this by the authority of Scripture.
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  There is a right to question the Spirit that is influencing those
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  operations when it has to do with the ministry of error and
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  the ministry of deception and all of that.
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  There are two categories. There are people who are
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  willfully deceive us. They are not of God.
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  They are manipulators. They are merchants.
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  Unfortunately, again, we can only pray that God will bring
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  them to the saving knowledge of the truth.
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  But there are people who are sincere, but they themselves do
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  not know that they are being manipulated at different levels.
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  I'll give you an example. Selling an idea of hate does not
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  bring the glory of God. You never redeem a people
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  through hate. You can be sincere, you can be
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  anointed, and you can give yourself through your pain,
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  through your failures, through your biases and sentiments, you
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  can give a demonic spirit access to a portion of your
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  understanding. He will use scripture and
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  influence an operation through you that does not bed the glory
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  of God. So he looks at Peter and says,
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  Get thee behind me. You will be changed, His glory
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  will be revealed when the Spirit.
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  I'll sing you one more time. You will be.
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  Changed his. Glory will be revealed.
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  When the Spirit takes over your soul, the Holy Spirit enhances
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  lives. There is no mystery you bring to
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  the body of Christ that destroys man, keeps them in fear, makes
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  them carnal, makes them slaves. That is of the Spirit.
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  It is not a genuine, sincere man can communicate the doctrine of
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  demons. And I say this loving the body
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  of Christ. Sometimes we need to take away
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  our pain and our anger, our prejudices.
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  How many of you know? Look at me, if I am somebody who
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  generally by my background, I embrace modesty, are we
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  together? Whether by upbringing or
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  whatever. The day I see someone looking a
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  bit flashy, my mindset can easily interpret the person as
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  being canal. And it may not be so.
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  It is just that we are a different person.
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  And sometimes we allow our sentiments, cultural sentiments,
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  philosophical sentiments to tamper with the integrity of
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  scripture. And we interpret men and systems
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  from the lens of our sentiments and we draw on healthy
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  conclusions. I can be a very modest person
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  and then I see someone driving a Jeep and I say most likely this
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  guy is a demon. It's not the spirit of God.
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  And I may be a very anointed man of God, but that statement does
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  not come from God. One thing people need to know is
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  that the spirit of man can accommodate the operation of
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  several spirits. You don't have to be possessed,
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  but Satan looks for an opportunity every time to slip
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  through your mind and tell you things and cause you to do
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  things. And if you do not understand the
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  word of God, I tell you sincerely, ladies and gentlemen,
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  you will fall victim of certain things.
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  You will call what God is doing demonic and sometimes you will
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  call what God is not doing of God simply because it appeals to
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  your pattern. Hallelujah.
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  I'll give you an example. If I call a gentleman right now
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  and I use prophecy and expose everything in his life and I
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  insult him and I say, you know what?
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  You are not a good person. Get away.
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  There are people within the body of Christ who will feel very
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  bad. Why did you have to embarrass
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  this guy? You would have been able to talk
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  to him in a way that communicates love.
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  But there are people who will be happy and say that's right.
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  That's how it should be done. I can tell you this, you have to
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  keep away sentiments and take the Bible.
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  The way Jesus corrected men in the Book of Revelation was that
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  He first commended them for what they did, and then he lovingly
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  pointed out what was wrong and told them the consequences that
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  will follow should they not listen to him.
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  That is the character of the Spirit of the Christ.
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  Any operation that demands that you give up the law of love,
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  remember my discipleship teaching.
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  There are certain fundamental things all believers must have.
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  One. Walking in love 2.
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  Living by faith 3. Exalting the Word of God above
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  every other thing. Four, Death to self.
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  You see. Remember they are pillars.
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  His desire is for all men to be saved.
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  No matter the spirit that moves upon me to tell somebody it is
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  over with your life, you are forsaken, is over.
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  I will never prophecy that. I would rather check myself and
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  rebuke that spirit because I can judge spirit within me.
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  I will know that it's the devil who wants to take advantage of
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  my faculties and I will not give it expression who is learning
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  now. I used to watch Kenneth Higgin
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  and Kenneth Higgin will be prophesying.
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  And there are some of the videos like that.
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  Once he's prophesying, you hear him say, no, no, no, no, no.
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  I wouldn't say that. This is not the word of God.
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  He's not consistent with the word of God.
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  He's prophesying, but as he's prophesying, he's judging
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  spirits himself. He uses the lens of the word of
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  God. And when he's about to say
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  something, he's not ashamed to say it.
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  He said no, no, no, I can't say this.
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  This is not the Spirit of God. There's no love here.
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  There's no this year and you see him, that's how he prophesied.
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  No wonder he lasted and outlasted many people.
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  I will never listen. I will rebuke, I will correct in
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  love, but I will never sell fear.
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  I will never sell hate. I will never sell hopelessness.
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  These are anti systems of the Kingdom.
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  For him that is joined to the living, there is always hope.
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  The message of Christ will rebuke, will correct, but will
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  leave you with hope, and all of that will be garnished with the
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  law of love. Who understands me?
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  So far it's true. So you see, when we are helping
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  the body of Christ to mature, there are three groups we are
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  dealing with #1 there are those who sadly have compromised on
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  their faith. They are not even of Christ in
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  the 1st place, or #2 they have not truly submitted to the
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  governing influence of the Spirit.
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  Category number one. That's the one most attention
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  goes to. But #2 there are those of us who
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  are genuinely saved, righteous, holy, we love God sincerely, but
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  we have allowed a lot of Antichrist sentiments to tamper
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  with our interpretation of things.
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  And simply because on one hand we can see the glory of God
• 2:06:53
  manifest, we can confuse that to mean everything we hear,
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  everything we see, and everything that comes out of us
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  is automatically of God is a lie.
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  The Bible says let a man examine himself.
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  He was talking to believers. It is possible for the devil to
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  suggest something to me to say or to behave in a certain way
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  that is inconsistent with Christ.
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  That's how you stand by the word of God.
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  Who is learning Now? This is very important, very
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  important, very important. If you don't understand this,
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  you would destroy many lives innocently, not by doing evil
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  things, but by not properly aligning to how the Holy Spirit
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  ministers. The Spirit of God is called the
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  Spirit of life. Everybody say that after me, Say
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  the spirit of life, Say it again, say the spirit of life.
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  The Bible says the love of God was shared abroad by the Holy
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  Ghost. The Holy Spirit does not endorse
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  people and leaves them in the state of sin or licentiousness
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  or carnality or carelessness. But his approach is not out of
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  hate. His approach is not out of, you
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  know, whatever it is, that's not what he does.
• 2:08:08
  He reveals Jesus. He upholds human dignity as a
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  man of God. With all due respect, if I call
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  someone and insult the person and try to dehumanize the
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  person, I may be a sincere man of God, but that operation is
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  not of the Spirit of God. Colonia, are we learning the
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  discerning of spirits? You can judge spirits through
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  the lens of the Word of God. You can judge spirits.
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  You can judge what the Holy Spirit is behind because I will
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  repeat it again. You are going to see the
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  confirmation of the world. You will see the revelation of
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  Jesus through that activity. You will see the fruit of the
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  Spirit from the vessel and eventually birthed in the lives
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  of the recipients, and you will see that it upholds human
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  dignity and bets the glory of God.
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  The process may be somewhat controversial sometimes in all
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  honesty, but at the end of it, that revelation of the glory of
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  God and the enhancement of human dignity, it brings you to the
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  point where you know, even from a political standpoint, any
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  government that abuses the dignity of people is frowned at.
• 2:09:25
  Talk less the government of heaven, Hallelujah.
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  So you can have the confidence to judge everything I'm
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  teaching. You can have the confidence to
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  judge everything I'm saying using this indices.
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  I should not be ashamed of allowing you to judge it.
• 2:09:43
  Everything you can bring it there.
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  That means you can literally look at my teaching and say wow,
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  this one was just your. It was just sentiments.
• 2:09:52
  And sometimes sincerely as men you can just say something.
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  Even Paul will speak and say speak as a man.
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  This one is not the Holy Ghost. It was just my learned opinion
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  over certain things. Sometimes it's pride that makes
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  us want to put ourselves in God like positions and make
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  ourselves look so invincible as though everything I'm saying
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  becomes law is not true. It's not true.
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  You know, I said it one day. I'm not sure beginning for
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  myself. I'm not sure there is any man of
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  God in this nation and around the world.
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  Let me use ministry, for instance, Who?
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  When you vet your one year's message, you will not find what
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  needs correction, adjustment, or improvement.
• 2:10:37
  I listened to some of my messages of yesteryears and
• 2:10:39
  sometimes I'm laughing. I said, you mean I said this?
• 2:10:42
  Can you imagine that? But that's the value of growth,
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  and it's the reason why we must humble ourselves and be sincere
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  enough to know what really came by the Spirit from the Spirit,
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  and what came through sentiments.
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  Hallelujah. It is my assignment as a man of
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  God to be as sincere as I can be with you while ministering, to
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  align with the Holy Spirit and only align with activities that
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  are by the Spirit. And I pray for you, whether
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  you're a pastor, whether you're a business person, whether you
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  are a politician or a leader, the grace to know when God is
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  moving. The grace to be able to judge
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  that it is God that is moving without confusion.
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  I pray for you in the name of Jesus, let that grace be
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  revealed. Let it rest upon your life now.
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  Let it rest on your life now. Hallelujah.
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  Praise the name of the Lord. In ministry.
• 2:11:45
  I've had my share of being in places and I've met people in
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  this life whose operations were very questionable.
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  And it's not from a biased and sentimental standpoint after
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  judging those operations. And I hope you know it's not
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  only ministry operations that are worth being judged
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  everywhere. The way you treat your staff can
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  show whether the Holy Spirit is the one engineering your
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  strategy. If you manipulate your staff,
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  you take advantage of them at work.
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  You may be a sincere man, but that strategy is certainly not
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  from God. Are you seeing the reason why
• 2:12:20
  the world economy is different from the economy of the Kingdom?
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  Because largely the economy of the world dwells on self, dwells
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  on manipulation, on fear, on sentiments that cannot be by the
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  Spirit of God. Let me go to the next one very
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  quickly because I want us to pray.
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  My goodness, so discerning what the Holy Spirit is doing is
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  number. Two, can we go to #3 discerning
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  of evil spirits. The third level of discernment
• 2:12:55
  is the ability to discern evil spirits so that you do not fall
• 2:12:59
  into deception. Acts chapter 16 please, from
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  verse 16. Acts chapter 16 from verse 16
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  Let's hurry up media. And it came to pass.
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  As we went to prayer, a certain damsel possessed with the spirit
• 2:13:15
  of divination, met us, which brought her masters much gained
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  by soothsaying. 17 The same followed Paul and us and cried,
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  saying, Now watch this, these men are servants of the Most
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  high God who is speaking a lady under the spirit of divination.
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  What she was saying was it accurate?
• 2:13:38
  Talk to me, absolutely accurate. They said, which came to show us
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  salvation. Is that correct?
• 2:13:45
  100% accurate prophecy, but it was not by the Spirit of God.
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  Verse 18 And this she did many days, but the Bible says Paul
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  being grieved. Are you seeing discernment
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  there? He turned and said to the
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  Spirit, I like this. Who did Paul speak to?
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  He did not destroy the girl. He knew that the girl was
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  sincere, but what would have done is to carry both the Spirit
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  and the girl and destroy them. Paul turned to the spirit and
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  commanded the spirit in the name of Jesus to come out of her, and
• 2:14:24
  he came out at the same time. Verse 19 when the master saw
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  that the hope of their game. Can you test spirits right now?
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  Do you see the fruit of the spirit here?
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  You see manipulation. They were making money out of
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  the girl. Does that look like stealing,
• 2:14:41
  killing, destruction? Who does that?
• 2:14:44
  Satan, Satan, when you understand the systems of the
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  Kingdom, it will be easy to discern.
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  Let me tell you this every time you use, even if it is the
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  genuine gift of God, the moment it becomes an instrument for
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  manipulation to gratify self, something is already wrong with
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  it. Everything God gives you, it
• 2:15:09
  profits you, but it is ultimately to better the life of
• 2:15:13
  men and to reveal Jesus is someone learning.
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  Now praise the name of the Lord, please give it to us.
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  Let's finish it quickly. The Bible says when the master
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  saw that the hope of their gains were gone, they caught Paul and
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  Silas drew them into the marketplace unto the rulers.
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  Verse 20 the Bible says they brought them to the magistrates.
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  Now watch what they said. Did they say this man stopped us
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  from getting money? Are you seeing lies there?
• 2:15:40
  Who is the father of lies? So what spirit was at work in
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  those people immediately? You don't have to think twice.
• 2:15:48
  They now manipulated a statement.
• 2:15:50
  They said this man give us 20, please give us 20.
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  This man being Jews do exceedingly trouble our city.
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  That was their basis for as long as they did not disturb the
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  girl, they were not troubling the city.
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  The lady was prophesying that they are men of God.
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  They didn't report the girl, but the moment their gain, their
• 2:16:14
  source of gain went away, they twisted the statement and said
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  they came to trouble our city. Verse 21 and to teach customs
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  which are not lawful for us to receive, neither to observe
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  being romance. Look at how they came in verse
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  22 and the multitude rose up together against them.
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  Sometimes the crowd can be wrong.
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  Did you hear what I said? Sometimes popular opinion can be
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  wrong. Just because everybody saying it
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  does not make it right, everybody's doing it does not
• 2:16:54
  make it right. Everybody's seeing it that way
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  does not make it right. The Bible says the multitudes
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  arose the same people They came to save the magistrate, rent off
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  their clothes and commanded to beat them.
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  Verse 23, the Bible says. And when they had laid many
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  stripes on them, they cast them into the prison, charging the
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  jail law to keep them safely. I'm sure the man who did this
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  went back home and gave themselves a high 5.
• 2:17:24
  Crazy people. Can you imagine?
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  These guys stopped us. What would have gotten today?
• 2:17:32
  May you be separated from wicked and unreasonable people.
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  Now let me tell you an uncomfortable truth, ladies and
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  gentlemen. Our society, governments,
• 2:17:42
  politicians, sometimes pastors, most people do not know to what
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  degree Satan is influencing the minds of men.
• 2:17:52
  There are policies that come, you know, this is of the devil.
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  There are behavioral patterns. There are ways parents behave.
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  There are ways children behave. Are we together?
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  There are ways intelligent people behave.
• 2:18:05
  Now the narrative most times is if someone is not learned and
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  not intelligent, if he's behaving some way, it's easy to
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  say this guy is behaving like a devil.
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  But when a learned person is intelligent, Satan packages
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  error in his suit. He packages deception in his
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  suit, a nicely organized, intelligently articulated policy
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  that destroys men. The moment you see stealing, the
• 2:18:31
  moment you see killing, the moment you see destruction
• 2:18:35
  behind any process. Ladies and gentlemen, hear it
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  from me. It is a signature sign that this
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  is by the spirit of the devil. Everything that produces
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  stealing, killing, destruction, fear, bondage, the moment you
• 2:18:53
  see those elements of the flesh and elements of attack, the
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  things that Jesus came to free us from, it cannot be of God.
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  Now, sometimes it is not visible.
• 2:19:03
  It can be subtle. For instance, again, with all
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  due respect to my wonderful body of Christ, if as a man of God I
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  call this man and I tell him, give me one million naira
• 2:19:16
  quickly. I'm your man of God.
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  Whether God told you or not, He brings it.
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  You see, I'm benefiting from it. But that man's finances is
• 2:19:24
  depleting. He's not doing it by by an
• 2:19:28
  instruction and by revelation. I am manipulating him.
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  Then next week I collect his car because of greed even though I
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  have my own. Another week I'm manipulating
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  his family is getting impoverished at my expense.
• 2:19:43
  You see, immediately it calls for concern.
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  Are we together? It truly does.
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  It calls for concern. Satan is manipulating
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  governments, manipulating individuals.
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  Look at me. Who do you think is behind the
• 2:19:58
  widespread hatred that is in the body of Christ?
• 2:20:02
  You think it's the Holy Spirit that makes men of God hate
• 2:20:05
  themselves? They cannot see eyeball to
• 2:20:07
  eyeball. Denominations hate themselves.
• 2:20:10
  Churches hate themselves. How?
• 2:20:12
  It cannot be God. Ladies and gentlemen, the Spirit
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  of the Christ is the Spirit of love.
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  Remember I preached it in Glasgow, Scotland during Sound
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  of Revival that the church is having a medical condition.
• 2:20:23
  The the the medical parallel or the spiritual parallel of
• 2:20:27
  autoimmune disease. You know what autoimmune disease
• 2:20:31
  is? When the body fights itself,
• 2:20:33
  that's what is happening spiritually, until we look
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  beyond ourselves and stop pointing fingers and turn and
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  say there is a devil here trying to join the heads of people, and
• 2:20:44
  we turn our attention to the right person and fight the
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  devil. Else you will abort God's
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  program on the wings of hatred, on the wings of sentiments.
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  And the key is forgiveness, love, tolerance.
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  We will never be the same, but we can be united.
• 2:21:05
  Are we together? Waiting for a Church XYZ to be
• 2:21:08
  equal to a Church ABC? For unity to happen is a waste
• 2:21:12
  of time. Unity demands mutual respect.
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  Unity demands focusing on the things that are the pillars of
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  the Church. Principles and practices may
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  differ, our emphasis may differ. Are we together now?
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  Our levels of spiritual alignment, consecrations may
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  differ. We are there to help one
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  another, not to point wrongs and bring down one another.
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  Once we don't sustain that orientation, the body will
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  continue to look weak and beggarly.
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  Unfortunately, it's the same spirit that is among
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  politicians. When I watch politicians fight
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  themselves because they want to help Nigeria, I don't trust
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  them. If you have to fight one, are
• 2:21:54
  you that desperate about helping us?
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  A man who fights his neighbor because he wants to help us?
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  I must help you by force. Something is wrong.
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  I'm not a politician. I'm not.
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  I don't. I don't speak all of these words
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  once in a while. I just come in this way and go
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  out. Hallelujah, praise the name of
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  the Lord Africa, we must love ourselves and I'm praying.
• 2:22:29
  I'm not a politician, but let me pass a statement quick.
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  I'm praying in the name of Jesus that the government of Africa
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  will begin to grow and embrace love and make it easy.
• 2:22:38
  Did you know, in many regards, and with all due respect not to
• 2:22:41
  sound sentimental, it is easier to fly from here to Heathrow in
• 2:22:46
  London than it is to get to certain African states just
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  nearby? I mean, you are going like you
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  are travelling forever. There are certain African
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  nations that don't need that. Africans should not need visas
• 2:22:58
  to get there. Nobody will build our continent
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  if we don't build it ourselves. There's need to be a review.
• 2:23:07
  Hallelujah. There's corruption.
• 2:23:11
  There's a lot of things I know, but it starts with a change in
• 2:23:14
  philosophy and everybody is helping men of God who are
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  bringing our own contribution. Governments are bringing their
• 2:23:20
  own, different people are bringing their own.
• 2:23:22
  Eventually it will work. I tell you, it will work.
• 2:23:25
  It will work because of the church.
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  If you believe that, say Amen. Now hear me, look at me.
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  Anything that manipulates your will is of the devil.
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  Anything that has to force you against your will, I don't care
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  whether it's by Joshua, Salman, or any man of God or any
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  business. The business of manipulating the
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  will is an operation of Satan. I cannot force you to be saved.
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  I cannot force you to do anything outside of your will.
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  I can propose to you God's way, and sometimes pending on my
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  level of influence over your life, insist upon you in
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  righteousness, but that's how far I can go.
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  Is someone learning now? Parents must also learn this in
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  how they train their children. As far as raising children are
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  concerned, Praise the name of the Lord.
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  Anything that has to force the wheel sometimes.
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  With all due respect, and I'm saying this politely, there are
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  parents who look at their children.
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  You, you'll be a doctor. You must be a doctor.
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  I'm not asking you. You, you'll be an engineer.
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  You, you'll be an architect like me.
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  And they may be well-intentioned.
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  They mean a good life for the children.
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  But that's not the kingdom's way.
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  I set before you life and death. I set before you blessing and
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  cursing. Choose life.
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  I can guide you. If you're making a foolish
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  decision, I will call you by rebuke with revelation, garnish
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  with love. I will show you the right way.
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  Someone asked me a question many years ago is that apostle?
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  What if you raise a child and the child becomes an adult and
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  then becomes wayward and haywire?
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  I said I will cry and keep interceding for the child, but I
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  will stand boldly before the world and say even though this
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  child is where what? He's still my child.
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  But that's not a reflection of the way I trained him.
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  I gave my best in training him as a father and he chose his
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  way. The best I can do is to
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  intercede for him, but I will not go to the great feeling
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  guilty that I Jesus did not go to heaven feeling guilty for
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  Judas. He accounted for him and said
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  Judas shows his way. The son of perdition he was
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  called. Are we together?
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  But my point in this discussion is to help you learn how to
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  discern the Spirit. Don't.
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  You cannot discern spiritual things just by the physical
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  frame of the activities alone. Now there are activities that
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  are both spiritually and physically foolish.
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  Are we together? Yes, like some of these, these
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  dehumanizing things that happen with all due respect in churches
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  across Africa. I'm hoping and praying that the
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  people have changed because that alarm have been sounded for a
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  long time. I'm sure that somebody must have
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  heard enough to change it, some of these dehumanizing activities
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  that happen to people. But then I can tell you this for
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  sure. Everything that sells bondage,
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  everything that sells fear, everything that sells
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  hopelessness. Listen, everything that seeks to
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  usurp on people's will is an operation of darkness.
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  Even if the vessel that was used is of God, the operation is of
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  darkness. Hallelujah, praise the name of
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  the Lord. And This is why we as men of God
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  must consistently pray and align and realign our wheels.
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  I will never with all due respect, threaten you and say if
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  you don't come to church you will die.
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  You will not die, you will just not grow methodically,
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  especially if you believe you have been planted here.
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  But the truth is you may die because there are certain things
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  you do not understand and the devil will attack you.
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  So that is the basis. But not that my anger will kill
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  you. My anger will not kill you.
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  I did not die for your sins. It's just insecurity.
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  That is that that theology around insecurity.
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  The mystery is that when you are willing to let go, then you will
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  have. When you are obsessed about
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  keeping, you will lose on all grounds.
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  Is someone learning now? This is very important, ladies
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  and gentlemen, there are many things that are happening in
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  your life. Now, from the lens of what I've
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  said, look at your life and you can know that certain things are
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  not of God. Look at me.
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  How many of you believe that husband quarreling with wife and
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  fighting over finances or fighting over bills?
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  Can that be the glory of God? Talk to me with what you've
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  learned now. Can that be the glory of God?
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  Is it birthing the glory of God? No, A home that is filled with
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  fear, bondage, tension, whether is the wife being in bondage by
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  the husband or husband by the wife or children by their
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  parents. Immediately you see that that's
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  not the operation of the Spirit of the Christ.
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  Is someone learning discernment now?
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  So you don't just say this is bad because I don't like it.
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  That's not how believers operate.
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  What you like or what you don't like is not the basis of right
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  and wrong. Are we together?
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  It is what is engineered by the Spirit of God birthing and
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  producing the glory of God or otherwise.
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  If a terrorist is taking care of your daughter, does it make him
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  not a terrorist? He's a terrorist.
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  Even though he's catering for your daughter.
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  You see her well taken care of. But the man is a terrorist.
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  Is she still safe? Talk to me.
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  She's still safe. Why?
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  The operation is correct. But the heart of the man doing
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  it, he will kill her. A terrorist kills.
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  It's only a matter of time. The day he needs her as a
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  sacrifice, she will go. So just because he's taking good
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  care of her, if the devil is taking care of a man by making
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  that man rich, does it mean that the devil is good?
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  Talk to me. But he's giving him money, he's
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  buying houses, he's bowing to bail, he's getting financial
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  benefits, he's bribing, and he's growing until the day Satan
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  comes for his receipts. So it is not just because it is
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  good or bad that you like it or hate it.
• 2:29:44
  Is it consistent with the character of the Christ?
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  If it sells, fear, if it sells hopelessness, If it sells,
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  bondage, if it sells, doubt. If it gratifies the flesh, if
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  you are writing that, write this down.
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  If it gratifies the flesh, I can tell you it is of the devil.
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  I can organize a convention. I can organize a conference as a
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  man of God, a genuine man of God, But the operation of that
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  conference is to gratify the flesh.
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  The Spirit of God will never bring glory to the flesh.
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  No, he will not. The flesh dies in His presence.
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  Are we together? So when you hear or say a lot of
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  things like Jesus revealed, Jesus glorified, it's a cliche
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  that should become a stronghold in your life that you judge
• 2:30:42
  every operation and your heart remains ever aligned to bringing
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  glory to Jesus. If someone stands up from the
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  wheelchair now, it can be by the Spirit of God.
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  But I can cash in on that moment.
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  Are you seeing it now? Do you know that the Holy Spirit
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  can start a process and then flesh can finish it?
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  Now you see a chance to gratify the flesh.
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  The miracle came by the Holy Ghost, truly.
• 2:31:08
  But then Satan steals into that moment and you can turn it as a
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  moment to manipulate people or glorify yourself.
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  It is still demonic. Kaunani, I'm praying for you in
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  the name of Jesus from the depth of my heart, that by tonight and
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  after tonight, you will know what kind of association to be
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  part of. After tonight you will know what
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  kind of operation to allow in your life.
• 2:31:35
  You don't go around judging and condemning people, but I can
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  tell you, ladies and gentlemen, the moment you see fear, the
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  moment you see hopelessness, the moment you see doubt, the moment
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  you see that the fate of people is dampened, the moment you see
• 2:31:50
  human dignity being reduced, and the moment you see the flesh,
• 2:31:55
  that's the ultimate test. The ultimate test that it is the
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  spirit of the devil. A demonic spirit is that flesh
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  because that's the opposite of the spirit life.
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  The flesh is edified, the flesh is glorified.
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  It doesn't matter if the salmon is powerful.
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  It doesn't matter if the IT doesn't have to be a herbalist
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  Jesus. You believed it higher.
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  What if you wake up having a dream and the dream suggests
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  anything? Don't rejoice simply because
• 2:33:32
  what you saw was good. Judge it by the spirits that
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  follow. Are we together now?
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  If you wake up from a dream and in that dream you see everybody
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  crying and it's only you that is laughing, that is wonderful.
• 2:33:49
  But that's not all there is to the dream.
• 2:33:51
  It may be speaking exemption, but a believer who knows the
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  character of Christ knows that God deserves the salvation of
• 2:33:58
  all. Are we together if a car has an
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  accident and 20 people die, but only you survive, You rejoice
• 2:34:08
  for surviving, but something in your heart will cry for the body
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  of Christ, because although you survive, someone died who Jesus
• 2:34:17
  died for. Are you seeing the Spirit of
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  Christ now? If Koinonia increases as a
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  ministry and every other ministry goes down, it is not
• 2:34:26
  dominion. No, it's the gratifying of
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  flesh. The proof that is the Spirit of
• 2:34:32
  God is that we don't rise alone through our rising orders also
• 2:34:37
  rise. That's the Spirit of Christ.
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  Are you getting that now? You will never hear me sell you
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  a narrative. Or we are the greatest.
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  Other people are down except us. It's foolishness, it's
• 2:34:48
  insecurity. When you understand the spirit
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  of the Christ. Love seeks the good of everyone.
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  Is it not in your Bible that love is patient, love is kind?
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  Are you seeing how the devil slips through our minds and
• 2:35:04
  takes advantage of us? You may not be possessed, but
• 2:35:07
  many operations with credit to the Holy Spirit.
• 2:35:10
  I'm telling you they are not of the Holy Spirit.
• 2:35:13
  Just because we like the vessels does not mean it is of God.
• 2:35:18
  A sincere good person can be used by the devil to bet
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  something that he or she may not even be aware.
• 2:35:26
  Peter was not aware that Satan was taking advantage of his
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  faculties, so Jesus rebuked him. But he did not stop there.
• 2:35:34
  I like Jesus, he said. Peter, Satan has desire to sift
• 2:35:38
  you like wheat, But what's the character of Christ?
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  I have prayed for you. Half of the people we criticize,
• 2:35:45
  if we can only pray for them, there will be no basis for
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  criticism. Again, that's the response of
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  the believer. One of the things I'm praying
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  that would die in the body of Christ is the spirit of hate.
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  It is amazing how we leave the banner of hate so high and we
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  credited to the Holy Spirit. We leave the banner of envy so
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  high and we credited to the Holy Spirit.
• 2:36:12
  We leave the banner of manipulation so high and we
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  credited to the Holy Spirit. We leave the banner of carnality
• 2:36:19
  so high and we credited to the Holy Spirit.
• 2:36:22
  We leave the banner of self so high and we credited to the Holy
• 2:36:27
  Spirit. To hell with what happens to
• 2:36:29
  anybody. Once I am doing well and my
• 2:36:32
  member is doing well, I am fine. It's not a body mentality.
• 2:36:38
  There are people who die today simply because their heart
• 2:36:41
  failed. It's not their leg that failed.
• 2:36:44
  The heart. One organ of the body failed and
• 2:36:47
  the whole Organism dies. Is someone learning?
• 2:36:53
  Say I love Jesus, Say I love my neighbor, Say I love the body of
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  Christ, Say I love my nation. Say it again, Say I love Jesus,
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  Say I love my neighbor, I love the body of Christ, I love my
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  nation. Oh I forgot, say I love myself.
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  Because when you hate yourself you can turn the hatred you have
• 2:37:20
  for yourself and begin to hurt other people.
• 2:37:23
  Is someone learning now in the name of Jesus, you hear me?
• 2:37:28
  I'm going to make a bold statement and I pray that it
• 2:37:30
  will help you if there is anybody in your life
• 2:37:33
  manipulating you by prophecy, using prophecy to manipulate
• 2:37:39
  you, with all due respect, coming to your house to tell
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  you, you must give a car, a goat, a ram.
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  Listen to me, ladies and gentlemen.
• 2:37:48
  I don't condemn, but it is not the Spirit of Christ. 1st For
• 2:37:53
  those who are doing this, I love you.
• 2:37:55
  But there is a more excellent way that is certainly not the
• 2:37:58
  way of the cross. It is inconsistent with the
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  character of the Christ as revealed in the life of Jesus
• 2:38:05
  and as revealed in the life of the early apostles.
• 2:38:07
  We have not so learned Christ. It is not by rituals that have
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  been abolished. There is a new and living way.
• 2:38:13
  There is a greater 'cause sometimes we transfer Trudeau
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  African practices and when we get born again we ship them
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  together and then we credit everything to the Holy Ghost.
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  Is the reason why unbelievers seem to hate the church.
• 2:38:27
  You know why? Because we have sold a Jesus
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  that looks like he's a nuisance to civilization.
• 2:38:35
  The lens that we we we sell Jesus, the idea of Jesus we give
• 2:38:39
  the nations makes him worth being hated is the reason why
• 2:38:43
  the younger generations now Gen. after Gen.
• 2:38:46
  Z is what, what's the next one Gen.
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  Alpha and all of that is the reason why they are they are
• 2:38:51
  asking questions and they are insulting the Jesus.
• 2:38:54
  That was what we buy us, sentimental.
• 2:38:57
  Whatever it is we can present a wholesome Jesus, an epitome of
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  love, a medical epitome of transformation.
• 2:39:09
  Let me give you the last one. We have to end.
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  Is someone learning. Tonight I may not even have the
• 2:39:18
  time to give you the keys, but let me try the last one.
• 2:39:24
  Discernment of the human spirit. So there are 4 levels of
• 2:39:29
  discernment #1 discerning of times and seasons #2 discerning
• 2:39:36
  the works of the Holy Spirit. What the Holy Spirit is doing,
• 2:39:40
  that is the influence behind whatever it is #3 discerning of
• 2:39:44
  evil spirits #4 discerning or the discernment of the human
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  spirit. Jeremiah chapter 17 and verse 9.
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  Let's hurry up, thank you, Jesus.
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  The heart is deceitful above all things.
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  And beyond cure NIV who can understand it?
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  The heart is deceitful above all things.
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  And beyond cure who can understand it?
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  KJV The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately
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  wicked. Who can know it?
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  Do you know what this means? This right here, ladies and
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  gentlemen, is the most honest revelation of the human nature
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  outside of the work of the Spirit of God.
• 2:40:30
  That any human nature without the work of the cross, without
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  the work of the Spirit, no matter how well packaged that
• 2:40:39
  human spirit is. This is the verdict, God's
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  verdict, that the heart of man, even if that man is you, even if
• 2:40:47
  that man is called Joshua Selman.
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  Are we together now? It doesn't matter how nice that
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  man is without the help of the Holy Spirit, without the walk of
• 2:40:58
  the cross, the pruning, the walk of regeneration and
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  transformation and renewal. God's verdict about all men is
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  that the heart is deceitful beyond all things.
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  John chapter 12 popular story. Let's read it quickly and we'll
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  find somewhere to pray. Pay attention.
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  A revelation is about to come to you now that will bless your
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  life. Beginning from verse one media.
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  Let's hurry up then Jesus six days before the Passover he came
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  to Bethany where Lazarus was, which had been dead, whom he had
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  raised from the dead. Verse 2 he says and they made
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  him a supper and met Martha served.
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  But Lazarus was one of them that sat at the table with him.
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  Verse 3 Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very
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  costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with
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  her hair, the Bible says. And the house was filled with
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  the odor of the ointment. Verse 4 Then notice now sayeth
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  one of his disciples. Who is that disciple?
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  Judas Iscariot, our man again Simon's son, which should betray
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  him. Here's what he said.
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  Why was not the ointment sold? This guy already knew the amount
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  for 300 pence. Come on now.
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  And given to the Judas. I mean, you can imagine this
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  woman was pouring her heart in worship and everybody was
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  saying, my God, look how she's honoring the king.
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  But Judas was calculating this thing 300 pence.
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  And then he knew that if he said give me to sound bad, so he said
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  the poor. Why didn't don't we give the
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  poor? Now watch this the heart of man
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  verse 6. This he said not that he cared
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  for the poor, but because he was a thief and had the bag.
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  Meaning if the bag was not with him, he would say even point
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  because point at the feet of Jesus.
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  You see that now he had the bag and he wanted everything sold
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  and given so he would collect it.
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  Did you know that he had been stealing from Jesus and Jesus
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  was aware the Bible called him a thief.
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  You don't call someone who he has the hat and he's had the
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  track record. He was a thief.
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  He had the bag and he bare that which was put on it.
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  Let's finish to verse 8. Verse 7 then said Jesus let her
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  alone against the day of my burying.
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  She had kept had she kept this verse 8.
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  It says for the poor always you have with you, but me you do not
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  have always. I can imagine that the man was
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  offended. I don't believe Judas was a bad
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  man. He was just one who had the
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  flesh, so a life in him and he took advantage of the popularity
• 2:44:02
  of Jesus. I preached a message years ago,
• 2:44:05
  What do you do with Jesus? There are people who make money
• 2:44:08
  out of Jesus. They take advantage of their
• 2:44:12
  proximity and they transact for money.
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  There are those who manipulate Jesus because they are looking
• 2:44:18
  for positions. James and John, are we together
• 2:44:22
  now? Praise the name of the Lord, the
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  heart of man. There is a verdict that the
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  heart of man is desperately wicked.
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  How about Judas? We will not read it but write
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  this for reference. Luke 22 from verse 39 to 49.
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  Luke 2239 to 49. This was the betrayal of Jesus.
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  The Bible says Jesus went to pray and he was grieved in his
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  spirit. He prayed again until tears
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  became like drops of blood on him.
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  And when he was done, Judas came to him.
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  And then Judas kissed him, and he held Judas and said, You
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  betrayed the Son of Man with a kiss.
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  He's signified by that kiss. Men, for you, you've heard me
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  say countless times here are we together, that the kiss, a kiss
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  is supposed to be a sign of love, an expression of love and
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  intimacy. But in the world of men, a kiss
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  can be a signal to the enemy that you are the one they should
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  kill. The same way a handshake that
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  should be a sign of partnership and unity.
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  It can be assigned to someone. This is the one who is my
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  competitor and he should die. It is amazing the things that
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  happen in our world. I don't want to tell you sad
• 2:45:34
  stories to plant fear, but history, even our history has
• 2:45:38
  shown that wives connive with armed robbers to steal from
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  their husbands, husbands the same thing their parents that
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  kidnap their children by themselves so that society can
• 2:45:49
  give them money to pay bills. I mean the stories are endless.
• 2:45:54
  Hallelujah. I didn't used to believe parents
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  and gardens can operate as witches and Wizards till I
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  handle the cases myself against their own children.
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  I never would have believed that.
• 2:46:08
  I mean come on, how can a woman want to destroy her child?
• 2:46:11
  How can a woman want to stop the children from rising or a man
• 2:46:15
  from rising? Now it's been exaggerated in
• 2:46:17
  many circles, but I tell you it exists.
• 2:46:20
  I have handled many of them enough to tell you it is true.
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  The heart of man is desperately wicked.
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  Now that should not create fear. There are good people.
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  But it's important and it's consoling to know that any man
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  who has not had the work of the cross done within their heart,
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  the work of regeneration, the work of renewal, the work of
• 2:46:43
  transformation, it is a risk to carry your whole life and trust
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  it with that man. Man vacillate.
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  Even those who are in Christ have to obtain grace to stand.
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  Are we together in the presence of challenges?
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  Men would rather give up anybody than themselves.
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  Self is the God in the world of men.
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  Oh it is. Men will do anything for self.
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  They will hold you until there is a conflict of interest and
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  then they will push you. Do you know the meaning of that?
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  So that number one, when you know this, you will not be too
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  quick. Now I'm not saying to suspect
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  man, but always allow time to test the sincerity of the hearts
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  of men. Some of you meet people on day
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  one and from the one they've gone to your bedroom, you've
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  told them everything about your life, from your upbringing, what
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  happened between your father and your mother, what was necessary
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  or not necessary. You see everything.
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  Just because they carried an air, they carried a semblance of
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  compassion. And as soon as you are done
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  talking, you find out. You become a slave forever
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  because you've communicated information that has entered the
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  heart of man. Man who is frail, emotional,
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  Hallelujah, praise the name of the Lord.
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  When you understand the world of men, it will reduce your
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  propensity for disappointment because you already know that
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  there are tendencies that are in the hearts of men.
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  If someone shakes you right now and you hear later on that that
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  person hates you, there would be less of a heartbreak because
• 2:48:30
  there is a system of accommodation within you
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  already. You know that this vulnerability
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  exists within the world of men. Let me tell you what this also
• 2:48:38
  does to you. When you find men who have been
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  walked upon by God, when you find men who have been pruned,
• 2:48:44
  ordinary men with God like abilities, you will respect them
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  and you will appreciate them. This world is full of evil men.
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  When you find good people, keep them all.
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  When you find good people, man, I've met good people in this
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  life. I thank God I've not met too
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  many, but I've met good people in this life.
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  Men who can take a bullet for you.
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  You can turn your back and go to bed and guarantee we are all
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  human. But there are men who God has
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  walked on in such an exceptional way.
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  My prayer for you is may you be one of such men.
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  And then may you find such men in your life.
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  I pray it again one more time. May you be one of such men.
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  You not be the reason for the pain of others.
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  May you not go to bed knowing you cause pain for people in the
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  name of Jesus Christ. The world is in desperate need
• 2:49:40
  of good people, good preachers, good spouses, good parents.
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  The quality of goodness is one of the major expressions of
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  God's glory. Good Master, what must I do to
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  be saved? He said No man is good except
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  God. When you find men that are good,
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  it means God dwells in them. They will watch you cry and they
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  will come and clean you and say, why are you crying?
• 2:50:05
  Your tears are my tears. And you say, why are you doing
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  this? I'm suspecting your hands are
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  not clean. They will say no.
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  The overflow of the life of God is swallowed me up again.
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  May you find such men, some of you, as you are seated here
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  right now. Perhaps you don't even have too
• 2:50:23
  many friends and you think it's just because your values are
• 2:50:26
  very good. Is that your vulnerabilities and
• 2:50:29
  your tendencies? People have marked you to be an
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  instrument of mass destruction as a person, and they've avoided
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  you. It started from secondary
• 2:50:37
  school, went to college, and instead of you to walk on
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  yourself, you believe that it's a sign that you are strict.
• 2:50:43
  It's not It's not. You must look like Jesus.
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  You should be the closest expression of the invisible
• 2:50:51
  Jesus to your world. Is someone learning now?
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  Yes, the nature of men. I think some of the most wounded
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  people, when it has to do with some of these things, are
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  politicians. How they betray one another in a
• 2:51:11
  heartbeat. It is amazing.
• 2:51:13
  They sit on the same table, they eat and by the next moment you
• 2:51:16
  cannot tell who's true motif in the name of Jesus.
• 2:51:20
  May those kind of people be far from your life.
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  And it is my prayer for you, my prayer for you.
• 2:51:28
  May one of these good people I have described, may it be that
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  I'm describing your spouse. May it be that I'm describing
• 2:51:39
  your spouse. Maybe that I'm describing your
• 2:51:48
  spouse because you don't want to live in hell.
• 2:51:54
  Why you are you are an ex. There are selfish people,
• 2:51:59
  selfish people. They would give up their wives
• 2:52:02
  and their children for themselves.
• 2:52:05
  There are selfish children. They don't care what is
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  happening to their parents. Blessed and doing well.
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  But you see their parents living as as though they don't have
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  children. There are selfish parents.
• 2:52:16
  They will mortgage the destiny of their children for
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  themselves. There are selfish siblings.
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  They rise and never care if another sibling is rising.
• 2:52:28
  There are selfish church members.
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  There are selfish relatives. There are selfish people.
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  But there are good people. Oh, there are loving people.
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  There are kind people, there are compassionate people.
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  There are selfless people, There are sacrificial people.
• 2:52:47
  And as we prepare to pray, I'm bowing my knees to God again on
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  your behalf, That in the name of Jesus, some of you who have not
• 2:52:54
  had it good with men, you have trusted people wrongly.
• 2:52:58
  You trusted people to Ellie. They came like angels and
• 2:53:02
  shredded your heart into pieces. They came as though they will do
• 2:53:05
  business and never cheat you. But they left to Him.
• 2:53:08
  They came promising to hold your heart and to guard it well.
• 2:53:12
  They broke it into pieces. They came promising to take care
• 2:53:15
  of your children. And they rob is the life of your
• 2:53:18
  children while you are away. I pray for you in the name of
• 2:53:21
  Jesus. May God take evil men out of
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  your life. May God take destiny destroyers
• 2:53:27
  out of your life. No matter what form and fashion
• 2:53:31
  they come in. May God show you their true
• 2:53:33
  color. May you see men for who they
• 2:53:36
  truly are. Hold on, look at me.
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  There are times that you can see men who look like they're evil,
• 2:53:46
  but they're some of the greatest gifts in your life.
• 2:53:48
  This is the flip side to eat. You can see a man well dressed,
• 2:53:53
  but he's a wicked man. It doesn't show on the face, but
• 2:53:57
  you can see a young boy who looks like he's rebellious.
• 2:54:00
  He may have some tantrums, some stubbornness there, but that is
• 2:54:03
  the child that would die for you.
• 2:54:06
  You must have discernment. If not, you will call good evil
• 2:54:09
  and you will call evil good. It's one gift I thank God for
• 2:54:13
  giving me. I can look at someone and tell
• 2:54:16
  you, be careful, believe me, I'm a man, but be careful.
• 2:54:22
  I can look at someone being stubborn, maybe even a thief,
• 2:54:25
  maybe a foolish person, and I tell you this man will be an
• 2:54:28
  asset to you. But if you don't know this, as a
• 2:54:31
  leader you will gather sycophants and liars.
• 2:54:35
  They will dig your grave and bury you.
• 2:54:38
  There are times those who cost you the greatest pain are still
• 2:54:42
  the greatest gift in your life. Heal from the pain but preserve
• 2:54:46
  them because they are still an asset.
• 2:54:49
  Destroy it not for there is a blessing in it.
• 2:54:52
  There are those who may not have hurt you yet, but God will say
• 2:54:56
  go because there is trouble there.
• 2:54:59
  The discernment of the human nature is a gift and an asset.
• 2:55:03
  Some of you have opened up deep secrets about yourself, your
• 2:55:07
  spouses, your family to wrong ears, wrong ears, Hallelujah.
• 2:55:17
  You may see a young gentleman, he doesn't have money now, he
• 2:55:20
  doesn't have any kind of thing, but my God, he fears God and he
• 2:55:24
  loves you sincerely as a lady. You can take your eyes away from
• 2:55:27
  him and you're looking for the future now.
• 2:55:30
  And the devil will package wickedness in suit and bring it
• 2:55:34
  to you. And you jump at it because
• 2:55:36
  that's how the canal mine thinks.
• 2:55:38
  You embrace it and when you are done licking the sugar, you find
• 2:55:42
  out that it's not only poison, it's a bomb that you brought to
• 2:55:45
  your house. Say Amen.
• 2:55:55
  There are times you can see a godly lady, virtuous lady loves
• 2:55:59
  the Lord may not be so exposed, may not be around the world, but
• 2:56:04
  you know she will raise your children.
• 2:56:06
  You know no matter what happens if you are paralyzed and you are
• 2:56:10
  in a hospital bed, that Lady will stay with you there, not
• 2:56:13
  the one that while you are sick, she's already planning the next
• 2:56:15
  husband. And yet, because of the the
• 2:56:20
  deception that the age brings to us, I pray for you.
• 2:56:25
  May you not, may you not mortgage your tomorrow because
• 2:56:28
  of insensitivity. I'm only praying to a receiver.
• 2:56:32
  May you not mortgage your tomorrow because of
• 2:56:35
  insensitivity. I know families that the people
• 2:56:42
  feeding the parents now are those who wear house helps, not
• 2:56:46
  the children. The house help.
• 2:56:47
  That is the remains of the food. And while the children were
• 2:56:52
  jumping, they became adults. They became wayward.
• 2:56:55
  But that house help without frailty.
• 2:56:58
  The mothers become sick in the hospital and it's that same
• 2:57:02
  house help. Who is called stupid?
• 2:57:04
  Who is called useless. Be careful those you treat or
• 2:57:07
  they may not be so educated. Be careful.
• 2:57:10
  It is my considered opinion. Anybody who lives in your house
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  is your child. They must be treated with love,
• 2:57:18
  and if you are not prepared, send them away in peace.
• 2:57:20
  But don't humiliate the life of anybody because of a
• 2:57:24
  disadvantage. This world is a mystery.
• 2:57:27
  You can look down on someone today, and the person who is a
• 2:57:30
  rejected stone may be the only option you have left The human
• 2:57:36
  nature. Do you know the reason why we
• 2:57:39
  long to see people saved and to transform people?
• 2:57:43
  Because outside of salvation, regeneration, renewal,
• 2:57:48
  transformation, no man deserves being trusted.
• 2:57:51
  No man, including myself, no man.
• 2:57:55
  What makes us trusted, ladies and gentlemen?
• 2:57:58
  It is not our human nature. It's the supplanting of the
• 2:58:02
  nature of Christ in a man. Are we together?
• 2:58:06
  The same people that run away from Jesus were the ones who now
• 2:58:09
  died for him. You know I taught you yesterday
• 2:58:12
  when we discussed discipleship. You are not a true Christian
• 2:58:16
  until you can die for Jesus. If you can only live for Him,
• 2:58:20
  then there is still a question mark.
• 2:58:22
  It is not to live alone, that if the need arises, you can die for
• 2:58:27
  him with joy. That's a true Christian.
• 2:58:35
  When you find people. I'm saying this to you when you
• 2:58:39
  find people with a rich capture of the fruit of the Spirit.
• 2:58:44
  Look beyond gifts. Please look at me in respecting
• 2:58:48
  people. Focus on Christ like character
• 2:58:52
  more than anointing. Did you hear what I'm teaching
• 2:58:55
  you now in in grading people to accord them honor or to to bring
• 2:59:01
  them close to your life. I know the anointing is very
• 2:59:05
  charismatic, but the anointing can come even on a bottle.
• 2:59:10
  A donkey, watch this. A donkey can manifest power, but
• 2:59:15
  it cannot manifest the character of Christ.
• 2:59:18
  Fruit is a sign that a tree is grown.
• 2:59:23
  Are we together? No tree in its infancy bears
• 2:59:26
  fruit. When you see the fruit of the
• 2:59:28
  Spirit in a man consistent, it is a sign they have met Christ.
• 2:59:32
  Unfortunately we live in a world where if one man is standing
• 2:59:36
  here having God like character and Joshua Salman is standing
• 2:59:40
  here having anointing because of the reality of our world, Joshua
• 2:59:44
  Salman will be projected forward and then that person who has
• 2:59:47
  character looks like a secondary person.
• 2:59:50
  But I'm telling you in the economy of the Kingdom and by
• 2:59:53
  wisdom you must learn to value Christ like character even above
• 2:59:58
  anointing. Anointing is wonderful, but the
• 3:00:00
  real proof you are a Christian is not.
• 3:00:02
  Just anointing is the character of the Christ In looking for
• 3:00:06
  friends, don't just look for power.
• 3:00:09
  I'm not saying power is useless, but many powerful people are the
• 3:00:12
  reason for the troubles of many Character character, character
• 3:00:19
  Christ like character, Christ like character.
• 3:00:22
  Not not assumed character. Because you want favor.
• 3:00:26
  You know there are people who can be nice because they are
• 3:00:28
  looking for something. They can be nice for two years
• 3:00:32
  provided they've not gotten it. Can I tell you the one who
• 3:00:36
  steals from you and comes to say I'm sorry I stole from you, I'm
• 3:00:39
  sorry is more Christ like than the one who did not steal but
• 3:00:44
  wants to steal and will steal. Did you hear what I said when I
• 3:00:51
  talk about looking for character?
• 3:00:53
  We're not looking for God like perfection, but we are looking
• 3:00:57
  for elements of repentance, elements of brokenness.
• 3:01:00
  These are the things you look at now.
• 3:01:02
  You know a Christian not just by God like perfection.
• 3:01:06
  Sometimes you can be angry. Are we together now?
• 3:01:09
  Sometimes you know, you can just allow the flesh manifest through
• 3:01:12
  you, but what happens afterwards is proof that you are a
• 3:01:16
  Christian. Or you were under pressure and
• 3:01:19
  you took some money from that office and one day you go before
• 3:01:22
  the Lord broken and say, Father, I ask you for mercy.
• 3:01:25
  I know I'm not supposed to take this.
• 3:01:27
  This is public funds, pressure or competition.
• 3:01:31
  That person right there, I don't care if the whole world the
• 3:01:34
  same, crucify him. That's a real Christian right
• 3:01:36
  there than the one who has not stolen yet but is still eyeing
• 3:01:42
  the money. In my opinion, the prodigal son
• 3:01:46
  was nobler than his brother because the brother was eyeing
• 3:01:51
  the opportunity. He just did not have the courage
• 3:01:54
  to go yet because of fear. As soon as the brother returned
• 3:01:58
  back, he said, Father, I've served you.
• 3:02:00
  You didn't kill even one goat for me.
• 3:02:02
  The father said, All I have is yours.
• 3:02:05
  The prodigal son arose and he came.
• 3:02:07
  The fact that he was willing to be a servant, knowing that he
• 3:02:11
  had a brother, he was still willing to be a servant.
• 3:02:14
  He didn't say I will come and say I'm a son.
• 3:02:16
  Sorry, he said. I am not worthy.
• 3:02:19
  Whenever you see brokenness is a man that is an asset.
• 3:02:22
  I'm giving you a secret. No, don't look for perfection.
• 3:02:26
  Look for brokenness, look for sincerity.
• 3:02:29
  The one who can go down on his knees, her knees to say truly,
• 3:02:34
  I'm wrong. That is a friend indeed.
• 3:02:36
  That is a spouse indeed. That is a child, indeed.
• 3:02:40
  That is a parent indeed. That is a business partner
• 3:02:43
  indeed. But because sometimes we are
• 3:02:45
  short of judgment, we make mistakes, and we draw to our
• 3:02:51
  space people who are holding knives that we're not seeing,
• 3:02:54
  and we throw away some of the greatest assets in our lives, we
• 3:02:58
  have to pray. But I'm praying for you,
• 3:03:00
  Koinonia, in the name of Jesus, the spirit of pride, the
• 3:03:05
  elements of the flesh, the things that manifest the human
• 3:03:09
  nature that is not regenerate may be far from your life.
• 3:03:14
  Let the cleansing walk of the cross walk in you.
• 3:03:18
  Let the walk of regeneration walk in you.
• 3:03:21
  Let the work of purification work in you in the name of Jesus
• 3:03:25
  Christ. It is my prayer for you that
• 3:03:29
  anybody God connects you with they will beat their chest and
• 3:03:32
  say God brought a gift to my life.
• 3:03:35
  I'm not just talking in terms of marriage.
• 3:03:37
  I'm not just talking in terms of relationship, marital
• 3:03:39
  relationships, even though it applies there, but that if
• 3:03:43
  whether I say businessman. I wanted to make a commitment
• 3:03:46
  from this teaching that anyone who comes into your life, they
• 3:03:50
  will not say was the first decision I made, but that they
• 3:03:53
  will say I truly found it confident.
• 3:03:55
  I found help, I found strength, I found one who pushes me to
• 3:04:00
  love the Lord. Young people, that your parents
• 3:04:03
  can beat their chest and say finally before getting to my
• 3:04:06
  grave, I can see a child that has brought me peace and brought
• 3:04:10
  me joy. Not that your behavior is the
• 3:04:12
  reason why they go to their grave.
• 3:04:17
  Parents, let your children not look at you and cause you in
• 3:04:21
  your heart even before you die because of self.
• 3:04:26
  Are we together now? Yes, believe us.
• 3:04:30
  Do not be the reason why someone will bow his knees to God in
• 3:04:33
  prayer and say, Lord, help me punish this believer.
• 3:04:36
  No. The signing of spirits.
• 3:04:42
  All men without the help of Christ are vulnerable and a
• 3:04:47
  disaster by design. What distinguishes men?
• 3:04:51
  No human being unassisted by God has the power to be an asset and
• 3:04:58
  a blessing indefinitely by default.
• 3:05:01
  No Sir, It is a Holy Spirit who helps man.
• 3:05:06
  Oh, that's why you see us lean to Him.
• 3:05:08
  Without the Holy Spirit, our our vulnerabilities are indefinite.
• 3:05:12
  You don't know what it feels like to have an opportunity to
• 3:05:16
  steal and then to to refuse to have an opportunity to bow to
• 3:05:20
  bail so that you can get some benefits.
• 3:05:23
  And before you trust in your strength and disappoint
• 3:05:27
  yourself, lean to the everlasting arms of the Spirit
• 3:05:31
  and say, Lord, help me build Christ like character in me.
• 3:05:34
  We're going to pray. Our prayer will be from the end
• 3:05:38
  back to the beginning. You're going to pray and say,
• 3:05:41
  Lord, my human tendencies are unlimited.
• 3:05:44
  Walk on me, walk in me, walk through me.
• 3:05:48
  Go ahead and pray. Drop any pride and pray my
• 3:05:54
  tendencies for pride. Help me, my tendencies for vain
• 3:05:58
  glory, my tendencies to wanting to, of wanting to outshine, my
• 3:06:03
  competitive tendencies. Walk upon my heart.
• 3:06:07
  Someone go ahead and pray. Walk upon my heart.
• 3:06:11
  We're wrapping up. It says stretch tonight, but
• 3:06:13
  please pray one minute. Walk upon my heart.
• 3:06:21
  Let me be a noble, supernatural human, an expression of the
• 3:06:26
  character of Christ, not just an anointed man, not just an
• 3:06:31
  anointed woman, a manifestation of love, a manifestation of
• 3:06:37
  peace. Now pray for the grace to
• 3:06:40
  discern, to discern the right people to bring to your life.
• 3:06:48
  The grace to look through men and to see their hearts, to
• 3:06:52
  discern motivations beyond actions, good or bad.
• 3:06:57
  To discern motivations. There are many good people who
• 3:07:01
  can do bad things, but they are good people.
• 3:07:04
  The grace to look beyond their actions.
• 3:07:07
  There are many bad people who are doing good things, but they
• 3:07:10
  are bad. The grace to be cautious even
• 3:07:13
  though they've not done anything evil to you yet.
• 3:07:16
  Go ahead and pray the grace to descend the operations of Satan
• 3:07:21
  in your life, in your family, your business, your nation, so
• 3:07:25
  that you deal with it by the power of God.
• 3:07:28
  The grace to discern what the Holy Ghost is doing so you don't
• 3:07:32
  find yourself fighting God. You can align and receive
• 3:07:38
  someone. Go ahead and pray.
• 3:07:41
  The grace to discern times, the grace to discern seasons.
• 3:07:51
  In Jesus name we pray. In Jesus much less name, we
• 3:07:56
  pray. One last prayer.
• 3:07:57
  Please find the neighbor, hold the hand of someone and just
• 3:08:00
  intercede for that person for one minute.
• 3:08:02
  You don't need to know the person, please just reach to
• 3:08:04
  someones hand in one minute and pray like you are praying for
• 3:08:07
  your brother. Pray like you are praying for
• 3:08:09
  your sister. Lift your prayer right now.
• 3:08:11
  Those who are following online, please take a moment to pray.
• 3:08:15
  If there's no one there which you, go ahead intercede.
• 3:08:17
  Pray for your spouse, pray for your children, pray for your
• 3:08:21
  parents, pray for your nation, pray for your business, pray for
• 3:08:24
  your pastor, pray for your church.
• 3:08:27
  In the name of Jesus, go ahead and pray.
• 3:08:32
  The grace is to discern what is of the Spirit and align with it.
• 3:08:37
  The grace to discern what is of the Spirit and align with it.
• 3:08:42
  The grace to discern what is of the devil and fight it in in
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  prayer. The grace to discern seasons, to
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  know when to wait, to know when to move.
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  Finally, the grace to discern human nature, to see beyond
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  actions, to see the motivations so you don't call good evil and
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  you don't mistaken evil for good.
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  In Jesus name we pray. In Jesus name we pray.
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  Hopefully another time. I'm sorry our time is up.
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  I will share with you the keys. I'm so sad that I did not get to
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  do that, but there are keys to helping you build discernment. 1
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  of it is a ministry of prayer. The more you pray in the Spirit,
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  you build discernment. You build discernment #2 is a
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  thorough understanding of the ways of God.
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  The more you know how God acts, go and reach someone or three,
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  you must have a thorough knowledge of the nature of God.
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  One of the greatest ways to build discernment is to
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  understand the nature of God. Because when you understand the
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  nature of God, you search for His nature in every operation.
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  The richest capture of the nature nature of God.
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  Are we together? I just needed to do that just
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  just to ease my conscience. I know our time is up.
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  Prayer, the nature of God. Another way to discern spirits
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  is by submitting to wise counsel.
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  Wise counsel can help you discern spirits.
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  Are we together? Yes.
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  One of the ways we discern spirits is by the law of
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  patience. When you are patient, the Bible
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  says eventually a tree starts growing a blade when there was
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  tears. I feel so sad that we didn't
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  discuss this. I would have shown you the
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  mystery of the wheat and the tears because as they were young
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  we could not distinguish between the wheat and the tears.
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  But he said let them grow. So the law of patience.
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  Patience is 1 attribute that can force deception to reveal
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  itself. Sometimes you just need to do
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  nothing and be patient. You may hear that someone is
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  stealing. Just be patient.
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  You may hear that someone is antagonizing.
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  Just be patient. If you can be patient for one
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  more day, you will see that something you are about to point
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  at as evil may be good all the way, or something you are about
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  to call good may be evil. I will just leave this form.
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  Then of course, there's the help of the Holy Spirit, the
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  Revealer. Are we together now?
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  So take note of this for us. The keys #1 submitting yourself
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  to prayer. When you pray, it reveals.
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  Remember when there was fire, it revealed the serpents that was
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  hiding. There was a Viper hiding in the
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  wood. But the moment fire came, it
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  revealed. Prayer purifies, it reveals #2
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  the word of God, particularly the study of the nature of God.
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  You. Your discernment cannot be
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  heightened if you do not understand the nature of God.
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  You must understand the nature of God.
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  To be able. To judge prophecy and to judge
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  the operations of spirits. Hallelujah #3 wise counsel.
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  You can lean on the discernment of others who are matured in the
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  Spirit, and they can guide you to navigate the Muddy Waters
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  where you are not seen, where your sight is hazy.
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  Are we together? God can use men to help you, so
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  we leave it there. Have you been blessed tonight?
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  Praise the name of the Lord, Amen.
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  Our time is up. My apologies.
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  Let me quickly make the altar call.
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  I want to call those who need to make it right with Jesus.
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  Please let keep standing. We're wrapping up the service
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  already. Thank you for your patience.
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  I'm praying for one person tonight who is an apostle.
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  I want to make it right with Jesus as you were speaking.
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  I cannot see that the nature of Christ is at work in me
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  currently. I've trusted people is brought
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  pain to my life. My life right now is in
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  spiritual ICU. I need help.
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  I just need one sincere person. Wherever you are, I'm going to
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  count 1 to 5. Please don't distract those who
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  are coming. I know that we're out of time,
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  but let's give someone an opportunity.
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  Please come and stand right here.
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  God bless you. Let's celebrate them.
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  They're coming. Thank you, my brother.
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  Thank you my. Sister.
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  Thank you, Kaenonia. Keep clapping.
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  This is your contribution to them.
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  Come, come take your bags and your Bibles and everything you
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  came to church with. God bless you.
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  God bless you. I appreciate you.
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  Keep clapping, 2 Three, keep clapping.
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  The Lord bless you. The Lord honor you. 4 If you're
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  joining them, come quickly. We're out of time quickly.
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  I still see some people coming. Please hurry up, make haste
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  quickly. 5 In Jesus name we pray.
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  Thank you very much my brothers and sisters.
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  Those who join them, join them quickly.
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  Please lift your right hand, let it be high above your head.
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  Say this loud after me. Say Lord Jesus, I love you with
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  all my heart. Tonight I have heard your word.
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  I believe. You are the Son of God.
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  I believe. You died for my sin.
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  Tonight I ask for forgiveness, remission of my sin.
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  I receive Jesus into my heart as Savior, as Lord and as King.
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  I declare that the power of sin Satan.
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  Hell and the grave is broken over my life.
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  I'm a child of God. I go for whatever and back
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  whatever. Amen.
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  Keep your hands lifted. Father.
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  Thank you for this precious brothers and sisters, alongside
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  those who have made these declarations online.
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  I decree and declare the name of Jesus, that the grace of God
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  will rest upon you. I call you the righteousness of
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  God. In Christ Jesus the grace will
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  live. The victorious Christian life is
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  imparted upon you from this night.
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  You go for whatever and back whatever, loving Jesus, living
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  for him, serving him all the days of your life.
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  In Jesus name we pray. Amen.
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  Please look to my right. There are counselors waving the
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  placard. They'll have a word with you and
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  a prayer with you very, very quickly, just for a minute or
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  two, and then you're back to your seat.
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  Let's honor them, everyone. Let's honor them, everyone.
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  Let's honor them, everyone. God bless you.
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  Hallelujah. Praise the name of the Lord.
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  Amen. Now, so much was said tonight,
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  let me request that you listen to tonight's teaching again.
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  If I were you, if I go back, catch some rest, there's so many
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  things that were said that you most likely did not hear.
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  You would need to take the time. Listen again here, Pray it in
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  your spirit, and the Lord will bless us in the name of Jesus.
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  Thank you very much for your time and for your patience.
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  I speak the blessing over your life.
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  Let this week be a week where you will see the practical value
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  of what you learned in the name of Jesus Christ.
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  Your week will be so excellent. You will discern seasons, you
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  will discern man, you will discern spirits in the name of
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  Jesus Christ. And while you about that, enjoy
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  favor, enjoy lifting, enjoy testimonies, enjoy open doors.
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  Again, enjoy favor, enjoy liftings, enjoy testimonies,
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  breakthroughs, open doors. The gift of man in the name of
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  Jesus. Shame is far from you this week.
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  Disgrace is far from you this week.
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  You are going from glory to glory this week.
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  Divine ideas come to you from the Spirit in the name of Jesus
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  Christ. The Lord will give you a gift
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  this week as a token of His mercy.
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  The Lord will give you a gift this week as a token of help.
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  The Lord will give you a gift this week as a token of mercy in
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  the name of Jesus Christ and everyone who has looked forward
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  to your downfall, May God answer them this week in the name of
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  Jesus Christ, I mark you for greatness.
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  I mark you for safety. I mark you for lifting.
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  I mark you for honor. In Jesus mighty name we pray,
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  Amen. Together let's share the grace
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  and fellowship, the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of
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  God, the sweet fellowship of the Holy Spirit, Rest and abide with
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  us now and forever, Amen. Surely God's goodness and mercy
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  follow us all the days of our lives as we dwell in the House
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  of the Lord forever and ever, Amen.
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  God bless you. See you on Sunday.
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  The. Bring Lord, bring, Bring upon my
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  Lord. Bring, Lord, bring upon my.
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  Upon my life in Lord dream.
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  In Lord Dream, dream upon my life I receive my many pets in
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  your power and the always time through the nation Fiji and
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  exalted I receive, I manifest your power and the always sound.
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  The. The.
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  Thank you Lord, for your. I receive.
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  I receive. I receive.
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  I receive. I receive.
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  I receive. I receive.
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  None. None.
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  The. The.
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  None. None.
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  None. The.
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  The. For there's a spirit in man, the
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  bread of your mind. It's just like in the beginning,
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  the hours before you found me in the place of fellowship you'll
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  never have. The.
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  The.