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Sarah And Hannah · Apostle Lazarus Femi

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  Speaker 1: Apostle Femi Lazarus is a man raised by God to
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  Speaker 1: demonstrate his wisdom and authority to the last day church.
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  Speaker 1: He is the lead pastor of Sphere of Light Church
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  Speaker 1: and God told him years ago that a time will
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  Speaker 1: come where my wisdom will be needed to navigate tough
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  Speaker 1: times in the body of Christ. Then I will cause
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  Speaker 1: your voice to be heard and all who pay attention
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  Speaker 1: to my word on your lips will not lack light
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  Speaker 1: and direction. He is a man sent from God, sent
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  Speaker 1: to raise God's end time armies. With Apostle Fermi Lazarus,
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  Speaker 1: every minute counts as you listen attentively.
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  Speaker 2: Blessed, blessed be the name of the Lord. Thank you Father.
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  Speaker 2: We bless you Lord. Lift your hands, everyone, and just
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  Speaker 2: bless the name of the Lord. It's a blessing. He
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  Speaker 2: deserves all gratitude. He deserves all praise. Blessed be your
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  Speaker 2: holy name. Lift your hands where you're standing and honor
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  Speaker 2: the one who lives forever and ever. Bless him. We
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  Speaker 2: bless your holy name. Thank you, Father. Blessed be the
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  Speaker 2: name of the Lord. There's none to be compared to you.
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  Speaker 2: There's none like you. You are God all by yourself.
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  Speaker 2: And we just honor you. And we thank you. Thank you, Lord.
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  Speaker 2: Blessed be the name of the Lord. Oh, thank you, Father.
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  Speaker 2: In Jesus' mighty name, we are praying. Hallelujah. Who is
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  Speaker 2: excited to be in church? Amen. God bless you. You
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  Speaker 2: may please be seated. Thank you. How many of us
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  Speaker 2: were blessed last week? Bible study? Wave your hands, let
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  Speaker 2: me see. Okay. How many of us are ready to
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  Speaker 2: be blessed today? Are you sure? All right. Thank you, Lord. So,
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  Speaker 2: last week we examined, we started the series.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Isaac and Samuel. Okay? In other words, we are saying
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  Speaker 2: two kinds of product. Okay? Two kinds of product. Isaac
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  Speaker 2: was a product of a kind of waiting and Samuel
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  Speaker 2: also a product of another kind of waiting So what
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  Speaker 2: we did last week was to examine the progenitors, separated
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  Speaker 2: Abram and separated Elkanah. Right? Good. By the time we
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  Speaker 2: placed the both of them on the weighing scale, we
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  Speaker 2: observed that it is even an insult to compare. Okay? Okay?
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  Speaker 2: So today we want to weigh two similar individuals on
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  Speaker 2: the weighing scale. And that's the person of Sarah and
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  Speaker 2: the person of Hannah. Okay? But today we are not
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  Speaker 2: going to be going the route we went last week.
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  Speaker 2: All we are going to be doing this week is
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  Speaker 2: that I'm going to be speaking to Sarah's and I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to be speaking to Hannah's. I'm going to be
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  Speaker 2: speaking to individuals with two kinds of waiting. Is that okay? Good.
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  Speaker 2: So I'll be speaking to Sarah's. I'll be speaking to Anna's.
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  Speaker 2: So let's turn our Bibles. Let's do a bit of comparison.
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  Speaker 2: As we check the book of 1 Samuel. 1 Samuel.
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  Speaker 2: Are you there? Let's start the reading from verse 1,
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  Speaker 2: chapter 1, sorry. And then we'll see where we go
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  Speaker 2: from there. So let's start. 1 Samuel chapter number 1, alright,
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  Speaker 2: from verse 1. Now there was a certain man of Ramah,
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  Speaker 2: of Mount Ephraim, and his name was Elkanah. the son
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  Speaker 2: of Jeruam, the son of Elihu, the son of Toh,
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  Speaker 2: the son of Zuv, and Ephratite. And he had two wives.
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  Speaker 2: And the name of one was Hannah, and the name
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  Speaker 2: of the other was Peninnah. And Peninnah had children, but
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  Speaker 2: Hannah had no children. You see, we've seen different kind
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  Speaker 2: of dust rise in this generation that we did not
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  Speaker 2: imagine will rise. We... We didn't know that a time
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  Speaker 2: will come that people will use the Bible to justify polygamy.
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  Speaker 2: So let me answer the question. And in fact, I was,
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  Speaker 2: what word should I use? I was shocked when one
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  Speaker 2: of my boys uploaded a video where I was talking,
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  Speaker 2: saying that the Bible does not endorse polygamy. And I
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  Speaker 2: was shocked that the only person there who was arguing
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  Speaker 2: with it was a pastor. You cannot use the Bible
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  Speaker 2: to endorse a weakness. You can't import scriptures to justify something.
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  Speaker 2: The Bible has its own flow of thought. We come
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  Speaker 2: to that level, we don't bring it to our level. Okay?
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  Speaker 2: One of the ways doctrines are established in scripture is
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  Speaker 2: to check patterns. When God made Adam, he didn't give
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  Speaker 2: him two. He gave him one. That's the pattern. You
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  Speaker 2: go to the person of Noah, it was one. Okay?
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  Speaker 2: You go to Abraham, it was one. When he went
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  Speaker 2: to pick out his girl, that's when the problem came.
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  Speaker 2: Are you with me now? Later, you know, you check
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  Speaker 2: the patterns, the flow of scriptures. We don't import things
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  Speaker 2: to justify heresy. The Bible is clear. Is that okay now? Good.
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  Speaker 3: Good.
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  Speaker 2: So, there are things that were mentioned in Bible as
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  Speaker 2: we read storylines. That is not God endorsing those things.
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  Speaker 2: But that is the Bible saying they happened. The same
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  Speaker 2: way it is not everything you will read in stories
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  Speaker 2: that God approves of. But they happened. Is that simple enough?
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  Speaker 2: Very important. Alright? So, look at it. He had two wives.
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  Speaker 2: The name of the one was Hannah. Hannah. And the
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  Speaker 2: name of the other was Peninnah. And Peninnah had children,
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  Speaker 2: but Anna had no children. Yes? So, verse 3. And
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  Speaker 2: this man went up out of his city yearly to
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  Speaker 2: worship and to sacrifice the Lord of Hosts in Shiloh.
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  Speaker 2: And the two sons of Eli, Ophni and Phinehas, the
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  Speaker 2: priests of the Lord, were there. And when the time
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  Speaker 2: was that Elkanah offered, he gave to Peninnah his wife
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  Speaker 2: and to all her sons and daughters portions. But to
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  Speaker 2: Hannah he gave a worthy portion, for he loved Hannah,
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  Speaker 2: but the Lord had shut up her womb. And adversely
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  Speaker 2: provoked her so, to make her fret, because the Lord
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  Speaker 2: had shut up her womb.
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  Speaker 3: Alright?
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  Speaker 2: And it did so year by year, when she went up, sorry,
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  Speaker 2: and as it did so year by year, when she
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  Speaker 2: went up to the house of the Lord, so she
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  Speaker 2: provoked her, therefore she wept, and did not eat. Look
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  Speaker 2: at verse 8. Then Elkanah said to, then said Elkanah
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  Speaker 2: her husband to her, Anna, why weep you? Why eat
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  Speaker 2: you not? And why is your heart grieved? Am I
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  Speaker 2: not better to you than ten sons? Scum. So she was,
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  Speaker 2: and she was in bitterness of soul, and prayed to
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  Speaker 2: the Lord and wept so. And she vowed a vow
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  Speaker 2: and said, O Lord of hosts, if you will indeed
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  Speaker 2: look on the affliction of your handmaid and remember me,
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  Speaker 2: and not forget your handmaid, but will give to your
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  Speaker 2: handmaid a man-child, then I will give him to the
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  Speaker 2: Lord all the days of his life, and there shall
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  Speaker 2: have no reason come upon his head. And it came
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  Speaker 2: to pass that as she continued praying before the Lord,
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  Speaker 2: that Eli marked them out. Now Hannah, sorry, now Hannah,
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  Speaker 2: She spoke in her heart, only her lips moved, but
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  Speaker 2: her voice was not heard. Therefore Eli thought she had
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  Speaker 2: been drunken. And Eli said to her, How long will
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  Speaker 2: you be drunken? Put away wine from you. And Hannah
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  Speaker 2: answered and said, No, my Lord, I am a woman
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  Speaker 2: of a sorrowful spirit. I have neither drunk wine nor
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  Speaker 2: strong drink, but I have poured out my soul to
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  Speaker 2: the Lord. Alright, so we are seeing that, let me
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  Speaker 2: identify three things. That was happening. Okay. She was waiting
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  Speaker 2: for something. She did not have. But. The other woman
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  Speaker 2: had what she was waiting for.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: And. The fact that. Anna. Had no child yet. Gave
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  Speaker 2: the other woman. The reason. To provoke her. To taunt her.
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  Speaker 2: You see. Peninnah was doing the exact same thing that
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  Speaker 2: the devil likes to do. The devil is an opportunist.
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  Speaker 2: There are things he wants to say to you, but
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  Speaker 2: you will not believe it now. So he will wait
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  Speaker 2: for the situation that will make you believe. Let me
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  Speaker 2: give you an instance. Let's assume that The devil really
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  Speaker 2: wants you to believe. Okay, let's take the case of Elijah.
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  Speaker 2: You will know that the devil has been looking for
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  Speaker 2: a way to afflict him and to say things that
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  Speaker 2: will damage his heart, things that will, you know, prick
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  Speaker 2: his soul. But the devil had no occasion to say that.
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  Speaker 2: So what the devil did was to wait for the
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  Speaker 2: time that Jezebel spoke some very heavy words that will
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  Speaker 2: open the door for him to now believe. The devil
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  Speaker 2: waits for people, waits for situations to get at you.
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  Speaker 2: Then the door is open. Then he can say the
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  Speaker 2: things he's always wanted to say. For instance, in the
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  Speaker 2: case of Adam, the moment they ate the fruit, and
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  Speaker 2: they were both naked, when God came, he said, who
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  Speaker 2: told you that you are naked? This is not the
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  Speaker 2: kind of nakedness you'll be aware of by yourself. This
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  Speaker 2: is the kind of nakedness that you come into the
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  Speaker 2: consciousness through a statement. They could not... Are you with me?
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  Speaker 2: Are you sure? Should I stay on the surface or
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  Speaker 2: should I go deep a bit? Alright. So, there was
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  Speaker 2: no way anyone could believe that they were naked unless
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  Speaker 2: that they have eaten it. And then that gives them
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  Speaker 2: the license to now believe anything the devil is saying.
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  Speaker 2: The same way sin gives the devil the opportunity to
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  Speaker 2: say to you what he has always wanted to say.
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  Speaker 2: And what he has always wanted to say is the
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  Speaker 2: fact that God has rejected you and there is no
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  Speaker 2: more hope. So, the barrenness of Hannah was the opportunity
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  Speaker 2: that Peninnah had to scorn her. And you have to
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  Speaker 2: get used to the fact that there are things you
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  Speaker 2: will lack that your neighbor will have. That's life. That
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  Speaker 2: you are in process doesn't mean you are better than
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  Speaker 2: your neighbor. And it doesn't mean you are worse. You
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  Speaker 2: are just in process. The reason why you need to
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  Speaker 2: hear what I've said again is because if the devil
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  Speaker 2: can't stop you from doing what is right... It will
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  Speaker 2: get you to be proud in the process. That is,
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  Speaker 2: you come out of the situation and you begin to
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  Speaker 2: use your waiting process as the yardstick for what you have.
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  Speaker 2: That is, you look at people and say, look at you.
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  Speaker 2: What have you gone through? Let me tell you what
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  Speaker 2: I've gone through in the hands of the Lord. So
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  Speaker 2: that you can know where we came from. The fire
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  Speaker 2: that processed us is the fire that processed gold in heaven. Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to get there tonight. Are you with me now?
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  Speaker 2: The moment some things are not coming on time, then
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  Speaker 2: you begin to hear what the devil has always wanted
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  Speaker 2: to tell you. You start jisting with you. You are
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  Speaker 2: not better than your fathers. All these Christianity things you
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  Speaker 2: are doing, it's a waste of time. Scam. Scam. Okay?
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  Speaker 2: Look at your life. What's the difference? Your brother who
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  Speaker 2: is in the village. What makes you different? He has car.
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  Speaker 2: You don't have. He has his own house. You don't have.
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  Speaker 2: The devil will steal all manner of things. And that's
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  Speaker 2: why we must raise believers who are deeply rooted. Who
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  Speaker 2: have come to know God beyond things. You must know
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  Speaker 2: him and judge him faithfully. Beyond things. Beyond physical results.
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  Speaker 2: Getting somewhere. Now, I want to tell you what waiting
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  Speaker 2: is and what waiting is not. Waiting is not just
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  Speaker 2: the passage of time while trusting God for something. That is,
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  Speaker 2: it cannot be said that you have waited because time
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  Speaker 2: passed and certain things have not come. Are you with me?
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  Speaker 2: Are you following what I'm saying over there? The fact
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  Speaker 2: that the train did not come on time doesn't mean
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  Speaker 2: you have waited. Waited. Doesn't mean you have waited. First
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  Speaker 2: and foremost, some things takes time. If you just finish,
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to use that. Let's assume somebody just
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  Speaker 2: finished a process and something has not opened up yet.
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  Speaker 2: You are not waiting yet. I mean, turn your Bibles now.
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  Speaker 2: Ecclesiastes 3, look at it. Ecclesiastes 3, 11 and 12.
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  Speaker 3: Look.
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  Speaker 2: Ecclesiastes 3, 11 and 12. If you are there, say amen.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Let me read from here. Look at it. He has
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  Speaker 2: made everything beautiful in his time. What that simply means
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  Speaker 2: is that the day you plant a seed is not
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  Speaker 2: the day it will grow, sir. Just understand where you
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  Speaker 2: are in the time chain. That's it. Just understand where
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  Speaker 2: you are. It's not the way you plant a seed
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  Speaker 2: that it will grow. Some things take time, naturally. You
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  Speaker 2: have not started waiting. This is just the time it takes. Okay? Hello.
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  Speaker 2: Are you with me? In the Nigeria of today, the
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  Speaker 2: moment you finish university, except you have serious qualifications, serious connections,
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  Speaker 2: plus the first class, or strong 2-1, there's a slight
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  Speaker 2: chance that the moment you are done, you are going
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  Speaker 2: to wait for a while while they are processing this
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  Speaker 2: here and there. It's not waiting yet. It is just
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  Speaker 2: the time it takes for that thing to crystallize. So
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  Speaker 2: the fact that something has not happened, don't throw yourself
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  Speaker 2: into a waiting room that, you see, we are the
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  Speaker 2: ones who are waiting on the Lord. No. This thing
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  Speaker 2: takes time. That's right. That's right. Oh, yes. Is this
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  Speaker 2: simple enough? Yes. Naturally. Okay, for instance now, when a
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  Speaker 2: woman goes to the hospital and finds out that she's pregnant,
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  Speaker 2: then imagine the woman after three months now say, ah,
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  Speaker 2: this baby has not come. No, this one takes nine months.
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  Speaker 2: And one of the things parenting has taught me is that, man,
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  Speaker 2: you have to be patient. First you wait and wait
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  Speaker 2: and wait for the child to be born, then the
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  Speaker 2: child is born. Then you wait a few more months
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  Speaker 2: for the child to see and recognize you.
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  Speaker 4: You wait.
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  Speaker 2: You wait. Then you wait a few more months again
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  Speaker 2: for the child to be able to respond to you
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  Speaker 2: when you make some jokes. You wait. You wait for
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  Speaker 2: the child to sit. You wait. You wait for the
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  Speaker 2: child to start crawling. You wait. You wait for the
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  Speaker 2: child to start standing. You wait. For the child to
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  Speaker 2: start walking, you wait. The talk takes time small. You
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  Speaker 2: wait longer. That's why they will call the first daddy.
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  Speaker 2: While that process is going on, that is not delay.
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  Speaker 2: That is the time it takes. you must understand the
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  Speaker 2: time it takes for what you are doing to crystallize.
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  Speaker 2: That is not delay. Is this simple enough? So that
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  Speaker 2: by the time you are in that process, you will
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  Speaker 2: not be hard on yourself and feel that your world
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  Speaker 2: is crashing, why I think it's not going well for me.
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  Speaker 2: And by the way, we all don't have the opportunity
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  Speaker 2: to start at the same point in life. So, some
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  Speaker 2: of us are going to go on a longer journey
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  Speaker 2: than the rest of us. for instance the time it
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  Speaker 2: will take for the one who had parents who had
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  Speaker 2: everything ready for him to climb up it's different from
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  Speaker 2: the time it will take for the one who started
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  Speaker 2: from the bottom understand where you are starting from sir
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  Speaker 2: okay and don't compare yourself with somebody who has leverage
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  Speaker 2: Some people, they are the third generation of people who
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  Speaker 2: are climbing up in their family. You are trying to
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  Speaker 2: be the first generation. While you are trying to climb up,
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  Speaker 2: even those who gave birth to you, you have to
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  Speaker 2: still support them. You can't compare your life with them.
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  Speaker 2: What I'm saying is that, if we have, please both
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  Speaker 2: of you come. If we are putting these two men, alright,
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  Speaker 2: to run this race, please face there. Okay? And then
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  Speaker 2: we bring this one here to run. And this is
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  Speaker 2: the destination they are running to. Okay?
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  Speaker 3: Okay?
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  Speaker 2: It will be unfair for him to think that because
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  Speaker 2: this one gets there first, he's faster. Listen to what
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  Speaker 2: I'm telling you. Sometimes somebody here can be running at
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  Speaker 2: 60 kilometers per hour. And this one here is running
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  Speaker 2: at 200 kilometers per hour. This one is most likely
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  Speaker 2: going to get there first because he has shorter distance
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  Speaker 2: to cover. But this one has more speed. You must understand.
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  Speaker 2: The fact that people, are you following what I'm saying?
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  Speaker 2: Don't judge your speed by who gets there first. Check
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  Speaker 2: the pace you cover. Some things take time. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: having gone through all the things you've gone through, survived
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  Speaker 2: what you have survived, to come here and judge yourself
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  Speaker 2: and say my life is just slow. Is that how
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  Speaker 2: the race started? Who is there to support you? I
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  Speaker 2: think we need to recognize people's hard work, not just
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  Speaker 2: their result. We must have a culture that celebrates effort also.
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  Speaker 5: Okay?
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  Speaker 2: Because if we only celebrate result, people will jump process,
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  Speaker 2: and since the result is what we recognize, and get
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  Speaker 2: that result and say that effort is nothing. Are you
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  Speaker 2: following what I'm saying here? Celebrate yourself, you have tried.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, sir. Are you following what I'm saying here?
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  Speaker 2: So in the same light, that's the way life is.
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  Speaker 2: Two people can be getting married, friends, the same Saturday,
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  Speaker 2: across different states, but they have different leverage. You must
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  Speaker 2: understand your own starting point and where you are. But
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  Speaker 2: one thing is very certain. There is a God who
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  Speaker 2: gives grace to those who wait on him I said
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  Speaker 2: there is a God who gives grace to those who
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  Speaker 2: wait on him. You will not crash. Maybe I don't
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  Speaker 2: have the right audience. But I say again, you will
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  Speaker 2: not crash. And because while you are in the process,
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  Speaker 2: the devil keeps reminding you where others failed. You will
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  Speaker 2: not stop there. You will go far ahead. You will
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  Speaker 2: become the first generation of excellence.
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  Speaker 3: Amen.
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  Speaker 2: You become the first generation of genuine result. In the
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  Speaker 2: name of Jesus. Now, listen to this. You will know
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  Speaker 2: what it means to be fulfilled in life. In the
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  Speaker 2: name of Jesus. You won't vanish halfway like smoke. God
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  Speaker 2: will preserve you. In Jesus' name. Now, sit down for
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  Speaker 2: a while. One of the things God does is that
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  Speaker 2: while we are in that process, And some things are
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  Speaker 2: to take 10 years. Some things are to take 20 years.
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  Speaker 2: Some things are to take 15 years. Sometimes it gives
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  Speaker 2: us boosters. One contact. One access. One door. Just boosters.
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  Speaker 2: And you discover that sometimes you are seeing 10 years remaining.
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  Speaker 2: And God just gives an advantage. And you are seeing
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  Speaker 2: three months to go. Amen. God is going to give
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  Speaker 2: you speed. You must look forward to it. Like I said,
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  Speaker 2: today's Bible study is more of me ministering to those
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  Speaker 2: who are having two kinds of waiting. Okay? So it's
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  Speaker 2: not just us comparing, but also ministering to the spirit
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  Speaker 2: of those who are weary because of waiting. God gives boosters.
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  Speaker 2: He does. It does. It does. It does. It would
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  Speaker 2: have taken David, only God knows when, to get to
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  Speaker 2: the palace. But God said to Samuel, go to the
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  Speaker 2: house of Jesse. That was a booster. And sometimes the
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  Speaker 2: booster comes as an activity of the enemy. And the
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  Speaker 2: enemy thinks that they are destroying you, but what they
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  Speaker 2: don't realize is that they are pushing you faster towards
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  Speaker 2: your promise. Like the case of Joseph.
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  Speaker 3: Joseph.
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  Speaker 2: They thought they were selling him. But Joseph said, hey,
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  Speaker 2: the Lord sent me ahead of you. Alright? To prepare
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  Speaker 2: the way for you. He recognized that. God is giving
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  Speaker 2: you boosters. One of the entry point of discouragement is
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  Speaker 2: that the devil is able to convince you that this
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  Speaker 2: is the time it will take. Your times are not
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  Speaker 2: in his hands. Your times are in God's hands. They
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  Speaker 2: are in God's hands. They are not in the hands
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  Speaker 2: of the devil. He cannot tell you how long it
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  Speaker 2: will take. Are you following what I'm saying? The situation
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  Speaker 2: that you are going through, the pain has opened door.
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  Speaker 2: I know. Many voices are coming. When, what's her name?
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  Speaker 2: The girl, the servant girl of Sarah, when she gave
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  Speaker 2: birth first, you saw what she did. She began to insult,
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  Speaker 2: despise her mistress. There is a very high tendency in
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  Speaker 2: life that when you get resolved early, you may not
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  Speaker 2: know how to talk.
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  Speaker 3: Okay?
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: You may not know how to talk. You may just feel,
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  Speaker 2: you see, it's just about positioning. It's just about knowing
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  Speaker 2: how to position yourself well. Young ladies, just make sure
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  Speaker 2: that you dress well, have your makeups on, be at
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  Speaker 2: the right place at the right time, this, this, that.
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  Speaker 2: That's somebody who has no report. That thing you are
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: talking is trash. When you find real reports, you'll understand
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: that answers to prayer when it comes to marriage goes
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: beyond fine face. And it goes beyond beautiful Instagram pictures.
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  Speaker 2: God makes everything beautiful in its time. Are you with me?
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  Speaker 2: People can see you and still not see you. But
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  Speaker 2: when the... See, the time. When the time is right.
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  Speaker 2: The time is not just the moment. What you are
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  Speaker 2: seeing is time as the moment. No. What God is
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  Speaker 2: calling the time is the season. You can be the season.
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  Speaker 2: Let me have five guys. Quickly, quickly, quickly. Can I have...
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: This is a season. where, please stand there, just stand there,
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  Speaker 2: thank you. All, no, face us. All the people coming
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  Speaker 2: around this season are wrong. And yes, we are coming.
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  Speaker 2: But here is another season where the one is passing
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  Speaker 2: and this is God. This one Is the right time...
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  Speaker 2: Not because of what the clock says... But because of
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  Speaker 2: what it brings... Your time... Comes with your people... And
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  Speaker 2: your resources... It's not the moment... It's not calendar... It's
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: not Kronos... It's Kairos... Pregnant moment... If you are under pressure...
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  Speaker 2: You say, now that all these guys are passing around
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  Speaker 2: this time, a time comes that they will cease. That's
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: good news if the wrong one ceases. If it is
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  Speaker 2: not God, it is not time. Amen. Lift your hand
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: and say again. Say, God makes all things beautiful in
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  Speaker 2: its time and season. Do you understand that illustration? Give
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  Speaker 2: Jesus a big hand. Thank you. So, it is not
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  Speaker 2: everybody that have result that can have your ears. But
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: you check the report. Hebrews 11 from verse 1 to 3. Quickly.
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  Speaker 2: Hebrews 11, 1 to 3. Now look at it. Hebrews
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  Speaker 2: 11 says, Now faith is the substance of things, but
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  Speaker 2: for the evidence of things not seen. For by it,
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: the elders obtain a good report. So I think I've
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: shared this story before. I was in GSS 1 or so.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, when I left primary school, I used to try.
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  Speaker 2: But when I got to secondary school, I stopped trying.
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  Speaker 3: Okay?
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  Speaker 2: Somehow, I think I came 31st. No, 33 out of
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  Speaker 2: about 35 or 36. Amen. Are you here? So, pay
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  Speaker 2: attention to this illustration. So, I was... I didn't know
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  Speaker 2: how I was going to take the report card home.
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  Speaker 2: My dad would check it and you would tell him
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  Speaker 2: that after paying all the amount of money they paid
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  Speaker 2: for school fees, this is what you can come with.
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: So I thought to myself, this is dirty thought. Let
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  Speaker 2: me cancel one third. And I did. And I did.
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: I canceled. I just got TPEX, and I just erased
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  Speaker 2: one thread, and I just made it in a way
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  Speaker 2: that it would blend so that all my dad needed
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  Speaker 2: to do was to turn the report card the other side. There,
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  Speaker 2: the real report was glaring. Experience, though. So, now, hold
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  Speaker 2: on a minute. So, But what I did not know
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  Speaker 2: was that I was more concerned about the result as taught.
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: But there are many reports that makes the result valid.
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: For instance, how can you have read in math, read
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  Speaker 2: in English, read in elementary science, read here and read
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: in all those things. Then suddenly you have taught. In
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: the same light, how can you have read in patience,
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: read in character development, rest in prayer, read in all that,
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  Speaker 2: and yet have the result? The report of the things
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: you passed are more important than the ultimate result. While waiting,
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: were you patient? Did you become more kind? Did you
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: learn to be more loving? Did you learn prayer? Did
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: you learn fasting? Did you learn the word? It is
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: not just about the result. There are many reports that
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: are hats off to give us the result. So there
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  Speaker 2: are things that God wants us to carry while we're
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  Speaker 2: in process. Say I hear. Anywhere there is genuine waiting,
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: there will be character. Nothing is more humbling than doing
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  Speaker 2: everything you know to do and not seeing the result
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  Speaker 2: you want to see.
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  Speaker 6: It's humbling.
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: It's humbling. It's humbling. It's humbling. One of my... I
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  Speaker 2: think we're having a minister's conversation. I just want to
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: chip this in because I know that I have a
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: special calling to ministers and to raise leaders. You know.
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: So one of my boys was asking me, I said,
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: when you pastor a church and you are doing everything
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  Speaker 2: you know to do, And the church is not growing.
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: Nothing is responding. What else do you do? Well, sometimes
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  Speaker 2: you are doing the right things, but those right things
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  Speaker 2: must be done for a period of time. You are
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  Speaker 2: pouring water on the seed you have sown. Nothing is growing.
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  Speaker 2: You are doing the right thing. Wait. There is a
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  Speaker 2: time it will take.
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  Speaker 7: Hello.
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  Speaker 2: It's not eat and run. It takes time. It takes time.
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  Speaker 2: And sometimes... Until I say this, let me say it.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes the answer to growth is not with you. Let
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: me tell you something. When this church... a certain season
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: last year, somebody just attended this church. We had the,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I've missed those kind of settings. We need
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  Speaker 2: to have it again soon. After service, we just had
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  Speaker 2: lunch together at church. And we're talking. And a guy
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: came to church. And the guy said to me, he said,
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: I'm hearing your sermon. He said, it's like you don't know.
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: He said, the whole city is coming to your church.
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: He said, What I'm seeing here, I don't think you
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: know what's going on on the street. Very soon, you
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: will have a problem with space. I mean, when they
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: say somebody gives you OT, that guy brought that. I
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: heard him and I heard God as he spoke. Jethro
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: may not be a pastor, but if a pastor will succeed,
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: you will need to hear Jethro. Are you following what
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: I'm saying? It is not everything that you see in
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: the Bible. I read books on management. I read books
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: on administration. I read books on businesses. I read books
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: on governance. All right. When you get those, let me
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: leave it. Are you following what I'm saying? Because let
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: me show you a few things. while you are in
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: the process for things to happen, understand that there are
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: tests you must pass. And they mean so much to God.
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: And they must mean so much to you. It is
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: not enough that time is passing. Time can pass only
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: to be wasted. What did I say? Time can pass
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: only to be wasted. Wasted. It is not passage of time.
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: It is you getting right what God needs you to
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: get right. Sometimes, in fact, many times, God is not
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  Speaker 2: the one occasioning delay. What is helping you take advantage
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  Speaker 2: of it. When the devil thinks they are afflicting you,
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: they don't know that the devil oftentimes make the plans
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: of God come to pass fast. Because he has darkened wisdom.
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: He doesn't know. He thinks they are afflicting you. In fact,
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: one time when David was running from Absalom, the guy
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: saw David was running from his son. David, the sweet
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: Samis of Israel, the lion himself, was running from Absalom.
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: The guy stood from afar and was throwing stones at David,
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: was insulting, calling him names. He said, this, this, this.
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  Speaker 2: God is doing this to you because of what you
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: did to the house of Saul. Abner and Joab are
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  Speaker 2: men that will not have to throw a spear twice.
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: You understand what I'm saying? These are not normal guys.
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  Speaker 2: They don't need to throw a sword. Even if they
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  Speaker 2: do like this, the head is off. The guy said,
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  Speaker 2: let me fall on him. David said, no, allow him.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe God will hear him and look on my afflictions.
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  Speaker 2: I was hearing.
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  Speaker 2: One of the pastors I respect so much. I think
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  Speaker 2: I shared this in a battle. And they asked him,
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: how do you deal with offense? He said, and that's
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: the most profound answer I've seen. He said, I see
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  Speaker 2: the sovereign will of God in everything. That is, if
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: you look at me and begin to insult me and
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: call me names. He said, I will just conclude in
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  Speaker 2: my heart that there's something God wants to deal with
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: in my life. I've allowed you to do this to me.
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: So he gave an example. He said, if you look
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: at even David, he said when Saul was trying to
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: kill David, he said that was God trying to help
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  Speaker 2: David to deal with certain things. Sometimes the time you
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: were sin is the time the enemies were after you.
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  Speaker 2: And he said, he said what Saul, what could not
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: be dealt with in David then was what still went
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: after Bathsheba and killed Uriah. Don't be quick to remove everything.
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: Sometimes it's God's. take note. There's pride here. There's anger here.
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: There's overconfidence here. This is it. Okay? Do you understand
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: what I'm saying? Let me tell you, in all honesty,
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: some things are painful. But we grow.
• 39:45
  Speaker 3: Grow.
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: We just see through the smoke screens. And understand. Okay?
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: And understand. There are times that people do things to me.
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: And I look at them. And I say, no, you
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: are not this wicked. No, you are not. You can't be.
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  Speaker 2: This is the devil who hates me. Trying to afflict
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  Speaker 2: me through you. Okay? I know you. I know who
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: you are. And I know the person behind. You know
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: the devil can wear pull-like suits. And when they have
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: done what they are doing, they now wonder, did I
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: cross to this? Yes, they did. But it's not them,
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: it's the devil. If you don't see life this way,
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: you will play into the hands of the devil. And
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: you'll be easily angered. There are times you get to
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: where your blessing is. The devil just wants to use
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: a very funny person to frustrate you. Say, I refuse
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: to be frustrated. Say it again, I refuse to be frustrated.
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: I refuse to be frustrated. How do I walk into
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: a place, an organization, to get something done? Okay? And
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: somebody just start looking at me and look at me
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: and look at me. How is that my problem?
• 40:58
  Speaker 3: No.
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: How is that my problem? Have I urinated on my body? No.
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  Speaker 2: Am I your headache? No. Whatever it is, I'm not
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: the victim. I'm just a beneficiary of your goodwill. I
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: have five minutes to spend there. I will go. I'm
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: not the victim. You must learn how to interpret life.
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: If not, the devil will get you. But in this
• 41:28
  Speaker 2: social media world, you know, somebody asked me, I said,
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: how do you pastors deal with media criticism? Sometimes you
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: say something plain. Somebody will bring it from another angle.
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: What do you do? I'm not the victim. You must
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: learn how to set your face like a flint and
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: keep doing the things you have to do. When you
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: are at the top, you are the topic. Continue. You
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: don't have to pause to answer everybody. You will drain yourself.
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: Keep the energy. Put it on the progress. Think. At
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: the level that God is bringing you to, you can't
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: be thinking like a pauper. You have to think well.
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: Think as one who is ministering to the world. Understand
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: the devil will come at you at that level. Wake up!
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: Oh yes. Oh yes. If you are not being criticized,
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: you are not doing enough. One of the announcements that
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: you are beginning to try is that you will be cancelled.
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: Tell anybody to try. Amen. Amen. Is somebody following what
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: I'm saying here? Let's do a bit of comparison. Are
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: you with me?
• 43:03
  Speaker 7: What?
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: How do we describe the waiting of Hannah and the
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: waiting of Sarah? Hannah was that woman who her husband
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: as another wife, and their children. And for some reasons,
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: the Bible didn't seem to give us a clue about
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: our age. But from the description, it didn't look as
• 43:30
  Speaker 2: though the Bible was describing a couple that were advanced. Okay?
• 43:36
  Speaker 2: Because the kids of Peninnah were referred to as children.
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: Maybe two boys, two girls. Maybe three boys, one, two girls. Alright?
• 43:44
  Speaker 2: But we know that somehow, These still seem to look
• 43:48
  Speaker 2: like young couples. Okay? And Anna kept, they kept going
• 43:53
  Speaker 2: to Shiloh. The husband was saying, I'm better than 10,000
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: children to you. Like I said at that time, scam.
• 44:01
  Speaker 3: Okay?
• 44:02
  Speaker 2: We don't know. Maybe the guy could still go out
• 44:05
  Speaker 2: and get more wives. Okay? Because he was not in
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: the waiting process. If you link this to last week,
• 44:11
  Speaker 2: he was not waiting. It was just Anna that was waiting. Okay?
• 44:18
  Speaker 2: Some other time I'm going to bring this out in
• 44:19
  Speaker 2: the subject of marriage. Because you win the battle faster
• 44:23
  Speaker 2: when it is two going through it, not one. Okay?
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: So she had to go and cry out to God.
• 44:30
  Speaker 2: And she gave birth. But in the case of Sarah,
• 44:35
  Speaker 2: as a matter of fact, the Bible had to give
• 44:37
  Speaker 2: us an hint that it had ceased to be with
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: her after the manner of women. Let's look at it. Genesis,
• 44:45
  Speaker 2: all right? Turn your Bibles there. The book of Genesis
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: chapter number 18. Are you with me? Let's start the
• 45:04
  Speaker 2: reading from Genesis 18. Let's start the reading from verse 6.
• 45:12
  Speaker 2: And Abraham hastened into the tent to Sarah. And said,
• 45:17
  Speaker 2: make ready quickly three measures of fine meal. Knead it
• 45:21
  Speaker 2: and make cakes on the earth. And Abraham ran to
• 45:27
  Speaker 2: the head and fetched a calf, tender and good, and
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: gave it to a young man. And he hurried to
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: dress it. And he took the butter and milk and
• 45:36
  Speaker 2: the calf which he had dressed and set it before them.
• 45:39
  Speaker 2: And he stood by them under the tree and they
• 45:41
  Speaker 2: did eat. I don't know what kind of meekness this is.
• 45:45
  Speaker 2: How will the old Abraham be standing if he gets
• 45:47
  Speaker 2: peace be eating, sir? That's the lifestyle they built. And
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: they said to him, where's Sarah, your wife? And he said, behold,
• 45:57
  Speaker 2: in the tent. And he said, I will certainly return
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: to you according to this time of life and see Sarah,
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: your wife, shall have a son. And Sarah headed in
• 46:11
  Speaker 2: the tent door, which was behind him. Now, Abraham and
• 46:16
  Speaker 2: Sarah were old and stricken in age and it ceased
• 46:21
  Speaker 2: to be with Sarah after the manner of women. Meaning
• 46:29
  Speaker 2: that this prophecy was believable when she was still menstruating. Therefore,
• 46:38
  Speaker 2: Sarah laughed within herself saying, after I am watched old
• 46:45
  Speaker 2: Shall I have pleasure? My Lord being old also. You
• 46:50
  Speaker 2: know there is a certain age people just say day
• 46:53
  Speaker 2: or day. This guy is old. Nobody is touching anybody anymore.
• 46:59
  Speaker 2: So how will these things be? Hope you know to
• 47:05
  Speaker 2: understand the power of prophecy. We will still get to
• 47:10
  Speaker 2: Genesis 20. Are you with me? and see a king
• 47:16
  Speaker 2: pick Sarah, thinking she was a young girl. Are you
• 47:28
  Speaker 2: following what I'm saying? If Sarah at 80 plus, somebody
• 47:34
  Speaker 2: can be crushing on her. How old are you? Are
• 47:40
  Speaker 2: you saying nobody see me? Shun that nonsense and move on. Amen.
• 47:46
  Speaker 2: She laughed within herself. So for Sarah, the testimony that
• 47:53
  Speaker 2: she needs, her body, her anatomical configuration contradicts it. As
• 48:02
  Speaker 2: far as the science of the human body is concerned,
• 48:04
  Speaker 2: it was too late. For Hannah, it was still possible.
• 48:08
  Speaker 2: So what I'm saying is, if you put a Sarah
• 48:12
  Speaker 2: and a Hannah side by side, 40 years ago, they
• 48:16
  Speaker 2: were still both waiting at the same level. 40 years later,
• 48:20
  Speaker 2: the child of Hannah is already 30-something years. Sarah is
• 48:23
  Speaker 2: still waiting. And that's when the pain becomes more, that
• 48:36
  Speaker 2: there are people that you know, you were all in
• 48:38
  Speaker 2: the waiting room till they all left, and you are
• 48:42
  Speaker 2: the only one left there. And sometimes it looks as
• 48:46
  Speaker 2: though the body of theology we have seems to demonize
• 48:50
  Speaker 2: people that don't get results on time. That there's something
• 48:53
  Speaker 2: you are not doing right. I am saying you can
• 48:55
  Speaker 2: do everything right, but yet the time has not come.
• 49:04
  Speaker 2: It can happen. So, this is where we get to
• 49:11
  Speaker 2: the point where waiting It's beginning to make no more sense.
• 49:18
  Speaker 2: This is now not making sense. We thought we were joking.
• 49:21
  Speaker 2: We thought we were just trying to do some things.
• 49:25
  Speaker 2: If this is a joke, it has to stop now.
• 49:27
  Speaker 2: This is no longer making any sense. This is nonsense.
• 49:30
  Speaker 2: I'm done. I'm done. And you know the funny thing
• 49:33
  Speaker 2: is that while you are in this process, you will
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  Speaker 2: also see people who don't pray in tongues, who don't
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  Speaker 2: read the Bible, who don't fast, who are not workers
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  Speaker 2: in church, who are not born-again Christians, who don't have
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  Speaker 2: your consecration, get the things you want without even waiting
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  Speaker 2: on God. So, if we say that, hey, look at
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  Speaker 2: this testimony, this testimony, you know, these are... This testimony,
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  Speaker 2: look at this testimony. This is the kind of testimony
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  Speaker 2: you get when you are a faithful steward in this house. Now,
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  Speaker 2: so it happened. Now, so God, they do harm. It
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  Speaker 2: is also happening outside. For those who don't even know Jesus,
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  Speaker 2: talk less of being a steward. How do we balance it?
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  Speaker 2: These things are not balanced. Are you aware that as
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  Speaker 2: we celebrate... 100 babies, God answer people. They are also
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  Speaker 2: doing so in some shrines. The difference is, those who
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  Speaker 2: wait on God will not inherit shame. When God gives,
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  Speaker 2: He protects what He gives. He backs up what He gives. Now,
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  Speaker 2: how many of you have seen that before? That, look
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  Speaker 2: at people. Look at people. We are not even Christians.
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  Speaker 2: Look at them. They have the results we don't have.
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  Speaker 2: They have the results. Look at them. It looks like
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  Speaker 2: it's only Christians that are in the waiting process sometimes.
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  Speaker 2: It's like, let me just go outside the world and
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  Speaker 2: enjoy myself and then come back and I don't pass
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  Speaker 2: that process. I'm not sure I've seen that happening before.
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  Speaker 2: You see people outside. They're not born-again people and they're
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  Speaker 2: not waiting. Have you seen that before? Yes. But do
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  Speaker 2: you know you are wrong? You are wrong. Let me
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  Speaker 2: show you something. The moment waiting gets to a level,
• 51:48
  Speaker 2: the devil convinces you. What he does is that he
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  Speaker 2: paints a single story. Hey, are you following what I'm saying?
• 52:03
  Speaker 2: The devil paints a single story and shows you only
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  Speaker 2: one side of the divide. Look at those outside. Outside.
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  Speaker 2: They get the things that you pray don't get. But
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  Speaker 2: then they die too. He won't show you that. I
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  Speaker 2: shared the story of two boys who went to perform rituals.
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  Speaker 2: And they went to a car park. They were going
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  Speaker 2: to wash a car.
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  Speaker 3: Okay?
• 52:33
  Speaker 2: They were discussing. The father of one of my friends
• 52:35
  Speaker 2: was inside his own car. They didn't know somebody was there.
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  Speaker 2: And one was asking the other one, what did Baba
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  Speaker 2: say you should do? He said, Baba said I should
• 52:42
  Speaker 2: buy a kara. If you don't know what that means,
• 52:44
  Speaker 2: that's beans cake, fried beans cake. Alright? And then he
• 52:48
  Speaker 2: said he should pour it on the road. On the road. Yes?
• 52:53
  Speaker 2: He said he should wait for a car to match it,
• 52:55
  Speaker 2: then bring what is left. So a car matched it,
• 52:58
  Speaker 2: it took what was left to the man. That was
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  Speaker 2: what they used to perform the ritual. And the condition
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  Speaker 2: for that money was that the way the car matched
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  Speaker 2: this beans cake, this is the way a car will
• 53:08
  Speaker 2: match your head when time comes to die. Okay? What
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  Speaker 2: is beautiful about what the devil gives, he will not
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  Speaker 2: show you that. He will show you the shiny aspect.
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  Speaker 2: He will give you the impression that look at what
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  Speaker 2: is happening. See as they enjoy their lives. All these
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  Speaker 2: Christian things that they carry for head, where they hand.
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  Speaker 2: See girls where they go club on Saturday night. They
• 53:30
  Speaker 2: find better men. But they use them for ritual too.
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  Speaker 2: It is those who have gone through that life that
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  Speaker 2: can tell you the pain they live life with and
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  Speaker 2: the regret that comes. The fact that you have not
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  Speaker 2: been there doesn't mean you should envy it. You only
• 53:50
  Speaker 2: have an aspect to the story and the one who
• 53:52
  Speaker 2: is painting it is the one who wants to get
• 53:54
  Speaker 2: you there. The devil himself, he wants you messed up.
• 54:00
  Speaker 2: There's nothing there. We go to party, dance, dance, dance. Say,
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  Speaker 2: devil's basket. I don't know if you guys see the red. Nadia,
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  Speaker 2: we stop. Pick, pick, pick. Kande, you look like you
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  Speaker 2: know what's going on. Pick, pick, pick, pick. Having done
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  Speaker 2: all those things, it is superfluity of naughtiness. A well
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  Speaker 2: you dig, you won't touch water. You carry this girl,
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  Speaker 2: no satisfaction. Another one, another one, another one. And the
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  Speaker 2: pattern continues. and discover that the one whose life is
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  Speaker 2: being spent is you. The devil tries to give believers
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  Speaker 2: the impression that you are cake. You are in church.
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  Speaker 2: Hearing the word. Some of you are married. Your children
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  Speaker 2: are here. Learning the ways of God. But you know
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  Speaker 2: you have colleagues who have come back from work. Now
• 54:57
  Speaker 2: that it's public holiday. They don't bath. Put small perfume.
• 55:01
  Speaker 2: Don't go coven. Drink small gouda. Serve them well. The
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  Speaker 2: children are starving at home. The wife is looking like
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  Speaker 2: a shadow of herself. The girls that is liking there,
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  Speaker 2: he will not buy the same clothes for his wife.
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  Speaker 2: The children grow up to hate the kind of father
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  Speaker 2: that he is. You are in the right place, doing
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  Speaker 2: the right things at the right time. You are not
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  Speaker 2: backward because you are serving God. You are not. This
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  Speaker 2: is how to catch real fun. To be in the
• 55:29
  Speaker 2: presence of our maker. And learn how he designed our
• 55:33
  Speaker 2: lives to function. This is what we do. You know,
• 55:36
  Speaker 2: I went for myself and my friends. We went for, well,
• 55:41
  Speaker 2: maybe a vacation. Just a time. It was not really
• 55:45
  Speaker 2: a retreat. Just to, we've been walking. Let's just rest.
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  Speaker 3: Okay?
• 55:49
  Speaker 2: We were living for different countries and we might not
• 55:51
  Speaker 2: be able to be together again. So let's just rest.
• 55:53
  Speaker 2: So we're We were in a place. Let me just
• 55:57
  Speaker 2: put a place. Okay? And the owner of this facility
• 56:01
  Speaker 2: is a billionaire. All right? So the son was there.
• 56:03
  Speaker 2: And one time the guy got confused. And he was like,
• 56:09
  Speaker 2: you guys have been here for some days. When I
• 56:15
  Speaker 2: day here, fine guys, yes. No girls. No, no girls.
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  Speaker 2: No drinking. No, no drinking. He said, how are you
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  Speaker 2: guys now catching fun? Come, let's show you how we
• 56:32
  Speaker 2: catch real fun. What we are doing is not boring.
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  Speaker 2: If it is club, I know what it means to
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  Speaker 2: go there. You go stand throughout. Now church day, they
• 56:46
  Speaker 2: sit down. You know what I'm saying now. You stand.
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  Speaker 2: You drink. You don't even know where your car key
• 57:04
  Speaker 2: is again. But when we leave this place, we are
• 57:07
  Speaker 2: more charged. Pumped up to first life. We are not
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  Speaker 2: behind because we are in church. This is where it
• 57:15
  Speaker 2: is happening. We teach the world how to catch real fun.
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  Speaker 2: We are not behind. We don't copy them. There's a
• 57:23
  Speaker 2: lot they should learn from us. Look at the peace
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  Speaker 2: we have. Yeah. Hey, one imperial bottle there. They carry this.
• 57:36
  Speaker 2: This one, don't go boring money. You see, bring two,
• 57:39
  Speaker 2: bring two. Some girls will carry the light, carry the thing.
• 57:42
  Speaker 2: The bottle that you buy for, how would you sit
• 57:45
  Speaker 2: down to drink a bottle of drink for 3. something million?
• 57:48
  Speaker 2: Just because they will ail you. And you know those
• 57:50
  Speaker 2: hype man. And you are here, just starting your life.
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  Speaker 2: Pressure wants to kill you. If they use Infinix, don't
• 58:10
  Speaker 2: raise your phone, iPhone there. Pressure wants to finish you.
• 58:23
  Speaker 2: But here we are in God's presence. No discrimination. Nothing.
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  Speaker 2: This is where it is happening. This is where it
• 58:34
  Speaker 2: is happening. This is where it is happening.
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  Speaker 7: Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes you meet people like this and they want to
• 58:43
  Speaker 2: give you the impression, now why are you so backward?
• 58:45
  Speaker 2: Am I? If you don't know where you are, you'll
• 58:51
  Speaker 2: be confused. Am I really So, let me just say this.
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  Speaker 2: One of my boys asked me, he was following me everywhere.
• 59:15
  Speaker 2: So he said, I noticed that since you've been around,
• 59:20
  Speaker 2: you've sown seed here of thousands of pounds. I said, yes.
• 59:29
  Speaker 2: I said, number one, I like to give. Number two,
• 59:32
  Speaker 2: I like to shame the devil. You know how many
• 59:35
  Speaker 2: years the devil convinced me that because I refused to
• 59:38
  Speaker 2: go to the UK early, to London University of Tropical Medicine,
• 59:42
  Speaker 2: that I failed. I like to show the devil I
• 59:49
  Speaker 2: don't fail. I might not be in front, but I
• 59:53
  Speaker 2: wasn't failing. God was preparing something. You are too quick
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 2: to conclude You are too quick. There are things that
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 2: will not come in the time that they make sense.
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 2: That's the truth. That's the kind of person that Sarah was.
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 2: It won't come in time that it makes sense. And
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 2: you have to learn how to deal with the seasons
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 2: of depravity. Because if you get your conclusions wrong, you
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 2: may not come out. Maybe one of these days, I'm
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 2: going to tell you the year I was able to
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 2: buy my first brand new suit as a pastor in
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 2: a boutique. If I say it, you'll be shocked. One time,
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 2: somebody came to meet me and said, Hi, I want
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 2: to borrow your suit. I've been nominated as men in suits.
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 2: Money suit for someone's wedding. So I saw that you
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 2: have many suits. Now, one suit I get, I have
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 2: a friend who is a photographer. He will sit down
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 2: that one suit for different poster and use Photoshop to
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 2: change the color. So I said, this is the suit.
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 2: Join them for the wedding. If you want, after the wedding,
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 2: we use Photoshop, change the color. And that suit, I
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 2: went for my cousin's wedding. who happened to be a banker.
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 2: And as far as he was concerned, he had used
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 2: all the money on that suit. I said, I can
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 2: start from where you stopped. And I took that suit,
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 2: and that suit still did another two to three years
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 2: with me. By the time I was done, I gave
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 2: it to one of our pastors. Into doing it on
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 2: two years. When he finished, he gave another junior pastor...
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 2: So I now went to meet them and give me
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 2: this suit. The time has come for deliverance. Whether we
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 2: wear suits then or we don't wear, it doesn't stop
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 2: the message. It doesn't stop the message. You know, I
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 2: was in Lekki. Permit me to be a bit vain.
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 2: And I went to one of my boys. I call
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 2: them my boys not because they are my boys, like
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 2: the way we relate.
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 4: Friends.
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 2: Friends. Very close. Very real guy. You know me very well.
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 2: Know that. So we went there. We were going to
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 2: buy some suit. So it was one pain. Then we
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 2: just looked at each other and I remembered that years
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 2: back I went to Koza. I went to Lagos, JJ,
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 2: to go and do apostolic ministry. I said, let's go
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 2: to Koza. Excellent church. Well, I sit down. The devil
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 2: just remind me, say, Lazarus. I said, here I am.
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 2: He said, look at the legs of your age mates.
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 2: I look to the right. What? Oxford. Brooks. Nice shoes.
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 2: I don't know past Oxford and Brooks. I looked out
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 2: and said, it was like every... Colleen!
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 3: Colleen!
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 2: See your leg. I looked at my leg.
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 4: Ah!
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 2: I folded my leg under the chair. When they call
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 2: first timers, I don't go. Before they would think I
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 2: needed charity, I don't go. So after the service, I
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 2: got angry. I told the boy, see you, you dress well,
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 2: you don't tell me. Laughter So after the service, I said,
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 2: I'm hungry. Let's go now to buy shoes.
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 4: Me.
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 2: If you say ministry just contributes more change. Say, as
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 2: you go, God will go with you. You are doing ministry.
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 2: I said, let's go and buy shoes. So I pick
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 2: one shoe. I said, how much is this shoe? I
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 2: want to buy this shoe. The guy said, I think
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 2: then he said, 38,000. Don't angry. What do you mean?
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 2: This Lagos. That's how you pull out. You put just
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 2: one for state. You guys say, I post you.
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 8: Calm down.
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 2: Don't for state. Don't for state. Calm down. So he
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 2: now come and say, actually, actually. This shoe actually is
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 2: around that price.
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 3: See?
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 2: The last time I bought shoe ever was one, two.
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 2: So I had a feel, say, maybe now two, five.
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 7: Max.
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 2: And I said, this one that you are wearing, how
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 2: much is this? He said, ah, this one. I said, sir,
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 2: I bought it around $ 37, 000. Really? When I was going
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 2: to get married, towards my wedding, I bought about 12 shoes.
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 2: He said, why are you buying shoes? I said, I'm hungry.
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 2: I want to show the devil. Devil, your head is
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 2: not correct. You're... So we were together again at the
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 2: shop in Lekki. And then we were paying certain amounts
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 2: for some collections. Then we remembered. It will not always
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 2: remain the same. It will not. Things change, sir. But
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 2: mind you, even if things have not changed, we'll still
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 2: be on this path.
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 2: You must understand that balance. Yes. Stay beyond this part.
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 2: Praise God. Don't kill yourself. Because things have not changed yet.
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 2: There was a time in my life that if they
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 2: told me that a time will ever come that I
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 2: will have 10,000 naira balance in my account. Not doing anything.
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 2: I will hurt you. That 10k. The way my brain
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 2: was wired, when money comes, you look at them, but
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 2: it only came to pass. It won't wait forever. It
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 2: doesn't matter how much we prophesy, change, receive. If you
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 2: are in that kind of season, that is where you are.
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 2: But there's a flow of time. Are you following what
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 2: I'm saying here? There's a flow of I see God
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 2: giving you speed and helping you in the name of Jesus.
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 2: I see God helping you in the name of Jesus.
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 2: It's so beautiful when those you have struggled together are
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 2: still by your side when things change. And they can
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 2: remember when what we have seen was just a word
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 2: of prophecy and we are open. Things will change in
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 2: the name of Jesus. Things are changing.
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 3: Amen.
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 2: In the name of Jesus. Tell yourself, I refuse to
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 2: be discouraged. Say it again loud and clear, I refuse
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 2: to be discouraged. Say it loud and clear, I refuse
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 2: to be discouraged. And usually, it becomes very, very frustrating
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 2: when what you are waiting for To happen in your
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 2: life is happening in different lives. For Sarah, she was
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 2: seeing Aga. For Hannah, she was seeing Penina. And sometimes
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 2: there are constant reminders that you might be failing. But
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 2: maybe that's not true. I said maybe that's not true. Now,
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 2: look at this. What do you do when the time
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 2: frame that what you are waiting for will make sense
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 2: in his passing? Let me explain. There's an average age
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 2: that menopause kicks in. No one is waiting before that
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 2: age for a child, for this and all that. It's like, okay,
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 2: we're still within time frame. It's making sense. But now,
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 2: you're about to celebrate your birthday. And that birthday marks
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 2: the season. From what you have read medically, that is
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 2: the season that menopause may likely start kicking in. If
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 2: care is not taken, and God has been tempted to
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 2: raise this alarm, as you begin to celebrate your birthdays,
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 2: it will not be seasons of joy, but seasons of depression.
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 2: Because the birthday seems to be reminding you that time
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 2: is not on your side. There comes a time that
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 2: a birthday is a constant reminder to the fact that
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 2: something is going on. And if care is not taken,
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 2: every time you get close to your birthday, you are depressed.
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 2: You won't get results that way. You won't get results
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 2: that way. Let me show you a scripture. Joel chapter
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 2: number 1. Joel chapter number 1. If you are there,
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 2: say Amen. Okay.
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Let's start the reading from verse 8. Joel 1.8. If
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 2: you are there, say amen. Look at this. Lament like
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 2: a virgin greeted with sackcloth for the husband of a youth.
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 2: The meat offering and the drink offering. Amen. Is cut
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 2: off from the house of the Lord. The priests. The
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 2: Lord's ministers mourn. The field is wasted. And the land mourns.
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 2: For the corn is wasted. The new wine is dried up.
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 2: The oil languishes. Be you ashamed. O you farmers. Howl.
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 2: O you vine dressers. For the wheat. And for the barley.
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 2: Because the harvest of the field is perished. The vine
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 2: is dried up. And the fig tree languishes. The pomegranate tree.
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 2: The palm tree also. The apple tree. Even all the
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 2: trees of the field is withered. Because joy is withered
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 2: from the sons of men. When we say rejoice, it
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 2: is not a church slogan. It is actually a fetcher.
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 2: The moment, listen to what I'm saying. The moment your
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 2: joy dries up, your condition will dry up. Let me
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 2: tell you, as you keep marking seasons that should be
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 2: seasons of joy, and instead of you rejoicing, you keep
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 2: crying and say, now, another time, this has not come.
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 2: You have just marked the register to come again next
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 2: year till you pass that test. The Bible said, you
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 2: are complaining, everything is dried. The palm tree is dried.
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 2: The pomagone tree is dried. The apple tree is dried.
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 2: All things are withered. This is dried. He said, it
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 2: is only happening because joy has left you. When was
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 2: the last time you sat down despite the fact that
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 2: you don't have everything you needed and rejoiced? When was
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 2: the last time you look at the things that God
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 2: has done, regardless of what is yet to happen? And
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  Speaker 2: you say, I just want to thank you, Lord, for
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  Speaker 2: all that you have done. When was the last time?
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes we make requests like we're asking the God who
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  Speaker 2: is not responsible. Like the irresponsible one. Let's ask him.
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  Speaker 2: If you forget us for here. And you confront God
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  Speaker 2: like one who has never... Let me ask you a question.
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  Speaker 2: Has God been good at least once? Are you aware
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  Speaker 2: that the fact that you are here and talking is
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  Speaker 2: a proof of his goodness? When was the last time
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  Speaker 2: you rejoiced even when your joy was not full? You
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  Speaker 2: know you can have joy and not rejoice. Like this
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  Speaker 2: you say it is on my inside but you did
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  Speaker 2: not manifest it. Let me tell you Go and check.
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  Speaker 2: Every miracle that has to do with multiplication, most times,
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  Speaker 2: there is always a template of joy and thanksgiving. When
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  Speaker 2: Jesus saw three loaves of bread, two fishes, he did
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  Speaker 2: not say, what nonsense, now we are stranded. No, no.
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  Speaker 2: He gave thanks. Oh, Father, thank you for a new age.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a lady. 33, no man has come. Thank you
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  Speaker 2: because you have made me wonderfully well and beautifully well.
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  Speaker 2: I know my David is coming. Every time you rejoice,
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  Speaker 2: you get closer to your breakthrough. You cannot get it
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  Speaker 2: by complaining. Having tried everything else, switch to what? Kenneth
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  Speaker 2: Copeland asked Bishop Redepo and said, we thought you fit.
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  Speaker 2: He said, but the results we are seeing here, how
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  Speaker 2: do you get all these people to be in one place?
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  Speaker 2: And you know what he said? He said, I danced
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  Speaker 2: them in. Let me tell you something. I don't know
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  Speaker 2: if I've said this publicly before, but at certain period
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  Speaker 2: of my life, I went to lock myself and I
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  Speaker 2: do that Every now and then. I just take my bag,
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  Speaker 2: pick my things, go out of the house, lock myself
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  Speaker 2: for days, maybe in the guest house, fast, pray, seek God, jot,
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  Speaker 2: write things. I needed answers as to how church can grow.
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  Speaker 2: God told me. He said there are three ingredients you
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  Speaker 2: will find in any church that will grow. Number one, joy, unspeakable,
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  Speaker 2: full of glory. Go back and create an atmosphere of joy.
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  Speaker 2: What you are not rejoicing over cannot multiply. That is
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  Speaker 2: the reason why we praise God the way we do
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  Speaker 2: in this house. So when we are rejoicing, we are
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  Speaker 2: not saying that we have all that we need. But
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  Speaker 2: we are saying we recognize the one before whom we
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  Speaker 2: are dancing. We recognize. That was what God found in David.
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  Speaker 2: David was dancing almost naked. I'm not saying we will
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  Speaker 2: start with a poor clothes. But he was dancing. Michael
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  Speaker 2: sat down as the two-spot girl now. Look at this guy.
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  Speaker 2: Look at this guy. See the way he dances. This
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  Speaker 2: one says he's kinky. Look at you. You are dancing
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  Speaker 2: like miserable men in Israel. David said, I am dancing
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  Speaker 2: before the God who chose me before your father. Very heavy.
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  Speaker 2: This is what I was doing when God found me
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  Speaker 2: above your father. And God said, the womb of Micah, short.
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  Speaker 2: Anywhere you despise joy and gratitude, there's barrenness. I want
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  Speaker 2: to give us some 2-3 minutes to rejoice this morning.
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  Speaker 2: Look at the way you are rejoicing. We give you praise, Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: We bless your holy name. Things may not be where
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  Speaker 2: we want them to be. But we rejoice in you regardless.
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  Speaker 2: We bless you from the depth of our hearts. We
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  Speaker 2: thank you. Because you are the good God. We may
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  Speaker 2: not have all the answers. But we rejoice in the Lord.
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  Speaker 2: I may not have all the answers. I may not
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  Speaker 2: have it figured out. I may not know what to
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  Speaker 2: eat tonight. But I choose to rejoice. I choose to rejoice.
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  Speaker 2: It is with joy we draw from the wealth of salvation.
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  Speaker 2: We choose to rejoice in the Lord. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 2: I love what the Bible says in Psalms 100. It
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  Speaker 2: says to make a joyful noise to the Lord. Yes.
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  Speaker 2: This is what we do. Hallelujah. Now, I've shown you
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  Speaker 2: several times. Um, The woo-hoo we are used to it.
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  Speaker 2: Because the word make there is the word to invent.
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  Speaker 2: It's the word to create. You see, whenever there is joy,
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  Speaker 2: three things happen. Number one, there is shouting. Number two,
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  Speaker 2: there is dancing. Number three, there is laughter. You can
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  Speaker 2: never have somebody who is joyful. Say, I'm rejoicing. What
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  Speaker 2: are you doing? That's how I rejoice. May I know
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  Speaker 2: that too. Rejoice, somebody!
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  Speaker 7: Hey!
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  Speaker 2: Amen. Now, let me show you a scripture. We practice
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  Speaker 2: this again. Are you with me? Job chapter number 5.
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  Speaker 2: Job chapter number 5. From verse 21 and 22. I
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  Speaker 2: love the fact that the instrumentals are there. We're going
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  Speaker 2: to raise a sound. This is Bible study. We're going
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  Speaker 2: to raise a sound and rejoice.
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  Speaker 4: Amen.
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  Speaker 2: Amen. And bless God for me. You see, one of
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  Speaker 2: the things that happens when there's joy is that that's
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  Speaker 2: when you can see clearly. You just know that. You see, listen.
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  Speaker 2: Have you been in that situation where things have not
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  Speaker 2: changed physically? But you know, I am close. Just know.
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  Speaker 2: I'm close to it. I'm close to it. Yeah. Be
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  Speaker 2: more loyal to that perception. Than all the external conditions.
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  Speaker 2: I'm getting there. Look at what it says. Thou shalt
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  Speaker 2: be hid from the scourge of the tongue. Neither shalt
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  Speaker 2: thou be afraid of the destruction. So I've faced many things.
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  Speaker 2: I'm no longer afraid of anything. Look at verse 22.
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  Speaker 2: At destruction and famine, thou shalt laugh. Neither shalt thou
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  Speaker 2: be afraid of... Are you following what I'm saying? That is,
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  Speaker 2: you are hearing people panicking, saying this, this, this, and that.
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  Speaker 2: What you are doing as a way of responding as
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  Speaker 2: a spiritual man is that you are what? Laughing. Listen, oh. Nobody,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I've told you. This one that you used
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  Speaker 2: to think that everybody is looking at you. Nobody is
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  Speaker 2: looking at you. Wait. Wait. People get issue. Huh? Huh?
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  Speaker 2: Everybody's looking at themselves. Mind your business. For like five minutes,
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  Speaker 2: can we raise some sounds? Huh? Can we raise some sounds?
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  Speaker 2: Come up, come up, come up. Wait, wait, wait. Wait, wait.
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  Speaker 2: Let's have as many praisers and dancers as we can.
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  Speaker 2: Let's have as many praisers. Welcome, welcome.
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  Speaker 3: Welcome, welcome.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, my God. .
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  Speaker 3: .
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  Speaker 9: .
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  Speaker 3: .
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  Speaker 2: .
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  Speaker 4: Yes sir!
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  Speaker 2: Obrigado Obrigado Obrigado Obrigado Obrigado Obrigado.
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  Speaker 3: Obrigado Thank you.
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  Speaker 8: Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you. Thank you. We have the covenant of grace.
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  Speaker 2: I want us in the next few seconds. Get crazy,
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  Speaker 2: get crazy tonight. Carry something, carry something.
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  Speaker 5: .
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  Speaker 10: .
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  Speaker 4: We'll be right back.
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  Speaker 10: I'm gonna follow you to the goal I'm gonna follow
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  Speaker 10: you to the.
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  Speaker 5: Goal I'm gonna follow you to the goal I'm gonna.
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  Speaker 10: Follow you to the goal I'm gonna chase it after
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  Speaker 10: you I'm gonna chase it after you
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  Speaker 10: .
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  Speaker 7: .
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  Speaker 9: Is it working?
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  Speaker 4: Is it working?
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  Speaker 2: Is it working? Is it working? Is he walking?
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  Speaker 10: Oh yeah, walking, oh yeah, everybody listen.
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  Speaker 2: What's up, what's up?
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  Speaker 10: What's up, what's up, what's up, what's up, what's up,
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  Speaker 10: everybody listen.
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  Speaker 2: Let's do this one more.
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  Speaker 4: One more.
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  Speaker 2: One more. One more. One more. One more. One more.
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  Speaker 10: We are here to make it for yourself.
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  Speaker 2: This is a movie for yourself. We are here to
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  Speaker 2: make it for yourself. This is walking. This is walking.
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  Speaker 2: This is walking. This is walking. This is walking. This
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  Speaker 2: is walking. Water, water.
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  Speaker 10: Water, water. We will not do anything. Water, water. do
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  Speaker 10: Do what I.
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  Speaker 7: Do Oh yeah, let's.
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  Speaker 2: Go Hey, let's go Let's.
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  Speaker 7: Go Let's go.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go, let's go.
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  Speaker 4: Let's go. Yeah!
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  Speaker 2: Yeah! Oh, yeah. The way your neighbor is looking, say neighbor.
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  Speaker 2: Say neighbor. Ask your neighbor, say, where are you from?
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  Speaker 2: Or you answer your neighbor.
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  Speaker 10: Ask your neighbor, say, can you dance a language dance?
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  Speaker 2: Hear me, hear me.
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  Speaker 10: The way you dance tonight, will determine your blessing, oh.
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  Speaker 2: If you dance with your.
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  Speaker 10: Neighbor, your blessing will be higher.
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  Speaker 2: Are you ready? If you can hear me, shout hallelujah.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. Yes, sir! Okay! My God, it's a good daughter! Yes,
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  Speaker 2: it is! I say, you listen to me, yeah! You
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  Speaker 2: listen to me!
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  Speaker 10: The higher you lift God, the higher.
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  Speaker 2: Your blessing will come. He lifts me up. He lifts me.
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  Speaker 3: Up.
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  Speaker 2: He turns me around.
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  Speaker 8: He turns me around.
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  Speaker 7: He turns me around.
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  Speaker 8: He sets my feet.
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  Speaker 2: He sets my feet.
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  Speaker 7: Thank you so much. Give Jesus a shout!
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  Speaker 11: We bless you, Jesus. We bless you, Jesus. We bless you, Jesus. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, sir. Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: Thank you, Lord.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Amen. Amen. Amen. Now, listen.
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  Speaker 2: While we're praising and dancing, God said to announce... There
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  Speaker 2: are different people connecting from different parts of the world.
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  Speaker 2: He said to announce that I have rolled away the
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  Speaker 2: siege of death. That is the word of the Lord.
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  Speaker 2: And he said to tell you, I am starting a
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  Speaker 2: new thing. And I am doing this in my sovereign
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  Speaker 2: will as God. He said, I am the Lord and
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  Speaker 2: no one can question me. No one can stop what
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  Speaker 2: I do. He said, because you have praised me despite
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  Speaker 2: your pain. He said, I will take away your sorrows
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  Speaker 2: and give you a new season. That is the word
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  Speaker 2: of the Lord. A new season is here. A new
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  Speaker 2: season is here. A new season is here. You may
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  Speaker 2: not hear the sound of the rain, but the ditch
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  Speaker 2: will be filled with water. Noiseless triumph. Noiseless breakthroughs. In
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  Speaker 2: the name of Jesus. It is a new day. Who
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  Speaker 2: is like unto thee, O Lord? Who is like unto thee?
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  Speaker 2: Glorious in holiness. Fearful in praise. You do wonders. You
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  Speaker 2: perform miracles. You raise the poor and the beggar from
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  Speaker 2: the donkey hill. And set them among the priests. You
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  Speaker 2: are God and there is none else. To you we
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  Speaker 2: have come to lift our hands in praise. And we
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  Speaker 2: thank you. We thank you. We thank you. Because we
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  Speaker 2: know dryness is over. A new season is here. And
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  Speaker 2: we rejoice in your name. For you are the hope
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  Speaker 2: of our.
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  Speaker 8: Salvation.
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  Speaker 2: We thank you, Lord. Blessed be your holy name. Behold,
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  Speaker 2: all things are passed away. And all things are new.
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  Speaker 2: This is how we fetch. It is with joy that
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  Speaker 2: we draw from the wells of salvation. We give you praise.
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  Speaker 2: Let's put our hands together. Now, I want us to
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  Speaker 2: do something very prophetic. Walk up to five people and
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  Speaker 2: say congratulations to you. Never failing And all.
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  Speaker 4: Things are working for my.
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  Speaker 12: God It's intentional Never failing And all things are working
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  Speaker 12: for my God.
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  Speaker 4: Amen.
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  Speaker 2: Now, listen. Hear the words of the Lord. The things
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  Speaker 2: you have.
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  Speaker 6: Struggled to put together. The things you have struggled to do.
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  Speaker 6: You have entered into a season.
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  Speaker 2: Where the things that used to cost you stress. Becomes
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  Speaker 2: child's play. He said watch out for the covenant of ease.
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  Speaker 2: That I have made with you. Some things that look
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  Speaker 2: so far. Like it will take time before you get there.
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  Speaker 2: The Lord said, I'm shrinking time for you. And the
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  Speaker 2: Lord said to tell someone, behold, you have come to
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  Speaker 2: the face where I will cause your voice to be heard.
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  Speaker 2: And all who hear you will know that I'm speaking
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  Speaker 2: through you. It is a new season, beloved. Can you
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  Speaker 2: tell it in the atmosphere? Can you see it? It's
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  Speaker 2: a new season. Thank you, Lord. We are trusting God
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  Speaker 2: for the fruit of the womb. We are waiting for something.
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  Speaker 2: Rejoice because it is here.
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  Speaker 8: Thank you, Lord.
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  Speaker 2: We bless the name of the Lord. Let me tell
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  Speaker 2: you what is happening. It's a new dispatch of angels. New,
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  Speaker 2: new dispatch. In different places, new release. I'm telling you,
• 1:38:53
  Speaker 2: new release, new dispatch of angels taking their formations. And God, listen, listen, listen.
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  Speaker 2: If there's a word for tonight, the word is God
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  Speaker 2: has responded. That is the word. God has responded. That
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  Speaker 2: is the word. God has responded. That is the word.
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  Speaker 2: He has responded. He has responded. That is the word.
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  Speaker 2: God has responded. When they ask you, listen to me.
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  Speaker 2: Listen to me. When they ask you, what happened in
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  Speaker 2: church tonight? The answer is, God has responded. Because he has.
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  Speaker 2: We rejoice in your name. We bless your holy name.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, Father. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Jesus. Be
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  Speaker 2: on your feet like men of war and rejoice. Amen. See,
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  Speaker 2: this kind of atmosphere is not man-made. This is what
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  Speaker 2: you have when God responds. Amen. We give you praise, Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: We give you praise.
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