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The Need For Prayer Pastor Segun Odeyemi · Apostle Lazarus Femi

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  Speaker 1: The word of God is a beacon of hope in
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  Speaker 1: a dying world and the voice of divine authority to
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  Speaker 1: those who believe. Dive into the prolific, prophetic and apostolic
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  Speaker 1: for living and wisdom to navigate of times. This is
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  Speaker 1: Family Lazarus Ministries.
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  Speaker 2: I want to thank and of course.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you so so much, to thank you for this moment,
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  Speaker 3: that in the next few minutes your will will be communicated,
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  Speaker 3: that I will speak. Your words are not mine. Thank you,
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  Speaker 3: Father for your intention for now is known. We give
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  Speaker 3: you the for this, We give you the place. We say,
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  Speaker 3: be our exoded Lord, in the name of Jesus. In
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  Speaker 3: Jesus' name we have prayed. Please can we help me
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  Speaker 3: celebrate God's man Oppostle feminizers, come on, let's do it
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  Speaker 3: like a minute. Glory to God. Thank you so much,
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  Speaker 3: sir for this privilege. Alleluiah, Thank you sir. Please get
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  Speaker 3: Can we just see it? You know, as Apposot mentioned
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  Speaker 3: to me that I was going to come up by
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  Speaker 3: the way, that was just a few minutes ago, Elle Lujah,
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  Speaker 3: Glory to God. You know, I just began to ask
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  Speaker 3: myself that what is the one thing that the Lord.
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  Speaker 2: Will have me say? You know, at this point and.
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  Speaker 3: At that moment, I started to look back at my
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  Speaker 3: journey in ministry. I wasn't always in ministry, you know.
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  Speaker 3: I practice law for a while. Then you know, we
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  Speaker 3: ran a fashion hours and then the Lord began to
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  Speaker 3: speak to us to leave all of those things, you know,
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  Speaker 3: and then come into full time ministry, you know, And
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  Speaker 3: I just sensed that maybe there's somebody here we is
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  Speaker 3: also on that path, you know, and where the Lord
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  Speaker 3: is calling you out of what you used to know,
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  Speaker 3: it's calling you out of the familiar. Are you getting
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  Speaker 3: what I'm trying to say? And now you need to
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  Speaker 3: work in a path where you have not followed before. Now,
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  Speaker 3: So I started to ask myself, what is the one
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  Speaker 3: thing that has truly helped me on this journey so far?
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  Speaker 3: You see the truth is that church is shut down
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  Speaker 3: every day? Do you understand what I'm trying to say.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure we all said yeah, no, at least somebody
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  Speaker 3: that the Lord called, and we believe that the Lord
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  Speaker 3: called them to do the work, but now they are
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  Speaker 3: no longer. Do you understand what I'm trying to say?
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  Speaker 3: So I asked myself, what is the one thing that
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  Speaker 3: has been the edge on this journey? And say I
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  Speaker 3: came with the answer, and the answer is simple. It
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  Speaker 3: is a life of prayer. Everybody says me, say a
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  Speaker 3: life of prayer? Oh, come on, say loud that, say
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  Speaker 3: life of prayer. Can I show you just a scripture?
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  Speaker 2: All right?
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  Speaker 3: My time is running James, Chapter five, verse eighteen, And
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  Speaker 3: I want us to see it in the TPT translation
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  Speaker 3: James Chapter five. Let's start from verse sixteen in the
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  Speaker 3: TPT translation.
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  Speaker 2: The way of that? All right, look at it, everybody.
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  Speaker 3: It says, confess and I acknowledge how you have offended
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  Speaker 3: one another and then pray for one another to be
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  Speaker 3: instantly healed. Now look at this, and this is beautiful,
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  Speaker 3: it says, for tremendous power is released through what everybody,
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  Speaker 3: the passionate, heartfelt prayer of a goodly believer.
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  Speaker 2: Now look at a seventeen.
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  Speaker 3: He says Alijah was a man with human felties, meaning that, see,
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  Speaker 3: this guy is not perfect. You see what I'm trying
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  Speaker 3: to say. He has his down there, his lips off
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  Speaker 3: sometimes too, when it's green, he gets hungry like the
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  Speaker 3: rest of us. He's a man with human felties, just
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  Speaker 3: like all of us, Just like all of us. Oh,
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  Speaker 3: look at you know when you say this guy is
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  Speaker 3: a nice person. In fact, I love him so much.
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  Speaker 3: But now it means that that conversation is about to change. Hallelujah.
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  Speaker 3: Are you seeing this? He says. But even though all
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  Speaker 3: there were things that could have pulled him down, he says,
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  Speaker 3: But but he prayed and received supernatural answers. He actually
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  Speaker 3: shot the heavens over the land, so there will be
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  Speaker 3: moving for Tilly and the half years.
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  Speaker 2: Now look at it.
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  Speaker 3: Eighteen Then he prayed again and the skies opened up
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  Speaker 3: over the land so that they then came again and
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  Speaker 3: produced their harvest. Halley Layer, let me say this to you,
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  Speaker 3: and you know, in recent time I have been feeling passion
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  Speaker 3: and compassion. But really for you know, people with the
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  Speaker 3: Lord is calling. You know, maybe may be out of
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  Speaker 3: this soft life you used to have. And you know
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  Speaker 3: it is easier when children are not involved. Ha Lee lujah. Ah,
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  Speaker 3: it becomes dangerous when you need to probably believe God
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  Speaker 3: sometimes for what your child will eat next. All right, now,
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  Speaker 3: what is that one thing that will help you listen
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  Speaker 3: to me? It is a life of prayer and I
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  Speaker 3: just want to speak feeling from my heart this evening. See,
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  Speaker 3: there is a difference between a man of God praying
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  Speaker 3: and a man of God leading prayers. What many pastors
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  Speaker 3: think prayer is is that you are leading prayers.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 3: Remember one time when we used to pray in church
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  Speaker 3: for six hours every day, and then you know I would.
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  Speaker 2: Lead those prayers.
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  Speaker 3: Now, because I was in the press for almost six hours, I.
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  Speaker 2: Felt like I was praying. ONCEO the Lord.
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  Speaker 3: Began to say, you're not praying, and then I knew
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  Speaker 3: it was time for you know, personal prayers. Nothing has
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  Speaker 3: delivered or small in ministry like prayers. You know, there
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  Speaker 3: was a time when we're using a bar for church,
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  Speaker 3: that was a venue and the neature of buses that
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  Speaker 3: when you have weteed their service, as we start to sing,
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  Speaker 3: you know, and just thank God doing service on Wednesdays,
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  Speaker 3: the people who came to drink beer, they start to
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  Speaker 3: dance and vibe to a person worship session. But the
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  Speaker 3: way that was the first that opposed came to our church.
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  Speaker 3: He came to that bar, you know, himself and past
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  Speaker 3: the mimic. Can we please celebrate them? Yeah, you know,
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  Speaker 3: and I will never forget the world he spoke that day,
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  Speaker 3: powerful world, you know. And now I've learned to be
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  Speaker 3: content in every season with serving God.
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  Speaker 2: Hold the services.
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  Speaker 3: Because the venue said we couldn't afford that bar, the
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  Speaker 3: owner gave us for free. So it was a messy
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  Speaker 3: provision and I was thankful. So one day demand came
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  Speaker 3: and said, you know what, because as we you know,
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  Speaker 3: we're growing at that bad What happened was that the patron.
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  Speaker 2: Needs stared to drop. Do you understand what I'm trying
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  Speaker 2: to say.
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  Speaker 3: So the man later came and said, I need to
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  Speaker 3: use my place, so please, you guys have to go.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 3: I think it gave us about seven days notice. Now
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  Speaker 3: the celders filled within of any place. Who we continued
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  Speaker 3: praying and praying. Now in that day, the Lord led
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  Speaker 3: us to have a twenty one day's video. Now it's
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  Speaker 3: not the normal conventionional video because I remember that everybody
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  Speaker 3: that had that video.
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  Speaker 2: With me fell sick, everybody including my wife. You know.
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  Speaker 3: Now the video will start by ten pm. By six
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  Speaker 3: am in the morning, my wife will now come and
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  Speaker 3: make me say, you know, this. Guys have to go
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  Speaker 3: to work, so you need to.
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  Speaker 2: You know, release them.
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  Speaker 3: Now we're praying that way because there was not all
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  Speaker 3: that visible way of escape.
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  Speaker 2: Do you understand what I'm trying to say.
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  Speaker 3: The only way it is either something happens okay, or church.
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  Speaker 2: Is going to close down.
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  Speaker 3: And we continue that way for twenty one this now,
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  Speaker 3: at the end of the twenty one days, I got.
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  Speaker 2: A text message. I would never forget it.
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  Speaker 3: The text many said, d Pastor, Now you know if
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  Speaker 3: you use a bad meaning that they have chairs, you
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  Speaker 3: know it's an hotel too on the side, so you
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  Speaker 3: don't need gen you don't have anything.
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  Speaker 2: The only thing we owned.
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  Speaker 3: As a truth, that is it was just the two
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  Speaker 3: cheers where my wife you know, and I.
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  Speaker 2: You know, used to see it. Nothing else, norm I
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  Speaker 2: mean nothing.
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  Speaker 3: At the end of one that we've got the test,
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  Speaker 3: it says pastor, we have a clean matching order from
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  Speaker 3: Heaven to give on to you the following things. And
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  Speaker 3: the list started number one, cheers, number two, televisions, number TV,
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  Speaker 3: a CS, number four generator because if you give us
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  Speaker 3: a CE, you better give us a gen power it,
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  Speaker 3: you know.
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  Speaker 2: I mean.
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  Speaker 3: And the list went on and on, that was how
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  Speaker 3: God delivered us. You see, I've not been a ministrea
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  Speaker 3: for a long time, that's the truth. But I've add
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  Speaker 3: different answers to prayers that have saved those years. Oh yeah,
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  Speaker 3: different answer to prayers that said. Now, I remember very
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  Speaker 3: recently we were trusting God. After that, we moved to
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  Speaker 3: a better place, all right in the plaza, and we're
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  Speaker 3: trusting God to pay the events of that place. I
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  Speaker 3: think it was about eight hundred thousand that.
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  Speaker 2: Year we had.
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  Speaker 3: You know, when you have tried to encourage people, try
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  Speaker 3: to tell them so and all of those things. We
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  Speaker 3: had done everything possible. There was no way we're going
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  Speaker 3: to pay the event. And you know, after it's on,
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  Speaker 3: they said, somebody walked up to me and said passed off.
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  Speaker 3: And because I said, now, we had moved our prayers
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  Speaker 3: from six hours to about seventeen hours daily. Now look
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  Speaker 3: at this. The Lord said something to me at the
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  Speaker 3: wake of our ministry. He said, where you are driving
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  Speaker 3: a car, It said, on the inside of the car
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  Speaker 3: when the ess is on. Okay, the music is on,
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  Speaker 3: everybody's vibing, you are happy, you are comfortable, except but
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  Speaker 3: if you touch the engine that is producing the coolness
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  Speaker 3: and the comfort you are feeling on.
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  Speaker 2: The inside, he said, the engine is hot.
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  Speaker 3: So he said to me, he said on the outside,
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  Speaker 3: he said, look, as you know, comfortable as possible.
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  Speaker 2: Look as good as possible.
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  Speaker 3: He said, But see the engine that produces all the
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  Speaker 3: coolness you'll feel on the inside is prayer. Oh say
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  Speaker 3: with me, said the engine is prayer. Can we be louder? Said,
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  Speaker 3: the engine is prayer. I just want to say that
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  Speaker 3: there is a life of prayer that saw stays everything
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  Speaker 3: so towards you know.
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  Speaker 2: As the service was.
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  Speaker 3: Ending that I was saying, the person just walked up
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  Speaker 3: to me and said, Pastor, the Love said to me
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  Speaker 3: to move the church to the biggest with And I
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  Speaker 3: thought it was just something small, because we're looking for
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  Speaker 3: Just give us the event, let us survive. He said, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 3: what the Lord is laying on my heart is bigger.
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  Speaker 3: I said, how big? He said, Pastor open budget? Oh
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  Speaker 3: ship bah, listen. That was the first time I was
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  Speaker 3: living that world in my life.
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  Speaker 2: Now I'm telling.
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  Speaker 3: You orpon what everybody now. By the time we're spent
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  Speaker 3: in hundreds of millions within a few months, I understood
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  Speaker 3: level word's open budgetment. Listen to me, pastor, I just
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  Speaker 3: want to say to you that it doesn't matter the
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  Speaker 3: face that work is at now if you will pray
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  Speaker 3: and you see, there's a way we can get trapped
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  Speaker 3: in the activities of ministry and all of those things,
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  Speaker 3: seeing people cancelling, which is actually good. But see if
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  Speaker 3: you will pray and your pass always say something that
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  Speaker 3: are mot your bia cooking that going so minute that
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  Speaker 3: if you know that there's nobody to help you, you
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  Speaker 3: better pray and.
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  Speaker 2: Listen to me. The prayer is not one hour.
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  Speaker 3: I try not to give time to prayer, but there
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  Speaker 3: is a prayer life of a pastor. But goally a
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  Speaker 3: set person. Are you getting what I'm trying to say?
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  Speaker 3: And we saw Jesus Christ when it was on the heath.
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  Speaker 3: He exemplified that culture of prayer. Match up that one
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  Speaker 3: vest Thy five told us how Jesus will wake up
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  Speaker 3: early hours before they and it would depat into a
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  Speaker 3: solitud place and there he prayed. If Jesus prayed, you
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  Speaker 3: will have to Hallelujah conclusively. This even it doesn't let
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  Speaker 3: me add this, and this is so so profound I've
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  Speaker 3: learnt in my journey in prayer. That's it There's a
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  Speaker 3: difference between praying in the spirit and when a spirit
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  Speaker 3: of prayer and nocles with you. Do you understand what
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  Speaker 3: I'm trying to say?
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  Speaker 2: Now, when a spirit of prayer a.
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  Speaker 3: Tap bannocles with you, you will have a good problem
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  Speaker 3: of prayer. These are seasons when you want to stop praying,
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  Speaker 3: but something within you is still praying and you cannot stop.
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  Speaker 3: Do you understand what I'm trying to say? At that
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  Speaker 3: point you lose time. You're not checking how many hours?
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  Speaker 3: If I don't anymore? Because you have been assisted to
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  Speaker 3: pray and see, I believe in my heart as I
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  Speaker 3: sat there, I just began to brood in my spirit
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  Speaker 3: the Father, what.
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  Speaker 2: Do you are for us?
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  Speaker 3: And I believe in my heart that that dimension is
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  Speaker 3: available here this evening. Hey, some things are thought, but
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  Speaker 3: some things are caught. Baba Ballah did not have any advantage.
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  Speaker 3: But hey, the man can pray. He has been dead
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  Speaker 3: for years. Now the ministry is started. It's still verbe frong.
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  Speaker 3: Do you understand what I'm trying to say? And I say,
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  Speaker 3: that's it. There's that whole point heaven. Yet because of
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  Speaker 3: all the deposit I mean a postal, I thought what
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  Speaker 3: was with Ella taught again the clouds are full, and
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  Speaker 3: remember says if the clouds be full, will they're not
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  Speaker 3: lost themselves upon the head. And see this is how
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  Speaker 3: we'll step into it. You will stand, you will pray
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  Speaker 3: out loud and clear. See when a plane is about
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  Speaker 3: to take off, there is a deployment of its greatest
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  Speaker 3: energy that it becomes impossible for.
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  Speaker 2: It to be made on the group.
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  Speaker 3: And you get to what I'm there saying, Aha, so
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  Speaker 3: you know, so there's a way that we can ascend
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  Speaker 3: first by you deliberately pressing into the rep of the spirit.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm happy that this is eight minutes. That's conference.
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  Speaker 3: Your lego badly hand the gold. I tell you I'm
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  Speaker 3: waiting for people who can pray.
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  Speaker 4: Ha ha.
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  Speaker 3: If you will pray now, you will just find out.
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  Speaker 3: I mean that was last week and pastor was with me.
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  Speaker 3: We are the conversation for about twenty minutes. Is a
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  Speaker 3: pastor I've been playing six hours every day. This is
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  Speaker 3: a pastor will admitted that he has not prayed in
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  Speaker 3: a white Now pray now it is available, press and
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  Speaker 3: come on sharp cry why your changing sticks? I'm telling
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  Speaker 3: you Helen being the bather car let your add desire.
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  Speaker 3: Come on, come on, come on, come on. It doesn't
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  Speaker 3: matter what is advanta this had. It doesn't matter who
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  Speaker 3: doesn't like you. It doesn't matter what you don't have.
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  Speaker 3: It doesn't matter what you.
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  Speaker 4: Do, why you're changing states.
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