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LOOKING-UNTO-JESUS · Apostle Joshua Selman

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Speaker 1: Which we love you.
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Speaker 2: I will celebrate to Let's welcome this money again to
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our short of defy one more time, our apostle Joshua Salman,
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returning to that international.
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Speaker 1: Jesus. There is anything.
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Speaker 3: Thank you nice.
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Speaker 1: Feels wait to finish so that you called me up.
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But I'm grateful, Thank you for thank you, Thank you, sir, Sni,
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thank you, sir. There is nothing that we do that
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is of our own fabrication. We're products of His mercy,
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We're products of His grace. Are we ready for this morning? Father?
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Give me an encounter. Go ahead and pray, give me
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an encounter. Give me an encounter by your spirit, Give
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me an encounter. Your name is the highest, your name,
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your name stands above all. Sing one more time from
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your heart, your.
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Speaker 4: Dad us.
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Speaker 1: In than about.
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Speaker 3: Kind of me.
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Speaker 1: Father, we declare that you speak to us this morning.
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Gladden our hearts by your word. Position us again for
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a victorious.
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Speaker 3: Life this year.
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Speaker 1: Cause our hearts to be fixed on Jesus and in
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the name of Jesus, letter profiting appear onto all for
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Jesus much less name. We pray, Amen and Amen, please
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be gloriously seated for a final charge. This morning will
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be considering a very interesting portion of scripture that has
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been a blessing to me personally. And let me request
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that you please lend me your attention to scriptures looking
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on to Jesus. Hebrews Chapter two. Will read from verse
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one and two Hebrews Chapter two. Therefore we Hebrews twelve,
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my Apologists twelve one and two Hebrews twelve. Wherefore, seeing
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that we're encompassed with so great a cloud of witnesses,
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let us lay aside every weight and the scene which
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dot easily beset us, and to run with patience or
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perseverance the race that is set before us, looking on
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too Jesus, the author and finish of our faith, who
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for the joy that was set before him, endured the cross,
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despising the shame, and he sat down at the right
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hand of God looking onto Jesus. Let's go to p
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Thirty four, or begin my reading from verse one. Psalm
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thirty four. I will bless the Lord at all times.
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His praise shall continually be in my mouth. Verse two.
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My soul shall make her boasting the Lord. The humble
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shall hear of and be glad or magnify the Lord
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with me, And let us exalt his name forever altogether.
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I sought the Lord, and he heard me and delivered
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me from all my fears. Read verse five. Together, please
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one to go aha, and they were lightened, and the
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faces were not as shave. One more time they looked
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onto him and were lightened, and their faces were not
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as shame. Verse six, reading to ten. The poor man cried,
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and the Lord heard him and saved him out of
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all his troubles. Seven. The Angel of the Lord encompath
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round about them that fear him, and delivered them. All
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taste and see that the Lord is good. Blessed is
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the man that trusted in him. Verse nine. All fear
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the Lord ye his sayings, for there is no want
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to them that fear him. Final verse the young lions
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do lack and suffer hunger. But they that seek the
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Lord shall not want any good thing. The Lord bless
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the reading of his word in the name of Jesus
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Christ for a start this morning. The Bible lets us
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know that our sojourn on earth is like to running
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a race. That for every morning you wake up, at
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night you resort back to bed. For every day that
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turns to a week, that turns to a month, that
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turns to years. The Bible gives us a picture of
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an athlete running erase. Now that statement may not be
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immediately obvious if you consider your life per day or
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per second, But when you consider the span of your life,
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maybe for years, decades, you will agree with Paul that
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this life is truly a race. So he tells us
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that there is a race that is set before us,
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set before every believer. Are we together now? He's likening
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our sojourn on earth to a race. Life and destiny
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is likened to a race, the race that is set
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before you. That race begins from the day you are
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born and it culminates the day that you transit in glory.
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And there are certain expectations that God has within that
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period of running that you call your lifetime. Are we
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learning now? The second thing I want us to know
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is that there is a strategy. This is a message
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that has impacted my life. There is a way to
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run such that you win. There is a way to
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run such that you are victorious. And Paul begins to
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introduce that strategy that there is a way believers are
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supposed to run that race, and that if they work
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in keeping with that strategy, there is a guarantee that
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they will win. And he calls the name of that strategy,
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looking on to Jesus, allelujah. So he says, scene that
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were compassed by so great a cloud of witnesses. Let
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us lay aside every weight and the scene that not
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easily be set us. Then when we're done, it says,
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to run the race that is before us. Then it says,
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looking onto Jesus. Now, this is a very interesting way
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of running, because I presume everyone here at one point
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or the other, you've been involved in athletics, and if
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you run, say, for instance, a one hundred meter dash,
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you don't look onto a person. You look onto a destination.
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Am I right on that? But the Bible says this
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kind of running, your attention is not on the end.
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Your attention is not on a place. Your attention is
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not on a location. Your focus is on a person
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that in running this race that we call life. You
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only win when you take away your attention from things,
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You take away your attention from a place, and you
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look onto Jesus. The Bible calls him the author and
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the perfector or the finisher of our faith. Allelujah. And
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then he tells us why we need to look onto Jesus,
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who consider that in a bit that this Jesus will
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look onto. He calls him the author. The word author
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is the word the same word genesis, the beginning, the originate,
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or the source, the starting point, and then the perfecta
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of our faith. That this is the reason why we
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must look on to Jesus. Pray the name of the Lord.
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Now very quickly, the word look. I want to stay
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here for a bit this morning. The word look is
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a very interesting word. When you read it from an
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English standpoint, you will think he's just saying look at
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or maybe just fix your eyes on. But it's beyond that.
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And for the purpose of our discussion this morning, I
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want to give us two perspectives on that word look.
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Number one, the word look means to direct one's gaze
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or focus towards someone or something we expectation. To look
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means to direct your gaze, to direct your focus on
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someone or something with expectation. You find that expression in
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Acts chapter three. Acts Chapter three, the Bible says, at
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the hour of prayer, Peter and John went to pray,
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and then two a certain man was lame from his
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mother's womb, whom they carried daily to the temple, and
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he was asking for arms. Verse three, Now says who's
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seeing Peter? You see that now? And John about to
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go into the temple, He asked for arms. Four, and Peter,
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fastening his eyes upon him, said look on us. And
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the Bible says the man gave heed. So you see
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the looking there was not just fix your eyes. The
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way the man looked was to give heed. Verse five.
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He gave heed onto them expecting in So this idea
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of looking is not just fix your eyes, give heed,
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pay attention, direct your focus expecting to receive something of them.
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Are we learning already? So to look means to direct
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one's gaze, to direct one's focus towards someone, In this
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case the Lord Jesus Isaiah chapter fifty and verse seven.
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Isaiah chapter fifty and verse seven. For the Lord God
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will help me someone receive it. Say amen, therefore I
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shall not be confounded. Therefore I have set my face
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like a flint, and I know that I shall not
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be ashamed. Allelujah. Now, this idea of looking demands two things.
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Please look at me. This idea of looking demands two things.
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Number one, you have to look away from then you
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have to look towards Are we together? So for instance,
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we have some gentlemen behind me, and you are before me.
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Now I am looking at you. Is that correct? That
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immediately means I am looking away from them. There's no
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possibility of looking at you and looking at them at
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the same time, because one is at my back and
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the other is in front. So when the Bible says
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looking onto Jesus, the first law of looking is that
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you must look away from some things. You cannot set
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your gaze and your focus on Jesus while still considering
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certain things away Together, the Bible says, Abraham, conceie that
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not concede that not there are things this morning. If
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you were to run that race looking onto Jesus, effectively,
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you must look away from, for instance, looking away from
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your crowns and achievements of the past, looking away from
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your pain and disappointments. Are we together looking away from
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what did not work last year? And also looking away
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from what walked last year. I like the way Paul
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puts it. He says, this one thing I do forgetting
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the things that are behind. He never said forgetting the
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bad things, or the evil things, or the disappointments. Forgetting
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the things that are behind me and reaching forth for
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the things that are before me. He says, I press
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towards the mark of the high calling in Christ Jesus.
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There are many people who are not able to focus
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on Jesus because there are encumbrances that are vying for
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your attention. The bills are there, the medical report is there,
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the family situation is there. Your need for a job
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is there. The frustrations that have come from you know,
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ends not meeting all there. But the Bible says, if
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you must look onto Jesus to win, you must sustain
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the ability to look away away together now, to look
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away in spite of the medical report, in spite of
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the family situation, and in spite of your achievements of yesterday.
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You know, I've learned a few things about success, and
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one of it is that success can lead to failure. Allelujah.
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There are many people who have failed today because they
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succeeded yesterday. And so we must look onto Jesus, set
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our gaze and look away. There are voices, there are pictures,
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there are imageries, there are reports that are vying clamoring
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for your attention. And as a final word, in this conference.
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If you are to make sense of everything you began
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to receive from the start of this conference, you must
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make up your mind that, in the name of Jesus,
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in this year twenty twenty five, I will look away
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from certain things. Are we together? Do you know when
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you set your mind on a wrong thing, it can
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waste your time, depress you. In fact, psychologists teach us
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that focus creates feelings, say that after me, focus creates
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feelings one more time. For instance, if I call you
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now and I tell you the pastor your pastor has
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instructed me to give you one million mira, what happens
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to you? See some of you smiling? Although you know
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I'm joking. You see what just happened to you? You
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know what I'm saying is but the whole idea of
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a good thing coming to you. Focus creates feelings. If
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whilst you are seated here, God forbid, you hear that
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some tragic situation is happening somewhere because of that information,
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isn't it amazing that, for instance, you receive and alertin
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your phone you've not verified with That is a mistake.
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You've not verified. You're smiling, you are happy, you are
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giving glory to Jesus. You are even rolling on the ground.
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You're not shure he Atm is working. You've not verified reather.
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The money was reversed. It was a wrong transfer. The
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fact that it came around your domain. You are happy
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the same way you can hear bad news and suddenly
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begin to cry. Listen to me. If you must succeed
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in your life, you must take the responsibility of guarding
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your ear gate and your eye gate. Did you hear
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what I said? Your eye gate and your ear gate.
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These are very important gates that can shape your destiny. Allelujah,
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your ear gate and your eye gate. So the Bible says,
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looking on to Jesus, you direct your gaze, You direct
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your focus to void of destruction. The second definition of
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looking onto Jesus means to rely on and I want
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to stay here. So the first has to do it
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focus void of distruction and to set your gaze, your attention,
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your focus on Jesus. But the second gives the idea
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of reliance and depending on Jesus. This one talks about trust.
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This one talks about believing on Jesus. Perhaps Chapter three,
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hundreverse five says trust in the Lord with all your
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heart is that in your Bible, and lean not onto
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thine own understanding. It says, in all your ways, acknowledge him,
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and he shall direct your part. It says, be not
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wise in your own eyes, fear the Lord, and turn
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away from evil. So follow my thoughts now. When the
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Bible says to look onto Jesus for a discussion this morning,
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it means two things. Number one, to look away from
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and to direct your gaze your focus on Jesus. Number
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two is to come to a point where you can
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trust and believe in Jesus. It says, if you will
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believe in him, you shall see the glory of the Lord.
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To rely on to believing, to take Jesus as a
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person and as his word as dependable as worthy of
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trust absolute trust, are we together now Psam One twenty three.
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From verse one and two. To depend on Jesus, it says,
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onto thee lift eye up my eyes, all thou that
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dwellest in the heavens. Verse two, behold, as the eyes
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of the servants look onto the hand of their masters,
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and as the eyes of a maiden onto the hand
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of her mistress, So our eyes are upon you. You
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get the idea now, so he's using what they call
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it now, He's using a description to help you understand
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what it means for your eyes to wait upon the Lord.
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He says, as a servant looks onto the hand of
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his master, knowing that the salary my innings would have
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to come from the hand of my master. I depend
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on my master totally for my survival. And as a maiden,
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she knows that she's depending on the love the benevolence
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of her mistress. That should her mistress change her mind,
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it can affect her destiny. He said in that signitude,
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my eyes are on you. That means, Lord, if you
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do not help me, help cannot come from anywhere. I
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don't have another alternative. You are not Plan A, so
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that I consider Plan B. I have come to a
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point of settled assurance that if you do not help
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my life, you do not help my destiny. There is
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no way out. How many of you believe that? Listen,
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let me tell you something about working with God. For
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as long as you still know an alternative in your heart,
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you will never see the best of God. The jealousy
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of God demands that he becomes absolute and only not
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just the first, but the only most times we are
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not able to see the power and the glory of
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God in our lives because secretly we have alternatives. This plan,
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b there's plan. See this plan be in case God
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fails us. As much as we say, Lord, I trust you,
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somewhere in our heart, we've not been persuaded that He's
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able to keep that which is committed onto him against
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that day. And so to save ourselves embarrassment, we put
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him as the main plan. And then we have all
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kinds of alternatives. Prays the name of the Lord. So
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when the Bible says to look onto Jesus as a
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strategy for winning the race of life, number one, it
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means to take your eyes away from your attention, away
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from both good and bad things provided there and you're yesterday.
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It says to focus on Jesus. And then number two,
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to rely and depend on him. I have learned in
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my work with God, not just as a man of God,
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but as a believer, that it pays to totally depend
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on Jesus. My life is an absolute product of dependence
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on Him. Men can fail you, Systems can fail you.
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The promises of men can fail. Men do not fail
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because they are evil. They fail because they are men.
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Someone can promise you to give you your house rent
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and not tell you that his promise was connected to
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another person's promised to him. And you come later, and
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he says, my intention remains the same, only that the
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person to bless me, so I can bless you disappointed me,
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very very powerful understanding. They looked on to him, and
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their faces were lightened. There is no shame for the
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man who decides to depend on God. Now, God will
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always use men. Men are channels, not sources. When men
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become saorces, they you have made them idols, and the
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jealousy of God will insist that that plan does not work.
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When a man becomes your source, that man has become
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your idol. But when God becomes your source, he can
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use any man at all, not the man you want,
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not the man you choose, anyone at all. Allelujah.
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Speaker 3: You are the first.
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Speaker 1: You are the street, You are the hung leave in
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deep inside of me.
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Speaker 3: You are the food.
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Speaker 1: That sadest fast.
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Speaker 3: You are prove for the journey of my life.
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Speaker 1: You are everything that's a language of dependence.
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Speaker 3: You are everything.
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Speaker 1: There are chariots and horses, but you are every join
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me to make that proclamation just one time. You are everything.
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I know. I have an uncle and a nanti, but
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you ah. I know. I have several degrees and certifications,
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but you.
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Speaker 3: Are every.
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Speaker 1: I have my passport stamped with all kinds of visus
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representing access to nations. But you are everything. I'm leading
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you into a confession that gives you liberty. I have
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an uncle that is a senate. I have an uncle
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whose benevolence has been tested through the years, But you
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are everything. I have a responsible father, a responsible mother
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who have vowed to take care of me.
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Speaker 3: But you are everything.
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Speaker 1: I have a high paying job that has potentials to
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scale me higher and higher. But you are everything. Someone shouts,
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you are everything, not just you are my greatest You
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are everything. When he becomes your everything, he takes the
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responsibility over your life. The word trust comes from the
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Hebrew word buttah. It means to throw yourself like a baby,
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trusts himself from an altitude, expecting the father to hold him.
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So he says, trusting the Lord, you see. You can
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have faith in what is unseen. But trust is based
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on a track record, track record. When David stood before Goliad,
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he said, I know the God that delivered the lion
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and the bear to me, He will also deliver you
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to me. Is uncircumcised philistine. Someone learning this morning, I'll
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sing this song one more time. It's not a special number.
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When I get to that part, you are everything. I
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want you to join me by singing that song. Someone
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is dethroning idols, the things that have study in as God,
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not allowing God to be God in your life. Because
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every time you say amen in your mind, you are
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saying Amen through my uncle, Amen, through my auntie, Amen,
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through my job, Amen, through my bank account. Dependence on
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God demands that you strip yourself of any auxillary support
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system as a source. Someone learning.
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Speaker 3: You are the first. You are the string.
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Speaker 1: You are the hungly even deep inside of me, you
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are the food that's sad as fact. You are provis
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for the journey.
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Speaker 3: Of my life.
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Speaker 1: Here's You're part of the song.
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Speaker 3: Now you are everything.
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Speaker 1: Let it be a confession from your heart. You are
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every for someone who came to charge. This is your
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deliverance right now.
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Speaker 3: You are everything.
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Speaker 1: Cast your crown, cast every other thing.
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Speaker 3: And say you everything.
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Speaker 1: Take this song and use it as a purifier of
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idolatry throughout the day. Singing. When you get back home.
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You may not know every what I sung, but keep
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this one in your heart and sing it while the
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tears roll out as a sign of dependence. That Lord,
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this year, I'm not going to stand before people and
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lie that I trust you, whereas I'm there sending text
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to people and say you've not gotten back to me.
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You've not gotten back to me. If I say amen,
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it means if God does not do it, let me
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remain a failure honorably. Let it be that God could
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not step in, but that you look onto a man
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you enterre conveidant with your destiny, that this is the
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year I will depend on God, who is learning this
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morning looking onto Jesus. Paul is giving us the strategy
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that helps us to finish this mysterious race called life.
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And he says, we'll look onto Jesus, focusing on him
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now very quickly. Why do we look onto Jesus? Why
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do we have to look onto Jesus? It's important that
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we don't just believe religiously. Number one is found in
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Some one twenty seven, from verse one and two Some
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one twenty seven. Why should I look on the labor
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in vain that build it, except the Lord watches over
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a city, the watch men watch it. But in vain
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Verse two, it is vain for you to rise up,
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ha and to rise up early, Rise up Elli. Do
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you know someone who is like that, rise up early
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and to sit up late? But at the end of
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it you only eat the bread of sorrow, not because
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you are wanting in the area of diligence, but that
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the Lord has not come to your rescue as a helper.
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Why do we look onto Jesus, because truly behind the
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results that come from men is the hand of God.
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If God takes a step out of a man's life,
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your emotions can continue, but it will not deliver. Why
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should we look onto Jesus? Romance nine and verse sixteen.
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The second reason why we must look onto Jesus is
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someone learning. Let's read together, one to go so then
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it is not of him that we leth now of
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him that run it, but of God that showed messy.
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Someone shout messy, I'm glad this is the name of
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your conference, shouted against a messy. It is not of
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him that we let all. I have seen people enter
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the embassy looking responsible, very responsible. With time, are we
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together and even a cross, and they went out without
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a visa. And I've seen someone looking like an umbro,
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but not for insult. I'm sorry, strolling and with disrientation
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and confusion, it still came out with a visa. Have
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you seen that kind of thing that someone has applied
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for saying I want to go and see my wife.
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This is our marriage certificate. I've not seen my son,
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and ten times he will apply. And yet another person
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can be before the counsulor. Am I doing something wrong? Allelujah,
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Praise God, Praise the name of the Lord, Alleluiah, Thank you.
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Someone else is standing before the counsulor and even arguing
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with the man, and the man says, you look so funny.
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I don't know what okay? So congratulations. How there are
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things by in life. If you don't know God, you
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will be angry for reasons because the equations in the
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life of people will not adopt. Many times, are we
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together when you see God loving Jacob and hating Isa?
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So good to see you. Blessings of grace, Blessings of grace.
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Let's honor him. Allelujah, Praise the name of the Lord together.
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Why would God give the household of David a land
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like this. It's sure not the only person in Legos.
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It is not of him that will let to learn
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it early, Learn it early, learn it early, honestly, And
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I don't downplay the place of diligence, but I have
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seen people. If they ever told you they will beg
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for prayer based on their qualification, you will not believe it.
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But till today have you seen people like that? Some
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of them you were in school with them, and one
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day as they were submitting applications for jobs, after decades
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sitting in your position, you now saw your own application
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and you're like, it's not and you call the person,
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how are you so sus so person? You mean you
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don't have a job? Till now it says twenty one
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years now, no job. Someone said thank you Jesus. Remember
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he's messy for one minute and say thank you Jesus. Alleluyah.
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I've heard of men of God who go to preach
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somewhere and minister to people to be healed, and nobody
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gets here and they's tone them out of that meeting.
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But some of us have had the honor of traveling
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and by the messages of God, he has brought confirmation
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to his world, to the glory of his name. I
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have learned that it is not of Him that willeth,
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nor of him that run it. It is of the
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Lord that showed messy. Are we together now? Why do
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we look onto Jesus? Number three very quickly Psalm sixty
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two and verse eleven. The third reason why Paul admonishes
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that we should look onto Jesus is because power belongs
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to God. He is the ultimate Costtardian of power. The
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power to change your situation, The power to give you
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a new beginning recites only with Him, not him and
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another entity. I God has spoken ones. But I have
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heard twice that power power, any kind of power, the
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power to get a job. Are we together now? The
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power to have a child, the power to build your
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house resides with God. If it does not give you
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that power, the power to prosper, you know, let me
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tell you sincerely. I've seen people who have brought ideas,
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and sometimes they bring these ideas for prayer, sincerely for prayer,
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and they say, Apostle, can you imagine that I am
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in this Nigeria and with this kind of idea. I
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know the government needs the idea. I know in fact
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that if this idea is to find visibility, it will
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help Africa. And truly, upon proving the idea, you see
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that this idea was intelligently presented. But what the idea
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lacks is power, power to be seen. I would always
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recall a story. Last year, I had a meeting in
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Enogo and whilst returning back, I think I saw people
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gathered around, you know, a tea junction, and I was
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wondering why they were goathered there, and I saw them laughing.
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I got to find out that a young guy designed
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like a jew wagon. Truly, he designed it a small
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version of it. You were gone, so he was doing
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the like a simulation of it, and people gathered and
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I talked to myself, I said, this guy with this
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j wagon will most likely beg for bread. Are you
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seeing where the help of God comes? Let me tell
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you the truth. It's not always the skills that are known.
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It's not always the intelligence that I rewarded. It's the
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one who accesses power from God, power from God, power
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from God, power from God. And I'm praying for someone,
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this all powerful God who has invested his name in
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the person Jesus. I decree and declare because you have
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set your gaze to depend on him. May that dimension
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of power begin to work for you. In the name
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of Jesus Christ. I look on to him because power
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belongs to God. Power belongs to God, Power belongs to God.
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Number four is someone learning Psalm one one three From
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verse one, I want to give you the fourth reason.
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Praise ye the Lord. Praise oh ye servants of the Lord,
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prays the name of the Lord. Verse two. Blessed be
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the name of the Lord from this time forth and forevermore.
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Why is it blessing the name of the Lord? He says,
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from the rising of the Son to the going down
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of the same, the Lord's name is to be praised.
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Reading to verse nine. Four, the Lord is higher both
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all the nations and his glory above the heavens. Verse five.
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Who is like onto thee O Lord, our God, who
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dwell let on high, six, who humbled himself to be
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all the things that are in heaven and that are
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in earth. Verse seven. Read this convincingly as the fourth
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reason why your is must be gazed on him. Ready,
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want to go. He raises up the poor out of
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the dust and lifted the needy. Readly one more time,
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Please he raises up the poor out of the dust
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and lifted the needy from out of the dunghill verse eight,
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now that he may set him with princes, even with
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the princess of his people. Final verse nine, he maketh
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the barring woman someone say amen, Say it for your sister,
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say it for someone you know, Say it for a
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family that has been praying for years. He maketh the
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barrying woman to keep a house and to be a
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joyful mother of how many not a child? Children, a
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joyful mother. So when you set your eyes on Jesus,
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you have this orientation that I'm setting my eyes on
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the one who can liftop a poor man. That someone
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who came to let us holding just one back, not
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knowing what to do, depending on Jesus, can become a
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landlord by the end of that year, a mystery that
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only the power of God can explain. Does that look
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like your testimony this year? That God will surprise you.
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By the end of the year you will look back
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and be crying. Your tears will do the worship. Not
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years of pain, but years of joy. We look to
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your way. Yeahweh our home is yah way. Yeah way.
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We look to Yahweh, Yahweh forever Yahweh. Why does Paul
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insist that we look onto Jesus Psalm eighteen and verse
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twenty nine. I hope God is speaking to you this morning.
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Let's read together. Are you ready? One to go? Come on?
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Come on, household of David. Let's write again, one to go?
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Speaker 3: Aha.
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Speaker 1: And by my God, So when you see someone from
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household of David this year doing things that you know
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ordinary men cannot do, know that there is one who
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backs him. For by the I have run to a troop,
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and by my God, I have leaped over a wall
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impossible feits. When David stood before Goliad, he said, you
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come to me with your your swords and spares, But
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I come to you in a name. I come to
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you in I'm holding a sling, but don't be deceived
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by what I'm holding. I come to you in the name,
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in a name, in a name. And Goliad began to
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talk arrogantly. Am I a dog Israel? It is this
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is your best? You bring this small boy. You want
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me to kill this boy in a way that discourages you,
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And David said, this is what will happen. I will
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bring you down by my sling and use your own
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sword to take off your head. Confidence in the name
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of Jesus, I pray for someone. The way you speak
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this year would change because you will stand confident in
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the fact that the one who can cause you to
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run through a troop is the one who defends you.
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You will make certain or das your statements that will
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look like pride until the results VI indicate you in
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the name of Jesus. For instance, if you speak that
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no month, no preceding month, or no January, February, March, April,
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in incremental measures, every month before or every month after
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will be greater than the month before. You get what
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I'm saying that your February most be better than January.
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Say amen, match better than February. When you are tired
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of receiving, you can keep quiet. April better than match,
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May better than April, June better than May, July better
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than June, August better than July, September better than August,
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October better than September, November better than October, and December
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will be the crown of it all. By you, I
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can run through a troop, and by my God, I
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can leap over a wall. It's that silver and gold
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I do not have, but such as I have, I
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have a name, Rise, open, walk, allelujah. Why look because
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only God has the key of David, the one who
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opens a door. Revelations, Chapter three, from verse eight. Why
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do you look on to him? Because he's the holder
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of the key of David, verse seven and verse eight.
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That he holds the key of David, the one who
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opens a door. Someone say amen, no, because there are
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many doors you need open this year, dose of relationships,
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doors of business connections. You have tried by sending email.
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It didn't work. You tried by sending a text on cool.
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I'm still yeah. After five years of your promise, why
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don't you depend on the one who is the holder
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of the key of David. He opens a door that
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no man can shot, and he shots a door that
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no man can open. He can open the door in
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nation for you. He can open the door an industry
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for you.
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Speaker 3: I tell you.
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Speaker 1: Sincerely, he can Your my glory, the left up for
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my hair. You are my glory. You're the lift up
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of my hair, Your my glory, the lift ter up
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of my hair. Singing one time, your my glory, the
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lift chirrup my your my glory. The lift ter up,
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You're my glovery. Hear me this year, sorry for any
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man who says, over my dead body for you to rise,
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they will apologize from January till December, because every year
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will be a manifestation. Every month will be a manifestation
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of the hand of God. Anyone who says, let's see
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what will become of them, tell the person be careful.
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I didn't know last year what I know now. Be careful.
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The one who I depend on is the holder of
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the key of David. When he opens a door. Opening
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a door is not a political issue. Opening a door
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is not an issue of sentiments. Opens a door that
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no man can shot, and he will shut the door
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that no man can open. Listen, some of you are
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business people, and you are trusting God for expansion this year.
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If you you skill, you will be disappointed. Let me
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advise you in advance. Go to the holder of the
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key of David, the one who can open a door.
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Speaker 3: See.
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Speaker 1: One of the graces I hope you will receive this
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morning as we wrap up, is a grace called the
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hear ye him annointing. There is a grace that gives
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a man visibility and you believe me on this you
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can have everything right. And yet the nations will not
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hear you. He said, this is my beloved son. But
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that did not mean they will hear him. He said,
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here this is a legitimate business. But on hill, he says, here,
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yee him, you will be selling you. See, oh, dear,
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do you believe what you're hearing? Here? Ye him is
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what will make the person who needs you to find you?
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Here ye him is what to what to make the
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person who has been pray for you to know you
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are the one he has been praying for. Are we
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together now? Yes? The hold out of the key of
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David the man in Sodom and Gomorrah. When they wanted
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to come and take Lot, the Bible says, Lord told them,
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don't commit this abomination against these angels. Take my daughters.
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I can give you my daughters. Do with them as
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you please, but leave the angels. And the man said, no,
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is the angels we want. The Bible says, the angels
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drew Lots inside and shut the door. And the moment
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he shut the door, he blindfolded the people. And although
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they were standing in front of a door because he
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was shot, they wearied themselves in front of the door.
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The office you are standing before is the correct office.
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But that door is open, but in the spirit it
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is shot. So whatever your proposal say, we've had it
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come back. You can be in a city, but in
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the spirit you are outside the so nothing within the
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city profits you. Let me speak to someone in the
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name of Jesus Christ, by the grace that is upon
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this house. I stand in partnership with that Christ, and
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we invot the name of he who is the holder
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of the key of David. Everye door that has refused
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to open, May it open now, everye door that has
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refused to open, May it open now? Please be seated,
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Please be seated, looking on to Jesus now very quickly,
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so that we can pray. I want to show you
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three principal ways to look. How do we look? Now
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that you know why you should look? Because there are
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no alternatives. Is God by himself, and besides him, there
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is no other. You need to learn how to look
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because looking is a skill. You need to learn how
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to look. Number one, how do we look? We look
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when we study and engage the scriptures. We look when
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we study and engage the scriptures. John five point thirty nine.
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The first way we look is to study and engage
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the scripture. It says, such the scripture, for in them
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you think he have eternal life, it says, and there
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are they which testify of me. The scripture testifies of
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a person. So as you interact with the scripture, you
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are having the record of the testimony of a real person.
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Look Chapter twenty four, from verse twenty five to twenty seven.
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Popular Scripture. Look twenty four, twenty five to twenty seven.
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Then he said, on to them, or fool some law
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of her to believe all that the prophets have spoken,
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ought not Christ to have suffered these things. He was
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speaking with the man at Emmaus and to enter into
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his glory. He says, I'm beginning at Moses and all
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the prophets He expounded onto them in all the scriptures.
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He used scriptures. But the matter was concerning himself. The
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way we look onto Jesus, the way we fix our
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case on him, is to fix our case on the world.
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James one and verse twenty five. James one and verse
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twenty five. But who'sso looked into the perfect law of liberty?
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He calls the word of God the perfect law of liberty,
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and it says you can look at the world and
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continue it darin, not being a forgetful hera, but a
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doer of the work. It says such a man shall
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be blessed in his deeds. So number one, we look
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on to Jesus as we beholding through consistent study. Let
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me lend my voice over the matter that persocial labroad here.
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Before I came up, I sat by just listening to him,
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and I was nodding my head in total agreement. Listen,
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let me tell you this. There must be a systemic
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approach to your study of scripture, otherwise you will never
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be consistent, no matter how sincere you are. There must
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be a healthy ritual of consistency. And I believe the
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devotional that was put together is supposed to help enhance
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your consistency. And in stead it right, many of our
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parents did not have the luxury of certain depths of knowledge,
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but for thirty years they did not miss their devotional ones.
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And so you will come with all of your revelations,
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and they will bring one scripture that will deflate that pride,
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because they still have a rested you. They did not
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jump into thirty chapters in one day, but one chapter
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per day, one verse per day. You still remember that
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over thirty years and they became consistent. I remember growing
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up they would give us the man the Quiet Time
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Manual for the year. We had various types. My father
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would receive anyone. He will go to a bookstore, buy one,
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buy anyone, and then they would give it to us.
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And quite honestly, sometimes I wouldn't do the thing for
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one week, two weeks, then the holy ghosts will convinced
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me and convict me, and then I would repent and
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restitute that two weeks. You did it too. Don't lie,
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don't act like you did it too. We all did
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it together. True confession? Is that true? So you'll say,
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you know what, from February fifth till August, I've not
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done anything. Let me go back and start again. So
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you read it like you're reading a novel every day,
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and when you are done, you say, God, you've seen
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I've finished. So let's continue where we start before you
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back slide again. But quiet time devotionals and not for
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baby Christians. They are for serious Christians who desire consistency.
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Did you hear me? Don't carry that idea? And with
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all due respect. Don't let the Pentecosta charismatic circle deceive
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you that when you are using a quiet time manual
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you are a baby Christian. It's not true. It's not true.
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It depends on what you are reading. There you can
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read one chapter that rewrites the next ten years of
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your life. Therefore, let me lend my voice we passed
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on to impart grace upon you. Go and buy the
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truth and sell it not in the name of Jesus,
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and stay with the world. Keep looking on to Jesus,
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and remember the Bible says, as we beholding, we are.
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As we beholding we are, you cannot be changed out
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of beholding him in the name of Jesus. Number two,
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how do we look? The second way we look, as
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revealed in scripture, is to look as we invest time
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in prayer and worship. You behold Him, You behold the
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glory of God. As to invest time in prayer, time
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in worship, as to behold Him in prayer and worship.
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Seem something happens to you in the place of prayer.
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It's called encounters, and the assignment of an encounter is
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to strengthen your conviction over a reality. Any matter you
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have at hand, that you are not yet convinced about,
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and you know you should be convinced about, like a scripture,
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a dimension of the power and the grace of God.
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Take that scripture to the place of prayer and invest
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time praying. Something happens to you your spirit man begins
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to receive that reality diffuses into your spirit. Are we together?
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Speaker 3: Now?
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Speaker 1: You know that there's something that women do. It's called marination. Women.
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Remember that you put you put your meat in whatever
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it is that you and you The secret is to
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leave it for how long, sometimes over night. Abe let
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every man abide in his calling. It's not my calling,
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and I reject that calling personally, not that I hate it.
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So I'm comfortable where God has sent me. And we
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thank God for all the women who cook around the
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world and the men to who men do it. In fact,
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they do it better men. I think I'm right. I
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will preach and leave you with your pastor they will
53:50
tell you how to debate over that. Praise the name
53:52
of the Lord. But here's the point. That you mix
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everything you want to be inside of that protein and
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then you immerse it in it. Sometimes you wrap it
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and then you leave it quietly. Do you come after
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ten minutes and say, oh, this thing has not no
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no no. You live it there sometimes overnight. The power
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of that investment is in the taste of that food.
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When you are ready to eat it. You know that
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whoever did this one no, God was with that person.
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Praise the Lord. There are times you can be taking
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some roast or whatever it is, and you know that
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the person who he didn't do justice. He was too impatient.
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He did allow the thing. Let me use Nigerian language,
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it didn't go in. The thing did not talk to me.
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Somebody give me Aha. You understand what I'm saying. Nigerians
54:47
can understand. But you marry Nate. Now watch this. This
54:52
is what happens in the place of prayer. You stay
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in his presence until you begin to behold. God is
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able to build this God is able to build the
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house in Listen. When you stay there by fate rises
55:10
from that place. You will leave the place knowing that
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this mountain is only an imaginary mountain, because in that
55:18
secret place the mountain will so deflate. God will be
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magnified in your life. Are we together now?
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Speaker 3: Yes?
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Speaker 1: So you stay. Someone obtained grace to stay. Wake up
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in the morning and you stay there. You are just
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praying and worshiping. Yes, three am ah ah, and you
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allow the Holy Spirit to use the power of your
55:55
imagination and travel with you in worship. You are saying things,
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spend in pictures of what based possibility is through your mind.
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Whilst you are there worshiping, you know what is happening.
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You are seeing your company expanding. What is Europe that
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my company will not be there? What is America that
56:13
my company will not be there? The earth is the
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Lord's This is happening to you in the place of
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prayer and worship. Yes, And whilst you are worshiping, the
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story of Joseph is coming to your heart, the one
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who was once in a well but is now seated
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on the throne. And in that place of worship, the
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Holy Spirit is telling you I can make your life
56:43
like that. And there is a spirit interaction. I'm sharing
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with you what I do, not just what I'm teaching
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Yours is the king. Eos is the power. It's a
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glow re forever man. Eos He is a king. Ers
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He is a powus. It's a glow re forever man.
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Eos He is a king. Ears is a path Your shoes.
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Ah ah, How shall these things be? How shall this
57:48
mountain move? How shall this challenges go away? How will
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I be able to pay this bill? How will I
57:55
be able to Don't worry you, get into the secret
57:58
place and look onto Jesus. Away from the reports, shut
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down your television, shut down all the lights and distractions
58:06
from social media, and stay with you. Someone, take a minute,
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just a minute. Let's let's just experiment this. Just a minute.
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Meditate on the faithfulness of God. Go ahead, gentlemen, just you,
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just that's right. Just meditate on the faithfulness of God.
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Speaker 3: God. You are able.
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Speaker 1: Twenty twenty five cannot be like twenty twenty four. We're
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talking about the mighty terrible one. Take a minute, turn
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it into prayer. Say possibilities in the spirit. There is
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something called the eyes of your understanding, the eyes of
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your understanding. Hey, Marata Caparatos. Now on to the King Ethel,
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the King immortal, the King invisible, to the only wise God,
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to the only wise God, the giver of children, the
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giver of joy, the one who can turn a man's
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morning to dancing, the one who can turn a man's
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sorrow to joy, the one who takes the power from
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the lonely place and sets him among princes. This is
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what happens. You are looking on to Jesus, Lord, I
59:30
know you are able. You are able now onto him
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who is able to do, exceeding abundantly far above all
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that we ask or think. And it is according to
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the power. Now, Thanks be to God, which causes us
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always to tryumph, Thanks be to God, which causes household
59:52
of David always to tryoph, Thanks be to God, which
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causes Joshua Selman always to Ryoh, many a day that
1:00:06
rise up against me, many a day that say where
1:00:09
is your help? But oh Lord, you are a shield
1:00:14
for me. You are my glory and the lift rop
1:00:18
of my head, that when my enemies came to eat
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up my flesh, they stumbled and they fell. Yours is
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a king. Eos is a Powerus is a globy forever
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hers is a king.
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Speaker 3: Eos is a.
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Speaker 1: Powerus, ladies and gentlemen, imagine for just one hour in
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this kind of atmosphere. It's called the atmosphere of his presence.
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It's called the atmosphere of faith. Take your concerns to
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that secret place and stop listening to all the voices,
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because you see the Bible says there is as it
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where many voices, and it says none of them is
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without signification. You've heard the voice of doubt and fear,
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the voice that tells you the economic situation in Nigeria.
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Get ready to suffer this year. Get ready for things
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to go down this year. But whilst you are soaking
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in the glory, whilst you are soaking in the glory,
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whilst you are beholding him, you see that now you're
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in the secret place, exalted high above the worship of
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the people, love the earth. I see the Lord. You
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are still in the place of worship. I see the Lord.
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For my I've seen the King. He's a lamb upon
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the throne who reigns. Fore See, while you are in
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that place, the Holy Spirit is casting for you the
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picture of Jesus standing on the sea and telling Peter. Come.
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He's telling you, come leave your comfort zone and take
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the risk. Come. You are seeing Jesus in prayer. Come
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take the risk. Go and buy. You have only one
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hundred thousands, Go and buy, even if it's two backs
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of sement. Start. Come take the risk. Now. It is
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not a canal drive, because it came from the secret.
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He has planted the spirit of faith. It will look
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like you will fail, but you will not fail because
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you see that came from the place of prayer. An
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attack on your prayer and your worship life is an
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attack on your rising. With someone hearing what I'm saying,
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business man, shut down on work for one day and
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stop going round and round. Just drop your file, drop
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everything on the ground, and spend time. If you cannot sing,
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get all kinds of worship compilations and spend the time there.
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You are rolling from left to right. Father, you call me.
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There is no proof yet to this call. This business
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you gave me. It's not just for money. You told
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me I will fund the gospel. But as it is now,
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I'm begging for rent. What is wrong? Even if you
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are wrong, it's in the secret place you know. Are
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we together? So you stay there, Stay there. I'm not
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wasting your time. I'm teaching you something. I'm in meeting
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you into a culture of maximizing prayer and worship, making
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way for His Majesty to step into your place and
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hold your hands and say, my son, I have come
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to show you my glory. Let's go, And that begins
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a new chapter in your life. Turns you into a
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sign and wonder. Take it high for me. Open the
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eyes of my heart, load listen, open the eyes.
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Speaker 5: Of my heart.
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Speaker 1: I want to see you.
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Speaker 5: I want to see you.
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Speaker 1: Will you open the eyes some my heart, Lord, open
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the eyes.
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Speaker 5: Of my heart. I want to see you. I want
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to see you that I'll see you high and leave Terra.
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Speaker 1: You are shining in the light of your gloth. Pour
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out your power and love. Sweezing, Holy, Holy, Holy, I'll
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see you high and leave Terra. You are shining in
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the light of your glove, sweezing, hobly, Allelujah. The secret
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of freshness in this kingdom is the mystery of His presence.
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When the rod of Eron, although it did not have roots,
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but when they kept it before the act, it began
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to bod Freshness is only found in His presence. You
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can be intelligent, but if you are not one who stays,
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people will appreciate your intelligence, but there will not be
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a spirit component to your speaking. If you're a man
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of God, I'm teaching you a mystery, have revelation, but stay.
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There is a ganishing of His presence. When you are
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smared with that glory, then you come out and from
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it will be freshness. How many of you know the
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bread that has stayed for seven days is still bread.
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But you cannot serve anybody you really honor with that bread?
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Am I right on?
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Speaker 2: That?
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Speaker 1: We have restaurants, many of you here every time I
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come here graciously. Among the many things that they package
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for me are juicies, lovely juices. Love them very much,
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and most I love them because it's freshness. Are we together?
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Speaker 3: Now?
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Speaker 1: If I tell you I have arranged juice that was
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this in September, even if it's in the fridge, will
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you take it? Why? It is juice, but it lacks
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one thing freshness? Man of God, that salmonon is correct,
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but it lacks one thing freshness. Business Man, your ideas
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are correct, but they lack one thing freshness. Your communication
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is correct in terms of your auditory. You are articulate,
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you are putting your points together, but it's not blessing
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people because it lacks one thing freshness. Someone pray and say, Lord,
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freshness upon my life, freshness upon my business. Freshness. That
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is the factor that makes a thing to not be stale.
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It is the factor that makes a thing to not
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go out of relevance. Freshness, not necessarily newness, freshness Allelujah.
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Find our point, and then we pray. So how we look?
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Number one we look as we study scripture. Number two
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we look as we invest time in prayer and worship.
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Are you ready for number three? The third way we
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look onto Jesus is by looking at worthy human models.
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We look onto Jesus by looking at men and women
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who have looked on to him and are looking on
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to him. Are we together now? We look at worthy
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human models. We look onto Jesus as we follow and
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model after those who are following after him. First Corinthian,
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Chapter eleven and verse one. Here's what Paul says to
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the church in corinth Let's read together, one to go,
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be ye followers of me, even as I also am
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a follower of Christ. Be Ye follow us so as
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to follow your pastor as to follow the woman of God,
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as to follow the leader's place. Before you hear you
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are following Christ because they are following Christ. When you
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follow a man who is following Christ, you are also
1:09:17
sure of your arrival. Are we together now? Yes, we
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look on to Jesus by looking on to men who
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are looking on too Jesus. Not everyone had the opportunity
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to see the face of God like Moses did. It
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was only Moses that went up the mountain, and over
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a period of ninety days he had an interaction with
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the glory of God. He saw the face of God,
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and he did not even know that his face was
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carrying that glory. But when Moses came down, all that
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the people needed to see was to look at the
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man who had seen the face of God. There are
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times that you look onto God by looking at human models,
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learning from human models Jeremiah three fifteen. And I will
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give you past us or shepherds. According to my heart,
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they are people who have met me. There are people
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who know me. There are people who can lead the
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way in guiding your pursuit of me. It is one
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of the reasons why we come to church. We come
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to church to look onto Jesus. But as you are
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hearing me preach, you are looking onto Jesus because you
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are looking onto one who is looking onto Jesus. Are
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we together? So when you look onto men, it's not
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human worship. No, you are looking onto them because you
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trust the fact that they are looking on too Jesus.
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Final Scripture, Second Timothy, Chapter three from verse ten and
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eleven Second Timothy, Chapter three, but now has fully known
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my doctrine. Poorly speaking, he's opening up himself and saying,
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look at this, I am making myself open so that
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you can see that I've stood before you as one
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who has followed Christ and is worthy of emulation. You
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have known fully my doctrine, my manner of life, my purpose,
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my faith, my lung sufferings, my love, my patience verse eleven,
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my persecutions, my afflictions which came on to me as
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antioch econium lisra. What persecutions are endeoed? You know what
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he's saying. He's saying, you can follow me safely. There's
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nothing about my life that is hidden. You've seen my doctrine,
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you've seen my manner of life. You've seen me go
1:11:57
through challenges, and you've seen me trust God to come
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out of it. So if I tell you God can deliver,
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you can follow the formula I give you because you've
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seen me go through it, the Bible says, and to
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comfort others with the same comfort that you have received.
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Let me tell you this, one of the ways God
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makes you a leader is to allow you pass through
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the things you'll be delivering orders from One of the
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ways leaders are built is to taste of the pain
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that will be taken out of others. That is how
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compassion is planted in you. If God wants you to
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lead nations out of poverty, it doesn't mean you will
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subject you through poverty, but you will use every occasion
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possible to make you know what it means to be
1:12:44
in lack, so that from the standpoint of that compassion
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you can minister to others. I can tell you this
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as a wrap up one of the you know, sometimes
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people look and say, Apostle, you are humble, you are loving?
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Was not born that will. It's a product of the
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fondness of affliction. Are we together?
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Speaker 2: Now?
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Speaker 1: There is a way you pass through certain things, you
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start interceding for others, because when you go through certain things,
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you imagine will anybody be able to go through this
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and survive it? And it plans compassion in you. That's
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the reason why Jesus, the Bible says he was touched
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with the feelings of our infirmity as God, as mighty
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as he is, he could not really claim that he
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understood experientially everything man was going through because he was God.
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He had never been a man, even though he created
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man away together. But when Jesus became a man, you
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see why he still makes intercession, because he knows what
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you are going through. He's seated in heaven, and while
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the angels are saying should we at, he said no,
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I know what it means to be sincere and yet
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not be received. I have been touched with the fear
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of that infirmity. I know what it means to be
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called Beelzebob. Whereas you are Savior, I know what it
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means to be a blessing. Are We're together to be
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the one lifted in a family to wipe their tears.
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Yet they are big manipulated to persecute your savior, because
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historically men always persecute. Your saviors are well learning. So
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look on to Jesus. Look on to him. We're going
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to pray. Please take it high for me. Look and leave,
1:14:40
my brother, leave, look to Jesus Christ, and lee. I've
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got the message from the Lord Ali Louah message onto you.
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Speaker 3: I bring.
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Speaker 1: This recorded in his word Aeluah. This only that you look. Early.
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One time the nation of Israel had a situation. There
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were fiery serpents that came out, and these serpents were
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biting them to death. And Moses was concerned, and the
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Lord gave him an instruction. He said, there is a
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way out of this situation. He said, prepare a braisen
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serpent and lift it up in an elevated position, hanged there,
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and instruct the people that they have an opportunity to
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look at any two of the serpents, the one that
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looks real, that is around you, close to you, like
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your problem, like your pain, like your disappointments, like your frustrations,
1:15:55
or you look at the praisen serpent representing the crucified Christ.
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In any case, you will look at one. You can
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choose to look at that serpent of paid disappointment, shame, joblessness, barrenness, curses, yokes,
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or you can fix your gaze at Jesus. Doesn't it
1:16:14
sound funny that whilst you are looking at Jesus, those
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other serpents are still there, and it says you have
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to look away from them. As soon as Peter took
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his gaze away from Jesus and began to consider the storms,
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he began to sing, here's my final message. Look and Lee,
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my brother, Lee, Look to Jesus Christ henlee Tis recorded
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in his word Ali Louah tastes only that you look.
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I want you to bow your heads as we pray.
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From the start of this conference, you have heard words
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that have come from speaker after speaker. You have heard
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words that have come in worship, in prayer, and through
1:17:19
the ministry of the world, communicating various dimensions as touching
1:17:25
this theme. Now, the responsibility is on you to waste
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whatever you have heard or to maximize it, and that
1:17:34
your fruit will appear thirtyfold, sixtyfold, and one hundred fold.
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But let's say you forgot everything you heard in this conference,
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everything for some reason, or perhaps it was your first
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day attending. You have an opportunity to revisit it through
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the media. But for now, if this is the only
1:17:58
thing you heard coming here, that they looked onto him
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and their faces were lightened. That when men look at
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Jesus as setting their focus on him, as depending on him,
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there is always a way out. Praying one minute, turn
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everything you've heard to prayer. Go ahead and pray dependable,
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dependable God. It doesn't matter what comes my way. While
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still God, are you praying intentional? Intentional? God? This I
1:18:43
know that everything is working out for Michael. Ah dependable, dependable,
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gud Are you still praying? It doesn't matter what comes
1:18:59
my way? You want still go intentional, intentional. Everything is
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working at for I was singing one more time. I
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wanted to sink into your spirit. Depend level, depend It
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doesn't matter what comes my way, you want still go intentional, intentional.
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Speaker 3: Everything is working for Mike. And you are good. You
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are good.
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Speaker 1: Jeezus, you are good. You you are good, you are good.
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Speaker 3: Gee's a.
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Speaker 1: Ah, she's as.
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Speaker 6: You are so good to me, gen a oh, you
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are so good to me. He all circumsens.
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Speaker 1: This rise on your feet. Let's hold hands. If your
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hand can reach a neighbor by your left hand, right
1:20:44
hold hands has one big family, the whole family in
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heaven and on Earth, named after Jesus, old hands. This
1:20:59
brings an end to the conference or not an end
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to your experience, not an end to your testimony, not
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an end to the marvels that you will see this year,
1:21:11
such as strategic where you are being repositioned by quality
1:21:16
priesthood for a great year, a year that speaks as
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God has prophesied. I want you to pray one prayer
1:21:25
and I'm releasing my faith with you. My time is up.
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What one thing are you trusting that the Lord will
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do for you this year? While agree with your neighbor,
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I like you to open your mouth and pray. The
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Bible says, be anxious for nothing, but in everything by
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prayer and supplication with thanksgiving. Go ahead. You're holding your neighbor.
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If you have no request, you can intercede for the
1:21:48
person by your left and right. Go ahead and pray
1:21:51
one minute, one family, we're praying. You're holding the hands
1:21:54
of someone. Lord. Step in, step in, step in, do
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something miraculous. Step in over my finances. Don't be ashamed
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of praying it over my health. Let this be the
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year that I see your faithfulness in that area. Over
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your business, you're trusting God for a job, trusting God
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for some open door. You're trusting God for establishment that
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after you have suffered for a while, that the God
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of all grace establish you, said to you and give
1:22:24
you rest. For someone. You may be praying for peace,
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that the God of Peace himself will grant you peace.
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The Lord of Peace himself will give you peace always
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and by all means. Take a minute to pray. Schali
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namarantoskia tabadai. A business man is praying, a death sprays
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carrier person is praying. Who is in need of the
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power of God, take a minute to pray. Go ahead
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and pray. H chelebrn tigebaratus siata bras crapati barattus kiata
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baranda barist chapratib bara dabash shoto paratus. Give me a
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testimony in the name of Jesus. In the name of Jesus,
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numbers six twenty four. Ah Man, I want to speak
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over your life. Ah Man, aw Man, ah Man, ah Man.
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The Lord bless you.
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Speaker 5: And keep you.
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Speaker 1: Make his face shine upon you. Big gray shosts to you.
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Speaker 3: The Lord turn is face towards you.
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Speaker 1: Hand your peace. I'm speaking over your life. The Lord
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bless you, hand keep you. Make his face shine upon you.
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B gray shots to you. The Lord turn is faceward.
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Speaker 3: Hand your peace.
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Speaker 1: Let me hear your response now.
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Speaker 4: Man ah.
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Speaker 1: Verse twenty seven, same number six, verse twenty seven. And
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when you are done speaking, the blessing upon them and
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they receive it. It says they shall put my name
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upon the children of Israel. And as a result, indeed
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I will bless them therefore be blessed. Be blessed. Your
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twenty twenty five is blessed. You're going out and coming in.
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Blessed the works of your hands. Blessed household of David.
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Blessed the businessman in this ministry. Blessed the parents. Blessed
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the children. Blessed the students. Blessed the work has blessed
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the pastors. Blessed every family. Blessed yummy, this year twenty
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twenty five. The sound of money will not be had
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near your dwelling. The sound of depletion will not be
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hat near your dwelling. May you be led for tragedy
1:26:42
this year. May you be led for accidents. May you
1:26:47
be led for shame, led for reproach in the name
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of Jesus. By this blessing, may your help us show
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up speedily. By this blessing, may your support system show
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up speedily. Hear me where you cried throughout last year,
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I decree and declared this year, I announce your laughter.
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I announce your laughter. You are blessed in the city,
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blessed in the country. Blessing the morning, blessed in the afternoon,
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blessed in the evening. Your hands are blessed. Your eye
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is blessed to see, your mind is blessed to think.
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Your feet will only go to the right places miets,
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the right people. In the name of Jesus, shout a
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man seven times, two three, four five, the last time, Now,
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God blessing,