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The Portrait of True Kingdom Success (Success Through the Lens of Scripture) by Apostle Joshua Selman · Selah Media House

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  Lift your hands to heaven and give Him praise.
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  Such a mighty atmosphere of His power and His glory in amidst
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  Shilamanu sabrandi Gabella copara to Sita the Lord.
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  Be in that spirit. Where the Spirit of the Lord is,
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  there is liberty. Lift your hands, lift your
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  voices. Acknowledge His presence,
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  Acknowledge the ministry of the Holy Spirit, the One who
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  transforms, the One who lifts, the One who gives understanding,
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  the Revealer of the mind of the Father, Shala parantos sabrati
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  la caparandos sigue de belle que.
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  Parados E montos Saba la tabaracas saprante la que
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  parados oh. Yes, we stay.
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  Stay right here. Hey, Balantos Shapragata Balatos
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  sabriga de Beledus. Worship him.
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  Go ahead. Express yourselves.
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  Let your heart. Reach out to Him.
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  Mighty things happen in His presence.
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  Destiny defining things happen in His presence.
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  Holy, holy, holy, holy. Holy.
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  Holy, holy, holy, holy, holy. One more time, from the depth of
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  your heart. Just one more time, with faith
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  in your heart, sing. Let's join the angels.
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  Let's join the angels. And I wept.
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  For no man was worthy to open the book and unlock the scrolls.
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  And the elder tapped me and said, Weep not, for the lion of
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  the tribe of Judah, the root of David, has prevailed.
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  And I looked, and I saw upon a throne a lamb as though it had
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  been slain, having seven eyes and seven horns, which are the
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  seven spirits of God. And he said unto John Wright,
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  For these words are faithful, and they are true.
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  Father, we join the elders, we join the angels, we join the
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  Saints, we join the cloud of witnesses to call you holy.
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  No shadow of variableness, no bending, no inconsistency.
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  Shabalato saprandina caparando siata.
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  Let the nations fall on their knees and worship you, the King
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  of all the ages. We bless you.
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  Thank you, Lord Jesus, we bless you, we give you glory, we give
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  you praise. One generation will declare your
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  praise to another. For indeed you are God, and
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  there is none beside you, the Creator of the heavens and the
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  earth, the custodian of all power, the lifter of men, the
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  redefiner of destinies. Thank you, we give you glory.
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  Lord, we pray tonight, as always, that you will visit us.
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  We are your people, the ship of your pasture.
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  We have come with hunger. We have come with expectations.
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  Help us, feed us, lift us, change us, transform us, impart
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  upon our spirits and our destinies and Lord, we decree
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  and declare that Jesus as always, will be revealed and
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  glorified. What is in Jesus name we have
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  worshipped. Give him a big hand clap and
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  please you may be seated. Hallelujah.
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  Good evening everybody. Blessed be the name of the Lord.
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  It's good to have everyone in in church tonight and for our
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  family and the body of Christ connected online.
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  We're glad to have you connected.
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  God is ready, as always, to do what only he can do in and
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  through our lives in the name of Jesus Christ.
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  Pastor Peter, thank you again for having you in our midst.
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  The Lord bless you in the name of Jesus Christ.
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  Hallelujah. Now, just a little housekeeping
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  and then we'll get straight to the word.
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  This is a kind word of encouragement.
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  This is particularly for those who come up here to testify.
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  When you stand here to testify #1 you are declaring what God
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  has done in and through your life.
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  And by so doing you are a defying a global family and then
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  the body of Christ. And so there are a few things.
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  We are a House of culture. Are we together?
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  And so it's important that while testifying, in addition to going
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  straight to the point, manage your emotions when you are on
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  stage. Hallelujah.
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  Sometimes we get overly excited and we use wrong words, wrong
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  communication. And I think those who prepare
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  the people for testimony, please do encourage them.
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  When you are speaking before the globe, you're not only revealing
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  Christ, you are revealing the culture of the house that is
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  raising you. Are we together?
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  And so we must mind our language, our speakings.
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  Be yourself. Don't be overly afraid.
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  We know that there are people. When I talk of minding your
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  language, I'm not talking of linguistic prowess.
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  I'm talking of being mindful of the fact that you are speaking
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  to different cultures, different people groups, sometimes the
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  people testifying and those who lead the testimony.
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  You can lovingly caution them when they are wearing off.
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  I needed to say this publicly, praise God, so that we don't
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  have a situation where people come on stage and just start
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  misbehaving. There are more people connected
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  across the globe following kings, nobles, family, people.
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  Are we together? Our communication must be family
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  friendly. You have to speak as if you are
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  speaking to the whole globe and you're speaking to intelligent
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  people. Children are watching, babies
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  are watching, critics are watching, unbelievers are
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  watching, kings are watching. Whole congregations are
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  watching. Viewing centers across the globe
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  are watching, aside from those who are falling online.
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  So let's respect the people who are connected and respect the
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  people who are seated here. Please let this be.
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  It's my duty to do this. We must enhance a culture of
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  discipline even whilst we do the things that we do on stage.
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  So when you come on stage, be excited, do what you do, but
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  make sure you are mindful of the fact that one you are revealing
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  Jesus. To.
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  Someone is depending on the truthfulness and the culture
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  that is garnished around your testimony to be edified.
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  Sometimes when there's too much playfulness or exaggeration or
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  things of that sort, it doesn't end up blessing the people, may
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  even end up grieving the people. Again, praise God.
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  So go straight to the point. I was blind, but now I see this
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  is what God has done. If you don't have the courage to
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  stand and face people, which is not unusual, it is all right to
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  write down your testimony and come and stand to read it out.
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  That's fine. Let someone help edit it for you
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  and you read it out. But if and when you do come
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  here, please make sure that you do the best you do.
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  We're ready to laugh through your stories.
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  We're ready to embrace our personality differences.
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  But let's not veer off and become childish and immature and
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  perhaps sometimes insulting. Do not forget that we are
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  Christians and we're giving glory to God.
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  Are we clear on that? Praise God.
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  Second, very quickly, by the grace of God, we have a miracle
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  service for the month of September next week.
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  He'll be quite a great one and we're trusting God for a very
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  mighty visitation. And we'll also be unveiling the
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  official posters for our convention alongside the
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  speakers. And we'll be praying and he'll
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  commence our publicity officially.
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  And so let's look forward to it with expectation and with
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  excitement. And God is going to do great
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  things in Jesus name. And for all those who desire to
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  give towards the convention, just be patient for next week.
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  We'll use the miracle service for September and the miracle
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  service for October. And then I'll take maybe 5
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  minutes when I come up on stage and we'll just allow all who
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  desire to give towards the convention to do that so that
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  we're not distracted. Praise the name of the Lord.
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  Now I'm sorry that I have to do this very quickly, but those
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  where we are in need of drivers, professional drivers, sorry for
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  distracting you with this, but let me just get it out of the
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  way as an announcement so that we get to the word.
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  So all those who are professional drivers, trained
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  with experience, if the media is ready with the information, you
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  can make it available. You send your application to the
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  e-mail there ksfabuja@gmail.com, ksfabuja@gmail.com or if you are
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  in this place, please see the head of security immediately
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  after the service. If you are in doubt as to who
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  you should see, just go to our PR desk and let them know and
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  you'll be guided accordingly. The Lord bless you.
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  In Jesus mighty name we pray Amen and Amen, praise the name
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  of the Lord. I thought through the things
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  that I'll be sharing tonight. Tonight's message is going to
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  bless the body of Christ very greatly.
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  All our messages are intended to bless the body of Christ, but
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  sometimes they come with light. And I think that you just know
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  that God prepared the message to be a blessing to the body of
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  Christ, to bring clarity, to bring understanding.
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  God has given us the grace, the influence, and the capacity to
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  help the body of Christ get into a higher level of revelation,
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  accuracy in understanding. And so every week has become for
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  us an opportunity to serve his grace, to serve his wisdom so
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  that we all together grow. We attain what the Bible calls
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  the unity of faith and of the fullness of the stature of the
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  measure of Christ. Hallelujah.
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  But I was just thinking through it and I thought to start this
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  way. Results matter.
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  Results really matter. First Kings 1838 and 39.
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  Results matter. It matters that you produce
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  results. Results matter.
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  Matthew 513 to 16. Fruitfulness matters to God,
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  matters to the economy of the Kingdom.
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  John 15, verse 8 and verse 16. It matters that we make progress
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  with our lives. It matters that we do well.
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  Jeremiah chapter 17, seven and eight.
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  Very profound scripture. Perhaps we may want to read it.
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  Blessed is the man that trusted in the Lord, and whose hope the
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  Lord is. For he shall be as a tree
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  planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the
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  river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall
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  be green, and shall not be careful in the year of drought,
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  neither shall cease from yielding fruit.
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  If that describes you, say Amen. Growth matters.
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  Galatians 4 and verse one that an heir for as long as that heir
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  is a child. He differed nothing from a
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  servant, though he be Lord of all.
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  It matters that you are fruitful.
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  It matters that you produce results in your faith adventure
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  and I'm praying in the name of Jesus Christ that today, as
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  always, God will equip us with the tools that will help us to
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  produce extraordinary Kingdom results.
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  If you're in agreement, shout Amen.
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  Tonight, I want us to look at success through the lens of
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  scripture. I want to redefine concepts and
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  create a picture. I want to borrow the creativity
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  of an artist tonight and help paint for us the picture as to
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  who is considered truly successful in the Kingdom and by
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  what parameters. We're going to be answering
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  about 3 to 4 questions essentially in our discussion
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  tonight and I pray that God will help us in Jesus name.
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  So I titled my message tonight The portrait of True Kingdom
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  success. The portrait of true Kingdom
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  success. Please write for a topic.
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  The portrait of true Kingdom success would be bringing
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  balance and clarity to the concept of success, and we'll be
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  looking at success from the lens of Scripture to understand God's
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  idea. Is there such a thing in the
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  Kingdom as success? And if yes, what are the
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  parameters? At what point can a believer can
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  a people, Can a Christian community?
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  Can the body of Christ be said to be successful?
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  And what is the difference between success as seen from the
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  lens of Scripture and that which we have mainstream?
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  These and more would be answered in tonight's discussion.
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  In the name of Jesus Christ, we're going to be balancing
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  perspectives and will trust that God will help us to have the
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  correct parameters to measure success.
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  If you're ready, shout Amen. For a text Psalm 112 will read
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  from verse one to the end. For a text Psalm 112 one to the
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  end, praise ye the Lord. Blessed is the man that feared
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  the Lord, that delighted greatly in his commandments.
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  Verse 2 His seed shall be mighty upon earth, and the generation
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  of the upright shall be blessed. Verse 3 Wealth and riches shall
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  be in His house, and His righteousness endured forever.
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  Verse 4 Onto the upright there arise at light in darkness.
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  He is gracious, and is full of compassion and righteousness.
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  A good man showeth favor and lendeth.
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  He will guide his affairs with discretion.
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  Surely he shall not be moved forever.
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  The righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance.
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  Verse 7. He shall not be afraid of evil
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  tidings. His heart is fixed trust in the
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  Lord. And then verse 8, his heart is
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  established. He shall not be afraid until he
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  sees his desire upon his enemies.
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  Praise God now. There are certain words that
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  create all kinds of reactions in the body of Christ and among
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  believers. These are not strange words.
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  These are words that have been desired by some, frowned at by
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  some, left others in limbo as to where to stand.
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  Words like success, words like prosperity, words like
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  advancement, words like fruitfulness.
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  When you hear these words for someone, immediately it primes
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  your curiosity and excitement. For others, it brings anger and
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  annoyance. For others they're indifferent
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  about it. And for others, they are
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  obsessed about such words and concepts.
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  And we're going to be looking whether there is such a concept
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  as success in the Kingdom and at what point and based on what
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  parameters is a believer said to be successful.
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  So I'll begin my discussion now. The Lord help us in Jesus name.
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  Now, generally speaking, success is considered as a very a highly
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  subjective concept. By subjective, it means that it
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  is relative, based on many vistas, many lenses, many
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  viewpoints. While there are generally
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  accepted parameters I wrote here that define it, for instance
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  wealth, status, and achievement, these are the common parameters
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  as far as defining success in our world is concerned.
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  If you ask the average unbeliever to define success,
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  his definitions will be around the parameters of wealth or
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  achievement or status, and they're not out of point.
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  However, most people I wrote here choose to define it based
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  on nobler spiritual parameters like well-being, like health and
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  so on and so forth. Most people prefer to define it
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  using nobler parameters as they consider parameters like wealth
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  status to be far inferior and that there are a lot more nobler
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  parameters to use in defining success.
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  And this is very important. But let's define success.
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  Success. I'll give a general definition
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  and then we'll go to a Kingdom definition ready to write.
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  Success, in simple terms is the achievement of goals or desires
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  in any given area. So as simple as that.
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  Success, from a general understanding, is the
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  achievement of goals or desires in any given area.
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  Whatever area you choose, provided you set a goal or you
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  have a desire that is defined, when you accomplish that desire,
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  you get that desire fulfilled. You are considered with respect
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  to that goal as successful. So success is the achievement of
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  goals. Or desires in any given area.
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  Now what is success in the Kingdom?
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  I'm trying to rush because we have a lot to deal with.
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  There are four questions we have to answer tonight and God will
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  give us grace. We're defining success now in
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  the Kingdom. You may want to listen
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  carefully, and then you write. Success in the Kingdom I wrote
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  here has to do with the quality of your relationship with God,
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  the quality of life and living derived from that relationship,
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  the discovery and completion of your assignment on earth, and
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  then the extent of impact you make on your world.
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  Don't worry, I'll dictate it for you.
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  You just listen. I need you to get that.
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  Now, we define success generally, remember, as the
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  achievement of set goals or clearly defined desires.
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  But now from a Kingdom definition, I'm saying that
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  success in the Kingdom has to do with at least four of these
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  major areas. The quality of your relationship
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  with God, the quality of life and living that is derived from
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  that relationship, the discovery and completion of your
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  assignment on earth, and then the extent of impact you make on
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  your world or to your world. If your life is able to capture
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  these 4 parameters, it is safe to consider that you have
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  defined success based on the Kingdom's definition.
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  Now you can write. Let me dictate it so that you
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  write. I need you to have it penned
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  down. Success in the Kingdom has to do
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  with the quality of your relationship with God, the
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  quality of life and living that is derived from that
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  relationship. So it starts with the quality of
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  your relationship with God, then the quality of life.
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  Because there are implications. If you have a healthy,
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  functional relationship with God, there are implications that
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  should come from that relationship.
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  Among them is the quality of life and living that is derived
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  from that relationship and then the discovery and completion of
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  your assignment on earth. The discovery and the
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  completion. Take note not only the
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  discovery, but the discovery and the completion of your
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  assignment on Earth, and then finally the extent of impact you
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  make the. Mark.
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  That you make to your world or on your.
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  World, you have that down. The quality of your relationship
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  with God, the quality of life and living derived from that
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  relationship, the discovery and completion of your assignment on
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  earth, and then the extent of impact.
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  You make to your world. Now very quickly, does the Bible
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  speak of or support the idea of success?
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  This is the second question we need to answer.
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  Does the Bible speak of at all or does IT support the idea of
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  success? And it's important that
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  generally speaking, and you, you've so learned such in this
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  house that your confidence must not be based on popular opinion
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  or opinion from a man you love. You can love a man sincerely and
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  he can be sincerely wrong. Are we together, the believers?
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  Confidence is derived from the integrity of God's.
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  Word. Are we together now?
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  Yes. When your confidence and your
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  conviction is anchored upon the Word of God, then you become
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  unbendable, unmovable. You will gain stability.
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  But when your confidence is built on a man of God's opinion
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  or a church's opinion, when they change or when things vacillate,
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  you will also vacillate with them.
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  Are we together? So does the Bible speak of or
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  support the idea of success using various parameters,
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  whether overcoming obstacles, whether achieving goals, whether
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  accumulating wealth or resources, whether progress or
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  spiritual well-being in in any of using any parameter.
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  I want us to examine from scripture and we're going to be
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  considering a number of scriptures.
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  I want you to lend me your attention and be patient.
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  You write and allow me read. I want these scriptures to speak
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  and then we'll draw some conclusions from them.
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  The first Scripture very quickly in answering this question,
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  whether or not the Bible speaks of or supports the idea of
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  success in any ramification, whether as overcoming obstacles,
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  achieving goals, accumulating resources, making progress or
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  spiritual well-being impact peace, you know, and so on and
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  so forth. Jeremiah 2911, let's go.
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  While we're at that, let's prepare Genesis 18, Jeremiah
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  2911 for I know the thoughts that I think towards you, saith
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  the Lord. He calls his thoughts of peace
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  and not of evil. Then he says to give you an
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  expected end to give you an expected end.
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  Genesis 1 and verse 28. Genesis 1 and 28 And God blessed
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  them, and said unto them, Read with me Koinonia, be fruitful.
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  And multiply and replenish the earth and subdue it, and have
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  dominion over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the
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  air, over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
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  Ready for the third scripture, Genesis chapter 12, one to
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  three. This is God proposing a blessing
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  to the man Abraham. Calls this man out of all of the
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  Chaldeans, and is at this point proposing a blessing to him.
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  Now the Lord had said unto Abraham, Get thee out of thy
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  country, and from your kindred, and from your father's house
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  onto a land that I will show you.
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  Verse 2. And I will make of thee a great
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  nation, and I will bless thee, and I will make your name great,
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  and thou shall be a blessing. And I will bless them that bless
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  thee, and curse him that cursed thee.
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  Read the final line. 1 to go. And in thee shall all the
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  families of the earth be blessed.
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  Shout Amen. Genesis chapter 39 from verse 21
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  down to 23. Please write these scriptures
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  and be patient while walking the Word of God to build a strong
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  foundation and then I'll teach. But the Lord was with Joseph.
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  This is the story of Joseph now and.
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  Showed him mercy, and gave him favor in the sight of the keeper
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  of the prison. Next verse.
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  And the keeper of the prison committed to Joseph's hand all
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  the prisoners that were in the prison, and whatsoever they did
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  there he was the doer of it. Final Verse 23.
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  And the keeper of the prison looked not to anything that was
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  under his hand, because the Lord was with him.
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  And that which he did, the Lord made it.
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  To prosper. Ready for the whatever number
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  now? Number what?
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  5 Leviticus chapter 26. Let's read from verse 3 and will
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  end at 5:00. Again, please write, listen,
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  read, and be patient. If you walk in my startups,
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  we're trying to answer the question whether at all the
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  Bible speaks of or gives any idea of success.
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  If you walk in my startups and keep my commandments and do
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  them, then I will give you rain in due season, and the land
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  shall yield her increase. Let me turn it to a prophetic
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  word that you will get rain in season, and your land will yield
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  her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield her fruit.
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  Verse 5 it says, And your threshing shall reach onto the
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  vintage, and the vintage shall reach onto the sowing time, and
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  ye shall eat your bread to the full, and you shall dwell in
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  your land safely. Deuteronomy Chapter 11 will
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  begin from 11:00. Please write the scriptures
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  down. But the land we thy go to
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  possess, it is a land of hills and valleys that drinketh water
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  of the rain of heaven, a land which the Lord God careth for.
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  And the eyes of the Lord thy God are always upon it, from the
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  beginning of the year, even unto the end of the year.
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  And it shall come to pass, if ye shall diligently hacken unto my
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  commandments, which I command you this day to love the Lord
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  your God, and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your
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  soul. 14 Who end at 15 that I will give you the rain of your
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  land in his due season, the first rain, and the latter rain,
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  that thou mayest gather thy corn, and thy wine, and thy oil.
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  Verse 15 it says, And I will send grass in thy field for your
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  cattle, that thou mayest eat and be full.
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  Are we learning Deuteronomy 28 and verse 13?
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  I've sample picked these ones to be able to help build our
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  anchor. We're almost there.
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  And the Lord shall make thee the head and not the tail.
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  And the Lord shall make Joshua Salman the head and not the
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  tail. And the Lord shall make Koinonia
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  the head and not the tail. And thou shall be above only,
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  and shall not be beneath, if thou shall hearken to the
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  commandment of the Lord, which I command you this day to observe
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  and to. Do it.
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  Who is ready for the next Deuteronomy chapter?
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  30 will read 15 and 16. Blessed be the name of the Lord.
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  See, I have said before you this day, life and good and death and
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  evil. Verse 16 in that I commanded
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  this day to love the Lord your God and to walk in his ways to
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  keep his commandments and his tattoos and his judgments that
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  thou mightest leave and multiply and that the Lord your God will
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  bless you in the land we that thou goest to possess it.
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  Do you believe that say Amen. Joshua chapter 1 is our next
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  scripture, and we're reading from verse 5 to 8.
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  Joshua chapter 1, There shall not any man be able to stand
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  before thee all the days of your life.
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  As I was with Moses, so I will be with thee.
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  I will not fail thee and forsake you.
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  Be strong, it says, and of good courage, for unto these people
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  shalt thou divide for an inheritance of the land which I
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  swear to the fathers to give them.
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  Verse 7. It says, Only be thou strong and
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  very courageous, that thou mightest observe to do all the
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  law which Moses my father commanded thee.
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  It says, Turn not from it, not to the right or to the left,
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  that thou mightest prosper, we that so ever thou goest.
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  Verse 8. This book of the law shall not
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  depart out of your mouth, but thou shall meditate there in day
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  and night, that thou mightest observe to do according to all
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  that is written therein, for then thou shall make your way
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  prosperous. And thou shall have good
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  success. I receive Psalm 92 from verse 12
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  to 15. Don't be tired of writing,
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  listening, reading. And receiving the righteous
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  shall flourish like a palm tree. He shall grow like the cedar in
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  Lebanon. Verse 13, Those that be planted
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  in the House of God or the House of the Lord, they shall flourish
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  in the court of our God. Verse 14, He says they shall
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  still bring forth fruit in old age.
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  Someone is receiving for your parents, receiving for yourself,
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  receiving for your grandparents, that in all ages shall still
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  bring forth fruit, and they shall be fat and flourishing.
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  To show that the Lord is upright.
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  He's my rock, and that there's no unrighteousness in him.
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  Let's go to Psalm 126. We'll be reading verse 5 and 6.
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  Psalm 126, five and six. They that sow in tears, it says,
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  they shall reap in joy. He that goeth forth and weepeth,
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  he says, bearing precious seeds, shall doubtless come again
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  rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.
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  Three more verses 3 or 4. Matthew 25 were reading verse 20
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  and 21. Why am I giving you so many
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  scriptures? So that you can, through the
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  lens of this scripture, see the various dimensions of success
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  that the Bible proposes to God's people under certain conditions,
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  and if and when those conditions are met.
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  And so he that had received 5 talents.
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  This is Jesus himself speaking. He came and brought the other
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  five talents. So he received five.
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  He went, did business with it, and returned back with five
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  talents, saying, Lord, thou deliver us unto me. 5 talents.
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  Behold, I have gained beside them 5 talents.
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  More 21 His. Lord said unto him, Well done,
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  thou good and faithful servant. Thou has been faithful over a
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  few things. I will make the ruler over many
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  things. Enter down into the joy of the
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  Lord. May that be your testimony.
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  John chapter 4 and verse 30. 4. John chapter 4 and verse 34.
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  Jesus said unto them, My meat, my nourishment, my vision, that
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  which drives me and gives me satisfaction is to do the will
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  of him that sent me, and to finish the work.
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  I am about doing the will of him that sent me.
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  There is a goal before me. That goal is to do the will of
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  Him that sent me and to finish the work.
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  Can we do Galatians chapter 6 and verse 9?
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  Then we end at first Peter 5 and 10, Galatians 6 and 9.
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  And let us not be weary in well doing, it says.
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  For in due season we will reap if we faint.
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  Not. Final scripture, first Peter
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  chapter 5 and verse 10. I like this scripture, but the
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  God of all grace, who had called us into his eternal glory by
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  Christ Jesus after he have suffered a while, make you
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  perfect, establish you, strengthen you and settle you.
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  Let me try it again. Make you perfect and establish
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  you and strengthen you and settle you in Jesus name we
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  pray. Please be seated.
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  Now from the above scriptures and many more of course, we draw
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  the following conclusions. There are three conclusions that
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  we draw from all of these scriptures.
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  Number one, that God is glorified when believers
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  succeed. The first conclusion we draw
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  from these scriptures upon considering them is that number
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  one, God is glorified when believers succeed.
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  It validates His love, His fatherhood, and the integrity of
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  His Word in their lives. I'll take that slowly.
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  From these scriptures we draw the following conclusions.
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  Number one, that God is glorified when believers
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  succeed, and that it validates His love.
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  It validates His fatherhood, and it validates the integrity of
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  His Word in their lives. So the first conclusion we draw
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  upon considering these scriptures is that truly God is
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  glorified when you and I succeed.
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  Not only is the concept of success a Kingdom concept, but
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  that God is glorified when we succeed, because in our
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  succeeding it validates His love, it validates His
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  fatherhood, and it validates the integrity of His.
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  Word over our lives conclusion #2.
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  That success is a strong consolation to believers as they
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  walk with God. That success is a strong
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  consolation to believers as they walk with God.
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  Success is a strong consolation to believers as they walk with
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  God. It builds their faith.
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  It brings dignity and honor to their lives.
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  It makes their weakness effective.
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  And then it establishes joy and peace in their hearts.
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  Still. The second point, I'll take that
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  slowly. Again, the 2nd conclusion is
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  that success is a strong consolation to believers as they
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  walk with God. I hope you're understanding what
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  I'm saying. Are we together?
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  That in bringing consolation, it #1 builds their faith.
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  It brings dignity and honor to their lives.
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  It makes their weakness effective.
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  And then it establishes joy and peace in their hearts.
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  It builds their faith. It is true when you succeed, it
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  brings consolation to your Christian experience.
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  That's not the basis of your loving God.
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  That's not the basis of your serving God.
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  That's not your basis of your pursuit.
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  However, that in succeeding, it brings consolation to your
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  Christian experience. And among the many consolations,
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  it builds your faith. It brings dignity and honor to
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  your life. It makes your weakness effective
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  and then it establishes joy and peace in your heart.
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  The Bible says he that told you have not asked for anything.
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  It says ask that you should receive and that your joy may be
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  full. Is someone learning now?
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  So this is the second conclusion based on these Scriptures.
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  Not only is God glorified when we succeed, validating His love,
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  His fatherhood, and the integrity of His Word, when we
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  succeed as believers, it becomes a strong consolation to us as we
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  walk with God. It builds our faith when we get
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  results and succeed. It brings dignity and honor to
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  our lives. It makes our witness effective,
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  giving us the boldness to witness.
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  And then it establishes joy and peace in our lives.
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  The third conclusion from all these scriptures is that the
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  success and the victory of believers and the church at
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  large is one of the most potent ways of drawing many to Jesus.
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  Third conclusion and final conclusion.
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  Upon examining the Scriptures, the success and victory of
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  believers and the church at large is one of the most potent
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  ways of drawing many to Jesus. I repeat that again for your
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  hearing and writing. The success and the victory of
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  believers and the church at large is one of the most potent
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  ways of drawing many to Jesus. These conclusions answer the
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  question as to whether or not the Bible speaks and supports
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  the idea of success. It does.
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  And we looked at an array of scriptures scattered across the
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  Old Testament, the life of Jesus, the Gospels, and then the
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  Epistles, and we drew 3 conclusions that God is
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  glorified when we succeed. Why?
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  Because in our succeeding it validates His love.
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  The character of love is that it gives the character of love is
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  that it's it rejoices. Are we together over the
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  advancement, the progress, the well-being of another more so
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  his children, it validates his fatherhood.
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  He says, if ye been evil, know how to give good gifts.
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  How much more shall your Heavenly Father give the Holy
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  Ghost or give good gifts to them that ask Him?
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  And then it validates the integrity of His Word in our
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  lives. That the Word of God through our
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  results, is shown and proven to still be dependable.
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  That it is worthy of trust that heaven and earth can pass away,
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  but that His Word endures forever.
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  And then that success. Our second conclusion builds a
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  strong consolation. I've taught you that you never
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  love, seek, and pursue after God just for things.
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  That's a wrong motivation, however, that as you work with
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  God, the results, the enviable results that follow your life
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  results of success, they are a consolation.
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  Whether it's obstacles that are overcome, whether it's impact,
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  whether it's wealth and abundance, whether it's
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  influence, whether it's, you know, longevity in what, in
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  whatever expression, it is a consolation to you and that
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  among the many consolations it builds your faith.
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  Are we together? It strengthens your trust and
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  your conviction. Now you can love Jesus Christ
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  whether or you should love Jesus Christ, whether you can pay the
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  fees of your children or not, but having the wherewithal, for
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  instance, to be able to pay their fees without stress.
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  It is a consolation to your Christian experience.
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  Are we together? There are certain nuances that
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  if taken out of your life, will allow you the liberty to serve
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  God in truth, void of stress, void of all of these.
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  What do next that don't allow us to serve God in purity and in
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  truth. So it's a strong consolation.
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  It builds our faith. It upholds our dignity and
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  honor. I can tell you this, when you
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  success, when you succeed truly, especially from the Bible's
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  definition, it is able to bring dignity and honor to your life.
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  It is true. It is true.
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  Imagine with me a family that loves Jesus with all their
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  hearts, but for instance, they are not able to make progress to
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  afford basic needs and you find them giving Jesus praise under a
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  bridge. They are still worshipping
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  Jesus, they love him. It's not affected their
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  conviction. But that's not a noble template
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  versus one that is able to make progress raising his children
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  well, serving the Lord. That is a better portrait of a
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  believer. Success builds your faith.
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  It brings dignity and honor to your life.
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  It makes your witness effective. It makes your witness effective
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  because you are not in doubt as to the God you are selling,
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  revealing to your world. You have tasted and you have
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  seen of his goodness. It strengthened your confidence.
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  The woman said, Come see a man who told me everything I have
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  done. Her confidence was on bending.
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  Her persuasion was without doubt.
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  You know why? Because you had encountered
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  Jesus, and then of course, it establishes joy and peace in
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  your life. It is true.
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  You can serve God in peace. You can serve God in joy.
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  And both attributes are fruits of the Spirit engineered only by
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  the Spirit of God. He is the Prince of Peace.
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  Joy is of the Holy Ghost and intends for you to experience
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  both. And then that our success and
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  our victory as individuals and as the Church of the Lord Jesus
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  Christ is the most potent way or one of the most potent ways of
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  drawing people to Jesus. It is true persecution, for
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  instance, can help people to stand and go to Jesus and run to
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  him. But VV and results can draw many
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  to Jesus. The Bible says where the
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  carcasses are, they are the eagles will gather.
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  Hallelujah, our success and our victory as individuals and as
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  the body of Christ is one of the most potent ways to draw many to
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  Jesus. Now question #3 and this is I'm
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  going to dwell a bit here. There's a lot to unpack here,
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  and I'm praying that God will help us.
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  If you are learning so far, say Amen.
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  What discussing the biblical portrait of true Kingdom
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  success. I'm painting for you a picture
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  of what it means to be successful from the lens of
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  Scripture. The third question, and this is
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  a very uncomfortable one, but I obtain grace to help bring
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  perspective to it. Why does the idea of success
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  create mixed feelings or mixed reactions among believers?
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  Why does the idea of success create mixed reactions among
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  believers within the body of Christ?
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  When we hear words again like success, like achievements, like
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  wealth, like influence, like progress, like new levels, like
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  increase, immediately these words and these expressions
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  bring a mixed feeling among believers, the body of Christ.
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  On the one hand, it creates excitement, on the other hand,
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  people frown. It's like it's like it's like a
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  pungent odor that is coming out from something that is decayed
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  and for others, it's like a fragrance that comes out of a
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  perfume. How can the body of Christ saved
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  by the same Christ? What is responsible for this
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  divergent in reactions every time we mention the subject of
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  success or anything around it? Please listen carefully.
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  If you're a man of God, I want you to listen.
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  I have put a number of points here and it will be a great
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  blessing to the body of Christ. It can help you to bring a
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  balanced perspective. I'm about to answer the reason
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  or answer the question as to why the subject of success.
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  And this is not something that is recent.
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  It's been so from time immemorial.
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  When you study the history of the church through the
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  transitions of the church, every once in a while you find out
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  that the subject of success, maybe wealth, maybe prosperity,
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  increase influence and all of that.
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  It almost always creates a mixed reaction, dividing the body of
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  Christ to at least through groups on the one.
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  People who embrace it with joy and gladness, whether from
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  sincerity or from a lossful standpoint, at least they
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  embrace it is good news. And then on the other hand,
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  those who embrace, who rejected in anger, and anger varies at
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  various levels. There is an answer to it, and I
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  hope that God will provide the answers.
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  I'm going to give you a few answers as to why the idea of
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  success has, until now, created a mixed reaction among
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  believers. Reason #1 very quickly.
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  The first reason, I believe, why the body of Christ has reacted
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  and still reacts in various ways to any subject of success.
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  Are you ready? Is that the subject?
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  I'll allow you to just listen to me and then we'll write.
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  The first reason I wrote here is that the subject of success has
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  been taught only from a standpoint of material
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  acquisitions, while ignoring nobler parameters like spiritual
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  health, fulfillment, and peace. Please listen before you write.
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  Listen before you write. I'm going to dictate it, but I
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  need your attention. So I'm answering the question as
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  to why when you mention the subject of success, there are
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  people embracing it with joy, but there are people reacting so
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  badly to it and there is a there are legitimate answers.
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  Answer #1 is that the subject of success has largely been taught
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  only from a standpoint of material acquisitions while
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  ignoring nobler parameters like spiritual health, like
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  fulfillment and peace. Are we together?
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  That means one of the reasons, I believe, why believers frown at
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  the subject of success is that, with all due respect, many, not
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  most, but many of those who teach them only teach success
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  from a standpoint of material acquisitions, and they leave
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  nobler parameters like your spiritual health, like the
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  subject of fulfilment and peace. And so because of this, those
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  who have been able to, you know, cross examine those teachings
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  immediately put an X on it and they frown.
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  They say no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
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  Something is wrong. And they are right based on that
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  description, because the subject of success from the Kingdom goes
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  way beyond material acquisitions.
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  There are nobler, richer, better parameters to measure success.
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  You get that now. Now you're right.
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  The first reason why success creates mixed reactions, if
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  you're yet to write, is that success, the subject of success,
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  has been taught only, or largely taught only from a standpoint of
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  material acquisitions, while ignoring nobler parameters like
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  spiritual health, nobler parameters like fulfillment,
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  nobler parameters like peace. This is the first explanation as
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  to this divergent in the body of Christ over the subject of
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  success. Can I give you #2 #2 the second
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  reason? An answer as to this mixed
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  reactions in the body of Christ is that the subject has been
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  over emphasized and exaggerated to a point of overriding the
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  Commission of the Church which is soul winning and revealing
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  Jesus. The subject of success has in
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  many regards been overemphasized and in many regards exaggerated
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  to a point of overriding the core mission of the Church which
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  is soul winning and the revelation of Jesus.
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  This is the second reason as to why there are mixed reactions
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  when we talk about the subject of success in the body of
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  Christ. It is true that with all due
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  respect, in many circles, there's been an overflogging of
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  the issue of success. And sometimes it's been so
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  exaggerated to a point where it has it's trampled down on the
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  core mission of the Church. So you find out that in many
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  circles, with all due respect, you never really get the idea of
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  soul winning and the revelation of Jesus.
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  It's, it's, it's like everything is around the subject of
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  success. Now, don't get me wrong, there
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  are people who have been uniquely called and graced by
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  God. Are we together to reveal that
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  success dimension? It is their mandate.
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  And so naturally most of your communication will be along that
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  line to such people. They are not in error.
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  They are working in the assignment as given by God.
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  But I'm saying on a general note, when the subject of
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  success, like every other subject, is emphasized, you say
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  look up, please. I've taught you in this House
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  that the teachings of the Kingdom do not come in to build
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  believers at the same proportion.
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  Building believers is likened to a chef in the kitchen preparing
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  a meal. I have taught you this.
• 53:44
  When you prepare, say, fried rice or jollof rice or pasta or
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  whatever it is, there are many ingredients needed to make
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  produce that meal and not all of them are needed at the same
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  quantity. Am I right on that?
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  When you fetch 3 hands full of rice and then you bring three
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  hands full of salt, now you have exaggerated the role of that
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  salt. Salt is needed, but not to that
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  degree. This is what happens in teaching
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  truth. Sometimes we lift up certain
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  teachings and we exaggerate them to a point that they override
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  the foundational teachings and the core teachings.
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  Imagine that you tell me you want to prepare rice for me and
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  then I see you adding one Moodle of pepper.
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  Cameroon pepper. Are we together?
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  Yeah. And then you just fetch
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  something small that looks like rice that we are not sure if you
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  add it and then add water and add salt and add whatever it is
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  and add a little more pepper and boil it and serve me.
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  No, Sir. No, Sir, Just because I saw a
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  few trickles of rice there. No, if you call it rice, then
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  that should be the major thing. Are we together now?
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  That's how it is sometimes as men of God, in preparing the
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  meals that we serve the people, so we call the meal Jesus.
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  We call the meal the gospel. But the content that is Jesus
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  and the content that is the gospel is so scanty you will
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  hardly find it. And then it is full of a lot of
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  other things that are more inferior, by far inferior.
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  This is one of the problems when truth is exaggerated with beyond
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  its allowance and beyond its proportion, it ends up
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  destroying and not blessing. I always give a funny story.
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  One time I was micro microwaving my beef and you know when you
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  are microwaving beef, sometimes it's just supposed to be for a
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  few minutes, 2-3 minutes, but sometimes you can forget and
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  leave the thing there. And I mean it just roasted that
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  beef and became a safe fire, burned the whole thing.
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  I came back and I said no, no, I've waited this long.
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  I mean what is what is all this? You see that and sometimes the
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  difference between a nicely prepared and microwaved beef and
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  another can just be one minute, one minute, you add the timer 1
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  minute extra and it produces Hellfire.
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  Who is learning? So the second reason for this
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  mixed reactions is an exaggeration of the subject of
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  success to a point where it's overridden the Commission of the
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  church, which is soul winning and the revelation of Jesus #3
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  Why the mixed reactions as far as the subject of success is
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  concerned? Are you ready for #3?
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  It has been erroneously used as a major yardstick to measure
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  spiritual progress and faith in God.
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  The third reason as to why many have frowned at the subject of
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  success in the body of Christ is that it has been erroneously
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  used as a major yardstick to measure spiritual progress and
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  faith in God. It's a sad reality, but it's
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  true. With all due respect, in many
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  circles, when you are successful, whether from a
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  carrier standpoint or a financial standpoint, sometimes
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  and and with all due respect, we preach us as some of the brains
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  behind that kind of concept. We erroneously use success as a
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  major yardstick to measure spiritual progress and faith in
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  God. Meaning if you saw me come in
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  with a designer, wear from head to toe and then come out of a
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  very luxurious house eating some sumptuous meal with a nice car
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  and an entourage of people. Most likely the idea that that
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  picture sells to many people is that you must have a wonderful
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  relationship with Jesus and your faith must be strong.
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  And sometimes as preachers, we have mistaken that.
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  And then we've made it look like once you are successful, having
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  physical expressions of the success, it means automatically
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  that your spiritual life is fine and your faith in God is great.
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  So for many people, their idea of faith is not to learn the
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  rudiments of the Kingdom, is to just make life work.
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  Once I have a job, I'm a director, I have a great car, I
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  can travel around the world, I step into a realm of priority
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  leading immediately. I can deceive myself and I can
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  be beguiled that my spiritual life is fine and healthy.
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  Are we together? And that my faith is strong.
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  So every time we're talking about faith, the man who has a
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  lot of money, for instance, the man who has a great position,
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  the man who has access, nods his head, believing that we are
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  mentioning colleagues and sometimes he may have nothing to
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  do with that. You see, You see the mistake
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  now. So there are many people who do
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  not know God honestly but have certain expressions of success,
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  particularly material blessings. And sometimes we deceive them or
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  they get deceived themselves into believing that because they
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  have the the presence of abundant expressions of success,
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  it then means that their relationship with God must be
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  accurate and that their faith is strong.
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  It's not always so. Third reason, not always so.
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  If it were so, the rich man will not be called a fool.
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  The Bible called the man rich fool.
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  Ladies and gentlemen, if you know anything about wealth,
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  wealth is a product of wisdom. But here the Bible combines
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  wealth, riches and foolishness. That a man can be a rich fool.
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  Are we together? Remember my message the rich
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  young rulers preached like 3-4 years ago?
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  It's a message worth listening to.
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  The rich dash young Dash ruler. Three things very important.
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  The man was rich, the man was young, the man was a ruler.
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  There are few times you get a man with this tripartite
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  combination early in life. He's rich, he's young.
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  Most people are rich, then they are old, then they don't have
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  influence. But here is a man in the Bible
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  who has wealth, has time and has influence, and it comes to Jesus
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  and he says, good master, what must I do to be saved?
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  And Jesus said, really young man, you call me good, Nobody is
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  good except God. And he says, OK, do this, this
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  and that. He said, I've done all of this.
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  He says, go and sell everything you have, take up your cross and
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  follow me. The Bible says the man left with
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  pain in his heart because he had a lot of money, great
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  possessions. The Bible says so.
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  We have erroneously used success as a major yardstick to measure
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  spiritual progress and faith in God.
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  Can I give you #4 I hope you are learning.
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  If you are learning, shout Amen. Shout Amen.
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  Again, examining why the subject of success on one hand has been
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  frowned at and on the other hand has been received.
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  It boils down to these answers. One again, that we have taught
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  success largely from a standpoint of material
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  acquisitions while ignoring nobler spiritual parameters like
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  the vitality of your spirit fulfillment and then your peace
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  #2 that it's been so emphasized and even exaggerated to a point
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  where it's overridden the foundational mission of the
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  church, which is soul winning and the revelation of Jesus #3
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  that it's been erroneously used as a major yardstick who measure
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  spirituality and faith in God. That means if you find someone
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  who may not have a job, as should be, may not have all the
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  money, may not be at the higher levels in life, chances are
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  excellent that you may see that person as being unspiritual on
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  serious with God or having low faith.
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  That's not correct theology. The Bible does not teach that.
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  Number 4, The fourth reason very quickly, and I wanted to listen
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  to this fourth reason. It's a very major reason as to
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  why the church has frowned over the issue of success.
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  Listen and then write. The success of many Christians
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  have been discovered to be fruits of compromise and ungodly
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  practices. The success of many Christians
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  have been discovered to be fruits of compromise and ungodly
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  practices. This is the fourth reason why a
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  lot of people have frowned out the idea.
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  Upon investigation, they have found out that even though most
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  people give a picture of being successful, when you look
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  behind, you will find out that it's largely a fruit of
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  compromises and ungodly practices.
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  I wrote here, furthermore, that this has put a negative pressure
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  on admirers to embrace evil and compromise for material gain.
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  Is someone learning now? Yeah.
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  So the success of many Christians, not all Christians,
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  but quite a number, when you investigate truly from the
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  principles and the practices of the world, you will find out
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  that there are many layers of compromises and many layers of
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  ungodly practices that eventually produce those
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  success. Whether it's political success,
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  whether it's financial success, whether it's promotion at the
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  place of work. Are we together?
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  Yes. Whether the money to be able to
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  fund certain projects. When you look at it sincerely,
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  and I'm not condemning, I'm just giving you reasons that some of
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  the people who frown at our success are at the back end.
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  They are in our offices. They know what happened there.
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  Are we together? Some of them are our, whatever
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  it is, people who are in close proximity with us, our
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  businesses, they have an understanding of some of the
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  things that happened behind the scene.
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  So when we come out and shout, praise the Lord, they become
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  uncomfortable because they know that most of what we call
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  success are fruits of compromise and ungodly practices.
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  Who is learning now? Praise the name of the Lord.
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  Hallelujah. So the person knows that OK, the
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  admission, truly the child got the admission, but somewhere
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  there the age was forged, and the person who was in the office
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  where the age was forged is aware.
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  Are we together? Someone knows that, OK, the
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  promotion, you know, happened, but they know that some bags of
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  money exchange hands that should not have exchanged hands.
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  So when people have this understanding, when you now talk
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  of Kingdom success, a part of them frowns at it because truly
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  they know that what we celebrate is largely a fruit of
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  compromises and ungodly practices.
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  Colonia is quiet. You see that this four points is
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  hotter and the danger here is that sometimes it puts a
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  negative pressure on admirers. Look at me if now, now don't get
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  me wrong, I'm I'm not when I teach the body of Christ and
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  when I teach you, you already know that my stand is always
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  from love. Are we together now?
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  I'm I'm saying this sincerely and with all due respect.
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  You imagine a politician who until he was elected, for
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  instance, could not even build his house.
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  And then in one year, for instance, let's say that person
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  suddenly priority living, you are living at the best of
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  everything. Are we together flying private
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  jets around? Wonderful.
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  And then and people know that the journey to that level of
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  wealth, it takes a while and especially when you are wealthy
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  and you cannot support it with your growth and understanding,
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  you can see that that naivety, there's no financial
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  intelligence yet you cannot this, you cannot refuse the the
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  results that come from it. These are the kinds of things
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  that bring a lot of agitation. True success is a product of
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  growth, but when growth is not there, intelligence is not
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  there, the discipline and the process is not there, and all of
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  a sudden they have sudden exponential dimensions of say,
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  well, I'm using wealth as a case study or promotions or some kind
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  of thing. It creates a lot of trouble and
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  it will put a negative pressure. I tell you this, ladies and
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  gentlemen, I use the subject of finance, for instance, one of
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  the reasons why many young men drive themselves into ungodly
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  practices. You know why?
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  Because they have received a negative inspiration from those
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  who are ahead of them. And sometimes when we sell the
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  idea, with all due respect, even for us men and women of God,
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  sometimes we find ourselves, even though not not
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  well-intentioned, we find ourselves selling an idea that
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  if you are a young man and you've not made it in certain
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  ways at a certain time, it means you are a failure.
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  So when that young man listens to that kind of thing, he feels
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  embarrassed while the message is coming.
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  He has no car, no job, no nothing, but he loves God and
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  he's learning the ways of God. He no longer sees the value in
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  being patient, the value in growth.
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  And it just says, you know what, anything I can do, if I'm going
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  to become a pug and I will make it in one year, I will do it.
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  If I'm going to be involved in fraud and make it in one year, I
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  will. I will do it if I can.
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  Whatever I can do. If the lady will be a
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  prostitute, if the guy will be a kidnapper, whatever it is, I
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  will do it. Every time you make evil
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  marketable, you promote it. It multiplies.
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  Hallelujah, Praise the name of the Lord.
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  So you'll find when people want to make it, especially with all
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  due respect in Africa, once people want to make it fast,
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  what do you think they get into #1 ministry because it looks
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  like being a pastor can wipe your tears is only God that
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  called you is nobody's business whether they believe in you or
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  not. And honestly, sometimes those
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  tears can really be wiped fast. And so someone is watching his
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  colleague who said, look, I will serve God when he started a
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  church and in two weeks someone gave him a car.
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  In two weeks someone gave him a house.
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  I'm not, I'm not saying he's wrong.
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  And the other guy standing there, is it all the same?
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  God let me go on fast. Father, you better call me.
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  Or if you don't call me, I must serve you.
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  I must serve you. I don't care if I love you, but
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  that's serving you. I must serve you.
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  Must serve you because that's where the keys.
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  I can love you and nobody will bless me, but I must serve you.
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  Hallelujah. Amen.
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  So you find people getting into ministry who don't have the
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  passion for souls. They don't have the passion.
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  They don't even love God sometimes, sincerely.
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  You know that these guys are merchants.
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  They just want to make money. They want to make ends meet.
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  And your motivation is what sustains you there.
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  And you know one thing with ministry, usually the first set
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  of people God brings are like those in The Cave of Abdulam.
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  They are in debt, they are wounded, they are broken.
• 1:10:12
  Are we together? God will never send millionaires
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  and billionaires. Not yet.
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  You start the journey by fixing those who are broken.
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  You raise them. So by the time you start the
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  ministry and everybody who comes to you is begging you for
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  transport back home, at a point you calculate everything.
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  You and your wife will say we were better off without this
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  color. Let's just short this, tear this
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  post, sign to pieces and manage our lives.
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  Hallelujah. And then the next is politics,
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  Politics, politics, politics. Have you ever seen people so
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  passionate about leading that they can kill for it?
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  Politics for you, someone says I want to change your life by
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  force. I must be your chairman.
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  I love you. I want to make sure I fix your
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  life as I don't want you. I still, whether you want me or
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  not me, I want you. It already makes it suspicious
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  immediately that there's something you are eyeing beyond
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  me. I'm just a ladder to help you
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  and my goodness, politics can produce signs and wonders.
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  Signs and wonders, someone who has not seen 10 million in his
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  life. Now I'm not speaking.
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  Please don't insult any politician.
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  We're not people. I'm just teaching because it's
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  true. Are we together?
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  Someone who's never held 10 million in one year is dashing
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  people 10,000,050 million and dancing around it is the reason
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  why people cry as if they lost somebody if they lose elections.
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  Why is it? I mean, is, is that the level of
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  your passion for change is that you have missed an opportunity?
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  And when you calculate it, you do your balance, your accountant
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  calculates everything. You find out you were cheated on
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  both sides. But I hope you get this as you
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  are laughing. What is the third way that
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  people rush to to get wealth and success relationships,
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  especially marriage. I don't even want to go there.
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  Parents have complicated the lives of children.
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  You must marry a billionaire. You must marry.
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  You have suffered in this life. And so to them it's an
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  investment. And what?
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  There's nothing wrong if God helps you or you marry a rich
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  lady or a rich guy, nothing wrong.
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  But if that's your motivation, you're in trouble.
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  Like the politician, like the man of God, it will eventually
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  backfire. Who is learning?
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  Hallelujah, there are ladies who have driven godly men because
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  they are. Look, I told you yesterday, evil
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  can dress in suit and come to you.
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  Wickedness can dress in suit and come to you and say, marry me,
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  you say. Of course there's no praying
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  about it, there's nothing. Of course.
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  And you find out that eventually boomerangs on you.
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  Hallelujah. Let me tell you this, ladies and
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  gentlemen, be mindful of those whose lives you admire.
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  Not everything that glitters is gold like we're going to be
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  learning. There are people who look
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  successful, but they die every day.
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  They have no peace, they have no joy, they live in pain.
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  They are products of the causes of people.
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  Are we together? They have eaten the future of
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  many people and cannot find rest.
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  There is the. Increase that comes there is
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  advancement that comes by the Spirit and with it comes peace
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  and rest, a life of dignity. There are children today who
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  have to change their surnames because if they use the names of
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  their parents, they will fail. They will inherit a battle they
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  have no business in because in the quest of their parents to
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  make it, they damage to money destinies.
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  And the children say I'm not a party to this nonsense.
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  I have to redefine my life again.
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  Like I prayed for you last week. Let me pray for you again in the
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  name of Jesus. Anything that will make you
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  leave a negative testimony for your children and your
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  children's children that will bring them into battles they
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  have no business fighting. I'm praying for you right now.
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  May God take it out of your life #5 Let's hurry up.
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  Someone learning. So the number 4 again is that
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  the the success of many Christians upon investigation
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  many times is discovered to be a fruit of compromise and ungodly
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  practices. And that it puts negative
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  pressure. On others, especially those who
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  are doing well, they feel guilty, they feel foolish, they
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  feel like failures, and they leave the path of nobility and
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  embrace compromise because they also want to achieve the same
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  results #5. The fifth reason why they are
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  mixed reactions as to the subject and the teaching of
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  success Ready is that many people have used their success
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  to gratify the flesh and to create unhealthy stratifications
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  in the House of God. Many people have used their
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  success not to glorify God, but to gratify the flesh and to
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  create unhealthy stratifications in the House of God.
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  Many have used their success, political, career, financial, to
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  attract positions, for instance, in church, to access
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  opportunities, access to a man of God, and so on and so forth.
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  And while there is a place for honor, honor should be given to
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  who honor is due. It should not be a basis of
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  material success. And all of that, many people
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  have used their success to gratify the flesh and to create
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  unhealthy stratifications in the House of God.
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  Hallelujah. One of my prayers as a man of
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  God is that there will be nobody in this ministry under my
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  spiritual watch that I cannot rebuke, correct in love and
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  guide. Any money that will come, any
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  lifting that will come, that will bring me to that state made
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  never happen. I say Amen.
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  You know, sometimes, with all due respect, there are people
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  whose conscience have been bought over by material things.
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  The gift of a car was given to you and with it went to
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  integrity. Access was given to you and with
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  it went to integrity. I'm not saying there's
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  something, there's anything wrong in receiving gifts, but
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  it's important that sometimes we investigate that you are not
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  selling your birthright. Are we together now?
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  I've not experienced it, but I've heard of it.
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  I've heard of many cycles where because of the extent of
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  financial contribution of the people within the assemblies,
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  they have the right to probe, sometimes vet, sometimes even
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  suggest the teachings that come up.
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  There have been extreme cases like that and it's terrible.
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  If that happens, as a man of God, you've, you've, you've lost
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  it. There's nothing to say again.
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  You are no longer a blessing. Is someone learning now praise
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  the name of the Lord. Most people have used their
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  success. I can tell you this.
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  And if you're a man of God, please listen to me.
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  It's good to collect gifts from people wonderful, but be mindful
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  you must be discerning. You must love Jesus is the
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  reason why the call to priesthood is a call to tame
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  your appetite. Because there are things that
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  you should say no to politely because in receiving them, you
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  are receiving more than a gift. You are hooking yourself with a
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  bait and you'll be dragged like a dog.
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  Anybody. Can you create unnecessary
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  exemptions? Not by messy, not by merit, but
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  simply because certain incentives have come.
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  Most people have used their success to gratify the flesh and
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  to create unhealthy stratification.
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  Unhealthy stratification, Hallelujah.
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  And honestly, sometimes I've seen some of these things.
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  So you'll find with all due respect, very wealthy and
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  successful people and we together, sometimes they have an
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  opportunity to enter certain meetings.
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  You will know that by marriage the children should not be there
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  and you'll find the children misbehaving.
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  The parents cannot correct them. The man of God cannot correct
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  them. How about schools?
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  Do you know there are some schools that you cannot suspend
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  the children because aside from school fees, they also gave some
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  grants to the school and the child is the most top on child
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  in that school. They can't discipline him.
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  They will still make him head boy, not not because the
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  teachers, they need the funding. And this is this can be at a
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  micro level and at a macro level.
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  I don't want to speak at a macro level because there are nations
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  today who are enslaved because of resources that came from
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  overseas. They have no voice.
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  I'm praying for you again. Anything that steals away your
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  integrity, anything that steals away your power to influence and
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  to create changes, anything that will steal your conscience as
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  the condition for your growth may never come to your life.
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  Hallelujah. So most people use their success
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  to gratify the flesh, and sometimes it creates unhealthy
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  stratification. I'll tell you a story very
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  humorous 1. A few years ago, a gentleman was
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  trying to see me. I don't know who the gentleman
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  was. I hope he has changed, but he
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  was trying to see me and I think he couldn't see me.
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  So I think he got my number somewhere and he sent a long
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  text message. He's saying that is it because
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  he doesn't have anything to give me, He doesn't have money, he
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  doesn't have whatever that he saw right before him.
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  People were passing and they were see me and he could not see
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  me and I looked at him. I said I wish I had time to
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  answer this guy. First I'll tell him I love you.
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  2nd, I'll tell him it's my life. I can honor anybody I want to
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  honor. And if you happen to not be the
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  one, go and lend relationships. Don't sit down complaining.
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  I have no obligation whatsoever. You see that now?
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  I'll be as fair enough to people, the people who I'm
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  giving access to. Do you ask the investments
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  they've made in building relationships?
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  So here's the balance. I just said that story for a
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  while because they are funny and nasty people who believe that
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  the dose of destiny should open up to them just because you are
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  compassionate. Whether they've made investments
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  of relationship or not, whether they've, you know, had an
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  increase or not, whether they've, whether they've done
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  whatever it is or they just want to launch their lives around you
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  and demand. Sometimes people come and say,
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  Apostle, I, I, I know that I don't have time now and I want
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  to see you personally. And I said, sorry, there's no
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  time. This is all we have left.
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  And no, no, no, my, I need a special time myself.
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  And I said this work of priesthood sometimes can be very
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  interesting. Can you imagine someone who
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  finished resting, He will eat, he will belt, he will stretch,
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  then come to church and see you fagging yourself out.
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  And then the person says, I am demanding a special attention.
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  And even when you explain, they now say, no, I need an and what
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  is it? They say many things have been
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  happening around my life. And you tell them, OK, let me
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  give you a message. Go and listen to the message.
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  The way of it. We.
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  No, no. I've listened to it before, but
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  the person is failing. Do you think I have that kind of
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  time to waste? No, I'm not apologetic about.
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  I don't have that kind of time. I will send it again.
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  No, Sir. No, Sir.
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  You will hear sorry on that from me?
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  Not at all. Are we together?
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  So there are people like that. Just as an example, I'm just
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  digressing to help you know that there are people who will like
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  messages like this because they think, let me tell you the
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  truth, all men are equal before God, but their application of
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  the mysteries of the Kingdom has stratified them by merit to
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  certain positions that God himself on us.
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  Are we together? You forget everybody's birthday,
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  you forget whatever it is. You are not part of anything in
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  anybody's life. Then one day you show up and you
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  find out those who have a track record of years of investing in
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  the life. You also want a table there?
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  No Sir, no Sir, life does not work like that.
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  Let me give somebody an advice. If doors keep closing over you,
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  find out those who the door is opening for and ask them what
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  they are doing. Don't get angry and complain
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  around. Are we together now?
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  Somebody wanted to meet with one of the fathers of faith in this
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  nation and he sent a text. You know, sometimes some some of
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  these young guys that have papers full of revelation that
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  God asked them to see these, see these.
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  Then they come to meet you and they say God told them that you
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  should carry them to that father of faith.
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  Say no. The reason why why God raised us
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  is so that stupidity will not reach their corridors.
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  We can manage it from here and say, young man, please come.
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  That's not the way it is done. Let's get back to our
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  discussion. Are we together now?
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  I'm going to give you 7, so we are on five.
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  I'm giving you 6 now. The tides will change a bit.
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  The sixth reason, while there is this divergent of reactions,
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  these mixed reactions, Are you ready for number six?
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  Envy and jealousy. Envy and jealousy is the sixth
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  reason as to why most people hate the idea of success and
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  listen very carefully to what I'm going to say.
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  Most people know that true success is not cheap.
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  They know it instinctively. They know that it is a product
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  of knowledge, discipline, diligence, sacrifice,
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  productivity, consistency, humility, endurance,
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  relationships, the grace of God. I just define for you a number
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  of the parameters that success depends on.
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  And so, when they fail to learn and live by these principles,
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  they naturally gravitate towards failure.
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  As a result, they hate and envy those who are evidently and
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  consistently successful. I hope you like this one too.
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  It is not all about the misuse of these things.
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  There are times where the hatred over success is purely a matter
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  of envy and jealousy. And it is that most people know
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  that success is not cheap. It is a composite of many
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  principles, knowledge, discipline, diligence,
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  sacrifice, productivity, consistency, humility to learn,
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  endurance, strategic relationships and then the grace
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  of God among many. They know that achieving Kingdom
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  success, God's way will demand you learning, living by these
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  principles. And they don't come easy.
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  And because they fail to learn the principles and to live by
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  them, they naturally gravitate towards failure and mediocrity,
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  and as a result they hate on and envy those who are evidently and
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  consistently successful. Can I tell you, ladies and
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  gentlemen, I wish I would tell you, I've not seen the voice.
• 1:26:44
  I've not heard the voice of envy.
• 1:26:48
  In church, there's envy. In the political space, there's
• 1:26:51
  envy. In Korea, there's envy.
• 1:26:54
  You'll find people who are not willing to pay the price in
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  righteousness to learn the things.
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  As I mentioned now, they don't have an appreciation for
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  diligence. They are not humble to learn.
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  They cannot adapt to learn. They cannot endure.
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  They are not consistent. They are not reading any book.
• 1:27:11
  They are not building their knowledge bank.
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  They have no regard for the sacrifices of others.
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  When they seek consistency, distant success, whether
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  financially, whether ministerially, they just wrap it
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  up and feel no, these guys are doing something wrong.
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  When they fail to learn and lead by these principles, they
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  naturally gravitate towards failure and mediocrity.
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  As a result, they hate and envy those who are evidently and
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  consistently successful. This is a balance.
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  It is very usual for people to trivialize the results they
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  don't have in their life. If you are poor, you say what is
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  it about finances? Are we together?
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  If you are not educated, you say it's not all about knowledge.
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  If you are not a in a managerial position, you say it doesn't
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  matter, even a houseboy can save you.
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  You are right, but what is the motivation?
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  Most times people know when they see dimensions that is a secret
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  desire but has not become their reality.
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  Rather than humbling themselves sincerely to learn.
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  Knowing that is a path that anyone can follow.
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  In Christ, the same Lord is reached unto all.
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  Now having lashed down on wealthy people and the rest, let
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  me balance it. Nobody has the responsibility.
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  In fact, let me put it this way, nobody should feel guilty
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  because you are failing while they are succeeding.
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  Don't make people feel guilty for for succeeding.
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  We live in a world today where especially a young man, you see
• 1:28:51
  a young man succeeding financially, succeeding
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  ministerially, succeeding career wise.
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  I mean, he comes and you can sense an air of jealousy and
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  hatred. He's not the reason for your
• 1:29:02
  failure. Go and find out how to succeed
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  and succeed. Are we together now?
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  You mean this boy is just 23 years old and I hear he's
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  running five companies? I even saw him having a photo
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  with some some large person. I saw him having a photo with
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  Dangote and all these men. Just 23 years.
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  Are you sure, Mr. Mann? While the boy was studying and
• 1:29:27
  he had the leverage of pursuing a mentor, you were gossiping.
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  The same Lord is reached unto all.
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  Are we together now? We make a lot of successful
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  people, especially in the body of Christ, feel guilty for using
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  the Word of God. I'm talking about success that
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  came by the dignity, A tripartite combination of
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  wisdom, faith and power. Hallelujah.
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  If you are not willing to go forward, nobody will wait for
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  you. You don't blame people.
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  You are marking time, Your prayer life is down.
• 1:30:05
  Your watch study life is down. You don't open for mentorship.
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  You are too big to learn. Everybody you should learn from
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  is your classmates, and you don't have the humility to
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  learn. You see results, you criticize
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  it, and you admire it in your heart and wonder why your life
• 1:30:19
  is not working. You are just about to start
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  ministry and you are insulting the fathers of faith and your
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  pills remain empty and you wonder why are we together?
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  You've not built any business and yet you are insulting
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  billionaires. They are all corrupt, they are
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  bank people, they are all demonic people and yet you
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  secretly go and apply to their scholarships hoping they will
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  help you. Is someone learning now?
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  Envy and jealousy. It was last year in Kenya during
• 1:31:04
  Rima feast. I preached on the spirit of
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  envy. Please go and listen to it.
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  It's a message that will liberate the body of Christ.
• 1:31:10
  It's one of the unity series. Hallelujah, praise the name of
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  the Lord. Can I tell you the truth?
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  A true friend is not just one who stands with you when you're
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  in pain, it's one who celebrates your success genuinely.
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  And be careful those who don't clap when God is lifting you.
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  I know the ones who stand with you when you're in prison.
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  Sometimes it's not that they like you.
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  Sometimes they're just called a jailer.
• 1:31:39
  It's their walk there. It's not compassion, it's their
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  duty to stand at the prison. But the one who claps with you
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  when God is lifting you and says truly, we celebrate what God not
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  flattery, envy and jealousy. We need to trust God for grace,
• 1:31:56
  not just in the body of Christ, but across our nation.
• 1:31:59
  We need to rejoice and celebrate when God is doing great things.
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  Are we together now? Praise the name of the Lord.
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  Success Kingdom. Success is a product of laws and
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  principles. And let me tell you this, anyone
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  who has attained onto any measure of success, whether
• 1:32:26
  spiritual success, a vibrant spiritual life, the anointing
• 1:32:30
  Kingdom influence, financial prosperity, if it is by
• 1:32:34
  righteousness, they are deserving of your honor, they
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  are deserving of your honor. One of the reasons why we hardly
• 1:32:44
  see a replication of results is because of the extent of
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  dishonor. I'm telling you, and I'm
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  speaking particularly to my generation.
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  I was having a conversation yesterday with some precious
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  people and I told them. They asked me a few questions
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  and I told them, I said, you see, every time God raises
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  people, that experience is supposed to be replicated
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  across. But the reason why certain
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  experiences remain with a few people is because most people
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  are not discerning enough. They are not malleable and they
• 1:33:19
  are not humble to listen and to learn.
• 1:33:23
  Hallelujah, praise God. Many people who are failing in
• 1:33:28
  the body of Christ, financially failing, they have never
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  listened to those who are succeeding except to listen to
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  criticize. Many people who are looking for
• 1:33:38
  the anointing, they have never listened and followed those who
• 1:33:41
  are truly anointed to find out what the secrets are.
• 1:33:46
  Many people who are excelling in influence, excelling in
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  business, rising in Korea. You are successful people.
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  When was the last time someone who is struggling came to you as
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  a pastor came to you? I'm not talking about coming to
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  snap with you and saying we are colleagues.
• 1:34:05
  You see someone who is failing woefully just smuggles himself
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  in the midst of highly successful people and takes a
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  quick photo or a selfie and says these are my, my, my
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  acquaintances and these are fathers of faith.
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  And you just see somewhere is the result to show for it.
• 1:34:24
  We don't respect results in Africa is the reason why we
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  don't replicate it. Are we together?
• 1:34:32
  When I have the honor of meeting the Fathers of Faith, at any
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  point, if ever, I have an opportunity to ask them
• 1:34:39
  questions, I ask questions and I listen.
• 1:34:43
  I listen to learn. I listen like I've never
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  achieved anything. You sit and have a discussion
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  with people and you find out that most of the people who talk
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  are the ones who don't have results.
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  The ones who have results just keep quiet.
• 1:34:59
  And some noisemaker with no results, whether spiritual,
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  whether whatever it is, the knowledge of God is not there.
• 1:35:06
  A rich prayer life is not there, character is not there,
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  influence is not there, nothing. And they are the ones
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  commanding. I will show you how to be rich.
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  I will show you how to be influential.
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  And people who are really helped by God just keep quiet.
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  Is that not how it happens in school?
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  The one who gets 0 is the one who is making noise till they
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  release the result of the assessment.
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  Then you find 1 quiet person at the back 10 / 10 and somebody
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  gets one or half or something. Let me teach you something
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  Koinonia, and teach you body of Christ.
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  Whether you hate successful people or not, I think it's a
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  reality that I pray God will help us realize.
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  The truth is that it does not affect them.
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  They they are, I think a man of God once said, what is the
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  business of an aircraft that is 40,000 above sea level with the
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  backing of a dog that is on the ground?
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  Nobody's even hearing it. So rather than recurring the air
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  of jealousy and anger, it will not make the man leave his
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  house. It will not change the car.
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  It will not change how God loves him.
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  Don't be angry that the children of that man or the children are
• 1:36:18
  doing well. Go and find out what they taught
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  their children. You insulted your own children
• 1:36:23
  from child. Are we together now?
• 1:36:25
  You insulted them, you call them stupid, you call them wicked.
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  While you were insulting them, the other man was blessing his
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  children. You are not doing well, but you
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  are the head and not the tail. Now they are teenagers.
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  Why will their results be the same?
• 1:36:38
  Instead of getting angry and envious, go back and find out
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  why are they promoting this man? In three years he's become a
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  director. I'm sure he's on tribalism.
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  You will get angry and kill yourself for nothing.
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  You don't know what that man does.
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  You don't know how many ministers are praying for that
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  man. You don't know how many books
• 1:36:59
  he's reading. Some of these men have a robust
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  prayer team that intercede for them every day.
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  When you see a ministry excelling.
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  I have friends in ministry that have intercessors that pray day
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  and night non-stop. I have a group of women.
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  That's their assignment to intercede for me.
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  I only met them once. Some of them are widows.
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  They covenanted their life till Jesus comes to pray for me.
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  Results don't just happen. If you don't know how it is
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  happening, find out, find out, find out.
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  Nobody just comes and holds the hand of another person and makes
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  ministry work. Find out the labor of the fool.
• 1:37:44
  Where yet? Every one of them.
• 1:37:46
  I remember the days. With all due respect, I bought
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  books that are almost my height. Miles Monroe books, spiritual
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  books. Benny Hinn.
• 1:37:55
  I mean, you pile those books and you literally devour those books
• 1:37:59
  like there's no tomorrow. If you don't know a man's story,
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  don't envy their results. Are we together?
• 1:38:08
  Praise the name of the Lord. This is true.
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  I remember times when I will be invited to the various
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  campgrounds in this Nigeria and after they keep me, after I
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  preach in the night when people are sleeping, I will open the
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  door. I remember one time I went to
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  preach for Four Square and they kept me at M FM Prayer City, the
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  guest house. I kept quiet and allowed all the
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  protocol went later in the night I came out when nobody would
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  distract me. I went to the campground and I
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  said, Father, in the name of Jesus, the graces you deposited
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  upon these fathers, look, believe us, behind every glory
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  there is a story. Don't disrespect the results of
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  people. It may look common.
• 1:38:50
  It's mastery that makes it that way.
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  There are dynamics that are happening behind it.
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  Why is it that they are blessing someone else and not blessing
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  you? There is something you are not
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  doing. Is someone learning?
• 1:39:02
  Now what is the woman doing as a widow that is making strangers
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  travel and come and see her children and say I want to bless
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  your children? No, the woman is not educated,
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  but do you know what she's doing in the Spirit?
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  I told you about a woman I met in Kano years ago.
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  She's come here many times. She finishes her Bible every 14
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  days in Hausa. Hausa Bible 14 days cover to
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  cover. Come on now.
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  We have such disrespect for results simply because those who
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  carry these results are mandated by the law of the Spirit to be
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  humble. Please don't trivialize it.
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  Don't trivialize it. We together many years ago, my
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  worship people are here. I prohibited them from going out
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  for any ministration. You know why?
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  I told them you are not ready. I said walk on yourself.
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  Pray fast, build character, behave well.
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  You've never held 1,000,000, you've never held 10 million.
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  You don't know your tendencies. When honor comes, leave the
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  issue of visibility and bear root downwards so that you will
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  bear root upwards. Today, when you see God lifting
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  them and the songs are coming from the Spirit, it's not lock.
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  It can be reproduced again. Many years ago, when we were
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  very small, I used to say the future of the ministry was in
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  the word I, that it was across the globe.
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  You see, let me tell you this, I'm saying this to the body of
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  Christ, not just speaking about myself, but generally.
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  Can we develop a healthy respect for the sacrifices of people?
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  Our world is full of nasty. People hate us.
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  They just get up and get angry at the sacrifice of people.
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  And most of those people do not know the history, the dealings,
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  the pain. Some of these people trusted God
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  when their parents died. Some of these people trusted God
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  when they failed. I know business people who are
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  billionaires today. There were times they lost
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  money, they were in trouble. They were almost locked up in
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  prison. Some of them were locked up in
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  prison. They kept reading their Bibles.
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  They pray. Don't trivialize it.
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  Today that you see them with conglomerates around the world,
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  it is not luck. It's a testimony of consistency,
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  knowledge, diligence is someone learning.
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  Now you see a woman who never went to school, but with a
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  humility of heart, she learned how to fry akara on the street.
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  And she said, you know what I will give my best with?
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  When it is raining, that woman will sit down there and be
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  selling 6:00 in the morning. She will wake up by 9.
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  She's still there. And we did.
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  She raised her children. And some naysayer will come back
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  after many years and say it's just luck.
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  Luck that while you were sleeping, that woman was up
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  crying and saying, I know one day my children will bless me.
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  Is someone learning? Now I'm stressing the issue of
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  envy because you see, you need to learn to rise.
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  You need to learn. You need to be patient.
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  There's nothing to be envious about.
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  Success is a product of systems. I learned this by the life of
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  our fathers. Success is a product of systems.
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  If it is not working in your life, admit it sincerely and
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  then humble yourself and learn. I talk about my wonderful friend
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  and brother Pasanat. Sometimes we just, and you've
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  heard him say it before God lifted him like this.
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  His plan was to be one of the best trumpeter.
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  It's not just that he has, he's been anointed.
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  He's gone to a formal school, music school.
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  I mean his knowledge of jazz and many journals.
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  It is exceptional. And so the Holy Ghost can ride
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  through that creativity and place an anointing upon it.
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  It is not just carrying a trumpet.
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  You buy it and see if it will take you around the world.
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  Is someone learning now? I'm I'm speaking passionately
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  like this out of love, body of Christ.
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  Hating successful people will not change their reality.
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  You are the 1 suffering. Hating a ministry will not bring
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  it down. Hating a man of God will not
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  bring him down. No, Sir, the hand that leaves a
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  man is the hand that keeps a man.
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  How you went up is how you remain there.
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  Are we together? Don't see a young lady who
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  married a rich man and you are hating her.
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  What was on her that made the man marry her?
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  Go and pray. Get a seed and give her.
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  Let her pray for you. Don't carry your face around and
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  then be hoping that somebody. No, no, no, no, no.
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  In hatred you never make progress.
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  In envy you never make progress. You laid hands on the sick.
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  Nobody rose up from wheelchairs. Don't say every miracle is fake
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  if the power is not on your head.
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  Go and find where genuine anointing is.
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  Carry grace and produce results. Cornonia, you hear me?
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  You find a young Doctor Who's not done anything, bragging and
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  saying most of the doctors are not so skilled.
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  You just graduated, you've not built anything.
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  Someone has been a consultant for 37 years, 40 years.
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  You know the F13 we have in criticizing results is the
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  reason why we close our door towards ourselves.
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  It's amazing. Small things, people failing
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  left right and center and having the temerity to comment on the
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  lives of people. Hallelujah.
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  I remember years ago when I went to preach at RCCG, the North
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  American Conference, I had the honor to go and quickly greet
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  her father in the Lord that the Geo before going to my session.
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  Do you know, as old as that man is, and that was a night
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  meeting. I entered his office.
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  Sorry that I'm saying if he was praying in tongues, he was not
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  sleeping. He was praying in tongues,
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  talking to me, praying in tongues.
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  And I thought to myself, I said most people would think this man
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  is sleeping as an old man, then he will come out and preach.
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  He was praying in tongues all through the other sessions.
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  There's a woman of God. I will not mention her name.
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  My first encounter with this woman, great woman of God.
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  I went to preach somewhere and I hear a knock on my door.
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  I open the door and say who is this?
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  I was just about to rest and I see this woman and she gets down
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  on her knees with a seat and I said no, no, no, no, no, don't
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  do this, don't do this much. She said no, that's not the
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  issue. My heart is open to receive.
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  I know what I'm looking for. There are things that happen in
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  the secret you don't see. You only see the results in the
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  open. Why is God lifting the man?
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  Do you know the sacrifices they made?
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  He held his hand as his wife and said, you know what, let's,
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  let's, let's finance God's program somewhere and God saw a
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  blessing for him and the family. My kind advice is this, listen
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  to me, the same Lord is rich unto all.
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  If you are not growing spiritually, there is a way out.
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  Humble yourself and find out. If your prayer life is dying,
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  there is a way out. Find out.
• 1:47:07
  If you are not accessing the requisite Kingdom influence,
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  there is a way out. If you are not financially
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  buoyant, there is a way out. Not every wealthy person is a
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  cook. Just because you tried and tried
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  and it burnt you does not mean everybody is a cook.
• 1:47:25
  Find out the way to the city. Are we together?
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  But I will say it again, envy and jealousy has never been a
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  weapon to bring successful people down.
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  Rather, it fuels them higher and it fuels them greater.
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  Do not be at the wrong side of this equation.
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  Every time you find results that you sincerely admire, there's no
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  point being ashamed. Celebrate it sincerely, learn
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  from it, and soon will not know who is Lot and who is Abraham,
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  because both will be blessed the same.
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  Lord is rich unto all. If you believe that, say Amen.
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  Let me give you #7. Who is Lenin?
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  So the sixth reason is envy and jealousy.
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  Most people know that success is not cheap.
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  It's a product of knowledge, discipline, sacrifice,
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  diligence, productivity, consistency, humility,
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  endurance. Again, I'm speaking
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  apostolically and in love to the body of Christ.
• 1:48:39
  Refrain from trivializing people's results.
• 1:48:44
  Refrain from trivializing extraordinary results when you
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  cannot produce a result. If you are interested, go and
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  learn. Learn from the fathers, learn
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  from senior mentors in the ministry, learn from
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  contemporaries, learn from subordinates and mentees.
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  There is nobody who is too small to teach you.
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  When anybody who is truly a student, anything can be a
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  teacher to the one who is a student #7 What is the 7th
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  reason for the mixed reaction when we talk about the subject
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  of success in the body of Christ?
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  Hallelujah. The seventh reason is because
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  the believer's success validates the reliability of the Word when
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  understood and practiced. Write that down.
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  The seventh reason why there's a lot of agitation many times when
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  the subject of success is mentioned is because the
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  believer success validates the reliability of the word when
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  understood and practiced. It validates the reliability of
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  the word when understood and practiced.
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  Full stop. It kills the excuses that
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  failures have and compels them to come to the painful
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  submission that they are responsible for their failure.
• 1:50:36
  I'll take that. Again, the seven reason why
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  there's mixed reactions over the subject of success in the body
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  of Christ. In addition to the five that are
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  very legitimate and valid. You notice out of the seven,
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  five of them are valid, very legitimate, but the six and
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  seven is the one I'm addressing now.
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  Envy and jealousy, and then that the believers success validates
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  the reliability of the word when it is understood and practiced.
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  Meaning when believers succeed, it proves it validates that the
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  word works when it is understood and when it is practiced.
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  And then it kills the excuses that failures have, and it
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  compels them to come to the painful submission that they are
• 1:51:28
  responsible for their failure. One of the reasons why people
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  get angry. Not all the reasons, but one of
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  the reasons why people get angry.
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  I'm telling you what successful people is because when you see a
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  man who has succeeded God's way, it does two things to you #1 it
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  validates that even if it looks like the Word of God is not
• 1:51:51
  working in your life, the Word of God walks.
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  And then it kills the excuses you would have given.
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  If you say my excuse is my background, someone who came
• 1:52:02
  from a worst background has now succeeded, that excuse has been
• 1:52:05
  knocked off. If you say I did not have the
• 1:52:08
  privilege of going to a good school, someone was succeeded,
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  his excuse takes it away. If you say I was not properly
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  mentored, someone who may have come from a non Christian
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  background right now who is Catching Fire, knocks off that
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  excuse. So it leaves you with one
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  painful conclusion, that you are entirely responsible for your
• 1:52:29
  current outcome. Now you can choose what to do
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  with it. You can make up your mind that
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  from this day forward, I will change.
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  I will evolve. Or you can stand in anger and
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  attract other people like you, build a camp around your anger
• 1:52:44
  and keep blaming people for life.
• 1:52:50
  The believer's success validates the reliability of the world
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  when it is understood and when it is practiced.
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  It kills the excuses that failures have and it compels
• 1:53:04
  them to come to the painful submission that they are
• 1:53:07
  responsible for their failure. Have you learnt anything so far?
• 1:53:12
  This is a very uncomfortable discussion, but listen,
• 1:53:14
  Koinonia, listen, body of Christ, this is a liberating
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  message. Anybody who loves Jesus and
• 1:53:21
  loves his destiny would sit quietly and hear what the Spirit
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  of God is saying. So why does the idea of success
• 1:53:30
  create a mixed reaction? Number one, I said the subject
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  has been taught only from a standpoint of material
• 1:53:38
  acquisition while ignoring nobler parameters like spiritual
• 1:53:43
  health, fulfillment and peace Is the reason why most people don't
• 1:53:47
  want to hear about it #2. That the subject of success has
• 1:53:51
  sadly been over emphasized and exaggerated to the point of
• 1:53:57
  overriding the Commission of the church which is soul winning and
• 1:54:03
  the revelation of Jesus #3. That it has been erroneously
• 1:54:08
  used as a major yardstick to measure spiritual progress and
• 1:54:13
  strong faith in God Is the reason why legitimately most
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  people just frown away from it and even talk against it #4.
• 1:54:22
  That the success of many Christians, upon investigation,
• 1:54:27
  has been discovered to be fruits of compromise and ungodly
• 1:54:33
  practices, and that this has put a negative pressure on admirers
• 1:54:38
  to embrace evil and compromise for material gain.
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  But then #5 envy and jealousy. There are people whose reasons
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  are none of the first five. It is pure envy and jealousy,
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  and it's a human thing, because they know that success is an
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  aggregate of many principles, as I mentioned, diligence,
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  discipline, and they are unwilling to learn and to live
• 1:55:05
  by this principle. So naturally they gravitate
• 1:55:08
  towards total failure or mediocrity, and as a result they
• 1:55:12
  hate and envy those who are evidently and consistently
• 1:55:16
  successful. Seven, that the believer.
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  Success demonstrates and validates the reliability of the
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  world when it is understood and practiced.
• 1:55:28
  It kills the excuses that failures have to give, and it
• 1:55:32
  compels them to come to the painful submission that they are
• 1:55:36
  responsible for their failure. Now let's answer the 4th
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  question. Pray in the Spirit for one
• 1:55:42
  minute and then we'll answer the 4th question in our discussion
• 1:55:46
  tonight. Go ahead and pray.
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  Thank you Jesus, someone is praying Soprante Salika
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  Prakatosyata, thank you for helping us.
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  Thank you for helping your body. Thank you for helping our global
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  family. In Jesus name we pray.
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  Now I want to list for you the biblical parameters that
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  determine and also measure true success in the Kingdom.
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  I will run through a list. It is not limited to the list,
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  or the least I'm about to give is a fair enough capture the
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  biblical parameters that determine and also measure true
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  success. If you want to know who is truly
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  successful in the Kingdom, I'm about to run the list for you
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  now. You can use it on any man of
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  God, any politician, any businessman.
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  You can determine God's way by this parameter right now, who is
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  truly successful in the Kingdom? Hallelujah.
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  Are you ready? Let's do a quick run.
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  Number one. I may not have the time to
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  stress them in detail. Just write it down.
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  Some of them are self-explanatory.
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  I'm painting for you right now the portrait of true Kingdom
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  success by giving you biblical parameters, not cultural
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  parameters, not mainstream parameters from the lens of
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  Scripture. We want to examine the biblical
• 1:57:24
  parameters that both to determine and measure true
• 1:57:28
  success in the Kingdom. Let me tell you the truth,
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  anyone who passes the test on based on this parameter is truly
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  successful in the Kingdom. And anyone who fails using this
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  yardstick, no matter how successful they look, is a
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  failure based on God's, God's, what they call God's viewpoint
• 1:57:52
  #1 very quickly. The first parameter is
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  character. The first parameter for
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  determining and measuring true success in the Kingdom is
• 1:58:05
  character, the outworkings of the nature of Christ in a man
• 1:58:09
  character. We've done a lot of teachings
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  around that from our discipleship teaching.
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  So I will not say so much there. Galatians 5/22 The degree to
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  which that individual or that organization or that church has
• 1:58:24
  a rich capture of the fruit of the Spirit, Lovejoy, peace,
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  patience, gentleness, goodness, faith or faithfulness, meekness,
• 1:58:36
  self-control, alongside other attributes that the Bible has
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  put walking in love, and so on and so forth.
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  And you see, character is a product of a healthy, vibrant,
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  ever growing relationship with God.
• 1:58:52
  You don't just build character just by instincts because you
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  are replacing the flesh and its attribute with that which is of
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  the Spirit. You cannot do it by willpower.
• 1:59:04
  It is a product of a healthy, vibrant, ever growing
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  relationship with God, Relationship that is enhanced by
• 1:59:14
  prayer, relationship that is enhanced by consistent word
• 1:59:18
  study, relationship that is enhanced by faithful, you know,
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  attendance of church, the ministry of the Holy Spirit and
• 1:59:28
  so on and so forth. You want to measure who is
• 1:59:31
  successful in the Kingdom. The first index is not
• 1:59:35
  prosperity. The first index is not
• 1:59:37
  education. The first index is not money,
• 1:59:41
  not influence character. I don't care what you have, what
• 1:59:46
  you know, where you have gone. If you do not exhibit a rich
• 1:59:51
  capture of the character of the Spirit based on the authority of
• 1:59:55
  the Word of God, you are not successful the kingdom's way.
• 1:59:59
  It's as simple as that. And I humbly submit to you that
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  based on this parameter, you can see that many people in our
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  world have failed. They have money at the expense
• 2:00:09
  of their conscience. They have influence at the
• 2:00:11
  expense of their their love for Jesus Christ.
• 2:00:16
  I'm praying for you. Any result that would demand you
• 2:00:21
  going cold in your spiritual life, your prayer life, your
• 2:00:25
  fellowship with the Holy Spirit. Are we together, your connection
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  to the House of God and the family of believers to attain
• 2:00:33
  onto that wealth or that lifting.
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  May it never come to you. May it never come to you.
• 2:00:41
  If it will demand me leaving Jesus, I'm not interested.
• 2:00:46
  If it will demand me being prayerless, I'm not interested.
• 2:00:50
  If it will demand me not obeying or honoring the world, I'm not
• 2:00:55
  interested. If it will demand me leaving the
• 2:00:58
  fellowship of the Holy Spirit, I'm not interested.
• 2:01:01
  If it will demand me killing, stealing and destroying, I'm not
• 2:01:06
  interested. Don't say I'm so desperate.
• 2:01:13
  I must make it. I need to be rich, I need to
• 2:01:16
  advance, I need promotion. Knows how the believer is
• 2:01:20
  governed by a creed, character, the outworkings of the life of
• 2:01:25
  Jesus. Don't tell me you're a
• 2:01:27
  millionaire. Let me see that.
• 2:01:28
  The fruit of the Spirit, it is still preserved that your that
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  while you rise. I recommend you listen to my
• 2:01:34
  message even as your soul prosperous.
• 2:01:37
  It's a powerful teaching. Even as your soul prospereth.
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  Oh God, you are my God, and I will never praise you.
• 2:01:57
  Oh God, you are my God. And.
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  I will never love you, Oh God, You are my God and I will never
• 2:02:15
  follow. I have fought you in the
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  morning, and I have learned to walk in your ways.
• 2:02:29
  Step by step You lead me, and I will follow you all of my days
• 2:02:39
  days. Step by step you lead me, and I
• 2:02:45
  will follow you all of my days. Step by step He leads us, and we
• 2:02:56
  will follow in all of our days. For there is a path, the way
• 2:03:03
  that seems right onto a man, onto a ministry, but the end
• 2:03:07
  thereof are the ways of death. There is a way that seems right
• 2:03:11
  onto a businessman, onto a young man, onto a young woman.
• 2:03:15
  It only leads to perdition. Hear me, ladies and gentlemen,
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  you want to be said or that it should be said of you that you
• 2:03:23
  are successful in the Kingdom. The first index, the first
• 2:03:27
  parameter that both determines and measures true success is
• 2:03:32
  character. A product of a deep, vibrant,
• 2:03:36
  flourishing, ever growing relationship with God, sponsored
• 2:03:42
  and hence enhanced by a rich prayer life, a rich consistent
• 2:03:47
  word study life, a deep fellowship with the Holy Spirit,
• 2:03:52
  love for the House of God. Character #2 Who is successful
• 2:03:58
  in the Kingdom and how do we measure that success?
• 2:04:01
  Are you ready? The second parameter to measure
• 2:04:05
  success in the Kingdom is a superior ward compliant belief
• 2:04:10
  system. A superior ward compliant belief
• 2:04:16
  system, A superior ward compliant belief system, no
• 2:04:23
  matter what you have, no matter your status, if you do not have
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  a superior ward compliant belief system, ward compliant
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  mentality, you are not successful.
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  In the Kingdom. What is the word compliant
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  belief system? A believer who has submitted his
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  thinking, his thought process to the Word of God, who has exalted
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  the Word of God to be supreme, guiding your thoughts.
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  And let me tell you this, I don't have the time, but there
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  are 10 things you must believe to have a superior belief
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  system. Unfortunately, that's not my
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  teaching tonight. Let me see if I can list four or
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  five for you. Still board dressing on the
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  superior belief system #1 You must acknowledge the lordship of
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  Christ. Your belief system is not
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  superior if it does not acknowledge the lordship of
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  Christ. You must believe in the finished
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  work of Christ. Your belief system is not
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  superior if it does not believe in the finished work of Christ
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  #3 You must believe in the dignity of human life.
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  Your Your belief system is not superior if you do not believe
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  in the dignity of human life. If you don't believe in the
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  dignity of human life, you can steal, you can kill, you can
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  destroy at will. The dignity of human life is a
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  measure of a superior belief system.
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  You must believe in the responsibility component of your
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  working in victory, the response, your responsibility
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  component of working in victory. It is finished in Christ, but it
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  is not all up to God. You must believe in the
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  responsibility component of manifesting your victory.
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  When you leave everything up to God, it's irresponsible faith
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  practice. If it were ever happened, you
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  have a role to play. You must believe in the God Man
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  partnership in fulfilling God's program for your life.
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  I'm showing you some of the knowledge, the bodies of
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  knowledge that translate to a superior belief system.
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  Believing in the Lordship of Christ, believing in the
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  finished work of Christ, believing in the dignity of
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  human life, the responsibility component of your working and
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  living in victory, The God man partnership, God dash man
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  partnership. That means fulfilling God's
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  program on earth for your life, your family.
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  It's a product of God's contribution, His grace, His
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  mercy, His wisdom, but also your participation.
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  It is always the Spirit and the Bride telling the Word to come.
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  You want to have a superior world, compliant belief system.
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  You must believe in the power of laws and principles.
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  If you do not believe in the power of laws and principles in
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  determining your outcome in life and destiny, then you don't have
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  a superior belief system. Living in denial as to the
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  presence of gravity, for instance, does not change it.
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  Living in denial as to the possibility of the law of
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  aerodynamics does not change it. What you feel about it does not
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  change. There are laws and principles,
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  the law of honor, the law of diligence, and so on and so
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  forth. The law of consistency.
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  These are spiritual laws that weave themselves in a beautiful
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  tapestry to produce a victorious believer.
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  The power of laws and principles.
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  Ultimately, to have a superior world compliant belief system,
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  you must believe in the law of love.
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  I told you this when we dealt with discipleship, faith, hope
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  and love. The greatest the Bible says is
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  love. You are not transformed if you
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  don't have love. I have taught you that the real
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  proof of transformation is not just enlightenment is love.
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  If the only evidence you can bring as proof that you are
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  transformed is knowledge, then you are not truly transformed.
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  The real proof that you are changed is love.
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  Let's go to #3 What is the third parameter?
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  Is someone learning tonight? Oh yes, thank you Jesus.
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  The third parameter that measures true Kingdom success,
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  the discovery of purpose and excelling in your God ordained
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  assignment. The 4th parameter in order to be
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  said, you are successful in the Kingdom, you must discover your
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  purpose and you must excel in your God ordained assignment.
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  The problem you were mandated to solve, the solution you've been
• 2:09:20
  anointed to, to provide the people you should reach with
• 2:09:24
  that solution. Jeremiah 15 Whilst you were in
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  your mother's womb, before thou camest forth out of the womb, I
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  sanctified you. I ordained you to be a prophet
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  unto the nations. Hallelujah.
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  And then of course, Hebrews chapter 10 and verse 7.
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  Lo, I come in the volume of the book as it is written.
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  Hebrews 10/7 Lo, I come in the volume of the book.
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  It is written of me to do your will, to do your will.
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  Listen to me. The solution you are anointed to
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  provide, the problem you've been anointed to solve, and the
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  people you have been mandated to reach with that solution is a
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  description of your assignment. There are many rich people who
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  have never found their place in God's allocation as far as the
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  assignment is concerned. Wealth without purpose makes you
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  a rich fool. Influence without purpose.
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  Are we together? It adds up to what Solomon said,
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  that vanity upon vanity all is vanity.
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  What gives credence to everything?
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  The believers acquisitions, Your pursuit for titles, offices,
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  whether political, whether ministerial, is that that desire
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  must be connected to purpose. I learned this from Doctor Miles
• 2:10:49
  Monroe. Everything finds its value in
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  the Kingdom to the degree to which it's connected to purpose.
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  This is my own expression now. Everything in the Kingdom
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  derives its value. Your beauty derives its value.
• 2:11:05
  Your spirituality derives its value.
• 2:11:08
  Your career excellence, your academic excellence, your
• 2:11:11
  wealth, your intellectual prowess, they all derive their
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  value from their ability to serve a bigger 'cause we call it
• 2:11:20
  purpose. Don't just tell me I want to be
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  reached, why I want to be successful, why I want
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  promotion, why are we together #4 What is the 4th parameter to
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  measure success? The portrait of true Kingdom
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  success. We're looking at the 4th
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  parameter very quickly, the ability to understand the
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  mysteries of the Kingdom and to use them to live a life a
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  victorious, efficient and excelling life.
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  The 4th parameter to measure true Kingdom success is the
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  ability to understand the mysteries of the Kingdom and
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  then to use those mysteries to live a victorious, an efficient
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  and an excelling life. This is where prosperity comes.
• 2:12:24
  This is where the ability to cater for the necessities of
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  life comes. Food, shelter, education,
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  healthcare, convenience, material, blessings, all of them
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  are supported by this understanding.
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  Your ability to understand the mysteries of the Kingdom, The
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  laws of the Kingdom Matthew 1311.
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  It has been given unto you to know the mysteries of the
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  Kingdom and then to use those mysteries to live a victorious
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  life, an efficient life, and an excelling life.
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  If you are failing financially, most likely this is the problem.
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  You've not learned the laws if you are failing in terms of
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  meeting your needs. Are we together that a
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  reasonable period of time has been given in your life and
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  there are no evidences on this wise?
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  Most likely you have not learned the laws.
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  Listen. Waiting on God to just change
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  your life magically is an illusion and we have this
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  understanding. With all due respect, in Africa,
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  I believe in the prophetic. But most people take the
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  responsibility of their life. They hand it over to prophetic
• 2:13:42
  blessings and they don't stay to learn the ways of God.
• 2:13:46
  They don't endure sound doctrine, they don't learn the
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  ministries of the Kingdom, and they magically believe that
• 2:13:53
  their lives will just become an excelling life because of 1
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  prophetic declaration. We do this a lot in Africa.
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  We're religious people. We shout Amen, but we don't
• 2:14:04
  learn the principles. And so we live superstitious
• 2:14:08
  Christian lives that only produce expectations that remain
• 2:14:12
  disappointed because there is a place for the prophetic, but
• 2:14:16
  there is a place for a thorough, aggregated knowledge of the
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  truth. Listen to my message, the
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  ministry of light, the journey beyond salvation.
• 2:14:28
  I teach there that your initial salvation is not the
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  culmination, the totality of your Christian experience, that
• 2:14:34
  it is only the beginning of a journey that should translate to
• 2:14:38
  victory and dominion the ability to understand the mysteries of
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  the Kingdom. My brothers and my sisters,
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  colonial, global, the body of Christ, let me charge you in
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  love and in righteousness. Would you obtain grace from God
• 2:14:57
  in this season to pay the price? Go back again and begin to lend
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  the principles that truly make for victory and dominion.
• 2:15:09
  Go back again. Don't be embarrassed if the
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  light you carry is not true light.
• 2:15:14
  As a man of God, as a businessman, as a career person,
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  go back. Don't be ashamed of starting
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  afresh. If what you call faith is wrong,
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  go back and Start learning Bible faith.
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  Are we together? If what you call prayer is
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  wrong, go back and Start learning it again.
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  If what you call diligence is wrong, go back again.
• 2:15:37
  Don't be ashamed. There are many teachings, they
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  are free for you. Go and learn them.
• 2:15:42
  Sit down like a student and begin to learn.
• 2:15:45
  I'm tired of making mistakes, guessing and holding on to wrong
• 2:15:48
  ideas. I've given my ideas enough time,
• 2:15:51
  it has not worked. Let me stop shadow boxing and
• 2:15:54
  wishing to my detriment. Let me settle down and carry the
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  substance of eternal life. He was the Son has eternal life.
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  He who knows the sun has eternal life.
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  I have the sun, so I have eternal life.
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  I know the sun. Jesus the Way, the Compendium of
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  the Mistress of the Kingdom that guides a man from darkness out
• 2:16:39
  of light. Jesus the way, a revelation of
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  the modus operandi of the Spirit that can pick a man from
• 2:16:47
  anywhere to anywhere. Knowest thou the ordinances of
• 2:16:51
  heaven, and comes thou establish the dominion thereof upon the
• 2:16:54
  earth? Do you know the laws of the
• 2:16:56
  universe? Do you know the laws of the
• 2:16:59
  heavens? Give us NIV, he says.
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  And can you establish God's dominion upon the earth?
• 2:17:04
  Give us NLT. See what NLT says it says give
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  it to us. NLT.
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  Do you know the laws of the universe and can you use them to
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  regulate the earth? You can tame life like an
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  animal. That's what we call dominion.
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  It's not about bragging and saying I would do it.
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  It's a product of mysteries. I will give you the keys of the
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  Kingdom. Please obtain grace.
• 2:17:32
  You want to be said to be successful.
• 2:17:34
  Someone can give you money. You are still not successful
• 2:17:38
  that your real success in the Kingdom is your knowledge bank.
• 2:17:43
  Knowledge Bank Jesus knew what to do.
• 2:17:46
  Do you know what to do to bring help us?
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  Do you know what to do to bring favor?
• 2:17:51
  Do you know what to do to command restoration?
• 2:17:54
  Do you know what to do to call angelic assistance?
• 2:17:57
  Do you know what to do to what of the arsenals of darkness?
• 2:18:00
  Do you know what to do to break courses and yokes?
• 2:18:03
  Do you know what to do to program your climate so that it
• 2:18:06
  brings you rain? These are the mysteries upon
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  which dominion rests on Please press for Jesus The way, the way
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  to victory. A compendium of the
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  methodologies of the Kingdom, the knowledge that is required
• 2:18:27
  to make you excel in ministry, in life, in business.
• 2:18:32
  They are plenty, but they are finite.
• 2:18:34
  I've taught you they are finite. I'm telling you, you can hold on
• 2:18:38
  to it like the bunch of keys and rejoice in righteousness that I
• 2:18:42
  found my way out. You can find the key to wealth
• 2:18:45
  and abundance and there's nothing the devil can do.
• 2:18:48
  I'm not talking of being a cook. You will find it and damn life,
• 2:18:52
  I tell you this, and it will not take forever.
• 2:18:56
  It is not forever. Forever is not the timeline
• 2:18:59
  allotted for prosperity through Kingdom.
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  Prosperity without stealing, without manipulation, without
• 2:19:06
  fraud, without money laundering. How can you walk when you don't
• 2:19:18
  know the way of the wind? How can you run when you don't
• 2:19:25
  know the way of the spirit? How can you fly when you don't
• 2:19:32
  know the way of the wind? His power at work in you,
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  changing everything he know against the crimes.
• 2:19:43
  He's rebuilding everything in obedience to Christ.
• 2:19:51
  He's rearranging everything in obedience to Christ, Remoulding
• 2:20:03
  everything in obedience to Christ.
• 2:20:05
  That's the key. It's in obedience to Christ my
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  life. In obedience to Christ, my
• 2:20:13
  mindset, in obedience to Christ, my destiny in obedience to
• 2:20:23
  Christ, bring in everything In obedience to Christ, it's in
• 2:20:30
  obedience to Christ. Your life can come into a
• 2:20:41
  fearful level of order. It may take a while, but slow by
• 2:20:47
  slow your spiritual life, then your finances, then your
• 2:20:52
  mindset, then your relationships, and in a very
• 2:20:55
  short time your life becomes a portrait of God's idea of true
• 2:21:00
  Kingdom success. Ladies and gentlemen, do not be
• 2:21:04
  discouraged. It doesn't take too long.
• 2:21:07
  It's at the mercy of your diligence.
• 2:21:09
  You can start today. It didn't take too long for the
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  prodigal son to find life. It was at the mercy of his
• 2:21:15
  decisions for someone. I'm speaking to you.
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  You have failed and failed and failed as a man of God.
• 2:21:21
  Don't worry. Don't be intimidated.
• 2:21:23
  You can start again. I know you did not do ministry
• 2:21:26
  properly. You can start again.
• 2:21:29
  I'm telling you, the word again is a miracle.
• 2:21:31
  I know you did not. You did business and failed.
• 2:21:34
  You lost money. You are in debt.
• 2:21:35
  Yes. Don't let your pen create a
• 2:21:38
  theology that there is no way out.
• 2:21:40
  There is a way out. You can start again.
• 2:21:44
  Not every wealthy person is a crook.
• 2:21:47
  Not every great ministry is diabolic.
• 2:21:50
  Influence is a principle. Increase is a principle.
• 2:21:53
  Learn it. If your prayer life is down,
• 2:21:58
  perhaps you need to understand the dynamics of prayer and
• 2:22:01
  obtain the spirit of praise and the grace and supplication.
• 2:22:04
  There is a way out. He's bringing everything.
• 2:22:15
  Listen, He's calling everything. He's obedience to Christ
• 2:22:23
  commanding everything. He's obedience to Christ,
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  instructing everything in obedience to Christ.
• 2:22:41
  It's grace, but it is not luck. It is grace, but it is not
• 2:22:47
  magic. It is grace, but it is
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  programmed. And for as long as the
• 2:22:57
  principles are kept, the results will never change.
• 2:23:04
  The power of the laws of the Kingdom is where the confidence
• 2:23:08
  comes from. Not the results.
• 2:23:11
  Not the results. Destroy the outcomes.
• 2:23:14
  The laws will rebuild them again.
• 2:23:17
  The value of Ezekiel. The bones were scattered, but
• 2:23:20
  the laws brought them back again.
• 2:23:23
  There's nothing you can do with a man who has found the mistress
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  of the Kingdom. Destroy the ministry.
• 2:23:31
  It will come back. Destroy the business, it will
• 2:23:35
  come back. Let governments come and go with
• 2:23:38
  their sentiments. It will come back.
• 2:23:40
  Listen to what I'm telling you. It's the truth.
• 2:23:42
  The real success of the believer.
• 2:23:44
  Please hear me. The real success is not the
• 2:23:48
  physical things, not the clothes, the understanding, the
• 2:23:53
  understanding, the understanding.
• 2:23:57
  I said this to you without feel are sounding proud.
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  Sound of revival can be reproduced.
• 2:24:03
  Everything you see today, Koinonia can be reproduced.
• 2:24:07
  It's not a mistake. It's a programming.
• 2:24:10
  It's a programming. I want you to believe this.
• 2:24:14
  Believe it. Your business can be reproduced.
• 2:24:18
  It can be programmed. A visionary child is a
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  programming. It's not a wish.
• 2:24:28
  A healthy marriage is a programming is not a wish.
• 2:24:33
  A vibrant spiritual life is a programming is not a wish.
• 2:24:38
  A financially prosperous destiny is a programming, not a wish.
• 2:24:43
  An anointed head is a programming, not a wish.
• 2:24:47
  A vibrant prayer life is a programming, not a wish.
• 2:24:51
  A strong World Bank is a programming, not a wish.
• 2:24:55
  Favor is a programming, not a wish.
• 2:24:59
  Increase is a programming, not a wish.
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  Longevity is a programming, not a wish.
• 2:25:08
  Stop feeling that men are lucky or God.
• 2:25:12
  Just call them to that unique assignment.
• 2:25:14
  It's not true. It's just a comfort you found
• 2:25:18
  from scripture, but it's not true in obedience to Christ.
• 2:25:24
  In obedience to Christ, seeing obedience to Christ, I want you
• 2:25:38
  to get angry this night where the devil has been cheating you,
• 2:25:42
  that God just made others lucky and maybe you've been watching
• 2:25:46
  with admiration. Get angry tonight and hold on to
• 2:25:50
  the wheels of your destiny and send me and the Holy Spirit will
• 2:25:54
  not fail. I'm ready to begin to change my
• 2:25:57
  life, change my finances, change my destiny.
• 2:26:01
  I'm ready to turn that weak prayer life to a vibrant prayer
• 2:26:05
  life, that weak spiritual life, that carnally mindedness to a
• 2:26:10
  spiritual mind. Hallelujah, Please sit down, sit
• 2:26:23
  down. The ability to understand the
• 2:26:25
  mysteries of the Kingdom and to use the mysteries to program a
• 2:26:31
  victorious, efficient, and excelling life.
• 2:26:36
  One of the greatest gifts you can give anyone outside of
• 2:26:39
  salvation and the ministry of the Holy Spirit is access to the
• 2:26:44
  mysteries of the Kingdom in a structured way that produces a
• 2:26:48
  winner #5 let's hurry up. What is the 5th parameter to
• 2:26:56
  measure true Kingdom success, Kingdom impact and exploits?
• 2:27:01
  Write that down, Kingdom impact and exploits.
• 2:27:05
  And when we talk of Kingdom exploits and impact, it's a very
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  relative statement because most people, if you use parameters
• 2:27:16
  like say for a man of God, when you use crowds, there will be
• 2:27:20
  arguments there. Some can say crowds are great, a
• 2:27:23
  great measure of success. Others will say crowds don't
• 2:27:26
  matter if you use revelation access to knowledge they can say
• 2:27:31
  oh some have been gifted with superior spiritual illumination
• 2:27:34
  while others are not so gifted. I found out that every other
• 2:27:39
  parameter to measure impact stands the risk of argument and
• 2:27:44
  sentiments. But there is one you cannot deny
• 2:27:47
  Souls. Souls.
• 2:27:52
  The greatest parameter to measure Kingdom impact and
• 2:27:56
  exploits is souls. A measurable harvest of souls.
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  Let me give you an advice. Never fight a soul winner.
• 2:28:07
  You can fight crowd, you can fight revelation, you can fight
• 2:28:12
  prayer or success or influence. But don't find yourself fighting
• 2:28:16
  a soul winner because you are you will be a direct enemy of
• 2:28:21
  God. The greatest desire of God has
• 2:28:23
  revealed in Scripture is that all men be saved.
• 2:28:27
  And anyone who is actively and structurally about the saving of
• 2:28:33
  sinners. I can tell you it's at the heart
• 2:28:35
  of the will of God. First Corinthians, First Timothy
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  24 that all men be saved and that they come unto the
• 2:28:44
  knowledge of the truth. Souls is one of the most potent
• 2:28:50
  index. Can I tell you this?
• 2:28:51
  Please look up. As a person I learn from
• 2:28:56
  everyone but I don't pay attention to you and take you
• 2:29:01
  serious until I see your soul winning passion.
• 2:29:07
  I don't trust any other thing you say until you're a soul
• 2:29:10
  winner. Now if I don't find you a soul
• 2:29:14
  winner and I find you talking maybe about the body of Christ
• 2:29:19
  or church, honestly I don't. I don't hate you but I don't
• 2:29:22
  take you serious. If soul winning is not an index
• 2:29:27
  then what else is? If we mention crowds and
• 2:29:31
  increase there are people who will be offended and say others
• 2:29:35
  were just given the grace for crowd and that's not true.
• 2:29:39
  If we talk about ministry from a transporter dimension, it will
• 2:29:43
  sound like pride. If we talk about increases
• 2:29:45
  parameters like finances and the rest, and so we reduce it to
• 2:29:50
  souls. Use the parameter of souls and
• 2:29:54
  you'll see that many people are not successful, even those who
• 2:29:58
  find those who are successful. You earn my respect in the
• 2:30:03
  Kingdom in addition to your having character.
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  You truly earn my respect when I see that you are a soul winner,
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  not an assumed soul winner, and assume so a soul winner with
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  statistical proof. Can I tell you this?
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  When people come out to receive a prophetic word, it's not
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  necessarily any big deal. When people come out to be
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  healed and stand up from wheelchairs, well, glory be to
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  God. But when someone leaves His seat
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  to come and hand over his life to Jesus, I can tell you that is
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  a display of power there. The devil has no hand in that
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  business. And if you cannot draw as many
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  people to live the Kingdom of darkness and to come to the
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  Kingdom of God's dear Son, please shut your mouth.
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  Shut your mouth, shut your mouth.
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  The real proof of stamina and authority is not miracles, it's
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  the ability to work in partnership with God and bring
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  many souls to righteousness. Satan will rather live a people
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  healed because if they are healed without Jesus, they will
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  still go to hell. But the power that can make a
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  man say after 30 years of living in sin, living for Satan, I want
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  to give my life to Jesus. Ladies and gentlemen, that's
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  real power there, unfortunately. Are you seeing that in the body
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  of Christ? Do you know, let me, let me work
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  on your mind for a minute. We have the earth right now as
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  we know the latest statistics. We have 8.2 billion people and
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  counting on earth, I've taught you this, 8.2 billion people.
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  You know how many statistics of statistical Christians, I'm not
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  talking of genuine Christians. 2.3 billion on earth, there's
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  still 5.9 there about, am I right?
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  About 5.9 billion people who have not known Jesus and we're
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  here arguing in the body of Christ over petty things. 5.9
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  billion people are yet to give their lives to Jesus, and yet
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  the Bible says this gospel of the Kingdom shall be preached
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  and those who are about winning those holes will not let them
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  rest and will not give them the liberty.
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  If you don't have the power to win souls in mass, support those
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  who are doing it and respect it while they do it, because soul
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  winning is the greatest demonstration of the power of
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  the gospel. Not miracles, not science and
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  wonders. You can only teach a people who
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  are saved. You cannot bring Rhema to
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  someone who is not yet spiritually regenerated.
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  You are only producing intellectuals with no
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  transformation. Studying the life of Reinhard
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  Bonker, studying the life of Billy Graham, studying the life
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  of TL Osborne. These three men, in addition to
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  our fathers of faith, I have come to have a great and a deep
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  respect for the power that is invested to win souls.
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  Let me tell you the truth. You want to know how powerful a
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  man is, what his ability to bring a word, and how many come
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  to Jesus? How many people brag about being
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  powerful and cannot win souls? You can finish a conference for
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  days and not even one person will be saved and we have the
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  temerity to insult fathers. You see that the foolishness of
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  young people on the day of Pentecost, the greatest display
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  of power was not the fire coming on their head.
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  It was 3000 souls. Read your Bible 3000 souls in
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  one day. Then the question is how many
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  people were gathered? The gospel was announced with
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  soul winning 3000 souls. Men and brethren, what do we do
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  today? We claim to have power.
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  We walk miracles and people shout and fly under the
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  anointing and miracles genuinely happen.
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  But by the time we through the altar call, people are yawning
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  and on their way, going home and out of a crowd of maybe 1010
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  thousand people, you have only two people come out and there'll
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  be children just playing around. They don't even know what
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  brought them out. And we have the F1 tree to
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  believe we are more anointed than the fathers.
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  You go and watch their crusades till today.
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  I am inspired. You watch a father of faith like
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  that. It's you, our Father in the
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  Lord. We together now that you will
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  sometimes sit on a chair and preach in a way that many of us
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  will have the arrogance to edit as a revelation.
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  But in the midst of that frailty, they make an altar call
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  and you will see people coming genuinely.
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  Oh, I watched Renhard Bunker, I was there.
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  If I were to edit Renhard Bunker's revelation, we young
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  people will edit it and say it's nothing to write home about.
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  But with the simplicity of that gospel, they made an altar call.
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  And my goodness, my God, right before my eyes.
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  It's not a video that I watched alone.
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  I watched people. You will be surprised, some of
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  them smelling alcohol as they are coming out.
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  You will know that this was the power of God that brought them
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  out. Church of the Lord Jesus Christ,
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  we have very little to say if we are not soul winners.
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  I will say it again, before you have the credence to speak much
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  in the body of Christ, demonstrate the proof with soul
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  winning. Soul winning is not an imaginary
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  thing. It is one soul per time.
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  And let me tell you, when it has to do with the business of soul
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  winning. Numbers matter.
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  If you fight numbers with respect to soul winning, you are
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  Antichrist. I've had the honor of travelling
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  around and preaching this glorious gospel and sometimes
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  you see people, every tribe and tongue and nation.
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  Some of them is simply because they were never truly taught the
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  gospel well as you are teaching. You can sense like a knife, not
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  by condemning the penetrating power of the gospel.
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  And you, it's like a light bulb just comes to them and you make
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  an altar call and you see them running Caucasians, Francophone
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  people, Africans. You see some, maybe some lawless
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  children. You know that they came into
• 2:36:32
  that crusade ground with no desire for God.
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  They just came to watch. But they break down under the
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  power of the gospel. That's real power there.
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  The power that can turn a man from darkness to light is real
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  power. The power that can make a Sinner
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  to relinquish his ways. The power that made the woman to
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  live that fetcher and Ron and say come see a man.
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  That's real power. The power that raised Christ
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  from the dead. That's real power.
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  The power that turns Saul to Paul.
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  That's real power. Not just revelation.
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  Revelations are wonderful. The teaching ministry is
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  wonderful. But ladies and gentlemen, from a
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  spiritual standpoint, real power is the ability that taunts A
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  Sinner to come to the light. And I submit to you, there is
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  very little of that that is being done in church.
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  Very little. I submit to you, if every man of
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  God paid attention to soul winning and not on petty trivial
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  things, there will be a greater harvest.
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  I'm selling for you this idea. Do not trivialize souls.
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  Do not trigger like souls. Jesus died for every soul.
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  And whilst we're about pointing fingers, hating on one another
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  and business people doing the same, the Master is crying.
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  I'm saying the time is short. As for me, I've made-up my mind
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  that in life and if need be in death, I will remain a soul
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  winner beyond a man of God. The consciousness of being a
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  soul winner. He's a noble call.
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  No blood and being called an apostle, No blood and being
• 2:38:17
  called a man of God. Those things are just petty
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  titles. The desire that all men be
• 2:38:28
  saved. Don't just sing that you love
• 2:38:30
  the Lord. The person who sings I love you
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  and does not fulfill the desire of your lover.
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  That love is fake when God said he loved you he did not stop
• 2:38:42
  there he went out of his way while we were yet sinners and
• 2:38:46
  gave Jesus is someone learning now if you claim you love him
• 2:38:51
  then you must be about the thing that brings him joy and I can
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  tell you this healings, crusades, wonderful, but the
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  greatest basis for bringing joy to the father is souls souls.
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  Let's finish up so that we'll is someone learning in church.
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  When you talk about souls, then you cannot talk about change and
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  transformed lives. We're discussing Kingdom impact.
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  So soul winning is at the upper part of Kingdom impact, whether
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  it's through your job, whether it's through evangelism, and
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  then #2 changing and transforming lives, and then of
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  course #3 improving society, making the world a better place.
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  These are the three indices that measure Kingdom impact.
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  No matter what you do, a job, a business, if it does not
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  translate to #1 soul winning #2 changing and transforming lives
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  and #3 improving society, you are not making impact.
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  Let me say that again, I don't care whether you get a job,
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  whether you increase, whether you have a lot of money.
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  For us to say you are making Kingdom impact as the 4th
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  parameter to measure success, we must check it using the gauge of
• 2:40:16
  soul winning. How many souls are coming to
• 2:40:19
  Jesus because you are a millionaire?
• 2:40:21
  How many souls are coming to Jesus because you are in a
• 2:40:24
  privileged position? Then how many lives have been
• 2:40:27
  changed and transformed because you are a man of God or because
• 2:40:31
  you are a businessman? Then how is society better
• 2:40:35
  because of your presence? How is society better because of
• 2:40:39
  your organization? Can I tell you the truth?
• 2:40:41
  If the FCT, Abuja here, Nigeria has not become a better place
• 2:40:46
  since Koinonia came here, then we are a waste of time from a
• 2:40:51
  territorial standpoint. If Nigeria has not become a
• 2:40:55
  better nation because of the presence of Koinonia, just as a
• 2:40:59
  case study, if the world has not become a better place because of
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  us and the teachings that come here, then it means we're not a
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  blessing. Impacting the Kingdom is not
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  just measured in acquisition of things.
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  The nobler parameters to measure impact and to measure exploits
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  is souls that are saved, lives that are changed and
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  transformed, and then improvement in society very
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  quickly. Let me give you #6 Now the 6th
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  parameter to measure Kingdom in Kingdom success is influence.
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  Influence Write that quickly Influence What is influence 2
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  Definitions quickly The capacity to command the attention and the
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  loyalty of men The first definition of influence The
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  capacity to command attention on the line attention on the line
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  Loyalty The capacity to command the attention and the loyalty of
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  men The loyalty of nations the loyalty of systems is called
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  influence Whoever has the capacity to command the
• 2:42:16
  attention and then the loyalty of men, of nations and of
• 2:42:20
  systems is an influential person.
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  Second definition, the capacity to compel men to buy into your
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  convictions and buy into your ideologies is called influence.
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  The capacity to compel men to buy into your convictions and
• 2:42:44
  your ideologies is called influence.
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  Ladies and gentlemen, I don't need to remind you, you've heard
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  it times without number in this ministry that influence is a
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  major tool to Kingdom advance. You want to truly be successful
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  in the Kingdom, Do not fight influence.
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  The first law of influence is that you must be able to command
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  the attention of the man you want to change.
• 2:43:10
  Before God changed Moses, he commanded his attention.
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  For as long as God could not get the attention of Moses, the
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  mandate could not come. God is going to be using many of
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  force in this end time and He's going to be elevating us in
• 2:43:26
  business, in ministry. I'm saying this prophetically.
• 2:43:29
  In finances. He will be putting you in a
• 2:43:31
  position where you will become a reference to many and in the
• 2:43:35
  name of Jesus Christ, through your life you will command such
• 2:43:39
  influence over men and draw many to Jesus.
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  You believe that say Amen. You will command the attention
• 2:43:46
  and the loyalty of men. You will command the attention
• 2:43:50
  and the loyalty of nations. You will command the attention
• 2:43:54
  and the loyalty of kings. You will command the attention
• 2:43:57
  and the loyalty of businessman. I'm releasing it as a prophetic
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  word to you. I say it again.
• 2:44:02
  You will command the attention and the loyalty of men.
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  You will command the attention and the loyalty of kings.
• 2:44:10
  You will command the attention and the loyalty of nations in
• 2:44:14
  the name of Jesus Christ. And many will say, come, let us
• 2:44:22
  go up to the House of Jacob, and He will teach us His ways.
• 2:44:26
  Many will say, come, let us go, because the mountain of the
• 2:44:30
  Lord's house would have been exalted #7 The seven parameter
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  very quickly to measure. True Kingdom success is the
• 2:44:45
  health of your relationships. Face your family and then all
• 2:44:51
  those who are close to you. Listen.
• 2:44:53
  The testimony of your family and those who are close to you is a
• 2:44:58
  major part. It's a major index for showing
• 2:45:02
  whether you are successful or not.
• 2:45:04
  The health of your relationships is the 6th parameter to measure
• 2:45:09
  true Kingdom success and in order of priority starts with
• 2:45:12
  your family. What's your wife?
• 2:45:15
  Your godly wife has to say about you, matters in telling us
• 2:45:20
  whether you are successful or not, what your husband has to
• 2:45:23
  say about you, what your children, godly children have to
• 2:45:27
  say about you. Can I tell you there is a part
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  of the testimony about your life Only your wife can tell us.
• 2:45:33
  Only your husband can tell us. Only your children can tell us.
• 2:45:37
  There are many people who are great people out there, but back
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  home there's no great, there's no noble testimony among their
• 2:45:46
  spouses, particularly when they are born again.
• 2:45:50
  We want to hear what your wife says about you.
• 2:45:53
  If your wife says you are a true Christian, then we know you are
• 2:45:56
  a true Christian. If your husband says you are a
• 2:45:59
  true Christian, then you are a true Christian.
• 2:46:02
  If your children can look at you and say daddy and mommy say true
• 2:46:06
  Christian, then we know you are successful.
• 2:46:10
  Then if those who are connected to you, who have the advantage
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  of proximity to your life, if they can say you are a
• 2:46:17
  Christian, then you are a Christian indeed.
• 2:46:23
  Is someone learning the health of your relationships?
• 2:46:28
  Don't win the world and destroy your family.
• 2:46:33
  That's one of God's generals who made that mistake.
• 2:46:35
  He was around winning the world and his wife and children, they
• 2:46:39
  were left unattended to and it went down history as a bad
• 2:46:45
  testimony. Can I tell you this?
• 2:46:48
  Save the world. Fulfill your assignment, but not
• 2:46:52
  at the detriment of your family. If there's a call for sacrifice
• 2:46:57
  then you bend over backwards but make sure your house is intact
• 2:47:01
  while you are winning the world. Don't have a good name among
• 2:47:04
  everyone. And then your children see you
• 2:47:06
  as a stranger. You don't have a good memorial
• 2:47:09
  among people. And then you are almost like
• 2:47:12
  Lucifer to your wife. You are almost like Lucifer to
• 2:47:15
  your husband. But you're a man of God to
• 2:47:17
  everybody. You are a great teacher.
• 2:47:19
  You're a great businessman. Are we together now?
• 2:47:23
  The testimony of family is a real testimony.
• 2:47:27
  I say that again, the testimony that comes from your family is
• 2:47:31
  real testimony. If your wife calls you a
• 2:47:34
  Christian, then we agree that you're a Christian.
• 2:47:36
  I'm not talking of her covering for you just out of love and she
• 2:47:40
  knows she's lying. I'm talking of genuinely, she
• 2:47:43
  says my husband is a Christian and the husband saying my wife
• 2:47:46
  is a Christian and the children saying our parents truly are
• 2:47:50
  Christians. It's a noble testimony #8 What
• 2:47:55
  is the 8th parameter to measure true Kingdom success?
• 2:47:59
  We're almost there. Your willingness here, This one.
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  The 8th parameter to measure true Kingdom success.
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  Koinonia, body of Christ. Your willingness to lose
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  everything, including your life for Jesus and for your values.
• 2:48:19
  Your willingness to lose everything and if need be,
• 2:48:24
  including your life for the sake of Jesus and to stand for your
• 2:48:29
  values is proof of true Kingdom success.
• 2:48:33
  Again, your willingness to lose everything.
• 2:48:37
  I'm not saying that you lose everything, but your willingness
• 2:48:41
  to lose everything and if need be, including your life for
• 2:48:47
  Jesus and to stand by your values, Kingdom values.
• 2:48:54
  Are you saying that when it has to do with this parameter, many
• 2:48:57
  have failed? They can acquire, but they
• 2:49:01
  cannot stand for Jesus? Your willingness to stand for
• 2:49:06
  Jesus, your willingness to lose everything.
• 2:49:12
  Question. Can you lose the empire that
• 2:49:15
  took you 20 years to build? Can you lose your reputation for
• 2:49:19
  Jesus? Can you lose your car?
• 2:49:22
  Are you saying that in the Kingdom success is not about
• 2:49:25
  having, it is also about losing? There is a dimension of success
• 2:49:30
  that is not measured in having, is measured in your ability to
• 2:49:34
  lose. What shall it profit a man if he
• 2:49:37
  gains the whole world and loses his soul?
• 2:49:41
  But everything profits that man if he loses the whole world and
• 2:49:45
  gains his soul. Your willingness to lose
• 2:49:49
  everything, man of God, can you lose your ministry for Jesus?
• 2:49:55
  Can you close your ministry for Jesus?
• 2:49:58
  Or do you love your ministry so much you can give up Jesus to
• 2:50:02
  protect your reputation? Can you lose that election for
• 2:50:07
  Jesus and go back home with nobility and know that I stood
• 2:50:12
  for truth and for righteousness? Can you be misunderstood for
• 2:50:16
  Jesus and for the values you stand for and yet not be angry?
• 2:50:21
  I'm not talking of foolishness. I'm talking of the fact that you
• 2:50:24
  stood for righteousness and for truth.
• 2:50:29
  This is where the robber hits the road after being creative.
• 2:50:35
  Thank God for the flashy things. But ladies and gentlemen, the
• 2:50:40
  one who can only live for Jesus and not die for him is not
• 2:50:45
  successful. If the only thing you can do is
• 2:50:48
  to live for Jesus, you are not yet there.
• 2:50:51
  The one who can both gain and lose is the one who is
• 2:50:55
  successful #9 The 9th parameter to measure true Kingdom success
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  Ready is your ability to look beyond yourself and to create a
• 2:51:10
  legacy for those who will live after you.
• 2:51:14
  The ability to look beyond yourself and to create a legacy
• 2:51:21
  for those who will live after you.
• 2:51:24
  One more time, the ability to look beyond yourself.
• 2:51:28
  Oh, I wish that the elderly come here in this nation and in
• 2:51:32
  Africa. The ability to look beyond
• 2:51:35
  yourself. Your your personal comfort.
• 2:51:39
  CEO The ability to look beyond yourself and to be interested in
• 2:51:45
  building a legacy. Politicians, with all due
• 2:51:48
  respect, the ability to look beyond yourself, the money, the
• 2:51:52
  fame, the prestige, and be willing to leave a legacy for
• 2:51:58
  those after you. Businessmen around Africa, even
• 2:52:02
  men of God. The ability to look beyond
• 2:52:05
  yourself. I've taught you in this house
• 2:52:09
  that everything that is great is only great because it serves a
• 2:52:13
  purpose beyond itself. When you live for self, you
• 2:52:19
  cannot be said to be great. In the Kingdom, the money is for
• 2:52:22
  myself, the increase is for myself.
• 2:52:26
  The reputation is for myself. The membership is for myself.
• 2:52:32
  Oneself exists. God cannot be glorified, so the
• 2:52:36
  9th is your ability to look beyond yourself and to create a
• 2:52:41
  legacy for those who will live after you.
• 2:52:45
  The 10th and the final parameter for measuring true Kingdom
• 2:52:51
  success ready. The ability to still have joy,
• 2:52:58
  peace, and rest, with or without the presence of any material
• 2:53:03
  blessing. The measure of true Kingdom
• 2:53:06
  success. The ability to still have joy,
• 2:53:13
  to still have peace, to still have rest with or without the
• 2:53:19
  presence of any material blessing, with or without the
• 2:53:23
  fame. You still have joy, you still
• 2:53:27
  have peace. You still have rest, with or
• 2:53:30
  without the promotion. You still have joy.
• 2:53:33
  You still have peace with or without the healing, with or
• 2:53:38
  without the visa, with or without the citizenship, with
• 2:53:43
  are we together now or without the political position.
• 2:53:47
  When your joy and your peace and your rest is anchored on Jesus,
• 2:53:55
  and not with the coming in or the going out of any material
• 2:54:00
  thing, you have hid that jackpot in the Spirit.
• 2:54:03
  You are truly successful. I tell you this, every once in a
• 2:54:08
  while God will come to you and He will test you.
• 2:54:13
  Sometimes you desire that you answer your prayer immediately
• 2:54:17
  and to your shock, you may not see it happen immediately.
• 2:54:20
  Then you frown, then you get angry and you say, God, why are
• 2:54:23
  you doing this to me? And he says, my son, look at me,
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  I want to teach you. You must learn to find joy.
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  You must learn to find peace. There are many young men who are
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  in their 20s looking as if they are about to clock 60.
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  They have wrinkled their faces out of worry.
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  Why no job this Nigeria said. But listen, my brother, I
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  understand. But you can find joy in spite of
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  true success in the Kingdom is when your joy and your peace and
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  your rest is never connected to anything that God looks at you
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  and says give the car and he says it may pay me, but let it
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  go. Give the house, but let it go.
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  Give the ministry. The ability to live things and
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  still feel fulfilled is true success.
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  The ability to pathways with things and still feel
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  successful. He's the cornerstone.
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  The weak made strong in the Savior's love.
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  What's the other part? I don't know the whole song, but
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  I know this much. Christ alone.
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  Cornerstone is the we made strong in the Savior's love.
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  Listen, I'm not a medical doctor, but let me give you a
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  Bible cure to depression high blood pressure divorce your joy
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  from cars, houses, promotion. This world is too wicked and
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  emotional for you to play with your heart and peg it on things.
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  I thought this person loved me but I just discovered that is my
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  enemy, my brother. Find peace early.
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  Christ alone is my cornerstone, the weak made strong in the
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  Savior's love through the snow. He is Lord.
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  He is the Lord of all. You're about to wrap up.
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  Please look at me. Thank you for enduring tonight.
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  Some of you here have a lot of evidences around your life that
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  attest to the fact that you're successful.
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  There's a car outside belonging to you.
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  There are cars. Perhaps there's a house or
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  houses within this nation and outside of this nation.
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  Some of you have your names edged on the minds of people.
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  They desire to see you and they call it a privilege.
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  Some of you are the admiration of nations.
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  Some of you have done well in truth.
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  Spiritually, you've carried the anointing.
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  You've understood the word of God.
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  But can I tell you this? Some of you have scored nine out
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  of 10. This is where you have missed
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  it. If the ministry there leaves
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  you, or let me put it this way, if the wine finishes, your
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  reputation can so be at stake that you can run helter skelter.
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  Because you have pegged your honor to entering an SUV.
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  You have pegged your honor to wearing Louis Vuitton and Gucci
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  and all of these things, wonderful.
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  You have pegged your honor to flying priority private jets and
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  all of that, wonderful. Nothing wrong.
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  You have pegged your honor to likes and clicks and shares.
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  You have pegged your honor. Are we together to how many
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  crowds of people, some to sons and daughters?
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  But I give you counsel from the Word of God in defining and
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  describing and painting the portrait of true Kingdom
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  success. The one who is said to be
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  successful truly in the Kingdom is one who must be able to find
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  joy and find peace and find rest, with or without.
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  Hear me again, with or without one last time, with or without,
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  if I have millions and billions in my my bank account, glory be
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  to God, but I begin to rejoice even before the 1st naira hits
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  that account. Are we together?
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  There are people today. The reason for their face
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  downcast is marriage. If you wake them and say good
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  morning, their answer will be marriage.
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  Don't talk to me except you are bringing a man before me.
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  Or Can you imagine that kind of risk?
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  Or that is a job. No joy.
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  No matter what you're saying. If you are not prophesying over
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  employment, you're not ready to hear or that's his money.
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  They just want to wake up 1 morning and see millions and
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  they now call their friends and say where's that guy that
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  laughed at me? Where's that lousy person who
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  laughed at me? Come and see what God has done.
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  It's a spiritual way to come and see, come and see what I've
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  done. I learned this very early in
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  life, My dear people, everything in life will fade away, Houses,
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  cars, reputation. If Christ tarries, we will serve
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  our own course in ministering the gospel.
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  And a time will come, whether by transition to glory or or just
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  the law of seasons, you will find reason to have to step out
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  of the way and let God's program go away.
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  Please hear me, politicians, don't build your reputation on
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  office because one day you will not be there so that you will
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  not kill yourself when you now have to face the people.
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  And you are no longer chairman. You are no longer Your
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  Excellency if I build my reputation on apostle.
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  You see that even though our call is a noble, eternal call,
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  however, being a child of God is a nobler description than being
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  a man of God. Thank God for the house, but if
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  I have to enter my house to feel successful, something is wrong
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  with my understanding. Don't get me wrong, if I have to
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  check my ATM, if I have to carry my phone and say this is iPhone,
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  this and that and that, you know, these are the things that
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  we, we, we put pain on ourselves.
• 3:01:37
  You see people coming, you waving, say this is iPhone,
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  whatever this is this and that, this is this and that, this is
• 3:01:44
  this and that. And once you waving, you say,
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  wow, you mean you bought it? Say yes.
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  I'm telling you, there are people today who have refused to
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  identify with their parents because they are poor.
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  They have been lying. I've taught you this in this
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  house they call every rich person related to them their
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  parents. They would never admit that that
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  woman is their mother because they are ashamed.
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  No. The ability to find peace, shout
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  peace, say it again. The ability to have joy, say
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  joy. The ability to find rest, say
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  rest. Whether things come into your
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  life or things go out while you are trusting God for the
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  marriage, the job, the increase, the promotion, let it be because
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  you desire to live an efficient life and to bring glory to God,
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  not that you are seeking those things to find peace and joy and
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  rest. That is a bad bargain with
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  destiny. Is someone learning We're about
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  to pray the portrait of true Kingdom success.
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  Everybody stand, please rise, hold hands with someone by your
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  left. And I want you to listen to me.
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  We're about to pray. Listen to me.
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  I listed for you 10 biblical parameters that determine and
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  measure true success in the Kingdom.
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  I mentioned character, the outworkings of the fruit of the
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  Spirit. I mentioned the superior ward
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  compliant belief system. I mentioned for you the
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  discovery of purpose and excelling in your God ordained
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  assignment, knowing the problem you've been anointed to solve,
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  the solutions to provide. I mentioned for you Kingdom
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  impact and exploits and I said that is measured using the index
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  of 1st and highest soul winning measurable, soul winning,
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  measurable harvests and then #2 changed and transformed lives
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  and then improvement in society. Number six, I measured in I
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  mentioned influence, the capacity to command the
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  attention and the loyalty of man nation's systems. 7.
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  I mentioned the health of your relationships, your nuclear
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  family, being first wife, husband, children and then all
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  those who are close to you #8. I mentioned as the 8th portrait
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  of true Kingdom success, your willingness to lose everything
• 3:04:39
  if need be. Your life for Jesus, not for
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  failure, not for indiscipline, not for compromise, for Jesus,
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  and then for standing on your values #9 your ability to look
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  beyond yourself and to create a legacy for those who will live
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  after you. And then #10 your ability to
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  still find joy, still find peace, and still find rest, with
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  or without the presence of any material blessing.
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  That is the definition of true Kingdom success.
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  Ecclesiastes chapter 12 and verse 3.
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  We're about to pray. 1312131213 Let us hear the conclusion of
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  the whole matter. The preacher says fear God and
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  keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man.
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  He said of reading many books, there is no end and much studies
• 3:05:48
  only a weariness to the flesh. There are many dead bodies
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  today. When they were alive they were
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  called professors. When they were alive, they were
• 3:05:59
  called Lana colleagues. There are many dead bodies
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  today. When they were alive, they were
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  called governor. So this president, this
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  engineer, this architect, this, you go to the Mortuary in any of
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  the hospitals, there's no name that is pegged there that I know
• 3:06:18
  that they say here is engineer this, they are all dead bodies.
• 3:06:23
  There is no special real estate for a wealthy dead body or a
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  poor dead body. When I was given a birthday
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  broadcast, I told you in concluding my speech, I said
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  every dead body on earth. It's a sermon.
• 3:06:42
  It's a sermon that you should listen to somewhere arrogant.
• 3:06:47
  When they were alive, they forgot they would die one day
• 3:06:51
  only for them to go to bed and not wake up.
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  Somewhere so kind and mindful of those days that they died with
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  honor and nobility. God gave them the honor of
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  knowing their time of transition.
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  And although they are dead today, they still live in our
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  hearts. They have immortalized their
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  impact because they looked beyond themselves.
• 3:07:15
  Their impact in our lives has refused us from forgetting about
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  them. There are others who died and
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  people were in a hurry to forget them.
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  There are names when you call in history, even their graves.
• 3:07:28
  People don't want to see it because it it it reenacts in in
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  negative memory. But there are many when you
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  mention the Nelson Mandelas, when you mention the Mahatma
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  Gandhis, when you mention the men and women who gave their
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  best and made their contributions.
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  We all desire success, whether we admit it or not.
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  The Bible captures a provision for the success of a believer.
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  But unlike many narratives about success, unfortunately, that
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  were found around the body of Christ, I hoped by the Spirit
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  tonight that God was able to, through these teachings, bring
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  balance, clarity, perspective to the idea of Kingdom success.
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  So the key therefore, is not to fight it.
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  It's a waste. It came from God.
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  It cannot be fought. The key is to bring all the
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  other dimensions and then to bring balance to the dimensions
• 3:08:26
  that have ended up destroying people, destroying their faith,
• 3:08:31
  destroying the purity of their work with God.
• 3:08:34
  I desire to be successful so that it gives me an opportunity
• 3:08:37
  to serve the purposes of the Kingdom and as a consolation to
• 3:08:41
  my life and destiny that I have been able to taste of the
• 3:08:45
  victory and the dominion that is in Christ.
• 3:08:47
  I desire success for you, but by this parameters mentioned and
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  any parameter that is outside of this, it's not my prayer for
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  you. I want you whilst holding the
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  hand of your neighbor. Can you take a minute to pray?
• 3:08:59
  Our time is up, but please pray. Talk to the Lord about your life
• 3:09:04
  and then that of your neighbor. Go ahead, please.
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  No movement around. It's a sacred moment.
• 3:09:10
  For the next 1-2 minutes, I'd like us to pray you're praying.
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  Those following online, we've had a time discussing the
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  portrait of true Kingdom success put in balance and clarity to
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  Gray areas that have made the concept of success in the body
• 3:09:28
  of Christ frowned at that have called for concern.
• 3:09:34
  And then we have also introduced the biblical perspective by the
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  Spirit. I've been able to show you using
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  10 parameters like an artist would draw the portrait of one
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  who is said to be truly successful.
• 3:09:47
  Go ahead and pray and ask that in the name of Jesus that you
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  will become that portrait to yourself, to your family, to
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  this nation, beautiful nation, Nigeria, to Africa, our beloved
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  continent and to the nations of the world.
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  Pray, sow that seed over your life and extend it to your
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  neighbor whose hands you are holding left and right,
• 3:10:10
  separatical Liberantos Theatre, Lord help us.
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  Let this be a generation of men and women who will not fight
• 3:10:18
  through Kingdom success, but will be able to leave it and
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  define it by accurate parameters, nobler parameters,
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  higher spiritual parameters. We repent for times where we've
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  exaggerated the things that should not be exaggerated, over
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  emphasized the concept of success using mundane parameters
• 3:10:43
  are not focused on the foundations, the things that are
• 3:10:47
  nobler and better. We obtain grace, we obtain
• 3:10:50
  grace. Body of Christ, pray Koinonia
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  Global, Are you praying Shaparantos calabrende gaberaka
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  tosiata Hallelujah. So if you have the cars and the
• 3:11:12
  houses with this understanding, it will be congratulations for
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  you. If you have the influence, it
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  will be congratulations. I'll not be afraid to speak over
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  your life because I know that you sustain a superior
• 3:11:27
  orientation that my life does not consist in the abundance of
• 3:11:31
  these things. They are as important as their
• 3:11:34
  ability to serve the bigger purposes of God and my personal
• 3:11:40
  efficiency. Give me one minute to make the
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  altar call and then I'll speak over your life.
• 3:11:46
  What a night to make the altar call.
• 3:11:48
  I spoke about souls and you all heard.
• 3:11:52
  Many of you were convicted as you heard me speak.
• 3:11:56
  I'm not going to force you tonight.
• 3:11:57
  This is the business of your destiny.
• 3:12:00
  Enough has been said about souls as an expression of God's love.
• 3:12:04
  He desires for you to say to be saved.
• 3:12:06
  I'm going to count 1 to 5. Wherever you are.
• 3:12:09
  You're saying, apostle, please give me the honor of coming to
• 3:12:16
  stand before you to make it right with Jesus.
• 3:12:19
  God bless you my brother. Someone is already coming
• 3:12:22
  wherever you are going to count 1 to 5.
• 3:12:25
  Please leave your seats, take your bags, your Bibles,
• 3:12:27
  everything you came to church with.
• 3:12:29
  I'd like you to come and join this precious brother and stand
• 3:12:32
  here and say, apostle, I truly want to make it right with
• 3:12:35
  Jesus. I have learned that life outside
• 3:12:38
  of Jesus does not produce true success.
• 3:12:41
  Do I have bold people who are coming?
• 3:12:43
  One I begin my counting. I end at 5/2.
• 3:12:48
  Keep clapping, Koinonia. Let's support them.
• 3:12:50
  Let's encourage them. They are making the noblest
• 3:12:54
  decision that any man can make in this side of God's Kingdom.
• 3:12:58
  My brother and my sister, come, Don't be ashamed.
• 3:13:01
  I'll always say this is like calling you to come and receive
• 3:13:03
  an award, only that this is a nobler one, greater than anyone
• 3:13:08
  you've ever received. 3 Apostle. I want to come, but I'm ashamed.
• 3:13:14
  Don't be ashamed. Come join them, join them, join
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  them for and for someone who is following online.
• 3:13:25
  I may not see you, but I want you to be rest assured that God
• 3:13:28
  sees you. And as I lead this precious ones
• 3:13:31
  in making this declaration unto salvation, please join them.
• 3:13:35
  Whether you are following by television, whether you are
• 3:13:38
  following from any viewing center around the world, any of
• 3:13:41
  our expressions around the world, I want you to know that
• 3:13:44
  this is a new beginning for you. Five, celebrate them one last
• 3:13:50
  time. Thank you Jesus, Hallelujah.
• 3:13:57
  Praise God. Thank you so much my dear
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  brothers and sisters, I really want to appreciate you.
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  Thank you for the boldness to receive Jesus Christ.
• 3:14:06
  You will never at a loss when you make it right with him.
• 3:14:09
  Doesn't matter your background, does not matter what you've done
• 3:14:12
  or not done, I want you to know that He can give you a new
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  beginning right now. Let me request that that you
• 3:14:17
  lift your right hand, if you can, high above your head.
• 3:14:20
  Please repeat this after me as bold as you can, knowing that
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  beyond the man you're seeing, you're speaking to the God who
• 3:14:27
  loves you so passionately. Say after me, Lord Jesus again.
• 3:14:31
  Say Lord Jesus tonight. I have heard your word.
• 3:14:36
  I believe you are the Son of God.
• 3:14:40
  I believe you died for my sin. I believe you rose again for my
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  justification right now. I received Jesus into my heart
• 3:14:53
  as my Savior, my Lord, and my King.
• 3:14:58
  I declare that the power of sin, Satan, hell, and the grave is
• 3:15:07
  broken over my life from tonight.
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  I'm a child of God. I go for whatever and back
• 3:15:14
  whatever. Amen.
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  Keep those beautiful hands lifted, Father.
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  Thank you for my brothers and my sisters here on site and for the
• 3:15:22
  many who are listening, following and receiving across
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  the globe. Many have gathered to make this
• 3:15:29
  declaration of faith. I pray by the authority of Your
• 3:15:32
  Word that you receive these ones, you cleanse them, you
• 3:15:35
  purify them, and that they become on the strength of your
• 3:15:38
  confessions, honorified recipients of your life.
• 3:15:42
  I decree and declare in the name of Jesus the power to live the
• 3:15:45
  victorious Christian life is hereby released upon your life.
• 3:15:48
  You go forward ever and back whatever, in the name of Jesus
• 3:15:53
  Christ. The Lord bless you.
• 3:15:55
  In Jesus name I pray. Please look to my right, ladies
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  and gentlemen, their counselors waving the placard, they are
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  ready to receive you joyfully, to pray with you.
• 3:16:04
  They'll share a word or two with you and then you are back to
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  your seat. Let's honor them as they go.
• 3:16:09
  Let's honor them as they go. Hallelujah.
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  Praise the name of the Lord. Our time is gone, but please
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  project for us the mandate. Let's just say word of prayer
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  for one moment. And while we're doing that,
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  South Africa. This week we're in South Africa,
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  so all of you who are in South Africa and within, I'll be
• 3:16:32
  coming Thursday, Friday, I'm with you, and then we're back by
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  the weekend for Sunday. So let's trust God for an
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  awesome time. You look to our social media
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  pages from when the week commences and the details will
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  be put there. You'll be an awesome time
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  preaching for dear friend and brother, Apostle Felix, and it
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  will be a great time. And God is doing great things
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  across the nations of the earth and we trust that.
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  And again he will glorify himself.
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  So S Africans, let's prepare and it will be a great time feasting
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  on the world. And by the Spirit in Jesus name,
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  please stretch your hands and let's pray over the mandate.
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  Just in a minute. Father, we thank you again.
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  We decree and declare by the power of the Holy Spirit that
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  this will be a feast of fat things.
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  It will be an extraordinary encounter not only to the
• 3:17:24
  Koinonia Global family, but to the Body of Christ in this city,
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  in this nation and across the nations of the earth.
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  Pray over the many who are coming.
• 3:17:34
  There are thousands of people flying in from across the globe.
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  Go ahead and pray that in the name of Jesus, God will bless
• 3:17:40
  them. Decree and declare in the name
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  of Jesus those who are coming from within this city and all
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  around Nigeria, across Africa, that in the name of Jesus, it
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  will be a global convergence of men and women who will encounter
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  God in such a unique way. In Jesus name we pray.
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  And so for those of you who are yet to scan, please media, just
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  give it to me for one moment, the QR code.
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  I know that we don't do well in doing registrations in Nigeria
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  and it doesn't affect your attendance whatsoever, but it's
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  just to help us plan. All the details will be at the
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  Miracle service. I'll tell you the details of
• 3:18:22
  venue, speakers and every other thing.
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  But please, for those of you who are yet to scan, it helps us to
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  plan so that we don't have a situation already, just a number
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  of people who are coming in from the nations of the Earth, from
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  Africa alone. I mean, it's by itself, even
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  without Nigerians, it's already a tremendous.
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  So we want to be able to plan everything to make sure that
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  everyone is comfortable. So please do cooperate with us
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  from across the 36 states of the federation.
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  Please make sure you plan and let me encourage you.
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  More details will come next week.
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  But if I were you, it would be wise to try to do your early
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  bookings for those who are coming from abroad by next week,
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  hopefully. Please remind me, PR media, so
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  that we take a minute and just make some announcements as it
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  concerns accommodation and other things already all the
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  accommodations around the region, it's amazing.
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  There's, there's no space whatsoever available again.
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  So we're doing our best to make sure that we have as many
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  people, you know, well accommodated and all of that.
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  All the details will come up for now, please, from across the
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  nations of the Earth, please scan the QR code so that we can
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  plan. Just gives us an idea already.
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  We have an idea from home here, but it's important that we're
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  able to plan no matter how many. Let's just let's just have that
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  idea. So please, for you, for your
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  spouses, whatever, let's let's just know.
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  I know ministries that are coming with the entire, some of
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  them, the membership, sons and daughters in the gospel from
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  across the globe. Regardless, please go ahead and
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  scan again. It does not affect your
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  attendance. You'll not be prohibited, but
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  this just helps us in management.
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  We're doing a lot. And even though we've held
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  global conferences, you know that this is home.
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  We're calling the world to come home.
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  So it's not like US or Canada where you are limited.
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  And so several people are coming.
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  And then in Nigeria alone, you know how we are in Nigeria.
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  I mean, people just show up. One family can have 30 people
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  and a mother would drag all our sons and say you must go.
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  So whatever. Please let them register so that
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  we'll know. And then it helps us in
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  planning. Do cooperate with us.
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  And for any and all givings, Please be patient.
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  Many of you have been asking if you can, will there be special
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  prayers for those giving? Don't worry, Let's leave it for
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  the miracle service so we're not distracted by next week when we
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  come. By the way, please invite
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  everyone for the miracle service.
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  Make sure you don't come alone. Let it be an extraordinary, let
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  it be the greatest addition of our miracle service yet.
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  We trust God for a great time. We'll be back by then from South
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  Africa, ready to just give our very best praise the name of the
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  Lord. So all the details, we're going
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  to be fasting 2 weeks into the conference.
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  We'll announce all of those details.
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  So be prepared and by the grace of God, everything will be fine.
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  Well, preparing preparations on Top Gear, all the progress will
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  be announced by next week. Please don't forget that
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  includes our family from across the globe.
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  Please stay put. So that will guide you on what
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  to know. And for those of you who have
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  tried to reach a number of people have reached concerning
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  information for visas and the rest, all of that will take the
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  time to address that very briefly next week before we
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  begin the ministration. But for now, just know that
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  we're preparing and all that we want you to do is to begin your
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  personal planning and pray and then scan the QR code.
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  The Lord will bless you in Jesus name.
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  Can I speak the blessing over your life in the name that is
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  above all names? I decree and declare by the
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  Bible definition of success. Now I speak over you.
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  Be successful, be victorious. Be successful, be victorious,
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  spiritually, financially, maritally, career wise, health
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  wise, relationship wise. In the name of Jesus Christ, I
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  decree and declare everything that needs to be put in place to
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  ensure that you rejoice in the Lord this week.
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  May my God put it in place for you.
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  In the name of Jesus Christ. This is the week you will sing
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  songs of praise. This is the week you will clap
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  for joy. This is the week you will leap
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  in excitement in the name of Jesus Christ.
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  Every plot of darkness over your life is hereby a bot head.
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  You are blessed in the name of Jesus.
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  Your children are blessed in the name of Jesus.
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  The works of your hands blessed in the name of Jesus.
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  Your spouses are blessed in the name of Jesus.
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  Go and succeed in the name of Jesus.
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  For those of you who are still trusting God for the
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  manifestation of long standing issues, may this be the week of
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  your testimony. In the name of Jesus Christ,
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  help us. Arise this week, lift us.
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  Arise this week, bless us. Arise this week, strengthen us,
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  Arise this week endorsed us, Arise this week in the name of
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  Jesus. May your love for Jesus grow
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  more and more. May your passion for prayer grow
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  more and more. May your passion for the world
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  grow more and more. You are a believer manifesting
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  the fruit of the Spirit. I declare, go and prosper
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  financially. Go and prosper materially in the
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  name of Jesus. I declare that you are an agent
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  of transformation. I call you light and I call you
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  salt. In the name of Jesus you will
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  bring many to righteousness and your testimony is preserved.
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  You will not die. I rebuke sickness from your
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  life. I rebuke failure from your life.
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  I mark you with a mark of honor. I mark you with a mark of favor.
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  It is well with you. In Jesus name we pray.
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  Shout Amen. 3 * 2 three, Amen. God bless you Together let's
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  share the grace and fellowship. Thank you for your patience.
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  The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, the
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  sweet fellowship of the Holy Spirit.
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  Let it rest and abide with us now, forever.
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  Amen. Surely God's goodness and
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  mercies follow us all the days of our lives as we dwell in the
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  House of the Lord forever and ever.
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  Amen. Now, let me encourage you,
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  please make sure you go back and listen to these teachings again
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  and make sure you help someone who needs this, a pastor, some
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  person that you need to help. May God bless you.
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  See you next week at the Miracle Service.
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  Everything.