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Listen, why do we read that portion of 1 Chronicles? Because I want you to know that God will send a helper to you in due season. And it is forbidden for you to go around looking for helpers. You are supposed to go around proving faithful. You are supposed to go around showing the righteousness of G...
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1:22:30
Like the way Peter said it, 2 Peter 1, these are the qualities he said they must be yours and increasing. Please just make sure these things are yours and they are increasing. 2 Peter 1, he said, for by this he has granted to us, I mean verse four, his precious and magnificent promises, so that by t...
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1:19:30
You know the truth? Joseph never saw his father's land again. Oh, you don't know the story? He never did. He was too busy. Pharaoh couldn't release him to go and see his father. So you know what Joseph did? He sent a caravan to bring his father. He said, I'm too busy. I can't leave. Go and get my fa...
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1:10:30
That's seven words now. I said I want the first next two words. Day by day, what happened? Men came. Some people not just hate them, they are the fourth world. Verse 22, day by day, what happened? Men came. Day by day, what happened? Men came. Some say men joined, some say men came. The point is tha...
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7:30
is something that you cannot see with ordinary eyes. You can only see faith by what it produces in the lives of people. If you want to know whether you have faith or you don't have faith, it's in what you do that other people don't do, that is, people who don't have faith. You cannot claim to have f...
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where she's crying, husband, help me, deliver me. You know you will clear your account. You will clear your neighbor's account, too. According to one guy, any certificate I see, I bond. That is, they say, can you borrow certificates for $5 million? The guy said, bond my certificate. He brought it ou...
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1:24:00
I heard a lot, that's why I owe you me too. So you will not pay your own debt. Somebody supply you something, yes and no. Look, every day, there's what the Bible calls moral excellence. You know what they call excellence? In school, everybody gets average 50%. But because of my work as a lecturer, a...
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42:00
That's what they say, the kind of doctrine that attaches itself to you. I mean, gone are the days, I don't have that time anymore to argue with people about doctrines and all of that. I've now realized that, look, their main issue is not the letters, you know, is not the arguments. Did the Bible not...
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we start producing great results. We said before, seed time, you put in much, you don't get much out of it. But harvest time, you put in the same amount of effort. Where it produced 10,000 naira before, as an example, using money as an example, you find it now is producing 200,000. Where it produced...
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1:12:00
That is what happens. And listen, we have to be ready. I just feel like saying this. It's not everything you want that God will give you. That one just came to my mind. I should say it, and then we'll close with it. It's not everything. There are times you want something. You say, OK, in Jesus' name...
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The aim of my doctrine that I'm believing must be one that provokes one to faith and to the love of God. I realize many doctrines people preach is to explain and license the flesh. You know, give confidence that don't worry, the flesh may have lordship over you. Doesn't matter, you'll still go to he...
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The signs of true faith is a walk in righteousness. Listen, true faith is not what I declare, what I'm expecting. God will do good for me. You know, was it yesterday night? Yes, yesterday night my wife and I were watching Christian TV. They were just changing channels. So we stumbled on some preache...
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1:28:30
If somebody dashes you, nobody can say, oh, I like the work you are doing. Gives you a car that is going to take half of your monthly struggle money to fuel. Collect it, too. I'm the one that says you collect it. And then remove the four tires. Auction the tires. So the car is parked there. If there...
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58:30
Please! Let me leave it there. Do I need to say more than that? A word is enough for the wise. If what I've said doesn't make sense to you, you're on your own. Now, you know, the point I'm emphasizing to us again is this. Listen to me, people of God. The man of faith who's really walking by faith, I...
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Sometimes you will fail the test, and God is not concerned. I want to say concerned now. He's not angry that you failed the test. What He just wants you to know is that you failed the test. I don't know whether you're getting my point. You know, sometimes students will feel, how was the exam? The le...
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They're like, eh? So what was not the advantage of everything we're doing on the earth now? Do you get my point? They're the kind of people that say to you, they had better be heaven. After all the suffering on the earth, they must be heaven. And that's what I want Christians to understand. If you a...
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and their chiefs were 200, and all their kinsmen were at their command." He continued to give us a list. Let me just read verse 38 and end it there. All these being men of war who could draw up in battle formation came to Hebron with a perfect heart to make David king over all Israel. and all the re...
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You know, because of this work that we do, you hear all kinds of things. I don't want to write stories that are touched. So that's not what I'm doing. I'm preaching. I'm not trying to write a book on interesting, bad stories of life. But this is the point. The people were doing them. They knew they ...
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You breed selfish people, people who don't love the Lord, but who love the wages of what they think is godliness. The Bible says godliness, Paul was writing to Timothy. Godliness with contentment is great gain. He said, many suppose that godliness is a means of gains. And that's what we'll preach to...
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blessings by faith. If the cause of the gospel requires a life that
appears like a life of poverty, then we must take it as true soldiers
of Christ.
We all love to quote what Paul said, "I can do all things through
Christ who strengthens me." In quoting it we must be careful to
note the...
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ng because of what we want to get, we are practising the
'labour of selfishness,' instead of the labour of love (1 Thess 1:3,
Heb 6:10). We are also by this practising ‘godliness without
contentment.’
When I say godliness without contentment, I am reversing what
Paul said in the first letter to Tim...
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3 TEV
So Paul was not talking about the ability to get things at all; rather
he was teaching on the ability to endure both prosperity and
adversity. The key word here is 'endure.' He said to Timothy,
Endure suffering along with me, as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.
2 Tim 2:3 NLT
So we see that e...
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o one keep defrauding you of your prize by delighting in self-
abasement and the worship of the angels, taking his stand on
visions he has seen, inflated without cause by his fleshly mind,
Col 2:18-19
It is our duty to pursue truth and to walk in it. This is why we
must pray all the time that God w...
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preaching of the word.
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CHAPTER TWELVE
THE WORK OF THE
MINISTRY
I need to emphasize something about the work of ministry.
We often speak about whether it is right or wrong for ministers to
work, and by this we mean doing ...
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by
her giving to him material things like food and shelter. We know
it was honour since she did it purely because he was a man of
God. When the Lord was going to pay her back, what did He
give? A son!
God did not decide to give her more rooms because that was what
she gave Elisha. If the law worked...
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Matt 9:38). Pray that God will bless them, keep them and make
them be of a willing heart. Pray for those who financially work
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with you so that they might prosper much more. That is part of
your duties. Just preach and pray; ...
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e in
any act of righteousness is what the Bible calls patience. You are
said to be walking in patience when you identify what is good and
you continue to do it whether you see a reward quickly or not.
that you may not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through
faith and patience inherit the pr...
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ptable according to
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your current level. God will give you a place where your little
money will count. But you will increase.
A man who I read of and who I believe has this kind of grace is
Peter J. Daniels, the Australian C...
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ch man had enough
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for his household. Paul applied this when collecting relief money
for the trouble in Jerusalem as follows.
For this is not for the ease of others and for your affliction, but by
way of equality — at this p...
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ot holding unto what we have
but rather being ready to give up things for greater purposes. That
is the heart of Christianity; once we start drifting from it we start
drifting into error and apostasy.
Like I have pointed out here and there in this book and in others,
it is not right to use selfish ...
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brethren with the right spirit.
Among the first mails we got after going on radio was one which
had a cheque for 5000 naira included; it was from a student. May
God increase him and people like him.
Many times people have walked up to me and asked, 'how do you
pay for all these?' and they have don...
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give but their own remarkable degree of
commitment will be in other areas as their gifts indicate. We must
recognize this fact.
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Please don't get me wrong; I am not saying Christians should not
be very generous, but I am talkin...
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one
developed country to another, Seoul to Sydney, and check him
into a YMCA room? Something is wrong there. A friend of mine
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was actually checked by his hosts into something more like a
brothel – those low-level hotels that...
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their own needs. They have bought cars and built houses and
travelled all over the world. They are just having a good time.
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Meanwhile the work of God that should have prospered by their
hands is suffering. They are being ve...
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e mouth of Paul that God gives
us richly everything to enjoy. I believe that poverty is not the plan
of God. I believe that God still materially blesses those who obey
Him.
I hope you believe it too.
However to speak as if that is all the Lord is doing makes such a
beautiful truth become error. Hi...
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different from theirs, and since He is the law-giver, they
must learn his ways, one way or another. I chose the easier way; I
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dropped pride and started accepting offerings early. And God has
been merciful.* [*Please note that...
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HER
Let me develop further something I briefly discussed earlier on
giving to the preacher because he has blessed you with the word.
Let us see that portion of Paul's letter to the Corinthians again.
For it is written in the Law of Moses, "You shall not muzzle the ox
while he is threshing." God is...
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be in vain.
I submitted to them the gospel which I preach among the Gentiles,
but I did so in private to those who were of reputation, for fear
that I might be running, or had run, in vain. Gal 2:2-3
I encourage you to open your heart to correction so that your
labour for the Lord will not be in v...
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he plowman ought to plow in hope, and the thresher to thresh
in hope of sharing the crops. If we sowed spiritual things in you,
is it too much if we should reap material things from you? 1 Cor
9:10-12
If a teacher of the word has touched you with God's word, then
you must reciprocate with material ...
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don't always lead successful lives. It is all decided by chance, by
being at the right place at the right time. Eccl 9:11
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We definitely have different graces and abilities when it comes to
financial matters, just like we...
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gain will get
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nothing. The sincere ones will get correction as a reward. The
Lord will not encourage the perpetuation of errors.
The main issue is that we have forsaken the doctrine of sacrifice
in the following of Christ. We a...
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kindness is a spiritual seed. The
Lord Jesus gave a long list of spiritual seeds in the Sermon on the
Mount in Matthew 5. It is important I point out that negative
attributes are also spiritual seeds.
Having said this however, I must also point out the fact that
though spiritual seeds are spiritual...
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nd self-righteousness before God in
prayer is the way by which you exalt yourself, and the Lord Jesus
said you will be frustrated and disappointed. That is what it means
to be humbled in this context.
See, good works have their reward, but we are not to look to the
reward or plead the good works wi...
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s very
sick." John 11:1-3 NLT
This Lazarus became the man that Jesus raised from the dead as a
sign of His Sonship!
Selfless giving is a sign of true love and devotion; it is indeed a
sign of faith.
Abraham's gift of Isaac was a sign of his faith, and it caused God
to pronounce huge blessings on ...
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ltiply your seed for sowing and increase the harvest
of your righteousness. 2 Cor 9:10
Please notice that Paul was teaching that in every material thing
of your life there is seed and there is bread.
Seed, in the context of the subject of this book, is that which you
give to support the work of Go...
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the Philippians.
And my God shall supply all your needs according to His riches
in glory in Christ Jesus. Phil 4:19
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MY GOD
Note that he said, 'my God.' Is it not the same God he had
preached to the Philippians, and indeed ...
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10.
Paying Your Preacher
1. Have A Right Motive
11. Pride, Humility and Responsibility
2. How To Receive From God
3. The Spiritual Seed
12. The Work of Ministry
4. Walking in the Light
13. Shine Your Eyes
5. We Have A Dut...
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ndously with the
ministrations of the word of God.
What was the reward this man felt was perfect for me? He wanted
me to give him at least two tapes! Why? Because those tapes
would further bless him.
I felt sorry for him, deeply sorry. I had no tapes with me there and
then to give to anybody, but ...
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orget that there is beauty in consistency. Try to be
consistent in your giving life.
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CHAPTER FIFTEEN
THE MINISTRY OF GIVING
This book is to every Christian and describes an area of the
operation of the spirit of Christ – t...
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Herod's steward, and
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Susanna, and many others who were contributing to their support
out of their private means. Luke 8:1-3
The ministry of Jesus did not depend on begging those he was
reaching out to for offerings. He had...
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Therefore I follow the injunction of Solomon which says,
Sow your seed in the morning, and do not be idle in the evening,
for you do not know whether morning or evening sowing will
succeed… Eccl 11:6
I follow that and I say to you that,
The key to the release of God's favour is the continual doing...
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d it like a servant of God. God will
bless her and multiply her. It was not about my need at all.
Not that I seek the gift itself, but I seek for the profit which
increases to your account. Phil 4:17
Whichever way she learnt it, she did what was right.
Most other people I meet love to tell me all ...
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done, but that we have come trusting that our sins are forgiven
and that Jesus has enough credit with the Father that we can draw
on.
So, we do not do things for the reward.
Now please note this: Even though we do not give so that it will
be given to us, the Lord however ...
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acquiring material things so as to enjoy life and we have in the
process forsaken the kingdom of God and the spread of it. We
have not been careful to help spread the word of God as a priority.
Thus says the LORD of hosts, 'This people says, "The time has not
come, even the time for the hous...
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Philippians saying,
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And my God shall supply all your needs according to His riches
in glory in Christ Jesus. Phil 4:19-20
The manifestation of the fruit is determined by the need and not
the seed. Their needs could be an...
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rship of the gospel!
Thus saith the LORD of hosts; My cities through prosperity shall
yet be spread abroad; and the LORD shall yet comfort Zion, and
shall yet choose Jerusalem. Zech 1:17 KJV
SUMMARY
There are a number of things I want to point out from these last
things I discussed.
1. If yo...
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ve in prosperity… Not
that I seek the gift itself, but I seek for the profit which increases
to your account. Phil 4:11,12,17
I am not saying this for any other reason other than because it is
right.
See, there was a time I went to preach for a fellow minister who
was doing a lot of work among you...
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s that
may have come because they heard that testimony would most
likely have not received anything. It was not the offering; it was
the faith. The testimony should teach them about the God of
Elijah.
Copying acts of giving because you want to receive the same
blessing someone else got is a waste o...
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Let the elders who rule well be considered worthy of double
honor, especially those who work hard at preaching and
teaching. 1 Tim 5:17
I think this one makes it even clearer. Preaching and teaching is
really hard work, when done properly. Ministering to people the
power of God is hard ...
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ding for their children. They do not do it because of what
they will get but simple because it is their duty; if they do not do
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it nobody will do it for them. Paul said everyone should bear his
own load (Gal 6:5). The preachin...
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Giving is the life of a believer. The main reason why God gave
you resources is so that you can be a blessing to others. Giving to
the work of the ministry is a crucial part of your giving life. You
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cannot afford to make th...
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never see yourself as deserving of any praise for it. You
were blessed for a certain reason. You have no right to
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live large and expect the responsibilities to be shared
equally, either in your natural family ...
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teach
us its own ideas – ideas that may not be in agreement with God's
order. I say this because the wages of a preacher have generated a
lot of controversy.
Let me first say something about myself.
I am a specialist doctor; I work in the university as a lecturer and
in the hospital as a consultan...
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appropriate field. The law of sowing and reaping as it applies to
giving is an operation of the spiritual field. When applying this
law to the spiritual field, the seeds must necessarily be spiritual.
To illustrate, physical corn can only be planted into a physical
soil. You cannot sow corn into th...
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…Am I not an apostle?...2 Even if others think I am not an
apostle, I certainly am to you, for you are living proof that I am
the Lord's apostle.
This is my answer to those who question my authority as an
apostle. 4 Don't we have the right to live in your homes and share
your meals? 5 D...
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s, preachers
are forbidden from charging for their services, but I do expect
those who use their services to be reasonable.)
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For anyone to speak disparagingly of the work of the ministry is
to come close to blaspheming the ...
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he will of God in using His word to manipulate
people. This last option is what many preachers chose to do, but
that is the very thing not to do as God never accepts excuses for
adulterating His word.
"Behold, I am against the prophets," declares the LORD, "who
use their tongues and declare, 'The L...
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ved Son, in whom we have
redemption, the forgiveness of sins. Col 1:13-14
In praying in the name of Jesus, we are again saying that the
Father loves us because we believe in Jesus, and even before we
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believed. We are ascri...
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ey.
And when they had assembled with the elders and counseled
together, they gave a large sum of money to the soldiers, and
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said, "You are to say, 'His disciples came by night and stole Him
away while we were asleep.' "And...
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ures and one of these
is the use as describing the drive or motivation for
what one is doing in life.
The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a
wounded spirit who can bear? Prov 18:14 KJV
In this verse of scripture above, what Solomon was
teaching is that a person's drive determines wh...
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repentance and prayer when
possible. Our duty is to tackle the future through our
faith in Him and not through peeping into it. We are
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to know that our lives are in His hands and that He is
watching over us. We must bear in mind that ...
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is saying.
Be strong, and let us show ourselves courageous for the
sake of our people and for the cities of our God; and may the
Lord do what is good in His sight. 1 Chr 19:13
God does Block the Way
In the face of circumstances, do everything that you
know is right, then let the will of God be do...
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cration for this young lady?
It is to accept correction. It is to confess her sin of
having a wrong expectation for solving the poverty
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problem. She should look back in her mind at the
suitors who she had despised in her heart because...
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d of time not to worry about how
you will defend yourselves, because I will give you such
words and wisdom that none of your enemies will be able to
refute or contradict what you say. Luk 21:14-16 GNT
This is the power of faith we are talking about. Poking
around into the future, even with what see...
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all or it has the authority of Jesus
Himself to stay where he is. If things do not yield to
you within the ambit of practising the precepts of
God and with prayer, then it is not the devil, itis God.
Sometimes I think of a man like Paul, I think of how
he handled things that he wanted to do in his ...
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y this
know His pattern. We use also the experiences of
those who have walked with Him to understand the
way He thinks, and the result is that we understand the
will of God.
Itis a Result of Training
Walking in the will of God is therefore a result of
learning. It is as you are trained with the wo...
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l guide you along the best pathway for
your life.
Iwill advise you and watch over you.
Do not be like a senseless horse or mule
that needs a bit and bridle to keep it under control.”
Ps 32:8-9 NLT
I remember a brother who came to me once for
counsel. He was a professional who was determined
to ...
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ple up.* He can doit anywhere as long as
they are where He ordained for them to be. The child
of God learns that people are not blessed because of
places but that places are blessed because of people.
By imbibing the word of God, he learns how to wait
on God, practice faithfulness and walk in faith...
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well-
known portion of Proverbs.
Trust in the Lord with all your heart,
And do not lean on your own understanding.
Inall your ways acknowledge Him,
And He will make your paths straight. Prov 3:5-6
Because the KJV uses the expression 'He will direct
your paths,’ many miss the point in what Solomo...
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try that
way; it wasn't because we heard a voice or had a
dream or vision. The Lord kept opening doors and
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we kept stepping into them.
We must have our hearts open to recognize doors that
the Lord opens. The doors He opens are doors ...
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SPIRIT
things. That operating system of the mind prescribed
by the Lord is what is called the will of God. It is
something we are supposed to learn. It is something
we get accustomed to by training.
So we see that it is not the person who knows how to
‘hear God' that knows the will of God but the ...
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r
deliverance while their wives are at home. In
summary, the ‘witch’ and the channel through which
the evil spirits come into his life is the person who
escorts him to prayer, how can he be delivered?
Avoid immorality. Any other sin a man commits does not
affect his body; but the man who is guilty ...
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ded to know the hearts of these men,
but only the Lord has such knowledge, just as Peter
acknowledged in his prayer. They came to the point
of lacking wisdom, at which point James said we are
to pray.
Another point is that there will be some things the
Lord may want us to do but which may not be on...
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usion: Fear God and obey his
commands, for this is everyone's duty. Eccl 12:13-14 NLT
Anyone who wants to do the will of God will know whether
my teaching is from God or is merely my own. Jn 7:17 NLT
If we truly fear God, and we are obeying His known
commandments; if we really want to do His will ...
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afterwards; at least that was
what I used to think. But that couldn't possibly be.
Paul had explained to us that He already existed in
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the form of God, therefore this elevation could not be
something worth looking forward to. His joy ...
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. Those personal preferences may be expressed to
the Lord in prayer to see whether He will make
anything of them, but focus must be on things
derived from the Word.
Point 3. They Applied the Criteria
Armed with a knowledge of the kind of person they
wanted, Peter and the rest of the disciples went...
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n through
struggling, but through constant learning and
confessing.
If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to
forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all
unrighteousness. 1 Jn 1:9-10
We must consecrate every part of our lives. I have
used the two examples above to show how
consecr...
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rit of God, these
are sons of God.’
In the Life of Jesus
Let us see how the presence of this spirit that came
out of God manifested in the life of Jesus Christ. Paul
described it to the Philippians.
Let this same attitude and purpose and humble mind be in
you which was also in Christ Jesus, who, ...
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his mind up for him.
I shall come to you after I have gone through Macedonia... I
shall probably spend some time with you, perhaps the
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whole winter, and then you can help me to continue my
trip... Ihope to spend quite along time with...
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the prophetic unction must strive more
than anyone else to keep a clear head in the midst of
the noise. The church as a whole is supposed to be a
prophetic people. We all need to be careful therefore.
Many times Christians are so occupied with the
media reports of what is going on in the world. The...
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questions about the
situation so that we might judge them with the Word.
All we want is to pray and let God speak, and we
*Prov 3:5,6
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think it is spirituality. But it is not spirituality at all; it
is spiritual laziness, and is not t...
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eplacement for Judas. Again we
are not told He inquired of the Lord. He just set out
the criteria using his own sense, a sense that was
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trained by over three years of walking daily with the
Lord Jesus. Looking closely at the criteria ...
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erest
inher on the Holy Spirit, by that putting the poor lady
into distress for the fear of disobeying God. We must
renounce all these things so that we can really hear
what the Spiritis saying to us.
The businessman must not lie with his adverts if he's
walking by grace. Forget what the world call...
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to get him off the chair. He'll thank me later. See, if
you have indeed yielded your life to the Lord and are
following Him habitually, He has the right to
forcefully move you.
That day as I laid on that bed, I suddenly woke up
with a sharp colicky pain in my belly. I decide...
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m the
scriptures and observing life's experiences, I can only
say I do not understand it to be so. Of course we do
*Dt 29:29; Acts 1:7
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not have the Urim and Thummim or the Ephod,*
which were parts of the instruments of worship in
Isr...
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hast ordained Thy precepts, that we should keep them
diligently.
Oh that my ways may be established to keep Thy statutes!
Then I shall not be ashamed when I look upon all Thy
commandments. Ps 119:4-6
The principle is this: if I observe the precepts and
statutes, applying them diligently, then the ...
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edience was at
work in his flesh (Rom 7:21-23). In summary, it is
possible to be clear as to what God wants us to do and
still not doit.
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So, doing the will of God entails much more than ‘has
He spoken?’ We are often so taken by this 'h...
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ounsel.
When you approach God in prayer for direction, your
first set of words must be words that examine your
heart to be sure you are actually idol-free and free of
the stumbling block of iniquity.
I remember how the Holy Spirit guided me in how to
pray. When the time for asking for direction co...
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Keep your lives free from the love of money, and be satisfied
with what you have. For God has said, "I will never leave
you; Iwill never abandon you.” Heb 13:5 GNT
Contentment and generosity are two major things
that show that a believer has a right spirit in th...
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profess to be
believers.
Since we are receiving a Kingdom that is unshakable, let us
be thankful and please God by worshiping him with holy
fear and awe. For our God is a devouring fire. Heb 12:28-29
*Ez 14:4,5
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We know that if peopl...
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nst good sense and the written Word.
What exactly is the will of God? There are many
aspects to that expression as we will see from the
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scriptures. What is most important to note in all is
that it does not describe what our personal
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with the will of God, as it is
written,
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Be devoted to one another in brotherly love; give preference
to one another in honor. Rom 12:10
There is something we can easily notice about the life
of this man Abram. He was relaxed about the...
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individual should
move on to things of maturity. Itis just like a baby that
is growing; the communication method between the
child and the mother keeps evolving.
Qualifying for Special Communications
We need to bear this in mind: For us to expect any
special communications in knowing God's will, w...
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d the consecrated spirit ready to
walk with Him.
You are not your own. Your own personal ambitions
belong to the dunghill. You must determine that
whatever He created you to be is what you want tobe.
Eve is a perfect example here. Why was she created? It
was to correct something that was not good ...
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om God will get
stronger, while the ones from our own 'pollutions'
will gently wane. That seems very correct to me.
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Constant Cleansing
What we need as believers is the constant purging of
our spirits from contaminants, using the word...
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houghts. She knew it had to
be the Spirit of God. When she was called up to speak,
after going here and there with her speech, she finally
made the offer as instructed and the result was
overwhelming.
Previously, on good days, they would collect about
500 dollars after much motivation, so no one ex...
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which we navigate in that realm. The physical five
other senses, when they are too active, tend to reduce
perception with our spirits.
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Many times people are taught to develop their spirits
so they can perceive things more, but caution...
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great loss, not only of the cargo and the ship,
but also of our lives.” But the centurion was more
persuaded by the pilot and the captain of the ship, than by
what was being said by Paul. Acts 27:9-12
Paul was observant of the situation and his spirit was
troubled. He had a strong impression that t...
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15. The Righteousness of God
16. Prophesy!
17. Your Greatness Has Been Prepared
18. Whatis God's Will Here?
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Dr. Bankole Olusina, fondly called Pastor Bankie, is a teacher
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y, and began to weep. The lady was in
dire need and the money was an answer to prayer.
The Lord actually impressed that upon his heart.
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Now, that was easy to 'risk' obeying because giving is
basically good. Would that response have be...
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specific word of the
Lord to people.* As we mature as believers we are
able more and more to know the will and mind of
God without special communications. That is the
desire and the plan of the Lord.
For everyone who partakes only of milk is not accustomed
to the word of righteousness, for he is a ...
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said it this way:
Open to me the gates of righteousness;
Ishall enter through them, I shall give thanks to the Lord.
This is the gate of the Lord;
The righteous will enter through it. Ps 118:19-20
Even if what we are seeking to enter is a good thing,
we still must enter through the gates of God....
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old dew
from as a sign that He was sending him. But now we generally use
the term ‘fleece’ to refer to any sign that someone requests from the
Lord to confirm something.
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presence of the Holy Spirit does not at all imply that
He has done away with physical signs. The p...
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ason. I took that as the confirmation
Ineeded from the Lord.
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Beware of Divination
I want to conclude this book by warning about
divination.
When you enter the land which the Lord your God gives
you, you shall not learn to imitate the dete...
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reach for special communications when the general
rules are not clear to us. We are not to use special
revelations to subvert the general rule.
Notice what He said through David to us in Ps 119v4
which was quoted earlier. He said we are to kee...
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ip, and everybody respects her
spirituality. But deep inside is a contaminated spirit
which is the reason she won't discern the choice of
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God for her in marriage. But the Father loves her and
doesn't want her to perish, so to speak. So ...
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ible, especially the New Testament, indicate it. I
believe that God speaks in such manners far less often
than itis often made to seem.
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Actually, the plan of the Father is to make us into His
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Special Manifestations
God works in different ways, but it is the same God who
does the work in all of us. 1 Cor 12:6 NLT
It is now time to look at the special ways that the Lord
communicates His will and directions to u...
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red the fate of evil men.
He took the place of many sinners
and prayed that they might be forgiven.”
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Isa53:10-12 (NLT, GNT combined)
Reading through this portion of the prophecies of
Isaiah shows clearly what the joy was which was ...
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him to ask a young woman's hand in marriage and
she turns him down, he may go back and pray. After
praying and after he might have done what is
reasonable in trying to woo the woman, and has
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exercised some reasonable amount of patienc...
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sound spiritual principles, he was walking
automatically in the will of God. It is walking by those
spiritual principles that is the will of God; it is not
about any special communication from heaven.
Like I explained at the beginning, it is this operating
system that God is working into our lives,...
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eople have failed, even though they thought
they had a revelation concerning what they are
doing. But the hand of the Lord was against them.
They came to prayer with idols and iniquity in their
lives.
Idols are preconceived ideas in people's hearts. We
looked at that matter when we were examining t...
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he
statutes and the precepts. So they went to pray,
apparently for the first time. The prayer shows that
Peter and co realized that what was left could only be
seen by the Lord. It was a heart matter.
Then they all prayed, “O Lord, you know every heart. Show
us which of these men you have chosen a...
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without regard for the precepts of God were
spending all night asking the Lord to solve their
problems. That was the situation the Lord was
speaking to. Such behaviours kindle the anger of the
Lord.
The summary of what the Lord was saying through
Ezekiel is that we must satisfy the basics before ...
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eir hope on the uncertainty of riches,
but on God, who richly supplies us with all things to enjoy.
Instruct them to do good, to be rich in good works, to be
generous and ready to share. 1 Tim 6:17-19
The major manifestations of the right spirit toward
money and material things are contentment and
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Before You Pray, Beware
There is a way someone might pray for guidance and
the Lord would be offended. We need to understand
it so as to beware. Ezekiel's prophecy is where the
caution is.
For anyone of the house of Israel or of the immigrants who
stay in Israel who separates himself fr...
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ible brilliantly
shows us what to do so as to have a pure spirit. It says
it is a matter of full consecration to God. Until we are
properly consecrated we cannot discern the will of
God for our lives.
When we talk about consecration, it means to
examine our lives and ensure that we are living solel...
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ourself
up in the knowledge of His word. Walking in God's
will is a consequence of renewing our minds with
heavenly wisdom and understanding. Paul made
this very clear as he prayed for the Colossians.
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will in all spiritual wisdom and unde...
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Once we are determined to do something, except we
come to God with a prayer of consecration, then
whatever we hear is just our polluted spirits
beclouding the true will of God.
Beyond just assuming that what their spirits say is the
will of God, many people have even gone fu...
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s thoughts. When it does this,
what we are to do is to confess them as sin and ask the
Lord for forgiveness and cleansing. This is so crucial.
There is no other way to free our spirits from
pollution.
After reasoning about it, | summarized the different
parts of our lives that we need to deliberate...
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Let the wicked leave their way of life, and change their way
of thinking... "My thoughts,” says the Lord, “are not like
yours, and my ways are different from yours. Isa 55:7-8
GNT
When we give our lives to Christ and begin to live as
believers, it is demanded that we shave off ...
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t Jesus be in you.’ When that
same attitude is in you, then you are releasing the
pure spirit so as to know the will of God.
But what might be pollution of spirit in this area for
the believer today?
Many have their own ambitions. They want to make
money. They want to be important. Many pastors ar...
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better method as it couldn't be polluted by our
personal thoughts. The word of God is still true that
says, 'We may throw the dice, but the Lord determines how
they fall.’
Casting Lots, Not Everyday
Casting of lots is not a usual way for doing things ona
regular basis, not because it is unspiritua...
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that indeed
the Lord wants to lead us by the inward witness and
by our spirits, as itis written,
The spirit of man is the lamp of the Lord,
Searching all the innermost parts of his being. Prov 20:27
He is transforming us to become exactly like Him. His
plan is that we will want what he wants, love...
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iver.’ He recognized it as the
voice of Satan trying to appear like the voice of the
Holy Spirit. He rejected the voice, went on with the
evangelistic meetings, and the Lord reversed all his
troubles.
Kenneth Hagin also told of how he spent days
waiting to die because he heard a voice quote a verse...
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use the word of God says it
works.
The lot is cast into the lap, but the decision is wholly of the
Lord... Prov 16:33 AMP
We may throw the dice, but the Lord determines how they
fall. Prov 16:33 NLT
The Lord spoke in the lots cast. Let us bear in mind
however that they didn't start with casting l...
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for
temptation. It is not his nature.
Those who are children of God do not continue to sin, for
God's very nature is in them; and because God is their
Father, they cannot continue to sin. 1 Jn3:9 GNT
It is only when the spirit has been defiled that
children of God start walking in sin and away fro...
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These are matters which have, to be sure, the appearance of
wisdom in self-made religion and self-abasement and
severe treatment of the body, but are of no value against
fleshly indulgence. Col 2:23
Once you are following anyone for signs and not for
the love of righteousness, then you are likely t...
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This may
be okay when we are baby Christians but every true
minister of the gospel should be preaching and
teaching their followers so that they will not need to
come ask those questions after a time.
In the wilderness, Moses was making that mistake
when it came to leading the people of Israel. He ...
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supernaturally.
First, let us see how the early church followed this
principle of diligently applying the precepts.
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Time to Make a Choice
The way the apostles chose a replacement for Judas is
such a beautiful way to illustrate how we kn...
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tion of the spirit too. Many men are like that in
their hearts and so they love materially successful
women ina special but ungodly way.
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In this area of marriage, some men are fixed on
certain criteria which do seem good but are actual...
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as God sees and who constantly does what
is pleasing to the Lord. He will become one whose
spirit can be trusted every single time it leads. He
would have become an exact representation of the
Father.
But there is a problem. First, the presence of light does
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Psalms,
where it says, ‘Let his home become desolate, with no one
living in it.’ It also says, ‘Let someone else take his
position.’ So now we must choose a replacement for
Judas...” Acts 1:20-21 NLT
He acted purely on the word of God as recorded in
Scripture. He understood the precepts of God.
Nob...
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s of this world,
but let God transform you inwardly by a complete change
of your mind. Then you will be able to know the will of God
— what is good and is pleasing to him and is perfect.
Rom 12:2 GNT
The number one way by which God leads His
children is by giving them the understanding of what
is ...
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udge all your major decisions for you. If
the Lord has a warning or encouragement for you,
then He will send it through different ways, and if He
wishes He may use that preacher.
When Prophecies Come
Sometimes of course, the Lord sends a word through
a prophet. The Lord speaks to the prophets thro...
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he story gets really crazy. The man set on his
way according to the word of God and yet trouble
met him on the way. A modern Christian would have
said it was the devil blocking his way. But it wasn't.
But God was angry that Balaam was going, so he sent the
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why I say this is because these
impressions of the heart can be closely mimicked by
very many other things so that many times they may
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money at all. Without the knowledge of this, every
other thing someone is supposedly hearing is not the
will of God, even if an angel were to appear and
speak.
The system of the world tells us that the more the
number of ‘powerful’ people a person knows, the...
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inside us. John said, ‘you are from God, little children, and
have overcome them; because greater is He who is in you
than he who is in the world’ (1 Jn 4:4). The greater one
lives in every believer.
This is what is called the helmet of salvation. It means
to interpret everything in light of what t...
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one is 'seeing visions’
and revealing secrets, turn in the other direction; a
spirit is ensnaring them. I have seen people enslaved
by these spirits. It is a horrible life.
Another Form of Divination
[also want to bring out the matter of divination from
another angle. We have correctly tied divina...
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s;
these came upon her because she had just seen the
demonstration of God's power to bless. She
explained, in effect, that success is a gift of God and
that was why she said, 'You can't out-give God.’
Ihave told this story here to illustrate how someone
may hear the voice of the Holy Spirit. A numb...
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how the two men parted. Abram stayed in
the land of Canaan, and Lot settled among the cities in the
valley and camped near Sodom, whose people were wicked
and sinned against the Lord. Gen 13:10-13 GNT
Lot operated simply by the sight of his eyes. He
looked only at external things. He looked at wher...
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Why? Because that's the major test that has been passed. People think that obeying God always brings out this, then the Lord just came through. Many times the Lord does not come through. They will raise the sword like this. Say, Lord, it's your servant, they're about to cut his head off, boom. The s...
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Just thank God for the temptations of your life. Say, Father, in the name of Jesus, that's what you need. Thank you for the temptations of my life. Thank you for the exams I have taken and I have passed. Forgive me for the ones I have failed. Give me understanding I shall live. Give me understanding...
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I know when I'm going out, some of you will bring out two hands to greet me. Thank you. I appreciate it. Now, those days of Bible knowledge and CRK, they will tell you, give the context of the following, and then answer the questions that follow. Thou shall not touch the laws that are anointed. Some...
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You're getting my point? There's a collection of messages we listen to, talking to preachers. And he told preachers, you can't just be driving yourself on like that as if you're not made of flesh. So some preachers, the one that I said, some pastor, they carry everybody's trouble on their head. So I...
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No, that's not a curse. I'm just trying to explain something to you. You know, there are miracles, Apostle, that God will just do, just to tell you to relax. He will do it to let you know that he's not asleep, and he's not dead. After that, just to encourage you, after that you now go back to, and a...
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No, no, no. Of course, it's not like that. The truth is, let me just get back to what I was saying. The fact is this, all right? That is torment. The only thing it can be compared with is being burnt with fire on the earth. And that's why the Bible uses the expression for it, the Gehenna of fire. No...
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from verse 7 it says, linen, bright and clean. For the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints." Are you noticing that? That is the clothes, the clothes on our body, all right, is the righteous acts that we do. That's why John would say, John the Baptist, he would tell you to bear fruit in ke...
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when they were flogged, he didn't say, huh, as a servant of God ordained by God, I declare that that hand with which you flogged me shall never rise again. Now if Peter had said that, it would have happened like he said. It would have happened just like that. But why didn't Peter say it, I'll tell y...
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That is, the fellow will not do anything that contradicts what God has written. And when he or she is praying, is to check whether the life is conformed with what God has revealed. The example I gave then, and it's always a good example. Before I married, what did God say to me? That's not the quest...
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If Jesus says this is good, we hold on to it. If Jesus says this is bad, we make sure we pray those things out of our lives. We walk with the word of God on our lives so those things vanish from our lives. That's what spirituality is. And I want to emphasize to us again, These seven churches, what I...
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10:30
Are you getting my point? Albert Einstein was a very, very intelligent and successful physicist. But without Isaac Newton and his contemporaries, there would have been no Albert Einstein. Are you getting my point? He came to step on the shoulders of those who came before him. So even though I may no...
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The person inside this will take notes concerning the things that the Lord said to the church in Laodicea. So all of us, therefore, it is irrelevant whether it was written to us or not. We have been instructed to take heed to the things that the Spirit is saying to the churches, all the churches. We...
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Now, people feared God. That's what I'm going to explain. People feared God. So listen to me. Righteousness has outward manifestation. That's why I'm giving the example of Daniel. So grace is what makes people obey, even when the pressure outside is too much. And that's why it says that when sin abo...
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Traveling weeks and months on ships to cross from one country to another. That's how the mini started. And this mini started like that until he testified, he wore out, he wore out. With the kind of power of God manifesting in his life, he almost went blind. Are you getting my point? A man that someb...
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That's why I said, when he talked about, it's the exact representation of the nature, it's in nature. You are getting my point? So the Lord says to him, this one is now made. This one is made. Henceforth, when he opens his mouth, when she opens her mouth, it's as if I'm the one speaking. And the fat...
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That day I went to pray about it. I don't know whether you get my point. I said, Lord, I just came to tell you that they say nobody should pray. They say, yeah, pray. No, I'm just reporting what happened to the Lord. That is right. Praying was such much a part of him that a man had started disobeyin...
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The people that have it, many times they don't know how. There are people that God is doing something for. They don't know why he's doing it for them. They will tell you what they think, but they don't know the real reason why. The law of life is, when did we see you and we helped you? That's the la...
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They have so worked with him, the passion of God is not their passion. What fills the heart of God fills their heart. So it erupts in words, and it's exactly what God has said in heaven. Careful when you're, you know, using the promises. That's what I said last time, that don't apply divine precepts...
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But what I'm gonna say for some people, not everybody, for some people here, all right? Just for some, God will do a miracle to let you know he's alive and he's working in your life. I hope that things will go back to what used to be normal, but then, this is the aim, so that now you will calm down,...
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or you were in secondary school, and one of the subjects you did was B-I-B-L-E, knowledge. Bible knowledge. Please put up your hand. Okay. Now, please keep that hand up. Amongst those whose hands are up, if you think I'm talking about CRK, please put down your hand. Good, thank you. That's more like...
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to be counting the rate at which your number is growing as to put yourself on a particular level in life. You don't do that. Where our building is a fine nest has no meaning. These are the sadic principles of life. A reputation that you are alive. You're always doing programs. You're always up to so...
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Wendell Bresliano compiled the book, God's Generals. We read those things inside there. Carnegie will teach to ministers. We pay attention to those things. Very important we understand those points. That's how life's supposed to be lived as a child of God. If you want your life to have as little tro...
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When Abimele took his wife, it was training for that exam. When Lot chose before him, it was training for that exam. Everything Abraham went through, when Lot was taken, it was training for that exam. When the king of Sodom met Abraham on the way back from that slaughter, from that war, it was train...
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1:06:00
Last time I explained it, that one of the things that God wants us to do while we wait is to develop what? Skill. One of the things he wants us to wait, what the waiting process is for, and I need to explain this further. Why does God make us wait? I heard a man say, The greatest reward for a man's ...
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I'm not talking about you have to close your eyes and say, ah, I want to cross the road. I won't open my eyes. The Bible never said don't look to the left or the right when you want to cross the road. I hope I get my point. But it does things like this. You get up from here. You travel to a land you...
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What can I contribute? What you are thinking about is two things. One, the Medjugorje people must hear the gospel. It will drive out Boko Haram. Are you getting my point? It will drive Boko Haram back. And then the men who are going there, they must eat, they must sleep, they must have a place. And ...
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sleeping anyhow had left him. He had learned to wake up in the morning, go to work on time, until his own cousin looked at him. Was it his brother or cousin? Okay, sorry, I thought it was cousin. Okay, yeah, that's actually news very much, it's his brother. Until his brother looked at him and said, ...
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There is nothing you would tell him in his days as a story, that he doesn't believe that if you get enough faith and understand God and stand on God's word, that healing will not come. I don't know whether you're getting my point. That when God wants to show himself to you, many times you pass throu...
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I said that will be your portion today in Jesus' name. Amen. The Lord will give you direction. Amen. He will give you clarity. Amen. Each time in life there is something we need to know to move to another level. That thing God will reveal it all to you. Amen. In the name of Jesus Christ. Amen. Alrig...
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The coming of Jesus was like a covenant promise, a covenant relationship between him and Abraham. And Abraham had to fulfill what he fulfilled for God to fulfill what he also fulfilled in the coming of Christ Jesus. Now that's the reason why God doesn't play. That was why it took him 25 years to bri...
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Bear it in mind. You may have heard me teach about this, but let me explain it again. Why did it take God 25 years to give Isaac to Abraham? Why? The simple reason. Listen, these things are spiritually determined. The simple reason is that what God was doing in Abraham's life, it took him 25 years t...
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So I know what I was saying, all right? I know where we stopped. So that's why we've been talking about this fact that God lifts us up. That's what I'm gonna say. And then the problem I said the other time is people don't know how to wait. That is a major issue. They don't know how to what? To wait....
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So I tell the co-workers, you write the amount on a piece of paper. You don't write your phone number and don't name anything and put it in the offering basket. Now, do we total it? No. People collect it, they collect that paper, roll it, and throw it away. Why do you have to write it there for? It'...
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There was one pastor of those days in Lagos. Young man who was a church worker. Don't know whether he was a pastor. There was one big redeem parish. He was walking there. He testified himself. I didn't hear it directly. I heard it from one of his friends. That he had labored, worked hard, that very ...
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God is preparing me for what he's taking me to. Sometimes I experience failures, fine, but I'm being built up. That's why I quoted that saying, that the man said, the greatest reward for a man's labor is not what he gets from it, but what? What he becomes by it. What he becomes by it. Let me include...
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and there is no radio station that we owe. None, there's not one. There's not one that we owe, not one. If we don't pay any, it just maybe we forgot, they didn't remind us on time, or there's just a delay of two, three days, or one week maximum, but not because there's no money, just because maybe, ...
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And on top of the shop, there are many shops. So you feel like two or three. But one of the ones that I got to the door, they put on top, something like cannabis shop. And I want to ask people that say, you see the good road. You see the constant power. Why don't you even please see the other side? ...
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Smarty, is that place paining you? Don't step on it. If that place is too hard, stay at home. Why was he not with his brothers walking? Why was he at home? Because nothing happened to him. Let nothing. Coat of many colors. Now God look at him. Coat of many colors. This boy will not go anywhere in hi...
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Not only for what you do. To the church, you tolerate that woman Jezebel. And this time God gives you authority. He gave you for a reason. What was Eli supposed to do? Sack the boys. That was all. Sack them. There's nothing like, you know, my children, my children, this thing you are doing is not go...
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So when Abraham believed that promise, God got excited. Let me say something to you. People of faith, you need to do something crazy with your life that the only reason you are doing it is that you believe God. I don't know what I said. Your life, there will be something crazy. Now listen, it's not ...
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I don't know whether you're getting my point. For that reason, you know, there are preachers I see sometimes. I just know that if they don't shut up, they can't go further. But I see the kind of things they say. There are preachers that if they preach on national radio, people listening to them will...
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I kept on, I said, but Joseph was not an Egyptian. The Bible says the law surrounds the righteous with favor, as with what? A shield, it's a protection. It's a protection. So I said, what is wrong with you people? I got all kinds of counsel. But what was in my mind is, Joseph was not an Egyptian, so...
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For example, your money. God is checking how you spend it. Your children. How are you raising them? I give the example. He said Abraham must teach his children how to do in his household and his children how to do righteousness and what? Justice. He's going to score him on how well he did it. You kn...
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Abraham was called, let's put it like this, to give birth to Jesus. Abraham was not a common man. Abraham, God had to build faith in him. The birth of Isaac was not his ultimate test of faith. You know his ultimate test? The sacrifice of Isaac. Before Isaac would be born, he went through a lot of th...
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Now, what am I bringing from it? What we are supposed to learn, therefore, is for us to understand that we can turn it around. That no matter what happens around, if we walk in faith, and we walk in the knowledge of God, and we walk in obedience to his will, we will not sink, no matter how bad it lo...
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Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, whose trust is the Lord. For he will be like a tree planted by the water, that extends its roots by a stream. I will not fear when the heat comes, but its leaves will be green, and it will not be anxious in the year of drought, nor cease to yield fruit. I t...
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If he was in Transeculum, would you marry him? No. If he had come from Abuja, you for Graham, no. So what is the only difference? Because he came, bought jeans for $20, that's the price. And he's speaking deliberately, I want to talk to you. There are you that think that once I can cross the ocean, ...
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Redeem us for the land. One of my classmates said once, he said, you guys were wise. We came to Enugu then for something. We all sat down somewhere to eat. You were just chatting with us. He said, you guys were very wise. You guys were very wise. Because he had been abroad, things went badly for him...
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That is why God has to make us wait. That is why he makes us wait. It is not because he can't do things in a hurry. It is simply because he has to develop us to a particular level for him to take us to where we are going next. Now, if you read Isaiah chapter 50, you'll see something here. God says s...
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who calls herself a prophetess, and she teaches and leads my born servants astray, so that they commit acts of immorality and eating sacrifice for idols. He said, I gave her time to repent, and she does not want to repent. Now, this is what I'm going to do. I will throw her on the bed of sickness, a...
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The bishop said something once. He said that people were speaking evil about him. And one of his daughters in the Lord was there and she heard. So she came to him and she was crying. Look at this, you know? This was years ago. I wonder how much more evil they will be speaking today. This story I'm t...
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With all the faith that Paul had, God said, listen, relax. Your faith will produce more grace for you. But I'm not removing this thing. With all the faith that Moses had, God said, you're not entering that promised land. Forget it. So is my faith producing? Is it alive? It's not in what it's produci...
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The path of pain that is important is the one that is inside the soul, not the physical one. That day I said, look, I said it's not paining him. And what do I mean? By the time the will of God has soaked him, you're getting the point? By the time that will has soaked him, by the time he had drunk of...
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One, the Lord does not grant our requests as quickly as we would have wanted him to grant. Are you getting my point? You want something now, he may not give you immediately. Even though spiritually he has answered you that day, you may not see that manifestation for the next five years. Sometimes yo...
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You've not built your strength. Come back enough. After a while, you'll have the strength to do what we are doing. There is no trick. The guy was sure there was a trick. Because I saw the rest of us, ah, what do these guys have that I don't have? I said, no, we have built strength in our muscles. So...
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He speaks about your conduct. Working with God puts restrictions on you. Working with God puts restrictions on what you can do. He puts restrictions on who you can relate with. He puts restrictions on even how you spend your money. And many times, we don't like those restrictions. That's why people ...
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I have the grace to bear the lack. I can bear both of them. So for him, it was not a hard thing. So if you are afraid to go, don't go. When Jesus, too, became, in quote, in quote now, afraid to go to the cross, did he go? Where did he go? The garden. He did not go. The cross is hard. We are not goin...
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that he tried his best, the thing did not shift one bit. I guess in the middle of his mind, this one is screwed to the ground. So I drove him away from there. I said, better move away before you injure yourself. He didn't know it could be that heavy. He couldn't board. He was very small at that time...
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But I have things that I still need to say about them, so we'll have to go over them again before we go to the next portion. Revelation chapter 2, let's start from verse 12. We've read this before, we'll just read them again. We'll stop at the end of chapter 2. Now if we finish that, we'll now go in...
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So that's the issue with patience. So that's why we cannot afford to set prosperity in front of us. We cannot afford to set any of that in front of us apart from Christ Jesus alone. Are you getting my point? Then those things start working out. Now, what I wanted to bring out, okay, is that those th...
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And I'm asking Christians, listen, this is the word of the Lord Jesus to you. Go and acquire knowledge. One day, I think, let me, I need to pray about it. We should, no, Israel, seriously. We'll settle down, draw a serious curriculum. One, no, I'm serious. So we'll start teaching people Bible, gathe...
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when he said, I have a few things against you. I was trying to say that God is just asking you all for a few things at each point in time. Always a few things. He said, because you have some who hold the teaching of Bala, for time's sake, I'm just going to jump. And then he said, as a result, they e...
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If you get to a time when they've gone through the trials, the tests, everything, and they had remained faithful to his name, then he will give them a name that nobody knows apart from them. Are you getting my point? What does that mean? They will be having effect outside. Nobody knows who's causing...
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And two days ago, I said, God bless Dangote. When Bishop told me that, did you hear that the man is building a university? I said, good. What is wrong with us? You only hear Christians talk sometimes, you're just wondering. And that time that I believe in God prosperity, God will pay tithe and offer...
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You've gotten to a point where your muscles can start responding because you need some hormones to pump the muscles for you. Just wait. That's Christianity for you. Christianity is not about learning methods. A lot of people go to church, want to teach them how to, there's no how to. James said, fee...
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and it will heal you, and it will make you more and more like the Lord Jesus. All right, in the name of Jesus Christ, amen. And now let's take our seats, the Lord is good. We will continue again from where we have been for a while. Revelations, we have been looking at the letter of Jesus to his chur...
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It is that tight money that's giving you all these problems. All these problems, that is why. But you know, there are things you can't say as a pastor. You'll be thinking it inside your soul. But on the surface, you'll be smiling and say it is well. And you're wondering, say, how did the tight money...
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So it's simple. He said, if I ever check my blood pressure and I see that it has gone up, I know something is wrong. So I start thinking, Lord, what am I worried about? Ah, he said, no, I start introspecting. I start praying, declaring God's word, resting. He said, my blood pressure always returns t...
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Is your faith working? It is not about whether you are getting what you call results with faith. We have to get these things right. James said there are two kinds of faith according to the classification of James. There is faith that is dead and there is a faith that is alive. How do you know they a...
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So, I'm speaking words of faith does not mean my faith is alive. My faith is dead if my words that I'm speaking cannot change my character. If I say I believe in prosperity, yes, I don't have money now, I don't have much now, but I believe in prosperity and I keep on declaring prosperity, prosperity...
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If I give money, it's because I want to give money. Nobody can force me to give. God will not force me to give. I don't calculate any percentage for Him. I don't buy any blessing from Him. We have been studying Psalm 119. If you have not been around, please get the messages. Psalm 119, that's my lif...
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If I start, she wasn't sure when this medicine thing will stop. So she decided to go and fight for her health with the word of God. She says, sir, I took my Bible and went on a retreat just to heal a pain in the leg. When I go to that retreat, they had a program. That first day, the preacher said so...
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I am always learning. Yesterday, I re-arranged some of the messages of direct prints I had on my phone. So when I was about to resume, I downloaded some new ones to fill up some gaps that I had. So I wanted to transfer it to the phone. I decided to count. I found out that in just one swoop, I was mo...
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That is, he took two bottles and sent himself to a drunken sleep. God said, look, keep him safe. When he wakes up in the morning, he will recover. He has not done anything spiritually that is going to injure anybody. But this one has gone out one whole night. Some of us feel very righteous. We don't...
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Oh, oh, you know the way women can be at such times? Guys will just look like, now, wow, you know? Some men will be looking like, ah, these guys are tough, my God. And as they are sitting there, they are biting the banana in their hand, they are eating, throwing granola. But the women will be like, ...
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Can I go into the jungle to go and preach the gospel? Listen to me, if it's hard for you, don't go. You hear what I said? If it is hard, don't go. If you go, you will die. If you die, you will die for nothing. You say, what do you mean? When people go, it's not people like you that think it is hard....
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No, you're not ready. You're not ready yet. His yoke literally is easy. And his burden is light. And that's why, believers, we have one assignment. Look, I've said this thing before. Let me say it again. How am I preaching about this today? When I say that, look, following the Lord is not hard. You ...
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I've heard people complain and grumble. How can I give church my whole January salary? What will I eat in February? Once you say that, God doesn't want... First, he never commanded it. Let's leave that one number one. I can tell you that one for sure. You know, I know this Bible small. Are you getti...
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He warns people. That's the manifestation of his slowness and his goodness. He warns people. And number three, he's quick to forgive. Can I add something to it? You cannot postpone the day of repentance, believing that you can forgive. I mean, are you getting my point? Okay, we will repent tomorrow....
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It was fighting Jesus Christ. So now I look for trouble. So Jesus came back to answer him. It wasn't being spiritual. The first time God appeared to Jeremiah, it was quarrel. Before you were born, I knew you. I didn't do a prophet. No, I can't speak. It wasn't like he was yielded. He knew how to con...
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==I have to spend more money than I budgeted for this; am I made of money or what?
==My children are growing and needing more time to guide them, and I still have to work. I hope I don’t go crazy.
==My boss has given me more assignments at work as if I could divide myself into two; I will just ...
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lities but by the grace and power of God working with me (Zec 4:6).
See, wisdom and calm have since come into me, and things are moving faster now as if by themselves. I have been experiencing grace.
Friends, how often have we overlooked the resources of God inside us so that we allow little thing...
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Recently I was appointed to head a combined department at the institution where I work and that came with some extra duties beyond the obvious. This was an appointment I specifically prayed that I would not get because of the extra work it would impose upon me. I most certainly did not want it, but ...
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ned to Zechariah that the challenges before
him would not be surmounted by his own might or
power but by His Spirit, that is, the Spirit of God.
Now, let me briefly examine the meaning of these
words.
Even though closely related, there are some
significant differences between the meaning of the
wor...
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ey
could take the land from the giants. That was not
hearing with faith. The word therefore could not
release to them the Spirit or power in it—the power
that would have made them overcome the giants.
For that man ought not to expect that he will receive
anything from the Lord, being a double-minde...
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for all these
actions. These are the things that will spill out of
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you, as it is written that, the mouth speaks out of that
which fills the heart. *
The Habit of Thanksgiving
Always giving thanks for all things in the name of our
Lord Jesus Christ ...
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ll not be
able to overcome him. He cannot do that just
because he wants to—he doesn't have that power;
his method is the use of temptations.
*John 15:5
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What Temptations Are
Let me take a small side journey to emphasize an
important fact about temptat...
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against us, in spite of it we will not be afraid.
Many times, we have wondered at how Daniel was
able to keep his faith, even though there was the
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threat of being thrown into the lions' den, and how
it happened that Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah...
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ay have life. Because of Him, we live.
On that cross, He paid for all my sins and washed them
away. He made me a child of God.
Now He lives forevermore; He makes intercession for me
before the Father.
What I am in Christ**
My sins are forgiven. I have a new life in Christ. I have
the spirit of a so...
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make us win when everyone thinks we
should lose.
It will make us prosper in the midst of economic
hardship.
It will make all grace abound towards us so that we
will have all sufficiency in all things.
The power in the word will heal all our diseases.
That power is for those who treat the word with
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n, who knows he is
to bring it all to God in prayer. He fulfils the words
of the Lord Jesus who taught us that we ought
always to pray and not to lose heart. Paul said we
are to pray without ceasing.*
As we have already seen, the prayer of worship,
which includes praise and thanksgiving, is an
impo...
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know Him.
I have the power to fulfil those plans
I am confident of this because of my trust in God through
Christ Jesus. I know I am not qualified to do anything on
* Rom 12:1, 2 Cor 3:4-6, 2 Cor 5:15
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my own. Without Him I can do nothing. My abil...
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keep
to that statute, so it would be better not to even go
near marriage.
The disciples said to Him, "If the relationship of the man
with his wife is like this, it is better not to marry. Matt
19:10
What I am pointing out is that it is not possible to do
the will of God or obey the word of God unl...
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ed and keenly
watched the game daily for over 1000 years. You
simply cannot win, no matter how naturally gifted
or intelligent you are. When you hear that a
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computer beat a master at the game of chess, please
understand that it was not a machine that beat...
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d;
He is the living God and the everlasting King.
At His wrath the earth quakes,
And the nations cannot endure His indignation.
Jer 10:10
* Deut 8:18
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Then he told me, "Son of man, I will make food very
scarce in Jerusalem. It will be weighed out wi...
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, spirits and others—to hear. We
call Him names as revealed to us in the scriptures.
The following are examples:
For the kingdom is the Lord's: and he is the governor
among the nations. Psa 22:28 KJV
The Lord, the Lord God, compassionate and gracious,
slow to anger, and abounding in lovingkindness...
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nt things, and that includes to be filled with
the Spirit, when it is necessary. The waiting period
is for the preparation of the person to be ready to
receive.
So, what do we do when we are waiting?
The first thing is to get detailed knowledge of what
our assignment is. Waiting is not an idle pro...
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chance.
Many people think they are struggling against
chance or luck as they move and work in this life.
They think darkness is just the absence of light, but
nothing could be further from the truth.
The truth is that darkness is not just the absence of
light but it describes a spiritual force that...
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ainable way to do this is
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by regularly filling up with the word of Christ with
the purpose of drinking in the Spirit within. It is the
way of victory.
A Sense of Value
The word of God is not just about intellectual
knowledge. It is the transmission ...
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ficult
problems. These are the kinds of things that should
mark the child of God that is filled with the Spirit of
God.
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At Work
The word of knowledge and the word of wisdom
are not only for church services. They will m...
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y through repentance and faith in
the name of Jesus. They understood that it was not
only for Jews but for all nations, and that the
message was to spread to the whole earth,
beginning from Jerusalem.
The Need for Power
With such understanding, the disciples would be
eager to move and fill everywhe...
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tudy
and praying, before setting out. That is the kind of
thing you do when you are tarrying for the Spirit.
Jesus first gave the disciples understanding when
He told them to wait for the gift of God.
When you would have learnt, then you will be
ready to receive the Spirit. A heart must be
prepared...
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you have turned your pain into gain. Yes, they will
be very wrong most times in these explanations,
but it will be undeniable that something unusual is
happening. They may not understand it, but it is
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the Spirit in you manifesting.
The Ephesian Stor...
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in Christ Jesus. Forgiveness of sins is a major one
of them. We are redeemed in Christ. We have been
purchased by the blood of Jesus Christ. We are a
new creation in Him; old things have passed away.
Paul was very profuse in giving thanks for the
churches; I think we should learn from that. He
gave...
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all
genuine prayers that get the attention of Heaven,
are prayers of faith. Whether it is intercession or
supplication or worship; they are all prayers of
faith, otherwise they would not be effective.
…pray [also] for one another, that you may be healed and
restored... The earnest (heartfelt, conti...
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inning, for God's Son holds them securely, and the evil
one cannot touch them. We know that we are children of
God and that the world around us is under the control of
the evil one. 1 John 5:18-19 NLT
The major issue with temptation, as far as the
enemy is concerned, is to shut off the flow of the
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ages that are available on
the website and on portable digital media.
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of audio messages, books and short sermons,
please visit pastor.ng (pastorbankie.org)
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2. Here on Purpose
3. The Law of Life
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the Spirit enters into you. That was what
Paul meant when he declared that “I am what I am by
the grace of God”. He was operating by that same
power of God, which is also called the Spirit of
grace.*
This man Paul faced opposition and suffered many
things in the hands of the Jews. He was imprisoned...
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do it
* Col 1.8, Acts 19:21, Gal 5:16, Rev 1:10, Eph 6:18, John 4:24
** 1 Cor 14:14
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from the bottom of your heart, like we say, or with a
whole heart.
When the Lord Jesus said that the Father is seeking
those who will worship Him in spirit and in tr...
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d the Sadducees came and had them
thrown into jail till the next day; they were upset
because these apostles were preaching the gospel
of Jesus and proclaiming in Jesus the resurrection
from the dead.
Now, remember that on the following day, when
they were brought out to defend their actions, Peter...
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evil spirits in the Gospels, you will
notice that they are sometimes driven to do things.
One boy would be thrown into the fire or water;* a
* Mark 9:22
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man was compelled to live in the tombs against his
will and not to wear clothes. When the Lord Jes...
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Chapter 12: MEET THE HOLY SPIRIT.......................133
Chapter 13: KEEP BEING FILLED - 1.........................141
Chapter 14: KEEP BEING FILLED - 2.........................151
Chapter 15: KEEP BEING FILLED - 3.........................159
Chapter 16: QUENCH NOT THE SPIRIT ....
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multiplied food for the widow when she was
visited by the prophet during famine, until food
returned to the land. This was not done for the sake
of Elijah the prophet, but to save the woman's life.*
When I was young, a man of God told us of how
God multiplied food for him and his household.
They ...
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him to her. He kept saying nothing was
wrong. So, she prayed, and the Lord reminded her
of something that happened to her when she was
* 1 Tim 3:4, KJV
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young. She was small-sized and she was being
mocked that she would never grow big. Well, she
realiz...
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God in psalms, hymns and
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spiritual songs. We must continually make melody
in our hearts to the Lord. We must meditate on the
word of God continually.
Lord, thank you for what you have made me in Christ.
Thank you for you have a purpose for my life, ...
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in Christ. You
are a new creature, and you have been made
righteous.
Meditate on His power working through you.
Let me summarise the things we are to meditate on
and confess, using the words of Paul:
…how rich are the wonderful blessings he promises his
people, and how very great is his power at w...
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by the Lord Jesus, and they knew
their assignment, but they could not go in the
power of that knowledge alone. They needed to be
endued with power.
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The Art of Waiting
In my early days of learning about the in-filling of
the Holy Spirit, we were to...
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f we tap into the
heart of God; we start to feel what He feels, we love
what He loves, and what He hates turns us off.
Sometimes you weep physically, and it is because
of the pain in the heart of God.
Yes, the Holy Spirit brings into us the joy of God,
but there will be time that we will feel His o...
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can give such manifestations to those who
do not have the Helper, the Holy Spirit, as a usual
companion, how much more should children of
God expect such manifestations in their scientific
endeavours?
At Home
The word of knowledge and the word of wisdom
will work in our everyday lives. They will he...
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ared to them tongues as of fire distributing
themselves, and they rested on each one of them. And
they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to
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speak with other tongues, as the Spirit was giving them
utterance. Acts 2:1-4
The first time the ...
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ows into many. “Receive the Holy
Spirit” was first used by the Lord Jesus to impart
life into the disciples,* and it is still a way by which
*John 20:22
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the Spirit will flow into many today. It is to you
according to your faith. As those words are bei...
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m of the spirit that we also
do. These include meditations, confession of the word and declarations.
Many times, we lump all of them together as prayer but, strictly speaking,
they are not all prayer.
** Note that spirit or Spirit is not distinguished in the original text of the New
Testament; when...
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eld nearly 300 patents in equipment
design, manufacturing processes, and machine
tools needed to produce the equipment. The man
also used to give 90% of his salary and company
profits to mission work.
Sometime in his life as a young man, wanting to
serve the Lord fully, he had thought of going into...
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word of God for
the purpose of drinking the Spirit in it.
Also, fill your environment with the right
influences, just as we earlier saw. Be deliberate to
obey the word which David admonished us with.
How blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel
of the wicked,
Nor stand in the path of si...
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d maker of articles of gold and
other metals. He could make fine jewellery. He was
a master of every such craft. The ability was Spirit-
breathed.
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Imagine therefore today an architect who is filled
with the Spirit.
Imagine a tailor who is filled...
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resurrection. He spoke of the
encounters of the disciples with Him after the
resurrection until the ascension. He also told of
how the Father appointed Him, Jesus, as judge of
the living and the dead.
Peter continued to speak, and the household of
Cornelius continued to hear with faith, until there...
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irit
This is the judgment, that the Light has come into the
world, and men loved the darkness rather than the Light,
for their deeds were evil. John 3:19
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Sometimes people get into arguments about
whether something is a sin or not, demanding to
know whe...
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John, and how the fulfilment was the
One to come.
Paul said, "John baptized with the baptism of
repentance, telling the people to believe in Him who was
coming after him, that is, in Jesus. Acts 19:4
It was a thing they had understood before then;
they just didn't know the One to come had come. It...
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em. So, we went to the back of the hall to pray.
So we began to pray. I was leading the prayer, and I
did something that I stopped after that day—I
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closed my eyes to pray with them. We were in
prayer for a while, my eyes being shut most of the
pe...
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ere produced by the
hearts of the people. It is similar to what happened
in His hometown, where He could do no mighty
work because of the unbelief of the people.*
What is the practical lesson for us?
The lesson is that we must be careful to hang
around where the Spirit of God is heavy in the air,
...
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ality, but in holiness. So then, whoever rejects
this teaching is not rejecting a human being, but God,
who gives you his Holy Spirit. 1 Thess 4:3-8 GNT
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Let there be no sexual immorality, impurity, or greed
among you. Such sins have no place among God...
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ws
all hearts knows what the Spirit is saying, for the Spirit
* 1 Cor 14:16-17
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pleads for us believers in harmony with God's own will.
Rom 8:26-27 NLT
Sometimes when we pray, we find that the burden
is heavy, yet our understanding of the situation
m...
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These are signs of the Spirit in
the child of God.
A Christian in civil service, governance and politics
should not be average in function. They should
work empowered by the Spirit of God. We have an
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example from the Bible in the person of Daniel. Let...
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to
the lives of preachers at all. Every child of God is
supposed to receive the Holy Spirit and have the
ability and power of God manifest in their lives as a
result, in different forms and fashions.
The Holy Spirit comes to empower us to live for
Christ on this earth and accomplish various
assignm...
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, we can easily understand that a
major killer of the anointing is negligence.
By much slothfulness the building decayeth; and
through idleness of the hands the house droppeth
through. Eccl 10:18 KJV
Anyone who is not taking the filling of the Spirit as
a serious agenda in his life is actually gui...
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er to
keep the switch of faith turned on, and to employ
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all the other means for being filled, which we have
seen, as the Lord will make them available.
The truth is that the Lord may choose different
methods to perfect what He began at that time of
p...
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et the word of Christ richly dwell within you, with
all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with
psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with
thankfulness in your hearts to God. Col 3:16
It is clear therefore that, to Paul, being filled with the
word of Christ is essentially the same ...
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thee, 'tis, 'ol, etc. No, we can use modern English and
yet hardly change the sentences. I thank God for
modern hymn writers; there are so many of these
modern hymns these days. They are so spiritual.
The Ambience of Faith
Apart from church services, the company we keep
is so important, as we have ...
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use I am a believer in Christ Jesus and a
messenger of the New Covenant.
By the laying on of my hands, the sick are healed. I speak
with new tongues. If I drink any deadly thing, I will not
be harmed.
All My Needs Are Supplied*
The Lord is my Shepherd, so I lack nothing
He makes all grace abound to...
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und
in the lives of children of God. These things
seriously grieve the Spirit of God and cause a drain
on the anointing. You cannot be full of the Spirit
and your mouth will not be a fountain of life.
I have found grumbling, which is an expression of
lack of thanksgiving, to be a very potent killer...
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by faith' works in
anything, it most certainly works here.
Therefore I say to you, all things for which you pray and
ask, believe that you have received them, and they will be
granted you. Mark 11:24
If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to
your children, how much more will your hea...
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RECEIVE THE HOLY SPIRIT
We remember Cornelius, and how an angel had
appeared to him, telling him to send for Peter so
that from Peter he would hear words by which he
and his household would be saved.
Now Peter, on his part, had been prepared in a
dramatic fashion by the Lord so that he would
accep...
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s. We will find
ourselves accomplishing great things for the Lord
in different areas of life and ministry, and we will
not even know when we started it.
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the upper room, on
that day of Pentecost, and in the house of Cornelius.
We know of the upper room and the house of
Cornelius quite well, but we often forget about that
of the Lord Jesus and of Paul.
When Paul was first filled with the Holy Spirit,
there was nothing dramatic to herald it, apart fro...
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th your Holy
Spirit. I open my heart to receive. In the name of
Jesus.”
4. Receive with Thanksgiving
Now, know for sure He has heard you, and His
Spirit is flowing into you now. If you believe that,
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then a sign of your faith is thanksgiving.
Beg...
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od was not in their
lives. Such could have been lack of boldness in their
lives. They probably said everything without much
confidence. They likely hesitated over every word
and every truth they held.
They also very likely reasoned aimlessly over
scriptures and showed little understanding. They
pro...
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te, or shortly afterwards, over a
few hours or even days. Whichever way the
manifestation happens notwithstanding, every
single believer who prays this prayer will receive
the Holy Spirit.
Let us go.
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1. Thanksgiving and Acknowledgement
Let us s...
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ld be
putting receiving the anointing at risk. If he decides
to go and take a leak, then he might come back and
discover Elijah is gone, and he would have missed
his inheritance. The man had to focus.
When the word is coming forth, you never can tell
when there will be the release of the Spirit in ...
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, and he returned in the power of
the Holy Spirit.
Kenneth E. Hagin told an experience in which he
ministered through laying on of hands to a woman
who had a deadly disease. He said he often told the
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incomplete story when ministering at other times
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and decisions which our
intellects cannot decide upon. This guidance comes
in different ways.
A new urge may become persistent and recurrent
* Luke 8
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in the heart of the person. The zeal of God burns.
The heart longs after the word more than before...
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ediment was removed, and he began to talk without
any trouble. Mark 7:34-35 GNT
In great anguish he prayed even more fervently; his
sweat was like drops of blood falling to the ground. Luke
22:44 GNT
Yes, the burden of prayer in the Spirit often comes
out of the lips only as groans, and many perso...
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erstand
therefore that just as physical and chemical forces
are affected by the environment, so can spiritual
forces be affected by the spiritual environment.
Let us see examples from the scriptures.
In the early days of his being chosen as the king in
Israel, there was an incident in which Saul m...
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hurch.
Let us recall the time when Peter and his friends
were threatened by the elders and rulers of
Jerusalem, and warned not to preach any longer in
the name of Jesus. We remember that they went to
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their own company of believers to report what the
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ly recycled through
our mouths if we want the power therein to
continue to flow through us.
This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth,
but you shall meditate on it day and night… Josh 1:8
If you ever wondered why the contrast is between
meditating and the word departing from your
mouth...
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Passers gather to discuss and pray. He said he used to feel very bad when he's going there, but he used to go simply because he wanted to be a good brother. So one day as he was going, he looked behind, and he's a man who used to see visions, all right? He looked behind and he saw a group of angels ...
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that is, he said he had been grieved for a long time. That was the day he got the point, that the Lord doesn't like this gathering. The church in Ephesus, God said they had that on their side. They test people who call themselves apostles. I don't have time now to go into that in details, but listen...
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I cannot revive you according to that promise. That promise is activated by you changing the way you are doing things. So you ask God, give me understanding. Please, be around on Tuesday. Let's see how Christians are supposed to pray. This fighting of enemies, now I've told you, is a waste of godly ...
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believing God for things that will not bless them. Holiness will have helped you know how to use your faith. Yes. The teaching of holiness, you will have known that before you start claiming car, claim self-control. Because for a long time, trying to walk in the manner worthy of the law, people were...
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Let's not talk about that now. So the Lord Jesus is that close to us. That's the point we're making. We're looking at that. So we are saying that, listen, we said this one last time, there are areas where we are very good. And there's no problem with that. Anywhere your life is in agreement with God...
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That's what I'm trying to say. Faith would have been used to download self-control. Faith would have been used to download perseverance. Because the things that are most important in life are spiritual traits, not the physical ones. But you know, because we did not hold on to holiness tightly, what ...
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This time around, before I was looking for a cheap one so you could go. This time around, all expenses paid. So they didn't do anything. And they paid for everything. Only 17 people were selected worldwide. Let me tell you, Indians, there would have been 1,000 that applied. Let's not talk about the ...
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We all offer sacrifices, don't we? Yes, we do, we do, we do. Our life is number one, what? Living sacrifice. So we are constantly being poured out as a drink offering. That is number one. Number two, we offer the sacrifice of praise all the time. Everything we live, when we declare the word of God, ...
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He never claimed a big car, a Cadillac. He used to claim enough money to last for a week. If it was like what we are reading it to be, why did the man... Why was he... Go and read his books. Why was he claiming all those little, little amounts of money? Because in the background... Now, let me just ...
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Even with prayer, because sometimes the Bible says that a man's ways may look right in his own eyes. A man can deceive himself. It said, delude your own selves. James was saying, be doers of the word, not hearers only. It's possible to hear and deceive yourself, okay? So that's why you need to pray....
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Very important. It is not what your society says that matters. It is what God says. I said if we don't do it, God will have to beat us forcefully back into order. And that's one thing we don't want. The correction of God is grievous. That's what the Bible teaches us. So it's there for us to prevent ...
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Now please, I want to just read one verse in New Living Translation, in that chapter two, in verse five. It says, look how far you have fallen. Okay, let me start from verse four, sorry. I want to read from verse four in New Living Translation. But I have this complaint against you. You don't love m...
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You see what I'm trying to say here. But the point I'm making is that Christians, we must appraise ourselves regularly. If you're an academic, I mean as a student, do it. If you're working for government, do it. If you're running a ministry, do it. If you're a wife, do it. If you're a husband, do it...
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You cannot judge how much progress you have made. I give an example as a church. You cannot judge whether you have made progress or not by how much your membership has increased. That is how people derail themselves from following God. When they start judging themselves using wrong parameters. Last ...
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that you hate the deeds of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate. He said, he who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes, amongst these people that have an ear, that's what they were saying, I will grant to eat of the tree of life, which is in the paradise o...
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As for the mystery of the seven stars which he saw in my right hand, and the seven golden lampstands, he said, the seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands are the seven churches. To the angel of the church in Ephesus, the Lord said, write, the one who holds the sev...
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Let them pray over him and anoint him with oil. He said, the prayer of faith will save the sick, the Lord will raise him up. If he has committed any sins, we shall be forgiving him. These days, even we Christians, we have more faith in what the doctors say than what the word of God says. But that ho...
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He said, yes, sir. What did Joseph say? Joseph said, no. Eh, no is no now. I can't hear no when they tell you no. That's what that concerned him. That same spirit. You know, Joseph carried it everywhere. Yes. He carried it to prison. Out of prison, he carried it to run the whole country. Believe me,...
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Think about it. A church that did not tolerate false apostles. A church that persevered even when they were being persecuted. You are getting my point? A church that did not tolerate the deeds of the Nicolaitans, which you will see later in other churches, that some of them did, and the Lord was ang...
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The mother was like, what? Ah. So he went to sleep. By next morning, you know that kind of thing if you've been there. People in America don't know what we're talking about. Those of us in Nigeria, we know what we're talking about. You fetch water even with a spoon. People put bathtub in the house. ...
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By faith, you also overcome covetousness. You know, I keep on saying that as a matter of fact. If you are waiting for God to bless you, God wants you to get tired of that desire first before he brings money to you. As long as you say, God, I need money. If I don't get money, I'm going to die. God sa...
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Ask my son, Victory, for his name. He'll give you a sentence. Say, I want to hear your full name. His mother reminds him once in a while. This is your full name. Victory over the devil, over death, over destruction, over sickness, over poverty, over all the works of the devil. In summary, Victory. D...
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It will make things clear to me. David will pray in Psalm 119. I don't miss from Tuesday. We're going to start praying from Psalm 119. Very powerful prayer. David always used to ask, give me understanding and I shall live. That is my confession right now. The death in my life is because of what? Lac...
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I just want to rephrase that expression, what Jesus said. Of course, why I did that is that I don't believe that, of course, we know the reality. The Bible says he is mindful that we are both flesh. Are you getting my point? He knows that right now, and Paul even will write and say, you are still ba...
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We need to make our stage beautiful, flashing lights, everything, sound effects, to draw a crowd. People who are better, one of the best paid people now in churches, on the radio. First, you sing. And if you are singing too much, I tell you, I pass this out, nothing for you, because if you are worsh...
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Most of the things that God did in your life, it didn't fall anywhere. Are you getting my point? But sometimes we now thought that was what it was about. No, that's not what it's about. Why? Because we left these things. I'm gonna explain something here. The Lord Jesus is trying to build each one of...
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I don't have time to be giving you... There are testimonies I don't want to give on the pulpit because people might misinterpret, because they are personal things. It's not that I'm ashamed to say, it's just that you can use it to prove a wrong doctrine. There are things that are pretty bad before t...
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ill
only in the realm of the spirit.
So, what do you do while what have been promised you is
still not seen?
But if we hope for what we do not see, with perseverance
we wait eagerly for it.
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to cross the Jordan to go in to
possess the land which the LORD your God is giving
you, and you shall possess it and live in it.
Deut 11:31
Looking closely at these portions of the scriptures will
reveal some deep spiritual truths about th...
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answer.
The next morning, I woke up to discover that all the pocks
on my face had vanished, less than 24 hours after they arrived. I
can still remember the feeling as my hands rubbed over my now
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smooth face. Only two pock...
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it will physically
rearrange your body and your feelings. The word of God is not
an opinion or just an instruction manual for how to live life. No,
please! It is an encapsulation of the power of God.
It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing;
the words that I have spoken to you ...
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ssions,
He was crushed for our iniquities;
The chastening for our well-being fell upon Him,
And by His scourging we are healed.
Isa 53:5
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This tells me what t...
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necessary.
In the interval, hold on tightly to the confession of your
faith. Do not let any physical evidence or suggestions in your
mind persuade you against the word of God. Tell the devil and
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all his human friends that you will hold on to God even if you
died doing so.
...
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can be. Now, subsequently you will
produce the good works that are in keeping with the
righteousness of God.
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CHAPTER 10. TAKE IT
I have found out from studying the Bible that whenever
God gives you something, it does not automa...
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at those who do not have what you
have for a second.
Be ever cheerful and thankful. There is so much He has
done for you.
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Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice!
...
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Christ.
If your focus is on your fear and the things that are
befalling the world, then one day a portion may fall into you
hands out of the lot.
Be wise.
The second prescription is this.
Who is the man who desires life
And loves length of days that he may see good?
Keep your ton...
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well say, "You have faith and I have
works; show me your faith without the works, and I will
show you my faith by my works."
James 2:17-18
The works of faith are those actions that flow out of you
naturally as a consequence of your convi...
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has imparted life into you.
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Righteousness has power; the scriptures tell us that it has
enough power to deliver from death.
…righteousness delivers from death.
Prov 11:4
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yday rejoicing because of the victory that the Lord has given
you in Christ.
Please do not take pleasure in declaring the works of death.
I have met people who seem to me that they love pain and
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suffering; I say this be...
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until they are
activated by faith.
…the word they heard did not profit them, because it was
not united by faith in those who heard.
Heb 4:2
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If I mix the word that I have heard with faith, it produces
results for me....
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k a kind word to people you come across. Be cheerful
about life and be thankful to the Lord all the time.
This is the godly lifestyle that is in keeping with a long,
healthy and prosperous life.
…to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy
burdens, and to let the oppressed go free,...
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nd
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more energy on the word of life as this is the thing that will not
fail.
This is precisely what the Lord was warning the children of
Israel about when He told them that…
…man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by
everything that proceeds out of the mouth ...
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ause you believe what this man has said to you.
This is faith in the doctor.
The weather man on TV tells you it will be a rainy day.
Now, you may look out of the window and see it actually looks
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like a sunny day. Yet you take your umbrella and wear an
appropriate pair of sho...
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d by the resurrection life of
Christ. That same spirit that raised Jesus from the dead has given
life to those would-have-been-cancerous cells. They have
received life and will bless me into old age.”
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What you are doing is that you are taking by force what is
yours; the thin...
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CHAPTER 15. LIVE IN IT
We must not forget that the last part of what we are to do
with what God has given is still there to be examined.
…and you shall possess it and live in it.
After you have taken possession of anything that the Lord
gives to you, you must occupy it and be e...
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h someone, saying that I love many
children and I expect to have them so. The fellow ‘jokingly’ told
me not to forget that there is what is known as infertility. I
immediately broke out in anger that…
My wife shall be like a fruitful vine within my house,
My children like olive plants around my ...
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of sickness.
There are two prescriptions that are preventive that I will
love to show you today.
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This is the first.
My son, give attention to my words;
Incline your ear to my sayings.
Do not let them depart f...
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53:5
When He says that you have been healed by the stripes or
scourging of Jesus, it means He has given you health.
There is therefore now no condemnation for those who
are in Christ Jesus.
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will cause there to be a
manifestation of the power of God in your life.
Faith in God is just simply taking what He has said in the
written words of the covenant as a present fact. It is making
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decisions with the view tha...
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that it is not relevant whether your affliction
came as a just recompense of reward for your deeds or you were
born with it or it came as a result of the evil in the environment.
What matters is this,
Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the
old things passed away; behold, new...
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small that the spies thought it was not
necessary to send more than three thousand men for the battle,
beat them till they ran.
When Joshua went before the Lord to complain, He replied
him thus:
So the LORD said to Joshua, "Rise up! Why is it that you
have fallen on your face?
"Israel h...
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of his actions in stealing the forbidden items. This
led to many soldiers dying in battle and the loss of the battle for
the whole nation.
This is stated expressly in this verse of scripture,
…one sinner destroys much good.
Eccl 9:1...
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aled when He made
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clay with spittle and asked the man to go wash it off at the pool
of Siloam. The story is in John chapter 9.
And His disciples asked Him, "Rabbi, who sinned, this
man or his parents, that he should be bor...
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om 8:2
I have said that God doesn’t just do what He likes, but that
there are principles that guide His actions. This is the reason why
we are encouraged to know the ways of God and not just His
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acts. What I am trying to...
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ing above. You have
accepted that He has healed you, delivered you from sin and
from death. If you believe it, then get ready for the release of the
power of God in your life to confirm it physically.
It is to the person that has believed these reports that the
power of God will be revealed.
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Christ. There is
forgiveness of sins in Jesus and there is a deliverance and
fortification against evil in Him.
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CHAPTER 6. THE LAW OF THE SPIRIT
OF LIFE IN CHRIST JESUS.
Having explained the things that we have so far, let us now
go on to the main issue of our study.
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u cannot possess what you
have been given but which you are not aware has been given to
you. The first thing to do therefore in possessing what the Lord
has given you is to know what those things are.
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.
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ep spread over the countryside. They arose and pursued after
the little devils, casting them away from the region in the name
of the Lord. The demons departed and next day the epidemic
began to abate.
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Now, the epidemic in q...
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Words control your life. The Lord Jesus said that when you
declare anything, and you believe it will happen, it will happen.
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"Truly I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be
taken up and cast into the sea,' and does no...
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here to condemn you but to explain the origin of
all the troubles that may be afflicting you or anyone else around
you. We shall come to the cure in a short while.
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CHAPTER 5. EVIL
Before we leave this issue of sin and death, let me explain
something about the word ‘evil’.
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things which
must shortly take place. Rev 22:6
Every single event of importance that happens on this earth
has already happened in the spirit. On this earth, there are no
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accidents in the real sense; they are all determined first by
spiritual laws and ...
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earth.
…the creation itself also will be set free from its slavery
to corruption into the freedom of the glory of the children
of God. Rom 8:21
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Life came in by Jesus.
…I came that they might have life, and might have it
abundantly.
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ar
like, the truth is that the real control is in the spirit, and this is
affected by our actions.
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CHAPTER 3. SPIRIT AND FLESH
I have said all these to say this: Diseases of all kinds are
spiritually determined, and so also a...
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on of dementia was cured after the deliverance
and the subsequent images of her brain taken at radiological
examination showed a disappearance of the degenerative lesion.
Everything had become normal.
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nd this is the primary basis for the determination of
righteousness.
When life is imparted as a result of the righteousness that
comes by faith in Jesus, this life is imparted by the life giving
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Spirit of Christ; this is called the law of the Spirit of life in Christ
Jesus.
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end to all the destructions of
mankind. All the strivings of all the religions of men have been
to be able to experience the effects of life. God sent it into the
world in the person of Christ Jesus.
In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. John
1:4
You have to understand that t...
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all
To fall on Him.
Isa 53:5-6
All the punishment He experienced was not at all for His
own sins and trespasses but for those of others.
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He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf…
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